The Secret Witch Show

On the Secret Witch Show today our guest is Liz Dean. Liz is an author and professional tarot reader with 25 books to her name, including 'The Ultimate Guide to Tarot,' which has sold hundreds of thousands of copies worldwide and was hailed by Oprah as "a delight." With a background in illustrated book publishing, writing for the BBC and co-editing Kindred Spirit magazine, Liz is a talented tarot reader, teacher and storyteller. Her beautiful new deck, 'The Heart's Path Tarot,' spectacularly illustrated by Kat Fedora, is inspired by nature, symbolism and the heroine's journey, inviting us to reconnect with our intuition and come home to the wisdom of our own hearts.

In this episode, we explore tarot as far more than a tool for prediction - we discover how it can become a pathway home to ourselves. Liz shares her own journey of becoming increasingly authentic through her work with tarot, and how the cards invite us into a deeper relationship with our intuition, symbolism, imagination and the body. Together we explore the Witch Wound, why so many women struggle to trust themselves, how symbolism speaks directly to the soul, and why heart-centred wisdom is perhaps more important now than ever. Liz also offers a beautiful live tarot reading, shares practical ways to begin reading intuitively - even as a complete beginner - and reminds us that the greatest wisdom has been within us all along.

What You'll Learn from this Episode:

• Tarot is not about outsourcing our power - it is a mirror that helps us reconnect with the wisdom, intuition and guidance already within us.

• Heart-centred living invites us out of fear, overthinking and self-doubt, and back into trust, embodiment and authentic expression.

• Symbols speak directly to the soul. Working intuitively with imagery can reveal insights that the logical mind alone cannot access.

• The Heroine's Journey is about gathering the lost parts of ourselves, reclaiming our gifts, and bringing our unique medicine back to the world.

• Creating simple rituals with tarot - whether pulling a daily card, journalling, meditating with an archetype, or simply holding the cards - helps cultivate a deeper relationship with intuition and inner knowing.

• Every Secret Witch has the capacity to read tarot. The practice isn't about memorising meanings, but about slowing down, listening to the heart, trusting intuition, and having the courage to act upon it.

Resources and Things that We Spoke About:

• Liz Dean's Links:

• Social:

• Facebook - Liz Dean

• Instagram - @lizdeantarot

• Website - http://www.lizdean.info

• Tiktok - @lizdeantarotworld

• Our Links:

• Join the Secret Witch's Apothecary - the home of all Nicole's work to help you become the woman you were always born to be: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/membership>

• Social:

• Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/nicoleamandabarton

• Facebook Group - Secret Witch Sisterhood: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch

• Instagram - @iamnicolebarton

• Instagram - @archetypalapothecary

• You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety

• Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary

• Sign up for Moonlit Apothecary Love Letters: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/moonlitapothecary

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On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole is exploring the hidden wound beneath people pleasing - the tendency to abandon ourselves in order to keep everyone else safe, comfortable, cared for, or happy. Through the lens of the Secret Witch, the Healer Wound, and the archetypal medicine of Rosa and She-Wolf, she explores how many women learn to become responsible for everyone except themselves. Drawing on a powerful personal realisation from motherhood, Nicole reflects on how fiercely she protects her daughter's rest, wellbeing, and aliveness - and asks why it can feel so much harder to offer that same protection to ourselves.

In this episode we explore how 'people pleasing' is often not a desire to be liked, but a survival strategy rooted in belonging, safety, and over-responsibility. Nicole speaks to the Secret Witch's tendency to become the helper, healer, rescuer, emotional caretaker, and peacemaker - carrying burdens that were never hers to carry in the first place. She explores the hidden cost of self-abandonment, the relationship between people pleasing and burnout, and why so many women become disconnected from their own needs, desires, limits, and truth in an attempt to care for everyone else. Through the archetypal medicines of Rosa and She-Wolf, Nicole explores what true rewilding looks like - not becoming selfish, hard, or uncaring, but reclaiming the fierce Wolf Mother within who knows how to protect her soul. This is an invitation to stop earning belonging, stop carrying the world, and begin offering ourselves the same devotion, tenderness, protection, and fierce love that we so naturally offer those we love.

What You'll Learn from this Episode:

• The Secret Witch's people pleasing often has less to do with being liked and more to do with seeking safety, belonging, and protection from rejection, disappointment, conflict, or abandonment

• Many women learn to become emotional caretakers, helpers, healers, and peacemakers from a young age - carrying responsibility for everyone else's wellbeing whilst slowly disconnecting from their own

• Over-responsibility is often a hidden form of self-abandonment, leaving women exhausted, burnt out, resentful, disconnected from their bodies, and unsure of what they truly need or desire

• The people pleaser often believes love must be earned through usefulness, self-sacrifice, caregiving, or carrying more than her share - yet true belonging can never be earned through performance

• Rewilding is not about becoming selfish, rebellious, or uncaring - it is about reclaiming the inner Wolf Mother who fiercely protects our energy, wellbeing, truth, boundaries, desires, and aliveness

• Healing begins when we stop offering all of our protection outward and start turning some of that fierce love inward, learning to mother ourselves with the same devotion, compassion, and care we naturally offer the people we love most

Resources and Things that We Spoke About:

• Our Links:

• Journey with She-Wolf and Rosa healing in our self-paced course library - join the Apothecary Membership: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/membership

• Social:

• Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/nicoleamandabarton

• Facebook Group - Secret Witch Sisterhood: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch

• Instagram - @iamnicolebarton

• Instagram - @archetypalapothecary

• You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety

• Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary

• Free Moonlit Apothecary Love Letters: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/moonlitapothecary

Thank you for listening, we'd love to know what comes alive for you in this week's episode, so please let us know.

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On the Secret Witch Show today our guest is Marina Pearson. Marina is an investor, author, speaker and founder of Unshackled Wealth, a pioneering body of work supporting women with inherited wealth. Featured in the Financial Times for her work on the emotional and identity dimensions of inherited wealth, Marina brings a unique perspective to the intersection of wealth, identity and conscious stewardship. Having invested for over 15 years and navigated her own inheritance journey, she combines lived experience with deep expertise in helping women transform their relationship with themselves, their wealth and their identity. She is the author of three books, including an international bestseller translated into four languages, has appeared across international television, radio and print media, and hosts The She Who Inherits Podcast, where she explores the future of wealth through conversations with inheritors, family advisors and thought leaders.

In this episode, we explore why money is never really about money. Marina shares how inheriting wealth became an unexpected initiation into sovereignty, feminine leadership and becoming the woman who can truly hold more. Together we dive into receiving, scarcity, self-worth, the journey from Maiden to Queen to Empress, why asking for what you want changes everything, and how expansion often lies just beyond the edge of fear. Whether you're navigating money, business, purpose or simply longing to trust yourself more deeply, this conversation is an invitation to reclaim your power and expand into the fullest expression of who you're here to become.

What You'll Learn from this Episode:

• Wealth is never really about money - it amplifies the unconscious patterns, fears and identities that are already living within us.

• Inheriting wealth is not the end of the journey - it can become a profound initiation into responsibility, sovereignty and conscious stewardship.

• Expansion rarely feels comfortable. Restriction often signals where we've outgrown ourselves, while desire points us towards the next version of who we're becoming.

• Receiving is a feminine practice. Learning to ask for what we want, trust support, and allow ourselves to be held transforms every area of our lives - not just our relationship with money.

• Fear is not a sign to stop - it is an invitation to deepen our capacity. True safety comes from trusting ourselves, not from trying to control our circumstances.

• The journey from Maiden to Queen to Empress is one of identity. As we expand into who we are becoming, our relationship with wealth, work, relationships and purpose naturally transforms.

Resources and Things that We Spoke About:

• Marina's Links:

• Discover your She Who Inherits™ Archetype: https://bit.ly/SheWhoInheritsQuiz

• 🪑 Join The Velvet Lounge: A private monthly conversation for women navigating wealth, identity, relationships and legacy: https://bit.ly/velvetlounge

• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/marinacpearson

• Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/marinapearson

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_unshackled_woman

• Website: www.marinapearson.com

• Our Links:

• Join our Apothecary to unlock your magic: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/membership

• Social:

• Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/nicoleamandabarton

• Facebook Group - Secret Witch Sisterhood: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch

• Instagram - @iamnicolebarton

• Instagram - @archetypalapothecary

• You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety

• Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary

• Free Moonlit Apothecary Love Letters: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/moonlitapothecary

• Resources:

• The Queen's Code - Alison Armstrong - please link to book / website

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On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole is exploring the wild, instinctual wisdom of the body through one of her favourite poems: Wild Geese by Mary Oliver. This is a deeply archetypal exploration of the Secret Witch's relationship with perfection, rebellion, desire, instinct, and belonging - and what it truly means to 'let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.' Drawing on her own lived experiences, motherhood, the Witch Wound, and the stories of women inside the Apothecary, Nicole explores how so many women become disconnected from the truth of their bodies through conditioning, hyper-vigilance, shame, and the pressure to be 'good.' This episode is an invitation back into the body, back into instinct, and back into the wild truth of the soul.

In this episode we explore the difference between instinct and impulse, and how the Secret Witch often misreads fear as misalignment - disconnecting from her deepest desires in an attempt to stay safe, loved, and accepted. Nicole speaks to the 'good girl witch,' feminine desire, visibility, nervous system conditioning, and the longing to reclaim our wildness without swinging into performative rebellion. She explores how desire itself can become an initiation - especially for women taught to suppress hunger, pleasure, erotic truth, and instinct - and why reconnecting to the 'soft animal' of the body is part of reclaiming feminine power, magic, aliveness, and soul truth. This is a poetic, honest, and deeply initiatory exploration of what happens when we stop monitoring ourselves and begin sensing ourselves again.

What You'll Learn from this Episode:

• The Secret Witch often disconnects from the truth of her body through both perfectionism and rebellion - and healing begins by returning to the 'soft animal' wisdom of instinct, sensing, and embodied truth

• Perfection is often a strategy used to avoid the terror of being fully alive, and the Secret Witch does not heal by becoming 'good enough,' but by reconnecting to the wild truth of her body

• There is a powerful difference between instinct and impulse - and learning to discern true soul desire from conditioned fantasy, fear, or shadow longing is part of reclaiming feminine power and self-trust

• We often misread fear as misalignment, when in reality the fear may be the Good Girl trying to protect us from visibility, rejection, and the power of our own wild truth

• Feminine desire has long been shamed, suppressed, and feared - and many women feel safer speaking about trauma than longing, pleasure, instinct, hunger, or erotic truth

• Mary Oliver's Wild Geese offers an archetypal invitation home: to release perfection, reconnect to the body, remember belonging, and allow the soft animal of the body to love what it loves

Resources and Things that We Spoke About:

• Our Links:

• Sign Up for Moonlit Apothecary Love Letters: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/moonlitapothecary

• Join our Apothecary Membership: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/membership>

• Social:

• Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/nicoleamandabarton

• Facebook Group - Secret Witch Sisterhood: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch

• Instagram - @iamnicolebarton

• Instagram - @archetypalapothecary

• You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety

• Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary

• Resources:

• Wild Geese - by Mary Oliver:

You do not have to be good.

You do not have to walk on your knees

For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.

You only have to let the soft animal of your body

love what it loves.

Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.

Meanwhile the world goes on.

Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain

are moving across the landscapes,

over the prairies and the deep trees,

the mountains and the rivers.

Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,

are heading home again.

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,

the world offers itself to your imagination,

calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting -

over and over announcing your place

in the family of things.

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On the Secret Witch Show today our guest is Olivia Roff. Olivia Roff is a Mystical Guide for the Soul and a Spirit Baby Channel, who lovingly supports women on their Motherhood journey. In 2020, after experiencing two miscarriages, Olivia received a beautiful call from Spirit Babies, asking her to usher in their Magical Souls to Earth and to guide their Mothers on their Motherhood journey. Since then, Olivia has been on an incredible journey, and has initiated some deep Soul healing. Olivia's children are her greatest Teachers and Guides. They have initiated her deeply into her truth on her Motherhood journey and into becoming the Wild Mother her Soul came here to Be. Olivia is passionate about guiding Women into healing and into becoming the Mother their Soul came here to be.

Now Olivia is a very special guest, because she's also a long-standing 1:1 client of mine, so this episode feels deeply meaningful as it's the living alchemy of Olivia's own journey of becoming the remedy for herself, discovering her gifts through that process, reclaiming her voice, and expressing her medicine into the world as a Soul Guide and healer. In this episode, we explore motherhood as initiation - and what it truly means to become the wild, instinctual Mother your soul came here to be. We speak about birth, miscarriage, Spirit Babies, shame, rage, feminine receiving, home education, healing the Good Girl and Rebel shadows, and learning to trust the body's deeper instinctive knowing. Olivia shares how motherhood became the portal that initiated her into her gifts, her truth, and her wild feminine expression - and how the path of healing herself ultimately illuminated the medicine she is now here to share with others, and helped her to create what once felt impossible!

What You'll Learn from this Episode:

• Motherhood is not just a role - it is an initiation into truth. Our children pull us toward the places we've abandoned ourselves, so we can become the Mother our soul came here to be

• The Wild Mother is not the "perfect" mother - she is the instinctual Mother who learns to trust her body, her truth, and her knowing, even when it goes against conditioning

• The shadow of the She-Wolf swings between the Good Girl and the Rebel - healing begins when we stop reacting from fear and start expressing from truth

• Birth, miscarriage, rage, burnout, grief, and overwhelm are not signs that you are broken - they are often initiatory portals calling you deeper into yourself

• Receiving is a feminine initiation. Learning to ask for help, express our needs, and open to support changes what becomes possible for our lives and families

• Creating a magical, soul-aligned life often takes years, not weeks. The vision may arrive long before we have the capacity, healing, or support to fully live it - but that does not mean it isn't meant for us.

Resources and Things that We Spoke About:

• Olivia's Links:

• Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/mystical_birthing/

• Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/mysticalbirthing

• Receive your monthly "Love Letter from your Spirit Babies" - https://preview.mailerlite.io/forms/1569129/160525404409431388

• Our Links:

  • Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/nicoleamandabarton

  • Facebook Group - Secret Witch Sisterhood: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch

  • Instagram - @iamnicolebarton

  • Instagram - @archetypalapothecary

  • You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety

  • Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary

• To live your own journey of discovering your magical gifts, join our Apothecary Membership: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/membership>

• Social:

• Free Moonlit Apothecary Love Letters: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/moonlitapothecary

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Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox

On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole is speaking to one of her own core medicine topics - reclaiming your voice as a wild woman, and sharing your story as a healer witch. Drawing on over a decade of writing, speaking, and being seen across media, podcasts, and live event spaces, she brings a deeply personal and lived perspective to what it truly means to express your truth in the world. This is not just about storytelling - it's about the initiation of visibility, the courage to be seen in our vulnerability, and the alchemy of turning our wounds into medicine.

In this episode, we explore what it really takes to reclaim your voice and truth. Nicole shares her own journey from silence and fear to visibility and authentic expression, and opens a deeper conversation around the Witch Wound, the cost of being seen, and the identity shifts that come with stepping into your power. She explores how our stories are archetypal remedies for others - and how, when we heal and integrate our wounds, our story becomes medicine not just for ourselves, but for others (even just our immediate local community, family and friends). This is a raw, initiatory exploration of visibility, truth, and feminine power - and what it truly means to be seen, even exploring the fantasy of being seen by others, and how the real gold is truly seeing ourselves.

What You'll Learn from this Episode:

• Reclaiming our voice is not about simply being more confident - it's an initiation into being fully seen in our truth, and it will ask us to meet fear, truth, and identity in a deeper way

• To be seen, we have to speak - and often that is vulnerable, but it's also worth it for the gift of being able to be fully ourselves

• The Witch Wound often lives beneath the fear of visibility - fear of judgement, rejection, or being too much - and our work is to recognise that this is part of our healing

• Your story is not just something that happened to us - it is our archetypal remedy, and when alchemised, it becomes medicine for ourselves and others

• The edge of visibility often begins when we stop sharing what is safe or universal, and start expressing our unique perspective and embodied truth

• Not everything needs to be shared - discernment is part of power, and knowing what is integrated vs still processing protects both ourselves and our work

• You don't need to be fully healed to be seen - but your power comes from owning where you are, rather than performing a version of yourself for acceptance

• We often have a fantasy that being seen and accepted will fulfil us, but the real person we want to be seen and loved by is ourselves.

Resources and Things that We Spoke About:

• Our Links:

• Join our Sisterhood - Secret Witch's Apothecary Membership: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/membership

• Social:

• Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/nicoleamandabarton

• Facebook Group - Secret Witch Sisterhood: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch

• Instagram - @iamnicolebarton

• Instagram - @archetypalapothecary

• You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety

• Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary

• Sign up for our Moonlit Apothecary Love Letters: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/moonlitapothecary

• Resources:

• Book - Maureen Murdock - The Heroine's Journey - https://heroinejourneys.com/heroines-journey/

Thank you for listening, we'd love to know what comes alive for you in this week's episode, so please let us know.

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Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox

On the Secret Witch Show today our guest is Sara Fakih. Sara's work is an invitation to remember - to come home to the body, to emotion as power, and to the truth that lives beneath survival and self-sabotage. Through trauma-informed somatic practices, body–mind maturation coaching, and movement rooted in yoga and dance, she guides women into deeper embodiment, emotional freedom, and nervous system repair. A freedom explorer and rule-breaker at heart, Sara weaves ancient wisdom with modern somatic intelligence - empowering women to reclaim their voice, purpose, and wild feminine essence through womb reconnection, ancestral healing, and embodied remembrance.

In this episode, we explore what it truly means to become the 'cycle breaker' - via an embodied, initiatory portal into the womb and ancestral lineage. Sara shares how inherited trauma lives in the womb, and how ancestral wounds are carried through the feminine lineage as silence, suppression and fear of power - and how womb healing becomes a somatic portal for discerning what was passed down. We speak about the role of rage and pleasure in healing lineage wounds - and the importance of using our voice and reclaiming our body's natural cycle to stop numbing and reclaim our true feminine power. This is a grounded, mature exploration of reclaiming the womb as the place where inherited pain becomes embodied wisdom, and the trauma stops with you.

What You'll Learn from this Episode:

• You already know if you're a cycle breaker - it's an inner rebellion, an embodied knowing that you're here to create change, even if you don't know how

• The body shows you the call - the throat closes, you shake, you want to shut down or dissociate - that somatic charge is a portal

• When you drop into the womb, there's deep remembrance - and moments of realising "this is not just mine." You are feeling the whole maternal line

• Feminine power is being anchored and grounded in truth - not forcing, dominating, or controlling, but knowing yourself so deeply nothing can shake you

• Your bleed is a portal. What comes up during your cycle - rage, resignation, ideas, truth - is not 'just PMT' - it's information from the body

• Healing is integration - daily conscious awareness. Turning toward what triggers us and staying with it until the old energetic charge no longer has us.

Resources and Things that We Spoke About:

• Sara's Links: please share what she said at the end of the conversation - listen.

• Sara's Website - www.sarafakih.com

• Sara's Instagram - @Sara_fakih

• Sambaddha - 4 month Somatic Certification - https://www.sarafakih.com/sambaddha

• Reclamation - 5 week Reclamation - https://www.sarafakih.com/reclamation-1

• UnTamed - Membership for Untamed Women - https://www.sarafakih.com/untamed-membership

• Our Links:

• To reclaim your feminine power, magic and truth, join our Secret Witch's Apothecary: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/membership

• Social:

• Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/nicoleamandabarton

• Facebook Group - Secret Witch Sisterhood: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch

• Instagram - @iamnicolebarton

• Instagram - @archetypalapothecary

• You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety

• Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary

• Sign Up for Moonlit Apothecary Love Letters: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/moonlitapothecary

• Subscribe for your Meet Your Witch Ceremony - https://meetyourwitch.eventbrite.com

• Resources:

• Wild Power - Sjanie Hugo-Wurlitzer and Alexandra Pope - find the book link from their website. - https://www.redschool.net/wildpower

Thank you for listening, we'd love to know what comes alive for you in this week's episode, so please let us know.

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Welcome magical ones! I'm delighted to welcome Sara back to the show today for a Part two of her feminine magic.

On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole is entering the Underworld. Speaking to the Secret Witch who feels the weight of collective darkness in her body - the voicelessness, the numbness, the tight-chested freeze in response to misuse of power - she explores what it really means to reclaim power in dark times. Not through spiritually bypassing or pretending everything is love and light, but by descending. This is a conversation for the sensitive, powerful woman who feels horrified and activated, who fears her own intensity as much as she fears the world's, and who senses that there is something in the darkness she must face rather than flee.

In this episode we explore the paradox of being both victim and powerful, the difference between ascent and descent, and the Aurum medicine of molten gold under pressure - the kind of leadership that is reclaimed by being honest rather than being perfect. Nicole shares her own Witch Wound around power, exploring why feeling horror does not mean we are powerless, and how feminine sovereignty is reclaimed in the body, not the mind. This is an invitation to stay with yourself in the underworld, to refuse self-abandonment, and to discover that the gold you seek is not found by escaping the dark, but by entering it consciously.

What You'll Learn from this Episode:

• Reclaiming your power in dark times doesn't mean bypassing pain - it means facing it consciously, without abandoning your body

• Feeling horror, numbness or voicelessness in response to collective trauma does not mean you are powerless; it may be the very doorway into your embodied power

• The feminine holds a paradox - we can honour real victimhood and still reclaim our power from the darkness

• Honesty is the real medicine. What we resist persists - and the darkness we avoid is often where our lost power is waiting

• True feminine power is not logic or dominance; it is the willingness to enter the underworld, stay with discomfort, and return with gold

• If you are in the underworld right now, the first step is not escape - it is staying, getting honest, and reclaiming the fragmented parts of yourself that were left there.

Resources and Things that We Spoke About:

• Our Links:

• Journey in our Apothecary Sisterhood: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/membership - Manifesting and Medicine ceremony at New Moon

• Social:

• Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/nicoleamandabarton

• Facebook Group - Secret Witch Sisterhood: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch

• Instagram - @iamnicolebarton

• Instagram - @archetypalapothecary

• You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety

• Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary

• Sign up for our Moonlit Apothecary Love Letters: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/moonlitapothecary

• Resources:

• The Heroine's Journey - Maureen Murdock - https://maureenmurdock.com/articles/articles-the-heroines-journey/

Thank you for listening, we'd love to know what comes alive for you in this week's episode, so please let us know.

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Thank you,

Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox

On the Secret Witch Show today, our guest is James Moran. James is an author, artist, and professional archetypal astrologer. He utilises archetypal astrology to help people make sense of what they've been through, understand the strengths that want to come from their challenges, and anticipate the themes and rhythm of growth ahead - all while helping people connect with the unity of all life. Having studied with the pioneering psychedelic researcher Dr. Stanislav Grof, James began an adventure of growth that led him to spend several years living in India. Eventually encountering archetypal astrology, he began studying directly under Richard Tarnas, and realised that his entire life he had been searching for a language to describe reality at its depth. He now utilises archetypal astrology to illuminate the interior depths of the human experience.

In this episode, we explore what archetypal astrology really is - not as prediction, reassurance, or quick-fix spirituality, but as a profound language of meaning and a map to the psyche. We speak about how archetypal astrology helps us understand why we've been through what we've been through, how difficult periods can be experienced as initiations rather than personal failure, and how we can consciously participate in the rhythms and cycles shaping our lives. We explore the relationship between astrology and the psyche, planetary archetypes as living psychological forces, and how reconnecting with these patterns can support healing, agency, and soul expansion. This conversation is a grounded, soulful exploration of how to meet life with deeper understanding, integrity, and trust in the intelligence of the path we're walking.

What You'll Learn from this Episode:

• Our most painful life chapters aren't mistakes - they are archetypal initiations, carrying the very strengths and gifts we came here to reclaim

• Archetypal Astrology is not about prediction or certainty, but about restoring meaning - helping us understand why our lives unfolded the way they did and what is trying to be born through it

• The birth chart is not fate - it is a mirror of our psyche and soul, revealing core tensions that become sources of power when we consciously integrate them

• Wounds are not personal failures, but archetypal experiences - when we step to the other side of them, they dissolve isolation and reconnect us to our shared humanity and gifts

• Pluto, the underworld archetype, offers an insight into the Witch - illuminating why shame, secrecy, and fear often guard our deepest magic - and how descent is the pathway to transformation and reclaimed power

• Working with planetary cycles and lunar rhythms helps us move with life's intelligence rather than against it - turning chaos into coherence and initiation into agency

Resources and Things that We Spoke About:

• James's Links:

• James's Website and free Tense Alignments Chart - https://jamesmoran.org/

• James's Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/astrologyjames/

• James's Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/JamesMoranArtistAstrologer/

• Secret Witch Links:

• Join our Secret Witch's Apothecary Membership: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/membership

• Social:

• Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/nicoleamandabarton

• Facebook Group - Secret Witch Sisterhood: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch

• Instagram - @iamnicolebarton

• Instagram - @archetypalapothecary

• You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety

• Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary

• Free Moonlit Apothecary Love Letters: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/moonlitapothecary

• Resources:

• Cosmos and Psyche - Richard Tamas - https://cosmosandpsyche.com/

• How to Know if Magic is Real - Dean Radin - (https://www.nicolebarton.co.uk/secret-witch-podcast/episode-43

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On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole is exploring the deeper truth of self-love - not the fluffy, bubble-bath version we see everywhere in February, but the raw, often uncomfortable, Rosa-coded kind that meets us right in the places we feel unlovable. Speaking to the Secret Witch who keeps pushing through her tight-chested tension, armouring herself in capability, and abandoning her own needs in fear of disappointing others, she invites us to notice where we've been living as a closed bud - braced, tense, performing 'I'm fine' - instead of softening open into the tenderness our magic actually requires.

In this episode we explore why self-love isn't a luxury but the foundation of a Witch's power; how the 'Archetypal Rosa' wound compels us to override our bodies and earn love through self-abandonment; and the real, embodied moment Nicole chose differently - cancelling her day, offering herself softness, and risking being 'too much' or 'not enough' in order to come back home to herself. This is a gentle and powerful invitation into wholeness - into welcoming all parts of ourselves, tending our shadow with love, and remembering the power we keep forgetting we already have.

What You'll Learn from this Episode:

• Self-love isn't superficial - it's the foundation of a Witch's magic, the inner relationship that makes everything else in our lives possible.

• The Rosa wound is the pattern that makes Secret Witches override their needs, perform capability, and earn love through self-abandonment - even as their bodies whisper for softness.

• Wholeness isn't perfection; it is the radical act of welcoming all of ourselves home - shadow, fear, doubt and tenderness included.

• The moment we soften instead of armour, choosing our needs even when it feels undeserved, is the moment our inner Rosa begins to bloom.

• Practical self-love is both the deep inner work of meeting ourselves in shame and the tender rituals of devotion - tiny acts of beauty, presence and self-honouring.

• When a Secret Witch chooses to love herself in the exact place she once abandoned herself, her power strengthens, her magic opens, and she becomes truly unstoppable.

Resources and Things that We Spoke About:

• Join our Apothecary Membership to journey with Rosa healing: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/membership>

• Social:

• Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/nicoleamandabarton

• Facebook Group - Secret Witch Sisterhood: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch

• Instagram - @iamnicolebarton

• Instagram - @archetypalapothecary

• You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety

• Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary

• Free Moonlit Apothecary Love Letters: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/moonlitapothecary

Thank you for listening, we'd love to know what comes alive for you in this week's episode, so please let us know.

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Thank you,

Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox