Missing Witches Risa Dickens + Amy Torok

Together with Asha Frost, Christopher Marmolejo, AND Granddaughter Crow we discuss the cultivation and embodiment of Radical Hope, Liberation, Self-Determination and Collective Healing, and acknowledge that it's good to fail at empire. We spin the wool of connection and weave a multi-coloured tapestry of possibility, and in doing so, this conversation becomes a blanket of comfort and protection over the seven generations ahead and behind.

Asha Frost is a mentor and mama, a Medicine Woman who believes that we can all heal ourselves. She is the author of You Are The Medicine and creator of Sacred Medicine oracle deck, and the upcoming Animal Elders oracle deck (Dec 2024).

Christopher Marmolejo s a Brown, queer, and trans writer, diviner, educator, prophetess and authoress of Red Tarot. They use divination and astrology to promote a literacy of liberation.

Granddaughter Crow (Dr. Joy Gray) holds a doctorate in leadership. Internationally recognized as a medicine woman, she comes from a long line of spiritual leaders as a member of the Navajo Nation. Her books include The Journey of the Soul, Wisdom of the Natural World, and Belief, Being, & Beyond.

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

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

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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.

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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!

Risa came to this week weepy, and Amy came with a song that pleads to an archetype of love and compassion to wipe our tears.

Amy brings a song from 'Shankar Family and Friends', an album that George Harrison (the Beatle who was a follower of Hinduism) produced with songs written and performed by famed sitar player Ravi Shankar and his family.

The song is I Am Missing You, a song that is a plea to Krishna the Hindu god of protection, compassion, tenderness and love.

I am missing you, oh Krishna where are you?
Though I can’t see you, I hear your flute on the wind.
Please come wipe my tears and make me smile

Amy doesn’t want to just deify these characteristics of compassion and protection, so the prescription this week is the reify them - make abstract concepts concrete in your life. Go love. Go protect. Be compassionate in your life here and now. Hear the flute of hope on the wind.

Risa self-prescription is Resistance Revival Chorus on repeat, especially Joy in Resistance.

What the world needs now
Is joy in resistance
We will fight the good fight
With or without your assistance

Move out of the way
If you can't support the mission
What the world needs now
Is joy in resistance

Let's be held by a chorus. Let's lean towards a sense of being together in our resistance. Let's find our joy in each other and keep on keepin' on.

BFB.

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