Missing Witches - Remember The Magic - MWRF Part 5 w Asha Frost

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00:03:59.120 proper woman therefore you must be a witch you must be a witch i'm now joined by asha frost 1.00

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00:04:22.000 is the author of You Are the Medicine and the creator of two oracle decks, the Animal Elders

00:04:29.360 Oracle and the Sacred Medicine Oracle. She's got a new book coming out this winter called Inner

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00:04:59.780 for being here with me today asha i know that you are a busy woman out there doing the good work so

00:05:06.680 i really appreciate you taking some time to sit down with me how are you it's always a gift being

00:05:11.460 here with you i i'm well thank you so much for having me yes you are the medicine and every time

00:05:18.000 we have a conversation it feels like that that you are you are a medicine woman i mean but also

00:05:25.140 like you are a medicine woman you are out there delivering um keynote addresses and your instagram

00:05:35.500 content and all of it just feels like a like a nervous system calming and i really appreciate

00:05:43.400 that you exist in the world that is fine thank you is there anything you want to tell our listeners

00:05:50.220 before i dive into my list of questions here anything that's been on your mind anything new

00:05:55.460 that i might not know about yet well i think i i don't know if you know about this but my

00:05:59.960 my new book is coming out this year so not till november but it's called the inner winter

00:06:04.380 and it is yeah it'll be the pub date is november the third but i just handed in my first kind of

00:06:10.940 draft of my edits so i feel like i'm in it still you know i'm in that birthing place and that

00:06:15.740 writing place and it's exciting inner winter i mean i know what that means to me what does it

00:06:22.000 mean to you yeah so i wrote this book for all of the people who maybe are unwinding from that

00:06:28.600 narrative that we have to be living in a perpetual summer because i think that's what colonialism

00:06:32.460 and capitalism has told us so people who live in bodies who suffer with maybe a chronic illness

00:06:39.200 or disability or perhaps are neurodivergent or sensitive you know and they just see the world

00:06:45.800 in a different way and they have a different way of moving in the world so that's really what it's

00:06:50.380 for but it's really a personal story I've been wanting to write this for my whole life because

00:06:53.800 I've walked with lupus for most of my life so it really is a personal story mixed with healing

00:06:59.240 mixed with I hope acknowledgement and seeing and validation for folks who are navigating

00:07:04.500 the medical system and their bodies and the state of the world at the same time oh thank you so much

00:07:11.600 for writing this book honestly like I this is my first question that I have here on my list

00:07:17.940 and I did not know about the new book so the wavelength wavelength is strong you and I both

00:07:25.340 deal with chronic illness this is the question from my list here so forgive me for the repetition

00:07:30.400 but i and you and i both suffer with a chronic illness and i think we both suffer from that same

00:07:36.580 instinct that we're not good enough or we're not doing enough and like i said so much of your

00:07:42.960 content feels like a breath of fresh air that unlearning of capitalist urgency the ability to

00:07:50.160 say no being kind to yourself in others in a sometimes unkind world and so i can't wait for

00:07:59.000 inner winter i can't wait for november please how do you do it how do you do it oh gosh i don't know

00:08:07.460 it's interesting i'm you know this book is going to be a really it's a raw honest a very authentic

00:08:12.560 account of because i think we can look at people doing it all or whatever that is and think like

00:08:18.440 how do they do it? And I just have to take a lot of breaks. And it's been the hardest winter of my

00:08:24.800 life the last probably year and a half. So it's a very honest, raw account of that. And I hope that

00:08:32.380 it still has hope because that's what my name means. I carry that hope. So it still has a vision

00:08:36.500 of that. But it's not the kind of book where it's like, this is going to heal you, you're going to

00:08:40.520 be healed by the end of it, or whatever that means, or cured by the end of it. Because that's just

00:08:45.120 really not the reality for many of us who are also inundated by all of these wellness tips and

00:08:50.960 cleanses and protocols and all of these things are going to make you well i think that it all it all

00:08:56.960 comes into the same umbrella of like you're not enough you are broken you need to be fixed and

00:09:01.840 the answer is outside of you so it's more really like an invitation how do you live in a wintering

00:09:07.360 body and i still haven't figured it out quite yet but but the book is a part of exploring exploring

00:09:13.040 that i love that you've submitted your first draft but you still haven't quite figured it out yet

00:09:19.920 and that's what we're doing here all the time right just trying to figure it out yeah and i

00:09:25.140 think i don't know if there is an answer right i think that our world isn't set up for wintering 0.64

00:09:28.600 humans to to thrive really so my hope in prayer is that our world starts to change and systems 1.00

00:09:35.740 start to change to make room for those who are left behind how do you conceive of this notion

00:09:43.900 of having to change systems from the inside versus from the outside yeah i think it's a

00:09:50.840 really i think we talk about it a lot right systems need to change i do think it starts with with with

00:09:56.840 us like i do think that there's you know we talk about the violence outside and we we reflect on

00:10:01.880 perhaps there's violence inside of our own minds and our hearts and the way we speak to ourselves

00:10:06.440 too that we need to be conscious of because that not that community care is important and doing the

00:10:11.840 work with each other it's important and I think that there is a real beauty in doing that work

00:10:17.620 internally and I think that it is reflected in our outer worlds and it's something that we skip over

00:10:22.280 sometimes and we just think the world has to change and they're all going to do it out there

00:10:25.840 but we need to look at relationally how we're even being on social media like how are we being

00:10:30.940 on with each other in relationship to to people online are we being kind to them like that just

00:10:37.320 seems like a simple thing to me but it's not so simple as you know when you're on there it's true

00:10:42.920 but i i have found more and more you know i'm a woman of a certain age and i have found more and

00:10:50.620 more that the kinder i am to myself the more kindly i treat people i really believe that like

00:10:58.240 it starts with um and you know we kind of balk at these words like healing because again like maybe

00:11:05.020 it's possible there's nothing wrong with me yeah you know but i really do believe that if we are

00:11:11.640 kind to ourselves if we release the judgment of our inner critic on ourselves that that opens up

00:11:18.380 this almost a floodgate of allowing us to look at other people and and have that same compassion

00:11:25.400 right i think that's true i was thinking about that because you're a woman of a certain age i

00:11:29.120 was thinking about with regards to aging right because i think in our generation well i don't

00:11:33.180 know how old you are but it's like there's so much pressure to get the botox there's something

00:11:37.660 wrong with that all those things but i was thinking goodness as i start to love my own

00:11:41.580 wrinkles and lines and smile lines and all of these things i do start to look at the world and

00:11:45.780 notice wow that person's smile is so beautiful and i love the wrinkles from their eyes or i love

00:11:50.880 i love the stories in their face like i start to really see that as i love myself more

00:11:55.240 that's something i'm really noticing in my perimenopause years yeah and like speaking of

00:12:00.120 anti-capitalist like to reframe a laugh line as something that we don't want to have on our faces

00:12:07.840 is it's wild to me right like why would we not want i remember um i grew up in the church and

00:12:14.820 there was this couple and they like led the youth group and and that kind of thing and they were

00:12:20.260 lovely lovely lovely people and just like an abundance of joy and I remember being young and

00:12:27.200 seeing those like deep deep crow's feet at the side of their eyes and they they were probably

00:12:33.920 10 even 20 years younger than I am now but I remember being a kid and thinking to myself

00:12:39.200 those are joy lines those are laugh lines that like they have evidence on their faces that they

00:12:48.080 You're living a joyful life.

00:12:49.620 Why would I ever want to, like, rob myself of that?

00:12:54.440 I'm there right now, too.

00:12:55.980 Oh, yeah.

00:12:56.640 But we're still working through it, right?

00:12:58.540 I still look in the mirror.

00:13:00.260 My hair is gray as a political statement.

00:13:04.200 You know, but I still look in the mirror and think, oh, listeners, I'm kind of pulling on my face right now.

00:13:09.960 You know, that kind of like, oh, this line and that line.

00:13:13.180 that i would love to just be able to exist in the world old yes sick um without the weight and

00:13:26.780 pressure of i have to achieve more and more and more and i have to be a stunningly beautiful

00:13:31.700 model while i do it or my work doesn't count for anything sorry tangent tangent tangent

00:13:38.000 i'm here with you i'm with you okay this is related um i pulled out your animal elders oracle

00:13:48.720 deck before we jumped on this call today and and pulled a card at random i wanted to know

00:13:53.920 what the universe or whatever spirit lives inside your deck wanted us to talk about today

00:14:00.400 and it's so funny because it really is i i pulled elder hummingbird remember the magic and listeners

00:14:10.440 i'll put a i'll put a photo of this card in the show notes for this episode but the message of

00:14:17.540 elder hummingbird is remember the magic i'm gonna read a little bit real quick elder hummingbird

00:14:24.380 speaks. Invoke my spirit when you have forgotten the magic of life, for I can fly in all directions

00:14:34.240 and gather it from the past, present, and future. I flutter before you and expand your heart to

00:14:44.980 remind you of your inherent worthiness to receive sweetness. I carry an incredible ability to

00:14:52.940 remember the flowers that have nourished me and i bring this memory medicine to you

00:14:58.460 i shall help you recall the sparkle in your eyes and hope in your spirit that you once held

00:15:06.020 magic abounds oh talk to me about remembering the magic how do you remember the magic other than

00:15:16.440 conjuring hummingbird i needed that today actually sometimes i hear my own words read

00:15:22.220 back to me I think oh that's so I needed that yeah you know and speaking about and relating

00:15:27.840 it to the inner winter I think I tend to be a fairly positive optimistic person and in this

00:15:34.500 really hard period it was hard to find the magic it was hard to find the hopeful moments

00:15:39.820 it was hard it was even like a long winter like seasonally this year so even that was like extra

00:15:46.120 cold extra snowy today's a beautiful day there are buds on the trees and even that the earth

00:15:51.480 reminds you there is magic everywhere and but I was in a state where it was hard to find it

00:15:57.760 so sometimes when that happens I will draw cards those are really good ways to do it

00:16:03.580 I was in a state where I couldn't walk I was I'm in mobile most of the winter and that was really

00:16:09.200 hard because I couldn't be on the land I mean I could sit outside if I wanted to but actually

00:16:12.920 walking with the land was something that I really missed so I think that it is it is a practice to

00:16:20.500 find the magic it is a gift to be able to see it every day and it's something that I think we can

00:16:27.120 lose sight of sometimes when we're going through a really hard time so the ways that I probably did

00:16:33.060 it throughout this really deep wintering season were things like pulling cards you know maybe

00:16:39.800 sitting in quiet having a bath having a salt bath but those but again like I did really find it hard

00:16:46.240 to find it so I think the hummingbird is a good message for me as today I found the magic it's

00:16:50.280 back and I think it's also okay to say that there's seasons sometimes where you can't find it

00:16:54.880 and and there's nothing wrong with you I think that sometimes that's part of that seasonality

00:16:59.800 and it's just a season because it's going to come back so that's perhaps part of the message and the

00:17:04.420 wisdom of that is the magic will come back one day just like today I feel that very strongly today

00:17:09.140 tell me like for the sake of our listeners who want to find the magic but don't know what it

00:17:17.720 looks like how what is the magic first of all and how do you recognize it when you see it

00:17:25.820 I think everybody would define that differently for me it feels like a sense of contentment

00:17:30.760 and ease it's a very internal feeling I think that I could see magical things all around

00:17:36.720 or maybe even a sense of gratitude right and not take it in or not notice it it could be passing

00:17:41.820 right by me so it's presence it's a sense of contentment and you know you're talking about

00:17:47.020 like this whole like we got to do more and we're not doing enough I finally got to a place and

00:17:51.960 again I've mentioned perimenopause once but I think there's something evolving in me where I

00:17:56.000 think this is enough this I have done enough I am enough like I'm coming to this place where I'm

00:18:01.600 like this is enough and I can see even the magic in that so I think it's like being open to seeing

00:18:08.180 the the maybe the beauty in the small things and being present with the small things um yeah and

00:18:15.680 I think for me it's a feel but I think everybody would define that differently like how does that

00:18:19.020 feel to you what does magic feel like to you for me it's like breath spaciousness presence and ease

00:18:25.440 there's something in that where it feels like I'm noticing today in particular I'm just sitting

00:18:29.700 looking outside like my i have a tree and it has the smallest little green buds on it and they just

00:18:34.280 popped out today that to me is magical like how how does that even happen so to me creation shows

00:18:41.000 us magic every single day but do we get quiet enough to notice it yes i think that that's a

00:18:47.780 big one actually listening not just watching for the magic but being quiet and listening for it

00:18:54.140 And there's like this very strong, again, this, this anti-capitalist thread when, when you said the word enough, I feel like because we under lay stage capitalism, we can't have enough.

00:19:10.460 There's no such thing as enough.

00:19:12.320 There's only more.

00:19:13.940 And, you know, maybe I eat a meal and I can sense that I'm full, you know, those hormones or whatever's going in my brain that send the message to me.

00:19:20.680 but with money there is no such mechanism in our bodies it has to be more with um achievements

00:19:28.720 there is no such mechanism it always has to be more it always has to be more more more more

00:19:35.420 so how do we know when we've had enough and that can be both sides i i have enough and i have 0.72

00:19:44.340 fucking had enough enough is enough talk talk to me about this word enough yeah i think that i've 0.73

00:19:53.480 you know what i've noticed in going through this inner winter i haven't shared this yet but what i 0.98

00:19:57.240 noticed is that my my inner critic got so much quieter and i never thought that i would ever

00:20:03.240 hear her be so quiet i am and perhaps because i don't have the capacity i realized how much

00:20:08.860 capacity it took to keep her alive and going and so loud like it was taking up like 80 percent of

00:20:14.660 my energy when i don't didn't have any more energy to spare sorry when you say her you mean that

00:20:19.400 inner critic right yeah so when i didn't have anything left to spare i realized there was

00:20:26.320 something about being in really intense pain that quieted her because it was like all the energy i

00:20:31.860 had had to be directed to this pain or being present with it and i didn't have anything left

00:20:37.540 So now I know if I'm showing up and I don't really, I used to be super critical of myself

00:20:43.200 or a perfectionist and I'm just not doing that anymore.

00:20:45.920 I just, I don't have the space or capacity or time anymore for that because we only have

00:20:51.320 a certain number of years to live on this planet.

00:20:53.520 So what the heck was I doing all these years?

00:20:55.500 I'm not blaming myself or shaming myself, but I just think what was the point in being

00:20:59.740 so hard on myself when we only have this precious moment right now?

00:21:04.640 And can we love ourselves?

00:21:05.920 like when am I gonna actually love myself enough that's my question too I

00:21:09.400 see people in their 70s who are still beating themselves up about their bodies

00:21:13.360 and their their weight and their wrinkles and I think how old do we have

00:21:17.660 to get before we love ourselves that seems like a really good question I've

00:21:21.380 been asking myself lately can I love myself now can I start it now before I

00:21:25.680 end up being 70 and still hating myself I don't want that so I think there's an

00:21:30.920 enoughness in just knowing your worthiness right now it's because you exist on this planet so

00:21:38.040 something has happened in this writing of this book and maybe just age i don't know but i definitely

00:21:43.700 feel more enough than i ever have oh i'm so happy because the more enough you feel the more you will

00:21:52.080 deliver unto us your loving audience because we can't we can't you know when we are in that place

00:22:00.300 like we can't fill other people's cups if we have we have nothing but you create so many things i

00:22:07.060 recently downloaded um your meditation finding um a power animal or animal power and it was so

00:22:16.720 beautiful can you talk about why you created and and released this listeners it's free i'll put

00:22:23.080 the link in the show notes of course but talk to me about this like the seeking of the power

00:22:29.720 animal or animal power creation it was the creation animal spirit was it from the one in

00:22:34.540 my deck yeah is that the one i have a lot of meditations yeah it was a it was a recent pop

00:22:42.260 up on your website um with uh i mean okay so it's probably the creation animal spirit so

00:22:49.760 that one was in particular i wrote yes yes yes yes what animal spirit came in with you in the womb

00:22:56.480 with your creation like I really truly have this vision of us coming with a creation story so

00:23:02.900 creator envisioned us dreamed us into being our ancestors are behind us and then we have this

00:23:08.360 medicine that's planted right and I just felt like an animal came in with us at that time it might

00:23:14.140 not be the animal that's with you now or it might be to me it's an animal that's kind of woven

00:23:19.360 throughout your life so you might go through a healing session or cycle and then all of a sudden

00:23:24.100 and you're like oh I thought I healed that already and that animal will pop up again so it's one of

00:23:28.080 those ones that is one of those healing things that walks with you your whole life I really

00:23:33.140 feel that with the animal totems that that's the way it happens different ones come in and

00:23:37.360 under your life at different times when you need different reminders but I do think that we we come

00:23:42.320 in with one so that particular meditation has that what is that animal for me it's the deer

00:23:47.960 because the deer has always reminded me of being compassionate, being softer, sending love to that

00:23:55.300 inner critic, even leadership, like there's a part of leadership, like how do you lead with that

00:24:00.860 softness still? How do you hold strength and softness at the same time? That's people's

00:24:05.780 reflection of my work is all the time is like, it's so powerful yet so gentle. And I think that's

00:24:10.260 what deer is, powerful yet gentle. And I always wondered for the longest time, how do I hold all

00:24:16.240 of those things like how can you hold powerful and gentle but now I've claimed

00:24:19.700 it yeah I do and I and I am that and I just recently my we talked about my

00:24:24.340 grandmother just passed on to the spirit world a couple weeks ago and my uncle

00:24:27.940 was speaking at the funeral and was sharing how that side of the family was

00:24:31.180 dear clan and I'd heard whispers of that typically we take on our like our

00:24:36.800 mother's clan so that was my grandfather's clan was the crane clan so

00:24:41.400 this is my grandmother's clan and when he said that I thought oh my goodness

00:24:44.860 that makes so much sense why deer has spoken to me so deeply throughout my lifetime because it's

00:24:49.240 actually one of my clans so i thought that was really interesting and really cool and tell me

00:24:54.380 more um i remember you you once told me um we were talking about appropriation extraction you know

00:25:04.580 all of those keywords um you told me if i hide these teachings then the colonizer wins

00:25:12.360 can you sort of re-expand on that i know a lot of people um hesitate to use the term spirit animal

00:25:26.240 and have switched to power animal or animal spirit or animal power um so talk to me about

00:25:33.360 sharing these teachings talk to me about how you negotiate and navigate extraction when you're 0.52

00:25:39.840 making your work yeah well I think that that all started with writing my book with the dear white

00:25:45.080 woman letter because I think that that was a boundary for people if they could read it

00:25:48.680 and have a relationship with the words in some way then I feel like and just have awareness I'm not

00:25:54.540 asking people to be perfect like just have awareness and have a relationship with the

00:25:59.260 original stewards of their land and turtle island then what if you can actually see everything

00:26:04.940 then how can you have a relationship with these things in a good way people are going to 1.00

00:26:09.740 anyways this is what I say you are going to learn this from a non-indigenous person because there's 0.95

00:26:14.660 tons of teachers out there would you rather learn it from an authentic source or and people can learn 0.98

00:26:20.560 whoever they want right but I this is what I try to say to my community people are teaching this

00:26:24.840 anyways who who do you want teaching it and it's not like I'm sharing instructions for how to do a

00:26:31.120 sweat lodge or instructions on how to like I'm not like our traditional ceremonies are closed

00:26:35.900 practices there they are closed practices I'm not doing that it's more

00:26:40.580 it's more the teachings of my relationship with the spirit world from

00:26:44.900 my perspective from how my ancestors have passed it on to me from how I've

00:26:49.620 experienced it through my own healing journey so then it feels very personal

00:26:54.080 to me and then if people have read the letter I do you think my deck gives

00:26:58.940 people the opportunity to to engage in these teachings in a good way in a

00:27:02.860 respectful way with reverence everybody who's ever used my deck and shared it

00:27:06.480 back with me I feel that from their hearts I can truly say that a thousand

00:27:10.920 percent that they do it with respect and reverence and they do it with honoring

00:27:15.860 indigenous people from across Turtle Island I know this to be true so it's

00:27:20.320 kind of worked out but but there are people in the indigenous community that

00:27:24.740 are not happy with how I share it and what I share and I also don't think that

00:27:29.440 they've read my book and I also don't think that they know my heart and I also

00:27:32.680 don't think that they know me truly and that's something I've had to get to

00:27:36.460 because I have been terrified for years about I've gotten called out I've gotten 0.99

00:27:41.860 cancelled by people in the indigenous community that's been really hurtful 0.87

00:27:45.460 that's been really hard for me to navigate and I'm finally come to a place 1.00

00:27:49.900 where I'm like have you actually looked into what I'm trying to do here have you

00:27:54.460 actually read my book in the letter have you actually seen that as a person from

00:27:59.020 the crane clan I'm trying to bring our communities together to understand one

00:28:01.780 another so there can be truth and reconciliation and if you have and you

00:28:06.580 still want to criticize me sure fine I'll take that but if you haven't please

00:28:11.080 look into what I'm really trying to do here because we can keep everything

00:28:15.880 hidden and we can keep everything close by and I understand the need to do that

00:28:20.800 and I think if we do that that's exactly what the colonizer wanted they wanted to

00:28:26.980 bury us so by burying us they bury teachings they bury our medicine and

00:28:30.640 we just keep them hidden and then we can't we can't share it and for me the sharing helps with

00:28:37.040 the relationship the sharing helps with the reciprocity the sharing helps with our grandfather

00:28:42.160 teachings in the world that's what the sharing does for me and i might be wrong but that's that's

00:28:47.280 how i see it well we know obviously you know um first nations cultures talk a lot about storytelling

00:28:54.240 as a healing practice um but it's certainly not the exclusive realm of of indigenous people you

00:29:00.320 You know, every every culture tells their story and hears other stories as a way of making medicine for each other.

00:29:09.180 Right. I don't want the colonizer to win.

00:29:14.820 So tell me, other than buying your books, your book, your book, that's your next book, Inner Winter, that's coming out in November, using your decks.

00:29:24.540 Tell me how else can we make sure the colonizer doesn't win?

00:29:30.320 There's so many things. I think from an indigenous perspective, there's so many opportunities to learn and to become an ally or an accomplice or whoever you want to say that and build a relationship. I think it's really important. You know, when people say, how do I not appropriate? How do I appreciate? Learn the land you're on, the territory you're on. Speak it often. Speak to the spirit of the land. It's so important. When you're using medicines, ask, you know, where you're buying them from. Be mindful of that.

00:29:58.780 This is very specific to, I guess, cultural appropriation.

00:30:02.780 And yeah, I love Indigenous literature.

00:30:04.740 I think that's such a beautiful way of honouring our medicine and honouring the land.

00:30:09.580 There's so many incredible Indigenous writers.

00:30:12.320 And start to look and see, who am I learning from?

00:30:15.520 Where do they get their teachings from?

00:30:17.200 Are they honouring the land even?

00:30:19.720 So many places I go in and the land's not even acknowledged.

00:30:23.260 And I think, this is so important.

00:30:25.020 This is like 101, you know?

00:30:26.340 Oh, how are you not even acknowledging the land when you're in this space?

00:30:30.020 So start to look through the lens of these things, because what I've noticed over the

00:30:35.620 years is, you know, what's been hard is like our teachings have been extracted and taken,

00:30:41.160 and then those people have arisen, and Indigenous voices and visibility have not. 0.96

00:30:46.320 So that really feels hard for all these people to take, take, take, and then they rise and

00:30:50.940 they make all this money, and they have this huge career, and then we're still standing

00:30:55.320 you're going those are our medicines and nobody's paying attention to our voices so look at the

00:30:59.640 voices you're paying attention to uplift the ones that maybe are not heard or seen as much those are

00:31:05.380 some those are some tips i think that are really important to me and of course this is the whole

00:31:11.140 thrust of what we do at missing witches during the month of may right like we acknowledge that

00:31:17.800 New Age, witchcraft, all of this stuff has had an extremely extractive relationship with Indigenous

00:31:26.180 culture, magic, land, all of it. We can name all of it. So, of course, we spend the month of May

00:31:35.620 here lifting voices of Indigenous authors and creators like yourself, activists, thinkers,

00:31:41.780 philosophers reading their books boosting their profiles but maybe more importantly

00:31:49.000 um encouraging people to put witches specifically to put your money where your mouth is you know we

00:31:58.180 say all the time it's become a bit of a catchphrase around here like it's not a gift it's a

00:32:02.820 debt so what we're trying to do here is to repay the debt firstly because we're we're working seven

00:32:09.260 generations back and forward right so we're trying to we can't heal colonization we know that but we

00:32:17.360 can work toward a future where that healing is possible so as my final question before i let you

00:32:23.040 go back to your busy busy busy is there an organization a native-led support organization

00:32:29.380 or water protectors or um i don't know if you're still in the toronto area but i know there's a

00:32:36.000 beautiful the native women shelter in toronto is there an organization that you would love to see

00:32:41.320 our listeners backing during this reparations fundraiser yeah i really love moon time connections

00:32:47.860 that's really the organization that i love because they make sure that everyone has access to

00:32:54.580 menstrual products and if you know if you've ever traveled up north it's really hard to get

00:33:01.600 menstrual products and they're so expensive so they deliver menstrual products to shelters and

00:33:08.000 to all up in the northern communities where it's really hard to get and i i so i love them and i

00:33:13.080 also know them personally which is great but any i think anything with water protection with

00:33:17.600 missing indigenous women like any of those um beautiful places that you see like i just yes

00:33:24.360 if you're going to donate donate there um you're are you not doing the shelter this year are you

00:33:28.840 just asking oh yes oh yes as as recent i every year we amazing so i say do it there too yeah

00:33:36.720 yeah please like whatever your recommendations are is because i've donated there before too

00:33:42.220 it looks like a great place so yes i highly recommend that too thank you so much asha

00:33:47.560 you truly are the medicine and i just again i i return to your instagram feed to your decks

00:33:56.640 to your book when i need that reminder that i am enough but being enough doesn't mean that i get to

00:34:04.660 stop necessarily i just have to reframe what is important my priorities you know spend less time

00:34:14.620 staring at my wrinkles and more time laughing and making new ones i love that again the book is

00:34:22.760 you are the medicine the decks are the animal elders oracle and the sacred medicine oracle

00:34:31.000 and in november inner winter your new book is coming out in november inner winter so i hope

00:34:38.880 you'll come back i will book comes out and we'll get ready for an inner winter i love that absolutely 0.79

00:34:44.800 thank you so much for having me thank you asha and blessed fucking be 1.00

00:34:52.760 You must be a witch. 1.00

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Missing Witches - May 28, 2026

Remember The Magic - MWRF Part 5 w Asha Frost

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