Healing The Spirit: Astrology, Archetypes & Artmaking

What can the archetype of Saturn in Pisces teach us about relating with our dreams and our realities? What does it mean to cultivate spiritual discipline? How do we work with jealousy and projection? Starting March 7, 2023, Saturn will begin her transit in Pisces for roughly the next 3 years. To celebrate this milestone, I invited two Piscean astrologers whose works have nourished and inspired me deeply - Sabrina Monarch and ET Shipley. We dove deep into the archetype of Saturn in Pisces, touching on topics such as: the maturation of dreams, starving artists, structures that nourish and build, ice cream and diamonds as the embodiments of Saturn in Pisces, the necessity of daydreaming and the utility of leisure, choosing who our work is meant to be for, relating to the sea of colleagues within our professions, judgment and jealousy, spiritual lineages, and many more. It's a free-flowing, deeply inspiring transmission in the watery depths of Pisces. At many points during the editing, I marveled at how the three of us entered a trance-like flow where we seamlessly weaved our distinct voices and perspectives into an ocean of communal wisdom. Here's Sabrina's bio: Sabrina Monarch is an author, evolutionary astrologer, and counselor/coach. She gained an unconventional education in creative writing by discovering an online writing community at age 12 and gaining dozens of mentors who would help her learn how to write for the next several years. She developed an interest in astrology at a young age as well, and took her craft deeper in her early twenties. She writes weekly forecasts at www.monarchastrology.com, is the host of a podcast about spiritual lifestyle and personal evolution called Magic of the Spheres, and she teaches astrology online, including an all-levels Evolutionary Astrology Initiation, Dragon of The Moon, and advanced alumni courses. Sabrina is widely appreciated for her poetic voice and capacity to name subtle, abstract undercurrents of any particular astrological moment. She has an M.A. in Philosophy, Cosmology and Consciousness from the California Institute of Integral Studies and currently resides in Portland, Oregon.Connect with Sabrina on Instagram @sabrinamonarch, on Facebook, or through her website www.monarchastrology.com. Sabrina's Evolutionary Astrology Intensive is such a potent offering that brings together communities of curious and brilliant seekers together for a deep dive into a soul-centered astrological path, of which I'm a proud alumni. Here's Erin Tack Shipley's bio:Erin Tack Shipley is a liberation-centered, collapse astrologer supporting folx in staying with the challenge of being in right relationship within and beyond systems of oppression. Working with astrology and attachment fundamentals, Erin helps people reconcile the gap between how they are in the reality of their present conditions and who they perceive themselves to be in their ideal world. Erin lives, works and tends community on the unceded and occupied lands of the Amah Mutsun, Popeloutchom, Awaswas and Ohlone peoples.Connect with Erin through her newsletter, her website, and her Instagram. 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 might directness be our most compassionate strategy? Where might honesty be the most effective salve? What is the difference between surrendering, letting go, giving up?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 02.27.23, I also offer the possibility that that the message here is relevant for you - even if you found the episode sometime in the future. This week, Venus and Jupiter conjoin in Aries, while Mercury and Saturn conjoin in Aquarius. Later, Mercury enters Pisces. This is also the last week of Saturn in Aquarius. I mentioned Diana Rose Harper's class on Saturn, Our Lady of Time. 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 may we be making life more difficult by hardening our minds? Where may we be forcing the puzzle pieces to fit when perhaps, in fact, there were no puzzles to solve in the first place?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 02.20.23, I also offer the possibility that that the message here is relevant for you - even if you found the episode sometime in the future. This week, Venus enters Aries shortly after the New Moon in Aries. Meanwhile, Mercury in Aquarius squares Uranus in Taurus and trines Mars in Gemini. I pulled two cards for this reading: Invocation from Begin Oracle and Illusion-Dragonfly from Brynja Magnusson's Animal Totems & The I-Ching Deck. You can find the photo 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 claim our place at the magician's table? How do we come into right, alive relationship with our emergence? How can the archetype of The Magician assist us in this process of naming, claiming, and sharing our gifts?My heart feels so full in sharing this potent conversation with my dear friends and teachers, Britten LaRue and Rebecca Padgett. One of Britten's offerings is called The Magician’s Table: A Workshop Circle for Emerging Readers. This year, Rebecca will join Britten as the 13th Reader, a liminal role that both facilitates the experience and receives the collective magic as a fellow participant - so I took it as an opportunity to explore the idea of emergence from their lenses.During our conversation, I felt that we collectively opened a magical portal. The transmissions that came through felt potent at the time, but are even more prescient in their relevance during the release. In the final days of Venus in her exaltation in Pisces during this particular cycle, many of us are inspired by the luscious dreams and visited by the fertile visions. Yet, we may also perceive our current limitations: the ways we need to stretch, to expand, to deepen our capacity to actually build the world where these dreams and visions can grow tangible roots. We offer this conversation as a balm for you. Allow yourself to receive. Allow yourself to make space for the wonder of your emergence.More on The Magician's Table: The Magician's Table is a 3-month online transformational container whereby 13 individuals come into my space to gift their voice and their being with the Circle in weekly gatherings. What the participant shares each week is always emergent based on what has been coming up for them. Each week, everyone is paired with a different partner. These partner sessions are opportunities to practice giving and receiving support, and are meant to be experimental spaces for both unlearning and learning how your gifts want to move through you. Moving into contact with your gifts can be incredibly destabilizing and confronting, and thus The Magician's Table is also a death process so you can let die what keeps you from trusting your magic.If you feel a resonance, read more about The Magician's Table here. Apply for the 2023 cohort here.Here's Britten's bio:Britten LaRue is a teacher, an author, and a professional astrologer who spends much of her time speaking and writing. But she is most powerful (as she once heard in meditation) when she listens. In her work as an intuitive guide, she has built a powerful talent as a professional listener. Her clients seek out her skill as a spaceholder not to be told what to do or to be given answers, but to see their own wisdom reflected back to them. And as someone who has learned to trust in her own self-authority, she’d have it no other way. Britten’s deepest calling is to be a midwife for those in the process of birthing their own inner knowing, healing from shame, and learning to trust themselves again with the reckless freedom they deserve. In 2023, Britten is in deep apprenticeship with both Saturn and Venus at the intersections of her most core wounds. Saturn is showing her the healing impact she has on others when she inhabits her power from a heart-led frequency of love. Venus is helping her to trust that she is supported in more ways than she can possibly fathom by forces seen and unseen.Connect with Britten through her website, her podcast Moon To Moon, and her Instagram.Here's Rebecca's bio: Rebecca Padgett (she/her) is a mystic, artist, and oracle devoted to the unseen world, living in an old farm house in Ontario, Canada. She enjoys living with nature and the wide-open, rural landscape which quiets and expands her mind, as well as immersing her in the cycles of the plants, animals, seasons, and night sky around her. She has previously worked with astrology, tarot, reiki, yoga, as well as intuitive abstract painting, a practice mirroring her life card - The Empress - reinforcing a strong connection to intuition and creativity. As she grows further into her voice, Rebecca finds her work to be the exploration of where these two places meet and interconnect to one another. Her work is ever-changing and growing as she is someone who is devoted to the cyclical nature of the universe and the creative process. Connect with Rebecca through her website and her Instagram. 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 can we make more space for the spiritual and philosophical dimensions in our lives? Where in your life are you yearning to fall in love with solitude? Where are we unconsciously buying into the illusion of separation between the dimension of the mundane & the spiritual or philosophical dimensions?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 02.13.23, I also offer the possibility that that the message here is relevant for you - even if you found the episode sometime in the future. This week, Venus and Neptune will make a conjunction in Pisces. Meanwhile, the Sun and Saturn will make a conjunction in Aquarius. Later in the week, the Sun will enter Pisces.  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 does slowing down feel nutritive, caring, and regenerative in your path? Where are you being called to finding sweetness by making sweetness?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 02.06.23, I also offer the possibility that that the message here is relevant for you - even if you found the episode sometime in the future. This week, in the aftermath of the Leo Full Moon, the Sun-Uranus square, and the Venus-Mars square, we are experiencing a more easeful sextile between Mercury and Neptune, as well as Venus and Uranus. Mercury also enters Aquarius at the end of the week.Here's a photo of the cards that I pulled: Who's There from Begin Oracle and 3 of Swords from She Wolfe Tarot.I mentioned the book Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention Anymore by Johann Hari.I also mentioned my conversation with Verena Borell on Mercury and the Outer Planets, as well as my conversation with Diana Rose on the astrology of 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.

How might we approach astrologer-client relationships through the lens of care work? How do we cultivate secure attachment in these relationships? How can astrology assist us in the process of caring for our chosen families?I'm excited to share this expansive, Jupiterian-wisdom-weaving conversation with the brilliant astrologer ET Shipley. Erin and I have been working together in a 1:1 capacity in the past few months and I've been continuously inspired by the compassion, presence, resourcefulness, and commitment with which Erin shows up to each session.In this conversation, we discussed what it means to be an astrologer who also does client work in the age of collapse. Erin also shared how she frames the idea of care work through the lens of the 3rd and the 6th house as well as the Moon, Mercury, and Mars.Halfway through the conversation, Erin shared some thoughts about the Mars in Gemini transit. I find this part of our conversation so illuminating, especially in light of the fact that we've been living out this transit for 6 months or so.Here's Erin's bio: Erin Tack Shipley is a liberation-centered, collapse astrologer supporting folx in staying with the challenge of being in right relationship within and beyond systems of oppression. Working with astrology and attachment fundamentals, Erin helps people reconcile the gap between how they are in the reality of their present conditions and who they perceive themselves to be in their ideal world. Erin lives, works and tends community on the unceded and occupied lands of the Amah Mutsun, Popeloutchom, Awaswas and Ohlone peoples.Connect with Erin through her newsletter, her website, and her Instagram.Resources we mentioned: Carmen Spagnola: An introduction to collapse can be found on this podcast episode.Silvia Federici: Feminism and the politics of the commonsSabrina Monarch's reflections on Libra and Pisces 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 happens when your soul-level calling and your meticulous planning are met with an oppositional current? How can embracing our underlying motivation assist us in moving forward when there's a hitch in the plan? What if we allow conflicts & obstacles to fortify our relationship to the internal and external resources we need to move 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 01.30.23, I also offer the possibility that that the message here is relevant for you - even if you found the episode sometime in the future. This week, the Sun in Aquarius will create a square to Uranus in Taurus, before creating a T-square with the Moon in Leo during the Full Moon. Meanwhile, Venus in Pisces will complete a square with Mars in Gemini. Squares galore! Let's feel into how we can collaborate with squares to create a nourishing path forward.I recorded a clearing & releasing meditation which may be supportive for you this week. Listen 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 purpose? How can we reframe our relationship to purpose to be as dynamic as life itself? Can honoring death be as much a part of our purpose work as building?I'm excited to share this alive, spontaneous conversation with the author of my favorite text on the topic of purpose, Wendy May. Throughout my life, the idea of purpose has always felt both exciting and daunting. When I first read Wendy's book, Regenerative Purpose, in 2021, it was simultaneously affirming, nourishing, and challenging. Most importantly, it's helped me shift to a more compassionate and exciting view of purpose. We discussed the topics of what regenerative purpose means and feels like to Wendy, the process of writing the book, and how she's living out her own teaching now - over three years since it was first published.We also explored Wendy's move to Thailand, where she currently resides, her thoughts on purpose as wave-making rather than empire-building, and the idea of stewardship.Here’s Wendy’s bio:Wendy May is a purpose coach and purpose activist. She is the pioneering author of “Regenerative Purpose,” which offers a radical reframe of purpose as dynamic and relational, rather than fixed and personal. After leaving behind a successful corporate career, Wendy now facilitates others in the process of deep purpose alignment, so that we can create a world of work that works for everyone.Purchase her book, Regenerative Purpose, here.You can also connect with Wendy through her website, Substack, and Instagram. I also mentioned Wendy's conversation with Sabrina Monarch, which you can find 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.

When was the last time you checked in with your inner elder and your inner child? What magic, breakthroughs, and healing would come forward when you allow them to inform your decision-making process? How do we welcome change with more gentleness when we know it as the bridge towards a glorious new chapter?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 01.23.23, I also offer the possibility that that the message here is relevant for you - even if you found the episode sometime in the future. This week, Sun in Aquarius will create a sextile to Jupiter in Aries. Meanwhile, Mercury finally leaves 8 degree Capricorn, and Mars finally leaves 8 degree Gemini. Venus will also enter Pisces - adding a gentle shimmer and a much-needed sense of mobility.The card I pulled for this week was Ace of Pentacles from Desert Illuminations Tarot by Lindsay D. Williams. The conversation I referenced between Diana Rose Harper and Ari Felix on Saturn can be found 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.