Podcasts by The Heart Is a Cauldron
*Personal and collective healing through radical relationship with the animate world.* Mythic archetypes, the wisdom of the more-than-human world, animist ethics and enchantment, and earth-honoring folkways across time and place.
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In the Cauldron with Olivia Pepper and Star Poetry from 2022-02-15T20:59:38
This season’s guest at the cauldron, Olivia Pepper, tenderly directs our gaze simultaneously upward and inward—to connect with the stars but also our own inner tides, and the liminal places where t...
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The Heart Is a Loom: Weaving with fate from 2021-12-21T15:55
Rather than resolutions that we project onto ourselves and our lives, what shifts when we listen to what we’re being invited into, and who’s doing the inviting? This season, we sit with ideas of Fa...
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In the Cauldron with the Ancestors: The mythic in the mundane from 2021-11-25T13:00:39
We complete our journey through the underworld by connecting with our ancestors through the soil of day-to-day life, the mundane stitched through with the mythic. Woven into this episode are also ...
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In the Cauldron with Sophie Strand and the Underworld Medicine of Fungi from 2021-10-12T20:03
We turn to fungi as a teacher and ally in cycling through the underworld, being with death and rebirth, poison and medicine, personal and collective movement—and what it means to dance through all ...
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The Heart Is Naked at the Gates of Death: Journeying through the underworld from 2021-09-22T20:30:29
The realm of transformation as well as treachery, mystery and magic, and ultimately, the dual medicine of death and regeneration… Journeying into the underworld brings as many trials as it does rew...
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The Heart Is a Field, Aflower: Foraging for connection from 2021-08-13T20:08:41
What if foraging is, at its heart, about connection? What shifts when we approach relationships with plants as we do humans—and vice versa? What happens when we shift away from the idea of wild spa...
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The Heart Is the Medicine of Us: Conjuring communal care from 2021-07-13T21:06:29
In this season that invites us to lean on one another, we remember old ways of care, honor living ways that never stopped evolving, and dream new ways, all rooted in togetherness, and the present m...
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In the Cauldron with Snake and Willow from 2021-06-30T15:08:25
For moments when we are asked to hold powerful and even conflicting energies at the same time, snake and willow teach us to dance between poison and medicine, grief and healing, death and rebirth. ...
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The Heart Is a Spirit in the Water: Swimming through complexity from 2021-06-11T18:25:10
This midsummer, we delve into the magic of water spirits, who help us navigate this time of year when it feels like we’re asked to contain multitudes, when the fullness of summer seems to conflict ...
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In the Cauldron with Becca Piastrelli and Belonging from 2021-05-31T18:30:11
What better way to celebrate the one year anniversary of The Heart Is a Cauldron than a conversation about belonging as a radical, living, and collaborative practice? Becca Piastrelli of the Belon...
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In the Cauldron with the World Tree: Axis mundi of the soul from 2021-05-03T20:43:10
The World Tree is a mythic map of the universe, an atlas of the soul, and a sacred cosmogram of community and interdependence. In this episode, we meet world trees that have been born out of diver...
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The Heart Is a Fire, Underground: Emergence and contraction from 2021-04-13T22:58:50
We carry the spirit of May Day down from the mountain and the maypole, and into the streets, delving into the world's biggest annual magical ritual—International Workers’ Day. We then use this as i...
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The Heart Is a Spiral: Life as a ritual of renewal from 2021-03-12T21:29:59
Spring rites of renewal invite us into the twinship of death and rebirth, the power of the present moment as ritual, and finally, the necessary magic of repair and regeneration... all—as ever—withi...
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In the Cauldron with Langston Kahn and Deep Liberation from 2021-02-19T18:22:33
Today we explore the rich terrain of embodiment, liberation, play, and queerness, all through the intertwining of the personal and the communal. And there’s no better soul to invite on for this con...
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The Heart Is a Carnival: Embodiment and queerness as liberation and joy from 2021-02-11T22:43:30
Carnival might seem to add up to nothing more than a raucous party, but in fact this is a liberatory rite that can allow us to reconnect with our exuberance and resilience, speak back against imbal...
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In the Cauldron with The Dark Mother: Isis, Black Madonnas, Winter Goddesses, African legacy from 2020-12-26T13:00:04
“To say that one is longing for darkness is to say that one longs for transformation, for a darkness that brings balance, wholeness, integration, wisdom, insight.” - China Galland The Dark Mothers...
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The Heart Is a Hallowed Night: Dreaming in the spaciousness of winter from 2020-12-16T00:02:10
In the expansiveness of deepest night, we reconsider the binaries of light versus dark, unfoldment versus resolution, and progress versus sacred pause. We visit with solstice customs sprung from t...
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In the Cauldron with Mythic Time and Gordon White of Rune Soup&Ani.Mystic from 2020-12-09T20:07:39
Tumble into a winding dialogue about decolonized time, the magic of body and place, and right relationship with the living world in this swapcast between myself and Gordon White, author of the upco...
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In the Cauldron with Dirt from 2020-12-04T13:39:14
Dirt forms the body from which all life springs, and to which all life returns when it dies. Dirt feeds the people, dirt creates the crossroads, dirt cradles our dead. Dirt remembers. Humans have ...
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The Heart Is a Cocoon: Mourning to live from 2020-11-20T21:19:49
Each of us will mourn, and folk traditions have long modeled radical ways of being with our grief in a way that nurtures our resilience, wisdom, and even joy. We sit in circle with mourners from d...
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In the Cauldron with Mugwort, Goose, and Psychopomps from 2020-10-24T14:59:08
Today, we invite into our cauldron the magic of mugwort, goose, and the psychopomps, or mythical conductors of souls, Baron Samedi, Anubis, and Hekate. These more than human kin are especially pot...
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The Heart Is a Veil, Lifted: Feasting with the ancestors in mythic time from 2020-10-16T20:57:42
Walking through the gateway into the dark half of the year, we are invited to come close to our ancestors, to death, and to living in time that is cyclical, non-linear, and centered on the eternal ...
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In the Cauldron with Danica Boyce of Fair Folk and Abundance Paganism from 2020-09-18T15:20:53
We continue with the theme of rewilding abundance through a special interview with friend and fellow folk lover Danica Boyce, a researcher, educator, and podcaster. She works to re-enchant everyday...
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The Heart Is the First Fruit: Rewilding abundance from 2020-08-22T21:07:47
Abundance has been hijacked and perverted by capitalism, white supremacy, and patriarchy. But every one of us descends from ancestors who understood what abundance truly means and how it is maintai...
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The Heart Is a Divine Dreamer: Rest from 2020-07-22T18:08:59
We reckon with the tension between the summer’s energetic current of ripening and maturing, alongside the fatigue many of us are struggling within right now—and not just because of the heat. For su...
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The Heart Is a Call for Rain: Watering the seeds of collective healing from 2020-06-27T00:19:09
Pausing in the electricity and climbing heat of this lunation, we learn about rainmaking rituals that have occurred throughout history, up through today—a particular kind of magic that waters the s...
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The Heart Is a Rose: Dancing with ecstasy and shame from 2020-05-22T15:27:11
This month, the natural rhythms of flowering, fire, and fullness will help us explore our healing journey with ecstasy and shame. We visit with rose, goddexxes of love, and salamander. PART ONE||...
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The Heart Is A Cauldron, An Invocation *Podcast Teaser* from 2020-05-14T20:43:11
The Heart is a Cauldron is a podcast and Patreon community for healing through relationship with the animate world. Each episode will be released around the new moon, and we’ll explore the nature-...
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