Salt & Sovereignty: Witchcraft, Hekate, Shadow Work & Spiritual Healing Podcast
May 28, 2026 · 13 min · 10 segments
In this episode of Salt & Sovereignty, Ashley shares her real-time experience navigating panic and fear when a wildfire threatened her childhood home and her best friend’s home. As anxiety and…
I remember thinking to myself, "What do you mean the forest is burning? Is it close? Do I need to be worried?" Time snapped back and my fingers flew across the keyboard, googling as fast as I could about any fires near my hometown, and that's when I read it, "Homes threatened as wildfire burns near my hometown." I felt the ice spread through my body.
I didn't even realize I was dialing her until I heard her voice warm and steady.
"What's up, sweetie?" And I said, "There's a fire?" She answered like it was just another piece of information to hold, not something that would unravel you.
"I know.
I got the call around midnight.
I've been up since.
Everything's packed.
The animals are ready.
You don't need to worry." Which, of course, did absolutely nothing to stop me from worrying.
We talked a l- talked a little longer, and she even laughed about her ex panicking next door, and I remember thinking, "Of course he's panicking.
Any sane person would be, but not my mom.
This wasn't her first time doing this." We got off the call, but I couldn't focus on anything after that.
I texted my husband to let him know what was going on, and then texted his family asking them to keep us in their thoughts and prayers.
I tried to keep answering calls as they came in, but my mind was there...
but my mind wasn't there anymore.
It kept circling the same questions.
How close was it? How long until my mom got evacuated? Would she? Was my best friend in danger, too? I just wanted to see them, to touch them, to know they were okay, and the longer the day went on, the more I could feel that familiar spiral creeping in, that old abandonment wound starting to open up underneath everything else.
I remember thinking to myself, "What do you mean the forest is burning? Is it close? Do I need to be worried?" Time snapped back and my fingers flew across the keyboard, googling as fast as I could about any fires near my hometown, and that's when I read it, "Homes threatened as wildfire burns near my hometown." I felt the ice spread through my body.
I didn't even realize I was dialing her until I heard her voice warm and steady.
"What's up, sweetie?" And I said, "There's a fire?" She answered like it was just another piece of information to hold, not something that would unravel you.
"I know.
I got the call around midnight.
I've been up since.
Everything's packed.
The animals are ready.
You don't need to worry." Which, of course, did absolutely nothing to stop me from worrying.
We talked a l- talked a little longer, and she even laughed about her ex panicking next door, and I remember thinking, "Of course he's panicking.
Any sane person would be, but not my mom.
This wasn't her first time doing this." We got off the call, but I couldn't focus on anything after that.
I texted my husband to let him know what was going on, and then texted his family asking them to keep us in their thoughts and prayers.
I tried to keep answering calls as they came in, but my mind was there...
but my mind wasn't there anymore.
It kept circling the same questions.
How close was it? How long until my mom got evacuated? Would she? Was my best friend in danger, too? I just wanted to see them, to touch them, to know they were okay, and the longer the day went on, the more I could feel that familiar spiral creeping in, that old abandonment wound starting to open up underneath everything else.
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