Healing The Spirit: Astrology, Archetypes & Artmaking

What insights can we glean from Mars, Venus, and Pluto about desires and needs? How might we expand our ideas of what it means to be human within an ecosystem of an alive universe through the lens of Aquarius?Recorded for the week of 02.12.24, I share some thoughts about how contemplations can assist us in cultivating grounded sight. I then share some reflections on the Mars and Venus conjoining Pluto, as well as Mercury squaring Uranus during the coming week. Resources mentioned:Kristin Mathis on Pluto and the underworldMy conversation with Katie Dove and Marisa Michelson on Ep. 125: HeartSongAstrological lineup:Tue 02.13 Venus (Capricorn) sextiles Neptune (Pisces); Mars enters AquariusWed 02.14 Mars conjoins Pluto (Aquarius)Thurs 02.15 Mercury (Aquarius) sextiles North Node (Aries)Fri 02.16 Mercury (Aquarius) squares Uranus (Taurus)Sat 02.17 Venus conjoins Pluto (Aquarius)Sun 02.18 Sun enters Pisces Sign up for my newsletter to read my essays and be the first to hear about new offerings here.If you've enjoyed and benefited from the podcast, I invite you to apply for private mentorship and coaching with me. This is an intensive container, designed to support you in refining your self-leadership skills, moving through important life thresholds with grace, and expanding your capacity for creative expansions.Try the incredible breathwork and meditation app Open for 30 days free using this special link. 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.

How do we understand relationality through our unique experiences? How might practicing astrology assist us in the art of living in deeper acknowledgement of relationality and reciprocity? In this conversation with my friend Odette Blooms, who is an astrologer, an artist, and a mystic, we explored the theme of relationality as reflected through our lived experiences, as well as how Odette and I embody that experiential concept within our astrological & artistic practice. We discussed what it means to practice astrology as an art of connecting with spirit, of healing, and of remembering to give and receive love. We also spoke about the connection between relationality and reciprocity, as well as how these concepts make sense to us as immigrants who live at the intersections of collectivistic and individualistic cultures. It's a true conversation between two friends - a melding of two Mercurial, rhizomatic minds and two Venusian hearts. It moves at such a sweet, flowing, leisurely pace. To me, this is the tempo and the energy that Odette radiates out from their being: a gift of softening the edges of time through her presence. Here's Odette's bio:Odette (she/they) is an astrologer, artist and mystic devoted to beauty and creativity as a path towards deeper embodiment. As a student of the Earth, everything she does comes back to how we can re-member the inherent truth of unconditional love within ourselves, with other beings and with the precious land we live on. Being a first-generation immigrant from Mexico and raised by a single mother, Odette’s life has been anything but normal. As a child of Saturn, she has always been interested in disrupting the status quo and queering up everything she touches. Currently, her offerings include natal chart readings, and soon a women’s monthly circle that offers space to witness one another through the mercurial magic of story-telling. You can connect with and find more about her at odetteblooms.com or @odetteblooms on instagram. Sign up for my newsletter to read my essays and be the first to hear about new offerings here.If you've enjoyed and benefited from the podcast, I invite you to apply for private mentorship and coaching with me. This is an intensive container, designed to support you in refining your self-leadership skills, moving through important life thresholds with grace, and expanding your capacity for creative expansions.Try the incredible breathwork and meditation app Open for 30 days free using this special link. 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.

How do we maintain perspective when solutions are not yet visible? What might Aquarius and Taurus teach us about the present moment as a resource for shifting perspectives?Recorded for the week of 02.05.24, I contemplate on the fixed signs, Saturn's relationship with Venus, and staying with the questions to arrive at answers. Astrological lineup:Mon 02.05: Mercury enters Aquarius and conjoins PlutoTue 02.06 Venus (Capricorn) squares Nodes (Aries-Libra); Sun (Aqua) sextiles North Node & trines South NodeWed 02.07 Venus (Capricorn) trines Uranus (Taurus), Mercury (Capricorn) sextiles Neptune (Pisces)Thurs 02.08 Sun (Aquarius) squares Uranus (Taurus)Fri 02.09 New Moon in Aquarius squares Uranus (Taurus)Sat 02.10 Mercury (Aquarius) squares Jupiter (Taurus) Sign up for my newsletter to read my essays and be the first to hear about new offerings here.If you've enjoyed and benefited from the podcast, I invite you to apply for private mentorship and coaching with me. This is an intensive container, designed to support you in refining your self-leadership skills, moving through important life thresholds with grace, and expanding your capacity for creative expansions.Try the incredible breathwork and meditation app Open for 30 days free using this special link. 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.

What does it mean to sing from the etheric heart? Who do we become as we listen to the stories, sensations, and sounds that live in our hearts? How do we reclaim our desires through liberating our voices?Join Katie Dove, Marisa Michelson, and me for a profound conversation that explores the relationship between the heart and the voice. Marisa and Katie are creating their first collaboration, HeartSong, which weaves and alchemizes their profound connections to spirit and music, as well as the decades of experience in their respective private practices of guiding others back into their authentic selves.We discussed our personal experiences coming home to our authentic voices, the fear responses that singing can bring up, and the difference between desires and needs.Marisa and Katie brought such aliveness, curiosity, reverence, and playfulness to our conversation. It was the first time the three of us gathered for a conversation and we immediately settled into a womb-like energetic space where time flowed freely like a river. It was deep and jovial.Learn more about HeartSong here. The journey begins on February 14, 2024 and Sunrise special pricing is available through February 7, 2024. Here's Katie Dove's bio:Katie Dove is a somatic therapist, intuitive guide, healer, and mystic, who has been exploring esoteric teachings and mystery schools for over two decades.Her gatherings and teachings are an alchemy of what she is fascinated by and often working with in the moment. Weaving together a tapestry of collected wisdom and personally cultivated modalities, Katie invites exploration through touch, voice, vibration, sound, dance, and movement. Through this inquiry, as well as investigating habits, freedom of choice, and expressiveness, she helps to illuminate the profound interplay between our senses and the world around us, unraveling the secrets of our whole being.Curiosity has Katie captivated by sensation as a sacred language and a path to awakening. She guides her clients and students towards an empowered embodiment, teaching one’s body and mind to allow the inner wisdom to shape their external reality, rather than the opposite. In this way, they reclaim sovereignty over their own being.Katie shares valuable insights on cultivating resilience and shine light on the vital practice of self-regulation within the nervous system, illuminating the path toward balance and well-being. She encourages the attunement of one’s internal potency and magnetism to attract people, activities, and communities that support and align with their true nature. Creating intimacy - a space for sharing deep connection and a sense of belonging - is Katie’s passion. To witness the embrace of presence in people’s lives fills her heart with joy.Curiosity is her guide, leading Katie on a lifelong journey of learning. She finds delight in delving into anatomy, often geeking out on its intricate wonders. In her free time, you’ll find Katie tending to her garden and crafting by hand. With a profound reverence for the ancient ways, primitive skills, and wisdom of the old, she is driven to infuse these timeless traditions into modern expressions, honoring the roots while embracing the present.Find Katie on her website and Instagram.Here's Marisa Michelson's bio: Marisa is known for helping people of all ages and backgrounds sing with more ease, freedom, authenticity, joy, and skill. She has been teaching singing as a path of liberation for twenty years. She is the creator of The School of Vocal De-Armoring™ and Somatic Singing Pedagogy, an offshoot of the Libero Canto School. The Libero Canto Approach was first developed by Lajos Szamosi in Budapest before World War II. This holistic, process-oriented approach rooted in the Western Classical Tradition is her primary pedagogical lineage.Marisa has worked successfully with professional and non-professional singers, many of whom come to her after experiencing extreme pain when speaking, or frequent voice loss, and others who want to explore voice as life-force energy and for purposes of their own aliveness and self-expression.She also works successfully with singers with certain vocal injuries, and those who need a teacher who is able to tune into and work with their nervous system states as well as their bodies, psyches and spirits, in the service of holistically healing an injury that has deep roots.Marisa founded and directed the NYC-based embodied vocal-performance ensemble, Constellation Chor || an immersion in voice, movement, and spirit for ten years. She is also an accomplished and award-winning composer working at the nexus of theatre, experimental music, opera, new music, and improvisation.She was trained classically as a pianist, received her B.F.A from NYU (Tisch) in Musical Theatre and has a certificate in Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy from the Embody Lab. She finished a year-long Akashic Records mentorship with Leah Garza. She has Anthroposophy, Tibetan Buddhism, Circling, and neo-tantra. Being in intimate relationship with singing is my life’s passion, encompassing all.Find Marisa on her website, her personal Instagram, and Vocal De-Armoring's Instagram. Sign up for my newsletter to read my essays and be the first to hear about new offerings here.If you've enjoyed and benefited from the podcast, I invite you to apply for private mentorship and coaching with me. This is an intensive container, designed to support you in refining your self-leadership skills, moving through important life thresholds with grace, and expanding your capacity for creative expansions.Try the incredible breathwork and meditation app Open for 30 days free using this special link. 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.

What does the Mars-Uranus-Juno trine teach us about the relationship between action, liberation, and commitment? How do we impact our material reality through the practice of committing to new habits? Recorded for the week of 01.29.24, I contemplate how the potent forward momentum that this week's Mars - Uranus - Juno grand trine in earth signs may assist us in moving the needle. Sign up for my newsletter to read my essays and be the first to hear about new offerings here.If you've enjoyed and benefited from the podcast, I invite you to apply for private mentorship and coaching with me. This is an intensive container, designed to support you in refining your self-leadership skills, moving through important life thresholds with grace, and expanding your capacity for creative expansions.Try the incredible breathwork and meditation app Open for 30 days free using this special link. 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.

How might energetic medicine assist us to be with grief? How might exploring our internal and external landscapes assist us with the process of walking alongside grief?Grief is a primal, integral part of the human experience. And yet, many of us find it challenging to be with, to process, and to understand our experiences with grief.In this potently alive conversation, Marika Clymer and I discussed Marika's experiences with grief and how it led to her upcoming offering, The Cartography of Grief.This is the first conversation I recorded with Marika since completing a year-long apprenticeship with her in 2022. We also discussed the evolution of Marika's practice, how I've integrated her teachings into my path, and our unique experiences with the structural shifts that death and grief can bring.Learn more about The Cartography of Grief here.Cartography of Grief is a 2-month online journey to explore the landscape of grief in an intimate community that will meet every other Saturday from February 3rd through March 16th, 2024. Registration will close on Friday, February 2nd, 2024 or when all spots are filled. There is also an optional, in-person retreat in March, where participants will gather in the forests of Washington state for an opportunity to integrate the journey through an embodied relationship with the land.Marika's bio: Marika Clymer was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, and spent her childhood hunting and fishing alongside her dad throughout Snohomish County and the greater Puget Sound area. Marika feels that her upbringing gifted her the framework of Energetic Ecology, where she blends energetic medicine with ecological perspectives. She has dedicated her life to this endeavor, with over a decade as a healing practitioner, 7 years in agriculture, a Bachelor's degree in Environmental Studies, and a lifetime of galavanting through the woods. Her knowledge and expertise is woven throughout many subjects, including Reiki and energy cultivation practices, agricultural mycology, wilderness survival, sustainability, wild plants & fungi, and much more. Marika provides personal healing sessions, mentorships, and opportunities that help bridge the modern divide between body & land.You can find Marika on the Energetic Ecology website as well as on their Instagram.You may also enjoy a conversation with Marika I recorded and shared on the podcast in 2022, Episode 15. The Ecology of Healing Sign up for my newsletter to read my essays and be the first to hear about new offerings here.If you've enjoyed and benefited from the podcast, I invite you to apply for private mentorship and coaching with me. This is an intensive container, designed to support you in refining your self-leadership skills, moving through important life thresholds with grace, and expanding your capacity for creative expansions.Try the incredible breathwork and meditation app Open for 30 days free using this special link. 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.

What can the Strength card teach us about authenticity and fear? How might being with our shadows and unmet needs open up space for courageous communications?Join Mallory Dowd and I for an illuminating, alive conversation on the tarot card of 2024: Strength.We explored the themes of fear, authenticity, our relationship with identity, how authenticity interacts with time, shadow work, and what it means to communicate with courage, honesty, openness, and thoughtfulness.We also reflected on 2023, which was a Chariot year, and what that year brought up for us, some of the challenges and the lessons.Mallory is a tarot reader and writer whose perspectives inspire deeper engagement with life. Mallory is also a dear friend. I admire Mallory's portal-opening questions and her genuine curiosity about the responses these questions bring up. Throughout this conversation you'll hear us both challenging, clarifying, and adding to each other's ideas, and freely sharing personal anecdotes from our lives about the Strength card.Mallory's bio:Mallory Dowd (she/they) is a professional intuitive tarot reader, artist, mystic, teacher, and psychotherapist. As a perennial student and Mercurial being, Mallory’s work shapeshifts and interweaves the gifts of divination, self-compassion, oracular magic, earth-based spirituality, loving presence, creativity, laughter, co-regulation, and play. Mallory is interested in how we cultivate curiosity and the courage to live and express truthfully. She resides in Seoul and offers tarot readings and spiritual guidance globally online and as recorded divinations.Find Mallory on instagram or visit her website.People & resources mentioned:Pema Chödron's When Things Fall ApartLindsay MackDavid Bedrick's work on unshaming  Sign up for my newsletter to read my essays and be the first to hear about new offerings here.If you've enjoyed and benefited from the podcast, I invite you to apply for private mentorship and coaching with me. This is an intensive container, designed to support you in refining your self-leadership skills, moving through important life thresholds with grace, and expanding your capacity for creative expansions.Try the incredible breathwork and meditation app Open for 30 days free using this special link. 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.

How might our astrology practice serve as a sacred portal of remembering? How might our unique perspectives as humans living in these times shift the trajectory of astrology? In this conversation, I'm joined by astrologer, channel, and healer Martha Alter Hines for a conversation about her unique perspective and relationship with astrology. Martha is currently preparing to teach the first round of her year-long astrology course and sacred journey, which you can learn more about here. Recorded in late October 2023, we discussed how astrology has helped Martha remember herself as an ancient being and a unique conduit of divine wisdom on a personal level as well as her process of stepping into the role of facilitating this remembering for others. We also spoke about Martha's background as clinical social worker, a psychotherapist, and a body worker inform her current astrology and healing practice, as well as how she teaches astrology.Martha's Infinite Soul Wisdom Astrology 101 Course & Sacred Journey begins on January 25, 2024. Sign up here. In the past few years, Martha and I have had the opportunity to collaborate - most notably on Re-Becoming The One 2023, a free online symposium that aims to promote healing of gender, sexuality, and our relationship to Love and Life itself. I deeply appreciate and admire the ways that Martha stewarded significant projects and containers with integrity, groundedness, and devotion. If you enjoy this episode, you may also want to listen to a previous conversation I recorded with Martha on Episode 34 of this podcast. Martha mentioned this video with Heather Ensworth and Kristina Lea during our conversation.Here’s Martha’s bio: First and foremost, I am a mom of two amazing kids, ages ten and fifteen. We live in BEAUTIFUL coastal California and feel so lucky to be here.I come from a big, international family.  I was born in Bangkok, Thailand, and grew up in Bangladesh, Pakistan, Kenya, and northern Virginia.  I received my Masters in Social Work from Smith College in Massachusetts in 2001.  I then worked as a clinical social worker, psychotherapist, and body worker for most of the past twenty years. I specialized in prevention, treatment, and investigation of child abuse, attachment, and trauma.In 2018, the spirit world made it very clear that it was time for me to move on from that very important work to the calling of my soul – assisting people to navigate the beautiful and often challenging experience of awakening to their ultimate, cosmic selves and souls.For many years, since I was 21 years old, I have had an ability to see many things beyond the physical world – spirits of all kinds, past lives, the structure of people’s bodies and cells, and so on.In the work I do now, I bridge both the Earthly world and that of the spiritual and cosmic worlds to support us in coming into our personal and collective relationship with the spirit world and our own ways of living as conscious beings of both the Earth and the divine.I feel strongly that the world needs our wisdom, not only of our minds, but of our whole beings - our minds, hearts, bodies, spirits, and selves as beings of the Earth, cosmos, and infinity.I love this work that I do now and am honored and full of joy holding space for others to recognize their own beautiful, literally divine selves and to live the full life they are here to live.You can find Martha’s offerings on her website. She’s available for 1:1 sessions and has a beautiful membership community which hosts monthly gatherings. Sign up for my newsletter to read my essays and be the first to hear about new offerings here.If you've enjoyed and benefited from the podcast, I invite you to apply for private mentorship and coaching with me. This is an intensive container, designed to support you in refining your self-leadership skills, moving through important life thresholds with grace, and expanding your capacity for creative expansions.Try the incredible breathwork and meditation app Open for 30 days free using this special link. 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.

How might creating more space in our lives heal our relationship with structures and with dreams? What do our unconscious patterns teach us about bridging our visions and our realities?Recorded for the week of 01.15.24, I contemplate the role of creating space to notice our patterns in the context of larger textural shifts in the astrology, namely to Pluto's shift into Aquarius on 01.20.2024. I mentioned the work of Xenia Viray of @mythscreation. Sign up for my newsletter to read my essays and be the first to hear about new offerings here.If you've enjoyed and benefited from the podcast, I invite you to apply for private mentorship and coaching with me. This is an intensive container, designed to support you in refining your self-leadership skills, moving through important life thresholds with grace, and expanding your capacity for creative expansions.Try the incredible breathwork and meditation app Open for 30 days free using this special link. 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.

How might we easefully and joyfully build our dreamworld? What do the planetary ancestors teach us about worldbuilding? What does being at the center of our experience have to do with worldbuilding?What a joy to weave this psychedelic conversation with Ari Felix aka. The Dream Mami. Ari's work has profoundly inspired me, deepened my relationship to my creator self, and shifted my orientation this past year. We discussed Ari's worldbuilding journey as well as the connection between astrology, the planetary game, and worldbuilding. We also talked about what it means to facilitate inner enthusiasm for worldbuilders, examples of worldbuilders in pop culture, and transforming fears of being selfish. May this conversation nourish and support our inner dreamers. The next cohort of Worldbuilding School begins January 20th, 2024. Learn more about it here.Ari's bio:Ari Felix aka the Dream Mami (papi if you nasty) specializes in crafting dreamworld language and worldbuilding frameworks that emanate from the heart. As a writer, astrologer, and worldbuilding coach, their mission is to empower mystics, artists, and creators to unlock their world-creating potential. Ari believes that one's clearest desires are prophecies capable of materializing, drawing inspiration from ancient Sun delineations. Through experimental containers and transmutational experiences, Ari leaves individuals feeling radiant and prepared to embrace creative risks. With over a decade of experience, they have collaborated with spiritual practitioners, radical leaders, healers, and artists of all kinds.LinksAri's website: thedreammami.comLearn about Worldbuilding School: https://www.thedreammami.com/worldbuildingschoolThe Dream Realm, Ari's Substack: https://arifelix.substack.com/ Sign up for my newsletter to read my essays and be the first to hear about new offerings here.If you've enjoyed and benefited from the podcast, I invite you to apply for private mentorship and coaching with me. This is an intensive container, designed to support you in refining your self-leadership skills, moving through important life thresholds with grace, and expanding your capacity for creative expansions.Try the incredible breathwork and meditation app Open for 30 days free using this special link. 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.