(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

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CONNECT WITH BRIANNA:

✭ Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ShopFemmeSauvage

✭ Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠@findyourwildpodcast