In this soul-stirring episode, we journey beyond the Easter we know today and into the ancient, feminine roots. Long before chocolate eggs and Sunday services, cultures around the world honored the Earth's reawakening in alignment with Goddess traditions - Eostre, Ishtar, Inanna, and hundreds of others - who embodied life itself, renewal, fertility, the sacred power of the body, and the great turning of the seasons.
We'll explore the mythic origins of Easter, before Christianity, the rise and fall of Goddess Cultures, the symbolic significance of Spring, underworld journeys and how they show up in our lives, as well as what it means to reclaim the sacred feminine in a modern world.
This episode is both a remembrance and a reclamation, a call to akaen the goddess that lives within all of us and listen for the song of the Earth as she rises again into a new cycle of life and fertility.
In this episode you'll hear:
00:22 - Introduction
03:15 - Grounding Practice
04:32 - A Peek Into Ancient Goddess Cultures
07:07 - Every Woman Carries The Echoes of the Goddess
07:39 - Feminine Rites of Passage
08:23 - The Destruction of Goddess Traditions
11:35 - Christianity’s Co-Opting of Ancient Celebrations
12:45 - Why Eggs + Bunnies Represent Easter
14:03 - What Easter Was Really About
15:25 - The Goddesses of Rebirth: Ishtar, Oestre, Inanna, Persephone, and More
17:52 - Death and Rebirth Stories Have Always Been A Part of Human Consciousness
18:19 - The Story of Inanna’s Descent Into The Underworld
27:51 - The Three Stages of a Rite of Passage and How They Show Up In Our Lives As Women and Mothers
31:19 - Rites of Passage as a Part of Female Biology and How Our Feminine Cycles Mirror The Cycles of Nature
33:27 - The Ancient Symbols of Easter: Eggs, Hares, Water, + Fire
40:06 - May We Remember: A Wish For Us All at the Turning of Spring
40:50 - Closing Meditation: Awakening The Goddess Within
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