Healing the Witch Wound with Ashley River

<p><strong>Weaving a New Story of Courage, Power, and Purpose on the Earth</strong></p> <p>Lately on the podcast, we&#39;ve been transiting the realms of sacred rites of passage, thresholdcrossing and initiation. We&#39;ve been exploring what it looks like to embracing our natural cycles of life / death / change / initiation and recognize the medicine that each of these stages offer us. In this episode, I sit down with my sister, Ashley River, Ceremonial Tattooist, Facilitator, Co-Founder of School of the Sacred Arts: A Mystery School for Ceremonial Tattoo and Co-Visionary of the Thresholdkeeper Retreat, happening on July 27 - 30 in the coastal redwoods of Mendocino, CA.</p> <p>We both met in Santa Fe, NM in a time when we were both transiting through powerful initiations that matured us and woke us up to deeper layers of the medicine, work, and vision we&#39;re both individually called to birth. Part of what has forged our friendship is the recognition of how terrifying it can be to step out into your work and medicine with past life (a present life) karmic memories of being burned, hung, tried, and exiled while putting your everything into birthing vision into the world.</p> <p>In this episode, we explore what it looks like to deeply surrender to the potent medicine our initiations invite us into. We talk about how the purpose of initiatory medicine is to lift us up into a higher beauty and an expanded capacity to step into our unique potential.</p> <p>I&#39;m so excited to co-host Thresholdkeeper with my sister Ashley. You can find out more about her medicine, her School of the Sacred Art and our work together below:</p> <p><br></p> <p><strong>About Ashley River</strong></p> <p>Ashley River is a multidimensional artist, ceremonialist, author, teacher, mystic, and threshold guide. She is the creator and teacher of a healing modality of ceremonial tattoo alchemy called Soul Tattoo®, the Author of Tending to the Sacred, and Messages from the Heart of the Divine oracle deck, Host of Weaving your Web podcast. co-fo