In this episode of the Oracle of Luna; we will go on an October New Moon meditation journey with the Slavic Goddess Baba Yaga. I will be your guide, as we align with the current cosmic energies with the New Moon/Solar Eclipse in Libra and take a mystical journey to the deep woods and mountains of Eastern Europe to connect with Baba Yaga. I recommend that you listen to this episode with your eyes closed, being totally present, so you allow yourself to go on this inner journey.

Baba Yaga is the Slavic Wild Witch of the Woods and so much more! Baba Yaga lives in a remote hut that walks through the forest on chicken legs with a fence of human bones and skulls, and she flies in the air in a giant magical mortar and pestle. She usually appears as a hag or crone with a bony leg, and she is known as a shamanic trickster to challenge those who are in need of lessons and transformation.

Baba Yaga appears in Slavic and Russian folk and fairy tales over hundreds of years. In these stories, she represents a powerful shape shifting feminist crone archetype that is both heroine and villain, protective grandmother and horribly fierce, and acts as a Shaman or gatekeeper between the living world and the world of spirit and and a guardian of heroes/heroines. Baba Yaga is omniscient - she knows all things. She resides in the domain of the supernatural and holds secret knowledge, which she sometimes reveals to those whom she deems to be deserving of it.

Baba Yaga is associated with the deep woods and forests, and the wildness of nature. A force of nature herself, she symbolizes the unpredictable and untameable nature of the female spirit, of Mother Earth, and the relationship of Women to the wild. There are indications that Baba Yaga was once an ancient Pagan Earth Goddess in Slavic mythology that morphed into many complex interpretations throughout the years.

Baba Yaga reminds us that we are also ferocious, untameable, wise and capable of our own powerful potential and honoring both the dark and the light within us. Tune in and be enlightened!

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Join us in this episode, for an enchanting conversation with Author, Priestess, and community circle leader: Gina Martin! Gina, is the Author of the “When She Wakes” book series (Womancraft Publishing) starting with “Sisters of the Solstice Moon” book taking place in a pre-patriarchal world where priestesses come together and bring Goddess wisdom forward. She has also written a series called “Daughters of the Goddess” and she continues to write more books to this series. The characters in Gina's books have a common thread of amplifying and serving the Goddess so She can be seen, heard, respected and honored again and be invited into our lives.

Gina tells us that we can learn so much with Divine Feminine wisdom by being receptive and developing a reciprocal relationship by having a sense of being eager to know Her and She being eager to know us. Similar to indigenous spiritualities who live in concert with the alive forces of the planet. We are one of all species - not the dominant species. This takes time, patience, sensitivity, practice and the ability to be quiet and not distracted which is a hard learning curve for most people given our non-stop consumerist, patriarchal society and our mindset of instant gratification.

We chatted about Gina’s role as founding mother and High Priestess of Triple Spiral of Dún na Sidhe, a pagan spiritual congregation in the Hudson Valley, NY area that she created over 25 years ago. They have met every Moon & the Sabbats for 25 years and are now a 501(c)(3) registered congregation. Gina also wanted to have a place where girls through womanhood could learn, be involved and know about the Goddess within this Triple Spiral of Dún na Sidhe circle’s tradition. This Pagan spiritual community has a big 25th anniversary circle celebration planned this Samhain/Halloween.

Gina has also composed songs/chants and wrote “WomEnchanting” and with other members of Triple Spiral circle with links to downloadable recordings of sacred songs and chants. Tune in and be enlightened!

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Join us in this episode, for an enchanting conversation with Poet, Priestess, and Goddess Statues Creatrix: Molly Remer! Molly, is a Priestess, Mystic, Author and Poet in central Missouri USA. Molly and her husband Mark co-create Story Goddesses at Brigid’s Grove. Molly is the Author of many books, including "Walking with Persephone", "Whole and Holy", "Womanrunes", the "Goddess Devotional", and "365 Days of Goddess". She is the creatrix of the devotional experience #30DaysofGoddess and she loves savoring small magic, honoring the sacred and everyday enchantment.

Molly has been gathering community circles online and in-person since 2008. She plans and facilitates women’s circles, multi-gender rituals and celebrations, seasonal retreats and rituals, mother-daughter circles, family ceremonies, and red tent circles in central Missouri.

We chat about her early years in rural Missouri and being influenced in a non-traditional way in the middle of the bible belt. In grad school Molly was exposed to Women’s Studies and important books such as “When God was a Woman” by Merlin Stone. Later Molly joined a Unitarian Universalist church training program in Feminists in Thealogy called “Cakes for the Queen of Heaven” and began creating circles and retreats for Women that are earth-based feminist theology practices that she still continues to do.

Molly tells us about the mini Goddess statues that she and her husband create and how they embody the sacred Goddess in everyday life. They are a tangible connection to divinity. Molly tells us that her books have a common thread of intentional, creative, everyday enchantment, spiritual living and Goddess devotion that we can all access and help us to participate in the sacred rhythms of life and our own unfolding magic as it is, where it is.

Molly writes poetry that she defines as Theapoetics (see link for more details): https://feminismandreligion.com/2012/08/27/theapoetics-by-molly-meade/

Poems found Molly in the woods and she believes that everything is a poem if you know where to look and you can see it as it unfolds within and around you. Her writing is inspired by what's here right now. It’s the language of the Goddess that's alive in our own landscapes-wherever we are that we can be nourished and sustained by. Tune in and be enlightened!

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