The Secret Witch Show

On the Secret Witch Show today, our guest is James Moran. James is an author, artist, and professional archetypal astrologer. He utilises archetypal astrology to help people make sense of what they've been through, understand the strengths that want to come from their challenges, and anticipate the themes and rhythm of growth ahead - all while helping people connect with the unity of all life. Having studied with the pioneering psychedelic researcher Dr. Stanislav Grof, James began an adventure of growth that led him to spend several years living in India. Eventually encountering archetypal astrology, he began studying directly under Richard Tarnas, and realised that his entire life he had been searching for a language to describe reality at its depth. He now utilises archetypal astrology to illuminate the interior depths of the human experience.
In this episode, we explore what archetypal astrology really is - not as prediction, reassurance, or quick-fix spirituality, but as a profound language of meaning and a map to the psyche. We speak about how archetypal astrology helps us understand why we've been through what we've been through, how difficult periods can be experienced as initiations rather than personal failure, and how we can consciously participate in the rhythms and cycles shaping our lives. We explore the relationship between astrology and the psyche, planetary archetypes as living psychological forces, and how reconnecting with these patterns can support healing, agency, and soul expansion. This conversation is a grounded, soulful exploration of how to meet life with deeper understanding, integrity, and trust in the intelligence of the path we're walking.
What You'll Learn from this Episode:
Our most painful life chapters aren't mistakes - they are archetypal initiations, carrying the very strengths and gifts we came here to reclaim

Archetypal Astrology is not about prediction or certainty, but about restoring meaning - helping us understand why our lives unfolded the way they did and what is trying to be born through it

The birth chart is not fate - it is a mirror of our psyche and soul, revealing core tensions that become sources of power when we consciously integrate them

Wounds are not personal failures, but archetypal experiences - when we step to the other side of them, they dissolve isolation and reconnect us to our shared humanity and gifts

Pluto, the underworld archetype, offers an insight into the Witch - illuminating why shame, secrecy, and fear often guard our deepest magic - and how descent is the pathway to transformation and reclaimed power

Working with planetary cycles and lunar rhythms helps us move with life's intelligence rather than against it - turning chaos into coherence and initiation into agency

Resources and Things that We Spoke About:
James's Links:

James's Website and free Tense Alignments Chart - https://jamesmoran.org/ 

James's Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/astrologyjames/ 

James's Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/JamesMoranArtistAstrologer/ 

Secret Witch Links:

Join our Secret Witch's Apothecary Membership: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/membership 

Social:

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/nicoleamandabarton 

Facebook Group - Secret Witch Sisterhood: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch 

Instagram - @iamnicolebarton

Instagram - @archetypalapothecary

You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety

Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary

Free Moonlit Apothecary Love Letters: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/moonlitapothecary 

Resources:

Cosmos and Psyche - Richard Tamas - https://cosmosandpsyche.com/ 

How to Know if Magic is Real - Dean Radin - (https://www.nicolebarton.co.uk/secret-witch-podcast/episode-43


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On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole is exploring the deeper truth of self-love - not the fluffy, bubble-bath version we see everywhere in February, but the raw, often uncomfortable, Rosa-coded kind that meets us right in the places we feel unlovable. Speaking to the Secret Witch who keeps pushing through her tight-chested tension, armouring herself in capability, and abandoning her own needs in fear of disappointing others, she invites us to notice where we've been living as a closed bud - braced, tense, performing 'I'm fine' - instead of softening open into the tenderness our magic actually requires.
In this episode we explore why self-love isn't a luxury but the foundation of a Witch's power; how the 'Archetypal Rosa' wound compels us to override our bodies and earn love through self-abandonment; and the real, embodied moment Nicole chose differently - cancelling her day, offering herself softness, and risking being 'too much' or 'not enough' in order to come back home to herself. This is a gentle and powerful invitation into wholeness - into welcoming all parts of ourselves, tending our shadow with love, and remembering the power we keep forgetting we already have.

What You'll Learn from this Episode:
Self-love isn't superficial - it's the foundation of a Witch's magic, the inner relationship that makes everything else in our lives possible.

The Rosa wound is the pattern that makes Secret Witches override their needs, perform capability, and earn love through self-abandonment - even as their bodies whisper for softness.

Wholeness isn't perfection; it is the radical act of welcoming all of ourselves home - shadow, fear, doubt and tenderness included.

The moment we soften instead of armour, choosing our needs even when it feels undeserved, is the moment our inner Rosa begins to bloom.

Practical self-love is both the deep inner work of meeting ourselves in shame and the tender rituals of devotion - tiny acts of beauty, presence and self-honouring.

When a Secret Witch chooses to love herself in the exact place she once abandoned herself, her power strengthens, her magic opens, and she becomes truly unstoppable.

Resources and Things that We Spoke About:
Join our Apothecary Membership to journey with Rosa healing: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/membership> 

Social:

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/nicoleamandabarton 

Facebook Group - Secret Witch Sisterhood: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch 

Instagram - @iamnicolebarton

Instagram - @archetypalapothecary

You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety

Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary

Free Moonlit Apothecary Love Letters: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/moonlitapothecary 

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On the Secret Witch Show today our guest is Sara Fakih. Sara's work is an invitation to remember - to come home to the body, to emotion as power, and to the truth that lives beneath survival and self-sabotage. Through trauma-informed somatic practices, body–mind maturation coaching, and movement rooted in yoga and dance, she guides women into deeper embodiment, emotional freedom, and nervous system repair. A freedom explorer and rule-breaker at heart, Sara weaves ancient wisdom with modern somatic intelligence - empowering women to reclaim their voice, purpose, and wild feminine essence through womb reconnection, ancestral healing, and embodied remembrance.
In this episode, we explore what it really means to listen to your body - not as a surface-level somatic trend, but as a courageous descent into the truth that lives beneath survival, suppression and self-sabotage. Sara shares how the body holds our wild emotions, our ancestral memory, and the younger parts of us that learned to survive through shutdown, people-pleasing or rebellion. We speak about the paradox of wanting power and being terrified of it, how rage protects heartbreak, why numbness is a sensation worth honouring, and how our patterns of self-sabotage, procrastination and resignation are invitations into deeper liberation. This conversation is a raw, honest, embodied journey into creating internal safety, meeting your trauma with compassion, and reclaiming the wild feminine power that has always been yours.
What You'll Learn from this Episode:
Our deepest resignation and "I don't want to be here" moments are portals - the very places that reveal the gold we're here to reclaim

Somatic safety isn't found by chasing calm - it's created by turning toward the sensations we fear, the contractions, the shakes, the numbness

The survival mind isn't truth - it is inherited conditioning, ancestral memory, and old protection strategies that once saved us and now sabotage us

Wild feminine emotion - especially rage - is power: a sacred force that protects heartbreak, cuts through illusion, and awakens authentic boundaries

Suppression shows up in patterns: self-sabotage, procrastination, resentment, people-pleasing - each one is a doorway into deeper liberation

Coming home to the body is coming home to power - when we stop outsourcing safety and learn to be with what arises, we alchemise trauma into truth and return to our gold.

Resources and Things that We Spoke About:
Sara's Links:

Sara's Website - www.sarafakih.com 

Sara's Instagram - @Sara_fakih

Sambaddha  - 4 month Somatic Certification - https://www.sarafakih.com/sambaddha 

Reclamation - 5 week Reclamation - https://www.sarafakih.com/reclamation-1 

UnTamed - Membership for Untamed Women - https://www.sarafakih.com/untamed-membership 

Our Links:

Vision your 2026 the Witch's Way - Join our Apothecary Membership: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/membership 

Social:

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/nicoleamandabarton 

Facebook Group - Secret Witch Sisterhood: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch 

Instagram - @iamnicolebarton

Instagram - @archetypalapothecary

You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety

Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary

Free Moonlit Apothecary Love Letters: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/moonlitapothecary 


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Happy New Year witches! A huge welcome back to the show! This new Year is feeling powerful - and, if you're a Witch into manifesting magic - aka creating your magical life - then I want to share and invite you to our free taster event coming up this Thursday. I'll be leading circle in our Meet your Witch ceremony - if you've enjoyed listening to the show, and you're feeling called by some strange pull to taking the tender first steps with your Witch, I invite you to join us in this heart-opening ceremony where you'll begin to open to your heart's deeper vision.  Which is very apt for today's show - you can join us at https://meetyourwitch.eventbrite.co.uk/ - claim your free ticket and step into 2026 from your Witchy power! And yes, there's a replay so we will send that if you can't join live.
On the Secret Witch Show today, Nicole opens the New Year with a deep, magical exploration of what it truly means to create a vision from soul rather than strategy. She speaks to the Secret Witch who longs for manifestation yet fears it, who has learned to either hustle or rebel, who wants to step into her Creatrix power but feels blocked by doubt, burnout, resistance or confusion about what she even desires. Nicole invites us into a different way of creating - one rooted in the Feminine, in 'feeling' rather than 'thinking', and in allowing our hearts to reveal the woman we long to become.
In this episode we explore why strategic visioning often collapses our magic, how the Witch can find the 'Third Way' beyond push-or-collapse, and why soul visions feel impossible, terrifying and wildly honest. Nicole shares the personal initiations that shaped her own vision - including withdrawing her daughter from school, and recreating her entire life around creating a soul-business and soul-led homeschooling - a dream that once felt utterly impossible. Through story and deeper teachings of the laws of manifestation, she guides you toward opening your heart, illuminating your resistance, and beginning to discover the soul vision held quietly in the fabric of your cells.
What You'll Learn from this Episode:
A soul vision can only be accessed through feeling, embodiment and the heart - not through thinking, strategy or the logical Masculine "what do I want?" approach

The Witch's true creative power emerges when she moves beyond both poles of hustling /forcing and collapsing/rebelling — and enters the 'Third Way' of soul-led creation

Manifestation is not about figuring out the HOW, it's about holding a heart-led, impossible-feeling vision while tending the wounds and shadows that pull us away from it

We are always creating - but without a soul vision, we unconsciously create from wounding, fear, doubt and the unmet needs of our inner little girl

A true soul vision will feel confronting, unrealistic or even terrifying, because it reveals the deeper truth of who we are and calls us into our power and possibility

Soul creation requires vulnerability and courage - the willingness to trust the mystery, meet resistance honestly, and take aligned action even when the path feels impossible or unclear - but it's worth it!

Resources and Things that We Spoke About:
Our Links:

Join our Apothecary Membership for the Witch's Vision workshop: Manifest a Magical 2026 (Jan 22nd): www.nicolebarton.co.uk/membership 

Claim your space at our free Meet your Witch Taster Event (Jan 15th): https://meetyourwitch.eventbrite.co.uk/ 

Social:

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/nicoleamandabarton 

Facebook Group - Secret Witch Sisterhood: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch 

Instagram - @iamnicolebarton

Instagram - @archetypalapothecary

You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety

Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary

Free Moonlit Apothecary Love Letters: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/moonlitapothecary 

Thank you for listening, we'd love to know what comes alive for you in this week's episode, so please let us know.


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Thank you,
Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox

On the Secret Witch Show today our guest is Molly-Anne Chinner. Born from the fairytale landscapes of South West England, Molly is a British sound healer, vocalist, multidimensional musician and founder of The Tone Temple - a growing sanctuary for crystalline sound, practitioner training, and ethically sourced alchemy instruments. Molly's work bridges crystalline sound, devotional voicework, earth magic, and esoteric teachings, guiding students into the deeper currents of sonic alchemy, crystalline resonance, sacred geometry, light body activation, and the art of holding transformational healing spaces with integrity, skill and soul. Molly's creations all carry the same devotion: to awaken remembrance, to restore coherence, and to re-weave our connection to both the Earth beneath our feet and our ancestry in the stars.
In this episode, we explore Clear Quartz as both an archetypal remedy and a healing frequency, diving into the deeper currents of sonic alchemy through Molly's lens - from crystalline resonance and sympathetic vibration to the way sound interacts with our bones, cells and the 'crystalline matrix' within us. Molly shares how Clear Quartz reflects the whole cosmic pattern of the universe, how our bodies recognise crystal sound as 'like meets like', and why intention is the true foundation of frequency healing. Exploring the work of Dr Emoto and Veda Austin, revealing how sound, and intention create crystalline coherence in both water and the body, we speak about the unstruck sound within the heart, the soul-song each of us carries, the star-wisdom encoded in our bodies, and the invitation to return to rest and stillness so we can hear the music beneath the noise. This conversation is a remembrance of coherence, belonging, and the truth that we are not separate from the great symphony of the cosmos.
What You'll Learn from this Episode:
We are made of light and sound - at subatomic levels, the body is a field of vibration constantly moving, shifting and singing

Clear Quartz holds a crystalline matrix that reflects the entire cosmic pattern - a fractal of the universe encoded in mineral form

Our bones carry silica, which creates sympathetic resonance with crystal bowls - allowing our bodies to 'recognise' and embody their sound

Pure intention creates coherence - demonstrated through the cymatic work of Dr. Emoto and Veda Austin, where sound and prayer shape crystalline structure

Stillness and silence are essential for hearing the 'unstruck sound' of the heart - the deeper, eternal music beneath the mind

Each of us carries a unique soul-song - a personal note in the great cosmic symphony that guides our belonging, coherence and healing.

Resources and Things that We Spoke About:
Molly's Links:

Website - www.mollyannechinner.com  

Instagram - www.instagram.com/mollyannemusic  

Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@mollyannechinner

Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/artist/5ICIKPh9rUz9UwBioCezzn?si=p5zT87neSLGPmn6_2UYuyw

iTunes - https://music.apple.com/ca/artist/molly-anne-chinner/1688027006

Frequency of Light course - https://www.mollyannechinner.com/courses 

Tone Temple crystal sonic shop - https://www.mollyannechinner.com/category/all-products 

Our Links:

To journey with Archetypal Clear Quartz, join our Apothecary Membership: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/membership

Social:

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/nicoleamandabarton 

Facebook Group - Secret Witch Sisterhood: www.facebook.com/groups/secretwitch 

Instagram - @iamnicolebarton

Instagram - @archetypalapothecary

You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/@secretwitchsociety

Tiktok - @archetypalapothecary

Free Moonlit Apothecary Love Letters: www.nicolebarton.co.uk/moonlitapothecary 

Resources:

Veda Austin podcast - https://www.vedaaustin.com/podcasts

Anne Malone - teacher

Sophie Neville - teacher

Thank you for listening, we'd love to know what comes alive for you in this week's episode, so please let us know.
 
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Thank you,
Nicole and Team Secret Witch xox