Centered with Angie Yingst

In this month’s astrological reading & earth medicine episode of Centered, Angie walks us through the deep spiritual terrain of December 2025—a month of crossroads, dissolving illusions, sacred rest, and choosing what we truly believe. We explore how the astrology of the month lines up with our Earth Medicine allies: Bear, Blue Topaz, Narcissus, and the energies of owning where you are and hibernation. December asks us to soften our grip on certainty, to trust the unknown, and to let ourselves be held by the restorative rhythm of winter.

Earth Medicine for December:
🐻 Bear — Honoring cycles, integration, sacred stillness
💎 Blue Topaz — Gentle clarity, inner truth, soulful direction
🌼 Narcissus — Self-recognition, honest reflection
🌙 Owning Where You Are — Radical presence
❄️ Hibernation + Sacred Rest — The cave as healing

Links + Resources:
Centered with Angie Yingst on Spotifyhttps://open.spotify.com/show/3Ep9zNv9mBFjVSJhPP90qb?si=f991a65640dd48c8
Website: themoonandstone.com
Instagram: @angieyingst

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This episode, I’m returning to the writings that shaped theearliest years of my healing after my daughter Lucia’s stillbirth in 2008.

These three essays — one on the holy clearing power of the scream, one on the deep and complicated dance of gratitude during suffering, and one on the Buddhist tonglen practice — map my journey through grief, spiritual awakening, sobriety, and self-compassion.

These pieces were written from the raw center of my heart:

• when I was newly grieving,
• newly sober,
• newly trying to exist inside a body again,
• newly understanding what compassion actually means.

In this episode, I read:

7:03 Essay 1. “Scream, Baby” — written two years after my sonZachary’s birth and his time in the NICU, exploring pain, primal release, and the scream as an act of healing.

15:40 Essay 2. “Gratitude” — an essay confronting spiritualbypassing, toxic positivity, what gratitude looks like when you’re grieving, not in spite of grief, and holding space.

26:37 Essay 3. “Tonglen: A Meditation for When You’re in the Weeds”— a compassionate, trauma-informed exploration of the Buddhist practice that helped me breathe inside my pain instead of trying to outrun it.

I also share a gentle guided tonglen practice, a groundingmeditation, and resources for tonglen on my website/blog, which you can access here.

If you’re grieving, healing, overwhelmed, or simply human —this episode is for you.

Welcome to November, my loves. We’re deep in Scorpio season — the time of year when the veil thins, the shadows stir, and transformation stops being an abstract concept and becomes something we actually feel in our bones. This month’s astrology isn’t here to make us comfortable; it’s here to make us real.

In this episode, we walk together through the cosmic landscape of November 2025, guided by the intensity of Scorpio and the wild optimism of Sagittarius. From the Taurus Full Moon that grounds us in our bodies to the Scorpio New Moon that strips us down to our truth, this month’s energy teaches us how to compost fear into courage, endings into beginnings.

We’ll unpack the big transits and explore what they mean for our collective healing. It’s a month of revelations, boundary work, and bold leaps of faith. Then, we turn to our Earth Medicine for November — Peony, Citrine, and Octopus — each offering its own kind of magic for this rebirth season. Together, they hold the energy of this month’s theme: Grab it while you can.

If Scorpio asks what must die, Sagittarius asks what you’ll do with the life that’s left. This episode is your permission slip to let go, trust your timing, and take the opportunities the Universe places in front of you — even if they scare you a little. Especially if they scare you a little.

🎧 Listen to this episode of Centered on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you find your cosmic medicine.

💛 Follow along on Instagram @themoonandstone for Earth Medicine updates and daily astrology insights.

We’re going back to the roots of spooky season, my pretties. This re-post dives into the ancient fire festival of Samhain and how it shapeshifted into our modern celebration of Halloween. From Celtic bonfires to trick-or-treating, saints to spirits, and mummers to masks, we’ll explore how humans across the world honor their dead when the veil grows thin.

This one’s a listener favorite—and yes, when I first recorded it, I thought it had only been one year since I started doing Wheel of the Year episodes… but apparently, I lost a whole-ass year. Time magic is real.

Light a candle, pour a little cider for your ancestors, and let’s walk together between worlds.

#Samhain #HalloweenHistory #WheeloftheYear #PaganTraditions #HonoringtheDead #SpookySeasonSome sources:

⁠Samhain. History Channel.⁠

⁠How the Early Catholic Church Christianized Halloween by Patrick Kiger⁠

The Pagan Mysteries of Halloween. ⁠JeanMarkale⁠.Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween. ⁠LisaMorton⁠.⁠The History of Halloween⁠⁠What's the Deal with Halloween? Everything Everywhere. ⁠

⁠The Origins of Trick or Treating History Channel.⁠⁠The History of Mummers.

In this month’s astrology and Earth Medicine reading, Angie explores October as a sacred threshold — the place between light and shadow, remembering and becoming. With the Full Moon in Aries and the New Moon in Libra opening the heart and the will, this is a month for courage, clarity, and connection with our ancestors. Owl teaches us to see in the dark; Butterfly leads our rebirth; Obsidian walks into shadow work with us; and Marigold reminds us to keep our light alive. Together, we find our way back to wholeness.

Reach Angelica at [email protected] or via her website at themoonandstone.com

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.

Ready to learn Tarot with me?
I’m opening the doors to my nine-week beginner course, The Complete Tarot (2025)—a step-by-step, Spirit-first approach to learning the cards, building confidence, and discovering your own Tarot voice. We start September 1st. Learn more and sign up here: The Complete Tarot 2025

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

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