Between the Moon

On today's episode of Lunar Currents Bronwyn and I explore the unique qualities of solar and lunar consciousness and how many of us have been trained to be more solar without knowing the difference.

We even catch ourselves trying to understand and talk about aspects of the moon on the sun's terms! Practicing self-study and lunar tracking helps loosen this and be able to see from another perspective completely.

This conversation is a candid and though-provoking musing that covers a lot of fertile ground. There is a whole wisdom transmission happening between the spoken words. 

Notice if you can sense it.

Links mentioned:

Lunar in Nature Waitlist

https://astrologygoddess.mykajabi.com/lunar-nature-waitlist

2024 Astrology Forecast and Planning Retreat

Use Discount Code: LUNARCURRENTS for $27 off

https://astrologygoddess.mykajabi.com/a/2147720910/iqyGRbij

Maeg Keane: The Sun, Our Unfixed Star

Looking at solar consciousness from the lunar perspective

Shout out to ⁠Alexandria, A Woman with Flowers⁠ for flower attunements!

Lunar Currents is a moonly conversation with April McMurtry and Predictive Astrologer Bronwyn Simmons about embodying the living sky, exploring how astrology helps us enter into the mythic nature of our life story, and musing on our relationship with time, creativity, intuition, and many other magical connections.

This episode explores the significance of the eclipse season (October 14th solar eclipse in Libra and Oct 28 lunar eclipse in Taurus) as well as what the lunar nodes may be showing us about the longer arc of our life story.

We dive deep into the themes and Bronwyn offers a simple and profound technique for personalizing the degrees of the eclipse towards the end of the show.

Links from the episode:

Bronwyn Simons Astrology

website: https://astrologygoddess.mykajabi.com/

IG: https://www.instagram.com/moon.wisdom/

The Moon Is My Calendar

Website: https://themoonismycalendar.com/

IG: https://www.instagram.com/themoonismycalendar/

Anne Ortelee Pinball Approach

https://anneortelee.com/the-pinball-approach-to-understanding-your-natal-energy-flow/

Today's guest is my dear friend and colleague Liz Childs Kelly. Liz is a writer, host of the Home to Her podcast, Sacred Feminine researcher and educator, community builder and initiated priestess in the 13 Moons Lineage.

This episode celebrates the 1 year anniversary of the release of Liz's first book: Home to Her and the recent launch of the Home to Her Academy.

Together we discuss our relationship with time, the moon, lineages, praying the rosary, creativity, trust, the sacred feminine... and so much more.

Liz speaks to the challenges of using the word "feminine," which has many negative associations due to gender stereotypes and historical marginalization of female-identified bodies.

She also reflects on how yoga and mantra practice has helped her connect with the sacred feminine, despite upbringing in conservative Christian tradition.

We examine the irony of decontextualizing spiritual practices from our own lineage, acknowledging the complex history of conquest, trauma, and genocide that exists within this European heritage.

We also share about our relationship with self-study in relationship with cycles and the importance of developing a subtle awareness through lunar tracking on the New Moon Calendar Journal. You can purchase you copy of the 2024 edition in the shop: https://themoonismycalendar.com/

Links and mentions:

Liz's website: https://www.hometoher.com/ Honoring the Wisdom of the Sacred Feminine

Home to Her Academy: https://www.hometoheracademy.com/

Way of the Rose: https://wayoftherose.org/

The work of Lynne Twist https://soulofmoney.org/

In today's episode, I have the pleasure of speaking with my dear friend and colleague Wilka Roig. Wilka and I met about five years ago, and the synchronicities of our connection continue inspire awe in me:) I am grateful to get a chance to share this conversation with you - it's so profound and explores our relationship with dreams, endings, the lunar cycle, eclipses, and redefining grief.

Wilka is a transpersonal psychologist, she is a death doula, a grief counselor, a dream worker, an educator facilitator and an artist in many mediums. She's the president of the Foundation in Central Mexico for the work of Elisabeth Kubler Ross (EKR México Centro) as well as an end of life doula and instructor and the co-chair of the BIPOC Advisory Council for the International End of Life Doula Association, or INELDA. Wilka is a coordinator for curriculum and faculty for the Institute of International Studies with the Institute for the Study of Birth, Breath and Death. And she's also been a part of reviving green burial practices in Mexico.

I hope you enjoy this conversation and that it sparks your own curiosity about your relationship with endings and beginnings!

Links mentioned in the episode:

Visit Wilka's website to learn more about her offerings with Dreaming, Healing, and End of Life: https://wilkaroig.com/

Death, Dreams and Yoga: https://www.ccld.community/events-1/death-dreams-and-yoga

Institute for the Study of Birth, Breath, and Death: https://birthbreathanddeath.com/

Center for Conscious Living and Dying: https://www.ccld.community/ 

The Institute Ireland Trip June 13th – 22nd 2023 https://retreats.behumanitarian.org/product/exclusive-ireland-retreatjune-12th-22nd-2023/

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Foundation México Centro http://ekrmexico.org/

In today's episode we explore parallels between the lunar cycle and the harvest cycle. Let's feel into how the phases of the moon inform and map onto the twelve houses of the natal chart. I give a taste of each of the houses and how they may connect with the phases- this is all just the tip of the iceberg! 

Working with the moon is working with our inner landscape. Working with the Harvest Cycle is working with the movement of the sun through our birth chart throughout the solar year. The lunar cycle is like a mini-year. Both wax and wane, grow and release light and life.

Listen and learn about what is possible when we weave these two cycles together. May this episode bring you into closer relationship with being in season with yourself. 

If you love these theme you are invited to join me for the Harvest Cycle Incubator: https://themoonismycalendar.com/harvest-cycle-incubator

Mentions:

Book of Houses by Robert Cole and Paul Williams

The Moon is my Calendar https://themoonismycalendar.com/

What if the grips of winter were the gifts of winter? What if our human rhythms were more like the rhythms of the seasons?

In today’s episode I am joined by filmmaker and nature practice teacher Natasha Deganello Giraudie. She is a dear friend and colleague and someone I've had the pleasure of connecting with through being guided by the moon, seasons, and nature. Natasha has worked with the New Moon Calendar Journal for the past six years as an integral part of her work and personal practice.

We talk about her creative process in bringing Opening to the Medicine of Winter to life and what is possible when we develop a deep trust of our intuition. Natasha mentions a book called “The Book of Houses” by Robert Cole, Paul Williams which is an amazing tool for connecting us with our own personal harvest cycles.

In our conversation we explore the theme of how to become more receptive and available to the gifts we know are there for us during the cold dark months of winter.

I love all the insights Natasha shares about our well being, the earth’s well being and the well being of future generations… especially in the way it relates to anchoring into rhythms and going against the grain of the discordant environments that rupture this rhythm.

I have the pleasure and honor of being a part of Opening to the Wisdom of Winter and sharing my winter, new moon, and eclipse stories. Don't miss the chance to explore these beautiful themes in community in Opening to the Medicine of Winter with a diverse group of women from a variety of perspectives and backgrounds to help us experience the more of the nourishing, soulful side of the cold season.

Visit bit.ly/medicine-of-winter-nature-practice to find out more about Opening to the Medicine of Winter which begins Nov 27, 2023.

You can find Natasha’s work on her website: www.rosaguayaba.earth and on instagram: @rosaguayaba www.instagram.com/rosa.guayaba

You are invited to come dance with Venus as she weaves her beauty in the sky and on earth. In this solo episode I explore the dates and themes of the eighth year rose that is completing with formation of the upcoming star point on October 22nd, 2022. As you listen you may notice the vibration of abundance and love that Venus transmits.

The orbit of Venus is rhythmic and creates a rose or a five-pointed star by returning to the same points over and over throughout our lifetimes. These points of the Venus Rose are formed each time Venus aligns with the Sun and Earth every nine months or so. The points also shift ever so slightly around the zodiac, and we are about to experience the movement from Scorpio into Libra and what this could bring up.

The Venus cycle plays a significant role in timekeeping for many cultures around the globe. Her dual nature from morning star to evening star and back again has been predicted and written about by Mayan astronomers as well as on ancient cuneiform tablets of Babylonia dating back to the first millennium BCE. Venus and the Moon also interweave their cycles together and offer context for practicing self-study in relationship with cycles.

Mentions in this episode:

Venus Star Rising by Arielle Guttman

The eight year lunar cycle is called an Octaeteris in Greek.

Your natal moon phase tutorial on the blog: Natal Moon Phase themoonismycalendar.com/articles/natal-moon-phase-tutorial

Join me and Susan Lipshutz, LCSW this Saturday Oct 22nd for an online gathering workshop called Venus Gateway: Anchoring the Jewel of Your Heart themoonismycalendar.com/events/venus-workshop-and-gathering

If you are interested in learning ore about personalizing the Venus cycle, check out the upcoming course Know Your Venus themoonismycalendar.com/know-your-venus

Thank you for listening!

In today's episode I'm sharing a very special conversation with Megan McGuire aka @forest.whisperer. I remember seeing an Instagram post that she made a while back with Moon names, and this list really spoke to ancestral connection to land and place and seasonal activities especially to parts of Europe where some of her ancestors are from.

This episode is in honor of what's often referred to as the Harvest Moon - or the full moon closest to the Autumnal Equinox in the Northern Hemisphere. And as you'll hear, there are many other names for this seasonal moon.

I got to know Megan more through this conversation and really appreciate the work that she does that is about connection, reconnection and belonging and exploring mythic time and creating Bioregional wheels of the year.

Megan is a biologist and she works for the federal government and designs ecosystem restoration projects to rehabilitate the Mississippi River that her ancestors have long cherished. She lives on Dakota land in the Twin Cities, Minnesota and her ancestors were Polish and Finnish and German, Irish, French possibly English and from the Saulteaux and Wyandot tribes.

She is also a mother and a permaculture gardener and works with ritual in daily life and I love how she talks in this conversation about weaving that in otherwise mundane activities in a very easeful and creative way.

I love this conversation. I hope you do too! Visit Megan on Instagram @forest.whisperer and her website: www.mythictime.com.

Mentions: 

Farmer's Almanac began publishing names for full Moons in the 1930s based on what Colonial Americans adapted from Native tribes including the Algonquin people on the Eastern Coast. These names have become widely known, but even though they now seem standardized, they are not universal.

Venerable Bede was an English monk at the monastery of St Peter in the Kingdom of Northumbria who lived in the 7-8th century. He wrote On the Reckoning of Time which references calendars and lunar time. 

In today's episode, I have the pleasure of sitting down with Susan Lipshutz from Everyday Medicine Woman to discuss and explore the themes of Virgo season and this particular Virgo New Moon. We look at the personal and universal expressions of the archetype and address some of the labels and stereotypes of the Virgo energy. 

When considering the inquiries for this mutable earth sign in combination with the upcoming Mercury Retrograde, you might consider asking:

What's the health status of my relationships?

What do we need as a remedy for what's going on?

What wants to support the healthier practice of my life?

Susan and I also do a kind of planetary roll call of checking in with Mercury and Venus in particular towards the end of the conversation. You can find Susan at her website: www.everydaymedicinewoman.com or on Instagram @susanlipshutz. 

Susan Lipshutz, LCSW has been a pioneer trailblazer in the field of Integrative Psychotherapy, women’s empowerment and soul level mentoring for over 35 years. Consultations are tailored to the needs of the individual offering a blend of her training in a wide range of clinical therapeutic approaches with a deep exploration that widens our understanding of the greater self via an astrological, spiritual and mystical perspective. Devoted to building meaningful communities that reawaken and integrate the sacred feminine into daily life, Susan invites a reclaiming of each woman’s ancestral wisdom, inner guidance and innate understanding of true beauty via a weaving of practices and teachings inspired by many years of dedicated work with global wisdom keepers and evolutionary teachings.

In today's episode I have the pleasure of being in conversation with mentor and modern mystic Ishita Sharma. Ishita Sharma serves as a mentor, mirror and activator to those who wish to better our world starting from within. 



She was born in Haridwar in northern India and came to the US as a teenager and began to study as a physicist, then turned to architecture and design, evolving into a multidisciplinary artist. Through it all, she felt that she was looking for an even deeper framework to explain what felt obvious to her: that we are all connected.

In 2016, she established Come to Center to share the joy and freedom of living an awake, connected and fulfilling life. She holds space for life in all of its abundant complexity, from the highest joys and miracles to the deepest suffering and sorrows. Her work points people back to their own inner harmonic and wholeness.



Today, Ishita works with contemporary visionaries, spiritual seekers and healers, therapists and coaches, CEOs and incarcerated youth to create futures that are free of past limitations to help them embody power, pleasure and show up in service, while rising beyond ego-centric paradigms. Ishita’s work is the expression of her deepest realizations, and an invitation into your own. Her unique approach integrates non-dual awareness with its embodiment, subtle energetics and relational dynamics to free the core of personal and systemic hindrances.

In this episode we explore the mechanics of anchoring into presence and noticing our habits of attention to become more skilled at navigating our relationship with ourselves and others.

To learn more about Ishita's offerings including Murmurations and Basics visit cometocenter.com