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.
Hex and Muse
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 masterpiece still beats with the same dark music: grief, longing, and the ache of a soul that cannot let go.
Told in rhythmic, hypnotic verse, The Raven is a séance in language a lament that echoes between love and loss, dream and waking.
In this episode, Emily performs the poem aloud as it was meant to be heard: with breath, silence, and reverence. Every “Nevermore” tolls like a bell through the dark, a reminder of how beauty and despair so often share the same heartbeat.
So light your candles, draw the curtains, and listen close.
The air stirs.
A knock upon the chamber door.
And from the shadow, a voice - eternal, mournful - calling once more.
🕯️ Written by Edgar Allan Poe (1845).
🎙️ Read and produced by Emily Esen for Hex & Muse.
Hex & Muse is recorded on the lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. I pay my deepest respects to their Elders past and present - and to all First Nations people, whose stories and spirits continue to shape this land.
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Hex & Muse is a spellbound journal of folklore, magic, art, and the sacred feminine - told through cinematic storytelling and whispered histories.
From my altar to yours… thank you for listening.
