To Dare Together, Truth Seeking with Erin O'Brien, LPC, Witch

Erin O'Brien, LPC, LLC

Hello friend! I’m so grateful you’re here.  I created this space for you and I to spend some time together. To Dare, Together.  To seek the truth in the depths.  To Dare to tune into the wisdom and pleasure of our bodies. To honor the places that hold pain and renewal.  To Dare to descend and arise, transformed in the never ending cycle of death and regeneration. To reenchant the world around us from a more embodied and integrated place.  To Dare to join in honest connection where liberation, love, equity, beauty, joy, gratitude, sensuality, dignity, and reverence for all life on earth is at the heart of our sacred space.    I am your host, Erin O'Brien, licensed psychotherapist in practice for over 20 years, intuitive healer, relationship counselor, and dare I say, witch, and if you are willing, your friend.  Together we will descend into the mystery, into the exquisite darkness because true liberation starts with healing from the inside out.  And it happens when we dare to go there, together.   Where are we going, you may ask? Well, we are delving into all the realms of our experience.  We will move through our body, heart, mind, soul, spirit, original and chosen family, relationships, communities, cultures,  dominant systems in society, intergenerational patterning, ancestral wounds and wisdom, and the great expanse of our collective.  Because when we are together, we will seek to know what is true.  We will alchemize and transform, knowing that our fates are inevitably intertwined with one another.  So let’s will it together. My offering here will be a combination of solo explorations together, and deep dives with other like-hearted therapists, healers, intuitives, activists, magickal practitioners, artists, abolitionists, astrologers, visionaries, witches, and more.  This is a place that will weave together the relational, social, and sacred sciences, because oh yes, they are all connected.  I want to support our journey of transformation by sharing practices that we can facilitate because ultimately we are our own wisest guide, healer, and teacher.  Our body holds so much intelligence if we just slow down enough to listen.  When we know how to keep silent and just be, just breathe, just listen, we know how to summon our greatest powers of transformation. We will explore practices that focus on increasing our somatic awareness, trauma integration, and nervous system regulation.  We will work with our shadow to illuminate what needs to be alchemized or released.  We will dismantle our internalized systems of dominance and extraction so we resonate with the reciprocity and abundance of life.  We will deepen our understanding of intersectionality and how our social location in the world shifts our experiences of power and disembodiment.  We will strive to relate with others in ways that are embodied and promote connection, celebrate differentiation, and respectfully move through rupture or conflict so that all beings preserve their dignity.  We will conjure the wisdom of our ancestors to strengthen our communal spaces.  We will create rituals to attune with the cycles of nature, lunar rhythms, astrology, and the wheel of the year.  We will do pathworkings and divination to deepen our relationship to our Higher Self, Spirit Team, Intuition, Magick, Soul’s purpose, and so much more.   We are all here on Earth right now.  It’s time To Dare to take a stand for healing, transformation, and collective liberation.  And the first step starts from within.  Let’s take it together.  “As above, so below, as within, so without, as the universe, so the soul.” – unknown

  1. 5D AGO

    Sacred Void: Use this Double Dark Moon and Dark of the Sun 12/19-12/21 to Choose Who You Become

    Send us a text In today's episode we use this rare double dark moon (micro moon) on December 19th and the days leading up to the Winter Solstice on December 21st as a potent threshold.  Release what’s done. Bless what taught you. Name what you refuse to carry forward. Then claim who you are and what you choose to focus on creating, expanding, and birthing for the year ahead: a practice you’ll keep, a cause you’ll serve, a truth you’ll speak, a joy you’ll protect, the magick that is uniquely yours to bring forth into the world.  Over these next few days use this portal of exquisite darkness, to slow down, reflect, tune in, and just be.  Expressing your quiet commitment is spell work and this moment is THE TIME TO DO IT.  When the first crescent appears, you’ll already be transforming, aligned and steady, birthing who you have always been in a sacred spiral that remembers you even when you forget yourself. SO MOTE IT BE!!! *If you are interested in working with Professional Astrologer, Tony Steele, who is amazing and native Irish, here's his website: https://magickalcreatures.com/horary-astrology-readings. *If you are local to Delaware, and want to connect with a trusted pagan meetup group for community, organized by my Hight Priestess, Jae Sea, check out https://www.meetup.com/the-wilmington-pagan-meetup-group/ *If you are interested in the pagan tradition with 14+ covens all across the Mid-Atlantic Region, check out the Assembly of the Sacred Wheel here: https://www.sacredwheel.org/

    38 min
  2. NOV 21

    Water Trine & New Moon in Scorpio: Truth Rises from the Deep, Now Speak!

    Send us a text In today's episode, we look at the celestial influences of the New Moon in Scorpio, which arrives like a tide at midnight—quiet on the surface, roaring beneath— and this week’s grand water trine turns that tide into a mirror.  With the Sun, Moon, and Mercury all in Scorpio, Saturn and Neptune in Pisces, and Jupiter in Cancer, the chart invites a deep wash of intuition, clarity of heart, memory, and emotional movement. Water holds truth and it reflects what has been hidden.  What has been whispered, denied, or distorted? Which truth wants current, not containment? And with Mercury retrograde, we are called to reclaim, revisit, and remember the power in our spoken truth.   It can align responsibility, integrity, and care for ourselves, our communities, the land, and the Divine.   We explore the power of voice and devotional work with The Sovereignty Goddess Herself, The Morrigan, and center Her peace prophecy, imagining abundance shared from sky to earth, declaring prosperity and peace.  Next we read her second prophecy, warning of evil times ahead when leadership is false.  We credit Lora O’Brien’s native Irish sources and multiple learning paths for deeper practice at https://www.morrigan.academy/ and Morgan Daimler's translation of Irish text https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/cath-maige-tuired-morgan-daimler-author-of-irish-paganism. We explore the magick of Rosc poetry to take a stand using the power of our voice and how the energy of this week supports our righteous word, even when it's hard and vulnerable to declare. I share my first Rosc poem related to personal truth. Water remembers. Words travel. Under Scorpio’s new moon, seeds of speech root deep and weave justice.  Call your power back with care, and let your voice make it real.   Recorded on 11/20/25

    32 min
  3. NOV 7

    Samhain Season Ancestor Practice: Interview with Susan Rains

    Send us a text On today's episode, I have the amazing honor to interview my beloved friend and fellow witch, Susan Rains, who is a part of a sibling coven, Coven of the Mystic Path, based in the Philadelphia and Springfield, PA area.  Susan shares her unique and profound Ancestor practice for working with her recently dead family members and beloveds for deep healing and transformative connection.   She shares several offerings with us and how they connect to one's spiritual path and evolution.  If you want to work with Susan and develop your own Ancestor practice, Altar, or if you want to take her up on her generous invitation to help you audit your home in the spirit of Samhain season to release what needs to go and create a more intentional environment, you can find her here: https://www.rains-design.com/  Susan works both locally to the Philadelphia metropolitan region and remotely, so she’s accessible no matter where you live! Here are the books Susan recommends to support your Ancestor practice: "Spirit Speak: A Comprehensive Guide to Connect Beyond the Veil" by Ivo Dominquez Jr., (Foreword by Mat Auryn) www.barnesandnoble.com/w/spirit-speak-ivo-dominguez-jr  "Communing with the Ancestors: Your Spirit Guides, Bloodline Allies, and Cycle of Reincarnation" by Raven Grimassi www.thriftbooks.com/w/communing-with-the-ancestors-your-spirit-guides-bloodline-allies-and-the-cycle-of-reincarnation_raven-grimassi Information on the incredible community and magickal tradition that both Susan and I are a part of called, Assembly of the Sacred Wheel: www.sacredwheel.org Episode Recorded on 11/3/25

    57 min
  4. AUG 4

    Lughnasadh Blessings and Harvesting Wisdom for Our Time

    Send us a text In today's episode, I'm recording outside to honor Lughnasadh (Lammas), which is the Gaelic pagan holiday that traditionally honors the first harvest, when communities would gather to celebrate their collective abundance.  It wasn't merely about collecting crops – it was about recognizing how each person's unique contributions sustained the whole community.  They celebrated through games, crafts, poetry, dance, and sharing food, displaying the rich tapestry of skills and gifts that made their community thrive. This ancient practice embodied a vital lesson: being in right relationship with the land means honoring its abundance, taking only what you need, and sharing what you have with each other.  Lughnasadh is one of the eight sacred holidays (Sabbats) on the Witch’s Wheel of the Year.  The astrological energies of this week support the deep remembering of generational wisdom and wounding. With Chiron retrograde in Aries until January, we're called to reflect, return to, and regenerate – all those "re-" words that invite us to slow down and tune in.  Meanwhile, Leo season encourages authentic self-expression and discovering how our unique gifts serve the collective. These cosmic influences align perfectly with Lughnasadh's message of harvesting not just abundance, but awareness of our interconnectedness.  We are powerful when we come together and take care of each other. As I felt the wind rise up around me during this recording, the message coming through feels both ancient and prophetic.  Our path involves right-relationship with the land, ourselves, our bodies, our community, and our Earth. Though we may seem insignificant individually, when we move together with harmony and purpose, we become an unstoppable force of nature that is divinely guided by a potent Irish Sovereignty Goddess herself, The Morrigan. Recorded on 8/3/25

    28 min
  5. JUL 11

    Full Moon Ritual + Invitation To Join Grail of the Birch Moon's Healing List

    Send us a text In today’s episode, the Capricorn Full Moon offers us a powerful opportunity to examine the structures we've built and whether they truly serve our highest purpose.  With the sun in Cancer, this exploration of the Cancer-Capricorn axis reveals how these seemingly opposite energies are actually complementary parts of a whole. Cancer represents our emotional foundations—home, family, nurturance—while Capricorn embodies our tangible foundations—achievement, purpose, and long-term goals.  As we work with these energies, we honor both the cancer within us—our need for emotional security and rootedness—and the capricorn that takes us up the highest mountain toward our deepest purpose. The magick happens when we bring these seemingly opposite forces into harmony, creating a life that honors both our inner truth and our outward expression in the world. The heart of this episode is a complete full moon ritual you can perform at home. I guide you through casting a sacred circle, honoring the elements, and creating space for profound healing and shadow integration. You'll learn how to invoke each quarter—East (air), South (fire), West (water), North (earth), and Spirit—to create a powerful container for your healing work. Remember that you already possess all the necessary tools within yourself. Your inner elements, your connection to spirit, and your intentions are powerful catalysts for transformation.  The coven I am a member of, Grail of the Birch Moon, performs this healing work monthly during the Full Moon, and I invite you to be included in my coven's monthly healing ritual—because in these challenging times, we all need community and support on our journey toward wholeness.  What makes this work powerful is our collective intention and the ancient understanding that healing happens on multiple levels—physical, emotional, energetic, and spiritual.  If you'd like to make a healing request, use the fan mail option and let me know!  Recorded 7/10/25 Information on the incredible community and magickal tradition that I am a part of called, Assembly of the Sacred Wheel: www.sacredwheel.org

    42 min

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Hello friend! I’m so grateful you’re here.  I created this space for you and I to spend some time together. To Dare, Together.  To seek the truth in the depths.  To Dare to tune into the wisdom and pleasure of our bodies. To honor the places that hold pain and renewal.  To Dare to descend and arise, transformed in the never ending cycle of death and regeneration. To reenchant the world around us from a more embodied and integrated place.  To Dare to join in honest connection where liberation, love, equity, beauty, joy, gratitude, sensuality, dignity, and reverence for all life on earth is at the heart of our sacred space.    I am your host, Erin O'Brien, licensed psychotherapist in practice for over 20 years, intuitive healer, relationship counselor, and dare I say, witch, and if you are willing, your friend.  Together we will descend into the mystery, into the exquisite darkness because true liberation starts with healing from the inside out.  And it happens when we dare to go there, together.   Where are we going, you may ask? Well, we are delving into all the realms of our experience.  We will move through our body, heart, mind, soul, spirit, original and chosen family, relationships, communities, cultures,  dominant systems in society, intergenerational patterning, ancestral wounds and wisdom, and the great expanse of our collective.  Because when we are together, we will seek to know what is true.  We will alchemize and transform, knowing that our fates are inevitably intertwined with one another.  So let’s will it together. My offering here will be a combination of solo explorations together, and deep dives with other like-hearted therapists, healers, intuitives, activists, magickal practitioners, artists, abolitionists, astrologers, visionaries, witches, and more.  This is a place that will weave together the relational, social, and sacred sciences, because oh yes, they are all connected.  I want to support our journey of transformation by sharing practices that we can facilitate because ultimately we are our own wisest guide, healer, and teacher.  Our body holds so much intelligence if we just slow down enough to listen.  When we know how to keep silent and just be, just breathe, just listen, we know how to summon our greatest powers of transformation. We will explore practices that focus on increasing our somatic awareness, trauma integration, and nervous system regulation.  We will work with our shadow to illuminate what needs to be alchemized or released.  We will dismantle our internalized systems of dominance and extraction so we resonate with the reciprocity and abundance of life.  We will deepen our understanding of intersectionality and how our social location in the world shifts our experiences of power and disembodiment.  We will strive to relate with others in ways that are embodied and promote connection, celebrate differentiation, and respectfully move through rupture or conflict so that all beings preserve their dignity.  We will conjure the wisdom of our ancestors to strengthen our communal spaces.  We will create rituals to attune with the cycles of nature, lunar rhythms, astrology, and the wheel of the year.  We will do pathworkings and divination to deepen our relationship to our Higher Self, Spirit Team, Intuition, Magick, Soul’s purpose, and so much more.   We are all here on Earth right now.  It’s time To Dare to take a stand for healing, transformation, and collective liberation.  And the first step starts from within.  Let’s take it together.  “As above, so below, as within, so without, as the universe, so the soul.” – unknown