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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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