Moon to Moon

Welcome Sun in Cancer 2021! Happy Solstice!   In this episode, we attune to the Cancer archetype and also its polar sign of Capricorn. I have so much to say about how this "axis of belonging" between Cancer and Capricorn can support you.  Around one hour and five minutes in, I offer guidance for a ritual with Cancer-Capricorn healing, calling in radical self-love. You can enjoy listening or plan to do the ritual with my voice.  Thank you for supporting this podcast! If you love it, please leave a rating or review. This is how we engage in exchange and reciprocity, which is a beautiful thing.  To purchase the Living the Signs: Cancer workbook or the Moon to Moon workbook (or any of the workbooks), please go to my website. You can join my newsletter there as well.  To learn or join about my Patreon space and receive more detailed guidance from me, check out my page.  I thank Jonathan Koe for the incredible music and Angela George for the podcast art.

Back when I started Moon to Moon, I had a dream guest list, and my guest this episode was on that list. It is my pleasure to share my conversation with Eryn Johnson.  Eryn Johnson (she/her) is a space holder, facilitator, creative, poet, witch, queer femme, and survivor. She hosts multiple offerings, including breath work and ritual circles, a creative support membership, a Patreon space, self-guided experiences for growing pleasure and embodiment, and teachings for healing and recovering from religious trauma.   Eryn hosts the popular podcast Living Open, which I've been listening to since 2018. Living Open is self-described as a podcast for mystics and seekers, with conversations on healing, magic, spirituality, witchcraft, ritual, meditation, tarot, and dismantling white supremacy and patriarchy. She has had an extraordinary guest line-up over the years, so it was my huge honor to be interviewed on the 222nd episode last week! Please check it out!  Here, Eryn and I talk about - her story of starting Living Open in her early twenties and how she came up with that great name - her Uranus-Neptune conjunction in Capricorn generational placement and how that chart invitation showed up for her in 2020   - loving her Scorpio stellium in the 3rd House, including Venus retrograde, and how that works for her  - being a full moon baby with a Libra Sun and Aries Moon  - how she used to resent her Aries Moon and how and why she now loves it  - looking ahead to her Saturn Return in Pisces in a couple of years   ...and so much more. I hope you enjoy it!  +++ Enrollment for my once-a-year course Soft Strength: a transformational intensive for self-reclamation moon to moon closes after June 13.  If you love Moon to Moon the podcast, then consider this Moon to Moon: The Course. Though we can learn a lot from podcasts, we cannot experience the alchemy of transformation unless we're inside the container of an offering bound by reciprocal exchange. This is how magic works.   Check out the course page for all the info. If you're already a Yes, head over to the sales page.  Don't forget your discount if you qualify for one:  - Justice Pricing is for folks who identify as BIPOC, LGBTW2S+, disabled, and/or as single working moms. The code is listed on the sales page.  - Patreon supporters, with discounts that differ depending on your tier - Soft Strength alumni get 75% off (email me if you want me to resend code)  - participants in The Magician's Table: A Workshop Circle for Emerging Readers  I can't wait to see you on the other side of the portal!  ~ Britten Thank you to Jonathan Koe for the gorgeous musical score and Angela George for the podcast art.

It is with great joy and honor that I share this 31st episode because Moon to Moon gets to be the host space for the first ever podcast interview with Ashley Estabrook aka @witches4bernie! Ashley Estabrook is the creator of Witches For Bernie, an Instagram account turned creative space for dreaming up a new tomorrow. Ashley's writing infuses her passions in a unique way, bringing together the parts of herself that weren't allowed to be connected in the past. Her work focuses on using magical tools, including tarot, astrology, and journaling, to shift perspectives around reparenting and inner child work. Recently expanding into the world of Patreon and embracing the student-teacher archetype, she has transformed her platform into a space where she shares the information that she learns and integrates with her professional background in mental health and the medical field. What started in January 2020 as a way to connect progressive witches on Instagram has grown into a magical world where you can find anything from tarot readings, to mutual aid fundraising, to ritual guides, to Bernie memes. Witches For Bernie is a space for alchemizing hope for our future, by processing our past and finding ways to feel magical and creative in our present. As discussed, Ashley also created ritual oils and astro guides through her Etsy shop.  I have known Ashley in one way or another for nearly two years now. It has been a joy to watch her star rise as she launched her Insta space, which has become such an active and supportive community at the intersection of politics, tarot, astrology, and self-care. I deeply admire Ashley for the ways in which she shows up with such consistency for her passions and how she brings her whole self to her work. Thank you for joining me, Ashley!  My conversation with Ashley begins about 35 minutes into the episode. In the Introduction, I honor Mars in Cancer and share some of the ways it has been working through my life since it's been my Mars Return. Technically not over until it's over, Mars in Cancer has already blown me away. I am in awe of the magic of astrology to come through on its promises in ways we can never fully predict or control. It just happens, and I feel so held.   In the Intro, I also share how I've come to know Ashley. Ashley participated in Soft Strength in both 2019 and 2020, and as she shares, it was a transformative experience for her in a variety of ways that have directly influenced her bold moves and big changes over the last two years.  To learn more about Soft Strength: a transformational intensive for self-reclamation moon to moon, please check out the course page where you should be able to find everything you need to know. Early Bird Pricing is only available this weekend: June 4-6. And the only way to have the option for the discount is to be on the Early Bird list.  If you are feeling embroiled or embattled by the eclipses, please do check out my free webinar on eclipses that I led with Jonathan Koe. We have had a huge registration, continuing daily since the event last week, and have heard tons of positive feedback about it.  I hope you enjoy this episode, which was made with love for the Moon.  Thank you to Jonathan Koe for the gorgeous musical score and Angela George for the podcast art. 

In this episode, I talk with my dear friend Natasha Levinger about a topic very near to my heart: healing the inner child. Learning about, connecting with, and caretaking my inner child has transformed my life. Natasha has helped me so much in my own journey here, both in one-on-one healing sessions and from her Inner Child Healing course and workshops.  Natasha and I discuss the following: - how to know when a thought or fear is coming from your inner child and not your adult self - how inner child healing helps us be better caretakers   - how to take an intellectual understanding of the inner child to an embodied relationship  - how the dynamics of the inner child, the inner loving parent, and the inner critic relate to Cancer and Capricorn  To learn more about Natasha's work, subscribe to her monthly newsletter or request an energy healing, please visit HighestLightHealing.com. You can also follow Natasha on Instagram to receive daily inspiration and healing messages. Learn about my upcoming course Soft Strength and join the waitlist to have the option for early bird pricing June 4-6. Registration officially opens June 7 through 13, and we begin on June 14. This is my foundational class! If you love this podcast, you will find Soft Strength to be life-changing.  Please check out my Patreon community offerings as well as my many workbooks for radical self-reclamation and de-programming. Thank you for Jonathan Koe for this incredible podcast music and Angela George for the brilliant podcast art. I love you both so much. If you haven't left a rating or review yet, please consider doing it today. Thank you so much!!!

Such a pleasure to create and give this episode because I got to cover all of the topics and energies that I feel are "up" and "hot" right now and let them move through me in a way that felt like integration. It was just so good to talk about it all, which is inherently a Gemini desire. Here I cover:  - Hot topics, salient energies, big currents happening right now  - Teachings on Gemini, including a discussion of The Twins as well as Gemini's ruling planet Mercury - my favorite Magician, Border-Crosser, and Trickster - A reorientation: what's going on astrologically especially regarding larger cycles we're in currently - Top Three things to know about Gemini astrology, from my perspective  Happy Birthday to all the Geminis Suns out there! And if you're Gemini Rising, I'm wishing you a blessed return to your first house topics.  Sign up now for New Sight: A Free Webinar on Eclipses on May 24 at 7 pm EST! Woohoo!  Please check out my Patreon community offerings as well as my many workbooks for radical self-reclamation and de-programming.  Thank you for Jonathan Koe for this incredible podcast music and Angela George for the brilliant podcast art. I love you both so much.  If you haven't left a rating or review yet, please consider doing it today. Thank you so much!!! 

Well well well... what a lunar cycle this has been. In order to help myself, and in the hopes that what's coming through for me will be helpful to you, I have a lot to share about what's been going on these last weeks.  In this episode, I guide us in contemplating the ways that rooting into our Taurus values have allowed us to assert a more clear and sacred No. There has been a lot of separating energy in this Mars-ruled cycle.  Here I propose that when the No emerges it is because Death is present somehow. We know something is off, wrong, dying, stagnant... and I argue that to disregard the No is to disengage from your pulsing, vibrating life force - your Yes. This is not necessarily easy though, because to become conscious of the No means to face the grief inherent in the truth that everything ends, because everything changes and life is by definition not static. Your No comes from your knowing that there is Death in not asserting it. It means you have the strength to face change.  This is being felt collectively. Just as I was first writing about this idea of No / Yes, I noticed similar messaging coming from people I respect such as Danica Boyce. It was a joy to witness her community exercise with a Week of No and a Week of Yes. Bravo!  In this episode, I also introduce a framework I'm calling Vulture Magic, inspired by the Brady Tarot version of Justice. Vultures feast on and clear what is dead in order to live and seed new life. We can learn from this. I discuss Vulture Magic at length in the episode. I'm finding a lot of inspiration here personally right now.  At the end of the episode, I share a tarot spread I'm calling "Your Emergent No: A Dark Moon Exercise for Self-Care." It is really best to hear the full guidance before trying, and then feel free to amend to your knowing. This section of the episode is really deep, and will be helpful whether or not you work with the tarot. You can use the prompts as an intuitive journaling exercise without cards.  Card 1: The Emergent No (Aries Separating)  Card 2: Why You Might Be Struggling to Act on Your No    Card 3: Your Ally / Teacher for Acting on Your No  Card 4: Foundational Support / Your Values Trying to Talk to You (Taurus Roots)  Card 5: Vulture Magic: The Past on Which You Feast  Card 6: Vulture Magic: What Will Change (and Grow) When You Listen and Act on Your No  Card 7: The Gifts and Fruits of Your Boundaries for Pollinating Your Garden (Gemini Magic)  It is my sincere desire that you will find strength, insight, and even solace in this practice and with the topics of this episode, a gift from my heart. The sound is a little glitchy but the content comes through.  If you enjoy what you hear and receive, please rate and review this podcast in exchange with me.   To purchase one of my workbooks, including Gemini for the upcoming season or for Moon to Moon, click here. For international shipping, check out my Etsy shop.   Thank you to Jonathan Koe for the music in this podcast. Thank you to Angela George for the artwork. I love you two! 

This episode is a big UNVEILING: Moon to Moon's first podcast music! And from a very special creator, my student-teacher-client-friend-collaborator Jonathan Koe. Jonathan and I have had so much fun dreaming this into being. Jonathan named this particular piece "Pisces' Last Waltz," which of course I just LOVE! In this episode, we attune to Taurus teachings: how Aries dreams of Taurus, Earth element, fixed sign qualities, the symbolism of the The Bull / Cow.   I spend extra time on the topic of Uranus in Taurus.  What I most want to talk about is The Hierophant as the card we associated with Taurus. As it's a Hierophant year (I explain), I think a lot about what that might mean for us. Jump to about 40 minutes in to go straight to this section.  Then I get into the astrology of the Taurus season 2021. I discus the primary astrological energies with which to play and notice.   Sending my warmest birthday wishes to all the Taurus Suns out there!  Please check out and join my Patreon space for weekly astro tips and monthly audio horoscopes, as well as bigger, more personal options at the higher level tiers.  For a deeper dive into the sign of Taurus, check out my Living the Signs: Taurus workbook. For a guide to working with the lunar cycle, invest in the Moon to Moon workbook. 

This episode is dedicated to the victims of this week's shootings in Atlanta. An offering from Moon to Moon has been made to www.redcanarysong.net, which is a grassroots collective of Asian & migrant sex workers, organized transnationally. I invite you to learn about and support their work to center labor rights and mutual aid for massage parlor workers.  In this episode, I share:  - why I resist the spring equinox until I'm on the other side of it - teachings on Aries to deepen into the sign's wisdom  - my take on the keynote invitations for this Aries season  - Mars and Venus, Aries and Libra, Aries and Taurus, Emperor and Empress themes  - big dates to note and why  - my Helm of Awe framework for your imagination  ... and more. I almost didn't offer this episode because I'm consolidating back into myself right now with my new course starting at the full moon ahead. But I couldn't not speak about Aries. I love Aries. Happy Birthday, Aries Suns! I hope you enjoy this episode.  My books are currently closed to one-on-one client work. To learn from and work with me, please invest in my workbooks to deeper diving, join my newsletter for updates, and connect in my Patreon space for writing and conversation on the astro. Stay tuned for future classes and workshops. Are you a fan of the Moon to Moon podcast? If the answer is Yes, then I want to ask: Have you given M2M a rating or review yet? Your testimonial is a huge and wonderful gift to this space. You don't need to say much to make a big difference. Thank you thank you thank you!  In honor of Moon to Moon's birthday, I'm offering a secret 10% off the Moon to Moon workbook for people who see this. Code is M2M of course. 

In this special episode, Jonathan Koe interviews me about my story of emergence as an astrologer, reader, and guide. It's super heart-opening and honest and we love it. Thank you again, Jonathan, for holding the space with such care and presence. Our upcoming spring course The Magician's Table: A Workshop Circle for Emerging Readers is unlike anything else out there for supporting individuals seeking a community space for emergence as readers, which is why 11 of the 12 spots were claimed within the first 12 hours of opening applications. Yay! We welcome you!  I don't know how long this last seat will be available, but to our 12th Reader... we feel you wanting this and can't wait to see who you are.  If you find this episode after the Circle has closed, subscribe to my newsletter to stay updated about future courses and offerings.  Wishing everyone a beautiful New Moon in Pisces. For audio horoscopes, live meetups, and weekly astro insight, join my Patreon community. I'm currently not taking new clients, so this is where you can receive from me right now. Follow Jonathan for brilliant insights on Instagram at @nate_qi.  Please rate and review Moon to Moon if you enjoy receiving here. Thank you thank you thank you. 

The last in a series of episodes on the elements, this latest Moon to Moon episode holds teachings and conversation about working with the element of Earth in your life and in your magical offering to the world. My honored guest for this effort is Virgo Sun Luis Mojica of Holistic Life Navigation. For reasons that will be apparent when listening here, I knew that Luis would be my first choice for a contemplation on Earth as soon as I dreamed of having one. Luis's direct bio: "My name is Luis Mojica. I teach people how to release stress & trauma through listening to their bodies. I am a trained somatic therapist, whole food nutritional counselor, & herbalist. My work is a result of my own journey to heal complex PTSD & illness. We can connect to our bodies through listening, to the Earth through eating and feeling, and to ourselves through mindful awareness. From this place, we can heal anything." On so many levels, Luis is talking and teaching about the element of Earth: food / nutrition / eating, body listening / knowing / awareness, herbal medicine, somatic therapy, forest bathing, grounding practices, and connecting with the planet in relationship.  As I share in the intro, working with Earth for me has been an important piece of my own healing process because I was once acutely disassociated from my body. My body was always a problem. Being here in this lifetime, being fully present with awareness and connection, deep listening to my body's needs: all of that used to be very scary for me, so I found safety in escaping. Because Luis's work and my own story involve healing trauma, please be advised and give thought to whether or not you have the capacity to receive this episode today.  In my view, Luis has become something of a living Chiron, which we discuss in our conversation. To learn more about Chiron, I recommend starting with this Liz Greene article titled “Wounding & the Will to Live.” I also recommend my mentor Adam Sommer's episode on Chiron in Aries (the sign Chiron is currently in as well as my own writing on Chiron from the Living the Signs: Virgo book, a snippet of which you can find here.  Follow Luis on Instagram at @holisticlifenavigation, check out his incredible podcast (start with episodes 1 and 2), and find out how to work with him at www.holisticlifenavigation.com where you can get on the waitlist for the next round of his Releasing Trauma class.  +++ Join the waitlist for The Magician's Table: A Workshop Circle for Emerging Readers, which opens for application on Friday, March 12. Learn more about the experience at my website.