the inspired astrology podcast

@soniaashe and i get into it on topics of feminism, boundary work and teaching and demonstrating consent when raising children and communicating with others. Sonia works with the Young Women’s Resource Center and is one of my dearest friends. PLUS status report on my very bruised breasts, Neptune musings and a lost recording.

Ash Bruxvoort a.k.a. @ashgravity joins me for this week’s space cast. Queer Astrologer, Witch and co-owner to LGBTQ friendly Bed & breakfast Thistle’s Summit in Mount Vernon, Iowa. Ash shares their journey and we talk gender and identity to their stumble upon Sect & Hellenistic Astrology and the wisdom of plants and flowers. lauren gets into Neptune business, Pisces season and the New Moon, touchi...

@fischnboots aka Bethany Arganbright is a Pisces writer, artist, creative, stylist and momma who shares her story of resourcefulness, young marriage/ divorce and carving out her own path. This touching conversation presents the power of the divine feminine, grappling with our own process and the strength and resilience of the human spirit. lauren gets into March astrology, Pisces and Neptune force...

it is Pisces season! MC SLiM aka my bf Shana Meshbesher is an Aquarius/Pisces cusp. she shares her journey growing up in the Driftless region of Wisconsin in a little town called Viroqua. tales of her devotion to her family (like, legit giving her father a kidney) and a lot of astrology talk. we hear from Dr. Eddie Moore, Jr. about the anti-racist White Privilege Conference coming around to its 22...

Sun in Sagittarius Monica of @miss.m.tarot shares her journey into the archetypes and mystery of Tarot. lauren gives her book reflection on #theartofasking and discusses the first of three exact squares between Uranus & Saturn and Mercury stations direct. find Monica on instagram @miss.m.tarot

Shilpa Sankaran joins me this week for a conversation on Ayurveda, a science & life wisdom with roots of 5,000 years. we chat about her journey, her passion for community and how we can bring more harmony into our life and the way we relate with each other. the New Moon in Aquarius falls on Thursday. a six planet stellium in Aquarius asks us to expand our concerts of love- and to start with self.

aquarian sun sign kalena clarkson shares her journey from her secular upbringing as the youngest of 9 children and the resulting naïveté in young adult life. she shares her deep dive into cinema as well as the importance of finding her community. lauren talks about Imbolc, the deepest point of winter, and the importance of structure, a shout out to fellow astrologer @saturnandhoney and the upcomin...

Maco Monthervil @observhaitian is a sun sign Aquarius who feels deeply and shares his journey growing up as a queer black male in a Haitian enclave in the southern United States. his instagram account @menwhofeel has gathered traction since its becoming last year, Maco’s desire to fill a gap and respond to toxic masculinity from the perspective of a sensitive and relational heart.

Inauguration day is well timed with the United States natal chart activations and a direct conjunction of Mars & Uranus. lauren soap boxes (sorry about that f-bomb, but it was fitting) and a conversation with Virgo Sun, Scorpio Rising astro-soul healer & Reiki practitioner Pam Janousek. we talk about the journey of getting out of your own way when it comes to service and her meditations on truth t...

Ren introduces some topics for 2021’s astrology involving the Saturn square Uranus energy and Mars’ movement into Taurus as an insurrection at the capital incites. guest Dustin Oliverson joins the conversation on being a Capricorn, a mason, a musician, and Reiki Master in training. we hear his story and insight into the mystical.

lauren gives an intimate retelling of her own journey into consciousness - the vacillation between spirituality and substance abuse and her ten years of recovery in confluence with her service to others through reiki & inspired astrology. not interested in her story? no hard feelings... just scrub forward to minute 39 and get the short but sweet full moon report - the last of 2020.

lucky enough- lauren’s sister, dr. andrea leigh hickman, is just that! sun, moon in capricorn with a virgo rising, andrea has been a career military doctor. after a brief winter solstice report, the sisters chat about animals and love, hard work and leadership, an upcoming deployment, pilgrims and capitalism and the military (oh my!) and the nature of capricorn in both service & sacrifice.

a centering meditation & astrological forecast and conversations with earth mother & evolutionary astrologer kimberly kelley. we talk about her journey with energy, her relationship to nature and witchcraft and have a discussion on this week’s astrology following the solar eclipse and entering the grand conjunction on the winter solstice. find her @earthmotherdrummer

back by popular demand, this is the first half of chris & lauren’s chat ... a biographical exposition of their friendship and retreat experience at karme chöling in 2011. we chat about dharma, guru issues, and lots on meditation and it’s benefits. humour and inside stories def included.

it’s the heart of sagittarius season and this week’s episode focuses on meditation. lauren chats with Chris Luginbuhl, meditation practitioner & libra sun sign to go into the deep about love, loss, attachment and the relationship with self yielded from regular practice. his mentor’s advice? wake up, take a piss, meditate.

lauren’s mother & astrology mentor is visiting on the new moon. lauren & diane flush out a full on spiritual dialogue. this diversion from the typical new moon report includes a deconstruction of this new moon astrology, an expose on esoteric astrology and the wisdom of libra. Alice Bailey’s channeled material is discussed, along with a course in miracles, forgiveness, Christ consciousness and occ...

lauren, under the influence of a sagittarian moon, gets chatty & in depth on the energy of the fall equinox and the sun’s entering libra. talking about shadow work, the seventh house, sapiocentricsm, right relationship, other, law & justice and all things libra. as usual- not an episode to be missed.

lauren shares a bit of her own personal history and talks about the triple earth energy of this new moon forecast. value the banal.

the battle between unity consciousness and the old systems of patriarchy continue with this years astrological shifts. mars as guttural desire and the need to slow down and see ourselves in a larger context. dreamy neptune energy infuses this week in opposition to the sun - service vs progress vs clarity vs delusion.

lauren just moved from no coast to fresh coast. this episode is about the virgo/pisces axis of service, Neptune’s retrograde and illusion/glamour and what the hundredth monkey theory is all about. dragon dog is hanging out for this raw and uncut conversation.

lauren gets real about this new moon energy. there are no super heroes coming to save us. it is us. individually. awakening to our potential.

lauren discusses the forty day venus retrograde period of 2020 as it applies to our communication, what and who we attract, self-worth and consideration of what we value. this is a navel gazing period of pattern recognition.

life is how you choose to see it. lauren discusses the penetrating consciousness of scorpio, the presence of taurus and how transformation comes from within.

chaos-loving, illuminating uranus connects with mercury & the sun. neptune & uranus are in cahoots & foreplay in food & self love is essential.

coming to you live from the bathtub on earth day, lauren offers a conversational interpretation on refuge in these strange times; the uranus luminary conjunction; topics on change, stubbornness, universal love and impermanence