Ep 37: How Birth is a Powerful Portal into Soul Transformation

With Sian Marie Pilkington

On the Secret Witch Show today our guest is Sian Marie Pilkington. Sian is a woman of word~craft, mother of what some see as many, a space holder in ceremony around the blood mysteries, a proficient retreat facilitator and herbalist and full spectrum birth attendant and energy worker. She works as a birth doula and mentor, reiki master, theta healer, holds pregnancy retreats & conducts ceremony for those in the child bearing years.

Making her second appearance on the show, Sian beautifully explores birth as a powerful portal for soul transfomation, exploring how Birth opens us up to a descent into our Feminine soul, and how this creates a deeper connection to truth, love, and our own power and magic. She provides some beautiful initiations for the journey from Maiden to Mother, which make an illuminating episode that is relevant to all women, who long to reconnect to their souls - regardless of whether they are Mothers or not.

What You’ll Learn from this Episode:

Birth is a powerful descent into the sacred land of your own body, which initiates you into trusting yourself, your power and your body - it’s an initiation into leading ourselves to the underworld and back up
Men have made rules and regulations around something that was always women’s work, and this can create trauma, but it also doesn’t mean we are victims to the Masculine - there’s a beautiful union that can be created as we welcome Kingly Protective Warriors into the birth space to hold and witness - which is a transformational healing in and of itself
It is important to do the work in pregnancy - the work is never in birth - so that you can be relaxed and open as you transition through birth. You can do the work through methods like a time-spiral, which she explains in this episode, and ritual and ceremony that consciously initiates you into the phases of the Feminine, as well as connecting to your baby
We fear being the hysterical women, which has us suppress our beautiful wildness in birth - we suppress our sacred rage - we think we have to play the role of Good Girl. Moving through our truthful emotions without disruption is really helpful - and inner child work is powerful here
Positive birth experiences aren’t fluke - we are build to open, yield and give birth - and it can be helpful to have a birth story listener if you’ve had a traumatic experience instead
The Mother Archetype is a powerful one to embody for all women - she is rooted to the earth and knows how to respond rather than react, and she’s the one who births all of creation into the world, so working with her is deeply powerful and magical, especially for a Witch
Our triggers are the place we can reclaim gold from our wound, but often we dismiss them due to shame; it is important we open to sharing our triggers

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