Hermetic Garden Podcast

I discuss alchemy and hermeticism in Game of Thrones, analyzing the Three-Eyed Raven as a symbol for poetic vision. Show notes: http://hermetic.garden/2019/05/22/episode-007-flight-of-the-three-eyed-raven

This episode starts with an even more familiar symbol, and one especially relevant to this podcast, and analyzes it in biblical and alchemical thought and literature. That symbol is the garden, as in the title of the podcast, Hermetic Garden. I discuss a few poems, Fantastic Beasts, and Harry Potter primarily, and I analyze mandrakes, magical beasts, and what they are and mean. Shownotes: http://hermetic.garden/2019/04/20/episode-006-hermetic-gardens-and-fantastic-beasts

This time, I discuss symbolism in general and analyze the alchemical symbolism of a short story by Edgar Allan Poe called "The Gold-Bug." I discuss the imagination, individuality, personality, hypnagogia, and the golden beetle or gold scarab. Show notes: https://hermetic.garden/2019/03/20/episode-005-imagining-a-gold-bug-the-alchemy-of-imagination-2/

This time, I discuss my path into the esoteric tradition, the Hermit from the Major Arcana of the tarot, the Greek conception of the Logos, the polarities of subject/object and imagination/ego, and more. Show notes: https://hermetic.garden/2019/02/19/004-the-hermit-and-the-logos/

After a long hiatus, in the third episode of Hermetic Garden, I discuss symbols in ceremonial rituals and relate them to The Picture of Dorian Gray. Show notes: https://hermetic.garden/2019/01/19/episode-003-symbol-ritual-and-the-picture-of-dorian-gray/

In this second episode, I invite Taylor for a discussion of hermetic and tarot symbolism in Yeats' series of poems titled A Woman Young and Old. This is a continuation from the first episode. Show notes can be found at https://hermetic.garden/2018/03/19/episode-002-yeats-and-the-divine-genius-part-2/

I started a podcast! This episode revisits a blog I wrote several years ago but takes the series of poems several steps further. In this episode I analyze the first five of the eleven poems. Part 2 will analyze the rest. As always, I discuss Kabbalah, mysticism, symbol, language, and much more. For the show notes, check out this page: https://hermetic.garden/2018/03/02/episode-001-yeats-and-the-divine-genius-part-1/ Correction: I should have pronounced "minute" like the nominal measurement of time, not the adjectival "minute" meaning small. Intro Song: Kevin MacLeod – “Backed Vibes Clean,” retrieved from https://goo.gl/omu9zK