[-empyre-] What's in your carrier bag?

[Lissette Olivares]

Dear Lucian, Lucia, Whitefeather, et al.

What a lovely way to watch the discussion bloom with your posts Lucian, ruderal and multispecies magic indeed! There’s so much you animate, from the way ritual is transmitted through the kinship bonds extended by your partnership with Brad, and his ntimate sharing of indigenous technologies of consciousness, to the humility of your approach to these traditions, I love the way you apply multispecies worldings to the historical specificity of the migration patterns from your ancestors, and the way you remind us that we are just trying to make sense of the world into which we were born.  There’s so much more to unpack in your posts, I need to print them and underline, to work with the dense matter they present, things I haven’t yet had the chance to do, so this will be a quick response while I also muster the courage to respond to your invitations to speak more about Luk Kahlo, our poodle, and our extended more than human family, as well as the transmedia storytelling we aspire towards with our collective approach.

Lucia, I am curious to know more about whether anyone reported feeling better or having wellbeing in their chosen body parts which were involved in the burial of the agar casts? Last year I received a reiki ritual over the phone and despite the utmost respect I had for the practitioner, I was dubious as to whether it would actually help the pain in my arm, to my great surprise, the session healed my arm for almost a year! (Thank you Natasha)

Whitefeather, your reminder that we must be accountable to the worlds from where the matter we work with comes from, especially when based in the (so called) North is so important. It leads me back to Lucian’s earlier posts, about requesting permission from Terra and giving thanks for their gifts.

 In terms of cat’s cradling, I would like to return to Ursula Leguin and Donna Haraway, who recently received a lifetime achievement award, and who spoke about carrier bags and carrier bag storytelling, and who was presented with tales of what is carried within those bags by many of her devoted scholarly companion species and open the question to those participating in this conversation, what is vital to your witchcraft? What and who do you carry in your carrier bag? 

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