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The Vital Goddess

The Vital Goddess

Dianne Shepherd 254 Episodes Oct 9, 2026

The Vital Goddess Podcast is a sensual, soulful space for midlife women who feel the call to come home to their bodies. Through embodiment practices, sacred feminine wisdom, Taoist and Tantric teachings, and intimate reflections, each episode invites you out of the thinking mind and into the living intelligence of your body. This is a place to soften, remember your pleasure, reclaim your power, and explore what it truly means to live from embodied love, radiance, and desire—on your own terms.

Episodes

The Reclamation of the Feminine—Venus Retrograde • Embodied Power • Libra New Moon
The Reclamation of the Feminine—Venus Retrograde • Embodied Power • Libra New Moon Oct 9, 2026 1604 As the Libra New Moon arrives amid a powerful Venus retrograde in Scorpio, we're being invited into a deeper conversation about love, beauty, desire, justice, and our relationship with power.And perhaps most importantly, what it means to reclaim the feminine—not simply as an idea or ideal, but as a living, embodied experience.In this episode of the Vital Goddess Podcast, we explore the shadow
Reclaiming Aphrodite at Midlife—Venus Favors the Bold
Reclaiming Aphrodite at Midlife—Venus Favors the Bold Sep 25, 2026 1052 What if midlife isn’t the fading of our Venusian nature—but an initiation into its deepest, truest and freest expression?In this solo episode, Dianne explores Reclaiming Aphrodite at Midlife, inspired by the current astrology: the Venusian threshold of the Libra Equinox, a bold and fiery Aries Full Moon, Neptune’s invitation into surrender and embodied Love, and Venus moving through the passionate
The House of Becoming — Beauty, Home & the Sacred with Paula Agudelo
The House of Becoming — Beauty, Home & the Sacred with Paula Agudelo Sep 18, 2026 2765 What if your home wasn't simply the place where you lived…but a living reflection of who you are—and who you are becoming?In this beautiful conversation, I’m joined by sacred interior designer, spiritual business mentor, and self-described “house therapist” Paula Agudelo for an exploration of the soul of our spaces—and the profound ways our homes can support our healing, pleasure, creativity
The Lost Art of Self-Devotion — Pleasure, Nourishment & the Initiation of Midlife with Jenny Glick
The Lost Art of Self-Devotion — Pleasure, Nourishment & the Initiation of Midlife with Jenny Glick Sep 11, 2026 2517 What if caring for yourself wasn’t another thing to accomplish…but an act of devotion?This week on the Vital Goddess Podcast, I’m joined by the magnificent Jenny Glick for a rich and delicious conversation about pleasure, nourishment, marriage, midlife—and the lost art of becoming deeply devoted to ourselves.Jenny has spent more than 25 years guiding women and couples toward richer, more resonant
Pearl Wisdom & Devotional Bliss Under the Pisces Eclipse
Pearl Wisdom & Devotional Bliss Under the Pisces Eclipse Aug 21, 2026 1246 There is a powerful Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Pisces inviting us to release the mind from having to know the way—and surrender into a deeper kind of intelligence.Bliss intelligence.With the Sun, Mercury and South Node gathered in Virgo and Uranus in Gemini creating an electric tension around this eclipse, we’re being invited to loosen our grip on overthinking, overanalyzing and the compulsion to
Romancing the Sacred Masculine—The Cosmic Love Affair Within
Romancing the Sacred Masculine—The Cosmic Love Affair Within Aug 14, 2026 1921 Have you ever wondered if you're too much in your masculine?Maybe you’ve tried to soften more, receive more, slow down more… or somehow find that elusive “perfect balance” between your feminine and masculine energies.But what if balance was never the goal?What if these energies were meant to be in relationship?In this episode of The Vital Goddess Podcast, we explore the feminine and masculine
The Body Temple...Pleasure, Breath &  a Venusian Way of Manifestation
The Body Temple...Pleasure, Breath & a Venusian Way of Manifestation Aug 7, 2026 1703 The world has taught us to treat the body as a project to perfect, a problem to solve, or a tool for getting what we want.But what if the body is something far more sacred?In this episode of the Vital Goddess Podcast, we're exploring a Venusian way of remembering the body as temple, the breath as the sacred bridge between mind and heart, and pleasure as our natural expression when resistance
The Wisdom of Sacred Pilgrimage: Coming Home to Yourself
The Wisdom of Sacred Pilgrimage: Coming Home to Yourself Jul 31, 2026 2803 A conversation with Katie DugganSome places don't simply ask us to visit...They ask us to remember.In this beautiful conversation, Katie Duggan and I explore the magic of sacred pilgrimage, the mystery of Avalon, and why stepping into a sacred landscape has the power to awaken something ancient within us.Together we explore why pilgrimage is so much more than travel.It is an inner journey.A r
Rewilding the Root: Reclaiming Our Wild Innocence Under the Aquarius Full Moon
Rewilding the Root: Reclaiming Our Wild Innocence Under the Aquarius Full Moon Jul 24, 2026 1042 What if your wild innocence never left you?Perhaps she's simply become obscured by the fog.Inspired by the Aquarius Full Moon, this episode is a gentle invitation to rewild the root, dissolve the fog of shame, and remember the exquisite aliveness that has always belonged to you.Through breath, warmth, rhythm, and movement, we explore a different path to liberation.Not through force.Not throug
The Venusian Revolution: From Resilience to Radiance
The Venusian Revolution: From Resilience to Radiance Jul 18, 2026 1198 For years we've been told that resilience is the answer.Build resilience.Become stronger.Bounce back.And while resilience has served us beautifully, what if it was never meant to be the destination?In this deeply personal episode, I share the philosophy that has quietly been weaving itself through my work for years—a way of living I now call The Venusian Revolution.This isn't about rejec
The Medicine of Beauty: Reclaiming the Sacred Rhythms of the Feminine Through Simple Daily Rituals
The Medicine of Beauty: Reclaiming the Sacred Rhythms of the Feminine Through Simple Daily Rituals Jul 10, 2026 1058 Beauty is not frivolous.Beauty is not something we earn.Beauty is not merely decoration.Beauty is medicine.In this Cancer New Moon reflection, we explore the wisdom of Vesta—the priestess asteroid associated with devotion, sacred rhythm, and tending the inner flame—and how beauty itself can become a pathway back to aliveness.Together we explore how simple daily rituals nourish the feminine nervous
Rewilding the Breath: How Sensual Breathwork Frees Our Essence, Radiance & Capacity to Receive
Rewilding the Breath: How Sensual Breathwork Frees Our Essence, Radiance & Capacity to Receive Jul 3, 2026 2215 What if one of the most overlooked gateways to vitality, radiance, pleasure, emotional fluidity, and our capacity to receive has been waiting beneath the heart all along?In this episode of The Vital Goddess Podcast, we explore the diaphragm through a deeply feminine lens—as The Tidekeeper Within.Together we'll explore how years of responsibility, stress, held emotions, and adaptation can subt

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