Penny is back to interview Aeurin, a coroniaid, about what it's like to hear every sound carried on the wind. As it turns out, noise cancelling headphones are as important to Aeurin as mirrored sunglasses are to Penny!

Aeurin bears a striking vocal resemblance to Cai Gwilym Pritchard, creator of CHAIN OF BEING. You can reach Cai on Twitter at @mynameisnotcai and listen to CHAIN OF BEING at faustiannonsense.com/chainofbeing

Penny Cephalonia sounds a lot like Rebecca Hicks, on Twitter at @RHicks.

Sibyl Corvin's voice bears an uncanny resemblance to that of Jaci Szilagyi, who twitters at @jekyllyn.

Music is by TJ, the empathic vampire! Learn more or get your own awesome music at https://linktr.ee/afkai.

Sound editing by Sibyl's doppelganger Jaci.

Check out the art of Penny's vocal doppelganger at lunaseastudios.storenvy.com!

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Aeurin 0:00

My advice to humans is I'm listening.

Penny 0:04

Oh, oh, that was that was delightfully ominous.

Penny 0:26

Hi, you're listening to the Gorgon show, a podcast about being a monster in a human world. I'm your host, Penny Cephalonia. And I'm a Gorgon.

Johann 0:36

Ooh we have music.

Penny 0:38

Yes we do, Johann.

Johann 0:40

I don't remember composing this music.

Penny 0:43

That's because you didn't, Johann. I used our first bit of sponsorship money to hire a composer to write this piece for us. When you were taking a nap.

Johann 0:52

I am distraught!

Forbes 0:54

That's not how you treat family, Penny, that is not how you keep things copacetic know what I mean?

Penny 1:00

Forbes. You all are not family. You are snakes on my head.

Zappa 1:05

That's what family is, Penny, family is the snakes on your head.

Penny 1:10

I'm going to have to disagree with you there in part Zappa, but thanks for chiming in.

Johann 1:15

I am still distraught.

Penny 1:17

I am sorry, Johan, but I believe it's important to uplift other monster content creators and artists, which is why a commissioned one.

Johann 1:27

How about uplifting snake artists?

Penny 1:30

You are on my head Johann? Technically, I'm always uplifting you.

Zappa 1:35

She does kind of totally have a point there. And that music is what the humans might call a banger.

Johann 1:40

Et tu Zappa?

Penny 1:42

It was written by a very empathetic vampire named TJ. He writes music to cope with the guilt he feels from biting humans. He feels really bad about it.

Johann 1:52

You betrayed your snake family for a vampire? You should feel really bad about that.

Penny 1:58

I really don't. You only hiss three chords and can't play any instruments. I have no regrets. I am sorry. I love you, Johann. I love how you hiss me to sleep every night. How about we work on a composition that we can play for our wonderful listeners some other time?

Forbes 2:18

Thrown 20 bucks and it's a deal.

Penny 2:20

I wasn't talking to you, Forbes.

Johann 2:22

I don't need money. I just need my art to be appreciated.

Duncan 2:26

Donuts!

Johann 2:28

Appreciation and donuts. Yes. Thank you, Duncan.

Penny 2:32

And there it is. I'll get doughnuts for all of you after I'm done recording the interview. Okay, but now it's time for our very first commercial break.

Penny 2:42

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Penny 3:50

I'd like to welcome our guest and and I'm going to do my very best to pronounce their name correctly. But I have never spoken Welsh before. But I'd like to welcome our guest and our guest is Aeurin? And they are a cor--

Aeurin 4:06

Aeurin, sorry.

Penny 4:07

Ooh please, please please say that again for our listeners.

Aeurin 4:11

That's that's Aeurin.

Penny 4:12

Aeurin.

Aeurin 4:13

Aeurin.

Penny 4:14

Aeurin.

Aeurin 4:14

Yes.

Penny 4:15

Oh, that's Oh, that's lovely. Oh, that is my first time speaking Welsh. I'm so excited. And you are a coroniaid? How was that?

Aeurin 4:27

Close enough

Penny 4:27

Not bad for a Gorgon.

Aeurin 4:31

It's better than I have had said to me before, but no one tends to say it a lot. So I'm just happy to be mentioned.

Penny 4:39

Oh, well. Well, thank you. I'm so happy to have you here. Welcome to the Gorgon Show. Thank you so much for spending time with us. This podcast is for me to learn about my fellow monsters, but also for humans and other monsters to learn about each other. So let's start with what do you want humans and other monsters in supernatural creatures to know about you as an individual. And as part of this monster species?

Aeurin 5:07

Well, we've not been mentioned a lot in media, I don't think there's a single example. And we have a single paragraph on Wikipedia, the coroniaid are a race of magical beings that we can hear anything, any sound that is carried on the wind, which, you know, back in the day, when it was like 10 people to a village, and it was mostly woods, that was fine. But now it's getting a bit, it got a bit much around the sort of industrial revolution, but it's there we can we can kind of get around it now. There used to be a lot of us. And then there wasn't a lot of us. And we're kind of coming back now. I am a member of this tribe. And I listen is what I do. I listen to things.

Penny 5:52

That is wonderful to hear that you are making a comeback, that that is good. I'm very sorry for your original loss. And and it's good to hear that things are getting better for you. So you are a supernatural being that can hear everything. Are you able to turn it off? And also, am I correct in saying you're supernatural beings? Do you have a you have a solid form? Like are you human looking how would you describe your physical self to our audience?

Aeurin 6:26

I belong to the family of the Welsh fae. So we're kind of physical, some of us less so than others. I'm the more so side, I'm a short relatively stout creature, pretty normal looking at get a few stares when I'm out in public, but that's about the extent of it. I think it's hard to sort of have an equivalent into English but I guess you would call us like dwarves, but it's not the same, really, because that has a lot of associations. Lord of the Rings being the main one, but we're not. We're not really like that.

Penny 6:58

Okay, so

Aeurin 6:59

Scottish being the main main one.

Penny 7:01

Oh, fascinating. So you are able to integrate into human life. You don't have like, say, a bunch of snakes on your head.

Aeurin 7:09

No, I--Oh, I was what that was. I thought that was a strangely specific thing to say. But I You're a Gorgon, so that makes sorry. I don't know it took me a while.

Penny 7:18

I don't. I don't exactly blend. But I do try. And hat technology has come a long way.

Aeurin 7:25

Hat. Yes. I feel though, that I've been around since the first sort of 13th century. So I, I've seen it happen change over time, I do feel that our taste in hats has become a lot less varied. It used to be very interesting. They used to have those long kind of cone things like that kind of typical princess. And we'd have like bonnets. I mean, nobody wears bonnets anymore. I kind of felt like could have helped you out a little bit. But

Penny 7:49

I was born I was born after that time period and have to say I have some regrets. A nice bonnet would be very nice, especially when my snakes are getting a little extra chatty, but it sounds like you are able to you don't have to hide any parts of yourself in order to walk amongst humans, for example,

Aeurin 8:08

It's more just comfortably being out there. I mean, in sort of going back a bit and answering the question, I can't really tune it out super well. But it is only things carried on the wind. And people are inside a lot more these days. So I can't hear conversations that are happening unless there's just a particularly drafty apartment, in which case I can hear. But a lot of the time if the wind isn't able to touch the sound and bring it to me, I can't hear it. But that does mean when I am outside I wear noise cancelling headphones, because otherwise it is the sounds of cars over and over and over. And it gets a lot at points. And so that's that's the boon for me. But no, I can't tune it out is the answer. But I can go outside and walk around and get food and such

Penny 8:53

and no one gives you strange looks.

Aeurin 8:55

Not particularly, nobody really pays that much attention to me. I mean, out here in London, if you look someone in the eye, it's kind of sin. So it's it's quite nice because nobody really pays attention to me.

Penny 9:04

Oh, I've never been to London. I think I might have to go there might be a great place for Gorgons. I know there are many Gorgons in London. And maybe that's why even you haven't noticed them. I'm going to add that to what the humans call a bucket list. Oh, delightful.

Aeurin 9:21

There's a lot of stone statues as well. So if somebody does accidentally look you in the eye probably blend in you get this human statues that are lined up outside the Southbank. So if you just time it right, you might get off scot free.

Penny 9:32

We don't we don't talk about all the statues in London. We just refer people to a great episode of the human show Doctor Who and we tell them to not blink and that's all but we don't we don't really speak of it, or at least not amongst the gorgon Community. But as I said, I've never been there. So it wasn't me. It was definitely not me. It must have been someone else but not me. No one can prove a thing. So

Aeurin: 10:03

It's, it's, it's hilarious to me when people try to lie. It's a concept. It's so foreign. It's not that I've said I mean, I believe you. It's visual. It's not visual, is it? It's...wink.

Penny: 10:17

Or our lovely guest just winked at me, which I believe means he thinks I'm lying, and is totally okay with me lying. But no, I really haven't have never been to London. So those those particular statues are not my fault. And and all those other statues around the world are just well, they're very. Very, very realistic. Yes. Yes, yes. Wink. Oh, I like this winking thing. No one could see me wink when I'm out amongst humans, I were mirrored sunglasses, and they're actually quite effective. I still try to keep my head down. I don't want to hurt anyone, unless they deserve it. But it's nice to be able to walk amongst them and listen to them. Of course, I don't have super hearing like you have. But a good day for me is to go out on a walk on a sunny day and not make eye contact and not hurt anyone and just listen to human conversation. What's a day in your life look like? What is your average day? What's a good day for you?

Aeurin: 11:24

Well, I being able to hear everything all the time means I know a lot about what goes on. I mean, not literally behind closed doors. But if I hear a politician make a deal out in a park, or some strange thing going on, I know about it. But the problem is that I have no evidence to back it up. And so the only people that will buy my stories are tabloids. And so I publish these things, and they just get read as conspiracy theories. So I'm just either sat on my balcony, listening to politicians do horrible, horrible things to our country, or this country, I should say. And then if I'm not doing that, I'm writing about it, and then selling it to awful, awful, awful people.

Penny: 12:00

Oh, okay. So

Aeurin: 12:01

I don't like my job.

Penny: 12:03

What, what is an ideal career for you then

Aeurin: 12:07

to be honest,

Penny: 12:08

Please wink,

Aeurin: 12:09

I would rather be as we were back in the day just kind of living in the forest and scavenging. I think the whole concept of working and living in a society is vastly flawed. And I generally don't like it here. I think everything kind of stopped. I said earlier, everything kind of started going downhill during the Industrial Revolution. I kind of just want to go and live in the woods. But that's getting harder and harder as there are less and less woods. So here I am living in London listening to people talk.

Penny: 12:39

I hope things work out better for you. And for all of us. Of course. I am fascinated by some human technological advances, for example, mirrored sunglasses, but are there advances like like you mentioned, noise cancelling headphones? Are there human inventions, technologies, cultural advances, perhaps that you do find to be beneficial to your life and the life of your species?

Aeurin: 13:06

Well, yes, I think noise cancelling headphones is the big one. There was a brief kind of period of time when we started having industry and then the noise cancelling headphones were invented. And in that period of time, it was hell for me and everyone I know because it's just constant noise all the time. And you know, it wasn't silent exactly before but it's got really bad and then noise cancelling headphones came out and I was I believe, one of the first to buy a pair I was I was keenly kind of interested in it. And every time there has been a new development I kind of keep on top of it. So I've purchased all the all the new updates, and it's kind of a side gig, but I do reviews of them on on YouTube. I mean, there's there's there's new ones coming out every other day. Now it seems like they're inventing them faster than I can buy them. But I'll do just a sort of unboxing and then test them out. It's quite popular amongst my sort of community because everybody wants to know what the best is and tend not to listen to music on them just because I like to have the silence. I think wearing noise cancelling headphones was the first time I ever heard nothing. I mean, you know, you can't hear nothing but

Penny: 14:07

Right.

Aeurin: 14:08

Just peace was weird, but nice.

Penny: 14:12

I do understand I sleep with a white noise machine and it's very nice. It helps me relax and fall asleep but unfortunately the snakes on my head that's when they're at their most chatty and there is no machine for that other than perhaps a hatchet or a small axe of some kind as as I like to remind them.

Aeurin: 14:36

I was I was going to say I mean white noise and a snake's hiss you know 40 times over remarkably similar it feels could you just ask them to hiss all night and then you'd save the machine I maybe that doesn't sound like that cooperative.

Penny: 14:48

Oh, I could ask them to hiss I have in the past asked them to hiss but they have a lot of opinions about a lot of things and therefore they use words. It's as Humans would say it's a cross that I must bear. But overall, it's really nice to have some friends on your head that you can carry around if you're not feeling extra social with humans that particular day. So you mentioned music, and I was wondering if you are a fan of any human music, or if your species makes music, since you're so focused on sound?

Aeurin: 15:23

Well, we do poems, mostly, that kind of, we don't have to gather necessarily, because like, if you can hear anything on the wind, then all you need to do is just go outside and speak and then all of your family will be able to hear you all the time. So we just kind of recite poems to each other. So it sounds like I'm doing an intense monologue on my balcony. My neighbors think I'm a little bit kind of pretentious, but I really just talking to my friends, it's, there's been some questions definitely. But especially when the arguments start get a lot of concerned looks when I'm picking up my post. But music wise, I find myself listening to a lot of very kind of the idea that you can listen to just a little bit of sound is deeply fascinating to me, it's not something I've really kind of experienced a lot of. So a lot of the very kind of abstract music that is very quiet. So there's a The there is an artist called Sachiko M, who does very, very quiet light, what I believe it's called lowercase music, where it's just kind of on the back. So it's silence and then just a very light sine wave or a slight kind of electronic, fizzle,

Penny: 16:22

Fascinating.

Aeurin: 16:23

and it's compared to the constant cacophony of everything happening all the time. It's a nice kind of change. Yes, that's probably what I listen to most but that's not that specific to me. I think other people listen to other things.

Penny: 16:35

Oh that's, that's, that's wonderful. I'm glad you can find some joy in human sound.

Aeurin: 16:40

You talk about music, and this is just sort of something that I've since learning that each of the snakes has a different voice. Do you just do like one person choirs? Like can you just sing like full harmonies on your own? And then I'll like Gorgon choirs do you do choirs? Can you just like stand in a row and have like, I mean, how many snakes do you have? Is it is it.

Penny: 16:59

There was a Gorgon choir once they performed it

Aeurin: 17:04

That sounds ominous.

Penny: 17:06

Yes, they performed in I don't know how accurate this story is. But this is a story that has been passed down to many gorgon children. As we've spread across the world. In the Middle Ages, there was a Gorgon chorus in a church and they all sang so beautifully. And all the snakes provided harmonies all the snakes on all their heads, and then that that church became famous for having so so many realistic statues, and I've never heard of a Gorgon chorus since. I enjoy singing and there is a snake on my head. And and his name is Johann, and he's my he's my music snake. And he likes to write songs for me. And sometimes, if I'm feeling particularly down all of my snakes, they will sing to cheer me up. And I find that delightful, but not so much when they're doing that inside of a Starbucks when I'm just trying to not be noticed, just drink my coffee. And then all of a sudden, my fucking head bursts into song. And then I start thinking about hatchets again. But I do love my snakes, but they do need. I believe the term is, is wrangling. But yes, you know, perhaps we could in this modern age where we have the ability to record ourselves, perhaps we could revisit the idea of a Gorgon chorus. If that happens, I'll let you know. And you can tell me what you think of our music.

Aeurin: 18:32

My mind is racing even further, the more I think about it, because like, you could do your own ad libs When you're rapping and so like you could like create these kinds of trios but on your own I mean it's it's, it's feels like the possibilities are endless, especially with like new flows,

Penny: 18:48

that that would be fascinating. And I might have to try that. I'm a fan of just about all human musical genres. There are some I'm more well versed in than others but I do enjoy hip hop and some groups like like Migos and rap stars like Cardi B who I adore and Megan thee Stallion they will sometimes add neat noises and exclamations to their mad fresh flow and and sometimes sometimes my snakes will join in so I do I do have a snake who's particularly fond of going squiddy squiddy Scree, I'm not sure why but he's very fixated on that particular sound that and I have another snake who likes to go hey, I'm not sure why I they're down my Control. Only

Aeurin: 19:36

Do you have any Little John snakes? Yeah. Oh, okay.

Penny: 19:40

Oh my goodness. Now I'm going to, thanks a lot. Oh, my goodness. Snakes. Snakes. Remember what I said about a hatchet? What is something that you find just baffling or hilarious about humans you've listened to, whether you've wanted to or not, you've listened to many human conversations in your time on this earth, and what is something that you just find funny about them? I think they're hilarious.

Aeurin: 20:10

Well, the idea and concept of lying is intensely funny to every single one of us. Because I mean, more. So now it makes more sense. But you sort of go back a bit, and everybody's outside and stuff. Why would you lie to someone when they heard the interaction or the thing that you're lying about happen themselves. So it's kind of doesn't make sense to hold secrets, the idea of a secret was quite funny to us, it's kind of not so funny anymore. Because like people live inside with windows and aren't always out in the wind all the time. And to be honest, the more I think about it, secrets kind of led to our downfall. And so it's, the more I think about it, it's not that funny, but I guess we find humor in it, because otherwise it'd be quite depressing.

Penny: 20:47

I understand, have your kind ever been recruited to be spies during human conflicts, or monster conflicts?

Aeurin: 20:57

The story is, the reason that there was this kind of reduction in our numbers was we showed up to to Britain and started kind of just making a home and looking back on it, the you know, it's colonization is never a good thing. But we were trying to find a place to live and kind of settled down and then started fighting with the local Britons. And every time they tried to make a move against us, we could hear the plans and so we kind of won there. And then this amazing hero spoke to the King of France, who was a cousin of his so to keep the what they were doing secret, they got a long brass tube and spoke into it and put the other end against his mouth. And he told him the sort of secret to defeating us, which looking back on it, he could have just written it on a piece of paper, but I think they were illiterate back then. So this was the best they could do.

Penny: 21:42

Okay, it was a very creative solution, if not a bit odd

Aeurin: 21:46

Sign language, a book. There's so many like, you know, a brass tube feel especially feels so extravagant that

Penny: 21:54

It's very, very specific. Of course, since you are Fae if he had used iron that would have been particularly bad. Am I correct?

Aeurin: 22:03

I mean, it was it was it didn't come anywhere near us. So it was it was between those two but yeah iron, yeah, would have been generally quite bad. Uh, thankfully, most things are made of stainless steel these days. I think iron is kind of left behind and I don't interact with horseshoes or blacksmith equipment much so I think we'll be okay.

Penny: 22:19

Yeah. Good. Good to know. I am particularly allergic to swords. My ancestors Not a fan.

Aeurin: 22:25

Same.

Penny: 22:26

Yeah,

Aeurin: 22:26

Weirdly same. Yeah,

Penny: 22:27

no matter what they're made out of. We're not fans, not fans at all

Aeurin: 22:31

Sharp edges. And well, for us. It's beetles, which is less kind of apparent. There's a specific beetle that crushed up and put into water and then thrown on us kills us instantly. It's bad. It's bad times. It's no good. And we'll we'll forgot which beetle it was so I'm just running around all the time. Well, it's partly the reason I live in a city. It's my

Penny: 22:50

I hope it wasn't Ringo. He seems to be one of the nicest ones.

Aeurin: 22:55

...Ah, sorry. It took me I took me a while to get what you were doing

Penny: 22:57

That was a joke. You mean beetles like the insect? Well, we were just talking about music. I'm

Aeurin: 23:06

Sorry. Slow day today. Yes, a specific a specific kind of beetle that somehow it got out. That was the one that killed us instantly. And then over time, we've all forgotten what it was. So now we just kind of keep it safe and keep away from every single insect that we come across.

Penny: 23:21

I can't blame you for that. I fucking hate mosquitoes. Okay. So what scares you besides beetles and brass tubes, what scares you? What's What's your worst fear?

Aeurin: 23:32

It's, it's you know, more roads and rail lines cuz I can't always wear headphones and especially when it's hot and more roads means more fucking tires on tarmac and it means like an HS2 stupid rail line just means more noise and i It's the it's the worst noise of all time. For me is is tires on tarmac, it is useless and is ugly and means nothing to anyone. That's probably my biggest fear is that there'll be more roads because

Penny: 23:59

It's not a pleasant sound for anyone. I can only imagine how much agony it causes you very sorry to hear that. And I hope your future is a little more peaceful and quiet. So in this difficult time in the world, where there are too many tires on too much fucking tarmac. What what gets you through it? What gets you through a tough day?

Aeurin: 24:21

ASMR probably. Just again, similar to the reason that I listened to that other music, the concept of just very quiet sounds that you normally won't hear. And hearing them only is so nice.

Penny: 24:35

Oh, that sounds lovely. Yeah. How was How was my voice on your ears? I've been told that my speaking voice is a little bit ASMR kind of like if the painter Bob Ross could turn you to stone does it sound good to your ears? I'm sorry, I'm being very egotistical right now.

Aeurin: 24:52

No, it's good. I could I could see it. I mean, if you bought as well if you had like a binaural mic then the snakes could... I don't know if I'm honing in too much on the snakes thing. It's just fascinating me to me the possibilities you could like have them on both sides and do like little conversations on either ear. So it'd be like super stereo like.

Penny: 25:10

They would love that. And I hate them for it that I am I am totally fine. I have embraced my Gorgon heritage and my snakes even though they can be a right pain in my well I would say ass but well my head so that that's good to know that there are there are sounds and there are thoughts that give you comfort. What advice would you give to your fellow monsters and supernatural creatures and and also to humans? I am going to take a guess that you would advise humans to stop building so many roads but correct me if I'm wrong?

Aeurin: 25:43

Well to monsters, I'd say the big one. Don't give away your secret weakness that can kill you instantly. That's the main I mean, you know, vampires and werewolves I'm sure can attest really generally a bad idea. If you do have a secret weakness that I will repeat instantly kills you. Don't tell anyone and don't let the secret get out. No one knows who let it out. Everyone has their theories. Everyone can guess which of us let out the big beetle secret but just don't kind of don't do that. And my advice to humans is I'm listening.

Penny: 26:17

Oh, oh, that was that was delightfully ominous. Hehe. I do love humans and they fascinate me, but there's quite a few of them that are right assholes. It's good to know that someone is listening in on them. He.

Aeurin: 26:32

Always 24/7.

Penny: 26:34

Well, thank you so so so much, and I'm going to do my very best to respectfully pronounce your name again. Aeurin. How was that?

Aeurin: 26:45

Aeurin

Penny: 26:45

Aeurin Aeurin

Aeurin: 26:47

Aeurin

Penny: 26:48

Oh, I'm just going to keep practicing it that's it's fantastic. It's time to look into all of our futures. I'm going to introduce you to my delightful roommate Hi Sibyl

Sibyl: 27:02

hi

Penny: 27:03

hey Sybil This is our guest Aeurin and I believe--

Sibyl: 27:08

Aeurin, nice to meet you.

Penny: 27:10

You are a Pisces. Is that correct?

Aeurin: 27:12

Yes, Pisces?

Penny: 27:13

Okay

Sibyl: 27:13

Yes, I let that one slip. I saw that you were going to tell me that. So

Penny: 27:17

Yeah. Yes. Okay, be prepared. Be prepared to take everything Sybil is about to say with the hugest fucking grain of salt imaginable. Okay, Sybil, please tell us what is in our horoscope?

Sibyl: 27:32

All right listeners, it is time for your favorite segment of the Gorgon show. I am going to start with Pisces today out of respect for our guest. So I have already started the process of generating my visions, which as you all know, requires ingesting some sort of substance today I have been vaping the tears of a dullahan and they don't cry very much. So that's tough, but--

Penny: 27:56

It's hard for them to cry. They don't have heads.

Sibyl: 28:00

Oh, they do. They're just not attached usually. So you got to track them down. It's kind of hard. So I don't do this one very much.

Penny: 28:06

Have you ever thought of just like eating a bag of m&ms or something relatively normal,

Aeurin: 28:11

Or like weed or ecstasy or something?

Penny: 28:13

Yeah, smoke a joint, get some marijuana

Sibyl: 28:17

I do sometimes you know what I need to change things up a little bit. But you know, for real intensity. You gotta go for the rarer stuff. So weed has gotten pretty easy to get a hold of these days so it doesn't have as strong visions.

Penny: 28:30

Okay, then. So what are the dullahan tears telling you?

Sibyl: 28:35

All right, so for Pisces, my vision is of an old woman crouched over a table writing something in shadow, it does look like she's wearing earbuds. So I don't know if that means that these are noise cancelling. And it's one of your kin or if this is just someone listen to music while they're writing, but that is what I am seeing Pisces

Aeurin: 28:57

That's my future? Sorry.

Sibyl: 28:59

Yes. So that is most likely going to come up in some way, either literal or metaphorical in the next two weeks or so. And the tricky part

Aeurin: 29:08

How deliciously vague

Penny: 29:10

Oh it gets worse!

Sibyl: 29:12

The way that my visions work is, if I have a specific like the old days, if I was in a temple and someone would come to me with a question, it would probably still not be a really, really clear and laid out answer to their question, but the way it would work would be it would be individual to them in their situation. So it may still be metaphorical, it may still be hard to interpret, but it would be relatively specific. The way that I do horoscopes is I see the future of all Pisces at once and I try to combine them into a single vision. So every Pisces is going to experience some aspect of this vision in the next few weeks. But for some it will be that they are an old woman writing something on a table and for some, it may be something more metaphorical and I can't tell you which one which category you fall into.

Aeurin: 30:04

I like the fact that because it's all combined and there is no way to decipher, it's essentially meaningless, which I think is incredible.

Penny: 30:12

Oh, at least at least Pisces isn't on fire I'm sure at some point maybe maybe maybe this time it'll be Sagittarius someone is going to be on fire so please Sibyl continue with your bullshit.

Sibyl: 30:28

Hey, there is sometimes fire in my visions, but it's fairly rare that there is an actual person on fire.

Penny: 30:34

You have such a great track record with this. Okay, what's next?

Sibyl: 30:37

All right, Aries. So Aries it looks like I am seeing someone going for a hike. It looks like they're in the mountains in a field of flowers and they have long flowing hair that is gray purple and pink. Interpret that as you will.

Penny: 30:51

That's your present as you delightful are they on fire? Yeah,

Sibyl: 30:54

no there is no fire in this one.

Aeurin: 30:57

Oh, go go for a walk Aries Yes,

Sibyl: 30:59

that sounds I mean it might be a sign that you're going to go for a walk or maybe there's that you should go for a walk it's hard to tell sometimes sometimes I do get advice in the visions.

Aeurin: 31:09

So it's it's it's good go for a walk and if not, you are already on a walk some other two options.

Sibyl: 31:16

It's either advice or a predict prediction of the future.

Aeurin: 31:19

It's so good.

Penny: 31:21

Well, so far. We're what two for 12. So far, no one's on fire and none of these involve a giant floating baby. Okay, man, maybe this one will be a positive one. Keep going I'm excited Sybil

Sibyl: 31:34

All right, Taurus. Taurus. I am seeing Oh, it's another field. Apparently the dullahan tears are leaning into fields these days. I am seeing a pair of foxes and it looks like they might be fighting to the death. So I think we may be past the positive ones.

Penny: 31:50

Okay, here we go. Yay.

Sibyl: 31:52

Now in terms of metaphorical interpretation, foxes are often associated with lying and tricking and just general sneakiness this may be a sign that if you are Taurus, if you are in some way Foxlike you may need to be on the lookout for someone catching you out on it or another fox showing up

Aeurin: 32:14

Furries Beware.

Sibyl: 32:15

If you are not Foxlike in these ways, then it may be that you have someone like that in your life. Or it may be that you're going to go on a walk with your Aries friend and you're going to see a couple of foxes fighting in the field.

Penny: 32:27

Or maybe you're going to watch Disney's Robin Hood, the sexiest Fox in all of moviedom.

Sibyl: 32:32

That's true, that is a good movie.

Penny: 32:33

It's wonderful. Okay, continue please. Let's get this over with

Sibyl: 32:37

Okay, Gemini, Gemini. Your vision is full of pastels and lace and it's very frilly, and I am seeing a porcelain doll lying on a very luxurious looking bed. So I guess if you're if you're not afraid of dolls, this is probably a sign that you're going to be very relaxed and have some luxury in your life. If you are creeped out by dolls, which is understandable because they're creepy, then this might not be such a positive one.

Penny: 33:03

Yes, human dolls are extremely creepy. I don't know why they invented those things. They're horrifying. But at least this one's not on fire. Oh boy. We might get through an entire horoscope with nothing on fire. Go Go Sybil.

Aeurin: 33:17

I'm on the edge of my seat.

Penny: 33:18

I'm so so excited. So excited.

Sibyl: 33:21

Ok, Cancer, cancer. It looks like this isn't so much a field as a rocky creek bed. And there is a I think that's a llama. And I think behind it, there's an ostrich.

Aeurin: 33:34

Okay. Petting zoo on the horizon. Yes.

Penny: 33:39

Llamas and ostriches okay. Still not on fire go.

Sibyl: 33:43

Very animal heavy day today.

Penny: 33:45

Yes. That's Good,

Sibyl: 33:46

Leo. All right, Leo, your future has a lot of red in it. I think it may be blood like pools of blood. So maybe not a great sign unless you're a vampire or something. But it does look like there's some very lovely green foliage growing in the pools of blood. So maybe it means that something lovely will grow out of something dark and violent.

Penny: 34:10

That actually took a turn for the lighter in an hour. But

Aeurin: 34:14

I started off really concerned that it got quite nice.

Penny: 34:16

I would like to point out that this podcast does not condone using blood as a fertilizer of any kind. Thank you. Okay, so blood. Let's see.

Sibyl: 34:26

Of course not. It's not very good for it.

Penny: 34:27

No, no, no, it's so many so many other reasons why that's just wrong. What's next Sybil.

Sibyl: 34:33

Alright, Virgo, Virgo, it looks like your future is somehow going to involve a seal like the animal. Again. We're having a lot of animals today. There's a trend every time I swear, but the seal seems to be on land in like a field of flowers, which is not really where it belongs, but it doesn't seem unhappy about it. So I don't really know how to interpret this one. You're on your own for that. Yeah.

Penny: 35:00

Good luck.

Aeurin: 35:01

Yeah. Go fuck yourselves.

Penny: 35:03

Good luck. Keep an eye out for land seals as you're walking through the fields, where the foxes are. Oh, how many more do we have to do Sibyl,

Sibyl: 35:15

We've done seven. So next up is Libra. Libra, I see a fairy like a winged fairy. Beautiful, lots of colors. And it seems to be sitting in a library. So it looks like you're going to be living some kind of fantasy life and getting to read lots of books, or you're going to meet one of the fae or something like that. And that may or may not be a good thing.

Aeurin: 35:39

Let's hope it's the first one! Oh, god.

Sibyl: 35:43

Yeah, it's probably best if it's the first one. But for some Libras

Aeurin: 35:47

Just stay inside

Sibyl: 35:48

for some Libras it'll probably be a lovely day reading at the library and engrossing yourself in fantasy and for some Libras bad things are probably on the horizon.

Aeurin: 35:57

Don't have any children this month.

Penny: 35:57

Don't go outside. Don't stay inside. Don't go up. Don't go down. None of this makes any sense.

Aeurin: 36:03

Don't interrupt any hunts. Don't eat anything you didn't make yourself.

Sibyl: 36:09

That's very good advice. Yeah. Don't use your full name. Definitely. Okay. Scorpio Scorpio. Are you familiar at all with Phantom of the Opera The musical because this has very strong Phantom of the Opera vibes. It's a boat in a candlelit cave with a shadowy veiled figure standing on it. So this could also be a reference to the river styx for those of us with Greek connections.

Penny: 36:35

Yes,

Sibyl: 36:36

it's hard to say but

Aeurin: 36:37

Charon walked so Eric phantom could run. I assume that's his name have not seen the play.

Sibyl: 36:41

Eh, close enough.

Penny: 36:43

Wow. So So basically, this is Scorpio right Scorpio should make sure they have two coins on them at any time. Or. Tickets to a Broadway play. Okay, yes. Okay, vague and yet

Penny: 36:55

either way it's pretty decent

Penny: 36:56

These are oddly positive. I'm liking the library one all right.

Sibyl: 37:00

Sagittarius. This one. I am I'm looking at it looks like it might be a cyclops actually, it looks very large and I only see one eye and it seems to be sleeping very peacefully. I don't know if that means that's you and maybe that means you need to be on the lookout for a hero to come and put your eye out or if that's something or someone you're going to encounter in your next few weeks.

Penny: 37:24

Okay, so so have a sharp stick on hand. Just I just want to give a shout out to my Cyclops friends. They do get a bad rap. If someone walked all up in your cave and started eating your cheese. You'd want to fuck them up too. Anyway continue Sibyl.

Sibyl: 37:41

Alright, Capricorn. Oh Capricorn. Yours is a little bit unpleasant and kind of body horror like?

Penny: 37:48

Oh no

Aeurin: 37:49

Good start.

Sibyl: 37:50

I'm kind of seeing a blob of flesh with multiple mouths. And the mouths have gold teeth and are dripping blood.

Aeurin: 37:57

Oh, sounds like England's Prime Minister to be honest.

Penny: 38:00

Oh my goodness. Let's go back to the library. That was that was I'm a monster and that was horrifying. What is wrong with you Sibyl?

Sibyl: 38:09

Hey, it's not my vision. I'm just conveying what I'm seeing.

Penny: 38:12

Oh my God. Gods.

Aeurin: 38:14

Are these are these coming from somewhere? Or are they like

Sibyl: 38:17

Oh, the gods

Penny: 38:18

yeah, they're coming from the gods. Wink

Aeurin: 38:21

Sorry I don't know why I asked.

Sibyl: 38:23

Oh, I am an Oracle. So my visions come directly from the gods. They don't usually come with subtitles is the problem. Alright, we are on our last one. Since we started with Pisces we're going to circle back around to Aquarius. Aquarius I am seeing it looks like a diner or the diner has a kitchen but it seems to be outside. So I'm guessing this is one of the metaphorical ones and there's a hand and an eye floating above the counter. So definitely looking metaphorical. I don't see this happening very literally anytime soon in Aquarius's future but I'm not totally sure off the top of my head how you might want to interpret that it's probably going to be different from for each one of you, Aquarius.

Penny: 39:06

Wow. So lots and lots of blood but nothing on fire. Okay, I'll take that. Thank you. Thank you, Sybil.

Aeurin: 39:15

One horror for another.

Penny: 39:16

Yes. There is no escaping the horror that is my roommate. But she's nice enough to let me record in her closet. And this is the price I must pay

Sibyl: 39:27

It does make a great recording space, doesn't it?

Penny: 39:30

Yes, it does. And gives us a nice nice room tone for this horrific horrific horoscope. So thank you.

Aeurin: 39:38

A fun thing is that we could be having this conversation. I'm only recording just for the podcast. I mean, I don't need to wear these headphones or use this microphone. I guess I need to use the microphone for you to hear me but you guys could be muted and still know what you're saying. So

Sibyl: 39:51

Oh that is true. Yeah. And since just kind of you know, since Penny and I are right next to each other. It's really just you that needs to be connected to us on this video call so we could actually have you just call in on the mic and do it from there.

Aeurin: 40:08

We just record on my end would've been easier.

Penny: 40:10

That's that is absolutely fascinating. Well, I'm going to whisper something on the wind to you right now. And that is a thank you so much for joining us and tolerating Sybil. And you know, if you ever want to shoot me an email and ask me questions about my snakes, I'd be happy to answer because I do believe the world is better when we all learn from each other. And perhaps the humans can do that more too

Aeurin: 40:37

I have a lot of questions still. So I will be sending you an email.

Penny: 40:40

I do too actually have a lot of questions, and I have to live with these fuckers. Thank you so much to our guest. Thank you Sibyl. And thank you to all you listeners. Have a wonderful, wonderful rest of your day and be mindful of what you whisper on the wind.

Penny: 40:59

The Gorgon Show with me Penny Cephalonia is a proud member of the Faustian Nonsense network. You can find us on Twitter at @Gorgon show, or email us with questions and comments at Gorgon show@Faustiannonsense.com. All music in the Gorgon show is by TJ The Empathic vampire. You can find more of his work linked in the show notes. Thank you for listening to the Gorgon Show.

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