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Welcome to The Witching Year, a memoir written by Diana Helmuth about her year-and-a-day journey into modern witchcraft. Not only did we read The Witching Year, but we brought Diana on to talk all thing new witch, old witch and in-between witch. And if you're thinking - hey, how come I haven't heard of this book before? That's because it's currently avaible for pre-order and dropping on October 3rd! Spoiler: You should definitely pick it up and this episode covers all the reasons why!

From Simon and Schuster: Diana Helmuth writes about urges: to travel, to be in nature, and to feel understood. Her first book, How to Suffer Outside, was a National Outdoor Book Award winner, and her freelance work can be found in various anthologies, travel guides, and humor magazines. She studied anthropology and Arabic at UC Berkeley, and can often be caught moonlighting in Silicon Valley’s start-up land, or producing the occasional podcast. She was born and raised in Northern California.

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En nuestro último episodio de 2023 Escorpión habla sobre otro Espiritismo de Puerto Rico. En esta filosofía se crio ella y nos da una introducción.

Happy Supermoon witches! This episode comes in as a Gemini special request and while it literally covers Oedipus, Hubris and the reading philosophy "Death of the Author", there's lots more discussed, in between and around, including but not limited to Scorpio's Starbies order. 

Happy Leo New Moon witches! Not only did our hosts want to discuss some awesome zines they picked up from Catland, but Gemini goes fully looney tunes TWICE this episode (once about Bird Law and once about Bats!). Tune in if you're ready to learn and not particularly picky about what! 

En este episodio habló sobre el libro Espiritismo: Puerto Rican Mediumship and Magic de Hector Salva. Es la primera parte de dos donde hable sobre el tema.

Friend of the podcast Monica Bodirsky comes back around to talk about tarot, art, manifestation and to confirm for us that she is absolutely doing all the Good Ideas that we want her to. Click through to her website if the retreat, her upcoming deck or her delightful conversation are intriguing to you! 

We tried academic books. We tried movies and TV. We tried fiction. Now let's spend summer reading talking about graphic novels! Specifically, Season of the Bruja, a captivating comic about a young bruja coming into her power. There are some spoilers, but to make it up to you, we also discussed audiobooks, "normal" fiction and exactly what kind of scary movies Gemini will or will not watch. 

Season 5 is all about collecting geminis from Llewellyn and we are absolutely thrilled to present this interview with beloved gemini Mhara Starling, the Welsh Witch! We loved her book Welsh Witchcraft and knew we had to have her on to discuss all things Wales. This episode has all the pronunciation and etymology us English speakers need when approaching Welsh mythology and history and it features both hilarious and insightful conversation about the path to becoming a witch and how Mhara's passion for her home has colored her witchcraft throughout the years. It was an absolute joy to talk to Mhara and we hope you enjoying listening as much as we did recording it!  

From Llewellyn.com: Mhara Starling (Chester, England) was born in North Wales, raised on the Isle of Anglesey, and is a native Welsh speaker. She is a transgender woman who has been practicing witchcraft from a very young age, and her witchcraft videos on TikTok have more than a million views. Mhara is a celebrant and a tarot reader, and she runs moots, gatherings, and open rituals. She was featured in the BBC Wales documentary series Young, Welsh and Pretty Religious.

En este episodio compartimos una entrevista que hice en 2021 con el grupo musical Trobar de Morte, que acababan de estrenar su nuevo disco Book of Shadows. Ellos acaban de anunciar que lanzarán un disco nuevo este otoño que se llamará Carpe Noctem. Así que espero que disfruten de la entrevista.

Happy New Moon, New Book! Mhara Starling's Welsh Witchcraft is such a fun introduction to the magic of Wales, our intrepid hosts knew they needed to discuss it on the pod! Come for the fairy tales, stay for the hilarity of our inability to pronounce welsh words (we really did try our best!)