Awakening The Mystic Within
by Julia Anastasiou
Awakening the Mystic Within is a podcast for soulful seekers and visionary leaders ready to live with deep purpose, sacred connection, and authenticity. Hosted by Julia Anastasiou, a spiritual guide and teacher, each episode explores spirituality, ancient wisdom, and personal transformation. Discover inspiring stories, sacred practices, and timeless teachings to awaken your inner mystic. Visit www.juliaanastasiou.com to begin your journey.
Episodes
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Samhain
Samhain: The Final Harvest and the Wisdom of the Dark Explore Samhain’s Gaelic roots, the folklore of the Cailleach, ancestral wisdom and the invitation to turn inward as winter approaches. Julia shares a ritual of thanksgiving, ancestral connection and intention, asking: what deserves your care…
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Hunter's Full Moon
Taurus Full Moon Meditation | Gather Your Light As the veils thin and Samhain approaches, join Julia Anastasiou, spiritual guide and founder of the Mystery School of the Mystic, for a meditation beneath the Taurus Hunter’s Moon. Rooted in the symbolism of earthy Taurus and the deep waters of...
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The Wisdom of Descent
The Wisdom of Descent What might we discover when we give ourselves time to turn inwards? From my experience beneath the earth in a labyrinth to the stories of Hekate, Persephone, Inanna and Ceridwen, this transmission explores courage, receiving and the wisdom that develops through practice....
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Libra New Moon 10:10
The 10:10:10 Threshold — A Libra New Moon Transmission and Ritual What needs to change so that who you are becoming has room to emerge? In this episode of Awakening the Mystic Within, Julia Anastasiou explores the Libra New Moon and the symbolic 10:10:10 gateway: the tenth day, the tenth month…
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The Mystery School
The Mystic Within: Is the Mystery School Calling You? Explore what a Mystery School offers, the gifts of the Mystic archetype, and how spiritual wisdom brings depth to everyday life. We journey through seasonal teachings, embodied practice and the beauty of community, closing with a guided…
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Autumn Equinox
At the autumn equinox, day and night meet in near-perfect balance. This sacred threshold invites us to explore the relationship between light and darkness, action and rest, giving and receiving. In this episode of Awakening the Mystic Within, Julia reflects upon balance as a living rhythm before...
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Walking Meditation
In this episode, Julia guides you through a sensory walking meditation for the turning season. As you walk or rest at home with the sounds of nature around you, you will explore what is ripening within, what you are gathering from the season you have lived, and the next grounded step waiting to…
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Eclipse & Full Moon
As the Pisces Full Moon closes the eclipse portal, we stand at a threshold between what has completed and what is beginning to take form. In this episode, Julia explores trust as an embodied relationship with life. The maps that guided us through a former season may no longer describe the…
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The Body Hears the Soul Before You Do
How repetition, rhythm and ritual help us hear the whispers within What if the body perceives the soul’s message before the conscious mind can understand it? After only a few weeks of joining Morning Spirals, one woman sat in meditation and, for the first time, heard and felt her soul speak to…
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Silence as a Portal
A Guided Journey Beneath the Noise What becomes possible when the noise recedes and we create space to listen? In this episode of Awakening the Mystic Within, Julia Anastasiou explores the sacred art of silence and the practice of mauna — intentional periods of silence that allow our attention to...
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Lion's Gate Transmission
The Gate of the Heart A Lion’s Gate Transmission of the Divine Solar Feminine In this guided transmission, Julia Anastasiou explores the Lion’s Gate through the lens of embodiment, presence and the Divine Solar Feminine. Rather than seeking a portal beyond ourselves, this journey brings awareness...
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Restful Yoga Nidra
When the Body Asks for Rest A Traditional Yoga Nidra for Deep Restoration There are times when the body is tired, yet something within us remains alert. The mind continues to move. The muscles hold the residue of the day. We lie down, longing for sleep, while the nervous system struggles to…
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The Alabaster Jar
As the Feast of Magdalene approaches, Julia enters the mystery of the alabaster jar and the precious spikenard Magdalene poured in an act of love, recognition and anointing. This episode explores devotion as a living practice, the deeper knowing of Nous, and Anthropos—the meeting of the fully…
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Immram
Immram – Leaving One Shore There are moments in life when we realise we can no longer remain on the shore we've always known. An old identity begins to soften. A quiet longing begins to stir. Something within us senses that another chapter is calling, even before we understand where it will lead....
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Summer Solstice
This soulful transmission includes reflections on the spiritual significance of the Solstice, the power of natural light, a guided light code activation, and a simple ritual to honour this sacred seasonal threshold. In this episode: • The deeper meaning of the Summer Solstice • Light, vitality…
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Joan of Arc
In this episode of Awakening the Mystic Within, Julia Anastasiou explores the life and legacy of Joan of Arc through the lens of faith, inner authority, and the eternal flame of the soul. Journey with Julia from the fields of medieval France to a powerful vision of Joan within a field of white...
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Heart, Soul & Spirit
Are the soul and spirit the same? Through mystical reflection, embodied spirituality, and a guided Cave of the Heart meditation, this episode invites you into deeper inner listening and direct spiritual experience. Together we explore soul, spirit, the wisdom of the body, contemplative practice,...
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When The Land Speaks
In this episode of Awakening the Mystic Within, Julia Anastasiou shares reflections from her recent retreat in Seaford and pilgrimage through Provence, the Languedoc, and Montserrat. Together we explore pilgrimage as both an outer and inner journey, from the caves of Sainte-Baume and the living...
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A Mother's Threshold
A Mother’s Threshold The Quiet Crossing No One Names There are moments in a woman’s life that are deeply felt, yet rarely named. In this episode, Julia Anastasiou shares a personal transmission on a threshold that arrives as her sons step into their own lives. What reveals itself is a rite of...
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Spring Equinox: Ostara, the Returning Light & the Wisdom of Persephone
The Spring Equinox marks a sacred turning point in the Wheel of the Year — the moment when day and night stand in perfect balance and the returning light begins to awaken the Earth. In this episode of Awakening the Mystic Within, Julia explores the deeper wisdom of this seasonal threshold. We...
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Mindset to Soulset
In this episode Julia explores the evolving landscape of personal growth and the quiet shift from traditional mindset work toward a deeper, more holistic approach to transformation. Today that search is unfolding in a new way — moving beyond changing thoughts and behaviours into a deeper journey…
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The Fire Horse
We have entered the Year of the Fire Horse, a potent turning within the sixty-year elemental cycle. In this transmission, we explore Fire as the element of the Heart and its connection to Shen, the luminous spirit that shines through the eyes. When Shen is steady, presence becomes radiant and...
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Friday The 13th
Friday the 13th — Reclaiming the Thirteenth Gate In this transmission, Julia guides a ceremonial reclamation of Friday the 13th, restoring its original lineage as a convergence of goddess wisdom and womb intelligence. Rather than superstition, this day once marked mature feminine authority, lunar...
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Imbolc
Imbolc marks a subtle yet profound threshold within the Wheel of the Year, a turning that occurs beneath the surface of winter, where warmth gathers, nourishment returns, and life begins to recognise itself again. This episode is an invitation to settle back into seasonal rhythm, to attune to…
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When The Body Makes Space
In this episode of Awakening the Mystic Within, Julia Anastasiou explores Soma — the body experienced from within— and the subtle conditions that allow awareness to settle, deepen, and mature through the body. Woven through seasonal reflection, embodied philosophy, and lived practice, this...
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The Power of Prayer
The Power of Prayer Awakening the Mystic Within with Julia Anastasiou In this episode, Julia shares a quiet, intimate reflection on prayer, beyond religion, belief, or performance. Speaking from lived experience, Julia explores prayer as relational presence, inner listening, and coherence. She...
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Cancer Full Moon
The Cancer Full Supermoon: Returning to the Inner Sanctuary In this episode, Julia Anastasiou guides you into the heart of the Cancer Full Supermoon, the first full moon of 2026, inviting a return to inner sanctuary, emotional safety, and embodied rhythm. This is a deeply soothing and healing...
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At The Threshold
This episode offers a pause at the threshold between the year just lived and the cycle now unfolding. Rather than rushing into intention-setting, this transmission invites a body-led year review, an honouring of ancestral lineage, and a conscious orientation into the energies of 2026 as a…
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Winter Solstice
In this Winter Solstice episode of Awakening the Mystic Within, Julia explores the ancient and living wisdom of the Solstice as a threshold of descent, stillness, and return. Drawing on ancestral knowledge, sacred sites such as Stonehenge and Newgrange, and the Celtic wisdom of the Cailleach…
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Yuletide
Yule: Held in the Dark A Midwinter Transmission Awakening the Mystic Within — with Julia Anastasiou As the Winter Solstice approaches, Yule invites us into the deepest part of the year — a season of stillness, inward listening, and the quiet return of light. In this episode of Awakening the…
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Discipline to Devotion
In this episode of Awakening the Mystic Within, Julia Anastasiou explores how steady spiritual practice ripens into devotion. Drawing from thirty-three years of meditation, mantra, pranayama, and feminine embodiment, she speaks to the power of returning again and again to the inner path. Julia...
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Gemini Full Moon
In this powerful episode, Julia guides you through the energy of the Super Full Moon in Gemini, the final full moon of 2025 and the culminating illumination of an entire nine-year cycle. This moon arrives as a threshold a moment of clarity, alignment, and new direction. Julia shares a deeply...
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Winter Medicine
In this winter transmission, Julia guides you through a deeply immersive journey into the season of stillness, warmth, and inner fire. Blending Ayurveda, ancient archetypes, Celtic winter wisdom, and the intelligence of the body, this episode invites you to step into the womb of winter and...
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Unbinding Threads
In this powerful transmission, Julia guides you through the sacred art of unbinding the conscious, intentional release of karmic threads, energetic cords, and relational entanglements that have reached their natural completion. Drawing on archetypal wisdom, ritual practices, ancestral memory, and...
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Awakening Signals
Awakening Signals In this episode, Julia Anastasiou explores why so many women are noticing ear tones, subtle spinal currents, pulsing at the brow and heightened intuition — and what these experiences point to in our current collective awakening. You’ll also receive a powerful guided journey into...
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11:11 Transmission
The 11:11 Transmission — A Quantum Awakening This episode is a sacred preparation for one of the most powerful portals of the year — 11:11, the gateway of divine alignment and higher consciousness. Join Julia Anastasiou, mystic, author, and founder of The Mystery School of the Mystic. In this...
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Eclipse & Equinox
The Still Point of Balance: Solar Eclipse, Equinox & New Moon Transmission This episode of Awakening the Mystic Within is a sacred transmission for one of the most potent thresholds of the year the Autumn Equinox, the Libra New Moon, and the Solar Eclipse. We are closing a powerful eclipse…
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Autumn Equinox
As the wheel of the year turns, we arrive at the Autumn Equinox, also known as Mabon — a moment of perfect balance between day and night, light and shadow. This episode is a sacred transmission and guided journey into the heart of this threshold season. Together, we explore the ancient meaning of...
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Pisces Blood Moon Eclipse
The Space Between Worlds — A Blood Moon Eclipse in Pisces On Sunday 7th September, the Pisces Full Moon rises as a Total Lunar Eclipse — the Blood Moon. Under her red glow, we are invited to release, reset, and trust the tides of destiny. In this special episode of Awakening the Mystic Within,...
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The Art of Manifestation
Manifestation in the Lions Gate & Aquarius Moon Right now, the heavens are alive with possibility. The Lions Gate portal, aligns the Sun in bold Leo with Sirius, the brightest star in the sky, unlocking a flood of courage, clarity, and creative power. Just beyond it, the August Full Moon in...
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The Pilgrimage
There are journeys that change your surroundings… And there are those that change your soul. In this evocative and soul-stirring episode, I share my recent pilgrimage across France and Spain — a sacred spiral through Chartres, Rocamadour, Saint-Maximin, and Montserrat. This was not a road trip.…
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Magdalene's Feast Day
Join Julia on this sacred Feast Day of Mary Magdalene as she guides you through a mystical pilgrimage to Sainte-Baume — the forested mountain in Southern Gaul where Magdalene is said to have lived, prayed, and communed with the Divine. This poetic episode is both a reverent teaching and a guided...
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Ayurveda Sacred Living
As the sun reaches her golden peak and the fire of summer blazes bright, we turn inward — not to retreat, but to realign. In this soul-led episode, Julia opens the petals of Ayurveda — the sacred science of life — guiding us into a deeper understanding of the elemental forces that shape our body,...
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The Bio The Breakdown The Becoming
In this deeply personal and resonant episode, Julia invites you behind the scenes of a quiet but powerful moment — when updating a single word on her website became the catalyst for a soul-level transformation. What began as adding Author to her bio after publishing her book, The Mandala of…
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She Arrived Without Me ...
There are moments that unfold outside your plans — and still arrive right on time. This is one of them. In this ceremonial episode of Awakening the Mystic Within, Julia shares the tender, true story of The Mandala of Wisdom’sarrival… not to her, but to the women meant to hold it first. You’ll…
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The Mandala of Wisdom
Available HERE “Your life is already sacred — this is your invitation to remember.” In this special episode, Julia Anastasiou shares the story behind her new book, The Mandala of Wisdom: Everyday Sacred Living for the Modern Mystic. This is more than a launch — it’s a sacred remembering. We…
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Summer Solstice
Welcome to a sacred Solstice portal… In this ceremonial episode of Awakening the Mystic Within, Julia guides you through a potent Summer Solstice transmission — a ritual journey into the Solar Chalice within and a full-body Light Code Activation. You’ll be held in golden frequencies as you cross...
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The Rite of Sovereignty
In this tender and powerful episode, Julia Anastasiou invites you into a sacred remembrance: menopause not as a loss, but as a Rite of Sovereignty. Through shamanic wisdom, soulful guidance, and a deeply evocative journey to meet your inner Wild and Wise Woman, this episode reclaims the Crone as...
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Womb Shamanka
In this powerful and poetic transmission, Julia invites you to remember the ancient path of the Womb Shamanka — the feminine mystic, the soul-walker, the healer who lives in rhythm with Earth and breathes in devotion. You’ll journey into the roots of shamanism, reclaim the wisdom of the first...
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Earth Whispers
In this sacred episode, Julia Anastasiou invites you into the mystical practice of weaving light into the Earth’s body — a forgotten feminine art remembered through every intentional step, prayer, and pilgrimage. You’ll explore the deeper meaning behind spiritual terms like the crystalline…
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About this show
Awakening the Mystic Within is a podcast for soulful seekers and visionary leaders ready to live with deep purpose, sacred connection, and authenticity. Hosted by Julia Anastasiou, a spiritual guide and teacher, each episode explores spirituality, ancient wisdom, and personal transformation. Discover inspiring stories, sacred practices, and timeless teachings to awaken your inner mystic. Visit www.juliaanastasiou.com to begin your journey.
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