Wild Soul Medicine Radio w/ Jody England

Greetings, Sister,

Last Thursday, I graduated 42 beautiful, potent, courageous Souls from their 9 month long journey of Becoming.

I graduated right along with them.

Like a proud mama, reveling in their liberation and devotion… I celebrated Our accomplishment.

It was a gloriously strong finish.

And then…

Meh.

Instead of basking in the spaciousness of a newly opened schedule and wide open energetic field, I have found myself in an ever deepening Malaise.

Amidst the distractions of a home under major reconstruction and the return of my moon after several months hiatus, I have been curious about what This is.

Dreams of destruction, death, disconnect.

Lurking feelings of nothing “turning out” and general gloom and doom.

I’ve been keeping it to myself.

Who wants to Be With this? Who even could be with this?

I kept waiting for it to pass, but then here comes Wednesday and a Wild Soul Medicine Radio episode. Calling Me On The Carpet to turn toward The Thing.

To invite it Closer.
So I — So We, Can see.

Sitting here in the Womb of my studio, alone in the quiet of my full Presence…

Tears. Buckets of them.

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A longing, a yearning... flowing from the depth of Aloneness.

Sobs of vulnerability and “Goddess, Where ARE You?”

My Divinely Feminine Desire to lay it all down and have Someone pick it up.

To pick ME up.

I yearn to NOT be the One in Charge. The Knower. The Seer. The Go To.

I want to be held and taken care of.

I want to love and be loved.

I want to allow love In.

And I can feel how this is a box only I can dismantle.

Another layer of vulnerability and cracking open that requires me to lay down my protections and my togetherness.

To not worry about the feelings of my team, my spouse, or my students, in order to speak to a place of weakness in my Self.

I don’t want to hold this any longer.

My womb is crying rivers of blood with the weight of it.

I have needs.

I’m not above them.

I am swimming toward them. Downstream into the void of the sacral.

Letting the echos of loss and separation guide me toward the ethos of the Wisdom of the Womb.


Secrets are hidden in darkness 
and difficult nights,
You awaken into a pang of aloneness,
a howl of separation.
This is the call of the Dark One,
the roar of life seeking its source.
The union you long for is within reach.
Throw off all hesitation.
become one with the fear.
Plunge into the uncanny blackness,
eyes wide open,
as if there were no other choice.
Vibrating with fierce tenderness,
Breathe intimately
with the Lord of infinite space.

~The Radiance Sutras
Lorin Roche


I know that Goddess is Here. In the Dark Places. Waiting for me to Come Looking.

I am Willing.

Bringing my doubt, my fear, my longing, and my Wild Soul to the shores of The Wound.

I Come.

Join me as we plunge into the uncanny darkness.


Some highlights to listen for:

(04:30) The Coming of the Magenta

(09:00) Are you there, God? It’s me, Jody...

(12:30) Ordinarily

(27:55) Facing our Distorted Masculine 

(32:30) Conscious, Sober Ecstasy

(49:00) Naming My Needs


POTENT DOSE (if you only have a few minutes):


There is room for All of Us here.

Eyes Wide Open.
Together.

Greetings, Sister,

The Power of Two.

To. Too. Two.

Connecting, joining, unifying.

One thing leading to the next and the next.

Two is the number of the Divine Feminine. 

Our Sacred Mother.

How fitting that yesterday, on 2.22.2017, we continued the second of our two part Wild Soul Conversation on Liberating our Wombs: Healing from Abortion.

If you haven’t caught up from last week, you can do so here.

Today we dive in for a Deeper Cut.

Searching for the wisdom inside of these initiatory experiences and the tendrils of patriarchy still insidiously woven through the web of our mythos.

Standing together as we step forward from the shadows and claim our fundamental role as Stewards of the portal of All of Life.

Our Brave council of Wild Souls showed up for Us again way of Sacred Example.

Here are some highlights to listen for:

(05:40) Creation and Destruction

(14:55) Mommy-Guilt

(20:20) Double Binds

(40:00) Complicitly Claimable

(58:30) The Prison Built Around a Sprout


They came, to vulnerably share their experiences in service of Us opening more completely to our Own.

Join Us as we consider division, separation, coherence and convergence.
Grief, Joy, Apology, and Redemption.

Undertaking the work of The Goddess.

Re-Membering our rightful place as the Embodiment of the Loom of All Creation.

Weaver and Web.

Greetings, Sister,

The tide of the Divine Feminine is rising. She is making Her Return in big and small ways across the planet.

Did you happen to witness the holy spectacle of Beyonce in full-on Goddess Glory, taking center stage at the Grammy’s on Sunday?

The Great Mother in golden awesomeness proclaiming, “If we are going to heal, Let It Be Glorious.”

Yes.

More, please.

Since the election I’ve had an idea gestating inside of me.

As I watched the escalation of misogyny and entrenchment of the patriarchy… as the already repressive and archaic laws against women’s reproductive health and lives began to be targeted and ratcheted up by the new regime, my Ancient Source-eress began to stir.

The long dormant dragon wanting to Breathe Fire and burn it all down.

Ages and ages of silence and repression, abuse and oppression. The ignorance and violence unchecked and unfettered.

It is a lot to bear.

And this time there is more at stake than ever before.

We don’t have time for retribution.

Reparations can never be made for all We have lost. For the pain of what has come before.

At least not by those who have taken it from Us.

In our long winter of patriarchal submission, we have forgotten we are the Mistresses of our own Destiny.

Our Liberation lies in Our own hands, Our own hearts, Our own wombs.

We have been unwitting co-conspirators in our own captivity.

Holding signs of protests outside the capitol walls, while men legislate what will and won’t be done to bodies that don’t belong to them.

Cooking up punishments and admonishments meant to demean and control the wildness of the “loose" and “irresponsible" women who are clearly unable to govern themselves.

We’ve played that game long enough. Our learning has come to fruition.

It is time for Us to step back into our rightful place as stewards of All Of Life.

Claiming our throne of Creation AND Destruction.

Seating ourselves in Own-Her-Ship of the vessels of our bodies - and our Queendom of all that happens there.

On Wild Soul Medicine Radio this week, I convened a Wisdom Council of Beloved students of this work.

The work of The Goddess.

They are a radical stand for refusing to participate in their own enslavement.

They are committed to Coming Undone.

Over and over again.

They have laid themselves bare in service of liberation around their experiences of abortion.



Each of them has had one. Some more than one.

And we have been doing powerful healing work around those experiences.

Revolutionary Work.

I am endlessly moved by their courage and their commitment to Becoming.

When I invited them to share their stories with you, we were all more than a little nervous.

This is not something that is talked about in polite society. In fact, it is not something that is really talked about much anywhere.

Maybe with your therapist or your most intimate confidantes, but in general - no woman wants to add to her shameful/private/painful/liberating/sometimes traumatic experience of having gone through the abortion - by actually sharing that information with lots of other people.

The insidious vines of patriarchy run deep inside of us - even and especially into our yonis.

They have Us by the Womb. 

As we internalize the shame and the barely legal-ness of these “regrettable” circumstances, we play right into the hands of the dance.

Until we don’t.

Until we give ourselves permission to take ourselves off the sacrificial table.

Until we stand visibly and clearly in our own Truth.

Until we sit together in a Wisdom Council of women who know Us and ARE Us to share our experiences and support one another in making choices that support our own Soul’s path.

Until we Return to our connection to the Ways of nature and the cycle of life and how the universe ACTUALLY works.

Until we liberate our life force from repressing our own Selves through shame and guilt and secrecy.

Until Now.
I invite you to stand with Us this week as we open part one of a two part conversation with these Brave Souls.

Highlights to listen for:

(05:25) Are you leaking life force?

(11:40) Meet the Panel

(28:30) No harm, No foul

(35:30) Mistakes, Gifts, and Teachers

(42:00) Where patriarchy lives inside of Us

(58:10) “I thought for so many years... that everything was fine, I’d made a choice and that was that. But  when I ended up having a clearing around this, it was astonishing to me the amount of space that was cleared in my system.” - Kristi

If you’ve had an abortion, are considering an abortion, are a mother, a grandmother, a wife, a daughter, a girlfriend, a partner, a sister, a never had or never would have an abortioner, if you have a Yoni… you are welcome in this space.

This is Our business.

Come. Let’s See what’s True.

This is how We do it.

Together.

Greetings, Sister,

My newsfeed has been inundated with the latest outrages over cabinet appointments and confirmations, incendiary tweets and attempts to catalyze, mobilize, and join The Resistance.

Score keeping of “wins” and “losses” - A court ruling on the injustice of a particular executive order counted as a Win and the impending abolition of the department of education (and an obviously incompetent figure head to preside over its demise) tallied in the loss column.

People tracking every move, press conference, piece of legislation, media slight, infringement and loss.

It’s a lot to keep track of. It feels like a barrage to my system.

Not because I don’t have the stamina or wherewithal for fighting.

I do.

I’m made for it, actually.

And have spent most of my life doing it.

Rather, it feels like a drain to me because it doesn’t seem to be fully energetically aligned with The Mission.

The spectacle of Devolution is so compelling, so mind-blowing that it creates its own gravitational pull that sucks us into the fan blades.

Shredding our carefully plotted demonstrations and leaving us feeling helpless in the face of the behemoth of density we are up against.

Signs and slogans everywhere inciting us to Resist!

Hours spent on the senate floor, filibustering our opposition for the next level of insanity unfolding - in the hopes of (at best) holding onto some semblance of the old status quo.
It's enough to make your head explode.

Goddess is complete in Her loving of Us this way.

Some major remodeling has commenced, and we will not be able to Make Sense of it.

We will have to use a new kind of Intelligence, develop (or resurrect) new (old) superpowers to ride this fiery dragon of evolution.

On Wild Soul Medicine Radio this week, we went into the resistance.

New insights into how and what it will take to dismantle the patriarchy and how to join from a place of alignment rather than reaction.

Remembering that we are all on the same team here - even those we are fighting against.

What does a fiery souled evolutionary with a heart full of compassion do in a world full of injustice and chaos?

Tune in for my take on the matter.


Highlights to listen for:

(12:00) What you resist persists

(16:20) What is more difficult than resistance?

(22:30) Swords that Need Not be Drawn

(28:15) An Open Invitation

(33:20) EVOLVE OR DIE: No time for mistakes.

(51:30) Laughter, the best Medicine


POTENT DOSE (if you only have a few minutes):



Join me this week for your dose of Wild Soul Resistance. 

Together we make Our Stand.

Greetings, Sister,
I am back. 

Freshly returned from my adventure in Costa Rica and integrating the expansion and teachings from that place into this place.

My journey there was both simple and complex. Surprising and predictable. 

A mixed bag of All of Life.

I have no idea what it all means and have been sitting this morning in the inquiry of what to share and what to hold close for now.

It feels so abrupt to be returning to “civilization.”

Especially since the cocoon I was in there feels much more civilized than my own country and our planet as a whole these days.

I told a friend this morning, “It feels like the world is doing a super fast, double dutch jump ropey thing and I don’t know exactly how to re-enter… or if I even want to.”

But I DO want to BE with you.

Perhaps I’ll share some experiences from my journey or ponderings about what might be next.

All I know for sure is to begin with where I am. 

Now.

So I invite you to join me there.

In the peace and infinite possibility of Presence.

It might be the most revolutionary, Wild Soul Medicine we have available to Us.

I’ll meet you there at 9:00 am PT/Noon ET.

Come if you are free.

Or if you’d like to be.

Greetings Sister,

As we arrive on the shores of the last Wild Soul Medicine show of the year, I find myself in a contemplative and celebratory state.

Not only are we bringing the year to a close, we are also completing the final year of a nine year cycle.

With her sharp eyes and ability to turn her head in all directions, Mama Owl beckons us to See where we have been and cultivate our ability to discern where we are going.

It is a momentous time to be alive.

New invitations, opportunities, and paths will begin to present themselves, as the seeds of a New Age are tended and planted into their various fields of possibility.

We are tasked with Listening with our Whole Being to where we are being Called and when.

Finding the clarity and courage to Wait for right timing and alignment, to go Inward and steady our old habits and impulses as we make room for Sacred Yes.

On Wild Soul Medicine radio today, I’ll be holding space for Conclusion.

Coming together in Honor of our walk of 2016 and in curiosity of where our Vision begins for 2017.

I will be sharing a Sacred Yes that has already found me and will have me back in the fertile land of Costa Rica (and off the air) for the entire month of January.

Deep in The Medicine (La Medicina) that is my teacher and guide.

As I tried on how to navigate being away from my home, my children, and my business for a whole month, I found myself conflicted over whether/how to continue offering Wild Soul Medicine each week during my sabbatical.

My friend (and student) wisely pointed out to me that there are times for Teaching and times for Learning and reminded me that it is perfectly legit to honor my impulse to sit in Devotion at the feet of this Wisdom that I serve.

Of Course.

Yes.

And so, today is both an opportunity for us to ring out the old, but also a last teaching before a brief pause in Our Work together.

I hope you will make time to join me as we share The Medicine of dying, letting go, bridging ordinary and non-ordinary reality, and the Grace of being made and remade in Accordance with these times.

I will meet you there.

With Love and Gratitude,
Jody

Winter Solstice is upon us here in the Northern Hemisphere.

The shortest day and longest night of the year.

The beginning of Winter.


A time for reflection, as we embrace The Darkness and reconnect with the depth of our Inner Truth.

In the midst of the tumult of violence and uncertainty echoing through our planet - a call for Stillness.

Following our own North Star to a sanctuary of peace and shelter from the storm.

As we grow in our spiritual work, we expand in our ability to Experience the honesty of Darkness.

Dissolving our egoic constructs that would label dark or light as good or bad or have us reaching toward preference of one or the other.

Sitting at the crossroads of a heart opened to Goddess, we Return to the Knowing of All Of Life.

Dark and Light.

Oneness.

The center point of all Creation.

On Wild Soul Medicine Radio today, I am honored to share this sacred space of unity with another wise sister on The Path as we continue our series of Medicine Conversations.


You may know her work from either of her two Kali-inspired posts that swept through the internet earlier this summer and again just after the election.

Vera de Chalambert is a spiritual storyteller and Harvard educated scholar of comparative religion. She speaks and writes about spiritual culture, mindfulness in the modern world and the Divine Feminine. Vera holds a Master’s degree from Harvard Divinity School.

Her work explores the meeting place of creativity, psychology and spirituality and is informed by insights from both Eastern and Western philosophies. She is deeply influenced by Buddhist and Kabalistic lineages and is a lover of the world’s great wisdom traditions.

In the midst of a planet in crisis, she stands for a new kind of spiritual.

Join us at 9:00 am PT/Noon ET for a Solstice conversation about darkness, light, the Divine Feminine, our collective health and dis-ease and sharing the prayers of our heart.

Love, sisterhood, and the deepest listening we bring to circle as we sit shoulder to shoulder around the Fire of our Becoming.

I’ll save you a seat.

Open me to Higher Wisdom and More Love.


That is the prayer of my heart.


I continue to feel and listen, feel and listen.


Riding the waves of Change as they buffet and cleanse my Being.


New Consciousness is showing itself to me. Ancient Awarenesses making itself Known.


I am grateful and willing.


I am Witness to the Great Unfolding and the tenderness of the moment.


Each of Us finding Her Way - sometimes angry, despairing, loving, fighting, praying, losing faith, and finding it again.


I will continue to hold this space as Sanctuary for All Of Life.


Welcoming Every Experience of What is So for each woman who brings her Wild Soul here.


This week we continue our series of conversations with the Wisdom Sisters of my Heart.


Vast, multi-dimensional women who are doing their work while holding space for a planet in Transition.


Offering perspective, opening our hearts and minds to sit in council with One another - to hear and be heard, to see and be seen, to love and be loved.


What the hell IS all of this? What is my role? What is yours?
What are you seeing? What does it feel like to be where you are?
What are the prayers of your heart?


On Wild Soul Medicine today, we are honored by the Presence of Samantha Sweetwater.
Samantha is an educator, sacred activist, wisdom leader, artist, culture coder, and the creator of a global movement called Dancing Freedom™ which spans six continents and has touched thousands of lives. A lifelong experiential physicist (ie. a choreographer, community leader, nature wanderer, permaculturalist, yogini and medicine woman) her expertise lies in facilitating a living bridge between states experience and stable embodiment.
An American woman currently on pilgrimage to South Africa, she brings transmissions from the White Lions of Timavatu an Zep Tepi, line of first time.
One of the most brilliant and powerful women I know, Samantha will share with Us what is moving through her, where her faith is being tested and restored, and what she is experiencing in this Now moment.


Women on the front lines, gathering to share the Wild Medicine of our Souls as we seek to reconnect with Truth and with each other.

Greetings, Sister,

Inspiration is brewing. 

And fire.

I am feeling The Call.

To DO something.

It is emerging in and through me as Goddess takes the wheel and I surrender wholly to Being Used.

After several weeks of being deeply internal - listening, dissolving, grieving, raging, and re-membering, I finally connected with a couple of my wisest sisters this week.

My Soul had been hungering for it. A perspective on what is happening, a soft place to lay my tender heart and open to wisdom I Trust from women who are vast and multi-dimensional. 

Women who are doing their work while holding space for a planet in Transition.

It was just the Medicine I needed.

Although we are seeing different things and navigating the tumult of our own shadow work, there is strength in sharing perspectives and comparing notes.

What the hell IS all of this? What is my role? What is yours?
What are you seeing? What does it feel like to be where you are?
What are the prayers of your heart?

This access to a Truth bigger than myself is opening doors and shining a light on The Path for me.

I sense you are hungering for it too. 

And so, on Wild Soul Medicine today, we begin a series of conversations with women on the front lines.

Opening our hearts and minds to reconnect with Truth and with each other.


We begin today with Wild Soul Sister, Ali Shanti. You may remember Ali from our first Woman, Come Undone Experience in 2014. She is a brilliant lawyer (graduated first in her class at Georgetown Law,) a serial entrepreneur (has created several million dollar a year companies,) and a Truth Activist. She is a Woman on the Path who catalyzes new ways of thinking, champions the shifting of paradigms and whose life is a love letter of permission to radically alter how we live in these changing times. 

She most recently inspired me by creating an ad hoc news channel for Standing Rock when she became activated by the lack of accurate, Truth-full media coverage of what is happening there. She took matters into her own hands and opened a space for people who are actually on the ground there to post videos and accounts of what they are experiencing. Unfiltered, up to the minute coverage of what is going down.

Simple. Genius. Imperative.

I am very hopeful she will expand this to include all sorts of news we can actually USE to navigate the shifting world around Us.

We’ll hear more about her vision for it and #AllofLife on the show today.

Join us live today at 9:00 am PT/Noon ET to put awareness on the shadowy nature of our media institutions, where to turn for actual truth and information, and inspiration for living your life with your Eyes and Heart Wide Open.

(Make sure to refresh your page at the top of the hour to join us.)

One voice joining with another.
One heart finding a partner.

This is how we Stand.

Wild Soul to Wild Soul.

Greetings, Sister,

I come to you this week with Clear Eyes and a Clear Heart. 

Integration week was highly potent for me. I went all the way Inward and allowed myself to be dismantled and re-membered.

Communing with Goddess as she In-formed my purpose and prepared me for surrendering the totality of my Being to Her Use.

Wherever you are on your journey right now, whatever level of action, reaction, despair, or hopefulness you are in at the moment… there is Food for you here.

Soul Medicine for you and for Us.

As we swirl in the chaos of civilization-level reorganization, we are faced with conflict and division, terror and rage, anxiety and malaise.

Have you noticed how nearly every conversation you’ve been having lately feels like you are speaking a completely different language from those around you? 

Even friends, sisters, partners, members of your tribe, mentors and teachers, institutions you have previously been in Resonance with and trusted for guidance - are no longer places you are finding wisdom and comfort?

Disconcerting, discombobulating, dis-everything.

How is One to navigate the chaos or bring coherence to the unpredictable, unexpected deluge of disintegration?

How do we Stand in the face of the power of the Darkness that is courting Us?

What is more powerful than power, more cohesive than chaos?

On Wild Soul Medicine this week, I answered these questions and more.

Highlights to listen for:
(07:40) Are you seeing what I’m seeing?

(24:40) What’s more powerful than power?

(25:50) Chaos Theory

(47:00) A guiding principle for turbulent times

(55:30) #AllOfLife

POTENT DOSE (if you only have a few minutes):


Return to Essence... The fundamental organizing principle for This Time and Every Time.

We are All in This Together.