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Soror Mystica
Explore the world around you in all its rich, magical symbolism by tuning in to Soror Mystica, a series of insightful, imaginative conversations between mythopoetic astrologer Cristina Farella and archetypal tarotist Mariana Louis.
With their shared background in depth psychology, myth, art, and literature, best friends Cristina and Mariana explore the realms of modern spirituality, guiding listeners with equal parts scholarship and warm-hearted humor. Whether deciphering archetypes of the occult or interpreting the dreams of listeners, Soror Mystica, the “mystical sister,” is here to spark your imagination, and support you on your unique path of becoming.
Episodes
42 episodes
Episode 42: The Symbol of Alchemical Marriage
We're back! After a break (and by the way, how fitting that our previous episode was about retrogrades and reversals), we've returned to the pod, to explore the symbol of alchemical marriage. This discussion is inspired by the fact...
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Episode 41: The Symbol of Reversals & Retrogrades
What does it mean to be forced to reverse course? How do we contend with the moments in our lives where we cannot push forward, as expected? In this episode, we explore the concept of reversals, retrogrades, and what it means to embrace moments...
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Episode 40: The Symbol of the Ocean
The ocean is our primordial origin, the place from which all life emerges. Symbolically, the ocean represents the waters of the unconscious, which shape and give form to the solid earth on which we live. Join us in this episode whe...
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Episode 39: The Symbol of Macro & Microcosm
"As above so below, as within so without," is one of the most famous maxims of the occult world, a phrase shared and repeated by those who explore the wonders of the mythic and the magical, the symbolic and the unknown. This phrase comes to us ...
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Episode 38: Listener Q/A
In this special episode, we had the rare opportunity to be in the same place at the same time! And so we sat on Mariana's couch, and answered questions submitted by our dear listeners. Tune into our thirty-eighth show, where we explore topics b...
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Episode 37: Interpreting Your Dream Language
While it's typical to, after a dream, turn to a dream symbol dictionary to puzzle out the meaning of what we saw while we were asleep, dream experts urge us to connect with the symbols and images of our dreams in a personal, particular manner. ...
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Episode 36: The Symbol of the Star
The Star: a beloved major arcana card in the tarot, and a beautiful feature of the natural world. Stars glitter in the dark, reminding us of the vastness of the cosmos, and our smallness within it. But the star is never solitary - it is grouped...
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Episode 35: The Symbol of the Garden
As the season of spring unfurls before us, we contemplate the symbol of the garden. Different from the lush vitality of wild nature, the garden tends to be protected by a fortress, guarded by angels, with something sacred and special at its ver...
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Episode 34: The Path of the Healer
This episode offers a conversation a bit more personal, and more candid, about our experiences of working in our fields of tarot and astrology. Both of our disciplines can be considered healing modalities, but what does it really mean to be a h...
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Episode 33: The Symbol of the Cosmic Egg
The egg, or the cosmic egg, is a primal symbol of creation. In honor of spring truly getting underway, episode 33 of Soror Mystica explores the egg in all its procreative glory. Eggs are present in mythologies the world over, often coming up in...
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Episode 32: The Symbol of Spring
In honor of the Vernal Equinox, this episode is dedicated to the shimmering, gently unfurling symbol of Spring! With winter behind us, the Sun and his warmth grows wilder and more golden with each passing day. But there is more to this season t...
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Episode 31: The Symbol of Oracular & Prophetic Vision
Oracles and prophetic vision were paramount to life in the ancient world. Along with astrology and haruspicy, consultation of the oracle was recognized as an important way of connecting with the will and vision of the divine. We live in...
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Episode 30: The Symbol of the Ouroboros
The ouroboros is one of our most mysterious and powerful symbols, denoting the simultaneity of life, subsequent endings and beginnings, death and rebirth, completion and totality, solar power and bravery, an encircling of the world... As ...
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Episode 29: The Symbol of the Heart
When it comes to romantic love, the heart is the symbol that most immediately comes to mind. When we're passionate, we move from the heart, and when we're disappointed, our hearts can break. The heart is central, literally, to our functioning, ...
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Episode 28: The Symbol of the Threshold
What does it mean to approach a threshold? Prevalent in myths, fairy tales, sagas, ancient hymns, thresholds represent a point of departure from the profane to the sacred. Thresholds demarcate the space between realms, and our passage through t...
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Episode 27: The Symbol of the Lion
The lion! A symbol of sovereignty, regality, solar power, and bravery, associated with kings of all kinds. These are the primary associations we call up, when asked to contemplate the lion in all his golden glory, but upon a closer look, the li...
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Episode 26: The Symbol of the Winter Solstice
We enter into the depths of December and are immersed in a maelstrom of commercialized holiday ~cheer~. This time of year can be exceptionally stressful, with its emphasis on the weight of our purchases. Looking back in pre-Christian history, t...
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Episode 25: The Symbol of the Angel
Angels are most famous as god's messengers, often depicted in flowing white robes, surrounded by choirs of harps, and bewinged. What superficial depictions of angels tends to miss is their terrifying power. To be a messenger of god can mean so ...
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Episode 24: The Symbol of the Shadow
We talk so much about “shadow” in our work as diviners, but what does the shadow really entail? And what is shadow work?! The shadow is an expression of what is yet unintegrated in our personality, that which we don’t see about ourselves, which...
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Episode 23: The Symbol of the Wheel
The Wheel of Fortune is an ancient symbol, spun by the Roman goddess Fortuna, doling out gifts and twists of fate in equal measure. Many of us are most familiar with the Wheel of Fortune from the tarot (or the famed gameshow, though here at Sor...
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Episode 22: The Symbol of the Undead
What does it mean for our cultural moment that we are awash in a sea of zombie TV shows and films? Carl Jung said that when we’re unsure of what’s going on in our unconscious, we may project it outward, and we seem to be focusing on this projec...
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Episode 21: The Symbol of the Witch
Witches are people who have the power to heal or to harm, the sacred encapsulation of life and death. As a result of this, witches are personified as revolting, terrifying, uncontrollable expressions of the dark feminine, often banished to the ...
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Episode 20: The Symbol of the Pearl
The pearl! A luminescent, oceanic gemstone, created in the briny deep, the result of an intrusive grain of sand. Pearls are usually associated with the feminine, with Venus-Aphrodite, as a symbol of purity and beauty, or perhaps an expression o...
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Episode 19: The Symbol of the Maiden
What does it mean to be “maiden”? The maiden is most famously known as one-third of the feminine triad, and along with the mother and crone, symbolizes a particular kind of life force in the cyclic flow of life. But what happens when we hold th...
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Episode 18: On the Creation of Sacred Space
We live in a magical moment where so many of us are turning away from established religion, and seeking spirituality on our own in nature, in divination, and so many other modalities. But when we step away from the church or the temple, we sudd...
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