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:: Welcome to ::

The Witches Muse podcast

We all bring different stories to the fire.
Whatโ€™s been forgotten is remembered.
What's been lost is reclaimed. 

Here, we LAY IT ALL ON THE ALTAR.

 
 
 
 
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:: Introducing Season I ::

The Major Arcana of The Soul
 

Our maiden journey carries us through the sacred Songline of the Tarot... 22 Episodes exploring ancient and universal archetypes, revealing their modern power through soulful conversations with creative changemakers, social justice artisans, ecological visionaries, and more. Thank you for being here, and thank you for that special magic you carry in your heart. The world needs it.

~Deep Bows~
Tara

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Let your heart bloom and be pierced ๐Ÿ’” Much of this space on my page are living journal entries of experience, as @afroyogabyangie told me in our conversation, its a living journal entry. This strikes me as non-filtered experiences that I feel others may relate to (or may not, and be able to express why) ๐Ÿ”ป Imagery speaks volumes and as the season slows down its my time with image and dreams that keeps me grounded in the winter months ๐Ÿ”ป The Arrows, shooting at me, representative of what pierces me makes me pay attention. For example, today I didn't want to have too much of one representation of "faith" at an evening vigil we will be having within our community. The womxn was caught off guard, at my request for her to spread away from her faith. And I realized, in that moment, I fucked up ๐Ÿ”ป Who am I to deny those who have worked so hard to get to their passion around something to deny them space to say their peace. I apologized first and foremost, claimed my miscommunication as being just based on not wanting a dominant narrative that is already representative at holiday events during this time of year ๐Ÿ”ป So here's to letting our mistakes be the grace that pierces our heart, and humbles me. For I am not always perfect, and never want to claim to be such. Image: unknown . . . #neverstopexploring #behumble #apologiesgoalongway #arrowspierceawareness
WHO:AM:I?โ € ๐Ÿ‘น๐Ÿ€๐Ÿ•ธโ € โ€ขโ € I have gotten a few new followers recently, Welcome To The Witches Muse!โ € โ€ขโ € My name is Tara Rin Burke. The holy tower or mound in Ireland where kings would meet and discuss their next decisions. Rin is the name of my Great Grandma, Rin Kashima. My Japanese heritage and also white European mix holds a lot for me, and itโ€™s particularly in confronting being both and. Being both white passing, and getting the privileges of this, and also not being enough โ€œJapaneseโ€ and still trying to dismantle the purist mindset that is prevalent in Japanese culture...another day. โ € โ€ขโ € I live on Kalapuya Terroritory in the Southern Willamette Valley, and recognized full well that I am living on stolen indigenous land. I ask for your own curiosity on where you live, and how its been colonized. โ € โ€ขโ € I am tarot reader, dream tender and ritual witch. I'm mulching garden beds these days, making soups, lighting candles and loving up on some JDilla tracks. I am navigating the Venus Rx while also giving thanks to Jupiter in Sag. I believe weโ€™re all stars with names in bone. My favorite plant ally is Lemon Balm. โ€ขโ € My intention with The Witches Muse is that it strikes a rare balance between a capacity for difficult, even taboo dialogue and the ineffable human medicine of humor, reverie and creative releaseโ € โ€ขโ € I am here to welcome you in anyway into this space. I want it to be safe first and foremost and a place to land that feels supportive. Reach out and say ๐Ÿ‘‹๐Ÿฝ ๐Ÿ“ท: @lanternlit_media โ € #thewitchesemuse #supportyourlocalwitch #hereitgoes #marketingisnotmything #justwannatalktopeopleabouttheirpassions
The seer. The one is guides there way with wisdom from within. The one who doesn't need to be lend astray by societal tendrils, yet draws deep into the roots of their own reverence and rhythms of their soul. Who are we as hermit? Who is hermit to us? Is it the shackled, haggard, crone that lives tucked away in the mountains, never to be heard from expect when seeking something. How do we look at our time alone? Does we show our face to this immense hollowing out of our own innate vessel, in order to be emptied, to be splayed out at the intuitive gut and to let something return in its place. who are we as hermit? Who is hermit to us? . . . . #ramblesofawitch #hermit #majorarcanaofthesoul #thewitchesmuse #seer #beingnotdoing
THE HERMIT ๐Ÿ”ป It's a time of the year where I am feeling the pull. Shutting down away from my screen time (even implementing a full day in the house where we don't look at any screens). And noticing what is it, that draws me back to myself ๐Ÿ”ป The time Callie of @pachamama.apothecary and I spent was a moment to recognize two beings, living in relationship to the mysterious moments. The time where everything if we listen closely, and slow down enough stops, and the voice we have long forgotten is heard again. Callie, reflects on this and then how after reintegrating back into the village, it was extremely difficult because the voice that had come out after so long away, rushed back into hiding, waiting for the moment again, where we would return to that sense of stillness, solitude and reverence for inward reflection ๐Ÿ”ป . . . #thehermit #themajorarcanaofthesoul #thewitchesmuse #whoarewealone #tobealone #solaceinsolitude
MONDAY MUSINGS ๐Ÿ”ป I believe in the space and container of bringing a platform for those who have such incredible gifts, yet don't necessary subscribe to the dominant narrative. Marginalized magic, and magic from its source of ancestral origin, practitioners native to their craft, this is what invites the conversation forward ๐Ÿ”ป I believe in not needing to be perfect. We are a two person operation at the Hearth, and sometimes I don't recognize how much work I've actually done, or sell myself short in comparison stories ๐Ÿ”ป I believe in existence as an experiential threshold we are consciously becoming. Sometimes I feel the layers peel back smoothly like onion, other times I feel myunraveling from the core, without much ground. The beauty of this is how my observation of either or, still lands me back in the place of curiosity and deep compassion. I believe in holy rage and its place of accountability and that may all ritual practices, spellwork, moondances be in service to dismantling oppressive structures that feed off the lives of so many human and other than human beings. Fuck that nonsense ๐Ÿ”ป #mondaymusings #ramblingsofawitch #witchrambler #thewitchesmuse #themajorarcanaofthesoul #whoarewebehindthescreen
The Witches Muse Podcast ๐Ÿ’ซ I spoke of this podcast in a dream I had. A cloaked figure in a dark storm blue cloak parted between two trees offering something into the darkness around her. I knew then, I was mused by something beyond formality, formulas, and fed up by the love & light spiritual bypassery. I was falling for the inner beloved of myself and the fragments, the failures and the questions that make up who I am ๐Ÿ’ซ The Witches Muse is inviting those who are are interested in modern magic and who are deeply engaged to begin with soul inquiries into privilege, oppression, identity politics, respectful and authentic sovereignty in a spiritual/magical practice, and ultimately - oneโ€™s soulful place in the wild expanse of all that is. Graphic: @lucah_luv ๐Ÿ’ซ . . . . #thewitchesmuse #themajorarcanaofthesoul #whoarewe #herewego #trusttheprocess
Some beloved MO for your Sunday Daze. .. Everyday I see or hear something that more or less kills me with delight, that leaves me like a needle in the haystack of light. It was what I was born for โ€” to look, to listen, to lose myself inside this soft world โ€” to instruct myself over and over in joy, and acclamation. Nor am I talking about the exceptional, the fearful, the dreadful, the very extravagant โ€” but of the ordinary, the common, the very drab, the daily presentations. Oh, good scholar, I say to myself, how can you help but grow wise with such teachings as these โ€” the untrimmable light of the world, the oceanโ€™s shine, the prayers that are made out of grass? .. ๐Ÿ“ท: @lanternlitmedia . . . . #maryoliver #sundaypoetry #thewitchesmuse #themajorarcanaofthesoul #seekthelight #dontstealitorshameit #itsnotallloveandlight #maryoliver
We speak of smoke medicine from our experience using Frankincense, and from our ancestral work using Agarwood (the incense sticks in Japanese Temples) ๐Ÿ”ฎ I use charcoal to ignite the resin, and this sets the tone for my creative writing rituals, dreamwork, tarot readings, anything that wants to shift my current perspective and invite something in. I talk about a simple practice inviting this in with my most recent dark moon missive newsletter. You can click the link in the bio to check it out. . . Image by @pachamama.apothecary who we just released the Hermit Card with! . . . . #frankincense #ritualmagic #smokemagic #majorarcana #thewitchesmuse
MAJOR ARCANA OF THE SOUL: THE HERMIT ๐Ÿง™๐Ÿฝโ™€ I find myself on this Saturday more overjoyed than usual with the sense of movement. As Jupiter moves into Sagittarius, all of a sudden I see the abundance of what I have, what I've done, and how far I've come. This is on a good day. Many days, I feel like a complete failure and question what the hell I am doing with this life if I am not supporting the greater whole of the existence. Both of interesting illusive feelings (thanks for this early today @sanyuestelle) ๐Ÿง™๐Ÿฝ The Hermit is the seer, that which goes away from the village purposefully to look within for wisdom and guidance. The time of year that calls for this has begun. Hope you enjoy our second wave of season 1, as we are feeling a deep sense of creative force awakening from it's slumber. . Episode Available on Website & Itunes! . . . . #thehermit #tarotreadersofinstagram #majorarcanaofthesoul #thewitchesmuse #podcast #magicpodcast
 
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โ€œI want to know
if you know
how to melt into that fierce heat of living
falling toward
the center of your longing.โ€ 

-David Whyte

 
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