Episode 28: The Feast of Saint Joan of Arc
Welcome welcome welcome to another very special episode of Radio Free Golgotha! This, our twenty-eighth outpouring, comes to you in honour of the Feast of Joan of Arc, and we are delighted to step into the fray and discuss all sorts of business around the revealed mysteries of God and the unseen secrets of state, the celebration of women, and the cultivation of Strength, the development of spirit-hearing as well as spirit-sight, and a remembrance of another persecuted Joan…
The reason for the season, this episode is primarily brought to you by this our Feast of the Maid of Orleans, and we will be paying bibliographic and as well as theological homage to her legend, life, and loyalties.
This episode is also brought to you by the Demon Musifin (aka Reschin) and his counterparted Exu Capa Preta, “Mr Black Cape”; via whom we discuss oaths, secrets, pacts, and both the sorcerous revealing and beclouding of private information and public trust alike.
Our cherished herb of the hour is the noble Iris, named for a messenger-divinity whose aura was celebrated in the fields of the meadow and the ring around the Moon. Celebrating from bud to root, we also consider the unguents and glamours wrought by the employment of queenly Orris Root.
Our mineral is a metal, and the coldest one at that: Iron. We discuss armours and armaments, protections and perturbations, the rust of blood and red hot pokers, ther security of blades and the warding off of ill omens.
This episode is additionally brought to you by discussion of Clairaudience; what it means to divine by sound, hearing as well as seeing spirits, and where the voices refine and not simply overwhelm the other sensory faculties of developing mediumship.
Our geomantic figure of the episode is Puella, the Maiden, or rather simply the Hostess-with-the-Mostess. We discuss what it means to be the figure of feminine craft, power, art, and mystery emergent from a patriarchal pre-modern European mindset, and how to hear the empowering skills and cautions in this figure’s voice across a shield chart, and consider some comparisons with the homo-formic Ifa figure of Odu Otura Meji.
This episode is also brought to you by celebration of the Tarot Arcana of Strength; and we converse of the history of this card and its predecessors, reflect on innocence and force, and even get a little downright Babalonian…
Finally, this episode is lastly brought to you by a little history lesson on the labour dispute that led to witchcraft hangings, honouring Joan Flower of the accused Belvoir Witches, along with her daughters and a host of further accusations and confessions, as our Dead Magician of the day.
We hope you enjoy listening to this as much as we enjoyed putting it together!
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