Episode 32: The Leap-Feast of Saint Oswald of Worcester
We bid you a transcendently merry Leap-Feast of Saint Oswald of Worcester! Here in the time-out-of-time we at RFG weave our usual merry way through our Sesame Streetlamp-lit special topics of the episode, beginning with the Saint(s) Oswald; that is, Saint Oswald of Worcester who died on February 29th washing the feet of the poor, “revived” English monasticism, and should not be confused – unless you want – with the raven saint Oswald of Northumbria...
Our Demon of the Month features an unboxing of Choronzon (or Coronzon ((or even Coronzom))) tracing the dispersals of this entity-concept across the Enochiana of dear Dr Dee, the Thelema of renowned mountaineer, OG yoga influencer, and Great Beast Aleister Crowley, and out into the experimental currents of Chaos Magick, and the philosophies of non-duality, shadow work, and ego death.
We invite you to our own little Night-blooming Cereus party for our Herb of the episode as we celebrate the wish-granting and immortality of this singularly-flowering dragon-maiden who comes when she will and counsels to keep up the unseen work that creates a perfectly perfumed moment.
Our Genre of Magic has us enthusing about Metrics of Time – what we do at the turn of the seasons, how we may mark the ritually operative as well as ceremonial festivities, how the jam of talismans acts as a battery of stored momentum, the secret seasonal names of the Earth and Sun, and how we may grasp the new in the experience-quenched patina of the previous.
We declare a beach day in delighted discussed of our timely Mineral of Sand; in which we hot-step across sand baths, hourglasses, the grandfathers of mountains, and the potentiating memory of the multitudinous to retain myriad sorcerous programmings and punctuations. The geomantic figure of Populus makes an appearance in our celebration of the millions of tiny grains and moments that make an hourglass and the seconds it counts.
Our Arcana of the episode presents a before and after of Judgment and the Aeon; touching further on time’s lessons in the forms of the find out that inevitable follows the consequences of our folking around.
Finally, our Dead Magician of the episode leans into the mythic with some love for that cambion shapeshifter prophet druid wizard magus Merlin himself; from his amalgams of origin, his fourteen centuries of rich popularity, his defiantly backwards aging, and his adaptations across time to serve a variety of intellectual and political agendas of the age.
From us in our astral RFG wizard tower floating in the kairotic in-between of The Leap to you in yours, we wish you a wonderful Time listening to our co-enthusings! Also as always please be sure to check back in on the website for updates on coming classes, conference presentations, and more from both the Goat and the Good Doctor. Cheers!
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