Heather Freeman: 

Halloween was just a few days ago, but it still feels like spooky season. 

Witches and black cats continue to decorate neighborhood lawns. The flowers on community ofrendas remain fresh, as golden as an autumn sunset. And a happy dog barks at a football match, reminding me of Hekate, and the recent new moon.

Witches, wizards, and magic are all around us.

I'm Heather Freeman. In our final season of Magic in the United States we’ll time travel from 19th-century magical treasure-seeking, to digital sorcery with generative AI. We'll learn how astrology merges art, science, and magic to divine meaning from the stars, and how a Catholic Saint became the patron of sorcerers.

Grace Sesma: As I lay there sleeping, I saw this very beautiful woman in a long gown and a reboso. And she leaned down towards me and she gave me a beautiful smile and said, ‘Majita, would you come with me?’

Benjamine Park: They were trying to find God's voice in a world of chaos, and these elements of magic and the divine blended together in a world of wonders that, later on, was a bit too messy and they had to find new narratives.

Heather Greene: Why does a teenager take the path of witchcraft? It's because she's been harmed, oppressed, damaged in some way. And this rises her up –  quite literally in The VVitch. 

Jesse Hathaway Diaz: I would argue that anybody who grows up in a Hispanic Catholic worldview grows up in a magical worldview. Miracle is not dead, waking up is a blessing from God, your neighbor can turn into an owl at night and she might be sewing toad's mouths shut to flatten them under the full moon 

Jake Zukowski: It is scientific in its precision. It is artistic in its requirement for intuition and interpretation. And it's magical because it's undeniably enchanting. And that's really where astrology's power comes in.

Heather Freeman: Join me on November 12th for more magic, religion, and spiritual remixing in Season Three of Magic in the United States, wherever you get your podcasts. 

I'll see you at the crossroads.