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Emerging Author Maia Toll Speaks on Calibrating Our Intuition, Honoring Our Elders and the Evolution of Western Herbalism [episode 117] Jul 18, 2018

Show notes

In this week's episode we get into:

The creative process of how The Illustrated Herbiary was written and published
Throwing out the idea of having it all figured out before you even start
Western herbalism and FDA regulation
The barriers of social media in relation to building community with elders
The wheel of the year, moving from a feminine paradigm to a masculine paradigm
How society values youth and fears aging, how this sentiment leads to diminished wisdom passed onto future generations
How to recognize the beauty of aging and manifest a change in attitude towards it
How to connect with elders
Advice for the new wave of herbalists: "drop the old soul bullshit." Instead, own who you are, where you are
The difference between starting a career in herbalism and starting a practice in herbalism
Compensating your teacher to show respect and reciprocity
Maia's trip to Ireland as her initiation into herbalism
Intuitive herbal crafting
How to calibrate the body to understand the difference between intuition and mixed signals triggered by the brain

Links

Listen to this week's secret episode with Maia here
Learn more about The Illustrated Herbiary by Maia Toll, illustrated by Kate O'Hara @kate.ohara.illustration
Book to be released August 7th, pre-order to receive a FREE online course!
Maia's personal website and blog: Maiatoll.com
Shop for herbs, essential oils and supplies for a sacred living: Herbiary.com
Connect with Maia on Instagram: @maiatoll
Connect with Herbiary on Instagram: @theherbiary
Connect with Maia on Facebook: maiatoll.page
Connect with Herbiary on Facebook: herbiary

Grandmother Kaariina Saarinen on Death As An Ally & Grief As A Training [episode 116] Jul 11, 2018

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We welcome back Grandmother Kaariina Saarinen for a journey around the wheel of Death as an Ally and Grief as a Training.

This show is a shamanic journey to help you move the pain of unexpressed grief.

Please use discernment as to whether you are able to move through this experience without the direct support of a trained facilitator. If you have PTSD or other severe trauma, please consult with your main healing support people before listening.

The music you heard in this episode is:

Marya Stark // Breaking The Silence
Miten and Deva Premal // Exactly As It Is

To learn more about working directly with Grandmother Kaariina, please email her: kaariinatruth@hotmail.com. Be sure to specifically include how you're interested in working with her. Some offerings she has right now are:

1-to-1 Sessions: Email her and ask for an intake session and for more information about her 3-6 month programs
Facilitator Training for people who want to facilitate Sacred Wheels: email her!
Special 45-minute call for women who attended a wheel with Grandmother at Spirit Weavers, email her!
Contribute content to or help in the creation of Grandmother's newsletter publication, email Sonia.

Listen to more episodes with Grandmother Kaariina:

Textile Artist Christi Johnson Weaves the Art of Natural Dyeing and Embroidery with Soft Ritual [episode 115] Jul 05, 2018

Show notes

Christi Johnson is a textile artist & designer based out of the Catskills in New York. She is the creator of "Mixed Color," an experimental collection of handmade textiles and garments. Christi combines the process of natural dyeing and embroidered sewing with a grounded spiritual practice that includes invoking divine benevolent forces.

In this conversation, we dive into:

What naturally dyed textiles and embroidery has to do with spiritual healing and intention
Adornment as self-expression, each garment known as its own talisman
Manifesting a move from the city to the country and a new way of life
The backstory of how Christi's shop "Mixed Color" was born
How working with textiles weaves in with Christi's ancestry and the history of sewing as an essential survival skill
The profound impact of nature in connection to textile work
Acknowledgment of shadow self through sharing emotions and personal perspective
Living in the closet of spirituality and how to break through
Invoking divine benevolent forces
A peek into Christi's "Aquarian morning routine"
Advice for those who wish to manifest their own dreams into reality

Links

Check out this week's secret episode for more unique insights from Christi!
Learn about Christi and her upcoming workshops at http://www.christi-johnson.com and http://www.mixedcolor.net
Instagram @mixed_color_
Instagram @ChristiJay
Stitch wish small-scale embroidery offering @thespiritualtoolkit

Natalie Ross on Self-Care in Chaos, Sharing Magic with Folks Who Don't "Get It" and BIG NEWS! [episode 114] Jun 28, 2018

Show notes

Natalie Ross, the creatrix and hostess of this podcast, does a solo episode where she shares some big news and answers listeners' questions from Instagram comments. She gets into:

BIG NEWS!
Plus details of her manifesting process that led to this big news
How to practice self-care during life's curveballs and traveling
Sharing magic and spirituality with friends and family who don't "get it"

If you have questions you'd like answered in another solo episode, contact Natalie or post in the private FB group and let her know.

Links:

Listen to secret episodes here.
Listen to more of Lizzy Ross and Omar Ruiz Lopez's music in Violet Bell here.
BOOK: Jan Spiller's New Moon Astrology: The Secret of Astrological Timing to Make All Your Dreams Come True
Learn more about 1:1 sessions with Natalie here.

Ayesha Ophelia on Letting Passion Come First & Conscious Cannabis Rituals Jun 20, 2018

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Ayesha Ophelia is HeArtist who loves to pull on the threads of synchronicity. Ayesha is no stranger to the complex, messy process of creativity, and she wants to help other women feel safe navigating their creative processes as they bring their gifts to the world. In our conversation we talked about:

How we are all conscious people who have to go through practical, everyday life
If you don't feel it creatively and passionately, you won't do it
Letting go of old ideas of who you are and what you're capable of
Throwing a cog in the wheels of what's expected of you
Redirecting your nervous energy before public speaking
Consciously connecting with cannabis and the spirit of cannabis
Cannabis as an ally for dealing with anxiety
Suspending disbelief when being introduced to something new
Letting passion come first, strategy second
Giving yourself permission to dream big
Accepting the inherent mess of the creative process

Links

Join the Symposium of Wild Hearts adventure (it starts June 21, 2018!) at www.symposiumofwildhearts.com.
Listen to the Secret Episode with Ayesha, where we talk about bringing feminine energy and consciousness to business at http://www.dreamfreedombeauty.com/secret.
Learn more about Ayesha at www.thegirlfriendmanifesto.com.
Follow Ayesha on Instagram at www.instagram.com/thegirlfriendmanifesto.

Astrologer Aeolian Heart explains the Ecological Wisdom of Astrology and How to be more than your Horoscope [episode 112] Jun 13, 2018

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Rachel of Aeolian Heart is an astrologer, scribe, and dreamweaver. She is creator of Aeolian Heart, offering natal chart readings and horoscopes, educational classes, and tarot readings. Aeolian Heart uses astrology and tarot as a framework to develop rich therapeutic conversations that manifest love, will and desire into the human reality.

In this conversation, we dive into:

Rebirthing the connection between your inner world and the outer world
Calling in your inner child to release limiting ideologies perpetuated by the material world
The meaning of Aeolian Heart in reference to the Aeolian Harp and Greek Goddess of the Wind
Acknowledging the importance of the Earth and its perspective in the Astrological chart
Why astrology is more than your fate for the day or what your personality type is
Living in attunement with natural cycles to reconnect with Earth beyond the material world
Fear-based Astrology (fatalism), and how this approach can cause a false reputation for astrologers
How to break out of fatalism by exploring a new creative perspective
How astrology readings can be liberating by embracing truths found in your natal chart
How to choose an astrologer that is right for you
The ecological wisdom of astrology, how planets and stars are comprised of the same organic materials as the human body
Imagination as a vehicle to connect the inner and outer systems of ecology
The story of Indra's Jeweled Net to explain the interconnected light between all beings
The story of neutrinos to explain how traveling matter in space relates to our bodies on Earth
How astrological time differs from linear time

Links:

www.aeolianheart.com

FB: https://www.facebook.com/aeolianheartreadings/

IG: https://www.instagram.com/aeolian_heart_astrology/

Online Courses and More: https://gumroad.com/aeolianheart

Evolutionary Astrologer Thea Wirsching on Dwarf Planet Ceres, Self-Care and Shifting Consciousness around Body Image and Food [Episode 111] Jun 06, 2018

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Thea Wirsching is an Evolutionary Astrologer, Priestess, Artist and Tarot Reader. She is the creator of the American Renaissance Tarot deck. Thea offers in-person and distance astrology readings out of her office in Long Beach, CA.

In this conversation, we dive into:

Deconstruction of the infamous "Saturn return"
How to stop blaming Saturn Return for the root of our problems
Reading the high and low expression of tarot cards
How the slow-orbiting outer planets can impact your Natal Chart
The Progressed Moon Cycle and tracking the 30-year moon cycle from birth and how to adapt to predictable planetary energy
Holding space for conflicting planetary forces
Mythology of Ceres and her planetary energy in terms of stewardship, self-care and relationship to food
Shifting consciousness around body image and food
Disrupting cycles around being small and relearning to take up space
Connecting with ancestors to dispel and heal body image
Cooking as a tool to nurture bloodlines

Links

Connect with Thea and read her blog at https://theplutobabe.com/

Check out the tarot deck Thea is collaborating on at https://www.americanrenaissancetarot.com/

IG: https://www.instagram.com/americantarot/

FB: https://www.facebook.com/theplutobabe

Astrology Reading Offerings (get more info on Thea's site, linked above)

The Evolution Reading (Past life readings natal chart + past life analysis)

Fore & Aft

Love Potential

Career Potential

Alchemy (Couples Reading)

The Food Tour (Ceres Reading)

New hope for Old Wounds (Existential Opportunities)

Couples readings

Resources

Astrologer Demetra George's book, "Finding Our Way Through the Dark" https://www.demetra-george.com/audio-downloads/Finding-Our-Way-Through-the-Dark-p13334319

Kate's Magik https://www.katesmagik.com/

Ceres Natal Chart http://www.llewellyn.com/journal/article/2382

Check out more podcast episodes with Thea: Episode 48 of Self-Care Club

Asali on Moving Through Grief, Loving Your Love, and Supporting Queer, Trans, & POC with Tarot [episode 110] May 30, 2018

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Asali is a earthworker, healer, and card slinger. Asali offers a queer femme of colour resource and blog, tarot sessions, and writing. In this conversation, we dive into:

Learning to trust your inner voice and listen deeper
Why what you have around and within you is enough
How grieving changes your DNA, and how you think and feel
How grieving a parent's death brings support for each in their own realms
How beautiful to know that your loved ones who have passed on are supported and held by your ancestors
How healing is an ongoing process, and can be tended in a variety of ways
How there is magic in the ordinary
How plant spirit allies are so incredibly generous in their medicine
Learning to love your own love
How you can search out resources that support queer, trans, and people of color (eg. tarot decks)
How people exist in marginalized spaces and how we don't show it
How the temperance card helps you to transmute challenges into healing
Why you have to work with what's difficult

Links

Connect with Asali and her blog, teas, and tarot offerings at https://www.asaliearthwork.com/
Connect with Asali on Instagram: @asaliearthwork
Connect with Asali on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AsaliEarthwork
Connect with Asali on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/asaliearthwork/
Check out Asali's Deck reviews here
Check out Asali's Ritual and Honey on Little Red Tarot here
Check out Asali's tarotscopes on Radical Tarot here
Check out more episodes with Asali:
- Episode 46 of the Self Care Club podcast

Tarot decks mentioned in this epiosde:

Sarah Faith Gottesdiener on Facing Morality and How You Can't Just "Love and Light" Your Emotions Away May 23, 2018

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Sarah Faith Gottesdiener is an artist and human sharing her experience of the world through design, writing, and collaboration in many forms. In this conversation, we talk about:

What it's like to live life with chronic illness
Working through the anger and rage of misdiagnosis
How facing morality hurdles you into a void
How diagnosis can be relieving in a way, to know that your intuition was right all along
How you can't just "love and light" emotions away
How you have to descend in order to cycle through
How healers are really helpers to our own inner healer
How when you receive a diagnosis, it puts into perspective your self-commitment and healing
How living in trauma can become your new normal
The meaning and messaging behind words
Why calling forth the divine is such a radical way to shift your day
How to allow yourself to feel the full spectrum of emotions
How we can be ourselves without projecting toxic perfection on each other

Links

Freebies from Sarah for you, dear listener:
- May Full Moon Ritual // here
- Excerpt from the upcoming Many Moons workbook // here
Connect with Sarah on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gottesss/
Check out Sarah's offerings at: https://modernwomen.bigcartel.com/
Check out Many Moons workbooks at: https://modernwomen.bigcartel.com/product/many-moons-vol-2-2018-preorder
Listen to Sarah's podcast, Ideal Futures, here
Check out some more awesome podcasts with Sarah:
- Episode 21 on the Self Care Club
- Episode 88 on Dream Freedom Beauty
Check out the Mary K Ash workbooks mentioned here

Sunder Ashni on Shifting Alignment, Multifaceted Suffering, and the Power of Names [episode 107] May 10, 2018

Show notes

See the show notes at http://www.dreamfreedombeauty.com/sunder-ashni-on-shifting-alignment-multifaceted-suffering-and-the-power-of-names-episode-107/

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