Episode 11 - The Forgotten Feminine of Samhain: The Cailleach, Ancestors & the Real History of Halloween

What if blood is more than biology? What if its connection to life, the soul and the sacred reveals something about how our ancestors understood the human body and the feminine? Welcome back to For Goddess Sake, where we follow the threads of history, mythology, spirituality and the feminine to explore the stories beneath the stories. In this episode, we're going down a fascinating rabbit hole into the symbolism of blood. We begin with a powerful phrase from the Hebrew Bible: “For the blood i...

Before we think of salt as something we sprinkle on our food, we might want to ask what it meant to the ancient world, and what it might reveal about our relationship with the sacred. This episode begins with a familiar phrase, ‘the salt of the earth’, where it comes from and follows it into a much deeper exploration of alchemy, the feminine and the sacred body. In this episode of For Goddess Sake, Rebecca goes down rabbit hole that connects the words of Jesus, the alchemical symbolism of sal...

When you hear the words "mystery school", what do you picture? This episode asks how we got from one to the other, and what happened to the feminine along the way. In Episode 8 of For Goddess Sake, Rebecca explores what the ancient mystery schools actually were. They weren't religions you believed in. They were initiations you went through. The "mystery" was never really a secret in the modern sense. It was something you had to experience to understand. From the Eleusinian Mysteries of Demete...

What if history isn't a straight line but a wheel? This episode explores the Yuga cycles, the Age of Aquarius, and why the rise of the divine feminine may be the key to humanity's ascent. We're raised to believe time is linear: primitive, then civilised, then us, with later always meaning better. In Episode 7 of For Goddess Sake, Rebecca questions that story, starting with a simple but radical point: history isn't the past, it's what survived of the past, and it was overwhelmingly written by ...

Before astrology was a horoscope in a magazine, it was a way of understanding our place within the cosmos. This episode explores ‘as above, so below’, the ego, synchronicity, and the possibility that the universe isn't a collection of disconnected events at all, but a web of patterns we are already part of. In Episode 6 of For Goddess Sake, Rebecca goes beneath the surface of astrology to ask a much bigger question: how does astrology actually work? She explores why astrology can be so confro...