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Hey y'all, I know I'm a little late this week.  I'm at the precipice of making a huge choice and I reckon my heart just couldn't beat right for a few days.  But I'm here, slinging mud off my bones.  So, snuggle up on the porch and let’s chat about how contextualization is just as important as intent when thinking through our Craft. A possum comes in to play, but y’all expect that, right? Me, a Witch, in context as a Southerner—as always.

Also, y’all send good thoughts to us down here in Alabama. The folks in charge have lost their damn minds. I’m a Witch living in a Wannabe Gilead—and it’s only getting worse. Standing for my birthright as an Alabama Witch and doing what I can to fight for my neighbors, my DIL, and my grandbaby. Don’t forget us? We’re still here.

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Hey, y’all. I’ve been thinking about focus lately and how much energy it takes to just stay in place. It turns out, I’ve been treading water. And I’m exhausted. So, I’ve been doing a little manifestation work—creating a path that doesn’t exist quite yet. It’s work, to come out of trauma. Where we land can be a place that we design as witches.

To support this podcast, go to: https://www.patreon.com/southernfriedwitch

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Hey, y’all. In a lot of ways, this is my “unsilencing of the lambs,” a love letter to Imbolc. Today’s episode is short, organic, and a bit of a ramble on the idea of a “blood and bone” impregnation, rather than fertilization. In my experience, the darkest nights of the season are also the time of the deepest growth—bony growth—of that which we have sown within ourselves.

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Hey, y'all: I've dug deeply into this idea of witch shame.  You know, that feeling that comes after a crafting doesn't work, or something horrible happens and you didn't/couldn't stop it.  I also am currently standing in half ruins and wanted to chat with y'all about the critical nature of doing the repair work, rather than just walking away, from the things that matter to my little Witch heart.

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Well, y’all: I wish I could say that everything is fine, but it’s really not. I’m still struggling to share what it’s like to go through trauma as a witch, and hopefully, that will resonate with someone out there. It’s incredibly difficult to practice my Craft right now, and so I’m letting myself go dormant. After all, the killing freeze is not over yet. And I hope to survive it.

Sharing my Freefunder is hard for me, as it means that I also automatically “out” myself under my government name. Please respect my boundaries on social media under that name and understand that I cannot—no matter how dire my situation is right now—”friend” everyone who would like to do so. I still have children to protect. Love y’all like chicken. And: I’m trying harder than y’all know. Seba

To offer help in this crisis (missing exterior wall, legal fees, broken electrical line): https://www.freefunder.com/campaign/back-on-her-feet

To support this podcast (and that matters more than you know right now), go to: https://www.patreon.com/southernfriedwitch

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Well, y’all, by now you know that my world blew up a few months ago quite unexpectedly. Tonight, I am just leaning into the microphone to share how I’m walking through trauma as a Witch. When everything fell apart, I ran into the trees, and because of the bonds and covenants I have entered with the land spirits, the woods, my land, my ancestors, and my beautiful “Big Mama” (aka goddess), there was solace there. More than that, there is guidance and support. Tonight, I’m sharing the raw of my experience—so expect that. I promised, all of those years ago when I started this podcast, to tell you the truth. Sometimes, that’s a bloody mess.

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This podcast episode hurt. If you noticed that I was gone for a month, this is why. I’m holding on, pushing through, railing at the sky and healing in increments. And I’m so sorry that it took this long to talk.

But here it is. It’s raw and all I have right now. I hope you’re still listening. Never give up.

Episode notes:

The fundraiser to repair my broken farmhouse: https://www.freefunder.com/campaign/back-on-her-feet

To support this podcast (critical right now) go to: https://www.patreon.com/southernfriedwitch

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Hey y’all. I’ve had an unexpected trauma, and the podcast host of Obscure Appalachia has been so kind as to record a mini episode to explain it for me. I’m struggling to get back on my feet, in every way that that means. Candis, the podcaster and Batchild listener, did indeed strong-arm me into letting everyone know what is happening. I’m so sorry, and I hope to make everyone quite proud of me as I try to stand back up.

Until then: thank you for the years of support and love and magic. Thank you for anyone who has sent love, chicken feed, and hope. I hope to be back soon. You will also find that, because of the depth and degree of this trauma, I am coming out of the broom closet. Please know that right now, I cannot friend anyone on FB and am still trying to protect my children in Alabama.

But it’s finally time and I have nothing left to lose. Love you like chicken, Seba

Episode Notes

The campaign to repair my home and farm: https://www.freefunder.com/campaign/back-on-her-feet

The podcaster who created this message: https://www.obscureappalachia.com/

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There aren’t words to express, y’all, what the little gathering in the woods of Alabama meant to all of us. We came from California, Washington, Virginia, Florida, Tennessee, and all the places in between. There wasn’t enough time. There will never be enough time, when Witches come together to heal under the moon.

Today, the porch is the woods. If you listen, you are bearing witness to what we found there.

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I've been haunted lately, y'all, by those ghosts of years gone by.  Here's what I do about it: I try to work on me.  I don't want my children, nor my friends, to feel encumbered by sorrow or blackened memories when I'm gone.  And so, I work toward becoming (as we all are doing every day) their beloved dead.

Happy Samhain.  I'll see y'all on the other side--of this week.  xoxo

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