Episode 048: Plump up your pulse for the passion play! In this episode, we buff and fluff the Leo archetype, answer a birth chart Q about keeping the faith during all stages of the creative process, find frisky fun within the Tower’s fiery force, and more. Our August convo covers connecting with constancy, uncovering eternal hope, feeling our heat without having to be felt, beholding beauty, staying in touch with trust, and showing up on the side of life with jazz hands up.

Inside Your Cosmic Snack Pack:

Leo Check In: We discuss how this little lovecat is showing up in our astrology practices right now, with an exploration of full body and soul presence, mutual adoration, handling feelings of futility, the spontaneous emergence of fire and the imperative to just keep on existing, and tapping inexhaustible fonts of joy.

Burning Birth Chart Q: We’re making our slumber party super special this season, with a personal reading exchange between Bess and Sandy. In our birth chart segment, Sandy dives into Bess’s astro landscape and answers her query about her creative process, maturing her artistry, and handling the “high highs” and “low lows” in the cycle of making. We touch on remaining in process with the 6th house, keeping connected to Martial power, finding acceptance in the emo processing of Chiron transits, stepping up into competence with the 10th house, and cultivating a hopeful mindset with Jupiter.

Tarot Touchstone: Bess flips some cards for Sandy, who’s curious about establishing habits that really last. We chat about Mars vs Saturn as reflected through the Tower card, and how to come alive to all the forces that want to ally with us without having to bear sole responsibility for “making” monumental change happen; and finding divinity in the sweet detail with the 10 of Pentacles, Page of Cups, and Ace of Cups.

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Episode 047: Steady your heart for the eternal return. In this episode, we come on home to the Cancer cove, answer a listener Q about how to pave your own way through a birth chart of oppositional energies, release the need to work it all out with the 8 of Cups, and more. Our July convo covers taking responsibility for our emotional landscape, releasing attachment to linear progress, holding the gift of life closer, finding forgiveness, and letting our love spill over without measure.

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Cancer Check In: We discuss how this shellabratory sign is showing up in our astrology practices right now, with an exploration of surrendering to the magnetic magic of water, becoming competent guardians of each element through the cardinal signs, and cultivating a relationship to what’s timeless within us.

Burning Birth Chart Q: A Cancer Sun/Pisces Moon/Capricorn Rising listener is feeling pushed and pulled between chart placements and wondering which signs to follow to reach her highest potential. We discuss how to use your internal authority to navigate astrology, the charge of the nodal axis, sloughing off the “shoulds” with the cardinal signs, meeting self through our Rising, and learning to define planets on the descendent in our own terms.

Tarot Touchstone: A card pull to support the season, where the 8 of Cups arrives to take us on a walkabout through our wild work—teaching us how to embrace ongoing journeys of growth that don’t have to reach an end goal.

Cancer Season Listener’s Birth Chart

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Episode 046: Bop along on the breeze of becoming. In this episode, we catch the Gemini current of crossings and chameleon shifts, answer a listener Q about handling a flurry of new life happenings, learn to lean into the porous process with the 8 of Pentacles, and more. Our June convo covers building confidence in our voice, losing the linear path to find our way, opening up to the unsettling, carrying energy across thresholds, and liberating life force in all directions.

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Gemini Check In: We discuss how this prismatic channel is showing up in our astrology practices right now, with an exploration of in-between spaces, reading and responding to the atmosphere, getting escorted through evolutionary change, and tapping our immortal truths.

Burning Birth Chart Q: A Gemini Sun/Capricorn Moon/Cancer Rising listener is feeling into the flux of friendships and career prospects. We discuss how to handle the overwhelm of 12th house planets, make magic with the mutables without losing a sense of “mine,” rewrite the narrative for retrograde planets, power up Mars in water signs, and harness both the gravity and levity of the Capricorn-Gemini inconjunct.

Tarot Touchstone: A card pull to support the season, where the 8 of Pentacles teaches us how to open up to invisible shifts and ongoing processes, as we learn to let ourselves get worked on and led elsewhere by our own lives.

Gemini Season Listener’s Birth Chart

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Episode 045: Spread your worthiness wide and lap up the lushery. In this episode, we sink into Taurus energy, answer a listener Q about how to hold ourselves in humanness, find familiarity in the Hierophant’s inherent resources, and more. Our May convo covers trusting in empty-full cycles, regenerative potency, releasing attachment to everlasting attainment, self-worth that shifts with the seasons of our lives, magnetic attraction, and nurturing what’s most natural.

Inside Your Cosmic Snack Pack:

Taurus Check In: We discuss how this ample, fruit-filled archetype is showing up in our astrology practices right now, with an exploration of the width and absorption of the fixed signs, softening mental spins and settling into the body, cultivating steadiness, and allowing the world to respond to and change around us.

Burning Birth Chart Q: A Taurus Sun/Pisces Moon/Virgo Rising listener is emerging on the other side of enormous loss and seeks self-trust in the face of uncertainty. We discuss the at-home humanness of the earth signs, soothing Saturnine self-critique, private processes and healing contexts in the water houses, equilibrating the Virgo-Pisces axis, Pluto aspects and control, and the IC’s creative incubations.

Tarot Touchstone: A card pull to support the season, where the Hierophant steps forward to remind us of both the muscle memories that want massaging and the bone-deep knowings that can fuel our foundation.

Taurus Season Listener’s Birth Chart

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Episode 044: Embolden your beginnings and big bang into being. In this episode, we ignite in Aries energy, answer a listener Q about how to handle fire for the long haul, harness our ability to engine-rev anew with the 3 of Wands, and more. Our April convo covers the creative process (and becoming part of creation’s process), refining our relationship to friction, opening to the force inherent in everything, and getting out of our heads and into the meganess of this magic moment.

Inside Your Cosmic Snack Pack:

Aries Check In: We discuss how this out-of-nowhere spark plug is showing up in our astrology practices right now, with an exploration of the Pisces/Aries edge and what it means to go “with” momentum instead of against; the relationship between cardinal signs and keeping our own time; catalyzing change and taking up our causes; and showing up in our still-here-ness to come ever closer to life itself.

Burning Birth Chart Q: An Aries Sun/Aquarius Moon/Capricorn Rising listener is experiencing some Pluto transit apprehension and wants to figure out if the time is right for shifting away from temporary structures and towards the construction of something longer lasting. We talk outer planet attunements, the spontaneous genius of fire and finding ground in groundlessness, 1st house stelliums and resilient rebirths, the storm cycles of Uranus, and using Saturn and Capricorn to explore the internal motivation beneath external forms of security.

Tarot Touchstone: A card pull to support the season, where the 3 of Wands steps forward to remind us that Aries energy is here to break the success/failure paradigm and simply crack the eggshell and come to life, again and again.

Aries Season Listener’s Birth Chart

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Episode 043: Slip and slide into surrendered sensitivity. In this episode, we plunge into Pisces energy, answer a listener Q about divining the difference between necessary retreat and hiding out, let organic boundaries arise with the 2 of Pentacles, and more. Our March convo covers befriending whatever beingness is before us, immersing in the present moment for as long as it lasts, letting go of expectation and artifice, and cultivating small acts of undoing and emptying.

Inside Your Cosmic Snack Pack:

Pisces Check In: We discuss how this atmospheric archetype is showing up in our astrology practices right now, with an exploration of how we can use this energy to get “into it” instead of “out of it,” what letting go looks like through each of the four elements, how all signs secretly “lead” to Pisces, and how to give way without giving it all away.

Burning Birth Chart Q: A Pisces Sun/Cancer Moon/Taurus Rising listener wants to learn how to value her deep need for retreat, while staying honest about how disappearing can also sometimes lead to disconnection. We talk 11th house group dynamics, creating safety through the Moon sign, the Pisces/Aries edge between immersion and emergence, taking ownership with Saturn and Jupiter, and the rhythms of water and earth.

Tarot Touchstone: A card pull to support the season, where the 2 of Pentacles steps forward to remind us that boundaries can also spring to life by backing the bigness of our emotions.

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Pisces Season Listener’s Birth Chart

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Episode 042: Renovate, rejuvenate, and return everything to its rightful place. In this episode, we follow Aquarius energy to its exhilarating edge, answer a listener Q about how to prepare for life’s ultimate unknowns, recognize and reckon with the familiar in the unfamiliar through the Hierophant, and more. Our February convo covers building confidence in our grand plans, getting much needed perspective on the small stuff, making peace with the fundamental facts of existence, and showing up for the mystery of it all in complete presence.

Inside Your Cosmic Snack Pack:

Aquarius Check In: We discuss how this spacious, oracular archetype is showing up in our astrology practices right now, with an exploration of this fixed sign’s seeming paradox of transformation and the cycle of storms and stillness; the art of purification and emptying ourselves to beget new creative flow; and exploring the limits of the recognizable world.

Burning Birth Chart Q: An Aquarius Sun/Aquarius Moon/Capricorn Rising listener relishes the strong, stable shapes he’s put in place for his new baby, but wonders about his family’s future ability to welcome the unexpected. We talk group astro dynamics, inconjuncts, Saturn transits of the Sun and Moon, and how the elements handle the unknown and unknowable.

Tarot Touchstone: A card pull to support the season, where the Hierophant’s Taurus-ruled muscle memory helps us harness our pre-existing resources in the face of the unexpected.

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Aquarius Season Listener’s Birth Chart

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Episode 041: Let the weight of your world reveal what really matters. In this episode, we make more out of the majesty of Capricorn energy, answer a listener Q about how to carry on in the face of life’s ultimate finale, soften into the shape of things with the Ace of Cups, and more. Our January convo covers doing the work and letting the world work through us, experiencing the zodiac archetypes in our physical bodies, and receiving the gifts of resistance and the accumulation of our efforts.

Inside Your Cosmic Snack Pack:

Capricorn Check-In: We discuss how this luxe, structured cosmic queen is showing up in our astrology practices right now, with an exploration of willpower and the intermediary planets of Jupiter and Saturn, the more mystical side of Cap’s materiality, the willingness to give our existence gravity and weight, and sheltering within the strong shapes of our lives.

Burning Birth Chart Q: A Capricorn Sun/Taurus Moon/Virgo Rising listener faces life’s ultimate question: how to find meaning and enjoy existence when it is all destined to evanesce, in the end. We talk Saturn rising, grand earth trines, 8th house cusps, 12th house planets, earth energy in water houses, each element’s response to death, and more—as we explore the fight for constancy, facing the finite, and finding completeness.

Tarot Touchstones: A card pull to support the season, which includes the Ace of Cups, 4 of Cups, and Death, and raises themes of effort as an act of devotion, taking the shape of emotional seasons, and tenderizing our tautness.

Capricorn Season Listener’s Birth Chart

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Episode 040: Hit the open road on ready and willing hooves. In this episode, we set off in search of Sagittarius energy, answer a listener Q about how to stoke the bonfires of joy when hope is running low, uncover adventurous meaning with the Page of Pentacles, and more. Our December convos covers shedding external expectations, calming overanalysis, finding faith, amplifying our curiosity, and dealing with limits in the name of loosening and liberating.

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Sagittarius Check-In: We discuss how this freewheeling, boundary-breaking cosmic force is showing up in our astrology practices right now, with an exploration of the chameleon qualities of the mutable signs, environmental adaptation, the art of acceptance, self-expression without attachment to outcome, letting our carefully-laid plans have plans of their own, and the live-and-let-live-ness that respects the vital rights of everything that lives.

Burning Birth Chart Q: A Sagittarius Sun/Aquarius Moon/Gemini Rising listener is on the hunt for how to inspire excitement and joy in moments when life seems devoid of meaning. We talk Venus and Mars placements; semi-sextiles; the interplay between the up-and-out currents of air and fire, and the down-and-in gravity of earth and water; the 5th house cusp; Mercury; and more—as we explore how to keep the wildness alive without having to turn our backs on the weight of the world.

Tarot Touchstones: A card pull to support the season, which includes the King of Cups, the 7 of Cups, and the Page of Pentacles, and raises themes of compassion, creative expression, and finding signs of life all around us.

Sagittarius Season Listener’s Birth Chart

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Episode 039: Dig in and dive daringly deeper. In this episode, we collide with the carnal callings of Scorpio energy, answer a listener Q about longing for a life partner, open to the already-enoughness of the 10 of Pentacles, and more. Our November convo covers the inevitability of endings; reckoning with patterns that may never be purged; conscious magnetics and surrendering to powerful pulls; and finding forgiveness in the face of finite finales.

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Scorpio Check-In: We discuss how this raw and uncut cosmic force is showing up in our astrology practices right now, with an excavation of the interplay between the mortal and the eternal, drawing unprocessed matter to the surface, no-holds-barred intimacy, and bearing witness to deaths of all kinds.

Burning Birth Chart Q: A Scorpio Sun/Cancer Moon/Capricorn Rising listener faces relationship turmoil on her quest to commune with an enduring life partner. We talk natal Saturn placements, Uranus transits and natal aspects, 8th house pulls, Venus in Libra, Jupiter Rising, and more, as we explore romantic autonomy and the courageous muscle-building journey to champion the heart.

Tarot Touchstone: A card pull to support the season, which includes the Chariot, 10 of Pentacles, and 9 of Cups, and raises themes of possession, desire, and conscious coupling with what’s here.

Scorpio Season Listener’s Birth Chart

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