Rune Soup Gordon

Two contemporary deck creators, Balthazar Blacke and Natalia Lee, join the show this week for a round table on fortune telling and the role oracle cards specifically should have in your cartomantic practice.
We explore:
The things oracle cards can do that tarot cannot. (And vice versa!) Which situations call for which type of deck. Some historic resistance to using oracle cards among western practitioners. Some advice on different spreads and the role of significators. A super fun chat with some some fun people!
Show Notes
Balthazar's website. Divine Gypsy Mother. Balthazar's YouTube channel. Natalia's website. Saint Cyprian's Deck of Cards.  

Legendary cultural curator, media theorist and provocateur Richard Metzger joins the show this week.
Richard, of course, co-founded The Disinformation Company, founded Dangerous Minds and has spent decades observing and participating in the changing media landscape.
He is with us now to talk about his latest project, Magick Show, an extended documentary project featuring discussions with
Grant Morrison Douglas Rushkoff Mitch Horowitz Gary Lachman Bri Luna Geraldine Beskine And many more -including the last-ever interview with Kenneth Anger!
We cover magic, the failed promises of the internet, mind wars, propaganda and the perennial Rune Soup question: what is ours to do?
Find out more about Magick Show here, including ways in which you can support the project.
Enjoy!

This week's solo show forms part of a collection of observations lining us up for the beginning of the five-month, gargantuan Time Magic course we're starting in August.
Here, we explore the quiet politics of magical thinking:
The origin of the term. How it sort of is and sort of isn't like magical realism. Examples of it in the history of western esotericism. How you can make that inward turn toward magical thinking, and what any blocks in that process might be telling you. Enjoy!

Chance Gardner and Vanese McNeil, producers of the legendary documentary series Magical Egypt, join the show this week.
We discuss
Getting history right and wrong. The legacy of John Anthony West and R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz. Materialism and its impact on studying history. The latest series of Magical Egypt -which Gordon is in! I mention at the outset that this episode was actually recorded six months ago. The plan was to release it at the same time as a video on hermeticism that I was going to shoot at an Ancient Egypt exhibition in Canberra (which is mentioned in my animism series). But that didn't happen, and then I thought I would do it at the Island of the Sun in Bolivia, and so on. Anyway, it's not six months later and I am choosing to blame the curse of the mummy, lol.
A super fun chat, nonetheless. And a real high point in my own life to actually be in the legendary Magical Egypt series myself.
Show Notes  
Watch the latest series of Magical Egypt here. Follow Magical Egypt on YouTube.

Six moons have passed and so the Council of the Wise was summoned once again. Also I was there.
 
Austin Coppock returns to the show for the traditional half-yearly forecast. Join us as we talk about Mars retrogrades, eclipses, elections and proxy wars.
 
Stick around till the end for some TV recommendations, because why not?
 
Enjoy!

The legendary Christopher Knowles of the Secret Sun joins us this week to explain how to be a synchromystic. We learn
✅ What is synchronicity?
✅ What role synchronicity plays in modern mysticism.
✅ The importance of symbol sets in this pursuit.
✅ How this modern practice is really an ancient one described.
Whilst it's always a pleasure to have Chris back on the show, this particular episode happens on the occasion of the release of his latest book. The Secret Sun Synchromystic Handbook!
Get it here. Follow Chris here.