Episode 24: The Symbol of the Shadow

This episode offers a conversation a bit more personal, and more candid, about our experiences of working in our fields of tarot and astrology. Both of our disciplines can be considered healing modalities, but what does it really mean to be a healer in the modern age? How can we keep our work grounded and human, yet still invite in a connection with something more numinous? We chat about the ways in which being a healer is really more of offering a sacred mirror to our querents, allowing them to see their complexities with nuance and compassion--that's where we believe the true healing emanates from. For our dream portion of the show, we explore a listener's dream and synchronicity of being struck by lightning.🐚 Join The Cloister 🐚Our new community membership space is up and running, offering a sweet community chat, bonus podcast episodes bi-weekly, a book club, and even a dream interpretation space! Join us here.💓 Leave Us A Review 💓If you love our show, you can help us reach curious minds and hearts by leaving us a rating or review wherever you listen to your pods! Thank you so much for being a part of our podcast journey. 🌹 Advertise With Us 🌹Would you like your product or shop to be featured as an ad partner on Soror Mystica? Explore advertising options here!🧩 Share Your Symbols 🧩Do you have a symbol that pops up in dreams, in your tarot card pulls, or in your personal experience that puzzles you? If you’d like to hear us talk about your personal symbol on our show, feel free to share your story with us here.📸 Find Us On Instagram 📸Soror MysticaMariana LouisCristina Farella

The egg, or the cosmic egg, is a primal symbol of creation. In honor of spring truly getting underway, episode 33 of Soror Mystica explores the egg in all its procreative glory. Eggs are present in mythologies the world over, often coming up in explanations of the birth of the world, which usually is figured by the bifurcation of an egg which splits into sky and earth. Join us as we explore the mysteries of egg symbolism as it emerges in religious traditions, creation myths, mystery cults, and of course, as a symbol of the potential contained within the feminine. Contemplations of the binary of necessity and potential, the Temperance card, the rebus, the mandorla of the World card, fire and water lend deeper context to this symbol. Eggs, snakes, and ancestors emerge, here, and we hope this episode is nourishing as spring gets underway. At the end of this episode, we interpret a listener's dream of being presented with a dagger. Submit *your* dream symbol to us at our website.ANNOUNCEMENTS: Mariana will be teaching Archetypal Tarot 101, explore hereCristina will be teaching Astrology for Beginners, explore hereOur book club meets April 13th to discuss Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red, join us here!🐚 Join The Cloister 🐚Our new community membership space is up and running, offering a sweet community chat, bonus podcast episodes bi-weekly, a book club, and even a dream interpretation space! Join us here.💓 Leave Us A Review 💓If you love our show, you can help us reach curious minds and hearts by leaving us a rating or review wherever you listen to your pods! Thank you so much for being a part of our podcast journey. 🌹 Advertise With Us 🌹Would you like your product or shop to be featured as an ad partner on Soror Mystica? Explore advertising options here!🧩 Share Your Symbols 🧩Do you have a symbol that pops up in dreams, in your tarot card pulls, or in your personal experience that puzzles you? If you’d like to hear us talk about your personal symbol on our show, feel free to share your story with us here.📸 Find Us On Instagram 📸Soror MysticaMariana LouisCristina Farella

In honor of the Vernal Equinox, this episode is dedicated to the shimmering, gently unfurling symbol of Spring! With winter behind us, the Sun and his warmth grows wilder and more golden with each passing day. But there is more to this season than the warming of the world. Spring is associated with the themes of resurrection, fertility, and the reclamation of the sovereign path. Our listener symbol this episode is a contemplation of the theme of being chased in our dreams. Calling all astro-curious listeners of this show ~ Cristina is going to be teaching "Astrology for Beginners" this spring! Get all the details and your early-bird discount, here! https://www.cristinafarella.com/astrology-for-beginnersOur BOOK CLUB will be meeting April 13th, to discuss Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red. Join us by joining The Cloister today! 🐚 Join The Cloister 🐚Our new community membership space is up and running, offering a sweet community chat, bonus podcast episodes bi-weekly, a book club, and even a dream interpretation space! Join us here.💓 Leave Us A Review 💓If you love our show, you can help us reach curious minds and hearts by leaving us a rating or review wherever you listen to your pods! Thank you so much for being a part of our podcast journey. 🌹 Advertise With Us 🌹Would you like your product or shop to be featured as an ad partner on Soror Mystica? Explore advertising options here!🧩 Share Your Symbols 🧩Do you have a symbol that pops up in dreams, in your tarot card pulls, or in your personal experience that puzzles you? If you’d like to hear us talk about your personal symbol on our show, feel free to share your story with us here.📸 Find Us On Instagram 📸Soror MysticaMariana LouisCristina Farella

Oracles and prophetic vision were paramount to life in the ancient world. Along with astrology and haruspicy, consultation of the oracle was recognized as an important way of connecting with the will and vision of the divine. We live in a world that has stripped away the importance of the oracle and her voice, and so in this episode, we explore stories of the Oracle at Delphi, Apollo, Python, and Gaia, Cassandra, and expressions of the feminine oracle, and snake connections in prophecy. We also contemplate the split between the "mantic," uncontrolled oracle (associated with the feminine) and the "prohetes," the interpreter of the divinations, oftentimes associated with the masculine. Sit with us as we ask the question, what does it mean to crack open the boundary between mortal and oracular realms, and how can we connect with the oracular through divination? Can we connect to the personal oracular through nature, through the body? How can we best translate our intuitive knowing into empowering insights? How do we find truth in the oracular?For our listener symbol portion of the show, we examine the synchronistic discovery of four leaf clovers in one of our listener's lives.We loved this episode, and hope you do, too. Links and Announcements!There's just a few days more to enroll in Cristina's new class on Chiron in myth and astrology, starting on March 10th! Learn more here!What We're ReadingMariana: Healers on Healing, Richard CarlsonCristina: Brideshead Revisited (still!), The Greeks and the Irrational, E.R. DoddsThanks to our episode partner Tending the Mysteryhttps://www.tendingthemystery.com@tendingthemystery on Instagram🐚 Join The Cloister 🐚Our new community membership space is up and running, offering bonus podcast episodes bi-weekly, a book club, and even a dream interpretation space! Join us here.💓 Leave Us A Review 💓If you love our show, you can help us reach curious minds and hearts by leaving us a rating or review wherever you listen to your pods! Thank you so much for being a part of our podcast journey. 🌹 Advertise With Us 🌹Would you like your product or shop to be featured as an ad partner on Soror Mystica? Explore advertising options here!🧩 Share Your Symbols 🧩Do you have a symbol that pops up in dreams, in your tarot card pulls, or in your personal experience that puzzles you? If you’d like to hear us talk about your personal symbol on our show, feel free to share your story with us here.📸 Find Us On Instagram 📸Soror MysticaMariana LouisCristina Farella

The ouroboros is one of our most mysterious and powerful symbols, denoting the simultaneity of life, subsequent endings and beginnings, death and rebirth, completion and totality, solar power and bravery, an encircling of the world...  As an alchemical concept the ouroboros represented the circular nature of the alchemist's work, or what Jung interpreted as the integration of shadow, an evocation of man as "prima materia." Join us in this episode where we immerse ourselves in the realm of the world-snake, and explore new ways to understand and work with this symbol, as a reminder of our totality. Special thanks to this episode's' ad partner Capturing Yinz! https://www.capturingyinz.com@capturing_yinzWhat We're ReadingCristina: Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn WaughMariana: The Tarot: History, Symbolism, and Divination, Robert M. PlaceJoin Cristina's new class on Chiron, the wounded healer centaur, in myth and astrology, starting March 10th: Explore here🐚 Join The Cloister 🐚Our new community membership space is up and running, offering a sweet community chat, bonus podcast episodes bi-weekly, a book club, and even a dream interpretation space! Join us here.💓 Leave Us A Review 💓If you love our show, you can help us reach curious minds and hearts by leaving us a rating or review wherever you listen to your pods! Thank you so much for being a part of our podcast journey. 🌹 Advertise With Us 🌹Would you like your product or shop to be featured as an ad partner on Soror Mystica? Explore advertising options here!🧩 Share Your Symbols 🧩Do you have a symbol that pops up in dreams, in your tarot card pulls, or in your personal experience that puzzles you? If you’d like to hear us talk about your personal symbol on our show, feel free to share your story with us here.📸 Find Us On Instagram 📸Soror MysticaMariana LouisCristina Farella

When it comes to romantic love, the heart is the symbol that most immediately comes to mind. When we're passionate, we move from the heart, and when we're disappointed, our hearts can break. The heart is central, literally, to our functioning, and so in this episode, we explore different ways of understanding and holding the heart, letting it be messy, complex, and expansive. Join us as we explore the heart's Aphrodisian qualities, it's kingly glare, it's connection to devotion and the spiritual, it's sulphuric and solar radiance. May this guide you into Valentine's Season with heart-deepening awareness :) Special thanks to this episode’s ad partner, Capturing Yinz https://www.capturingyinz.com@capturing_yinz🐚 Join The Cloister 🐚Our new community membership space is up and running, offering a sweet community chat, bonus podcast episodes bi-weekly, a BOOK CLUB, and even a dream interpretation space! Join us here.💓 Leave Us A Review 💓If you love our show, you can help us reach curious minds and hearts by leaving us a rating or review wherever you listen to your pods! Thank you so much for being a part of our podcast journey. 🌹 Advertise With Us 🌹Would you like your product or shop to be featured as an ad partner on Soror Mystica? Explore advertising options here!🧩 Share Your Symbols 🧩Do you have a symbol that pops up in dreams, in your tarot card pulls, or in your personal experience that puzzles you? If you’d like to hear us talk about your personal symbol on our show, feel free to share your story with us here.📸 Find Us On Instagram 📸Soror MysticaMariana LouisCristina Farella

What does it mean to approach a threshold? Prevalent in myths, fairy tales, sagas, ancient hymns, thresholds represent a point of departure from the profane to the sacred. Thresholds demarcate the space between realms, and our passage through them is transformative. But how do we know when we’re at a “threshold moment”? And what do we do when we find ourselves navigating the difficulty of said passage? Tune in to this episode, where we explore the thresholds in myth, dreams, astrology, and tarot, and offer perspective on what it means to find transformation through life’s unique threshold moments. Special thanks to this episode’s ad partner, Capturing Yinz https://www.capturingyinz.com@capturing_yinz on Instagram!Don’t miss Cristina’s newest class, PROPHETIC ASTEROIDS: ORACLES IN MYTH AND ASTROLOGY, a three week lecture series on seers, prophets, and oracles in mythology, and an exploration of their mythic asteroids. Together we’ll build an understanding of where we meet our inner oracles. https://www.cristinafarella.com/prophetic-asteroids🐚 Join The Cloister 🐚Our new community membership space is up and running, offering a sweet community chat, bonus podcast episodes bi-weekly, a book club, and even a dream interpretation space! Join us here.💓 Leave Us A Review 💓If you love our show, you can help us reach curious minds and hearts by leaving us a rating or review wherever you listen to your pods! Thank you so much for being a part of our podcast journey. 🌹 Advertise With Us 🌹Would you like your product or shop to be featured as an ad partner on Soror Mystica? Explore advertising options here!🧩 Share Your Symbols 🧩Do you have a symbol that pops up in dreams, in your tarot card pulls, or in your personal experience that puzzles you? If you’d like to hear us talk about your personal symbol on our show, feel free to share your story with us here.📸 Find Us On Instagram 📸Soror MysticaMariana LouisCristina Farella

The lion! A symbol of sovereignty, regality, solar power, and bravery, associated with kings of all kinds. These are the primary associations we call up, when asked to contemplate the lion in all his golden glory, but upon a closer look, the lion holds more than meets the eye. At the beginning of a new calendar year, there is as much potential for hope as there is exhaustion. We can connect with the symbol of the lion as a reminder of our innate courage, fortitude, and sovereignty. Join us as we explore the big cat's connection to kings and goddesses, to the Strength card in the tarot and the Leo constellation, green and red lions in alchemy, the lion's appearance in the myths of heroes like Hercules as well as the famous feminine apostle Thecla, to deepen our understanding of what this creature conjures in our imaginations. May we all step into our own brave, leonine selves as we being a new year. LinksEnroll in Mariana's new course, Tarot and ShadowSubscribe to Cristina's new SubstackShare Your Dream Symbol With Us!Advertise With Us!Special thanks to this episode's ad parter: The Jung Archademy

We enter into the depths of December and are immersed in a maelstrom of commercialized holiday ~cheer~. This time of year can be exceptionally stressful, with its emphasis on the weight of our purchases. Looking back in pre-Christian history, the winter solstice was frequently celebrated as a returning of longer days, a re-birth of the “Sun King,” a celebration of hope in the dark and cold of the year. Join us as we explore the importance of the winter solstice, contemplating its astrological meaning, specific winter festivals like Saturnalia and Yule, and the prevalence of themes of death and resurrection, whether we’re talking about the rebirth of the earth, the Sun, or Christ. We strive to call the feminine back into a time of year that tends to focus on the birth of the Christian king, contemplating stories of Ishtar and Innana, to re-enchant what otherwise may feel a chaotic time of year. This episode features a contemplation of a listener's synchronistic experience with a wasp sting, Chiron in astrology, and Achilles in myth. Special thanks to this episode's ad partners Tangerine Sage Healing and the Jung Archademy!https://www.tangerinesagehealing.comhttps://www.jungarchademy.com🐚 We've just launched our brand new member community, The Cloister, a private internet space where we'll be sharing bonus episodes bi-weekly, facilitating a BOOK CLUB!!! and sharing our dreams together :) Explore that realm, here.Enroll in Mariana's class, TAROT AND SHADOW here!Book a Year Ahead reading with Cristina, here!💓 Leave Us A Review 💓If you love our show, you can help us reach curious minds and hearts by leaving us a rating or review wherever you listen to your pods! Thank you so much for being a part of our podcast journey. 🌹 Advertise With Us 🌹Would you like your product or shop to be featured as an ad partner on Soror Mystica? Explore advertising options here!🧩 Share Your Symbols 🧩Do you have a symbol that pops up in dreams, in your tarot card pulls, or in your personal experience that puzzles you? If you’d like to hear us talk about your personal symbol on our show, feel free to share your story with us here.📸 Find Us On Instagram 📸Soror MysticaMariana LouisCristina Farella

Angels are most famous as god's messengers, often depicted in flowing white robes, surrounded by choirs of harps, and bewinged. What superficial depictions of angels tends to miss is their terrifying power. To be a messenger of god can mean so many different things--angels can deliver god's decree, they can banish and protect, and they can avenge. Join us in this conversation where we explore the conflation of daemons and angels, the fall of the angel Lucifer, and many other manifestations of angel iconography in the collective. Special thanks to this episode's ad partner, Tangerine Sage Healing!WE HAVE SO MANY ANNOUNCEMENTS! 📣 Join our brand new digital community, THE CLOISTER! Get bonus episodes of Soror Mystica, join our Dream Observatory, and get an invite to our BOOK CLUB! Check it out here!📚 Enroll in Mariana's workshop with the Jung Archademy, "Tarot and Shadow, A Guided Workshop of Self-Reckoning with the Cards," here!🪐 Learn about the astrology of 2024 by joining Cristina's 2024 Forecast Workshop, here! Or book your personal year-ahead reading here!~*~*~*~💓 Leave Us A Review 💓If you love our show, you can help us reach curious minds and hearts by leaving us a rating or review wherever you listen to your pods! Thank you so much for being a part of our podcast journey. 🌹 Advertise With Us 🌹Would you like your product or shop to be featured as an ad partner on Soror Mystica? Explore advertising options here!🧩 Share Your Symbols 🧩Do you have a symbol that pops up in dreams, in your tarot card pulls, or in your personal experience that puzzles you? If you’d like to hear us talk about your personal symbol on our show, feel free to share your story with us here.📸 Find Us On Instagram 📸Soror MysticaMariana LouisCristina Farella