Pink Moon part 2 with Amanda Amour Lynx and Michelle Beausejour: Storytelling and Healing

MW Rx. 50 - You Are Not Alone: 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 by Missing Witches

21 min listen

MW Rx. 49 - Stand In The Way Of Control: 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 by Missing Witches

22 min listen

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/ by Missing Witches

20 min listen

Indigenous Futures + BELTANE Special - We Have A Lot Of Relations: 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! by Missing Witches

59 min listen

MW Rx. 48 - 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 by Missing Witches

20 min listen

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. by Missing Witches

43 min listen

MW Rx. 47 - 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-en by Missing Witches

31 min listen

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/ by Missing Witches

18 min listen

MW Rx. 46 - I’m 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 by Missing Witches

20 min listen

We Are Granite Kin: 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 d by Missing Witches

23 min listen

MW Rx. 45 - 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, an by Missing Witches

20 min listen

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/ by Missing Witches

24 min listen

MW Rx. 44 - 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/ by Missing Witches

30 min listen

We Are Lichen Kin: 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. by Missing Witches

31 min listen

Ostara 2024 - A Taste Of The Coven: VISUAL 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 by Missing Witches

96 min listen

MW Rx. 43 - 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/ by Missing Witches

29 min listen

WF Christopher Marmolejo of Red Tarot - A Tarot Reading Queers Time: "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. Re by Missing Witches

66 min listen

MW Rx. 42 - Join The March To The Witch's 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/ by Missing Witches

27 min listen

MW Rx. 41 - Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space: 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? by Missing Witches

23 min listen

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-you by Missing Witches

55 min listen

MW Rx. 40 - It's 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 by Missing Witches

22 min listen

MW Rx. 39 - 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/ by Missing Witches

26 min listen

WF Witch Hunt with Melissa James, Sarah Sharkey Pearce, Matthew Venus, Nick Dickinson and Michael M. Hughes: 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 th by Missing Witches

47 min listen

MW Rx. 38 - 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/ by Missing Witches

33 min listen

MW Rx. 37 - Don't 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 by Missing Witches

21 min listen

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

104 min listen

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

29 min listen

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

50 min listen

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

27 min listen

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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Pink Moon part 2 with Amanda Amour Lynx and Michelle Beausejour: Storytelling and Healing

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