The Western Zodiac

Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore

Multitude

Myths, Folklore, Society & Culture, Alcohol, Legends, Learning, Urbanlegends, Mythology, Comedy, History, Education, Gods, Educational, Drunkhistory

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

After making too many jokes about Virgo season, Julia is making it up to Amanda by giving her a tour of the Western Zodiac! We still know too much about Zeus’s love life, but we would buy from Castor & Pollux’s new clothing line if they advertised to us on Instagram.

Here’s the Mixology Astrology chart.

Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of sex, depression, abduction, sexual assault, murder/death, animal death, infancide, and attempted suicide.

Housekeeping

- Recommendation: This week, Amanda recommends An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz. Check out our previous book recommendations, guests’ books, and more at spiritspodcast.com/books

- Merch: Our new pins, digital coloring book, and posters are all for sale at http://spiritspodcast.com/merch!

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Transcripts are available at http://spiritspodcast.com/episodes. To buy merch, hear us on other podcasts, contact us, find our mailing address, or download our press kit, head on over to http://spiritspodcast.com.

About Us

Spirits was created by Julia Schifini, Amanda McLoughlin and Eric Schneider. We are founding members of Multitude, an independent podcast collective and production studio. Our music is "Danger Storm" by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Spirits Podcast, a boozy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore.
0:04.4	Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world.
0:08.0	I'm Amanda.
0:08.6	And I'm Julia.
0:09.6	And this is episode 198, the Western Zodiac.
0:12.4	Yeah, I'm very excited.
0:13.9	This was one that was requested by someone in our Facebook group.
0:17.5	And I saw it and I was like, oh, no, no, I'm not going to post that. I'm going to save it for my own private use.
0:22.6	I love it. I learned a lot during this episode. And I think that y'all are really going to enjoy it.
0:27.3	Yeah, I absolutely agree. We also super enjoy and are thankful for our supporting producer level patrons whose support makes the show possible. Philip Alicia, Deborah Hannah, Jen, Jessica, Keegan, Landon, Megan, Megan Linger, Megan Moon, Molly, Mr. Folk, Neil, Nikki, Philfresh, Polly, Riley, Sarah, and Skyla.
0:45.7	Along with our legend-level patrons, to whom I get to send ever creepier and cooler presents each month.
0:52.1	Audra, Chelsea, Clara, Drew, Eden, Francis, Jack Marie,
0:55.7	Josie, Lada, Mark, Morgan, Necrowfancy, Sarah, and Bia me up Scotty. Yeah, it's because of y'all that we get to
1:01.3	do this for our living, which is wild. I still can't believe that we get to do this as our job.
1:07.0	It is very much and lovely and unexpected. And it is hard to make a living in podcasting,
1:15.0	particularly if you have to rely on ads when advertisers can cancel or pandemic related decide not to
1:20.6	run ads for months on end. So the support we get from our patrons is truly what sustains us
1:25.6	and makes us a viable living. So thank you. Now, Amanda, have you been in your free time listening to anything new, reading anything new,
1:32.4	watching anything new? I sure have, Julia. I, at the recommendation of several very good
1:37.8	Instagram accounts that I follow, have read an indigenous people's history of the United States by
1:42.8	Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz. Sounds awesome. Tell me more. It is incredible. It's History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz.
1:46.1	Sounds awesome. Tell me more.
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