Bonus EP - Missing Witches Deck Of Oracles Divination Birthday Party With Zoe Flowers And Amy Miranda

We gathered together with our coven, in a ritual co-crafted with Zoë Flowers and Amy Miranda to walk between worlds, do some divination, and celebrate the first birthday of the Missing Witches Deck of Oracles!!

🎉 One-Year Anniversary: The Missing Witches Oracle Deck

To celebrate the one-year anniversary of the Missing Witches Oracle Deck, we wanted to remind you that the deck and our books (Missing Witches and New Moon Magic) are still available all over the worlds. In the U.S., you can find them on Bookshop.org, North Atlantic Books, or HausWitch in Salem. In Canada, try Archambault, McNally Robinson, or Amazon.ca. For the UK and international folks, your local bookstore can order any of our titles through Penguin Random House International. All our books are distributed by Penguin Random House, which means any bookstore can order them—so if you want to support us, the best way is to request our books and deck at your favourite local shop. It puts us on their radar, and who knows—maybe one day we’ll come visit!

Thank you all for your incredible support this past year—pull a card and let us know how the deck speaks to you. Tag us or drop us a message, and let’s keep threading these ancestors and their messages into the futures we're crafting together. 💚

Listen now, transcript below:

Zoe Flowers - poet, author, energy healer, and longtime gender based violence advocate whose work provides strategies for healing from violence, trauma, and racial inequity. Zoë guides a reading that turns our divinatory tools toward the deep insights we need to transmute collective darkness — to hold and honour the complexity of our healing.

Amy Miranda - Shamanic Practitioner, Wonder Witch and creator of What We've Forgotten Book, Oracle Deck and Retreat. Amy guides us on a journey into light, drawing on her oracle deck to illuminate the wisdom we carry and the sacred clarity we can bring across the planet, from lineage to lineage. Amy is a neurodivergent queer hereditary witch of Scottish, Puerto Rican, French and Filipino ancestry.  Amy's lived experiences and initiations led her to a call to practice.

Get your copy of the Missing Witches Deck of Oracles now wherever you get your books and decks, or grab it from the MW Bookshop!!

TRANSCRIPT

Amy: [00:00:00] If you wanna support the Missing Witches project, check out the Missing Witches deck of Oracles anywhere you get your books and cards.
Risa: We're so excited. I'm the Risa voice. Of The Missing Witches podcast and community. That's the Amy one,
Amy: this voice right here,
Risa: and we're excited to host a special what's hopefully a series dedicated to divination. We want to come together, pull cards, look forward into the season together. What do you think about that?
Amy Toro,
Amy: I'm delighted to be here with all of you. Of course. And I am [00:01:00] especially excited because for me, part of this divination conversation tonight is a celebration of the first birthday of the Missing Witches deck of Oracles. Oh
Zoe: yeah. We did that.
Amy: And so I, when I pull cards, I let, I just sort of shuffle and shuffle and shuffle until one pops out, and that can kind of sometimes take a long time.
I call them jumpers, by the way. So if I'm waiting for jumpers, it's. It can take a while. So I did it a little earlier today and I'm excited to share the cards. I was thinking about, um, who, who should be our guides as we go through this course again, and back around to the summer solstice again next year.
And I, I will say like I love this deck. It has become the deck that I go back to the most because it's so [00:02:00] electrifying and fortifying for me to look at people who. Made magic. It's the thrust of the entire missing witches project, right? Like real people who are in the books that we know existed and we know were fucking magical.
These people, were all real. Everybody in the deck is real. So when I have that feeling like I can't. I don't have enough. There are so many faces and voices in the deck that are like, no, you have more than enough. You are more than enough. And you have a whole history of witches proving that to you again and again and again.
And sometimes I go through the deck specifically looking for someone whose message I need to embody or absorb. And I will just keep that one card on my altar for a week or sometimes a month. But this time I just waited for jumpers. And before I reveal the jumpers, I [00:03:00] will start as we often do or more often we should.
Um, with a poem by Mary Oliver called the Sun for this invocation of light and solstice and abundance and inner flame and collective truth. We often turn to Mary Oliver, who walked the woods with a little pen and paper would stop walking when it was time to write a poem and then start rock walking again.
The Sun by Mary Oliver. Have you ever seen anything in your life more wonderful than the way the sun every evening, relaxed and easy floats toward the horizon? Into the clouds or the hills or the rumpel sea and is gone [00:04:00] and how it slides again out of the blackness every morning on the other side of the world, like a red flower streaming upward on its heavenly oils.
Say on a morning, in early summer at its perfect imperial distance. And have you ever felt for anything such wild love? Do you think there is anywhere in any language a word billowing enough for the pleasure? That fills you as the sun reaches out, as it warms you, as you stand there empty handed, or have you too turned from this world, or have you too gone [00:05:00] crazy for power for things.
The Sun by Mary Oliver. And the three jumpers that I got from the missing witches deck of Oracle to help guide us as we go forth for another turn, another turn, another turn, another turn. And this deck is so delightful. The cards, the combinations we got. I. Audrey Lorde, Maya, Darin, and the Meci. Yes. Right.
So Audrey Lorde, of course the word on the card is mythologized. But when I think about Audrey Lorde, it's about not only, um, how we need to or accept or tolerate. Differences, but how fundamental differences are, you know, we can think about human diversity, we can think about biodiversity, and when we have a monoculture, it's not [00:06:00] sustainable, it doesn't work.
And then Maya Darin, who is an experimental filmmaker and a dancer and was initiated into Haitian Voodoo, um, and made such incredible artwork that I know has inspired Risa and myself. So very much. I think Risa was you who turned me on to Maya Darin in the first place. Many, many. We were working on a, we were working on a music video and the Meci, of course has been showing up for us again and again and again and again.
What are the fundamentals? Magic bees.
And so I think that this combination of Audrey Lorde and Maya, Darren and the Meci is a reminder to like shine our difference, to be experimental, to create mythologies that we can work to toward, [00:07:00] to have goals, but always with a sense of reverence for the earth that houses us. Again for that biodiversity that makes life on this earth possible.
So that was the reading that I got from the Missing Regions deck of Oracles for us for tonight. And I will pass the mic to,
Risa: I'm gonna read the backs of the cards because I think that the message is in here. I get so emotional when I read them. I, I wrote them and I feel like I'm, and I wrote them using layers of things that Amy and I had written together over the years.
It was such a collaborative pist work of going through these texts and research and text to figure out what the message was, what the card message was. So to read Amy's work and be like [00:08:00] in Amy's, you know, 20 pages of writing about Audrey Lorde. What stands out to me as the message that goes on the card.
Do you know what I mean? And, uh, so I find them really emotional to read, and I love hearing Amy's summary, but I want you to read the words that we wrote to ourselves in layers and layers of writing to ourselves. I, Audrey Lords is Mythologize. Black lesbian warrior poet, feminist essayist, and civil rights activist radically opens pathways to intersectionality.
She created the genre of biography. She invites us to craft our mythic lives. I. In her 1980 SA age, race, class, and sex, Audrey writes as a 49-year-old black, lesbian, feminist, socialist mother of two, including one boy and a member of an interracial couple. I usually find myself a part of some group defined as other deviant, inferior, or just plain wrong.
In her poem, [00:09:00] Equinox, she writes, we must be very strong and love each other in order to go on living. Audrey Lord summons you to the fertile meeting places of our otherness. Be very strong. Love each other. Make your life mythic, and the word is mythologize. This feels so important. Now we have to write new myths.
We have to be very strong in how we love each other. Lord also had breast cancer and wrote her way through it. And she describes being held in like circles of bubbles by circles of women who helped her heal. Uh, the meci the message is reverence. The meci is so important to, to us, are so important to us in our coven, to picture these people who.[00:10:00]
Studied bees so carefully, they learned their dances and danced the sacredness of the natural world in ancient Greece that they fermented honey. They used it to heal. They used it to intoxicate, and then they danced and they danced, and they learned from. The bees in a way that we forgot for several thousand years until scientists rediscovered the dances of the bees and how they used them to communicate very specific messages about where flowers were, which ones they had already harvested from.
Artemis, Demeter, Persephone all had priestesses called Mei. Bees or melnoma beekeepers from a known culture into high Athenian society. Up until the Roman Empire violently suppressed pagan religions, women who celebrated and tended to the spirit of harvest, fertility and creation, were bound up with the dances of bees.
Imagine these prophetic pollen dusted dancing women. They [00:11:00] approached the divine with fermented honey. They healed with honey's antiseptic properties, and they danced with movements learned from the dances of the bees themselves. This card invites you into a sacred dancing timeless community of reverence for the more than human world.
Zoe: I'm so excited to be invited into a divine community of reverence for the more than human world.
Risa: I wanna be there with all of you. I'm so excited to, for that invitation, Maya. Darren's call to us is experiment. We don't have to know what the fuck we're doing, we just have to experiment together in reverence.
Maya Darren was an iconic experimental filmmaker who visited Haiti to make a film about ritual dance. There's so much dance thread.
I'll just say that, um, to make a film about ritual dance, inspired by the work [00:12:00] of Catherine Dunham, the first anthropologist to explore the function of dance and ritual and community life. This Ukrainian seeker fell in love with the law in Haiti and became an initiate. We can have a lot of fear about whether we're allowed to practice and whether cultures are, are open to us.
So it's important, I think, to be careful about that and to not take from cultures where we're not welcome, but to also go wholeheartedly with love towards the things we wanna learn and celebrate and uphold and to. Know that we can be welcome there. That if the Gods call to us, if you believe in a God and it calls to you, that's okay to listen to and follow, or an archetype or a relationship with the more than human world.
In her book, divine Horseman, the Living [00:13:00] Gods of Haiti, Maya recognized the choreography of all life undulating waves. Meshes of the Afternoon, which is the name of her famous experimental film that's so beautiful. She was initiated into a sacred knowing. She wrote The Lois are the souls of the cosmos.
Where can you be an initiate at this time? Know that the soul of the universe is there waiting to meet you.
I think with that I will hand it over to Zoe Flowers.
Zoe: Yeah. Thank you so much. Um, I'm really curious to see what we are going to come up with, uh, given all of the dancing and the choreography and the beekeeping and the blessed fucking beads of it all. So. [00:14:00] Yeah. So I thought the first thing that I would want to do is, um, just start with a little astrology, of course.
And just to see and, uh, you know, what house we'll be working with for the next six months, if that. Yeah. Okay.
Or the collective. And maybe what we should do is just take a second actually while I'm, you know, moving these dice around. Maybe just take a minute to make sure our feet are firmly planted on the ground if our bodies can do that. If not, we use our imagination. Go ahead and let your shoulders drop. Also, let the top lid fold over the bottom lid.
And let's just take a collective breath in through the nose. [00:15:00] My allergies are acting up, so I won't be taking that deep of a breath, but I invite you all to take a very deep breath in through the nose. And just hold it for a second and maybe just exhale out anything that is not gonna be of use to you or us in this conversation tonight.
And then taking another deep breath in, maybe pulling in the energy of Mother Earth through the feet, letting it travel up to the top of the head.
And again, just releasing anything that you want to leave in the first part of the year. Anything that's not gonna be of service to you for these next six months.
And then the last thing I invite us to do is [00:16:00] just as you're taking a deep breath in, see sense or imagine a big, beautiful sun over your head, and just taking the opportunity to call your energy back from any people, places, or things where you might have left some energy. Exhale out. And just see, sense or imagine pulling that yellow sun down through your crown chakra, filling yourself up with your own energy because we only need our own energy.
And then when you're ready, open your eyes. Thank you. Okay, coven. What astrological house, what astrological house are we that's gonna be lit up for us over these next six months? Ooh, okay. I don't hate that we got the fifth house. We always like to get the fifth house, especially since we're going into fifth House [00:17:00] territory in July and August.
So Fifth House is traditionally linked to our creativity, to our inner child, to the things of children. And then I'm also thinking about numerology. Five is all about freedom. So moving towards a sense of freedom. Interesting, interesting, interesting. Okay, so that's where we're at. Fifth House Energy. We'd love to see that.
Alright.
Okay. Fifth House Energy. So then I wanna tap into, I. Mindset. I always like to do mindset. So what is the appropriate energy? Like what is the best energy that's gonna help us to link to that fifth house? Oh, hello. Well, the fives have it. We got two fives so far. So the five of [00:18:00] cups. So we, you know, those of us who do the cards, we know that the cups has to do with the emotions.
It is also resonant to the water signs, Pisces, Scorpio, cancer, and here we are on. Cancer season. Hello? Cancer season. Right. And goodness knows there is a lot to grieve, but we also know that the message of the five of cups is not to be so consumed with the cups that have. Filling with the emotions, with all of the disappointments that we miss.
The two full cups, the, the opportunity for new emotions, for new ways of being together, for new ways of being strong, very strong and loving each other. Yeah, my goodness. And not the sun following the five of cups. Whoa.[00:19:00]
I have goosebumps, very hard to believe at a time such as now, but hey Leo, season, maybe, you know, by the time we get to Leo season, maybe we'll have some interesting things popping up. So the message here is, yes, there are opportunities. For happiness for a certain level of vulnerability. I always like to talk about when I see the child that's naked.
Um, again, fifth house energy here, tapping into our passions and our creativities and what is working and not everything that's wrong in the world, it seems like is is the challenge as this figure is pointing to this figure. It's interesting, right? Because then we have the, the strength card here again, [00:20:00] representative of Leo, representative of the sun, but it is also about tapping into our natural abilities.
That is what this card is about. It is about not meeting force. With force. We don't meet lying energy with lying energy. We meet this strength, this heavy energy with a sense of softness. And so perhaps we have people in our families that we're mad about or that we're mad with because of decisions that they may have made that have, are contributing to where we are now.
And so maybe as we do begin to gather again with family, maybe this is the response and not. Focusing on everything that pisses us off about our families, but maybe there's opportunities for new emotions and and, and maybe even new people to spend our time with.
That's the mindset [00:21:00] to help us get closer to this fifth house energy. Before I go to our cards, is there a specific, Amy and Lisa, a specific, um, theme that I'm missing that you want me to read on?
Risa: I think it would be interesting, and maybe you can help phrase this, but yeah, to go deeper into. The, the transmutation of the darkness of this time, you know, this is, this, is that, that all of us, the activist grief, you know.
Yeah. Um, yeah,
Zoe: yeah. Well, I think the first thing we do is we make need, the, a part of the transmutation is deciding not to play in the grief too long. That's, that's the [00:22:00] first thing.
Risa: Melissa's feeling very called out.
Zoe: Oh, you are not alone.
Risa: We all are. I just love your faces so
Zoe: much. You're not alone. I did. You're not alone. You are not alone. I did a reading for myself for the first six months before this call today, and boy I, yeah, it was like, yeah, wow. You are worrying too much. You're doing this too.
I was like, okay. But it's a lot to worry about.
And they're like, yeah, but that's not a good use of your energy. That's the challenging part. Okay, so transmutation more on transmutation. This is really gonna get on my nerves. Okay. Hey, blank card. Thanks a lot Amy. And re.
Is this a key? You got to do your [00:23:00] homework. That's what that card means. So that's, that car means, it means you need to find your, first of all, it's the key. That's also in Amy Miranda's right deck that she
Risa: created. Yeah. It, the intention, right, is that you find your ancestors and you write them in. You write yourself into your destiny.
You write your lineage in, you write your people in. You build your community hand by hand by hand.
Amy: Or if there's somebody that's not related to you but is like, is an icon for you, you know, if maybe it's, you know, David Bowie or Grace Jones, you could also put Grace Jones in your deck.
Zoe: This is super interesting.
So sitting under the key, we have Maya, Darren, hello.
Amy: Alright, Maya, we're listening. We're listening. Maya, Darren.
Zoe: Wow. Okay. And then, hey, another key. So we're in the middle of, okay, [00:24:00] so. The first thing I wanna say, the first thing I wanna say is that the fire is very important and perhaps it has to do with the Aries energy and all of that.
So because we had the sun card, we have the strength card sitting under that, we have the King of Wands, and then we have. The two of wands. So fire, fire, fire. So that makes me feel like maybe for people who do ritual, some of this transmutation, maybe there needs to be some cord cutting. Maybe there needs to be some fire based cord cutting rituals to this five of cups energy
because there are some things that are lingering, some like. Even. Even, it's like not even like withstanding what's happening now. There are just some old wounds, some old wounding that literally it's like, you know, if we were the full card [00:25:00] in our little satchel that we just carry from place to place to place job to job, relationship to relationship.
And so for us. That are, you know, in this coven, in this work, in this magical world, we need to be transmuting this grief. And one of the ways that they're offering again, is, is through the fire and specifically, uh, cord cutting is what I'm hearing. And perhaps it's even like cord cutting, you know, confronting the fact that maybe we don't believe that this is possible.
Maybe we don't believe this is possible. And so perhaps that's the thing. You know, I do two candles. One for what I'm attracting, one for what I'm releasing, and maybe on that candle for what we're releasing, which would be great energy for the full moon that's coming up. Um, is all the things that keep me in this five of cups energy.[00:26:00]
And then I use my imagination, see, sense or imagine a new way of being. And that's what I write on the other candle. And maybe it's, it's my stuff first and then the world stuff. Also, I. And then we're all being called into leadership, into a new vision with this king of wands. And now is when we start to plan, like today is when we start to plan new ideas and plant new seeds.
And I'm feeling, and I believe that, you know, uh, Maya is between these two keys because. The goal is to experiment with these things, experiment with them, try some new rituals, and see what happens. And don't be bound by any one thing. Don't be too locked [00:27:00] into any one thing because we are surrounded in mystery and there's always gonna be things that we don't understand.
As humans, there's always gonna be a larger thing. Yeah, so she's saying live in the mystery of it all and obviously tap into the ancestors. It literally came up twice. This makes me feel like,
can I say this? The beginning and the end has to do with our connection of the ancestors. And here we are in between much as we are in between what's happening, you know, whatever's happening in the sky and what's happening on earth. We are in the middle of all of these things. We are the center, and so we need to take responsibility for being in the center.
[00:28:00] Other things. I need to bring forward,
Risa: forward. I just wanna celebrate all the fives and the black cat and just feel right, feel like the joyful witch of all of that. I'm so here for all of the heck of everything lately, just really nice. Um. I mean, she couldn't have nodded harder. She couldn't have been more here for everything you had to say.
She couldn't be more, more ready to share her own message and reading with us, I feel. Ladies and gentlemen, it's Amy Miranda.
Amy M.: I feel like this is a variety show. I said from running down the aisle and back team, like, Hey everybody. I know Cruise or something. It's terrible. Um, oh, the [00:29:00] I, I, wow. I mean, first of all, wow, everything that I was going to do, I'm not doing because that's not what we were here. But I brought props and I want to show you what the props were.
One of them I went and got, so you saw me get it, but it's a bee and a jar with the wish. And so a lot of, you know, I love Egyptian magic. It's part of me. It's part of past life. I, you know, been speaking ancient Egyptian for a long time. I work with the goddess, knew it with the goddess of the sky. It's a rarely known thing.
Most people don't know, but she was known as the house of the bee. So I'll leave that breadcrumb with you, um, so that you can explore that on your own and look up what her be. But she came to, to the earth to protect everyone from all things evil. And the idea is, you know, see if I can show you her. She's over here.
I'll [00:30:00] send, I'll post a picture, but she arches over and she eats the sun. Gives birth to the moon. Uh, but she is a protective layer and she's here for us. So the thing I brought to represent her is a meteorite dagger. So I'm gonna show you the texture of this,
okay. And so this was given to me. I bought it, but I had to make a deal for it by the man who took the picture on the front of my book, which is serious. And I had said to him, 'cause we had been using a like, just a, a lens flare for those of you designers. And I had, my husband had said, call Peter, he's gonna have a picture of Sirius.
So I called Peter and I said, do you have a picture of Sirius? And he said, yeah, I actually have one in the shape of a heart. So if you've read my book or know my work. What's at the end of the adventure? A [00:31:00] light heart. So this idea right, of us with the cups, I wanna speak to that first because as Zoe was talking, and Zoe, thank you for that magic.
Um, 'cause you just programmed everything I'm gonna say. So this idea of the two cups, what I was getting was one spilled? No, we're pouring that one out for our fucking homies. Okay. And this idea that. It needs to spill. We need to spill it, right? Like it can't, it's not just about it spilling by accident or it's, we can take control of the spill, right?
And so this stuff that's spilling out of humanity, and I keep telling this to everyone that I work with, truth is moving very quickly right now. That's a sign of spirit being in the room, right? For the first time in like, I don't know, 15, 16 years. People that aren't usually on the same frequency as me, they know what's going on.
My ex-boyfriend from [00:32:00] 2001 who I was there with nine 11, he messaged me last night. I don't talk to him, and he messaged me. He is like, here we go. You know? He is like, I will never forgive Israel in the United States. I was like. Jason. Okay. But what that showed me was, even though I was a totally different person, I was in my trauma, I was in the darkness.
During the time where I was with that man, something was between us. We didn't have a lot in common. It was a very abusive relationship. He laid his hands on me. I have scars, but he's come a long way. The fact that he thought to message me that that was spirit being like, even when you felt like you were in the dark, people saw your light.
It's the sun, right? And this idea of allowing that to radiate out of us. So the other person I brought to visit [00:33:00] with us today is Segment. This is my bonus. Mom brought this for me from Egypt, and she's the goddess of war and healing. The ascended was hathor. The cow. That's also an element of hete. Um, it's also an element of knew it, the cow.
So, and also a sow, sometimes a pig. But these ideas of reframing, right? And so the other thing I wanted to talk about was those two keyholes that came up because of course, like I was up next and it's like, dun spirit's the best showrunner on the planet. What a producer we couldn't have, even though we did talk before this.
I wanna share this with all of you. We did not plan this. This was not, we said we were gonna get together and talk about what we were gonna do. That's not what we did. This was, you know, and it was very well organized by Amy and Risa, but we, it's like, yeah, Amy's laughing, she's gonna fall over. So I'm like, and so, as my husband's been saying for the past [00:34:00] few weeks, he keeps saying, get into it.
And what he means by that is walk between fucking worlds. That's why you're here. So what I wanted to say about those two cards with the two key holes, which in addition teachings, there's something called a cat, which is the two lions. It's the rising of the Nile, and it's yesterday and tomorrow are those cards, right?
It can be yesterday and tomorrow. So yesterday is what we make it tomorrow is what we make of it. Um, so I wanna, I'm gonna lead you on a little journey. Um, and I've done this, um, there's a recording that I've done of it where it's a bee journey. So we're gonna do a little bee journey to the light and we're gonna fill up some honey and we're gonna check in with our ancestors.
But the first thing I'm gonna do is just see who has something to say here and look at what we've got. Gifts. Gifts. And this is number 59. So we got a five. Okay. But this is the initiate.[00:35:00]
Okay, so let's talk about this
59.
Okay. And that thing about fire too, so they're telling me to just bring that back up. Zoe touched on it, but fire showing up as the transmutation agent and, um, alchemy, right? Fire is used to change one thing to another. And the idea of the, um, philosopher stone, right? The, the, the alchemists were in search of the philosopher stone and then suddenly they weren't.
And I talked about this the other day actually, um, when I messaged Risa about my dear friend Ishi, who's here, but we talked about transfiguration and the philosopher stone is light. I. I'm telling you that that's the secret of the alchemist. It's light, it's spiritual light. It's [00:36:00] transfiguration. It's transmutation.
So this idea of bringing light through your body, as Zoe was talking about, right? Swallowing the sun. The reason why is she's in my book is because her grandmother got a gold filling at an Evangelical revival. Her filling turned gold. Not only did her filling turn gold, I found out about this because a friend of mine, Sarah, had had it happen to her and she told me about it and I immediately messaged Ishi and I said, have you heard this before?
And she said, yeah, it happened to my grandmother and it was called the Toronto Blessing. And so is she's mother this hap or grandmother? It happened in Kentucky. But what happened with my friend Sarah? Happened at the Toronto Blessing by the airport. When I was going to raves, filling up my cup, people were getting their fillings changed gold because people were laying [00:37:00] hands and doing healing.
So I told one of my clients about this. Spencer and I said, man, you gotta hear this story. I was dropping off some wigs 'cause I was moving and I wanted, he's a drag queen and I was giving him some wigs and I told him this story and he said, wow, that's so crazy. I, you know, uh, and about two weeks later he messaged me and he said, you're not gonna believe this, but you are.
And he's done what we forgotten a few times as a retreat. And he said, I was talking to my mom. Both of his parents are ministers. They're based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. And he said, I was on the phone with my mom, and he and his mom is very, you know, religious traditionally, and Spencer is very magical. So he had been telling her about transfiguration for like a year and a half.
So he told her this story and she said to him on the phone, you're not gonna believe this. She said, I was at the dentist a week ago, and the dentist commented on how beautiful my gold filling was, and I've never had a gold filling. So I want to tell you that story before I read this card because this is about gifts [00:38:00] and if we imagine Risa who's a gift and that she's been given this like, oh, it's either this or this,
that if we can turn a filling gold.
And maybe sometimes that's why we go through these trials. And I say this in my practice because the difference when we engage ourselves and our own energy, 'cause it's not about what I do, right? As a practitioner, I'm a mirror, I reflect. So when we entertain the idea of our own light, our own power, our own magic, and then we receive healing that spirit's way of going.
Because the only difference is you and this idea of focus on the spilled cup. That's not who we are. We're alchemists. Our job is to transmute this and it's not [00:39:00] gonna get transmuted by rage, right? It's gonna get transmuted by sweetness and adding more honey, as Zoe would say. So that's a little journey.
What we're do that we're gonna do, but I'm gonna read this g your magic powers, it's dark in here. I need a light. One moment. I like the, the irony of like, I need a light of when you dream, are you using your eyes? Probably not. They're typically closed. You're not processing images with your eyes. You're in your consciousness, working in non-ordinary reality.
Seeing or connecting to spirit is typically not done with our eyes. It's done with our consciousness, and usually it's done by employing the Claires who are the Claires, I call them the Seven Sisters, and you probably know at least one of them because the most [00:40:00] popular Claire is clairvoyance. Everyone knows her.
It's the most, it's the most, it's the one people, most people equate to, uh, with being psychic. But human beings have access to a lot of Claire's. Claire Audience. Claire Sentian. Claire Aliens. Claire Recognizance. Clear Gustin. Clear Tangenty, also known as psychometry. You may come for a family who has some of these gifts, or you may come from a family who refuses to acknowledge the Claires.
Here's the thing. If one of us can do it. And those of you who were there when we did ceremony for Tara, and you said, I'm not a medium, but I heard this right? If one of us can do it, all of us could do it. It just takes practice. So one, Claire may show up first and they may show up in your practice, and then you may meet the others later on.
But today in this card, all seven are showing up for you. So take some time to get to know the Seven Sisters. How might you have already [00:41:00] experienced them in your life? And you may wanna check with your circle of friends or family. Has anyone in your circle reported having met any of the sisters? Oh, I like that.
Sadly, you'll be surprised to learn that there's a lot of people on the planet right now who will tell you that they are empaths. This is Clear feeling, also known as Sister Claire Sentience. So the fact that empathy is being demonized, let's zoom out of that, right? It's got goosebumps. So spirit's telling me I'm on track, empathy's being demonized because it's part of our gifts.
So if we invite the seven sisters to the party for the next six months, what does that look like? If we cut some cords with meteorite, what does that look like? And that goes back to what Zoe [00:42:00] was saying, right? Like this limitation that we have that comes from the uninvited. No one invited them here. Just like no one invited them to Iran, right?
Nobody, nobody invited them. It's our turn to eject them from the party. They do not control these tables. They don't get to decide who eats anymore, and it's why they've been so afraid of female leadership because we would stop the war machine immediately and we still can, right? This idea that we can't, again, the truth is moving extremely quickly.
Right now it's a sign that spirit's in the room. And I think for the first time in history, we are all, the majority have tipped those scales. 'cause we're all seeing this. It's what we're gonna do about it. And that's why I think I keep getting told by my husband and all my guides work and he's a guide.
I'll give him that. This idea of walking between worlds. [00:43:00] And standing in both realities at the same time and doing the work that we can do with our spiritual light because they don't have access to this. So what we're gonna do next is I'm conscious of time. I'm gonna do a little bell. I'm gonna do a little rattle.
I'm gonna walk you through, but we're just gonna open our heart space first with the little song. You know, the girls are gonna laugh because I said earlier, you know, maybe we'll hear this song. It's a song called Never Surrender by Cory Hart. You might know it. But this idea of just a little more time is all we're asking for, and if you know it, you can sing to yourself just a little more time.
Be doors. And the best part, right? Nobody wants to know you now. Nobody wants to show you. [00:44:00] So if you lost on your own, you can never surrender. And if the lie won't leave you home, you can never surrender. And when the night is cold and dark. You can see, you can see light. 'cause no one can take away he your right to find out.
To never surrender. To never surrender. So listen to that later. We've decided Amy t Risa, Zoe and I, that that is a protest song. And it's a protest song. Don't surrender to these people. They don't know what they're doing. Right? If we were in school and they were going, okay, let's go over here and let's like ruin it.[00:45:00]
We would be like, no. And we'd be like, teacher. Teacher, right? Report them to a source. It's not up to us to punish them. It's not. But we can ask for them to be judged now. So with that, do a little rattle and we're just gonna do a real quick journey. We're gonna go into a beehive. You're gonna become a little bee and we're gonna fill up some honeycombs.
So if you wanna close your eyes, you can. We're gonna use the rattle
and just imagine. Zoe talked about the light. Imagine it's like, honey, imagine we're seeing in Bee Vision, Risa brought the lilacs, right? Maybe you smell them, you know, and we all know what they'll smell like. And you're gonna maybe feel all of us in the hive, the coven, right? And let's imagine that we're leaving the hive.
[00:46:00] And you may look around, see the other bees, each other house of the bee
checking in, and let's go to whatever flower.
And if you want, because the ancestors have shown up, those ancestors serving in perfect love and perfect trust, you can ask them, what's my flower?
And that flower, you can imagine using that for this next six months, that if we're feeling depleted, we maybe just need to pick up some pollen.
So whatever that flower is. And you may come, it may come later. Your ancestors may deliver it later. That's okay. You can use Reese's flower for now and imagine getting your B dance, your wiggle, picking up your pollen, [00:47:00] and we're all gonna head back to the hive.
So flying together, not alone, even if you can't see the others. We know that they're part of something. We're part of something.
Now, I want you to imagine we're back at the ca, at the at the hive, and there's a lot of honeycombs. Some may be already full,
but we're gonna imagine that that transmutation process has happened. And we're depositing honey. So if you see empty combs, just imagine that honey's coming from everywhere. There's enough for everyone and instead of worrying about what's next or where we're going, we're just gonna fill up the the combs.
And it doesn't matter who they belong to 'cause they're ours. Whether that's the coven, whether that's [00:48:00] humanity, and some people right now are not focused on filling up the honeycombs. They're just taking honey, and that's okay. We can root into bringing more honey back, right? Sweetening things, adding sugar water.
And again, imagining that B Vision
and since we were all just in Zoom, looking at each other's faces, just imagine what B is near you. Maybe it's Resa B or Amy B or Zoe B. Or that lean bee, but just checking in
and being in that honeycomb, we don't have to leave, can be rooted in that.
Coming back to this sacred space [00:49:00] together. So wanna look at each other when you're back, when you're ready to open your eyes, and remembering right that we're all connected through the web of life, through the hive, through the combs, and that when we're worried we can prepare for tomorrow by filling up the combs.
Instead of getting into these wild killer beef fights that are happening outside the hive, and those people are gonna not have any honey when it comes to be the winter, we're gonna just take care of them and bring them that sweetness, including those people in our families who may have been contributing factors.
And with bee politics, right? If a bee is injured or shows up, maybe they've got stuck in something, the bees will clean them. [00:50:00] And they do it really quickly. And so we can imagine that right when you come into contact with someone who's maybe full of it or stuck,
we're just gonna wrap them in light and we ask that the best parts of them come to the front. And the best thing that I find lately when people are in their anger and rage, I'm telling them, I hope you feel better soon as if they're not feeling well.
And then what do we do when we have a cold or a sore throat? Honey, what do we do when we have allergies? Local honey. So you can use that honey as an elixir, right? Turmeric, honey, lemon, right? But drinking that in, imagining that your water that you're drinking is full of honey. Put honey in it if you want.
Put honey in your tea. But remembering to taste the sweetness of life during these times. Okay.[00:51:00]
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Amy: Um, shout out vegans, maple syrup. I feel like trees are also complex animals creating sugar. Plankton also makes sugar. We could go on and on, but maple syrup just shut out. Vegan.
Risa: Yeah.
Amy: Amy Miranda, can you read what Zoe put in the chat and maybe reflect on it. And thank you again so much. Bees,
Amy M.: um, mythologize your life.
Experiment. Turn away from the soiled cups. Look for joy. Cut cords to five of cups things. Work with our ancestors. Use our natural talents to tap into our natural gifts. Step into our leadership and vision. That will take a willingness to take risks.
Amy: And Zoe Flowers is back. Thank you, Amy Miranda. Thank you.
Amy. We [00:52:00] were just, um, reading your chat. Yeah. Do you wanna expand on what you put in there?
Zoe: Um, it was just a summation of my reading and then the gifts part that, um, Amy had, of course I got kicked out. So, Amy, can you put that in the, in the chat? So I can have it again. It feels like a nice, I don't know, directive for the next six months and maybe beyond, you know, and maybe.
I like to break things up into little pieces, and so maybe part of this experiment is to look at these things that are here and maybe pick one or two things to focus on. Amy
Amy: Miranda, Zoe Flowers. If people wanna book you for readings, what's the best way to do that?
Zoe: Um, they could just email me [00:53:00] at info at i am zoe flowers.com.
I have a link in all of that. If people just wanna book directly, I'm happy to drop that in the chat too. It's just my calendar link, but you can also just, um, email me
Amy: and I'll put that in the show notes. Thank you. Yeah. Amy Miranda.
Amy M.: You can reach me at amy@amymiranda.com or what we've forgotten.com.
Amy: Thank you.
So the repeated messages that we got were fives and bees and Maya, Darren, and there's something about experimenting our way. Back into a place as well, like not in a linear way where we're thinking about experimenting our way forward, forward, forward, forward, but the gift of experimenting our way back into ancient history as well.
And bees. And bees and always bees [00:54:00] and happy first birthday to the missing witches deck of Oracles. And blessed fucking bees.
Risa: Blessed fucking bees.
Zoe: Katie's beautiful beehives. Yes. Yeah.
Risa: Buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz. You aren't being a proper woman. Therefore, you must be a witch. A witch witch. Witch. A witch. Witch. A witch. Witch. A witch.
Amy: You must be a witch. If you wanna support the Missing Witches project, check out the Missing Witches deck of Oracles anywhere you get your books and cards.