Today I'm joined by Asha Frost in the last episode of the Missing Witches Reparations Fundraiser 2026 podcast series. Asha is the author of You Are the Medicine and the creator of two oracle decks, The Animal Elders Oracle and The Sacred Medicine Oracle. She's got a new book coming out this winter called Inner Winter. And Asha hopes you'll support Moontime Connections, a national Indigenous-led period equity group. Together we talk about worthiness, extraction, laughter, a definition of 'enough', and how to find the magic in our lives. Asha says, "I can be powerful and gentle." Today is Thursday, May 28th, which means you've only got a few days left to join the Missing Witches Reparations Fundraiser for 2026. So let's get down to brass tacks. Number one, you make your donation to the organization of your choice, your neighborhood, your heart. We never touch the money, which means you keep your tax receipt. Two, everyone who donates any amount gets discount codes from some of our favorite witchy businesses. So your reparation could easily pay for itself. Three, you'll be entered to win fabulous prizes. And when I say fabulous, I mean one of a kind stuff. There are more than $6,000 worth of prizes available to be won. But I'm telling y'all, the feeling that you get from making a contribution to the revolution, from repaying a debt I guarantee this feeling that you get is the best way that you're gonna spend $10 today. I guarantee it. So with that, I hope you'll join us in this last push for the month of May and the Missing Witches Reparations Fundraiser. Make a donation of $10 or more to your local Indigenous-led support organization. In a world of data centers, we need water protectors. ICE out. Borders equal papers equal fascism. We know this. So look to your heart, find a way to make a reparation, and I promise the effort will come back to you. https://www.missingwitches.com/ep-299-remember-the-magic-mwrf-part-5-w-asha-frost
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Amy: Hi, coven. Today is Thursday, May 28th, which means you've only got a few days left to join the Missing Witches Reparations Fundraiser for 2026. So let's get down to brass tacks. Number one, you make your donation to the organization of your choice, your neighborhood, your heart. We never touch the money, which means you keep your tax receipt Two, everyone who donates any amount gets discount codes from some of our favorite witchy businesses.
So your reparation could easily pay for itself. Three, you'll be entered to win fabulous prizes. And when I say fabulous, I mean one of a kind stuff. Books and a personal writing critique with Jared K. Anderson, The Crypto Naturalist. And there are book packs from North Atlantic Books, Teresa Reed, Liv Albert, Daniel Dolsky, gift certificates to The Crow's Key, The Neuroscience of Tarot book and tarot deck, plus a personal 30-minute neuro tarot reading with Dr.
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Trauma-informed coaching sessions with Blade Grumstrup. There are more than $6,000 worth of prizes available to be won. But I'm telling y'all, the feeling that you get from making a contribution to the revolution, from repaying a debt I guarantee this feeling that you get is the best way that you're gonna spend $10 today.
I guarantee it. So with that, I hope you'll join us in this last push for the month of May and the Missing Witches Reparations Fundraiser. Make a donation of $10 or more to your local Indigenous-led support organization. In a world of data centers, we need water protectors. ICE out. Borders equal papers equal fascism.
We know this. So look to your heart, find a way to make a reparation, and I promise the effort will come back to you.
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Amy: I'm now joined by Asha Frost, who's going to help us close out the Missing Witches Reparations Fundraiser for the year.
In the last episode of the Missing Witches Reparations Fundraiser podcast series, Asha is the author of You Are the Medicine and the creator of two oracle decks, The Animal Elders Oracle and The Sacred Medicine Oracle. She's got a new book coming out this winter called Inner Winter. And Asha hopes you'll support Moontime Connections, a national Indigenous-led period equity group.
Go to truenorthaid.ca. And for everything you need to know about the Missing Witches Reparations Fundraiser, go to missingwitches.com slash reparation.
Asha: Thank you so
Amy: much for being here with me today, Asha. I
Asha: know
Amy: that you are a busy woman out there doing the good work, so I really appreciate you taking some time to sit down with me.
How are you? It's always
Asha: a gift being here with you. I'm well. Thank you so much for having me.
Amy: Yes, you are the medicine, and every time we have a conversation, it feels like that, that you are a medicine woman. I mean, but also, like, you are a medicine woman. You are out there delivering um, keynote addresses and your Instagram content, and all of it just feels like a, like a nervous system calming.
And I really appreciate that you exist in the world.
Asha: That is kind. Thank you.
Amy: Is there anything you wanna tell our listeners before I dive into my list of questions here? Anything that's been on your mind, anything new that I might not know about yet?
Asha: Well, I think, I, I don't know if you know about this, but my, my new book is coming out this year, so not till November, but it's called The Inner Winter, and it is...
Yeah, it'll be, it, the pub date is November the 3rd, but I just handed in my first kind of draft of my edits, so I feel like I'm in it still. You know, I'm in that birthing place and that writing place, and it's exciting.
Amy: Inner Winter. I mean, I know what that means to me. What does it mean to you?
Asha: Yeah, so I wrote this book for all of the people who maybe are unwinding from that narrative that we have to be living in a perpetual summer, because I think that's what colonialism and capitalism has told us.
So people who live in bodies who suffer with maybe a chronic illness or disability or perhaps, um, are neurodivergent or sensitive, you know, and they just see the world in a different way, and they have a different way of moving in the world. So that's really what it's for. But it's really a personal story.
I've been wanting to write this for my whole life because I've, um, walked with lupus for most of my life, so it really is a personal story mixed with healing, mixed with, I hope, acknowledgement and seeing and validation for folks who are navigating the medical system and their bodies and the state of the world at the same time.
Amy: Oh, thank you so much for writing this book. Honestly, like I- this is my first question that I have here on my list. And I did not know about the new book, so the wavelength, wavelength is strong. You and I both deal with chronic illness. This is the question from my list here. So forgive me for the repetition, but I...
And you and I both suffer with a chronic illness, and I think we both suffer from that same instinct that we're not good enough- Mm-hmm ... or we're not doing enough. And like I said, so much of your content feels like a breath of fresh air, that unlearning of capitalist urgency, the ability to say no, being kind to yourself and others in a sometimes unkind world.
And so I can't wait for Inner Winter. I can't wait for November. Please, how do you do it? How do you do it?
Asha: Oh gosh. I don't know. I- it's interesting. I'm, you know, this book is going to be a really, it's a raw, honest, a very authentic account of... Because I think we can look at people doing it all, or whatever that is, and think like, "How do they do it?"
And I just have to take a lot of breaks and, and it's been the hardest winter of my life the last, um, probably year and a half. So it's a very honest, raw account of that. And I hope that... It still has hope because I, that's what my name means. I carry that hope, so it still has a vision of that. But it's not the kind of book where it's like, "This is gonna heal you.
You're going to be healed by the end of it," or whatever that means, or cured by the end of it, because that's just really not the reality for many of us who are also inundated by all of these wellness tips, and cleanses, and protocols, and all of these things that are gonna make you well. I think that it all, it all comes into the same umbrella of like, you're not enough, you are broken, you need to be fixed, and the answer's outside of you.
So it's m- more of really like an invitation, how do you live in a wintering body? And I still haven't figured it out quite yet. But, but the book is a part of explorat- exploring that.
Amy: I love that you've submitted your first draft, but you still haven't quite figured it out yet. Oh, no. And that, that's what we're doing here all the time, right? Yeah. Just trying to figure it out.
Asha: Yeah. And I think, I don't know if there is an answer, right? I think that our world isn't set up for wintering humans to, to thrive really.
So my hope and prayer is that our world starts to change and systems start to change to make room for those who are left behind.
Amy: How do you conceive of this notion of having to change systems from the inside versus from the outside?
Asha: Yeah, I think it's a really... I think we talk about it a lot, right?
Systems need to change. I do think it starts with, with, uh, with us. Like, I do think that there's, you know, we talk about the violence outside and we, we reflect on perhaps there's violence inside of our own minds and our hearts and the way we speak to ourselves too, that we need to be conscious of.
Because that, not that community care is important and doing the work with each other is important, and I think that there's real, um, beauty in doing that work internally, and I think that it is reflected in our outer worlds. And it's something that we skip over sometimes, and we just think the world has to change, and they're all gonna do it out there.
But we need to look at relationally how we're, how we're... Even being on social media, like, how are we being, uh, with each other in relationship to, to people online? Are we being kind to them? Like, that just seems like a simple thing to me, but it's not so simple as you know when you're on there.
Amy: It's true, but I, I have found more and more, you know, I'm a woman of a certain age, and I have found more and more that the kinder I am to myself, the more kindly I treat people.
I really believe that, like, it starts with, um... And you know, we kind of balk at these words like healing because again, like, maybe it's possible there's nothing wrong with me. You know? But I really do believe that if we are kind to ourselves, if we release the judgment of our inner critic on ourselves, that that opens up this almost a floodgate of allowing us to look at other people and s- and have that same compassion, right?
I
Asha: think that's true. I was thinking about that, 'cause you said a woman of a certain age. I was thinking about the, with regards to aging, right? Because I think o- in our generation, well, I don't know how old you are, but it's like there's so much pressure to get the Botox. There's nothing wrong with that, all those things.
But I was thinking, goodness, as I start to love my own wrinkles and lines and smile lines and all of these things, I do start to look at the world and notice, wow, that person's smile is so beautiful and I love the wrinkles around their eyes, or I love, I love the stories in their face. Like, I start to really see that as I love myself more.
That's something I'm really noticing in my perimenopause years.
Amy: Yeah. And like speaking of anti-capitalist, like to reframe a laugh line as something that we don't want to have on our faces is, is wild to me, right? Like, why would we not want... I remember, um, I grew up in the church and there was this couple and they like led the youth group and, and that kind of thing, and they were lovely, lovely, lovely people and just like an abundance of joy.
And I remember being young and seeing those like deep, deep crow's feet at the side of their eyes and they, they were probably 10, even 20 years younger than I am now. But I remember being a kid and thinking to myself, "Those are joy lines. Those are l- laugh lines that like, they have evidence on their faces that they're living a joyful life.
Why would I ever wanna like s- rob myself of that?"
Asha: I'm there right now too, definitely.
Amy: Oh yeah. But I, but we're still working through it, right? Yes. Yeah. I still look in the mirror. I, I, my hair is gray as a political statement. Um, you know, but I still look in the mirror and think, oh, listeners, I'm kind of pulling on my face right now.
You know? That kind of like, oh, this line and that line, but- I would love to just be able to exist in the world old-
Asha: Yes ...
Amy: mmm, sick- Yeah ... um, without the, the weight and pressure of I have to achieve more and more and more, and I have to be s- a stunningly beautiful model while I do it, or my work doesn't count for anything.
Sorry, tangent, tangent, tangent.
Asha: I'm here with you. I'm with you.
Amy: Okay. This is related. Um, I pulled out your Animal Elders Oracle deck before we jumped on this call today and, and pulled a card at random. I wanted to know what the universe or whatever spirit lives inside your deck wanted us to talk about today.
And it's so funny because it really, uh, is ... I, I pulled Elder Hummingbird.
Asha: Oh.
Amy: Remember the magic. And listeners, I'll put a, I'll put a photo of this card in the show notes for this episode. But the message of Elder Hummingbird is remember the magic. I'm gonna read a little bit real quick. "Elder Hummingbird speaks- Invoke my spirit when you have forgotten the magic of life, for I can fly in all directions and gather it from the past, present, and future.
I flutter before you and expand your heart to remind you of your inherent worthiness to receive sweetness. I carry an incredible ability to remember the flowers that have nourished me, and I bring this memory medicine to you. I shall help you recall the sparkle in your eyes and hope in your spirit that you once held.
Magic abounds. Oh, talk to me about remembering the magic. How do you remember the magic, other than conjuring hummingbird?
Asha: I needed that today, actually. Yeah. Sometimes I hear my own words read back to me and I think, "Oh, that's so... I needed that." Yeah. You know, and speaking about and relating it to the inner winter, I think I tend to be a fairly positive, optimistic person.
And in this really hard period, um, it was hard to find the magic. It was hard to find the hopeful moments. It was hard... It was even, like, a long winter, like seasonally this year, so even that was, like, extra cold, extra snowy. Today's a beautiful day. There is buds on the trees, and even that, the earth reminds you there is magic everywhere, and...
But I was in a state where it was hard to find it. So sometimes when that happens, I will draw cards. Those are really good ways to do it. Um, I was in a state where I couldn't walk. I was, uh, I'm immobile most of the winter, and that was really hard because I couldn't be on the land. I mean, I could sit outside if I wanted to, but actually walking with the land was something that I really missed.
So I think that, um, it is, it is a practice to find the magic. It is, um, a gift to be able to see it every day, and it's something that I think we can lose sight of sometimes when we're going through a really hard time. So, um, the ways that I probably did it throughout this really deep wintering season were things like pulling cards, um, you know, maybe sitting in quiet, having a bath, having a salt bath.
But those, but again, like I did really find it hard to find it, so I think the hummingbird is a good message for me, as today I found the magic. It's back. And I think it's also okay to say that there's seasons sometimes where you can't find it, and, and there's nothing wrong with you. I think that sometimes that's part of that seasonality, and it's just a season because it's gonna come back.
So that's perhaps part of the message and the wisdom of that, is the magic will come back one day, just like today. I feel that very strongly today.
Amy: Tell me, like for the sake of our listeners who want to find the magic but don't know what it looks like-
Asha: Mm ...
Amy: how, what is the magic, first of all? And how do you recognize it when you see it?
Asha: Yeah. I think everybody would define that differently. For me, it feels like a sense of contentment and ease. It's a very internal feeling. I think that I could see magical things all around, or maybe even a sense of gratitude, right? And not take it in, or not notice it. It could be passing right by me. So it's presence.
It's a sense of contentment. And you know how you're talking about, like, this whole, like, we gotta do more, and we're not doing enough. I finally got to a place, and again, I've mentioned perimenopause once, but I think there's something evolving in me where I think, "This is enough. This, I have done enough. I am enough."
Like, I'm coming to this place where I'm like, "This is enough." And I can see even the magic in that. So I think it's like being open to seeing the, the maybe the beauty in the small things, and being present with the small things. Um, yeah. And I think for me it's a feel- But I think everybody would define that differently.
Like, how does that feel to you? What does magic feel like to you? For me, it's like breath, spaciousness, presence, and ease. There's something in that where it feels like I'm noticing... Today in particular, I'm just sit- looking outside, like, my- I have a tree that has the smallest little green buds on it, and they just popped out today.
That to me is magical. Like, how, how does that even happen? So to me, creation shows us magic every single day. But do we get quiet enough to notice it?
Amy: Yes. I think that that's a big one. Actually listening. Not just watching for the magic, but being quiet and listening for it. And there's, like, this very strong, again, this, this anti-capitalist thread when, when you said the word enough.
I feel like because we under late stage capitalism, we can't have enough. Mm-hmm. There's no such thing as enough. There's only more. And, you know, maybe I eat a meal and I can sense that I'm full, you know, those hormones or whatever's going in my brain that send the message to my... But with money, there is no such mechanism in our bodies.
It has to be more. With, um, achievements- Mm-hmm ... there is no such mechanism. It always has to be more. It always has to be more, more, more, more. So how do we know when we've had enough? And that can be both sides. I, I have enough, and I have fucking had enough. Enough is enough. Yeah. Talk, talk to me about this word enough.
Asha: Yeah. I think that I've... You know what I've noticed in going through this inner winter, I haven't shared this yet, but what I noticed is that my, my inner critic got so much quieter, and I never thought that I would ever hear her be so quiet. I'm, and perhaps it's because I don't have the capacity. I realize how much capacity it took to keep her alive and going and so loud.
Like, it was taking up like 80% of my energy. When I don't, didn't have any more energy to spare-
Amy: Sorry, when you say her you mean that inner critic,
Asha: right? Yeah, the inner critic. Yeah.
Amy: Yeah.
Asha: So when I didn't have anything left to spare, I realized there was something about being in really intense pain that quieted her because it was like all the energy I had had to be directed to this pain or being present with it, and I didn't have anything left.
So now I know if I'm showing up and I, I don't really... I used to be super critical of myself or a perfectionist, and I'm just not doing that anymore. I, I just, it, I don't have the space or capacity or time anymore for that because we only have a certain number of years to live on this planet, so what the heck was I doing all these years?
I'm not blaming myself or shaming myself, but I just think what was the point in being so hard on myself when we only have this precious moment right now and can we love ourselves? Like, when am I gonna actually love myself enough? That's my question, too. I see people in their 70s who are still beating themselves up about their bodies and their, their weight and their wrinkles, and I think how old do we have to get before we love ourselves?
That seems like a really good question I've been asking myself lately. Can I love myself now? Can I start it now before I end up being 70 and still hating myself? I don't want that. So I think there's an enough-ness in- Just knowing your worthiness right now 'cause you exist on this planet. So something has happened in this writing of this book, and maybe just age, I don't know.
But I definitely feel more enough than I ever have
Amy: Oh, I'm so happy because the more enough you feel, the more you will deliver unto us, your loving audience. Because we can't, we can't, you know? When we are in that place, like, we can't fill other people's cups if we have, we have nothing. But you create so many things.
I recently download- loaded, um, your meditation, Finding, um, uh, Power Animal or Animal Power. Yeah. And it was so beautiful. Can you talk about why you created and, and released this? Listeners, it's free. I'll put the link in the show notes of course. But talk to me about this like, the seeking of the power animal or animal power.
That was the
Asha: creation... It was the Creation Animal Spirit. Was it from the one in my deck? Yeah. Is that the one? It- I have a lot of meditations,
Amy: but that was- Yeah, it was a, it was a, a recent pop-up on your website, um, with, uh, I, I mean I haven't-
Asha: Okay. So it's probably the Creation Animal Spirit. Yeah. So that one was in particular I wrote-
Amy: Yes
Asha: and put that. Yes. Yes. Yes, yes. So that one was like, what animal spirit came in with you in the womb, with your creation? Like, I really truly have this vision of us coming with a creation story. So Creator envisioned us, dreamed us into being, our ancestors are behind us, and then we have this medicine that's planted, right?
And I just felt like an animal came in with us at that time. It might not be the animal that's with you now, or it might be... To me it's an animal that's kind of woven throughout your life. So you might go through a healing session or cycle, and then all of a sudden you're like, "Oh, I thought I healed that already," and that animal will pop up again.
So it's one of those ones that is one of those healing things that walks with you your whole life. I really feel that with the animal totems, that that's the way it happens. Different ones come in and out of your life at different times when you need different reminders, but I do think that we, we come in with one.
So that particular meditation has that. What is that animal? For me it's the deer, because the deer has always reminded me of being compassionate, being softer, um, p- sending love to that inner critic. Um, even leadership, like there's a part of leadership, like how do you lead with that softness still? How do you hold, um, strength and softness at the same time?
People, that's people's reflection of my work is all the time is like, "It's so powerful yet so gentle." And I think that's what deer is, powerful yet gentle. And I always wondered for the longest time, how, how do I hold all of those things? Like, how can you hold powerful and gentle? But now I've claimed it.
Yeah, I do, and I, and I am that. And I just recently my, I, we talked about that my grandmother just passed on to the spirit world a couple weeks ago, and my uncle was speaking at the funeral and was sharing how that side of the family was Deer Clan, and I'd heard whispers of that. Um, typically we take on our, like, our mother's clan, so that was my grandfather's clan was the Crane Clan.
So this is my grandmother's clan. And when he said that, I thought, "Oh my goodness, that makes so much sense why deer has spoken to me so deeply throughout my lifetime, because it's actually one of my clans." So I thought that was really interesting and really cool
Amy: And tell me more. Um, I remember you, you once told me, um, we were talking about appropriation, extraction, you know, all of those keywords.
Um, you told me if I hide these teachings, then the colonizer wins.
Intro: Oh. Yeah.
Amy: Can you sort of re-expand on that? I know a lot of people, um, hesitate to use the term spirit animal and have switched to power animal or animal spirit or animal power. Um, so talk to me about sharing these teachings. Talk to me about how you negotiate and navigate extraction when you're making your work.
Asha: Yeah. Well, I think that that all started with writing my book, with the Dear White Woman letter, because I think that that was a boundary for people. If they could read it and have a relationship with the words in some way, then I feel like... And just have awareness. I'm not asking people to be perfect.
Like, just have awareness and have a relationship with the ind- original stewards of their land and Turtle Island, then what? If you can actually see everything, then how can you have a relationship with these things in a good way? People are going to anyways. This is what I say. You are going to learn this from a non-Indigenous person, because there's tons of teachers out there.
Would you rather learn it from an authentic source or... And people can learn whoever they want, right? But I, this is what I try to say to my community. People are teaching this anyways. Who, who do you want teaching it? And it's not like I'm sharing instructions for how to do a sweat lodge or instructions on how to...
Like, I'm not, like, our traditional ceremonies are closed practices. They're- they are closed practices. I'm not doing that. It's more, it's more the teachings of my relationship with the spirit world from my perspective, from how my ancestors have passed it on to me, from how I've experienced it through my own healing journey.
So then it feels very personal to me. And then if people have read the letter, I do think my deck gives people the opportunity to, to engage in these teachings in a good way, in a respectful way, with reverence. Everybody who's ever used my deck and shared it back with me, I feel that from their hearts. I can truly say that 1000%, that they do it with respect and reverence, and they do it with honoring Indigenous people from across Turtle Island.
I know this to be true. So it's kinda worked out. But, but there are people in the Indigenous community that are not happy with how I share it and what I share, and I also don't think that they've read my book, and I also don't think that they know my heart, and I also don't think that they know me truly.
And that's something I've had to get to because I have been terrified for years about... I've gotten called out, I've gotten canceled by people from the Indigenous community. That's been really hurtful. That's been really hard for me to navigate, and I'm finally come to a place where I'm like, "Have you actually looked into what I'm trying to do here?
Have you actually read my book and the letter? Have you actually seen that, as a person from the Crane Clan, I'm trying to bring our communities together to understand one another so there can be truth and reconciliation? And if you have, and you still wanna criticize me, sure, fine. I'll take that. But if you haven't, please look into what I'm really trying to do here."
Because we can keep everything hidden, and we can keep everything close by, and I understand the need to do that. And I think if we do that, that's exactly what the colonizer wanted. They wanted to bury us. So by burying us, they bury our teachings, they bury our medicine, and then we just keep them hidden, and then we can't, we can't share it.
And it, for me, the sharing helps with the relationship. The sharing helps with the reciprocity. The sharing helps with our grandfather teachings in the world. That's what the sharing does for me, and I might be wrong, but that's, that's how I see it
Amy: Well, we know obviously, you know, um, First Nations cultures talk a lot about storytelling as a healing practice.
Um, but it's certainly not the exclusive realm of, of Indigenous people. You know, every, every culture tells their story and hears other stories as a way of making medicine for each other, right? Um, I don't want the colonizer to win. So tell me, other than buying your books, your book, your book that's ... Your next book, Inner Winter, that's coming out in November, using your decks, um, tell me how else can we make sure the colonizer doesn't win?
Asha: Oh, there's so many things. I think from an Indigenous perspective, there's so many opportunities t- to learn and to become an ally, an accomplice, or however you wanna say that, and build a relationship. I think it's really important. You know, when people say, "How do I not appropriate? How do I appreciate?"
Learn the land you're on, the territory you're on. Speak it often. Speak to the spirit of the land. It's so important. When you're using medicines, ask, you know, where you're buying them from. Be mindful of that. So this is very specific to, I guess, cultural appropriation. Um, and yeah, I love Indigenous literature.
I think that's such a beautiful way of honoring, honoring our medicine and honoring the land. There's so many incredible Indigenous writers. And start to look and see, who am I learning from? Where do they get their teachings from? Are they honoring the land even? So many spaces I go in and the lands aren't even acknowledged, and I think, "This is so important.
This is like 101, you know? How are you not even acknowledging the land when you're in this space?" So start to look through the lens of these, of these things because what I've noticed over the years is, you know, it, what's been hard is like our teachings have been extracted and taken, and then those people have risen, and Indigenous voices and visibility have not.
So h- that really feels hard for all these people to take, take, take, and then they rise and they make all this money and they have this huge career, and then we're st- standing here going, "Those are our medicines and nobody's paying attention to our voices." So look at the voices you're paying attention to.
Uplift the ones that maybe are not heard or seen as much. Those are some, those are some tips I think that are, are really important to me.
Amy: And of course, this is the whole thrust of what we do at Missing Witches during the month of May, right? Like, we acknowledge that new age witchcraft, all of this stuff has- Had an extremely extractive relationship with Indigenous culture, magic, land, all of it.
We can name all of it. So of course, we spend the month of May here lifting voices of Indigenous authors and creators like yourself, activists, thinkers, philosophers, reading their books- Mm ... boosting their profiles, but maybe more importantly, um, encouraging people to put, witches specifically, to put your money where your mouth is.
You know, we say all the time, it's become a bit of a catchphrase around here, like, it's not a gift, it's a debt. So what we're trying to do here is to repay the debt firstly, 'cause we're, we're working seven generations back and forward, right? So we're trying to... We can't heal colonization. We know that. But we can work toward a future where that healing is possible.
So as my final question before I let you go back to your busy, busy, busy, is there an organization, a Native-led support organization or water protectors or, um, I don't know if you're still in the Toronto area, but I know there's a beautiful, the Native Women's Shelter in Toronto. Is there an organization that you would love to see our listeners backing during this reparations fundraiser?
Asha: Yeah. I really love Moon Time Connections. That's really the organization that I love because they make sure that everyone has access to, uh, menstrual products. And if, you know, if you've ever traveled up north, it's really hard to get menstrual products, and they're so expensive. Yes. So they deliver menstrual products to shelters and to all up in the northern communities where it's really hard to get.
And I, I, so I love them, and I also know them personally, which is great. But any- I think anything with water protection, with missing and murdered Indigenous women, like any of those, um, beautiful places that you see, like I just, yes, if you're gonna donate, donate there. Um, you're, are you not doing the shelter this year?
Are you just asking-
Amy: Oh, yes. Yeah. Okay. Oh, yes. As, as Reese and I, every year we-
Asha: Amazing ...
Amy: pay forward- So I
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Amy: blessings. Yeah. Yes. Yeah.
Asha: Please. Like whatever your recommendations i- are. It's, it's because I've donated th- there before too, and it looks like a great place, so yes, I highly recommend that too.
Amy: Thank you so much, Asha. You truly are the medicine. And I just, again, I, I return to your Instagram feed, to your decks, to your book when I need that reminder that I am enough. But being enough doesn't mean that I get to stop necessarily. I just have to reframe what is important, my priorities, you know, spend less time staring at my wrinkles and more time laughing and making new ones.
Asha: I love that.
Amy: Again, the book is You Are the Medicine. The decks are The Animal Elders Oracle and The Sacred Medicine Oracle, and in November, Inner Winter, your new book, is coming out in November. Inner Winter. So I hope you'll come back- I will ... when your book comes out, and we'll get ready for an inner winter.
Asha: I love that. Absolutely. Thank you so much for having me.
Amy: Thank you, Asha, and blessed fucking be.
Asha: Blah.
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