Two weeks til the Witch's New Year, you deserve a little treat.
Sometimes things feel like they're about to crack, right? We all feel it for any number of reasons. But are we not witches on the edge of the world?
In the cracks and the crevices, the hedges and the ditches – is where the really good stuff grows. Samhain is known as the Witch’s New Year for that reason – born anew in the dark.
Maybe things are getting or have gone cold -- the ground, your heart, the song you sing over and over again in your head, the pot of coffee on the stove.
Strike a match. Re-light the flame.
Whatever is stewing in your cauldron at the moment – let it simmer a bit longer.
Take a break. Maybe just close your eyes.
Replace the batteries in your electric candle.
Take your medicine. Eat a piece of candy,
Begin again and again and again.
New Season of the Missing Witches Podcast
The Fall 2026 Season of the Missing Witches podcast has hit airwaves and is packed with stories of magical resistance, past and present.
Mabon 2026: Lying On The Floor Doing Witchcraft with Ivy Zeller, Jenny C. Bell and Jasmin Stoffer
Are you disabled? Are you neurodivergent? Chronically ill? You're still a fucking witch. I'm disabled. And sometimes under late-stage capitalism, that makes me feel like I am not enough. So I have gathered today a gaggle of witches, Ivy Nyx Zeller (author of Disabled Witchcraft), Jenny C. Bell (author of Divergent Witchcraft) and Jasmin Stoffer (Disability Justice Activist), to help remind us that you are more than enough.
Ep 303 Dr. Treasure Shields Redmond - Revolutionary Optimism Despite It All
Dr. Redmond is the co-founder of Fannie Lou Hamer House, a migratory artist residency, and is the founder of The Community Archive, a non profit where she teaches communities how to collect their elders’ oral histories. Treasure talks about poetry and music, Hoodoo and Ashe, being radicalized, and together we define our Witchcraft through a lens of revolutionary optimism.
EP 304 MW Aunt Caroline Dye - Here Am I, Take All My Troubles Away
So when someone like me hears legendary bluesman Howlin Wolf belt out a gravelly list of names he’s inviting to his Wang Dang Doodle, and that list includes a conjure woman, a hoodoo lady, we pay attention. When the name of a Witch (who, for the record, would never have called herself that word) shows up in dozens of songs, sung by bluesmen from the genesis of the blues itself, we know we’ve gotta dig a little deeper.
Halloween, Samhain, and the Witch’s New Year
Thanks to Coven Member Ashe for these wise words!
On Saturday October 31st, the Northern Hemisphere celebrates Samhain. Samhain (pronounced “sow-en,” like “cow-en,” in Irish) is one of four Irish fire festivals that is much older. (The other three are Imbolc, Beltane, and Lughnasadh.)
We know from surviving texts that Samhain was a time of celebration, of bringing in the last harvest and culling animals to make a great feast (bonfire, after all, means “bone fire”). In a time when winters were deadly, lighting a bonfire and feasting was a way to declare that you’re going to make it through the winter.
But perhaps the biggest focus on Samhain is the dead. Ancestor veneration was central, a time to remember and give love to those we’ve lost. Isn’t that beautiful, to be remembered?
So have a feast, pull out those cards and runes, and light a (possibly electric) candle to welcome home your nearest and deadest.
Meanwhile, inside the Coven...
This is the sort of conversation that happens inside the Missing Witches Coven all the time: members bringing their own decks, ideas, questions, scholarship, weirdness, experiences, and half-formed thoughts into the room and seeing what happens when other witches pick them up.
The RX gives you a little taste.
The Coven is where we get to actually do the thing together.
What's New?
In order to lovingly steward our beloved coven space as we grow, we are very thrilled to announce that we’ve invited Weavers coven member Jenna Danchuk (a.k.a. @thriftomancy) to join the team over here at Missing Witches as Coven Steward! The Coven Steward is a fire-tender, systems builder, town crier, story-teller, and general support person for the internal workings of the Missing Witches coven. Jenna’s experience is resonant with our mission at Missing Witches and the future we’re dreaming into being and we’re excited to have her join us.
Jenna Danchuk (she/her) writer, researcher, and community facilitator working in Toronto, Canada (Treaty 13). She is a PhD Candidate at York University in the Department of Gender, Feminist, and Women’s Studies, with plans to graduate in 2027. Her dissertation is about how radical and lesbian-feminists c.1976-1987 created a politicized spiritual culture known as ‘feminist witchcraft’ – a tradition which in many ways, Missing Witches picks up and carries on.
Jenna is a former university-level Teaching Assistant with a specialization in anti-oppressive and social justice driven education and accessible online learning. Most recently, she worked as a Research Associate with the Femme Story Archives project. She is the former Assistant Editor for the occult website Spiral Nature, and prior to this, the Associate Editor for WORN Fashion Journal.
Her witchcraft is art-driven, informed by the Western ceremonial tradition (which she studied from 2014-2017), but connected to lineages of feminist witchcraft in all their complexities.
Coven Event Spotlight:
🎃 Hive Vibes... with imzflwrs!
Sunday, October 18 - 8-10pm Atlantic, 7-9pm EST, 4-6pm PST
Sometimes you just need to connect and vibe. All are welcome to this totally casual, informal meet-up to body double, be together, clean our altars/areas/spaces, or make things as music plays to set the mood and overall vibe.Our Hive Vibe Playlist this time around will be hosted by who will curate our weird, lovely, and awesome music to vibe to!!! See you there!
A little more magic, together
One of the things we're most interested in at Missing Witches is what happens when witchcraft stops being something we consume alone and becomes something we think about, question, practice, and make together.
The Coven is our living space for that.
There are conversations about magic and history, tarot and astrology, ritual and culture. There are co-learning sessions, seasonal gatherings, small groups, member-led conversations, and plenty of opportunities to wander down an unexpected rabbit hole with people who are delighted you brought it.
You don't have to know what you're doing before you arrive, you don't have to call yourself a witch. You just have to be curious enough to come through the door.
And we'll be there cheering, Welcome Home!
Blessed fucking be.
— Risa & Amy & the Crones of the Missing Witches Coven!
