In Episode Nine, we open the door to a new, multi-year teaching arc — On Being a Witch, an eight-part series woven across the wheel of the year, exploring the identities, wounds, powers, and mythic roles witches have carried across centuries. We begin with the oldest truth, the sharpest truth, the one whispered in bone before it was ever written in books: the Witch is the One who stands at the edge — the Other.

Together we travel through history, folklore, psychology, and lived experience to ask the question most people are too afraid to touch: Why does the world fear the ones who see clearly? From ancient dream-speakers to village healers, from midwives and herb-wives to queer mystics and children who refused to bow, this episode traces the lineage of those who were marked as dangerous long before they ever cast a spell.

We explore the witch not as a caricature, but as an archetype of resistance — the intuitive child who couldn’t be broken, the adult who learned to stand in their knowing, the soul who was punished not for rebellion but for clarity. Through Aries fire and Waxing Crescent momentum, this episode invites listeners to name the places where they were cast as “too much,” “too loud,” “too strange,” or “too awake”… and to recognize those marks as mirrors rather than wounds.

In Celestial Happenings, we track the lunar and planetary energies that sharpen intuition and illuminate shadow, while Kitchen Witchery offers a grounding ritual — a simmering, fragrant protection brew that clears stagnant corners and welcomes the returning light of Imbolc. Finally, the Convocation gathers everything we’ve touched and carries it inward, helping listeners reclaim the ember that survived the winter of being misunderstood.

If you have ever felt like you lived outside the lines… If you were ever the child who knew too much… If you are ready to understand why the world called you “Other,” and why that was always your power —

step into the circle. This is where the Witch remembers herself.