A soul-led podcast exploring shadow work, Tarot, Scottish folklore, and witchcraft for healing and self-discovery. Each Sunday, journey through myth, magic, and the mysteries within. Guided by a Scottish-rooted spiritual practitioner weaving stories, reflections, and ritual to help you reclaim your light through the dark.
Sage in the Sky
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A soul-led podcast exploring shadow work, Tarot, Scottish folklore, and witchcraft for healing and self-discovery. Each Sunday, journey through myth, magic, and the mysteries within. Guided by a Scottish-rooted spiritual practitioner weaving stories, reflections, and ritual to help you reclaim your light through the dark.
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Recent Episodes
June 21, 2026
The Giant You Don't Realise You Are ~ Imposter syndrome and your own hidden power
<p><strong>The giant you fear and the giant you are have been the same size all along.</strong></p><p>On the longest day of the year, when the light climbs higher than on any other and your shadow shrinks to almost nothing beneath your feet, we go looking, not for the darkness we've hidden, but for the largeness we've disowned. This is an episode about imposter syndrome, about the growth that went invisible because you're living inside it, and about the golden shadow: the power you'd honestly rather not be responsible for. We follow Scotland's sleeping warriors into the hill, learn why people keep dropping the horn and running, and find the giant that has been breathing beneath you the whole time, wearing your own face.</p><p>~ The solstice as the day you can finally see your own height~ The shadow, re-explained and the part almost nobody mentions: the gold in it (Robert A. Johnson)~ Where the term "imposter syndrome" really came from, and why it found high-achieving women first (Clance & Imes, 1978)~ The sleeper under the hill: Fionn, Thomas the Rhymer, and the Sleeping Warrior of Arran (Donald Mackenzie)~ "Draw the sword before you blow the horn" — how to claim power without panicking~ Strength, the Queen of Wands & the Magician — three faces of the waking giant~ A ~13-minute guided visualisation: The Cave Under the Hill~ Five journal prompts to find your true size</p><p><strong>1. The thing you call ordinary.</strong> Name one skill or quality that comes so easily to you that you've assumed it's nothing special. Now write it down as if describing a stranger who has it. Does it still look like nothing?</p><p><strong>2. Where do you blow the horn twice and run?</strong> Recall a recent moment when you felt a bigger, more capable version of you start to rise and you pulled the smaller self back over you. What frightened you about the size of it?</p><p><strong>3. Who carries your gold?</strong> Robert Johnson said we hand our finest qualities to the people we admire most, because we'd rather see them "out there" than own them. Who do you most admire and which of their qualities is, secretly, a sleeping part of you?</p><p><strong>4. Draw the sword first.</strong> What would "taking up the sword before the horn" look like for one specific thing in your life right now, what is the knowledge or permission you'd need to hold first, before you act?</p><p><strong>5. The right size.</strong> Not smaller, not grander — accurate. If you described yourself today with total honesty and zero shrinking, what's one true sentence about your capability you usually wouldn't let yourself say out loud?</p><p><strong>Sources & further reading:</strong>~ Donald A. Mackenzie, Scottish Folk-Lore and Folk Life (Glasgow, 1935)~ Robert A. Johnson, Owning Your Own Shadow: Understanding the Dark Side of the Psyche (1991)~ Pauline Rose Clance & Suzanne Imes, "The Impostor Phenomenon in High Achieving Women" (1978)</p><p><strong>Go deeper:</strong>~ <strong>Shadow Map Reading</strong> — a one-to-one tarot session to map your golden shadow → <a href="https://sageinthesky.com/pages/the-shadow-map" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">sageinthesky.com</a>~ <strong>At the Threshold</strong> — self-guided shadow work, £11 → <a href="https://sageinthesky.com/products/shadow-work-starter-pack" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">sageinthesky.com</a>~ <strong>The Threshold Tarot Spread</strong> — free five-card download → <a href="https://sageinthesky.com/pages/the-threshold-tarot-spread" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">sageinthesky.com</a></p><p><strong>Come and find me:</strong>~ Instagram: <a href="https://instagram.com/sage_inthe_sky" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">@sage_inthe_sky</a>~ <a href="https://sageinthesky.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">sageinthesky.com</a></p><p>A note: this episode touches on self-doubt and self-worth. If what you're carrying feels heavier than a quiet "not yet" — persistent, grinding, hard to lift — please reach out to someone you trust or a professional who can sit with you in it. Being your full size was never meant to be done alone in the dark.</p>
June 14, 2026
The Land of Giants ~ Why Grief and Change Feel Larger Than Us
<p>Some seasons of a life feel like a land of giants. The grief, the loss, the change, the new beginning, too large for the ordinary measurements of a day. In this episode we explore the landscape of the vast: what it feels like, why it disorients, and what the Celtic otherworld understood about moving through territory that doesn't fit your maps.</p><p>This is not a fixing episode. It is a company episode. For the woman who is in the middle of something enormous and needs it named accurately before she can begin to navigate it.</p><p>Includes the Cailleach as the keeper of honest scale, the Celtic otherworld as a map for significant life seasons, and three ways of moving through a landscape that dwarfs your instruments.</p><p><strong>Links:</strong></p><ul><li><a href="https://sageinthesky.com/pages/the-threshold-tarot-spread" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Free Threshold Tarot Spread </a></li><li><a href="https://sageinthesky.com/pages/the-shadow-map" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Shadow Map Reading</a></li><li><a href="https://sageinthesky.com/pages/lantern-letters" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Lantern Letters</a></li><li><a href="https://instagram.com/sage_inthe_sky" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Instagram: @sage_inthe_sky</a></li></ul>
June 8, 2026
The Giant Who Ran from a Baby ~ Fionn, Fear, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves
<p>One of the most beloved stories in Scottish and Irish folklore ~ the legend of Fionn mac Cumhaill, Benandonner, and the building of the Giant's Causeway ~ turns out to be one of the most psychologically precise stories about fear ever told.</p><p>In this episode we retell the legend in full, explore its Scottish dimension through Fingal's Cave on Staffa, and go deep into the psychology of the imagined giant, the story we construct around the things we are facing that makes them larger than they actually are.</p><p>Includes three practical questions for identifying where your own imagination has been building giants.</p><p><strong>Links:</strong></p><ul><li><a href="https://sageinthesky.com/pages/the-threshold-tarot-spread" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Free Threshold Tarot Spread</a></li><li><a href="https://sageinthesky.com/pages/the-shadow-map" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Shadow Map Reading</a></li><li><a href="https://sageinthesky.com/pages/lantern-letters" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Lantern Letters</a></li><li><a href="https://www.instagram.com/sage_inthe_sky" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Instagram: @sage_inthe_sky</a></li></ul>
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