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Snake Priestess PodcastEpisode 15: The Serpent’s Wisdom: Grief, Death & Sacred Endings with Damascena TanisWelcome back to the Snake Priestess Podcast, where we meet with serpentine wisdom keepers to explore the deeper mysteries of snake medicine. In this episode, I sit down with the deeply soulful astrologer, priestess, and oracle Damascena Tanis. Together, we weave a powerful conversation around grief, endings, snake medicine, Venus cycles, and the ancient oracular path. Damascena shares her personal story of loss and the profound teachings that emerged through her journey as a mother, astrologer, and spiritual guide. 🎧 Listen Now to Discover How Snake Medicine Can Help You With Grief, Deat...2025-04-231h 01
Home to HerThe Paradox of the Goddess with Damascena TanisWhen we begin to learn about the Sacred Feminine, many of us quickly realize that She is much more than we have imagined Her to be - and that Her nature is fundamentally contradictory. As Damascena Tanis, my guest for this episode, says, to work with the Goddess is to be repeatedly invited into paradox. Damascena is a writer, astrologer, and a recently bereaved mother, living on the shores of Lake Erie with three earth bound children. She is currently learning how to be the mother of a child who has journeyed beyond the veil. She is also the...2023-12-261h 20
Siren: A podcast about sex and motherhoodEcstatic Grief & Mothering Beyond the VeilIn this episode, I speak with writer, astrologer, and recently bereaved mother Damascena Tanis.
Damascena lives on the shores of Lake Erie with her three earthbound children. Currently, Damascena is most involved with learning how to parent a fourth child who has journeyed beyond the veil. She writes about this journey, astrology, spirituality, and her messy human life on her popular website.
Damascena's writing has been a heart-opening resource for me since becoming a mother, including and especially anything she writes about her losing her son Tanner and the journey with grief.
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Tao of Po063: Grieving the Loss of a Son with Damascena TanisIn today’s episode, Damascena shares her powerful story of losing her son Tanner and all of the beautiful gifts she’s receiving as her relationship with him continues on the other side. She talks about the power of grief, moving it through the body, and how her own experience of suffering while holding space for Tanner as he experienced anxiety & drug addiction helped her cultivate a renewed strength in herself. Join us for this deeply moving story of loss and a look at how Damascena is riding the current of grief and allowing it to crack her w...2023-05-241h 21
MagdalenaVoices from the UnderworldIn this episode Winter speaks with Damascena Tanis about her experience of journeying into the underworld catalyzed through grief and loss (including the death of her son). We explore the pathways into this initiation of dissolution through external circumstance or conscious choice, how to naviage this descent and the creativity that can emerge from the fertile darkness. Damacena Tanis is the founder of The Planetary Priestess Mystery School, Ayurvedic Practitioner, childbirth doula & educator, astrologer, & lifelong apprenticeship with the deities of death, loss, longing, & grief. She is devoted to helping her students and clients awaken to the mystery of...2023-05-1754 minMagdalenaDeath as DeityIn this episode Winter speaks with writer, astrologer, and recently bereaved mother Damascena Tanis about her journey into the portal of death through the loss of her 22 year old son.“Grief expressed out loud, whether in or out of character, unchoreographed and honest, for someone we have lost, is in itself the greatest praise we could ever give them.Grief is praise, because it is the natural way love honors what it misses".Martin Practel- The Smell of Dust on Rain.You can find Damascena's work hereRedMoonRevival.orght...2023-04-1649 min
REDEpisode 42 - LIFE & DEATH, GRIEF & LOVEJoin Elayne Kalila alongside the amazing astrologer and priestess, Damesceana Tanis, as they travel through the mythic and human realms that make up our complex, beautiful, challenging lives.
With all the deep transits that have been happening collectively, we’re all being called to navigate a different landscape—internally and externally.
Some of what they dive into:
Saturn just moved to Pisces, Pluto to Aquarius.
These are heavy hitting planetary reconfigurations. Damescena gives us her unique and highly perceptive take on how we may experience this shift.
The power that grief has to transform and chang...2023-03-281h 04
The Architects of Destiny PodcastArchetypal Astrology with Damascena TanisDamascena Tanis is an Archetypal Astrologer, Ayurvedic Wellness Practitioner, Reiki Master, and Somatic Sound Healer, who helps the collective understand the Sky Dance of the Mandala Venus Cycle, and how it can help us embody the magical, collaborative, harmonic, creative, and sophisticated qualities of the Primordial Feminine. Damascena intimately studies the movements of the sky, and the stories they tell, to bring both wisdom and warnings to the collective, so that we may step forward into our Divinely-timed evolution as a unified consciousness.In this episode, Damascena helps us understand how the movements of the stars...2022-04-0643 min