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Mother of the Sword Podcast

adriana rizzolo

A home for Body Temple teachings. Body Temple community ignites a somatic and spiritual culture that welcomes ritual, passion, humor, delicious, messy, real love, right relationship, Earth worship, soul purpose and sex education for adults. bodytemple.substack.com

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34:31

Art Over Approval

Mother of the Sword Podcast ·

2025/10/21

Blessed dark moon friends. The season of slowing down and taking more articulate care of ourselves, one another and the lands we tend. Times are tough — and as many activists, Black radical feminists, and queer and Trans kin have generously taught us, we the people hold the power to rest, to regroup, and to reimagine new ways of relating.To instigate change with our creative life force is the sacred responsibility at the root, in the Earth, of our body.Today’s episode of Mother of the Sword explores

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13:59

The Songs Beneath the Skin:

Mother of the Sword Podcast ·

2025/10/05

All the liberation work we do in relationship reveals our innate courage and mostly, let's be real, our ignorance. To be able to really dive into shadow work, we need to be resourced and have spaces to release what lives within us. This podcast practice will support you in doing this today.In today’s episode of Mother of the Sword you’ll experience an important shamanic writing tool for going in and more importantly for many of you reading this, out of the underworld, aka subconscious aka your body

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46:17

Rapture, Eros and NYC

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2025/09/24

Healing the root is not just an idea, it’s a practice that we can attune to and need to do in relationship. We were wounded in relationship, and it is there we will heal too.In my experience, rapture is when two or more bodies really worship yours, and it sends you into this ecstatic union with God. Just throwing that out there, but my lineage traditionally has orgiastic rituals in devotion to the Black Madonna aka Mother Earth so…In this episode of Mother of the Sword we chat with Syd - you can

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51:22

A Yoni Miracle: Making Art Out of Grief

Mother of the Sword Podcast ·

2025/08/25

In this episode of Mother of the Sword we speak with Sydney Johnson, an artist and astrologer in our community. On our last sacred s e x uality retreat in New Mexico, we created a Yoni Constellation to explore one initiate’s (participant) struggles around sexuality.WTF is a yoni constellation? WTF is a constellation?! Have a listen to the podcast to get a taste of the Body Temple work and how it, works. How it transforms the ways we relate and it’s effectiveness in healing how our body stores trauma

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51:48

Aquarius: Handjobs and Holy Water

Mother of the Sword Podcast ·

2025/08/09

Aquarius medicine for me are talking it out while feeling, water, dreams and attuning to our true alive and erotic desires. There are many tools within this time astrologically to take you into a truer belonging inside and out–I definitely went through that big time this week. Have a listen to this episode of MOTHER OF THE SWORD with one of my best siblings, Jeff Hinshaw from Cosmic Cousins. We gab all things happening in the stars right now, and how it aligns with our hearts missions.Jeff is a wild

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99:16

Grief, Rage and Ritual Theater

Mother of the Sword Podcast ·

2025/07/19

“Therapy isn’t enough I need them to put Mary Magdalene back in the Bible.”-softmoonrosePeople be out there raw-doggin’ life with no ties to ancient lineage and ancestral wisdom — it makes sense we’re frozen and feeling like shit all the time. (Apply to come to India with us if you’re called.)It’s natural to suffer as humans, period. It is also natural as mystics to learn how to relieve that suffering, as witches to cast out what isn’t ours, and as lovers to digest what is — and make something with

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21:37

Don't Tell Me What To Do

Mother of the Sword Podcast ·

2025/06/15

We all have resistance to being told what to do, we should. It’s fucking annoying that everyone has answers but no one has the capacity to receive our pain.This is the father wound.The deep pain or absence many feel in their relationship with father figures—personally, culturally, and spiritually. It can show up as a lack of protection, guidance, love, or affirmation, and it often mirrors a broader sense of disconnection from the Divine Masculine when it’s been distorted into control, domination, or

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10:12

The Grief of Reconnection

Mother of the Sword Podcast ·

2025/05/30

I almost criedwhen I remembered the fact that you died but you never really went away. I almost cried when she held my feet in the back of my skull like she was holding water. When I looked at my vulva in a mirror for the first time through the eyes of love. When I looked up, and I saw the crescent moon in the broad daylight hanging above the oceans swells. When I felt the parts of me that can no longer exist in relationship with you.A devotional reflection on healing attachment and the somatic work

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19:20

Grief Slapped Scorpio Sisters

Mother of the Sword Podcast ·

2025/05/12

Our cat Habibi brought a bloody head of a rodent to the door for the Scorpio Full Moon. So of course, I'm sharing a story about lineage, shadow, and the wild magic that runs through my blood—from addiction to the adoration of all things embodied and occult.Imagine this:We’re in Rome, near the ruins of the cult of Isis where they worshipped the Great Mother of fertility, and the sacredness of our sexuality. But today, we’re in a café. You’ve got your drink, I’ve got a frothy cappuccino.Press play

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24:24

My Ancestral Lands Bleed with Devotion

Mother of the Sword Podcast ·

2025/04/15

I am here in Paris, on a journey of exploration… a new birth this month for my 43rd solar return, and the 18th anniversary of my father’s death. In today's Mother of the Sword, we speak of listening while speaking, moving while sharing—this is the embodiment of the feminine mystery. Not linear, but spiral. Not fixed, but flowing. It’s how the Oracle spoke. It’s how dancers pray. It’s how healers channel.This Mother of the Sword podcast explores about what to do with the birth that’s wanting to come

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8:57

Witch Wounds Welcome New Worlds

Mother of the Sword Podcast ·

2025/03/30

We all need ways to empty the story that we are carrying in order to be able to perform what is most soul nourishing, liberating and authentic.Some people water fast; I write—not to impress, but to anchor myself, to locate where I am, alive. To return to the body from the suffocating fog of fear that inevitably rolls in while navigating this beautiful, tragic world.The witch wound welcomes us to root our worth within, as opposed to what we can get. It’s fed by giving, by the generosity of Spirit

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22:07

An Unspoken Weight: Pisces never ends

Mother of the Sword Podcast ·

2025/03/21

In today's episode of Mother of the Sword, we offer you some guidance on ancestral connections that support you in creating and getting in touch with all that sustains and connects us to liberation. Special thanks to Jeff Hinshaw from Cosmic Cousins for putting together this podcast for us! and to all my wild Italian Volcanic ancestors for showing me what is possible beyond the shame and blame I grew up around.In light of new beginnings for Aries season and the Persian New Year (I have %7 Persian

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27:15

Goddess existed before religion.

Mother of the Sword Podcast ·

2025/02/12

In today’s episode of Mother of the Sword, I speak with one of my dearest friends—also a Leo (in Western astrology), a psychologist and spiritual counselor, and a lifelong yogini, Dr. Varsha Choudhari. We dive deep into how India was once a matriarchal society—and still is in some places—where the rivers themselves are worshipped as goddesses, and how the awakening of Kundalini holds a sacred, embodied purpose in our lives as women.Let’s face it, things are ending. Ouch. And thank Goddess. The more

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43:32

Venus in Pisces: actually, don't surrender.

Mother of the Sword Podcast ·

2025/01/30

Blessings for the new moon and lunar new year in Aquarius! I’m offering a free defiant meditation and writing class-Thursday at 10am PST. Join us here.And! listen to this new episode of Mother of theSword with our friend and Body Temple Community member Sydney Paige - who was just on our Goddess Pilgrimage in India. We are celebrating them for taking this intense and wild journey with us! S/o to our sibling Jeff from Cosmic Cousins for the support putting this episode together!“I don’t write poetry

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38:07

Capricorn-Cradled in Fertile Darkness

Mother of the Sword Podcast ·

2024/12/30

Enjoy this episode on writing, the womb and community healing. Special thanks to our friend Jeff Hinshaw for editing and putting this podcast together! Let us know what comes up in the comments.We see Capricorn energy as an expression of earthly, sacred sexuality—a devotion to our deepest desires. It is the wild woman dancing with Saturn, Father Time, embodying the structure that allows creation to flourish. (I can already feel the swoon of meeting Saturn in the temples of India…)The contraction

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47:53

Taurus Full Moon Madness

Mother of the Sword Podcast ·

2024/11/15

Anytime I meet another woman with Italian ancestry and a wild fire in her heart for liberation and revolutionary love, I know we’re going to light it up when we connect. In today’s episode of Mother of the Sword (perfect) for the full moon in Taurus, we discuss all things decolonization, creating curiosity and community care with Rev. Briana Lynn (rbl) studies, teaches & facilitates experiences on the intersection of ancient earth-based sacred healing, revolution, liberation & social justice, AND

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65:50

Inanna and Underworld Medicine

Mother of the Sword Podcast ·

2024/11/08

As the great Toni Morrison says:“This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.”Today on Mother of the Sword podcast, we have a chat with my friend Greg who I met on a Southern Italian ritual drum and dance retreat where we studied in worship to the Black Madonna in Hawaii last April.Our lineage is rooted in Earth based worship and

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13:36

Scorpio Shame Slay

Mother of the Sword Podcast ·

2024/11/01

Persephone 3BY MARIE HOWEMy mother knows all about the under-dark.She needn't have pretended to be appalled.The seed must break open and rise;put too deep the rot sets in.My mother is a god; she wanted to spare me.But my nature is nature.Like everything alive I was meant to be split open,to blossom, to be sucked, to be eaten,to lean, to bend, to wither,to die and die and die and die until I died.In today’s episode of Mother of the Sword I break down shame and the ways it controls us and how we can

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21:12

Some "gifts" smell terrible...

Mother of the Sword Podcast ·

2024/10/25

This Mother of the Sword podcast unveils the gift of dissociation, a realm where many become ensnared in shame. As a shame slayer, I’m here to illuminate the value of embracing dissociation and how we can harness it.Scorpio season heightens our ability to alchemize our shit into our service. My friend Nora (double Scorpio bb,) also says it is the frustration of Scorpio too. It’s not always what you want, it’s what your soul wants….”Big gifts/service equals big struggles too, don’t let white colonial

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24:09

Trauma robs us of our ability to choose...

Mother of the Sword Podcast ·

2024/10/10

What if there is no quick fix?I recorded this talk on cultivating choice as a way to learn how to grieve, how to pray with potency and how to channel our rage into creative solutions and offerings that give back, as opposed to take while in India. Please enjoy and let us know wha you think! Ty to Jeff from Cosmic Cousins for putting together this episode, we love you.We have one space left for our Goddess Pilgrimage happening January 2025 so please read this page and apply if you want to come!Trauma

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