a podcast from the Brown Sisters
learning from the apocalypse with grace, rigor and curiosity.
a podcast from the Brown Sisters
learning from the apocalypse with grace, rigor and curiosity.
Join us for a conversation with Michael Morris on fall season magic, the feminist dimension of being a witch, childish potions, transgender liberation movements, and the long cycle of stories of change.
Aesha Rasheed on emerging shamanism, apprenticeship, loss and ritual, wild magic making, unnamed healers, being a bodyworker!, S.O.N.G., being the somatic experience of the earth, blood spells, (and being fangirled by amb).
Edgar teaches us about bibliomancy, the many paths of divination in nature, animism, Wixárika, and letting art and magic flow through our lives.
Join this conversation with Starhawk where we are traveling time and tending the land, developing a direct relationship with our nature, imagining a world we want and reclaiming witch lineages!
Naimonu James (@heynaimonu) came across our radar as an astrologist whose readings were poetry. A writer and intuitive who offers readings, Naimonu speaks with us about tending to the internal needs of feeling and knowing so much.
Moya Bailey, who cast the spell of light on misogynoir, is an astrological witch who is plotting on ways to help us apply the wisdom of the stars to the radical offers we make in the world.
Empress Karen Rose guides us through a beautiful and practical journey on reclaiming our relationship to earth, spiritual herbalism, what she does in the sacred apothecary, and how we become faith filled people. She reminds us this is a benevolent universe.
Jessica Lanyadoo is a psychic medium, astrologer, tarot reader, animal communicator, host of Ghost of a Podcast and author of Astrology for Real Relationships. Here she shares a taste of what and how she sees the world.
Geryll “Dr. G. Love” Robinson is an Earthly representative of Intergalactic Royalty. She is a teacher to several guests of this Witch School season, as well as the founder of Five Directions Wellness. In this episode we get to tap into her otherworldly wisdom and clarity of purpose.
Abigail Bengson is a goddess in the lineage of wild and emotionally accurate singing, her song spells, channeled through story and wailing and surprise and her body and her love partnership and her mothering, have healed many of us through this pandemic.
Witch school is in session. adrienne interviews the resplendent Omisade Burney-Scott, curator of the Black Girl’s Guide to Surviving Menopause, doula, priestess of Ifa, and Black southern mama. Omisade talks about the magic of place and relationship, the witchcraft of knowing beaten paths from bushwhacking, and the practice of protection.
The Brown sisters sign off season six (and 2022) with a tender, silly and thorough reflection of what they learned from this year dedicated to the scholarship of bell hooks’ classic text All About Love.
Voice note movie review spoiler extravaganza!! Come with us as we grieve Chadwick Boseman and talk about grief, power, ancestral trauma and struggle.
In this episode, adrienne and Autumn explore the tender edges of family as a practice when trauma is present, named and unnamed. How can family be a healing ground?
We are thrilled to share this episode from the incredible Possibilities Podcast!
In this episode the Brown sisters explore what they’ve learned about love at the site of their own family, what they are generating as adults building and holding family, and some things they have figured out that increase the possibility of love in intentional familial space. Plus zombies. Plus tattoo plans.
The currently single Brown sisters discuss some of what they have learned about sustaining love - love for ourselves, love in relationship, love over time. They begin gathering a toolbox for sustaining love. They give us love homework.
bell hooks offers us the wisdom that “love is an act of will, both an intention and an action.” in this episode the brown sisters explore hooks’ critique of the idea that we “fall in love”, the difference between falling in love and choosing to love, and how distinguishing between the two helps us to love in a way that protects and liberates the heart.
adrienne and Autumn continue their exploration of bell hooks' classic All About Love with a free flowing conversation about the sacred, life saving power of friend love.