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Greetings and salutations for the New Year, listeners!  Your favorite witches - whether they are your new favorites or your old favorites - are taking a look back at the episodes that you have loved, and they had fun bringing you!  Whether you are interested in Iceland (episodes 62, 63 and 65) or love comparing and contrasting tarot cards, crystals, or different herbs, weeds and flowers (all the v...

Well friends, your favorite witches have done it - they have made 100 fine episodes just for you, and they are taking you on a time travel trip to 100 years ago to talk about what witchcraft might have looked like in the Roaring Twenties.  It was a time of prohibition, see?  An era where there was a mix of the ancient and the modern - and the witchcraft was just as varied.  Walk with the witches t...

This Yule, bring stories to the party that won't bore anyone.  Listen to your favorite witches discuss wild tales like the Yule Cat of Iceland, the origins and possible theories behind the Sugar Plum Fairy, a witch who does some cool metal stuff, a log who gives presents in a unique way, and the creation of Scarlet's own new adorable character!  These stories will surely inspire you to possibly do...

Join your favorite witches on a tour through their favorite precious little thangs to give, and to receive!  They have ideas for you for really any budget.  Whether it's thrifting, creating, or patronizing one of your favorite witch or witch-adjacent owned shops, there are so many wonderful and meaningful items that the witches in your life love and need.  Have a wonderful Yule season and have fun...

Pack a lunch AND a dinner this week, witches!  Scarlet and Blackbird are ready to stop teasing you and bring you the BAD card episode!  The ladies discuss the Death card, the Devil, and the Tower cards in the Major Arcana.  Find out what each card REALLY means, and how the witches interpret these cards when they appear in a spread.  Learn some rad tarot history along the way!  

Join Scarlet and Blackbird as they discuss Blackbird's recent virtual attendance at a death cafe held through Ritualcravt in Denver; another virtual space she has also been involved in called The Human Library; SOIL SCIENCE, Hockey Magic, and so so much more!  The witches are determined to make it to Episode 100 before the end of 2023, so stay tuned and join them for a great conversation that is s...

Welcome to your witches trying to catch up on all the many things they have been up to in the last few weeks during this brief hiatus!  Blackbird has a great deal of cooking magic to catch up on, as well as Halloween ritual goodness from both witches and some medical advancement excitement for Blackbird.  Join the ladies for a bit of Fall wonder-time, and random wheel of laughs and witchcraft in e...

WELCOME to Halloweentime, witches!  Scarlet and Blackbird are here with the seasonal flicks, and are finally ready to discuss one of their favorites - Argento's cult classic 1977 horror film Suspiria and the remake made in 2018.  Both of these movies have so much to offer, and the witches are ready to break it down.  Join them for a ride into a voluptuously dark tale in which directors give us sho...

Welp, if you are easily offended by rants and sarcasm, this may not be the episode for you.  Scarlet and Blackbird go on an epic internet journey of all things FALL-O-WEEN (you read that correctly) and check out the latest and greatest in Halloween decor that is for people who cannot or will not participate in the true spirit of Halloween.  It is an irreverent barrel of laughs that the witches fal...

Join the witches this week as Scarlet tells Blackbird all about the Headless Rite she performed.  Learn about the great goddess and force of Nuit (Nut) and all of her dominion!  As always, the witches bring their own flavor to rituals they create, and this is no exception.  Inspired by the class both the witches are currently taking through the Blackthorne School, Scarlet wrote this version of the...

Darklings, this week your favorite goths are taking a bit of a break - but still remaining adjacent - to their travels in the Hail Hekate series being offered by The Blackthorne School and Jack Grayle.  They've written a ritual to a very powerful hypercosmic goddess together, and Blackbird has written and performed some baneful magic that she can't wait to share with you.  Learn about some ancient...

This week, the witches share what they have learned about TRUE NAMES and MAGICAL VOICES!  This part of the lecture series offered by Jack Grayle and the Blackthorne School really has your living room/passenger seat friends thinking deeply about how they present themselves when working magic and how these lessons are relating to their own workings.  Listen and learn!  A surprise visit by Mr. Herman...

Hey witches, your gothest friends are back at it again and are discussing more technologies of ancient sorcery used in late antiquity to compel the gods to do your bidding.  This one is a wide range of topics - we cover birds!  Boston!  90's dance music!  And yes, Hekate.  Learn how to make a strophalos!  Learn about what it does!  Join the witches as they continue their journey of the class given...

We are diving deep into sorcerous devotion this week!  Blackbird and Scarlet continue their journey through the course being offered on Hekate by Jack Grayle through The Blackthorne School.  This week, the witches learn more epithets than they knew before, and learn how to prepare for magic working in the context of this series of classes.  It's a fun ride through late antiquity, and the witches a...

The witches hope you are on board for this journey into the depths and heights of their' minds as they continue their discussion on the Forked Path Hekate series offered by the Blackthorne School.  In a dizzying display of esoteric shower thoughts, Blackbird reacts to her first taste of this lecture series, while Scarlet shares not only her takeaways but also her poetic interpretation skills.  It'...

Oh ho ho hohohohhho witches, have we got something for you in the coming weeks!  Scarlet and Blackbird are about to get schooled in all things Hekate.  Embark on this epic journey with the ladies as they dive into the excitement of a course offered by the Blackthorne School on Hekate by none other than the author of The Hekataeon, Jack Grayle.  The witches have discussed this book several times, b...

Witches!!  Join Blackbird and Scarlet as they regale you with tales of their dark and witchy communion in The City That Never Sleeps!  They will take you on their journey to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where they spent a great deal of time in the Egyptian Wing.  Also learn about a great restaurant that has a datura theme!  Not on the menu, but very delish.  It was a great time in a great city,...

Witches, the Supreme Court has been a Supreme pain in the last rulings.  We are here to break it down in our own special way, which is really to discuss the bare bones and hurl a lot of expletives.  We are talking about ideas for magic, ideas for practical combat, but fight we must against these laws - or the reversal of such - that are so harmful to so many.  Join us for dissenting dialogue and a...

Get ready to learn about more spoooooky plants!  This week Blackbird goes in deep with henbane, the witch's favorite plant!  Long associated with flying, visions, necromancy and love magic, you are bound to learn a fact or two you may not already know.  Come sit in our deadly garden with us and enjoy the shade while the world is literally its hottest.  While you wait for a breeze, enjoy listening!

Witches, get ready for more baneful nightshade talk!  Can one ever get enough?  Learn all about how to spot datura in the wild, how to avoid getting poisoned, and how to work with this amazing plant magically!  Even though datura is considered a "noxious weed", witches know the truth about how useful the properties of this plant are, whether you work with the actual plant or this spirit of it.  Ga...

Witches, just go outside and look around - so many things we call weeds are really magical, useful plant friends that are humbly waiting for you to discover them.  This week, Blackbird and Scarlet introduce you to two very common "weeds" you are sure to come across, and break it down for you to find out what dandelion and henbit are all about.  If you live somewhere that does not resemble a sauna...

Get ready for some true facts y'all!  Blackbird is on her own this week, and she wants to tell all of the Hex listeners how much meditation has improved her life, her interactions, and her witchcraft!  She lets you in for a little peek at her world and how she became a person who meditates daily.  Grab a cool summer drank, get settled in the shade, and watch the sun set while listening to her jour...

This week, the witches continue with part two of Scarlet's adventure in Missouri at Interfuse, a regional Burning Man, where she held a ritual for her camp invoking the Mushroom Goddess.  Learn about how she prepped for this and wrote it, and hear what she created!  This has inspired both Blackbird and Scarlet to work more with mushroom magic for their future endeavors.  Pull up a toadstool and li...

Witches, have you ever wondered what it is like at Burning Man besides hot?  Did you know that there are smaller events all around the country called regional Burns?  You will find out all about what it's like, thanks to Scarlet!  Blackbird interviews her on the culture, tenets, and what exactly goes on at this type of festival.  Scarlet takes us on a journey through Interfuse, the latest regional...

The witches are back again with the blackest of rocks!  Theses mistresses of goth turn their attention to the deep volcanic splendor of obsidian, and the crystalline opaqueness of black tourmaline.  You will learn about how they formed, how many thousands of years they've been used, properties, and so much more!  The Hex Rated ladies are ready to present to you more goth rock talk.  Grab all your...