How can you create your own esoteric system to engage with spirits, draw from the grimoires, write your own esoteric alphabets and ritualistic calendars? Poland-born esotericist, artist and magician, Łukasz Grochocki, shares about creating magical systems, his Order of the Fire Fountain, answers your Glitch Bottle Patreon listener questions and more!

Who is the paradoxical and multi-faceted Mesopotamian god Dumuzid? What are the rituals, incantations, libations and offerings we can use to connect with this god of the sheepfold who is also a king, high priest, warrior and so much more? Samuel David - Mesopotamian polytheist, artist, writer, researcher, educator - shares about his latest tome from Anathema Publishing, ‘The Red Shepherd’ he answers your Glitch Bottle Patreon listener questions and much more!

What is true chthonic sorcery? What does it mean to develop an intimate and erotic relationship with spirits? How can we let go of being only focused on “repeatability” in magic and instead focus on cultivating deep connections with spirits? Experienced magicians and authors - Frater Acher and Craig Slee - share about their latest tome Goêtic Atavisms from Hadean Press, answer your Patreon listener questions and more!

What are the biggest misconceptions about tarot? How is tarot a living language and how can we develop our fluency in deepening our wisdom and develop our own correspondences? T. Susan Chang - certified professional tarot reader, author, teacher and artist - shares about her latest tome “The Living Tarot”, answers your Glitch Bottle Patreon listener questions, and more!

What’s it like being a Catholic monk and Latin translator in Australia? Who were the Wizard Popes of the 11th Century? Why is the Blessed Virgin Mary so important? Fr. Robert Nixon, OSB, is a monk of the Abbey of the Most Holy Trinity, New Norcia in Western Australia. He talks about his wonderful Latin esoteric translations from Hadean Press, answers your Glitch Bottle Patreon listener questions and more!

What is the Theurgia Goetia, which evokes the aerial spirits as found in the second book of the Lemegeton? Why are ‘social media fasts’ vital in ceremonial operations? Frater Ashen Chassan - author, ceremonial magician and martial artist - returns to share about these issues, answers your Patron supporter questions and more!

What exactly in Mexican Sorcery? What does it mean to be a bruja de rancho “a witch of the ranch”? What is ‘hechiceria’ or sorcery? Laura Davila (a.k.a. Daphne La Hechicera) is a fifth-generation Mexican witch, a long-time practitioner of brujeria, Hechiceria and folk Catholicism. She goes deep into her tradition and her book from Red Wheel/Weiser Books called Mexican Sorcery: A Practical Guide to Brujeria de Rancho.

How are theurgistic and sacred mystery rites from Late Antiquity encrypted directly into the architecture of the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul? How did the School of Athens foster a performative theurgical spiritual tradition of reincarnation and ascent? Author, esoteric researcher and healer Peter Mark Adams goes deep into his latest tome from Scarlet Imprint: Hagia Sophia / Sanctum of Kronos: Spiritual Dissent in an Age of Tyranny, answers your Patreon listener questions, and more

Is Solomonic magic ‘holistic’? Why should *everything *be consecrated before stepping into the circle? Is the Armadel grimoire a forgery? Why should we be prepared for hours of work when conjuring for the first time? David Rankine - author, esoteric researcher and magician - goes deep into the vast and rich Solomonic tradition, shares about his massive tome from Hadean Press - The Grimoire Encyclopaedia, and answers your Patreon listener questions and much more!

How can we ask spirits to guide us on our fate paths? How can we give offerings to land spirits without expecting anything in return (and why is honeycomb such a good offering)? What really is astral projection? Josephine McCarthy - author, occultist, magical teacher, and director of the Quareia magical training course - shares about the importance of staying receptive, humble and balanced, she answers your Patreon listener questions and much more!

What is one of the * actual * words on the Triangle of Arte and Ring of Solomon in the Lemegeton’s Goetia? Do you call yourself a “steward” or “administrator” in Greek when conjuring spirits? Let’s go deep on the history and pronunciation on four ‘nomina magica’ or magical words used in famous grimoires in the Goetia, the Heptameron and more!

How come no one has written a novel based on Solomonic magic, that neither romanticizes magic nor treats it as a game, but shows fidelity to the grimoires? Ah, not so fast - your wish was granted back in 1968 when James Blish’s novel Black Easter was published! Here’s a quick review with some quotes. Much thanks to Dr. Stephen Skinner for sharing about Black Easter in his books and in conversations.

Amid the plague, amid COVID-19, amid the anxiety and the panic and the second guessing and the litany of other things we could let subsume us: here, right here we will plant our flag, on the esoteric hill of stability and ritual. And we will breathe. *inhale* And we will make our magic, our rituals and our practices even better, more strange and more beautiful.

In today’s world of #hashtags and shortcuts and life hacks, our attention is sliced finer than a lion skin belt. It takes will to cultivate consistent, in-depth practice. To illustrate this, I’d like to invoke the hidden devilish drive of determination in two of the most famous English poems of all time, and why I always read and re-read them when preparing for magical rituals.