Healing The Spirit: Astrology, Archetypes & Artmaking

In the brokenness of our times, how might questioning our performance of love tickle pathways for new worlds to open? What fresh forms of connections can blossom when we collapse the hierarchy of loving into a mycelial network of loving? How might the steady cultivation of our individuated lexicon of love strengthen communal bonds?This is a devotional episode dedicated to the Empress of the Solar System, Beloved Venus, through the lens of their journey in Aquarius. To celebrate the last week of Venus's current transit in Aquarius (ps we have not one but TWO trips of Venus moving through Aquarius), I'm recording a contemplation of Venus's journey through the land of fixed air. Join me for my guest workshop inspired by Venus in Aquarius, VISIONARY OF LOVE, hosted by the incredible Kelsey Rose Tortorice. Read more about it here. The workshop is on Friday, March 8, 2024 at 4-6 PM EST / 1-3 PM PST. If you can't make it live, replay will be available! In this contemplation, I discussed the idea of harmonizing everyday personal acts of love with the Field of Love, war as a product of distorted love, rooting beauty standards in the vulnerability of True Love, and Love as the bedfellow of Mystery.  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 opens up when we give ourselves the opportunity to celebrate the fruits of our labor? How might we return to presence after unexpected twists and turns?Recorded for the week of 02.26.24, I share some contemplations on Mercury and Mars conjoining Saturn in Pisces, as well as the Aquarius-Taurus activations in the skies for the coming week.Join me for my guest workshop inspired by Venus in Aquarius, VISIONARY OF LOVE, which is hosted by the incredible Kelsey Rose Tortorice. Read more about it here. The workshop is on Friday, March 8, 2024 at 4-6 PM EST / 1-3 PM PST. If you can't make it live, replay will be available! Astrological lineup: Tue 02.27.24 Mars (Aquarius) squares Jupiter (Taurus)Wed 02.28.24 Mercury, Sun & Saturn conjunction (Pisces)Thurs 02.29.24 Mercury (Pisces) sextiles Jupiter (Taurus); Venus (Aquarius) sextile the North Node (Aries)Fri 03.01.24 Sun (Pisces) sextiles Jupiter (Taurus)Sun 03.03.24 Venus (Aquarius) squares Uranus (Taurus) If you've enjoyed and benefited from the podcast, I invite you to apply for private mentorship and coaching with me. This is an intensive container, designed to support you in refining your self-leadership skills, moving through important life thresholds with grace, and expanding your capacity for creative expansions.Try the incredible breathwork and meditation app Open for 30 days free using this special link. This podcast is hosted, produced, and edited by Jonathan Koe. Theme music is also composed by me! Connect with me through my newsletter, my Instagram @jonathankoeofficial, and my music. For podcast-related inquiries, email me at healingthespiritpodcast@gmail.com.

How might we honor the fruits of our labor in the depths of winter? What role might space and distance play in cultivating right relationship? How might we show up with presence to our dreams and visions?Recorded for the week of 02.19.24, I share some thoughts about the Leo-Aquarius polarity through the lens of the Venus-Mars conjunction and the Full Moon in Virgo. This transit is the midpoint of Venus's last retrograde in 2023 and Mars's upcoming retrograde in late 2024 - both in Leo.  Join me for my guest workshop inspired by Venus in Aquarius, VISIONARY OF LOVE, which is hosted by the incredible Kelsey Rose Tortorice. Read more about it here. The workshop is on Friday, March 8, 2024 at 4-6 PM EST / 1-3 PM PST. If you can't make it live, replay will be available! Resources mentioned:Episode 89. Contemplating Venus Retrograde in Leo 2023: Illuminating The Loveless PlacesEpisode 88: Same Patterns, New YouAstrological lineup: Thurs 02.22 Venus conjoins Mars (Aquarius)Fri 02.23 Mercury enters PiscesSat 02.24 Full Moon in Virgo; Venus (Aquarius) squares Jupiter (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.

What insights can we glean from Mars, Venus, and Pluto about desires and needs? How might we expand our ideas of what it means to be human within an ecosystem of an alive universe through the lens of Aquarius?Recorded for the week of 02.12.24, I share some thoughts about how contemplations can assist us in cultivating grounded sight. I then share some reflections on the Mars and Venus conjoining Pluto, as well as Mercury squaring Uranus during the coming week. Resources mentioned:Kristin Mathis on Pluto and the underworldMy conversation with Katie Dove and Marisa Michelson on Ep. 125: HeartSongAstrological lineup:Tue 02.13 Venus (Capricorn) sextiles Neptune (Pisces); Mars enters AquariusWed 02.14 Mars conjoins Pluto (Aquarius)Thurs 02.15 Mercury (Aquarius) sextiles North Node (Aries)Fri 02.16 Mercury (Aquarius) squares Uranus (Taurus)Sat 02.17 Venus conjoins Pluto (Aquarius)Sun 02.18 Sun enters 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 do we understand relationality through our unique experiences? How might practicing astrology assist us in the art of living in deeper acknowledgement of relationality and reciprocity? In this conversation with my friend Odette Blooms, who is an astrologer, an artist, and a mystic, we explored the theme of relationality as reflected through our lived experiences, as well as how Odette and I embody that experiential concept within our astrological & artistic practice. We discussed what it means to practice astrology as an art of connecting with spirit, of healing, and of remembering to give and receive love. We also spoke about the connection between relationality and reciprocity, as well as how these concepts make sense to us as immigrants who live at the intersections of collectivistic and individualistic cultures. It's a true conversation between two friends - a melding of two Mercurial, rhizomatic minds and two Venusian hearts. It moves at such a sweet, flowing, leisurely pace. To me, this is the tempo and the energy that Odette radiates out from their being: a gift of softening the edges of time through her presence. Here's Odette's bio:Odette (she/they) is an astrologer, artist and mystic devoted to beauty and creativity as a path towards deeper embodiment. As a student of the Earth, everything she does comes back to how we can re-member the inherent truth of unconditional love within ourselves, with other beings and with the precious land we live on. Being a first-generation immigrant from Mexico and raised by a single mother, Odette’s life has been anything but normal. As a child of Saturn, she has always been interested in disrupting the status quo and queering up everything she touches. Currently, her offerings include natal chart readings, and soon a women’s monthly circle that offers space to witness one another through the mercurial magic of story-telling. You can connect with and find more about her at odetteblooms.com or @odetteblooms on 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 maintain perspective when solutions are not yet visible? What might Aquarius and Taurus teach us about the present moment as a resource for shifting perspectives?Recorded for the week of 02.05.24, I contemplate on the fixed signs, Saturn's relationship with Venus, and staying with the questions to arrive at answers. Astrological lineup:Mon 02.05: Mercury enters Aquarius and conjoins PlutoTue 02.06 Venus (Capricorn) squares Nodes (Aries-Libra); Sun (Aqua) sextiles North Node & trines South NodeWed 02.07 Venus (Capricorn) trines Uranus (Taurus), Mercury (Capricorn) sextiles Neptune (Pisces)Thurs 02.08 Sun (Aquarius) squares Uranus (Taurus)Fri 02.09 New Moon in Aquarius squares Uranus (Taurus)Sat 02.10 Mercury (Aquarius) squares Jupiter (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.

What does it mean to sing from the etheric heart? Who do we become as we listen to the stories, sensations, and sounds that live in our hearts? How do we reclaim our desires through liberating our voices?Join Katie Dove, Marisa Michelson, and me for a profound conversation that explores the relationship between the heart and the voice. Marisa and Katie are creating their first collaboration, HeartSong, which weaves and alchemizes their profound connections to spirit and music, as well as the decades of experience in their respective private practices of guiding others back into their authentic selves.We discussed our personal experiences coming home to our authentic voices, the fear responses that singing can bring up, and the difference between desires and needs.Marisa and Katie brought such aliveness, curiosity, reverence, and playfulness to our conversation. It was the first time the three of us gathered for a conversation and we immediately settled into a womb-like energetic space where time flowed freely like a river. It was deep and jovial.Learn more about HeartSong here. The journey begins on February 14, 2024 and Sunrise special pricing is available through February 7, 2024. Here's Katie Dove's bio:Katie Dove is a somatic therapist, intuitive guide, healer, and mystic, who has been exploring esoteric teachings and mystery schools for over two decades.Her gatherings and teachings are an alchemy of what she is fascinated by and often working with in the moment. Weaving together a tapestry of collected wisdom and personally cultivated modalities, Katie invites exploration through touch, voice, vibration, sound, dance, and movement. Through this inquiry, as well as investigating habits, freedom of choice, and expressiveness, she helps to illuminate the profound interplay between our senses and the world around us, unraveling the secrets of our whole being.Curiosity has Katie captivated by sensation as a sacred language and a path to awakening. She guides her clients and students towards an empowered embodiment, teaching one’s body and mind to allow the inner wisdom to shape their external reality, rather than the opposite. In this way, they reclaim sovereignty over their own being.Katie shares valuable insights on cultivating resilience and shine light on the vital practice of self-regulation within the nervous system, illuminating the path toward balance and well-being. She encourages the attunement of one’s internal potency and magnetism to attract people, activities, and communities that support and align with their true nature. Creating intimacy - a space for sharing deep connection and a sense of belonging - is Katie’s passion. To witness the embrace of presence in people’s lives fills her heart with joy.Curiosity is her guide, leading Katie on a lifelong journey of learning. She finds delight in delving into anatomy, often geeking out on its intricate wonders. In her free time, you’ll find Katie tending to her garden and crafting by hand. With a profound reverence for the ancient ways, primitive skills, and wisdom of the old, she is driven to infuse these timeless traditions into modern expressions, honoring the roots while embracing the present.Find Katie on her website and Instagram.Here's Marisa Michelson's bio: Marisa is known for helping people of all ages and backgrounds sing with more ease, freedom, authenticity, joy, and skill. She has been teaching singing as a path of liberation for twenty years. She is the creator of The School of Vocal De-Armoring™ and Somatic Singing Pedagogy, an offshoot of the Libero Canto School. The Libero Canto Approach was first developed by Lajos Szamosi in Budapest before World War II. This holistic, process-oriented approach rooted in the Western Classical Tradition is her primary pedagogical lineage.Marisa has worked successfully with professional and non-professional singers, many of whom come to her after experiencing extreme pain when speaking, or frequent voice loss, and others who want to explore voice as life-force energy and for purposes of their own aliveness and self-expression.She also works successfully with singers with certain vocal injuries, and those who need a teacher who is able to tune into and work with their nervous system states as well as their bodies, psyches and spirits, in the service of holistically healing an injury that has deep roots.Marisa founded and directed the NYC-based embodied vocal-performance ensemble, Constellation Chor || an immersion in voice, movement, and spirit for ten years. She is also an accomplished and award-winning composer working at the nexus of theatre, experimental music, opera, new music, and improvisation.She was trained classically as a pianist, received her B.F.A from NYU (Tisch) in Musical Theatre and has a certificate in Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy from the Embody Lab. She finished a year-long Akashic Records mentorship with Leah Garza. She has Anthroposophy, Tibetan Buddhism, Circling, and neo-tantra. Being in intimate relationship with singing is my life’s passion, encompassing all.Find Marisa on her website, her personal Instagram, and Vocal De-Armoring'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.

What does the Mars-Uranus-Juno trine teach us about the relationship between action, liberation, and commitment? How do we impact our material reality through the practice of committing to new habits? Recorded for the week of 01.29.24, I contemplate how the potent forward momentum that this week's Mars - Uranus - Juno grand trine in earth signs may assist us in moving the needle. 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 energetic medicine assist us to be with grief? How might exploring our internal and external landscapes assist us with the process of walking alongside grief?Grief is a primal, integral part of the human experience. And yet, many of us find it challenging to be with, to process, and to understand our experiences with grief.In this potently alive conversation, Marika Clymer and I discussed Marika's experiences with grief and how it led to her upcoming offering, The Cartography of Grief.This is the first conversation I recorded with Marika since completing a year-long apprenticeship with her in 2022. We also discussed the evolution of Marika's practice, how I've integrated her teachings into my path, and our unique experiences with the structural shifts that death and grief can bring.Learn more about The Cartography of Grief here.Cartography of Grief is a 2-month online journey to explore the landscape of grief in an intimate community that will meet every other Saturday from February 3rd through March 16th, 2024. Registration will close on Friday, February 2nd, 2024 or when all spots are filled. There is also an optional, in-person retreat in March, where participants will gather in the forests of Washington state for an opportunity to integrate the journey through an embodied relationship with the land.Marika's bio: Marika Clymer was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, and spent her childhood hunting and fishing alongside her dad throughout Snohomish County and the greater Puget Sound area. Marika feels that her upbringing gifted her the framework of Energetic Ecology, where she blends energetic medicine with ecological perspectives. She has dedicated her life to this endeavor, with over a decade as a healing practitioner, 7 years in agriculture, a Bachelor's degree in Environmental Studies, and a lifetime of galavanting through the woods. Her knowledge and expertise is woven throughout many subjects, including Reiki and energy cultivation practices, agricultural mycology, wilderness survival, sustainability, wild plants & fungi, and much more. Marika provides personal healing sessions, mentorships, and opportunities that help bridge the modern divide between body & land.You can find Marika on the Energetic Ecology website as well as on their Instagram.You may also enjoy a conversation with Marika I recorded and shared on the podcast in 2022, Episode 15. The Ecology of Healing 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 can the Strength card teach us about authenticity and fear? How might being with our shadows and unmet needs open up space for courageous communications?Join Mallory Dowd and I for an illuminating, alive conversation on the tarot card of 2024: Strength.We explored the themes of fear, authenticity, our relationship with identity, how authenticity interacts with time, shadow work, and what it means to communicate with courage, honesty, openness, and thoughtfulness.We also reflected on 2023, which was a Chariot year, and what that year brought up for us, some of the challenges and the lessons.Mallory is a tarot reader and writer whose perspectives inspire deeper engagement with life. Mallory is also a dear friend. I admire Mallory's portal-opening questions and her genuine curiosity about the responses these questions bring up. Throughout this conversation you'll hear us both challenging, clarifying, and adding to each other's ideas, and freely sharing personal anecdotes from our lives about the Strength card.Mallory's bio:Mallory Dowd (she/they) is a professional intuitive tarot reader, artist, mystic, teacher, and psychotherapist. As a perennial student and Mercurial being, Mallory’s work shapeshifts and interweaves the gifts of divination, self-compassion, oracular magic, earth-based spirituality, loving presence, creativity, laughter, co-regulation, and play. Mallory is interested in how we cultivate curiosity and the courage to live and express truthfully. She resides in Seoul and offers tarot readings and spiritual guidance globally online and as recorded divinations.Find Mallory on instagram or visit her website.People & resources mentioned:Pema Chödron's When Things Fall ApartLindsay MackDavid Bedrick's work on unshaming  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.