Healing The Spirit: Astrology, Archetypes & Artmaking

How do we show up in our full, authentic humanity at the portal of grief? How can we allow the grief of loss to co-exist with the pleasure of companionship? How does grief show up to teach us about our innate creativity?  Right after recording this conversation with my dear friend and incredible artist-healer Rebecca Lopez Mullins, I knew that we were supposed to share it during Scorpio season. Ce...

What is the correlation between your restlessness and expectations? What pleasure, grace, and vitality are available to us when we lower our expectations? I'm experimenting with a new format! In this offering, I'm sharing my personal notes and contemplations about the week ahead. Combining astrology, tarot, the Akashic & Cosmic Body perspectives, and guidance from my sacred ancestors, healing guid...

How do we work with astrology as a portal to deeper connections with the spirit world? How can we cultivate more easeful trust with our intuition and with our natural gifts? What role can expanding our framework for contemplations around gender and sexuality play in connecting us with our authentic selves?  I feel honored to share this profound, grounded conversation with my friend, Martha Alter H...

How do we tend to the delicate balance of the ecosystem of roles we play as artists of our lives? What does it mean to be a singer and who gets to claim that title? How can healing practitioners benefit from exploring their physical voice as a medium to convey and translate their passion and life calling? My guest in conversation is NYC-based singer-songwriter extraordinaire who also happens to be...

How can witchcraft help us participate in re-enchanting the world? How do we reclaim our strength and power to enable us to listen to the messages from the spirit of the earth? What is the danger in magic? To many in the magical world, my guest in conversation today, Amanda Yates Garcia, needs no introduction. Amanda is the author of Initiated: Memoir of a Witch - one of the most dearly beloved te...

How should we respond to naysayers of astrology? How can astrology help us honor our unique humanity and our interconnectedness as cosmic beings?  I'm trying something new! Episodes 26-31 will be me answering some of the most juicy questions I received from my Instagram community. I had so much fun answering these questions, and I hope you'll find something useful from my answers, too.  (PS - In t...

How can we expand our ideas of practices and rituals through deeper engagement with astrology? What is Pluto and what's my relationship with Pluto transiting through my 5th house? I'm trying something new! Episodes 26-31 will be me answering some of the most juicy questions I received from my Instagram community. I had so much fun answering these questions, and I hope you'll find something useful...

What's my process in preparing for first-time readings? Where do I most stray from astrological traditions? I'm trying something new! Episodes 26-31 will be me answering some of the most juicy questions I received from my Instagram community. I had so much fun answering these questions, and I hope you'll find something useful from my answers, too.  (PS - In the intro to the episode, I mentioned th...

How can we make learning astrological houses intuitive and (more) easeful? What are aspects and should we use aspects by-sign or by-degree? What are stelliums and how do we interpret them? I'm trying something new! Episodes 26-31 will be me answering some of the most juicy questions I received from my Instagram community. I had so much fun answering these questions, and I hope you'll find somethin...

What are some of the best astrological learning resources out there in 2022 (and perhaps beyond)? I'm trying something new! Episodes 26-31 will be me answering some of the most juicy questions I received from my Instagram community. I had so much fun answering these questions, and I hope you'll find something useful from my answers, too.  (PS - In the intro to the episode, I mentioned the wrong se...

What's the deal with Lion's Gate? Is there an astrologically good time to sign a housing contract? What does it mean to have a Chiron placement in 0 degree Cancer? I'm trying something new! Episodes 26-31 will be me answering some of the most juicy questions I received from my Instagram community. I had so much fun answering these questions, and I hope you'll find something useful from my answers,...

What does it mean to be devoted to The Great Mystery? What possibilities are available when we allow ourselves to live in the cracks, in between worlds, in The Liminal? How do we work with the Trickster Priestess within? In this highly magical episode, my collaborator Britten LaRue and I are joined by a dearly admired member of our community spaces - Nicole France-Coe. Nicole landed in an astrolog...

How can we turn curriculum-building, something potentially boring and mundane, into a magical practice? How do we build learning containers that are not only sturdy, but life-giving and nourishing? How can we create a course curriculum that works through our lives, our bodies, our spirits? In this conversation, Britten LaRue and I sat for a meaty, joyful conversation on the curriculum of our upcom...

How do we marry astrology with a beloved creative practice? How can we invite once-in-a-lifetime astrological transits to become our collaborators in creating the art that is our lives? In this episode, my collaborator Britten LaRue and I are joined by a dearly beloved community member - Jaclyn Skeans. Jaclyn was one of our students during our astrology class last year and this year, Jaclyn  will...

What happens when we allow ourselves to learn to dance with the deep, gritty, dirty parts of ourselves? What does it mean to claim that we are artists of our own lives? How do we work with the sensations of our bodies to honor the full range of our humanity?  In this deeply electric conversation, my guest is Madison Nees. I met Madison when Madison gave a rich, powerful talk about cultivating a re...

How can we build new worlds by learning astrology together as a community? How can astrology assist us imagining new ways of being with each other in community? In this very special episode, my collaborator Britten LaRue and I are joined by our astrology students from the Charting Your Course 2021 Cohort! This was such a fun episode to record and I hope you enjoy it as much we enjoyed recording it...

What wisdom may we glean from cultivating relationships with difficult planets and houses? What gifts might we uncover through working with the small and quiet when our society glorifies the big and loud? How can we increase our capacity for embodiment and wisdom through our relationship with the malefics and the bad houses?  In this episode, I'm joined for a very magical conversation with astrolo...

What does 'astrology as praxis' mean? How do we invite our whole selves to learn and apply astrology in our lives? What does it mean to remember our participation in the cosmic body?  In this conversation, Britten LaRue and I mused on the title of our upcoming year-long astrology learning container: Astrology as Praxis . We discussed how this concept came to us, why it feels so meaningful as two m...

What if we begin treating astrology as a living being? What if astrology is a wise elder or a trusted friend? How will that change the way we talk about challenging transits and moments in our lives? In this conversation, my dear friend, brilliant collaborator, and first astrology teacher Britten LaRue and I announce our very exciting new offering: a year-long astrological learning container we lo...

How can Mercury open the portal to the outer planets: Neptune, Uranus, and Pluto? What is Mercury’s evolutionary intent? How can we foster a collaboration with our Mercurial mind in our soul’s journey?  My guest in conversation today is the brilliant evolutionary astrologer and my dear friend, Verena Borell. Our conversation revolved around the relationship and interplay between Mercury and the ou...

You may have heard the phrase "You are inherently worthy" floating around in the collective. But have we paused to consider the truly radical implication of this phrase? If we truly believe that our worth is inherent, what shifts are available in how we relate to ourselves, to our communities, and to the 'authorities'? What other portals might we open if we get into the practice of embodying this...

What does it mean to be a healer within a capitalist, colonial framework? How do we honor the complexity of our healing practice as complex humans?  My guest in conversation today is my wise Reiki teacher, Marika Hamahata Clymer. Our conversation revolved around the idea of what it means to be a healer for ourselves and for our communities, how reigniting our relationship with the land is in itsel...

My guest in conversation today is the brilliant Nick Kepley. We sat down for an open, expansive conversation about the margin. We explored what it means to be in a constant quest for the balance between deconstructing our subconscious replication of oppressive systems in our spiritual practices and creating beautiful personal and public practice that centers inclusivity. Nick shared profound insig...

Many of us struggle with sharing our creative projects. How do we move from the space of fear, of stuckness, of doubt into liberation, generous sharing, and, dare we hope, ease? In this solo episode, I took a walk down memory lane and shared the BTS (behind-the-scenes) stories of how I created this podcast - from its ideation to gestation to birth. I also shared a smörgåsbord of lessons I learned...

I’m honored to have Britten LaRue as my partner in this conversation. Together, we explored Britten’s unique approach to the craft of astrology. She brilliantly coined the term Emergence Astrology to describe her practice and we traced the journey of how that concept crystallized for her as well as how her relationship with seeking answers has changed since her astrological journey began.  We also...