Missing Witches - Teachings Of Ode'miin Giizis The Strawberry Moon - MWRF Part 4 w Jenn Luxmore-Begin

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00:00:29.620 Welcome to the Missing Witches Reparations Fundraiser 2026 Podcast Series Part 4.

00:00:59.620 with Jen Luxmore Begin. Jen Luxmore Begin is a creative, a musician, an educator,

00:01:07.540 settler Anishinaabe woman with roots in Madagami First Nations. As an educator and facilitator of

00:01:14.580 women's circles and drumming, Jen works to create community, connection, and embodiment of culture

00:01:22.660 in everyday life she is a sister in the indigenous women's collective grandmother's voice and you can

00:01:31.120 join the missing witches reparations fundraiser by making a donation to grandmother's voice at

00:01:35.760 grandmothersvoice.com jen is also the creator of the 13 moons of creation lunar calendar and planner

00:01:44.980 join the missing witches reparations fundraiser today make a donation of ten dollars or more to

00:01:51.620 your local Native Women's Shelter or any Indigenous-run support organization, water protectors,

00:01:58.520 grandmother's voice. Take a screenshot or forward your receipt to witchreparations at gmail.com

00:02:07.940 and you'll be entered to win one of more than 25 amazing prizes. And everyone who donates

00:02:15.040 automatically receives discount codes from some of our favorite witchy businesses.

00:02:19.060 go to missingwitches.com slash reparations for all you need to know you aren't being a proper 0.59

00:02:25.900 woman therefore you must be a witch you must be a witch hi coven and welcome to another episode of 0.64

00:02:35.840 the missing witches podcast and thank you so much jen for sitting down with me for helping us 0.57

00:02:43.860 promote and reflect on our reparations fundraiser. I know that you have a lot of organizations that

00:02:53.500 you want to boost and rep, but first, since this is your first time on the Missing Witches podcast,

00:03:00.080 get to know us and let us get to know you. What do you want our listeners to know about you

00:03:04.520 right off the top? Thank you so much. I'm so honored to be here and very humbled to be asked

00:03:10.780 to be on your podcast and part of the coven. I am Jen Luxmore Begin. I am a very proud member

00:03:18.520 of Matagami First Nation. I have Scottish, French, and Anishinaabe lineage. My spirit

00:03:25.600 name is Nimki Kwe, which means Thunder Woman. And I come from my mother's waters, as well

00:03:34.160 as I grew up around the waters of Lake Superior near Thunder Bay, Ontario. And I have lived

00:03:40.260 in Mississauga on the treaty territory of the Mississaugas of the credit for I would say maybe

00:03:47.560 37 ish years and here in Mississauga I teach music kindergarten to grade five music I've been

00:03:56.780 a music teacher for over 20 years and it is one of my passions and one of the ways that I can make

00:04:04.340 magic in my everyday life is by creating music with children and um and i am a creatrix uh i am

00:04:14.800 an artist who um infuses medicine and magic into my creations i am a bead worker i love to work in

00:04:24.200 a sustainable eco-conscious eco-friendly way so most of my materials are actually upcycled or

00:04:32.600 maybe someone's stash that love to collect and purchase and buy materials and they can't possibly

00:04:38.420 use them all I am a person who can and has a community and has I've had a little artist

00:04:45.800 collective of teachers who love to create and mainly we love to play that's a big part of my

00:04:51.660 creative practice is the idea of play and exploration so often when I start projects

00:04:59.240 or I'm playing around, I don't always know really what they're for or where they're going.

00:05:03.240 I just follow that energy. And that took a little while to kind of work out. And sometimes I still

00:05:09.580 get caught up in myself questioning why I want to do things. And so now I just go with it. It's

00:05:16.240 spirit. It's my intuition. It's my ancestors. So yeah, I do a lot of different things.

00:05:25.040 um and i'm so honored to be here one of the main um things i've been working on in the last couple

00:05:32.940 of years and i know that's why we're connecting tonight is 13 moons of creation uh that is a

00:05:39.880 passion project but also a project that came from my dreams from my visions from my grandmothers who

00:05:49.120 shared that knowledge with me and who planted that seed of visioning a different way of seeing time

00:05:57.720 actually reclaiming an old way of seeing time but um but creating a tool that allows us to bring it

00:06:06.160 into this world into this time and so uh yeah i do a lot of different things and i'm just honored

00:06:15.480 to be here. Miigwech. Yeah, thank you. Thank you for being here and shout out Amy Miranda

00:06:21.780 for the introduction. I got one of your calendars through Amy Miranda. Thanks again, Amy. And it's

00:06:30.220 so beautiful. The layout of it is so interesting. Do you want to talk a little bit more about that

00:06:35.820 project before we dive into philosophy? Sure, sure. So 13 News of Creation is a lunar calendar

00:06:43.240 and planner. And it's a little bit different than many calendars that you can find that highlight

00:06:48.740 our Anishinaabe moons. So for many years, I would like the kind of the reason that I created it

00:06:57.140 was that I always have a planner. I'm a planner girl. I would make my own planners like using

00:07:05.080 other old books. And I really love that creation process. But one of the things that I was noticing

00:07:11.260 As I started to reclaim my Indigenous lineage, my Indigenous ways of knowing was attending full moon ceremonies.

00:07:21.940 That's a really important part of our grounding as women.

00:07:27.060 And so I was using the regular Gregorian calendar, and I would mark my moons in, but it really wasn't the same.

00:07:34.300 I would lose where the new moon was.

00:07:36.500 i kind of didn't i didn't like how the moons mixed with that gregorian calendar and so i started

00:07:44.660 in 2023 i was looking around i searched the internet high and low for a lunar calendar

00:07:50.880 is there any calendar from anywhere that i can buy that starts on the new moon and and then goes

00:07:59.140 to full moon and ends kind of at the point we're almost at now we would just were uh where we're

00:08:05.060 coming up to a new moon. So like a 28-day calendar that still included January, February,

00:08:10.740 because that's important. We need those dates, right? But I want to flip the calendar when it's

00:08:17.040 the new moon. That's when I want to welcome new energy. And so I couldn't find one. So that's why

00:08:23.360 I created it. And so the first year I made one just for myself. I like Mod Podge did and did

00:08:33.220 all my things and made it really creative. And I really learned some things about marking our

00:08:40.740 calendars and just figuring out how the layout might work best. And I would bring my calendar

00:08:48.580 out to events and people would ask me about it and they would be like, wow, that's really

00:08:53.560 interesting. That's really neat. You know, I would like one of those. So then luckily enough,

00:08:59.580 one of the organizations that I am a part of is Grandmother's Voice, which is an organization that

00:09:07.560 we follow and uplift the voices of our grandmothers from six nations, and we support them in any way

00:09:14.740 we can. We want to make sure they're taken care of. And through that organization, I was able to

00:09:20.260 get my planner published, and I was helped by Indigenous Reflections, which is a 100%

00:09:26.840 canadian indigenous owned publishing company and uh from there we have we did a 2025 calendar

00:09:34.660 you have my 2026 calendar and the 2027 calendar is currently being worked on everything is handed

00:09:42.620 into the graphic designer at the publishing house and um i'm hoping that we'll be ready to order

00:09:48.940 in September, this September coming. And so you can purchase a lot of calendars that have our

00:09:57.140 different moon names on it. But this my calendar is unique in that it kind of, well, it starts on

00:10:05.820 a new moon, and encompasses that 28 day energy. And, and what I also would say about my calendar

00:10:15.980 is that my calendar is based on the Anishinaabe moons of central and southern Ontario.

00:10:23.000 So my grandmothers from Wikemikong First Nation, Nipissing First Nation,

00:10:27.680 they are the ones whose teachings guide the ceremonies that I do and the moons that I honor.

00:10:35.780 But these moons change from nation to nation and from place to place.

00:10:40.160 Because our moons are based on the energy of the earth,

00:10:43.760 uh what is going on with the plants and the animals and all our relations and it for me

00:10:50.760 i see it as it outlines our responsibility to the earth during that moon and not only our

00:10:59.280 responsibility but i also believe that if we can align our own energy with the energy that mother

00:11:05.120 earth is wishing or to happen then wouldn't that be a beautiful thing to align with

00:11:12.860 isn't that isn't grandmother moons and mother earth's energy what a divine feminine way

00:11:19.180 of living and and following time and so um one of the things that that people can also do

00:11:29.800 is if they like my calendar of course they can purchase it but also knowing that where you live

00:11:36.180 in quebec or saskatchewan or anywhere else in the world there are probably moon teachings

00:11:42.420 and moon names that are associated with the nations that live there and so it's also an

00:11:48.160 invitation for you to find out what is the land where you live doing right now it's flower moon

00:11:53.340 here or sorry strawberry moon sorry just finished flower moon to strawberry moon but I know that my

00:11:59.080 Anishinaabe relatives who live much farther up north have a different name for this moon and

00:12:04.280 have different responsibilities to the land. And so, yeah, I love my calendar. I'm really proud of

00:12:12.640 it. I think it's a beautiful tool to bridge two worlds, right? A lot of us want to live in this

00:12:20.420 cyclical energy. A lot of us, we really love Grandmother Moon. We love to think about her

00:12:27.660 phases and connected to our own phases and so um this is an offering that people can um purchase or

00:12:38.400 live into uh and and yeah so that's that's 13 moons of creation talk a bit more about this

00:12:46.920 idea of new moons being both instructional and invitational

00:12:53.700 new moons well on that beautiful new moon is when we start to live into the energy of

00:13:01.360 of of the next phase of this moon so the new moon is an invitation to plant some seeds for the next

00:13:10.960 28 days right grandmother moon is dark at this time she's having she's in her own space she's

00:13:18.060 in her own darkness and it's good and she likes it and she needs it just like we all need time

00:13:25.180 to go inward to reflect to take some deep breaths and see kind of what is this next energy going to

00:13:33.980 hold for us and so in a new moon it's a beautiful time to set some intentions often I think about

00:13:41.800 around the energy that you want to embody for me i have to really be very conscious that i don't

00:13:48.360 just set goals because as a teacher and an a-type personality i can get very easily into let's get

00:13:56.660 all these things done that's not what it's about for me anyways and so for example right now we're

00:14:02.460 going into strawberry moon and so this is an invitation for us to start to think about the

00:14:07.660 medicine of this time and the teachings of this time and the strawberry moon is our heartberry

00:14:12.260 moon and it is all about love love of self love of community it is a time when we would be welcoming

00:14:21.100 our ancestors i'm not our ancestors all our relatives home and regardless of differences

00:14:26.060 this is a time to feast it's a time to put our judgments aside and the community would come

00:14:32.600 back together we would have finished all our heart like some of our early spring harvesting

00:14:36.400 maybe some of our fishing you know getting our food supplies up as you know the winter had finished

00:14:42.420 and so this is a time when we would welcome all our relatives home and and so we can start to

00:14:48.580 think about these things for the next 28 days the other beautiful thing i love about strawberry moon

00:14:54.440 and it's actually i believe many people's favorite moons um because strawberries it's the first

00:15:01.120 berry of the season and in my Anishinaabe moon knowing we have our strawberry moon O'Day

00:15:08.140 Mungizus then we have raspberry moon and then we have blackberry moon so the berries are very very

00:15:13.600 celebrated in an indigenous culture and so um the strawberry is the shape of our heart when cut in

00:15:21.720 half the strawberry is also the shape of our moon space both if we have a womb or the womb that we

00:15:30.280 came from. And that just reminds us of our sacredness as women. And it is a beautiful 0.61

00:15:37.340 reminder. I always tell people, you know, strawberries are a part of our full moon

00:15:41.720 ceremonies, our water ceremonies, pretty much every ceremony, we have those beautiful berries.

00:15:46.480 And at this time, you know, reminding ourselves that every time we eat a strawberry,

00:15:51.640 take a second and just appreciate that love. And maybe that time that you are having a strawberry,

00:15:58.740 you really need to feel that love and so just a reminder that those strawberries were a gift

00:16:05.580 from creator for us to remember this and so many of us know that wild strawberries you can see all

00:16:12.800 the roots and like the little flowers are coming and all of the runners are connecting and now

00:16:18.320 those connections always remind us of all the connections that are so important in our lives

00:16:24.340 and so even though some people are farther down on our connections they're still connected to us

00:16:30.120 even though some of our relatives like our our other relatives other than human relatives

00:16:36.160 um we're still all connected and so at the new moon you know i like to think about

00:16:43.240 the teachings of that moon as i set my intentions and um yeah and so

00:16:51.480 the new moon is definitely the beginning of a new cycle and so it can remind us that we live

00:16:58.300 in cyclical energy we are not on a linear path this future is not predetermined we don't have

00:17:06.120 to keep moving in this in this line that we have this cycle and just like grandmother moon on the

00:17:14.780 new moon this is a reminder that we too like i said before need time and space as women but also

00:17:22.120 as people for all of us and so to reclaim the idea of living in a cycle not only a 28 day cycle

00:17:31.080 a daily cycle uh 13 moon cycle what power that has what power that has to to build on our

00:17:40.960 on the ways that the ways that we that we show up but also i think it can be

00:17:50.000 a good reminder that things are always changing and shifting grandmother moon's always changing

00:17:58.200 grandfather's son his light changes right it reflects more it reflects less and so we too

00:18:06.180 need to remember that our own energy changes other people's energy changes and sometimes i

00:18:12.000 think our resistance to change is sometimes the hardest part we make it hard for ourselves when

00:18:16.980 we when we fight the change when we resist the change and so um the other last thing i'll say

00:18:24.320 about that is i will often tell people we can choose the frequency and the energy that we live

00:18:30.320 into to a certain extent right so I live in a September to June energy as a music educator and

00:18:39.780 you know in a way for teachers I never left school I never left that September to June energy

00:18:46.300 and I'm sure many people feel that way but you know I could also live into the Costco energy

00:18:53.160 of when's the next you know Halloween comes in August and um you know Christmas starts in

00:18:58.920 November and I can live in that energy and I can mark my time by those cycles or I can mark my time

00:19:05.860 by the cycle of grandmother moon I can find small ways in my everyday life to bring in that reminder

00:19:15.080 of that she is our grandmother she is here to take care of us and grandma Gail uh grandmother

00:19:21.780 gail whitlow uh from six nations who who is always so beautiful in ceremony and every day

00:19:28.740 um she reminds us that you know when we have something heavy to hold we can always go and

00:19:34.180 talk to our grandmother the moon she's always there and what a what a reassurance what a

00:19:41.440 beautiful feeling that she is so steady her and michelle misguises they are beautiful partners

00:19:47.600 right they have that rhythm and what a beautiful can we find our rhythm within that like let's all

00:19:53.540 dance in that rhythm you know so yeah the the the costco thing too i mean like every month

00:20:05.220 through the summer has its berry but the costco mentality this like late stage capitalism

00:20:12.020 as a mentality. I want all the berries

00:20:14.140 at once. I want a berry salad, but

00:20:16.000 both the moon and the

00:20:18.020 berries are telling us

00:20:19.520 one thing at a time, one thing

00:20:22.200 at a time. Change

00:20:23.860 slowly. I have to change

00:20:26.040 track a little bit, though, because

00:20:27.640 you, as you said, are a music

00:20:29.980 teacher, and I am

00:20:31.740 a sonic witch, so

00:20:34.020 I am always super

00:20:36.020 enthusiastic to gather

00:20:38.260 as many perspectives

00:20:39.660 as possible on this question of how is music magic how is music a healer how is music divine

00:20:49.560 i will let i'm just gonna open that up to you just speak forever speak and then when you think

00:20:56.380 you've said too much on the subject tell me a little bit more about what you think and feel

00:21:00.820 music is medicine it's such medicine and um

00:21:08.080 i'm sure you're aware of dr masurimoto's work with water consciousness and he played different

00:21:16.000 music frequencies not that we need a scientist to prove what we already know is true but you know

00:21:23.180 one of the things that he did was he tested different um sound frequencies and water reacted

00:21:28.840 to that frequency and it made beautiful shapes in all different uh that the what would you call it

00:21:37.280 at the very smallest you know microscopic level we could see those changes and so yes that's the

00:21:44.260 science behind it but I also know from my elders from my grandmothers that and just from my own

00:21:51.700 body and my own being that when we sing when we sing with ourselves we activate so many things

00:21:59.180 our vagus nerve that's again science it tells us to our rest and relax our rest and release

00:22:05.200 comes up as soon as we hum as soon as we even listen to music all of that gets activated and so

00:22:13.600 music is medicine in that way um i know music has the the power to transform our energies

00:22:21.240 it's a form of self-expression and one of the things i do um in addition to many others is i

00:22:29.500 volunteer at a hospice once a month and i run a session called music is medicine and in this

00:22:35.840 session we often will take a very simple song and rewrite the lyrics so that people can get their

00:22:42.900 their thoughts their expression their grievances but any of their feelings out and often

00:22:51.020 their gratitude we always try to steer it towards that but music is is powerful in that way and it

00:22:59.260 can take us to a place it can take us out of a place and I mean making music with young children

00:23:06.260 is a whole other level for years I used to kind of not laugh but I would kind of think

00:23:14.360 I don't know why all these retired music teachers keep having children's choirs when they're done

00:23:19.560 like isn't that so funny that you know all of the children's choirs are always run by music

00:23:23.960 teachers and now I know because as I go into my last four years of teaching uh and nearing up

00:23:31.180 beautiful privilege of being able to retire um every choir every performance I do I think about

00:23:40.100 the magic that we're making I am so grateful the power that I feel

00:23:45.940 the power that I feel when all I do is lift my hands and 95 children rise and with this like

00:23:56.340 it's almost like look at my hands I'm casting a spell I'm like okay sing right and they do and

00:24:03.520 they do it so joyously and I always have to tell them you know tears are always right behind my

00:24:10.040 eyes and they're often very joyful and I cry a lot in gratitude so I always tell my students

00:24:17.320 when I start crying it's never because I'm up like sad it's never because I'm upset with you

00:24:24.140 it's because you are you are touching me and what we are doing together is such synergy it's such

00:24:33.560 we are medicine to the people that we are singing to to your parents to your grandparents

00:24:39.040 so i talk a lot about how they are medicine children are medicine but music is medicine

00:24:45.300 and and yeah it can take us out of out of places maybe that our minds are keeping us

00:24:54.160 um i find at school when we start playing especially a lot of the kids love to play the

00:25:00.280 ukulele and we are getting pretty good we've got four chords down pretty solidly and if you do you

00:25:06.920 can do a lot of songs with that you can do a lot with four chords uh-huh and so that is really

00:25:15.100 magical to see that they have figured out like to watch them from a very young age from kindergarten

00:25:21.780 they just hold it you know grade one they they but to then to see them take a song and actually

00:25:27.700 be able to play it i mean i know that feeling right it's such a good feeling when you're like

00:25:32.960 yes i could could do these chords at the right time um but coming out coming back from

00:25:41.200 from my students and thinking again about the power of music in ceremony and the power of music

00:25:49.780 in connecting with um with our ancestors you know that's one of the reasons that we sing a lot of

00:25:56.940 songs when we have our when we have our ceremonies um we tell everybody to sing even if you don't

00:26:04.580 think you know all the words and um like for example this morning we were at water ceremony

00:26:11.660 for the credit river water walk and it's an early morning ceremony so it's a beautiful time to to

00:26:18.780 to lift our voices and sing and we always sing the nibe water song uh that's a song for healing

00:26:26.180 the water and expressing our gratitude to it and when we sing it birds start always coming

00:26:35.780 sometimes the geese will just start singing with us this morning we had an eagle that flew

00:26:43.440 kind of around our ceremony and that's always a huge blessing and then we sang the eagle song

00:26:50.420 um and there's just an energy in music it it especially collective music making

00:27:01.140 collective music making too where we're not so worried about getting the words right and the

00:27:06.600 pitch right you know when you can really feel into that that's really powerful and you know

00:27:13.120 in one of the teachings around our d wagon our drum is that that is the heartbeat of mother earth

00:27:20.280 And when we hear that drumbeat, especially if we've heard like a, you know, like we've got a, you know, when we hear those drumbeats, we are told that that is one of the reasons it pulls us so much.

00:27:40.220 One of the reasons it reaches us so much is because those were the first sounds that we heard in our mother's womb, our mother's heartbeat, right?

00:27:47.600 and it's very interesting when you go to ceremony and there are people who have never

00:27:53.740 drummed or been around a drum before they have very very big reactions to it it will often

00:28:04.960 bring people to tears and then they don't understand why well that's why because it's

00:28:10.000 touching such a deep part of us and there's a reason why drums are a main instrument in cultures

00:28:17.240 all over the world right it connects all of us in that way and so that one heartbeat

00:28:24.280 beating with along with mother earth

00:28:27.240 is is can be very powerful medicine can you bang just a few more bars for us 0.64

00:28:47.240 ?

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00:29:13.240 i think i recognize that is that strong woman song it is it is strong woman song 0.97

00:29:33.240 written in the kingston penitentiary by indigenous quay indigenous women they would drum this song

00:29:40.280 through the night to keep their sisters their sister spirits alive and now this song is you

00:29:46.800 know sung and drummed all over turtle island probably all over the world yeah i mean it made

00:29:51.900 it to me so let's return before i let you go once again listeners this episode this interview with

00:30:02.620 Jen is part of the Missing Witches Annual 6th Annual Reparations Fundraiser.

00:30:09.720 Jen, I know you have a few organizations that you want to spotlight,

00:30:14.060 so I will rapid fire and you tell me what the organization is.

00:30:18.080 Grandmother's Voice.

00:30:19.680 Grandmother's Voice is a community-led Indigenous collective.

00:30:23.640 We listen to the voices of the grandmothers from Six Nations,

00:30:27.800 and we uplift and amplify their messages.

00:30:30.280 and of course listeners i'll put all the links in the show notes on the website i'll link them

00:30:36.120 on social you'll see don't worry credit river water walk credit river water walk credit river

00:30:43.700 water walk is a walking ceremony for water uh it is in the footsteps of grandmother josephine

00:30:51.120 mandaman ba who was the first water walker in 2003 she started walking around the great lakes

00:30:56.160 when in the lodge her elder uh asked all of the all of the people there there he told them that

00:31:05.480 there was a prophecy that in the year 2030 an ounce of water will cost more than an ounce of

00:31:11.960 gold what will you do about it and josephine a grandmother at the time she thought what else can

00:31:19.620 i do but walk people drive by the water and they see the water polluted and they don't notice it

00:31:25.120 maybe they will notice a bunch of grandmothers walking on the side of the road with an eagle staff and a copper pail and

00:31:32.740 then for many years she led walks all across Turtle Island. She brought waters from all the four directions and

00:31:40.000 now 0.98

00:31:41.360 Midewin

00:31:43.460 Midewin

00:31:45.460 women lead water walks

00:31:48.280 around Turtle Island and the Credit River Water Walk is led by Mary Ann Caviosi.

00:31:52.920 this is our fourth year and the funds that that go towards our water walk are used for covering

00:32:00.580 food for the walk mileage for the elders that come to support our walk and that type of thing

00:32:06.880 and that's credit river walk.com and the last one on dion on dion inc tell me about on dion inc

00:32:19.040 Andayan is the word for home in the Anishinaabe language and this is the first indigenous women's shelter created in Canada and it was created by four grandmothers and I believe it started in the 70s and they still do really important work in Tkaronto or Toronto being a shelter for women and children and helping them get back on their feet and supporting them.

00:32:49.040 And I've done a couple of fundraisers when I've made different earrings and sold them to support Unday On.

00:32:54.380 So they're a beautiful cause as well.

00:32:56.940 And once again, listeners, I'll put the links to these organizations everywhere so you won't miss them.

00:33:03.480 Now, how can our listeners get their hands on your work?

00:33:09.020 Oh, thank you.

00:33:10.180 Of course.

00:33:11.080 Well, the 2026 calendar and planner are still available from Indigenous Reflections.

00:33:17.320 and it's called 13 Moons of Creation and one thing that I might like to mention about that

00:33:22.420 is that I run my 13 Moons of Creation as a social enterprise so that all of the funds that I receive

00:33:32.040 from any royalties of my calendars are used to purchase calendars and are gifted to my

00:33:39.640 grandmothers and their communities. So this year I've been over to gift, I've been able to gift

00:33:45.420 over 200 planners and calendars to various Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee grandmothers and

00:33:51.680 sisters and aunties. And, um, and I think that's such a wonderful thing. I'm really excited about

00:33:59.240 that. And if you also want to find me, I'm on Instagram at 13 moons of creation, and you could

00:34:07.120 follow my creative explorations I've got lots of little things I love to talk to

00:34:14.320 dye with different different inks that I create and I do a lot of beadwork so

00:34:20.500 I'd love to see you there and in 2027 the 2027 calendar should be out

00:34:26.560 hopefully in the fall me quench don't worry Kevin we will keep you posted on

00:34:32.200 all of that any parting words any message for the missing witches coven

00:34:36.460 during this reparations season?

00:34:39.640 I just wanted to say a huge kachimiigwetch. 0.99

00:34:42.920 It's so important that we repair the relationships

00:34:47.240 that have been broken here on Turtle Island.

00:34:49.600 And there's a lot of people who talk the talk

00:34:53.920 around honoring indigenous ways of knowing and being

00:34:57.400 and being true partners.

00:35:00.200 But I really feel like the reparations project

00:35:02.840 is a unique offering.

00:35:06.140 And is a really powerful teacher.

00:35:08.620 And I applaud you for being leaders in this.

00:35:12.560 And just, yeah, thank you to all people who are donating.

00:35:17.800 And it's just a really important thing to do.

00:35:22.980 Thank you.

00:35:25.640 But yeah, I mean, so much of the idea of it is like,

00:35:31.580 it never occurred to us to start a foundation

00:35:34.180 and then you know take an administrative fee like we want you to go into your actual local

00:35:41.460 neighborhood because there are so many first nations people indigenous people already doing

00:35:48.720 this work exactly so let's just fund that revolution instead of trying to you know

00:35:55.220 show up at the picnic and you didn't ask what to bring and so you show up with the hundredth

00:36:02.080 potato salad but if you had showed you know called the head to the picnic and said what could I bring

00:36:07.280 they might have said you know and one of the things that I love to do I recently finished

00:36:13.460 some moon time buntings that are kind of a teaching for young girls when they first get

00:36:17.920 their moon time about the beauty and power of grandmother moon's phases and my vision for that

00:36:23.360 is to say to folks you know whatever the cost is donate that to Andayan donate that to a cause that

00:36:32.920 you like when I create when I make sometimes I'll make beaded poppies and so people will purchase

00:36:38.900 them and they will donate directly to the Indigenous Veterans Fund it doesn't need to

00:36:43.180 come through me and they are already doing the work so I totally agree with you and I love that

00:36:48.700 and i love you it's been such a joy to meet you i'm so excited to see what this fruiting body

00:36:55.760 of ours fruits oh and i should say one more thing if you don't mind i forgot about my moonly meetups

00:37:01.880 so on every new moon i offer uh something on zoom called a moonly meetup and you can find the

00:37:08.780 information on my instagram or you can email 13moonsofcreation at gmail.com to get on the

00:37:15.640 mailing list but this is a free offering where I talk about the energy of

00:37:19.180 grandmother moon different people come on and they might offer their energy for

00:37:24.280 if it's a Taurus new moon or some people will pull an oracle card and we'll kind

00:37:29.380 of bring all our energy and teachings around this next moon together we have

00:37:34.060 some time to create and then we'll just do some sharing so it's just a way to

00:37:37.880 share our practices and to anchor ourselves into that new moon energy and

00:37:42.040 it's a free community offering so thank you thanks so much jen and blessed fucking be 0.99

00:37:48.520 you must be a witch join the missing witches reparations fundraiser today make a donation 0.98

00:38:02.000 of ten dollars or more to your local native women's shelter or any indigenous-run support

00:38:07.180 organization, water protectors, grandmother's voice, take a screenshot or forward your receipt

00:38:15.160 to witchreparations at gmail.com and you'll be entered to win one of more than 25 amazing prizes

00:38:24.540 and everyone who donates automatically receives discount codes from some of our favorite witchy

00:38:30.300 businesses. Go to missingwitches.com slash reparations for all you need to know.

00:38:35.880 Thank you.

Missing Witches - May 21, 2026

Teachings Of Ode'miin Giizis The Strawberry Moon - MWRF Part 4 w Jenn Luxmore-Begin

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