Healing The Spirit: Astrology, Archetypes & Artmaking

What might Pluto's seismic shift into Aquarius bring into our psyche, our lives, and the collective? What regenerative visions are available for our transformations? What is the textures, shape, and taste of the challenges that may await us?My guest in conversation today is the brilliant evolutionary astrologer and my dear friend, Verena Borell. We discussed and evoked the archetype of Pluto in Aquarius, which will slowly emerge starting March 2023. We mused on the slow, intense transit of Pluto in Aquarius, its role as the bridge between Pluto in Capricorn and Pluto in Aquarius, and the transformation on both the personal and collective we may witness and birth in the coming years. We hope to support you in gaining greater clarity and awareness to discover the expansive potential of this upcoming transit.You may also want to watch the video version of this transmission on Verena's YouTube channel. Here’s Verena’s bio:Verena Borell lives and works as an evolutionary astrologer, healer, and translator for cosmic energies in Villach, Austria. To expand and deepen the wisdom school of evolutionary astrology, Verena enriches it with a dash of archetypal and shamanic astrology. Additionally, Verena connects with her own intuition, spiritual guidance, and reads the Akashic Records.Verena considers astrology as a lived experience. For her, astrology and the planets are neither above nor detached from life but rather a part of an enchanted, wise and meaningful universe which includes nature, earth, the cosmos, humans, animals and also entities from other dimensions and extraterrestrial realms.Verena considers evolutionary astrology and the akashic records as powerful systems and magical tools to navigate our soul’s experience in this incarnation here in earth school and to connect with a higher Truth, Love, Light, and Source. The cosmos reflects the overarching energy of evolution on a personal and collective level. Therefore, astrology helps us raise our consciousness, find back to our light and return to Love. For Verena rituals, meditation and prayers to the planets, goddesses and gods are part of her astrological practice, soul’s path and heart work. Links to connect with Verena & her work:Contact:mail@verenaborell.com1:1 Evolutionary Astrology Sessions: https://verenaborell.as.me/Mercury Messages:https://bit.ly/3oPnidmInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/verenaborell/Astro Basics Kurs (German language): https://www.verenaborell.com/astrologie-basics-kursEnergy & Astrology Forecast 2023 (German language): https://verena-borell.thrivecart.com/astrology-of-2023/Waitlist – Transits For Healing Course (English language) https://view.flodesk.com/pages/638366006fe9c61d37616aedThis 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, my music, and click here to book an astrology reading with me. 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.

How do we work with beginnings that feel slow and tentative? How can tending to and clearing our energetic congestions assist us with attracting fresh ideas and new inspirations? How are we invited to reframe our relationship to support during slow beginnings?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, Venus enters Aquarius and we'll have a Full Moon in Cancer. All of this will occur under the influence of Mars retrograde in Gemini and Mercury retrograde in Capricorn.I mentioned Weyes Blood's 2022 album And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow, which I feel is a gorgeous soundtrack to the Full Moon in Cancer. You can find the album and support her work on Bandcamp or other streaming services.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.

What does it mean to listen? What does devoting our life to the practice of listening entail? How can listening assist us in cultivating deeper relationships with the greater web of life?This is a truly special and potent conversation I recorded with my dear friend and teacher, Zaneta Sykes. If you've been tuning in to this podcast for the past couple months, you know that I've been sharing my personal contemplations for the coming at the start of the week. On the final week of 2022, I decided to break the tradition and, instead, to share this conversation with all of you. During this liminal time, it feels more important than ever to focus our energies on listening to what's present for us: in our bodies, in our lives, in our relationships, in the collective.Zaneta has spent their life contemplating what it means to listen and what it entails to cultivate a practice of deep listening. This conversation traverses many different realms, but at the heart of it, I feel that Zaneta was sharing a crucial lesson about accessing the presence and reclaiming our vital life force through the simple, but profound act of learning to truly listen.We also discussed Zaneta's multi-dimensional approach to sound and healing modalities, the frustration and joy of liminality, and the corporality of our spiritual lives. Zaneta and I both share conservatory musical trainings, so we share our reflections on what it means to interact with concepts like tradition and having a degree for something so innately human. Finally, we explored how Zaneta's practice of deep listening inform their tarot practice.Here’s Zaneta’s bio:Zaneta (they/them) is a queer, multi Brooklyn-based sound ritualist, listening educator, nature recordist, creativity activist, tarot reader, and podcast host. At the core of their work is a deep desire to remember how to live in interconnectedness. Whether that is through meditation and connecting with the self, or in community rituals to connect to the land, Zaneta weaves sound and ritual to create experiences that transform the way participants hear and connect to the world. In the spirit of an interconnected world, Zaneta focuses on supporting folx to make their art and express themselves fully, knowing that interconnection and interdependence are rooted in our individual wholeness and that our authentic creative expression is at the heart of that wholeness. It’s towards this collective vision that Zaneta offers channeled tarot readings for creative liberation, and offers readings to support artists in navigating their careers and projects.You can find Zaneta's work on their website, Instagram, and podcast - Art Witch.  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 it mean to live on the Sagittarius - Gemini axis? How do we cultivate a relationship with their planetary rulers, Jupiter and Mercury? How can working with Sagittarius and Gemini aid us in exploring our own subconscious?In this episode, my friend and partner in conversation, Megan Frye, and I weaved a conversation on the Sagittarius and Gemini archetypes. As we are leaving Sagittarius season, my hope is that this poetic, free-flowing, and expansive conversation will assist you in reflecting the themes these two archetypes bring up during this season.We discussed big, edgy topics of the construction of reality, of entertaining questions and possibilities without necessarily arriving at answers. Throughout our conversation, Megan and I brought in Odin and Santa Claus, seen through the lens of personal experiences and observations about the collective. Finally, we also discussed what it means to explore our personal underworld through the lens of Megan's work as a hypnotherapist.Here’s Megan’s bio:Megan Frye is an independent writer and translator. An eternal student of photography, astrology, music and yoga, she came into hypnotherapy during the year of her Gemini nodal return.You could say hypnotherapy is her B-side, but as any audiophile knows, the B-side is often the best side. Megan spends most of her time outdoors, on the road and in loving theta with the world and beings around her.She is honored to guide clients through therapeutic hypnosis, which she believes to be one of the most rapidly transformational healing modalities available. Her greatest teachers are nature, the subconscious mind and those who fearlessly and compassionately embrace their shadow.Megan is a Cancer rising, Aries sun and Aquarius moon. She has a Sagittarius stellium and loves her Taurus placements most of all. She grew up in Michigan and, like a hermit crab, has called many places home and is always looking for the next best place. Blame in on the Sag. She is the proud co-founder of Holistic Soul Project: an international, nature-focused, in-person collaborative and transformational mystic retreat experience. You can find Megan and her work on 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.

What is the connection between cultivating patience and cultivating a relationship with darkness? How do we respond when we have information but not a lot of clarity around the next practical steps? How do we expand our capacity for waiting?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, we'll be experiencing the Winter Solstice, which will happen when the Sun, which will enter Capricorn, exactly squares Jupiter, which will enter Aries. Contemplating on the deeper currents of this astrology from the lens of the involved players' dignities, I break down some of the ways to move through the discomfort that may come up around this transit.I pulled a couple cards: 8 of Swords and 9 of Cups from the Desert Illuminations Tarot by Lindsay D. Williams. Find photos of the card here. I also mentioned Madison Nees of Ritual Body (website and IG) as well as my conversation with Madison on this podcast.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.

What is your relationship to stillness? How may we cultivate curiosity around the stillness that's already present in our lives? What is the connection between listening to stillness and deepening our relationships with our bodies?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, we're exploring the idea of stillness. What does stillness mean to you? What does stillness bring up for you? Fear? Relief? Possibilities? I also suggested a dance practice as a way to process for this week. If you'd like to try, I've gathered some songs that may be supportive to this practice (Spotify and YouTube).I mentioned the work of Zaneta Sykes of Sound Art Magic (website and IG). I also mentioned Madison Nees of Ritual Body (website and IG) as well as my conversation with Madison on this podcast.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.

What are our vessels in this lifetime? How can attuning to the zodiac archetype of Virgo assist us in cultivating care and grace to the tending of our vessels? What wisdom lies in honoring the subtle space between noticing misalignments and fixing them?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, what called to me is the negative space, the missing link. Themes of the mutable signs of Sagittarius, Gemini, and Pisces are vibrant and alive in this week's astrology. To complete and stabilize, I felt the teachings and wisdom of Virgo calling us forth, asking us to bring curiosity and care towards our earthly vessels. I also pulled cards: Ace of Swords from Tarot of The Drowning World and Protected from the Begin Oracle. You can check out the photo here.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.

How do we honor our relationships while timeline-jumping? How do we allow death to usher in emptiness as creative practice? How can we hold space for both hopefulness and hopelessness?In this episode, I shared my notes for the current week - Nov. 28 - Dec. 4, 2022. Some big topics wanted to come through as we astrologically move certain stories forward alongside a wonky, yet spunky timeline. With the guidance of the planetary ancestors, the cards, the Akashic and the Cosmic Body consciousness, as well as my own sacred ancestors, I hope these transmissions serve to assist you in deepening your relationship with your own path as a spirit living a human reality.I also pulled cards: Death and Two of Wands from the Thoth Tarot. You can check out the photo here.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, my music, and click here to book an astrology reading with me. 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.

What is devotion? What role can devotion play in our path as spiritual beings? How can tarot and astrology assist us in deepening our devotional practices?For many of us, myself included, the word ‘devotion’ has become a keyword closely associated with the zodiac sign Virgo. In this episode, my partner in conversation, Jeff Hinshaw, invited us to expand our perspective on what it means to cultivate a devotional practice.We discussed what Jeff is learning from this current chapter of their practice - while Saturn transits their 1st house and Jupiter is (mostly) in Pisces. We also spoke about religious trauma and the role that modalities like tarot and astrology can play in helping us connect with spirit when our religious / spiritual upbringing do not provide a place where it feels safe to bring our whole selves.Jeff is someone I admire deeply for their ability to not only present wisdom in an accessible, healing manner, but also embody and exude the frequency of his transmissions with sincerity, gentleness, and care. This conversation is no exception. It’s a fluid, mystical transmission recorded at a liminal threshold (on 11.11.22!) and it feels right to share it as the Sun leaves the watery realm of Scorpio into the fiery land of Sagittarius.Here’s Jeff’s bio:Jeff Hinshaw (he/they) is an intuitive practitioner fusing together over a decade of experience working with tarot, astrology, and somatic healing.  Jeff’s practice is grounded in reverence for the elements, nature, the Earth, and Spirit.  Jeff offers their unique expertise of ritual, tarot, and astrology to guide others on journeys of self-exploration, transformation and healing.Jeff is the host of the podcast Cosmic Cousins.  Released on the New and Full Moon, each episode facilitates a deeper connection to the Moon and the current astrological transits.  Jeff is also the founder of the Brooklyn Fools: Tarot Journey – a 22-week ritual gathering through the Major Arcana of the tarot.  Dubbed as a “radical tarot school” by National Geographic, the Brooklyn Fools Tarot Journey has been an active Tarot Community since 2014.  Jeff’s teachings of the tarot go hand-in-hand with their astrological practice.You can find Jeff and his work on his website, his podcast, and his 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.

Where are you believing that reality is more solid than it actually is? Where are you confusing different approaches with different values? How can we dilate our abilities to perceive the hope and spiritual support that are always available to us?In this episode, I shared my notes for the current week - Nov. 21 - Nov. 27, 2022. With the guidance of the planetary ancestors, the cards, the Akashic and the Cosmic Body consciousness, as well as my own sacred ancestors, I hope these transmissions serve to assist you in deepening your relationship with your own path as a spirit living a human reality.I also pulled cards: 10 of Pentacles from Moonchild Tarot and Uranus from Celestial Bodies Oracle. You can check out the photo here.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, my music, and click here to book an astrology reading with me. 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.