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🗓️ 25 April 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Coming to you from the shores of Lake Titicaca! Some lessons on how to get good at magic, specifically sigil magic, learned on the road in Bolivia.
The short answer is your first hundred sigils will teach you more about magic than any book ever will. The long answer is.... this podcast.
Here I share my notes and observations from spending time in mountaintop villages with lineaged shamans descending directly from the Incas, San Pedro ceremonies in the mountains and client encounters in the Witches Market in La Paz.
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0:00.0 | Hello from the shores of Lake Titty Kaka and you know even though every time I say that I hear |
0:06.4 | Principal Skinner's voice in my head this is still one of those places that I never thought I'd get to, like it's too far out of my usual dimension. |
0:20.6 | I mean this is the creation point, This is the birthplace of the sun and it does have an incredible |
0:28.4 | incredible feel already and we're here obviously because tomorrow and the next day we will be spending on East Liddell-Sull and that will be, I think, the last of the infinity stones I came to South America to collect before World War III. But that's not what I want to talk about today in this solo show. |
0:47.6 | I want to talk about how to get good at magic. |
0:57.0 | And yeah, so if you're part of the listening team rather than the visual team, don't worry. I'm literally just sitting on the balcony of my hotel, |
1:01.0 | although I will say it's kind of giving Lady Gaga paparazzi but on a budget. |
1:07.5 | But yes, this is very much an audio first episode. So let's jump on into it. Let's jump on into how to get good |
1:16.2 | at magic, the Bolivian Edition, I suppose. And before we jump into those details speaking of getting good at Magic, I want to announce |
1:41.1 | the next couple of courses because we've changed a little bit about how the membership votes. |
1:45.0 | So the course that starts next month is the next grimoire course. |
1:49.0 | We haven't done one of them in years and I'm joking be calling it the Jake edit in reference to Jake Stratton |
1:55.2 | Kent because it is a deep exploration of one of the things that maybe the biggest thing that I would say he contributed to the changes in Western |
2:06.9 | Magic in the 21st century which is the centering of the Greek inheritance of or within the grimo's. |
2:17.0 | So it's actually called Grimo's The Greek Inheritance |
2:19.9 | brackets, the Jake edit. |
2:22.0 | But I've done most of that's done most of the the actual research and laying out and it is going to be |
2:28.3 | Fucking fantastic if I may say so myself and so this is one to this is one to join for, let me tell you. Getting back to |
2:38.0 | grimoires, getting back to looking at how those Greek survivors are made bio available to us via the grimoas and so on. |
2:47.0 | So yes, that's coming up next month. It's starting next month. |
2:50.0 | And then for the second half of the year, we did a change in how the voting works. |
2:56.1 | And so for the second half of the year, we're going to do another six month course |
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