In this week's episode, Mary Grace offers the teacher and support of Taurus.

• Being okay with being uncomfortable
• A childlike state of trust
• Tarot pull for the podcast collective
• Astrology highlights for the next week
• New Moon in Taurus and what Taurus has to teach us in this moment
• How we can experiment with accessing Taurus energy right now
• Adding creativity to our consumption
• Proposing the spring as a reminder of circular time and rebirth

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In this episode, Michael J Morris and I conjure up the dancestors for wisdom and body magic.

We discuss

• How necessary joy + pleasure are to “stay with the trouble”
• Re-imagining the indirectness of our survival and primal needs
• The false binary of survival + pleasure
• The body as the altar + container for magic
• Butoh’s approach to the body and dance, lineage and revolution
• Dance as a way to imagine other ways of being in a body
• Being “with” difficulty and toxicity
• Practicing empathetic embodiment and compassion
• Exploring ordinary movement as dance 
• Practicing the aspirational
• Authentic movement as a desire-based practice
• Desire + pleasure as emergent and nonlinear

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/Tatsumi Hijikata /Eiko Otake, A Body in Places (Fukushima) /Heather Davis, “queer futurity of plastic” /From Trinity to Trinity, Kyoko Hayashi /Deborah Hay, My Body the Buddhist
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My guest today is Gina Badger, and she is an energetic clinical herbalist. She shares  about how to build reciprocal relationships with plants and with the land, particularly as a non-indigenous person. Gina also breaks down what our bodies need right now in light of the pandemic and what plants can be our allies and how we can use them.

We discuss

• Tarot + astrology for the coming week
• How she emerged from working primarily in the art world to the work of a “kitchen witch”
• Her approach + practice to herbalism
• How being a settler is a fundamental orientation to how she relates to the land
• How she thinks about reciprocal relationship to the land in her practice
• Permission + consent in our relationship with plants
• How to do plant meditations 
• The experience of dissociation as a coping mechanism
• The diversity of orientations to this moment we’re in and what visions arise
• How her definitions of self care have changed and amplified over the past few weeks
• Her priorities for preventative care right now: staying warm and dry, strengthening deep immunity, antiviral + respiratory support
• The plants that she recommends we interact with right now and how to integrate them in a well-rounded way
• Her time-specific and accessible offerings for right now
• The teaching for this moment from gravel root

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Mugwort (artemisia vulgaris)
Raven Rose
Portland Plant Medicine Gathering
White Cedar (thuja occidentalis)
Robin Wall Kimmerer - "honorable harvest"
Karyn Sanders
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The Rise Disaster Capitalism, Naomi Klein (book)
Get Radical, Boil Roots (document)
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Simone Gordon is as community organizer who supports minority women. She connects them with resources, food, safe places, finances and has earned her nickname "The Black Fairy Godmother." Simone has a true and beautiful heart and is being a bridge that helps so many people. She especially uplifts people with special needs children or folks who themselves have disabilities. In this episode, Simone shares with us about her personal story and how she got her nickname; she shares about the people she serves and the need to evolve how we view folks who need help.

In this episode

• Some exploration prompts for this moment
• Tarot card for the week 8 of Cups reversed
• Astro for this week
• Taking space to honor what is difficult right now
• The uninterrupted life that’s happening all around us
• Simone’s work and how she became known as the Black Fairy Godmother
• Assisting women in domestic violence situations
• Shifting our focus from the negative 
• The difficulty in dealing with the government systems + larger nonprofits when you need help
• Mothering a special needs child
• Her studies and dreams to become a nurse
• What she wishes the wider community knew about the work that she does and the people she serves
• The dreams she hears from people who are asking for help
• Her challenge for all of us

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"I feel certain that the seeds for the biggest changes of the decade are in this moment... We have to create new ways of being."

In this episode I’ll share some Tarot cards I pulled for the collective, a little update on some astrological aspects this week; and I’ll also share some of my thoughts and intuitings around the moment we find ourselves in right now. 

• Tarot reading for the collective
• How I’m grounding with cooking + reading
• Astrological aspects for the week: Sun into Aries, New Moon in Aries, Saturn moving into Aquarius
• The optimistic value of compost
• The worst thing we can do right now
• The epic unique quality of this moment
• How the Earth is benefitting right now
• Dis-ease calling us to healing and SHIFT
• Moving into generative rest
• Re-membering to adapt
• Leaning on each other’s diversity
• Why we need to stop complaining
• Eliminate the “should”

If you enjoyed the episode, check out...
Episode 17 w/ Mary Grace Allerdice: A Call to Maintenance
Episode 22 w/ Diana Rose Harper: Engaging in Crafts w/ Possibility + w/o Appropriation
Episode 10 w/ Michael J Morris: Connection as Healing, Witchcraft Politics + the Aesthetics of Ethics
Episode 8 w/ Asia Suler: Earth Sentience + Realizing Our Innate Goodness

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Sabia Wade is a radical doula, educator, coach, advocate & the founder of For the Village and Birthing Advocacy Doula Training (BADT). Her mission is to bring inclusive, accessible and full spectrum education and resources to all individuals and organizations ready to take the next step in creating a world of inclusion, justice and equity to birthing people all over the world.⁠

We discuss:

• How she got into birth work + BDSM
• The discrepancies in care she witnessed when working in healthcare
• Where birth work + sex work intersect for her 
• What is full spectrum birth work?
• The importance of representation in these fields
• Racism + privilege in birth and birth work
• Why she also decided to pursue somatic experience training
• Being in our body as opposed to talking about how we look
• The importance of being seen, witnessing + celebrating one another and how BDSM makes space for that
• Dealing with imposter syndrome in her role as a leader + educator
• The importance of transparency as a leader
• What she’s learned about abundance + money
• Dealing with the push-pull of stability and drive

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Episode 26 w/ Mary Grace Allerdice :Why We Shouldn't Bypass Money
Episode 13 w/ Andrea Glik :De-pathologizing our Stories, the Significance of Pleasure to Healing + What Kink has to Teach Us about Sex
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Episode 6 w/ Nicole Qualls :Birth, Parenthood, Postpartum + Finding Your Work

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Janet Raftis is a master energy healer and divine feminine channel. She works with people to support them in accessing their divine wisdom, power and authentic soul expression in the world. In this episode, we talk about personal healing work and how that has shown up in her relationships, business + finances. She also shares about her recovery journey with addiction while healing from sexual trauma.

We discuss:

• How she defines authentic soul expression
• Her journey through personal shame, addiction + trauma 
• How she healed from PTSD and learned to feel safe in her body
• Connecting with the divine feminine + feeling worthy in relationships
• The (messy) reality of spiritual awakening
• How to work towards even greater, fine-tuned, inner alignment
• The importance of boundaries and how she used to let people walk over her
• The growth + learning she experienced from her business + financial journey
• How perfectionism can keep you really small
• The connection between our sense of worth and our ability to heal
• How individual healing serves collective healing

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In this episode I talk about m o n e y and our relationship to abundance - specifically addressing feelings of guilt and how we potentially use 'spirituality' to bypass our relationship to money. I also address some of your questions about abundance+ capitalism, and interacting with resources, and I share some of my personal struggles and insights around money. Head's up: there is some explicit language in this episode, if you are sensitive to it.

I discuss:

• Money is a resource that we all need to operate
• Our individual relationship to money and how we think about it
• Separating how much money you have from your worth and your character
• The false dichotomy between being profitable and being of service
• How I grew up feeling guilty about money
• Making up for lack of money by being overly helpful
• Abundance as the natural state of the earth’s order
• The other things that make up Abundance besides money
• Is participating in Abundance causing harm?
• How it’s not enough to resist a harmful system
• The problem of relegating “doing good” to non-profit
• Unconscious thinking holding us back
• The 2 things I hear a lot in spiritual communities that I totally disagree with
• Redefining profitability
• Subconscious fears around impact + responsibility
• Abundance is not something we manifest.

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Today, I’m speaking with Don Smith from Kiss the Ground. We’re talking about soil health, regenerative practices that can heal the land, and why that’s important. Don is a teacher for their soil advocate training, which is a program for educating people about how and why soil regeneration is important and equipping them with the tools and knowledge to be more effective advocates for regenerative practices that can heal the land and absorb some of the negative consequences of climate change. Don gives us a science lesson as to how this works, why it’s important, and what we can do to encourage this necessary movement and healing.

We Discuss

• Why soil health is so important
• The current, degenerated state of soil and how it got here 
• What is soil regeneration - how it impacts the environment + food
• Why sustainability isn’t enough
• A breakdown of regenerative agriculture 
• The capacity of land to be healed
• The essential components of soil regeneration
• The current farming paradigm + why it’s not the best practice for soil health
• Kiss the Ground’s scholarship program to retrain farmers
• How regenerative agriculture is also more profitable than degenerative practices
• How re-orienting government subsidies + legislation could be game-changing
• How education can reinforce empowerment for activism + change
• Taking a non-partisan approach to advocacy
• The relationship of soil microbiome to our nutrition and health
• The most important things you can do to support soil health

If you enjoyed this episode, listen to:
Episode 8 w/ Asia Suler - Connecting with the Sentience of the Earth, Realizing Our Innate Goodness + Healing
Episode 24 w/ Jordan Hamm - Emergence: Neuroscience, Creativity + Miracles
Episode 17 w/ Mary Grace - Revaluing Maintenance + Relating to the Earth

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Kiss the Ground's book
Dirt: The Erosion of Civilization (book)
Regreening the Desert (documentary)
Tanzania reforestation
Fantastic Fungi (film)
Dirt to Soil (book) by Gabe Brown
A Regenerative Secret (documentary)
White Oak Pastures
Life in Syntropy

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"It helps to marvel at that miracle in every living thing. Life itself is an emergent property of the earth."

Jordan Hamm is an assistant professor at Georgia State University in the neuroscience department. He runs a research lab studying brain circuitry, specifically in the context of neuro-psychiatric disorders. In this episode, he talks with us about the phenomena of emergence that is every where within our living world. I must admit, in this episode we nerd out pretty hard. We also talk about what emergence means in our nervous system, brain functioning, consciousness, + creativity.

We discuss:

• What is emergence and how he came upon it within his field
• How the brain is an emergent machine
• How meditation creates emergent patterns in the brain
• Consciousness as an emergent property of matter
• The working theory around all matter experiencing consciousness on some level
• How we can appreciate the simpler emergence around us 
• Being alive is a phenomena
• How emergent order is inherently cooperative 
• How chaos participates in order
• How emergence relates to creative process, relationship + transcendence
• Dynamics between life, order and entropy

If you enjoyed this episode, listen to:
Episode 8 w/ Asia Suler - Connecting with the Sentience of the Earth, Realizing Our Innate Goodness + Healing
Episode 13 w/ Andrea Glik - Somatic Healing + De-pathologizing our Stories
Episode 17 w/ Mary Grace - Revaluing Maintenance + Relating to the Earth

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On Being Episode w/ John Polkinghorne
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