#39 - Dorothea Lasky, Astro Poet
The Witch Wave
Pam Grossman
4.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2019
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Dorothea Lasky is a poet who has published five full-length collections of poetry including Milk, Thunderbird, and Rome and a new book of essays called Animal, as well as appearing in various literary journals and illustrious publications like The New Yorker, Paris Review, and American Poetry Review. She and Alex Dmitrov together are the Astro Poets, and their phenomenally popular Twitter account of poetic horoscopes and salty astrology insights has led them to writing the newly released book, Astro Poets: Your Guides to the Zodiac, as well as their own Astro Poets podcast.
On this episode, Dorothea talks about slipping between the so-called “high” and “low” realms of poetry and astrology, the occult aspects of her writing, and the ways in which creativity can be a magical and revitalizing process.
Pam also discusses other otherworldly poets and answers a listener question about how to utilize the magic of dreams.
Our sponsors for this episode are Magic Monday and Mithras Candle.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of The Witch Wave is brought to you by The Magic Monday Podcast. |
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| 0:17.2 | Give it a listen to learn about energy healing, tap into the energy of the week and get fresh magical ideas throughout the |
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| 0:37.0 | The world is filled with bewitching people and you might be one too. |
| 0:46.0 | Welcome to the podcast where art is magic, magic is real and reality is stranger than dreams. I'm Pam Grossman and this is the witch wave. You can I be right. |
| 1:05.0 | Oh, suddenly, she's in the night |
| 1:16.0 | mountain to my feet |
| 1:20.0 | my knees to my knees to my face a root in me |
| 1:22.0 | a root in me Hello and welcome to the witch wave. If you've listened to |
| 1:33.2 | Hello and welcome to the witchwave. If you've listened to earlier episodes of this podcast, |
| 1:37.6 | it's likely become clear that I am deeply intrigued by and invested in the notion that creativity and magic making |
| 1:48.2 | are two sides of the same coin. |
| 1:51.9 | And so that's why my guests sometimes are practitioners of some sort of obvious or literal |
| 2:00.6 | witchcraft and sometimes they're artists or creative folks of different flavors |
| 2:07.4 | who engage with magic in their work or in their lives. I'm particularly obsessed with the occult interests of some of |
| 2:18.9 | our most lauded artists. Interests by way, which have often been ignored, unacknowledged, or trivialized |
| 2:29.4 | in the hallowed Halls of academia. |
| 2:33.5 | At long last though, artists like the spiritualist and abstract art pioneer |
| 2:40.9 | Hilma off Clint are finally starting to get their due and their interest in magic or |
| 2:48.1 | mediumship or other forms of witchliness is finally starting to be framed not as some embarrassment or |
| 2:58.7 | frivolity, but rather as a legitimate body of inquiry, knowledge, and meaning-making, or at least meaning-seeking. Poetry in particular has a long lineage of writers who have used techniques like |
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