The Girlfriend God Podcast

060: The Triple Goddess with Rachel Patterson

Rachel is an English witch who has been walking the Pagan pathway for over thirty years. She is a working wife and mother who has been lucky enough to have had over 30 books published, some of them bestsellers. Her passion is to learn and she loves to study and research using books, online resources, schools and wonderful mentors. She’s learned a lot over the years and still continues to learn each and every day, but she has learned the most from actually getting outside and practicing her craft. Also, Rachel likes to like to laugh … and eat cake… It is Rachel’s great pleasure to give talks to Pagan groups and co-run open rituals and workshops run by the Kitchen Witch Coven. She is also High Priestess of the Kitchen Witch Coven and an Elder at the online Kitchen Witch School of Natural Witchcraft. She’s also the host of the Pagan Portal Podcast which airs regular on the usual podcast platforms. Rachel is also a columnist with Fate & Fortune magazine, and a contributor to several magazines such as Pagan Dawn and Witchcraft & Wicca. You can find her regular ramblings on her personal blog and YouTube channel. Rachel’s craft is a combination of old religion witchcraft, Wicca, hedge witchery, kitchen witchery and folk magic. Her heart is that of an English Kitchen Witch. Finally, in 2023 she was listed in the Watkins Mind, Body, Spirit magazine’s “Spiritual 100.” SUPPORT: You can purchase Rachel’s books or sign up for one of her classes at rachelpatterson.co.uk [https://www.rachelpatterson.co.uk/] and a whole host of goodies from personal readings to spell kits to t-shirts at kitchenwitchhearth.net [https://www.kitchenwitchhearth.net/shop] FOLLOW: You can find and follow Rachel online at her website, on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/racheltansypatterson]@racheltansypatterson, and on Facebook @rachelpattersonbooks [https://www.facebook.com/RachelPattersonbooks/]and @kitchenwitchuk [https://www.facebook.com/kitchenwitchuk]. LISTEN: Watch/Listen to the Pagan Portal Podcast on YouTube at youtube.com/thepaganportal [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GeO_baCkkE&list=PLuNR40Q7BCOnj7TMy4iGh-lDuvsFRcQom] or your favorite audio streaming platform.

059: Womanizing the Runes with Falcon River

Falcon River is an ordained Dianic Priestess of the Guardian Path, dedicated to a magical partnership model that collaborates with other ritual facilitators to insure a safe and powerful ritual experience for participants. She has helped create and support women’s ritual circles since 1976 and is passionately committed to teaching practical energetic and magical skills for daily life. In 1999, Falcon co-founded Temple of Diana with Ruth Barrett, where she taught on the core faculty for The Spiral Door Women’s Mystery School of Magick and Ritual Arts for fifteen years. Falcon grew up in the Appalachian mountains of southern West Virginia, climbing the trees and crawling into every cave she could find. As a child, she was trained in traditional folk magic and medicine by her family elders. In her early 30s, Falcon studied and apprenticed intensively with Dr. Dawna Markova, author of The Open Mind, a body of work dealing with perceptual learning modalities. Falcon also studied for several years with Linda Tellington-Jones and Robin Hood, learning the Tellington Touch/TEAM Techniques for working with horses and other companion animals in their healing and training. For more than 30 years, she was a professional bodyworker, healer, and clairvoyant working with animals and people. Falcon is also a storyteller, a traditional archer and has brought “Amazon Archery” to women’s festivals and Pagan gatherings for decades as a tool for empowerment. She continues to teach online, do healing work, leather crafting and woodworking from her home with wife, Ruth Barrett in Michigan. Falcon has been teaching the Elder Futhark runes for about 40 years, bringing a female-centered perspective to her students online and at festivals nationally. Falcon River was a major interviewee for Baby, You’re My Religion: Women, Gay Bars, and Theology Before Stonewall, by Marie Cartier, Ph.D., (2013, Routledge) She was also an interviewee for Ruth Barrett’s Women’s Rites, Women’s Mysteries: Intuitive Ritual Creation (3rd Edition, Tidal Time Publishing, LLC, 2018). She contributed a chapter entitled “The Bathroom” to the anthology, Female Erasure: What You Need To Know About Gender Politics’ War On Women, the Female Sex and Human Rights (Tidal Time Publishing, 2016) She is also included in Feminists Who Changed America 1963-1975, editor Barbara J. Love (2006). SUPPORT: Shop Falcon’s Etsy store: etsy.com/shop/DancingTreeLeather [etsy.com/shop/DancingTreeLeather] FOLLOW: You can find Falcon online at guardiansofthegrove.org [https://www.guardiansofthegrove.org/] and templeofdiana.org [https://www.templeofdiana.org/]

058: Sacred Feminine Prosperity in the New World with Dawn Morningstar & Michele Rae

Dawn Morningstar is an award-winning author, women’s self-empowerment coach, podcast host, educator, TEDx Speaker, former radio talk show host and devoted advocate for women’s self-empowerment. Dear to her heart is being co-founder of New World Women, a global women's self-empowerment sisterhood. She's also the creator of the amazing Facial Serum 18. Since her book “Venerable Women: Transform Ourselves, Transform the World” was published in 2016, Dawn has spoken to groups of women over 1,500 times. After coaching women for 37 years, Dawn founded Venerable Women in 2013 and then co-founded New World Women with Mecca Page and Shawn Vougeot in 2020. SUPPORT: You can support Dawn’s work by purchasing a copy of her book, Venerable Women: Transform Ourselves, Transform the World [https://www.amazon.com/Venerable-Women-Transform-Ourselves-World/dp/0998211133], her product, Facial Serum 18 [https://www.facialserum18.com/], and by becoming a member of New World Women [https://www.newworldwomen.com/]. FOLLOW: You can find Dawn online at Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/NewWorldWomenSisters/]and Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/dawnmorningstar_newworldwomen/]@newworldwomen_sisterhood LISTEN: Listen to the New World Women podcast, Collaboration is Queen [https://www.newworldwomen.com/podcasts] Michele Rae is a Transformational Intuitive Coach and Spiritual Teacher, founder of The Center Within, author of Living From the Center Within: Co-Creating Who You Are Becoming, graduate faculty at University of California Irvine, and luminary in New World Women. She offers guidance, coaching, and classes for individuals and groups as we navigate through accelerated changes and opportunities during this emerging new era. She believes we are co-creating a world that supports flourishing for all beings. It is time for every person to realize their full potential. Working with Michele accelerates and amplifies her clients’ natural process of becoming their most empowered authentic multidimensional self. SUPPORT: You can support Michele’s work by purchasing a copy of her book, Living From the Center Within: Co-Create Who You Are Becoming, subscribe to her newsletter at centerwithin.com [https://www.centerwithin.com/], take a class centerwithin.com/courses [https://www.centerwithin.com/courses-with Michele/], or sign up for coaching sessions centerwithin.com/consultation [https://www.centerwithin.com/consultation/]. FOLLOW: You can find Michele online at Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/centerwithin/]@centerwithin, Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/micheleraecw/]@michelerae and LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/michele-rae-2b223713] LISTEN: Listen to her recorded teachings and podcasts centerwithin.com/recordings [https://www.centerwithin.com/articles-and-recorded-teachings/]

057: Dianic Tradition with High Priestess Ruth Barrett

Ruth Barrett is an acknowledged feminist spirituality foremother, ordained Dianic High Priestess, seasoned ritualist, educator, author, and a musician whose numerous recordings beginning in 1980 have been among the pioneering musical works in the U. S. Goddess Spirituality Movement. She is author of Women's Rites, Women's Mysteries: Intuitive Ritual Creation (Expanded 3rd Edition), and has contributed to other anthologies celebrating goddess spirituality including Stepping Into Ourselves: An Anthology of Writings of Priestesses, Elders and Visionaries: Foremothers of the Women’s Spirituality Movement, Female Erasure: What You Need To Know About Gender Politics’ War On Women, the Female Sex and Human Rights, and Women In World Religions: Faith and Culture Across History. Ruth and her life partner Falcon River co-founded the Temple of Diana, Inc. (www.templeofdiana.org). Ruth has taught at conferences and festivals nationally and internationally, and currently teaches online classes on a variety of witchy topics through her Temple of Diana branch, Guardians of the Grove. SUPPORT: To take a class or workshop, register for a pilgrimage to Crete, schedule a private consultation, or apply to the Spiral Door Mystery School, visit guardiansofthegrove.org [https://www.guardiansofthegrove.org/] FOLLOW: You can find Ruth online at guardiansofthegrove.org [https://www.guardiansofthegrove.org/], dancingtreemusic.org [https://www.dancingtreemusic.org/], templeofdiana.org [https://www.templeofdiana.org/], and the-spiral-door-mystery-school.org [https://www.guardiansofthegrove.org/the-spiral-door-mystery-school].

056: Cat Gods, Goddesses, Deities, & Demons with Natalie Bovis

Natalie Bovis is a freelance lifestyle writer, cat mom to five feisty felines, and enthusiast of all things fantastical, historical, and mythological. She has an English mum and French dad but grew up in Santa Fe, New Mexico, a place renown for being a magical energy vortex and refuge for artists of all kinds. Natalie is an animal advocate, kitten fosterer, and fundraiser for rescue organizations. Her hobbies include hiking, traveling, and vegetarian cooking. Natalie also produces culinary events and cultural vacation yoga retreats in the U.S. and Europe. She is the author of several mixology books, including Drinking with My Dog and Cocktails with My Cat. But Natalie doesn’t just write about mixology! Today, we’ll be talking about Natalie’s new book and oracle deck, Cat Gods, Goddesses, Deities and Demons, which will be released in April. In this gorgeously illustrated collection, you’ll discover 51 of the most common and not-so-common cat gods, goddesses, deities, and demons from around the world and how to incorporate their Divine Feline Energy into your daily life. You’ll meet 51 feline deities and demons from four geographical families around the world—Africa, Americas, Asia, and Europe. You’ll also encounter mystical cats who work in alliance with human gods and goddesses. The feline entities come from different eras and cultures all over the world. Some are angelic guides, and others, demonic adversaries, but all play a role in our understanding of feline deities and why they became to be so. Learn all about these sacred godlike creatures, including what they look like, what they symbolize, and how you can use their spirit and ancient wisdom to tap into your own Divine Feline Energy. GUIDEBOOK Throughout time, felines have played a sacred role in human life. Archeologists have found cat remains buried with humans as far back as the tenth millennium BCE in Cyprus, and the Greek goddess Hecate is said to have regularly assumed the form of a cat. Hieroglyphics tell us that ancient Egyptians worshipped cat gods, and their queen Cleopatra had a kitty companion in her palace whom she called Tivali. A Chinese cat goddess called Li Shou is said to have protected farmers from mice, and Ai Apaec was a pre-Inca god with fangs and whiskers said to have descended from an even more ancient cat god. This book is more than a guide to ancient cat gods. It’s an exploration of the way humans have observed, interacted with, learned from, and revered another species who share the Earth with us. Ancient folklore is rife with examples of animal cunning and compassion, and many humans invoked other species as spiritual guides or flat out worshipped them as gods. Arguably, cats are the most intriguing of animals because of how we can relate to them. Much like us, they are free spirits and adaptable survivors. We admire them for their dignity, independence, and ferocity. In this gorgeously illustrated guidebook, you’ll meet 51 feline deities and demons from four geographical families around the world—Africa, Americas, Asia, and Europe. You’ll also encounter mystical cats who work in alliance with human gods and goddesses. The feline entities come from different eras and cultures all over the world. Some are angelic guides, and others, demonic adversaries, but all play a role in our understanding of feline deities and why they became to be so. Learn all about these sacred godlike creatures, including what they look like, what they symbolize, and how you can use their spirit and ancient wisdom to tap into your own Divine Feline Energy. SUPPORT: To purchase Natalie’s mixology books or to pre-order your copy of Cat Gods, Goddesses, Deities and Demons, visit theliquidmuse.com [https://theliquidmuse.com/] FOLLOW: You can find Natalie at her website, theliquidmuse.com [https://theliquidmuse.com/] and on Instagram @theliquidmuse [https://www.instagram.com/theliquidmuse/].