(Originally aired on Find Your Wild Podcast)

In this crossover episode, Stella joins Brianna Godberson for a conversation about dream archaeology, personal symbolism, animal allies, and the strange continuity between sleep and waking life.

Stella shares why she stopped using dream dictionaries and began keeping two books instead: one for nighttime experiences and one for the synchronicities that seem to answer them during the day. She also traces how bees, wolves, and serpents became recurring presences in her life, including a past-life experience that eventually led her to the Hirpini, the Wolf People of ancient Italy.

They explore what it means to be consumed or dismembered in a dream as a form of initiation, why certain images become deeply personal rather than universally fixed, and how women’s oracular authority has been suppressed across history.

Topics include:

• Building your own dream dictionary
• Past-life dreams and how to recognize them
• Artemis, Aphrodite, and the Melissa priestesses
• Solar and lunar feminine symbolism
• Dolphins, orcas, and death-guides of the water
• Nightmares as initiation, not simply warning
• Dreams inspiring inventions, discoveries, and creative works, from Tesla to the sewing machine needle

This is one of those conversations where one thread keeps leading to another, until dreams, mythology, ancestry, animals, and waking synchronicities begin to look much less separate than they did at the beginning.

If the wolf, bee, and serpent work in this episode called to you, The Dreamwork Bundle brings all three masterclasses together.

And if you want to go deeper into the nightmare material, Dream Sovereignty is an 80-minute masterclass devoted entirely to working with "bad dreams" as oracles.

CONNECT WITH STELLA:

✭ Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@stella.porta⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

✭ Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.honeywomb.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

✭ Intro & outro music by: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Justin Goncalves⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

✭ Substack: ⁠⁠⁠⁠The Herstory Archive⁠⁠⁠⁠

CONNECT WITH BRIANNA:

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✭ Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠@findyourwildpodcast

"Love doesn't ask you to stop being afraid before it lets you in. It asks you to keep choosing, even while the fear is still working itself out in the dark."

Thirteen years ago, Stella did something in a dark basement apartment that changed the entire course of her life. A week and a half later, she met her husband. That's the story most people already know. What they don't know is what her dreams did after.

In this episode, Stella shares the exact spell she used that night, the fear that followed her into her dreams once she got what she asked for, and something she's never taught publicly before: exactly how she used her dreams on purpose to call love toward her.

Whether you're calling a relationship in or working through fear inside one you already have, your dreams already know something about your love life that you haven't caught up to yet.

For the Dream Sovereignty workshop click here.

CONNECT WITH STELLA:

✭ All dreamwork courses, classes, & workshops: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.honeywomb.com/dreamwork⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠

✭ Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@stella.porta⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

✭ Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.honeywomb.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠

✭ Intro & outro music by: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Justin Goncalves⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

"You don't have to chase the life you want. You just have to fall asleep with it in your hands."

There's a window every night, right as you're falling asleep, where your mind is more suggestible than at any other point in your day. Scientists call it hypnagogia. I call it the twilight state, and once you know how to work with it on purpose, it stops happening to you and becomes something you use.

In this episode, I break down what's actually happening in your brain during those few minutes, the real research behind it, and exactly how I use this state to seed a specific outcome into my subconscious before sleep. This isn't a metaphor. It's a documented neurological window, and I'll show you the five steps I use to work with it, whether what you're calling in is a relationship, a business, a home, or something you haven't said out loud yet.

No device required. No special training. Just a body that already knows how to sleep, doing something it was always capable of.

CONNECT WITH STELLA:

✭ All dreamwork courses, classes, & workshops: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.honeywomb.com/dreamwork⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠

✭ Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@stella.porta⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

✭ Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.honeywomb.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠

✭ Intro & outro music by: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Justin Goncalves⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠