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

Today is the new moon in Taurus, international grieving in public day and time to launch a new chapter on the podcast. 

This space is called Grief Glimmers now and I have a whole new website over at GlimmerPortal.com that you can check out. In this episode I am re-introducing myself, telling you more about how this project came to be and what to expect. 

You can send me a question over here: https://speakpipe.com/yarrowm

and join my Substack & Spark sessions over here: https://yarrow.substack.com/

Grief Companionship: https://glimmerportal.com/companionship/

Grief Glimmers course: https://glimmerportal.com/courses/

Custom grief quilts: https://glimmerportal.com/custom-grief-quilts/

Thank you so much for listening!

Love,

Yarrow

I am finally back with an interview for you! This was a real balm to my sore heart -  lots of textile explorations, community arts magic and just true delight with Cordy of Transmissions Quilts. Tune in for encouragement, giggles and a gentle restoration of faith in humanity. 

Cordy says - I am a white trans quilter living in the East Bay. Alongside my quilts, I work as an arts educator and childcare worker primarily with trans teens and queer families. I hope to exist in a lineage that sees quilts as radical objects that not only represent our collective hunger for freedom but also, through making them, allow us to take active steps towards that freedom. I come from a bloodline that has largely forgotten its creativity and I am interested in resuscitating that, starting in myself. I’m trying to move slower and talk less. One current poetic guide is Chessy Normile.

https://transquilts.net/

https://www.instagram.com/coanofsilence/

Welcome back, I'm still here and still grieving, thank you for joining me in this weird and wonderful process. For this episode I had a beautiful listener question about finding balance and seeking simplicity when you're also kind of a maximalist in some areas of your life. 

You can send me a question over here: https://www.speakpipe.com/YarrowM

And you can join my Substack and Spark sessions over here: https://yarrow.substack.com/

Love,

Yarrow

I received a really good question about how creativity can heal or harm from a listener and am answering the best I can! I talk about how being creative makes me feel, key creative experiences and also ways in which structural problems show up in creative practice. 

I would love to hear from you if you have a question for me too: https://www.speakpipe.com/YarrowM

and you can join my Substack and Spark Sessions over here: https://yarrow.substack.com/

Love,

Yarrow

In this episode I am talking about craving even more simplicity in my life, decluttering really hard and planning for a low buy year. I pulled everything out of my wardrobe again, sold a whole bunch and made a few well considered purchases. I feel peaceful in my commitment to buy very little next year and really hopeful to grow as a maker and learn more about why I buy for comfort and how I might shift that. 

You can join my Substack and the free Spark sessions over here: https://yarrow.substack.com/

Love,

Yarrow

In this episode I am catching up with you, fellow grievers or curious podcast listeners, about entering a new phase of grief, preparing for the holidays and imagining a new kind of future. I hope that it makes you feel gotten, even if not everyone gets it.

You're welcome to join our Spark sessions here: https://yarrow.substack.com/

Love,

Yarrow

I'm so happy to bring you a new interview episode in amongst all these recent solo grief journals. My wonderful guest is Danette Relic, who was also on episodes 116 and 48 (back in 2018, the before times!). Danette is sadly a fellow griever who also lost a parent this year, so in this episode we're chatting about keeping our magic safe, what we learned from past heartbreaks and how we see the value of feeling all the feelings. There is, in short, a whole lot of permission in here, plus a very exciting giveaway for Danette's book Crash Bloom (which will be such a great winter companion/Christmas gift). 

Danette Relic is an author, artist and coach, married to herself since 2001. From a young age, Danette was inspired by reading, drawing, using her imagination, and falling in love.  She is a self-projected Projector in Human Design, a Sagittarius Sun, Libra Rising with a Gemini Moon who takes her pleasure seriously. Her passion for self discovery, relationships and creativity shapes her work and her life in every way.

You can hear her explore these themes on her podcast, The Soft Shoulder. You can receive Letters from Danette via her newsletter by signing up on her website, Radical Creative Sanctuary dot com. Her first book, Crash Bloom: a creative guide for growing through your breakup was released this year and is available wherever you most love to buy books

Sign up for Danette's newsletter and reply with a note to say that you listened to the episode to take part in the book giveaway: 

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Thank you so much for listening!

Love,

Yarrow

Thank you so much to Becky for asking about my quilting & making practice! In this grief journal episode I am talking you through what I love about making small improv quilts, what my practice looks like, how it helps with grief and what I am sewing next.

I'd love it if you want to send me a question too: https://www.speakpipe.com/YarrowM

Thanks for listening!

Love,

Yarrow

In this grief journal episode I am talking about yesterday's birthday, dealing with big and small anniversaries as well as my current daydreams. 

You're also welcome to send me questions via Speakpipe here: https://www.speakpipe.com/YarrowM

Love,

Yarrow

Today I am talking about the value and magic of anger, about how I am trying to be intentional with where I am directing it and about how I am trying to get comfortable with this feeling. 

Feel free to send me questions here: https://www.speakpipe.com/YarrowM

Sending blessings and love to your day,

Yarrow