Osprey Orielle Lake is founder and executive director of the Women's Earth and Climate Action Network(WECAN), and works internationally with grassroots, BIPOC and Indigenous leaders, policymakers, and diverse coalitions to build climate justice, resilient communities, and a just transition to a decentralized, democratized clean-energy future. She sits on the executive committee for the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature and on the steering committee for the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty. Osprey’s writing about climate justice, relationships with nature, women in leadership, and other topics has been featured in The Guardian, Earth Island Journal, The Ecologist, Ms. Magazine and many other publications. Her most recent book is The Story is In Our Bones: How Worldviews and Climate Justice Can Remake a World in Crisis. On this episode we discuss: * Osprey's longtime connection with the land, which was fostered and developed during her early years spent among the redwood trees and beside the Pacific Ocean in Northern California * Osprey's understanding of the Sacred Feminine, including how it intertwines with animacy and how She can help us deepen our relationship with the Earth * The concept of sacred activism and Osprey's work with many indigenous peoples through WECAN, including the Rights of Nature movement * The importance of worldviews, and why it's vital that we adopt one that places us within the context of an intricately connected web of life

My guest for this episode is the wild and wonderful Danielle Dulsky. Danielle is the author of The Holy Wild, Seasons of Moon and Flame, Woman Most Wild, The Holy Wild Grimoire, and most recently, Bones & Honey: A Heathen Prayer Book. A heathen visionary, painter, poet, storyteller, and word-witch, Danielle teaches internationally and has facilitated circles, embodiment trainings, communal spell work, and seasonal rituals since 2007. She is the founder of The Hag School, and believes in the emerging power of wild collectives and sudden circles of curious dreamers, cunning witches, and rebellious artists in healing our ailing world. On this episode we discuss: * Her formative experiences in a fundamentalist Christian church, and why she believes we choose the families that will wound us in exactly the right way for our own growth * How she met the Goddess during time spent in Ireland as a young woman * What it means for her to embrace the term "heathen," and how she sees it as living on "untamed spiritual ground" * How she came to know the Goddess a trickster and fringe dweller, and what shifts when we embrace her in this way - as opposed to a victim of oppressive patriarchy Plus Danielle reads two beautiful prayers from her latest book, Bones and Honey!

Described as 'one of the finest poets writing in India today', Arundhathi Subramaniam is a leading Indian poet and award-winning author of fourteen books of poetry and prose. Recent books include the poetry volume, "Love Without a Story"; a prose work on four contemporary women on spiritual journeys, "Women Who Wear Only Themselves"; and an anthology of female sacred poetry in India, Wild Women. She has worked over the years as curator, critic and poetry editor. A recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award 2020, and shortlisted for the prestigious TS Eliot Prize for Poetry in 2015, her awards include the inaugural Khushwant Singh Prize, the Il Ceppo Prize in Italy, among numerous others. On today's episode, we discuss: * Arundhathi's spiritual journey, including an experience on a train that she describes as "a wordlessness that felt like death," and how it propelled into deeper spiritual seeking * Arundhathi's relationship with her spiritual teacher, Sadhguru, Western misconceptions about the role of a guru, and why any credible spiritual teacher should be guiding you back to your most authentic self * Her understanding of the Goddess, including Her intimacy as well as Her cosmic, universal nature, and why so often, She is pointing us not to either-or answers, but a "yes-and" understanding of life * What it means for a woman to wear only herself, and why we need the stories of spiritually seeking women, especially those who are not ordinarily in the limelight

When we begin to learn about the Sacred Feminine, many of us quickly realize that She is much more than we have imagined Her to be - and that Her nature is fundamentally contradictory. As Damascena Tanis, my guest for this episode, says, to work with the Goddess is to be repeatedly invited into paradox. Damascena is a writer, astrologer, and a recently bereaved mother, living on the shores of Lake Erie with three earth bound children. She is currently learning how to be the mother of a child who has journeyed beyond the veil. She is also the Founder of the Planetary Priestess Mystery School, devoted to Venus. In this episode, we discuss the paradox of the Goddess, as well as: * Damascena's spiritual awakening as a pregnant 15-year-old, and what it taught her about the Sacred Feminine * How living in Palestine as a young mother initiated her into a deeper understanding of the feminine * Damascena's work as an archetypal astrologer, and why she thinks it's important to explore what she considers the dimension beyond archetypes * The Venus cycle, its connection to the myth of the Inanna, and how it can guide our own inner journey of self-discovery * The lessons offered by deep grief, which Damascena experienced through the death of her son * Understanding the current conflict in Gaza through the lens of astrology

What does it mean to foster intersectionality in traditions that honor the Sacred Feminine? How do we make space for the differences we find in each other in spiritual community, and also within ourselves? This rich inquiry was the subject of a panel discussion presented at the Parliament of the World's Religions in August 2023, and on today's episode, all five panelists reconvene to provide an overview of our presentation and our experiences at the Parliament. This episode includes a conversation between Home to Her podcast host Liz Childs Kelly; pagan priestess Gina Martin; Creatrix of the Goddess Ministry Lettie Sullivan; Divine Feminine App Founder Caryn MacGrandle; and Mambo and Iyanifa Marie Nazon. This episode includes: * An overview of each our backgrounds in terms of race, ethnicity, class and spirituality/religion, and how they've shaped each of us * Discussion of what intersectionality means to each of us, and our experiences exploring this at the Parliament * Our process of working together, and its relevance to holding space for intersectionality overall - and how that process has also continued to shape our relationships and how we show up in the world * The importance of nervous systems regulation in intersectional work, exploring the differences between edges and boundaries, and much more * PLUS a special song closing offered by Gina Martin