Glorious Magical Friends!! We are 3 weeks into our annual Reparations season.
You have been filling our inboxes with your love and support for a rainbow of indigenous-led organizations all over the world and it is THRILLING!!
We have one week left, and we'd love for YOU to feel the power in the wave of small acts, building and concatenating together towards a vision of restorative justice. We hope you will join us and make your donation today!!
We hear countless stories of the magic that comes from putting repair on the altar.
Folks who are offering services and donating the revenue towards repair this year have been sharing the ways in which these exchanges are gilded with extra magic and synchronicity. It's like to living world feels us sending love toward the wound of colonial extraction and responds in loving, unexpected and bumptious ways.
So get in on it!
You can start by looking at the history of where you live, or where you grandparents grew up.
If you live in Europe, you can look into whose lands were colonized by the nation state where you live today.
See if you can figure out who were the traditional stewards of that land.
Then see if you can find an organization run by those people preserving language or culture.
Then send them some love! Banish guilt and generational shame with joyful action! Feel how your action is part of a wave and you are not alone!
OR you can listen to our conversation with Sixties Scoop survivor, Elaine Kicknowsway, who took her pain and, with her friend Roxi Cardinal, transformed it into The Sixties Scoop Network, a safe place for herself and other survivors to share stories and heal together. It’s a very small organization, so if you’re looking to make a really huge impact with your reparation donation this year, please consider supporting the Sixties Scoop Network.
OR listen to our our conversation with Jennifer Luxmore-Begin (she/her, @13moonsofcreation, @luxybeg1) a creative, musician and educator, settler-Anishinaabe woman with roots in Mattagami First Nation. As an educator and facilitator of women’s circles, Jenn works to create community, connection and embodiment of culture in everyday life. Jenn is a sister in the Indigenous women’s collective, Grandmother's Voice - a community of Belonging and Understanding for Healing that would love your support!
OR you can throw your magic in with us!
We (Amy + Risa) make our donation to the Native Women's Shelter every year because of the incredible depth and range of their work in the city we love: providing a safe space for women and families, providing therapists and advocates to help keep families together, providing second stage housing, addressing the crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, Trans, and 2-Spirit (MMIWG2S+) individuals in Quebec, coordinating the Permanent People's Tribunal, and so. much. more.
Remember for every 10$ you donate to any indigenous-led organization in the moneth of May you get one entry into our draw for innnncredible prizes.
Powerful artists, diviners, and teachers — luminaries from our community — sponsor these prizes because they are with us, all of us, all together in a loving circle of hope and repair.
Check out the Reparations page for all the details. AND BLESSED FUCKING BE!
Risa Dickens
A look ahead at the events happening this week in the Missing Witches Coven…
On Sunday, 5/24, 6-8 pm EDT, HIVE VIBES
All are welcome to this totally casual, informal meet-up to body double, be together, clean our altars/areas/spaces, or make things. It’s a couple of hours on a Sunday to connect, chill, reset for the week, and vibe to some music.
No need to speak or chat, no need to have your video on, just log on to listen to the music as you putter around/clean/write/do witchy stuff.
Monday, 5/25 at 3 pm EDT, Weekly Cauldron for Weavers
All Weavers-level coven members all welcome to come simmer together in the Monday Cauldron.
Cauldron is a casual time and place for Weavers to hang out - bring something you're working on, bring Coven housekeeping items you'd like to bring to our attention, bring whatever you're thinking about, get advice, just chill, procrastinate.
Note: While the Cauldron can be a supportive and therapeutic space, it isn’t a therapy session. We take a trauma informed approach to our coven. Members are invited to check in before sharing on subjects that might take significant emotional labour to hold or process, and ask for consent so people can opt in or out.
Tuesday, 5/26, 11 am EDT, STAYING WITH THE TROUBLE READING GROUP
This is a weekly reading group where anyone can join as you are able.
Donna Haraway’s Staying with the Trouble offers a framework for responding to ecological crisis by "making kin" with other species, moving beyond the "Anthropocene" to the "Chthulucene.” This book is highly approachable and filled with stories of how people have made kin with companion species.
You don't need to be up to date on your Haraway to join in and make kin.
THURSDAY, 5/28, 8:30-10 pm EDT, Evening Co-Working Cave.
A chill environment to hang out and get some work done.
SATURDAY, 5/30, 8-9:30 EDT, PSYCHIC WITCH WORKSHOP
Using Mat Auryn's book, "Psychic Witch" coven mates explore exercises for deepening intuition. You do not need to own the book or to have attended previous workshops in the series to participate.
Camoe practice together to feel more confident in our work and increase power in rituals.
Access Needs Statement
We are a Coven that strives to create a space that is as loving, accepting, and honouring of each other's access needs as possible. When we gather, our magic radiates outward, and little by little, the world becomes more loving, accepting, and nurturing, too. So mote it be.
HEAD TO THE COVEN EVENTS CALENDARS FOR MORE INFORMATION!
https://coven.missingwitches.com/
We love you all so much. Let's keeping building the dream world together.
BFB!
R+A
