The Numinous Podcast

In this episode, I’m speaking with Thea Anderson about Wednesday’s ruling planet, our old pal, Mercury! Thea is a writer and astrologer, as well as the Director of Production for the CHANI app . She works very closely with our previous guest, Eliza Robertson , to make sure that all of the content for the app gets out on time, at the right time. (A very Mercurial type of job, indeed!)  You can find...

Content Note: At the end of this episode, I mention "ritual scarification" – this material may remind people of the ritual abuse mentioned in a fairly recent television broadcast, The Vow, a show about the NXIVM cult. I am not talking about that. I am referring to a cultural practice of scarification , quite common with peoples of darker skin, and other instances where scarification is woven into...

Welcome to Part 2 of our 7 episode miniseries on Planetary Magic and Propitiation! We began on a Sunday with Eliza Robertson talking about the Sun. Here we are on a Monday and I’m speaking with Bronwyn Simons about Moon Magic and wisdom. Bronwyn Simons is an award-winning predictive astrologer, psychic medium, dream traveller, mentor, and astrology teacher with a worldwide client base and a busy c...

Today we’re welcoming Eliza Robertson back for her third time on the show - she was here as part of Kosmic Tonic with Jasmine Richardson in 2020 when we discussed the key transits that would affect the second half of that wild year, and she was here again in 2022 talking about Writing with the Stars and Magic with the Muses . Clearly, she’s a favourite conversation partner of mine and I’m delighte...

The final episode featuring Ruben and me as we dissect and update my 2017 Medium article, Portrait Of A Marriage (Yes, It's Mine.) In this episode, we're talking about fighting and conflict, with tips to navigate inevitable relationship ruptures.  Referenced in this episode: Rachelle Lamb has an unconventional approach to Non-Violent Communication that I find more helpful than most bell hooks ' bo...

In this third part of our Portrait Of A Marriage Miniseries, we go a little deeper into how we started healing trauma within our marriage, patriarchy and sexual trauma, epistemic privilege, and how poetry helped us reconnect in intimate but non-sexual ways. Resources cited in this episode: YourPersonality.net The Will To Change: Men, Masculinity and Love , bell hooks Tobar Phaidraic, by David Whyt...

This is the second episode in our miniseries revisiting my 2017 article, Portrait Of A Marriage. (Yes, It's Mine.) In this episode we talk about top-down and bottom-up processing and how communication is not the magic cipher we have been led to believe! I share my story of how the stress of our relationship somatized into physical symptoms that required us to call 911. And we get into tender terri...

Welcome to a special miniseries of The Numinous Podcast: Portrait Of A Marriage where we revisit a seminal blog post I published in 2017 on resolving the traps of an Anxious and avoidant Partnership, in other words a relationship where one partner, in this case me, a cis white woman, tends to have a more avoidant attachment style, and the other partner, in this case, Ruben, a cis white man, tends...

Something a little bit different today – a clip featuring myself and my husband, Ruben Anderson . We're teaching a course this year called Collapse 101, hosted in The Numinous Network , and each month there's a 1 hr live session followed a week or two later by an Ask Me Anything session. A lot of people don’t see the through-line from attachment to somatics –> trauma healing –> co-regulation –> fo...

This is a really lovely conversation with Mara Glatzel , author of a new book coming out Feb 28 called, Needy: How to Advocate for Your Needs and Claim Your Sovereignty , which was recently selected by Malcolm Gladwell and Adam Grant for the Next Big Idea Club’s book of the month.  Mara says she is an intuitive coach, writer, and Needy Podcast host who helps humans stop abandoning themselves and s...

Dr Cyndi Brannen, one of the world’s foremost Hekatean experts, is here to talk about her most recent book, Entering Hekate’s Cave , now available in stores and online. This is Cyndi’s fourth book and her third time on the Numinous Podcast. We're talking about how Hekate can guide us on the journey through darkness to wholeness, and also about Cyndi's own evolution as a scholar and author.  Cyndi'...

Jen Murphy is the founder of the Celtic School of Embodiment  where she fuses the ancient wisdom of Irish Mythology with Feminine Embodiment Coaching. Jen has a degree in Medieval Irish & Celtic Studies and a masters in the Anthropology of Development. She specializes in critical pedagogy - empowering learners to critique the power structures at play in their own learning experiences. I've enjoyed...

Taryn Strong is one of the Founders of SHE RECOVERS® Foundation as well as a Coach, Herbalist and Trauma Informed Yoga Teacher. Taryn’s courageous and passion for recovering out loud has made her an influential voice in the global recovery movement. Taryn creates and curates transformational experiences online and in person through her group and private mentorship offerings. As a certified Trauma...

Kael Klassen moved from the corporate world into motherhood before fumbling, fortunately quite quickly, through a series of well-meaning-but-problematic-white-lady spiritual endeavours. Since extracting herself as much as possible from that, she has grounded her work in the modality of trancework, along with writing and creating. Here we talk about missteps each of us have made on our spiritual pa...

This episode gets us back to the roots of this podcast: the mysteries of life... In this episode Velda Thomas, author of Blended: Perspectives On Belonging , engages questions like, What does it take to be human? How is a cultural bridge created between people? How are you transactional with yourself? Velda Thomas was born and educated in England with biracial family ancestry sourced from Africa,...

Desiree Adaway is here to share with us how time has been constructed as a tool of oppression and how we can resist becoming complicit with supremacy culture through time pressure, and instead become aware of different ways to be in relationship to time.  Believe me: she understands time pressure, my friends! Desiree has over 20 years of experience creating, leading and managing international, mul...

Something a little different today: a clip from a recent Tutorial call in The Numinous Network where I answer a question from Marissa of @riverinehart.hidetanning about the connection between trance and the collective. It's a great question that speaks to a through-line that touches on dreams, trancework, somatics, large scale cooperation dilemmas, death literacy, awe, the vagus nerve, and emotion...

My friend, Dana Da Ponte, is here to talk about art journaling with the moon! Dana is a professional intuitive, artist, witch, and certified MAP Practitioner. She helps highly sensitive people reach their goals with the moon and the power of their subconscious mind. She believes play is a portal to the Divine and you don’t have to be serious to own a paintbrush.    She is the creator of the Moon M...

Content Warning: Mentions suicide, substance use, bereavement, language.   Sarah Durham Wilson is the author of Maiden to Mother: Unlocking Our Archetypal Journey into the Mature Feminine .   Her own mother died when Sarah was just a teenager and life sort of spiralled from there for a while. She came to professional success through journalism and her stints writing for the likes of Rolling Stone,...

Sharon Blackie, PhD, is a writer, psychologist and mythologist. In her most recent book, Hagitude: Reimagining The Second Half Of Life, Sharon explores the inner life of women over 50 and women who’ve experienced menopause and invites us to challenge belief systems and rewrite the elder years as a time of great flowering. In this conversation, we explore what Sharon describes as the "incandescence...

This is a super fun episode based on a genuine conversation between friends. In this episode, death doula and fellow animist, Andrea Sexton Dumas, asks me some excellent questions!   • What is the personality of The Spirited Kitchen – if it was a person, what would they be like? • As a collapse-aware person, what was it like to write about cooking and gathering during the pandemic? • What rituals...

This is a mini-episode where I talk about the two fundamentals that I believe are required in someone's practice for them to be a witch: animism and activism. If these two things aren't present in someone's craft, I am dubious. They are playing around. They are not being serious. I would not claim them as a peer or fellow practitioner of witchcraft. Learn more about Witches New Year . Pre-order Th...

Nikiah Seeds has been working in the realm of ceremony and healing for the past 20 years and is the creatrix of the Red Moon Mystery school and co-author of Moon Mysteries: Reclaiming Woman's Menstrual Wisdom . She offers ancestral healing work and spiritual mentoring along with her creations as a weaver, and drum maker and teacher. Among her offerings are sacred drums, rattles, and shawls/prayer...

My astrologer, Eliza, is here! Eliza Robertson is a published author, researcher, and astrologer based in Montreal, Canada. She holds a PhD from the University of East Anglia and has published two books of fiction, one of which was selected as a New York Times Editor's Choice . She began formalizing her astrological studies at the Faculty of Astrology in the UK and has gone on to study Hellenistic...

I'm delighted to welcome Erin Fairchild to the podcast! Erin is founder of Journal As Altar , as well as a social worker and (not currently practicing) therapist with expertise related to childhood trauma, attachment, and preventing violence in systems, communities, and families. In this episode, we talk about the ritual of journaling, and about coming back to the practice if you've experienced a...