Healing The Spirit: Astrology, Archetypes & Artmaking

What opens up when we consider balance a state you pass through, rather than a prized destination? How might we use our words to explore what matters to us, rather than to define and to restrict? How might coming home to ourselves assist in cultivating patience with our process? 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 09.25.23, 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 have a Full Moon in Aries, squared by Vesta in Cancer. Mercury will trine Jupiter and Uranus.  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 energy guide us towards what really matters to us? How might our energy guide us away from the things that are not truly for us? 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 09.18.23, 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 in Virgo opposes Neptune in Pisces and Pluto in Capricorn. Later, the Sun enters Libra.  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.

If the only constant is change, how might we practice change as a way to honor our existence? What can Virgo teach us about reveling in our process of decay? How might we invite the essence of our past selves to be trusted allies in welcoming change?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 09.11.23, 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 have a New Moon in Virgo. Mercury stations direct, the Sun makes a trine to Uranus, and Venus squares Jupiter. 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 the earth signs deepen the process of remembering our wholeness? What wisdom might arise when we bring all parts of us when interacting with the world? How has your worldview and identity shifted since the start of 2023?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 09.04.23, 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 opens with Jupiter stationing retrograde. Mercury and the Sun create trines to Jupiter. We also have a Mercury cazimi.I read a passage from Haven Treviño's The Tao of Healing: Meditations for Body and Spirit.  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 shifts when we make space for our own experience to be valid? How might returning to our selves help us turn toward the world more fully, in deeper participation? What might our relationship with astrology reveal about our relationship with systems larger than ourselves?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 08.28.23, 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 opens with Uranus going retrograde, leading us into peak retrograde seasons with 6 retrograde planets. In the middle of the week, we have the Full Moon in Pisces. The week ends with Venus stationing direct. The cards I pulled for this week are Ace of Swords and Justice from Serpentfire Tarot. You can see the photo of the cards here. I also read a passage from Rick Rubin's The Creative Act.I mentioned Diana Rose Harper's article "How Personal is This Retrograde?" 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 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.  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 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.  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 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 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 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? 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.

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 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.