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Temperance Comes When We Tend : Reclaiming Thai Witchcraft with Victoria Wikler
Witches Muse : Stories Beneath the Surface
07/08/22 • 78 min
We're back for some summer time podcasting!
Can you believe it?!? We are almost at the end of Season II. I am so excited to bring on our **NEW COHOST** and begin to tease out some of the way that Season III will be shaping up.
We are excited to bring a few episodes in July - and we begin with the amazing Victoria B Wikler from @dharmawitchrituals
Victoria B. Wikler is a Thai-American witch, peer counselor, mindfulness meditation teacher, and educator. She has 12+ years of experience in meditation as a Witch practitioner. She has taught mindfulness meditation to an array of communities and individuals from Haitian children to Brooklyn witches.
Victoria believes that mindfulness and spiritual expression is a human right, her mission has been and will always be to make mindfulness education, mental-health support, and safe spiritual practices intersectional and accessible to all- especially those among us who are underserved, under-appreciated, underprotected, and thus- underestimated.
Check out her work with Dharma Witch Rituals Instagram or her practitioner page
Themes of this Episode
- What was your relationship to Magick growing up?
- Kuman Thong - In a world where Black Magic can be noted and rooted as “bad” or stigmatized by supremacy - why is the reclaimaiton of Asian Ancestral Witchcraft so important?
- What are a few aspects of Kuman Thong you’re most excited to teach on?
- Temperance Balance - Moderation // Balance // Sagitarius
- How is Meditation magical?
- How do you meditate without distraction (HELP - love, an ADHD witch)
- You speak of psychedelic witchcraft - teachers that have supported that practice - censored.
- Dharma Witch Threads Let’s talk altered states - what's been your experience with psychedelics as a way to expand your capacity of care and consciousness? - Tips & Support for beginners - stories welcome.
- Psychedelic for witches (psychedelic harm reduction)
The Magician w/ Jacqui Wilkins of Xálish Medicines (@among_the_wildflowerss)
Witches Muse : Stories Beneath the Surface
01/27/21 • 67 min
Our First Episode of 2021
Welcome to this space and time.
In the ways of landback we remember we are not separate and in ownership to the Earth. Beneath our four legged paws- a memory encoded in our genetic timeline. What Is the relationship that does not consist of ownership or outcomes?
Jacqui Wilkins of @amongthewildflowers shares the lineage and origin story of their ancestral medicine practice. We speak of Hypericum as protection Medicine for this time and the wisdom that came through as the episode was transmuted in the summer months.
When we are in relationship to the other than human world, not to use plants as constituents, not to break them down as individual parts. All plants embody a sentience. The willingness to trust the process as practice without fixed goals- gives space to the whole.
With this knowing, we build and support networks of care- and returning back to our medicine dreams- and relationship to the sacred.
This episode Is near and dear to my heart, and I am deeply grateful to offer It out.
Please don't forget to share this podcast with loved ones, furry friends, and plant kin alike.
EPISODE TOPICS +
- Beginning Intro excerpt from Jacqui - returning back to ways of our Imaginal capacity
- Herbal Medicine
- Connecting with Cotton Wood Tree
- Finding our way back home to land based wisdom practices
- Hypericum Medicine
- Returning home to the Stars
- The Magician- As Above so Below & Our Connection to Stars
- Sacred Activism
- The Assumed Expectations of Social Media
- Living within the holy containership of chronic illness
LINKS +
Mount Rushmore Land Back Action
Xálish Medicines
Support the Show
The Chariot in Drag w/ Kochina Rude
Witches Muse : Stories Beneath the Surface
05/05/22 • 69 min
This is going to be a big May for us - TWO EPISODES.
We begin with the Chariot in Drag, because we believe in the vessel.
We did the Chariot Episode earlier this season with Indy Srinath which you can see here
Kochina Rude is a drag queen, vocalist, and emcee based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Kochina’s distinct hard-femme style is fueled by an upbringing of punk rock coupled with Chicano culture.
Kochina is a cohost for weekly drag show “Princess” at SF Oasis, and also provides vocals for Bay Area punk band Lolly Gaggers. Offstage, she is a harm reduction activist, public health worker, and sexual health educator.
From the Desert to the Drag Club - I am so beyond inspired by Kochina. We talk about Drag and Drugs - and the work of Harm Reduction. This episode is inspired by the vessel of the craft. By the transformation that takes forth.
If you enjoy these episodes - please review us. We love sharing written reviews out loud - and it really supports the continuation of this podcast. We are grateful for those that look forward to our monthly episodes - and are deeply grateful for all the love.
The best news - We will be back for Season III. Stay tuned for future episodes as more unfolds with a brand new show format, cover art, and new co-host. More to come, stay tuned.
Content Warning : Drug Use, Needles, Addiction
Themes & Topics Covered
- Boy Wizard
- Drag is A Vessel for radical transformation
- Drag Origin Story & Phatima Rude
- Be Original and not just consumable
- How Kochina Feels about RuPauls Drag Race
- Harm Reduction - why it matters
Show Links
Ladies & Gentlemen - Phatima Rude
Ladies & Gentlemen - Phatima Rude Documentary Harm Reduction CoalitionLolly Gaggers
The Hanged One : Honoring Death Out Load In Liminal Spaces w/ Ash Canty
Witches Muse : Stories Beneath the Surface
10/28/21 • 64 min
We're Back! We are trying as much as we can to post monthly - and sometimes Mercury Rx comes through and has other plans - and we don't try to force any urgency on conversations that hold us down and through these windy paths these days.
CW warnings : conversations about police brutality, state sanctioned violence against black bodies, AAPI hate crimes.
Please remember #ACAB within this conversation. We wanna honor these moments in which state sanctioned violence and police brutality is not a trending meme, or a time in history - it is systemic.
This is in honor of the Hanged One. How we shift our perceptions and our relationship to death. How death - and talking about death out loud - is a way to be in relationship to a perspective we often never want to address.
Please note - I mess up in the intro - ya know? I tried to edit this out - and I just couldn't - so your gonna witness this - and I appreciate that - as I remind myself its okay.
Some themes we seed together with Ash from Sovereign Spirit Death Care
- How they came to know their relationship to spirit mediumship.
- What do we know of death? What do we need to navigate?
- How systems have made death unavoidable for black queer bodies?
- How the capitalized system of death made us forget our inherent birth right to death
- What are ways we return home again?
- Ruminations of the Hanged One
Show Notes & References
+ Jade T. Perry - Churchy Mystic on Join Unspeakable Blog
+ Sovereign Spirit Death Care
+ Alua Arthur
+ Korean Spa Shootings : What Korean Media Told You That Mainstream Media Didn't
Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/thewitchesmuse)
The Chariot w/ Indy Srinath (@indyofficinalis)
Witches Muse : Stories Beneath the Surface
08/16/20 • 54 min
It Is high summer time, we have already grown garlic and will begin braiding. This episode comes right before the last New Moon of Summer.
The Chariot card Is In a place of transition. In this New Moon, It's summer last dance as we enter Into the harvest season and time of our deepest truths.
Please support the current Go Fund Campaign of @indyofficinalis by visiting HERE
This Episode Features
- Imaginary Friends ((why they support us when we need))
- Plant Medicine and Harvesting
- Witnessing Plants without Needing to Harvest
- Plant Kin for these times
- Ancestry through Foods
- Convergence of Food Justice & Farming
- White owned farms w/ black land sovereignty
- Land stewardship and Land Back- How does this look?
- BIPOC Farmers, Food Stewards in Conversation of Land Ownership
- Psychedelic Mushrooms and IP34
- Mushrooms importance in ecological restoration
- The love of Mushrooms and bio-remediation
- What do mushrooms have to teach us?
- Poetry & Poem w/ hear
Links
Oregon Ballot Measure for Psilocybin Mushrooms BIPOC Community Urban Farm Fund Land Back: An Indigenous Perspective Garlic Poetry Nikki Giovanni-Why I like Chocolate
High Priestess w/ The Revolutionary Mystic
Witches Muse : Stories Beneath the Surface
07/03/20 • 85 min
We time travel in this episode. Coming through a transmission on April 12th 2020, Ostara sees a time where we are growing an egg and cultivation.
The High Priestess card is asking us to see what it is we stand behind. What it is that is non-negotiable, why we are the way we are through the songs of our ancestors, our childhood memories, and our innate ability to know how deeply we feel.
We court the realms and systems of magick, we talk about magic through the ways of an empath, through mediumship, through early childhood development.
I ramble and say curious A LOT in this episode. I think this lense tries to focus on intersectional magick as informing ourselves through the landscapes of mental health, the effects of colonializations.
Also, I am a fast talker, and noticing also being an interrupter in moments of excitability, so MĒTZLI THANK YOU for supporting my mind jumping from place to place, also leaning in.
EPISODE TOPICS
- Matrilineal Magick Influence
- Ways of identifying magick
- Difference between psychic and mediumship?
- The role of empath and mediumship
- Boundaries and Mental Health
- How we stigmatize magick
- High Priestess Card Magic & Wolf Medicine
- High Priestess Themes
**Let us know in the comments (HOW MANY DECKS DOES MĒTZLI OWN?)**
LINKS
Revolutionary Mystic
Numinous Tarot
Dust 2 Onyx
Fenty Beauty
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The Strength Card : The Strength to Pause & Listen with Afro Yoga Founder Angie Franklin
Witches Muse : Stories Beneath the Surface
10/06/18 • 106 min
Featuring Angie Franklin of Afro Yoga
If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive – Audre Lorde
The moments with womxn and folks that I interview feel like such gifts. Its as if time and the universe has forged our friendship that may have been from lifetimes ago, yet is arriving at exactly the right time.
This for me, was how I felt after talking to Angie. We talk spiritual fierceness, internal strength and compassion for ourselves and for others.
We recorded this in August, yet it feels fitting as move into Fall, and what it feels like when we truly give ourselves permission to slow down.
Show Note: In the intro I say undeserved communities in reference to who Angie is support, when I meant to say under-served communities. Please note this error, and apologies for this mistake.
In This Episode
- Strength Is Within
- Community Values & What is Service?
- How do you live your work?
- How Struggle Can Drive Strength
- Aquarius & Sagittarius Bonds Are Real!
Show Links
The Sun Card: Illuminate with Isis Indriya
Witches Muse : Stories Beneath the Surface
09/09/19 • 59 min
We open in prayer. This is a practice I am honored to lean into, and know how deeply it is to sit with this. Isis Indriya is a cultural change maker, a priestess of this paradigm shift.
I was in such deep reverence to be able to speak with them about this work, about the sun and its rays. As it sets on Virgo Season, this is what I see as the setting sun of summer within this episode.
This was a spiritual voyage with Isis, and I would be see nothing less when you see their work in the world. I took a long ass time to air this episode, partially because it needed to incubate in its own liminal realms for a while. Listening to it, I can even hear my own voice dropping into this present state.
Excuse my ums ya’ll in this episode!
I was more nervous than I thought! There is a little noise background in the middle of the podcast, we can’t shift those moments.
Isis is a bridge builder, a space holder, a gatherer. Her and Eve Bradford co-create the container for the Compass at LIB, a transformative festival in California.
Isis holds down the question, that I feel like is the backbone of this podcast..WHO ARE WE? This question is such a way of understanding our innate cosmology, how these fibers are woven together.
The sun card radiates so truthfully through this episode. It shows up the power of connection when we show together and in community. Simply to be grateful for this life. The art of seeing oneself in everything, and receiving the feedback are the rays of honesty that conducts a life of offering in beauty and wonderment.
Remembering we have a role and purpose, tuning into our purpose and design is to be of service and to support the web of life. Isis breaks down in such a way that is grows roots and soaked in stardust.
***Whats In This Episode***
*An opening prayer for all relations
*How we bring people together in sacred ways:why this is important
*Personal Practice and Community Practice: Offerings & Beyond
*WE is in the work (village human and non-human supports)
*Paul Stamets and Tata Pedro with the power of prayer
*Ritual as a way of life: all day everyday
*How to take care of interdependent life forms
*Power: Dedicate to Solar Rituals to Clear Doubt
Links
The Emperor: Structure Can Be Sacred with Tarot Reader Lena Mikale of Hapa Bruja
Witches Muse : Stories Beneath the Surface
07/13/18 • 64 min
Featuring Lena Mikale of Hapa Bruja
Lena and I spent some time navigating our cultures of Hapa and Hafu. We talked of what it means to tend to both sides, and how they each provide a different place for us to anchor into.
We navigate her ancestry of way finding, find depth in the waters of the soul, and once again call upon the Emperor from a place of the embodied masculine. Not to be isolated and pushed aside, but integrated and held.
These past weeks, I have been engaging in a challenge around White Supremacy. This challenge, #meandwhitesupremacy has opened by eyes to the narrative that continues throughout my daily life and the ways I am complicit in racial bias. I urge anyone, especially white identifying folx to check this out.
I will post a link to more information in the show resources and again in my newsletter.
Things covered in this episode:
- What sacred masculine work can look like
- Polytheism and it's many facets
- Folklore Facets from Lena's cultural background
- Wayfinding Cu
Temperance: The Alchemy of our Unique Selves with HOST Tara Burke
Witches Muse : Stories Beneath the Surface
06/15/19 • 36 min
David Whyte
When your eyes are tired
the world is tired also.When your vision has gone,
no part of the world can find you.Time to go into the dark
where the night has eyes
to recognize its own.There you can be sure
you are not beyond love.The dark will be your home
tonight.The night will give you a horizon
further than you can see.You must learn one thing.
The world was made to be free in.Give up all the other worlds
except the one to which you belong.Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet
confinement of your aloneness
to learn anything or anyone
that does not bring you alive is too small for you.
Here we are!
After a long hiatus (almost two month) we bring you the temperance episode. Early Spring has given us the much needed gestation period to finish up our first season, so we can bring you episodes and unfold our final arc of the Major Arcana.
This episode features me. Temperance is the sign of the Sagittarius on the zodiac wheel, so I felt called to speak on it. This is an episode that has lots of tendrils with Tarot, so if you were curious more about the symbology around the cards, then this is a great episode to tune into!
What I Talk About
- The Arc of The Tarot (The inner and outer arc)
- Spontaneity with Knowledge
- Compartmentalization Can Be Toxic
- Archetypal Wisdom of Temperance
- Stories that are passed down, passed through, passed on
- REPARATIONS (Do yourself a favor and follow folks like @nikkiblak who breaks down the social constructs of whiteness among other amazing knowledge)
- Understanding Integration with Temperance
- Casting Cards
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How many episodes does Witches Muse : Stories Beneath the Surface have?
Witches Muse : Stories Beneath the Surface currently has 39 episodes available.
What topics does Witches Muse : Stories Beneath the Surface cover?
The podcast is about Mystery, Tarot, Society & Culture, Spirituality, Magic, Witch, Lifestyle, Religion & Spirituality, Podcasts, Witchcraft, Philosophy and Mindfulness.
What is the most popular episode on Witches Muse : Stories Beneath the Surface?
The episode title 'The Chariot in Drag w/ Kochina Rude' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Witches Muse : Stories Beneath the Surface?
The average episode length on Witches Muse : Stories Beneath the Surface is 68 minutes.
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Episodes of Witches Muse : Stories Beneath the Surface are typically released every 29 days.
When was the first episode of Witches Muse : Stories Beneath the Surface?
The first episode of Witches Muse : Stories Beneath the Surface was released on Jun 20, 2018.
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