Episode 18: Navigating Sensitivity: Wildly Sensitive, Deeply Attuned with Rebecca Cavender
Snake Priestess Podcast
In this episode of the Snake Priestess Podcast, I speak directly to the wildly sensitive, the energetically porous, and those who feel everything—seen and unseen. Drawn from a deeply personal message first shared with initiates in Voluptuous Ecstasy, this episode offers soothing insight and practical tools for empaths, neurodivergent folks, and priestesses navigating energetic overwhelm. Learn how to set serpentine boundaries, tend to your nervous system with sacred breath, and listen to the wild wisdom of your body as an oracle. This is about honoring our energy through attunement. ...
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Episode 17: Snake Medicine & Grandmother Corn: Remembering What Was Never Lost with Cristy Benitez Allen
Snake Priestess Podcast
Snake Medicine & Grandmother Corn: Remembering What Was Never Lost In this soul-stirring episode, Cristy joins us for a powerful journey through ancestral memory, intergenerational healing, and the living intelligence of Snake and Grandmother Corn. Through stories rooted in land, lineage, loss, and sensuality, Cristy reveals how snake medicine—once feared and misunderstood—guides us back to wholeness. She shares vivid dreams, sacred ceremonies, and a deepening relationship with her grandmother’s spirit and ancestral corn. This is a conversation about shedding skins, planting seeds,...
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Episode 16: Snake Medicine in Systems: Sovereignty, Ancestry & Sacred Power with Elsa Alegria
Snake Priestess Podcast
In this deeply grounded and heart-opening episode of the Snake Priestess Podcast, your host Rebecca Cavender is joined by sacred feminine guide, spiritual mentor, and modern-day priestess Elsa Alegria. Elsa brings her powerful voice and wisdom to a soul-filled conversation on how we navigate power, family dynamics, systems of dominance, and reconnection with the land through the lens of snake medicine. 🎧 Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favorite platform. Together, we explore: How snake medicine helps us shift and dissolve internalized patriarchy The importance of...
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Episode 15: The Serpent’s Wisdom: Grief, Death & Sacred Endings with Damascena Tanis
Snake Priestess Podcast
Welcome back to the Snake Priestess Podcast, where we meet with serpentine wisdom keepers to explore the deeper mysteries of snake medicine. In this episode, I sit down with the deeply soulful astrologer, priestess, and oracle Damascena Tanis. Together, we weave a powerful conversation around grief, endings, snake medicine, Venus cycles, and the ancient oracular path. Damascena shares her personal story of loss and the profound teachings that emerged through her journey as a mother, astrologer, and spiritual guide. 🎧 Listen Now to Discover How Snake Medicine Can Help You With Grief,...
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Episode 14: From Abuse to Liberation: The Power of Snake Medicine in Healing the Body with Rebecca Cavender
Snake Priestess Podcast
In this raw and transformative episode, Rebecca Cavender shares her powerful journey of overcoming abuse, reclaiming her body, and discovering the healing power of "snake medicine." From enduring psychological and physical control in a past relationship to undergoing weight loss surgery under coercion (which she eventually got reversed), Rebecca reveals how body shaming and manipulation shaped her life—only to realize the true issue was the systematic control over her mind, body, and spirit. 🎧 Listen Now to Discover How Snake Medicine Can Help You Reclaim Your Power and Heal From Within!...
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Episode 13: Paradox of Life, Death, and the Snake Medicine with Devaiya Ra
Snake Priestess Podcast
In this deeply reflective episode, Rebecca Cavender and Devaiya Ra explore the two undeniable truths of life: birth and death. From there, they delve into the paradoxes that define human existence—our constant cycle of living, dying, and being reborn with each breath we take. They discuss the role of the nervous system in navigating this constant transformation and how we can learn to honor it rather than fear it. Devaiya introduces the concept of "snake medicine," which symbolizes the power of digestion and transformation—how we can "consume" life’s challenges (like the "rat race"),...
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Episode 12: Shedding Shame - Embrace Your Body with Rebecca Cavender
Snake Priestess Podcast
Welcome back back! This is our third episode of season 2. Let's talk about our bodies. There's nothing more personal than this relationship. While for most of us, there's a complex process in embracing our bodies as they are, this is where we can come to a sense of freedom. In this episode, I share deeply personal stories about being a fat woman and overcoming body image/body shame that was mostly internalized messaging from others' projections--including society! (You also get to hear a story about a boudoir photography session I had last year & some of the surprising - and...
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Episode 11: The Sacred Balance of Snake Medicine with Autumn Skye
Snake Priestess Podcast
In this deeply reflective, timely, and enriching conversation, artist and intuitive Autumn Skye, joins host Rebecca Cavender of the Snake Priestess Podcast to explore the profound wisdom of snake medicine and its relevance in today’s world. They discuss themes of trust, discernment, sensitivity, and the transformative power of the snake, diving into its symbolism and how it informs both personal and creative journeys. Through their dialogue, Autumn shares her insights on balancing the feminine's light and dark aspects, the earth's and animal spirits' lessons, and how...
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Episode 10: Humble Heart & Land Connection with Rebecca Cavender
Snake Priestess Podcast
In this powerful episode of The Snake & The Land, Rebecca Cavender takes us on a journey into the intimate, spiritual relationship we can cultivate with the Earth and its elements. She shares reflections on the deep wisdom of nature, exploring how we can learn from the land, animals, and plants around us. From embracing animism and recognizing the life force in all things to finding community with the land and our ancestors, Rebecca inspires us to slow down, listen, and reconnect with the natural world. Key Highlights: The Humble Heart: Rebecca discusses the importance of approaching...
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Episode 9: Returning the Soul to the Wild with Ellie Cleary
Snake Priestess Podcast
I’m excited for you to connect with Ellie Cleary today—an amazing intuitive astrologer, embodiment priestess, and coach who lives half the time in England, and half the time in India. We delve into the connection between snake and astrology—specifically, astro-cartology— which is a type of astrology that looks at geographical places connected to your birth chart. This leads us into a discussion around movement, around travel—and Ellie shares how we must leave home to find out who we are. There’s a quest, a rite of passage. And yet, we can look across our globe and...
info_outlineWelcome to another powerful episode where Tami Brunk and I delve into the world of snake medicine.
We start off with Tami’s snake origin story, where she shares alluring experiences being a budding naturalist as a child and her wonderment of snakes, growing up on a farm in Missouri.
Together, we explore mythic connections of bird/snake, snake/tree, and poison/medicine.
Weaving stories and dreams, Tami shares the importance of the living sky, astrology, and the motifs we all experience of snake as a primal symbol of power, awakening, and medicine.
We also discuss the dynamics of the masculine and feminine with snake and how snake became a protector for her … but also something she yearned to protect.
Tami shares powerful symbols of the Gods & Goddesses with snake, their stories, the history of dreaming societies, and what we can learn from them. We especially spend time on Hygeia, a Goddess and the 4th largest asteroid in the sky, playing an important role in astrology.
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Tami Brunk, MS, BA is a Wholehearted Empath and Earth Visionary helping humans grow an intimate and friendly relationship with the Earth and Sky. She is a fully Certified Shamanic Astrologer and past president of the Shamanic Astrology Mystery School, and fully certified Active Dreaming Teacher.
Her life passion is to call in and re-awaken the Priestesses and Earth Mages through ceremonial work with Venus and her cycles and by marrying the worlds of Dreaming and Shamanic Astrology.
She was the first, since 2010, to begin leading circles through the entire 19-month Venus Cycle as ceremony guided by the Inanna Descent Myth.
She has conducted in-depth research into the Venus Return Cycle for women, and is co-founder of Venus Alchemy with Shamanic Astrology Mystery School Co-Founder Cayelin Castell. Through Venus Alchemy, Tami and Cayelin lead a dynamic global community of women and men through the entire 19-month Venus Cycle as a re-enactment of the Inanna Descent Story.
The inspiration for this course emerged from Daniel Giamario’s research into the Venus Synodic Cycle, which linked the Venus Synodic Cycle and the ancient Sumerian Descent Myth of Inanna.
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