Southern Fried Witch
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Southern Fried Witch
Musings about life and magic from the Deep South.
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E201: The Witch Body as an Ecology
Hey, y'all--sorry I'm a day late. I did go forth with the DV awareness event, it was incredible, I was triggered by my own event (ironic, that) but am...
E200: Everything Coming Back to Life Hurts--Fighting Back Like Brigid
So, y'all: this one's long, almost double what I usually record and edit. But it was important. Last week, we talked about Cailleach handing over the...
E199: The Bone Mother and Why Blood Matters
Well, Batchildren. It's been a long ride, but here we are: episode 199. Holy crap. How did that happen? I remember when we started, all those years ag...
E98: Laughing in the Face of Monsters
Y’all, this one was recorded as ice and freezing storms threatened my homestead. At the same time, other “icy” forces were raiding (and still do) in...
E197: Reveal Spells and Inconvenient Truths
It's been a while, my loves, since I've done this level of work. I needed time, healing, and a space to breathe. You know, it's hard to determine the...
E196: Neutrality in a Violent World (and what it means for your Craft)
I've thought on this one a while, Batchildren. When, how, and how loud do we stand for what is right? What does it mean for our Craft when we choose S...
E195: The Culling--Why, When, and How to Weed Your Magical Relationship Garden
I don't fully have my voice back, but I had something to say. Sometimes, we are very slow on the draw to cull our gardens--for reasons of love, famili...
E194: The Suspension Bridge--How to Find Kairos
If you usually take your time listening to these episodes: shake things up
and listen right now. It's almost over, and if you need a kairos mo...
E193: Caretakers of the Not So Lovely Bones
Hey y'all, I've been thinking about bones, the ones we work with, the ones we keep, and how that relates to Craft.
The caretakers of thes...
E192: The Baneful Box of Winter
Winter is hard on this old country Witch, but it's a perfect time to put up a baneful box. When in an emergency, I don't always have time to source e...
E191: The Witch and the Craft of Nomenclature
Ah, how I would like to rest on my porch and not do this work anymore, but here it is: the process of reclaiming a name. I ran smack into myself (hypo...
E190: The Back of the Recipe Card (did my spell work?)
Well y'all, if you listened to the porch chat from last night, you know where we are going. Do y'all have a journal like this? Sometimes, we need the...
E189: Ode to a Dragon
I lost a true companion the night before Samhain. Here's to those dragons and beasties that walk with us on this journey.
May they always...
E188: Samhain Lessons (about Winter Solstice)
Well, y'all: my dad came to visit. It's been a very long time, but I was struggling with an essay for a magazine that asked me to write about winter....
E187: The Witch's New Year (Time to Clean Out the Closet)
Hey, y'all. Snuggle on the porch for a chat about apply Swedish Death Cleaning (what an appropriate time of the year!) to our own broom closets. I was...
E186: Sometimes It Ain't Apples: Harvesting Everything (Yes, Everything)
Hey, y'all. I'm being interviewed in a few hours by the Science Witch Podcast and one of their questions got my brain moving. Down the rabbit hole I w...
E185: The Odyssey--Necessary Time Travel
Just got off the interstate, y'all! My trip was . . . interesting. Sometimes healing means further surgery, but I'm on it.
Also, I briefl...
E184: Becoming the Witch of Your Own Woods
Hey, y'all. Come sit on the porch with me and let's chat about how we consider the place where our feet stand while engaging with our Craft.
E183: Sacred Harvests and Spaces That Matter
I've been studying on this, y'all: making sacred places in my life to harbor my Craft through the darker days to come. In the past, I have put myself...
E182: The Reclaiming
'm whooped, y'all. It took me a week to release this, just struggling over how personal it all was and then I remembered: this is what we do.
That Witch Life So Mote That Con 2025
Witches, So Mote That Con 2025 is only a month away and you don’t want to miss this one because it is the LAST YEAR and it’s going to be AMAZING! On O...
E181: Unforgivable Acts, Witch Culture, and Janky/Unlockable Doors
Hey, y’all. I’m fairly fed up with the onslaught of well-meaning folk who barrage me (and others) with the urgency of the act of forgiveness. In my...
E180: The Cassandra Effect and the Problem with Ignoring Magic
Y'all know that I really admire John Beckett, aka the author of Under the Ancient Oaks on Patheos. Often, something he muses upon fires up something i...
E179: Covert Patriarchy (and how it can infest/manifest where you live)
Well, y'all, I meant to write about moon magic. But then, I turned on the mic and this just fell out of my soul.
But, it’s relevant to wh...
E178: Whozitts and Whatzitts Galore: An Independence Day Story
Sometimes, the price of "love" is too dear, Batchildren. What have we given up, as Witches?
Hope y'all are okay tonight. I know how the c...
E177: Why Potential Means Nothing and Slow Roasted Magic Means Everything
Y'all, I thought I was just doing a quick episode that would amount to not much, but I like this one. It's something I've thought about for a long, lo...
E176: It's Just a Web Away--A Listener Letter
Well, y'all, I got a listener letter from a Batchild. I hope they know how much I resonated with losing everything and having to rebuild. At the end o...
E175: Small Resistance Everywhere
Well, y'all: I'm canning and popping beans and am covered in sweat most days, but it feels like resistance to me. Y'all know my stance on this, but he...
E174: Astral Travel, Accountability, and the Witchcraft of Thoughtful Archeology
Do we really get a do-over? And if we do, what do we lose? Sometimes, the universe knows exactly what she's doing.
Snuggle in, y'all. Tim...
E173: Snake Magic and the Bravery of Broken Witches
Snuggle in, Batchildren. We chatting about bravery in the face of monsters, finding protection in the most unlikely shapes, and forging forward in a...
E172: Nolite te Bastardes Carborundorum
Trigger Warnings, all around: this episode is about abuse every single kind of it.
My daughter has come home to heal. It's been nearly tw...
E171: The Crumbling, Unattended Wards We Keep
We've all done it, haven't we? Just went ahead with our normal warding practices, not one thought to whether or not they even could still hold water--...
E170: Eat the Ancestral Web, a Listener Letter Response
Okay, y'all: Mandi wrote in and had the best question ever that focused (mostly) on what to do with offerings to ancestors/Fae/deities. It's one of my...
E169: Called to Action Epilogue--Back to the Body, Again
So, many moons ago, I did an episode on getting back to the Witch body as a way to become more whole. Then, the other day on the phone with a Cauldro...
E168: Manifest Something
This one is incredibly personal, to say the least. But we have become personal, Batchildren. So let's go.
Wasted time is a real thing, no...
E167: Called to Action--Part III, Risk Factor
This is the last installment of "what to do if you are called to action." Plan, prepare, practice, then: JUMP. With every action, there is risk. Ass...
E166: Fire in the Belly--A Listener Letter Response
Hey, y'all, this is a long one. I met this listener at the Batchildren Ball several years back and she feels like family. So I gave it hell. She's a b...
E165: Called To Action--Part II, The Witch's Well
This is Part II of “Called to Action,” what do you do next? Learning to nurture sustainable energy sources is a no brainer, but for me, the last place...
E164: Born Guilty--The Wild and Ragged Path to Witchcraft
TW: Christian Trauma/Depression and Su**ide
Hey, y'all: tonight I'm sharing the story of a very dear and wonderful young witch who strug...
E163: Called to Action, Part I--Tower Time and the Witch's Whetstone
I've seen the calls to action, far and wide, and am working on my own ways to be a part of the Witch's Resistance--as we all should be. But, y'all, th...