The Oracle Podcast (Miriam Ropschitz)

The dark feminine holds powerful medicine for women.

But her gifts have been lost in a culture which fears the dark as something sinful and evil.

In the very first episode of The Oracle podcast, Miriam Ropschitz explains who and what the dark feminine is, offers historical evidence for the suppression of the dark and paints a new, more-truthful vision of the dark feminine's medicine for women and the planet.

If you enjoyed this episode and would like to join Miriam for her 7-week online course Dark Feminine Medicine, which begins on Winter Solstice (December 21), go to her website: www.moon-body.com

To see more of Miriam's work, head over to her Instagram - @moon_body

SHOW NOTES -------
1. Seva: The Search Engine That Feeds Hungry Children: sevasearch.org 
2. Maya Luna: www.deepfemininemysteryschool.com
3. The Power of the Dark Feminine by China Galland
4. Inanna Queen of Heaven and Earth: Her Stories and Hymns from Sumer by Diana Wolstein and Samuel Noah Kramer

In episode two of the Oracle Podcast, I’m joined by writer & author Sophie Strand. We have a beautiful conversation about her work, her life and her loves.

Some of the gems from this chat include:

– What Sophie loves to do for pleasure
– How she feels about being labelled an ‘eco-princess’
– The necessity of disappointing your readers
– Rerooting the masculine in its sacred stories
– The myth of Dionysus as healthy masculine archetype
– Who is the real Mary Magdalene?

Find Sophie on Instagram @cosmogyny; at her website sophiestrand.com; and pre-order her first book ‘The Flowering Wand: Rewilding the Sacred Masculine’ via the link in her IG profile.

Show notes: 1. Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici - the book mentioned in reference to ‘gossip’.

Episode 3 of The Oracle Podcast is called Womb Sovereignty with Audrey Jeanne Post. Miriam is joined by Audrey (@wombroot) for a deeply-nourishing conversation between two allies who are connected through their womb work + kinship.

To learn more about Audrey and her exquisite offerings for women, find her on Instagram and via her website: wombroot.com.

In ‘Womb Sovereignty’, you’ll hear Miriam and Audrey speak on:

* How a conversation between them named the podcast
* The way the sister-wound nearly broke their friendship before it had begun
* Honouring the phases of contraction/expansion inherent in your cycles and life
* The medicine of sisterly erotic innocence
* Processing feminine trauma
* The ancestral practice of keening as a way to heal the pain-body
* How the Witch Wound touches the way we share our offerings
* The role plant medicine has played in Audrey’s womb work

Show notes:
1. Keening Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIETK47YN0M
2. Book: ‘Witches, Midwives + Nurses’ by Barbara Ehrenreich

Last year I discovered – like many before me – that the image we’ve inherited of Aphrodite has been defanged beyond recognition. That in Aphrodite’s deepest core, the dark feminine is pulsating, alive, erotic, charged and coiled like a black serpent.

I realised that we mortal women are much like Goddess Aphrodite… we, too, have been taught to subdue and civilise our wild erotic impulses in order to ‘pass’ in a culture where the dark femme is unwelcome, exiled and considered dangerous.

TEMPLE OF APHRODITE was born from this initiation with the Goddess. My new 5-week online container for women was built on three pillars of: Sacred Sexual Embodiment, Goddess Wisdom
and Light + Dark Feminine Erotics.

In this episode of The Oracle Podcast, I take you back to the goddess's dark feminine origins and reveal the ways in which Aphrodite had her wild feminine core removed to be more palatable under patriarchy.

If you feel compelled by this story and would like to join my upcoming course, you can do so with 50% off until May 3rd via my website: www.moon-body.com

Join me for a deep and delightful talk with Maya Luna.

We talk about the Feminine, the Goddess and ways to access the deep feminine current.

Maya shares some of her childhood insights into spiritual wisdom and we discuss what we feel are some of the problems in modern polarity teachings and its siphoning of the feminine.

Maya is a long-time heroine of mine and this conversation was a joy.

Listen to her album of embodiment practices on Spotify here.

She’s the author of 'Omega: Feral Secrets of the Deep Feminine' and two spoken word poetry albums Holy Darkness: A Tantric Opus and Holy Grail: Her Resurrection.

Visit her website www.deepfemininemysteryschool.com to see more of her work. I’m Miriam Ropschitz, creator of Moon Body. To read more about my offerings find me at www.moon-body.com

In Episode 6 of @theoracle_podcast I’m speaking about an exciting new piece of my work: Erotic Channel.

Erotic Channel is a celebration of women’s erotic-creative power. It’s a call to creative women, guiding them into a deeper sense of embodiment so that they can gush their feminine genius into the world.

In this episode, you’ll hear me speak about: 

• The ways that woman’s body is designed to birth her creations
• The importance of women reclaiming their eros -
• The beauty of encoding your work with your unique energetic frequency
• The creative flavours of our menstrual cycles four phases.

Erotic Channel is a 4-Week Creative Coven.

It begins on April 12.

Find the link to join Erotic Channel on my Instagram: @moon_body.

In Episode 7 of @theoracle_podcast I’m joined by dear sister Jasmine Rose of @humblewildwellness.

Jasmine is a woman I’ve long admired for her womb wisdom, her medicine-woman gifts and the love which emanates so effortlessly from her being. She’s an important voice among the new generation of womb guides. Being in conversation with her was to be in ceremony. Have a listen to this episode and you’ll hear what I mean.

In episode 7, THE WOMB PATH, Jasmine Rose & I speak about: -

• Coming into right relationship with the land.
• The journey from heart to womb and back again.
• Jasmine Rose’s experience of conscious fertility and conception.
• What it means to be a well-fed woman.

The best way to connect with Jasmine Rose is via her Instagram @humblewildwellness where you’ll get to experience her wisdom.


In Episode 8 of I speak about my brand new course, Blood Witch.

Join me for an inspiring 30 minute transmission on the power of woman’s sacred blood.

I speak on:

• Why I love my bleed so much
• The biblical narrative of feminine sin
• Being wrongly diagnosed with PCOS in my 20s
• Coming off the pill 16 years ago
• Menstrual renewal practices in the Moon Lodge
• What it means to be a Blood Witch

(The book I spoke about in this episode is Lara Briden’s ‘Period Repair Manual’)

Blood Witch is part of the Cyclical Woman Collection – 58+ online courses on conscious menstruation with a combined price of $17,000 and yours until Saturday June 17th for just $97. 


Buy it at the link below:

https://miriamropschitz--cyclicalliving.thrivecart.com/the-cyclical-woman-collection-2023/ Or visit my Instagram for more information.

The collection ends on June 17th

 Episode 9 of The Oracle Podcast is a solo episode where I speak on what I like to call the feminine spiritual path. You'll hear me speak about. 

• The issue with religious sin.
• The body as oracle.
• Coming home to our root.
• Body-based rites of passage.

I also mention two new offerings you might be interested in.
The first is a 3-hour workshop called Unearthing the Goddess.
And my 3-month facilitator training The Cosmic Feminine, beginning September 20: Click here to apply.

Women's Mentor and Transformational Facilitator Fiona McCoss joins me for episode 10 of The Oracle Podcast and we get into a good chat touching on the visionary work she brings to the world.

You’ll hear us speak on:  

• Radical authenticity.
• Being a provocative trailblazer.
• Moving past the Good Girl.
• The power of true embodiment for women.
• Fiona’s invitations on how to be fully expressed.
• Life as a 5/1 in Human Design.
• Our Dark goddess Retreat.
  
  You can read Fiona’s work via Instagram @fionamccoss and find out more about working with at her website www.fionamccoss.com
  
   To join us on Dark Goddess Retreat in Somerset this October 27-30, head over to www.moon-body.com/darkgoddessretreat.
  
  And if you’re interested in joining the Cosmic Feminine Facilitator Training, go to www.moon-body.com/the-cosmic-feminine.
  
  If you enjoyed this episode please share it far and wide and give it 5 stars on Spotify.

Thank you for being here with me, dear listeners. 

In Episode 11 of the Oracle Podcast 'Voices of DFM' I share some audio testimonials from women who journeyed with me through Dark Feminine Medicine last year.

Six women speak about their experience with DFM, each sharing what felt most powerful for her and the ways that these teachings have touched their lives.

Dark Feminine Medicine is a 7-week Underworld journey which takes place online beginning with the Winter Solstice on December 21st.

Over 7 weeks we journey through 7 initiations guided by 7 Dark Goddesses. You receive live weekly calls, embodiment practices and membership to our sharing space.

More than 200 women have passed through the gates of DFM over the last 4 years.

If you feel called to spend your winter immersed in dark feminine consciousness, click the link below to sign up.

Join Dark Feminine Medicine here.

Contact Miriam Ropschitz at miriam@moon-body.com.

Find Moon Body on Instagram here.

In this special New Year's Eve episode Miriam speaks on the beauty of marinading in deep winter darkness. She reads from Inanna's Descent, discussing descent as an archetypal feminine initiation. She speaks about the Eleusinian Mysteries, the story of Persephone and Demeter and the psychoactive potion of immortality: Kykion. Miriam speaks about experiences with sacred earth medicines and about how the current times are their own form of psychoactive brew. This episode was made with those staying home for a cosy New Year's in mind. Happy New Year! Thank you for being part of the Moon Body community.

In Episode 13 Miriam speaks about women, wolves and the Fawn Response. Many women fall into fawning habits in situations where it's not necessary or supportive to truth. This is especially unhelpful for women leaders and business owners. Miriam speaks about the importance of cultivating a healthy Fight Response and how women can draw inspiration from our ancient ally: the wolf. Miriam's 3-Month Group Mentoring Container, Sister Wolf, is currently enrolling. If you're a woman with a soul-led business desiring to refine your expression, access deeper creativity and deepen your capacity to hold more, this may be for you. Sister Wolf begins on February 6th. Read more about it here: Sister Wolf

And learn more about and listen to sound healing tracks here: Earth Echo

Are you hearing the call of the rose? In episode 14 Miriam speaks about what it means to be a Rose Priestess; she attempts to explain the Rose Lineage (without the fluff); and the red thread it weaves through the ancient goddess temples of Inanna, Isis, Aphrodite and Mary Magdalene; and she speaks about how it connects to the mythical Isle of Avalon, her home of Glastonbury, Somerset. She speaks about rose as an indigenous plant medicine and its many medicinal and spiritual applications. Rose Priestess is the name of Miriam’s Glastonbury Pilgrimage for women, taking place from May 24th-27th. You’re invited to join Miriam and the @moon_body coven in Glastonbury for 4 days/ 3 nights of sacred sites, rose medicine, embodiment, work work & summertime frolics! This episode went on the April full moon and Rose Priestess begins on the May flower moon.

Join Rose Priestess here.
@moon_body Instagram.
The Moon Body website.

In episode 15: A Love of Green Things, Miriam speaks with Bernadette Ashcroft, folk herbalist, folk singer, foraging teacher, nature resonance guide and a walker on the path of the Bean Feasa (Irish for a woman of knowledge or wise-woman). In this episode Miriam and Bernadette speak about their love of the plants and the English countryside and express their shared reticence to document every aspect of their lives on social media. Bernadette shares the process behind creating her plant-based healing wares in the Wild Folk Apothecary. She offers suggestions for those wanting to know where to begin when it comes to connecting with the living world and subtle realms. This is a nourishing, uplifting conversation between two women in love with all things green. It’s a call to remember the inherent magick of ourselves as human beings in connection with the more-than human world. 
Bernadette is generously offering listeners 25% off her products at the Wild Folk Apothecary, using the code: moonbody.
Visit the Wild Folk Apothecary here.
Read Bernadette’s words on Instagram here.
Read about joining her foraging walks in Suffolk here.
And listen to the ‘Meadowsong’ played at the end of the episode here.

In Episode 16 Miriam speaks about the Witch Wound. She discusses some of the modern misunderstandings about the European Witch Hunts, the ways that this period created a culture of terror in women and led to the development of the Witch Wound. Miriam breaks down the Witch Wound into five key expressions.

On Sunday November 3rd Miriam is offering her community a free workshop on the Witch Wound. To join, register here.

The Moon Body website.

Moon Body Instagram.

Brought to you on Friday 13th, in this deep dive into the Dark Feminine, Miriam speaks on:

• What is the Dark Feminine?
• Dark Feminine versus Feminine Shadow
• Understanding Light Feminine Qualities
• The Dark Feminine in Women Dark Feminine Energy in Dating

*Special Offer* Get 13% off my 7-Week Underworld Journey Dark Feminine Medicine with the code Friday13 at checkout.

Join Dark Feminine Medicine here.