https://simplecast.com Missing Witches Missing Witches is created by Amy Torok and Risa Dickens: old hag solitary witch best friends living, writing, and recording out in the woods on unceded Anishinaabe Algonquin territory, in Quebec, Canada. Missing Witches is an art and activism project and a public research project. We come from a place of longing and of curiosity. We want to learn from artists, poets, academics, activists and magical practitioners who are conjuring better possible worlds. 2018 Missing Witches en-ca Thu, 9 Apr 2026 13:00:00 +0000 Thu, 9 Apr 2026 13:00:12 +0000 https://missingwitches.simplecast.com Missing Witches https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/33775205-57c8-4bb0-9521-9e2ecadb5937/7b5b2836-3095-497f-986d-93310f8b31f2/3000x3000/1537539809artwork.jpg?aid=rss_feed https://missingwitches.simplecast.com episodic Missing Witches is created by Amy Torok and Risa Dickens: old hag solitary witch best friends living, writing, and recording out in the woods on unceded Anishinaabe Algonquin territory, in Quebec, Canada. Missing Witches is an art and activism project and a public research project. We come from a place of longing and of curiosity. We want to learn from artists, poets, academics, activists and magical practitioners who are conjuring better possible worlds. Risa Dickens + Amy Torok true https://feeds.simplecast.com/Sruwun5J interviews, animism, intersectional, witchcraft, feminist, history, witches Missing Witches missingwitches@gmail.com 75793a57-176d-4e00-9b36-98ebb1af5a6e I Am Spider Plant Kin – Everywhere and Unkillable This episode features the song Heights by Ruby Singh and is used with kind permission - https://rubysingh.bandcamp.com/track/heights

 

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]]> Thu, 9 Apr 2026 13:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Ruby Singh) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/i-am-spider-plant-kin-everywhere-and-unkillable-domHJ65w This episode features the song Heights by Ruby Singh and is used with kind permission - https://rubysingh.bandcamp.com/track/heights

 

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]]> I Am Spider Plant Kin – Everywhere and Unkillable Ruby Singh 00:31:13 In this kinship season episode, Risa traces a line from struggling houseplants in a Montreal apartment to global systems built on the use of bodies—human and more-than-human. Through the biology of spider plants, the story of Henrietta Lacks, and a life rebuilt after rupture, this is a meditation on survival, resistance, and the quiet ways we keep each other alive. In this kinship season episode, Risa traces a line from struggling houseplants in a Montreal apartment to global systems built on the use of bodies—human and more-than-human. Through the biology of spider plants, the story of Henrietta Lacks, and a life rebuilt after rupture, this is a meditation on survival, resistance, and the quiet ways we keep each other alive. kinship, henrietta lacks true full 291 d737e51a-e36d-4b47-b0cc-3a61e098a214 KINSHIP TRAILER Tue, 7 Apr 2026 14:14:32 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/kinship-trailer-v0fSaGrB KINSHIP TRAILER Missing Witches 00:01:16 What to expect from KINSHIP Episodes of the Missing Witches Podcast. What to expect from KINSHIP Episodes of the Missing Witches Podcast. familiars, re-enchantment, kinship, more-than-human, witchcraft true trailer 7d9c72bc-a9b2-4ae9-8ef6-7dd90ec5efae Sarah Potter - Sober Magic https://www.missingwitches.com/ep-289-sarah-potter-sober-magic/

 

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]]> Sarah Potter - Sober Magic Missing Witches 00:50:46 A conversation with celebrity Tarot Reader and Psychic, and author of Sober Magic, Sarah Potter about sensitivity as power, intuition as a daily practice, and sobriety journeys for witches. We talk about learning to live without numbing out, reframing recovery through Tarot and witchcraft, and building tools that let you stay present with what you feel and how you know. It’s also about showing up for each other—through community, reparations, and choosing repair where it’s needed most. A conversation with celebrity Tarot Reader and Psychic, and author of Sober Magic, Sarah Potter about sensitivity as power, intuition as a daily practice, and sobriety journeys for witches. We talk about learning to live without numbing out, reframing recovery through Tarot and witchcraft, and building tools that let you stay present with what you feel and how you know. It’s also about showing up for each other—through community, reparations, and choosing repair where it’s needed most. true full 290 a5c625a0-2706-489e-84bf-ad746568bc46 Ostara 2026 - This Episode Is A Spell www.missingwitches.com/ostara-2026-this-episode-is-a-spell

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]]> Ostara 2026 - This Episode Is A Spell Missing Witches 00:23:42 To celebrate the Spring Equinox of 2026 we invited the Missing Witches Coven to write and read spell poems, and we gathered together to conjure the magics of poetry, of protection, abundance and ease, to empower the powerless and bring conscience to the conscious-less. We hope that these rhymes will become mantras we can sing in our heads at night to replace the intrusive thoughts, the fear. This is our spell, to be transmitted across the waves and webs, to reach your ears and soothe you, to reach your heart and rile you, to experience the magic of becoming. www.missingwitches.com/ostara-2026-this-episode-is-a-spell To celebrate the Spring Equinox of 2026 we invited the Missing Witches Coven to write and read spell poems, and we gathered together to conjure the magics of poetry, of protection, abundance and ease, to empower the powerless and bring conscience to the conscious-less. We hope that these rhymes will become mantras we can sing in our heads at night to replace the intrusive thoughts, the fear. This is our spell, to be transmitted across the waves and webs, to reach your ears and soothe you, to reach your heart and rile you, to experience the magic of becoming. www.missingwitches.com/ostara-2026-this-episode-is-a-spell true full 289 a6e816d8-87df-4d55-a2d0-7190d238b805 Future Histories Of Black Magic 2026 Part 2 www.missingwitches.com/ep-288-future-histories-of-black-magic-2026-part-2

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]]> Future Histories Of Black Magic 2026 Part 2 Missing Witches 01:01:16 Today we're continuing our celebration of Black History Month joined by two more creators of future histories of Black Magic: Sanyu Estelle and Maria Minnis! Neither Sanyu or Maria could make it to our Imbolc panel, so we decided to do a little bonus episode, and since both Sanyu and Maria are tarot enthusiasts who have written or are writing books about Tarot, and BOTH contributed essays to the book A Confluence of Witches (ed. Casey Zabala) we knew there'd be A LOT for us to talk about. Together we nerd out over holographic quantum multi-dimensionality, aspirations for humanity, love, choice, and free will!! The takeaway: what we perceive as possible is possibly more important than what is possible. www.missingwitches.com/ep-288-future-histories-of-black-magic-2026-part-2 Today we're continuing our celebration of Black History Month joined by two more creators of future histories of Black Magic: Sanyu Estelle and Maria Minnis! Neither Sanyu or Maria could make it to our Imbolc panel, so we decided to do a little bonus episode, and since both Sanyu and Maria are tarot enthusiasts who have written or are writing books about Tarot, and BOTH contributed essays to the book A Confluence of Witches (ed. Casey Zabala) we knew there'd be A LOT for us to talk about. Together we nerd out over holographic quantum multi-dimensionality, aspirations for humanity, love, choice, and free will!! The takeaway: what we perceive as possible is possibly more important than what is possible. www.missingwitches.com/ep-288-future-histories-of-black-magic-2026-part-2 true full 288 108e4846-02ca-43a4-8228-f6bb22d5759a IMBOLC: Future Histories Of Black Magic 2026 Lilith Dorsey, Loli Moon, Christena Cleveland, Zoe Flowers, OlaOmi Amoloku, Lindsay Braynen, and Caress Fitch

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]]> Sun, 1 Feb 2026 10:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/imbolc-future-histories-of-black-magic-2026-l4o4J4zM Lilith Dorsey, Loli Moon, Christena Cleveland, Zoe Flowers, OlaOmi Amoloku, Lindsay Braynen, and Caress Fitch

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]]> IMBOLC: Future Histories Of Black Magic 2026 Missing Witches 01:25:47 Imbolc 2026 with Lilith Dorsey, Loli Moon, Christena Cleveland, Zoe Flowers, OlaOmi Amoloku, Lindsay Braynen, and Caress Fitch!! We’ve reached that halfway point between Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox we call Imbolc. We light candles as a symbol of the vow me make to our own enlightenment. To learn. February first also kicks off black history month and these two dates combined provide the perfect opportunity to celebrate where we’re going and vow to learn from where we’ve been. Each year, we gather for Imbolc with inspiring Black Witches who are creating Black History with their work. This year we're joined by Lilith Dorsey, Loli Moon, Christena Cleveland, Zoe Flowers, OlaOmi Amoloku, Lindsay Braynen, and Caress Fitch!! This year's theme comes from Nina Simone's song I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free, and I asked our guests: How would it feel to be free? 2026 has already proved itself to be a time when we need to consider definitions of Freedom, and to enact those definitions in our communities. For these Witches, freedom means to be undiluted, uncommodified, unobjectified and unapologetic. https://www.missingwitches.com/imbolc-future-histories-of-black-magic-2026-how-it-would-feel-to-be-free/ Imbolc 2026 with Lilith Dorsey, Loli Moon, Christena Cleveland, Zoe Flowers, OlaOmi Amoloku, Lindsay Braynen, and Caress Fitch!! We’ve reached that halfway point between Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox we call Imbolc. We light candles as a symbol of the vow me make to our own enlightenment. To learn. February first also kicks off black history month and these two dates combined provide the perfect opportunity to celebrate where we’re going and vow to learn from where we’ve been. Each year, we gather for Imbolc with inspiring Black Witches who are creating Black History with their work. This year we're joined by Lilith Dorsey, Loli Moon, Christena Cleveland, Zoe Flowers, OlaOmi Amoloku, Lindsay Braynen, and Caress Fitch!! This year's theme comes from Nina Simone's song I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free, and I asked our guests: How would it feel to be free? 2026 has already proved itself to be a time when we need to consider definitions of Freedom, and to enact those definitions in our communities. For these Witches, freedom means to be undiluted, uncommodified, unobjectified and unapologetic. https://www.missingwitches.com/imbolc-future-histories-of-black-magic-2026-how-it-would-feel-to-be-free/ true full 287 8da560e5-0e37-4de8-9fd4-e306eda64061 What To Expect in 2026 with the Visionary Woman, Kristine Gorman:  What Is The Sun And The Moon For Me? https://www.instagram.com/visionarywomantarot/

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]]> Mon, 5 Jan 2026 13:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Kristine Gorman) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/nye-reading-w-visionary-woman-kristine-gorman-what-is-the-sun-and-the-moon-for-me-reqLl1t_ https://www.instagram.com/visionarywomantarot/

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]]> What To Expect in 2026 with the Visionary Woman, Kristine Gorman:  What Is The Sun And The Moon For Me? Kristine Gorman 00:36:41 In this episode of The Missing Witches Podcast, Risa Dickens speaks with visionary painter and leading tarot reader Kristine Gorman, creator of the Visionary Woman Tarot deck. Kristine reflects on a year marked by grief and creative breakthrough, sharing how loss, devotion, and artistic risk shaped the making of her deck and her evolving relationship to spirit and message-making. Kristine reads for what we are keeping from 2025, and what is coming in 2026. In this episode of The Missing Witches Podcast, Risa Dickens speaks with visionary painter and leading tarot reader Kristine Gorman, creator of the Visionary Woman Tarot deck. Kristine reflects on a year marked by grief and creative breakthrough, sharing how loss, devotion, and artistic risk shaped the making of her deck and her evolving relationship to spirit and message-making. Kristine reads for what we are keeping from 2025, and what is coming in 2026. tarot, grief, art true full 286 124ab0e6-6c10-4fbc-8006-0a7c0f2f9012 It's The Missing Witches Yuletide Special 2025!!! www.missingwitches.com/its-the-missing-witches-yuletide-special-2025

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]]> It's The Missing Witches Yuletide Special 2025!!! Missing Witches 01:31:30 IMAGINE:  it's the Winter Solstice, it's cold and dark outside, sintering snow blankets and quiets the world.  But the Coven is together, celebrating the shadow time.  Suddenly, the power goes out.  The lights go off.  The music stops.  The only sounds we hear are each others' voices and the crackling of the fire. We gather to huddle around the hearth, wrapped in blankets, cider still warm in our mugs to read poems by candlelight, tell stories and laugh. We are Witches, we make our own light. Merry Yule. Happy talking together.  www.missingwitches.com/its-the-missing-witches-yuletide-special-2025 IMAGINE:  it's the Winter Solstice, it's cold and dark outside, sintering snow blankets and quiets the world.  But the Coven is together, celebrating the shadow time.  Suddenly, the power goes out.  The lights go off.  The music stops.  The only sounds we hear are each others' voices and the crackling of the fire. We gather to huddle around the hearth, wrapped in blankets, cider still warm in our mugs to read poems by candlelight, tell stories and laugh. We are Witches, we make our own light. Merry Yule. Happy talking together.  www.missingwitches.com/its-the-missing-witches-yuletide-special-2025 true full 285 1603db97-c7b6-4170-87d7-fb58ba8704a7 Samhain 2025 - Trust Fall Into Mystery With Pam Grossman www.missingwitches.com/samhain-2025-trust-fall-into-mystery-with-pam-grossman

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]]> Samhain 2025 - Trust Fall Into Mystery With Pam Grossman Missing Witches 00:51:58 For Samhain this year - the halfway point between autumn equinox and winter solstice - we’ve invited a Witch who needs no introduction, but we'll her one anyway: Pam Grossman is a writer, curator, teacher, and Witch. You may know her as the host of The Witch Wave podcast, or as the author of Waking the Witch: Reflections on Women, Magic, and Power, a book that has become a touchstone for our coven and for contemporary witches everywhere. Pam’s new book is Magic Maker: The Enchanted Path to Creativity. www.missingwitches.com/samhain-2025-trust-fall-into-mystery-with-pam-grossman We talk about Magic Maker (spoiler alert: we LOVED it), comedy, vulnerability, erasing the line between spirituality and creativity, David Bowie, Jinkx Monsoon and much more. Pam says that creativity requires a trust fall into mystery, “We’re dealing with mystery, we’re making things that have never been made before! It’s supposed to be uncomfortable and fucking weird!” For Samhain this year - the halfway point between autumn equinox and winter solstice - we’ve invited a Witch who needs no introduction, but we'll her one anyway: Pam Grossman is a writer, curator, teacher, and Witch. You may know her as the host of The Witch Wave podcast, or as the author of Waking the Witch: Reflections on Women, Magic, and Power, a book that has become a touchstone for our coven and for contemporary witches everywhere. Pam’s new book is Magic Maker: The Enchanted Path to Creativity. www.missingwitches.com/samhain-2025-trust-fall-into-mystery-with-pam-grossman We talk about Magic Maker (spoiler alert: we LOVED it), comedy, vulnerability, erasing the line between spirituality and creativity, David Bowie, Jinkx Monsoon and much more. Pam says that creativity requires a trust fall into mystery, “We’re dealing with mystery, we’re making things that have never been made before! It’s supposed to be uncomfortable and fucking weird!” true full 284 91f2d8fd-6ffe-4f28-abb5-09d77fe5691b Judika Illes Magic Spells Oracle Deck Launch Party!! www.missingwitches.com/ep-283-judika-illes-magic-spells-oracle-deck-launch-party

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]]> Judika Illes Magic Spells Oracle Deck Launch Party!! Missing Witches 01:20:34 We're thrilled to be in circle with one of the greats of contemporary witchcraft, Judika Illes!! Together we talk about her books and decks, the magical origins of language, the philosophy of divination, the Hermit's lantern and the ringing of bells!!! Judika Illes is an independent scholar, educator, and author of several books of folklore, folkways, and mythology about the subjects of magic, the occult, divination, diverse spiritual traditions, witchcraft, and the paranormal. From the bestselling author of The Encyclopedia of 5,000 Spells comes the ultimate toolkit for practicing the healing, transformative power of magic. In Magic Spells Oracle, 36 full-color cards offer clarity and inspiration to focus your intention and rebuild your power—with guidance through life, relationships, career, travel, and more. Reconnect with the essence of nature and rekindle the magic within with cards divided into the elements of Air, Earth, Fire, and Water. An accompanying guidebook outlines the framework for crafting your home altar and charging your oracle, reading and finding inspiration in the cards and their layouts, and connecting with your inner wisdom and deepening your magical practice. Discover the magic in everything—including you. www.missingwitches.com/ep-283-judika-illes-magic-spells-oracle-deck-launch-party We're thrilled to be in circle with one of the greats of contemporary witchcraft, Judika Illes!! Together we talk about her books and decks, the magical origins of language, the philosophy of divination, the Hermit's lantern and the ringing of bells!!! Judika Illes is an independent scholar, educator, and author of several books of folklore, folkways, and mythology about the subjects of magic, the occult, divination, diverse spiritual traditions, witchcraft, and the paranormal. From the bestselling author of The Encyclopedia of 5,000 Spells comes the ultimate toolkit for practicing the healing, transformative power of magic. In Magic Spells Oracle, 36 full-color cards offer clarity and inspiration to focus your intention and rebuild your power—with guidance through life, relationships, career, travel, and more. Reconnect with the essence of nature and rekindle the magic within with cards divided into the elements of Air, Earth, Fire, and Water. An accompanying guidebook outlines the framework for crafting your home altar and charging your oracle, reading and finding inspiration in the cards and their layouts, and connecting with your inner wisdom and deepening your magical practice. Discover the magic in everything—including you. www.missingwitches.com/ep-283-judika-illes-magic-spells-oracle-deck-launch-party true full 283 70b07634-eea8-41fd-887c-66d1907d7791 Maya Deren - The Cardinal Points And The Points Between Deren, Maya. An Anagram of Ideas on Art, Form and Film. Alicat Book Shop Press, 1946.

———. Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti. Vanguard Press, 1953.

———. “Religion and Magic.” Tomorrow: Vol. 3, No. 1 (Autumn 1954): 29–35.

———. Essential Deren: Collected Writings on Film. Edited by Bruce R. McPherson. New York: Documentext, 2005.

———. “A Statement of Principles.” e-flux Notes. Accessed 2024. https://www.e-flux.com/notes/621433/a-statement-of-principles

Deren, Maya. Witch’s Cradle. 1943. With Marcel Duchamp.

———. Meshes of the Afternoon. 1943.

———. At Land. 1944.

———. Ritual in Transfigured Time. 1946.

———. Meditation on Violence. 1948.

———. Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti. Filmed 1947–1951, completed posthumously by Teiji Ito and Cherel Ito, 1985.

Barrett, Del. “Maya Deren.” Hundred Heroines. Accessed 2024. https://hundredheroines.org/weekendread/maya-deren

Durant, Mark Alice. “Sometimes I Am What I Really Am: On Mark Alice Durant’s Maya Deren.” LA Review of Books. Accessed 2024. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/sometimes-i-am-what-i-really-am-on-mark-alice-durants-maya-deren

The Marginalian (Maria Popova). “Legendary Filmmaker Maya Deren on Cinema, Life, and Her Advice to Aspiring Filmmakers.” January 23, 2015. https://www.themarginalian.org/2015/01/23/maya-deren-advice-on-film-letter

Ogawa, Michiko. Searching for The Cosmic Principle: Transcribing and Performing the Film Music of Teiji Ito. Doctor of Musical Arts Dissertation, University of California, San Diego, 2016.

Filmschoolrejects. “12 Filmmaking Tips from Maya Deren.” Accessed 2024. https://filmschoolrejects.com/filmmaking-tips-maya-deren-a6ddb39a6442

Wikipedia Contributors. “Ritual in Transfigured Time.” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Accessed 2024. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritual_in_Transfigured_Time

Inverted Audio. “The Cosmic Music of Teiji Ito.” Accessed 2024. https://inverted-audio.com/feature/the-cosmic-music-of-teiji-ito

Risa Dickens (personal notes, 2025).

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]]> Thu, 23 Oct 2025 12:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/maya-deren-the-cardinal-points-and-the-points-between-b1IjoUpD Deren, Maya. An Anagram of Ideas on Art, Form and Film. Alicat Book Shop Press, 1946.

———. Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti. Vanguard Press, 1953.

———. “Religion and Magic.” Tomorrow: Vol. 3, No. 1 (Autumn 1954): 29–35.

———. Essential Deren: Collected Writings on Film. Edited by Bruce R. McPherson. New York: Documentext, 2005.

———. “A Statement of Principles.” e-flux Notes. Accessed 2024. https://www.e-flux.com/notes/621433/a-statement-of-principles

Deren, Maya. Witch’s Cradle. 1943. With Marcel Duchamp.

———. Meshes of the Afternoon. 1943.

———. At Land. 1944.

———. Ritual in Transfigured Time. 1946.

———. Meditation on Violence. 1948.

———. Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti. Filmed 1947–1951, completed posthumously by Teiji Ito and Cherel Ito, 1985.

Barrett, Del. “Maya Deren.” Hundred Heroines. Accessed 2024. https://hundredheroines.org/weekendread/maya-deren

Durant, Mark Alice. “Sometimes I Am What I Really Am: On Mark Alice Durant’s Maya Deren.” LA Review of Books. Accessed 2024. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/sometimes-i-am-what-i-really-am-on-mark-alice-durants-maya-deren

The Marginalian (Maria Popova). “Legendary Filmmaker Maya Deren on Cinema, Life, and Her Advice to Aspiring Filmmakers.” January 23, 2015. https://www.themarginalian.org/2015/01/23/maya-deren-advice-on-film-letter

Ogawa, Michiko. Searching for The Cosmic Principle: Transcribing and Performing the Film Music of Teiji Ito. Doctor of Musical Arts Dissertation, University of California, San Diego, 2016.

Filmschoolrejects. “12 Filmmaking Tips from Maya Deren.” Accessed 2024. https://filmschoolrejects.com/filmmaking-tips-maya-deren-a6ddb39a6442

Wikipedia Contributors. “Ritual in Transfigured Time.” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Accessed 2024. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritual_in_Transfigured_Time

Inverted Audio. “The Cosmic Music of Teiji Ito.” Accessed 2024. https://inverted-audio.com/feature/the-cosmic-music-of-teiji-ito

Risa Dickens (personal notes, 2025).

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]]> Maya Deren - The Cardinal Points And The Points Between Missing Witches 00:49:16 Maya Deren — witch of the lens, socialist of dreamtime, fugitive from the machinery of capital — transformed the moving image into a site of ritual. Her films Meshes of the Afternoon, At Land, Ritual in Transfigured Time, Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti and Witch's Cradle dissolve boundaries between dream and waking, art and ceremony, self and spirit. She built a new language for film and died in poverty. She wrestled with addiction; her collaborations, including with her much younger husband Teiji Ito, shimmer with both creative brilliance and the complexities of power. Maya Deren — witch of the lens, socialist of dreamtime, fugitive from the machinery of capital — transformed the moving image into a site of ritual. Her films Meshes of the Afternoon, At Land, Ritual in Transfigured Time, Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti and Witch's Cradle dissolve boundaries between dream and waking, art and ceremony, self and spirit. She built a new language for film and died in poverty. She wrestled with addiction; her collaborations, including with her much younger husband Teiji Ito, shimmer with both creative brilliance and the complexities of power. maya deren, vodou, voodoo, socialist, film true full 282 b2b08b3f-3701-43cf-bd6c-ff8645e11e0b WF GB Jones - Sacred Rebellion www.missingwitches.com/ep-281-wf-gb-jones-sacred-rebellion

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]]> WF GB Jones - Sacred Rebellion Missing Witches 00:57:45 G. B. Jones is a Canadian artist, filmmaker, musician, and publisher of zines, known for her vast contributions to both queer and punk media. She initially gained recognition for her work in the fanzine J.D.s, which she co founded and co-published with Bruce LaBruce. GB also co founded and performed with the experimental post-punk band Fifth Column who became mothers of feminist punk. She has directed several films, including The Troublemakers, The Yo-Yo Gang, and The Lollipop Generation. And Her artwork continues to be shown worldwide. For me, as a punk kid growing up in Southern Ontario in the 90s, GB’s influence loomed large - someone whose work literally changed the world as I knew it. Kathleen Hanna said: Well if I can ever be of help to draw attention to G.B. Jones’s art-I mean she did so much for me in my twenties in terms of informing my identity as a writer and musician and performer, I really could never repay her. So the more people can learn about her, the happier I am. Zine Queen Vaginal Davis insists: there wouldn’t be a riot grrl movement without Fifth Column GB Jones invented the terms Homocore and Queercore in the 80s, kicking off the modern reclamation of the word Queer. So when GB put out a book earlier this year called Witches, i thought yesssss - here’s my chance to chat with a punk icon. The Zoom meeting was set, the coven gathered and GB’s laptop chose that night to bite the dust. No problem, we’ll figure it out... Remember how last week we talked about Killing Joke, and the potential contained within destruction? Here’s great example. GB’s laptop bit the dust, but it just so happened that I was going to be in her home town, Toronto, the following weekend. So GB agreed to meet me in person! The interview you’re about to hear is as old school as it comes. GB and I found a quite corner in her local public library - you’ll hear room sounds, ambient noises as we talk in half whispers that I recorded live with a field recorder balanced on a pile of books. After we finished recording, we went out for coffee and gabbed more about our lives. GB has offered to play xylophone on a track for my new band. I lamented how impossible it is to find Fifth Column on vinyl, and GB told me that a reissue is in the works, that she and Caroline could come on the pod together next spring as Fifth Column to dive deeper into feminist punk… So we had a disaster - zoom call fail - but that disaster led to something so much more - GB and I formed a face to face human connection that I know will bear future fruit. This is anti anxiety medication. To know that things going wrong might be making way for something better. I met up with GB at a public library, and we sat in this third space to talk about rebellion, making connections and building communities before the internet, the intersection of Witch Queer and Punk, self-fulfilling prophecy, adversity and courage. www.missingwitches.com/ep-281-wf-gb-jones-sacred-rebellion G. B. Jones is a Canadian artist, filmmaker, musician, and publisher of zines, known for her vast contributions to both queer and punk media. She initially gained recognition for her work in the fanzine J.D.s, which she co founded and co-published with Bruce LaBruce. GB also co founded and performed with the experimental post-punk band Fifth Column who became mothers of feminist punk. She has directed several films, including The Troublemakers, The Yo-Yo Gang, and The Lollipop Generation. And Her artwork continues to be shown worldwide. For me, as a punk kid growing up in Southern Ontario in the 90s, GB’s influence loomed large - someone whose work literally changed the world as I knew it. Kathleen Hanna said: Well if I can ever be of help to draw attention to G.B. Jones’s art-I mean she did so much for me in my twenties in terms of informing my identity as a writer and musician and performer, I really could never repay her. So the more people can learn about her, the happier I am. Zine Queen Vaginal Davis insists: there wouldn’t be a riot grrl movement without Fifth Column GB Jones invented the terms Homocore and Queercore in the 80s, kicking off the modern reclamation of the word Queer. So when GB put out a book earlier this year called Witches, i thought yesssss - here’s my chance to chat with a punk icon. The Zoom meeting was set, the coven gathered and GB’s laptop chose that night to bite the dust. No problem, we’ll figure it out... Remember how last week we talked about Killing Joke, and the potential contained within destruction? Here’s great example. GB’s laptop bit the dust, but it just so happened that I was going to be in her home town, Toronto, the following weekend. So GB agreed to meet me in person! The interview you’re about to hear is as old school as it comes. GB and I found a quite corner in her local public library - you’ll hear room sounds, ambient noises as we talk in half whispers that I recorded live with a field recorder balanced on a pile of books. After we finished recording, we went out for coffee and gabbed more about our lives. GB has offered to play xylophone on a track for my new band. I lamented how impossible it is to find Fifth Column on vinyl, and GB told me that a reissue is in the works, that she and Caroline could come on the pod together next spring as Fifth Column to dive deeper into feminist punk… So we had a disaster - zoom call fail - but that disaster led to something so much more - GB and I formed a face to face human connection that I know will bear future fruit. This is anti anxiety medication. To know that things going wrong might be making way for something better. I met up with GB at a public library, and we sat in this third space to talk about rebellion, making connections and building communities before the internet, the intersection of Witch Queer and Punk, self-fulfilling prophecy, adversity and courage. www.missingwitches.com/ep-281-wf-gb-jones-sacred-rebellion true full 281 e1e27321-81e3-4248-b98f-217cbebf3209 MW Killing Joke - We Must Dream Of Promised Lands www.missingwitches.com/ep-280-mw-killing-joke-we-must-dream-of-promised-lands

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]]> MW Killing Joke - We Must Dream Of Promised Lands Missing Witches 00:44:00 Join me today, in tombs, in sweaty smoky clubs, LSD soaked recording studios, in a circle of magic that declares, ‘let success be your proof’. That place in the cosmos where Jaz Coleman’s vocals, and keyboards, Kevin “Geordie” Walker’s guitar, Martin “Youth” Glover’s bass and Paul Ferguson’s drums come together in sonic witchcraft that cast a spell on everyone who came after: from Nirvana and Soundgarden, to Metallica and Skinny Puppy, Ministry and Tool, to Nine Inch Nails all claiming Killing Joke as inspiration. Robert Smith of The Cure once described Killing Joke’s early records as “terrifying and beautiful.” Something that he channeled for his own music - and something we as Witches can relate to ourselves. The terrifying beauty that is Witch, that is truth. A beauty that can only be found beneath the shadows. Join me today to discover the profane and ritual history of Killing Joke. www.missingwitches.com/ep-280-mw-killing-joke-we-must-dream-of-promised-lands Join me today, in tombs, in sweaty smoky clubs, LSD soaked recording studios, in a circle of magic that declares, ‘let success be your proof’. That place in the cosmos where Jaz Coleman’s vocals, and keyboards, Kevin “Geordie” Walker’s guitar, Martin “Youth” Glover’s bass and Paul Ferguson’s drums come together in sonic witchcraft that cast a spell on everyone who came after: from Nirvana and Soundgarden, to Metallica and Skinny Puppy, Ministry and Tool, to Nine Inch Nails all claiming Killing Joke as inspiration. Robert Smith of The Cure once described Killing Joke’s early records as “terrifying and beautiful.” Something that he channeled for his own music - and something we as Witches can relate to ourselves. The terrifying beauty that is Witch, that is truth. A beauty that can only be found beneath the shadows. Join me today to discover the profane and ritual history of Killing Joke. www.missingwitches.com/ep-280-mw-killing-joke-we-must-dream-of-promised-lands punk, postpunk true full 280 8f835835-8545-4527-8a9e-264eed07b6ca WF Liv Albert of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby:  I'm An Atheist Witch Who Talks To The Ancient Sources Let's Talk About Myths, Baby!  shares the most entertaining and enraging stories from 'Classical' mythology (and, often, ancient history of the wider Mediterranean!) casually, contemporarily, and (more often than not) sarcastically. Creator and host Liv Albert is author of Greek Mythology: the Gods, Goddesses, and Heroes Handbook, Nectar of the Gods, and an upcoming children's retelling of the Odyssey.

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]]> Tue, 14 Oct 2025 12:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Liv Albert, Risa Dickens) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/wf-liv-albert-of-lets-talk-about-myths-baby-im-an-atheist-witch-who-talks-to-the-ancient-sources-NoJbT_x9 Let's Talk About Myths, Baby!  shares the most entertaining and enraging stories from 'Classical' mythology (and, often, ancient history of the wider Mediterranean!) casually, contemporarily, and (more often than not) sarcastically. Creator and host Liv Albert is author of Greek Mythology: the Gods, Goddesses, and Heroes Handbook, Nectar of the Gods, and an upcoming children's retelling of the Odyssey.

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]]> WF Liv Albert of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby:  I'm An Atheist Witch Who Talks To The Ancient Sources Liv Albert, Risa Dickens 00:51:38 "I'm an atheist witch who talks to the ancient sources. I'm not, but I am." Risa Dickens of Missing Witches joins forces with Liv Albert of Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! for a deeply feminist, gleefully nerdy, and profoundly honest conversation about witches, overwhelm, ancient Greek goddesses, and what it means to “fuck with the patriarchy” across time. From Circe’s island of wild women to Rome’s fear of crones, from Helen’s potions to the politics of preservation, Liv and Risa unspool how mythology itself has been edited by empire and misogyny—and how reclaiming these stories might help us heal our collective memory. "I'm an atheist witch who talks to the ancient sources. I'm not, but I am." Risa Dickens of Missing Witches joins forces with Liv Albert of Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! for a deeply feminist, gleefully nerdy, and profoundly honest conversation about witches, overwhelm, ancient Greek goddesses, and what it means to “fuck with the patriarchy” across time. From Circe’s island of wild women to Rome’s fear of crones, from Helen’s potions to the politics of preservation, Liv and Risa unspool how mythology itself has been edited by empire and misogyny—and how reclaiming these stories might help us heal our collective memory. hekate, mythology, circe true full 279 c5a77705-6510-4347-b161-bc846d330daf WF Dr. Cyndi Brannen - Hekate The F*CK Out Of It https://keepingherkeys.com/

 

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]]> WF Dr. Cyndi Brannen - Hekate The F*CK Out Of It Missing Witches 00:44:44 Hekate has always lived at the crossroads — between worlds, between forms, between ways of being. In this episode, Dr. Cyndi Brannen, former psychologist and director of research turned Hekatean priestess and teacher, joins Risa to explore Hekate’s innate queerness, fluidity, and multiplicity. From myth and archaeology to lived experience, they trace how Hekate guides us through thresholds, offers radical autonomy, and reveals the sacred in the margins. From her home on coastal Nova Scotia, Dr. Brannen smiles and declares: “Queer is normal around here.” Hekate has always lived at the crossroads — between worlds, between forms, between ways of being. In this episode, Dr. Cyndi Brannen, former psychologist and director of research turned Hekatean priestess and teacher, joins Risa to explore Hekate’s innate queerness, fluidity, and multiplicity. From myth and archaeology to lived experience, they trace how Hekate guides us through thresholds, offers radical autonomy, and reveals the sacred in the margins. From her home on coastal Nova Scotia, Dr. Brannen smiles and declares: “Queer is normal around here.” true full 278 4f88e812-2e5a-410c-be01-da1f291041e8 MW Lydia Cabrera - Admit To The Reality Of The Unreal The music in this episode comes from Cuba - Les Danses Des Dieux by Ocora.

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]]> Thu, 9 Oct 2025 12:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/mw-lydia-cabrera-admit-to-the-reality-of-the-unreal-9r2BLEBY The music in this episode comes from Cuba - Les Danses Des Dieux by Ocora.

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]]> MW Lydia Cabrera - Admit To The Reality Of The Unreal Missing Witches 00:42:29 Lydia Cabrera crossed boundaries of love, nation, and spirit. This episode traces her queer life, her recordings of Afro-Cuban sacred traditions, and the archive she built in exile — an altar of memory, care, and resistance. Lydia Cabrera crossed boundaries of love, nation, and spirit. This episode traces her queer life, her recordings of Afro-Cuban sacred traditions, and the archive she built in exile — an altar of memory, care, and resistance. lucumi, cuba, miami, santeria true full 277 8f93ae7f-6ac9-4276-88f0-e522f9424130 WF Jessica Hundley - Cathartic Messages From The Divine www.missingwitches.com/ep-276-wf-jessica-hundley-cathartic-messages-from-the-divine

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]]> WF Jessica Hundley - Cathartic Messages From The Divine Missing Witches 00:53:48 The Missing Witches podcast is proudly ad free, but I’m officially doing a sales pitch here - the Library of Esoterica series is amazing, and I own every volume, so I was super excited to sit down with Jessica Hundley to learn about the genesis of this incredible project! Jessica is a storyteller. In her writing, journalism, filmmaking and creative direction work, she delves into narrative art, music, counterculture, magick, punk and and psychedelia. Some of my very favourite subjects! Jessica is also of course the editor/shepherd of the Library of Esoterica series. The newest volume is Spirit Worlds. Featuring essays, interviews and over 400 images, from cave paintings to contemporary works of channeled art, Spirit Worlds steps through darkened doorways and into the labyrinths that lead to the mysterious, to kingdoms of the afterlife and to communion with denizens of dimensions, just beyond our own. Spirit Worlds is out now - But be warned - buy one and you’re gonna want the whole set!! Jess insists, "Everyone is an artist. You're creating your own reality, your own life." www.missingwitches.com/ep-276-wf-jessica-hundley-cathartic-messages-from-the-divine The Missing Witches podcast is proudly ad free, but I’m officially doing a sales pitch here - the Library of Esoterica series is amazing, and I own every volume, so I was super excited to sit down with Jessica Hundley to learn about the genesis of this incredible project! Jessica is a storyteller. In her writing, journalism, filmmaking and creative direction work, she delves into narrative art, music, counterculture, magick, punk and and psychedelia. Some of my very favourite subjects! Jessica is also of course the editor/shepherd of the Library of Esoterica series. The newest volume is Spirit Worlds. Featuring essays, interviews and over 400 images, from cave paintings to contemporary works of channeled art, Spirit Worlds steps through darkened doorways and into the labyrinths that lead to the mysterious, to kingdoms of the afterlife and to communion with denizens of dimensions, just beyond our own. Spirit Worlds is out now - But be warned - buy one and you’re gonna want the whole set!! Jess insists, "Everyone is an artist. You're creating your own reality, your own life." www.missingwitches.com/ep-276-wf-jessica-hundley-cathartic-messages-from-the-divine true full 276 7f8bed68-590a-447a-8c1d-bfce42cd8f5d MW YOKO ONO - Smash Your Preconceptions www.missingwitches.com/ep-275-mw-yoko-ono-smash-your-preconceptions

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]]> MW YOKO ONO - Smash Your Preconceptions Missing Witches 00:53:14 The advice from tarot and other belief systems freed her mind from preset patterns and traditional thinking; it prompted her to consider problems from fresh angles. She believed the universe had its own force, and was an extension of that force. Despite all of her magical works, artistic engagement of all six senses, despite her obsession with the esoteric, consulting psychics, numerologists and astrologers before making any moves, shuffling tarot cards at business meetings, perhaps what makes Yoko Ono the most witchy is her persecution. Fear, superstition, and social control have intersected with racism and misogyny throughout history. Accusations of Witchcraft, trials and executions often followed unexplained illness, crop failures, livestock deaths, or any sudden misfortunes. Marginalized or non-conforming women - widows, healers, outspoken women - were at highest risk. And in this history, we find Yoko: the woman who broke up the world’s most beloved band. The woman who poisoned the Beatles’ apple. So for today, and I say this as a fan and lover of the Beatles, fuck all this rocknroll boys club no cock no rock youtube noise. Let’s get to know the Yoko who exists outside of the heavy shadow of the fab four, and dismissive eyerolls of the rock n roll crowd. The one who said "Music, words, and silence - they are all spells. They carry energy, they change perception." The one who said: "Everyday life is full of rituals. When you do them consciously, when you perform them with intention, they become magic." www.missingwitches.com/ep-275-mw-yoko-ono-smash-your-preconceptions The advice from tarot and other belief systems freed her mind from preset patterns and traditional thinking; it prompted her to consider problems from fresh angles. She believed the universe had its own force, and was an extension of that force. Despite all of her magical works, artistic engagement of all six senses, despite her obsession with the esoteric, consulting psychics, numerologists and astrologers before making any moves, shuffling tarot cards at business meetings, perhaps what makes Yoko Ono the most witchy is her persecution. Fear, superstition, and social control have intersected with racism and misogyny throughout history. Accusations of Witchcraft, trials and executions often followed unexplained illness, crop failures, livestock deaths, or any sudden misfortunes. Marginalized or non-conforming women - widows, healers, outspoken women - were at highest risk. And in this history, we find Yoko: the woman who broke up the world’s most beloved band. The woman who poisoned the Beatles’ apple. So for today, and I say this as a fan and lover of the Beatles, fuck all this rocknroll boys club no cock no rock youtube noise. Let’s get to know the Yoko who exists outside of the heavy shadow of the fab four, and dismissive eyerolls of the rock n roll crowd. The one who said "Music, words, and silence - they are all spells. They carry energy, they change perception." The one who said: "Everyday life is full of rituals. When you do them consciously, when you perform them with intention, they become magic." www.missingwitches.com/ep-275-mw-yoko-ono-smash-your-preconceptions true full 275 8a16bbcf-7b18-417d-b93d-ac9690341cec WF Christopher Marmolejo - To Fortify A Faith That Is Revolutionary https://www.theredread.com/about

 

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]]> WF Christopher Marmolejo - To Fortify A Faith That Is Revolutionary Amy Torok, Christopher Marmolejo, Risa Dickens 00:43:23 Exploring Tarot, decolonization, and community with Christopher Marmolejo. Draw cards, mythologize, and imagine a reindigenized world with us. Exploring Tarot, decolonization, and community with Christopher Marmolejo. Draw cards, mythologize, and imagine a reindigenized world with us. tarot true full 274 83d3daf1-448f-4995-80f0-4e69be64abec MW Rachel Pollack - The Future Is As Real As The Present Episode art is from PM Press via Them.us.

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]]> MW Rachel Pollack - The Future Is As Real As The Present Risa Dickens 00:46:15 This episode invokes the life, spirit, words, and deep enchantment of Rachel Pollack. A lynchpin theorist and practitioner in the world of tarot. A creator of worlds and possibilities. A liferaft for me in my cancer year. This episode invokes the life, spirit, words, and deep enchantment of Rachel Pollack. A lynchpin theorist and practitioner in the world of tarot. A creator of worlds and possibilities. A liferaft for me in my cancer year. tarot true full 273 5985a99d-159d-4a99-9a43-2ba8b9ebda90 Mabon 2025: Word Witches With Charlie Burgess, Kate Belew, and Sanyu Estelle www.missingwitches.com/mabon-2025-word-witches-with-charlie-burgess-kate-belew-and-sanyu-estelle

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]]> Mabon 2025: Word Witches With Charlie Burgess, Kate Belew, and Sanyu Estelle Missing Witches 01:22:59 Happy Equinox to the Missing Witches Coven! The geese are leaving the lake, the leaves are starting to fall, and we’ve got this one day to celebrate equilibrium before we tumble into the dark half of the year. Fall/winter is the perfect time to sit, alone, wrapped in a blanket with a cup of tea and start writing, so for Mabon, we’ve invited three Word Witches from across the USA to guide us into our writing practice: Sanyu Estelle, Charlie Burgess, and Kate Belew. So, as Terry Tempest Williams wrote, "a pencil is a wand and a weapon", and our guests today will help us learn how to most powerfully wield this wand and weapon. Don't be afraid of the blank page, our guests tell us - it is an invitation to build worlds!! Sanyu Estelle is also known as "The Word Witch" because of her deep love for word origins (etymology) and word culture (philology).  Sanyu is a self described pigmented, womoonist, cissy, flexible asexual, travel-apt and fashion forward SSJW (Sarcastic Social Justice Warrior). She’s also a musician, singer and lyricist - her Latest ALBUM 'Ship Wrecked came out last year. And she’s a tarot historian and CARD READER who promises THE READING YOU NEED, NOT THE READING YOU WANT. Her book The Cultural Roots of Tarot will be out in Fall 2026, so hopefully we’ll have her back on the pod to talk more about that more next year! In her essay I AM THE FIGHT Sanyu wrote, “Black Liberation does not equate to White Supremacy. IT REMEDIES IT.” Kate Belew is an author, poet, and Witch who’s work exists at the crossroads of creativity and craft. She has taught and facilitated circles and workshops worldwide since 2017. Kate has an MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College and is an initiated Green Witch, fully devoted to the magic of poetry and the poetry of magic. Also the co-host of Magick and Alchemy. The tamed wild podcast with co-host Kristen Lisenby. Kate's new book Word Witch is a literary grimoire, a guide and companion helping readers through the alchemy of becoming writers in which Kate reminds us that "Everyone is creative. Everything is connected. Writing is magic." . Word Witch is out October 7th, and available for pre-order now! Charlie Claire Burgess is a queer and trans-nonbinary author and artist working at the intersection of spirituality and queerness. A prolific author and deck creator, Charlie’s latest book is Queer Devotion. Queer Devotion reveals that spirituality has always been far queerer than we’ve been led to believe. Queer devotion’s first line is, “In the beginning, the gods were queer” and Charlie insists that they still are. Charlie’s decks too re-imagine archetypes beyond binaries. Their latest decks are Fifth Spirit Tarot and The Gay Marseille Tarot. And just to put a fine point on it: They are the host of the word witch podcast and their IG handle is the.word.witch. www.missingwitches.com/mabon-2025-word-witches-with-charlie-burgess-kate-belew-and-sanyu-estelle Happy Equinox to the Missing Witches Coven! The geese are leaving the lake, the leaves are starting to fall, and we’ve got this one day to celebrate equilibrium before we tumble into the dark half of the year. Fall/winter is the perfect time to sit, alone, wrapped in a blanket with a cup of tea and start writing, so for Mabon, we’ve invited three Word Witches from across the USA to guide us into our writing practice: Sanyu Estelle, Charlie Burgess, and Kate Belew. So, as Terry Tempest Williams wrote, "a pencil is a wand and a weapon", and our guests today will help us learn how to most powerfully wield this wand and weapon. Don't be afraid of the blank page, our guests tell us - it is an invitation to build worlds!! Sanyu Estelle is also known as "The Word Witch" because of her deep love for word origins (etymology) and word culture (philology).  Sanyu is a self described pigmented, womoonist, cissy, flexible asexual, travel-apt and fashion forward SSJW (Sarcastic Social Justice Warrior). She’s also a musician, singer and lyricist - her Latest ALBUM 'Ship Wrecked came out last year. And she’s a tarot historian and CARD READER who promises THE READING YOU NEED, NOT THE READING YOU WANT. Her book The Cultural Roots of Tarot will be out in Fall 2026, so hopefully we’ll have her back on the pod to talk more about that more next year! In her essay I AM THE FIGHT Sanyu wrote, “Black Liberation does not equate to White Supremacy. IT REMEDIES IT.” Kate Belew is an author, poet, and Witch who’s work exists at the crossroads of creativity and craft. She has taught and facilitated circles and workshops worldwide since 2017. Kate has an MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College and is an initiated Green Witch, fully devoted to the magic of poetry and the poetry of magic. Also the co-host of Magick and Alchemy. The tamed wild podcast with co-host Kristen Lisenby. Kate's new book Word Witch is a literary grimoire, a guide and companion helping readers through the alchemy of becoming writers in which Kate reminds us that "Everyone is creative. Everything is connected. Writing is magic." . Word Witch is out October 7th, and available for pre-order now! Charlie Claire Burgess is a queer and trans-nonbinary author and artist working at the intersection of spirituality and queerness. A prolific author and deck creator, Charlie’s latest book is Queer Devotion. Queer Devotion reveals that spirituality has always been far queerer than we’ve been led to believe. Queer devotion’s first line is, “In the beginning, the gods were queer” and Charlie insists that they still are. Charlie’s decks too re-imagine archetypes beyond binaries. Their latest decks are Fifth Spirit Tarot and The Gay Marseille Tarot. And just to put a fine point on it: They are the host of the word witch podcast and their IG handle is the.word.witch. www.missingwitches.com/mabon-2025-word-witches-with-charlie-burgess-kate-belew-and-sanyu-estelle true full 272 aa5cdb6f-5eb5-49bc-921f-4a9471506e33 LAMMAS 2025: Grief Is A Portal With Kristen Renaud, Diandra Ford-Wing, And Amy Miranda www.missingwitches.com/lammas-2025

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]]> LAMMAS 2025: Grief Is A Portal With Kristen Renaud, Diandra Ford-Wing, And Amy Miranda Missing Witches 01:01:51 We’ve arrived at Lammas - that halfway point between summer solstice and autumn equinox.  The world feels like A LOT. So many of us are trying to process personal loss, trauma and grief in the face of global loss, trauma and grief. The LAST thing I want is for any of us to drag old wounds into the Autumn, letting bad stuff that happened stop us from making great stuff happen - we need to learn how to make our way through our pain, and find a way to transform that journey to feed our future. So I put together this panel of folx to help us discover systems for transmuting trauma.  Each of our guests today has managed to transmute trauma into something better in their own way. Everyone’s experience is different, so rather than giving you one answer, today we’ll get three different perspectives to help us understand that healing or moving on happens in a multitude of ways. After losing her aunt and mother in quick succession, Diandra found hope in cardinals.  Of her book Red Bird, Diandra Ford-Wing said, "I hope to offer solace to those navigating the challenging waters of loss and grief, providing a safe haven amidst their emotional storms." In finally being able to name her trauma of CSA and seek justice, Amy Miranda was able to bring her Spiritual practice and her creative practice together with What We’ve Forgotten. After surviving a mass shooting in 2021, Kristen Renaud found healing through painting and gardening which begat Lightning Struck Gardens. Each purchase of an item from LSG helps to fund her non-profit, and provide emotional support to survivors of gun violence. Together we can transmute trauma, turn the poison to medicine, become alchemists, and get comfortable in the spiral! We’ve arrived at Lammas - that halfway point between summer solstice and autumn equinox.  The world feels like A LOT. So many of us are trying to process personal loss, trauma and grief in the face of global loss, trauma and grief. The LAST thing I want is for any of us to drag old wounds into the Autumn, letting bad stuff that happened stop us from making great stuff happen - we need to learn how to make our way through our pain, and find a way to transform that journey to feed our future. So I put together this panel of folx to help us discover systems for transmuting trauma.  Each of our guests today has managed to transmute trauma into something better in their own way. Everyone’s experience is different, so rather than giving you one answer, today we’ll get three different perspectives to help us understand that healing or moving on happens in a multitude of ways. After losing her aunt and mother in quick succession, Diandra found hope in cardinals.  Of her book Red Bird, Diandra Ford-Wing said, "I hope to offer solace to those navigating the challenging waters of loss and grief, providing a safe haven amidst their emotional storms." In finally being able to name her trauma of CSA and seek justice, Amy Miranda was able to bring her Spiritual practice and her creative practice together with What We’ve Forgotten. After surviving a mass shooting in 2021, Kristen Renaud found healing through painting and gardening which begat Lightning Struck Gardens. Each purchase of an item from LSG helps to fund her non-profit, and provide emotional support to survivors of gun violence. Together we can transmute trauma, turn the poison to medicine, become alchemists, and get comfortable in the spiral! true full 271 4b03ee06-3d03-4dd0-abca-84b46616c2bd Witches Found: "Dancing Under the Moon Is My Favourite Thing" - A Conversation about Tarot, Kabbalah and Practical Magic with Jack Chanek https://jackofwandstarot.wordpress.com/

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]]> Witches Found: "Dancing Under the Moon Is My Favourite Thing" - A Conversation about Tarot, Kabbalah and Practical Magic with Jack Chanek Jack Chanek 00:50:02 In this episode, Risa talks with Jack Chanek, a high priest of Gardnerian Wicca, doctor of Philosophy and the author of books on Goddess worship, Kabbalah, and Tarot. Jack shares his journey from an atheistic upbringing to becoming a Wiccan and a magical practitioner. They discuss Jack's books 'Kabbalah for Wiccans' and 'Tarot for the Magically Inclined,' focusing on how Kabbalah and Tarot can organize and enhance magical practices. He explains how to perform rituals like 'stacking the deck' for tarot magic and shares personal success stories, like the time he tied up the wind. Jack also offers advice on finding inclusive and safe Wiccan covens. He emphasizes experimenting with Tarot and scaling magic for local political activism. In this episode, Risa talks with Jack Chanek, a high priest of Gardnerian Wicca, doctor of Philosophy and the author of books on Goddess worship, Kabbalah, and Tarot. Jack shares his journey from an atheistic upbringing to becoming a Wiccan and a magical practitioner. They discuss Jack's books 'Kabbalah for Wiccans' and 'Tarot for the Magically Inclined,' focusing on how Kabbalah and Tarot can organize and enhance magical practices. He explains how to perform rituals like 'stacking the deck' for tarot magic and shares personal success stories, like the time he tied up the wind. Jack also offers advice on finding inclusive and safe Wiccan covens. He emphasizes experimenting with Tarot and scaling magic for local political activism. tarot, kabbalah, magic true full 270 1eba47bc-1fad-47c5-bb54-bcd95622e0f0 Missing Witches Deck Of Oracles Divination Birthday Party With Zoe Flowers And Amy Miranda www.missingwitches.com/missing-witches-deck-of-oracles-divination-birthday-party-with-zoe-flowers-and-amy-miranda

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]]> Missing Witches Deck Of Oracles Divination Birthday Party With Zoe Flowers And Amy Miranda Missing Witches 00:54:44 We gathered together with Zoe Flowers and Amy Miranda to walk between worlds, do some divination, and celebrate the first birthday of the Missing Witches Deck of Oracles!! We gathered together with Zoe Flowers and Amy Miranda to walk between worlds, do some divination, and celebrate the first birthday of the Missing Witches Deck of Oracles!! true bonus 970ba1f8-153a-445b-87b4-419787fd056e Witches Found: Lise Lønsmann - Reconnecting with Aliveness to Smash the Patriarchy https://www.liseloensmann.com/

 

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]]> Thu, 3 Jul 2025 12:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Lise Lonsemann, Risa Dickens) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/witches-found-lise-lonseman-reconnecting-with-aliveness-to-smash-the-patriarchy-zsqwFoXu https://www.liseloensmann.com/

 

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]]> Witches Found: Lise Lønsmann - Reconnecting with Aliveness to Smash the Patriarchy Lise Lonsemann, Risa Dickens 00:56:08 In this conversation, Risa Dickens and guest, somatic practitioner Lise Lønsmann, discuss the significance of being in our bodies and how it is a revolutionary act against the patriarchy. We explore how patriarchy benefits from keeping individuals disconnected from their bodies, and how reconnecting through embodied rituals is a sacred process. Lise shares her personal journey of disconnection from her body and how a cancer scare catalyzed her somatic healing. She emphasizes the importance of non-judgmental somatic resourcing, building safety within oneself, and the need for small, consistent practices that can cultivate deeper self-awareness and aliveness. We also touch on the impact of childhood trauma on body awareness, the revolutionary nature of caring for oneself, and how small acts of embodiment can contribute to larger societal change. Additionally, Lise shares examples of her own embodied rituals and discusses the empowering aspects of witchcraft and magic in reclaiming our power and aliveness. In this conversation, Risa Dickens and guest, somatic practitioner Lise Lønsmann, discuss the significance of being in our bodies and how it is a revolutionary act against the patriarchy. We explore how patriarchy benefits from keeping individuals disconnected from their bodies, and how reconnecting through embodied rituals is a sacred process. Lise shares her personal journey of disconnection from her body and how a cancer scare catalyzed her somatic healing. She emphasizes the importance of non-judgmental somatic resourcing, building safety within oneself, and the need for small, consistent practices that can cultivate deeper self-awareness and aliveness. We also touch on the impact of childhood trauma on body awareness, the revolutionary nature of caring for oneself, and how small acts of embodiment can contribute to larger societal change. Additionally, Lise shares examples of her own embodied rituals and discusses the empowering aspects of witchcraft and magic in reclaiming our power and aliveness. embodiment, witchcraft, ritual, somatics, patriarchy true full 269 6039aed7-9cf2-4414-a418-dbc7e8b835bb Litha 2025: GAHD LOVES YOU With Uma Gahd www.missingwitches.com/litha-2025

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]]> Litha 2025: GAHD LOVES YOU With Uma Gahd Missing Witches 01:04:30 Let this be your Litha message: Gahd loves you as you are. We're celebrating the Summer Solstice 2025 with one of the brightest, sunniest, shiniest Witches we know: star of Canada's Drag Race Season 5, mother of the House of Gahd, and unofficial Auntie to us all, Uma Gahd! Together we discuss labels, emotionally preparing for the scrutiny of a rabid fandom, the importance of having and building community, and also building character. For Uma, activism means activation. There are points of intersection between Drag, Politics, Religion and Witchcraft, and we cover them all. Queer Spirituality, Dirt-worshipping Hippie Paganism, Hellenic Revivalism, Religious Reclamation, and Joy. "The Sun is coming, so soak it up, but even when it's not there, shine light." www.missingwitches.com/litha-2025 Let this be your Litha message: Gahd loves you as you are. We're celebrating the Summer Solstice 2025 with one of the brightest, sunniest, shiniest Witches we know: star of Canada's Drag Race Season 5, mother of the House of Gahd, and unofficial Auntie to us all, Uma Gahd! Together we discuss labels, emotionally preparing for the scrutiny of a rabid fandom, the importance of having and building community, and also building character. For Uma, activism means activation. There are points of intersection between Drag, Politics, Religion and Witchcraft, and we cover them all. Queer Spirituality, Dirt-worshipping Hippie Paganism, Hellenic Revivalism, Religious Reclamation, and Joy. "The Sun is coming, so soak it up, but even when it's not there, shine light." www.missingwitches.com/litha-2025 true full 268 600cee72-38d8-44b7-ba26-7ddca6e72d86 Witches Found: Danielle Dulsky - Blessed Be The Tales We Tell https://danielledulsky.com/

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]]> Witches Found: Danielle Dulsky - Blessed Be The Tales We Tell Danielle Dulsky 00:52:48 Witch poet Danielle Dulsky discusses the inspiration and urgency behind writing her book, highlighting the transformative power of fairy tales. In conversation with host Risa Dickens, they delve into how these stories, often dismissed as mere children's tales, have subversive, social-change elements and ancient roots that intertwine with dreams. Danielle speaks on the practice of raising paradoxes, blending rituals and story places, and the importance of initiating new narratives. She emphasizes the medicinal properties of archetypes and how they can be both empowering and problematic. They touch upon personal paradoxes, living through impactful global events, and how individual and collective stories co-create and reflect each other. The conversation finishes with an invitation to listeners to find, tell, and witness stories as a form of resistance and transformation, amplifying the potential for change through shared narratives. Witch poet Danielle Dulsky discusses the inspiration and urgency behind writing her book, highlighting the transformative power of fairy tales. In conversation with host Risa Dickens, they delve into how these stories, often dismissed as mere children's tales, have subversive, social-change elements and ancient roots that intertwine with dreams. Danielle speaks on the practice of raising paradoxes, blending rituals and story places, and the importance of initiating new narratives. She emphasizes the medicinal properties of archetypes and how they can be both empowering and problematic. They touch upon personal paradoxes, living through impactful global events, and how individual and collective stories co-create and reflect each other. The conversation finishes with an invitation to listeners to find, tell, and witness stories as a form of resistance and transformation, amplifying the potential for change through shared narratives. true full 267 17e188e6-667c-413e-86f1-be29c8b97f83 MWRF PART 4 - Origin Stories With Amy And Risa www.missingwitches.com/ep-266-mwrf-part-4-origin-stories-with-amy-and-risa

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]]> MWRF PART 4 - Origin Stories With Amy And Risa Missing Witches 01:02:35 ONLY THREE DAYS LEFT TO JOIN THE MISSING WITCHES REPARATIONS FUNDRAISER!! In this episode, Amy and Risa sit down to talk origin stories: their friendship, their Witchcraft, their collaborations, the MW project, their Reparations Fundraiser. It's an origin story and a Love Story. It's a story of taking What Ifs, combining them with friendship, imagination and faith to turn ideas into realities. www.missingwitches.com/ep-266-mwrf-part-4-origin-stories-with-amy-and-risa www.missingwitches.com/reparations-fundraiser-2025/ ONLY THREE DAYS LEFT TO JOIN THE MISSING WITCHES REPARATIONS FUNDRAISER!! In this episode, Amy and Risa sit down to talk origin stories: their friendship, their Witchcraft, their collaborations, the MW project, their Reparations Fundraiser. It's an origin story and a Love Story. It's a story of taking What Ifs, combining them with friendship, imagination and faith to turn ideas into realities. www.missingwitches.com/ep-266-mwrf-part-4-origin-stories-with-amy-and-risa www.missingwitches.com/reparations-fundraiser-2025/ true full 266 518803c4-1d24-4ef9-93c4-5e7764981914 MWRF Part 3 w Elaine Kicknosway - Bi-Giwen: Coming Home  

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]]> MWRF Part 3 w Elaine Kicknosway - Bi-Giwen: Coming Home Missing Witches 00:52:09 Join the Missing Witches Reparations Fundraiser by supporting The Sixties Scoop Network! For Part 3 of our MWRF series, Amy sits down with Sixties Scoop survivor and co-founder of The Sixties Scoop Network, Elaine Kicknosway, to talk about the continuing impact of the large-scale removal or “scooping” of Indigenous children from their homes, communities and families of birth, and their subsequent placement into predominantly non-Indigenous, middle-class families across the United States and Canada. Elaine says, "I want to believe we can all come home, even our missing and murdered sisters, I want to believe we can all come home." Stick around til the end of the episode to hear Elaine sing!!! Elaine Kicknosway (Qwe/she/her) is a Traditional helper - Swampy Cree through her biological mother from Amisk Lake and her biological father’s side is from Buffalo Narrows Sk. She is a Sixties Scoop Survivor and returned home in 1996. Elaine is Wolf Clan and is a member of Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation in Northern Saskatchewan. She has been long time community advocate in the areas of child welfare, MMIW2SG, healthy families, and Indigenous Wellness that include spaces for the LGBTQ2S+. She is a carrier of ceremonial teaching. Elaine is an Indigenous land based focusing therapist & trauma Counsellor, a Blanket exercise facilitator and trainer, Indigenous full spectrum birth to death Doula , Traditional dancer, singer, drummer and is the Cofounder of The Sixties Scoop Network. www.missingwitches.com/ep-265-mwrf-part-3-w-elaine-kicknosway-bi-giwen-coming-home https://sixtiesscoopnetwork.org/ Join the Missing Witches Reparations Fundraiser by supporting The Sixties Scoop Network! For Part 3 of our MWRF series, Amy sits down with Sixties Scoop survivor and co-founder of The Sixties Scoop Network, Elaine Kicknosway, to talk about the continuing impact of the large-scale removal or “scooping” of Indigenous children from their homes, communities and families of birth, and their subsequent placement into predominantly non-Indigenous, middle-class families across the United States and Canada. Elaine says, "I want to believe we can all come home, even our missing and murdered sisters, I want to believe we can all come home." Stick around til the end of the episode to hear Elaine sing!!! Elaine Kicknosway (Qwe/she/her) is a Traditional helper - Swampy Cree through her biological mother from Amisk Lake and her biological father’s side is from Buffalo Narrows Sk. She is a Sixties Scoop Survivor and returned home in 1996. Elaine is Wolf Clan and is a member of Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation in Northern Saskatchewan. She has been long time community advocate in the areas of child welfare, MMIW2SG, healthy families, and Indigenous Wellness that include spaces for the LGBTQ2S+. She is a carrier of ceremonial teaching. Elaine is an Indigenous land based focusing therapist & trauma Counsellor, a Blanket exercise facilitator and trainer, Indigenous full spectrum birth to death Doula , Traditional dancer, singer, drummer and is the Cofounder of The Sixties Scoop Network. www.missingwitches.com/ep-265-mwrf-part-3-w-elaine-kicknosway-bi-giwen-coming-home https://sixtiesscoopnetwork.org/ true full 265 3530f992-1731-456c-a53a-4f48e5800696 MWRF Part 2 w Christopher Marmolejo and Edgar Fabian Frias - Love Is Coming To Us All https://www.missingwitches.com/ep-264-mwrf-part-2-w-christopher-marmolejo-and-edgar-fabian-frias-love-is-coming-to-us-all/

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]]> Thu, 8 May 2025 09:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/mwrf-part-2-w-christopher-marmolejo-and-edgar-fabian-frias-love-is-coming-to-us-all-KBqd4lth https://www.missingwitches.com/ep-264-mwrf-part-2-w-christopher-marmolejo-and-edgar-fabian-frias-love-is-coming-to-us-all/

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]]> MWRF Part 2 w Christopher Marmolejo and Edgar Fabian Frias - Love Is Coming To Us All Missing Witches 00:51:52 Today we're joined by two Earth Angels, Christopher Marmolejo and Edgar Fabian Frias to talk about Art as Magic and as a healing practice, boundaries, divination, opening portals of possibility, bravery, and inner fortitude. This conversation is a nervous system reset - take a deep breath, slow down, rediscover your sense of self, commune with the Divine, and bear witness as unjust systems decay. REMINDER: This episode is part of our FIFTH annual REPARATIONS FUNDRAISER!! Go to missingwitches.com for all the details. www.missingwitches.com/ep-264-mwrf-part-2-w-christopher-marmolejo-and-edgar-fabian-frias-love-is-coming-to-us-all www.missingwitches.com/reparations-fundraiser-2025/ Today we're joined by two Earth Angels, Christopher Marmolejo and Edgar Fabian Frias to talk about Art as Magic and as a healing practice, boundaries, divination, opening portals of possibility, bravery, and inner fortitude. This conversation is a nervous system reset - take a deep breath, slow down, rediscover your sense of self, commune with the Divine, and bear witness as unjust systems decay. REMINDER: This episode is part of our FIFTH annual REPARATIONS FUNDRAISER!! Go to missingwitches.com for all the details. www.missingwitches.com/ep-264-mwrf-part-2-w-christopher-marmolejo-and-edgar-fabian-frias-love-is-coming-to-us-all www.missingwitches.com/reparations-fundraiser-2025/ true full 264 8edeca14-0bee-498d-ad12-06de63b206f9 Beltane 2025 w Amanda Amour Lynx, Granddaughter Crow and Patty Krawec: Now Our Bird Has Flown www.missingwitches.com/beltane-2025-w-amanda-amour-lynx-granddaughter-crow-and-patty-krawec-now-our-bird-has-flown

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]]> Thu, 1 May 2025 09:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/beltane-2025-w-amanda-amour-lynx-granddaughter-crow-and-patty-krawec-now-our-bird-has-flown-lfLho_ci www.missingwitches.com/beltane-2025-w-amanda-amour-lynx-granddaughter-crow-and-patty-krawec-now-our-bird-has-flown

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]]> Beltane 2025 w Amanda Amour Lynx, Granddaughter Crow and Patty Krawec: Now Our Bird Has Flown Missing Witches 01:15:42 Today we're joined by Amanda Amour Lynx, Granddaughter Crow and Patty Krawec to talk about what we want to believe, the healing power of story-telling, trust, and together we imagine what a re-indiginized world might look like. It's Beltane! It's May Day!! It’s the halfway point between Spring Equinox and Summer Solstice! It's the official kick off date for the annual Missing Witches Reparations fundraiser!! Every year we at Missing Witches, and our coven, and extended Witch community spend the month of May joyfully raising money for Indigenous support orgs (especially the Native Women's Shelter of Montreal!) and gathering together with magical friends to spotlight Indigenous voices through conversations about Indigenous Futures. Here's a quick rundown of how our fundraiser works: 1. Make a donation of $10 or more to your local Native Women’s Shelter or Indigenous Support Org or DONATE to the Native Women’s Shelter of Montreal. 2. Take a screen shot of your receipt and email it to missingwitches@gmail.com with the subject line: REPARATION 3. Be entered to win one of TWENTY fabulous prizes (full 2025 list link below) donated by luminaries of the Witch community. 4. Automatically receive coupon codes for a discount from TWO of our favourite Witchy Businesses: HAUS WITCH in Salem, and Michelle Pajak-Reynolds Jewelry!!! www.missingwitches.com/beltane-2025-w-amanda-amour-lynx-granddaughter-crow-and-patty-krawec-now-our-bird-has-flown www.missingwitches.com/reparations-fundraiser-2025 Today we're joined by Amanda Amour Lynx, Granddaughter Crow and Patty Krawec to talk about what we want to believe, the healing power of story-telling, trust, and together we imagine what a re-indiginized world might look like. It's Beltane! It's May Day!! It’s the halfway point between Spring Equinox and Summer Solstice! It's the official kick off date for the annual Missing Witches Reparations fundraiser!! Every year we at Missing Witches, and our coven, and extended Witch community spend the month of May joyfully raising money for Indigenous support orgs (especially the Native Women's Shelter of Montreal!) and gathering together with magical friends to spotlight Indigenous voices through conversations about Indigenous Futures. Here's a quick rundown of how our fundraiser works: 1. Make a donation of $10 or more to your local Native Women’s Shelter or Indigenous Support Org or DONATE to the Native Women’s Shelter of Montreal. 2. Take a screen shot of your receipt and email it to missingwitches@gmail.com with the subject line: REPARATION 3. Be entered to win one of TWENTY fabulous prizes (full 2025 list link below) donated by luminaries of the Witch community. 4. Automatically receive coupon codes for a discount from TWO of our favourite Witchy Businesses: HAUS WITCH in Salem, and Michelle Pajak-Reynolds Jewelry!!! www.missingwitches.com/beltane-2025-w-amanda-amour-lynx-granddaughter-crow-and-patty-krawec-now-our-bird-has-flown www.missingwitches.com/reparations-fundraiser-2025 true full 263 45a158e5-7fc9-4eeb-a53c-14c472a5d1ed You Are Larch Kin: Wild and Rising This episode includes the song STRANGER IN PARADISE by Bocrew (c) copyright 2012 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial  (3.0) license. https://dig.ccmixter.org/files/BOCrew/36395 Ft: BOCREW / DEBBIZO / ALICE

Larch photos by Thomas Chizzali.

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]]> Thu, 24 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/you-are-larch-kin-wild-and-rising-_Ca159Mc This episode includes the song STRANGER IN PARADISE by Bocrew (c) copyright 2012 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial  (3.0) license. https://dig.ccmixter.org/files/BOCrew/36395 Ft: BOCREW / DEBBIZO / ALICE

Larch photos by Thomas Chizzali.

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]]> You Are Larch Kin: Wild and Rising Missing Witches 00:25:39 An anti-capitalist motivational meditation drawn from the science and mythology of the larch tree; a message filled with hope and resilience. This Kinship Episode calls for ending poverty and building a collaborative, supportive society drawing on the strength found in togetherness and nature’s wisdom, urging us to rise, grow, and flourish, even in cancerous times. An anti-capitalist motivational meditation drawn from the science and mythology of the larch tree; a message filled with hope and resilience. This Kinship Episode calls for ending poverty and building a collaborative, supportive society drawing on the strength found in togetherness and nature’s wisdom, urging us to rise, grow, and flourish, even in cancerous times. true full 262 4ade6135-f95c-461f-a822-992c50fb4851 You Are Chamomile Kin - Gentle Does Not Mean Weak www.missingwitches.com/ep-261-you-are-chamomile-kin-gentle-does-not-mean-weak

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]]> Thu, 17 Apr 2025 09:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/you-are-chamomile-kin-gentle-does-not-mean-weak-FGzWr1Jn www.missingwitches.com/ep-261-you-are-chamomile-kin-gentle-does-not-mean-weak

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]]> You Are Chamomile Kin - Gentle Does Not Mean Weak Missing Witches 00:26:58 Chamomile is an icon of care, reaching out to tend to other plants in need. And humans too.  So if you’re feeling like a little trodden daisy, growing in the cracks, know that you are chamomile kin, that gentle does not mean weak, that true courage is staying calm in the face of fear and spreading out in response to pressure. For witches who refuse to be trampled or tamed, who dream while awake, who heal on their own terms at their own pace, and find themselves healing others in the process, let’s take chamomile as kin, as friend, as ally and as role model. www.missingwitches.com/ep-261-you-are-chamomile-kin-gentle-does-not-mean-weak Chamomile is an icon of care, reaching out to tend to other plants in need. And humans too.  So if you’re feeling like a little trodden daisy, growing in the cracks, know that you are chamomile kin, that gentle does not mean weak, that true courage is staying calm in the face of fear and spreading out in response to pressure. For witches who refuse to be trampled or tamed, who dream while awake, who heal on their own terms at their own pace, and find themselves healing others in the process, let’s take chamomile as kin, as friend, as ally and as role model. www.missingwitches.com/ep-261-you-are-chamomile-kin-gentle-does-not-mean-weak true full 261 28bb1cd9-d4ff-444e-a635-23300f0c9461 You Are Marram Grass Kin - Gently Reshaping Your World This episode was written and produced by Risa Dickens, featuring the song Marram by Matt Carmichael 

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]]> Thu, 10 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/you-are-wild-grass-kin-you-just-grow-faster-when-the-sandstorm-hits-AJHIH3Wm This episode was written and produced by Risa Dickens, featuring the song Marram by Matt Carmichael 

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]]> You Are Marram Grass Kin - Gently Reshaping Your World Missing Witches 00:37:44 This episode is about wild beach grass. It's about being invaded and invader, holding the banks together and growing faster when the sandstorm hits. This episode is about wild beach grass. It's about being invaded and invader, holding the banks together and growing faster when the sandstorm hits. true full 260 abcf5081-9d6c-4d8d-8681-508b39baf633 You Are Flamingo Kin - "Pink Feathers And Thick Skin" www.missingwitches.com/ep-259-you-are-flamingo-kin-pink-feathers-and-thick-skin

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]]> Thu, 3 Apr 2025 09:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/you-are-flamingo-kin-pink-feathers-and-thick-skin-IMR3Wyua www.missingwitches.com/ep-259-you-are-flamingo-kin-pink-feathers-and-thick-skin

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]]> You Are Flamingo Kin - "Pink Feathers And Thick Skin" Missing Witches 00:34:04 Today we explore our kinship with a creature of colour and heat, who inspired ancient myth-makers, 19th century authors, and cult film directors alike - the pink flamingo. But beyond its appearances in our human stories throughout time and place, more inspirational than the mythology is the complex and persistent life of the flamingo bird itself. In her poem “How the Mountains drip with Sunset” Emily Dicksinson asked: Have I the lip of the Flamingo That I dare to tell? So let’s gather here in this flamingo flock today, and I’ll use my flamingo lips, and dare to tell you that we are kin. Let’s conquer a cruel landscape together, by bringing colour, heat, dance and joy to inhospitable places. Because Flamingos exist and thrive in some of the harshest environments that our Earth has to offer. And if they can do it, so can we. www.missingwitches.com/ep-259-you-are-flamingo-kin-pink-feathers-and-thick-skin Today we explore our kinship with a creature of colour and heat, who inspired ancient myth-makers, 19th century authors, and cult film directors alike - the pink flamingo. But beyond its appearances in our human stories throughout time and place, more inspirational than the mythology is the complex and persistent life of the flamingo bird itself. In her poem “How the Mountains drip with Sunset” Emily Dicksinson asked: Have I the lip of the Flamingo That I dare to tell? So let’s gather here in this flamingo flock today, and I’ll use my flamingo lips, and dare to tell you that we are kin. Let’s conquer a cruel landscape together, by bringing colour, heat, dance and joy to inhospitable places. Because Flamingos exist and thrive in some of the harshest environments that our Earth has to offer. And if they can do it, so can we. www.missingwitches.com/ep-259-you-are-flamingo-kin-pink-feathers-and-thick-skin true full 259 6ef7f21f-547b-40c5-bbcc-57c0b3698b91 You Are Beech Tree Kin: "Each Branch Reaches to Other Branches As The Gail Rises." https://www.missingwitches.com/

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]]> Thu, 27 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/you-are-beech-kin-each-branch-reaches-for-other-branches-jsAVf7jU https://www.missingwitches.com/

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]]> You Are Beech Tree Kin: "Each Branch Reaches to Other Branches As The Gail Rises." Missing Witches 00:48:33 This Kinship episode of the Missing Witches Podcast was written and produced by Risa Dickens. The song Beech was composed and produced by Cosmo Sheldrake with lyrics from a poem by Robert Macfarlane, and was included here with kind permission. The Missing Witches podcast is listener-supported, if you'd like to support the project share this episode! Help us find our kin. Check out Missing Witches.com to find out more. This Kinship episode of the Missing Witches Podcast was written and produced by Risa Dickens. The song Beech was composed and produced by Cosmo Sheldrake with lyrics from a poem by Robert Macfarlane, and was included here with kind permission. The Missing Witches podcast is listener-supported, if you'd like to support the project share this episode! Help us find our kin. Check out Missing Witches.com to find out more. true full 258 373c314d-eefd-4856-94a8-d1749d94dcfd OSTARA 2025: This Episode Is A Spell https://www.missingwitches.com/ep-257-ostara-2025-this-episode-is-a-spell/

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]]> OSTARA 2025: This Episode Is A Spell Missing Witches 00:21:14 This episode is a spell. To celebrate the Spring Equinox of 2025 we invited the Missing Witches Coven to write and read spell poems, and we gathered together to conjure the magics of poetry, of protection, abundance and ease, to empower the powerless and bring conscience to the conscious-less. We hope that these rhymes will become mantras we can sing in our heads at night to replace the intrusive thoughts, the fear. This is our spell, to be transmitted across the waves and webs, to reach your ears and soothe you, to reach your heart and rile you, to experience the magic of becoming. This is our spell. https://www.missingwitches.com/ep-257-ostara-2025-this-episode-is-a-spell/ This episode is a spell. To celebrate the Spring Equinox of 2025 we invited the Missing Witches Coven to write and read spell poems, and we gathered together to conjure the magics of poetry, of protection, abundance and ease, to empower the powerless and bring conscience to the conscious-less. We hope that these rhymes will become mantras we can sing in our heads at night to replace the intrusive thoughts, the fear. This is our spell, to be transmitted across the waves and webs, to reach your ears and soothe you, to reach your heart and rile you, to experience the magic of becoming. This is our spell. https://www.missingwitches.com/ep-257-ostara-2025-this-episode-is-a-spell/ true full 257 a7eebe95-6a7e-43f5-b220-d87b2bb22fb5 WF Dr Siddharth Ramakrishnan - The Neuroscience of Tarot Siddharth Ramakrishnan, PhD is a neuroscientist, artist, and educator. He is the Chair of Neuroscience and Professor of Biology at the University of Puget Sound and a recipient of the prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER award. His research spans developmental biology, neuroendocrinology and neuroethics. A Fellow of the UCLA Art|Sci center, his collaborations with artists have led to exhibitions and documentaries that blend the worlds of art and science highlighting topics like Hox genes, animal umwelts and biomimicry. He was also a Fellow at the Pragmatic Health Ethics Research Unit at Montreal (2019). He has had exhibits at MOCA Taipei (2013), the New School of Design (2012), Microwave New Media Festival (2011) and Symposium on Human-Dog Coevolution (2011).

 

An avid Tarot reader, he has designed and created the NeuroTarot deck based on the major arcana of Tarot and infused with neuroscience. He was the keynote speaker at NWTS 2023 and a panelist at the Masters of Tarot workshop (2023) with Mary K. Greer at Omega, Rhinebeck NY. His book "The Neuroscience of Tarot", is out Fall 2024 with Llewelyn Worldwide.

 

https://www.brainmystic.com/

 

About The Neuroscience of Tarot:

 

"What happens inside your brain when you look at a tarot card? How do you attribute significance to symbols? In this book, Siddharth Ramakrishnan, PhD, answers these questions and more as he explores the neuroscience behind intuition and proves that tarot readers aren’t just making up their results.

 

Siddharth unveils the fascinating dance between your body and brain that occurs while delivering or receiving a reading. Learn how this unconscious synergy allows you to process tarot imagery, attach personal meaning, and elicit emotional responses, laying the groundwork for prediction. Filled with dozens of journal exercises and full-color images, this book makes it easy to understand what intuition is scientifically and how to enhance it for more accurate readings from both sides of the table."

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]]> Thu, 13 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Risa Dickens, Siddharth Ramakrishnan) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/wf-dr-siddharth-ramakrishnan-the-neuroscience-of-tarot-yZLKZn2J Siddharth Ramakrishnan, PhD is a neuroscientist, artist, and educator. He is the Chair of Neuroscience and Professor of Biology at the University of Puget Sound and a recipient of the prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER award. His research spans developmental biology, neuroendocrinology and neuroethics. A Fellow of the UCLA Art|Sci center, his collaborations with artists have led to exhibitions and documentaries that blend the worlds of art and science highlighting topics like Hox genes, animal umwelts and biomimicry. He was also a Fellow at the Pragmatic Health Ethics Research Unit at Montreal (2019). He has had exhibits at MOCA Taipei (2013), the New School of Design (2012), Microwave New Media Festival (2011) and Symposium on Human-Dog Coevolution (2011).

 

An avid Tarot reader, he has designed and created the NeuroTarot deck based on the major arcana of Tarot and infused with neuroscience. He was the keynote speaker at NWTS 2023 and a panelist at the Masters of Tarot workshop (2023) with Mary K. Greer at Omega, Rhinebeck NY. His book "The Neuroscience of Tarot", is out Fall 2024 with Llewelyn Worldwide.

 

https://www.brainmystic.com/

 

About The Neuroscience of Tarot:

 

"What happens inside your brain when you look at a tarot card? How do you attribute significance to symbols? In this book, Siddharth Ramakrishnan, PhD, answers these questions and more as he explores the neuroscience behind intuition and proves that tarot readers aren’t just making up their results.

 

Siddharth unveils the fascinating dance between your body and brain that occurs while delivering or receiving a reading. Learn how this unconscious synergy allows you to process tarot imagery, attach personal meaning, and elicit emotional responses, laying the groundwork for prediction. Filled with dozens of journal exercises and full-color images, this book makes it easy to understand what intuition is scientifically and how to enhance it for more accurate readings from both sides of the table."

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

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]]> WF Dr Siddharth Ramakrishnan - The Neuroscience of Tarot Risa Dickens, Siddharth Ramakrishnan 01:00:41 Risa interviews professor of neuroscience and tarot reader, Dr Siddharth Ramakrishnan, about what happens in our brains when we divine, the evidence for collective conscience and neuroforecasting, how different animals move through the world, and what plastic is doing to our experience of time. Risa interviews professor of neuroscience and tarot reader, Dr Siddharth Ramakrishnan, about what happens in our brains when we divine, the evidence for collective conscience and neuroforecasting, how different animals move through the world, and what plastic is doing to our experience of time. tarot, neuroscience false full 256 ffd9409d-a8a2-4b12-a2a5-7335804dd1fd EP 255 WF - Patty Krawec: We Survive Together Or Not At All (Part 2) Patty Krawec is an Anishinaabe/Ukrainian writer and speaker belonging to Lac Seul First Nation in Treaty 3 territory and residing in Niagara Falls. She has served on the board of the Fort Erie Native Friendship Centre and co-hosted the Medicine for the Resistance podcast. Patty is a founding director of the Nii’kinaaganaa Foundation which challenges settlers to pay their rent for living on Indigenous land and then disburses those funds to Indigenous people, meeting immediate survival needs as well as supporting the organizing and community building needed to address the structural issues that create those needs.Patty has a background in social work, supporting victims of sexual and gendered violence as well as child abuse. A strong believer in the power of collective organizing, Patty was an active union member throughout her career as a social worker.

Her current work and writing focuses on how Anishinaabe belonging and thought can inform faith and social justice practices and has been published in Sojourners, Rampant Magazine, Midnight Sun, Yellowhead Institute, Indiginews, Religion News Service, and Broadview.

Her first book, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future was published in 2022 by Broadleaf Books. Her second book, Bad Indians Book Club: Reading At The Edge of a Thousand Worlds, is about the ways that marginalized writing and storytelling can help us reimagine that future will be published in the fall of 2025.  She lives on the bluesky @daanis.ca  and you can find her online at daanis.ca


 

 

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]]> Thu, 27 Feb 2025 13:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Patty Krawec) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/ep-255-wf-patty-krawec-we-survive-together-or-not-at-all-part-2-eDkbIA_M Patty Krawec is an Anishinaabe/Ukrainian writer and speaker belonging to Lac Seul First Nation in Treaty 3 territory and residing in Niagara Falls. She has served on the board of the Fort Erie Native Friendship Centre and co-hosted the Medicine for the Resistance podcast. Patty is a founding director of the Nii’kinaaganaa Foundation which challenges settlers to pay their rent for living on Indigenous land and then disburses those funds to Indigenous people, meeting immediate survival needs as well as supporting the organizing and community building needed to address the structural issues that create those needs.Patty has a background in social work, supporting victims of sexual and gendered violence as well as child abuse. A strong believer in the power of collective organizing, Patty was an active union member throughout her career as a social worker.

Her current work and writing focuses on how Anishinaabe belonging and thought can inform faith and social justice practices and has been published in Sojourners, Rampant Magazine, Midnight Sun, Yellowhead Institute, Indiginews, Religion News Service, and Broadview.

Her first book, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future was published in 2022 by Broadleaf Books. Her second book, Bad Indians Book Club: Reading At The Edge of a Thousand Worlds, is about the ways that marginalized writing and storytelling can help us reimagine that future will be published in the fall of 2025.  She lives on the bluesky @daanis.ca  and you can find her online at daanis.ca


 

 

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]]> EP 255 WF - Patty Krawec: We Survive Together Or Not At All (Part 2) Patty Krawec 00:39:55 In the second half of our exciting conversation with the electric and wise Patty Krawec we talk about language, theoretical physics, pyro-epistemology, stones, stories and white supremacy. In the second half of our exciting conversation with the electric and wise Patty Krawec we talk about language, theoretical physics, pyro-epistemology, stones, stories and white supremacy. true full 255 26992625-2f39-45b6-a013-26341f36847c WF Patty Krawec - What If We Stayed In The Margins? (Part 1) http://daanis.ca

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]]> WF Patty Krawec - What If We Stayed In The Margins? (Part 1) Patty Krawec 00:34:09 Patty Krawec is an Anishinaabe/Ukrainian writer and speaker belonging to Lac Seul First Nation in Treaty 3 territory and residing in Niagara Falls. She has served on the board of the Fort Erie Native Friendship Centre and co-hosted the Medicine for the Resistance podcast. Patty is a founding director of the Nii’kinaaganaa Foundation which challenges settlers to pay their rent for living on Indigenous land and then disburses those funds to Indigenous people, meeting immediate survival needs as well as supporting the organizing and community building needed to address the structural issues that create those needs. Patty has a background in social work, supporting victims of sexual and gendered violence as well as child abuse. A strong believer in the power of collective organizing, Patty was an active union member throughout her career as a social worker. Her current work and writing focuses on how Anishinaabe belonging and thought can inform faith and social justice practices and has been published in Sojourners, Rampant Magazine, Midnight Sun, Yellowhead Institute, Indiginews, Religion News Service, and Broadview. Her first book, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future was published in 2022 by Broadleaf Books. Her second book, Bad Indians Book Club: Reading At The Edge of a Thousand Worlds, is about the ways that marginalized writing and storytelling can help us reimagine that future will be published in the fall of 2025. She lives on the bluesky @daanis.ca and you can find her online at daanis.ca Patty Krawec is an Anishinaabe/Ukrainian writer and speaker belonging to Lac Seul First Nation in Treaty 3 territory and residing in Niagara Falls. She has served on the board of the Fort Erie Native Friendship Centre and co-hosted the Medicine for the Resistance podcast. Patty is a founding director of the Nii’kinaaganaa Foundation which challenges settlers to pay their rent for living on Indigenous land and then disburses those funds to Indigenous people, meeting immediate survival needs as well as supporting the organizing and community building needed to address the structural issues that create those needs. Patty has a background in social work, supporting victims of sexual and gendered violence as well as child abuse. A strong believer in the power of collective organizing, Patty was an active union member throughout her career as a social worker. Her current work and writing focuses on how Anishinaabe belonging and thought can inform faith and social justice practices and has been published in Sojourners, Rampant Magazine, Midnight Sun, Yellowhead Institute, Indiginews, Religion News Service, and Broadview. Her first book, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future was published in 2022 by Broadleaf Books. Her second book, Bad Indians Book Club: Reading At The Edge of a Thousand Worlds, is about the ways that marginalized writing and storytelling can help us reimagine that future will be published in the fall of 2025. She lives on the bluesky @daanis.ca and you can find her online at daanis.ca indigenous, kinship true full 254 6b18e411-793a-41db-8a0c-09e254941b3b Imbolc 2025: Future Histories Of Black Magic - Revolutionary Dreams w Lilith Dorsey, Loli Moon, Christena Cleveland, Zoe Flowers, Thea Anderson, and Dr Beverly www.missingwitches.com/imbolc-2025-future-histories-of-black-magic-revolutionary-dreams-w-lilith-dorsey-loli-moon-christena-cleveland-zoe-flowers-thea-anderson-and-dr-beverly

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]]> Imbolc 2025: Future Histories Of Black Magic - Revolutionary Dreams w Lilith Dorsey, Loli Moon, Christena Cleveland, Zoe Flowers, Thea Anderson, and Dr Beverly Missing Witches 01:20:30 The halfway point between Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox (also known as Imbolc) is the perfect time to look backwards and forwards - what did we learn and what can we do differently as we start planning the planting of new seeds - literal and metaphorical. February first also kicks off black history month and these two dates combined provide the perfect opportunity to celebrate where we’re going and learn from where we’ve been. For the past few years Missing Witches has hosted a Zoom circle of inspiring Black Witches for a "Future Histories of Black Magic" special to mark Black History Month.  We believe that all of our guests are creating what will be the future of black history with their incredible work. Last year we lost a beloved poet, Nikki Giovanni, so we’re taking this year’s prompt from the title of one of her poems, “Revolutionary Dreams”. Over the past couple years there’s been a lot of rhetoric around the word revolution - both political and personal. So I’ve gathered this panel of brilliant witches together today, Lilith Dorsey, Loli Moon, Christena Cleveland, Zoe Flowers, Thea Anderson, and Dr Beverly to ask: What is YOUR revolutionary dream? What does YOUR revolution look like?  www.missingwitches.com/imbolc-2025-future-histories-of-black-magic-revolutionary-dreams-w-lilith-dorsey-loli-moon-christena-cleveland-zoe-flowers-thea-anderson-and-dr-beverly The halfway point between Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox (also known as Imbolc) is the perfect time to look backwards and forwards - what did we learn and what can we do differently as we start planning the planting of new seeds - literal and metaphorical. February first also kicks off black history month and these two dates combined provide the perfect opportunity to celebrate where we’re going and learn from where we’ve been. For the past few years Missing Witches has hosted a Zoom circle of inspiring Black Witches for a "Future Histories of Black Magic" special to mark Black History Month.  We believe that all of our guests are creating what will be the future of black history with their incredible work. Last year we lost a beloved poet, Nikki Giovanni, so we’re taking this year’s prompt from the title of one of her poems, “Revolutionary Dreams”. Over the past couple years there’s been a lot of rhetoric around the word revolution - both political and personal. So I’ve gathered this panel of brilliant witches together today, Lilith Dorsey, Loli Moon, Christena Cleveland, Zoe Flowers, Thea Anderson, and Dr Beverly to ask: What is YOUR revolutionary dream? What does YOUR revolution look like?  www.missingwitches.com/imbolc-2025-future-histories-of-black-magic-revolutionary-dreams-w-lilith-dorsey-loli-moon-christena-cleveland-zoe-flowers-thea-anderson-and-dr-beverly true full 253 2d7db40e-0f77-4945-a9b2-74403824ebb4 WF - Jarod K. Anderson: Something In The Woods Loves You Check out Jarod's new book and all his work here:

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LIsten to our first conversation with Jarod here:

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]]> Thu, 23 Jan 2025 11:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (jarod k anderson) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/wf-jarod-k-anderson-something-in-the-woods-loves-you-yZSS5GIw Check out Jarod's new book and all his work here:

https://www.jarodkanderson.com/

LIsten to our first conversation with Jarod here:

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]]> WF - Jarod K. Anderson: Something In The Woods Loves You jarod k anderson 01:02:57 Poet, philosopher, and friend of the podcast Jarod K. Anderson aka The CryptoNaturalist returns to share kindness from his new book, Something in the Woods Loves You. "Bats can hear shapes, plants can eat light, and bees can dance maps. When his life took him to a painfully dark place, the poet behind The CryptoNaturalist, Jarod K. Anderson, found comfort and redemption in these facts and the shift in perspective that comes from paying a new kind of attention to nature. Something in the Woods Loves You tells the story of the darkest stretch of a young person’s life, and how deliberate and meditative encounters with plants and animals helped him see the light at every turn. Ranging from optimistic contemplations of mortality to appreciations of a single mushroom, Anderson has written a lyrical love letter to the natural world and given us the tools to see it all anew." Poet, philosopher, and friend of the podcast Jarod K. Anderson aka The CryptoNaturalist returns to share kindness from his new book, Something in the Woods Loves You. "Bats can hear shapes, plants can eat light, and bees can dance maps. When his life took him to a painfully dark place, the poet behind The CryptoNaturalist, Jarod K. Anderson, found comfort and redemption in these facts and the shift in perspective that comes from paying a new kind of attention to nature. Something in the Woods Loves You tells the story of the darkest stretch of a young person’s life, and how deliberate and meditative encounters with plants and animals helped him see the light at every turn. Ranging from optimistic contemplations of mortality to appreciations of a single mushroom, Anderson has written a lyrical love letter to the natural world and given us the tools to see it all anew." true full 252 41c84ece-3f60-4133-9bdb-131c09d1170f Community Glows In The Dark w Amy And Risa www.missingwitches.com/ep-251-community-glows-in-the-dark-w-amy-and-risa

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]]> Community Glows In The Dark w Amy And Risa Missing Witches 00:30:11 In this episode, Amy and Risa are together again, one on one, to talk about the importance of building community. Whether we are grieving the personal or the political, the answer is to build a community of support. Through sickness, floods and fires, we remind each other that we can and will show up for each other. Risa suggests taking on flying squirrels as guides at this time - flying squirrels whose vision allows them to see and recognize each other glowing in the dark. And we can do that too - find each other in the dark by changing the way wee see. Our community glows in the dark. And a question from Mary Oliver “What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” www.missingwitches.com/ep-251-community-glows-in-the-dark-w-amy-and-risa In this episode, Amy and Risa are together again, one on one, to talk about the importance of building community. Whether we are grieving the personal or the political, the answer is to build a community of support. Through sickness, floods and fires, we remind each other that we can and will show up for each other. Risa suggests taking on flying squirrels as guides at this time - flying squirrels whose vision allows them to see and recognize each other glowing in the dark. And we can do that too - find each other in the dark by changing the way wee see. Our community glows in the dark. And a question from Mary Oliver “What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” www.missingwitches.com/ep-251-community-glows-in-the-dark-w-amy-and-risa true full 251 aead9aa8-863b-4056-8a74-5101372c0b78 Missing Witches Coven Yuletide Special 2024 www.missingwitches.com/missing-witches-coven-yuletide-special-2024

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]]> Missing Witches Coven Yuletide Special 2024 Missing Witches 01:27:20 Every year the Missing Witches Coven gathers together at Yuletide to share our warmth, our cheer, our hopes and our fears, our stories, songs and poems, to light each other's paths through the dark time of the year. Welcome to The Missing Witches Winter Solstice Celebration and Yuletide Special!! These are the books that the Coven brought to the cauldron in this recording: The Shortest Day by Susan Cooper The Bunnies' Get Well Soup by Joan Elizabeth Goodman Witches' Brew: Horror & Supernatural Stories By Women - Ed. Marcia Muller The Winter Solstice: The Sacred Traditions of Christmas by John Matthews and Caitlín Matthews Fierce Fairytales by Nikita Gill A Wild Woman Is Not A Girlfriend. She Is A Relationship With Nature by Allison Nappi The End of Night by Paul Bogard The Wild Will Call You Back by Gina M. Puorro www.missingwitches.com/missing-witches-coven-yuletide-special-2024 Every year the Missing Witches Coven gathers together at Yuletide to share our warmth, our cheer, our hopes and our fears, our stories, songs and poems, to light each other's paths through the dark time of the year. Welcome to The Missing Witches Winter Solstice Celebration and Yuletide Special!! These are the books that the Coven brought to the cauldron in this recording: The Shortest Day by Susan Cooper The Bunnies' Get Well Soup by Joan Elizabeth Goodman Witches' Brew: Horror & Supernatural Stories By Women - Ed. Marcia Muller The Winter Solstice: The Sacred Traditions of Christmas by John Matthews and Caitlín Matthews Fierce Fairytales by Nikita Gill A Wild Woman Is Not A Girlfriend. She Is A Relationship With Nature by Allison Nappi The End of Night by Paul Bogard The Wild Will Call You Back by Gina M. Puorro www.missingwitches.com/missing-witches-coven-yuletide-special-2024 true full 250 3689ed3c-3a3e-4143-ad8c-c16ea4297c58 WF - Yemọja And The Iyami: Mothers Of Waters, Mothers Of Night w Iya Omigbemi www.missingwitches.com/ep-249-wf-mothers-of-waters-mothers-of-night-w-iya-omigbemi

Find Omi on instagram @bluesemiotics

 

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Find Omi on instagram @bluesemiotics

 

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]]> WF - Yemọja And The Iyami: Mothers Of Waters, Mothers Of Night w Iya Omigbemi Missing Witches 00:45:30 Today Amy sits down with Yemoja priestess Iya Omigbeni to talk about Isese, Yoruba Ifa, Iyami, how Witch Trials and cishet-patriarchy impact the practice of spirituality in black/afro-decended communities in the diaspora, the multiplicity of motherhood, accountability, and the deep magic of water. Omi is an initiated Yemoja priestess, writer and river keeper committed to caring for the waters and the children of the Earth. She has been a custodian of the shrine of Yemoja, the Mother of All Waters, since 2022 and a student of Ifa since that time. Outside of her esoteric practice Omi, a self-described 'card carrying lesbian' primarily works alongside queer and trans communities, restoring sacred spiritual knowledge and recalibrating people in her community to the time-enduring knowledge of the Earth. Today Amy sits down with Yemoja priestess Iya Omigbeni to talk about Isese, Yoruba Ifa, Iyami, how Witch Trials and cishet-patriarchy impact the practice of spirituality in black/afro-decended communities in the diaspora, the multiplicity of motherhood, accountability, and the deep magic of water. Omi is an initiated Yemoja priestess, writer and river keeper committed to caring for the waters and the children of the Earth. She has been a custodian of the shrine of Yemoja, the Mother of All Waters, since 2022 and a student of Ifa since that time. Outside of her esoteric practice Omi, a self-described 'card carrying lesbian' primarily works alongside queer and trans communities, restoring sacred spiritual knowledge and recalibrating people in her community to the time-enduring knowledge of the Earth. true full 249 ff855f7d-34ad-4127-a2c8-c31ee570a4e1 WF - Today Is The Day We Change The World w Ysha AKA Activist Witch and Imogen AKA Sapling Tarot www.missingwitches.com/ep-248-wf-today-is-the-day-we-change-the-world-w-ysha-aka-activist-witch-and-imogen-aka-sapling-tarot-2

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]]> WF - Today Is The Day We Change The World w Ysha AKA Activist Witch and Imogen AKA Sapling Tarot Missing Witches 01:03:33 Today we're joined by Ysha AKA Activist Witch and Imogen AKA Sapling Tarot to talk about finding hope, finding magic, and finding our roles in the revolution!! Ysha and Imogen are two parts of the team working on Witches For Palestine, fundraising for Cwtches to Gaza, a grassroots mutual-aid organization supporting Palestinian refugees in Egypt and evacuation funds. Ysha shares the possibility that we can wake up every morning and say to ourselves: Today is the day we change the world! Imogen asks us to feel the difference between charity and mutual aid. Today we're joined by Ysha AKA Activist Witch and Imogen AKA Sapling Tarot to talk about finding hope, finding magic, and finding our roles in the revolution!! Ysha and Imogen are two parts of the team working on Witches For Palestine, fundraising for Cwtches to Gaza, a grassroots mutual-aid organization supporting Palestinian refugees in Egypt and evacuation funds. Ysha shares the possibility that we can wake up every morning and say to ourselves: Today is the day we change the world! Imogen asks us to feel the difference between charity and mutual aid. true full 248 a17b2c93-6fbd-4b03-a50b-8ddf328e2a4d Samhain 2024 - Medusa Consciousness with Maria Molteni, Vin Caponigro, and Laura Campagna www.missingwitches.com/samhain-2024-medusa-consciousness

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]]> Samhain 2024 - Medusa Consciousness with Maria Molteni, Vin Caponigro, and Laura Campagna Missing Witches 01:28:04 This year, we're celebrating Samhain, the halfway point between the autumn equinox and winter solstice, with two Gorgons and a Lunar Priestess: Maria Molteni, Vin Caponigro, and Laura Campagna! We talk about Samhain energy, the power of collaboration, art as spirituality, art as politics, public art, public ritual, rewriting prayers, heirloom magic, tearing down monuments, and how to conjure Medusa consciousness. Together we revisit and celebrate their 2023 Gateway to Infinity project collaboration which manifested in a public artwork and ritual, a zine and a short film. This year, we're celebrating Samhain, the halfway point between the autumn equinox and winter solstice, with two Gorgons and a Lunar Priestess: Maria Molteni, Vin Caponigro, and Laura Campagna! We talk about Samhain energy, the power of collaboration, art as spirituality, art as politics, public art, public ritual, rewriting prayers, heirloom magic, tearing down monuments, and how to conjure Medusa consciousness. Together we revisit and celebrate their 2023 Gateway to Infinity project collaboration which manifested in a public artwork and ritual, a zine and a short film. true full 247 36355e43-3226-48d8-8996-c5be00fc0501 MW Polvo de Gallina Negra - Art To Alter Reality www.missingwitches.com/ep-246-mw-polvo-de-gallina-negra-art-to-alter-reality

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]]> Mon, 28 Oct 2024 09:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/mw-polvo-de-gallina-negra-art-to-alter-reality-i96x3OU6 www.missingwitches.com/ep-246-mw-polvo-de-gallina-negra-art-to-alter-reality

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]]> MW Polvo de Gallina Negra - Art To Alter Reality Missing Witches 00:29:20 Today, I’m adding Black Hen Powder, Polvo de Gallina Negra, to our shared apothecary, to our botanica of story spells we can conjure when we need a boost of magical, creative inspiration. I offer up Polvo de Gallina Negra, a feminist art collective from 1980s Mexico, sometimes hailed as the first feminist art group in Mexico, who used magic, laughter, intellect and art to change the world. In 1983, in the streets of Mexico City, two witches whose craft was forged in the kiln of art and resistance, and honed on an anvil of humour and politics, or perhaps due to their focus on domestic labour, I should say, baked in the oven and smoothed on the ironing board…Mónica Mayer and Maris Bustamante, cast a feminist spell. Their chosen magic was social subversion through performance, using art as a tool to hex the patriarchy. Named after a Mexican folk remedy to ward off evil, Polvo de Gallina Negra made art with the same intention: to protect, to awaken, to empower and enact the ancient alchemy of rebellion. The Witchcraft of Protection takes many forms. “The name Polvo de Gallina Negra translates to “black hen powder”, a traditional remedy used as protection against the evil eye, which [Mónica and Maris] anticipated they would receive in relation to the feminist content of their work. The group outlined three key goals they wished to achieve: “(1) To analyze women’s images in art and in the media, (2) to study and to promote the participation of women in art, and (3) to create images based on our experience as women in a patriarchal system, with a feminist perspective and with the goal of transforming the visual world in order to alter reality.” Black Hen Powder, a folk magic tool with origins in Mexican brujería and Southern hoodoo traditions, is typically used for protection, cleansing, and reversing negativity. It is named for its association with black hens, egg-laying creatures often regarded in magical practices as symbols of defense and transformative energy. And Polvo became this magic personified. Today, I’m adding Black Hen Powder, Polvo de Gallina Negra, to our shared apothecary, to our botanica of story spells we can conjure when we need a boost of magical, creative inspiration. I offer up Polvo de Gallina Negra, a feminist art collective from 1980s Mexico, sometimes hailed as the first feminist art group in Mexico, who used magic, laughter, intellect and art to change the world. In 1983, in the streets of Mexico City, two witches whose craft was forged in the kiln of art and resistance, and honed on an anvil of humour and politics, or perhaps due to their focus on domestic labour, I should say, baked in the oven and smoothed on the ironing board…Mónica Mayer and Maris Bustamante, cast a feminist spell. Their chosen magic was social subversion through performance, using art as a tool to hex the patriarchy. Named after a Mexican folk remedy to ward off evil, Polvo de Gallina Negra made art with the same intention: to protect, to awaken, to empower and enact the ancient alchemy of rebellion. The Witchcraft of Protection takes many forms. “The name Polvo de Gallina Negra translates to “black hen powder”, a traditional remedy used as protection against the evil eye, which [Mónica and Maris] anticipated they would receive in relation to the feminist content of their work. The group outlined three key goals they wished to achieve: “(1) To analyze women’s images in art and in the media, (2) to study and to promote the participation of women in art, and (3) to create images based on our experience as women in a patriarchal system, with a feminist perspective and with the goal of transforming the visual world in order to alter reality.” Black Hen Powder, a folk magic tool with origins in Mexican brujería and Southern hoodoo traditions, is typically used for protection, cleansing, and reversing negativity. It is named for its association with black hens, egg-laying creatures often regarded in magical practices as symbols of defense and transformative energy. And Polvo became this magic personified. true full 246 30c34dbe-18ca-4154-979a-cc9664df5f70 WF Lilith Dorsey - Every Witch Way www.missingwitches.com/ep-245-wf-lilith-dorsey-every-witch-way

Tarot Every Witch Way

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]]> Thu, 24 Oct 2024 09:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/wf-lilith-dorsey-every-witch-way-afjtjfHr www.missingwitches.com/ep-245-wf-lilith-dorsey-every-witch-way

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]]> WF Lilith Dorsey - Every Witch Way Missing Witches 00:49:54 Today we're joined by the one and only - Witch of all trades - practitioner and scholar, choreographer, film maker, YouTuber, author of many incredible books including the brand new Tarot Every Witch Way: Unlock the Power of the Cards for Spellcraft & Magic, Lilith Dorsey! We talk about the transformative nature of 'shock value', from NYC Club Kids to the films of Jodorowsky, and being proud weirdos. We talk about how witchcraft can be a tool of protection and empowerment, and a mode of living in harmony with nature and divinity - how we can enlist magic to explore ancestry, find the next right action, and move into being our best selves. Together we trace Lilith's herstory as a pathfinder whose work all comes together to create a recipe for reclamation and re-connection. They assure us, "The ancient ways have come home." Today we're joined by the one and only - Witch of all trades - practitioner and scholar, choreographer, film maker, YouTuber, author of many incredible books including the brand new Tarot Every Witch Way: Unlock the Power of the Cards for Spellcraft & Magic, Lilith Dorsey! We talk about the transformative nature of 'shock value', from NYC Club Kids to the films of Jodorowsky, and being proud weirdos. We talk about how witchcraft can be a tool of protection and empowerment, and a mode of living in harmony with nature and divinity - how we can enlist magic to explore ancestry, find the next right action, and move into being our best selves. Together we trace Lilith's herstory as a pathfinder whose work all comes together to create a recipe for reclamation and re-connection. They assure us, "The ancient ways have come home." true full 245 e82c60d6-6ed4-4949-ab46-c5ac2a9a5e9b MW Simone Weil - Finding Love In The Void www.missingwitches.com/ep-244-mw-simone-weil-finding-love-in-the-void

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]]> Mon, 21 Oct 2024 09:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/mw-simone-weil-finding-love-in-the-void-0Nbg6s_m www.missingwitches.com/ep-244-mw-simone-weil-finding-love-in-the-void

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]]> MW Simone Weil - Finding Love In The Void Missing Witches 00:26:51 Anarchist, philosopher, mystic, revolutionary. I’ve seen many exciting words used to draw the portrait of Simone Weil. But the moment I read her described as “the patron saint of all outsiders,” by André Gide, I knew I needed to add Simone Weil to the Missing Witches pantheon of witches, weirdos, mystics, imagineers and imperfect rebels. I knew I needed to read her work. Simone wrote, ““Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.” So let’s pay attention to Simone today, in this space between our ears, bestow upon her story that rare and pure form of generosity that is the currency of modernity. Today, let’s give her our attention. This mystic philosopher lived her life as an offering to the suffering of others, an embodiment of radical compassion. She didn’t just speak on justice; she, in her way, became it. She entered the factories, breaking her body to feel the pain of the workers. Her hands blistered as she wrote of oppression, each word dripping with the weight of lived experience. Simone saw beyond the illusions of power, piercing the veil of comfort with a fierce devotion to the downtrodden. She fed her soul with hunger, fasting in solidarity with the oppressed, her body a vessel for their grief. Her altruism was magic woven through action, a spell cast for liberation. She refused the safety of distance, of intellectualism without skin in the game. Simone called out to the divine - her life a chant of solidarity with the most invisible among us. Her life, like yours and mine, was a magical dance with contradictions—an ascetic who craved the world's pain, a revolutionary who sought God in every breath. Contradictions that belied a supreme, singular focus and singular goal. The Truth. But as we’ve discovered in our own lives, dear Coven, real Truth is never simple. Simplicity is never simple. Anarchist, philosopher, mystic, revolutionary. I’ve seen many exciting words used to draw the portrait of Simone Weil. But the moment I read her described as “the patron saint of all outsiders,” by André Gide, I knew I needed to add Simone Weil to the Missing Witches pantheon of witches, weirdos, mystics, imagineers and imperfect rebels. I knew I needed to read her work. Simone wrote, ““Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.” So let’s pay attention to Simone today, in this space between our ears, bestow upon her story that rare and pure form of generosity that is the currency of modernity. Today, let’s give her our attention. This mystic philosopher lived her life as an offering to the suffering of others, an embodiment of radical compassion. She didn’t just speak on justice; she, in her way, became it. She entered the factories, breaking her body to feel the pain of the workers. Her hands blistered as she wrote of oppression, each word dripping with the weight of lived experience. Simone saw beyond the illusions of power, piercing the veil of comfort with a fierce devotion to the downtrodden. She fed her soul with hunger, fasting in solidarity with the oppressed, her body a vessel for their grief. Her altruism was magic woven through action, a spell cast for liberation. She refused the safety of distance, of intellectualism without skin in the game. Simone called out to the divine - her life a chant of solidarity with the most invisible among us. Her life, like yours and mine, was a magical dance with contradictions—an ascetic who craved the world's pain, a revolutionary who sought God in every breath. Contradictions that belied a supreme, singular focus and singular goal. The Truth. But as we’ve discovered in our own lives, dear Coven, real Truth is never simple. Simplicity is never simple. true full 244 004d1c08-d0fd-47ef-a645-a29d8d69c647 WF Mel Gutierrez AKA The Body Witch - Your Body Is The First Temple www.missingwitches.com/ep-243-wf-mel-gutierrez-aka-the-body-witch-your-body-is-the-first-temple

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]]> Thu, 17 Oct 2024 09:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/wf-mel-gutierrez-aka-the-body-witch-your-body-is-the-first-temple-0EEaQ2RS www.missingwitches.com/ep-243-wf-mel-gutierrez-aka-the-body-witch-your-body-is-the-first-temple

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]]> WF Mel Gutierrez AKA The Body Witch - Your Body Is The First Temple Missing Witches 00:48:30 This week we're getting embodied with Mel Gutierrez, yoga teacher, a personal trainer, energy healer, co-author of Exposing Yoga Myths, and scientific-minded body researcher who also believes in the realness of magical practices.  We discuss what it means to be a Witch, and further, what it means to be a Body Witch. Together we explore empowerment, pain, pleasure, religion, self-love, quantum physics, and taking Yoga 'off the mat' to view compassion as part of a yoga practice. Mel wants us to radically fall in love with ourselves, touch ourselves in a loving way, talk to ourselves in a loving way and undo the mechanisms of self-judgment - to see ourselves a miraculous beings in this fleshy state. One of Mel's mottoes is "More science, less Woo Woo" but she lives in both of these worlds as education and intuition intersect in her work. Her research (which includes neuro-science, anatomy, physiology, eastern medicine modalities of all kinds, witchcraft, etc.) is what has helped her to create individualized programs to help people even when they didn’t think they could be helped. This week we're getting embodied with Mel Gutierrez, yoga teacher, a personal trainer, energy healer, co-author of Exposing Yoga Myths, and scientific-minded body researcher who also believes in the realness of magical practices.  We discuss what it means to be a Witch, and further, what it means to be a Body Witch. Together we explore empowerment, pain, pleasure, religion, self-love, quantum physics, and taking Yoga 'off the mat' to view compassion as part of a yoga practice. Mel wants us to radically fall in love with ourselves, touch ourselves in a loving way, talk to ourselves in a loving way and undo the mechanisms of self-judgment - to see ourselves a miraculous beings in this fleshy state. One of Mel's mottoes is "More science, less Woo Woo" but she lives in both of these worlds as education and intuition intersect in her work. Her research (which includes neuro-science, anatomy, physiology, eastern medicine modalities of all kinds, witchcraft, etc.) is what has helped her to create individualized programs to help people even when they didn’t think they could be helped. yoga true full 243 1dc8ce56-2b3f-4a16-8531-607a4a5b4cb0 MW Alice Coltrane - Spritual Jazz www.missingwitches.com/ep-242-mw-alice-coltrane-spritual-jazz

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]]> Mon, 14 Oct 2024 09:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/mw-alice-coltrane-spritual-jazz-nMMY4hkY www.missingwitches.com/ep-242-mw-alice-coltrane-spritual-jazz

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]]> MW Alice Coltrane - Spritual Jazz Missing Witches 00:34:01 For me in my life, music has always been magic. The greatest source of it - a mystical well where I, with my meager human shaped bucket, can, at any time in any place, gather that elixir to hydrate my soul. And as we at Missing Witches also gather names to add to the list of people who help us define what magic is, what a soul is, what it might mean to be a Witch, I hear the music of Alice Coltrane. Alice Coltrane who, no stranger to loss, found music, and found God. Alice released or played on more than 20 albums, wrote at least three books, opened an Ashram, but she’s probably best known as Wife of Saxophonist John Coltrane. We see this all the time. Wife Of more famous but likely less interesting Man, influencing from behind and beside the spotlight. So let’s take today to dig through my record collection and amplify the tones of Alice Coltrane who hoped her music would be “a form of meditation and spiritual awakening for those who listen with their inner ear.” (liner notes - Journey…) Let’s listen to her story with our inner ears, and hear her music with our guts. In 1972, she told DownBeat magazine, "I would go through all the great scriptures of the world, and in every religion I found the same thought: 'The divine sound is the creative force in the universe.' Music is that sound." For me in my life, music has always been magic. The greatest source of it - a mystical well where I, with my meager human shaped bucket, can, at any time in any place, gather that elixir to hydrate my soul. And as we at Missing Witches also gather names to add to the list of people who help us define what magic is, what a soul is, what it might mean to be a Witch, I hear the music of Alice Coltrane. Alice Coltrane who, no stranger to loss, found music, and found God. Alice released or played on more than 20 albums, wrote at least three books, opened an Ashram, but she’s probably best known as Wife of Saxophonist John Coltrane. We see this all the time. Wife Of more famous but likely less interesting Man, influencing from behind and beside the spotlight. So let’s take today to dig through my record collection and amplify the tones of Alice Coltrane who hoped her music would be “a form of meditation and spiritual awakening for those who listen with their inner ear.” (liner notes - Journey…) Let’s listen to her story with our inner ears, and hear her music with our guts. In 1972, she told DownBeat magazine, "I would go through all the great scriptures of the world, and in every religion I found the same thought: 'The divine sound is the creative force in the universe.' Music is that sound." true full 242 01562e81-d6cb-4aaa-a205-f794aba3131a WF Briana Pegado - Explore Your Disruptor Energy www.missingwitches.com/ep-241-wf-briana-pegado-explore-your-disruptor-energy

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]]> Thu, 10 Oct 2024 09:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/wf-briana-pegado-explore-your-disruptor-energy-_tBHUhhe www.missingwitches.com/ep-241-wf-briana-pegado-explore-your-disruptor-energy

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]]> WF Briana Pegado - Explore Your Disruptor Energy Missing Witches 00:51:38 This week, we're joined by Briana Pegado, author of Make Good Trouble: A Practical Guide To The Energetics of Disruption, and contributor to The Modern Craft: Powerful Voices on Witchcraft Ethics. We talk about Samhain rituals, recovering from burnout, Theta Energy, moving toward an Age Of Sustainment, what it means to Make Good Trouble, and healing our own stuff before trying to heal the world. Briana is a Witch and a disruptor looking to create space for fellow disruptors who want to meet like-minded people. This week, we're joined by Briana Pegado, author of Make Good Trouble: A Practical Guide To The Energetics of Disruption, and contributor to The Modern Craft: Powerful Voices on Witchcraft Ethics. We talk about Samhain rituals, recovering from burnout, Theta Energy, moving toward an Age Of Sustainment, what it means to Make Good Trouble, and healing our own stuff before trying to heal the world. Briana is a Witch and a disruptor looking to create space for fellow disruptors who want to meet like-minded people. true full 241 26a650fa-2df4-4052-9ae5-08f8c9901050 FIXED Cancer Season #3 - Fire with June Jordan The full text for this episode with links and images will be up on https://www.missingwitches.com/

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]]> Mon, 7 Oct 2024 10:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/cancer-season-3-fire-with-june-jordan-_362S6G5 The full text for this episode with links and images will be up on https://www.missingwitches.com/

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]]> FIXED Cancer Season #3 - Fire with June Jordan Missing Witches 00:49:15 Note: This episode originally went live with the raw audio file from the original voice recording - glitches, gulps, and all - instead of the version which I had lovingly laboured to edit. While this feels appropriate to the vibe these days, I'm happy to have the real one out in the world now. Thanks for your patience, see you on the other side. oxR Today we follow that fire. Walking ahead of us here, carrying a torch through the dark, is June Jordan. Note: This episode originally went live with the raw audio file from the original voice recording - glitches, gulps, and all - instead of the version which I had lovingly laboured to edit. While this feels appropriate to the vibe these days, I'm happy to have the real one out in the world now. Thanks for your patience, see you on the other side. oxR Today we follow that fire. Walking ahead of us here, carrying a torch through the dark, is June Jordan. true full 240 c97b467c-572d-4cf6-9502-f02b77724a56 Cancer Season #2 - Earth with Suzanne Simard Full text with images and links will be up on https://www.MissingWitches.com

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]]> Mon, 30 Sep 2024 10:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/cancer-season-2-earth-with-suzanne-simard-xWS9M4z_ Full text with images and links will be up on https://www.MissingWitches.com

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]]> Cancer Season #2 - Earth with Suzanne Simard Missing Witches 00:54:44 Today we continue with Earth. Because after I’ve been running in rivers all over the place, melting, pouring, I need to figure out how to be solid again. This is an episode about holding onto the world, about grounding, digging into the soil, hitting the ground. This is an episode about Earth, and my priestess in this dark forest is fellow breast cancer dancer, ecologist Suzanne Simard. Today we continue with Earth. Because after I’ve been running in rivers all over the place, melting, pouring, I need to figure out how to be solid again. This is an episode about holding onto the world, about grounding, digging into the soil, hitting the ground. This is an episode about Earth, and my priestess in this dark forest is fellow breast cancer dancer, ecologist Suzanne Simard. true full 239 b114cc66-0c1f-4526-a150-713f5526909b Cancer Season - Water with Audre Lorde The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde

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]]> Mon, 23 Sep 2024 10:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/cancer-season-water-with-audre-lorde-_YbA5GXY The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde

Full text of this episode is up on http://www.MissingWitches.com

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]]> Cancer Season - Water with Audre Lorde Missing Witches 00:34:17 Usually here at Missing Witches starting at the Fall Equinox we begin a 6 episode season telling stories of real people who help us understand what we mean these days when we cackle and invoke witchcraft. But this summer I was diagnosed with cancer. We’re here, we want to be here with you, and we come bearing stories; but we can’t guarantee what shapes they’ll take. They’re still metastasizing. I’m going to begin with a miniature Cancer season, episodes drawn from the elements, and there will be witches here who walked this cancer path before me. I’m going to start with the Water. I’m going to follow Audre Lorde. Usually here at Missing Witches starting at the Fall Equinox we begin a 6 episode season telling stories of real people who help us understand what we mean these days when we cackle and invoke witchcraft. But this summer I was diagnosed with cancer. We’re here, we want to be here with you, and we come bearing stories; but we can’t guarantee what shapes they’ll take. They’re still metastasizing. I’m going to begin with a miniature Cancer season, episodes drawn from the elements, and there will be witches here who walked this cancer path before me. I’m going to start with the Water. I’m going to follow Audre Lorde. true full 238 0cfdf7c1-1273-4c7f-961c-05f964b54600 Mabon 2024: Making Tarot Mean More with Lane Smith and Maria Minnis www.missingwitches.com/ep-237-mabon-2024-making-tarot-mean-more-with-lane-smith-and-maria-minnis

 

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BUY TAROT FOR THE HARD WORK


 

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]]> Mabon 2024: Making Tarot Mean More with Lane Smith and Maria Minnis Missing Witches 01:13:18 The Missing Witches podcast is back from our much needed hiatus to celebrate the Fall Equinox - a time when light and dark are in balance. Our guests Maria Minnis author of Tarot for the Hard Work, and Lane Smith author of 78 Acts of Liberation help us, like the light of the sun and the darkness of night, to find a balance between our internal and external worlds, using Tarot as a tool for political and personal liberation. The personal is political AND the political is personal. Together we complicate the cards and expand on the meaning of Tarot; we discuss Freeing Minds, Freeing Bodies, community, activism, the anxiety of 'getting it right' and the scared responsibility of being part of an interconnected web. As we fall toward 2025, we also take some time to discuss next year's Tarot card: The Hermit! The Missing Witches podcast is back from our much needed hiatus to celebrate the Fall Equinox - a time when light and dark are in balance. Our guests Maria Minnis author of Tarot for the Hard Work, and Lane Smith author of 78 Acts of Liberation help us, like the light of the sun and the darkness of night, to find a balance between our internal and external worlds, using Tarot as a tool for political and personal liberation. The personal is political AND the political is personal. Together we complicate the cards and expand on the meaning of Tarot; we discuss Freeing Minds, Freeing Bodies, community, activism, the anxiety of 'getting it right' and the scared responsibility of being part of an interconnected web. As we fall toward 2025, we also take some time to discuss next year's Tarot card: The Hermit! true full 237 c0595776-5cc3-4709-9146-624389a79b9f Lammas 2024 - Magic Is Inherently Political w Ùna Maria Blyth And Loretta Ledesma www.missingwitches.com/lammas-2024-magic-is-inherently-political-with-una-maria-blyth-and-loretta-ledesma

 

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]]> Lammas 2024 - Magic Is Inherently Political w Ùna Maria Blyth And Loretta Ledesma Missing Witches 00:58:42 For the halfway point between Summer Solstice and Fall Equinox, sometimes known as Lammas or Lughnasadh, we're talking about Rituals. - inventing and creating them, and/or studying and learning from books and traditions. How can we use both modes to cultivate a ritual practice in our lives? We at Missing Witches are big believers in creativity, invention, improvisation and imagination, but we also believe in a long and tried history of practices that have been passed on from generation to generation. We’re always looking to create a balance between education and invention, so I’ve invited two wonderful Witches today to help us talk it out: a new friend, author of Muses No More: Portraits of Occult Women,  Ùna Maria Blyth AND dear friend, instructor at RitualCravt, Loretta Ledesma, AKA The Death Witch, founder of the Mile High Conjure Gala, and a Santa Muerte devotee. www.missingwitches.com/lammas-2024-magic-is-inherently-political-with-una-maria-blyth-and-loretta-ledesma For the halfway point between Summer Solstice and Fall Equinox, sometimes known as Lammas or Lughnasadh, we're talking about Rituals. - inventing and creating them, and/or studying and learning from books and traditions. How can we use both modes to cultivate a ritual practice in our lives? We at Missing Witches are big believers in creativity, invention, improvisation and imagination, but we also believe in a long and tried history of practices that have been passed on from generation to generation. We’re always looking to create a balance between education and invention, so I’ve invited two wonderful Witches today to help us talk it out: a new friend, author of Muses No More: Portraits of Occult Women,  Ùna Maria Blyth AND dear friend, instructor at RitualCravt, Loretta Ledesma, AKA The Death Witch, founder of the Mile High Conjure Gala, and a Santa Muerte devotee. www.missingwitches.com/lammas-2024-magic-is-inherently-political-with-una-maria-blyth-and-loretta-ledesma true full 236 8c3ea91a-0d2e-4c43-aba2-5f57ad615ed2 MW Rx. 60 - It's Gonna Be Alright, Baby www.missingwitches.com/rx-its-gonna-be-alright-baby/

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]]> MW Rx. 60 - It's Gonna Be Alright, Baby Missing Witches 00:27:43 MISSING WITCHES IS GOING ON HIATUS FOR AUGUST. Or as I prefer to think of it: SABBATical! We usually take a break in August to re-energize and prepare for Witch Season in the fall, but this summer has been hard, so we especially need a bit of time off. Our members-only Coven space will still be active, and our dear friend Holly will be keeping tabs on shop.missingwitches.com for your back to school shopping. AND we just put a new design in the Coven-only section of the store so go take a look! We’ll still be kickin around but we may be very slow to respond to emails, instagram DMs and all that. We need to read, research, rest and write to gear up for an all new season of the Missing Witches podcast! I’ve already booked the guests for our Autumn Equinox Mabon special and I’m super excited to return to true stories of real Witches in the fall. Stay tuned for our Lammas special, coming August first, where I sat down with Ùna Maria Blyth AND Loretta Ledesma to talk about Rituals. We hope y’all can get some rest too. As we were recording this, Risa was under anaesthetic having her first surgery. Risa and I met about 15 years ago and we would sit around and I’d play guitar and she’d play ukulele and we’d scream and laugh and sing. At one point she was going through the break up of a long term relationship and she’d show up at my door and I’d ask: do you wanna talk or do you wanna sing? One of the songs we played a lot was Ween It’s Gonna Be (Alright) - so I’m dedicating this to Risa: it’s gonna be alright baby, it’s gonna be alright love. Last night I sent Risa a poem: I Worried, by Mary Oliver I worried a lot. Will the garden grow, will the rivers flow in the right direction, will the earth turn as it was taught, and if not how shall I correct it? Was I right, was I wrong, will I be forgiven, can I do better? Will I ever be able to sing, even the sparrows can do it and I am, well, hopeless. Is my eyesight fading or am I just imagining it, am I going to get rheumatism, lockjaw, dementia? Finally, I saw that worrying had come to nothing. And gave it up. And took my old body and went out into the morning, and sang. So my prescription is to Go out into the morning and ask your friends, "Do you wanna talk or do you wanna sing?" I'm joined by THREE members of the MW Coven, snatching the last pre-hiatus chance to share their Get It While You Can prescriptions. Many thanks to Kristen, Melissa and Nicole for sending us off with love. Kristen prescribes the rewarding, defiant and revolutionary act of cultivating and tending to native plants - and/or just marvelling at the purple splendour of Joe-Pye-Weed and all the beauty in flowers dismissed as mere weeds. Kristen is the founder and owner of Lightning Struck Gardens, a not for profit that benefits survivors of gun violence.  After surviving a mass shooting in 2021, Kristen found healing in working with native plants, and gardening. Kristen transformed her trauma by planting seeds of hope and change, which have now grown into prolific gardens of native plants and herbs. Kristen sells her native plants and dried herbs from her gardens through an Etsy shop. This shop provides funding for her Lightning Struck Gardens, which provides support for survivors of mass shootings and those who have lost loved ones to gun violence. Lightning Struck Gardens provides emotional support to survivors through peer support groups, where survivors can process their grief and trauma in community. Lightning Struck Gardens also provides survivors with plants and native seed packets to begin memorial gardens. The funding from the shop keeps these resources free for survivors.  We are thinking of Sonya Massey. We are saying her name. You can find Kristen's shop on Etsy at: LightningStruckGdns.etsy.com Melissa also comes bearing plants, and the faith, curiosity and creativity inherent in natural dyes. She learns life lessons from one of our oldest pigments: indigo. Like life, you just can't know for sure how things will turn out, but you do it anyway. Regard the power of oxidizing! Melissa's prescription is to re-evaluate your relationship with Control. Relax the tight-fisted and illusory grip. Unclench, look at Nature's colours, and watch a butterfly in flight. Smash up some wild berries and use them as paint - see what surprise transpires. Nicole brings some iconic DC Punk with Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, and the holy power of live music. Shake The Sheets, a 20 year old song, rings out with relevance today. Shake the sheets, shake your ass, and dance your way through the revolution. Do the best you can, and above all Don't Give Up. Do your part. Make your mark. I said, "I wonder how it is I'm standing here War is raging everywhere under the sky?" I feel defeated here by everything Cheated here by everyone on every side I want to take you to a quiet place And never ask the meaninglessness to reply When will we get an hour to celebrate Find the time to breathe a sigh? I want to take it to the president Him and all his cabinet with a broom I want to sweep the Halls of Arrogance When will we find a chord as resonant As to shake the sheets and make us move And she said, "Roll out and make your mark Pull on your boots and march Then roll on and meet me where You'll find me doing my own part "Roll out your dented car Maybe it won't roll far But if you do everything you can Well babe, that's more than a start." Cultivate. Nurture. Unclench. Do your part. Rest. And as The Happenings sang in 1966, See You In September!! Blessed fucking be. We love you. www.missingwitches.com/rx-its-gonna-be-alright-baby/ MISSING WITCHES IS GOING ON HIATUS FOR AUGUST. Or as I prefer to think of it: SABBATical! We usually take a break in August to re-energize and prepare for Witch Season in the fall, but this summer has been hard, so we especially need a bit of time off. Our members-only Coven space will still be active, and our dear friend Holly will be keeping tabs on shop.missingwitches.com for your back to school shopping. AND we just put a new design in the Coven-only section of the store so go take a look! We’ll still be kickin around but we may be very slow to respond to emails, instagram DMs and all that. We need to read, research, rest and write to gear up for an all new season of the Missing Witches podcast! I’ve already booked the guests for our Autumn Equinox Mabon special and I’m super excited to return to true stories of real Witches in the fall. Stay tuned for our Lammas special, coming August first, where I sat down with Ùna Maria Blyth AND Loretta Ledesma to talk about Rituals. We hope y’all can get some rest too. As we were recording this, Risa was under anaesthetic having her first surgery. Risa and I met about 15 years ago and we would sit around and I’d play guitar and she’d play ukulele and we’d scream and laugh and sing. At one point she was going through the break up of a long term relationship and she’d show up at my door and I’d ask: do you wanna talk or do you wanna sing? One of the songs we played a lot was Ween It’s Gonna Be (Alright) - so I’m dedicating this to Risa: it’s gonna be alright baby, it’s gonna be alright love. Last night I sent Risa a poem: I Worried, by Mary Oliver I worried a lot. Will the garden grow, will the rivers flow in the right direction, will the earth turn as it was taught, and if not how shall I correct it? Was I right, was I wrong, will I be forgiven, can I do better? Will I ever be able to sing, even the sparrows can do it and I am, well, hopeless. Is my eyesight fading or am I just imagining it, am I going to get rheumatism, lockjaw, dementia? Finally, I saw that worrying had come to nothing. And gave it up. And took my old body and went out into the morning, and sang. So my prescription is to Go out into the morning and ask your friends, "Do you wanna talk or do you wanna sing?" I'm joined by THREE members of the MW Coven, snatching the last pre-hiatus chance to share their Get It While You Can prescriptions. Many thanks to Kristen, Melissa and Nicole for sending us off with love. Kristen prescribes the rewarding, defiant and revolutionary act of cultivating and tending to native plants - and/or just marvelling at the purple splendour of Joe-Pye-Weed and all the beauty in flowers dismissed as mere weeds. Kristen is the founder and owner of Lightning Struck Gardens, a not for profit that benefits survivors of gun violence.  After surviving a mass shooting in 2021, Kristen found healing in working with native plants, and gardening. Kristen transformed her trauma by planting seeds of hope and change, which have now grown into prolific gardens of native plants and herbs. Kristen sells her native plants and dried herbs from her gardens through an Etsy shop. This shop provides funding for her Lightning Struck Gardens, which provides support for survivors of mass shootings and those who have lost loved ones to gun violence. Lightning Struck Gardens provides emotional support to survivors through peer support groups, where survivors can process their grief and trauma in community. Lightning Struck Gardens also provides survivors with plants and native seed packets to begin memorial gardens. The funding from the shop keeps these resources free for survivors.  We are thinking of Sonya Massey. We are saying her name. You can find Kristen's shop on Etsy at: LightningStruckGdns.etsy.com Melissa also comes bearing plants, and the faith, curiosity and creativity inherent in natural dyes. She learns life lessons from one of our oldest pigments: indigo. Like life, you just can't know for sure how things will turn out, but you do it anyway. Regard the power of oxidizing! Melissa's prescription is to re-evaluate your relationship with Control. Relax the tight-fisted and illusory grip. Unclench, look at Nature's colours, and watch a butterfly in flight. Smash up some wild berries and use them as paint - see what surprise transpires. Nicole brings some iconic DC Punk with Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, and the holy power of live music. Shake The Sheets, a 20 year old song, rings out with relevance today. Shake the sheets, shake your ass, and dance your way through the revolution. Do the best you can, and above all Don't Give Up. Do your part. Make your mark. I said, "I wonder how it is I'm standing here War is raging everywhere under the sky?" I feel defeated here by everything Cheated here by everyone on every side I want to take you to a quiet place And never ask the meaninglessness to reply When will we get an hour to celebrate Find the time to breathe a sigh? I want to take it to the president Him and all his cabinet with a broom I want to sweep the Halls of Arrogance When will we find a chord as resonant As to shake the sheets and make us move And she said, "Roll out and make your mark Pull on your boots and march Then roll on and meet me where You'll find me doing my own part "Roll out your dented car Maybe it won't roll far But if you do everything you can Well babe, that's more than a start." Cultivate. Nurture. Unclench. Do your part. Rest. And as The Happenings sang in 1966, See You In September!! Blessed fucking be. We love you. www.missingwitches.com/rx-its-gonna-be-alright-baby/ true bonus 82ea8da0-bd2d-435a-a3db-ff0fe2f53459 MW Rx. 59 - Garden Party AKA This Is A Lot www.missingwitches.com/rx-garden-party-aka-this-is-a-lot

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]]> MW Rx. 59 - Garden Party AKA This Is A Lot Missing Witches 00:17:24 It's just me this week, but I'm not alone, because you're with me. xoAmy Amy's first prescription is an instagram post from Austin Channing Brown, who acknowledges that This Is A Lot: "You're not imagining it. You're not overreacting. You're not being melodramatic. Your body isn't lying to you about how heavy it all feels. It can be helpful to see how systems of violence are all connected but it can also be overwhelming. It can feel like you exist under a weighted blanket- it's hard to move, hard to breathe. I wish I could offer you relief and organize it all into nice, neat boxes roughly the size of an Instagram post and issue some orders that would have us solve all of this. But I cannot. We need a revolution. And then another one. And then another one. And then another one. Because the backlash to our revolutions is real. We are living through one right now. And your survival. And your art. And your voice. And your writing. And your passion. And your joy. And your beauty all matter for getting to the other side- so you can enjoy and experience the next revolution. Remember the goodness that you want in the world. Remember the human dignity you want for Black people, Palestinian people, queer people, disabled people, poor people, women people, children people, houseless people, incarcerated people, marginalized people and all the intersections thereof. Remember the goodness you're working toward. Because the backlash of hate is impossible to carry if you do not remember what it is to love. And as silly is it feels we must remember love." And while we weep for the world, Amy brings Northern Lights (the Canadian equivalent of USA For Africa, We Are The World) to remind us that Tears Are Not Enough. If we can pull together We could change the world forever Heaven knows that tears are not enough As Angela Davis famously said, "Freedom is a constant struggle." Now is the time to figure out our roles in the revolution, and Amy takes inspiration from the cucumber plants in her garden. Each cucumber grows at it's own pace, in it's own shape: some are curved, some are straight, some are round, some are flat, some are slim and some are bulbous. Amy is struck by the fact that we’ve all been conditioned into a false sense of Uniformity - at the grocery store and in our human lives - that everything and everyone needs to look the same, act the same, be the same - but that's NOT how Nature works. Nature both celebrates and requires difference and diversity. To underscore the point, Amy brings a scene from one her favourite movies, Harold And Maude, where Maude points out that what appears to be a field of uniform daisies is made up of thousands of individuals with all kinds of observable differences. And Matt Baume's video essay The Rowdy Queer Rebels Who Turned Television Gay which reminds us that true reformation requires all different types of activists, working together toward a common goal. And last, Amy adds Garden Party by Rick Nelson. Rick's fans didn't want him to mature and grow - they wanted the Little Ricky Nelson that they knew and loved, to the point where Rick would get booed when debuting new material. So he wrote this song: Well it’s alright now I’ve learned my lesson well See you can’t please everyone so you gotta please yourself You are allowed to grow and change into whatever shape pleases you. You can make the world into a shape that pleases you too - one cucumber, one garden party, one revolution at a time. Blessed fucking be. We must remember love. It's just me this week, but I'm not alone, because you're with me. xoAmy Amy's first prescription is an instagram post from Austin Channing Brown, who acknowledges that This Is A Lot: "You're not imagining it. You're not overreacting. You're not being melodramatic. Your body isn't lying to you about how heavy it all feels. It can be helpful to see how systems of violence are all connected but it can also be overwhelming. It can feel like you exist under a weighted blanket- it's hard to move, hard to breathe. I wish I could offer you relief and organize it all into nice, neat boxes roughly the size of an Instagram post and issue some orders that would have us solve all of this. But I cannot. We need a revolution. And then another one. And then another one. And then another one. Because the backlash to our revolutions is real. We are living through one right now. And your survival. And your art. And your voice. And your writing. And your passion. And your joy. And your beauty all matter for getting to the other side- so you can enjoy and experience the next revolution. Remember the goodness that you want in the world. Remember the human dignity you want for Black people, Palestinian people, queer people, disabled people, poor people, women people, children people, houseless people, incarcerated people, marginalized people and all the intersections thereof. Remember the goodness you're working toward. Because the backlash of hate is impossible to carry if you do not remember what it is to love. And as silly is it feels we must remember love." And while we weep for the world, Amy brings Northern Lights (the Canadian equivalent of USA For Africa, We Are The World) to remind us that Tears Are Not Enough. If we can pull together We could change the world forever Heaven knows that tears are not enough As Angela Davis famously said, "Freedom is a constant struggle." Now is the time to figure out our roles in the revolution, and Amy takes inspiration from the cucumber plants in her garden. Each cucumber grows at it's own pace, in it's own shape: some are curved, some are straight, some are round, some are flat, some are slim and some are bulbous. Amy is struck by the fact that we’ve all been conditioned into a false sense of Uniformity - at the grocery store and in our human lives - that everything and everyone needs to look the same, act the same, be the same - but that's NOT how Nature works. Nature both celebrates and requires difference and diversity. To underscore the point, Amy brings a scene from one her favourite movies, Harold And Maude, where Maude points out that what appears to be a field of uniform daisies is made up of thousands of individuals with all kinds of observable differences. And Matt Baume's video essay The Rowdy Queer Rebels Who Turned Television Gay which reminds us that true reformation requires all different types of activists, working together toward a common goal. And last, Amy adds Garden Party by Rick Nelson. Rick's fans didn't want him to mature and grow - they wanted the Little Ricky Nelson that they knew and loved, to the point where Rick would get booed when debuting new material. So he wrote this song: Well it’s alright now I’ve learned my lesson well See you can’t please everyone so you gotta please yourself You are allowed to grow and change into whatever shape pleases you. You can make the world into a shape that pleases you too - one cucumber, one garden party, one revolution at a time. Blessed fucking be. We must remember love. true bonus 8fed5a50-233b-4714-baeb-ad3fd50be64c MW Rx. 58 - I Rock, I Roll, I Bloom, I Grow, I Glow www.missingwitches.com/rx-i-rock-i-roll-i-bloom-i-grow-i-glow

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]]> MW Rx. 58 - I Rock, I Roll, I Bloom, I Grow, I Glow Missing Witches 00:21:18 This week's prescription begins with a surprise drop in from Risa who delivers some great news - she finally got results from a barrage of tests that show 1. her cancer is the curable kind and 2. it doesn't live in her DNA so it won't be passed to her daughter. BLESSED FUCKING BE. While she waited for this call, Risa has been bingeing British mysteries, soothed by stories where questions are always answered, mysteries are solved and everything works out in the end. She recommends Vera who, in one episode, declares herself a Witch, so we'll add Vera to our pantheon of Witches we've been missing. Amy is then joined by Heather Darby-DeMarco, founder of Wild Moon Charm School. Heather's prescription begins by surrendering to and embracing nostalgia and reminding us that it's not even about memories, but the feelings that those memories conjure in us. Having passed the Summer Solstice, Heather feels her world slipping back into drooping vines, shorter days and longer nights. We're still in summertime but we can sense a time when we'll have to kiss it goodbye to make way for autumn. It's bittersweet. Heather brings two songs to evoke the sounds of summer nights. First is REM's You Are The Everything: Here's a scene You're in the backseat laying down, the windows wrap around (say, say, the light) To the sound of the travel and the engine (say, say, the light) All you hear is time stand still in travel And feel such peace and absolute The stillness still that doesn't end But slowly drifts into sleep The greatest thing you've ever seen And they're there for you For you alone, you are the everything Heather listens to this REM song to connect to the spirit of Right Now, feeling like stars shine for us alone. And taking her all the way through time, she brings John Prine's Knockin' On Your Screen Door: I can see your back porch if I close my eyes now I can hear the train tracks through the laundry on the line I'm thinking it's your business, but you don't got to answer I'm knocking on your screen door in the summertime Heather reminds us that cultivating a screen door in our lives is part of a Witch's work - every day we build a sieve for and of ourselves - allowing in the good and keeping out the bad. As we drive through this life, glance back into the rear-view mirror - see where we're going and where we've been. If you're in Ohio, Heather is doing an in-person pop up doing readings at Brewing Intuition on Sunday the 14th from noon to five pm. If you're not in Ohio, find Heather at Wild Moon Charm School where she teaches psychic development, medium-ship development, spellwork, tarot and tools for folks who are longing for a more magical life and to increase their personal power. Amy's prescription is to spend a whole day with Tyler the Creator's album Flower Boy. This week, be a flower boy - walk in the woods, bloom, grow, glow, drop seeds, look at all that joy. Having a hard time narrowing it down to just one song, Amy brings a rapid fire of Tyler's personal experience and the advice we can take: Where This Flower Blooms: I rock I roll I bloom I grow I glow Foreword: See, I was in the woods with flowers, rainbows, and posies fallin' outta my pocket. Droppin Seeds: I'm droppin' seeds, got this garden, flowers poppin' of course I'm droppin' seeds, motherfucker Glitter: I feel like glitter. They ain't build me up so I block 'em like Lego...Feelin' glitter, feelin' good and great...They ain't build me up so I block 'em like Lego. Look at my face, look at that joy Keep your windows open and the screen-door closed, sweet Coven. Hear the sounds of night breezes and memories past. Feel like glitter. Look at joy. You are the everything. We love you. Blessed fucking be. www.missingwitches.com/rx-i-rock-i-roll-i-bloom-i-grow-i-glow This week's prescription begins with a surprise drop in from Risa who delivers some great news - she finally got results from a barrage of tests that show 1. her cancer is the curable kind and 2. it doesn't live in her DNA so it won't be passed to her daughter. BLESSED FUCKING BE. While she waited for this call, Risa has been bingeing British mysteries, soothed by stories where questions are always answered, mysteries are solved and everything works out in the end. She recommends Vera who, in one episode, declares herself a Witch, so we'll add Vera to our pantheon of Witches we've been missing. Amy is then joined by Heather Darby-DeMarco, founder of Wild Moon Charm School. Heather's prescription begins by surrendering to and embracing nostalgia and reminding us that it's not even about memories, but the feelings that those memories conjure in us. Having passed the Summer Solstice, Heather feels her world slipping back into drooping vines, shorter days and longer nights. We're still in summertime but we can sense a time when we'll have to kiss it goodbye to make way for autumn. It's bittersweet. Heather brings two songs to evoke the sounds of summer nights. First is REM's You Are The Everything: Here's a scene You're in the backseat laying down, the windows wrap around (say, say, the light) To the sound of the travel and the engine (say, say, the light) All you hear is time stand still in travel And feel such peace and absolute The stillness still that doesn't end But slowly drifts into sleep The greatest thing you've ever seen And they're there for you For you alone, you are the everything Heather listens to this REM song to connect to the spirit of Right Now, feeling like stars shine for us alone. And taking her all the way through time, she brings John Prine's Knockin' On Your Screen Door: I can see your back porch if I close my eyes now I can hear the train tracks through the laundry on the line I'm thinking it's your business, but you don't got to answer I'm knocking on your screen door in the summertime Heather reminds us that cultivating a screen door in our lives is part of a Witch's work - every day we build a sieve for and of ourselves - allowing in the good and keeping out the bad. As we drive through this life, glance back into the rear-view mirror - see where we're going and where we've been. If you're in Ohio, Heather is doing an in-person pop up doing readings at Brewing Intuition on Sunday the 14th from noon to five pm. If you're not in Ohio, find Heather at Wild Moon Charm School where she teaches psychic development, medium-ship development, spellwork, tarot and tools for folks who are longing for a more magical life and to increase their personal power. Amy's prescription is to spend a whole day with Tyler the Creator's album Flower Boy. This week, be a flower boy - walk in the woods, bloom, grow, glow, drop seeds, look at all that joy. Having a hard time narrowing it down to just one song, Amy brings a rapid fire of Tyler's personal experience and the advice we can take: Where This Flower Blooms: I rock I roll I bloom I grow I glow Foreword: See, I was in the woods with flowers, rainbows, and posies fallin' outta my pocket. Droppin Seeds: I'm droppin' seeds, got this garden, flowers poppin' of course I'm droppin' seeds, motherfucker Glitter: I feel like glitter. They ain't build me up so I block 'em like Lego...Feelin' glitter, feelin' good and great...They ain't build me up so I block 'em like Lego. Look at my face, look at that joy Keep your windows open and the screen-door closed, sweet Coven. Hear the sounds of night breezes and memories past. Feel like glitter. Look at joy. You are the everything. We love you. 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]]> MW Rx. 57 - All You Fascists Bound To Lose Missing Witches 00:30:22 As always, the first prescription this week is to send beams of radiant light to Risa. Her surgery is coming up, and she needs all the love we can send. Amy is joined by Holly, founder of Entrepreneur Outliers, who comes armed with a song to uplift all of us feeling fucked up over a barrage of baffling choices from SCOTUS and beyond. Holly's prescription is All You Fascists Bound To Lose - originally written by classic protest folkie Woody Guthrie - as performed by the Resistance Revival Chorus. When you're feeling anger and sorrow, pick yourself up with this number that reminds us that sooner or later the fascists WILL lose. Sing it at the top of your lungs. I’m gonna tell you fascists You may be surprised The people in this world Are getting organized You’re bound to lose You fascists bound to lose Amy's prescription also rings out with the power of people organizing against the wrongs they see in the world. She's been thinking a lot about Mia Zapata, marking the July 7th anniversary of her murder. When Mia, lead singer of Seattle grunge band The Gits, was killed in 1993, her community rallied, and in response to their rage, fear and grief created Home Alive, an anti-violence organization that provided people with training in self-defence, and held concerts to raise money to give resources to victims of sexual violence. In Second Skin, Mia sang: I need that second skin something to hold me tough can't do it on my own sometimes I need just a little more help Because the thing is, we CAN'T do it on our own, and we all need just a little more help. Joan Jett and Kathleen Hanna dealt with the death of their friend by collaborating on a song called Go Home. Give me a reason to fight When there's nowhere to run to Some of our favourite Drag Queens are pushing back against drag bans and their attempted silencing of queer culture and have started DragPac - a political action group whose mission is to empower LGBTQ+ voices to vote. One of the programs run by the Black Panther Party was free breakfasts for children. Resistance comes in many forms. There are many kinds of kindness. We are a collective, and we need to make it our job to fight those that seek to knock us down with violence and greed. Let's respond to our anger by organizing, by looking out for each other, lifting each other up, and doing whatever we can to see to it that the fascists lose until we are all safe, happy and free. Hold tough. Blessed fucking be. We love you. https://www.missingwitches.com/rx-all-you-fascists-bound-to-lose/ As always, the first prescription this week is to send beams of radiant light to Risa. Her surgery is coming up, and she needs all the love we can send. Amy is joined by Holly, founder of Entrepreneur Outliers, who comes armed with a song to uplift all of us feeling fucked up over a barrage of baffling choices from SCOTUS and beyond. Holly's prescription is All You Fascists Bound To Lose - originally written by classic protest folkie Woody Guthrie - as performed by the Resistance Revival Chorus. When you're feeling anger and sorrow, pick yourself up with this number that reminds us that sooner or later the fascists WILL lose. Sing it at the top of your lungs. I’m gonna tell you fascists You may be surprised The people in this world Are getting organized You’re bound to lose You fascists bound to lose Amy's prescription also rings out with the power of people organizing against the wrongs they see in the world. She's been thinking a lot about Mia Zapata, marking the July 7th anniversary of her murder. When Mia, lead singer of Seattle grunge band The Gits, was killed in 1993, her community rallied, and in response to their rage, fear and grief created Home Alive, an anti-violence organization that provided people with training in self-defence, and held concerts to raise money to give resources to victims of sexual violence. In Second Skin, Mia sang: I need that second skin something to hold me tough can't do it on my own sometimes I need just a little more help Because the thing is, we CAN'T do it on our own, and we all need just a little more help. Joan Jett and Kathleen Hanna dealt with the death of their friend by collaborating on a song called Go Home. Give me a reason to fight When there's nowhere to run to Some of our favourite Drag Queens are pushing back against drag bans and their attempted silencing of queer culture and have started DragPac - a political action group whose mission is to empower LGBTQ+ voices to vote. One of the programs run by the Black Panther Party was free breakfasts for children. Resistance comes in many forms. There are many kinds of kindness. We are a collective, and we need to make it our job to fight those that seek to knock us down with violence and greed. Let's respond to our anger by organizing, by looking out for each other, lifting each other up, and doing whatever we can to see to it that the fascists lose until we are all safe, happy and free. Hold tough. Blessed fucking be. We love you. https://www.missingwitches.com/rx-all-you-fascists-bound-to-lose/ true bonus 63d02435-0132-4986-bd37-90c63659fce2 MW Rx. 56 - Outer Space Is A Pleasant Place Death Tinted Glasses - check out their website and instagram

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]]> MW Rx. 56 - Outer Space Is A Pleasant Place Missing Witches 00:18:42 Risa is awaiting more test results so, as always, the first prescription this week is to send good energy her way. She has said that she feels these golden strands of love surrounding her - let's keep weaving this web of protection. Amy is joined by coven mate Killian (they/them), founder of Death Tinted Glasses - check out their website and instagram - who's first prescription this week is to bathe ourselves in the spirit of rebellion. Think on your favourite rebels past and present, and if you need some extra inspiration, Killian recommends the TV show We Are Lady Parts, the fictional story of an all-girl Muslim punk band in London. Amy LOVED season one and is elated to hear that there's now a second season. If you don't have time for TV, Killian suggests punk-rocking out to the Lady Parts' song Glass Ceiling Feeling and know that you're fucking great. Maybe we're just actually shit No, you know we’re fucking great But we didn't pray this morning Or even yesterday Maybe we're a novelty act The token black and browns Please, shut up I’ve had enough of you putting us down Supercalifraga-racist sexist-xenophobic Is it us or is it them? Why they trying to own us? Supercalifraga-racist sexist-xenophobic Is it us or is it them? Overwhelmed and nominal, living in slow-motion Glass ceiling feeling Amy's prescription this week comes from a 2009 discovery in space exploration: A giant dust cloud at the heart of the Milky Way tastes like Raspberries! Having just harvested some raspberries from a wild bush in her yard, Amy is super emotional to discover that tasting them connects her tongue to outer space. Her prescription is to get some raspberries, look up at the night sky and taste them while listening to Sun Ra's Space Is The Place. Outer Space is a pleasant place A place where you can be free There's no limit to the things that you can do There's no limit to the things that you can be Space is the place. If cosmic dust clouds can taste like berries, then there's no limit to what we and our rebellious nature can be. Blessed Fucking Be. We love you. xo www.missingwitches.com/rx-outer-space-is-a-pleasant-place Risa is awaiting more test results so, as always, the first prescription this week is to send good energy her way. She has said that she feels these golden strands of love surrounding her - let's keep weaving this web of protection. Amy is joined by coven mate Killian (they/them), founder of Death Tinted Glasses - check out their website and instagram - who's first prescription this week is to bathe ourselves in the spirit of rebellion. Think on your favourite rebels past and present, and if you need some extra inspiration, Killian recommends the TV show We Are Lady Parts, the fictional story of an all-girl Muslim punk band in London. Amy LOVED season one and is elated to hear that there's now a second season. If you don't have time for TV, Killian suggests punk-rocking out to the Lady Parts' song Glass Ceiling Feeling and know that you're fucking great. Maybe we're just actually shit No, you know we’re fucking great But we didn't pray this morning Or even yesterday Maybe we're a novelty act The token black and browns Please, shut up I’ve had enough of you putting us down Supercalifraga-racist sexist-xenophobic Is it us or is it them? Why they trying to own us? Supercalifraga-racist sexist-xenophobic Is it us or is it them? Overwhelmed and nominal, living in slow-motion Glass ceiling feeling Amy's prescription this week comes from a 2009 discovery in space exploration: A giant dust cloud at the heart of the Milky Way tastes like Raspberries! Having just harvested some raspberries from a wild bush in her yard, Amy is super emotional to discover that tasting them connects her tongue to outer space. Her prescription is to get some raspberries, look up at the night sky and taste them while listening to Sun Ra's Space Is The Place. Outer Space is a pleasant place A place where you can be free There's no limit to the things that you can do There's no limit to the things that you can be Space is the place. If cosmic dust clouds can taste like berries, then there's no limit to what we and our rebellious nature can be. Blessed Fucking Be. We love you. xo www.missingwitches.com/rx-outer-space-is-a-pleasant-place true bonus 3121a329-da5d-4778-a4ed-c1492d3d0042 MW Rx. 55 - Cool For The Summer www.missingwitches.com/rx55/

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]]> MW Rx. 55 - Cool For The Summer Missing Witches 00:24:31 Risa is doing doctor's appointments but sent a prescription that might sound a bit niche: sing Hallelujah with clowns playing ukuleles. It happened to her in a hospital waiting room and we both agree that the experience was a good omen for her recovery! To help out with this week's prescription, Amy is joined by a special guest Witch, Brienne AKA Molten Hot Cosmic Witch. Bri is harvesting the magical fruits of compassion so her prescription is: Love Always, Never Revenge. Bri has had to accept what she can't control and let the anger fall away, discovering that when she finds compassion in her heart and allows it to lead her, karma takes care of the rest. Motivation and inspiration come from the words of MLK jr: "Forgiveness does not mean ignoring what has been done or putting a false label on an evil act ... Forgiveness is a catalyst creating the atmosphere necessary for a fresh start and a new beginning." Let your new beginning be to make your life so amazing that anyone who looks down on you is forced to look up to you. Living and loving well is the best revenge. Amy brings Pride month and a heatwave together with Demi Lovato's message: Kiss one another, we're cool for the summer. The prescription: Find someone to kiss. Bri and Amy spiral into the perils of making out with strangers in a post-lockdown world and come to the suggestion that we all have the option to start a summer fling with ourselves! The prescription shifts to self-love via self-pleasure. Stay cool, stay compassionate, we love you. Kisses. www.missingwitches.com/rx55/ Risa is doing doctor's appointments but sent a prescription that might sound a bit niche: sing Hallelujah with clowns playing ukuleles. It happened to her in a hospital waiting room and we both agree that the experience was a good omen for her recovery! To help out with this week's prescription, Amy is joined by a special guest Witch, Brienne AKA Molten Hot Cosmic Witch. Bri is harvesting the magical fruits of compassion so her prescription is: Love Always, Never Revenge. Bri has had to accept what she can't control and let the anger fall away, discovering that when she finds compassion in her heart and allows it to lead her, karma takes care of the rest. Motivation and inspiration come from the words of MLK jr: "Forgiveness does not mean ignoring what has been done or putting a false label on an evil act ... Forgiveness is a catalyst creating the atmosphere necessary for a fresh start and a new beginning." Let your new beginning be to make your life so amazing that anyone who looks down on you is forced to look up to you. Living and loving well is the best revenge. Amy brings Pride month and a heatwave together with Demi Lovato's message: Kiss one another, we're cool for the summer. The prescription: Find someone to kiss. Bri and Amy spiral into the perils of making out with strangers in a post-lockdown world and come to the suggestion that we all have the option to start a summer fling with ourselves! The prescription shifts to self-love via self-pleasure. Stay cool, stay compassionate, we love you. Kisses. www.missingwitches.com/rx55/ true bonus f06cb3fb-77b8-4e7c-b6ad-dcfdc0509282 Litha 2024: Cartomancy With Sonia Fernández LeBlanc, Zoe Flowers, And The Missing Witches Deck Of Oracles www.missingwitches.com/litha2024/

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]]> Litha 2024: Cartomancy With Sonia Fernández LeBlanc, Zoe Flowers, And The Missing Witches Deck Of Oracles Missing Witches 01:43:29 It's a double occasion party! Amy is joined by Sonia Fernández LeBlanc, Zoe Flowers, and the MW Coven to celebrate Litha the Summer Solstice and an early birthday party for the Missing Witches Deck Of Oracles. We talk about the whys and ways or cartomancy and open the floor to pull cards and do readings to answer questions from the Coven. Sonia Fernández LeBlanc is a medicinal storyteller, contemplative futurist, an esoteric interfaith scholar at the intersection of personal sovereignty and community care. She is a tarot reader, and a contributor to the new book Dreaming with Bees. Zoe flowers is a mystic, poet, teacher, a candle-maker, a tarot reader, and author of From Ashes To Angel’s Dust and In Praise of the Wytch. The Missing Witches Deck Of Oracles is available for pre-order now! www.missingwitches.com/litha2024/ It's a double occasion party! Amy is joined by Sonia Fernández LeBlanc, Zoe Flowers, and the MW Coven to celebrate Litha the Summer Solstice and an early birthday party for the Missing Witches Deck Of Oracles. We talk about the whys and ways or cartomancy and open the floor to pull cards and do readings to answer questions from the Coven. Sonia Fernández LeBlanc is a medicinal storyteller, contemplative futurist, an esoteric interfaith scholar at the intersection of personal sovereignty and community care. She is a tarot reader, and a contributor to the new book Dreaming with Bees. Zoe flowers is a mystic, poet, teacher, a candle-maker, a tarot reader, and author of From Ashes To Angel’s Dust and In Praise of the Wytch. The Missing Witches Deck Of Oracles is available for pre-order now! www.missingwitches.com/litha2024/ tarot, cartomancy, oracle true full 235 2c51e02c-4b52-42f5-83c0-18a0cde20ad5 MW Rx. 54 - Take Care Of Your Health And Get Plenty Of Rest www.missingwitches.com/rx-take-care-of-your-health-and-get-plenty-of-rest

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]]> MW Rx. 54 - Take Care Of Your Health And Get Plenty Of Rest Missing Witches 00:16:38 This week's prescription comes with a trigger warning: it's Cancer. And while astrologically Cancer season is almost upon us, we're talking about the other kind. Risa has been diagnosed with Stage 3 Breast Cancer and the idea of 'prescription' has taken on a whole new meaning. We believe in science, and we believe in magic. We believe that Risa will be okay. A year ago, we prescribed the legendary Tig Notaro set where she processes a series of brutal blows - a cancer diagnosis, c.difficile, the death of her mother - while she is right in the middle of it all. There's no ironic distance, no time to put the tragedies in focus, she is IN it. And friend, so are we. All the time. The present is a wall of fire around us. Tig manages to witness it and laugh at its absurdities while right in the fucking mess of it, and it's a spell for remembering that we do have that power: to be radiantly alive, observers and co-creators of our worlds, and to laugh AT and WITH all this as a practice of survival. We're both revisiting Tig's brave, bold comedy to remind us and You: Laughter amid tears is a magic that we rely on to get us through. Amy also brings The Byrds, Nothing Was Delivered, with its chorus of: Take care of your health and get plenty of rest. This prescription goes for all of us, and double for Risa: take care of your health and get plenty of rest. And while we're doing our best, there may be things that slip through cracks of exhaustion and preoccupation. This is a Love Coven, so we know you'll all be understanding and patient as we navigate these choppy waters. All the women in me are tired - Nayyirah Waheed Take care of your health and get plenty of rest. We love you. www.missingwitches.com/rx-take-care-of-your-health-and-get-plenty-of-rest This week's prescription comes with a trigger warning: it's Cancer. And while astrologically Cancer season is almost upon us, we're talking about the other kind. Risa has been diagnosed with Stage 3 Breast Cancer and the idea of 'prescription' has taken on a whole new meaning. We believe in science, and we believe in magic. We believe that Risa will be okay. A year ago, we prescribed the legendary Tig Notaro set where she processes a series of brutal blows - a cancer diagnosis, c.difficile, the death of her mother - while she is right in the middle of it all. There's no ironic distance, no time to put the tragedies in focus, she is IN it. And friend, so are we. All the time. The present is a wall of fire around us. Tig manages to witness it and laugh at its absurdities while right in the fucking mess of it, and it's a spell for remembering that we do have that power: to be radiantly alive, observers and co-creators of our worlds, and to laugh AT and WITH all this as a practice of survival. We're both revisiting Tig's brave, bold comedy to remind us and You: Laughter amid tears is a magic that we rely on to get us through. Amy also brings The Byrds, Nothing Was Delivered, with its chorus of: Take care of your health and get plenty of rest. This prescription goes for all of us, and double for Risa: take care of your health and get plenty of rest. And while we're doing our best, there may be things that slip through cracks of exhaustion and preoccupation. This is a Love Coven, so we know you'll all be understanding and patient as we navigate these choppy waters. All the women in me are tired - Nayyirah Waheed Take care of your health and get plenty of rest. We love you. www.missingwitches.com/rx-take-care-of-your-health-and-get-plenty-of-rest true bonus c3855d04-3474-43da-81d5-ec001afe7bfc MW Rx. 53 - Come And Get Your Love Mon, 3 Jun 2024 09:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/mw-rx-53-come-and-get-your-love-8mNfLgNv MW Rx. 53 - Come And Get Your Love Missing Witches 00:30:14 Coven, our annual Reparations Fundraiser is complete for 2024 and we're thrilled to share that we beat last year's tally and have officially returned over THIRTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS to indigenous-led organizations and non-profits that support survivors of domestic violence and violently displaced people around the world. $3490 of that went directly to the Native Women's Shelter of Montreal. Amy's prescription is Redbone's Come And Get Your Love. Because you deserve it, we all do, and it's here for you! We did it. We came together. It's beautiful. It's been such an amazing thing to witness because we know you don't have tons of extra money lying around, it's so beautiful to see the sacrifices you are willing to make in the name of reparations, in the name of this coming together. We especially want to shout out some of our top donors: Claire, Julie, Sarah, Karen, and especially Brienne who has been our top donor for the past two years. We love you so much. We're so grateful you've chosen to be part of this coven. Please keep the spirit of this action going throughout the year - follow indigenous leadership, artists and authors, learn about the First Nations people of your native land, educate yourself and others on the landback movement, consider how to make reparations in any way you can: donate, celebrate, protest, support!! Or just give your neighbours a helping hand... The Rx. episode takes a sharp left turn at this point, as Risa brings a request for a prescription she recently received from a friend. We unpack it together to see what we can offer a young Witch and her mom as they navigate how to live with and/or dispose of an object weighted with darkness and heartbreak. We talk about the weird psychology of freezer spells and the power of making our own rituals in times of pain or transition. Amy offers the perfect prescription song for our querent and for all of us, it's Argent's Dance In The Smoke. We will light a giant burning fire tonight We will burn it and dance in the smoke Every brand we'll tie somebody's worries to it We will burn it and dance in the smoke Coven, our annual Reparations Fundraiser is complete for 2024 and we're thrilled to share that we beat last year's tally and have officially returned over THIRTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS to indigenous-led organizations and non-profits that support survivors of domestic violence and violently displaced people around the world. $3490 of that went directly to the Native Women's Shelter of Montreal. Amy's prescription is Redbone's Come And Get Your Love. Because you deserve it, we all do, and it's here for you! We did it. We came together. It's beautiful. It's been such an amazing thing to witness because we know you don't have tons of extra money lying around, it's so beautiful to see the sacrifices you are willing to make in the name of reparations, in the name of this coming together. We especially want to shout out some of our top donors: Claire, Julie, Sarah, Karen, and especially Brienne who has been our top donor for the past two years. We love you so much. We're so grateful you've chosen to be part of this coven. Please keep the spirit of this action going throughout the year - follow indigenous leadership, artists and authors, learn about the First Nations people of your native land, educate yourself and others on the landback movement, consider how to make reparations in any way you can: donate, celebrate, protest, support!! 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]]> Thu, 30 May 2024 09:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/indigenous-futures-2024-part-3-stewarding-tears-whS3YbGZ www.missingwitches.com/indigenous-futures-2024-part-3-stewarding-tears

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]]> Indigenous Futures 2024 Part 3 - Stewarding Tears Missing Witches 01:03:29 We are all striving for connection and care. As we draw close to the end of the 2024 Missing Witches Reparations Fundraiser, we're joined by BLACKBIRD MEDICINES and Indigenous Death Doula Collective founder Chrystal Toop, aka Story Healing Thunderbird. Together we talk about Facilitating Safe Space, Fostering Hope, Grief and Grieving, Feasting, Celebration, and Radicalized Healing. Chrystal says, "Gathering in community is really the best action." Chrystal is an Indigenous storyteller, author, and community educator. She is the founder of multiple collectives, a public speaker, and grassroots organizer sought out for her lived expertise. Chrystal shares insights as an generational residential school survivor and registered social services worker. BLACKBIRD MEDICINES is a plant and land-based spiritual and cultural wellness practice. We are all striving for connection and care. As we draw close to the end of the 2024 Missing Witches Reparations Fundraiser, we're joined by BLACKBIRD MEDICINES and Indigenous Death Doula Collective founder Chrystal Toop, aka Story Healing Thunderbird. Together we talk about Facilitating Safe Space, Fostering Hope, Grief and Grieving, Feasting, Celebration, and Radicalized Healing. Chrystal says, "Gathering in community is really the best action." Chrystal is an Indigenous storyteller, author, and community educator. She is the founder of multiple collectives, a public speaker, and grassroots organizer sought out for her lived expertise. Chrystal shares insights as an generational residential school survivor and registered social services worker. BLACKBIRD MEDICINES is a plant and land-based spiritual and cultural wellness practice. grief, indigenize true full 234 f94b5042-dbe0-4dec-bee6-dbdf0987e888 Rx. 52 - There's Writing On The Walls, But They Can't Read It www.missingwitches.com/rx52/

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]]> Rx. 52 - There's Writing On The Walls, But They Can't Read It Missing Witches 00:20:42 This week, we're waiting, dripping, and melting into lake-mind... and getting cute bangs anyway because we're alive, and it's another May beneath the Flower Moon. It's the LAST WEEK of our annual Reparations Fundraiser! Risa's prescription this week is a song called Love and War by Thelma Plum: gentle, moving, croony pop with the rooted resilience of an ancestral storyline behind it from the longest continuous human culture on Earth. Thelma Plum is Gamilaraay; an award-winning singer-songwriter; and daughter of lore-man Paul Winanga-li Gii Spearim. The line from Thelma Plum that spoke up like a mantra this week is: There's writing on the walls, but they can't read it There's writing on the walls, but they can't read it Hold up your chin. Lichen are writing stories on the rocks around us, there's a story being told by the trees, the water, the rain, and by our own ruffled movements. Not everything is being told by the largely white men who dominate the news cycle. A great deal is happening on many, many, many interconnected layers of systems. And we might only hear these loud, angry war stories. But there are love stories too all around us, all over the walls. So hold up your chin, it's there even if they can't read it. Hold up your chin. We're gonna move through this part together. This week also marks the anniversary of Tina Turner's death, and she was and is such a force. (Here is the Rx. from the week she died ❤️‍🩹.) To honour her life and her passing, Amy prescribes the "so poignant, and so funky" Working Together: Unless we get together, the world would never survive And the hopes of the world will surely, surely die People like you and me to speak up for what is right Only then will the world see the light Working together, we can make a change Working together, we can help better things So let us put our hate aside and let us let love be our guide I say let's try little love for a change Let's try a little love! Listen while you read through the list of orgs our coven has made Reparations Donations to so far! (at the bottom of this page! They are SO INCREDIBLE.) Listen while you scrounge up your $10 and make your own reparation donation to the org of your choice! Feel the ritual sacrifice and the song lift the weight of your burdens: we are working together!! If you don't have the $ this month to donate, please listen to the song and imagine us all, with all our different abilities, wrapping you in love and easing the path in front of you. Imagine us covering the path ahead of you in petals even, why not? It's the Flower Moon, let's BLOOM. www.missingwitches.com/rx52/ https://www.missingwitches.com/reparations-fundraiser-2024/ This week, we're waiting, dripping, and melting into lake-mind... and getting cute bangs anyway because we're alive, and it's another May beneath the Flower Moon. It's the LAST WEEK of our annual Reparations Fundraiser! Risa's prescription this week is a song called Love and War by Thelma Plum: gentle, moving, croony pop with the rooted resilience of an ancestral storyline behind it from the longest continuous human culture on Earth. Thelma Plum is Gamilaraay; an award-winning singer-songwriter; and daughter of lore-man Paul Winanga-li Gii Spearim. The line from Thelma Plum that spoke up like a mantra this week is: There's writing on the walls, but they can't read it There's writing on the walls, but they can't read it Hold up your chin. Lichen are writing stories on the rocks around us, there's a story being told by the trees, the water, the rain, and by our own ruffled movements. Not everything is being told by the largely white men who dominate the news cycle. A great deal is happening on many, many, many interconnected layers of systems. And we might only hear these loud, angry war stories. But there are love stories too all around us, all over the walls. So hold up your chin, it's there even if they can't read it. Hold up your chin. We're gonna move through this part together. This week also marks the anniversary of Tina Turner's death, and she was and is such a force. (Here is the Rx. from the week she died ❤️‍🩹.) To honour her life and her passing, Amy prescribes the "so poignant, and so funky" Working Together: Unless we get together, the world would never survive And the hopes of the world will surely, surely die People like you and me to speak up for what is right Only then will the world see the light Working together, we can make a change Working together, we can help better things So let us put our hate aside and let us let love be our guide I say let's try little love for a change Let's try a little love! Listen while you read through the list of orgs our coven has made Reparations Donations to so far! (at the bottom of this page! They are SO INCREDIBLE.) Listen while you scrounge up your $10 and make your own reparation donation to the org of your choice! Feel the ritual sacrifice and the song lift the weight of your burdens: we are working together!! If you don't have the $ this month to donate, please listen to the song and imagine us all, with all our different abilities, wrapping you in love and easing the path in front of you. Imagine us covering the path ahead of you in petals even, why not? It's the Flower Moon, let's BLOOM. www.missingwitches.com/rx52/ https://www.missingwitches.com/reparations-fundraiser-2024/ true bonus 25bde8d7-e179-4ee7-a0d8-93d438c8e05b MW Rx. 51 - Darkness Bring The Light https://www.missingwitches.com/reparations-fundraiser-2024/

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]]> MW Rx. 51 - Darkness Bring The Light Missing Witches 00:20:51 This week brings Spring to the mountains for real, and we remember about the urgency, the massive, mysterious force of buds bursting into bloom. We're calling in the strength behind that bursting, we're insisting upon awe for the signs we've seen in the sky, and Risa's prescription brings pure Indigenous Girl Joy in the song Sisters by The Halluci Nation. Amy brings a song that's become a powerful incantation for her in dark times: Darkness Bring the Light by Elisapie. Darkness bring the light. Darkness bring the light. Darkness bring the light. This week we invite you to help bring the light, and to join the joyful wave of Missing Witches Reparations! Consider donating to World Central Kitchen, who responded to the murder of their colleagues by opening a THIRD Gaza Field Kitchen. OR, search to see if there's a Native-run non-profit near you that you can send 10$. Let that seeking and small reparation begin to plant a seed in your life. Remember: seeds are small and enormous with potential on the inside, just like each of us! OR, join us in being good fairies from afar, sending donations to the Native Women's Shelter of Montreal, an organization that does so much good in our community, including the launch of Miyoskamin - 23 second stage housing units dedicated to providing a space for health care and support to help Indigenous families stay together. And the Iskweu project, that aims to respond to an immediate need for assistance expressed by families and loved ones in the case of an Indigenous woman or girl (trans, two -spirit) goes missing. We love SO MUCH to hear about the organizations you are supporting, so don't forget to send your donation receipt into missingwitches@gmail.com with the subject line Reparations. We'll enter you into our draw at the end of the month for delicious magical prizes as part of our annual Reparations Fundraiser. We're halfway through! Help make this wave of love! https://www.missingwitches.com/reparations-fundraiser-2024/ This week brings Spring to the mountains for real, and we remember about the urgency, the massive, mysterious force of buds bursting into bloom. We're calling in the strength behind that bursting, we're insisting upon awe for the signs we've seen in the sky, and Risa's prescription brings pure Indigenous Girl Joy in the song Sisters by The Halluci Nation. Amy brings a song that's become a powerful incantation for her in dark times: Darkness Bring the Light by Elisapie. Darkness bring the light. Darkness bring the light. Darkness bring the light. This week we invite you to help bring the light, and to join the joyful wave of Missing Witches Reparations! Consider donating to World Central Kitchen, who responded to the murder of their colleagues by opening a THIRD Gaza Field Kitchen. OR, search to see if there's a Native-run non-profit near you that you can send 10$. Let that seeking and small reparation begin to plant a seed in your life. Remember: seeds are small and enormous with potential on the inside, just like each of us! OR, join us in being good fairies from afar, sending donations to the Native Women's Shelter of Montreal, an organization that does so much good in our community, including the launch of Miyoskamin - 23 second stage housing units dedicated to providing a space for health care and support to help Indigenous families stay together. And the Iskweu project, that aims to respond to an immediate need for assistance expressed by families and loved ones in the case of an Indigenous woman or girl (trans, two -spirit) goes missing. We love SO MUCH to hear about the organizations you are supporting, so don't forget to send your donation receipt into missingwitches@gmail.com with the subject line Reparations. We'll enter you into our draw at the end of the month for delicious magical prizes as part of our annual Reparations Fundraiser. We're halfway through! Help make this wave of love! https://www.missingwitches.com/reparations-fundraiser-2024/ true bonus 67e38ece-f3e5-4578-ba41-1133b57b3ae2 Indigenous Futures 2024 Part 2 - The Future Requires Radical Hope www.missingwitches.com/indigenous-futures-2024-part-2-the-future-requires-radical-hope

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]]> Thu, 16 May 2024 09:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/indigenous-futures-2024-part-2-the-future-requires-radical-hope-9dy_6_XU www.missingwitches.com/indigenous-futures-2024-part-2-the-future-requires-radical-hope

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]]> Indigenous Futures 2024 Part 2 - The Future Requires Radical Hope Missing Witches 00:59:54 Together with Asha Frost, Christopher Marmolejo, AND Granddaughter Crow we discuss the cultivation and embodiment of Radical Hope, Liberation, Self-Determination and Collective Healing, and acknowledge that it's good to fail at empire. We spin the wool of connection and weave a multi-coloured tapestry of possibility, and in doing so, this conversation becomes a blanket of comfort and protection over the seven generations ahead and behind. Asha Frost is a mentor and mama, a Medicine Woman who believes that we can all heal ourselves. She is the author of You Are The Medicine and creator of Sacred Medicine oracle deck, and the upcoming Animal Elders oracle deck (Dec 2024). Christopher Marmolejo s a Brown, queer, and trans writer, diviner, educator, prophetess and authoress of Red Tarot. They use divination and astrology to promote a literacy of liberation. Granddaughter Crow (Dr. Joy Gray) holds a doctorate in leadership. Internationally recognized as a medicine woman, she comes from a long line of spiritual leaders as a member of the Navajo Nation. Her books include The Journey of the Soul, Wisdom of the Natural World, and Belief, Being, & Beyond. Together with Asha Frost, Christopher Marmolejo, AND Granddaughter Crow we discuss the cultivation and embodiment of Radical Hope, Liberation, Self-Determination and Collective Healing, and acknowledge that it's good to fail at empire. We spin the wool of connection and weave a multi-coloured tapestry of possibility, and in doing so, this conversation becomes a blanket of comfort and protection over the seven generations ahead and behind. Asha Frost is a mentor and mama, a Medicine Woman who believes that we can all heal ourselves. She is the author of You Are The Medicine and creator of Sacred Medicine oracle deck, and the upcoming Animal Elders oracle deck (Dec 2024). Christopher Marmolejo s a Brown, queer, and trans writer, diviner, educator, prophetess and authoress of Red Tarot. They use divination and astrology to promote a literacy of liberation. Granddaughter Crow (Dr. Joy Gray) holds a doctorate in leadership. Internationally recognized as a medicine woman, she comes from a long line of spiritual leaders as a member of the Navajo Nation. Her books include The Journey of the Soul, Wisdom of the Natural World, and Belief, Being, & Beyond. books, reparations, decolonizing, oracle, indigenizing true full 233 eac6077e-033b-4db5-b502-610231e1b07b MW Rx. 50 - You Are Not Alone www.missingwitches.com/rx-youre-not-alone/

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]]> MW Rx. 50 - You Are Not Alone Missing Witches 00:21:16 This week, as the moon begins to return from behind its monthly shadow rest, we're feeling into our creaky, leaky, magical old bodies. Do you struggle to be in your body? To feel it all? Us too, but from within our individual experiences of pain and pleasure we can root into deeper empathy and weave stronger circles of care. So here we go. Risa brings the rain on the lake, the image of each drop sending out its circle to resonate and concatenate with all the others. She's calling up the reminder of all the beings who exist within us and threaded through us, and the prescription comes from our coven mate Reed: a song that calls out to each of us, remember: You're Not Alone. In the cradle of the circle All the ones that came before you Well, their strength is yours now You're not alone Inspired by the plum trees she planted years ago finally flowering for the first time, and in honour of our annual Reparations season, Amy comes with Sacred Flowers by the Blue Mountain Tribe and an invitation to think about flowers, their holiness, and their haunting. The video for the song Sacred Flowers is a collage of stories about missing and murdered Indigenous women, dedications to specific stolen sisters. And while you're listening to it, while you're making your donation of $10 or more to your local Indigenous support org, we invite you this Spring to think about flowers. As long as we are rooted, we can bloom. As long as we are rooted — rooted in community, rooted in ethics, rooted in a sense of right and wrong, rooted in a love for the flowers, the land, the universe — then we have the opportunity to bloom. With hope and care, first come the flowers, then come the fruits. Flowers need rain and sun. So, tend to yourself as if you were a flower and be amazed by the beauty of the world. And check out Blue Mountain Tribe and join our Reparations Fundraiser. And remember, you are not alone. www.missingwitches.com/rx-youre-not-alone/ https://www.missingwitches.com/reparations-fundraiser-2024/ This week, as the moon begins to return from behind its monthly shadow rest, we're feeling into our creaky, leaky, magical old bodies. Do you struggle to be in your body? To feel it all? Us too, but from within our individual experiences of pain and pleasure we can root into deeper empathy and weave stronger circles of care. So here we go. Risa brings the rain on the lake, the image of each drop sending out its circle to resonate and concatenate with all the others. She's calling up the reminder of all the beings who exist within us and threaded through us, and the prescription comes from our coven mate Reed: a song that calls out to each of us, remember: You're Not Alone. In the cradle of the circle All the ones that came before you Well, their strength is yours now You're not alone Inspired by the plum trees she planted years ago finally flowering for the first time, and in honour of our annual Reparations season, Amy comes with Sacred Flowers by the Blue Mountain Tribe and an invitation to think about flowers, their holiness, and their haunting. The video for the song Sacred Flowers is a collage of stories about missing and murdered Indigenous women, dedications to specific stolen sisters. And while you're listening to it, while you're making your donation of $10 or more to your local Indigenous support org, we invite you this Spring to think about flowers. As long as we are rooted, we can bloom. As long as we are rooted — rooted in community, rooted in ethics, rooted in a sense of right and wrong, rooted in a love for the flowers, the land, the universe — then we have the opportunity to bloom. With hope and care, first come the flowers, then come the fruits. Flowers need rain and sun. So, tend to yourself as if you were a flower and be amazed by the beauty of the world. And check out Blue Mountain Tribe and join our Reparations Fundraiser. And remember, you are not alone. www.missingwitches.com/rx-youre-not-alone/ https://www.missingwitches.com/reparations-fundraiser-2024/ true bonus 1b8ccdd3-457d-4b64-9f30-1f9164a5f027 MW Rx. 49 - Stand In The Way Of Control https://www.missingwitches.com/reparations-fundraiser-2024/

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]]> MW Rx. 49 - Stand In The Way Of Control Missing Witches 00:21:47 We come to you this week buoyed by love! We've launched our annual Reparations Season and it's such a joy to feel our community together, reaching out with love to return resources to indigenous communities and - this year - to extend our embrace to displaced people in Palestine, Sudan, the Congo, Ukraine and beyond. We invite you to check out our Reparations Fundraiser and all the delicious prizes! Consider making a donation, or sharing the project wherever you can. And listen, no judgement, make a donation for any reason that works for you! Do it to transmute rage and sorrow! Do it to share on social media and amplify good vibes! Do it to win utterly MAGICAL prizes! Do it to piss off your racist uncle! This week Amy brings a song / poem / incantation by Santee Dakota activist, performance artist, actor, and poet John Trudell. Children Of Earth is a call to remember ourselves as care takers, care givers, beings who can use their thoughts to protect Earth. We are not powerless. Risa comes to this week feeling like she's trying to wrap her entire nervous system around the kids. The kids trapped in Rafah, the kids protesting genocide, the students building encampments and their deep radical rage and hope, around the faculty and local communities coming out to make circles of protection. When it all feels overwhelming, one of the magic songs that helps Risa is Gossip's Standing in the Way of Control https://www.missingwitches.com/reparations-fundraiser-2024/ We come to you this week buoyed by love! We've launched our annual Reparations Season and it's such a joy to feel our community together, reaching out with love to return resources to indigenous communities and - this year - to extend our embrace to displaced people in Palestine, Sudan, the Congo, Ukraine and beyond. We invite you to check out our Reparations Fundraiser and all the delicious prizes! Consider making a donation, or sharing the project wherever you can. And listen, no judgement, make a donation for any reason that works for you! Do it to transmute rage and sorrow! Do it to share on social media and amplify good vibes! Do it to win utterly MAGICAL prizes! Do it to piss off your racist uncle! This week Amy brings a song / poem / incantation by Santee Dakota activist, performance artist, actor, and poet John Trudell. Children Of Earth is a call to remember ourselves as care takers, care givers, beings who can use their thoughts to protect Earth. We are not powerless. Risa comes to this week feeling like she's trying to wrap her entire nervous system around the kids. The kids trapped in Rafah, the kids protesting genocide, the students building encampments and their deep radical rage and hope, around the faculty and local communities coming out to make circles of protection. When it all feels overwhelming, one of the magic songs that helps Risa is Gossip's Standing in the Way of Control https://www.missingwitches.com/reparations-fundraiser-2024/ true bonus bb3f3d01-c6c1-46ad-9814-5f44b29edc44 We Are Frog And Toad Kin www.missingwitches.com/we-are-frog-and-toad-kin/

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]]> We Are Frog And Toad Kin Missing Witches 00:19:49 All toads are frogs, but not all frogs are toads - toads belong to the frog family, but just like humans, frogs come in all different varieties. One of the most noticeable differences between frogs and toads is their skin. But they are still family. Can you sense where I’m going with this? Skin colour, and in our amphibian friends’ case also skin texture, sets these creatures apart from one another, but they are still family. And we witches can think of frogs when racism rears its ugly head. Despite our differences, despite our skin, we are still family. www.missingwitches.com/we-are-frog-and-toad-kin/ All toads are frogs, but not all frogs are toads - toads belong to the frog family, but just like humans, frogs come in all different varieties. One of the most noticeable differences between frogs and toads is their skin. But they are still family. Can you sense where I’m going with this? Skin colour, and in our amphibian friends’ case also skin texture, sets these creatures apart from one another, but they are still family. And we witches can think of frogs when racism rears its ugly head. Despite our differences, despite our skin, we are still family. www.missingwitches.com/we-are-frog-and-toad-kin/ true full 231 7995f852-3fad-4c26-b23d-69a80de7d032 Indigenous Futures + BELTANE Special - We Have A Lot Of Relations Full transcript is up at: http://www.missingwitches.com/indigenous-futures-beltane-special-we-have-a-lot-of-relations/

Edgar Fabián Frías + Amanda Amour Lynx

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Edgar Fabián Frías + Amanda Amour Lynx

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]]> Indigenous Futures + BELTANE Special - We Have A Lot Of Relations Missing Witches 00:58:38 Join Risa and Amy as we sit down once again with two of our favourite returning guests and future-crafters: artists Edgar Fabián Frías + Amanda Amour Lynx! Join Risa and Amy as we sit down once again with two of our favourite returning guests and future-crafters: artists Edgar Fabián Frías + Amanda Amour Lynx! true full 232 585ceea3-873d-4519-95a4-385da3ee252b MW Rx. 48 - Please Come Wipe My Tears https://www.missingwitches.com/rx-please-come-wipe-my-tears/

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]]> MW Rx. 48 - Please Come Wipe My Tears Missing Witches 00:19:52 Risa came to this week weepy, and Amy came with a song that pleads to an archetype of love and compassion to wipe our tears. Amy brings a song from 'Shankar Family and Friends', an album that George Harrison (the Beatle who was a follower of Hinduism) produced with songs written and performed by famed sitar player Ravi Shankar and his family. The song is I Am Missing You, a song that is a plea to Krishna the Hindu god of protection, compassion, tenderness and love. I am missing you, oh Krishna where are you? Though I can’t see you, I hear your flute on the wind. Please come wipe my tears and make me smile Amy doesn’t want to just deify these characteristics of compassion and protection, so the prescription this week is the reify them - make abstract concepts concrete in your life. Go love. Go protect. Be compassionate in your life here and now. Hear the flute of hope on the wind. Risa self-prescription is Resistance Revival Chorus on repeat, especially Joy in Resistance. What the world needs now Is joy in resistance We will fight the good fight With or without your assistance Move out of the way If you can't support the mission What the world needs now Is joy in resistance Let's be held by a chorus. Let's lean towards a sense of being together in our resistance. Let's find our joy in each other and keep on keepin' on. BFB. https://www.missingwitches.com/rx-please-come-wipe-my-tears/ Risa came to this week weepy, and Amy came with a song that pleads to an archetype of love and compassion to wipe our tears. Amy brings a song from 'Shankar Family and Friends', an album that George Harrison (the Beatle who was a follower of Hinduism) produced with songs written and performed by famed sitar player Ravi Shankar and his family. The song is I Am Missing You, a song that is a plea to Krishna the Hindu god of protection, compassion, tenderness and love. I am missing you, oh Krishna where are you? Though I can’t see you, I hear your flute on the wind. Please come wipe my tears and make me smile Amy doesn’t want to just deify these characteristics of compassion and protection, so the prescription this week is the reify them - make abstract concepts concrete in your life. Go love. Go protect. Be compassionate in your life here and now. Hear the flute of hope on the wind. Risa self-prescription is Resistance Revival Chorus on repeat, especially Joy in Resistance. What the world needs now Is joy in resistance We will fight the good fight With or without your assistance Move out of the way If you can't support the mission What the world needs now Is joy in resistance Let's be held by a chorus. Let's lean towards a sense of being together in our resistance. Let's find our joy in each other and keep on keepin' on. BFB. https://www.missingwitches.com/rx-please-come-wipe-my-tears/ true bonus a22f8ca9-c3dc-4c80-91fa-38b8e4515b21 We Are Undammed River Kin Full transcript and sources are up at  https://www.missingwitches.com/we-are-undammed-river-kin/

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]]> Thu, 25 Apr 2024 12:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/we-are-undammed-river-kin-S19kDrpy Full transcript and sources are up at  https://www.missingwitches.com/we-are-undammed-river-kin/

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]]> We Are Undammed River Kin Missing Witches 00:43:24 Last year Copco 2 came down, the first of 4 dams along the Klamath river that will all be removed by October 2024 in the largest dam removal project in history.  Breathe in and then let out a breath that comes pushing past the things you’ve been holding in. We are undammed river kin.  Last year Copco 2 came down, the first of 4 dams along the Klamath river that will all be removed by October 2024 in the largest dam removal project in history.  Breathe in and then let out a breath that comes pushing past the things you’ve been holding in. We are undammed river kin.  true full 230 a5e44614-f03f-451c-9d57-5e396531f5cf MW Rx. 47 - Look Him Straight In The Eye https://www.missingwitches.com/rx-look-him-straight-in-the-eye/

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]]> MW Rx. 47 - Look Him Straight In The Eye Missing Witches 00:30:41 This week the truth is coming out, water is breaching the banks, and little kid puke is everywhere. How's your April going? (Hit reply and let us know.) Risa comes to this week reallll short on sleep after a week with a sick kid up nights. In a delirium, she shares this meditation from cognitive hypnotherapist Andrew Johnson to help drop down into a lunar place, a resourced place, a source place: Meet Your Guide. For best effects, follow with a shot of Willie Nelson and his son crooning to you gently: Just Breathe. Stay with me, Let's just breathe. Because it seems like everywhere we go this week we're thinking about how nightmares repeat, and how we intercede. Risa's self-recommended mourning music for the times when we just can't help but get dragged through the loop again is Julien Baker's Repeat: All my greatest fears turn out to be The gift of prophecy All my nightmares coming true Come do my outline in the street While every night I re-enact the same recurring dream Now I'm stuck inside a vision that repeats Repeats, repeats, repeats, repeats, repeats Amy comes to this week buoyed by the big uplift that comes from taking off your mask, telling the truth to the gatekeeper, and getting help. She brings it back to the radical power of simple, grounded magic: tell the truth, just breathe, and look at the Moon. The song is Sugar, Man On The Moon: It's the man on the moon Saying goodnight to you And oh, how it shines He's a good friend of mine He's a good friend of yours Even many miles away In a night of despair Only one light is there It's the man on the moon Saying goodnight to you If you look to the sky Look him straight in the eye And as strange as it seems If you wish all your dreams Will come true after all Let's look them straight in the eye, say our wishes out loud, and hold onto our dreams. https://www.missingwitches.com/rx-look-him-straight-in-the-eye/ This week the truth is coming out, water is breaching the banks, and little kid puke is everywhere. How's your April going? (Hit reply and let us know.) Risa comes to this week reallll short on sleep after a week with a sick kid up nights. In a delirium, she shares this meditation from cognitive hypnotherapist Andrew Johnson to help drop down into a lunar place, a resourced place, a source place: Meet Your Guide. For best effects, follow with a shot of Willie Nelson and his son crooning to you gently: Just Breathe. Stay with me, Let's just breathe. Because it seems like everywhere we go this week we're thinking about how nightmares repeat, and how we intercede. Risa's self-recommended mourning music for the times when we just can't help but get dragged through the loop again is Julien Baker's Repeat: All my greatest fears turn out to be The gift of prophecy All my nightmares coming true Come do my outline in the street While every night I re-enact the same recurring dream Now I'm stuck inside a vision that repeats Repeats, repeats, repeats, repeats, repeats Amy comes to this week buoyed by the big uplift that comes from taking off your mask, telling the truth to the gatekeeper, and getting help. She brings it back to the radical power of simple, grounded magic: tell the truth, just breathe, and look at the Moon. The song is Sugar, Man On The Moon: It's the man on the moon Saying goodnight to you And oh, how it shines He's a good friend of mine He's a good friend of yours Even many miles away In a night of despair Only one light is there It's the man on the moon Saying goodnight to you If you look to the sky Look him straight in the eye And as strange as it seems If you wish all your dreams Will come true after all Let's look them straight in the eye, say our wishes out loud, and hold onto our dreams. https://www.missingwitches.com/rx-look-him-straight-in-the-eye/ true bonus 6d71d486-3f26-42e6-8b54-50489031e627 We Are Deer Kin www.missingwitches.com/we-are-deer-kin/

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]]> We Are Deer Kin Missing Witches 00:17:38 We are Witches. We are deer kin, and we make our homes in a place called The Edge. Deer live on the boundaries, the borderlands, making a home for themselves in the places between worlds - the spaces between the wilderness and the man-made. It’s the habitat known as the edge where farms meet the forest and backyards meet the backwoods. What happens, Witches, when we take the fence down? When we look at our world from the vantage point of the deer’s path? What happens when we take down the fence that we’ve built between the human and non-human worlds and recognize ourselves as kin? "Each hoof of each animal makes the sign of a heart as it touches then lifts away from the ground." -Mary Oliver "I saw my garden through a deer’s eyes. The whole world became my garden. I decided to take the fence down." -Mayumi Oda www.missingwitches.com/we-are-deer-kin/ We are Witches. We are deer kin, and we make our homes in a place called The Edge. Deer live on the boundaries, the borderlands, making a home for themselves in the places between worlds - the spaces between the wilderness and the man-made. It’s the habitat known as the edge where farms meet the forest and backyards meet the backwoods. What happens, Witches, when we take the fence down? When we look at our world from the vantage point of the deer’s path? What happens when we take down the fence that we’ve built between the human and non-human worlds and recognize ourselves as kin? "Each hoof of each animal makes the sign of a heart as it touches then lifts away from the ground." -Mary Oliver "I saw my garden through a deer’s eyes. The whole world became my garden. I decided to take the fence down." -Mayumi Oda www.missingwitches.com/we-are-deer-kin/ true full 229 72a5cfb5-7edd-45e3-963f-0bd18c05f494 MW Rx. 46 - I’m Burning So I Will Bring The Light www.missingwitches.com/rx-im-burning-so-i-will-bring-the-light

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]]> MW Rx. 46 - I’m Burning So I Will Bring The Light Missing Witches 00:19:40 In this week's prescription we've got The Meat Puppets, Bikini Kill, and Boygenius in our ears. The solar eclipse in Aries this past week called out to our warrior selves, and the call is still echoing. Take some time to listen to the warriors present in your own cells: the warriors of immunity and white blood cells and repair, the warrior who battles the cruel lies of the anxious mind, the warrior who gathers people on the street to look up at the sky in awe, the warrior who gets the fuck out and survives, the warrior who is a parent protecting their child and insisting upon their right to inherit a living world. The wounded healer who knows just how much it hurts to take those exhausting, repeated steps, pushing against the weight of entropy, and who does it anyway. www.missingwitches.com/rx-im-burning-so-i-will-bring-the-light In this week's prescription we've got The Meat Puppets, Bikini Kill, and Boygenius in our ears. The solar eclipse in Aries this past week called out to our warrior selves, and the call is still echoing. Take some time to listen to the warriors present in your own cells: the warriors of immunity and white blood cells and repair, the warrior who battles the cruel lies of the anxious mind, the warrior who gathers people on the street to look up at the sky in awe, the warrior who gets the fuck out and survives, the warrior who is a parent protecting their child and insisting upon their right to inherit a living world. The wounded healer who knows just how much it hurts to take those exhausting, repeated steps, pushing against the weight of entropy, and who does it anyway. www.missingwitches.com/rx-im-burning-so-i-will-bring-the-light true bonus c02af9a8-6481-4f60-bbe7-fbd97c805b63 We Are Granite Kin This episode includes audio samples from:

  • Robert.Crosley - Common Loon, Dejarlais Lake
  • jchiledred - FOODKware_Scraping
  • juskiddink - Quarry 2

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]]> Thu, 11 Apr 2024 12:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/we-are-granite-kin-LJnAxX_w This episode includes audio samples from:

  • Robert.Crosley - Common Loon, Dejarlais Lake
  • jchiledred - FOODKware_Scraping
  • juskiddink - Quarry 2

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]]> We Are Granite Kin Missing Witches 00:23:14 Welcome back to the spring season of the Missing Witches podcast, our Kinship Season, which is dedicated to getting familiar with our familiars. This is where we take time to learn from our more than human kin. In the fall we’ll do a season dedicated to people stories again - our classic Missing Witches stories - and throughout the summer we’ll have Witches Found Interviews and episodes of the Rx, our list of people and of songs and other media to learn from about craft and magic and resistance and re-enchantment is long. But in the spring we need to balance out against people-logic by digging into soil, learning about the plants and animals and rocks and winds and waters that are us too, as we wind our wild ways through the holobiont that we all are here on Earth. These episodes were originally conceived of as tongue-in-cheek anti-capitalist motivational meditations, and we hope you’ll take these offerings in that original sense: seed bombs hurled on the pristine dying lawns of Mondays. Blessed Fucking Be. I have spent most of my life more like water than stone. Tears are always on the edges of my eyes, my thoughts are muddy or quick-flowing, it’s easy to splash me around and stir me up.  But I am shield kin too.... Welcome back to the spring season of the Missing Witches podcast, our Kinship Season, which is dedicated to getting familiar with our familiars. This is where we take time to learn from our more than human kin. In the fall we’ll do a season dedicated to people stories again - our classic Missing Witches stories - and throughout the summer we’ll have Witches Found Interviews and episodes of the Rx, our list of people and of songs and other media to learn from about craft and magic and resistance and re-enchantment is long. But in the spring we need to balance out against people-logic by digging into soil, learning about the plants and animals and rocks and winds and waters that are us too, as we wind our wild ways through the holobiont that we all are here on Earth. These episodes were originally conceived of as tongue-in-cheek anti-capitalist motivational meditations, and we hope you’ll take these offerings in that original sense: seed bombs hurled on the pristine dying lawns of Mondays. Blessed Fucking Be. I have spent most of my life more like water than stone. Tears are always on the edges of my eyes, my thoughts are muddy or quick-flowing, it’s easy to splash me around and stir me up.  But I am shield kin too.... true full 228 c94c6ac8-df37-4397-885a-4ff31601b191 MW Rx. 45 - Carry On, Love Is Coming https://www.missingwitches.com/rx-carry-on-love-is-coming/

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]]> MW Rx. 45 - Carry On, Love Is Coming Missing Witches 00:19:54 A Black woman artist holds the top spots on country music charts and planetary bodies are coming into perfect alignment. Portals do open and things will change. After a week in the car listening to Beyonce's requiem for America, it's the song Just for Fun which sits in Risa's heart this week and offers its medicine. "'Cause time heals everything I don't need anything Hallelujah I pray to her I pray to her" You know those times when you try to do something good — like ready your garden for Spring — or something just for fun — like make music in a new genre — and you are met with so much resistance it breaks your heart or lays your flat out on your back? This week we resist the urge to see it as a sign, and we lean into the thermodynamics of it all instead. Bodies at rest want to stay at rest, systems, genres, and gardens have inertia and push back hard against attempts at change. But time heals everything, and we don't need anything. Just rest, and then another step, and trust that momentum builds. Bodies in motion want to stay in motion. Our gathering magic is a fundamental property of matter and energy in this magical universe. Amy injured herself while trying to build a garden to feed her family and her community, but bolstered by Cayelin and Zoe's Eclipse message that fear can be turned into strength, and Crosby, Stills Nash & Young's Carry On, Amy made a donation to World Central Kitchen and remains undaunted in the cultivation of hope. "A new day, a new way, and new eyes to see the dawn. Carry on, love is coming. Love is coming to us all." https://www.missingwitches.com/rx-carry-on-love-is-coming/ A Black woman artist holds the top spots on country music charts and planetary bodies are coming into perfect alignment. Portals do open and things will change. After a week in the car listening to Beyonce's requiem for America, it's the song Just for Fun which sits in Risa's heart this week and offers its medicine. "'Cause time heals everything I don't need anything Hallelujah I pray to her I pray to her" You know those times when you try to do something good — like ready your garden for Spring — or something just for fun — like make music in a new genre — and you are met with so much resistance it breaks your heart or lays your flat out on your back? This week we resist the urge to see it as a sign, and we lean into the thermodynamics of it all instead. Bodies at rest want to stay at rest, systems, genres, and gardens have inertia and push back hard against attempts at change. But time heals everything, and we don't need anything. Just rest, and then another step, and trust that momentum builds. Bodies in motion want to stay in motion. Our gathering magic is a fundamental property of matter and energy in this magical universe. Amy injured herself while trying to build a garden to feed her family and her community, but bolstered by Cayelin and Zoe's Eclipse message that fear can be turned into strength, and Crosby, Stills Nash & Young's Carry On, Amy made a donation to World Central Kitchen and remains undaunted in the cultivation of hope. "A new day, a new way, and new eyes to see the dawn. Carry on, love is coming. Love is coming to us all." https://www.missingwitches.com/rx-carry-on-love-is-coming/ true bonus a9ed81bf-74d3-4b1b-8a13-98e78510ed18 We Are Bat Kin www.missingwitches.com/we-are-bat-kin/

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]]> We Are Bat Kin Missing Witches 00:23:53 I am a creature of the night.  The bible says I’m unclean.  I’ve been painted as evil because I’m special in ways that people could not understand.  I fly in the dark, defying the laws of what men know. Mysterious, villainous, enigmatic, suspicious, monstrous, and full of secrets. Misunderstood, yet integral to the workings of our world. I am a witch and I am bat kin. A group of bats is sometimes called a cauldron, so let’s gather in or around a cauldron and look for what we have in common, what we Witches can learn from bats. www.missingwitches.com/we-are-bat-kin/ I am a creature of the night.  The bible says I’m unclean.  I’ve been painted as evil because I’m special in ways that people could not understand.  I fly in the dark, defying the laws of what men know. Mysterious, villainous, enigmatic, suspicious, monstrous, and full of secrets. Misunderstood, yet integral to the workings of our world. I am a witch and I am bat kin. A group of bats is sometimes called a cauldron, so let’s gather in or around a cauldron and look for what we have in common, what we Witches can learn from bats. www.missingwitches.com/we-are-bat-kin/ bats true full 227 52f712bf-e5e1-4a94-8c0d-2d5ac05b8dbb MW Rx. 44 - Sing The Body Electric https://www.missingwitches.com/rx-sing-the-body-electric/

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]]> MW Rx. 44 - Sing The Body Electric Missing Witches 00:29:33 This week we are listening to plants and synthesizers. And we are calling back our power. One self-prescription for this season is to luxuriate in fruit. Let yourself be seduced by colour, generous sweetness, and the way fruit makes itself desirable and delicious so that animals will seek it out and spread its seeds. Ease your beloved bones on a velvet chaise lounge (or similar) and feed yourself grapes, berries, persimmons... dare to eat a peach! Know that you are tending to your wisest future crone self, and thereby to a profound source of no-fucks given power in the universe. Music from Mort Garson suggests that every cell has a soul. Can synthesizers connect us to our cellular spirituality? Do each of our senses have a seed where love has been planted? Can we see our world, our bodies, our gardens as a Cathedral of Pleasure? We think so! https://www.missingwitches.com/rx-sing-the-body-electric/ This week we are listening to plants and synthesizers. And we are calling back our power. One self-prescription for this season is to luxuriate in fruit. Let yourself be seduced by colour, generous sweetness, and the way fruit makes itself desirable and delicious so that animals will seek it out and spread its seeds. Ease your beloved bones on a velvet chaise lounge (or similar) and feed yourself grapes, berries, persimmons... dare to eat a peach! Know that you are tending to your wisest future crone self, and thereby to a profound source of no-fucks given power in the universe. Music from Mort Garson suggests that every cell has a soul. Can synthesizers connect us to our cellular spirituality? Do each of our senses have a seed where love has been planted? Can we see our world, our bodies, our gardens as a Cathedral of Pleasure? We think so! https://www.missingwitches.com/rx-sing-the-body-electric/ true bonus c73bd77d-ffae-4a21-99af-fbf2d4856fa2 We Are Lichen Kin Full transcript and sources are up at: https://www.missingwitches.com/we-are-lichen-kin/ 


 

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]]> Thu, 28 Mar 2024 12:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/we-are-lichen-kin-qxvJXRiE Full transcript and sources are up at: https://www.missingwitches.com/we-are-lichen-kin/ 


 

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]]> We Are Lichen Kin Missing Witches 00:31:01 We want to thank Tasha Lavdovsky for allowing us to share their music in this episode, the lichens of the Sooke Hills Wilderness Park are the source of the chemical dataset that has been translated into piano music for the project, "Music for Lichens", created with support from the Canada Council for the Arts. We want to thank Tasha Lavdovsky for allowing us to share their music in this episode, the lichens of the Sooke Hills Wilderness Park are the source of the chemical dataset that has been translated into piano music for the project, "Music for Lichens", created with support from the Canada Council for the Arts. true full 226 1cf1e57d-4e0e-4500-ac02-bd02bdc8ffb2 Ostara 2024 - A Taste Of The Coven: VISUAL ART www.missingwitches.com/ostara-2024-a-taste-of-the-coven-art

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]]> Ostara 2024 - A Taste Of The Coven: VISUAL ART Missing Witches 01:35:41 For the first day of Spring, we invite you to listen in on a meeting of the Missing Witches Coven, and maybe make some art!! How does art-making figure into your practice of the Craft?  Do you make wreaths like Bri, or trap spirits in gelatin like Jess?  Do you draw? Paint? Knit? Decorate cookies?  Do you love the undo option of digital art or a no-turning-back splash of red paint across a canvas? What role does making art or loving art play in our activism, our mental health, our identity or our humanity?  What visual artists have inspired you? Changed your worldview? Had a hand in the cultivation of you identity? www.missingwitches.com/ostara-2024-a-taste-of-the-coven-art For the first day of Spring, we invite you to listen in on a meeting of the Missing Witches Coven, and maybe make some art!! How does art-making figure into your practice of the Craft?  Do you make wreaths like Bri, or trap spirits in gelatin like Jess?  Do you draw? Paint? Knit? Decorate cookies?  Do you love the undo option of digital art or a no-turning-back splash of red paint across a canvas? What role does making art or loving art play in our activism, our mental health, our identity or our humanity?  What visual artists have inspired you? Changed your worldview? Had a hand in the cultivation of you identity? www.missingwitches.com/ostara-2024-a-taste-of-the-coven-art true full 225 258c2b08-ed71-4082-bfc9-e81c90bd4be4 MW Rx. 43 - Yes, We Practice Magic https://www.missingwitches.com/rx-yes-we-practice-magic/

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]]> MW Rx. 43 - Yes, We Practice Magic Missing Witches 00:28:31 This week we're inspred by Toth, The Indigo Girls, The Beatles and Fugazi. "I wanna be happy for no reason / Like the sun rising exactly / In every season / You've been here before‚ you opened the door / You walked straight on through, there's nothing to do / And nothing is wrong if nothing is right / We're happy now and, yes, we practice magic." "I'd give you everything I've got for a little peace of mind." And when Fugazi sang "I'm not sticking around" what they meant and what they did was opt out of norms they did not consent to. They built their own version of the world in small ways wherever they could. Remember what has made you resourced, resilient, rejoicing. https://www.missingwitches.com/rx-yes-we-practice-magic/ This week we're inspred by Toth, The Indigo Girls, The Beatles and Fugazi. "I wanna be happy for no reason / Like the sun rising exactly / In every season / You've been here before‚ you opened the door / You walked straight on through, there's nothing to do / And nothing is wrong if nothing is right / We're happy now and, yes, we practice magic." "I'd give you everything I've got for a little peace of mind." And when Fugazi sang "I'm not sticking around" what they meant and what they did was opt out of norms they did not consent to. They built their own version of the world in small ways wherever they could. Remember what has made you resourced, resilient, rejoicing. https://www.missingwitches.com/rx-yes-we-practice-magic/ true bonus fe7621eb-c173-456c-ae4d-d3ab3eccd37f WF Christopher Marmolejo of Red Tarot - A Tarot Reading Queers Time https://www.theredread.com/

 

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]]> Thu, 14 Mar 2024 12:02:50 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (christopher marmolejo) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/wf-christopher-marmolejo-of-red-tarot-a-tarot-reading-queers-time-kysTkGNr https://www.theredread.com/

 

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]]> WF Christopher Marmolejo of Red Tarot - A Tarot Reading Queers Time christopher marmolejo 01:05:55 "Christopher Marmolejo is a queer Indigenous teacher committed to radical community healing and building. They bring traditional teaching experience as an English teacher, intensive study as an astrologer, and their personal articulation of the tarot archetypes to their classes, workshops, and consultations as they seek to liberate through critical pedagogy and transgressive truth-telling. Marmolejo has facilitated emotional wellness programs with the Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice for the Inland Empire, and has worked with the organization Artists in Solidarity to offer their services to raise money for migrant families and children." Christopher Marmolejo is the author of Red Tarot: Designed to be used with any deck, Red Tarot is a radical praxis and decolonized oracle that moves beyond self-help and divination to reclaim tarot for liberation, self-determination, and collective healing. Red Tarot speaks to anyone othered for their identity or ways of being or thinking—LGBTQIA2S+ and BIPOC folks in particular—presenting the tarot as a radical epistemology that shifts the authority of knowing into the hands of the people themselves. Author Christopher Marmolejo frames literacy as key to liberation, and explores an understanding of tarot as critical literacy. They show how the cards can be read to subvert the dynamics of white supremacist-capitalist-imperialist-patriarchy, weaving historical context and spiritual practice into a comprehensive overview of tarot. Situating tarot imagery within cosmologies outside the Hellenistic frame—Death as interpreted through the lens of Hindu goddess Chhinnamasta, the High Priestess through Aztec goddess Coyolxauhqui—Marmolejo’s Red Tarot is a profound act of native reclamation and liberation. Each card’s interpretation is further bolstered by the teachings of Toni Morrison, bell hooks, Paulo Freire, José Esteban Muñoz, and others, in an offering that integrates intersectional wisdom with the author’s divination practice—and reveals tarot as an essential language for liberation. "Christopher Marmolejo is a queer Indigenous teacher committed to radical community healing and building. They bring traditional teaching experience as an English teacher, intensive study as an astrologer, and their personal articulation of the tarot archetypes to their classes, workshops, and consultations as they seek to liberate through critical pedagogy and transgressive truth-telling. Marmolejo has facilitated emotional wellness programs with the Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice for the Inland Empire, and has worked with the organization Artists in Solidarity to offer their services to raise money for migrant families and children." Christopher Marmolejo is the author of Red Tarot: Designed to be used with any deck, Red Tarot is a radical praxis and decolonized oracle that moves beyond self-help and divination to reclaim tarot for liberation, self-determination, and collective healing. Red Tarot speaks to anyone othered for their identity or ways of being or thinking—LGBTQIA2S+ and BIPOC folks in particular—presenting the tarot as a radical epistemology that shifts the authority of knowing into the hands of the people themselves. Author Christopher Marmolejo frames literacy as key to liberation, and explores an understanding of tarot as critical literacy. They show how the cards can be read to subvert the dynamics of white supremacist-capitalist-imperialist-patriarchy, weaving historical context and spiritual practice into a comprehensive overview of tarot. Situating tarot imagery within cosmologies outside the Hellenistic frame—Death as interpreted through the lens of Hindu goddess Chhinnamasta, the High Priestess through Aztec goddess Coyolxauhqui—Marmolejo’s Red Tarot is a profound act of native reclamation and liberation. Each card’s interpretation is further bolstered by the teachings of Toni Morrison, bell hooks, Paulo Freire, José Esteban Muñoz, and others, in an offering that integrates intersectional wisdom with the author’s divination practice—and reveals tarot as an essential language for liberation. tarot, indigenous, divination, decolonial true full 224 5db8abf5-dce1-49f4-b3da-a71dab4f88e3 MW Rx. 42 - Join The March To The Witch's Castle www.missingwitches.com/rx-march-to-the-witchs-castle/

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]]> Mon, 11 Mar 2024 09:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/mw-rx-42-join-the-march-to-the-witchs-castle-FHAesekV www.missingwitches.com/rx-march-to-the-witchs-castle/

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]]> MW Rx. 42 - Join The March To The Witch's Castle Missing Witches 00:26:54 This week Amy offers the end of war, and the way war doesn't end for those who lived it, and the image of the Witch's castle as the place we can all come to find some meaning in the senseless and to find the medicine of care. It's a return to Funkadelic, and we invite you to join us in the March to the Witch's Castle. Risa's prescription begins with the art-Satanist lovers behind the delightful, demonic doo-wop of Twin Temple. Put this one on and imagine you are in a beautiful old theatre, filled with thousands of other glorious rebel weirdos dancing and singing along loudly: "hex the patriarchy." Because that scene is real, and you are a part of it, no matter how alone you might feel. www.missingwitches.com/rx-march-to-the-witchs-castle/ This week Amy offers the end of war, and the way war doesn't end for those who lived it, and the image of the Witch's castle as the place we can all come to find some meaning in the senseless and to find the medicine of care. It's a return to Funkadelic, and we invite you to join us in the March to the Witch's Castle. Risa's prescription begins with the art-Satanist lovers behind the delightful, demonic doo-wop of Twin Temple. Put this one on and imagine you are in a beautiful old theatre, filled with thousands of other glorious rebel weirdos dancing and singing along loudly: "hex the patriarchy." Because that scene is real, and you are a part of it, no matter how alone you might feel. www.missingwitches.com/rx-march-to-the-witchs-castle/ true bonus 831524b8-6b71-437a-a53f-2cd55705bfd1 MW Rx. 41 - Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space www.missingwitches.com/rxdies-and-gentlemen-we-are-floating-in-space-la

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]]> Mon, 4 Mar 2024 10:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/mw-rx-41-ladies-and-gentlemen-we-are-floating-in-space-MI0DAy2t www.missingwitches.com/rxdies-and-gentlemen-we-are-floating-in-space-la

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]]> MW Rx. 41 - Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space Missing Witches 00:22:31 This week, the magic begins with the lost-but-found 70's psych rock album by Ted Lucas, recorded sometime after Motown left Detroit and he lost his job as the house 'exotic string specialist'. Lucas, who had studied with Ravi Shankar and recorded with the Temptations and The Supremes, took a multi-track recorder up to his attic and made a layered sound that feels like a premonition, now, of where weird folk would go. And let's get Spiritualized. Maybe you're crafting a liberatory magic from within a religion that feels like home for you, maybe you are in the process of deconstructing the religion you grew up and the ways it was hostile to your true self. Maybe you're atheist or agnostic and those frameworks do not relate to you at all. We invite you to listen for each other with love anyway. Because it's the calling out for light in the dark, and friendship from within the pit of loneliness, that we have in common, isn't it? www.missingwitches.com/rxdies-and-gentlemen-we-are-floating-in-space-la This week, the magic begins with the lost-but-found 70's psych rock album by Ted Lucas, recorded sometime after Motown left Detroit and he lost his job as the house 'exotic string specialist'. Lucas, who had studied with Ravi Shankar and recorded with the Temptations and The Supremes, took a multi-track recorder up to his attic and made a layered sound that feels like a premonition, now, of where weird folk would go. And let's get Spiritualized. Maybe you're crafting a liberatory magic from within a religion that feels like home for you, maybe you are in the process of deconstructing the religion you grew up and the ways it was hostile to your true self. Maybe you're atheist or agnostic and those frameworks do not relate to you at all. We invite you to listen for each other with love anyway. Because it's the calling out for light in the dark, and friendship from within the pit of loneliness, that we have in common, isn't it? www.missingwitches.com/rxdies-and-gentlemen-we-are-floating-in-space-la true bonus 02500653-c5cb-4766-9a96-a907c11752f6 WF Anikim Lamoureux - Find Your Own Voice www.missingwitches.com/ep-223-wf-anikim-lamoureux-find-your-own-voice

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]]> Thu, 29 Feb 2024 10:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/wf-anikim-lamoureux-find-your-own-voice-Ai_uNqSc www.missingwitches.com/ep-223-wf-anikim-lamoureux-find-your-own-voice

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]]> WF Anikim Lamoureux - Find Your Own Voice Missing Witches 00:55:08 "We are creative beings." In today's episode, Amy sits down for a reunion with one of our first ever interviewees from season ONE of the Missing Witches podcast, Anikim Lamoureux! We're getting back together, five and a half years later, to catch up and talk about the role that our bodies and voices can take in our quest for inner peace and sacred knowledge. Anikim joins us from the Sacred Valley in Peru to talk about her work in Voix Libre (Free Voice). From singing to speaking your truth, Anikim explores her blended ancestry to examine the human voice as a universal tool for connection and liberation. The voice, the body, the breath - they all work together. Anikim's calling is to help us all understand the power of our voices to vibrate love into the world. She says, "I see my life as a constant laboratory and playground," and believes that we can all create the life we want. www.missingwitches.com/ep-223-wf-anikim-lamoureux-find-your-own-voice "We are creative beings." In today's episode, Amy sits down for a reunion with one of our first ever interviewees from season ONE of the Missing Witches podcast, Anikim Lamoureux! We're getting back together, five and a half years later, to catch up and talk about the role that our bodies and voices can take in our quest for inner peace and sacred knowledge. Anikim joins us from the Sacred Valley in Peru to talk about her work in Voix Libre (Free Voice). From singing to speaking your truth, Anikim explores her blended ancestry to examine the human voice as a universal tool for connection and liberation. The voice, the body, the breath - they all work together. Anikim's calling is to help us all understand the power of our voices to vibrate love into the world. She says, "I see my life as a constant laboratory and playground," and believes that we can all create the life we want. www.missingwitches.com/ep-223-wf-anikim-lamoureux-find-your-own-voice true full 223 ac25dff0-6820-4449-9583-cae36e7b1747 MW Rx. 40 - It's Not An Act Of Love If You Make Her www.missingwitches.com/rx-its-not-an-act-of-love-if-you-make-her

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]]> Mon, 26 Feb 2024 10:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/mw-rx-40-its-not-an-act-of-love-if-you-make-her-truUjVQS www.missingwitches.com/rx-its-not-an-act-of-love-if-you-make-her

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]]> MW Rx. 40 - It's Not An Act Of Love If You Make Her Missing Witches 00:21:54 We left the woods, we went to the city, we spoke to a McGill University sociology class on social deviance about witchcraft and witch hunts, and we lugged ourselves across town till we collapsed. Amy's chronic illness took her out when we got back home, and so her prescription starts with drag artists Yvie Oddly and Willow Pill telling the truth about being all out of spoons in their hilarious and poignant song Sick Bitch. Risa got a dose of heavy kid magic this week. There's something about travelling alone and hanging out with other people's offspring that helps us see the potent, present possible of young people with fresh eyes. Recommended: an interpretive dance party with 8-year-olds to Beyonce's re-rooting of the country music genre back into Black history, seeding its future with Black magic. www.missingwitches.com/rx-its-not-an-act-of-love-if-you-make-her We left the woods, we went to the city, we spoke to a McGill University sociology class on social deviance about witchcraft and witch hunts, and we lugged ourselves across town till we collapsed. Amy's chronic illness took her out when we got back home, and so her prescription starts with drag artists Yvie Oddly and Willow Pill telling the truth about being all out of spoons in their hilarious and poignant song Sick Bitch. Risa got a dose of heavy kid magic this week. There's something about travelling alone and hanging out with other people's offspring that helps us see the potent, present possible of young people with fresh eyes. Recommended: an interpretive dance party with 8-year-olds to Beyonce's re-rooting of the country music genre back into Black history, seeding its future with Black magic. www.missingwitches.com/rx-its-not-an-act-of-love-if-you-make-her true bonus 9e6f10e2-a46e-407f-8fe7-950f1a6be333 MW Rx. 39 - These Are Not My People www.missingwitches.com/rx-these-are-not-my-people/

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]]> Mon, 19 Feb 2024 10:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/mw-rx-39-these-are-not-my-people-CrVNPOD_ www.missingwitches.com/rx-these-are-not-my-people/

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]]> MW Rx. 39 - These Are Not My People Missing Witches 00:26:11 This week left us feeling so lonely, so confused by the world, dropped to the bottom of the pit of WTF. So we turn to Backxwash, CSNY and Swamp Dogg. We can't stop caring: we feel like we owe it to someone. The world can feel overrun with bad choice egregores that make no living sense, but out here in the woods and out there in the swamps, we see the lies. And we have to know that the unfolding goes on, and we are not alone. We quote our coven mate Deb: "The future told me, “We live now in a healing you couldn’t imagine, but one that grew from your seeds.”" www.missingwitches.com/rx-these-are-not-my-people/ This week left us feeling so lonely, so confused by the world, dropped to the bottom of the pit of WTF. So we turn to Backxwash, CSNY and Swamp Dogg. We can't stop caring: we feel like we owe it to someone. The world can feel overrun with bad choice egregores that make no living sense, but out here in the woods and out there in the swamps, we see the lies. And we have to know that the unfolding goes on, and we are not alone. We quote our coven mate Deb: "The future told me, “We live now in a healing you couldn’t imagine, but one that grew from your seeds.”" www.missingwitches.com/rx-these-are-not-my-people/ true bonus 126defbb-5ddc-46da-b333-64ccb4aadd92 WF Witch Hunt with Melissa James, Sarah Sharkey Pearce, Matthew Venus, Nick Dickinson and Michael M. Hughes Watch WItch Hunt on YouTube Now! 

Michael M. Hughes is an author, speaker, and magical thinker. He is the creator of the internationally viral Spell to Bind Donald Trump and All Those Who Abet Him, the largest magical working in history. He speaks on magic, pop culture, psychedelics, the paranormal, and teaches popular tarot and magic courses. http://theartofmagicalliving.com

Matthew Venus is an artist, folk magician, and traditional witch based in Salem, Massachusetts whose practice is informed by a deep heart of animism and a dedication to ancestral traditions. Additionally he is a an Aborisha in the Lucumí Orisha tradition and a Tata Ndenge in a lineage of Quimbanda de raíz. Matthew is co-founder of Salem Witch Fest @SalemWitchFest as well as the owner and lead apothecary of Spiritus Arcanum @spiritus_arcanum an online and brick and mortar shop which specializes in handcrafted ritual incenses and oils,talismanic art, and a diversity of occult wares. Over the past two decades Matthew has been sharing teachings on various aspects of magic with students around the world through classes and courses which explore elements and approaches towards traditional witchcraft and folk magical traditions. https://spiritusarcanum.com/en-ca

Nick Dickinson (he/she/they/fae) is Headmistress of Circe Academy of queer feral witchcraft through The Cauldron Black in Salem MA, and a professional witch and witchcraft educator with over 35 years of experience working with clients and students in both public and private settings. Ordained and initiated in a variety of tantric yoga traditions (Mahayana Buddhism), and a teacher of 1,000s yoga teachers and psychics, his classes and workshops are deeply influenced by the intersection of classical yoga theory and modern witchcraft practice. Operating through a multidimensional animist lens with a focus on Greek folklore, Nick’s content welcomes all traditions at all levels and can be approached in a purely secular way. https://linktr.ee/UrbanWizard

Melissa James is an award-winning documentary filmmaker based in Vancouver. Recently, she produced the feature documentary "Satan Wants You," chronicling the untold story of the Satanic Panic, which premiered at SXSW in 2023. Additionally, she co-directed the short documentary "Witch Hunt" with Sarah Sharkey Pearce, exploring the connection between magic and politics. This documentary premiered at Salem Horror Fest and won Best Documentary at the Denver Underground Documentary Film Festival. Prior to this, she directed and produced the cult music documentary "No Fun City," examining the effects of gentrification on local punk and DIY music venues. Melissa strives to bring a personal and authentic perspective to her work; she also practices witchcraft and has spent several years researching the occult through a diverse community of witches across North America and beyond.

Sarah Sharkey Pearce, an award-winning Executive Producer, Writer, and Director based in Toronto, is directing her feature documentary debut, "Resident Orca," with her boutique studio Everyday Films for Crave Originals. Her 2023 short doc, "Witch Hunt," co-directed with Melissa James, premiered at Salem Horror Fest and recently won Best Documentary at the Denver Underground Documentary Film Festival.  Currently, she is show-running a 3-part premium doc series for BBC Arts and Blue Ant Studios, delving into the rise and fall of art fraudster Inigo Philbrick. Previously, she served as an Executive Producer on "Evil by Design: Surviving Nygård" for Blue Ant Studios, a 3-part investigative series that aired on CBC and Starz. She also was the showrunner for "The Devil You Know," a 6-part premium limited documentary series produced by Vice Studios, exploring a murder-suicide that reveals a far-right conspiracy for VICE TV. Additionally, she worked as the Creative Director for Academy Award-nominated Paperny Entertainment. Sarah holds an M.F.A. in Documentary Media from Toronto Metropolitan University (2010) and a B.F.A. in Film and Video from York University (2001).

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> Fri, 16 Feb 2024 04:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/wf-witch-hunt-with-melissa-james-sarah-sharkey-pearce-matthew-venus-nick-dickinson-and-michael-m-hughes-IBAB4Yx6 Watch WItch Hunt on YouTube Now! 

Michael M. Hughes is an author, speaker, and magical thinker. He is the creator of the internationally viral Spell to Bind Donald Trump and All Those Who Abet Him, the largest magical working in history. He speaks on magic, pop culture, psychedelics, the paranormal, and teaches popular tarot and magic courses. http://theartofmagicalliving.com

Matthew Venus is an artist, folk magician, and traditional witch based in Salem, Massachusetts whose practice is informed by a deep heart of animism and a dedication to ancestral traditions. Additionally he is a an Aborisha in the Lucumí Orisha tradition and a Tata Ndenge in a lineage of Quimbanda de raíz. Matthew is co-founder of Salem Witch Fest @SalemWitchFest as well as the owner and lead apothecary of Spiritus Arcanum @spiritus_arcanum an online and brick and mortar shop which specializes in handcrafted ritual incenses and oils,talismanic art, and a diversity of occult wares. Over the past two decades Matthew has been sharing teachings on various aspects of magic with students around the world through classes and courses which explore elements and approaches towards traditional witchcraft and folk magical traditions. https://spiritusarcanum.com/en-ca

Nick Dickinson (he/she/they/fae) is Headmistress of Circe Academy of queer feral witchcraft through The Cauldron Black in Salem MA, and a professional witch and witchcraft educator with over 35 years of experience working with clients and students in both public and private settings. Ordained and initiated in a variety of tantric yoga traditions (Mahayana Buddhism), and a teacher of 1,000s yoga teachers and psychics, his classes and workshops are deeply influenced by the intersection of classical yoga theory and modern witchcraft practice. Operating through a multidimensional animist lens with a focus on Greek folklore, Nick’s content welcomes all traditions at all levels and can be approached in a purely secular way. https://linktr.ee/UrbanWizard

Melissa James is an award-winning documentary filmmaker based in Vancouver. Recently, she produced the feature documentary "Satan Wants You," chronicling the untold story of the Satanic Panic, which premiered at SXSW in 2023. Additionally, she co-directed the short documentary "Witch Hunt" with Sarah Sharkey Pearce, exploring the connection between magic and politics. This documentary premiered at Salem Horror Fest and won Best Documentary at the Denver Underground Documentary Film Festival. Prior to this, she directed and produced the cult music documentary "No Fun City," examining the effects of gentrification on local punk and DIY music venues. Melissa strives to bring a personal and authentic perspective to her work; she also practices witchcraft and has spent several years researching the occult through a diverse community of witches across North America and beyond.

Sarah Sharkey Pearce, an award-winning Executive Producer, Writer, and Director based in Toronto, is directing her feature documentary debut, "Resident Orca," with her boutique studio Everyday Films for Crave Originals. Her 2023 short doc, "Witch Hunt," co-directed with Melissa James, premiered at Salem Horror Fest and recently won Best Documentary at the Denver Underground Documentary Film Festival.  Currently, she is show-running a 3-part premium doc series for BBC Arts and Blue Ant Studios, delving into the rise and fall of art fraudster Inigo Philbrick. Previously, she served as an Executive Producer on "Evil by Design: Surviving Nygård" for Blue Ant Studios, a 3-part investigative series that aired on CBC and Starz. She also was the showrunner for "The Devil You Know," a 6-part premium limited documentary series produced by Vice Studios, exploring a murder-suicide that reveals a far-right conspiracy for VICE TV. Additionally, she worked as the Creative Director for Academy Award-nominated Paperny Entertainment. Sarah holds an M.F.A. in Documentary Media from Toronto Metropolitan University (2010) and a B.F.A. in Film and Video from York University (2001).

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

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]]> WF Witch Hunt with Melissa James, Sarah Sharkey Pearce, Matthew Venus, Nick Dickinson and Michael M. Hughes Missing Witches 00:46:35 For this special episode, we invite you to begin by pausing the podcast to join us in premiering Witch Hunt: " In a divided America, modern witches cast spells against political leaders, redefining protest in the process."Witch Hunt" explores the intersection of politics, spirituality, and activism, spotlighting creative resistance in our digital age. It's a call to understand diverse expressions of frustration and the strength of community." - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk1l5d3zyEA - After you've soaked in all the fiery wisdom of this film, settle in to listen to our conversation with the directors and powerful resistance-magic practitioners featured in the doc. During this event - and over the following weeks and months as this film and our podcast episode are streamed and shared - join us in adding your personal visions and personal power to a spell that grows with the undeniable force of changing seasons, of Spring, in alliance with all that lives and sprouts and flowers.  Bind him. So that he shall not break our polity, Usurp our liberty, Or fill our minds with hate, Fear, Or despair. And bind too All those who enable his wickedness. For this special episode, we invite you to begin by pausing the podcast to join us in premiering Witch Hunt: " In a divided America, modern witches cast spells against political leaders, redefining protest in the process."Witch Hunt" explores the intersection of politics, spirituality, and activism, spotlighting creative resistance in our digital age. It's a call to understand diverse expressions of frustration and the strength of community." - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk1l5d3zyEA - After you've soaked in all the fiery wisdom of this film, settle in to listen to our conversation with the directors and powerful resistance-magic practitioners featured in the doc. During this event - and over the following weeks and months as this film and our podcast episode are streamed and shared - join us in adding your personal visions and personal power to a spell that grows with the undeniable force of changing seasons, of Spring, in alliance with all that lives and sprouts and flowers.  Bind him. So that he shall not break our polity, Usurp our liberty, Or fill our minds with hate, Fear, Or despair. And bind too All those who enable his wickedness. true full 222 7bcb6d72-d13d-46d4-b4fb-0631c2f1a582 MW Rx. 38 - We Have Sung In Tongues Of Angels And Then Stumbled On The Pavement https://www.missingwitches.com/rx-we-have-sung-in-tongues-of-angels-and-then-stumbled-on-the-pavement/

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]]> MW Rx. 38 - We Have Sung In Tongues Of Angels And Then Stumbled On The Pavement Missing Witches 00:32:53 This week the prescription is to follow bright stars, trace threads of hope to see where they lead, leave our egos at the door, and bring flowers to the feet of our crone singers, our comrades, sweethearts. Let's look at life from both sides, from win and lose, turn the tables and whisper our revolutions into the bright stars. https://www.missingwitches.com/rx-we-have-sung-in-tongues-of-angels-and-then-stumbled-on-the-pavement/ This week the prescription is to follow bright stars, trace threads of hope to see where they lead, leave our egos at the door, and bring flowers to the feet of our crone singers, our comrades, sweethearts. Let's look at life from both sides, from win and lose, turn the tables and whisper our revolutions into the bright stars. https://www.missingwitches.com/rx-we-have-sung-in-tongues-of-angels-and-then-stumbled-on-the-pavement/ true bonus 1ebdbcd5-2ede-44d9-b45b-1a0313581b33 MW Rx. 37 - Don't You Treat Me Like I Was Born For Nothin' https://www.missingwitches.com/dont-you-treat-me-like-i-was-born-for-nothin/

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]]> MW Rx. 37 - Don't You Treat Me Like I Was Born For Nothin' Missing Witches 00:21:11 It's Imbolc weekend and we mark the inbetween, the blurred edges between dark and light. Not the Spring but the reminder that the Spring will come, eventually. This week maybe you need to just lie in the dark, no music, no sounds but the rushing of your own mind, the building breathing, the ground underneath and the roots whispering. This week, maybe be a seed. Amy asks: What kind of Groundhog are you this year? Did you see your shadow and retreat back underground for six more weeks? Or, like Quebec's (new) Fred la Marmotte, are you ready to Spring into action? If you're like Fred, this week's prescription is Revolution Get Down by The Bellrays. Get fired up for a total rebirth as singer Lisa Kekaula testifies: Don't you treat me like I was born for nothin'. If you're sticking under the snow, under the blankets, the prescription is to stay soothed and warm by the kiln fires of The Great (British) Pottery Throwdown, where well-intentioned kindness sculpts creative arts. A Canadian version is starting Feb 8th, to ease you softly through your next six weeks of Winter. We invite you to ask yourself, without judgment or expectation, "What kind of Groundhog am I this year?" https://www.missingwitches.com/dont-you-treat-me-like-i-was-born-for-nothin/ It's Imbolc weekend and we mark the inbetween, the blurred edges between dark and light. Not the Spring but the reminder that the Spring will come, eventually. This week maybe you need to just lie in the dark, no music, no sounds but the rushing of your own mind, the building breathing, the ground underneath and the roots whispering. This week, maybe be a seed. Amy asks: What kind of Groundhog are you this year? Did you see your shadow and retreat back underground for six more weeks? Or, like Quebec's (new) Fred la Marmotte, are you ready to Spring into action? If you're like Fred, this week's prescription is Revolution Get Down by The Bellrays. Get fired up for a total rebirth as singer Lisa Kekaula testifies: Don't you treat me like I was born for nothin'. If you're sticking under the snow, under the blankets, the prescription is to stay soothed and warm by the kiln fires of The Great (British) Pottery Throwdown, where well-intentioned kindness sculpts creative arts. A Canadian version is starting Feb 8th, to ease you softly through your next six weeks of Winter. We invite you to ask yourself, without judgment or expectation, "What kind of Groundhog am I this year?" https://www.missingwitches.com/dont-you-treat-me-like-i-was-born-for-nothin/ true bonus c08bf033-3d7d-4d3d-878f-8fd262770578 IMBOLC: Future Histories of Black Magic - Black Witch Council 2024 Maria Minnis (aka Feminnis), OlaOmi Amoloku (aka Got2BOshun), Nadra Nittle, Christena Cleveland, Marcelitte Failla, Zoe Flowers, Sherry Shone (aka That Hoodoo Lady), Thea Anderson

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]]> Thu, 1 Feb 2024 10:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/imbolc-future-histories-of-black-magic-black-witch-council-2024-cKVSRa3t Maria Minnis (aka Feminnis), OlaOmi Amoloku (aka Got2BOshun), Nadra Nittle, Christena Cleveland, Marcelitte Failla, Zoe Flowers, Sherry Shone (aka That Hoodoo Lady), Thea Anderson

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]]> IMBOLC: Future Histories of Black Magic - Black Witch Council 2024 Missing Witches 01:43:47 The halfway point between Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox is the perfect time to look back at the past and make assessments. In a literal sense, this is when I know whether or not I have enough firewood to outlast the cold. In a metaphorical sense, we can take this time to look back on our histories, both personal and global, figure out what we did right and wrong, and take those lessons into the rebirth and regrowth of Springtime. The groundhog invites us to examine our shadows. For the past few years Missing Witches has hosted a Zoom circle of brilliant and inspiring Black Witches for a "Future Histories of Black Magic" special to mark Black History Month.  We believe that all of our guests are creating what will be the future of black history with their incredible work. Investigating the past to inform our future, the prompt for this year comes from a quote from Frederick Douglass: We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future. How do we/you make the past useful for the present and future? This year's guests are: Maria Minnis (aka Feminnis), OlaOmi Amoloku (aka Got2BOshun), Nadra Nittle, Christena Cleveland, Marcelitte Failla, Zoe Flowers, Sherry Shone (aka That Hoodoo Lady) and Thea Anderson who weave us through a tapestry of ideas and conversation. We thread together the mother wound, respectability politics, non-liner time, holiness, wholeness, rewriting scripture, mustard seeds, life art, and paradox. This conversation is a spell, a blanket of protection over black witches everywhere. www.missingwitches.com/ep-221-imbolc-future-histories-of-black-magic-black-witch-council-2024 The halfway point between Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox is the perfect time to look back at the past and make assessments. In a literal sense, this is when I know whether or not I have enough firewood to outlast the cold. In a metaphorical sense, we can take this time to look back on our histories, both personal and global, figure out what we did right and wrong, and take those lessons into the rebirth and regrowth of Springtime. The groundhog invites us to examine our shadows. For the past few years Missing Witches has hosted a Zoom circle of brilliant and inspiring Black Witches for a "Future Histories of Black Magic" special to mark Black History Month.  We believe that all of our guests are creating what will be the future of black history with their incredible work. Investigating the past to inform our future, the prompt for this year comes from a quote from Frederick Douglass: We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future. How do we/you make the past useful for the present and future? This year's guests are: Maria Minnis (aka Feminnis), OlaOmi Amoloku (aka Got2BOshun), Nadra Nittle, Christena Cleveland, Marcelitte Failla, Zoe Flowers, Sherry Shone (aka That Hoodoo Lady) and Thea Anderson who weave us through a tapestry of ideas and conversation. We thread together the mother wound, respectability politics, non-liner time, holiness, wholeness, rewriting scripture, mustard seeds, life art, and paradox. This conversation is a spell, a blanket of protection over black witches everywhere. www.missingwitches.com/ep-221-imbolc-future-histories-of-black-magic-black-witch-council-2024 true full 221 c405b2b8-f019-479a-b089-8200bf351b7d MW Rx. 36 - Handle With Care www.missingwitches.com/rx-handle-with-care/

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]]> MW Rx. 36 - Handle With Care Missing Witches 00:28:50 After a long conversation around inadequacy, Amy and Risa realize they never hit record. So join us in falling apart, and pulling it back together to repeat this message: Handle Me With Care. Call it Witch life or being an "empath" or just being alive but sometimes our enormous love for our world, our families, friends, pets, our kids, for all kids, for all that beats with life, makes us so gaspingly, gut-wrenchingly aware of how small, inadequate, accident-prone we are in the face of all that threatens. Sometimes, we suddenly feel the truth of how alone and under-resourced we ALL are. Sometimes the straw that breaks us is a tiny, forgotten backpack. We turn to Joy Oladokun, The Now Time Delegation and The Travelling Wilburys for reminders to keep the care coals glowing and the light on. We ask, do you still have some love to give? Then give it! Show everyone that you really care. Handle yourself with love and care. Handle the world with care. There are reasons we need you to dance under the full moon. www.missingwitches.com/rx-handle-with-care/ After a long conversation around inadequacy, Amy and Risa realize they never hit record. So join us in falling apart, and pulling it back together to repeat this message: Handle Me With Care. Call it Witch life or being an "empath" or just being alive but sometimes our enormous love for our world, our families, friends, pets, our kids, for all kids, for all that beats with life, makes us so gaspingly, gut-wrenchingly aware of how small, inadequate, accident-prone we are in the face of all that threatens. Sometimes, we suddenly feel the truth of how alone and under-resourced we ALL are. Sometimes the straw that breaks us is a tiny, forgotten backpack. We turn to Joy Oladokun, The Now Time Delegation and The Travelling Wilburys for reminders to keep the care coals glowing and the light on. We ask, do you still have some love to give? Then give it! Show everyone that you really care. Handle yourself with love and care. Handle the world with care. There are reasons we need you to dance under the full moon. www.missingwitches.com/rx-handle-with-care/ true bonus c29f08b4-b6f3-48ad-871c-3d24afd49e36 WF Dr. Marion Gibson - It Almost Feels Like They Are Waiting There For You Witchcraft: A History in 13 Trials

 

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]]> Thu, 25 Jan 2024 13:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (marion gibson) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/wf-dr-marion-gibson-it-almost-feels-like-they-are-waiting-there-for-you-qa8DRv7j Witchcraft: A History in 13 Trials

 

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]]> WF Dr. Marion Gibson - It Almost Feels Like They Are Waiting There For You marion gibson 00:49:51 https://www.missingwitches.com/wf-dr-marion-gibson-were-all-sharing-our-history-together/ In this week's episode, we get to meet Dr. Marion Gibson, a leading authority on the history of the witch trials. Throughout her career and especially in her latest book, WITCHCRAFT A History in 13 Trials, Marion haunts the archives, trudges in the footsteps of the women accused, and of their panicked accusers as well. "I do feel that records lead you where they want you to go. And that's something that I think a lot of historians feel. Most of them don't talk about because it sounds kind of magical, doesn't it? But they do, you know, you find things because it almost feels like they are waiting there for you." She brings their lives and socio-political circumstances alive and helps us think about what it means to be seen as threatening just for existing as we are. https://www.missingwitches.com/wf-dr-marion-gibson-were-all-sharing-our-history-together/ In this week's episode, we get to meet Dr. Marion Gibson, a leading authority on the history of the witch trials. Throughout her career and especially in her latest book, WITCHCRAFT A History in 13 Trials, Marion haunts the archives, trudges in the footsteps of the women accused, and of their panicked accusers as well. "I do feel that records lead you where they want you to go. And that's something that I think a lot of historians feel. Most of them don't talk about because it sounds kind of magical, doesn't it? But they do, you know, you find things because it almost feels like they are waiting there for you." She brings their lives and socio-political circumstances alive and helps us think about what it means to be seen as threatening just for existing as we are. historian, witch history, witch hunt, witch true full 220 f3e99faa-9fe8-41b3-a670-4cb59954961e MW Rx.35 - Writing Love On The Ceiling www.missingwitches.com

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]]> MW Rx.35 - Writing Love On The Ceiling Missing Witches 00:27:04 This week's Rx is about starting fresh while weighted with histories, both personal and global, and last year's snow. This week's Rx is about starting fresh while weighted with histories, both personal and global, and last year's snow. true bonus d9526a4a-dd7c-4588-8d3a-47ab58ab9b18 MW Rx. 34 - An Inter-dimensional Being www.missingwitches.com/rx-one-day-well-be-gone/

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]]> MW Rx. 34 - An Inter-dimensional Being Missing Witches 00:21:24 Beaver dams and snow forts give way to notions of mortality and possibility. Beaver dams and snow forts give way to notions of mortality and possibility. true bonus 90f976f3-9c9e-4c19-b3da-4b67da90c730 WF Cara Kovacs - Business Is Personal AF www.missingwitches.com/ep-219-wf-cara-kovacs-business-is-personal-af

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]]> WF Cara Kovacs - Business Is Personal AF Missing Witches 01:01:11 In today's episode, Amy sits down with Cara Kovacs AKA The Business Witch. We talk about entrepreneurship as a liberatory practice, sex magic, social work, soul work, chronic illness, health insurance, toxic MLMs and pyramid schemes, and centring our values under late-stage capitalism. Cara's work asks how we can disconnect business from exploitation, shift our approach to money and cultivate our own vocabularies. How do we conjure the bravery to reject what we've been taught or told? Liberation is the thread that weaves through Cara's mission, her witchcraft and her life. NOTE: Cara will be joining us in our Coven space on January 15th to teach her class "Infinite Abundance for Anticapitalist Witches" for free to our members. xo In today's episode, Amy sits down with Cara Kovacs AKA The Business Witch. We talk about entrepreneurship as a liberatory practice, sex magic, social work, soul work, chronic illness, health insurance, toxic MLMs and pyramid schemes, and centring our values under late-stage capitalism. Cara's work asks how we can disconnect business from exploitation, shift our approach to money and cultivate our own vocabularies. How do we conjure the bravery to reject what we've been taught or told? Liberation is the thread that weaves through Cara's mission, her witchcraft and her life. NOTE: Cara will be joining us in our Coven space on January 15th to teach her class "Infinite Abundance for Anticapitalist Witches" for free to our members. xo true full 219 1d0a225a-f9e5-48dd-83e7-781db235b126 MW Rx. 33 - Both Wave And Particle www.missingwitches.com

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]]> MW Rx. 33 - Both Wave And Particle Missing Witches 00:37:46 Risa and Amy discuss the promise of the dawn with KRS-ONE, the 5th Dimension, and Allison Russell. "And the only way we can understand the Aquarian message is to try to get closer together, in a real universal brotherhood, where there is only one creed - the creed of love - and only one race, the human race." Migene Gonzales-Wippler Risa and Amy discuss the promise of the dawn with KRS-ONE, the 5th Dimension, and Allison Russell. "And the only way we can understand the Aquarian message is to try to get closer together, in a real universal brotherhood, where there is only one creed - the creed of love - and only one race, the human race." Migene Gonzales-Wippler true bonus 2d2fdd20-316d-4c99-b642-7de61feede83 WF Sandra Huber - I Can Only Be Of Service If I Know Myself Sandra Huber is a writer, researcher, and educator. She teaches at Concordia University and holds a PhD in Interdisciplinary Humanities with a specialization in contemporary witchcraft. She wrote Assembling the Morrow: A Poetics of Sleep (Talonbooks, 2014). Lately she is trying to find more time for astrology, cats, and sunsets.

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]]> Thu, 4 Jan 2024 13:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/wf-sandra-huber-i-can-only-be-of-service-if-i-know-myself-FRNo7ZP3 Sandra Huber is a writer, researcher, and educator. She teaches at Concordia University and holds a PhD in Interdisciplinary Humanities with a specialization in contemporary witchcraft. She wrote Assembling the Morrow: A Poetics of Sleep (Talonbooks, 2014). Lately she is trying to find more time for astrology, cats, and sunsets.

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The induction for automatic writing which Sandra mentions in this episode is available here, along with excerpts from her new book-in-progress:

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]]> WF Sandra Huber - I Can Only Be Of Service If I Know Myself Missing Witches 00:54:32 We saved this interview with Dr. Sandra Huber to start the new year right. Sandra talks about the tactics involved in teaching 900 students, and she talks about channeling and automatic writing, feminist practices and night industries. Using the Thoth Deck created by Alistair Crowley and Lady Frieda Harris, we ask How Can We Serve? And the card's answer is Lust. Sandra says: "I can only be of service if I know myself. I can only know myself if I let myself desire, and let myself be, and let myself unfold into the crazy world with all my electricity and all my failures and faults and vulnerabilities and loves and truths, all of that, bring all of it. Not just the stuff that is polished and beautiful and ready to be presented and grammatically correct and upright and condoned and given an A or a check mark. Bring all of the mess and chaos. That's what lust is bringing. That's what the goddess Babylon is bringing. And that's what artists bring. We bring our mess. Inside that mess is coiled our desire." We saved this interview with Dr. Sandra Huber to start the new year right. Sandra talks about the tactics involved in teaching 900 students, and she talks about channeling and automatic writing, feminist practices and night industries. Using the Thoth Deck created by Alistair Crowley and Lady Frieda Harris, we ask How Can We Serve? And the card's answer is Lust. Sandra says: "I can only be of service if I know myself. I can only know myself if I let myself desire, and let myself be, and let myself unfold into the crazy world with all my electricity and all my failures and faults and vulnerabilities and loves and truths, all of that, bring all of it. Not just the stuff that is polished and beautiful and ready to be presented and grammatically correct and upright and condoned and given an A or a check mark. Bring all of the mess and chaos. That's what lust is bringing. That's what the goddess Babylon is bringing. And that's what artists bring. We bring our mess. Inside that mess is coiled our desire." true full 218 39965d3c-0f57-4a5a-9375-4971d6939e3d 2023 Solstice Special and Yuletide Party! www.missingwitches.com/ep-217-solstice-special-and-yuletide-party

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]]> 2023 Solstice Special and Yuletide Party! Missing Witches 01:51:36 Thank you all for another year full of wonder, awe, heartbreak, joy, mourning and laughter TOGETHER. In this episode we celebrate the longest night of the year with the Missing Witches Coven. We'll share songs and stories, poems and blessings, and we invite you to make yourself a cup of tea, imagine yourself sitting by a cozy cracking fire, and be with us for Winter Solstice. Blessed fucking be. Thank you all for another year full of wonder, awe, heartbreak, joy, mourning and laughter TOGETHER. In this episode we celebrate the longest night of the year with the Missing Witches Coven. We'll share songs and stories, poems and blessings, and we invite you to make yourself a cup of tea, imagine yourself sitting by a cozy cracking fire, and be with us for Winter Solstice. Blessed fucking be. true full 217 e04c5b70-35d5-4464-af65-5a8fed174a2b MW Rx. 32 - Expand Into The Dark www.missingwitches.com

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

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]]> Mon, 18 Dec 2023 10:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/mw-rx-32-expand-into-the-dark-gbIGgsgh www.missingwitches.com

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]]> MW Rx. 32 - Expand Into The Dark Missing Witches 00:32:42 Climbing and clinging. The prescription this week is to care. Feel the All Mother in the lines of your hands. They and we are proud of you. Climbing and clinging. The prescription this week is to care. Feel the All Mother in the lines of your hands. They and we are proud of you. true bonus a595a668-f9cc-4844-8ae2-8ece91064699 MW Rx. 31 - Our Circle, Our Cauldron www.missingwitches.com

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]]> Mon, 11 Dec 2023 10:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/mw-rx-31-our-circle-our-cauldron-o1ekwsor www.missingwitches.com

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> MW Rx. 31 - Our Circle, Our Cauldron Missing Witches 00:25:34 Throw in whatever you bring. Empty your pockets; shake out your secrets; turn the dark corners of your past to our sight. We need all that we can bring that is true. Whether it tastes of honey or vinegar, salt or spice; whether it is herb--flower, root or rind! Surely there is nourishment in all the scraps of our lives. Throw in whatever you bring. Empty your pockets; shake out your secrets; turn the dark corners of your past to our sight. We need all that we can bring that is true. Whether it tastes of honey or vinegar, salt or spice; whether it is herb--flower, root or rind! Surely there is nourishment in all the scraps of our lives. true bonus 05a255fb-b787-460c-a6c8-0b2e536b796b WF Sarah Potter - Anyone Can Be A Witch, Everyone Is A Witch
To book a reading : https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=21046179


 

Instagram : @iamsarahpotter


 

To attend a full moon ceremony : https://www.theasburyhotel.com/offers/full-moon-vip-package


 

To buy Sarah's merch: https://heartwrenchcollective.com/collections/accessories/products/the-im-psychic-tote


 

Read Sarah's column at Cosmo: https://www.cosmopolitan.com/author/225049/Sarah-Potter/


 

Read Sarah's weekly Tarotscopes : https://www.astrology.com/article/astrology-authors/sarah-potter

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> Thu, 30 Nov 2023 13:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (sarah potter) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/wf-sarah-potter-anyone-can-be-a-witch-everyone-is-a-witch-OcRNLtA_
To book a reading : https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=21046179


 

Instagram : @iamsarahpotter


 

To attend a full moon ceremony : https://www.theasburyhotel.com/offers/full-moon-vip-package


 

To buy Sarah's merch: https://heartwrenchcollective.com/collections/accessories/products/the-im-psychic-tote


 

Read Sarah's column at Cosmo: https://www.cosmopolitan.com/author/225049/Sarah-Potter/


 

Read Sarah's weekly Tarotscopes : https://www.astrology.com/article/astrology-authors/sarah-potter

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> WF Sarah Potter - Anyone Can Be A Witch, Everyone Is A Witch sarah potter 00:51:42 Sarah Potter talks about being dragged through the darkest parts of the underworld and coming out with new joy, new color, and entirely new spectrums of possibility. "Sarah Potter is a celebrity psychic medium, Tarot reader, and professional witch based in NYC. Her spiritual guidance has been sought after by thousands of private and corporate clients as her work has been profiled by Forbes, Refinery 29, InStyle, Teen Vogue & countless other publications. As a resident Tarot Reader & witch at both Cosmopolitan & Bust Magazine, the natural next step in her Tarot journey led her to create her first book “The Cosmo Tarot : The Ultimate Deck & Guidebook” via Hearst Home. Sarah’s dedication to making magical modalities a practical and accessible part of everyday life has led her to become one of the most prominent faces of modern day witchcraft. Sarah believes that everyone deserves to feel magical and her personal ethos is based on the magic of kindness and rainbows. She loves second dessert, going to the movie theatre on Sundays, and hanging out with her black cat, Polly Styrene. If you are considering attending one of Sarah’s events, she hopes you heed the call and know that you are always welcome." Sarah Potter talks about being dragged through the darkest parts of the underworld and coming out with new joy, new color, and entirely new spectrums of possibility. "Sarah Potter is a celebrity psychic medium, Tarot reader, and professional witch based in NYC. Her spiritual guidance has been sought after by thousands of private and corporate clients as her work has been profiled by Forbes, Refinery 29, InStyle, Teen Vogue & countless other publications. As a resident Tarot Reader & witch at both Cosmopolitan & Bust Magazine, the natural next step in her Tarot journey led her to create her first book “The Cosmo Tarot : The Ultimate Deck & Guidebook” via Hearst Home. Sarah’s dedication to making magical modalities a practical and accessible part of everyday life has led her to become one of the most prominent faces of modern day witchcraft. Sarah believes that everyone deserves to feel magical and her personal ethos is based on the magic of kindness and rainbows. She loves second dessert, going to the movie theatre on Sundays, and hanging out with her black cat, Polly Styrene. If you are considering attending one of Sarah’s events, she hopes you heed the call and know that you are always welcome." witch interview, color magic, full moon rituals, psychic true full 216 9770895b-5dba-481c-b51e-c4a2609949f7 MW Rx. 30 - The Wind www.missingwitches.com

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

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]]> Mon, 27 Nov 2023 10:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/mw-rx-30-the-wind-Sr6K12FD www.missingwitches.com

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> MW Rx. 30 - The Wind Missing Witches 00:40:57 "I swear, I Really Wanted To Make A "Rap" Album But This Is Literally The Way The Wind Blew Me This Time" - Andre 3000 "I swear, I Really Wanted To Make A "Rap" Album But This Is Literally The Way The Wind Blew Me This Time" - Andre 3000 true bonus 4b158724-8edf-4c06-ac7c-b076dce0716a MW Rx. 29 - Unconquerable www.missingwitches.com

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]]> Mon, 20 Nov 2023 10:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/mw-rx-29-unconquerable-PMml___a www.missingwitches.com

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]]> MW Rx. 29 - Unconquerable Missing Witches 00:35:51 This week we're inspired by Jeremy Dutcher, Lakeesha Harris, Viktor Frankl, Labyrinth, Natalie Merchant, Joan Didion, and The Pointer Sisters, to shake out the rugs - literally and metaphorically. Let us not be divided. Let us gather, and make ourselves unconquerable. This week we're inspired by Jeremy Dutcher, Lakeesha Harris, Viktor Frankl, Labyrinth, Natalie Merchant, Joan Didion, and The Pointer Sisters, to shake out the rugs - literally and metaphorically. Let us not be divided. Let us gather, and make ourselves unconquerable. true bonus e6a1ba4b-fcfc-4e78-8f92-fa2c41dcdef4 Carolyn Taylor - What Do You Keep And What Do You Throw Away? Watch I Have Nothing on Bell Crave - https://www.crave.ca/en/tv-shows/i-have-nothing

Carolyn recommends: 

Someone Lives Here - https://www.someoneliveshere.com/

Handsome POdcast with Mae Martin - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/handsome/id1702258458

 

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

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]]> Thu, 16 Nov 2023 13:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (carolyn taylor) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/carolyn-taylor-what-do-you-keep-and-what-do-you-throw-away-BzknifxG Watch I Have Nothing on Bell Crave - https://www.crave.ca/en/tv-shows/i-have-nothing

Carolyn recommends: 

Someone Lives Here - https://www.someoneliveshere.com/

Handsome POdcast with Mae Martin - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/handsome/id1702258458

 

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> Carolyn Taylor - What Do You Keep And What Do You Throw Away? carolyn taylor 00:55:20 In this special episode, Risa talks with comedy legend Carolyn Taylor about how improvisation works and how we can use its practices to conjure brand-new things into the world. Carolyn talks about working with her friend Mae Martin, as well as skating icons Kurt Browning, Sandra Bezic, David Pelletier, and Ekaterina Gordeeva. She reminds us that we can start with messy and ugly, and if "you just keep staying in that space with the intention of finding connection... if you can sit in that discomfort and know that you're going to find each other, then it's... it's so worth it." "Carolyn Taylor is the creator of I HAVE NOTHING docu-series which follows Taylor on a comical quest to choreograph the perfect, full-length pairs figure skating routine to Whitney Houston’s 1992 iconic hit song, “I Have Nothing.” Joining Carolyn on her mission are legends from the world of figure skating including Sandra Bezic, David Pelletier, Ekaterina Gordeeva, Kurt Browning, Paul Martini, Barbara Underhill, as well as award-winning comedian, actor, and writer, Mae Martin. Carolyn is an award-winning comedian, actor, writer, director and showrunner. She is one of the creators, executive producers and stars of CBC/IFC’s hit comedy Baroness von Sketch Show. To date, the series has received national and international critical acclaim in The New York Times, IndieWire, and Vogue, won 20 Canadian Screen Awards, including Best Sketch Show/Series, Best Writing in a Sketch Show/Series (2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021), an ACTRA Award for Best Ensemble (2018), two international Rockies for Best Comedy (2019, 2020), The Rogers Prize for Excellence in Canadian Content (2019, 2020), and an international Rose D’or. Carolyn honed her skills in improvisation and social satire at The Second City in Toronto, starring in five original mainstage revues and garnering four Canadian Comedy Awards. She’s written and performed political commentary for This Hour Has 22 Minutes, The Hour and CBC Radio’s Because News and This Is That. Recent credits include playing the off-kilter owner of a haunted AirBnB on Workin’ Moms (CBC/Netflix, 2022), an off-kilter Camp Director on Detention Adventure (HBO Max, 2022) and as a (somewhat less) off-kilter lesbian organic farmer opposite SNL’s Punky Johnson on the hit CBS comedy Ghosts (2023)." In this special episode, Risa talks with comedy legend Carolyn Taylor about how improvisation works and how we can use its practices to conjure brand-new things into the world. Carolyn talks about working with her friend Mae Martin, as well as skating icons Kurt Browning, Sandra Bezic, David Pelletier, and Ekaterina Gordeeva. She reminds us that we can start with messy and ugly, and if "you just keep staying in that space with the intention of finding connection... if you can sit in that discomfort and know that you're going to find each other, then it's... it's so worth it." "Carolyn Taylor is the creator of I HAVE NOTHING docu-series which follows Taylor on a comical quest to choreograph the perfect, full-length pairs figure skating routine to Whitney Houston’s 1992 iconic hit song, “I Have Nothing.” Joining Carolyn on her mission are legends from the world of figure skating including Sandra Bezic, David Pelletier, Ekaterina Gordeeva, Kurt Browning, Paul Martini, Barbara Underhill, as well as award-winning comedian, actor, and writer, Mae Martin. Carolyn is an award-winning comedian, actor, writer, director and showrunner. She is one of the creators, executive producers and stars of CBC/IFC’s hit comedy Baroness von Sketch Show. To date, the series has received national and international critical acclaim in The New York Times, IndieWire, and Vogue, won 20 Canadian Screen Awards, including Best Sketch Show/Series, Best Writing in a Sketch Show/Series (2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021), an ACTRA Award for Best Ensemble (2018), two international Rockies for Best Comedy (2019, 2020), The Rogers Prize for Excellence in Canadian Content (2019, 2020), and an international Rose D’or. Carolyn honed her skills in improvisation and social satire at The Second City in Toronto, starring in five original mainstage revues and garnering four Canadian Comedy Awards. She’s written and performed political commentary for This Hour Has 22 Minutes, The Hour and CBC Radio’s Because News and This Is That. Recent credits include playing the off-kilter owner of a haunted AirBnB on Workin’ Moms (CBC/Netflix, 2022), an off-kilter Camp Director on Detention Adventure (HBO Max, 2022) and as a (somewhat less) off-kilter lesbian organic farmer opposite SNL’s Punky Johnson on the hit CBS comedy Ghosts (2023)." true full 215 92796834-8dc8-45c8-afb7-9348dcb6076a MW Rx. 28 - Missing Witches Prescription with Risa + Amy www.missingwitches.com

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]]> Mon, 13 Nov 2023 10:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/mw-rx-28-missing-witches-prescription-with-risa-amy-FwN1TeeZ www.missingwitches.com

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> MW Rx. 28 - Missing Witches Prescription with Risa + Amy Missing Witches 00:39:29 The RX is back! Join Amy and Risa as we chat about options: laughing, crying, fighting, loving, mourning, dancing, amanita mushrooms, and hugging trees in times of war. The RX is back! Join Amy and Risa as we chat about options: laughing, crying, fighting, loving, mourning, dancing, amanita mushrooms, and hugging trees in times of war. true bonus 036b90e9-3d7c-465a-843e-cdffe5a21b8c WF Benebell Wen: It Meets You Where You Are, And Then It Will Take You To Higher Ground. Transcript and links: MissingWitches.com

Photo is from Benebell Wen: https://benebellwen.com/i-ching-the-oracle/a-companion-course/

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

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]]> Thu, 2 Nov 2023 12:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Benebell Wen) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/wf-benebell-wen-it-meets-you-where-you-are-then-it-will-take-you-to-higher-ground-m13m16VP Transcript and links: MissingWitches.com

Photo is from Benebell Wen: https://benebellwen.com/i-ching-the-oracle/a-companion-course/

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> WF Benebell Wen: It Meets You Where You Are, And Then It Will Take You To Higher Ground. Benebell Wen 01:00:02 In this episode, Risa gets to soak in the wisdom and deep research of Benebell Wen. We explore the ancient shamanistic origins of the I Ching, and the ways our ideas, words, and discourse can shutter our windows or open up our hearts. Benebell Wen is the author of Holistic Tarot (2015), The Tao of Craft (2016), and the newly released "I Ching, the Oracle: A Practical Guide to the Book of Changes: An updated translation annotated with cultural & historical references, restoring the I Ching to its shamanic origins" all published by North Atlantic Books. Benebell Wen is also the creator and illustrator of the independently produced Spirit Keeper's Tarot deck. In this episode, Risa gets to soak in the wisdom and deep research of Benebell Wen. We explore the ancient shamanistic origins of the I Ching, and the ways our ideas, words, and discourse can shutter our windows or open up our hearts. Benebell Wen is the author of Holistic Tarot (2015), The Tao of Craft (2016), and the newly released "I Ching, the Oracle: A Practical Guide to the Book of Changes: An updated translation annotated with cultural & historical references, restoring the I Ching to its shamanic origins" all published by North Atlantic Books. Benebell Wen is also the creator and illustrator of the independently produced Spirit Keeper's Tarot deck. holistic tarot, iching true full 214 2865024b-4335-400d-898b-a9f486343fc3 Samhain 2023: Altaring Grief w Mara June AKA Motherwort And Rose www.missingwitches.com/ep-213-samhain-2023-altaring-grief-w-mara-june-aka-motherwort-and-rose

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]]> Tue, 31 Oct 2023 09:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/samhain-2023-altaring-grief-w-mara-june-aka-motherwort-and-rose-dMsLmWhh www.missingwitches.com/ep-213-samhain-2023-altaring-grief-w-mara-june-aka-motherwort-and-rose

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]]> Samhain 2023: Altaring Grief w Mara June AKA Motherwort And Rose Missing Witches 01:10:20 We are all grieving. For this year's Samhain special we invited educator, facilitator, community weaver, writer, caregiver, death doula, and community herbalist Mara June AKA "Motherwort and Rose" to help counsel us through. Mara reminds us that there is dignity in grief and medicine in creativity, and suggests that we need to come together to fall apart. They say, "If we're going to try to birth other worlds, Collective Grief has a powerful role to play." We are all grieving. For this year's Samhain special we invited educator, facilitator, community weaver, writer, caregiver, death doula, and community herbalist Mara June AKA "Motherwort and Rose" to help counsel us through. Mara reminds us that there is dignity in grief and medicine in creativity, and suggests that we need to come together to fall apart. They say, "If we're going to try to birth other worlds, Collective Grief has a powerful role to play." grief, plants, death, herbalism true full 213 029d4e02-33af-4d6e-ad05-367d853225d5 MW Empress Chen of Wu + Chen Jinggu - A Community of Sworn Sisters Transcript and sources: https://www.missingwitches.com/chen-jinggu-empress-chen-of-wu-sworn-sisters/

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

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]]> Mon, 30 Oct 2023 13:21:43 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/mw-empress-chen-of-wu-chen-jinggu-a-community-of-sworn-sisters-qIO6pnIB Transcript and sources: https://www.missingwitches.com/chen-jinggu-empress-chen-of-wu-sworn-sisters/

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> MW Empress Chen of Wu + Chen Jinggu - A Community of Sworn Sisters Missing Witches 00:31:48 This season every story I started spilled out to become double, then multiple. As always happens when we go looking for Witches we’ve been missing, one led to more. This story starts with a Chinese Empress in the Imperial palaces of the Han Dynasty. This season every story I started spilled out to become double, then multiple. As always happens when we go looking for Witches we’ve been missing, one led to more. This story starts with a Chinese Empress in the Imperial palaces of the Han Dynasty. true full 212 30943b2f-f750-44a8-ae33-be0f003eb801 WF Julia Voss, author of Hilma af Klint: A Biography - Put Your Feelers Out Transcript is available at https://www.missingwitches.com/wf-julia-voss-author-of-hilma-af-klint-a-biography-put-your-feelers-out/

Hilma af Klint: A Biography: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo180517543.html

Julia Voss' Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/spiraltemple

The Five Lives of Hilma af Klint: https://www.davidzwirnerbooks.com/product/the-five-lives-of-hilma-af-klint

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]]> Thu, 26 Oct 2023 12:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (julia voss) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/wf-julia-voss-author-of-hilma-af-klint-a-biography-put-your-feelers-out-gLeOR6tM Transcript is available at https://www.missingwitches.com/wf-julia-voss-author-of-hilma-af-klint-a-biography-put-your-feelers-out/

Hilma af Klint: A Biography: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo180517543.html

Julia Voss' Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/spiraltemple

The Five Lives of Hilma af Klint: https://www.davidzwirnerbooks.com/product/the-five-lives-of-hilma-af-klint

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> WF Julia Voss, author of Hilma af Klint: A Biography - Put Your Feelers Out julia voss 00:56:26 In this episode, Risa gets to interview the primary biographer of the first abstract expressionist artist, Hilma af Klint. We talk about taking her experiences seriously, we talk about the beauty of her vision, we talk about reaching our feelers out into the world to continue evolving throughout our lifetimes, and beyond. In this episode, Risa gets to interview the primary biographer of the first abstract expressionist artist, Hilma af Klint. We talk about taking her experiences seriously, we talk about the beauty of her vision, we talk about reaching our feelers out into the world to continue evolving throughout our lifetimes, and beyond. hildegarde of bingen, hilma af klint, art history true full 211 756de336-ca4c-4669-8b4d-6a7991563c6a Hilma af Klint + Anna Cassel: Life Is A Farce If A Person Does Not Serve Truth. Transcript and sources: https://www.missingwitches.com/hilma-af-klint-anna-cassel-life-is-a-farce-if-a-person-does-not-serve-truth/

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

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]]> Mon, 23 Oct 2023 12:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/hilma-af-klint-anna-cassel-life-is-a-farce-if-a-person-does-not-serve-truth-0f1PAZPj Transcript and sources: https://www.missingwitches.com/hilma-af-klint-anna-cassel-life-is-a-farce-if-a-person-does-not-serve-truth/

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

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]]> Hilma af Klint + Anna Cassel: Life Is A Farce If A Person Does Not Serve Truth. Missing Witches 00:41:22 In this ep, Risa tells the story of the first abstract expressionist, Hilma af Klint, and her collaborator Anna Cassel, and the circles of women and spirits with whom she conjured a new vision of how the universe moves and what is possible. This is a queer story, an occult story, a story with love for the future. In this ep, Risa tells the story of the first abstract expressionist, Hilma af Klint, and her collaborator Anna Cassel, and the circles of women and spirits with whom she conjured a new vision of how the universe moves and what is possible. This is a queer story, an occult story, a story with love for the future. true full 210 0431cef1-9a3e-4f3c-9cf8-cc7a6567be50 WF Nadra Nittle on bell hooks: We Can Create Our Own Spirituality Transcript: https://www.missingwitches.com/nadra-niddle-on-bell-hooks-spiritual-vision-we-can-create-our-own-spirituality/

 

Nadra Nittle on MIssing Witches talking about Toni Morrison:

https://www.missingwitches.com/ep-107-nadra-nittle-on-toni-morrisons-spiritual-vision/

bell hooks All About Love: New Visions (and others)

https://bellhooksbooks.com/product/all-about-love/

Pew research on changing religious identities

https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2022/09/13/modeling-the-future-of-religion-in-america/

Lemonade visual album

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtERdsgFipVSDfp4jrW7FGOovsfm-n2dk

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]]> Thu, 19 Oct 2023 13:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (nadra nittle) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/wf-nadra-nittle-on-bell-hooks-we-can-create-our-own-spirituality-tmAsz5Vu Transcript: https://www.missingwitches.com/nadra-niddle-on-bell-hooks-spiritual-vision-we-can-create-our-own-spirituality/

 

Nadra Nittle on MIssing Witches talking about Toni Morrison:

https://www.missingwitches.com/ep-107-nadra-nittle-on-toni-morrisons-spiritual-vision/

bell hooks All About Love: New Visions (and others)

https://bellhooksbooks.com/product/all-about-love/

Pew research on changing religious identities

https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2022/09/13/modeling-the-future-of-religion-in-america/

Lemonade visual album

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtERdsgFipVSDfp4jrW7FGOovsfm-n2dk

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]]> WF Nadra Nittle on bell hooks: We Can Create Our Own Spirituality nadra nittle 00:54:08 LA writer Nadra Nittle, who previously appeared on the podcast to talk about her first book "Toni Morrison’s Spiritual Vision: Faith, Folktales, and Feminism in Her Life and Literature", returns to bring her deep research to the question of bell hooks spiritual life and practices. LA writer Nadra Nittle, who previously appeared on the podcast to talk about her first book "Toni Morrison’s Spiritual Vision: Faith, Folktales, and Feminism in Her Life and Literature", returns to bring her deep research to the question of bell hooks spiritual life and practices. bell hooks, nadra nittle, toni morrison true full 209 5fadace4-03fb-4812-8139-b7e43e2a5c4e MW Mary Kawena Pukui + Morrnah Simeona: A Unified and Unifying Force Transcript and sources: https://www.missingwitches.com/mary-kawena-pukui-morrnah-simeona-a-unified-unifying-force/

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]]> MW Mary Kawena Pukui + Morrnah Simeona: A Unified and Unifying Force Missing Witches 00:36:13 In this episode, Risa attempts to learn more about the indigenous Hawai'ian practice of healing-in-community: Ho'oponopono. In this episode, Risa attempts to learn more about the indigenous Hawai'ian practice of healing-in-community: Ho'oponopono. huna, religion, culture, healing, colonization, witchcraft, hawaii, community, hawaiian spirituality true full 208 3d463203-884c-4975-87ac-0180b7efd6ac WF Maria Minnis: An Invitation To Explore www.missingwitches.com/ep-207-wf-maria-minnis-an-invitation-to-explore

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]]> Thu, 12 Oct 2023 09:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/wf-maria-minnis-an-invitation-to-explore-M5gioWEP www.missingwitches.com/ep-207-wf-maria-minnis-an-invitation-to-explore

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]]> WF Maria Minnis: An Invitation To Explore Missing Witches 01:01:19 In today's episode, Amy is joined by tarot reader and teacher Maria Minnis (aka feminnis), author of the upcoming "Tarot for the Hard Work: An Archetypal Journey to Confront Racism and Inspire Collective Healing". We invite listeners to explore Rage, Responsibility, Tarot, Collaboration, Care, Liberation and the information contained within. At times, Maria's altar has been a shoe box, and Maria reminds us that some of her most powerful magic has come from this humble place. "The revolution is ultimately anti-capitalist." In today's episode, Amy is joined by tarot reader and teacher Maria Minnis (aka feminnis), author of the upcoming "Tarot for the Hard Work: An Archetypal Journey to Confront Racism and Inspire Collective Healing". We invite listeners to explore Rage, Responsibility, Tarot, Collaboration, Care, Liberation and the information contained within. At times, Maria's altar has been a shoe box, and Maria reminds us that some of her most powerful magic has come from this humble place. "The revolution is ultimately anti-capitalist." anticapitalism, tarot, kink, ethics, antiracism true full 207 f00694e7-e1b2-408c-928d-501b8b56be65 MW Mary Ellen Pleasant: I’d Rather Be a Corpse Than a Coward www.missingwitches.com/ep-206-mw-mary-ellen-pleasant-id-rather-be-a-corpse-than-a-coward

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]]> MW Mary Ellen Pleasant: I’d Rather Be a Corpse Than a Coward Missing Witches 00:23:54 In today's scripted episode, Amy learns about Mary Ellen Pleasant, called the mother of San Francisco civil rights and a one-woman social agency. When the census taker passed through town for the United States Census of 1890, Mary Ellen Pleasant declared herself a “capitalist by profession” using every trick in her toolbox to amass a fortune that some estimate to have been worth thirty million dollars (in today’s money) at its peak. By some, she’s been lumped in with the “robber barons” of the San Francisco gold rush. So maybe right now you're asking yourself, “What is a self-declared capitalist like Mary Ellen Pleasant doing in the Missing Witches pantheon - this group of magical beings who use their powers to try and make the world a better place?” Well, what if I told you that Mary Ellen Pleasant used her wealth to support her community, to support the fight for abolition and women’s suffrage? And what if I told you that she studied under the New Orleans Queen of Voodoo herself, Marie Laveaux? And what if I told you that these two facts are inexorably linked? In Pleasant’s own unpublished memoir, she summed up her legacy: “You know my cause well. My cause was the cause of freedom and equality for myself and for my people and I’d rather be a corpse than a coward.” In today's scripted episode, Amy learns about Mary Ellen Pleasant, called the mother of San Francisco civil rights and a one-woman social agency. When the census taker passed through town for the United States Census of 1890, Mary Ellen Pleasant declared herself a “capitalist by profession” using every trick in her toolbox to amass a fortune that some estimate to have been worth thirty million dollars (in today’s money) at its peak. By some, she’s been lumped in with the “robber barons” of the San Francisco gold rush. So maybe right now you're asking yourself, “What is a self-declared capitalist like Mary Ellen Pleasant doing in the Missing Witches pantheon - this group of magical beings who use their powers to try and make the world a better place?” Well, what if I told you that Mary Ellen Pleasant used her wealth to support her community, to support the fight for abolition and women’s suffrage? And what if I told you that she studied under the New Orleans Queen of Voodoo herself, Marie Laveaux? And what if I told you that these two facts are inexorably linked? In Pleasant’s own unpublished memoir, she summed up her legacy: “You know my cause well. My cause was the cause of freedom and equality for myself and for my people and I’d rather be a corpse than a coward.” true full 206 014dbde8-8e7b-4f42-a9c6-fdcfb77f5f60 WF Tamiko Beyer, Destiny Hemphill and Lisbeth White: Poetry As Spellcasting www.missingwitches.com

Poetry As Spellcasting

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Poetry As Spellcasting

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]]> WF Tamiko Beyer, Destiny Hemphill and Lisbeth White: Poetry As Spellcasting Missing Witches 01:09:52 Language is one of the original magics. Poetry is a prayer language. In today's episode, Amy is joined by Tamiko Beyer, Destiny Hemphill and Lisbeth White, the co-authors/co-editors of the new book "Poetry As Spellcasting: Poems, essays, and prompts for manifesting liberation and reclaiming power." Together we open the portal to discuss the ritual of writing, the radical imagination required for social justice, the alchemy of collaboration and a slow revolution. Language is one of the original magics. Poetry is a prayer language. In today's episode, Amy is joined by Tamiko Beyer, Destiny Hemphill and Lisbeth White, the co-authors/co-editors of the new book "Poetry As Spellcasting: Poems, essays, and prompts for manifesting liberation and reclaiming power." Together we open the portal to discuss the ritual of writing, the radical imagination required for social justice, the alchemy of collaboration and a slow revolution. social justice, creativity true full 205 51cda9d1-80ab-4760-b74d-266358299103 MW Mary Oliver: I Got Saved By The Beauty Of The World www.missingwitches.com/ep-204-mw-mary-oliver-i-got-saved-by-the-beauty-of-the-world

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]]> MW Mary Oliver: I Got Saved By The Beauty Of The World Missing Witches 00:25:46 In today's episode, Amy fosters her friendship, and hopefully yours too, with poet Mary Oliver, who's work is a love letter to nature, and to noticing. But Amy discovers that the real Mary was not exactly who we assume her to be. In today's episode, Amy fosters her friendship, and hopefully yours too, with poet Mary Oliver, who's work is a love letter to nature, and to noticing. But Amy discovers that the real Mary was not exactly who we assume her to be. true full 204 79a779db-b6ee-48b2-bf47-1f44480af18e WF Sister Roma: Is There Anything Gayer Than Religion? www.missingwitches.com/ep-203-wf-sister-roma-is-there-anything-gayer-than-religion

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]]> WF Sister Roma: Is There Anything Gayer Than Religion? Missing Witches 01:04:55 We are so honoured and delighted to welcome into our circle Sister Roma of The Sisters Of Perpetual Indulgence, the world’s most photographed nun, also the world’s most glamorous, beautiful, intelligent, world-changing, benevolent and inspiring nun. Roma says, "The Sisters changed my life." And we spend this conversation discussing the myriad ways that her troupe of Drag Nuns has saved not only Roma's life, but countless others. We cover all the topics we've been told not to discuss: Sex, Religion, Politics and beyond. We are so honoured and delighted to welcome into our circle Sister Roma of The Sisters Of Perpetual Indulgence, the world’s most photographed nun, also the world’s most glamorous, beautiful, intelligent, world-changing, benevolent and inspiring nun. Roma says, "The Sisters changed my life." And we spend this conversation discussing the myriad ways that her troupe of Drag Nuns has saved not only Roma's life, but countless others. We cover all the topics we've been told not to discuss: Sex, Religion, Politics and beyond. nun, drag, queer history true full 203 e20795ec-fdc7-4141-b5bd-0fa9e3b06b71 MW The Sisters Of Perpetual Indulgence: Promulgate Universal Joy And Expiate Stigmatic Guilt www.missingwitches.com/ep-202/

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]]> MW The Sisters Of Perpetual Indulgence: Promulgate Universal Joy And Expiate Stigmatic Guilt Missing Witches 00:25:09 In today's episode, Amy investigates the story of the Sisters Of Perpetual Indulgence, a global order of queer Drag Nuns whose bad habits are a world-changing mission of social justice, volunteering, fundraising, consciousness-raising, joy-raising and generally throwing a monkey-wrench into the dangerously normalized status quo. In today's episode, Amy investigates the story of the Sisters Of Perpetual Indulgence, a global order of queer Drag Nuns whose bad habits are a world-changing mission of social justice, volunteering, fundraising, consciousness-raising, joy-raising and generally throwing a monkey-wrench into the dangerously normalized status quo. true full 202 e92c7b56-19ae-4fd1-97fb-672717b34e92 Mabon 2023: Collaborating With Our Ideas w/ Christena Cleveland And Amanda Yates Garcia www.missingwitches.com

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]]> Mabon 2023: Collaborating With Our Ideas w/ Christena Cleveland And Amanda Yates Garcia Missing Witches 01:39:12 Happy Equinox! In celebration of the fall equinox, we sat down with Witch/Author Amanda Yates Garcia (Initiated) and Theologian/Author Christena Cleveland (God Is A Black Woman). Together we enter the deep soil to discuss balance - safety and risk-taking, being a leader while dismantling hierarchies, navigating our bodies, the land, self and other and belonging, cultivating community while staying true to your own mission. This Mabon, we try to think of ourselves as being in collaboration with our ideas, where the relationship is reciprocal, not transactional. Big thanks to Amanda for writing the foreword for Missing Witches, and to Christena for writing the foreword for New Moon Magic. Happy Equinox! In celebration of the fall equinox, we sat down with Witch/Author Amanda Yates Garcia (Initiated) and Theologian/Author Christena Cleveland (God Is A Black Woman). Together we enter the deep soil to discuss balance - safety and risk-taking, being a leader while dismantling hierarchies, navigating our bodies, the land, self and other and belonging, cultivating community while staying true to your own mission. This Mabon, we try to think of ourselves as being in collaboration with our ideas, where the relationship is reciprocal, not transactional. Big thanks to Amanda for writing the foreword for Missing Witches, and to Christena for writing the foreword for New Moon Magic. true full 201 5d1256fd-5437-41ef-a69c-81b8f6075dc2 "New Moon Magic" Audio Book Excerpt - Chapter 13, 13th Moon: Technology, Anarchy and The Web www.missingwitches.com

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]]> "New Moon Magic" Audio Book Excerpt - Chapter 13, 13th Moon: Technology, Anarchy and The Web Missing Witches 00:11:05 In the lead up to the release of our new book, AND an all new season of the Missing Witches podcast, we're sharing snippets of the audio book version of New Moon Magic. Today's excerpt is from Chapter 13, 13th Moon: Technology, Anarchy and The Web. New Moon Magic: 13 Anti-Capitalist Tools For Resistance And Re-enchantment - Out September 12, pre-order now!! In the lead up to the release of our new book, AND an all new season of the Missing Witches podcast, we're sharing snippets of the audio book version of New Moon Magic. Today's excerpt is from Chapter 13, 13th Moon: Technology, Anarchy and The Web. New Moon Magic: 13 Anti-Capitalist Tools For Resistance And Re-enchantment - Out September 12, pre-order now!! true bonus 0229b8b4-d375-421e-ab94-25b1e84e0d6e "New Moon Magic" Audio Book Excerpt - Chapter 8 New Moon In Scorpio: The Circle www.missingwitches.com

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]]> "New Moon Magic" Audio Book Excerpt - Chapter 8 New Moon In Scorpio: The Circle Missing Witches 00:15:08 In the lead up to the release of our new book, AND an all new season of the Missing Witches podcast, we're sharing snippets of the audio book version of New Moon Magic. Today's excerpt is from Chapter Chapter 8 New Moon In Scorpio: The Circle. New Moon Magic: 13 Anti-Capitalist Tools For Resistance And Re-enchantment - Out September 12, pre-order now!! In the lead up to the release of our new book, AND an all new season of the Missing Witches podcast, we're sharing snippets of the audio book version of New Moon Magic. Today's excerpt is from Chapter Chapter 8 New Moon In Scorpio: The Circle. New Moon Magic: 13 Anti-Capitalist Tools For Resistance And Re-enchantment - Out September 12, pre-order now!! true bonus 93087bd4-60e2-44cf-a45a-ceb2119021cc "New Moon Magic" Audio Book Excerpt - Chapter 7 New Moon In Libra: Geometry www.missingwitches.com

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]]> "New Moon Magic" Audio Book Excerpt - Chapter 7 New Moon In Libra: Geometry Missing Witches 00:10:59 In the lead up to the release of our new book, AND an all new season of the Missing Witches podcast, we're sharing snippets of the audio book version of New Moon Magic. Today's excerpt is from Chapter 7 New Moon In Libra: Geometry. New Moon Magic: 13 Anti-Capitalist Tools For Resistance And Re-enchantment - Out September 12, pre-order now!! In the lead up to the release of our new book, AND an all new season of the Missing Witches podcast, we're sharing snippets of the audio book version of New Moon Magic. Today's excerpt is from Chapter 7 New Moon In Libra: Geometry. New Moon Magic: 13 Anti-Capitalist Tools For Resistance And Re-enchantment - Out September 12, pre-order now!! true bonus 1e0c1385-d284-495b-b43d-c7ce48b95cd4 "New Moon Magic" Audio Book Excerpt - INTRODUCTION www.missingwitches.com

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]]> "New Moon Magic" Audio Book Excerpt - INTRODUCTION Missing Witches 00:11:18 In the lead up to the release of our new book, AND an all new season of the Missing Witches podcast, we're sharing snippets of the audio book version of New Moon Magic. Today's excerpt is from The Introduction. New Moon Magic: 13 Anti-Capitalist Tools For Resistance And Re-enchantment - Out September 12, pre-order now!! In the lead up to the release of our new book, AND an all new season of the Missing Witches podcast, we're sharing snippets of the audio book version of New Moon Magic. Today's excerpt is from The Introduction. New Moon Magic: 13 Anti-Capitalist Tools For Resistance And Re-enchantment - Out September 12, pre-order now!! true bonus 7178905d-67fa-4215-a42c-b803e77dfbc3 WF Theresa Reed AKA The Tarot Lady: Wreck Your Deck https://www.thetarotlady.com/

 

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]]> Thu, 3 Aug 2023 12:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/wf-theresa-reed-aka-tarot-lady-wreck-the-deck-y8PjnPZS https://www.thetarotlady.com/

 

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]]> WF Theresa Reed AKA The Tarot Lady: Wreck Your Deck Missing Witches 00:56:26 In this episode, Risa settles into the incomparably delightful and utterly comforting no-BS vibes of The Theresa Reed aka The Tarot Lady. In this joyful conversation with the coven, Theresa shares her understanding of the cycles made visible by astrology that give her hope even in these often dark times. She offers tips for picking up messages from the songs in the air, and practical means of adapting your learning of the messages in Tarot to different kinds of brains and memories. In her frank, unfiltered, and loving way, she offers exceptional advice for folks learning divination, and for anyone trying to balance life against burnout. "As a Catholic schoolgirl with a superstitious mother and a grandma who felt omens like other folks feel arthritis, it’s not too surprising that Tarot, astrology & other intuitive arts would become my driving fascination — and my life’s work. I picked up my first Tarot deck at age 15, and kick-started my career by performing readings on my little sister (most of her questions were about the cute boys in class. Some things never change.) Thirty years later, I’ve done readings on thousands of clients — from police officers to recovering addicts to new mothers to angst-ridden teens. I’m fascinated by the complexity of individual cause-and-effect, and I’m devoted to helping people make better decisions — and lead happier lives. I believe that nothing is fated, that everything is fluid — and that the cards have the power to inspire courageous, life-affirming action. But only if you honor your emotional & intuitive reactions for what they really are — a quiet, guiding intelligence." In this episode, Risa settles into the incomparably delightful and utterly comforting no-BS vibes of The Theresa Reed aka The Tarot Lady. In this joyful conversation with the coven, Theresa shares her understanding of the cycles made visible by astrology that give her hope even in these often dark times. She offers tips for picking up messages from the songs in the air, and practical means of adapting your learning of the messages in Tarot to different kinds of brains and memories. In her frank, unfiltered, and loving way, she offers exceptional advice for folks learning divination, and for anyone trying to balance life against burnout. "As a Catholic schoolgirl with a superstitious mother and a grandma who felt omens like other folks feel arthritis, it’s not too surprising that Tarot, astrology & other intuitive arts would become my driving fascination — and my life’s work. I picked up my first Tarot deck at age 15, and kick-started my career by performing readings on my little sister (most of her questions were about the cute boys in class. Some things never change.) Thirty years later, I’ve done readings on thousands of clients — from police officers to recovering addicts to new mothers to angst-ridden teens. I’m fascinated by the complexity of individual cause-and-effect, and I’m devoted to helping people make better decisions — and lead happier lives. I believe that nothing is fated, that everything is fluid — and that the cards have the power to inspire courageous, life-affirming action. But only if you honor your emotional & intuitive reactions for what they really are — a quiet, guiding intelligence." true full 200 961f83f0-16a6-4672-aafb-fa310c0b0db7 Lammas 2023: Crafting Masculinities with Remy Savard, James Gardner Davis and Jonathan Ayers Tue, 1 Aug 2023 09:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/lammas-2023-crafting-masculinities-with-remy-savard-james-gardner-davis-and-jonathan-ayers-qAymJIDf Lammas 2023: Crafting Masculinities with Remy Savard, James Gardner Davis and Jonathan Ayers Missing Witches 01:33:11 For Lammas, we sit down with three thread-pullers, Remy Savard, James Gardner Davis and Jonathan Ayers, to examine craft, weaving and masculinity. Together we discuss the Masculinity Wound and find ways to shape-shift, knitting ourselves and materials into something that fits. For Lammas, we sit down with three thread-pullers, Remy Savard, James Gardner Davis and Jonathan Ayers, to examine craft, weaving and masculinity. Together we discuss the Masculinity Wound and find ways to shape-shift, knitting ourselves and materials into something that fits. true full 198 9c7586f1-1c0e-4582-a1fa-c11a07da183e WF Liz Childs Kelly: Taking The Divine Out Of Religion And Bringing It Back To Ourselves https://www.hometoher.com/

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]]> Thu, 20 Jul 2023 12:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (liz kelly) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/wf-liz-kelly-taking-divine-out-of-religion-and-bringing-it-back-to-ourselves-RgYLFMne https://www.hometoher.com/

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]]> WF Liz Childs Kelly: Taking The Divine Out Of Religion And Bringing It Back To Ourselves liz kelly 00:54:16 Liz Childs Kelly is a writer, host of the Home to Her podcast, Sacred Feminine researcher and educator, community builder, and initiated priestess in the 13 Moons Lineage. She is the author of "Home to Her: Walking the Transformative Path of the Sacred Feminine," from Womancraft Publishing, Recipient of 2023 Nautilus Gold Award. Liz Childs Kelly is a writer, host of the Home to Her podcast, Sacred Feminine researcher and educator, community builder, and initiated priestess in the 13 Moons Lineage. She is the author of "Home to Her: Walking the Transformative Path of the Sacred Feminine," from Womancraft Publishing, Recipient of 2023 Nautilus Gold Award. animism, non-binary, divine feminine, hierophant, sacred, goddetc true full 199 30a50e10-50c2-4e70-a9d4-95160a731afa MW Rx. 27 - Come Together, We're Walking With Ghosts www.missingwitches.com

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]]> Mon, 17 Jul 2023 09:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/mw-rx-27-come-together-were-walking-with-ghosts-BIL5s5NM www.missingwitches.com

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]]> MW Rx. 27 - Come Together, We're Walking With Ghosts Missing Witches 00:28:12 The prescription this week is taking breaks, meeting neighbours, the feeling of folk festivals, Come Together, Walking With Ghosts, I've Got Me, and to build fences with gates that open. Delight in the mess. The prescription this week is taking breaks, meeting neighbours, the feeling of folk festivals, Come Together, Walking With Ghosts, I've Got Me, and to build fences with gates that open. Delight in the mess. true bonus 6342c921-d42c-4921-965e-eedd4379080a MW Rx. 26 - What Kind Of Power We Got? Soul Power. www.missingwitches.com

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]]> Mon, 10 Jul 2023 09:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/mw-rx-26-what-kind-of-power-we-got-soul-power-_BOofk8d www.missingwitches.com

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]]> MW Rx. 26 - What Kind Of Power We Got? Soul Power. Missing Witches 00:15:44 With Public Enemy and the Wainwright family, the prescription this week is to consider that/how ALL songs are protest songs. With Public Enemy and the Wainwright family, the prescription this week is to consider that/how ALL songs are protest songs. true bonus 20bd57ad-46bc-467f-bae0-98495d5a2eb6 WF Claire McMillan: Voices Through Time In Collaboration www.missingwitches.com/ep-197-wf-claire-mcmillan-voices-through-time

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]]> Thu, 6 Jul 2023 09:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/wf-claire-mcmillan-voices-through-time-in-collaboration-_RAGbSye www.missingwitches.com/ep-197-wf-claire-mcmillan-voices-through-time

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]]> WF Claire McMillan: Voices Through Time In Collaboration Missing Witches 01:05:01 In today's episode, Risa sits down in sheer delight with Claire McMillan, the author of Alchemy of a Blackbird (based on the true story of the 20th-century painters and tarot devotees Remedios Varo and Leonora Carrington), Gilded Age, and The Necklace. In today's episode, Risa sits down in sheer delight with Claire McMillan, the author of Alchemy of a Blackbird (based on the true story of the 20th-century painters and tarot devotees Remedios Varo and Leonora Carrington), Gilded Age, and The Necklace. true full 197 0aca8366-ad44-4354-9095-d7da83678e02 MW Rx.25 - But We're Too Strong, Proud, Unafraid. www.missingwitches.com

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]]> Mon, 3 Jul 2023 09:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/mw-rx25-but-were-too-strong-proud-unafraid-GZgLn8Lt www.missingwitches.com

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]]> MW Rx.25 - But We're Too Strong, Proud, Unafraid. Missing Witches 00:31:46 Amy and Risa's prescription this week includes Delaney & Bonnie and Jinkx Monsoon. Amy and Risa's prescription this week includes Delaney & Bonnie and Jinkx Monsoon. true bonus c8953af6-b854-40b9-a305-ae936753aa6e MW Rx. 24 - Missing Witches Prescription with Risa + Amy www.missingwitches.com

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]]> Wed, 28 Jun 2023 14:50:08 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/mw-rx-24-missing-witches-prescription-with-risa-amy-Ngh2iBWb www.missingwitches.com

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]]> MW Rx. 24 - Missing Witches Prescription with Risa + Amy Missing Witches 00:30:14 If you want to be a bird, it might require a little flying. NOTE: This Rx should have gone out on Monday but life got in the way. We are human beings and sometimes we drop balls. Apologies for lateness, but never forget: YOU too are allowed to make mistakes. xoxo If you want to be a bird, it might require a little flying. NOTE: This Rx should have gone out on Monday but life got in the way. We are human beings and sometimes we drop balls. Apologies for lateness, but never forget: YOU too are allowed to make mistakes. xoxo true bonus e0c9b13d-b084-4f40-a894-2b7c1755f585 Litha 2023 w Bex Carlos and Lorraine Monteagut: BRUJAS www.missingwitches.com/ep-196-litha-2023-w-bex-carlos-and-lorraine-monteagut-brujas

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]]> Wed, 21 Jun 2023 09:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/litha-2023-w-bex-carlos-and-lorraine-monteagut-brujas-TlGo2ILh www.missingwitches.com/ep-196-litha-2023-w-bex-carlos-and-lorraine-monteagut-brujas

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]]> Litha 2023 w Bex Carlos and Lorraine Monteagut: BRUJAS Missing Witches 01:17:57 For summer solstice, we sit down with 'Tu Tía Bruja' podcaster Bex Carlos, and 'Brujas' author Lorraine Monteagut to discuss the history and reclamation of the word Bruja. We dig into appropriation, discrimination, assimilation, ally-ship and magic to play in the space between tradition and invention. Together we celebrate bumbling, joy and delusion on our way to our power. For summer solstice, we sit down with 'Tu Tía Bruja' podcaster Bex Carlos, and 'Brujas' author Lorraine Monteagut to discuss the history and reclamation of the word Bruja. We dig into appropriation, discrimination, assimilation, ally-ship and magic to play in the space between tradition and invention. Together we celebrate bumbling, joy and delusion on our way to our power. true full 196 5664d707-b102-4b47-8e81-30832a5c6d05 MW Rx. 23 - Missing Witches Prescription with Risa + Amy www.missingwitches.com

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]]> Mon, 19 Jun 2023 09:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/mw-rx-23-missing-witches-prescription-with-risa-amy-a4FC28gi www.missingwitches.com

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]]> MW Rx. 23 - Missing Witches Prescription with Risa + Amy Missing Witches 00:24:35 You won't fool the children of the revolution. You won't fool the children of the revolution. true bonus 8867c1f1-4069-40f1-9342-6410ecfcb084 MW Rx. 22 - Missing Witches Prescription with Risa + Amy www.missingwitches.com

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]]> Mon, 12 Jun 2023 09:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/mw-rx-22-missing-witches-prescription-with-risa-amy-zF5Z6hi0 www.missingwitches.com

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]]> MW Rx. 22 - Missing Witches Prescription with Risa + Amy Missing Witches 00:37:10 Writing letters to the rain. Writing letters to the rain. true bonus 4145be4d-7e80-40c8-a5e4-03ff6993e828 WF Osunyoyin (& Chelsea): Ifa Is The Wisdom, Ifa Is The Word, Ifa Is Life www.missingwitches.com

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]]> Thu, 8 Jun 2023 09:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/wf-osunyoyin-chelsea-ifa-is-the-wisdon-ifa-is-the-word-ifa-is-life-3ThAFrEZ www.missingwitches.com

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]]> WF Osunyoyin (& Chelsea): Ifa Is The Wisdom, Ifa Is The Word, Ifa Is Life Missing Witches 01:14:28 In this episode, Amy sits down for a delightful conversation with Godmother and Goddaughter, Osunyoyin and Chelsea! Osunyoyin aka Iya Linda is an Apetibi, Iyanifa and Iyalorisha in the Yoruba religion and has been initiated into Ifa for 30 years. She was initiated into Ifa, Obatala, Osun and other Orisas in Nigeria in the 90’s. She has recently formed an Ile called Gbogbo (pronounced bogbo) Orisa, which means All Orisa. As the Iya of GboGbo Orisa, Iya Linda provides a safe and confidential space for people on their spiritual journey through Ifa and emphasizes the importance of family and community. She also helps people solve life and spiritual issues by using Ifa divination and facilitates connections between Yoruba high priests in Nigeria, known as Babalowos/Babalorisas, to people in need of guidance. She believes that getting to know yourself spiritually is just as important as getting to know yourself in the physical realm so it's best not to go on that journey alone. When Iya Linda is not being a godmother and Ifa priestess, you can find her enjoying karaoke, cooking, or spending time with family and friends. Contact Osunyoyin at GBOGBOORISA@GMAIL.COM In this episode, Amy sits down for a delightful conversation with Godmother and Goddaughter, Osunyoyin and Chelsea! Osunyoyin aka Iya Linda is an Apetibi, Iyanifa and Iyalorisha in the Yoruba religion and has been initiated into Ifa for 30 years. She was initiated into Ifa, Obatala, Osun and other Orisas in Nigeria in the 90’s. She has recently formed an Ile called Gbogbo (pronounced bogbo) Orisa, which means All Orisa. As the Iya of GboGbo Orisa, Iya Linda provides a safe and confidential space for people on their spiritual journey through Ifa and emphasizes the importance of family and community. She also helps people solve life and spiritual issues by using Ifa divination and facilitates connections between Yoruba high priests in Nigeria, known as Babalowos/Babalorisas, to people in need of guidance. She believes that getting to know yourself spiritually is just as important as getting to know yourself in the physical realm so it's best not to go on that journey alone. When Iya Linda is not being a godmother and Ifa priestess, you can find her enjoying karaoke, cooking, or spending time with family and friends. Contact Osunyoyin at GBOGBOORISA@GMAIL.COM true full 195 319f4588-55c7-4fad-9bd5-6b1fe6bd9fed MW Rx. 21 - Missing Witches Prescription with Risa + Amy www.missingwitches.com

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]]> MW Rx. 21 - Missing Witches Prescription with Risa + Amy Missing Witches 00:30:02 Let's go deep and react to teh truth we find there. Let's go deep and react to teh truth we find there. true bonus 2728ab03-12c7-4574-a682-07e26581d6ed Meditation: Snake Kin http://www.socalwild.com/2018/08/778/778/

https://mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt1146.htm#22

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/unreserved/earth-day-indigenous-scientists-academics-and-community-members-take-the-lead-in-environmental-causes-1.4605336/every-plant-and-animal-is-useful-to-us-indigenous-professor-re-thinking-how-we-deal-with-invasive-species-1.4605344

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vision_Serpent#:~:text=The%20serpent%20was%20a%20very,symbol%20of%20rebirth%20and%20renewal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seed_of_the_woman

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B6rmungandr

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wadjet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burmese_pythons_in_Florida

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TWf-Y4ZhV7x7TIb1xtM1EnWLad1ZU6m3z-JBQjaauVo/edit

https://www.jstor.org/stable/29791957?read-now=1&seq=2#page_scan_tab_contents

“You have to learn respect and care around snakes! They help me remember that nature is not all sweetness and light and big-eyed, long-eyelashed deer, but mystery and danger as well.” Jenny H.

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]]> Thu, 1 Jun 2023 12:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Nikki Sanchez) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/meditation-snake-kin-lrfwweNb http://www.socalwild.com/2018/08/778/778/

https://mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt1146.htm#22

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/unreserved/earth-day-indigenous-scientists-academics-and-community-members-take-the-lead-in-environmental-causes-1.4605336/every-plant-and-animal-is-useful-to-us-indigenous-professor-re-thinking-how-we-deal-with-invasive-species-1.4605344

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vision_Serpent#:~:text=The%20serpent%20was%20a%20very,symbol%20of%20rebirth%20and%20renewal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seed_of_the_woman

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B6rmungandr

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wadjet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burmese_pythons_in_Florida

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TWf-Y4ZhV7x7TIb1xtM1EnWLad1ZU6m3z-JBQjaauVo/edit

https://www.jstor.org/stable/29791957?read-now=1&seq=2#page_scan_tab_contents

“You have to learn respect and care around snakes! They help me remember that nature is not all sweetness and light and big-eyed, long-eyelashed deer, but mystery and danger as well.” Jenny H.

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]]> Meditation: Snake Kin Nikki Sanchez 00:26:26 "'Witch' is a declaration of love and curiosity about all beings, all truths, especially those that aren’t cute or convenient or easily commercialized. Witches are kin with the troublesome and the uncanny and the strange." "'Witch' is a declaration of love and curiosity about all beings, all truths, especially those that aren’t cute or convenient or easily commercialized. Witches are kin with the troublesome and the uncanny and the strange." snakes, kinship, invasive species, maya, witchcraft, meditation, bible true full 194 50dc1caf-5abf-4039-a76b-7322347bc859 MW Rx. 20 - Missing Witches Prescription with Risa + Amy www.missingwitches.com

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]]> MW Rx. 20 - Missing Witches Prescription with Risa + Amy Missing Witches 00:18:56 Dedicated to the great goddess Tina Turner. Dedicated to the great goddess Tina Turner. true bonus c48a8e9b-fcca-42c6-9933-a1dd86791b99 WF Nikki Sanchez - We All Deserve To Be Well And Human And Deeply Interconnected https://decolonizetogether.com/

https://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/AWINAKOLA/

https://www.missingwitches.com/reparations-fundraiser-2023/

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/03/criminalization-wetsuweten-land-defenders/

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]]> Thu, 25 May 2023 12:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Nikki Sanchez) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/wf-nikki-sanchez-we-all-deserve-to-be-well-and-human-and-deeply-interconnected-if1n9gJQ https://decolonizetogether.com/

https://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/AWINAKOLA/

https://www.missingwitches.com/reparations-fundraiser-2023/

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/03/criminalization-wetsuweten-land-defenders/

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]]> WF Nikki Sanchez - We All Deserve To Be Well And Human And Deeply Interconnected Nikki Sanchez 01:01:50 "I believe that a beautiful future is possible, but I believe that we all need to go together and I don't wanna leave anyone behind. We all deserve to be well and human and deeply interconnected." Nikki Sanchez, Decolonize Together. "Nikki Sanchez (she/her) is a Pipil and Irish/Scottish academic, Indigenous media maker, and environmental educator. Nikki holds a master’s degree in Indigenous Governance and is presently completing a Ph.D. with a research focus on emerging visual media technology as it relates to Indigenous ontology. Nikki is a board member of the Sierra Club BC, BC Women’s Hospital, Photographers Without Borders, and a doctoral fellow at the Center for Religion and Society at the University of Victoria. She helped to design and direct the first-ever Indigenous Storyteller edition with Telus STORYHIVE; a project to provide funding and mentorship for 30 emerging Indigenous filmmakers in BC and Alberta. Nikki is the managing editor of Spirits of the Coast, the bestselling anthology of the Salish Sea Resident Orca published by Royal BC Museum publisher. Nikki had the honor of working for the David Suzuki Foundation as their, “Queen of Green (queenofgreen.ca) where her work centered on environmental journalism, social media, and digital media creation to provide sustainable solutions for a healthy planet, as well as content creation to bring more racial and gender inclusivity into the environmental movement. As an Indigenous media maker, Nikki’s most recent project is the 8-part documentary VICELAND series “RISE” which focused on global Indigenous resurgence. RISE was debuted at Sundance in February 2017 and has received global critical acclaim, recently winning “best documentary” at the Canadian Screen Guild Awards. Nikki is a TEDx speaker, her presentation is entitled “Decolonization is for Everyone”. She has been a wilderness guide and environmental educator in the Nuu-chah-nulth territory of Clayoquot Sound for over 10 years, where she was mentored by Nuu-chah-nulth elders Tsahsiits and Qaamina Sam. She is the creator and director of “Decolonize Together” a collective of Indigenous women who offer decolonial and anti-racism workshops and curriculum creation." "I believe that a beautiful future is possible, but I believe that we all need to go together and I don't wanna leave anyone behind. We all deserve to be well and human and deeply interconnected." Nikki Sanchez, Decolonize Together. "Nikki Sanchez (she/her) is a Pipil and Irish/Scottish academic, Indigenous media maker, and environmental educator. Nikki holds a master’s degree in Indigenous Governance and is presently completing a Ph.D. with a research focus on emerging visual media technology as it relates to Indigenous ontology. Nikki is a board member of the Sierra Club BC, BC Women’s Hospital, Photographers Without Borders, and a doctoral fellow at the Center for Religion and Society at the University of Victoria. She helped to design and direct the first-ever Indigenous Storyteller edition with Telus STORYHIVE; a project to provide funding and mentorship for 30 emerging Indigenous filmmakers in BC and Alberta. Nikki is the managing editor of Spirits of the Coast, the bestselling anthology of the Salish Sea Resident Orca published by Royal BC Museum publisher. Nikki had the honor of working for the David Suzuki Foundation as their, “Queen of Green (queenofgreen.ca) where her work centered on environmental journalism, social media, and digital media creation to provide sustainable solutions for a healthy planet, as well as content creation to bring more racial and gender inclusivity into the environmental movement. As an Indigenous media maker, Nikki’s most recent project is the 8-part documentary VICELAND series “RISE” which focused on global Indigenous resurgence. RISE was debuted at Sundance in February 2017 and has received global critical acclaim, recently winning “best documentary” at the Canadian Screen Guild Awards. Nikki is a TEDx speaker, her presentation is entitled “Decolonization is for Everyone”. She has been a wilderness guide and environmental educator in the Nuu-chah-nulth territory of Clayoquot Sound for over 10 years, where she was mentored by Nuu-chah-nulth elders Tsahsiits and Qaamina Sam. She is the creator and director of “Decolonize Together” a collective of Indigenous women who offer decolonial and anti-racism workshops and curriculum creation." indigenous, activism, mayan prophecy, magic, futurism true full 193 172913ea-1479-44d2-9607-f3a6107e1889 MW Rx. 19 - Missing Witches Prescription with Risa + Amy www.missingwitches.com

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]]> MW Rx. 19 - Missing Witches Prescription with Risa + Amy Missing Witches 00:33:36 Sing your rage. Sing your rage. true bonus d503a8a2-e73b-4fe8-a35f-f7453bd97ce5 Meditation: Plankton Kin transcript: www.missingwitches.com

 

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]]> Thu, 18 May 2023 09:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/meditation-plankton-kin-fRzG49_F transcript: www.missingwitches.com

 

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]]> Meditation: Plankton Kin Missing Witches 00:16:11 In this meditation, Amy goes with the flow to examine our kinship with Plankton. Witches are the algae of the human world. We exist forever. In this meditation, Amy goes with the flow to examine our kinship with Plankton. Witches are the algae of the human world. We exist forever. true full 192 4d657407-f41e-4ff2-89b8-27ab06c2a05a MW Rx. 18 - Missing Witches Prescription with Risa + Amy www.missingwitches.com

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]]> MW Rx. 18 - Missing Witches Prescription with Risa + Amy Missing Witches 00:19:23 We share 25% of our DNA with daffodils. We share 25% of our DNA with daffodils. true bonus 4572ae7e-2ccf-4e3b-b9cf-53f1db86d2ec Indigenous Futurism Round 2: Edgar Fabián Frías + Chrystal Toop http://www.blackbirdmedicines.ca/

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]]> Thu, 11 May 2023 12:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Edgar Fabián Frías, Chrystal Toop) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/indigenous-futurism-round-2-edgar-fabian-frias-chrystal-toop-iWueiY3q http://www.blackbirdmedicines.ca/

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]]> Indigenous Futurism Round 2: Edgar Fabián Frías + Chrystal Toop Edgar Fabián Frías, Chrystal Toop 01:01:56 Brilliant and beloved friends of the pod, Edgar Fabián Frías + Chrystal Toop, return to conjure Indigenous Futures with us. Brilliant and beloved friends of the pod, Edgar Fabián Frías + Chrystal Toop, return to conjure Indigenous Futures with us. indigenous, witches, spirituality, reparations, futurism true full 191 0b7823f4-63c2-4404-9443-164700512e72 MW Rx. 17 - Missing Witches Prescription with Risa + Amy www.missingwitches.com

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]]> MW Rx. 17 - Missing Witches Prescription with Risa + Amy Missing Witches 00:27:45 The world's drifting through me, and my life is all to me. I love myself and all of me. The world's drifting through me, and my life is all to me. I love myself and all of me. true bonus 4c22f744-3ee5-4497-a410-2a8b3bc06a1d Meditation: I Am AI Kin Full text of this meditation with links to all sources is on MissingWitches.com

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]]> Thu, 4 May 2023 12:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/meditation-i-am-ai-kin-LWIdFH4B Full text of this meditation with links to all sources is on MissingWitches.com

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]]> Meditation: I Am AI Kin Missing Witches 00:38:43 Risa meditates on the rise of AI. Correction: Risa mixed up her memories and said The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is by Asimov but it's Heinlein!! Risa meditates on the rise of AI. Correction: Risa mixed up her memories and said The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is by Asimov but it's Heinlein!! witches, ai, artificial intelligence, indigenous ai true full 190 0a19c441-96fa-47d3-a6e2-1da7f7398399 Indigenous Futurism: Granddaughter Crow + Amanda Amour Lynx https://www.missingwitches.com/reparations-fundraiser-2023/

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]]> Indigenous Futurism: Granddaughter Crow + Amanda Amour Lynx Missing Witches 01:05:37 This episode kicks off our month-long fundraiser for Native Women, join us in a joyful community act of reparations! "Your curiosity is your internal compass to lead you to your authenticity." "Granddaughter Crow (Dr. Joy Gray) holds a doctorate in leadership. Internationally recognized as a medicine woman, she comes from a long line of spiritual leaders as a member of the Navajo Nation. She is an international award-winning author. Her books include The Journey of the Soul, Wisdom of the Natural World, and Belief, Being, and Beyond. Additionally, she is a member of the Delta Mu Delta Honor Society due to her academic achievements. Voted in as Woman of the Year 2015 by the National Association of Professional Women. She is truly a conduit for wisdom and transformation between the western and native worlds. More than that, she has dedicated her life to inspiring, encouraging, and empowering individuals to be their authenticity. "Amanda Amour Lynx (they/she/nekm) is a Two Spirit, neurodivergent, urban L’nu (Mi’kmaw)-Scottish interdisciplinary artist and facilitator currently living in Guelph, Ontario. Lynx was born and grew up in Tiohtià:ke (Montreal) and is a member of Wagmatcook FN. Their art making is a hybridity of traditional l’nuk approaches and contemporary painting with new media and digital arts, guided by the Mi’kmaq principles netukulimk (sustainability) and etuaptmumk (two-eyed seeing), Lynx’s artistic practice discusses land and relationality, environmental issues, navigating systems and societal structures, cultural and gender identity, (L’nui’smk) language resurgence, quantum and spiritual multiplicities. Their facilitation work focuses on designing community spaces committed to creating healthy Indigenous futurities, guided by lateral love, accessibility and world-building. Amour-Lynx’s recent projects include Spark Indigenous(2023), a collaboration with Meta and Slow Studies Creative, an augmented reality creator accelerator that amplifies Indigenous cultural expression and storytelling through using emerging technology and AR. Virtual Beginner Two Spirit Regalia Making Skills (2021-2023) with Canadian Roots Exchange, a program for Indigiqueer, two spirit and LGBT+ youth, that provides access to regalia making workshops, genderfluid ceremonial teachings, pow wow culture and rooted in peer-led community and cultural practices. Their curatorial projects include 2S Digital Constellations (2023) a short project incubator and augmented reality virtual exhibit highlighting the works of emerging two spirit textile-based artists using new media, and Shapeshifters(2019) exhibit at Beaver Hall Gallery (Toronto) part of the annual Bi+ Arts Festival, which featured and highlighted the work of Two Spirit artists in dialogue with the Bi+ festival showcase. Their writing was published as part of grunt gallery’s Together Apart anthology (2020), and revue esse (2020). Lynx also worked as program assistant at Xpace Cultural Centre, a cultural programming hub and art gallery serving emerging artists (Toronto) from 2016-2018. Their artwork has been featured in gallery spaces, festivals and publications nationally." This episode kicks off our month-long fundraiser for Native Women, join us in a joyful community act of reparations! "Your curiosity is your internal compass to lead you to your authenticity." "Granddaughter Crow (Dr. Joy Gray) holds a doctorate in leadership. Internationally recognized as a medicine woman, she comes from a long line of spiritual leaders as a member of the Navajo Nation. She is an international award-winning author. Her books include The Journey of the Soul, Wisdom of the Natural World, and Belief, Being, and Beyond. Additionally, she is a member of the Delta Mu Delta Honor Society due to her academic achievements. Voted in as Woman of the Year 2015 by the National Association of Professional Women. She is truly a conduit for wisdom and transformation between the western and native worlds. More than that, she has dedicated her life to inspiring, encouraging, and empowering individuals to be their authenticity. "Amanda Amour Lynx (they/she/nekm) is a Two Spirit, neurodivergent, urban L’nu (Mi’kmaw)-Scottish interdisciplinary artist and facilitator currently living in Guelph, Ontario. Lynx was born and grew up in Tiohtià:ke (Montreal) and is a member of Wagmatcook FN. Their art making is a hybridity of traditional l’nuk approaches and contemporary painting with new media and digital arts, guided by the Mi’kmaq principles netukulimk (sustainability) and etuaptmumk (two-eyed seeing), Lynx’s artistic practice discusses land and relationality, environmental issues, navigating systems and societal structures, cultural and gender identity, (L’nui’smk) language resurgence, quantum and spiritual multiplicities. Their facilitation work focuses on designing community spaces committed to creating healthy Indigenous futurities, guided by lateral love, accessibility and world-building. Amour-Lynx’s recent projects include Spark Indigenous(2023), a collaboration with Meta and Slow Studies Creative, an augmented reality creator accelerator that amplifies Indigenous cultural expression and storytelling through using emerging technology and AR. Virtual Beginner Two Spirit Regalia Making Skills (2021-2023) with Canadian Roots Exchange, a program for Indigiqueer, two spirit and LGBT+ youth, that provides access to regalia making workshops, genderfluid ceremonial teachings, pow wow culture and rooted in peer-led community and cultural practices. Their curatorial projects include 2S Digital Constellations (2023) a short project incubator and augmented reality virtual exhibit highlighting the works of emerging two spirit textile-based artists using new media, and Shapeshifters(2019) exhibit at Beaver Hall Gallery (Toronto) part of the annual Bi+ Arts Festival, which featured and highlighted the work of Two Spirit artists in dialogue with the Bi+ festival showcase. Their writing was published as part of grunt gallery’s Together Apart anthology (2020), and revue esse (2020). Lynx also worked as program assistant at Xpace Cultural Centre, a cultural programming hub and art gallery serving emerging artists (Toronto) from 2016-2018. Their artwork has been featured in gallery spaces, festivals and publications nationally." indigenous futurism, indigenous true full 189 d179ed6c-f20b-409c-93b3-a6be70265d17 MW Rx. 16 - Missing Witches Prescription with Risa + Amy www.missingwitches.com

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]]> MW Rx. 16 - Missing Witches Prescription with Risa + Amy Missing Witches 00:20:54 Get un-stifled. Get un-stifled. true bonus 599d9e90-6f9c-4340-8b66-e2681ab15b2f Meditation: Cannabis Kin www.missingwitches.com

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]]> Meditation: Cannabis Kin Missing Witches 00:18:48 I shall be a holy anointing oil on the feet of our dry cracked world. I have grown up from the soil for millennia - healed and built and tied, woven and burned. I am concrete and paper and clothing and waking dreams. I create from within a limitless potential. I have been demonised, criminalised, abused, misunderstood, debased and had my powers and intentions questioned and mocked. I am a Witch, and I am weed kin. What do we Witches and weed have in common? We are misconstrued, dangerous, enviro-healers trying to help save the world, only to be met with the hegemonic forces of capitalism, colonialism and patriarchy trying to stomp us out. We are cannabis kin, and we aren’t going anywhere. So Legalise us. Cuz we are miraculous. Read the whole transcript at missingwitches.com I shall be a holy anointing oil on the feet of our dry cracked world. I have grown up from the soil for millennia - healed and built and tied, woven and burned. I am concrete and paper and clothing and waking dreams. I create from within a limitless potential. I have been demonised, criminalised, abused, misunderstood, debased and had my powers and intentions questioned and mocked. I am a Witch, and I am weed kin. What do we Witches and weed have in common? We are misconstrued, dangerous, enviro-healers trying to help save the world, only to be met with the hegemonic forces of capitalism, colonialism and patriarchy trying to stomp us out. We are cannabis kin, and we aren’t going anywhere. So Legalise us. Cuz we are miraculous. Read the whole transcript at missingwitches.com true full 188 3db472e2-3eaa-4f4f-bbd1-29e70d723792 MW Rx. 15 - Missing Witches Prescription with Risa + Amy www.missingwitches.com

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]]> MW Rx. 15 - Missing Witches Prescription with Risa + Amy Missing Witches 00:39:54 Dust yourself off. Dust yourself off. true bonus d45624f0-7b49-4a31-890b-d93de3b18af5 WF Sophie Saint Thomas: Cannabis Is Magic sophiesthomas.com

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]]> WF Sophie Saint Thomas: Cannabis Is Magic Missing Witches 00:54:14 In celebration of 4/20, Amy sits down with Weed Witch author Sophie Saint Thomas to dispel the myth of the lazy stoner. Sophie is a columnist and the author of FIVE (soon to be six) books: Finding Your Higher Self (Simon & Schuster), The Little Book of CBD for Self-Care (Simon & Schuster), Sex Witch: Magickal Spells for Love, Lust, and Self-Protection (Weiser), Glamour Witch: Conjuring Style and Grace to Get What You Want (Weiser) and Weed Witch (Running Press/Hachette Book Group). Together we examine what Witches and Weed have had in common throughout history. We discuss the science and spirit of marijuana, endocannabinoids, edibles and bong hits, and explore PTSD, activism, witchcraft, friendship, love and lust, sexuality, divergent thinking, being a full time writer, tarot, money spells and magic. Sophie says, "I don't think there's anything morally wrong with wanting to feel good." And reminds all Witches, "Confidence is magic." In celebration of 4/20, Amy sits down with Weed Witch author Sophie Saint Thomas to dispel the myth of the lazy stoner. Sophie is a columnist and the author of FIVE (soon to be six) books: Finding Your Higher Self (Simon & Schuster), The Little Book of CBD for Self-Care (Simon & Schuster), Sex Witch: Magickal Spells for Love, Lust, and Self-Protection (Weiser), Glamour Witch: Conjuring Style and Grace to Get What You Want (Weiser) and Weed Witch (Running Press/Hachette Book Group). Together we examine what Witches and Weed have had in common throughout history. We discuss the science and spirit of marijuana, endocannabinoids, edibles and bong hits, and explore PTSD, activism, witchcraft, friendship, love and lust, sexuality, divergent thinking, being a full time writer, tarot, money spells and magic. Sophie says, "I don't think there's anything morally wrong with wanting to feel good." And reminds all Witches, "Confidence is magic." marijuana, cannabis, weed true full 187 2588041c-c61d-4c87-9524-86a0c124f1d8 MW Rx. 14 - Missing Witches Prescription with Risa + Amy www.missingwitches.com

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]]> MW Rx. 14 - Missing Witches Prescription with Risa + Amy Missing Witches 00:20:14 Good luck!! Good luck!! true bonus d50aab52-d9a1-4f18-9a95-3bf7bd977aad WF Yvonne Aburrow: Changing Paths References in this episode:

Margot Adler, Drawing Down the Moon

Dawkins, God Delusion

All Acts of Love and Pleasure

John Beckett, https://undertheancientoaks.com/

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/quakerpagan/

http://quakerpagan.blogspot.com/

https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780759105232/Researching-Paganisms

 

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]]> Thu, 13 Apr 2023 12:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/wf-yvonne-aburrow-changing-paths-9knx_9tA References in this episode:

Margot Adler, Drawing Down the Moon

Dawkins, God Delusion

All Acts of Love and Pleasure

John Beckett, https://undertheancientoaks.com/

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/quakerpagan/

http://quakerpagan.blogspot.com/

https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780759105232/Researching-Paganisms

 

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]]> WF Yvonne Aburrow: Changing Paths Missing Witches 01:01:26 The full transcript for this episode is available at MissingWitches.com. Yvonne is multi-dimensional. A software developer, poet, and Wiccan theorist. A non-binary bisexual person who brings to their practice a huge compassion for all of us out here just trying to find our paths. "Yvonne Aburrow has an MA in Contemporary Religions and Spiritualities from Bath Spa University and lives and works in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada. They have written four books on the mythology and folklore of trees, birds, and animals, two anthologies of poetry, and various books on contemporary Wicca." Their latest is Changing Paths. "Are you leaving a religion, entering Paganism, leaving Paganism, changing traditions within it, or leaving religion altogether? Changing Paths is a companion for the journey.How do you explain your new path to friends, family, former co-religionists, and yourself? How do you extricate yourself from your previous tradition and its associated ideas? How do you unpack your complex feelings about your path and why you are changing direction?Individuals have many reasons for leaving a faith, including being in conflict with bad theology, bristling against a high-control religion, and disagreeing with conservative positions on gender, sexuality, and the body. Changing Paths offers resources for examining religious attitudes to gender, sexuality, other religions, and whether your religion supports you effectively through life’s ups and downs.There are various routes into Paganism and Changing Paths offers resources on how to decide which tradition is right for you, how you know you’re a member of a group, and reasons for joining a group—or not. Exercises, journal prompts, and reflections explore how to deal with unexamined baggage from your previous tradition, the role of leaders, and how to find a beloved community.You aren’t alone in your journey. A range of contributors who have trod this same path—from a former Christian who is now a Wiccan to a former Pagan who now avoids labels—also share their experience and wisdom." The full transcript for this episode is available at MissingWitches.com. Yvonne is multi-dimensional. A software developer, poet, and Wiccan theorist. A non-binary bisexual person who brings to their practice a huge compassion for all of us out here just trying to find our paths. "Yvonne Aburrow has an MA in Contemporary Religions and Spiritualities from Bath Spa University and lives and works in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada. They have written four books on the mythology and folklore of trees, birds, and animals, two anthologies of poetry, and various books on contemporary Wicca." Their latest is Changing Paths. "Are you leaving a religion, entering Paganism, leaving Paganism, changing traditions within it, or leaving religion altogether? Changing Paths is a companion for the journey.How do you explain your new path to friends, family, former co-religionists, and yourself? How do you extricate yourself from your previous tradition and its associated ideas? How do you unpack your complex feelings about your path and why you are changing direction?Individuals have many reasons for leaving a faith, including being in conflict with bad theology, bristling against a high-control religion, and disagreeing with conservative positions on gender, sexuality, and the body. Changing Paths offers resources for examining religious attitudes to gender, sexuality, other religions, and whether your religion supports you effectively through life’s ups and downs.There are various routes into Paganism and Changing Paths offers resources on how to decide which tradition is right for you, how you know you’re a member of a group, and reasons for joining a group—or not. Exercises, journal prompts, and reflections explore how to deal with unexamined baggage from your previous tradition, the role of leaders, and how to find a beloved community.You aren’t alone in your journey. A range of contributors who have trod this same path—from a former Christian who is now a Wiccan to a former Pagan who now avoids labels—also share their experience and wisdom." true full 186 b2995c9b-d9ac-419d-b80b-04d5dd28cc73 MW Rx. 13 - Missing Witches Prescription with Risa + Amy www.missingwitches.com

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]]> MW Rx. 13 - Missing Witches Prescription with Risa + Amy Missing Witches 00:28:10 Just don't stop. Just don't stop. true bonus f16f735a-099f-4c2e-86ae-9047fddc76e0 Meditation: Bear Kin www.missingwitches.com

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]]> Meditation: Bear Kin Missing Witches 00:15:08 I am Ursa Fucking Major, made of stars, and I know how to use my energy on the Cosmic Hunt. I wanna be a bear, a keeper of courage, responsible for managing my own energy. Soft fur, sharp claws. Soft fur, sharp claws. Trial, Error, and Torpor. I am Ursa Fucking Major, made of stars, and I know how to use my energy on the Cosmic Hunt. I wanna be a bear, a keeper of courage, responsible for managing my own energy. Soft fur, sharp claws. Soft fur, sharp claws. Trial, Error, and Torpor. true full 185 2a5b8f12-fbef-4e6a-92d4-1d4f7983f689 MW Rx. 12 - Missing Witches Prescription with Risa + Amy www.missingwitches.com

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]]> MW Rx. 12 - Missing Witches Prescription with Risa + Amy Missing Witches 00:25:19 Fire refuge. Fire refuge. true bonus 25166440-0d44-4106-8cde-ad182796d7c3 WF Asha Frost: This Is How We Decolonize Decks ashafrost.com

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]]> WF Asha Frost: This Is How We Decolonize Decks Missing Witches 00:44:49 Today Amy sits down with Asha Frost, author of You Are The Medicine, and creator of the new card deck The Sacred Medicine Oracle to discuss Extraction of both land and culture and Hope in Action. Asha describes her process of creating this oracle deck as a way of taking up space as an indigenous person; if she hides these teachings, then the colonizer wins. Asha says, “I hope that as you hold this deck in your hands, as you shuffle it, as you read my guidebook, that you are also invited into relationship with indigenous people and that land that you are on, that you learn about history.” This is how we decolonize decks. Today Amy sits down with Asha Frost, author of You Are The Medicine, and creator of the new card deck The Sacred Medicine Oracle to discuss Extraction of both land and culture and Hope in Action. Asha describes her process of creating this oracle deck as a way of taking up space as an indigenous person; if she hides these teachings, then the colonizer wins. Asha says, “I hope that as you hold this deck in your hands, as you shuffle it, as you read my guidebook, that you are also invited into relationship with indigenous people and that land that you are on, that you learn about history.” This is how we decolonize decks. indigenous, medicine woman, oracle true full 184 0e9ff18e-4016-4879-8cb1-adbdcf92c0a2 MW Rx. 11 - Missing Witches Prescription with Risa + Amy www.missingwitches.com

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]]> MW Rx. 11 - Missing Witches Prescription with Risa + Amy Missing Witches 00:28:08 "Have you seen me perform?" "Have you seen me perform?" true bonus 51c37347-e167-4a00-9c1e-19ff4e6f8581 Meditation: White Pine Kin Find the full text of this episode on MissingWitches.com.

Works Cited:

https://www.ababord.org/L-histoire-de-l-occupation-Anishnabe-dans-les-Laurentides

https://www.esd.ornl.gov/projects/qen/nerc130k.html

https://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/labcoat-life/common_ancestry_we_come_from/#:~:text=All%20animals%20(including%20humans)%2C,stem%20from%20a%20single%20root.

https://www.science.org/content/article/ancestor-all-placental-mammals-revealed

https://annforsci.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1007/s13595-012-0201-8#:~:text=Pinus%20originated%20~150%20Ma%20in,by%20the%20newly%20emerging%20angiosperms.

https://forestierenchef.gouv.qc.ca/wp-content/uploads/135-143_MDPF_Pins.pdf

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/vintage-red-and-white-pines-worth-finding-in-northeastern-ontario-1.3137727

https://www.sudbury.com/lifestyle/resident-works-with-sudburys-white-pine-history-225237

https://www.sudbury.com/local-news/heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-ontarios-majestic-white-pine-2512791

https://thenarwhal.ca/opinion-sudbury-ontario-extractive-industries-transition/

https://www.science.org/content/article/plants-communicate-distress-using-their-own-kind-nervous-system

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120620133357.htm

https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/movementtowardsreconciliation/chapter/the-greater-sudbury-area-atikamesksheng-anishnawbek/

https://iupress.org/9780253215192/native-pragmatism/

https://americanindian.si.edu/sites/1/files/pdf/education/HaudenosauneeGuide.pdf

https://www.nelma.org/the-eastern-white-pine-tree-will-likely-migrate-west-with-climate-change/

https://www.jcrt.org/archives/04.3/lokensgard.pdf

https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9781496202178/

 

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]]> Thu, 23 Mar 2023 12:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/meditation-white-pine-kin-i-have-ghosts-in-all-my-family-stories-vgzChVOa Find the full text of this episode on MissingWitches.com.

Works Cited:

https://www.ababord.org/L-histoire-de-l-occupation-Anishnabe-dans-les-Laurentides

https://www.esd.ornl.gov/projects/qen/nerc130k.html

https://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/labcoat-life/common_ancestry_we_come_from/#:~:text=All%20animals%20(including%20humans)%2C,stem%20from%20a%20single%20root.

https://www.science.org/content/article/ancestor-all-placental-mammals-revealed

https://annforsci.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1007/s13595-012-0201-8#:~:text=Pinus%20originated%20~150%20Ma%20in,by%20the%20newly%20emerging%20angiosperms.

https://forestierenchef.gouv.qc.ca/wp-content/uploads/135-143_MDPF_Pins.pdf

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/vintage-red-and-white-pines-worth-finding-in-northeastern-ontario-1.3137727

https://www.sudbury.com/lifestyle/resident-works-with-sudburys-white-pine-history-225237

https://www.sudbury.com/local-news/heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-ontarios-majestic-white-pine-2512791

https://thenarwhal.ca/opinion-sudbury-ontario-extractive-industries-transition/

https://www.science.org/content/article/plants-communicate-distress-using-their-own-kind-nervous-system

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120620133357.htm

https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/movementtowardsreconciliation/chapter/the-greater-sudbury-area-atikamesksheng-anishnawbek/

https://iupress.org/9780253215192/native-pragmatism/

https://americanindian.si.edu/sites/1/files/pdf/education/HaudenosauneeGuide.pdf

https://www.nelma.org/the-eastern-white-pine-tree-will-likely-migrate-west-with-climate-change/

https://www.jcrt.org/archives/04.3/lokensgard.pdf

https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9781496202178/

 

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]]> Meditation: White Pine Kin Missing Witches 00:30:38 "No stories inspired by a kinship with trees move in straight lines. I am tracing roots as deep as I can imagine, reaching in the dark. As usual, I’m trying to find the outlines of a story I’ve been missing, just hoping not to f*ck it up too much. But I’ll say this from the start - to orient this kinship meditation on the Missing Witches podcast - witchcraft is activism, it’s political, it has to be, we are people who are kin with those who have been oppressed. Witchcraft then is a land back movement. It has to be, we can’t look for connections to spirit and not throw our lot in with the people who spent hundreds of generations here, learning the spirit of these places. In mapping the practicalities of land back, we follow the lead of indigenous people like Georges Lafontaines, Communication officer at Algonquin Anishinabeg Nation Tribal Council, who writes, “our demands are not aimed at suppressing the non-native presence. We do not want to put the houses of non-Aboriginal people on wheels. Unoccupied lands are claimed, as well as participation in the management of the lands of the region… we wish to claim this territory in harmony with the population present. We also want important symbols put back in place, such as renaming waterways in the area, which had Indigenous names for millennia before the arrival of Europeans.” I lean into this kind rationality like resting my tired weight on a great tree." "No stories inspired by a kinship with trees move in straight lines. I am tracing roots as deep as I can imagine, reaching in the dark. As usual, I’m trying to find the outlines of a story I’ve been missing, just hoping not to f*ck it up too much. But I’ll say this from the start - to orient this kinship meditation on the Missing Witches podcast - witchcraft is activism, it’s political, it has to be, we are people who are kin with those who have been oppressed. Witchcraft then is a land back movement. It has to be, we can’t look for connections to spirit and not throw our lot in with the people who spent hundreds of generations here, learning the spirit of these places. In mapping the practicalities of land back, we follow the lead of indigenous people like Georges Lafontaines, Communication officer at Algonquin Anishinabeg Nation Tribal Council, who writes, “our demands are not aimed at suppressing the non-native presence. We do not want to put the houses of non-Aboriginal people on wheels. Unoccupied lands are claimed, as well as participation in the management of the lands of the region… we wish to claim this territory in harmony with the population present. We also want important symbols put back in place, such as renaming waterways in the area, which had Indigenous names for millennia before the arrival of Europeans.” I lean into this kind rationality like resting my tired weight on a great tree." indigenous, land back, kinship, white pine, history, colonization, native, quebec, forestry, canada, ontario, meditation true full 183 4f47351c-60aa-4b5b-828d-6c8af86e599e MW Rx. 10 - Missing Witches Prescription with Risa + Amy www.missingwitches.com

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]]> MW Rx. 10 - Missing Witches Prescription with Risa + Amy Missing Witches 00:17:02 Feral for spring...Groundbreaking. (Note: The RX this week was was preempted by our Ostara special but will be going back to Mondays next week.) Feral for spring...Groundbreaking. (Note: The RX this week was was preempted by our Ostara special but will be going back to Mondays next week.) true bonus f2b73de4-7343-4c07-8501-662ba01da7c7 Ostara 2023 w Maria Molteni: I Believe That Art Is Magic www.mariamolteni.com

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]]> Ostara 2023 w Maria Molteni: I Believe That Art Is Magic Missing Witches 01:09:00 As we burst forth into spring, we're joined by Artist, Mystic, Witch, coiner of the word GoddETC, Maria Molteni, to talk about social magic, colour, scale, basketball and stars. Maria walks us through their process of a life's work - art, religion, sports, cards, Scopa, Senda, Sedna, stones, queerness, quilts, Counting To Infinity, the fall of patriarchy, and seeking sainthood. Maria says, "Anyone can be an artist. Everyone should be an artist. Everyone has that innate vision and ability - just like Magic." As we burst forth into spring, we're joined by Artist, Mystic, Witch, coiner of the word GoddETC, Maria Molteni, to talk about social magic, colour, scale, basketball and stars. Maria walks us through their process of a life's work - art, religion, sports, cards, Scopa, Senda, Sedna, stones, queerness, quilts, Counting To Infinity, the fall of patriarchy, and seeking sainthood. Maria says, "Anyone can be an artist. Everyone should be an artist. Everyone has that innate vision and ability - just like Magic." true full 182 961b0e43-8348-4d11-8869-ba4a062d0c8f MW Rx. 9 - Missing Witches Prescription With Risa + Amy www.missingwitches.com

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]]> MW Rx. 9 - Missing Witches Prescription With Risa + Amy Missing Witches 00:21:01 You've gotta believe that I am beautiful. You've gotta believe that I am beautiful. true bonus 377ca0d1-bc85-4d63-ab6c-97e7e2ef410e MX Rx. 8 - Missing Witches Prescription With Risa + Amy www.missingwitches.com

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]]> WF Maya: Keeping My Hair Natural Was My First Political Gesture, The Beginning Of My Own Decolonization Missing Witches 00:45:06 Spiritualité. Ancestralité. Décolonialité. In this episode, Amy sits down with Maya, PhD, to learn about Natural Beauty as resistance to colonialism, racism, sexism and ageism. We talk about herbalism and tattoos as Maya's ancestral languages, buying as voting, and deconstruction of the self as existential praxis. We discuss kindness, Maya's work in diversity training, and on being multi-lingual, tri-continental, bi-racial, Maya says, " I AM diversity...I am doing this for my ancestors and for my children...My ancestors look at me every day and they are proud...I am beautiful." Spiritualité. Ancestralité. Décolonialité. In this episode, Amy sits down with Maya, PhD, to learn about Natural Beauty as resistance to colonialism, racism, sexism and ageism. We talk about herbalism and tattoos as Maya's ancestral languages, buying as voting, and deconstruction of the self as existential praxis. We discuss kindness, Maya's work in diversity training, and on being multi-lingual, tri-continental, bi-racial, Maya says, " I AM diversity...I am doing this for my ancestors and for my children...My ancestors look at me every day and they are proud...I am beautiful." true full 181 e2ee5f3b-9a9d-4814-b8aa-9c207d550dd4 MW Rx. 7 - Missing Witches Prescription With Amy + Risa www.missingwitches.com

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]]> MW Rx. 7 - Missing Witches Prescription With Amy + Risa Missing Witches 00:20:20 Don't make excuses to not connect. Be afraid of Nothing. Reach out. Don't make excuses to not connect. Be afraid of Nothing. Reach out. true bonus 2aea5ea2-9f18-4d9a-821c-f6925e331ccf Future Histories Of Black Magic - Black Witch Council 2023 Part 2 with Zoe Flowers, Loli Moon, Thea Anderson, Sherry Shone and OlaOmi Amoloku missingwitches.com

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]]> Future Histories Of Black Magic - Black Witch Council 2023 Part 2 with Zoe Flowers, Loli Moon, Thea Anderson, Sherry Shone and OlaOmi Amoloku Missing Witches 01:27:52 For the second part of our 2 part series, "Future Histories of Black Magic" we're joined by writer, occultist, healer Zoe Flowers, astrologer, natural mystic, revolutionary Loli Moon, author Sherry Shone (aka That Hoodoo Lady), astrologer, writer, astro-historian Thea Anderson and author, educator OlaOmi Amoloku (aka Got2BOshun). Together we sharpen our machetes and tongues to discuss capitalism, deliverance, magnificence, magic, self-worth, interaction, connection, the right to pleasure, orgasm and keeping the unity in community. Please support your local Black Witch. For the second part of our 2 part series, "Future Histories of Black Magic" we're joined by writer, occultist, healer Zoe Flowers, astrologer, natural mystic, revolutionary Loli Moon, author Sherry Shone (aka That Hoodoo Lady), astrologer, writer, astro-historian Thea Anderson and author, educator OlaOmi Amoloku (aka Got2BOshun). Together we sharpen our machetes and tongues to discuss capitalism, deliverance, magnificence, magic, self-worth, interaction, connection, the right to pleasure, orgasm and keeping the unity in community. Please support your local Black Witch. true full 180 60c36a00-3652-442e-b2d1-c51cef9e1081 Imbolc 2023: Future Histories Of Black Magic - Black Witch Council Part 1 with Christena Cleveland, Dr Beverly Smith and Marcelitte Failla Christena Cleveland

Dr Beverly Smith

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]]> Thu, 2 Feb 2023 10:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/imbolc-2023-future-histories-of-black-magic-black-witch-council-part-1-with-christena-cleveland-dr-beverly-smith-and-marcelitte-failla-oPwfxa4V Christena Cleveland

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]]> Imbolc 2023: Future Histories Of Black Magic - Black Witch Council Part 1 with Christena Cleveland, Dr Beverly Smith and Marcelitte Failla Missing Witches 01:35:12 For Part 1 of our 2 part series we sit in circle with Christena Cleveland - author of God Is A Black Woman; Dr Beverly Smith - conjure doctor, rootworker and resistance magician; and Marcelittle Failla, scholar and teacher of religious studies focusing on African and African diaspora religions. Together we discuss ideas of community, divinity, accountability, homemade justice, sanctuary, magic, abundance, and the connection between capitalism, white supremacy and the myth of scarcity. “i found god in myself and i loved her i loved her fiercely” ― Ntozake Shange For Part 1 of our 2 part series we sit in circle with Christena Cleveland - author of God Is A Black Woman; Dr Beverly Smith - conjure doctor, rootworker and resistance magician; and Marcelittle Failla, scholar and teacher of religious studies focusing on African and African diaspora religions. Together we discuss ideas of community, divinity, accountability, homemade justice, sanctuary, magic, abundance, and the connection between capitalism, white supremacy and the myth of scarcity. “i found god in myself and i loved her i loved her fiercely” ― Ntozake Shange true full 179 f48a2d10-6913-41c4-869e-345b772f184f Amy + Risa: Making A Map For 2023 Check out the all new www.MISSINGWITCHES.com

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]]> Thu, 26 Jan 2023 10:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/amy-risa-making-a-map-for-2023-rNxbI5z3 Check out the all new www.MISSINGWITCHES.com

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]]> Amy + Risa: Making A Map For 2023 Missing Witches 00:27:08 In our first episode of 2023, Amy and Risa chat about our plans for the upcoming year and invite you to lay your ideas onto the altar we all build together. Join the Coven!! Sing loudly! Make mistakes! Think about liberation and a lack of shame. Check out the all new www.MISSINGWITCHES.com! In our first episode of 2023, Amy and Risa chat about our plans for the upcoming year and invite you to lay your ideas onto the altar we all build together. Join the Coven!! Sing loudly! Make mistakes! Think about liberation and a lack of shame. Check out the all new www.MISSINGWITCHES.com! true full 178 9900df03-d515-4855-b366-7718e2b878b1 Yuletide 2022: Happy Talking Together (aka Santa Is A Mushroom) www.patreon.com/missingwitches

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]]> Yuletide 2022: Happy Talking Together (aka Santa Is A Mushroom) Missing Witches 01:41:53 The Missing Witches Coven gathers together to sing and tell stories for Winter Solstice - the longest night of our year. The Missing Witches Coven gathers together to sing and tell stories for Winter Solstice - the longest night of our year. solstice, yule, storytelling, winter true full 177 97d2ba40-9b83-49ab-b6b2-082c820de94a Amy + Risa - That Mystery Alone Unites Us For those always looking to relieve a little of the world's sorrow by donating to good causes, you'll find the memorial fund Cathy set up here: https://www.canadahelps.org/en/pages/a-life-of-service-the-living-legacy-of-catherine-s/

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]]> Thu, 8 Dec 2022 13:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/amy-risa-that-mystery-alone-unites-us-ql6YcNhm For those always looking to relieve a little of the world's sorrow by donating to good causes, you'll find the memorial fund Cathy set up here: https://www.canadahelps.org/en/pages/a-life-of-service-the-living-legacy-of-catherine-s/

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]]> Amy + Risa - That Mystery Alone Unites Us Missing Witches 00:41:40 Amy and Risa talk about a few of the moments of strange and beautiful magic that emerged during the last days of Risa's mother-in-love Cathy Simard's life. We cry and laugh and sketch out some tendrils of the mystery that unites us. Here we are in the darkening days, just trying to tell the truth. Love you soon. Amy and Risa talk about a few of the moments of strange and beautiful magic that emerged during the last days of Risa's mother-in-love Cathy Simard's life. We cry and laugh and sketch out some tendrils of the mystery that unites us. Here we are in the darkening days, just trying to tell the truth. Love you soon. mourning, dying, art therapy, palliative care, afterlife, death true full 176 e8db523a-cca8-4891-97af-b46b4b1061db WF Mandana Boushee: Knees To The Earth, Every Petal Is An Ancestor www.mandanaboushee.com

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]]> Thu, 24 Nov 2022 10:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/wf-mandana-boushee-knees-to-the-earth-every-petal-is-an-ancestor-odnL5FHy www.mandanaboushee.com

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]]> WF Mandana Boushee: Knees To The Earth, Every Petal Is An Ancestor Missing Witches 00:53:40 Amy sits down with your new Boo, Iranian-American community herbalist, storyteller, land tender, and joyous member of the mycelial network of liberatory-movement stewards and lovers, the co-founder of Wild Gather, School of Herbal Studies, Mandana Boushee. We talk about plants, pollen sex juice, ceremonies, Tick Magic, smoke breaks, woman-led revolution, 'Women Life Freedom', poetry, the stories held by blood and petals, and being a real ass bitch in 2022. Mandana says: Whenever we are casting seed and tending plants and fertilizing the earth and stewarding and being in relationship, we are involved in ceremony and involved in prayer and all the spiritual aspects, and at the same time we're also knees to the earth and doing something really tangible with a grounded purpose. Amy sits down with your new Boo, Iranian-American community herbalist, storyteller, land tender, and joyous member of the mycelial network of liberatory-movement stewards and lovers, the co-founder of Wild Gather, School of Herbal Studies, Mandana Boushee. We talk about plants, pollen sex juice, ceremonies, Tick Magic, smoke breaks, woman-led revolution, 'Women Life Freedom', poetry, the stories held by blood and petals, and being a real ass bitch in 2022. Mandana says: Whenever we are casting seed and tending plants and fertilizing the earth and stewarding and being in relationship, we are involved in ceremony and involved in prayer and all the spiritual aspects, and at the same time we're also knees to the earth and doing something really tangible with a grounded purpose. true full 175 1c102d12-80f5-43e6-9902-e2b206306ac5 WF Sarah Gottesdiener: Witchcraft 101 and Taking Our Own Advice moon-studio.co

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]]> Thu, 17 Nov 2022 13:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (sarah gottesdiener) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/wf-sarah-gottesdiener-relating-to-our-natural-way-of-being-embodying-our-supernatural-ways-of-being-olBNPB5k moon-studio.co

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]]> WF Sarah Gottesdiener: Witchcraft 101 and Taking Our Own Advice sarah gottesdiener 00:38:12 In this episode, Risa gets to talk with Sarah Gottesdiener again and a thoughtful love fest ensues. Sarah thinks out loud about her own thinking processes, and we dig into the idea of anti-capitalism and witchcraft 101 for reimagining our practices and the world. "Sarah is an artist and author living in Los Angeles. She is the founder of the Moon Studio. Find her teaching tarot, archetypes, energy work, boundaries, protection magic, creative resourcing, business, writing, intuition, depth psychology, and more at moon-studio.co" In this episode, Risa gets to talk with Sarah Gottesdiener again and a thoughtful love fest ensues. Sarah thinks out loud about her own thinking processes, and we dig into the idea of anti-capitalism and witchcraft 101 for reimagining our practices and the world. "Sarah is an artist and author living in Los Angeles. She is the founder of the Moon Studio. Find her teaching tarot, archetypes, energy work, boundaries, protection magic, creative resourcing, business, writing, intuition, depth psychology, and more at moon-studio.co" tarot, witch, intuition, witchcraft, psychic, anti-capitalist, moon, energy work true full 174 21fa0e25-d7ee-4122-8744-a0d3c2d25489 WF Sarah Lyons: Witchcraft Resists Nihilism And Alienation https://sarah-lyons.com/

https://www.missingwitches.com/2022/11/10/ep173-wf-sarah-lyons---witchcraft-resists-nihilism-and-alienation

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]]> Thu, 10 Nov 2022 10:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/wf-sarah-lyons-witchcraft-resists-nihilism-and-alienation-apoLrFS_ https://sarah-lyons.com/

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]]> WF Sarah Lyons: Witchcraft Resists Nihilism And Alienation Missing Witches 00:53:28 In this episode Amy sits down with the author of the books “Revolutionary Witchcraft, a Guide to Magical Activism” and the upcoming "How To Study Magic", Sarah Lyons. Sarah says her entry point into magic was "looking for a friend." We discuss Occultism, Witchcraft, Magic and examine the differences between these practices. To quiet the voice in your head that says you're not doing magic right, Sarah says, "JUST GO FOR IT!... I guarantee you, the more you do [magic], the more successes you will have, and when you have fairly frequent proof that magic is real, it can go a long way to quieting that voice." In this episode Amy sits down with the author of the books “Revolutionary Witchcraft, a Guide to Magical Activism” and the upcoming "How To Study Magic", Sarah Lyons. Sarah says her entry point into magic was "looking for a friend." We discuss Occultism, Witchcraft, Magic and examine the differences between these practices. To quiet the voice in your head that says you're not doing magic right, Sarah says, "JUST GO FOR IT!... I guarantee you, the more you do [magic], the more successes you will have, and when you have fairly frequent proof that magic is real, it can go a long way to quieting that voice." true full 173 2fc1d9ff-dec7-4a1a-9b78-8cde0aa65f34 WF Anna Maxymiw: Minique, A Novel "Everyone Is A Little Bit Dangerous." http://Patreon.com/MissingWitches

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]]> WF Anna Maxymiw: Minique, A Novel "Everyone Is A Little Bit Dangerous." anna maxymiw 00:45:15 In this episode, novelist Anna Maxymiw joins the MIssing Witches coven to discuss researching real witches, following the barest traces of powerful women in New France, and then writing fiction by listening to the voices that peal like a bell and cannot be denied. Note: this is a No Spoilers Episode. For the All Spoilers Episode that gets dirty and hilarious, join the coven at Patreon.com/MissingWitches In this episode, novelist Anna Maxymiw joins the MIssing Witches coven to discuss researching real witches, following the barest traces of powerful women in New France, and then writing fiction by listening to the voices that peal like a bell and cannot be denied. Note: this is a No Spoilers Episode. For the All Spoilers Episode that gets dirty and hilarious, join the coven at Patreon.com/MissingWitches detroit, books, montreal, witches, fiction, new france, history, feminist history, channeling, witch fiction true full 172 a491889c-a577-407e-9cb8-15b09f1bba5e Samhain 2022: Grief Is A Dancer, A Teacher. Grief Is Spiralling, It Is The Depth Of Me https://www.missingwitches.com/2022/10/31/ep-171-samhain-2022-grief-is-a-dancer-a-teacher-grief-is-spiralling-it-is-the-depth-of-me/

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]]> Samhain 2022: Grief Is A Dancer, A Teacher. Grief Is Spiralling, It Is The Depth Of Me Missing Witches 02:23:59 This Samhain, we're joined by four death workers: Chrystal Waban Toop (Blackbird Medicines), Loretta Ledesma (The Death Witch), Carla Davis Torres (A Venerated Death), and Angela Alberto (Heartwise Woman) to talk about grief, mortality, our ancestors, our heritage, our ability to love, and What makes a Good Death. Together we learn that Grief Is A Dancer, A Teacher. Grief Is Spiralling, It Is The Depth Of Me. This Samhain, we're joined by four death workers: Chrystal Waban Toop (Blackbird Medicines), Loretta Ledesma (The Death Witch), Carla Davis Torres (A Venerated Death), and Angela Alberto (Heartwise Woman) to talk about grief, mortality, our ancestors, our heritage, our ability to love, and What makes a Good Death. Together we learn that Grief Is A Dancer, A Teacher. Grief Is Spiralling, It Is The Depth Of Me. true full 171 5a52b2c1-25b2-421e-8a6d-19a402572d8a MW+ Cosey Fanni Tutti: Ritual Awakening https://www.missingwitches.com/2022/10/30/ep-170-mw-cosey-fanni-tutti-ritual-awakening/

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]]> MW+ Cosey Fanni Tutti: Ritual Awakening Missing Witches 00:47:20 In this episode, Amy amplifies the story of Cosey Fanni Tutti who's work is a ritual awakening. Cosey, born Christine Carol Newby, was a regular girl, raised in a port town in the postwar drudgery and PTSD hangover of England 1951, who would go on to become irregular and shape the way we think about art, sex, music and the occult. Christine eventually became Cosey, short for Cosmosis, a portmanteau of Cosmos and Osmosis - a gradual absorption of the whole of the universe. She added the Fanni Tutti when the surname was suggested to her by a friend, mail artist Robin Klassnick, based on the title of the opera Così fan tutte, meaning literally "That's What All Women Do." or “all women are the same.” In her lifetime, Cosey has released into the world countless actions, performance and visual art pieces and sensory installations, as well as over fifty albums of music. As one fan wrote, “Cosey Fanni Tutti helped permanently alter modern musical consciousness with sonic and visual transgressions rooted in electronic experimentation and socio-political confrontation.” In this episode, Amy amplifies the story of Cosey Fanni Tutti who's work is a ritual awakening. Cosey, born Christine Carol Newby, was a regular girl, raised in a port town in the postwar drudgery and PTSD hangover of England 1951, who would go on to become irregular and shape the way we think about art, sex, music and the occult. Christine eventually became Cosey, short for Cosmosis, a portmanteau of Cosmos and Osmosis - a gradual absorption of the whole of the universe. She added the Fanni Tutti when the surname was suggested to her by a friend, mail artist Robin Klassnick, based on the title of the opera Così fan tutte, meaning literally "That's What All Women Do." or “all women are the same.” In her lifetime, Cosey has released into the world countless actions, performance and visual art pieces and sensory installations, as well as over fifty albums of music. As one fan wrote, “Cosey Fanni Tutti helped permanently alter modern musical consciousness with sonic and visual transgressions rooted in electronic experimentation and socio-political confrontation.” true full 170 9dfba807-ebfd-4829-ada4-83f5b58a90a1 WF Shabina Lafleur-Ganji: Plants Are Smarter Than We Think www.shabinalafleurgangji.com

https://www.missingwitches.com/2022/10/27/ep-169-wf-shabina-lafleur-ganji-plants-are-smarter-than-we-think/

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]]> WF Shabina Lafleur-Ganji: Plants Are Smarter Than We Think Missing Witches 00:55:22 In this episode, Amy sits down with community herbalist and the co-director of Seed, Soil and Spirit School, Shabina Lafleur-Ganji to talk about "Reclaiming Ancestral Knowledge for Collective Liberation". Together we dive into the cultivation of plants and the cultivation of relationships. From healing to hexing, roses to weeds, food to medicine, rooting and uprooting, migration vs diaspora vs colonization, Shabina listens to the complex stories that plants tell. Amy asks: What can we learn from plants that we can't learn from people? In this episode, Amy sits down with community herbalist and the co-director of Seed, Soil and Spirit School, Shabina Lafleur-Ganji to talk about "Reclaiming Ancestral Knowledge for Collective Liberation". Together we dive into the cultivation of plants and the cultivation of relationships. From healing to hexing, roses to weeds, food to medicine, rooting and uprooting, migration vs diaspora vs colonization, Shabina listens to the complex stories that plants tell. Amy asks: What can we learn from plants that we can't learn from people? spirit, decolonizing, herbalism, seed, soil true full 169 33b04819-8af9-488f-a01f-0d65d635d1de MW+ Vandana Shiva: In Nature's Economy The Currency Is Not Money, It Is Life. https://www.missingwitches.com/2022/10/23/ep-168-mw-vandana-shiva-in-natures-economy-the-currency-is-not-money-it-is-life/

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]]> MW+ Vandana Shiva: In Nature's Economy The Currency Is Not Money, It Is Life. Missing Witches 00:35:57 In this episode, Amy seeds the story of Vandana Shiva - Indian tree-hugger, seed freedom activist, author of 20 books, an ecofeminist who will never be overcome by hopelessness, no matter how tough the situation, and who directs our attention to a tiny speck that is the first link in the food chain, seeding all life. She says, "In nature's economy the currency is not money, it is life." In this episode, Amy seeds the story of Vandana Shiva - Indian tree-hugger, seed freedom activist, author of 20 books, an ecofeminist who will never be overcome by hopelessness, no matter how tough the situation, and who directs our attention to a tiny speck that is the first link in the food chain, seeding all life. She says, "In nature's economy the currency is not money, it is life." true full 168 0ebe6f30-f666-4f2f-b728-ddb9e1dbd6a4 WF Carol Gigliotti: The Creative Lives Of Animals https://carolgigliotti.com/ 

https://www.doctorbugs.com/writing/the-books/adventures-among-ants/

http://pages.nbb.cornell.edu/seeley.shtml

https://www.cornell.edu/video/thomas-d-seeley-lives-of-bees

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/8705048-honeybee-democracy

https://caroljadams.com/spom-the-book

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/491750

https://www.brigidbrophy.com/

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2008/mar/26/australia.world

https://risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/kevin-neville-laland(4ae352f3-32ca-418e-9d07-9b8ee17e6183).html

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https://www.doctorbugs.com/writing/the-books/adventures-among-ants/

http://pages.nbb.cornell.edu/seeley.shtml

https://www.cornell.edu/video/thomas-d-seeley-lives-of-bees

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/8705048-honeybee-democracy

https://caroljadams.com/spom-the-book

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/491750

https://www.brigidbrophy.com/

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2008/mar/26/australia.world

https://risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/kevin-neville-laland(4ae352f3-32ca-418e-9d07-9b8ee17e6183).html

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]]> WF Carol Gigliotti: The Creative Lives Of Animals carol gigliotti 00:41:07 In this episode, Risa and Carol Gigliotti talk about animal creativity and cultures, listening to trees, feminism, and the source of all inspiration. "Carol Gigliotti is an author, artist, animal activist, and scholar whose work focuses on the reality of animals’ lives as important contributors to the biodiversity of this planet. She is Professor Emerita of Design and Dynamic Media and Critical and Cultural Studies at the Emily Carr University of Design, Vancouver, BC. CANADA. Her new book, The Creative Lives of Animals, can be pre-ordered now. It will be published from NYU PRESS Nov. 22, 2022. The Creative Lives of Animals offers readers intimate glimpses of creativity in the lives of animals, from elephants to alligators to ants. Drawing on a growing body of scientific research, Carol Gigliotti unpacks examples of creativity demonstrated by animals through the lens of the creative process, an important component of creative behavior, and offers new thinking on animal intelligence, emotion, and self-awareness." In this episode, Risa and Carol Gigliotti talk about animal creativity and cultures, listening to trees, feminism, and the source of all inspiration. "Carol Gigliotti is an author, artist, animal activist, and scholar whose work focuses on the reality of animals’ lives as important contributors to the biodiversity of this planet. She is Professor Emerita of Design and Dynamic Media and Critical and Cultural Studies at the Emily Carr University of Design, Vancouver, BC. CANADA. Her new book, The Creative Lives of Animals, can be pre-ordered now. It will be published from NYU PRESS Nov. 22, 2022. The Creative Lives of Animals offers readers intimate glimpses of creativity in the lives of animals, from elephants to alligators to ants. Drawing on a growing body of scientific research, Carol Gigliotti unpacks examples of creativity demonstrated by animals through the lens of the creative process, an important component of creative behavior, and offers new thinking on animal intelligence, emotion, and self-awareness." animal creativty, inspiration, biodiversity, animal welfare, elephants, cultural studies, animal intelligence, trees, animal rights, iguanas true full 167 7cf6cc8a-f02d-4b53-9ed8-9bdfdfbb1d0c MW Donna Haraway: Experience Is A Fiction And A Fact
https://www.routledge.com/How-Like-a-Leaf-An-Interview-with-Donna-Haraway/Haraway-Goodeve/p/book/9780415924030

https://www.dukeupress.edu/staying-with-the-trouble

https://xenopraxis.net/readings/haraway_companion.pdf

https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/116929/1/Haran%20Haraway%20Submission%20November%2015%202018.pdf

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0966369X.2017.1298570

https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/manifestly-haraway

https://books.google.ca/books?id=UpGe8_EJ8lgC&pg=PA119&lpg=PA119&dq=spiral+dancing+santa+rita+jail&source=bl&ots=BZrUiYgegh&sig=ACfU3U0SaIOGG7ZDlngnRND7WARa8csTdw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjAm-TD5Nr6AhUSnWoFHU_DCH0Q6AF6BAgjEAM#v=onepage&q=spiral%20dancing%20santa%20rita%20jail&f=false

https://wagingnonviolence.org/2012/03/livermore-thirty-years-on/

https://literariness.org/2018/02/22/key-theories-of-donna-haraway/

https://magazine.scienceforthepeople.org/vol23-3-bio-politics/beyond-critique-an-interview-with-donna-haraway/

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/703377

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-2r_vI2alg

https://logicmag.io/nature/a-giant-bumptious-litter/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/20/donna-haraway-interview-cyborg-manifesto-post-truth

https://thisismold.com/tag/donna-haraway

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/C/bo3645022.html

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/20/donna-haraway-interview-cyborg-manifesto-post-truth

https://filmstreams.org/films/donna-haraway-story-telling-for-earthly-survival

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https://www.routledge.com/How-Like-a-Leaf-An-Interview-with-Donna-Haraway/Haraway-Goodeve/p/book/9780415924030

https://www.dukeupress.edu/staying-with-the-trouble

https://xenopraxis.net/readings/haraway_companion.pdf

https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/116929/1/Haran%20Haraway%20Submission%20November%2015%202018.pdf

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0966369X.2017.1298570

https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/manifestly-haraway

https://books.google.ca/books?id=UpGe8_EJ8lgC&pg=PA119&lpg=PA119&dq=spiral+dancing+santa+rita+jail&source=bl&ots=BZrUiYgegh&sig=ACfU3U0SaIOGG7ZDlngnRND7WARa8csTdw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjAm-TD5Nr6AhUSnWoFHU_DCH0Q6AF6BAgjEAM#v=onepage&q=spiral%20dancing%20santa%20rita%20jail&f=false

https://wagingnonviolence.org/2012/03/livermore-thirty-years-on/

https://literariness.org/2018/02/22/key-theories-of-donna-haraway/

https://magazine.scienceforthepeople.org/vol23-3-bio-politics/beyond-critique-an-interview-with-donna-haraway/

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/703377

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-2r_vI2alg

https://logicmag.io/nature/a-giant-bumptious-litter/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/20/donna-haraway-interview-cyborg-manifesto-post-truth

https://thisismold.com/tag/donna-haraway

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/C/bo3645022.html

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/20/donna-haraway-interview-cyborg-manifesto-post-truth

https://filmstreams.org/films/donna-haraway-story-telling-for-earthly-survival

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]]> MW Donna Haraway: Experience Is A Fiction And A Fact Missing Witches 00:41:50 In this episode, Risa travels through cyborg memories, companion species, Greenham encampments, and speculative futures to unpack why Donna Haraway, is foundational - or maybe better to say mycelial - to that play space that these days we recognize as witchcraft. In Staying with the Trouble, she quotes Starhawk, “Keen and mourn For the dismembering of the world.” In her speculative fiction, Donna Haraway imagines that we sing Starhawk, to "bring into ongoing presence, through active memory, the lost life-ways so that other symbiotic and sympoietic commitments would not lose heart. Crucial to the work was not to forget the stink in the air from the burning of the witches, not to forget the murders of human and non-human beings in the great catastrophes named the Plantationocene, Anthropocene, capitalocene, to “keen and mourning for the dismembering of the world.” Moving through mourning to represencing, to the practice of vital memory…” (645) In this episode, Risa travels through cyborg memories, companion species, Greenham encampments, and speculative futures to unpack why Donna Haraway, is foundational - or maybe better to say mycelial - to that play space that these days we recognize as witchcraft. In Staying with the Trouble, she quotes Starhawk, “Keen and mourn For the dismembering of the world.” In her speculative fiction, Donna Haraway imagines that we sing Starhawk, to "bring into ongoing presence, through active memory, the lost life-ways so that other symbiotic and sympoietic commitments would not lose heart. Crucial to the work was not to forget the stink in the air from the burning of the witches, not to forget the murders of human and non-human beings in the great catastrophes named the Plantationocene, Anthropocene, capitalocene, to “keen and mourning for the dismembering of the world.” Moving through mourning to represencing, to the practice of vital memory…” (645) history of consciousness, witches, starhawk, witchcraft, feminist theory, speculative fiction, donna haraway true full 166 5b1ae23c-24d0-46d1-a55f-1390aac736c2 WF Aurielle Marie: We Will Do The New World A Favour And Tell The Truth. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/aurielle-marie

https://www.joypriest.com/

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/sonia-sanchez

https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/0f146f0e-432f-4700-97e8-a062b946dc60/the-magick-hourz-podcast

 

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]]> Thu, 13 Oct 2022 12:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (zoe flowers, aurielle marie) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/wf-aurielle-marie-we-will-do-the-new-world-a-favour-and-tell-the-truth-lkKDLHDa https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/aurielle-marie

https://www.joypriest.com/

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/sonia-sanchez

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]]> WF Aurielle Marie: We Will Do The New World A Favour And Tell The Truth. zoe flowers, aurielle marie 01:03:22 In this episode special guest co-host Zoe Flowers of the Magick Hourz podcast joins Risa to talk with theorist and poet Aurielle Marie. Aurielle Marie (she/her they/them)is a Black and queer poet, essayist, and cultural strategist from the South. Their debut collection, Gumbo Ya Ya (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021), won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Through their work as a poet and an activist, she explores the uses of intimacy and ritual in the practice of Black resistance. Aurielle is a 2018 Lambda Literary Writer Retreat fellow, a 2017 Roddenberry Fellowship Finalist, a Voices of Our Nation Fellow-Alum, a 2016 Kopkind Fellow, and a current Queer Emerging Artist-In-Residence at Destiny Art Center. She was chosen by Safiya Sinclair as the 2017 Poetry Prize Winner for Blue Mesa Review. She has been featured as a social-political pundit on CNN. Her essays and poems have been featured or are forthcoming in Adroit Journal, Blue Mesa Review, Selfish Magazine, in Scalawag, on For Harriett, ESSENCE Mag, Allure, NBC Blk, and Huffington Post. Her collection, Gumbo Ya Ya, won the 2017 Write Bloody Poetry Prize. Her work has been featured on a global host of stages, most prestigiously in her grandmother’s kitchen. "Marie’s command of music and images feels like true alchemy, and the collection is brimming with moments that brought me chills, none more so than her closing poem “in the event i become some unrecognizable beast,” where she tells us: i bring ritual in the creole of angels— my mother’s tongue. i bring with me, salt and what i’ve done with the mud. am i not an altar? […]" "A part of way-finding the new world is to embrace being on the run, being fugitive, being abolitionists, being in protest. ... Being in a practice of conjuring, it's just reminding me that this world is a fabricated thing too. ... I just keep pouring into this wild future." In this episode special guest co-host Zoe Flowers of the Magick Hourz podcast joins Risa to talk with theorist and poet Aurielle Marie. Aurielle Marie (she/her they/them)is a Black and queer poet, essayist, and cultural strategist from the South. Their debut collection, Gumbo Ya Ya (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021), won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Through their work as a poet and an activist, she explores the uses of intimacy and ritual in the practice of Black resistance. Aurielle is a 2018 Lambda Literary Writer Retreat fellow, a 2017 Roddenberry Fellowship Finalist, a Voices of Our Nation Fellow-Alum, a 2016 Kopkind Fellow, and a current Queer Emerging Artist-In-Residence at Destiny Art Center. She was chosen by Safiya Sinclair as the 2017 Poetry Prize Winner for Blue Mesa Review. She has been featured as a social-political pundit on CNN. Her essays and poems have been featured or are forthcoming in Adroit Journal, Blue Mesa Review, Selfish Magazine, in Scalawag, on For Harriett, ESSENCE Mag, Allure, NBC Blk, and Huffington Post. Her collection, Gumbo Ya Ya, won the 2017 Write Bloody Poetry Prize. Her work has been featured on a global host of stages, most prestigiously in her grandmother’s kitchen. "Marie’s command of music and images feels like true alchemy, and the collection is brimming with moments that brought me chills, none more so than her closing poem “in the event i become some unrecognizable beast,” where she tells us: i bring ritual in the creole of angels— my mother’s tongue. i bring with me, salt and what i’ve done with the mud. am i not an altar? […]" "A part of way-finding the new world is to embrace being on the run, being fugitive, being abolitionists, being in protest. ... Being in a practice of conjuring, it's just reminding me that this world is a fabricated thing too. ... I just keep pouring into this wild future." activist, police, history, utopia, poetry, organizer true full 165 87c284eb-5860-459e-b851-485a299cf88f Octavia E. Butler: Diversify Or Be Destroyed Works Cited:

https://www.goodreads.com/series/57804-earthseed

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52318.Wild_Seed

https://www.grandcentralpublishing.com/titles/octavia-e-butler/liliths-brood/9780446676106/

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/968498810

https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/octavia-estelle-butler

https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-libraries-octavia-butler-books-life/

https://lithub.com/octavia-butler-the-brutalities-of-the-past-are-all-around-this/

https://www.marieclaire.com/culture/a22502991/hannah-gadsby-nanette-quotes/

https://twitter.com/DrSamiSchalk/status/1098590525916106756

https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/octavia-e-butler-1947-2006/

https://neuroqueer.com/neuroqueer-an-introduction/

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/specials/010100mil-identity-octa.html

https://newsroom.ucla.edu/magazine/afrofuturism

https://www.akpress.org/octavia-s-brood.html

https://www.readingoctavia.com/

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https://www.goodreads.com/series/57804-earthseed

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52318.Wild_Seed

https://www.grandcentralpublishing.com/titles/octavia-e-butler/liliths-brood/9780446676106/

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/968498810

https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/octavia-estelle-butler

https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-libraries-octavia-butler-books-life/

https://lithub.com/octavia-butler-the-brutalities-of-the-past-are-all-around-this/

https://www.marieclaire.com/culture/a22502991/hannah-gadsby-nanette-quotes/

https://twitter.com/DrSamiSchalk/status/1098590525916106756

https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/octavia-e-butler-1947-2006/

https://neuroqueer.com/neuroqueer-an-introduction/

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/specials/010100mil-identity-octa.html

https://newsroom.ucla.edu/magazine/afrofuturism

https://www.akpress.org/octavia-s-brood.html

https://www.readingoctavia.com/

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]]> Octavia E. Butler: Diversify Or Be Destroyed Missing Witches 00:53:51 A meditation on the world-building magic of Octavia E. Butler. Octavia E Butler: prophet, world-builder, door-opener, progenitor of the magic that is Afrofuturism. Novelist. Writer of books that make portals, what adrienne marie brown calls visionary fiction. Writing that visions the future, that opens it with new possibility, or that offers a terrifying warning and so pushes the mind to face dark truths and oppose the vision of the possible they present. Resist horror-futures in the present by having them in our sights. Someone who thought through the way witch hunts happen, and what makes someone different enough to be both powerful, and a target. A meditation on the world-building magic of Octavia E. Butler. Octavia E Butler: prophet, world-builder, door-opener, progenitor of the magic that is Afrofuturism. Novelist. Writer of books that make portals, what adrienne marie brown calls visionary fiction. Writing that visions the future, that opens it with new possibility, or that offers a terrifying warning and so pushes the mind to face dark truths and oppose the vision of the possible they present. Resist horror-futures in the present by having them in our sights. Someone who thought through the way witch hunts happen, and what makes someone different enough to be both powerful, and a target. true full 164 6bac1301-a108-4462-a2b0-210c254e5f9f WF: Leonora Carrington Estate - Creativity Is What The Establishment Fears https://www.leocarrington.com/

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]]> WF: Leonora Carrington Estate - Creativity Is What The Establishment Fears Gabriel Weisz Carrington, Daniel Weisz Argomedo, Leonora Carrington 00:59:40 In this interview we get to talk with Leonora Carrington's son - Gabriel Weisz Carrington - and grandson - Daniel Weisz Argomedo. It's a brilliant and emotional insight into a person they loved and admired and whose work and voice they are keeping alive with the work of the Leonora Carrington Foundation. "Creativity is in essence what the establishment, whatever way you want to describe that, fears because it imagines a different world. It imagines different things that are not the way they are right now. That's very dangerous for many people... Everybody would always ask Leo, what is that painting about? She hated that. Right. She would always throw it back to you and ask you what you saw because you see it's much more important for her that you become involved in the creative process yourself and understand the importance and value of that creativity, to strengthen this muscle." - Daniel Weisz Argomedo "If you are not in contact with your own inner animal, Leonora's animals have no meaning." - Gabriel Weisz Carrington In this interview we get to talk with Leonora Carrington's son - Gabriel Weisz Carrington - and grandson - Daniel Weisz Argomedo. It's a brilliant and emotional insight into a person they loved and admired and whose work and voice they are keeping alive with the work of the Leonora Carrington Foundation. "Creativity is in essence what the establishment, whatever way you want to describe that, fears because it imagines a different world. It imagines different things that are not the way they are right now. That's very dangerous for many people... Everybody would always ask Leo, what is that painting about? She hated that. Right. She would always throw it back to you and ask you what you saw because you see it's much more important for her that you become involved in the creative process yourself and understand the importance and value of that creativity, to strengthen this muscle." - Daniel Weisz Argomedo "If you are not in contact with your own inner animal, Leonora's animals have no meaning." - Gabriel Weisz Carrington helene cixous, surrealism, artist, witchcraft, art true full 163 37ca2c7b-7725-4e36-a862-a881de839299 MW+: Leonora Carrington - I Warn You, I Refuse To Be An Object https://www.leocarrington.com/

https://www.instagram.com/leonoracarringtonestate/

http://www.torontomadpride.com/history/

 

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https://www.instagram.com/leonoracarringtonestate/

http://www.torontomadpride.com/history/

 

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]]> MW+: Leonora Carrington - I Warn You, I Refuse To Be An Object leonora carrington estate, molly mcgregor, Risa Dickens + Amy Torok 01:11:43 In this episode, we tell a story about artist Leonora Carrington. How she found and fostered a new, woman-centered surrealism in Mexico City after the trauma of World War — and after her own incarceration and torture in a psychiatric facility. We talk with her family, and also meet the art coordinator for Mad Pride Toronto, in order to trace lines of kinship between Leonora's art practice, her vision, and the ongoing global work of imagining and crafting liberation. In the end, Amy and Risa just chat about the brilliance of Leonora, wishing we could have been in the room with these women, about magic and madness in our own families, and how we have always made circles, and found each other around kitchen tables, quilts, and cauldrons. The full interview with Leonora Carrington's family will be available free wherever you stream this podcast on Thursday, Oct 6 2022 and the full interview with Molly McGregor from Mad Pride will be available on patreon.com/missingwitches Full transcript for this episode will be available on MissingWitches.com In this episode, we tell a story about artist Leonora Carrington. How she found and fostered a new, woman-centered surrealism in Mexico City after the trauma of World War — and after her own incarceration and torture in a psychiatric facility. We talk with her family, and also meet the art coordinator for Mad Pride Toronto, in order to trace lines of kinship between Leonora's art practice, her vision, and the ongoing global work of imagining and crafting liberation. In the end, Amy and Risa just chat about the brilliance of Leonora, wishing we could have been in the room with these women, about magic and madness in our own families, and how we have always made circles, and found each other around kitchen tables, quilts, and cauldrons. The full interview with Leonora Carrington's family will be available free wherever you stream this podcast on Thursday, Oct 6 2022 and the full interview with Molly McGregor from Mad Pride will be available on patreon.com/missingwitches Full transcript for this episode will be available on MissingWitches.com madness, liberation, mad pride, witchcraft, leonora carrington, art, magic true full 162 5082b017-2416-4eb1-a9b1-7c31b948e6dc WF - Vin Caponigro AKA Snake Hair Press: Telling Your Own Story vincaponigro.com

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]]> WF - Vin Caponigro AKA Snake Hair Press: Telling Your Own Story Missing Witches 01:04:17 It's Gorgon season! Vin Caponigro, founder of Snake Hair press sits down with us to talk about W.I.T.C.H., the printing press's role in witch hunts and in liberation; manifestos, occult studies, revolution, the overlapping space of ritual and performance, and their own personal intersection of history, art and politics. Vin says there is ritual in everything. "Everyone is an artist. Everyone has creative potential. Everyone is also capable of making magic. Don't let anybody scare into not being the best and truest version of yourself." It's Gorgon season! Vin Caponigro, founder of Snake Hair press sits down with us to talk about W.I.T.C.H., the printing press's role in witch hunts and in liberation; manifestos, occult studies, revolution, the overlapping space of ritual and performance, and their own personal intersection of history, art and politics. Vin says there is ritual in everything. "Everyone is an artist. Everyone has creative potential. Everyone is also capable of making magic. Don't let anybody scare into not being the best and truest version of yourself." true full 161 1b79cfdc-26ee-4e9e-b5e0-4d29274c9040 MW+: W.I.T.C.H - We Are The Power Sun, 25 Sep 2022 09:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/mw-witch-we-are-the-power-5oVLfLWA MW+: W.I.T.C.H - We Are The Power Missing Witches 00:52:40 In the first episode of season 7 of the Missing Witches podcast, Amy tells the story of W.I.T.C.H. Women’s International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell - a group that sprung up from the Women's Liberation movement in 1968 New York, on Halloween, to hex sexism, capitalism and racism. A group who's legacy is still visible today. Then Risa joins in to chat about the bizarre and the holy, the infinite modes of taking action, hiding in plain sight, and together we dance in the notion of being our own ancestors. Delight and liberation for all. In the first episode of season 7 of the Missing Witches podcast, Amy tells the story of W.I.T.C.H. Women’s International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell - a group that sprung up from the Women's Liberation movement in 1968 New York, on Halloween, to hex sexism, capitalism and racism. A group who's legacy is still visible today. Then Risa joins in to chat about the bizarre and the holy, the infinite modes of taking action, hiding in plain sight, and together we dance in the notion of being our own ancestors. Delight and liberation for all. activism, women's liberation, second wave feminism true full 160 86d36f87-5f40-4926-b95a-52a73725a244 Mabon 2022: Breaking Bread With The Moon w Melissa Madara and Sarah Robinson Melissa Madara The Witch's Feast: A Kitchen Grimoire

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]]> Thu, 22 Sep 2022 09:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/mabon-2022-breaking-bread-with-the-moon-w-melissa-madara-and-sarah-robinson-uApEMzy2 Melissa Madara The Witch's Feast: A Kitchen Grimoire

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]]> Mabon 2022: Breaking Bread With The Moon w Melissa Madara and Sarah Robinson Missing Witches 01:29:38 A recipe is a story and a knife is a magic wand. Cozy up to the fall equinox as Melissa Madara author of The Witch's Feast: A Kitchen Grimoire and Sarah Robinson author of Kitchen Witch: Food, Folklore and Fairy Tale join us around the cauldron to discuss the art, science, history, imagination, personal and political magic found in the hearth of every home. A recipe is a story and a knife is a magic wand. Cozy up to the fall equinox as Melissa Madara author of The Witch's Feast: A Kitchen Grimoire and Sarah Robinson author of Kitchen Witch: Food, Folklore and Fairy Tale join us around the cauldron to discuss the art, science, history, imagination, personal and political magic found in the hearth of every home. kitchenwitch, food, folklore, kitchen witch true full 159 54a66091-45c8-4096-a9e1-29b3e0768a53 All The Witchcraft We Need, Around Us Every Day with Amy and Risa www.patreon.com/missingwitches

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]]> All The Witchcraft We Need, Around Us Every Day with Amy and Risa Missing Witches 00:51:42 In this episode, Amy and Risa discuss the high magic of laughter, Goldenrod, Seasons and cycles, Emily Dickinson, Monica Sjoo, weddings, technology, creativity and the fundamental Witch state of being in awe. Image: detail from Monica's Sjoo's painting of Doreen Valiente's Charge Of The Goddess. The Missing Witches podcast is made possible with the support of our Patreon Coven. Today's Coven Spotlight is TAROT FOR TOP SURGERY by Queer Conjure. In this episode, Amy and Risa discuss the high magic of laughter, Goldenrod, Seasons and cycles, Emily Dickinson, Monica Sjoo, weddings, technology, creativity and the fundamental Witch state of being in awe. Image: detail from Monica's Sjoo's painting of Doreen Valiente's Charge Of The Goddess. The Missing Witches podcast is made possible with the support of our Patreon Coven. Today's Coven Spotlight is TAROT FOR TOP SURGERY by Queer Conjure. true full 158 7b5a8cfc-4f65-493c-801c-3cc51dee7544 WF Monico Sjöo Estate - The Personal Is Political, The Spiritual Is Political https://www.monicasjoo.net/

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]]> WF Monico Sjöo Estate - The Personal Is Political, The Spiritual Is Political Missing Witches 00:45:19 Full Transcript Available on MissingWitches.com | Today on the podcast we get to dig deeper into the life and work of Monica Sjöö thanks to her daughter-in-love Annie Johnston. Annie is a Women's Rights activist who has dedicated years of her life to cataloging and preserving the vast amount of letters, photojournals, and artwork in Monica's archive. She shares stories from her own memories and from the materials she's inherited from this incredible writer, artist, and queer feminist activist. Listen to our first episode on Monica Sjöö in the links below, and you can read more about our emotional encounters with her thinking in our book, Missing Witches: Recovering True Histories of Feminist Magic. Full Transcript Available on MissingWitches.com | Today on the podcast we get to dig deeper into the life and work of Monica Sjöö thanks to her daughter-in-love Annie Johnston. Annie is a Women's Rights activist who has dedicated years of her life to cataloging and preserving the vast amount of letters, photojournals, and artwork in Monica's archive. She shares stories from her own memories and from the materials she's inherited from this incredible writer, artist, and queer feminist activist. Listen to our first episode on Monica Sjöö in the links below, and you can read more about our emotional encounters with her thinking in our book, Missing Witches: Recovering True Histories of Feminist Magic. monica sjoo, feminist, activism, artist, art history, queer true full 157 e7a82384-ae77-485e-bed2-e0aa94202f85 WF Nina Simons - The Earth Needs Us All To Be Leaders Now www.ninasimons.com

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]]> WF Nina Simons - The Earth Needs Us All To Be Leaders Now Missing Witches 00:52:15 "I know that the story of the Burning Times lives on in my bones." We are honoured and thrilled to be sitting in Circle with a magical force of nature, author and co-founder of Bioneers, Nina Simons!! We could have chatted with Nina all day, but in our hour we managed to cover Ritual, Relationships, Responsibility and more. Nina said, "My primary allegiance is to the natural world." And "The Earth needs us all to be leaders now." Guiding us to our own call to leadership, Nina reminds, "We all get information differently. Some of us get it in dreams, some of us it comes through intuition, and some of us it comes through our bodies.” Suggesting that listening is key, she asks, "how do we get quiet enough inside and get to know ourselves well enough to know how we receive information?" Like many of us, Nina was changed and charged after viewing the (Canadian made) witchhunt documentary The Burning Times "I know that the story of the Burning Times lives on in my bones." "I know that the story of the Burning Times lives on in my bones." We are honoured and thrilled to be sitting in Circle with a magical force of nature, author and co-founder of Bioneers, Nina Simons!! We could have chatted with Nina all day, but in our hour we managed to cover Ritual, Relationships, Responsibility and more. Nina said, "My primary allegiance is to the natural world." And "The Earth needs us all to be leaders now." Guiding us to our own call to leadership, Nina reminds, "We all get information differently. Some of us get it in dreams, some of us it comes through intuition, and some of us it comes through our bodies.” Suggesting that listening is key, she asks, "how do we get quiet enough inside and get to know ourselves well enough to know how we receive information?" Like many of us, Nina was changed and charged after viewing the (Canadian made) witchhunt documentary The Burning Times "I know that the story of the Burning Times lives on in my bones." bioneers, witchhunt, ritual, relationships, leadership true full 156 fcc9aaa5-b118-48c3-a4c5-62bf622189b6 Lammas 2022: Panel For CHOICE with Olaomi aka GOT2BOSHUN and Mackenzie Ni Flainn https://www.missingwitches.com/2022/07/31/ep-155-lammas-2022-panel-for-choice-with-iyalosa-olaomi-akalatunde-and-mackenzie-ni-flainn/

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]]> Lammas 2022: Panel For CHOICE with Olaomi aka GOT2BOSHUN and Mackenzie Ni Flainn Missing Witches 01:24:07 CW: laughter, tears, rage. Today we gather to invoke an idea that Dr. Beverly Smith shared with us in the past: A conversation can be a protection spell. May this conversation be a spell of Protection for all those pushed to fear by the overturning of Roe v Wade. In this frank and emotional episode we protect bodily autonomy, we protect our siblings who feel like our bodies and our fates are out of our hands. Olaomi reminds us that our bodies "belong to us. They are ours. We ARE in control" and helps us on a path toward this knowledge, saying "Reproductive work has always been magical work." Mackenzie reminds us that one of the strongest weapons used against us is isolation, and collective community is the best defence. "Our connection to the universe cannot be combated." - Olaomi CW: laughter, tears, rage. Today we gather to invoke an idea that Dr. Beverly Smith shared with us in the past: A conversation can be a protection spell. May this conversation be a spell of Protection for all those pushed to fear by the overturning of Roe v Wade. In this frank and emotional episode we protect bodily autonomy, we protect our siblings who feel like our bodies and our fates are out of our hands. Olaomi reminds us that our bodies "belong to us. They are ours. We ARE in control" and helps us on a path toward this knowledge, saying "Reproductive work has always been magical work." Mackenzie reminds us that one of the strongest weapons used against us is isolation, and collective community is the best defence. "Our connection to the universe cannot be combated." - Olaomi autonomy, protection, healthcare, protection spell, reproductive rights, abortion true full 155 0c953f0b-0060-4461-af2a-47e334c37add WF Debra Silverman - What Does A Good Witch Do But Dance With Everyone That She Meets? https://debrasilvermanastrology.com/ Is the home base to find out more about Debra's many free classes and guided meditations, as well as her astrology school and more.  Debra's book is available wherever books are sold: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Missing-Element/Debra-Silverman/9781844096893

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]]> Thu, 28 Jul 2022 12:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (debra silverman) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/wf-debra-silverman-what-does-a-good-witch-do-but-dance-with-everyone-that-she-meets-vaDV_uj8 https://debrasilvermanastrology.com/ Is the home base to find out more about Debra's many free classes and guided meditations, as well as her astrology school and more.  Debra's book is available wherever books are sold: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Missing-Element/Debra-Silverman/9781844096893

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]]> WF Debra Silverman - What Does A Good Witch Do But Dance With Everyone That She Meets? debra silverman 00:48:29 Debra Silverman works at the intersection of psychology and astrology. Talking with her was like being danced along in light through insights into the human condition, her childhood, and my own psyche. For this episode please find the full transcript at MIssingWitches.com by searching for Debra Silverman <3 Debra Silverman works at the intersection of psychology and astrology. Talking with her was like being danced along in light through insights into the human condition, her childhood, and my own psyche. For this episode please find the full transcript at MIssingWitches.com by searching for Debra Silverman <3 psychology, witches, astrology true full 154 af7af1ed-2002-4fca-b27f-71557840f399 WF Pamela Muñoz AKA Lawyer Witch Pam - We Are ALL In Politics Find Pam on Instagram

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]]> WF Pamela Muñoz AKA Lawyer Witch Pam - We Are ALL In Politics Missing Witches 00:56:17 The personal is political and the political is personal. Today we sit down with our good friend, founder of the Lawyer Witch Coven on Facebook, Witch and Lawyer Pamela Muñoz. Pamela is an immigration lawyer and partner with the Islas Muñoz Law Firm in Texas. We talk about the connection between being an attorney and being a witch. Pam says, "You go to someone when you need help and don't know how to resolve an issue." Depending on the issue, this can be a Lawyer and/or a Witch! As we navigate our own disillusionment and fear Pam suggests we not overlook local government, that we educate ourselves, stay informed, start locally and "find ways to beat the government at its own game." We discuss contracts, voting, immigration, bodily autonomy and more. Though we make a distinction between legal information and legal advice, Pam has a recommendation and message for all of us: DON'T GIVE UP. The personal is political and the political is personal. Today we sit down with our good friend, founder of the Lawyer Witch Coven on Facebook, Witch and Lawyer Pamela Muñoz. Pamela is an immigration lawyer and partner with the Islas Muñoz Law Firm in Texas. We talk about the connection between being an attorney and being a witch. Pam says, "You go to someone when you need help and don't know how to resolve an issue." Depending on the issue, this can be a Lawyer and/or a Witch! As we navigate our own disillusionment and fear Pam suggests we not overlook local government, that we educate ourselves, stay informed, start locally and "find ways to beat the government at its own game." We discuss contracts, voting, immigration, bodily autonomy and more. Though we make a distinction between legal information and legal advice, Pam has a recommendation and message for all of us: DON'T GIVE UP. true full 153 f358efce-a90a-4d51-877e-154ed152ddc9 Exercising Our Faith Muscle w Amy And Risa  FIND US ON PATREON.

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]]> Exercising Our Faith Muscle w Amy And Risa Missing Witches 01:03:53 Today Amy and Risa sit down and catch up. Join us for a conversation around faith, mortality and mutual aid. Today Amy and Risa sit down and catch up. Join us for a conversation around faith, mortality and mutual aid. true full 152 0083ccbe-698b-434b-8e7a-e2d7f33307c4 WF Jessica Christine Ritchie: Finding Your Own Path Is Key deerwomen.net

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]]> WF Jessica Christine Ritchie: Finding Your Own Path Is Key Missing Witches 01:06:11 Today we're chatting with DeerWomen founder and STEM witch, Jessica Ritchie. We talk about nature, neurology and make-up as a protection spell. Tea, ceremony, travel and intuition. Jessica says, "a lot of people say that magic and science are different. I don't believe that." Jessica is Apache and Blackfoot, currently living in Belgium. She believes that self-care and our character is our first ward of protection - who we are and how we present ourselves. On the subject of beauty she says, "when I am gardening, with dirt under my nails, I look crazy and I feel most beautiful in THOSE moments." We have to define Beauty for ourselves. "Beauty comes when you're doing what you love." says Jessica. Today we're chatting with DeerWomen founder and STEM witch, Jessica Ritchie. We talk about nature, neurology and make-up as a protection spell. Tea, ceremony, travel and intuition. Jessica says, "a lot of people say that magic and science are different. I don't believe that." Jessica is Apache and Blackfoot, currently living in Belgium. She believes that self-care and our character is our first ward of protection - who we are and how we present ourselves. On the subject of beauty she says, "when I am gardening, with dirt under my nails, I look crazy and I feel most beautiful in THOSE moments." We have to define Beauty for ourselves. "Beauty comes when you're doing what you love." says Jessica. true full 151 94147a3a-dc54-4e26-859e-90e05613d6fb Litha Circle 2022 w Bex Mui, Moon Fang and Jasper Joy: Magic is GAY https://www.houseofourqueer.com

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]]> Litha Circle 2022 w Bex Mui, Moon Fang and Jasper Joy: Magic is GAY Missing Witches 01:30:11 Don’t Say Gay? Pfft. Magic is Gay, Witchcraft is Queer, the Occult is Prismatic, the Universe is Non-Binary, the Moon is Fluid, the Earth is Trans. We are Infinite Variety. To celebrate the light of the Litha sun this solstice, we sat down with Bex Mui (House of Our Queer), Moon Fang (Queer Death Stories), and Jasper Joy (Queer Conjure) to bask in Queerness and assert that Magic Is Gay!! The authors of Missing Witches: True Histories of Feminist Magic invite you to celebrate Litha and Say Gay with our out, loud and proud panel. Bex Mui - House of Our Queer Bex Mui (she/her) is a biracial, first generation, queer witch, energy worker, and equity consultant committed to the work of LGBTQ+ affirmation. Bex founded House Of Our Queer, a QTBIPOC-centered spiritual playspace where she shares affirmations for the queer and trans community. Bex is thrilled to add “author” to her bio this year with the release of her book, House Of Our Queer: Healing, Reframing, and Reclaiming Your Spiritual Practice. Jasper Joy - Queer Conjure Jasper Joy is a white genderqueer witch, tarot scholar, community chemist, venusian writer, and elder-babe residing among the rightful homelands of the Eastern Band of Cherokee people, both past and present. (Also known as Asheville, NC.) Their work is defined by open hearted ethics, neurodivergent experiences, and a blatant disrespect for the state. Jasper loves supporting queer and trans beings in areas of meditation, spiritual daily practice, spellcrafting, love, joy, and the sacred trans experience. As a child of the late eighties and early nineties, Jasper was raised by gay new-agers, sober lesbian Buddhists, and was an initiate of a wiccan temple for all of their twenties. Their more recent training(s) and mentorships have focused on tarot, spiritual support sessions, anti-racism, life coaching, and harm reduction. All of Jasper's offerings can be found at queerconjure.org Moon Fang - Queer Death Stories Moon Fang she/ her/ they /them Death Enthusiast / Podcaster Queer Artist and Storyteller Host of Queer Death Stories on Spotify etc and IG the Multitudes I worship Love and Death and curiosity. Don’t Say Gay? Pfft. Magic is Gay, Witchcraft is Queer, the Occult is Prismatic, the Universe is Non-Binary, the Moon is Fluid, the Earth is Trans. We are Infinite Variety. To celebrate the light of the Litha sun this solstice, we sat down with Bex Mui (House of Our Queer), Moon Fang (Queer Death Stories), and Jasper Joy (Queer Conjure) to bask in Queerness and assert that Magic Is Gay!! The authors of Missing Witches: True Histories of Feminist Magic invite you to celebrate Litha and Say Gay with our out, loud and proud panel. Bex Mui - House of Our Queer Bex Mui (she/her) is a biracial, first generation, queer witch, energy worker, and equity consultant committed to the work of LGBTQ+ affirmation. Bex founded House Of Our Queer, a QTBIPOC-centered spiritual playspace where she shares affirmations for the queer and trans community. Bex is thrilled to add “author” to her bio this year with the release of her book, House Of Our Queer: Healing, Reframing, and Reclaiming Your Spiritual Practice. Jasper Joy - Queer Conjure Jasper Joy is a white genderqueer witch, tarot scholar, community chemist, venusian writer, and elder-babe residing among the rightful homelands of the Eastern Band of Cherokee people, both past and present. (Also known as Asheville, NC.) Their work is defined by open hearted ethics, neurodivergent experiences, and a blatant disrespect for the state. Jasper loves supporting queer and trans beings in areas of meditation, spiritual daily practice, spellcrafting, love, joy, and the sacred trans experience. As a child of the late eighties and early nineties, Jasper was raised by gay new-agers, sober lesbian Buddhists, and was an initiate of a wiccan temple for all of their twenties. Their more recent training(s) and mentorships have focused on tarot, spiritual support sessions, anti-racism, life coaching, and harm reduction. All of Jasper's offerings can be found at queerconjure.org Moon Fang - Queer Death Stories Moon Fang she/ her/ they /them Death Enthusiast / Podcaster Queer Artist and Storyteller Host of Queer Death Stories on Spotify etc and IG the Multitudes I worship Love and Death and curiosity. true full 150 2b6a51d3-1f19-4e88-9055-0991b0911ea9 Juneteenth 2022 w Sherry Shone aka That Hoodoo Lady: What Makes You Free? www.thathoodoolady.com

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]]> Juneteenth 2022 w Sherry Shone aka That Hoodoo Lady: What Makes You Free? Missing Witches 01:16:31 We're celebrating Juneteenth with Sherry Shone aka That Hoodoo Lady, author of Hoodoo For Everyone: Modern Approaches to Magic, Conjure, Rootwork and Liberation. As we discuss the idea of Emancipation and Pride, Sherry says: Where I spend my dollars, that's where I say my pride is. She encourages us not to be dismayed by others, but rather to focus on our own "intention, faith and direction." We're celebrating Juneteenth with Sherry Shone aka That Hoodoo Lady, author of Hoodoo For Everyone: Modern Approaches to Magic, Conjure, Rootwork and Liberation. As we discuss the idea of Emancipation and Pride, Sherry says: Where I spend my dollars, that's where I say my pride is. She encourages us not to be dismayed by others, but rather to focus on our own "intention, faith and direction." civil rights, juneteenth, liberation, hoodoo, emancipation, ancestors true full 149 b06db6d2-4d9d-41da-8be1-d8c4eba87cc2 WF Granddaughter Crow - What A Person Believes Constitutes How They Behave In The World www.granddaughtercrow.com

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]]> WF Granddaughter Crow - What A Person Believes Constitutes How They Behave In The World Missing Witches 00:50:04 Granddaughter Crow (Dr. Joy Gray) holds a doctorate in leadership. Internationally recognized as a medicine person, she comes from a long line of spiritual leaders as a member of the Navajo Nation. She is an award-winning author. Her books include The Journey of the Soul, Wisdom of the Natural World, and most recently, Belief, Being, and Beyond. She dedicates her life to inspiring, encouraging, and empowering individuals to be their authenticity. Together we discuss interrogating and navigating our own beliefs and how they inform our behaviours. She said: A Closed Mind Is A Comfortable Place But You Don't Grow There. Granddaughter Crow (Dr. Joy Gray) holds a doctorate in leadership. Internationally recognized as a medicine person, she comes from a long line of spiritual leaders as a member of the Navajo Nation. She is an award-winning author. Her books include The Journey of the Soul, Wisdom of the Natural World, and most recently, Belief, Being, and Beyond. She dedicates her life to inspiring, encouraging, and empowering individuals to be their authenticity. Together we discuss interrogating and navigating our own beliefs and how they inform our behaviours. She said: A Closed Mind Is A Comfortable Place But You Don't Grow There. true full 148 1d9bdbbf-4db5-4465-b0b0-69def1857218 WF Dr. Julia Skinner - Our Fermented Lives https://root-kitchens.com/

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]]> WF Dr. Julia Skinner - Our Fermented Lives julia skinner 00:59:29 Dr Julia Skinner is back on the podcast, and we talk about her beautiful new book, Our Fermented Lives (now available for pre-order!) and how we've co-evolved with these microbes and what they have to teach us about divinity, death, our ancestors and our future. Dr Julia Skinner is back on the podcast, and we talk about her beautiful new book, Our Fermented Lives (now available for pre-order!) and how we've co-evolved with these microbes and what they have to teach us about divinity, death, our ancestors and our future. biome, beltane, witches, bees, fermentation, mead, missing witches, honey true full 147 562c0c89-a6c8-42c7-bd43-f627ae72c126 I Am Bijoux Kin Meditation Mon, 6 Jun 2022 09:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/i-am-bijoux-kin-meditation-qwYvQfq5 I Am Bijoux Kin Meditation Missing Witches 00:09:39 Witches and dogs make good teams. Dogs operate in a different reality than we humans. They can smell fear, money, even cancer and missing persons. They know who and what has been here by the invisible trace they leave behind. Scientists guess the dog's sense of smell is somewhere between 10,000 to 100,000 times more acute than ours. I am Bijoux kin, acutely aware that there is more to be known than what meets the eye. More in existence that we can see, but we can smell the changes in a shifting breeze. Face to the sun and nose to the wind, Witches get information carried from miles away. Bijoux reminds me every day of what is important in life. She is perfect love and perfect trust. She encourages me to run and jump and laugh and play - to Get Outside, to stop and smell the ... everything, using all six senses to navigate her path. Witches and dogs make good teams. Dogs operate in a different reality than we humans. They can smell fear, money, even cancer and missing persons. They know who and what has been here by the invisible trace they leave behind. Scientists guess the dog's sense of smell is somewhere between 10,000 to 100,000 times more acute than ours. I am Bijoux kin, acutely aware that there is more to be known than what meets the eye. More in existence that we can see, but we can smell the changes in a shifting breeze. Face to the sun and nose to the wind, Witches get information carried from miles away. Bijoux reminds me every day of what is important in life. She is perfect love and perfect trust. She encourages me to run and jump and laugh and play - to Get Outside, to stop and smell the ... everything, using all six senses to navigate her path. protection, hekate, poodle, dogs true full 146 67fd9fe2-f874-4a10-91df-d1d84e63f337 WF Erica Feldmann: Like Witchcraft, Anti-capitalism Is A Practice HausWitch

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]]> WF Erica Feldmann: Like Witchcraft, Anti-capitalism Is A Practice Missing Witches 01:18:18 We're joined by HWIC, HausWitch (in Salem!!) shop owner and author of HausMagick, Erica Feldmann!! She says, "witches were like rock stars to me, the top coolest thing you could ever be in your life." Erica offers us a grounding meditation, and we chat about work life balance, ethical entrepreneurship, and being a good (queer-friendly, feminist, anti-racist) boss. We lament about late-stage capitalism and discuss the ways around it and through. She has set for herself the practice/challenge of How anti-capitalist can a gift shop be? and she pushes herself and her business away from greed. "As a business owner, I'm here to say: Just pay people more." Then Erica takes us home with some tips on feeling safe, comfortable, creative and witchy in your own space. "What your home needs is for you to think about what it needs. Let yourself be in communication with your home. What you need from it and what it needs from you." We're joined by HWIC, HausWitch (in Salem!!) shop owner and author of HausMagick, Erica Feldmann!! She says, "witches were like rock stars to me, the top coolest thing you could ever be in your life." Erica offers us a grounding meditation, and we chat about work life balance, ethical entrepreneurship, and being a good (queer-friendly, feminist, anti-racist) boss. We lament about late-stage capitalism and discuss the ways around it and through. She has set for herself the practice/challenge of How anti-capitalist can a gift shop be? and she pushes herself and her business away from greed. "As a business owner, I'm here to say: Just pay people more." Then Erica takes us home with some tips on feeling safe, comfortable, creative and witchy in your own space. "What your home needs is for you to think about what it needs. Let yourself be in communication with your home. What you need from it and what it needs from you." magick, feminist, boss, business, witch, ethical entrepreneurship, queer, boss witch, shop, anti-capitalist true full 145 ec72f1de-2fb4-4092-b687-45cd8ef6b1d5 You are Wuchak Kin Meditation Mon, 30 May 2022 09:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/you-are-wuchak-kin-meditation-__SxZS5H You are Wuchak Kin Meditation Missing Witches 00:11:16 Here’s what Witches and Woodchucks have in common: we ARE the underground. In the seed and soils that sprout a grassroots movement, we dig tunnels. In the dark where no one knows and no one sees, we dig tunnels. Brave, safe spaces for Wuchak kin. Because witches are outsiders we are on constant high alert when outside our burrows. But here under ground, away from violently mainstream ideas, we dig in. Here’s what Witches and Woodchucks have in common: we ARE the underground. In the seed and soils that sprout a grassroots movement, we dig tunnels. In the dark where no one knows and no one sees, we dig tunnels. Brave, safe spaces for Wuchak kin. Because witches are outsiders we are on constant high alert when outside our burrows. But here under ground, away from violently mainstream ideas, we dig in. true full 144 3437cc10-ea99-4508-bdae-55d881d9a4b5 WF Michaela A. Harrison: We Are One https://www.michaelaharrison.org/

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]]> WF Michaela A. Harrison: We Are One Missing Witches 00:54:33 In this episode we sit down with prismatic Singer, Activist, Witch Michaela A. Harrison about her Whale-Whispering project, about the ocean, ancestors, the Middle Passage slave trade, reality and rainbows, Billie Holiday, Nina Simone and Judy Garland, and singing as a means of survival and transcendence, a spiritual, political and healing act - the healing, transformational power of music through song. This is the message she received from the whales: We Are One. "The sea," she says, "is Holy Water." "Singing is claiming space. Making your voice be heard is definitely a political act...Singing is inherently political." It's about telling the truth. "We are one. That is the central message pulsing through this web that’s spinning forth from me and that I’m being woven into, this confluence of sound and image through and across waves of various types (marine, sound, brain…) that, for now, is called Whale Whispering. " "What we need to be doing is singing to change the state of things. I'm convinced that singing together is the answer, that wailing together is the answer. I'm so convinced that setting our intentions to shift this vibration and jettisoning our voices out into the air, out into the waters, into the ether as a collective of folks who are joined in the intention of stopping the cycle of violence and harm that all these systems we find ourselves inside of are reeking on the planet as a whole, on women, on prismatic folks, on people of colour, on all the ecosystems, all the animals...that we can change this with our voices. I'm convinced of it." We barely scratched the surface of Michaela's Witchcraft so we will definitely have her back on the show again for more musical magic. LISTEN TO THE END!! She finishes the interview with a song. "Just say yes and listen, then go with the flow…" Your song can start a revolution. In this episode we sit down with prismatic Singer, Activist, Witch Michaela A. Harrison about her Whale-Whispering project, about the ocean, ancestors, the Middle Passage slave trade, reality and rainbows, Billie Holiday, Nina Simone and Judy Garland, and singing as a means of survival and transcendence, a spiritual, political and healing act - the healing, transformational power of music through song. This is the message she received from the whales: We Are One. "The sea," she says, "is Holy Water." "Singing is claiming space. Making your voice be heard is definitely a political act...Singing is inherently political." It's about telling the truth. "We are one. That is the central message pulsing through this web that’s spinning forth from me and that I’m being woven into, this confluence of sound and image through and across waves of various types (marine, sound, brain…) that, for now, is called Whale Whispering. " "What we need to be doing is singing to change the state of things. I'm convinced that singing together is the answer, that wailing together is the answer. I'm so convinced that setting our intentions to shift this vibration and jettisoning our voices out into the air, out into the waters, into the ether as a collective of folks who are joined in the intention of stopping the cycle of violence and harm that all these systems we find ourselves inside of are reeking on the planet as a whole, on women, on prismatic folks, on people of colour, on all the ecosystems, all the animals...that we can change this with our voices. I'm convinced of it." We barely scratched the surface of Michaela's Witchcraft so we will definitely have her back on the show again for more musical magic. LISTEN TO THE END!! She finishes the interview with a song. "Just say yes and listen, then go with the flow…" Your song can start a revolution. true full 143 734d7981-1443-4577-9b9c-b0d401556acf You Are Vixen Kin Meditation Mon, 16 May 2022 09:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/you-are-vixen-kin-meditation-qrBG7f32 You Are Vixen Kin Meditation Missing Witches 00:16:07 You little vixen you Wily as… Cunning as. Hunted, trapped, biting back Sexy, wicked, smart, magic You are definitely vixen kin. You little vixen you Wily as… Cunning as. Hunted, trapped, biting back Sexy, wicked, smart, magic You are definitely vixen kin. true full 142 371887c3-e7ea-4dd3-8172-f9e787dbe130 WF Ana Tajder: Mother Wisdom and Mother Wounds https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thank-you-mama/id1502312840

 

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Risa: [00:00:00] Welcome. Welcome friends. Welcome. Children, mums, parents, magical beings... welcome a wall of fog and returning birds. You'll hear the honk soaring overhead, and the stomps of the three-year old upstairs as we begin to sort of circle in, call in our feelings for a missing Witches first let's talk about mothers.

 

We'll say from the beginning, what a complicated question. And we have the right person to open this up with us. For so many of us, this idea of just purely celebrating mama culture is really hard. There's so much mother trauma in so many of our communities [00:01:00] and so many families where that idea needs to be queered and needs to be multipled.

 

And today I am carrying the heavy weight on my chest of having read the leaked opinion from the United States Supreme court that will force motherhood, forced pregnancy on women's bodies that will remove the protection of Roe vs. Wade. And I'm just really, reeling with the sorrow of what that will mean today.

 

And it all just feels complicated and connected, by the time this episode comes out, we'll know more, but that's where my feeling is. And I have to be honest about it. Thanks for being here, thanks to the coven for being here and for all of you portalling in and out and being in this circle wherever you are in time, by the time the sound hits you.

 

We'll just hold this sorrow together and also this light. [00:02:00] And we'll turn to the complicated question of things we can learn from our mothers, whether they mean to teach it to us or not. You can hear the sweet laugh of Ana she's the award-winning journalist, who is the host of the Thank You Mama podcast.

 

She has interviewed so many people from all over the world about what their mothers taught them. And really you dig into both sides of this question. What did they mean to teach you? What do you wish they could have taught you? What were the tacit lessons? What is this knowledge that's sort of on the edges of all this rationalized knowledge. What are moms passing down hand by hand? You you've gotten so many windows into that. So thank you so much for being here with us today.

 

Ana: Thank you for having me. I'm so excited [00:03:00] to be here with. Today and talk about this and share my learnings and insights and thoughts about this.

 

It's a fascinating topic and I've been dealing with it for two years at this stage, and it's just opening more and more angles. You know, the deeper I go into it, the more dimensions of being open to me and I'm, I feel very blessed that it's a beautiful world to discover and a beautiful topic to be dealing with.

 

Risa: Yeah, it is. Do you wanna tell us how you started and then maybe what are some of the dimensions that are opening now that you're surprised about?

 

Ana: It started very organically. It did not start as a podcast. It started a few weeks after I lost my mom and my mom and I were extremely, extremely close. Her parents had died when she was very young. So she basically lonely had me. She turned me. I mean to her family. And [00:04:00] we had a very beautiful relationship.

 

She was by far not a perfect mother. She was a strange mother, but the one I loved so much. She had two parallel careers. She was an award-winning acclaimed and admire movie actress and parallel to that. She finished the academy of arts and was a visual artist equally, a claimed and awarded.

 

And. What's amazing about my mom being my mom is that she, in a way she's an idol to me, but I meet more and more young women in creation nowadays. So tell me she was there. She is there idle as well. So it's, it's a very. Beautiful situation of having a mom. Who's your idol, both career wise and, you know, towards the outside, towards what she represented in the society, as well [00:05:00] as how she raised me and the relationship she had with me.

 

So when she died of cancer, very surprisingly, oh, it was a big shock for me. And a few weeks afterwards, I had a panic attack. I had this panic fear that I was going to forget everything she told me and that through that I was going to forget everything. She. Who she is that I'm going to lose her if I forget what she told me.

 

So I sat down and started writing down everything I could remember. She told me, and then that turned into everything she taught me and everything she showed me and that turned, started turning into a book about her life, through her lessons. And then the magic started happening in that I was telling my friends what I'm working on.

 

And you could see their reactions, how obvious and deep and important [00:06:00] this topic is to all of us. What have we learned from our mothers, but we never really articulated or put it in a form or give it a deeper thought. And that inspired me to start a podcast. because for me, the important thing was to interview women from all over the world.

 

I really, and this is why a podcast was such a great medium to do this because I can just use Skype and interview women. I had women from 50 different countries. I had women from Nepal and Tanzania and Kenya and Trinidad and Iran, and you know, all over the world. And it was important to me to not only go geographically globally, but also to interview women from very different backgrounds and different religions and different socio economic status and not only successful professionally [00:07:00] successful women, but stay at home moms, women who are farmers to really get a feeling for what is it that our mothers around the world teach us. And then little by little, and this is one of the dimensions that opened up.

 

A question popped up to me. I still quite early on in my interviews was what, what was something important that your mom did not teach you? What, what did you miss in, in what she showed you taught to you? And this turned out to be one of the equally important question as what your mom taught you.

 

But then another dimension that was really important to me because I had such a close relationship to my mom and I grew up in this beautiful mother-daughter bubble. Was that. Not all women have relationships like that. They're mothers. And somehow the universe shoved my head into a [00:08:00] series of interviews just recently with women who had very let's call them complex relationships with their mothers.

 

And I started reading literature on mothers who don't love, or, you know, complicated mother daughter relationships to prepare myself for these interviews because it was a completely foreign world to me. And I've learned that this is just as important as those women who come on my show, who just, you know, bursts with love with their mothers is women who had very tough relationship and still have lessons to share that they learn from, from that, that, that that's beautiful.

 

Risa: It gives me a sense of ease in a way around the subject to know that those stories are included to, you know, those stories are, as you say, they're, they're pushing their way in the universe is pushing their way into you [00:09:00] being. Like, this is complicated shit, you know?

 

Ana: Well, I started reading the books about mother wounds and, you know, the, the inherited trauma and they just opened, it opened again, it opened the whole world to me, a new world that I didn't know, but also it opened my eyes towards some of the trauma that goes around in my family that we never dealt with it actually, or, you know, it gets mentioned, but never really dealt with.

 

Risa: Can you tell us more about this childhood on an island in Croatia, you told me that children told you you were a witch when you were growing up

 

and your mother sounds like she had. A real magic, like a real, she made a magic bubble for you and it wasn't always perfect, but..

 

Ana: So I, I did not grow up on the island. I grew up basically in [00:10:00] Zagreb in the capital of Croatia, but my mom's family comes from a very tiny island. South of Croatia. It's so tiny there during the winter, there are 120 people living in it.

 

It doesn't have any hotels. It doesn't have any cars. So it's really, when you watch a Disney movie, Luca, I think was the last Disney movie with this beautiful Mediterranean island. That's our island. You know where everybody's family, no cars, no tourists, just this wild. Beautiful. Mediterranean island. And so just as my mother did, I would spend my whole summers there.

 

So come end of school, you know, immediately the next day we went to the, to the island and I would spend two and a half, three months on the island every year. We. All of us in our family feel extremely, extremely, deeply connected to the island. We really feel like it's in our blood, in our veins and the [00:11:00] island.

 

I know I'm boasting and I sound like a person in love, but people who arrive to the island do say that it has very, very deep energies and it's very special. we Have an old house, which my great grandmother bought. And that's another beautiful story about my island.

 

Please tell me to shut up if I'm too long with my story.

 

Oh no, no, no. A theme of our podcast is please expand. So please take us on this

 

journey. So in early. 20th century. So just, I would say just around first world war. The, that was back then, Austro-Hungarian monarchy that the island belong to went through its crisis.

 

As did the whole world. There was no food. There was, there were, there was a depression and the men on the island decided to go and look for [00:12:00] other places to work and go look for money so they can send money back home to the island to support their wives and children. So they left. Once the men left the women decided to dress themselves in black and they took over everything, everything they took over the farming, they went fishing, they raised their children, they took, took over whatever work there was. These women. Dressed in black on this Mediterranean island took over and I have a beautiful postcard, always on my desk of these women.

 

And you can see how burned by the sun and hard work they are. They, they, they look like men actually. This life toughened them up a lot. And it was famous for being this island of these women dressed in black and they would go rowing the boat. They would go fishing. And this picture stays very clearly in my head from hearing about it and seeing [00:13:00] the old photographs of these women in these big black dresses, rowing their boats, you know, and fishing.

 

So it's, it's a very magical, and female, like this place, that's just bursting with this women, females and female energy. Quite recently, I heard stories I read that the inhabitants of the island original inhabitants were considered witches.

 

They were in, I think there were shamans. Uh, they brought the. Whatever religion or shamanism, I think from Bosnia Herzegovina when they came towards the island centuries earlier and they never forgot it. So there are stories of raising dead back to life. Apparently in front of each house door, we have bones of our ancestors buried.

 

I dunno, I haven't yet looked into it. Who is buried and what's buried in front [00:14:00] of our house, but. There are all these stories of this. And there are also stories of people being able to fly on the island. So there is a old fishermen who is now, now, already dead, but he, I think he was also like 1940s, 1950s, where he self taught himself to paint and he started painting all these amazing paintings off the magic on the island. So his paintings are full of this people flying around the island and, doing some strange rituals. And. I didn't know this. When somebody told me once one older gentlemen on the island once looked at me I was saying something and he said, oh, you're a witch just like your great grandmother. And I said, I got a little offended because I thought he meant I was, you know, we in west of this idea [00:15:00] of witches as being old evil women. And I was like, why, why is he telling me that, you know, and only once I heard this background story about what, they meant what he meant you know, I, I realized I received a compliment.

 

Risa: Yes, you did.

 

Ana: So that's the story. That's the story of the island.

 

Risa: That's so powerful. I had to stop to write down. They dressed themselves in black and took over everything.

 

Ana: How amazing is that? So pure and I'm so glad there are photographs of this women, you know, it's not just a legend. It's it's it'sreal.

 

Risa: Yes. And now that you know, it's a compliment, do you feel connected?

 

Do you feel like your, your writing your interviews are sort of drawing, weaving that web of power [00:16:00] between women's knowledge powerful femme knowledge?

 

Ana: I do. And you know, it's interesting that my mom, my mom was a feminist and very outspoken and she was always an activist. She was always fighting for the weaker ones in a society back then in 1970s, way before Hollywood stars, she created a charity organization for hungry children in Africa.

 

And she donated. Well, every award she would win she would donate and collect money and buy food and medication and fly to get over these things to Sudan and to different countries, to make sure that they reach the, the, the ones who need, they reached children and don't end up in the wrong hands.

 

And equally, she was always very loud and raised me to be very aware of this... female energy and how special we are. Dare I say, you know, and how powerful we are. But, [00:17:00] but I'm very embarrassed to say that only through this hundred something interviews I made in last two years, this really entered my body.

 

I don't know how to say it in different way. I really feel with every cell of my body. How. Interconnected we are. And, and what I've learned through these interviews is how there is a common narrative in women's lives, no matter where they are and what, what circumstances they live in and grew up in, you know, a woman who grows up on a farm in Turkey and a woman who grows up in a, Middle-class family in Switzerland there are always these common narratives in women's lives, and that feels extremely connecting. And that made me aware of what a sisterhood we have and how interconnected we are. And it [00:18:00] kind of was beautiful for me to learn through my podcast that I lost my mom, but I gained... billions of mothers around the world. You know, this podcast because it was really such a beautiful gift to me and listening to all this lessons and women's lives and how, how universal the lessons are, what women are teaching their children , really, really, really brought home how, how powerful and how connected we are. And it made me very, very sad that we are not aware of it. You know, even me when my mom who tried to teach me this and show it to me, it took a while for me to learn it. And I wish we, all of us would be more aware of it.

 

Risa: Yeah, it feels pretty intentional sometimes eh? Layers and layers and layers of intention that separated us from each other, separated us from that sense of power.

 

Ana: I just wanted to say that from the sense of power I interviewed a [00:19:00] lady a few weeks ago, who wrote a book called "We are the daughters of the witches you didn't burn" and reading her book was just so eyeopening to me. It really hit me very strongly, how unaware we are, how buried this, this feeling of our power. It was just as you say, systematically, buried through century, not century millennium, you know, and I'm glad that we are slowly waking up to it. It's going to be magical, we'll save the planet.

 

Risa: Oh I love your optimism Ana! I need this today. I mean, I feel that in our work too, and it's so powerful to connect with your web and your circle and the sense of mounting knowledge. Cause I do believe this is how we cast a circle of protection for trans women for non-binary people for gender expansive people that it is in [00:20:00] owning our own power our own divinity, our own, power as women, as something deeply connected to the earth and to the reproductive power in the, Earth, fertility, whatever that fertility is for you.

 

Ana: I just wanted to say this female energy that's nurturing How should I say, it's, it's nurturing and cherishing and taking care of things. We've been too long in this male energy of using rational brains and building things and constructing. My mom was always telling Ana don't construct life. It's a very male thing to do. This conscious constructing. And, I really think. We really need more of this intuition and this nurturing, caring energy, which I want to call female, you know,

 

Risa: can you talk about [00:21:00] when the nurturing breaks down in the interviews that you've had, where for whatever reason, a mother wasn't capable of that? Can you talk about what lessons you've been hearing from that side of the experience?

 

Ana: The most important lesson I heard from all of that is that to two things. One is there is a magical moment that happens. My guests tell me when the Mom admits to her daughter that she made mistakes and that she didn't do certain things right. And when she tells her daughter, but this has to be honest, of course, that, you know, I'm, I'm sorry.

 

I'm sorry if I made mistakes, I'm sorry. I did make mistakes. I'm sorry that sometimes I hurt you. I come from this place. I couldn't do better at the moment. You know, just to knowledge I did my best and I'm sorry [00:22:00] that it wasn't enough or it was wrong. I loved you. And did what I could and I heard in a few interviews, how that creates a very magical moment when a door open. A door to forgiveness opens and new energies released in that relationship. And, and you know, some of my interviews were in tears telling me about this, how, how much that matters. The other thing I learned is that it's connected, you know, it's connected, I've learned that we have to look back and see where the person comes from. You know, what her trauma was or why she wasn't able to give the love that we deserve or the support for it. and this is where forgiveness come comes in again. I learned that growth comes from this [00:23:00] forgiveness, that caring I had, you know, I had a few guests who didn't speak to their mothers for decades.

 

One of my guests told me she hugged for mum for the first time in her life when she was 69, but it's never too late. You know this moment of connecting and forgiving at the end. Right. Open open some beautiful energies, no matter what happened.

 

Risa: Yeah. I mean, I will say, I think if you've been, um, you don't have to forgive everybody.

 

Ana: You don't. No, no, no, no, no, you don't need to forgive, but you have to come where I think you have to see where they come from.

 

Risa: Yeah.

 

That can be a great gift yourself.

 

Ana: Yeah, exactly. Because as one of my guests said, being angry is like drinking, poison and waiting for the other person to die.

 

And then in a way, is that, is it because what we [00:24:00] need to do is learn how to. Release what, whatever the negative thing was from our moms, was it their trauma or the way they treated us as you say, it doesn't have to be forgiving, but it has to be recognizing and maybe through seeing where it comes from, just releasing it, you know, I've, I've, it's funny.

 

I went through this with my dad and partially with my mom, but when my mom passed away, my dad, I don't know what happened to him. He suddenly turned in. It felt like he turned into my enemy. He, he just, instead of being there for me, then I was an only child and don't have any other family. And he was the only person that was out there that still, I feel like he should have been supporting me through this.

 

He suddenly turned into this person like a stranger who was against me. And I didn't speak to him for, I mean, after all the courts and [00:25:00] lawyers and most awful experiences, I didn't speak to him for a year. But then, then I decided for myself that. That's not what I want. You know I know what he did to me. I recognize it. It's there. The pain won't disappear. The, the feeling of betrayal won't disappear, but I do not want to be a person who doesn't speak to her father I want my son to have his grandfather and I've learned for myself and I'm very proud for that to compartmentalize, or what is the word in English, you know, to just put this feeling into its own place and say, this is give it a ribbon and say, this is what it is, but I still want to have a father in my life and a grandfather in my son's life. And, and it was a huge learning experience to create boundaries and self-defense and know how close to let certain people to you, you know, [00:26:00] where to just raise the wall and be like, this is how far you are in my life. You're my dad, but this is how far you can come.

 

Risa: Yes. Raise that wall. And you point to such, a poignant and painful thing. And I'm so sorry that happened to you, that those layers of complex trauma around your mother's death that's fucking sucks.

 

Ana: Oh, man. It really, it was, it was it really sucked that, that part, it was hard enough dealing with losing her and losing her so quickly. But then dealing with that, I felt like I really felt like somebody tore the skin of my body and I was lying wounded without skin on the floor. And he came and started punching me with his feet.

 

This is how I felt like I was really like, you're supposed to give me a hand and protect me and not in this worst month. But anyway, Yeah.

 

Risa: And you point to you, point to something [00:27:00] that I think is so core to this is that the, the mother trauma, is twisted and tied up in the father wound too. Right? It's all this shit that patriarchy did to women it did to men too did it to them, to. It's a violence that it took from them too, that it made them. You know, suffer also and put that suffering on their, on their children.

 

Ana: Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Yeah,

 

Risa: yeah. Yeah. I didn't mean to diminish what you said, because I've had very powerful experiences in the same way of like choosing a forgiveness that was for me and wasn't for that.

 

Exactly. Yeah. Um, but I also, yeah, I wanted to say it out loud because I do know there's people in our coven, people who listen to people in the world, close friends of mine for whom the mother trauma you know, it's at the level of abuse. [00:28:00] It's at the level of such pain that it's like

 

Ana: but I think what I'm trying to say, spit that poison out. You might find that poison in your body, in your being and the pain and spit it out in whatever shape or form you find it useful, like you decide or works for you, but maybe more than forgiveness. It's. Spit it out, throw it like, whoa, get rid of it. Yes.

 

Risa: Yes. And like you said, put that, put that wall that maybe it's a container, you know, for me there was some container magic involved or there was, you know, there was some freezer magic involved. There was some burying of things with seeds that, you know, there was also some like drawing out of like, what do I choose to keep from that experience

 

Ana: Burning for me, burning burning helps a lot. Fire helps a lot for that kind of cleansing. Yes.

 

Risa: Yes you are [00:29:00] a Witch.

 

Ana: Discovering little by little day by day.

 

Risa: Yeah. All of us, all of us are discovering. Can you tell us, take us down like memory lane, maybe, uh, take us on a memory journey of some of the moments in your interviews that were the most profound for you.

 

Ana: Well, I already mentioned that lady who just, she said, I couldn't be in the same root word. My mom, since I was born, you know? Wow. There was some bad energy there. They never, they just never got along. And then she told me how. COVID happen. And her mom was in her eighties and she was 69 and suddenly they were kind of in a similar situation of being the high risk group and very [00:30:00] nervous about, you know, what is going to happen if they're going to die from this.

 

And they started zooming everyday. Just to check on each other and see how the other one is doing. And they shared this fear. And little by little day by day, they started talking more and more and they found a way to each other. It was amazing listening to this story.

 

And then when everything was over and they had a group reunion, this is where that hug happened, where for the first time in their lives, they hugged. And listening to that, I, I cried. I also had, just my last interview is a book author who in her twenties remembered that she was sexually abused by her mother's father and her mother would not have any of it. Instead of supporting her her mother got very angry that, [00:31:00] you know, she's doing this to the family and to her father and... this is one of these interviews where I listened to this, both having my mom as my mom and being a mother, just my, my brain, this information can't land anywhere in my brain that a mother wouldn't support her daughter in that.

 

The good thing is Laura started writing about, she went through therapy and started writing about it and wrote a book about it. And this book reached millions. She sold millions of copies and reached millions and millions of women who were in the similar situation and help them, you know, she started doing workshops and obviously she helped other people with same experiences.

 

But her modern, never, no matter what happened from mother, never accepted that this was the truth. And in spite of that, Laura took care of her when she was old and dying and she was there and [00:32:00] they somehow, they somehow found each other, you know, that was deeply touching. And then on the inspiration, very positive side, I, this might be my favorite interview and I keep talking about it all the time.

 

I interviewed a doctor in molecular biology whose mom grew up in Turkey, on a farm in Turkey. And she as a girl was not allowed to go to school or get any kind of education and so she was completely illiterate and she had three daughters, which in Turkey, on a farm is not considered a big achievement, maybe even a burden.

 

This Mom. Somehow managed to gently and lovingly support these three daughters and gently push them. And this is the beautiful thing. Listening to my guest, explain how gentle, these pushes and supports were from this [00:33:00] mom, to the extent where she would ask neighbors to help the girls with a homework, because she wasn't able to, she was illiterate.

 

Two of the girls now have PhDs. One is a lawyer in the UK. My guest, as I mentioned, has a PhD in molecular biology and that was just an amazing story. That was the, the, the beautiful, positive. This is exactly that nurturing, loving, supporting energy that I think the world's needs right now.

 

Risa: Oh! Yes. What a world changing power.

 

Ana: You know, it was so funny when I was, I have a corporate history. I did an MBA and spend many, many, many, too many years in corporate life. I was an international marketing, . Uh, professional. Strategies for different markets. And [00:34:00] anyway, my company invited two Scandinavian futurists is talking about future of business and management. And it was a very big symposium taking place in a, in a beautiful, Theater here in Vienna and this tool dude's dressed in black and shaved heads with their glasses. And they were telling us about the future of business and you know, this whole blah.

 

And then they throw a question in the audience and they said that they asked us, what do we think the managers of the future would be like? And I got up and said, mothers. And I think that was the moment where it was clear to me by the silence from the audience and the dudes on the stage. It was clear to me that I need to resign.

 

This is not a world for me. You know, bed moment was so clear to me that. This is [00:35:00] completely wrong and it needs to change it just as a, as I said, mothers, you know, it was clear to me that. That's what needs to happen.

 

Risa: Yep. And you're, I mean, I think all the research backs you up, right? I was just reading research about, the most effective new hires in police departments the ones that have the best success rate at solving cases at resolving situations without violence. Uh, building community connections. They are mothers. They are women who are later in their career. They have like raised some kids, and now they're doing this out of a commitment to their community. Policing is pretty fucked as an institution, but when, when people are trying to get it right, they are trying to hire, you know, generally like black women, who've already raised kids. And that's the thing that's making the biggest impact in communities. Is it enough to save the institution of policing? I, you know, I don't [00:36:00] know, but I think you're right that we need. Mother energy and intelligence.

 

Ana: Nurturing and nurturing and connecting. Somebody who unifies and connects.

 

Risa: Yeah. I will, um, open it up. If anybody who is here wants to say hi, ask a question, just share a response. It's so nice to have you here in person. So feel free to just go ahead and unmute.

 

Coven 1: Is it okay if I just sort of respond a little bit?

 

Risa: Of course.

 

Coven 1: I'm Zoe and I am a Witch from Western Australia, currently working on a mine site driving dump trucks.

 

I've had to delve deep into a lot of psychological and spiritual healing that went back many generations on both sides of my family.

 

Like Anna [00:37:00] was saying coming to a place of understanding and forgiveness. Is

 

something that's

 

definitely come in time. Like for me you know, I'm 31 and it's been a journey to get to there. I think as witches, we are self appointed to break, those traumatic cycles we are often the black sheep of the family. It's a solitude, lone Wolf kind of practice. And we do a lot of healing for a lot of other people. And that comes from that divine, feminine energy that we're talking about. And it's yeah, just to do with healing, all of the trauma that has come before. All of the other women and the men.

 

And, I think I'm in a good place with my mum now, but we can't live under the same roof. [00:38:00]

 

Risa: Same..

 

Coven 1: Thanks for letting me chime in.

 

Risa: that's what's special about, being in the coven and, and for us being able to have you here is there's, it's a prism you know, as you say, this practice or this identity can be so solitary. So. It's a relief to get, to hear each other's voices and hear my own thinking drawn out and reflected. And yeah, it's a, it's a support. So

 

thank you for being here.

 

Coven 1: Thank you so much for having me

 

Risa: CAS.

 

How are you doing with all this?

 

There's a lot. There's a lot of stuff in here, especially as a mom.

 

Coven 2: This was such an emotional topic for me. Been sitting here like. Tears in my eyes because, well, first of all, Ana, thank you so much for this conversation I'm a stay at [00:39:00] home mom and I hold a lot of privilege with that under capitalism. I also questioned my worth.

 

However as I'm sitting here and we're talking about what didn't we learn from our mothers and honoring that generational trauma and with everything that's happened this morning,

 

I'm just holding space for the work that I do. For my family, with my own family, I've ended up becoming my mother's mother and my grandmother's mother. And as my husband is learning how to hold emotions. I'm holding space to mother him and I mother,

 

my children. I feel really powerful in my tears right now. Would it be alright if I speak my [00:40:00] great great-grandmother and my grandmother and their names

 

Risa: right now. Yes.

 

Thank you.

 

Coven 2: Elizabeth. Rose..

 

Linda Tammy. Cassandra..

 

Risa: I hope in this litany of names, you also hear reflected listener the names of the women, the DNA lines, the deep timelines that connect us to each other, these complicated, painful memories. Especially on today when we're reminded again, of all the people who don't get to make this choice and all the people who've brought us here and made infinite choices along the way, and all the people hoping desperately to get us safely to tomorrow.

 

Ana: thank you to Zoe and thank you to [00:41:00] Cassandra. I am, I am in tears and I'm very deeply touched because they were so touched with our conversation. Um, I have something I would like to share with Cassandra.

 

It just lights went off in my head when I heard her talk, one of the most important things I've learned from this hundred something interviews again from mothers everywhere and every shape and form and every situation and every circumstance. When I ask women, what do you wish your mom had taught you?

 

One of the three things that always comes up is self care. And I know it became more of a very cliche word, but hearing Cassandra mothering, her children and her husband and herself, I just want to throw it out there. Cassandra, please mother yourself as well, [00:42:00] because you, you, you have to, you have to mother yourself so that you can mother all of these other people around you.

 

And I know where you come from. I feel like I have two children, although officially I have only one I'm I'm mothering them both and, and it's beautiful. and awarding, but it can be depleting as well. And yes, healthy boundaries as well.

 

Just be there for yourself as well. Not only for everybody else.

 

Risa: So in that spirit, can I ask you Ana. Would you draw on all of these voices that you've heard and maybe as a, as a closing moment for us here today. Can you speak in a collective mother voice, or maybe it's your own mother voice and offer us listeners a little piece of [00:43:00] motherly wisdom, a little piece of that nurturing that we can carry with us in our hearts this week and this year, and going forward, that's a big question, but I feel like you can do it. you're a witch from an island of women who dressed in black and took care of things,

 

Ana: I can definitely, I can improvise and I want to connect to what I just said to Cassandra, which is.

 

Just love yourself, you know, love yourself and love this life. It's one life that we have and it's short and it's beautiful. And it's so magical. The fact that we. Can be here on this planet and look at this beautiful full blue sky or your beautiful foggy forests and put our feet in the grass and feel the ground and breathing and hear the birds, twitter in our ears.

 

It's magical. And we should just appreciate it. And. Feel how amazing we are. This is, this is I think the most important thing I've learned from the mothers around the world is [00:44:00] how powerful, how unique, how amazing in our uniqueness, how strong we are and how connected we are. And. We should just celebrate it.

 

We should share this love and kindness with everybody around us and stay strong because tough times come and challenges come, but we can do that. We're strong enough and just pass on all this joy and love. And I think that's, that's what I feel I want to share.

 

Risa: Thank you for that. I will replay that when I need to hear it.

 

And thank you for being here. Ana, it's so nice to get, to spend time with you. I love the way you think it was such a pleasure to get to talk to you on your podcasts about Amy's and my moms. And so nice to get a little glimpse of your [00:45:00] magical mom. I feel really lucky to have this conversation with you.

 

So thank you.

 

Ana: Thank you so much for having me and thank you to Zoe and Cassandra for joining us.

 

Risa: Thank you to the coven who's here and the coven we make in the dark between our ears. We love you so much. You know, you have Canadian aunties up here whenever you need us. And I think a Croatian aunty, I'm going to include Ana in this great circle of protection we make for you.

 

If you need to get the fuck out of America or whatever,

 

we love you guys blessed fucking be.

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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Risa: [00:00:00] Welcome. Welcome friends. Welcome. Children, mums, parents, magical beings... welcome a wall of fog and returning birds. You'll hear the honk soaring overhead, and the stomps of the three-year old upstairs as we begin to sort of circle in, call in our feelings for a missing Witches first let's talk about mothers.

 

We'll say from the beginning, what a complicated question. And we have the right person to open this up with us. For so many of us, this idea of just purely celebrating mama culture is really hard. There's so much mother trauma in so many of our communities [00:01:00] and so many families where that idea needs to be queered and needs to be multipled.

 

And today I am carrying the heavy weight on my chest of having read the leaked opinion from the United States Supreme court that will force motherhood, forced pregnancy on women's bodies that will remove the protection of Roe vs. Wade. And I'm just really, reeling with the sorrow of what that will mean today.

 

And it all just feels complicated and connected, by the time this episode comes out, we'll know more, but that's where my feeling is. And I have to be honest about it. Thanks for being here, thanks to the coven for being here and for all of you portalling in and out and being in this circle wherever you are in time, by the time the sound hits you.

 

We'll just hold this sorrow together and also this light. [00:02:00] And we'll turn to the complicated question of things we can learn from our mothers, whether they mean to teach it to us or not. You can hear the sweet laugh of Ana she's the award-winning journalist, who is the host of the Thank You Mama podcast.

 

She has interviewed so many people from all over the world about what their mothers taught them. And really you dig into both sides of this question. What did they mean to teach you? What do you wish they could have taught you? What were the tacit lessons? What is this knowledge that's sort of on the edges of all this rationalized knowledge. What are moms passing down hand by hand? You you've gotten so many windows into that. So thank you so much for being here with us today.

 

Ana: Thank you for having me. I'm so excited [00:03:00] to be here with. Today and talk about this and share my learnings and insights and thoughts about this.

 

It's a fascinating topic and I've been dealing with it for two years at this stage, and it's just opening more and more angles. You know, the deeper I go into it, the more dimensions of being open to me and I'm, I feel very blessed that it's a beautiful world to discover and a beautiful topic to be dealing with.

 

Risa: Yeah, it is. Do you wanna tell us how you started and then maybe what are some of the dimensions that are opening now that you're surprised about?

 

Ana: It started very organically. It did not start as a podcast. It started a few weeks after I lost my mom and my mom and I were extremely, extremely close. Her parents had died when she was very young. So she basically lonely had me. She turned me. I mean to her family. And [00:04:00] we had a very beautiful relationship.

 

She was by far not a perfect mother. She was a strange mother, but the one I loved so much. She had two parallel careers. She was an award-winning acclaimed and admire movie actress and parallel to that. She finished the academy of arts and was a visual artist equally, a claimed and awarded.

 

And. What's amazing about my mom being my mom is that she, in a way she's an idol to me, but I meet more and more young women in creation nowadays. So tell me she was there. She is there idle as well. So it's, it's a very. Beautiful situation of having a mom. Who's your idol, both career wise and, you know, towards the outside, towards what she represented in the society, as well [00:05:00] as how she raised me and the relationship she had with me.

 

So when she died of cancer, very surprisingly, oh, it was a big shock for me. And a few weeks afterwards, I had a panic attack. I had this panic fear that I was going to forget everything she told me and that through that I was going to forget everything. She. Who she is that I'm going to lose her if I forget what she told me.

 

So I sat down and started writing down everything I could remember. She told me, and then that turned into everything she taught me and everything she showed me and that turned, started turning into a book about her life, through her lessons. And then the magic started happening in that I was telling my friends what I'm working on.

 

And you could see their reactions, how obvious and deep and important [00:06:00] this topic is to all of us. What have we learned from our mothers, but we never really articulated or put it in a form or give it a deeper thought. And that inspired me to start a podcast. because for me, the important thing was to interview women from all over the world.

 

I really, and this is why a podcast was such a great medium to do this because I can just use Skype and interview women. I had women from 50 different countries. I had women from Nepal and Tanzania and Kenya and Trinidad and Iran, and you know, all over the world. And it was important to me to not only go geographically globally, but also to interview women from very different backgrounds and different religions and different socio economic status and not only successful professionally [00:07:00] successful women, but stay at home moms, women who are farmers to really get a feeling for what is it that our mothers around the world teach us. And then little by little, and this is one of the dimensions that opened up.

 

A question popped up to me. I still quite early on in my interviews was what, what was something important that your mom did not teach you? What, what did you miss in, in what she showed you taught to you? And this turned out to be one of the equally important question as what your mom taught you.

 

But then another dimension that was really important to me because I had such a close relationship to my mom and I grew up in this beautiful mother-daughter bubble. Was that. Not all women have relationships like that. They're mothers. And somehow the universe shoved my head into a [00:08:00] series of interviews just recently with women who had very let's call them complex relationships with their mothers.

 

And I started reading literature on mothers who don't love, or, you know, complicated mother daughter relationships to prepare myself for these interviews because it was a completely foreign world to me. And I've learned that this is just as important as those women who come on my show, who just, you know, bursts with love with their mothers is women who had very tough relationship and still have lessons to share that they learn from, from that, that, that that's beautiful.

 

Risa: It gives me a sense of ease in a way around the subject to know that those stories are included to, you know, those stories are, as you say, they're, they're pushing their way in the universe is pushing their way into you [00:09:00] being. Like, this is complicated shit, you know?

 

Ana: Well, I started reading the books about mother wounds and, you know, the, the inherited trauma and they just opened, it opened again, it opened the whole world to me, a new world that I didn't know, but also it opened my eyes towards some of the trauma that goes around in my family that we never dealt with it actually, or, you know, it gets mentioned, but never really dealt with.

 

Risa: Can you tell us more about this childhood on an island in Croatia, you told me that children told you you were a witch when you were growing up

 

and your mother sounds like she had. A real magic, like a real, she made a magic bubble for you and it wasn't always perfect, but..

 

Ana: So I, I did not grow up on the island. I grew up basically in [00:10:00] Zagreb in the capital of Croatia, but my mom's family comes from a very tiny island. South of Croatia. It's so tiny there during the winter, there are 120 people living in it.

 

It doesn't have any hotels. It doesn't have any cars. So it's really, when you watch a Disney movie, Luca, I think was the last Disney movie with this beautiful Mediterranean island. That's our island. You know where everybody's family, no cars, no tourists, just this wild. Beautiful. Mediterranean island. And so just as my mother did, I would spend my whole summers there.

 

So come end of school, you know, immediately the next day we went to the, to the island and I would spend two and a half, three months on the island every year. We. All of us in our family feel extremely, extremely, deeply connected to the island. We really feel like it's in our blood, in our veins and the [00:11:00] island.

 

I know I'm boasting and I sound like a person in love, but people who arrive to the island do say that it has very, very deep energies and it's very special. we Have an old house, which my great grandmother bought. And that's another beautiful story about my island.

 

Please tell me to shut up if I'm too long with my story.

 

Oh no, no, no. A theme of our podcast is please expand. So please take us on this

 

journey. So in early. 20th century. So just, I would say just around first world war. The, that was back then, Austro-Hungarian monarchy that the island belong to went through its crisis.

 

As did the whole world. There was no food. There was, there were, there was a depression and the men on the island decided to go and look for [00:12:00] other places to work and go look for money so they can send money back home to the island to support their wives and children. So they left. Once the men left the women decided to dress themselves in black and they took over everything, everything they took over the farming, they went fishing, they raised their children, they took, took over whatever work there was. These women. Dressed in black on this Mediterranean island took over and I have a beautiful postcard, always on my desk of these women.

 

And you can see how burned by the sun and hard work they are. They, they, they look like men actually. This life toughened them up a lot. And it was famous for being this island of these women dressed in black and they would go rowing the boat. They would go fishing. And this picture stays very clearly in my head from hearing about it and seeing [00:13:00] the old photographs of these women in these big black dresses, rowing their boats, you know, and fishing.

 

So it's, it's a very magical, and female, like this place, that's just bursting with this women, females and female energy. Quite recently, I heard stories I read that the inhabitants of the island original inhabitants were considered witches.

 

They were in, I think there were shamans. Uh, they brought the. Whatever religion or shamanism, I think from Bosnia Herzegovina when they came towards the island centuries earlier and they never forgot it. So there are stories of raising dead back to life. Apparently in front of each house door, we have bones of our ancestors buried.

 

I dunno, I haven't yet looked into it. Who is buried and what's buried in front [00:14:00] of our house, but. There are all these stories of this. And there are also stories of people being able to fly on the island. So there is a old fishermen who is now, now, already dead, but he, I think he was also like 1940s, 1950s, where he self taught himself to paint and he started painting all these amazing paintings off the magic on the island. So his paintings are full of this people flying around the island and, doing some strange rituals. And. I didn't know this. When somebody told me once one older gentlemen on the island once looked at me I was saying something and he said, oh, you're a witch just like your great grandmother. And I said, I got a little offended because I thought he meant I was, you know, we in west of this idea [00:15:00] of witches as being old evil women. And I was like, why, why is he telling me that, you know, and only once I heard this background story about what, they meant what he meant you know, I, I realized I received a compliment.

 

Risa: Yes, you did.

 

Ana: So that's the story. That's the story of the island.

 

Risa: That's so powerful. I had to stop to write down. They dressed themselves in black and took over everything.

 

Ana: How amazing is that? So pure and I'm so glad there are photographs of this women, you know, it's not just a legend. It's it's it'sreal.

 

Risa: Yes. And now that you know, it's a compliment, do you feel connected?

 

Do you feel like your, your writing your interviews are sort of drawing, weaving that web of power [00:16:00] between women's knowledge powerful femme knowledge?

 

Ana: I do. And you know, it's interesting that my mom, my mom was a feminist and very outspoken and she was always an activist. She was always fighting for the weaker ones in a society back then in 1970s, way before Hollywood stars, she created a charity organization for hungry children in Africa.

 

And she donated. Well, every award she would win she would donate and collect money and buy food and medication and fly to get over these things to Sudan and to different countries, to make sure that they reach the, the, the ones who need, they reached children and don't end up in the wrong hands.

 

And equally, she was always very loud and raised me to be very aware of this... female energy and how special we are. Dare I say, you know, and how powerful we are. But, [00:17:00] but I'm very embarrassed to say that only through this hundred something interviews I made in last two years, this really entered my body.

 

I don't know how to say it in different way. I really feel with every cell of my body. How. Interconnected we are. And, and what I've learned through these interviews is how there is a common narrative in women's lives, no matter where they are and what, what circumstances they live in and grew up in, you know, a woman who grows up on a farm in Turkey and a woman who grows up in a, Middle-class family in Switzerland there are always these common narratives in women's lives, and that feels extremely connecting. And that made me aware of what a sisterhood we have and how interconnected we are. And it [00:18:00] kind of was beautiful for me to learn through my podcast that I lost my mom, but I gained... billions of mothers around the world. You know, this podcast because it was really such a beautiful gift to me and listening to all this lessons and women's lives and how, how universal the lessons are, what women are teaching their children , really, really, really brought home how, how powerful and how connected we are. And it made me very, very sad that we are not aware of it. You know, even me when my mom who tried to teach me this and show it to me, it took a while for me to learn it. And I wish we, all of us would be more aware of it.

 

Risa: Yeah, it feels pretty intentional sometimes eh? Layers and layers and layers of intention that separated us from each other, separated us from that sense of power.

 

Ana: I just wanted to say that from the sense of power I interviewed a [00:19:00] lady a few weeks ago, who wrote a book called "We are the daughters of the witches you didn't burn" and reading her book was just so eyeopening to me. It really hit me very strongly, how unaware we are, how buried this, this feeling of our power. It was just as you say, systematically, buried through century, not century millennium, you know, and I'm glad that we are slowly waking up to it. It's going to be magical, we'll save the planet.

 

Risa: Oh I love your optimism Ana! I need this today. I mean, I feel that in our work too, and it's so powerful to connect with your web and your circle and the sense of mounting knowledge. Cause I do believe this is how we cast a circle of protection for trans women for non-binary people for gender expansive people that it is in [00:20:00] owning our own power our own divinity, our own, power as women, as something deeply connected to the earth and to the reproductive power in the, Earth, fertility, whatever that fertility is for you.

 

Ana: I just wanted to say this female energy that's nurturing How should I say, it's, it's nurturing and cherishing and taking care of things. We've been too long in this male energy of using rational brains and building things and constructing. My mom was always telling Ana don't construct life. It's a very male thing to do. This conscious constructing. And, I really think. We really need more of this intuition and this nurturing, caring energy, which I want to call female, you know,

 

Risa: can you talk about [00:21:00] when the nurturing breaks down in the interviews that you've had, where for whatever reason, a mother wasn't capable of that? Can you talk about what lessons you've been hearing from that side of the experience?

 

Ana: The most important lesson I heard from all of that is that to two things. One is there is a magical moment that happens. My guests tell me when the Mom admits to her daughter that she made mistakes and that she didn't do certain things right. And when she tells her daughter, but this has to be honest, of course, that, you know, I'm, I'm sorry.

 

I'm sorry if I made mistakes, I'm sorry. I did make mistakes. I'm sorry that sometimes I hurt you. I come from this place. I couldn't do better at the moment. You know, just to knowledge I did my best and I'm sorry [00:22:00] that it wasn't enough or it was wrong. I loved you. And did what I could and I heard in a few interviews, how that creates a very magical moment when a door open. A door to forgiveness opens and new energies released in that relationship. And, and you know, some of my interviews were in tears telling me about this, how, how much that matters. The other thing I learned is that it's connected, you know, it's connected, I've learned that we have to look back and see where the person comes from. You know, what her trauma was or why she wasn't able to give the love that we deserve or the support for it. and this is where forgiveness come comes in again. I learned that growth comes from this [00:23:00] forgiveness, that caring I had, you know, I had a few guests who didn't speak to their mothers for decades.

 

One of my guests told me she hugged for mum for the first time in her life when she was 69, but it's never too late. You know this moment of connecting and forgiving at the end. Right. Open open some beautiful energies, no matter what happened.

 

Risa: Yeah. I mean, I will say, I think if you've been, um, you don't have to forgive everybody.

 

Ana: You don't. No, no, no, no, no, you don't need to forgive, but you have to come where I think you have to see where they come from.

 

Risa: Yeah.

 

That can be a great gift yourself.

 

Ana: Yeah, exactly. Because as one of my guests said, being angry is like drinking, poison and waiting for the other person to die.

 

And then in a way, is that, is it because what we [00:24:00] need to do is learn how to. Release what, whatever the negative thing was from our moms, was it their trauma or the way they treated us as you say, it doesn't have to be forgiving, but it has to be recognizing and maybe through seeing where it comes from, just releasing it, you know, I've, I've, it's funny.

 

I went through this with my dad and partially with my mom, but when my mom passed away, my dad, I don't know what happened to him. He suddenly turned in. It felt like he turned into my enemy. He, he just, instead of being there for me, then I was an only child and don't have any other family. And he was the only person that was out there that still, I feel like he should have been supporting me through this.

 

He suddenly turned into this person like a stranger who was against me. And I didn't speak to him for, I mean, after all the courts and [00:25:00] lawyers and most awful experiences, I didn't speak to him for a year. But then, then I decided for myself that. That's not what I want. You know I know what he did to me. I recognize it. It's there. The pain won't disappear. The, the feeling of betrayal won't disappear, but I do not want to be a person who doesn't speak to her father I want my son to have his grandfather and I've learned for myself and I'm very proud for that to compartmentalize, or what is the word in English, you know, to just put this feeling into its own place and say, this is give it a ribbon and say, this is what it is, but I still want to have a father in my life and a grandfather in my son's life. And, and it was a huge learning experience to create boundaries and self-defense and know how close to let certain people to you, you know, [00:26:00] where to just raise the wall and be like, this is how far you are in my life. You're my dad, but this is how far you can come.

 

Risa: Yes. Raise that wall. And you point to such, a poignant and painful thing. And I'm so sorry that happened to you, that those layers of complex trauma around your mother's death that's fucking sucks.

 

Ana: Oh, man. It really, it was, it was it really sucked that, that part, it was hard enough dealing with losing her and losing her so quickly. But then dealing with that, I felt like I really felt like somebody tore the skin of my body and I was lying wounded without skin on the floor. And he came and started punching me with his feet.

 

This is how I felt like I was really like, you're supposed to give me a hand and protect me and not in this worst month. But anyway, Yeah.

 

Risa: And you point to you, point to something [00:27:00] that I think is so core to this is that the, the mother trauma, is twisted and tied up in the father wound too. Right? It's all this shit that patriarchy did to women it did to men too did it to them, to. It's a violence that it took from them too, that it made them. You know, suffer also and put that suffering on their, on their children.

 

Ana: Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Yeah,

 

Risa: yeah. Yeah. I didn't mean to diminish what you said, because I've had very powerful experiences in the same way of like choosing a forgiveness that was for me and wasn't for that.

 

Exactly. Yeah. Um, but I also, yeah, I wanted to say it out loud because I do know there's people in our coven, people who listen to people in the world, close friends of mine for whom the mother trauma you know, it's at the level of abuse. [00:28:00] It's at the level of such pain that it's like

 

Ana: but I think what I'm trying to say, spit that poison out. You might find that poison in your body, in your being and the pain and spit it out in whatever shape or form you find it useful, like you decide or works for you, but maybe more than forgiveness. It's. Spit it out, throw it like, whoa, get rid of it. Yes.

 

Risa: Yes. And like you said, put that, put that wall that maybe it's a container, you know, for me there was some container magic involved or there was, you know, there was some freezer magic involved. There was some burying of things with seeds that, you know, there was also some like drawing out of like, what do I choose to keep from that experience

 

Ana: Burning for me, burning burning helps a lot. Fire helps a lot for that kind of cleansing. Yes.

 

Risa: Yes you are [00:29:00] a Witch.

 

Ana: Discovering little by little day by day.

 

Risa: Yeah. All of us, all of us are discovering. Can you tell us, take us down like memory lane, maybe, uh, take us on a memory journey of some of the moments in your interviews that were the most profound for you.

 

Ana: Well, I already mentioned that lady who just, she said, I couldn't be in the same root word. My mom, since I was born, you know? Wow. There was some bad energy there. They never, they just never got along. And then she told me how. COVID happen. And her mom was in her eighties and she was 69 and suddenly they were kind of in a similar situation of being the high risk group and very [00:30:00] nervous about, you know, what is going to happen if they're going to die from this.

 

And they started zooming everyday. Just to check on each other and see how the other one is doing. And they shared this fear. And little by little day by day, they started talking more and more and they found a way to each other. It was amazing listening to this story.

 

And then when everything was over and they had a group reunion, this is where that hug happened, where for the first time in their lives, they hugged. And listening to that, I, I cried. I also had, just my last interview is a book author who in her twenties remembered that she was sexually abused by her mother's father and her mother would not have any of it. Instead of supporting her her mother got very angry that, [00:31:00] you know, she's doing this to the family and to her father and... this is one of these interviews where I listened to this, both having my mom as my mom and being a mother, just my, my brain, this information can't land anywhere in my brain that a mother wouldn't support her daughter in that.

 

The good thing is Laura started writing about, she went through therapy and started writing about it and wrote a book about it. And this book reached millions. She sold millions of copies and reached millions and millions of women who were in the similar situation and help them, you know, she started doing workshops and obviously she helped other people with same experiences.

 

But her modern, never, no matter what happened from mother, never accepted that this was the truth. And in spite of that, Laura took care of her when she was old and dying and she was there and [00:32:00] they somehow, they somehow found each other, you know, that was deeply touching. And then on the inspiration, very positive side, I, this might be my favorite interview and I keep talking about it all the time.

 

I interviewed a doctor in molecular biology whose mom grew up in Turkey, on a farm in Turkey. And she as a girl was not allowed to go to school or get any kind of education and so she was completely illiterate and she had three daughters, which in Turkey, on a farm is not considered a big achievement, maybe even a burden.

 

This Mom. Somehow managed to gently and lovingly support these three daughters and gently push them. And this is the beautiful thing. Listening to my guest, explain how gentle, these pushes and supports were from this [00:33:00] mom, to the extent where she would ask neighbors to help the girls with a homework, because she wasn't able to, she was illiterate.

 

Two of the girls now have PhDs. One is a lawyer in the UK. My guest, as I mentioned, has a PhD in molecular biology and that was just an amazing story. That was the, the, the beautiful, positive. This is exactly that nurturing, loving, supporting energy that I think the world's needs right now.

 

Risa: Oh! Yes. What a world changing power.

 

Ana: You know, it was so funny when I was, I have a corporate history. I did an MBA and spend many, many, many, too many years in corporate life. I was an international marketing, . Uh, professional. Strategies for different markets. And [00:34:00] anyway, my company invited two Scandinavian futurists is talking about future of business and management. And it was a very big symposium taking place in a, in a beautiful, Theater here in Vienna and this tool dude's dressed in black and shaved heads with their glasses. And they were telling us about the future of business and you know, this whole blah.

 

And then they throw a question in the audience and they said that they asked us, what do we think the managers of the future would be like? And I got up and said, mothers. And I think that was the moment where it was clear to me by the silence from the audience and the dudes on the stage. It was clear to me that I need to resign.

 

This is not a world for me. You know, bed moment was so clear to me that. This is [00:35:00] completely wrong and it needs to change it just as a, as I said, mothers, you know, it was clear to me that. That's what needs to happen.

 

Risa: Yep. And you're, I mean, I think all the research backs you up, right? I was just reading research about, the most effective new hires in police departments the ones that have the best success rate at solving cases at resolving situations without violence. Uh, building community connections. They are mothers. They are women who are later in their career. They have like raised some kids, and now they're doing this out of a commitment to their community. Policing is pretty fucked as an institution, but when, when people are trying to get it right, they are trying to hire, you know, generally like black women, who've already raised kids. And that's the thing that's making the biggest impact in communities. Is it enough to save the institution of policing? I, you know, I don't [00:36:00] know, but I think you're right that we need. Mother energy and intelligence.

 

Ana: Nurturing and nurturing and connecting. Somebody who unifies and connects.

 

Risa: Yeah. I will, um, open it up. If anybody who is here wants to say hi, ask a question, just share a response. It's so nice to have you here in person. So feel free to just go ahead and unmute.

 

Coven 1: Is it okay if I just sort of respond a little bit?

 

Risa: Of course.

 

Coven 1: I'm Zoe and I am a Witch from Western Australia, currently working on a mine site driving dump trucks.

 

I've had to delve deep into a lot of psychological and spiritual healing that went back many generations on both sides of my family.

 

Like Anna [00:37:00] was saying coming to a place of understanding and forgiveness. Is

 

something that's

 

definitely come in time. Like for me you know, I'm 31 and it's been a journey to get to there. I think as witches, we are self appointed to break, those traumatic cycles we are often the black sheep of the family. It's a solitude, lone Wolf kind of practice. And we do a lot of healing for a lot of other people. And that comes from that divine, feminine energy that we're talking about. And it's yeah, just to do with healing, all of the trauma that has come before. All of the other women and the men.

 

And, I think I'm in a good place with my mum now, but we can't live under the same roof. [00:38:00]

 

Risa: Same..

 

Coven 1: Thanks for letting me chime in.

 

Risa: that's what's special about, being in the coven and, and for us being able to have you here is there's, it's a prism you know, as you say, this practice or this identity can be so solitary. So. It's a relief to get, to hear each other's voices and hear my own thinking drawn out and reflected. And yeah, it's a, it's a support. So

 

thank you for being here.

 

Coven 1: Thank you so much for having me

 

Risa: CAS.

 

How are you doing with all this?

 

There's a lot. There's a lot of stuff in here, especially as a mom.

 

Coven 2: This was such an emotional topic for me. Been sitting here like. Tears in my eyes because, well, first of all, Ana, thank you so much for this conversation I'm a stay at [00:39:00] home mom and I hold a lot of privilege with that under capitalism. I also questioned my worth.

 

However as I'm sitting here and we're talking about what didn't we learn from our mothers and honoring that generational trauma and with everything that's happened this morning,

 

I'm just holding space for the work that I do. For my family, with my own family, I've ended up becoming my mother's mother and my grandmother's mother. And as my husband is learning how to hold emotions. I'm holding space to mother him and I mother,

 

my children. I feel really powerful in my tears right now. Would it be alright if I speak my [00:40:00] great great-grandmother and my grandmother and their names

 

Risa: right now. Yes.

 

Thank you.

 

Coven 2: Elizabeth. Rose..

 

Linda Tammy. Cassandra..

 

Risa: I hope in this litany of names, you also hear reflected listener the names of the women, the DNA lines, the deep timelines that connect us to each other, these complicated, painful memories. Especially on today when we're reminded again, of all the people who don't get to make this choice and all the people who've brought us here and made infinite choices along the way, and all the people hoping desperately to get us safely to tomorrow.

 

Ana: thank you to Zoe and thank you to [00:41:00] Cassandra. I am, I am in tears and I'm very deeply touched because they were so touched with our conversation. Um, I have something I would like to share with Cassandra.

 

It just lights went off in my head when I heard her talk, one of the most important things I've learned from this hundred something interviews again from mothers everywhere and every shape and form and every situation and every circumstance. When I ask women, what do you wish your mom had taught you?

 

One of the three things that always comes up is self care. And I know it became more of a very cliche word, but hearing Cassandra mothering, her children and her husband and herself, I just want to throw it out there. Cassandra, please mother yourself as well, [00:42:00] because you, you, you have to, you have to mother yourself so that you can mother all of these other people around you.

 

And I know where you come from. I feel like I have two children, although officially I have only one I'm I'm mothering them both and, and it's beautiful. and awarding, but it can be depleting as well. And yes, healthy boundaries as well.

 

Just be there for yourself as well. Not only for everybody else.

 

Risa: So in that spirit, can I ask you Ana. Would you draw on all of these voices that you've heard and maybe as a, as a closing moment for us here today. Can you speak in a collective mother voice, or maybe it's your own mother voice and offer us listeners a little piece of [00:43:00] motherly wisdom, a little piece of that nurturing that we can carry with us in our hearts this week and this year, and going forward, that's a big question, but I feel like you can do it. you're a witch from an island of women who dressed in black and took care of things,

 

Ana: I can definitely, I can improvise and I want to connect to what I just said to Cassandra, which is.

 

Just love yourself, you know, love yourself and love this life. It's one life that we have and it's short and it's beautiful. And it's so magical. The fact that we. Can be here on this planet and look at this beautiful full blue sky or your beautiful foggy forests and put our feet in the grass and feel the ground and breathing and hear the birds, twitter in our ears.

 

It's magical. And we should just appreciate it. And. Feel how amazing we are. This is, this is I think the most important thing I've learned from the mothers around the world is [00:44:00] how powerful, how unique, how amazing in our uniqueness, how strong we are and how connected we are. And. We should just celebrate it.

 

We should share this love and kindness with everybody around us and stay strong because tough times come and challenges come, but we can do that. We're strong enough and just pass on all this joy and love. And I think that's, that's what I feel I want to share.

 

Risa: Thank you for that. I will replay that when I need to hear it.

 

And thank you for being here. Ana, it's so nice to get, to spend time with you. I love the way you think it was such a pleasure to get to talk to you on your podcasts about Amy's and my moms. And so nice to get a little glimpse of your [00:45:00] magical mom. I feel really lucky to have this conversation with you.

 

So thank you.

 

Ana: Thank you so much for having me and thank you to Zoe and Cassandra for joining us.

 

Risa: Thank you to the coven who's here and the coven we make in the dark between our ears. We love you so much. You know, you have Canadian aunties up here whenever you need us. And I think a Croatian aunty, I'm going to include Ana in this great circle of protection we make for you.

 

If you need to get the fuck out of America or whatever,

 

we love you guys blessed fucking be.

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]]> WF Ana Tajder: Mother Wisdom and Mother Wounds ana tajder 00:47:09 With Ana Tajder of the Thank You, Mama podcast we dig into stories of mother wisdom and mother wounds. And Ana tells us stories of her own mother and the small Croatian island both she and her mother spend their summers on, and its tradition of witchcraft and feminine power. "Once the men left, the women dressed in black and took over everything." Note: for the first time we are able to provide a full, proper transcript for a Witches Found episode! If you know anyone who would like to connect with our podcast and community for whom the transcript makes it possible, please share! And we'll do our best to provide more and more of these, we're so excited about it. "Ana is an award-winning author, journalist and the host of “Thank You, Mama," where she interviews women from around the world about the most important lessons they have learned from their mothers." With Ana Tajder of the Thank You, Mama podcast we dig into stories of mother wisdom and mother wounds. And Ana tells us stories of her own mother and the small Croatian island both she and her mother spend their summers on, and its tradition of witchcraft and feminine power. "Once the men left, the women dressed in black and took over everything." Note: for the first time we are able to provide a full, proper transcript for a Witches Found episode! If you know anyone who would like to connect with our podcast and community for whom the transcript makes it possible, please share! And we'll do our best to provide more and more of these, we're so excited about it. "Ana is an award-winning author, journalist and the host of “Thank You, Mama," where she interviews women from around the world about the most important lessons they have learned from their mothers." divine mother, mother's day, missing witches, femme, mother wound true full 141 186e1049-cc62-4ab5-a199-d0278b0bfbdb You are Horse Kin Meditation Mon, 9 May 2022 09:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/you-are-horse-kin-meditation-yZUKgiqV You are Horse Kin Meditation Missing Witches 00:12:50 Maybe young women love horses because they can relate. Because they can be safe with each other, and ride together with wind in their manes, collaborating to temporarily escape forced domesticity or worse. But think on this: the head of an equine herd in the wild is an older mare, not a stallion. The lead mare is unambiguous in her communication, has the trust of other members of the herd, and, while her behaviour may not always win her friends, she is always respected. You are horse kin. Maybe young women love horses because they can relate. Because they can be safe with each other, and ride together with wind in their manes, collaborating to temporarily escape forced domesticity or worse. But think on this: the head of an equine herd in the wild is an older mare, not a stallion. The lead mare is unambiguous in her communication, has the trust of other members of the herd, and, while her behaviour may not always win her friends, she is always respected. You are horse kin. true full 140 0a2daafd-5498-4820-91b0-1448806aeda7 WF Asha Frost: You Are The Medicine https://ashafrost.com/

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]]> Thu, 5 May 2022 09:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/wf-asha-frost-you-are-the-medicine-bDBH9WH6 https://ashafrost.com/

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]]> WF Asha Frost: You Are The Medicine Missing Witches 00:42:59 In today's episode we're chatting with Asha Frost, author of You Are The Medicine and self-proclaimed 'peaceful warrior'. We talk about appropriation, extraction, chronic illness, feeling worthy and unworthy, animals in the moon. Asha says, "conversations around the harm of appropriation are vital for true reconciliation, equity and healing." In today's episode we're chatting with Asha Frost, author of You Are The Medicine and self-proclaimed 'peaceful warrior'. We talk about appropriation, extraction, chronic illness, feeling worthy and unworthy, animals in the moon. Asha says, "conversations around the harm of appropriation are vital for true reconciliation, equity and healing." true full 139 653e02ed-cf68-4c5d-8893-ef2ac2cc1ab9 Beltane 2022 Panel and FUNDRAISER: Kinship w Margaret Robinson PhD, Granddaughter Crow, Dr. Zoe Todd and Chrystal Toop https://www.granddaughtercrow.com/index.html

https://zoesctodd.wordpress.com/

https://umanitoba.ca/faculties/social_work/media/v6i1-02_legge_robinson.pdf

http://www.blackbirdmedicines.ca/

https://www.ogimakwe.com/

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]]> Sun, 1 May 2022 09:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/beltane-2022-panel-and-fundraiser-kinship-w-margaret-robinson-phd-granddaughter-crow-dr-zoe-todd-and-chrystal-toop-g4vcupcz https://www.granddaughtercrow.com/index.html

https://zoesctodd.wordpress.com/

https://umanitoba.ca/faculties/social_work/media/v6i1-02_legge_robinson.pdf

http://www.blackbirdmedicines.ca/

https://www.ogimakwe.com/

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]]> Beltane 2022 Panel and FUNDRAISER: Kinship w Margaret Robinson PhD, Granddaughter Crow, Dr. Zoe Todd and Chrystal Toop Missing Witches 01:34:57 HAPPY BELTANE!!! Welcome to the Missing Witches Beltane Special and FUNDRAISER 2022. This year, Indigenous researchers working on plant and animal collaboration in social work, medicine, and education join us to open a circle dedicated to kinship. With Margaret Robinson PhD, Granddaughter Crow, Dr. Zoe Todd and Chrystal Toop who join us in building the Beltane bonfire we create together to centre our connections, burn extraction, entitlement, burn capitalism, burn patriarchy and burn white supremacy. As Dr. Todd said, "we're here to undo the curses together." JOIN OUR FUNDRAISER - MAKE A REPARATION NOW!!! GIVE WHERE YOU LIVE. DONATE LOCALLY AND BE ENTERED TO WIN PRIZES!! HAPPY BELTANE!!! Welcome to the Missing Witches Beltane Special and FUNDRAISER 2022. This year, Indigenous researchers working on plant and animal collaboration in social work, medicine, and education join us to open a circle dedicated to kinship. With Margaret Robinson PhD, Granddaughter Crow, Dr. Zoe Todd and Chrystal Toop who join us in building the Beltane bonfire we create together to centre our connections, burn extraction, entitlement, burn capitalism, burn patriarchy and burn white supremacy. As Dr. Todd said, "we're here to undo the curses together." JOIN OUR FUNDRAISER - MAKE A REPARATION NOW!!! GIVE WHERE YOU LIVE. DONATE LOCALLY AND BE ENTERED TO WIN PRIZES!! true full 138 fdcd1b22-eca6-48b7-8d04-344d139d5a1e WF Edgar Fabián Frías: I'm Hopeful For The Magic We Are All Weaving...We Are Transforming Hierarchies https://www.edgarfabianfrias.org/

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]]> Thu, 28 Apr 2022 12:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/wf-edgar-fabian-frias-we-are-transforming-hierarchies-we-are-transforming-age-old-societal-structures-wBCb6beE https://www.edgarfabianfrias.org/

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]]> WF Edgar Fabián Frías: I'm Hopeful For The Magic We Are All Weaving...We Are Transforming Hierarchies Missing Witches 01:00:30 Edgar Fabián Frías returns to the podcast to fill Amy + Risa with hope about the ways art, magic, play, and even confusion can open up portals for us to hear our ancestors' voices and shift the world. "Edgar Fabián Frías works in installation, photography, video art, sound, sculpture, printed textiles, GIFs, performance, social practice, and community organizing, among other forms. Frías is Wixárika and their family is from Mexico, though they have lived in the United States for most of their life. Their art addresses historical legacies and acts of resistance, resiliency, and radical imagination within the context of Indigenous Futurism, spirituality, play, pedagogy, animism, and queer aesthetics. Weaving together the traditional and ancestral with the contemporaneous and emergent. Born in East Los Angeles in 1983, Frías received dual BA degrees in Psychology and Studio Art from the UC, Riverside. In 2013, they received an MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon, with an emphasis on Interpersonal Neurobiology and Somatic Psychotherapy. Frías is a 2022 candidate for an MFA in Art Practice at UC Berkeley. Their work has been exhibited internationally, including the Vincent Price Art Museum, Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco, Oregon Contemporary, MOCA Jacksonville, Performance is Alive, Project Space Festival Juárez, and ArtBo, among others. Their work has appeared in Cosmopolitan, Taschen, Bustle, Mashable, Slate, CVLT Nation, Terremoto, Hyperallergic, and other publications. They have been tokenizing single and limited editions of their artwork on the blockchain since 2020. Their digital editions can currently be found on Foundation, MakersPlace, Hic Et Nunc, and Rarible." Edgar Fabián Frías returns to the podcast to fill Amy + Risa with hope about the ways art, magic, play, and even confusion can open up portals for us to hear our ancestors' voices and shift the world. "Edgar Fabián Frías works in installation, photography, video art, sound, sculpture, printed textiles, GIFs, performance, social practice, and community organizing, among other forms. Frías is Wixárika and their family is from Mexico, though they have lived in the United States for most of their life. Their art addresses historical legacies and acts of resistance, resiliency, and radical imagination within the context of Indigenous Futurism, spirituality, play, pedagogy, animism, and queer aesthetics. Weaving together the traditional and ancestral with the contemporaneous and emergent. Born in East Los Angeles in 1983, Frías received dual BA degrees in Psychology and Studio Art from the UC, Riverside. In 2013, they received an MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon, with an emphasis on Interpersonal Neurobiology and Somatic Psychotherapy. Frías is a 2022 candidate for an MFA in Art Practice at UC Berkeley. Their work has been exhibited internationally, including the Vincent Price Art Museum, Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco, Oregon Contemporary, MOCA Jacksonville, Performance is Alive, Project Space Festival Juárez, and ArtBo, among others. Their work has appeared in Cosmopolitan, Taschen, Bustle, Mashable, Slate, CVLT Nation, Terremoto, Hyperallergic, and other publications. They have been tokenizing single and limited editions of their artwork on the blockchain since 2020. Their digital editions can currently be found on Foundation, MakersPlace, Hic Et Nunc, and Rarible." true full 137 6cbe8015-55ec-4b8c-9ea0-f5c89613d7ad You Are Bee Kin Meditation https://www.missingwitches.com/2022/04/25/you-are-bee-kin-meditation/

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]]> Mon, 25 Apr 2022 09:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/you-are-bee-kin-meditation-GG2GxJXi https://www.missingwitches.com/2022/04/25/you-are-bee-kin-meditation/

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]]> You Are Bee Kin Meditation Missing Witches 00:18:33 I want to talk about bees. They have been working all winter long, walking in formation, eating their stores and shivering to keep the center warm where the women sit who will bring their whole community back to life when its time. It’s almost time. But first I want to entreat you to listen to your room. And in your room, your breath. And beneath your breath, your heart. Place your hand on your heart or against your vulnerable throat to hear the bass line that is with you all the time. Let it begin to move you. Bring your awareness down to feel that internal rhythm in between your hips. Feel the curling serpent of your spine, flock of bones, song of nerve ending, and let them move like a reed in a stream running deep. Sway, just a little private Salome. Worship for a moment your own Bastet, dancing goddess of both pleasure and health; or Nataraja Shiva, divine cosmic dancer who manifested the universe through dance and who is honoured with a bronze statute of the dancing god at CERN, the Center for Research in Particle Physics. You are particle and swarm. You are dancing all the time. I want to talk about bees. They have been working all winter long, walking in formation, eating their stores and shivering to keep the center warm where the women sit who will bring their whole community back to life when its time. It’s almost time. But first I want to entreat you to listen to your room. And in your room, your breath. And beneath your breath, your heart. Place your hand on your heart or against your vulnerable throat to hear the bass line that is with you all the time. Let it begin to move you. Bring your awareness down to feel that internal rhythm in between your hips. Feel the curling serpent of your spine, flock of bones, song of nerve ending, and let them move like a reed in a stream running deep. Sway, just a little private Salome. Worship for a moment your own Bastet, dancing goddess of both pleasure and health; or Nataraja Shiva, divine cosmic dancer who manifested the universe through dance and who is honoured with a bronze statute of the dancing god at CERN, the Center for Research in Particle Physics. You are particle and swarm. You are dancing all the time. true full 136 2df51e3c-6c7b-45c5-88a1-eb687398dbff Thea Anderson: The Past Is Right Here, It's Pressing On Us http://theanichelle.com/astrologytarot

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]]> Thu, 21 Apr 2022 13:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/thea-anderson-the-past-is-right-here-its-pressing-on-us-Srppazui http://theanichelle.com/astrologytarot

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]]> Thea Anderson: The Past Is Right Here, It's Pressing On Us Missing Witches 01:05:29 Astrologer, writer, and director of programming at CHANI.app Thea Anderson returns to the podcast to take us deeper into her work using astrology to understand the past, especially the missing stories of the lives of enslaved people. She also shares her dream practice and a vision for the future. And the coven embraces true names and holy messes. Astrologer, writer, and director of programming at CHANI.app Thea Anderson returns to the podcast to take us deeper into her work using astrology to understand the past, especially the missing stories of the lives of enslaved people. She also shares her dream practice and a vision for the future. And the coven embraces true names and holy messes. stars, woods, jupiter, texas, slavery, history, astrology, brooklyn, sugar land, future, missing witches, harriet tubman true full 135 6bd1f673-f82b-4a48-a820-2ffcdd12f20c In The Grey Together: Step Into A New Moon Circle With The Missing Witches Coven https://www.instagram.com/yvonne_aburrow/

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]]> Mon, 18 Apr 2022 12:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/welcome-to-the-coven-new-moon-circle-with-the-missing-witches-coven-F9yw63i_ https://www.instagram.com/yvonne_aburrow/

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]]> In The Grey Together: Step Into A New Moon Circle With The Missing Witches Coven Missing Witches 01:21:53 Today we invite you into our monthly New Moon coven meeting. Our special guest Yvonne Aburrow — author of "All Acts of Love and Pleasure: Inclusive Wicca" and other brilliant books — opens and closes our circle, and we dig into questions of spiritual transition and making safe spaces for our changes, together. Some highlights: "Syncretism is a thing and people have been doing it for centuries so don't let anybody tell you you can't!" "I was the little girl in the bathroom making potions, talking with ghosts." "This is the first community that feels right because maybe we're all kinda in the grey together. I'm like whatever, I love the trees and I fucking do some spells sometimes!" Welcome home, wise ones! If you're interested in joining us, just know we'd love to have you. Today we invite you into our monthly New Moon coven meeting. Our special guest Yvonne Aburrow — author of "All Acts of Love and Pleasure: Inclusive Wicca" and other brilliant books — opens and closes our circle, and we dig into questions of spiritual transition and making safe spaces for our changes, together. Some highlights: "Syncretism is a thing and people have been doing it for centuries so don't let anybody tell you you can't!" "I was the little girl in the bathroom making potions, talking with ghosts." "This is the first community that feels right because maybe we're all kinda in the grey together. I'm like whatever, I love the trees and I fucking do some spells sometimes!" Welcome home, wise ones! If you're interested in joining us, just know we'd love to have you. true full 134 d83ab6e6-fc7d-4f29-94c2-264dddec46cf The Muse Is You: Listener Poetry Reading Special with Callie Little Thu, 14 Apr 2022 09:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/the-muse-is-you-listener-poetry-reading-special-with-callie-little-m5pCRYZC The Muse Is You: Listener Poetry Reading Special with Callie Little Missing Witches 01:21:29 Listener Poetry Reading Special!!!! We asked you to record your Witch poems and you did!! Amy is joined by Emotional Support Witch, Poet, Pocket Coven Podcast-er, Teacher of a class called "The Witch's Poem: Witchcraft as Muse and Mentor", Callie Little!! Their chat about poetry, witchcraft, and creativity is interwoven with poetry, written and read by members of the Missing Witches Coven. Callie doesn't believe in writer's block. So stick kettle on and unclog. "The muse is you." Listener Poetry Reading Special!!!! We asked you to record your Witch poems and you did!! Amy is joined by Emotional Support Witch, Poet, Pocket Coven Podcast-er, Teacher of a class called "The Witch's Poem: Witchcraft as Muse and Mentor", Callie Little!! Their chat about poetry, witchcraft, and creativity is interwoven with poetry, written and read by members of the Missing Witches Coven. Callie doesn't believe in writer's block. So stick kettle on and unclog. "The muse is you." true full 133 aa948db6-6ed0-4871-a02c-167236074d39 You Are Goose Kin Meditation https://www.missingwitches.com/2022/04/11/you-are-goose-kin-meditation/

https://www.billgosling.com/blog/5-things-geese-can-teach-you-about-teamwork

https://pages.vassar.edu/sensoryecology/canada-goose-vocalizations/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/04/25/canada-geese-attacks-population-aggressive/550135002/

https://pages.vassar.edu/sensoryecology/canada-goose-vocalizations/

https://freesound.org/people/Kinoton/sounds/423346/

https://freesound.org/people/ahill86/sounds/207122/

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]]> Mon, 11 Apr 2022 09:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/you-are-goose-kin-meditation-6a7dzqbx https://www.missingwitches.com/2022/04/11/you-are-goose-kin-meditation/

https://www.billgosling.com/blog/5-things-geese-can-teach-you-about-teamwork

https://pages.vassar.edu/sensoryecology/canada-goose-vocalizations/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/04/25/canada-geese-attacks-population-aggressive/550135002/

https://pages.vassar.edu/sensoryecology/canada-goose-vocalizations/

https://freesound.org/people/Kinoton/sounds/423346/

https://freesound.org/people/ahill86/sounds/207122/

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]]> You Are Goose Kin Meditation Missing Witches 00:11:05 Another Missing Witches Monday meditation, sidelong anti-capitalist motivation type thing. If you like this, sharing it with a friend means so much. Inspired by the returning of the Geese, Joni's Mitchell's music and Mary Oliver's poetry. Full text to this meditation is available on our website MissingWitches.com. Another Missing Witches Monday meditation, sidelong anti-capitalist motivation type thing. If you like this, sharing it with a friend means so much. Inspired by the returning of the Geese, Joni's Mitchell's music and Mary Oliver's poetry. Full text to this meditation is available on our website MissingWitches.com. true full 132 1e5f1849-588f-4acc-90ba-c9e198b54164 WF - Monefa Walker: In The Next 10 Years Everything Will Change https://monefawalker.co.uk/

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]]> WF - Monefa Walker: In The Next 10 Years Everything Will Change Missing Witches 01:16:50 Monefa Walker returns to the show to bring her no-bullshit approach to astrology, her joy in her neurodiversity, and her vast understanding of patterns — both geopolitical and celestial — to a frank conversation about war and the future. "Monefa is a classical pianist, composer, astrologer and coach. She is living in London and also studying French & Spanish at University. Monefa has found ways, to allow her neurodivergence flourish without shame, due to her extreme passion and focus on patterns. Patterns allow her to understand herself and thus, the world and everything in it and it's through this approach, that her creativity can be received, shared and reciprocated in the community." Monefa Walker returns to the show to bring her no-bullshit approach to astrology, her joy in her neurodiversity, and her vast understanding of patterns — both geopolitical and celestial — to a frank conversation about war and the future. "Monefa is a classical pianist, composer, astrologer and coach. She is living in London and also studying French & Spanish at University. Monefa has found ways, to allow her neurodivergence flourish without shame, due to her extreme passion and focus on patterns. Patterns allow her to understand herself and thus, the world and everything in it and it's through this approach, that her creativity can be received, shared and reciprocated in the community." russia, witches, astrology, climate, ukraine, missing witches, politics true full 131 80bd8802-4dd6-4223-833e-f4045b1b0898 You Are Acanthis Kin Meditation Written, performed and recorded by Risa Dickens with music and original sound design by Amy Torok.

https://www.missingwitches.com/2021/04/04/86-mw-terry-tempest-williams-a-pencil-is-a-wand-and-a-weapon/

https://topostext.org/work/216

Thomas Halliday - Otherlands https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/612030/otherlands-by-thomas-halliday/

https://www.jstor.org/stable/26453831

https://mitpress.mit.edu/blog/bird%E2%80%99s-eye-view-human-language-and-evolution

Terry Tempest Williams - When Women Were Birds - https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250024114/whenwomenwerebirds

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/massive-genetic-effort-confirms-bird-songs-related-to-human-speech

https://freesound.org/people/chris_dagorne/sounds/425315/

 

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]]> Mon, 4 Apr 2022 12:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/acanthis-kin-meditation-dQJ4Mtqv Written, performed and recorded by Risa Dickens with music and original sound design by Amy Torok.

https://www.missingwitches.com/2021/04/04/86-mw-terry-tempest-williams-a-pencil-is-a-wand-and-a-weapon/

https://topostext.org/work/216

Thomas Halliday - Otherlands https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/612030/otherlands-by-thomas-halliday/

https://www.jstor.org/stable/26453831

https://mitpress.mit.edu/blog/bird%E2%80%99s-eye-view-human-language-and-evolution

Terry Tempest Williams - When Women Were Birds - https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250024114/whenwomenwerebirds

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/massive-genetic-effort-confirms-bird-songs-related-to-human-speech

https://freesound.org/people/chris_dagorne/sounds/425315/

 

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]]> You Are Acanthis Kin Meditation Missing Witches 00:13:05 Another Missing Witches Monday meditation, sidelong anti-capitalist motivation type thing. If you like this, sharing it with a friend means so much. Inspired by the Redpolls that have arrived, by migrants everywhere, by the songbirds in our genes, and by Terry Tempest Williams. Listen to Amy's beautiful episode on Terry Tempest Williams, ep 84 on the podcast. Links to works cited are below. Full text to this meditation is available on MissingWitches.com. Another Missing Witches Monday meditation, sidelong anti-capitalist motivation type thing. If you like this, sharing it with a friend means so much. Inspired by the Redpolls that have arrived, by migrants everywhere, by the songbirds in our genes, and by Terry Tempest Williams. Listen to Amy's beautiful episode on Terry Tempest Williams, ep 84 on the podcast. Links to works cited are below. Full text to this meditation is available on MissingWitches.com. ecofeminism, animism, incantation, kinship, myth, motivation, birds, ecospirituality, meditation, songbirds true full 130 4405d690-b957-4b61-ad90-bd95d3d518bf WF - Judy Grahn: Our Bonding Is What Makes A Revolution Happen judygrahn.org

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]]> Thu, 31 Mar 2022 09:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/wf-judy-grahn-our-bonding-is-what-makes-a-revolution-happen-NxudFBJL judygrahn.org

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]]> WF - Judy Grahn: Our Bonding Is What Makes A Revolution Happen Missing Witches 01:12:06 Today we're joined by prolific ICON of Lesbian/Queer visibility and feminism, author, poet, researcher, speaker, teacher, philosopher, visionary Judy Grahn. Together we discuss "the mystery we call history". "We live in our symbols and our stories."Judy's academic and activist roots led her to investigate how women contributed to culture and she produced (among MANY other works) the book Blood, Bread and Roses: How Menstruation Created The World. "All the different genders, we all play our parts," she says. But dropping shame "we don't have to see menstruation as 'the curse'." We can celebrate it and see it as a connection to our ancestors, to our earliest rituals, to the moon, to the soil, to our planet and to each other. I ask her how those of us for whom menstruation equals abject suffering can also make these connections. Judy talks about activism and art, her household collective in the 60s and 70s, where by rule each woman had a room of their own, that provided roots and a foundation for her work. "You have to listen to each other" - "get our heads out of the sand." What are the steps I can take?" she asks us to ask ourselves. But reassuringly continues "The steps will feel small but they add up." She says, "our bonding is what makes a revolution happen." "This is Earth centred - we don't care if they want to rocket off to Mars. Goodbye." Inspired by her experiences of disenfranchisement as a butch lesbian, Judy became a feminist poet, highly-regarded in underground circles before achieving public fame. A major influence in her work is Metaformic Theory, tracing the roots of modern culture back to ancient menstrual rites, though she does not regard the philosophy as exclusively feminist. At age 81, Judy still teaches women's mythology and ancient literature. She continues to produce, to publish books, so the list below is far from complete. But the next one I'm buying is Eruptions of Inanna: Justice, Gender, and Erotic Power. "Write your ideas down," she advises. "Don't be afraid of them!" Today we're joined by prolific ICON of Lesbian/Queer visibility and feminism, author, poet, researcher, speaker, teacher, philosopher, visionary Judy Grahn. Together we discuss "the mystery we call history". "We live in our symbols and our stories."Judy's academic and activist roots led her to investigate how women contributed to culture and she produced (among MANY other works) the book Blood, Bread and Roses: How Menstruation Created The World. "All the different genders, we all play our parts," she says. But dropping shame "we don't have to see menstruation as 'the curse'." We can celebrate it and see it as a connection to our ancestors, to our earliest rituals, to the moon, to the soil, to our planet and to each other. I ask her how those of us for whom menstruation equals abject suffering can also make these connections. Judy talks about activism and art, her household collective in the 60s and 70s, where by rule each woman had a room of their own, that provided roots and a foundation for her work. "You have to listen to each other" - "get our heads out of the sand." What are the steps I can take?" she asks us to ask ourselves. But reassuringly continues "The steps will feel small but they add up." She says, "our bonding is what makes a revolution happen." "This is Earth centred - we don't care if they want to rocket off to Mars. Goodbye." Inspired by her experiences of disenfranchisement as a butch lesbian, Judy became a feminist poet, highly-regarded in underground circles before achieving public fame. A major influence in her work is Metaformic Theory, tracing the roots of modern culture back to ancient menstrual rites, though she does not regard the philosophy as exclusively feminist. At age 81, Judy still teaches women's mythology and ancient literature. She continues to produce, to publish books, so the list below is far from complete. But the next one I'm buying is Eruptions of Inanna: Justice, Gender, and Erotic Power. "Write your ideas down," she advises. "Don't be afraid of them!" true full 129 a09c77a8-fe0f-4ba1-b566-5b5df2ce7dbe You Are Willow Kin Meditation The full text is available on http://www.missingwitches.com

Written and performed by Risa Dickens, with audio by Amy Torok. 

With additional audio from: https://freesound.org/people/chris_dagorne/sounds/425315/

Mayumi Oda:

https://mayumioda.net/products/willow-kannon?_pos=2&_sid=6186a7d3c&_ss=r

 

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> Mon, 28 Mar 2022 12:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/willow-kin-meditation-X1g_h0qk The full text is available on http://www.missingwitches.com

Written and performed by Risa Dickens, with audio by Amy Torok. 

With additional audio from: https://freesound.org/people/chris_dagorne/sounds/425315/

Mayumi Oda:

https://mayumioda.net/products/willow-kannon?_pos=2&_sid=6186a7d3c&_ss=r

 

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

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]]> You Are Willow Kin Meditation Missing Witches 00:08:33 A new offering for Spring: A Missing Witches meditation, incantation, sidelong anti-capitalist motivation type thing. This one is inspired by the Japanese Willow in Risa's garden, a Mayumi Oda Painting called Willow Kannon, and by the fierce and gentle strength of you. A new offering for Spring: A Missing Witches meditation, incantation, sidelong anti-capitalist motivation type thing. This one is inspired by the Japanese Willow in Risa's garden, a Mayumi Oda Painting called Willow Kannon, and by the fierce and gentle strength of you. true full 128 f9f5c67b-416e-4ee9-9ca8-31ec530fcfc8 WF - Crossroads Are Portals Into Witchcraft: Kristin Lisenby and Kate Belew Episode Page

Kate Belew

Kristin Lisenby

Magick & Alchemy Podcast

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]]> Thu, 24 Mar 2022 09:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/wf-crossroads-are-portals-into-witchcraft-kristin-lisenby-and-katebelew-y1SEBEz_ Episode Page

Kate Belew

Kristin Lisenby

Magick & Alchemy Podcast

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]]> WF - Crossroads Are Portals Into Witchcraft: Kristin Lisenby and Kate Belew Missing Witches 01:00:39 In this episode we sat down with our new bestie Witch Team: Kate and Kristin from the Magick & Alchemy Podcast by Tamed Wild. We explored our ways into and through our magic. We are Word Witches, Dirt Witches, Sonic Witches, City Mice and Country Mice seeking guides wherever we look. Goats, rats, eggs, plants, stars. We are all Poets. From the streets of Manhattan to the Azores Islands in Portugal, we can feel St Elmo's fire burning in us. In this episode we sat down with our new bestie Witch Team: Kate and Kristin from the Magick & Alchemy Podcast by Tamed Wild. We explored our ways into and through our magic. We are Word Witches, Dirt Witches, Sonic Witches, City Mice and Country Mice seeking guides wherever we look. Goats, rats, eggs, plants, stars. We are all Poets. From the streets of Manhattan to the Azores Islands in Portugal, we can feel St Elmo's fire burning in us. true full 127 8d815330-1aeb-4d1a-90a8-6484e00431a5 Ostara Special! Neurodivergence and New Worlds: Breathe Together Lucy Pearce

http://www.lucyhpearce.com

Marcella Kroll

https://www.marcellakroll.com

Sarah Sellman

http://www.sarahsellman.comhttps://thirdspacecollective.org/

Apuksɨkn Lynx (she/they)

http://www.amour-lynx.art/

Julie Nowak

https://seasonalbody.org/

 


 

 

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]]> Sun, 20 Mar 2022 12:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/ostara-special-neurodivergence-and-new-worlds-breathe-together-abt2MUxf Lucy Pearce

http://www.lucyhpearce.com

Marcella Kroll

https://www.marcellakroll.com

Sarah Sellman

http://www.sarahsellman.comhttps://thirdspacecollective.org/

Apuksɨkn Lynx (she/they)

http://www.amour-lynx.art/

Julie Nowak

https://seasonalbody.org/

 


 

 

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> Ostara Special! Neurodivergence and New Worlds: Breathe Together Missing Witches 01:24:31 For this special episode we invite you to join a circle of powerful neurodivergent Witches as we call in together new ways of looking at the mind, of crafting the human, of approaching community-building and peace, and re-enchanting the world. NOTE: You can find this transcript from the closed captioning for this event on our website: MissingWitches.com For this special episode we invite you to join a circle of powerful neurodivergent Witches as we call in together new ways of looking at the mind, of crafting the human, of approaching community-building and peace, and re-enchanting the world. NOTE: You can find this transcript from the closed captioning for this event on our website: MissingWitches.com true full 126 84d6fdbe-06c9-4dd9-8ddf-7e147a3e14e7 WF - Gemica Rosenberg: Poetry Is the Only Thing That Makes Me Feel Like I Am A Witch https://www.missingwitches.com/2022/03/17/ep-125-wf-gemica-rosenberg-poetry-is-the-only-thing-that-makes-me-feel-like-i-am-a-witch/

https://www.gemrosenberg.com/

https://freewitch.square.site/product/sticks-stones-by-gemica-rosenberg-/44?cs=true&cst=custom

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> Thu, 17 Mar 2022 09:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/wf-gemica-rosenberg-poetry-is-the-only-thing-that-makes-me-feel-like-i-am-a-witch-iKizLEtF https://www.missingwitches.com/2022/03/17/ep-125-wf-gemica-rosenberg-poetry-is-the-only-thing-that-makes-me-feel-like-i-am-a-witch/

https://www.gemrosenberg.com/

https://freewitch.square.site/product/sticks-stones-by-gemica-rosenberg-/44?cs=true&cst=custom

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> WF - Gemica Rosenberg: Poetry Is the Only Thing That Makes Me Feel Like I Am A Witch Missing Witches 00:45:52 In this episode, we sat down with EcoFeminist Witch Poet Gemica Rosenberg to talk about her new poetry book "Sticks, Stones". (published through a tiny independent woman run press called Free Witch Press!!!). She has described Sticks, Stones as an ecofeminist memento mori, but it is so much more than just that. She's looking at her relationship to craft, science, self, humans, animals and the earth as well as a spiritual connection to her past life as a writer and chaneller and collager of written and visual content. We talk about the idea of Possibility, Erosion, the ritual of writing and the witchcraft of poetry. She says "acknowledgement is the first step in resistance and I feel like that's what poetry does." In this episode, we sat down with EcoFeminist Witch Poet Gemica Rosenberg to talk about her new poetry book "Sticks, Stones". (published through a tiny independent woman run press called Free Witch Press!!!). She has described Sticks, Stones as an ecofeminist memento mori, but it is so much more than just that. She's looking at her relationship to craft, science, self, humans, animals and the earth as well as a spiritual connection to her past life as a writer and chaneller and collager of written and visual content. We talk about the idea of Possibility, Erosion, the ritual of writing and the witchcraft of poetry. She says "acknowledgement is the first step in resistance and I feel like that's what poetry does." true full 125 c6e84d17-d298-498c-ac01-4a9b0d586c59 WF - Charlie Watts, Aura Weaver: It's All Weaving, Everything's Weaving https://www.auraweaver.com/

https://charlottewattsphotography.com/

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

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]]> Thu, 10 Mar 2022 14:05:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/wf-charlie-watts-aura-weaver-its-all-weaving-everythings-weaving-8RBoliYX https://www.auraweaver.com/

https://charlottewattsphotography.com/

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

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]]> WF - Charlie Watts, Aura Weaver: It's All Weaving, Everything's Weaving Missing Witches 01:07:42 Occupational Therapist, Artist, Doula, Aura Photographer, Neurodivergent Witch, and utter delight Charlie Watts joins the circle this week. Charlie, her partner Judah, and their AuraCam 6000 have taken over 8000 aura photographs since beginning their practice together, and she brings to our circle stories of the brilliant colours we all carry with us. Her current research while completing a Doctorate in Occupational Therapy brings her into spaces that support highly sensitive kids, and into the fight for safety and justice for birthing people in Georgia. Our coven comes with questions about parenting and about the focus on "independence" in OT, and we are reminded again about the power in our interdependence, in our inter-weaving. It's all weaving. "I come from a lineage of colour-seeing psychics...I had a near-death experience when I was ten, and that's when things got really weird for me, in a beautiful way." Occupational Therapist, Artist, Doula, Aura Photographer, Neurodivergent Witch, and utter delight Charlie Watts joins the circle this week. Charlie, her partner Judah, and their AuraCam 6000 have taken over 8000 aura photographs since beginning their practice together, and she brings to our circle stories of the brilliant colours we all carry with us. Her current research while completing a Doctorate in Occupational Therapy brings her into spaces that support highly sensitive kids, and into the fight for safety and justice for birthing people in Georgia. Our coven comes with questions about parenting and about the focus on "independence" in OT, and we are reminded again about the power in our interdependence, in our inter-weaving. It's all weaving. "I come from a lineage of colour-seeing psychics...I had a near-death experience when I was ten, and that's when things got really weird for me, in a beautiful way." witches, neurdivergence, adhd, spirituality, occupational therapy, aura, near death, missing witches, witchcraft true full 124 1a05d39c-ff91-4b2e-b807-f09d11a6b324 WF - Christena Cleveland: GOD IS A BLACK WOMAN www.christenacleveland.com

BUY GOD IS A BLACK WOMAN NOW

https://www.missingwitches.com/2022/03/03/ep-123-wf-christena-cleveland-god-is-a-black-woman/

 

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]]> Thu, 3 Mar 2022 10:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/wf-christena-cleveland-god-is-a-black-woman-Ckrf6fkC www.christenacleveland.com

BUY GOD IS A BLACK WOMAN NOW

https://www.missingwitches.com/2022/03/03/ep-123-wf-christena-cleveland-god-is-a-black-woman/

 

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

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]]> WF - Christena Cleveland: GOD IS A BLACK WOMAN Missing Witches 01:03:55 We sat down in the anointing glow of Christena Cleveland's light to chat about her new book God Is A Black Woman. "We are all healing from religious trauma," she says. But we are all sacred and we can imagine a God who welcomes our messiness. "My mess is my sacred offering to her." We sat down in the anointing glow of Christena Cleveland's light to chat about her new book God Is A Black Woman. "We are all healing from religious trauma," she says. But we are all sacred and we can imagine a God who welcomes our messiness. "My mess is my sacred offering to her." true full 123 cfc3e925-fd5f-4560-b2bc-4c7abea7a3d2 WF - Black Witch Council for Black History 2022 Please check out and support the work of our guests:

Caress

Dr Bev

Dr Chireau

Nadra

Kenya

Zoe

Marcelittle

https://www.missingwitches.com/2022/02/24/ep-122-wf-black-witch-council-for-black-history-2022/

Previous episodes with these panelists:

https://www.missingwitches.com/2020/06/19/juneteenth-with-caress-scarbrough-lindsay-braynen-and-monefa-walker/

https://www.missingwitches.com/2020/09/30/wf-yvonne-chireau-black-magic/

https://www.missingwitches.com/2020/10/21/ep-70-wf-kenya-coviak-conjuring-detroit/

https://www.missingwitches.com/2021/03/24/81-dr-beverly-smith-anything-that-we-do-to-help-each-other-is-resistance/

https://www.missingwitches.com/2021/10/06/ep-102-wf-zoe-flowers-you-should-be-afraid-of-women-like-us/

https://www.missingwitches.com/2021/10/24/ep-107-nadra-nittle-on-toni-morrisons-spiritual-vision/

https://www.missingwitches.com/2021/11/25/ep-111-wf-marcelitte-failla-black-witch-as-we-heal-our-ancestors-trauma-we-heal-ourselves/

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

https://www.missingwitches.com/join-the-coven/

 

]]> Thu, 24 Feb 2022 12:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/wf-black-witch-council-for-black-history-2022-5csRqiro Please check out and support the work of our guests:

Caress

Dr Bev

Dr Chireau

Nadra

Kenya

Zoe

Marcelittle

https://www.missingwitches.com/2022/02/24/ep-122-wf-black-witch-council-for-black-history-2022/

Previous episodes with these panelists:

https://www.missingwitches.com/2020/06/19/juneteenth-with-caress-scarbrough-lindsay-braynen-and-monefa-walker/

https://www.missingwitches.com/2020/09/30/wf-yvonne-chireau-black-magic/

https://www.missingwitches.com/2020/10/21/ep-70-wf-kenya-coviak-conjuring-detroit/

https://www.missingwitches.com/2021/03/24/81-dr-beverly-smith-anything-that-we-do-to-help-each-other-is-resistance/

https://www.missingwitches.com/2021/10/06/ep-102-wf-zoe-flowers-you-should-be-afraid-of-women-like-us/

https://www.missingwitches.com/2021/10/24/ep-107-nadra-nittle-on-toni-morrisons-spiritual-vision/

https://www.missingwitches.com/2021/11/25/ep-111-wf-marcelitte-failla-black-witch-as-we-heal-our-ancestors-trauma-we-heal-ourselves/

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> WF - Black Witch Council for Black History 2022 Missing Witches 01:17:43 In celebration of Black History Month 2022, we gathered together a panel of powerful Black Witches we've found on our journey. We give thanks to our guests for their wisdom and grace. Please check out and support their work: Caress Mindful Fitch, Dr. Beverly, Dr. Yvonne Chireau, Nadra Nittle, Zoe Flowers, Kenya Coviak, and Marcelitte Failla. We asked them to call into the circle the ancestor(s) that are showing up for them right now, ones that want to be named, and share any messages or stories they (the panelists and their ancestors) want to be heard. Listen now to this conversation, circling and spiraling with teachers, grandmothers, Zora Neale Hurston, Valerie Boyd and bell hooks, plus mic drops aplenty. In celebration of Black History Month 2022, we gathered together a panel of powerful Black Witches we've found on our journey. We give thanks to our guests for their wisdom and grace. Please check out and support their work: Caress Mindful Fitch, Dr. Beverly, Dr. Yvonne Chireau, Nadra Nittle, Zoe Flowers, Kenya Coviak, and Marcelitte Failla. We asked them to call into the circle the ancestor(s) that are showing up for them right now, ones that want to be named, and share any messages or stories they (the panelists and their ancestors) want to be heard. Listen now to this conversation, circling and spiraling with teachers, grandmothers, Zora Neale Hurston, Valerie Boyd and bell hooks, plus mic drops aplenty. true full 122 6829bd4b-0c97-4ac7-b740-a3def2156956 Imbolc 2022: A Stellar and Star Studded Astrology Panel - We Are Still Here https://www.missingwitches.com/2022/02/02/ep-121-imbolc-2022-a-stellar-and-star-studded-astrology-panel-we-are-still-here/

www.alicesparklykat.com

www.embodiedastrology.com

www.mysticmoonmedicine.com

theanichelle.com

www.instagram.com/kosmictonic

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> Wed, 2 Feb 2022 10:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/imbolc-2022-a-stellar-and-star-studded-astrology-panel-we-are-still-here-GcF4UVKu https://www.missingwitches.com/2022/02/02/ep-121-imbolc-2022-a-stellar-and-star-studded-astrology-panel-we-are-still-here/

www.alicesparklykat.com

www.embodiedastrology.com

www.mysticmoonmedicine.com

theanichelle.com

www.instagram.com/kosmictonic

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> Imbolc 2022: A Stellar and Star Studded Astrology Panel - We Are Still Here Missing Witches 01:24:33 An online circle for charting our way forward. This is a time to chart new paths, make ourselves resolute, craft possible worlds, and contribute our magic to the re-enchantment of the world. Time to check in with groundhogs, with our bodies, the stars, and other guides, about how to move forward. How to adjust our eyes to see the stars’ messages before the darkness fades. With our panel: Alice Sparkly Kat, Renee Sills, Loli Moon, Thea Anderson, AND Eliza + Jasmine + Kestrel (Kosmic Tonic) we ask: How can modern Witches apply astrology to our work of enchantment AND resistance? An online circle for charting our way forward. This is a time to chart new paths, make ourselves resolute, craft possible worlds, and contribute our magic to the re-enchantment of the world. Time to check in with groundhogs, with our bodies, the stars, and other guides, about how to move forward. How to adjust our eyes to see the stars’ messages before the darkness fades. With our panel: Alice Sparkly Kat, Renee Sills, Loli Moon, Thea Anderson, AND Eliza + Jasmine + Kestrel (Kosmic Tonic) we ask: How can modern Witches apply astrology to our work of enchantment AND resistance? true full 121 f8e62276-aac2-4196-8dd7-e8b30d23112e WF: Rebecca Beyer - You Can Know 10 Plants Deeply And Be A Wonderful Healer http://www.bloodandspicebush.com/

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Wild-Witchcraft/Rebecca-Beyer/9781982185626

http://www.bloodandspicebush.com/online-classes.html

References in this episode:

https://www.foragersharvest.com/sams-books.html

https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520280434/tending-the-wild

 

 

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

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]]> Thu, 27 Jan 2022 19:04:11 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/wf-rebecca-beyer-can-we-find-the-unique-gifts-in-the-hand-weve-been-dealt-eT_fKYey http://www.bloodandspicebush.com/

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Wild-Witchcraft/Rebecca-Beyer/9781982185626

http://www.bloodandspicebush.com/online-classes.html

References in this episode:

https://www.foragersharvest.com/sams-books.html

https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520280434/tending-the-wild

 

 

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]]> WF: Rebecca Beyer - You Can Know 10 Plants Deeply And Be A Wonderful Healer Missing Witches 00:53:29 In this episode, Risa and members of the Missing Witches coven sit down with ethnobotanist, forager, wild-tender, and teacher of hedgecraft: Rebecca Beyer of Blood and Spice Bush. Rebecca holds us gently and invites us into practices that offer direct action toward negotiating the wounded spaces of cultural appropriation between Witches and first nations communities; direct relationships with the beings, plants, and spirits who live with us; gentleness for her own and all our illnesses and wounds; and love for the pre-teen history-and-magic-nerd in all of us. Plus we get some sweet details on Hildegarde of Bingen's life and herbal magic and a taste of Rebecca's beautiful book, Wild Witchcraft. "It's a colonized mindset to think you have to... know all or nothing... You can know 10 plants deeply and be a wonderful healer." In this episode, Risa and members of the Missing Witches coven sit down with ethnobotanist, forager, wild-tender, and teacher of hedgecraft: Rebecca Beyer of Blood and Spice Bush. Rebecca holds us gently and invites us into practices that offer direct action toward negotiating the wounded spaces of cultural appropriation between Witches and first nations communities; direct relationships with the beings, plants, and spirits who live with us; gentleness for her own and all our illnesses and wounds; and love for the pre-teen history-and-magic-nerd in all of us. Plus we get some sweet details on Hildegarde of Bingen's life and herbal magic and a taste of Rebecca's beautiful book, Wild Witchcraft. "It's a colonized mindset to think you have to... know all or nothing... You can know 10 plants deeply and be a wonderful healer." appalachia, hildegarde of bingen, hedge witch, ethnobotany, missing witches, feminist history, witchcraft, plant science, wild tending, wild craft, plant folklore true full 120 73e9d7f4-0c74-4a8d-aebf-9353c3721ac1 WF: Veronica Varlow - Sometimes The World Will Trick You And You Think You Are Alone. In Bohemian Magick, Veronica Varlow, the last daughter in a line of Bohemian witches, weaves together witchcraft knowledge and ancient secret spells with an exotic rock-and-roll magick style that has earned her a devoted following worldwide. This beguiling grimoire-style guide is filled with potent, never-before-revealed spells, hand-written rituals, magick ephemera, hand-drawn sigils, potions, charms, and rhyming incantations that will call your power back to you and electrify your life!

With more than 150 illustrations—drawings, photography, and vintage art—and text written in her own hand, this sumptuous companion is brimming with spells for everlasting confidence, radiant self-love, healing, manifesting your dreams, and love with a desired partner. Veronica calls upon the ancient and hidden Czech-Romani magic passed down to from her grandmother Helen’s lineage and infuses it with her own signature sorcery to help you awaken and amplify your truest self. Each spell that you cast, each potion that you brew, and each chant you speak into the universe will rouse the most powerful part of your being!

 

https://www.harpercollins.ca/9780063027381/bohemian-magick/

https://www.lovewitch.com/

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> Thu, 20 Jan 2022 13:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/wf-veronica-varlow-sometimes-the-world-will-trick-you-and-you-think-you-are-alone-beM1akKG In Bohemian Magick, Veronica Varlow, the last daughter in a line of Bohemian witches, weaves together witchcraft knowledge and ancient secret spells with an exotic rock-and-roll magick style that has earned her a devoted following worldwide. This beguiling grimoire-style guide is filled with potent, never-before-revealed spells, hand-written rituals, magick ephemera, hand-drawn sigils, potions, charms, and rhyming incantations that will call your power back to you and electrify your life!

With more than 150 illustrations—drawings, photography, and vintage art—and text written in her own hand, this sumptuous companion is brimming with spells for everlasting confidence, radiant self-love, healing, manifesting your dreams, and love with a desired partner. Veronica calls upon the ancient and hidden Czech-Romani magic passed down to from her grandmother Helen’s lineage and infuses it with her own signature sorcery to help you awaken and amplify your truest self. Each spell that you cast, each potion that you brew, and each chant you speak into the universe will rouse the most powerful part of your being!

 

https://www.harpercollins.ca/9780063027381/bohemian-magick/

https://www.lovewitch.com/

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> WF: Veronica Varlow - Sometimes The World Will Trick You And You Think You Are Alone. Missing Witches 01:17:20 “The remarkable Veronica Varlow seizes life with both hands and bends it to her will. Learn from her.” —Neil Gaiman And we got to! Spending time with Veronica is so special, as one of our coven-mates said during this conversation: "I love you even more than I thought I was going to!" She shares personal magic, stories of weaving the great spell of her life and of writing her sumptuous book Bohemian Magick, and her enormous gratitude for the experience of finding other magic weavers out there, lighthouses in dark times. There is a story of truly unexpected synchronous magic, we all develop girl crushes on each other and unsurprisingly, everybody cries. “The remarkable Veronica Varlow seizes life with both hands and bends it to her will. Learn from her.” —Neil Gaiman And we got to! Spending time with Veronica is so special, as one of our coven-mates said during this conversation: "I love you even more than I thought I was going to!" She shares personal magic, stories of weaving the great spell of her life and of writing her sumptuous book Bohemian Magick, and her enormous gratitude for the experience of finding other magic weavers out there, lighthouses in dark times. There is a story of truly unexpected synchronous magic, we all develop girl crushes on each other and unsurprisingly, everybody cries. magick, witches, bohemian magick, hereditary magick, love witch true full 119 396c75ae-b16e-4719-a172-d8e2589ed644 WF: Michelle Pajak-Reynolds - A Stone Has Power If You Decide It Has Power https://michellepajakreynolds.com/

 

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> Thu, 13 Jan 2022 13:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/wf-michelle-pajak-reynolds-a-stone-has-power-if-you-decide-it-has-power-1_8ktXZz https://michellepajakreynolds.com/

 

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]]> WF: Michelle Pajak-Reynolds - A Stone Has Power If You Decide It Has Power Missing Witches 01:12:23 Michelle takes us into the heart of gem craft, history, lore, and practice from her own perspective as a jeweler Witch digging deep into the ethics of her craft in order to answer her daughter's question: where does this come from? “There is a sacredness to creating jewelry that looks like the world inside my heart, my soul, and my dreams. Working with my raw materials, gemstones and precious metals, I create jewelry as personal symbols and story keepers for you to wear and pass down for generations." Michelle Pajak-Reynolds became a licensed Fairmined gold jewelry designer in 2018. Fairmined gold supports artisanal small-scale miners around the world. Fairmined certification, through the Alliance for Responsible Mining, enforces strict standards for mining practices including ethical and sustainable methods protecting the health and well-being of the miners and the environment. Michelle’s sterling silver jewelry designs feature the highest quality 100% recycled sterling silver sourced from United States based suppliers. Ever curious about the mining process and committed to intensely researching the raw materials for her jewelry, Michelle began mining the gemstones for her designs in 2019. Her Mira collection (and all forthcoming collections) feature ethically sourced gemstones that are traceable to the mine (whenever possible) and country of origin. Michelle is also a member of Manufacturing Jewelers & Suppliers of America (MJSA) and proudly abides by their code of ethics and standards. Michelle takes us into the heart of gem craft, history, lore, and practice from her own perspective as a jeweler Witch digging deep into the ethics of her craft in order to answer her daughter's question: where does this come from? “There is a sacredness to creating jewelry that looks like the world inside my heart, my soul, and my dreams. Working with my raw materials, gemstones and precious metals, I create jewelry as personal symbols and story keepers for you to wear and pass down for generations." Michelle Pajak-Reynolds became a licensed Fairmined gold jewelry designer in 2018. Fairmined gold supports artisanal small-scale miners around the world. Fairmined certification, through the Alliance for Responsible Mining, enforces strict standards for mining practices including ethical and sustainable methods protecting the health and well-being of the miners and the environment. Michelle’s sterling silver jewelry designs feature the highest quality 100% recycled sterling silver sourced from United States based suppliers. Ever curious about the mining process and committed to intensely researching the raw materials for her jewelry, Michelle began mining the gemstones for her designs in 2019. Her Mira collection (and all forthcoming collections) feature ethically sourced gemstones that are traceable to the mine (whenever possible) and country of origin. Michelle is also a member of Manufacturing Jewelers & Suppliers of America (MJSA) and proudly abides by their code of ethics and standards. gem lore, witchcraft, crystals true full 118 fc596308-2c42-403f-b0b6-5640828eb245 WF: Jarod K. Anderson aka The Cryptonaturalist - Give Yourself Permission To Take The Meaning You Make Seriously https://www.cryptonaturalist.com/

We read poems from Jarod's book Field Guide to the Haunted Forest - https://www.cryptonaturalist.com/books

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

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]]> Thu, 6 Jan 2022 13:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/wf-jarod-k-anderson-aka-the-cryptonaturalist-give-yourself-permission-to-take-the-meaning-you-make-seriously-9D5L3GM_ https://www.cryptonaturalist.com/

We read poems from Jarod's book Field Guide to the Haunted Forest - https://www.cryptonaturalist.com/books

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> WF: Jarod K. Anderson aka The Cryptonaturalist - Give Yourself Permission To Take The Meaning You Make Seriously Missing Witches 01:01:36 In this episode, we talk about magic and masculinity, depression and climate anxiety, graveyards and kids, and writing what needs to be said. We get to meet with a poet whose writing about nature echoes around the world, and on this quiet evening, our kids in their beds, we read poems and find small places to anchor our hopes. "I think a lot of modern masculinity gets to the point where they are worshipping the idea of strength... If you worship the idea of strength I think you will always feel weak, because we're fragile biological beings. If you worship strength there's always a secret voice inside of you that says you're broken, you're not strong enough. That's just not a good foundation to build an identity on... The idea of worship has connotations of un-examined love... where worship feels like a one-way street I think the gratitude that I like to feel when I come to nature is much more of a dialogue." In this episode, we talk about magic and masculinity, depression and climate anxiety, graveyards and kids, and writing what needs to be said. We get to meet with a poet whose writing about nature echoes around the world, and on this quiet evening, our kids in their beds, we read poems and find small places to anchor our hopes. "I think a lot of modern masculinity gets to the point where they are worshipping the idea of strength... If you worship the idea of strength I think you will always feel weak, because we're fragile biological beings. If you worship strength there's always a secret voice inside of you that says you're broken, you're not strong enough. That's just not a good foundation to build an identity on... The idea of worship has connotations of un-examined love... where worship feels like a one-way street I think the gratitude that I like to feel when I come to nature is much more of a dialogue." word witch, masculinity, cryptonaturalist, missing witches, poetry true full 117 07134cda-c9e1-4f9a-b133-dc4db59df6a0 WF Brooklynn: Sonic Witchcraft, Neurodiversity and Being in Stillness https://linktr.ee/brooklynnmusic

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]]> Thu, 30 Dec 2021 13:30:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/brooklynn-sonic-witchcraft-neurodiversity-and-being-in-stillness-UQntVgP3 https://linktr.ee/brooklynnmusic

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]]> WF Brooklynn: Sonic Witchcraft, Neurodiversity and Being in Stillness Missing Witches 01:16:00 In this episode Amy, Risa, and guest host Sherry Stone aka That Hoodoo Lady get to commune with Brooklynn: brilliant musician behind the viral Witch tracks "My Shadow and I" and "Solstice." She is the powerful Witch crafter behind Bébé Vaudou, and a totally open and vulnerable neurodivergent podcaster and author, and just generally a wildly magical sweet spirit. We dig into sonic witchcraft, church trauma, shadow work, depression, adoption, Lisa Bonet, and more. She heals us with song, and with silence. Everybody cries. We're lucky just to be in the room (Zoom) for this one. In this episode Amy, Risa, and guest host Sherry Stone aka That Hoodoo Lady get to commune with Brooklynn: brilliant musician behind the viral Witch tracks "My Shadow and I" and "Solstice." She is the powerful Witch crafter behind Bébé Vaudou, and a totally open and vulnerable neurodivergent podcaster and author, and just generally a wildly magical sweet spirit. We dig into sonic witchcraft, church trauma, shadow work, depression, adoption, Lisa Bonet, and more. She heals us with song, and with silence. Everybody cries. We're lucky just to be in the room (Zoom) for this one. adoption, adhd, ocd, witch, sonic witch, missing witches, church trauma, depression true full 116 3c749c68-0b86-4211-9d3f-eb9b99ad75ff Yuletide 2021 w Amy & Risa: A Council Of Soul Mates https://www.missingwitches.com/2021/12/21/ep-115-yuletide-2021-w-amy-risa-a-council-of-soul-mates/

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]]> Tue, 21 Dec 2021 10:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/yuletide-2021-w-amy-risa-a-council-of-soul-mates-4dcijf2L https://www.missingwitches.com/2021/12/21/ep-115-yuletide-2021-w-amy-risa-a-council-of-soul-mates/

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> Yuletide 2021 w Amy & Risa: A Council Of Soul Mates Missing Witches 00:52:57 This is our spell for the season: the cheapest, richest gift you can give. Picture your most powerful council, and then write a love letter of recommendation for the person you most want your council to know, in the ways that you know them. Tag your awe-inspiring person here if you like and sing their praise, introduce us to them, or do it privately but however feels right, share the magic you see in each other. Amplify the pleasure of storytelling, story-weaving the bonds between us all. F*ck capitalism and sing of your love. Because "love is an action" as the great Spirit bell hooks taught us, and it is an action that re-enchants the world. Merry Merry. This is our spell for the season: the cheapest, richest gift you can give. Picture your most powerful council, and then write a love letter of recommendation for the person you most want your council to know, in the ways that you know them. Tag your awe-inspiring person here if you like and sing their praise, introduce us to them, or do it privately but however feels right, share the magic you see in each other. Amplify the pleasure of storytelling, story-weaving the bonds between us all. F*ck capitalism and sing of your love. Because "love is an action" as the great Spirit bell hooks taught us, and it is an action that re-enchants the world. Merry Merry. true full 115 ea2edcb7-f088-400c-b1cd-a3b89321cf35 WF Sophie Strand: We Are The Product Of Anarchic Queer Love Making https://www.instagram.com/cosmogyny

http://sophiestrand.com/

https://adriennemareebrown.net/

https://bettymartin.org/

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> Thu, 16 Dec 2021 13:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/wf-sophie-strand-we-are-the-product-of-anarchic-queer-love-making-gQmKi053 https://www.instagram.com/cosmogyny

http://sophiestrand.com/

https://adriennemareebrown.net/

https://bettymartin.org/

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> WF Sophie Strand: We Are The Product Of Anarchic Queer Love Making Missing Witches 00:48:40 "My partner left me, I had a miscarriage, and the pandemic started. I wrote this really long novel and it got rejected 27 times. My doctors were not feeling great about my health, and I thought... if I'm going to die, if I'll never get published, I better just write about the things I would want to share even if I don't live to see them make it. My big thing is: make good soil. Maybe I'm not going to be the person who gets to see these ideas sprout. But I should at least try and make some good soil... I used to go the very traditional route of getting things published by magazines, but I thought: if I'm going to die, who gives a fuck? I'd rather just have a relationship with readers. And within a week I had 3000 new readers... It's kept me alive. It got me a book deal." In this episode, we meet utterly electric writer Sophie Strand. Tap into the wild energy of this moment which she shares so with so much vulnerability but also so much deep research and poetics: of being magically, violently channeled, being hit like a wave in a river crashing down a mountainside. Step into circle with Sophie and the Missing Witches and when you do, send love to all of us out along the lines who are chronically ill, all those who sit with a wound in the shape of the Earth wound, the wound of patriarchal capitalism. Close your eyes and feel the waves of something ancient and very new bubbling and composting and moving to you from within and beyond that wounding... "Making art is an emergency and perhaps your survival is not the most important part of it... I have a genetic connective tissue disease. I found this out after I had loved fungi and underground mycorrhizal systems for many years, which are the connective tissue of the soil. And for me, it felt like this pivot point where I could become very solipsistic and feel very bad about myself or I could see how I could become a channel for something else that perhaps understood me. How can we become a channel for another species knowing that perhaps it won't be pleasurable... all we'll be able to know is like the carpenter ant we are climbing up that piece of grass, we are sporulating something we aren't totally in control of. " "My partner left me, I had a miscarriage, and the pandemic started. I wrote this really long novel and it got rejected 27 times. My doctors were not feeling great about my health, and I thought... if I'm going to die, if I'll never get published, I better just write about the things I would want to share even if I don't live to see them make it. My big thing is: make good soil. Maybe I'm not going to be the person who gets to see these ideas sprout. But I should at least try and make some good soil... I used to go the very traditional route of getting things published by magazines, but I thought: if I'm going to die, who gives a fuck? I'd rather just have a relationship with readers. And within a week I had 3000 new readers... It's kept me alive. It got me a book deal." In this episode, we meet utterly electric writer Sophie Strand. Tap into the wild energy of this moment which she shares so with so much vulnerability but also so much deep research and poetics: of being magically, violently channeled, being hit like a wave in a river crashing down a mountainside. Step into circle with Sophie and the Missing Witches and when you do, send love to all of us out along the lines who are chronically ill, all those who sit with a wound in the shape of the Earth wound, the wound of patriarchal capitalism. Close your eyes and feel the waves of something ancient and very new bubbling and composting and moving to you from within and beyond that wounding... "Making art is an emergency and perhaps your survival is not the most important part of it... I have a genetic connective tissue disease. I found this out after I had loved fungi and underground mycorrhizal systems for many years, which are the connective tissue of the soil. And for me, it felt like this pivot point where I could become very solipsistic and feel very bad about myself or I could see how I could become a channel for something else that perhaps understood me. How can we become a channel for another species knowing that perhaps it won't be pleasurable... all we'll be able to know is like the carpenter ant we are climbing up that piece of grass, we are sporulating something we aren't totally in control of. " ecofeminism, spirituality, fungi, healing, mythology, masculinity, missing witches, folklore, sophie strand, chronic illness, capitalism, patriarchy, witches found true full 114 cd4e6550-f409-4369-8c69-b3ba292e89e5 WF Dr Phyllis Rippey: I Started To See Breastfeeding As Central To The Construction Of Gender... https://phyllisrippey.com/

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> Thu, 9 Dec 2021 13:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/wf-dr-phyllis-rippey-i-started-to-see-breastfeeding-as-really-central-to-the-construction-of-gender-cb3SqoFW https://phyllisrippey.com/

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> WF Dr Phyllis Rippey: I Started To See Breastfeeding As Central To The Construction Of Gender... Missing Witches 00:58:48 Do you want to hear a brilliant, funny, foul-mouthed history of the emergence of capitalism and how it relied on the terrorism of the Witch hunts and the construction of gender? And explosive insights into the ongoing moralization of breastfeeding and its relationship to the multinational push to commodify clean water and put the burden of infant mortality on the shoulders of poor women? STEP RIGHT UP AND MEET THE FABULOUS DR. Phyllis Rippey! She is our newest coven-mate, professor of sociology, QUEEN. Do you want to hear a brilliant, funny, foul-mouthed history of the emergence of capitalism and how it relied on the terrorism of the Witch hunts and the construction of gender? And explosive insights into the ongoing moralization of breastfeeding and its relationship to the multinational push to commodify clean water and put the burden of infant mortality on the shoulders of poor women? STEP RIGHT UP AND MEET THE FABULOUS DR. Phyllis Rippey! She is our newest coven-mate, professor of sociology, QUEEN. sociology, breastfeeding, witch hunts, history, missing witches, gender, silvia federici, chestfeeding true full 113 9a099c08-bfdd-4893-980e-db2375c15a7a WF Bex Mui: Queering The Church With Spiritual Playspace https://www.houseofourqueer.com/

https://www.bexmui.com/

https://www.missingwitches.com/2021/12/02/ep-112-wf-bex-mui-queering-the-church-with-spiritual-playspace/

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]]> Thu, 2 Dec 2021 10:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/wf-bex-mui-queering-the-church-with-spiritual-playspace-d_WDT3GF https://www.houseofourqueer.com/

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https://www.missingwitches.com/2021/12/02/ep-112-wf-bex-mui-queering-the-church-with-spiritual-playspace/

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]]> WF Bex Mui: Queering The Church With Spiritual Playspace Missing Witches 00:58:45 Bex Mui, M. Ed (she/her) is a biracial, first gen, femme, queer, lesbian equity consultant committed to the work of LGBTQ+ affirmation at the intersections of education, spirituality, and sexual and mental wellness. A queer witch, energy worker, and spiritual organizer, Bex founded House Of Our Queer, a QTBIPOC-Centered spiritual playspace where Bex shares affirmations for the queer and trans community and hosts a weekly IG live Offering “Queer Church”. Bex believes that a spiritually grounded approach to the work of LGBTQ+ advocacy is increasingly needed, as well as an expansive, shame-free spiritual approach to sexuality education. Bex says, "I believe that our true ancestors delight in us when we are living closest to our authentic truths." Bex Mui, M. Ed (she/her) is a biracial, first gen, femme, queer, lesbian equity consultant committed to the work of LGBTQ+ affirmation at the intersections of education, spirituality, and sexual and mental wellness. A queer witch, energy worker, and spiritual organizer, Bex founded House Of Our Queer, a QTBIPOC-Centered spiritual playspace where Bex shares affirmations for the queer and trans community and hosts a weekly IG live Offering “Queer Church”. Bex believes that a spiritually grounded approach to the work of LGBTQ+ advocacy is increasingly needed, as well as an expansive, shame-free spiritual approach to sexuality education. Bex says, "I believe that our true ancestors delight in us when we are living closest to our authentic truths." true full 112 8c50b63d-fbcc-4b98-9fa9-f0dfabc47ce1 WF Marcelitte Failla: As We Heal Our Ancestors' Trauma We Heal Ourselves Marcelitte Failla is a Black and biracial educator, researcher, and scholar of African heritage religions in the United States and throughout the African diaspora. Through a Black feminist lens, her work explores how religions such as Yoruba Ifá, Haitian Vodou, and Hoodoo of the American South are used for collective healing and social justice. Failla is a Ph.D. candidate at Emory University whose dissertation investigates Black witchcraft and how practitioners employ its spiritual technology for manifestation, healing, and protection from anti-Blackness.

As a practitioner of both Ifá and Hoodoo, and a self-identified Black witch, Failla often holds ceremonial space in academic and community settings.

 

https://www.marcelittethethird.com/

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

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]]> Thu, 25 Nov 2021 13:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/wf-marcelitte-failla-as-we-heal-our-ancestors-trauma-we-heal-ourselves-Q7hfx4G7 Marcelitte Failla is a Black and biracial educator, researcher, and scholar of African heritage religions in the United States and throughout the African diaspora. Through a Black feminist lens, her work explores how religions such as Yoruba Ifá, Haitian Vodou, and Hoodoo of the American South are used for collective healing and social justice. Failla is a Ph.D. candidate at Emory University whose dissertation investigates Black witchcraft and how practitioners employ its spiritual technology for manifestation, healing, and protection from anti-Blackness.

As a practitioner of both Ifá and Hoodoo, and a self-identified Black witch, Failla often holds ceremonial space in academic and community settings.

 

https://www.marcelittethethird.com/

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> WF Marcelitte Failla: As We Heal Our Ancestors' Trauma We Heal Ourselves Missing Witches 00:41:22 In this episode soon-to-be Witch Doctor Marcellite Failla sends a loving f*ck you to the academy; shares stories from her childhood experiences using Witchcraft to resist racism and conjure teen love; opens a window into the philosophy, activism, healing, and gathering spaces of Black Witchcraft; and Risa and Marcellite get pretty emotional about ancestral healing. "Witch and witchcraft are terms that have been used to demonize African-derived religions and so people are very wary of it, understandably. They've been used to categorize whole categories of diasporic and traditional religion in order to colonize, enslave and extract resources. So even in scholars of African traditional and African-derived religions, there's a hesitancy to use the term, Witch... But the reality is also that there is the large movement of Black Witches." In this episode soon-to-be Witch Doctor Marcellite Failla sends a loving f*ck you to the academy; shares stories from her childhood experiences using Witchcraft to resist racism and conjure teen love; opens a window into the philosophy, activism, healing, and gathering spaces of Black Witchcraft; and Risa and Marcellite get pretty emotional about ancestral healing. "Witch and witchcraft are terms that have been used to demonize African-derived religions and so people are very wary of it, understandably. They've been used to categorize whole categories of diasporic and traditional religion in order to colonize, enslave and extract resources. So even in scholars of African traditional and African-derived religions, there's a hesitancy to use the term, Witch... But the reality is also that there is the large movement of Black Witches." witches, ifa, activism, religion, hoodoo, black witch, witchcraft, conjure true full 111 e2f4641d-9f6c-4644-ae0d-7e57d675f3b8 WF Marion Peck: Making Art Is Like Trying To Remember Your Dreams https://www.marionpeck.com/

Marion Peck portrait by Jon Swihart - https://www.instagram.com/jon.swihart.art/

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

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]]> Thu, 18 Nov 2021 13:30:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/wf-marion-peck-making-art-is-like-trying-to-remember-your-dreams-3O_az2kC https://www.marionpeck.com/

Marion Peck portrait by Jon Swihart - https://www.instagram.com/jon.swihart.art/

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

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]]> WF Marion Peck: Making Art Is Like Trying To Remember Your Dreams Missing Witches 01:03:07 In this episode, Amy and Risa meet an art heroine of theirs who turns out to be a listener. Everyone falls in love and magic ensues. Marion Peck is a leading American artist recognized for being part of the Pop Surrealist and Lowbrow Art movements. She combines the mastery of technique of Baroque masters with an ability to channel another world that speaks directly to the contemporary moment, from goofy water spirits, to unsettling clown daemons, to genteel ladies saying fuck you. She is a wise art witch, and in this interview, she opens a window into her relationship with the spirits of inspiration. In this episode, Amy and Risa meet an art heroine of theirs who turns out to be a listener. Everyone falls in love and magic ensues. Marion Peck is a leading American artist recognized for being part of the Pop Surrealist and Lowbrow Art movements. She combines the mastery of technique of Baroque masters with an ability to channel another world that speaks directly to the contemporary moment, from goofy water spirits, to unsettling clown daemons, to genteel ladies saying fuck you. She is a wise art witch, and in this interview, she opens a window into her relationship with the spirits of inspiration. true full 110 153fc5d9-addf-4522-94da-b5baae6f5534 Samhain 2021 - Look For The Door Into The Unknown Country WhiteFeather Hunter is a multiple award-winning Canadian artist and scholar. Hunter’s practice intersects technofeminist witchcraft and biotechnologies with performance, new media, and textiles.

Carol Padberg is an interdisciplinary artist, herbalist, writer, and the founding director of the Nomad MFA (nomadmfa.org). She is part of an interspecies studio which includes fungi, sheep, bees, dye plants, herbs, and bees. 

Angela Alberto is The Heart Wise Woman and Death Midwife. Her Death midwifery provides detailed ancient knowledge, a remembrance of what we once knew. 

Becky Lyon is an English x Jamaican researcher from and living in London. Her practice explores how art research can help illuminate the animacy of the more-than-human world.

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> Sun, 31 Oct 2021 12:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/samhain-2021-A0OSGPHp WhiteFeather Hunter is a multiple award-winning Canadian artist and scholar. Hunter’s practice intersects technofeminist witchcraft and biotechnologies with performance, new media, and textiles.

Carol Padberg is an interdisciplinary artist, herbalist, writer, and the founding director of the Nomad MFA (nomadmfa.org). She is part of an interspecies studio which includes fungi, sheep, bees, dye plants, herbs, and bees. 

Angela Alberto is The Heart Wise Woman and Death Midwife. Her Death midwifery provides detailed ancient knowledge, a remembrance of what we once knew. 

Becky Lyon is an English x Jamaican researcher from and living in London. Her practice explores how art research can help illuminate the animacy of the more-than-human world.

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> Samhain 2021 - Look For The Door Into The Unknown Country Missing Witches 01:22:29 In this time of death and transformation, we invite you to step into a virtual circle with leading science witches, art witches, death witches, feminist and activist collaborators. Bring your own ideas, questions, and intentions to sit in circle with the mycelium, lactobacillus, bees, songs, stories, and other spirits that these practitioners work with. Together we explore foundational Tarot artist Pixie Coleman Smith’s invitation to “Look for the door into the unknown country,” and share Pixie’s story as told in the Samhain chapter of the Missing Witches book, Reclaiming True Histories of Feminist Magic. In this time of death and transformation, we invite you to step into a virtual circle with leading science witches, art witches, death witches, feminist and activist collaborators. Bring your own ideas, questions, and intentions to sit in circle with the mycelium, lactobacillus, bees, songs, stories, and other spirits that these practitioners work with. Together we explore foundational Tarot artist Pixie Coleman Smith’s invitation to “Look for the door into the unknown country,” and share Pixie’s story as told in the Samhain chapter of the Missing Witches book, Reclaiming True Histories of Feminist Magic. true full 109 7b80902f-9e30-4cdc-83a9-ea8e19d626ea MW+ Tituba - Do You Know What A Witch Really Is? with Amy & Risa https://www.missingwitches.com/2021/10/27/e108-mw-tituba-do-you-know-what-a-witch-really-is-with-amy-risa/

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]]> Wed, 27 Oct 2021 09:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/mw-tituba-do-you-know-what-a-witch-really-is-with-amy-risa-u608ym93 https://www.missingwitches.com/2021/10/27/e108-mw-tituba-do-you-know-what-a-witch-really-is-with-amy-risa/

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]]> MW+ Tituba - Do You Know What A Witch Really Is? with Amy & Risa Missing Witches 01:17:11 In considering Tituba for an episode of the Missing Witches podcast, we came upon another paradox - the kind that our non-binary universe of magic is known (and unknown) for. Tituba, like magic itself, is both known and unknown. She is perhaps the most famous name of the Salem Witch Trials, but at the same time, very very little is known about her. She felt both too known and too unknown to dare to invite her to this party. But as we make our way through this world of Witches, we are getting more and more comfortable with not knowing, with giving dreams credence and myth credibility in our world-building. We’ve got Witches and spirits and channelled writing, a society divided by values and fears, both real and imagined, the echoing of history... It’s all too juicy. So Amy is going to tell you about Tituba, what little we know from her recorded testimony, some details her spirit whispered to Maryse Condé, and then Risa is going to join us in the second half of the episode to help us explode and explore the themes that arise so we can share the juice with each other and with you. In considering Tituba for an episode of the Missing Witches podcast, we came upon another paradox - the kind that our non-binary universe of magic is known (and unknown) for. Tituba, like magic itself, is both known and unknown. She is perhaps the most famous name of the Salem Witch Trials, but at the same time, very very little is known about her. She felt both too known and too unknown to dare to invite her to this party. But as we make our way through this world of Witches, we are getting more and more comfortable with not knowing, with giving dreams credence and myth credibility in our world-building. We’ve got Witches and spirits and channelled writing, a society divided by values and fears, both real and imagined, the echoing of history... It’s all too juicy. So Amy is going to tell you about Tituba, what little we know from her recorded testimony, some details her spirit whispered to Maryse Condé, and then Risa is going to join us in the second half of the episode to help us explode and explore the themes that arise so we can share the juice with each other and with you. true full 108 3379ac23-20fa-4314-945d-bcd0410d0dab WF Nadra Nittle on Toni Morrison's Spiritual Vision nadranittle.com

Twitter.com/nadrakareem

Link to the book: https://www.fortresspress.com/store/product/9781506471518/Toni-Morrisons-Spiritual-Vision

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]]> Sun, 24 Oct 2021 12:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/mw-nadra-nittle-on-toni-morrisons-spiritual-vision-Anz2wCDR nadranittle.com

Twitter.com/nadrakareem

Link to the book: https://www.fortresspress.com/store/product/9781506471518/Toni-Morrisons-Spiritual-Vision

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]]> WF Nadra Nittle on Toni Morrison's Spiritual Vision Missing Witches 00:49:08 "Toni Morrison grew up fully aware and fully comfortable with the fact that science didn't explain everything that went on in the world" "She really grew up in a world where people believed in magic, but in addition to that they were also Christians" "Morrison's mother and grandmother didn't believe there was really a difference between the subconscious world and the conscious world and that's reflected throughout a lot of Morisson's literature." "Someone would be working in the fields and they would say some magical words and the next thing you know they had flown home... Growing up this is what the people Toni Morrison knew believed and she thought that was a valid belief whether it had literally happened or it was a way for people to comfort themselves... somehow through magical means some of these people were able to liberate themselves." "Toni Morrison grew up fully aware and fully comfortable with the fact that science didn't explain everything that went on in the world" "She really grew up in a world where people believed in magic, but in addition to that they were also Christians" "Morrison's mother and grandmother didn't believe there was really a difference between the subconscious world and the conscious world and that's reflected throughout a lot of Morisson's literature." "Someone would be working in the fields and they would say some magical words and the next thing you know they had flown home... Growing up this is what the people Toni Morrison knew believed and she thought that was a valid belief whether it had literally happened or it was a way for people to comfort themselves... somehow through magical means some of these people were able to liberate themselves." missing witches, toni morrison true full 107 c7efb073-c6f8-4096-aa75-20546ab0a74c WF Sami of Foxglove Pharm - I Want To Live A Magical Life https://foxglovepharm.com/

https://www.outofthewoodswildlife.org/

 

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]]> Wed, 20 Oct 2021 12:30:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/wf-sami-of-foxglove-pharm-i-want-to-live-a-magical-life-C0Qz01xW https://foxglovepharm.com/

https://www.outofthewoodswildlife.org/

 

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]]> WF Sami of Foxglove Pharm - I Want To Live A Magical Life Missing Witches 00:48:35 A very tired Risa and Sami of Foxglove Pharm talk life and death and magic potions. A very tired Risa and Sami of Foxglove Pharm talk life and death and magic potions. true full 106 5f86c4ca-76a0-4c6e-9a2f-c7d6059ce448 MW Hildegarde of Bingen - Dare to Declare Who YOU Are Fiona Maddocks Hildegard of Bingen: The Woman of Her Age, Faber and Faber 2001

 

Donna Haraway Staying With The Trouble Duke University Press, 2016

 

https://www.missingwitches.com/2021/09/21/e98-mabon-2021-making-manifestos-w-whitefeather-hunter-of-bioart-coven/

 

Hudson - https://www.sfsu.edu/~medieval/Volume%201/Hudson.html

 

“Hildegard of Bingen's Vital Contribution to the Concept of Woman”  Abigail Favale https://churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/hildegard-of-bingens-vital-contribution-to-the-concept-of-woman/

 

https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2020/11/19/saint-hildegard-coronavirus-catholic-joy

 

https://www.facebook.com/lylajune/posts/315044913323524

 

https://www.medievalists.net/2016/07/the-herbal-cures-of-hildegard-von-bingen-was-she-right/

 

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/suzanne-simard-interview.html

 

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/medieval-cookie-recipe

 

Hildegard von Bingen's Mystical Visions: Translated from Scivias by Bruce Hozeski. From the introduction by Matthew Fox O.P. Holy Names College Oakland.

 

 

Hildegard of Bingen: Visions and Validation

Barbara Newman

Church History

Vol. 54, No. 2 (Jun., 1985), pp. 163-175 (13 pages)

Published by: Cambridge University Press on behalf of the American Society of Church History

https://www.jstor.org/stable/3167233

 

 

https://ignota.org/blogs/news/hildegards-healing-recipes

 

https://www.healthyhildegard.com/hildegard-of-bingen-medicine/

 

https://www.medievalists.net/2016/07/the-herbal-cures-of-hildegard-von-bingen-was-she-right/

.

appears in Forschende Komplementärmedizin, Vol.19 (2012) pp.187-190.

 

https://bc.thegrowler.ca/features/beerstory-101-st-hildegard-of-bingen/

https://www.healthyhildegard.com/health-benefits-of-beer/

http://theunrulymystic.com/patron-saint-creativity/

https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2020/11/19/saint-hildegard-coronavirus-catholic-joy

https://www.learnreligions.com/health-and-nutrition-from-the-middle-ages-1446964

 

https://www.jstor.org/stable/44445287

 

https://issuu.com/pedrocalamandja/docs/epdf.tips_hildegards-healing-plants

 

https://chapel.princeton.edu/news/hand-god

 

https://westminsterabbey.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Selected-Writings-Hildegard-of-Bingen-Mark-Atherton.pdf

 

https://visualmelt.com/Hildegard-von-Bingen

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]]> Sun, 17 Oct 2021 12:30:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/mw-hildegarde-SOxx_oEi Fiona Maddocks Hildegard of Bingen: The Woman of Her Age, Faber and Faber 2001

 

Donna Haraway Staying With The Trouble Duke University Press, 2016

 

https://www.missingwitches.com/2021/09/21/e98-mabon-2021-making-manifestos-w-whitefeather-hunter-of-bioart-coven/

 

Hudson - https://www.sfsu.edu/~medieval/Volume%201/Hudson.html

 

“Hildegard of Bingen's Vital Contribution to the Concept of Woman”  Abigail Favale https://churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/hildegard-of-bingens-vital-contribution-to-the-concept-of-woman/

 

https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2020/11/19/saint-hildegard-coronavirus-catholic-joy

 

https://www.facebook.com/lylajune/posts/315044913323524

 

https://www.medievalists.net/2016/07/the-herbal-cures-of-hildegard-von-bingen-was-she-right/

 

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/suzanne-simard-interview.html

 

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/medieval-cookie-recipe

 

Hildegard von Bingen's Mystical Visions: Translated from Scivias by Bruce Hozeski. From the introduction by Matthew Fox O.P. Holy Names College Oakland.

 

 

Hildegard of Bingen: Visions and Validation

Barbara Newman

Church History

Vol. 54, No. 2 (Jun., 1985), pp. 163-175 (13 pages)

Published by: Cambridge University Press on behalf of the American Society of Church History

https://www.jstor.org/stable/3167233

 

 

https://ignota.org/blogs/news/hildegards-healing-recipes

 

https://www.healthyhildegard.com/hildegard-of-bingen-medicine/

 

https://www.medievalists.net/2016/07/the-herbal-cures-of-hildegard-von-bingen-was-she-right/

.

appears in Forschende Komplementärmedizin, Vol.19 (2012) pp.187-190.

 

https://bc.thegrowler.ca/features/beerstory-101-st-hildegard-of-bingen/

https://www.healthyhildegard.com/health-benefits-of-beer/

http://theunrulymystic.com/patron-saint-creativity/

https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2020/11/19/saint-hildegard-coronavirus-catholic-joy

https://www.learnreligions.com/health-and-nutrition-from-the-middle-ages-1446964

 

https://www.jstor.org/stable/44445287

 

https://issuu.com/pedrocalamandja/docs/epdf.tips_hildegards-healing-plants

 

https://chapel.princeton.edu/news/hand-god

 

https://westminsterabbey.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Selected-Writings-Hildegard-of-Bingen-Mark-Atherton.pdf

 

https://visualmelt.com/Hildegard-von-Bingen

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]]> MW Hildegarde of Bingen - Dare to Declare Who YOU Are Missing Witches 01:01:33 This episode of MIssing Witches is dedicated to prophet, mystic, visionary, healer, organizer, artist, composer, brewer, baker, writer, maker Hildegarde of Bingen. To our chorus of questions about the unknown or not yet understood electric, the dimension of mystery that is part of life in countless cultures and traditions, we add Hildegarde, a 12th Century nun who saw the visions in her mind’s eye all her life and then, in middle age when the average woman of the time would have been nearing a death by childbirth, illness, poverty or violence, she spoke her truth out loud about the things Spirit told her, voiced the things that only she could hear, and stood tall and fierce though wracked with pain. Shone even in the dark with what she called the LIVING LIGHT or in other contexts THE GREENESS. This episode of MIssing Witches is dedicated to prophet, mystic, visionary, healer, organizer, artist, composer, brewer, baker, writer, maker Hildegarde of Bingen. To our chorus of questions about the unknown or not yet understood electric, the dimension of mystery that is part of life in countless cultures and traditions, we add Hildegarde, a 12th Century nun who saw the visions in her mind’s eye all her life and then, in middle age when the average woman of the time would have been nearing a death by childbirth, illness, poverty or violence, she spoke her truth out loud about the things Spirit told her, voiced the things that only she could hear, and stood tall and fierce though wracked with pain. Shone even in the dark with what she called the LIVING LIGHT or in other contexts THE GREENESS. hildegarde of bingen, mystic, missing witches, feminist history, suzanne simard, lyla june, donna haraway true full 105 5e8d0e28-0f13-4020-90e0-5eccd0ab5b1c WF Ylva Mara Radziszewski - The World Needs You, Witch https://www.missingwitches.com/2021/10/13/e104-wf-ylva-mara-radziszewski-the-world-needs-you-witch/

www.traditionalmagic.com

www.livingaltar.com

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]]> Wed, 13 Oct 2021 09:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/wf-ylva-mara-radziszewski-the-world-needs-you-witch-z0R6YBpE https://www.missingwitches.com/2021/10/13/e104-wf-ylva-mara-radziszewski-the-world-needs-you-witch/

www.traditionalmagic.com

www.livingaltar.com

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]]> WF Ylva Mara Radziszewski - The World Needs You, Witch Missing Witches 01:12:11 Amy sits down with Ylva Mara Radziszewski, High Priestess and author of 'A Practical Guide For Witches: Spells, Rituals and Magic for an Enchanted Life'. We talk about the book, Ylva’s many mystical projects, fighting fascism, Magical Resistance and community witch praxis. Ylva says, “Honesty is a radical practice of Witchcraft.” and we honour the intimate as we connect in this magical conversation!! “The world needs you, Witch.” Amy sits down with Ylva Mara Radziszewski, High Priestess and author of 'A Practical Guide For Witches: Spells, Rituals and Magic for an Enchanted Life'. We talk about the book, Ylva’s many mystical projects, fighting fascism, Magical Resistance and community witch praxis. Ylva says, “Honesty is a radical practice of Witchcraft.” and we honour the intimate as we connect in this magical conversation!! “The world needs you, Witch.” true full 104 a69a2e46-18a1-44b7-9fc0-f06d3d9192d8 MW Genesis P-Orridge - Try To Altar Everything https://www.missingwitches.com/2021/10/10/ep-103-mw-genesis-p-orridge-try-to-altar-everything/

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]]> MW Genesis P-Orridge - Try To Altar Everything Missing Witches 00:37:41 Genesis P-Orridge isn’t easy to write about. An extremely prolific, variously pronoun-ed, transmedia artist and philosopher who, by design, changed course at will, projects expanding, contracting, abandoned when they got too popular. It’s hard to boil down a life like Gen’s, and I think that’s what Gen would have wanted. To exit the ‘cheap flesh suitcase’ of the material world and leave as legacy an undefinable life that defies catch-phrase-worthy descriptions, maintaining, in life and death, what Gen called a “state of flux”. In 1976 though, Genesis P-Orridge was given a label that might stick. Conservative Member of Parliament Nicholas Fairbairn called Gen and the other members of their COUM Transmissions collective “wreckers of civilisation.” Genesis P-Orridge isn’t easy to write about. An extremely prolific, variously pronoun-ed, transmedia artist and philosopher who, by design, changed course at will, projects expanding, contracting, abandoned when they got too popular. It’s hard to boil down a life like Gen’s, and I think that’s what Gen would have wanted. To exit the ‘cheap flesh suitcase’ of the material world and leave as legacy an undefinable life that defies catch-phrase-worthy descriptions, maintaining, in life and death, what Gen called a “state of flux”. In 1976 though, Genesis P-Orridge was given a label that might stick. Conservative Member of Parliament Nicholas Fairbairn called Gen and the other members of their COUM Transmissions collective “wreckers of civilisation.” true full 103 39b73b0e-a4ac-4045-a766-774dfac46696 WF Zoe Flowers - You SHOULD Be Afraid Of Women Like Us Zoe references:

Catherine Ponder

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Ponder

Dr. G. Love

https://5directionswellness.weebly.com/who-is-dr-g-love.html

 

Find, follow and support Zoe's Work:

Website www.iamzoeflowers.com  

Linkree https://linktr.ee/iamzoeflowers

Youtube - TheMagickHourZ

Facebook - Tit2ba Productions

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Twitter -  IAMZOEFLOWERS

 

Buy Her Books!

From Ashes to Angels Dust: A. Journey Through Womanhood @ https://amzn.to/3aMX5GF

In Praise of The Wytch @ https://amzn.to/3sq2vgu

Free E-Book! Five Reasons You're Stuck https://mailchi.mp/80852aa8e787/getunstuck

 

Schedule a session: https://calendly.com/iamzflowersinfo-14156

 

 

 

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]]> Wed, 6 Oct 2021 13:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/wf-zoe-flowers-you-should-be-afraid-of-women-like-us-Cwjs2jze Zoe references:

Catherine Ponder

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Ponder

Dr. G. Love

https://5directionswellness.weebly.com/who-is-dr-g-love.html

 

Find, follow and support Zoe's Work:

Website www.iamzoeflowers.com  

Linkree https://linktr.ee/iamzoeflowers

Youtube - TheMagickHourZ

Facebook - Tit2ba Productions

Instagram - IAMZOEFLOWERS / themagickhourz

Twitter -  IAMZOEFLOWERS

 

Buy Her Books!

From Ashes to Angels Dust: A. Journey Through Womanhood @ https://amzn.to/3aMX5GF

In Praise of The Wytch @ https://amzn.to/3sq2vgu

Free E-Book! Five Reasons You're Stuck https://mailchi.mp/80852aa8e787/getunstuck

 

Schedule a session: https://calendly.com/iamzflowersinfo-14156

 

 

 

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> WF Zoe Flowers - You SHOULD Be Afraid Of Women Like Us Missing Witches 00:54:23 The title of this episode comes from Zoe Flowers' poem "In the blood" which she reads for us, along with her epic praise poem: "In Praise of the Wytch." We also talk about her history with magic and the different spiritual paths that led her to Hoodoo, advice for coming out of the broom closet while keeping yourself safe, and how she brings her craft into her healing and equity work. The title of this episode comes from Zoe Flowers' poem "In the blood" which she reads for us, along with her epic praise poem: "In Praise of the Wytch." We also talk about her history with magic and the different spiritual paths that led her to Hoodoo, advice for coming out of the broom closet while keeping yourself safe, and how she brings her craft into her healing and equity work. true full 102 9f40adfb-2a19-4582-9674-f84798e52d3c MW Lucille Clifton - We Take What We Want With Invisible Fingers https://bmoreart.com/2020/12/baltimore-residency-space-the-clifton-house-to-launch-february-2021.html

https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/10.5250/fronjwomestud.35.2.0030.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3A2a980ba23d586d9998dace258ab57f7d

https://muckrack.com/marina-magloire/articles

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/lucille-clifton

https://www.proquest.com/openview/c7b9f1a647b2073e0257d4d15e3398bc/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750

http://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/new-new-negro/

https://www.publicbooks.org/what-if-black-women-were-free

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/10/19/the-spirit-writing-of-lucille-clifton/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucille_Clifton#Works

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]]> Sun, 3 Oct 2021 12:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/mw-lucille-clifton-we-take-what-we-want-with-invisible-fingers-wIRrFgwA https://bmoreart.com/2020/12/baltimore-residency-space-the-clifton-house-to-launch-february-2021.html

https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/10.5250/fronjwomestud.35.2.0030.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3A2a980ba23d586d9998dace258ab57f7d

https://muckrack.com/marina-magloire/articles

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/lucille-clifton

https://www.proquest.com/openview/c7b9f1a647b2073e0257d4d15e3398bc/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750

http://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/new-new-negro/

https://www.publicbooks.org/what-if-black-women-were-free

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/10/19/the-spirit-writing-of-lucille-clifton/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucille_Clifton#Works

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]]> MW Lucille Clifton - We Take What We Want With Invisible Fingers Missing Witches 00:39:59 Lucille Clifton was a twelve-fingered woman, her mother and daughter too, and she stepped into a house in Baltimore and began to hear the voices of her ancestors. She was the first poet to have two books up for the Pulitzer at the same time. Her grandmother was a child when she was taken from Africa and forcibly walked across America and never saw her mother again. She was a warrior poet, radical listener. She was from Dahomey women. Lucille Clifton was a twelve-fingered woman, her mother and daughter too, and she stepped into a house in Baltimore and began to hear the voices of her ancestors. She was the first poet to have two books up for the Pulitzer at the same time. Her grandmother was a child when she was taken from Africa and forcibly walked across America and never saw her mother again. She was a warrior poet, radical listener. She was from Dahomey women. false full 101 ae0e06db-115c-4f06-94d2-d9f80f821b7e WF Granddaughter Crow - The Wisdom Of The Natural World www.granddaughtercrow.com

https://www.missingwitches.com/2021/09/24/e100--wf-granddaughter-crow---the-wisdom-of-the-natural-world

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]]> Wed, 29 Sep 2021 09:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/wf-granddaughter-crow-the-wisdom-of-the-natural-world-M4nsKtLl www.granddaughtercrow.com

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]]> WF Granddaughter Crow - The Wisdom Of The Natural World Missing Witches 01:02:11 We dedicate the 100th episode of the Missing Witches Podcast to Truth and Reparation, to listening and acknowledging. Amy sits down with Author, Public Speaker, Teacher, Medicine Woman/Healer and founder of the Eagle Heart Foundation, Dr. Joy "Granddaughter Crow" Gray. Raised by spiritual leaders, as a child GDC was fashioned and trained to serve the people through ministry. Member of the Navajo Nation (Diné) and Dutch Heritage – she provides a sense of integration through life experience. We discuss her book The Wisdom of the Natural World, her advice for connecting with land, and her own family history encountering the residential school system. We dedicate the 100th episode of the Missing Witches Podcast to Truth and Reparation, to listening and acknowledging. Amy sits down with Author, Public Speaker, Teacher, Medicine Woman/Healer and founder of the Eagle Heart Foundation, Dr. Joy "Granddaughter Crow" Gray. Raised by spiritual leaders, as a child GDC was fashioned and trained to serve the people through ministry. Member of the Navajo Nation (Diné) and Dutch Heritage – she provides a sense of integration through life experience. We discuss her book The Wisdom of the Natural World, her advice for connecting with land, and her own family history encountering the residential school system. true full 100 460de026-9646-4bcb-94c0-75cdf8b876a3 MW Lozen - This Power Is Mine https://www.missingwitches.com/2021/09/26/e99-lozen-this-power-is-mine/

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]]> Sun, 26 Sep 2021 09:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/mw-lozen-this-power-is-mine-2KN1VBJA https://www.missingwitches.com/2021/09/26/e99-lozen-this-power-is-mine/

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If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> MW Lozen - This Power Is Mine Missing Witches 00:32:03 In this story we push past the settler faces dynamited into sacred ground to get to the missing history of real American heroes. Real Witches whose names aren’t told in school, but whose magic has shifted the culture we inhabit. Hidden, moving in shadows and behind the scenes. Today we’ll meet Lozen, a warrior, healer and prophet of the Chihenne Chiricahua Apache, who, when the Indian Removal Act was passed in the USA in 1830, was a ten year old girl whose power and difference was already beginning to show. In this story we push past the settler faces dynamited into sacred ground to get to the missing history of real American heroes. Real Witches whose names aren’t told in school, but whose magic has shifted the culture we inhabit. Hidden, moving in shadows and behind the scenes. Today we’ll meet Lozen, a warrior, healer and prophet of the Chihenne Chiricahua Apache, who, when the Indian Removal Act was passed in the USA in 1830, was a ten year old girl whose power and difference was already beginning to show. true full 99 8a09ff6a-f06c-427c-a76a-a2adadfb5db1 Mabon 2021: Making Manifestos w Whitefeather Hunter of BioArt Coven https://www.missingwitches.com/?p=1973

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> Tue, 21 Sep 2021 09:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/mabon-2021-making-manifestos-w-whitefeather-hunter-of-bioart-coven-1fxTNcKd https://www.missingwitches.com/?p=1973

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> Mabon 2021: Making Manifestos w Whitefeather Hunter of BioArt Coven Missing Witches 00:58:37 In this episode, Amy and Risa sit down with long time friend of the pod Whitefeather Hunter to discuss Science, Magic, how the Exquisite Corpse informs the collective work of the BioArt Coven and dig into the communally created BioArt Coven Manifesto. In this episode, Amy and Risa sit down with long time friend of the pod Whitefeather Hunter to discuss Science, Magic, how the Exquisite Corpse informs the collective work of the BioArt Coven and dig into the communally created BioArt Coven Manifesto. true full 98 793cde55-0f42-41d2-84d9-2552baf2c37e Lughnasadh Meditation: If You Want To Say Yes, Say Yes Wed, 4 Aug 2021 13:30:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/lughnasadh-meditation-if-you-want-to-say-yes-say-yes-uimV58gP Lughnasadh Meditation: If You Want To Say Yes, Say Yes Missing Witches 00:28:53 Field recordings as meditation from this Lammastide weekend. Amy and Risa gather with thoughtful friends around a fire to sing and cook and think and play and celebrate the bright harvest and the coming dark. Field recordings as meditation from this Lammastide weekend. Amy and Risa gather with thoughtful friends around a fire to sing and cook and think and play and celebrate the bright harvest and the coming dark. lughnasadh, first fruits, nature, harvest, missing witches, lammas, grain mother, meditation, magic true full 97 574abe42-7d75-4d60-af5a-badd583b6a85 WF Rebecca Barnstaple and Joseph Fx DeSouza: Dance Is A Healing Medicine https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Joseph-Desouza-2

http://www.braindetective.com/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33919770/

https://www.rebeccabarnstaple.com/

https://biology.gradstudies.yorku.ca/faculty/joseph-francis-desouza/

https://homepage.univie.ac.at/tecumseh.fitch/

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> Fri, 23 Jul 2021 12:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/wf-rebecca-barnstaple-and-joseph-fx-de-souza-dance-is-a-healing-medicine-meeting-you-today-has-changed-my-brain-MridBfxE https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Joseph-Desouza-2

http://www.braindetective.com/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33919770/

https://www.rebeccabarnstaple.com/

https://biology.gradstudies.yorku.ca/faculty/joseph-francis-desouza/

https://homepage.univie.ac.at/tecumseh.fitch/

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> WF Rebecca Barnstaple and Joseph Fx DeSouza: Dance Is A Healing Medicine Missing Witches 00:52:09 For this July Full Moon Risa interviews Rebecca Barnstaple and Joseph Fx DeSouza. We talked about the way each brain is a unique map of the world, and how we write on each other. "Meeting you today has changed my brain" said Joe. We talked about the knowledge in dance, and the power of “dreaming together” in Pow Wow. And we talked about why a history of colonialism is also a history of dances outlawed. "Dance for me is epistemological and ontological: Dance Has Knowledge... Dance is a way that people have held onto their power and shared their power stories. In a history of oppression there's good reason to tamp out dance. I'm very heartened by its return." (Rebecca Barnstaple.) For this July Full Moon Risa interviews Rebecca Barnstaple and Joseph Fx DeSouza. We talked about the way each brain is a unique map of the world, and how we write on each other. "Meeting you today has changed my brain" said Joe. We talked about the knowledge in dance, and the power of “dreaming together” in Pow Wow. And we talked about why a history of colonialism is also a history of dances outlawed. "Dance for me is epistemological and ontological: Dance Has Knowledge... Dance is a way that people have held onto their power and shared their power stories. In a history of oppression there's good reason to tamp out dance. I'm very heartened by its return." (Rebecca Barnstaple.) dance, healing, brain, neuroscience, medicine, pow wow, trance, sangoma true full 96 00970a82-8ec7-4e00-a3d2-bf0e2330fc8c WF LITHA 2021 Earth Bound Futures: QUEER The Heroes Journey and Find Your Inner Ally Sun, 20 Jun 2021 13:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/wf-litha-2021-earth-bound-futures-queer-the-heroes-journey-and-find-your-inner-ally-moAmc_mm WF LITHA 2021 Earth Bound Futures: QUEER The Heroes Journey and Find Your Inner Ally Missing Witches 01:05:46 For solstice and as a celebration of STRENGTH this Litha, we spoke with Tanya and Skye of Earthbound Futures. Honestly it took me forever to edit because I kept writing down astonishing things they said. Here are a few: Something I am learning from disability justice advocates is that there’s no healing for me if there’s not healing for the larger systems in the world... That’s the queering of the hero’s journey for me. I don’t want to fight something. I want to get together with other people and creatively destroy the systems and the structures that are keeping the world inaccessible and keeping us sick and making us sick. ... I feel like I’m trying to get in touch with a body that society has tried to make me dissociate from in so many ways. Growing a beard at 11 was so confusing. It was such a big secret, a secret that I’ve been holding on to, I was 32 when I started growing my beard and when I did that I feel like I unlocked all my queer ancestors. Be who you are. Smash that binary. I’m a bearded woman, I embody both energies. For solstice and as a celebration of STRENGTH this Litha, we spoke with Tanya and Skye of Earthbound Futures. Honestly it took me forever to edit because I kept writing down astonishing things they said. Here are a few: Something I am learning from disability justice advocates is that there’s no healing for me if there’s not healing for the larger systems in the world... That’s the queering of the hero’s journey for me. I don’t want to fight something. I want to get together with other people and creatively destroy the systems and the structures that are keeping the world inaccessible and keeping us sick and making us sick. ... I feel like I’m trying to get in touch with a body that society has tried to make me dissociate from in so many ways. Growing a beard at 11 was so confusing. It was such a big secret, a secret that I’ve been holding on to, I was 32 when I started growing my beard and when I did that I feel like I unlocked all my queer ancestors. Be who you are. Smash that binary. I’m a bearded woman, I embody both energies. witches, queer, drag, wrestling, chronic illness true full 95 ea597f13-04c0-4bfd-81d0-3c3033f5b11f JUNETEENTH w Lakeesha Harris: Brave Together https://www.missingwitches.com/2021/06/19/ep94-juneteenth-w-lakeesha-harris-brave-together/

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If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> Sat, 19 Jun 2021 09:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/juneteenth-w-lakeesha-harris-brave-together-K8wJkK2Q https://www.missingwitches.com/2021/06/19/ep94-juneteenth-w-lakeesha-harris-brave-together/

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> JUNETEENTH w Lakeesha Harris: Brave Together Missing Witches 01:01:19 To celebrate Juneteenth, Amy is joined by co-founder of Black Witch University, Lakeesha Harris - conjuring unapologetically for black liberation. Together we discuss the Emancipation Proclamation and it's failures, the continuing legacy of slavery, and pushing for black liberation. Brave Spaces, Grace, Power, the necessity of Ancestor communication, Radical acts of Healing, Magic, Aries-Energy, Reproductive Justice, and Lakeesha's multiple roles as teacher, activist, mother and Coven leader. "There is no safe space for us, especially as Witches," says Lakeesha, "but we can be brave together." To celebrate Juneteenth, Amy is joined by co-founder of Black Witch University, Lakeesha Harris - conjuring unapologetically for black liberation. Together we discuss the Emancipation Proclamation and it's failures, the continuing legacy of slavery, and pushing for black liberation. Brave Spaces, Grace, Power, the necessity of Ancestor communication, Radical acts of Healing, Magic, Aries-Energy, Reproductive Justice, and Lakeesha's multiple roles as teacher, activist, mother and Coven leader. "There is no safe space for us, especially as Witches," says Lakeesha, "but we can be brave together." true full 94 67fb3889-4a25-4b18-9024-48605a278270 What Is A Shaman? Panel & FUNDRAISER https://www.missingwitches.com/2021/05/11/what-is-a-shaman-panel-fundraiser/

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> Tue, 11 May 2021 09:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/what-is-a-shaman-panel-fundraiser-XUksyHtw https://www.missingwitches.com/2021/05/11/what-is-a-shaman-panel-fundraiser/

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

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]]> What Is A Shaman? Panel & FUNDRAISER Missing Witches 01:56:19 In this episode, inspired by the crazy events of January 2021, we ask: What is a Shaman? And: Who qualifies? We've gathered an INTERNATIONAL panel to discuss (among other things) Indigenous and Nordic perspectives on the word Shaman, and together we discuss the Hows and Whys of its usage. Thanks to our amazing panel of friends and coven mates: Margrét Stefánsdóttir (Denmark), Granddaughter Crow (aka Dr. Joy Gray) (USA), Michelle Beausejour (Canada), and Amanda Amour Lynx (Canada). This episode will also function as a FUNDRAISER for Native Women's Shelters so PLEASE consider making a donation (details in the episode and on our website) for a chance to win some AMAZING prizes, donated by the Missing Witches Coven At Large. In this episode, inspired by the crazy events of January 2021, we ask: What is a Shaman? And: Who qualifies? We've gathered an INTERNATIONAL panel to discuss (among other things) Indigenous and Nordic perspectives on the word Shaman, and together we discuss the Hows and Whys of its usage. Thanks to our amazing panel of friends and coven mates: Margrét Stefánsdóttir (Denmark), Granddaughter Crow (aka Dr. Joy Gray) (USA), Michelle Beausejour (Canada), and Amanda Amour Lynx (Canada). This episode will also function as a FUNDRAISER for Native Women's Shelters so PLEASE consider making a donation (details in the episode and on our website) for a chance to win some AMAZING prizes, donated by the Missing Witches Coven At Large. true full 93 4ae251f7-c1f9-4587-aad9-358c81705dfd BELTANE 2021 w Amy & Risa: Turning and Burning Sat, 1 May 2021 09:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/beltane-2021-w-amy-risa-turning-and-burning-zTWLttHk BELTANE 2021 w Amy & Risa: Turning and Burning Missing Witches 00:50:03 In this episode, Amy and Risa take a patented Missing Witches Spiral of conversation around the Beltane Bonfire of Imagination. We dance around our future plans, our May fundraiser for Native Women's Shelters (KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR THIS, WE'VE GOT SOME AMAZING RAFFLE PRIZES FOR DONORS), and our love of fire, literal and metaphorical. Turning (the Wheel) and Burning (the system). Image by Amy: We officially launched our Instagram on Beltane 2018 and I made some digital art for that post, so I figured I'd honour the anniversary with another digital bonfire. In this episode, Amy and Risa take a patented Missing Witches Spiral of conversation around the Beltane Bonfire of Imagination. We dance around our future plans, our May fundraiser for Native Women's Shelters (KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR THIS, WE'VE GOT SOME AMAZING RAFFLE PRIZES FOR DONORS), and our love of fire, literal and metaphorical. Turning (the Wheel) and Burning (the system). Image by Amy: We officially launched our Instagram on Beltane 2018 and I made some digital art for that post, so I figured I'd honour the anniversary with another digital bonfire. true full 92 3d0177ec-5723-428c-9518-e7fa3b3d48b0 WF Annwyn Avalon - We Are The Sacred Chalice And The Sacred Well http://www.waterwitchcraft.com/

Water Walkers 

https://www.protectthesacred.care/

 

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

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]]> Wed, 28 Apr 2021 12:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/wf-annwyn-avalon-we-are-the-sacred-chalice-and-the-sacred-well-63tqz0fj http://www.waterwitchcraft.com/

Water Walkers 

https://www.protectthesacred.care/

 

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

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]]> WF Annwyn Avalon - We Are The Sacred Chalice And The Sacred Well Missing Witches 00:45:58 Annwyn Avalon, water witch, asks how can we - within our own practice, lives and cultural structures - create something that is supportive of other water protectors all over the globe. In conversation with Risa, Annwyn shares how she came to the path of the water priestess and her vision for how people all around the world can join in the work of protecting the sacred water. Annwyn Avalon, water witch, asks how can we - within our own practice, lives and cultural structures - create something that is supportive of other water protectors all over the globe. In conversation with Risa, Annwyn shares how she came to the path of the water priestess and her vision for how people all around the world can join in the work of protecting the sacred water. water witch, water walkers true full 91 206f18ad-eac1-4bac-82ad-87975cf4da12 MW Scott Cunningham - There Can Be No Monopoly On Wisdom This episode was produced with research support from the incomparable Amy Townes Booth.

Works Cited

 

Cunningham, Scott. Earth Power: Techniques of Natural Magic. Llewellyn Publications; 1st edition (May 8 2013)

Cunningham, Scott. The Truth About Witchcraft Today . Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 1994.

Cunningham. Scott. Wicca: A Guide For the Solitary Practitioner. Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn Publications,2004

Kraig, Donald Michael. The Magical Life of Scott Cunningham. Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 2012.

Wilkens, John. “Chet Cunningham, Author Who Defied Writer's Block by Churning out 450 Books, Dies at 88.” Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2017, 9:55am, www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-chet-cunningham-20170324-story.html. 

Hagerty, James R. “Chet Cunningham's Advice to Writers: 'Put Your Butt in the Chair and Do It'.” The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones & Company, 31 Mar. 2017, 12:25pm, www.wsj.com/articles/cunninghams-advice-to-writers-put-your-butt-in-the-chair-and-do-it-1490968800. 

Martin, L.J. “Remembering Chet Cunningham.” Wolfpack Publishing, 5 Aug. 2017, wolfpackpublishing.com/remembering-chet-cunningham/. 

Ashworth, Christine. “Scott Cunningham.” Christine Ashworth,     christine-ashworth.com/scott-cunningham/. 

https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/SexualOrientation/ImpactCOVID19LGBTpersons.pdf

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0008429817710971

https://codepen.io/PHPSiteScripts/full/zoPGGm

http://www.u.arizona.edu/~afutrell/w%20civ%2002/albigensians.html#:~:text=Albigensian%20belief%20was%20dualistic%3A%20they,burdens%20of%20the%20material%20world.

https://books.openedition.org/obp/4390?lang=en

https://www.cathar.info/

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43285/adams-curse

http://rictornorton.co.uk/homopho4.htm

https://www.femalefirst.co.uk/features/witching-hour-lgbtq-and-paganism-1205509.html

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

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]]> Sun, 25 Apr 2021 12:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/mw-scott-cunningham-there-can-be-no-monopoly-on-wisdom-byb6cxZZ This episode was produced with research support from the incomparable Amy Townes Booth.

Works Cited

 

Cunningham, Scott. Earth Power: Techniques of Natural Magic. Llewellyn Publications; 1st edition (May 8 2013)

Cunningham, Scott. The Truth About Witchcraft Today . Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 1994.

Cunningham. Scott. Wicca: A Guide For the Solitary Practitioner. Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn Publications,2004

Kraig, Donald Michael. The Magical Life of Scott Cunningham. Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 2012.

Wilkens, John. “Chet Cunningham, Author Who Defied Writer's Block by Churning out 450 Books, Dies at 88.” Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2017, 9:55am, www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-chet-cunningham-20170324-story.html. 

Hagerty, James R. “Chet Cunningham's Advice to Writers: 'Put Your Butt in the Chair and Do It'.” The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones & Company, 31 Mar. 2017, 12:25pm, www.wsj.com/articles/cunninghams-advice-to-writers-put-your-butt-in-the-chair-and-do-it-1490968800. 

Martin, L.J. “Remembering Chet Cunningham.” Wolfpack Publishing, 5 Aug. 2017, wolfpackpublishing.com/remembering-chet-cunningham/. 

Ashworth, Christine. “Scott Cunningham.” Christine Ashworth,     christine-ashworth.com/scott-cunningham/. 

https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/SexualOrientation/ImpactCOVID19LGBTpersons.pdf

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0008429817710971

https://codepen.io/PHPSiteScripts/full/zoPGGm

http://www.u.arizona.edu/~afutrell/w%20civ%2002/albigensians.html#:~:text=Albigensian%20belief%20was%20dualistic%3A%20they,burdens%20of%20the%20material%20world.

https://books.openedition.org/obp/4390?lang=en

https://www.cathar.info/

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43285/adams-curse

http://rictornorton.co.uk/homopho4.htm

https://www.femalefirst.co.uk/features/witching-hour-lgbtq-and-paganism-1205509.html

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

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]]> MW Scott Cunningham - There Can Be No Monopoly On Wisdom Missing Witches 00:49:40 For so many of us who deviated down the occult aisles, Scott Cunningham was our first. We likely didn’t know he was gay, that wasn’t part of what he shared, but he made this other crucial choice that opened a magic and unexpected door to a way of relating to the living world, to ourselves, and to magic. And then he lived the craft and labour of that choice with incredibly generous dedication. He left 22 books in his 36 years, before he crossed to the summerland in 1990, taken by AIDS-related cryptococcal meningitis. The crux of the change he made, a change that unleashed ideas and philosophies and practices of nature-based spirituality on white North America and ushered in the most popularity Wicca and witchcraft had ever seen, was that he validated and empowered the lonely... This episode is dedicated to the queer, and to the lonely. For so many of us who deviated down the occult aisles, Scott Cunningham was our first. We likely didn’t know he was gay, that wasn’t part of what he shared, but he made this other crucial choice that opened a magic and unexpected door to a way of relating to the living world, to ourselves, and to magic. And then he lived the craft and labour of that choice with incredibly generous dedication. He left 22 books in his 36 years, before he crossed to the summerland in 1990, taken by AIDS-related cryptococcal meningitis. The crux of the change he made, a change that unleashed ideas and philosophies and practices of nature-based spirituality on white North America and ushered in the most popularity Wicca and witchcraft had ever seen, was that he validated and empowered the lonely... This episode is dedicated to the queer, and to the lonely. true full 90 e5ec2fb1-f1ff-4190-af73-151b484a5410 WF Emmie Tsumura - You Have To Believe In Magic https://www.missingwitches.com/2021/04/21/89-wf-emmie-tsumura-you-have-to-believe-in-magic/

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

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]]> Wed, 21 Apr 2021 09:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/wf-emmie-tsumura-you-have-to-believe-in-magic-2rAWjnVf https://www.missingwitches.com/2021/04/21/89-wf-emmie-tsumura-you-have-to-believe-in-magic/

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If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> WF Emmie Tsumura - You Have To Believe In Magic Missing Witches 00:53:53 In this episode, Amy chats with an old friend: Artist, Activist and Cancer Warrior Emmie Tsumura about her Japanese ancestry, art-making, pigeons and her project Pigeons for the People. Emmie shares some of the best advice she ever received, a healer told her: You have to believe in Magic. Emmie assures listeners, when you are looking for your ancestors, know that they are also looking for you. In this episode, Amy chats with an old friend: Artist, Activist and Cancer Warrior Emmie Tsumura about her Japanese ancestry, art-making, pigeons and her project Pigeons for the People. Emmie shares some of the best advice she ever received, a healer told her: You have to believe in Magic. Emmie assures listeners, when you are looking for your ancestors, know that they are also looking for you. true full 89 63c0aec9-949d-4ba1-94a5-625f1c3345fa MW Mayumi Oda - I Opened The Gate, Laughing https://www.missingwitches.com/2021/04/18/88-mayumi-oda-i-opened-the-gate-laughing/

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]]> Sun, 18 Apr 2021 09:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/mw-mayumi-oda-i-opened-the-gate-laughing-bBrWPFkf https://www.missingwitches.com/2021/04/18/88-mayumi-oda-i-opened-the-gate-laughing/

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]]> MW Mayumi Oda - I Opened The Gate, Laughing Missing Witches 00:29:37 In this episode, Amy paints a picture of Goddess Artist, Anti-nuclear/Anti-War Activist, Shinto Buddhist Gardener Mayumi Oda. Through Mayumi’s lens we’ll connect the Garden to the Land, war and nukes to paint and silks, art to activism, Hindu Gods to Buddhist monks, birth to death, and in death we return to the garden. In this episode, Amy paints a picture of Goddess Artist, Anti-nuclear/Anti-War Activist, Shinto Buddhist Gardener Mayumi Oda. Through Mayumi’s lens we’ll connect the Garden to the Land, war and nukes to paint and silks, art to activism, Hindu Gods to Buddhist monks, birth to death, and in death we return to the garden. true full 88 1e6fdeee-3f2b-4442-95d8-0cb5a5aaa22c WF Dr Marina Magloire - Oh My Body, Make Of Me Always A Woman Who Listens  

References:

 

https://twitter.com/m_myglory to follow Marina's writing

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/10/19/the-spirit-writing-of-lucille-clifton/

 

https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/984/Pedagogies-of-CrossingMeditations-on-Feminism

"I love arrogance in a woman" Ipsita Roy Chakraverti

Magloire says "they appear in the archive at the moment of their disappearance" and cites Saidiya Hartman.

Here is an incredible piece by Hartman, Venus in Two Acts. 

And a wonderful interview with Hartman: https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/saidiya-hartman-on-working-with-archives/

 

Combahee River Collective - If Black women were free, everybody could be freehttps://americanstudies.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/Keyword%20Coalition_Readings.pdf.

This episode is dedicated to Hallie May Meadows. Gone so Soon. 

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]]> Wed, 14 Apr 2021 12:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/wf-dr-marina-magloire-oh-my-body-make-of-me-always-a-woman-who-listens-mi_Z9ykS  

References:

 

https://twitter.com/m_myglory to follow Marina's writing

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/10/19/the-spirit-writing-of-lucille-clifton/

 

https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/984/Pedagogies-of-CrossingMeditations-on-Feminism

"I love arrogance in a woman" Ipsita Roy Chakraverti

Magloire says "they appear in the archive at the moment of their disappearance" and cites Saidiya Hartman.

Here is an incredible piece by Hartman, Venus in Two Acts. 

And a wonderful interview with Hartman: https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/saidiya-hartman-on-working-with-archives/

 

Combahee River Collective - If Black women were free, everybody could be freehttps://americanstudies.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/Keyword%20Coalition_Readings.pdf.

This episode is dedicated to Hallie May Meadows. Gone so Soon. 

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> WF Dr Marina Magloire - Oh My Body, Make Of Me Always A Woman Who Listens Missing Witches 00:29:40 "Being a Black Woman is a way of listening, a radical form of receptiveness to the lessons that history teaches." Dr Marina Magloire takes Risa on a beautiful trip through Lucille Clifton's spirit writing, the ways Cecile Fatiman and Marie Laveau remain multiple and uncontained, Carl Sagan and the voices in the archives. "Being a Black Woman is a way of listening, a radical form of receptiveness to the lessons that history teaches." Dr Marina Magloire takes Risa on a beautiful trip through Lucille Clifton's spirit writing, the ways Cecile Fatiman and Marie Laveau remain multiple and uncontained, Carl Sagan and the voices in the archives. true full 87 67a53da6-b74a-463f-af04-dcf2e1a245c2 Cecile Fatiman and The Haitian Revolution - The Leavening Of Our Liberation
JOURNAL ESSAYS

Boisvert, Jayne. "Colonial Hell and Female Slave Resistance in Saint-Domingue." Journal of Haitian Studies 7, no. 1 (2001): 61-76. Accessed January 17, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41715082.

BOOKS

Bellegarde-Smith, Patrick, and Claudine Michel, eds. Story. In Haitian Vodou: Spirit, Myth, and Reality. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2006. 

  • Bellegarde-Smith, Patrick, Claudine Michel, and Guerin C. Montilus. “Chapter 1 : Vodun and Social Transformation in the African Diasporic Experience: The Concept of Personhood in Haitian Vodun Religion.” Essay. In Haitian Vodou: Spirit, Myth, and Reality, p.1-6. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. 
  • Bellegarde-Smith, Patrick, Claudine Michel, and Patrick Bellegarde-Smith. “Chapter 3: Broken Mirrors: Mythos, Memories and National History.” Essay. In Haitian Vodou: Spirit, Myth, and Reality, p. 19-31. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. 
  • Racine-Toussaint, Marlene, Patrick Bellegarde-Smith, and Claudine Michel. “Chapter 7: From the Horses' Mouths: Women's Words/ Women's Worlds.” Essay. In Haitian Vodou: Spirit, Myth, and Reality, edited by Patrick Bellegarde-Smith and Claudine Michel, p.70–74. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. 
  • Bellegarde-Smith, Patrick, Claudine Michel, and Gerdes Fleurant. “Chapter 5: Vodun, Music, and Society in Haiti: Affirmation and Identity.” Essay. In Haitian Vodou: Spirit, Myth, and Reality, p.46-57. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. 

Dayan, Colin. Haiti, History, And The Gods. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 2008.

Asante, M. K., & Mazama, A. (Eds.) (2009). Encyclopedia of African religion. SAGE Publications, Inc., https://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781412964623

  • Lundy, Garvey F. "Fatiman, Cécile." In Encyclopedia of African Religion, edited by Asante, Molefi Kete., and Ama Mazama, 262-262. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412964623.n170.
  • Michel, Claudine, and Patrick Bellegarde-Smith. "Vodou." In Encyclopedia of Global Religion, edited by Juergensmeyer, Mark, and Wade C. Roof, 1365-68. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412997898.n775.
  • Pogue, Tiffany D. "Bois Caiman." In Encyclopedia of African Religion, edited by Asante, Molefi Kete., and Ama Mazama, 130-31. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412964623.n90.

Mazama, Ama. "Ezili Dantò." In Encyclopedia of African Religion, edited by Asante, Molefi Kete., and Ama Mazama, 253-54. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2009. 

http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412964623.n163

Lundy, Garvey F. "Fatiman, Cécile." In Encyclopedia of African Religion, edited by Asante, Molefi Kete., and Ama Mazama, 262-262. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2009.

 http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412964623.n170.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Louis_Pierrot

https://scalawagmagazine.org/2020/07/haitian-protest-miami/

https://haitiantimes.com/2020/06/09/haitians-embrace-black-lives-matter-join-protests-for-justice-police-accountability/

https://grassrootsonline.org/fr/blog/newsblogblack-lives-matter-police-repression-us-and-political-crisis-haiti/

https://haitiantimes.com/2021/01/22/exploring-haitian-independence-the-original-black-lives-matter-movement/

https://the-toast.net/2015/04/18/unruly-women-are-always-witches-outlander-s1-e-10/

https://gay.medium.com/magical-thinking-for-girls-e04eaf934546

https://occult-world.com/marinette/

https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/girltreks-black/resistance-day-14-c%C3%A9cile-Nxo9TB8IYcj/

https://www.facebook.com/Haiti.Now/posts/10156598178743381/

https://sites.duke.edu/blackatlantic/sample-page/storytelling-and-representation-of-bois-caiman/painting-and-bois-caiman/

https://scalawagmagazine.org/2020/07/haitian-protest-miami/

 

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> Sun, 11 Apr 2021 12:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/cecile-fatiman-and-the-haitian-revolution-the-leavening-of-our-liberation-9uRBm9uf
JOURNAL ESSAYS

Boisvert, Jayne. "Colonial Hell and Female Slave Resistance in Saint-Domingue." Journal of Haitian Studies 7, no. 1 (2001): 61-76. Accessed January 17, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41715082.

BOOKS

Bellegarde-Smith, Patrick, and Claudine Michel, eds. Story. In Haitian Vodou: Spirit, Myth, and Reality. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2006. 

  • Bellegarde-Smith, Patrick, Claudine Michel, and Guerin C. Montilus. “Chapter 1 : Vodun and Social Transformation in the African Diasporic Experience: The Concept of Personhood in Haitian Vodun Religion.” Essay. In Haitian Vodou: Spirit, Myth, and Reality, p.1-6. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. 
  • Bellegarde-Smith, Patrick, Claudine Michel, and Patrick Bellegarde-Smith. “Chapter 3: Broken Mirrors: Mythos, Memories and National History.” Essay. In Haitian Vodou: Spirit, Myth, and Reality, p. 19-31. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. 
  • Racine-Toussaint, Marlene, Patrick Bellegarde-Smith, and Claudine Michel. “Chapter 7: From the Horses' Mouths: Women's Words/ Women's Worlds.” Essay. In Haitian Vodou: Spirit, Myth, and Reality, edited by Patrick Bellegarde-Smith and Claudine Michel, p.70–74. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. 
  • Bellegarde-Smith, Patrick, Claudine Michel, and Gerdes Fleurant. “Chapter 5: Vodun, Music, and Society in Haiti: Affirmation and Identity.” Essay. In Haitian Vodou: Spirit, Myth, and Reality, p.46-57. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. 

Dayan, Colin. Haiti, History, And The Gods. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 2008.

Asante, M. K., & Mazama, A. (Eds.) (2009). Encyclopedia of African religion. SAGE Publications, Inc., https://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781412964623

  • Lundy, Garvey F. "Fatiman, Cécile." In Encyclopedia of African Religion, edited by Asante, Molefi Kete., and Ama Mazama, 262-262. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412964623.n170.
  • Michel, Claudine, and Patrick Bellegarde-Smith. "Vodou." In Encyclopedia of Global Religion, edited by Juergensmeyer, Mark, and Wade C. Roof, 1365-68. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412997898.n775.
  • Pogue, Tiffany D. "Bois Caiman." In Encyclopedia of African Religion, edited by Asante, Molefi Kete., and Ama Mazama, 130-31. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412964623.n90.

Mazama, Ama. "Ezili Dantò." In Encyclopedia of African Religion, edited by Asante, Molefi Kete., and Ama Mazama, 253-54. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2009. 

http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412964623.n163

Lundy, Garvey F. "Fatiman, Cécile." In Encyclopedia of African Religion, edited by Asante, Molefi Kete., and Ama Mazama, 262-262. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2009.

 http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412964623.n170.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Louis_Pierrot

https://scalawagmagazine.org/2020/07/haitian-protest-miami/

https://haitiantimes.com/2020/06/09/haitians-embrace-black-lives-matter-join-protests-for-justice-police-accountability/

https://grassrootsonline.org/fr/blog/newsblogblack-lives-matter-police-repression-us-and-political-crisis-haiti/

https://haitiantimes.com/2021/01/22/exploring-haitian-independence-the-original-black-lives-matter-movement/

https://the-toast.net/2015/04/18/unruly-women-are-always-witches-outlander-s1-e-10/

https://gay.medium.com/magical-thinking-for-girls-e04eaf934546

https://occult-world.com/marinette/

https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/girltreks-black/resistance-day-14-c%C3%A9cile-Nxo9TB8IYcj/

https://www.facebook.com/Haiti.Now/posts/10156598178743381/

https://sites.duke.edu/blackatlantic/sample-page/storytelling-and-representation-of-bois-caiman/painting-and-bois-caiman/

https://scalawagmagazine.org/2020/07/haitian-protest-miami/

 

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If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> Cecile Fatiman and The Haitian Revolution - The Leavening Of Our Liberation Missing Witches 00:49:49 This episode was produced with invaluable research support from Amy Townes Booth. It's about how - at the heart of a revolution unlike any other the world has ever seen - there is a story that became a seed at the heart of a national identity… a story of a secret ritual, and a priestess of the Lwa. And it's about how our rituals, our magic, our heritage can be the leavening agent of our liberation. A source of inspiration and a prelude to action. Our words, our spells, our gathering together even at a distance can change the world - can make the ingredients of ourselves and the moments we are in transform and rise. This insight from Haitian history is alchemical and speaks to why so many of us go seeking for spiritual philosophies that connect us to our ancestors and specifically to ideologies that explode our loneliness, that connect us in a fundamental way to others - spirits, humans, animals, trees - who see us as a part of the wholeness that is out there and also in here - coming to overcome the false brokenness and brokeness and exhaustion of a whole entire social political system founded on slavery. This episode is dedicated to François Alexandre and David Joseph. https://www.kut.org/crime-justice/2017-12-19/a-cousins-mission-to-say-all-the-things-david-joseph-couldnt https://scalawagmagazine.org/2020/07/haitian-protest-miami/ This episode was produced with invaluable research support from Amy Townes Booth. It's about how - at the heart of a revolution unlike any other the world has ever seen - there is a story that became a seed at the heart of a national identity… a story of a secret ritual, and a priestess of the Lwa. And it's about how our rituals, our magic, our heritage can be the leavening agent of our liberation. A source of inspiration and a prelude to action. Our words, our spells, our gathering together even at a distance can change the world - can make the ingredients of ourselves and the moments we are in transform and rise. This insight from Haitian history is alchemical and speaks to why so many of us go seeking for spiritual philosophies that connect us to our ancestors and specifically to ideologies that explode our loneliness, that connect us in a fundamental way to others - spirits, humans, animals, trees - who see us as a part of the wholeness that is out there and also in here - coming to overcome the false brokenness and brokeness and exhaustion of a whole entire social political system founded on slavery. This episode is dedicated to François Alexandre and David Joseph. https://www.kut.org/crime-justice/2017-12-19/a-cousins-mission-to-say-all-the-things-david-joseph-couldnt https://scalawagmagazine.org/2020/07/haitian-protest-miami/ haiti, spirituality, history, lwa, vodou, voodoo, revolution, cecile fatiman true full 86 781877b7-a3b5-459e-9f58-ab44572b68ef WF Starr Goode - We Are Waking Up...Popping The Bubble of Patriarchy's Spell https://www.missingwitches.com/2021/04/07/ep-85-wf-starr-goode-we-are-waking-up-popping-the-bubble-of-patriarchys-spell/

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> Wed, 7 Apr 2021 09:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/wf-starr-goode-we-are-waking-uppopping-the-bubble-of-patriarchys-spell-sVIrT1jt https://www.missingwitches.com/2021/04/07/ep-85-wf-starr-goode-we-are-waking-up-popping-the-bubble-of-patriarchys-spell/

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If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> WF Starr Goode - We Are Waking Up...Popping The Bubble of Patriarchy's Spell Missing Witches 00:41:29 In this episode, Amy chats with author, teacher and host of the now classic cable access series The Goddess in Art, Starr Goode. They discuss Starr's book Sheela Na Gig, contemporary vulva art, Starr's history of activism in service of the Goddess, publishing a feminist newspaper in 1970 with her roommates (because one of them had a printing press), and the Coven she's been a part of since the 80's: Nemesis. The love and power of a circle. Starr shares her multi-generational perspective and gives advice for the next generation of Witches. "We are fighting for the reclamation of our planet on all levels," says Starr. In this episode, Amy chats with author, teacher and host of the now classic cable access series The Goddess in Art, Starr Goode. They discuss Starr's book Sheela Na Gig, contemporary vulva art, Starr's history of activism in service of the Goddess, publishing a feminist newspaper in 1970 with her roommates (because one of them had a printing press), and the Coven she's been a part of since the 80's: Nemesis. The love and power of a circle. Starr shares her multi-generational perspective and gives advice for the next generation of Witches. "We are fighting for the reclamation of our planet on all levels," says Starr. true full 85 b7980f4f-daec-4cf1-9569-76356759b3dc MW Terry Tempest Williams - A Pencil Is A Wand And A Weapon Sun, 4 Apr 2021 09:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/mw-terry-tempest-williams-a-pencil-is-a-wand-and-a-weapon-joQPqAeA MW Terry Tempest Williams - A Pencil Is A Wand And A Weapon Missing Witches 00:40:23 “Language and landscape are my inspiration.” So said Terry Tempest Williams in her Personal Topography of America’s national parks: The Hour of Land, and I think this rings true for most Witches. We are Language and Landscape. Amy guides listeners through the work of this author, activist, seeker of social and environmental justice, this bird-lover of the Utah desert. Terry Tempest Williams is honest about desolation, silence, rage, cancer, confusion, fear and loss. She asks: How do we find the strength not to look away from all that is breaking our hearts? And we sense in her question a million tiny heartbreaks: personal, political, spiritual… finding beauty in a broken world. Featured photo by Kwaku Alston “Language and landscape are my inspiration.” So said Terry Tempest Williams in her Personal Topography of America’s national parks: The Hour of Land, and I think this rings true for most Witches. We are Language and Landscape. Amy guides listeners through the work of this author, activist, seeker of social and environmental justice, this bird-lover of the Utah desert. Terry Tempest Williams is honest about desolation, silence, rage, cancer, confusion, fear and loss. She asks: How do we find the strength not to look away from all that is breaking our hearts? And we sense in her question a million tiny heartbreaks: personal, political, spiritual… finding beauty in a broken world. Featured photo by Kwaku Alston true full 84 352b1389-62de-4609-a7b4-f4184285db06 WF Dr Julia Skinner - Collaborate With These Beings That Have Been Waiting To Support You Find Dr. Julia Skinner:

https://root-kitchens.com/

https://www.fermentationschool.com/courses/mudcloth-making?ref=762178

https://www.instagram.com/rootkitchens/

https://www.instagram.com/bookishjulia/

 

Julia mentions:

 

http://www.clarissapinkolaestes.com/

https://www.wildfermentation.com/

https://narinderbazen.com/

https://www.jennydorsey.co/

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> Wed, 31 Mar 2021 12:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/wf-dr-julia-skinner-collaborate-with-these-beings-that-have-been-waiting-to-support-you-AI9Roki9 Find Dr. Julia Skinner:

https://root-kitchens.com/

https://www.fermentationschool.com/courses/mudcloth-making?ref=762178

https://www.instagram.com/rootkitchens/

https://www.instagram.com/bookishjulia/

 

Julia mentions:

 

http://www.clarissapinkolaestes.com/

https://www.wildfermentation.com/

https://narinderbazen.com/

https://www.jennydorsey.co/

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> WF Dr Julia Skinner - Collaborate With These Beings That Have Been Waiting To Support You Missing Witches 00:30:38 In this episode Risa talks with Dr Julia Skinner of Root Kitchens about fermentation, alewives, Cerridwen and the brew of knowledge, the framing of women and women's work, and the meditational and transcendent potential in collaborating with the vast universe of beings that live with us, in us, all around us, supporting us at all times. In this episode Risa talks with Dr Julia Skinner of Root Kitchens about fermentation, alewives, Cerridwen and the brew of knowledge, the framing of women and women's work, and the meditational and transcendent potential in collaborating with the vast universe of beings that live with us, in us, all around us, supporting us at all times. true full 83 bcc639f3-5110-4fdb-a6d4-27df24d26ebc MW Diane di Prima - The War is the War for the Human Imagination "Diane di Prima: Visionary Poetics and the Hidden Religions" David Stephen Calonne

"Recollections of my life as a woman" Diane di Prima

“Occult Features of Anarchism” Erica Lagalisse (p59-60)

 

https://digitalcollections.poetshouse.org/digital-collection/chapbook-collection/Loba%2C-Part-1

https://www.psychologytoday.com/nz/blog/women-and-happiness/201004/can-you-be-writer-and-mother?amp

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/diane-di-prima

http://poetrymagazines.org.uk/magazine/indexe935.html?id=143

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/anarchism/

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/the-undying-voice-of-diane-di-prima

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/23/magazine/diane-di-prima-death.html

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-tuesday-edition-1.5778707/beat-poet-diane-di-prima-taught-her-kids-to-question-authority-and-believe-in-their-own-creativity-1.5778900

http://jacketmagazine.com/18/diprima-iv.html

https://allenginsberg.org/2020/08/t-a-6-diane-di-prima-happy-birthday/

https://thenewinquiry.com/underknown-writers-diane-di-prima/

https://www.litkicks.com/RevolutionaryLetters

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> Sun, 28 Mar 2021 12:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/mw-diane-di-prima-the-war-is-the-war-for-the-human-imagination-18DUzypO "Diane di Prima: Visionary Poetics and the Hidden Religions" David Stephen Calonne

"Recollections of my life as a woman" Diane di Prima

“Occult Features of Anarchism” Erica Lagalisse (p59-60)

 

https://digitalcollections.poetshouse.org/digital-collection/chapbook-collection/Loba%2C-Part-1

https://www.psychologytoday.com/nz/blog/women-and-happiness/201004/can-you-be-writer-and-mother?amp

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/diane-di-prima

http://poetrymagazines.org.uk/magazine/indexe935.html?id=143

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/anarchism/

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/the-undying-voice-of-diane-di-prima

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/23/magazine/diane-di-prima-death.html

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-tuesday-edition-1.5778707/beat-poet-diane-di-prima-taught-her-kids-to-question-authority-and-believe-in-their-own-creativity-1.5778900

http://jacketmagazine.com/18/diprima-iv.html

https://allenginsberg.org/2020/08/t-a-6-diane-di-prima-happy-birthday/

https://thenewinquiry.com/underknown-writers-diane-di-prima/

https://www.litkicks.com/RevolutionaryLetters

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

https://www.missingwitches.com/join-the-coven/

 

]]> MW Diane di Prima - The War is the War for the Human Imagination Missing Witches 00:33:08 In this episode Risa falls in love with Diane di Prima, and explores a "secret history of intellectual and spiritual evolution as essentially aimed at human liberation" with "anarchism, gender equality, communal property and sexual freedom" interlinked and nestled at the heart of this project. (Calonne 639) And she reads a lot of Diane's poetry and bursts into tears. In this episode Risa falls in love with Diane di Prima, and explores a "secret history of intellectual and spiritual evolution as essentially aimed at human liberation" with "anarchism, gender equality, communal property and sexual freedom" interlinked and nestled at the heart of this project. (Calonne 639) And she reads a lot of Diane's poetry and bursts into tears. true full 82 9ad3238a-9613-4852-ba73-94933b322283 WF Dr Beverly Smith - Anything That We Do To Help Each Other Is Resistance BOOK A SESSION WITH DR BEVERLY AT www.docbev.com

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> Wed, 24 Mar 2021 09:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/wf-dr-beverly-smith-anything-that-we-do-to-help-each-other-is-resistance-rWkDudCK BOOK A SESSION WITH DR BEVERLY AT www.docbev.com

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If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> WF Dr Beverly Smith - Anything That We Do To Help Each Other Is Resistance Missing Witches 00:57:27 In today's Witches Found, Amy invites Rootworker and Druid, Dr Beverly Smith to talk about about how Hoodoo and Conjure have evolved from a sense of need, and how Rootworkers fill those needs, working with both hands, the beauty of balance and belly breaths, and Dr Bev's practice of The Religion Of Justice. Together, we examine the Ethics of Magic, hoping our conversation can cast a spell of protection over the vulnerable. "Without accountability," Dr. Beverly says, "there can be no peace." BOOK A SESSION WITH DR BEVERLY AT www.docbev.com In today's Witches Found, Amy invites Rootworker and Druid, Dr Beverly Smith to talk about about how Hoodoo and Conjure have evolved from a sense of need, and how Rootworkers fill those needs, working with both hands, the beauty of balance and belly breaths, and Dr Bev's practice of The Religion Of Justice. Together, we examine the Ethics of Magic, hoping our conversation can cast a spell of protection over the vulnerable. "Without accountability," Dr. Beverly says, "there can be no peace." BOOK A SESSION WITH DR BEVERLY AT www.docbev.com true full 81 c27de949-271b-473b-ba86-c3f5db328520 MW Audre Lorde - Moon Marked And Touched By Sun Sun, 21 Mar 2021 09:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/mw-audre-lorde-moon-marked-and-touched-by-sun-j7PzeDSL MW Audre Lorde - Moon Marked And Touched By Sun Missing Witches 00:43:10 In this episode, Amy shares the story of patron saint of inter-sectional feminism, Audre Lorde. Moon marked and touched by sun, HER magic is unwritten but when the sea turns back it will leave HER shape behind. When Self described "Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet," Audre Lorde wrote those words in the first person in her poem A Woman Speaks, she was only partly correct - some, though definitely not all, of her magic is most assuredly written. In this episode, Amy shares the story of patron saint of inter-sectional feminism, Audre Lorde. Moon marked and touched by sun, HER magic is unwritten but when the sea turns back it will leave HER shape behind. When Self described "Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet," Audre Lorde wrote those words in the first person in her poem A Woman Speaks, she was only partly correct - some, though definitely not all, of her magic is most assuredly written. true full 80 615f8d75-938f-4171-a88a-f19f5120b7bf Ostara 2021: Healing, Resistance And Writing Books w Amanda Yates Garcia Sat, 20 Mar 2021 09:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/ostara-2021-healing-resistance-and-writing-books-w-amanda-yates-garcia-JOhlSW67 Ostara 2021: Healing, Resistance And Writing Books w Amanda Yates Garcia Missing Witches 01:11:45 This year, Amy and Risa celebrate Ostara with Amanda Yates Garcia aka The Oracle of LA, author of Initiated: Memoir of a Witch, AND the foreword to our book Missing Witches (in stores March 23rd!)!! Amanda gifts us with songs and stories from her mother's Book Of Shadows as we discuss how Witchcraft, Healing and Activism can become One. photo: ©2019 Amanda Yates Garcia by Siri Kaur This year, Amy and Risa celebrate Ostara with Amanda Yates Garcia aka The Oracle of LA, author of Initiated: Memoir of a Witch, AND the foreword to our book Missing Witches (in stores March 23rd!)!! Amanda gifts us with songs and stories from her mother's Book Of Shadows as we discuss how Witchcraft, Healing and Activism can become One. photo: ©2019 Amanda Yates Garcia by Siri Kaur true full 79 6077645b-cd83-41c8-bfcb-c9601ef6ddc8 Hunger Moon w Amy & Risa: Please Expand Sat, 27 Feb 2021 10:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/hunger-moon-w-amy-risa-please-expand-AUOKJMwh Hunger Moon w Amy & Risa: Please Expand Missing Witches 00:43:39 In this episode, Amy and Risa discuss Moon Rituals, Faith, Patience, and take a look back at three years of Missing Witches - from idea to podcast to book (Missing Witches THE BOOK available for pre-order now, in stores March 23rd). PLUS we almost entirely forget to mention that a new season of Missing Witches begins March 20th. This accompanying photo was taken the night we met!!! In this episode, Amy and Risa discuss Moon Rituals, Faith, Patience, and take a look back at three years of Missing Witches - from idea to podcast to book (Missing Witches THE BOOK available for pre-order now, in stores March 23rd). PLUS we almost entirely forget to mention that a new season of Missing Witches begins March 20th. This accompanying photo was taken the night we met!!! true full 78 7d7fc4e2-5309-4672-b50c-eba345f24f1a Imbolc 2021: Astrology w/ Monefa Walker + Eliza Robertson https://www.missingwitches.com/2021/02/01/imbolc-2021-astrology-w-monefa-walker-eliza-robertson/

http://www.elizarobertson.com/

https://kosmictonic.com/

Sekhmet's Visions YT: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo5ivnEPYpFw9QRuwVHXz7Q

 

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> Mon, 1 Feb 2021 10:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/imbolc-2021-astrology-w-monefa-walker-eliza-robertson-JjfcGEVs https://www.missingwitches.com/2021/02/01/imbolc-2021-astrology-w-monefa-walker-eliza-robertson/

http://www.elizarobertson.com/

https://kosmictonic.com/

Sekhmet's Visions YT: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo5ivnEPYpFw9QRuwVHXz7Q

 

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

https://www.missingwitches.com/join-the-coven/

 

]]> Imbolc 2021: Astrology w/ Monefa Walker + Eliza Robertson Missing Witches 01:22:57 For this year's Imbolc Special, we reached for the stars and invited astrologers Monefa Walker from Sekhmet's Visions and Eliza Robertson from Kosmic Tonic to help us understand how the movements of the planets inform our lives. Monefa revisits her predictions for 2020, gives us some new ones for 2021, shares some Imbolc Shadow Work and reminds us that we are infinite beings inside a human experience; our souls are knowledgeable. Eliza shares her Imbolc ritual for Brigid and makes a fascinating and inspiring comparison between the astrology of Monica Sjoo’s protest event, and the event at which Missing Witches appeared in her honour!!! For this year's Imbolc Special, we reached for the stars and invited astrologers Monefa Walker from Sekhmet's Visions and Eliza Robertson from Kosmic Tonic to help us understand how the movements of the planets inform our lives. Monefa revisits her predictions for 2020, gives us some new ones for 2021, shares some Imbolc Shadow Work and reminds us that we are infinite beings inside a human experience; our souls are knowledgeable. Eliza shares her Imbolc ritual for Brigid and makes a fascinating and inspiring comparison between the astrology of Monica Sjoo’s protest event, and the event at which Missing Witches appeared in her honour!!! true full 77 654c7a6d-557c-445a-81aa-e0045ad7fd8d WF Sarah Faith Gottesdiener: Lunar Living is in Direct Opposition to Capitalism and Linear Time In this episode, we talk about Sarah Faith Gottesdiener's beautiful Moon Book and how she came to moon magic and we begin to put ideas in the cauldron of the big question: What is the role of magic in our world, right now?

 

Find Sarah's art and books and projects and subscribe to her thoughtful newsletter at:

https://modernwomenprojects.com/

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> Thu, 28 Jan 2021 13:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/wf-sarah-faith-gottesdiener-lunar-living-is-in-direct-opposition-to-capitalism-and-linear-time-4nctORS1 In this episode, we talk about Sarah Faith Gottesdiener's beautiful Moon Book and how she came to moon magic and we begin to put ideas in the cauldron of the big question: What is the role of magic in our world, right now?

 

Find Sarah's art and books and projects and subscribe to her thoughtful newsletter at:

https://modernwomenprojects.com/

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

https://www.missingwitches.com/join-the-coven/

 

]]> WF Sarah Faith Gottesdiener: Lunar Living is in Direct Opposition to Capitalism and Linear Time Missing Witches 00:32:25 In this episode, we talk about Sarah Faith Gottesdiener's beautiful Moon Book and how she came to moon magic and we begin to put ideas in the cauldron of the big question: What is the role of magic in our world, right now? Find Sarah's art and books and projects and subscribe to her thoughtful newsletter at: https://modernwomenprojects.com/ In this episode, we talk about Sarah Faith Gottesdiener's beautiful Moon Book and how she came to moon magic and we begin to put ideas in the cauldron of the big question: What is the role of magic in our world, right now? Find Sarah's art and books and projects and subscribe to her thoughtful newsletter at: https://modernwomenprojects.com/ true full 76 dbea0e0c-0ebf-4b26-93bc-cbf7fcb25f30 YULETIDE SPECIAL 2020 with Jinkx Monsoon and Kenneth Friend!!! www.jinkxanddela.com

https://www.missingwitches.com/2020/12/21/yuletide-special-2020-with-jinkx-monsoon-and-kenneth-friend/

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> Mon, 21 Dec 2020 10:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/yuletide-special-2020-with-jinkx-monsoon-and-kenneth-friend-dhabDwtD www.jinkxanddela.com

https://www.missingwitches.com/2020/12/21/yuletide-special-2020-with-jinkx-monsoon-and-kenneth-friend/

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> YULETIDE SPECIAL 2020 with Jinkx Monsoon and Kenneth Friend!!! Missing Witches 01:36:53 This this year we had the honour and pleasure of spending our solstice with housemates/besties Jinkx Monsoon and Kenneth Friend. We talked about the Jinkx and BenDeLaCreme holiday special "THE JINKX & DELA HOLIDAY SPECIAL" (stream it NOW - www.jinkxanddela.com ) and learning to love the shadows, our own and those that winter brings. Together we dismantle a number of binaries. Male:female Plant:weed Good:bad Light:dark. AND As gifts to our beloved coven, Kenny offers a reading and Jinkx a song. Blessed Be our chosen families. Blessed Be our Yuletide. Blessed be our coven. This this year we had the honour and pleasure of spending our solstice with housemates/besties Jinkx Monsoon and Kenneth Friend. We talked about the Jinkx and BenDeLaCreme holiday special "THE JINKX & DELA HOLIDAY SPECIAL" (stream it NOW - www.jinkxanddela.com ) and learning to love the shadows, our own and those that winter brings. Together we dismantle a number of binaries. Male:female Plant:weed Good:bad Light:dark. AND As gifts to our beloved coven, Kenny offers a reading and Jinkx a song. Blessed Be our chosen families. Blessed Be our Yuletide. Blessed be our coven. true full 75 6c4adc42-f53c-473f-9e4f-5b4f8efa3149 WF Saleema Nawaz: Songs for the End of the World Mon, 30 Nov 2020 11:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/wf-saleema-nawaz-ZDz8GN6X WF Saleema Nawaz: Songs for the End of the World Missing Witches 00:21:19 Risa talks with Saleema Nawaz, author of the weirdly prophetic and deeply lovely and hopeful Songs for the End of the World about coming out as a witch in our teens, tapping into the vast ocean of inspiration, living in a world you spent years imagining, and writing as an encounter with fear. "Astounding. . . . The book is surprisingly reassuring. If someone could have imagined what we're going through in such vivid details, it somehow makes the situation less scary, less predictable, more knowable." — The Globe and Mail "In these dark days, Saleema Nawaz dares to write of hope. Songs for the End of the World is a loving, vivid, tenderly felt novel about men, women, and a possible apocalypse. I couldn't put it down." — Sean Michaels, author of Us Conductors and The Wagers. https://www.saleemanawaz.com/ Risa talks with Saleema Nawaz, author of the weirdly prophetic and deeply lovely and hopeful Songs for the End of the World about coming out as a witch in our teens, tapping into the vast ocean of inspiration, living in a world you spent years imagining, and writing as an encounter with fear. "Astounding. . . . The book is surprisingly reassuring. If someone could have imagined what we're going through in such vivid details, it somehow makes the situation less scary, less predictable, more knowable." — The Globe and Mail "In these dark days, Saleema Nawaz dares to write of hope. Songs for the End of the World is a loving, vivid, tenderly felt novel about men, women, and a possible apocalypse. I couldn't put it down." — Sean Michaels, author of Us Conductors and The Wagers. https://www.saleemanawaz.com/ true full 74 30db3326-004e-4f8d-9e2f-d0057fa7e9a2 Samhain 2020 w Loretta Ledesma and Angela Alberto: A Good Death https://www.missingwitches.com/2020/10/31/samhain-2020-w-loretta-ledesma-and-angela-alberto-a-good-death/

 

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

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]]> Sat, 31 Oct 2020 09:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/samhain-2020-w-loretta-ledesma-and-angela-alberto-a-good-death-X3bcZ_JE https://www.missingwitches.com/2020/10/31/samhain-2020-w-loretta-ledesma-and-angela-alberto-a-good-death/

 

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> Samhain 2020 w Loretta Ledesma and Angela Alberto: A Good Death Missing Witches 01:27:11 In our 2020 Samhain special, Amy and Risa are joined by two of our favourite witches to talk about death and spirits and the politics of dying - also ghosts. Plus Loretta solves for us the ancient mystery of what happens when we die. Loretta, aka The Death Witch, considers Ancestor Veneration to be a key aspect of her practice. She co-runs Ritual Craft in Colorado (both the School and the Shop) and is the founder of Mile High Conjure Gala. Angela is a Death Midwife who lives in Portland. She offers Death Midwifery Services, Virtual Living Funeral Ceremonies, Guided Death and Ancestral Healing Meditations and End of Life Planning. This episode is dedicated, in loving memory, to our sister Anita. May your name never go unspoken. In our 2020 Samhain special, Amy and Risa are joined by two of our favourite witches to talk about death and spirits and the politics of dying - also ghosts. Plus Loretta solves for us the ancient mystery of what happens when we die. Loretta, aka The Death Witch, considers Ancestor Veneration to be a key aspect of her practice. She co-runs Ritual Craft in Colorado (both the School and the Shop) and is the founder of Mile High Conjure Gala. Angela is a Death Midwife who lives in Portland. She offers Death Midwifery Services, Virtual Living Funeral Ceremonies, Guided Death and Ancestral Healing Meditations and End of Life Planning. This episode is dedicated, in loving memory, to our sister Anita. May your name never go unspoken. true full 73 5d4b47e7-6c4f-4038-8fa3-0bf8baf7f027 WF Kristen Sollée: Witch Hunt http://kristensollee.com/

https://www.missingwitches.com/2020/10/28/wf-kristen-sollee-witch-hunt/

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]]> Wed, 28 Oct 2020 09:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/wf-kristen-sollee-witch-hunt-DOcPFo7z http://kristensollee.com/

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The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> WF Kristen Sollée: Witch Hunt Missing Witches 00:47:04 In this episode Amy chats with Witch, Educator and Author Kristen Sollée about her books Cat Call, Witches Sluts Feminists AND her latest, a travelogue called Witch Hunt. They discuss capitalism, the witchy Vatican, Rock n Roll and the Occult, tattoos and what it means to be a Witch in the 21st century. In this episode Amy chats with Witch, Educator and Author Kristen Sollée about her books Cat Call, Witches Sluts Feminists AND her latest, a travelogue called Witch Hunt. They discuss capitalism, the witchy Vatican, Rock n Roll and the Occult, tattoos and what it means to be a Witch in the 21st century. true full 72 65be080b-e911-43a9-bf7d-2581b47d4532 MW Gaura Devi: This Forest Is Our Mother's Home. We Run Our Lives Through This. Sun, 25 Oct 2020 09:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/mw-gaura-devi-JTyVwlrv MW Gaura Devi: This Forest Is Our Mother's Home. We Run Our Lives Through This. Missing Witches 00:32:03 This is a story about hugging trees. About the women who inspired the iconic environmental Chipko movement in India, which literally means to hug, and it’s a story about the Bishnoi faith and the women leaders from that small spiritual minority in the Himalayan foothills, the ones who triumphed, and the ones who were murdered protecting the ancient trees that hold back the all-consuming desert and keep the mountains up. This is the story of Amrita Devi, and Gaura Devi, who lived and fought for trees 300 years apart in the Marwar desert region of western Rajasthan. This is a story about hugging trees. About the women who inspired the iconic environmental Chipko movement in India, which literally means to hug, and it’s a story about the Bishnoi faith and the women leaders from that small spiritual minority in the Himalayan foothills, the ones who triumphed, and the ones who were murdered protecting the ancient trees that hold back the all-consuming desert and keep the mountains up. This is the story of Amrita Devi, and Gaura Devi, who lived and fought for trees 300 years apart in the Marwar desert region of western Rajasthan. true full 71 c49a19fd-e7e9-4ff7-bd9d-19b3d0d6819d WF Kenya Coviak: Conjuring Detroit Wed, 21 Oct 2020 09:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/wf-kenya-coviak-detroit-conjure-wI22gJee WF Kenya Coviak: Conjuring Detroit Missing Witches 00:39:22 In this episode, Risa chats with originator and founder of the Detroit Conjure and Folk Magic Festival (as well as organizer of many other Witch fests and social justice initiatives), a person whom Yvonne Chireau called, "one of the few, rare, real live Black American Witches" writer, speaker, teacher, Witch, Kenya Coviak. Kenya guides listeners on a tour of her Detroit and her praxis. In this episode, Risa chats with originator and founder of the Detroit Conjure and Folk Magic Festival (as well as organizer of many other Witch fests and social justice initiatives), a person whom Yvonne Chireau called, "one of the few, rare, real live Black American Witches" writer, speaker, teacher, Witch, Kenya Coviak. Kenya guides listeners on a tour of her Detroit and her praxis. true full 70 fd661443-3aad-4bf5-ba42-a90c4ddb2697 MW Margaret Murray: What Science Calls Nature and Religion Calls God An archeologist before there were any.  The point of origin for the idea that witches gather in covens. The mother of all subsequent covens, in a way. The first woman to unwrap a mummy. Author of ''The Witch-Cult in Western Europe''. Criticized for her cognitive leaps, discredited for the way she pieced through sources choosing what resonated, and for the way that, over time, the ellipses in some of her quotes go missing. A Feminist who marched for the vote and ardently supported women scholars and archeologists out in the field. A witch who cursed a peer in front of witnesses and became president of the Folklore Society when she was in her 90s. A person of fierce connection to the past, who sketched into mainstream modern thought the idea that pre-christians had a system of worship and practice that was joyful, tied to a goddess, and deeply invested in the earth and animals...

This episode is dedicated to that smart as a whip, fairy godmother witch, tomb-whisperer and wildly prolific and problematic author, Margaret Alice Murray. 

 

The Life of Margaret Alice Murray: A Woman's Work in Archaeology. Kathleen Sheppard, Lexington Books, Toronto, 2013.

The Witch Cult in Western Europe: A Study in Anthropology. Margaret Alice Murray, 1921.

Murray, M A (1963). The Genesis of Religion. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

https://www.britannica.com/place/Abydos-ancient-city-Egypt#ref83857

Palgrave Advances in Witchcraft Historiography

https://www.lonelyplanet.com/egypt/abydos/attractions/osireion/a/poi-sig/1574759/1330439

https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=KWYSAAAAQBAJ&pg=GBS.PA196

https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-famous-people/margaret-murray-mother-egyptology-grandmother-wicca-or-fairy-godmother-007832

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Murray#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWinick2015565-237

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xye9yk/the-forgotten-egyptologist-and-first-wave-feminist-who-invented-wicca

https://www.ai-journal.com/articles/10.5334/ai.1608/

The Mistake of Dismissing Margaret Murray and the Origins of Wicca

http://www.ancient-wisdom.com/egyptabydoss.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mishnah

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gematria

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osiris#:~:text=The%20ritual%20reenactment%20of%20Osiris's,been%20drowned%20in%20the%20Nile

https://www.gaia.com/article/ancient-egypt-and-freemasonry

https://www.ai-journal.com/articles/10.5334/ai.1608/

https://english.alarabiya.net/en/features/2017/04/11/How-Egypt-was-Christian-before-the-birth-of-Christ

Word Made Number Made Building

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/591897

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

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]]> Sun, 18 Oct 2020 09:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/mw-margaret-murray-what-science-calls-nature-and-religion-calls-god-1u_rzbXY An archeologist before there were any.  The point of origin for the idea that witches gather in covens. The mother of all subsequent covens, in a way. The first woman to unwrap a mummy. Author of ''The Witch-Cult in Western Europe''. Criticized for her cognitive leaps, discredited for the way she pieced through sources choosing what resonated, and for the way that, over time, the ellipses in some of her quotes go missing. A Feminist who marched for the vote and ardently supported women scholars and archeologists out in the field. A witch who cursed a peer in front of witnesses and became president of the Folklore Society when she was in her 90s. A person of fierce connection to the past, who sketched into mainstream modern thought the idea that pre-christians had a system of worship and practice that was joyful, tied to a goddess, and deeply invested in the earth and animals...

This episode is dedicated to that smart as a whip, fairy godmother witch, tomb-whisperer and wildly prolific and problematic author, Margaret Alice Murray. 

 

The Life of Margaret Alice Murray: A Woman's Work in Archaeology. Kathleen Sheppard, Lexington Books, Toronto, 2013.

The Witch Cult in Western Europe: A Study in Anthropology. Margaret Alice Murray, 1921.

Murray, M A (1963). The Genesis of Religion. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

https://www.britannica.com/place/Abydos-ancient-city-Egypt#ref83857

Palgrave Advances in Witchcraft Historiography

https://www.lonelyplanet.com/egypt/abydos/attractions/osireion/a/poi-sig/1574759/1330439

https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=KWYSAAAAQBAJ&pg=GBS.PA196

https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-famous-people/margaret-murray-mother-egyptology-grandmother-wicca-or-fairy-godmother-007832

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Murray#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWinick2015565-237

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xye9yk/the-forgotten-egyptologist-and-first-wave-feminist-who-invented-wicca

https://www.ai-journal.com/articles/10.5334/ai.1608/

The Mistake of Dismissing Margaret Murray and the Origins of Wicca

http://www.ancient-wisdom.com/egyptabydoss.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mishnah

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gematria

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osiris#:~:text=The%20ritual%20reenactment%20of%20Osiris's,been%20drowned%20in%20the%20Nile

https://www.gaia.com/article/ancient-egypt-and-freemasonry

https://www.ai-journal.com/articles/10.5334/ai.1608/

https://english.alarabiya.net/en/features/2017/04/11/How-Egypt-was-Christian-before-the-birth-of-Christ

Word Made Number Made Building

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/591897

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> MW Margaret Murray: What Science Calls Nature and Religion Calls God Missing Witches 00:27:04 An archeologist before there were any. The point of origin for the idea that witches gather in covens. The mother of all subsequent covens, in a way. The first woman to unwrap a mummy. Author of ''The Witch-Cult in Western Europe''. Criticized for the way she worked, partially because she made flying leaps, she went following… something! following her own intuition from what she saw and heard in primary sources without relying on what experts had already said. Criticized for her cognitive leaps, discredited for the way she pieced through sources choosing what resonated, and for the way that, over time, the ellipses in some of her quotes go missing. A Feminist who marched for the vote and ardently supported women scholars and archeologists out in the field. A witch who cursed a peer in front of witnesses and became president of the Folklore Society when she was in her 90s. A person of fierce connection to the past who sketched into mainstream modern thought the idea that pre-christians had a system of worship and practice that was joyful, tied to a goddess, and deeply invested in the earth and animals... This episode is dedicated to that smart as a whip, fairy godmother witch, tomb-whisperer and wildly prolific and problematic author, Margaret Alice Murray. An archeologist before there were any. The point of origin for the idea that witches gather in covens. The mother of all subsequent covens, in a way. The first woman to unwrap a mummy. Author of ''The Witch-Cult in Western Europe''. Criticized for the way she worked, partially because she made flying leaps, she went following… something! following her own intuition from what she saw and heard in primary sources without relying on what experts had already said. Criticized for her cognitive leaps, discredited for the way she pieced through sources choosing what resonated, and for the way that, over time, the ellipses in some of her quotes go missing. A Feminist who marched for the vote and ardently supported women scholars and archeologists out in the field. A witch who cursed a peer in front of witnesses and became president of the Folklore Society when she was in her 90s. A person of fierce connection to the past who sketched into mainstream modern thought the idea that pre-christians had a system of worship and practice that was joyful, tied to a goddess, and deeply invested in the earth and animals... This episode is dedicated to that smart as a whip, fairy godmother witch, tomb-whisperer and wildly prolific and problematic author, Margaret Alice Murray. true full 69 3717ab5f-e437-4161-bf14-2bae9ab160dc WF Cedar Eve Peters: Shape-shifting https://www.instagram.com/cedareve/

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> Wed, 14 Oct 2020 09:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/wf-cedar-eve-peters-shape-shifting-Z4l5TCgO https://www.instagram.com/cedareve/

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> WF Cedar Eve Peters: Shape-shifting Missing Witches 00:36:52 In this episode, Amy chats with artist and artisan Cedar Eve Peters about tiny beads, giant murals and everything in between. In this episode, Amy chats with artist and artisan Cedar Eve Peters about tiny beads, giant murals and everything in between. true full 68 d18a6d2d-0b93-4df1-bb0a-fdf8e8f782b0 MW Buffy Sainte Marie: This Is My Path. Discover Your Own. Sun, 11 Oct 2020 09:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/mw-buffy-sainte-marie-this-is-my-path-discover-your-own-D7ZQXyeN MW Buffy Sainte Marie: This Is My Path. Discover Your Own. Missing Witches 00:43:12 Most of our Missing Witches episodes are inspired by words - books, articles, poems, spells, but the idea for today’s offering came from my record collection. We say Words are Spells a lot around here, but so too are notes, tones, music, vibrations, vibrato. Buffy Sainte Marie is another magical being who doesn’t show her witchiness through occult study, cauldrons, crystals or tarot cards, but rather, through a devotion to change, a reverence for nature, a recognition of the power of ceremony. The nerve to go her own way. She sang, “Magic is Alive” and claims that the core of her belief system is Creativity. So by me, and for this circle, this coven of stories and knowledge and healing, Buffy Sainte Marie is undoubtedly holy. A Medicine Woman, with Medicine Songs. Most of our Missing Witches episodes are inspired by words - books, articles, poems, spells, but the idea for today’s offering came from my record collection. We say Words are Spells a lot around here, but so too are notes, tones, music, vibrations, vibrato. Buffy Sainte Marie is another magical being who doesn’t show her witchiness through occult study, cauldrons, crystals or tarot cards, but rather, through a devotion to change, a reverence for nature, a recognition of the power of ceremony. The nerve to go her own way. She sang, “Magic is Alive” and claims that the core of her belief system is Creativity. So by me, and for this circle, this coven of stories and knowledge and healing, Buffy Sainte Marie is undoubtedly holy. A Medicine Woman, with Medicine Songs. true full 67 f34f41a6-5e3b-41d3-bf70-8273455eb54c WF Sherry Shone aka That Hoodoo Lady: Reclaiming The Bible Jeremiah 29:11

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]]> Wed, 7 Oct 2020 09:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/wf-sherry-shone-aka-that-hoodoo-lady-the-bible-rgLW3qeT Jeremiah 29:11

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> WF Sherry Shone aka That Hoodoo Lady: Reclaiming The Bible Missing Witches 00:56:14 In this episode, Amy chats with Sherry Shone, hoodoo practitioner and author of The Hoodoo Guide to the Bible: Advice From a Real Hoodoo Worker about her book, magic, and together they go through the steps of one of Sherry's specialties: Turning a hurtful Bible verse into a Helpful Exercise. In this episode, Amy chats with Sherry Shone, hoodoo practitioner and author of The Hoodoo Guide to the Bible: Advice From a Real Hoodoo Worker about her book, magic, and together they go through the steps of one of Sherry's specialties: Turning a hurtful Bible verse into a Helpful Exercise. true full 66 6f5c3b13-59de-4b9a-9b1e-cb5df93e77dd MW Harriet Tubman: Reach For The Stars To Change The World Sun, 4 Oct 2020 09:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/mw-harriet-tubman-reach-for-the-stars-to-change-the-world-yyM0m2ca MW Harriet Tubman: Reach For The Stars To Change The World Missing Witches 00:40:34 Today’s episode is unlike most because you’ve almost 100% heard of our featured witch. But the Missing part of Missing Witches comes in many forms. In American history, Harriet Tubman’s story is oft told, a hero of civil rights, a literal trailblazer, railroad conductor, freedom fighter whose face was set to appear on the american twenty dollar bill, making her the only woman and the only black person to hold such a distinction. Monuments, schools, museums and libraries, even a U.S. military ship bear her name. So for sure I’d heard of Harriet Tubman. What I had not heard was that she was a Witch. The Missing part, for me, in Harriet’s story, is the Witch part. So we’ll be hitting some key biographical points, but today, we’ll mostly go looking for the Witch part we’ve been Missing. Today’s episode is unlike most because you’ve almost 100% heard of our featured witch. But the Missing part of Missing Witches comes in many forms. In American history, Harriet Tubman’s story is oft told, a hero of civil rights, a literal trailblazer, railroad conductor, freedom fighter whose face was set to appear on the american twenty dollar bill, making her the only woman and the only black person to hold such a distinction. Monuments, schools, museums and libraries, even a U.S. military ship bear her name. So for sure I’d heard of Harriet Tubman. What I had not heard was that she was a Witch. The Missing part, for me, in Harriet’s story, is the Witch part. So we’ll be hitting some key biographical points, but today, we’ll mostly go looking for the Witch part we’ve been Missing. true full 65 3ce860e2-ab77-4bb6-aca3-10d478273048 WF Yvonne Chireau: Black Magic Wed, 30 Sep 2020 09:55:15 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/wf-yvonne-chireau-black-magic-S24XBfkx WF Yvonne Chireau: Black Magic Missing Witches 00:43:58 In this episode, Risa chats with professor of religion Yvonne P. Chireau, author of Black Magic: Religion and the African American Conjuring Tradition. In this episode, Risa chats with professor of religion Yvonne P. Chireau, author of Black Magic: Religion and the African American Conjuring Tradition. true full 64 1683b70f-533a-40da-a54f-a3aa3cd0c914 MW Dihya al Kahina: A Free and Noble Witch Story behind the image:

 

"During a visit to the Kabyle region in 2006, I photographed graffiti painted on a town’s whitewashed walls that featured various historical figures adopted by the Amazigh movement. Busts of three figures done by an unidentified graffiti artist included a woman on the left of a geometric design and two men on its right. Underneath each bust was a name written in Tifinagh, an ancient Berber script dating back to the fourth century BCE that was used to write administrative texts and funerary inscriptions across northern Africa prior to use of Arabic. Amazigh activists use individual Tifinagh letters as identity markers, writing slogans on public spaces, and, in this case, a graffiti artist wrote the word “Dihya” underneath this female figure referring to the Kahina’s actual name."

 

Cynthia Becker

https://mizanproject.org/the-kahina-the-female-face-of-berber-history/

https://www.jstor.org/stable/1595873?casa_token=X3UeRAwCHOkAAAAA%3ABghUhzzsr9e8cri0Lmr0J4--x2BmuuiQtKSTFHUsCCM9r1py_g8QlnkYY2DNqVjznKjFPiDeAboWCUpeZsQ7op0VxLJbftbZIIJJ3A0zcTnaSWXwDvuhbg&seq=4#metadata_info_tab_contents

https://intercontinentalcry.org/free-people-the-imazighen-of-north-africa/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_Berber_religion

https://mospace.umsystem.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10355/12088/LewisKahkatYac.pdf?sequence=1

https://www.ancient.eu/Kahina/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_Berber_religion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berbers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dihya

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Africa_during_Antiquity

https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/kahina-r-695-703-ce

https://www.blackhistorybuff.com/blogs/the-black-history-buff-blog/the-kahina-queen-of-the-berbers-ruled-688-705-ad

https://www.arabamerica.com/an-early-feminist-al-kahina-7th-century-north-african-queen-fact-or-fancy/

https://www.audubon.org/news/are-these-birds-better-computers-predicting-hurricane-seasons

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> Sun, 27 Sep 2020 09:55:11 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/mw-dihya-al-kahina-a-free-and-noble-witch-qzo9wgIz Story behind the image:

 

"During a visit to the Kabyle region in 2006, I photographed graffiti painted on a town’s whitewashed walls that featured various historical figures adopted by the Amazigh movement. Busts of three figures done by an unidentified graffiti artist included a woman on the left of a geometric design and two men on its right. Underneath each bust was a name written in Tifinagh, an ancient Berber script dating back to the fourth century BCE that was used to write administrative texts and funerary inscriptions across northern Africa prior to use of Arabic. Amazigh activists use individual Tifinagh letters as identity markers, writing slogans on public spaces, and, in this case, a graffiti artist wrote the word “Dihya” underneath this female figure referring to the Kahina’s actual name."

 

Cynthia Becker

https://mizanproject.org/the-kahina-the-female-face-of-berber-history/

https://www.jstor.org/stable/1595873?casa_token=X3UeRAwCHOkAAAAA%3ABghUhzzsr9e8cri0Lmr0J4--x2BmuuiQtKSTFHUsCCM9r1py_g8QlnkYY2DNqVjznKjFPiDeAboWCUpeZsQ7op0VxLJbftbZIIJJ3A0zcTnaSWXwDvuhbg&seq=4#metadata_info_tab_contents

https://intercontinentalcry.org/free-people-the-imazighen-of-north-africa/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_Berber_religion

https://mospace.umsystem.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10355/12088/LewisKahkatYac.pdf?sequence=1

https://www.ancient.eu/Kahina/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_Berber_religion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berbers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dihya

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Africa_during_Antiquity

https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/kahina-r-695-703-ce

https://www.blackhistorybuff.com/blogs/the-black-history-buff-blog/the-kahina-queen-of-the-berbers-ruled-688-705-ad

https://www.arabamerica.com/an-early-feminist-al-kahina-7th-century-north-african-queen-fact-or-fancy/

https://www.audubon.org/news/are-these-birds-better-computers-predicting-hurricane-seasons

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

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]]> MW Dihya al Kahina: A Free and Noble Witch Missing Witches 00:24:09 This episode honours a 7th Century hero. A Black indigenous Woman who was a leader. A warrior priestess named Dihya, champion of the native North African Amazigh people, her name means “the beautiful gazelle” in the Tamazight language of the Amazigh. Amazigh, plural Imazighen, means “free or noble people” in the Indigenous Tamazight language. Among outsiders, the more common name for Imazighen is Berber, which comes directly from the word ‘barbarian’ or babary. A colonizer’s word. A word that’s used to diminish and destroy. Like her people, Dihya is largely known to the world now by the name given to her by those she resisted, conquerors who wrote her history for generations and christened her “el-Kahina” or The Kahina, meaning “prophetess” or “seer” or...“witch”. This episode of the Missing Witches podcast was written and performed by Risa Dickens.  Music and editing by Amy Torok.  Thanks again to our sponsor Foxglove Pharm, don’t forget to use our listener offer code MISSINGWITCHES for 13% of your order.  OR make a contribution to their Wildlife Rescue, Out Of The Woods.  Find your witchy wellness at FoxglovePharm (that’s pharm like pharmacy with a ph) dot com.  You can also support Missing Witches on Patreon at patreon dot com slash missing witches and COMING SOON, Missing Witches T-shirts on TeePublic.  AND PLEASE consider pre-ordering our upcoming book, Missing Witches by Risa Dickens and Amy Torok, published by North Atlantic Books. This episode honours a 7th Century hero. A Black indigenous Woman who was a leader. A warrior priestess named Dihya, champion of the native North African Amazigh people, her name means “the beautiful gazelle” in the Tamazight language of the Amazigh. Amazigh, plural Imazighen, means “free or noble people” in the Indigenous Tamazight language. Among outsiders, the more common name for Imazighen is Berber, which comes directly from the word ‘barbarian’ or babary. A colonizer’s word. A word that’s used to diminish and destroy. Like her people, Dihya is largely known to the world now by the name given to her by those she resisted, conquerors who wrote her history for generations and christened her “el-Kahina” or The Kahina, meaning “prophetess” or “seer” or...“witch”. This episode of the Missing Witches podcast was written and performed by Risa Dickens.  Music and editing by Amy Torok.  Thanks again to our sponsor Foxglove Pharm, don’t forget to use our listener offer code MISSINGWITCHES for 13% of your order.  OR make a contribution to their Wildlife Rescue, Out Of The Woods.  Find your witchy wellness at FoxglovePharm (that’s pharm like pharmacy with a ph) dot com.  You can also support Missing Witches on Patreon at patreon dot com slash missing witches and COMING SOON, Missing Witches T-shirts on TeePublic.  AND PLEASE consider pre-ordering our upcoming book, Missing Witches by Risa Dickens and Amy Torok, published by North Atlantic Books. true full 63 c02b96fd-34b5-4050-bf26-259bcb1621b9 Mabon 2020 with Sandra Huber: The Knowledge Game sandrahuber.com

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]]> Mabon 2020 with Sandra Huber: The Knowledge Game Missing Witches 00:36:44 In this episode, Amy and Risa celebrate the beginning of Mabon, the beginning of Autumn, the Equinox, and open season 4 of the Missing Witches Podcast by chatting with university educator, artist and Witch, Sandra Huber about learning, old wives' tales, automatic writing, rituals and The Search: seeking Witch History and the Witch within. In this episode, Amy and Risa celebrate the beginning of Mabon, the beginning of Autumn, the Equinox, and open season 4 of the Missing Witches Podcast by chatting with university educator, artist and Witch, Sandra Huber about learning, old wives' tales, automatic writing, rituals and The Search: seeking Witch History and the Witch within. true full 62 e47d0c22-c1a4-4058-8a01-847b396b5657 Lammas 2020: Focus Your Anger and Keep Walking w/ Amy and Risa Sat, 1 Aug 2020 09:55:24 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/lammas-2020-focus-your-anger-and-keep-walking-w-amy-and-risa-VjLj3trR Lammas 2020: Focus Your Anger and Keep Walking w/ Amy and Risa Missing Witches 00:46:31 In this episode, Amy and Risa sit down to chat about how we are managing to keep it together. We discuss Lammas blessings, plum trees, the capitalist meat wheel, the magical power of hope, our gratitude to the Missing Witches coven for being a safe place to be vulnerable, and swing back and forth between contradictions, weakness, strength, our shared profound confusion and, maybe, hopefully, some confidently solid advice for this Lammastide. In this episode, Amy and Risa sit down to chat about how we are managing to keep it together. We discuss Lammas blessings, plum trees, the capitalist meat wheel, the magical power of hope, our gratitude to the Missing Witches coven for being a safe place to be vulnerable, and swing back and forth between contradictions, weakness, strength, our shared profound confusion and, maybe, hopefully, some confidently solid advice for this Lammastide. true full 61 d5bc9002-4610-4a4b-ae5c-9bc0b8bfbc6c Covid Coven with WhiteFeather, Krista, Becca and Amelie http://www.missingwitches.com/category/episodes/

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]]> Covid Coven with WhiteFeather, Krista, Becca and Amelie Missing Witches 01:18:06 We are four women battling COVID-19, from our homes in Montreal and Gatineau, Quebec and in Caen, France. We are artists and feminists bound together through our shared experiences of embodying a disease that has baffled the world. We were drawn together first through mutual acquaintances in the art world, and then became more tightly bound by providing each other with essential support -- through constant presence, witchy knowledge and unconventional care practices, in response to medical communities that have not been able to meet our needs. We are Amélie Deschamps, Becca Blackwood, Krista Muir and WhiteFeather Hunter. We share an eerie similarity of atypical symptoms not talked about in mainstream media, such as pericarditis and whole body neurological damage, along with the complications surrounding these serious ailments caused by COVID-19. One of the biggest challenges we’ve faced has been fighting for our lives while being disbelieved or dismissed by doctors, family members and humanity at large. As feminists, we know that this is a pervasive problem for women navigating the medical landscape. We have believed in each other, and that has truly helped us survive and work towards recovery from this disease. What has also helped a great deal, has been an invaluable resource facilitated by a queer, feminist network based in NYC: The Body Politic COVID-19 Recovery Support Group. This group has gained over 5000 members just through word of mouth, including many medical professionals infected on the front lines, and has provided us with a wellspring of information, free resources and the kinds of validation we’ve needed. It has not escaped us that the most cutting edge, respectful and caring information about the disease has been made accessible through an intersectional, queer, feminist network. This whole thing has been dramatically life altering. We hope that the four of us can continue to heal together and also pave the way to help others who get sick after us. We hope to help others navigate the failures of the health care systems globally, all the while prioritizing mental health during these extremely unprecedented, scary times. We are four women battling COVID-19, from our homes in Montreal and Gatineau, Quebec and in Caen, France. We are artists and feminists bound together through our shared experiences of embodying a disease that has baffled the world. We were drawn together first through mutual acquaintances in the art world, and then became more tightly bound by providing each other with essential support -- through constant presence, witchy knowledge and unconventional care practices, in response to medical communities that have not been able to meet our needs. We are Amélie Deschamps, Becca Blackwood, Krista Muir and WhiteFeather Hunter. We share an eerie similarity of atypical symptoms not talked about in mainstream media, such as pericarditis and whole body neurological damage, along with the complications surrounding these serious ailments caused by COVID-19. One of the biggest challenges we’ve faced has been fighting for our lives while being disbelieved or dismissed by doctors, family members and humanity at large. As feminists, we know that this is a pervasive problem for women navigating the medical landscape. We have believed in each other, and that has truly helped us survive and work towards recovery from this disease. What has also helped a great deal, has been an invaluable resource facilitated by a queer, feminist network based in NYC: The Body Politic COVID-19 Recovery Support Group. This group has gained over 5000 members just through word of mouth, including many medical professionals infected on the front lines, and has provided us with a wellspring of information, free resources and the kinds of validation we’ve needed. It has not escaped us that the most cutting edge, respectful and caring information about the disease has been made accessible through an intersectional, queer, feminist network. This whole thing has been dramatically life altering. We hope that the four of us can continue to heal together and also pave the way to help others who get sick after us. We hope to help others navigate the failures of the health care systems globally, all the while prioritizing mental health during these extremely unprecedented, scary times. true full 60 c74b08c3-761b-4867-9c8a-6a601da581f9 Acid Drag and Sexual Anarchy with Founding Member of The Legendary Cockettes, Fayette Hauser!!! Sun, 21 Jun 2020 09:55:12 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/acid-drag-and-sexual-anarchy-with-founding-member-of-the-legendary-cockettes-fayette-hauser-cHVf1VNI Acid Drag and Sexual Anarchy with Founding Member of The Legendary Cockettes, Fayette Hauser!!! Missing Witches 01:53:40 In honour of Pride Month, Amy had the life-changing pleasure of speaking with founding member of the legendary late 60s psychedelic experimental Drag Theater Troupe The Cockettes. In her career in performance, costuming and wearable art, Fayette has worked with such icons as Any Warhol, John Waters, Divine, Bette Midler and many more. Join us as we talk about communal living, psychedelics, the occult, radical self expression, freedom and Fayette's new book The Cockettes: Acid Drag & Sexual Anarchy, out now! BUY THIS BOOK!!! In honour of Pride Month, Amy had the life-changing pleasure of speaking with founding member of the legendary late 60s psychedelic experimental Drag Theater Troupe The Cockettes. In her career in performance, costuming and wearable art, Fayette has worked with such icons as Any Warhol, John Waters, Divine, Bette Midler and many more. Join us as we talk about communal living, psychedelics, the occult, radical self expression, freedom and Fayette's new book The Cockettes: Acid Drag & Sexual Anarchy, out now! BUY THIS BOOK!!! true full 59 750c11f9-3f46-4371-986d-958392867213 Justice!! Litha 2020 with Melissa Bekisz and Pamela Muñoz http://www.missingwitches.com/?p=1512

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]]> Justice!! Litha 2020 with Melissa Bekisz and Pamela Muñoz Missing Witches 01:23:01 In this Summer Solstice episode, Amy chats with two lawyers who identify as Witches to get an insider perspective on the legal system!! Pamela is an immigration lawyer and partner with the Islas-Muñoz Law Firm in Texas and Melissa is a New York State lawyer and judge. In this Summer Solstice episode, Amy chats with two lawyers who identify as Witches to get an insider perspective on the legal system!! Pamela is an immigration lawyer and partner with the Islas-Muñoz Law Firm in Texas and Melissa is a New York State lawyer and judge. true full 58 7a8abb9d-3603-43fd-8063-c22dd4e88c87 Juneteenth! with Caress Scarbrough, Lindsay Braynen and Monefa Walker www.mindfulpassions.co

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]]> Juneteenth! with Caress Scarbrough, Lindsay Braynen and Monefa Walker Missing Witches 01:39:13 Caress has been coaching and consulting for 25 years with a focus on sexuality and relationship coaching for the past 5 years. She is a co-founder and principal coach of Mindful Passions International, as well as a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) consultant. Caress is a proud Black, Queer, Disabled, Non-Monogamous Leatherwoman who advocates for the BIPOC, LGBTQ+, Poly, Kink and Disabled communities in every aspect of her life and business. www.mindfulpassions.co Lindsay is a Bahamian born tarot reader, astrologer, artist and dancer living in Vancouver Canada where she creates her podcast Hey Magical Girl. www.darklaketarot.com Monefa is an astrologer, shadow worker and musician living in London, England. www.sekhmetsvisions.co.uk We celebrate Juneteenth and black excellence with these three proud, black Witches, and together we strive toward the full realization of the words of the emancipation proclamation, "thenceforth and forever free." Caress has been coaching and consulting for 25 years with a focus on sexuality and relationship coaching for the past 5 years. She is a co-founder and principal coach of Mindful Passions International, as well as a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) consultant. Caress is a proud Black, Queer, Disabled, Non-Monogamous Leatherwoman who advocates for the BIPOC, LGBTQ+, Poly, Kink and Disabled communities in every aspect of her life and business. www.mindfulpassions.co Lindsay is a Bahamian born tarot reader, astrologer, artist and dancer living in Vancouver Canada where she creates her podcast Hey Magical Girl. www.darklaketarot.com Monefa is an astrologer, shadow worker and musician living in London, England. www.sekhmetsvisions.co.uk We celebrate Juneteenth and black excellence with these three proud, black Witches, and together we strive toward the full realization of the words of the emancipation proclamation, "thenceforth and forever free." true full 57 d545b637-fd99-4da8-bb85-cbb1dfa1a65a Flower Moon 2020: Nurses Were Witches Once with Ravi http://www.missingwitches.com/?p=1488

 

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]]> Flower Moon 2020: Nurses Were Witches Once with Ravi Missing Witches 01:21:46 For the Flower Full Moon of May, Amy chats with Nurse, Witch and self-described AnarchoHerbalist, Ravi, @thenursewitch, in praise of the humble dandelion, plant medicine, foraging and their shared adoration for the movie Harold and Maude. What is anarchoherbalism? Come find out! For the Flower Full Moon of May, Amy chats with Nurse, Witch and self-described AnarchoHerbalist, Ravi, @thenursewitch, in praise of the humble dandelion, plant medicine, foraging and their shared adoration for the movie Harold and Maude. What is anarchoherbalism? Come find out! autonomy, nature, freedom, healing, plants, witchcraft, herbalism, nursing true full 56 f58145fb-c170-4542-b9c9-ac67ce7808ad Beltane 2020! Mayday May Day with Amy and Risa + more LISTENER POETRY Fri, 1 May 2020 09:55:26 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/beltane-2020-mayday-may-day-with-amy-and-risa-more-listener-poetry-vjm6s2yP Beltane 2020! Mayday May Day with Amy and Risa + more LISTENER POETRY Missing Witches 00:39:45 In this Beltane 2020 episode, Amy and Risa chat about how they are going crazy (in the bad way) and the ways they are trying to go crazy (in the good way). Plus we'll hear more listener poetry from Emily, Alexis, Angela and Gem!! And if the elevator tries to bring you down, Go crazy. Punch a higher floor! Woo! In this Beltane 2020 episode, Amy and Risa chat about how they are going crazy (in the bad way) and the ways they are trying to go crazy (in the good way). Plus we'll hear more listener poetry from Emily, Alexis, Angela and Gem!! And if the elevator tries to bring you down, Go crazy. Punch a higher floor! Woo! true full 55 f45be7fc-8f47-4f8f-8d22-e9be600f2c43 Bonus: Bring Your Common Sense To The Grocery Store with Melissa Beisha Free Online Support Group for Frontliners: https://www.trueself-psychology.com/29439-2/?fbclid=IwAR07hRa0x9etpole8NOBMcUqLRLrai4Mfa4NTjeMGdzDAKDjIGUuBeoMW9w 

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]]> Bonus: Bring Your Common Sense To The Grocery Store with Melissa Beisha Missing Witches 00:43:08 In this episode, Amy chats with dear friend, Grocery Store manager and Ayurveda Practitioner, Melissa Beisha, about her experience on the front line of a pandemic. Beisha recently participated in an online support group and shares some of what she learned, plus her advice for your next trip to the grocery store. Free Online Support Group for Frontliners: https://www.trueself-psychology.com/29439-2/?fbclid=IwAR07hRa0x9etpole8NOBMcUqLRLrai4Mfa4NTjeMGdzDAKDjIGUuBeoMW9w In this episode, Amy chats with dear friend, Grocery Store manager and Ayurveda Practitioner, Melissa Beisha, about her experience on the front line of a pandemic. Beisha recently participated in an online support group and shares some of what she learned, plus her advice for your next trip to the grocery store. Free Online Support Group for Frontliners: https://www.trueself-psychology.com/29439-2/?fbclid=IwAR07hRa0x9etpole8NOBMcUqLRLrai4Mfa4NTjeMGdzDAKDjIGUuBeoMW9w ayurveda, grocery, food, covid, support, corona true bonus 4157ffd6-31d4-48ce-8c94-765f0f9da9fa Pink Moon part 2 with Amanda Amour Lynx and Michelle Beausejour: Storytelling and Healing Tue, 14 Apr 2020 09:55:09 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/pink-moon-part-2-with-amanda-amour-lynx-and-michelle-beausejour-storytelling-and-healing-aue6zfA_ Pink Moon part 2 with Amanda Amour Lynx and Michelle Beausejour: Storytelling and Healing Missing Witches 01:38:46 In part two of our mini-series highlighting indigenous voices, Amy sits down with Mi'kmaw artist and astrologer Amanda Amour Lynx and community organizer and artisan Michelle Beausejour to talk about the stars, healing our collective wound and the role that storytelling plays in both. Plus Amanda explains ethnobotany and explains her performance piece "Decolonial Soup" PLUS Michelle shares some healing music! In part two of our mini-series highlighting indigenous voices, Amy sits down with Mi'kmaw artist and astrologer Amanda Amour Lynx and community organizer and artisan Michelle Beausejour to talk about the stars, healing our collective wound and the role that storytelling plays in both. Plus Amanda explains ethnobotany and explains her performance piece "Decolonial Soup" PLUS Michelle shares some healing music! mikmaw, indigenous, two spirit, 2spirit, healing, astrology, first nations, community, trauma true full 54 ed13850a-fbf8-4b07-a583-19c90cb4ac37 Pink Moon 2020 with Marisa De La Peña, Jason Sikoak, Michelle Beausejour and Phoenix Inana: Cultural Appropriation Please be sure to check out the show notes for this episode: www.missingwitches.com/?p=715

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]]> Pink Moon 2020 with Marisa De La Peña, Jason Sikoak, Michelle Beausejour and Phoenix Inana: Cultural Appropriation Missing Witches 01:35:56 In this episode, Amy hosts a round table on the subject of Cultural Appropriation, especially as it relates to Indigenous Spirituality. Special thanks to Michelle Beausejour for bringing this amazing squad together! In this episode, Amy hosts a round table on the subject of Cultural Appropriation, especially as it relates to Indigenous Spirituality. Special thanks to Michelle Beausejour for bringing this amazing squad together! true full 53 bc7082d8-b8ae-4476-b130-4a57d96e6ee4 Ostara Special 2020! Art and Altars with Jennifer Hamilton + Listener Poetry Thu, 19 Mar 2020 09:55:15 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/ostara-special-2020-art-and-altars-with-jennifer-hamilton-listener-poetry-Guz6_SfC Ostara Special 2020! Art and Altars with Jennifer Hamilton + Listener Poetry Missing Witches 01:00:08 In this Stay at Home Ostara episode of the Missing Witches podacst, Risa sits down with Artist and Witch Jennifer Hamilton to talk about visual art, chanting, altar spaces and more, plus Risa gives some tips on altar creation! Stick around to the end to hear two of our listeners, Ed and Celeste, read their Witch Poetry!! The featured image for this episode is Jennifer's work "Altar To The Directions." In this Stay at Home Ostara episode of the Missing Witches podacst, Risa sits down with Artist and Witch Jennifer Hamilton to talk about visual art, chanting, altar spaces and more, plus Risa gives some tips on altar creation! Stick around to the end to hear two of our listeners, Ed and Celeste, read their Witch Poetry!! The featured image for this episode is Jennifer's work "Altar To The Directions." true full 52 ca415417-12e2-4e67-80a8-82ce1f51f1ab Witches Found: Worm Moon with Amy and Risa: They Should Have Sent A Poet Mon, 9 Mar 2020 09:55:36 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/witches-found-worm-moon-with-amy-and-risa-they-should-have-sent-a-poet-mrKpVAoi Witches Found: Worm Moon with Amy and Risa: They Should Have Sent A Poet Missing Witches 00:29:32 Amy and Risa have a chat under leaky roofs and make Missing Witches announcements for 2020. Amy and Risa have a chat under leaky roofs and make Missing Witches announcements for 2020. true full 51 4a08abc4-cf88-40d1-bcc0-7512cded4854 Witches Found: Calling All Witches with Erica Sun, 9 Feb 2020 10:00:21 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/witches-found-calling-all-witches-with-erica-9CXtxh9b Witches Found: Calling All Witches with Erica Missing Witches 00:36:07 We went looking for the mystery Witch who made the Calling All Witches poster, and we found her! Amy chats with Erica about her poster, how to smash the patriarchy and why capitalism isn't working. We went looking for the mystery Witch who made the Calling All Witches poster, and we found her! Amy chats with Erica about her poster, how to smash the patriarchy and why capitalism isn't working. matriarchy, anticapitalist, poster, protest, patriarchy true full 50 7f1c838e-f0c0-4383-8b3a-d631b6e90e86 Imbolc Special 2020! Decolonizing Love with Chelsea A. Hamlet Sat, 1 Feb 2020 16:47:42 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/imbolc-special-2020-decolonizing-love-with-chelsea-a-hamlet-jxis15br Imbolc Special 2020! Decolonizing Love with Chelsea A. Hamlet Missing Witches 00:52:58 When this theme of Decolonizing Love occurred to me for this episode, the first person I thought of was writer, Erotic Blueprint coach and self-described baby Orisha devotee Chelsea A. Hamlet, on whose blog I’d been reading such titles as “This is how I wish my partners responded when I told them they gave me an STI” and “What About Your Friends with Herpes?” elsewhere her essays about kink like “‘I Had Extra-Freaky, Mind-Blowing Sex With A BDSM Dom And Hit Up A Kink Party’. That she’s “reading about the connection between pleasure, sexuality, feminism, and women of the African Diaspora along with redefining what self-pleasure means to her beyond traditional masturbation practices.”… This is just the kind of frankness and perspective we need to decolonize love, and decolonize our thinking. We started the conversation with Chelsea’s thoughts on the word Witch. When this theme of Decolonizing Love occurred to me for this episode, the first person I thought of was writer, Erotic Blueprint coach and self-described baby Orisha devotee Chelsea A. Hamlet, on whose blog I’d been reading such titles as “This is how I wish my partners responded when I told them they gave me an STI” and “What About Your Friends with Herpes?” elsewhere her essays about kink like “‘I Had Extra-Freaky, Mind-Blowing Sex With A BDSM Dom And Hit Up A Kink Party’. That she’s “reading about the connection between pleasure, sexuality, feminism, and women of the African Diaspora along with redefining what self-pleasure means to her beyond traditional masturbation practices.”… This is just the kind of frankness and perspective we need to decolonize love, and decolonize our thinking. We started the conversation with Chelsea’s thoughts on the word Witch. decolonize, pleasure, anticolonial, postcolonial, love true full 49 d8e972f2-7291-4517-8d07-ebcbf6b73226 Witches Found - Magic Resistance with WITCH: Hex The Patriarchy filmmaker Melissa James https://www.instagram.com/witchdocumentary/

 

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]]> Fri, 10 Jan 2020 10:55:04 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/witches-found-magic-resistance-with-witch-hex-the-patriarchy-filmmaker-melissa-james-HKjhkqt_ https://www.instagram.com/witchdocumentary/

 

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]]> Witches Found - Magic Resistance with WITCH: Hex The Patriarchy filmmaker Melissa James Missing Witches 00:34:51 "Magical resistance always comes up when people feel the most oppressed," says Melissa James. In our first installment of Full Moon Witches Found episodes, Amy and Risa sit down with documentary filmmaker Melissa James, currently producing WITCH: Hex The Patriarchy, a doc about witchcraft as resistance! This episode features clips from the WITCH work in progress! "Magical resistance always comes up when people feel the most oppressed," says Melissa James. In our first installment of Full Moon Witches Found episodes, Amy and Risa sit down with documentary filmmaker Melissa James, currently producing WITCH: Hex The Patriarchy, a doc about witchcraft as resistance! This episode features clips from the WITCH work in progress! true full 48 1cd50a87-0c86-4350-8840-c3f06276ff91 Missing Witches Yuletide Special 2019 w Uma Gahd, Selma Gahd and Monefa Walker http://www.missingwitches.com/?p=668

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]]> Sat, 21 Dec 2019 05:00:01 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/missing-witches-yuletide-special-2019-w-uma-gahd-selma-gahd-and-monefa-walker-EgrrupT5 http://www.missingwitches.com/?p=668

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]]> Missing Witches Yuletide Special 2019 w Uma Gahd, Selma Gahd and Monefa Walker Missing Witches 01:28:15 In this years Missing Witches Yuletide Special, Risa and Amy chat about navigating family during the holidays and tell stories of Joy, Pain and Laughter. PLUS interviews with House of Laureen's drag royalty Selma and Uma Gahd AND some astrology tips from Monefa Walker aka Sekhmet's Visions In this years Missing Witches Yuletide Special, Risa and Amy chat about navigating family during the holidays and tell stories of Joy, Pain and Laughter. PLUS interviews with House of Laureen's drag royalty Selma and Uma Gahd AND some astrology tips from Monefa Walker aka Sekhmet's Visions chosen family, holiday, house of laureen, age of aquarius, astrology, queer, family, drag true full 47 175de3e8-9f20-47b8-aa07-b0d815b537b1 Missing Witches Samhain Special: Life and Death - On Releasing and Becoming Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:55:17 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/missing-witches-samhain-special-life-and-death-on-releasing-and-becoming-aFQqYs_z Missing Witches Samhain Special: Life and Death - On Releasing and Becoming Missing Witches 00:50:26 true full 46 c608b423-4371-4e3b-a8b9-9854870c75ca Witches Found: Backxwash - Most Of My Experience Is A Rejection Of Colonialism "You dance to heal yourself" says Backxwash. This powerful witch and killer emcee chats with Amy about ancestors, deviance, pre and post colonialism and the alchemy of Hip Hop. This episode features clips of Backxwash's amazing music.  Buy Deviancy now!! https://grimalkinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/deviancy

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]]> Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:55:12 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/witches-found-backxwash-most-of-my-experience-is-a-rejection-of-colonialism-H3GFaVnR "You dance to heal yourself" says Backxwash. This powerful witch and killer emcee chats with Amy about ancestors, deviance, pre and post colonialism and the alchemy of Hip Hop. This episode features clips of Backxwash's amazing music.  Buy Deviancy now!! https://grimalkinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/deviancy

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]]> Witches Found: Backxwash - Most Of My Experience Is A Rejection Of Colonialism Missing Witches 00:49:48 "You dance to heal yourself" says Backxwash. This powerful witch and killer emcee chats with Amy about ancestors, deviance, pre and post colonialism and the alchemy of Hip Hop. This episode features clips of Backxwash's amazing music. Buy Deviancy now!! https://grimalkinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/deviancy "You dance to heal yourself" says Backxwash. This powerful witch and killer emcee chats with Amy about ancestors, deviance, pre and post colonialism and the alchemy of Hip Hop. This episode features clips of Backxwash's amazing music. Buy Deviancy now!! https://grimalkinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/deviancy dance, sampling, deviancy, zambia, black sailor moon, rap true full 45 95250684-3fbd-41e5-8e46-80148b314183 Missing Witches: Faith Ringgold - Anyone Can Fly http://www.missingwitches.com/?p=643

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]]> Sun, 27 Oct 2019 09:55:02 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/missing-witches-faith-ringgold-anyone-can-fly-TO2V7SwG http://www.missingwitches.com/?p=643

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]]> Missing Witches: Faith Ringgold - Anyone Can Fly Missing Witches 00:39:26 When I straight up gasped as, for the first time, I saw Faith Ringgold’s absolutely visceral illustrations for Zora’s book The Three Witches, I knew I had to dig a little deeper. Turns out, one of Faith’s most acclaimed works is a series she called Witch Masks. One of her most famous stories is about a little girl who can fly. As far as I know, Faith has never publicly called herself a witch, after all, as her mother reminded her constantly, she is from a good christian home. But this recurring symbolic equation of freedom with flying through the night sky, these Witch drawings and witch masks, coupled with her sigil work and alchemy, subverting traditional symbols and forms, reclaiming and politicizing so-called feminine arts, plus her work as a civil rights and feminist activist, author, educator, and all around magical badass, and I think you’ll agree, the Witch is strong in this one. The Tate Modern called her ‘a rule breaker and a game changer’. She said: I was absolutely taught by my family as a tradition that nobody tells you what you can’t do. When I straight up gasped as, for the first time, I saw Faith Ringgold’s absolutely visceral illustrations for Zora’s book The Three Witches, I knew I had to dig a little deeper. Turns out, one of Faith’s most acclaimed works is a series she called Witch Masks. One of her most famous stories is about a little girl who can fly. As far as I know, Faith has never publicly called herself a witch, after all, as her mother reminded her constantly, she is from a good christian home. But this recurring symbolic equation of freedom with flying through the night sky, these Witch drawings and witch masks, coupled with her sigil work and alchemy, subverting traditional symbols and forms, reclaiming and politicizing so-called feminine arts, plus her work as a civil rights and feminist activist, author, educator, and all around magical badass, and I think you’ll agree, the Witch is strong in this one. The Tate Modern called her ‘a rule breaker and a game changer’. She said: I was absolutely taught by my family as a tradition that nobody tells you what you can’t do. true full 44 dc73a66b-6a59-4814-b444-b17bcfebb3e6 Witches Found: WhiteFeather Hunter - Magic Is Inherently Anti-Capitalist In this episode, Amy chats with biotech artist, scientist, philosopher and witch WhiteFeather Hunter about blood, solutionism, cannibalism, lab grown meat, lab grown magic, and what happens when we make scientific methodologies Strange. 

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]]> Wed, 23 Oct 2019 09:55:10 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/wicthes-found-whitefeather-hunter-magic-is-inherently-anti-capitalist-GeD4gFaO In this episode, Amy chats with biotech artist, scientist, philosopher and witch WhiteFeather Hunter about blood, solutionism, cannibalism, lab grown meat, lab grown magic, and what happens when we make scientific methodologies Strange. 

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]]> Witches Found: WhiteFeather Hunter - Magic Is Inherently Anti-Capitalist Missing Witches 01:08:32 In this episode, Amy chats with biotech artist, scientist, philosopher and witch WhiteFeather Hunter about blood, solutionism, cannibalism, lab grown meat, lab grown magic, and what happens when we make scientific methodologies Strange. In this episode, Amy chats with biotech artist, scientist, philosopher and witch WhiteFeather Hunter about blood, solutionism, cannibalism, lab grown meat, lab grown magic, and what happens when we make scientific methodologies Strange. true full 43 1285e666-fb7f-43d6-a066-45758ef131b6 Missing Witches: HP Blavatsky - Our Voice Is Raised For Spiritual Freedom Sun, 20 Oct 2019 10:00:02 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/missing-witches-hp-blavatsky-our-voice-is-raised-for-spiritual-freedom-dYd3K2HG Missing Witches: HP Blavatsky - Our Voice Is Raised For Spiritual Freedom Missing Witches 00:54:11 In this episode we sketch the life and impact of a woman who has been called the mother of modern spirituality and who was also one of the greatest explorers of the 1900s, though she’s rarely credited for it. She was a much maligned philosopher, activist, founder of a world religion that she never wanted to be a religion, just a means of investigating the wisdom of the gods - theosophy. She was one of the first westerners to convert to Buddhism, the first Russian to gain American citizenship, and the first western woman to make it into the sacred fortified himalayan nation of Tibet where she lived and studied for years. Probably. She was certainly fiercely independent, a chain smoking, not quite vegetarian, possibly transgender queer, celibate philosopher medium, spectacular synthesizer of eastern and western philosophy, yes I’m talking about the deeply divisive and intentionally elusive Helena P Blavatsky, HPB to her friends. In this episode we sketch the life and impact of a woman who has been called the mother of modern spirituality and who was also one of the greatest explorers of the 1900s, though she’s rarely credited for it. She was a much maligned philosopher, activist, founder of a world religion that she never wanted to be a religion, just a means of investigating the wisdom of the gods - theosophy. She was one of the first westerners to convert to Buddhism, the first Russian to gain American citizenship, and the first western woman to make it into the sacred fortified himalayan nation of Tibet where she lived and studied for years. Probably. She was certainly fiercely independent, a chain smoking, not quite vegetarian, possibly transgender queer, celibate philosopher medium, spectacular synthesizer of eastern and western philosophy, yes I’m talking about the deeply divisive and intentionally elusive Helena P Blavatsky, HPB to her friends. travel, occult, tibet, theosophy true full 42 0c9ab733-c3b0-49a7-a97b-3306140cf903 Witches Found: Amanda Yates Garcia [The Oracle of LA] - In Our Travels Through the Underworld, Witches Become Map Makers Buy Amanda's book Initiated now! https://oracleoflosangeles.com/

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]]> Wed, 16 Oct 2019 09:55:13 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/witches-found-amanda-yates-garcia-the-oracle-of-la-in-our-travels-through-the-underworld-witches-become-map-makers-boHrha1U Buy Amanda's book Initiated now! https://oracleoflosangeles.com/

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]]> Witches Found: Amanda Yates Garcia [The Oracle of LA] - In Our Travels Through the Underworld, Witches Become Map Makers Missing Witches 01:01:19 In this episode, Risa chats with Amanda Yates Garcia, The Oracle of LA, about her book, Initiated (out now) and her podcast (Strange Magic - we love it), and all forms of magic! This witch graced the cover of LA Times, was on Fox News to explain her monthly binding spells cast on Trump, and has a beautiful book coming out that brings a searingly honest voice to the real trauma and empowerment that drives the modern witch movement. If you come to the craft from a place of pain, let the fierce and gentle wisdom of the Oracle of Los Angeles sing you to your next becoming so you can bring your perfect, unique gifts to this work of charting new maps and growing new gardens right where we stand. Buy Initiated now! https://oracleoflosangeles.com/ In this episode, Risa chats with Amanda Yates Garcia, The Oracle of LA, about her book, Initiated (out now) and her podcast (Strange Magic - we love it), and all forms of magic! This witch graced the cover of LA Times, was on Fox News to explain her monthly binding spells cast on Trump, and has a beautiful book coming out that brings a searingly honest voice to the real trauma and empowerment that drives the modern witch movement. If you come to the craft from a place of pain, let the fierce and gentle wisdom of the Oracle of Los Angeles sing you to your next becoming so you can bring your perfect, unique gifts to this work of charting new maps and growing new gardens right where we stand. Buy Initiated now! https://oracleoflosangeles.com/ tarot, books, strange magic, initiation, guides, oracle true full 41 ddadf097-434f-417b-b948-32737343c254 Missing Witches: Migene Gonzalez Wippler - How Infinite My Possibilities http://www.missingwitches.com/?p=599

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]]> Missing Witches: Migene Gonzalez Wippler - How Infinite My Possibilities Missing Witches 00:35:27 This episode is about PR and Santeria and Science and Magic, The Age of Aquarius, and Death. But it's mostly about Hope. A quick scan of self-described, New Age author, Migene Gonzalez Wippler’s book titles - Return of the Angels, Dreams and What They Mean To You and you might think she’s the “new age”iest new age witch we’ve featured on the Missing Witches podcast. But before you cry WooWoo, if it helps, know that she has a phd, degrees in psychology and anthropology, has lectured at the American Museum of Natural History, Columbia University, NYU, Princeton … was a Science Editor for the American Institute of Physics, worked for the United Nations, has written dozens of books… and if it helps know that she said this: I don’t believe in the supernatural. I believe in nature and all things natural. Everything that happens in this world always happens through natural channels and in accordance with immutable cosmic laws. All things - both real and surreal - are part of the cosmos, where everything has a place and a reason for being. This episode is about PR and Santeria and Science and Magic, The Age of Aquarius, and Death. But it's mostly about Hope. A quick scan of self-described, New Age author, Migene Gonzalez Wippler’s book titles - Return of the Angels, Dreams and What They Mean To You and you might think she’s the “new age”iest new age witch we’ve featured on the Missing Witches podcast. But before you cry WooWoo, if it helps, know that she has a phd, degrees in psychology and anthropology, has lectured at the American Museum of Natural History, Columbia University, NYU, Princeton … was a Science Editor for the American Institute of Physics, worked for the United Nations, has written dozens of books… and if it helps know that she said this: I don’t believe in the supernatural. I believe in nature and all things natural. Everything that happens in this world always happens through natural channels and in accordance with immutable cosmic laws. All things - both real and surreal - are part of the cosmos, where everything has a place and a reason for being. life after death, puerto rico, santeria, astrology, witchcraft, death, science, aquarius, magic true full 40 009ebb79-b5cd-4e26-a443-7c7e6355db41 Witches Found: Elizabeth Swearingen - I'm Not Going To Be Silenced Wed, 9 Oct 2019 09:55:05 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/witches-found-elizabeth-swearingen-im-not-going-to-be-silenced-b3D6pbLc Witches Found: Elizabeth Swearingen - I'm Not Going To Be Silenced Missing Witches 00:46:11 In this episode, Risa chats with the wise and inspirational Educational Anthropologist founder of Indigo Wytches and self-described holy heretic, Elizabeth Swearingen! In this episode, Risa chats with the wise and inspirational Educational Anthropologist founder of Indigo Wytches and self-described holy heretic, Elizabeth Swearingen! tarot, ex mormon, vardo, witchcraft, trust true full 39 f9720c97-eb84-48f0-987b-78561c28e2dc Missing Witches: Marjorie Cameron - I Am That Dream Of Wings Sun, 6 Oct 2019 09:00:10 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/missing-witches-marjorie-cameron-i-am-that-dream-of-wings-qIGe0a_t Missing Witches: Marjorie Cameron - I Am That Dream Of Wings Missing Witches 00:42:53 This episode is about wild creation in the liminal spaces, and it’s about magical thinking and fate, and a remarkable artist witch who had to figure out who she was after the unthinkable atrocities of the second world war, and outside of a powerful man’s powerful idea about her destiny. A man who did the Babylon Working and believed she was the Fire Elemental he had summoned, and maybe in a way she was, but she was also and entirely her own self. Yes this episode is about Marjorie Cameron and Jack Parsons, and it’s about love and how we cope when we lose someone, and it’s about 1960s California and art and drugs and sex magic and becoming gods through art, and how the world changes. This episode is about wild creation in the liminal spaces, and it’s about magical thinking and fate, and a remarkable artist witch who had to figure out who she was after the unthinkable atrocities of the second world war, and outside of a powerful man’s powerful idea about her destiny. A man who did the Babylon Working and believed she was the Fire Elemental he had summoned, and maybe in a way she was, but she was also and entirely her own self. Yes this episode is about Marjorie Cameron and Jack Parsons, and it’s about love and how we cope when we lose someone, and it’s about 1960s California and art and drugs and sex magic and becoming gods through art, and how the world changes. babylon, beat, beatnik, ritual, parsons, art, jack parsons true full 38 3ac43302-1b37-4fcd-aef9-3f9d1106331d Witches Found: Edgar Fabián Frías - I Was A Powerful Mutant Wed, 2 Oct 2019 09:55:04 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/witches-found-edgar-fabian-frias-i-was-a-powerful-mutant-9enEQkZJ Witches Found: Edgar Fabián Frías - I Was A Powerful Mutant Missing Witches 01:02:44 golden dome, gifs, art true full 37 f7a9a04d-0afe-4ef0-b81a-291eb9222c9c Missing Witches: Paula de Eguiluz - Come To Aleluya http://www.missingwitches.com/?p=584

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]]> Missing Witches: Paula de Eguiluz - Come To Aleluya Missing Witches 00:32:29 This is a story about a woman born into slavery who became one of the most powerful healers in the hot mad cruel town of Cartagena de Indias in 17th Century colonial Colombia. A woman who was tried 3 times for witchcraft and survived, still imprisoned, while the bishop himself paid her for her services. This is a story about Paula de Eguiluz. This is a story about a woman born into slavery who became one of the most powerful healers in the hot mad cruel town of Cartagena de Indias in 17th Century colonial Colombia. A woman who was tried 3 times for witchcraft and survived, still imprisoned, while the bishop himself paid her for her services. This is a story about Paula de Eguiluz. slavetrade, columbia, anticolonial, healing, witchcraft, curandera, love true full 36 e96d9183-acf1-44d0-820f-09068a274d2a Witches Found: Vanessa - For Me, Death is a Passage - OOPS SORRY HERE'S PART 2 Wed, 25 Sep 2019 15:54:53 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/witches-found-vanessa-for-me-death-is-a-passage-oops-sorry-heres-part-2-z05EX9_v Witches Found: Vanessa - For Me, Death is a Passage - OOPS SORRY HERE'S PART 2 Missing Witches 00:27:37 SORRY LISTENER WITCHES - the upload got cut off, no idea how, but here's the last bit of our interview with Vanessa!! OOPS!! If I can figure out what happened I'll do my best to make sure it never happens again. But while we're here, in case you need a reminder: WE ARE ALL ALLOWED TO MAKE MISTAKES. WE ARE HUMAN - mistakes are inevitable ;) <3 SORRY LISTENER WITCHES - the upload got cut off, no idea how, but here's the last bit of our interview with Vanessa!! OOPS!! If I can figure out what happened I'll do my best to make sure it never happens again. But while we're here, in case you need a reminder: WE ARE ALL ALLOWED TO MAKE MISTAKES. WE ARE HUMAN - mistakes are inevitable ;) <3 true bonus 9e9e9fa6-0841-4445-ade2-29d3b34ed5d8 Witches Found: Vanessa - For Me, Death is a Passage www.artwitchacademy.com

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]]> Witches Found: Vanessa - For Me, Death is a Passage Missing Witches 00:56:59 In this episode, Amy chats with Witch, Archeologist and co-founder of Art Witch Academy VANESSA! For anyone who says that there is no room for Emotion in Science, we discuss how Emotions Create Ethics!! In this episode, Amy chats with Witch, Archeologist and co-founder of Art Witch Academy VANESSA! For anyone who says that there is no room for Emotion in Science, we discuss how Emotions Create Ethics!! burial, art witch academy, religion, witch, archeology, witchcraft, death, bones, art true full 35 42a8dcf3-6cd5-473b-9794-8d2a8f4d917a Missing Witches: Marija Gimbutas - I Fell In Love With What Is Ancient http://www.missingwitches.com/?p=530

 

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]]> Missing Witches: Marija Gimbutas - I Fell In Love With What Is Ancient Missing Witches 00:43:57 A persistent asker of Why, a child or dissident, is often dismissed with: Because it’s always been that way. Historians are here to say, no, these pieces of thousand or ten thousand year old evidence say different. Things CAN change. Now, gentle listener, close your eyes and take that idea to its ultimate, where discoveries are made and theories are put forth that shift our very understanding of the world we live in, of the values of humanity!.. and in this world shattering place, we find Archeologist Marija Gimbutas, a small, demure seeker, challenging our accepted history of human life on this planet. A persistent asker of Why, a child or dissident, is often dismissed with: Because it’s always been that way. Historians are here to say, no, these pieces of thousand or ten thousand year old evidence say different. Things CAN change. Now, gentle listener, close your eyes and take that idea to its ultimate, where discoveries are made and theories are put forth that shift our very understanding of the world we live in, of the values of humanity!.. and in this world shattering place, we find Archeologist Marija Gimbutas, a small, demure seeker, challenging our accepted history of human life on this planet. goddess, feminist, binary, symbolism, witches, spirituality, witch, archeology, history, language, biography, witchcraft true full 34 56cd2a31-ef80-49ae-93bc-e86498a3d9d3 MISSING WITCHES LAMMAS SPECIAL 2019 It's a chatty episode where the Missing Witches talk about summer spellwork! Amy makes a plea for listeners to identify a book from her childhood, and Risa tells a rollercoaster of a Lammastide story! Happy First Harvest, Witches.

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> Thu, 1 Aug 2019 09:55:10 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/missing-witches-lammas-special-2019-2_M5AZXM It's a chatty episode where the Missing Witches talk about summer spellwork! Amy makes a plea for listeners to identify a book from her childhood, and Risa tells a rollercoaster of a Lammastide story! Happy First Harvest, Witches.

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> MISSING WITCHES LAMMAS SPECIAL 2019 Missing Witches 00:55:54 It's a chatty episode where the Missing Witches talk about summer spellwork! Amy makes a plea for listeners to identify a book from her childhood, and Risa tells a rollercoaster of a Lammastide story! Happy First Harvest, Witches. It's a chatty episode where the Missing Witches talk about summer spellwork! Amy makes a plea for listeners to identify a book from her childhood, and Risa tells a rollercoaster of a Lammastide story! Happy First Harvest, Witches. power, witch, history, witchcraft, lammas, spells, magic, magical true full 33 686ddb2e-0bd2-4c35-9c97-64a74635eead Part 2 Witches Found - The Divine Invites You To Dance www.johannite.org/

In our first ever LIVE RECORDING of the Missing Witches podcast WE TOOK OVER A CHURCH! Together we explored how we use our bodies to connect to the divine through dance!! We are so grateful to the AJC conclave for inviting us to honour Witches from the pulpit of a sanctuary!! In part 1, Risa talks about how Anna Halprin used modern dance to heal , plus Mudang Shamanism and thoughts on connections between peace, peacemaking, dance and power!! In part 2, Witches Found, we bring back two of our favourite guests and coven members Phoenix Inana and Jacqueline Beaumont to unpack words like divinity and femininity and discuss how we use our bodies to connect to spirit. Thanks again to Lindsay Braynen for contributing an essay Amy read as part of this conversation. THANKS X 1000 to our favourite clergyman Jonathan Stewart for inviting us to this sacred space.

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> Fri, 21 Jun 2019 09:05:24 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Risa Dickens + Amy Torok) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/part-2-witches-found-the-divine-invites-you-to-dance-AXjmkd9r www.johannite.org/

In our first ever LIVE RECORDING of the Missing Witches podcast WE TOOK OVER A CHURCH! Together we explored how we use our bodies to connect to the divine through dance!! We are so grateful to the AJC conclave for inviting us to honour Witches from the pulpit of a sanctuary!! In part 1, Risa talks about how Anna Halprin used modern dance to heal , plus Mudang Shamanism and thoughts on connections between peace, peacemaking, dance and power!! In part 2, Witches Found, we bring back two of our favourite guests and coven members Phoenix Inana and Jacqueline Beaumont to unpack words like divinity and femininity and discuss how we use our bodies to connect to spirit. Thanks again to Lindsay Braynen for contributing an essay Amy read as part of this conversation. THANKS X 1000 to our favourite clergyman Jonathan Stewart for inviting us to this sacred space.

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

https://www.missingwitches.com/join-the-coven/

 

]]> Part 2 Witches Found - The Divine Invites You To Dance Risa Dickens + Amy Torok 00:41:16 In our first ever LIVE RECORDING of the Missing Witches podcast WE TOOK OVER A CHURCH! Together we explored how we use our bodies to connect to the divine through dance!! We are so grateful to the AJC conclave for inviting us to honour Witches from the pulpit of a sanctuary!! In part 1, Risa talks about how Anna Halprin used modern dance to heal , plus Mudang Shamanism and thoughts on connections between peace, peacemaking, dance and power!! In part 2, Witches Found, we bring back two of our favourite guests and coven members Phoenix Inana and Jacqueline Beaumont to unpack words like divinity and femininity and discuss how we use our bodies to connect to spirit. Thanks again to Lindsay Braynen for contributing an essay Amy read as part of this conversation. THANKS X 1000 to our favourite clergyman Jonathan Stewart for inviting us to this sacred space. In our first ever LIVE RECORDING of the Missing Witches podcast WE TOOK OVER A CHURCH! Together we explored how we use our bodies to connect to the divine through dance!! We are so grateful to the AJC conclave for inviting us to honour Witches from the pulpit of a sanctuary!! In part 1, Risa talks about how Anna Halprin used modern dance to heal , plus Mudang Shamanism and thoughts on connections between peace, peacemaking, dance and power!! In part 2, Witches Found, we bring back two of our favourite guests and coven members Phoenix Inana and Jacqueline Beaumont to unpack words like divinity and femininity and discuss how we use our bodies to connect to spirit. Thanks again to Lindsay Braynen for contributing an essay Amy read as part of this conversation. THANKS X 1000 to our favourite clergyman Jonathan Stewart for inviting us to this sacred space. divine, spirit, gaia, witches, dance, witch, burlesque, bodies, feminine, femninst true full 32 81c4ec78-f688-427e-b829-383710b6f9bd Part 1 Missing Witches - The Divine Invites You To Dance www.johannite.org/

In our first ever LIVE RECORDING of the Missing Witches podcast WE TOOK OVER A CHURCH! Together we explored how we use our bodies to connect to the divine through dance!! We are so grateful to the AJC conclave for inviting us to honour Witches from the pulpit of a sanctuary!!
In part 1, Risa talks about how Anna Halprin used modern dance to heal , plus Mudang Shamanism and thoughts on connections between peace, peacemaking, dance and power!! In part 2, Witches Found, we bring back two of our favourite guests and coven members Phoenix Inana and Jacqueline Beaumont to unpack words like divinity and femininity and discuss how we use our bodies to connect to spirit. Thanks again to Lindsay Braynen for contributing an essay Amy read as part of this conversation. THANKS X 1000 to our favourite clergyman Jonathan Stewart for inviting us to this sacred space.

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

https://www.missingwitches.com/join-the-coven/

 

]]> Fri, 21 Jun 2019 09:00:31 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Risa Dickens + Amy Torok) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/part-1-missing-witches-the-divine-invites-you-to-dance-vpX6Phro www.johannite.org/

In our first ever LIVE RECORDING of the Missing Witches podcast WE TOOK OVER A CHURCH! Together we explored how we use our bodies to connect to the divine through dance!! We are so grateful to the AJC conclave for inviting us to honour Witches from the pulpit of a sanctuary!!
In part 1, Risa talks about how Anna Halprin used modern dance to heal , plus Mudang Shamanism and thoughts on connections between peace, peacemaking, dance and power!! In part 2, Witches Found, we bring back two of our favourite guests and coven members Phoenix Inana and Jacqueline Beaumont to unpack words like divinity and femininity and discuss how we use our bodies to connect to spirit. Thanks again to Lindsay Braynen for contributing an essay Amy read as part of this conversation. THANKS X 1000 to our favourite clergyman Jonathan Stewart for inviting us to this sacred space.

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

https://www.missingwitches.com/join-the-coven/

 

]]> Part 1 Missing Witches - The Divine Invites You To Dance Risa Dickens + Amy Torok 00:38:02 In our first ever LIVE RECORDING of the Missing Witches podcast WE TOOK OVER A CHURCH! Together we explored how we use our bodies to connect to the divine through dance!! We are so grateful to the AJC conclave for inviting us to honour Witches from the pulpit of a sanctuary!! In part 1, Risa talks about how Anna Halprin used modern dance to heal , plus Mudang Shamanism and thoughts on connections between peace, peacemaking, dance and power!! In part 2, Witches Found, we bring back two of our favourite guests and coven members Phoenix Inana and Jacqueline Beaumont to unpack words like divinity and femininity and discuss how we use our bodies to connect to spirit. Thanks again to Lindsay Braynen for contributing an essay Amy read as part of this conversation. THANKS X 1000 to our favourite clergyman Jonathan Stewart for inviting us to this sacred space. In our first ever LIVE RECORDING of the Missing Witches podcast WE TOOK OVER A CHURCH! Together we explored how we use our bodies to connect to the divine through dance!! We are so grateful to the AJC conclave for inviting us to honour Witches from the pulpit of a sanctuary!! In part 1, Risa talks about how Anna Halprin used modern dance to heal , plus Mudang Shamanism and thoughts on connections between peace, peacemaking, dance and power!! In part 2, Witches Found, we bring back two of our favourite guests and coven members Phoenix Inana and Jacqueline Beaumont to unpack words like divinity and femininity and discuss how we use our bodies to connect to spirit. Thanks again to Lindsay Braynen for contributing an essay Amy read as part of this conversation. THANKS X 1000 to our favourite clergyman Jonathan Stewart for inviting us to this sacred space. divine, witches, dance, witch, peace, witchcraft, bodies true full 31 9a56082a-5be7-4ea0-9fd7-45b275d5486d Missing Witches X Witch Wave: Waking The Witch Mon, 17 Jun 2019 09:00:08 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/missing-witches-x-witch-wave-waking-the-0GbFC3wh Missing Witches X Witch Wave: Waking The Witch Missing Witches 00:56:27 feminism, books, occult, witch, herstory, witchcraft true full 30 73662631-2ee0-45a8-960e-f8de1b3543f4 Missing Witches Beltane Special - Music Witches: Music As Witchcraft Missing Witches Beltane Special - Music Witches: Music As Wicthcraft

In this episode, we speak to classical pianist and astrologer Monefa Walker, Montreal musician and Witch Alex Robshaw, plus new clips from Amy's conversation with singer/songwriter and performance artist, Athena Holmes! Amy and Risa share their own thoughts and experience as Music Witches!!

http://www.missingwitches.com/2019/05/01/missing-witches-beltane-special:-music-witches,-music-as-witchcraft/(opens in a new tab)

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http://www.alexrobshaw.com/
https://msholmes.com/

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> Wed, 1 May 2019 09:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/75c378db-75c378db Missing Witches Beltane Special - Music Witches: Music As Wicthcraft

In this episode, we speak to classical pianist and astrologer Monefa Walker, Montreal musician and Witch Alex Robshaw, plus new clips from Amy's conversation with singer/songwriter and performance artist, Athena Holmes! Amy and Risa share their own thoughts and experience as Music Witches!!

http://www.missingwitches.com/2019/05/01/missing-witches-beltane-special:-music-witches,-music-as-witchcraft/(opens in a new tab)

https://sekhmetsvisions.co.uk/
http://www.alexrobshaw.com/
https://msholmes.com/

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> Missing Witches Beltane Special - Music Witches: Music As Witchcraft Missing Witches 01:06:23 Missing Witches Beltane Special - Music Witches: Music As Wicthcraft In this episode, we speak to classical pianist and astrologer Monefa Walker, Montreal musician and Witch Alex Robshaw, plus new clips from Amy's conversation with singer/songwriter and performance artist, Athena Holmes! Amy and Risa share their own thoughts and experience as Music Witches!! Missing Witches Beltane Special - Music Witches: Music As Wicthcraft In this episode, we speak to classical pianist and astrologer Monefa Walker, Montreal musician and Witch Alex Robshaw, plus new clips from Amy's conversation with singer/songwriter and performance artist, Athena Holmes! Amy and Risa share their own thoughts and experience as Music Witches!! piano, music, witches, songwriting, classical, beethoven, witch, astrology, drum, frequency, witchcraft, vibrations, art true full 29 c2bff09d-2f61-4389-a254-efb8812a6822 Witches Found: Part 2 - The Medium of Life with Jacqueline Beaumont Witches Found: The Medium of Life with Jacqueline Beaumont Part 1

In this episode of Witches Found, Amy sits down with Jacqueline Beaumont to discuss Bio Art, Performance Art, Gaia, Bio-hacking, Gender and the future of Humanity.

http://www.missingwitches.com/2019/04/23/witches-found:-the-medium-of-life-with-jacqueline-beaumont

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> Wed, 24 Apr 2019 09:56:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/507450ed-507450ed Witches Found: The Medium of Life with Jacqueline Beaumont Part 1

In this episode of Witches Found, Amy sits down with Jacqueline Beaumont to discuss Bio Art, Performance Art, Gaia, Bio-hacking, Gender and the future of Humanity.

http://www.missingwitches.com/2019/04/23/witches-found:-the-medium-of-life-with-jacqueline-beaumont

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> Witches Found: Part 2 - The Medium of Life with Jacqueline Beaumont Missing Witches 01:01:58 Witches Found: The Medium of Life with Jacqueline Beaumont Part 1 In this episode of Witches Found, Amy sits down with Jacqueline Beaumont to discuss Bio Art, Performance Art, Gaia, Bio-hacking, Gender and the future of Humanity. Witches Found: The Medium of Life with Jacqueline Beaumont Part 1 In this episode of Witches Found, Amy sits down with Jacqueline Beaumont to discuss Bio Art, Performance Art, Gaia, Bio-hacking, Gender and the future of Humanity. witches, wicca, trans, witch, performance art, transhumanism, witchcraft, gender, biohacking, drag, art, sexuality, futurism true full 28 8671bd0b-b75a-4087-a559-0d3d10aca1d7 Witches Found: Part 1 - The Medium of Life with Jacqueline Beaumont Witches Found: The Medium of Life with Jacqueline Beaumont Part 1

In this episode of Witches Found, Amy sits down with Jacqueline Beaumont to discuss Bio Art, Performance Art, Gaia, Bio-hacking, Gender and the future of Humanity.

http://www.missingwitches.com/2019/04/23/witches-found:-the-medium-of-life-with-jacqueline-beaumont

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> Wed, 24 Apr 2019 09:55:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/01a8e1d3-01a8e1d3 Witches Found: The Medium of Life with Jacqueline Beaumont Part 1

In this episode of Witches Found, Amy sits down with Jacqueline Beaumont to discuss Bio Art, Performance Art, Gaia, Bio-hacking, Gender and the future of Humanity.

http://www.missingwitches.com/2019/04/23/witches-found:-the-medium-of-life-with-jacqueline-beaumont

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> Witches Found: Part 1 - The Medium of Life with Jacqueline Beaumont Missing Witches 00:35:05 Witches Found: The Medium of Life with Jacqueline Beaumont Part 1 In this episode of Witches Found, Amy sits down with Jacqueline Beaumont to discuss Bio Art, Performance Art, Gaia, Bio-hacking, Gender and the future of Humanity. Witches Found: The Medium of Life with Jacqueline Beaumont Part 1 In this episode of Witches Found, Amy sits down with Jacqueline Beaumont to discuss Bio Art, Performance Art, Gaia, Bio-hacking, Gender and the future of Humanity. witches, wicca, trans, witch, performance art, transhumanism, witchcraft, gender, biohacking, drag, art, sexuality true full 27 aa386aca-1959-424e-8e50-90cc8bb89eef Missing Witches - Z Budapest: She Is Not Perfect And Neither Are We In this episode we meet the problematic powerhouse behind Dianic Wicca, Z Budapest, and Amy explores her own Hungarianness through this witch's story.

Warning: We discovered during our research that Z Budapest has been labeled and embraced the label of TERF - for those of you not familiar with this acronym, it stands for Trans Exclusive Radical Feminist. We at Missing Witches are not that. INclusivity is our mandate and our guiding principle, so we were a bit shook by this discovery. After some discussion, we realized we had three choices: we could ditch the episode, we could go ahead with the story but sweep that stuff under the rug, OR we could use this platform to respectfully disagree and tell this story as a way to start a conversation not just about Gender but ALSO about what we do when we find rot amid the ancestors’ bones we’ve been collecting. In the spirit of Safe Spaces of all kinds, we want to make Missing Witches as safe as we can - a place where we can talk about issues from a core ethic of radical compassion. Where it’s safe to ask questions, make mistakes, or respectfully disagree. Learn. Grow. Change our minds. Recognize how experience shapes point of view. We want to name and shame the failings of our ancestors but retain the ability to separate the toxic from the healing. Our goal is learn from their missteps, why they happen, and do better, without throwing away the valuable lessons they have to teach. As Layla Saad wrote, “the loftier goal, is to help us to become better ancestors for those who will come after us.” And as Michelle the Birch Trail taught us: Call in before you call out. So this is us, Z. Calling in.

http://www.missingwitches.com/2019/04/20/missing-witches---z-budapest:-she-is-not-perfect-and-neither-are-we

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

https://www.missingwitches.com/join-the-coven/

 

]]> Sun, 21 Apr 2019 08:21:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Risa Dickens + Amy Torok) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/cfe07453-cfe07453 In this episode we meet the problematic powerhouse behind Dianic Wicca, Z Budapest, and Amy explores her own Hungarianness through this witch's story.

Warning: We discovered during our research that Z Budapest has been labeled and embraced the label of TERF - for those of you not familiar with this acronym, it stands for Trans Exclusive Radical Feminist. We at Missing Witches are not that. INclusivity is our mandate and our guiding principle, so we were a bit shook by this discovery. After some discussion, we realized we had three choices: we could ditch the episode, we could go ahead with the story but sweep that stuff under the rug, OR we could use this platform to respectfully disagree and tell this story as a way to start a conversation not just about Gender but ALSO about what we do when we find rot amid the ancestors’ bones we’ve been collecting. In the spirit of Safe Spaces of all kinds, we want to make Missing Witches as safe as we can - a place where we can talk about issues from a core ethic of radical compassion. Where it’s safe to ask questions, make mistakes, or respectfully disagree. Learn. Grow. Change our minds. Recognize how experience shapes point of view. We want to name and shame the failings of our ancestors but retain the ability to separate the toxic from the healing. Our goal is learn from their missteps, why they happen, and do better, without throwing away the valuable lessons they have to teach. As Layla Saad wrote, “the loftier goal, is to help us to become better ancestors for those who will come after us.” And as Michelle the Birch Trail taught us: Call in before you call out. So this is us, Z. Calling in.

http://www.missingwitches.com/2019/04/20/missing-witches---z-budapest:-she-is-not-perfect-and-neither-are-we

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

https://www.missingwitches.com/join-the-coven/

 

]]> Missing Witches - Z Budapest: She Is Not Perfect And Neither Are We Risa Dickens + Amy Torok 00:31:50 In this episode we meet the problematic powerhouse behind Dianic Wicca, Z Budapest, and Amy explores her own Hungarianness through this witch's story. In this episode we meet the problematic powerhouse behind Dianic Wicca, Z Budapest, and Amy explores her own Hungarianness through this witch's story. tarot, witches, wicca, witch, hungary, dianic wicca, witchcraft, gender, hungarian, dianic true full 26 35f05456-1b1c-41ef-b25d-f6b42d8ef4bd Witches Found: Raising a Witch - Mother Daughter Magic With Melida and Celia Witches Found: Raising a Witch - Mother Daughter Magic With Melida and Celia

In this interview Risa sat down with Melida Jimenez and her daughter Celia. We met Celia last year and after she listened to a couple episodes of our podcast she whispered: ‘my mother raised me to believe I was a witch.’

https://missingwitches.com/2019/04/13/witches-found:-raising-a-witch---mother-daughter-magic-with-melida-and-celia

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https://cucamanga.com/

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> Wed, 17 Apr 2019 10:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/df65c94c-df65c94c Witches Found: Raising a Witch - Mother Daughter Magic With Melida and Celia

In this interview Risa sat down with Melida Jimenez and her daughter Celia. We met Celia last year and after she listened to a couple episodes of our podcast she whispered: ‘my mother raised me to believe I was a witch.’

https://missingwitches.com/2019/04/13/witches-found:-raising-a-witch---mother-daughter-magic-with-melida-and-celia

https://iewirokwasheroes.weebly.com/2018-recipients.html

https://cucamanga.com/

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

https://www.missingwitches.com/join-the-coven/

 

]]> Witches Found: Raising a Witch - Mother Daughter Magic With Melida and Celia Missing Witches 00:58:03 Witches Found: Raising a Witch - Mother Daughter Magic With Melida and Celia In this interview Risa sat down with Melida Jimenez and her daughter Celia. We met Celia last year and after she listened to a couple episodes of our podcast she whispered: ‘my mother raised me to believe I was a witch.’ Witches Found: Raising a Witch - Mother Daughter Magic With Melida and Celia In this interview Risa sat down with Melida Jimenez and her daughter Celia. We met Celia last year and after she listened to a couple episodes of our podcast she whispered: ‘my mother raised me to believe I was a witch.’ mothering, nurses, health, witches, activism, spiritual, witch, guatemala, wildcraft, witchcraft, mother, clinics, nursing, midwives true full 25 b3fda6b0-b1a1-428d-bd72-e1d15023595a Missing Witches - Doreen Valiente: All Acts Of Love And Pleasure Are My Rituals Missing Witches - Doreen Valiente: All Acts Of Love And Pleasure Are My Rituals

Doreen Valiente, the Mother of Modern Witchcraft, the spy who worshiped the moon and never quite came in from the cold, the sharp researcher who spotted forgeries and accidentally helped create a religion though she thought organized religion was a curse to humanity, and wrote beautiful books of poems and spells about how to draw down the moon, and how to find your own magic alone with the trees.

www.missingwitches.com/2019/04/12/missing-witches:-doreen-valiente---all-acts-of-love-and-pleasure-are-my-rituals

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> Sun, 14 Apr 2019 09:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/1096f1ff-1096f1ff Missing Witches - Doreen Valiente: All Acts Of Love And Pleasure Are My Rituals

Doreen Valiente, the Mother of Modern Witchcraft, the spy who worshiped the moon and never quite came in from the cold, the sharp researcher who spotted forgeries and accidentally helped create a religion though she thought organized religion was a curse to humanity, and wrote beautiful books of poems and spells about how to draw down the moon, and how to find your own magic alone with the trees.

www.missingwitches.com/2019/04/12/missing-witches:-doreen-valiente---all-acts-of-love-and-pleasure-are-my-rituals

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> Missing Witches - Doreen Valiente: All Acts Of Love And Pleasure Are My Rituals Missing Witches 00:31:00 Missing Witches - Doreen Valiente: All Acts Of Love And Pleasure Are My Rituals Doreen Valiente, the Mother of Modern Witchcraft, the spy who worshiped the moon and never quite came in from the cold, the sharp researcher who spotted forgeries and accidentally helped create a religion though she thought organized religion was a curse to humanity, and wrote beautiful books of poems and spells about how to draw down the moon, and how to find your own magic alone with the trees. Missing Witches - Doreen Valiente: All Acts Of Love And Pleasure Are My Rituals Doreen Valiente, the Mother of Modern Witchcraft, the spy who worshiped the moon and never quite came in from the cold, the sharp researcher who spotted forgeries and accidentally helped create a religion though she thought organized religion was a curse to humanity, and wrote beautiful books of poems and spells about how to draw down the moon, and how to find your own magic alone with the trees. crowley, math, wicca, gardnerian, mathematics, gerald gardener, witchcraft, art, skyclad, magic, bletchley park true full 24 33c244e8-3561-490a-b76b-55793b5e044a Witches Found: Bossing Up with Athena Holmes WITCHES FOUND: Bossing Up with Athena Holmes

In this episode, we meet the bold and audacious Witch Artist Musician Organizer, Athena Holmes, who teaches us how to take risks, be brave and stay balanced.

http://www.missingwitches.com/2019/04/10/witches-found:-bossing-up-with-athena-holmes

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]]> Wed, 10 Apr 2019 10:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/4a6f5dfc-4a6f5dfc WITCHES FOUND: Bossing Up with Athena Holmes

In this episode, we meet the bold and audacious Witch Artist Musician Organizer, Athena Holmes, who teaches us how to take risks, be brave and stay balanced.

http://www.missingwitches.com/2019/04/10/witches-found:-bossing-up-with-athena-holmes

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]]> Witches Found: Bossing Up with Athena Holmes Missing Witches 00:46:26 WITCHES FOUND: Bossing Up with Athena Holmes In this episode, we meet the bold and audacious Witch Artist Musician Organizer, Athena Holmes, who teaches us how to take risks, be brave and stay balanced. WITCHES FOUND: Bossing Up with Athena Holmes In this episode, we meet the bold and audacious Witch Artist Musician Organizer, Athena Holmes, who teaches us how to take risks, be brave and stay balanced. race, music, witches, wicca, witch, witchcraft, gender, art, bravery true full 23 ddecbc03-59fd-4601-87df-5e695ee1f026 Missing Witches - Zora Neale Hurston: I Want To Collect Like A New Broom Missing Witches - Zora Neale Hurston: I Want To Collect Like A New Broom

In this episode we learn to be bold and audacious with one of America's greatest Anthropologists and Story-tellers, Zora Neale Hurston, her curiosity leading us on a journey of Magic and discovery!

http://www.missingwitches.com/2019/04/01/missing-witches---zora-neale-hurston:-i-want-to-collect-like-a-new-broom/

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]]> Sun, 7 Apr 2019 10:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/cfdd6075-cfdd6075 Missing Witches - Zora Neale Hurston: I Want To Collect Like A New Broom

In this episode we learn to be bold and audacious with one of America's greatest Anthropologists and Story-tellers, Zora Neale Hurston, her curiosity leading us on a journey of Magic and discovery!

http://www.missingwitches.com/2019/04/01/missing-witches---zora-neale-hurston:-i-want-to-collect-like-a-new-broom/

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

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]]> Missing Witches - Zora Neale Hurston: I Want To Collect Like A New Broom Missing Witches 00:31:17 Missing Witches - Zora Neale Hurston: I Want To Collect Like A New Broom In this episode we learn to be bold and audacious with one of America's greatest Anthropologists and Story-tellers, Zora Neale Hurston, her curiosity leading us on a journey of Magic and discovery! Missing Witches - Zora Neale Hurston: I Want To Collect Like A New Broom In this episode we learn to be bold and audacious with one of America's greatest Anthropologists and Story-tellers, Zora Neale Hurston, her curiosity leading us on a journey of Magic and discovery! black pride, research, witch, harlem renaissance, hoodoo, witchcraft, voodoo, magic, anthropology true full 22 5ccc699c-a450-4a7c-82c5-3d140bac8186 Witches Found: Radical Compassion With Nova In this episode, Amy and nursing student and witch, Nova, attempt to smash the hierarchies of health with their discussion of witchcraft, mental and physical health, and the notion of Radical Compassion. CW TW in this conversation, the subject of suicide does come up. Resources are provided in episode for those who are struggling.

http://www.missingwitches.com/2019/04/03/witches-found:-radical-compassion-with-nova

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]]> Wed, 3 Apr 2019 10:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Missing Witches) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/985fedb4-985fedb4 In this episode, Amy and nursing student and witch, Nova, attempt to smash the hierarchies of health with their discussion of witchcraft, mental and physical health, and the notion of Radical Compassion. CW TW in this conversation, the subject of suicide does come up. Resources are provided in episode for those who are struggling.

http://www.missingwitches.com/2019/04/03/witches-found:-radical-compassion-with-nova

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]]> Witches Found: Radical Compassion With Nova Missing Witches 00:46:24 In this episode, Amy and nursing student and witch, Nova, attempt to smash the hierarchies of health with their discussion of witchcraft, mental and physical health, and the notion of Radical Compassion. CW TW in this conversation, the subject of suicide does come up. Resources are provided in episode for those who are struggling. In this episode, Amy and nursing student and witch, Nova, attempt to smash the hierarchies of health with their discussion of witchcraft, mental and physical health, and the notion of Radical Compassion. CW TW in this conversation, the subject of suicide does come up. Resources are provided in episode for those who are struggling. nurses, tarot, health, witches, spiritual, witch, witchcraft, mental health, nursing, midwives true full 21 e5a5d589-d5ec-424b-9f49-5000829806e8 Missing Witches - Urduja: You Are Kapwa, Kin, Connected To Everything Missing Witches - Urduja: You Are Kapwa, Kin, Connected To Everything

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

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]]> Sun, 31 Mar 2019 10:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Risa Dickens + Amy Torok) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/38a9dfea-38a9dfea Missing Witches - Urduja: You Are Kapwa, Kin, Connected To Everything

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

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]]> Missing Witches - Urduja: You Are Kapwa, Kin, Connected To Everything Risa Dickens + Amy Torok 00:25:34 Missing Witches - Urduja: You Are Kapwa, Kin, Connected To Everything Missing Witches - Urduja: You Are Kapwa, Kin, Connected To Everything babaylan, witch, history, warriors, storytellers, philippines, healers, priestesses true full 20 d8d885e2-abbd-41a6-95a9-1a79658f3ce5 Witches Found: Art Magic With Marigold Santos Witches Found: Art Magic With Marigold Santos

In this episode, Amy chats with multimedia artist Marigold Santos about every thing from immigration, to boxing to folklore and how it all relates to her art and to her notion of what it means to be a witch.

http://www.missingwitches.com/2019/03/27/witches-found-art-magic-with-marigold-santos/

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]]> Wed, 27 Mar 2019 10:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Risa Dickens + Amy Torok) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/f83ff664-f83ff664 Witches Found: Art Magic With Marigold Santos

In this episode, Amy chats with multimedia artist Marigold Santos about every thing from immigration, to boxing to folklore and how it all relates to her art and to her notion of what it means to be a witch.

http://www.missingwitches.com/2019/03/27/witches-found-art-magic-with-marigold-santos/

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]]> Witches Found: Art Magic With Marigold Santos Risa Dickens + Amy Torok 00:52:46 Witches Found: Art Magic With Marigold Santos In this episode, Amy chats with multimedia artist Marigold Santos about every thing from immigration, to boxing to folklore and how it all relates to her art and to her notion of what it means to be a witch. Witches Found: Art Magic With Marigold Santos In this episode, Amy chats with multimedia artist Marigold Santos about every thing from immigration, to boxing to folklore and how it all relates to her art and to her notion of what it means to be a witch. phillippina, sculpture, aswang, phillippinx, boxing, phillippines, painting true full 19 c2d6f3ae-560b-4012-b76c-f406cee6d40f Missing Witches - Lady Frieda Harris: I Wish I Could Paint In Crystals Lady Frieda Harris: I Wish I Could Paint In Crystals

In this episode we meet the Bestie of the Beast! Lady Frieda Harris collaborated with Aleister Crowley to produce the Thoth Tarot deck at the intersection of Math and Magic.

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

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]]> Sun, 24 Mar 2019 10:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Risa Dickens + Amy Torok) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/21ae9080-21ae9080 Lady Frieda Harris: I Wish I Could Paint In Crystals

In this episode we meet the Bestie of the Beast! Lady Frieda Harris collaborated with Aleister Crowley to produce the Thoth Tarot deck at the intersection of Math and Magic.

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]]> Missing Witches - Lady Frieda Harris: I Wish I Could Paint In Crystals Risa Dickens + Amy Torok 00:26:52 Lady Frieda Harris: I Wish I Could Paint In Crystals In this episode we meet the Bestie of the Beast! Lady Frieda Harris collaborated with Aleister Crowley to produce the Thoth Tarot deck at the intersection of Math and Magic. Lady Frieda Harris: I Wish I Could Paint In Crystals In this episode we meet the Bestie of the Beast! Lady Frieda Harris collaborated with Aleister Crowley to produce the Thoth Tarot deck at the intersection of Math and Magic. crowley, tarot, math, thoth, mathematics, witchcraft, art, magic true full 18 0288d43b-c119-41bd-9f72-ccce1bf7eeb8 Missing Witches Ostara Special - Talking 'Spiritual Bypassing' with The Birch Trail Missing Witches Ostara Special - Talking 'Spiritual Bypassing' with The Birch Trail

http://www.missingwitches.com/2019/03/20/missing-witches-ostara-special---talking-spiritual-bypassing-with-the-birch-trail/

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]]> Wed, 20 Mar 2019 10:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Risa Dickens + Amy Torok) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/f15706ec-f15706ec Missing Witches Ostara Special - Talking 'Spiritual Bypassing' with The Birch Trail

http://www.missingwitches.com/2019/03/20/missing-witches-ostara-special---talking-spiritual-bypassing-with-the-birch-trail/

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]]> Missing Witches Ostara Special - Talking 'Spiritual Bypassing' with The Birch Trail Risa Dickens + Amy Torok 01:00:58 Risa and Amy welcome the Spring and Welcome you with Gratitude to Season Two of the Missing Witches Podcast. In this episode we share Amy's chat with mixed indigenous artist and community organizer, Michelle aka The Birch Trail. Risa and Amy welcome the Spring and Welcome you with Gratitude to Season Two of the Missing Witches Podcast. In this episode we share Amy's chat with mixed indigenous artist and community organizer, Michelle aka The Birch Trail. indigenous, bypassing, witches, craft, spiritual, witch, artist, cleanse, witchcraft, sage, smudge true full 17 6c65c92f-aa89-46d2-948c-ec87bf35110a MISSING WITCHES IMBOLC SPECIAL - Witches In Labs - Magic and Science Welcome to the 2019 Missing Witches Imbolc Special!! At the intersection of Art, Science and Witchcraft, we meet the brilliant and fascinating Witches at Speculative Life BioLab on the campus of Montreal's Concordia University!!

speculativelifebiolab.com

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

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]]> Fri, 1 Feb 2019 11:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Risa Dickens + Amy Torok) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/ff02287c-ff02287c Welcome to the 2019 Missing Witches Imbolc Special!! At the intersection of Art, Science and Witchcraft, we meet the brilliant and fascinating Witches at Speculative Life BioLab on the campus of Montreal's Concordia University!!

speculativelifebiolab.com

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> MISSING WITCHES IMBOLC SPECIAL - Witches In Labs - Magic and Science Risa Dickens + Amy Torok 00:53:40 Welcome to the 2019 Missing Witches Imbolc Special!! At the intersection of Art, Science and Witchcraft, we meet the brilliant and fascinating Witches at Speculative Life BioLab on the campus of Montreal's Concordia University!! Welcome to the 2019 Missing Witches Imbolc Special!! At the intersection of Art, Science and Witchcraft, we meet the brilliant and fascinating Witches at Speculative Life BioLab on the campus of Montreal's Concordia University!! technology, montreal, witches, concordia, ecology, labs, witch, witchcraft, textiles, science, fertility, art true full 16 1db6b44d-d68e-4d2a-a0e5-6f3b632dfd21 MISSING WITCHES YULETIDE SPECIAL 2018!!! On the Missing Witches Yuletide Special, Amy and Risa talk about about consumerism, dish some witchy history and chat with astrologers Sue and Beisha, PLUS we debut the brand new Missing Witches Yuletide Carol - we hope you'll sing along!

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

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]]> Thu, 20 Dec 2018 22:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Risa Dickens + Amy Torok) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/4e3fad6d-4e3fad6d On the Missing Witches Yuletide Special, Amy and Risa talk about about consumerism, dish some witchy history and chat with astrologers Sue and Beisha, PLUS we debut the brand new Missing Witches Yuletide Carol - we hope you'll sing along!

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> MISSING WITCHES YULETIDE SPECIAL 2018!!! Risa Dickens + Amy Torok 00:58:32 MERRY YULE!!! On the Missing Witches Yuletide Special, Amy and Risa talk about about consumerism, dish some witchy history and chat with astrologers Sue and Beisha - PLUS we debut the brand new Missing Witches Yuletide Carol - we hope you'll sing along! MERRY YULE!!! On the Missing Witches Yuletide Special, Amy and Risa talk about about consumerism, dish some witchy history and chat with astrologers Sue and Beisha - PLUS we debut the brand new Missing Witches Yuletide Carol - we hope you'll sing along! consumerism, solstice, holiday, witches, yule, yeats, witch, astrology, witchcraft, maude gonne, winter, saturnalia true full 15 9a2a456d-9449-4787-8745-654ba1d4c9dc Missing Witches: Witches Found - Samhain with Reeta and Phoenix Missing Witches: Witches Found - Samhain with Reeta and Phoenix

In the final episode of Season 1, Amy and Risa get together with Reeta and Phoenix one more time to talk about birth, life, death and everything in between and shout out our favourite online Witches on our Samhain special!!

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

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]]> Wed, 31 Oct 2018 10:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Risa Dickens + Amy Torok) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/19dec658-19dec658 Missing Witches: Witches Found - Samhain with Reeta and Phoenix

In the final episode of Season 1, Amy and Risa get together with Reeta and Phoenix one more time to talk about birth, life, death and everything in between and shout out our favourite online Witches on our Samhain special!!

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> Missing Witches: Witches Found - Samhain with Reeta and Phoenix Risa Dickens + Amy Torok 00:51:22 Missing Witches: Witches Found - Samhain with Reeta and Phoenix Missing Witches: Witches Found - Samhain with Reeta and Phoenix feminism, witches, activism, self care, samhain, witch, halloween, birth, life, witchcraft, death, ritual true full 14 54a893b9-5c8f-4468-a6c7-c11456085220 Missing Witches - Brenda Laurel: "Unleash The Alchemical Power Of It All." Brenda Laurel: Unleash The Alchemical Power Of It All.

In this episode, we strap on our VR goggles and take a look at both kinds of virtual reality - the one you make with technology, and the one you make with magic. By the keystrokes of visionary techno-pagan and software pioneer, Brenda Laurel, we learn to bridge the gap between computer, theatre, nature, and reality.

Episode Webpage: http://www.missingwitches.com/2018/10/28/episode-6-brenda…-power-of-it-all/

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

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]]> Sun, 28 Oct 2018 10:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Risa Dickens + Amy Torok) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/fac777db-fac777db Brenda Laurel: Unleash The Alchemical Power Of It All.

In this episode, we strap on our VR goggles and take a look at both kinds of virtual reality - the one you make with technology, and the one you make with magic. By the keystrokes of visionary techno-pagan and software pioneer, Brenda Laurel, we learn to bridge the gap between computer, theatre, nature, and reality.

Episode Webpage: http://www.missingwitches.com/2018/10/28/episode-6-brenda…-power-of-it-all/

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

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]]> Missing Witches - Brenda Laurel: "Unleash The Alchemical Power Of It All." Risa Dickens + Amy Torok 00:24:16 Brenda Laurel: Unleash The Alchemical Power Of It All. In this episode, we strap on our VR goggles and take a look at both kinds of virtual reality - the one you make with technology, and the one you make with magic. By the keystrokes of visionary techno-pagan and software pioneer, Brenda Laurel, we learn to bridge the gap between computer, theatre, nature, and reality. Brenda Laurel: Unleash The Alchemical Power Of It All. In this episode, we strap on our VR goggles and take a look at both kinds of virtual reality - the one you make with technology, and the one you make with magic. By the keystrokes of visionary techno-pagan and software pioneer, Brenda Laurel, we learn to bridge the gap between computer, theatre, nature, and reality. technology, feminist, gaia, witches, activism, esoteric, occult, witch, history, biography, witchcraft, paganism, technopagan, pagan, tech, virtual reality true full 13 689db913-ab32-4fb2-b958-49b7b387c50d Part 2 Missing Witches: Witches Found - Goddess With Phoenix Part 2 Missing Witches: Witches Found - Goddess With Phoenix

In part two of our interview, Amy continues her discussion of the goddess with Phoenix who makes an impassioned case for intersectional engagement and reparations as well as for sex work, and all women’s work, as magical, powerful and healing.

Episode Webpage: http://www.missingwitches.com/2018/10/24/episode-5a-witch…d-goddess-part-2/

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]]> Wed, 24 Oct 2018 10:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Risa Dickens + Amy Torok) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/88b91bb6-88b91bb6 Part 2 Missing Witches: Witches Found - Goddess With Phoenix

In part two of our interview, Amy continues her discussion of the goddess with Phoenix who makes an impassioned case for intersectional engagement and reparations as well as for sex work, and all women’s work, as magical, powerful and healing.

Episode Webpage: http://www.missingwitches.com/2018/10/24/episode-5a-witch…d-goddess-part-2/

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]]> Part 2 Missing Witches: Witches Found - Goddess With Phoenix Risa Dickens + Amy Torok 00:34:18 Part 2 Missing Witches: Witches Found - Goddess With Phoenix In part two of our interview, Amy continues her discussion of the goddess with Phoenix who makes an impassioned case for intersectional engagement and reparations as well as for sex work, and all women’s work, as magical, powerful and healing. Part 2 Missing Witches: Witches Found - Goddess With Phoenix In part two of our interview, Amy continues her discussion of the goddess with Phoenix who makes an impassioned case for intersectional engagement and reparations as well as for sex work, and all women’s work, as magical, powerful and healing. feminist, witches, activism, esoteric, occult, witch, history, biography, witchcraft, performance, glam gam, sex work true full 12 289ff284-aa8d-4950-9ead-37ee181d7658 Missing Witches - Mama Lola: "Spirit For Everybody!" Missing Witches - Mama Lola: "Spirit For Everybody!"

A story of power, resilience and care and magic - back to the beginning of all consciousness to follow the genesis of vodou through dreams and under water, in Spirits, in Haiti and in Mama Lola, famed Vodou Priestess of Brooklyn.

Episode Webpage: http://www.missingwitches.com/2018/10/21/episode-5-mama-l…it-for-everybody/

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]]> Sun, 21 Oct 2018 10:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Risa Dickens + Amy Torok) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/0beaa8e2-0beaa8e2 Missing Witches - Mama Lola: "Spirit For Everybody!"

A story of power, resilience and care and magic - back to the beginning of all consciousness to follow the genesis of vodou through dreams and under water, in Spirits, in Haiti and in Mama Lola, famed Vodou Priestess of Brooklyn.

Episode Webpage: http://www.missingwitches.com/2018/10/21/episode-5-mama-l…it-for-everybody/

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

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]]> Missing Witches - Mama Lola: "Spirit For Everybody!" Risa Dickens + Amy Torok 00:45:57 Missing Witches - Mama Lola: "Spirit For Everybody!" A story of power, resilience and care and magic - back to the beginning of all consciousness to follow the genesis of vodou through dreams and under water, in Spirits, in Haiti and in Mama Lola, famed Vodou Priestess of Brooklyn. Missing Witches - Mama Lola: "Spirit For Everybody!" A story of power, resilience and care and magic - back to the beginning of all consciousness to follow the genesis of vodou through dreams and under water, in Spirits, in Haiti and in Mama Lola, famed Vodou Priestess of Brooklyn. yoruba, feminist, witches, ifa, activism, esoteric, haiti, occult, witch, history, vodou, biography, witchcraft, voodoo true full 11 bc8c326d-a092-4a25-b3a5-2f75accf33c6 Part 1 Missing Witches: Witches Found - Goddess With Phoenix Witches Found: Goddess With Phoenix Part 1

In this first of a two part interview, Amy talks to performer and activist, Phoenix, about goddess worship, drama as therapy, the power of women, the power of protest, and of course, the power of magic.

Episode Webpage: http://www.missingwitches.com/2018/10/17/episode-4a-witches-found-goddess/

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]]> Wed, 17 Oct 2018 10:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Risa Dickens + Amy Torok) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/1fd5f714-1fd5f714 Witches Found: Goddess With Phoenix Part 1

In this first of a two part interview, Amy talks to performer and activist, Phoenix, about goddess worship, drama as therapy, the power of women, the power of protest, and of course, the power of magic.

Episode Webpage: http://www.missingwitches.com/2018/10/17/episode-4a-witches-found-goddess/

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]]> Part 1 Missing Witches: Witches Found - Goddess With Phoenix Risa Dickens + Amy Torok 00:28:54 Witches Found: Goddess With Phoenix Part 1 In this first of a two part interview, Amy talks to performer and activist, Phoenix, about goddess worship, drama as therapy, the power of women, the power of protest, and of course, the power of magic. Witches Found: Goddess With Phoenix Part 1 In this first of a two part interview, Amy talks to performer and activist, Phoenix, about goddess worship, drama as therapy, the power of women, the power of protest, and of course, the power of magic. feminist, montreal, witches, activism, esoteric, occult, witch, history, biography, witchcraft, protest, magic true full 10 af482378-3f7c-4b36-be6a-93b2d249b73d Missing Witches - Monica Sjöö: "The Earth Is A Witch And The Men Still Burn Her" Monica Sjöö: The Earth Is A Witch And The Men Still Burn Her.

A deep dive into the divine feminine, from goddess worship to modern motherhood, guided through the landmines by author, artist, activist, witch: Monica Sjöö.

Episode Webpage: http://www.missingwitches.com/2018/10/14/episode-4-monica…n-still-burn-her/

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

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]]> Sun, 14 Oct 2018 10:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Risa Dickens + Amy Torok) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/c030ae55-c030ae55 Monica Sjöö: The Earth Is A Witch And The Men Still Burn Her.

A deep dive into the divine feminine, from goddess worship to modern motherhood, guided through the landmines by author, artist, activist, witch: Monica Sjöö.

Episode Webpage: http://www.missingwitches.com/2018/10/14/episode-4-monica…n-still-burn-her/

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

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]]> Missing Witches - Monica Sjöö: "The Earth Is A Witch And The Men Still Burn Her" Risa Dickens + Amy Torok 00:34:34 Monica Sjöö: The Earth Is A Witch And The Men Still Burn Her. A deep dive into the divine feminine, from goddess worship to modern motherhood, guided through the landmines by author, artist, activist, witch: Monica Sjöö. Monica Sjöö: The Earth Is A Witch And The Men Still Burn Her. A deep dive into the divine feminine, from goddess worship to modern motherhood, guided through the landmines by author, artist, activist, witch: Monica Sjöö. feminist, witches, activism, esoteric, occult, witch, artist, history, biography, witchcraft, painter, sweden true full 9 9f8111ce-5201-4cab-84e8-12284d484064 Missing Witches: Witches Found - Spirit With Annie Amy talks to Medicine Woman, Annie Lamoureux about the tools she uses to connect with the Great Spirit.

Episode Webpage: http://www.missingwitches.com/2018/10/10/episode-3a-witches-found-spirit/

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]]> Wed, 10 Oct 2018 10:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Risa Dickens + Amy Torok) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/938506cc-938506cc Amy talks to Medicine Woman, Annie Lamoureux about the tools she uses to connect with the Great Spirit.

Episode Webpage: http://www.missingwitches.com/2018/10/10/episode-3a-witches-found-spirit/

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

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]]> Missing Witches: Witches Found - Spirit With Annie Risa Dickens + Amy Torok 00:30:24 Missing Witches: Witches Found - Spirit With Annie On this episode of Witches Found Medicine Woman Annie Lamoureux talks about using the voice and the drum to enter a trace state to receive messages from the Great Spirit. Missing Witches: Witches Found - Spirit With Annie On this episode of Witches Found Medicine Woman Annie Lamoureux talks about using the voice and the drum to enter a trace state to receive messages from the Great Spirit. feminist, indigenous, spirit, witches, esoteric, woman, occult, witch, shaman, drum, kirtan, witchcraft, medicine, shamanism, trance true full 8 6a2e0b75-0911-4f6a-a4ad-cb87827a070d Missing Witches - Maria Sabina: "I Am The Woman Who Shepherds The Immense" A psychedelic trip through the mountains of Mexico where we find Maria Sabina and her magic mushrooms. Through the story and songs of this curandera and poet, we explore the interplay of soul and brain, nature, language and healing.

Episode Webpage: http://www.missingwitches.com/2018/10/07/episode-3-maria-…erds-the-immense/

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

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]]> Sun, 7 Oct 2018 10:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Risa Dickens + Amy Torok) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/54eac48e-54eac48e A psychedelic trip through the mountains of Mexico where we find Maria Sabina and her magic mushrooms. Through the story and songs of this curandera and poet, we explore the interplay of soul and brain, nature, language and healing.

Episode Webpage: http://www.missingwitches.com/2018/10/07/episode-3-maria-…erds-the-immense/

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

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]]> Missing Witches - Maria Sabina: "I Am The Woman Who Shepherds The Immense" Risa Dickens + Amy Torok 00:40:54 A psychedelic trip through the mountains of Mexico where we find Maria Sabina and her magic mushrooms. Through the story and songs of this curandera and poet, we explore the interplay of soul and brain, nature, language and healing. A psychedelic trip through the mountains of Mexico where we find Maria Sabina and her magic mushrooms. Through the story and songs of this curandera and poet, we explore the interplay of soul and brain, nature, language and healing. maria, witches, maria sabina, psilocybin, witch, sabina, healing, history, brain, mushrooms, psychedelics, witchcraft, curandera, drugs, mexico true full 7 1b6630ed-dbbf-4905-9c38-a26aa864877c Missing Witches: Witches Found - Self Care with Beisha Missing Witches: Witches Found - Self Care with Beisha

This week, Amy AND Risa get together to chat with Ayurvedic Practitioner, Beisha, about self care as we unpack Ipsita Roy Chakraverti’s answers to our questions!

Episode Webpage: http://www.missingwitches.com/2018/10/03/episode-2a-witches-found-self-care/

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]]> Wed, 3 Oct 2018 10:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Risa Dickens + Amy Torok) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/637eebd5-637eebd5 Missing Witches: Witches Found - Self Care with Beisha

This week, Amy AND Risa get together to chat with Ayurvedic Practitioner, Beisha, about self care as we unpack Ipsita Roy Chakraverti’s answers to our questions!

Episode Webpage: http://www.missingwitches.com/2018/10/03/episode-2a-witches-found-self-care/

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

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]]> Missing Witches: Witches Found - Self Care with Beisha Risa Dickens + Amy Torok 00:49:26 This week, Amy AND Risa get together to chat with Ayurvedic Practitioner, Beisha, about self care as we unpack Ipsita Roy Chakraverti’s answers to our questions and discuss various methods of looking after yourself! This week, Amy AND Risa get together to chat with Ayurvedic Practitioner, Beisha, about self care as we unpack Ipsita Roy Chakraverti’s answers to our questions and discuss various methods of looking after yourself! alexander, care, ayurveda, health, witches, wicca, self, witch, hinduism, wiccan, witchcraft true full 6 50f5b093-34fb-4212-9763-9161031c2a4d Missing Witches - Ipsita Roy Chakraverti: "Every Strong Woman Is A Witch And All Are Hunted" Missing Witches - Ipsita Roy Chakraverti "Every Strong Woman Is A Witch And All Are Hunted"

A story of visions, rose petals, arrogance and activism, told through the eyes, craft and writings of Ipsita Roy Chakraverti.

Episode Webpage: http://www.missingwitches.com/2018/09/30/episode-2-ipsita…d-all-are-hunted/

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A story of visions, rose petals, arrogance and activism, told through the eyes, craft and writings of Ipsita Roy Chakraverti. Our story begins in 1960’s Montreal. A ten year old Indian girl, Ipsita Roy Chakraverti from West Bengal, is about to have the first in a lifelong series of encounters with the supernatural leading her like breadcrumbs to a life of witchcraft: she’d go on to spend her teenage years in a secret women’s school devoted to ancient mystery studies in the Laurentians, North of Montreal; publicly declare herself a witch in India’s National Press, and dedicate her life to protecting women from the rape and torture of the modern witch hunt. With an Elvis Presley detour along the way.

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

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]]> Sun, 30 Sep 2018 10:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Risa Dickens + Amy Torok) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/ea73013c-ea73013c Missing Witches - Ipsita Roy Chakraverti "Every Strong Woman Is A Witch And All Are Hunted"

A story of visions, rose petals, arrogance and activism, told through the eyes, craft and writings of Ipsita Roy Chakraverti.

Episode Webpage: http://www.missingwitches.com/2018/09/30/episode-2-ipsita…d-all-are-hunted/

http://theyoungbengalbrigade.com/

A story of visions, rose petals, arrogance and activism, told through the eyes, craft and writings of Ipsita Roy Chakraverti. Our story begins in 1960’s Montreal. A ten year old Indian girl, Ipsita Roy Chakraverti from West Bengal, is about to have the first in a lifelong series of encounters with the supernatural leading her like breadcrumbs to a life of witchcraft: she’d go on to spend her teenage years in a secret women’s school devoted to ancient mystery studies in the Laurentians, North of Montreal; publicly declare herself a witch in India’s National Press, and dedicate her life to protecting women from the rape and torture of the modern witch hunt. With an Elvis Presley detour along the way.

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> Missing Witches - Ipsita Roy Chakraverti: "Every Strong Woman Is A Witch And All Are Hunted" Risa Dickens + Amy Torok 00:38:31 Missing Witches - Ipsita Roy Chakraverti "Every Strong Woman Is A Witch And All Are Hunted" In this episode, we examine the contemporary Witch hunt, with stops at Crystal Skulls and Elvis Presley along the way. It is a story of visions, rose petals, arrogance and activism, told through the eyes, craft and writings of Ipsita Roy Chakraverti - a woman who took the word Witch, made it her own, then threw it back into the faces of oppressors. Missing Witches - Ipsita Roy Chakraverti "Every Strong Woman Is A Witch And All Are Hunted" In this episode, we examine the contemporary Witch hunt, with stops at Crystal Skulls and Elvis Presley along the way. It is a story of visions, rose petals, arrogance and activism, told through the eyes, craft and writings of Ipsita Roy Chakraverti - a woman who took the word Witch, made it her own, then threw it back into the faces of oppressors. feminist, witchhunt, witches, activism, wicca, esoteric, occult, india, witch, history, biography, witchcraft true full 5 6766ea14-3b0d-4d17-af91-87aeb726be5c Missing Witches: Witches Found - Divination With Reeta Missing Witches: Witches Found - Divination with Reeta
This week, Amy talks to Tarot Reader Reeta about the sacred cards and other forms of divination.

Episode Webpage: http://www.missingwitches.com/2018/09/26/1a-witches-found-divination/

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]]> Wed, 26 Sep 2018 10:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Risa Dickens + Amy Torok) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/8212588f-8212588f Missing Witches: Witches Found - Divination with Reeta
This week, Amy talks to Tarot Reader Reeta about the sacred cards and other forms of divination.

Episode Webpage: http://www.missingwitches.com/2018/09/26/1a-witches-found-divination/

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

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]]> Missing Witches: Witches Found - Divination With Reeta Risa Dickens + Amy Torok 00:46:06 This week, Amy talks to Tarot Reader Reeta about the sacred cards and other forms of divination like astrology and the Middle Eastern art of Desha, plus The Craft, Sephora's Witch Kit AND tips for new witches. This week, Amy talks to Tarot Reader Reeta about the sacred cards and other forms of divination like astrology and the Middle Eastern art of Desha, plus The Craft, Sephora's Witch Kit AND tips for new witches. feminist, tarot, witches, esoteric, occult, witch, divination, astrology, witchcraft true full 4 b35a1376-c23e-4c03-87e3-e65f38019e28 Missing Witches - Pixie Colman Smith: “Look for the Door Into The Unknown Country.” Welcome to The Missing Witches Podcast, where we tell stories of badass women who have practiced magic.

In this podcast we go looking for the witches we’ve been missing - we is myself, Risa Dickens, and my co-producer and sound designer Amy Torok. This is a feminist history storytelling podcast where we try to fill gaps in our mental maps of what a witch is and where are they and what have they been doing? It’ll necessarily be a mix of history, gossip and maybe some magic to fill in the blanks. Our focus is stretching our perspective to find witches from all cultures and colours. Our goals are to learn something, to do justice to people we admire, and if we can, give love, research, curiosity, respect and voice to some witches who’ve stories we’ve been missing.

With that in mind, we want to start with a witch whose identity and contributions have been multiply erased, but whose work guides the mind and practices of pretty much everyone who touches anything remotely mystic: the maybe-mixed race, probably queer woman artist behind the world’s most famous tarot deck, Pamela Colman Smith.

Check out our website for Pamela Colman Smith resources and more! MissingWitches.com

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

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]]> Sun, 23 Sep 2018 10:00:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Risa Dickens + Amy Torok) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/cb42c10b-cb42c10b Welcome to The Missing Witches Podcast, where we tell stories of badass women who have practiced magic.

In this podcast we go looking for the witches we’ve been missing - we is myself, Risa Dickens, and my co-producer and sound designer Amy Torok. This is a feminist history storytelling podcast where we try to fill gaps in our mental maps of what a witch is and where are they and what have they been doing? It’ll necessarily be a mix of history, gossip and maybe some magic to fill in the blanks. Our focus is stretching our perspective to find witches from all cultures and colours. Our goals are to learn something, to do justice to people we admire, and if we can, give love, research, curiosity, respect and voice to some witches who’ve stories we’ve been missing.

With that in mind, we want to start with a witch whose identity and contributions have been multiply erased, but whose work guides the mind and practices of pretty much everyone who touches anything remotely mystic: the maybe-mixed race, probably queer woman artist behind the world’s most famous tarot deck, Pamela Colman Smith.

Check out our website for Pamela Colman Smith resources and more! MissingWitches.com

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> Missing Witches - Pixie Colman Smith: “Look for the Door Into The Unknown Country.” Risa Dickens + Amy Torok 00:37:50 Pixie Colman Smith: “Look for the Door Into The Unknown Country.” In this episode, we trace a history full of mystical tangents, legends, meditations, divinations and diversions. It is the story of the Tarot told through art, words and life of one of the deck’s greatest illustrators: Pamela Colman Smith. Pixie Colman Smith: “Look for the Door Into The Unknown Country.” In this episode, we trace a history full of mystical tangents, legends, meditations, divinations and diversions. It is the story of the Tarot told through art, words and life of one of the deck’s greatest illustrators: Pamela Colman Smith. feminist, tarot, music, witches, esoteric, occult, witch, history, biography, witchcraft, art, meditation true full 3 7efd3d63-afd8-420a-a535-56cad4e1128f Missing Witches Trailer Missing Witches is a research based, feminist occult storytelling project. It’s sort of like Disgraceland, or Lore, except each episode is about a real witch. It tells some pretty crazy magical stories about women, and emphasizes women of colour.

Missing Witches is co-produced by Risa Dickens and Amy Torok.

We are releasing a total of 12 episodes for Season One:

  • Sundays, starting on the Sept 23 Full Moon and ending on Oct 28,
    we’ll release 6 episodes that are scripted, research-based stories of
    actual badass witches.
  • Wednesdays, from Sept 26th to Halloween, we’re releasing “Witches
    Found” episodes – interviews and spotlights on practicing,
    contemporary witches in our community – healers, shaman, and a
    dominatrix who makes a passionate case for sex work as magic.

We hope you’ll take a listen you’ll let us know what you think!!

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

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]]> Fri, 21 Sep 2018 14:14:00 +0000 missingwitches@gmail.com (Risa Dickens + Amy Torok) https://missingwitches.simplecast.com/episodes/4eb407e1-4eb407e1 Missing Witches is a research based, feminist occult storytelling project. It’s sort of like Disgraceland, or Lore, except each episode is about a real witch. It tells some pretty crazy magical stories about women, and emphasizes women of colour.

Missing Witches is co-produced by Risa Dickens and Amy Torok.

We are releasing a total of 12 episodes for Season One:

  • Sundays, starting on the Sept 23 Full Moon and ending on Oct 28,
    we’ll release 6 episodes that are scripted, research-based stories of
    actual badass witches.
  • Wednesdays, from Sept 26th to Halloween, we’re releasing “Witches
    Found” episodes – interviews and spotlights on practicing,
    contemporary witches in our community – healers, shaman, and a
    dominatrix who makes a passionate case for sex work as magic.

We hope you’ll take a listen you’ll let us know what you think!!

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. 

https://www.missingwitches.com/join-the-coven/

 

]]> Missing Witches Trailer Risa Dickens + Amy Torok 00:00:45 Launching September 23, 2018. Launching September 23, 2018. feminism, shamans, witches, occult, missing witches, healers, magic, fairies false trailer 0