Healing The Spirit: Astrology, Archetypes & Artmaking

What is our conditioning? How do we relate to our conditioning with more consciousness as we plan the coming year? We're exploring some pitfalls I've made in the past when planning my upcoming year. In this episode, I discussed the difference between fixing vs. transforming our conditioning.  Follow along with the journey!  Here's the complete mini-series:  Part 1: Don't Get Stuck in The Waiting R...

The title says it all!  We're exploring some pitfalls I've made in the past when planning my upcoming year. Episode I mentioned: 165. The Life-Changing Magic of Authentic Planning: How To Prioritize Your Heart in Streamlining Your Process Here's the complete mini-series:  Part 1: Don't Get Stuck in The Waiting Room Part 2: Don't Fix Your Conditioning Part 3: Don't Forget That You're Human Part 4:...

How do we recognize our wounds as portals to new realities? How might accepting and tending to feelings of powerlessness birth deeper devotions of our paths?  Where are we creating artificial separations between pain and beauty? Where have we been taught that our powerlessness makes us unworthy?  The theme for January 2025 is The Miraculous Portal of The Wound. In this episode, I share some contem...

What is an intuitive business? What mistakes might we make along the path of practicing intuitive business? What valuable lessons might we learn from them? Running a business as a creative mystic is not easy. It can often feel like the skills & mindsets that feed into business success are diametrically opposed to the values one holds as an artist and a practitioner.  But what if these two aspects...

Where do our spiritual and creative lives intersect? How might our spiritual practices bolster our inner artist? How might our creative practice embolden our inner sage? In this episode, I invited energy and inner child healing practitioner Natasha Levinger for a conversation to discuss the overlaps between creativity and spirituality. Natasha is also a writer and a musician who's spent many years...

How might we respond to the grief and fear that arise as layers of conditioning melt away? How might we access compassion as we honor difference in our respective paths? The theme for December is Melting The Ice, Revealing The Inner Fire. In this episode, I share some contemplations for us to return to throughout the month.  December 2024 starts with a wobbly New Moon in Sagittarius, ruled by a re...

How have the shifts in the distribution of information impact the mindset of readers in recent decades? What is the role of spiritual practitioners within the current media ecosystem? How might artists and creators design a path of sustainable, reciprocal relationships with those who enjoy their work? On the one hand, the current media landscape provides an ideal setting for anyone who'd like to s...

Should I work with a mental health professional or a spiritual practitioner? What considerations should I take into account? How do they provide different kinds of support? These are some questions I find myself asking at various points of my journey – both as a mystical practitioner and as someone who also seeks out support. In conversations with clients and students, I find that others are askin...

Where are we committed to fundamental misunderstandings about the nature of suffering? In what areas of life are we finally ready to embrace that different outcomes might be possible? How do we create the space to honor & cultivate the emergence of new realities?  The theme for November is Replenishing The Well of Hope. In this episode, I share some contemplations for us to return to throughout th...

What might shift when we orient to the unfinished process of life as nourishment, rather than obstacles? What perspectives become available to us when we treat iterations as gifts?  In this episode, I digest and deepen into some of the transmissions that came through the monthly astrological contemplation for October 2024 ( Episode 174. Embodying The Resource: Astrology of October 2024). We discus...

How do we express aliveness and honesty through our voices? How do our relationships with moving, interruptions, and presence help in the journey of finding authenticity through the sounds our voices make? I feel blessed to record this conversation with Marisa Michelson. Marisa has been building a body of work that examines singing through the multidimensionality of the human being / becoming. Whe...

Who is Mars, the warrior, in the primordial waters of Cancer? What are their challenges and opportunities? What wisdom might they have for us? For those of you paying attention, Mars is spending a very long time in Cancer between Fall 2024 - Spring 2025.  In anticipation of the upcoming Mars Retrograde, I've been noticing subtle messages and telltale signs from Mars in Cancer.  In this episode, I'...

How do we expand our perspectives on resourcing? How might we become an embodiment of the resources we wish to see in the world? How do maintain active, grounded hope in a burning world? The theme for October is Embodying The Resource. In the midst of unexpected losses and unprecedented pain, how do we maintain connection to our spirit as a resource?  In this episode, I share some contemplations f...

What is the never-ending healing loop? How do we know we're stuck in one? How might we break & transform the cycle? This is a small snippet of my thoughts on a large, complex, nuanced topic that's often talked about, but often not fully understood.  Recently, I've had an energetic shift around this concept that's had a massive impact on my relationship to my inner & outer work. I'm excited to shar...

Hey friends,  This Partial Lunar Eclipse in Pisces feels so alive and rich. I kept getting messages from the planets and try as I might, they wouldn't let me not share this with you.  If you'd like to go even deeper on the astrology of this eclipse season, check out my conversation with Martha Alter Hines . Sign up for my newsletter to read my essays and be the first to hear about new offerings he...

What is shapeshifting? What might the mutable signs teach us to become better shapeshifters in our creative work, our relationships, and our relationship with self? What are the benefits of consciously cultivating our shapeshifting skills? Last week, I announced SHAPESHIFTING ACADEMY , a 6-week container starting on Thursday October 3rd, 2024.  The academy aims to explore the wisdom of mutable sig...

What is a cosmology? How do we cultivate relationships with the cultures we exist within grounded in awareness? How do we honor, respect, and love those who hold different values and ideas about reality? What a joy to have Xenia Viray back on the podcast. Xenia is someone I deeply admire for her ability to weave seemingly disparate concepts into nourishing fertilizer for the imagination.  In this...

How do we hold the complexity of arriving at simplicity? How does becoming aware of love's presence help us transform fear into wisdom? How does working with our emotional pain assist with returning us to innocence? The theme for September is Arriving at Simplicity.  The route to simplicity is often anything but simple. It can be riddled with confusion, chaos, and doubt.  In this episode, I share...

What is the open throat center in Human Design? How do we work with its unique gifts and challenges in the process of deconditioning? The open / undefined throat is one of my favorite topics in Human Design.  It's said that only 29% of the population has an open throat center, making it the least common out of the open centers. Unsurprisingly (and pun intended), there's a lot of misconceptions, mi...

How might thinking open a portal to embodied transcendence? What role do the right questions at the right time play in walking an open-hearted path? Thinking is often bedeviled in 'spiritual' spaces.  Thinking has been marketed as the enemy of the heart-centered, spirit-led life. Thinking has been defined as the opposite of embodiment. Thinking has been dubbed the root of all sufferings.  But does...

What might Venus's fall in Virgo teach us about love at the crossroads? How might we marry pleasure and devotion? August seems to be Venus veneration month for me.  Last year, around the same time, we sat by the altar of Venus as they were making their retrograde in Leo ( Episode 89. Contemplating Venus Retrograde in Leo 2023: Illuminating The Loveless Places ). This year, existential Venusian que...

What is authentic planning? How might we be able to use our planning skills to create work that feels energetically true to us? Are there times when planning actually compromise the sacred flow of the work? In this episode, I shared lessons and contemplations on the heart of planning. Contrary to popular beliefs, planning will neither solve all your problems nor will it kill your creativity. The t...

How are human bodies extensions of the lands we live on? How do we remember threads of connection interwoven in the earth? How might deepening our elemental connections assist us in times of uncertainty? In the past few months, I have been collaborating with Marika Clymer and Carolyn Egan on a zine project, lovingly named Bodies of Land . This issue is an ode to the energetics of Summer 2024 seen...

What do astrologers learn from the practice of forecasting? How might studying astrology and contemplating the future help us be more present to our daily reality? In this conversation, I invited the incredible astrologer Sabrina Monarch for a discussion on the practice of astrological forecasting. Over the years, Sabrina and I have both cultivated a practice of sharing our perspectives on astrolo...

How do we honor the complex paradox of our interdependence with the world as exquisitely unique individuals in this lifetime? How do we remember our inherent belonging to the earth and cultivate an ongoing practice of reciprocal connections? How do we embrace neutrality as pathways into the mystery of life? In this episode, I introduce Deep Spirit Medicine , a 6-week foundational energy cultivatio...