Missing Witches - MW Rx. 18 - Missing Witches Prescription with Risa + Amy

00:00:00.000 The spirit is rising, she's rising, she's rising. The spirit is rising, it's rising, it's rising.

00:00:10.340 The spirit is rising, they're rising, they're rising. The spirit is rising.

00:00:17.900 Hi Risa! Hi Aria! Hi Coven! Hi listeners! Hi flowers! Hi little bugs still sleeping but

00:00:28.840 starting to awaken hello and I tell you that you know every winter I fear that my plum trees won't

00:00:38.600 survive and so far fingers crossed like every year they get these little tiny green tiny budlets and

00:00:45.700 I'm like oh my god it's happening and then and then like three days later they're like leafy

00:00:51.160 they're amazing you're amazing did you know that you're amazing take your time

00:00:57.140 we have all along the side of the road this year we have this plant I don't know its scientific

00:01:04.220 name we call it horsetail but it starts out looking like brown asparagus and I think in

00:01:09.960 some parts of the world it's like very delicious and sought after and eaten and it's not really

00:01:15.500 eaten here but we're going to investigate it but then it turns into this like it looks like a tall

00:01:21.220 green horse tail I guess and uh and Mark was telling me it's like one of the most ancient

00:01:29.200 plants still alive and they're just here they're just like hanging out by the side of the road

00:01:35.160 like these many many hundreds of millions of year old plants are just like hey we still hang out

00:01:41.400 we're still surviving yeah we hope yeah and it it makes me wonder about like seasonal affective

00:01:49.720 disorder and how much of that is just like you are meant to operate differently during the winter

00:01:55.380 than you are during the spring summer and fall but you know our our society won't allow for that

00:02:00.680 so maybe if we could just sleep for a couple months at a time then we could come back for

00:02:05.500 millions and millions and millions of years yes so this brings me to one of my personal prescriptions

00:02:12.240 this is the missing witches prescription we give each other songs ideas spells tools words for how

00:02:21.380 we're surviving this week right now we hope that they offer you something some magic some courage

00:02:28.640 some fury some rest as well my prescription this week is daffodils and i have two daffodil songs

00:02:35.340 we have these daffodils they come back we never planted them technically i think our zone is too

00:02:44.640 far north for them or we're right on the edge but they come back they come back every year

00:02:51.320 they're perennials so i was reading about perennials so annuals they give their whole

00:02:59.360 life to make a seed right to make a fruit and a seed and they hope that that seed carries on

00:03:04.500 their life and then the plant dies perennials they let whole parts of themselves die so that

00:03:13.400 their roots can continue to live down in the dirt under the snow buried down not least of how they

00:03:23.460 do it is they move water out of their cells they bring sugar into the hearts of their cells and it

00:03:33.360 acts like an antifreeze keeps them from freezing and they move we don't even understand how they

00:03:38.960 move the water out of their cells so that the water doesn't expand as it freezes and destroy

00:03:45.540 their cells right so then they store the water outside the cells and then in the spring

00:03:49.860 they slowly reabsorb it and come back to life so I just want to remind myself and so every time

00:04:01.820 I've been in the car this week the Florence and the Machine song daffodil comes on it makes me

00:04:07.400 so happy it goes so hard it goes so hard and she says uh I drank all the sky that I could

00:04:19.560 made myself mythical tried to be real saw the future in the face of a daffodil

00:04:26.160 and so that's one side i think of the daffodil prescription it's like drinking the sky it's like

00:04:35.400 and then it goes so hard as i saw the future in the face of a 0.82

00:04:40.760 so good yeah it goes really hard it's like these yellow faces coming up like insisting on the 0.99

00:04:50.820 future but then the other daffodil song is the cranberries daffodil lament which is like 1.00

00:04:59.360 considered by many people to be a song about suicide but it's not that clear because she says

00:05:07.680 I have decided I won't sing this part because I can't do it right but I've decided to leave

00:05:11.860 you forever but then she also says I've decided to start things from here thunder and lightning

00:05:19.160 won't change what I'm feeling and the daffodils look lovely today remember that song no the

00:05:28.460 cranberries you said yeah yeah it was on it was I think I had two cranberries albums that I listened

00:05:34.520 to over and over again and I don't think it was a radio one because it's like a six minute song

00:05:38.760 um it's a it's sort of a real sad ramble of a song and so beautiful but then it has this like

00:05:46.640 bright moment in the middle where it's like I've decided to leave you and I'm starting from here

00:05:51.780 and the daffodils look lovely today and it just makes me think of like

00:05:56.880 shedding and like what are we leaving behind there's a word in French so débarrasser like

00:06:05.820 there isn't really quite an equivalent that has that great shaking sound in it you know it's like

00:06:11.380 to get rid of is not quite as fun as to

00:06:13.380 se debarrassing 0.99

00:06:14.460 we're shaking some shit off 0.98

00:06:17.620 we're leaving some things 0.97

00:06:19.300 forever it's a slow process

00:06:21.400 you know we've been holding our little

00:06:23.260 sugars in our hearts but now we're letting the water

00:06:25.360 back in we're letting each other

00:06:27.340 back in slowly 0.97

00:06:29.000 don't fucking rush this season 0.96

00:06:31.040 and 0.98

00:06:33.460 you know when you need a hope for the future

00:06:35.560 look in the face of a

00:06:37.400 daffodil

00:06:37.840 of course you've

00:06:41.180 You've given me a perfect segue for my prescription for this week about shedding and letting go because I wanted to bring Tanya Tagak to the prescription, of course, because I want to talk about our fundraiser and I wanted to bring in an Indigenous artist to this circle.

00:07:04.600 um so i'll tell you about the song in a second but i also brought a story about shedding and

00:07:11.620 for those of you who have read our first book you kind of already know this story that like i i left

00:07:17.580 my hometown because something bad happened and i basically was like this is not my story

00:07:23.240 so i need to change this story and i i got right to work about making plans to change my life you

00:07:29.700 and I moved to Montreal I knew one person so I had one friend in the city and he took me to this

00:07:39.200 party I had been living in the city for maybe a month and he took me to this party and he was like

00:07:44.640 see that woman over there that's Tanya she's a throat singer and she just recently worked with

00:07:51.500 Bjork and I I met her and she wouldn't remember this you know I do but she wouldn't because it

00:07:57.460 was like hi I'm Amy hi I'm Tanya and then that was the end of the thing but I remember being in 0.88

00:08:03.040 that moment like I'm at a party with a fucking throat singer who just finished working with Bjork 0.76

00:08:10.640 and I'm at this party and I remember having this sense of like utter validation like the universe 0.99

00:08:19.700 is telling you that you did the right thing you shed what needed to be shed in order to come to

00:08:26.100 this better place for you and your story and here is some validation and so I thought about that as

00:08:33.840 opposed to like where I was before and what I was doing before and how that thing that happened was

00:08:39.460 one of the worst things that ever happened to me but I wasn't embittered by it I really looked at 0.99

00:08:46.680 it like this is a symptom of my life and so I need to change my life it was a kick in the ass it was 0.99

00:08:53.520 the ultimate kick in the ass to go and do what needed to be done and then when I went and did 0.97

00:08:59.940 what needed to be done I got this amazing amazing message from the universe of like you are in the 0.98

00:09:07.820 spot that you need to be in right now and I remember so many times in my life before that like

00:09:13.700 when something cool would happen wouldn't even necessarily like rejoice I would just be like I

00:09:19.400 don't deserve this or or okay well what's going to go bad now or or all of all of these negative

00:09:26.160 thoughts that come you know with when good things happen and when bad things happen

00:09:30.160 but I want everybody who's listening like when something super rad happens I want you to just

00:09:38.480 like take a moment and be like I'm in the right place at the right time and this whatever it is

00:09:44.660 this little bird that like landed just in the most perfect beautiful little spot whatever it is like

00:09:52.280 don't brush it off don't ignore it don't try to negatorize it

00:09:58.640 um like say thank you universe and keep going keep going on that path because you're on the

00:10:05.880 right path now tanya tagak i brought a song of experience and a song of innocence so we'll get

00:10:13.820 to Innocence because I really want to start that party too but there's a live performance that

00:10:19.460 Tanya did of her song Retribution and obviously we'll link this it's this particular performance

00:10:28.000 of it is like largely improvised it's so heavy and if you really just want to like sit down and

00:10:35.520 and soil and root and then I recommend it but I want to read some lyrics and remind you that

00:10:43.280 our fundraiser is still going strong. Make your donation of $10 or more to the Native Women

00:10:47.380 Shelter of Montreal or to your local Native Indigenous support organization. Send us a

00:10:54.300 screenshot of the receipt and be entered to win wonderful prizes. Retribution, Tanya Tagak.

00:11:00.700 Our mother grows angry. Retribution will be swift. We squander her soil and suck out her sweet black

00:11:09.480 blood to burn it. We turn money into God and salivate over opportunities to crumple and 1.00

00:11:17.220 crinkle, crinkle our souls for that paper, that gold. Money has spent us, left us in smog,

00:11:27.420 blocks in dark. Room is bright, screams empty to us, left investing time, hollow philosophies.

00:11:37.320 to placate the fear of our bodies returning back to our mother demand awakening the path we have

00:11:46.980 taken has rotted ignite stand upright conduct yourself like lightning because the retribution

00:11:56.620 will be swift 0.96

00:11:58.680 so thank you tanya tagak for being fucking rad and then now i'm gonna absolutely switch gears 0.95

00:12:07.700 because i want to start this party one of our coven mates said something on our on our coven 0.89

00:12:14.580 circle um if you're a member of this coven i hope you'll join us in that circle at coven.missingwitches.com

00:12:20.720 anyway um they said you know who you are so i'm not going to name name your name the room closet

00:12:28.920 is a very real thing and one of our covenmates said that the the prescription inspired them to

00:12:36.440 add more joyful upbeat music to their listening rotation which has led to adorable family dance

00:12:43.860 parties and then later they said dancing hasn't been super comfy for me since i was a teen

00:12:49.740 etc etc etc and i told them i'm going to respond to this in the prescription because i want every

00:12:55.920 single person in this coven or in our in our listening universe um to hear what i have to say

00:13:03.700 about this um there's a movie called the banger sisters and it's super cute and if you haven't

00:13:09.900 seen it i mean it's not going to change your life or anything but it's super cute susan sarandon and

00:13:14.080 Goldie Hawn play these like aged out groupies. And one of them has like stayed, Goldie Hawn has

00:13:20.740 stayed bartending, you know, in LA. And the other one has moved to the suburbs and all her clothes 0.97

00:13:25.100 are beige. And then Goldie Hawn shows up. And Goldie Hawn is telling Susan Sarandon's kids 0.82

00:13:32.980 about what their mom used to be like and that she would dance. And one of the kids says,

00:13:43.140 our mother our mother's a really really really bad dancer and Goldie Hawn replies well that was

00:13:52.060 what was so really really really genius about it you didn't care what anyone thought did you babe

00:13:58.840 so for the prescription I brought motherfucking cool in the gang I brought get down on it how

00:14:06.780 are you gonna do it if you really won't take a chance by standing on the wall get your back up 0.94

00:14:11.420 off the wall and get down on it you can be a really really really bad dancer and that's what's

00:14:18.520 so really really really genius about it yay uh get down on it belongs on the spring prescription

00:14:29.000 that's rad i'm gonna get down on it all day yeah because it's it's a song about like people who

00:14:37.680 were afraid to dance and cool and cool's gang as well are are telling us like how are you gonna do

00:14:45.020 it if you don't take a chance like how are you gonna do it if you don't leave your hometown when 0.99

00:14:49.820 fucking horrible shit happens and move to a city where you know one person yes how are you gonna 0.99

00:14:54.540 do it if you really don't take a chance by standing on the wall no get your back up off the 1.00

00:15:00.460 get down on it and i i want you to have oh let me let me just say this one more time

00:15:08.660 i want you to have adorable family dance parties and i want that to be a part of like re-enchanting

00:15:18.060 the world and and you know my family my spouse is gone like 14 hours a day so my family dance 0.96

00:15:25.980 parties are often me and my dog and she's a great fucking dancer she's really really really bad at 0.93

00:15:31.400 it but that's what's so really really really genius you can have a family dance party with 0.96

00:15:38.100 like the spirits that inhabit you know your mind or your altar or your space or like actually with

00:15:45.560 your kids you know our coven mate was saying like she could see the joy that it was bringing to her

00:15:52.780 children and that was like exponentially joyful you know her own joy and remembering her own

00:16:01.840 childhood when she was really really genius because she didn't care what anybody thought

00:16:07.540 you know right right just to bring it back to that previous metaphor because I'm really stuck

00:16:12.820 thinking about it but it's like how do we move our sugars and our waters around our body you know

00:16:18.940 like to protect ourselves when it's cold but also to flourish like move to new places let parts die

00:16:26.400 like let whole selves go but then protect that part of yourself that's really really really 0.80

00:16:33.120 genius and go fucking shake it somewhere where you belong you know I really and it is re-enchantment

00:16:40.200 magic it really is and I'm so glad that you brought up daffodils and I'm even gladder that 0.98

00:16:47.300 i happen to have a copy of new moon magic sitting next to me because um i wanted to read something

00:16:54.380 that you made me think of from the chapter about the garden goddess painter global activist and

00:17:00.420 dharma gardener mayumi oda says the dharma wheel turns and turns creating changing every moment

00:17:07.680 yet continuing why do we think we are different from plants

00:17:12.760 and then we continue the garden teaches us that we are not science tells us that we are not

00:17:22.180 we share 50 of our dna with trees 25 with daffodils and in moments of doubt i return

00:17:31.680 to this thought i am half tree one quarter daffodil and 100 witch 0.99

00:17:42.760 I mean, bless the fucking bee. 1.00

00:17:45.180 And bless the fucking bee. 1.00

00:17:48.700 The world's taken to me, and my life is all to me. 0.99

00:17:54.960 I love myself and all of me.

00:17:57.960 I love myself and all of me, all of me.

00:18:01.860 I love myself and all of me.

00:18:04.460 Love myself and all of me.

00:18:06.820 I love, I love, I love myself and all of me.

00:18:10.920 Hi, folks. It's Risa and Amy here from Missing Witches, inviting you to get involved in our

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00:18:24.540 wherever you live. We have a ridiculously fun witchy heap of prizes donated by a whole community

00:18:31.740 of folks joining together to make a magical wave of reparations magic. There's a prize pack from

00:18:37.960 jinx monsoon a one-on-one tarot session with sarah goddess diner magic classes from pam grossman

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00:18:52.540 books and so much more make a donation to your local indigenous support org or the native women's

00:19:00.140 shelter of montreal and then just forward the receipt to missingwitches at gmail.com with the

00:19:04.460 subject line reparations before may 31st for every 10 you donate you'll get one entry into the draw 0.95

00:19:10.980 check out all the details at missingwitches.com slash reparations and uh blessed fucking be 0.97

Missing Witches - May 15, 2023

MW Rx. 18 - Missing Witches Prescription with Risa + Amy

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