On the Soul's Terms

Dive beneath the surface of your astrological chart with renowned astrologer Melanie Reinhart as we explore the mysterious fourth house - what she beautifully describes as "a place of gentle mysteries."The fourth house sits at the very bottom of our chart, marked by the Imum Coeli (IC) - "the bottom of the sky" - or what Melanie playfully calls the "I don't see" or "I can't see." This midnight point of our chart plunges down into our ancestry, our time in the womb, and perhaps back to our very conception. Unlike the visible achievements of our tenth house, this territory operates in darkness and silence - yet holds some of our deepest healing potential.We discuss Dane Rudhyar's fascinating description of this house as "to establish" - a place where experiences bind together, creating the energy matrix of our original home and root system. Through the fairy tale of the Three Feathers, we explore how fourth house work often requires descending through a trapdoor into our foundations, where what appears initially as a toad may transform into a princess when approached with simplicity and acceptance.Melanie offers profound insights about how we might project expectations onto our family of origin through the fourth house, and how reclaiming these projections could be key to feeling truly "at home" within ourselves. She shares a touching personal story of creating a small talisman bag during extensive travels that became her portable "home," illustrating how fourth house energy can be internalized rather than constantly sought in the external world.Perhaps most powerfully, we explore the fourth house as our "sacred ground," connecting this to the sacrum - the triangle bone at the base of our spine that anchors our physical stability. Just as the sacrum grounds our body, the fourth house grounds our sense of self and belonging in the world.Whether you're new to astrology or a seasoned chart explorer, this conversation will transform how you understand the deepest foundations of your chart and your life. Experience the fourth house as a source of profound medicine for your soul's journey.Melanie's Website Artwork: The Rescue by John William Waterhouse.Podcast Musician: Marlia CoeurPlease consider becoming a Patron to support the show!Go to OnTheSoulsTerms.com for more.

Have you ever noticed how children learn through their bodies—running, jumping, playing—long before they absorb abstract concepts? This natural embodied learning reveals the true essence of the third house in astrology, traditionally associated with siblings and education but holding far deeper mysteries.Join astrologer and herbalist Cameron Allen as he unveils the lunar wisdom of this often-misunderstood astrological house. Unlike the broadcasting energy of the ninth house that transmits knowledge from on high, the third house is where wisdom becomes incarnated, where philosophy transforms into embodied experience. Here, in the darkness near the bottom of the chart where the Moon finds its joy, we discover how our earliest and most authentic learning happens.Cameron explores how the third house represents the dance of night consciousness—that polytheistic realm where multiple identities within us can emerge and express themselves. When daylight's monotheistic ordering principle fades, we access the morphic, dreaming wisdom that connects us to prophecy, divination, and direct knowing. This explains why profound insights often arrive in dreams or during those mysterious hours after midnight.The conversation ventures into fascinating territory: the connection between Chiron (whose name means "hand") and third house bodily communication; how ancestral lineages speak through third house energies; and why modern screen-based "communities" fail to provide the true relational field this house represents. Cameron shares personal experiences of accessing different identities through night-time ritual practice, revealing how stepping into third house consciousness allows hidden aspects of ourselves to emerge.Looking to deepen your astrological practice? Try stepping outside when the Sun is traveling through your third house at night and notice what emerges in that lunar environment. Your body might remember wisdom your mind has forgotten. Join us in Santa Fe this October for Living Astrologies, where this conversation continues in person. Although the conference is full, you can get on the waitlist and see what might happen.Artwork is Sandro Botticelli, Mary With the Child and Singing Angels (detail), 1477To learn more about Cameron and his work go here.Podcast Musician: Marlia CoeurPlease consider becoming a Patron to support the show!Go to OnTheSoulsTerms.com for more.

In this episode of On the Soul’s Terms, recorded under the olive trees of Epidavros, I’m joined by Collette Davis for a slow, winding exploration of Hansel and Gretel through the lens of the 3rd house.We sit with the archetypal threads of this beloved fairy tale—breadcrumb trails, dark forests, devouring mothers, and sibling bonds—and reflect on how they echo through the astrological terrain of early learning, memory, intuition, and the rational mind. The 3rd house becomes a space not just of communication, but of somatic knowing, lunar memory, and the stories we carry from childhood.Tender and layered, this episode meanders like a path through the woods—sometimes lit by the moon, sometimes lost in shadow. Join us for a mythic descent recorded live in the land of Asclepius, just days before entering the dreaming chambers.Podcast Musician: Marlia CoeurPlease consider becoming a Patron to support the show!Go to OnTheSoulsTerms.com for more.

We leave behind the sensual landscape of the Second House and wander into the neighbourhoods of the Third — the realm of language, mimicry, siblings, and the looping rhythms of early life. In this episode, we explore how our voice is shaped by what we echo, the childhood accents we absorb, and the environments that teach us how to move, speak, and remember.From the myth of Echo to the sibling stories of Hermes and Apollo, Castor and Pollux, and even Cinderella, we reflect on how our earliest dynamics continue to ripple through our adult relationships. We touch on memory, mood, writing, gossip, vehicles, and the lunar rhythms of daily life — all woven together in the Third House’s tapestry.As always, astrology is our map, but myth, story, and experience fill in the terrain. Plus, a brief invitation to “untrain your parrot” — and begin listening for the deeper voice beneath the chatter.Speaking of... Untrain Your Parrot is a book by Elizabeth HamiltonThe Sibling Constellation by Brian Clark is also discussed.Podcast Musician: Marlia CoeurPlease consider becoming a Patron to support the show!Go to OnTheSoulsTerms.com for more.

In this episode of On the Soul’s Terms, we descend into the second house through the haunting and luminous fairy tale of The Handless Maiden. This story, from the Brothers Grimm and echoed in myths like Sedna’s from the Arctic, brings us into the realm of value, worth, the body, and the living vs. the dead.We explore what it means to be exchanged for gold, to lose one’s hands — the instruments of touch, feeling, and connection — and what it takes to grow them back. Through three acts, this tale guides us into the darker forests of the psyche, through numbered pears and silver hands, all the way to a forest hut where "Here All Dwell Free" is written above the door.Along the way, I reflect on themes of self-worth, distorted transactions, the tension between the second and eighth houses, and the Saturnian seven-year phases of healing and integration.Also included is the Russian variation, where instinct and love regrow the maiden’s hands, and a dive into the Sedna myth — offering a vision of deep healing below the surface.A rich journey through myth and astrology, and an invitation to check in on what you truly value — and what you may have unconsciously traded away.💫 If you enjoy the show, consider leaving a review or sharing it with someone who’d love this story too.Podcast Musician: Marlia CoeurPlease consider becoming a Patron to support the show!Go to OnTheSoulsTerms.com for more.

In this episode, I sit down with astrologer, herbalist, and movement practitioner Cameron Allen. We first crossed paths earlier this year at the FAA conference on the Gold Coast, and it felt like one of those instant recognitions—someone you haven’t met, but already know.This conversation is the first of two. It’s more of a landing—an invitation to meet Cameron and listen in on the threads he’s weaving together. We touch on embodiment, herbal medicine, medical astrology, Unani Tibb, and the ways in which ancient healing traditions from the so-called West have been fragmented or forgotten. We also speak about temperament theory, dream healing, the inner physician, and the marriage between logic and intuition.Second house themes run in the background throughout: value, body, practice, and how we care for ourselves and others. The next episode will move more consciously into the third house terrain. But for now, this is a beginning—open-ended, relational, and full of possibility.Find out more about Cameron and his work at: cadreamplanet.comPodcast Musician: Marlia CoeurPlease consider becoming a Patron to support the show!Go to OnTheSoulsTerms.com for more.

In this second chapter of our journey through the houses, we leave behind the bright burst of first breath and enter the quiet, grounding terrain of the Second House — the house of value, money, body, worth, and what it means to truly belong here.We reflect on what happens after Rumpelstiltskin tears himself into the earth — a fitting image for the descent from the daimonic into the material. From here, we explore the deep resourcing available in the 2–4am hours, the hiddenness of self-worth, and the tension between longing and ingenuity.We turn to myth and story: Psyche’s journey to the underworld, King Midas and his golden touch, Hermes and the sacred cattle, and the Fisherman’s insatiable wife. Along the way, we question what is enough, what is truly ours, and how far we’ve wandered from the Temple of Hera — where the first coins were once minted as offerings to the Great Mother.This episode invites a soulful reckoning with our possessions, our body, and our relationship to the material world. What have we been given? What do we give back? And what might it mean to remember the sacred nature of value itself?Podcast Musician: Marlia CoeurPlease consider becoming a Patron to support the show!Go to OnTheSoulsTerms.com for more.

In this episode of On the Soul’s Terms, I’m joined once again by mentor, astrologer, and long-time friend Brian Clark for a slow, reflective journey through the first six houses of the astrological chart.Rather than treating the houses as categories to memorise, we approach them as inner dwellings—places of memory, emotion, ancestral inheritance, and lived experience. From the Fool’s first step in the 1st house, through embodiment in the 2nd, early relationships in the 3rd, the deep dreaming of the 4th, the creative risks of the 5th, and the quiet rituals of the 6th—this is a conversation about how we come to inhabit our lives.Along the way, we touch on dreams of home, shame in the body, sibling constellations, Hillman’s vision of soul in place, and the beauty that arrests us into presence.This is the first of a two-part series. Brian will return in September for the second half of the wheel, where we’ll explore the 7th through 12th houses.As always, this episode is best taken slowly. Let it move like a conversation over a long afternoon.—Resources & References:Brian Clark’s book Sibling ConstellationsSign up for the Mythic Threads newsletterExplore your own chartPodcast Musician: Marlia CoeurPlease consider becoming a Patron to support the show!Go to OnTheSoulsTerms.com for more.

In this sidecar episode, we enter the strange and potent dream of Rumpelstiltskin, one of the darker Grimm tales — a story of impossible expectations, survival bargains, and the long road to reclaiming one’s name.Told in three acts, this tale speaks directly to themes of the First House: identity projected too early, the mask we learn to wear, the persona that helps us survive but at a cost. We explore the alchemical pressure to turn straw into gold, the demonic helper who extracts a price, and the mercurial magic of naming what was once hidden.As the tale unfolds, we meet the shadow side of the daimon, dance around the fire with the trickster, and reflect on how the voice of Mercury — the messenger, the devil, the guide — helps us reclaim our sovereignty.A story for anyone who's ever felt the weight of someone else’s expectations, or bargained with a part of themselves just to get through.Podcast Musician: Marlia CoeurPlease consider becoming a Patron to support the show!Go to OnTheSoulsTerms.com for more.

In this opening episode of the new series, we take our first breath—together—into the mystery of the houses.We begin at the threshold: the Ascendant, the eastern horizon, the moment of arrival. Before the name, before the role, before even the voice—there is presence. The First House is where the self enters the world, where the daimon is born alongside you, and where the mask you’ve crafted begins to take shape.We explore the house not as a concept but as a temple: a soul-place with doors, rooms, and echoes. Along the way, we travel with Hermes, Artemis, Chiron, and Dionysus through their birth stories, reflecting on the archetypal imprint left by our own. What were we rewarded for? What mask did we learn to wear? And what name—spoken or unspoken—have we carried since?This is the house of beginnings, of first impressions, and of the great “I am.” But like all things in astrology, it casts a shadow: the seventh house whispers “You are” or even “You are not.”This episode invites you to remember the feel of that first doorway. To re-enter the house of your rising sign. And to meet again—perhaps for the first time—the part of you that’s always been becoming.🔑 Questions to reflect on: – What is your rising sign, and how do you feel about it? – What mask have you worn, and is it still serving you? – What name did you inherit—and what name lives inside your bones?🌿 Stay tuned next week for our fairy tale sidecar episode on Rumpelstiltskin, and the week after, a deep mytho-astrological conversation on the houses with the brilliant Brian Clark.🌀 Ready to wander the wheel. Let’s begin.[🔗 Link to astro.com birth chart calculator Podcast Musician: Marlia CoeurPlease consider becoming a Patron to support the show!Go to OnTheSoulsTerms.com for more.