Speaker 1: This time on How to Witch Bitch, We're going to
Speaker 1: talk about some family time that you and your daughters
Speaker 1: have been during, which is only a witch could do.
Speaker 2: They'll also be interesting things like this, what's sweet?
Speaker 3: Why is sounding an owl?
Speaker 2: I don't know? And for some reason this just felt like.
Speaker 4: A lot of heat coming over me, A bit like perimenopause.
Speaker 2: But it was just to say that.
Speaker 3: You thought it was a hot flush.
Speaker 4: No, no, hang on to your witchy hats, subscribe, cheer,
Speaker 4: It's about to begin.
Speaker 2: Michelle the Witch of Moon's Lane and Moira Major How
Speaker 2: to Witch Bitch.
Speaker 3: Welcome to another episode of How to Witch Bitch. Michelle
Speaker 3: the Witch of Moon's Lane.
Speaker 2: Hello, Darlin, how are you?
Speaker 3: I'm well?
Speaker 1: Thank your Before we get into today's episode, we're going
Speaker 1: to talk about some family time that you and your
Speaker 1: daughters have been during, which is only a witch could do.
Speaker 1: We'd like to say hello to a number of our
Speaker 1: new followers on TikTok Amber and Ginge Heart Mountain Candles
Speaker 1: and Zoe Brown on Instagram.
Speaker 3: Jamie Caro, Caro, Carutha, you know who you are.
Speaker 1: Others, thank you Witchcraft Nepheritati.
Speaker 3: Is that right anyway? Book Girl eight.
Speaker 1: Seven four seven zero three and CAC seventy eight. Well,
Speaker 1: finally we've got someone who said that they've listened to
Speaker 1: this one in the bath last night, as in the
Speaker 1: episode with a glass of wine. Finally, I mean that's
Speaker 1: if this wasn't during the day here on the Gold
Speaker 1: Coast in Australia, we'd have wine too, Hawker, we should
Speaker 1: do a wine episode.
Speaker 2: And oh, actually that reminds me of something. Guess what,
Speaker 2: horp poor hawk.
Speaker 3: To wait?
Speaker 2: Shit, okay you know? Oh fuck you know the you
Speaker 2: know the hops hops hops?
Speaker 3: What's weird? Why are sounding like an owl?
Speaker 2: I don't know? You know, No, I can't do it.
Speaker 3: I can't.
Speaker 4: I won't be able to advertise because I don't think
Speaker 4: I'm making fun of them anyway.
Speaker 2: It's a new drink, right. They've approached approached me to
Speaker 2: go in and do things to advertise, and I like it.
Speaker 2: That's got like a it's the thing that you have,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 4: No, mate, Well, I'm thinking we should do it because
Speaker 4: then we could because you could put a link and
Speaker 4: every time that someone buys this from us, I'm gonna
Speaker 4: get money.
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna learn how to say.
Speaker 3: I don't want you to work, you.
Speaker 2: Know, I don't know.
Speaker 4: They've sent me a whole lot of the ship drinks drinks.
Speaker 4: It's meant to bank you feel all up of the
Speaker 4: art bothout the alcohol.
Speaker 3: So it's non alcoholic.
Speaker 2: It's non alcoholic, but it's got horps. I don't know
Speaker 2: how to say it. It's got a couple of things. Anyhow,
Speaker 2: I'll bring a some in. And I thought what we
Speaker 2: could do is if we did it.
Speaker 4: On the podcast, and we got it out there and
Speaker 4: got the links, and they would keep going on and
Speaker 4: linking and going and buying their stuff that had come
Speaker 4: back to us, and that would then do the podcast right.
Speaker 3: Okay, just learn how to say it first.
Speaker 2: Hoop hoop, you can say it. I'll just drink it.
Speaker 1: I don't think you need it, all right, Melissa, Hello,
Speaker 1: wonderful witchy ladies. I have a question for you. I
Speaker 1: absolutely love storms and feel so empowered by them. When
Speaker 1: the wind blows, I can always tell something is coming
Speaker 1: or leaving, depending on which direction it blows and what
Speaker 1: it smells like and how it feels.
Speaker 3: Does this mean I should do more storm magic? Am
Speaker 3: I a storm witch?
Speaker 2: Guess? What do you remember? Chocolate art? The movie chocol
Speaker 2: I was. I don't know where that came from.
Speaker 4: Deep down, it down got.
Speaker 2: Anyway, primal. Yes, remember that movie? Yes was she would
Speaker 2: changed with the wind.
Speaker 4: Yes, so she was a chocolate art which and she
Speaker 4: was exactly that storm.
Speaker 3: She's a baby witch.
Speaker 1: Not sure how to do all of this yet, I
Speaker 1: just feel so drawn to storms, and they calmed me down.
Speaker 2: They give me peace.
Speaker 1: When I little, When I was little, I believed I
Speaker 1: could control them and call them in. I heard you
Speaker 1: on your podcasts that you love ghost stories. I grew
Speaker 1: up in a very haunted property, so I've got lots
Speaker 1: for you. Melissa would be changing, Okay, all right, we've
Speaker 1: got Alyssa. I've always had a sick spiritual side, but
Speaker 1: never knew how to tap into it. My husband is
Speaker 1: very Christian, while I wasn't raised religious at all due
Speaker 1: to my parents having religious trauma. I've been diving into
Speaker 1: witchy stuff here and there, as in having crystals and
Speaker 1: making moonwater.
Speaker 3: I have a pseudo altar set up as well.
Speaker 1: My husband is very dissatisfied with me for doing this,
Speaker 1: keeps telling me that I'm sinning and that it will
Speaker 1: be between me and God. Religion has always kind of
Speaker 1: turned me off, and I've never had that connection when
Speaker 1: everyone else seems to have with Christianity. Whenever I tap
Speaker 1: into my spiritual side, I feel at peace. Though, any well,
Speaker 1: you need to deal with that with your husband because
Speaker 1: that's difficult.
Speaker 5: Hmm.
Speaker 1: Any advice on how to go about this? Some baby wish?
Speaker 1: I guess that's difficult.
Speaker 4: Well, the thing is is that when we're in relationships,
Speaker 4: we either grow together or we grow apart. You know,
Speaker 4: at the end of the day, we have different lessons
Speaker 4: that we need to learn. And it's like when we
Speaker 4: stay in relationships where we feel that we can't be ourselves,
Speaker 4: then that's when obviously relationships tend to we need to
Speaker 4: relook at it.
Speaker 2: Is it time to sort of move in our own directions.
Speaker 4: I think, if something's giving you peace and you're loving
Speaker 4: it and you're honoring it, how could that be? And
Speaker 4: I really feel though, unfortunately, there are a lot of
Speaker 4: religions out there that are basically.
Speaker 2: Saying or I do believe, hampering a.
Speaker 4: Lot of people just to be happy, so they feel
Speaker 4: that they have to conform for, you know, to be
Speaker 4: a better person on this earth.
Speaker 2: And I think that you know, a lot of people
Speaker 2: here are.
Speaker 4: I don't know what would you call the word, what would.
Speaker 3: Describe for me, you know, like stuck?
Speaker 4: Well put it this way, what like I'm sort of
Speaker 4: this whole thing with Sharon Law coming in and all
Speaker 4: this sort of stuff.
Speaker 2: It's it's like it's a cake. It's old. It's repressed
Speaker 2: the bet.
Speaker 3: Thank you Ben repressed, repressed feeling it.
Speaker 4: Repressing your happiness is not necessarily something that I believe
Speaker 4: that the universe or an all loving god or person
Speaker 4: would want you to do.
Speaker 2: I think that they would like you to be happy.
Speaker 2: So you are going to love and you're going to grow.
Speaker 1: Well, Alisa, we wish you all the best, and maybe
Speaker 1: it's something that you can try to discuss with your husband.
Speaker 3: It's all about how it makes you feel.
Speaker 1: Then other couple of episodes as well is more a
Speaker 1: Cursed That was great.
Speaker 3: It was fun, wasn't it. No?
Speaker 1: I adore you women, so funny, so informative, and I
Speaker 1: can't stop listening all the way from the States. We
Speaker 1: love Birmingham, Alabama, Alabama, Alabama like that, and also the
Speaker 1: moment when we talk to our friend who thought that
Speaker 1: she was cursed as well, that something was following around
Speaker 1: the who is Craig? When you said who is Craig?
Speaker 1: And then she completely collapsed. Yea, Gina would like you
Speaker 1: to contact her for a reading as well. I know
Speaker 1: she's local as well, so she might have to come
Speaker 1: into your shop.
Speaker 2: Yes, definitely.
Speaker 1: Now, of course, you know we've talked to your daughters
Speaker 1: as well on the episodes of the podcast.
Speaker 3: We've talked about being a mum and a witch.
Speaker 1: Can you just take us through some of the activities
Speaker 1: you and your daughters think and all and things that
Speaker 1: you do as a team, as a family.
Speaker 2: Well as a family. We decided to go away.
Speaker 4: I had Sunday off for the very first time in
Speaker 4: probably a year, and we decided to go up.
Speaker 2: To the mountain.
Speaker 4: So up we went, and I took my two daughters
Speaker 4: and up we went to the mountain. And I'm you know,
Speaker 4: talked about op shopping a lot. I love to op
Speaker 4: shop and then use crystals and the sage and you know,
Speaker 4: give it a new lease of life sort of thing,
Speaker 4: and so they love to op shop with me.
Speaker 2: So we went to this op shop.
Speaker 4: And we walked in and there was some some dolls.
Speaker 2: There, but they were the ludial face. They were a
Speaker 2: porcelain variety, creepy, the creepiest. Yes.
Speaker 4: Yes, Now remember residual energy. We've spoken about residual energy.
Speaker 4: So residual energy would be if you've got a doll
Speaker 4: that you're loving, Yeah, you're cuddling it. So a lot
Speaker 4: of the energy of that goes into these dolls, and
Speaker 4: so it's gone probably through a number of different owners,
Speaker 4: hand me.
Speaker 2: Down to Yes.
Speaker 4: So there was one there that we went into and
Speaker 4: she was freaking out. So this is Charlie's, my oldest one.
Speaker 4: She freaked out because she said the pram moved, and
Speaker 4: so we went, oh, we must buy.
Speaker 3: This one, as a normal family would yes, the rest
Speaker 3: of us would run and high.
Speaker 2: Yes. So we bought that one and that the pram. No,
Speaker 2: we bought the doll, the dolls, and.
Speaker 4: Then we bought the other. There was another doll looking
Speaker 4: at us and I went in. I said, oh, there
Speaker 4: was energy there. So we bought that one too, and
Speaker 4: we did a bit of deep dive when we got home.
Speaker 4: And she was French and these dolls are about thirty
Speaker 4: forty years old. They're really old, and one of them
Speaker 4: is custom made. But you know, in true traditional witch style,
Speaker 4: we want to know that they're haunted, right right, So.
Speaker 2: We get looking for it to be yes. So we
Speaker 2: get the pendulum out, we.
Speaker 4: Get the divine rods, and we get the taro out
Speaker 4: and we're just like then in the end, I went
Speaker 4: and got you know my favorite favorite no no no
Speaker 4: no no no no, I got I got out my
Speaker 4: app where it starts talking and guess what we were saying.
Speaker 2: It's a shame that her hair is a bit filthy.
Speaker 3: You said that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we said that.
Speaker 4: And we were saying that because her hair was quite
Speaker 4: long and a maddened, a bit filthy. And so we
Speaker 4: got that out and we've got it here. I've even
Speaker 4: got the actual.
Speaker 2: Recording of it.
Speaker 4: And the word that came out is filthy followed by hair. Well,
Speaker 4: she freaked out in a good way. We freaked out.
Speaker 2: We were like one.
Speaker 4: So that was really cool. So last night we went
Speaker 4: and put the dolls. This is a little bit naughty,
Speaker 4: so she doesn't know about this, but we've put the
Speaker 4: dolls on the chair and she was I went in
Speaker 4: the before I left because I looked really early this
Speaker 4: morning and the dolls she's got the chairs with the
Speaker 4: dolls are right there, and her head's there, so she's
Speaker 4: looking at them to see what they've done. So what
Speaker 4: I've done is I've turned the chair around. So when
Speaker 4: she wakes up this morning, the.
Speaker 3: Dolls moved careful mother such mothering freaking children out there.
Speaker 2: But no, it's really cool and so this is Yeah,
Speaker 2: they definitely have a residual energy. You could feel that
Speaker 2: residual energy when you pick them up.
Speaker 1: Feeling when you walk into an o shop, like you
Speaker 1: can get a feeling of history, not just of like stories.
Speaker 3: That's what I think as well.
Speaker 1: Would you, okay, this is an interesting story. Would you
Speaker 1: if you went to an op shop and you found
Speaker 1: a really lovely mattress?
Speaker 3: No, you wouldn't do a mattress.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 4: But in saying that, when I was broken living at
Speaker 4: Rose Bay, I I had to move in. I was
Speaker 4: only moving in for a month and I was thinking
Speaker 4: what am I going to do here? I didn't want
Speaker 4: to drag my my my stuff, my furniture because I
Speaker 4: was in between moving into England and I was staying
Speaker 4: with my girlfriend and she gave me this bare room.
Speaker 2: It didn't have a mattress.
Speaker 4: And at Rose Bay there was a mattress on the
Speaker 4: side of the road that I pulled up and.
Speaker 2: I slept on that night.
Speaker 4: Anyway, for I was lucky because she had a big
Speaker 4: Saint Bernard that came and pissed on me. Had a
Speaker 4: we weed problem, so that mattress didn't last.
Speaker 2: So I couldn't tell you whether it was hot it
Speaker 2: or not. And it was probably the second time i'd
Speaker 2: been pissed on. That's probably was on the side of
Speaker 2: the ride. Oh my god, what I think back of
Speaker 2: all the shit idea? Oh yeah, but I didn't feel
Speaker 2: anything with that.
Speaker 4: I just felt like a lot of heat coming over me,
Speaker 4: a bit like perimenopause. But it was just to say
Speaker 4: you thought it was a hot flush. No, But to
Speaker 4: be honest, I would never buy a mattress no, because
Speaker 4: someone could have died on it. Most people probably have
Speaker 4: died on it or it has had, you know, body
Speaker 4: fluids like that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, yeah, I'm not sure how we ended up
Speaker 5: talking about a dog on you in the middle of
Speaker 5: the night on a second ad mattress.
Speaker 1: But you also today wanted to talk about the morogan
Speaker 1: You've mentioned this so many times. Yes, about talking about
Speaker 1: the Morogon, which is from the Irish mythology.
Speaker 4: Yes, okay, So she's simply not a goddess of death.
Speaker 4: She's rather embodies the cycles of her endings and beginnings,
Speaker 4: and in the oldest Irish stories, she appears before battles,
Speaker 4: influencing outcomes, testing heroes, and for telling who will survive.
Speaker 4: She will often appear as a raven or a crow
Speaker 4: flying over battlefields, a beautiful woman washing blooded armor at
Speaker 4: a river, a supernatural figure sometimes linked to the later Banchees.
Speaker 4: So remember like that hold when people say Banchees, yep,
Speaker 4: you look like a banshee. Yes, yeah, so that's how yeah,
Speaker 4: looking like her, the Old Crone, which is the old
Speaker 4: woman the wise. She has a couple of animals that
Speaker 4: she works with, which is an eel, a wolf, and
Speaker 4: a heifer, which is a.
Speaker 2: Different top of car or cow.
Speaker 4: So she's really good and represents if you're wanting to
Speaker 4: work with a deity through shadow work. She's a good
Speaker 4: one personal empowerment, if you're trying to protect yourself, or
Speaker 4: if you're wanting.
Speaker 2: To have some extra courage. She's a great.
Speaker 4: One to work with if you're trying to set boundaries
Speaker 4: for yourself, if you're trying to transform yourself, if you're
Speaker 4: trying to speak your truth, and you need courage with that.
Speaker 4: She's all about learning to stand in your power. She's
Speaker 4: described as a teacher rather than a comforting mother.
Speaker 2: A lot of.
Speaker 4: Devotees will encourage her to come out when you're trying
Speaker 4: to have honesty with people, for you to be courageous
Speaker 4: in your honesty. So most practitioners that associate or work
Speaker 4: with her witches. They have ravens and crows, spears and swords,
Speaker 4: the dark moon, and she's really good when you work
Speaker 4: in the month of all the Siwan. A lot of
Speaker 4: people in Siwan use her. Now, I love this. She
Speaker 4: likes red wine, so you can put that on your altar.
Speaker 2: Hello. Hello. She's also known as the Fire, which is interesting.
Speaker 2: The Fire.
Speaker 4: So her herbs mugwort, yarrow, blackthorn. She loves black feathers,
Speaker 4: so if you're wanting to give her something offerings, black
Speaker 4: feathers is definitely what it is. So if you want
Speaker 4: to set up an altar with her, you start off
Speaker 4: with a black cloth. She works with red and black candles.
Speaker 4: You can suddenly put a bowl of spring water there
Speaker 4: an image of a crow or a raven. She likes nails,
Speaker 4: interesting fingernails. Nails, as in hard nails, black obsidian, smoking quartz,
Speaker 4: and garnet her crystals. So the things that you can
Speaker 4: put on your altar as offerings are red wine, fresh bread, apples,
Speaker 4: honey oats.
Speaker 2: And she loves poetry. And if you.
Speaker 4: Want to put down acts of bravery of what you've done,
Speaker 4: also she likes to read those. So you can have
Speaker 4: a simple ritual with her. So you say, great Queen
Speaker 4: of Wisdom and transformation, if it is your will, walk
Speaker 4: beside me as I learned, courage, help me to release fear,
Speaker 4: strengthen my spirit, and guide me towards the highest truth.
Speaker 4: May only what serves my greatest good. Enter this space
Speaker 4: with gratitude and respect. So mode it b Now, if
Speaker 4: you're looking for a courage spell and working with her,
Speaker 4: you'll need a red candle, a small piece of paper,
Speaker 4: and a pen and some black pepper and rosemary. So
Speaker 4: you pop the black pepper and the rosemary in the
Speaker 4: paper and you turn it, you fold it away from you,
Speaker 4: and you want to write down a fear as well
Speaker 4: on another piece of paper. And what you want to
Speaker 4: do is you want to say the fear because you
Speaker 4: are trying to overcome it. You say by flame and
Speaker 4: feather by courage and change. I release this fear, whatever
Speaker 4: it is, I claim my strength. May I walk my
Speaker 4: path with wisdom and integrity and a fearless heart. So
Speaker 4: made it b So you can work with her in
Speaker 4: shadow work as well. But she's a really good one.
Speaker 4: She's more of a not.
Speaker 2: As a mother like a lot of the other ones are.
Speaker 2: She's a warrior queen. Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 1: Are you ready to check the styles now?
Speaker 2: I am okay?
Speaker 4: So Aries, your energy is building and you're ready to
Speaker 4: get moving. Put that motivation into a project you've been
Speaker 4: putting off, or just say yes to a spontaneous adventure.
Speaker 4: Try a morning walk, a new fitness class, or inviting
Speaker 4: friends over for a backyard barbecue. Taurus, slow down and
Speaker 4: enjoy life's little luxuries. This is a perfect week to
Speaker 4: indulge your senses and recharge. Try baking something from scratch,
Speaker 4: buying fresh flowers, enjoying a long lunch, or sharing a
Speaker 4: bottle of wine with friends.
Speaker 2: Gemini.
Speaker 4: Your social calendar is buzzing and conversations could lead to
Speaker 4: exciting opportunities. Keep an open mind. You never know who
Speaker 4: you will meet. Try a coffee date, trivia night, visiting
Speaker 4: a local market, or finally reading that book you've been
Speaker 4: putting off on your bedside table.
Speaker 2: I also have that That's why I'm laughing cancer. Here
Speaker 2: is where your heart is.
Speaker 4: This week, creating cozy space will help you feel centered
Speaker 4: and inspired. Try decluttering a room, cooking a family recipe,
Speaker 4: watching your favorite movie, or having a relaxing bath with candles. Leo,
Speaker 4: the spotlight is on you, so embrace it. Your confidence
Speaker 4: is contagious and others are drawn to your warmth. Try
Speaker 4: dressing up for dinner, booking concert tickets, planning a date night,
Speaker 4: or starting a creative hobby.
Speaker 2: Virgo.
Speaker 4: Don't underestimate the power of small changes. Organizing one area
Speaker 4: of your life will create space for something new. Try
Speaker 4: rearranging your workspace, meal prepping, visiting a farmer's market, or
Speaker 4: trying a new healthy recipe.
Speaker 3: Libra.
Speaker 4: This week is all about beauty, balance and connection. Make
Speaker 4: time for those people who lift your spirits. Try visiting
Speaker 4: an art gallery, going to the movies, having a picnic,
Speaker 4: or treating yourself to a bunch of flowers.
Speaker 2: Scorpio.
Speaker 4: Trust your instincts. They're sharper than ever. Quiet moments will
Speaker 4: bring the clarity you've been looking for. Try journaling, taking
Speaker 4: a scenic d watching the sunset, or enjoying a peaceful
Speaker 4: evening with your favorite playlist. Sagittarius, adventurer is calling, even
Speaker 4: if it's close to home. Say yes to trying something
Speaker 4: different and let curiosity lead the way. Try a day trip,
Speaker 4: hiking a new trail, trying an international restaurant, or booking
Speaker 4: tickets to a comedy show. Capricorn, your hard work deserves
Speaker 4: a reward. This is a great week to enjoy results
Speaker 4: of your efforts and spend time with people who care
Speaker 4: about you. Try a nice dinner out at a winery,
Speaker 4: tackling a DYI project, or enjoying a slow Sunday brunch. Aquarius,
Speaker 4: fresh ideas are flowing, so let your imagination run wild.
Speaker 4: Someone may inspire you in an unexpected way. Try painting,
Speaker 4: visiting a museum, joining a community event, or catching up
Speaker 4: with friends over cocktails. Pisces, your intuition, as always, is
Speaker 4: guiding you through to a joyful time, so follow it.
Speaker 2: It feels good.
Speaker 4: Try a new space for creativity or rest, listening to
Speaker 4: live music, baking sweet treats, spending time by the water,
Speaker 4: or curling up on.
Speaker 2: A great movie.
Speaker 4: So The weekly vibe is with these stars is to
Speaker 4: slow down and enjoy experiences and new pleasures.
Speaker 2: And that is your stars for the week. God nearly
Speaker 2: got through it.
Speaker 3: Well, that's it for today.
Speaker 1: Interesting stories from Michelle's personal life. We've had the raven
Speaker 1: information about the Morgan as well, and let us know
Speaker 1: if you are planning on doing some extra work with
Speaker 1: her as well, because that's something that you did bring
Speaker 1: up as well.
Speaker 3: Thank you for all of your wonderful questions.
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