Missing Witches - May 16, 2022


You Are Vixen Kin Meditation

Topics
vixen kin
WF Ana Tajder： Mother Wisdom and Mother Wounds WF Michaela A. Harrison： We Are One

Episode Stats


Length

16 minutes

Words per minute

120.05

Word count

1,930

Sentence count

99

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Misogyny

17

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Toxicity

26

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Hate speech

44

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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.
00:00:09.020 Check out our website at www.missingwitches.com for all the details, and join us on Patreon at patreon.com slash missingwitches. 1.00
00:00:21.020 You aren't being a proper woman, therefore you must be a witch. 1.00
00:00:24.200 Be a witch! 1.00
00:00:25.620 Be a witch! 1.00
00:00:25.860 Be a witch! 1.00
00:00:26.680 Be a witch! 1.00
00:00:27.060 Be a witch! 1.00
00:00:27.780 You must be a witch. 1.00
00:00:30.000 You little vixen you, wily ass, cunning ass, hunted, trapped, biting back, sexy, wicked, smart, magic, you are definitely vixen kin. 1.00
00:00:51.520 the dreams have changed instead of swarming bees may's been dreaming of foxes 1.00
00:00:59.120 little three-year-old yelps in the night she sits up and tells me they are peering over the edge of
00:01:05.340 her bed they are inside the house and outside too they are sniffing and lifting their legs
00:01:11.860 to pee she says she insists she is not sleeping this is real life this is real life they are
00:01:19.960 circling. They are calling us out. Follow scent and dreams and a feeling in your body back to
00:01:28.420 this vixen kinship. Feel down the lines of DNA deep time to where we are woven together in
00:01:37.480 strands of sleeping relation. We are circling. We are calling each other out into the twilight.
00:01:46.400 No matter who you are descended from, there is a route back through the generations to those foxes circling in the night, peering over the edge of the bed.
00:01:57.180 If you are, like me, descendants of settler colonizers, Vikings, Freemasons, cunning women,
00:02:04.380 the working girl sorority of North Bay, Ontario,
00:02:07.740 and also the Iroquois Larkin sisters six generations back
00:02:11.760 who led my great-great-great-grandfather across the great-great-great lakes
00:02:17.220 and left a haunting underneath the skin,
00:02:20.440 even if you are an unrooted, mixed-up little kit,
00:02:23.380 you can still find your kinship
00:02:26.020 with these red tails loping down alleyways, I think.
00:02:31.040 You can listen to the yelps in the twilight.
00:02:35.300 Build relationships with species
00:02:37.060 carried around the world by colonizers
00:02:39.040 to be hunted for sport,
00:02:41.660 farmed for their fur.
00:02:44.260 The fox hunt and fur farms fade out of fashion 0.99
00:02:47.200 just like the tacky, pathetic hoarder billionaires 0.99
00:02:50.120 whose worldview we reject. 1.00
00:02:53.720 Foxes smile.
00:02:56.940 Research shows they generally manage to keep their own populations in balance. 1.00
00:03:02.540 We know when it's safe to bring kids into these environments, thank you very much, and fuck you. 0.99
00:03:09.520 And so British cities have abandoned attempts to control them. 0.99
00:03:12.480 And anyway, it turns out they're excellent garden companions, keeping rats and mice at bay.
00:03:18.580 in places where they are invasive
00:03:21.280 like feral cats
00:03:22.820 a danger to the indigenous population 0.99
00:03:24.900 attempts to scale both back 1.00
00:03:27.100 have been repeatedly successful 1.00
00:03:28.760 as science learns to work with indigenous
00:03:31.300 experts within communities
00:03:32.900 to find the right balance for each place
00:03:35.440 we insist
00:03:37.220 smiling
00:03:38.360 but with our teeth out
00:03:40.860 a balance is
00:03:43.400 possible
00:03:44.360 we are learning to listen to the many ways of balance
00:03:48.720 Maybe for us, invader relations, it starts, as Dr. Zoe Todd told us,
00:03:54.740 by building kinship with invasive species.
00:03:59.460 But we start at the places where invasive, farmed, hunted, and wild can catename.
00:04:06.540 And listen there, for vixen medicine.
00:04:11.820 In Carol Giglotti's graphic novel, Trump and the Animals, a fable for the present,
00:04:16.740 the animals gather in terror at the mounting devastation of the world
00:04:20.860 and in a desperate attempt to reach us
00:04:23.320 they decide to use our dreams
00:04:25.700 they are peering over the edge of the bed
00:04:29.580 they are inside and outside
00:04:33.640 they speak with scent and color
00:04:38.440 in the smallest movements of their ears and tails
00:04:41.940 with a whimper for their parents
00:04:45.060 or a bark to gather their children home, they speak.
00:04:49.320 Foxes make at least 28 different types of call in the wild,
00:04:52.540 at least according to our domesticated ears.
00:04:56.180 When domesticated, foxes keep their childhood whimper into adulthood.
00:04:59.960 But in the wild, their voices grow stronger.
00:05:04.960 They leave the whimper fawn behind and snarl and snap and bark.
00:05:10.720 I have been domesticated.
00:05:12.480 Have you, my vixen kin?
00:05:17.100 Curtailing my true voice, apologizing
00:05:20.400 Gathering favor and safety with my tail curled and gentle pleading
00:05:26.720 But I see the foxes out here in the evening
00:05:30.320 Serious jaws, laughing eyes, just on the edges of the shadows
00:05:35.520 I smell them in the place in the woods where glaciers tumbled enormous ancient stones
00:05:41.520 and made hundreds of wild nooks, moss-covered.
00:05:46.300 The smell is talking.
00:05:49.100 I feel them quicken me, sharpen me.
00:05:54.000 Call me out to the glacier memory, the stone stories.
00:05:58.740 They are peering over the edges of our dreams.
00:06:02.140 They are drawing out our real voices.
00:06:04.900 the gathering of foxes is called an earth an earth of foxes the smell is ripe like coffee
00:06:16.340 once you know the smell you recognize it immediately here though we can't see them
00:06:21.920 vixen kin are everywhere you are here in the edges in between in the earth in the hollows 1.00
00:06:32.260 you are everywhere if you have been in touch with your dangerous femme self 0.94
00:06:40.180 your foxy lady you share their name you flirt with the edges of possibility 0.96
00:06:48.700 you have a dangerous attractive power that is yours alone and all of ours
00:06:56.860 you are defiant
00:06:59.240 you are cunning
00:07:00.660 you are smirking
00:07:02.600 you are knowing
00:07:03.940 you are multiple and of the earth 1.00
00:07:07.480 you are vixen kin 1.00
00:07:09.940 and vixen kin are calling out 1.00
00:07:13.660 to our collective 1.00
00:07:15.540 messy, troubled
00:07:17.760 liberation
00:07:19.120 farmed for what makes us beautiful
00:07:21.900 hunted for fun 0.99
00:07:24.300 slurred for our sex
00:07:26.320 we are vixen kin 0.57
00:07:29.180 we are an earth of vixens
00:07:32.100 vixen laughing in the twilight
00:07:34.500 in the hollows of the earth
00:07:35.980 twitching our tails
00:07:37.220 smiling through our sharp teeth
00:07:38.860 and golden eyes
00:07:39.940 you are slipping down alleyways
00:07:43.240 you are tumbled together
00:07:45.000 sharing your love
00:07:46.200 feasting in the dark 1.00
00:07:47.460 you are vixen kin
00:07:50.160 in initiated
00:07:52.640 Amanda Yates Garcia writes
00:07:54.600 renee descartes exemplar of western philosophy and forefather of the enlightenment is most
00:08:01.980 remembered for his axiom cogito ergo soon i think therefore i exist but he argued the existence of
00:08:08.940 anything else must necessarily be doubted the earth might be a trick your lover might not really
00:08:14.420 be there other beings could all be a mirage but you dear individual thinking man you exist for
00:08:21.580 sure. On a roll, Descartes continued by saying that animals are basically organic machines that
00:08:27.960 cannot think or feel pain. It's pointless to feel compassion for them, he said, and from his
00:08:33.100 argument, so celebrated within the canon of Western philosophy, evolved things like chattel
00:08:38.300 slavery, factory farms, and the slash and burn of the Amazon. For Descartes, only humans, white male 0.58
00:08:45.460 land-owning humans in particular have minds and souls, and thus only they have rights to 0.70
00:08:51.880 consideration. But even in the 17th century, but even in the 17th century, children knew
00:09:00.400 that the world was speaking, calling out for love. Just because we don't understand what
00:09:07.740 the animals are saying doesn't mean they're not saying anything. I remember telling my mother as
00:09:12.180 a child, as we were driving through the eucalyptus groves of San Luis, watching the hawks circle
00:09:18.400 through the lazy sunshine. We're just not listening right. How do we learn to listen
00:09:23.940 right? Maybe we begin by following the dreams of our children, our own childhood dreams.
00:09:32.100 Animals hit us like electricity when we're kids. They shudder us. We hear them.
00:09:37.260 foxes speak with scent saying this space or even this other fox is known and claimed and not alone
00:09:46.500 so i whisper to may that the foxes are making circles of protection around her
00:09:51.140 i like to think that they are circling and marking her as one of theirs known protected 0.55
00:09:57.500 she yells in that three-year-old way that is apropos of nothing and total nonsense and also 0.75
00:10:04.640 nail-on-head correct. They aren't gods, they're real. And I agree. In Japanese folklore, the word
00:10:13.580 for foxes is also the word for fox spirits who gather magics as they age. Kitsune are shapeshifters, 0.97
00:10:21.040 tricksters, guardians. Holy in Shinto time, witch animals during the Edo period, when women also 1.00
00:10:29.660 lost legal rights to own property 0.98
00:10:31.620 and a man could kill his wife
00:10:33.520 for being lazy. 1.00
00:10:36.360 Foxes have fought
00:10:37.820 misogyny and fascism
00:10:39.820 before.
00:10:42.460 Tituba calls out
00:10:43.460 and Maurice Conde is channeled telling of her life. 0.88
00:10:46.360 Do you know what a witch really is? 0.96
00:10:49.140 Holy 1.00
00:10:49.660 witch shapeshifter. 1.00
00:10:52.680 Why?
00:10:53.560 Pam Grossman wrote, show me your feelings about witches 1.00
00:10:55.940 and I'll show you your feelings about women. 0.90
00:10:58.920 Show us your feelings about women and we'll show you your feelings about the very earth.
00:11:03.140 An earth of foxes, writhing to pleasure and family and sharp teeth.
00:11:07.820 Wicked and magic, lazy and wild, call us what you like.
00:11:12.780 Our spirit remains the same.
00:11:15.620 Other powers attributed to Kitsune include possession.
00:11:19.220 The ability to start a fire with a tail or to breathe fire.
00:11:23.700 The power to enter your dreams.
00:11:25.900 the ability to create complex illusions that are almost indistinguishable from reality.
00:11:33.800 You are sparking fires.
00:11:36.920 You are entering dreams and calling forth a new reality.
00:11:41.460 Your real voice is breaking free.
00:11:45.860 We are not a dream. We are real.
00:11:49.840 Not gods, but guides. Not gods. Real.
00:11:54.400 No masters, only tricksters.
00:11:57.500 We are vixen kin.
00:12:00.080 The non-binary kami, one of the infinite holy powers of Shintoism,
00:12:04.780 Inari Okami, is a young fertility goddess.
00:12:08.640 And also an old man with a bag of grain.
00:12:12.300 And also an androgynous seeker and holy person.
00:12:15.980 And also a fox.
00:12:20.280 They are the non-binary spirit of both rice and sake. 0.99
00:12:23.660 of that change of states, that phase transition, that shapeshift,
00:12:29.260 fermentation, and transubstantiation.
00:12:33.480 They are beautiful and biting teeth and tricks.
00:12:37.800 Patriarchs might discourage the association of kitsune with inari. 0.63
00:12:42.120 Foxes bite and steal and smell of soil and sex,
00:12:45.280 but we are holy kinship nonetheless.
00:12:49.980 Canids are unusual among mammals because most species are monogamous
00:12:53.280 and paternal care is also common.
00:12:56.060 Although small foxes are typically socially monogamous,
00:12:58.900 they can form polygamous trios or more complex social groups
00:13:02.520 when resources are abundant.
00:13:06.080 Fox fathers and mothers share care, love their children,
00:13:10.780 and when resources are abundant, they multiply their love and pleasure. 0.67
00:13:16.380 Maybe they remember a different shape of family,
00:13:18.620 shapes that abundance makes possible
00:13:22.100 after the capitalist terrorizing lie of scarcity
00:13:26.100 maybe they can help us remember how to lean on each other
00:13:30.580 to ease into the unboundedness of fertility
00:13:34.100 and shared prosperity
00:13:35.780 an earth that has enough when resources are shared
00:13:41.220 this fox blessing in May sends you
00:13:44.180 an earth full of love
00:13:45.760 an abundance of resources
00:13:48.900 shapes of pleasure and family
00:13:52.720 that amplify your joyful tumble
00:13:55.120 your moonlit ease
00:13:56.720 you are foxkin 0.94
00:13:59.260 run your tongue over your sharp teeth 1.00
00:14:02.620 and smile
00:14:03.740 roll your fur
00:14:06.520 stretch like a wild thing 0.99
00:14:10.760 you are vixenkin
00:14:13.700 we are vixen kin
00:14:16.200 we are coming to you in dreams
00:14:18.560 we are shifting our shapes and remembering
00:14:21.600 widening our circles and definitions
00:14:24.020 of family, pleasure, love, companionship, resistance
00:14:29.120 moving our collectives into the earth 1.00
00:14:32.800 we are vixen, dangerous women 1.00
00:14:36.640 fertile goddesses, men with ancient grain 1.00
00:14:40.640 androgynous ancestors holding sacred queer lineage 0.99
00:14:44.680 we are fox-faced
00:14:46.280 loving and living beyond imaginary boundaries
00:14:49.820 finding new balances
00:14:51.800 making our cities wild
00:14:54.460 we are vixen kin
00:14:57.760 we are an earth
00:15:00.620 watch for us down dark islands
00:15:05.020 at the corners of this world
00:15:07.680 another world is coming
00:15:09.680 Listen for us, whispering to you in your dreams
00:15:14.840 You are vixen, Kim 1.00
00:15:35.520 You aren't being a proper woman, therefore you must be a witch 1.00
00:15:38.660 you must be a witch 1.00
00:15:43.540 just a reminder that the missing witches fundraiser for native women's shelters
00:15:49.840 is happening now throughout the month of may check out our website at
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