Mooney's Mythic Podcast

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Myth Making, Spell Breaking. It’s about knowing our psyche as a treasure chest and using story as a map. Not for children. Fuck. sarahmooney.substack.com

2 DAYS AGO

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 gathering she describes as “nectar” — and a deep resonance with the story of Bluebeard: the girl who ignores her instincts to fit in, and a childhood memory of Jimmy Savile’s Jim’ll Fix It that illuminates how a whole culture can be complicit in the humiliation of the vulnerable. A visit to Glastonbury Abbey brings sadness — the beloved herb garden is to be removed — and a rattle of the cage around what gets quietly erased and why. Sarah reads aloud from Hafiz (Coleman Barks’ translation) — luminous fragments gathered on the back of a choir song sheet — before the episode closes with a tender guided visualisation: waking, slowly, inside a blooming flower, after a thousand winters of sleep. Support the pod via Patreon — and thank you to the Patreons whose gift of a new microphone made this episode possible. 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

27 min
5 MAR

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 Pinkola Estés — and why a nightmare is simply a story without an ending Alice in Wonderland as a metaphor for growing up: too big, too small, never quite fitting Nellie Bly’s Ten Days in a Madhouse and the concept of “good mad vs. bad mad” (featuring Violet Gibson, the woman who shot Mussolini) Plans for an adult Alice in Wonderland evening show at the Goddess House, Glastonbury (19th) Women Who Run With The Wolves group — now full, September waiting list open Intro music by Queen Space Baroque. Ritual Door Number one 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

31 min
22 FEB

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 scene from Romeo and Juliet — a meditation on young love and naming that opens into a wider reflection on what we pass down to future generations: not just love, but everything that is not love. Elsewhere: a love letter workshop for the Mental Health Network, writing to past and future selves, tracing your hand and celebrating it — and a great-aunt’s funeral at 100, with the beautiful image of women embroidering encouraging messages inside soldiers’ uniforms. The episode closes in the fossil room at the Clark Shoe Museum, where storytelling to children sparked wonder at the revelation that whales and dolphins were once land mammals — their fins still bearing the five-knuckled memory of hands. 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

29 min
11 FEB

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, she reimagines this seemingly cautionary tale as an initiatory journey into sensual embodiment—moving from cerebral disconnection into the wisdom of the body. Featured Story: “The Lady and the Swine” by Alison Uttley Upcoming Event: Love Stories with Imogen Adams and Rossi Moore * Friday, February 13th, 7pm (7:30 start) * The Goddess House cellar, Glastonbury Reflections include: * The pig as Aphrodite’s sacred animal * Sensual embodiment and initiation * Writing love poetry to ourselves * Poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Burns Support the podcast on Patreon 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

29 min
2 FEB

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 telling of "The Ugly Duckling." 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

41 min
29 JAN

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 (poisoned apples, witch trials) to warrior tales (Scáthach and Cú Chulainn) to circus patter (George Sanger’s egg dance). Sarah’s preparing for a circus storytelling gig and trying to find the thread while trusting the process. Opening with Queen Space Baroque Ritual Door 1, closing with the invitation to gaze into the fire. * Witch Country: Seeking the Witch in the British Landscape by Sarah Robinson * 70 Years a Showman by George Sanger * Women Who Run With The Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés * Saduscomus Triumfitus by Joseph Glanville (Somerset Witch Trials) * Ruth Tongue (folklorist, lived near Halsway Manor) 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

30 min
21 JAN

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 * Choosing cycles and seasons over perfection Featured: The Langport mummer’s troupe Shovel Dance Collective’s “My Husband’s Got No Courage in Him” Join Sarah: Women Who Run With The Wolves begins every other Wednesday morning from March. Support the podcast via Patreon or PayPal (thefullmooney@gmail.com) 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

29 min
14 JAN

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 women celebrating), Sian Reid teaches “The Hag with the Money,” and navigating imposter syndrome with a holly brooch. This is a long one - settle in with a cup of tea for winter dreaming. Music: * Queen Space Baroque - “Ritual Door 2” (opening) * Sian Reid - “An Cailleach An Airgid” (Gaelic) * Nik Wyke and Bcki Driscoll play their new tune, a work in progress. * Old Time musicians at Halsey Manor (fiddle, bagpipes, collective jam) Featured: * Halsway Manor (National Centre for Folk Arts, Quantocks) * Sian Reid (Irish musician, Mother’s Christmas tradition) * Mabinogi (12th-13th century Welsh stories) * Gavin & Stacey Christmas Special * Anastasia (book about planting seeds) Upcoming Events: * January 17: Alfred Gillett Trust Orchard Wassail * Jan 29-31: Dave Sanger Circus Show, Evercreech * Feb 13: Aphrodite & Love Stories * Feb 14: Love Cabaret, Avalon Centre Glastonbury (comparing) * Feb 16-17: Wookey Hole * April 10-12: Wales Storytelling Residential (all levels, working with story for transformation) * March (start): Women Who Run With Wolves Wednesdays (8 sessions, every other Wednesday) Support: Patreon | PayPal (thefullmooney@gmail.com) | Share the pod! For: Storytellers, musicians feeling imposter syndrome, anyone gathering lost parts of self, people who love ballads with happy endings, winter dreamers, wassailers. 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

53 min

4.6

out of 5

7 Ratings

Nourishing

30/08/2024

ZoooWhooo

Listening to this leaves me with that feeling you get after a great chat with good friend. Cosy, safe, held, heard. seen. Loving it and saving them up for when I’m needing to feel that. It’s so rare that a Podcast actually nourishes you like this does
Brilliance!

22/05/2024

The Faerytale Apothecary

Refreshingly authentic, inspirational and freeing

Myth Making, Spell Breaking. It’s about knowing our psyche as a treasure chest and using story as a map. Not for children. Fuck. sarahmooney.substack.com

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Mooney Stories
Years Active

2024 - 2026
Episodes

82
Rating

Explicit
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© Sarah Mooney
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