Healing The Spirit: Astrology, Archetypes & Artmaking

What do astrologers learn from the practice of forecasting? How might studying astrology and contemplating the future help us be more present to our daily reality?In this conversation, I invited the incredible astrologer Sabrina Monarch for a discussion on the practice of astrological forecasting. Over the years, Sabrina and I have both cultivated a practice of sharing our perspectives on astrological transits with our audience and our communities. It's a rich practice that have assisted us both in honing our unique astrological voices. We thought we'd share some lessons we've learned as well as how this practice has expanded us as practitioners and as humans. Sabrina has been practicing & teaching evolutionary astrology for many years now. She was someone I studied with very early on in my journey, and my experience learning with her was invaluable to who I've become as an astrologer. Early in my studies, I signed up for her newsletter and quickly became enchanted by the inspired, image-driven, vivid ways that Sabrina wrote about astrology. Her forecasts were beyond mere delineations – they hold potential to transport readers into expanded experiences of reality. From now until August 11, 2024, Sabrina is running a Kickstarter campaign to support the creation of her forecasts & her podcast throughout the coming year. Through the Kickstarter, you can make a pledge to support Sabrina's work & in exchange receive discounted tuition for her signature course, Evolutionary Astrology Intensive, as well as workshops, readings, and a new course called Glamor Magic.Links to connect with Sabrina:Sabrina 2024-2025 Kickstarter CampaignSabrina's websiteSabrina's podcast, Magic of The Spheres, and her YouTube channelSabrina's 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 do we honor the complex paradox of our interdependence with the world as exquisitely unique individuals in this lifetime? How do we remember our inherent belonging to the earth and cultivate an ongoing practice of reciprocal connections? How do we embrace neutrality as pathways into the mystery of life?In this episode, I introduce Deep Spirit Medicine, a 6-week foundational energy cultivation course. Deep Spirit Medicine is an experience designed to guide you to listen to your inner guidance, to develop clear perception, and to cultivate reciprocal relationships with the world around you. Through guided meditation and communal discussions, this course seeks to build a foundational practice for intuitive development. Deep Spirit Medicine lies at the heart of my practice as a mystic, an astrologer, a facilitator, and a human. It is foundational to everything I do. This work was developed by my teacher and mentor, Deborah Kremins, who also trained me to teach this work. I'm grateful for her guidance and I'm honored to share this work with you.Read more about the upcoming round of Deep Spirit Medicine here.The next round of Deep Spirit Medicine will start on Thursday, July 18, 2024. We will have a maximum of 20 participants, so it will be a small and intimate group. If you feel the resonance, I hope you will consider joining us.  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 uncover our own truth in a world of infinite options? How do we contextualize the inevitability of trends in spiritual spaces? How do we approach traditions with discernment and wisdom?In this episode, I explored the complexity of trends and traditions within spiritual spaces. These can be polarizing topics. Too often, it's easy to either chase trends while losing a sense of who we are or to dismiss trends as mere fads. Likewise, it's also tempting to fall into the trap of revering traditions at all costs, neglecting to ask important questions rooted in common sense and to harden ourselves around "That's just the way things have been done." I will be teaching the next round of Deep Spirit Medicine, a foundational energetic cultivation course, which will begin on Thursday, July 18, 2024. Join the waitlist 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 the rubber meet the road when it comes to our spiritual practices? What principles, beliefs, and values underlie our spiritual practices? How might contemplating them more deeply help us orient towards practices that align with the chapter of life we're in?This is the first installment (hopefully of many more) where I explore the theme of embodied practical spirituality. Our spiritual practices don't exist in a vacuum. They are part of the larger ecosystem of our lives.How do we begin building bridges between our so-called mundane realities and our spiritual lives? What caused the divide in the first place? How might we begin dissolving the arbitrary divisions and embracing the potential for our daily reality to initiate us?Drop any questions you may have for me here.Photo by Andres Siimon via Unsplash. 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.

I've been sitting on this episode for some time. I've known that the podcast wanted to shapeshift since the beginning of the year, but I didn't know exactly what Healing The Spirit 2.0 will look like so I stayed devoted to the rhythm we've established.This week, it became clear that the first right move is to pause the weekly contemplations to create space for new pursuits, explorations, and most importantly, experiments.This summer, we'll be playing with new formats, new rhythms, new approaches. I invite you to join me in the mystery ride.  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 friendship, art, and spirituality as creative experiments? How do we practice presence in grief? How might we increase our capacity to change our minds and shift our practices?Halfway through this conversation, Mary Schuch casually said something that stopped my heart in its track, "Just because it's not fun, doesn't mean it's not a gift." That's something I've always admired about artist, creative, and astrologer Mary Schuch – her ability to hold wisdom with humor and to serve truth with irreverence.Mary and I recorded this conversation at the tail end of Jupiter in Taurus, a period marked by changes and reminders of life's transient nature. We discussed the current states of our relationships with art, how friendship is a practice, and balancing the intensity of life with slowness.If you can't get enough of our vibe, I recommend that you listen to our podcast "My Life Is Better With You In It"Mary's bio:Mary Schuch (she/her) is committed to showing up for the experience of belonging in a human body. In this lifetime, Mary is steadily walking a resonant path and striving to remember the inherent relationality of all beings. Informed by her upbringing as a homeschooled pastor's kid and the eighth of eleven siblings, Mary is reclaiming her right to exploration and education through meditative multidisciplinary living. She is devoted to practices incorporating writing, music, art, breadmaking, astrology, movement, and being outdoors. A beneficial byproduct of years of manual labor, Mary’s reverence for contemplative time has grown through work in gardens, kitchens, on a commercial lobster boat, and an oyster farm. She is originally from the Chicago area and currently lives on an island in Maine. Connect with Mary on Instagram @maryschuch and book a reading with her.Resources mentioned:Mary and Jonathan's podcast, My Life Is Better With You In ItOur conversation with Leah Garza and Dana BalickiThe War of Art by Steven PressfieldAmanda Yates Garcia and Beth Pickens "The World Needs Your Art"Our first conversation on Healing The Spirit, "Why Are We Obsessed with Cults?" 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 nurturing ourselves and slowing down our thoughts bring new possibilities? How might gentleness facilitate deeper, more profound transformations?As we transition into Cancer season, we contemplate the unexpected yet profound relationship between Mercury and the Moon. Astrological lineup:Mon 06.17 Venus enters Cancer; Mercury (Gemini) squares Neptune (Pisces); Mercury enters Cancer; Mercury conjoins Venus in CancerThurs 06.20 Sun (Gemini) squares Neptune (Pisces); Sun enters CancerSat 06.21 Mercury (Cancer) sextiles Mars (Taurus); Full Moon in CapricornSun 06.22 Mercury (Cancer) squares NN (Aries) 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 roles do our left and right brains play in creativity and mysticism? How are our spiritual beliefs and practices shaped by our cosmologies? How might we shape a future beyond either/or dogmas?To immerse in the work of Xenia Viray is to dissolve boundaries between worlds, to question arbitrary distinctions between disciplines, and to delight in the heart as a sacred alchemist in service of the mystery.In this conversation, Xenia and I explored the poetic capacities of the intellectual mind – drawing connections between the left and right hemispheres of the brain, individualism and collectivism, productivity and creativity. We also sprinkled in our personal stories and our respective relationships with meaning-making systems.Here's Xenia's bio:Xenia Marie Ross Viray (she/they) is an imagination healer, frequency artist, and creativity catalyst with a focus on experiential learning containers and writing. She is the eldest of three sisters, and her name means kindness to strangers. Born as a brick-and-mortar fashion business, Myths of Creation (the name of Xenia's collective body of work) is a container for experiments, art, writing, and gatherings at the intersection of creativity, spirituality, and meaning-making. Xenia's work reconnects communities, ideas, and art forms that are traditionally siloed to enrich the pool of imaginal possibility. Her offerings are designed to help spirited innovators anchor their natural genius into form and include Imaginal Temple, a creative mystical mentorship, the Garden of the Imaginal Substack, and an evolving cornucopia of courses, workshops, and 1:1 sessions which you can find at MythsofCreation.com and @mythsofcreation on IG.Join Xenia's offering Creation Portals, a 3-month workshop series starting on June 11th. We mentioned Iain McGilchrist's TedTalk on The Divided Brain. 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 thought forms or philosophies or are creating blockages and restrictions to accessing vitality in our lives? How do we find and express authentic honesty in any given moment? Where are we getting ourselves into a pickle by having too many options?This week, we are experiencing three squares and a Mercury cazimi. It's a week that may promise breakthrough – if only we don't work so hard to try to make it happen.Astrological lineup: Tue 06.11 Mars (Taurus) squares Pluto (Aquarius)Wed 06.12 Mercury (Gemini) squares Saturn (Pisces)Fri 06.14 Mercury conjoins Sun in GeminiSun 06.16 Venus (Gemini) squares Neptune (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.

How might surrendering into the trickster within ourselves bring in more freedom, ease, and joy? How might we rewrite old stories and begin inventing new ones?As Mercury enters Gemini this week, the trickster energy is in full force. I share some thoughts on how to be with trickster energy by awakening our inner trickster? Astrological lineup:Mon 06.03 Sun (Gemini) sextiles North Node (Aries); Mercury enters GeminiTue 06.04 Venus (Gemini) sextiles North Node (Aries); Mercury (Gemini) trines Pluto (Aquarius) ; Mercury conjoins Jupiter in Gemini; Venus and Sun conjoin in GeminiThurs 06.06 New Moon in GeminiSat 06.08 Venus (Gemini) squares Saturn (Pisces)Sunday 06.09 Sun (Gemini) squares Saturn (Pisces); Mercury (Gemini) sextiles North Node (Aries); Mars enters 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.