#30 - Jinkx Monsoon, Drag Sorceress Superstar
The Witch Wave
Pam Grossman
4.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2019
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Jinkx Monsoon is an internationally beloved drag queen, and the winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 5. The character of Jinkx is a combination of many powerful femme personas, and is also informed by performer Jerick Hoffer’s real-life witchcraft practice both on and off-stage. A tremendously gifted comedian, actor, and singer, Hoffer performs in and out of drag worldwide, and as Jinkx Monsoon, they have recorded such albums as The Ginger Snapped and The Inevitable Album.
On this episode, Jinkx discusses the magic of drag, the influence of witchcraft, and the ways in which they’ve come to master the art of illusion, identity, and integration.
Pam also talks about the significance of The Magician tarot card and answers a listener question about how to find a coven.
Our sponsors for this episode are Weiser Books, Sanctuary, and Mithras Candle.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of The Witch Wave is brought to you by Weiser Books. |
| 0:04.0 | Weiser Books is celebrating 60 years of publishing the very best in a cult and esoterica. |
| 0:10.0 | You can check out their extensive and inspiring range of reading material by going to wiser |
| 0:15.9 | books.com. That's W-E-I-S-E-R- Books.com. |
| 0:27.1 | The world is filled with bewitching people, |
| 0:29.8 | and you might be one too. |
| 0:31.6 | Welcome to the podcast where art is magic, |
| 0:34.4 | magic is real, and reality is stranger than dreams. |
| 0:38.6 | I'm Pam Grossman, and this is the witch wave. Oh, inside you can add me a ride. |
| 0:49.0 | Oh, on shapes in the night. |
| 0:58.0 | Oh, bow to the feet to my feet to my knees to my face |
| 1:06.0 | of rude in me. |
| 1:08.0 | You can make any place. Hello and welcome to the witch wave. I've been thinking a lot about the magician |
| 1:20.9 | tarot card lately. This is the second card of the major |
| 1:25.5 | Arcana though it has the number one since most decks start with the fool at |
| 1:32.3 | zero. The magician is almost always |
| 1:36.2 | shown standing in front of a table of magical objects, usually the |
| 1:42.0 | pentacle, wand, sword, and cup, signifying the suits of the entire tarot deck. |
| 1:49.7 | And the magician is also usually shown doing this grand gesture where they have their right arm pointing upwards and left arm pointing downwards. |
| 2:02.0 | I tend to think of the magician as forming a circuit between polarities and transferring |
| 2:09.3 | energies between above and below, heaven and earth, light and shadow, masculinity and femininity. |
| 2:21.8 | And this is a continuous eternal flow of energy as signaled by the lemniskit or |
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