🌙 Hello, wild one. I'm so glad you've arrived here.
I'm Marianna Portela, and I'm a storyteller, ritualist, and guide walking the path of the Divine Feminine. Born and raised in Brazil, I've journeyed across oceans, living in Germany, and now rooting in London, where I share my home with my husband, my daughter, and our two cats.
Looking back, I've often wondered how I found myself carrying the ancient wisdom of women while navigating the intensity of my own life. My journey runs wide and deep: across oceans, through cultures, between worlds of seen and unseen. Trauma, abandonment, grief, anxiety, miscarriages, living in recovery, motherhood, healing, loving.
I've danced with ecstatic joy and crawled through the darkest grief. I've birthed a child and buried dreams. I've forgotten my power and remembered it again.
My work and my soul's mission are centered around stories, myth, ancestral wisdom, goddess archetypes, and ritual. I'm here to help women remember their wild, true, and sacred selves, just as I am learning to remember myself.
✨ What I offer here:
Weekly Moonletters - Poetic reflections and rituals aligned with lunar phases.
The Goddess, Witch, Woman Podcast - Deep conversations about mythology, feminine power, and reclaiming our stories.
Essays and reflections - Personal writing on wild womanhood, grief, ancestry, and the courage to belong.
This space is meant to feel like a circle around a warm fire… safe, gentle, deeply honest. A place for slowing down, remembering, and becoming.
✨ My path & practices
I walk closely with the archetypes of the Goddess in all her facets: mother, warrior, sex, fire, water, earth, air, dark, light… and all in between. Each holding a part of my story and yours.
My background is deeply woven with the teachings of Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés. Her book, Women Who Run With the Wolves, was a doorway for me and continues to shape my understanding of myth, psyche, and feminine resilience.
I also lead women's circles, seasonal rituals, and intuitive oracle readings, which I share here and through my podcast and videos.
🌑 What brought me here
My journey has been shaped by understanding my female body, migration, motherhood, and human connection to the moon. I've navigated loss, grief, and the joys of finding community. I honor my grandmother Lilian deeply in my work, her memory and wisdom guide much of what I share.
My own healing has come through storytelling, ritual, and reclaiming the divine feminine within everyday life.
This Substack is my offering: a space for connection, reflection, and transformation.
🔥 Stay connected
Substack: mariannaportela.substack.com
Podcast: Goddess, Witch, Woman
YouTube: Healing Stories
Instagram: @healingstoriesforwomen
“Marianna's words feel like coming home to myself. Her moonletters have become an essential ritual in my life." - Larissa Laviano
“Finding Marianna's work was like discovering a map back to myself. Her blend of mythology and practical ritual has transformed how I understand my own story." - Renata Falcone
“Marianna is the gardener of loving words.” - Veronica Salete
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With gratitude, moonlight and mythical medicine,
Marianna
