(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:

✭ Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ShopFemmeSauvage

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"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

"Your nightmares aren't trying to be deliberately cruel. They're the part of you that got tired of whispering, and finally decided to raise its voice."

Every single one of us has had at least one "bad dream". Most of us have been taught to dismiss them, filing them under stress or too much cheese before bed, and moving on before they can ask anything of us. In this episode, Stella makes the case for why that instinct gets it backwards.

She also shares a dream she's never told publicly before, one that involved a checkpoint, a stranger's demand, and an image so vivid she still remembers it clearly today. It turned out to be pointing toward something very real, and very physical, that she wouldn't understand for another month.

Along the way, you'll get two things you can actually use the next time a difficult dream wakes you up: a breathing technique used by first responders to calm the body fast, and one simple habit that keeps a dream's message from slipping away by morning.

It took Stella a month to understand what her own nightmare was trying to say. Yours doesn't have to. The night belongs to you again.

The "Dream Sovereignty: Working With Nightmares As Oracles" workshop is linked below:

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

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

This episode is a dream vigil.

Not a meditation or a lecture. A practice you can return to over the six to twelve nights surrounding the solstice, wherever you are in the world.

In the Northern Hemisphere, the Summer Solstice. In the Southern Hemisphere, the Winter Solstice.

Two different seasons, one collective field.

Stella opens with why women have always dreamed with the turning of the year, then traces the herstory of the Summer Solstice through the Irish Goddess Áine, midsummer fire, the bees, and the thinning of the veil.

For those in the Southern Hemisphere, she turns toward the longest night, the rising of the Pleiades, the Seven Bees of the ancient world, and the Māori tradition of Matariki.

The episode includes a candle and water ritual, a dream vigil intention for each hemisphere, and guidance for working with what surfaces in sleep without rushing into interpretation.

Come dream with the earth as she turns. 🕯️

👉 For women ready to enter a live dream circle: Women Who Dream With The Wolves is open now.

✭ Learn to work with your nightmares: ⁠https://www.honeywomb.com/nightmares⁠

👉 For the deeper herstory behind the Seven Bees, the Melissae, serpent oracles, and the dream lineages of the ancient world: ⁠Oracles of the Earth. ⁠

Northern Hemisphere: "I am dreaming with the fullness of the earth for a world where abundance is shared freely."

Southern Hemisphere: "I am dreaming with the turning of the earth for a world where light returns for all.

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

"The channel was never closed. It was crowded."

For every woman who has ever told herself she just isn't a dreamer.

Stella opens with a reframe: dream recall is not a spiritual problem. It’s a memory access issue governed almost entirely by nervous system state. That changes everything about how you approach it.

She shares four years of her own life when her dreaming went almost completely quiet, what caused it, and what brought it back. Then she walks through the specific patterns she tracked in her own recall, including one that many people would never think to connect to their dreams.

Stella closes with the single most important practice for anyone who wants to remember more: protect the threshold.

Links mentioned:

✭ Learn to work with your nightmares: https://www.honeywomb.com/nightmares

✭ The Hive & The Womb: https://www.honeywomb.com/hiveandwomb

✭ She Dreams with Wolves: https://www.honeywomb.com/shewolves

NOW OPEN: ⁠Women Who Dream with The Wolves⁠

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 learn prophetic dreaming through interpretation. You learn it by recognizing patterns."

Something is happening in the dreamtime right now. Dreams about collapse, machines, endings, skies that don't look like our sky. If you've been waking from dreams that feel too large to carry, this episode is for you.

Stella opens with an ancient idea that sits at the core of everything she teaches. It explains why so many of us are having the same types of dreams right now.

From there, she draws a distinction that almost no one in the dreaming space is willing to make. Some dreams are genuinely precognitive. Some are fear amplified through the collective field.

Knowing the difference is not just useful. It is a responsibility.

She shares a dream of her own that led to a real institution she had never heard of, and a student's dream that shows what it looks like to hold grief and hope in the same image without collapsing into either.

And she closes with three things to do the next time a dream like this wakes you at 3am.

A workshop on working with nightmares as oracles is here: ⁠https://www.honeywomb.com/nightmares⁠

NOW OPEN: Women Who Dream with The Wolves

CONNECT WITH STELLA:

✭ The Dreamwork Bundle: ⁠https://www.honeywomb.com/dreambundle ⁠

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

✭ Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@stella.porta⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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

✭ Intro & outro music by: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Justin Goncalves⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

✭ Substack: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Herstory Archive⁠⁠⁠

"Either dreams are meaningless noise. Or they are the most sovereign territory you have..."

After a longer absence than planned, Stella returns to Dream Weaver with a shorter format and a clear statement of purpose: to give you something you can listen to, digest, and bring back to your own dreaming practice right away.

This episode opens with a provocation. If dreams are meaningless, why are corporations spending millions of dollars trying to get inside yours?

From there, Stella lays out what dreamwork actually is. Not symbol decoding, or something reserved for certain people. A practiced, grounded relationship with the intelligence that moves through you while you sleep. The oldest technology on Earth, with roots stretching back at least five thousand *recorded* years.

She shares one of her own most vivid experiences of dream intelligence at work, the deformed wing virus she saw in her dreams before she ever opened a hive.

And she closes with two things you can do tonight to begin.

A workshop on working with nightmares as oracles is here: ⁠⁠https://www.honeywomb.com/nightmares⁠⁠

CONNECT WITH STELLA:

✭ The Dreamwork Bundle: https://www.honeywomb.com/dreambundle

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

✭ Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@stella.porta⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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

✭ Intro & outro music by: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Justin Goncalves⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

✭ Substack: ⁠⁠⁠⁠The Herstory Archive⁠⁠⁠