The Wisdom Path Podcast

• Creativity in Seasons: Honouring Your Cyclical Nature

  Season 2, Episode 1Creativity in Seasons: Honouring Your Cyclical NatureWelcome back to The Wisdom Path Podcast. Today’s episode is a long-form exploration of the creative life through the lens of seasons, cycles, and the deep wisdom that comes when we stop trying to create like machines.Rosie shares the philosophy that has transformed her relationship with her own creativity: seeing it as a living, breathing cycle with its own winters, springs, summers, and autumns. Drawing on personal stories, cultural threads, mythic archetypes, and the rhythms of the earth, Rosie invites us to reclaim a slower, more intentional way of creating, one that honours rest as much as productivity, composting as much as blooming.This is not just a conversation about making art. It is a permission slip to live and create in harmony with your own inner seasons, free from the capitalist insistence on constant growth.In This Episode, We Explore:• Why creativity is inherently cyclical and how capitalism trains us to ignore that truth• The four creative seasons: winter (composting), spring (emergence), summer (full bloom), autumn (refinement)• Personal stories from Rosie’s own creative winters and summers, including writing an 80,000-word draft in three days• How to tell which season you’re in and work with it instead of pushing against it• The role of boredom, rest, and reflection in nourishing future creative work• The parallels between creative seasons and menstrual cycles, lunar phases, tides, and even breath• Letting go of the idea that a creative “block” means something is wrong with you• Practical ways to nurture early spring ideas without pressuring them to become masterpieces overnight• Why autumn is the perfect time for editing, refining, and collaborative feedback• How creating in seasons allows for more integrity, joy, and sustainability in your workKey Quotes:• “Not creating isn’t a block. It’s winter. And winter is where the roots grow deep.”• “Capitalism teaches us to create like machines. Nature teaches us to create like forests.”• “Some seasons fuel you, others ask you to rest. Both are part of the work.”• “Boredom is not the enemy of creativity, it’s the compost.”• “When you stop trying to chain summer to your desk, you’ll find it visits you more often.”Go Deeper Into Your Creative CyclesJournal Prompts:• Which creative season am I in right now: winter, spring, summer, or autumn?• How can I honour this season?• What does rest look like for me when I’m not creating?• Which ideas have been composting quietly in me, waiting for spring?• What might I need to let go of to enter my next season with space and clarity?Related Writing on Substack : Read Rosie’s essay on cyclical feminine wisdom.Season 1 Archive : Catch up on past episodes exploring creativity, archetypes, and living seasonally.Connect with Rosie:WebsiteInstagramSubstackFacebookTakeaway for Listeners:This episode is both a map and a mirror. A map for navigating your creative life without burnout, and a mirror that reflects your own natural rhythms back to you. You are in a season and when you honour that, your work and your life will flourish in ways that feel effortless, rooted, and true. Get full access to Walking The Wisdom Path at iamrosiepeacock.substack.com/subscribe

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• How to Live more Pleasurably: What 700 People Told Me About Joy

  Season 1, Episode 23How to Live More Pleasurably: What 700 People Told Me About JoyIn this episode of The Wisdom Path Podcast, Rosie Peacock dives into a crowd-sourced treasure trove of joy over 700 answers to the question she posed on Substack: “What is the most pleasant, non-sexual, non-drug experience a human can have?”What began as a curious prompt became a rich collection of the simple, profound, and often funny moments that make life worth living. From warm beds on rainy mornings to wild animal encounters, from the smell of fresh bread to the weight of a sleeping baby, these answers form a kind of collective atlas of joy.Rosie walks us through the major themes that emerged, the top-liked answers, and the positive psychology frameworks that help explain why these experiences feel so good, and how we can invite more of them into our daily lives.In This Episode, We Explore:• The most common sources of everyday joy according to 700 people• Why nature, relaxation, and connection top the list across cultures• The difference between hedonic (pleasure) and eudaimonic (meaning) happiness• How the “hedonic treadmill” makes pleasures fade and how to stop it• The practice of savouring and why it amplifies joy• Why love and social connection are universal joy-makers• The emotional “tone” of joy, calm, connection, or awe• How humour and lightness play a role in wellbeing• Insights from positive psychology on building a more pleasurable lifeKey Quotes:• “Happiness often lies in the small, repeatable moments, not the rare peak events.”• “Calm contentment is the most commonly named joy, perhaps because life is so loud.”• “Savouring is the antidote to the hedonic treadmill.”• “Love, whether from a partner, a pet, or a child, gives life meaning.”• “Nature was the number one source of joy, sunshine, fresh air, and open skies are free.”Share Your Joy With Me:I’d love to hear your answer to the question: What’s your most pleasurable, non-sexual, non-drug human experience?It’s easy: click here to go to my Substack post and leave your comment there → Share your answer on SubstackGo Deeper Into the Joy Project📖 Full Blog Post – Read the complete data breakdown, top answers, and psychological insights on Rosie’s Substack → Read the blog post💬 Join the Conversation – Leave your comment on Substack🎧 Part Two? Let Rosie know in the comments if you’d like another episode diving even deeper into the responses.Journal Prompts to Explore Your Own Joy:• What’s the most pleasurable experience I’ve had in the last week?• Which of my joys are free and repeatable?• How can I build more moments of calm contentment into my day?• When was the last time I truly savoured something?• Who in my life brings me effortless joy and how can I spend more time with them?Connect with RosieWebsiteInstagramSubstackFacebookTakeaway for Listeners:Joy isn’t always loud or far away. It’s often found in warmth, safety, connection, and presence. By noticing, savouring, and repeating the small things that make us exhale, we create a life that feels richer and more pleasurable every single day. Get full access to Walking The Wisdom Path at iamrosiepeacock.substack.com/subscribe

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• Witch, Please: Misogyny, Myth & Memory

  Season 1, Episode 22In this second instalment of her potent Witch, Please series, Rosie Peacock reads aloud Misogyny, Myth & Memory, a spoken spell and scholarly unspelling that travels through language, lore, archetype, and ecclesiastical distortion.Where Part One traced the witch’s historical burning, through empire, spectacle, and control, this episode descends into the stories that buried her. The myths that twisted her. The words that warped wisdom into wickedness. And the ongoing legacy of patriarchal systems that still seek to divide, distort, and domesticate feminine power.This piece is part essay, part invocation, part cultural recovery. With poetic force and mythic clarity, Rosie explores how the witch wasn’t just punished in flesh, she was erased in story. And how it is through remembering, through re-speaking, that we begin to call her back.In This Episode, We Explore:• How language has been used to twist feminine wisdom into cultural threat• Why the word witch once meant wise woman, and how it came to mean wicked• The archetypal distortions of Maiden, Mother, and Crone through patriarchal eyes• What happened to the mythic figures of Hecate, Ceridwen, Morgan le Fay, and the Cailleach• How oral storytelling, dream, and art became sites of feminine survival• Why reclaiming the witch means reclaiming your voice, your fire, your myth• A closing monologue: Hellmouth, Esmeralda speaks back to Frollo, desire, and dominationKey Quotes:• “To make something legible in patriarchy is often the first step toward controlling it.”• “You said I made the devil stronger than the man. But it was never the devil in me. It was just desire you were too afraid to hold.”• “The crone wasn’t discarded because she was useless—she was feared because she was free.”• “Language is a spell. Myth is a mirror. And the witch is the one who breaks both, then writes her own.”• “You’re not just telling stories. You’re unspelling the ones that told you who you had to be.”Resources Mentioned:• Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici• The Malleus Maleficarum (cited critically, not recommended)• Rosie’s Substack series: Witch, Please (Part One)• The Wisdom Path Podcast: Playing Her Part archetype episodes: From Lilith, Hecate, Persephone, to Aphrodite, and soon Inanna• Upcoming: Ceridwen project with Jodi GarrodJournalling Prompts:• What myths have shaped your view of power, womanhood, or worth?• Where do you feel the split between maiden, mother, and crone in yourself?• What stories have you inherited that no longer serve your becoming?• How might you speak back to the systems that once silenced you?Connect with Rosie:Photography Portfolio: www.rosiepeacock.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamrosiepeacockSubstack: https://iamrosiepeacock.substack.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/iamrosiepeacockTakeaway for Listeners:The witch wasn’t just burned. She was rewritten. And yet, her myth lives in your body, your blood, your remembering. Reclaiming her isn’t about playing a part—it’s about living a truth that was once forbidden. This episode is for the writers, the witches, the storytellers and sacred misfits who are ready to speak, not softly—but with flame.If this episode stirred something in you, please rate, share, and leave a review. That is a sacred part of the oral tradition, too. Let the algorithm know: these words matter.The myth is not over. We’re just beginning to rewrite it. Get full access to Walking The Wisdom Path at iamrosiepeacock.substack.com/subscribe

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• Microdose Episode: The Psychedelic Feminine: Archetype, Eros, and Embodied Wisdom

  Season 1, Episode 21The Psychedelic Feminine – Archetype, Eros, and Embodied WisdomWelcome back to The Wisdom Path Podcast. Today’s episode is a microdose — a short, unscripted drop-in where Rosie Peacock shares what’s alive in the moment.In this raw and resonant offering, Rosie opens up about the creation of The Psychedelic Feminine Oracle Deck and the deep medicine that inspired it: the archetype of the psychedelic feminine. Born at the crossroads of embodiment, altered states, and sacred femininity, this episode traces the edges of what it means to be fluid, wild, intuitive, cyclical, and to claim those states as sacred.This is not just a conversation about psychedelics or feminism. It is an invocation of the woman as oracle, as art, as mystic, as medicine.In This Episode, We Explore:• What the psychedelic feminine is – and why she resists neat definitions• The difference between transcendence and descent in spiritual paths• How feminine spirituality is rooted in the body, the bleed, and the earth• The wild, emotional, erotic, grief-soaked, and visionary nature of womanhood• Our cyclical nature through the lens of inner seasons and archetypal life phases• Why shame is not innate – and how the psychedelic feminine calls us to reclaim what has been suppressed• The link between oracle cards, symbolism, and embodied intuition• Behind the scenes of Rosie’s oracle deck and the Margate ceremony that opened it• An open invitation to be a muse for the deck (yes, you)Key Quotes:• “The feminine, when unconstrained by patriarchy, is a deeply psychedelic experience.”• “You are the medicine. We are all medicine women simply by being women.”• “Shame is not part of the psychedelic feminine. She is the antidote to shame.”• “This path is not linear. It’s poetic, paradoxical, and layered in metaphor.”• “To be in right relationship with our bodies is to return to deep self-trust and sovereignty.”Go Deeper Into the Psychedelic Feminine🌀 FREE Workshop – Awakening the Psychedelic Feminine: A free somatic journey, talk, and workshop exploring this sacred archetype in depth. Includes guided practices, storytelling, and ceremony.📸 Behind-the-Scenes Post – Womb Priestesses in Margate’s Mysterious Light: Go inside the oracle deck’s opening ceremony and learn how to become a free muse for this visionary project.Journal Prompts to Explore the Psychedelic Feminine Within:• Where in my life have I felt shame around my cyclical or emotional nature?• What would it mean to reclaim my bleed, my sexuality, or my sensuality as sacred?• What part of me feels wild, untamed, or uncomfortable and might actually be powerful?• How does my body already speak in metaphor, symbol, or dream?• What medicine lives in me, waiting to be remembered?Connect with Rosie:• Instagram• Substack• Facebook• The Wisdom-Keepers Collective (Facebook Group)Takeaway for Listeners:This episode is a sacred whisper from the deepest parts of your being. It reminds us that the feminine is not a box to fit into, but a wild, shifting landscape of sensation, symbolism, and soul.You are not too much. You are not too messy. You are not too emotional. You are medicine. And your sacred body is the oracle you’ve been waiting for. Get full access to Walking The Wisdom Path at iamrosiepeacock.substack.com/subscribe

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• Playing Her Part: Aphrodite and the Art of Being Worshipped

  Season 1, Episode 20Playing Her Part: Aphrodite and the Art of Being WorshippedWelcome back to The Wisdom Path Podcast. This episode is part of Playing Her Part, a special series where Rosie Peacock explores the sacred feminine through myth, embodiment, and archetypal storytelling.In this lush, magnetic chapter, Rosie guides us into the ocean-born realms of Aphrodite, not the softened goddess of romantic daydreams, but the sovereign seductress, the origin of Eros, and the creative flame behind all beauty, desire, and artistic longing.With mythic retellings, sacred symbolism, and poetic invocation, we remember Aphrodite as a force of fierce femininity: the one who doesn’t wait to be painted, but becomes the art itself.This episode is a full-bodied reclamation of sacred sensuality, creative magnetism, and unapologetic embodiment. Whether you’re an artist, a lover, a visionary, or a woman returning to herself, this is for you.In This Episode, We Explore:• Aphrodite’s seafoam origin and her rise from chaos, not romance• The mythic meaning behind her symbols: the mirror, rose, sea, apple, and girdle• Aphrodite as mother of Eros – the force of creation, not just Cupid’s arrow• Why Aphrodite is not soft love, but embodied longing, life-force and disruption• A cinematic retelling of Aphrodite appearing in a modern-day photography studio• The true nature of the muse archetype – and why Aphrodite doesn’t pose, she becomes• Rituals, embodiment practices, and visual direction for invoking Aphrodite in your art and life• Behind the scenes of Rosie’s photography pathways: The Muse, The Oracle, and The Priestess• A final poem: Aphrodite and Adonis – a myth of love, loss, and cyclical returnKey Quotes:• “Aphrodite doesn’t wait to be painted. She is the art.”• “Desire is not dangerous. It is divine.”• “To love something that will not last is a holy act.”• “She isn’t the muse in your gallery. She’s the ache that made you reach for the brush.”• “She doesn’t beg to be chosen. She chooses herself—and becomes magnetic.”Journal Prompts with Aphrodite as a Guide:Use these to explore your own sensuality, creativity, and power. Best explored during full moons, new moons, or during rites of self-devotion:• What parts of me have I been told are “too much,” but are actually my power?• What does true, sacred beauty feel like in my body?• Where have I been waiting to be seen, rather than claiming my own gaze?• What desires am I ready to honour—not as indulgence, but as divinity?• How does Aphrodite move through my creativity, my relationships, and my body?Other Episodes in the Playing Her Part Series:Episode 10: Playing Her Part - Reclaiming Lilith: Feminine Power, Sovereignty & the Myth of the First WomanEpisode 12 - “Persephone's Story: The Hunger for Wholeness”Episode 16: Reclaiming Hecate – The Torchbearer of TransformationReclaiming Inanna – The Descent, the Death, and the Return (coming soon)Connect with Rosie:Blog: https://www.rosiepeacock.com/blogPhotography Portfolio: www.rosiepeacockphotography.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamrosiepeacockSubstack: https://iamrosiepeacock.substack.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/iamrosiepeacockFacebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/wisdomkeeperscollectiveTakeaway for Listeners:This episode is a sacred call to reclaim your beauty, your longing, and your creative fire, not as performance, but as truth.Aphrodite is not soft, sweet love. She is the shimmer on your skin, the art in your bones, the ache that births beauty.She doesn’t wait to be loved. She loves herself into becoming. She doesn’t ask to be seen. She sees, deeply, clearly, wildly.If you’re feeling the stirrings of something more, something magnetic, something that says I want to be art, not just seen—this episode is your invitation.Thank you for walking this path with Rosie. May you remember that your sensuality is sacred, your longing is holy, and you were never meant to be a muse.You were meant to be the masterpiece.Let me know if you’d like a graphic version for Spotify, or snippets to use as pull quotes on Substack or Instagram! Get full access to Walking The Wisdom Path at iamrosiepeacock.substack.com/subscribe

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