Vanessa's 2023 End Of Year Round Up!

Dec 29, 2023

Hej everyone!

It's time to say goodbye to 2023 and hello to 2024! It's hard to believe this year is almost over. I knew 2023 was going to be a magical year, but I have to say the ways in which it was magical were quite surprising at times. An eye opening year full of processing the past, facing harsh truths, and a real push for all of us to wake up to the reality of what we're all living through together.

First and foremost, I'd like to thank each and every one of you for being here. Thank you for following and supporting my work. It means the world to me!

Extra huge thanks to everyone in our Patreon community. THANK YOU ALL for supporting the podcast and all of my creative endeavors in this way. It's the only financial support the podcast gets, and I'm so grateful to those who choose to support my work with the podcast in this way.

And extra extra huge thanks to our 23rd Mind patrons. Our monthly sigil rituals have been pure magic, and I look forward to getting together more often in the new year. The Patreon zoom chat we had was so much fun and led to such a fantastic collaborative art project. More on that soon!

I had 2 books published this year:

Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Films of Ingmar Bergman: From Freud to Lacan and Beyond (Routledge)

We May Need To Call On Our Cosmic Friends: (Magic Monday, part 2)(Trapart Books)

I also contributed the piece “The Alchemy of Pandrogeny: Synthesis Incarnate” to Sean Woodward's (ed.) Tumzantorum, vol 5. (Zos House).

Rendering Unconscious Podcast rounded out the year with episode 275!

RU275: MAURY JOSEPH PRESENTS “THE PATIENT AS OUR UNCONSCIOUS SUPERVISOR”

I created 52 episodes of Rendering Unconscious this year!

The most listened to episodes this year were:

RU251: ISABEL MILLAR & DWAYNE MONROE ON THE PSYCHOANALYSIS OF AI DOOMERISM

RU228: AVGI SAKETOPOULOU ON SEXUALITY BEYOND CONSENT: RISK, RACE, TRAUMATOPHILIA

RU234: DEREK HOOK & STIJN VANHEULE – LACAN ON DEPRESSION & MELANCHOLIA

Be sure to also check out the menus to the left of the homepage. I created a chronological List of Episodes and Alphabetical List of Guests for easy searching.

This year Carl and I continued our Psychoanalysis, Art & the Occultseries of events at Morbid Anatomy Museum online, which included teaching a 4 part course on Harnessing the Magic and Creative Power of the Cut-up Method that was wildly successful.

I also gave a talk on Freud and the Occult for The Last Tuesday Society at the Victor Wynd Museum, which was great fun with a fantastic crowd.

And I presented the first live reading of my forthcoming novel Things Happen to a magical group of people during the Art23Magic retreat. It was really well received, which was hugely encouraging. I just recently wrapped up the novel, and it’s on Carl’s editing desk, so stay tuned! It’ll be out in early 2024!

Carl and I also contributed to this communal document23 created from the Art23Magic retreat this summer.

Pete Murphy and I continue to create great music together. We put out a whopping 8 albums this year!

Disturbance available digitally at Bandcamp.

The Experience (For The Weird) available digitally at Bandcamp.

All Poets Are Pornographers with Pete Murphy. Available digitally at Bandcamp.

Indulgence Not Abstinence available digitally at Bandcamp.

Kaleidoscope of the 23rd Mind available digitally at Bandcamp, as well as Spotify and other streaming services.

Eat Me / Drink Me available digitally at Bandcamp, as well as Spotify and other streaming services.

Sex in the Confessional available digitally at Bandcamp, as well as Spotify and other streaming services.

Disciplined by Order available digitally at Bandcamp, as well as Spotify and other streaming services.

Pete has uploaded a bunch of our collaborations to Spotify and other streaming services, so enjoy!

I also contributed a piece to Sombre Soniks compilation Dark Ambient vol. 25

All of my collages up at Trapart Unique Works Etsy are listed for $99 with shipping included, so go wild! If there's a collage of mine you like that you don't see there, feel free to contact me directly. There are also limited edition DIY CDs listed, many of which also come with unique artwork and collages.

As always the best way to keep in touch is at our Patreon, where we post exclusive content every week! We have also started a Substack where we also post our weekly Magic Monday posts for those who prefer that platform.

You can catch up with our magical and creative content by checking out our first two volumes of collected Magic Mondays:

It’s Magic Monday Every Day of the Week (2021)

We May Need To Call On Our Cosmic Friends: (Magic Monday, part 2) (2023)