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  • Hey friends,

    This Partial Lunar Eclipse in Pisces feels so alive and rich. I kept getting messages from the planets and try as I might, they wouldn't let me not share this with you.

    If you'd like to go even deeper on the astrology of this eclipse season, check out my conversation with Martha Alter Hines.

    Join my upcoming 6-week container to explore the practical wisdom of mutable signs, SHAPESHIFTING ACADEMY. We begin Thursday, October 3, 2024.

    If you enjoyed this podcast, consider booking a reading with me. I offer astrology, divination, and subtle alchemy sessions.

    I also offer a 6-month mentorship container Night Vision. 

    Listen to & purchase my new song Friends on Bandcamp. You can also listen to it on your favorite streaming platforms.

    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 [email protected].

  • What is shapeshifting? What might the mutable signs teach us to become better shapeshifters in our creative work, our relationships, and our relationship with self? What are the benefits of consciously cultivating our shapeshifting skills?

    What is shapeshifting? What might the mutable signs teach us to become better shapeshifters in our creative work, our relationships, and our relationship with self? What are the benefits of consciously cultivating our shapeshifting skills?

    Last week, I announced SHAPESHIFTING ACADEMY, a 6-week container starting on Thursday October 3rd, 2024.

    The academy aims to explore the wisdom of mutable signs in astrology in embracing our multidimensional selves.

    In this episode, we'll delve into:

    What mutability isThe wisdom of mutable signs in astrology & how they invite us into deeper relationships with shapeshiftingThe importance of conscious shapeshifting in personal, relational, and creative growth.What I mean when I talk about shapeshifting

    Sign up for SHAPESHIFTING ACADEMY here.

    I also mentioned my conversation about the upcoming eclipses with Martha Alter Hines on her YouTube channel. Watch the video here.

    TIMESTAMPS:

    00:00 Welcome

    01:41 Introducing Shapeshifting Academy

    02:31 Exploring the Mutable Signs in Astrology

    07:31 The Essence of Shapeshifting Academy

    07:46 Understanding Mutability in Astrology

    11:29 Deep Dive into Gemini and Virgo

    15:52 Sagittarius and Pisces: Mutable Fire and Water

    19:44 The Wisdom of Shapeshifting

    21:14 Personal Reflections on Multidimensionality

    23:56 Practical Applications of Shapeshifting

    29:54 Navigating Tensions and Embracing Multidimensionality

    33:44 Shapeshifiting Definition #1: Code Switching

    53:53 Shapeshifiting Definition #2: Walking Multiple Realms and Bridging Worlds

    01:01:19 Conclusion and Invitation to Shapeshifting Academy

    Join my upcoming 6-week container to explore the practical wisdom of mutable signs, SHAPESHIFTING ACADEMY. We begin Thursday, October 3, 2024.

    If you enjoyed this podcast, consider booking a reading with me. I offer astrology, divination, and subtle alchemy sessions.

    I also offer a 6-month mentorship container Night Vision. 

    Listen to & purchase my new song Friends on Bandcamp. You can also listen to it on your favorite streaming platforms.

    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 [email protected].

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  • What is a cosmology? How do we cultivate relationships with the cultures we exist within grounded in awareness? How do we honor, respect, and love those who hold different values and ideas about reality?

    What a joy to have Xenia Viray back on the podcast. Xenia is someone I deeply admire for her ability to weave seemingly disparate concepts into nourishing fertilizer for the imagination.

    In this conversation, we discussed Xenia's upcoming offering Create Your Cosmology through the lens of the 'cult' in culture, Human Design circuits, the experience of being misunderstood as we claim our roles as visionaries, and co-existing with those who hold differing, even discordant, cosmologies to our own.

    I also invite you to check out Create Your Cosmology, Xenia's 9-week hybrid experience for original creatives, nuanced thinkers, and sensitive Imagineers who want to be the creative director of their belief systems and express their truth with confidence and compassion. It begins on September 24, 2024.

    I'll be sharing a workshop in Create Your Cosmology called "The Art of Cosmic Conversations" centered around creating a practice of conversing with planets that honor sovereignty, interdependence, and our inherent kinship with the cosmos.

    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.

    I also invite you to check out my new offering, Shapeshifting Academy, which offers a deep dive into the magic of mutable signs for recovering flow, flexibility, and adaptability in moments when we feel stuck in life.

    Join my upcoming 6-week container to explore the practical wisdom of mutable signs, SHAPESHIFTING ACADEMY. We begin Thursday, October 3, 2024.

    If you enjoyed this podcast, consider booking a reading with me. I offer astrology, divination, and subtle alchemy sessions.

    I also offer a 6-month mentorship container Night Vision. 

    Listen to & purchase my new song Friends on Bandcamp. You can also listen to it on your favorite streaming platforms.

    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 [email protected].

  • How do we hold the complexity of arriving at simplicity? How does becoming aware of love's presence help us transform fear into wisdom? How does working with our emotional pain assist with returning us to innocence?

    The theme for September is Arriving at Simplicity.

    The route to simplicity is often anything but simple. It can be riddled with confusion, chaos, and doubt.

    In this episode, I share some contemplations for us to return to throughout the month.

    September 2024 starts with a New Moon in Virgo. It ends with the Sun conjoining the North Node in Libra. In between, we have the Full Moon in Pisces, which ushers the second eclipse season of the year, and Mars entering Cancer.

    Join my upcoming 6-week container to explore the practical wisdom of mutable signs, SHAPESHIFTING ACADEMY. We begin Thursday, October 3, 2024.

    If you enjoyed this podcast, consider booking a reading with me. I offer astrology, divination, and subtle alchemy sessions.

    I also offer a 6-month mentorship container Night Vision. 

    Listen to & purchase my new song Friends on Bandcamp. You can also listen to it on your favorite streaming platforms.

    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 [email protected].

  • What is the open throat center in Human Design? How do we work with its unique gifts and challenges in the process of deconditioning?

    The open / undefined throat is one of my favorite topics in Human Design.

    It's said that only 29% of the population has an open throat center, making it the least common out of the open centers. Unsurprisingly (and pun intended), there's a lot of misconceptions, misunderstandings, and, frankly, terrible advice about how to live with an open throat center.

    In this episode, I share about my process understanding, deconditioning, and ultimately befriending my undefined throat.

    Thank you Kelsey Rose Tortorice for the question! You can listen to my conversation with Kelsey here. She also has incredible courses to help you learn Human Design, Human Design for the Astrologically Minded and Living Your Design.

    I also mentioned my HD teachers, Amy Lee and John Cole of Human Design Collective whose foundational courses on Human Design I highly recommend.

    Join my upcoming 6-week container to explore the practical wisdom of mutable signs, SHAPESHIFTING ACADEMY. We begin Thursday, October 3, 2024.

    If you enjoyed this podcast, consider booking a reading with me. I offer astrology, divination, and subtle alchemy sessions.

    I also offer a 6-month mentorship container Night Vision. 

    Listen to & purchase my new song Friends on Bandcamp. You can also listen to it on your favorite streaming platforms.

    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 [email protected].

  • How might thinking open a portal to embodied transcendence? What role do the right questions at the right time play in walking an open-hearted path?

    Thinking is often bedeviled in 'spiritual' spaces.

    Thinking has been marketed as the enemy of the heart-centered, spirit-led life. Thinking has been defined as the opposite of embodiment. Thinking has been dubbed the root of all sufferings.

    But does thinking not also happen in the body? Why does Life gift us minds alongside bodies and hearts, if we were asked to shut it down to reach spiritual mastery?

    I explore these spiky questions from the lens of the Mercury Retrograde in Virgo and the Mercury Cazimi in Leo.

    I also mentioned some of my teachers, Diana Rose Harper and Deborah Kremins, as well as a container I'm currently facilitating, Deep Spirit Medicine.

    Photo by Maksym Kaharlytskyi via Unsplash.

    Join my upcoming 6-week container to explore the practical wisdom of mutable signs, SHAPESHIFTING ACADEMY. We begin Thursday, October 3, 2024.

    If you enjoyed this podcast, consider booking a reading with me. I offer astrology, divination, and subtle alchemy sessions.

    I also offer a 6-month mentorship container Night Vision. 

    Listen to & purchase my new song Friends on Bandcamp. You can also listen to it on your favorite streaming platforms.

    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 [email protected].

  • What might Venus's fall in Virgo teach us about love at the crossroads? How might we marry pleasure and devotion?

    August seems to be Venus veneration month for me.

    Last year, around the same time, we sat by the altar of Venus as they were making their retrograde in Leo (Episode 89. Contemplating Venus Retrograde in Leo 2023: Illuminating The Loveless Places).

    This year, existential Venusian questions haunted me as the laughter-loving queen transited through my ascendant degree. They woke me from a slumber and demanded an episode be recorded in their honor.

    What do we do when our desires require that we alchemize conditioned passivity into meticulous strategizing?

    How do we access a deeper well of love when it becomes apparent that consistent tending is necessary?

    I mentioned the works of Leah Garza and Kathryn Solie in this episode.

    Join my upcoming 6-week container to explore the practical wisdom of mutable signs, SHAPESHIFTING ACADEMY. We begin Thursday, October 3, 2024.

    If you enjoyed this podcast, consider booking a reading with me. I offer astrology, divination, and subtle alchemy sessions.

    I also offer a 6-month mentorship container Night Vision. 

    Listen to & purchase my new song Friends on Bandcamp. You can also listen to it on your favorite streaming platforms.

    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 [email protected].

  • What is authentic planning? How might we be able to use our planning skills to create work that feels energetically true to us? Are there times when planning actually compromise the sacred flow of the work?

    In this episode, I shared lessons and contemplations on the heart of planning. Contrary to popular beliefs, planning will neither solve all your problems nor will it kill your creativity. The truth, of course, is more nuanced.

    Planning is a tool. Like any other tool, there are considerations for using it well. Planning can help us effectively direct our efforts towards important projects that bring deep satisfaction. Planning can feel authentic, easeful, and liberating. In contrast, planning can also imprison us, frustrate us, or distract us from the true work at hand.

    So what distinguishes life-giving planning from soul-sucking planning?

    In hindsight, I'm surprised it's taken this long for me to talk about planning on the podcast. As a Virgo rising, this is one of the major themes in my life that continue to pop up no matter where I go. I've resorted to planning obsessively when I'm frustrated or heartbroken. I've also kneeled at the altar of planning and have lifelong prayers be answered with a great deal of surprising efficiency.

    Special thanks to Tiffany (@tiffografi on Threads) for sharing a question that prompted this exploration, as well as to Michelle Pellizzon who's taught me to heal my heart and fall back in love with my life through organization, clarity, and System Spells.

    Join my upcoming 6-week container to explore the practical wisdom of mutable signs, SHAPESHIFTING ACADEMY. We begin Thursday, October 3, 2024.

    If you enjoyed this podcast, consider booking a reading with me. I offer astrology, divination, and subtle alchemy sessions.

    I also offer a 6-month mentorship container Night Vision. 

    Listen to & purchase my new song Friends on Bandcamp. You can also listen to it on your favorite streaming platforms.

    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 [email protected].

  • How are human bodies extensions of the lands we live on? How do we remember threads of connection interwoven in the earth? How might deepening our elemental connections assist us in times of uncertainty?

    In the past few months, I have been collaborating with Marika Clymer and Carolyn Egan on a zine project, lovingly named Bodies of Land. This issue is an ode to the energetics of Summer 2024 seen through the lens of the body, plants, and planets, and it's incredibly gorgeous. It's available for digital download here.

    In this episode, I invited Marika and Carolyn to explore he themes that run through the zine, including the land as a body, the human body as an extension of the land itself, and how astrology can bring us closer to our inherent connection and belonging with the rest of creation.

    We also discussed how knowledge can become pathways to deepen connections rather than barriers to deny connections with life, being with uncertainty, and the energetics of fire.

    We also explored the behind the scenes process of creating the zine, including how the three of us ended up collaborating on this zine, and how the summer has immersed us in experiences that deepened our embodiment of the themes of the zine.

    Carolyn and Marika have taught me so much through the generous sharing of their perspectives and their presence in the process of creating this zine.

    If you resonate with our discussions, we invite you to check out the zine here.

    Links:

    Marika's shop, where you can get super cool merchandisesCarolyn's shop, where you can get potent herbal medicines and guides

    Join my upcoming 6-week container to explore the practical wisdom of mutable signs, SHAPESHIFTING ACADEMY. We begin Thursday, October 3, 2024.

    If you enjoyed this podcast, consider booking a reading with me. I offer astrology, divination, and subtle alchemy sessions.

    I also offer a 6-month mentorship container Night Vision. 

    Listen to & purchase my new song Friends on Bandcamp. You can also listen to it on your favorite streaming platforms.

    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 [email protected].

  • 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

    Join my upcoming 6-week container to explore the practical wisdom of mutable signs, SHAPESHIFTING ACADEMY. We begin Thursday, October 3, 2024.

    If you enjoyed this podcast, consider booking a reading with me. I offer astrology, divination, and subtle alchemy sessions.

    I also offer a 6-month mentorship container Night Vision. 

    Listen to & purchase my new song Friends on Bandcamp. You can also listen to it on your favorite streaming platforms.

    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 [email protected].

  • 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.

    Join my upcoming 6-week container to explore the practical wisdom of mutable signs, SHAPESHIFTING ACADEMY. We begin Thursday, October 3, 2024.

    If you enjoyed this podcast, consider booking a reading with me. I offer astrology, divination, and subtle alchemy sessions.

    I also offer a 6-month mentorship container Night Vision. 

    Listen to & purchase my new song Friends on Bandcamp. You can also listen to it on your favorite streaming platforms.

    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 [email protected].

  • 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.

    Join my upcoming 6-week container to explore the practical wisdom of mutable signs, SHAPESHIFTING ACADEMY. We begin Thursday, October 3, 2024.

    If you enjoyed this podcast, consider booking a reading with me. I offer astrology, divination, and subtle alchemy sessions.

    I also offer a 6-month mentorship container Night Vision. 

    Listen to & purchase my new song Friends on Bandcamp. You can also listen to it on your favorite streaming platforms.

    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 [email protected].

  • 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.

    Join my upcoming 6-week container to explore the practical wisdom of mutable signs, SHAPESHIFTING ACADEMY. We begin Thursday, October 3, 2024.

    If you enjoyed this podcast, consider booking a reading with me. I offer astrology, divination, and subtle alchemy sessions.

    I also offer a 6-month mentorship container Night Vision. 

    Listen to & purchase my new song Friends on Bandcamp. You can also listen to it on your favorite streaming platforms.

    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 [email protected].

  • 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.

    Join my upcoming 6-week container to explore the practical wisdom of mutable signs, SHAPESHIFTING ACADEMY. We begin Thursday, October 3, 2024.

    If you enjoyed this podcast, consider booking a reading with me. I offer astrology, divination, and subtle alchemy sessions.

    I also offer a 6-month mentorship container Night Vision. 

    Listen to & purchase my new song Friends on Bandcamp. You can also listen to it on your favorite streaming platforms.

    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 [email protected].

  • 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?"

    Join my upcoming 6-week container to explore the practical wisdom of mutable signs, SHAPESHIFTING ACADEMY. We begin Thursday, October 3, 2024.

    If you enjoyed this podcast, consider booking a reading with me. I offer astrology, divination, and subtle alchemy sessions.

    I also offer a 6-month mentorship container Night Vision. 

    Listen to & purchase my new song Friends on Bandcamp. You can also listen to it on your favorite streaming platforms.

    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 [email protected].

  • 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 Cancer

    Thurs 06.20 Sun (Gemini) squares Neptune (Pisces); Sun enters Cancer

    Sat 06.21 Mercury (Cancer) sextiles Mars (Taurus); Full Moon in Capricorn

    Sun 06.22 Mercury (Cancer) squares NN (Aries)

    Join my upcoming 6-week container to explore the practical wisdom of mutable signs, SHAPESHIFTING ACADEMY. We begin Thursday, October 3, 2024.

    If you enjoyed this podcast, consider booking a reading with me. I offer astrology, divination, and subtle alchemy sessions.

    I also offer a 6-month mentorship container Night Vision. 

    Listen to & purchase my new song Friends on Bandcamp. You can also listen to it on your favorite streaming platforms.

    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 [email protected].

  • 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.

    Join my upcoming 6-week container to explore the practical wisdom of mutable signs, SHAPESHIFTING ACADEMY. We begin Thursday, October 3, 2024.

    If you enjoyed this podcast, consider booking a reading with me. I offer astrology, divination, and subtle alchemy sessions.

    I also offer a 6-month mentorship container Night Vision. 

    Listen to & purchase my new song Friends on Bandcamp. You can also listen to it on your favorite streaming platforms.

    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 [email protected].

  • 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 Gemini

    Sun 06.16 Venus (Gemini) squares Neptune (Pisces)

    Join my upcoming 6-week container to explore the practical wisdom of mutable signs, SHAPESHIFTING ACADEMY. We begin Thursday, October 3, 2024.

    If you enjoyed this podcast, consider booking a reading with me. I offer astrology, divination, and subtle alchemy sessions.

    I also offer a 6-month mentorship container Night Vision. 

    Listen to & purchase my new song Friends on Bandcamp. You can also listen to it on your favorite streaming platforms.

    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 [email protected].

  • 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 Gemini

    Tue 06.04 Venus (Gemini) sextiles North Node (Aries); Mercury (Gemini) trines Pluto (Aquarius) ; Mercury conjoins Jupiter in Gemini; Venus and Sun conjoin in Gemini

    Thurs 06.06 New Moon in Gemini

    Sat 06.08 Venus (Gemini) squares Saturn (Pisces)

    Sunday 06.09 Sun (Gemini) squares Saturn (Pisces); Mercury (Gemini) sextiles North Node (Aries); Mars enters Taurus

    Join my upcoming 6-week container to explore the practical wisdom of mutable signs, SHAPESHIFTING ACADEMY. We begin Thursday, October 3, 2024.

    If you enjoyed this podcast, consider booking a reading with me. I offer astrology, divination, and subtle alchemy sessions.

    I also offer a 6-month mentorship container Night Vision. 

    Listen to & purchase my new song Friends on Bandcamp. You can also listen to it on your favorite streaming platforms.

    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 [email protected].

  • What does it mean to heal the queer spirit? How might our queerness shape our spirituality and vice versa? How do we collaborate and contemplate in care and creativity?

    In this first joint episode with the Queer Spirit podcast, TanyaMarck Oviedo, Nick Venegoni, and I explore the concept of 'healing the queer spirit.' While the three of us only recently connected, we quickly found flow and sweet kinship that felt profound and ancient.

    We had juicy discussions around the process of seeing and embracing our experiences as queer people, the magic and work of growing creative collaborations, and queering our definitions of healing.

    Find their podcast, Queer Spirit, here.

    Nick's bio and links

    Nick Venegoni, MA (he>they), is a holistic psychotherapist based on unceded Ohlone territory (San Francisco, CA), where he supports queer folks to heal from trauma and anxiety, to create more joyful lives and fulfilling relationships. He is the creator and co-host of The Queer Spirit podcast and co-facilitator in The Queer Spirit Community. Nick’s primary spiritual practices these days include Earth based wisdom, Buddhist Psychology, Mindfulness meditation, and sound healing.

    Connect with Nick at www.queerhealingjourneys.com as well as on Instagram @holisticqueerhealing

    TanyaMarck's bio and links

    Residing on Tongva Land, TanyaMarck Oviedo (they/them) is a two spirit, nonbinary, queer, native indigenous person of color and has been a person in recovery since 1989. As an embodied practitioner, medicine person, witch, educator and mentor, they share over 3 decades of care-centric wisdom and channeling via space holding, circle facilitation, mentoring, and community service work. TanyaMarck and Pluto (very magical medicine dog) are the founders of Vamonos Wellness, a healing arts and care practice that’s deeply rooted in curanderismo and community service.

    Connect with TanyaMarck at www.tanyamarck.com as well as on Instagram @tanyamarck

    Join my upcoming 6-week container to explore the practical wisdom of mutable signs, SHAPESHIFTING ACADEMY. We begin Thursday, October 3, 2024.

    If you enjoyed this podcast, consider booking a reading with me. I offer astrology, divination, and subtle alchemy sessions.

    I also offer a 6-month mentorship container Night Vision. 

    Listen to & purchase my new song Friends on Bandcamp. You can also listen to it on your favorite streaming platforms.

    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 [email protected].