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On this week’s podcast episode, we explore the Taurus Full Moon and its polarity with Scorpio as we begin Scorpio season. From Taurus’ esoteric phrase, “I see, and when the eye is opened, all is illumined,” to Venus retrograde at the final degree of Libra and Mercury retrograde in Scorpio, we reflect on beauty, aging, intimacy, and the values that shape our relationships. We explore how to balance security with surrender, reconsider inherited standards of beauty, and recognize what becomes visible when we slow down enough to truly receive.

Then, we are joined in conversation with Seattle musician and songwriter Hannah Ramone. We reflect on their Taurus Midheaven, and the ways music can give sound to experiences that might otherwise remain underwater. We tune into Hannah’s new single, “The Sweetness,” and also enjoy an early preview of Hannah's forthcoming song “In the Garden,” featuring Darla Rae.

Also, on this episode, we celebrate the living creative lineage of Seattle’s music community by honoring the late Gary Mula, a gifted musician, recording engineer, and producer whose work helped generations of artists bring their music into the world. We listen to two of Gary’s songs, “Purple Crush” and “Listen”, reflecting on his birth chart: Jupiter + Neptune in Scorpio 12th House. Together, these musical offerings invite us to consider how art carries memory, how creative communities sustain one another across generations, and how the sweetness of being alive can emerge through connection.

If you’d like to enjoy more writing, reflections, and cosmic storytelling from me lately, join me on the Cosmic Cousins Substack.

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Journey Through the Underworld: Dark Goddess Astrology Reading is a 30-minute recorded astrology reading exploring Venus retrograde’s relationship to your birth chart and the deeper layers of your inner world. Together, we’ll explore what this cycle is bringing into focus around love, desire, relationships, values, intimacy, and self-worth, while turning to the mythology of the Dark Goddesses as guides through the underworld of buried emotions, ancestral patterns, complicated relationships, and parts of yourself waiting to be reclaimed.

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Cosmic Mix Tape – A Soundtrack for Your Soul. The Cosmic Mix Tape. is a personalized astrology experience that transforms your birth chart into a soulful soundtrack through an in-depth recorded reading and a carefully curated playlist.

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This week, we explore the Libra New Moon and Venus retrograde in Scorpio. From my journey up the Northern California coast toward Vancouver Island, I reflect on how Venus retrograde connects us with past chapters of love, identity, creativity, and belonging, and how revisiting old stories can reveal what has changed and what is ready to take a new form. 

Also, on this epsiode, we have a Libra Panel, and are joined by three Libra's: Panda Landa, Mary Evans, and Dana Balicki for a conversation inspired by the Justice card from the Wild Unknown Tarot, featuring two cats whose tails meet around the world while each occupies its own space. Together, we explore what these wise cats can teach us about consent, accountability, belonging, and maintaining connection without abandoning ourselves. We also look at Panda Landa's art, and pair one piece of art with each of the 12 Zodiac signs!  Tune in to learn your message.

f you’d like to enjoy more writing, reflections, and cosmic storytelling from me lately, join me on the Cosmic Cousins Substack.

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Journey Through the Underworld: Dark Goddess Astrology Reading is a 30-minute recorded astrology reading exploring Venus retrograde’s relationship to your birth chart and the deeper layers of your inner world. Together, we’ll explore what this cycle is bringing into focus around love, desire, relationships, values, intimacy, and self-worth, while turning to the mythology of the Dark Goddesses as guides through the underworld of buried emotions, ancestral patterns, complicated relationships, and parts of yourself waiting to be reclaimed.

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Cosmic Mix Tape – A Soundtrack for Your Soul. The Cosmic Mix Tape. is a personalized astrology experience that transforms your birth chart into a soulful soundtrack through an in-depth recorded reading and a carefully curated playlist.

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For this Aries Full Moon, we first explore all of the Aries energy in the sky right now, including: Saturn, Neptune, Chiron, Pallas, Vesta and Eris.  Then, we welcome the incredible artist, jeweler, and "star witch” Galen Boone to Cosmic Cousins for a wide-ranging conversation about Aries, embodiment, queer lineage, talismanic jewelry, grief, justice, addiction, self-devotion, and pleasure.

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If you’d like to enjoy more writing, reflections, and cosmic storytelling from me lately, join me on the Cosmic Cousins Substack.

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Cosmic Cousins Soul-Centered Astrology Certification:  

Are you looking for community support and guidance on your journey of astrology?  Join me in a year-long journey into Soul-Centered Astrology where you’ll explore birth charts, planetary cycles, Tarot, embodiment, ritual, and the deeper myths woven through the cosmos. Whether you’re beginning your astrology path or deepening your practice, this immersive program is designed to help you build a lifelong relationship with astrology. Apply Now!!

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Cosmic Mix Tape – A Soundtrack for Your Soul. The Cosmic Mix Tape. is a personalized astrology experience that transforms your birth chart into a soulful soundtrack through an in-depth recorded reading and a carefully curated playlist.

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On this week’s episode of Cosmic Cousins, Jeff Hinshaw explores the Virgo New Moon, the 9-year anniversary of Cosmic Cousins, and the Hermit as Merlin, guide through mystery and devotion.

We also explore the Virgo/Pisces polarity, the Labradorite Priestess, labradorite as a stone of magic and grounding, and the sacredness of embodiment, service, and the mundane.

Plus, Jeff welcomes Virgo musician and astrologer Ariel Lask. In our conversation we explore Degree Theory, the esoteric phrase for Virgo, White Moon Selena and listen to the premiere of her new single, “Get To Love You”.

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Over the last two weeks, I’ve published five new pieces on the Cosmic Cousins Substack, exploring tarot, astrology, creativity and synchronicity:

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Cosmic Cousins Soul-Centered Astrology Certification:  

Are you looking for community support and guidance on your journey of astrology?  Join me in a year-long journey into Soul-Centered Astrology where you’ll explore birth charts, planetary cycles, Tarot, embodiment, ritual, and the deeper myths woven through the cosmos. Whether you’re beginning your astrology path or deepening your practice, this immersive program is designed to help you build a lifelong relationship with astrology. Apply Now!!

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Cosmic Mix Tape – A Soundtrack for Your Soul. The Cosmic Mix Tape. is a personalized astrology experience that transforms your birth chart into a soulful soundtrack through an in-depth recorded reading and a carefully curated playlist.

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On this week’s episode of Cosmic Cousins, Jeff Hinshaw explores Virgo Season, the 7 days of the week and their associated planet, anxiety and overwhelm, the Pisces Full Moon Lunar Eclipse, the North Node of Fate in Aquarius conjunct Hekate, goddess of crossroads and liminal spaces. We also explore Astraea, asteroid of cosmic justice, also close to the Full Moon.

In addition, we are joined by Dr. Branwen Schaub of True Will Studio.   A Pisces Sun astrologer, Branwen shares her wide-ranging relationship with astrology, mathematics, dance, and Tarot, exploring the surprising connections between infinity, imagination, pattern recognition, creativity, grief, surrender, lineage, and release. We discuss the death of her father and the complicated legacy of astrology and occultism within her family, reflecting on the Pisces esoteric phrase, “I leave my father’s home and turning back I save,” and what it can mean to turn toward our histories through forgiveness, reclamation, integration, and self-ownership.

Along the way, we read two poems from Heidi Rose Robbins’ Ask Me, listen to “Surrender” by Branwen’s teacher Sri Kala, sing a song together, pull the Six of Swords from the Lonely Planet Travel Tarot, and close with Hekate, goddess of the crossroads, exploring what it means to have a light beside us without someone else choosing the path.

If this podcast episode offered you something you needed today, you can book a deep-dive Astrology reading with me, send a little love through Venmo, or become a regular subscriber on Substack to support the continuation of this work. Thank you for being part of the magic, and for trusting your own inner knowing along the way.

Cosmic Cousins Soul-Centered Astrology Certification:  

Are you looking for community support and guidance on your journey of astrology?  Join me in a year-long journey into Soul-Centered Astrology where you’ll explore birth charts, planetary cycles, Tarot, embodiment, ritual, and the deeper myths woven through the cosmos. Whether you’re beginning your astrology path or deepening your practice, this immersive program is designed to help you build a lifelong relationship with astrology. Apply Now!!

Cosmic Mix Tape – A Soundtrack for Your Soul. The Cosmic Mix Tape. is a personalized astrology experience that transforms your birth chart into a soulful soundtrack through an in-depth recorded reading and a carefully curated playlist.

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On this week’s podcast episode of Cosmic Cousins, Jeff Hinshaw leads you through a heart-centered Leo meditation on the astrology of the moment. We then dive deep into the energy of eclipses, discuss Jupiter in Leo and the South Node of Fate in Leo. We also spend time listening to two songs "Secret War" by Leo Rising Hannah Ramone and "Arms Akimbo" by Leo Rising Lindsey Mills.

Cosmic Cousins Soul-Centered Astrology Certification:  

Are you looking for community support and guidance on your journey of astrology?  Join me in a year-long journey into Soul-Centered Astrology where you’ll explore birth charts, planetary cycles, Tarot, embodiment, ritual, and the deeper myths woven through the cosmos. Whether you’re beginning your astrology path or deepening your practice, this immersive program is designed to help you build a lifelong relationship with astrology. Apply Now!!

A Queer Arcana

I’m so excited to announce that I’m teaming up with the Palm Springs Art Museum for their exhibition, A Queer Arcana, which celebrates queer artists from the last century who have used esoteric practices, including tarot, as sources of inspiration, healing, creativity, and resistance.

To celebrate the exhibition, I’ve brought together a team of dear friends and fellow queer tarot readers who will be offering mini tarot readings during the opening event on the Pisces Full Moon Lunar Eclipse, August 28th, at the Palm Springs Art Museum.

Joining us will be Corinna Rosella of Milk Thistle, husbands Brandon Alter and Angel Lopez of The Spiritual Gayz, and Mr. Starry Skies Alan, also known as Mantis Tarot, a tarot author. All five of us will be there offering mini readings throughout the evening, and we cannot wait to celebrate with you!

There’s also something especially meaningful to me about this exhibition. My beloved teacher, Rachel Pollack, who passed away a few years ago, is represented in the exhibit through the original artwork from her tarot deck, displayed in a glass case alongside other feminist tarot decks and works of esoteric art. Rachel was the author of 78 Degrees of Wisdom and Tarot Wisdom, and their work profoundly shaped my own relationship with tarot.

It feels incredibly special to be part of an exhibition that honors the ways queer people have turned to tarot and other esoteric practices not only for divination, but as tools for healing, self-discovery, imagination, and resistance.

So please come join us for Queer Arcana on August 28th at the Palm Springs Art Museum. Come see the exhibition, celebrate queer history and creativity, and let one of us pull cards for you under the Pisces Full Moon Eclipse.

We can’t wait to celebrate with you! 

Cosmic Mix Tape

The Cosmic Mix Tape. is a personalized astrology experience that transforms your birth chart into a soulful soundtrack through an in-depth recorded reading and a carefully curated playlist.

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Special Announcement:  Cosmic Cousins Soul-Centered Astrology Certification. A Yearlong Immersion in Living Astrology with Jeff Hinshaw

Learn to speak the language of the stars.  Join a year-long journey into Soul-Centered Astrology where you’ll explore birth charts, planetary cycles, Tarot, embodiment, ritual, and the deeper myths woven through the cosmos. Whether you’re beginning your astrology path or deepening your practice, this immersive program will help you build a lifelong relationship with the sky. Early bird rates available now.

Now, on to this week’s episode of Cosmic Cousins as we journey into the depths of the Cancer New Moon — a sacred invitation to slow down, return home, and reconnect with the wisdom of the body, heart, and emotional landscape.

We explore the powerful astrology surrounding this lunation, including Jupiter’s entrance into Leo, the Mercury Cazimi, Neptune retrograde in Aries, and the rare planetary basket formation weaving together Pluto, Neptune, Uranus, and Jupiter.

Rather than rushing toward the next chapter, this New Moon reminds us that true transformation begins with rest, reflection, and nourishment. Together, we explore what it means to pause in the in-between spaces, honor the emotions we’ve carried, and prepare the soil for the creative expansion and collective evolution ahead.

Then, we are joined by Seymour Fox, a Cancer Sun tarot reader, professor, and participant in this year’s 22-week online Fool’s Journey. Seymour shares their lifelong relationship with Tarot, beginning in their teenage years in California and evolving from a study of archetypes into a deeply intuitive and relational practice. Together, we explore the intersection of Tarot, queerness, academia, and spirituality, as Seymour reflects on creating space for all parts of themselves and integrating their professional and magical identities.

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Summer Special – There are 10 discount codes available now through the end of Cancer Season, each offering $50 off a personalized Cosmic Mix Tape. Use coupon code: CANCER

The Cosmic Mix Tape is a personalized astrology experience that transforms your birth chart into a soulful soundtrack through an in-depth recorded reading and a carefully curated playlist.

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In this episode, we explore the Capricorn Full Moon and its call to ground into structure, clarity, and long-term vision around career, legacy, and commitment, while Cancer season highlights emotional awareness and care.

This lunation arrives alongside Jupiter’s shift into Leo, beginning a year-long cycle of creativity, courage, and heart-led expression, even as Mercury stations retrograde in Cancer, inviting reflection on family, memory, and emotional patterns.

With Jupiter completing its final degree in Cancer and Saturn in Aries emphasizing self-leadership and responsibility, this Full Moon asks us to balance forward momentum with reflection, ambition with emotional honesty, and vision with patience.

Then, we are joined by Corinna Rosella, a Capricorn herbalist, artist, and community organizer whose work weaves together astrology, tarot, plant medicine, analog photography, and ecological care. Grounded in years of tending both people and place through their beloved Yucca Valley apothecary, Milk Thistle, Corinna shares how the recent closure of the space became an invitation to honor grief, reclaim their identity as an artist, and imagine new forms of community rooted in reciprocity rather than burnout. Together, we explore the Cancer–Capricorn axis as a landscape of ancestry, legacy, accountability, and collective care, as Jupiter completes its yearlong journey through Cancer and prepares to enter Leo.

Together we reflect on ecological grief, herbalism as a practice of resilience, and the role of creativity in times of personal and collective uncertainty. We discuss what Capricorn truly teaches beyond its stereotypes: devotion through practical care, sustainable systems, and the courage to face difficult realities without losing hope. We then close with a Whimsical Wanderings channeled message for the collective for the Capricorn Full Moon, where we prepare dandelion root coffee, sew together two tanned hides at sunset, receive guidance from Eartha Kitt, and end with an oracle pull reminding us that healing our future begins with the small acts of care we choose today.

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This episode is presented as a text-to-talk voice-over using Substack's narration feature while Jeff recovers and rests his voice.

In this week's Cosmic Weekly Weather (June 15–21, 2026), we explore the energy unfolding after the Gemini New Moon, the ongoing influence of Uranus in Gemini, and the significant shift of Chiron entering Taurus. Jeff reflects on finding feathers as messages from the natural world, shares thoughts on emerging technologies and new forms of communication, and discusses the healing themes of Cancer Season and the Summer Solstice. The episode concludes with reflections on The Star tarot card, offering guidance around hope, renewal, and trusting the path ahead.

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In this week’s episode, recorded under the influence of a rare Venus–Jupiter conjunction in Cancer at 25°, we explore a powerful “wish point” for emotional fulfillment, abundance, and nourishment.

We reflect on themes of love, belonging, home, and memory, weaving in the tarot imagery of the Nine of Cups and the larger year-long arc of Jupiter in Cancer as it magnifies both joy and emotional complexity within family systems and chosen kinship.

The episode also moves through Chiron’s final days in Aries, highlighting closure and healing around identity themes that have been unfolding since 2018, alongside the shifting landscape of Gemini season, Mercury’s entrance into Cancer, and the emotional rhythms of the waning Moon.

Looking ahead, we cover Venus entering Leo, Mercury’s upcoming retrograde shadow, Jupiter’s shift into Leo, and the Gemini New Moon on June 14th.

This episode invites you to notice what is completing, what is beginning, and where life is quietly offering you abundance to receive.

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