Priestess Initiations: Where Psychology Meets Sacred
We invite you to deepen into embodied goddess exploration through somatic psychology, Jungian philosophy, and archetypal mythology for holistic wellbeing, cyclical living, and healing the witch wound.
Hosted by Casey Dunne—Somatic Psychotherapist and Priestess | MA in Mental Health Counseling: Body Psychotherapy | BA in Psychology with Jungian training—this podcast bridges psychology frameworks, reclaimed goddess mythology, and shadow integration with divine feminine intuitive wisdom for nervous system healing.
In Season Two, we descend into the philosophical root system of the soul—leaning into Celtic mysticism, earth based spirituality and goddess archetypes, the medicine of herbalism, and the reclamation of our lineage through intergenerational healing, ancestral reclamation and ancient holistic healing including cyclical living for hormonal support.
Whether you’re exploring individuation through archetypes, astrology, Human Design, folk witchcraft, the Akashic Records, tarot and divination, dark moon philosophy—or ready to go deeper into embodied shadow work—this is where spiritual inquiry of the soul meets grounded transformation. This isn't clinical therapy. It's holistic spiritual education and embodied shadow work for empowered women, witches, healers, and initiates walking the path of transformation on the maiden-mother-crone journey through descent, integration, and power reclamation. The path to collective healing—reclaiming a true alchemical balance of the masculine and feminine in the world, begins with our own descent into wholeness.
Claim your power. Embody the goddess within. Trust the spiral.
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Episodes
44 episodes
Persephone’s Descent and Individuation, Virgo New Moon | S2 Ep.17
Mabon and Autumn Equinox Preparation with Virgo New Moon, Venus, Persephone, Demeter and Mercury | Maiden and Mother ArchetypesMaiden ...
Integration Portals: Opening to Receive Magic with Hecate and Hygiea | S2 Ep.16
Integration Happens When You Stop Forcing The Magic | Navigating Your Window of Tolerance for Grief and Joy in Liminal Spaces | Somatic Yielding Practice to The Earth and Opening to Receive | Spontaneous TransmissionThe weirdest part of ...
Desire, The Witch Wound and The Shift of the North Node | ST S2 Ep.15
Leo Eclipse Season 2026 and Unlocking What you Want Through Reclaiming Desire from Shame and The Witch Wound | North Node in Leo South Node in Aquarius Collective Shift | Wanting a Home and Partnership Can Be Feminist Too | Spontaneous Transmis...
What If Uncertainty Is The Eclipse Portal | S2 Inkling
From Barbault’s Basket to Mercury Retrograde to Eclipse Season | Self Compassion Practice as the Portal Key and Letting go of Showing Up Perfectly in Sister WoundsI disappeared for a bit, and I wanted to come back with honesty ra...
The End Of Overgiving and Opening to Reciprocity with Venus Trine Saturn | Inkling S2
When the feminine and Lilith says NO to extraction in boundary work | Post Solstice Integration | Saturn as metaphor for Patriarchy and asking the masculine to grow If you’ve noticed a quiet tightening in your body when someone asks...
Litha: Summer Solstice, Embodied Sovereignty, and the Courage to be Seen | S2 Ep.14
Litha mythology and astrology, 2026 Summer Solstice ritual, and the Oak King’s surrender at his peak | somatic psychoeducation, nervous system safety, embodiment, and the courage to be fully witnessedThe summer solstice doesn’t ...
Blood Mysteries | Somatic Wisdom for PMS, PMDD, and Cyclical Wellness with Gabby Rivas-Field, MA, LPCC | S2 Ep.13
The week before your period can feel like a different personality takes the wheel and it’s terrifying when no one can explain why. Gabby Rivas-Field, MA, LPCC, a somatic psy...
Inkling: The Temple of Ixchel, The Earthquake, and the Crone
Ixchel, Mayan goddess of the moon and medicine — sacred site pilgrimage, somatic ritual, crone initiation, and what a 6.1 earthquake at an ancient temple has to do with poison as medicine.The wildest moments on a trip aren’t always the ...
Plant Medicine, Body Sovereignty, and the Plants Your Ancestors Knew | S2 Ep.12
Nutritive herbs, mineral-rich teas, and reclaiming your own medicine — earth-based spirituality, plant sitting, and somatic psychoeducation for chronic illness, hormonal health, and learning to receive what plants are trying to tell us.
Chiron, Hygieia, and Tending Yourself in a System That Profits From Your Depletion | ST S2 Ep.11
Spontaneous Transmission: The mythology of the wounded healer — somatic psychotherapy, healer burnout, and what it actually means to tend yourself in a system designed to extract from you.If you’ve ever been the person ever...
Sedna — Betrayal, Descent, and Reclaiming Sovereign Boundaries | S2 Ep.10
Uranus-Sedna conjunction May 2026, patriarchal shadow, Jungian depth psychology, somatic psychoeducation, and the Inuit goddess myth that teaches women how to stop taking responsibility for what was never theirsPatriarchy is not...
What the Forest Knows: Attachment Wounds and the Truth About Scarcity | S2 Ep.9
Attachment theory, nervous system safety, and debunking scarcity mindset through the wisdom of the mycelium network and earth-based spiritualityThe “abundance is a frequency” line can sound comforting until you are living inside...
Hygieia — The Rebrand and The Witch Wound | ST S2 Ep.8
Spontaneous Transmission: The Archetype of Hygieia for Cleansing The Temple of Soul and Psyche | Pluto Retrograde | Where Psychology Meets Sacred Letting go of a beloved name can feel like losing a home and somet...
Beltane | Pleasure, Fire & the Window of Tolerance for Joy | S2 Ep.7
Scorpio Full Moon May 1st 2026 | Psychology of Joy | Celtic Wheel of the Year and BeltaneBeltane is supposed to feel good, so why do so many of us flinch at pleasure the moment it arrives? I’m taking you into the fire festival of May Day...
The Queen of Pentacles Archetype & Nervous System Safety for Manifesting Abundance and Dharma | ST S2 Ep.6
Suit of Pentacles Archetypal Journey Through Tarot and Dharma as Sustainable Wealth | Window of Tolerance in Somatic Psychology | Spontaneous Transmission (ST) EpisodeAbundance is not a number in your bank account if your body can’t rece...
Reclaiming Celtic Lineage: Ancestral Healing & The Root System of the Soul | S2 Ep.5
The Wound is the Doorway: Aries New Moon conjunct Chiron Embodied Astrology | Reclaim the Wound of Ancestral Trauma and Awaken The Root System of Your Soul | My Celtic Ancestry Story, Epigentics & Celtic SpiritualityThe stor...
Inkling: My Isis Priestess Initiation Anniversary Portal
Magical Synchronicities | The Archetypes of Isis and Mary MagdeleneA single “happy anniversary” text cracked open a memory I didn’t realize I’d tucked away, and it sent me straight to my calendar. April is the month of my Isis priestess ...
Rhiannon — Sovereignty, Boundaries, and Grounding in The Year of the Fire Horse | S2 Ep.4
The Wisdom of The Celtic Goddess Rhiannon for Surviving and Thriving in The Year of the Fire Horse and April 2026 Embodied Astrology, Plus "Rainbow Boundaries" Somatic Practice for DiscernmentA woman on a white horse moves unhur...
Welcome to Season Two of Priestess Initiations: The Goddess Coven
Welcome to embodied explorations of the phenomenology of the feminine goddess within. If spirituality has ever asked you to float above your pain, ignore your instincts, or treat your body like an inconvenience, I made this for you. Priestess I...
The King Archetype as Divine Masculine Witness | Building Reciprocal Partnership and IFS with Matthew Fisher, MA | S2 Ep.3
Internal Family Systems and the King Archetype with Guest Therapist Matthew Fisher, MA (May 2026) | Embodied Astrology Love doesn’t fall apart because you care too little. It falls apart when no one knows how to stay present with th...
An Aphrodite Initiation | Venus In Taurus And The Philosophy of Sacred Embodied Desire | S2 Ep.2
The Embodied Astrology of Venus and Archetype of Aphrodite Meet in the Philosophy of Sacred DesireThe emotion of wanting, yearning, desire has been getting a terrible reputation for a long time, and this week’s astrology makes it impossi...
Hestia and Tending the Sacred Flame for Sustainable Spring Transformation and Nervous System Regulation | S2 Ep.1
Hestia—the Archetype of Sacred Flamekeeper | Grounding into Self-Care, Home, and Heart to Plant the Seeds of New Earth | Applied Weekly AstrologySpring doesn’t only ask for momentum. It asks for a flame you can actually keep alive throug...
Persephone Returns | Spring Equinox Ritual For Shadow Integration and Cyclical Living | S1 Ep.22
Persephone as Goddess of Spring | The Sacred Queen Archetype for Honoring Cyclical Rhythms and Nervous System Regulation | Embodied Astrology Spring Equinox doesn’t ask you to “move on.” It asks you to integrate mind, body, and spir...
After The Eclipse Portal | Embodied Integration and Somatic Psychology | S1 Ep.21
Somatic Integration, Polyvagal Theory, and Nervous System Regulation After the Transformation of Eclipse Season | Embodied Astrology The portal closes and the integration work begins. After weeks of eclipse turbulence, we explore ho...
Spontaneous Transmission | Hecate, Eclipse Season, And The Keys You Hold | S1 Ep.20
Maiden, Mother, Crone—Hecate as the Archetype of Feminine Wholeness | Claiming Your Magic and Power in Manifestation and Witchcraft | Embodied Astrology A fever knocked us flat, and a doorway opened. From that forced embodied stilln...