Witches Muse : Stories Beneath the Surface Tara Burke

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 // SagitariusHow 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)Support the show

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 transformationDrag Origin Story & Phatima Rude Be Original and not just consumableHow Kochina Feels about RuPauls Drag Race Harm Reduction - why it matters Show Links

Ladies & Gentlemen - Phatima Rude

Ladies & Gentlemen - Phatima Rude Documentary

Harm Reduction Coalition

Lolly Gaggers


 



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The Moon always invites us in - no matter the phase.

This episode was gathered in moments of falls harvest - and now Spring emerges.

I am grateful to the work of Jonathan Koe and his way with words in this episode.

PLEASE NOTE: The start of the Jonathan's interview we have a small echo that comes back - feedback that last 30 seconds - the invitation of imperfection is present here - so welcoming it.

Enjoy the facets of grief and moments we tend in this Episode.

Themes Discussed Throughout Episode 
Storytelling with Oma 8 of Cups Energy presents the discernment within the phase How do we let go of control? What is grasping and reaching lead us to?Whats present in moments that end? Whats our relationship to ending and beginning? How does the Moon card move us closer to the ways of experiencing instead of labeling? Bullying and Greek Mythology The Mystic and Mundane : How do we hold the mystic and mundane? How does Practice and Performance share relationships Being a shapeshifter in a world of too much 
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Welcome 2022 - The  Year of Lovers!

We are about eight episodes left of Season II - which through living through a pandemic feels like an edge of time travel talismans that has left yet another moment of conversational magick to be bad.

Season III is beginning to be dreamed upon - and I am so excited to share with you all some upcoming announcements about it over the course of the next couple of intros - so lets get into the first episode of 2022 - inviting in the Devil Card bc why wouldn't we be doing the polar opposite card?

So we journey through the dance of this episode uncovering the workings of the Devils in the eyes of a wonderful cat dad and professional Tarot Reader, Jonathan - the Son of Osun.

Please note : my intro was in Sag SZN and we are now time traveling through Capricorn time.  

Themes & Topics Discussed


Magic of the Sailor MoonWhat is a closed practice / initiate based practices / open practices The Multiplicity & Short History about Hoodoo (this was not the whole episode - there is so much to say about this Practice)How your not going to learn tarot from the David Bowie tarot - sorry ..The Devil and The Lovers Card  Clearing Decks Candle Magick Offering 

Show Notes & References

Jade T. Perry CWTA - Cecilia Weston Tarot Academy

Author Of Mercury's Brood

Son Of Osun - Tarot Booking

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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. ⁠
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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  
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We find ourself on the other side of the world - rhythms in summer - and in so-called Australia we are entering Winter - so the rhythm of this podcast seeds nicely in the ways we are always at a turning point, a transition regardless of where we land.

This episode - I want to be super truthful in my continued learning around Disability Justice, education and awareness. As someone who didn't even know I was living with invisible disabilities - I still consider myself in a constant conversation of 

Join Keitha Young of the Peaceful Seed  as we talk about : 
Magick growing up and making things disappear 

Making Rune Stones - And How Magick Isn't Instagrammable 

Mixed Kiddo Roles & Plant Magick w/ Intergenerational Trauma 

Soul Herbs & Ancestral Magick 

Harvest Traditions of Milky Oats 

Tending the life cycle for seeds in justice 

Life as a disabled farmer and seed keeper 

Relationship to Divination - Being out of Practice with Practice 

I Ching Pathways - Guess what plant Keitha makes the I Ching out of? 

Magick in the Mundane through Mary Oliver 

Plant Archetypes & Plant Medicine for Healing Justice 

What Tarot Card would Yarrow & Milky Oats be? 

Show Notes

Intro Info

+ What is a Spoonie?
 
+ Disabled People or People with Disabilities

+ Kazu Haga Healing Resilience

+ Person First  and Identity First Language

+ His Dark Materials

+ The Dark is Rising

+ The Peaceful Seed Patreon

+  Lara Veleda Vesta

+ Rowan White

+ Emergent Strategy

+ Mary Oliver - Forgive Me

+ Spoonie Theory 

+ Rupa Mayra Bioneers Video Health and Justice: The Path of Liberation

+ Mary Oliver - What I Have Learned So Far



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