A podcast hosted by queer settlers navigating decolonial healing through herbal medicine and myth, queerness and magic, astrology and ancestral connection.www.patreon.com/airmidsalmanac Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Rekindling Gaelic Grieving Practices
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As we approach Samhain our thoughts turn to the darker half of the year. What are we going into the dark with? What unanswerable questions? What insurmountable grief? What irreconcilable polarities are we bringing into the dark? Samhain is a time to ritualize this aspect of our spiritual journeys. In this episode Rue and Mica discuss the history an…
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Part 2 of Our Discussion with Sean Fitzgerald
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In part two of our chat with Sean Fitzgerald, we discuss how we might engage in reclaiming Irish spiritualities and folk custom without getting trapped in purity politics, the importance of gaining consent from lineage holders who protect sacred sites, grappling with our own colonial behavior and resisting the urge to claim innocence, what differen…
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Storying the Landscape & Place-based Spirituality in Ireland, with Sean Fitzgerald
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In this episode Kenzie and Mica chat with Sean Fitzgerald, Irish artist, writer, and co-founder of Airmid's Journal. Sean tells a version of the tale of Balor of the Evil Eye local to Torey Island (with an unexpectedly queer plot twist!), and we hear how the landscape is an intimate part of this epic story at the heart of the Moytura saga. We then …
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Part 2 of Discussion with Lucy O’Hagan
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This is part 2 of our discussion with Lucy O'Hagan. We continue our conversation about mushroom foraging, cultural appropriation and other pitfalls of cultural reclamation, Lucy's mentors in her rites of passage and ancestral skills work, the importance of Irish language reclamation, fascism in the pagan community, and the impact of the diaspora on…
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Nature Reconnection in Irish Decolonial Healing, with Lucy O’Hagan
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In this episode, we interview Lucy O'Hagan, founder of Wild Awake Ireland and co-editor of Airmid's Journal. We begin with a poetic and evocative story told by Lucy about a recent encounter she had with a wild badger. Then we have a rich discussion about many things including Lucy's work leading wilderness rites of passage and a forest school in Do…
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Reclaiming & Decolonizing Bardic Traditions for Grounded Social Movements
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In this episode, Rue and Mica discuss how we engage with reclaiming storytelling and bardic traditions as queer settlers of Gaelic lineages. Rue recounts the tale of Lughnasadh and Lugh's encounter with the snake, Crom Dubh. We consider the role of the queer bard who tends the spiritual edges of the community and mull over the tensions of engaging …
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Queer Natures: Transgender Trees, Lily Phalluses, and the Tale of Sinnach the Seer
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In this episode we celebrate the many aspects of queer Nature both within and outside of humanity. We begin with a passage from Mica's book Poet, Prophet, Fox: The Tale of Sinnach the Seer and from there discuss queer ancestors, the dilemmas of being seen, the honored social roles given to genderqueer people in traditional societies, transgender pl…
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Decolonial Healing (part 2) / Healing from Whiteness
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Kenzie, Rue, and Mica reflect upon part 1 of their discussion on decolonial healing and dive deeper into the topics of white guilt, shame and its origins in European history and religions, ancestral trauma, and solidarity. Dog snores and chickadee gossip are invoked. Here are some resources and organizations to learn more from & give to: Whose Land…
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Decolonial Healing (part 1) / The Seal Hunter and the Selkie
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In part one of this two-part discussion, Rue, Kenzie, and Mica talk about how they, as queer settlers, each engage in the work of decolonial healing. They begin by telling the story of the Seal Hunter and the Selkie, a traditional Scottish tale of repairing relations between nations when one nation has violently harmed the other. Afterward, they di…
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Introduction / the Myth of Airmid and Miach
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A podcast hosted by queer settlers navigating decolonial healing through herbal medicine and myth, queerness and magic, astrology and ancestral connection. We begin with a recitation of the ancient Irish myth of Airmid and Miach. Next we (Rue, Kenzie, and Mica) each discuss how this myth has impacted our lives, how it inspires the work we do in the…
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