The Motherline: Embodied Ancestry & Feminine Magic - Lara Veleda Vesta
Medicine Stories
Amber Magnolia Hill
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2018
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
The scrolls are in our bones, and an embodied relationship with our ancestors can bring countless rewards and reveal things a merely intellectual path cannot. Through myth, ritual, and creative expression we can remember the feminine magic of our grandmothers and reap their blessings.
Lara Veleda Vesta is an artist, writer, and educator with strong, well tended ties to her Northern European ancestors. Her works and offerings focus on folk spirituality, archaic magic, mythology, ritual, and women's remembrance. Our conversation runs deep and meanders from the cultural legacy of the burning times to the language of symbol to the nature of fate to the illusion of linear time and its effect on our modern lives to mold toxicity to snake medicine. And so much more!
-In the Intro:
Garden Party Giveaway!
The status of the podcast
Healing the Witch Wound
Herbal Tip: plant recognition & the human brain
-In the Interview:
The Motherline- intergenerational trauma, we're all descended from survivors, and we are never separate from our ancestors
"Things are real and not real simultaneously"
Ancestral connection as an embodied path: connecting with the ancestors via direct information from your intuition, art, and ritual
The scrolls are in our bones: the ancestral dream that changed my life
Listening to the language of symbol
Hyndla- goddess of the bloodlines (let's bring her back!)
The woven web of Wyrd- the matrix of existence
Fate is interactive, time is non-linear, everything is happening simultaneously
The Disir- support, guidance, and blessings from the sacred grandmothers of your lineage
Go sit on your ancestors graves (for real tho)
Collapsing time and shifting consciousness
How linear time separates us from nature, the ancestors, myth, and indigenous ways of knowing
"Get off the grid of your thinking"
The multiplicity of reasons you are never alone
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, mold toxicity, and invisible disabilities
Disregarding cultural expectations: exhaustion, trauma, and illness in women (especially at midlife)
The ancient Northern myth of Golveig- "Thrice burned and yet she lives"- and what it can teach us about feminine power, magic, surviving patriarchy, and healing after pain and trauma
Snake medicine & feminine magic
-Links:
Take our fun quiz Which Healing Herb Matches Your Energy?
Max Dashu and The Suppressed Histories Archives
Jung and the Ancestors by Sandra Easter
My blog post Ancestral Voices, Women's Weariness, & the Illusion of Linear Time
The New Midlife Crisis for Women on Oprah.com
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey all, welcome to the Medicine Stories podcast. This is episode 7 and I'm Amber Magnolia Hill. |
| 0:12.0 | Today I'll be sharing my interview with Laura Vallejo Vesta, but before we get into that I'm going to tell you a little bit about a giveaway that I have going on right now and I'm going to kind of check in on the status of the podcast, seven episodes in, and I'm going to do an herbal tip segment again. |
| 0:31.0 | So first let me tell you about Laura. She's an artist, writer, educator with some |
| 0:38.0 | amazing online courses with a strong connection to her northern European ancestors and she works with |
| 0:45.0 | folks spirituality archaic magic mythology ritual women's remembrance and just so |
| 0:52.2 | much more. |
| 0:53.1 | It's really vast, her body of work |
| 0:56.1 | and I think she's interested in. |
| 0:57.9 | So we really get a sense for it in our conversation. |
| 1:02.0 | Some of the things we talk about are the burning times and the witch wound the motherline intergenerational trauma how we're all descended from survivors |
| 1:11.2 | how we're never separate from our ancestors, and connecting with the ancestors via direct |
| 1:16.9 | info from your intuition and art and ritual and how ancestral connection is often not an intellectual path but can be an |
| 1:26.3 | embodied path. I tell the story of the ancestral dream that changed my life and we |
| 1:32.1 | talk about how the scrolls are in our bones. |
| 1:35.0 | Laura talks about listening to the language of symbol. |
| 1:38.0 | She tells us about Hindla, the ancient Northern European goddess of the bloodlines. I love this idea and I hope you do too. |
| 1:48.0 | We talk about the woven web of weird as the matrix of existence, how fate is interactive, time is nonlinear, and |
| 1:56.4 | everything is happening simultaneously. |
| 1:59.4 | Laura also likes to say that things are both real and unreal at the same time. I really, really love that. |
| 2:06.1 | We talk about the Desir, the support guidance and blessings from the sacred grandmothers of |
| 2:11.0 | your lineage, and how it's like basically my life goal or my death |
| 2:16.8 | goal now to become a disier. I really just feel like that's like the role I was born to fulfill and will die to fulfill. |
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