(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

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

CONNECT WITH STELLA:

✭ Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@stella.porta⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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

✭ Intro & outro music by my love: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Justin Goncalves⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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 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

CONNECT WITH JULIE:

✭ Website: www.femininealchemyst.com

✭ Podcast: Feminine Alchemy

✭ Instagram: @astrologicalattorney

✭ Personal Website: www.astrologicalattorney.com

Journey through the potent symbols of the honeybee, mare, and bull—each representing unique aspects of feminine power, freedom, and sustenance. I share how the honeybees claimed me; opening a path to wisdom held by the Melissae bee priestesses and the Delphic oracles, and revealing honeybees as spiritual messengers connecting the physical and ethereal realms. Together, we’ll explore the entwined symbolism of bees, womb cycles, and feminine rhythms, including their cosmic ties to the Pleiades and Artemis, the revered Queen Bee of ancient myth.

We delve into the transformative power of the serpent as a sacred feminine symbol, a creature interwoven with honeybees in myth and dreamwork. The mare, too, holds her place as a symbol of wild, untamed intuition and prophetic strength. A symbol, like the female bull, once celebrated for her role in fertility and sustenance but later restrained under patriarchal structures.

Through myth, animism, and ancient goddess traditions—from Demeter and Rhea to Artemis and Cybele—we’ll trace the rich lineage of reverence that honored these animals as embodiments of life cycles and the wild, sacred feminine. We’ll also confront the impact of patriarchal distortions on these symbols, reclaiming their ancient power and exploring what it means to re-wild the spirit, tapping into the archetype of the wild woman.

✭ NEW masterclass: ⁠Oracles of the Earth: Tracing The Lineages of Nectar & Scales

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

✭ Dreamwork courses, classes, & workshops: ⁠https://www.honeywomb.com/dreamwork

✭ Stella's ⁠colony collapse reel ⁠

CONNECT WITH STELLA:

✭ Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@stella.porta⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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

✭ Intro & outro music by my love: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Justin Goncalves⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

If you want to share your own experiences in the dreamtime or have a question or two, please send in a voice message to be featured in a future episode: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://anchor.fm/dreamweaverpodcast/message⁠⁠⁠⁠