Healing The Spirit: Astrology, Archetypes & Artmaking

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. 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 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.  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 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.  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 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 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 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.   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 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.  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.

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. 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 work with the disorientation that can come with a change of pace or direction in our lives? How do trust our bodies and our hearts and affirm our experiences? How do we stay with the present when the energetic current to move forward feels overwhelming?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.This week, Mercury and Uranus finally station direct. We also have a New Moon in Aquarius. If there's such a thing as a 'new-year-energy' - this week may feel like it. It's a potent energy and we may notice greater polarization than usual. Resources mentioned: My Life Is Better With You In It is a monthly podcast I co-host with my dear friend, Mary Schuch. Mary has also been a guest on Episode 7: Why Are We Obsessed With Cults?Britten LaRue's Seeding The Year free webinar and workbook offer powerful tools and framework to approach your 2023.My conversation with Diana Rose Harper on New Year ResolutionsAmanda Yates Garcia's Between The Worlds episode on The Chariot Year - Your Practice Is Your PurposeThe card I pulled for this week was the Moon and the Page of Wands from She Wolfe Tarot by Devany Amber Wolfe. 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 questions are most relevant to us in 2023, given its astrology? How do we come into right relationship with astrological insights about the future? What do we need to consider when crafting intentions and resolutions for the coming year?I'm giddy with excitement to share this conversation with my mentor Diana Rose Harper. Diana's approach to astrology is poetic and expansive, while also visceral and thought-provoking. It feels like a true gift to share our conversation about the major astrological transits of 2023 (spoiler alert: there are quite a few!).We discussed the topics of how to approach astrological transits as well as New Year resolutions and intentions, what health entails, and honoring our humanity, while also understanding our place in the greater web of life.We also explored the astrology of 2023 by way of its seismic signatures: Mars and Mercury retrogrades at the start of the year, Saturn in Pisces and Pluto in Aquarius, the nodes shifting into Aries-Libra axis, Mercury retrogrades in earth signs, and Venus retrograde in Leo. Trigger warning: We discussed food, diet culture, and school trauma as pertains to feelings of not-enoughness. We also used tons of strong language here.Here’s Diana’s bio:Diana is an astrologer, tarot reader, energy worker, writer, and educator, with a history of being a bodyworker & rare books research assistant. Diana Rose has written quite a bit for HausWitch’s community page, served as one half of the Rosebud Tarot, contributed an article on the ethics of astrological prediction to WIRED, and has been featured in many podcasts from The Astrology Podcast to Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness. Three times, she’s been a lecturer at NORWAC.You can connect with Diana through her website, Patreon, IG, Twitter. Enrollment is currently open until March 8th for Diana's offering on Saturn, Our Lady of Time.We also mentioned some resources & people you may want to check out:Gary Caton Hermetica TriptychaBarbarella movieThe Astrology Podcast’s 2023 Year Ahead Forecast, of which Diana is a contributorAri FelixChris BrennanAustin Coppock 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 coming into right relationship with our desires look like? How can we honor our life force energy, while resisting rash actions? How do we work with patterns of impulsivity? 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.This week, Mars will finally station direct in Gemini. Meanwhile, Mercury (the ruler of Gemini) will still be retrograde in Capricorn.You can find the grounding meditation I mentioned here. I highly recommend energy reading and healing sessions with Natasha Levinger. Natasha is a friend of the podcast and was featured on Episode 6: Empowering Ourselves Through Energy Healing.The energy teachers I mentioned in the episode were Deborah Kremins, whom I've studied with for a number of years, and Francesca McCartney - whose book, Body of Health, is an essential read. The card I pulled for this week was the 5 of Cups from Desert Illuminations Tarot by Lindsay D. Williams.If this episode calls to you, I have some spots available for astrology readings and I invite you to click here to book an astrology reading with me.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 @nate_qi, and my music. For podcast-related inquiries, email me at healingthespiritpodcast@gmail.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.