Coven

For our final episode of the deep dive into Planets Perfumery, we're back with our co-founder and perfumer Mauricio Garcia to talk all things Mercury. Mercury as a chthonic archetype? Hermes as Hades in disguise? Mercury as mycelium? Ancient texts and medicinal herbs? As expected, this episode uncovers many faces of the Messenger of the Gods as we discuss our understanding of the planet of conscio...

For the next episode of our Planets series, we have Goddess of Love, Archetype of Beauty, The Great Connector, The Divine Resonance, Essence of Harmony and Pleasure, and all things to do with the senses...Venus. We're still joined by our co-founder and perfumer, Mauricio Garcia, as we dive deep into our understanding of Venus from all angels, as well as discuss in depth the process through which s...

The next three episodes will be a collaborative deep dive into the archetypes and corresponding fragrances of Mars, Venus, and Mercury. Jenna, Coco, and Mauricio (who you met in episode 4) of Planets Perfumery dive into Mars in this first episode, discussing the planet from every angle, our associated mythologies, the curation of the fragrance, and the ways we have been working with and honoring t...

Mauricio Garcia is a Bay Area animistic perfumer, aroma therapist, witch, founder of Herbcraft Perfumery, co-founder of the mountain butterfly collective, and co-founder of the coalition of sustainable perfumery. He's also the perfumer we've been working with for Planets Perfumery, our fragrance line inspired by the archetypal essences of the planets, set to be released May 22! Mauricio is...

Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa (1942-2004) was a Poet, Bruja, Chicana Feminist Theorist, Alchemist, Philosopher, and Spiritual Activist. In this episode, we discuss her life growing up on the Texas-Mexico border, her chronic illness and its relationship to her body and her writing, her deep study of alchemy, astrology, depth psychology, and the occult, her revolutionary work Borderlands/La Frontera: T...

Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) was an imaginative, rebellious, and otherworldly surrealist painter, writer, mother, and activist. She emigrated from England to Mexico during WWII where she spent the remaining five decades of her life, painting over 2000 works, writing 2 novels, a memoir, and several short stories and plays. Though her legacy is often overshadowed by her male contemporaries (specif...

For our first episode of season 4, we welcome natural perfume pioneer, author, and educator, the absolutely iconic Mandy Aftel. In this episode we look at her natal chart, discuss her past life as a counsellor, get virtual a tour of her scent organ, learn about bibliomancy, dive into her latest book, Symbolorum, and hear all about her journey into the world of natural fragrance creation. If you&#3...

Arabella Thais is a philosopher, writer, and researcher whose work explores the metaphysics of time, symbolic systems, and the aesthetic structure of reality. She is a Ph. D. candidate in philosophy and physics at the California Institute of Integral Studies, lectures internationally, and serves as a peer reviewer for the Journal of Theoretical and Applied Physics. Her research engages with retroc...

Clarice Lispector (1920-1977) was a linguistic alchemist, translator of the invisible, and stream of consciousness poet, best known for her novels, Agua Viva, Near to the Wild Heart, and The Passion According to G.H. Often compared to eccentric existential authors such as Albert Camus and stream of consciousness royalty like Virginia Woolf, Lispector remains undefinable, opting to linger in the la...

In this episode we had the pleasure to sit down with our mentor and professor, Becca Tarnas. Becca is a scholar, artist, and archetypal astrologer. She is currently a professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies, where she wrote her doctoral dissertation on the Red Books of Carl Jung and J.R.R Tolkien. She's also the author of Journey to the Imaginal Realm: A Reader’s Guide to J.R...

In this episode, we explore the life and work of Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006), a groundbreaking science fiction writer and visionary widely considered a prophet for her eerily accurate predictions about our current world. Born in Pasadena, California to a working-class Black family, Butler overcame poverty, dyslexia, and systemic barriers to become one of the first major Black women in science fi...

Maryam Mirzakhani (1977 - 2017) was an Iranian mathematician and professor, and the first woman to win the Fields Medal (the highest award in mathematics, comparable to the Nobel Prize). She was a theoretical architect of spaces beyond our perceptible dimensions. By developing formulas that could measure Riemann surfaces moduli spaces, she helped to create form around them, allowing us to visualiz...

Vero Collins is a scholar, typologist, astrologer, DJ, and pop culture savant. In this episode we had the opportunity to chat with her in person, diving into her natal chart, breaking down typology, and learning briefly about the work of Stan Grof. Check out her youtube channel,   @archetypepilled  ​

In this episode we welcome “Goddess of Anarchy,” Lucy Parsons into our coven . Born into slavery at the tail end of the American civil war, Lucy fought oppression at every turn, quickly becoming one of the most feared radical voices in America, and was thought to be "more dangerous than 1000 rioters." She co-founded the Chicago Working Women's Union, led 400,000 people in the first e...

Shere Hite (1942-2020) was a revolutionary sex researcher and feminist scholar best known for The Hite Report (1976), a groundbreaking study based on surveys of over 3,000 women about their sexual experiences and pleasure. Born in Missouri and educated at Columbia University, Hite challenged prevailing assumptions about female sexuality, particularly the emphasis on intercourse and orgasm through...

Shere Hite (1942-2020) was a sex researcher and feminist scholar best known for The Hite Report (1976), a groundbreaking study based on surveys of over 3,000 women about their sexual experiences and pleasure. The Hite Report became an international bestseller, but Hite faced intense criticism and personal attacks from media and academic establishments. Dangerously ahead of her time and speaking th...

Welcome back! For our first episode of Coven, season 3, we sit down with spiritual theorist, poet, shapeshifter, symbol collector, and all around translator of the invisible, Gabi Abrão. In this conversation we discuss her natal chart, her new book, and her relationship to the Witch, as well as symbols, archetypes, the internet, artificial intelligence, memes, waterfalls, and whatever rabbit trail...

For our season finale, we're bringing Cookie Mueller home to the Coven she inspired. Sharp-tongued muse, accidental guru, downtown mystic—Cookie moved through worlds with a chaos that felt like clarity. John Waters saw it. Nan Goldin captured it. From Baltimore to San Francisco, to the burning heart of 70s NYC, she wrote and lived with the same raw honesty until AIDS took her in '89. Her m...

For our next episode, we're welcoming Matilda Electa Joslyn Gage, the forgotten proto-feminist of the 19th century, into our Coven. We explore how this radical suffragist, abolitionist, and Indigenous rights advocate challenged patriarchal power by exposing the church's role in women's oppression through her groundbreaking 1893 book "Woman, Church and State." Join us as we un...

In this episode we welcome experimental filmmaker, choreographer, dancer, film theorist, poet, and fearless explorer of ritual consciousness, Maya Deren into our Coven. We discuss her groundbreaking work in avant-garde cinema, her fascination with Voudon practices in Haiti, her complex relationship with ethnography, and her revolutionary ideas about time and perception in film. We also explore wha...

For our next episode, we're welcoming Teresa Urrea, known as "La Santa de Cabora," into our Coven. We explore her natal chart in connection with her extraordinary healing abilities and revolutionary spirit in 19th-century Mexico. We discuss her miraculous transformation at age 16, her powerful blend of indigenous healing practices with spiritual activism, and how she became "the...

In this week’s episode, we welcome the powerful, mystical, and resilient healer + Mazatec sabia (wise woman), María Sabina into our Coven. While widely known as the “mushroom priestess” or the “mother of magic mushrooms,” her story is one of profound and often overlooked tragedy. We discuss her tumultuous journey to embody her calling as a healer, her relationship to and work with the “little sain...

In this episode, we welcome Ana Mendieta, a revolutionary Cuban-American artist, into our Coven. We explore her powerful nature reflected in her groundbreaking "earth-body" artworks and profound connection to nature as a response to forced exile. We discuss her innovative fusion of performance art with natural elements, her exploration of feminine power, and her tragic death that sparked...

In this episode we welcome famed diarist, courageous explorer of the unconscious, artist, poet, lover, feminist, and shapeshifter, Anaïs Nin into our Coven. We discuss her sixty years of diaries, her complicated relationship to sex, her controversial reputation, the ethics of power dynamics and seduction, and what it means to venture boldly into the shadow side of our psyche, while also unpacking...

For our next episode, we're welcoming Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, a 17th-century Mexican scholar, poet, playwright, and nun into our Coven. We discuss her revolutionary stance on women's education, her strategic choice to join a convent to pursue knowledge, and her profound literary works that challenged patriarchal norms in Colonial Mexico. Through examining her natal chart we explore how...