Missing Witches - September 04, 2023


＂New Moon Magic＂ Audio Book Excerpt - Chapter 13, 13th Moon： Technology, Anarchy and The Web

＂New Moon Magic＂ Audio Book Excerpt - Chapter 8 New Moon In Scorpio： The Circle Mabon 2023： Collaborating With Our Ideas w⧸ Christena Cleveland And Amanda Yates Garcia

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00:00:00.000 If you want to support the Missing Witches project, find out how at MissingWitches.com
00:00:05.320 or order our new book, New Moon Magic, 13 Anti-Capitalist Tools of Resistance and Re-enchantment. 1.00
00:00:13.200 You aren't being a proper woman, therefore you must be a witch. 1.00
00:00:19.780 You must be a witch. 1.00
00:00:22.180 In the lead up to an all new season of the Missing Witches podcast
00:00:26.300 and the release of our new book, New Moon Magic,
00:00:30.000 we're sharing with you, our coven, our listeners, snippets from the audiobook version of New Moon
00:00:36.180 Magic, Thirteen Anti-Capitalist Tools for Resistance and Re-Enchantment, by Risa Dickens
00:00:42.020 and Amy Torek. Enjoy. New Moon Magic, Thirteen Anti-Capitalist Tools for Resistance and
00:00:51.320 Re-Enchantment, by Risa Dickens and Amy Torek. Narrated by the authors. Published
00:00:59.720 by North Atlantic Books. Chapter 13. The Thirteenth Moon. Technology, Anarchy, and the Web.
00:01:14.940 This circle is led in collaboration. This is the end that keeps the story open.
00:01:22.180 This is the black moon, the extra new moon, the moon for those years when the calendar can't keep
00:01:28.440 up with the sky. For the 13th new moon, let's embrace the edge of what seems possible. The
00:01:35.560 anarchy of sometimes but not always. Let's embrace the virtual and speculative and explore one of
00:01:42.160 witchcraft's greatest tools, technology. Remember that the word technology at its root means
00:01:48.460 science of craft. As co-authoring, podcasting witches collaborating during these plague years,
00:01:56.720 We find each other, our people, and our protests online.
00:02:01.200 We are woods witches and tech witches.
00:02:03.860 We are lovers of forests, lakes, and cityscapes,
00:02:07.560 musty books and PDFs, hand drums and MIDI tracks.
00:02:12.020 We are digital and analog, and while we love to dig in soil,
00:02:16.140 we also love these tiny supercomputers we get to carry around with us all the time.
00:02:20.780 our magic bridges the gap and questions if the gap exists at all maria miz and vandana shiva
00:02:29.400 opened the introduction of their book ecofeminism with a section entitled why we wrote this book 0.99
00:02:34.900 together writing quote some women find it difficult to perceive commonality both between
00:02:41.600 their own liberation and the liberation of nature and between themselves and different women in the
00:02:46.920 world. This is because capitalist patriarchy, or modern civilization, is based on a cosmology
00:02:54.380 and anthropology that structurally dichotomizes reality and hierarchically opposes the two parts
00:03:00.860 to the other. The one always considered superior, always thriving and progressing at the expense of
00:03:07.480 the other. Thus nature is subordinate to man, woman to man, consumption to production, and the 0.90
00:03:14.260 local to the global, and so on. End quote. We collaborate for liberation. We collaborate as
00:03:21.420 an act of defiance and resistance. We collaborate because while society trains us to compete,
00:03:28.000 nature gives us a model of cooperation and mutual aid. We collaborate to transgress against hierarchy.
00:03:35.420 We collaborate because the tech means we can work together, even from inside homes, inside forests.
00:03:41.420 for us and like our practice of witchcraft the answer to why we write books together is because
00:03:48.620 we can as we send and receive each other's feedback in real time we imagine those witch
00:03:54.380 collaborators who came before us monica show and barbara moore crafting the great cosmic mother
00:04:00.300 across an ocean waiting for weeks for the manuscripts in the mail deirdre english and
00:04:07.100 Barbara Ehrenreich, laboring over witches, midwives, and nurses without the ease of Google
00:04:11.840 Docs and Zoom check-ins. As we reach out across the internet, laying webs upon webs, we find new
00:04:18.880 worlds, new modes of complexity and understanding. We find them, and when we don't, we make them.
00:04:27.020 Witchcraft is a practice of attunement with the more-than-human world, with the spectrum of
00:04:31.140 possibilities in the past as well as the future, within ourselves and our communities, in order
00:04:36.760 to call forth our dreaming. Many have been branded with the word witch specifically
00:04:43.100 to break us from that radical polyphony we sense is possible. And so we gather up in
00:04:50.040 our seed bags, cauldrons, web communities, and grimoires, practices to resist that breakage,
00:04:57.700 tools with which we encant the re-enchantment. We sense in the vice grip of capitalism,
00:05:04.520 patriarchy, and colonialism a fear of decentralized communion.
00:05:09.900 Curiarchy fears the lack of control implicit in becoming with,
00:05:14.020 the animacy in everything, including the digital,
00:05:17.540 the lack of control that is inevitable
00:05:19.600 when we are being spirulated by the sacredness that is everywhere.
00:05:24.660 But Veronica Varlow's Bohemian Witch Grandmother taught us
00:05:27.700 fear is forgetting everything is all right.
00:05:30.820 We are not afraid of what the collective needs.
00:05:34.200 of where the most marginalized will lead us,
00:05:37.060 or of what truths earth will tell.
00:05:39.860 We are ready to walk through the sorrow caves of the present singing,
00:05:44.080 knives bright and at the ready,
00:05:46.380 offering our bodies to earth,
00:05:48.300 together crafting rituals and ceremonies for what comes next.
00:05:53.140 We ready ourselves with every new moon to tend our gardens,
00:05:57.380 feed our circles, tell our stories, sing our songs,
00:06:00.980 and in these ways, together, conjure the pre-utopia.
00:06:06.600 Together we call it forth by refusing to forget
00:06:09.040 that our magic is real, that flourishing is still possible.
00:06:14.360 This praxis calls for a shift in our understanding of resources.
00:06:19.520 And so for us, there are practical political implications to being a witch.
00:06:26.260 Political witchcraft is a land-back movement.
00:06:28.820 Earth's remaining wilderness and, quote, crown lands
00:06:33.380 and fundamental resources must shift being coordinated
00:06:36.200 by communities of indigenous scientists and knowledge keepers
00:06:39.400 who can lead us in re-establishing kinship with the more-than-human world
00:06:43.800 Political witchcraft is a reparations movement 0.88
00:06:46.960 The hoarded wealth of billionaires resting on centuries of slave trade
00:06:50.940 must be distributed with guiding principles of reparations
00:06:54.540 for communities and individuals brutalized by colonialism
00:06:57.940 political witchcraft is a basic income movement the right to the pursuit of happiness and the
00:07:04.140 right to social security require that each person regardless of immigration status or
00:07:09.140 incarceration history be guaranteed a livable income and healthy living environment we need 0.92
00:07:14.800 to stop using earth's resources to perpetuate planet murder and systemic injustice and start
00:07:19.900 using them to end poverty for all political witchcraft goes to work we find our roles in
00:07:27.000 the revolution and support the decentralized activism that makes change in real-world networks
00:07:31.900 like tenants' rights groups, food banks, and community kitchens, lake associations,
00:07:38.360 knitting circles, and covens. Political witchcraft is anarchic tech. We are an open-source movement. 1.00
00:07:45.240 We are in all the code. The re-enchanted world will be planned and improvised using collaboratively
00:07:50.880 built and maintained ethical open-source systems, sharing open data, guided by open governance.
00:07:57.000 political witchcraft is platform agnostic we will use technology when it suits us but we will have
00:08:03.960 no loyalty to brands or systems only to each other only to the living principle itself
00:08:10.600 in the energy of slaves leonard cohen wrote quote all that we disclose of ourselves forever is this
00:08:17.680 warning nothing that you built has stood any system you contrive without us will be brought down 0.79
00:08:24.440 end quote blessed fucking be ariel gore in bluebird women and the new psychology of happiness 0.91
00:08:32.960 tells this story about diane de prima quote diane had promised her babysitter that she'd be back at 0.92
00:08:39.780 11 30 that night and 11 30 starts rolling around so diane bids her farewells whereupon kerouac
00:08:46.640 raised himself up on one elbow on the linoleum and announced in a stentorian voice de prima
00:08:52.600 unless you forget about your babysitter, you're never going to be a writer, end quote.
00:08:57.880 The voices who build this starving world call out, forget your promises, abandon your children,
00:09:04.420 burn your care for others in the flames of your own ambition, and you will prosper.
00:09:09.620 But there are other voices. Tune your tools in the dark to the new moon.
00:09:16.480 Imagine you can hear them, and you will. The war is the war for the human imagination.
00:09:22.600 quote i considered this carefully then and later allowed that at least part of me thought he was
00:09:29.380 right but nevertheless i got up and went home i'd given my word to my friend and i would keep it
00:09:36.060 maybe i was never going to be a writer but i had to risk it that was the risk that was hidden like
00:09:41.480 a chinese puzzle inside the other risk of can i be a single mom and be a poet end quote looking
00:09:48.820 back, she knows that if she'd followed Kerouac's advice, quote, there would be no poems. That is,
00:09:54.480 the person who would have left a friend hanging who had done her a favor also wouldn't have stuck
00:09:59.900 through thick and thin to the business of making poems. It is the same discipline throughout,
00:10:05.560 end quote. On this 13th moon, in every liminal time, remember, we are the poets who keep our word.
00:10:13.380 we craft re-enchantment with our relationships
00:10:16.940 we are witches who cast that most astonishing spell of telling the truth
00:10:23.020 we build bodies we can be proud of
00:10:26.300 bodies extended across the living systems we are symbionts with
00:10:30.060 including the digital web that in places aids the interface 1.00
00:10:43.380 You aren't being a proper woman, therefore you must be a witch. 1.00
00:10:46.160 Be a witch. 1.00
00:10:47.720 Be a witch. 1.00
00:10:49.760 You must be a witch. 0.96
00:10:52.260 If you want to support the Missing Witches Project, find out how at missingwitches.com 0.58
00:10:57.700 or order our new book, New Moon Magic, 13 Anti-Capitalist Tools of Resistance and Re-Enchantment.