What does it mean to walk the path of the medicine woman, not as a performative identity but as a devotional path?

How do we remember what colonization has eradicated from our ancestral memory and body's intelligence?

How do we restore the sacred technologies of our ancestors and reclaim right relationship with the Earth, our bodies, and the unseen worlds?

In this soul-stirring conversation, I’m joined by Marilu Shinn, evolutionary healer, guide, and long-time student of the Q’ero lineage of the Peruvian Andes.

Together we explore the cosmovision of the Q’ero, the path of the Chakaruna (bridge between worlds), and the embodied reality of walking as a medicine woman in a time of collective unraveling and sacred return.

We journey through the Chakana, the Andean medicine wheel, as a living soul map. We begin in the South with the serpent’s path of soul retrieval, then move through each direction toward personal and collective prophecy.

This episode is an invocation for remembrance, a mirror for healing, and a sacred dialogue on the role of the feminine in anchoring the ancient future.

In this episode, we explore:

• What it means to decolonize the mind, body, and spiritual path.
• The South as the direction where we heal fragmentation, recover lost parts, and return to embodied wholeness.
• The Directions of West, North, and East as living energies to support us in reclaiming power, ancestry, and our role in the web of life in times of prophecy.
• The medicine woman not as martyr or fixer, but as an embodied catalyst.
• The Q’ero as timekeepers, carriers of prophecy, shamanic healers, and stewards of Earth’s energy field.
• Why healing is a spiral, not a straight line, and how to become the living altar for your own medicine

This is for the men and women remembering the soul gifts woven into their flesh and bone. For those who carry ancient codes, whispering to be lived, expressed, and embodied in service to a more whole humanity.

For those who came to walk with beauty, with raw devotion, and with truth.

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In this multidimensional conversation, founders of Light Meets Dark, Tara Tao and Maurice Harvey Hall return to the podcast for an impromptu, deep exploration of the often hidden patterns of dissociation, spiritual bypass, avoidance, and addictive patterns.

Together, they unpack how trauma lives in the body, how protector parts form to help us survive, and how these parts can create resistance to the very love, intimacy, truth, expression, creative life force we long to embody.

They explore how dissociation often emerges as an inherited response passed down through generations- shaped by un-transmuted ancestral memory, a colonial paradigm, multidimensional forces, and cultural conditioning.

Through the lens of Internal Family Systems, parts work, somatic-based healing, and transgenerational healing, this episode offers a grounded inquiry into what it truly means to feel safe enough to heal.

At its core, this is a conversation about how compassion, especially self-compassion, is the vehicle for transformation and the path that brings us back to ourselves.

Because healing is not just personal.

It is ancestral.

It is relational.

And it is deeply collective.

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What happens when your soul asks you to evolve a marriage into something entirely new?

In this deeply vulnerable episode of The Center of Destiny podcast, Tara Tao is joined by temple keeper, mother, and New Earth architect, Saige Esmaili of The Rosewater Temple—sharing her story publicly for the very first time.

Together, they explore:

• The sacred process of conscious uncoupling from an 11-year partnership
• The unexpected emergence of divine union with a mirror soul
• How to re-template family, motherhood, and community from a place of God-led truth
• The grief, courage, and devotion required to move beyond conditioning, false safety, and inherited virtue
• What it means to create a life of alignment—even when it asks everything of you

This episode is an offering to those standing at the edge of transition, where the familiar no longer fits and the future requires a deeper form of listening.

If you are navigating love, identity, family, or sacred thresholds, this transmission invites you into emotional maturity, spiritual integrity, and radical compassion as the foundation of a new paradigm of relating.

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In this episode of The Center of Destiny podcast, Tara Tao is joined by Xiangming (Xi) of Earthstar Academy and Womb Temple. Both holders of Taoist and Dragon Lineage medicine, Tara and Xi enter a devotional conversation on divine union, conscious parenting, and the ancestral legacy we are here to tend to.

Together, they trace the journey of sacred partnership through Xi’s lived story of calling in her husband, navigating the initiations of conscious parenting, and transmuting to the echoes of ancestral trauma that have shaped how we love and lead.

This dialogue invites us to feel into the difference between karmic ties and true divine union. What does it mean to choose a relationship not from wounding or familiarity, but for alignment with soul, mission, and evolution?

We speak of the children arriving now, carrying ancient wisdom and future codes, here to midwife a new earth. We explore how dragon medicine offers a fierce and holy blueprint for right relationship, sacred responsibility, cultural stewardship, and relational harmony that ripples for generations to come.

Takeaways

• True love exists and divine union can activate prophecies.
• Children come from the heart of God, requiring conscious parenting.
• The black sheep in families often serve as wayfinders.
• Healing ancestral patterns is crucial for future generations.
• Divine union is a choice and requires daily devotion.
• New earth children are coming in with unique gifts.
• Creating sacred family units is crucial for raising new earth children.
• Karmic relationships serve as lessons for personal growth.
• Dragon medicine embodies the wisdom of right relationship.
• Our relationship with God is foundational to our purpose.

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In this episode of The Center of Destiny podcast, host Tara Tao welcomes her inaugural guest, Maurice Harvey Hall, for a deep and illuminating conversation on self-awareness, shadow integration, and what it means to live as an embodied magician in this reality.

Together, Tara and Mo explore the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model and how understanding our inner parts can radically transform the way we meet life, relationships, and purpose. They dive into the resistance that often arises on the healing path, how unconscious beliefs shape our reality through “spelling,” and the ways ancestral imprints live in our bodies and influence our choices.

Takeaways

• The multi-layered nature of Self and the intelligence of our inner "parts"
• How our shadow material silently scripts or spells our reality
• IFS offers a clear, crucial, and compassionate map for inner healing
• The paradox of desiring transformation while unconsciously resisting it
• Why reclaiming exiled aspects—not just pain but power—is essential for living your destiny
• The sacred role of relationships as mirrors and catalysts for transformation
• We manifest not from what we want but from what we know, making belief work essential
• The paradox of affirmations and mindset work, and why shadow integration is non-negotiable
• How trauma adaptations shape identity and limit our potential until compassionately met
• Ancestral healing and how inherited patterns live in our present experience
• Integration of the wild and the wise, the fierce and the soft, leads to embodied wholeness
• How to wield the demon’s hand with a Buddha heart, activating the Bodhisattva and Dark Magician within

Sound Bites

• "We are not just this one singular being."
• "The deeper that we go, the more of us we find."
• "Life is happening for me, not to me."
• "Your unconscious is spelling a deep knowing upon your field of awareness."
• "Self-sabotage is such an intelligent part."
• "Relationships are a good way to see ourselves."
• "To wield the demon's hand with the Buddha's heart - that's master play."
• "Curiosity is one of the greatest skills you can have."
• "You can have a trifecta of experience within you."
• "There's a richness in allowing for whichever vantage point."
• "What is imagination? You are a nation of magicians."
• "You're creating a future reality and receiving realities."
• "You can only manifest what you truly know."
• "There's an abundance of parts that I can hang out with."
• "Our problems, our shadow, our pain is really not just ours."

Timestamps

00:00
Introduction to the Center of Destiny Podcast

03:12
The Importance of Self-Awareness

07:48
Understanding Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Shadow Work

17:08
Resistance and the Journey of Integration

26:58
Relationships as Catalysts for Shadow Work

34:39
The Non-Dual Perspective on Life

36:17
The Power of Spelling and Imagination

41:35
Beliefs, Shadow Work, and Manifestation

45:08
Understanding Abundance a

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In this episode of The Center of Destiny Podcast, Tara Tao explores one of our most profound relationships—the one we have with time. Time is not just a resource but a teacher, an altar, and a mirror reflecting the depth of our human experience. How we engage with it shapes the rhythm of our lives, our legacy, and our soul’s evolution.

Through a compassionate lens, Tara unravels the threads of time, impermanence, and ancestry, guiding listeners toward a deeper understanding of their own temporal landscapes. She invites us to honor time as a sacred companion—one that teaches in equal measure, asks for our presence, and holds the wisdom of both life and death.

In this episode, we explore:

• Time as our greatest masterpiece and ultimate currency
• The power we hold as artists of time
• How time teaches all of us equally, regardless of background
• The choice we have in how we spend and shape our time
• The way presence defines the legacy we leave behind
• Impermanence as a call to cherish each fleeting moment
• Reconciliation with the past as the key to a liberated future
• The role of presence in deepening our emotional experiences
• Compassion as a bridge to a more harmonious relationship with time
• Living fully in the moment as a sacred and transformative practice

Timestamps:

00:00
Collective Message for the Artists of Time.

03:55
Tara's childhood perception of time.

06:48
Time is not just passing—it’s responding. How do we engage with it consciously?

16:06
Reconciling with the past is the way to empower the future.

22:59
How honoring time reflects the way we honor ourselves.

27:36
The deeper we love, the richer our experience of time becomes.

32:29
Presence as a sacred act. How do we embody the now?

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