By Lucy Pearce
Join prolific author and artist Lucy H. Pearce and her creative guests - writers, artists, creatrixes - for profound and practical conversations about what creative magic means to us. We'll reflec
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Justine Aldersey-Williams is a textile activist, speaker and teacher specialising in natural fabric dyeing and regenerative clothing. She hand-dyes textiles at her studio, The Wild Dyery, in Hoylake UK, using many plants grown on her nearby food, fibre and dye allotment and teaches both live and online courses in botanical dyeing techniques.
Justine qualified as a teacher in 1998 and has since taught extensively to schools, colleges, universities and crafts groups. A yoga teacher since 2006, Justine’s textile work intersects creativity, spirituality and environmentalism. She devises creative rituals that reconnect people with nature and sees botanical dyeing as a gateway craft that can inspire people to feel more reverence for their ecosystems.
She founded the Northern England Fibreshed, part of the international Fibershed not-for-profit organisation in March 2020 and volunteers to help establish regenerative textile systems using 'local fibres, local dyes and local labour' throughout the region.
Justine’s website NaturalFabricDyeing.com/
Instagram @thewilddyery
Home Grown Colour
We talked about :
Growing slow textiles
Animism
Matrilineal textile craft
Finding the right language for what we do
The metaphor of weaving
Creative and growing rituals that reconnect people with nature
Her project making the first pair of locally-grown, dyed and woven jeans
Moving from being consumers to creators
How plants communicate to us
When creativity is disabling - burnout and being multi-passionate creatives
In the bonus episode we also discuss:
The fashion industry and environmentalism
Her relationship with being visible and being a channel
More on woad and indigo
Resources
Weaving Our Way Beyond Patriarchy
Satish Kumar
Medicine Festival
Zach Bush
Uma Dinsmore Tuli
Women who Run with the Wolves
Vandana Shiva
The Feminist Lecture Program
Patrick Grant
Manda Scott Boudica books
TreeSisters
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Clare Jasmine Beloved is an artist based in Liverpool, UK. She says:
“Creating is in my blood and has saved my life over and over – transforming feelings, emotions, life stories, wounds and blocks, dreams and ideas into beauty. My art is awash with large lush goddesses, magic mermaids, sensual sistas, and sacred imagery, symbolism and feelings.The process and the way that I paint and create is very intuitive. I work with many layers to explore my own mythology, using acrylics and mixed media.
My work is also translated into limited edition textile ranges in silks and velvet as well as a beautiful jewellery range.
I am passionate about words – my bed is always laden with books! My first poetry collection Love, Hope and High Heels was published in 2010. It was shortlisted for The Polari Book Prize for new gay and lesbian writing. I have since published poetry and art books and journals and am currently finishing a book about my love story with my late wife and navigating life after her death. Pre-order Somewhere Between Derelict and Divine: Magical Stories to Carry Us All Home…
I developed and curated a large-scale project based on my own way of creating with over 1000 women and girls, which was exhibited at The Tate in a ground-breaking exhibition. This was then taken into many settings and also developed into Big Love Sista, Big Love My Brother.
I am dedicated to creating a body of work in the world and spaces that are ethical, inclusive, diverse, real and down to earth and magical and deeply rooted in community.”
www.clarebeloved.com
Instagram.com@clarebeloved
We talked about:
Facilitating creativity in a range of different settings
Creating safe and inclusive creative spaces
Overcoming a legacy of creative repression
Coming into her own creative power
Art as therapeutic and alchemical
On becoming an accidental wild woman
The power of sharing our stories
Magic and imagination as a way to survive childhood
Seeing the magic in your own story
The magic of the sea - selkies and mermaids
Creating from and through grief
In the Extended Episode we discussed
More about group facilitation.
Her creative haven in Greece
How poems come through to her
A deeper dive into creatively navigating her wife's death from breast cancer and “widow’s fire”.
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Books we mentioned:
Somewhere Between Derelict and Divine: Magical Stories to Carry Us All Home…
She of the Sea
Creatrix: she who makes
Red Tents
Women Who Run with the Wolves
The Way You Do Anything is the Way You Do Everything
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Nicole Barton is a witch on a mission to help Secret Witches - aka secretly magical healers who hide their magic - to live their true destiny by expressing their magic. She does this by helping women to heal themselves, discover their soul map of gifts and heal the fear of expressing their unique remedy.
Through her Archetypal Apothecary™ path (which is a unique combination of the three ancient wisdom bodies of homeopathy, archetypal psychology and energy healing, and provides a clear map to your soul) - and with over a decade’s experience of being a healer of sensitive souls and healers - Nicole guides women to understand their soul’s plan and harness it to heal themselves so they can become the unapologetically magical healer witches their souls were born to be.
See more from Nicole via her website (www.nicolebarton.co.uk) and listen to her podcast The Secret Witch Show www.secretwitch.co.uk
Email her if you want to find out more about Luna - [email protected]
Instagram - www.instagram.com/iamnicolebarton
TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@archetypalapothecary
We talked about:
Her initiation to the witch
The archetypal apothecary
The homeopathic remedy of Luna
Manifestation and creation
Marketing as gift and curse
Logic vs magic
People as remedies
Extended episode – the lost years - a tear jerking part as Lucy dives into a very personal experience of initiation
Animals as remedies
Nicole’s favourite books
The motherwound
Initiations of birth
The Secret Witch Show – Ep. 1 How to know if you're a secret witch
Universal laws of healing episode, Lucy’s episode
Creatrix: she who makes
Burning Woman
Medicine Woman
The Peculiar People – Mark Sorrell
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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
www.drvanyaleilani.com
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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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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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
Burning Woman
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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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.
All Gina’s books are 60% off on Kindle from 1-4th August. Buy the When She Wakes trilogy signed with digital goodies for a 10% discount for the month of August from Womancraft Publishing.
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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 and she 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.
lucyhpearce.com
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My guest today is Molly Remer, priestess, mystic, and poet in central Missouri. Molly and her husband Mark co-create Story Goddesses at Brigid’s Grove. Molly is the author of eleven books, including Walking with Persephone, which I edited and published at Womancraft Publishing, Whole and Holy, Womanrunes, the Goddess Devotional, and 365 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
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