Mother of the Sword Podcast

“The Truth is Erotic.” - Ginny Muir As much as we crave connection, I can assure you as a guide to the realms of intimacy it is awkward and full of tears and snots too. Are you also wondering how to relate to men (forever) but now more than ever in ways that feel nurturing and soul enriching? Yeah, us too. Across cultures, women’s and folks with vulvas bodies have been shaped by systems that regul...

For more Magdalene magic meet us over at www.bodytemple.church! When everything else fell away, when I left the father’s house, when the myth cracked and the spell broke and the bill came due — what remained was what had always been there: The Mother’s waters. Mouths watering. Home. Get full access to Mother of the Sword at bodytemple.substack.com/subscribe

“Shiva without Shakti is a corpse.” -Laura Ammazonne As a massively femme oriented being, I get that discipline can not only be a turn off, but enraging. I am all about the primal, pre-dogma and religious authorities type of spirituality and embodiment. But being in spaces where there is so much devotion oriented to the unseen and to being of service to humanity, I find a simultaneous kink around...

A whore and a virgin meet at a witchy nonalcoholic herbal bar called Hekate in the East Village in NYC. They begin speaking and the timeless swirl consumes them. They enter into a devotion so total it risks everything. The holy darkness. A whore for God, a virgin forevermore. Our 11 day ritual theater and writing Embodied Venus begins January 1st with a live workshop join us! All living things, se...

“The creative sexual energy in each of us is a reflection of the Creator.” Deborah Sundahl The creative power of the soul and our felt sense of eros in the body – something ancient and also alive now, are interconnected. There are ways that we all habitually separate our spiritual practices from the power of our sexuality. We pray for wholeness, for awakening, for Divine love—yet we exile the very...

Blessed dark moon friends. The season of slowing down and taking more articulate care of ourselves, one another and the lands we tend. Times are tough — and as many activists, Black radical feminists, and queer and Trans kin have generously taught us, we the people hold the power to rest, to regroup, and to reimagine new ways of relating. To instigate change with our creative life force is the sac...

All the liberation work we do in relationship reveals our innate courage and mostly, let's be real, our ignorance. To be able to really dive into shadow work, we need to be resourced and have spaces to release what lives within us. This podcast practice will support you in doing this today. In today’s episode of Mother of the Sword you’ll experience an important shamanic writing tool for going in...

Healing the root is not just an idea, it’s a practice that we can attune to and need to do in relationship. We were wounded in relationship, and it is there we will heal too. In my experience, rapture is when two or more bodies really worship yours, and it sends you into this ecstatic union with God. Just throwing that out there, but my lineage traditionally has orgiastic rituals in devotion to th...

In this episode of Mother of the Sword we speak with Sydney Johnson, an artist and astrologer in our community. On our last sacred s e x uality retreat in New Mexico, we created a Yoni Constellation to explore one initiate’s (participant) struggles around sexuality. WTF is a yoni constellation? WTF is a constellation?! Have a listen to the podcast to get a taste of the Body Temple work and how it,...

Aquarius medicine for me are talking it out while feeling, water, dreams and attuning to our true alive and erotic desires. There are many tools within this time astrologically to take you into a truer belonging inside and out–I definitely went through that big time this week. Have a listen to this episode of MOTHER OF THE SWORD with one of my best siblings, Jeff Hinshaw from Cosmic Cousins . We g...

“Therapy isn’t enough I need them to put Mary Magdalene back in the Bible.”-softmoonrose People be out there raw-doggin’ life with no ties to ancient lineage and ancestral wisdom — it makes sense we’re frozen and feeling like shit all the time. (Apply to come to India with us if you’re called.) It’s natural to suffer as humans, period. It is also natural as mystics to learn how to relieve that suf...

We all have resistance to being told what to do, we should. It’s fucking annoying that everyone has answers but no one has the capacity to receive our pain. This is the father wound. The deep pain or absence many feel in their relationship with father figures—personally, culturally, and spiritually. It can show up as a lack of protection, guidance, love, or affirmation, and it often mirrors a broa...

I almost cried when I remembered the fact that you died but you never really went away. I almost cried when she held my feet in the back of my skull like she was holding water. When I looked at my vulva in a mirror for the first time through the eyes of love. When I looked up, and I saw the crescent moon in the broad daylight hanging above the oceans swells. When I felt the parts of me that can no...

Our cat Habibi brought a bloody head of a rodent to the door for the Scorpio Full Moon. So of course, I'm sharing a story about lineage, shadow, and the wild magic that runs through my blood—from addiction to the adoration of all things embodied and occult. Imagine this: We’re in Rome, near the ruins of the cult of Isis where they worshipped the Great Mother of fertility, and the sacredness of our...

I am here in Paris, on a journey of exploration… a new birth this month for my 43rd solar return, and the 18th anniversary of my father’s death. In today's Mother of the Sword, we speak of listening while speaking , moving while sharing —this is the embodiment of the feminine mystery. Not linear, but spiral. Not fixed, but flowing. It’s how the Oracle spoke. It’s how dancers pray. It’s how healers...

We all need ways to empty the story that we are carrying in order to be able to perform what is most soul nourishing, liberating and authentic. Some people water fast; I write—not to impress, but to anchor myself, to locate where I am, alive. To return to the body from the suffocating fog of fear that inevitably rolls in while navigating this beautiful, tragic world. The witch wound welcomes us to...

In today's episode of Mother of the Sword, we offer you some guidance on ancestral connections that support you in creating and getting in touch with all that sustains and connects us to liberation. Special thanks to Jeff Hinshaw from Cosmic Cousins for putting together this podcast for us! and to all my wild Italian Volcanic ancestors for showing me what is possible beyond the shame and blame I g...

In today’s episode of Mother of the Sword , I speak with one of my dearest friends—also a Leo (in Western astrology), a psychologist and spiritual counselor, and a lifelong yogini, Dr. Varsha Choudhari. We dive deep into how India was once a matriarchal society—and still is in some places—where the rivers themselves are worshipped as goddesses, and how the awakening of Kundalini holds a sacred, em...

Blessings for the new moon and lunar new year in Aquarius! I’m offering a free defiant meditation and writing class-Thursday at 10am PST. Join us here. And! listen to this new episode of Mother of theSword with our friend and Body Temple Community member Sydney Paige - who was just on our Goddess Pilgrimage in India. We are celebrating them for taking this intense and wild journey with us! S/o to...

Enjoy this episode on writing, the womb and community healing. Special thanks to our friend Jeff Hinshaw for editing and putting this podcast together! Let us know what comes up in the comments. We see Capricorn energy as an expression of earthly, sacred sexuality—a devotion to our deepest desires. It is the wild woman dancing with Saturn, Father Time, embodying the structure that allows creation...

Anytime I meet another woman with Italian ancestry and a wild fire in her heart for liberation and revolutionary love, I know we’re going to light it up when we connect. In today’s episode of Mother of the Sword (perfect) for the full moon in Taurus, we discuss all things decolonization, creating curiosity and community care with Rev. Briana Lynn (rbl) studies, teaches & facilitates experiences on...

As the great Toni Morrison says: “This is precisely the time when artists go to work . There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.” Today on Mother of the Sword podcast, we have a chat with my friend Greg who I met on a Southern Italian ritual drum and dance retreat where we studied...

Persephone 3 BY MARIE HOWE My mother knows all about the under-dark. She needn't have pretended to be appalled. The seed must break open and rise; put too deep the rot sets in. My mother is a god; she wanted to spare me. But my nature is nature. Like everything alive I was meant to be split open, to blossom, to be sucked, to be eaten, to lean, to bend, to wither, to die and die and die and die unt...

This Mother of the Sword podcast unveils the gift of dissociation, a realm where many become ensnared in shame. As a shame slayer, I’m here to illuminate the value of embracing dissociation and how we can harness it. Scorpio season heightens our ability to alchemize our shit into our service. My friend Nora (double Scorpio bb,) also says it is the frustration of Scorpio too. It’s not always what y...

What if there is no quick fix? I recorded this talk on cultivating choice as a way to learn how to grieve, how to pray with potency and how to channel our rage into creative solutions and offerings that give back, as opposed to take while in India. Please enjoy and let us know wha you think! Ty to Jeff from Cosmic Cousins for putting together this episode, we love you. We have one space left for o...