Welcome one and all, as we mark the Feast of the Beheading of the Baptist, and indeed our fiftieth episode of RFG! Marking this holyday of decapitation, we are delighted to bring you an especially head-y installment this time.
Our Sainted Day is Decollation of Saint John the Baptist, prompting discussion of both the church history and popular myths of this relic’d skull and its wandering jaw.
Our counterparted Demon(ised) is none other than Salome, assessing the myth and meanings of this figure and her relationship with Herodias as seductress and witch icon across the world.
Our Herb is Life-Everlasting, affording analysis of this yellow greenery and its charms of longevity.
Our Mineral is the many-hued Agate, concentrating on the Orpheus Agate; diving into the Orphic lapidary epic Lithika and the use of such stones in propitiation and protection.
Our Form of Magic is Prophetic Heads, surveying legendary and historical accounts of cephalomancy, talking skulls, and artificial brazen heads.
Our Beast is the Unicorn, considering religious cryptozoology, natural magic, bestiary lore, and the historical trade and application of its powdered horn.
Our Daysign is Itzcuintli, the Dog; meditating on Mictlantecuhtli and the chthonic Mesoamerican associations and meanings of this trusty sign of the dead.
Our Figure spurs conversation on the Earthy Venusian geomancy of Amissio (Loss) and its counterparting Odu of Ifa and Diloggun, Oshe Meji.
Our Arcana of the Tarot is the Two of Swords; delving into both Spanish cartomantic meanings and “Western” occultural significances of choice and clarity.
Our Dead Magician is Orpheus, the ancient beheaded bard of bards, tragic underworld troubadour, and patron of those mysteries we call Orphic.
We hope, as always, you enjoy this decollated assemblage of talking points and headwords as much as we did in recording this especially lengthy folk necromantic co-ramble, and wish you excellent tidings in all your unveiling dances and skullduggery.
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Welcome one and all, as we mark the Feast of the Beheading of the Baptist, and indeed our fiftieth episode of RFG! Marking this holyday of decapitation, we are delighted to bring you an especially head-y installment this time.
Our Sainted Day is Decollation of Saint John the Baptist, prompting discussion of both the church history and popular myths of this relic’d skull and its wandering jaw.
Our counterparted Demon(ised) is none other than Salome, assessing the myth and meanings of this figure and her relationship with Herodias as seductress and witch icon across the world.
Our Herb is Life-Everlasting, affording analysis of this yellow greenery and its charms of longevity.
Our Mineral is the many-hued Agate, concentrating on the Orpheus Agate; diving into the Orphic lapidary epic Lithika and the use of such stones in propitiation and protection.
Our Form of Magic is Prophetic Heads, surveying legendary and historical accounts of cephalomancy, talking skulls, and artificial brazen heads.
Our Beast is the Unicorn, considering religious cryptozoology, natural magic, bestiary lore, and the historical trade and application of its powdered horn.
Our Daysign is Itzcuintli, the Dog; meditating on Mictlantecuhtli and the chthonic Mesoamerican associations and meanings of this trusty sign of the dead.
Our Figure spurs conversation on the Earthy Venusian geomancy of Amissio (Loss) and its counterparting Odu of Ifa and Diloggun, Oshe Meji.
Our Arcana of the Tarot is the Two of Swords; delving into both Spanish cartomantic meanings and “Western” occultural significances of choice and clarity.
Our Dead Magician is Orpheus, the ancient beheaded bard of bards, tragic underworld troubadour, and patron of those mysteries we call Orphic.
We hope, as always, you enjoy this decollated assemblage of talking points and headwords as much as we did in recording this especially lengthy folk necromantic co-ramble, and wish you excellent tidings in all your unveiling dances and skullduggery.
Episode 32: The Leap-Feast of Saint Oswald of Worcester
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Episode 32: The Leap-Feast of Saint Oswald of Worcester
We bid you a transcendently merry Leap-Feast of Saint Oswald of Worcester! Here in the time-out-of-time we at RFG weave our usual merry way through our Sesame Streetlamp-lit special topics of the episode, beginning with the Saint(s) Oswald; that is, Saint Oswald of Worcester who died on February 29th washing the feet of the poor, “revived” English monasticism, and should not be confused – unless you want – with the raven saint Oswald of Northumbria...
Our Demon of the Month features an unboxing of Choronzon (or Coronzon ((or even Coronzom))) tracing the dispersals of this entity-concept across the Enochiana of dear Dr Dee, the Thelema of renowned mountaineer, OG yoga influencer, and Great Beast Aleister Crowley, and out into the experimental currents of Chaos Magick, and the philosophies of non-duality, shadow work, and ego death.
We invite you to our own little Night-blooming Cereus party for our Herb of the episode as we celebrate the wish-granting and immortality of this singularly-flowering dragon-maiden who comes when she will and counsels to keep up the unseen work that creates a perfectly perfumed moment.
Our Genre of Magic has us enthusing about Metrics of Time – what we do at the turn of the seasons, how we may mark the ritually operative as well as ceremonial festivities, how the jam of talismans acts as a battery of stored momentum, the secret seasonal names of the Earth and Sun, and how we may grasp the new in the experience-quenched patina of the previous.
We declare a beach day in delighted discussed of our timely Mineral of Sand; in which we hot-step across sand baths, hourglasses, the grandfathers of mountains, and the potentiating memory of the multitudinous to retain myriad sorcerous programmings and punctuations. The geomantic figure of Populus makes an appearance in our celebration of the millions of tiny grains and moments that make an hourglass and the seconds it counts.
Our Arcana of the episode presents a before and after of Judgment and the Aeon; touching further on time’s lessons in the forms of the find out that inevitable follows the consequences of our folking around.
Finally, our Dead Magician of the episode leans into the mythic with some love for that cambion shapeshifter prophet druid wizard magus Merlin himself; from his amalgams of origin, his fourteen centuries of rich popularity, his defiantly backwards aging, and his adaptations across time to serve a variety of intellectual and political agendas of the age.
From us in our astral RFG wizard tower floating in the kairotic in-between of The Leap to you in yours, we wish you a wonderful Time listening to our co-enthusings!
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Welcome one and all, as we mark the Feast of the Beheading of the Baptist, and indeed our fiftieth episode of RFG! Marking this holyday of decapitation, we are delighted to bring you an especially head-y installment this time.
Our Sainted Day is Decollation of Saint John the Baptist, prompting discussion of both the church history and popular myths of this relic’d skull and its wandering jaw.
Our counterparted Demon(ised) is none other than Salome, assessing the myth and meanings of this figure and her relationship with Herodias as seductress and witch icon across the world.
Our Herb is Life-Everlasting, affording analysis of this yellow greenery and its charms of longevity.
Our Mineral is the many-hued Agate, concentrating on the Orpheus Agate; diving into the Orphic lapidary epic Lithika and the use of such stones in propitiation and protection.
Our Form of Magic is Prophetic Heads, surveying legendary and historical accounts of cephalomancy, talking skulls, and artificial brazen heads.
Our Beast is the Unicorn, considering religious cryptozoology, natural magic, bestiary lore, and the historical trade and application of its powdered horn.
Our Daysign is Itzcuintli, the Dog; meditating on Mictlantecuhtli and the chthonic Mesoamerican associations and meanings of this trusty sign of the dead.
Our Figure spurs conversation on the Earthy Venusian geomancy of Amissio (Loss) and its counterparting Odu of Ifa and Diloggun, Oshe Meji.
Our Arcana of the Tarot is the Two of Swords; delving into both Spanish cartomantic meanings and “Western” occultural significances of choice and clarity.
Our Dead Magician is Orpheus, the ancient beheaded bard of bards, tragic underworld troubadour, and patron of those mysteries we call Orphic.
We hope, as always, you enjoy this decollated assemblage of talking points and headwords as much as we did in recording this especially lengthy folk necromantic co-ramble, and wish you excellent tidings in all your unveiling dances and skullduggery.