The Miracle. A poem written about you.

For full text: https://crow-medicine.com/2022/05/31/the-miracle/

Though my first publishing as a young person was a poem, I stopped writing them for almost 20 years. This is the first I ever did 'like this'. Did you like it? Is this a form people out there enjoy? Room check!!! You can find me on FB @Crow Medicine with Katie, Instagram as @katieindicrow or https://www.instagram.com/crowmedicinekatie/. I am always rocking over at my blog. Head there for more writing projects. 

You are the miracle, friend. It is in your heartbeat and your breath.  The way your excitement brings a flutter to your chest. Your hopes, your dreams, and your failures too. It is all part of the gift.

Big love,

Katie IndiCrow

https://crow-medicine.com, https://crowmedicinemedia.com

Welcome back to Crow Medicine. In the month of June we get the express pleasure of integrating and test driving Venusian and Marsian based energy through the framework of highlighted Aries. June is a month of integration and figuring out how to bring what we used to experience as 'opposite' energies into a more comfortable conversation with one another. This month is about learning to be assertive but not aggressive, healing the Aries archetype, and connecting to grounded Marsian forms of creativity. We are grounding our dreams, our metaphysical worlds are meeting the material realm, and things are happening.

Spectrum wise, we have successfully opened up a higher harmonic Maris in Aries experience. Jupiter, the big integrator planet, will be powering our journey with Mars and gets the highlight spot on Solstice. This, along with the May 24 Mars into Aries and May 28/29 Jupiter and Mars close approach and conjunctions marked the seasonal turnover into our next phase of the journey. This month, July, and August we will be focusing on grounding the 'masculine' with the 'feminine' and removing the limitations that we have felt in either (or both) forms. The lesson is integration and, as I talk about in this report, that can sometimes feel messy.

Key words: Boundaries, self-expression, personal safety, grounded experience, getting things done, 'keep on trucking' and finding the strength to achieve your goals.

Key alignments that I cover in this report

June 3: Mercury goes direct

June 4: Saturn goes retrograde

June 11: Venus conjunct Uranus

June 21: Solstice with Jupiter, Mars at Perihelion and Sun into Cancer

June 22: Mercury dichotomy, Lunar occultation of Mars, Venus enters Gemini

June 24: Close approach of Moon and Uranus, Lunar occultation of Uranus

June 25: Jupiter square True Node

June 28: Neptune goes retrograde, New Moon in Cancer

The higher and harder harmonics are in each moment. It is up to us how we wear, respond to, and react in this energy. As I give in the running example throughout, you can either show up to the boat measuring contest and waste your energy or you can keep it moving and doing the thing that is probably more important that you were doing. We may run into people living in the other archetypes or the harder harmonics. That does not mean we have to 'meet' them there.

Additional Materials:

This is a master post that leads you to a) the Mars and Jupiter seasonal astrology report, b) the two spotify music meditations, and c) my seasonal learning opportunities: Mars + Jupiter Cosmic Kickstart – Crow Medicine: Spirituality for the 21st Century (crow-medicine.com).

Love my style and wish you could hear a little more direct guidance through the season? I have a learning opportunity happening. Access at your own speed. Get videos and inspiration a la Katie. "In the Flow" registration is open until June 10: In the Flow: A Seasonal Journey of Intention Setting and Goal Fulfillment (learnworlds.com).

See you later on this month!

Anyone wishing to send in a show topic request, to ask a question, or to suggest a 'mood' you would like me to do a meditation or podcast about can dm me on instagram https://www.instagram.com/crowmedicinekatie/ or via email at [email protected].

Looking forward to a Powerful season of Mars, Aries, and Jupiter with you!

Welcome back to Season 3 of Crow Medicine. This season is all about Mars, Jupiter, and working through our Aries archetype to bring power into our personal expression. Key words are: self expression, acceptance, and material experience. This is all about learning more about the fun parts of living on planet earth, self-acceptance, and bringing metaphysical concepts into material practice.

Check out this seasonal trailer to hear what season 3 is all about. I am excited to get to ground all the ideas I had while in ceremonial focus in these creative projects this season. In cosmic flow, I am at a new part of rubber meets the road too. Yay!

All materials listed below are accessible through this blog post: Mars + Jupiter Cosmic Kickstart – Crow Medicine: Spirituality for the 21st Century (crow-medicine.com)

Seasonal Astrology Report: 

Released for May 28/29 Jupiter and Mars conjunctions, this one celebrates their journey this season as our key guiding planets. Tune into hear about Uranus lunar occultation journey through Aries, solstice, and the power of embodying these planets. Hear about the higher and harder harmonic aspects and how to manouver them.

Introducing: Meditation Moments on Spotify

I am a huge advocate of energy management through meditation and self-connection. This is a big part of the reason why I started up 'Crow Medicine' podcast. To play music and have some no pressure fun with people. The Crow Medicine music meditation moments are a new creative idea that is being added onto the Crow Medicine Music Journeys family. In the last few seasons, you learned a little bit about the how and why of the theory behind the practice. Now, we play with it. As opposed to being longer in duration, the Music Meditations will be one to three songs in length along with a breath and focus exercise led by me. They will be of different genres including classic rock, house, techno, ambient, hip hop, r&b, soul, disco, and whatever else comes up as inspiration. Some of them will be to tune to a planet, some to find inspiration, others to just rock out with yourself. 

I have recorded a 2 pack as part of my own Mars and Jupiter jump off. You can find those on spotify at 'Crow Medicine: Spirituality for the 21st Century' (if you are not already there) or on the master post linked above.

(I teach a unique form of energy management at my school. Getting into the flow with music is a small taste of what we do. Check out' Breathe, Ground, Connect' linked above if you would like to come learn about this in more depth.) 

Solstice Ceremony:

We will be back for a music ceremony this season. Spotify premium listeners. You formed the bedrock of my listening community and were the very first people to stand behind this podcast. This season, I am bringing it back to our roots and we are going to kick it up dancing style just like we did at the outset. I have been song selecting for you. Come back for more on that!

I like to rotate from video ceremonies to music ceremony throughout the seasons. If you would like something more grounded, 'In the Flow' is there for that! Check that out in the master blog post.

Big love and happy season!!!!

Katie IndiCrow

https://www.crow-medicine.com

Emotions. We all have them. Many of us try to manage them. But where do they come from and why do some of us feel them in ways that can feel almost uncontrollable?

In this podcast, I get into the truth of what it can be like to feel and experience big emotions. Taking it from an energy informed perspective, I identify emotions as powerful messages from the soul. Sometimes warnings, others information sources about self and other, often keys to our own healing, our 'feelings' are an important part of the voice of our soul. You feel a lot? That is your soul talking. LISTEN!

The big takeaway point here is that there is nothing to be ashamed of. Having big emotions can be an enriching and nourishing part of life.As we discuss, the problem many of us experience with emotions is that we are taught to ignore and repress them. To judge self and other for having them. Guess what? That kind of repression can lead to explosions and lash outs. This in turn winds us into situations where one winds up destroying the very relationship, activity, or experience they were feeling so passionately about.

Key things we can all do? Learn to form healthy self-communication habits where we evaluate our state-of-being. Regular outlets of self-expression through writing or physical exercise can help with grounding. Learning to hear the message in your emotions is a key suggestion that I make in this podcast. (Come back for more installments where I will examine other facets of emotions as energy.)

Additional Resources:

As I say in the podcast, caring powerfully about something is a good sign. It only gets destructive when have not yet figured out how to discern the message in our emotions and to positively direct the energy they represent. Learning how to experience and appreciate them as that supports emotional intelligibility and personal energy management. This is something I care a lot about. Here are some resources to support your journey (stay tuned for more):

Forming Positive Emotional Connections (spotify music journey personal ceremony): Music + Ceremony Journey: Calling in Positive Emotional Connections – Crow Medicine: (crow-medicine.com)

Though I did not speak about it in this podcast, another reason that we experience major emotions is that we are not grounding our energy. This is a brand new article from my blog about getting grounded: Feeling Ungrounded: How to Identify if You are Ungrounded and Ways to Fix It – Crow Medicine: (crow-medicine.com)

Breathe, Ground, Connect: Basics of Energy Management: Breathe, Ground, Connect: Foundations of Energy Management (learnworlds.com)

Do you have any energy related questions you would like me to address in a podcast? Let me know! I would love your suggestions. 

*I know I asked you to place them in my spotify q and a spot. The host company seems to have taken that down probably to do with other controversial things happening on this platform. Please visit me at my instagram or websites to submit an idea for the show. I truly would love to hear what is driving your curiousity out there!*

Love,

Katie IndiCrow

https://www.crow-medicine.com

https://www.crowmedicinemedia.com

CrowMedicineKatie (Instagram): https://www.instagram.com/crowmedicinekatie/

Mars entered Aries on May 24, 2022. You may have felt it. That, friends, was the kickstarter of our next season of growth. Along with Mars entering Aries, we also have a Mars and Jupiter conjunction on May 29, solstice action with both again, and a beautiful procession of lunar occultations of Uranus as highlights of the season. The significance? We are powering our get up and go engines. We are healing wounds from the age of Aries as well as what we have experienced living in the archetypes. Most importantly? This is the season where a lot of hard work that has been going on 'behind the scenes' or in your 'inner world' begins to kick off. We just have to be ready and able to work with ourselves and our environments to achieve our dreams. The potential for exponential personal growth is there.

Tune in for an astrology seasonal special covering all of the above and more. Hear about the higher and harder harmonics of the Mars and Aries lesson spectrum that we are experiencing now but have truly been working through all year. As we shift the seasons, so to do we naturally adjust our focus. This one is all about power, physical experience, grounding our path, and finding ways to express powerful emotions in ways that are not destructive to ourselves and others. 

Join me for 'In the Flow'. Click here for more information and to register now: In the Flow: A Seasonal Journey of Intention Setting and Goal Fulfillment (learnworlds.com)

Ready to heal up your auric field and get yourself grounded as I described in the video? Breathe, Ground, Connect teaches you how to do it all in an easy and accessible format: Breathe, Ground, Connect: Foundations of Energy Management (learnworlds.com).

Thanks for tuning in!

See you in June for our monthly astrology report.

Big love,

Katie IndiCrow

https://crow-medicine.com/

**Full Release**The theme of this month is Living 2.0.  May into June (and through the whole next season), we are all about moving into action. This is a graduation moment for the planet as well as for us. The veil on human excellence is shifting. The notion that we have the ability to shape our lives more powerfully, as well as actually enjoy them, is coming to center stage. Jupiter, Uranus, Mars and the planetary alignments of this month are all about seeing your true spark. (In fact, we get an entire phase of this.) Already know you are great? Good news. There is potential for this to start paying off in new and different ways. Are you ready?

This is an optimistic moment and it leads to more of them. We do have to be strong enough to switch from defense to offense and to adjust into a new flow where things work, people are appreciative, and we feel healthy in our bodies while we live here. I genuinely feel excited about May as well as Solstice and the season shaping up through. This is a respite. This is a reward. This is something different. This is new. This is good. Press play on Crow Medicine “May Astrology Report: Living 2.0”  and hear what I have to stay about it.

Key words: Higher harmonics: intuitive development, clear self-connection, focused inspiration, creativity, meeting objectives, beneficial interactions, finding solutions, completing long-term projects, renewed vision, adventure, personal excellence, body love, physical expression.

Harder harmonics: disbelief in self, lack of awareness of the impact of ones’ actions, feeling like there is ‘no time’, finding limits, tough choices that have been long avoided, limits and limitations, anger and volatile expression, spiritual manipulation, and what happens when we do not hold ourselves (and others) accountable.

Click here for the detailed written version of this report, including a date summary listed neatly: May 2022 Astrology Report: Life 2.0 – Crow Medicine: (crow-medicine.com).

The theme of this month is Living 2.0.  May into June (and through the whole next season), we are all about moving into action. This is a graduation moment for the planet as well as for us. The veil on human excellence is shifting. The notion that we have the ability to shape our lives more powerfully, as well as actually enjoy them, is coming to center stage. Jupiter, Uranus, Mars and the planetary alignments of this month are all about seeing your true spark. (In fact, we get an entire phase of this.) Already know you are great? Good news. There is potential for this to start paying off in new and different ways. Are you ready?

This is an optimistic moment and it leads to more of them. We do have to be strong enough to switch from defense to offense and to adjust into a new flow where things work, people are appreciative, and we feel healthy in our bodies while we live here. I genuinely feel excited about May as well as Solstice and the season shaping up through. This is a respite. This is a reward. This is something different. This is new. This is good. Press play on Crow Medicine “May Astrology Report: Living 2.0”  and hear what I have to stay about it.

Key words: Higher harmonics: intuitive development, clear self-connection, focused inspiration, creativity, meeting objectives, beneficial interactions, finding solutions, completing long-term projects, renewed vision, adventure, personal excellence, body love, physical expression.

Harder harmonics: disbelief in self, lack of awareness of the impact of ones’ actions, feeling like there is ‘no time’, finding limits, tough choices that have been long avoided, limits and limitations, anger and volatile expression, spiritual manipulation, and what happens when we do not hold ourselves (and others) accountable.

As I noted in this voice note, I am still in ceremony for the planet & have way too serious of a tone to talk about this message of joy and excitement at the moment. I will deliver the podcast when the serious voice concludes. For now, I offer you this detailed written report: 

May 2022 Astrology Report: Life 2.0 – Crow Medicine: (crow-medicine.com).

Did you participate in the Equinox practice that I released through this page? Perhaps you did your own? If the answer is yes, this message is for you.

We have made it to an apex type of a moment not only in the Universe, but also in our cycles. For example, yesterday was a Neptune and Venus conjunction at 0° 00’ in Aquarius. (Put that in your ceremony and exalt it.) As I outline in the podcasts and articles below, about two weeks ago through mid-May is unique in that we have all of our planets lining up along with some unique conjunctions and cycle points. This, for some, is going to be once in a lifetime. It is that kind of potential. 

What that means for us as intention setters and astrology lovers is: this is a power point. As I say in this quicky podcast, now is an ideal window to return to your intentions and to evaluate, revisit, celebrate, and adjust. This is how we work with the flow of the planets. Listen in for some suggestions on how to do just that. Bonus? Hear some encouragement to see through any rough moments you may have experienced. 

*I will be back with your May Astrology report in the coming days.*

Support Materials

Daily Harmonization Practice: Daily Harmonization Practice – Crow Medicine: (crow-medicine.com)

Equinox 2022 Article and Activity from March: Equinox Week Activity – Crow Medicine: (crow-medicine.com)

Crow Medicine April Astrology Report: April 2022 Astrology Report: Solar Charged Prison Break – Crow Medicine: (crow-medicine.com)

The Astrology of Jesus: A Jesus Astrology Special: Podcast Edition – Crow Medicine: (crow-medicine.com) 

Thanks for stopping in! To a Happy Eclipse Conjunction.

Big love,

Katie IndiCrow

https://www.crowmedicinemedia.com

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A Jesus Astrology Special: The Life and Lessons of a Great Teacher

This is one for the people who believe in Jesus, those who are curious about astrological alignments of significant world figures, and those who would like to hear some good news. This is a Jesus Astrology Special.

Short Summary: We are experiencing a very similar set of planetary alignments to what was going on planet wise at the time of Jesus birth is happening now, as we are symbolically lining up with Easter. This is happening within the context of our major planetary epoch shift that we have been celebrating and discussing on my podcast.  As I discuss in this Crow Medicine Astrology special and the detailed article that supports it, the teachings and cosmic spark that is Jesus and current planetary alignments are indeed coming together to create a that path to inner freedom and love that this is significant for all of us. Believers (or not).***

While there is much celebration in this, there is also pain. Situating this discussion in the astrology of our recent years, we briefly move through the planetary alignments of 2021 into our current moment. Just as they have been prompting us to ask the ‘big picture’ questions about abuse, exploitation, and wrongdoing, so too are we seeing that very powerfully in Christianity. The wrongs done in the name of Prince of Peace Jesus are being exposed. The process of reconciliation is ongoing. A recent apology by the Pope to representatives from Assembly of First Nations is a poignant example of these changes being lived right in front of us. *It is happening.*

What all of this means, in my opinion, is that the true spark of the teachings of Jesus and all that this powerful teacher represented are brought back into their more-pure form. This is good for everybody, no matter what your background. Join me for a conversation about the astrology of the birth and death of Jesus, a special shout out to my favourite Gospel (Nicodemus), and to hear about the path through ‘hell’ that I think our current planetary alignments represent.

*The issues I raise in this written article and the podcast that will follow it are complex. The podcast and article do not cover all of them. This is an earnest conversation shared for those whose hearts may also be sparked by the topic as much as mine is. *

Link to my long article and supporting calculations: A Jesus Astrology Special: The Life and Lessons of a Great Teacher – Crow Medicine: (crow-medicine.com).

References

Assembly of First Nations. 2022. “AFN Delegation to the Vatican.” https://www.afn.ca/vatican/. Accessed online April 16, 2022.

Truth and Reconciliation Committee: https://ia-petabox.archive.org/details/TruthReconciliationCanada/Executive_Summary_English_Web/page/n7/mode/2up. Accessed online April 17, 2022.

Strobel, Nick. 2011. The Star of Bethlehem. As Astronomical Perspective.  https://www.astronomynotes.com/~astronp4/history/bethlehem-star.html#seasonlight. Accessed online April 15, 2022.

Thanks to my favourite teacher, Jesus.

April 2022 is kicking off with quite the stir. Ushered in with an x flare and significant geomagnetic activity, April (and March) have been all about the prison break. Have you been feeling intensity emotionally and physically, in particular these past 4 or 5 days? This solar activity coupled with planetary configurations may be part of the why.  These are main themes for our April Astrology Report.

What Came Before

As I say in the podcast, it is possible to trace the threads of our current phase back to December 21, 2020 when Saturn and Jupiter had a conjunction on Solstice. Shortly following that, we launched into a Saturn Square Uranus season of visibility, with notable alignments occurring on February 17, June 14 and December 23 (all 2021). These were powerful stage setters for the foundational shake-up that many of us experienced last season and are emerging from, now. If you noticed things feeling particularly punishing during these months, you are not alone. That window of eclipse, Saturn square Uranus and solstice that happened back in June were doozies. They were specifically meant to be. You see. While these planets were handing out what felt like was a butt-kicking, they were also  showing us and the world exactly where we were lacking the conditions of freedom, dignity, and our dreams.

The Astrology of April 2022

This month, we have an opportunity to move into the more personal expressions of our inner-world. The easing up of big picture circumstances have created the space for us to now finally start thinking about ourselves again. You may have been noticing yourself naturally having many thoughts about past events or unresolved issues. This is part of the planet doing its work to naturally help you adjust your vibration. As these planets come into play, they bring with them the power to see and experience the prisons within ourselves. In the harder harmonic of astrology, planets such as Neptune, Saturn, and Mars hand out an almighty asskicking. A few examples of the behaviours these planets show us may include: selfishness, greed, addiction, abuse of self and others, and Ways we are being manipulated and exploited (or are doing that to others). During these conjunction moments, it can be tempting to have an outburst, to be emotionally volatile, to pick up the bottle or to do the thing we know we should not. It is up to us to have the strength of character and self-control to view these occurrences responsibly and to take accountability for the ways our actions play out. 

As I share throughout the podcast, these last few years of alignments have brought with them a lot of visibility. This includes the harder as well as the higher harmonics. Part of what we are doing here in the big picture is healing ourselves and the Universe. I truly believe that we have turned a corner on some very dark days. Having said that, the tough stuff is not yet quite over. This month can either be extremely illuminating or a big challenge. Maybe both. It is up to you if the higher or harder harmonic works out.

Additional Materials 

For the full summary including a neat, full list of key dates as well as the open access articles I mentioned, click here: April 2022 Astrology Report: Solar Charged Prison Break – Crow Medicine: (crow-medicine.com). Do you have a moment to give your opinion about topics that draw your interest? I am doing a short community survey to gauge interest in what people want to hear about. Access it through the same linked post.

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