Meet me at the Throughline with Simone Johnson

In Episode 29, Simone talks about astrology as a multiverse, the next era of astrology and living in Uranian times.

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Simone talks about:

• The different kinds of astrologers in the Multiverse

• Cultivating awareness of misinformation (and disinformation) in astrology

• Pisces Moon transits

• Observation in astrology

• Pattern recognition, predictions and timing

• Examples of timing in the natural world (i.e. Coral Reef spawning)

• What empowers you in your astrology practice?

• Possibilities, imagination, stories, ‘reality’, psychosis and Neptunian doorways

• The expressions of Virgo or Scorpio 50,000 years ago vs today (or 10,000 years ago, or 500 years ago! . . . You get the idea!)

• Cultivating a polyculture of astrology spaces and tools for now and the future

• We are all helping each other in some sort of way #StarNewsNetwork

• Navigating the prism (or dimensions) of Uranus, especially during these times of climate change and natural disasters

• The connection between children and the North Node transiting Aquarius and the South Node transiting Leo the next 18 months

• New episodes on the way!

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In Episode 28, Simone talks about starting a new Patreon membership for the podcast, the power of wanting to belong and the recent Aries Stellium.

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Simone talks about:

• Starting a Patreon Circle for the podcast (SIGN UP for $5/month!)

• Joyell Arvella’s Bonus Episode on Patreon (listen to the Patreon Preview)

• Where some of the deepest water knowledge lies

• Social media visibility and what comes with that

• The guests and I sharing our opinions, perspectives and lived experiences in ‘The Great Mirroring World’

• Why are people listening to this podcast?

• Meeting so many different people throughout my life

• What’s more powerful than Love?

• The need and/or desire to belong or be a part of something

• The recent Aries Stellium as a big cosmic birthing event + more!

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Enjoy 20 minutes of the first bonus interview with previous guest, Joyell Arvella!Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedImage Description: Joyell wears a yellow headwrap and light-yellow strapless dress with blue-gold earrings. She is wearing red lipstick and looks directly into the camera. Behind her are vines of green leaves growing on a wooden fence and the side of a house. Joyell Arvella, JD (she/her) has been a traditional birth worker for 20 years and is on track to become a Certified Professional Midwife.Through her work as a medicine woman, teacher, and writer she weaves her gifts to support communities through tangible integration.While Joyell no longer works in international human rights law, her background in law and racial equity strategy informs her approach to reproductive autonomy.After sitting with griots and elders to learn the overlaps of midwifery, plant wisdom, and ancestral practices on 5 continents, Joyell created the first birth worker residency to combat burnout, Wombs of Wata, and integration apprenticeship, Lineage in Praxis. When she is not supporting wombs, you can find her designing the first birth and death oracle deck, soaking in a bathtub somewhere in the world, writing her first birthing memoir, or learning another language.

We talk about:

• Seeding BIRTHSTEAD, a forthcoming seed library and herbal healing space

• Ancestral influence on her ideas and following her curiosity and interests

• Joyell’s favorite vegetable (it’s Okra!)

• Birth trends and misinformation on social media

• Some of her favorite herbs

• Welcoming babies into the world + more!

Listen to Joyell’s original episode:“Waiting at the Portal of Birth and Death as a Traditional Midwife with Joyell Arvella” To access the full video, subscribe to the podcast’s Patreon Circle for $5/month! Your membership helps me pay guests and continue building out the podcast! Follow Meet me at the Throughline on: Substack, YouTube, Spotify and InstagramPlease subscribe, like, comment and share to help us reach more people, boost engagement and let us know people out there are listening to the podcast!

Hey Throughline listeners! I started a Patreon for the podcast! I’m introducing the tiers slowly, starting off with the Abalone Tier. For $5/month you can access more solo episodes from myself, monthly bonus episodes from previous podcast guests and other surprise content. I hope you’ll consider joining! In the meantime, stay tuned for new episodes here on Substack.

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In Episode 27, Simone talks about the tagline of the podcast, the spirit of ‘Meet me at the Throughline’ and how she’s celebrating the podcast’s birthday.

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Simone talks about:

• Starting the podcast last year

• Ideas having a life and spirit of their own

• The podcast’s tagline “wherever I’m at in the multiverse, water is my throughline”

• Being recently nomadic

• What it’s been like traversing different worlds in the Aquatic Universe

• Episodes speaking to different people

• Not being able to make everyone happy

• 11th House placements and mass admiration (via astrology)

• Manifestation and alternate timelines

• Publishing the podcast in the midst of personal life changes and national/global events

• The podcast not being a martyr

• Still learning about the expressions and energies of the spiritual warrior archetype

• The desire (and demand and pressure) to save the world

• The frontlines of spiritual warfare

• Not knowing the extent of your impact (i.e. Harriet Tubman)

• What it means to be living in a country like the United States

• How I’m celebrating the podcast’s birthday (i.e. involves cupcakes)

• BONUS: How old the Earth is, The Land Before Time, time change after the year 2000, the Moon and Mars, Aries expressions

• How to support the podcast +more!

ADDITIONAL MENTIONS:

• Dispatches from the Celestial Sea

• Saskia Sassen

HOW TO SUPPORT MY WORK WITH THE PODCAST:

CELEBRATE WITH ME!

• Eat a cupcake or fun dessert, make a delicious breakfast, go to the ocean, whatever you want to celebrate!

• Subscribe to Substack, Follow us on YouTube and Rate the podcast on Spotify

• Tell your friends!

• Suggest the podcast on social media like Instagram and Threads.

• Write a blog about an episode or the podcast overall. It doesn’t have to be a review — it could be a reflection where you talk about something you’ve learned from an episode.

• Donate $25 to my Cash Apps: CashApp + Venmo @ sjaquayj

• Keep listening!

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In Episode 26, Charmaine Bee talks about dreamwork, swimming in the ocean, and living and creating in Brazil. Interview starts at 21:20.

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"A moment of deep transformation on the island of Moreré. My first visit in 5 years - since the first time that I went I was still learning swimming in the ocean, while I entered the water the first time this last time in 2026, I was able to swim further out especially on the beaches with more waves with comfort, ease and trust. This photo was taken at a really special and transformative moment of shedding."

We talk about:

• Charmaine growing up and dreaming in Beaufort, South Carolina

• Their dream life as a kid

• Communal dream sharing with (chosen) family, friends ect

• Their project Dream Support Hotline

• How Charmaine likes to interpret dreams

• Learning about the liver and sitting with the plant Burdock

• Medical racism

• Basic knowledge of the body, herbal medicine and advocating for our health

• Their interest in learning more about the spleen, pancreas, kidneys and feet

• The connection between the feet and the dream world(s)

• Charmaine’s swimming journey

• Expressing themselves in English and Portuguese

• Dreams and place, and who they met at a restaurant

• Their process dyeing silks and making water-inspired adornments to support people’s dreams

• Their interest in the planet Jupiter

• Where Charmaine and a friend traveled to in a dream + more!

RESOURCES:

• Instagram: @plantsandportals

• Newsletter: charmaine’s newsletter

• Dream Support Hotline

• Charmaine Bee: Marsh Ocean Portal

ADDITIONAL MENTIONS:

• Empress Karen Rose + Sacred Vibes Apothecary

• Meeting Oceania/The Meeting of the Waters

HOW TO SUPPORT CHARMAINE’S WORK:

Charmaine’s currently fundraising for a creative and wellness space they are creating in Bahia. People can support at the link below:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-charmaines-vision-for-a-creative-community

If you are interested in commissioning or ordering a silk you can reach out to Charmaine via a Silk Commission form: https://forms.gle/BeV2QWocDNohAVHy5

Other ways to support their practice is through joining their Substack as a paid subscriber, where they share swim and herbalism updates.

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In Episode 25, Iruka Maria Toro talks about her love of flowers, sharing as medicine and her connection with The Great Mirroring World. Interview starts at 24: 33.

A Brief Note: Dear Throughline listeners, I’ve recently been experiencing glitch and conversion issues with Zoom. In the Intro, the audio goes out at 8:45 and returns at 9:11. Even though this chunk of my thoughts is lost to oblivion, I decided to keep the mild pause. I hope you still enjoy the introduction!

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In this episode, we talk about:

• How we met (hint: it involves time travel)

• Iruka growing up in Borikén (also known as Puerto Rico)

• Some of her favorite flowers

• How she started making plant medicine

• Her offerings: Earth Star Dolphin Medicine Map and Dolphin Oracle potion

• Iruka playing the gong and gong lore

• Whale Song and Quantum Listening, and all the ways people can listen

• Her exploration of Body Therapies

• Both of our journeys learning how to take care of our bodies

• Navigating the 12th House (via astrology)

• Visual Medicine and the medicine of sharing

• Iruka’s archive of her heart

• Messages from the Great Mirroring World + much more!

RESOURCES:

Website: Iruka Maria

Instagram: @iruka_maria_toro

Apothecary and Shop

ADDITIONAL MENTIONS:

• Ancestors in Training

• ‘Anchoring the timeline’ via @theflowerpriestess

• “A Bird’s Eye View: Water Futures in the Colorado River Basin”

• andrea haenggi

• Maters Matter Mother by Star Feliz

• Simone Forti

HOW TO SUPPORT IRUKA’S WORK:

People can support Iruka’s work by following her on Instagram and going to her shop!

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In Episode 24, Xenia Viray talks about appreciating the imagination, co-regulating with the Earth, and the heart as a place of metabolism and energy activism. Interview starts at 22:00.

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“In our work together, we hold deep compassion for the parts of you who felt they had to hide, and the emergent genius within who is aching to create. By staying in the frequency of the heart, we transmute and weave all aspects of you into a coherent whole with growing clarity on your unique energy and creative purpose.” - via About Myths of Creation

Xenia is a Translator and Synthesizer for the Multidimensional Pioneer: those who are anchoring new frequencies and ideas into the tangible world, but are dedicated to staying present, grounded, and in reverent embrace of what it means to be human and alive on this earth.

Xenia is also an artist whose main mediums are ideas, connections, experiences, and communities. These may come in the form of workshops, recordings, words, or a new way of seeing the world. She is still discovering more of what is possible when our potential meets the present moment. Her philosophy is that all languages, mediums, and forms of study both clarify and obfuscate; that with each revelation there is a clearer picture of that which we do not know. For her, science, mysticism, mythology and philosophy are all forms of inquiry that give us a picture of the strange fractal-like wisdom woven into the fabric of our reality, as well as frameworks that elucidate the shape and presence of the unknowable, and the mysterious.

She works well with people who are curious about the nature of reality, who they are, who other people are, why they are here, and how it all fits together. . . read the rest of Xenia’s bio!

We talk about:

• Xenia growing up in a multi-generational home

• What she was interested in as a kid

• Adolescence, high school, pop culture and the movies

• What Xenia wanted to be when she grew up

• Her perspective on what the imagination is

• How the imagination is dismissed, undervalued and undermined

• Orienting toward our imaginations

• Her thoughts on the connection between our imaginations, hearts and compassion

• Xenia jogs my memory about . . .

• The role of the body in existing and experiencing life

• The relationship between the Nervous System, Electric Body, imagination and creating the world

• The connection between co-regulation with the Earth and unification in a world that tries to separate us

• Encountering people from different (political) worlds

• Living in information and cultural bubbles and silos

• What Xenia does to help anchor herself when she interfaces with and synthesizes different kinds of information and perspectives

• How her family and the stars set her up for seeding (or advocating for) the skill of compassion

• The heart as a site or place of metabolism and energy activism+ much more!

RESOURCES:

• Website: Myths of Creation

• Instagram: @mythsofcreation

• Substack: Garden of the Imaginal: Creativity, Mysticism & Authenticity

• Podcast: Stream on Substack, Spotify and Apple

• INTERSTELLAR: Connection to 3I ATLAS - A 75-minute recorded workshop on October 30th at 7 - 8:15 PM ET*

ADDITIONAL MENTIONS:

• The Rainbow Weavers

• Angela Angel

• Georgia Jean and The Circle of Light

• Create Your Cosmology

• You Belong: A Call for Connection by Sebene Selassie

HOW TO SUPPORT XENIA’S WORK:

From Xenia - People can support my work by joining me for INTERSTELLAR, a workshop to connect to 3I ATLAS, joining my newsletter, subscribing to my Substack, or following me on Instagram @Mythsofcreation.

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In Episode 23, Jeff Hinshaw shares his perspective on being an esoteric, soul-centered astrologer, ways to connect with our Birth Charts, and the zodiac sign Aquarius. Interview starts at 21:21.

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Through the Cosmic Cousins podcast, Substack, newsletter and Instagram, Jeff has shared his knowledge of astrology and tarot for over a decade, making these practices more accessible to a wider audience. He covers a range of topics, from the basics of astrology and tarot to more advanced concepts like astrocartography and mythic archetypal embodiment.

We talk about:

• Jeff growing up as an 80s kid playing The Sims, listening to 90s/early 2000s pop music and being on the internet

• Our Big 3: Sun, Moon and Rising as a throughline in our Natal Charts

• Sun-Moon combinations (i.e. Scorpio Sun and Gemini Moon)

• What it’s like living in a vortex in Joshua Tree

• Their relationship with the sky

• How astrologers evolve or the evolution of astrologers

• The difference between esoteric and exoteric

• The ancient role of Gemini (and Mercury, its ruler)

• Aquarius’ connection to mass consciousness

• Dancing with the multitudes, complexities and contradictions in our Natal Charts

• Approaching paradox with humor, reverence and surrender

• Jeff’s experience being an Aquarius Sun

• Excessive and deficient expressions of Aquarius

• His response to my question about Aquarian imaginations

• Energy work

• The healing power of mineral waters and hot springs

• Being aligned with your Birth Chart

• Their practice grounding New Age wisdom

• Guidance from the Seven Sisters or Pleiades Star System

• Emotional healing through the Aquarius vantage point + much more!

RESOURCES:

• Website: Cosmic Cousins

• Instagram:

• Substack: Cosmic Cousins / Soul-Centered Astrology

• Podcast: Stream of Spotify, iTunes and PodBean

• READ: Gemini as the Psychopomp: Messenger Between Worlds, Mirror of the Soul

ADDITIONAL MENTIONS:

• Joshua trees and Creosote shrubs

• Sky’s The Limit Observatory and Nature Center

• Marina “Mari” Gonzalez (the vedic astrologer I was talking about!)

HOW TO SUPPORT JEFF’S WORK:

Please check out his offerings!

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In Episode 22, Jeremy Dennis talks about his ancestral lands and waters, his project “Nothing Happened Here”, what he hopes Shinnecock youth will do with his work and more! Interview starts at 32:42.

Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedImage Description: Jeremy looks directly in the camera with his arms crossed, wearing a long sleeve gray shirt with the sleeves rolled up on each arm. Behind him is a large print of one of this photography projects hanging in the background in front of a wooden wall.Jeremy Dennis is a contemporary fine art photographer, an enrolled Tribal Member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation in Southampton, NY, and the founder and lead artist of Ma’s House & BIPOC Art Studio, Inc., a nonprofit art space and residency program on the Shinnecock Reservation dedicated to uplifting Indigenous and BIPOC artists.His work centers Indigenous identity, culture, and the legacies of colonial assimilation, using photography to stage cinematic, otherworldly narratives rooted in Native oral stories, history, and contemporary experience.Dennis is a Stony Brook University alumnus (BA ’13) and Forty Under 40 honoree (2017), and earned his MFA from Pennsylvania State University (2016). His photographs have been exhibited nationally and internationally, with solo and group exhibitions at The Armory Show, Expo Chicago, ZONAMACO FOTO in Mexico City, and the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Notable exhibitions include Speaking With Light at the Denver Art Museum, and In Our Hands: Native Photography, 1890 to Now at the Minneapolis Institute of Art.

Among his numerous honors are a 2025 NYSCA Grant, Pollock-Krasner Foundation Residency Fellowship, Andy Warhol Visual Arts Residency (2023), Getty Creative Bursary Award, and Running Strong for American Indian Youth Dreamstarter Grants (2016, 2020). Most recently, he was awarded the Artist to Artist Fellowship from the Art Matters Foundation.

Dennis’ creative work often draws on personal and communal histories, tackling themes of identity, resilience, and visibility within Native communities. His major projects include:

• On This Site — Native Long Island (2016–ongoing): A photography series and interactive online map that documents culturally significant Native American sites across Long Island. The project also produced a companion book and exhibition, preserving and sharing important Indigenous histories connected to the land.

• Rise (2018–ongoing) and Nothing Happened Here: These series use staged photography to confront ideas of belonging, erasure, and colonial violence from an Indigenous perspective. Through haunting, cinematic scenes, Dennis reclaims historical narratives and explores the ongoing impact of colonization.

• Stories — Indigenous Oral Stories, Dreams, and Myths (2013–ongoing): Inspired by Native oral traditions, Dennis transforms ancient legends and dreams into contemporary photographs. These works imagine supernatural, otherworldly moments, merging storytelling with visual art to honor and reinterpret Indigenous cosmologies.

His curatorial projects include Shinnecock Speaks at Ma’s House & BIPOC Art Studio, Inc., and Eternal Testament at The Church of Sag Harbor.

Dennis has participated in prestigious residencies such as the Andy Warhol Visual Arts Program (2023), Santa Fe Art Institute (2021), Yaddo (2019), Watermill Center (2017), and the Vermont Studio Center/Harpo Foundation Residency (2016).

He currently serves on the advisory boards of The Boys & Girls Club of the Shinnecock Nation, The Bridgehampton Musem, The Church of Sag Harbor, WNET Group’s THIRTEEN/WLIW Community Advisory Board, and Ma’s House & BIPOC Art Studio, Inc.

Jeremy Dennis lives and works in Southampton, NY, on the Shinnecock Indian Reservation.

What we talk about:

• The Shinnecock Indian Nation

• Some of Jeremy’s memories growing up on his ancestral lands

• What Jeremy would love to see in his community that could improve quality of life and income for tribal members, and tribes in the Northeast overall

• His time at the Santa Fe Indian Market (SWAIA)

• Native Origin/Creation stories (i.e. Sky Woman)

• The possibilities and fears around the Land Back Movement in the Hamptons

• What word Jeremy thinks is important when talking about the Land Back Movement

• What stolen Indigenous land has made possible

• His project “Nothing Happened Here”

• The trauma the nation is carrying related to how the country was formed

• Inheriting historical traumas

• Guidance from the past

• What history warrants awareness, respect, care and protection

• Learning about the local histories where we live

• Living in historic times right now

• What Jeremy hopes Shinnecock youth will do with what he’s working on

• Why Ma’s House is red! + much more!

RESOURCES:

Website: Jeremy Dennis

Instagram: @jeremynative

Ma’s House & BIPOC Art Studio Inc. + Ma’s House Podcast

Ma’s House Documentary via Reciprocity Project

ADDITIONAL MENTIONS:

• Santa Fe Indian Market

• Cara Romero

• Santa Fe Art Institute

• Shinnecock Kelp Farmers

• Works on Water + Sarah Cameron Sunde

HOW TO SUPPORT JEREMY’S WORK:

Subscribe to his Patreon!

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