Healing The Spirit: Astrology, Archetypes & Artmaking

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.

Which aspects of our existence serve as the real, tangible, earthly structures to our everyday unfolding and everyday becoming? What are their qualities and conditions, and are they in alignment with our needs and my desires in the present moment? What do we need to feel safe to create the changes necessary to these structures, when these changes are called for?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 07.03.23, 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 Capricorn. Mercury also makes a sextile to Uranus and a trine to Neptune.  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.

In deep observation, what patterns emerge in my internal or external emotional reality? How do these patterns impact how I see myself, others, and my relationships with them? What resources do I need so I can validate my own experience while also keeping open the possibilities that others’ ways of being are also valid and that they may not harm me, even if at the moment there’s a certain level of discomfort?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 06.26.23, 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 begins with Mars in Leo squaring Uranus in Taurus, and ends with Venus (also in Leo) squaring Uranus. In between, Mercury enters Cancer and meets with the Sun, creating a sextile with 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.