Everyday Mysticism: Finding the sacred in the mundane

In this first episode of season two, Bridge shares stories of finding feathers and bird encounters that contribute to this idea of bird divination. She unpacks messages that lie in the spiritual meaning of these bird encounters and how this information can be useful in every day life.

In this episode Bridge shares a poem that she wrote called the "Gray Guild". She reveals how an experience at a local library served as the inspiration for the beginning of it and how the rest of the words unfolded in a waiting room later that day. This poem explores both the sacredness and fragility of aging.

Bridge welcomes archetypal mystic Katie Vie, who blends sensory wisdom into bodywork, to explore the seasonal lessons of the wheel of the year. Together, they reveal how noticing subtle changes in nature during Imbolc and the spring equinox can inspire deeper self-reflection and attunement to our inner rhythms. 

For more information about Katie Vie check out her website and instagram account

Riverislandapothocary.com

@Riverislandapothecary on instagram

Bridge explores the sacredness of music as a universal language that reminds us of our connection to one another, restoring hope for humanity. She considers what science reveals about our brain's response to music and how it serves as a powerful vehicle to access memory, emotion, and our connection to the divine.

Bridge talks about the Walk for Peace led by Buddhist monks as the inspiration for recognizing kindness as an essential pathway to peace. She explores how leading with kindness and curiosity can result in connection with one another at a time when there is a hunger for this connection. This episode highlights when we choose kindness over reactivity in the face of criticism, we can let go of judgement and the need to defend or attack in response to differences.

For more information check out Walk For Peace on Facebook.

Bridge explores the structure of ritual and how we can integrate some or all of these elements into every day life as a way to feel our connection with the divine and with one another. She invites us to be curious about the ways ritual unfolds in our gatherings and the role of intentionality with ritual integration into our daily rhythms and routines.

Join Bridge for some thoughts about being a mystic. She invites us to consider ways we can align a daily practice with the ebb and flow of the changing seasons, steeped in ancestral wisdom. How being curious about seasons, astrology, and moon phases intersect to align us with messages from the divine so we can connect with the sacred in everyday experiences. Bridge asks us to look at how our own mystical nature shows up in this world and becomes a bridge to the sacred self.

Bridge explores aspects of the divine feminine and masculine energies and how we embody the gifts offered by both. She invites us to be curious, and rather than rejecting one or the other look at the ways in which both show up in how we are in the world, how we navigate relationships, and how we connect to the divine.

Join Bridge for a conversation with Katie Vie, an Archetypal mystic, as she shares how her roots in aromatherapy and body work bloomed into an archetypal cosmology that includes scent divination and rituals for self acceptance. Katie tells us about her discovery of The Wheel of the Year through her first "mystery school" experience, and the ways she brings this ancient wisdom into her everyday life. Katie and Bridge discuss how we can connect with the divine through an awareness of the rhythms of nature by engaging in what Katie calls “sacred noticing” and trusting one's own experience.

For more information about Katie Vie and her work visit her webpage at www.riverislandapothecary.com or her instagram page @riverislandapothecary

Join Bridge for a conversation with Shadi, an intuitive guide and astrologer, to explore her journey with the sacred. Shadi shares her life experience with intuition and energies that later translated from Reiki healing to the language of astrology. She highlights the element of sacred wisdom in this work, embracing our shadow side through radical self-awareness which ultimately leads us to a place of compassion.

For more information about Shadi and her work you can find her @shadi_aatash on instagram or through her Patreon platform patreon.com/shadi_aatash and website www.aatashiha.com