Missing Witches - Missing Witches： Witches Found - Samhain with Reeta and Phoenix

00:00:00.000 Hey witches, it's Amy coming at you with our final episode of season one of Missing Witches

00:00:29.620 and witches found. You just heard La Bruja's anthem for which it stands, or at least a

00:00:36.660 clip of it. With her permission, we will be playing the entire track at the end of this

00:00:41.280 episode, so please stay tuned for that. It is a banger and a shaker. And I wanted to

00:00:47.840 shout out La Bruja in general because we are so inspired by her work here at Missing Witches.

00:00:56.120 She is New Yorican, so a lot of her work is focused on the New York-Puerto Rican community and on Puerto Rico.

00:01:04.520 But she also has done work to attain historical landmark status for the house where Edgar Allan Poe lived in New York.

00:01:13.420 So she's just an all-around wonderful, powerful, creative witch.

00:01:19.860 And we encourage you to follow her on Instagram and check her out.

00:01:23.040 Her Instagram handle is LabrujaNYC.

00:01:27.340 So for this episode, we brought back our first found witch and our last found witch,

00:01:32.840 that being Rita from Reader with Love on Instagram and Phoenix at Sycamore on Instagram.

00:01:42.180 If you haven't listened to their solo interviews on Witches Found, please do so.

00:01:47.560 They really are amazing people with so much to say.

00:01:49.980 I sort of conceive of Halloween and Samhain and Samhain as being two different things.

00:01:57.000 Halloweekend is where we masquerade.

00:02:00.720 We can be a unicorn.

00:02:02.480 We can be a wizard.

00:02:03.920 We can be Lady Gaga.

00:02:05.740 And no one is going to look twice at us.

00:02:08.040 We can go out, get candy, or go dancing and shake off the cobwebs of the year that has led us to this point and be ready and refreshed for the winter.

00:02:17.780 So on Halloween weekend, that's what I like to do. But Samhain, Samhain, the 31st of October is for witchcraft. Me, I will be drinking a cup of mugwort tea in front of the bonfire with my Book of Shadows.

00:02:34.840 and I will be listening for the signs and watching for the signs

00:02:39.020 and hoping and praying to be guided for the next phase of my life

00:02:43.940 by my ancestors and by our common ancestor, Spirit.

00:02:50.340 So please enjoy this conversation between me and Risa and Phoenix and Rita.

00:02:56.960 Have a safe and happy Halloween and know that you are loved.

00:03:02.220 Dig in. 0.79

00:03:02.680 Hey, witches! 1.00

00:03:03.840 Hi! 1.00

00:03:04.440 Hello!

00:03:04.840 Happy Halloween, happy Samhain, whatever you celebrate, All Hallows' Eve, the thinning of the veil.

00:03:15.400 We're super excited for our last episode of the season of Witches Found.

00:03:20.240 We brought our first found witch.

00:03:24.040 Hello.

00:03:24.760 You remember Rita from episode one of Witches Found, episode two of Missing Witches, and of course Phoenix.

00:03:30.760 Hiya.

00:03:31.240 You remember her from our last two episodes of Witches Fan, and of course Risa is with us.

00:03:36.820 Hello, witches. 0.55

00:03:38.240 Now, Risa has recently produced a human being from outside of her body. 0.98

00:03:42.980 I squeezed out a human being. I sound more tired now. 0.99

00:03:46.880 She might sound a little more tired.

00:03:48.540 Do you want to tell us what it's like to be a portal to the other side of the universe real quick?

00:03:53.720 Sure, yeah, I'd love to jump right into portal stories.

00:03:58.300 Talk about the sinning of the veil.

00:04:00.720 There was that time when I thought the veil wouldn't thin and she wouldn't come out and we would all die.

00:04:07.480 Should I go straight to that part at Halloween?

00:04:09.860 Yeah, it's the Halloween episode.

00:04:11.100 Tell us about your near-death experience.

00:04:13.480 You know, it probably wasn't near death, but at so many other times in history it would have been.

00:04:19.040 And that was scary to think about.

00:04:21.040 You know, I was in a hospital.

00:04:23.480 That's where I wanted to be.

00:04:24.640 um it was my first kid and I'm 38 so I didn't want to be at home um but I had a doula there

00:04:32.960 my sister's a doula um so I had my like little kid sister who I know has like witnessed some

00:04:40.460 very traumatic births all around the world um there with me and you know her and my partner

00:04:47.520 Mark um just like spent maybe the first 12 hours that we were in the hospital which was the second

00:04:53.560 12 hours of labor like chanting with me and meditating and we would hold hands and hum

00:05:01.380 during during contractions which were like every three minutes or less for like hours and hours

00:05:09.680 and hours i just want to ask a quick question because like you talk about chatting and meditation

00:05:14.540 so like how do you feel like being a quote-unquote witch like impacted your birth plan or your birth

00:05:21.200 practice? Interesting. Um, in a bunch of different ways, I feel like it did. Um, I think I look for

00:05:32.400 a lot of, um, synchronicities or I look for cues that things are going to be okay. Or I look for

00:05:39.540 cues that, um, the universe is with me or the goddess is with me or the wind is with me or

00:05:44.800 something you know like however i identify it at that moment um i find personally like a lot of

00:05:52.160 comfort in that i i recently had surgery and when i was in like the intake where you know they do

00:05:57.400 the triage and the nurse is like and the radio was on and hey yeah and she was taking my pulse

00:06:05.100 and i was like it might be a little fast because this is one of the greatest songs

00:06:09.780 But in my mind, I was very much like, you know, Andre 3000 says everything's going to be okay.

00:06:16.560 And it was like a legitimate and genuine source of power.

00:06:19.340 Completely.

00:06:20.440 Completely.

00:06:21.160 Yeah.

00:06:21.460 So we're watching for the sun.

00:06:22.720 Yeah.

00:06:23.040 So I had a night of contractions like three weeks early at my mom's house.

00:06:28.840 And I looked out the window in the morning and saw a cardinal.

00:06:32.240 And that's my grandmother's favorite bird.

00:06:34.460 And I felt like my grandmother's still alive.

00:06:36.380 She and I are very close, but my grandfather passed.

00:06:38.940 and I felt like he was there and we knew we were naming May after my grandmother on the other side

00:06:45.140 and my great-grandmother on that side both had May in their name.

00:06:48.240 So I felt like the cardinal was like a sign that everything was going to be okay

00:06:52.120 and when we went outside the hospital and stood in the sun

00:06:56.920 and we're having contractions like leaning on this sculpture,

00:07:00.580 my sister was like, do you want to see the cardinal that's watching you?

00:07:03.500 And I turned around and there was a cardinal.

00:07:05.420 there was other moments where I like held on to something that I felt was like a I don't know

00:07:13.080 yeah I felt like was like a little cue that we're going to make it through this together there was

00:07:18.140 also a moment where I felt like ancestors were there and I had read descriptions of that that

00:07:26.900 I found really beautiful so I probably was anticipating that and generated it and imagined

00:07:32.640 it as much as i felt it and that's okay i think that's all part of magic is you know the self

00:07:38.340 fictionalizing or whatever there's a description in white oleander where she's with another like

00:07:44.520 young foster girl holding her hand she wanted her to accompany her in the labor and she says she

00:07:49.800 cries out for her mother and it's not the mother who abused her and abandoned her but it's like a

00:07:54.240 greater mother and a darker mother who kind of walks life and death with all of us yeah and i

00:08:00.520 felt very connected to my mom in that moment but also felt like yeah my grandparents were there

00:08:06.320 in a circle when I finally took the epidural and I couldn't feel it kicking in yet I was still in

00:08:12.180 pain and I felt a lot of guilt about taking an epidural and I was all fucked up about all of that 0.99

00:08:18.000 mom guilt shit already and I was shaking and shaking and shaking and shaking and shaking 0.96

00:08:22.840 and I felt like my my ancestors were I felt like my grandparents were there um and that was 0.98

00:08:30.180 maybe a witchy moment or maybe just like a human moment i don't know well i think it's come up in

00:08:36.940 every episode pretty much that we've done whether which is found or missing witches where that that

00:08:42.200 is what magic is but sort of the space between atoms the the things that don't make sense but

00:08:47.440 make the most sense yeah that's where we find the magic in these little crevices yes overstanding

00:08:54.660 yeah yeah i feel so intense sitting next to you are you telling this story

00:09:01.160 yeah do you want to get into why it's uh giving you feelings of intensity um as she's getting

00:09:10.260 into it my heart's just uh racing sitting next to you and i kind of want to cry right now but um

00:09:19.200 I cried. It sounds

00:09:20.940 insane. Oh, my God.

00:09:23.080 I cried.

00:09:24.660 But this is something like, you know,

00:09:26.840 women have been dying in childbirth, like, being 0.93

00:09:29.060 this portal to the other

00:09:30.340 dimension or whatever. Hundreds

00:09:33.000 of millions of generations.

00:09:35.160 For hundreds of millions of generations, 1.00

00:09:37.140 women have just been straight up. 1.00

00:09:38.740 And to feel guilt to take 1.00

00:09:41.060 an epidural, that's

00:09:43.000 crazy.

00:09:44.700 Sorry, that's like, yeah. 1.00

00:09:47.020 Sucks. 0.74

00:09:47.500 it sucks to feel that way yeah like you felt like it was like a failure yeah yeah since when is pain 0.96

00:09:55.620 like i know yeah yeah yeah it's like how we've been like other people have been ripped away from

00:10:02.780 the process like you know my father wasn't anywhere near the place where my sister was born

00:10:08.580 and he was like in the hallway when i was born and he said later like oh i had no idea you know

00:10:14.980 there would be so much screaming you know he genuinely didn't even know and this isn't 200

00:10:21.620 years ago you know this is like 40 years ago he didn't even understand yeah because men were so

00:10:28.520 like maybe they chose not to be in the room i wouldn't want to be in the room maybe

00:10:33.760 but in the movies everybody's in the room and their mother it's like

00:10:38.940 it's like six women with a pot of boiling water yeah you know contemporary movies we get that

00:10:49.280 but it gets glossed over a lot I think because of the beauty it's amazing it's a you know it is

00:10:55.040 it's a miracle and so like we don't want to talk about the gore and guts that are gonna

00:11:00.780 dirty up our perfect little miracle I guess right it's a very human thing I guess to do yeah

00:11:06.080 and the like dark magic of it the dark power of it um the i thought a lot about monica's show who's

00:11:17.440 one of the witches that we did in the first season she talks about um you know the the

00:11:24.400 racism inherent in saying that you know we have to go towards the light or sort of emphasizing

00:11:31.040 the light the the sort of new age story about like you know the sun and the crystals and all

00:11:38.460 of this kind of stuff but ripping it from a woman's power and an earth power and a connection

00:11:44.260 to our responsibility to the earth and then creating this binary composition that we're

00:11:48.720 always trying yeah and i don't like dark yeah exactly and i don't know exactly where i felt

00:11:55.920 i don't know exactly how to explain that or where to go with that except that i did feel like there

00:11:59.940 was a real knowledge coming out of it for me of like all of these women around me, like have this

00:12:08.700 in them, like this death life potential in them, um, are carrying a sorrow of a kind of like

00:12:16.020 having done this or, um, not like choosing to not do this and make something else or like this very

00:12:23.340 fertile darkness. I don't know. Yeah. I don't know what I'm trying to say about that, except

00:12:27.700 that I felt that there was like a real violence and darkness to the process and that it made me

00:12:33.200 look around at women in a very different way. Yeah. Like root work and stuff, they talk about 0.52

00:12:40.180 this a lot. Like it's not pretty crystals. It's working with like piss and blood and nail clippings

00:12:46.920 and getting your hands dirty. Yeah. And I think that that's, you know, this is all the stuff that

00:12:52.500 we want to avoid is where the real meat of it is often yeah you know in in those dark moments that

00:12:59.380 we're trying to get away from often we'll use drugs or alcohol or our work to stop feeling

00:13:05.360 these bad things but really like we need we need to embrace darkness it's like a reaching for the

00:13:12.800 light constantly it's like um you know there's a lot of power in embracing darkness which we are

00:13:19.180 taught to kind of like see as failure or as the bad side but it's actually quite empowering when

00:13:25.540 you're like I feel this and I think not not embracing that is like a source of guilt yeah

00:13:33.560 that like it transpires into a source of guilt by like I'm feeling these dark things it's like no

00:13:39.080 there's embracing that because you're in this case you know creating life yeah there's really

00:13:46.340 dark feelings that come with that and embracing that that's part of the process it's not just

00:13:50.600 about finding this light you know sometimes the light is hard to find so like what feeling dark

00:13:56.080 means you failed like no embrace that it's a season uh yeah and i feel like there's a lot of

00:14:02.400 spiritual bypassing that goes around totally these kinds of concepts where it's like

00:14:06.660 related to like positivity culture positivity psychology and it's kind of like a silencing of

00:14:13.020 Brown and Black? 0.55

00:14:14.780 Oh, Life and Light movement, please don't. 1.00

00:14:17.360 Yeah.

00:14:20.320 Well, it's just saying that, you know,

00:14:23.680 you can have to always turn a positive or a silver line and stuff.

00:14:27.300 And not discuss your life, which is not always, like, perfect.

00:14:31.620 I don't know who's this.

00:14:32.860 And you get ostracized from these love and light communities

00:14:36.940 that are kind of a product of privilege in itself.

00:14:42.020 And it shows up in conflict where people are like, oh, I can't deal with this.

00:14:47.640 It's too much labor or whatever.

00:14:50.520 Yeah, like structural violence.

00:14:53.320 Or like disagree kind of thing.

00:14:55.060 And it's a way to not take responsibility and not take accountability and avoid doing the hard work in relationships and communities.

00:15:01.560 Yes.

00:15:02.120 Yeah.

00:15:02.620 Yeah.

00:15:04.060 And yeah.

00:15:04.980 Yeah.

00:15:05.880 So somebody sent me this quote, and it's something that we've all talked about,

00:15:13.020 but I love that this writer summed it up so well.

00:15:18.680 To me, to be colonized means to be disconnected and disintegrated from our ancestry,

00:15:23.500 from the earth, from our indigeneity, from our earth-connected selves.

00:15:27.080 We all come from earth-connected people,

00:15:28.800 people who once lived in deep connection to the rhythms of nature.

00:15:31.860 I believe it is not a coincidence that the colonization of this land 0.75

00:15:35.200 happened at the same time that Europeans were burning hundreds of thousands of witches, 0.72

00:15:40.520 those women who carried the traditional indigenous knowledge of the tribes of Europe.

00:15:44.960 You know, we had an indigenous person reach out to us and say,

00:15:50.120 like, I think it probably happened after our episode with Annie Lamarro, the medicine woman,

00:15:56.800 and saying, like, thank you for representing this.

00:15:59.040 You know, indigenous culture often gets ignored in contemporary New Age paganism.

00:16:03.480 and that to me is baffling and bananas like how are you gonna try to connect to the earth

00:16:11.840 while ignoring the message of the people who are most connected to the earth that you are

00:16:17.540 at least standing on right now if you're american for sure um so yeah i mean it yeah you know amy

00:16:26.160 gets angry and needs to take a deep breath and calm down but if you're smudging and you don't

00:16:31.780 like try to like support native people you're not smudging right

00:16:38.100 it's like smudge your own negativity yes i i've almost had it officially with this like

00:16:45.360 again you say the love and light like no people are complaining because they're being violently

00:16:51.420 oppressed and you want to tell them oh she's a drag or whatever because she's like oh i just

00:16:58.760 so negative like she confronted her like demons or something yeah anger righteous anger you know

00:17:04.940 somebody who's just going around being pissed off all the time whatever we don't need those people

00:17:08.940 but righteous anger is what tells us when something is wrong yeah we need we again the

00:17:14.560 darkness we need anger to tell us when something doesn't feel right for us and sadness to tell us

00:17:21.120 when something isn't yeah and how to investigate those histories because they're long buried you

00:17:26.260 You know, like we talk about why were those women alone?

00:17:29.280 Why were so many women alone giving birth?

00:17:31.280 And then go back to that connection made in that quote between colonization and the witch hunts.

00:17:38.380 Or, you know, like they were happening at the same time and they were the product of the same unfolding of religious capitalism.

00:17:45.620 you know like it's the same process happening on two different fronts of attacking women and

00:17:51.940 specifically women who had knowledge of how to help women through birth who had a traditional

00:17:57.300 knowledge to put you know and then at the same time taking land on other continents like it's

00:18:03.440 the dehumanization it's the taking of knowledge I don't know I find that there's there's a history 1.00

00:18:08.260 there that hasn't been fully tied in a loop for me of you know hundreds of thousands of women

00:18:13.060 killed in europe while colonization is happening and this this comes up for me a lot too because

00:18:17.880 i'm like was it like we had a beautiful goddess culture you know primordial whatever like we've

00:18:23.620 read about and show you know that women were likely the ones who invented language who invented

00:18:28.180 fire control and therefore cooking and medicine because they were the ones doing the hunting 0.73

00:18:33.260 and galleys and so on and so forth yeah you know but like it's almost like at a certain point did

00:18:39.500 lightning bolt of patriarchy and capitalism just like hit the world when did this start and why

00:18:46.380 like how did we get here yeah where indigenous and and you say like capitalist religious 0.73

00:18:53.520 capitalism is probably the best yeah word combination because like that's what we saw

00:18:59.720 with columbus yeah for example and it's still happening here and still happening with the

00:19:05.560 CAC and power and going after Muslim women.

00:19:08.780 Yeah. 1.00

00:19:09.320 Going after Muslim women. 1.00

00:19:11.240 Going after Muslim women while declaring that they're going to start, you know, 1.00

00:19:16.360 mining again in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. 1.00

00:19:19.440 Like, same day. 0.75

00:19:20.660 Like, what's the relationship between going after women and going after the earth? 0.71

00:19:27.400 Like, what?

00:19:28.460 If any of our listeners have an answer for you, please let us know.

00:19:32.460 And how do we resist better?

00:19:34.420 Yeah.

00:19:34.640 I feel like this is maybe a big factor in why, like, it took so long for witchcraft to be accepted in North America because it was that connection to the earth was killed off here through colonization.

00:19:52.960 They killed it off in every other culture.

00:19:55.260 There is witchcraft or an element of this mysticism and connection with nature across the board, you know, like literally.

00:20:02.240 Although there's ritual, there's connecting with the earth, wise people, gurus, priests, all of this. 0.91

00:20:11.820 But here, it took a really long time because women had to come a really long way, I feel, in North America. 0.96

00:20:21.120 as opposed and they're I think they're leading this movement right now as opposed to you know 0.66

00:20:29.140 we're looking to reconnect with that here through you know ancient teachings of native peoples and

00:20:36.520 things like that now but but that was killed off here I think that's a big reason why we're here

00:20:41.740 Yeah. And I think we gain magic back as we gain back gender spectrum. So I think we kind of get fractured into like these really ridiculous puppeted roles of gender.

00:20:57.800 And so we lose, you know, we lose our men and we lose our queer, you know, magicians and we lose our trans witches or whatever when we're just fighting for our lives instead of working together to make magic on every level.

00:21:17.100 you know yeah if you're if you're just trying to get by on the daily which a lot of people are

00:21:22.660 and then it becomes increasingly difficult to have the energy even to try to change the world

00:21:28.440 let alone you know to feel like you can accomplish something you you brought this up in one of our

00:21:33.480 conversations it was like they want to grind the energy out of you yeah they stunt your growth

00:21:40.700 like that like here keep them in survival mode and then all these other heights or goals don't

00:21:48.440 get accomplished or you know you just kind of stay stunted because you're just trying to be

00:21:54.380 yeah this kind of brings us to um sunday's episode was about to have render laurel and

00:22:01.960 how she synthesized like her paganism with the birth of new technology and uh

00:22:08.260 uh-huh keep going i'm listening we're not going to get into all the um the uh technicalities of

00:22:22.500 the internet but i did want to bring up that because it's um um it's accessible and largely

00:22:29.780 anonymous that the internet is a huge place where women have really come into their own in terms of 0.99

00:22:36.200 being allowed into spaces

00:22:39.560 producing your own material

00:22:41.880 if you're trying to get through the gates

00:22:45.700 it's a different story now

00:22:47.640 because you can make a podcast in your house

00:22:50.100 and you don't need to go through a producer

00:22:52.620 or whatever

00:22:53.420 so I find that the internet has really

00:22:56.340 given people a voice

00:22:58.660 who otherwise would not have had a voice

00:23:00.560 yay women, we love you 1.00

00:23:02.380 well, it's democratized witchcraft 1.00

00:23:05.820 too because i think with witchcraft you get into like tropes of feminizing everything because it's

00:23:12.080 just part of the patriarchal game to separate witchcraft as like a feminine art but like most

00:23:18.820 like there's so many non-binary and like trans folk doing witchcraft like and and being persecuted 0.96

00:23:26.020 the most yes on all fronts um because it's it's feminine which is treasonous and then they're you 0.99

00:23:33.120 queer, which is also treasonous against patriarchy. 0.99

00:23:37.940 And so the internet basically democratized kind of that whole process 0.58

00:23:41.280 and allowed the voiceless to access space and to kind of spread their mission.

00:23:46.960 And I'm following so many, like, gender-funky witches on Instagram. 0.91

00:23:53.420 It's like, there's a lot of... 1.00

00:23:54.760 Can you shout some out?

00:23:55.660 And then we'll do a couple of shout-outs.

00:23:57.060 I have a shout-out lined up for this.

00:24:00.360 I follow this incredible group of witches in New Orleans,

00:24:05.260 Labana Babylon and Hobart. 0.51

00:24:09.060 Hobart.

00:24:11.100 Hobart is fantastic and unsettling in the best way.

00:24:16.080 Yes, I love them.

00:24:17.480 And Bruja Galactica.

00:24:20.580 That sounds like fun. 0.80

00:24:22.100 Lola Loka Chairs is a great one.

00:24:24.800 Yeah, I think if you go into who the Missing Witches Instagram follows,

00:24:28.820 I think you'll see all of these names.

00:24:30.360 So, yeah, if you want to, definitely go.

00:24:33.060 Yeah.

00:24:33.640 Yeah.

00:24:34.540 And I want to particularly shout out one of my favorite witches that I found on Instagram, 0.96

00:24:39.860 who is a male queer POC, named Edgar Fabian Frias.

00:24:47.600 And he, recently I actually did one of the Golden Dome School.

00:24:52.900 He's a part of the Golden Dome School.

00:24:54.640 We did their...

00:24:56.860 Resurrection of Care ritual.

00:24:59.360 Resurrection of Care.

00:24:59.920 I got stuck on cremation of care just the opposite and maybe you can read about cremation of care if you want to

00:25:05.320 but anyway his feed the Golden Dome feed but in particular Edgar Fabian Frias if you are a listener right now

00:25:12.900 your gifts are life your photos are life your blessings are life and I'm so grateful to have had

00:25:20.640 the ability through this little supercomputer that I carry in my pocket to be able to access this like

00:25:28.360 la you know queer poc wonderful like i get so much warmth edgar again if you're listening i

00:25:35.160 get so much warmth from his feed it's just like it's beautiful yeah yeah yeah does anybody else

00:25:42.200 have like a favorite instagram witch that they want to shout out i don't have an instagram witch

00:25:47.800 but i should shout out the community that i'm a part of please please there's a witch named carolyn

00:25:54.760 elliot she was a professor of poetry at university of pittsburgh and uh she started bad witches

00:26:03.980 badwitch.es website they have some really interesting writing and then she she has some 0.78

00:26:10.700 classes you can take and then there's an instagram group um there's about a thousand

00:26:15.920 crazy powerhouse witches there who have been so supportive of the podcast so supportive like

00:26:22.200 half the time when we get a dm i'm like because risa was a part of this insight group it's insight

00:26:26.940 i think it's called influence influence yeah the original class that i was in yeah so i'll be like

00:26:31.920 oh you know wonderful do it and they're like yeah we're from influence like yeah the dm so i'm like

00:26:37.620 there's that influence again so yeah shout out dark lake tarot oh yeah she's one of our biggest

00:26:43.000 supporters and amazing it's always letting us know how the podcast affected her and like her

00:26:50.860 thoughts about it and how it made her feel and uh i'm so grateful for that for sure thank you so

00:26:57.500 much dark link too i'm gonna shout out one more um group that i'm not a part of and then i and

00:27:03.640 that i am actually specifically excluded from but that's okay i'm i'm okay with being excluded from

00:27:10.700 this because uh again it's for black witches and i'm a white person so i get that it's an 0.85

00:27:17.800 It's important for Black Witch University to not be open to me, and I understand why.

00:27:24.700 However, Lakeisha Harris, she has not put any bars on their YouTube videos, of course.

00:27:33.020 You can access all of this information.

00:27:35.040 She's just not going to... 0.97

00:27:36.880 If you're white like me, do not apply to Black Witch University. 0.98

00:27:40.040 You're wasting your time and Lakeisha's time. 0.97

00:27:42.980 Um, but like I say, um, Black Witch Chronicles, Black Witch University on YouTube, on Instagram,

00:27:51.320 uh, on Facebook. Uh, I have gotten so much from these amazing, powerful, inclusive women 1.00

00:27:58.740 who are using, I mean, Lakeisha is, is beyond, she, she works in social justice. She's a full 1.00

00:28:06.740 time amazing

00:28:08.480 never stopping you know 1.00

00:28:10.340 reproductive justice she's 1.00

00:28:12.700 constantly again shout out 1.00

00:28:14.340 Lakeisha Harris if you're listening you amaze

00:28:16.640 me and I'm inspired by you

00:28:17.980 but she still has time

00:28:20.600 to

00:28:21.340 take what she

00:28:24.560 knows and use it to heal

00:28:26.460 people you know and use

00:28:28.560 it to teach people

00:28:29.900 so again

00:28:32.380 if you're white don't apply but definitely 0.86

00:28:34.440 go watch all the YouTube videos I've spent the 0.94

00:28:36.500 last like year or so just catching up on all of the amazing black witch chronicles um so yeah go

00:28:42.700 on youtube we'll i'll link it in the show notes because i really want you guys to just go and

00:28:47.060 watch all of these videos so yeah that's uh one more shout out um for me out to the universe to

00:28:52.560 the witches we've found using technology using the internet thank you so much youtube instagram

00:28:58.560 for just giving us these and of course the people who produce again definitely the people who are

00:29:05.360 producing things you know things and just giving them to us i appreciate so much like sharing your

00:29:12.520 gifts with the world major shout out everybody who's written into us we didn't when amy and i 0.77

00:29:19.060 started talking about this podcast we had no real expectations we were like well we've fucking made 0.54

00:29:24.400 basement art before we don't care if anybody listens like you know i had i had the idea for 0.72

00:29:29.600 the name and the and the writing the histories and amy brought all of these interviews and all

00:29:35.120 of her music and sound and passion it wouldn't have happened otherwise any of it um but uh we

00:29:42.100 were just going to make it for ourselves because we were so stoked at that point we would do the

00:29:45.260 research and well that's like we would call each other on the phone and be like i just found this

00:29:50.760 witch oh my god you have to hear about it like even the ones that we ended up covering yeah you 0.51

00:29:55.140 You know, Lisa's like, okay, this Monica show woman. 1.00

00:29:57.200 So she like took a group of witches to like a church and then sang, you know. 0.99

00:30:01.380 Sang the song.

00:30:02.360 And I was like, what?

00:30:03.420 You know, like shaking on the phone.

00:30:05.260 Like who is it?

00:30:06.040 So we basically just wanted to like share our phone conversations.

00:30:10.560 Yeah.

00:30:11.060 So then to have anybody listen to it or want to be on it.

00:30:14.860 Thank you.

00:30:15.580 Or agree to be on it.

00:30:16.680 Yeah.

00:30:16.900 Agree to be on it more than want to.

00:30:18.800 It's run up our alley.

00:30:19.980 Yeah.

00:30:20.720 It has been crazy.

00:30:21.760 I have an idea for how to end this episode.

00:30:25.140 Great.

00:30:25.460 Can I throw it at you?

00:30:26.260 Yeah.

00:30:27.860 Brainstorm your rituals for tonight, the night this podcast goes live.

00:30:33.520 So Sam Hain.

00:30:34.440 Right.

00:30:35.140 What can people do who listen to this podcast and want to walk out into the world and feel some magic?

00:30:43.160 I love that.

00:30:44.260 Oh, and I'll preface this by saying we're all about the goddess forgives.

00:30:49.880 So if you don't have something we suggest using, if I can make something else up, you're fine.

00:30:55.760 And the goddess also does not want you to spend money that you do not have.

00:30:59.340 No.

00:31:00.120 The goddess does not want you to spend money. 0.99

00:31:02.600 She doesn't have money. 0.99

00:31:04.540 This goddess is broke. 1.00

00:31:06.040 Yeah. 1.00

00:31:06.780 The goddess does not want you to spend money. 0.98

00:31:07.740 Doesn't want you to spend money.

00:31:08.760 And I read a great article on that website this week that was, is your witchcraft a crutch?

00:31:14.620 don't

00:31:16.460 don't use the tools

00:31:19.180 of witchcraft to increase your fear

00:31:21.320 if you did a spell wrong you're not going to

00:31:23.380 get hurt

00:31:23.880 you are your own power

00:31:27.700 you are your power

00:31:29.600 and as

00:31:30.400 with magic

00:31:32.200 as with life your intentions

00:31:35.160 going in are 90%

00:31:36.820 of what

00:31:39.200 comes out

00:31:39.880 if you go in with a loving heart

00:31:42.920 then loving magic will

00:31:44.480 yeah be produced you forget a magical rock at home you're fine yeah all the power is you the

00:31:50.640 magical rock is you you talked about like your your index finger being the best magic wand that

00:31:57.500 you can yeah that you can get your hands on yeah yeah well i'm a scorpio and a burlesque performer

00:32:03.980 so i'm a very sensual goddess like i my rituals are all about like my body outside and in and

00:32:10.860 then connecting with nature so i would prepare a delicious bath full of herbs and oils and some

00:32:17.560 salts that i've got at home um and then i would just like enjoy that and meditate and then i would

00:32:23.560 prepare myself in a nice outfit although in winter that's kind of impossible so i probably won't do

00:32:29.860 that part i'll just wear something warm and then go to the river and meet the river and contemplate

00:32:35.700 under the moon and be gracious and grateful

00:32:37.960 and think about how ISIS suffered

00:32:40.140 and took refuge in the river 1.00

00:32:41.860 with, you know, a wedjet 1.00

00:32:43.980 who I'm actually invoking tonight 1.00

00:32:45.800 the snake goddess, the protector of

00:32:47.860 royals and pharaohs 0.57

00:32:49.600 I will be doing that at Chocolate Jungle

00:32:51.720 and that's

00:32:55.700 my best, my favorite kind of ritual

00:32:57.360 is performance, getting to perform

00:32:59.540 in front of an audience and doing my thing

00:33:01.460 is like totally

00:33:02.840 an ascension for me

00:33:05.100 there's nothing like it. Yeah, I never really saw too much of a difference. I was raised in the

00:33:10.860 church, but I never really saw too much difference between that kind of performance, you know, the

00:33:15.540 pews being the audience, the congregation, and any other kind of person on a stage, you know,

00:33:21.880 so to me it's like a very religious experience to see a performer who moves me, you know, in a

00:33:29.140 religious yes you know kind of way yeah I have been engaging in like a daily one in the kitchen

00:33:43.820 and just keep that going just because these things take time to fully manifest

00:33:52.320 for me anyway I've been putting like cinnamon and cayenne and sugar and everything so I can

00:34:02.880 it's Scorpio season and I am a Gemini with an Aquarius moon and a Virgo rising and dealing

00:34:11.800 so yeah all those spices are to kind of accept and be better equipped to deal with all the

00:34:19.660 roller coasters of life by mixing all the different um sensations so that's kind of been

00:34:27.400 my thing and i'm gonna probably do more of that this evening we talk about this a lot on the

00:34:33.700 instagram is that like not everybody has time or anything resources whatever it takes to do

00:34:40.300 rituals but like you have to eat you have to you know you have to take a shower every now and again

00:34:46.280 so while you're in there maybe like scrub your belly in a clockwise circular motion like take

00:34:52.560 an extra not even an extra two seconds you have to you have to cook food so again maybe just like

00:34:58.140 think about how you're stirring exactly like just think while you're while you're doing all the

00:35:04.760 stuff that like that that's magic yeah just like bringing meaning to your actions yeah

00:35:09.940 consciousness totally i feel like with the recent uh full moon in taurus which like totally

00:35:16.880 highlighted self-care ritual like mandatory you know uh for the season because um like venus is

00:35:24.800 in retrograde so it's just uh everybody is has been encouraged to take time out for themselves

00:35:32.000 through loving their physical self and physical environment but if you're a witch on the go

00:35:39.200 yeah kitchen works you know yeah i just wanted to follow up with that thanks for everybody

00:35:47.000 thanks to the people that have reached out since the missing witches podcast we did um it's been

00:35:53.420 so nice to connect with so many different people that i don't think i would have

00:35:58.060 connected with if i didn't do that podcast or didn't have instagram so thank you you can still

00:36:05.000 find me there um but yeah do you have something uh an update in terms of your contact info for

00:36:11.720 yeah i do um so instagram still is best method i also have a facebook page and i've kind of updated

00:36:18.440 how you can book appointments and things like that or book readings sorry uh with me and there's a

00:36:24.740 website in the works in case somebody missed um your which is fine episode like who are you what

00:36:30.360 are they booking you for sorry hi i'm uh rita i go by uh from rita with love i'm a practice

00:36:38.540 practitioner of divination different forms of divination mostly tarot and desha and getting

00:36:46.100 into coaching which is really been fun so if that sounds interesting to you definitely go check out

00:36:52.640 uh episode two of the missing witches podcast which would be episode one of which is found

00:36:57.700 yeah we made it nice and confusing

00:36:59.600 inclusivity is

00:37:02.380 you know it's hard but it's worth it

00:37:04.060 thank you

00:37:07.280 and I just wanted to

00:37:09.000 when we were talking about

00:37:10.620 Instagram and who we follow

00:37:12.980 or people that

00:37:14.540 we're fans of

00:37:15.780 I read a lot of Mirka Ball Light

00:37:18.660 healing

00:37:19.100 her name is Chelsea 0.99

00:37:21.660 and her posts are like

00:37:24.600 readings to my soul

00:37:26.020 She's very Merkabal, light healing.

00:37:32.160 Yeah, she's great.

00:37:33.120 Her posts are so current with the transitions and the feelings,

00:37:40.600 collective feelings at hand.

00:37:43.280 They've been really great to read every day.

00:37:45.560 Yeah, thanks.

00:37:46.920 I have a story.

00:37:48.140 Oh, yay!

00:37:49.940 So when I was like five, this story was told to me by my dad.

00:37:53.780 So a grain of salt.

00:37:56.020 um because his memory but he told me that when i was five i like woke him up in the middle of the

00:38:02.560 night to insist that he call his mom because she was sick in hospital um and he was like

00:38:11.240 or maybe i don't know if she was sick anyway and i just wouldn't go to bed and he just like

00:38:17.180 was like no you need to go to sleep it's like four in the morning like she's definitely not calling

00:38:21.260 like just go to sleep and i just like wouldn't and eventually i did but he got the phone call

00:38:28.040 in the morning that she had passed in the night and so like yeah that's the story of like my

00:38:34.520 psychic ability that like i was told because i'm i'm kind of like yeah like there's a lot of self

00:38:41.860 doubt definitely that that makes it so that i'm not so in touch as i could be with my psychic

00:38:48.800 i mean it doesn't help that people will tell you you're crazy exactly so i'm getting back in touch 0.83

00:38:53.220 but that story kind of reminds me that like oh shit like my my grandma was like connected to 0.98

00:38:59.620 me and she like used me to like connect with my dad one last time before she left this plane you 0.98

00:39:05.540 know well we all have been in our grandmother's wombs you know like that's we were there we were

00:39:14.760 literally there you know so i don't think it's so crazy to think that when we're kids or when we

00:39:21.620 quiet our minds if there's a strong emotion that that current moves i just don't think that that's

00:39:28.540 so crazy call me crazy but do you as an adult do you experience this ever or is it that kind of

00:39:35.480 thing that goes away with childhood i think i smoke too much weed now so i i don't have like

00:39:41.760 as much dreams and stuff?

00:39:43.640 Totally.

00:39:44.340 Can I put,

00:39:46.840 I totally,

00:39:48.020 what you just said,

00:39:48.860 can connect.

00:39:49.780 I found that having like

00:39:51.400 physical belongings

00:39:53.840 of those that pass

00:39:55.580 has been so comforting

00:39:57.280 and connecting with them.

00:39:59.180 Because I,

00:40:01.180 my thoughts cycle

00:40:01.920 are everywhere sometimes

00:40:03.340 and it's hard

00:40:04.360 and stressful times

00:40:05.460 when we want to connect

00:40:06.360 with our ancestors

00:40:07.420 or people that have passed.

00:40:09.920 And more recently,

00:40:11.020 I was raised by my aunt for a large part of my life

00:40:15.080 and like wrapping my head in her scarf

00:40:18.520 or wearing something of hers has been so comforting

00:40:23.400 that it's really like a blanket on my heart sometimes

00:40:26.920 to try to connect with her, especially in those times

00:40:32.440 where you need to, and they're there.

00:40:34.460 like you you know if you I feel like my dreams have changed on so many different levels recently

00:40:42.180 that you know yeah and speaking of like clothes being imbued with like meaning and magic because

00:40:48.820 that's that really struck me about your story when my mom had a portent premonition that her

00:40:55.560 son was going to die she had a dream where she was being chased and saw the image of her son

00:41:02.060 in the water and it was my my brother's sin like Hisham um but he he was like in like a smaller

00:41:11.100 body and then the next day my other brother Adam insisted on wearing Hisham's swimsuit like it was 0.65

00:41:19.020 like he never does that like he never wears other people's swimsuit he's actually really picky

00:41:22.940 but that day he just threw a big tantrum and my mom had to dress him in Hisham's swimsuit

00:41:29.340 and she thinks that he took Hisham's like death knoll he like replaced him at the last minute and

00:41:37.900 she saw him drown and he did drown sorry about this no trick warning at all no I'm so sorry

00:41:46.740 it's very psychic yes yeah I did he was born and this is like freaky he was he died a year

00:41:56.520 before i was born like to the day like maybe the day he died in six i'm born on the fifth

00:42:03.320 and i was like the last who were off for my parents so like it was kind of a miracle that

00:42:08.940 i was born wow wow so you never met him no i never met him like you might have the same soul

00:42:15.260 yeah wow yeah yeah and and my dad like always thinks about that moment because he he had my

00:42:23.760 mom had three kids three boys and so they really wanted a girl they wanted a girl right away

00:42:28.520 um so like after the third boy he was kind of like oh my god i wish she was a girl and then

00:42:33.680 he thinks that like god took him away to punish him but then i was born so it's like this weird

00:42:39.180 thing where the universe just gives and takes and like you don't have a control you don't have a

00:42:44.740 plan and you just have to kind of like trust and mom is in touch she can like she can she's in

00:42:51.440 touch she's focused yeah she sees the signs yeah yeah i feel like growing up in that culture you're

00:43:01.620 like trained to recognize the signs um just dreaming about death you know of someone close to

00:43:08.140 you um sorry with this aunt you know it's like three days in a row i dreamt of her in the same

00:43:14.740 house and in my culture dreaming of someone in red means like they're in power and I remember

00:43:22.980 two of the dreams about her was like me walking up the stairs and her asleep alone in a bedroom

00:43:29.580 and my little brother being like hey you know come downstairs like we're all leaving and

00:43:35.020 that means like alone to sleep is like dead you know or since death and then the other dream was

00:43:44.420 this she's wearing she looked sad and wore this black dress with a tiny red block in the middle

00:43:52.960 and it was a stripe and then by the end of the dream it was block which meant that she was

00:43:58.460 leaving you know and then I think maybe the third dream was I used to sleep on her belly she had a

00:44:05.840 big belly and I used to sleep on it I still have to sleep on like three pillows and break my neck

00:44:11.380 because of it but I used to do that I was I was with her all the time um yeah and uh and in my

00:44:19.840 dream I think I was trying to and calling for her name and she kept saying like stay

00:44:26.540 and uh and then she passed um and I I thought it's like I don't know it gives me so much peace

00:44:35.700 to like know that people can dream about that because that's how connected you still are with

00:44:41.840 this person it's beyond physical realm you know clothes are just something like a window it's

00:44:48.200 something you can hold on to for your at the time scattered brain to want to really connect

00:44:53.320 if you think about dna the fact that our saliva contains all the information about us or like

00:44:59.120 one little tiny speck of our skin contains all the information required to like make

00:45:05.320 copy of us you know so something that's been on someone and breathed on by them even it's

00:45:12.220 yeah i gotta go feed the baby but you can hear her squeaking in the background

00:45:20.560 she's been very patient but i'll say this i had a dream after my grandfather died right after and

00:45:27.980 it was a room in a house that i dream of all the time that doesn't exist in real life and i walked

00:45:33.600 in and I saw him there and he was so happy and I sat at a table with him for hours and he talked

00:45:39.660 and told me stories but I couldn't understand the language he was speaking but I laughed and I knew

00:45:46.120 that he was well and he was happy and the room was full of light so I now I'll say also here's

00:45:52.740 my suggestion for your ritual for tonight have a beautiful night have a beautiful October 31st

00:46:00.320 If you can be outside, even for a little bit, if you can be near trees, if you can be in

00:46:06.640 the wind, know that they're for you, they're there for you.

00:46:11.760 And the same stars and the same Venus going forward or backward was there when your ancestors

00:46:19.400 were there and they're there for you.

00:46:21.760 So talk to them out loud if you can.

00:46:24.320 And of course, the moon is free to observe.

00:46:26.680 there's no ticket price to go and stare at that beautiful moon yeah so i'm gonna wrap this up by

00:46:34.600 saying happy halloween do not fear the dead listen for the messages that they're sending

00:46:40.480 us in our dreams and in our lives they're nothing to be afraid of they're guiding us

00:46:45.460 every moment and watch for the signs can we all agree

00:46:49.280 and you are your own magic rock

00:46:53.140 you are your own

00:46:55.340 time oh and there she goes 1.00

00:46:57.340 happy Halloween

00:46:58.780 we'll see you next season

00:47:01.340 see you next spring for season 2

00:47:03.480 of the Missing Witches podcast

00:47:05.060 and Witches found we love you guys

00:47:06.900 thank you Missing Witches

00:47:19.280 I'm making magic with a mic in my hand.

00:47:24.540 My magic wand is a pen on the stand.

00:47:29.860 My name's La Bruja, from which it stands.

00:47:32.380 A little girl with big dreams down these streets so mean.

00:47:35.160 She believed that her destiny meant she'd succeed.

00:47:37.740 And even though the odds seemed, they were stacked up against her.

00:47:40.800 Few people could see what she had in her center.

00:47:43.080 Her mental capacity was exposed to tragedy.

00:47:45.980 Surviving the insanity as strong as she had to be.

00:47:48.740 Her crew and family believed in her too

00:47:50.940 Underground is where she grew boogie down

00:47:53.060 Sound view

00:47:53.720 Where teachers wouldn't recognize her as a real writer

00:47:56.400 But deep down inside her

00:47:57.900 A magical fire

00:47:59.100 Burned and devoured the negative around her

00:48:01.880 The voice from inside her was louder than the doubters

00:48:04.520 So she remained empowered

00:48:05.860 Blossomed like a flower

00:48:07.160 So tall as a tower 0.99

00:48:08.480 Amongst monies and cowards 0.71

00:48:09.860 That all would give a pound at the witching hour

00:48:12.400 Cause she wouldn't give up and now she couldn't be prouder 1.00

00:48:15.220 They wanted her fame when she earned the name. 0.97

00:48:39.200 They wanted to bling.

00:48:40.680 She just wanted to sing.

00:48:42.140 They wanted things selling out for their dreams.

00:48:44.540 She wanted peace and love for human beings 0.88

00:48:47.200 They wanted something they could pump in the truck

00:48:49.780 She wanted something that was honest from the gut 0.99

00:48:52.420 They wanted something that the kids would repeat

00:48:55.020 She wanted something to instill some belief 1.00

00:48:57.800 Said she couldn't cut it, said that she was too deep

00:49:00.380 And all that consciousness would put people to sleep

00:49:02.980 Some dreams were shot down as they tried to deceive her

00:49:05.800 She had plans for big things, but they wouldn't believe her

00:49:08.420 They told her that they doubted that she would ever achieve it

00:49:11.120 Now those very same people couldn't be any sweeter

00:49:13.700 It wasn't easy either, but if you're a true believer, you could be or inspire a future world leader.

00:49:19.480 Porque la bruja, porque la bruja, una bruja buena poeta su bandera.

00:49:24.900 Porque la bruja, porque la bruja, con el amor y la abuela.

00:49:29.980 Porque la bruja, porque la bruja, no me la bruja de la abuela.

00:49:32.700 My magic wand is a pen, understand?

00:49:35.480 Porque la bruja, porque la bruja, una poeta su bandera.

00:49:40.260 I wrote my name on the open mic, Mr. Stitt, it was a lunar eclipse, it was 1996, April 3rd, my spoken word, the first time was heard, and I emerged as a Nuyorican poet, I didn't even have a flow yet, Barbito hosted, the seed was planted since then, I just had to grow it from the time I was five, when I learned to recite from my mom, who herself couldn't read or even write, she was my beacon of light, she changed the course of my life, she saw my mom become a wife on Halloween night, so no, I don't kill chickens or do brutal pinsticking,

00:50:09.740 And my mission isn't wicked

00:50:11.060 Superstition or wicked

00:50:12.480 No Spanish inquisition

00:50:13.800 Spooky premonitions 0.99

00:50:15.120 No treating, no tricking

00:50:16.480 It's just oral tradition

00:50:17.760 I only spell with words

00:50:19.260 Verbal incantations

00:50:20.600 It's O10

00:50:21.320 So don't ask me again

00:50:22.500 What the name is

00:50:23.280 Porque la bruja

00:50:24.440 Porque la bruja 0.99

00:50:25.960 Porque la bruja 0.99

00:50:28.560 Porque la bruja

00:50:31.240 Mira porque así 0.78

00:50:32.320 Mira porque así la bruja 0.97

00:50:33.880 Porque la bruja 0.97

00:50:35.140 Porque la bruja 0.99

00:50:36.500 Esa soy yo 1.00

00:50:37.780 Yo soy la bruja

00:50:39.240 Why the bruit, why the bruit?

00:50:41.680 I have to ask you why the rain, why the bruit?

00:50:47.240 The autumn of this summer, I'm the brown hot

00:50:50.160 Why the bruit, why the bruit?

00:50:52.400 I will take you here

00:50:55.140 Why the bruit? Why the bruit?

00:50:58.160 Thanks, grand brother, thank you

00:51:00.620 Why the bruit? Why the bruit?

00:51:03.100 Hey, you're the bruit 0.99

00:51:05.960 Why the bruit? Why the bruit?

00:51:09.240 Ah, ah, ah, ah

00:51:11.240 Porque la bruja, porque la bruja

00:51:13.700 Porque sí, porque sí, no pregunten más

00:51:16.380 Porque la bruja 0.86

Missing Witches - October 31, 2018

Missing Witches： Witches Found - Samhain with Reeta and Phoenix

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