On this New Moon in Scorpio episode, Laura reflects on the archetypal descent that mothers move through — the stripping away, the death, the surrender, and the eventual resurfacing.
As monsoon rains fall around her home in Thailand, she revisits My Octopus Teacher, the documentary that first mirrored her own death of the maiden five years ago.
Watching it again with her son becomes a portal into remembering, witnessing, and honouring the woman she was and the mother she has become.
Laura shares a poem received at 3am on a past Scorpio New Moon, written during a profound initiation into darkness, surrender, and rebirth.
She then offers a moving excerpt from her first-ever episode, The Wonder in My Wound, revisiting the moment she realised her maiden had died — a truth revealed to her through birth, grief, displacement, and deep waters of transformation.
This episode is a tender invitation to honour your own descents, to trust the depths, and to recognise that every cycle of dying holds the seeds of alchemy.
🌀 Topics Covered
🌑 New Moon in Scorpio – descent, stripping back, death and rebirth
🌑 The Octopus Archetype – witnessing the mother’s death through nature
🌑 Maiden to Mother – the energetic and archetypal death many mothers experience
🌑 A Poem from the Underworld – Laura reads her Scorpio New Moon poem: Surrendering to Her
🌑 Birth as Death – the moment she felt her life force leave her body
🌑 Grief, identity, displacement – postpartum unraveling in Greece during lockdown
🌑 Descent & Ascent Cycles – how women move through this rhythm monthly and through life
🌑 Your Story Matters – an invitation for listeners to share their own initiatory journeys
A raw, poetic, and mythic exploration of motherhood as initiation. Laura guides listeners through the dark waters of grief, identity death, and surrender — and into the alchemy and light that follow.
A devotional episode for women in transition, descent, or rebirth.
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