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
PodcastIn 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
Podcast“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 t
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
EventsThis 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 WitchesWe dedicate the 100th episode of the Missing Witches Podcast to Truth and Reparation, to listening and acknowledging. Amy sits down with Author, Public Speaker, Teacher, Medicine Woman/Healer and founder of the Eagle Heart Foundation, Dr. Joy “Granddaughter Crow” Gray (aka GDC). Raised b
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
Podcast“Language and landscape are my inspiration.”So said Terry Tempest Williams in her Personal Topography of America’s national parks: The Hour of Land, and I think this rings true for most Witches. We are Language and Landscape. Amy guides listeners through the work of this author, activist, seek
Missing WitchesNEW EPISODE! This is a story about hugging trees. And it is a story about witch hunts and the idea of a radical reimagining of our relationship with nature. About the women who inspired the iconic environmental Chipko movement in India, which literally means to hug, and it’s a story about the Bishno
Missing WitchesBuffy Sainte Marie is another magical being who doesn’t show her witchiness through occult study, cauldrons, crystals or tarot cards, but rather, through a devotion to change, a reverence for nature, a recognition of the power of ceremony. The nerve to go her own way. She sang, “Magic is Alive” and
Missing WitchesA deep dive into the divine feminine, from goddess worship to modern motherhood, guided through the landmines by author, artist, activist, witch: Monica Sjöö. We really wanted to dedicate an episode to one of the groundbreaking powerhouse 70s witches – those take back the night witches who wer
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