Nine Keys: Death Midwifery Conversations and Meditations with Narinder Bazen

In this episode of Nine Keys, Narinder talks with death worker colleague, collective work comrade, and fellow magical being Cassie Uhl about her new book Craft Your Own Magic. This episode is loaded with tenderness, insight and healing.Cassie Uhl (she/her) is a magic practitioner, death and energy worker, rites of passage facilitator, artist, and author. She is the author and illustrator of several books and card decks, including the Journey Tarot deck, Understanding Tarot, Understanding Auras, Understanding The Wheel of The Year, Craft Your Own Magic, and The Ritual Deck (reboot coming in 2025). Her work is trauma-informed and rooted in earth-based, animist practices from her ancestral roots across Northern Europe and her local environment. She is passionate about helping folks feel spiritually grounded and supported in all seasons of life–including death. Cassie resides on Indigenous Myaamia land in so-called Indiana in the United States with her husband and twin children.  To find Cassie, you can go to https://www.cassieuhl.com

Pour yourself a cup of tea, get cozy, and listen to this episode of Nine Keys where Narinder shares some of her death midwifery stories. Maybe there's a treasure for you in this storytelling.

In this episode of Nine Keys, Narinder shares a calming message for those who are grieving the state of the world and for those who are needing some guidance for sitting in the acceptance of the prognosis of such a state. Grieving in solitude has its purposes. So many times we can think that we are doing something wrong with our grief, if we prefer to be alone with it. Narinder wants to offer permission here and a few tools to support grieving in solitude.Being in acceptance of the prognosis of the state of the world is not a quick doorway to hope or positive outcome or dread. It's a whole place, a whole house to move around in. Narinder shares her idea of what 'sitting in the acceptance of the prognosis' means to her.If you feel that this episode of Nine Keys has been a balm for you, please share it with others who may be served by Narinder's calming guidance.

See your death work in a whole new way. In this episode of Nine Keys, Narinder explains the many facets of death work. If you are a death worker, or death work curious, you may find so much insight and inspiration in this episode.

In this episode of Nine Keys, Narinder, with humor and grace, takes the charge out of our Death Worker Inner Saboteurs and gives us practical tips on how to invite them along for the ride in our work, but not to give them the wheel. You won't want to miss this episode if you've got a Nagging Nelly keeping you back from letting your death work be its fullest expression.If you find what Narinder shares in the episode helpful, please share it with other death workers who may need a little boost of confidence. Thank you.

In this episode Narinder takes you on a journey through the countryside, gratitude, and her thoughts on what it's like to be a person in service for over twenty-five years and what she's learned about helping other death workers find their fortification in their service work.Narinder talks a little bit about Dead of Winter - a lighthearted space of respite through the winter for artists, crafters, and makers who appreciate death and dying themes in art conversation. Dead of Winter begins November 8th! https://www.narinderbazen.com/dead-of-winterIf you are a death worker in need of some down-home help getting your death work into sustainable energy through building and organizing your business around it, you'll definitely want to check out Narinder's offering to you; Reimagine. https://www.narinderbazen.com/reimagine

In this episode of the Nine Keys podcast, Narinder speaks about death workers talking about natural death and dying while the world's on fire, death work as a soulful path, the life/death/life cycles of death work for the one doing it, and also art making and death themed artist camaraderie.In this episode Narinder talks about Dead of Winter: a place of respite and art making through the winter for makers, crafters, and artists.For more information about Death of Winter please go to Narinder's website here.https://www.narinderbazen.com/dead-of-winter

In this episode of Nine Keys, Narinder talks with Denise Johnson about how serendipitous events surrounding her mother's death four years ago led her to become a very busy end-of-life doula today. Denise and Narinder met at Denise's mother's bedside three months before her death. Narinder was called in to serve as Ms. Thelma's death midwife. What she didn't know was that she'd end up becoming Denise's teacher and colleague.You can find Denise at www.eol101.com. 

This Nine Keys episode is a real treasure hunt! Listen closely to Warlock Fulltime's conversation with Narinder to find a valuable gem just for you. Warlock drops keepsakes all through this 60-minute chat about potential portals, uncertainty, grief as a production queen, art, seagulls, sunsets, and pain as a big doorway to the art of noticing. Warlock Fulltime is the son of a Baptist pastor, a ghost on the internet, a flesh wizard, and the brother of black magick. He wants to help you feel more strength, depth, and ease in all aspects of your precious personhood. He lives in Chicago, Illinois right where the sky meets the Lake and he's thinking of you while watching the sun rise over it. He hopes you're watching it too.You'll definitely want to check out this fifteen-minute documentary about Warlock's drag art The Church of Lavonia Elberton. You can find Warlock on Instagram @warlockfulltime