Natalie Ross + Naomi Love on the Great Witch Hunts & Killing for Followers [episode 96]

Content warning - while we’re not getting graphically gorey, this is an intense topic that still resonates with the challenges we face today in a society ruled by supremacy. Pay attention to your body and your needs, and if it’s too much, pause or turn it off. Natalie + Naomi share how prosecuting witches was a marketing technique by the Protestant church to gain followers. You’ll also hear about: What is - a witch, witchcraft, paganism, Wicca, a heretic, the Great Witch Hunts? The witch wound and the sisterhood wound  The link between the Great Witch Hunt and the Black Death  ♥♥♥ Join The Earth Speak Collective Membership! Join like-hearted folks in a sacred container and community where you'll: Connect deeply to yourself, others, nature & spirit Learn to trust your intuition Activate your Earth magic Expand your healing & divination skills Put your intuition into practice in everyday life Stop feeling lonely on your spiritual path Embody & express your creative power & truths Experience safe space without agenda or judgment When you join the Collective, you get access to all of our past workshops, any live workshops happening while you're a member, live weekly energetic reset calls, monthly community rituals, all the secret episodes, member-run meetups to explore magical topics, and a lively members-only forum (that's not on FB!). ▶▶▶ Learn more and sign up for the Collective membership here: https://www.earthspeak.love/collective ***** Natalie Ross helps magical entrepreneurs tweak their marketing, so they can reach more of the people they're meant to serve. She helps them go from feeling overwhelmed and not knowing how to talk about what they do to creating content that's fun and brings in more sales. She also produces the Earth Speak podcast and runs a community about connecting more deeply with self, others, nature and spirit. Learn more at www.natalie.net. Naomi Love is a ceremonialist & medicine woman with over thirty years of experience working with tens of thousands of clients and students around the world.Naomi is the Creatress of Wise Womb Medicine Path, an Earth medicine school guiding you through the Holy Trinity Blueprint of Womb Healing.She trains trauma-informed ceremonialists, Somatic Womb Mentors & Somatic Womb Therapists worldwide.IG: @wisewomboracle www.wisewombmedicinepath.com   In this episode, we talk about: The Witch wound  Reclaiming + geeking out on what really is a witch What it truly means to Natalie and Naomi to embody being a witch  Being nature-oriented, and finding safety in nature ‘ How we continue to perpetuate the stereotypes about witches Womb-witch, green-witch, word-witch  Working in co-creation with living lifeforce energies  Marketing and devising a common enemy to create unity  How prosecuting witches was a marketing technique by the Protestant church to gain followers  Natalie and Naomi share some of the dirty politics and ways witches have been tortured and forced to prove their innocence  The myth of purity  The outlawing of nature worship in the late 900s  Collective fawning and why we feel like we have to make ourselves small and appease others  The worldview of the dominator  Killing for followers  The modern-day witch hunts The link between the Great Witch Hunt and the Black Death  The sisterhood wound  The art of relating to the human and more-than-human Co-creation vs domination  On gravitating toward a guru   Naomi shares about her upcoming free virtual Womb Healing Retreat! 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Earth Speak Links: Join the Earth Speak Collective Membership at https://www.earthspeak.love/collective Become an Earth Speak Sponsor and reach more of the people you're meant to serve www.earthspeak.love/sponsor  Support the Earth Speak Podcast and purchase our t-shirt  Support Earth Speak and make a donation  Get the secret episodes at https://www.earthspeak.love/secret Guest Links: Learn more about Naomi’s offerings at www.wisewombmedicinepath.com Connect with Naomi on Instagram @wisewomboracle // https://www.instagram.com/wisewomboracle/  Learn more about Natalie’s offerings at www.natalie.net Connect with Natalie on Instagram @natalie.alexandra.ross // https://www.instagram.com/natalie.alexandra.ross/  & @natalierossmedia // https://www.instagram.com/natalierossmedia/   References: Native Land https://native-land.ca/   Stuff You Should Know podcast https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-stuff-you-should-know-26940277/   Witch-hunt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch-hunt  Paganism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paganism  Wicca https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicca  Witchcraft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witchcraft  Celtic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celts  Animism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animism  Kinship https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinship  Tantra https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantra  Tattered Cover bookstore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tattered_Cover  Naomi Love on the Witches and Wine Podcast https://www.wisewombmedicinepath.com/musings/2020/2/7/witches-and-wine-interview  Museum of Witchcraft and Magic https://museumofwitchcraftandmagic.co.uk/  Occult https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occult  Split-leaf philodendron https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monstera_deliciosa  Herbalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbal_medicine  Sharman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamanism  Kundalini https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kundalini  Protestantism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestantism  Catholic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church  Charlemagne https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlemagne  Heretics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heresy  Scapegoat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scapegoat  Tv series || The Tudors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tudors   Laws of Athelstan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86thelstan   Stonehenge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonehenge  Pope Alexander the IV https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Alexander_IV  Protestant reformation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reformation  Constructs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_constructionism#Definition  Sovereignty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereignty  Documentary || Inside the Mind of Cats https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21340412/  Black Death https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death  Mongoose https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongoose  Book || The Hammer of Witches / The Malleus Maleficarum https://amz.run/5xnS  Gerald Gardner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Gardner_(Wiccan)  Joan of Arc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_of_Arc  Yogi Bhajan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbhajan_Singh_Khalsa  Apotropaic magic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apotropaic_magic  Witchy Resources and References: Book || Witches and Pagans by Max Dashu https://amz.run/5xnM Scott Cunningham https://amz.run/5xoF  Book || The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America https://amz.run/5xnV  Book || The Witch: A History of Fear, From Ancient Times to the Present https://amz.run/5xnX  Book || High Magic's Aid https://amz.run/5xnY  Book || The God of the Witches https://amz.run/5xnZ  Book || The Gnostic Religion https://amz.run/5xna  Pagan studies scholar Ethan Doyle White https://independent.academia.edu/EthanDoyleWhite  Journey into Witchcraft Beliefs https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/learn/histories/journey-into-witchcraft-beliefs  Madeline Montalban https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeline_Montalban  Witchcraft: Eight Myths and Misconceptions https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/learn/histories/eight-witchcraft-myths  Ten Common Errors and Myths about the Witch Hunts, Corrected and Commented http://www.brianpavlac.org/witchhunts/werrors.html  What really happened during the Salem Witch Trials https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVd8kuufBhM  Wicca: History, Belief, and Community in Modern Pagan Witchcraft https://www.academia.edu/12229695/Doyle_White_E_2016_Wicca_History_Belief_and_Community_in_Modern_Pagan_Witchcraft_Sussex_Academic_Press    ► Leave us a written review on iTunes, and get shouted out on the show! 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