Awaken and Align

We are thrilled + honored to announce our first special celebrity guest Tyler Gaca (@tylergaca) on our show! Tyler is a creative, author, storyteller, beloved by Martha Stewart, iconic Libra, and an absolute shining star! It was our honor to read his birth chart and look at his upcoming astrology. Laura also channels intuitive messages for him, and Steph connects with some of his Spirits in a mediumship reading.   Welcome to The Millennial Mystics, a liminal space where we explore the unseen realms, astrology, witchcraft, and the way magick shows up in your life. Each week we channel the language of the stars and discuss how these celestial bodies and archetypes are reflected in our worldly events and the cultural zeitgeist. The Millennial Mystics is hosted by two fire sign witches: Hi, I’m Laura and I’m an Aries Sun, Aquarius Moon, and Sagittarius rising–and I’m Stephanie and I’m a Leo sun, Leo rising, and Virgo moon. It’s our hope that our passion for magick and the mystical reflects light on your own curiosity and inner witch. Welcome to The Millennial Mystics!
  Full Show Notes:

• Millennial Mystics on YouTube
• ORDER MY BOOK HOW TO MANIFEST
• LEAVE AN AMAZON REVIEW FOR MY BOOK
• Laura Chung Instagram
• Laura Chung Tik Tok
• Laura Chung's Website 
• YouTube Channel
• Ceremonial Cacao for 15% off use code: AWAKEN 
• Awaken and Align Instagram
• Awaken and Align Website

Connect with Awaken and Align:

• If you enjoyed the podcast and you feel called, please share it, and tag me!
• Subscribe, rate, and review the show wherever you get your podcasts. Your rating and review help more people discover it!
• Follow on Instagram @awakenandalign
• Let me know your favorite guests, lessons, or any topic requests.

Amber Eros is a Somatic Sex Coach and Erotic Shadow Guide. She supports people to effectively integrate the shame, fear and grief that they carry around sex so they may live their most orgasmic and abundant lives. She believes that the road toward pleasure can provide us with the most profound healing of our lives. Amber joyfully weaves together somatic journeying, parts work, shadow integration, mindfulness, sexual alchemy and sex education to co-create radical healing spaces for her clients. She supports women, men and gender expansive folks through personal coaching and through her group membership, Coven.    In This Episode:

• Amber shares her origins story and how she came to study sacred sexuality. 
• The doors that open when you explore sexuality and pleasure.
• How Amber recognized that there was something "wrong" while being intimate with her partner and the first step she took to communicate with her partner. 
• Amber shares how the pathway to discovering what you truly desire is the pathway to healing some of your deepest wounds. 
• Channeling sexual energy into creativity and receiving downloads. 
• Amber talks about her erotic playlists and the different forms of eroticism. 
• Amber and I discuss if there are cultures around the world that do pleasure the best. 
• We live in a time when you can source your pleasure and with that comes liberation. 
• What's happening with the cishet (cisgender-heterosexual) men out there? 
• The #1 sexual alchemical ingredient to pleasure.
• Why foreplay is important for nervous system regulation and for experiencing pleasure. 
• Amber shares her perspective on why Gen Z is the generation not having sex. 

Full Show Notes:

• Amber Eros Website
• Amber Eros Email List
• Work with Amber through 1:1 coaching
• Listen to Amber's Podcast 
• Join Amber's Coven Membership FREE for 30 days
• RITUAL RELEASE EVENT 4/14/23 IN NYC
• LEAVE AN AMAZON REVIEW FOR MY BOOK
• ORDER MY BOOK HOW TO MANIFEST
• Laura Chung Instagram
• Laura Chung Tik Tok
• Laura Chung's Website 
• YouTube Channel
• Ceremonial Cacao for 15% off use code: AWAKEN 
• Awaken and Align Instagram
• Awaken and Align Website

Connect with Awaken and Align:

• If you enjoyed the podcast and you feel called, please share it, and tag me!
• Subscribe, rate, and review the show wherever you get your podcasts. Your rating and review help more people discover it!
• Follow on Instagram @awakenandalign
• Let me know your favorite guests, lessons, or any topic requests.

Grace Duong is a multidisciplinary artist, author, and creator of Mystic Mondays, a modern & vibrant tarot deck and app turned into a brand on a mission to empower you to discover your inner magic.

In 2012, Grace moved to Los Angeles for a job right out of college as a graphic designer and after two and a half months, was fired. That brought her to the beginning of her healing journey, booking a session with an energy healer because it was cheaper than therapy. Living near a metaphysical bookstore, she sought tarot readings all the time as they were a source of therapeutic relief, but after a while, she realized she was seeking external answers which caused her to turn inward to access her own innate wisdom. This drew her to create her own tarot deck infused with her style of vibrant colors and modern, geometric shapes, dismantling the stereotype that tarot was scary and scammy, but instead can be used as an intuition tool, to build a better relationship with oneself and to go within. 

Grace launched a Kickstarter in 2017 for the Mystic Mondays tarot deck and app, which was successfully funded for $25,990. After experiencing a setback with shipping and damaged decks, Grace cold emailed the generic email at Chronicle Books and within two weeks received an offer for publication in early 2018. The Mystic Mondays tarot deck was released to the world later that year in October 2018 and has now to date sold over 215k copies. Since then, Grace has created three additional decks - the Crystal Grid Deck, Cosmic Creatures deck, and the Astro Alignment Deck which are all published with Running Press / Hachette. Grace continues to expand the Mystic Mondays brand with the Mystic Mondays App (over 300k downloads) and other additional products. Grace has also worked with brands like Chanel, Macy’s, Starry, Campus, and more as a Tarot expert and spiritual wellness influencer.

  In This Episode:

• Grace shares her inspiration for creating her Astro Alignment deck and her creative process in creating her unique decks. 
• Grace shares her experience being an Asian American woman who is an entrepreneur navigating between two cultures and how tarot and astrology are self-actualization tools.  
• Does she feel pressure to be successful? How does she define success now after creating best-selling tarot decks?
• Grace shares her healing journey and how the clarity of her purpose is slowly unfolding. 
• Through the practice of non-attachment, Grace was able to deal with negative comments and feedback.
• The long and winding road of figuring out what you want to do and who you are. 
• Finding your creative channel and expression. 
• Grace and I talk about manifesting and what it means for us. 
• I go on a side tangent about what the world could be if we divested from capitalism. 
• Healing is accessing your own wisdom. 
• Experimentation, making big decisions, and following your curiosities as ways to learn about yourself. 

Full Show Notes:

• Grace Duong's Instagram
• Grace Duong's Website
• Mystic Monday's Instagram
• Mystic Monday's Website
• RITUAL RELEASE EVENT 4/14/23 IN NYC
• LEAVE AN AMAZON REVIEW FOR MY BOOK
• ORDER MY BOOK HOW TO MANIFEST
• Laura Chung Instagram
• Laura Chung Tik Tok
• Laura Chung's Website 
• YouTube Channel
• Ceremonial Cacao for 15% off use code: AWAKEN 
• Awaken and Align Instagram
• Awaken and Align Website

Connect with Awaken and Align:

• If you enjoyed the podcast and you feel called, please share it, and tag me!
• Subscribe, rate, and review the show wherever you get your podcasts. Your rating and review help more people discover it!
• Follow on Instagram @awakenandalign
• Let me know your favorite guests, lessons, or any topic requests.

A trailblazer and healing activist in the spirituality and wellness space with more than 12,000 sessions & thousands of students worldwide, Vanessa is an acclaimed bilingual psychic medium, clinical hypnotherapist, astrologer, mujer medicina, and soul business mentor. 

 

She is the founder of The School of the Healing Artes, supporting the next generation of Latinx and BIPOC healers and conscious leaders. A monthly advice columnist for HOLA! “Querida Brujita” and bi-monthly astrology writer for BELatina, she has been seen in SHAPE, Telemundo, Univision, iHEART radio, Primer Impacto, LATN, Refinery 29 and Hiplatina and many podcasts. She is the first Latina to co-host The Shift Network’s Energy Medicine Summit in 2021 and the Ancestral Healing Summit 2023. Nacimos Magicas~ Born Magical™ : an 8 week Journey in Reclaiming Your Ancestral Gifts has supported the hundreds of empaths to decolonize their spirituality, intuition and reclaim their powerful gifts.  

An Argentine American who started doing readings at 16, became a professional intuitive at 22, held New Moon and Full Moon healing circles for two decades in NYC, Vanessa is celebrating her TEN years online full-time and over 27 years in service to her comunidad. Her online school hold certification programs in intuition, Akashic Records, Usui Reiki and hypnosis. In 2022, Vanessa created the Soul of Business Summit, now renamed, Ancestrally Rooted Business Summit, interviewing 37 Latine and BIPOC entrepreneurs on the impact of their ancestors on their work. 

 

Vanessa is proud of her work as an empowerment facilitator for future young women leaders at the Bella Abzug Young Women’s Leadership Institute in NYC, creating innovative courses to support self-empowerment, inclusivity, and diversity for the last twelve years. She is also Creatrix of the Biz Bruja Podcast and has recently completed a year long training and initiations with The Inca Medicine School and the Apaza Family in Cusco, Peru.

For fun, you can find Vanessa sharing animated stories with her husband, chilling with her fur babies, cats, Zander and Che or playing one on the Harrisburg Improv Stage! Her team, Cosmic Trash makes light of pop spirituality and astrology.   In This Episode:

• Vanessa shares her origins story of how she knew she had metaphysical gifts and how she started her Biz Bruja business.
• What was it about businesses that led her to be able to channel for them and business owners? 
• How does Vanessa show up as a healer existing in late-stage capitalism?
• Vanessa's reflections on the collective healing journey of 2020-2022 and what we are being called to do in 2023. 
• The reason why Vanessa hid amongst her famous cohort and the moment that Vanessa came "out" into the spotlight as the Biz Bruja. 
• Having a spiritual business is a long game. 
• What Vanessa "sees" coming for us in 2023. 
• Vanessa shares about ancestral hypnosis healing and why working with ancestors is so important in her work. 

Full Show Notes:

• The Biz Bruja Website
• The Biz Bruja Instagram
• The Biz Bruja Podcast
• LEAVE AN AMAZON REVIEW FOR MY BOOK
• ORDER MY BOOK HOW TO MANIFEST
• Laura Chung Instagram
• Laura Chung Tik Tok
• Laura Chung's Website 
• YouTube Channel
• Ceremonial Cacao for 15% off use code: AWAKEN 
• Awaken and Align Instagram
• Awaken and Align Website

Connect with Awaken and Align:

• If you enjoyed the podcast and you feel called, please share it and tag me!
• Subscribe, rate, and review the show wherever you get your podcasts. Your rating and review help more people discover it!
• Follow on Instagram @awakenandalign
• Let me know your favorite guests, lessons, or any topic requests.

Adama Sesay is a New York City based Professional Astrologer, Occultist, Entrepreneur and Beauty Expert. She is also the author of the highly-anticipated Black Moon Lilith Rising Book and Cosmic Alchemy Oracle Cards, launching Fall 2023 with international self-help publisher Hay House. She studied the metaphysical science of Astrology through the National Council for Geocosmic Research, and has over a decade of experience professionally playing in the mystical, spiritual, beauty, and fashion corporate worlds.   In 2019 Adama gave birth to LilithAstrology.com — a media brand dedicated to empowering humanity through the dark divine feminine. There she runs a private online streaming community and editorial website called Black Moon Lilith™ Collective and The Coven. There you can discover empowering horoscopes, workshops, book private events, and astrological consultations. Adama’s writing and astrological expertise is featured in major media outlets like Cosmopolitan Magazine, Well + Good, Glamour, Essence, Today.com, Refinery29, Byrdie, Tarot.com and BuzzFeed. Adama is currently available for personal appearances, workshops, and events.   In This Episode:

 

• The practical approach Adama uses to trust and not sink back into a lack mentality. 
• Adama shares what dark feminine energy is and how to be in that energy.
• How dark feminine energy is related to power and wealth.
• Adama shares about her book and oracle deck Black Moon Lilith Rising.
• Lilith as an allegory and how her story translates to the suppression of the dark feminine energy today.
• What sparked Adama’s interest in Lilith and how she felt Lilith was not represented accurately.
• What Black Moon Lilith can show you in your natal chart. 
• The light and dark feminine and balancing both energies.
• Marilyn Monroe and her Lilith archetype. 

 

Full Show Notes:

• Adama's Website Lilith Astrology
• Adama's Instagram @lilithastrology
• Black Moon Lilith Rising Podcast
• Join my private magical community, Black Moon Lilith Collective for only $24 for your first month. Enter code LILITHTRIBE20 at checkout to redeem on Lilithastrology.com.
• Episode 72: Lilith Astrology
• ORDER MY BOOK HOW TO MANIFEST
• Laura Chung Instagram
• Laura Chung Tik Tok
• Laura Chung's Website 
• YouTube Channel
• Ceremonial Cacao for 15% off use code: AWAKEN 
• Awaken and Align Instagram
• Awaken and Align Website

Connect with Awaken and Align:

• If you enjoyed the podcast and you feel called, please share it and tag me!
• Subscribe, rate, and review the show wherever you get your podcasts. Your rating and review help more people discover it!
• Follow on Instagram @awakenandalign
• Let me know your favorite guests, lessons, or any topic requests.

2023 The Year Of The Yin Water Rabbit With Tiff Lin   Tiff Lin (they/them) is a queer 1.5 generation Taiwanese-American, kinesthetic artist, AAPI community organizer, BTB Feng Shui consultant and BaZi Chinese Astrology practitioner, residing in Ohlone territory (Oakland). Through 1:1 consultations, workshops, writing and performance art, they strive to bring BaZi (4 Pillars of Destiny) codes to life in effort to help folks understand their life path and unlock their true gifts inside. Tiff views BaZi as a tool for collective liberation, a way to uplift nature and the elements as a site of learning, and an embodied practice to build self-mastery, compassion, and harmony.    In This Episode:

• Tiff and I reflect on the yang water tiger year in 2022.
• The yang water tiger year for Laura was a hidden moaning year; when the year is reflected in one of your pillars. 
• The collective and individual healing that the yang water tiger invited us to do. 
• The difference between the yang water tiger and the yin water rabbit years. 
• The energy of the yin water rabbit year in 2023.
• The cycle of Chinese astrology with 12 animals and 5 elements. 
• Tiger and rabbit represent Spring. The importance of the yin rabbit year before the year of the dragon.
• Reflecting on the year of the rat in 2020 and the symbolism of the rat.
• Tiff's predictions for 2023 during the year of the rabbit. 
• Do different cultures and practitioners have different interpretations of animals? Tiff gives their opinion. 
• Being in the yin in Western modern society. 

 Full Show Notes:

• Tiff Lin's Website
• Tiff Lin's Instagram
• Tiff Lin's Episode 159: BaZi Chinese Astrology 
• ORDER MY BOOK HOW TO MANIFEST
• Laura Chung Instagram
• Laura Chung Tik Tok
• Laura Chung's Website 
• YouTube Channel
• Ceremonial Cacao for 15% off use code: AWAKEN 
• Awaken and Align Instagram
• Awaken and Align Website

Connect with Awaken and Align:

• If you enjoyed the podcast and you feel called, please share it and tag me!
• Subscribe, rate, and review the show wherever you get your podcasts. Your rating and review help more people discover it!
• Follow on Instagram @awakenandalign
• Let me know your favorite guests, lessons, or any topic requests.

In this solo episode, Laura shares an anecdotal story of how she manifests using astrological alignments and the power of visualization. She also shares about the venus and jupiter conjunction in Aries that's happening on March 1, 2023 and why that's a big deal. March is going to be a month to remember!    Full Show Notes:

• ORDER MY BOOK HOW TO MANIFEST
• Laura Chung Instagram
• Laura Chung Tik Tok
• Laura Chung's Website 
• YouTube Channel
• Ceremonial Cacao for 15% off use code: AWAKEN 
• Awaken and Align Instagram
• Awaken and Align Website

Connect with Awaken and Align:

• If you enjoyed the podcast and you feel called, please share it and tag me!
• Subscribe, rate, and review the show wherever you get your podcasts. Your rating and review help more people discover it!
• Follow on Instagram @awakenandalign
• Let me know your favorite guests, lessons, or any topic requests.

Teacher and writer, Rev Karla is an ordained interfaith/interspiritual minister. Rev Karla helps people recover from religious trauma, reclaim their spirituality, and live with purpose and authenticity. She has amassed a following approaching 600,000 followers on TikTok and Instagram, where she uses creativity and wit to connect with and teach her followers. Her videos and writings have been seen and shared by millions.    After joining social media, Rev Karla quickly became the leader in the deconstructing conversation, teaching about deconstructing from Christianity, religious trauma, the spiritual-but-not-religious path, and the dangers of Christian nationalism.    Rev Karla founded Numa Soul to be a space for resources, teachings and a safe spiritual community. She and her team are committed to building a world based on our highest social and spiritual aspirations—one that is just, kind, equitable, radically compassionate and rooted in unconditional love.   In This Episode:

• Karla's origins story of how she was raised in the bible belt and her experience in the church.
• How Karla started to deconstruct from Christian religious trauma.
• What led Karla to be an ordained interfaith/interspiritual minister.
• What led Karla to start her Tik Tok account now she has over 600,00 followers!
• I ask Karla can you be religious and spiritual or spiritual without being religious?
• What does deconstructing Christianity mean? Or from any religious faith?
• I ask Karla her thoughts about respecting someone's beliefs and also calling out harmful alt-right ideology weaponizing religion to oppress marginalized groups. 
• Karla shares sources that can counteract the weaponization of the scriptures. 
• Karla's observations on the new age community on Tik Tok. 
• We speak about the prosperity gospel. The intersection of spirituality, wealth, and abundance. 
• The first step towards healing religious trauma. 

 Full Show Notes:

• Rev Karla's Tik Tok
• Rev Karla's Instagram
  
• Rev Karla's Website
  
• Numa Soul Website
  
• THE WITCHING HOUR SHOW PATREON
• ORDER MY BOOK HOW TO MANIFEST
• Laura Chung Instagram
  
• Laura Chung Tik Tok
• Laura Chung's Website 
• YouTube Channel
• Ceremonial Cacao for 15% off use code: AWAKEN 
• Awaken and Align Instagram
• Awaken and Align Website
• The Werk Podcast Website
• Bi-Monthly Moon Circles via Patreon 

Connect with Awaken and Align:

• If you enjoyed the podcast and you feel called, please share it and tag me!
• Subscribe, rate, and review the show wherever you get your podcasts. Your rating and review help more people discover it!
• Follow on Instagram @awakenandalign
• Let me know your favorite guests, lessons, or any topic requests.

Laura Chung is an author, Reiki master, astrologer, and the host of two podcasts, Awaken and Align and The Werk. She has her Masters of Science in Industrial and Organizational Psychology. She is an activist and trauma-informed healer who uses her various media platforms to share spiritual wisdom and decolonial education toward collective healing and liberation. As a multi-disciplinary healer, Laura helps people to transcend their past and transform their current situations; breaking generational cycles and harmful patterns. Her intention is to help people manifest the life of their dreams.   In This Episode:

• I talk about this beautiful New Moon in Sagittarius at 1 degree. It's exact on November 23, 2022 at 6:30 PM EST.
• The lessons from Scorpio season and the eclipse season.
• What to look forward to for the rest of 2022 and what we're being prepared for in 2023.
• Why this new moon is so hopeful and how we can set our intentions for a more expansive future.
• Jupiter goes direct in Pisces a few minutes after this new moon at 28 degrees of Pisces.
• The lessons during Jupiter retrograde.
• How I use astrology, magick, and energy in my everyday life.
• The Witching Hour and your opportunity to join our coven.
• New Moon in Sagittarius ritual starts at 41:05

Full Show Notes:

• THE WITCHING HOUR SHOW PATREON
• ORDER MY BOOK HOW TO MANIFEST
• Laura Chung Instagram
• Laura Chung Tik Tok
• Laura Chung's Website 
• YouTube Channel
• Ceremonial Cacao for 15% off use code: AWAKEN 
• Awaken and Align Instagram
• Awaken and Align Website
• The Werk Podcast Website
• Bi-Monthly Moon Circles via Patreon 

Connect with Awaken and Align:

• If you enjoyed the podcast and you feel called, please share it and tag me!
• Subscribe, rate, and review the show wherever you get your podcasts. Your rating and review help more people discover it!
• Follow on Instagram @awakenandalign
• Let me know your favorite guests, lessons, or any topic requests.

Stephanie Campos is an astrologer, witch, and healer. She’s studied the mystical arts for over a decade from studying the stars, mediumship, palm reading, tarot, Reiki, curanderismo, EFT tapping and more. She’s passionate about being of service and helping others heal. Stephanie is also a writer and editor. Her work has appeared and been featured in Cosmopolitan, Well + Good, Vogue, Bustle, Refinery29, among other publications.   Just a quick update: We have since rebranded the show to The Millennial Mystics as of February 5, 2023.    In This Episode:

• We talk about the Total Lunar Eclipse in Taurus that happened on 11/8/22 the same day as the Midterm Elections.
• Stephanie and I have a huge announcement! 
• We share about The Millennial Mystics and our intention for starting it. 
• We share our astrological big 3.
• Stephanie shares about Astro-tapping which is her unique offering of astrology and EFT tapping combined.
• We share how the idea for the show came about because of Gisele and Tom.
• We give you a little glimpse into what the show will be like.
• Stephanie and Laura share their eclipse stories. 
• We talk about some things to come in 2023. 

 Full Show Notes:

• Stephanie Campos's Instagram
• Stephanie Campos Website
  
• ORDER MY BOOK HOW TO MANIFEST
• Laura Chung Instagram
  
• Laura Chung Tik Tok
• Laura Chung's Website 
• YouTube Channel
• Ceremonial Cacao for 15% off use code: AWAKEN 
• Awaken and Align Instagram
• Awaken and Align Website
• The Werk Podcast Website
• Bi-Monthly Moon Circles via Patreon 

Connect with Awaken and Align:

• If you enjoyed the podcast and you feel called, please share it and tag me!
• Subscribe, rate, and review the show wherever you get your podcasts. Your rating and review help more people discover it!
• Follow on Instagram @awakenandalign
• Let me know your favorite guests, lessons, or any topic requests.