07/05/2025
This month on How To Be Magical, we’re traversing astral dreams, decolonized spirituality, Afro-Caribbean futurism, Hoodoo as liberation tech, and the sacred art of oracle creation. Each conversation is a portal—come with questions, leave with ancestral whispers and actionable magic.
🔥 Here’s the medicine waiting for you this month:
🎧 "From Taft to the Astral Plane" (Aired 5/1)
Childhood friend and egbe, Gio Luna, joins me to talk dreams as portals—how they connect us to ancestors, reveal hidden truths, and blur the line between past and present. If you’ve ever woken up with a message from beyond, this one’s for you.
🎧 "Spirit Work Beyond The Binary" (Airs 5/8)
Gerard Miller of Altared Roots brings their wisdom on q***r identity, herbalism, African spirituality, and Tidewater Hoodoo. We’re talking decolonizing the mind, reclaiming magic outside colonial frameworks, and why spirit work doesn’t fit in boxes—binary or otherwise.
🎧 "The Art of Remembering" (Airs 5/15)
Rish DeTerra, host of The 9 Minds Radio Show & creator of The Virtual Hoodoo Conference, drops knowledge on why documenting our history is resistance. We discuss Hoodoo as survival tech, ancestral memory, and why community is our greatest magic in the years ahead.
🎧 "Bad Dominicana Decoded" (Airs 5/22)
Afro-Latina DJ, artist, and socio-critic Zahira Cabrera aka Bad Dominicana sits down to unpack motherhood, art, and Caribbean culture—how we preserve our roots while creating the future. Expect sharp insights, unapologetic truths, and a little tiguere energy.
🎧 "The Spiritual Art of Tea" (Airs 5/29)
We close out the month with Tea Angles, the visionary artist behind The Grandma Baby’s Black Gold Lenormand and the Grandma Baby’s 52 Blues Playing Cards —two powerful decks weaving Hoodoo, Black Southern magic, and intuitive storytelling. Tea pulls back the curtain on how images become portals, why ancestral reverence lives in their cardwork, and how divination tools can be acts of cultural preservation. If you’ve ever felt the pull of a deck beyond "fortune-telling," this conversation is a masterclass in sacred creation.
