Witchcraft for the Restless
Witchcraft and nature and spells, oh my! Get cozy and let's chat about magic, social issues, and all things witchy with me, Kai. Your resident queer folk herbalist.
In this episode of Witchcraft for the Restless, we take a walk through a series of exercises inspired by this blog post by AppleAndElder. I use White Pine as an example, and you can follow along with any plant of your choosing!
We'll go through 7 exercises to get closer acquainted with your plant ally; 1) Identification and Preliminary Research. 2) Sight 3) Scent 4)Touch 5)Taste 6)Create 7)Hearing
Find my sketches for exercise 2 and the full show notes and timeline at TheRestlessWitch.
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This episode is all about a universal favourite food: bread! And lots of kitchen witchery goodness! This was originally a Patreon exclusive, so here's the link to the original Show Notes!
Stay curious, witches!
Things I mentioned in this episode:
- Living Homegrown - ep. 126 - Making Sourdough Starter and Heirloom Flours
- Secret Feminist Agenda episode 2.26 Getting Deeply into Sourdough with Emily Hoven
Intro - Magical Bread
Wild Yeast Starter as House Spirit
Preheating the Oven - Start from where you're at
Combining your Ingredient - Building your Spell
Kneading - Ancestor Work
Rising/Proofing - Something from Nothing
Slashing Sigils - Control and Growth
Baking - Elemental Alchemy
Closing - Manifestation
Here's some more bread resources that I didn't mention in the episode!
Cooked ep. 3, Air on Netflix A fantastic show, that is basically elemental kitchen witchery without meaning to be. This episode is all about bread and air!
This is the recipe I use for my basic white loaves, except I use traditional dry yeast instead of instant, and just activate the yeast beforehand. I haven't tried it with wild yeast though! Paul Hollywood's White Bread Recipe
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Music: Let the Gold Flow by Birds of Paradise
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Bright Yule, witches!
This episode is all about spellcraft. Forming relationships with individual spell ingredients, choosing ingredients for the desired outcome, and how much of each? We also listen to the first voicemail submission to Rustlings from the Grove, and get cozy with a Yule fire themed tarot spread.
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Intro and Outro Music: Let the Gold Flow by Birds of Paradise
Tarot Music: Meditieren by Lately Kind of Yeah
In the Bleak Midwinter, based on the poem A Christmas Carol by Christina Rosetti, composed by Gustav Holst, lyrics adapted by Laura Deal Raeder.
In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind makes moan.
Earth stands hard as iron, water like a stone.
Snow has fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow.
In the bleak midwinter, it is ever so.
Darkness now surrounds us as the nights grow long,
Yet we fill the night time with our hopeful song.
Winter’s cold won’t reach us here, where we light our fire,
As we burn the old year on its funeral pyre.
Now the new year beckons, even in this night.
Soon the days will lengthen, and our hearts grow light.
Hope will grow within us as we look ahead,
And we see that spring wakes out of winter’s bed.
Light will follow darkness, as the earth turns round,
Sunlight follows moonlight, thawing frozen ground.
So our lives renew with every dawning day,
And with every new year, blue skies follow gray.
Intro/Outro Music: Sledging in the Forest by Borrtex
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Double, double toil and trouble,
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
Bree and I continue our dive into the spookier corners of our witches' cupboards to chat about more spooky spell ingredients.
Full Show Notes and links to everything mentioned here.
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Produced, edited,co-written and hosted by:
Kai, TheRestlessWitch
Co-written and guest appearance by:
Bree NicGarran
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Graveyard by Trailer Bride
Play along and guess the herb for these folk names in this episode!
Devil's Fruit
Eerie
Devil's Shoestring
Bat Tree
Bloody Fingers
Brain Thief
Witches' Weed
Naughty Man
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the cauldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt and toe of frog,
Wool of bat and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg and owlet's wing.
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
Song of the Witches - Macbeth - William Shakespeare
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Produced, edited, co-written and hosted by:
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Co-written and guest appearance by:
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Herbs in this episode
Hells Bells
Witch's Herb
Lady's Meat
Bulls Blood
Hag Tallow
Bright Mabon, witches! I'm unreasonably excited about the very first holiday episode! (p.s. Patreon Gr
This episode is about sharing how I celebrate the equinox as well as hearing from you! Personal and family traditions, celebrating the Equinox in The Restless Witch's Garden in the Shade, harvesting, baking and spellcrafting with apples in The Witch's Cupboard, we hear from you in Rustlings from the Grove, and more bits and bobs about the Autumn Equinox, followed by lectio divina with The Wild Unknown in The Tarot Study.
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This month, we continue looking at greenwitching through a practical lens with a chapter of The Reference Book all about ingestible herbal preparations. Teas, tinctures and elixers, oh my! And then I introduce a new kind of tarot segment, Tarot as a Sacred Text, inspired by Harry Potter and the Sacred Text. We begin with the sacred reading practice, lectio divina. There will be a longer conversation and journey through the idea process available to all patrons as a bonus episode very soon! Plus, in between the segments, I have a fun announcement of an interview I was featured on!
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This episode is the first in what will likely become an ongoing series all about Greenwitching! in this episode, we cover how to start learning about Practical Herbalism. A topic that is of utmost importance for anyone who works with plants. Just because you're using herbs for a magical purpose, doesn't mean they wont have an effect on your physical body.
Today we chat about how follow curiosity so you can arm yourself with practical herbalism knowledge in order to use herbs in safely and effectively in your magical practice.
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Surprise! It's a bonus episode, not just for Patreon witches, but for everyone! Here's a sneak peek of a bonus, patreon-exclusive episode.
Episode web page Here.
Show Notes
00:00 - Intro
01:32 - Through the Magnifying Glass
04:00 - MagicK IS Casual Racism
04:58 - Tumblr Post by @wyntercraft
05:13 - Internal Motivation Matters
07:27 - Some of the Many Various Ways in which Aleister Crowley was a Trash Heap
- Here's a link to page that is a great compilation of a ton of different quotes from Crowley's writings, displaying his racism. But fair warning, the person who wrote the article itself is a right winger and doesn't believe that Cowley was ( or Trump is) racist. So keep that in mind if you're exploring the rest of the site, but the direct Aleister Crowley quotes are what's useful there.
- The complete text and manuscript of Liber AL vel Legis, The Book of the Law, including the commentaries by Aleister Crowley
10:55 - Message Boards, a Relevant Relic
13:21 - Acceptable doesn't mean Excusable
16:41 - Black and White Magic; You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. But how you are meaning it is racist.
17:41 - White Light, Black Magic: Racism in Esoteric Thought by Brandy Williams
- Is the Term Black Magic Racist? - by Brandy Williams
19:25 - The Age of 'Enlightenment'
19:55 - Robert Boyle The 'Nature' of Colour
21:19 - John Locke and the Sugar Coated White Supremacy
22:51 - Conclusion and Actions
23:55 - This Witch Hexes White Supremacists a.k.a. Pro-Curse
24:27 - Where to find me online
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Hosted, Written, Recorded, Produced etc by: Kai, TheRestlessWitch
Music by: Nadie Sabe by Knit Your Own Scarf
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I recorded this episode a while ago, and was set to publish it this past week, but I didn't feel right about publishing content that didn't address what's going on. And last week especially, your podcast feed was better served by being filled with the voices of people of colour. The main body of this episode doesn't talk about the current protests, but I do talk about it in the preamble that I recorded edited in.
See the complete Show Notes here!
Hello, friends! And welcome to this episode of Witchcraft for the Restless.
Since recording this, just a week ago, I've gone from just one client in isolation to all but two. So if you could toss a couple of coins my way, or towards others who are relying solely on our communities to get by right now.
This episode is four unrelated segments because I am /restless./
Episode Segments:
1. Magical and Mundane; magical uses of everyday or random items. In this edition, we chat about crochet hooks.
2. The Reference Book; witching 101, introductions to basic concepts. Correspondences and Spell Formulation
3. The Restless Witch’s Garden in the Shade; gardening updates, lessons and tips. This time, we cover seed starting!
4. Ointments, Salves and Liniments, Topical Witching for our Times. A little bit about the corona virus, how I’m tackling semi-isolation and what you can do during this uncertain time.
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Things I mentioned in the show:
High Yield Vegetable Gardening from: Seattle Urban Farm Co or Amazon
Segments:
2:33 Magical and Mundane
9:55 The Reference Book
29:34 The Restless Witch’s Garden in the Shade
41:53 Ointments, Salves and Liniments, Topical Witching for our Times
Credit:
Hosted, written, produced and everything else by: Kai, TheRestlessWitch
Music: Ophelia - Les Hayden
Hello, friends! And welcome to another episode of Witchcraft for the Restless.
In this episode, we chat about sex, magic and sexy magic.
Trigger Warning: This episode talks about sex and mentions sexual assault and pedophilia in passing. If you don’t feel that you’re at a safe place to be able to process those things right now, that’s completely okay and I’ll be here for you in the next episode
In muggle studies, we'll talk about how society has shaped how we culturally interact with sex, and other non-magical aspects of sex. In the spirituality segment, I'll go over a few different ways that you can incorporate sex into your magical practice. In the Witch's Cupboard this episode is our earthy friend, patchouli. And then we have a joint Coven Corner and Podcast Community segment about my favourite sex positive podcasts and some specific and relevant podcast episodes.
You can find More Show Notes on my site
Time Stamps
Muggle studies at 3:37
Spirituality at 18:07
The Witch’s Cabinet 26:45
Combined The Coven Corner&Podcast Community Segment 31:14
Tarot Reading at 38:45
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Hello, Friends! Welcome to all you wonderful, restless, witchy people! This episode is an introduction to me and my practice, a chat about tradition and ritual, how it can centre us, and some ways that you can incorporate some traditions and ritual into your life.
And then we have our recurring segments. In RestlessWitch’s Community (now called Coven Corner), I answer an ask about what energy feels and looks like to me. In podcast community, I share some of my favourite podcasts and what i’ve been listening to this week. This week’s Witchcraft segment features the California poppy and in the Restless segment, I’ll tell you about my current crochet project. And we’ll close with a tarot reading that will advise us on how to reach our goals.
The transcript can be found here and the photos to go along with this episode are here.
Thank you so much for listening, all the links mentioned in the podcast are below:
Blog
Instagram
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Submit questions either through my blog’s ask box, or email me at therestlesswitch@gmail.com
Support the show through Patreon, paypal or ko-fi
Tarot for the wild soul ep. 60
Miriam Webster dictionary definitions of tradition and ritual
Brigid’s cross tutorial: Part 1 Part 2
Restless Community at 32:15
Podcast Community at 34:55
Harry potter and the Sacred Text
TheFatFeministWitch ep. 43 Interview with Mallory Kirsten, the Joy Goddess
The Serpent Cast Kava—NOPE
Witchcraft segment at 39:23
California Poppy - Eschscholzia californica
Restless segment at 43:16
Tarot reading at 44:13
