The Picatrix: A Grimoire of Astrological Magic

The Astrology Podcast

Chris Brennan

Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality, Religion

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2020

⏱️ 151 minutes

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Episode 239 of the podcast features an interview with Christopher Warnock about a book known as the Picatrix, which is a 10th century text on astrological magic. This is a sweeping two and a half hour discussion where we talk about the history and origins of the text, as well as its contents. We also […]

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Chris Brennan, and you're listening to the astrology podcast. In this episode I'm talking with Christopher Warnock about the Picatrix, which is a 10th century grimoire of astrological magic.
0:12.8	Hey, thanks for joining me today.
0:15.2	Hey, it's great to be here, Chris.
0:16.8	Yeah, this is funny because you actually are one of my earliest guests that appear, this is your second appearance on the podcast, but it was so long ago,
0:26.3	it was way back in episode 16, which we recorded and released back in like, I don't even know, like 2013 or 2014 or something crazy like that.
0:37.0	Wow.
0:38.0	Well, I have to say it's a great honor to be here.
0:41.0	I mean, this the the premier astrology
0:43.1	podcast no no question about it and plus you know it you're way up there I mean I
0:49.6	look at your the I mean Hellenistic astrology you're the guy so it's like yeah you wrote a lovely review of my book when it came out a few years ago so thanks for that but it's an honor to talk to you today because I've been wanting to do a full episode on the
1:05.2	Picatrix for a while and I felt like it was finally time. I did an interesting discussion with
1:10.3	Austin about astrology and magic last month.
1:14.0	So I'm ready to like delve into this topic and I finally,
1:18.0	I'd read and skimmed through parts of the Picatrix before,
1:21.0	but I've finally now sat down and done a detailed read-through of the entire thing, so I'm excited to talk about it, and I thought, who better to talk about it than you, who's been one of the primary proponents of sort of reviving that work and putting some of the precepts into practice over the course of the
1:37.6	past couple of decades.
1:39.6	Yeah, you know, it's interesting, it's like, because I think one of the things I really enjoy
1:44.0	about being an astrologer is that you have to have this theoretical knowledge but
1:49.2	then at the same time you got to put it to practice and they sort of they definitely inform each other you
1:54.4	know what I mean it's like we're not just having a theoretical academic
1:57.6	discussion here as useful as that is and also not just doing practical stuff we
2:01.5	have to do both you know so to be a scholarly
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