#160 - Perdita Finn: Mothers of Magic - Summoning the Wisdom of our Ancestors

"We have more lives than we can imagine to make our dreams come true, to see our prayers answered. To see with the eyes of the dead is to know that our story is a long story with so many more twists and turns and returns than we can imagine. To see with the eyes of the dead is to know that the future stretches before us into eternity and there is all the time in the world for the magic of life itself."

Quote from the book "Mothers of Magic" by my guest today, Perdita Finn, whose work offers a profoundly enriching vision for humanity. As an Aquarius, she embodies the archetype's gift for seeing beyond convention and imagining new ways of being together. Because....Our bodily appetites and our spiritual hungers were never meant to be pulled apart, as she says. TAP in with us as we speak about:

-"Mother" is not an individual identity but a collective reality

-You don't own your baby - plus one woman should not be responsible for feeding the baby

-Male mothers

-They are telling us who we should be, not who we used to be!

-To call out to mountain mothers, plant mothers and ancinent mothers from BEFORE civilisation

-We dont have to heal our dead grandparents

-The de-demonizing of talking to the dead

-The long story and the empowerent of the dead

-What it is to live in the longer story

-this quote is essential: "I did not think of my ancestors as a lineage of names to which I was connected biologically but rather an entangled root system of beings who were the very ground from which I grew. All the dead who had ever been were our dead, were my dead, were there for me to call upon when I needed help."