Missing Witches

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Lughnasadh Meditation: If You Want To Say Yes, Say Yes Aug 04, 2021

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Field recordings as meditation from this Lammastide weekend. Amy and Risa gather with thoughtful friends around a fire to sing and cook and think and play and celebrate the bright harvest and the coming dark. Missing Witches is a feminist history of magic podcast exploring the meeting place of spirituality, activism, and art practice. Join us for deeply researched, scripted histories and meditations on historical figures, uncovering what their stories teach us about modern witchcraft today. We feature interviews with real practitioners across diverse magical, pagan, occult, and spiritual traditions—digging into tarot, astrology, divination, herbalism, and our relationships with plant medicine and the more-than-human world. Whether you are a science-loving feminist witch or someone longing for the re-enchantment of the world, you’ve found your people. • Join our International Online Coven: Connect with an intentional community of modern witches at missingwitches.com. • Subscribe & Support: Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify to help other seekers find us! The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

WF Rebecca Barnstaple and Joseph Fx DeSouza: Dance Is A Healing Medicine Jul 23, 2021

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https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Joseph-Desouza-2

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https://www.rebeccabarnstaple.com/

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https://homepage.univie.ac.at/tecumseh.fitch/

Missing Witches is a feminist history of magic podcast exploring the meeting place of spirituality, activism, and art practice. Join us for deeply researched, scripted histories and meditations on historical figures, uncovering what their stories teach us about modern witchcraft today. We feature interviews with real practitioners across diverse magical, pagan, occult, and spiritual traditions—digging into tarot, astrology, divination, herbalism, and our relationships with plant medicine and the more-than-human world.

Whether you are a science-loving feminist witch or someone longing for the re-enchantment of the world, you’ve found your people.

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WF LITHA 2021 Earth Bound Futures: QUEER The Heroes Journey and Find Your Inner Ally Jun 20, 2021

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For solstice and as a celebration of STRENGTH this Litha, we spoke with Tanya and Skye of Earthbound Futures. Honestly it took me forever to edit because I kept writing down astonishing things they said. Here are a few: Something I am learning from disability justice advocates is that there’s no healing for me if there’s not healing for the larger systems in the world... That’s the queering of the hero’s journey for me. I don’t want to fight something. I want to get together with other people and creatively destroy the systems and the structures that are keeping the world inaccessible and keeping us sick and making us sick. ... I feel like I’m trying to get in touch with a body that society has tried to make me dissociate from in so many ways. Growing a beard at 11 was so confusing. It was such a big secret, a secret that I’ve been holding on to, I was 32 when I started growing my beard and when I did that I feel like I unlocked all my queer ancestors. Be who you are. Smash that binary. I’m a bearded woman, I embody both energies. Missing Witches is a feminist history of magic podcast exploring the meeting place of spirituality, activism, and art practice. Join us for deeply researched, scripted histories and meditations on historical figures, uncovering what their stories teach us about modern witchcraft today. We feature interviews with real practitioners across diverse magical, pagan, occult, and spiritual traditions—digging into tarot, astrology, divination, herbalism, and our relationships with plant medicine and the more-than-human world. Whether you are a science-loving feminist witch or someone longing for the re-enchantment of the world, you’ve found your people. • Join our International Online Coven: Connect with an intentional community of modern witches at missingwitches.com. • Subscribe & Support: Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify to help other seekers find us! The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

JUNETEENTH w Lakeesha Harris: Brave Together Jun 19, 2021

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https://www.missingwitches.com/2021/06/19/ep94-juneteenth-w-lakeesha-harris-brave-together/

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What Is A Shaman? Panel & FUNDRAISER May 11, 2021

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https://www.missingwitches.com/2021/05/11/what-is-a-shaman-panel-fundraiser/

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BELTANE 2021 w Amy & Risa: Turning and Burning May 01, 2021

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In this episode, Amy and Risa take a patented Missing Witches Spiral of conversation around the Beltane Bonfire of Imagination. We dance around our future plans, our May fundraiser for Native Women's Shelters (KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR THIS, WE'VE GOT SOME AMAZING RAFFLE PRIZES FOR DONORS), and our love of fire, literal and metaphorical. Turning (the Wheel) and Burning (the system). Image by Amy: We officially launched our Instagram on Beltane 2018 and I made some digital art for that post, so I figured I'd honour the anniversary with another digital bonfire. Missing Witches is a feminist history of magic podcast exploring the meeting place of spirituality, activism, and art practice. Join us for deeply researched, scripted histories and meditations on historical figures, uncovering what their stories teach us about modern witchcraft today. We feature interviews with real practitioners across diverse magical, pagan, occult, and spiritual traditions—digging into tarot, astrology, divination, herbalism, and our relationships with plant medicine and the more-than-human world. Whether you are a science-loving feminist witch or someone longing for the re-enchantment of the world, you’ve found your people. • Join our International Online Coven: Connect with an intentional community of modern witches at missingwitches.com. • Subscribe & Support: Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify to help other seekers find us! The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

WF Annwyn Avalon - We Are The Sacred Chalice And The Sacred Well Apr 28, 2021

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http://www.waterwitchcraft.com/

Water Walkers

https://www.protectthesacred.care/

Whether you are a science-loving feminist witch or someone longing for the re-enchantment of the world, you’ve found your people.

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MW Scott Cunningham - There Can Be No Monopoly On Wisdom Apr 25, 2021

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This episode was produced with research support from the incomparable Amy Townes Booth.

Works Cited

Cunningham, Scott. Earth Power: Techniques of Natural Magic. Llewellyn Publications; 1st edition (May 8 2013)

Cunningham, Scott. The Truth About Witchcraft Today . Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 1994.

Cunningham. Scott. Wicca: A Guide For the Solitary Practitioner. Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn Publications,2004

Kraig, Donald Michael. The Magical Life of Scott Cunningham. Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 2012.

Wilkens, John. “Chet Cunningham, Author Who Defied Writer's Block by Churning out 450 Books, Dies at 88.” Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2017, 9:55am, www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-chet-cunningham-20170324-story.html.

Hagerty, James R. “Chet Cunningham's Advice to Writers: 'Put Your Butt in the Chair and Do It'.” The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones & Company, 31 Mar. 2017, 12:25pm, www.wsj.com/articles/cunninghams-advice-to-writers-put-your-butt-in-the-chair-and-do-it-1490968800.

Martin, L.J. “Remembering Chet Cunningham.” Wolfpack Publishing, 5 Aug. 2017, wolfpackpublishing.com/remembering-chet-cunningham/.

Ashworth, Christine. “Scott Cunningham.” Christine Ashworth, christine-ashworth.com/scott-cunningham/.

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Whether you are a science-loving feminist witch or someone longing for the re-enchantment of the world, you’ve found your people.

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The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

WF Emmie Tsumura - You Have To Believe In Magic Apr 21, 2021

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https://www.missingwitches.com/2021/04/21/89-wf-emmie-tsumura-you-have-to-believe-in-magic/

Whether you are a science-loving feminist witch or someone longing for the re-enchantment of the world, you’ve found your people.

• Join our International Online Coven: Connect with an intentional community of modern witches at missingwitches.com.

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The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

MW Mayumi Oda - I Opened The Gate, Laughing Apr 18, 2021

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https://www.missingwitches.com/2021/04/18/88-mayumi-oda-i-opened-the-gate-laughing/

Whether you are a science-loving feminist witch or someone longing for the re-enchantment of the world, you’ve found your people.

• Join our International Online Coven: Connect with an intentional community of modern witches at missingwitches.com.

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The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

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