In this episode, Amy and Risa meet an art heroine of theirs who turns out to be a listener. Everyone falls in love and magic ensues. Marion Peck is a leading American artist recognized for her otherworldly and influential contributions to the Pop Surrealist and Lowbrow Art movements. She combines th
PodcastIn this time of death and transformation, we invite you to step into a virtual circle with leading science witches, art witches, death witches, feminist and activist collaborators. Bring your own ideas, questions, and intentions to sit in circle with the mycelium, lactobacillus, bees, songs, stories
Events“Toni Morrison grew up fully aware and fully comfortable with the fact that science didn’t explain everything that went on in the world” “She really grew up in a world where people believed in magic, but in addition to that they were also Christians” “MorrisonR
PodcastA 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.” Sami̷
PodcastThis episode was hard to write. Hildegarde’s work seems to go on and on and I want to go deeper and deeper into the visions she shared, and swim with her in all directions – into the cosmos and into the earth. But I also keep pulling back and asking why a witch history spends… Read
Missing WitchesThe title of this episode comes from Zoe Flowers’ epic praise poem: “In Praise of the Wytch.” She also talks with such openness and generosity about her history with magic and the different spiritual paths that led her to Hoodoo, advice for coming out of the broom closet while keep
PodcastLucille Clifton was a twelve-fingered, two-headed woman – her mother and daughter too – and she stepped into a house in Baltimore and began to hear the voices of her ancestors. She was the first poet to have two books up for the Pulitzer at the same time. Her grandmother was a child when
Missing WitchesAs 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
PodcastFor this full moon in July, I reached out to dance researcher Rebecca Barnstaple after seeing her incredible work presented at a virtual conference about dance and Parkinson’s. We watched videos of people regaining ease of movement when they listened to music; when they thought of the way they moved
PodcastFor 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 t
PodcastAnnwyn Avalon, water witch, asks how can we – within our own practice, lives and cultural structures – create something that is supportive of other water protectors all over the globe. In conversation with Risa, Annwyn shares how she came to the path of the water priestess and her vision
PodcastThis one goes out to the queer, and to the lonely. For so many of us who deviated down the occult aisles, Scott Cunningham was our first. We likely didn’t know he was gay, that wasn’t part of what he shared, but he made this other crucial choice that opened a magic and unexpected door… Read Mo
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