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 In this mythcasting episode of The ReMembering and ReEnchanting podcast, your hostess, Sara Jolena, renarrates the ancient myth about a seal who becomes a woman... and the man who steals her skin. This is a story about belonging to multiple worlds, how climate change is impacting our oceans, what it means to belong to the depths, the loss of innocence... and the a cautionary tale about the importance of guarding one's protective skin.

 Like many of our mythcasting episodes, this myth is inspired by  Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes's book,  Women Who Run With the Wolves.

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Brewing, folk arts, circular time, fermentation, and revitalizing regenerative cultures.... we delve into the magic and complexity of brewing with herbalist, singer and folk artist Heather Wolf.


About our conversation partner, Heather Wolf:
Heather Wolf is an herbal brewess, folk herbalist, teacher, singer & performing artist from an island in the Salish Sea. Her work is devoted to reviving folk wisdom traditions, and a remembrance of our ancestral heritage and sacred relationships. With decades of study and craft of herbal brewing traditions, Heather most recently launched The Brewess Underground, a private brew club centering on dry herbal meads and botanical honey liqueurs, released on the Equinoxes and Solstices. 

Her herbal brews, including  her honey-kombuchas, have been much beloved throughout the American Northwest. In addition to brewing, she is re-learning her own Sephardic Jewish & British Isles ancestral songlines and partaking in the revitalizing of folk traditions. She writes of folk traditions, "Folk wisdom is carried by the collective, belongs to the whole, is the vital foundation of every healthy culture. These arts relate us directly with our own beings, each other, and the sacred world from which our existence is emergent and interdependent."

About this show:

00-3:40 - Introductions and initial music 

5:28 - How does brewing enable us to unwind in time?

6:50 - What is inebriation?

8:18 - What is mead?

10:48 - What actually happens in fermentation?

11:39 Heather’s process of fermentation;  thinking about alcohol 

15:50: Culturing the culture

23:41 How is time interfacing with the creation of a brew?

28:40 Some revitalizations in our time

32: 10 Brewing and circular time 

50:38 Fairytale time

45:00 Heather Wolf reading and singing the song, Old Growth Fairytale,  that she co-created with Nicholas Moon and their band, Wild Revival 

54:30 Brewing Brewess, and suggestions for your practice

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In this Mythcasting Episode of The ReMembering and ReEnchanting Podcast, your hostess, Sara Jolena, shares the ancient myth about a young fisherman who fished out a skeleton of a woman. The woman's skeleton comes alive, and chases him home.

This story is about finding love, and sitting with what is uncomfortable, some of the damage that climate change is doing to our oceans, and what it means to be safe and secure with one another.

Like so many of our Mythcasting stories, this is inspired by the Estes' book, Women Who Run with the Wolves.

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An electric conversation between midwife and herbalist Krystina Friedlander and Rev Rhetta Morgan, a minister and spiritual midwife.  We discuss the mysteries of accompaniment and birth giving, the violence enacted by the patriarchy including practices of modern medicine, trusting bodies, communal possibilities of spiritual midwifery, and trusting our center.

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In this Mythcasting Episode of The ReMembering and ReEnchanting Podcast, your hostess, Sara Jolena Wolcott renarrates the story of the Greek goddess Demeter searching for her daughter Persephone, who had been seized by the Lord of the Underworld. Along the way, she encounters one of the spirits of Eros, who helps her move through her grief enough to find the help she needs. 



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In this episode, spiritual activist, singing healer, and interfaith minister Reverend Rhetta Morgan shares music, poetry, and conversation with Reverend Sara Jolena Wolcott . On the even of the winter solstice, we enter the dark, meandering in its many meanings.

Some key points:

1:39 - Introduction of Rev Rhetta Morgan

2:20 - Sara and Rhetta recite and sing Rilke’s poem on darkness; they let themselves wonder and wander around Rilke's insights.

11:55 - Rhetta’ shares some of her work and insights about the Dark

14:50 - The (false?) dichotomy between the light and the dark 

23:00 - What have we projected onto the dark? Colonization and racial injustice 

31:50 - The testimony to the multiplicity and the wonder that is possible in the dark.

53:40 -  How do we engage with darkness differently? Practices 

58:09 - We acknowledge the power of Circular Time Calendars for helping us engage more deeply with darkness

If you've enjoyed this podcast, here are some other offerings that might be of interest....

Another episode with Rev. Rhetta Morgan and Midwife Krystina Friedlander

Circular Time Course

Rhetta's upcoming in person retreat at Pendle Hill, just outside of Philadelphia, USA, on Feb 4-6, Blessing Darkness

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Reverend Rhetta Morgan is a singing healer, spiritual activist, and interfaith minister who has been gathering tools for healing and inspiration for over 40 years. Through her gifts of prayer, poetry, facilitation, and sermonizing she cultivates hope and nurtures connection in her community as a pathway back to belonging and wholeness. As a facilitator and coach, Rhetta is known for her ability to support others to be bold, heal their self-limiting beliefs, and integrate their internal healing with their social movement work. This support is essential to cultivate the powerful spiritual activism that is needed in these times.

As an active facilitator in the Philadelphia region and beyond, Reverend Rhetta currently works with the Unitarian Universalist National Ministers Association, the Center for Contemporary Mysticism, the People of the Global Majority in the Outdoors, Nature, and Environment and more. She also founded and leads the Ecclesia Spirit Interfaith Community as well as Ritual for Change Makers, an 8-month program for activists seeking to renew their spiritual connection to the transcendent and to land.

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Midwife Krystina Friedlander and Death Worker Michelle Acciavatti join hostess Sara Jolena for our first episode in this season to discuss the ways in which the most significant transitions of our lives, being born and dying, are shifting during COVID-19 and the subsequent global quarantine. 

Their friendship and companionship as healers and doulas at opposite ends of the spectrum shines as they find many similarities in the way in which their intimate work with our bodies is changing.  In what promises to be the first of several conversations around topics of birth, death, suffering and celebration, we here deepen our understanding of what their work actually entails, the importance of unspoken intimacy, and the communal importance of both entering and leaving this precious life we share together. 

Yes, we are talking explicitly here about dead bodies, blood, and grief; all of which are topics we often rather leave to the murder mysteries on our television than to frank conversations amidst ourselves. If discussions of dead bodies makes you squeemish, you might want to leave this one aside, but I invite you to journey with us.

Please feel free to visit Krystina's website (www.barakabirth.com) and Michelle's website (ending-well.com); though their work keeps them closely bound to their place (New Jersey and New Hampshire, respectfully), they both welcome conversations. I'm confident we will be hearing more on these topics and from these two gracious, loving guides as we move forward together.

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We dialogue with Professor Mark Wallace (Swarthmore College, PhD from U. Chicago) about his recent eco-theological book, "When God was a Bird: Christianity, Animism, and the ReEnchantment of the World."  

It is a beautiful exploration of viewing the Bible not only through "green" eyes but through  an "animist" lens. 

We cover: 

• God did not only "enflesh" (Him/Her)Self, but S/he "enfeathered" Themselves
• The queer, animist nature of the Genesis Creation story
• The Serpent God told the Hebrew People to look at for healing 
• Jesus working in 'shamanistic' ways when he works with the highly potent dust/earth at his feet to perform his healings
• The Fluidity of the Divine 

And wonder at the extent to which it is time to lay to rest some of the divisions between "animist" practices and the Judeo-Christian tradition that has caused so much riff over the years.

It's a bit long, but I hope you find it is worth the time it takes to listen to it!

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In this Storytelling Episode of The ReMembering and ReEnchanting Podcast, Sara Jolena shares how her father's death launched her into a convergence of different aspects of her spiritual, national, cultural and familial ancestry. This ancestral convergence transformed her, and led her to do the ReMembering work that she does today. 

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“All must die to die. And those who live must live.”

In this Mythcasting episode of The ReMembering and ReEnchanting podcast, Sara Jolena retells a classic myth of La Loba, inspired by Clarissa Pinkola Estes in her best selling book, Women Who Run With the Wolves.

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