What if almost everything we've been taught about civilization, motherhood, and even spirituality isn't the whole story?
In this conversation, HeatherAsh sits down with her longtime friend and bestselling author Perdita Finn to explore the ideas at the heart of her new book, Mothers of Magic. What begins as a conversation about mothers quickly becomes something much bigger.
Together they explore what humanity may have lost when we stopped living in relationship with the land, why no child was ever meant to be raised by just one mother, what our ancestors and beloved dead might still have to teach us, and how fierce love may be exactly what's needed in these times.
This isn't a conversation filled with easy answers. It's an invitation to question inherited stories, imagine a different future, and remember an older way of belonging.
Whether you leave inspired, challenged, or seeing the world through completely new eyes, this is an episode you'll be thinking about long after it ends.
In this episode, we explore:
- Why Perdita believes civilization itself changed the way humans relate to one another, the Earth, and women
- The forgotten wisdom of communal mothering and why no one was ever meant to have only one mother
- What it means to ask your ancestors and beloved dead for guidance, and why Perdita believes they always answer
- How prayer becomes a living relationship instead of a religious obligation
- The role of fierce love, righteous anger, and imagination in creating a different future
- Why healing isn't just personal. It's remembering our place within a much older story.
If you've ever felt like there's another way to live, love, grieve, pray, or belong that our culture has forgotten, this conversation offers a glimpse of what we might remember together.
About Perdita Finn
Perdita Finn is the author of Take Back the Magic: Conversations with the Unseen World, Mothers of Magic: Summoning the Wisdom of Our Ancestors, and with her husband Clark Strand The Way of the Rose: The Radical Path of the Divine Feminine Hidden in the Rosary. She teaches popular workshops on connecting and collaborating with both the dead and the animate everything. She lives with her family in the moss-filled shadows of the Catskill Mountains.
