Witches Muse : Stories Beneath the Surface

We're back for some summer time podcasting!Can you believe it?!? We are almost at the end of Season II. I am so excited to bring on our **NEW COHOST** and begin to tease out some of the way that Season III will be shaping up. We are excited to bring a few episodes in July - and we begin with the amazing Victoria B Wikler from @dharmawitchrituals Victoria B. Wikler is a Thai-American witch, peer counselor, mindfulness meditation teacher, and educator. She has 12+ years of experience in meditation as a Witch practitioner. She has taught mindfulness meditation to an array of  communities and individuals from Haitian children to Brooklyn witches. Victoria believes that mindfulness and spiritual expression is a human right, her mission has been and will always be to make mindfulness education, mental-health support, and safe spiritual practices intersectional and accessible to all- especially those among us who are underserved, under-appreciated, underprotected, and thus- underestimated.Check out her work with Dharma Witch Rituals Instagram or her practitioner page  Themes of this Episode What was your relationship to Magick growing up?Kuman Thong - In a world where Black Magic can be noted and rooted as “bad” or stigmatized by supremacy - why is the reclaimaiton of Asian Ancestral Witchcraft so important?What are a few aspects of Kuman Thong you're most excited to teach on?Temperance Balance - Moderation // Balance // SagitariusHow is Meditation magical?How do you meditate without distraction (HELP - love, an ADHD witch)You speak of psychedelic witchcraft - teachers that have supported that practice - censored.Dharma Witch Threads Let's talk altered states - what's been your experience with psychedelics as a way to expand your capacity of care and consciousness? - Tips & Support for beginners - stories welcome.Psychedelic for witches (psychedelic harm reduction)Support the show

This is going to be a big May for us - TWO EPISODES. We begin with the Chariot in Drag, because we believe in the vessel.  We did the Chariot Episode earlier this season with Indy Srinath which you can see hereKochina Rude is a drag queen, vocalist, and emcee based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Kochina's distinct hard-femme style is fueled by an upbringing of punk rock coupled with Chicano culture.Kochina is a cohost for weekly drag show “Princess” at SF Oasis, and also provides vocals for Bay Area punk band Lolly Gaggers. Offstage, she is a harm reduction activist, public health worker, and sexual health educator.From the Desert to the Drag Club - I am so beyond inspired by Kochina. We talk about Drag and Drugs - and the work of Harm Reduction. This episode is inspired by the vessel of the craft. By the transformation that takes forth. If you enjoy these episodes - please review us. We love sharing written reviews out loud - and it really supports the continuation of this podcast. We are grateful for those that look forward to our monthly episodes - and are deeply grateful for all the love.The best news - We will be back for Season III. Stay tuned for future episodes as more unfolds with a brand new show format, cover art, and new co-host. More to come, stay tuned. Content Warning :  Drug Use, Needles, AddictionThemes & Topics Covered Boy Wizard  Drag is A Vessel for radical transformationDrag Origin Story & Phatima Rude Be Original and not just consumableHow Kochina Feels about RuPauls Drag Race Harm Reduction - why it matters Show Links Ladies & Gentlemen - Phatima RudeLadies & Gentlemen - Phatima Rude Documentary Harm Reduction Coalition Lolly Gaggers  Support the show

The Moon always invites us in - no matter the phase. This episode was gathered in moments of falls harvest - and now Spring emerges. I am grateful to the work of Jonathan Koe and his way with words in this episode.PLEASE NOTE: The start of the Jonathan's interview we have a small echo that comes back - feedback that last 30 seconds - the invitation of imperfection is present here - so welcoming it. Enjoy the facets of grief and moments we tend in this Episode. Themes Discussed Throughout Episode Storytelling with Oma 8 of Cups Energy presents the discernment within the phase How do we let go of control? What is grasping and reaching lead us to?Whats present in moments that end? Whats our relationship to ending and beginning? How does the Moon card move us closer to the ways of experiencing instead of labeling? Bullying and Greek Mythology The Mystic and Mundane : How do we hold the mystic and mundane? How does Practice and Performance share relationships Being a shapeshifter in a world of too much Like what you hear? Please share this with someone you love. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/thewitchesmuse)

Welcome 2022 - The  Year of Lovers!We are about eight episodes left of Season II - which through living through a pandemic feels like an edge of time travel talismans that has left yet another moment of conversational magick to be bad. Season III is beginning to be dreamed upon - and I am so excited to share with you all some upcoming announcements about it over the course of the next couple of intros - so lets get into the first episode of 2022 - inviting in the Devil Card bc why wouldn't we be doing the polar opposite card? So we journey through the dance of this episode uncovering the workings of the Devils in the eyes of a wonderful cat dad and professional Tarot Reader, Jonathan - the Son of Osun.Please note : my intro was in Sag SZN and we are now time traveling through Capricorn time.  Themes & Topics Discussed Magic of the Sailor MoonWhat is a closed practice / initiate based practices / open practices The Multiplicity & Short History about Hoodoo (this was not the whole episode - there is so much to say about this Practice)How your not going to learn tarot from the David Bowie tarot - sorry ..The Devil and The Lovers Card  Clearing Decks Candle Magick Offering Show Notes & ReferencesJade T. Perry CWTA - Cecilia Weston Tarot AcademyAuthor Of Mercury's Brood Son Of Osun - Tarot Booking Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/thewitchesmuse)Support the show

We're Back! We are trying as much as we can to post monthly - and sometimes Mercury Rx comes through and has other plans - and we don't try to force any urgency on conversations that hold us down and through these windy paths these days. CW warnings : conversations about police brutality, state sanctioned violence against black bodies, AAPI hate crimes. Please remember #ACAB within this conversation. We wanna honor these moments in which state sanctioned violence and police brutality is not a trending meme, or a time in history - it is systemic. ⁠⁠This is in honor of the Hanged One.  How we shift our perceptions and our relationship to death.  How death - and talking about death out loud - is a way to be in relationship to a perspective we often never want to address. Please note - I mess up in the intro - ya know? I tried to edit this out - and I just couldn't - so your gonna witness this - and I appreciate that - as I remind myself its okay. Some themes we seed together with Ash from Sovereign Spirit Death Care How they came to know their relationship to spirit mediumship. ⁠What do we know of death? What do we need to navigate? ⁠How systems have made death unavoidable for black queer bodies? How  the capitalized system of death  made us forget our inherent birth right to death ⁠What are ways we return home again? Ruminations of the Hanged One Show Notes & References + Jade T. Perry - Churchy Mystic on Join Unspeakable Blog   + Sovereign Spirit Death Care + Alua Arthur+ Korean Spa Shootings : What Korean Media Told You That Mainstream Media Didn't  Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/thewitchesmuse)Support the show

We find ourself on the other side of the world - rhythms in summer - and in so-called Australia we are entering Winter - so the rhythm of this podcast seeds nicely in the ways we are always at a turning point, a transition regardless of where we land.This episode - I want to be super truthful in my continued learning around Disability Justice, education and awareness. As someone who didn't even know I was living with invisible disabilities - I still consider myself in a constant conversation of Join Keitha Young of the Peaceful Seed  as we talk about : Magick growing up and making things disappear Making Rune Stones - And How Magick Isn't Instagrammable Mixed Kiddo Roles & Plant Magick w/ Intergenerational Trauma Soul Herbs & Ancestral Magick Harvest Traditions of Milky Oats Tending the life cycle for seeds in justice Life as a disabled farmer and seed keeper Relationship to Divination - Being out of Practice with Practice I Ching Pathways - Guess what plant Keitha makes the I Ching out of? Magick in the Mundane through Mary Oliver Plant Archetypes & Plant Medicine for Healing Justice What Tarot Card would Yarrow & Milky Oats be? Show NotesIntro Info + What is a Spoonie? + Disabled People or People with Disabilities + Kazu Haga Healing Resilience+ Person First  and Identity First Language + His Dark Materials + The Dark is Rising + The Peaceful Seed Patreon +  Lara Veleda Vesta+ Rowan White+ Emergent Strategy + Mary Oliver - Forgive Me+ Spoonie Theory  + Rupa Mayra Bioneers Video Health and Justice: The Path of Liberation + Mary Oliver - What I Have Learned So Far Support the show

SHOW NOTES +Join Tara with J. Allen Cross of the @oregonwoodwitch and Britton  of @archaichoney as we talk around several topics around witchcraft the work of the three of wands. The three of wands finds its way into as last foundations with strong commitment - and I feel that describes these two amazing beings pretty damn clearly.  This is recorded before the release of the book and the podcast - and really serves as a way to note - when you allow yourself a sense of deep awareness and self-study, you cultivate containerships for big magick. Episode Topics +What magick was like before the internet What the importance of archaic is in witchcraft Why is authorship so importance in the age of technologywhat do you wish you have known on your witchcraft journeythe relationship between practice and praxis three of wands and its importance in starting new projects and seeing them through Links +How I Met My Muse - William Stafford PoemAmerican Brujeria Archaic Honey Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/thewitchesmuse)

SHOW NOTES +We're back! Another episode of conversational magick, and we are here to talk about so many different aspects of the Witch, the ways of folk herbalism, and noting the importance of getting uncomfortable. This episode had an air of the Nine of Wands - which for me in these moments feels like an ongoing motion as we continue to navigate a world of racist, patriarchal and capitalist structures. Join Tara with Callie Blue North as we talk around several topics of lineage magcik, the ways of Hierophant year, and how we can be supportive by listening to the wisdom of Plants. When we commit to the importance of tending to what calls our attention - we are met with both vulnerable and uncomfortable notions of being. This is the work at hand. Episode Topics ++ Return of the Land+ Lineage of Witchcraft+ Hierophant Year Musings+ Modes of Capitalism and How they Appear+ Clinical Herbalism - What it Is - What it Isnt+ Community Supported Herbalism+ Liberal Progressive Humbling Themselves+ What does it mean to be a good ancestor as  White Person? + Gate Keeping isn't always bad. Some things are not meant for everyone. Links +[Northsea Apothecary ][1][Sanyu Estelle ][2]Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/thewitchesmuse)

It is the year of the Ox ya'll, and here we are.  It is a time for us to really see the way in which we subscribe to structures that haven't served us.  Mimi Young shares the study of Wu- which is the Chinese Occultist Shamanism. They believe deeply that doing the work authentically and effectively does not ask for validation or attention.When we remember our ways through the cycles of elements, we come alive in conversation.  Episode Topics * Elemental Magick* Wu Shamanism* Witch & Shamanism- Whats the Difference? * The Fire Element * Fast Food Spirituality * Boss Babe Archetype * The Year of Ox* The Hierophant Card of 2021  Links Ceremonie Evoking WitchcraftUnseen JournalMimi's Next Offering (March 2nd 2021)Please subscribe, rate, & review this podcast. Shared with loved ones , your familiars, and those who enjoy stories beneath the surface Support the show

Our First Episode of 2021Welcome to this space and time.In the ways of landback we remember we are not separate and in ownership to the Earth. Beneath our four legged paws- a memory encoded in our genetic timeline. What Is the relationship that does not consist of ownership or outcomes? Jacqui Wilkins of @amongthewildflowers shares the lineage and origin story of their ancestral medicine practice. We speak of Hypericum as protection Medicine for this time and the wisdom that came through as the episode was transmuted in the summer months.When we are in relationship to the other than human world, not to use plants as constituents, not to break them down as individual parts. All plants embody a sentience. The willingness to trust the process as practice without fixed goals- gives space to the whole. With this knowing, we build and support networks of care- and returning back to our medicine dreams- and relationship to the sacred. This episode Is near and dear to my heart, and I am deeply grateful to offer It out. Please don't forget to share this podcast with loved ones, furry friends, and plant kin alike. EPISODE TOPICS +Beginning Intro excerpt from Jacqui - returning back to ways of our Imaginal capacityHerbal MedicineConnecting with Cotton Wood TreeFinding our way back home to land based wisdom practicesHypericum MedicineReturning home to the StarsThe Magician- As Above so Below & Our Connection to StarsSacred ActivismThe Assumed Expectations of Social MediaLiving within the holy containership of chronic illnessLINKS +Among the WildflowersUrgency of IntersectionalityMount Rushmore Land Back ActionXálish MedicinesSupport the Show Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/thewitchesmuse)

Finding our way into the Death Card at the end of the year, only seems fitting. Being with the cycles of Death has transformed us all through the wake of a global pandemic- and what are we in the acts of this dance with life-death-rebirth. Instead of hiding from death, what happens when we actually move towards it, instead of hiding from it- tucking it away, never to speak of it again.In our conversation with Aunia Kahm, we talk about the ways in which the death card comes up in a reading, that it is not to be feared yet embraced. This is the last episode of 2020- and we send it off to compost for the year- as we move into 2021 and whats to come from that. CW:  Death, Domestic Violence, Ableist narratives about people describing work Episode Topics +* Magick in Nature * Origen Story of Art * Chronic Illness as A Witch * How media has stigmatized Death * Stoicism musings * Death as a pathway for creativity  Links +Aunia Kahn WebsiteAunia Kahn PatreonSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/thewitchesmuse)

This episode comes through with Samara Kasai of Kasai Thrive.We moved through and talked waves as we do as tarot readers and spiritual creatives This conversation literally warmed the entire space, and could not help but find myself finding moments where I felt beyond grateful for the ways In which Samara brought a lot of perspective to the work of tarot and social justice, martyrdom, and the way of how meditation/breath work can help breakdown capitalist frameworks. Episode Topicsmagic growing upmixed methods of healing for  queer folx of colormeditation practice and tarot intersectionsWorking through your colonized conditioning and skepticism around the power of tarotSpiritual justice.How do you find solace and spiritual passion during the winter months? What tarot card is speaking to this moment for you (this was filmed earlier In the year, but maybe there Is something that Is moving you right now beloved listener babes!) Be sure to check out more of their work at @kasaithrives If you like what you hear please consider pledging or donating one time through Paypal/Venmo or subscribe/rate/review this podcast. It makes It possible for us to continue keeping this episodes out and flowing! Support the show

We are finally out of our two month Hiatus from the podcast- and we feel grateful for folks that have asked about our episodes, that share and review the podcast- and have supported us over the last two years. Our returning episode features the amazing and incomparable Jade T. Perry.  Jade moves us with Black feminist cosmologies, churchy mysticism, and embodied sensual ritual musings. Check out the instagram in the coming weekend as we will be offering reading resource guide from all of Jade's amazing wisdom shares.  The Hermit's call speaks to a post Jade wrote alongside the summer on Instagram Within this post Jade mentions and references the work of Toni Cade Bambara. How is our house in order in the ways of movement building? This Episode Features Churchy Origins by way of Philadelphia We are not here to be consumed- Spiritual Capitalism and our wayfinding throughPRO TIPS & Boundary Work Anansi Spider Wisdom Black Mysticism and Black Futures Why Lineage Citation and Referencing divination-Is ESSENTIAL In spiritual work LinksJade T. Perry Patreon Jade T. Perry Website The Nap Ministry @ItsJujubae (cited IG account)  @millennialsoulfood (cited IG account) Book Resource Guide available @thewitchesmuse platform Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/thewitchesmuse) or offer one time donations via Venmo @tarapin (this helps us pay podcast guests, supports music and mixing the episodes) Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/thewitchesmuse)

It Is high summer time, we have already grown garlic and will begin braiding. This episode comes right before the last New Moon of Summer. The Chariot card Is In a place of transition. In this New Moon, It's summer last dance as we enter Into the harvest season and time of our deepest truths.Please support the current Go Fund Campaign of @indyofficinalis by visiting HERE This Episode Features Imaginary Friends ((why they support us when we need))Plant Medicine and Harvesting Witnessing Plants without Needing to Harvest Plant Kin for these times Ancestry through Foods Convergence of Food Justice & Farming White owned farms w/ black land sovereignty Land stewardship and Land Back- How does this look? BIPOC Farmers, Food Stewards in Conversation of Land Ownership Psychedelic Mushrooms and IP34 Mushrooms importance in ecological restoration The love of Mushrooms and bio-remediation What do mushrooms have to teach us? Poetry & Poem w/ hearLinksOregon Ballot Measure for Psilocybin Mushrooms BIPOC Community Urban Farm Fund Land Back: An Indigenous Perspective Garlic Poetry Nikki Giovanni-Why I like ChocolateSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/thewitchesmuse)

We time travel in this episode. Coming through a transmission on April 12th 2020, Ostara sees a time where we are growing an egg and cultivation. The High Priestess card is asking us to see what it is we stand behind. What it is that is non-negotiable, why we are the way we are through the songs of our ancestors, our childhood memories, and our innate ability to know how deeply we feel. We court the realms and systems of magick, we talk about magic through the ways of an empath, through mediumship, through early childhood development. I ramble and say curious A LOT in this episode. I think this lense tries to focus on intersectional magick as informing ourselves through the landscapes of mental health, the effects of colonializations. Also, I am a fast talker, and noticing also being an interrupter in moments of excitability, so MĒTZLI THANK YOU for supporting my mind jumping from place to place, also leaning in. EPISODE TOPICS  Matrilineal Magick Influence Ways of identifying magick Difference between psychic and mediumship? The role of empath and mediumship Boundaries and Mental Health How we stigmatize magick High Priestess Card Magic & Wolf Medicine High Priestess Themes **Let us know in the comments (HOW MANY DECKS DOES MĒTZLI OWN?)**LINKSRevolutionary MysticNuminous TarotDust 2 OnyxFenty BeautySUBSCRIBE, RATE, & REVIEW US ON ITUNES!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/thewitchesmuse)

This episode is a spell. We Explore the ways of non-linear witchcraft and the medicine of the Hierophant.We laugh a lot, as Edgar voice is like ASMR for anyone's ears. We talk of dismantling productivity for the passion of play in art practices. We explore art as a sacred sanctuary.This episode is a spell to invite you into a conversation about our mutation and the medicine of the Hierophant.The craft we speak of is non-linear, I hope you journey with us, making mistakes along the way.Extend your antennae out and enjoy!Be sure to rate and review us as we transverse the goddexx algorithm! EPISODE TOPICS +THIS INTRO IS A SPELLMAGICK AS A KIDART AS SACRED PRAXISSUPPORTING COMMUNITY CAREHOW WE DISMANTLE PRODUCTIVITY AND TEND TO LUCIDITY OF PLAYTENDING WITH OUR PLANT KIN WITH A RUE ROMANCESHOW NOTES +THE TRANSCRIPT WILL BE AVAILABLE SHORTLY AFTER THIS IS POSTEDLINKS +Full Time WitchSunSongEdgar Fabian FriasEdgar Fabian Frias You TubeSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/thewitchesmuse)

Welcome to the Second Season of the Witches Muse!Being with Erin and Sanyu was like being in my quaratine dream living room with tea, lots of crushed velvet, and lots of sunlight.We talked of so many things, laughed a lot, and connected on intimacy in context.In honor of Venus Rx in Gemini, the Lovers Card felt like a perfect intro to Season II: The Major Arcana of the Craft.Both Sanyu and Erin identify as writers!We are offering folx, a love letter writing workshop coming up May 21st at 6 PM-7 PM PST.Patreons get the workshop for free.EPISODE TOPICS +BOUNDARIESLIVING CURIOUSLYHOW INTIMACY IS EXPLOREDLET'S TALK RELATIONS (TO SELF, TO OTHER, TO LOVER)SHOW NOTES+6:03 Sexicon Explained9:26 Ancestral Visits from Sanyu Papa12:58 Lets talk Boundaries25:00 Erin tends why curiosity DOES NOT suck29:29 Sanyu speaks to interdimensional relations33:00 Say hello the asexuality folx41:46 Being not disabled is not better46:16 Erin express sovereignty without public spaces51:13 Sanyus relationship to boredom53:57 Erin busts productivity mythLINKS +The Numinous TarotCONVINCE ME MEMESanyu EstelleSEXICON Erin ClarkThe Witches Muse PatreonDavid Whyte-All the True VowsSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/thewitchesmuse)

SHOW NOTES +Because we love time travel and so deeply believe in it. The intro of this was recorded right as were ordered our shelter in place and the time for many of collective isolation and shared grief.I find myself in the beginning ending this as it started. Not knowing, and leaning into the earth and the way of primary. When something feels big, it sometimes what makes it hard to share openly.We recorded this episode twice. The second time we had too much back feed, and it wouldn't have been able to be listenable. We landed back with our first recording, made of Zoom, and we thank our wonderful editors for mastering it as they do.I just laugh a little with this episode because the voice captures many different waves of experience.Support the show

We track this episode release during Samhain, just right timing-it doesn't have to be anything but what it is.  This amazing time of their lives through social artistry, and how live presents itself. Eve landed on the West Coast pre-tech which now a days seems like very much a thing of the past's past. Eve tracks spiritual inquiry. As the fire kindles behind us, we talk of how work that matters, may not matter with the way the world is whirling us.This to me speaks judgment, the coming of days in many ways. If we start to evaluate everything we do, we find ourselves in stagnation. There Is a need to participate, but what does this really look like? We dance betwixt and between this liminal space, and with all hallows upon us. These conversations, these stories are so valued on how we hold ourselves and humble ourselves. We close with relating to the non-human world with the sentience that it is. During this time, we explore that which we cannot see. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/thewitchesmuse)

We open in prayer. This is a practice I am honored to lean into, and know how deeply it is to sit with this. Isis Indriya is a cultural change maker, a priestess of this paradigm shift. I was in such deep reverence to be able to speak with them about this work, about the sun and its rays. As it sets on Virgo Season, this is what I see as the setting sun of summer within this episode. This was a spiritual voyage with Isis, and I would be see nothing less when you see their work in the world. I took a long ass time to air this episode, partially because it needed to incubate in its own liminal realms for a while. Listening to it, I can even hear my own voice dropping into this present state. Excuse my ums ya'll in this episode!  I was more nervous than I thought! There is a little noise background in the middle of the podcast, we can't shift those moments.Isis is a bridge builder, a space holder, a gatherer. Her and Eve Bradford co-create the container for the Compass at LIB, a transformative festival in California.  Isis holds down the question, that I feel like is the backbone of this podcast..WHO ARE WE? This question is such a way of understanding our innate cosmology, how these fibers are woven together.The sun card radiates so truthfully through this episode. It shows up the power of connection when we show together and in community. Simply to be grateful for this life. The art of seeing oneself in everything, and receiving the feedback are the rays of honesty that conducts a life of offering in beauty and wonderment. Remembering we have a role and purpose, tuning into our purpose and design is to be of service and to support the web of life. Isis breaks down in such a way that is grows roots and soaked in stardust. ***Whats In This Episode****An opening prayer for all relations *How we bring people together in sacred ways:why this is important *Personal Practice and Community Practice: Offerings & Beyond*WE is in the work (village human and non-human supports)*Paul Stamets and Tata Pedro with the power of prayer *Ritual as a way of life: all day everyday*How to take care of interdependent life forms *Power: Dedicate to Solar Rituals to Clear Doubt LinksIsis Indriya Micheal PollanLiving Village Culture ((sign up for newsletter)) Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/thewitchesmuse)

Here on the New Moon of Leo, I am feeling so full and courageous and this episode serves us up the Afro Witch, Keiko.  We go back to the softness yet strength we see in lunar phases.  Keiko tells us a story, and explores how suburban lifestyle was hard to build a connection to her brown witch self.  Keiko talks of their tarot journey and how phases are so important to the work. We explore how AfroWitch evolves, how we evolve. What fulfills us intuitively? When we aren't able to take the time to get to ourselves, how can we show up in ways that support others and our communities that need us. What We Talk About Instagram Breaks (Surprise! Surprise!) Moon Bathing Magic is who we are, not what we are trying for Do you drink water? Relationship to DreamsColor Consciousness Empathetic Way of BeingShow LinksAfro WitchSupport the show

Many questions do not have binary answers. Ari helps one look closer to the questions that will be ones we are forever curious. Written in the stars. Astrology is hot. Its starry eyed for certain, and if we aren't careful astrology can be taken for grateful. To believe in Astrology, you have to believe how intrinsically important they are to the psyche and our wild becoming. We interact on a superficial level, and we aren't really willing to question on a different level. We're not talking about memes here, we are talking about deep seeded wounds that live through the constellations of our own stories.. What We Talk AboutAstrology and Consumption Science and Self Living beyond the binary is written in the starsSocial Justice Influencers: WTF?! How I Choose Guests for PodcastThe Tower Keeps Us Here…Waiting Is Work! Yoruba and Ifá traditions Show LinksSALTWATER STARS Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/thewitchesmuse)

Oh, limitless space.Oh, eternal mystery.Oh, endless cycles of death and birth.Oh, miracle of life.Oh, the wondrous dance of it all.Tom Hiron from Sometimes A Wild God We have entered into this space of Cancer Season, and I could not think of a better time to release this episode. I always surprise myself when episodes release at exactly the right time. I have been stirring energetically feeling withdrawn, and really not of the "action" or "fire" called forth with summer in the Western Hemisphere. Speaking with Britton was such a joy of how we sit with chaos, and what rises from that. From asking tough questions and being in right relationship with self. It feels like the timing is fitted as we arrive in Eclipse Season.I'm feeling it, how about you? Hope you enjoy.What We Talk About Tower's Transformative Power Origin Story of Archaic Honey & Dew Imagery Tower Informed Knowledge as Trauma Informed Care Bitter can be bold, we aren't here to hardenNot reading reversals? Cards & Herbalism (How Flower Essences move with Tarot) Intuitive Tarot: How We Make Magick? Show LinksArchaic Honey Evolutionary Herbalism Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/thewitchesmuse)

I WILL NOT DIE AN UNLIVED LIFEI will not die an unlived life I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk my significance; to live so that which came to me as seed goes to the next as blossom and that which came to me as blossom, goes on as fruit. Dawna Markova Here we are greeted by one of my biggest teachers on this path, Laura Blakeman. This episode is full of exploring the question at its essence. It looks to thresholds, are innate longing and the unknown aspects of our innate beings. Laura explores so eloquently the aspect of the Devil, of fear, of what it means to have doubt in our lives and how we navigate these times through our grief and our ways of initiation through our own cultural complexities.What We Talk AboutThe medicine of fear and longingHow do we experience threshold crossingsThe imagery of the Devil-the weaving of metaphorThe Village and the ForestHow we cultivate intimacy and less guarded interactions? Show LinksLaura's PatreonJean GebserThe Rhythm WaySupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/thewitchesmuse)

Sweet DarknessDavid Whyte When your eyes are tiredthe world is tired also.When your vision has gone,no part of the world can find you.Time to go into the darkwhere the night has eyesto recognize its own.There you can be sureyou are not beyond love.The dark will be your hometonight.The night will give you a horizonfurther than you can see.You must learn one thing.The world was made to be free in.Give up all the other worldsexcept the one to which you belong.Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweetconfinement of your alonenessto learn anything or anyonethat does not bring you alive is too small for you.Here we are!After a long hiatus (almost two month) we bring you the temperance episode. Early Spring has given us the much needed gestation period to finish up our first season, so we can bring you episodes and unfold our final arc of the Major Arcana. This episode features me. Temperance is the sign of the Sagittarius on the zodiac wheel, so I felt called to speak on it. This is an episode that has lots of tendrils with Tarot, so if you were curious more about the symbology around the cards, then this is a great episode to tune into! What I Talk About The Arc of The Tarot (The inner and outer arc) Spontaneity with Knowledge Compartmentalization Can Be ToxicArchetypal Wisdom of Temperance Stories that are passed down, passed through, passed onREPARATIONS (Do yourself a favor and follow folks like @nikkiblak who breaks down the social constructs of whiteness among other amazing knowledge) Understanding Integration with Temperance Casting CardsShow LinksMary K Greer PatreonBreitenbush Hot SpringsSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/thewitchesmuse)

In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.Audre LordeMy time with Jewelle dates back to my childhood. She is my first cousins oldest sisters wife. Family.  We haven't seen each other much over the years, but her memory of cheetah filled black femme elegance radiates out from her every pore. Jewelle's work surpasses the landscape of activist, witch, renegade, original. She had no trouble choosing the death card. It came naturally to them, it was what was inherently something they had leaned into. Being raised by her Great-Grandmother, growing up with her ancestral wisdom ran through her veins. Jewelle has lived 71 rotations around the sun, and is the first elder I have had the sincere privilege of recording for this episodeA historical fiction writer and feminist futurist, Jewelle has written 8 books, and The Gilda Stories has been in print for almost 30 years. Their work in the LGBTQ community is vast, from being present for the Stonewall Riots to marriage equality. She grew up around social movements such as the civil rights movement, black power movement, anti war movement. The roots of social activism were a daily part of life's experience. She enjoys reflecting on periods of herstory, and bringing light from other generations. What We Talk AboutHow mythology informs who we areWorking with Audre Lorde as her mentor (how she gave feedback to the Gilda Stories) Aurdre Lorde QuotesAffinity to James BaldwinNo one is your saviorWisdom from 1883 Show LinksLesbian Self WritingGilda Stories Nancy BereanoAurdre Lorde QuotesNew Play ExchangeAfropunk Article Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/thewitchesmuse)

Witchcraft is, and was, not... for everyone. Unless you have an attraction to the occult, a sense of wonder, a feeling that you can slip for a few minutes out of the world into the world of faery, it is of no use to you.Gerald GardnerØdane Liú and I had such an immediate kinship, we rocked on the same cosmic wave length and our conversation here was nothing short of well…yep. Magick.We all come from some place where we explore our connection to the Occult. Whatever this may be for us, whether its synchronicities, intuition notions, happening that do not appear to be of this dimension of existence. It our opportunity as curious beings, to suspend our beliefs and ask ourselves, how are we showing up? For ourselves? for each other? for our communities? We explore perspectives of the written craft. During these episode, Ødane was fasting on just water, to explore bridging the clarity of Spirit with the physical plane. What We Talk AboutOdin MythologyThe shade behind Love & Light Why the written craft is important to understandMy Spiritual Capitalism Rant Intuitive Divination Download for WitchesFamily Lineage of Witchcraft (Pagan/Obeah)History of Magicians versus WitchHow we forged new patternsShow LinksØdane Liú Green Witchcraft Advanced Witchcraft Natural Magic TextsSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/thewitchesmuse)

Each place I standI call my ancestors to stand with meWe create sacred circleAnd invite all to bear witnessThe divinity of who I amWithout love there can be no justice. When JL and I began to talk, their ability to drop in and through the veil of the moment was instant, and bringing us to a place where our council of elders behind us sat and talked of our old ways. The goosebumps have risen and still not fallen. We talk of Spiritual Capitalism and JL way of being settler and indigenous in this world while still providing tools of space holding. There is so much within this episode that makes it the perfect landing to end 2018. With this we traverse into the dark night of the soul, we begin the destructive parts of the ego-self, we navigate the terrain of that what makes use holy, and we arrive at the door steps of the questions that stir us beyond the surface of the mundane. Apologies here, we had some recording glitches in the voice, so excuse us with a few of the sounds, and I hope it doesn't sway you from listening. What We Talk AboutThe Kapwa Justice Card Jana as cultural bearer, educator Questioning as a way of walking the world Role as settler and indigenous Experience of Walking with Elders & Teachers UnfoldingSpirituality and Social Justice-Awareness & Responsibility The Origin and Visual Imagery of Kapwa Tarot POC Tarot Show Links Kapwa Tarot The Peace Poets Jana Lynne Creative Productions Support the show

When speaking with Bani Amor, my world was unpacked and unfolded. They have so much wisdom to share and my fan girling of Bani Amor was no exception here, as I was honored to have them speak even though they were under the weather. Always in search of their truth and finding their North Star of Honesty.  They map through their experiences around social justice work, accountability and just living.  We go through so much within this episode, and Bani takes the floor and really unpacks a lot around travel culture and who it's written for.  We talk of Spiritual connection of healing, how we heal, and we look at how we may cause harm in the process.  What We Talk About: Decolonization of Travel Culture (WHAT IS THIS!)Belonging, Stories of Place, MigrationBastardization of Culture Rage as Motivator Ayahuasca and the Heart of Whiteness  Show LinksBani Amor Website Bani Amor TwitterSpiritual Tourism and the Colonization of Ayahuasca  PayPalDecks for QTIPOCSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/thewitchesmuse)

Featuring Onyi LoveBeing your true and authentic self not only shows honor and reverence for your own being, but it inspires and reminds others...it gives them permission...to rise up and do the same.My time with Onyi was nothing short of pure presence. Even though just over phone conversations and interweb weavings, her auric field radiates, and you can feel it in all the places that strike chords of resonance. They show up. Fully. Note: We recorded this pre-travels and pre-website and now both are listed live! Within this card of the Wheel of Fortune, we talk a lot of our work coming to a place of completion, to begin yet another cycle in refining, defining, and integrating our wholeness.The path to remembering is a windy one, we journey through the Wheel of Fortune, a card of destiny and how our true work rewards us. Onyi was about to take a trip to Europe to work with Pure Bio Energy when we last spoke. It was a great treasure to listen to a healer speak of their modality with such perspective and really shifting my thoughts and ideas around energy work (I have only really worked with Reiki Energy healing in the past).The Wheel of Fortune card represents Fate, things that are made to happen. The power to shape what occurs in our lives, what gives form to the Universe. We are halfway between the final trump, and Onyi Love lays this pathway through her experience.What We Talk About:Opening & Closing Songs to Guide You Through What is doing enough? How do we navigate our destiny? Spiritual Practice As Life & Direct Connections to African Spirituality including Ifá & Orisha The energies around hair (shaved head) and cutting chordsPureBioenergy Excitement versus Anxiety (How they differ, how one experience) Show LinksLife As Ceremony Onyi Love Website PureBioenergyOnyi Instagram Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/thewitchesmuse)

Featuring Callie Heron of Pachamama Apothecary“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek”- Joseph CampbellThe time I spend alone means volumes to me. It allows me the opportunity to settle in and dig deep. I want to really implore here a few things. It is a deep privilege to be alone. It takes time and energy. I also do not want to discount anyone who has mental health concerns around being alone and is suffering from their own trauma due to loneliness. In this circumstance, there is simply no conditioning to this experience, it something that you have had to hold and be with throughout your lifetime. Callie and I talk of her time in the show Alone. She spent 72 days on a solo quest in Patagonia. The Hermit carries their beacon of knowledge on their journey. They bring wisdom forth from their time alone. We talk of what it likes to take space away from societal constructions, and see whats left when we leave identity behind. In this EpisodeAlone vs. LonelyOrigin Story of PachamamaViewing yourself as your best friendHow something takes time to cultivate, and we really don't fully recognizeSocial Media breaks are necessity Show LinksPachamama Apothecary Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/thewitchesmuse)

Featuring Angie Franklin of Afro YogaIf I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive – Audre LordeThe moments with womxn and folks that I interview feel like such gifts. Its as if time and the universe has forged our friendship that may have been from lifetimes ago, yet is arriving at exactly the right time. This for me, was how I felt after talking to Angie. We talk spiritual fierceness, internal strength and compassion for ourselves and for others. We recorded this in August, yet it feels fitting as move into Fall, and what it feels like when we truly give ourselves permission to slow down. Show Note: In the intro I say undeserved communities in reference to who Angie is support, when I meant to say under-served communities. Please note this error, and apologies for this mistake. In This EpisodeStrength Is Within Community Values & What is Service? How do you live your work? How Struggle Can Drive Strength Aquarius & Sagittarius Bonds Are Real! Show LinksAfro YogaA Vibe In Five Black Girl In OmCultural Appropriation and Yoga Black Girl Creating Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/thewitchesmuse)

   Featuring Ayesha Ophelia of the Girlfriend Manifesto "Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole."When I spoke to Ayesha we immediately synced into the rhythms of voice and connected fields of conversation. When I first spoke to Ayesha, there was a moment of such inspiration. I felt immediately connected to her story, and the way she had embarked on her journey of becoming. I still am in awe of her ability to carry and hold all that she does with such grace, and such dedication. When the podcast launched on the solstice this year (whoa! Its only been two months!) I was floored when I saw that Ayesha was offering Wild Hearts Symposium We talk of so many things, and what a perfect way to begin our threshold crossing of summer's final daze, and the steps into Fall's sweet embrace. Things covered in this episode: Modern Mystic-Who are you?What gathering as womxn does for soulHow we tend to what matters in our place of belongingWild Hearts Symposium, and the origin from SpiritSwing Low Sweet Chariot Song MomentSupport the show

   Featuring Aydian and Jenilee DowlingThis episode is close to my heart because Aydian and Jenilee are part of the growing community I have in Eugene. It is amazing to connect with folks who see you, feel you, and can have conversations that surpass the surface, straight on to the cosmos. Jenilee and I had the pleasure of meeting at the yoga studio I currently teach at. We had an immediate connection and loved being around one another. The moments we have together and the time we've spent passes beyond time. Its moments like that, they put into perspective the prismatic layers of life.  Aydian is a new friend, yet one whose fierce fire lands me right at home in my heart. The tenacity of their character and what they stand for, as they track everyday the desire to live their purpose and make their gifts visible. I want to express here that there are sacred third(s), something not defined by the way society expresses masculine or feminine straight to gender specific norms. In this episode, the gender binary is expressed through archetypes, though it is not expressed by male and female bodied specific. In short, we can express feminine and masculine archetypes regardless of gender. Do you, if nothing else. Things covered in this episode:   Courting the line of divine    The origin story of Jennilee and Aydian  How society uses gender to define us  The way we carry ourselves, how we define masculine and feminine  Where the gender liminal realm can live.               Links:Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/thewitchesmuse)

  Featuring Sanyu EstelleDiving in with Sanyu was like touching down to earth with a modern mystic of our time. Funny and witty, yet extremely passionate with reverence to our very existence, when I first connected with Sanyu, there was no doubt they were gonna throw down for the Hierophant. They rumbled, they reveled, they rocked. We get down into the cosmos in this one, so please if you are interested in the herstory of words, how they form together and create the stories we weave. How we make meaning to do good on ourselves and the world, then my dears you've come to the right place. This is on the tails of many retrogrades and planetary shifts, so it's so fitting the episode that courts shine and sacrifice which is what seems to be the invitation these days (how can you shine, and also notice what needs to be sacrificed to the fire of your ego flame?)Here we connect to Hierophant as the Sage, the wise womxn. What is offered is what is uncovered with our innate wisdom. We try not to intellectualize, yet the conversations words in palpable, present, and potent. As a sagittarius, I am a straight sucker for conversations around the psyche and the romance dance of the emotional intelligence versus the intellectual or physical intelligence of the human experience. Check it out. Dive in, and remember..Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/thewitchesmuse)

Featuring Lena Mikale of Hapa Bruja   Lena and I spent some time navigating our cultures of Hapa and Hafu. We talked of what it means to tend to both sides, and how they each provide a different place for us to anchor into. We navigate her ancestry of way finding, find depth in the waters of the soul, and once again call upon the Emperor from a place of the embodied masculine. Not to be isolated and pushed aside, but integrated and held. These past weeks, I have been engaging in a challenge around White Supremacy. This challenge, #meandwhitesupremacy has opened by eyes to the narrative that continues throughout my daily life and the ways I am complicit in racial bias. I urge anyone, especially white identifying folx to check this out. I will post a link to more information in the show resources and again in my newsletter. Things covered in this episode:What sacred masculine work can look likePolytheism and it's many facetsFolklore Facets from Lena's cultural backgroundWayfinding CuSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/thewitchesmuse)

Featuring Courtney Alexander- Creatrix of Dust II Onyx Tarot  Courtney and I met at the Northwest Tarot Symposium in 2017. She was on her first version of the Dust II Onyx Deck and we instantly clicked. Her energy was contagious, her smile and the way she grounded herself was generative. I felt super welcomed into her space and we talked a while and then ended up in a session with Mary Greer on reversals. I made a friend that day, and though we don't keep in as physical contact in this busy world we live in, Courtney's constantly dancing the cosmos of my thoughts. Her crown she wore upon her head and her assurance when she knew EXACTLY what card she would be, made this episode super sweet. Hope you enjoy it, as my laughter comes out here, we had a good time. Things covered in this episode:Death DoulaBlackness misconstrued as darkness in societyShadow work is prismatic and spectralHow being an entrepreneur in this world is a challengeThe masculine in the EmpressCourtney's original vehSupport the show

Featuring Gogo Thule NGane of Sacred Liberation   This was such a sweet conversation of soulful relationship through one's lineage. Gogo Thule Ngane is a Sangoma Traditional Healer, Priestess, and Medicine Woman. She is guided by the Amadlozi, Elevated Ancestors of her lineage. We talk between the lines of time, connecting on how she connects and is called to serve her soul gifts.Things covered in this episode:The Origin Story of the Priestess PathLiving Between RealmsGogo's Ritual PracticesHow the High Priestess card recognizes serviceLinks:Sacred Liberation (Gogo Thule NGane) http://www.sacredliberation.com/ Curious to dive deeper with upcoming episodes of The Major Arcana of the Soul and all its community of story tellers?I want to tell you about it in my musing missives. Support the show

Featuring Lauren Roberts of The Mindset Witch   Lauren Roberts is a ritual facilitator, a feminine empowerment coach,  and an eternal student of Moon Magic, Feminine Mysteries.“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.” -Roald Dahl-Things covered in this episodeDoes magic need to be defined?What does self care look like?What is deep listening?Tools of the MagicKianHow the shadow illuminates our giftsLinks:Womb Tree Alchemy Website: https://www.wombtreealchemy.com/Natalie Ross Podcast -https://selfcareclub.net/episodes/  Would you like to support the continued production of The Witches Muse? Donations make it possible for us to dream into our future. Thank you!DonateSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/thewitchesmuse)