Our Waking Dream

How’s your heart these days? Open? Hopeful? Tender? Guarded? Scared? Contracted? And how can you tell? How could any of us make it this far through life without learning to protect our hearts? Heartbreak, rejection, grief, disappointment, criticism, and loss leave their marks. We learn to guard ourselves, seek approval, compare, hide, perform, or dim our own light. Yet what happens when those prot...

Who’s tired of feeling like every disagreement becomes a battle? Whether it’s with a partner, family member, friend, colleague, or even yourself, conflict has a way of making us feel certain, defensive, and disconnected. But what if conflict isn’t the problem? What if it has something to teach us? What if the very places we feel the most activated are also the places with the greatest potential fo...

What kind of atmosphere follows you into a room? Culture isn’t something reserved for workplaces, governments, or social movements. It’s present in the conversation we have with ourselves when we make a mistake. It’s present in the way families handle disagreement, the way friendships hold joy and grief, and the way teams navigate pressure, change, and conflict. Whether we realize it or not, we ar...

Is self-care central in your life? Because you are very central in your life. How have your needs changed in the past season or two? Not what you needed a year ago. Not what worked before burnout, heartbreak, illness, parenthood, menopause, success, failure, or change. What do you need now? And do your habits, relationships, boundaries, and daily rhythms reflect what you know about yourself? As th...

What baggage are you ready to put down? A heartbreak. A disappointment. A betrayal. A misunderstanding. A story you’ve told so many times it has begun shaping how you see yourself, another person, or the future. As we move toward the Gemini New Moon on June 14 and continue navigating Uranus squaring the Nodes, we’re invited to examine not only what happened, but the interpretations, judgments, ass...

What happens to your body after ten minutes of scrolling? Uranus squares the Nodes on June 11, bringing a period of rapid change around information, perception, communication, technology, and the future we imagine together. In this episode of Our Waking Dream, spiritual strategist and leadership mentor Coco Swanson explores what happens when information enters the nervous system, how fear narrows...

Pressure changes us. It changes behavior. It changes perception. It changes communication. It changes how we treat ourselves and one another. As Mars squares Pluto on May 26, many of us may notice ourselves becoming more reactive, emotionally charged, exhausted, controlling, defensive, or deeply certain that we are right and someone else is wrong. This astrology tends to expose what happens inside...

We are living in an extraordinarily accelerated time. Who's feeling mentally overstimulated, emotionally fragmented, creatively scattered, exhausted, flooded by nonstop information, or disconnected from what genuinely makes them feel alive. Gemini season amplifies movement in the nervous system. Curiosity increases. Ideas multiply. Conversations speed up. Information expands. Possibilities branch...

Does anyone else feel like reality is speeding up faster than the nervous system can comfortably metabolize? Who else feels: - mentally overstimulated, - emotionally flooded, - creatively restless, - exhausted by constant input, - or increasingly disconnected from what actually nourishes them? As we move toward the Taurus New Moon on May 16 and Gemini season beginning May 20/21 — alongside Uranus...

Are you feeling increasingly disturbed by the state of the world right now? Leadership failures, media distrust, technological acceleration, visible cruelty, political division, and the growing sense that humanity feels ethically off can create a constant undertow of anxiety, grief, anger, and hopelessness in the body. Many people are carrying collective stress, distrust in leadership, fear about...

Uranus has moved into Gemini—and we can’t rely on our thinking the same way. More input. More opinions. More speed. More confusion—personally and globally. Information is multiplying. AI is layering over everything. It’s getting harder to know what’s true. Focus fractures. Decision-making gets harder. Even when you’re trying to stay grounded, things don’t land the same way. This is the beginning o...

Who’s feeling a surge of passion, a pull in a new direction—and noticing it’s not landing yet? Ready to move… and it’s not holding? What’s activating in you and what your life can currently sustain aren’t matching. That’s when things get forced, inconsistent, or draining. This is where we overextend or question ourselves. Not because the direction is wrong—but because the capacity to hold it isn’t...

How do you work with anger and passion in a way that creates forward motion — instead of shutting something down or taking you off track? When that energy rises, most people suppress it, project it, or feel it start to distort what they were about to step into. This week, we’re working right at that edge. With the New Moon in Aries in conjunction with Chiron on April 17, the impulse to initiate me...

What's shaken you to your roots over the past 7 years? Work. Money. Your body. What you value. How you live. Things that once felt stable are unraveling. Thank you, Uranus, for rocking our Taurus boat, completing a cycle that's been disrupting stability at its foundation -- your resources,, nervous system, and values. In this episode of Our Waking Dream , strategist and mentor Coco Swanson explore...

It’s easy to feel thrown off in relationships as we near our April 1 Full Moon. You might feel ready to move forward in your life — there’s energy, momentum — and at the same time something in your relationships is asking for attention. Things might feel a bit out of balance. You might notice questions around care — who’s caring for who, where you’re overgiving, where something feels uneven. Resen...

Happy Equinox. Aries season is on — anyone feeling an increase in energy, passion, or pressure? For many of us, it can land as a push to act, initiate, and begin — yes. And, Aries is a trial-and-error sign. That same pressure can show up as perfectionism, hesitation, or impulsiveness that doesn’t quite land. This reflects the nature of Aries. It moves fast. It plays. It initiates. And it learns th...

Anyone feeling emotionally exhausted but strangely fired up at the same time right now? Ideas are returning. Passion is stirring. Projects want to begin. And yet there is still weight in the system — grief, confusion, old chapters finishing. This Pisces New Moon arrives at the very end of the zodiac just before Aries season begins. One cycle closes. Another prepares to start. In this episode of Ou...

Are you feeling emotionally stretched right now? For many of us, the last few months have stirred deeper emotional waters. Feelings and observations about the state of the world that were easier to set aside before may be surfacing again — grief, tenderness, fatigue, or simply the sense that your heart has been carrying more than usual. When emotions build slowly like this, the nervous system ofte...

Emotional overwhelm gets louder during eclipse season. Sensitivity rises. What used to work may suggendly feel insufficient. If you're feeling tender, reactive, or quietly exhausted, it might be increasing due to this March 3 eclipse. Eclipses illuminate misalignment -- especially in the systems needing restoration. On this Virgo Full Moon, it is time to examine our self care routines -- how we ca...

Have you felt a spark lately — the urge to move, change, or finally claim what you want? Not because everything is clear, but because something inside you is waking up? We’re entering an Aries crash course this spring. It’s a bridge between what’s falling away and what wants to be born. This is a time to notice your impulses, name your desire, and let go of attachments to how it “should” unfold. W...

If you’ve been circling what feels heavy, outdated, or relentless, this week may intensify that awareness. In seasons of rapid change, it’s easy to fixate on what’s collapsing — the old patterns, structural fatigue, or the parts of life that no longer align. This episode arrives on the eve of a new moon eclipse on the 17th, squaring Uranus in Taurus and activating our relationship with resources a...

Have things felt heavy, repetitive, and draining? We’ve been moving through a season of old patterns resurfacing — in relationships, money stories, work dynamics, and global leadership breakdowns — leaving many of usfeeling confused, grief-stricken, fatigued, or burned out. This episode arrives during Saturn’s final days in Pisces, closing a long cycle of karmic review that began in 2023 and inten...

If emotions have been close to the surface and old grudges harder to ignore, this week may feel charged. Many people are noticing where the heart has been holding on — to resentment, fatigue, or fixed positions that no longer reflect who they are becoming. This episode lands during a dynamic sequence. A full moon in Leo opens the heart through release and honesty, and shortly after, Uranus station...

If you’ve been feeling the exhaustion of caring deeply while witnessing leadership fail and responsibility diffuse, you’re sensing a collective strain. Many people are carrying fatigue, frustration, and moral pressure as care for the planet and its inhabitants continues to erode. This episode arrives as Neptune enters Aries on January 26, marking a turning point within an ongoing season of confusi...

Divine discontent is in the air. Many people are feeling a quiet but persistent tension — a sense that something isn’t right, paired with a deeper question about where their own power to create change actually lives when systems feel overwhelming. As familiar structures fracture and what was once hidden becomes harder to ignore, ethics and responsibility move to the foreground. This Aquarian momen...