Healing The Spirit: Astrology, Archetypes & Artmaking

Who is Mars, the warrior, in the primordial waters of Cancer? What are their challenges and opportunities? What wisdom might they have for us?

For those of you paying attention, Mars is spending a very long time in Cancer between Fall 2024 - Spring 2025. 

In anticipation of the upcoming Mars Retrograde, I've been noticing subtle messages and telltale signs from Mars in Cancer. 

In this episode, I'm sharing a transmission I received on Mars in Cancer when I facilitated my Mars container, EYES ON THE EDGE. 

While I'm unlikely to run EYES ON THE EDGE again until another dignified Mars transit (Fall 2025), I encourage you to join our waitlist if you'd like to be the first to hear about it. Also...who knows! Maybe you'll get some secret surprises in your inbox too :) 

Join my upcoming 6-week container to explore the practical wisdom of mutable signs, SHAPESHIFTING ACADEMY. We begin Thursday, October 3, 2024.

If you enjoyed this podcast, consider booking a reading with me. I offer astrology, divination, and subtle alchemy sessions.

I also offer a 6-month mentorship container Night Vision. 

Listen to & purchase my new song Friends on Bandcamp. You can also listen to it on your favorite streaming platforms.

Try the incredible breathwork and meditation app Open for 30 days free using this special link. 

This podcast is hosted, produced, and edited by Jonathan Koe. Theme music is also composed by me! Connect with me through my newsletter, my Instagram @jonathankoeofficial, and my music. For podcast-related inquiries, email me at [email protected].

How do we expand our perspectives on resourcing? How might we become an embodiment of the resources we wish to see in the world? How do maintain active, grounded hope in a burning world?

The theme for October is Embodying The Resource.

In the midst of unexpected losses and unprecedented pain, how do we maintain connection to our spirit as a resource? 

In this episode, I share some contemplations for us to return to throughout the month. 

October 2024 starts with an annular solar eclipse in Libra. By the end of the month, we'll be gearing up for another non-eclipse New Moon in Scorpio, which starts November off. Venus's move from Scorpio to Sagittarius plays an important role in shifting the energy mid-month.

Join my upcoming 6-week container to explore the practical wisdom of mutable signs, SHAPESHIFTING ACADEMY. We begin Thursday, October 3, 2024.

If you enjoyed this podcast, consider booking a reading with me. I offer astrology, divination, and subtle alchemy sessions.

I also offer a 6-month mentorship container Night Vision. 

Listen to & purchase my new song Friends on Bandcamp. You can also listen to it on your favorite streaming platforms.

Try the incredible breathwork and meditation app Open for 30 days free using this special link. 

This podcast is hosted, produced, and edited by Jonathan Koe. Theme music is also composed by me! Connect with me through my newsletter, my Instagram @jonathankoeofficial, and my music. For podcast-related inquiries, email me at [email protected].

What is the never-ending healing loop? How do we know we're stuck in one? How might we break & transform the cycle?

This is a small snippet of my thoughts on a large, complex, nuanced topic that's often talked about, but often not fully understood. 

Recently, I've had an energetic shift around this concept that's had a massive impact on my relationship to my inner & outer work. I'm excited to share about it.

I'm curious to hear what you think! Leave a comment, a review, or reach out to me. I'm curious.

Join my upcoming 6-week container to explore the practical wisdom of mutable signs, SHAPESHIFTING ACADEMY. We begin Thursday, October 3, 2024.

If you enjoyed this podcast, consider booking a reading with me. I offer astrology, divination, and subtle alchemy sessions.

I also offer a 6-month mentorship container Night Vision. 

Listen to & purchase my new song Friends on Bandcamp. You can also listen to it on your favorite streaming platforms.

Try the incredible breathwork and meditation app Open for 30 days free using this special link. 

This podcast is hosted, produced, and edited by Jonathan Koe. Theme music is also composed by me! Connect with me through my newsletter, my Instagram @jonathankoeofficial, and my music. For podcast-related inquiries, email me at [email protected].

Hey friends, 

This Partial Lunar Eclipse in Pisces feels so alive and rich. I kept getting messages from the planets and try as I might, they wouldn't let me not share this with you. 

If you'd like to go even deeper on the astrology of this eclipse season, check out my conversation with Martha Alter Hines.

Join my upcoming 6-week container to explore the practical wisdom of mutable signs, SHAPESHIFTING ACADEMY. We begin Thursday, October 3, 2024.

If you enjoyed this podcast, consider booking a reading with me. I offer astrology, divination, and subtle alchemy sessions.

I also offer a 6-month mentorship container Night Vision. 

Listen to & purchase my new song Friends on Bandcamp. You can also listen to it on your favorite streaming platforms.

Try the incredible breathwork and meditation app Open for 30 days free using this special link. 

This podcast is hosted, produced, and edited by Jonathan Koe. Theme music is also composed by me! Connect with me through my newsletter, my Instagram @jonathankoeofficial, and my music. For podcast-related inquiries, email me at [email protected].

What is shapeshifting? What might the mutable signs teach us to become better shapeshifters in our creative work, our relationships, and our relationship with self? What are the benefits of consciously cultivating our shapeshifting skills?

What is shapeshifting? What might the mutable signs teach us to become better shapeshifters in our creative work, our relationships, and our relationship with self? What are the benefits of consciously cultivating our shapeshifting skills?

Last week, I announced SHAPESHIFTING ACADEMY, a 6-week container starting on Thursday October 3rd, 2024. 

The academy aims to explore the wisdom of mutable signs in astrology in embracing our multidimensional selves. 

In this episode, we'll delve into:

• What mutability is
• The wisdom of mutable signs in astrology & how they invite us into deeper relationships with shapeshifting
• The importance of conscious shapeshifting in personal, relational, and creative growth.
• What I mean when I talk about shapeshifting

Sign up for SHAPESHIFTING ACADEMY here.

I also mentioned my conversation about the upcoming eclipses with Martha Alter Hines on her YouTube channel. Watch the video here.

TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 Welcome

01:41 Introducing Shapeshifting Academy

02:31 Exploring the Mutable Signs in Astrology

07:31 The Essence of Shapeshifting Academy

07:46 Understanding Mutability in Astrology

11:29 Deep Dive into Gemini and Virgo

15:52 Sagittarius and Pisces: Mutable Fire and Water

19:44 The Wisdom of Shapeshifting

21:14 Personal Reflections on Multidimensionality

23:56 Practical Applications of Shapeshifting

29:54 Navigating Tensions and Embracing Multidimensionality

33:44 Shapeshifiting Definition #1: Code Switching

53:53 Shapeshifiting Definition #2: Walking Multiple Realms and Bridging Worlds

01:01:19 Conclusion and Invitation to Shapeshifting Academy

Join my upcoming 6-week container to explore the practical wisdom of mutable signs, SHAPESHIFTING ACADEMY. We begin Thursday, October 3, 2024.

If you enjoyed this podcast, consider booking a reading with me. I offer astrology, divination, and subtle alchemy sessions.

I also offer a 6-month mentorship container Night Vision. 

Listen to & purchase my new song Friends on Bandcamp. You can also listen to it on your favorite streaming platforms.

Try the incredible breathwork and meditation app Open for 30 days free using this special link. 

This podcast is hosted, produced, and edited by Jonathan Koe. Theme music is also composed by me! Connect with me through my newsletter, my Instagram @jonathankoeofficial, and my music. For podcast-related inquiries, email me at [email protected].

What is a cosmology? How do we cultivate relationships with the cultures we exist within grounded in awareness? How do we honor, respect, and love those who hold different values and ideas about reality?

What a joy to have Xenia Viray back on the podcast. Xenia is someone I deeply admire for her ability to weave seemingly disparate concepts into nourishing fertilizer for the imagination. 

In this conversation, we discussed Xenia's upcoming offering Create Your Cosmology through the lens of the 'cult' in culture, Human Design circuits, the experience of being misunderstood as we claim our roles as visionaries, and co-existing with those who hold differing, even discordant, cosmologies to our own. 

I also invite you to check out Create Your Cosmology, Xenia's 9-week hybrid experience for original creatives, nuanced thinkers, and sensitive Imagineers who want to be the creative director of their belief systems and express their truth with confidence and compassion. It begins on September 24, 2024.

I'll be sharing a workshop in Create Your Cosmology called "The Art of Cosmic Conversations" centered around creating a practice of conversing with planets that honor sovereignty, interdependence, and our inherent kinship with the cosmos. 

Here's Xenia's bio:
Xenia Marie Ross Viray (she/they) is an imagination healer, frequency artist, and creativity catalyst with a focus on experiential learning containers and writing. She is the eldest of three sisters, and her name means kindness to strangers. Born as a brick-and-mortar fashion business, Myths of Creation (the name of Xenia's collective body of work) is a container for experiments, art, writing, and gatherings at the intersection of creativity, spirituality, and meaning-making. Xenia's work reconnects communities, ideas, and art forms that are traditionally siloed to enrich the pool of imaginal possibility. Her offerings are designed to help spirited innovators anchor their natural genius into form and include Imaginal Temple, a creative mystical mentorship, the Garden of the Imaginal Substack, and an evolving cornucopia of courses, workshops, and 1:1 sessions which you can find at MythsofCreation.com and @mythsofcreation on IG.

I also invite you to check out my new offering, Shapeshifting Academy, which offers a deep dive into the magic of mutable signs for recovering flow, flexibility, and adaptability in moments when we feel stuck in life.

Join my upcoming 6-week container to explore the practical wisdom of mutable signs, SHAPESHIFTING ACADEMY. We begin Thursday, October 3, 2024.

If you enjoyed this podcast, consider booking a reading with me. I offer astrology, divination, and subtle alchemy sessions.

I also offer a 6-month mentorship container Night Vision. 

Listen to & purchase my new song Friends on Bandcamp. You can also listen to it on your favorite streaming platforms.

Try the incredible breathwork and meditation app Open for 30 days free using this special link. 

This podcast is hosted, produced, and edited by Jonathan Koe. Theme music is also composed by me! Connect with me through my newsletter, my Instagram @jonathankoeofficial, and my music. For podcast-related inquiries, email me at [email protected].

How do we hold the complexity of arriving at simplicity? How does becoming aware of love's presence help us transform fear into wisdom? How does working with our emotional pain assist with returning us to innocence?

The theme for September is Arriving at Simplicity. 

The route to simplicity is often anything but simple. It can be riddled with confusion, chaos, and doubt. 

In this episode, I share some contemplations for us to return to throughout the month. 

September 2024 starts with a New Moon in Virgo. It ends with the Sun conjoining the North Node in Libra. In between, we have the Full Moon in Pisces, which ushers the second eclipse season of the year, and Mars entering Cancer.

Join my upcoming 6-week container to explore the practical wisdom of mutable signs, SHAPESHIFTING ACADEMY. We begin Thursday, October 3, 2024.

If you enjoyed this podcast, consider booking a reading with me. I offer astrology, divination, and subtle alchemy sessions.

I also offer a 6-month mentorship container Night Vision. 

Listen to & purchase my new song Friends on Bandcamp. You can also listen to it on your favorite streaming platforms.

Try the incredible breathwork and meditation app Open for 30 days free using this special link. 

This podcast is hosted, produced, and edited by Jonathan Koe. Theme music is also composed by me! Connect with me through my newsletter, my Instagram @jonathankoeofficial, and my music. For podcast-related inquiries, email me at [email protected].

What is the open throat center in Human Design? How do we work with its unique gifts and challenges in the process of deconditioning?

The open / undefined throat is one of my favorite topics in Human Design. 

It's said that only 29% of the population has an open throat center, making it the least common out of the open centers. Unsurprisingly (and pun intended), there's a lot of misconceptions, misunderstandings, and, frankly, terrible advice about how to live with an open throat center.

In this episode, I share about my process understanding, deconditioning, and ultimately befriending my undefined throat.

Thank you Kelsey Rose Tortorice for the question! You can listen to my conversation with Kelsey here. She also has incredible courses to help you learn Human Design, Human Design for the Astrologically Minded and Living Your Design. 

I also mentioned my HD teachers, Amy Lee and John Cole of Human Design Collective whose foundational courses on Human Design I highly recommend.  

Join my upcoming 6-week container to explore the practical wisdom of mutable signs, SHAPESHIFTING ACADEMY. We begin Thursday, October 3, 2024.

If you enjoyed this podcast, consider booking a reading with me. I offer astrology, divination, and subtle alchemy sessions.

I also offer a 6-month mentorship container Night Vision. 

Listen to & purchase my new song Friends on Bandcamp. You can also listen to it on your favorite streaming platforms.

Try the incredible breathwork and meditation app Open for 30 days free using this special link. 

This podcast is hosted, produced, and edited by Jonathan Koe. Theme music is also composed by me! Connect with me through my newsletter, my Instagram @jonathankoeofficial, and my music. For podcast-related inquiries, email me at [email protected].

How might thinking open a portal to embodied transcendence? What role do the right questions at the right time play in walking an open-hearted path?

Thinking is often bedeviled in 'spiritual' spaces. 

Thinking has been marketed as the enemy of the heart-centered, spirit-led life. Thinking has been defined as the opposite of embodiment. Thinking has been dubbed the root of all sufferings. 

But does thinking not also happen in the body? Why does Life gift us minds alongside bodies and hearts, if we were asked to shut it down to reach spiritual mastery?

I explore these spiky questions from the lens of the Mercury Retrograde in Virgo and the Mercury Cazimi in Leo.

I also mentioned some of my teachers, Diana Rose Harper and Deborah Kremins, as well as a container I'm currently facilitating, Deep Spirit Medicine.

Photo by Maksym Kaharlytskyi via Unsplash.

Join my upcoming 6-week container to explore the practical wisdom of mutable signs, SHAPESHIFTING ACADEMY. We begin Thursday, October 3, 2024.

If you enjoyed this podcast, consider booking a reading with me. I offer astrology, divination, and subtle alchemy sessions.

I also offer a 6-month mentorship container Night Vision. 

Listen to & purchase my new song Friends on Bandcamp. You can also listen to it on your favorite streaming platforms.

Try the incredible breathwork and meditation app Open for 30 days free using this special link. 

This podcast is hosted, produced, and edited by Jonathan Koe. Theme music is also composed by me! Connect with me through my newsletter, my Instagram @jonathankoeofficial, and my music. For podcast-related inquiries, email me at [email protected].

What might Venus's fall in Virgo teach us about love at the crossroads? How might we marry pleasure and devotion?

August seems to be Venus veneration month for me. 

Last year, around the same time, we sat by the altar of Venus as they were making their retrograde in Leo (Episode 89. Contemplating Venus Retrograde in Leo 2023: Illuminating The Loveless Places).

This year, existential Venusian questions haunted me as the laughter-loving queen transited through my ascendant degree. They woke me from a slumber and demanded an episode be recorded in their honor. 

What do we do when our desires require that we alchemize conditioned passivity into meticulous strategizing?

How do we access a deeper well of love when it becomes apparent that consistent tending is necessary?

I mentioned the works of Leah Garza and Kathryn Solie in this episode.

Join my upcoming 6-week container to explore the practical wisdom of mutable signs, SHAPESHIFTING ACADEMY. We begin Thursday, October 3, 2024.

If you enjoyed this podcast, consider booking a reading with me. I offer astrology, divination, and subtle alchemy sessions.

I also offer a 6-month mentorship container Night Vision. 

Listen to & purchase my new song Friends on Bandcamp. You can also listen to it on your favorite streaming platforms.

Try the incredible breathwork and meditation app Open for 30 days free using this special link. 

This podcast is hosted, produced, and edited by Jonathan Koe. Theme music is also composed by me! Connect with me through my newsletter, my Instagram @jonathankoeofficial, and my music. For podcast-related inquiries, email me at [email protected].