Earth Speak with Natalie Ross and Friends

Michelle Cassandra Johnson shares about how grief has shaped her life and helped awaken her intuitive abilities. You’ll also hear about:

• Sensing the spirit and the energy of the wind
• Why people forget their inherent wholeness
• Signs that ancestors are near
• How bypassing arises from trying to use logic to understand something that’s energetic

♥♥♥ Join The Earth Speak Collective Membership! Join like-hearted folks in a sacred container and community where you'll:

• Connect deeply to yourself, others, nature & spirit
• Learn to trust your intuition
• Activate your Earth magic
• Expand your healing & divination skills
• Put your intuition into practice in everyday life
• Stop feeling lonely on your spiritual path
• Embody & express your creative power & truths
• Experience safe space without agenda or judgement

When you join the Collective, you get access to all of our past workshops, any live workshops happening while you're a member, live weekly energetic reset calls, monthly community rituals, all the secret episodes, member-run meetups to explore magical topics, and a lively members only forum (that's not on FB!).

▶▶▶ Learn more and sign up for the Collective membership here: https://www.earthspeak.love/collective

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Michelle Cassandra Johnson is an activist, author, social justice warrior, intuitive healer and yogi. She travels around the country offering dismantling racism courses and Skill in Action: Yoga and Justice courses in communities, yoga studios, organizations, corporations and beyond.

In this episode, we talk about:

• How sensing her friend’s spirit after he passed helped awaken her intuition
• Grief and healing from a head injury as a gateway to hearing the Earth speak
• Loss as a gateway for opening to something new
• Embracing seeming opposites to integrate duality (ie - right/wrong, good/bad, life/death, etc.)
• Why people forget their inherent wholeness
• Michelle’s take on cosmic alien connections
• What’s underneath people’s desire to leave the planet
• Attuning and anchoring higher knowing onto the Earth plane
• Why groundedness is necessary for responding to the suffering on Earth
• Michelle’s relationship with the spirit world - and how she connects with the other side
• Being open to helping people transition through death
• Sensing the living energy of the wind
• Listening to messages from the birds and other animals
• Being guided by a deer about where to plant a memorial tree
• Signs and numbers that ancestors are near
• Receiving messages from spirit through dreams with the support of mugwort
• The divine timing of spirit
• Being with the discomfort of not being able to make meaning of something like COVID19
• How bypassing arises from trying to use logic to understand something that’s energetic
• Deciphering between healthy meaning making vs emotional or spiritual bypassing
• The harmful narratives being spread about COVID19
• Exploring how grief is connected to liberation

Bonus Secret Episode! Michelle Cassandra Johnson guides you on two meditations: one where you’ll receive support from your well ancestors who have faced times of uncertainty and another one to connect with your spirit helpers and get grounded and centered at https://www.earthspeak.love/secret.

• Learn more about Michelle’s offerings // www.michellecjohnson.com
• Connect with Michelle on Instagram @skillinaction, https://www.instagram.com/skillinaction/, and @mysticcassandra, https://www.instagram.com/mysticcassandra/
• Connect with & Support Michelle on Patreon // https://www.patreon.com/skillinaction
• Watch the Healing In Community Online Summit and Grief & COVID19 interviews on Michelle’s YouTube // https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5CUvq0sI9c19l5kDKZecJQ/playlists
• Michelle’s project Race and Resilience // https://www.raceand...

Natalie Ross shares about discovering your intuition after a lifetime of being told it doesn’t matter or exist. You’ll also hear about:

• How mushrooms inspired her to finally find her path after years of feeling lost and uncertain
• Whether it's safe to trust your intuition and why trusting is hard for many of us
• What to do if the people in your life don't “get it”

♥♥♥ Join The Earth Speak Collective Membership! Join like-hearted folks in a sacred container and community where you'll:

• Connect deeply to yourself, others, nature & spirit
• Learn to trust your intuition
• Activate your Earth magic
• Expand your healing & divination skills
• Put your intuition into practice in everyday life
• Stop feeling lonely on your spiritual path
• Embody & express your creative power & truths
• Experience safe space without agenda or judgement

When you join the Collective, you get access to all of our past workshops, any live workshops happening while you're a member, live weekly energetic reset calls, monthly community rituals, all the secret episodes, member-run meetups to explore magical topics, and a lively members only forum (that's not on FB!).

▶▶▶ Learn more and sign up for the Collective membership here: https://www.earthspeak.love/collective

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Earth Speak founder Natalie Ross was interviewed by Stephanie Briggs for a series called Your Earth Journey about her journey to live guided by her intuition. Enjoy this conversation!

In this interview, Natalie shares about:

• Her lifelong affinity for plants
• Healing from the effects of having young parents with their own baggage
• How her outer reality as a child turned her attention to inwards
• Dropping out of college 3 times & struggling through her entire twenties
• How mushrooms inspired her to finally find her path after years of feeling lost and uncertain
• Mycoremediation as a way to rehabilitate toxic ecosystems and soils
• Getting a master’s degree in soil science and still feeling like there’s something more
• How her first podcast, Dream Freedom Beauty, was born one hot summer’s day
• Hiding in the “broom closet” and not telling the people around her about her true interests
• How society has a sickness of the spirit
• The energetic language of intuition that doesn’t speak in words and how to hear it
• How your body is an energetic antennae
• Intuition as a GPS that course corrects when you miss a turn
• Speaking with plants and the nature of intuition
• How to develop a relationship with your intuitive senses and come to trust them
• Whether it's safe to trust your intuition and why trusting is hard for many of us
• What to do if the people in your life don't “get it”
• Why your intuitive guidance matters
• How intuition is a pathway out of the dominant patriarchal society

Check out the secret episodes where your favorite podcast guests get weirder! Also find a guided journey led by Natalie to connect deeply with the spirit of the amanita muscaria mushroom at https://www.earthspeak.love/secret

• Join our live weekly ritual calls in the Earth Speak Collective membership // https://www.earthspeak.love/collective
• Follow Natalie’s personal Instagram @knowyourenergy // https://www.instagram.com/knowyourenergy
• Get the secret episodes at https://www.earthspeak.love/secret

References:

• Connect with the rest of the “Your Earth Journey” series // https://www.embracingyourearthjourney.com/
• Book: Mycelium Running by Paul Stamets // https://www.amazon.com/Mycelium-Running-Mushrooms-Help-World/
• Book: The Secret Teachings of Plants by Stephen Harrod Buhner // https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Teachings-Plants-Intelligence-Perception/
• Stephanie Benedetto Padovani // https://www.theawakenedbusiness.com/
• Liv Mokai Wheeler and the Kontomble // https...

Natalie Ross shares about why trusting your intuition is a crucial key to cultivating a rich relationship with Earth and nature spirits.

You’ll also hear about:

• How to strengthen your analytical mind’s belief in your intuition
• Why body awareness is a powerful place to begin your intuitive journey
• Learning to recognize the energetic signatures of nature spirits and better hear messages from trees

♥♥♥ Join The Earth Speak Collective Membership! Join like-hearted folks in a sacred container and community where you'll:

• Connect deeply to yourself, others, nature & spirit
• Learn to trust your intuition
• Activate your Earth magic
• Expand your healing & divination skills
• Put your intuition into practice in everyday life
• Stop feeling lonely on your spiritual path
• Embody & express your creative power & truths
• Experience safe space without agenda or judgement

When you join the Collective, you get access to all of our past workshops, any live workshops happening while you're a member, live weekly energetic reset calls, monthly community rituals, all the secret episodes, member-run meetups to explore magical topics, and a lively members only forum (that's not on FB!).

▶▶▶ Learn more and sign up for the Collective membership here: https://www.earthspeak.love/collective

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Earth Speak founder, Natalie Ross, opens a sacred space with an invocation and then shares about what it means to speak with the earth and how you can do it, too. Enjoy the messages and energy of this episode, as it was recorded in a redwood forest on top of a mountain.

In this episode Natalie shares about:

• How to better hear messages from trees
• What it means to “speak the earth”
• Invoking the spirits and beings you want to connect with
• Interpreting intuition as a nonverbal language in your body
• Why trusting your intuition is a crucial key to hearing the earth speaking
• Specific examples of how you are nature, and your body is the earth
• Why body awareness is a powerful place to begin your intuitive journey
• The ancestral emotional and intuitive evolution you can draw upon
• Clearing & healing energetic blocks to intuitive awareness
• Acknowledging how society invalidates humans as spiritual beings
• Tapping into the eternal flow of support
• How you can speak with the earth
• Tracking what you're noticing in your awareness
• Why asking questions is a powerful spiritual practice
• Learning to recognize the energetic signatures of nature spirits
• Different channels of psychic perception
• Cultivating a rich relationship with spirit guides and nature spirits
• How to strengthen your analytical mind’s belief in your intuition

Bonus Secret Episode! Take a guided journey to meet and get messages from the spirit of the amanita muscaria mushroom in this week’s secret episode! Plus, when you sign up for secret episodes, you get the Plant Speak mini course on how to connect directly to and grow relationships with Earth and nature spirits for support and guidance in your everyday life.

• Get the secret episodes and the Plant Speak course at https://www.earthspeak.love/secret
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Theme music is “It’s Easier” by Scarlet Crow http://www.scarletcrow.org/ and “Meeting Again” by Emily Sprague https://mlesprg.info/

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Raven Rose shares about connecting to plants and ancestors through dreamwork, plus:

• Learning how to read tarot with the support of ancestors & dreams
• Womb massage to release stuck energy
• Raven’s first ceremonial Kambo experience

♥♥♥ Join The Earth Speak Collective Membership! Join like-hearted folks in a sacred container and community where you'll:

• Connect deeply to yourself, others, nature & spirit
• Learn to trust your intuition
• Activate your Earth magic
• Expand your healing & divination skills
• Put your intuition into practice in everyday life
• Stop feeling lonely on your spiritual path
• Embody & express your creative power & truths
• Experience safe space without agenda or judgement

When you join the Collective, you get access to all of our past workshops, any live workshops happening while you're a member, live weekly energetic reset calls, monthly community rituals, all the secret episodes, member-run meetups to explore magical topics, and a lively members only forum (that's not on FB!).

▶▶▶ Learn more and sign up for the Collective membership here: https://www.earthspeak.love/collective

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Raven is a menstrual health herbalist and medicine woman who helps people restore menstrual and womb health with herbs, traditional medicines, and ancestral lineage healing. Since overcoming her battle with endometriosis, Raven now offers Kambo ceremonies and herbal consults focused on weaving the connection between spiritual journeying and womb wellness.

In this episode, we talk about:

• Invoking the spirit of Cedar
• Connecting to your ancestral lineage through plant spirit medicine
• Raven’s personal story living with and healing endometriosis
• Getting quiet enough to listen receive plant wisdom
• Raven’s Tarot card pull for this conversation: Son of Wands and Five of Swords
• How to repel the weapons of fear mongers and restore your own fire energy
• Asking yourself, “Is this stream of consciousness benefitting me?”
• Tasting Jamaican soursop for the first time
• Praying over an herbal smoking blend
• Connecting to plants and ancestors through dreamwork
• Listening from the heart space
• Working with imphepho, a South African herb
• Raven’s homemade smoking blend recipe to call in ancestors (wild lettuce, lavender, and indigo lion’s tail)
• Developing a direct connection with the symbology of the tarot through dreamwork
• Putting herbs under your pillow to receive messages
• Raven’s dream that led her to encounter a medicine man and her first ceremonial Kambo experience
• Reintegrating back into city life after an intense healing journey
• Womb massage to release stuck energy
• An easy way to sense where energy is stuck in your body or ancestral lineage
• A body oil massage recipe using aspen, pedicularis, monarda, and mugwort
• How Raven used the power of dreamwork to triumph over her sexual trauma and endometriosis
• Dream journaling advice to track your process and patterning
• Herbs for dreamwork: mugwort, bacopa (Brahmi), tulsi, sinapis leptus curti, silene capensis
• How Raven connects the dots between body ailments and ancestral trauma
• Playing music and weaving as reciprocity for ancestors

Bonus Secret Episode! Raven talks about how she received the vision to pursue her spiritual business full time in this week’s secret episode!

• Learn more about Raven’s offerings at https://moonmedicine.co
• Connect with Raven on Instagram @moonmedicines
• Connect with Raven on Facebook @moonmedicines
• Learn about Raven’s Ancestral Ritual and/or Womb Work
• Book a Discovery call for Raven’s Herbal Consultation or Kambo Ceremony
• Reduce your period pain in 3 cycles with https://www.theendoguide.com/

References:

• Raven’s Herb Schools Artemisia and Rue and Voyage Botanica

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Mariana Mae shares about sitting at the feet of indigenous elder women who create with clay around the world. You’ll also hear about:

• Overcoming attachment to outcomes as a conscious creator
• Walking softly with beauty as a way of life
• Overcoming shyness and finding your voice through creative expression

♥♥♥ Join The Earth Speak Collective Membership! Join like-hearted folks in a sacred container and community where you'll:

• Connect deeply to yourself, others, nature & spirit
• Learn to trust your intuition
• Activate your Earth magic
• Expand your healing & divination skills
• Put your intuition into practice in everyday life
• Stop feeling lonely on your spiritual path
• Embody & express your creative power & truths
• Experience safe space without agenda or judgement

When you join the Collective, you get access to all of our past workshops, any live workshops happening while you're a member, live weekly energetic reset calls, monthly community rituals, all the secret episodes, member-run meetups to explore magical topics, and a lively members only forum (that's not on FB!).

▶▶▶ Learn more and sign up for the Collective membership here: https://www.earthspeak.love/collective

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Mariana Mae is an artist and visionary native to Coyoacan, DF, Mexico. Mariana offers her work under the wingspan of Easy To Breathe, locally in the Valley of Ojai, California. Since 2015, she’s shared her clay work, cultural, educational offerings and series of women’s workshops and ceremonial gatherings intimately and globally. Mariana’s work is anchored in the heart of expression, empowerment, ethnicity and ethics in our own creative understanding and acceptance of Self.

I think you’ll love Mariana’s way of gentleness, softness, and beauty in the world as she does big work in a radically different way than the mainstream.

In this episode, we talk about:

• Discerning between the external noise and your internal truth
• The medicine of culture shock from moving internationally as a kid
• Overcoming shyness and finding your voice through creative expression
• How Mariana first found the magic of clay at age 7
• Receiving the messages of the earth through the elements
• Mariana’s creative process & overcoming attachment to outcomes
• Co-creating with the divine, soil, fire, water, and air to create art and usable vessels of pottery
• Growing up in a Catholic household and then leaving religion
• Going back to the womb of the mother, listening to the elements, and being guided by elders in temazcal (sweatlodge)
• Walking softly with beauty as a way of life
• How her project documenting indigenous women and traditions around the world was born
• Harvesting and processing clay in the traditional way in Morocco with an elder woman
• How trusting her gut prepared her to document an unexpected indigenous potter in the Amazon
• The reality of privilege in the western world
• Finding stillness and re-evaluating what matters during this pandemic time
• What’s going to happen after this, from the work that you’re doing now?
• The responsibility of being obedient, even as a rebel soul
• Being servants and supporters of each other and the earth
• Communicating across languages using the sounds of how clay speaks

Bonus Secret Episode! Mariana Mae on the birth of her pottery business, Easy To Breathe, and how it evolved from a side-gig in a garage to a full time thing at https://www.earthspeak.love/secret.

• Learn more about Mariana’s offerings and shop her clay creations at www.easytobreathe.com
• Mariana on Instagram @easytobreathe // https://www.instagram.com/easytobreathe
• Mariana’s documentary project // www.sermujer.co
• Share your biggest challenge around finding and expressing your voice // https://www.earthspeak.love/voice

Our theme music is “It’s Easier” by Scarlet Crow http://www.scarletcrow.org and “Meeting Again” by Emily Sprague https://mlesprg.info.

Learn to trust your intuition and activate your Earth magic + sign up for our delightful newsletter at https://www.earthspeak.love...