Therapeutic Astrology Podcast

" The birthchart depicts psychic structure, but the psyche is intrinsically dynamic and constantly evolving within the framework of that structure. Fate reflects the unfoldment of character while also acting as a spur to its further development ." - Dr. Glenn Perry Glenn is a therapist,  astrologer, and author of nine books and director of the Academy of AstroPsychology. Join us in this RICH with...

"With soul comes an intense sense of value, an ordering of desires, and a respect for common things because they have such impact upon the human spirit" p 44, The Planets Within, Thomas Moores first book! I am happy to present you with this meeting with author and therapist Thomas Moore ( https://www.thomasmooresoul.com) who is a great source of inspiration to me. I love the way he writes. Join us...

Have you tried to desperately wanting to quit doing/consuming something, but it just seems that life without it is boring or even unpleasant? Let's talk about addictive behavior as a trauma response and about how we can start to move away from instant gratification, binge-eating and dependency on sugar and overeating for our pleasure - because it never really give us what we need, anyway PLUS if i...

First some thoughts on last chapter including finishing my sentence on (Pluto in) Virgo being a transitional sign and also asking myself af question that no one else is asking me, but you might come to wonder, as you dive into evolutionary astrology to discover the internal differences in this branch of star wisdom. That was a long sentence. Let's do bullet points instead: A comment on spiritual b...

People with early trauma (we) have adopted and repeated different strategies for living, that needs to be re-examined. Maybe you have learned to shut down, numb sensations or explode in the face of painful situations. Pluto is a great way to examine these patterns. We learn from our experiences all the time - when we look with the plutonian lens. If we don't answer Plutos call for consciousness, l...

FIRST: We go back in time to understand an early view and our foundation today around suicide, the theme from the last chapter. Prepare for some long quotations!! Karl Menninger "Man against himself" and a symposium (Adler and Friedman) - then we dive into Clancy Martins book: "How Not to Kill Yourself- Portrait of a Suicidal Mind" and talk more about the impulse to self-destruct in a modern view....

Schophenhauer wrote in 1893: "As soon as the terrors of life reach the point at which they outweigh the terrors of death, a man will put an end to his life"  However when we have lost all hope, how sound is our judgement, I want to add...it's very common in humans to have self-destructive thoughts that run counter to one´s desire. By suicide or suicidal ideation - we try to achieve something.. to...

If you feel alone inside the family, you might as well face the loneliness, that comes from estrangement. This episodes has no moral about what you need to do in your personal context - but I am offering a voice of permission to seek relief from a constraint biological relationship by distancing. For me that means choosing my own family made up by friends and role-models. It takes a long time - I...

FIRST a continuation of "religious trauma" - the theme from last time. I am helped by great articles to learn about the definition of religion versus spirituality and how shame becomes chronic as a result of the religious teaching AND what the religion did not allow you to know about. Remember you are welcome yo reach out at therapeuticastrologer@gmail.com if you comments to these talks. We then g...

If it was not clear by now...this podcast is based on my personal traumas and the understanding and practices, I have found for my own healing and therapeutic client-work.  This episode is around a topic we will come back to a lot, because 30 years of my life was spent inside a doctrine; a sectarian environment that programmed into me a fundamentalistic faith in God and the whole biblical world-vi...

The meditation is 13 minutes into the episode FYI. Let's carve out a few minutes to release the stress of the body and feel into being "what perceives". Over time this is will be healing and opening to new ways of relating to the world. Enjoy this soft meditation with the intent of accessing more of your true self via softness. - Mannah https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/

Without connecting to emotions, it's hard to feel guided in life. Without contact to your body, it becomes an object to be perfected or just despised, probably both I've found that different school of thoughts are using the work dissociation differently - in this talk I'm quite open to include a lot of symptoms, as the main point for me is the unstable sense of self. We talk about dissociation onl...

Do you have - or used to have - feelings of being inherently wrong? That's probably a deep one then. Let's dare to look at it and dismantle it a little bit. Sort of the structure: What is up with this the great idea about combining astrology and therapy?  Origins of wrong-ness and how if you believe it, the environment can validate it for you The archetype of Scorpio/Pluto - reading some Steven Fo...

Motivated by lingering effects of sickness, I bring you TAP! Death is coming for us, and I want to talk to you about real stuff, before it does. TAP will be me talking to you about different psychological topics and how astrological factors represent the same issue. And even bring in more wisdom to it. Thank you for listening - Mannah