ÜBER DIESE EPISODE
There are moments after which you are technically still the same person, and yet you know you are not. The world carries on as though nothing has happened, while inside you there is a clear before and after.
And sometimes the advice to “move on” is wrong.
Maybe you are not stuck. Maybe you are unfinished, standing in the space between what ended and who you are becoming.
In this solo episode, I bring together my training in social anthropology and my work as a psychic medium to explore why human beings have always created ritual around death, loss, love and the moments that change who we are.
I explore Arnold van Gennep’s rites of passage and Victor Turner’s idea of liminality, why grief and transition live in the body, and what happens when life changes us without giving us a ritual, a witness or even the language to acknowledge what has happened.
We look at the transitions modern life often leaves invisible: divorce, miscarriage, estrangement, infertility, leaving a career, children leaving home and losing a version of the future you thought you were going to have.
I also explore fire, water, pilgrimage and the physical objects through which human beings make invisible change tangible; what modern spirituality can get wrong about ritual; and the small rituals that may already exist in your everyday life without you ever calling them sacred.
And I look at mediumship as a threshold ritual of its own. At its best, a reading is not about escaping this life for the spirit world. It should help us return more fully to the life we are here to live.
I close with a simple practice for marking a transition that still feels unfinished.
You don’t owe anyone a transformation before transformation has happened.
Maybe you’re not stuck. Maybe you’re unfinished.
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Lots of love,
Marta 🩷✨
