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So you’re familiar with daily and weekly horoscopes or the infamous Saturn Return… but have you heard about Annual Profections? Are you curious about which themes your life is focused on right now, or why certain themes are popping up? Start here!

In this episode, host Sarah Faith Gottesdiener brings back Anthony Perrotta (astrologer and designer) on the Moonbeaming mic, to serve up a delicious lowdown about Annual Profections. You’ll learn:

• Astrological timing techniques
• The supportive ways of using Annual Profections
• The time-lord of the year
• How to dig deeper to your personal annual profection (hint: class offering soon)
• What an 8th House Annual Profection year is like

If you want to work with a bird’s-eye-view of YOUR year according to this astrological timing technique and want more aligned, guided support, this episode is for you.

Patrons can sign up for Anthony’s class here.

About Anthony Perrotta: Anthony is an astrologer, artist, poet, designer, and curator. His focus is on integrating astrology into everyday life, where the abstract feels tangible. He has a background in fashion, and interior design, and has spent years bridging the gap between his passions. He has studied and practiced astrology for over 15 years, and because astrology is at the heart of everything he does, he has created intersections of art, design, and poetry with astrology.

Pre-order his forthcoming book, AstroStyle.

Anthony’s Links:

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Are you a compassionate person but somehow you feel drained by everyone around you? Maybe you want to spend time with people and hold space… but you also don’t want to overwork your natural flow? And what about unexpected energies that come your way? What do you do when microaggressions destabilize your energetic field? This episode is dedicate to our friends who love to help and support others while still preserving energy. Don’t miss this episode! It’s time to shift those subconsciously-embedded energy patterns!

Host Sarah Faith Gottesdiener invites a student with questions about maintaining your own energy and stop feeling so drained all the dang time. If you’ve been curious about energetic hygiene and want to know exactly how to do it, this episode is for you. Key takeaways include:

• understanding how to keep one's energy within the body
• actual practices to stop all the overextending
• practical methods for establishing energetic boundaries
• energetically saying NO to micro aggressions and projections

If you feel tired after spending time with others —whether with clients or friends— and you want to call back your energy, this episode is for you.

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Are you taking the time to consider your boundaries and communicate them? Do you really know what boundaries are? If you are boundary-curious, it’s time to start now with the most effective aspect of this work…instrinisic boundaries!

In this week’s episode of the Moonbeaming Podcast, we’re sharing a classic episode from the archives and getting into all things b-word: boundaries. Host Sarah Faith Gottesdiener discusses her concept of intrinsic boundaries, which might just change your life. As summer ends, this is the perfect time for a reset. You’ll learn:

• what intrinsic boundaries are and what they are not
• how to identify your boundaries and communicate them
• co-regulating with specific Tarot cards in relation to boundaries
• about recommendations for clearing and tapping further into intuition

If you’ve been wondering what your boundaries are and how to tap into your intuition for a balanced and fulfilled life, this episode is for you.
 

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Is Tarot secular or is it spiritual? How can Tarot cards be used in therapy practice? What really goes into shadow work and are you equipped to do it alone?

Today we continue our mini series speaking with mental health professionals such as therapists, somatic educators, social workers, and other professional caregivers. Our special guest today is Shannon Knight, a John Hopkins-trained psychotherapist and host of The Tarot Diagnosis, a podcast that highlights the intersection of mental health and the practice of tarot and self-inquiry. In this episode of the Moonbeaming Podcast, host Sarah Faith Gottesdiener and guest Shannon Knight dive into the transformational potential of combining tarot with psychological modalities, exploring themes like internal family systems, shadow work, and the use of archetypes for personal inquiry. You’ll learn:

• The different perspectives of tarot as either secular or spiritual
• Combining tarot and therapy practice
• Why shadow work should not be done alone (and how to do it)
• How The Tarot Diagnosis was created

If you’ve been using Tarot in therapy (or thinking about it), or if you’re wondering about the deep, complex nature of shadow work, this episode is for you.

About Shannon Knight: Shannon Knight (she/her) is a Johns Hopkins trained psychotherapist. Shannon hosts The Tarot Diagnosis - podcast that highlights the intersection of mental health and the practice of tarot and self-inquiry.

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How do you navigate shame? What does inner criticism have to do with shame? In our society, it’s easy to slip into what we think we know as shame and often, the most common first response is to figure out a way to relieve it or treat it. Instead, what happens if you explore the unshaming way? Who will you find?

Today we continue our mini series speaking with mental health professionals such as therapists, somatic educators, social workers, and other professional caregivers. Our special guest today is David Bedrick, counselor, attorney, and a teacher of shame-based studies for therapists, coaches, and healers.

In this episode of the Moonbeaming Podcast, host Sarah Faith Gottesdiener and guest David Bedrick peel back the layers of shame and uncover what shame is here to tell us. You’ll learn:

• the definitions and functions of shame
• the process of the unshaming way
• how to work with your inner criticism
• how inner power gets suppressed
• why you must respond with self-compassion

If you’ve been stuck in a shame spiral and want to learn the first steps to unshaming yourself, this episode is for you.

Please note: This episode contains examples of abuse.

About David Bedrick: David Bedrick, JD, Dipl. PW, is a teacher, counselor, and attorney. He grew up in family marked by violence. While his father’s brutality was physical and verbal, his mother’s denial and gaslighting had its own covert power. This formative context introduced David early to the etiology of shame and instilled an urge to unshame.

Professionally, he was on the faculty for the University of Phoenix and the Process Work Institute in the U.S. and Poland and is the founder of the Santa Fe Institute for Shame-based Studies where he trains therapists, coaches and healers and offers workshops for individuals to further their own personal development. Thousands of students have studied with David in addition to his 30 years of experience working with individuals, couples, and groups.

David writes for Psychology Today and is the author of three books: Talking Back to Dr. Phil: Alternatives to Mainstream Psychology and Revisioning Activism: Bringing Depth, Dialogue, and Diversity to Individual and Social Change. His new book is You Can’t Judge a Body by Its Cover: 17 Women’s Stories of Hunger, Body Shame and Redemption.

His upcoming book, The Unshaming Way, will be published by North Atlantic books in 2024.

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What is biomimicry and how does it apply to healing?

Today we continue our mini series speaking with mental health professionals such as therapists, somatic educators, social workers, and other professional caregivers. Our guest today is Gabes Torres— a psychotherapist, organizer, and artist! In this episode of the Moonbeaming Podcast, host Sarah Faith Gottesdiener and guest Gabe Torres talk about time as a living thing, practicing sustainability in therapy work, and shifting from ANTI-isms to building and creating change. In this special episode, you’ll hear about:

• The concept and realization of home and how to create it
• Biomimicry and how we can apply it
• Learnings from relationship
• Healing abandonment wounds

If you’re curious about how to apply biomimicry in your life or if you’re burnt out from therapy work or social work, this episode is for you.

About Gabes Torres: Gabes Torres is a psychotherapist, organizer, and artist with her work focusing on the interplay of mental health, the arts, spirituality, and justice oriented practice. She has an M. A. In Theology and Culture and Counseling Psychology, both graduate degrees were accomplished in Seattle, the city where she organized with abolitionist and anti imperialist groups at a local grassroots level. In her clinical practice, Gabes pays attention to healing from racial and migration trauma while decolonizing the therapeutic space from white western modalities. Gabes writes for Yes Magazine, an independent publisher of Solutions Journalism, with stories that uncover environmental, economic, and social justice intersections. She is also a poet and singer songwriter, and was also a contributor to this year's Many Moons. She was born and raised in the countryside of the Philippines.

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instagram @ gabestorres

Gabes’ articles on Yes Magazine

REFERENCES:

Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals by Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power (Sister Outsider) by Audre Lorde (PDF)

Oscillation Framework (Guidebook) by Gabes Torres

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Today we begin a new mini series speaking with mental health professionals such as therapists, somatic educators, social workers, and caregivers. Our guest today is the one and only Asher Pandjiris! In this episode of the Moonbeaming Podcast, host Sarah Faith Gottesdiener and guest Asher Pandjiris delve into the intersections of spirituality, therapy, and ketamine-assisted psychotherapy. You’ll learn:

• the mystic supportive role of undefined circumstances
• the transformative power of ketamine therapy
• an experience from living in a queer body
• disordered eating and body dysmorphia

If you’re curious about how ketamine therapy or if you’re a practitioner seeking to support queer and marginalized identities, this episode is for you.

About Asher Pandjiris: Asher Pandjiris is many things; a white, chronically ill, non-binary parent, psychotherapist, podcaster, group facilitator and consultant to mental health practitioners. They proudly co-direct The Kintsugi Therapist Collective (KTC) with their colleague, Onyx Fujii, LCSW. KTC is a virtual community offering embodied care, support, wisdom, and resources to trans and non-binary, BIPOC, chronically ill, and disabled mental health providers.
 

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Asher's website: asherpandjiris.com

Kintsugi Therapist Collective: kintsugitherapistcollective.com

Asher's Podcast: Living in this Queer Body Podcast

Asher's Instagram: @livinginthisqueerbody

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Ever wonder what professional witches DO to make money? 

Have you wanted to make the leap into full time healing, creativity, and/or general badassery/witchery but aren't sure where to begin? This episode is here to help you. 

In this week's episode, an Iconic Archive that first aired in 2020, Sarah  has the honor of sitting down with famous witch, Pam Grossman of the Witch Wave! Tune into hear more about Pam's journey from corporate worker to well-paid witch, as well as: 

• the practical steps Pam took to transition her career 
• What everyone should be aware of in every big move 
• How Pam's practice has changed 
• A super fun reading that Sarah give Pam! 

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About Pam Grossman:  Pam is a writer, curator, and teacher of magical practice and history. She is the host of The Witch Wave podcast (“the Terry Gross of Witches” - Vulture) and the author of Waking the Witch: Reflections on Women, Magic, and Power (Gallery Books / Simon & Schuster) and What Is A Witch (Tin Can Forest Press). She is also co-editor and co-author of the WITCHCRAFT volume of Taschen’s Library of Esoterica series. Her forthcoming book on the magical process of creativity, MAGIC MAKER, will be published by Penguin Life in Fall 2025.

Pam's website

Pam's podcast: The Witch Wave 

Happy Summer, everyone! 

In this week's episode, Sarah decides to get personal, AND collective, as she explores the relationship between our card of the year, Strength, and the Star. This is the time of year where we see the Strength card archetype the most, and need to grapple with it. Enter: the archetype of the Star, the teacher card of Strength. In this episode, learn: 

• How the Strength card might be coming up for you
• How the Star can help us "learn" the lessons of Strength
• 4 reminders that have been helping Sarah recently
• Inspiration on how to create your own guidelines for the current season you are in

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Operation Olive Branch: a spreadsheet where you can donate to Palestinians in need. 

Today we continue on with our popular living the tarot series with another very special guest. Today we have the one and only Aidan Wachter! In this episode, we get into a very deep, very philosophical all about magic. If you are interested in the occult, as well as learning from a very experienced practitioner, this episode is for you. 

Guest bio: Aidan Wachter is an eclectic animist, magician, and witch. His work focuses on magical approaches that produce real change in the practitioner and their reality. Wachter believes that magic is an inherent aspect of the human animal that, when missing or neglected, can lead to pathological states in the individual. These states then ripple out into human society and beyond it. It is his belief that magic can be a tool to re-frame what is possible for a person and, from that position, create better possible futures for all beings. He is the author of Six Ways: Approaches & Entries For Practical Magic, Weaving Fate: Hypersigils, Changing The Past, & Telling True Lies, and Changeling: A Book Of Qualities.

www.aidanwachter.com

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