In this episode, Amy and Risa sit down with long time friend of the pod Whitefeather Hunter to discuss Science, Magic, how the Exquisite Corpse informs the collective work of the BioArt Coven and dig into the communally created BioArt Coven Manifesto. The BIOART COVEN MANIFESTO WILL BE PUBLISHED IN SNAKE HAIR PRESS‘S OCCULT STUDIES…
Category: Sabbat Specials
EP 97 Lughnasadh Meditation: If You Want To Say Yes, Say Yes
As we crafted Grain Mothers from clover, mint and meadowsweet to honour until Samhain, and knotted poppets out of corn husks, and talked through knots of feelings and tendrils of ideas, we did some field recordings. These became what we’re thinking of as a kind of meditation. We invite you to put it on in…
WF LITHA 2021 Earth Bound Futures: QUEER The Heroes Journey and Find Your Inner Ally
For solstice and as a celebration of STRENGTH this Litha, we spoke with Tanya and Skye of Earthbound Futures. It took me forever to edit because I kept writing down astonishing things they said. We spoke of wrestling and facial hair and radical self acceptance and chronic pain in our bodies and in the larger…
EP 94 JUNETEENTH Lakeesha Harris: Brave Together
To celebrate Juneteenth, Amy is joined by co-founder of Black Witch University, Lakeesha Harris – conjuring unapologetically for black liberation. Together we discuss Brave Spaces, Grace, Power, the necessity of Ancestor communication, Radical acts of Healing, Magic, Aries-Energy, Reproductive Justice, and Lakeesha’s multiple roles as teacher, activist, mother and Coven leader. “There is no safe…
EP 92 BELTANE 2021 Amy & Risa: Turning and Burning
In this episode, Amy and Risa take a patented Missing Witches Spiral of conversation around the Beltane Bonfire of Imagination. We dance around our future plans, our May fundraiser for Native Women’s Shelters (KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR THIS, WE’VE GOT SOME AMAZING RAFFLE PRIZES FOR DONORS), and our love of fire, literal and metaphorical….
EP 79 Ostara 2021: Healing, Resistance And Writing Books w Amanda Yates Garcia
HAPPY SPRING EQUINOX!! This year, Amy and Risa celebrate Ostara with Amanda Yates Garcia aka The Oracle of LA, author of Initiated: Memoir of a Witch, AND the foreword to our book Missing Witches (in stores March 23rd!)!! Amanda gifts us with songs and stories from her mother’s Book Of Shadows as we discuss how…
Missing Witches Solstice Carols
These Solstice Carols were written and performed for this Coven by Amy Torok. Find the chords and lyrics in our book!!! Alternate versions of these songs appear in the audio book: Missing Witches. Litha (Summer Solstice) Yule (Winter Solstice)
EP 78 – Hunger Moon w Amy & Risa: Please Expand
In this episode, Amy and Risa discuss Moon Rituals, Faith, Patience, and take a look back at three years of Missing Witches – from idea to podcast to book (Missing Witches THE BOOK available for pre-order now, in stores March 23rd). PLUS we almost entirely forget to mention that a new season of Missing Witches…
EP 77 Imbolc 2021: Astrology w/ Monefa Walker + Eliza Robertson
For this year’s Imbolc Special, we reached for the stars and invited astrologers Monefa Walker from Sekhmet’s Visions and Eliza Robertson from Kosmic Tonic to help us understand how the movements of the planets inform our lives. Monefa revisits her predictions for 2020, gives us some new ones for 2021, shares some Imbolc Shadow Work…
EP 75 YULETIDE SPECIAL 2020 with Jinkx Monsoon and Kenneth Friend!!!
This this year we had the honour and pleasure of spending our solstice with Jinkx Monsoon and Kenneth Friend. We talked about the Jinkx and BenDeLaCreme holiday special “THE JINKX & DELA HOLIDAY SPECIAL” (stream it NOW) and learning to love the shadows, our own and those that winter brings. Together we dismantle a number…