(Originally aired on Weaving the Wild Podcast)

In this crossover episode, Stella joins Rachel Hodgins for an unhurried conversation about womb oracle dreaming, animistic ways of knowing, and the intelligence that moves through dreams, land, and the body.

This isn’t an episode about decoding symbols or assigning meanings. It’s about changing how we understand what dreaming actually is.

Stella speaks about the womb as a site of perception, how dreamwork dissolves the separation between night and day, and why intuition isn’t something to access or activate, but something that becomes reliable when it’s rooted in the body rather than the mind.

She also explores the historical suppression of women’s dreaming, the fear of feminine oracular authority, and what it looks like to remember these practices in grounded, lived ways.

Topics include:

• Womb oracle dreaming and embodied knowing

• Animistic dreaming and the dream weave

• Dreams as something to respond to, not interpret

• The relationship between dreaming and aligned action

• Working with dreams even when recall is inconsistent

• The long suppression of women’s dream authority

• How dreams shape waking life

This is a layered, spacious conversation, best listened to slowly.

✭ NEW: Jan 24, 2026 • Live on Zoom: ⁠⁠⁠She Dreams with Wolves⁠⁠⁠

CONNECT WITH STELLA:

✭ Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@stella.porta⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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

✭ Intro & outro music by: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Justin Goncalves⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

✭ Substack: ⁠⁠⁠The Herstory Archive⁠⁠⁠

CONNECT WITH RACHEL:

✭ Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠ www.rachelhodgens.com

✭ Podcast: ⁠⁠Weaving the Wild

✭ Instagram: ⁠@therachelhodgens

Rachel Hodgins weaves earth reverence, womb wisdom, and cyclical living, inviting women back into deep relationship with their bodies, blood, and the living world. Through her podcast Weaving the Wild, along with intimate 1:1 spaces and group containers, she works with women to re-member feminine consciousness and reconnect with the animate world we belong to.

(Originally aired on The Metaphysical Gravity Podcast)

In this eye-opening episode, Stella joins Erin Gunzelman to share how dreams are far more than random fragments of the subconscious. They are living oracles that can guide creativity, business, and even save a life.

Stella traces her path from working in the criminal courts to becoming a yoga teacher and eventually a dream educator, guided all along by synchronicities and encounters with animal allies like snakes, bees, wolves, and even crocodiles. She reveals the practices of animistic dreaming, the hypnagogic state, and womb-based approaches that show dreams as portals, technologies, and maps for life.

Topics covered include:

• Dreams as personal oracles and maps for healing, creativity, and direction

• Animistic dreaming and the hypnagogic state as a gateway to manifesting reality

• The role of synchronicities ("oracles of the day") in validating dream truths

• Womb dreaming, dream portals, and the non-linear language of dreams

• How dreams can guide business growth, money healing, and aligned decision-making

• Stella’s personal story of dreams that saved her husband’s life by alerting her to his low blood sugar

• The ancient bond between women, bees, and serpents in prophecy and healing traditions

• Why tending to dreamwork over time reveals long arcs and patterns that can't be seen in isolated fragments

This episode bridges ancient wisdom with lived practice, showing how dreams are not just noise of the subconscious but living oracles of healing, prophecy, and creation.

✭ The Hive & The Womb: A Doorway to Dreaming Masterclass:

⁠www.honeywomb.com/hiveandwomb⁠

✭ Masterclass about the herstory of the bee and serpent priestesses: Oracles of the Earth: Tracing The Lineages of Nectar & Scales

✭ NEW: Jan 24, 2026 live online: ⁠⁠She Dreams with Wolves⁠⁠

CONNECT WITH STELLA:

✭ Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@stella.porta⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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

✭ Intro & outro music by my love: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Justin Goncalves⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

✭ Substack: ⁠⁠The Herstory Archive⁠⁠

CONNECT WITH ERIN:

✭ Website: ⁠stan.store/eringunzelman⁠

✭ Podcast: ⁠The Metaphysical Gravity

✭ Instagram: @erin.gunzelman

(Originally aired on The Feminine Alchemy Podcast)

In this powerful episode, Stella Porta joins Julie Dean Richards to explore the ancient roots and embodied practice of oracular dreamwork through the lens of the feminine.

Stella shares the origin story behind her dream practice, weaving her lifelong relationship with dreams into a grounded, animistic path of remembrance. Together, they explore how dreams are not just subconscious fragments but messages, oracles, and creative seeds that shape our waking reality when tended with intention.

Topics covered include:

• What dreamwork really is and how it differs from modern interpretations

• The practice of animistic dreaming: how to dream with the land, the womb, the bees, and ancient priestesses

• Why Melissae means "bee" in Greek and how the Melissae were bee and serpent priestesses of the oracle at Delphi

• The connection between the bee, the serpent, the womb, and dream prophecy across goddess traditions

• How ancient oracles like the Pythia channeled prophecy through the womb, not the crown

• What it means to dream from the womb

• The return of dream weaving as a divine skill and collective healing

• Why the symbol of the hexagon offers a portal for protection, insight, and feminine alchemy

This episode is rich with myth, history, and tangible practice. Whether you’re new to dreamwork or deep in your own initiatory journey, Stella’s wisdom will leave you seeing dreams—and your own body—in a whole new light.

✭ NEW: Jan 24, 2026 live online: ⁠⁠⁠⁠She Dreams with Wolves⁠⁠⁠⁠

✭ Masterclass about the herstory of the bee and serpent priestesses: ⁠Oracles of the Earth: Tracing The Lineages of Nectar & Scales

✭ The Hive & The Womb: A Doorway to Dreaming Masterclass:

www.honeywomb.com/hiveandwomb

✭ My FREE guide to symbols of the Sacred Feminine: ⁠⁠www.honeywomb.com/symbols-guide⁠⁠

CONNECT WITH STELLA:

✭ Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@stella.porta⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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

✭ Intro & outro music by my love: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Justin Goncalves⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

✭ Substack: ⁠The Herstory Archive⁠

CONNECT WITH JULIE:

✭ Website: www.femininealchemyst.com

✭ Podcast: Feminine Alchemy

✭ Instagram: @astrologicalattorney

✭ Personal Website: www.astrologicalattorney.com