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In this episode, I share one of my absolute favourite goddess myths: Inanna’s descent into the underworld. It is the oldest written story that exists, over 4,000 years old, and I absolutely love it, because it gives us a sacred map for how we can set off on our own underworld journey, so we can move through a deep soul transformation.

I go through:

• How Inanna’s story is mirrored in the sky by Venus, descending as the morning star and rising again, reborn, as the evening star.
• Why we must be willing to let go of our old ego identifications to enter the sacred darkness, as this is a journey of the soul, and not of the mind.
• How our ancient goddess myths act as keys that unlock the wisdom found deep within the mythical landscape of our soul. 
• Why it is our willingness to RECEIVE the light that allows us to move through our rebirth. 

I then guide you on a shamanic journey, where you descend through the seven gates (representing our seven chakras) into the underworld so you can move through a deep soul transformation. 

This journey is around 1hr long, and it starts at 18.17 (but do make sure you have listened to the talk beforehand, as it gives you the MAP of the journey, allowing you to heal more deeply).

The material in this episode is a mix of lectures from some of my online courses and shamanic trainings (on nordiclight.academy), and also from my book Your Heart Knows How to Heal You.

I absolutely love Colette, and have known her for close to twenty years now, so it was such a joy to hear the deeply shamanic journey behind her latest album My Dark Church.

In this conversation, Colette shares how a wild shamanic vision led her to meet a shark-toothed sea goddess, a goddess she later discovered was Sedna, the Inuit goddess of the sea. This meeting became a doorway into Colette's own healing, and, at sixty-eight, she has now reclaimed her inner artist.

This is a conversation about daring to step through the door before you feel ready, and trusting that courage will meet you there.

Colette Baron-Reid is a bestselling author, internationally acclaimed Oracle expert, spiritual intuitive, personal transformation thought leader, business strategist, artist, and educator, and the founder of The Oracle School Experience®, OraclePalooza® and the DreamQuest Platinum Mastermind.

Author of 19 best-selling Oracle card decks, with over two million sold worldwide and 7 books, Colette's greatest joy is teaching people they can have a direct and personal dialogue with the Universe to help them create their most fulfilling lives.

You can find out more about Colette on colettebaronreid.com. 

I love Sam Hadadi's writing on Substack, so I was delighted to connect with her more and talk about her book Hormone Goddess.

Sam shares how she journeyed to the depths of hell and back with her own hormones and health, and how that descent became the medicine she now offers other women. 

She speaks of how the luteal phase is like the rise of the Wild Woman, and how perimenopause and menopause are not a decline or a deficiency, but sacred initiations.

And throughout this conversation, Sam invites you to trust what you feel in your bones, rather than all you have been taught.

Sam Hadadi is an author, womb healer, somatic practitioner and women's health coach. Her greatest love lies in helping women to reclaim and remember their magic and power. You can find her on Instagram @the_hormone_goddess.

I have adored Denise for a very long time, so it is always such a blessing to be in her presence again.

This time we spoke about her latest oracle deck, The Mystical Garden, born from a near-death experience she had at seventeen, when she glimpsed a realm so real it made this world feel like the dream. She speaks so beautifully about how oracle cards are keys, where each one opens a door into a place where your deepest knowing already lives.

Denise also guides us on a magical journey into the Mystical Garden (starts at 19.06. The journey is around 9 minutes long).

Denise Linn’s spiritual journey began as a 17-year-old when she had a dramatic near-death, after being shot by an unknown gunman. Her life-changing experiences and remarkable recovery set her on a spiritual quest that led her to explore the healing traditions of many cultures, including those of her own Cherokee ancestors, the Aborigines in the Australian bush, and the Zulus in Bophuthatswana. She trained with a Hawaiian kahuna (shaman), and Reiki Master Hawayo Takata. She was also adopted into a New Zealand Maori tribe. In addition, Denise lived in a Zen Buddhist monastery for more than two years.

Denise is an internationally renowned teacher in the field of self-development. She’s the author of the bestseller ‘Sacred Space’ and the award-winning ‘Feng Shui for the Soul,’ and has written 19 books, which are available in 29 languages. Denise has appeared in numerous documentaries and television shows worldwide. She has taught in 25 countries and has been a featured guest on Oprah, Lifetime, Discovery Channel, BBC TV, NBC and CBS.

You can find out more about Denise on deniselinnseminars.com and Mystic Cafe Community here. 

In this episode, I speak with Gabriela Gutierrez, writer, researcher, poet, mythologist and scholar of ancient religion, to explore a theme very close to my own heart: the female shaman and the role of darkness.

Gabriela has spent years finding her way back to the old wisdom of our ancestors, through the living land, the body and the womb.

She speaks so beautifully of the darkness as a holy place of revelation, the womb of the Great Mother where new life is birthed into being.

It is a conversation that invites you to remember the deep wisdom that already lives within your own body.

Gabriela Gutierrez is a Spanish–Welsh writer, poet, mythologist, and scholar of ancient religion whose work explores the intersection of myth, ritual, and ecology. Her research is concerned with recovering the animistic worldviews that preceded institutional religion and asking how their ways of understanding the sacred might speak meaningfully to contemporary life.

You can find Gabriela on: Substack and at Instagram @honeyedways

What if the path home to the truth of who you are leads through the portal into the sacred darkness, where you set off on your own underworld journey, just like Persephone does at the Autumn Equinox?

I know Lina very well, and I have witnessed the soul transformation she’s gone through as she has walked the shamanic path, becoming a Shamanic Seidr Magic Priestess and Teacher of Shamanic Energy Medicine.

She shares so openly about her descent into the underworld, meeting her shadows, and the demons of patriarchy and the imbalanced feminine that had taken hold within her.

She speaks of the courage it took to stay in the darkness, and to finally say YES to the light within her.

She has transformed from the inside out, through having set off on her own shamanic journey into the underworld. She can now feel her soul's guidance through her body's deeper wisdom (sometimes in surprising ways 😊).

Lina invites us to be willing to be nailed by truth, because that is how we can come home to who we truly are, and to have the courage to descend into the underworld, so we can move through our own sacred soul transformation – just like Persephone does.

You can find out more about Lina on linalanestrand.se

Can you sense how there is this ancient feminine magic lying dormant within your bones, like an inner sleeping potential, just waiting for you to awaken her?

This is the topic of this episode, which is an interview Lina Lanestrand did with me, for her Goddess Summit, where I talk about the Norse Creation Myth of Fire and Ice, and how it shows us the sacred clues for how we can awaken this ancient feminine magic within us.

This is a feminine wisdom that embodies both the structural feminine, which is the power of ice, the feminine magic that holds our ancient witch consciousness that births new worlds into being – and the fiery feminine, which is the power of fire, the fire of our love. A fire that is the spark of creation that causes life to blossom and expand.

At the end of this episode I also guide you on a shamanic journey to two ancient wells: the Well of Love, which ignites the fire of our love, and the Well of Magic, which ignites the power of our structural feminine. And together, we also journey to the Cosmic Womb, so you can receive the light of something new. 

The journey begins at 43.38 (but do listen to the talk beforehand, as it gives you the MAP for the journey, allowing you to go much deeper in your own healing journey).

PS. If you want to journey even deeper into the mythical landscape of your soul, then you are most welcome to join me on one of my online courses or shamanic trainings where we dive deep into the wisdom found in shamanic energy medicine and ancient goddess myths, such as the new online course Awaken Your Shamanic Witch Priestess (read more here), and also the Shamanic Energy Medicine Practitioner and Seidr Magic Training (you can read more on nordiclight.academy).

The four elements of earth, water, air and fire are not just symbolic metaphors but living forces within our bodies and the Earth. 

Together they form a spiralling rhythm of descent, transformation and ascent, where we descend into the Earth and the Womb of the Dark Mother, held in her sacred birth Waters. We then breathe in the Air of new inspiration, which guides us into a rebirth through the sacred Fire – a fire that also gives us the energy we need so we can begin our journey of ascent.

In this episode, which is from my new online course Awaken Your Shamanic Witch Priestess, I share a short lecture on the four elements on how they live in the body, the goddess archetypes associated with each, and what we can do to be in balance with them.

And finally, I guide you on a shamanic journey where you connect with the elements of earth, water, air and fire - and as this journey is based on my osteopathic understanding of the body, it is filled with Shamanic Body Magic (journey begins at 14.10).

You can find out more about this new online course Awaken Your Shamanic-Witch-Priestess here. It starts on the Dark Moon, 10th of September, and you can benefit from the Early Bird Price until midnight on the Full Moon 26th of September.

PS. If you want to soak up even more Feminine Wisdom, then you are most welcome on our free online Feminine Wisdom Summit. Find out more here.

Your womb is far more than a physical organ – it is a sacred portal, a gateway between worlds, a cauldron of magic, transformation, creation, life and rebirth.

This is your seat of feminine magic, and in this sacred cauldron you find the gifts and medicine of the four feminine archetypes – Maiden, Mother, Queen and Crone.

Just as spring, summer, autumn, and winter each offer their own gifts and medicine to the land, our inner feminine archetypes bring their own gifts and medicine to us too.

These feminine archetypal presences live within every woman as inner wisdom keepers, guiding us to tune into the whispers of our heart and soul, so we can move through life in sync with the cosmic heartbeat of the Great Mother. 

The Maiden awakens and says YES to what lights her up. The Mother creates and births her dreams into being. The Queen claims the throne of her sovereignty and chooses with discernment what she gives her time, energy and focus to, and the Crone is the sacred elder who walks between worlds, holding the ancient codes of life, death and rebirth.

In this episode, which is from my new online course Awaken Your Shamanic Witch Priestess, I share a short lecture on these four archetypes, and then I guide you on a shamanic journey to meet your inner Maiden, Mother, Queen and Crone (journey begins at 12.05).

You can find out more about this new online course Awaken Your Shamanic-Witch-Priestess here.

Freya’s name means Our Lady, and the deepest root of her name means to love. 

She carries the golden light of our soul – the magical fire of love that is the essence of all creation.

She is the witch in the Völuspá who was burned and reborn three times; and as she rose from the fire, she became the First Völva, the one who embodies the power of Seidr Magic. She then travelled the world, teaching the women Seidr, so they could awaken their inner feminine magic too.

In this episode, which is from my new online course Awaken Your Shamanic Witch Priestess, I share a short lecture on Freya, and then you go on a shamanic journey with Freya, igniting the Fire of Love in your heart (journey begins at 6.12).

It is this Fire of Love that is the compass the Shamanic-Witch-Priestess follows, so it becomes her guide, showing her where to go, what to do, what to say and to whom.

You can find out more about this new online course Awaken Your Shamanic-Witch-Priestess here.

Did you know that there is an ancient feminine wisdom wired into your DNA, held in your mitochondria, which has been passed down from mother to daughter, generation after generation, for thousands of years? A living, golden thread that connects you, right now, to the Ancient Mothers of your maternal bloodline.

In this episode, drawn from the introduction to my new online course Awaken Your Shamanic Witch Priestess, we journey into the sacred science behind this magic: how your mitochondria nourish, guide and protect you – like a Wise Mother from deep within – how your body is wired to receive the healing medicine from both the darkness and the light, and how our ancient shamanic traditions honoured this same feminine wisdom long before we had words for it.

We also follow the golden thread of feminine magic through time, past the distortion and silencing of the feminine, all the way back to the truth that was never truly lost – a truth that has kept flowing, like a Golden River of Feminine Wisdom, deep within the mythical landscape of our soul.

A truth that helps us remember that our ancient source of feminine magic is GOOD, and through this remembering our inner shamanic-witch-priestess awakens.

You can find out more about this new online course Awaken Your Shamanic-Witch-Priestess here.

In this shamanic journey you’ll release the fears that block you from being the light that you are. You’ll also move through a deep initiation, being burnt three times to the ground. Each time rising, reborn into the truth of who you are.

At the end of the journey, you’ll be meet the ancestral witch in your lineage, the Wise One, who will share her medicine and wisdom with you. 

This is a very powerful journey, which is around 50 minutes long.

This journey is from the book Your Heart Knows How to Heal You  (and to make the most of this journey, I recommend you read Chapter 7 in the book, so you get the MAP for this journey, and you also get to meet Gullveigr, the witch who was three times burnt, three times born – and how she is the Norse goddess Freya. 

You can find out more about the book on Amazon here, and also on my website here.

Radiant Sun Goddess Sól,

Keeper of the golden fire of life,
I open my heart to receive your healing light.

Let your golden rays shine through my mind,
clearing away any confusion and doubt.

Let your light flow through my heart,
awakening the fire of love that lives within my soul.

May your sacred light shine through me,
bringing love and healing into our world.

And so it is. And so it is. And so it is.
Blessed be. Blessed be. Blessed be.

In this shamanic journey Mary Magdalene will be your guide, as she’s the mystical heart that embodies both heaven and earth.

In this way, she can help you dance with the seasons of darkness and light, seeing through the eye of your heart, whilst weaving your heart’s loving wisdom into your life.

On this journey you’ll be guided to the Isle of Avalon, the heart chakra of the world, situated in Glastonbury (England, UK), where you'll be connecting with the Red Spring (divine feminine), the Tor (a hill that is the gateway to the Otherworld), and the White Spring (divine masculine).

This journey is from Chapter 8 in my book Your Heart Knows How to Heal You, which features nine shamanic journeys (one at the end of each chapter). All readers gain access to the audio recordings of these shamanic journeys.

You can find out more about the book Your Heart Knows How to Heal You  here.

In this episode, I’m sharing an extract from a live webinar I offered on Mary Magdalene, part of the online course A Shamanic Journey of Resurrection and Rebirth (you can read more here).

Mary Magdalene is a powerful Death Maiden – like a Valkyrie – guiding us through the sacred portal of death, life, and rebirth.

She had to trust the spiritual eye of her heart when she witnessed Yeshua after he had risen.

 No one else could validate her experience. And still, she shared her visions, her soul gifts, and her healing medicine with others— the gift of her faith and the medicine of her courage

She wove her heart’s loving wisdom into the world.

And I feel this is one of her greatest gifts to us: To help us trust our own deeper knowing.

There are so many correlations between how her voice was silenced and distorted by patriarchy for over 1500 years, and how the voice of the feminine has been silenced for millennia.

But just as the ancient feminine is now rising within us, so too are the sacred teachings of Mary Magdalene – calling us to reclaim our feminine wisdom, magic, and voice.

You can also meet Mary Magdalene in my book, Your Heart Knows How to Heal You.  And if you want to listen to a free guided shamanic journey with Mary Magdalene (plus 8 more free shamanic journeys from the book), then just click here.

In this shamanic journey, you’ll be filling up with the medicine from the four elements – earth, air, water and fire – connecting you with the ancient mother. 

You will also meet the Light Mothers, who are all solar goddesses.

This journey is very healing, as it opens you up to receive the light. And as you
receive this light, you ignite the magic of creation within you, which nurtures
your visions and dreams so they can grow and expand and blossom (journey is 41
minutes long).

This journey is from the book Your Heart Knows How to Heal You (and to make the most of this journey, I recommend you read Chapter 6 in the book so you get the MAP for this journey, and also understand more deeply the medicine from the Light Mothers). You can find out more about the book on Amazon here, and also on my website here.

Morning Prayer: Letting Her Love Direct Me

Ancient Mothers,

I know, deep within my bones, that I am here only to be truly helpful,
 representing You, Ancient Mothers, who sent me.

I don’t have to worry about what to say, or what to do, because I know that wherever you direct me to go, you will go there with me, giving me the guidance I need to be an expression of your loving wisdom in the world.

And so it is. And so it is. And so it is.

Blessed be. Blessed be. Blessed Be.

✨ One minute morning prayer. This prayer has been inspired by the Healer's Prayer from ACIM. 

Ancient Mothers,
Keeper of the sacred cauldron.

I give to you my thoughts, my actions, and my unfinished stories.

Stir them in your sacred fire, burning away all the illusions, and any confusion, so only truth and clarity remain.

And as I rest tonight, guide me through the hidden realms to my inner source of feminine wisdom, so that when I rise with the morning light, that which I need to know will be revealed to me, at the right divine timing.

And so it is. And so it is. And so it is.
Blessed be. Blessed be. Blessed be. 

Ancient Mothers,

Ignite the divine flame in my heart, the golden fire of my soul, so it can radiate out in all directions - to the west, north, east and south - like a radiant sun that shines into the world - a golden fire of love that burns away anything that is not in alignment with this love, so only love remains, allowing my life to be filled with so much light it can blossom into the highest expression of my soul's light.

And so it is. And so it is. And so it is.

Blessed be. Blessed be. Blessed be.

In this 23-minute long meditation (which is ideal to do in the morning, but can be done at any time during the day), you'll connect with your inner light — a light that holds everything you seek, because it connects you with the Divine Source.

All you are asked to do is gently release whatever blocks you from experiencing it, so this light can become the compass that guides you.

This meditation leads you through a process of letting go of thoughts rooted in fear, judgment, and grievance, so you can instead choose love, compassion, and a willingness to witness the light that has always been present.

As you move through this journey, your inner light begins to shine more fully, filling your life with love, blessings and joy.

This meditation is featured in the online course Say YES to Miracles (which consists of more than 60 meditations, and many more lectures connecting you with Spirit's voice. For more information, visit cissiwilliams.com/miracles).

Release the old you, so the new you can be reborn 💛

We're in a very powerful rebirth portal right now, and this healing and restorative shamanic journey with the Norse Goddess Freya is then perfect to do, as it fills you up with so much light, that it's easier to have the energy needed to move through this rebirth.

Freya embodies the golden light of the feminine found in your ancestral lineage. For you, she may of course manifest as Freya, but she might also show up as Brigid, or Mary Magdalene, or in whichever way this radiant, magical, golden feminine energy appears to you.

This deeply healing journey allows you to shed the old you, so the new you can be reborn. At the end, you’ll spend a few minutes writing a letter to yourself, from this golden light of the feminine, which is found within your heart (and in your core).

Trust this golden light of the feminine to be the midwife, guiding you through this rebirth 💛

This is a very powerful prayer to the Divine Mothers of Darkness and Light,  which moves you through your own rebirth, awakening an ancient wisdom that lives inside of you.

You'll surrender to the Divine Mothers all that which you are meant to let go of, so you can let the Wise Woman within you RISE once more, helping to birth a new consciousness into being.

This prayer emerged through me when I was sitting in Chalice Well Gardens in Glastonbury, and I could feel Her whisper to me.

It was recorded on one of the live online training modules on the Shamanic Energy Medicine Training, where the students move through an intense healing journey, awakening their inner Mystic, Healer and Wise Woman.

In this healing meditation, you are invited to sink beneath the noise of the mind and reconnect with the timeless stillness within your heart — the place where you are already connected to Spirit, to the Earth, and to your Divine Self.

From this place, you will root into Mother Earth and draw up a golden current of healing light, allowing it to rise through your whole energy system — through your chakras — grounding you, strengthening you, and aligning you with your soul’s love, wisdom, and truth.

You will then journey to a sacred place in the Upper World to meet your spirit team, where you will release what has been holding you back, so you can step into your power and be the light that you are — and as you do, you naturally help to uplift the world.

This meditation helps you remember that you are the light you’ve been waiting for — and as you shine your light, you will be guided to where to go, what to do, what to say, and to whom.

This meditation is from the online course Say Yes to Miracles (you can read more here).

An evening prayer to release the day that's been, placing it all into the loving arms of the Divine Mothers.

This prayer has been influenced by the mystical teachings found in A Course in Miracles, weaved in with the wisdom of the Divine Feminine.

Start your day with tuning into the loving energies of the Divine Mothers of Darkness and Light, so you let them guide you throughout your day.

This prayer has been inspired by some of the teachings found in A Course in Miracles, weaved in with the divine wisdom of the feminine.

Let the Fire of Her Love Guide Me ✨

Ancient Divine Mothers,
I surrender to you my heart, my path, and the very essence of my being.

Let your holy fire burn through me, awakening the ancient wisdom embedded within my bones, flowing through my veins, calling forth the Wise Woman within, the Valkyrie of my soul.

Let me hear her whispers, so she may guide me to my highest choices —where I choose love instead of fear, where I say YES to all that is good, and right, and beautiful.

Where I remember that the more I focus on the light, the more my inner light begins to shine even more strongly.

And so it is.
And so it is.
And so it is.

Blessed be.
Blessed be.
Blessed be.

❤️

With love,
Cissi Williams

PS. You can watch a video of this prayer on my Instagram here.

Ancient Divine Mothers,
I give to you the year that's just been.
Thank you for all my learnings, insights and wisdom.

I place in your loving arms all my thoughts and actions I’ve taken during this past year.

If there has been a thought, or action, that has not been from love, then please let it be cleansed in your holy fire, transforming it all into love, so I can make a higher choice next time - so I can choose love, instead of fear.

I also give to you the year that's coming.
May you be in charge, so I can be a conduit for your loving wisdom - so show me where to go, what to do, what to say, and to whom.
I’m ready to follow your lead.

And so it is.
And so it is.
And so it is.

Blessed be.
Blessed be.
Blessed be. ✨

PS. If you want to watch a video of this prayer you can find it on my Instagram @cissiwilliams here.

This journey is a little bit different than the journeys I normally take you on.

It is very magical, as it's taking you into that beautiful, mystical world where you meet the Spirit of Christmas.

We will journey using one of my own magical spirit beings, a white reindeer, and we will journey to the upper world, to the divine source of Awen.

Awen is the druid terminology for divine inspiration, and it is said that Awen is found in the beautiful northern lights, in the Aurora Borealis, so that's where we will journey, to source for Awen, and to source for gifts we are meant to bring through to our loved ones and to the world.

Meet Emma Griffin, author of The Witch’s Way Home and Find Your Soul Path.

Emma takes us deep into her new oracle deck - The Witch's Way Home - an amazing deck that helps you return home to yourself, allowing your soul to access the profound wisdom that resides both within and all around you.

Emma also does a reading for us all from her new oracle deck.

If you want to watch a short video snippet from this interview, visit cissiwilliams.com/podcast.

To find out more about Emma and her work, visit emmagriffinwitch.co.uk

Meet HeatherAsh Amara, bestselling author of the Warrior Goddess Training series.

HeatherAsh shares how we can weave in self-care, where we look after our body, and our own needs, whilst also being there for others.

When we did this interview HeatherAsh was just coming out the other end of having had Covid, so this conversation really shines a light on how to find balance between being and doing.

She also guides us on a 7-minute long meditation, tuning into the elements of fire and water (which starts on 31.16)

To watch a video snippet from this interview, visit cissiwilliams.com/podcast

To find out more about HeatherAsh and her work, visit heatherashamara.com and warriorgoddess.com

Meet Jane Burns, who is a Shamanic Practitioner and Teacher, with over 20 years' experience in psychic and medical intuition, energy medicine and past-life regression therapy.

In this interview, Jane shares her wisdom on grief, and how it is a powerful teacher of transformation.

She also talks about the Dark Night of the Soul, and how it can help us return to a greater sense of authenticity, where we find more clarity on who we are, and why we are here.

 Jane also guides us on an 11-minute long shamanic journey to the Otherworld, where we meet a loved one who has crossed over to the other side (starts at 29.54).

To watch a video snippet from this interview, visit cissiwilliams.com/podcast

To find out more about Jane and her work, visit journeystothesoul.com.

Meet Michelle MacEwan, who is a spiritual guide, teacher and storyteller.

In this interview, Michelle shares about the healing powers of the radiant dark and the realm of feminine wisdom, and she explains about the medicine found in moving with the natural cycles of darkness and light, such as in the Wheel of the Year.

She also guides us on a 10-minute long beautiful shamanic journey into the radiant dark (starts at 20.36). 

To watch a short video snippet from this interview, visit cissiwilliams.com/podcast

To find out more about Michelle and her work, visit michellemacewan.com.au.

This episode is from a journey I did with my shamanic energy medicine students, where you meet the Norse Dark Goddess Ran.

Ran will guide you on a very healing journey, and she also takes you through a soul retrieval process, where you connect with the light-filled essence of who you truly are.

You will also meet the Norse Dark Goddess Hel, who helps you to become more whole, as she is a portal of life, death and rebirth. 

You’ll also meet the Norse goddess Freya, who is a powerful healer, witch, high priestess and the First Völva, which is a female shaman in the Norse tradition. Freya represents the light in our soul – so she is the essence of our light-filled magic, feminine wisdom and power.

I first go through a talk, which gives you the map of the journey (please make sure you listen to the talk first, it is only 9 minutes long). And then the journey is around 50 minutes – and it is a very deep shamanic journey, deep into the landscape of your soul.

PS. The Norse scholar Maria Kvilhaug has written an amazing book called The Seed of Yggdrasil, and she is a master in decoding the Norse myths, so I warmly recommend you get her book.

In this gentle, healing and cleansing shamanic journey, that has been inspired by the holy wells found in Glastonbury - the heart chakra of the world - you’ll meet the Dark Mother and her daughters, the Dark Goddesses. 

You’ll also connect with the Tree of Life, which represents the different worlds of reality, with the trunk being our connection with the middle world, the branches connecting us with the upper world, so with the cosmos and that which we are becoming, and with the roots connecting us with the lower world, and our past, so our roots are connecting us with our ancestors.

You’ll also be connecting with the sacred wells of Glastonbury, the White Spring, which is the sacred well of the Divine Masculine, and the Red Spring which is the sacred well of the Divine Feminine, and the Dark Well, which is the sacred well of the Dark Mother, so you can come home to her love for you.

At the end of the journey you’ll receive messages from the Divine Mother on how you may serve the Divine Feminine, so you can share Her healing wisdom with others, as it is this wise, loving, compassionate and fierce wisdom the world needs right now.

This was recorded live on the Shamanic Energy Medicine Practitioner Training.

Meet Sophie Bashford, bestselling author, intuitive channel and teacher for the re-emergence of the divine feminine.

In this interview, Sophie shares about her latest oracle deck - Earth and Sky Oracle - and the journey it has taken her on.

She goes into depth on some of the cards, and how their medicine and wisdom have helped her heal deeply, and she also takes us on a healing journey with Goddess Ishtar (starts at 28.39).

If you want to watch a video snippet from this interview, visit cissiwilliams.com/podcast.

To find out more about Sophie visit sophiebashford.com.

Meet Emma Griffin, author of The Witch’s Way Home and Find Your Soul Path. 

Emma shares her journey of embracing her inner witch – a journey sparked when a Tarot reader told her she would never have children if she stayed with her partner. Choosing to take her power back, Emma dived deep into the magical mysteries of witchcraft, and shortly afterwards her daughter was born.

In this interview, she speaks about the witch wound and offers practical tools for how we too can embrace our inner witch.

If you want to watch a short video snippet from this interview, visit cissiwilliams.com/podcast.

To find out more about Emma and her work, visit emmagriffinwitch.co.uk

Meet Emmi Mutale, who is an intuitive healer, energy medicine practitioner and a Shamanic Womb Priestess and Teacher.

Emmi is dedicated to the reawakening of ancient feminine wisdom, and in this interview she shares her journey into the Divine Feminine, and awakening this ancient wisdom held in her womb - a wisdom that helped her heal deeply.

She also guides us on a very powerful womb activation and womb journey - I was taken really deep, and you can hear me process afterwards. This journey is only 19 minutes long and very healing (it begins at 33.15).

If you want to watch a video snippet of this interview, then visit cissiwilliams.com/podcast.

To find out more about Emmi and her work, visit femininerevered.com.

Ashmi Pathela is a globally recognised channeler, and author of Anchoring the Light and Awakening the Heart of Humanity.

In this episode she shares how when we remember that we are infinite, our whole reality shifts, as we connect with our soul’s light.

She describes her journey of leaving a successful career in Silicon Valley to follow her heart. Today she helps others anchor their light, and show them how they can break free from lifetimes of negative programming.

Ashmi also guides us through a meditation where you connect with your soul’s light (begins at 15.33 minutes, and is around 5 minutes long).

To watch a short video snippet from this interview, visit cissiwilliams.com/podcast.

You can find out more about Ashmi on ashmipathela.com

In this episode you meet bestselling author, spiritual intuitive, and oracle expert Colette Baron-Reid, who talks about her new book The Art of Manifestation.

She shares how there is this intersection between creativity and manifestation, that allows you to claim the life you desire as you co-create with the Universe.

This method helps you to harness the extraordinary power of intentional art to rewire your brain, break old patterns, and align your mind and intentions with the energy of the Universe. And anyone can do it - no special skills required!

To watch a video snippet from this interview, visit cissiwilliams.com/podcast.

To find out more about Colette visit colettebaronreid.com.

Psychologist and intuitive Athena Laz helps us connect with the Medial Woman, who dances in the dark and return to the light more whole than before.

This archetype—sister to the wild woman—represents intuition, spiritual insight, and connection to the unseen. And it’s far from a rare or mystical gift: The medial nature resides within us all, waiting to be rediscovered.

In this interview she talks about her latest book Women Who Dance in the Dark - Awaken Your Inner Seer through Myths, Dreams and Stories.

She also does a reading for us from her Sisterhood of the Seers Oracle.

If you want to watch a video snippet from this interview, then visit cissiwilliams.com/podcast

To find out more about Athena and her work, visit athenalaz.com

Meet Meggan Watterson, the bestselling author of Mary Magdalene Revealed, and a feminist theologian with a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School and a Master of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary at Columbia University.

In her new book The Girl Who Baptized Herself, she shares how Thecla’s story in The Acts of Paul and Thecla, helped her personally reclaim her own power, in an area of her life where she felt powerless. 

In this interview she talks about how Thecla’s refusal to be controlled, as well as the authority she reclaims by baptising herself, reads like a lost gospel for finding our own source of power within – a power that allows us to know who we are and to make choices based on that knowing. 

To watch a video snippet from this interview, visit cissiwilliams.com/podcast.

To find out more about Meggan and her work visit megganwatterson.com.

Welcome to our new podcast season, where we start with journeying through the portal of the solar eclipse and the autumn equinox into the sacred darkness – moving us through a deep soul transformation and rebirth.

This season starts with two episodes – the first one dives into the powerful medicine of the Dark Mother, and the second one is a shamanic journey with Persephone (not the same shamanic journey I did a few days ago on the live webinar, which you can access here).

This episode is an extract from an interview Emmi Mutale did with me for her online summit Return to the Mother World, dancing with the Dark Divine Feminine – where we explore who the Dark Mother is, how she is the one that births the light, that her love awakens us to the truth of who we are, and that her powerful medicine and wisdom is already within us, wired into our DNA.

Go on a shamanic journey with Persephone to heal your roots and ancestral lineage.

Please listen to the short talk (just over 4 minutes long) before the journey as it gives you the MAP of the journey so you can dive much deeper into the mythical landscape of your soul (the journey begins at 4.44).

This journey is from my book Your Heart Knows How to Heal You – it's the journey found in the first chamber of the heart, the chamber that brings us the medicine of releasing the past so we can set off on our deep journey of healing. 

This book consists of 9 shamanic journeys, all guiding you deeper into your inner wisdom, and all readers gain access to the audio recordings of these shamanic journeys. You can read more about Your Heart Knows How to Heal You here.

The journey is 37 minutes long.

If you want to watch a recent live webinar I did on Persephone and Hecate, where I also guided everyone on a shamanic journey (very different from this one here in this episode) you can access the replay of that webinar here.

Go on a shamanic journey where you receive blessings from the Light of Spirit and from the Sacred Darkness, preparing you for the healing journey and rebirth that awaits you as you move into the Wise Woman energy of the autumn.

Go on a shamanic inner journey, visiting the middle world, lower world and upper world, allowing you to heal and expand your consciousness. You also discover the visions, dreams and gifts you are meant to receive so you can be part of the solution, helping to birth a new consciousness into being.

On this very healing shamanic journey you'll first cleanse and heal your roots, so you can strengthen your connection with your Ancient Mother.

You'll then journey to the sacred womb of the Dark Mother, where you'll go through a deep healing process, extracting and releasing from you that which is no longer serving you.

You'll receive the medicine from the Dark Mothers (Norse goddess Hel, the Celtic goddess Cerridwen and others who are working with you) drinking from their magical cauldron. They also initiate you into their teachings for you.

And you'll meet the Light Mothers, solar goddesses, such as Freya, Idun, Brigid and Isis, who will give you their medicine for you, and initiate you into the path you’ll be walking as you follow their guidance, their love, their wisdom.

By doing this journey you'll tune into the sacred medicine from the Divine Mothers of Darkness & Light, helping you to dance with the seasons.

PS. This journey was recorded on the live shamanic energy medicine training (on the first module of the practitioner training).

This is a very powerful shamanic journey that is highly useful to do anytime you feel you are 'stuck', or that you feel you've outgrown an aspect of your life but you don't quite know how to shift it.

In this journey, you'll connect with the Tree of Life (your nervous system) where you'll be working on releasing what has kept you trapped in the past, through your roots (ancestral patterns and old programming).

You'll also work with the beautiful, ancient healer, the Serpent Mother. The Serpent is a symbol for the goddess, for healing, regeneration and rebirth, who shows us how we can gently let go of our old identities, old wounds and scars, just like she sheds her skin. She assists you in healing your body, as she represents how she can free herself from scars and disease by shedding her old structure.

The Serpent Mother sheds her skin in one big ‘swoosh’, so she is not peeling away one tiny piece at a time, taking forever, but instead she decides that it’s time to let go of the whole outdated structure. And through her willingness to let the past go, she gracefully slides out of her old confinement.

Trust that the Serpent Mother is a great healer. She is loving and wise, and she knows how to guide you to shed the past. I love working with her, and considering I have a snake phobia, her gentleness and healing medicine took me by surprise. (The way I've found peace around that, is that I see her as a Serpent, whilst my phobia is relating to snakes - and yes, I know they are the same, but somehow, this distinction has helped me).

During this journey you'll release many layers of that which has been holding you back, so you can move with more ease into the future.

It can be very helpful to regularly do a 'shedding' like this (just like the Serpent sheds her skin regularly), so you keep creating space for new life to emerge through you.

This journey was recorded live during the first module in the Shamanic Energy Medicine Practitioner Training (you can read more about the training here).

In this meditation you'll let go of what's holding you back and what's meant to fall away, so you instead can create room for something new. You'll also receive a new vision, like a new seed, which you are meant to nurture until it's ready to blossom in your life.

In this guided shamanic journey the Black Madonna will help you heal the masculine and the feminine within you, helping you to come into balance.

Through this healing journey you’ll also receive the gifts that she has kept safe for you – gifts of wisdom which you are meant to share with others. 

I had my own first mystical experience of the Black Madonna in a little chapel in Glastonbury, the Isle of Avalon, so as you listen to this meditation, let yourself be held by her loving medicine, and feel how you are transported to the magical realms of Avalon (Glastonbury).

In this episode I’ll be taking you on a magical shamanic journey, where you’ll first journey to the Land of Ice, noticing all the frozen thought patterns that are buried deep within your psyche, and then you’ll journey to meet the Dark Goddesses so they can help you transform these old wounds, releasing  the hold the past has had on you.

You'll then journey to meet the three Norns, powerful archetypes of time, who are weavers of the web of life. The Norns will help you weave more love and light and grace and blessings into your life.

I recommend you do this very powerful shamanic journey when you are wide awake, as it is one hour long, and see it as you setting aside sacred time to give yourself a sacred shamanic healing session with your soul as your shamanic guide.