Take Back The Magic Bookclub
Recently I started having dreams about my grandfather. He died the last of my four grandparents – my grandmothers on both sides of my family left their bodies during the height of the pandemic and he stuck around for several months afterward, after losing his wife of over 60 years, both relishing and grieving the short time he had in a world without his life partner. In the dreams, I am exploring the second floor of his house – and in the dream, I knew it was his house, particularly, even though on the Earth plane it belonged to both my grandparents. The quality of light, the texture of the air, and the calm blue presence of my grandpa lingered there, as I dreamt about it over and over and over.
After the third dream, I knew there was something there for me – I knew that my grandfather had a gift or message for me – and he was bringing it to me through my dreams.
“There is something within us that knows who we are supposed to become,” Tokopa Turner says in her interview with For the Wild Podcast. It was her book, Belonging, which explained that a house in a dream often represents a body, a concept fleshed out in the Western world by Jung. Since learning this I have tracked my dreams and my friend’s dreams over the years, mapping the floors of my inner house. The corridors and cellars and bones, the roof and rooms. This simple framework, as I slowly learn and practice dreamwork, has been one of the most illuminating tools as I nourish a relationship with my dream body.
I found
’s book through her daughter, , whose writing intersects spirituality, storytelling, and ecology and is sweeping through the world with a force of wildness, casting a long and sturdy net both in this time and for future generations. There was a quality about her writing – and her life – that I knew was nourished by a web of ancestors, both living and departed.It was no surprise then when I read her mother, Perdita Finn’s book: Take Back the Magic. It felt like finding my mother. Using the scaffold of her own life, she weaves a story web: how she followed her deep intuitive knowing – towards magic, towards her life calling, her partner, and place. This knowing connected her to the wisdom of her ancestors, who guided her as she nourished relationships with them and the unseen world.
Join us Monday, May 27 for a book club for paid subscribers, exploring the first three chapters of Perdita Finn’s marvelous book, Take Back the Magic. Come rewild with us as we practice remembering – our intuitions, our bodies, our magic, and our connection to the universe and our own souls.
The Zoom link will be shared in our chat for paid subscribers. We can’t wait to see you there.
So excited!!
Very excited for this!