In this weeks show we chat with the fantastic Austin Gandy about the basics of Magick. Austin knows his subject and delivers the goods this week in another great interview. Fans of our friends Out There Radio will know Mr Gandy from his work on the ‘Invisible College’ episode of the show, as well as being their guest for some of the best episodes. In this episode we look at the real basics of magick, as if the listener was a would-be adept, walking through their local occult bookstore, pondering where to get stuck in!
Claire delivers once again with her awesome Weekly Weird News, and we make a desperate plea for attention from our fans! Next week we’ll hopefully be heading back into the paranormal world with an interview about Crypto-Zoology!
Music this week comes in the shape of Kid606, you can download this track for free here, background music this week comes from Earth and Don Cab!
See you next time!
Just finished listening, and I have one question for Austin, actually. He mentioned the Giger tarot, and that he wouldn’t recommend using it for readings…why is that? I have a friend that uses it as her primary deck, so I’m just curious.
Good question!
For one, the Giger tarot only contains the 22 major arcana, so any tarot readings done with it are bound to be a little limited unless you mix in cards from another deck and then deal them blind… Yeah, I guess that might work.
More importantly, though I think the experienced tarot reader can use any deck, as long as they are internally familiar with the meaning of the Trumps that underlies any visual representation of them, I believe that one is sorta shooting themselves in the foot by working uphill against the distinctly qlippothic imagery of the Giger tarot.
So much of the divination process is intuitive exploration of the imagery of the cards, and just a brief look through the Giger tarot is enough to illustrate that the deck paints a picture of reality in a somewhat limited and dark palette. Vivid and powerful, for sure, but mostly skulls, snake/penises, and distressingly suggestive architecture.
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