The Astro-Attunement Podcast: Grounding Cosmic Wisdom through Astrology & Yoga

Welcome to Capricorn Season 2025!

Themes: responsibility, discipline, focus, maturity, accountability. This is the season where we examine our lives for what's out of balance between home vs. career or rest and nourishment vs. responsibilities. We can set big goals and start taking the steps and we can revisit relationships for clarify expectations. we'll have the confidence, stamina and collaborators to initiate important projects. It's about taking life seriously, being the adult in our lives, and acknowledging that sometimes you have to postpone pleasure in the moment for a great reward later on.

Story: Saturn (Sani) and King Kikramaditya

Breath: Exhale Retention Pranayama

Kristi: Home | Kristi Lyons YogaGabrielle: Gabrielle Perez

Welcome to Sagittarius Season 2025!

In this episode, we explore the powerful shift into Sagittarius season—where optimism, expansion, and higher wisdom guide us out of Scorpio’s emotional depths. With Jupiter exalted in Cancer, themes of emotional insight, nurturance, and intuitive growth weave through the season, offering refuge and renewed hope. We walk through the key transits from late November through mid-December, including breakthroughs in relationships, moments of karmic clarity, challenges that temper our enthusiasm, and the steady return of emotional and mental clarity as Mercury, Saturn, and Neptune station direct. As Venus retraces Mercury’s steps, healing and harmony settle in where tension once lived. The season crescendos with a Sagittarius New Moon that invites new beginnings rooted in compassion, care, and expanded purpose.

Kristi tells the story of Brihaspati and leads of through a Breath of Joy and So Hum Mantra.

To attend our workshop on Saturday November 22nd follow the link https://trueself.yoga/events/?mobile=false&options%5Bids%5D=1904&options%5Bsite_id%5D=283481&version=0

To work with Kristi visit https://www.kristilyonsyoga.com/

To work with Gabrielle visit https://www.luminousastrology.com/

Welcome to Scorpio Season 2025!

We dive into the season where the veil is thin, where we celebrate Día De Los Muertos, Samhain, and Halloween. Kristi tells the birth story of Durga and Kali, and Gabrielle goes over the major astrological themes and transits. We look at trauma activation and how to allow our old stories, hurts and emotions to surface as well as how to give them space for healing. We close with Kristi leads a cord cutting meditation.

Significant dates

• ​November 5th Full Moon in Taurus
• ​November 6th Mercury retrograde
• ​November 19th New Moon in Scorpio

To attend our workshop visit:

To attend a retreat with Kristi, take one of her classes or book a one on one appointment visit her website ⁠https://www.kristilyonsyoga.com/⁠ or follow her @lyons.kristi

To book a reading with Gabrielle follow her at @luminousastrology or visit her website ⁠https://www.luminousastrology.com/⁠

Welcome to Libra Season 2025 where we meet the other and learn how to collaborate bring balance and equality into our relationships.

We struggled to record this episode so the beginning will reference some dates that have passed, but may still be interesting to reflect on.

Enjoy!

Story of Ardhanarishvara and Bhrigu

The story highlights the need to recognize and honor the divine feminine, as it is integral to the manifestation of the universe and is an essential part of the path to the divine. 

spiritual wisdom and realization come from the perfect balance and integration of masculine and feminine energies. 

Shiva and Shakti (the divine masculine and feminine) are two halves of the same ultimate reality. 

Hello and Welcome to Virgo Season 2025!

This season starts with a New Moon that supports being intentional and ritualistic around setting up new routines that nourish the physical body and build supportive habits as we shift into the intense energy of eclipses season and Pluto moving out of bounds. Virgo is about tending to the mundane detail in our life, getting organized, refining the details. We can use this season to organize our inbox, create new habits, update our calendars, examine our spending habits, edit our systems, clean out and clear out the junk drawer, and offer help and support to those around us who may need it.

Dates:

August 22nd/23rd: New Moon in Virgo

August 26th: Pluto opposite Venus

August 29th: Pluto out of bounds

September 7th: Lunar Eclipse in Pisces

September 21st: Solar Eclipse in Virgo

Ideas to include for Dinacharya (daily ritual) can include:

• ​Set times: waking routine, eating, sleeping routine/sleeping
• ​Inner Nourishment + Hydration, consider using herbs to your food and/or water to support digestion
• ​Herbs: lemon, ginger, fennel, cumin, coriander, black pepper, licorice
• ​Outer Nourishment + Hydration, consider self-massage using favorite body oil and essential oils that nourishes skin and promotes healthy digestion.
• ​Essential oils: peppermint, fennel, ginger, lemon, cardamom
• ​Yoga Styles: practice that cultivate stillness, attention to detail, and/or slowing down ie. restorative classes, alignment based, super slow flow that includes repetition, mindfulness meditation, and nourishing rituals
• ​Postures: twists, forward folds, squats, knee to chest postures, gentle core strengthening, supine hip/leg stretches
• ​Breath: Morning: kapalabhati (“skull shining breath”, slow forceful exhale through nose/passive inhale), Evening: nadi shodhana (“alternate nostril breathing”, inhale left, exhale right, inhale right, exhale left, repeat)
• ​Meditation: trataka (candle or fire gazing), visualization of digestive fire, mindful eating
• ​Nightly Introspection/Journaling: what daily rituals can support my overall well-being? What practices can help me be in sacred relationship to my physical body? What are one or two habits I can let go of that would better support my wellness?

To attend a retreat with Kristi, take one of her classes or make a one on one appointment visit her website ⁠⁠https://www.kristilyonsyoga.com/⁠⁠ or follow her @lyons.kristi

To book a reading with Gabrielle follow her at @luminousastrology or visit her website ⁠⁠https://www.luminousastrology.com/⁠

Leo Season 2025:

Flirt, play, create, celebrate, bask in the sun, be bold and flashy. This is the season when we are encouraged to shine brightly, boldly and proudly as the unique human beings each of us are.

Vedic Story: Rasa and Lila

Meditation: Cloud Gazing

Dates

• ​July 24th: Leo New Moon opposite Pluto, trine Neptune and Saturn, Sextile Uranus
• ​July 31st: Mercury Cazimi
• ​August 9th: Full Moon in Aquarius + Mars opposite Saturn and Neptune
• ​August 11th: Venus Jupiter Conjunction in Cancer

Cancer Season Continued: Borders, Belonging & Broken Systems: The Unspoken Reasons for Immigration.

As we move through Cancer season, we hold our attention on the politics of home, country and family through the topic of immigration. In this episode, I talk with immigration lawyer Diana Moller to examine history, reasons for immigrating, economics, labor, and the abomination of for-profit detention centers. I weave in the Cancer archetype and in particular note the axis it shares with Capricorn.

To work with Diana see her link below.

Diana Moller https://www.mollerimmigration.com/

This week’s episode continues our exploration of Cancer season themes—home, belonging, and care—through the lens of immigration.
I speak with immigration lawyer Lisa Seifert to discuss the many facets of immigration in the U.S. We talk about the different types of legal documentation, what it means that being undocumented is a civil—not criminal—offense, how communities can hold ICE accountable, and recent headlines. We also explore how immigrants contribute billions in taxes and the significance of sanctuary cities in offering protection and support.

As we approach the 4th of July—a day that marks the birth of the United States and also highlights that this country is astrologically a Cancer—I invite you to reflect deeply.

Unless you are Native American, your family came from somewhere else. We are a nation of immigrants.
This holiday is an opportunity to ask:
What does patriotism truly mean?
Who makes up this country?
What are we really celebrating?
What are the stories—of migration, displacement, and survival—that brought us here?

And crucially, what are the ongoing consequences of colonization, especially for Native peoples, whose lands were taken to form what we now call the United States?

Resources:

Lisa Steifert: https://www.seifertlaw.com/

Northwest Immigrant Rights Project: https://www.nwirp.org/

In today’s episode I speak with birth worker, parenting coach, doula and writer, Marissa Bolaños of Womb Revolution. We continue to explore Cancer themes through an examination of the experience of birthing parents, parenthood, post-partum and the impact of capitalism and individualism on these experiences. Marissa normalizes the less glamorous experiences of parenthood: the rage, anxiety, inequalities, loneliness, and feeling trapped. We discuss a couple of quotes from her article, This is How Patriarchy Weaponizes Gentle Parenting and Leaves Moms Behind. (linked below)

• ​“I believe parenting is a unique opportunity to heal ourselves, dismantle systems of oppression and change the world.”
• ​“Nobody tells us how triggering parenting can be, how many of our own wounds resurface while we witness our kids big feels and big needs.”

Marissa's insights are powerful, helpful, reassuring, and even offer practical steps towards shifting outdated patterns and models of parenting. I hope you all enjoy!

• ​Marissa's website: https://www.wombrevolution.com/
• ​Center for Indigenous Midwifery: https://www.indigenous-midwifery.org

Books and Article Referenced:

• ​https://www.wombrevolution.com/blog/this-is-how-patriarchy-weaponizes-gentle-parenting-and-leaves-moms-behind

• ​Parenting from the Inside Out by Daniel Siegel

In this deeply reflective episode, we explore the archetype of Cancer through both an astrological and political lens. Ruled by the Moon, Cancer is tied to home, care, emotion, and memory — but in today’s world, these themes extend far beyond the personal. We unpack how the Cancerian archetype shows up in conversations around immigration, labor, mothering, and global injustice. From the trauma of colonization to the emotional labor of caregiving, this episode is a call to remember that feeling is not weakness — it is power. And it’s time to let that power move us.

Key Themes We Explore:

• The Cancer archetype: home, memory, mothering, and emotional labor

• Feminism and the undervaluing of caregiving work

• Immigration, ICE, and the politics of displacement

• Ancestral trauma, epigenetics, and embodied memory

• The global economy’s reliance on invisible labor

Yoga and Vedic Story

Yoga poses: supported fish (salamba matsyasana), bridge pose (setu bandha sarvangasana), bow pose (dhanurasana), locust pose (salambasana) belly down corpse pose (savasana)

Yoga style: slow flow + restorative postures- think slowing down, nourishing, soothing, healing

Meditation: deep ocean visualization

Pranayama: empty bowl meditative breath (belly breathing)