Know Thy Soul is a podcast about the journey home to ourselves, to the divine, and to the wisdom within waiting to be remembered.
Hosted by Jennifer Maura DePascale, each episode draws from myth, fairy tale, scripture, symbolism, ancient spiritual traditions, personal reflection, and conversations to uncover the timeless patterns woven through the world's great stories and spiritual traditions, and what they reveal about our lives today.
Together, we'll explore questions of meaning, healing, consciousness, relationship, and our direct connection to the divine. Through ancient stories and modern insights, we'll discover what these enduring patterns can teach us about ourselves, our world, and the journey from exile to wholeness.
Join us as we explore the lifelong journey of knowing thy soul.
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Episode 15: The Emperor's New Clothes: Why We're Afraid to Speak Up
What happens when everyone around you insists something is true, but deep down, you know it isn't? In this episode of Know Thy Soul, we revisit Hans Christian Andersen's classic fairy tale, The Emperor's New Clothes, and discover that this childhood story has a lot more to teach us as adults than we might expect. Why are we so afraid of looking foolish? Why do we stay silent when something doesn't feel right? And what happens when our desire to fit in becomes so strong that we begin deceiving...
13 Oct 2026
Episode 14: Pointing Toward the Moon: Seeing the Forest for the Trees
What if the stories, symbols, and teachings weâve been exploring were never meant to become answers in themselves? In this episode, I step back from The Handless Maiden, Perceval, Dame Ragnell, and the other stories weâve explored to ask what theyâve been pointing toward all along. Through an old Zen parable of a teacher pointing at the moon, we explore the difference between studying the symbol and allowing it to reveal something within us. I also share more personally about my own silver-ha...
6 Oct 2026
Episode 13: The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnell: A Story of Sovereignty and True Chivalry
In Episode 13, we return to Camelot for The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnell: A Story of Sovereignty and True Chivalry. When King Arthurâs life depends upon discovering what women most desire, Sir Gawain is drawn into a mysterious bargain that will test the meaning of honor, love, and choice. In the second half of the episode, we confront what happens when womenâs sovereignty is not honored. Against the backdrop of recent sexual assault allegations involving a Cornell fraternity, we exp...
29 Sept 2026
Episode 12: Why You Get Triggered and What Your Reactions Are Trying to Tell You
Why do some moments hit us so much harder than they seem like they should? A criticism. A tone of voice. Someone pulling away. Suddenly, the reaction inside us feels much bigger than what is happening in front of us. In this episode of Know Thy Soul, Jennifer explores what triggers are actually trying to show us through the unlikely story of a four-pound puppy and a bee stinger. Sometimes the wound is not only what happened to us, but the meaning that became lodged inside because of it: Iâm n...
22 Sept 2026
Episode 11: Perceval, Part 2: The Masculine Wound and the Courage to Feel
What if the Grail Quest was never about finding a sacred object, but becoming a person capable of compassion? When Perceval fails to ask the question that could heal the Fisher King, he responds in the only way he knows how: he rides away, fights more battles, and tries to prove that he has what it takes. But no amount of achievement can heal the wound he refuses to face. In Part Two of Percevalâs story, we follow him through shame, wandering, and finally into the forest, where he removes his...
15 Sept 2026
Episode 10: Perceval and the Holy Grail: The Masculine Wound Beneath the Armor (Part 1)
In Part One of Perceval and the Holy Grail, we follow a nameless boy raised in isolation by a mother terrified of losing him. When he encounters a group of knights in the forest, he becomes determined to join them. He puts on the Red Knightâs armor and begins moving through the world guided by borrowed rules and an identity he has not yet earned. He rescues the beautiful Blanchefleur but rides away when she asks him to remain. Then a prayer leads him to a mysterious castle, where he encounter...
8 Sept 2026
Episode 9: When Your Soul Has Other Plans: How to Trust Your Inner Knowing
What happens when the life you planned is not the life your soul is asking you to live? In this episode, Jennifer explores what it means to live with our hands grown back. Drawing on Carl Jungâs four psychological functions, The Handless Maiden, Perceval, and the parable of the farmer and his horse, she considers what becomes possible when reason, feeling, sensation, and intuition begin working togetherâand the inner king learns to serve rather than silence the inner queen. Then she shares th...
1 Sept 2026
Episode 8: The Handless Maiden in Real Life: The Quiet Ways We Abandon Ourselves
What happens when youâve spent so long minimizing your own experience that you can no longer recognize how much pain youâre carrying? In this episode, I step outside the fairy tale to explore what The Handless Maiden can look like in real life. I share the story of my first childbirthâhow often I silenced what I felt, handed my authority to others, and insisted I was fine when my body was telling me otherwise. This is an exploration of what happens when we believe trusting someone else ...
25 Aug 2026
Episode 7: Growing Hands: Healing, Wholeness, and Spiritual Sovereignty
In the final chapter of The Handless Maiden, the maiden has spent seven years healing in the sanctuary of Here All Dwell Free. Her living hands have grown back. Meanwhile, the king has spent seven years wandering through the forest, learning to lay down his armor and soften the heart that could once offer her only silver handsâbeautiful on the outside, but cold, rigid, and unable to feel. When they meet again, neither is the person the other once knew. She has become a whole and spiritually s...
11 Aug 2026
Episode 6: The Handless Maiden, Part 2 | The Silver Hands: How Relationships Mirror Our Wounds
In Part 2 of The Handless Maiden, we follow the maiden into the kingâs pear orchard, where the story begins to reveal what our relationships often mirror back to us: our wounds, our patterns, and the places where rescue can be mistaken for love. The king gives the maiden silver hands, but silver hands are not living hands. They may cover the wound, but they cannot restore her agency, her inner knowing, or her direct connection to God. In this episode, Jennifer explores deficiency-love, the ho...
4 Aug 2026
Episode 5: The Handless Maiden, Part 1 | The Father Wound: When Love Requires Self-Abandonment
What if the deepest wounds aren't the ones inflicted upon us... but the parts of ourselves we slowly learn to abandon in order to survive? In this first episode of The Handless Maiden, we begin exploring one of the most profound fairy tales ever told. Beneath the shocking image of a father cutting off his daughter's hands lies a story about the ways we lose our voice, silence our intuition, sacrifice our needs, and slowly forget the quiet wisdom within us. Together, we'll explore the symbolis...
28 Jul 2026
Episode 4: When Stories Become a Tapestry
In this episode, we zoom out to see the larger tapestry these ancient stories are helping us recognize. The Handless Maiden and Perceval may seem like two separate tales, but when we place them side by side, they begin to mirror one another. One tells the story from the perspective of the soul. The other tells it from the perspective of the ego. One loses her hands. The other loses the ability to ask the healing question. Both enter exile. Both must let go of what no longer serves them. And b...
21 Jul 2026
Episode 3: Why stories matter: How Myths Guide Us Home
Why have some stories survived for thousands of years while countless others have been forgotten? Why are we still talking about Adam and Eve, Cinderella, King Arthur, the Buddha, and Jesus? What if these stories have endured because they are pointing toward something timeless within us? In this episode of Know Thy Soul, we explore why myths, fairy tales, parables, and sacred stories continue to speak across cultures and generationsânot because they are merely entertainment or history, but be...
14 Jul 2026
Episode 2: The Ego and the False Self: The Armor We Wear
What if the greatest obstacle to hearing the soul isn't the world around us... but the identity we've built to survive within it? In this episode, we explore what the ego really is, why it develops, and how it can slowly become the false selfâthe identity we construct to survive, belong, and protect ourselves from pain. Drawing from Carl Jung, mythology, fairy tales, scripture, psychology, and spiritual traditions, we'll discover why ancient stories are filled with armor, towers, barren kingd...
7 Jul 2026
Episode 1: The Wisdom Within
What if the thing you've been searching for was never outside of you? In this opening episode of Know Thy Soul, Jennifer shares a story that has shaped her life and introduces the central question that will guide this podcast: How do we learn to recognize the quiet voice of the soul? Together, we'll explore the stories we inherit, the stories we tell ourselves, and the deeper patterns woven through myth, fairy tales, scripture, and our own lives. Through the shamanic story of the silver and g...
29 Jun 2026
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Welcome to Know Thy Soul. In this short trailer, I'll share what this podcast is about, why I created it, and what you can expect on the journey ahead. If you've ever felt that ancient stories, myths, fairy tales, scripture, and symbolism might hold more wisdom than we've been taught, you're in the right place. I hope you'll join me as we learn to see with new eyes, listen to the quiet wisdom within, and find our way home. About Know Thy Soul Know Thy Soul explores myth, fairy tales, sc...
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