Today, I wanted to introduce you to someone who has been a big part of my own spiritual journey along the mystical path over the past several years. author, photographer, and hedgewitch, Sally Morningstar. I’ve wanted to include conversations about finding the spiritual path, and walking it with our dogs becauseI believe a big part of why dogs choose us is because throughout time they have played the most beautiful role of walking us home to our true selves.

Throughout her life, Nature has been Sally Morningstar's greatest teacher. Her deep love of the wyrd and the wild is the inspiration behind her writing, photography, and magical mentoring of those seeking to live consciously and mindfully upon this Earth. From the age of 18 Sally began her own search for spiritual answers, which led her to psychic teachers and spiritual mentors in both the Eastern and Western Mystery Traditions, including Vipassana, Zen, Sati (the way of mindfulness) Dzogchen, Shamanism and even saw her becoming a High Priestess in Wicca. Ultimately, though none of that felt right for her until she discovered a sense of home within hedgewitchcraft, which, at its core, is based upon creating right relationship with all of Nature and her Creation. What I love about Sally’s story is that she often talks about how she has been a hedgewitch all her life without realising it until her later years, and that that is often they way it goes when we are meant to walk a particular path. That the path is always there, we just may not have noticed it until we arrive at that place of knowing.I

n our conversation, Sally talks about her personal journey and what it means to follow the old ways in our modern context. We talk about what magic really is, how we are all a part of it, and how the most magical path of life is the journey of self-discovery. Sally also shares how her sweet 19-yr old canine companion, Rosie Dumpling, has been key to her path.

To learn more about Sally and her work, visit her website: www.sallymorningstar.com

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This next week is Period Poverty Awareness Week. We can’t talk about nourishing ourselves mind, body, and soul, without also addressing the need for awareness around menstrual health. My other project, Aspirationery, supports this podcast through creating books, notebooks, and stationery to support you in becoming all you aspire to be. This includes creating journals and workbooks to remove period stigma, and empower young girls and tweens to learn about their menstrual cycles, as well as supporting women to align with the power of your menstrual cycles through cyclical living. I invite you to check out these journals on the Aspirationery Instagram account, and consider if these books might help support you, or a young girl in your life to feel more empowered. https://instagram.com/aspirationery

TIME STAMPS:

00:22 Intro

06:04 Meet hedgewitch Sally Morningstar + her 19yo pup Rosie Dumpling

12:25 Understanding + Walking the Wisdom Path

19:45 The Old Ways in the Modern Context

31:35 How to discover your soul’s path

45:00 Communicating with our animals

56:00 How our dogs help us to connect to all that is

1:00:00 What Rosie has taught Sally about what it means to be human


1:03:00 Outro