How to Descend and Rise into your Power with Carly Mountain

Wild Flow with Charlotte Pointeaux

Descending into the underworld is the stuff of powerful myths, where demons and monsters dwell in the shadows. But whether myths and monsters are real or not, they serve a profound purpose, to make meaning of the human experience, to explain what isn’t easily understood, and to help humans across time, space and place to find threads of connection in the unknown. Myths stand the test of time, still highly relevant to us in the modern era, as much as to ancient peoples, providing a map and compass for each generation to navigate the depths of the psyche through initiations, travails, dark nights of the soul, and transformations.

Todays guest Carly Mountain knows myth and what’s involved to descend into the depths of the underworld where we face our darkest shadows and tallest hurdles, having discovered and recognised her and many others own life stories mirroring the great ancient myth of Inanna, Queen of heaven and earth who descended to the underworld to meet her sister Ereskigal, Queen of the Underworld after sacrificing all that she knew about herself and the world she inhabited, only to be struck dead immediately by her sister.

By working with this incredible myth and exploring the power, healing and liberation that becomes available to us when we recognise our own calls to surrender what’s ready to die in our own lives, Carly maps out in her new book Descend and Rising how we can follow Inanna’s story to make meaning of our own descents and initiations, and to powerfully rise into our power and truest selves.

After working with the Inanna myth myself for some time, I loved reading Carly’s book, and am thrilled to have been able to chat with Carly for Wild Flow. In this episode we mused on:

1. What a descent is, what it looks and feels like in real life, and how we might recognise when we are in a descent cycle of our own.
2. How to work with the seven gates as path into the proverbial underworld, that reside energetically in our body, and why rooting down into our body and the earth is the embodied way to heal rather than to transcend to enlightenment,
3. How we can reckon with our internalised Patriarchy, and release stories, traumas, old conditioning that stops us from growth and healing,
4. The Dark feminine that lives within us: who she is; why she exists, and what she can teach us about ourselves and the world around us,
5. The split between the Masculine and Feminine, and how to reconcile it,
6. How each and every menstrual cycle and menopause are a descent and rising in its own right,
7. What it takes to rise, what needs to be left behind in the Un

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Charlotte xxx