Wise Women: The Vicar and the Witch

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?

Wise Women: The Vicar and the Witch. Episode 83: The Presenting Problem is Never the Real Problem

Looking at the underlying issues that so often cloud our judgement ... at sex and gender ... and as a lovely side-step, talking about some of our favourite spiritual fiction.

Wise Women: The Vicar and the Witch. Episode 82: New Lamps for Old?

Today we are looking at how not to replace old negative energy with new negative energy. When the source of some discomfort dissolves, our brains often look for a 'new enemy' to match the old energy and keep the same neural pathways open.

There's a short rant about casual condolences that really don't help ... and we also speak about Dr. Jeff Rediger's amazing book, 'Cured' It was only through reading this book that Maggy found out exactly how she achieved her 'spontaneous remission' from cancer! It's a superb document of research into how remissions are achieved.

Wise Women: The Vicar and the Witch. Episode 81: The Great Disconnect

Today we are talking about connectedness and disconnectedness - both good and bad. And with the passing of the Equinox, the gentle journey into the darkness...

Wise Women: The Vicar and the Witch. Episode 80: To transmit or transmute?

We're continuing the theme defined so clearly by Fr. Richard Rohr: 'If you won't transmute your pain, you will transmit it.' Today it's stories and tips on recognising how and when we are projecting our pain onto others.

Wise Women: The Vicar and the Witch. Episode 79: Love and Happiness in a Time of Grief

Fr. Richard Rohr has a phrase: "If you don't transmute your pain, you will transmit it." Today we are talking about how we transmit our pain - knowingly or unknowingly - how we can see the results of eons of transmitted pain all around us and, by observing and sitting with the world's pain, we can begin to transmute our own.

Wise Women: The Vicar and the Witch. Episode 78: Beauty in Dying

This is a very personal episode with Maggy talking with Suzi about the death of her mother and the beauty and miracles during the process.