Dream Weaver

(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.

✭ 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.

✭ 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

“All the world’s a stage. So...are you the actor, the director, or the writer of your Life story?”

IN THIS EPISODE:

• The concept of celebrating the beginning of a "new year" and whether there's a "correct" date

• A very brief look into astrology's role in current energy dynamics 

• The importance of mastering your personal dream language to navigate the wild waters of this world

• Year of the Wood Dragon and the mystical allure of dragons across cultures

• The numerological significance of the current year, focusing on the power of eight (2+0+2+4 = 8)

• How the number eight is constantly found in nature, such as with honeybees and our sun

• Contrasting perspectives on fear from being "awake" vs. "asleep"

• Egyptian dream symbolism and its insights into true wealth

• Distinguishing between darkness and shadow

• Dreaming of books that reveal hidden knowledge of our world

• When your dreams show up as threads in your waking life

• Speculation on the splitting of timelines and its implications—will some people get left behind?

• How to practice the most important skill of our time: discernment

• Addressing collective energies of "doom and gloom" and maintaining inner peace

• The “Agent Smith” syndrome and the illusion of control 

• Reflecting on your personal transformation through the metaphor of the butterfly and the moth

CONNECT WITH STELLA:

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

✭ Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@stella.porta⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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

✭ YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Stella Porta ⁠⁠⁠

✭ 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

"In my culture, when a lot of people are looking for a holistic approach in wellness and to manifest dreams, the Tao Master would look at the Feng Shui of their bedroom."

IN THIS EPISODE:

• Exploring Tiffany's encounter with Galactic Beings and uncovering her Starseed lineages

• Delving into past lives through the hypnagogic state (the realm between sleep and wakefulness)

• Tiffany's transformative journey from injured to empowered healer, with the help of a Lyran Star Being in the dream state

• Looking at nightmares through the lens of Chinese culture 

• The dreamscape as a training ground

• Three key components for protection in dreamtime and waking life

• Beyond "love and light" to righteous protection

• Demystifying dreamwork for those who aren't clairvoyant or visual

• Returning to ancient wisdom through dreamwork

• Altering dream content, including nightmares, through the environmental harmony of Feng Shui 

• Examining the significance of sleep spaces and their impact on dreaming and waking realities

• How your physical dream space (bedroom) influences your manifestations (i.e. desiring a life partner)

CONNECT WITH TIFFANY:

✭ Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.highpriestessascension.com

✭ YouTube: Tiffany Tin

✭ IG: @highpriestessascension

✭ If you are interested in Starseed lineages, here is a link to the first episode I did with Tiffany on a different podcast: listen here

CONNECT WITH STELLA:

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

✭ "Soul Flame" painting for your bedroom Feng Shui

✭ Instagram: ⁠⁠@stella.porta⁠⁠

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

✭ YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠⁠Stella Porta ⁠⁠

✭ Stella's ⁠Art⁠

✭ Intro & outro music by my love: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Justin Goncalves⁠⁠⁠⁠

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

Thank you for tuning into the first Dream Oracle Energy Report. This is a mini episode devoted to sharing the collective energies that are weaving their way through the unconscious. 

Let's talk about:

• The most recent seasonal turn in the wheel

• The thinning of the veil between the material and spiritual realms (even if some people say there isn’t a veil—I will touch on that!)

• Portals we create to negative realms through certain movies /shows /video games /books, techniques to handle dark entities and low vibe beings

• How to tell the difference between a visit from a high vibe (benevolent) being and a darker one

• The exact protection invocation I created and have been using these past few years

• Two crystals to enhance your protection at night that actually work

• Breaking down the meaning of “darkness”

• Activities to help you honour & celebrate the sacred dark

✭ ALSO: These mini episodes are lightly layered with a sound frequency of 528 hertz. This Solfeggio Frequency is the natural frequency or vibration of nature's divine, creative order. Known to stimulate love, heal your heart, restore equilibrium and heal DNA. Our DNA is our connection to the One Source. Over the last few decades, advanced scientific studies support this theory, something our ancient ancestors understood tens of thousands of years ago. ✭ 

CONNECT WITH STELLA:

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

✭ Instagram: ⁠⁠@stella.porta⁠⁠

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

✭ YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Stella Porta ⁠⁠⁠

✭ Intro, outro, & background 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

“At the end of it all, we are the Earth dreaming, and the Earth is dreaming us. Our lives are a reflection of the Earth's ongoing evolution and the intricate web of life on our planet. Our physical body is the vessel through which we dream; our ship that allows us to pass between these worlds.”

IN THIS EPISODE:

• Navigating seasons of death and rebirth, endings and beginnings 

• The life and mission of a Voidwalker Starseed Archetype (you can check for yours in the link below)

• Dreaming (and waking) magic during certain celestial alignments 

• How connecting with the Earth realm is essential for dreaming

• Working with the “mystic merlinite” crystal for dreamwork

• At the end of the episode, I answer the first voice message from a listener about traversing alternate realities in the dreamtime including those with past lovers

LINKS MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE:

✭ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Starseed Archetype Quiz⁠⁠ by Saoirse Clare

✭ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Book: ⁠⁠"Pathways of The Planets: How to Use the Magic of Transits"⁠⁠

CONNECT WITH STELLA:

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

✭ Instagram: ⁠⁠@stella.porta⁠⁠

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

✭ YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠⁠Stella Porta ⁠⁠

✭ 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

"It's the nature of the mind. Your mind is not bound to this world. It's a spaceship. It's like a time machine. The mind can go in the past, in the future, and different timelines."

IN THIS EPISODE:

• A rise in physically uncomfortable "ascension" symptoms

• The Aquarian Age: a period of self initiation

• Parallel versions of you amplify your true celestial nature whichever reality you are in

• Validating your waking oracle messages with your dreams

• The truth about the "imagination"

• Psychic gifts to photograph spirits

• Incarnating from the Angelic realm

• Travelling into dimensions that you may not be invited to

• Nikola Tesla's connection to his home planet

• The connection between starseeds and ADD/ADHD

• Demystifying astral projection

• Playing with lucidity while asleep and awake

CONNECT WITH ZOE:

✭ Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.etsy.com/ca/shop/ActivationsbyZoe

✭ YouTube: The Fold

✭ IG: @activationsbyzoe

✭ Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/ActivationsbyZoe

CONNECT WITH STELLA:

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

✭ Stella's video of a rainbow orb with an interdimensional being

✭ Instagram: ⁠⁠@stella.porta⁠⁠

✭ Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.honeywomb.com⁠

✭ YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠Stella Porta ⁠

✭ Stella's Art

✭ Intro & outro music by my love: ⁠⁠⁠⁠Justin Goncalves⁠⁠⁠

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

“There are portals all over the earth; in the oceans, forests, mountains, pyramids…and it’s a matter of re-membering our connection, our keys, to access these halfway points between worlds. These types of dreams offer us that chance.”

We’re going to take the path of the stars to understand how portals influence us here on Earth and how we access them in sleep and wake.

IN THIS EPISODE:

• Portals on Earth and in the stars (including our Sun)

• Accessing a portal within a dream

• How to use the Sun as a portal for healing

• Finding certain stars that are portals for psychic energy

• Using your Local Sidereal time to enhance psychic dreams, intuition, and extra sensory perceptions by 200-400%

• Magnify any psychic, divinatory, intuitive connections at a certain time of day with a gateway of cosmic energy from the Galactic Core

• How the stars act as portals of energy for our civilization and affect our dream experiences as a result

• A quick practice using images as a portal or gateway into another world

• An encounter with inter-dimensional border control agents in the dreamscape

CONNECT WITH STELLA:

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

✭ Local Sidereal Time app

✭ Instagram: ⁠⁠@stella.porta⁠⁠

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

✭ TikTok: ⁠⁠@stella.porta⁠⁠

✭ YouTube: ⁠⁠Stella Porta 

✭ Intro & outro music by my love: ⁠⁠⁠Justin Goncalves⁠⁠

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

"These people may have been connected to us in some way on Earth, but they were also souls having a human experience exactly like we are now. When they pass on, they have their own soul’s dreams to follow instead of sitting around watching us live ours."

IN THIS EPISODE:

• Dreams are the doorways the departed easily communicate through

• Meetings with the dead

• Concepts of "time" with those who have crossed over

• What the dead showed me

• Interpreting interactions with the departed

• Some reasons the dead come knocking 

CONNECT WITH STELLA:

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

✭ Instagram: ⁠@stella.porta⁠

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

✭ Intro & outro music by my love: ⁠Justin Goncalves⁠

✭ TikTok: ⁠@stella.porta⁠

✭ YouTube: ⁠Stella Porta 

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

“Priestesses at the temple of Apollo, burned and chewed laurel leaves in the night to inspire dreams of divination, enhance intuitive insight, and receive clairvoyant visions for the Delphi Oracle. This magical plant permits you access to dive deeper into the land of dreams."

IN THIS EPISODE:

• Dreamwork as a practice

• How to structure the most important book you will ever write: what I call your "book of mirrors"

• Crystals, herbs, and flower essences to help you dream deeper

• Remedies for nightmares and bad dreams

• My personal protection invocation/prayer for before, during, and after sleep

• Tips for dream recall and breaking a dream drought

• Strange phenomena in the middle of the night 

CONNECT WITH STELLA:

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

✭ Instagram: ⁠@stella.porta⁠

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

✭ Intro & outro music by my love: Justin Goncalves

✭ TikTok: @stella.porta

✭ YouTube: Stella Porta 

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

“Your dream language will be different than anyone else’s. No book of dream definitions will be the same for everyone. In fact, donate those books to a thrift store and start to learn your own language because energy speaks and you are energy. Your dreams are speaking to you. All you need to do is learn the code.”

IN THIS EPISODE:

• How to use your dreams as an oracle

• Stella’s four types of dreams: Purely Intuitive Messages (through symbolism), Memory Retrieval, Dimensional Travel, and Reflection

• Dreaming of a past life from Earth or another galaxy

• Convening with ancestors, star beings, etc., at the "meeting point"

• Oneiromancy: a form of divination based upon dreams

• "Rehearsal" dreams to show you a potentially dangerous future

• Speaking an unknown language in a dream

CONNECT WITH STELLA:

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

✭ Instagram: ⁠@stella.porta⁠

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

✭ Intro & outro music by my love: Justin Goncalves

✭ TikTok: @stella.porta

✭ YouTube: Stella Porta 

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

“Ancient Egyptians actually called sleep, “the little death”, because in the dream state we have no physical body just like when we die. These wise ancients understood that in dreams, our eyes are opened. Their word for dream, "rswt", is connected to the root meaning of “to be awake”. It was written with a symbol representing an open eye..."

IN THIS EPISODE:

• Using dreams to access the secrets of the Universe

• Exploring the nature of dreams through the eyes of ancient civilizations and indigenous cultures, including:  the Aboriginals of Australia, the Sonenekuiñaji from the Peruvian Amazon, the Chipewyan people of Northern Canada, the East Cree people, the Achuar People from the Peruvian Amazon, the ancient Egyptians, and Synesius of Cyrene

• Communicating with animal spirits while sleeping

• Kairomancy: "divination by special moments"

• Sleep is "the little death"

• The role of imagination 

• Oracles of night and day

• The magic of “liminal” dreaming

If you want to share your own beliefs and traditions with dreams and the dreamtime, please send in a voice message to be featured in a future episode: https://anchor.fm/dreamweaverpodcast/message

CONNECT WITH STELLA:

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

✭ Instagram: @stella.porta

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

✭ Intro & outro music by my love: Justin Goncalves

✭ TikTok: @stella.porta

✭ YouTube: Stella Porta 

If you want to share your own beliefs and traditions with dreams and the dreamtime, please send in a voice message to be featured in a future episode: ⁠https://anchor.fm/dreamweaverpodcast/message

“We are the weavers of our reality, connecting the threads of: our waking mind with the dreaming mind, the conditioned self with the Original self, the visible with the invisible, the conscious with the unconscious. This is the cosmic web.”

IN THIS EPISODE:

• Dreams as dimensional access points to consciousness 

• The Spirit of the Spider

• Intentions behind this podcast

• The web of Consciousness (the dream weave)

• Storytelling as a portal to other states of awareness

CONNECT WITH STELLA:

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

✭ Instagram: @stella.porta

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

✭ Intro & outro music by my love: Justin Goncalves

✭ TikTok: @stella.porta

✭ YouTube: Stella Porta 

Society conditions the magic out of what they don’t understand or can't explain. This includes our dreams. However, the waking life and the dream life are synonymous; they are mirrors of each other. Acting as different dimensional access points to your experience on this planet, they serve as windows into the lives of our multidimensional, multiversal selves.

CONNECT WITH STELLA:

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

✭ Instagram: ⁠@stella.porta⁠

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

✭ Intro & outro music by my love: Justin Goncalves

✭ TikTok: @stella.porta

✭ YouTube: Stella Porta 

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