Grief Magic: Rituals, Tarot & Creativity for Seasons of Loss

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#59 My interview with Bri of Tadpole Magic on astrology for sceptics Jul 24, 2019

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Hey friends, I am sending a really beautiful episode with the wonderful Bri of Tadpole Magic your way! This one I think is particularly cool if the recent eclipses got you curious about astrology, but you're maybe a bit sceptical or not sure where to start. Here is what we talked about:

- Learning from experiences rather than only from books
- Making astrology touchable
- Why being sceptical is totally okay
- The value of archetypes for our relationships, careers and spiritualities
- Why we think no one should let the internet tell them who they are

Bri is a witch, astrologer, writer for their blog, Tadpole Magic, and co-host of the podcast, Open Magic. They want magic, tarot, astrology, and all metaphysical practices to feel usable, to help provide language and perspective to your lived experiences, and to act as a doorway to tapping into your inner wisdom. They recently launched an astrological offering called Learning Your Astrology that is focused specifically on helping you navigate your personal natal chart through 12 weeks of one-on-one sessions and personalized exercises such as meditations, rituals, and spells. Bri deeply values the wisdom that each person holds within themselves and sees astrology as a means for us to recognize it within ourselves. https://www.tadpolemagic.com/ https://www.instagram.com/tadpole.magic/

//If you enjoy listening and would like some support for your practice please consider joining my Patreon. In the Practice // Space community you’ll get access to recorded workshops, ritual guides, journaling prompts and movement & creative practices to explore in your own time. I also host monthly intention setting sessions and quiet co-creating sessions on Zoom around each new moon. Join here: https://www.yarrowmagdalena.com/practice/

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#58 Personal myth making and embodied writing with Janelle Hardy Jul 07, 2019

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How to I introduce this episode and my wonderful friend Janelle? Honestly it's been such a joy to talk to and write with her - I can't wait to start her program and work some more with the free resources she is sharing. I guess this episode is much groovier than a normal interview, we are writing and laughing together and you can get pen and paper out and join us! Janelle shares her thoughts about why writing can be such a powerful tool for healing and transformation and she offers us a few really juicy exercises to try out. If you can't write right now you can also totally enjoy this episode on the go and explore what comes up for you in your beautiful mind or on paper later. Enjoy and let us know what you think!

Janelle Hardy is a writer, artist, host of the Personal Mythmaking Podcast and the creator/teacher of a 5-month transformational memoir-writing course called The Art of Personal Mythmaking. She’s a born and raised Yukoner, a solo mother, who has been working as a trauma-informed bodyworker in the hands-on healing arts fields for 13+ years and as an artist (writing, painting + dance) for 17+ years. Throughout that time she’s taught adults out of her living room, arts centres, universities and community colleges. For the past 4+ years she’s integrated all of her expertise, including a BA in Anthropology, an MA in Dance and a Diploma in Structural Integration, into supporting people in their creative healing work via the alchemy of transformational memoir-writing. Sign up for the Outline Your Memoir workshop: https://www.janellehardy.com/outline-your-memoir/ Website: http://www.janellehardy.com/ The Art of Personal Mythmaking - online course: https://www.personalmythmaking.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/janellehardyart/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/janellehardybodylove/

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#57 My interview with Gina Wisotzky of Incandescent Tarot on tarot adventures and intuition Jun 28, 2019

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Hey folks, happy Friday! Glad to be bringing you another tarot related episode - June seems to be a month of refreshing and re-inventing my practice, so I hope you are excited too! This time I spoke with the wonderful Gina of Incandescent Tarot about all these beautiful things:

- How Gina became a tarot reader and found the name for her business
- Tarot as a creative, fluid, creative art and a tool for self-discovery
- Learning to trust our own minds
- Disagreeing with the cards and working with archetypes
- Tarot maps as a way to navigate big life questions

Gina Wisotzky is a professional tarot reader, teacher, and intuitive with 18 years experience reading the cards. Her practice centers around cultivating, honoring, and giving voice to each individual's sense of intuition through classes, gatherings, and in-person sessions. Having experienced the power of tarot and intuition-building through many phases of her life, it's her joy to share these tools with others, reintroducing them as innate and accessible to all of us, no matter our backgrounds. She hosts two local meetups - The Durham Tarot Club & Craft Night - and is co-host of the podcast, Open Magic. Website: incandescenttarot.com Instagram: instagram.com/incdescenttarot Facebook: facebook.com/incandescenttarot Open Magic: openmagicpocast.com ⋒

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#56 My interview with Nancy Antenucci on creative advocacy and tarot rituals Jun 21, 2019

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Happy Solstice, sweet ones! I hope you get a chance to celebrate the longest or shortest day of the year in a way that connects you to the magic of cyclical living and everyday ceremony. It feels so special to bring you a really beautiful interview with my former mentor Nancy Antenucci today - I adore her book, received so much great guidance from her and am always excited to read her newsletters. Here is what we talked and laughed about:

- Being a creative advocate
- Speaking with our bodies and getting out of our heads
- Tarot as a big mansion with a room for each card
- What it can mean to be psychic
- Writing to stay sane

Nancy Antenucci of Between The Worlds LLC (www.betweenworlds.us) is an innovator whose creative take on tarot, and how it can be woven into a variety of other work, including movement, performance art, and deep ritual, makes her a highly sought-after teacher and presenter around the country and internationally. She is the author of “Psychic Tarot – Using Your Natural Abilities to Read the Cards”. She founded Twin Cities Tarot Collective which produces the North Star Tarot conference, an innovative monthly Meetup and training for readers. She is currently branching into creative strategizing for start ups and mid sized businesses as well as creating multi-media videos bringing the divine into the everyday. She is a faculty member of the Arcana Company in Chengdu, China.

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#55 My interview with Dorothee Sophie Royal on flower magic and cyclical bodies May 31, 2019

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Hey sweet friends, I am so excited to bring you another beautiful conversation on this sunny last Friday of May! I spoke to the beautiful, magical Dorothee of MoonTent about all this good stuff:

- Adorning ourselves with flowers
- Running a product based business
- Developing a cyclical relationship with our bodies
- Moon magic
- Building community beyond social media

Dorothée Sophie Royal is an artist, writer, medicine maker, and mother. She is the founder of MoonTent, a media platform dedicated to wisdom from the heart of the feminine. She is the host of #moonwisepodcast which features monthly lunar forecasts and interviews with women of power. She was selected in 2018 as one of fifty women for #50WomenCan Change the World in Media and Entertainment. Born in Germany and raised in the U.S. and abroad, Dorothée has a deep love for the natural world and an appreciation for cross-cultural healing. After completing a degree at the University of Chicago and working in the film and nonprofit worlds, she found herself longing for a more holistic approach to life and went on to become a student of herbal medicine, nutrition and earth-honoring wisdom traditions. She is wildly grateful to her elders and teachers, her family and the mountains, rivers, trees and flowers that inspire her. http://www.moontent.co/ https://www.instagram.com/moontentco/

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#54 My interview with Jade Alicandro Mace about making plant friends and building community May 24, 2019

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Hey folks, I am delighted to bring you another interview episode with the wonderful Jade of Milk and Honey Herbs! As you know I adore talking to plant people who are finding radical and nourishing ways to support themselves and their communities! Here is what Jade and I dreamed and giggled about:

- What a herbalist's workday can look like
- Discovering plants as allies for our health and wellbeing
- Connecting with different bioregions
- How we can give back to our environments
- Simple herbal selfcare strategies
- Running a community clinic
- Teaching and building community through Patreon

Jade Alicandro Mace weaves a love of bioregionally abundant herbs and kitchen medicine into her work as a community and clinical herbalist. When she’s not teaching bioregional herbalism to students and apprentices, you can find her roaming the hedges with her harvest basket in-hand or at home in the kitchen brewing-up some potent food as medicine. She’s a mother to her 10 and 6 year-old daughters, partner, tender of chickens and cats and new puppy, blogger and writer, and half-gardener to her mostly wild gardens. In 2012 she co-founded the Greenfield Community Herbal Clinic, dedicated to affordable herbal care, and also maintains a long-distance clinical practice. Through her Patreon community she offers monthly online classes and plant study groups, and she teaches an online kitchen herbalism course each winter as well. She makes her home in the rolling hills of western Massachusetts, in unceded Nipmuk territory. Website- https://www.milkandhoneyherbs.com/ Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/milkandhoneyherbs/ Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/milkandhoneyherbs/ Patreon- https://www.patreon.com/milkandhoneyherbs

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#53 In Full Bloom: some ideas for your Beltane celebrations Apr 25, 2019

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Hey folks, this is a little solo episode with some ideas and inspiration for your Beltane celebrations. I am sharing a tarot spread I will be doing, ways in which I am exploring pleasure of my own understanding in May, some ritual ideas and I am reading some beautiful words on flower essences by Dori Midnight as well as a few lines from adrienne maree brown's book Pleasure Activism for your delight!

Here are the questions for the tarot spread: What does being in full bloom mean to me right now? What does my body need to be in full bloom? What does my mind need to be in full bloom? What does my spirit need to be in full bloom? Here is Dori Midnight's instagram love: https://www.instagram.com/dorimidnight/ This is where you can find adrienne maree brown's book: http://adriennemareebrown.net/ Here is the Healing Justice podcast episode about flower essences with Dori Midnight that I mentioned: https://healingjustice.podbean.com/e/28-practice-essences-for-everybody-making-your-own-medicine-with-dori-midnight/

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#52 Pink full moon magic + the healing power of ceremony Apr 19, 2019

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Hey friends, I am sending another mini episode with some thoughts about magic for the full moon and the healing power of ceremony and ritual your way. I recently completed the first part of my celebrant training and am excited to explore and experience more rituals - especially self-marriages, friendship commitment ceremonies, re-namings and all kinds of transitions! If you feel you want to mark an important milestone in your life in some way and you need support for that, please hit me up! In the episode I also talked about the things I love doing on the full moon, how you can create your own rituals and how important it is that we are making space for grieve to stay emotionally engaged with climate justice (and all kinds of other things we believe in!).

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#51 My interview with Manisha Tare on emotional healing Mar 29, 2019

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Hey friends, it feels so good to be back! This Friday I am sharing a beautiful conversation with my friend Manisha Tare who is an incredible mentor, guide and healing professional. I love her thoughts and approaches to emotional healing and the many many things she is putting out there to help us come home to our bodies and be present with what is unfolding in our lives. Tune in to hear more about:

- Injuries as an invitation to pause and explore our experiences
- Being in a body and making it a home
- Living with chronic pain
- Transitioning into work that is sustainable and aligned with who we are
- Practices for grounding in times of transition

Manisha Tare serves an intuitive guide, healer & mentor for highly sensitive and empathic people who are on a journey back home to themselves. Through a combination of energetic, intuitive and somatic approaches, she guides her clients to connect to their inner knowing in order to heal & clear old emotional trauma at its core. Through their work together, her clients feel more grounded, have greater clarity and confidence in who they are, can ask for what they need, trust their decisions more, and direct their lives with increased inner trust. She works with clients virtually all over the world. To learn more about her background, approach, & philosophy, visit manishatare.com Free Gift -- Using Your Body as Compass https://www.subscribepage.com/bodyasacompass Consultation call to learn more about working together https://www.subscribepage.com/emotionalclarityassessment IG: @manishatare

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#50 Spring magic + practices for tough times + finding faith Mar 19, 2019

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Friends, I can't tell you how grateful I feel to bring you the 50th episode of Daydreaming Wolves just in time for the spring equinox and the full moon in Libra. Damn, it's honestly been so beautiful to have all these conversations with like minded people, to explore and dream together and to build community with you all. I feel you, even if it's just through the screen. In this anniversary episode I am talking about my rituals and dreams around the spring equinox (low energy spring cleaning, deeper tarot readings, flower essences, planting seeds and shaking winter off!), about practices for tough times and starting small and about finding faith and inner authority. I'm also reading from Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown, which is a book I think you might love too!

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