#28 - Juliet Diaz of November Sage Apothecary

The Witch Wave

Pam Grossman

Arts, Visual Arts, Spirituality, Other, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2019

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Juliet Diaz is a healer, seer, and herbalist, and she holds a Masters of Science in Herbal Medicine. She is a descendent of a long line of witch healers from Cuba and has Indigenous roots as a member of the Taíno tribe. Juliet owns and runs her shop, November Sage Apothecary, and her online witchcraft learning community, Tierra Sagrada (formerly known as November Sage Herbarium – A Witch Healer School). She is also the author of the book Witchery: Embrace the Witch Within which comes out on March 5th. On this episode, Juliet discusses her various healing practices, the ways in which she expresses her Indigenous heritage while navigating issues of craft and commodity, and how to heed the hero’s call.

Pam also talks about appreciation vs. appropriation of other spiritual cultures, and she answers a listener question from a witch dealing with Catholic guilt.

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1:09.0	Welcome to the podcast where art is magic, magic is real, and reality is stranger than dreams.
1:16.0	I'm Pam Grossman, and this is the witch wave. Oh inside you can I be a friend.
1:25.0	Oh, suddenly she's.
1:27.0	Oh, suddenly she's in the night.
1:35.0	A mountain to my knees to my knees to my knees to my face a rudeity, you can make a place, and please,
1:50.0	and things of eyes. Hello and welcome to the witch wave. Thank you so much for joining me. I hope you are enjoying the ever so slightly longer days that we're starting to get here in the northern
2:04.3	hemisphere. I know I certainly am. Now I want to kick off this episode by
2:09.7	actually addressing something that keeps coming up quite a bit for me and in general and which
2:17.2	today's guest Juliet Diaz speaks with me about and that is this idea of appreciation versus appropriation of a culture
2:29.1	that you were not raised in or that's of a background that you don't share, particularly when it
2:36.0	comes to witchcraft. A lot of listeners, particularly listeners who are white like I am right into the show and they genuinely sincerely
2:47.6	want to do better and want to make sure that their spiritual or artistic practices aren't hurting or offending other people or
2:56.9	exploiting them in any way. And because we talk about this topic on the show pretty consistently,
3:04.4	people send me all kinds of questions.
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