Mothering and Being Mothered Takes Time with Perdita Finn

“The more I've worked with the dead, the more my life has blossomed.”

–Perdita Finn

Our ancestors didn’t have money and grocery stores and medicines … they had their ancestors. We do too. I’m so excited to talk with Perdita Finn, the author of Mothers of Magic, about tapping into all the mothers on the other side.

Perdita wrote about what it meant to be a mother before patriarchy, what has happened to our idea of being a mother within civilization — and what it might look like to imagine the mother beyond it.

Mothering and how you’ve been mothered takes up more space than many of us even realize in its different iterations, so this conversation feels powerful.

We talk about:

Human history as wanderers and what changed when we began settlingThe erasure of the grandmother and the war on young womenWhy one mother is not enough (you’re not supposed to be)The deep roots of why women’s friendships feel fraughtFeeling held by love on both sides of the veilFretting and handing over your worries

ABOUT PERDITA

Perdita Finn — writer, woodwife, witch — is the author of Mothers of Magic.

LINKS

https://takebackthemagic.com/https://www.instagram.com/perditafinn/https://www.linkedin.com/in/perdita-finn-12764224/Pause Magazine, Issue 5

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