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00:00:11.460Welcome back to another episode of Witches Found.
00:00:14.980On this episode, Risa, you spoke to one of our favorite humans on this planet, Edgar Fabian Frias.
00:00:21.520I'm going to say that again. Edgar Fabian Frias.
00:00:24.100I was so thrilled and emotional to meet this person, this powerful mutant that we'd been following and receiving these electrical downloads from.
00:00:34.040And our conversation made me laugh, brought me to tears and taught me things that I'm drawing on every day as I write and work.
00:00:41.620So I'm so thankful and I'm so excited for you guys to listen to this beautiful interview and get this loving, sweet, vulnerable electrical power from Edgar Fabian Friest.1.00
00:00:52.140You aren't being a proper woman, therefore you must be a witch.1.00
00:18:19.140it's definitely made me realize like the power of my presence here,
00:18:22.560the power of my presence in this state and in this town,
00:18:25.800Just knowing that, you know, they might, you know, some folks might see me as, like, a marginal person or someone that, like, is a threat, but then I always, like, really love the fact that, like, the Tulsa Artists Fellowship is, like, kind of saying that my work is important.
00:20:30.600send those emails yeah um oh i wanted to loop back um because you talked about um people not
00:20:40.260letting their children come into your studio and then also just i mean i it feels so heightened
00:20:45.420and so powerful to be and this is maybe just my imagination but to be practicing invited to
00:20:51.980practice in Tulsa versus in LA where it's so mysticism rich and so so weird rich and and all
00:21:00.580of that um can you go back and just describe what the studio looks like yeah um so it's a white cube
00:21:11.000oh perfect that's not weird yeah but you know but within my white cube I've like kind of surrounded
00:21:18.780it now with like images I've started to print out some of the images that I work on like on
00:21:25.360Instagram or digitally I also have like images of my like cast shows up because I do get like
00:21:33.620studio visitors like curators or artists who are interested to come see my work and so I've kind
00:21:40.220of created like a tapestry of like projects up online and I also have a little area that's kind
00:21:45.700of my production studio space it's very like diy and kind of um yeah it's it's basically like like
00:21:54.480a green screen area where i like work on projects um yeah and and i have like a table you know where
00:22:01.740i think a lot of my practice and a lot of what's helped me become an artist and you kind of brought
00:22:05.920this up earlier around being an organizer is accepting that like there are times as an artist
00:22:11.220that I get to like play and like spin around with fabric and like color my face and do all
00:22:17.060these things that are really enjoyable. But then a large part of my practice is like sending emails
00:22:21.860and organizing and like, like, you know, kind of making sure that I'm creating that structure to
00:22:27.140play in. Totally. Um, okay. So I have to ask Amy's question. She, she's so excited to talk to you
00:22:35.900And she'd be freaking out right now telling you about her green screen bodysuit and how one time for a music video, I think I was dressed up in it and we were shooting, crawling around so she could project on it.
00:22:50.460I think also her 80-year-old father wore it for a period because he was full of magic and down for creativity.
00:55:01.760no I it's like you know I like I've had so many conversations with her so I feel like a lot of
00:55:09.940the things I've wanted to ask her as like a fan of hers and also as a friend of hers
00:55:15.180well maybe there's maybe there's something you know that I should learn about her or there's
00:55:21.700a story i should hear i would say ask her about her um her own rituals and what she does to kind
00:55:33.660of keep hope alive also that's something i would love to know more about from her um i don't know
00:55:40.660if she'll be open to talking about this but she was telling me about a project she wants to work
00:55:44.860on in the future that is like so magical and like earth changing and so I don't know if she'd be
00:55:52.020open to talking about that um yeah she she is one of those witches that I feel gives me hope
00:56:01.480you know like when I met her it just was one of those moments of like yes and I met her like right
00:56:07.740when I moved to LA and it was at a it was at a spell casting that she was organizing where we
00:56:14.120were casting capitalism out of our systems and it was just one of those moments where and it was at
00:56:20.800an art space and you know she's an artist and so i i just remember meeting her and being like oh my
00:56:26.500god this is all coming together like this yeah so she definitely is one of those people that gives
00:56:34.300me hope and like i would say that also for the the huge community of witches in los angeles like
00:56:40.260they all give me hope there just because there's so many folks there who are organizing and
00:56:47.200creating realities and and you know I think that that's something that I really miss and something
00:56:53.740that I'm really glad you know that I'm going back to LA in a couple in next month and that'll be
00:56:59.180around witches and be around folks who do this work because you know there definitely are a lot
00:57:03.420of witches here but LA is like a critical mass right now you know yeah it's so interesting to
00:57:10.320carry that little seed with you plant it for a little bit and then get to go back and get
00:57:15.340replenished yeah um yeah Amy and I want to go to LA soon maybe it might be next year though
00:57:25.160next year I think um amazing well we'll have to like co-create something when you're there
00:57:30.240Oh, yeah, I can't wait. Oh, shivers. I asked you this over Instagram. I hope it's okay to ask you. I'll cut it out if you don't feel up for it. But I feel like you're already on the verge of casting a spell over our listeners. And I wondered if you would finish this podcast with a meditation or a message or a spell for us that we can carry forward today.
00:58:00.240Yes, I'll kind of share a spell that I feel like I tap into a lot. And it's been like a very transformative spell that helps me whenever I'm feeling like scared or alone or disconnected.
00:58:17.000um and so and it's also a spell that you could do you could be really like intentional and spend
00:58:25.280like 10 minutes doing it or you can do it in like a split second and i think that's something i
00:58:30.720really appreciate about this spell and so um for the spell if i'm able to i'll close my eyes
00:58:37.140and then i turn inward and i say divine within me or you could say goddess within me spirit within me
00:58:44.120and then you imagine your energy moving down into the earth you say earth beneath me then you
00:58:51.120imagine your energy moving up into the heavens you say sky above me and then you say love surround
00:58:58.260me and you imagine this like love enveloping you in this gorgeous org of energy and then i love to
00:59:07.140do this for the planet and even for the solar system or for the universe as a whole you say
00:59:13.640you know same divine within us and you imagine the divine within yourself and also within all
00:59:18.640the beings that surround you earth beneath us you imagine the earth beneath everyone sky above us
00:59:25.280love surround us and then at this point i love to just envision an orb of energy surrounding the
00:59:31.700entire earth the entire solar system or the universe and so really imbuing a protective
00:59:39.160loving energy that it just will surround wherever you are and I think this is something as I said
00:59:46.200you could kind of you know really stretch it out really let yourself kind of move into the
00:59:51.500visualizations of it that can be really powerful or if you're you know really needing it there's
00:59:57.360many times I've you know been on public transit or something like that I've just realized like
01:00:02.080I need a protection spell and I that's when I go to constantly just to kind of surround myself with
01:00:08.100love that's so beautiful thank you and thank you thank you so much for your time and your
01:00:15.860generosity today yeah thank you so much for having me I'm so grateful I know I'm also you know in all
01:00:23.500the work that you and Amy are doing and I just I want to just send my love to both of you and to
01:00:30.040your communities in Ontario and all over the globe too you know because I know a lot of people listen
01:00:34.700to your podcast from all over um yeah so much love from oklahoma uh and i'll leave you with
01:00:41.740this ridiculous and wonderful image i live in the woods in quebec as soon as amy north of
01:00:48.020north of montreal and i have a 10 month old and she only naps in the stroller or on the boob right
01:00:55.120now so i was walking her around the lake and she fell asleep and i parked her in front of this
01:01:01.100old trailer that we have that we're fixing up and then uh I heard in my head your um visualize it
01:01:11.140raining in the Amazon chant and then I danced around this lot with all of these you know wild
01:01:19.800blueberries and mosquitoes and just like danced it out chanting it quietly under my breath until
01:01:26.520the baby woke up and it was really fun and also really emotional and I thought of you
01:01:32.840oh my gosh thank you so much for sharing that we saw I really appreciate that
01:01:38.600oh my gosh yeah that's to me like that's rhizomatic magic right there right
01:01:46.580and if you've ever wanted a visceral experience of how difficult and impossible it actually is
01:01:55.880to fight a rhizome plant some oregano in your garden three years later try to get it out
01:02:02.320you're not going to and that is the power of us all0.73
01:02:06.180okay i gotta go the baby's here she needs the boob
01:02:13.680okay have a beautiful day you too so much love i can't wait to hug you in person one day soon