The Goddess, The Witch & The Womb

Explore the ancient idea of a world before the moon and what that would have meant for time, seasons, tides, astrology, and magical practice. Consider how life and reality might have felt without lunar measurement, including questions about menstruation, fertility, agriculture, and whether tides or weather would have been chaotic without the moon's pull. April and Maggie share myths, oral traditions, and philosophers and poets such as Ovid (with the image of the moon "renewing her crescent horns"), Aristotle's mention of the Arcadians as "Proselenes" (people before the moon), and other perspectives that treat the moon's later arrival as common knowledge. The discussion also touches on modern theories of the moon as a hollow satellite or "parked" craft, recent images of the moon's dark side, and ongoing public talk about aliens, ending with a reflection on not taking the moon's influence for granted and a note that the season is concluding and will return in early July.
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This episode explores Circe in Greek mythology through Homer's Odyssey, presenting her as a powerful sorceress and full goddess born to Helios and a sea nymph, embodying balanced sun-and-moon energy. Circe is known as a powerful witch with vast knowledge of potions and herbs. On her lush, animal-filled island, she welcomes Odysseus's men to a feast laced with potions that transform them into swine as a mirror of their recent war behavior. Warned by Hermes and protected by Athena's herb, Odysseus resists Circe's magic, confronts her, and they become lovers, living together for years and having three sons; she later restores his men. Circe then teaches Odysseus necromancy—witchcraft with the dead—so he can enter the underworld, consult an expert, and learn how to navigate back to Ithaca. Circe, a powerful witch and left on her solitary island, will help you to explore power, ethics, self-knowledge, and intent in magic.
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As we flow into a new astrological year and welcome Aries season, we are reminded of personal power and our innate healing abilities. Within your life force energy is all the strength you will need to become the ultimate healer and co-creator of your life. Your sexual energy and your spiritual energy are the same energy and can be directed with an intentional field of consciousness, acceptance, and discovery. Discernment is needed when choosing to learn practices of sex magic. The power is within you!
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We are closing out the shadow season by revisiting Medusa, blood magic, and necromancy as we move toward the Spring Equinox and Aries season, framed as a shift from inward shadow work into passion, life force, and healing. Have you heard the myth in which Perseus takes Medusa's blood, said to be deadly from her left side and the ultimate healing elixir from her right? This duality connects to long-standing right/left spiritual traditions. Asclepius uses the healing blood to resurrect the dead until Zeus stops him by striking him into the constellation Ophiuchus, linked to sacred serpents and medicine. Explore a Thessalian necromancer, Erichtho, who emphasizes necromancy as powerful healing. Reconsider death, ancestral wisdom, and what parts of the self to revive or release as we flow into balance of the worlds, night and day, left and right hand paths, and the healing weaving of polarity and duality.
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A "blood moon" lunar eclipse is happening March 3rd at almost 13° Virgo. This eclipse is comparatively quiet astrologically, making it easier to focus on Virgo themes of order, service, health, and returning to a natural rhythm. This eclipse "rules" for six months and may fully ripen during Virgo season. Protection is a central theme, connected to blood as naturally protective and to the eclipse as a safe container for ritual and self-exploration, especially around vulnerable "maiden" aspects of self. For goddess work, we recommend Medusa as a powerful protector and healer deeply linked to blood magic. Medusa's mythic blood created coral and red serpents. Explore historical protective folk magic in 16th-century English spell jars using one's own urine, blood, and hair with herbs as well as Melinoë a lesser-known goddess, presented in the Orphic Hymn 71. She is the daughter of Persephone, and Melinoë is a dark and luminous Goddess, the "Queen of Nightmares" and "Master of Ghosts," ruling liminal space between life and death and invoked for protection, trauma processing, and relief from fear and night terrors. She parallels this eclipse "portal" energy. Enjoy this potent time of a lunar eclipse and blood magic!
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