Transitions: Honouring the turning of the wheel

As we conclude our journey through the thirteen keys for self-reconnection and balance, Ceryn invites you to consider those ideas of Human and Soul, and what they really mean.

All too often in these spiritually-focussed circles, we see our human selves being diminished and painted as less than the soulful side of us; but the truth is that both are vital.

It is only within the synergy of the two that we are able to find a true sense of the sacred in ourselves and our lives. But how do we do that? The answer to that might just come in the form of our 13th key, grounding.

Dive in while we explore all this and more.

Episode Notes

• Within this episode, Ceryn mentions the book Wake Up Mother which she is involved with. To learn more about Wake Up Mother, visit the project website.
• Meanwhile, Ceryn also references two other books, specifically:
  • Eyes Wide Open by Mariana Caplan
  • Soulcraft by Bill Plotkin.
• The Divine Feminist will be taking a break after this episode. Be sure to subscribe to the podcast to be amongst the first to know when we return. In the meantime, if you'd like to stay up to date with Ceryn and her work, check out the following:
  • The Divine Feminist on Instagram
  • Ceryn's website, including links to her social media profiles
  • Project Earthwork, which offers live monthly sessions on YouTube
  • Love Light and Bullshit Bingo, the podcast Ceryn offers with Yolandi Boshoff.
• If you would like to order one of Ceryn's Soul Integration Readings, do so before 14th March 2023 to enjoy the current package and pricing. 
• Music is Start Again by Alex Beroza, copyright Alex(2014), sourced through YouTube and available to hear in full here. 
• Finally, if you enjoy The Divine Feminist and would like to buy Ceryn a Ko-fi, you can do that here.

This month's episode of the Divine Feminist is a special one, as Ceryn talks with Laura Bates about her work and experiences to date.

Founder of The Everyday Sexism Project and author of eight books to date, Laura is involved with a number of programmes and campaigns that demand real change from those at the very top of our societies, and works in schools across the UK and beyond to educate young people about sexism, consent and sexual violence.

Her latest book, No Accident, is the second of her fictional works and, though aimed at young adults, provides a powerful and important perspective on these subjects and their impacts upon young people today.

Episode Notes

• If you would like to know more about Laura Bates and her work, check out Laura's website of that of The Everyday Sexism Project. Meanwhile, Laura's books include:
  • No Accident (also known as The Trial)
  • Men Who Hate Women
  • The Burning
  • Misogynation
  • Girl Up
  • Everyday Sexism
  • Fix the System, Not The Women
• Within this episode, Laura mentions a number of resources for those concerned about their online safety. They are:
  • The Women’s Media Centre Speech Project 
  • The online safety page at Feminine Frequency  
  • Charity Glitch 
• If you would like to learn more about Ceryn and her work, head to her website 
• Meanwhile, to keep up with the latest from Ceryn and all things Divine Feminist, follow @divine.feminist on Instagram.
• Music is Start Again by Alex Beroza, copyright Alex(2014), sourced through YouTube and available to hear in full here. 
• Finally, if you enjoy The Divine Feminist and would like to buy Ceryn a Ko-fi, you can do that here.

As we move onto the twelfth of our thirteen keys for self connection and sacred balance, Ceryn invites you to journey with the ideas of outcome and possibility.

We live in a world that so often wants us to focus on outcomes; definitive outcomes that can be objectively glasses as "good" or "successful". And there are definitely times when such a clear focus is useful or even necessary.

But how often does that mindset rob us of possibility, and of all that can unfold if we allow ourselves to step into the unknown.

What is the key to moving into that place of possibility? Ceryn calls it beauty, but not the type of beauty we're used to hearing or reading about.

After all, this isn't about checking off boxes on a societally defined list of what makes us acceptable. Instead is it about aligning ourselves with a true sense of beauty; one that involves awe, wonder, and is in the closest place imaginable if only we allow ourselves to open to it. 

Episode Notes

• Within this episode, Ceryn mentions three ways you can work with her this Winter and in early 2023, which are:
  • 2023 Soul Readings, available for a limited time only via this link. 
  • The Sekhem Level 1 and 2 initiations Ceryn will be running alongside Rachael Morley this January, including an in-person weekend in the magical lands of Glastonbury. 
  • The Re-Kindling Her Stories sessions she will be running online throughout January and February. 
• Meanwhile, Ceryn references the incredible Wild Currents by Jo Gifford, which she read recently. 
• And finally, we mention (again!) the fantastic Vincent van Gogh episode of Dr Who, with a key scene available on YouTube.
• To keep up with the latest from Ceryn and all things Divine Feminist, follow @divine.feminist on Instagram.
• Music is Start Again by Alex Beroza, copyright Alex(2014), sourced through YouTube and available to hear in full here. 
• Finally, if you enjoy The Divine Feminist and would like to buy Ceryn a Ko-fi, you can do that here.

As we move on to the eleventh of our thirteen keys for self connection and sacred balance, Ceryn invites you to journey with her as she faces one of the scariest topics of all: Death.

But how would our relationship with that concept - and equally with the ideas of life, birth and rebirth - be if we had been raised in a world that focussed more on the yin side of life? A world that taught us life was a cyclical rather than a linear process.

The key to doing that? To breaking out of the linear A to B idea of life and moving instead into a place of true cyclical living? Wildness. And the courage to come back to ourselves and to nature.

Join Ceryn to talk about exactly that, and the path that lies open to each of us as when we choose to turn that key.

Episode Notes

• Within this episode, Ceryn mentions three exciting events she is involved with at this time, which are:
  • The free Arise and Awaken event on December 2nd and 3rd, which this year focuses on Working with the Dark Goddess in preparation for 2023's Divine Feminine Liberation. Learn more and book your place here.
  • The Sekhem Level 1 and 2 initiations Ceryn will be running alongside Rachael Morley this January, including an in-person weekend in the magical lands of Glastonbury. 
  • The Re-Kindling Her Stories sessions she will be running online throughout January and February.
• Ceryn also mentions the work of Bola Juju, who you can learn more about here.
• Meanwhile, a recording of The Selkie Song, from Sharon Blackie's If Women Rose Rooted can be found here.
• To keep up with the latest from Ceryn and all things Divine Feminist, follow @divine.feminist on Instagram.
• Music is Start Again by Alex Beroza, copyright Alex(2014), sourced through YouTube and available to hear in full here. 
• Finally, if you enjoy The Divine Feminist and would like to buy Ceryn a Ko-fi, you can do that here.

As we continue our journey through the thirteen keys to sacred balance and self re-connection, we come back to that very idea of connection and, in particular, what that means when it comes to ourselves.

We are all multi-faceted beings; different voices within us bringing their thoughts, hopes and fears to the table, while the fact that we exhibit different aspects of ourselves in different situations is perfectly natural and even wise rather than a sign that we're somehow inauthentic.

Join Ceryn for a discussion of all of this and more as she invites you to consider the key of connection, and how we can all work with this within ourselves and the world.

Episode Notes

• Within this episode, Ceryn mentions the Sekhem course she will be running with Rachael Morley next month. You can read more about that here.
• Ceryn offers free introductory conversations for anyone seeking support on their own journey of self-reconnection. Learn more about those here. 
• To keep up with the latest from Ceryn and all things Divine Feminist, follow @divine.feminist on Instagram.
• Music is Start Again by Alex Beroza, copyright Alex(2014), sourced through YouTube and available to hear in full here. 
• Finally, if you enjoy The Divine Feminist and would like to buy Ceryn a Ko-fi, you can do that here.

As we continue our journey through the thirteen keys for sacred balance and self-reconnection, Ceryn invites you to consider the idea of boundaries - what they are and how we set them.

Boundaries are something we hear a lot about in today's world, and even more so as we walk this path of Divine Feminism and realise that, for all of patriarchy's work to steer us away from boundaries, neither we nor the planet can sustain the constant drive to take without limit.

But for so many of us, the very term is something we've never been taught, and one we need to truly deep dive with in order to understand and integrate on our terms.

And even when we have the "what", there is work to be done to understand how we can set and maintain boundaries in our own lives. And that's where today's episode comes in.

Episode Notes

• Within this episode, Ceryn mentions three projects that she is working on right now, specifically:
  • Her Summer Soul Session workshops, running weekly throughout August with replays available to buy now. Learn more about those at cerynrowntree.com/courses.
  • The Reiki Level One course she is running with Rachael Morley, complete with an in-person ceremonial weekend in London. Find out more about that here.
  • The Awakening Festival this September, at which Ceryn will be presenting the first ever in-person Project Earthwork event alongside Rachael and Yolandi Boshoff.
• Ceryn also mentions the book that she is currently reading, You Do You by Sarah Knight.
• To keep up with the latest from Ceryn and all things Divine Feminist, follow @divine.feminist on Instagram.
• Music is Start Again by Alex Beroza, copyright Alex(2014), sourced through YouTube and available to hear in full here. 
• Finally, if you enjoy The Divine Feminist and would like to buy Ceryn a Ko-fi, you can do that here.

It sounds like a contradiction doesn't it? Yet as we journey with allowing, the eighth key to self-reconnection and sacred balance, that's exactly where we find ourselves. 

We live in a world of action, shoulds and to-do lists; one that will tell us that doing is the only way to be.

But of course we know that's not the case, that the true sense of being is much more flowing; is something that leaves room for rest, for magic, and for someone else to take the reins. 

The key to getting there? Allowing. Allowing ourselves to both take control over what is right for us, and relinquish control over what the next steps look like.

Join Ceryn as she dives into exactly what this means, for us and our world.


Episode notes 

• Are you ready to dive more deeply into your own journey of self-reconnection and sacred balance? There are many ways you can do that, all of which can be found on Ceryn's website.
• Within this week's episode, Ceryn mentions two sets of workshops she is running, specifically:
  • Her Summer Soul Sessions, running weekly throughout August. Learn more about those at cerynrowntree.com/courses.
  • Her Self-Sourcing with Sekhem event with Rachael Morley on 31st July. Click here to read more on this one. 
• To keep up with the latest from Ceryn and all things Divine Feminist, follow @divine.feminist on Instagram.
• Music is Start Again by Alex Beroza, copyright Alex(2014), sourced through YouTube and available to hear in full here. 
• Finally, if you enjoy The Divine Feminist and would like to buy Ceryn a Ko-fi, you can do that here.

When it comes to these thirteen keys to self-connection and alignment, pleasure is perhaps the one that has had the most myths built around it by patriarchy. 

Yet to reclaim pleasure on our own terms is to reclaim our power, and so much more besides. 

So what does that involve? And how do we work out what the word even means for us? 

Join Ceryn to dive into the idea of pleasure; the myths and lies we've been sold about it, how its reclamation can benefit us, and where we begin on our own journey back to that concept. 

Episode notes 

• Are you ready to dive more deeply into your own journey of self-reconnection and sacred balance? There are many ways you can do that, all of which can be found at The Divine Feminist website.
• Meanwhile within this week's episode, Ceryn mentions three things, specifically:
  • Love, Light and Bullshit Bingo, her additional podcast with Yolandi Boshoff, which is available via both Acast and YouTube.
  • Her targeted, short-term Soul Support sessions, which are available to book here
  • The book Flow: The psychology of optimal experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
• To keep up with the latest from Ceryn and all things Divine Feminist, follow @divine.feminist on Instagram.
• Music is Start Again by Alex Beroza, copyright Alex(2014), sourced through YouTube and available to hear in full here. 
• Finally, if you enjoy The Divine Feminist and would like to buy Ceryn a Ko-fi, you can do that here.

As we continue to work through the thirteen keys to self-connection and sacred balance, we come to key six, responsibility.

And with it, we remember the words of Spiderman's Uncle Ben: "with true power comes true responsibility." Because that's precisely where responsibility becomes so important; at a time that increasingly asks and invites us to step into our power, the key to doing that appropriately is in owning that power responsibly.

But what does that mean? And how can we be sure that we will use our own power responsibly in a world that gives us so many examples of the opposite?

Join Ceryn for a deep dive into exactly this subject, and get in touch on the details below to share your experiences with this key, we would love to hear them. 

Episode notes 

• Are you ready to dive more deeply into your own journey of self-reconnection and sacred balance? There are many ways you can do that, including:
  • The Divine Feminist book, available to buy now
  • The Divine Feminist Community, a group of incredible, like-minded souls who are taking this journey together
  • The original Divine Feminists, available now on Substack
  • Unlocking Your Soul Power, a six-month 1:1 programme supporting you to return to a place of your own full (and responsible!) power. 
• To keep up with the latest from Ceryn and all things Divine Feminist, follow @divine.feminist on Instagram.
• Music is Start Again by Alex Beroza, copyright Alex(2014), sourced through YouTube and available to hear in full here. 
• Finally, if you enjoy The Divine Feminist and would like to buy Ceryn a Ko-fi, you can do that here.

As we journey together through the thirteen keys to self re-connection and sacred balance, Ceryn invites you to think about your own experiences with faith over the past few weeks, and shares insight into her journey with this.

After all, working with these keys is not as simple as a discussion, or some time spent pondering while listening to a podcast, but has a tendency to be much more in-depth. Working with these keys can and will unlock something for us if only we are prepared to tune into that experience for ourselves. 

Episode notes 

• Are you ready to dive more deeply into your own journey of self-reconnection and sacred balance? There are many ways you can do that, including:
  • The Divine Feminist book, available to buy now
  • The Divine Feminist Community, a group of incredible, like-minded souls who are taking this journey together
  • The original Divine Feminists, launching this month on Substack
  • Re-membering You, a six-month 1:1 programme working with these thirteen keys to support you in returning to your own place of self-connection and sacred balance. 
• Ceryn also mentions the book Playing Big by Tara Mohr
• To keep up with the latest from Ceryn and all things Divine Feminist, follow @divine.feminist on Instagram.
• Music is Start Again by Alex Beroza, copyright Alex(2014), sourced through YouTube and available to hear in full here. 
• Finally, if you enjoy The Divine Feminist and would like to buy Ceryn a Ko-fi, you can do that here.