Goddess Works

"...Listen Hear what they say to you We struggled We held out our hands and touched each other We remembered to laugh We went to endless meetings We said no We put our bodies on the line We said yes We invented, we created We walked straight through our fears We formed the circle We danced We spoke the truth And dared to live it." —Starhawk (Truth or Dare) Reminder: join us in community: Goddess Magic and in daily practice: #30DaysofGoddess Please take a few moments to breathe and pause and call yourself in.  This month's episode was recording several years ago and draws upon The Box from Womanrunes, rune of boundaries. Where might you need to set firmer boundaries in your life? There are a lot of social messages to think “outside of the box,” but sometimes the Box is exactly what we need! It can also show up for me almost a type of “chastisement”--as in, "girl! you've got to work on those boundaries!"--but more often is a helpful reminder or reinforcement of what I already know needs to happen. This rune may indicate that you need to say "no," but it is also often about discernment: checking in with your center, with your place of power and then wholeheartedly expressing either your Sacred Yes or your Holy No. May you experience time as dancing, flowing, and sparkling for you this week. May you make time to draw lines when needed. May you be flexible when needed. And, may you check within--into your place of power--for that Sacred Yes and Holy No, and listen to your heart. Right now, gift yourself with a pause for three breaths. There really is no place else to be but here. And now, the rattle passes to you...

Perhaps if I wait, hands empty, mind stilled, the tides will bring it back to me as they often do, steadily returning the parts of me I thought were lost. This month's podcast episode is a musing about taking breaks, particularly in conjunction with self-employment, but I hope applicable in other lifestyle circumstances as well.  One of the things I want to emphasize in this idea/message is that sometimes  we might feel like we’re having a “breakdown” when we are really on the  verge of a breakthrough. Sometimes we might feel it when we really just need to take a break.  Taking a break, a temporary unclenching of your  life, is not the same as “giving up” nor is it a permanent surrender. Referenced in the audio is this past audio about Stopping (http://www.brigidsgrove.com/stopping/)  Resource for ongoing support, audios, printables, and practices: Goddess Magic community (http://patreon.com/goddessmagic) Resource for daily practice (free!): http://30daysofgoddess.com I also had two additional things I want to note about the audio: 1. I spoke in it of my own almost compulsive level of self-motivation and self-direction. I should have acknowledged or spoken to the fact that other people do not feel that way and need ideas, resources, and support for getting motivated rather than "shutting off" motivation for a time. I do have some ideas for how to become more motivated if you struggle with self-motivation and self-direction and I don't mean for this audio to make you feel left out or unheard if my own motivation "overload" is completely different than your own experience (this audio is available for the Goddess Magic community on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/audio-motivation-38272682). 2. I also wanted to add on that when I mention "where might you need to 'take down some chairs'?" you might also want to ask yourself where to want to put up some chairs. Maybe you need to add chairs instead of taking some away. There are days when the sky holds its breath and dreams seep up from the skin of the world and into my feet. Much love, Molly

Happy New Year! This podcast episode includes a companion set of nourishment cards: https://brigidsgrove.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/nourishment-cards.pdf Resist the fracturing. Defy the fragmentation. Reclaim wholeness. Reclaim holiness. Rename yourself sacred and embody your joy. Originally recorded two years ago for the Goddess Magic community, this theme emerged as I was sitting on the back deck thinking about recipes for my kids' homeschool cooking club and about how you have the power to change your own recipes to meet your needs. I then thought about it as a metaphor for life—for being your own authority, for making your own magic—and I ended up spontaneously recording an audio about it. When I re-listened to the audio, I was struck by my own closing words: trust that you know the kind of nourishment you need and from there I spontaneously made a small set of nourishment related affirmation cards as a gift for all of your. Print these on card stock, multiple cards to a page, for best use. :) Essay referenced: To Bless One Another. Re-collect yourself, re-source yourself, restore yourself. And, remember, you have the power to create your own recipes for living!

What is a word of the year? How do you find one? How do you know what it is? Many people opt to choose a "Word of the Year" as they enter a new year. This sacred word becomes a touchstone, an affirmation, a statement of values, and a source of strength, encouragement, focus, and direction for the year as a whole. It is a powerful talisman--a vow and a spell all in one single word. I've created a 30 card sacred word deck for you as a companion to this audio to give you inspiration/ideas and it may be accessed via our newsletter: https://us3.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=4f7233481d8eb86675b7978b6&id=032c8be601 Daily practice home page for everyday enchantment: http://30daysofgoddess.com. 

Be wise to your ways. “Know thyself,” is engraved into the chamber at Delphi, and beyond that lies the temple smoky, dark, and powerful, filled with ancient whispers and the stony, determined steps that lead into the heart of things. This past Patreon community audio is based on some content from the book Untamed by Glennon Doyle. It is about unlocked doors in our lives, how we might be keep ourselves in knots/trapped/restricted/bound by old habits and patterns. Here is a quote from Glennon in an interview with Marie Forleo: "To remember how tricky my ego can be by keeping my brain busy trying to  solve the unsolvable puzzle about why I don’t feel worthy and enough and  how to feel worthy and enough.  My truest and most beautiful story is  being in touch with the real me behind the ego, the authentic, real,  wild, fierce me.  Unlocking the cage and letting myself think the  thoughts I am worthy and enough and feel the feelings I am worthy and  enough.  The cages are real, they are our own making now in our thoughts  and remembering that the door is unlocked is powerful!  Maybe it comes  from survival instinct not to become prey and to belong for safety back  in the day.  Or maybe it comes from current societal conditioning to be  accepted so we go along with conventions to avoid fear and shame and  being excluded from the group...." May you remember that the doors aren't even locked. Much love, Molly Resources: ongoing #30DaysofGoddess daily practice: 30daysofgoddess.com ongoing Goddess Magic community: patreon.com/goddessmagic

Restoration is the antidote to depletion.  This new audio retreat/reflection encourages you to take a pause to consider where you’ve become depleted—this has been a hard year—and where you might need restoration, as well as how you replenish and renew yourself.  Resources:  #30DaysofGoddess is a perfect practice for daily restoration and renewal Goddess Magic community for companionship, support, sharing, and weekly lives   The essay this episode is based on can be found here

This is a short episode about autumnal resolutions. Note: disregard the information about Living the Questions, which was a previously offered course at the original time of recording. In Simple Abundance, Sarah Ban Breathnach writes about September as an ideal time to consider "turning over a new leaf" and making heartfelt resolutions based on authentic wants. A new set of journal cards for the next three weeks is available for you here. Questions from the audio: What new leaf do you want to turn over? Are you wasting the autumn? What are your authentic wants? What do you want more or less of in your life, so that you can love the life you're leading? Are you open to change? Do you love the life you're leading? Ongoing daily practice resources: #30DaysofGoddess.

“What  say you to a ramble among the fairy rock pools, weed-covered ledges,  and gem-decked parterres bordering the gardens of the sea?” —Crab, Shrimp, and Lobster Lore, W. B. Lord 1867 This episode is from the archives and was originally recorded in 2018 (note that not all referenced resources/experiences may be current). This episode is long and covers a lot of ground, from croning ceremonies to finding your magic to working from home. If you are not interested in the section on our personal employment history (totally fine to not be interested!), you can skip ahead after I start talking about it and into the last five minutes or so of the audio, where you will hear  the card reading and the closing poem. For powerful daily practices and everyday magic see: http://30daysofgoddess.com and http://patreon.com/brigidsgrove

We are held between summer’s fatigue and summer’s fire, there has been a blooming and a ripening, and now a harvesting and a fading, as the time comes to turn the page. This audio is a twenty minute mini ritual about finding “spots of time” for devotion, magic, and enchantment. Note: the book I referenced writing, Whole and Holy, was, in fact, published with that name and is available in our Etsy shop. For support materials and resources see: http://brigidsgrove.Etsy.com and http://patreon.com/brigidsgrove and http://30daysofgoddess.com

"The question about how to 'understand' her now clarifies itself, as the wrong question...perhaps interstand is what we do, to engage with the work, to mix with it an active engagement, rather than 'figuring it out.' Figure it in." --Judy Grahn in Open Mind The editor of the anthology I quote from above, Diane Mariechild, adds: "To interstand, we must be in relationship with what is happening." As we've been talking about on this journey together, daily practices and personal ceremonies really matter and it is important to both find ways to deepen our practices, but also showing up for ourselves and doing it anyway, even if it isn’t what you imagined or you don’t have enough time, or it doesn’t feel “big enough” also matters. Our card for the week from Womanrunes, was The Dancing Woman, rune of power. How are you dancing in your power? Do you feel like a powerful person? Do you know how it feels to stand in your power? Where might you need to more fully inhabit your power? What are you figuring in? In the recording, I also share a long story about creating a seashell mandala at the beach during the lunar eclipse and full moon and what I learned from sunlight and shadow that day. Note: this audio was originally recorded several years ago prior to the spring equinox, so it is a little off schedule for the present season. However, I’ve been thinking about some of its themes recently and felt motivated to make it public now. Affirmation for the week: I make time to “figure it in” and I dance into my full power.

“What greater praise can I give you than to call you green? Green, rooted in light, shining like the sun that pours riches on the wheeling earth; incomprehensible green, divinely mysterious green, comforting arms of divine green protecting us in their powerful circle…” —Hildegard of Bingen I'm re-visiting an older audio this week (originally from 2017) themed around "May You Be Green," which was a prompt in our Earthprayer series. I've been trying to decide what to do with some of the archived materials that I had stored in a past classroom space and I decided I'm periodically going to re-share some of them here. Some of them may feel familiar to you, others may feel brand new! Our card for the week from Womanrunes was The Box, rune of boundaries. Where might you need to set firmer boundaries in your life? There are a lot of social messages to think “outside of the box,” but sometimes the Box is exactly what we need! From The Goddess Guidance Oracle we received Vesta. Vesta reminds us to tend to our homespaces as expressions of our soul. Is your home nourishing your soul? Is it an outer expression of your inner experience? How about other environments, workplaces, offices, etc.? What is something you might do this week to help your home express the qualities of your soul? May you be green. May you set boundaries as needed. May you tend your hearth well and wisely. Affirmation for the week: I draw lines when needed. I create a place of beauty and express my soul. And, now, dear Circle, the rattle passes to you.... Where might you need to set boundaries? What can you do to more fully express your soul within your environment(s)?

An audio ritual for the Creative Spirit Circle, drawing inspiration from the Sun from Womanrunes and musing about making choices and living a life small enough to hold you.

Created as a supplement for our ongoing #30DaysofGoddess practice, this is a brief reading about sustainable self care and devotional rhythm. It is based on an article from the October 2021 issue of Mindful Magazine in an article called The Power of Sustainable Self-Care by Shelly Tygielski. "Consider the rhythms of your daily life—what would qualify as your mudrooms? What physical spaces or natural pauses already exist that would allow you to transition more elegantly from one demand or obligation to another? What about the weekly balance of your activities? Are some areas of your life being overrun or overwhelmed by others? You are the architect of your life, so consider your whole house and how to change things so that you can function at your best..." There is no perfect, there is no right way, there is only your life as you live it, one choice, one breath, one no, one yes at a time.

Based on the book Simple Abundance, this audio explores some questions of the authentic self as well as the concept of “Divine Discontent.”

May foundation audio for Living the Questions exploring how your inner life shapes your outer life, creative living, and more.

A practice based audio for Living the Questions—where does your wonder lead you? Can you practice radical amazement?

Audio for month three of Living the Questions.

An exploration of devotion and devotional practice.

This is a brief guided meditation for Living the Questions, based on the book Morning Altars by Day Schildkret.

This is a brief audio with a practice based on the book The Mist-Filled Path.

A ten minute exploration of blessing and releasing things in your life.

The March foundation audio for Living the Questions: How is your listening expressed in your living? Have you stopped listening to yourself? What do you trust? Can you hear the deeper river (of your life)?

A past ritual audio (originally from 2017) with a theme of Listening, now shared for Living the Questions. The affirmation card deck referenced in this audio is available via our Online Temple page (bit.ly/onlinetemplecsc)

This audio was originally created in 2018 for a program no longer offered. Luckily, the insights herein about everyday magic remain relevant! I’m sharing this as a supplemental resource for people participating in Living the Questions (2021)

An exploration of goddess-centered daily spiritual practices and increasing connection in your own life.

“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.” --Zora Neale Hurston I feel like this is a year for questions and for living and leaning into our questions. I also think this is a year for listening--to ourselves, to our hearts, to our souls, to the answers that arise from within. This is our first audio. Feel free to reflect upon it in your own journals and/or in the private Facebook group created for this class.

Thanks for taking part in our #30DaysofGoddess journey! This audio explores ideas for continuing this practice in your life as the year continues to unfold.

This audio explores ideas for daily practices and for connecting to the 30 Days of Goddess devotional practice currently being offered.