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Mooney's Mythic Podcast
by Mooney Stories
Myth Making, Spell Breaking.It’s about knowing our psyche as a treasure chest and using story as a map. sarahmooney.substack.com
Episodes
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Owen Staton and Tarisha
As autumn turns us down into the earth, this episode opens with a threshold track from Tarisha, then shares a treat from the archive: a conversation with Welsh storyteller Owen Staton. Together they explore unscripted telling, storytelling cards, letting a story “sing it plain,” and stories as...
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Deep Into the Earth: Bubble Wrap, Savage Daughters and What the F**k
Mooney’s Mythic Podcast Past the equinox, Sarah reflects on telling stories in the woods and the prayer she’ll make next time. She also talks about unwrapping a bubble-wrapped six-year-old part of herself, and joining the fierce Savage Sisters Morris side. In the story pot: The Princess’s…
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The Shroud and the Skin
Opening music By Queen Space Baroque Online workshop Thursday 6:30–8:30pm https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1998740818593?aff=oddtdtcreator Samhain telling of Donkey Skin in Glastonbury, 30th Oct https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1998949432563?aff=oddtdtcreator This is a public episode. If you would…
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To be kissed
Sarah previews The Synthphonic Orchestra ahead of Friday’s Rose Concert, then reflects on cycles — vision quests, moon time, community rhythm — before telling a Loathly Lady tale: three princes, a dried well, and the old woman who asks only for a kiss. Music: The Synthphonic Orchestra, “Love...
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Death and Hard Ons
Opening Track Ritual Door One by Queen Space Baroque Gathering us all up in this pod, talking about myth, magic, Featuring Malin Lewis 'Hiraeth' This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sarahmooney.substack.com
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In the thick of the heat
In the thick of the heat, Sarah sits with Donkey Skin — the dancing, the impossible dresses, the prince as the first green shoot pushing through — and finds a way to move difficult feelings like toffee instead of chewing them over. From there: treasure held underground, the last auk’s...
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Worth our Salt
Opening music: Ritual Door No.1 by Queen Space Baroque Sarah records this episode in the aftermath of an accidental encounter with cactus acid and two visits hospital having her eyes rinsed out with saline — which turns out to be the perfect portal into a meditation on salt, flavour, and what…
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Hot for God
Opening music: Ritual Door No.1 by Queen Space Baroque Sarah records from a closed curtain, a lit fire, and the aftermath of two hours of singing on an empty stomach — and discovers that drooping under the weight of your own blooming is a perfectly good reason to stay in. This episode wanders...
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Camelot
Sarah recreates a medieval landscape for the Arthurian myth of Lanval — the knight overlooked at Arthur's Pentecost feast who wanders to the river's edge and is called into the mist by a Lady of the Fae. With atmospheric heavy lifting from the Avalonian Free State Choir singing Gaudette and...
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Our wild and precious lives
Opening music by Queen Space Baroque Sarah returns from a day storytelling and running a poetry workshop inside a men's prison — an experience that cracked her open. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit...
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What does it take to open?
But first, a story she didn’t get to tell in her Women Who Run With the Wolves group last week. From there, Sarah moves into the myth she and theatre director Joanna Proctor have chosen as the heart of a new immersive mythic experience they’re co-creating: Echo and Narcissus. Stripped of her…
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Spring Equinox
Recording on the Spring Equinox — She shares a week that began with a surprisingly complex Florence Nightingale school session, honouring the many women who served alongside her in the Crimea, before falling headlong into Greek mythology at one in the morning after her Alice in Wonderland finale…
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Waking in the Flower
Waking in the Flower: Madness, Medicine & Marmalade Opening music: Ritual Door No.1 by Queen Space Baroque A wandering, intimate episode threaded through with grief, wonder, and the week’s many mythic currents. Sarah reflects on the first in-person Women Who Run With The Wolves circle — a…
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Alice, the rabbit hole and being the right size for your souls door.
Alice, Archetypes & The Garden of Innocence I am recording from a hotel room in Bradford during World Book Week, fresh from telling Alice in Wonderland stories to schoolchildren 27 times across three days. Come down the rabbit hole with me. The concept of lysis (story resolution) from Clarissa...
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Love, Loss & Legacy
Opening music by Queen Space Baroque Ritual door No1 Sarah recaps a Valentine storytelling evening with musicians Rossi and Imogen, and a Rose Cabaret in Glastonbury where she compared alongside Jenny Bliss, Tom Widdicombe, and storyteller Beth Webb. At the cabaret, she performed the balcony…
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When love is a pig
Mooney’s Mythic Podcast - Episode: The Lady and the Swine Opening music by Queen Space Baroque, Ritual door No. 1 Sarah explores themes of love, transformation, and embodiment through the lens of Alison Uttley’s folk tale “The Lady and the Swine.” After discovering the pig is sacred to Aphrodite,...
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Bullzini's Circus, Imbolc and the Swans We've Always Been
Opening Music Ritual Door 1 by Queen Space Baroque Recording from Bride's Mound on Imbolc, exploring themes of emergence, new beginnings, and finding one's true self. Features reflections on receiving a Finnish harp, performing at Bullizinis’ circus show, Fire and Ice. With Ruby Daly's beautiful...
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January Deep Dive - Shame, Fighting, and the Egg Dance
Sarah goes deep into the dark of January, excavating shame around money and visibility, then surfaces with stories of fighting, apples, and circus showmanship. This is an intimate, wandering episode that moves from personal shadow work (financial shame, abandoned inner child) to folklore…
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Wassail !
Intro music Ritual Door by Queen Space Baroque * A candid story about shame, sexuality, and being natural * Unpicking the Eve narrative and feminine guilt * The tradition of wassailing and mummer’s plays * A recitation of beautiful apple varieties * The tale of Bran and the Isle of Silver Apples…
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Halsway Manor - King Orphy & The Hag with the Money
Sarah shares from her week at Halsway Manor (National Centre for Folk Arts) - the library behind a hidden door, feeling like a rabbit in the headlights among musicians, and telling the story of King Orphy (the ballad version where they COME BACK). Plus: Mother’s Christmas (January 6th, Irish…
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Lantern Lighting
While Sarah is at Halsway Manor (National Centre for Folk Arts) working on stories, she’s asked Owen Staton from “Time Between Times” podcast to share a tale. Owen (ex-copper, extraordinary voice) tells “The Lantern of Cwm Ddu” - a Welsh ghost story from Carmarthenshire about a father’s love that...
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Winter Dreaming Stories
In the stillness between Christmas and New Year, Sarah offers three stories for your winter dreaming: Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Rose Elf” (love, murder, and jasmine’s revenge), plus two original tales - a girl searching for her dreams in the darkness, and a boy who dances with bears to bring...
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The Deer Mother Story
A Winter Solstice Story Opening with the Avalonian Free State Choir singing “Carol of the Bells” (originally a Ukrainian folk song called “Shchedryk” about a swallow proclaiming spring), Sarah shares the story of the Dear Mother - the deer who carries the sun in her antlers on the longest night.…
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Season 2 Episode 13: Kathy Jones - Naming, Mothering, and the Daughters of Earth
This episode is sponsored by The Tarot - that portable, symbolic alphabet of the soul. After weeks of terrible sound (finally fixed by Joolz Barker, Ataya Tarot the tarot-reading bass player!), Sarah sits down with Kathy Jones: crone priestess of Avalon, founder of the Goddess Conference, and...
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A Journey Into Winter Stillness
Episode: A Journey Into Winter Stillness New Episode: Winter Stillness Guided Journey Feeling too busy for a podcast - until a vision came during choir practice. This week: pure medicine. A guided shamanic journey into your winter stillness, bookended by ancient songs. No story. No analysis.…
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From William Blake to Charlotte Mabon
William Blake & The Doors of Perception New Episode: Re-Enchantment Through William Blake Lying melty on my bed like a Dali painting, I explore William Blake’s 268th birthday through poetry, doors, and contradictions. In this episode: * Charlotte Mabon’s “On the Mountain Path” (from Rivers of…
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Episode: Rumpelstiltskin - Naming What Has Power Over You
Episode: Rumpelstiltskin - Naming What Has Power Over You Tagline: Myth as a doorway, story as soul retrieval, folklore as a friend Episode Overview Fresh from a Women Who Run With The Wolves group session, Sarah shares the full recording of her Rumpelstiltskin story (the version she sent to...
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Mooney's Mythic Podcast Episode 9: The Magic of Voice - A Conversation with Maya Love
Sarah sits down with Maya Love - musician, bagpiper, and singing retreat facilitator - to explore the healing power of pure notes, the magic inherent in every word, and how sound can call cells back into alignment. Opening with Maya’s stunning bagpipe performance, they discuss Florence Farr’s...
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The Whirlpool of the Hag - Prince Brekkan and Spoon Theory
Sarah returns after last week’s depleted episode to explain “spoon theory” (Christine Miserandino’s metaphor for chronic illness and limited energy), share why her spoons have run out (swollen thyroid, her son moving in with his dad), and offer the Scottish tale “Prince Brekhan and the Hag of...
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When the Blankets Are Pulled Away - Stories & Songs from Elizabeth Jane Lovely & Samana
Host: Sarah Mooney, Storyteller Intro music by Queen Space Baroque Episode Overview A tender, vulnerable episode where Sarah acknowledges she doesn’t have the “spoons” to fully arrive this week. Instead of pushing through alone, she contradicts the belief that “only she can do it” by inviting...
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What might grow if you let it go? with Sarah Curtis and Andy Skellam
Opening Music: Queen Space Baroque Episode Description: Sarah explores the art of conscious performance—from telling her first deliberate joke on stage (poems tucked in her bra!) to navigating audience reactions at Wellington Park’s outdoor festival. Sarah rediscovers the beautiful chaos of…
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Drinking the Moon
Episode Description: The day after a show on the dark moon—what Sarah calls the “soot moon”—she tells the story that came through her the night before at 777 in Glastonbury. It’s a story that wasn’t quite ready, that felt like cottage cheese in her fingers the day before, but she told it anyway...
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Moon Letters and Death Poems: A Samhain Threshold with Rob Bray
Opening music: Ritual Door 1 by Queen Space Baroque As the autumn moon wanes and we approach Samhain, Sarah sits down with musician Rob Bray from, among others, Maythorne and Queen’s Space Baroque to explore the threshold between life and death, light and shadow. Rob shares his original death…
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Wild Women & The Hunter Turned to Stone with Katy Cawkwell
Wild Women & The Hunter Turned to Stone with Katy Cawkwell Guest: Katy Cawkwell - Professional storyteller, host of Artemis Storytelling events Episode Summary Sarah opens with a vulnerable prayer about abundance and visibility, inspired by the fruiting trees of autumn - sharing bruised gifts...
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Music, Community & Sacred Dance with Daygan Robinson
Guest: Daygan Robinson - Multi-instrumentalist (mandolin, bouzouki) and founding member of Dragon’s Fly and Maythorne Episode Summary Sarah welcomes legendary Glastonbury musician Daygan Robinson for an intimate fireside chat about perfectionism, community music-making, and the transformative…
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Mooney's Mythic Podcast Sky Woman & Sacred Transitions
Episode Summary Sarah Mooney returns for Season 2 with a deeply personal exploration of creation myths, seasonal transitions, and the power of storytelling as soul retrieval. Fresh from a storytelling retreat in Wales, she weaves together ancient wisdom from the Iroquois Sky Woman story,...
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Music for Season 2
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Bonus Episode: Seasonal Transitions & The Girl in the Forest Host: Sarah Mooney, Storyteller
Seasonal Transitions & The Girl in the Forest Host: Sarah Mooney, Storyteller Episode Overview An intimate, unedited recording exploring the emotional transition from summer to autumn. Sarah shares a story she wrote six years ago about a girl in the forest learning to navigate seasonal change,...
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The boy who was danced to the edge of life
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Summer Special
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Mica Sinclair and the spider woman
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hear the beat of the Salmon Skin Drum
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Proto celtic musings in the penultimate pod of the season
Welcome to me. Welcome. Welcome all of you. Welcome whether you're listening at home and you've used your imagination to create a chalk circle around you so that nothing can disturb you. Proto Celtic Musings in the Penultimate Pod of the Season. Episode Length: ~30 minutes Season 1, Penultimate...
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The juice that drips from the mouth of Persephone
Welcome to Mooney's Mythic Podcast. Welcome to you all. Welcome to my fireside. Here by myself, by my fire. I'm here without any other human beings. But I do feel like I'm in good company with my altar, with the fire, with the candle. With you guys. Thanks for listening. Thanks for being here....
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Imbolc, Saint Bridget and Charlotte Mabon
Imbolc is the time when the first movement towards Spring is felt. This year I am choking on the sediment that has been unsettled, so I call in some help to soothe the way. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit...
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Corn Smut, shame and Pandoras Jar
last week we were talking about this never-ending January feeling. And what is in the bottom of our barrel, what is still yet to be kind of reached for before spring gets us kind of shooting in a different direction. What needs tending to on the inside. This is a public episode. If you would like...
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Witchy Finger and a never ending January
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Queen of the Solstice
Mooney’s Mythic Podcast - Show Notes Episode: Winter Solstice Songs & Sacred Rest with Ted Waters Host: Sarah Mooney, Storyteller Episode Overview A cozy fireside conversation about wintertime, rest, and the lost arts of singing, dancing, and storytelling. Sarah welcomes farmer, seasonal…
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Death and Wassail
Mooney’s Mythic Podcast: Death and Wassail A quiet January reflection on sacred stillness, what must die for new growth, and waking the apple trees. This Episode: Japanese death poems • David Lynch on intuition • Befriending anxiety like a frightened animal • The Crescent Moon Bear story •...
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Salmon Skin Drum part two
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