September brings us into full-on shadow season with Saturnretrograding back into Pisces and a pair of powerful eclipses—a Total Lunar Eclipse in Pisces (Sept 7) and a Partial Solar Eclipse in Virgo (Sept 21). This month is about closure, emotional boundaries, reimagined routines, and shifting into balance as the Sun and Mars move into Libra.

To support us through these cosmic shifts, the Earth Medicine of the month comes forward:

Zinnia – The flower of endurance, joy, and friendship. Zinnia reminds us to let play and delight be part of our healing, even in heavy times.

Sapphire – The stone of clarity, truth, and devotion. Sapphire anchors us in integrity, helping us cut through illusion and stay aligned with our higher wisdom.

Wolf – The animal guide of loyalty, protection, and storytelling. Wolf teaches us the medicine of community and solitude, reminding us to howl in our own time. I love the story of Cayyach told by Scottish storyteller  Shona Cowie. https://youtu.be/faX4qZ4Ipbk?si=4egBKt39TAjw2UJs

Together, these medicines offer us what we need to navigate eclipse season: joy, clarity, and community.

Have you ever wanted to know what Tarot really is—beyond the fortune-teller clichés and Hollywood mystique? In this Ask Me Anything episode, Angie is answering your most curious beginner questions about Tarot:

• What even is Tarot—fortune telling, psychology, or something else?

• What’s the deal with the “scary” cards like Death and the Devil?

• Why would someone want to study Tarot instead of just getting the occasional reading?

• How can Tarot actually support self-discovery, intuition, and spiritual growth?

Whether you’re brand new and just Tarot-curious, or you’ve had a deck sitting on your shelf collecting dust, this episode will give you a grounded, approachable introduction to the cards—and maybe inspire you to shuffle them up yourself.

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In this episode, Angie—your cruise director through the cosmos and lover of lion-hearted wisdom—guides us through the astrology of August 2025, a month pulsing with retrogrades, portals, and a quiet kind of transformation.

With Mercury, Saturn, Neptune, Pluto, and Chiron all retrograde, the skies are asking us to slow down, look inward, and do the sacred work of integration. We're not meant to push forward this month—we’re meant to listen to the rumblings beneath the surface.

We explore the Lion’s Gate on 8/8, a potent spiritual portal of renewal and soul alignment, followed by an emotionally clarifying Aquarius Full Moon on 8/9. Mercury stations direct on 8/11, Venus conjoins Jupiter in Cancer, and by mid-month we’re pivoting toward Virgo’s grounded energy with a deeply healing New Moon at 0° Virgo on 8/23—our official threshold into Eclipse Season.

Alongside the cosmic currents, we’re held by earth medicine:

• Sunflower teaches us to follow the light, even when it's hidden—and to lean toward each other when we can't find it on our own.
• Mountain Lion offers courage, presence, and sovereignty, especially in moments when we feel uncertain or unseen.
• Peridot brings heart-cleansing, solar plexus-strengthening clarity—reminding us we don’t have to carry what’s not ours.

This month is about emotional recalibration, intuitive trust, and preparing the soil for the eclipses to come. Grab your peridot, light a candle for your inner mountain lion, and meet us in the sunflower field between fire and stillness.

Join Angie as she discusses the astrology and earth medicine for July 2025 with Snake, Poppy & Ruby. We are also talking about sacred defiance.

Learn more about Angie and her work at ⁠⁠the Moon + Stone Healing'⁠s website⁠. Reach out to Angie with any questions for her upcoming Ask Me Anything episode at [email protected].

In this deep dive, Angelica traces the winding spiritual andpsychological roots of Alcoholics Anonymous—from a Swiss psychoanalyst's mystical mic drop to the passionate fervor of the Oxford Group. We explore how Carl Jung’s phrase "Spiritus contra spiritum” ("the spirit of alcohol versus the spirit of God") sparked a lineage of soul-searching drunks and spiritual rebels, eventually leading to the founding of AA.

Along the way, we meet Frank Buchman, the fiery founder ofthe Oxford Group; Rowland Hazard, the wealthy alcoholic who helped spread the message; and Bill Wilson, who turned his own spiritual awakening into a movement. We also explore AA’s “three pillars”: spirituality, stepwork, and sponsorship—unpacking how connection, confession, and good old-fashioned honesty became the true medicine for recovery.

Whether you’re sober, sober-curious, or just here for the hotspiritual gossip, this episode invites you to consider what happens when desperate people choose grace, one day at a time.

Sources & References·    

• Alcoholics Anonymous (The Big Book) – Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, 1939
• Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions– Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, 1953
• AA Comes of Age – Bill Wilson, 1957
• Pass It On: The Story of Bill Wilson and How the A.A. Message Reached the World – AA World Services, 1984
• Dr. Carl Jung’s Letter to Bill W. (1961) – Available via AA archives
• The Varieties of Religious Experience – William James, 1902
• For Sinners Only – A.J. Russell, 1932
• What Is the Oxford Group? – Oxford Group Pamphlet
• Sponsorship: Questions and Answers – AA World Services Pamphlet P-15
• Not-God: A History of Alcoholics Anonymous – Ernest Kurtz, 1979
• Lois Wilson’s memoir, Lois Remembers
•  AA General Service Office (GSO) Historical Timeline – aa.org

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperance_movement

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Alcoholics_Anonymous#:~:text=Back%20in%20America%2C%20Hazard%20went,and%20life%20to%20God's%20care%22.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_Grouphttps://practicetheseprinciplesthebook.com/aa-and-the-oxford-group

Join Angie as she discusses the astrology and earth medicine for June 2025 with Hawk, Moonstone & Honeysuckle. We are also talking about duality, the Devil and Twinning/Winning with our hedonistic side.

Learn more about Angie and her work at ⁠the Moon + Stone Healing'⁠s website. Reach out to Angie with any questions for her upcoming Ask Me Anything episode at [email protected].

One of my areas of study in my undergraduate degree was the religions and cults in the Mediterranean—from Ancient Greek religion to Roman to Judaism and into early Christianity. Through this work, you can see the commonalities in these moral and cultural norms as well as the religious similarities, and of course, I continue to feel frustrated at seeing the talk, through the world, about immigrants. Whether they are illegal, how do we treat them, how do we “protect” our land, resources. It always makes me wonder if the laws of hospitality that were SO incredibly important to the religions and governments in the Bible and Ancient Greek religion and culture (the “basis for our own constitution”) matter to those in charge. Do they understand the root of the messages they seem to preach? So, rather than get on a soap box and condemn the hypocrite I wanted to talk about stranger and hospitality in Greek Myth and in the Bible that you might think you know. We will discuss Xenia (Greek: ξενία [kse'ni.a]) and Theoxeny.

References and Sources

Mythology of Hospitality, by Alilia Athena, Aug 10,2024:  https://paleothea.com/cultural-myths/mythology-of-hospitality/

The Stranger from Bible Hub: https://biblehub.com/topical/t/the_stranger.htm 

A Brief Biblical Case for LGBTQ inclusion, The ReformationProject: https://reformationproject.org/case/sodom-and-gomorrah/ 

The Story Of Sodom And Gomorrah Asks Us To Consider Our OwnInhospitality. Grant Hartley,  December11, 2022. https://outreach.faith/2022/12/the-story-of-sodom-and-gomorrah-asks-us-to-consider-our-own-inhospitality/ 

Embracing the Stranger: Hospitality in the Bible, PastorFari Maghami: https://coastalchurch.org/embracing-the-stranger-hospitality-in-the-bible/  

Philoxenia – Greek Hospitality – The Myth of Baucis andPhilemon https://greekerthanthegreeks.com/philoxenia-greek-hospitality-the-myth-of-baucis-and-philemon/ 

Xenia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenia_(Greek)

On Meeting Gods in Disguise: The Myths of Ovid and theMessage of Paul by Noah Huisman

https://noahhuisman.substack.com/p/on-meeting-gods-in-disguiseReferences

Biblical & Roman/Greek References:

Genesis 18–19

Judges 19

Ezekiel 16:49-50

Isaiah 1:10-17

Jeremiah 23:14

Amos 4:1-11

Zephaniah 2:8-11

Sirach 16:8

Wisdom 19:15

Matthew 25:35

Luke 10:25-37

Hebrews 13:2

Acts 14 (Paul and the gods Zeus and Hermes)

Ovid, Metamorphoses

Philo of Alexandria, writings on Sodom

Augustine’s interpretations (early 5th century)

Here are some New Testament biblical passages that directlyinstruct and command  to show hospitalityas a people who are called to follow Christ:

Romans 12:13 – “Share with the Lord’s people whoare in need. Practice hospitality.”

1 Peter 4:9 – “Offer hospitality to one anotherwithout grumbling.”

Hebrews 13:2 – “Do not forget to showhospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality toangels without knowing it.”

Titus 1:8 – “Rather, he must be hospitable, onewho loves what is good, who is self-controlled, upright, holy and disciplined.”

Matthew 25:35 – “For I was hungry and you gaveme something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was astranger and you invited me in.”

3 John 1:5-8 – “Dear friend, you are faithful in what you are doing for the brothers and sisters, even though they are strangers to you. They have told the church about your love. Please send them on their way in a manner that honors God. It was for the sake of the Name that they went out, receiving no help from the pagans. We ought therefore to show hospitality to such people so that we may work together for the truth.”

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