#11 Creative Practice as Priestess Work

Creativity isn't just self-expression. It's soul work. It's alchemy. It's how we make the invisible visible.

In this episode, I explore creativity as a spiritual channel—how art-making processes grief and trauma, how different parts of yourself can create through you, and why creative energy is sexual life force (Shakti). I share my lifelong relationship with art, my intergenerational creative lineage, and what happened when I let my teenage part paint whatever she wanted (spoiler: she became friends with my Lilith energy).

This episode debuts new intro music composed by my dad, Mike Dunne—a lifelong musician now stepping more fully into his creative calling. Let us know what you think in the episode poll!

Mike Dunne's music: [Spotify link]

What we cover:

• The astrology transit of the week: Venus conjunct Mars in Capricorn (creative desire meets action)
• My creative journey across mediums: visual art, poetry, dance, color as language
• Creativity as alchemy: externalizing grief, trauma, and complex emotions into form
• Creativity as channel: inviting parts of yourself and goddess energies to create through you
• Shakti and Medusa: creativity as sexual life force and reclaiming power
• The artist wound: dismantling capitalism's belief that art is only valuable if it makes money
• The vulnerability of being seen: fear, judgment, and the "too much" lie
• Fall and winter as creative seasons: the underworld priestess creating in darkness

Plus: A closing creative practice to let something move through you right now.

If you're an artist, a healer, someone who creates from your depths—this episode is for you. Your creativity is sacred. Your fullness is not too much. Your art matters whether anyone buys it or not.

Casey's poetry books: [Author Page Link]
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#10 The Fall—An Initiation of Old

Seven months ago, I fell 75 feet while rappelling. My equipment failed. I held onto the rope with both hands and sustained third-degree burns requiring 22 skin grafts. My partner caught my falling weight from the bottom—something that has a 1-2% survival rate for both people. We both walked away alive.

This is the story of a modern initiation. The complete death of the maiden and the painful birth of the mother.

Content warning: This episode contains detailed descriptions of a traumatic accident, medical procedures, and physical injury. Please care for yourself while listening.

What we cover:

• The two weeks before the fall: claiming priestess, meeting Kali, knowing something was coming
• What happened during the 75-foot fall and why I chose to hold on
• The physics-defying miracle of how we both survived
• Isis's reassembly magic through 22 skin grafts and faster-than-expected healing
• Lilith learning vulnerability: being fed, cared for, held by community
• Kali's death gift: destroying the maiden who thought she was invincible
• The psychology of identity death, earned secure attachment, and post-traumatic growth
• Where I am now, seven months later, still integrating

This episode is raw, vulnerable, and real. If you're in your own initiation—in the death, in the shattering—you will survive this. You will reassemble. You don't have to do it alone.

Free resources: www.the-goddess-coven.com
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This podcast offers spiritual and psychological education and priestess wisdom. This is not therapy, counseling, or mental health treatment.

What do you do when you've been shattered? When pieces of yourself have been lost, scattered, taken?

Isis teaches that nothing is ever truly lost—only waiting to be gathered. And the magic isn't just recovering what was broken. It's creating what's missing.

In this episode, we explore Isis—the Great Assembler, throne goddess, healer of lineages, the one who resurrects through love and magic. We're releasing this right before the asteroid Isis opposes the sun on December 26th, making her energy most illuminated and available for healing work.

What we cover:

• Isis before patriarchy made her small (she was POWER itself, not just devoted wife)
• The magic of reassembly vs. restoration—you don't come back the same
• The psychology of fragmentation: Internal Family Systems meets goddess magic
• Soul retrieval and ancestral healing through the mother line
• My plant medicine journey with Isis clearing the lineage mother wound
• How my 75-foot fall and 22 skin grafts became an Isis initiation

Plus: A guided practice for gathering your fragments with Isis holding space.

If you've been shattered and need to reassemble yourself—not into who you were, but into who you're becoming—Isis is with you.

Free resources: www.the-goddess-coven.com
Support the podcast: www.patreon.com/TheGoddessCoven_PriestessInitiations

This podcast offers spiritual and psychological education and priestess wisdom. This is not therapy, counseling, or mental health treatment.