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Hex and Muse

Hex & Muse - The Podcast

A podcast for the curious, the creative, and the quietly powerful.Hex & Muse is a slow-burning exploration of modern mysticism, feminine power, and the spaces where history, art, and ritual entwine.Hosted by a practicing witch, artist, and seeker, this show isn’t a how-to guide; it’s a breadcrumb trail.Each episode invites you into a moment of reflection through storytelling, folklore, sacred practices, and the occasional deep-dive into witches in art, culture, and cinema.From building altars

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18:24

Nicnevin - Queen of Elphame

Hex and Muse ·

2025/10/19

As spring blooms in the southern world and autumn deepens in the north, the veil thins across both. Tonight, Hex & Muse crosses that unseen border to meet Nicnevin - the Hallow Queen of Scotland. She rides through centuries of poetry, persecution, and myth: from Renaissance verse to witch-trial confessions, from the moors of Fife to the snow-clad peaks of Ben Nevis. Part goddess, part ghost, part faerie queen, Nicnevin is the keeper of thresholds - a spirit who walks between life and deat...

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8:02

The Raven - A Reading by Candlelight

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2025/10/16

Once upon a midnight dreary... In this special reading, Hex & Muse drifts through the flicker of candlelight to meet one of literature’s most haunting visitations Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven. First published in 1845, this gothic masterpiece still beats with the same dark music: grief, longing, and the ache of a soul that cannot let go. Told in rhythmic, hypnotic verse, The Raven is a séance in language a lament that echoes between love and loss, dream and waking. In this episo...

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35:45

Witches on Screen - From Celluloid Shadows to...

Hex and Muse ·

2025/10/13

From silent trick films to technicolour queens, from broomsticks to suburban sitcoms, from horror’s hysteria to feminist reclamation - cinema has never stopped conjuring the witch. In this episode of Hex & Muse, we trace her journey through a century of film: the haunted illusions of Georges Méliès, the fevered beauty of Häxan, the vanity of Disney’s mirror-obsessed queen, the domestic rebellion of Bewitched, the dread of Rosemary’s Baby, the velvet defiance of the 90s, and the reflective...

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37:25

The Witching Hour - Folklore of Midnight & Thresholds

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2025/10/05

What makes midnight so powerful and why do crossroads, mirrors, and doorways seem to hum with the same strange energy? This episode of Hex & Muse drifts through folklore, superstition, and the quiet psychology of liminal spaces, tracing how the witching hour became a symbol of transformation. From ancient rites and whispered superstitions to the ways we still navigate change today, it’s an exploration of thresholds- where the world softens, and something new begins to stir. Carl Jung – ...

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23:42

Familiars - The Witch’s Shadow

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2025/09/21

In every tale of the witch, something moves just beyond her body - a cat’s green eyes, a hare in the fields, a raven circling overhead. These are the familiars: companions, protectors, and echoes of the witch’s own spirit. In this episode of Hex & Muse, we walk with them. From the witch trials of England and Scotland, where imps and “witch’s teats” became deadly evidence, to the enduring image of the old woman and her cats. From Shakespeare’s Graymalkin to Pullman’s dæmons, from Jiji in K...

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15:36

Shadow Work - Myths, Magic & the Hidden Self

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2025/09/07

In this episode of Hex & Muse, we step into the velvet dark - the hidden places within where our secrets, wounds, and unclaimed power wait. This is shadow work: the witch’s art of facing what has been buried, not to banish it, but to bring it home. Together we’ll wander through myth and folklore - Inanna’s descent to the underworld, Persephone crowned in shadow, Baba Yaga at the forest’s edge, Hel and the Morrígan, and the witch herself as a mirror for society’s fears. We’ll explore Jung’...

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5:47

Blood Moon Rising - The Corn Moon Eclipse in Pisces

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2025/09/04

On the night of September 7–8, 2025, the Corn Moon rises in Pisces - and slips into shadow. For eighty-two minutes, the world will witness a total lunar eclipse, the Blood Moon burning red across the skies of the southern hemisphere. In this special episode, we explore the Corn Moon’s springtime meaning, the eclipse’s transformative pull, and the dreamlike waters of Pisces. You’ll also be guided through a simple yet powerful ritual of release and renewal - a way to step into spring as the moo...

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14:41

Sacred in the Small - An Ode to Everyday Altars

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2025/08/31

What if your altar wasn’t a shelf but a moment? A gesture? A stone in your coat pocket or a candle stub you keep lighting on the floor? In this episode of Hex & Muse, we step into the quiet beauty of modern devotion an ode to the altars we carry through daily life. From the history of sacred spaces to the rise of domestic ritual, we explore how meaning is made in the smallest of places: a ring dish, a whisper, a match struck with intention. You don’t need a temple....

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19:50

Freya - Goddess of Gold & Fire

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2025/08/24

Freya is not a goddess who can be contained. She is beauty and battle, silk and steel, grief and golden desire. In this episode, we step into her meadow of myths where amber tears fall into the sea, falcon wings carry her between worlds, and a necklace forged in fire becomes a symbol of sovereignty. We’ll wander through her stories: the Brísingamen, the cat-drawn chariot, the meadow of Fólkvangr, and her role as the first witch of the Norse, teaching Odin himself the dangerous art of seiðr. A...

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24:00

Fae & Fairies - A Mythic Field Guide

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2025/08/17

Not all fairies have wings Some wear moss for cloaks. Some will bless you. Some will curse you. In this episode, we step beyond the glitter and into the older, stranger world of the fae. From the light and shadow of the Seelie and Unseelie Courts to the hidden lines of fairy roads, we’ll walk through mushroom rings that may never let you go, meet their cousins in Iceland, Japan, and Slavic rivers, and listen for the hoofbeats that echo in folklore and in the dark. We’ll explore names not mean...

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17:51

The Witch’s Garden

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2025/08/10

The witch’s garden is never just a garden. It’s a threshold where roots touch the underworld, blossoms reach for the divine, and every leaf carries a story. In this episode of Hex & Muse, we wander through a green world of memory and protection, of potions stirred at the hearth and charms tied under moonlight. From rosemary’s quiet guardianship to basil’s welcome at the door, these are the plants that have walked beside witches for centuries. Settle in. Breathe deep. And let the garden sp...

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27:34

The Cunning Folk - Keepers of Lore, Healers of the Hedge

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2025/08/07

This episode is dedicated to the people of Palestine. If you're able, please consider donating to humanitarian relief or signing a petition to demand ceasefire. Bearing witness is powerful- but action, even small, is sacred. Long before the witch hunts scorched through Europe, there were the cunning folk- midwives, herbalists, diviners, and wise women who walked the hedgerows between the seen and unseen. In this episode of Hex & Muse, we trace the forgotten legacy of these sacred practiti...

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17:41

Lilith - Night Queen & Feminist Icon

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2025/07/27

She was the first woman - and the first to say no. Long before Eve, there was Lilith: a rebel born from earth, not rib. Cast out for demanding equality, demonized for her desire, and transformed into a dark myth whispered through centuries of religion, art, folklore, and feminist theory. In this cinematic, poetic episode of Hex & Muse, we trace Lilith’s mythic evolution - from ancient Sumerian night spirits and Kabbalistic lore to medieval demonology, Jewish mysticism, astrology, and mod...

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27:07

Velvet Shadows - The Vampire’s Mirror

Hex and Muse ·

2025/07/20

Tonight, Hex & Muse takes a darker turn - slipping into the gothic silk and shadow of one of the most enduring archetypes in myth, literature, and film: the vampire. From ancient folklore to Carmilla’s kiss and Dracula’s infamous arrival, we trace the vampire’s transformation - through plague and poetry, through Hammer Horror and haute couture. We unravel their fashion, their symbolism, and the way they reflect our deepest fears: of death, desire, and disappearing. Are vampires real? Mayb...

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34:39

Living by the Moon - Crafting a Lunar Life

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2025/07/13

The moon doesn’t just light the night sky- she shapes the rhythm of our days, our moods, our magic. In this episode, we follow the eight phases of the lunar cycle, not as distant astronomy, but as an intimate guide for living, creating, and becoming. From the potent stillness of the New Moon to the sacred shedding of the Last Quarter, each phase reveals something vital about rest, ritual, and rebirth. Woven with folklore, goddess mythology, and poetic reflections, Living by the Moon is a soft...

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21:58

Witches in the Frame: A Ritual in Paint Part II

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2025/07/06

Circles, spells, and silent defiance. In Part II of Witches in the Frame, we step out of the storm and into the stillness. This episode explores how the witch evolved from chaos incarnate to quiet power - no longer the grotesque, but the gazed-upon. We begin with the poised enchantresses of John William Waterhouse, where ritual is rendered with grace, not fear. Then we linger in the twilight with Rossetti’s Proserpine, suspended between myth and mourning. These are not witches cast in fire - ...

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32:10

Witches in the Frame: A Ritual in Paint Part I

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2025/06/30

What do painted witches reveal about the world that rendered them? From the twisted etchings of Dürer to the moonlit melancholy of Rossetti, this two-part episode wanders through five iconic artworks that echo the archetype of the witch as monster, muse, seductress, scapegoat, and sovereign. We explore how artists across centuries projected their awe, desire, and fear onto the feminine form, and how the witch - even when framed; continues to look back. Part I guides us through grotesque Renai...

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15:24

Hekate - At the Crossroads

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2025/06/22

She waits where the roads divide; torch lit, key in hand, dogs just out of sight. In this episode of Hex & Muse, we meet Hekate: goddess of thresholds, intuition, and the shadowed in-between. From ancient rites and the Greek Magical Papyri to crossroads offerings and moonlit rituals, we trace her path through myth, magic, and media. We explore her role in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, her ties to Persephone, Circe, and Medea-and how she echoes through Practical Magic, Chilling Adventures o...

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5:55

A Yule Ritual

Hex and Muse ·

2025/06/19

As Yule approaches in the Southern Hemisphere, this episode is a quiet ritual part reflection, part spell. Together, we honour the longest night of the year with candlelight, stillness, and gentle intention. Inspired by seasonal traditions and what I’ve learned on my path so far, this is an invitation to slow down and mark the turning of the year in your own sacred way. Gather a candle, something natural, a warm drink, and your journal. Or simply listen, and let the light return-softly. From ...

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14:02

The Witch’s Wheel

Hex and Muse ·

2025/06/18

A poetic journey through the eight sacred festivals of the Wheel of the Year. In this episode, we explore the seasonal pulse of the earth; from Imbolc’s quiet stirrings to Samhain’s ancestral veil and the ancient wisdom that still hums beneath our modern lives. Light a candle, and let the wheel turn. www.hexandmuse.com IG: Hex and muse

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