Erotic Devotion (formerly home-body podcast)

today's episode includes a guided tour through the final weeks of the astrology of August 2021 — Full Moon in Aquarius, Sun entering Virgo and Mercury entering Libra. there is also a live channeled message for this lunation period encouraging you to drop expectations of perfection and see the problem as the channel for the solution. LINKS /  If you enjoyed the episode, check out: Episode on t...

"Business is one of the most radical courses in self-development." today, Johanna Renoth + Mary Grace  talk about Instagram — how they are (or aren't) using it in life + business and some of the  "rules" they've broken around how to do business.  Johanna is an executive + business coach,  and her work supports entrepreneurs and leaders in charting their own path and f...

today, mary grace walks you through the astrology of the New Moon in Leo and the astrology for the first half of August 2021. there is also a live channeled message for this week's upcoming New Moon. in this episode, we discuss: Sun square Uranus New Moon in Leo Venus opposite Neptune Mercury + Mars in Virgo Venus enters Libra a live channeled message for the New Moon in Leo poems, which are...

Guest conversation today with Alice Sparkly Kat.  Ace approaches astrology as an intersectional + political practice, and they want to widen our star thinking so we can build new relationships with astrology, one another + ourselves. Their new book Postcolonial Astrology , serves as a history and toolkit, decoding the planets from a postcolonial perspective, and it's now available for purchas...

today, mary grace walks you through the astrology of the Full Moon in Aquarius and the rest of July 2021. this episode also wraps up our final installment in our exploration of Purpose, talking about Purpose as resonance + resilience. there is also a live channeled message for the Full Moon and the ensuing weeks. in this episode, we discuss: Saturday is the last day to sign up for Interstellar Pur...

usually when we hear the word myth we think about things that are untrue or false, but we're all walking around with a Myth whether we realize it or not. in this episode, mary grace unpacks the invitation that composing your Myth has for generating more Purpose and what it actually means to have a Story. LINKS /  --> If you're interested in learning more about Interstellar Purpose, cl...

“Your Life can only grow as much as you Love it.” mary grace talks about the astrology of the New Moon in Cancer and July of 2021. how can we appreciate and identify the opportunities for rest and repair even if they are small ? where can we celebrate the opportunities for invisibility and bathing in what nourishes us? and how can we re-understand growth so it brings more fullness? LINKS /  If you...

Today, mary grace shares an astrological weather update for the first week of July 2021 with Mars + Venus opposite Saturn and squaring Uranus. She also picks up on last week's discussion on the landscapes of Purpose and shares about her own experiences of "the gap" between the heart's thirst for Life and reality, looking at where we are "making things work" and releas...

today, mary grace shares about the full moon in Capricorn, Neptune stationing retrograde + Venus's move into the sign of Leo.  she also talks about the 3 landscapes of purpose, differentiating between problems and questions and the inevitability of feeling lost. there is also a channeled message for this next two-week lunation period that encourages us to unfold more of our creativity into ev...

You are a portal for the impulse of Life.  mary grace takes a look at the astrology for the week ahead — Jupiter stations retrograde, Sun enters Cancer - Solstice + Mercury stations direct. she also invites us to look at our connection to life’s heartbeat of ebb and flow, evaluate the levels of reception + offering and to move towards collective, creative action. LINKS /  If you enjoyed the episod...

Zaneta Sykes is a Brooklyn-based sound artist, witch and Tarot reader who believes sound is a powerful medium for connectivity, empathy + talismans. In this episode, we talk about the intersection of the creative + intuitive processes and the true power of real listening and how listening asks our co-creative attention. Zaneta shares how her relationship to sound changed when she was diagnosed wit...

This week, Mary Grace talks about the astrology of this first half of June 2021, including: Venus in Cancer, Mars opposing Pluto, Solar Eclipse in Gemini, Mars in Leo,  + Saturn square Uranus continued. Mary Grace also shares a channeled message encouraging the integrated embodiment of our bravery, the fluidity of our portals + boundaries and allowing ourselves to know ourselves enough to allow fo...

Tracee Stanley is teacher of yoga + Tantra whose teaching today focuses on honoring life as a ritual. Her new book Radiant Rest   is all about the practice of yoga nidra and how it can support a more conscious, creative + awake life.  Tracee was first introduced to yoga while working in the Hollywood film industry, and she shares with us about her journey towards a deeper connection with her dharm...

Mary Grace talks about the Sun’s entrance into Gemini, Saturn + Mercury stationing retrograde + the upcoming Lunar Eclipse in Sagittarius. She proposes an openness towards parts of us that are only revealed in the context (+ conversation) of others and to find ways to move to our next step via acceptance and cooperation instead of force.  If you enjoyed the episode, check out: Episode 76 on the Sa...

Today, Jupiter enters their home sign of Pisces where they reign over the oceanic YES's that restore connectivity + reverence for all things.  Listen to the episode to learn more about Jupiter's presence in this part of your chart, unpacking surrender as the key to abundance which is our connection to all of Life and the insistence of biology to carry on even after endings + extinctions....

Today, we talk about the upcoming Taurus New Moon -- its invitations into a more sensual reality and how can we learn from Mercury's queer agility to say yes to both our wild embodiment and our radically cosmic pursuits at the same time. Mary Grace also shares a live channeled message for this New Moon period and issues a call to become more precise in both our earthly and celestial connectio...

“Now I understand. Joy is protection. Pleasure is protection. Sovereignty. Autonomy. Accessing relationship with my will -  that is protection.”  Vyana Novus + Mary Grace connect over 360 degree time and pulling our spirit back into the full, royal embodied experience. Vyana also shares what they learned from a NDE, simultaneous with the process of becoming a parent. They also discuss the process...

Mary Grace walks us through  transits for the remainder of April 2021 including: Venus + Mercury squaring Saturn, Mars entering Cancer,  the Scorpio Full Moon and Sun conjoining Uranus. She also shares a channeled message for the energy of the next two weeks that reminds us of the courage to feast on all that we love in life and to be gracious with where you are, even (especially) if it's dif...

Mary Grace talks about Sun + Mercury squaring Pluto and moving into Taurus,  embodying our wildness, our sensations as a method attunement and how to  our energy in a way that emits a strong signal of resonance into the world. If you enjoyed the episode, check out: Episode 84 on the Aries New Moon Episode 77 on how it is both safe and not-safe to be human Episode 78 w/ Yarrow Magdalena --> Inte...

In this episode, Mary Grace shares about the Aries New Moon + Venus's entrance into her earthly domain of Taurus. She also shares a channeled message for this next period all about releasing our need to be understood, leaning into peaceful + fearless power, becoming our own rescuer and holding the gift of our own vulnerability. If you enjoyed the episode, check out: Episode 83 on Libra Full M...

Daniel Foor, Ph. D is the of Ancestral Medicine: Rituals for Personal + Family Healing. He is a ritualist and educator focused on helping others reclaim their innate capacity to relate with their ancestors and with the greater web of other-than-human kin. In today's episode, we talk about cultural repair work, intergenerational accountability and how to become what he calls a “regular size pe...

Venus, the Full Moon, and Mercury push us to find risk, courage, and competition while asking how do I be myself and how do we be together? Mary Grace guides us through Venus conjoining the Sun in Aries, the Full Moon in Libra, Mercury moving into Aries, shares a channeled message about finding creativity in limitations, and concludes with the poem by Melissa Broder. LINKS / Lunar Shatters (poem)...

“It’s okay for us to be wrong...the question is: can we be in right relationship to ourselves and others so that when the moment arises we can see.” Rachelle Knowles and Mary Grace float through building relationships with integrity; the connection between creativity and resilience; introversion and sensitivity; the necessity of tenderness and non-hierarchical leadership; and interacting with the...

How can we explore non-linear navigating and toggling the needs of the self and others? Mary Grace guides us through the New Moon  in Pisces, the Sun entering Aries which is the Spring Equinox and Solar New Year,  and she also discusses the upcoming Mercury and Mars square. She closes with  “Eagle Poem” by Joy Harjo. LINKS /  Last week’s episode on Interstellar Communication (10:14) Arrival , movi...

What can we hear when we listen for the vibrations beyond the words? Mary Grace walks us though the astrology for the beginning of March 2021 and urges us to contemplate interstellar/magic sound, creativity and regeneration. LINKS /  Arrival , movie Stories of Your Life and Others  by Ted Chiang Carl Sagan + Maria Popova Figuring , book by Maria Popova A reading by Peter Grey from his forthcoming...