21. Astrology as Communal Practice with Charting Your Course 2021 Class

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. We discussed:

• What they've learned about themselves, others, and the world around them from learning
• How applying and questioning ‘knowledge’ is as powerful as accruing it, and how it happened within a community of learners.
• What learning astrology has taught them about cultivating themselves and others in their lives.
• What trepidations they experienced in terms of learning together and being in a long-term learning container.
• What they learned about being with yourself and being in community since learning astrology within the community.

This coming September 2022, Britten and I will share a new offering - Astrology as Praxis - which is a year-long journey to learn, un-learn, and integrate the magic of astrology in our lives as individuals, communities, and members of the larger cosmic body. We warmly welcome you to visit our course page to learn more about this offering and sign up to receive updates from us.  

It was such a joy to meet again as a group and to share this conversation with a wider audience. The energy and vitality of this group is palpable and everyone supported each other - not just in learning astrology, but as humans living the beautiful and brutal experiences of being humans.  

A special thank you to John Beynon, Amy Lauricello, Bridget Scanlon, Mary Schuch, and Jaclyn Skeans for contributing their insights and lived wisdom. Read more about them below: 

John has been reading tarot since the early ‘90s and has been intertwining astrology and tarot in his personal practice, which he often shares through his Instagram account at @the.charyot. He brings a social justice lens to his work in the intuitive arts, and he is currently interested in how the modalities of tarot and astrology support recovery for people who are liberating themselves from substance abuse disorders.

Mary describes herself as someone who is committed to showing up for the experience of belonging in a human body. Informed by her upbringing as a homeschooled pastor's kid and the eighth of eleven siblings, Mary is reclaiming her right to exploration and education. She values meditative multidisciplinary living through her practices of writing, music, art, movement, breadmaking, astrology, and being outdoors. Through these avenues, Mary is joyfully emerging as an intuitive and comedic mystic. Mary has spent most of the last decade deep in thought in gardens, on a lobster boat, and more recently, an oyster farm. She is originally from the Chicago area and currently lives on an island in Maine. You can find Mary @maryschuch.

Jaclyn Skeans (she/her) is an avid list maker (Virgo Rising), lover of all things magical (Pisces Sun), and always curious about how you're really doing (Scorpio Moon). Cultivating a more intimate relationship with astrology and the planets has been an ever evolving gift, one that currently has Jaclyn creating a life that inspires and excites her. In the real world you'll most likely find Jaclyn out on meandering walks with her dog, sitting in the sun, or in her sewing studio creating Astro Hoops- custom, textile creations that turn your natal chart into tangible art. Online you can find her on instagram @thePeachBungalow or at www.thePeachBungalow.com

More about Astrology as Praxis: Britten and I feel so thrilled and proud of what we’re co-creating, which is unlike anything we’ve seen in the astrological community. Our course will begin on September 10, 2022 and registration will open for a brief window of time on August 26-28, 2022. In the meantime, we will continue to weave conversations around this vast topic of Astrology as Praxis! Be sure to follow me and follow Britten on Instagram, as well as to follow Britten’s gorgeous podcast Moon To Moon. Sign up for my newsletter here and Britten’s here. 

This episode is our siren song. We are lovingly calling in and nurturing our future course participants and all those for whom this exploration may be deeply shifting or liberating. Astrology as Praxis is a thesis to live into. Astrology as Praxis belongs to all of us.

This podcast is hosted, produced, and edited by Jonathan Koe. Theme music is also composed by me! Connect with me through my newsletter, my Instagram @nate_qi, my music, and click here to book an astrology reading with me. For podcast-related inquiries, email me at healingthespiritpodcast@gmail.com.

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This podcast is hosted, produced, and edited by Jonathan Koe. Theme music is also composed by me! Connect with me through my newsletter, my Instagram @jonathankoeofficial, and my music. For podcast-related inquiries, email me at healingthespiritpodcast@gmail.com.