This year, we're celebrating Samhain, the halfway point between the autumn equinox and winter solstice, with two Gorgons and a... more

Today, I’m adding Black Hen Powder, Polvo de Gallina Negra, to our shared apothecary, to our botanica of story spells... more

Today we're joined by the one and only - Witch of all trades - practitioner and scholar, choreographer, film maker,... more

Anarchist, philosopher, mystic, revolutionary. I’ve seen many exciting words used to draw the portrait of Simone Weil. But... more

This week we're getting embodied with Mel Gutierrez, yoga teacher, a personal trainer, energy healer, co-author of Exposing Yoga Myths,... more

For me in my life, music has always been magic. The greatest source of it - a mystical well... more

This week, we're joined by Briana Pegado, author of Make Good Trouble: A Practical Guide To The Energetics of Disruption,... more

Note: This episode originally went live with the raw audio file from the original voice recording - glitches, gulps, and... more

Today we continue with Earth. Because after I’ve been running in rivers all over the place, melting, pouring, I need... more

Usually here at Missing Witches starting at the Fall Equinox we begin a 6 episode season telling stories of real... more

The Missing Witches podcast is back from our much needed hiatus to celebrate the Fall Equinox - a time when... more

For the halfway point between Summer Solstice and Fall Equinox, sometimes known as Lammas or Lughnasadh, we're talking about Rituals.... more

MISSING WITCHES IS GOING ON HIATUS FOR AUGUST. Or as I prefer to think of it: SABBATical! We usually... more

It's just me this week, but I'm not alone, because you're with me. xoAmy Amy's first prescription is an instagram post... more

This week's prescription begins with a surprise drop in from Risa who delivers some great news - she finally got... more

As always, the first prescription this week is to send beams of radiant light to Risa. Her surgery is coming... more

Risa is awaiting more test results so, as always, the first prescription this week is to send good energy her... more

Risa is doing doctor's appointments but sent a prescription that might sound a bit niche: sing Hallelujah with clowns playing... more

It's a double occasion party! Amy is joined by Sonia Fernández LeBlanc, Zoe Flowers, and the MW Coven to... more

This week's prescription comes with a trigger warning: it's Cancer. And while astrologically Cancer season is almost upon us, ... more

Coven, our annual Reparations Fundraiser is complete for 2024 and we're thrilled to share that we beat last year's tally... more

We are all striving for connection and care. As we draw close to the end of the 2024 Missing... more

This week, we're waiting, dripping, and melting into lake-mind... and getting cute bangs anyway because we're alive, and it's another... more

This week brings Spring to the mountains for real, and we remember about the urgency, the massive, mysterious force of... more

Together with Asha Frost, Christopher Marmolejo, AND Granddaughter Crow we discuss the cultivation and embodiment of Radical Hope, Liberation, Self-Determination... more

This week, as the moon begins to return from behind its monthly shadow rest, we're feeling into our creaky, leaky,... more

We come to you this week buoyed by love! We've launched our annual Reparations Season and it's such a joy... more

All toads are frogs, but not all frogs are toads - toads belong to the frog family, but just like... more

Join Risa and Amy as we sit down once again with two of our favourite returning guests and future-crafters: artists... more

Risa came to this week weepy, and Amy came with a song that pleads to an archetype of love and... more

Last year Copco 2 came down, the first of 4 dams along the Klamath river that will all be removed... more

This week the truth is coming out, water is breaching the banks, and little kid puke is everywhere. How's your... more

We are Witches. We are deer kin, and we make our homes in a place called The Edge. Deer... more

In this week's prescription we've got The Meat Puppets, Bikini Kill, and Boygenius in our ears. The solar eclipse... more

Welcome back to the spring season of the Missing Witches podcast, our Kinship Season, which is dedicated to getting familiar... more

A Black woman artist holds the top spots on country music charts and planetary bodies are coming into perfect alignment.... more

I am a creature of the night.  The bible says I’m unclean.  I’ve been painted as evil because I’m special... more

This week we are listening to plants and synthesizers. And we are calling back our power. One self-prescription for... more

We want to thank Tasha Lavdovsky for allowing us to share their music in this episode, the lichens of the... more

For the first day of Spring, we invite you to listen in on a meeting of the Missing Witches Coven,... more

This week we're inspred by Toth, The Indigo Girls, The Beatles and Fugazi. "I wanna be happy for no reason /... more

"Christopher Marmolejo is a queer Indigenous teacher committed to radical community healing and building. They bring traditional teaching experience as... more

This week Amy offers the end of war, and the way war doesn't end for those who lived it, and... more

This week, the magic begins with the lost-but-found 70's psych rock album by Ted Lucas, recorded sometime after Motown left... more

"We are creative beings." In today's episode, Amy sits down for a reunion with one of our first ever... more

We left the woods, we went to the city, we spoke to a McGill University sociology class on social deviance... more

This week left us feeling so lonely, so confused by the world, dropped to the bottom of the pit of... more

For this special episode, we invite you to begin by pausing the podcast to join us in premiering Witch Hunt:... more

This week the prescription is to follow bright stars, trace threads of hope to see where they lead, leave our... more

It's Imbolc weekend and we mark the inbetween, the blurred edges between dark and light. Not the Spring but... more

The halfway point between Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox is the perfect time to look back at the past and... more

After a long conversation around inadequacy, Amy and Risa realize they never hit record. So join us in falling... more

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... more

This week's Rx is about starting fresh while weighted with histories, both personal and global, and last year's snow.

Beaver dams and snow forts give way to notions of mortality and possibility.

In today's episode, Amy sits down with Cara Kovacs AKA The Business Witch. We talk about entrepreneurship as a... more

Risa and Amy discuss the promise of the dawn with KRS-ONE, the 5th Dimension, and Allison Russell. "And the... more

We saved this interview with Dr. Sandra Huber to start the new year right. Sandra talks about the tactics involved... more

Thank you all for another year full of wonder, awe, heartbreak, joy, mourning and laughter TOGETHER. In this episode... more

Climbing and clinging. The prescription this week is to care. Feel the All Mother in the lines of your... more

Throw in whatever you bring. Empty your pockets; shake out your secrets; turn the dark corners of your past to... more

Sarah Potter talks about being dragged through the darkest parts of the underworld and coming out with new joy, new... more

"I swear, I Really Wanted To Make A "Rap" Album But This Is Literally The Way The Wind Blew Me... more

This week we're inspired by Jeremy Dutcher, Lakeesha Harris, Viktor Frankl, Labyrinth, Natalie Merchant, Joan Didion, and The Pointer Sisters,... more

In this special episode, Risa talks with comedy legend Carolyn Taylor about how improvisation works and how we can use... more

The RX is back! Join Amy and Risa as we chat about options: laughing, crying, fighting, loving, mourning, dancing,... more

In this episode, Risa gets to soak in the wisdom and deep research of Benebell Wen. We explore the ancient... more

We are all grieving. For this year's Samhain special we invited educator, facilitator, community weaver, writer, caregiver, death doula,... more

This season every story I started spilled out to become double, then multiple. As always happens when we go looking... more

In this episode, Risa gets to interview the primary biographer of the first abstract expressionist artist, Hilma af Klint. We... more

In this ep, Risa tells the story of the first abstract expressionist, Hilma af Klint, and her collaborator Anna Cassel,... more

LA writer Nadra Nittle, who previously appeared on the podcast to talk about her first book "Toni Morrison’s Spiritual Vision:... more

In this episode, Risa attempts to learn more about the indigenous Hawai'ian practice of healing-in-community: Ho'oponopono.

In today's episode, Amy is joined by tarot reader and teacher Maria Minnis (aka feminnis), author of the upcoming "Tarot... more

In today's scripted episode, Amy learns about Mary Ellen Pleasant, called the mother of San Francisco civil rights and a... more

Language is one of the original magics. Poetry is a prayer language. In today's episode, Amy is joined by... more

In today's episode, Amy fosters her friendship, and hopefully yours too, with poet Mary Oliver, who's work is a love... more

We are so honoured and delighted to welcome into our circle Sister Roma of The Sisters Of Perpetual Indulgence, the... more

In today's episode, Amy investigates the story of the Sisters Of Perpetual Indulgence, a global order of queer Drag Nuns... more

Happy Equinox! In celebration of the fall equinox, we sat down with Witch/Author Amanda Yates Garcia (Initiated) and Theologian/Author... more

In the lead up to the release of our new book, AND an all new season of the Missing Witches... more

In the lead up to the release of our new book, AND an all new season of the Missing Witches... more

In the lead up to the release of our new book, AND an all new season of the Missing Witches... more

In the lead up to the release of our new book, AND an all new season of the Missing Witches... more

In this episode, Risa settles into the incomparably delightful and utterly comforting no-BS vibes of The Theresa Reed aka The... more

For Lammas, we sit down with three thread-pullers, Remy Savard, James Gardner Davis and Jonathan Ayers, to examine craft, weaving... more

Liz Childs Kelly is a writer, host of the Home to Her podcast, Sacred Feminine researcher and educator, community builder,... more

The prescription this week is taking breaks, meeting neighbours, the feeling of folk festivals, Come Together, Walking With Ghosts, I've... more

With Public Enemy and the Wainwright family, the prescription this week is to consider that/how ALL songs are protest songs.

In today's episode, Risa sits down in sheer delight with Claire McMillan, the author of Alchemy of a Blackbird (based... more

Amy and Risa's prescription this week includes Delaney & Bonnie and Jinkx Monsoon.

If you want to be a bird, it might require a little flying. NOTE: This Rx should have gone... more

For summer solstice, we sit down with 'Tu Tía Bruja' podcaster Bex Carlos, and 'Brujas' author Lorraine Monteagut to discuss... more

You won't fool the children of the revolution.

Writing letters to the rain.

In this episode, Amy sits down for a delightful conversation with Godmother and Goddaughter, Osunyoyin and Chelsea! Osunyoyin aka Iya Linda... more

Let's go deep and react to teh truth we find there.

"'Witch' is a declaration of love and curiosity about all beings, all truths, especially those that aren’t cute or convenient... more

Dedicated to the great goddess Tina Turner.

"I believe that a beautiful future is possible, but I believe that we all need to go together and I... more