"Rage is passion without a place to play." A teacher dropped that truth bomb on me when I was navigating probably the most emotionally charged season of my life.

I was deeply immersed in my menopause journey, and for me it was a wild ride.

There was a lot going on. On so many levels.

I was completely overwhelmed by the tsunami of emotions, (mostly anger and resentment), that were surging through me. I didn't know it at the time but this was a wake up call and an invitation into the deeper Sacred Feminine mysteries.

Our emotions are a gift; a treasure and a portal into our inner wisdom and our deepest desires. And what does culture teach us?  We're taught to disown them, disconnect from them and numb them. And it leaves us feeling disempowered and wondering WTF are we're missing.

We can't selectively numb, when we stifle and suppress the more intense emotions like anger, rage and grief, we shut down our joy, ecstasy and rapture. That's just the way it works. But most of us were not taught that.

 Learning how to work with our emotions and excavate the treasures buried within them can enliven us and align us with our true north. Knowing our inner Dark Goddess can transform our lives and awaken deep wells of creative and erotic life force energy.
And we can do it in a way that feels good. It doesn't have to be a hot mess.

Venus has a sidekick, a beautiful dark sister who is essential and She wants to have our backs. She lives in all of us. But She requires an invitation to work Her magic in a way that feels good.

In this episode I dive into:

• How Venus and the Dark Goddess are in cahoots
• Meet my Dark Goddess
• How the Dark Goddess is essential for the Feminine to rise
• 3 ways to connect with your own Dark Goddess and give your passion a place to play

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Hey Goddess, I know you’re rocking it in so many areas of your life, (but, yes, I'm daring to ask), how’s your love life?

Are you like so many women on the planet..frustrated (to say the least)  in the love department?

Like “let’s not even go there?”

Maybe you’re done with the whole mess and decided to focus on all of the other things in life that give you joy?

I hear you!
And I've been there.

And I'm here to say that you, my dear, can be having a hell of a lot more fun when it comes to romance.

When it comes to romantic love we're been led in the wrong direction.

We've been led to believe that "out there somewhere" is a perfect lover that is destined to complete us.
 
We've taken the bait.
And that sets us up for a lifetime of bitter disappointment and resentment.

What if we could turn it all around?
What if we could work some inner alchemy on this and shift our experience?
What if we could come to the banquet of relationship, from a more nourished and empowered place?
What if we could have a lot more fun?

I believe we can.
In fact I know we can.

The magic is within you love, when you begin to get that and work it, things will feel a whole lot different.

In this episode I dive into:

• The sexy & sacred union within; masculine/feminine, Shiva/Shakti/Yin/Yang
• Your inner God & Goddess; the epic romance within
• Mindset, Embodiment & Integration tips to bring your inner lover alive in your life

Let's dive in!

Want to dive deeper?

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Learn more about The Embodied Love Astrology Reading here
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Beauty is a loaded topic. I get it. The word alone can trigger a lot of emotion.
That makes sense.

It's been distorted, commercialized and youth-focused to such an extreme degree that we've pretty much lost the plot on beauty. Maybe we've even thrown in the towel. Again, I get it.

Beauty has been distorted almost beyond recognition.
It's been hijacked and infused with ridiculous, artificial, racist and ageist standards that instill fear, doubt and comparison; leading women to spend gazillions of dollars in an attempt to "fix their beauty problems."

But what if there's actually nothing to fix?
What if Beauty (with a capital B) has been with you all along?
What if all we need to do is to remember how to tap into it?
To give it space and permission to shine?

True beauty is not a standard or a fix or a cover up it's a sacred reveal.
A reveal of your essence; your divine light shining in the sacred vessel of your body.
Your soul shine.

To quote fashion and beauty icon Coco Channel:
"Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress."

So how do we claim our true beauty?
Through pleasure.
When a woman embodies her pleasure, her radiance can't help but shine.
I see it all the time in my work.
And when a woman shines, the whole world is blessed.

Rocking your radiance is your birthright.
And you can claim it.

In this episode I share:

• How we lost the plot on beauty
• How we need to move away from fear-based beauty into love, self trust, authenticity and celebration
• How claiming our true beauty frees our feminine and helps us dismantle internalized patriarchy
• 3 simple and solid tools to heal your relationship with beauty and shine your light

Want to dive deeper?

• Download your Pleasure Queen Activation Meditation here
• Book your free Virtual Coffee Date with me here
• Access my Spotify library here
• Learn more about The Vital Goddess Mastermind here
• Join my free sensual breathwork membership here

To reclaim Aphrodite is to choose love over fear.
It's a bold move.
To claim your life force, shine unapologetically in the world, gift your gifts from a place of joy and pleasure and create your life from desire is your birthright.

And it terrifies most women.

While the fear is understandable, (thousands of years of patriarchy.)
We can't let it stop us if we truly want to live the life we came here to live.
 
We can feel the fear and alchemize it into power.
We can strengthen our innate frequency of Venusian love.

The most powerful love there is.

There are practices, tools, and arts for this.
Your body remembers.
It's just your mind that's forgotten.

We can heal from this case of collective amnesia and cultivate the love that lives at our core.

It begins with you deciding and it's sustained with your commitment to doing the work.

Today I want to go into the nuts and bolts of what "the work" in this realm requires and why I created The Vital Goddess Mastermind to support you in this.

Welcome to my Venusian mystery school dear sister!
“Venus favors the bold.” -Ovid

In this episode I riff on:

• How menopause kicked me onto the pleasure path
• What your Inner Goddess needs most to unfold
• The framework to embody your Inner Goddess of Love

Want to dive deeper?

• Learn more about The Vital Goddess Mastermind here
• Book a free 30 minute Virtual Coffee Date with me here
• Join my free breathwork membership Shakti Core® Breathwork Journeys here.

Your feminine energy is as unique as your fingerprint.
And so is every other part of you!

We are such beautifully complex beings and not one of us is alike.

One of the things I love most about astrology is that it maps that out for us.

I started studying astrology around the same time I started to study Tantra and Taoist Sexual Yoga. In hindsight it all makes sense. It's all connected.

I now use astrology as a tool for Tantric embodiment. As a tool to support us in bringing spirit into matter so we can  be more of  the love we are at the core.  So that we can thrive more in intimacy, give our unique gifts and live the path that we came here to live in alignment.

Used consciously, astrology can be a huge permission slip to embody who we truly and fully are.

It's so important to understand that there is no one way to "be feminine" or "be masculine". We have both of these sacred energies within us.
And it's designed to work.

Society conditions us with such limiting templates of how we "should be" and how it all "should look". And that we need to continually source love and validation from external sources.

It's a recipe for disaster.
It infuses us with the belief that we're lacking in some way.
Perhaps in every way.
And I think we've all experienced that on some level.

This leads us into buying into the myth that there is a lover out there somewhere who can magically complete us.

The truth is, we're already complete. And we're starting to remember that.

There's a cosmic dance going on inside of all of us and when we start to work with the love affair within, we can experience a sense of deep wholeness and joy that allows us to show up in any partnership from a much fuller place.

This is where relationships can become a lot less frustrating and transactional and a lot more creative, fun and even sacred.

It's deep inner work.

And I believe that this is the essence of Tantra. And where Tantra and astrology meet.

It's also important to understand that it's never about being perfect.

It's about more joyfully living into our divine potential while acknowledging and embracing our very human experience.
With curiosity, awe and humor about this wild ride we signed up for.

In this episode we explore:

• How astrology supported me (and still does) in embodying my sacred feminine
• How astrology helps us activates the sacred codes within us and customize our embodiment practices
• Bringing your Venus alive in sacred ritual
• How astrology can help you activate the frequencies of your inner Venus, Mars and the Sacred Union within
• How astrology can help us dissolve internalized patriarchy

Want to dive deeper?

• Learn more about my Embodied Love Astrology Reading here
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Our daily habits and mindset can support us or sabotage us.

We've all accumulated a certain degree of negative believes and unhealthy habits when it comes to the feminine.

No blame or shame here, but it's something we really need to take a look at if we want to truly embody our feminine power.

Cultural conditioning and the push towards external validation has reached a crisis point. And it's created some really unhealthy habits. I call this internalized patriarchy.

Once we see and name it, we can do something to change it.

In this episode we explore:

• The toxicity of overbooking
• The trouble with micro-managing and the hazards of decision fatigue
• The perfectionism virus and the big lie
• How your feminine thrives

Let's roll up our sleeves and dive in.

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Beauty.
Abundance.
Passion.
Ecstasy aka Orgasm.
Love.
 
I call these the 5 Sacred Codes of Venus.

These are things that most women are craving and yet we've been massively led astray.

We've been led in the exact opposite direction of where we need to go.

We've been taught to look outside of ourselves, fed the toxic mimic of these things which creates a hungry ghost in our feminine soul leaving us wondering what we're missing.

Our bodies have had the answer all along.
When we turn towards the body and begin to awaken our inner feminine essence with feminine embodiment practices, we begin to remember.

We remember that we are beauty.
We are abundance.
We are passion.
We are ecstasy.
We are love.
In the flesh.

Embodiment practices are the breadcrumbs on the trail leading us home.

In this episode we explore:

• The 5 Sacred Codes of Venus
• How to activate them
• A simple meditation to connect with your inner Venus

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I’m just chomping at the bit to share this episode with you! 

Today I’m in conversation with Julia Lally. 

Julia is a poet, witch and mentor who loves helping women reclaim their juice and feminine power through a practice called sex magic.

At this time of great change and shifting paradigms Julia is a voice of grounded spirituality, true feminine empowerment, magic, mystery and ancient and modern wisdom. 

Her knowledge and lived experience of the feminine mysteries is vast and deep. 

And at the heart of it all is love.

Here we riff on:

• Julia’s journey into her own feminine power and tantric sexuality
• Our mutual love of the Orgasmic Meditation practice
• Sacred Feminine awakening through orgasmic practice
• Feminine power in a post feminist era
• Rebirthing ancient feminine power
• Embodying the ancient feminine codes
• Practical magic and everyday living 
• Feminine desire, collapsing time and manifestation

Let’s dive in!

Dive Deeper With Julia:

• Learn more about working with Julia here
• Tune into Julia’s podcast You Can Have It on Spotify  here
• Tune in on Apple Podcasts here
• Follow Julia on Instagram here

Dive Deeper With Dianne:

• Join the waitlist for The Vital Goddess Mastermind here
• Join my free breathwork membership Shakti Core® Breathwork Journeys here.

What or who is the Wild Feminine within?

There's a lot in the online space these days about unleashing the wild feminine or re-wilding the feminine. While I think that's awesome, I think some of the marketing out there can be misleading.

I've seen a lot of messaging that implies that for a woman to reclaim her wild she needs to be overtly sexual and/or she needs to go through some kind of deep dark messy cathartic process that will totally disrupt her life. 

While that may be some women's experience, it doesn't have to be that way. And I feel that message can end up putting pressure on women to be performative. Or it gives the feeling that there's a certain way to "do it right".

What I've found to be true is that our erotic wild nature is intimately connected with the rhythm and flow of nature and when we honor that and celebrate that our re-wilding becomes a lot more easeful, and natural. Not to mention fun!

We tend to over complicate things. You are a wild child by nature. It's your birthright to claim it. The permission you need is right in your own back yard, or local forest, or any where in nature that speaks to you.

I wanted to share 5 fun ideas to support you in this.

In this episode I share:

• What is the wild feminine?
• Reclaiming our sensual and erotic connection to nature
• 5 fun ways to unleash your wild feminine this summer from PG to spicy:)

Let's dive in!

Want to dive deeper?

• Join the waitlist for The Vital Goddess Mastermind here
• View my video on Bone Breathing and access the guided audio here.
• Join my free breathwork membership Shakti Core® Breathwork Journeys here.
• View my video on Taoist Breast Massage here
• View my video on Yoni Breathing here

Summer can be such a great time of year to deepen your connection to your feminine energy. The seasons we're moving into astrologically; Cancer, Leo and Virgo each have their own unique gifts and invitations into deeper embodiment, pleasure and self love.

Cancer's focus on self care, nourishment, safety and belonging, Leo's focus on radiant self love, creativity and play, and Virgo's focus on sacred ritual and practice all can be wonderful support on your journey.

In this episode I share 12 ideas to explore this summer to nourish your feminine and more fully embody your inner Goddess.

 I'll be exploring these simple practices right along with you! 

I'm declaring this summer, the summer of Goddess!

Are you with me?

Here I riff on:

• What our feminine energy needs to thrive
• Why summer self-care is so important
• 12 simple, fun summer feminine self-care rituals to explore
• Resources to support you!

Let's dive in!

Resources:

• Download your Summer Self Care Cheat Sheet here
• Download your 12 Infused Water ideas here
• Download your 12 Libido-Nourishing Superfoods to Try in Your Smoothie here
• Check out the book Renegade Beauty by Nadine Artemis here
• Check out the Living Libations offerings on natural beauty and skin care here

Two of my favorite sources for herbs and superfoods:

• Mountain Rose Herbs
• Sun Potions

Want to dive deeper?

• Join the waitlist for the Vital Goddess Mastermind! It's like a mini-membership to start your journey!
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