Voices: Lou Hotchkiss Knives Season 2 Episode 2
Voices from the House of Zophiel
Release Date: 01/17/2025
Voices: Around the Cauldron #1 (Imbolc edition) Season 3 Episode 3
Voices from the House of Zophiel
The nature of magical entities opens with a foundational question that invites participants to articulate their working theories: do spirits, demons, angels, and other non-physical beings exist independently of human consciousness, or are they products of our minds? This exploration considers whether entities possess objective existence, emerge from collective consciousness, represent psychological structures, or operate through some combination of these possibilities. Following naturally from questions of existence comes the puzzle of consistency. How do we account for the remarkably...
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Voices Britney Penouilh Season 3 Episode 2
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BRITNEY PENOUILH is an American artist whose interest in geology and natural environments has exerted great influence over her mixed media panels and sculptures. With university studies in New Orleans, Greece, and Japan and artist residencies in New York, North Carolina, Alaska and California — travel and exploration is integral to her work. Penouilh’s work has been exhibited and collected nationally, from New York to Los Angeles. With infinite monologues on physics, geology, art, philosophy, religion and time; the work comprises of mixed media landscape paintings of geological systems...
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Voices: Adrien Mastrosimone Season 3 Episode 1
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Adrien discovered Tarot at 11 in Marignane, France, captivated by the Grimaud Marseille Deck in a local bookshop. When the owner discouraged him—"If you don't know what to do with them, you shouldn't buy them!"—it only fuelled his determination. He saved his pocket money and purchased the deck, beginning a lifelong passion. With nearly 30 years' experience, Adrien specialises in Marseille Tarot for everyday matters, using a straightforward and intuitive approach informed by folklore, pataphysics, and Western Esotericism. He has studied with Philippe Camoin, heir to the original Tarot...
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HoZ A Christmas Story
Voices from the House of Zophiel
The Devil's Carol The snow fell thick that Christmas Eve as Margaret Thornby hurried past the church. She was late—the carol service had already begun. But it wasn't the familiar hymn that made her pause. From the old graveyard came another voice. A woman's voice, singing alone—beautiful but wrong, with words that weren't quite words at all. A black cat darted across her path, its yellow eyes gleaming. It stopped at the graveyard's edge, staring with unnatural intelligence, then padded into the darkness. Margaret followed. Between ancient tombs stood a woman in a pale dress,...
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Voices: Julian Vayne Season 2 Episode 23
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Julian Vayne is a prominent British independent scholar and author with over forty years' experience in esoteric culture, spanning traditions from Druidry and Chaos Magic to Shamanism, Freemasonry, and Witchcraft. Beginning his magical journey at sixteen within the Western Esoteric Tradition, he has since worked ceremonially with practitioners across diverse lineages and cultures. As a senior member of the Magical Pact of the Illuminates of Thanateros, Julian is recognised as one of Britain's leading occultists. In the 1990s, he edited Britain's bestselling pagan newspaper Pagan Voice,...
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Voices: Frode Neergaard Season 2 Episode 22
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Frode Neergaard's life has been shaped by a profound quest for meaning that bridges the tangible world with mysteries beyond ordinary perception. As a clinical psychologist, he devoted himself to understanding the human psyche, yet his journey has always reached towards something deeper and more enigmatic. His years as a Norwegian soldier during the late 1990s and early 2000s took him across Lebanon, Israel, Bosnia, Kosovo, and Macedonia, where he witnessed humanity at its most vulnerable. Later, working as a scuba diving guide in Egypt, he found himself immersed in ancient mystical...
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Voices: David Rankine Sesson 2 Episode 21
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David Rankine is an author, esoteric researcher and magician who lives in Spain with his wife, artist and tattooist Rosa Laguna. He has been making major contributions to the modern occult revival since the 1980s through lectures, workshops, presentations, articles, and books. His esoteric expertise covers a wide range of topics, including the Western Esoteric Traditions, especially the Qabalah, the Grimoire tradition, Greco-Egyptian magic and Ceremonial Magic, as well as British Folklore and European Mythology. His published work in recent years has been characterised...
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Voices: Michael Staley Season 2 Episode 20
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Michael Staley has been fascinated by the occult for as long as he can remember and is particularly steeped in Thelema and Advaita Vedanta …. “AD VAITA VED ANTA” being non dualistic, this realisation is achieved through practices like self-inquiry, contemplation, and meditation. Michael is a prominent member of the Typhonian Order, led by Kenneth Grant and was for many years editor of Grant’s works. Publishing the first issue of Starfire in 1986, he subsequently expanded it into Starfire Publishing, issuing Kenneth Grant’s work from the late 1990s. Having delved...
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Voices: Siân Sibley Season 2 Episode 19
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Sian Sibley is a traditional witch, author, and ecological activist with over 30 years of experience in the craft. Leader of the DragonOak Coven for over three decades, she employs magical practices derived from the Greek magical papyri and plant spirit work, as well as deep ecological ethics. Her work blends science and spirituality, drawing on her academic background – an MSc in Biological Science and an MA in Ecology and Spirituality – to explore how animism and witchcraft can nurture a sustainable, reciprocal relationship with the natural world. Sian is the author of "Unveiling the...
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Voices: Claire Pingel Season 2 Episode 18
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Claire Pingel is a Wiccan High Priestess, a Priestess of Mary Magdalene and an Archdruidess in the Fellowship of Isis. As well as Mary Magdalene she works with Lilith and Hekate. She is the author of Mary Magdalene – The Darker Saint, which is available from Veneficia Publications, and Amazon. She has also contributed to The Witches Almanac, and the Hermetic Sentinel. Her main interest is building a successful relationship with the Goddess and working with Her in her daily life. She talks at conferences, events, moots and camps and runs workshops both in person and online. She regularly...
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Let me introduce you to the wonderful Lou Hotchkiss-Knives walks an eclectic path where country Witchcraft, Thelema, History, feminism, music and writing intersect with Babalon devotional practices.
She is French and she moved to the UK in 1999 to work for the Alliance Française and was initiated into a magickal circle in Torquay, Devon, before joining her own coven of like-minded witches.
Lou started her public speaker journey giving talks on Magick and historical topics at events organised by the Dolmen Grove.
Emboldened by the kindness and approval of Pr Ronald Hutton, and with the support of Veneficia Publishing’s fabulous Diane Narraway, she began her career as an author.
Her work on Babalon has been featured in several occult anthologies and journals, including Women of Babalon (Black Moon Publishings), and the Eloquent Blood by Manon Hendeborg White (Oxford University Press).
A self-confessed incorrigible scribbler, she has also contributed to various fiction, poetry and punk publications for Veneficia Publishings, The Cauldron, The Gloucestershire Poetry Society, punk zine Slutcake and the Dolmen Grove Chronicles.
In her free time, when she’s not volunteering in the local graveyard, she performs with her noise-punk band Wags to Wytches and her new side project Orphan Emily.
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