Gaia Unveiled

So... my voice is still healing. Fortunately, there's enough material for a compliation episode! If you'd rather hear 45 minutes' worth of episodes a once, like a mini-binge but without hearing the theme song and stuff over and over, this is the episode for you. You'll find: 45 -- Slide Me Some... 46 -- No Planet B 48 -- Dirty Seeds Done Dirt Cheap 49 -- Weather Aboveground 52 -- The Charge of Lad...

Heya. I have been sick most of the week, with a lot of coughing, but did manage to record at least this much, for the folks who dont read descriptions. Basil and I will getcha an ep next weekend, and then we'll be back on the regular schedule. Thnaks for your indulgence, and I'll see you when I have more brain and voice. <3

There are more types of living things in the world than just plants and animals. There are some things that seeeeem like plants, but really aren't. Maybe one or two have fooled you? Our rituals often use flora and fauna (or Flora and Faunus even) as a source of polarity, but let's take this opportunity to talk about some other organisms as well.

Feathers this time! And OMG Y'all...this weekend has been a comedy of errors, some very time-consuming,and I'm only now getting this up. But it happened! Basil wasn't able to join us this episode, but he'll be back next month. I'm keeping this to a simple topic. Enjoy! And share with your friends if you do. :-)

Finally I have manged to get the guys who are Bumblng Fools Mead onto the show. You are in for a real treat; we talk about fermentation, but also roam from there into what does honey taste like without sugar, what was the first feremneted beverage, and a fascinating side bar about where mead does or doesn't fit into the law. Oh yeah, we talk about gods, too. ;-) Another treat is that we recorded i...

Hey, Labor Day still counts as "posted on the weekend", yes? Anyway, Basil is here and we're talking about rivers. It's crazy it took this long. I had more things I was gonna say but I just can't remember them now. It was super clever, too.... But hey, rivers are amazing!

Wanting to celebrate the Harvest but you don't have a farm, or even a garden? Well Basil's back, and we're talking about gathering wild food! How to get started, some tasty things, some caveats. I apologize for sounding rushed.... I was. Had a hard deadline on recording. Added to my enthusiasm on the topic, it's a very...energetic episode. Now I need to go have a snack and a nap.

Regular co-host Basil joins Lady River to talk about tea and Tea; why they are so useful, and why paring them with other preparations can be awesome or trouble. Some chemistry, some herbalism, some storytelling.

This episode is about one of my favorite pieces of tech, the spectrophotometer. It really is magic. Includes free and relevant bonus: a bit about the structure of atoms!

I've really gotta pick topics for the Basil episodes that we can't make naughty. This one might not be for kids...? Sorry Mimi. Give it a listen yourself, first. This episode's topic is flowers, which is seasonal because Spring, but also because Pride Month. Flowering plants have so many different ways to do gender. It's amazing. We're going to talk about at least some of that beautiful variety.

Something a little different this time. You're gettin' it rough and ready this episode. I am on a real time crunch this week, so the editing's not as picky as normal. It's still listenable though. We're in for a bit of history of the Charge of the Goddess, and the re-working of it that I did for this podcast waaaay at the beginning, but has been kinda lost in the shuffle since. Hope you like it!

Plants have all sorts of ways to figure out what is going on around them. Regular Guest-Host Basil joins us, and we manage to stay mostly on topic and clean-minded. Get ready to have your mind unexpectedly blown at what plants can do!

30+ minutes of collected material. More details later this evening, but its episodes 40-44. Gotta run, will update later! [EDIT] Hey look, I did it! 40 -- Foundation (updated!) 41 -- Junky Science Reporting and You 42 -- Islands and Polytheism 43 - How Fall Works 44 -- They Might Be Red Giants

Episode 50! To celebrate this milestone we're gonna be switching it up a bit with half of a format change. And by "we" I mean Basil will be joining me as a Regular Guest Host every first weekend of the month. Every third weekend will still be the old format. * Waves madly at Basil* In honor of Spring and new companionship on the podcast, we're going to be conversing about "companion planting", and...

Weather is all about the flow of energy, creating both patterns and results. That's pretty much what magic is, yeah? Weather is also just cool as a phenomenon, so come hear about why and how it does it's thing.

It's seed catalog time!! Since I won't have time to garden this year, I'll be living vicariously through... ok, I gotta have a coupla tomatoes by the back door to snack on as we come and go, but I'll be vicariously.... OK, and maybe some mini-cukes if I can find them, but that is it . Other than that I am all talk, and it's talk about seeds. What they are, how they sprout, why we care.

Heya folks! My BFF and Editor Basil and I had a great conversation about Salt when I visited this weekend. The audio quality: not so great. So I'm enbarassed about it, but like all good conversations it can't be repeated, so re-recording isn't an option. Also I forgot my music, so I had to post this once I got home. Experiment....not entirely a success. That said, it may sound a bit wonky, but we...

For those who like longer podcasts. This collection is comprised of Episodes 31-39 (but not episode 37, which was 30 mins), with a single intro and out-go. Episodes are: -- From Grrr to Good Boi -- From Grass to Cob -- Planet You -- Firewalking -- Schrodinger's Zygote -- Treeees -- The Universe in a Year, in Five Minutes -- The Earth in a Year, in Five Minutes Thanks for all the support and sugges...

I woulda had this out sooner, I swear, but my editor made me play Fallout76 all afternoon , instead of delivering you the witchy science you crave. Basil, you are a bad influence . Speaking of bad influences, our planet has a nasty case of People. Why don't we just.... go somewhere else? Here's how feasible that is.

Skin is just totally amazing! Come hear why, and why Magickckal folks would care. Love ya!

Sound quality is a little rough..... there was some unavoidable *hum* from outside; removing it made this sound a bit overprocessed sounding (it is...) but much more listenable than when I started. It's also a bit longer than usual, because there is so much cool stuff to know about THE SUN. It just made me sing.

So hey guys... uh.... no episode this week. I'd say why, but that would make the 45 seconds of audio irrelevant. Catch ya on the 20th!

This year's Autumn Color show has been especially lovely. It's been really hard to drive and accomplish things, when all I want to do is let it soak into my eyes in blissful worship. So, being obsessed, we'll talk about that. :-)

Sorry this is a day late: When I had time to record over the weekend, the next door neighbors decided it was Rock N Roll Share Time. *sigh* Nevertheless, here ya go, an episode about island formation and what the Hel does that have to do with polytheism?

Heavier this time on the Science than the Craft, following up on Episode 40 by talking a bit about what to look for when deciding if you want to take a science claim in public media seriously. I'll try to be more Witchy next time. ;-)