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Episode 9: The Ninth Spoon
Wut Up, Witches?
We’ve added a new segment and apparently black is our color! Good news, I don’t seem to be lagging anymore, thanks to my amazing husband getting me wired up.
The topic of this week is Chronic Illness and Magic. How do you still practice witchcraft when you feel like ass?
Let’s get into it…
Witchy Tips of the Week
Elly’s tip is to redefine what counts as “magic” to you. Sometimes it’s as simple as whispering words of affirmation into your morning “hot bevvie”.
Kitty’s tip is to really lean into spoon theory. Do your best with what you have and don’t be afraid or ashamed to skip steps. It’s okay, truly!
Witchy Reads of the Week
Elly highlighted a journal this week! “Embody Your Magick - A Guided Journal for the Modern Witch” by Gabriela Herstik.
Kitty had two similar reads this week: “Chronically Magical - Navigating Chronic Illness With Witchcraft” by Danielle Dionne and “Witchcraft for Healing - Radical Self-Care for your Mind, Body, and Spirit” by Patti Wigington.
Tarot Time
While Kitty drew cards for Pete Kegsbreath - I mean Hegseth - and that terribly planned meeting of “top brass” in Virginia on Tuesday, Elly drew cards for you!
* Kitty is featuring the Supernatural Join the Hunt Tarot Deck written by Minerva Siegel and art by Matthew Skiff.
* Elly is using the Believe in Your Own Magic Oracle Deck by Amanda Lovelace and artwork by Janaisa Medeiros.
“Three for Thee”: Pick a Number for your ORACLE Card Reading!
* Grey “Endings are Inevitable” - “As humans, we tend to see things in black and white, forgetting to account for all the grey in between. There’s someone in your life who’s begun to fade away, or maybe they’re gone altogether now. Don’t fight it. Real relationships are not the same as the fairy tales we know and love. There are no neat and tidy bows to tie things up at the end, leaving you satisfied. Acceptance isn’t easy, but it’s a thing you need to work toward. We create our own closure.”
* Gold “You Don’t Need Someone Else to Fix You” - “Someone is trying to convince you that you’re broken beyond repair… unless you accept their helping hand, of course. If someone offers to ‘fix’ some part of you, it’s not because they’re being selfless or kind: they know that you’re in a vulnerable place, and they want to make you entirely dependent on them. Tell them ‘no, thank you’ - you know exactly how to put the gold in your own cracks!”
* Clover “Release Your Guilt” - “You’ve been carrying the burden of guilt on your shoulders for far too long. It’s now negatively impacting all facets of your life and making it impossible to function. You’ve come to a crossroads where you need to choose a direction: go ahead and make your reparations, or release yourself from the cage you’ve built around yourself. (Hint: Sometimes the first road leads back around to the second.)
Mini-Magical Activism
Autism is NOT caused by Acetaminophen and I’m not going to take medical advice from a dumbass geriatric dementia patient who can’t even pronounce the word.
I mean, it IS a big word for Elmo… but I don’t take medical advice from Elmo, either.
How to Fight Back:
Everyone can contact the Health and Human Services Office directly by phone at 202-690-7000 and leave a message (they won’t answer, I guarantee it) demanding that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. resign or be removed. His careless and irresponsible actions are causing real harm to real people. Measles is on the rise and there is higher vaccine hesitancy as a direct result of his rhetoric. Children are dying as a result.
Use the 5Calls app or go to 5calls.org to quickly find topics and scripts to use when calling your representatives - it also provides you with contact info for them, complete with local office numbers. If you don’t have the spoons to talk to a person, call after hours when you know they won’t answer and leave a voicemail - 5calls has a perfect script for that!
Go through the list and call on any of the topics that are important to you.
These are also great if you don’t feel like calling but need information to include in an email message to your representative.
Finally, use Resist.Bot to quickly and easily contact your representatives via email by sending text messages. These are pre-written (often by other people like you) or you can type up your own message by texting Resist.Bot until you’re done. Then send it! Here’s one to help you get started:
Text “SIGN P00PWK” to 50409 to tell your officials “Hegseth endangers national security. Remove him. Don’t forget the Epstein Files.”
Dad Joke of the Week
“How do you stop a bull from charging?…
… You cancel their credit card.”
Housekeeping
* The second episode of “The Sacrilegious Tarot Testimony” will be going live this Thursday night, October 2nd!
* I forgot to mention that I will be on a camping trip next weekend! Episode 10 may be delayed, we’ll let you know!
Later, Witches!
Join our Discord chat to get it out of the graveyard and send us your own tips and tricks, questions and requests, and maybe get featured in next week’s “Guest Witch of the Week” or have your comment shown on our livestream!
Stay magical, keep being a menace. Blessed or Hexed, thanks for listening!
💕 Kitty & Elly
Get full access to Wut Up, Witches? at wutupwitches.substack.com/subscribe
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By Kitty and EllyWut Up, Witches?
We’ve added a new segment and apparently black is our color! Good news, I don’t seem to be lagging anymore, thanks to my amazing husband getting me wired up.
The topic of this week is Chronic Illness and Magic. How do you still practice witchcraft when you feel like ass?
Let’s get into it…
Witchy Tips of the Week
Elly’s tip is to redefine what counts as “magic” to you. Sometimes it’s as simple as whispering words of affirmation into your morning “hot bevvie”.
Kitty’s tip is to really lean into spoon theory. Do your best with what you have and don’t be afraid or ashamed to skip steps. It’s okay, truly!
Witchy Reads of the Week
Elly highlighted a journal this week! “Embody Your Magick - A Guided Journal for the Modern Witch” by Gabriela Herstik.
Kitty had two similar reads this week: “Chronically Magical - Navigating Chronic Illness With Witchcraft” by Danielle Dionne and “Witchcraft for Healing - Radical Self-Care for your Mind, Body, and Spirit” by Patti Wigington.
Tarot Time
While Kitty drew cards for Pete Kegsbreath - I mean Hegseth - and that terribly planned meeting of “top brass” in Virginia on Tuesday, Elly drew cards for you!
* Kitty is featuring the Supernatural Join the Hunt Tarot Deck written by Minerva Siegel and art by Matthew Skiff.
* Elly is using the Believe in Your Own Magic Oracle Deck by Amanda Lovelace and artwork by Janaisa Medeiros.
“Three for Thee”: Pick a Number for your ORACLE Card Reading!
* Grey “Endings are Inevitable” - “As humans, we tend to see things in black and white, forgetting to account for all the grey in between. There’s someone in your life who’s begun to fade away, or maybe they’re gone altogether now. Don’t fight it. Real relationships are not the same as the fairy tales we know and love. There are no neat and tidy bows to tie things up at the end, leaving you satisfied. Acceptance isn’t easy, but it’s a thing you need to work toward. We create our own closure.”
* Gold “You Don’t Need Someone Else to Fix You” - “Someone is trying to convince you that you’re broken beyond repair… unless you accept their helping hand, of course. If someone offers to ‘fix’ some part of you, it’s not because they’re being selfless or kind: they know that you’re in a vulnerable place, and they want to make you entirely dependent on them. Tell them ‘no, thank you’ - you know exactly how to put the gold in your own cracks!”
* Clover “Release Your Guilt” - “You’ve been carrying the burden of guilt on your shoulders for far too long. It’s now negatively impacting all facets of your life and making it impossible to function. You’ve come to a crossroads where you need to choose a direction: go ahead and make your reparations, or release yourself from the cage you’ve built around yourself. (Hint: Sometimes the first road leads back around to the second.)
Mini-Magical Activism
Autism is NOT caused by Acetaminophen and I’m not going to take medical advice from a dumbass geriatric dementia patient who can’t even pronounce the word.
I mean, it IS a big word for Elmo… but I don’t take medical advice from Elmo, either.
How to Fight Back:
Everyone can contact the Health and Human Services Office directly by phone at 202-690-7000 and leave a message (they won’t answer, I guarantee it) demanding that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. resign or be removed. His careless and irresponsible actions are causing real harm to real people. Measles is on the rise and there is higher vaccine hesitancy as a direct result of his rhetoric. Children are dying as a result.
Use the 5Calls app or go to 5calls.org to quickly find topics and scripts to use when calling your representatives - it also provides you with contact info for them, complete with local office numbers. If you don’t have the spoons to talk to a person, call after hours when you know they won’t answer and leave a voicemail - 5calls has a perfect script for that!
Go through the list and call on any of the topics that are important to you.
These are also great if you don’t feel like calling but need information to include in an email message to your representative.
Finally, use Resist.Bot to quickly and easily contact your representatives via email by sending text messages. These are pre-written (often by other people like you) or you can type up your own message by texting Resist.Bot until you’re done. Then send it! Here’s one to help you get started:
Text “SIGN P00PWK” to 50409 to tell your officials “Hegseth endangers national security. Remove him. Don’t forget the Epstein Files.”
Dad Joke of the Week
“How do you stop a bull from charging?…
… You cancel their credit card.”
Housekeeping
* The second episode of “The Sacrilegious Tarot Testimony” will be going live this Thursday night, October 2nd!
* I forgot to mention that I will be on a camping trip next weekend! Episode 10 may be delayed, we’ll let you know!
Later, Witches!
Join our Discord chat to get it out of the graveyard and send us your own tips and tricks, questions and requests, and maybe get featured in next week’s “Guest Witch of the Week” or have your comment shown on our livestream!
Stay magical, keep being a menace. Blessed or Hexed, thanks for listening!
💕 Kitty & Elly
Get full access to Wut Up, Witches? at wutupwitches.substack.com/subscribe