Ep 27. “Life is Divination”: Spiritual Awakenings, Accessing Wild Webs of Wisdom, and Serving Medicine (w/ Kat Hargreaves)

What happens if you take two humans, both with some sort of calling to catalyze change, sit them down together during the Lion’s Gate Portal while spiders spin webs overhead, and then release that recording into the world on a Full Moon in Pisces??? 

A helluva magical, fiery, and loving conversation.

Pull up your chair, your log, your rock; get your tea, your hot cocoa, your popcorn - whatever you need to get comfortable because joining me around the fire today is Katharine (Kat) Hargreaves: “the woman in the boat who meets others on the threshold,” a shamanic practitioner, ceremonial guide, and initiated medicine womxn who provides spiritual mentorship, apprenticeship programs, and psychedelic integration support for those on the healing path. 

And when it comes to many of the big questions we face on spiritual journeys, within the plant medicine world, as soulful entrepreneurs, or as humans in ‘white’ bodies aiming to ‘do better’… we don’t hold back.  

You’ll hear our thoughts on things like:

• finding friends and relationships with the wild ones, our non-human kin;
• tending the earth means tending the body;
• definitions of ‘medicine’ beyond something we put in our bodies;
• humans are not a scourge, nor are they supreme;
• Kate’s shift from being in service to the wounds to being in service to the old ways;
• Kat’s experience learning to hold her own medicine and the medicine of “you’re not ready yet”;
• what plants can offer us, as teachers in their own right;
• colonialism, ‘white’ culture, and being rootless;
• ritual, divination, and accessing the wider web of wisdom;
• unlearning greed and power-over hierarchies to find initiations and integrations as natural gatekeepers;
• taking more responsibility (in healthy ways)
• the challenges and process of ‘finding your medicine’ and living your purpose…

and so much more.

This conversation, while potent for any listener who loves complexity and spirituality, will probably feel especially powerful for you if you spend a lot of time in spiritual and wellness spaces or consider yourself a healer, yoga teacher, herbalist or server of plant medicines, etc; and especially if you hold those sacred roles while navigating the world within a ‘white’ body and grappling with questions of doing it the honorable and ‘right’ way. 

If so, or even if you’re called for another reason, let yourself be moved into place around this fire. I think you’ll find something awakening, grounding, challenging and affirming here. 

You can find Kat:

Website – www.wildalive.co

Experience an Ancestral Divination – www.wildalive.co/divination

Newsletter – wildalive.substack.com

Instagram – www.instagram.com/katakhann

Linkt.ree – https://linktr.ee/katakhann

And if you've come for Kat, I hope you'll stick around for more conversations to access, repair, inspire, and evolve our humanity and serve the wild, tender aliveness of our personal and collective hearts.

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