A weekly podcast from The Sage Message, created to bring you reflections, tarot-inspired wisdom, and soulful conversations to start your week with clarity and intention. Each episode blends ancient teachings, symbolism, and personal insights, offering bite-sized guidance for self-discovery, healing, and spiritual growth.
This week on Sage Sundays, we dive into the concept of spiritual hygiene, the daily practices that keep your mind, energy, and intentions aligned with the life you want to build.
5 Jul 2026
11 lessons from idlozi
Makhosi shares eleven timeless lessons on self-love, resilience, purpose, healing, and letting go - offering a clear, spiritual roadmap to living more intentionally and peacefully.
28 Jun 2026
Even the Healer needs a Healer
In this reflective tenth episode, iGugulabeNguni follows up on themes from the previous one, exploring how loss, grief, and "dodgy decisions" can become sources of expertise and abundance. Drawing on her work as a healer specialising in grief, finances, relationships, and career, they argue that even painful moments hold opportunity worth examining.
21 Jun 2026
Discovering idlozi: of Grief and the Gift
In this ninth episode of Sage Sundays, Makhosi draws from the personal archives. She traces her gift of clairaudience back to age ten, when a distinct voice first spoke to her at age 9.
Trigger warning: this is an honest conversation about grief, healing, and extracting the lessons from your hardest seasons.
14 Jun 2026
Coded to fear idlozi: of Trauma and Language
This week we explore the idea of inherited trauma - how fear of our true nature can be passed down through generations almost as if it were coded into us and how cultural erasure through education severed many of us from ancestral knowledge. From dreams and symbolism to the work of cultural preservation
7 Jun 2026
Reparenting the parent
In this episode of Sage Sundays, Makhosi reflects on meditation, cultural and spiritual erasure across generations. Tracing the gradual displacement of indigenous beliefs and practices through religion and education, and drawing on her own family history, she explores how each generation grew more detached from its ancestral roots. The episode is ultimately a call to heal through re-education and de-conditioning, reclaiming traditions long taught to be inferior.
31 May 2026
Me and My house will not acknowledge idlozi
Drawing on the idea that your bloodline is a matter of fact - not belief, uMakhosi unpacks what it truly means to deny or disavow your ancestry, and why that denial is far more than a personal spiritual stance.
24 May 2026
The plight of the Wounded and the Healer: Part 2
Part 2 of the Plight of the Wounded & the Healer is here. We pick right up where we left off unpacking the three archetypes of the wounded, diving deep into the world of healers, and exploring the four elemental healing modalities: air, fire, earth, and water. Plus, practical guidance on how to approach a healer and get the most out of your healing journey.
If you haven't listened to Part 1 yet, start there first.
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24 May 2026
The plight of the Wounded and the Healer: Part 1
This week on Sage Sunday, uMakhosi opens with a heavy heart, reflecting on the ongoing xenophobic attacks in South Africa and what they mean for the broader African community.
She then moves into Part 1 of this week's teaching: The plight of the Wounded and the Healer - a deeply personal and practical exploration of spiritual wounds. What does it mean to carry a wound that medicine cannot explain? How do you know when your suffering is physical, and when it runs deeper?
uMakhosi walks through the process of seeking spiritual healing, the dangers of going from healer to healer without discernment, and what it truly means to be in communion with your spirit.
Part 2 dropping soon...
17 May 2026
The aura of idlozi
What does it truly mean to carry the energy of idlozi? This week, we go deeper into the energetic presence your ancestral guide carries and how it shows up in your everyday life.
We unpack three essential truths that every child of the light needs to sit with: that every single living person has idlozi, that everyone is called to be in alignment with theirs, and that true self-actualization is only possible when you are in full alignment with your ancestral guide.
Whether you are just beginning to explore your spiritual identity or you are walking deeper into your purpose, this episode will challenge the narratives that have kept us disconnected from our roots and remind you that the answers you seek have always been closer than you think.
11 May 2026
To whom much is given
Where do your blessings, abundance, and joy actually come from? Not the Sunday school answer - the real one. In the first full episode, uMakhosi opens the cosmological conversation by laying the groundwork: an introduction to Nguni cosmology, the role religion has played in displacing it, and the long-running tension between fact and faith - biology versus theology.
11 May 2026
Welcome to Sage Sundays
Before the teachings begin, the teacher introduces herself. In this opening episode, Makhosi lays out who she is, why this podcast exists, and how to receive what's coming.
From a multi-gifted healer rooted in Nguni tradition and cosmology, Sage Sundays is the herb that clears the space, and the ancient voice that fills it. Tune in to learn how to receive these readings, what to do when something lands, and what to do when it doesn't. Class is in session.
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