Coven

For our final episode of the deep dive into Planets Perfumery, we're back with our co-founder and perfumer Mauricio Garcia to talk all things Mercury. Mercury as a chthonic archetype? Hermes as Hades in disguise? Mercury as mycelium? Ancient texts and medicinal herbs? As expected, this episode uncovers many faces of the Messenger of the Gods as we discuss our understanding of the planet of consciousness, truth, and disguise.

For the next episode of our Planets series, we have Goddess of Love, Archetype of Beauty, The Great Connector, The Divine Resonance, Essence of Harmony and Pleasure, and all things to do with the senses...Venus. We're still joined by our co-founder and perfumer, Mauricio Garcia, as we dive deep into our understanding of Venus from all angels, as well as discuss in depth the process through which she incarnated into her perfume. Up next is Mercury, stay tuned!

The next three episodes will be a collaborative deep dive into the archetypes and corresponding fragrances of Mars, Venus, and Mercury. Jenna, Coco, and Mauricio (who you met in episode 4) of Planets Perfumery dive into Mars in this first episode, discussing the planet from every angle, our associated mythologies, the curation of the fragrance, and the ways we have been working with and honoring the perfume in our own lives. You can pre-order all three scents at www.planetsperfumery.com, and follow us on Instagram at @ planetsperfumery

Mauricio Garcia is a Bay Area animistic perfumer, aroma therapist, witch, founder of Herbcraft Perfumery, co-founder of the mountain butterfly collective, and co-founder of the coalition of sustainable perfumery. He's also the perfumer we've been working with for Planets Perfumery, our fragrance line inspired by the archetypal essences of the planets, set to be released May 22! Mauricio is an olfactive creative genius, and we can't wait for you all to meet him and be as inspired as we are. Our conversation covers everything from a deep dive into his natal chart, to sustainability in perfumery, to mythology across cultures, to his background in herbalism and perfumery, his ritualistic approach to fragrance, and so much more.

Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa (1942-2004) was a Poet, Bruja, Chicana Feminist Theorist, Alchemist, Philosopher, and Spiritual Activist. In this episode, we discuss her life growing up on the Texas-Mexico border, her chronic illness and its relationship to her body and her writing, her deep study of alchemy, astrology, depth psychology, and the occult, her revolutionary work Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, and more, along with many notable points of her natal chart.Sources: Texas State Historical Association (tshaonline.org) · National Women's History Museum (womenshistory.org) · Wikipedia, "Gloria Anzaldúa" · NowComment, "Three Biographies of Gloria E. Anzaldúa" · Ms. Magazine · Emory University Postcolonial Studies Blog · EBSCO Research Starters · Literary Ladies Guide · Annenberg Learner · Amy Poehler's Smart Girls/shift7 · I Am Subject (iamsubject.com) · Journal of Jungian Scholarly Studies, "Depth Psychology in Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La Frontera" · Santa Clara University, "Assessing Gloria Anzaldúa's Light in the Dark" · Gloria Anzaldúa, Interviews/Entrevistas, ed. AnaLouise Keating, Routledge, 2000.

Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) was an imaginative, rebellious, and otherworldly surrealist painter, writer, mother, and activist. She emigrated from England to Mexico during WWII where she spent the remaining five decades of her life, painting over 2000 works, writing 2 novels, a memoir, and several short stories and plays. Though her legacy is often overshadowed by her male contemporaries (specifically by her love affair with Max Ernst), her influence remains massively significant as one of the most famous artists out of Mexico. Sources:https://gallerywendinorris.com/video/20-wendi-norris-introduction-leonora-carrington-the-story-the-life-and-influence-of-leonora-carrington-a/https://www.moonlight-consulting.net/blog/tarot-art-and-magic-of-leonora-carringtonhttps://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/12/28/how-leonora-carrington-feminized-surrealismhttps://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=f92db7dcec5b925e&udm=7&sxsrf=ANbL-n60_Xa_LQ1yrtZRvCghKQOyiR4JbA:1773550259289&q=leonora+carrington+documentary&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=2ahUKEwir0sjJjaGTAxU0MDQIHbnDK0IQ8ccDKAR6BAgzEAY&biw=1470&bih=832&dpr=2#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:98cfbc31,vid:cE0BqbS2n6M,st:0https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/02/leonora-carrington-paintings-retrospective-musee-du-luxembourg/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02639904.2023.2180940?scroll=top&needAccess=true#abstracthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaLRRMMr2xkhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonora_Carringtonhttps://www.google.com/search?q=leonora+carrington+documentary&oq=leonor&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqDAgAECMYJxiABBiKBTIMCAAQIxgnGIAEGIoFMgwIARAuGEMYgAQYigUyDggCEEUYJxg7GIAEGIoFMgYIAxBFGDsyDwgEEAAYQxixAxiABBiKBTIGCAUQRRg5MgYIBhBFGDwyBggHEEUYPNIBCDEwMDZqMGo3qAIAsAIA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:326e7b13,vid:ikH3g9fkJn8,st:0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4aooKLEHQg

For our first episode of season 4, we welcome natural perfume pioneer, author, and educator, the absolutely iconic Mandy Aftel. In this episode we look at her natal chart, discuss her past life as a counsellor, get virtual a tour of her scent organ, learn about bibliomancy, dive into her latest book, Symbolorum, and hear all about her journey into the world of natural fragrance creation. If you're in the Bay Area, do yourself a favor and visit her museum, the Aftel Archive of Curious Scents, in Berkley.

Arabella Thais is a philosopher, writer, and researcher whose work explores the metaphysics of time, symbolic systems, and the aesthetic structure of reality. She is a Ph.D. candidate in philosophy and physics at the California Institute of Integral Studies, lectures internationally, and serves as a peer reviewer for the Journal of Theoretical and Applied Physics. Her research engages with retrocausality, depth psychology, and sacred number—drawing on influences from Heidegger to Hildegard von Bingen. Arabella is also the founder of The Temple of Truth, a mystery school devoted to consciousness, cosmology, and high-frequency living.We were honored to virtually sit down Arabella for our season finale, and as expected, this conversation was so rich and inspiring. We discussed a wide range of topics, from her perspectives of time, to chaos theory, to addiction, to petrichor as a state of consciousness, to her upcoming book "On Being and Becoming", to aspects in her own natal chart and so much more.

Clarice Lispector (1920-1977) was a linguistic alchemist, translator of the invisible, and stream of consciousness poet, best known for her novels, Agua Viva, Near to the Wild Heart, and The Passion According to G.H. Often compared to eccentric existential authors such as Albert Camus and stream of consciousness royalty like Virginia Woolf, Lispector remains undefinable, opting to linger in the land of the intangible and formless. The Ukrainian-born, Brazilian-raised writer left a legacy behind as a household name in much of Brazil, while remaining relatively obscure in the American zeitgeist. In this episode we discuss her natal chart, her limitless attitude, her trance like writing, her tumultuous upbringing, her natural genius, and her incredibly inspiring unbothered demeanor. Sources:https://site.claricelispector.ims.com.br/en/https://bohemianbookslut.substack.com/p/the-witchcraft-of-clarice-lispectorhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IiGkkQAcAghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1zwGLBpULshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMn0oigmfYUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Nipf2pMtZYhttps://www.thenation.com/article/culture/clarice-lispector-apple-dark/#https://medium.com/@afmeurer/how-clarice-lispectors-literature-destabilizes-existentialist-philosophy-5f8dbfc2dfcehttps://site.claricelispector.ims.com.br/en/2024/05/27/me-a-witch/https://jewishreviewofbooks.com/jewish-history/14738/i-am-an-object-loved-by-god-rereading-clarice-lispector/#https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/18/obituaries/clarice-lispector-overlooked.html#:~:text=lispector%2Doverlooked.html-,Overlooked%20No%20More%3A%20Clarice%20Lispector%2C%20Novelist%20Who%20Captivated%20Brazil,welcome%20the%20attention%20she%20received.

In this episode we had the pleasure to sit down with our mentor and professor, Becca Tarnas. Becca is a scholar, artist, and archetypal astrologer. She is currently a professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies, where she wrote her doctoral dissertation on the Red Books of Carl Jung and J.R.R Tolkien. She's also the author of Journey to the Imaginal Realm: A Reader’s Guide to J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, an editor of Archai: The Journal of Archetypal Cosmology, and is working on a biography of transpersonal psychology legend, Stanislav Grof. In this conversation, we discuss everything from the history of archetypes and mythology, to her research on Stan Grof, to motherhood and the lens shift that followed, to her own natal chart, to her experiences being raised by the iconic archetypal astrologer and historian Rick Tarnas (author of "Cosmos and Psyche"), to the complexities of binaries, to the Witch vs the Wizard, and so much more.

In this episode, we explore the life and work of Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006), a groundbreaking science fiction writer and visionary widely considered a prophet for her eerily accurate predictions about our current world.Born in Pasadena, California to a working-class Black family, Butler overcame poverty, dyslexia, and systemic barriers to become one of the first major Black women in science fiction. Her work explored themes of power, evolution, and survival through an unflinching examination of social issues, becoming foundational to Afrofuturism and feminist science fiction.Butler won the MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship in 1995, the first science fiction writer to receive this honor. Her most famous works include Kindred (1979), a time-travel novel confronting slavery's legacy, and the Parable series (1993-1998), set in 2024-2027, which predicted climate-fueled fires, political authoritarianism using the slogan "Make America Great Again," wealth inequality, and social collapse with startling precision.She passed away unexpectedly in 2006 at age 58, leaving behind an unfinished vision but a legacy that grows more relevant each year. As she once said: "I began writing about power because I had so little."Sources:"A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia E. Butler" by Lynell George"A Few Rules For Predicting The Future" by Octavia Butler"Octavia Butler, The Grand Dame of Science Fiction | It's Lit" PBS YouTube"Octavia E. Butler." Wikipedia"Biography of Octavia E. Butler" - Biography.com (https://www.biography.com/authors-writers/octavia-e-butler)"Octavia Butler" - Yale Dyslexia (https://dyslexia.yale.edu/story/octavia-butler/)"Parable of the Sower" and "Parable of the Talents" by Octavia ButlerPBS Digital Studios documentary transcript on Octavia ButlerVarious interviews and essays by ButlerRecent coverage of LA fires and Butler's predictionsAcademic analyses of Butler's work and influence

Maryam Mirzakhani (1977 - 2017) was an Iranian mathematician and professor, and the first woman to win the Fields Medal (the highest award in mathematics, comparable to the Nobel Prize). She was a theoretical architect of spaces beyond our perceptible dimensions. By developing formulas that could measure Riemann surfaces moduli spaces, she helped to create form around them, allowing us to visualize new dimensions through the theoretical scaffolding she set up around it. In this episode we discuss her natal chart while attempting to unpack the brilliance of her work and mind. Sources:https://www.ams.org/journals/bull/2020-57-03/S0273-0979-2020-01687-3/S0273-0979-2020-01687-3.pdfhttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01229459

Vero Collins is a scholar, typologist, astrologer, DJ, and pop culture savant. In this episode we had the opportunity to chat with her in person, diving into her natal chart, breaking down typology, and learning briefly about the work of Stan Grof. Check out her youtube channel,  @archetypepilled ​

In this episode we welcome “Goddess of Anarchy,” Lucy Parsons into our coven. Born into slavery at the tail end of the American civil war, Lucy fought oppression at every turn, quickly becoming one of the most feared radical voices in America, and was thought to be "more dangerous than 1000 rioters."She co-founded the Chicago Working Women's Union, led 400,000 people in the first ever May-day parade, spoke to crowds of thousands, and understood intersectionality before we had a word for it. After her husband was executed following the Haymarket affair, she got louder; traveling the world giving anarchist speeches, helping found the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) in 1905, and always publishing her writing for the masses. After her death in 1942 (by mysterious house fire), the majority of her later works conveniently vanished...Sources:https://wams.nyhistory.org/industry-and-empire/labor-and-industry/lucy-parsons/https://shoeleatherhistoryproject.com/2020/06/27/happy-birthday-lucy-parsons/https://aas.princeton.edu/news/radical-existence-lucy-parsons-goddess-anarchyhttps://archive.iww.org/history/biography/LucyParsons/1/https://youtu.be/Ye7h0W4K_gU?si=VQM0YLBbVhJS6NMXhttps://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5009/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Parsonshttps://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/lucy-e-parsons-an-interview-with-lucy-parsons-on-the-prospects-for-anarchism-in-americahttps://www.thenation.com/article/archive/more-dangerous-than-a-thousand-rioters-the-revolutionary-life-of-lucy-parsons/

Shere Hite (1942-2020) was a sex researcher and feminist scholar best known for The Hite Report (1976), a groundbreaking study based on surveys of over 3,000 women about their sexual experiences and pleasure. The Hite Report became an international bestseller, but Hite faced intense criticism and personal attacks from media and academic establishments. Dangerously ahead of her time and speaking the taboo out loud, in this episode we discuss her tumultuous career and how she eventually left the United States and spent her later years in Europe, where she continued writing and speaking about women's sexuality and cultural attitudes toward gender.Coven is a Stars, Etc productionSources:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shere_Hitehttps://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/hite-shere-1942https://time.com/6333181/the-disappearance-of-shere-hite-documentary/https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Hite-Reporthttps://sevenstories.com/blogs/179-remembering-shere-hite-november-2-1942-september-9-2020?srsltid=AfmBOoqVyddGqFB3rUkmoWjDA6huQ_zemEGAUoIJGOFdn-OCAOBCfL8t&https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/24/my-life-with-shere-hite-the-forgotten-feminist-who-changed-sex-for-everhttps://www.vanityfair.com/style/2023/10/dakota-johnson-brings-sex-researcher-shere-hite-to-life-in-a-dazzling-new-documentaryMovie, The Disappearance of Shere Hite, Nicole Newnham, Shere Hite, NBC News Studios, Sony Pictures Television, TeaTime Pictures, This Machine, 2024.

Shere Hite (1942-2020) was a revolutionary sex researcher and feminist scholar best known for The Hite Report (1976), a groundbreaking study based on surveys of over 3,000 women about their sexual experiences and pleasure. Born in Missouri and educated at Columbia University, Hite challenged prevailing assumptions about female sexuality, particularly the emphasis on intercourse and orgasm through penetration alone. Her research methodology, asking women directly about their experiences and centering their voices, was both revolutionary and controversial. In this episode we discuss her natal chart, her upbringing, professional background, and what established her as a primary voice for women's sexuality.Coven is a Stars, Etc productionSources:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shere_Hitehttps://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/hite-shere-1942https://time.com/6333181/the-disappearance-of-shere-hite-documentary/https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Hite-Reporthttps://sevenstories.com/blogs/179-remembering-shere-hite-november-2-1942-september-9-2020?srsltid=AfmBOoqVyddGqFB3rUkmoWjDA6huQ_zemEGAUoIJGOFdn-OCAOBCfL8t&https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/24/my-life-with-shere-hite-the-forgotten-feminist-who-changed-sex-for-everhttps://www.vanityfair.com/style/2023/10/dakota-johnson-brings-sex-researcher-shere-hite-to-life-in-a-dazzling-new-documentaryMovie, The Disappearance of Shere Hite, Nicole Newnham, Shere Hite, NBC News Studios, Sony Pictures Television, TeaTime Pictures, This Machine, 2024.

Welcome back! For our first episode of Coven, season 3, we sit down with spiritual theorist, poet, shapeshifter, symbol collector, and all around translator of the invisible, Gabi Abrão. In this conversation we discuss her natal chart, her new book, and her relationship to the Witch, as well as symbols, archetypes, the internet, artificial intelligence, memes, waterfalls, and whatever rabbit trails present themselves.

For our season finale, we're bringing Cookie Mueller home to the Coven she inspired. Sharp-tongued muse, accidental guru, downtown mystic—Cookie moved through worlds with a chaos that felt like clarity. John Waters saw it. Nan Goldin captured it. From Baltimore to San Francisco, to the burning heart of 70s NYC, she wrote and lived with the same raw honesty until AIDS took her in '89. Her multidimensionality, free spirited eccentricity, and counter-cultural heart, bursting with love and creativity reverberates across art and culture today. Coven is a Stars, Etc ProductionWritten & Hosted by Jenna Scott and Socorro Erekani Carrillo-LopezExecutive Producer: Jenna ScottProduced and Directed by Sierra BarterAudio Engineer: Josh BrumleyAudio Assistant: Christopher Bryan AmaralGraphic Design: Jacob ScottMusic by Jeffrey Boyle and Jenna ScottCreated by Jenna Scott and Reilly HailSources:Mueller, Cookie. 1990. Walking through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black.semiotext.https://www.artforum.com/features/john-waters-divine-comedy-208458/#:~:text=Waters'%20films%20bring%20to%20the,most%20films%20are%20relatively%20benign.https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2022-04-21/collected-stories-of-late-great-1980s-it-girl-cookie-muellerhttps://girlsontopstees.com/en-us/blogs/read-me/how-cookie-mueller-captured-life?srsltid=AfmBOorLwDOJB6MC05NsS5xgVA4mCXktFnwev5PLgTvkfhcOICc69snDhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5B4jPRzaJck

For our next episode, we're welcoming Matilda Electa Joslyn Gage, the forgotten proto-feminist of the 19th century, into our Coven. We explore how this radical suffragist, abolitionist, and Indigenous rights advocate challenged patriarchal power by exposing the church's role in women's oppression through her groundbreaking 1893 book "Woman, Church and State." Join us as we uncover how Gage's belief in "mental manifestation" and fascination with witchcraft influenced her son-in-law L. Frank Baum's creation of Glinda the Good Witch in The Wizard of Oz, and how her adoption into the Wolf Clan of the Mohawk Nation as "Karonienhawi" (she who holds the sky) informed her revolutionary understanding of gender equality.Coven is a Stars, Etc ProductionWritten & Hosted by Jenna Scott and Socorro Erekani Carrillo-LopezExecutive Producer: Jenna ScottProduced and Directed by Sierra BarterAudio Engineer: Josh BrumleyAudio Assistant: Christopher Bryan AmaralGraphic Design: Jacob ScottMusic by Jeffrey Boyle and Jenna ScottCreated by Jenna Scott and Reilly HailSources:Angelucci, Ashley, and National Women's History Museum. 2021.“Matilda Joslyn Gage.”https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/matilda-joslyn-gage#:~:text=As%20a%20child%2C%20Gage%20handed,prepare%20her%20for%20medical%20school. Paquet, Laura B. 2023. “Matilda Joslyn Gage: The suffragist who defied the US government.” BBC.https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20230703-matilda-joslyn-gage-the-suffragist-who-defied-the-us-government.15Schwartz, Evan I. 2024.“The Feminist Who Inspired the Witches of Oz.”Smithsonian Magazine.https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-feminist-inspired-witches-of-oz180985334/.Wikipedia. 2025.“Matilda Joslyn Gage.” Wikipedia.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilda_Joslyn_Gage.

In this episode we welcome experimental filmmaker, choreographer, dancer, film theorist, poet, and fearless explorer of ritual consciousness, Maya Deren into our Coven. We discuss her groundbreaking work in avant-garde cinema, her fascination with Voudon practices in Haiti, her complex relationship with ethnography, and her revolutionary ideas about time and perception in film. We also explore what it means to exist at "that point of contact between the real and unreal," while unpacking her powerful natal chart, full of Venus-Sun energy.Coven is a Stars, Etc ProductionWritten & Hosted by Jenna Scott and Socorro Erekani Carillo-LopezExecutive Producer: Jenna ScottProduced and Directed by Sierra BarterAudio Engineer: Josh BrumleyAudio Assistant: Christopher Bryan AmaralGraphic Design: Jacob ScottMusic by Jeffrey Boyle and Jenna ScottCreated by Jenna Scott and Reilly HailSources:https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/how-maya-deren-became-the-symbol-and-champion-of-american-experimental-filmhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoETYvwI7I0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpOkIWH3C2Ehttps://greyartmuseum.nyu.edu/2015/12/maya-deren-and-haiti/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/0969725X.2022.2093972?needAccess=truehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvDELpYSUCohttps://www.thriftbooks.com/w/divine-horsemen-living-gods-of-haiti_maria-do-carmo-seren/322061/item/10170631/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=shopping_new_condition_books_high_14637440387&utm_adgroup=&utm_term=&utm_content=545682125679&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQiA19e8BhCVARIsALpFMgEgHgh3uIcSNqyeoVwBQxS1ZwV5QKJT6VzcRXuSORiw5J_7dBSRXkwaAnMKEALw_wcB#idiq=10170631&edition=3706724

For our next episode, we're welcoming Teresa Urrea, known as "La Santa de Cabora," into our Coven. We explore her natal chart in connection with her extraordinary healing abilities and revolutionary spirit in 19th-century Mexico. We discuss her miraculous transformation at age 16, her powerful blend of indigenous healing practices with spiritual activism, and how she became "the most dangerous girl in Mexico" by inspiring indigenous resistance against the Díaz regime, all before her exile to the United States at age 19.Coven is a Stars, Etc ProductionWritten & Hosted by Jenna Scott and Socorro Erekani Carillo-LopezExecutive Producer: Jenna ScottProduced and Directed by Sierra BarterAudio Engineer: Josh BrumleyAudio Assistant: Christopher Bryan AmaralGraphic Design: Jacob ScottMusic by Jeffrey Boyle and Jenna ScottCreated by Jenna Scott and Reilly HailSources:Bitto, Robert. 2017. Mexico Unexplained: The Magic, Mysteries and Miracles of Mexico. N.p.: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.Cleere, Jan. 2016. Western Women: Believers flocked to healing powers of Teresita Urrea.Seman, Jennifer K. 2021. Borderlands Curanderos: The Worlds of Santa Teresa Urrea and Don Pedrito Jaramillo. N.p.: University of Texas Press.“Teresa Urrea.” n.d. Wikipedia. Accessed January 9, 2025. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teresa_Urrea.Santa Teresa Urrea: A Borderlands Curandera in Turn-of-the-CenturyCalifornia, Jan.28, 2024, Santa Teresa Urrea: A Borderlands Curandera in Turn-of-the-Century California

In this week’s episode, we welcome the powerful, mystical, and resilient healer + Mazatec sabia (wise woman), María Sabina into our Coven. While widely known as the “mushroom priestess” or the “mother of magic mushrooms,” her story is one of profound and often overlooked tragedy. We discuss her tumultuous journey to embody her calling as a healer, her relationship to and work with the “little saint” mushrooms, and the ways in which her story reflects the shadows of American culture and colonialism. Coven is a Stars, Etc ProductionWritten & Hosted by Jenna Scott and Socorro Erekani Carillo-LopezExecutive Producer: Jenna ScottProduced and Directed by Sierra BarterAudio Engineer: Josh BrumleyAudio Assistant: Christopher Bryan AmaralGraphic Design: Jacob ScottMusic by Jeffrey Boyle and Jenna ScottCreated by Jenna Scott and Reilly HailSOURCEShttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTEhPCMSLA8https://philpapers.org/archive/BENBRT-3.pdfhttps://content.ucpress.edu/title/9780520239531/9780520239531_sabina.pdfMaría Sabina, and Jerome Rothenberg. 2003. Selections. Berkeley: University of California Press.https://chacruna.net/cute-as-children-but-not-handsome-as-adults-maria-sabina-life-magazine-and-cold-war-propaganda/https://fungaonline.com/instead-of-history-of-plant-medicines/

In this episode, we welcome Ana Mendieta, a revolutionary Cuban-American artist, into our Coven. We explore her powerful nature reflected in her groundbreaking "earth-body" artworks and profound connection to nature as a response to forced exile. We discuss her innovative fusion of performance art with natural elements, her exploration of feminine power, and her tragic death that sparked a feminist movement in the art world.See her art here: https://www.moma.org/artists/3924-ana-mendieta#exhibitionsCoven is a Stars, Etc ProductionWritten & Hosted by Jenna Scott and Socorro Erekani Carillo-LopezExecutive Producer: Jenna ScottProduced and Directed by Sierra BarterAudio Engineer: Josh BrumleyAudio Assistant: Christopher Bryan AmaralGraphic Design: Jacob ScottMusic by Jeffrey Boyle and Jenna ScottCreated by Jenna Scott and Reilly HailSources for this episode:"Ana Mendieta." The Art Story. (theartstory.org)"Ana Mendieta." Encyclopaedia Britannica. (britannica.com)"Who is Ana Mendieta? An Icon of Environmental Art." The Collector.(thecollector.com)"Identity and Belonging in the Work of Ana Mendieta." DailyArt Magazine.(dailyartmagazine.com)"Ana Mendieta: Decolonization in Art." Duke University Press.(read.dukeupress.edu)"Ana Mendieta." Wikipedia. (en.wikipedia.org)May 10, 2017 19,411 views • May 10, 2017 Ana Mendieta: Decolonialized Feminist and Artist Laura E. Pérez, Professor of Ethnic Studies Ana Mendieta: Decolonialized Feminist and Artist

In this episode we welcome famed diarist, courageous explorer of the unconscious, artist, poet, lover, feminist, and shapeshifter, Anaïs Nin into our Coven. We discuss her sixty years of diaries, her complicated relationship to sex, her controversial reputation, the ethics of power dynamics and seduction, and what it means to venture boldly into the shadow side of our psyche, while also unpacking her strong Piscean / Neptunian influence.Coven is a Stars, Etc ProductionWritten & Hosted by Jenna Scott and Socorro Erekani Carillo-LopezExecutive Producer: Jenna ScottProduced and Directed by Sierra BarterAudio Engineer: Josh BrumleyAudio Assistant: Christopher Bryan AmaralGraphic Design: Jacob ScottMusic by Jeffrey Boyle and Jenna ScottCreated by Jenna Scott and Reilly HailSources:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_d1UgJxU3whttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKCnBm-cUmEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3AC39RxjPUhttps://www.altaonline.com/books/nonfiction/a44015932/anais-nin-writer-bigamy-joy-lanzendorfer/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZV_G88kVim8https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/apr/07/anais-nin-author-social-mediahttps://www.nytimes.com/1992/11/22/books/sins-of-the-nins.htmlhttps://two-miles-high.ghost.io/the_house_of_incest/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeqPGaZNVDwhttps://www.heiditoivonen.com/literature/2020/07/anais-nins-psychoanalysis/https://www.themarginalian.org/2012/08/01/anais-nin-journals-paris-vs-new-york/#:~:text=Nin%20first%20began%20journaling%20in,she%20loved%20and%20admired%20enormously.

For our next episode, we're welcoming Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, a 17th-century Mexican scholar, poet, playwright, and nun into our Coven. We discuss her revolutionary stance on women's education, her strategic choice to join a convent to pursue knowledge, and her profound literary works that challenged patriarchal norms in Colonial Mexico. Through examining her natal chart we explore how the planets influenced her fierce intellect, creative genius, and ultimately, her forced silence by the Catholic Church. Coven is a Stars, Etc Production Written & Hosted by Jenna Scott and Socorro Erekani Carillo-Lopez Executive Producer: Jenna Scott Produced and Directed by Sierra Barter Audio Engineer: Josh Brumley Audio Assistant: Christopher Bryan Amaral Graphic Design: Jacob Scott Music by Jeffrey Boyle and Jenna Scott Created by Jenna Scott and Reilly Hail Sources: Biersdorfer, J.D., “17th-Century Sisterhood Is Powerful,” The New York Times, Jan. 2, 2005.  Boyer, Richard, "Mexico in the Seventeenth Century: Transition of a Colonial Society." The Hispanic American Historical Review 57, no. 3 (1977)  Buchanan, Kathryn A, "Constructing Marianismo in Colonial Mexico" (2016). University of Tennessee Honors Thesis Projects. "Criollo" Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criollo_people  De la Cruz, Sor Juana, You Foolish Men, Poets.org, https://poets.org/poem/you-foolish-men. Kilroy-Ewbank, Lauren G., “Cabrera, Portrait of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz,” Khan Academy, https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-art-history/later-europe-and-americas/enlightenment-revolution/a/cabrera-portrait-of-sor-juana-ins-de-la-cruz#.  Martinez, Elizabeth Coonrod, Sor Juana A Trailblazing Thinker, CT:The Millbrook Press, 1994. Merriam, Stephanie, “Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.” Miller, Kelley. “A Woman's Place: the Life of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz — Jonette O' Kelley Miller | JOM.Writes.” Jonette O' Kelley Miller | JOM.Writes, 19 January 2021, https://www.jomwrites.work/reflections/a-womans-place.  Morin, Claude, “Age at Marriage and Female Employment in Colonial Mexico.” https://www.webdepot.umontreal.ca/Usagers/morinc/MonDepotPublic/pub/CIDHInd97.htm,  Orion, Rae. Astrology For Dummies. Wiley, 2020. Paz, Octavio. Sor Juana, Or, The Traps of Faith. Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden, Belknap Press, 1988. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, biography.com, Updated :July 9, 2020, Original: April 1, 2014.  Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, The Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Project, Sor Juana’s Chronology, https://www.dartmouth.edu/~sorjuana/Chronology.html. Wilcox Lee, Naomi, Juana Inés de la Cruz – Scholarly Sister, September 10, 2015 https://sheroesofhistory.wordpress.com/2015/09/10/juana-ines-de-la-cruz-scholarly-sister/ Wills, Matthew, “Sor Juana, Founding Mother of Mexican Literature,” JSTOR Daily, June 28, 2019. 

For our first episode of Season 2, we're welcoming Musician, Composer, Multi-Instrumentalist, and Swamini, Alice Coltrane, otherwise known as Swamini Turiyasangitinanda, into our Coven. We discuss her mystical connection to music, her soul connection to husband and jazz legend, John Coltrane, her dark night of the soul, and more, along with many notable points of her natal chart + significant transits in her life. Sources: https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/15/arts/music/15colt.html https://open.spotify.com/album/6zV55F6W8kh1qe8LHhqRbz?si=BK38PqufRjOf0_akDJVqCg https://www.jazzwise.com/features/article/alice-coltrane-the-high-priestess-of-spiritual-jazz https://youtu.be/k42D5iYx9z4 https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/alice-coltrane-carnegie-hall-review/ https://www.alicecoltrane.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVLKEwPb95s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94P0pqqjiZ0 https://www.philosophyforlife.org/blog/john-and-alice-coltranes-ecstatic-perennialism Coven is a Stars, Etc Production Written & Hosted by Jenna Scott and Socorro Erekani Carillo-Lopez Executive Producer: Jenna Scott Produced and Directed by Sierra Barter Audio Engineer: Josh Brumley Audio Assistant: Christopher Bryan Amaral Graphic Design: Jacob Scott Music by Jeffrey Boyle and Jenna Scott Created by Jenna Scott and Reilly Hail

This week on Coven, we invite Marguerite Porete — medieval mystic, author and hermit, who was a convicted heretic and burned at the stake in the year 1310. We discuss her birth chart, her mysterious beginnings, her legacy, and her incredibly tragic death. Hosted by Jenna Scott and Reilly Hail Written by Jenna Scott Edited by Jenna Scott Logo by Jacob Scott Music by Jeffrey Boyle and Jenna Scott Sources: https://dangerouswomenproject.org/2016/05/28/marguerite-porete/#:~:text=Not%20much%20is%20known%20about,which%20was%20written%20around%201300 https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/41232208.pdf https://www.jstor.org/stable/3195114 https://www.history.com/topics/middle-ages/the-knights-templar

This week we invite French philosopher turned Christian mystic, ‘The Enigma’ Simone Weil to the Coven. We chat about her early years of intellectual brilliance and her religious transformation, all upon the backdrop of some of the bleakest years of the 20th century. Hosted by Jenna Scott and Reilly Hail Written by Reilly Hail Edited by Jenna Scott Music by Jenna Scott and Jeffrey Boyle Logo by Jacob Scott Sources/Recommended Reading: The Enigma of Simone Weil | Verso Books Weil family - MacTutor History of Mathematics  Simone Weil (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)  American Weil Society - Simone Weil Love, by George Herbert

The elusive Mother of Abstract art, seance-frequenter, medium, mystic, poet and painter, Hilma af Klint is our initiate this week. We discuss her incredible works that left behind a controversial legacy, her eccentric beliefs, a little of theosophy, and of course her birth chart. Hosted by Jenna Scott and Reilly Hail Written and Edited by Jenna Scott Music by Jeffrey Boyle and Jenna Scott Logo by Jacob Scott Sources: Hilma af Klint - Guggenheim https://www.guggenheim.org/exhibition/hilma-af-klint https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHdud9km7bQ&t=12s Swedish Artist Hilma af Klint Channels her Spirit Guides https://www.astro.com/astrology/ivccn_article200922_e.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilma_af_Klint Beyond the Visible: Hilma af Klint Documentary https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B08BDKGXXR/ref=atv_dp_share_cu_r https://www.jimcarrollsblog.com/blog/2021/4/1/seeing-more-deeply-hilma-af-klint-the-abstract-pioneer

This week we invite America's first Black and Indigenous professional sculptor, Wildfire Edmonia Lewis to the Coven. In this episode, we discuss her mysterious early life, traumatic college years, and coming into her most aligned self in Rome. Special bonus - Cleopatra's boobs. Hosted by Jenna Scott and Reilly Hail Written by Reilly Hail Edited by Jenna Scott Music by Jeffrey Boyle and Jenna Scott Logo by Jacob Scott

This week we welcome Kashmiri Mystic and Poetess, Lal Ded into our Coven. In this episode we talk about her life, her vakhs, her beliefs, and a brief history of the Kashmir region. We also digress into several tangents about spirituality, mysticism, sexuality and syncretism. Hosted by Jenna Scott and Reilly Hail Written and Edited by Jenna Scott Music by Jeffrey Boyle and Jenna Scott Logo by Jacob Scott Sources: Podcast: Let’s Talk Religion - “Lal Ded - The Mystic Poetess of Kashmir” https://shows.acast.com/lets-talk-rel... Podcast: I, Lalla: The Poems of Lal Ded https://open.spotify.com/episode/6P4K...https://poetrysociety.org/poems-essay... Britannica Article on the Kashmir Region and History: https://www.britannica.com/place/Kash... The Introduction from ‘Looking Within’: Life Lessons from Lal Ded, edited by Shonaleeka Kaul (Aleph Book Company, 2019). https://frontline.thehindu.com/arts-a...https://feminisminindia.com/2019/05/0... Love And The Turning Seasons: India’s Poetry of Spiritual and Erotic Longing, edited by Andrew Schelling, Aleph Book Company. New Indian Express Article: https://www.newindianexpress.com/opin... Tickoo S. (2022). Nuditas Virtualis: A Jungian Analysis of Lal Ded’s Vaakhs. International Journal of Indian Psychology, 10(3), 203-209. DIP:‌18.01.‌018.‌20221003, DOI:10.25215/1003.018 link: https://ijip.in/pdf-viewer/?id=38597

This week we invite professor, author, activist, and groundbreaking feminist icon Dr. Sally Miller Gearhart into our coven. Join us as we discuss this oft-forgotten queer icon's contributions to the world - from starting the country’s first women’s studies program, to writing feminist science fiction novels, to lobbying against homophobic laws, and more. Hosted by Jenna Scott and Reilly Hail Produced by Jenna Scott Music by Jeffrey Boyle and Jenna Scott Logo by Jacob Scott Sources: https://sallymillergearhart.net/ Documentary Film in Progress Lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1KSzH4yQxg San Francisco Chronicle Article: https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/sally-miller-gearhart-activist-17537049.php https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_Religion_and_the_Homosexual

Welcome to another episode of Coven. This week we're inviting contemporary dance pioneer, writer, choreographer, mother and teacher, Isadora Duncan into our coven. In sharing her story, we discuss her passion for education, her deep understanding of the mind-body-soul connection, as well as the tragic chain of events that colored much of the last half of her life. 00:40 - Magic Moments 05:44 - Birth Chart 11:50 - Intro/Isadora Upbringing 18:25 - Adulthood 26:40 - European Life 47:55 - Outro Hosted by Jenna Scott and Reilly Hail Produced by Jeffrey Boyle Music by Jenna Scott and Jeffery Boyle Logo by Jacob Scott Sources:  • Isadora Duncan Dancers https://open.spotify.com/episode/6kTD... https://open.spotify.com/episode/0tXJ... https://www.isadoraduncanarchive.org/... https://www.britannica.com/biography/... https://sfmuseum.org/bio/isadora.html

This week we're inviting psychic, herbalist, composer, Mother Superior and the OG sexy nun, St. Hildegard of Bingen into our coven. Ridiculously ahead of her time in more ways than one, St. Hildegard played a massive role in our understanding of spirituality, women's health (including the female ORGASM), and plant wisdom.  00:20 - Magic Moments 06:07 - Birth Chart Analysis 13:53 - Introducing Hildegard / Begin Story 36:14 - Contributions to Sexual Understanding 52:18 - Closing Hosted by Jenna Scott and Reilly Hail Produced by Jeffrey Boyle Music by Jenna Scott and Jeffrey Boyle Logo by Jacob Scott

Welcome to our very first episode of Coven, where we talk all about the life (and astrology) of Hypatia of Alexandria, renowned and beloved philosopher, mathematician, astronomer and teacher. 00:40 - Magic Moments 11:35 - Presentation of Hypatia's Birth Chart 18:07 - Brief History of Alexandria 29:08 - Begin Hypatia Story Hosted by Jenna Scott and Reilly Hail Produced and Edited by Jeffrey Boyle Music by Jeffrey Boyle and Jenna Scott

Welcome to our Coven!  - First episode dropping 1/11/24 Instagram: @Coven.pod