Healing The Spirit: Astrology, Archetypes & Artmaking

What is Radical Aliveness? How can we explore the principles of Radical Aliveness in the laboratory space of our lives? How might being in a group process help us with exploring our deep feelings?Being in conversation with my friend and teacher Madison Nees is always a profound experience for me. I'm excited for you to listen in and to explore this alive, glowing, curious space we co-created. My first conversation with Madison for Healing The Spirit (Ep. 22 Dancing in The Underworld) was recorded about a year ago, right before the first run of her offering, Katabasis: A Journey to Aliveness.This time, Madison and I met at the crossroads. I’m currently at the end of a yearlong journey with my offering, Astrology as Praxis, and Madison is about to re-enter the field of Katabasis for its second cohort.The principles of Radical Aliveness guided our conversation. The principles are: Cultivating a Non-Shaming Heart and AttitudeKnowing I Don’t KnowWelcoming Multiple PerspectivesBeing Willing to be ChangedSaying YES to EverythingIf you're curious about Madison's work, this event coming up on Sunday is great place to start: An Introduction to Radical Aliveness.Here's Madison's bio:Madison Nees is a human, counselor, artist, and guide. My practice focuses on the intersection of ecology, ritual and somatics. I have worked in the addiction and trauma treatment industry since 2015. My own journey includes healing from substance use, anorexia nervosa, loss of culture and self. When I began my journey, I did not understand that the pull to somatics was a call of my ancestors. I was being pulled to heal all the things my mother could not and ultimately lost her life avoiding. I was being pulled to feel the things my Grandmother had no language for.My body knew the language however, and it spoke in illness, pains, aches and rage. It also spoke the language of held grief and aloneness. During this process, I discovered gifts hidden beneath these repressed emotions. These gifts were the sensations. The gifts were the rivers of grief leading me home to myself. They were also the intuition and creativity of my lineage. I always tried to “do” something with the emotions but my healing progressed the more I simply sat with them. Instead of trying to push them away, I wondered what would happen if I let them grow. They grew into my practice today.You can sign up for Madison's newsletter on Madison's website, and follow Madison's work on Instagram @ritual_body.  Check out Madison's exciting new six-month journey, Katabasis, which will begin on Sep 17, 2023. You can set up a call with Madison if you're curious here. Madison will also be hosting An Introduction to Radical Aliveness on Sunday, Aug 27, 2023.  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 patterns, relationships, perspectives, and projects are we ready to release? How might we collaborate with the body to facilitate a process of releasing with ease and gentleness? What is our relationship with the feelings of stuckness and not moving forward? In this offering, I'm sharing my personal notes and contemplations about the week ahead. Combining astrology, tarot, the Akashic & Cosmic Body perspectives, and guidance from my sacred ancestors, healing guides and my own spirit, I hope these messages will serve you as you walk your path.While this contemplation was inspired by the energy and the astrology of the week of 08.21.23, I also offer the possibility that the message here is relevant for you - even if you found the episode sometime in the future. This week, the Sun moves into Virgo while Mercury goes retrograde. Later in the week, Mars moves into Libra.  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 being in a body teach us about the nature of being in process? How might our lived experiences serve as connective tissues linking our artistic and spiritual practices?Recorded in November 2022 - towards the end of The Lovers year, where the lunar nodes were in the Scorpio-Taurus axis - my conversation with Rachel Blodgett continued to work its potent medicine through me. Rachel is a kindred spirit and an artist whose work I dearly admire. You may know her from her Serpent & Bow garments. As I'm thawing out of a period of hibernation from creating and sharing conversations, this one feels ripe to share. We discussed about the secret body (a term Rachel came up with during our conversation), holding space for the human process, creating art, and symbols. It's a fertile, rich conversation that keeps on giving. The conversation unfolded in magical, nonlinear time, and I feel deeply that the themes we covered here are more present now in the collective than ever. May this conversation serve as a catalyst and a reminder for you, too.Here's Rachel's bio:Established in 2012, Serpent & Bow is the full time ritual art practice of Rachel Blodgett.Working with natural materials and visual magic, Serpent & Bow explores transformative and liberatory embodiment through the creation, wear, and use of ritual artworks.Rachel Blodgett (she/her) is an artist and poetic spellcrafter from Santa Rosa, California.​She is devoted to the mystery of  being human, and to courtship with artistic expression as a method of communicating with the universe.always in fluxFind Rachel on her website https://www.serpent-and-bow.com/Rachel's instagram is @serpentandbow 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 do the Sun and the Moon, Uranus, and Mars teach us about vision, nature, and capacity? How do we balance our visions for reality, our true nature, and our current capacity? How might contemplating our nature and taking inventory of our capacity assist us in bringing forth our visions with ease, clarity, and compassion?In this offering, I'm sharing my personal notes and contemplations about the week ahead. Combining astrology, tarot, the Akashic & Cosmic Body perspectives, and guidance from my sacred ancestors, healing guides and my own spirit, I hope these messages will serve you as you walk your path.While this contemplation was inspired by the energy and the astrology of the week of 08.14.23, I also offer the possibility that the message here is relevant for you - even if you found the episode sometime in the future. This week brings in the New Moon in Leo, which makes a square to Uranus in Taurus. In addition, Mars in Virgo will also make a trine to Uranus in Taurus. Some additional questions to contemplate for this episode: How are your visions serving your ability to tap into your true nature more easefully? How is understanding your true nature giving you access to more potent, more authentic visions for your life?How is your true nature nurtured by honoring your capacity, by being discerning about what you’re here to tackle at this moment & what you’re deciding to not give your attention to? Is there any connection between your capacity and your natural appetite? What happens if you gauge your capacity not from a mental place, but from allowing your body to move towards that which it has energy from, and allowing your body to be still when there’s no response?How might accessing expansive visions for yourself assist you in tuning into what you want to available for & what you don’t really care to tend to in this moment? How might cultivating discernment about what concerns you want to put energy into assist you in accessing these deep visions? 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.

Where in our lives are we invited to consciously cultivate love when historically we haven’t received love or we never thought we needed love? What have you accepted as something you don’t need or or as something you don’t want, simply because you’ve never had it or simply because you’ve never seen examples of how desiring it work out well?  What patterns of dismissing love (or even downright refusing love) can we patiently witness, illuminate & unravel as part of our devotion to Venus during this retrograde? Which parts of us have we allowed to stay in the dark because on a deeper level we don’t believe that this part deserves to be seen, to be held, to be tended to, and to be loved? In this offering, I'm sharing my personal notes and contemplations on the current Venus Retrograde in Leo. Venus is retrograde in Leo from July 22, 2023 to September 3, 2023. It's a potent time to bring awareness to our relationship to the Venusian and to bring Solar support to illuminate patterns that needed tending. I discuss the two distinct phases of this Venus retrograde and how to work with each. I mentioned a few resources: Pallas K. Augustine's Venus Rx in Leo 2023 workbookVerena Borell's Venus Cycle in Leo Workshop (Get 10% discount code with code JONATHAN10): https://jonathankoe--verena-borell.thrivecart.com/venus-cycle-in-leo-workshop/ Mary Oliver's poem collection Felicity 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 changes, instability, and shifts show us the core of who we are? How might anchoring in the stability and predictability of ritual facilitate deeper ease, grace, and wonder in moments of transformation? In this offering, I'm sharing my personal notes and contemplations about the week ahead. Combining astrology, tarot, the Akashic & Cosmic Body perspectives, and guidance from my sacred ancestors, healing guides and my own spirit, I hope these messages will serve you as you walk your path.While this contemplation was inspired by the energy and the astrology of the week of 07.31.23, I also offer the possibility that the message here is relevant for you - even if you found the episode sometime in the future. This week brings in the Full Moon in Aquarius. Mars in Virgo will trine Jupiter in Taurus, Mercury in Virgo will oppose Saturn in Pisces, and Sun in Leo will square Jupiter in Taurus. 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 move towards self-congruency while staying in sacred reciprocity with others? How might our honesty, first and foremost to ourselves and then to others, be the foundation of all our relationships? How do we fan the flame of courage to go after our riskiest desires? Join me for a deep dive on the archetype of Aries-Libra nodal axis with my friend, Verena Borell, whose astrological insights always inspire, deepen, and electrify me.  In this conversation, we discussed the qualities that the Aries-Libra nodal axis invite us to cultivate, expressing our truth away from fawn or fight responses, as well as investigating unspoken expectations and projections within our relational field. ______Here's Verena's bio:Verena Borell lives and works as an evolutionary astrologer and channel in Villach, Austria. To expand and deepen the wisdom school of evolutionary astrology by J.W. Green, Verena enriches it with other astrological branches, her own spirit guides and the akashic records.For Verena, evolutionary astrology and the akashic records are divine tools for de-conditioning, healing, re-wilding, and raising consciousness. Verena’s calling is to guide other soul’s on their healing and awakening journey so that they can let go of limiting chains and follow their true soul’s nature. Homepage: https://www.verenaborell.com/Mail: mail@verenaborell.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/verenaborell/Newsletter: https://bit.ly/3oPnidm   YouTube: https://bit.ly/3CYgzWzVerena's offeringsVenus Cycle in Leo Workshop: https://jonathankoe--verena-borell.thrivecart.com/venus-cycle-in-leo-workshop/Get 10% discount with code JONATHAN10Transits for Evolution – Waitlist: https://view.flodesk.com/pages/64ad9474e181ddda00ff23d2Conversations with the Goddesses – workshop series: https://bit.ly/3jSMQb4   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 is our relationship with the power of our mere existence? How is our mere existence and our presence impacting the world around us? What is the relationship between our existence and the actions that we take?In this offering, I'm sharing my personal notes and contemplations about the week ahead. Combining astrology, tarot, the Akashic & Cosmic Body perspectives, and guidance from my sacred ancestors, healing guides and my own spirit, I hope these messages will serve you as you walk your path.While this contemplation was inspired by the energy and the astrology of the week of 07.24.23, I also offer the possibility that the message here is relevant for you - even if you found the episode sometime in the future. This week, we will experience Pluto making exact squares to the nodes twice. Mercury will conjoin Venus in Leo, and Mercury will enter Virgo. I read excerpts from Kristin Mathis's essay A Trippy Trip to the Underworld on her Substack. Check out Kristin's 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.

Where can our personal desires naturally and spontaneously be met with receptivity and grace by the social ecosystems of our lives? Where is more work needed to prime these ecosystems for deeper receptivity? Where will we be met with resistance and where might we perceive or receive others’ disdain? What's our relationship with that external and internal tension?In this offering, I'm sharing my personal notes and contemplations about the week ahead. Combining astrology, tarot, the Akashic & Cosmic Body perspectives, and guidance from my sacred ancestors, healing guides and my own spirit, I hope these messages will serve you as you walk your path.While this contemplation was inspired by the energy and the astrology of the week of 07.17.23, I also offer the possibility that the message here is relevant for you - even if you found the episode sometime in the future. This week, the lunar nodes shift into Aries-Libra after having spent the last couple years (give and take) in Taurus-Scorpio. We have the New Moon in Cancer, the Sun will enter Leo, and Venus will begin its retrograde period in Leo.  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 nourish the systems of our lives by tending to the parts? Which aspects are ready for changes? Which aspects are about to be, but not yet ready for changes? Which aspects need to stay constant to support the parts that are changing? In this offering, I'm sharing my personal notes and contemplations about the week ahead. Combining astrology, tarot, the Akashic & Cosmic Body perspectives, and guidance from my sacred ancestors, healing guides and my own spirit, I hope these messages will serve you as you walk your path.While this contemplation was inspired by the energy and the astrology of the week of 07.10.23, I also offer the possibility that the message here is relevant for you - even if you found the episode sometime in the future. This week, the highlight of the astrology is Mars moving into Virgo and Mercury entering Leo.  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.