Missing Witches - May 09, 2022


You are Horse Kin Meditation

WF Asha Frost： You Are The Medicine WF Ana Tajder： Mother Wisdom and Mother Wounds

Episode Stats


Length

12 minutes

Words per minute

115.43

Word count

1,480

Sentence count

97

Harmful content

Misogyny

12

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Toxicity

13

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Hate speech

13

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Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Just a reminder that the Missing Witches fundraiser for Native Women's Shelters is happening now throughout the month of May.
00:00:09.520 Check out our website at www.missingwitches.com for all the details, and join us on Patreon at patreon.com slash missingwitches. 1.00
00:00:21.520 You aren't being a proper woman, therefore you must be a witch. 1.00
00:00:24.680 Be a witch! 1.00
00:00:26.020 Be a witch! 1.00
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00:00:28.260 You must be a witch. 0.99
00:00:30.000 Horses have evolved as prey animals. 0.72
00:00:40.960 Their instinctive flight response and much of their complex interaction with a herd
00:00:45.900 have grown from this basic premise.
00:00:50.120 Escape or be eaten. 1.00
00:00:53.880 They, like Ipsitaroa Chakraverti suggested of strong women and witches,
00:00:58.900 are hunted. Don't you feel like this? In some big or small way, saddled under the weight of
00:01:08.900 these interesting times of uncertainty and inequality, don't you sometimes feel like prey?
00:01:17.920 Like the only options are to escape or be eaten? Like maybe your only function is to carry the
00:01:26.180 world on your back. Your family, your boss, your friends taking on their weight to get them where
00:01:34.280 they're going faster. A beast of burden carrying expectations like sacks of grain. Like Boxer,
00:01:43.980 the horse from Animal Farm whose response to everything was, I will work harder. Like Boxer
00:01:50.860 who became glue. Maybe this accounts for the horse girl phenomenon, so common it's become a 0.96
00:01:58.960 meme defined thusly. A horse girl is someone whose life revolves around horses. Horse girls can be of 0.85
00:02:07.060 any age, although the term typically refers to young women, aged 10 to 29. In grade four, one 1.00
00:02:14.540 of my classmates decided she was a horse and proudly whinnied through lunch hour, flicking
00:02:20.480 her long yarn tail. Maybe young women love horses because they can relate, because they can be safe
00:02:27.940 with each other and ride together with wind in their manes, collaborating to temporarily escape
00:02:36.080 forced domesticity or worse. But think on this. The head of an equine herd in the wild is an older
00:02:46.580 mare, not a stallion. The lead mare is unambiguous in her communication, has the trust of other
00:02:54.440 members of the herd, and while her behavior might not always win her friends, she is always
00:03:00.660 respected. You are horse kin. Dr. Hangy presenting a review of her research at the Equine Research
00:03:11.900 Foundation into equine cognition, perception, behavior, and training to the annual convention
00:03:18.440 of the American Association of Equine Practitioners in 2005 said, people proclaim that horses react
00:03:25.740 only by instinct, that they are just conditioned response animals, that they lack advanced
00:03:33.000 cognitive ability, and that they have poor visual capabilities. However, most recently and
00:03:40.920 unexpected by many, Equine Research Foundation horses have solved advanced cognitive challenges
00:03:48.400 involving categorization learning and some degree of concept formation. Horses have been under
00:03:56.720 fucking estimated. They are smarter than people give them credit for. You too. Those who have 1.00
00:04:05.980 seen you as prey have no clue how smart and strong you are, how powerful you have always been.
00:04:14.520 Remember, inside every gentle horse is a wild horse. Abigail Boatwright, a horse trainer writing
00:04:22.360 for Horse Illustrated magazine, reminds us, inside every gentle horse is a wild horse.
00:04:29.920 inside every gentle witch is a wild horse too you are horse kin you are wild beyond all
00:04:45.000 domesticity present us whispering with a sugar cube and we may decide to give you a ride 0.83
00:04:52.540 help you carry your load. Come at us with a whip and we will buck you off our backs and trample you 1.00
00:05:00.380 till our hooves are bloody. We are horse kin. We are a stampede of freedom, wild, maned, and running 1.00
00:05:10.900 free. We are the mares of Diomedes, a herd of man-eating horses in Greek mythology, magnificent,
00:05:20.040 wild and uncontrollable. Some versions of the myth say that the mares also expelled fire when
00:05:29.480 they breathed. Inside every gentle horse is a wild horse. We are Epona's horses who were leaders of
00:05:37.860 the soul in the afterlife ride. Inside every gentle horse is a wild horse. Audre Lorde told
00:05:47.220 us if I didn't define myself for myself I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me
00:05:53.500 and eaten alive. So the choice arises again. Escape or be eaten. The British Museum suggests
00:06:05.300 that for 5,000 years the horse has been an ever-present ally in war and peace. Civilizations
00:06:14.480 have risen and fallen on their backs, and evidence of the horse's use is everywhere to be seen.
00:06:22.840 Yet somehow, following the increasing pace of mechanization in the 1930s, we have so
00:06:29.340 quickly forgotten how indebted we are to this animal. You are horse kin. How quickly we have
00:06:37.780 forgotten how indebted to you we are. How every witch has carried this world on her back, in war, 0.83
00:06:46.820 in peace, as soldiers and saviors, messengers. The first information highway was your sweat. 0.95
00:06:57.660 What else of you has been forgotten? What else of you has been diminished?
00:07:03.140 In her book, You Are the Medicine, Asha Frost tells this story.
00:07:11.120 It was early in my homeopathic practice days and I had a clipboard on my lap and was taking case
00:07:17.120 notes. The woman who sat before me was experiencing anxiety and depression. She expressed that she
00:07:24.040 felt lost and directionless. She hated her job and felt like she needed a change but couldn't
00:07:30.100 find the energy to make the change. As I listened to her speak, I saw a horse galloping around her. 0.90
00:07:37.880 It felt so real like a wind passing by my head, my hair lifting as it ran by. I remember wondering
00:07:45.420 why the heck I was seeing an animal. It wasn't my usual practice to share what I was seeing around
00:07:51.980 my clients, but this horse was very persistent. I nervously shared it with her and her face lit
00:07:59.860 up, she told me that she loved horseback riding as a child and it brought her so much joy. I asked
00:08:06.520 her to close her eyes and imagine her favorite horse standing before her. Her whole body shifted
00:08:14.100 before my eyes. Tears ran down her face and she told me that she couldn't believe she had forgotten
00:08:20.520 these parts of herself. I ended up prescribing a remedy for the anxiety and depression, which I do
00:08:26.760 believe supported her, but to this day, I believe that horse spirit was a huge part of her finding
00:08:32.980 her joy again. So let us escape together. Let us be wild, magnificent, and uncontrollable, strong,
00:08:48.480 smart, capable, and fast. Let us find our joy. Let us open our earliest eyes and see it galloping
00:08:57.620 around us. Let us lead souls to ride. Let us be the horses that Apache warrior Lozen rode into
00:09:05.440 battle, outlaws for a just cause, willing to join the fight, rearing up and plunging ahead to lead
00:09:13.900 the way. We are horse kin. We represent power, freedom, movement, evolution. We have witch power,
00:09:23.580 horsepower, tireless stamina. In Chinese mythology, the horse is a divine being
00:09:30.500 believed to be an embodiment or reincarnation of the universal god.
00:09:35.440 you are horse kin the embodiment of god etc so if we must wear shoes let them be lucky
00:09:47.560 in the irish story of the blacksmith and the devil one day a blacksmith was forging horseshoes
00:09:53.560 the devil appeared and demanded his own shoes for his own hooves the blacksmith recognizing the
00:10:00.500 took a burning hot shoe and nailed it deep into the devil's hooves. After walking away, the devil
00:10:07.040 was in such excruciating pain he ripped the horseshoes off and swore he would never go near
00:10:12.780 one again. Thus, the tradition of hanging a horseshoe over the entrance of a house to ward
00:10:18.380 off evil spirits was born. Other legends say that witches were so afraid of iron horseshoes they
00:10:26.340 traveled on broomsticks instead of horseback. Because we are wild at heart. We fear domestication,
00:10:35.240 the implication of ownership or servitude. We are horse kin. We ride brooms. Inside every gentle
00:10:46.080 horse is a wild horse. In She Had Some Horses, poet Joy Harjo, the incumbent United States poet
00:10:56.000 laureate the first native american to hold that honor wrote she had horses who called themselves
00:11:02.360 horse she had horses who called themselves spirit and kept their voices secret into themselves
00:11:10.580 she had horses who had no names she had horses who had books of names
00:11:17.700 inside every gentle horse is a wild horse be a show pony or a trojan horse with a secret power
00:11:29.580 hidden inside inside every gentle horse is a wild horse call yourself spirit call yourself horse
00:11:40.060 Find your joy again. Be very persistent. Run wild. You are horse kin.
00:12:10.060 you aren't being a proper woman therefore you must be a witch 1.00
00:12:23.160 you must be a witch 1.00
00:12:28.040 just a reminder that the missing witches fundraiser for native women's shelters
00:12:34.340 is happening now throughout the month of may
00:12:37.720 Check out our website at www.missingwitches.com for all the details and join us on Patreon at patreon.com slash missingwitches.