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Byron and I covered so much rich ground during this conversation! Here are a few additional resources to support your further explorations.Video version of this episode is available on the Home to Her Youtube Channel: https://youtu.be/kVbrUHlnQ-EYou can learn more about Byron at her website, https://www.myvillagewitch.com/.You can also find her on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/byron.ballard.37, and on Instagram: @byronballard5789Byron referenced D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths – more info here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/36027/daulaires-book-of-greek-myths-by-ingri-daulaire-and-edgar-parin-daulaire/#:~:text=In%20print%20for%20over%20fifty,if%20they%20were%20alive%20todayByron also mentioned the Nicene Creed of Catholicism, which I wasn’t familiar with. If you’re interested, you can read the text here: https://www.usccb.org/beliefs-and-teachings/what-we-believeYou can see the replica of the Parthenon, including its giant replica of the Goddess Athena, in Nashville, TN, here: https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/14603. And here’s more info on the Serpent Mound, which Byron also referenced: https://www.ohiohistory.org/visit/browse-historical-sites/serpent-mound/. Riane Eisler has written one of the most important books detailing the history of the Goddess, called “The Chalice and The Blade”. More info here – this also links to Eisler’s Center for Partnership Systems, which also offers many more resources: https://centerforpartnership.org/resources/books/the-chalice-and-the-blade-our-history-our-future/The images found on the ubiquitous Rider-Waite Tarot deck were designed by a Black woman named Pamela Colman Smith, who rarely gets credit for her work. I also discussed this with a previous guest, Giovanni Washington, and you can listen to here episode here: https://hometoher.simplecast.com/episodes/the-black-goddess-within-with-giavanni-washington For more Sacred Feminine goodness and to stay up to date on all episodes, please follow me on Instagram: @hometoher.To dive into conversation about the Sacred Feminine, join the Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/hometoher To go deeper in your Sacred Feminine explorations, check out the course offerings via Home to Her Academy: www.hometoheracademy.com And to read about the Sacred Feminine, check out my award-winning book Home to Her: Walking the Transformative Path of the Sacred Feminine (Womancraft Publishing), available wherever you buy your books!. If you've read it, your reviews on Goodreads and Amazon are greatly appreciated! Mentioned in this episode:Unbound: A Daylong retreat for womenCome and join me in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains on January 10 for Unbound, a daylong retreat inviting women to step into the fullest expression of their power. Date: January 10, 2026 Location: Crozet, Virginia Early bird pricing is ending December 15! Unbound

You can watch the video of this episode with captions here: https://youtu.be/ov3sVx2LjOsYou can learn more about Dee and her work here: https://deirdre-mulrooney.com/. If you scroll down, you can see some of her art, including the piece we discussed in detail. You can also follow Dee on Instagram @deemulrooney; and Growler has her own Instagram account: @growlerspeaksDuring this conversation, Dee and I referenced our shared practice of praying the rosary. My first episode of this podcast was dedicated to exploring the Sacred Feminine history of the rosary with Clark Strand and Perdita Finn. You can access it here: https://hometoher.simplecast.com/episodes/exploring-the-secrets-of-the-rosary-with-clark-strand-and-perdita-finnDee mentioned the ancient Irish art of divine invocation, known as Imbas Forasnai. Here’s an article providing more information: http://searchingforimbas.blogspot.com/p/imbas-forosnai-by-nora-k-chadwick.htmlDee also referenced the Tuam Mother and Baby home scandal in Ireland. This article provides more detail; please be warned that the content is upsetting: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54693159The art piece that Dee and I discussed displays a vagina dentata, or a vagina with teeth. This article provides some background on the term, plus an overview of myths surrounding vagina dentata from around the world: https://www.vice.com/en/article/payq79/pussy-bites-back-vagina-dentata-myths-from-around-the-world For more Sacred Feminine goodness and to stay up to date on all episodes, please follow me on Instagram: @hometoher.To dive into conversation about the Sacred Feminine, join the Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/hometoher To go deeper in your Sacred Feminine explorations, check out the course offerings via Home to Her Academy: www.hometoheracademy.com And to read about the Sacred Feminine, check out my award-winning book Home to Her: Walking the Transformative Path of the Sacred Feminine (Womancraft Publishing), available wherever you buy your books!. If you've read it, your reviews on Goodreads and Amazon are greatly appreciated! Mentioned in this episode:Unbound: A Daylong retreat for womenCome and join me in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains on January 10 for Unbound, a daylong retreat inviting women to step into the fullest expression of their power. Date: January 10, 2026 Location: Crozet, Virginia Early bird pricing is ending December 15! Unbound

If you’d prefer to watch this conversation with captions, you can find the video episode here: https://youtu.be/m28sbiQs1OoYou can learn more about Stella and her work at www.stellatomlinson.com.You can follow Stella on Instagram @stellatomlinson.priestess If you’re interested in learning more about lunar cycles, you may wish to listen to my discussions with April Miller McMurtry, creator of The Moon is My Calendar:https://hometoher.simplecast.com/episodes/honoring-the-cycles-of-the-moon-with-april-mcmurtryhttps://hometoher.simplecast.com/episodes/honoring-the-cycles-of-the-moon-with-april-mcmurtry-part-2Stella also referenced the work of Bethany Webster, author of Discovering the Inner Mother. You can listen to my conversation with Bethany here: https://hometoher.simplecast.com/episodes/healing-the-mother-wound-with-bethany-websterStella mentioned The Red School: https://www.redschool.net/And, we discussed how the Triple Goddess concept of Maiden, Mother and Crone is most likely a modern construct, introduced by Robert Graves in his 1948 book The White Goddess. You can read more about this here: https://www.learnreligions.com/maiden-mother-and-crone-2562881 For more Sacred Feminine goodness and to stay up to date on all episodes, please follow me on Instagram: @hometoher.To dive into conversation about the Sacred Feminine, join the Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/hometoher To go deeper in your Sacred Feminine explorations, check out the course offerings via Home to Her Academy: www.hometoheracademy.com And to read about the Sacred Feminine, check out my award-winning book Home to Her: Walking the Transformative Path of the Sacred Feminine (Womancraft Publishing), available wherever you buy your books!. If you've read it, your reviews on Goodreads and Amazon are greatly appreciated! Mentioned in this episode:Unbound: A Daylong retreat for womenCome and join me in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains on January 10 for Unbound, a daylong retreat inviting women to step into the fullest expression of their power. Date: January 10, 2026 Location: Crozet, Virginia Early bird pricing is ending December 15! Unbound

You can learn more about Kimberly, her podcast and her work at www.motherhouseofthegoddess.com.I also referenced a prior Home to Her episode with Lilith Dorsey, during which we also discussed some of the African orishas. You can listen to it here:Here’s a lovely essay about Hekate from Motherhouse of the Goddess: http://themotherhouseofthegoddess.com/2021/11/28/hekates-night-a-winters-tale-by-renee-starr/Here’s some more information about Oshun from Motherhouse of the Goddess: http://themotherhouseofthegoddess.com/the-orisha-goddess-oshun-portal-page/Two wonderful books that provide more information about Orishas from the African traditions are “Jambalaya”, by Luisah Teish, and “Orishas, Goddesses and Voodoo Queens”, by Lilith Dorsey And here’s an article to help understand the origins of the word “gypsy” and its offensive nature to the native Roma people: https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/gypsy-slur-netlflix For more Sacred Feminine goodness and to stay up to date on all episodes, please follow me on Instagram: @hometoher.To dive into conversation about the Sacred Feminine, join the Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/hometoher To go deeper in your Sacred Feminine explorations, check out the course offerings via Home to Her Academy: www.hometoheracademy.com And to read about the Sacred Feminine, check out my award-winning book Home to Her: Walking the Transformative Path of the Sacred Feminine (Womancraft Publishing), available wherever you buy your books!. If you've read it, your reviews on Goodreads and Amazon are greatly appreciated! Mentioned in this episode:Unbound: A Daylong retreat for womenCome and join me in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains on January 10 for Unbound, a daylong retreat inviting women to step into the fullest expression of their power. Date: January 10, 2026 Location: Crozet, Virginia Early bird pricing is ending December 15! Unbound

You can learn more about Angela and buy her book Queering the American Dream at www.tehomcenter.org. 100% of all book sales are donated to the nonprofit Tehom Center. Instagram: @tehomcenterFacebook: @angelayarber; @tehomcenterTwitter: @tehomcenterHere are a few more resources related to today’s discussion:You can learn more about queer, Black human rights activist Pauli Murray at  https://www.paulimurraycenter.com/.bell hooks quote shared by Angela when discussing what it means to “queer” the American Dream: “Queer not as being about who you’re having sex with (that can be a dimension of it); but queer as being about the self that is at odds with everything around it and has to invent and create and find a place to speak and to thrive and to live.”Wendell Berry’s poem, “The Peace of Wild Things”: https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/peace-wild-things-0/ For more Sacred Feminine goodness and to stay up to date on all episodes, please follow me on Instagram: @hometoher.To dive into conversation about the Sacred Feminine, join the Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/hometoher To go deeper in your Sacred Feminine explorations, check out the course offerings via Home to Her Academy: www.hometoheracademy.com And to read about the Sacred Feminine, check out my award-winning book Home to Her: Walking the Transformative Path of the Sacred Feminine (Womancraft Publishing), available wherever you buy your books!. If you've read it, your reviews on Goodreads and Amazon are greatly appreciated! Mentioned in this episode:Unbound: A Daylong retreat for womenCome and join me in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains on January 10 for Unbound, a daylong retreat inviting women to step into the fullest expression of their power. Date: January 10, 2026 Location: Crozet, Virginia Early bird pricing is ending December 15! Unbound

You can learn more about Sarah at her website, www.sarahpoet.com. You can also follow her on Instagram at @embodiedbreath. Sarah’s podcast is Sacred Remembering, which you can listen to here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sacred-remembering/id1489365997 For more Sacred Feminine goodness and to stay up to date on all episodes, please follow me on Instagram: @hometoher.To dive into conversation about the Sacred Feminine, join the Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/hometoher To go deeper in your Sacred Feminine explorations, check out the course offerings via Home to Her Academy: www.hometoheracademy.com And to read about the Sacred Feminine, check out my award-winning book Home to Her: Walking the Transformative Path of the Sacred Feminine (Womancraft Publishing), available wherever you buy your books!. If you've read it, your reviews on Goodreads and Amazon are greatly appreciated! Mentioned in this episode:Unbound: A Daylong retreat for womenCome and join me in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains on January 10 for Unbound, a daylong retreat inviting women to step into the fullest expression of their power. Date: January 10, 2026 Location: Crozet, Virginia Early bird pricing is ending December 15! Unbound

You can learn more about Dr. G and purchase the Black Goddess Within Oracle Deck at https://go.blackgoddesswithin.com.Giavanni referenced the book It Didn’t Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle, by Mark WolynYou can learn more about Calafia, the Black Queen whose name inspired the state of California, here: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/california-etymology-black-queen.You can also learn more about Queen Calafia’s Magical Circle, a public art installation created by French artist Niki de Saint Phalle, located in Escondido, California, here: https://visitescondido.com/queen-califias-magical-circle-escondido/ For more Sacred Feminine goodness and to stay up to date on all episodes, please follow me on Instagram: @hometoher.To dive into conversation about the Sacred Feminine, join the Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/hometoher To go deeper in your Sacred Feminine explorations, check out the course offerings via Home to Her Academy: www.hometoheracademy.com And to read about the Sacred Feminine, check out my award-winning book Home to Her: Walking the Transformative Path of the Sacred Feminine (Womancraft Publishing), available wherever you buy your books!. If you've read it, your reviews on Goodreads and Amazon are greatly appreciated! Mentioned in this episode:Unbound: A Daylong retreat for womenCome and join me in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains on January 10 for Unbound, a daylong retreat inviting women to step into the fullest expression of their power. Date: January 10, 2026 Location: Crozet, Virginia Early bird pricing is ending December 15! Unbound

You can learn more about Dr. Christena Cleveland and her work at her website, www.christenacleveland.com, as well as at https://www.sacredfolk.com/. Christena’s new book, God is a Black Woman, is available everywhere books are sold. Here’s a list of Black-owned, independent bookstores: https://bookshop.org/lists/black-owned-bookstores-2021You can also support Christena’s work on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/cscleve. The Palestinian Liberation Theologian Christena described is Naim Ateek, and his book, Justice and Only Justice, can be found here: https://www.orbisbooks.com/justice-and-only-justice.html For more Sacred Feminine goodness and to stay up to date on all episodes, please follow me on Instagram: @hometoher.To dive into conversation about the Sacred Feminine, join the Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/hometoher To go deeper in your Sacred Feminine explorations, check out the course offerings via Home to Her Academy: www.hometoheracademy.com And to read about the Sacred Feminine, check out my award-winning book Home to Her: Walking the Transformative Path of the Sacred Feminine (Womancraft Publishing), available wherever you buy your books!. If you've read it, your reviews on Goodreads and Amazon are greatly appreciated! Mentioned in this episode:Unbound: A Daylong retreat for womenCome and join me in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains on January 10 for Unbound, a daylong retreat inviting women to step into the fullest expression of their power. Date: January 10, 2026 Location: Crozet, Virginia Early bird pricing is ending December 15! Unbound

You can learn more about the Ian and his work at his website, https://www.ianmack.com/. Here are a few more links related to our discussion: You can read about the 1982 movie The Last Unicorn here. You can read the Epic of Gilgamesh, one of the oldest written stories known, here.You can learn about Stephen Jenkinson and his Orphan Wisdom School here.This episode of the Mythic Masculine features Pat McCabe, whose work we also discuss on the show:    http://newstoryhub.com/2020/02/thriving-life-and-a-prayer-for-all-men-with-pat-mccabe-woman-stands-shining/. For more Sacred Feminine goodness and to stay up to date on all episodes, please follow me on Instagram: @hometoher.To dive into conversation about the Sacred Feminine, join the Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/hometoher To go deeper in your Sacred Feminine explorations, check out the course offerings via Home to Her Academy: www.hometoheracademy.com And to read about the Sacred Feminine, check out my award-winning book Home to Her: Walking the Transformative Path of the Sacred Feminine (Womancraft Publishing), available wherever you buy your books!. If you've read it, your reviews on Goodreads and Amazon are greatly appreciated! Mentioned in this episode:Unbound: A Daylong retreat for womenCome and join me in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains on January 10 for Unbound, a daylong retreat inviting women to step into the fullest expression of their power. Date: January 10, 2026 Location: Crozet, Virginia Early bird pricing is ending December 15! Unbound

You can learn more about Verlena and her artwork at her website, www.verlenajohnson.com.During this episode, we also discussed the artist, Faith Ringgold. You can learn more about her work and see her art, including her story quilts at her website:https://www.faithringgold.com/We also discussed the work of the late writer and activist Audre Lorde. The Poetry Foundation has a nice writeup of her life, along with links to her poetry here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/audre-lordeI also referenced the Missing Witches podcast and their book in this episode. You can learn more about the co-hosts and their work at their website, www.missingwitches.com. For more Sacred Feminine goodness and to stay up to date on all episodes, please follow me on Instagram: @hometoher.To dive into conversation about the Sacred Feminine, join the Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/hometoher To go deeper in your Sacred Feminine explorations, check out the course offerings via Home to Her Academy: www.hometoheracademy.com And to read about the Sacred Feminine, check out my award-winning book Home to Her: Walking the Transformative Path of the Sacred Feminine (Womancraft Publishing), available wherever you buy your books!. If you've read it, your reviews on Goodreads and Amazon are greatly appreciated! Mentioned in this episode:Unbound: A Daylong retreat for womenCome and join me in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains on January 10 for Unbound, a daylong retreat inviting women to step into the fullest expression of their power. Date: January 10, 2026 Location: Crozet, Virginia Early bird pricing is ending December 15! Unbound