The Numinous Podcast with Carmen Spagnola: Intuition, Spirituality and the Mystery of Life

This is actually an excerpt from a now-retired course I used to have called Intro to Tarot. You'll get all the backstory of that in this episode, but the main content here is about the history of the Tarot going all the way back to a syncretic figure called "Hermes Trismegistus" who was not a singular person but rather a collective of writing by powerful magi, like how Homer is not actually one writer but ratherthe combined works of several bards over centuries...It's mysterious and fascinating and I hope you enjoy this sweet lil artifact from my archive! Stay tuned for part two on the proliferation of decks across the globe and through the ages, from the Sola Busca deck of the Renaissance to the icon and groundbreaking Rider Waite Smith, to today's artist-driven marketplace of Post Modern decks! Subscribe to this podcast to get that episode automatically in your podcast player. Thanks to folks who write helpful honest reviews! They help the right listeners find a sense of belonging and resonance - I super appreciate you taking the time to write a few words.

My guest today is Clinical Counsellor, relationship therapist, and fat activist, Dawn Serra. Dawn offers trauma-informed, weight-neutral, radical mental health care, particularly for those in larger and marginalized bodies. I super enjoyed this conversation about fatphobia, anti-Blackness, ableism, disability, perimenopause, Ozempic and cultivating a kinder relationship with our ever-changing bodies.   Connect with Dawn at tendandcultivate.com   Follow her on Facebook and Instagram     Referenced in this episode   Mia Mingus, disability rights activist and contributor to Octavia's Brood with her story, Hollow   Gloria Lucas of Nalgona Positivity Pride    Sabrina Strings and her book, Fearing the Black Body    Da'Shaun Harrison, Belly of the Beast    Sonalee Rashatwar @thefatsextherapist   Tressie McMillan Cottom, THICK and Other Essays   Culture Work on TikTok and Substack   Betty Martin   Dr. Asher Larmie, The Fat Doctor   (their Ozempic masterclass is listed here)   Zena Sharman, The Care We Dream of: Liberatory and Transformative Approaches to LGBTQ+ Health   Ep229: What it Feels Like For A Girl with Emelia Symington Fedy on sex and pressure   Ash of The Fat Lip - A Fat Liberation Podcast came up with the infinifat classification - details about the history are here: --- https://fluffykittenparty.com/2021/06/01/fategories-understanding-smallfat-fragility-the-fat-spectrum/ --- https://cherrymax.medium.com/community-origins-of-the-term-superfat-9e98e1b0f201   Covid PSA:   WHO technical document   University of Bristol study   Elevator Covid transmission study   ☎️ Leave feedback for this episode! ☎️    Check out The Spirited Kitchen: Recipes and Rituals for the Wheel of the Year   Learn more about The Numinous Network

We're not afraid of grappling with the tough stuff here on The Numinous Podcast! In this episode we're engaging with high stakes violations of values and betrayals that lead to Moral Injury. Moral Injury can occur when you do or fail to do something, when you witness something, or when you hear about something after the fact, that violates your deeply held beliefs and values in a high stakes context. Certainly healthcare practitioners and mental health professionals will be interested in this discussion, but also anyone who has grappled with moral emotions like outrage, shame, guilt, and remorse. Moral injury is a social wound that helps the collective stay co-operative. Grappling with Moral Injury is a civic responsibility – a moral obligation as our guest says – and a sign of a healthy pro-social individual. Our guest on this episode is Dr.Robyn Walser, a licensed psychologist and co-author of 7 books on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (commonly known as ACT). She has most recently written a book entitled,The Heart of ACT: Developing a Flexible, Process-Based, and Client-Centered Practice Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.  She's an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, the Director of TL Psychological and Consultation Services, and works at the National Center for PTSD. Dr. Walser has been offering ACT workshops since 1998.   Referenced in this episode Case Conceptualizing in Acceptance and Commitment therapy for Moral Injury: An Active and On-Going Approach to Understanding and Intervening on Moral Injury, by Jacob Farnsworth, Lauren Borges, Sean Barnes and Kent Drescher and Robyn Walser The Moral Injury Workbook: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Skills for Moving Beyond Shame, Anger and Trauma to Reclaim Your Values by Robyn Walser, Wyatt Evans, Kent Drescher, Jacob Farnsworth The Heart of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: A Talk by Robyn Walser (YouTube)   The Moral Injury Course • Become a member of The Numinous Network and begin a supportive somatic practice ahead of the live sessions. Group somatic practice sessions happen Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays. • If appropriate, begin The Safe & Sound Protocol (included in membership) to support nervous system resilience. • Attend the live sessions, starting in June. Live Sessions form a sequential series of psychoeducation and progressively layered activities: Friday, June 28, 10-11am PT Saturday, June 29, 9-9:45am PT Sunday, June 30, 10-10:45am PT Monday, July 1, 10-10:30am PT (optional for additional or catch-up work) Fridays, July 5, 12, 19, 26, 10-11am PT Live sessions will be recorded and archived for later viewing at your convenience. • Optional: Stay on with us for aftercare! In August, we're streamlining the calendar and focusing on somatic practice and weightlifting. (Discharging anger by lifting heavy shit!) In September, the full calendar of events is back up and running, with additional SSP co-listening sessions to support nervous system regulation ahead of the American election season. The Moral Injury course is included in Numinous Network membership which is offered at a sliding scale from $45 - $75 US per month, providing access to over 30 live events and over 50 hours of video on-demand.   *** ☎️ Leave me feedback! ☎️  *** Learn more about The Spirited Kitchen: Recipes & Rituals for the Wheel of the Year *** Sign up for my newsletter

This episode is going to be a very special one for all the listeners who live with chronic illness and all the listeners with Indigenous heritage. These stories and experiences are interwoven in my conversation today with Anishinaabe medicine woman, Asha Frost.  Asha Frost (she/her) is a member of the Chippewas of Nawash First Nation. She's a longtime healer working with homeopathy, plant medicine, and ceremony. She's also the author of the bestselling book, You Are the Medicine: 13 Moons of Indigenous Wisdom, Ancestral Connection, and Animal Spirit Guidance, as well as the Sacred Medicine Oracle Deck. This is real talk about living with chronic illness, and about white supremacy and colonialism in the wellness industry and the medical field. In this episode, we explore the perennial paradox of any health diagnosis: the tension/balance between accepting the reality of chronic illness while also reaching towards healing. Throughout, Asha shares some of the medicines that can be helpful on this journey. Connect with Asha Follow her on all the socials: Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, TikTok Pre-order her new oracle deck, The Animal Elders Oracle Visit her website to sign up for her newsletter *** ☎️ Leave feedback ☎️ *** Learn more about The Numinous Network *** Sign up for my newsletter to hear when The Moral Injury Course opens

Mental health professional and somatic coach, Aurelie Richards, is back on the show and we're talking about secure attachment in movement work – community organizing, workplace unionizing. How can we do this in a way that's sensitive to the realities of interpersonal neurobiology? In a way that recognizes the value of presencing secure attachment in an environment that naturally brings up unresolved trauma, lack of safeness, perhaps even hostility? The topic of our show today is very aligned with the energy of the Beltane season, particularly the weaving of the labour movement and other liberatory movements with the energies of spring, collective mobilization, and ecstatic, creative union.  We get into the nitty gritty of working with a disorganized attachment field within movement work. We dive into astromagic as part of our organizing strategy. We discuss the intricacies of power mapping in groups and organizations. It's a juicy case study of Aurelie's labour organizing experience in a German context with lots for us to learn! Connect with Aurelie For resilience coaching, somatics, and burnout prevention visit Aurelie's website.  Aurelie's resilience workshops, team building, and wellness in the workplace offerings  Her anarcho queer feminist health collective is actively seeking new members in Berlin! Folks can direct questions or reach out for support to post@aurelierichards.com. No socials, but sign up for Aurelie's newsletter  *** ☎️ Leave feedback or ask me a question ☎️  *** Learn more about The Numinous Network *** Sign up for my newsletter to hear when The Moral Injury Course begins

Content note: Specific, sometimes graphic, discussion of death. Shawn Leonard is a Mi'kmaq psychic medium. Gifted and accurate, his television show on APTN called 'Spirit Talker' depicts him travelling to Indigenous communities across the country, learning about their culture and spiritual teachings, and connecting them with their Beloved Dead. Along the way, he brings hope, healing, and closure, and deepens his connection to his own Mi'kmaq heritage and the medicine of his Indigenous name, White Eagle Spirit Talker.   Connect with Shawn Follow on all the socials: Instagram, Facebook, YouTube Get Shawn's book Spirit Talker: Indigenous Stories and Teachings from a Mi'kmaq Psychic Medium (I enjoyed his reading of the audiobook version!) Join his online course starting in September 2024, Spirit Talker Tribe Find his oracle deck Watch Spirit Talker on APTN's streaming service, Lumi (Also check out Indians and Aliens while you're there!) Visit Shawn's website to sign up for his newsletter *** ☎️ Leave feedback ☎️ *** Learn more about The Numinous Network *** Check out Sero for psilocybin support at HeySero.co  

If you're a 35 - 55 year old woman, you grew up in the very particular cultural landscape of the pre-#MeToo era. You grew up with boy-centered stories like The Outsiders, Stand By Me, Goonies and The Lost Boys, the  everyday male violence and misogyny of entertainers like Andrew Dice Clay and Sam Kinison, and hypersexualized movies and music like Porky's and "Me So Horny" – LOTS TO UNPACK THERE. Time to revisit and tell our own stories. Emelia Symington Fedy's memoir, Skid Dogs, is a brave, bittersweet coming-of-age story about a group of high school girls in the '90s navigating friendship, sex, and parents from the retrospective view of a now 30-something woman supporting her mother's cancer journey. Content Warning: We're talking about rape culture, sexual assault, and gender-based violence in this episode, the impacts still felt decades on, and the process of sexual healing as middle aged women. We also get a little explicit with the language so…headphones highly recommended! This is a raw and riveting coming-of-age story about the wild love of teenage friendships and the casual oppression of 90s rape culture, and to be honest it was so searingly accurate I had to wait a minute and gather myself before I invited @emeliasf to come on the show to discuss it. Publisher's Weekly describes it this way: “With plenty of Juicy Fruit, padded bras, and pot smoke, the narrative begins as a nostalgia-tinted reverie before evolving into a devastating portrait of the pre-#MeToo era from someone on the other side of it. The author's candor and courage will move readers regardless of when or where they came of age.”  Buy Skid Dogs at your favourite local bookseller or the alternative. Sign up for Emelia's newsletter on her website.   Reach out to a Crisis Line to debrief: Canadian mental health resources American mental health resources International Suicide Hotlines   *** ☎️ Leave feedback on this episode ☎️  

Content Note: This is a very honest and frank conversation about our topic – modern dating. You may want to listen to this one through headphones! We've got a really FUN episode ahead with Canada's Dating Coach, Chantal Heide, who has some great advice for all the women who are trying, so far unsuccessfully, to date men. Honestly, I think this might be my new comfort listen. It's so soothing to hear someone preach about sovereignty and self-love and high standards! Chantal is the author of several books on dating and relationships, among them the notable title, No More Assholes: Your 7 Step Guide to Saying Goodbye to Guys and Finding the Real Man You're Looking For.  Chantal's approach to dating is at once more conservative and more radical than most. From a neurobiological attachment perspective, I have no notes. Very sound advice. I never did it this way, but if I was single and wanting to date a man, I'd do it this way. Check out CanadasDatingCoach.com and follow Chantal: TikTok Facebook  Instagram  Twitter YouTube iTunes Podbean *** ☎️ Leave feedback on this episode! ☎️ *** Learn more about my Facilitation Training. *** Tag me when you share on Instagram!

When I tell you that a tarot book is one of the best antiracism workbooks I've ever come across, I hope you take note. I honestly think if anyone, whether an adept or a newer student of antiracism, were to pick up Tarot for the Hard Work, it would keep them busy with exercises and practices for the rest of their lives. And, not incidentally, forge a deeper relationship with their tarot practice. The author and my guest for this episode is Maria Minnis, a tarot reader who teaches about blending spirituality with liberation work.  Tarot for the Hard Work is a provocative exploration of the twenty-two cards of the Major Arcana that re envisions these archetypes as beacons that illuminate the various ways racism takes root both in ourselves and in the world. With exercises and thought-provoking recommended reading and resources, readers are guided to use Major Arcana themes to dismantle internalized racism, racism in relationships, and racism in communities. This book exceeded my expectations and I wholeheartedly recommend it. Buy the Book Follow Maria on Instagram   Referenced in this Episode I'm Embracing the Term ‘People of the Global Majority', by Daniel Lim "Global Majority" Wikipedia entry Who Are People of the Global Majority and Why It Matters, by Britt Hawthorne My Grandmother's Hands, Resmaa Menakem They Called Me Number One, Bev Sellars  I Am Woman, Lee Maracle *** TNP222 Podcast Playlists for Special Interests 10 Years + 14 Themes Leave me a note or voicemail! ☎️ Sign up for my newsletter *** YouHaveToLiveYour.Life Percentage of Asymptomatic Infections among SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variant-Positive Individuals: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Face Masks and Respirators in the Fight Against the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Review of Current Materials, Advances and Future Perspectives The People's Public Health Education Campaign is a project of the People's Oracle, Dayna Lynn Nuckolls - follow her on Instagram Twitter or Facebook for more!  

I am a huge fan of Wayne McCrory's book, The Wild Horses of the Chilcotin: Their History and Future. Wayne McCrory is a registered professional biologist specializing in the study of wild horses, bears and western toads. Wayne is a leading expert on bear conservation and human-bear conflict. He was a driving force in the creation of the Khutzeymateen/K'tzim-a-deen Grizzly Sanctuary as well as the Kitasoo Spirit Bear Conservancy, and for 30 years he worked with many others to end B.C.'s grizzly bear trophy hunt. Wayne has published more than ninety scientific reports on wildlife and conservation, including two technical reports on wild horses in BC and Alberta. With horse genetics expert Dr. Gus Cothran, he has coauthored two reports on the genetics of wild horses in the Chilcotin. In Wild Horses of the Chilcotin, there's also kind of a low key mystical aspect to the book too - through the sharing of his dreams and experiences on the land, you get the sense that there's an underlying subtext around a scientist encountering his spiritual self and seeking to defend and protect something bigger, something ineffable yet essential to the human spirit.   Buy the book: The Wild Horses of the Chilcotin: Their History and Future Learn more about the Elegesi Qiyus (Eagle Lake Henry) Wild Horse Preserve of the Xeni Gwet'in Watch In the Valley of Wild Horses on YouTube about the Xeni community  Friends of the Nemaiah Valley   *** The Once and Future World: Nature As It Was, As It Is, As It Could Be, JB MacKinnon Sharon Astyk re: collapse Yvonne Owens Recent mask effectiveness research and NIOSH citation by Consumer Reports *** Leave feedback for this episode  

Looking back and looking forward, standing on threshold with a full decade of The Numinous Podcast behind me, I share 10 Qualities of Leadership, 3 secrets about the show, plus a bonus secret and another extra special bonus secret, a clip of my favourite 15 minutes out of the 10,000+ minutes of the show, and I cry a few times, of course. So it's a pretty full episode with a good dose of edu-tainment! Thank you so much for your support over the years.   Mentioned in this episode: Barefoot doctors Mirabella Ponders the Mystery Grieving Susan and Civilization with Michael Phillips Pollution is Colonialism, Max Liboiron Thank you to Thanh Mai K'Taaya of SpringUp for language around self-harm and self-determination.   The People's Public Health Education is a project led by The People's Oracle, Dayna Lynn Nuckolls, that seeks to create art and belonging around staying Covid-Safe during the on-going SARS-CoV-2 epidemic. Join us for the organizing meeting on April 3, 2024 (or receive the materials if you can't attend).   *** Leave feedback for the show here ☎️

This episode is for people who are seeking guidance about how we shall live and work and be joyful together in the face of on-going pandemic. Our guest is Dayna Nuckolls, known online as The People's Oracle, creator of the Divination For Liberation Framework of Sidereal Astrology and The 7 Essential Needs™️. Dayna is a multi-oracle diviner, musician, writer, speaker, and teacher. I'm so excited for her new project: The People's Public Health Education Campaign. We're talking about the pandemic, we're talking about liberatory astrology, we're planning for a future that includes a grassroots collective care renaissance. I hope I'll see you at the organizing meeting!  The People's Public Health Education Campaign Info Meeting Wednesday, April 3, 2024 at 6pm Central via Zoom Register to attend (or to receive meeting materials if you can't attend in person): https://bit.ly/pphec2024   For questions please contact Dayna on Insta @PeoplesOracle or James @jameslpoteet www.ThePeoplesOracle.com Follow Dayna on Instagram and Twitter: @PeoplesOracle YouTube: www.YouTube.com/LynnDayna Get the 2024 Sidereal Astrology Guide: https://shop.ThePeoplesOracle.com/collections/2024   Mentioned in this Episode   StatsCan Report, Dec 2023: Experiences of Canadians with long-term symptoms following COVID-19   Nature Medicine: Higher health risks associated with each Covid re-infection: Acute and postacute sequelae associated with SARS-CoV-2 reinfection   Mask blocs   Ba-Zi Chinese predictive astrology   Covid-19 Monoclonal Antibodies - emergency use authorization   How to Survive a Plague, by David France   Clean Air Club of Chicago   *** Leave feedback for the show!   Learn more about The Numinous Network   Sign up for my newsletter  

My guest today is Efu Nyaki, a healer born and raised in Tanzania who works internationally facilitating trainings and workshops on trauma healing. I first heard about Efu through my friends, Patricia Petersen and Thérèse Cator who were each members of the inaugural BIPOC-only cohort of Somatic Experiencing (SE) Practitioner trainings. They recently graduated from that multiyear program and I couldn't be more delighted to congratulate them on this tremendously wonderful achievement!

This episode is a short retrospective of highlights from nearly a decade of The Numinous Podcast! Below, I've sorted ten years of episodes into 14 playlists. Enjoy!   Intuition, Spirituality, and the Mysteries of Life TNP4: Love and Angels with Robin Arnold TNP5: Nature, Mind and the Mystical with J.B.MacKinnon TNP7: Spirituality + Recovery with Trinity Donnelley MacRae TNP9: Meditation, Channeling and Connection with Dr.Jonni Gray TNP11: Public, Private and Political with Louise TNP13: Spiritual Self-Esteem and Professional Integrity as an Intuitive Practitioner with Judee Gee TNP14: Carl-Greger on Spontaneous Spiritual Awakening and Direct Experience TNP16: Jenna DellaGrottaglia on Art + Intuition TNP17: Shakti Roumagoux: Catholic, Quaker, Engaged Buddhist TNP18: Arthurian Legend Leadership Lessons with Kent Osborne TNP22: The Vision Quest with Sparrow Hart TNP25: Findhorn and Facilitating Inner Knowing with Kate Sutherland TNP27: Shamanism and the Corporate World with Agneta TNP30: Kate Sitka on Intuitive Communication with the Animal Kingdom TNP32: Sex, Spirituality and Intuition with Lesley Stedmon TNP35: Carmen Answers Listener Questions, Part 1- Trusting Your Intuition TNP36: Carmen Answers Listener Questions, Part 2 - Trusting Your Pendulum TNP37: Carmen Answers Listener Questions, Part 3 - Common Questions About Intuition TNP41: Elle North on Tarot + Intuition TNP42: Mark Silver on Sufism and the Heart of Business TNP44: John Michael Greer on Mystery Teaching from the Living Earth TNP46: Mirabella Ponders the Mystery TNP50: Carmen & Ruben on Badass Backyard Spirituality TNP52: Humanism, Atheism and Optimism with Emrys Damon Miller TNP53: Astronomy's Mysteries with John Reid TNP59: Ritual + Magic with John Michael Greer TNP61: Healing the Abandonment Wound, Part 1 TNP62: Healing the Abandonment Wound, Part 2 TNP63: Healing the Abandonment Wound, Part 3 TNP64: {Special Episode} Learning to See in the Dark TNP72: Alexis P. Morgan on Witchcraft, Magic, and Liberation TNP73: Charlene Spretnak on Reclaiming Pre-Patriarchal Goddesses TNP74: Sacred Beekeeping with Nikiah Seeds TNP76: L'Erin Alta on Lineage and Legacy TNP77: Digging Deep with Forensic Archeologist Juliana Kabal Xoc TNP78: Niana Hierlander on the Uncommon Marriage of Celtic Shamanism and Catholic Mysticism TNP79: Layla Saad on Perspectives of a Black Muslim Woman on the Priestess Path TNP81: {Numinous School Tutorial} Your Intuition Questions Answered TNP82: The Eclipse, The Gleaners, and Ruben and I TNP85: Thérèse Cator on Shadow Alchemy and Life as Ceremony TNP89: The Journey of the Psychopomp with Cat Webb TNP90: The Celtic Golden Dawn with John Michael Greer TNP92: Sufism, Dreamwork and Belonging with Toko-pa Turner TNP96: Secrets of the Temple with John Michael Greer TNP98: Priestess, Shaman, Mystic, Scapegoat with Sarah Kerr TNP99: Monsters and Magical Beings with John Michael Greer TNP101: Layla Feghali on Plantcestral Medicine TNP102: Sarah Selecky and Radiant Shimmering Light TNP103: Witchcraft and Parenting Wisdom with Beth and John Threlfall TNP104: Magical Cookery and EcoFeminism with Danielle Prohom Olson TNP124: Elizabeth Brown on Dowsing and Causative Diagnosis TNP126: Controlled Remote Viewing with Laurie Lambert Williams TNP127: Moon Magic with Sarah Faith Gottesdiener TNP128: Scottish Folk Magic with Scott Richardson Reid of the Cailleach's Herbarium TNP129: Palm Reading with Helene Saucedo TNP130: Sigil Witchery with Laura Tempest Zakroff TNP131: The Twelve Faces of the Goddess with Danielle Blackwood TNP136: Maia Toll on Working with Plant, Animal and Crystal Allies in Troubled Times TNP140: Darius Mills on Hoodoo Manifestation Magic TNP141: Eric Tyrone - Get Woke in Your Dreamtime TNP144: Mimi Young on Intuition and Pandemic Plant Medicine TNP149: Spiritual Hygiene for the Holidays with Carmen Spagnola TNP150: Hekatean Witchcraft with Dr.Cyndi Brannen TNP158: Beyond Crystal Basics with Nicholas Pearson TNP159: Norse Ritual Animism and Seidr with Maris Bergrune TNP162: Entering Hekate's Garden with Dr.Cyndi Brannen TNP169: Sophie Macklin on Antifascist Folklore and Ungovernable Bodies TNP170: Flower Essences from the Witch's Garden with Nicholas Pearson TNP173: Creative Witchcraft with Natalie Rousseau TNP174: Sovereign and Supernatural - Manifesting Beyond Capitalism with L'Erin Alta TNP175: Ancestral Reverence and Seasonal Traditions with Thérèse Cator TNP176: Mimi Young on Animism, Numerology and Chinese Astrology TNP180: What Makes a Witch? with Carmen Spagnola TNP183: Journey from Maiden to Mother with Sarah Durham Wilson TNP184: Art and the Moon with Dana da Ponte TNP185: Trance, Dreams and the Collective with Carmen Spagnola TNP188: Fumbling Through...All Of It with Kael Klassen TNP190: Celtic Embodiment with Jen Murphy TNP191: Entering Hekate's Cave with Dr.Cyndi Brannen TNP205: Sophie Strand on Mary Magdalene and Miracles TNP209: {Special Class Recording} Connecting with Plants with Carmen TNP212: Shauna Janz on Ancestral Veneration in Child-Free and Queer Lineages TNP216: Success and Spiritual Leadership with Colette Baron-Reid TNP219: Take Down the Patriarchy and Take Back the Magic with Perdita Finn   Attachment, Human Relationships, Parenting, Families, and Cults TNP19: Monique Gray Smith on Ceremony and Sacredness with Children TNP29: Conscious Parenting with Colleen Adrian TNP31: Creating Community with Carolyne Taylor TNP33: Community, Autonomy and Forgiveness with Michael Phillips TNP39: Rachelle Lamb on Relating, Language and Poetry TNP40: Bethany Webster on Healing the Mother Wound TNP46: Mirabella Ponders the Mystery TNP49: Carolyn Baker on Grief and Love During Collapse TNP50: Carmen & Ruben on Badass Backyard Spirituality TNP51: Love in the Apocalypse with Carolyn Baker, PhD TNP56: Motherless Daughter, Mother: Sheila Webster TNP61: Healing the Abandonment Wound, Part 1 TNP62: Healing the Abandonment Wound, Part 2 TNP63: Healing the Abandonment Wound, Part 3 TNP69: Tiffany Joseph on Language, Land, and Everything Important TNP76: L'Erin Alta on Lineage and Legacy TNP82: The Eclipse, The Gleaners, and Ruben and I TNP83: Nora Samaran - The Opposite of Rape Culture is Nurturance Culture TNP84: Honouring Ancestors with Rachael Rice TNP86: Channelling Change with Jenn Richardson TNP88: Monique Gray Smith is Speaking Truth TNP103: Witchcraft and Parenting Wisdom with Beth and John Threlfall TNP115: Solara Goldwyn on Edible Landscapes, Sustainability, and Climate Dread TNP116: Matthew Remski on Attachment, High Demand Communities and Yoga's Culture of Abuse TNP118: Patti Elledge on Attachment, Grieving Together, and Mobilizing Outrage TNP121: Alexandra Stein on Disorganized Attachment in Cults and Totalitarian Regimes TNP138: Mara Cur on Hide Tanning and the Orphan's Journey TNP151: Oliver Choquette on the Intersection of Gender Diversity and Neurodivergence TNP153: Parenting a Trans Teen with Paria Hassouri TNP166: Cultivating Sisterhood at (Trans)Midlife with Aurelie Richards TNP172: A Love Note to Grievers with Angela E Morris TNP189: Recovering Towards Mothering with Taryn Strong TNP194: Portrait of a Marriage with Carmen & Ruben, Part 1 TNP195: Portrait of a Marriage with Carmen & Ruben, Part 2 TNP196: Portrait of a Marriage with Carmen & Ruben, Part 3 TNP197: Portrait of a Marriage with Carmen & Ruben, Part 4 TNP208: {Special Class Recording} Attachment + Contact Nutrition  TNP213: Parenting Beyond Power with Jen Lumanlan TNP219: Take Down the Patriarchy and Take Back the Magic with Perdita Finn   Voices of the Global Majority TNP19: Monique Gray Smith on Ceremony and Sacredness with Children TNP47: Indigo Ocean Dutton on Saying Yes to Happiness TNP57: Homeless and Hopeless, to Unbounded Joy with Shayla Logan TNP65: Jessie Hemphill on Walking Between the Worlds TNP66: Aftab Erfan on Safe Spaces TNP68: Janet Rogers on Art, History, and Strong Women TNP69: Tiffany Joseph on Language, Land, and Everything Important TNP70: Sewit Thomas Jones on Language and Belonging TNP72: Alexis P. Morgan on Witchcraft, Magic, and Liberation TNP76: L'Erin Alta on Lineage and Legacy TNP77: Digging Deep with Forensic Archeologist Juliana Kabal Xoc TNP79: Layla Saad on Perspectives of a Black Muslim Woman on the Priestess Path TNP85: Thérèse Cator on Shadow Alchemy and Life as Ceremony TNP88: Monique Gray Smith is Speaking Truth TNP93: Queer Nature with Pinar and So Sinopoulos-Lloyd TNP95: Preparing with Quest with Patricia and Ashley TNP97: Ancestry, Funerals, and Writing at 4:30am with Leesa Renee Hall TNP101: Layla Feghali on Plantcestral Medicine TNP105: Tending the Threshold with Tannur Ali TNP106: Tending the Threshold with Aftab Erfan TNP107: Tending the Threshold with Aaron Ortega TNP110: Tending the Threshold with Desiree Adaway TNP111: Tending the Threshold with Bayo Akomolafe TNP114: Jessie Hemphill on Indigenizing Urban Design and Collapse Awareness TNP117: Monique Gray Smith on the What, Why, and How of Territorial Acknowledgements TNP120: Tiffany Śwxeloselwet Jospeh on Adaptation TNP125: Stephanie Papik on Inuit tattoos and Cultural Reclamation TNP137: Sharon Ross (Afrovivalist) on Emergency Preparedness TNP140: Darius Mills on Hoodoo Manifestation Magic TNP141: Eric Tyrone - Get Woke in Your Dreamtime TNP144: Mimi Young on Intuition and Pandemic Plant Medicine TNP152: Conscious Grieving with Taraneh Erfan TNP153: Parenting a Trans Teen with Paria Hassouri TNP154: Fuck Capitalism – But Wait, What is Capitalism Exactly? With Toi Smith TNP156: Elaine Alec on Calling Your Spirit Back from Trauma TNP174: Sovereign and Supernatural - Manifesting Beyond Capitalism with L'Erin Alta TNP175: Ancestral Reverence and Seasonal Traditions with Thérèse Cator TNP176: Mimi Young on Animism, Numerology and Chinese Astrology TNP186: Time as a Tool of Empire with Desiree Adaway TNP187: Sinking Into Sacred Truth and Giving It Voice with Velda Thomas TNP201: {AstroMagic Miniseries} The Magic of Mercury with Thea Anderson TNP211: Taraneh Erfan on Processing Anger TNP219: The Metaskills of Healing with Thérèse Cator   Collapse, Dismantling Systems of Oppression, and Revolution TNP21: Culture, Colonialism and Spirituality with Josiah Neufeld TNP24: Grieving for Susan and Civilization with Michael Phillips TNP28: Communism, the Beatniks and the Guru with Michael Phillips TNP43: Miss Rosie Bitts on Feminism, Burlesque and Self-Expression (Or, Learning to Love Your Jiggly Bits) TNP49: Carolyn Baker on Grief and Love During Collapse TNP54: Nicole Foss on Navigating the Perfect Financial Storm TNP55: How to Build a Life Boat with Nicole Foss TNP64: {Special Episode} Learning to See in the Dark TNP65: Jessie Hemphill on Walking Between the Worlds TNP67: Confronting Whiteness with Rachael Rice and Marybeth Bonfiglio TNP66: Aftab Erfan on Safe Spaces TNP68: Janet Rogers on Art, History, and Strong Women TNP71: Kelly Diels on the Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand TNP73: Charlene Spretnak on Reclaiming Pre-Patriarchal Goddesses TNP75: Jennifer Jacquet Asks, Is Shame a Necessary Tool for Social Cooperation? TNP82: The Eclipse, The Gleaners, and Ruben and I TNP83: Nora Samaran - The Opposite of Rape Culture is Nurturance Culture TNP85: Thérèse Cator on Shadow Alchemy and Life as Ceremony TNP88: Monique Gray Smith is Speaking Truth TNP93: Queer Nature with Pinar and So Sinopoulos-Lloyd TNP104: Magical Cookery and EcoFeminism with Danielle Prohom Olson TNP105: Tending the Threshold with Tannur Ali TNP106: Tending the Threshold with Aftab Erfan TNP107: Tending the Threshold with Aaron Ortega TNP109: Tending the Threshold with Rachael Rice and Bec Stupak TNP110: Tending the Threshold with Desiree Adaway TNP111: Tending the Threshold with Bayo Akomolafe TNP114: Jessie Hemphill on Indigenizing Urban Design and Collapse Awareness TNP115: Solara Goldwyn on Edible Landscapes, Sustainability, and Climate Dread TNP117: Monique Gray Smith on the What, Why, and How of Territorial Acknowledgements TNP119: John Michael Greer on The Long Descent TNP120: Tiffany Śwxeloselwet Jospeh on Adaptation TNP133: Permission to Grieve with Francis Weller TNP134: Decolonizing Scottish Highland History and Radicalizing Gaelic Folk Culture with Michael Newton TNP137: Sharon Ross (Afrovivalist) on Emergency Preparedness TNP139: Colonial Influence on Hide Tanning Past and Present with Mara Cur TNP143: Bear Hebert on Unlearning Oppression TNP145: Holly Truhlar on Tending the Threshold of Collapse TNP146: Carmen + Holly on Collapse Psychology and the Importance of Grief, Ritual, Accountability and Play TNP147: Tom Hirons Tracks Collapse and Meaning Through Poetry TNP148: Seeing Yourself Through the Apocalypse with Lindsay Tunkl TNP154: Fuck Capitalism – But Wait, What is Capitalism Exactly? With Toi Smith TNP161: Collapse in a Nutshell with Carmen Spagnola TNP168: Somatics for White-Bodied Folks Recovering Ancestral Wisdom with Marika Heinricks TNP169: Sophie Macklin on Antifascist Folklore and Ungovernable Bodies TNP171: Crystie Kisler is Connecting Land and Food TNP186: Time as a Tool of Empire with Desiree Adaway TNP193: How Much is Enough in Collapse? with Carmen & Ruben TNP207: {Special Class Recording} Fascism 101 for Collapse Times TNP215: Before Capitalism (from a European Perspective) with Sophie Macklin TNP219: Take Down the Patriarchy and Take Back the Magic with Perdita Finn TNP221: Waking Up to the Dark with Clark Strand   Grief, Death, and Mortality TNP24: Grieving for Susan and Civilization with Michael Phillips TNP49: Carolyn Baker on Grief and Love During Collapse TNP77: Digging Deep with Forensic Archeologist Juliana Kabal Xoc TNP84: Honouring Ancestors with Rachael Rice TNP86: Channelling Change with Jenn Richardson TNP89: The Journey of the Psychopomp with Cat Webb TNP97: Ancestry, Funerals, and Writing at 4:30am with Leesa Renee Hall TNP122: Pashta MaryMoon on Accompanying the Dying, Hospice Singing and Preparing for our Death TNP123: Sarah Kerr on Being a Death Doula and Coping with Loss When a Pet or Plant Dies TNP133: Permission to Grieve with Francis Weller TNP138: Mara Cur on Hide Tanning and the Orphan's Journey TNP152: Conscious Grieving with Taraneh Erfan TNP172: A Love Note to Grievers with Angela E. Morris TNP219: Take Down the Patriarchy and Take Back the Magic with Perdita Finn   Midlife/Perimenopause TNP165: Embracing Sovereignty at Midlife with Nikiah Seeds TNP179: Navigating Creative Drought and Change with Nikiah Seeds TNP164: The Astrology of Midlife with Danielle Blackwood TNP166: Cultivating Sisterhood at (Trans)Midlife with Aurelie Richards TNP182: Reimagining Elderhood with Sharon Blackie TNP191: Entering Hekate's Cave with Dr.Cyndi Brannen TNP216: Success and Spiritual Leadership with Colette Baron-Reid TNP197: Portrait of a Marriage with Carmen and Ruben (Part Four) TNP173: Creative Witchcraft with Natalie Rousseau (this one is maybe indirectly related - I can't remember specifics but it feels aligned!) TNP217: Burnout and Recovery at Midlife with Annie Bray   Creativity, Business, and Practitioner Skills TNP5: Nature, Mind and the Mystical with J.B.MacKinnon TNP8: Better Living Through Metaphor with Sarah Selecky TNP15: Lauren Bacon with Tools to Diffuse Imposter Syndrome and Comparison TNP18: Arthurian Legend Leadership Lessons with Kent Osborne TNP38: Brooke Semple on Culture, Design, and Authenticity TNP42: Mark Silver on Sufism and the Heart of Business TNP45: Emrys Damon Miller on Graphic Design and Shamanism TNP58: Kindness and Goodness, in Business and Life with Carrie Klassen TNP60: How the Healer Heals Herself with Lindsay Rose Turner TNP65: Jessie Hemphill on Walking Between the Worlds TNP68: Janet Rogers on Art, History, and Strong Women TNP71: Kelly Diels on the Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand TNP77: Digging Deep with Forensic Archeologist Juliana Kabal Xoc TNP91: Emelia Symginton Fedy is Trying to be Good TNP97: Ancestry, Funerals, and Writing at 4:30am with Leesa Renee Hall TNP102: Sarah Selecky and Radiant Shimmering Light TNP109: Tending the Threshold with Rachael Rice and Bec Stupak TNP114: Jessie Hemphill on Indigenizing Urban Design and Collapse Awareness TNP115: Solara Goldwyn on Edible Landscapes, Sustainability, and Climate Dread TNP167: Lessons Learned from Ira Glass, Roxane Gay, and the Making of The Spirited Kitchen TNP173: Creative Witchcraft with Natalie Rousseau TNP177: Journal as Altar, Pages as Portals with Erin Fairchild TNP178: Eliza Robertson on Writing with the Stars and Magic with the Muses TNP181: {Takeover Episode} The Making of The Spirited Kitchen TNP184: Art and the Moon with Dana da Ponte TNP216: Success and Spiritual Leadership with Colette Baron-Reid TNP219: The Metaskills of Healing with Thérèse Cator   Land, Nature, and Animism TNP5: Nature, Mind and the Mystical with J.B.MacKinnon TNP22: The Vision Quest with Sparrow Hart TNP30: Kate Sitka on Intuitive Communication with the Animal Kingdom TNP44: John Michael Greer on Mystery Teaching from the Living Earth TNP65: Jessie Hemphill on Walking Between the Worlds TNP68: Janet Rogers on Art, History, and Strong Women TNP70: Sewit Thomas Jones on Language and Belonging TNP93: Queer Nature with Pinar and So Sinopoulos-Lloyd TNP95: Preparing with Quest with Patricia and Ashley TNP101: Layla Feghali on Plantcestral Medicine TNP104: Magical Cookery and EcoFeminism with Danielle Prohom Olson TNP115: Solara Goldwyn on Edible Landscapes, Sustainability, and Climate Dread TNP117: Monique Gray Smith on the What, Why, and How of Territorial Acknowledgements TNP136: Maia Toll on Working with Plant, Animal and Crystal Allies in Troubled Times TNP144: Mimi Young on Intuition and Pandemic Plant Medicine TNP155: Growing Great Pumpkins with BC Record-Breaker Dave Chan TNP162: Entering Hekate's Garden with Dr.Cyndi Brannen TNP170: Flower Essences from the Witch's Garden with Nicholas Pearson TNP171: Crystie Kisler is Connecting Land and Food TNP205: Sophie Strand on Mary Magdalene and Miracles TNP206: Alexa Linton on Interspecies Relating and Healing with Horses TNP209: {Special Class Recording} Connecting with Plants with Carmen   Astrology TNP12: Georgia Nicols on Astrology and Patterns of Knowing TNP23: Making the Most of Mercury Retrograde with Georgia Nicols TNP164: The Astrology of Midlife with Danielle Blackwood TNP178: Eliza Robertson on Writing with the Stars and Magic with the Muses TNP198: {AstroMagic Miniseries} Eliza Robertson and the Sun TNP199: {AstroMagic Miniseries} Bronwyn Simons on Moon Magic + Lunar Consciousness TNP200: {AstroMagic Miniseries} Mars Magic with Carmen Spagnola TNP201: {AstroMagic Miniseries} The Magic of Mercury with Thea Anderson TNP202: {AstroMagic Miniseries} Maeg Keane on Connecting with Jupiter TNP203: {AstroMagic Miniseries} Kristin Mathis, Venus and the Orphic Hymns TNP204: {AstroMagic Miniseries} ET Shipley on the Power of Saturn   Somatics, the Body, and Healing Journeys TNP32: Sex, Spirituality and Intuition with Lesley Stedmon TNP43: Miss Rosie Bitts on Feminism, Burlesque and Self-Expression (Or, Learning to Love Your Jiggly Bits) TNP47: Indigo Ocean Dutton on Saying Yes to Happiness TNP57: Homeless and Hopeless, to Unbounded Joy with Shayla Logan TNP60: How the Healer Heals Herself with Lindsay Rose Turner TNP91: Emelia Symginton Fedy is Trying to be Good TNP94: Mapping Reclamation with Rachael Maddox TNP132: Somatic Mentoring with Patti Elledge TNP156: Elaine Alec on Calling Your Spirit Back from Trauma TNP168: Somatics for White-Bodied Folks Recovering Ancestral Wisdom with Marika Heinricks TNP169: Sophie Macklin on Antifascist Folklore and Ungovernable Bodies TNP187: Sinking Into Sacred Truth and Giving It Voice with Velda Thomas TNP190: Rooting the Myths of Celtic Embodiment with Jen Murphy TNP210: RCCX Theory of Complex Illness with Carmen Spagnola TNP211: Taraneh Erfan on Processing Anger   Poetry TNP20: Llynne Phillips and Sacred Poetry TNP39: Rachelle Lamb on Relating, Language and Poetry TNP147: Tom Hirons Tracks Collapse and Meaning Through Poetry   Elder Wisdom TNP12: Georgia Nicols on Astrology and Patterns of Knowing TNP20: Llynne Phillips and Sacred Poetry TNP24: Grieving for Susan and Civilization with Michael Phillips TNP28: Communism, the Beatniks and the Guru with Michael Phillips TNP33: Community, Autonomy and Forgiveness with Michael Phillips TNP49: Carolyn Baker on Grief and Love During Collapse TNP73: Charlene Spretnak on Reclaiming Pre-Patriarchal Goddesses TNP122: Pashta MaryMoon on Accompanying the Dying, Hospice Singing and Preparing for our Death TNP132: Somatic Mentoring with Patti Elledge TNP155: Growing Great Pumpkins with BC Record-Breaker Dave Chan TNP216: Success and Spiritual Leadership with Colette Baron-Reid   Carmen & Ruben / Rubenations TNP50: Carmen & Ruben on Badass Backyard Spirituality TNP75: Jennifer Jacquet Asks, Is Shame a Necessary Tool for Social Cooperation? TNP82: The Eclipse, The Gleaners, and Ruben and I TNP83: Nora Samaran - The Opposite of Rape Culture is Nurturance Culture TNP100: Cocktail Pairings for Your Listening Pleasure TNP133: Permission to Grieve with Francis Weller TNP155: Growing Great Pumpkins with BC Record-Breaker Dave Chan TNP193: How Much is Enough in Collapse? with Carmen & Ruben TNP194: Portrait of a Marriage with Carmen & Ruben, Part 1 TNP195: Portrait of a Marriage with Carmen & Ruben, Part 2 TNP196: Portrait of a Marriage with Carmen & Ruben, Part 3 TNP197: Portrait of a Marriage with Carmen & Ruben, Part 4   Just Me Talkin' TNP1: Becoming Your Own Spiritual Advisor, (Premiere Episode, March 30, 2014) TNP2: Becoming Your Own Spiritual Advisor TNP3: Becoming Your Own Spiritual Advisor TNP35: Carmen Answers Listener Questions, Part 1- Trusting Your Intuition TNP36: Carmen Answers Listener Questions, Part 2 - Trusting Your Pendulum TNP37: Carmen Answers Listener Questions, Part 3 - Common Questions About Intuition TNP61: Healing the Abandonment Wound, Part 1 TNP62: Healing the Abandonment Wound, Part 2 TNP63: Healing the Abandonment Wound, Part 3 TNP64: {Special Episode} Learning to See in the Dark TNP81: {Numinous School Tutorial} Your Intuition Questions Answered TNP149: Spiritual Hygiene for the Holidays with Carmen Spagnola TNP160: The Bruce Springsteen Soundtrack TNP161: Collapse in a Nutshell with Carmen Spagnola TNP180: What Makes a Witch? with Carmen Spagnola TNP185: Trance, Dreams and the Collective with Carmen Spagnola TNP200: {AstroMagic Miniseries} Mars Magic with Carmen Spagnola TNP207: {Special Class Recording} Fascism 101 for Collapse Times TNP208: {Special Class Recording} Attachment + Contact Nutrition  TNP209: {Special Class Recording} Connecting with Plants with Carmen   ✨ ☎️ Leave feedback!

Today, we welcome Clark Strand to the show to talk about his book, Waking up to the Dark: The Black Madonna's Gospel for an Age of Extinction and Collapse. Clark has written numerous books and articles, his work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and the Washington Post, and he is co-author with previous podcast guest, Perdita Finn, of the book, The Way of the Rose.   In this episode, we go back to the beginning, in more ways than one. We explore the Deep Time of our neolithic ancestors, and even just how distant the world of our ancestors of less than 100 years ago seems, as we discuss the ways in which electric light has shaped our lives and our psyches. We discuss how electrification has led us to the climate crisis we're in today. Waking up to the Dark is an urgent message from an apparition that Clark calls Our Lady of Climate Change about the challenges to come.    Get or gift a copy of Waking Up to the Dark Learn more about the Way of the Rose Fellowship Monthly Tricycle Haiku Challenge Follow Clark on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/clarkstrand/ Perdita Finn's episode of The Numinous Podcast Sophie Strand's episode of The Numinous Podcast *** Learn more about The Spirit of Yuletide Join The Numinous Network Review this podcast! *** {NEW!} Leave a comment or question for me – I may respond in a future episode!

I have been a student in the most life-changing class about perimenopause for the better part of this year. Actually, it's a telehealth group – a group of patients meeting monthly for online sessions – under the care of Dr.Kristin Schnurr, a naturopathic doctor who specializes in complex endocrine concerns including perimenopause and postmenopause. In this episode, we explore: • how long perimenopause lasts • how to know which stage of perimenopause you're in • why vasomotor symptoms (hot flashes and night sweats) can be more serious than we think • the connection between ACE scores and perimenopausal symptoms and so much more! Referenced in this episode: Read Dr.Kristin's full bio here. Get on Dr.Kristin's newsletter by visiting her website here: www.drkristinschnurr.com Dr.Kristin's Upcoming Therapeutic Small Group Programs: Empowered - Navigating the Perimenopausal Transition - This group would be a good fit for those of you still menstruating or if it has been less than one year from your last menstrual period. Sign up for her newsletter to be the first to know when registration opens. Emergence - An Exploration of Life After Menopause - For those of you for whom it has been 12 months since your last menstrual period. Sign up for her newsletter to be the first to know when registration opens. Beginning in January 2024 these groups will meet virtually every month for 12 months. Over the course of the year, you'll cover comprehensive and up to date information in a safe and nurturing space. The emphasis will be on listening to your inner wisdom as you make informed decisions in support of your own unique health. Registration opens November 20th, 2023 via newsletter mail-out. If you miss that deadline, email the office to get on the waitlist: office@drkristinschnurr.com   Self-Paced Course: Empowered - Navigating the Perimenopausal Transition (Coming Soon! Visit her website and sign up for her newsletter for the announcement)   Resources International Menopause Society The Menopause Society Daily Record of Severity of Problems tracking sheet ACE Studies information and quiz   Perimenopause Playlist of relevant Numinous Podcast episodes TNP165: Embracing Sovereignty at Midlife with Nikiah Seeds TNP179: Navigating Creative Drought and Change with Nikiah Seeds TNP164: The Astrology of Midlife with Danielle Blackwood TNP182: Reimagining Elderhood with Sharon Blackie TNP191: Entering Hekate's Cave with Dr.Cyndi Brannen TNP216: Success and Spiritual Leadership with Colette Baron-Reid TNP197: Portrait of a Marriage with Carmen and Ruben (Part Four) TNP173: Creative Witchcraft with Natalie Rousseau (this one is maybe indirectly related - I can't remember specifics but it feels aligned!) TNP217: Burnout and Recovery at Midlife with Annie Bray   Does this material resonate? Join us live! Check out The Numinous Network and come to the Peri/Meno Jams and AMAs Come hang out with us for The Spirit of Yuletide   Like what you heard? Give a little love to the podcast with a nice review!

Wow, this is a juicy one. My dear friend, Thérèse Cator, is back on the show in this special replay of a session we co-led as a warm-up event for my Witches New Year Gathering happening on October 28, 2023. Thérèse Cator is a trauma-informed embodiment practitioner who specializes in helping people develop a connection to their bodies that promotes wellness and healing. Cator's work provides an intersectional and decolonial lens that is rare in an overwhelmingly white and ableist somatics field. Thérèse is also the founder of Embodied Black Girl, a global community that stands for the embodied liberation of Black women and femmes and women of color everywhere. Embodied Black Girl is devoted to creating a safe space for to heal from intergenerational trauma, racialized stress and colonial conditioning in service of our individual and collective liberation and healing. Thérèse has been featured in Forbes and MindBodyGreen, and she has delivered workshops to major tech companies while maintaining her focus on Black women's and femmes' health. We've been friends since 2017 and over the years have been in trainings together as students, as well as co-facilitated and collaborated on projects. We often independently come up with new directions we want to take with our work, only to find the other was planning the exact same thing. And that's what happened here! We are each offering facilitator trainings in 2024 and we're here to give some insight into our shared philosophical approach. Referenced in this episode TNP85: Thérèse Cator on Shadow Alchemy and Life as Ceremony Sign up for Thérèse's newsletter on her website Find out more about Thérèse's background here Can academic reading be healing?, by Katherine Firth (the Routledge article based off Sedgewick's concept of "reparative reading")  Sedgewick's original essay on "paranoid reading" versus "reparative reading" TNP161: Collapse in a Nutshell   *** Learn more about the Metaskills of Collapse in my Collapse 101 course in The Numinous Network, or join us to experience our manner of approach for group facilitation.  Last call to get your ticket for Witches New Year! Recordings available to stream until Nov 7, 2023. Sign up for my newsletter so you'll know when my facilitation training opens in Feb/March 2024. Like this episode? Give it a review! As you can tell, I read them and they matter to me!

My guest today is Perdita Finn, co-founder, with her husband Clark Strand, of the non-denominational international fellowship, The Way of the Rose, which inspired their book, The Way of the Rose: The Radical Path of the Divine Feminine Hidden in the Rosary. Her newest book is called Take Back the Magic:Conversations with the Unseen World. It's part spiritual memoir, part ancestral veneration how-to, part takedown of the patriarchy through correspondence with her deceased father who was a doctor.  I absolutely loved this conversation and could listen to Perdita for hours. I highly recommend you seek out her book, Take Back the Magic, and spend some time communing with your Beloved Dead. Follow Perdita on Instagram Join Perdita's Substack   Referenced in this episode TNP73 Charlene Spretnak on Reclaiming PrePatriarchal Goddesses   Like this episode? I'd love your review!

I saw a meme that said, "If I am googling symptoms and the treatment says "mindfulness", I know there's no treatment for my condition". I laughed but...for real, can't we do any better than this?? Let's have a real conversation about the pervasiveness of burnout and the gaslighting of the wellness industrial complex. If you're a regular listener, you know we have a clear line of sight on patriarchy and capitalism and we have long been well aware that they're the underlying cause, as with white supremacy, ableism, all of it. Clearly self-help and meditation isn't enough. And yet, there is something to it, isn't there? It would be awfully ignorant of me to not recognize that a millenias-old practice probably has some merit. The benefits of meditation on our overall wellbeing and to support restoration of the nervous system are clear, (experientially if not always empirically). Here to muddle through this with me today is my friend, Annie Bray, a longtime meditation teacher and bodywork practitioner. She's also a somatic coach and one of our Guides in The Numinous Network leading monthly Polyvagal Theory-informed meditation sessions. Annie also studied with Joanna Macy, root teacher of the Work That Reconnects, and we invoke her as a muse in this conversation, reflecting on her spiritual leadership as a woman in later life. It's nice to reflect on those who've inspired us as we navigate our entrepreneurship in the wellness space. Annie has 20 years' experience as a manual therapist, plus deep study in trauma recovery, applied polyvagal theory, meditation, yoga and trauma-informed coaching. In her work, she aims to support folks to feel reliably well-met, relatively safe and free to engage with life meaningfully. Check out Annie's website here Learn more about Annie's 1:1 Somatic Coaching REORIENT: a 12-week meditation program for midlife caregivers, based deeply in both WTR and in attachment and polyvagal theory, set to run again in January, with increased focus on midlife caregivers dealing with burnout. Follow her on Instagram Referenced in this episode Joanna Macy Work That Reconnects Recent studies on burnout Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle, Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski Donald Winnicott's Good Enough Mother studies Lifting Heavy Things: Healing Trauma One Rep at a Time, by Laura Khadouri   Check out The Numinous Network to try Annie's class and more! Review The Spirited Kitchen on Amazon   Like this episode? I'd love your review! (Thanks in advance for taking the time

This is a conversation about capitalism, and therefore about whiteness and supremacy culture. There is a bit of a record scratch moment when I say something that sounds pretty obliviously white, then correct myself. I like to leave the mistakes in because it's good reconditioning from perfectionism/whiteness. Enjoy! Sophie Macklin is an anarchist mystic who lived in California for fifteen years but recently returned home to England. She practises brythonic polytheism, antifascism, and devotion to an animate world, and specializes in topics related to radical history, anti-capitalism, antifascism, reclaiming the commons, anti-ableism, and exploring different ways of knowing. She's an educator whose work has deeply impacted my own. I've invited Sophie back to the show to talk about capitalism and its accompanying attitudes around productivity, disability, and land use. In this episode, we're talking about a period of history in England when we saw the end of access to common lands to the system of private property and land ownership which we now think of as normal. If you want to jam on Caliban and the Witch and the work of Silvia Federici, this one's for you! References Sophie is a presenter at my annual Witches New Year event – hope you'll join us! Silvia Federici Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation, by Silvia Federici Horse Power and Magic, George Ewart Evans Follow Sophie on Instagram @sophiemacklin Join us at Witches New Year 2023 Review the podcast!

Emily Rose is a content creator from Montreal who hosts a pop culture and reality TV recap podcast called It's Become a Whole Thing. She's also an herbalist and an astrologer. After the death of her mother in the start of the pandemic, Emily needed an outlet to disconnect from the heaviness of life and she found it in pop culture and a whole new world on TikTok where creativity and smarts meet niche communities and a swell of support on social media. Emily can usually be found glued to her couch, on a quest for a new brunch spot, or on a troll stroll (the antithesis to the hot girl walk: no minimum distances, just taking your bad attitude and bad outfit to get some air and Vitamin D). References The Stuff I Hate Journal: Trends I Hate. Foods I Loathe. People Who Annoy Me. And Everything Else That's the Absolute Worst, by Emily Rose It's Become A Whole Thing Podcast Emily's TikTok: @itsbecomeawholething Meredith Lynch, writer and pop culture deep dives Molly McPherson, public relations and crisis communications  The Zen Blonde, pop culture deep dives Friday Things, Stacy Lee Kong Colleen Emery, Emery Herbals Letterkenny, Canada's second best ever situational comedy IMHO Bridget Casey, financial coach KikiMay, feminist analysis, smashing the patriarchy one ding dong at a time Review this podcast now!  

My guest today is Jen Lumanlan host of the popular podcast, Your Parenting Mojo, and author of the book Parenting Beyond Power: How to Use Connection and Collaboration to Transform Your Family - and the World.    After attending Berkeley and Yale and following a traditional career path in sustainability consulting, Jen found that parenting was her toughest challenge yet. She went back to school for a master's degree in psychology focused on child development and another in education, and trained as a Co-Active coach to share what she learned with other parents.   In the book, she shares about her own struggles as a child and a content warning here for bereavement and discussion of disordered eating. For my listeners who are people of the global majority, the book is written from the perspective of a white parent grappling with unlearning the use of dominance and other more subtle aspects of white supremacy culture. In this conversation, it does take a minute to get around to stating explicitly that white parents do not have the same parents as parents who are Black, or Indigenous or Asian or other oppressed identities. I want to assure you we do get around to that and also that it is front and centre throughout the book, and it's handled with nuance. It's an excellent book for folks who are actively seeking or maybe just starting to be curious about how to dismantle systems of oppression and unhook from supremacy culture and the use of dominance and coercion at the family and relational level.   Here's how you can get Jen's book through a gift economy approach: https://yourparentingmojo.com/book/ References Decolonizing Non-Violent Communication, Meenadchi Needy: How to Advocate for your Needs and Claim your Sovereignty, Mara Glatzel My Collapse 101 course is included with membership in The Numinous Network Stacy Lee Kong of Friday Things explains the coercive control at work in the Jonah Hill/Sarah Brady text exchange My social media post/explainer on coercive control Why Giving Choices Doesn't Work And What To Do Instead, Your Parenting Mojo Podcast Dismantling White Supremacy Culture in our Families, Amanda Gross White Supremacy Culture, Tema Okun Zawn Villines on Facebook and their substack, Liberating Motherhood: For mothers who are pissed off about sexism, household chore inequality, and endless misogynistic bullshit, and for the allies who want a better world for all of us How to Get Away with Parenting with Malaika Dowler Pervasive Drive for Autonomy, Tomlin Wilding No Self, No Problem: How Neuropsychology Is Catching Up to Buddhism, Chris Niebauer   Like this episode? Review the podcast!

Shauna Janz is a facilitator at the crossroads of grief, trauma, ritual and ancestral healing. She is a queer cis-woman of northern European ancestry who has been facilitating trauma-informed workshops since 2008 to a wide range of audiences including within education, non-profit, hospice, business, government, and Indigenous settings, locally and internationally. The intersection of being childfree and ancestral veneration is fascinating to me because when we talk about lineage there's an implication of continuance. I personally did have a biological child, but I doubt my child will have a child. So it's interesting to cast my net a little wider when I ponder the question, Who am I becoming an ancestor for? And when I think about my spiritual practice of ancestral veneration, it's interesting to think about whether I'm giving enough attention to ancestors I'm not directly descended from - the aunties, the uncles, the chosen family that my wayback people were connected to, the ones who supported my direct ancestors so I could be here now. Shauna is exactly who you want as a conversation partner to ponder these questions!   Notes ShaunaJanz.com @sacredgriefshaunajanz • Belonging to the World - Relationship and Ritual for the Heart of Grief starts Oct 4, 2023 • Elder Wisdom - Connecting with our Ancestral Ecosystems to Embody Love and Liberation starts Oct 9, 2023 with Tamira Cousett   • Trauma-Informed Grief Support - A Professional Development Workshop on Nov 9-10, 2023   Learning Through Loss, based in Victoria, BC ***   Review The Spirited Kitchen on Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Goodreads or Indigo Sign up for my newsletter

This is a question for all the woman-identified listeners: What really ignites your rage and how much more than 100% is it patriarchy? I'm delighted to welcome back to the show, my dear friend Taraneh Erfan to dish on what it's like to:  A) recognize the amount of anger is simmering under the surface of our lives living under white capitalist heteropatriarchy  B) reconcile with that anger given we don't want to be miserable all the time C) mobilize and reclaim agency in "a world that doesn't want us" (to quote Sophie Strand) Taraneh Erfan is a registered clinical counsellor and a writer with a degree in expressive arts therapy. She was previously on the show when her book came out, Conscious Grieving: The Path of Awakening Through Loss. you may have seen her poetry or pick-me ups on Instagram through her account @mindonspirit and she is one of the presenters at this year's Witches New Year, an online retreat happening on Saturday, October 28, 2023. Sign up for my newsletter here. Learn more about the Woman Life Freedom revolution in Iran here, here, here, and here.  

This episode is for all the folks who are, for whatever reason, familiar with chronic illness, rare disease and/or autoimmune disorder. The Network was inspired by my work with clients living with chronic illness and rare diseases such as Sjogren's disease, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, POTS, PCOS, and MCAS, specifically. RCCX Theory is a theory proposed by Dr. Sharon Meglathery that may explain overlapping syndromes associated with chronic illness. This mutation creates a stress vulnerability. In other words, a brain wired for danger and a body primed for stress. Co-inherited gene mutations of the RCCX module lead to overlapping “rare” genetic diseases and syndromes in families and individuals. This have catastrophic consequences in settings of severe acute, chronic, or prolonged stress, resulting in medical and/or psychiatric illness. Listeners who may find this episode particularly validating may have experience or be familiar with: • Post-Covid / Long Covid syndrome • Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS) • Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS) • Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome • Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) • Sjogren's Syndrome • Lyme • Vasovagal Syncope • Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO) • Inflammatory Bowel Syndrome (IBS) including Crohn's and colitis • Fibromyaligia • Rheumatoid Arthritis • Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (CIRS) • Multiple Chemical/Mold/Electrical Sensitivities • Chronic Pain • other dysfunction involving the nervous system including gut biome Deep gratitude to Dr.Meglathery for her research on the RCCX module. We hope her work is carried forward by fellow scientists and advocates.   Notes https://www.rccxandillness.com Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/rccxandchronicillness https://medium.com/@elizabethnickson/reading-this-might-save-your-life-rccx-theory-the-vagus-nerve-and-the-end-to-43c9431a8df7 https://www.gro-gifted.org/rccx-theory-and-giftedness-a-promising-new-line-of-research/ https://www.healthrising.org/blog/2018/08/09/rccx-chronic-fatigue-fibromyalgia-eds-pots/ https://me-pedia.org/wiki/RCCX_Genetic_Module_Theory TNP151 Oliver Choquette on the Intersection of Gender Diversity and Neurodivergence Sign up for my newsletter    

What are the steps to spiritual communication with plants? Do we need to know a lot about horticulture? How do I know if I'm just making it all up?   In this session, I'm sharing a lightly edited recording of a recent Enrichment session I led within The Numinous Network on connecting with and communicating with plants. I'm offering this sneak peek because it's free Week in the Network from Sept 17-23 - listen in to find out more!   Notes   Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness, Pam Montgomery   Communicating with Plants: Heart-Based Practices for Connecting with Plant Spirits, Jen Frey   Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer   The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic: The Parallel Lives of People as Plants: Keeping the Seeds Alive, Martin Prechtel   Edible and Medicinal Flora of the West Coast: The Pacific Northwest and British Columbia, Collin Varner   Luschiim's Plants: Traditional Indigenous Foods, Materials and Medicines, Dr Luschiim Arvid Charlie,  Nancy Turner   Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask: Anishinaabe Botanical Teachings, Mary Siisip Geniusz   TNP202 Maeg Keane on Connecting with Jupiter Review The Spirited Kitchen: Recipes and Rituals for the Wheel of the Year   Homework for this Lesson Reciprocity Ask your plant friend what they'd like. Maybe they want to be tended a certain way, maybe they want you to draw them. Stay with the question – at first they might say something like, I want you to take care of yourself, I want you to relax. That's all good to know, but stay with this question of what you can do for them or offer to them until you get an answer that is truly something they want just for them. When you have the gift, present it to them. Spend time in this space, speaking aloud your gratitude. What do you notice in the days after?   Plant Limpia Plant bathing: It can be as simple as placing the plant in water, then sprinkling water on you. After you've cleansed yourself, keep a portion of the water and add to it an equal portion of vodka. Place in a spray bottle to cleanse yourself whenever you need to release energetic build-up (spiritual hygiene) or when you are preparing yourself for ritual (purification). Could also infuse a plant in water that is at least 100F, strain, then keep in the fridge until you want to use it. Add it to your bathwater at particularly meaningful times or whenever you're in need. (Make sure it's not made from a plant that can cause contact dermatitis).   Plant Dieting This is a way to really meld with the energies of a plant over an extended period of time. It will take several days or perhaps even weeks just to prepare all of the items you can with a single plant. Then, once all of the your preparations are ready, you would have a retreat day with that plant, ingesting it in all the ways. You will need to source a good beginner's herbalism book to learn how to make tinctures and oxymels, etc. Some recommendations would be: Rosemary Gladstar's Medicinal Herbs: A Beginner's Guide: 33 Healing Herbs to Know, Grow, and Use Ava Green and Kate Bensinger's The Comprehensive Guide to Herbalism for Beginners: (2 Books in 1) Grow Medicinal Herbs to Fill Your Herbalist Apothecary with Natural Herbal Remedies and Plant Medicine   To undertake the ritual of plant dieting, first as your plant ally for a good date to enter into this day-long ritual. When the time comes, begin by eating some of the plant, then make a tea from leaves and drink. Then enjoy some tea made from the roots. After that, perhaps later that day, ingest a tincture. After that you might put balm or oil on your body, followed by some essence on your tongue, perhaps some medicine made of honey infused with the plant, then have an oxymel drink or other fermented version of the plant. Finally, do a trance journey to connect with the plant spirit in the Otherworld. Complete your ritual by thanking your plant ally and following any instructions they gave you.   Make a Plant Essence Flower essences carry the energetic imprint of a plant and are meant to be ingested. They address emotional symptoms, not physical.  Below are some basic steps to making a Mother Essence, Stock Essence, and Dosage Essence - some simple basic herbalism so you can work with a particular plant all month and notice how that not only deepens your understanding but also expands your intuitive awareness of this plant and others.  Begin by asking your plant ally when is the best time to make an essence with them. Mother Essence: Sterilize a two ounce bottle in boiling water. Fill a small clean glass bowl with about a cup of non-chlorinated water and place it on the ground beside the plant. Collect a few pieces of the plant and place them in the bowl. In order to preserve their pure essence, do not allow the plant parts to touch the ground. Ask the plant for guidance - is there any additional information they'd like to provide about how to make this essence with them? When the plant informs you the essence is ready, fill your two ounce bottle 40%-50% full with good quality brandy* (consisting of 40% alcohol by volume - ABV). Top it up with the essence water, using a fine mesh strainer to ensure no plant material enters the Mother Essence bottle. Your remaining essence water can be poured back into the ground at the foot of your plant, (and you can also take a sip of it, if you feel it's safe and the plant is edible). Label your bottle as Mother Essence and the name of the plant. Stock Essence: Fill a half-ounce bottle with 60% plain non-chlorinated water and 40% brandy, then add 3 drops of the Mother Essence. Label this bottle as Stock Essence plus the name of the plant. you can use the Stock Essence as a daily point of connection with this plant, trying a single drop on the tongue the morning of one day, noon on another, and night on the next. Journal anything you notice over the weeks, particularly your dreams and coincidences relevant to this plant and its teachings. This stock level of dilution will last at least a year, (some say up to 10 years if stored in a cool, dark place and in a dark glass bottle). Dosage Essence: Fill a clean, sterilized half-ounce bottle with 70% non-chlorinated water and 30% good quality brandy. To this, add 3 drops of the Stock Essence. Standard dosage is three drops on the tongue three times a day for a month. Notice any changes, synchronicities, messages and dreams. The dosage level of dilution will last for about 2 months. After that, gift the liquid back to the plants and soil. *If you would prefer not to use alcohol in your essences, you can use vinegar.  

This episode is one of a series of recordings of live classes that I'm publishing on the podcast so you can have a preview of how I teach ahead of Free Week, which is happening in The Numinous Network from September 17-23, 2023. Get on my newsletter to receive the link when it's sent on September 17. What is Contact Nutrition and why is it so critical to develop secure attachment in a relationship? Are there socio-cultural components to secure attachment that might be missing from the popular literature? Are you wishing you could have the Cole's Notes on attachment theory and just skip right to the practical doing part? Let's get into it!   Referenced in this episode: Diane Poole Heller Stan Tatkin Amir Levine Resmaa Menakem   Check out the class schedule for our live events, plus a listing of on-demand video courses available with your Numinous Network membership.

Let's talk about fascism today, friends. Why is it important? Because in collapse, authoritarianism always increases. Of course we don't like strong man dictators, military coups, or religious fundamentalism – we hate all the different forms authoritarianism takes. But the especially chilling thing about fascism is that doesn't just happen in the political sphere; it happens at the dinner table. Average people live under authoritarianism, often for generations, without it altering their daily reality much at all. The power struggles of dictators and regime changes might hardly make a difference. But fascism uses the populace and populist movements as part of its social control.  Fascism goes deeper and far beyond fear and military might to secure its stranglehold.  This episode is an excerpt from my online course, Collapse 101, which is accessed as part of my monthly membership subscription program, The Numinous Network. We have a Collapse 101 class lecture, followed by an AMA a week later, almost every month. In this session, I'm sharing about the hallmarks of fascism so we can be alert to some of the sneaky ways it wends itself into our lives.   Referenced in this episode: TNP161 Collapse in a Nutshell TNP193 How Much Is Enough In Collapse? with Carmen & Ruben The Rewilding Podcast with Peter Michael Bower, ep. 30: Collapse Care with Carmen Spagnola End Times/New Times: Numinous Podcast Episode Round-Up for Collapse Recommended Reading: Ecofascism: Lessons from the German Experience, by Janet Biehl and Peter Staudenmaier, published under the title, "Fascist Ecology: The "Green Wing" of the Nazi Party and its Historical Antecedents" (1996) On the Rise of the Right-Wing Mass Movements, (2014) The Undying Appeal of White Nationalism: Neofascism is the cultural, Artistic, and Ecological Movements (2014) The Return of Fascism in Contemporary Capitalism (2014) Economic Collapse and the Rise of Fascism, 1920-1933, A People's History of Modern Europe (2016) The Pagan and Occult Fascist Connection and How To Fix It, by Amy Hale (2019)   Note the difference in tone regarding America in just one year in the following three articles: Fascism Is Spreading — And It's a Sign of Civilizational Collapse, Umair Haque (2022) How Many Collapsing Societies Does It Take to Teach the Same Lesson?, Umair Haque (2023) America's Battle To Save Its Democracy From Trumpism, Umair Haque (2023)  Alternatively... If you want to end on a more upbeat note, here's a classic: Why Socialism? by Albert Einstein or Punching Nazis: Spiritual or No? by me, Carmen Spagnola

In this episode we grapple with the questions, Can you ever really be in a consensual relationship with a being who depends on you for food? How do white supremacy culture and patriarchy show up in horsemanship? What does non-coercive horsemanship look and feel like? If you've read my book, The Spirited Kitchen, or you've been around my work for a while, you know that I come from a long line of horse people - a lineage that wends its way from southern Alberta and rodeo culture to the Scottish Highlands in the late 1800s where my wayback people bred, trained, and worked Highland ponies to labour in the coal mines and to build railroads. It's been a long and complicated relationship between my family and horses. I am the first generation in as far back as we can remember to not have horses in my life on an everyday basis. It's a profound source of grief for me. What has also been a source of grief is that for many of the problems I've supported my child through, (if you don't know, I have a 19 year old with autism, ADHD, and mental and physical health challenges), the thing that seems to work best is time outside the city with horses.  And this is where my next guest comes in… Alexa Linton is an osteopathic practitioner with 15 years of manual therapy and energy work under her belt. She also works with animals using kinesiology, cranial sacral therapy, and intuitive communication. She also helps humans navigate pet death. As a horse steward, trainer and healer, Alexa has seen and experienced a lot of changes in the industry over the years but there is much further to go in uncoupling from systems of dominance. Her course, The Whole Horse Apprenticeship, and her show, The Whole Horse Podcast, are places of refuge for horsey people who no longer feel comfortable with coercive horsemanship. Check out Alexa's book: Death Sucks: A Straight-Up Guide to Navigating Your Pet's Final Transition Follow her on Instagram Equine Cranial Therapy Certification   Referenced in this episode: The Whole Horse Apprenticeship with Alexa and 25 guest instructors, including myself! (6 month program for horse lovers starting September 15th)  The Whole Horse Podcast  Taming Wild documentary created by Elsa Sinclair  Freedom-based Training with Elsa Sinclair  Emotional Horsemanship with Lockie Phillips  Relationship Horsemanship with Josh Nichol  Nahshon Cook Horsemanship  Balance through Movement Method (Pillar one mini course)  Horsemanship on Vancouver Island - Shannon Beahen (Humminghorse)     

Sophie Strand is a poet and writer with a focus on the intersection of spirituality, storytelling, and ecology. If you love Mary Magdalene and fondly remember Anita Diamant's The Red Tent, you are in for a real treat! Sophie's new book, The Madonna Secret, is a passionate retelling of the story of Mary Magdalene and Jesus, rewilding the Gospels with the forgotten voices of defiant and oppressed women, the nature-based storytelling of oral communities, and the embodied eroticism of a lovable rabbi with appetites and desires, doubts and shame, and a playful sense of humor. Plus, his awesome mom – aka The Virgin Mary – is a raucous and wonderful surprise, giving big time Baubo of Greek myth vibes, (who in my mind could be played wonderfully by Shohreh Aghdashloo of The Expanse fame). In this conversation, we talk about what it's like to write about miracles while living with an incurable disease, (Sophie lives with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, a connective tissue disorder - something that many members of the Numinous Network are all too familiar). We also discuss animism, magic, patriarchy, and the realness she brings to the landscape and the characters of her novel. Sophie's poems and essays have appeared in numerous projects and publications, including Spirituality & Health, Atmos, Braided Way and Art PAPERS. The author of The Flowering Wand, she lives in the Hudson Valley of New York.   Purchase The Madonna Secret anywhere (and please do leave a review!)   Follow Sophie: SophieStrand.com Her Substack Instagram Facebook   References in this episode: older Dev Patel Louis Garrel  Golshifteh Farhani (Oh now that I see who she is, I LOVED her in that dystopian show, Invasion) young Javier Bardem article about Bruce Chilton Bruce Chilton wikipedia Honi the Circle Drawer Hanina ben Dosa Contemporaries of Jesus who were miracle workers   Learn more about the Numinous Network Sign up for my newsletter and join us for Free Week, Sept 17-23, 2023  

Et Shipley is a consulting professional astrologer, creative writer, and ritual strategist. She weaves astrology with other tools to talk about collapse, social justice, relationality, death and culture. Last year, I asked Erin to be a Guest Guide in The Numinous Network offering astrology workshops to help folks manage key moments. That has morphed into a seasonal offering we call the AstroJam - people gather with Erin to jam about the cosmic weather and all things magical and ritual to do with that. When I had the idea for an AstroMagic Miniseries, I immediately thought to ask Erin who she would recommend as guests - in many ways, you can thank Erin for working her magic there to make some very special connections and episodes happen for us!   Erin's writing about astrology is always poetic and profound, gentle but unflinching, and always very useful. She has just the right vibe to help us really understand what it is that Saturn is trying to teach and to not be afraid of those lessons. Even if you're still not quite ready to engage directly with Saturn after this episode, I know you'll find it to be good preparation for the time when, eventually, Saturn calls you and you don't have a choice anymore.   Referenced in this episode: Erin's approach to astrology Erin's Instagram: @etshipley Book a session with Erin or get on her newsletter Idola Stellárum talismanic adornment for devotion Kristin Mathis' new translation of the Orphic Hymn to Kronos (Saturn) Audio of the Orphic Hymn to Saturn Maeg Keane's podcast interview on Blackberry on the Herbs with Rosalee Podcast Rate this show on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen - thanks in advance!

My guest today is Kristin Mathis - truly a multi-talented individual - and we are all so fortunate that she's dedicated herself to the translation of the Orphic Hymns which overlight this conversation about Venus, Aphrodite, and AstroMagic! She's a writer and poet, a teacher and advocate. (You really must read her fascinating bio). But what she's really doing is quietly revolutionizing the English-speaking world's relationship to the Orphic Hymns with her unique perspective as both an academic and a magical practitioner-animist. In this episode, Kristin helps us understand Venus and Aphrodite as The All, helping us to link love and grief, love and rage, love and justice. Referenced in this episode: Mysteria Mundi, Kristin's Substack where you'll find: Becoming Children of Earth and Starry Sky Revealing the Mysteries, or, My New Translation of the Orphic Hymn to the Moon (Selene) A New Translation of The Orphic Hymn To Kronos/Saturn Audio Recording of the Orphic Hymn to Kronos/Saturn Kristin's Translation of Sappho's Hymn to Aphrodite Her Podia site with her courses Star: An Orphic Initiation for Earth-Borne Souls with Drew Levanti   Check out The Numinous Network for more on Planetary Magic & Propitiation

Meag Keane is here to expand our understanding of Jupiter in this, part 5 of my 7 part miniseries on Planetary Magic and Propitiation. Maeg is an astrologer and herbalist, connecting soil and sky. Many of her teachers are people I've also followed and admired, and she wrote a really excellent blog post on Jupiter and Being Too Much. (It's so good! Make sure you check out the footnotes!) To go deeper with your AstroMagic, consider getting a plant and planet reading from Maeg - it's a two session package with email support for a month where she guides you on a deep dive with one of the 7 traditional planets and a plant based on your specific chart and what comes out of your first session with her. So good! Sign up for Maeg's newsletter so you're in the know about all upcoming offerings and current writing. Website: third-sister.com Twitter | @maegkeane Instagram | @maeg.thirdsister Review The Spirited Kitchen on Goodreads, Amazon or Indigo Check out The Numinous Network - all classes on Planetary Magic & Propitiation are found in the archives of The Numinous School in the course area of the Network.

In this episode, I'm speaking with Thea Anderson about Wednesday's ruling planet, our old pal, Mercury! Thea is a writer and astrologer, as well as the Director of Production for the CHANI app. She works very closely with our previous guest, Eliza Robertson, to make sure that all of the content for the app gets out on time, at the right time. (A very Mercurial type of job, indeed!)  You can find Thea's fiction and poetry in print and online in a variety of places, most recently you'll find a story of her in the book, Infinite Constellations: An Anthology of Identity, Culture, and Speculative Conjunctions. We're lucky to have Thea here to decode and interpret Mercury for us and explain how we can work collaboratively with this quick, mutable, exciting planet. References in this episode: Harriet Tubman as a Magical, Mercurial Figure Book a session with Thea: TheaNichelle.com Follow her on Instagram: @theaastrology Review The Spirited Kitchen on Goodreads, Amazon, or Indigo Check us out in The Numinous Network

Content Note: At the end of this episode, I mention "ritual scarification" – this material may remind people of the ritual abuse mentioned in a fairly recent television broadcast, The Vow, a show about the NXIVM cult. I am not talking about that. I am referring to a cultural practice of scarification, quite common with peoples of darker skin, and other instances where scarification is woven into society, (for instance, some LGBTQ+ communities and other examples). In this 200th episode of The Numinous Podcast (

Welcome to Part 2 of our 7 episode miniseries on Planetary Magic and Propitiation! We began on a Sunday with Eliza Robertson talking about the Sun. Here we are on a Monday and I'm speaking with Bronwyn Simons about Moon Magic and wisdom. Bronwyn Simons is an award-winning predictive astrologer, psychic medium, dream traveller, mentor, and astrology teacher with a worldwide client base and a busy consulting practice. She is beloved by clients and students for her warm, wise, compassionate, and positive style of sharing. She was named one of 2019's Most Promising Astrologers by the Organization for Professional Astrology, and was featured as an Inner Circle Guide on Astrology Hub in 2021.   Here, Bronwyn guides us through the phases of the moon and why it's a safe place to start with our planetary magic. Check out Bronwyn's signature program, Light Of The Moon, for immediate access to recorded modules, plus a live round of four weekly calls starting on the New Moon, July 17, 2023. Those who sign up for Bronwyn's mailing list get a beautiful moon journal for 2023 with all the lunations, journaling prompts, ideas about celebrating the new moon, and a moon calendar! Opt-in here: https://astrologygoddess.mykajabi.com/2023MoonJournal If you share this episode on social, please tag us! @moon.wisdom @carmenspagnola Join us in The Numinous Network this summer for more planetary magic!

Today we're welcoming Eliza Robertson back for her third time on the show - she was here as part of Kosmic Tonic with Jasmine Richardson in 2020 when we discussed the key transits that would affect the second half of that wild year, and she was here again in 2022 talking about Writing with the Stars and Magic with the Muses. Clearly, she's a favourite conversation partner of mine and I'm delighted that she's the one to shepherd us through the gate as we begin a 7 part miniseries on Planetary Magic and Propitiation for the days of the week! Since about the time Eliza first appeared on the show in 2020, I have been taking a closer look at AstroMagic and paying more attention to cultivating relationships with the planets that rule the days of the week. I find it grounding, centering, resourcing and supportive. Over the next seven episodes we'll go deeper into relationship with each planet that rules that day of the week, beginning with Sunday and moving through the week to Saturday.   Referenced in this episode: I Got A Name by Eliza Robertson Picatrix translated by Attrell and Porreca. Three Books of Occult Philosophy by H. Agrippa (the cheaper option) Three Books of Occult Philosophy translated by Eric Purdue (the splurge option) Sphere + Sundry for materia magica Join us for more AstroMagic in The Numinous Network

The final episode featuring Ruben and me as we dissect and update my 2017 Medium article, Portrait Of A Marriage (Yes, It's Mine.) In this episode, we're talking about fighting and conflict, with tips to navigate inevitable relationship ruptures.  Referenced in this episode: Rachelle Lamb has an unconventional approach to Non-Violent Communication that I find more helpful than most bell hooks' books on love have been integral to making our marriage work, in particular The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity and Love YourPersonality.net Stan Tatkin: runs a signature couple's retreat called the Wired For Love Retreat, also has a new book called, In Each Other's Care: A Guide To The Most Common Relationship Conflicts And How To Work Through Them Clue period tracker app Check out my course, Contact Nutrition 101 The Numinous Network  

In this third part of our Portrait Of A Marriage Miniseries, we go a little deeper into how we started healing trauma within our marriage, patriarchy and sexual trauma, epistemic privilege, and how poetry helped us reconnect in intimate but non-sexual ways. Resources cited in this episode: YourPersonality.net The Will To Change: Men, Masculinity and Love, bell hooks Tobar Phaidraic, by David Whyte (found in River Flow: New and Selected Poems) The Queen, by Pablo Neruda (found in Love Poems, translated by Donald D.Walsh)

This is the second episode in our miniseries revisiting my 2017 article, Portrait Of A Marriage. (Yes, It's Mine.) In this episode we talk about top-down and bottom-up processing and how communication is not the magic cipher we have been led to believe! I share my story of how the stress of our relationship somatized into physical symptoms that required us to call 911. And we get into tender territory about what patriarchy looked like in our marriage and how it's related to Ruben's current experience with severe burnout. The key resource we recommend to everyone trying to bring feminist cultural analysis to relationship building: The Will To Change: Men, Masculinity and Love, bell hooks Shauna Janz' work: Sacred Grief with Shauna Janz

Welcome to a special miniseries of The Numinous Podcast: Portrait Of A Marriage where we revisit a seminal blog post I published in 2017 on resolving the traps of an Anxious and avoidant Partnership, in other words a relationship where one partner, in this case me, a cis white woman, tends to have a more avoidant attachment style, and the other partner, in this case, Ruben, a cis white man, tends to express a more anxious attachment style. We're going to read through that blog post and give you updates on all the strategies we tried to earn the more secure attachment we have now, what worked, what didn't, and bring the article up to date to let you know where we are in the marriage now. Spoiler alert: it was all very, very worth it.   Notes: The original article, Portrait Of A Marriage. (Yes, It's Mine) Carmen's CV The Will To Change: Men, Masculinity and Love, by bell hooks Stan Tatkin Sue Johnson Journey From Abandonment To Healing YourPersonality.net

Something a little bit different today – a clip featuring myself and my husband, Ruben Anderson. We're teaching a course this year called Collapse 101, hosted in The Numinous Network, and each month there's a 1 hr live session followed a week or two later by an Ask Me Anything session. A lot of people don't see the through-line from attachment to somatics –> trauma healing –> co-regulation –> folk magic –> ritual –> animism –> socialism –> collapse resilience, but I do. And I bet you do, too, at least partly, when I lay it out in that sequence. And if you don't see it, but you want to, then stick around! Everything I teach about is a collapse skill, from recipes and rituals for the wheel of the year, to dowsing with a pendulum, to attachment parenting, to Contact Nutrition and Polyvagal Theory in trauma recovery - these are 100% all collapse skills.  Of course at the root of everything I do, I'm trying to help people live richly connected and meaningful lives, but even more fundamental to me is that I'm trying to help shape the social discourse and collective thinking around collapse. I attempt that through compassionate and holistic and accessible adult education. I'm trying to help shape social thought around how we're going to live in these times. This episode is a brief response to a Numinous Network member's question about how much is enough when prepping material or financial resources as a safety net or a lifeboat for collapse. Ruben and I offer our very pragmatic answers along with some scaffolding for how you might approach this challenge in your own life – how you might shape your thinking so you can come up with what feels like enough for you.   If Crisis or War Comes - Swedish government Emergency Handbook The Numinous Network Carmen's newsletter

This is a really lovely conversation with Mara Glatzel, author of a new book coming out Feb 28 called, Needy: How to Advocate for Your Needs and Claim Your Sovereignty, which was recently selected by Malcolm Gladwell and Adam Grant for the Next Big Idea Club's book of the month.  Mara says she is an intuitive coach, writer, and Needy Podcast host who helps humans stop abandoning themselves and start reclaiming their sovereignty through embracing their needs and honouring their natural energy rhythms. She's also a queer, femme mother of two, recovering control freak. We talk about being multi-passionate when so much prevailing marketing tells you to niche down, we jam on balancing the need to feel safe in an overculture that is just factually unsafe in so many ways and especially so for more oppressed people, and we get into how we might approach reclaiming needs like rest and saying no, depending on where we're at in that healing journey. Buy the book Find Mara on Instagram Harsh review on Goodreads!

Dr Cyndi Brannen, one of the world's foremost Hekatean experts, is here to talk about her most recent book, Entering Hekate's Cave, now available in stores and online. This is Cyndi's fourth book and her third time on the Numinous Podcast. We're talking about how Hekate can guide us on the journey through darkness to wholeness, and also about Cyndi's own evolution as a scholar and author.  Cyndi's other books on Hekate include Keeping Her Keys: An Introduction to Hekate's Modern Witchcraft Entering Hekate's Garden: The Magick, Medicine and Mystery of Plant Spirit Witchcraft Make sure to get on her newsletter list to find out when the doors next open to the Covina Institute!

Jen Murphy is the founder of the Celtic School of Embodiment  where she fuses the ancient wisdom of Irish Mythology with Feminine Embodiment Coaching. Jen has a degree in Medieval Irish & Celtic Studies and a masters in the Anthropology of Development. She specializes in critical pedagogy - empowering learners to critique the power structures at play in their own learning experiences. I've enjoyed taking Jen's courses, particularly the Non-Linear Movement sections, and am thrilled to have her on the show today to share how she weaves land, mythology, embodiment, and music into her coaching and healing practice. Website Jen on Instagram Facebook   Sign up for Carmen's newsletter here.

Taryn Strong is one of the Founders of SHE RECOVERS® Foundation as well as a Coach, Herbalist and Trauma Informed Yoga Teacher. Taryn's courageous and passion for recovering out loud has made her an influential voice in the global recovery movement. Taryn creates and curates transformational experiences online and in person through her group and private mentorship offerings. As a certified Trauma of Money Facilitator, she currently specializes in financial empowerment and money healing. She also mentors entrepreneurs in recovery who are seeking support to take up space, find their voice and expand their business through aligned impact. Taryn is also expecting her first child and I was curious about how she is navigating that rite of passage, not only spiritually and creatively, but also in the context of recovery. TarynStrong.com SheRecovers.org Mentioned in this episode: The Roots of Addiction in Free Market Society, by Dr.Bruce Alexander Rat Park studies In The Realm Of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction, by Dr.Gabor Maté

Kael Klassen moved from the corporate world into motherhood before fumbling, fortunately quite quickly, through a series of well-meaning-but-problematic-white-lady spiritual endeavours. Since extracting herself as much as possible from that, she has grounded her work in the modality of trancework, along with writing and creating. Here we talk about missteps each of us have made on our spiritual paths as white settler folks. In this confessional episode, we cover topics like culty yoga teacher trainings, ancestral healing and appropriation, mental health on the healing journey and how it intersects with the creative process. Kael shares intimately about coping with grief and rage, and the rituals that help her to root into winter. In this episode we mentioned the art and philosophical approach of our esteemed colleague, Rachael Rice. You can find Kael's offerings on instagram @kael.klassen or @liminalrootsbotanica or online at www.liminalrootsbotanica.com  

This episode gets us back to the roots of this podcast: the mysteries of life... In this episode Velda Thomas, author of Blended: Perspectives On Belonging, engages questions like, What does it take to be human? How is a cultural bridge created between people? How are you transactional with yourself? Velda Thomas was born and educated in England with biracial family ancestry sourced from Africa, the Caribbean and the Americas. She is a creative, author, healer, and artist.  Her love of plants, herbal remedies, sound practice, somatic and ritual experiences weave passion with grounded human experience. Velda has worked as a kindergarten teacher, adult educator, birth doula, and massage therapist. In this episode, we learn more about her work with voice, sound, and energy healing. Find her book here: veldathomas.com Follow her on Instagram: @veldathomas11 Engage on Patreon: www.patreon/veldathomas.com  

Desiree Adaway is here to share with us how time has been constructed as a tool of oppression and how we can resist becoming complicit with supremacy culture through time pressure, and instead become aware of different ways to be in relationship to time.  Believe me: she understands time pressure, my friends! Desiree has over 20 years of experience creating, leading and managing international, multicultural teams through major organizational changes in over 40 countries. As the Senior Director of Mobilization for Habitat for Humanity, she was responsible for planning the strategy and training for hundreds of membership organizations, totaling more than 50,000 members. She was responsible for the overall strategy and DEI plans for 1,600 US affiliates and one million volunteers globally. Desiree is an expert at teaching others how to handle complex, charged conversations (particularly around identity and power) with grace, assertiveness, and transparency. Her program, Whiteness at Work is a one-of-a-kind primer in intersectional race equity work. To confront white supremacy, racism, institutional inequities, and power dynamics in our organizations we must learn a new set of skills. It requires shared language, a historical and cultural analysis, a nuanced understanding of our own identities, the ability to have difficult conversations across difference, and the capacity to imagine and create new ways of being. The Whiteness at Work program is Five modules containing 30 lessons, and over seven hours of training content. Each Lesson is accompanied by a comprehensive resource guide and an extensive debrief and activity guide to help solidify learnings and apply them to your organization. Follow Desiree on Facebook and Instagram.

Something a little different today: a clip from a recent Tutorial call in The Numinous Network where I answer a question from Marissa of @riverinehart.hidetanning about the connection between trance and the collective. It's a great question that speaks to a through-line that touches on dreams, trancework, somatics, large scale cooperation dilemmas, death literacy, awe, the vagus nerve, and emotionally taking care of ourselves and each other as best as we can during collapse times.  *** Free Week is happening in The Numinous Network again from November 27 - Dec 3. Get on my newsletter to receive the link for your Free Trial on Nov 27!