Missing Witches - MW Rx. 58 - I Rock, I Roll, I Bloom, I Grow, I Glow

00:00:00.840 The Missing Witches podcast follows the wheel of the year, with true histories of real witches in the autumn, and meditations on kinship with the more-than-human world in the spring.

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00:00:19.900 Join us as we change with the seasons, but always return to our roots.

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00:00:33.140 The spirit is rising, she's rising, she's rising.

00:00:37.220 The spirit is rising, it's rising, it's rising.

00:00:42.140 The spirit is rising.

00:00:43.360 I think it was Risa.

00:00:44.840 It is Risa.

00:00:46.700 Hi.

00:00:48.220 Hi.

00:00:49.740 I just wanted to join quickly because I just got the call that I've been waiting for for three weeks

00:00:56.680 that my ct scan came back negative so it's not stage four it's a considered a curable cancer

00:01:05.280 and my brca test came back negative so my daughter won't have this cancer gene and my sisters don't

00:01:14.240 have to go get their breasts taken off preemptively and i just just got the call now and then i saw

00:01:19.640 that it was time for the rx and i just wanted to share it with you and thank you so much to the

00:01:24.400 people who've been thinking of me and sending me your magic and I just wanted to tell you first 0.93

00:01:30.020 because I just found out well listeners welcome to the motherfucking missing witch's prescription 0.95

00:01:36.140 Risa is now weeping and laughing at the same time which you know as Dolly Parton said in 0.97

00:01:47.100 Steel Magnolias laughter through tears is one of our favorite emotions um are you gonna stick

00:01:53.400 around for a bit research you need to drop out and go like jump in a lake and run in the woods

00:01:57.560 and i will drop up but i i did want to share one mini prescription and then i can't wait to hear

00:02:02.760 what heather shares i'm so happy to see you here heather you love and amy too um i was speaking to

00:02:09.740 amy yesterday i think although time is a blur and i've been so so panicked the mounting panic

00:02:18.260 of waiting for this test you know thinking about it has been so hard and um I told Amy I think I've

00:02:26.000 read like 12 true crime not true crime like crime novels in the last like three weeks and watched

00:02:33.240 like 1700 hours of Brit Box crime mostly Vera if you if you've watched Vera she there's a moment

00:02:41.900 in Vera where she's this sort of like fat brilliant detective inspector British northern

00:02:48.080 England and she walks up to this Rowan tree and the person she's with says oh like a Rowan tree

00:02:55.440 these used to be planted to keep away witches and she's like well it's not working is it I'm here

00:03:00.080 aren't I there's several very witchy moments of this like very practical inspector but I said

00:03:08.080 that to Amy I said I don't even know why I'm sort of obsessively in I can't read anything else I 0.80

00:03:13.480 can't really do anything else I'm not doing drag race even like some of my joys are just not hitting

00:03:18.240 right now and Amy said I get it I mean everything's resolved at the end they solve it

00:03:24.780 Matt has very much landed with me and is very much why I've been there and I'm gonna stay there

00:03:34.540 for a little while um and so that's my prescription if you're feeling like you don't know how it all

00:03:41.740 ends these days, which I think in so many spheres, we have that feeling, then I recommend a crime

00:03:50.340 novel or a British procedural, something where they solve it all at the end to help you remember

00:03:57.960 that that can happen. And I love you guys. And thank you so much. And thank you to the Covenant

00:04:03.300 for that document. I forgot it was there. And then I stumbled back into it when Amy reminded

00:04:08.460 me it was there and there was just so much love and wisdom in there from my coven so thank you

00:04:13.060 guys I am gonna go jump in a lake you go jump in the lake and I will introduce Heather we love you

00:04:19.840 Risa thanks for jumping in and giving us that amazing news I know that we are feeling so boosted

00:04:25.540 to hear we're so happy for you and relieved and so fucking relieved to hear it you go jump in the

00:04:32.100 lake we love you and with that risa has dropped off to go jump in a lake and i am joined by 0.95

00:04:40.960 wiping a single tear away from her eye heather darby de marco of wild moon charm school heather

00:04:49.980 has been such an amazing leader in our coven and always donates a prize to our fundraisers we're 0.98

00:04:56.620 just so lucky to have you as part of our little witch gang, Heather. And thank you for joining me

00:05:02.600 today on the Missing Witches Prescription. Thank you so much for having me. I love that

00:05:08.440 Risa popped on and we're all crying laughing because it's joy and sad. And that is the perfect

00:05:16.160 thing we're going to talk about today. So I love when spirit just moves us together in the way that

00:05:21.900 is undeniably true you know and it's happening already right now did you bring a prescription

00:05:28.100 for the missing reaches coven today oh yes so our prescription is bittersweet hi we were just

00:05:35.320 talking about this my prescription today for us for the coven um and pretty much for all the

00:05:40.780 listeners i hope is surrendering to nostalgia oh yeah it's a big one for me um i have two

00:05:51.740 songs, but I think I want to set it up a little if that's okay. Please do. So the turn of the

00:05:59.880 wheel, like as we move from midsummer into late summer slash early harvest is when I always feel

00:06:08.440 nostalgic. I feel the most kind of moved by scenes where I have been there in the past and I'm there

00:06:16.720 again and it happens when I'm like harvesting tomatoes or picking berries or cutting herbs

00:06:22.600 it just happens in this way that I'm working outside and I I have a feeling and the feeling

00:06:29.640 is always oh this is this is the kind of the end this is where the vines start to dry up

00:06:37.660 this is when the flowers start to droop and fall off there's this kind of lusciousness of the peak

00:06:45.340 of summer that we've already passed because it's past midsummer and we're going, the nights are

00:06:51.660 getting darker. The night lengthens and we start to hear those night sounds. Um, in central Ohio,

00:06:57.860 we definitely hear that. I know not everyone gets to hear those sounds, but for me, they are like

00:07:03.100 a symphony of nostalgia. I can remember the windows being open and hearing those sounds my

00:07:10.260 whole life. And so like when you notice the plants that are all juicy and the fruit and everything

00:07:18.180 you're picking and harvesting and eating and juices flying everywhere, you're also seeing what died on

00:07:24.100 the vine, you know, what fruits didn't make it, what plants didn't come to harvest. And so there's

00:07:30.480 always this like tug for me of like, yay, we have everything in abundance right now. And it feels so

00:07:36.580 juicy and summery and alive but then it's also like there's this kind of crushing feeling that

00:07:45.200 you know it has to end so my songs are rem you are the everything from the green album in 1988

00:07:57.100 that song starts with night sounds and I remember the first time I heard it probably in 1988 or

00:08:05.320 1989. And I remember thinking that's exactly how I feel. And there's a line in the song where he

00:08:12.940 says, eviscerate your memory. And I was like a teenager and I'm like, what the hell does that

00:08:18.000 mean? But now I know what it means, right? You're like, this isn't about the memory. It's about the

00:08:24.720 feeling. The feeling that you're lying in the backseat. These are some of the lyrics and the

00:08:31.440 windows wrap around. And the stars are the greatest thing you've ever seen. And they are

00:08:38.980 there for you. For you alone, you are the everything.

00:09:01.440 it's the moment when you know that you're like part of something that's bigger and majestic

00:09:12.160 without being royalty and that you are part of something massive and shiny and that kind of

00:09:19.580 spins again and again that you'll come back to being in the stars you'll come back to being

00:09:25.360 everything. The stars are shining alone for you in that moment. And we know it's not true. Like

00:09:31.740 we love science. So the stars are shining for everyone equally all the time. But in that moment,

00:09:37.360 you get to connect to that spirit of this is happening right now. It may or may not ever

00:09:43.980 happen again, even though you know it will. And it's that way we kiss summer goodbye. You know,

00:09:50.100 we go back to school, we do all these things that the fall brings. And it's that moment.

00:09:56.600 I love that song. And I hope you could play the night sounds. I don't know. We'll see.

00:10:02.460 The other song is John Prine knocking at your screen door.

00:10:07.680 It's from the tree of forgiveness album that came out in 2018. I think it was his last record

00:10:14.700 before he passed in 2020, I remember listening to it and thinking, man, this is really good for

00:10:22.580 this old guy who's made so many really good records. And I heard this song and it just

00:10:29.140 took me all the way through time to every screen door in my life, which has been a lot.

00:10:38.000 And he says, I can see your back porch. If I close my eyes now, I can hear the train tracks

00:10:44.060 running through the laundry on the line.

00:10:46.600 I'm thinking it's your business,

00:10:48.300 but you don't got to answer.

00:10:50.120 I'm knocking at your screen door in the summertime.

00:10:53.920 It's just the sound.

00:10:55.420 I can hear the train track

00:10:59.060 through the laundry on the mat.

00:11:02.160 I'm thinking it's your business,

00:11:05.220 but you don't got to answer.

00:11:08.000 I'm knocking on your screen door

00:11:10.040 in the summertime.

00:11:11.840 And there's something so wonderful and like metaphorical about the notion of a screen door that lets the fresh air in, but like keeps the bugs out.

00:11:25.740 And how can we kind of cultivate that like screen door-ness in our lives where we can be open enough to invite the good stuff in, but screened enough to keep the bad stuff out?

00:11:41.840 Yeah, it's like every day in our work as witches, kind of building a sieve for ourselves. And that's what being bittersweet, the feeling of bittersweetness kind of is, right? It's laughing and crying at the same time. It's kind of allowing in something that's joyous that you want, like fresh air and night sounds and cicadas and crickets.

00:12:05.680 but it's also not allowing in the mosquitoes you know it's also feeling sad that it's going to end

00:12:12.360 it's kind of the mixture of allowing both things to happen at the same time yeah i will say that

00:12:19.620 um if you are a member of the coven and you're not active in our coven space heather hosts a

00:12:25.460 monthly tarot workshop i guess i'll say workshop we say practice practice yeah practice um so if

00:12:34.120 you're not using that coven space like you're really only getting half the story um so definitely

00:12:40.240 come and check that out i also brought um seeds and flowers of course um in the form of tyler the

00:12:51.700 creator his album flower boy i brought the record in case but you know heather is cheering so she

00:12:59.340 knows this record and again this is not a deep cut this was like this album won the the grammy

00:13:05.040 i think the year it came out for best hip hop record but i'm just holding up the sleeve so

00:13:09.580 heather and i can look at it for a second and here's tyler standing in a field of sunflowers

00:13:16.360 and surrounded by these huge like bumblebees and uh normally i would choose a song and but it's

00:13:24.520 really the whole album I really just like want you whatever streaming service or or whatever

00:13:31.380 however you get your music to really just like go through the entire album flower boy I mean Tyler 0.97

00:13:41.240 has described himself as gay as fuck and that's kind of like my favorite kind of hip-hop that 0.97

00:13:49.440 kind of like beautiful chill soft boy kind of kind of hip-hop so this is one of my favorite 0.99

00:13:58.800 records and it was so hard for me I'm like going through every song and all the lyrics like trying

00:14:04.300 to narrow down um so I'm just gonna like speed fire some of these lyrics um again the album is

00:14:12.320 called flower boy which I feel like is probably all you really need to know um the track where

00:14:18.700 this flower blooms he says i rock i roll i bloom i grow i glow

00:14:26.380 in forward he says see i was in the woods with flowers rainbows and posies falling out of my

00:14:45.780 pocket in dropping seeds he says i'm dropping seeds got this garden flowers popping of course 0.98

00:14:52.880 i'm dropping seeds motherfucker i love that too that's like the hard and soft together like 1.00

00:14:58.860 i'm dropping seeds and growing flowers motherfucker 0.99

00:15:02.140 in glitter he says i feel like glitter they ain't build me up so i block them like lego 0.97

00:15:11.000 feeling glitter feeling good and great they ain't build me up so I block them like lego look at my

00:15:17.520 face look at that joy and that's kind of the screen door that that Tyler's talking about right

00:15:24.940 like if you're not building me up you can stay on the other side of the screen like I really we

00:15:30.440 were talking about this in a meeting the other day that like it took me 40 years to figure out

00:15:36.680 that I didn't need to, like, be insulted for my own personal growth.

00:15:41.480 You know what I mean?

00:15:42.380 Like, we don't help people grow by tearing them down.

00:15:46.200 We really, really don't.

00:15:48.200 We help people grow.

00:15:49.680 And I'm not saying you can't, you know, give some constructive criticism.

00:15:54.060 Like, we all need that too, you know.

00:15:57.320 Risa and I are collaborators, so we have this trusting relationship

00:16:00.480 where we can say, like, maybe change this to this,

00:16:03.540 or maybe you could word this differently,

00:16:05.420 or maybe this is missing this and it's it's like a a warm good like i'm trying to help you grow i'm

00:16:11.580 not trying to tear you down so again i'm trying to keep a quick tyler flower boy and i want you to

00:16:20.460 listen to these songs and rock and roll and bloom and grow and glow and go out into the woods with 1.00

00:16:30.260 flowers and rainbows and have posies falling out of your pockets and drop seeds motherfucker 0.99

00:16:36.780 because i feel like glitter look at my face look at that joy and i want you all to get into that 1.00

00:16:45.480 tyler the creator space whether you're gay as fuck or not if you're listening to this podcast 0.99

00:16:50.180 there's probably something about you that makes you feel different that makes you feel like an 0.98

00:16:54.560 outsider that makes you feel like people are going to put you down and so again tyler the creator

00:17:00.480 flower boy all day road trip walk in the park walk in the woods with tyler the creator and

00:17:08.280 flower boy those are my prescriptions this week

00:17:12.160 and heather for those people who are listening on saturday you've got an event on sunday right

00:17:21.680 do you want to tell us a little bit about it before we conclude yes thank you um i love the 0.99

00:17:28.520 softness of being soft and a seed thrower and just a cousin ass motherfucker it's really sweet 0.96

00:17:34.960 i'm reading in person um doing a pop-up collaboration with a local place in hilliard 0.99

00:17:42.960 ohio called brewing intuition it's on latimer street it's a lovely little shop um small business

00:17:50.200 owner uh tea shop herbs crystals antiques really cool and i'm reading uh psychic tarot there and

00:17:57.860 mediumship readings from 12 to 5 on sunday so if you're in central ohio or an ohio local or you

00:18:04.200 want to take a plane real quick and pop over and see me i'd love to see you in person i'll be

00:18:09.280 reading for five hours and if you can't catch me there you can always book online um it would be

00:18:14.160 the online reading, but I can schedule those with you online. And tell us a little bit about

00:18:21.000 Wild Moon Charm School. It's always changing because that is the nature of our late stage

00:18:29.420 capitalistic world that we live in. I started Charm School as a way to help folks get their

00:18:36.000 hands on some education about what witchcraft is, what magic is. I teach psychic development. I

00:18:42.660 teach mediumship development. I teach spell work and tarot, tools for folks that are longing to

00:18:50.180 have a more magical life and enrich their lives with something that feels special and potent.

00:18:57.260 It's really a way to increase their personal power through the tools of the magical world.

00:19:03.980 So that's the heart of Charm School. It's changed its iterations a bit, and I ended up doing more

00:19:09.960 readings than teaching, but I do both. I offer also tutoring. So if somebody is out there

00:19:18.140 thinking, I really want to know how to do a certain kind of spell, or I really want to learn

00:19:22.960 how to create protection magic in my home, that's something that I do one-on-one with folks all the

00:19:28.420 time. What's the website? It's wildmooncharmschool.com and at insta wildmooncharmschool.

00:19:35.740 So if you Google, if you Google Wild Moon Charm School, you're going to get Heather Darby DeMarco as we have gotten her in circle with us today. Thank you so much for joining me today. And I'm so glad that Risa popped in.

00:19:49.740 at the beginning what a way to start this recording to have risa surprise us with some

00:19:57.400 of the best news that we've gotten in a very long time so get in the mirror look at your face

00:20:04.380 look at that joy you are the everything you are the everything let's get into it and 0.98

00:20:14.460 thank you again heather blessed fucking be blessed fucking be thank you 0.88

00:20:19.740 The world's driven through me, and my life is all to me. 0.97

00:20:25.460 I love myself and all of me.

00:20:28.460 I love myself and all of me, all of me.

00:20:32.380 I love myself and all of me.

00:20:35.040 Love myself and all of me.

00:20:37.080 I love, I love, I love myself and all of me.

00:20:41.740 Woo!

00:20:43.360 The Missing Witches podcast follows the wheel of the year,

00:20:46.820 with true histories of real witches in the autumn

00:20:49.960 and meditations on kinship

00:20:52.060 with the more-than-human world in the spring.

00:20:54.840 Stay with us in the off-season

00:20:56.140 for the Missing Witches prescription,

00:20:58.480 plus interviews and Sabbath specials all year round.

00:21:02.420 Join us as we change with the seasons

00:21:04.900 but always return to our roots.

00:21:07.900 If you want to support the Missing Witches project,

00:21:10.920 join the Coven!

00:21:12.700 Find out all about it at missingwitches.com.

00:21:16.820 Thank you.

Missing Witches - July 15, 2024

MW Rx. 58 - I Rock, I Roll, I Bloom, I Grow, I Glow

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