Returning Witchhassle champion Sarah Lyons pops by to talk about her new book, How to Study Magic: History, Lore, and Building Your Own Practice. We get into magic, community, and wrangling with history.

Buy the book here: https://www.runningpress.com/titles/sarah-lyons/how-to-study-magic/9780762479207/

Learn more about Sarah here: https://sarah-lyons.com/

and here: https://www.instagram.com/citymystic/

and here: https://twitter.com/_sarah_lyons_

Listeners Note: Maybe it was two flights, not three.

Ariana Serpentine pops on to talk about her new book, Sacred Gender, which explores gender identity and the sacred.

Grab the book here: https://www.llewellyn.com/product.php?ean=9780738771342

And you can learn more about Ariana and what she's up to at:

https://serpentandtree.com

https://twitter.com/ASerpentNine

https://www.facebook.com/people/Ariana-Serpentine/100063635197348/

Information on helping folks who work at Club Q is available here: https://twitter.com/UnluckyBanshee/status/1595906807502774272?s=20&t=-GTxEuetPkoWpIe9eD69dA

Austin Fuller comes on to talk about his new book, Conjuring The Witching Shade: And Other Necrosophic Rites. We get into details of the dead and it's good Florida fun.

Grab the book here: https://www.banexbramble.com/product-page/conjuring-the-witching-shade-booklet

Learn more about Austin at https://www.banexbramble.com/ and on twitter (@banexbramble) and instagram (@banexbramble).

In another installment of the Altared States Series, things get lunar with Saul Mondriaan (twitter.com/saul_mondriaan).

As with each of these planetary interviews, there's also a planetary playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1B6wpkTS3gxNccKiH3zZbk?si=7c368fb6eab84831

And in a correction: The anarchist pamphlet I mention is called At Daggers Drawn, and the back actually reads "The secret is to really begin . . ."

Hoodoo Moses comes on to talk about Hoodoo, the Archangel Michael, and much more.

Check out his kickstarter campaign for a magickal makerspace here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hoodoomoses/holy-mountain-magickal-makerspace

And his other sites here: https://linktr.ee/hoodoomoses

And of course, check him out on instagram @hoodoomoses.

Photo by @thinstring on instagram

Priestess, reader, and magical maker Cydney Gray (Lady Malandra / Rose da Rua) pops by to talk about Care Bear magic, making Maries, moving to New Orleans as a magical person, and more.

You can find her on instagram @rosedarua, on the internet at rosedarua.com, and on etsy at etsy.com/shop/RoseDaRua

William A. Calvo-Quirós talks about his new book, Undocumented Saints: The Politics of Migrating Devotions. We get into vernacular sainthood, cross-border religiosity, and dynamics of power. You can learn more about the book here: www.UndocumentedSaints.com.

You can also learn more about William A. Calvo-Quirós here: www.barriology.com.

Hear the full episode at patreon.com/witchhassle.

In a new installment of the Altared States series, Gabriela Herstik talks about Venus, Babalon, Isis, and the Goddess of Love and Lust.

Gabriela's new book, Sacred Sex: The Magick and Path of the Divine Erotic, is available here: https://bookshop.org/books/sacred-sex-the-magick-and-path-of-the-divine-erotic/9780593421659

You can learn more about Gabriela Here:

https://www.gabrielaherstik.com/

https://www.instagram.com/gabyherstik/

https://twitter.com/GabyHerstik

Want more? Listen to the full version of the episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/70746839

Venus playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4gOnA9vvQnG6NnrUFvUK3A?si=4351e52f7ec44cbd

A list of mutual aid groups supporting trans people is available here:

https://translifeline.org/resource/mutual-aid-funds-public-assistance/

What Lenin Teaches Us About Witchcraft is available here:

https://www.e-flux.com/journal/100/268602/what-lenin-teaches-us-about-witchcraft/

You can sign the Trader Joe's petition here:

https://p2a.co/PN3k0Fq

Also, I saw this tweet abut desire before the interview and the notion was floating in my head so I am citing it here: https://twitter.com/witchkingcooper/status/1553123169111769088?s=20&t=rxECSpxUlEgwDRhc_xrN4Q

Photo Credit: Alexandra Herstik instagram.com/alexyael

As part of the Altared States series (interviews with people who have a serious practice with one of the seven Chaldean planets), Simon Haskell talks Hermes, the god of Mercury.

His class on Hermes Chthonios is available here:

https://www.thecauldronblack.com/product-page/practical-idolatry-hermes-chthonios-terrestrial-hermes-practice

And the Mercury spotify playlist is available here:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6NLiwzuu1OnBYr6taWUp2E?si=7549c09f6e4b4abb

Get the full version of the interview (in which Simon talks about voluntary possession, mercury dimes, divination, and more) go to patreon.com/witchhassle.

The wonderful Britta Ager comes by to talk about her new book, The Scent of Ancient Magic. We get into many uses for scent in magic and religious practice, and the importance of this undervalued sense. For the full conversation (and other bonus content) pop over to patreon.com/witchhassle

The book is available here: https://www.press.umich.edu/10082698/scent_of_ancient_magic

And you can learn more about Professor Ager here:

https://twitter.com/BrittaAger

https://asu.academia.edu/BrittaAger

https://hcommons.org/members/brittaager/

She recommends:

Radcliffe G. Edmonds III, Drawing Down the Moon

Lindsay C. Watson, Magic in Ancient Greece and Rome

Daniel Ogden, Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds: A Sourcebook

Hans Dieter Betz, ed. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation

John Gager, ed. Curse Tablets and Binding Spells from the Ancient World

Also check out Abortion Action Front: https://www.aafront.org/

and those panels I mentioned:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvLjjxQn5PcnyFHW0Ac7OPE1DTg9F91an