Navigating the Currents

The Hunger of the Soul, Sacred Landscapes & Living in Flow

In This Episode

What if what we call luck is really our relationship with the unseen currents flowing through our lives? Beginning with a hauntingly beautiful transmission on the hunger of the soul, Jennifer Taylor and Tava Baird find themselves drawn into an unexpected exploration of sacred symbols, feathers, serpents, ancient goddesses, and the hidden language of the natural world. As mysterious visions, sigils, and synchronistic discoveries unfold in real time, Samael reveals a profound teaching: the Earth itself is alive with patterns waiting to be read. Trees, stones, rivers, landscapes, and even the places we call home carry the memory of energetic currents, offering guidance to those willing to slow down, observe, and listen.

From that foundation emerges one of the episode's most transformative ideas: we do not move through life in isolation, but within an energetic sea. Rather than viewing our struggles as punishment or "bad luck," Jenn and Tava explore how we might instead learn to recognize the currents we inhabit—and when it is time to step into different waters. Through conversations about sacred places, ancestral stones, intuition, environmental energy, and our relationship with the living world, they invite listeners to rediscover nature as both teacher and companion. Sometimes healing is not about fighting harder, but about learning to recognize the landscape beneath our feet and allowing its wisdom to guide us back into the current that carries us home.

Journey Through This Episode

• 0:00 — A mysterious gift and the hunger of the soul
• 7:00 — An unexpected vocal transmission
• 20:45 — A winged sigil emerges
• 24:45 — Tonantzin, Coatlicue, and the wisdom of the serpent
• 30:20 — Rediscovering the Garden's original purpose
• 35:20 — Is luck really just unseen currents?
• 36:40 — Learning to navigate the energetic sea
• 40:30 — Holy roots, holy stones, and nature as scripture
• 45:00 — Reading the landscape around us
• 48:20 — When struggle is a sign to change currents
• 57:00 — Stones, ancestors, and finding home
• 1:00:20 — Returning to flow through nature
• 1:02:00 — Closing song: Sacred Waters, Singing Stones

For Your Journey

Mentioned in this episode...

Books

• The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow by Opal Whiteley (with Benjamin Hoff)

People, Traditions & Symbolism

• Tonantzin
• Coatlicue ("She of the Serpent Skirt")
• Minoan Snake Goddess figurines
• The Garden of Eden as a living partnership between humanity and nature

Practices & Ideas

• Scrying with stone
• The energy of place
• Sacred landscapes
• Reading the wisdom held in trees and stones
• Working with ancestral stones

Music

• Sacred Waters, Singing Stones by Jennifer Taylor (Amnivara Bandcamp) https://amnivara.bandcamp.com/track/sacred-waters-singing-stones

Closing Reflection

May you learn to recognize the currents that carry you, trust the wisdom held within the living Earth, and find the courage to step into waters that lead you home.

Please remember this podcast is for inspiration, reflection, and entertainment only, and is not medical, psychological, or professional advice.

We are two friends sharing personal experiences and evolving perspectives as we learn and grow. This is not a substitute for your own discernment, inner wisdom, or qualified professional guidance.

Take what resonates, trust your intuition, and seek licensed support when needed, always honoring your own inner knowing and personal truth.

Thank you joining us today, you are a valued member of our tribe! If you are enjoying the podcast, please consider telling your friends and sharing it on social media. We would greatly appreciate your support in helping us reach others and spread our messages of worth, openness and exploration.

Connect with your Hosts!

Tava Baird: tavabaird.com or https://darkflowerbooks.etsy.com.

Jennifer Taylor: Amnivara (previously Willow Ridge Reiki and Healing Arts) https://www.Amnivara.com/

What happens when two ancient spiritual currents begin to weave themselves together? In this extraordinary episode, Jennifer Taylor and Tava Baird share a behind-the-scenes experience unlike anything they've encountered before. While exploring the creation of a combined sigil for Michael and Samael, unexpected events unfold—visions, intense energetic sensations, mysterious power outages, spontaneous channeling, and profound songs that seem to emerge from somewhere beyond themselves. What begins as an exploration of sacred symbols quickly transforms into a deeper revelation about union, remembrance, and the mysterious point where seemingly opposite forces meet.

From those extraordinary experiences emerges a powerful teaching from Samael: the mystery of The Sacred Hunter. Far from representing destruction, the Hunter becomes the keeper of sacred endings—the one who lovingly helps us release old identities, unfinished dreams, relationships, outdated stories, and limiting beliefs so that something new can truly take root. Through deeply personal stories about Keith's vocation, Amnivara's unfolding path, wedding rings, business transitions, and the courage to grieve what has served its purpose, Jenn and Tava explore why making space is itself a sacred act. Rather than urging us to cling more tightly to what we've built, this episode offers a profound invitation to honor what is complete, bless it, let it return to the Earth, and trust that every ending creates fertile ground for what longs to be born next.

In This Episode:

• The creation of a combined Michael–Samael sigil
• Extraordinary experiences during channeling
• The meaning of the Sacred Hunter
• Why endings are the first step toward new beginnings
• Honoring grief as sacred ceremony
• Making space for new visions and possibilities
• Releasing old identities, projects, and limiting stories
• Keith's role as the Sacred Hunter
• Building Amnivara across lifetimes
• The spiritual practice of conscious release
• Welcoming what is waiting to be born

Want more of Jenn's music?

https://amnivara.bandcamp.com/

Please remember this podcast is for inspiration, reflection, and entertainment only, and is not medical, psychological, or professional advice.

We are two friends sharing personal experiences and evolving perspectives as we learn and grow. This is not a substitute for your own discernment, inner wisdom, or qualified professional guidance.

Take what resonates, trust your intuition, and seek licensed support when needed, always honoring your own inner knowing and personal truth.

Thank you joining us today, you are a valued member of our tribe! If you are enjoying the podcast, please consider telling your friends and sharing it on social media. We would greatly appreciate your support in helping us reach others and spread our messages of worth, openness and exploration.

Connect with your Hosts!

Tava Baird: tavabaird.com or https://darkflowerbooks.etsy.com.

Jennifer Taylor: Amnivara (previously Willow Ridge Reiki and Healing Arts) https://www.Amnivara.com/