Coven (Coven)

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

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 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 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 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

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 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

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 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:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_d1UgJxU3whttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKCnBm-cUmE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3AC39RxjPU

https://www.altaonline.com/books/nonfiction/a44015932/anais-nin-writer-bigamy-joy-lanzendorfer/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZV_G88kVim8

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/apr/07/anais-nin-author-social-media

https://www.nytimes.com/1992/11/22/books/sins-of-the-nins.html

https://two-miles-high.ghost.io/the_house_of_incest/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeqPGaZNVDw

https://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 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

Welcome to our Coven! 

- First episode dropping 1/11/24

Instagram: @Coven.pod

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

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.