Amanda anandita Simon on Astrology, Sensitivity and Collective Shifts // Beckoned by the Stars - E228
Dec 5, 2024
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Amanda anandita Simon, a consulting astrologer, acutonics practitioner, and artist with an MA in Art and Ecology, passionately delves into the misunderstood world of astrology. She discusses how astrology can help us navigate sensitivity and urban life while emphasizing bodily awareness. Amanda explores cosmic shifts like Pluto's movement from Capricorn to Aquarius, signaling changes in power dynamics. Listeners are encouraged to recognize their connection to the cosmos and the importance of community in these transformative times.
Engaging with astrology helps individuals connect their personal experiences to a broader cosmic narrative, enhancing self-awareness and purpose.
The importance of community practices, like chanting and meditation, serves as a vital support system during emotionally challenging times.
Navigating urban life requires cultivating personal practices that foster resilience and connection to nature and community amidst heightened sensitivity.
Deep dives
Astrology as a Pathway to Consciousness
Engaging with astrology allows individuals to connect their lives to a broader cosmic framework, enhancing their understanding of both personal and collective journeys. This awareness fosters a sense of belonging within a vast process of consciousness and encourages a fluid engagement with one's own potential and the world's evolution. Astrology offers a rich symbolic language that deepens self-awareness, helping individuals recognize the interconnectedness of their experiences with the universe. By embracing the nuances of one's astrological chart, people can feel more attuned to their unique energies and possibilities, leading to a greater sense of purpose.
Support and Community During Holiday Times
The importance of community during challenging times, especially around the holidays, is emphasized as a critical resource for those feeling off balance or isolated. Regular gatherings and practices, such as chanting and meditation, can provide a supportive space to reconnect with oneself amidst the chaos of social engagements. Offering accessible practices aims to help individuals navigate emotional challenges, whether arising from personal grief, family dynamics, or the pressures of the season. This approach encourages collective healing and offers an opportunity to ground oneself in community and shared experiences.
Transformative One-to-One Sessions
Personal sessions focusing on deep intuitive therapy reveal the potential for transformative healing by addressing trauma patterns and facilitating new growth. Clients have reported significant shifts in their well-being, such as renewed ease in their hearts and the revival of dreams long thought lost due to trauma. This individualized approach helps people gain control over their lives, highlighting the art of energy work in overcoming feelings of overwhelm. The outcomes, often surprising and subtle, attest to the interconnectedness of personal healing and the overall energetic environment.
The Role of Sensitivity in Urban Living
Navigating the dynamic interplay between urban life and heightened sensitivity is a delicate balance, requiring individuals to cultivate personal practices that ground and support them. Engaging in dance, singing, or art helps create spaces where one can embrace their vulnerability rather than becoming overwhelmed by the overwhelming aspects of city life. Maintaining flexibility in one's working life allows for the necessary drift between environments, keeping a connection to nature and community essential for thriving. This adaptability fosters resilience and enhances the ability to inhabit both personal and collective spaces authentically.
Astrology Beyond Self-Help
Astrology is often misunderstood as merely a tool for self-help or personal gain, yet its true essence lies in expanding one’s perspective on existence and interconnectedness. It encourages individuals to explore their unique attributes while recognizing their role within a larger cosmic tapestry. As people engage more deeply with astrological teachings, they can transcend self-limiting beliefs and instead embrace a collaborative, fluid understanding of their energy and existence. This shift opens a path towards a more authentic expression of self, emphasizing participation in the changes occurring both within and around us.
How can understanding astrology support us in riding these times?
This episode brings forth a powerful way of hearing, feeling and seeing the art that astrology is. A deeply misunderstood sacred practice that Amanda is enormously passionate about. As a consulting astrologer, acutonics practitioner and artist, currently studying an MA in Art and Ecology at Goldsmiths University, Amanda anandita Simon brings the poetics of this practice out of the astrological arena into spaces where it can offer and be recognised for its contribution to join other acts of resistance. “To re-member a living relation with an ensouled cosmos, to restore and restore our dreaming heart and cultivate sensibility to subtlety - the intricacy and specificity present in each thread of our lived life.” Amanda shares.
Together we explore:
:: How to cultivate a bodily awareness that allows us to deeply touch and be touched by the world around us
:: What it means to return to the city after countryside life and how to prevent being overwhelmed by its intensity
:: What Pluto's recent transition from the Earth-based Capricorn to the Air-focused Aquarius signifies for us
:: How to understand astrology as an art and sacred practice
We hope that you enjoy this episode and that something here really lands for you.
