Hey, y’all: I’m continuing to release old extra content from Patreon until I can podcast publicly again in October. This is one of my “porch talks” with Terrin from August 25th, 2022 wherein Terrin shares his protection spells and sigils. Good stuff!

Love y’all like chicken, Seba

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This episode was originally released as Extra Content for Patreon members on 6.21/22. There’s an energetic flow under everything, and in this episode, Terrin calls it “witchifying” our daily energy flow. Love y’all like chicken!

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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.

So here y'all go--miss y'all.  Getting better every day.  xoxo Seba

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Hey, y’all! As the farm is coming back into full swing, I can’t stop thinking about rewilding and what that means for a farmer. And, as usual, I also sink into the idea as an analogy for my own southern craft. Come sit on the porch a spell!

Follow the podcast anywhere you normally would listen to your favorites. You can find our Patreon by clicking HERE. Check us out over there for early episodes, pics from the farm, and more!

Also, I’ve thrown my most recent playlist on Spotify to public. These are the songs that I listen to when editing, cooking, and farming—and here’s the Spring line up!

Hey y’all, today we have a very special podcast. Byron Ballard and I are on the porch chatting about what it means to be a Crone, just how far the Appalachian region reaches across magic and geography, and more! Join us for a few cackles and a whole lot of magic.

The Southern Fried Witch Patreon Page
Byron Ballard’s Website

Episode Notes:

Cherokee Trail of Tears Bean

Dishcloth Luffa

Green Purslane

Papalo

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Write to me at seba@southernfriedwitch.com and follow the podcast over on Spotify or wherever you listen to your favorites!

Y’all don’t forget to join me over at our Patreon page! We are having so much fun over there. Your support helps me to keep the podcast going! Click HERE to see more content and join the fam. Love y’all!

That Witch Life
Join Kanani, Courtney, and Hilary every Monday as we discuss Magick, Witchcraft, a Witch’s spirituality, spells, holidays, and more! With routine special guests, join us as we share our mistakes and mishaps, our successes and our best (or worst…) advice for 21st Century Witches.
That Witch Life Mini-Con
A virtual, one-day conference on living as a Witch in today’s world.
Join us for workshops led by the TWL Podcast Hosts with a Master Class Led By Stephanie Rose Bird!

Write to me at seba@southernfriedwitch.com and follow the podcast over on Spotify or wherever you listen to your favorites!

Y’all don’t forget to join me over at our Patreon page! We are having so much fun over there. Your support helps me to keep the podcast going! Click HERE to see more content and join the fam. Love y’all!

Show Notes and Links:

Books-

”Finding the Mother Tree,” by Suzanne Simard
https://suzannesimard.com/finding-the-mother-tree-book/

”Under the Witching Tree: A Folk Grimoire of Tree Lore and Practicum,” by Corinne Boyer
https://www.amazon.com/Under-Witching-Tree-Grimoire-Practicum/dp/1909602183

“Witches, Midwives, and Nurses,” by Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English 
https://www.amazon.com/Witches-Midwives-Nurses-Contemporary-Classics/dp/1558616616

Film Reference-
”Beasts of the Southern Wild,” Director Benh Zeitlin
https://beastsofthesouthernwild.com/

Podcasts-
The Science Witch Podcast (Episode 18)
https://www.sciencewitchpodcast.com/

That Witch Life
https://thatwitchlife.com/

Missing Witches
https://www.missingwitches.com/

*Extra Note: I misidentify the episode of my interview with The Science Witch Podcast. The correct episode number is, indeed, 18.

Write to me at seba@southernfriedwitch.com and follow the podcast over on Spotify or wherever you listen to your favorites!

Y’all don’t forget to join me over at our Patreon page! We are having so much fun over there. Your support helps me to keep the podcast going! Click HERE to see more content and join the fam. Love y’all!

Write to me at seba@southernfriedwitch.com and follow the podcast over on Spotify or wherever you listen to your favorites!

Y’all don’t forget to join me over at our Patreon page! We are having so much fun over there. Your support helps me to keep the podcast going! Click HERE to see more content and join the fam. Love y’all!

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

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Y’all, it was my honor to interview Linda Kerr, the High Priestess who had such a strong hand in forging Pagan community in Alabama. While the audio quality is low (be prepared for that, we did this on Zoom), the opportunity to learn more about Alabama Pagan history is high. In the future, I will work to find a better platform for interviews . . . but there was no way that I was giving up the opportunity to publish this. We cackle a little, share a little about croning, and end with a tree—normal goings on for us two. Blessed Be, Y’all!

If you are interested in Pagan homeschooling in Alabama, go to: http://www.sacredgroveacademy.org/

For more on Faerie Faith: http://www.faeriefaith.net/

So, why gardening, why plants? Because. They taught about living, dying, and everything in between. Y’all come sit on the porch a spell and let me talk you into growing you. Also, please support jpcandles.com? All of y’all have the opportunity to support my honey-bunny and will get 10% off any ethically made, locally loved candle by using code SouthernFriedWitch. It helps me, it helps someone who saved me once upon a time, and you will end up with a candle that can groove way past a seance. Love y’all like chicken.

Y’all, I’m having a bit of a crisis over here. Let’s chat about having to hide your wild self, the negotiations that it takes to live in this world, and what it all costs a feral witch.

Some things wake us up in the middle of the night. What do we cuddle under to make the boogeyman go away? Let's talk about those dark and worrisome boogies as we slide into the Witch's Season.

On the anniversary month of this podcast, I am lifting off Season Two! It’s been a long time, I know, and I have some apologies to make and some chicken to fry. Y’all, bear with me. I’m a little rusty. Even so, let’s sit on the porch a spell and chat about hard decisions—the beauty, the pain, and the manifestation of change. Love y’all!

Today is story time, wherein I am reading some of the columns I have written in the past for Crone Magazine. Let’s chat about the beauty and primacy of our Crones—the least expendable folks of our world. Love y’all!

So much of the Craft is embedded in rebellion, revolution and living out-of-the-box. Yet, how much of that have we given away without weighing it? Let’s chat on the porch a while about colors, what they signify—and what they do not. Love y’all!

Sometimes, the only thing that will do is a living room tent and sparkle lights—maybe some peanut butter cookies? Today, we are chatting about the magical children within and how to feed their souls. Y’all come sit a spell!

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.

And: don’t worry. I don’t know how to stay down. I’m one stubborn Aries Witch. Love y’all like chicken, Seba

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Y’all, sometimes we have to remember that not all bad juju delivered to your door is necessarily unusable. Just be sure that the door that folks notice the most isn’t the one to your home and hearth. Let’s chat about turning crap into compost! Email me: seba@southernfriedwitch.com

Y’all come chat with me about the hard stuff. We are all struggling now, but we are witches. I have a surprise at the end—so scoot up a chair, settle in, and let’s get down to the nitty gritty. Email me: seba@southernfriedwitch.com. (A Christo-Pagan shows up at the end, y’all be sweet!)

It's my birthday, so I'll have cake.Y’all, today I’m bringing in my darlin’ baby witch and chatting about how young witches in the Craft can invigorate us old guys and gals. Come settle down on the porch, get yourself a glass of sweet tea and let’s muse about magic, coming fresh to the craft and refusing to give up hope. Love y’all!

This is gonna be rough, y’all: we are working on sheltering in place and my fam is shoved up into every corner. What you will hear today is fairly unedited, recorded roughly and unfairly for my interviewee, and about as raw as it gets. I ain’t about to not put out a podcast, so . . . let’s talk about love, radical defiance in the face of a monster, and hanging on with spirit. Love y’all!

We are hunkered down, grounding, and attempting the hardest magic of all: peace. Join me for an interview with my second son, the Music Man. Love y’all. Stay home. Seba

Even your morning coffee can take on the sacred. Y’all come sit on the porch and let us muse on how the small ritual spaces in our lives matter—and how we need to protect them from becoming work. Email me at seba@southernfriedwitch.com. Blessed Be, Y’all!

Alright: apparently, there are certain words we cannot use right now that have to do with the current, um, situation that we are all worried about. So. Let’s talk about a certain gremlin, if you will, and how to bless its ass? Y’all know I’m about to pick a winner on that animal spirit topic—so send in your stories about an animal that changed the way you understand their character and their importance to your witch life. Email me: seba@southernfriedwitch.com. Love y’all!

Y'all, I'm as sick as a dog, but here I am. Time to read those lovely listener emails and think long about what matters! There's a surprise at the end--so suffer all the way through. Love y'all! Write to me at seba@southernfriedwitch.com.

Perhaps the most difficult moment in my life has been learning my worth. Haggling that down demeans my spirit and lays to waste precious magic. Come chat with me on the porch about understanding our worth, standing firm on the weight of it, and determining a fair value for our work and love. The tea is sweet—y’all settle on in! Email me at seba@southernfriedwitch.com and share your own thoughts on a witch’s weight. Love y’all!

Of all the podcasts I have done, for some reason, this feels the most personal. Come settle in with me on the porch. We need to talk about the truth when it comes to aging, not some idealistic hogwash. Some of it is horrific. Some of it is heartbreaking. But some of it is just downright fucking beautiful. Welcome to the porch of an aging Southern witch.

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

Blessed Imbolc! Let’s get real about seasonal depression, loss of hope in general, and hanging in there. Today’s sit n’ sip on the porch is all about sharing the lows, but also the unfathomable (and often hard to locate) hope that resides just under the frozen tundra. I might be sharing too much in this one—but we’re in this together, so . . . Love y’all!

When you believe in things that you don’t understand . . . you might need to kick their ass. Today’s musing on the porch delves into the divide between superstition and the proactive witch. Y’all ready? (Way less chickens are in this episode, but pigs do show up.) The Boogie Man and Seba have a bit of a chat. Come sit on the porch a spell!

Blessed Yule, Y’all! Love chatting about ways to witchify your cleaning habits? Come sit on the porch a spell and dig into some natural, country ways to protect your land while scrubbing your floors. (If this is not your digs, skip ahead about 17 minutes). Today’s episode will then wind around the back forty toward a Pagan Yuletide Carol over a warm fire. Have yourself a merry little Winter Solstice!

Y’all know that moment where we go numb? Where we are just trying to get through the best we can, but our impulse is to throw our armor on and not feel too much? Yeah. That kills our magic. Let’s chat about being present, as much as possible, through the blue days. Let’s witchify ‘ary damn thing, shall we? Send me an email at seba@southernfriedwitch.com with your stories about how you stay awake, alive and magical in the little moments of our lives. Love y’all!

Tough stuff: Grieving, remembering, and honoring our familiars. Seba shares the life and loss of her sweet Gatsby, the Aussie who became a hero.

Happy holidays! Today we are chatting about being unique and nourishing those magical differences, rather than conforming to the status quo. All misfits to the porch!

We have listener questions! From the magic of wallflower witches to the killing fields of gaslighting, Seba chats back with those of you who have written in... and shares a bit of her own witchy life. Come sit on the porch a spell!

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 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/

It’s time for a porch chat about aging, generational divides and the spaces in between where magic lives.

Well, it took three days, but Seba worked through her fever and this is what we got. Let's talk about the importance of tradition, how it can become a ritual, and how to fight ancestral trauma in yours.