#witchcast

Well, January has come and gone and unfortunately no podcast has been released, as you all may have noticed! I ended up having to spend last month looking for a job (January 31: nailed it) which has taken some general re-adjusting. I am also without WiFi for the next couple of months, which makes podcasting a smidge harder, admittedly... as well as contacting all of the wonderful people who have expressed interest. I’m sorry I haven’t been able to reach out to anyone yet!!

PDX Witch Guild Podcast #4: An Impromptu Discussion About Squatches, Mercury Retrograde, & the Impending Doom of the Eclipse Totality Here in Oregon

  Alex: http://upthewitchypunx.tumblr.com/

Esme: http://witchbrarian.tumblr.com

Mary: https://needsomeshelter.tumblr.com/

  Oregon Bigfoot Festival: http://oregonbigfootfestival.weebly.com/

  Buy Alex's zine, Brainscan #33: DIY Witchery, An Exploration of Secular Witchcraft, here! https://portlandbuttonworks.com/zines-book-comics/zines/witchy/zine-witch-brainscan-33-DIY-witchery-alex-wrekk-secular-witchcraft

  (It was Mary who sneezed.)

  Witch ladder vs. shamble

A witch ladder: http://upthewitchypunx.tumblr.com/post/147946322843/witches-ladders

A shamble: https://headology101.tumblr.com/post/141621189164/the-art-of-shambles-by-miss-tick-a-shamble-a

  Alt Press Fest: http://www.slcpl.org/altpressfest

  Witchy shops in SLC: Crone's Hollow, Elemental Inspirations, Dancing Cranes Imports, Golden Braid Books

  Joseph Smith Sphinx, http://gilgalgarden.org/the-sphinx/

  Great Salt Lake, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Salt_Lake

  Mary's next big ren faire event is Tortuga! http://piratesoftortuga.net/

  Bonny Tyler: http://variety.com/2017/music/news/bonnie-tyler-eclipse-total-eclipse-of-the-heart-1202531190/

  Obfuscate: to render obscure, unclear, or unintelligible.

  Is Mercury In Retrograde? http://www.ismercuryinretrograde.com/

  Circle of Salt, Felix's other podcast https://circleofsaltpodcast.tumblr.com/

  If you have a question or want to get in contact with us for any reason, please send us an email at: [email protected]

  And all of the thanks to our Sound Wizard, Ian B., for recording our witchy blatherings.

I’ve been emotional all day — thank you all SO much for all the likes, reblogs, messages... I am overwhelmed in the best way possible! I’ll admit I know very little about actually making a podcast at this point, although I officially have a podcasting convention under my belt with some wonderful information...and I have an insane love for podcast culture (and witchcraft!) and I just had to get in on it.

Literally everyone who has messaged me expressing interest being on the show is more than welcome!! I will be messaging everyone individually (I am writing down everyone separately just in case — we all know how Tumblr can be sometimes), but it will be after the holidays as I am a bit swamped. Please, feel free to continue spreading the word if you know people who will be interested!

In this 2 part episode we discuss magical correspondences, where the come from, how to use them, why we use them, and how you can fit them into your own magical practice building.

Content Note: at approximately 1:02:15- 1:08:40 we start to discuss gender, alchemical correspondences, and the construction of homunculi, which historically involved questionable acts involving a dead cow. Listener beware.

Notes:

- Felix's tumblr: http://da-at-ass.tumblr.com/

- Cain/The Clan of Tubal Cain

- Trash witch: A witch who does magic utilizing trash or by other means of reclaiming that which has been devalued.

The PDX Witch Guild podcast folks are:

Alex upthewitchypunx.tumblr.com

Mary emonbalmgirl.tumblr.com

Emrys blue-index.tumblr.com

Felix da-at-ass.tumblr.com

Bea violetwoolgathering.tumblr.com

Esme youlooksosmall.tumblr.com

Show Notes:

- catalyst: a person or thing that precipitates an event or change

- The Golden Dawn

- O.T.O. = Ordo Templi Orientis

- sympathetic magic

- Sir James George Frazer & the Golden Bough

- Doctrine of Signatures

- curiosity cabinets

- Ray Comfort’s banana argument (video)

- god phone

- Blue: A History by Michel Pastoureau

- blue as devil's color starting in the bible as seen as a blue angel

- Codex Gigus

- Florida water

- Encyclopedia of 5,000 Spells by Judika Illes

- The Modern Herbal by Margaret Grieve (Amazon) (Online)

- Hawthorne zine (Don’t have a link yet, will post to the tumblr)

- silver leaf mugwort (Artemisia Ludoviciana)

- Witch's Whisk

- smudging vs smoke cleansing, written by someone of indigenous descent

- cultural appropriation

- recaning

1:02:15 - beginning of the abhorrent cow story

- homunculus

Want to get in contact with the guild? Email [email protected]!

Want to follow us on tumblr or find out when out next Portland-area meet-up is? Hit up https://pdxwitchguild.tumblr.com/.  

Stay Witchy and don't get tetanus!