Missing Witches - You Are Willow Kin Meditation

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00:00:12.560 You aren't being a proper woman, therefore you must be a witch. 1.00

00:00:19.120 You must be a witch. 1.00

00:00:30.000 We'll be right back. 0.97

00:01:00.000 the japanese willow is wild by end of summer taking over that whole corner of the garden

00:01:13.240 and you have to push through it with both hands to round the corner up the stone path

00:01:18.540 to the woodsheds in the road she eats the path and makes a complex passage in a way

00:01:25.260 that makes one of her beloveds, Witch Mother Hecate, happy, I think.

00:01:30.700 And sometimes she whispers to you in there.

00:01:34.620 But today, end of March, she's still buried to her slender necks in snow.

00:01:42.720 I see her sturdy, older branches, grey-brown and patient,

00:01:46.840 lifting up their chins as mist and wind whip round in all her young, new shoots.

00:01:53.020 So unlikely in the snow.

00:01:55.260 Dance in every direction, bright orange against the gray sky, gray snow.

00:02:01.940 They know.

00:02:03.620 They know.

00:02:05.420 They know.

00:02:07.360 They know you are a willow spirit.

00:02:11.140 And you know it too, don't you?

00:02:14.280 When you see a willow, doesn't your heart sing and sigh with a nostalgia that goes back before your earliest memories?

00:02:21.640 DNA memories?

00:02:22.580 some trees just wear their hearts on their sleeves

00:02:26.740 some trees wear their hearts on their sleeves

00:02:31.340 willow bends but doesn't break

00:02:35.060 she's used for instruments and cricket bats 0.93

00:02:39.760 and living weavings and leaky baskets 1.00

00:02:42.420 she seeps past her usefulness

00:02:45.980 weeps past containment

00:02:48.640 laughs past productivity

00:02:51.560 and speaks right to your rustling heart.

00:02:57.060 When Monet sees her,

00:02:59.360 he sees her kinship with the sunlight and the water

00:03:01.940 and the gentle movement of dresses and bodies in the garden.

00:03:12.020 Mythology is rich with women turned to willows,

00:03:14.680 but you're not trapped in a tree for want of a lover to rescue you. 0.87

00:03:19.120 No.

00:03:19.500 You are willow kin

00:03:22.400 Whose genes remember what it is to sway

00:03:25.260 To weep

00:03:27.380 To swing your hopes and sorrows with equal grace

00:03:31.440 To take over the garden

00:03:33.820 To intimately know a place

00:03:36.720 And feel the passing heartache and happiness

00:03:39.840 Of every life that passes through your embrace

00:03:42.920 You are a woman in Mayumiota's painted world

00:03:47.840 Smiling 1.00

00:03:48.700 eyes closed

00:03:50.620 half dressed in the warm air

00:03:53.240 turtle at her feet

00:03:55.680 long willow strands

00:03:58.220 glancing against her 0.85

00:03:59.680 talking to the her

00:04:02.140 that exceeds containment

00:04:03.740 in gentle movement

00:04:05.320 the spiral of spirit mind

00:04:08.920 mind body that gently glows

00:04:11.180 from belly, breast, breath

00:04:13.800 the wheel of dharma turning

00:04:16.860 you are willow spirit kin

00:04:23.300 whose body remembers

00:04:25.920 the shushing murmuration

00:04:27.440 of every part of you

00:04:28.620 speaking with the wind

00:04:29.880 as wind

00:04:31.340 in wind

00:04:32.820 you are willow spirit kin

00:04:36.860 you are willow spirit kin

00:04:41.900 you are willow kin

00:04:46.380 today you feel in all your small hairs and gentle fingers willow wisdom

00:05:00.840 you are growing in unlikely places even when parts of you are in the deep cold whether the

00:05:10.500 weather is external or inside. Even in the gray mist, you have a yellow and orange shoot of

00:05:16.820 laughter that sparkles off the top of your head and surprises you. And with a curled smile, you

00:05:23.360 know again, though you keep forgetting, that your unfurling is inevitable. Your unfurling is inevitable.

00:05:34.980 Your unfurling is inevitable.

00:05:40.500 today your inevitable unfurling may be an imaginary just a quick new shoot in the cold

00:05:49.980 just a spark in the dark but your imagination cracks ice and stone and knows the pink spring 0.99

00:05:57.860 comes at last you crack past ice and fucking stone with your roots unseen in the dark you 1.00

00:06:05.420 gentle bowing willow kin, you weird tree spirit thing. You are of willow people and you bend 1.00

00:06:15.540 and you weep and you take in the breath of all the wind. And it gives you a different

00:06:21.620 kind of resilience. You weep and laugh and dance and cannot be contained. And you are

00:06:30.460 unbroken by your past.

00:06:35.420 This is what the Willow Spirit knows

00:06:40.540 She always weeps and dances both

00:06:43.840 You, her spirit kin, are walking around, unrooted

00:06:49.300 Remembering the wind and strings of pearly leaves

00:06:53.420 Carrying her seeds and songs

00:06:55.720 An embodied way of walking through the gray days with grace

00:06:59.860 Feel the breeze of your mind

00:07:04.620 move through your dendrites and nervous system.

00:07:10.840 Feel your breath like a wind in your internal world of bright shoots

00:07:16.400 and long swaying knees.

00:07:22.620 And know, in all your old growth bones,

00:07:28.460 this truth alongside all the others,

00:07:31.480 you are willow kin

00:07:35.260 they know

00:07:38.460 you are willow spirit kin

00:07:42.840 your unfurling is inevitable

00:07:47.560 you are willow kin 0.98

00:07:51.720 you are willow kin

00:08:01.480 Thank you.

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Missing Witches - March 28, 2022

You Are Willow Kin Meditation

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