A riff on some topics that are currently alive in my reality:

• Why external confirmation is an unreliable predictor of 'success' when you're in the process of building new realities – and what you should look for instead
• How to interpret shocking disruptions on the path of consistently choosing to respond to Life as your True Self
• Why going beyond mental formulas of what's worked in the past and stepping into rogue mode might ultimately yield more interesting and maybe even satisfying results
• How training your system to befriend The Mystery might be the smartest investment

(Unrelated note on the cover art: I found this toy while running near my house. He seems like the cutest duck superhero who's been through a lot and is somehow even more hope-filled than ever. Could he be the new mascot for the podcast?)

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This conversation is a masterclass in the art of embracing and claiming personal power.

Over the past 6 years, I've witnessed Britten LaRue grow her capacity as a teacher, an astrologer, and a community leader. We got together to discuss the concept and experience of Living Emergence, which is also the name of Britten's new membership space offering, and we quickly jumped into the deep end of the pool.

Some topics we covered:

• Uncovering our power.
• Coming home to ourselves.
• Anchoring through change.
• Embracing the paradox of messiness while finding one's fixed point of integrity.
• Authentic change vs. people-pleasing.

Britten's bio:

Britten LaRue, M.A., spends much of her time speaking and writing as a teacher, author, and public astrologer. Britten’s deepest calling is to be a midwife for those in the process of birthing their own inner knowing, healing from shame, and learning to trust themselves again with the reckless freedom they deserve. Creator of Emergence Astrology, she has served thousands of students through the transformational programs and courses at The Emergence Astrology School, and is most proud of how she connects the folks in her community to one another. Britten is the author of Living Astrology: How to Weave the Wisdom of All 12 Signs into Your Everyday Life. You can explore with Britten at her podcast Moon to Moon. 

Join Britten's membership space: https://brittenlarue.com/living-emergence

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November asks us to move more slowly, more deliberately, and often in directions we didn't expect to.

This is a month that comes with a looming, menacing sense of dread.

But not all hopes are lost. In fact, it'll present the perfect opportunities for practice. Over and over again.

In this episode, we dive into:

•  How to heal a heart that's broken (again).
• What to do when you can't do it all.
• Healing as noticing the mismatch between perception and reality.
• How small moves are the biggest.

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I'm so thrilled to have Kelsey Rose Tortorice back on the pod!

Kelsey is a student teacher of the maia, translator of the languages of consciousness & talisman for upheaval. This conversation is all of that and more. The second we got on the call, we started riding the wave of the frequency, so this is an unedited, Kelsey-and-Jonathan-meeting-the-moment transmission.

Some topics we covered: 

• The disintegration of tribal agreements.
• The awakening of individual frequencies.
• Personal authenticity, meeting the present moment, and parking metaphors.
• The role of emotional alchemy.
• Ancestral healing.

We also discussed the Pisces-Virgo nodes, the Cross of Sleeping Phoenix, and the role of consciousness systems to map frequencies.

Kelsey's offerings: 

• Kelsey's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/kelseyrosetort
• InOur Authority: https://www.kelseyrosetort.com/authority
• 2027 The Breakdown w/ Jessa Reed: https://www.jessareed.com/2027
• Lab Partners: https://www.kelseyrosetort.com/labpartners
• Kelsey's Podcasts: https://www.kelseyrosetort.com/podcasts
• Website: https://www.kelseyrosetort.com/

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In the email exchange leading up to our conversation, my guest Kristina Marie wrote "The Hero is Dead."

That sentence stopped me in my tracks. It's a suspicion I've had for a while, but maybe there's still a part of me that doesn't want it to be true. "What do you mean? But I love my hero's journey stories!" that part protested.

In the episode, Kristina and I dove straight into this topic. 

We discussed: 

• The new myths we're living, telling, and weaving in the face of crumbling structures and collapsing old paradigms
• The difference between the mystic's journey and the hero or heroine's journey
• What a transformational story is
• The journey of becoming the person who can tell our own stories as its own unique process

It's a profound conversation and my mind was blown with epiphany after epiphany throughout.

Here's Kristina's bio:

For more than a decade, I worked as a journalist and an editor at top national magazines, including Travel + Leisure and T magazine at the New York Times. 

Since launching Voyages of the Spirit nine years ago, I’ve combined my publishing skills, intuitive gifts, and creative wisdom to mentor writers, leaders, visionaries, mystics, and storytellers. 

I guide my clients in structuring their transformational stories and birthing their books, awakening their creative genius, discovering their personal mythology, and building an ecosystem for their life’s work.

Join Kristina's group program Story Map.

Visit Kristina's website and follow her on Instagram.

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What does it mean to build a business based on your soul's gifts?

How is this path different than conventional, old-paradigm business?

How do we practice devotion, creativity, and commitment to Life on the entrepreneurial path?

In this special conversation with mission mentor Aaron Rose, I discussed my winding, non-linear path into running a spiritual business. Originally recorded live on Instagram, the discussion was too rich with embodied wisdom and heart medicine for me not to share with all of you here.

For those of you who resonate with this and would like to go deeper, Aaron currently has two relevant offerings:

God is My Boss: a comprehensive course on turning your soul’s gifts into a business that changes the world for the better and abundantly resources you in the process.

Create a Thriving Business by Sharing Your Soul's Gifts: a free masterclass on the foundations of running a spiritual business.

Aaron has been an important mentor for me on my mission path (which includes running a business!). His offerings are thoughtfully crafted, deeply impactful, and I highly recommend you check them out.

Aaron's bio:

I’m a transformational coach, mission mentor, speaker, writer, and human being committed to doing my part to create a world where we all thrive as our true selves.

My lifelong devotion to liberation has included chapters as a youth activist, conflict resolution mediator, permaculture designer, cultural consultant at Fortune 500 companies, leadership coach, and more. 

I now mentor heart-centered beings in stepping into greater leadership and impact. My specialties include: helping people understand the unique design of their divine mission, reconnect with their personal power, build a business based on their gifts, and overcome their fear of visibility to share their message with confidence.

My work blends transformational coaching, subconscious reprogramming, and prayer to support you in fulfilling your mission, following your own inner compass, and bringing your dreams to life.

My inspirations and teachers include: the one eternal God / Infinite Intelligence, the Rising Star lineage, and all who walk the Christed / Krystic path in devotion to organic life and divine truth. The paths are many, the destination is One.

Aaron's email list: https://www.aaronxrose.com/email

Aaron's website: https://www.aaronxrose.com/

Aaron's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aaronxrose/

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October is about the 'how.'

There's plenty of resources in the planetary alignments this month: Mars is at home in Scorpio, Jupiter is exalted in Cancer, and Venus will enter her home in Libra halfway through the month.

The question isn't about whether we have enough resources. The question is how we navigate our relationship with the resources we're given.

How we walk the path is the path itself.

We dive into: 

• Foundations for creating true impact without losing your soul.
• Maintaining integrity as a pathway to receiving Divine assistance.
• Creating new, updated contracts with ourselves and others – not out of fantasy or rigid expectations, but out of clear, grounded sight.
• The deeper lessons behind ideological disagreements.

I also pulled Hexagram 10 and 59 from the I Ching. I use Brian Browne Walker's translation of the I Ching.

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In advance of the upcoming Solar Eclipse in Virgo on September 21st, I'm re-sharing a section of my deep dive on the 2025 astrology with Kelsey Rose Tortorice – specifically the part where we discussed the Lunar Nodes in Pisces-Virgo axis. 

I hope this serves you! 

If you're into my and Kelsey's vibes and transmissions, check out the full conversation: 

• Part 1 on this podcast (Outer Planets + Chiron)
• Part 2 on Kelsey's podcast, The Maia Games (The Lunar Nodes, Saturn, and Jupiter)

Here's Kelsey's bio:

Kelsey is a post-capitalist astrologer, teacher, human design experiMentor, and community initiator. Ruled by a 7th house Jupiter in Gemini, they are a student-teacher of the maia; seeking to understand and universalize the mechanics of reality within the context of individuality, relationship, cosmos, and consciousness as a whole. 

Kelsey’s frequency facilitates upheaval; disrupting homogenized programming and re-orienting people to their differentiated truth and separateness as a means to arriving to connection & inherent wholeness. With reverence for differentiation and a knack for universalization, they embrace the simultaneous uniqueness and sameness of each human experience. Their work incorporates various modalities, frameworks, and spiritual teachings in honoring and navigating this apparent contradiction.

Kelsey accompanies others on their journeys towards remembering what they Know, and invites deeper levels of autonomy, authenticity, faith, freedom, and surrender along the way.

Kelsey's Links:

• Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/kelseyrosetort
• Website: https://www.kelseyrosetort.com/
• IG: https://www.instagram.com/kelseyrosetort/
• Podcast: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/themaiagames/

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How does artmaking serve as a pathway for reclaiming our sense of agency?

How do we practice boundaries and self-care as performers?

How do we tend to our creative well and emotional health through entrepreneurship?

In this super fun and alive conversation with creative coach and luminary Jamie Ridler, we explored the meeting places between art and magic.

We discussed:

🌹Jamie’s experiences in traversing her multifaceted artistic journey – as a theater performer, dancer, creative coach, DJ, entrepreneur, and visual artist

🌹how to cultivate a steady practice that encourages, rather than inhibits or limits our unique energetic expressions

🌹how finding the right teachers can unlock deeper permission for authentic expressions

🌹how to balance our desires for control and freedom

Jamie’s School of Creative Magic is also hosting a symposium called Magic in The Making and I’m one of the speakers! Sign up here. 

Here’s Jamie’s bio:

For over 20 years, Jamie Ridler has helped thousands of emerging, aspiring and established creatives answer the artistic call with a confident and courageous yes. Jamie's unique approach, called 'The Studio Way', is rooted in a lifetime as an artist, performer and highly sensitive person. Her mission is to unlock the creative magic lying dormant in the hearts of underexpressed artists everywhere - including yours.

LINKS

The School of Creative Magic: https://www.theschoolofcreativemagic.com

Magic in the Making Symposium: https://www.theschoolofcreativemagic.com/magic-in-the-making

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/starshyne

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6VTV87Su_5xwoCVGt5HaDA

Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/djstarshyne

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What wisdom does Virgo invite us to uncover through the process of learning, living, and integration?

What does it mean to embrace cycles and spirals – not just in our bodies, but also our minds?

This conversation with pattern alchemist and integrative guide Alison Dale is a rich tapestry on the energy and archetype of Virgo, which we explored through astrology, Human Design, and Alison’s lived experiences as a Virgo Sun.

We discussed:

🌿 integration intellectual analysis, somatic practices, and artmaking

🌿 surrendering to the wisdom of cycles, work, and rest

🌿 how confusion can lead to imagination

🌿 practicing boundaries as a Projector

I appreciate and admire the panache and fluency with which Alison marries her brilliant insights, deep knowledge, and lived experiences.

Here’s Alison’s bio:

Alison Dale is a pattern alchemist, integrative guide, artist, and writer. As host of Cycles of Time podcast, she weaves astrology, Human Design, and earth-based wisdom traditions into living frameworks for transformation. A mother and disciple of earth’s cycles, her work bridges the personal and the cosmic, inviting others into deeper rhythm, embodiment, and creative truth.

LINKS:

• Alison's website and offerings: https://www.astrosomatics.com/
• Alison's Substack & Embody The Revolution Membership: https://cyclesoftime.substack.com/
• My conversation with Alison on her podcast Cycles of Time on Pisces Season https://cyclesoftime.substack.com/p/the-truth-of-liminality-with-spirit

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