Plant Witch

This week we explore ways to work with the monthly lunar cycle for personal growth, manifestation and healing. We also look at the particular degrees of this month's new and full moons, and how to find their relevance in your own natal chart. We explore resources at Astro Seek and Astro. Com to help us navigate this information. For help learning the basics of astrology, check out this resour...

Hang in there for this week's episode! It's nerdy and scientific in the beginning, and political and potentially alienating to folks at the end. I don't know what I was thinking this week, but here it is! Ha! Thanks for hanging in there as my content swings around wildly based on what I am currently metabolizing in my own experience. Vive le revolution of love, Eryn Reach out to Ery...

In this week's episode I share a recent conversation I had with the trees, and my vision for a larger conversation between trees and humans in the future. The birds had lots to say this week, too. And Mac was committed to chewing his elk antler at my feet while recording, so you have his contribution as well! Ha! Reach out to Eryn! Support the show

This episode opens with the poem Breathing Underwater by Carol Bialock .  I will meet you in the deep. Thank you for joining me here. Thank you for not letting the tentacles, the pressure, the moaning of the sea, the risk, the darkness, turn you away.  Thank you for breathing underwater.  Reach out to Eryn! Support the show

Freshly back from a family vacation at Disney World, this episode is a reflection of  my inner-child self and hopes for the future.  Welcome to the Age of Aquarius.  Reach out to Eryn! Support the show

Continuing with the exploration of the masculine and feminine polarities, this week we encounter the feminine energy as I perceive it on my own journey. The episode opens with a poem from Christin Lore Weber , one that I have shared here before and will likely share again.  Blessings on your own encounter with the Wise Dragon within.  Reach out to Eryn! Support the show

This episode opens with a poem from Tom Hirons , as an invocation of the Wild Masculine. Join me in the realm of the deep inner wild man that exists in us all. Let us liberate him, together.  Reach out to Eryn! Support the show

*Content Warning* This episode is pretty raw and really captures the grief and chaos that have been swirling around for me lately. As we confront the collapse of our ecological systems, the grief we feel is intimately tied to our personal and collective trauma and often compounds that trauma through a lack of safety and feelings of powerlessness. If you are feeling fragile, unsafe or struggling, m...

I have received multiple requests to know more about my personal story. This episode is a brief response to those requests. I hope to go into more detail over time. For now, welcome to my attempt at more vulnerability, and deeper sharing of my own story.  Reach out to Eryn! Support the show

How is our mind part of our magick? What is mindfulness? In this episode we explore the practices of mindfulness and how it may be supportive of our magick, and of our survival.  Reach out to Eryn! Support the show

In this episode we explore the seasonal energies of Imbolc, and how to find alignment with the seasons within the energy of our own being. We also explore the call to speak for the more-than-human beings with whom we share this Earth.  Reach out to Eryn! Support the show

For years I have heard the terms The Great Awakening, The Great Turning, The Shift, The New Earth, etc. I am fully convinced that this awakening is underway and actively shifting our experience of the world. Tune in this week to hear about how I am experiencing this awakening, and what I am learning from all of you.  Reach out to Eryn! Support the show

**Content Warning** In this episode there mentions of violence and sexual assault. Please proceed with caution. Join me in this musing on the power of evil in the world, and how we can combat this force collectively and personally.  Reach out to Eryn! Support the show

Welcome to this 100th episode of the Plant Witch Podcast! In this episode, I share my master plan, why I keep showing up here week after week, and I what I am trying to convince you to see and remember. Join this episode for a peak behind the veil to see what it is I'm really up to. To read the Wendell Berry poem in print, click this link.  Reach out to Eryn! Support the show

What if you were called to a council of beings from another planet, or a gathering of people from another time? What would you tell them about life on Earth today? In this espisode I explore how I would make a report from Earth.... Reach out to Eryn! Support the show

In this episode, we explore the dreaming time between the solstice and the Gregorian new year. What is the plot of your unfolding story? Who are you becoming? What is your core self? How would you author your story if you could? Join me for an exploration of the story of your becoming.  Reach out to Eryn! Support the show

Plants like St. John's Wort, ruled by the Sun and the sign of Leo, can help us hold the sun within us when the sun, our beloved star, moves away from us in winter. In this episode we explore the many ways that this herb acts within the ecosystem of the human body.  Reach out to Eryn! Support the show

In this episode we talk about the Druid holiday of Alban Arthan, or the Winter Solstice.  Words have been hard to come by for this Druid lately, so thank you for listening when they emerge. Brightest solstice blessings, wherever you are.  Here is a link to the OBOD ritual if you want to check it out. Reach out to Eryn! Support the show

I open this episode with a quote from Sharon Blackie's new book Hagitude .  Within us all is a shadowland of exile. A place of incredible power and wisdom. Those of us who have chronic pain and illness move through this land of prophets and alchemists more often. The energy of this full moon empowers us to deeply see and hear the wisdom gained by these exiled parts of us.  May we encounter ou...

*Content warning: Brief mentions of violence* The holidays are a time when we are confronted with the patterns of behavior that have flowed through our family lines, and are rooted in colonization and empire.  What if we could come into this season with our eyes wide open, and with a powerful willingness to see these patterns for what they are? What if we choose to speak our needs and our truths,...

We have entered the season of the Archer. Where are your sights set? What Truth do you seek? How do you express your wildness? Join me in welcoming in the season of the Wild Fires of Truth.  Reach out to Eryn! Support the show

**Content warning: Brief mentions of suicide** In this episode, we explore the dangers of the human mind and some strategies for surviving the dark winter months without succumbing to the tyrant within.  Reach out to Eryn! Support the show

As I look out upon our community and our world, I see so much positive change. I also see pitfalls and danger. In this episode, we are reminded of the foundational work of magick and we explore some of the dangers and pitfalls together.  Reach out to Eryn! Support the show

In this episode we explore the ways that shame has been weaponized to force conformity and control behavior.  Being able to see and recognize these tactics offers us the opportunity to make new choices, and to repattern our behaviors from a place of clarity rather than unconscious conditioning.  Shame is a message about connection, community and belonging. Wielded by predatory interests, it become...

Illness, trauma recovery, personal empowerment, injury....living in a body on Earth will require periods of healing, and the help of outside forces to find healing.  In this episode, we explore the many diverse elements in the cauldron of healing.  Reach out to Eryn! Support the show