Romancing the Threshold

Vanessa Couto

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Exploring the in‑between: where imagination, romance, and the soul’s journey meet. vanessacouto.substack.com

1월 26일

Weaving the WYRD While Empires White-Knuckle Death

While systems grip their dying world, we're midwifing what's being born through every story we love. In this solo episode, I weave together childhood under dictatorship, the ancient myth of Proteus, and how we're already part of the WYRD network—everyone who's ever let a story rearrange their molecules. From my inner Jason Bourne fantasies to recognizing romance novels as medicine, I explore how tending story-doorways isn't escape but how we stay ungovernable. Because while empires try to board up every portal, we're already walking between worlds. Vanessa Couto is an astrologer, mythic guide, and storyteller exploring thresholds where the personal meets the collective. Host of the Romancing the Threshold podcast and creator of the For Your Pleasure book club. Find me at vanessacouto.com Get full access to Vanessa Couto at vanessacouto.substack.com/subscribe

34분
1월 14일

Having your VISA Declined at the Threshold

In this intimate conversation, Vanessa sits with her friend Jessiemarie to explore an unexpected threshold space: the adult retail shop. Drawing from her experience helping customers navigate their most vulnerable desires, Jessiemarie reveals how these deliberately unsexy, fluorescent-lit spaces become impromptu confessionals where strangers voice what they've never admitted—even to themselves. Together, they unpack the universal pattern of arriving at any threshold convinced we're broken and seeking quick fixes, whether that's a magic toy to "fix" our bodies or any external solution to internal disconnection. The conversation deepens into how asking better questions IS the foreplay for transformation, why bodies are meant to change (and changing doesn't mean malfunctioning), and how the most profound threshold guides often wear name tags instead of robes. Through stories of brief encounters that crack people open, they explore why we clutch our credit cards at crossings that only accept vulnerability as currency, and how real transformation requires not purchasing our way through but romancing the questions we're afraid to ask. This episode speaks to anyone who's ever tried to buy their way past becoming who they're meant to be. Get full access to Vanessa Couto at vanessacouto.substack.com/subscribe

1시간 39분
1월 7일

Breaking the Spell of Separation: A Celtic Shaman's Guide to Romancing Uncertainty

Celtic shaman and author Jane Burns illuminates how threshold spaces—those uncomfortable in-between times we rush through—are actually portals of creative power where the ancient Celts knew magic lived. In this rich conversation, Jane reveals the reciprocal nature of spiritual relationships: ancestors and helping spirits seek partnership, not worship, and both worlds have genuine stakes in our collective evolution. Moving beyond "cosmic shopping mall" spirituality, she shares time-honored Celtic practices for courting rather than conquering uncertainty. Essential listening for anyone ready to discover why the Otherworld might need us back, and how transformation is always a collaborative dance between worlds, never a solo battle. Get full access to Vanessa Couto at vanessacouto.substack.com/subscribe

1시간 44분
2025. 12. 21.

The Bestiary of Unearthing

A solo episode closing out a transformative year. After cataloging 50 monsters across 125 romance novels, seven creatures emerged as threshold guides through grief and reclamation. These aren't just steamy reads but medicine for anyone exhausted from being the emotional regulator, the perpetually useful one. At its heart: the Beauty and the Beast truth that we need witnessing without performance—monsters who see us whole without needing our usefulness as currency. An invitation to recognize the guides waiting in your own threshold seasons. Get full access to Vanessa Couto at vanessacouto.substack.com/subscribe

31분
2025. 12. 03.

What Story Are You Telling at the Threshold?

Rune reader and elder Ingrid Kincaid explores how every threshold demands sacrifice and why the stories we tell about change shape our experience of it. We discuss the gift of the liminal space, why resistance to change closes our curiosity, and why we need elders to step forward (not aside) to translate ancient wisdom for modern crossings. For anyone wanting to meet life's transitions as sacred exchanges rather than obstacles to overcome. Get full access to Vanessa Couto at vanessacouto.substack.com/subscribe

1시간 33분
2025. 11. 06.

When the Avalanche Reveals the Valley

When an avalanche buries your world, what gets revealed? Author Ella Larson joins me to explore how her Hidden Folk series teaches us to meet catastrophic change with curiosity rather than with the tension of 'white knuckling it.' We discuss why love is a choice that transforms us from separate entities into something larger, how "in-between" spaces are fertile ground for becoming, and why being truly seen is both the price and gift of belonging. Drawing from her own threshold crossing to Norway and the hidden valleys of her fiction, this conversation illuminates how approaching our avalanche moments with the curiosity of lovers rather than the grip of fear changes everything. Get full access to Vanessa Couto at vanessacouto.substack.com/subscribe

1시간 3분
2025. 10. 23.

Walking to the Edge of Desire: My Husband Reads Romance

In this anniversary‑week episode, my husband Jason steps into my world of romance novels—book boyfriends, monster lovers, and all. Far from his usual orbit of music and design, he shares his grounded take on desire and trust, and reflects on his own threshold moments. Together we explore what it means to walk to the edge of fear, fantasy, and intimacy—and how crossing into each other’s worlds can transform us. Get full access to Vanessa Couto at vanessacouto.substack.com/subscribe

59분
2025. 10. 09.

Crossing the Threshold: On Liminality, Descent, and Becoming

In this episode of Romancing the Threshold, I’m joined by astrologer and storyteller Brian Clark to explore the threshold as both pause and passage — a place of shedding, becoming, and crossing into the unknown. Together we speak of descent and darkness as the womb of beginnings, of rituals and beauty as companions for change, and of curiosity and imagination as lanterns that guide us through life’s crossings. Get full access to Vanessa Couto at vanessacouto.substack.com/subscribe

1시간 16분
2025. 09. 26.

The Art of Falling in Love with the In‑Between

In this first episode of Romancing the Threshold, I invite you into the charged space of the in‑between—the moment before the door opens. I share the inspiration behind the podcast, how it becomes the hearth where On Liminality and The Healing Power of Fluff meet, and why this unfolding feels like a romance in the making. Get full access to Vanessa Couto at vanessacouto.substack.com/subscribe

19분

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Exploring the in‑between: where imagination, romance, and the soul’s journey meet. vanessacouto.substack.com

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Vanessa Couto
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2025년 - 2026년
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Romancing the Threshold

Romancing the Threshold

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Weaving the WYRD While Empires White-Knuckle Death

Having your VISA Declined at the Threshold

Breaking the Spell of Separation: A Celtic Shaman's Guide to Romancing Uncertainty

The Bestiary of Unearthing

What Story Are You Telling at the Threshold?

When the Avalanche Reveals the Valley

Walking to the Edge of Desire: My Husband Reads Romance

Crossing the Threshold: On Liminality, Descent, and Becoming

The Art of Falling in Love with the In‑Between

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