Missing Witches

By Risa Dickens + Amy TorokSociety & Culture Religion & Spirituality Spirituality History

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Missing Witches episodes

February 01, 2021 Imbolc 2021: Astrology w/ Monefa Walker + Eliza Robertson
https://www.missingwitches.com/2021/02/01/imbolc-2021-astrology-w-monefa-walker-eliza-robertson/
http://www.elizarobertson.com/
https://kosmictonic.com/
Sekhmet's Visions YT: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo5ivnEPYpFw9QRuwVHXz7Q

Missing Witches is a feminist history of magic podcast exploring the meeting place of spirituality, activism, and art practice. Join us for deeply researched, scripted histories and meditations on historical figures, uncovering what their stories teach us about modern witchcraft today. We feature interviews with real practitioners across diverse magical, pagan, occult, and spiritual traditions—digging into tarot, astrology, divination, herbalism, and our relationships with plant medicine and the more-than-human world.

Whether you are a science-loving feminist witch or someone longing for the re-enchantment of the world, you’ve found your people.

• Join our International Online Coven: Connect with an intentional community of modern witches at missingwitches.com.

• Subscribe & Support: Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify to help other seekers find us!

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

1 hr 23 min
January 28, 2021 WF Sarah Faith Gottesdiener: Lunar Living is in Direct Opposition to Capitalism and Linear Time
In this episode, we talk about Sarah Faith Gottesdiener's beautiful Moon Book and how she came to moon magic and we begin to put ideas in the cauldron of the big question: What is the role of magic in our world, right now?

Find Sarah's art and books and projects and subscribe to her thoughtful newsletter at:
https://modernwomenprojects.com/
Missing Witches is a feminist history of magic podcast exploring the meeting place of spirituality, activism, and art practice. Join us for deeply researched, scripted histories and meditations on historical figures, uncovering what their stories teach us about modern witchcraft today. We feature interviews with real practitioners across diverse magical, pagan, occult, and spiritual traditions—digging into tarot, astrology, divination, herbalism, and our relationships with plant medicine and the more-than-human world.

Whether you are a science-loving feminist witch or someone longing for the re-enchantment of the world, you’ve found your people.

• Join our International Online Coven: Connect with an intentional community of modern witches at missingwitches.com.

• Subscribe & Support: Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify to help other seekers find us!

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

33 min
December 21, 2020 YULETIDE SPECIAL 2020 with Jinkx Monsoon and Kenneth Friend!!!
www.jinkxanddela.com
https://www.missingwitches.com/2020/12/21/yuletide-special-2020-with-jinkx-monsoon-and-kenneth-friend/
Missing Witches is a feminist history of magic podcast exploring the meeting place of spirituality, activism, and art practice. Join us for deeply researched, scripted histories and meditations on historical figures, uncovering what their stories teach us about modern witchcraft today. We feature interviews with real practitioners across diverse magical, pagan, occult, and spiritual traditions—digging into tarot, astrology, divination, herbalism, and our relationships with plant medicine and the more-than-human world.

Whether you are a science-loving feminist witch or someone longing for the re-enchantment of the world, you’ve found your people.

• Join our International Online Coven: Connect with an intentional community of modern witches at missingwitches.com.

• Subscribe & Support: Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify to help other seekers find us!

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

1 hr 37 min
November 30, 2020 WF Saleema Nawaz: Songs for the End of the World
Risa talks with Saleema Nawaz, author of the weirdly prophetic and deeply lovely and hopeful Songs for the End of the World about coming out as a witch in our teens, tapping into the vast ocean of inspiration, living in a world you spent years imagining, and writing as an encounter with fear.
"Astounding. . . . The book is surprisingly reassuring. If someone could have imagined what we're going through in such vivid details, it somehow makes the situation less scary, less predictable, more knowable." — The Globe and Mail
"In these dark days, Saleema Nawaz dares to write of hope. Songs for the End of the World is a loving, vivid, tenderly felt novel about men, women, and a possible apocalypse. I couldn't put it down." — Sean Michaels, author of Us Conductors and The Wagers.
https://www.saleemanawaz.com/ Missing Witches is a feminist history of magic podcast exploring the
meeting place of spirituality, activism, and art practice. Join us for
deeply researched, scripted histories and meditations on historical
figures, uncovering what their stories teach us about modern witchcraft
today. We feature interviews with real practitioners across diverse
magical, pagan, occult, and spiritual traditions—digging into tarot,
astrology, divination, herbalism, and our relationships with plant
medicine and the more-than-human world.
Whether you are a science-loving feminist witch or someone longing for
the re-enchantment of the world, you’ve found your people.
• Join our International Online Coven: Connect with an intentional
community of modern witches at missingwitches.com.
• Subscribe & Support: Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify to
help other seekers find us!
The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist,
pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.
22 min
October 31, 2020 Samhain 2020 w Loretta Ledesma and Angela Alberto: A Good Death
https://www.missingwitches.com/2020/10/31/samhain-2020-w-loretta-ledesma-and-angela-alberto-a-good-death/

Missing Witches is a feminist history of magic podcast exploring the meeting place of spirituality, activism, and art practice. Join us for deeply researched, scripted histories and meditations on historical figures, uncovering what their stories teach us about modern witchcraft today. We feature interviews with real practitioners across diverse magical, pagan, occult, and spiritual traditions—digging into tarot, astrology, divination, herbalism, and our relationships with plant medicine and the more-than-human world.

Whether you are a science-loving feminist witch or someone longing for the re-enchantment of the world, you’ve found your people.

• Join our International Online Coven: Connect with an intentional community of modern witches at missingwitches.com.

• Subscribe & Support: Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify to help other seekers find us!

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

1 hr 28 min
October 28, 2020 WF Kristen Sollée: Witch Hunt
http://kristensollee.com/
https://www.missingwitches.com/2020/10/28/wf-kristen-sollee-witch-hunt/
Missing Witches is a feminist history of magic podcast exploring the meeting place of spirituality, activism, and art practice. Join us for deeply researched, scripted histories and meditations on historical figures, uncovering what their stories teach us about modern witchcraft today. We feature interviews with real practitioners across diverse magical, pagan, occult, and spiritual traditions—digging into tarot, astrology, divination, herbalism, and our relationships with plant medicine and the more-than-human world.

Whether you are a science-loving feminist witch or someone longing for the re-enchantment of the world, you’ve found your people.

• Join our International Online Coven: Connect with an intentional community of modern witches at missingwitches.com.

• Subscribe & Support: Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify to help other seekers find us!

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

48 min
October 25, 2020 MW Gaura Devi: This Forest Is Our Mother's Home. We Run Our Lives Through This.
This is a story about hugging trees. About the women who inspired the iconic environmental Chipko movement in India, which literally means to hug, and it’s a story about the Bishnoi faith and the women leaders from that small spiritual minority in the Himalayan foothills, the ones who triumphed, and the ones who were murdered protecting the ancient trees that hold back the all-consuming desert and keep the mountains up.
This is the story of Amrita Devi, and Gaura Devi, who lived and fought for trees 300 years apart in the Marwar desert region of western Rajasthan.
Missing Witches is a feminist history of magic podcast exploring the
meeting place of spirituality, activism, and art practice. Join us for
deeply researched, scripted histories and meditations on historical
figures, uncovering what their stories teach us about modern witchcraft
today. We feature interviews with real practitioners across diverse
magical, pagan, occult, and spiritual traditions—digging into tarot,
astrology, divination, herbalism, and our relationships with plant
medicine and the more-than-human world.
Whether you are a science-loving feminist witch or someone longing for
the re-enchantment of the world, you’ve found your people.
• Join our International Online Coven: Connect with an intentional
community of modern witches at missingwitches.com.
• Subscribe & Support: Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify to
help other seekers find us!
The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist,
pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.
33 min
October 21, 2020 WF Kenya Coviak: Conjuring Detroit
In this episode, Risa chats with originator and founder of the Detroit Conjure and Folk Magic Festival (as well as organizer of many other Witch fests and social justice initiatives), a person whom Yvonne Chireau called, "one of the few, rare, real live Black American Witches" writer, speaker, teacher, Witch, Kenya Coviak. Kenya guides listeners on a tour of her Detroit and her praxis. Missing Witches is a feminist history of magic podcast exploring the
meeting place of spirituality, activism, and art practice. Join us for
deeply researched, scripted histories and meditations on historical
figures, uncovering what their stories teach us about modern witchcraft
today. We feature interviews with real practitioners across diverse
magical, pagan, occult, and spiritual traditions—digging into tarot,
astrology, divination, herbalism, and our relationships with plant
medicine and the more-than-human world.
Whether you are a science-loving feminist witch or someone longing for
the re-enchantment of the world, you’ve found your people.
• Join our International Online Coven: Connect with an intentional
community of modern witches at missingwitches.com.
• Subscribe & Support: Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify to
help other seekers find us!
The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist,
pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.
40 min
October 18, 2020 MW Margaret Murray: What Science Calls Nature and Religion Calls God
An archeologist before there were any. The point of origin for the idea that witches gather in covens. The mother of all subsequent covens, in a way. The first woman to unwrap a mummy. Author of ''The Witch-Cult in Western Europe''. Criticized for her cognitive leaps, discredited for the way she pieced through sources choosing what resonated, and for the way that, over time, the ellipses in some of her quotes go missing. A Feminist who marched for the vote and ardently supported women scholars and archeologists out in the field. A witch who cursed a peer in front of witnesses and became president of the Folklore Society when she was in her 90s. A person of fierce connection to the past, who sketched into mainstream modern thought the idea that pre-christians had a system of worship and practice that was joyful, tied to a goddess, and deeply invested in the earth and animals...
This episode is dedicated to that smart as a whip, fairy godmother witch, tomb-whisperer and wildly prolific and problematic author, Margaret Alice Murray.

The Life of Margaret Alice Murray: A Woman's Work in Archaeology. Kathleen Sheppard, Lexington Books, Toronto, 2013.
The Witch Cult in Western Europe: A Study in Anthropology. Margaret Alice Murray, 1921.
Murray, M A (1963). The Genesis of Religion. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
https://www.britannica.com/place/Abydos-ancient-city-Egypt#ref83857
Palgrave Advances in Witchcraft Historiography
https://www.lonelyplanet.com/egypt/abydos/attractions/osireion/a/poi-sig/1574759/1330439
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=KWYSAAAAQBAJ&pg=GBS.PA196
https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-famous-people/margaret-murray-mother-egyptology-grandmother-wicca-or-fairy-godmother-007832
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Murray#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWinick2015565-237
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xye9yk/the-forgotten-egyptologist-and-first-wave-feminist-who-invented-wicca
https://www.ai-journal.com/articles/10.5334/ai.1608/
The Mistake of Dismissing Margaret Murray and the Origins of Wicca
http://www.ancient-wisdom.com/egyptabydoss.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mishnah
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gematria
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osiris#:~:text=The%20ritual%20reenactment%20of%20Osiris's,been%20drowned%20in%20the%20Nile
https://www.gaia.com/article/ancient-egypt-and-freemasonry
https://www.ai-journal.com/articles/10.5334/ai.1608/
https://english.alarabiya.net/en/features/2017/04/11/How-Egypt-was-Christian-before-the-birth-of-Christ
Word Made Number Made Building
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/591897
Missing Witches is a feminist history of magic podcast exploring the meeting place of spirituality, activism, and art practice. Join us for deeply researched, scripted histories and meditations on historical figures, uncovering what their stories teach us about modern witchcraft today. We feature interviews with real practitioners across diverse magical, pagan, occult, and spiritual traditions—digging into tarot, astrology, divination, herbalism, and our relationships with plant medicine and the more-than-human world.

Whether you are a science-loving feminist witch or someone longing for the re-enchantment of the world, you’ve found your people.

• Join our International Online Coven: Connect with an intentional community of modern witches at missingwitches.com.

• Subscribe & Support: Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify to help other seekers find us!

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

28 min
October 14, 2020 WF Cedar Eve Peters: Shape-shifting
https://www.instagram.com/cedareve/
Missing Witches is a feminist history of magic podcast exploring the meeting place of spirituality, activism, and art practice. Join us for deeply researched, scripted histories and meditations on historical figures, uncovering what their stories teach us about modern witchcraft today. We feature interviews with real practitioners across diverse magical, pagan, occult, and spiritual traditions—digging into tarot, astrology, divination, herbalism, and our relationships with plant medicine and the more-than-human world.

Whether you are a science-loving feminist witch or someone longing for the re-enchantment of the world, you’ve found your people.

• Join our International Online Coven: Connect with an intentional community of modern witches at missingwitches.com.

• Subscribe & Support: Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify to help other seekers find us!

The Missing Witches coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of AWE and LOVE.

37 min

About Missing Witches

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Missing Witches is created by Amy Torok and Risa Dickens: old hag solitary witch best friends living, writing, and recording out in the woods on unceded Anishinaabe Algonquin territory, in Quebec,…