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The Peculiar People – Mark Sorrell

Medicine Woman

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21: Dr Vanya Leilani - Creative Transgression Oct 15, 2024

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Vanya Leilani is a depth psychologist, writer, teacher and storyteller.Her first book, The Flesh and the Fruit: Remembering Eve and the Power of Creative Transgression is out this week from Womancraft Publishing. She has spent decades exploring the threshold where the external “shoulds” in our lives

Vanya holds a PhD in Depth Psychology with emphasis in Jungian and Archetypal Studies.n She has also completed a certificate training intensive with Dr Clarissa Pinkola Estes and has served as an adjunct professor at Pacifica Graduate Institute teaching on the creative power of archetypes.

Vanya was born and raised in southeastern Brazil and currently lives in the woods of the Pacific Northwest of the United States, where she tends to the land and many animals.

Instagram.com/drvanyaleilani

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We talked about:

Her first book – The Flesh and the Fruit

Creative transgression – why disobedience is vital

Belonging to ourselves

Her upbringing in a fundamentalist Christian community

Spiritual crisis

Archetypal psychology

In the extended episode we discussed:

Her curse

How our unconscious often helps us to stay invisible

Drumming and midlife women

Resources

Her first book – The Flesh and the Fruit: Remembering Eve and the Power of Creative Transgression

Women who Run with the Wolves

Care of the Soul

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Thomas Moore

Her podcast – Belonging to the Wild

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20: Elizabeth Kneafsey: The Wild Wool Shepherdess Oct 01, 2024

Elizabeth Kneafsey, the Wild Wool Shepherdess, creates unique, wild and rugged woven rugs, tanned leather hides and felted sheeprugs with wool harvested from her own flock of organic, heritage breed sheep which conservation graze hay meadows to help support our declining wildlife and improve soil structure. A practitioner of traditional, ancestral skills is now teaching small holders and individuals through workshops and retreats how to bring back value to wool and live more sustainably in harmony and connection with our land, wildlife, waters and Mother Nature.

Her first book The Wild Wool Shepherdess: Weave the Ancient Path, Reignite Your Feminine Fire is out today from Hay House.

Wolves – yes she has a wolf!, dogs, sheep, herons and owls – being in relationship with animals and what it teaches us

Animal symbology

Reclaiming access to the land

How she became a shepherdess

Crafting with wool

The husband coat

Ancestral crafts – why they matter

Making her declaration of intention as a child… and a woman

Being a black sheep

Writing her book

Dreaming a gathering of women

Creating in community

The challenges of charging for our work and supporting what it takes to create and teach

Extended episode –

Her adopted Native name and the story of how she was the first white woman in several hundred years to be adopted by that tribe

Women as beacons

More on ancestors

How clothing impacts how we are in the world

Books we mentioned

The Wild Wool Shepherdess: Weave the Ancient Path, Reignite Your Feminine Fire

The Witch and the Wildwood

Women who Run with the Wolves

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19: Dee Mulrooney - Creative Orgasms Sep 17, 2024

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Dee Mulrooney is a multi-disciplinary Irish artist. Inhabiting a female body and all that it entails is the main preoccupation of her work. Exile, class, displacement, social history, longing and belonging are some of the themes explored by Dee, through various media, including painting, drawing, film, storytelling, and performance. Her art is fiercely authentic, and she leaves no stone of her own personal healing journey unturned. Dee works with the alchemical aspect of transmutation in her art, using this process to deal with difficult topics, including, abuse, death and loss. Dee’s performance art is provocative and has a political point to make, highly social, collaborative and community building. She is driven by story and symbolism, how we remember and interpret history and women’s role and their bodies within that. She exhibits and performs regularly and had an award-winning show at Edinburgh Fringe 2023.

https://deirdre-mulrooney.com/

www.Instagram.com/deemulrooney

***Trigger warning re abuse and baby death, and Irish Mother and Baby homes – to skip this section 13:40-19:00 mins***

We talked about:

The central theme of womanhood in her work and contemporary vulva-tastic culture!

Her alter ego Growler – an 84 year old vulva and mother of God and creating ritual theatre

How one of the most traumatic events in recent Irish history emboldened her to draw

The colonisation of the creative space by patriarchy and capitalism

Art and activism

Women’s creativity, high art and the Establishment

Art as alchemy and transmuter of pain

In the extended episode we discussed:

The impact of empire…and how quickly things can change

Her experience of childhood hallucinations and being exorcised

Imbas – the Irish insight

Her advice on overcoming fear in order to make or share the work you are called to

We mentioned:

Empire podcast

Tuam Mother and Baby Home

The Babog project

Meggan Watterson – Magdalene Revealed

Imbas

Sile na gigs

About your Host

Lucy H. Pearce is the author of multiple life-changing non-fiction books, including Nautilus Award silver winners Medicine Woman, Burning Woman, and Creatrix: she who makes. Her writing focuses on women’s healing through archetypal psychology, embodiment, historical awareness and creativity.

Lucy founded Womancraft Publishing, publishing paradigm-shifting books by women for women, in 2014.

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Join me at The Witches Revival in Lancaster, UK 9-11 August

My ecourses and books

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18: Gina Martin - The Somatic Magic of Writing Aug 01, 2024

Gina Martin is a founding mother and High Priestess of Triple Spiral of Dún na Sidhe, a pagan spiritual congregation in the Hudson Valley, New York State, US. She is a ritualist, teacher, healer, mother, and writer of sacred songs.

Gina is a practitioner of Classical Chinese medicine and a Board certified licensed acupuncturist.

The author of the When She Wakes trilogy: Sisters of the Solstice Moon, Walking the Threads of Time and She is Here. The backstories of the Thirteen for girls aged 8-80: Kiyia – Daughter of the Horse; Autakla – Daughter of the Seal; Maia – Daughter of Fire; and her newest book Io – Daughter of the Wild Hunt is out very soon. Her book of chants – WomEnchanting is available from her website.

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We talked about:

The three creative acts of her life

The somatic magic and nature of writing

How her characters pester her

Magic realism in her work…and life

The many varied spiritual influences on her practice and creativity

Sigil magic and the weirdness of trying to put it into words

Becoming her own body of work - her tattoos

Her creative process

Writing groups

Self publishing and publishing

Being a channel

Writing spiritual books – ritual and ceremony

Creative collaboration within and between creative disciplines

Resistance and regrets

Maternal pride and envy – when our parents are the reason we cannot create

In the Extended Episode…

We reminisce about our trips together to ancient sites in Crete and Newgrange

The books that most influenced her as a writer – the author of The Road to Avalon is Joan Wolf.

A deep dive into channeling, hearing voices and mental illness.

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About your Host

Lucy H. Pearce is the author of multiple life-changing non-fiction books, including Nautilus Award silver winners Medicine Woman, Burning Woman, and Creatrix: she who makes. Her other titles include Amazon #1 bestsellers: Moon Time, Reaching for the Moon, The Rainbow Way and Crow Moon. Her other books include: She of the Sea, Full Circle Health, Moods of Motherhood andshe is the co-author and illustrator of The Kitchen Witch Companion. Her writing focuses on women’s healing through archetypal psychology, embodiment, historical awareness and creativity.

Lucy founded Womancraft Publishing, publishing paradigm-shifting books by women for women, in 2014.

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17: Molly Remer - The Great Between Jul 16, 2024

My guest today is Molly Remer, priestess, mystic, and poet in central Missouri. Molly and her husband Mark co-createStory Goddesses at Brigid’s Grove. Molly is the author of eleven books, includingWalking with Persephone, which I edited and published at Womancraft Publishing, Whole and Holy, Womanrunes, theGoddess Devotional, and365 Days of Goddess. She is the creator of the devotional experience #30DaysofGoddess and she loves savoring small magic and everyday enchantment.

Her newest book is The Great Between.

In this episode we talk about

Her book Walking with Persephone
Everyday enchantment
Making magic
Why she writes
The unseen connections between us all

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16: Kristin Lisenby - Your Weirdness Can Act as a Soul Flare Jul 09, 2024

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Kristin Lisenby is a Storyteller and Word Witch living in the Azores Islands. Inspired by the moon and garden, Kristin writes seasonal stories and reimagined fairy tales for the magically minded. She is the voice behind Little Witch Books and the co-founder of Pointy Hat Press, a publishing house exploring Witchcraft and Paganism through a modern lens. She co-hosts the Magick & Alchemy podcast alongside fellow Word Witch Kate Belew, as well as the Crossroads, a seasonal, creative coven for literary spellcraft.

A Cal Poly alumni, Kristin has a BA in Modern Language & Literature and has also studied at the University of Valladolid in Spain. She is passionate about plants, nearly-forgotten folklore, and all things Magical Realism. When she’s not writing, you can find Kristin digging in her garden, playing with her three goats, and working alongside her partner to infuse new life into their century-old farmhouse.

Magick and Alchemy Podcast

We talked about:

Sacred collaboration: the magic of finding your people
Sharing and selling on social media: "sharing your art online is like putting up a soul flare so your people can find you".
Living in the Azores, close to nature... how it has impacted her work, creativity and magic
Being an introvert
Reawakening of the magical self
Reclaiming our weirdness
The gift of slowing down
Allowing ourselves to be seen
Timelessness vs timeliness
Growth and change and appreciating our younger selves

In the Extended Episode we discuss:

The somatic sense of weirdness
Automatic writing and channeling
Saturn returns
Seasons and creativity

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Resources

Missing Witches – Kristin’s episode, Lucy’s episode

Telling the Bees – Kristin’s book

Purchase the recording of Lucy’s Becoming Visible Masterclass

Magick and Alchemy podcast

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15: M.J. Cullinane - The Magic of Crows Jul 02, 2024

Margaux Jones (AKA MJ) Cullinane is an award-winning Seattle-based artist, writer, mother, and lover of all things magical - especially crows. She attended Parsons School of Design, yet her unique technique for telling stories through digital collage is self-taught and has been her passion for over 10 years. Nature and its creatures are a familiar theme in MJ's work.

The Crow Tarot, MJ's first published deck, has achieved a significant following and recognition with crow lovers and the tarot community including winning the 2019 CARTA award for Best Tarot Deck and Best Illustrator of a Tarot Deck.

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If you are a crow lover, this is the episode for you. There are a couple of powerful crow stories, and we share our love for all things corvid.

We also talked about:

MJ’s award-winning Crow Tarot

What tarot means to MJ and how she uses it

Having the courage to follow your own intuition

Doing work that you love

Resources we mentioned

The Crow Tarot

www.mjcullinane.com

Instagram : @crowtarotmjcullinane

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Your host Lucy H. Pearce – www.lucyhpearce.com Instagram: @lucyhpearce

Crow Moon: reclaiming the wisdom of the dark woods

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14: Sarah Robinson - Let’s just run away and live in the woods Jun 25, 2024

My guest today is Sarah Robinson is the best-selling Womancraft Publishing author of multiple books on magic and witches including: Yoga for Witches (now in French, Chinese, Polish and Farsi), Yin Magic, Enchanted Journeys, The Kitchen Witch Companion, The Witch and the Wildwood and Womancraft Publishing’s fastest selling pre-order ever, Kitchen Witch: food, folklore and fairy tale.

A yoga teacher and author, she is based in Bath, UK. Her background is in science; she holds an MSc in Psychology & Neuroscience and has studied at Bath, Exeter and Harvard universities.

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We talked about:

Our shared longing to run away and live in the woods…

How she got started as a writer… and how long it took her to claim this title.

The patriarchal myth of the writer at their desk… and how we work instead.

Imposter syndrome.

Curating creative ideas and how she knows what works.

The cross overs between magic and creativity.

Reviews and how we handle them.

Showing up on the page and being seen.

How we give each other courage.

Find Sarah online:

Website: www.sentiayoga.com

Instagram: @Yogaforwitches @thisiswitchcountry

Podcast: Witch Country

Insight Timer: Enchanted Journeys with Sarah Robinson

Pre order Sarah’s new book The Witch and the Wildwood from Womancraft Publishing

Other things we mention include

Walking with Persephone – Molly Remer

Episode 10 of Creative Magic - Cali White - Creating Experiential Spaces

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Your host Lucy H. Pearce – www.lucyhpearce.com Instagram: @lucyhpearce Facebook

The Rainbow Way: cultivating creativity in the midst of motherhood

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13: Alice Grist - Pregnancy as Initiation to Creative Magic – You have to Be Willing to Be Changed Jun 18, 2024

Alice Grist – Pregnancy as Initiation to Creative Magic – You have to Be Willing to Be Changed

Introduced to spirituality from an early age, Alice’s Church of England father turned to Wicca and her journey into modern spirit began. Alice’s work is renowned for providing an earthy and everyday perspective on a spiritual life, making the divine accessible, welcoming and fun to anyone seeking it.

Author of five published books on spirituality / tarot and creator of two card decks including Rebel Heart. Alice's new book, Soulful Pregnancy is available to order now from Womancraft Publishing as signed copies, or wherever you get your books in paperback and ebook.

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Alongside her written work and card deck creation, Alice teaches and shares spirituality with a modern female audience through her Cosmic Sisterhood newsletter and frequent workshops which she both hosts (online and IRL). Alice is active and lively on all her social media channels. Come check her out most frequent on Instagram @alicegrist and on TikTok - @alicegristauthor

www.Alicegrist.co.uk

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We talked about…

Soulful pregnancy – her forthcoming book

Creative magic as it relates to pregnancy and motherhood

Pregnancy as initiation

Rites of passage

Raising and coming from creative families

Valuing our creative (and mothering) work

Selling our work

Social media and its effect on creativity

The creation of a tarot deck

Resources mentioned

Soulful Pregnancy

Dirty & Divine

Alice’s Live Soulful Pregnancy event

Dear Poppyseed (the book she wrote during her first pregnangy that I reviewed)

Juno magazine

Rebel Heart Tarot

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www.patreon.com/rimastaines

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12: Rima Staines - The Deeper You Go The Wider The World Opens To You Jun 11, 2024

Rima Staines is an artist whose work straddles myth, magical realism and the folk arts. Her visual world is an umber and madder-infused chapel of misfits and magicians, story-rich and alchemical. Her paintings, which feel both ancient and familiar at once, have been exhibited and published internationally. In 2018 she was a finalist in the 'Best Artist' category of the World Fantasy awards.

Rima has a long-held fascination with the idea of the liminal - that which lies at the edge of culture and society as well as the literal boundaries between one place and another, both metaphorical and real - and with the power of art that comes from that place. Her work is a kind of “Iconography of the Otherworld”. She lives in the south of England.

Rima's Links:

www.rimastaines.com

Instagram: @tilsamka

Facebook: facebook.com/rima.staines

We talked about

Rima’s writing - Art and the Landscape of Belonging – join her Patreon to read
The changes required at midlife
Creativity and daily life a balance between desire and necessity
The beauty of particular difference
Her drive and need for authenticity
The Otherworld and how we can access it
Neurodiversity – Epilepsy, Downs Syndrome and autism.
Motherhood and creativity
Neurology and creative magic
Her visual art which she describes as “Art in a minor key”
Synaesthesia

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11: Seren Bertrand - Sacred Feminine Magic Jun 04, 2024

My guest today is Seren Bertrand, an award-winning author on feminine magic and wisdom; a storyteller, spirit keeper and chantress, with a degree in English literature & modern philosophy, who lives in the mountains of Appalachia. She weaves together mythology, spirit vision, symbology, embodied ecology, with feminine philosophy traditions. She is informed by her ancestral lineage of Mam Tor, old Europe witches and faery folk, and the later traditions of Mary that hid wild feminine magic under their red velvet cloaks. She has won two Nautilus Awards for her books Womb Awakening and Magdalene Mysteries. Her latest book Spirit Weaver was released in 2022.

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We discussed Seren’s move from the world of academia to mainstream women’s magazines to working for the goddess.
The heroine’s journey of coming to awareness of the energy, power and voice of the womb.
Pain, our ancestral lineage and its role in women’s creativity and spirituality – you are NOT going to want to miss this, there were a couple of mic-drop moments.
Women’s natural gifts as oracles, seers and psychics.
Coming to acceptance of our gifts that the world pathologises.
The cloaked woman and our experiences of claiming our cloaks.

Resources

Becoming Visible - Masterclass recording

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Your host Lucy H. Pearce – www.lucyhpearce.com Instagram: @lucyhpearce Facebook

Reclaim Your Creative Magic ecourse

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10: Cali White - Creating Experiential Spaces May 28, 2024

Twenty years ago, Cali White left a corporate career and followed a calling to the healing path. Initially training in psychotherapy, she spent many years immersing herself in the world of psychological and spiritual development and was privileged to find teachers that opened her up to Native American wisdom through Vision Questing, Sweat Lodges, and Shamanic Healing, and then more deeply into rites of passage work through the Women in Power organisation.

From November 2018 she undertook a 13 Moon menopause Pilgrimage around the UK and Ireland to deepen into her indigenous ancestry. Guided by the Ancients, she gathered women every full moon to hold ceremony for those persecuted as witches during the Burning Times and to help heal the inherited trauma wounds of separation that we still carry today. This led to the 2022 I AM WITCH exhibition in Lancaster, out of which The Witches' Revival was born, a now annual healing event in Lancaster, UK, designed to support the healing of the feminine through the reclamation of the Witch Archetype.

Cali lives in an old Beatrix Potter cottage on a hillside in the Lake District where she continues to learn through tending the land and by following her menopausal impulse to "create"!

www.thewitcheshouse.org

www.loveisourpower.com

We talked about:

Living with intention
Menopause as portal and rebirth
Collective wound and collective healing
Ancestral healing
The feeling of emerging from the trauma veil
Medicine spoons – and how a synchronistic discovery led to her next body of work
Creativity as healing and the magic that happens when we share our process
Creating experiential spaces
The feminine way as collaborative
The Witches Revival event
Archetypes: witch, creatrix, wise woman archetype, The Cailleach, Hekate, Baba Yaga
Evolving our relationship with big and small d death
Ways of knowing

Resources mentioned

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ALisa Starkweather

Women in Power

My book Creatrix: she who makes

Stephen Jenkinson - Orphan Wisdom

Sharon Blackie – If Women Rose Rooted, Hagitude

Outside the Box – Liz Rothschild

Kicking the Bucket

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Your host Lucy H. Pearce – Instagram: @lucyhpearce Facebook

www.danielledulsky.com www.thehagschool.com

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9: Danielle Dulsky - The Holy Wild May 21, 2024

My guest today is Danielle Dulsky is a poet, painter, teacher, and word-witch. The author of Bones & Honey, The Holy Wild Grimoire, The Sacred Hags Oracle, Seasons of Moon and Flame, Woman Most Wild, and The Holy Wild. She teaches internationally and has facilitated circles, embodiment trainings, communal spell-work, and seasonal rituals since 2007. She holds a BA in painting from Arcadia University, is the founder of The Hag School, and believes in the emerging power of wild collectives and sudden circles of curious dreamers, cunning witches, and rebellious artists in healing our ailing world. She splits her time between the whiskey-soaked streets of a Pennsylvania steel-town and the wilds of upstate New York. Find her praying under pine trees, wandering through the haunted places, and whispering to her grandmothers’ ghosts.

We talked about wild initiations – the very first of which happened when she was just five years old… and encounters with the supernatural.

Her journey from being brought up born-again Christian to claiming the title of witch aged 25.

Following your calling

Clairvoyance and other “dark gifts” – and why it’s not always the right thing to reclaim them

The symbols that have guided her – those that have emerged through her art…and in nature.

Her powerful encounters with the white wolf.

The underlying mechanisms of wild signs and meaningful encounters.

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My most recent book Crow Moon

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8: Dorrie Joy - A Pilgrimage to the Weathered Edge May 14, 2024

Dorrie Joy lives and works as a prolific multi-disciplinary Artist. She teaches ancestral skills and traditional crafts. She is also a herbalist, forager, poet, writer, international speaker and ceremonial leader. As a painter, she is largely self taught. Her formal studies are in Literature and Ceramics.

For almost 30 years she has been initiated by and trained intimately with Indigenous women and Elders in many areas of ancient craft and ceremony.

Her paintings are held in private collections and public displays and her ceremonial craft is carried and respected globally.

She has travelled widely and lives in the South West UK. A Mother of three and a Grandmother of two, her work is informed by her passion for sustainability, rooted in connection and reciprocity.

We discussed what it means to be a prolific creative and all the ways Dorrie creates.

The joy and tenderness of being a beginner and learning new crafts.

Giving space to our human selves.

Productivity and earning a living through creativity.

Navigating the middle bit when it all just looks a bit of a mess.

The grounding of home and family life: the devotion of motherhood.

The role of intuition.

What she learned about the creative process from her Indigenous teachers.

Forbidden images, imposter syndrome and dealing with online criticism.

Becoming feral and walking to the weathered edge.

The spirit of her work and how she first discovered it.

Dorrie’s website: www.dorriejoy.co.uk

Instagram:@dorrie.joy

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My most recent book Crow Moon

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7: Hilary Rose - Creative Evolution May 07, 2024

Hilary Rose, the charismatic host and CEO of Live Wild is a two-time IFTA nominee for her contributions to the entertainment industry, notably her role in the BBC TV show "The Young Offenders."

Beyond her achievements on screen, Hilary is deeply connected to nature, embodying a love for living wild and free. Rooted in a desire to be of service to those seeking empowerment, Hilary brings a wealth of expertise and experience from her extensive career in media. Hilary's passion extends beyond the screen as she aspires to share the spirit of living wild with a wider audience through the enlightening conversations on Live Wild.

www.livewild.ie and her podcast is Live Wild.

The Young Offenders BBC iPlayer RTE Player

We talked about her move from being known in the mainstream as an actor, into a different more personal space with her Live Wild blog and podcast.

Waiting to be chosen as a creative vs the joys of being your own gatekeeper and having creative control of your work.

Acting and facing rejection.

Beyond linearity – embracing the cycles of creativity.

Her spiritual awakening that led her to see the world differently.

Listening to nature.

Feeling like the only weirdo in the village.

The way the word witch has been used against women.

Ancient Ireland and the landscape.

The Young Offenders and its celebration of Cork.

How she feels about watching herself on screen.

Being multipassionate creatives and the need to define ourselves – or not – as creatives.

My next book, Wired Weird.

Resources we mentioned

If Women Rose Rooted

Sign up to Becoming Visible: undoing the spell of invisibility

Witch – BBC podcast

Staigue Fort, Kerry

The Wild Atlantic Way

The English Market

My most recent book Crow Moon

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6: Looby MacNamara - Quantum Sheep: working with the emergent Apr 30, 2024

Looby is a permaculture teacher and author. She has been teaching permaculture for over 20 years and specialising in the people care ethic of permaculture. She has written 4 books People and Permaculture, 7 ways to think differently, Strands of Infinity and Cultural Emergence. She is co-founder of the Cultural Emergence project - developing a toolkit for personal and collective transformation. Her latest creation is the CEED deck - the Cultural Emergence Empowerment & Design deck. She lives on a 20 acre smallholding with her family, Applewood Permaculture Centre in Ludlow, UK, where they run courses She is mother to 2 daughters. And is one of the partners of the Mother Nature project, co-creating resources to empower mothers as natural leaders.

She enjoys gardening, being creative, sitting round fires singing and listening to owls.

Looby on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/loobymacnamara/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/looby.macnamara

Join thenewsletter to get a free download of the Cultural Emergence principles colouring book and enjoy some easy creative magic www.cultural-emergence.com

Her website for courses www.applewoodcourses.com

We Discussed

Permaculture and creativity.

Cultural emergence and emergency.

The importance of pattern-seeing.

Expanding our view from breakdown to breakthrough.

Quantum sheep – the fabulous slip of the tongue and where it came from.

Move Your Tools – stop waiting for inspiration to strike.

The emergence of AI art and the increasing need for the human touch.

The power of agency and permission.

The cyclical nature of creativity.

Resources and People mentioned

JUNO

People and Permaculture

Womancraft Compendium

SARK

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5: Sushmita Mukherjee - The Dark Woods of the Psyche Apr 23, 2024

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I am joined by Rev. Dr. Sushmita Mukherjee, writer, artist, educator and spiritual companion in the interspiritual tradition. She is an ordained interfaith minister as well as an Associate Professor in a large medical college in New York City. Her vocation straddles cutting edge biomedical research technology, and a spirituality imbued with magic and wonder.

· Our conversation started in the dark woods of the psyche and her quote I used in my new book, Crow Moon.

· We talked about darkness - the problems with how we talk about darkness within Western thought and the binary…and how we can move beyond this.

· We discuss Individuation – a mainstay of Jungian thought – why it’s problematic and why it’s necessary.

· Learning to live beyond our rational minds. We discover many shared guide to this including Mary Oliver, Jung, Krista Tippet and John O’Donohue.

· Find out about the via creativa and how she now teaches about the shadow.

· She speaks about Hospicing Modernity – an approach to the question: What comes next for our culture?

· How she discovered the beauty of our biology.

· Nature and privilege, and finding the wild in the heart of urban spaces.

More About Sushmita:

Her psyche thrives at the interface of image, imagination and creative innovation. Sushmita’s spiritual work draws on Eastern and Western myths, Earth-based traditions, Taoism, Sufism, and Perennial Philosophy. Her work is deeply influenced by the teachings of Carl Jung and James Hillman. Some of her interests include myths, dreams, poetry and art, including Jungian-influenced Dreamwork, SoulCollage® and Chakradance. Sushmita is deeply committed to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging in all fields of engagement.

Sushmita's website: on-seeing.com

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4: Molly Remer - Everyday Enchantment Apr 16, 2024

My guest today is Molly Remer, priestess, mystic, and poet in central Missouri. Molly and her husband Mark co-createStory Goddesses at Brigid’s Grove. Molly is the author of eleven books, includingWalking with Persephone, which I edited and published at Womancraft Publishing, Whole and Holy, Womanrunes, theGoddess Devotional, and365 Days of Goddess. She is the creator of the devotional experience #30DaysofGoddess and she loves savoring small magic and everyday enchantment.

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In the Temple of the Ordinary Volume 2

Walking with Persephone