#62 - Sarah Chavez, Death Adept and Winter Wizardress

The Witch Wave

Pam Grossman

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

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2020

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Sarah Chavez has dedicated her adult life to examining death and dying through an intersectional-feminist and inclusive lens. She one of the founders of the Death Positive movement, through which she examines the relationship between ritual, decolonization, and death itself. She is the executive director of the Order of the Good Death, a founding member of The Collective for Radical Death Studies, and co-founder of feminist site Death & the Maiden. She weaves together the relationship between death and food, rituals, culture, and society, via her blog Nourishing Death. She is also a museum curator and a co-hosts the Death in the Afternoon podcast with Caitlin Doughty and Louise Hung. Sarah was the subject of a chapter in Caitlin Doughty’s NYT bestselling book, From Here to Eternity, and she has worked on the popular YouTube series, Ask a Mortician.

Sarah has also garnered a wide, devoted audience for her writing and posts on folklore, mythology, and rituals that surround death, including her vast knowledge about witches, vampires, saints, and other beguiling beings.

On this episode she discusses the importance of destigmatizing death, how both Hollywood and her Mexican-American neighborhood influenced her conceptions of the afterlife, and Yuletide myths and wintery New Year’s magic to help us celebrate what she calls “The Other Halloween.”

Pam also speaks about honoring winter darkness, and answers a listener question about taking spiritual workshops online.

Our sponsors for this episode are BetterHelp and Zouz Incense.

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0:59.0	Welcome to the podcast where art is magic, magic is real, and reality is stranger than dreams.
1:06.7	I'm Pam Grossman and this is the witch wave. Oh inside you can I be bright. on suddenly shakes
1:23.0	shakes in the night
1:25.0	a mountain to my feet to my knees
1:30.0	to my knees to my face Hello and welcome to the witch wave. I'm recording this on Winter Solstice, the longest night of the year which means by the time this airs the nights will
1:58.4	be just beginning to get a little bit shorter and the sunlight is coming back to us bit by bit here in
2:08.8	the northern hemisphere. Still we have months of winter to get through, and with the pandemic escalating once more, we've
2:19.7	got weeks of shadow and darkness to contend with, both the literal and metaphorical kinds.
2:29.4	Our winter festivals, solstice, Yule, Hanukkah, Christmas, and so on, are about turning within and making
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