This week we have a lovely meditation with a very simple practice of giving and receiving love. Although I have not gone into the feminine and masculine aspects of relationship healing, this meditation is foundational for being in the vibration of love from the purest place of our heart. When we can hold this vibration longer and longer, the more w…

Today we are aided in releasing failures and disappointments, bringing in healing for the sacral and root chakra. Find the Beginner's Meditation Series HERE. Much Love! Music: This Endless Ocean by Ashot DanielyanBy Mav Skye

This week's meditation is extremely powerful as gates are opened and we invite the guidance and protection of the rose. Beautiful! Find the Beginner's Meditation Series HERE. Much Love! Music: My Dreams by UniversefieldBy Mav Skye

This week is a beautiful meditation with the pink lotus and releasing negative energy and spells. Here is the YouTube link to the chant I mentioned called Oh So Hum https://youtu.be/UYjQReEYFL4?si=J8DiHOGEl-MBrN-L Find the Beginner's Meditation Series HERE. Much Love! Music: Deep meditation by Grand Project…

This will support those who are feeling in-between spaces, eps during this full moon in Virgo. This meditation also supports and protects heart chakra expansion and encourages you to take the next step toward what you reaching for. Find the Beginner's Meditation Series HERE. Much Love! Music By Ambient Space Dream by Music Unlimited…

This meditation will prepare you for and stabilize you for the timeline jump. You may have noticed it already happened. One day I will make an episode about what this is and what you can look for, but for now this will bring stability to you before and after. I had thought this would be short, but it ended up being close to 20 minutes. Find the Beg…

This meditation is for calming an overwhelmed mind and letting go of excess energy, creating balance in the pineal gland and neuron activity. Find the Beginner's Meditation Series HERE. Much Love!By Mav Skye

This meditation was very vivid with garnets, ladybugs and mother of pearl staircase. It was a high frequency release of forgiveness and just releasing what is not serving you anymore. Done at these frequency the release feels peaceful. There is good luck brought in by the ladybugs and a surrounding of love. We also go into the physical heart and do…

In this meditation, we do an observation exercise sometimes known as Observing the Observer. It is very soothing and I just about put myself to sleep creating it. I hope it serves you! Find the Beginner's Meditation Series HERE. Much Love! Music: celestial by Red ProductionsBy Mav Skye

Welcome to Blue Star's first episode! We kick off the podcast with a soothing meditation where we breathe and sit in silence. Perfect for stabilizing mind and emotions, and will help you drift off to sleep if you listen at night. Find the Beginner's Meditation Series HERE. Much love! ps. The Full Moon Meditation membership will be up in the next tw…

Hello! This is a short episode introducing myself and the podcast. Find the Beginner's Meditation Series here. I will posting links for the Full Moon Meditation Membership for those who wish to have more support. It should be here within a week Much Love! Music: Valley of Silence by Alan FrijnsBy Mav

This is part two of Spark Your Creative Fire. Hopefully, it is helpful to those of you out there chomping at the bit to do something creative! Lots of love to everyone. Happy holidays! I hope to be back here soon.By Mav Skye

I am still website building, but wanted to assure everyone I am still here and so is the podcast. I decided to take a break to share one of my current frustrations about website building and respond to questions about creativity from your emails. This is broken into two parts since it's longer chat. Stay tuned next Monday for Part Two. Hope to be b…

Quick announcement!By Mav Skye

Welcome to Dark Softly Tales: Arabian Nights~Summer Bites. Our Summer Bites series centers around an unknown but dramatic and rather steampunk story called The Ebony Horse. The story features an enchanted wooden horse, an evil sage, very confused kings and, of course, love that survives the ages. "Time dies, but never dies the fondest love for you …

Welcome to Dark Softly Tales: Arabian Nights~Summer Bites. Our Summer Bites series centers around an unknown but dramatic and rather steampunk story called The Ebony Horse. The story features an enchanted wooden horse, an evil sage, very confused kings and, of course, love that survives the ages. "Time dies, but never dies the fondest love for you …

Welcome to Dark Softly Tales: Arabian Nights~Summer Bites. Our Summer Bites series centers around an unknown but dramatic and rather steampunk story called The Ebony Horse. The story features an enchanted wooden horse, an evil sage, very confused kings and, of course, love that survives the ages. "Time dies, but never dies the fondest love for you …

Welcome to Dark Softly Tales: Arabian Nights~Summer Bites. Our Summer Bites series centers around an unknown but dramatic and rather steampunk story called The Ebony Horse. The story features an enchanted wooden horse, an evil sage, very confused kings and, of course, love that survives the ages. "Time dies, but never dies the fondest love for you …

Welcome to Dark Softly Tales: Arabian Nights~Summer Bites. Our Summer Bites series centers around an unknown but dramatic and rather steampunk story called The Ebony Horse. The story features an enchanted wooden horse, an evil sage, very confused kings and, of course, love that survives the ages. "Time dies, but never dies the fondest love for you …

Welcome to Dark Softly Tales: Arabian Nights~Summer Bites. Our Summer Bites series centers around an unknown but dramatic and rather steampunk story called The Ebony Horse. The story features an enchanted wooden horse, an evil sage, very confused kings and, of course, love that survives the ages. "Time dies, but never dies the fondest love for you …

Welcome to Dark Softly Tales: Arabian Nights~Summer Bites. Our Summer Bites series centers around an unknown but dramatic and rather steampunk story called The Ebony Horse. The story features an enchanted wooden horse, an evil sage, very confused kings and, of course, love that survives the ages. "Time dies, but never dies the fondest love for you …

Welcome to Dark Softly Tales: Arabian Nights~Summer Bites. Our Summer Bites series centers around an unknown but dramatic and rather steampunk story called The Ebony Horse. The story features an enchanted wooden horse, an evil sage, very confused kings and, of course, love that survives the ages. "Time dies, but never dies the fondest love for you …

Welcome to Dark Softly Tales: Arabian Nights~Summer Bites. Our Summer Bites series centers around an unknown but dramatic and rather steampunk story called The Ebony Horse. The story features an enchanted wooden horse, an evil sage, very confused kings and, of course, love that survives the ages. "Time dies, but never dies the fondest love for you …

Welcome to Dark Softly Tales: Arabian Nights~Summer Bites. Our Summer Bites series centers around an unknown but dramatic and rather steampunk story called The Ebony Horse. The story features an enchanted wooden horse, an evil sage, very confused kings and, of course, love that survives the ages. "Time dies, but never dies the fondest love for you …

Welcome to Dark Softly Tales: Arabian Nights~Summer Bites. Our Summer Bites series centers around an unknown but dramatic and rather steampunk story called The Ebony Horse. The story features an enchanted wooden horse, an evil sage, very confused kings and, of course, love that survives the ages. "Time dies, but never dies the fondest love for you …

Welcome to Dark Softly Tales: Arabian Nights~Summer Bites. Our Summer Bites series centers around an unknown but dramatic and rather steampunk story called The Ebony Horse. The story features an enchanted wooden horse, an evil sage, very confused kings and, of course, love that survives the ages. "Time dies, but never dies the fondest love for you …

Welcome to Dark Softly Tales: Arabian Nights~Summer Bites. Our Summer Bites series centers around an unknown but dramatic and rather steampunk story called The Ebony Horse. The story features an enchanted wooden horse, an evil sage, very confused kings and, of course, love that survives the ages. "Time dies, but never dies the fondest love for you …

Welcome to Dark Softly Tales: Arabian Nights~Summer Bites. Our Summer Bites series centers around an unknown but dramatic and rather steampunk story called The Ebony Horse. The story features an enchanted wooden horse, an evil sage, very confused kings and, of course, love that survives the ages. "Time dies, but never dies the fondest love for you …

Welcome to Dark Softly Tales: Arabian Nights~Summer Bites. Our Summer Bites series centers around an unknown but dramatic and rather steampunk story called The Ebony Horse. The story features an enchanted wooden horse, an evil sage, very confused kings and, of course, love that survives the ages. "Time dies, but never dies the fondest love for you …

We kick off the 2022 Summer Bites with an introduction to Arabian Nights and the story I'll be narrating over the summer called The Ebony Horse. Summer Bites are shorter episodes than our normal program without an intro or commentary from the host. I hope you enjoy and I'll be back with the regular program in the fall! Music: Islamic Way by Serge Q…

Following in the footsteps of the Pied Piper series, I wrote my own story based off a dream I had: Neverwas is trapped in an abusive relationship with her mother. When she meets the Pied Piper, a beautiful hero who calls to her with his silver whistle, she transforms into the very essence of beauty and freedom. She follows the Pied Piper into the f…

Though written several hundred years after the event, Robert Browning's poem catches the eerie mystery of when 130 children were led away by a magician over Koppleburgh hill, never to be seen again. The Pied Piper of Hemalin by Robert Browning. Music: Mystique from pixabay.com Website: www.darksoftlytalespodcast.com www.darksoftlytales.com…

In the year 1284, a hundred and thirty children went missing from a small German town. This has been a historically documented event that actually happened. Tonight we will be straying from our regular structure. I’m going to narrate the Grimm brother’s version of The Pied Piper called The Children of Hamelin and then we we will lightly discuss the…

A quick reminder we are on break the next two weeks as I continue to put material together on the Pied Piper and for the Summer Bites series. I hope everyone has a great week! <3By Mav Skye

This week brings us to the conclusion of Algernon Blackwood's The Wendigo where reality and the hauntingly fantastic meet at the tipping point of sanity... I will be taking two weeks off before we launch into the brief history and stories of the Pied Piper of Hamelin, and then the summer bite series. Music: Cello in a Dream by Liron www.darksoftlyt…

We continue on this week with part five of Algernon Blackwood's The Wendigo, where Simpson meets up with Hank and Dr. Cathcart. The two hunters struggle with Simpson’s story…trying to argue it away with logic and emotion. The mirror of reality has been shattered. And when it shatters, the mind, body and emotions struggle to put it back together aga…

Simpson performs an investigation to find clues to where the guide disappeared. He makes a startling revelation when he finds not one but two sets of footprints in the snow. One set is 18 feet long, the other set obviously human...eventually the human prints disappear leaving only the monstrous prints behind. Join Dark Softly Tales in Part Four of …

Huddled in the tiny tent amongst the smothering trees, there are not two shadows, but three...two of human form and one very distinctly not human. Join Dark Softly Tales in Part Three of The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood. Music: Cello in a Dream by Liron www.darksoftlytalespodcast.com www.darksoftlytales.com…

Hunter and guide set out by themselves deep into the heart of the vast unknown. The beauty is unfathomable, yet impersonal. Still, late into the evening, the guide catches the scent of something that has definitely taken notice...and it shakes him to his very core. This week is part two of The Wendigo by Alergnon Blackwood. Music: Cello in a Dream …

In the the wilds of Canada, an ancient evil taunts a group of hunters, creating such madness that is sure to send goose bumps down your spine and cause you to double think going out into the woods alone... For the next few weeks, we will be reading The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood. Music: Cello in a Dream by Liron www.darksoftlytalespodcast.com ww…

Last week of our improv, short episodes with dark poetry by Emily Dickinson and Edgar Allan Poe. Next week we return to our regular program with The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood. Poems in Order: Silence is All We Dread - Emily Dickinson We Grow Accustomed to the Dark - Emily Dickinson We Do Not Play on Graves - Emily Dickinson Silence by Edgar All…

This week is a lovely poem called Rise Up by Rumi. His wise words bear to witness that there is always a light within the dark. A reminder that Dark Softly Tales is creating shorter, unscripted, episodes for a few weeks. We'll be back to regular schedule at the end of April. ;-) Music by ChillmoreBy Mav Skye

This week we ponder the wonderful words of Kahlil Gibran in his poem "Do Not Love Half Lovers." The next few weeks will be slightly shorter episodes as I'm helping my son with his move to Montana. Towards the end of April we will back with our regular program! Music: Soft Ambient by Alex MakeMusicBy Mav Skye

Tonight’s poem called Violet Visions, is inspired by a passage I wrote in one of my books called Wanted Single Rose, and also by world events. It’s kind of a mashup of things. Find the illustrated storybook creation of the poem on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/vrhCabz9SJ8 www.darksoftlytalespodcast.com www.darksoftlytales.com…

Death makes quite the entrance at Lady Neville's ball. To everyone's surprise, Death is young, beautiful and charming. So charming in fact, that Lady Neville and her guests request Death remain with them, which Death accepts... on one condition. This week's story is part two of Come Lady Death by Peter S Beagle. Music: Waiting for the Sun by Luca F…

Lady Neville has thrown the most wonderful parities that even the king himself has attended. Now in her old age, she wants to throw the grandest party of all…but she can’t think of who could be grander than all the nobles she has already invited in the past, and finally it comes to her…she will invite Death himself…er…herself. This week's story is …

A woodland fairy decides to enter the body of a young woman to discover what it feels like to be in love. Through the ups & downs of this experience, she considers giving up her magic to become human. This story is none other than Ray Bradbury's The April Witch. First published in 1952 by The Saturday Evening Post Music: Facile by Kevin MacLeod…

In light of current events, I decided to pause the regular programing this week and make an impromptu episode discussing courage and freedom. I recorded this on Friday, Feb 25th. The two clips of speech is Winston Churchhill's address to Harrow School in 1941 Music: 528 Hz Morning MeditationBy Mav Skye

A blind woman meets a mysterious man in the forest who is very coy about who he is. She bargains a potion from an old gypsy so she can finally see her lover. She does see her lover, but pays the ultimate price... This story has appeared in a few publications including Howl: Tales of the Feral and Infernal, Best of Lame Goat Press Anthology, Cast Ma…

The soul and the Fisherman lead us to a surprising conclusion and give us yet another piece of the human spirit to ponder on. This isn't the Valentine's episode I was planning on, but perhaps it's the one we need... Part Four of The Fisherman and His Soul by Oscar Wilde. Music: Music: Deep Woods by Lilo Sound…