The Wild Goddess

Kayleigh Priest

There is a gap in the hawthorn hedge, just wide enough for someone who knows how to look properly! On the other side is Mossvale, an enchanted world where fairy folk move through ancient woodland at dusk and the wheel of the year is marked with fire, blossom and long tables pulled into the square. The Wild Goddess Podcast is a folklore and re-enchantment podcast, part storytelling, part wisdom teachings, part quiet ritual. Each episode brings you original fairylore, seasonal folklore, my own written stories, nature poetry, guided meditations, and honest teachings on what it actually means to re-enchant your life in the modern world. This is a podcast for anyone who has ever felt the pull of an old forest. Who leaves offerings for things they can't see. Who marks the  turning of the year. Who has always suspected the world is far more enchanted than it lets on. Come find the gap in the hedge. Welcome to Mossvale.

  1. 5d ago

    Ep 85 - All's Well: An English Folktale for July

    There's an old English tale for July, about an old woman, a gooseberry bush & a household spirit called the Luck. It's a story about what happens when you leave something out for the unseen, and what comes back to you when you do. Pull up a chair. This one's about generosity, gratitude & the quiet exchange between us & the magical world that gives back. A lovely July listen for anyone who appreciates folktales, seasonal wisdom and the magic of a wonderful old story.  ✨ If you love Mossvale, you can go deeper inside the membership community, home to walking meditations, the Storywood folklore library, and Marmalade's journal entries from the world itself. Find out more 🕯️ Or experience it through scent  Explore my Wild Goddess candles, each with its own story. ✨ Love the podcast?  Follow, share, or leave a review, it means more than you know. 📲 Find me on Instagram  @the.wildgoddess

    9 min

  2. 6d ago

    Ep 84 - An Ode to the Foxglove: Fairy Folklore & Hedgerow Magic

    She can reach six feet tall, impossibly dramatic, and she's been keeping fairy secrets since long before anyone thought to write them down. This episode is my love letter to the foxglove. To her freckled bells and her fairy footprints. To the West Country legend that says she bows when there's no wind, because she's acknowledging the fairy folk passing by. A piece of nature poetry from my heart that honours one of the most magical flowers in the woodland. This is a slow, enchanted listen, written for a quiet moment, to remind you that the world is so much more alive than it usually gets credit for, and that the foxglove has been trying to show you where the doorway to a more enchanted world is all along.  ✨ If you love Mossvale, you can go deeper inside the membership community, home to walking meditations, the Storywood folklore library, and Marmalade's journal entries from the world itself. Find out more 🕯️ Or experience it through scent  Explore my Wild Goddess candles, each with its own story. ✨ Love the podcast?  Follow, share, or leave a review, it means more than you know. 📲 Find me on Instagram  @the.wildgoddess

    9 min

  3. Jun 20

    Ep 83 - Summer Solstice Meditation: The Letter on the Longest Day

    On the longest day of the year, a letter arrives that never comes any other time, sealed, warm, and smelling of elderflower and woodsmoke. This summer solstice meditation steps away from the usual shed and release, plant new intentions structure, and into something closer to real midsummer folklore: the old Gaelic word for solstice (grianstad, meaning sun-stop), the belief that the Fae cross more easily into our world on this one day, and the golden flower that only blooms here and nowhere else in the year. Rather than asking what you're ready to let go of, this one asks what you're curious about, and invites you to step outside, look up, and feel it for yourself. A solstice letter from the magic of Mossvale, for anyone ready to feel a little more wonder today.  ✨ If you love Mossvale, you can go deeper inside the membership community, home to walking meditations, the Storywood folklore library, and Marmalade's journal entries from the world itself. Find out more 🕯️ Or experience it through scent  Explore my Wild Goddess candles, each with its own story. ✨ Love the podcast?  Follow, share, or leave a review, it means more than you know. 📲 Find me on Instagram  @the.wildgoddess

    6 min

  4. Jun 17

    Ep 82 - Wonder, Awe and the Antidote to a Flat, Exhausted Life

    Why does an ordinary day feel so flat, even when nothing's actually wrong? This episode goes deeper on what I'm calling the disenchantment void, the hollow, going-through-the-motions feeling that creeps in when wonder, awe and a bit of everyday magic disappear from daily life. I open with a poem (an ode to the enchanted life), then walk you through one ordinary day twice, once lived flat and disenchanted, once lived with a bit of wonder woven back in. Same tasks, same tiredness, same to-do list. You'll hear exactly what changes (hint, it's not time, money or energy) and why that tiny shift in attention is backed by real research on awe, burnout and nature connection. If you've ever felt like you're getting through your days rather than actually living them, this one's for you. Come find the gap in the hedge. Start your free 7 day trial of Mossvale.  ✨ If you love Mossvale, you can go deeper inside the membership community, home to walking meditations, the Storywood folklore library, and Marmalade's journal entries from the world itself. Find out more 🕯️ Or experience it through scent  Explore my Wild Goddess candles, each with its own story. ✨ Love the podcast?  Follow, share, or leave a review, it means more than you know. 📲 Find me on Instagram  @the.wildgoddess

    28 min

  5. May 27

    Ep 81 - A Very Important Errand: A Guided Story from Mossvale ft. Marmalade the Fairy

    Put the to-do list down. Just for a few minutes. This is a companion piece to episode 80 In Defence of Whimsy — but you don't need to have heard it to find your way in. All you need to do is get comfortable, let your imagination wander, and follow the smell of butter and wildflowers. Marmalade the fairy, chaotic, warm, and absolutely convinced that a lavender tart at half past ten is a completely legitimate errand (which it is!) is here to take you on a short walk through the village of Brambleton. Past Willa Ravenbloom's flower buckets and Rowan Thorndown's perfectly colour-ordered seed packets. Through the door of the Pixie Patisserie. Along cobblestones that are slightly uneven for reasons that involve a shelf of encyclopaedias and the year 1987. And somewhere in the middle of all of it, between the pastry and the chaos and the increasingly urgent situation at the post office, she's going to say something that might quietly change the way you move through your day. This is a guided imaginative story which is part reflection, part reminder that the world is more interesting than we usually let ourselves notice. Let yourself really picture it. The cobblestones. The crooked rooftops. The warmth spilling out of bakery doors. You don't need to know Mossvale to follow her. She's very good at this. This episode is for you if: You listened to In Defence of Whimsy and want to feel it rather than just hear itYou need five minutes of something genuinely lovely in your dayYou've been rushing and can't quite remember how to slow downYou're new to Mossvale and curious what on earth it's all about✨ Mossvale is a fictional folklore world created by Kayleigh Priest — full of fairies, witches, gossipy crows, and the firm belief that enchantment is not something you outgrow. The Wild Goddess is a podcast about folklore, enchantment, slow living and the quiet magic of paying attention. Hosted by Kayleigh Priest, founder of The Wild Goddess and the Mossvale fictional folklore world.  ✨ If you love Mossvale, you can go deeper inside the membership community, home to walking meditations, the Storywood folklore library, and Marmalade's journal entries from the world itself. Find out more 🕯️ Or experience it through scent  Explore my Wild Goddess candles, each with its own story. ✨ Love the podcast?  Follow, share, or leave a review, it means more than you know. 📲 Find me on Instagram  @the.wildgoddess

    11 min

  6. May 27

    Ep 80 - In Defence of Whimsy: The Science of Joy, Wonder & Why You Never Have to Grow Out of Magic

    What if the most radical thing you could do for your mental health was also the most joyful? In this episode, I'm making an evidence-backed case for whimsy! What it actually is, why society has spent decades making people feel small for having it, and why the science says we've had it completely backwards. We're talking about the neuroscience of wonder and awe, what researchers at the University of Illinois discovered about playful people and stress, why your nervous system genuinely needs moments of softness and delight, and why none of this has anything to do with a Pinterest board or a linen pinafore. I also dig into why the rise of cottagecore and fairycore aesthetics, as lovely as they are, have accidentally muddied the waters around what whimsy really means at its core, and why that core message is more urgently needed than ever. Plus: simple, practical ways to bring more wonder into your everyday life. No flower crowns required (unless you want one of course!) This episode is for you if you've ever felt embarrassed for finding magic in small things. For noticing too much. For being "a bit much." For never quite being able to take the world as seriously as everyone else seems to. You're not the problem. You're paying attention. ✨ This episode also comes with a companion audio — a guided Mossvale story featuring Marmalade the fairy, set in the village of Brambleton.  The Wild Goddess is a podcast about folklore, enchantment, slow living and the quiet magic of paying attention. Hosted by Kayleigh Priest, founder of The Wild Goddess and the Mossvale fictional folklore world.  ✨ If you love Mossvale, you can go deeper inside the membership community, home to walking meditations, the Storywood folklore library, and Marmalade's journal entries from the world itself. Find out more 🕯️ Or experience it through scent  Explore my Wild Goddess candles, each with its own story. ✨ Love the podcast?  Follow, share, or leave a review, it means more than you know. 📲 Find me on Instagram  @the.wildgoddess

    33 min

  7. May 13

    Ep 79 - The May Tree: A Folk Tale of Magic, Fertility & the Promise of May

    There's an old story about a hawthorn tree that never bloomed, and the farmer who almost gave up on it. In this episode, I share a beautiful folk tale that weaves together the magic of May, the hawthorn as a fairy tree, and the quiet reminder that hope, renewal, and abundance often arrive exactly when we've stopped expecting them. Perfect listening for Beltane season and anyone who needs a little encouragement to stay open to magic.   ✨ If you love Mossvale, you can go deeper inside the membership community, home to walking meditations, the Storywood folklore library, and Marmalade's journal entries from the world itself. Find out more 🕯️ Or experience it through scent  Explore my Wild Goddess candles, each with its own story. ✨ Love the podcast?  Follow, share, or leave a review, it means more than you know. 📲 Find me on Instagram  @the.wildgoddess

    8 min

  8. May 8

    Ep 78 - Finding Magic in the Everyday: A Soothing Meditation

    What if magic wasn't something you had to seek out, but something you've been walking past every single day? In this soothing guided reflection/meditation, we slow down, soften, and come back to the ordinary moments that are quietly extraordinary. The weight of the chair holding you. The twist of bark on a tree that has stood through a hundred winters. A single bird on a fence post, entirely and completely present. This episode is for anyone carrying that low hum of tension, the unnamed tightness that builds when life moves too fast and feels too loud. Together, we gently put it down. Not by fixing anything. Just by choosing, for a moment, to look differently. Because an enchanted life isn't about perfect magical moments. It's a decision, made over and over in small ways, to stay curious. To stay soft. To find the thread of something beautiful even in the most ordinary day. And when you do? It ripples outward in ways you'll never fully see. Settle in, take a breath, and let's find the magic that's already here.  ✨ If you love Mossvale, you can go deeper inside the membership community, home to walking meditations, the Storywood folklore library, and Marmalade's journal entries from the world itself. Find out more 🕯️ Or experience it through scent  Explore my Wild Goddess candles, each with its own story. ✨ Love the podcast?  Follow, share, or leave a review, it means more than you know. 📲 Find me on Instagram  @the.wildgoddess

    13 min
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There is a gap in the hawthorn hedge, just wide enough for someone who knows how to look properly! On the other side is Mossvale, an enchanted world where fairy folk move through ancient woodland at dusk and the wheel of the year is marked with fire, blossom and long tables pulled into the square. The Wild Goddess Podcast is a folklore and re-enchantment podcast, part storytelling, part wisdom teachings, part quiet ritual. Each episode brings you original fairylore, seasonal folklore, my own written stories, nature poetry, guided meditations, and honest teachings on what it actually means to re-enchant your life in the modern world. This is a podcast for anyone who has ever felt the pull of an old forest. Who leaves offerings for things they can't see. Who marks the  turning of the year. Who has always suspected the world is far more enchanted than it lets on. Come find the gap in the hedge. Welcome to Mossvale.

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  • Creator
    Kayleigh Priest
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    85
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026 The Wild Goddess
  • Show Website
    The Wild Goddess

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