Why do people take on a spiritual name? What is the process like and what is the meaning behind Maya Lila di Vento and Spectra Ma'at Amunari?

Hypnotherapist Spectra Amunari shares a powerful past life story that explains a woman's digestive issues and claustrophobia. Spectra also shares her favorite book, detailing the life of an African boy taken from his tribe and forced into priesthood, only to return and be initiated as a shaman.

Crazy times! Communication, nature, poetry, beauty, ritual.

I had trouble picking a book for this lunar cycle when the book Why I Wake Early by Mary Oliver showed up on my doorstep. I'd forgotten I'd ordered it with the intention of having it be the next One Book A Moon book. I wasn't convinced, so I randomly cracked the book open and read a poem that cracked my heart open (and my voice, as you'll hear in this episode). I also reference the Medicine Stories podcast with half Native half white activist Layla June, Herstory: the Fall of Matriarchy by Jane Hardwicke Collins, and the Free Birth Society podcast.

Elizabeth Haich was born in Hungary in 1897 and recalled a past life as an initiate in Egypt. Dig in for a ride through her lives!

I’m excited to introduce my very first guest on the One Book a Moon

podcast: Minna News, an accidental medium and spiritualist! Over the past

20 years Minna has had a successful career in journalism, eventually

writing for Forbes Finland. While pregnant with a child that ended in a

miscarriage, she began to hear voices telling her she would also lose her

marriage and her job (which came to pass), and eventually

she “accidentally” ended up on a retreat learning how to communicate with

the dead. Minna also introduces me to one of her favorite books, Initiation

by Elizabeth Haigh, an autobiography of a woman born in 1897 who had past

life memories of being a pharaoh’s daughter in Egypt.

Now more than ever it's important to remember to connect with Nature! Here's how!

We are out of balance - our bodies, our societies, our economic systems, our relationship with the natural world... but we can start with ourselves, doing the work of just BEING in forests, amongst the trees.

Let's talk about death, bay-bee! And PURPOSE! We're all gonna die, eventually, so what better thing to spend our time on than working towards our purpose?

A deep dive into one book per lunar cycle that moves us toward joy, wholeness and thriving.