Creative Magic

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

www.patreon.com/rimastaines

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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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

Crow Moon

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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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Reclaim Your Creative Magic ecourse

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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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.

www.danielledulsky.com www.thehagschool.com

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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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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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.

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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

Womancraft Publishing

Burning Woman

Witch – BBC podcast

Staigue Fort, Kerry

The Wild Atlantic Way

The English Market

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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

Tracy Breathnach

Jules Heavens

Cultural Emergence

Spiritual Emergency

Strands of Infinity

CEED Deck

Creatrix

Jennifer Louden

WORD+image e-course

Womancraft Compendium

SARK

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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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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.

WORD + image ecourse

Crow Moon

Walking with Persephone

In the Temple of the Ordinary Volume 2

Womancraft Publishing

Molly's Interview on the Womancraft YouTube channel

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My guest today is Toko-Pa Turner, Canadian author, teacher, and dreamworker who blends the mystical teachings of Sufism with a Jungian approach.

·       We started out talking about dreamwork – what it is…and how Toko-Pa came to it

·       We share our mutual love of Carl Jung and why his work matters so much.

·       The mundus imaginalis - the imaginal world

·       How Sufisim – the tradition of mystical Islam that Toko-Pa was raised in - informs her work

·       Pre-cognitive dreams and visions

·       Practical guidance on working with our dreams

·       Courting the images and symbols that emerge through our dreams

·       The initiation of illness…

·       Creativity and suffering

·       The inner journey and challenges of writing and publishing books…and more about her second book.

More About Toko-Pa

Toko-Pa founded The Dream School in 2001, through which thousands of students have passed. She is also the author of the award-winning book, Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home, which explores the themes of exile and belonging through the lens of memoirs, mythology, and nature. This book has resonated for readers worldwide, and has been translated into 10 different languages so far. Her work focuses on the relationship between psyche and nature, and how to follow our inner wisdom to meet with the social, psychological, and ecological challenges of our time.

 www.toko-pa.com

Instagram.com/tokopa

Resources:

Belonging - Toko-Pa Turner

Crow Moon: reclaiming the wisdom of the dark wood - Lucy H. Pearce

Medicine Woman: reclaiming the soul of healing - Lucy H. Pearce

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