Goddess... Rekindled 🔥
Divine Feminine Weavings
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The past weekend, something beautiful moved me so much that I had to jump on here and share. But before I get to that… a little backstory.
I used to do a thing. And that thing was a podcast. The podcast was called Belgariad & Beyond. It’s retired now, but you can still find it on pretty much any listening platform where podcasts are found… if you want to check it out.
The podcast was the most mystical mixture of magical realism, book discussions, and healing magic. It was two witchy goddesses coming together and getting into the grit of life with much grace and laughter while also doing a chapter-by-chapter of The Belgariad book series.
As happens, life took Sondra and I each on a path that called us away from the podcast (though recording these episodes with Sondra are some of my fondest memories) and we ended it quite fittingly in 2021 with an episode titled, Boob Crystal Taboos. I still laugh every time I remember this. It really does sum up the idea of the show well.
A personal reflection about this podcast and time of my life
Doing this podcast was a truly transformative journey that rekindled the first sparks in my belly of the Divine Feminine in my conversations with Sondra. I didn’t know at the time just how powerful these conversations would be in the rest of my life. I went back and listened to a few clips and I’m shocked at the stark difference between me then, and me now.
It’s humbling to listen to this boxed-in, mind-centered, “still-searching” version of me. A woman screaming to break free, but not yet ready. A woman who still had a lot to shed, alchemize, and heal.
I’m empowered by how much I’ve rooted and embodied in confidence and feminine power just from a few years ago. I’m finally approaching the wild woman I’ve always yearned to be.
Sondra, thank you for being the kindle of my own return to the Divine Feminine all those years ago. Though I didn’t know it was happening at the time, I probably wouldn’t be where I am now without this chapter of life we had together. Your presence in my life during such a dark time was often the one thing that kept me breathing, and laughing, through it. Our friendship is always held close in my heart. 💜
Goddess, Sondra Turnbull
Onto the beautiful moment that moved my heart this past weekend…
The gorgeous goddess that is Sondra Turnbull is one I’m blessed to call a friend, sister, and podcasting companion. Even as time has pulled us apart, our lives weave together at touchpoint moments that bring me deeper into my own alchemizing journey. This past weekend was one of those moments.
Sondra is also a writer, which is how we connected many years ago. She’s written amazing fiction and inspiring non-fiction. One of her passion projects, when we were doing the podcast, was taking A Course in Miracles through a Divine Feminine translation. At the time, there were some hiccups for her to get approval from the original writers and publishers, and things were on pause.
And yet, she’s now done it! A Goddess Course in Miracles was just published earlier this week. It was extremely timely synchronistic that this news arrived the morning of my first priestess circle with some other truly amazing and potent women I’ve met here on Substack. It felt like one of those full-circle moments where the Universe was saying, “See, I’ve got you. You’re surrounded by so much love and Divine Feminine power. You’ve come so far. Nothing can stop you now. Keep going.”
I’m in awe of the incredible accomplishment Sondra has made through writing and publishing the first volume of A Goddess Course in Miracles. I mean, what a time to be alive! The rising and the returning of the Divine Feminine is everywhere.
Receiving this news from Sondra warmed my heart in a proud moment of watching one of my sisters rise while simultaneously empowering me to a knowing that the goddesses, priestesses, witches, mystics, and healers are truly unifying now in a beautiful dance of reclamation and potency. To know that there is now a Divine Feminine translation of A Course in Miracles circulating on our planet fires me up—right into the womb.
Can you feel it too?
The book information is below if you’d like to get your own copy and peruse Sondra’s books and artwork (and if you feel the call of the Divine Feminine, then I suggest you do!)
Let’s rise together.
Love you, Sondra!!💜💜💜 ~Alysia
A Goddess Course in Miracles
Book description:
This divine feminine translation of "A Course in Miracles" includes completely feminine lexicon and original art inspired by the teachings.
"A Goddess Course in Miracles" is for women who are soul-sick of patriarchal language, searching to find themselves in classic spiritual frameworks.
This book is what Divine Mother's scriptures might have been if the followers of Jesus' teachings had based their religion on the resurrection of the Christ rather than the crucifixion of a man.
What if the Church had been offered to humanity through the Comforter, rather than the rock?
What if the lost years of Christ had been acknowledged as a time spent in the East with friends, gathering the threads of Eternal Truth?
Explore the mystical truths of Christianity as it could have been in an entirely feminine context, inside this voice for Sophia.
It's time to shake up your perspectives and recognise guilt for what it is.
Let go of fear. Love your Self.
Daughter of Goddess, there is and never was anything to forgive.
(The ebook will be available soon!)
Moonrise Mystic is the journey of a novelist connecting her love of story with her passion for the mystical into one moving, breathing prayer. It’s for those who love to read fantasy stories and intuitive writings that explore expanding through the initiations of life, death and rebirth, and transmuting shadow to light. Thank you for being here!
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