Missing Witches Risa Dickens + Amy Torok

All toads are frogs, but not all frogs are toads - toads belong to the frog family, but just like humans, frogs come in all different varieties. One of the most noticeable differences between frogs and toads is their skin. But they are still family. Can you sense where I’m going with this? Skin colour, and in our amphibian friends’ case also skin texture, sets these creatures apart from one another, but they are still family. And we witches can think of frogs when racism rears its ugly head. Despite our differences, despite our skin, we are still family.

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Join Risa and Amy as we sit down once again with two of our favourite returning guests and future-crafters: artists Edgar Fabián Frías + Amanda Amour Lynx!

Risa came to this week weepy, and Amy came with a song that pleads to an archetype of love and compassion to wipe our tears.

Amy brings a song from 'Shankar Family and Friends', an album that George Harrison (the Beatle who was a follower of Hinduism) produced with songs written and performed by famed sitar player Ravi Shankar and his family.

The song is I Am Missing You, a song that is a plea to Krishna the Hindu god of protection, compassion, tenderness and love.

I am missing you, oh Krishna where are you?
Though I can’t see you, I hear your flute on the wind.
Please come wipe my tears and make me smile

Amy doesn’t want to just deify these characteristics of compassion and protection, so the prescription this week is the reify them - make abstract concepts concrete in your life. Go love. Go protect. Be compassionate in your life here and now. Hear the flute of hope on the wind.

Risa self-prescription is Resistance Revival Chorus on repeat, especially Joy in Resistance.

What the world needs now
Is joy in resistance
We will fight the good fight
With or without your assistance

Move out of the way
If you can't support the mission
What the world needs now
Is joy in resistance

Let's be held by a chorus. Let's lean towards a sense of being together in our resistance. Let's find our joy in each other and keep on keepin' on.

BFB.

https://www.missingwitches.com/rx-please-come-wipe-my-tears/

Last year Copco 2 came down, the first of 4 dams along the Klamath river that will all be removed by October 2024 in the largest dam removal project in history.  Breathe in and then let out a breath that comes pushing past the things you’ve been holding in. We are undammed river kin. 

This week the truth is coming out, water is breaching the banks, and little kid puke is everywhere. How's your April going? (Hit reply and let us know.)
Risa comes to this week reallll short on sleep after a week with a sick kid up nights. In a delirium, she shares this meditation from cognitive hypnotherapist Andrew Johnson to help drop down into a lunar place, a resourced place, a source place: Meet Your Guide. For best effects, follow with a shot of Willie Nelson and his son crooning to you gently: Just Breathe.
Stay with me,
Let's just breathe.
Because it seems like everywhere we go this week we're thinking about how nightmares repeat, and how we intercede. Risa's self-recommended mourning music for the times when we just can't help but get dragged through the loop again is Julien Baker's Repeat:
All my greatest fears turn out to be
The gift of prophecy
All my nightmares coming true
Come do my outline in the street
While every night
I re-enact the same recurring dream
Now I'm stuck inside a vision that repeats
Repeats, repeats, repeats, repeats, repeats
Amy comes to this week buoyed by the big uplift that comes from taking off your mask, telling the truth to the gatekeeper, and getting help. She brings it back to the radical power of simple, grounded magic: tell the truth, just breathe, and look at the Moon. The song is Sugar, Man On The Moon:
It's the man on the moon
Saying goodnight to you
And oh, how it shines
He's a good friend of mine
He's a good friend of yours
Even many miles away
In a night of despair
Only one light is there
It's the man on the moon
Saying goodnight to you
If you look to the sky
Look him straight in the eye
And as strange as it seems
If you wish all your dreams
Will come true after all
Let's look them straight in the eye, say our wishes out loud, and hold onto our dreams.

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We are Witches. We are deer kin, and we make our homes in a place called The Edge.
Deer live on the boundaries, the borderlands, making a home for themselves in the places between worlds - the spaces between the wilderness and the man-made. It’s the habitat known as the edge where farms meet the forest and backyards meet the backwoods.
What happens, Witches, when we take the fence down? When we look at our world from the vantage point of the deer’s path? What happens when we take down the fence that we’ve built between the human and non-human worlds and recognize ourselves as kin?

"Each hoof of each animal makes the sign of a heart as it touches then lifts away from the ground." -Mary Oliver
"I saw my garden through a deer’s eyes. The whole world became my garden. I decided to take the fence down." -Mayumi Oda

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