Hex and Muse
A podcast for the curious, the creative, and the quietly powerful.
Hex & Muse is a slow-burning exploration of modern mysticism, feminine power, and the spaces where history, art, and ritual entwine.
Hosted by a practicing witch, artist, and seeker, this show isn’t a how-to guide; it’s a breadcrumb trail.
Each episode invites you into a moment of reflection through storytelling, folklore, sacred practices, and the occasional deep-dive into witches in art, culture, and cinema.
From building altars and meeting goddesses, to walking ancestral paths and unearthing forgotten histories; this is a gathering for those who feel the hum of something more beneath the surface of things.
Come as you are.
Take what you need.
And from my altar to yours - welcome.
Episodes
29 episodes
Medusa - The Gaze That Holds
There are stories that refuse to stay still.Medusa has been carried through centuries as a monster, a warning, a figure placed at the edge of fear - and yet her story has never settled there.In this episode of Hex & Muse, we r...
Ostara - Where Light Returns
As the Northern Hemisphere turns toward the light, we arrive at the spring equinox - known in many pagan traditions as Ostara.In this episode of Hex & Muse, we explore the stories, symbols, and seasonal rhythms that shape this moment...
The Scottish Witch Trials - Ashes in the Archive
In this episode of Hex & Muse, we step into the Scottish witch trials — where thousands, most of them women, were accused and executed under the Witchcraft Act of 1563.Through historical research and recorded testimony, we explore ho...
Through the Gilded Eye - Witches, Goddesses & the Power of the Gaze
Through the Gilded Eye - Witches, Goddesses & the Power of the GazeHow has art shaped the way we see witches and powerful women?In this episode of Hex & Muse, we step into the painted worlds of Circe, Lilith, and ...
Welcome Back to the Year
A new rhythm is taking shape.In this episode of Hex & Muse, we explore where we are right now on the Wheel of the Year, beneath the Moon, and between the closing energy of the Snake and the forward momentum of the Horse....
Signing Off for 2025 - The End of Season One
This short episode marks the final page of Season One of Hex & Muse - a gentle closing ritual for a year of folklore, magic, art, and storytelling. I’m taking the rest of the year to finish uni, slow down, and actually breathe through the f...
Mary Shelley - The Mother of Monsters
In this haunting and beautiful episode of Hex & Muse, we step into the storm that changed the world. Born of lightning and grief, Mary Shelley dreamt a monster into being and in doing so, gave birth to modern horror, science fiction, and a ...
Nicnevin - Queen of Elphame
As spring blooms in the southern world and autumn deepens in the north, the veil thins across both. Tonight, Hex & Muse crosses that unseen border to meet Nicnevin - the Hallow Queen of Scotland.She rides through centuries of poetry,...
The Raven - A Reading by Candlelight
Once upon a midnight dreary...In this special reading, Hex & Muse drifts through the flicker of candlelight to meet one of literature’s most haunting visitations Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven. First published in 1845, this gothic...
Witches on Screen - From Celluloid Shadows to Cinema’s Spell
From silent trick films to technicolour queens, from broomsticks to suburban sitcoms, from horror’s hysteria to feminist reclamation - cinema has never stopped conjuring the witch.In this episode of Hex & Muse, we trace her journey t...
The Witching Hour - Folklore of Midnight & Thresholds
What makes midnight so powerful and why do crossroads, mirrors, and doorways seem to hum with the same strange energy? This episode of Hex & Muse drifts through folklore, superstition, and the quiet psychology of liminal spaces, tracing how...
Familiars - The Witch’s Shadow
In every tale of the witch, something moves just beyond her body - a cat’s green eyes, a hare in the fields, a raven circling overhead. These are the familiars: companions, protectors, and echoes of the witch’s own spirit.In this episode...
Shadow Work - Myths, Magic & the Hidden Self
In this episode of Hex & Muse, we step into the velvet dark - the hidden places within where our secrets, wounds, and unclaimed power wait. This is shadow work: the witch’s art of facing what has been buried, not to banish it, but to bring ...
Blood Moon Rising - The Corn Moon Eclipse in Pisces
On the night of September 7–8, 2025, the Corn Moon rises in Pisces - and slips into shadow. For eighty-two minutes, the world will witness a total lunar eclipse, the Blood Moon burning red across the skies of the southern hemisphere. In this sp...
Sacred in the Small - An Ode to Everyday Altars
What if your altar wasn’t a shelf but a moment? A gesture? A stone in your coat pocket or a candle stub you keep lighting on the floor?In this episode of Hex & Muse, we step into the quiet beauty of m...
Freya - Goddess of Gold & Fire
Freya is not a goddess who can be contained. She is beauty and battle, silk and steel, grief and golden desire. In this episode, we step into her meadow of myths where amber tears fall into the sea, falcon wings carry her between worlds, and a ...
Fae & Fairies - A Mythic Field Guide
Not all fairies have wingsSome wear moss for cloaks.Some will bless you.Some will curse you.In this episode, we step beyond the glitter and into the older, stranger world of the fae. From the light and shadow of the Seelie an...
The Witch’s Garden
The witch’s garden is never just a garden. It’s a threshold where roots touch the underworld, blossoms reach for the divine, and every leaf carries a story.In this episode of Hex & Muse, we wander through a green world of memory and ...
The Cunning Folk - Keepers of Lore, Healers of the Hedge
This episode is dedicated to the people of Palestine. If you're able, please consider donating to humanitarian relief or signing a petition to demand ceasefire. Bearing witness is powerful- but action, even small, is sacred.Long...
Lilith - Night Queen & Feminist Icon
She was the first woman - and the first to say no. Long before Eve, there was Lilith: a rebel born from earth, not rib. Cast out for demanding equality, demonized for her desire, and transformed into a dark myth whispered through cen...
Velvet Shadows - The Vampire’s Mirror
Tonight, Hex & Muse takes a darker turn - slipping into the gothic silk and shadow of one of the most enduring archetypes in myth, literature, and film: the vampire.From ancient folklore to Carmilla’s kiss and Dracula’s infamous arri...
Living by the Moon - Crafting a Lunar Life
The moon doesn’t just light the night sky- she shapes the rhythm of our days, our moods, our magic.In this episode, we follow the eight phases of the lunar cycle, not as distant astronomy, but as an intimate guide for living, creating, a...
Witches in the Frame: A Ritual in Paint Part II
Circles, spells, and silent defiance.In Part II of Witches in the Frame, we step out of the storm and into the stillness. This episode explores how the witch evolved from chaos incarnate to quiet power - no longer the g...
Witches in the Frame: A Ritual in Paint Part I
What do painted witches reveal about the world that rendered them?From the twisted etchings of Dürer to the moonlit melancholy of Rossetti, this two-part episode wanders through five iconic artworks that echo the archetype of th...