Therapeutic Astrology Podcast

Coherence Coach Colin Karewa Forbes is an active Substack writer and in this episode of TAP, we explore the story behind his tagline "Surf the Spiral." Tap in if you're curious about awakening  from the turbulence of ego-based outcome consciousness into the steady current of process-oriented, Integrated Self! We discuss these Sagittarian themes: -An experience of Oneness-  Constant expansion – Lea...

"We are fully alive in their alternative world when we dream them. When we have bad dreams or nightmares, or any dream for that matter, our body/mind system does not differentiate between waking experiences and sleeping experiences." – Linda Schiller, PTSDreams: Transform Your Nightmares from Trauma through Healing Dreamwork (2022) Welcome to this rich and dreamy chapter of TAP, where I speak with...

Thank you for being patient. Feel free to suggest authors for me to interview. I am ready - slowly and anticipating moments of inspiration! - Mannah

Let's TAP into perhaps the last episode ever. I like how we landed on the number 108, which is the number of making the cosmic alignment of the total solar eclipse possible, because the distance from Earth to the Moon is about 108 times the diameter of the Moon. In spiritual traditions the number 108 also hold great significance - anyway, I didn't mean for it to happen now, it just so happens, tha...

Yay – Rebecca Martin Hart is in the house! I mean... the House of Hygeia!!- In this episode, we TAP into the astrological meaning of Hygeia, the goddess of health, and explore her role in the birth charts of significant healers – as well as examples of her extreme opposites. For me, Hygeia in the birth chart represents how you can support others in healing. If you're working in a therapeutic or he...

"MAKE THE PAST YOUR STEPPING STONE" says my guest today, and I think Saturn in Aries are behind that as well. Join us as we are speaking about karmic constellations with Yael Eini, developer of the Karmic Constellation method The Karmic Constellation method by Yael Eini has spiritual roots, as it draws from Yaels experience in energy healing and family constellation work,. What we talk about today...

YAY Mark Jones is back, and we begin by TAPping into the role a therapist in the future - and then we go from there. Of course for us therapy involves a birth chart, this special map for deeper insight on what the purpose of it all is. Astrology and psychology need each other. But how does the field of therapy look in the future? Here are some key points we dive into: The Future of Therapy : The c...

Joanne Twombly, MSW, LICSW, integrates Internal Family Systems (IFS) with essential knowledge from the complex trauma and dissociation field for safer, more effective treatment of C-PTSD and dissociative disorders. She's got more than 30 years of experience in the field of treating dissociation! In her book "Trauma and Dissociation Informed Internal Family Systems: How to Successfully Treat C-PTSD...

Meet a wise elder talking to us about how to walk the path of integrity, heart, and spirit—tap into this conversation with Tom Soloway Pinkson, Ph. D.   Tom shares powerful insights from his newly published book: The Psychedelic Shaman: The Wisdom Warrior's Path to Transformation (Inner Traditions), and reflects on a life devoted to sacred service, healing, and love.   Here are some of the themes...

Welcome back to our conversation with Judy Tsafrir, MD & holistic adult and child psychiatrist and author of  Sacred Psychiatry: Bridging the Personal and Transpersonal to Transform Health and Consciousness . We begin by acknowledging the impossibility of healing while in a toxic relationship, explore the limbic system's role in emotional regulation, and examine chronic disease linked to mast cell...

Today you'll meet Lana Kunštek, a body-oriented and mindfulness-centered psychotherapist from Croatia, now living in Copenhagen. Lana works with embodied spirituality and facilitates dream groups. If you are like Lana says "a dreamer" yourself, you'll probably enjoy this conversation. I (Mannah) love working with dreams, and my only regret is that I'm not able to translate the whole thing—some par...

​"A lot of modern medicine is disempowering... any healing comes from either a pill or what the doctor says — and where am I in all of this? There's an agent in the middle of it, and that's where you should build from." This quote is from this episode by  Dr. Eric (Rick) Leskowitz who is a Psychiatrist, Author, Researcher, Educator and he even has a son who is an astrologer. Rick has worked many y...

"The unseen world is timelessness… so we can always go to the points we need to go to, to find what is missing." The quote is from this episode by Caitlín Matthews, who is a prolific author and spiritual teacher known for her deep work with Celtic wisdom, ancestral lineages, and the Western mystery tradition. She has written 85 books and to this day she teaches in various traditions internationall...

"We must shift the paradigm from one of separation and scientific materialism to one that recognizes the sacredness and interconnectedness of everything so that we will be able to live in a way that supports the thriving of life on Earth now and for future generations."(Judy Tsafrir, Sacred Psychiatry, 2024.)  In today's episode, I speak with Judy Tsafrir – a psychiatrist for both adults and child...

My guest today is a colleague in evolutionary astrology and an inspired author. Elisa Robyn has had an eclectic career and now finds herself an author against all odds. She holds a Ph. D. in Educational Psychology and two Master's degrees—one in Geology and one in Jewish Mysticism.  I found her because of this article: https://archive.org/details/judaismandevolutionaryastrology In this conversatio...

Tap into the Shaman's Mind with me and discover a hidden truth—the realm of the Gods. Jonathan Hammond is the author of The Shaman's Mind: Huna Wisdom to Change Your Life . He is a spiritual teacher, and in this chapter of TAP, we speak about such a relevant and transformative perspective on the nature of life, to put it like that. It is about our connection to nature and the nature of who we real...

Ruthie Smith is back to discuss the final part of her book, with many different practices and points. Ruthie is a psychoanalytic and energy psychotherapist with 35 years of experience, specializing in trauma treatment and training therapists in gentle body-based healing methods. I hope you will enjoy her sharing a piece of her work here in this conversation. Here are some of the topics we go throu...

I am so glad to meet with Matthew David Segall, whose podcast's name refers to this quote from Whitehead: "The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato." Matt is a philosopher, and if you start to follow his work on Substack, podcast, or newsletters, you will realize he is very productive and helpful in elevating...

Such a wonderful episode you are about to hear! Meet David Polidi, who is a licensed independent clinical social worker (LICSW), EMDR certified therapist, consultant-in-training, and IFS therapist. He has such great compassion, which I feel comes through in every episode of his own podcast,  Empowered Through Compassion: EMDR and IFS Informed Therapy , and now right here on TAP!! He is also a true...

Today, we continue where we left off in Part One with Doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Michael Smith from Soma Dao Qigong. In this conversation, he shares with us the six common ways we experience overwhelm—and, most importantly, what we can do to navigate and heal from it- which are instinctually, viscerally, intuitively, emotionally, egoically, and existentially. I, Mannah, bring in refle...

Do you wonder if you are living your calling? According to my guest today, the greatest crime against the universe is not living one's calling. Meet Pamela Eakins, author of over 20 books, PhD in sociology, and founder of the Pacific Mystery School. I highly recommend this interview—I was inspired from beginning to end, and if you're curious about the tarot, I think you will be too. Pamela Eakins...

So glad to be joined by my podcast colleague, Sheila Bélanger, who also works with astrology in a healing way. In fact, she weaves together archetypal astrology, depth psychology, and shamanic wisdom. She shares with me exactly how she does it—and I love it! For example, she explains how she uses Chiron in inner healing work with generational trauma and how Process Work, as an awareness-shifting m...

Justin Wesenberg channels poetry, and there is a unique story behind how that began. As an author of more than ten books, a meditation teacher, and a spiritual guide, he shares in this episode of TAP how his spiritual awakening set him on a path of service. After years of seeking, he experienced a profound kundalini awakening that transformed his entire life. Now, he seeks to inspire others to fin...

Davis K. Brimberg, Ph. D., has written a book about the paranormal phenomena, and in this episode, we explore some of the topics in there. Get ready for a conversation about what traditional academic psychology leaves out!! Davis K. Brimberg is a psychologist, a Scorpio rising, and admirable unafraid of wild animals. TAP in as we discuss themes such as: Psychic experiences Major figures in the fie...

Dr. Owen Roberts, PhD, has been offering shamanic training for over 30 years and has advanced experience with shamanic healing. Today we speak about how he says, that the planet cannot sustain either our current global economy or anywhere near the current population levels.  Dr. Owen Roberts have been working to avert the climate crisis via shamanism since 1979, but now believes we have passed the...