#92 / McCalla Ann on Linguistics, Witchcraft & Ancestors.

For episode 92 we welcome McCalla Ann, founder, podcaster and
creator behind SaturnVox, a multimedia occult education and
divination platform based out of New Orleans, Louisiana.


McCalla was born in Atlanta, Georgia to a Catholic family on her
mother's side and with Jewish heritage on her father's. Though
she attended Catholic school until high school, she turned to the
occult at an early age, beginning her studies on witchcraft and
tarot at the early age of 15.


McCalla left Atlanta for New Orleans to attend college at Loyola
University, where she graduated with honours in Philosophy and
World Religions with a concentration in Buddhism and its
implications on language. Studying Buddhist philosophy and
Chinese linguistics gave McCalla a unique perspective into
language use as depicted by pictorial symbols, as opposed to the
phonetic style of the west. This perspective involves an
understanding of each pictorial symbol as holding multiple layers
of meanings, and the ability to be able to hold all those
meanings in one’s mind, so as to map out a full four dimensional
picture out of these two dimensional shapes.


During her Downtime in college McCalla began delving deeper into
the more formal realms of occult studies, beginning her study of
the Jewish kabbalah and mysticism with vigour. Upon graduation,
she was more than happy to turn her attention to these studies,
along with those of traditional witchcraft, full time. She
currently practices a flavour  of witchcraft that flawlessly
blends her studies on philosophy, folklore, and linguistic arts
into a fusion of animism, theurgy, and kabbalistic as well as
astrological study.


In the Plus show we discuss aesthetics and art is juxtaposed with
magic and pull that thread into ideas around Tiphereth and
explore the concept of living in joy. McCalla also discusses
Saturn in further details. An illuminating and engaging
conversation!

Show Notes: Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/saturnvox/
Website: https://www.saturnvox.com
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SaturnVox

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