Wise Women: The Vicar and the Witch

Wise Women: The Vicar and the Witch. Episode 93: Solstice to Snowflake

Hi, today's podcast focuses on the Northern Hemisphere winter solstice which happens next Tuesday ... going into the darkness and planting the seeds that will grow next year. We also look at the importance (or not) of dates and how we calculate them. 

Wise Women: The Vicar and the Witch. Episode 92: Waste Not, Want Not

A bit of a rant this week about the wasteful aspects of Christmas, greenwashing including the labelling 'widely recycled' and some suggested solutions. Looking at what we can make ourselves including a celebration of Maggy's 'tastes great, looks like something the cat brought in' style of cooking. 

N.B. After the rant about chocolates in plastic, fair dos to Cadbury's Roses for bringing out a Christmas tin and putting their sweets in cardboard (though they do still have the plastic wrappers...)

Wise Women: The Vicar and the Witch. Episode 91: Advent and the Present Predicament

Today we are honouring the season of Advent and our plans for the Christmas/Solstice celebrations. How can we be generous without it costing the (beautifu) Earth? 

Wise Women: The Vicar and the Witch. Episode 90: Thankfulness

Today we discuss gratitude/appreciations, the purpose of an altar and the joys of moving house.

Wise Women: The Vicar and the Witch. Episode 89: Holding Community in the Face of Mammon

It's a bit of a stonker of a title today :-) We're looking at how best to shine a light at the advent of Christmas craziness and the giving of gifts. And returning to the importance of language: How WordsWordsWords can become sWords,Swords,Swords.

The poem Suzi quotes is from John Roedel's book, 'Remedy'

Wise Women: The Vicar and the Witch. Episode 88: Death, prayer and Peppermint Oil

A good ramble about natural remedies, doing what you can where you are and with what you have to hand, faith and connection.

Wise Women: The Vicar and the Witch. Episode 87: Finding Your Allies

Allies are aspects of nature revealed to us by spirit to be our helpers. Suzi leads a masterclass on who, what, where and why.

Wise Women: The Vicar and the Witch. Episode 86: Samhain/Halloween

Today we look at the deep meaning of this time of year, the shadows, the darkness, the elders and the ancestors.

Wise Women: The Vicar and the Witch. Episode 85: Where to Draw the Line?

Today we are talking about the 'yes ... and' aspects of segregation of men and women and where transgender folk fit in. Where is it sacred to segregate and where is it discriminatory?  We found it fascinating. Hope you do too.

Wise Women: The Vicar and the Witch. Episode 84: The Wound in the Sisterhood

Today we talk about patriarchy - not men, but the system that we have lived in for a good two thousand years - and how we women consciously and unconsciously contribute to this increasingly-unhealthy World view. The Greeks had a word for it: democracy; but it was democracy for a small number of well-connected men only. Sound familiar? So, what can we do to heal this long-broken system of honouring power and dishonouring much that is of far more valua?