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

What comes to mind when you are hearing the word embodiment? My thoughts are still changing all the time, it's very much an open exploration to me. This is a solo episode in which I am sharing about my current practices and reflecting a bit on the past year. I am also inviting you to write a zine with me, which I am really excited about! Here is the submission form: https://mrjzmkaz.paperform.co/ When I started my membership program over a year ago I was knee deep in my recovery from a sexual assault and wildly (sometimes desperately) interested in finding ways to reconnect with my body, reclaim joy and sensuality and find peace.  Being in community has helped me so so much and day by day working with plants, journaling and drawing cards has been a source of comfort and pleasure for me. I feel truly grateful for everyone who has joined in. This non-judgemental sense of exploration in a sweet framework with lots of easy to use tools and regular check ins is what feels most supportive and exciting to me in this work, so I am bringing even more of it in.  

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Hey beautiful people,  thank you for making time for another Daydreaming Wolves episode! Today I am sharing my conversation with my wonderful friend and co-masterminder Samantha Wallen about the transformative power of writing, what it means to loose and find home and many other wonderful things. Since I am in Scotland at the moment, kind of in-between worlds and life chapters, this feels very timely! :: A small but also big announcement from me: The DIY Business Collective is now open for enrolment and I am offering early bird pricing till August 10th with lifetime accessing costing $220, you can find out more here: https://yarrowdigital.com/diy-business-school/ :: Here is some more info about what Sam and I talked about:  

You can sign up for Sam's One Word can set your Free Guide here: https://writeinpower.com/freegift/ Samantha Wallen is a writer, writing and book coach, and poet. She is the Founder of Write In Power, which offers transformative writing workshops, retreats, and private coaching programs. Sam’s mission is to restore the soul of our world, one word at a time. She is a Restorative Writing Mentor who helps you drop your agenda and write what wants to be written so you can restore what is precious inside you, and our world, by using words as a pathway to reach what lives beyond language.  Restorative Writing is memoir-based writing that awakens your voice and heals your spirit. It slows you down and tunes you in to the heartbeat and deep purpose of your life. Restorative Writing deepens our shared conversation of aliveness–the ordinary, the mystical, the brilliant, and the wounded, forgotten, grieved and silenced parts. It brings all of us home to rest on the sacred ground of our shared human story so we can connect to and serve life more fully on and off the page.

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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:  

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/ 

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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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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:  

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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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:  

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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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:  

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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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:  

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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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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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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