Aquarian Cauldron Podcast

Danielle came in saying she wanted confirmation. What she got was permission.

Permission to trust what she has always felt. Permission to stop calling her sensitivity a flaw. Permission to step into gifts that have been with her since before she was born, passed down through her mother’s line, confirmed by ravens and hummingbirds and feathers appearing exactly when they need to.

We opened with three cards and they fell in a way that surprised us all.

From there the conversation moved into something richer than a reading. Into her father who passed 13 years ago, into her grandmother Ethel who shows up as a stabilizing force, into the chronological legacy projects she is building for herself and for her dad, into her move to Arizona, into the thunderstorm that finally made her cousin believe. Into tasting iron and metal in her mouth when her uncle was speaking to her through her senses. Into the medium she already is, whether she has named it yet or not.

This is what we mean when we say the Cauldron Pull isn’t a performance. This is witnessing. This is what happens when three sets of hands hold the space and the cards do the rest.

Pull up a chair. The cauldron is bubbling away.

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Alysia MoonriseErica Phillips GravesGoddess Renell

Card decks used: Lumina Tarot, by Lauren Aletta, The Wild Unknown Alchemy Deck, by Kim Krans, The Rose Oracle, by Rebecca Campbell

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This one is intimate. This is how we actually do it.Every two weeks we meet in a sacred space we call Goddess Hour and discuss whatever the cosmos decided to throw at us that month. This episode, we opened the door and let you in.

August was a collective gut-punch. The heat, the eclipses, the relationships that blew up one by one. All three of us felt it in different ways. Alysia navigated soul family versus karmic family tensions and came out the other side clearer about who gets to stay in her orbit. Erica went through a full medical and energetic reset, stopped everything, and came back rebalanced and ready to sail. Renell moved through the highs and lows with her affirmations held close and her meme collection intact.Then we pulled the cards.Each of us brought three: a major arcana tarot pulled at the start of the year for the big picture, an alchemy card, and a rose card—material, spiritual, and medicine. The readings wove together like they always do when we do this.Then we pulled for the collective. For you. If August broke something open in you too, this episode is the medicine.Pull up a chair. The cauldron is bubbling away.

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Card decks used: Universal Rider-Waite Tarot Deck, The Wild Unknown Alchemy Deck, by Kim Krans, The Rose Oracle, by Rebecca Campbell

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The Wild Woman has always been there. She is in the waning moon, in the fall, in perimenopause, in every phase that makes a mess on the way to something new. So why isn't she in the Triple Goddess? That is the question we pull apart in this episode.We trace the omission across systems. The Triple Goddess framework popularized in 1948 by a man named Robert Graves. The moon cycle that has four main phases, not three. The seasons that include fall, the one that sheds everything. The female life cycle where perimenopause, the most transformative and ungovernable phase, gets skipped entirely. The tarot, where the feminine has been hidden, consolidated, and quietly edited out by the influence of the Catholic Church. The pattern is not a coincidence. It is a choice. And the Wild Woman is what got left out every single time.We also get into the nodal shift happening now—the nodes moving into Aquarius and Leo—and why this moment in the collective is directly connected to the Wild Woman's return. The goddesses who got to stay were the ones who could be enthroned. The ones who were too wild, too sovereign, too untameable were quietly removed from the canon. That era is ending.This episode is for anyone who has ever been told to get a hold of themselves and thought, but what if I don't? The wildness is not the problem. It never was.Don't tell me what the f*** to do.Soulful, a little fiery, fully ourselves. Pull up a chair. The cauldron is bubbling.

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Books mentioned in this episode: Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype, by Clarissa Pinkola Estés Substack Post Mentioned: Archaeologists Keep Finding Women Where Men Were Supposed To Be

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We’re trying something new: starting each episode with soul reflections, because the energy we’re each moving through matters before we get into the episode.

This episode opens with all three of us unpacking the last month: portal experiences through the New Moon in Gemini and the Solstice, an herb garden born from creative conversations, a tattoo healing through sun fire energy, and a light-as-a-feather high that comes right before you realize you need to rest. Different paths, same current.

Then Renell takes the wheel for a real Human Design breakdown—what a body graph actually is, the five types, and why “strategy” and “authority” matter more than most people realize. We get into why all three of us being Projectors wasn’t a coincidence, what it means to be a guide that people mirror onto without knowing why, and how exhausting that gift can be if you don’t protect your energy.

Then we go type by type. Alysia unpacks the Mental Projector’s need for a sounding board and why that used to feel like a flaw instead of a function. Erica breaks down the Emotional Projector’s need for a few sleeps before any real decision. Renell explains the Splenic Projector’s instant knowing, and we all agree detachment isn’t coldness, but self-preservation.

From there we land on the Sun card. Erica goes deep into solar versus lunar consciousness, the symbolism of renewal, and why summer solstice is the moment the moon’s quiet work finally rises into the light. We close it out the way we often always do. Pulling cards, this time from a deck all three of us own (The Wild Unknown Alchemy Deck), because apparently that’s just how this works now.

Soulful, a little fiery, fully ourselves. Pull up a chair. The cauldron is bubbling.

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Decks featured in this episode: The Wild Unknown Alchemy Deck, Lumina Tarot

Books mentioned in this episode: Tarot and the Psychology of the Soul: Exploring the Archetypal Mirrors of the Psyche by Mariana Louis

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In the first episode of The Aquarian Cauldron, we introduce ourselves and the sacred guidance that brought us together: a Substack rabbit hole, a few brave DMs, and the unmistakable pull of three Projectors recognizing each other across the void. What started as a bi-weekly goddess hour became something bigger.

But this isn’t just an origin story. We get into it fast.

The anti-guru threads through everything. We talk about the spiritual industry’s obsession with love-and-light, the seductive trap of self-help culture that tells you you’re broken, and what it actually looks like to trust your own knowing instead of outsourcing it to someone on a stage. This is the Aquarian impulse at its core: not hierarchy, not devotion to one teacher, but mirrors. People who reflect you back to yourself so you can find your own way through.

From there, the conversation spirals (in the best way) through the preparatory stages of the Age of Aquarius, what Projector energy has to do with the rise of the divine feminine, and why detachment isn’t coldness. It’s discernment. We talk full moon energy, Sagittarian fire, processing emotion through movement, and what it means to ground before you fly.

And then Erica pulls out her notes on The Star card. The Aquarian archetype embodied: a vessel, a conduit, a water bearer who is both acted upon and actively choosing.

It’s cerebral, it’s fiery, and it ends with Renell talking about reciprocity and Alysia threatening to ghost anyone who doesn’t match it.

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Tarot Decks featured in this episode: Tarot of the Abyss, Rider-Waite Tarot Deck

Books mentioned in the episode: Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom by Rachel Pollack, Tarot and the Archetypal Journey: The Jungian Path from Darkness to Light by Sally Nichols, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck by Mark Manson

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