Rune Soup

This week we talk to author, translator and Lucumi priest, Eric Purdue about astrology, synchronicity, accuracy in divination, hurricanes destroying your library and all things Agrippa. For show notes, you can go and bother Eric on Facebook here!

This week we get to talk about a few of my favourite things: hermeticism, Egypt... even New Zealand. Guiding us through these waters is author, editor and scholar, Dr Aaron Cheak. Enjoy! Show Notes Aaron's website Aaron's book, Alchemical Traditions

Among the most-requested guests, if not the most requested, is none other than Peter Levenda. Peter has written some pretty astounding books over the years and I relished the opportunity to chat to him about how they came about. We also talk UFOs, Nazis, ceremonial magic, the importance of Place and much more. Enjoy. I know you will. Show Notes Peter's website Peter on twitter (against his better judgement) Peter on Facebook (dragged kicking and screaming) Go and bother him on various media socials!

This week we speak to author and magical teacher, Josephine McCarthy. Our chat covers visionary magic, growing up weird, timing and ritual and a whole host of reflections from the teaching life. Show Notes Josephine's website Josephine's online course, Quareia Josephine's Amazon author page

The one and only Austin Coppock returns to Rune Soup to talk us through the second half of this largely-unlovely 2016. We also Do a walk-through of 2016 H1 Talk about timing in astrological magic Explore Aspects Discuss the differences between inner and outer planets in both your life and the world at large Not to be missed. Show Notes Austin's website. Austin's Facebook page.

In this week's episode we talk to Langston Kahn about the lack of initiation in western cultures, differences and similarities in shamanism across time, emotional clearing, the important of journeying and the implication of the return of the spirits. Show Notes Langston's website Langston's upcoming course

This week we speak to artist, animist and author, Charlotte Rodgers about bones, art, the restless dead, non-verbal magic, international adventures, luck and what it is like growing up in New Zealand when you are a little different. Show Notes Charlotte's website Charlotte's blog Charlotte's Facebook art page

Mitch Horowitz joins us this week to talk Practical spirituality The Burned Over District, spiritualism The original formulation of the Law of Attraction The accidental ritual nature of the founding of America The magical roots of women's suffrage, black civil rights and other progressive movements Donald Trump's school of sorcery (you heard me!) Building your own New Thought library. And a whole lot more. Show Notes Mitch's books Mitch's website Mitch on Twitter Mitch's recent article: The Minister who taught Donald Trump to 'Think Positive'

In this episode we talk to Alkistis and Peter from the one and only Scarlet Imprint about the goddess who began it all, Babalon. We cover John Dee and the Daughter of Fortitude, Jack Parsons and Liber 49, a true history of Babalon and the return of the witch cult. Such. Fun. Enjoy! Show Notes The book itself, The Red Goddess (As with all Scarlet Imprint titles, including my own, these are not available from Amazon. Before some of you ask. Buy from and support your independent publisher!) Articles written by Peter and Alkistis mentioned in the show: Strange Suppers and Spells Diverse Babalon and the Embodiment of Mystery Raw Power: Witchcraft, Babalon and Female Sexuality Other Babalon pieces available at Scarlet Imprint The Daughter of Fortitude Transmission "I am the daughter of Fortitude, and ravished every hour from my youth. For behold I am Understanding and science dwelleth in me; and the heavens oppress me. They cover and desire me with infinite appetite; for none that are earthly have embraced me, for I am shadowed with the Circle of the Stars and covered with the morning clouds. My feet are swifter than the winds, and my hands are sweeter than the morning dew. My garments are from the beginning, and my dwelling place is in myself. The Lion knoweth not where I walk, neither do the beast of the fields understand me. I am deflowered, yet a virgin; I sanctify and am not sanctified. Happy is he that embraceth me: for in the night season I am sweet, and in the day full of pleasure. My company is a harmony of many symbols and my lips sweeter than health itself. I am a harlot for such as ravish me, and a virgin with such as know me not. For lo, I am loved of many, and I am a lover to many; and as many as come unto me as they should do, have entertainment. Purge your streets, O ye sons of men, and wash your houses clean; make yourselves holy, and put on righteousness. Cast out your old strumpets, and burn their clothes; abstain from the company of other women that are defiled, that are sluttish, and not so handsome and beautiful as I, and then will I come and dwell amongst you: and behold, I will bring forth children unto you, and they shall be the Sons of Comfort. I will open my garments, and stand naked before you, that your love may be more enflamed toward me."

This week we talk to anthropologist, editor, religious studies lecturer and brand new father (like, brand new), Jack Hunter. In this wide-ranging and fascinating conversation, we talk Colin Wilson, Buffy, Going Buddhist in primary school, David Icke, the how's and why's of starting a paranormal anthropology journal, Spiritualism, Charles Fort, the Era of Witchcraft, how to save anthropology from itself. Show Notes Paranthropology Journal Paranthropology Facebook Group Jack's latest book, Damned Facts