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by Ashley Pemble
Salt & Sovereignty is a podcast for grounded, embodied conversations about healing, spirituality, trauma, and what it means to reclaim sovereignty in real life. Through honest dialogue, lived experience, and thoughtful inquiry, this is a space that values discernment over doctrine, integration over performance, and personal agency above all else. Salt & Sovereignty invites curiosity, complexity, and respectful dialogue, not agreement. Listeners are encouraged to take what resonates, leave the rest, and honor the truth that keeps them sovereign.
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- 3 days ago21 min
The Truth About Mabon, Hekate, and Persephone's Descent
Mabon is younger than disco. The name for the autumn equinox was coined in 1974, and Hekate never kept this holiday at all. So why does the turn of the year still feel like hers? This week, Ash goes looking for the real thread between Hekate, the autumn equinox, and the myth of Persephone's descent, and finds something she didn't expect. The Homeric Hymn to Demeter doesn't say Persephone chose the pomegranate. It says she was tricked, and it says she was forced. That distinction changes what sovereignty actually means when the thing that happened to you was never a choice, and when it's set to happen again. Ash walks through what's genuinely ancient in modern witchcraft and what isn't (the answer is less than you'd think), why the Wheel of the Year is a 20th-century invention, and the equinox ritual she built once she stopped pretending she had a receipt for any of it: two slips of paper, two torches, and a pomegranate eaten on purpose. If you've ever felt like you had to find the moment you were "in charge" of your own worst chapter before you were allowed to call yourself healed, this one's for you.
- 1 weeks ago25 min
A Friendship Spell for Two Adults With No Friends | Hekate's Deipnon
Tomorrow I'm casting a friendship spell for me and my husband, and I'm recording this before I do it... so I have no idea yet whether it works.On the drive home last Sunday we finally said it out loud: we don't have anybody where we live. My best friend is across the state. His is too. So I'm doing a three-night working with Hekate. A Deipnon clearing at the dark moon, three candles for three roads as the light comes back, and a sealing at the full moon.But this one isn't really about the candles. When I sat down to write out who I was asking for, almost all of it came out as what I don't want. Not fake, not surface-level, not somebody half-assing their own life. A full page of nos. And reading it back, I found myself in it asking for a friend who's honest about money while I struggle to talk about mine, asking for someone who doesn't complain constantly while I get stuck doing exactly that.In this episode: the history of Hekate's (Hecate's) Deipnon and why the ancient offering included the sweepings of your own house; why I'm keeping the words of the spell private; the ethics of asking for people without casting on anyone's will; and why the hardest part of a friendship working isn't magical at all.New this week: Salt & Sovereignty is now in video on Spotify and YouTube.Instagram, YouTube, and Discord: @saltandsovereignty Patreon: Salt & SovereigntyIf the show has meant something to you, following, rating, and reviewing is most of how the next person finds it.
- 2 weeks ago27 min
Letting Go Without Guilt: A Crossroads Release Ritual
What happens when a relationship, a belief, or a version of yourself hasn't done anything wrong, but it's stopped adding anything to your life? In this episode of Salt & Sovereignty, Ash sits with the guilt of outgrowing something you still love, the fear of becoming someone who abandons people, and the difference between fading away from a connection versus consciously closing the door on it. Drawing on Hekate as goddess of crossroads and thresholds, she talks honestly about why releasing doesn't require a villain, and why gratitude and grief can coexist in the same ending. The episode closes with an original ritual, The Release at the Crossroads, a gentler alternative to traditional cord-cutting that works for people, practices, or old versions of yourself, and is written to adapt to any spiritual practice or none at all.
- 3 weeks ago49 min
The Ethics of Cursing: Baneful Magic, Consent & Personal Responsibility
What makes a curse unethical, and who gets to decide? In this episode of Salt & Sovereignty, Ashley explores curses, baneful magic, consent, protection, anger, justice, and personal responsibility through the complicated lens of witchcraft ethics.Ashley begins with something she has never tried to hide or soften: she has cursed someone before, she believed the working was justified, and she still stands by that decision. From there, the conversation moves beyond whether curses are simply “good” or “bad” and into the much harder questions underneath magical ethics.In this episode:Ashley shares the story of a mirror curse she performed and why she considers it both baneful and ultimately healingWe explore the long history of curses, bindings, and defixiones in ancient Greek and Roman magical practiceAshley examines the Wiccan Rede, the Threefold Law, and why “harm none” is not a universal rule of witchcraftWe look at consent, protection, revenge, justice, return-to-sender work, and the uncomfortable overlap between themAshley reflects on anger, survivorhood, spiritual darkness, and the pressure to sanitize difficult emotionsWe question whether “light” magic is automatically ethical and whether “dark” magic deserves the assumptions placed upon itThis is not an argument that curses are good, or that everyone should practice baneful magic. It is a reflection on what happens when spiritual ethics collide with real human lives, where harm, consent, protection, intention, and consequence are rarely as simple as we want them to be.If you have ever wondered where your magical ethics came from, what responsibility means inside your practice, or whether darkness and light are really useful moral categories at all, this episode is an invitation to become curious before becoming certain.
- Aug 20, 202628 min
Reiki Self-Attunement, Witchcraft, and Learning Energy Healing Without Rushing
In this episode of Salt & Sovereignty, Ashley shares her experience beginning Reiki through Brett Bevel’s self-attunement method after years of feeling unable to afford traditional Reiki training. She reflects on spiritual accessibility, the ethics of paid spiritual education, and the difference between receiving an attunement and truly integrating an energy healing practice. Ashley also explores how Reiki is beginning to coexist with her witchcraft, devotional practice, and relationship with Mother Earth, especially through a quiet morning walk using Choku Rei. This episode is a grounded reflection on Reiki, self-attunement, embodied spirituality, and learning to move slowly enough for a practice to become real.
- Aug 14, 202640 min
The Invisible Test: Fear of Rejection, Overthinking, and People Pleasing
What happens when fear of rejection, people pleasing, and overthinking turn every social interaction into a test someone is trying not to fail? In this episode of Salt & Sovereignty, Ash explores the constant self-monitoring underneath her long-held belief that she hates small talk, and how old survival patterns can quietly shape the way a person sees themselves.She unpacks social anxiety, fear of abandonment, emotional perfectionism, hypervigilance, fawning, and the pressure to perform the “correct” version of yourself around other people. She also explores how the same invisible test can show up in witchcraft, intuition, and spiritual discernment, especially when someone has learned to distrust their own instincts.This episode isn’t about forcing yourself to become more social or pretending every limitation is simply a mindset problem. It’s about questioning the identities and thought patterns we can start treating as permanent truths, and asking how much of ourselves we may have held back while trying not to get the answer wrong.
- Aug 6, 202623 min
What Does Divine Feminine Really Mean? Hekate, Masculine vs Feminine Energy, and Modern Witchcraft
What do we actually mean when we talk about masculine and feminine energy?In this episode of Salt & Sovereignty, Ash explores a question that began with a simple conversation and quickly turned into one of the deepest spiritual rabbit holes she's encountered in years. Why do we call Hekate a goddess? What makes a deity masculine or feminine? Are divine beings gendered in the same way humans are, or are we describing something entirely different?Together, we'll explore Hekate as a case study while unpacking some of the biggest questions surrounding the Divine Feminine, Divine Masculine, masculine and feminine energy, and modern witchcraft. Along the way, we'll examine ancient tradition, personal spiritual experience, the role of mythology, and whether concepts like intuition, strength, compassion, discipline, and wisdom truly belong to one energy over another.This isn't an episode about proving who's right. It's an invitation to question assumptions, deepen your relationship with your spiritual practice, and explore what these ideas actually mean in your own life.Whether you're a Hekate devotee, a practicing witch, a pagan, or simply someone interested in spirituality and consciousness, this conversation will leave you with new questions to carry into your next ritual and meditation.
- Jul 31, 202624 min
Control, Surrender, and Sovereignty: Rethinking Power in Witchcraft
A meditation beneath a copper pyramid led Ashley into a much larger question: how often do we mistake control for safety?In this episode of Salt & Sovereignty, Ashley explores the relationship between trauma, surrender, spiritual practice, and the meaning of personal sovereignty. She reflects on the ways hypervigilance and control can begin as intelligent survival strategies, only to later limit our ability to experience joy, vulnerability, mystery, and trust.That realization also changed the way she thinks about witchcraft and spellcraft. What if magic is not about controlling reality, but consciously participating in it? Through meditation, protection work, devotion to Hekate, and the metaphor of tending a garden, this episode examines the difference between fear-based control and intentional spiritual partnership.She also explores why surrender is not the same as powerlessness, why healthy boundaries remain essential, and how true sovereignty may be less about domination and more about remaining rooted enough to meet whatever comes.
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Salt & Sovereignty is a podcast for grounded, embodied conversations about healing, spirituality, trauma, and what it means to reclaim sovereignty in real life. Through honest dialogue, lived experience, and thoughtful inquiry, this is a space that values discernment over doctrine, integration over performance, and personal agency above all else. Salt & Sovereignty invites curiosity, complexity, and respectful dialogue, not agreement. Listeners are encouraged to take what resonates, leave the rest, and honor the truth that keeps them sovereign.
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