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Radio Free Golgotha is a semi-regular podcast of the occult and esoteric ramblings of Al Cummins & Jesse Hathaway Diaz, and their guests. Each episode is based around a chosen Saint or Angel, Demon or Devil, Herb, Stone, Geomantic Figure, Tarot Trump, and more as the intersections and trajectories are explored through the discussions between these two friends.
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Episode 40: The Eve of the Feast of All Hallows
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Happy Hallowstide, listeners! We are delighted to invite you to an especially-very-special episode of Radio Free Golgotha – our 40th episode! We took this anniversary opportunity to do something a little different: rather than pick individual foci amongst the topics of our usual sorcerous Sesame Streeting, we got into the fields of the topics thems…
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Episode 39: The Feast of Saint Hildegard of Bingen
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Merry Feast of Saint Hildegard of Bingen, Golgothites! We are delighted to invite you into the Green for an especially verdant celebration of Hildegardmas and our patron saint of the day’s many attendant magics of natural physick, faith, feminist history, and more. We begin, as is our custom, with the hagiographic reason for the season, celebrating…
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By the petals and thorns alike, we wish you a merry Feast of Saint Rose of Lima! We hope you have had an august August and invite you to join us for a stroll through the RFG ramble-garden with us. We begin our promenade of featured topics with the hagiography of Santa Rosa herself, the first person canonized in the Americas; in which we consider pe…
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Merry Feast of Saint Ignatius Loyola, dear Golgothans! We hope this month of July (what, already done?) has included enjoying lovely things and people and such for you; and we invite you to bring it to a close by joining for us with a light to St Ignatius and an especially fiery episode of this ‘cast pod. For today we mark Ignatiusmas – the holyday…
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Merry Feast of Saint Irenaeus, dear Golgothites! In another holyday to close out the month, it is a delight to get together once more and welcome you to a lovely little chat about heresy, the divine spark, and the containers and connections we cultivate and celebrate to be able to cast that sacred illumination before us upon the path ever ahead. So…
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Happy Feast of St Camilla everyone! On this feastday which brings the May to a close, we invite you to join us in discussing the life and spiritual reflections of St Camilla Battista da Varano; visionary, nun, and eventual abbess of the Order of Poor Clares. We consider her biography and writings and of course her visions – of Christ, of cherubim, …
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Merry Georgemas, each and every one and all of us! Whether you are tuning in from Moscow, Malta, Ethiopia, Catalonia, or the chalky shores of Albion, we wish you a very merry Feast of St George! As the bluebells ring out from greening meadows and the seasons Spring further toward Summer, we celebrate and reflect on the mysteries of subduing the mon…
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Dearest listeners, it is from the Place of the Skull itself we wish you an excellent and powerful Good Friday! It is with seven years podcast luck this latest episode finally comes to Calvary and celebrates The Friday We Call Good. As our very name suggests, Golgothan themes are important to us here at Radio Free, um, Golgotha, and so we are partic…
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We bid you a transcendently merry Leap-Feast of Saint Oswald of Worcester! Here in the time-out-of-time we at RFG weave our usual merry way through our Sesame Streetlamp-lit special topics of the episode, beginning with the Saint(s) Oswald; that is, Saint Oswald of Worcester who died on February 29th washing the feet of the poor, “revived” English …
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New Year! New episode! Happy Feast of St Anthony the Great! (aka Anthony of Egypt, Anthony of the Desert, Anthony the Hermit, and more!) Welcome one and all to our thirty-first very special episode of Radio Free Golgotha, and our seven year anniversary! We are delighted to mark and celebrate the Feast of Saint Anthony the Great, and offer you some …
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Happy Feast of Saint Olga of Kyiv! There are a great many Saints that lend themselves to magic, to folk expressions, to sorcerous doublings and syncretic masques; and there are some saints whose stories are so bold they become storehouses of witch power and strength in the mere recounting- Olga of Kyiv is notoriously one such Saint! Join us in this…
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On this Feast of the anchorite saints Judith and Salome, we are most pleased to bring you another episode of RFG! Ahhh….. the merry month, where did go?! Perhaps into hiding with our sweet anchorites, not to be confused with a myriad of other Saints Judith and Salome, or the hagiographic (hag because saint, not because crone) blur with two badass l…
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Welcome welcome welcome to another very special episode of Radio Free Golgotha! This, our twenty-eighth outpouring, comes to you in honour of the Feast of Joan of Arc, and we are delighted to step into the fray and discuss all sorts of business around the revealed mysteries of God and the unseen secrets of state, the celebration of women, and the c…
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With a perspicacious opacity, we bring you this twenty seventh episode of Radio Free Golgotha in celebration of the Holy Martyrs of Ostia, those criminals turned martyrs, whose feast of April 10th coincides with the third of day of the writing of the Book of the Law, which informs the rest of our surveyed topics, and brings us to welcome our specia…
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Episode 26: The Feast of the Archangel Gabriel
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In this very special twenty-sixth episode of RFG we are delighted to welcome artist, teacher, podcaster, and stargazing sorcerer of celestial images and lettrism, J.M. Hamade, to join us in this discursive night journey across what goes bump in the sublunary. Trumpeting the reason for the season we bid you a wonderful Feast of the Archangel Saint G…
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Episode 25: The Feast of Pope Saint Hilarius
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Well met/Hullo/Hiya folks, and welcome to a very special episode 25 of RFG. This episode is brought to you by the end of February closing in and the first ever Pope Saint to be officially allowed to be funny, St Hilarius. It is also brought to you by multitudinous discussion of the Demon Legion and of the demonic legions, in both grimoiric write-up…
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This January, having finally served the leftover carrots we’ve been dangling for six years, we are… refreshed. And so, we record our 24th episode under the patronage of the Philosopher Saint and Doctor of the Church, Thomas Aquinas. In our excitement, we invited the demon Ashtaroth to the conversation (forgetting that we have indeed partied before …
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This episode was recorded in 2022, and is now being released January 8, 2023 as part of our Epiphany Birthday-Resurrection, thanks to the sound interventions of Mark Steadman. Caveat past opinions, etc. In this special episode we are delighted to celebrate the marvels of the Feast of Michaelmas – from goose-giving to demon-corralling – as well as o…
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Merry Feast of the Virgin of Regla, dear Golgothans! From across the seas we cast this pod, to you and yours from us and ours. This episode brought to you by the Virgin of the Rule and her oceanic reflection in the Mother of Fishes, Yemaya; and indeed the bathic depths of Leviathan; the soothing balms of Aloe; the mineral moonmetal of Silver; the m…
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Happy Feast of St Dismas! A second episode this year?! It’s almost like a twin birth! Brought to you by the Feast of the Penitent (hereafter “Good”) Thief Dismas, the Demon Valefor, the ever elusive flower Pimpernel, the lively Turquoise, the Magical weaponry known as the Arma Christi, the geomantic figure of Acquisitio and its corresponding Odu Of…
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Happy Feast of St Blaise! Two years later, in the wake of the Great Sick, we now slouch towards Bethlehem once again. Brought to you by the Feast of Saint Blaise, the Demon Syrach/Exu Calunga, the goodly tree Birch, the mineral Gold, the geomantic figure of Rubeus (and a splash of Ika/Metanla), the magical practice of Divination, the nameless arcan…
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This episode was recorded in 2018, and is now *finally* being released January 6, 2023 as part of our Epiphany Birthday-Resurrection, thanks to the sound interventions of Mark Steadman. Caveat past opinions, etc. Happy Feast of St. John! Ah, a day for the wild-child in each of us. Brought to you by the Feast of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptis…
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This episode was recorded in 2020, and is now *finally* being released January 6, 2023 as part of our Epiphany Birthday-Resurrection, thanks to the sound interventions of Mark Steadman. Caveat past opinions, etc. What?! Another episode already?! Indeed! We will be posting it later tonight when the final edit shows up to the ball.... Brought to you …
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Ah!!!! A glorious Walpurgisnacht to you all. Today’s episode is brought to you by Saint Catherine of Siena (on her pre-1969 Feast Day with guest appearances by Walpurga), the demon Ashtaroth (and maybe the King and Queen of the Seven Crossroads), the herb Mandrake, the stone Quartz, the geomantic figure of Albus (and a side of Oturupon), the practi…
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This episode was recorded in 2019, and is now *finally* being released January 6, 2023 as part of our Epiphany Birthday-Resurrection, thanks to the sound interventions of Mark Steadman. Caveat past opinions, etc. We are delighted to present a very special episode of Radio Free Golgotha celebrating the Feast of the Holy Relics. We were – indeed, rem…
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