This year, we're celebrating Samhain, the halfway point between the autumn equinox and winter solstice, with two Gorgons and a Lunar Priestess: Maria Molteni, Vin Caponigro, and Laura Campagna! We talk about Samhain energy, the power of collaboration, art as spirituality, art as politics, public art, public ritual, rewriting prayers, heirloom magic, tearing down monuments, and how to conjure Medusa consciousness. Together we revisit and celebrate their 2023 Gateway to Infinity project...

Today, I’m adding Black Hen Powder, Polvo de Gallina Negra, to our shared apothecary, to our botanica of story spells we can conjure when we need a boost of magical, creative inspiration. I offer up Polvo de Gallina Negra, a feminist art collective from 1980s Mexico, sometimes hailed as the first feminist art group in Mexico, who used magic, laughter, intellect and art to change the world. In 1983, in the streets of Mexico City, two witches whose craft was forged in the kiln of art and...

Today we're joined by the one and only - Witch of all trades - practitioner and scholar, choreographer, film maker, YouTuber, author of many incredible books including the brand new Tarot Every Witch Way: Unlock the Power of the Cards for Spellcraft & Magic, Lilith Dorsey! We talk about the transformative nature of 'shock value', from NYC Club Kids to the films of Jodorowsky, and being proud weirdos. We talk about how witchcraft can be a tool of protection and empowerment, and a mode of...

Anarchist, philosopher, mystic, revolutionary. I’ve seen many exciting words used to draw the portrait of Simone Weil. But the moment I read her described as “the patron saint of all outsiders,” by André Gide, I knew I needed to add Simone Weil to the Missing Witches pantheon of witches, weirdos, mystics, imagineers and imperfect rebels. I knew I needed to read her work. Simone wrote, ““Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.” So let’s pay attention to Simone today, in...

This week we're getting embodied with Mel Gutierrez, yoga teacher, a personal trainer, energy healer, co-author of Exposing Yoga Myths, and scientific-minded body researcher who also believes in the realness of magical practices.  We discuss what it means to be a Witch, and further, what it means to be a Body Witch. Together we explore empowerment, pain, pleasure, religion, self-love, quantum physics, and taking Yoga 'off the mat' to view compassion as part of a yoga practice. Mel wants us...

For me in my life, music has always been magic. The greatest source of it - a mystical well where I, with my meager human shaped bucket, can, at any time in any place, gather that elixir to hydrate my soul. And as we at Missing Witches also gather names to add to the list of people who help us define what magic is, what a soul is, what it might mean to be a Witch, I hear the music of Alice Coltrane. Alice Coltrane who, no stranger to loss, found music, and found God. Alice released or...

This week, we're joined by Briana Pegado, author of Make Good Trouble: A Practical Guide To The Energetics of Disruption, and contributor to The Modern Craft: Powerful Voices on Witchcraft Ethics. We talk about Samhain rituals, recovering from burnout, Theta Energy, moving toward an Age Of Sustainment, what it means to Make Good Trouble, and healing our own stuff before trying to heal the world. Briana is a Witch and a disruptor looking to create space for fellow disruptors who want to meet...

Note: This episode originally went live with the raw audio file from the original voice recording - glitches, gulps, and all - instead of the version which I had lovingly laboured to edit. While this feels appropriate to the vibe these days, I'm happy to have the real one out in the world now. Thanks for your patience, see you on the other side. oxR Today we follow that fire. Walking ahead of us here, carrying a torch through the dark, is June Jordan.

Today we continue with Earth. Because after I’ve been running in rivers all over the place, melting, pouring, I need to figure out how to be solid again. This is an episode about holding onto the world, about grounding, digging into the soil, hitting the ground. This is an episode about Earth, and my priestess in this dark forest is fellow breast cancer dancer, ecologist Suzanne Simard.

Usually here at Missing Witches starting at the Fall Equinox we begin a 6 episode season telling stories of real people who help us understand what we mean these days when we cackle and invoke witchcraft. But this summer I was diagnosed with cancer. We’re here, we want to be here with you, and we come bearing stories; but we can’t guarantee what shapes they’ll take. They’re still metastasizing. I’m going to begin with a miniature Cancer season, episodes drawn from the elements, and there...

The Missing Witches podcast is back from our much needed hiatus to celebrate the Fall Equinox - a time when light and dark are in balance. Our guests Maria Minnis author of Tarot for the Hard Work, and Lane Smith author of 78 Acts of Liberation help us, like the light of the sun and the darkness of night, to find a balance between our internal and external worlds, using Tarot as a tool for political and personal liberation. The personal is political AND the political is personal. Together...

For the halfway point between Summer Solstice and Fall Equinox, sometimes known as Lammas or Lughnasadh, we're talking about Rituals. - inventing and creating them, and/or studying and learning from books and traditions. How can we use both modes to cultivate a ritual practice in our lives? We at Missing Witches are big believers in creativity, invention, improvisation and imagination, but we also believe in a long and tried history of practices that have been passed on from generation to...

MISSING WITCHES IS GOING ON HIATUS FOR AUGUST. Or as I prefer to think of it: SABBATical! We usually take a break in August to re-energize and prepare for Witch Season in the fall, but this summer has been hard, so we especially need a bit of time off. Our members-only Coven space will still be active, and our dear friend Holly will be keeping tabs on shop.missingwitches.com for your back to school shopping. AND we just put a new design in the Coven-only section of the store so go take a...

It's just me this week, but I'm not alone, because you're with me. xoAmy Amy's first prescription is an instagram post from Austin Channing Brown, who acknowledges that This Is A Lot: "You're not imagining it. You're not overreacting. You're not being melodramatic. Your body isn't lying to you about how heavy it all feels. It can be helpful to see how systems of violence are all connected but it can also be overwhelming. It can feel like you exist under a weighted blanket- it's hard to move,...

This week's prescription begins with a surprise drop in from Risa who delivers some great news - she finally got results from a barrage of tests that show 1. her cancer is the curable kind and 2. it doesn't live in her DNA so it won't be passed to her daughter. BLESSED F*****G BE. While she waited for this call, Risa has been bingeing British mysteries, soothed by stories where questions are always answered, mysteries are solved and everything works out in the end. She recommends Vera who,...

As always, the first prescription this week is to send beams of radiant light to Risa. Her surgery is coming up, and she needs all the love we can send. Amy is joined by Holly, founder of Entrepreneur Outliers, who comes armed with a song to uplift all of us feeling f****d up over a barrage of baffling choices from SCOTUS and beyond. Holly's prescription is All You Fascists Bound To Lose - originally written by classic protest folkie Woody Guthrie - as performed by the Resistance Revival...

Risa is awaiting more test results so, as always, the first prescription this week is to send good energy her way. She has said that she feels these golden strands of love surrounding her - let's keep weaving this web of protection. Amy is joined by coven mate Killian (they/them), founder of Death Tinted Glasses - check out their website and instagram - who's first prescription this week is to bathe ourselves in the spirit of rebellion. Think on your favourite rebels past and present, and...

Risa is doing doctor's appointments but sent a prescription that might sound a bit niche: sing Hallelujah with clowns playing ukuleles. It happened to her in a hospital waiting room and we both agree that the experience was a good omen for her recovery! To help out with this week's prescription, Amy is joined by a special guest Witch, Brienne AKA Molten Hot Cosmic Witch. Bri is harvesting the magical fruits of compassion so her prescription is: Love Always, Never Revenge. Bri has had to...

It's a double occasion party! Amy is joined by Sonia Fernández LeBlanc, Zoe Flowers, and the MW Coven to celebrate Litha the Summer Solstice and an early birthday party for the Missing Witches Deck Of Oracles. We talk about the whys and ways or cartomancy and open the floor to pull cards and do readings to answer questions from the Coven. Sonia Fernández LeBlanc is a medicinal storyteller, contemplative futurist, an esoteric interfaith scholar at the intersection of personal sovereignty and...

This week's prescription comes with a trigger warning: it's Cancer. And while astrologically Cancer season is almost upon us, we're talking about the other kind. Risa has been diagnosed with Stage 3 Breast Cancer and the idea of 'prescription' has taken on a whole new meaning. We believe in science, and we believe in magic. We believe that Risa will be okay. A year ago, we prescribed the legendary Tig Notaro set where she processes a series of brutal blows - a cancer diagnosis,...

Coven, our annual Reparations Fundraiser is complete for 2024 and we're thrilled to share that we beat last year's tally and have officially returned over THIRTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS to indigenous-led organizations and non-profits that support survivors of domestic violence and violently displaced people around the world. $3490 of that went directly to the Native Women's Shelter of Montreal. Amy's prescription is Redbone's Come And Get Your Love. Because you deserve it, we all do, and it's...

We are all striving for connection and care. As we draw close to the end of the 2024 Missing Witches Reparations Fundraiser, we're joined by BLACKBIRD MEDICINES and Indigenous Death Doula Collective founder Chrystal Toop, aka Story Healing Thunderbird. Together we talk about Facilitating Safe Space, Fostering Hope, Grief and Grieving, Feasting, Celebration, and Radicalized Healing. Chrystal says, "Gathering in community is really the best action." Chrystal is an Indigenous storyteller,...

This week, we're waiting, dripping, and melting into lake-mind... and getting cute bangs anyway because we're alive, and it's another May beneath the Flower Moon. It's the LAST WEEK of our annual Reparations Fundraiser! Risa's prescription this week is a song called Love and War by Thelma Plum: gentle, moving, croony pop with the rooted resilience of an ancestral storyline behind it from the longest continuous human culture on Earth. Thelma Plum is Gamilaraay; an award-winning...

This week brings Spring to the mountains for real, and we remember about the urgency, the massive, mysterious force of buds bursting into bloom. We're calling in the strength behind that bursting, we're insisting upon awe for the signs we've seen in the sky, and Risa's prescription brings pure Indigenous Girl Joy in the song Sisters by The Halluci Nation. Amy brings a song that's become a powerful incantation for her in dark times: Darkness Bring the Light by Elisapie. Darkness bring the...