Granddaughter Crow (Dr. Joy Gray) holds a doctorate in leadership. Internationally recognized as a medicine person, she comes from a long line of spiritual leaders as a member of the Navajo Nation. She is an award-winning author. Her books include The Journey of the Soul, Wisdom of the Natural World, and most recently, Belief, Being,…
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EP 139 – WF Asha Frost: You Are The Medicine
In today’s episode we’re chatting with Asha Frost, author of You Are The Medicine and self-proclaimed ‘peaceful warrior’. We talk about appropriation, extraction, chronic illness, feeling worthy and unworthy, animals in the moon. Asha says, “conversations around the harm of appropriation are vital for true reconciliation, equity and healing.” Asha Frost (she/her), is an Indigenous…
EP 124 WF – Charlie Watts, Aura Weaver: It’s All Weaving, Everything’s Weaving
“I come from a lineage of colour-seeing psychics…I had a near-death experience when I was ten, and that’s when things got really weird for me, in a beautiful way.” Occupational Therapist, Artist, Doula, Aura Photographer, Neurodivergent Witch, and utter delight Charlie Watts joins the circle this week. Charlie, her partner Judah, and their AuraCam 6000…
EP 120 WF Rebecca Beyer: You Can Know 10 Plants Deeply And Be A Wonderful Healer
In this episode, Risa and members of the Missing Witches coven sit down with ethnobotanist, forager, wild-tender, and teacher of hedgecraft: Rebecca Beyer of Blood and Spice Bush. Rebecca holds us gently and invites us into practices that offer direct action toward negotiating the wounded spaces of cultural appropriation between Witches and first nations communities;…
EP 117 WF Jarod K. Anderson, The CryptoNaturalist: Give Yourself Permission To Take The Meaning You Make Seriously
In this episode, we talk about magic and masculinity, depression and climate anxiety, graveyards and kids, and writing what needs to be said. We get to meet with a poet whose writing about nature echoes around the world, and on this quiet evening, our kids in their beds, we read poems and find small places…
EP 115 Yuletide 2021 w Amy & Risa: A Council Of Soul Mates
This is our spell for the season: the cheapest, richest gift you can give. Picture your most powerful council, and then write a love letter of recommendation for the person you most want your council to know, in the ways that you know them. Amplify the pleasure of storytelling, story-weaving the bonds between us all….
EP 114 WF Sophie Strand: We Are The Product Of Anarchic Queer Love Making
“My partner left me, I had a miscarriage, and the pandemic started. I wrote this really long novel and it got rejected 27 times. My doctors were not feeling great about my health, and I thought… if I’m going to die, if I’ll never get published, I better just write about the things I would…
EP 112 WF Bex Mui: Queering The Church With Spiritual Playspace
Bex Mui, M. Ed (she/her) is a biracial, first gen, femme, queer, lesbian equity consultant committed to the work of LGBTQ+ affirmation at the intersections of education, spirituality, and sexual and mental wellness. A queer witch, energy worker, and spiritual organizer, Bex founded House Of Our Queer, a QTBIPOC-Centered spiritual playspace where Bex shares affirmations…
EP 111 WF Marcelitte Failla, Black Witch: As We Heal Our Ancestors’ Trauma We Heal Ourselves
In this episode soon-to-be Witch Doctor Marcellite Failla sends a loving f*ck you to the academy; shares stories from her childhood experiences using Witchcraft to resist racism and conjure teen love; opens a window into the philosophy, activism, healing, and gathering spaces of Black Witchcraft; and Risa and Marcellite get pretty emotional about ancestral healing….
EP 106 WF Sami Harvey of Foxglove Pharm – I Want To Have A Magical Life
A very tired Risa and Sami of Foxglove Pharm talk life and death and magic potions. “I want to have a magical life. I want to feel glittery and magical and do things with intention… So when the invisible demons have got me I can count on this soothing elixir to fight them off.” Sami…