Merry Feast of Saint Anthony and indeed Happy Friday 13th, Golgothii! This, our forty-eighth episode, sees us celebrating – amongst other things – Saint Anthony’s incorruptible tongue, his veneration across the world, and his patronage of finding lost things, along with his many syncretisations across Worlds both Old and New with powers of doorways and the streets. Our Demon(ised) patron of this episode is Eshu/Exu, that deified crossroads power who finds expression as Legba, Eleggua, and as Exu...
Jun 13, 2025•3 hr 54 min•Season 1Ep. 48
Welcome Golgothers to our forty-fifth episode, celebrating the Feast of St Patrick with a plethora of serpentine slitherings! Saint Patrick – apostle of Ireland, bane of serpents, shamrock evangelist, bearer of the hymnal breastplate, and reviver of the dead – affords us hagiographic discussion of shifting depictions of this saint and receptions of his impact, “All Snakes Day”, and what-even-is-Celtic. Our Demon is Apep, opening up conversation about when a cosmic force is “demonic”, as well as ...
Mar 17, 2025•4 hr 19 min•Ep. 45
Welcome dear gentle listener to our forty-fourth episode, in which we honour the Feast of the Chair of St Peter. This holyday – dedicated less to a saint than their relic – sees us talking about the seat of papal authority of Rome, the Petrine importance of Antioch, the matryoshka qualities of medieval-style reliquaries, the “throne of Theseus”, apostolic succession, and what it means to be the Rock upon which the Church is founded. Our patron Demon for today is Trimasael, alchemical and many-al...
Feb 22, 2025•3 hr 48 min•Season 1Ep. 44
Happy New Calendar Year, Golgothians one and all, and merry Feast of the Ass! We kick 2025 off with an episode celebrating the many forms of the Festum Asinorum: a holyday drawing on early traditions of the Feast of Fools as well as dramatised ecclesiastical processions of prophets, honouring the sacrality and popularity of the humble donkey in Scripture and indeed in churches. Our featured Demon is Bifrons, the Two-Faced One; affording both our usual discussion of grimoiric sourcetexts and spir...
Jan 14, 2025•3 hr 26 min•Ep. 43
Dear Golgothites, as the calendar year draws to a close, we invite you to celebrate the Feast of Holy Innocents with us. Here we remembrance the mythic slaughter of the children of Bethlehem under the tyranny of Bad King Herod, and consider some of the traditions and folkways associated with this day around the world – from the ill-auspices of Cross Day to the election and misrule of Boy Bishops, and much more. Our honoured Demon King (Queen?) is Paimon, one of the ‘four principle spirits’ usual...
Dec 28, 2024
Happy Feast of St Martin and, indeed, merry Martlemas, dear listeners! We welcome you to the forty-first episode of our folk necromantic co-ramble. On the tail end of the Hallowstide, we honour not only the hallowed hagiography of the historical St Martin of Tours – former soldier, bishop, and miraculous cloak philanthropist – but the many calendrical reasons for the season of the feastday itself: from the migration patterns of geese, the bonus ‘settling-day’ of pre-modern village-life, to the A...
Nov 11, 2024•Ep. 41
Happy Hallowstide, listeners! We are delighted to invite you to an especially-very-special episode of Radio Free Golgotha – our 40th episode! We took this anniversary opportunity to do something a little different: rather than pick individual foci amongst the topics of our usual sorcerous Sesame Streeting, we got into the fields of the topics themselves: what and how we are continually inspired by getting to talk about Saints, Demons, Herbs, Minerals, Types of Magic, Geomancy, Cartomancy, and of...
Oct 31, 2024•3 hr 21 min•Ep. 40
Merry Feast of Saint Hildegard of Bingen, Golgothites! We are delighted to invite you into the Green for an especially verdant celebration of Hildegardmas and our patron saint of the day’s many attendant magics of natural physick, faith, feminist history, and more. We begin, as is our custom, with the hagiographic reason for the season, celebrating the twelfth-century abbess, visionary, healer, and composer of both music and Unknown Language, Saint Hildegard of Bingen. We discuss Hildy’s biograp...
Sep 17, 2024•2 hr 53 min•Ep. 39
By the petals and thorns alike, we wish you a merry Feast of Saint Rose of Lima! We hope you have had an august August and invite you to join us for a stroll through the RFG ramble-garden with us. We begin our promenade of featured topics with the hagiography of Santa Rosa herself, the first person canonized in the Americas; in which we consider penance, mortification, sweet-smelling funeral miracles, floral saint-masks, and the fine line between Catholicism and being goth as holy hell. Hooting ...
Aug 23, 2024•Season 1Ep. 38
Merry Feast of Saint Ignatius Loyola, dear Golgothans! We hope this month of July (what, already done?) has included enjoying lovely things and people and such for you; and we invite you to bring it to a close by joining for us with a light to St Ignatius and an especially fiery episode of this ‘cast pod. For today we mark Ignatiusmas – the holyday dedicated to that patron of librarians and founding member of the Society of Jesus – and consider his punkish youth, alombrados-esque conspiracy, and...
Jul 31, 2024•Season 1Ep. 37
Merry Feast of Saint Irenaeus, dear Golgothites! In another holyday to close out the month, it is a delight to get together once more and welcome you to a lovely little chat about heresy, the divine spark, and the containers and connections we cultivate and celebrate to be able to cast that sacred illumination before us upon the path ever ahead. So pull up a pew and please to be enjoying discussion of Saint Irenaeus, from whose writings against heresy have been derived glimpses of Gnostic cults,...
Jun 28, 2024•Ep. 36
Happy Feast of St Camilla everyone! On this feastday which brings the May to a close, we invite you to join us in discussing the life and spiritual reflections of St Camilla Battista da Varano; visionary, nun, and eventual abbess of the Order of Poor Clares. We consider her biography and writings and of course her visions – of Christ, of cherubim, and of her own soul separated from her earthly body to dwell closer to God. In this especially vison-centered episode, we also invite you to reflect o...
May 31, 2024•Ep. 35
Merry Georgemas, each and every one and all of us! Whether you are tuning in from Moscow, Malta, Ethiopia, Catalonia, or the chalky shores of Albion, we wish you a very merry Feast of St George! As the bluebells ring out from greening meadows and the seasons Spring further toward Summer, we celebrate and reflect on the mysteries of subduing the monsters that blight the land, battling jingoistic nationalism, the popularity of parading dragons, and the mumming of resurrected knights. Via our Demon...
Apr 23, 2024•Ep. 34
Dearest listeners, it is from the Place of the Skull itself we wish you an excellent and powerful Good Friday! It is with seven years podcast luck this latest episode finally comes to Calvary and celebrates The Friday We Call Good. As our very name suggests, Golgothan themes are important to us here at Radio Free, um, Golgotha, and so we are particularly delighted to explore the is-it-hagiography of the Crucifixion of the Nazarene in this Jesus-numbered Thirty-Third episode. Along with reflectio...
Mar 29, 2024•Ep. 33
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 ...
Feb 29, 2024•Ep. 31
New Year! New episode! Happy Feast of St Anthony the Great! (aka Anthony of Egypt, Anthony of the Desert, Anthony the Hermit, and more!) Welcome one and all to our thirty-first very special episode of Radio Free Golgotha, and our seven year anniversary! We are delighted to mark and celebrate the Feast of Saint Anthony the Great, and offer you some tempting co-rambles and enthusings on hermitude, satyrs, and what happens in the wilderness that may or may not stay in the wilderness… We are also ho...
Jan 17, 2024•Ep. 31
Happy Feast of Saint Olga of Kyiv! There are a great many Saints that lend themselves to magic, to folk expressions, to sorcerous doublings and syncretic masques; and there are some saints whose stories are so bold they become storehouses of witch power and strength in the mere recounting- Olga of Kyiv is notoriously one such Saint! Join us in this very special episode, where our sister in serpent-shed and good friend Katarina Pejovic and the Goat and the Good Doctor discuss the fantastic St. Ol...
Jul 12, 2023•Season 1Ep. 30
On this Feast of the anchorite saints Judith and Salome, we are most pleased to bring you another episode of RFG! Ahhh….. the merry month, where did go?! Perhaps into hiding with our sweet anchorites, not to be confused with a myriad of other Saints Judith and Salome, or the hagiographic (hag because saint, not because crone) blur with two badass ladies of the Hebrew Testament–but a happy feast to you all the same! Brought to you by the Demon King (or Queen, some say…) Beleth; the get-away-from-...
Jun 29, 2023•Ep. 29
Welcome welcome welcome to another very special episode of Radio Free Golgotha! This, our twenty-eighth outpouring, comes to you in honour of the Feast of Joan of Arc, and we are delighted to step into the fray and discuss all sorts of business around the revealed mysteries of God and the unseen secrets of state, the celebration of women, and the cultivation of Strength, the development of spirit-hearing as well as spirit-sight, and a remembrance of another persecuted Joan… The reason for the se...
May 30, 2023•Ep. 28
With a perspicacious opacity, we bring you this twenty seventh episode of Radio Free Golgotha in celebration of the Holy Martyrs of Ostia, those criminals turned martyrs, whose feast of April 10th coincides with the third of day of the writing of the Book of the Law, which informs the rest of our surveyed topics, and brings us to welcome our special guest, Joshua Adam Sharp, to the show! Our Demon is that voice-from-over-the-left-shoulder, Aiwass, who delivered the book, styled the Holy Guardian...
Apr 10, 2023•Ep. 27
In this very special twenty-sixth episode of RFG we are delighted to welcome artist, teacher, podcaster, and stargazing sorcerer of celestial images and lettrism, J.M. Hamade, to join us in this discursive night journey across what goes bump in the sublunary. Trumpeting the reason for the season we bid you a wonderful Feast of the Archangel Saint Gabriel, as we explore the hagiography and arch angelology of Gabriel aka Jibrīl, the anunciating Strength of God and friend of the Prophet (PBUH); as ...
Mar 18, 2023•2 hr 51 min•Ep. 26
Well met/Hullo/Hiya folks, and welcome to a very special episode 25 of RFG. This episode is brought to you by the end of February closing in and the first ever Pope Saint to be officially allowed to be funny, St Hilarius. It is also brought to you by multitudinous discussion of the Demon Legion and of the demonic legions, in both grimoiric write-ups and conjurational experience. And by consideration of the magic of Good Character, as the tangible actions of the soul growing to embiggen our Selve...
Feb 28, 2023•2 hr 50 min•Ep. 25
This January, having finally served the leftover carrots we’ve been dangling for six years, we are… refreshed. And so, we record our 24th episode under the patronage of the Philosopher Saint and Doctor of the Church, Thomas Aquinas. In our excitement, we invited the demon Ashtaroth to the conversation (forgetting that we have indeed partied before with Ashtaroth on Episode 17) and yet a lovely time was had by all. We discuss the mighty Oak, the shapely Thunderstone (in its many permutations acro...
Jan 29, 2023•Ep. 24
In this special episode we are delighted to celebrate the marvels of the Feast of Michaelmas – from goose-giving to demon-corralling – as well as of course saluting the Archangel Saint Michael himself in all his protective grace and god-like-ness. In so saluting, we consider the topic of Angel Magic more broadly, touching on Hebrew angelology, Arabic aerial spirits, the Notary Art’s infusions of divine knowledge, grimoiric angel-summoning, and more. For balance of course, this episode is also br...
Sep 29, 2022•Ep. 23
Merry Feast of the Virgin of Regla, dear Golgothans! From across the seas we cast this pod, to you and yours from us and ours. This episode brought to you by the Virgin of the Rule and her oceanic reflection in the Mother of Fishes, Yemaya; and indeed the bathic depths of Leviathan; the soothing balms of Aloe; the mineral moonmetal of Silver; the magical mystifications of Demonization (for what could be more demonic than an American spelling?); the geomantic figure of Fortuna Minor and its count...
Sep 09, 2022•Ep. 22
Happy Feast of St Dismas! A second episode this year?! It’s almost like a twin birth! Brought to you by the Feast of the Penitent (hereafter “Good”) Thief Dismas, the Demon Valefor, the ever elusive flower Pimpernel, the lively Turquoise, the Magical weaponry known as the Arma Christi, the geomantic figure of Acquisitio and its corresponding Odu Ofun, the tarot trump of Justice/Adjustment, and for our dead magicians, those holy mothers of Spiritualism, the Fox Sisters. Stay safe and sane in thes...
Mar 25, 2022•Ep. 21
Happy Feast of St Blaise! Two years later, in the wake of the Great Sick, we now slouch towards Bethlehem once again. Brought to you by the Feast of Saint Blaise, the Demon Syrach/Exu Calunga, the goodly tree Birch, the mineral Gold, the geomantic figure of Rubeus (and a splash of Ika/Metanla), the magical practice of Divination, the nameless arcana of the Tarot (okay…. THE DEATH CARD), and the often notorious and always beloved John Dee. A wish for continued good health and good spirits to you ...
Feb 03, 2022
Happy Feast of St. John! Ah, a day for the wild-child in each of us. Brought to you by the Feast of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist, the Queen/Witch/Witch-Queen/Demon Herodias, the herb St Johns wort, the stone Pyrite, the geomantic figure of Tristitia (and a side of Okanran), the practices of Prophecy, the tarot trump of the Fool, and the revolutionary dead magician Paschal Beverly Randolph! A wish for continued good health and good spirits to us all. May the fires of St John push diseas...
Jun 24, 2020•Ep. 19
What?! Another episode already?! Indeed! We will be posting it later tonight when the final edit shows up to the ball.... Brought to you by the Feast of Saint Pancras (and the Ice Saints), the demon Azazel (but most assuredly not Zazel), the good tree Blackthorn, the stone Garnet, the geomantic figure of Carcer (and a side of Odi), the practices of Weather Magic, the tarot trump of the Wheel of Fortune, and the magician-prophet Enoch! Again, good health and good spirits to us all. Wash your hand...
May 13, 2020•Ep. 18
A glorious Walpurgisnacht to you all. Today's episode is brought to you by the Feast of Saint Catherine of Siena (on her pre-1969 Feast Day with a guest appearance by Walpurga), the demon Ashtaroth (and maybe the King and Queen of the Seven Crossroads), the herb Mandrake, the stone Quartz, the geomantic figure of Albus (and a side of Oturupon), the practice of Night Flight, the tarot trump of the Moon, and the witch Isobel Gowdie! Good health and good spirits to you all- wash your hands!
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