Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) was an imaginative, rebellious, and otherworldly surrealist painter, writer, mother, and activist. She emigrated from England to Mexico during WWII where she spent the remaining five decades of her life, painting over 2000 works, writing 2 novels, a memoir, and several short stories and plays. Though her legacy is often overshadowed by her male contemporaries (specifically by her love affair with Max Ernst), her influence remains massively significant as one of the most famous artists out of Mexico. Sources:https://gallerywendinorris.com/video/20-wendi-norris-introduction-leonora-carrington-the-story-the-life-and-influence-of-leonora-carrington-a/https://www.moonlight-consulting.net/blog/tarot-art-and-magic-of-leonora-carringtonhttps://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/12/28/how-leonora-carrington-feminized-surrealismhttps://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=f92db7dcec5b925e&udm=7&sxsrf=ANbL-n60_Xa_LQ1yrtZRvCghKQOyiR4JbA:1773550259289&q=leonora+carrington+documentary&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=2ahUKEwir0sjJjaGTAxU0MDQIHbnDK0IQ8ccDKAR6BAgzEAY&biw=1470&bih=832&dpr=2#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:98cfbc31,vid:cE0BqbS2n6M,st:0https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/02/leonora-carrington-paintings-retrospective-musee-du-luxembourg/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02639904.2023.2180940?scroll=top&needAccess=true#abstracthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaLRRMMr2xkhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonora_Carringtonhttps://www.google.com/search?q=leonora+carrington+documentary&oq=leonor&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqDAgAECMYJxiABBiKBTIMCAAQIxgnGIAEGIoFMgwIARAuGEMYgAQYigUyDggCEEUYJxg7GIAEGIoFMgYIAxBFGDsyDwgEEAAYQxixAxiABBiKBTIGCAUQRRg5MgYIBhBFGDwyBggHEEUYPNIBCDEwMDZqMGo3qAIAsAIA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:326e7b13,vid:ikH3g9fkJn8,st:0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4aooKLEHQg

For our first episode of season 4, we welcome natural perfume pioneer, author, and educator, the absolutely iconic Mandy Aftel. In this episode we look at her natal chart, discuss her past life as a counsellor, get virtual a tour of her scent organ, learn about bibliomancy, dive into her latest book, Symbolorum, and hear all about her journey into the world of natural fragrance creation. If you're in the Bay Area, do yourself a favor and visit her museum, the Aftel Archive of Curious Scents, in Berkley.

Arabella Thais is a philosopher, writer, and researcher whose work explores the metaphysics of time, symbolic systems, and the aesthetic structure of reality. She is a Ph.D. candidate in philosophy and physics at the California Institute of Integral Studies, lectures internationally, and serves as a peer reviewer for the Journal of Theoretical and Applied Physics. Her research engages with retrocausality, depth psychology, and sacred number—drawing on influences from Heidegger to Hildegard von Bingen. Arabella is also the founder of The Temple of Truth, a mystery school devoted to consciousness, cosmology, and high-frequency living.

We were honored to virtually sit down Arabella for our season finale, and as expected, this conversation was so rich and inspiring. We discussed a wide range of topics, from her perspectives of time, to chaos theory, to addiction, to petrichor as a state of consciousness, to her upcoming book "On Being and Becoming", to aspects in her own natal chart and so much more.