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
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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 o by Missing Witches
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MW Rx. 36 - 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 by Missing Witches
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WF Dr. Marion Gibson - It Almost Feels Like They Are Waiting There For You: 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. by Missing Witches
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MW Rx.35 - Writing Love On The Ceiling: This week's Rx is about starting fresh while weighted with histories, both personal and global, and last year's snow. by Missing Witches
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MW Rx. 34 - An Inter-dimensional Being: Beaver dams and snow forts give way to notions of mortality and possibility. by Missing Witches
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WF Cara Kovacs - Business Is Personal AF: 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 by Missing Witches
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