Shilpa Sankaran joins me this week for a conversation on Ayurveda, a science & life wisdom with roots of 5,000 years. we chat about her journey, her passion for community and how we can bring more harmony into our life and the way we relate with each other. the New Moon in Aquarius falls on Thursday. a six planet stellium in Aquarius asks us to expand our concerts of love- and to start with self.

aquarian sun sign kalena clarkson shares her journey from her secular upbringing as the youngest of 9 children and the resulting naïveté in young adult life. she shares her deep dive into cinema as well as the importance of finding her community. lauren talks about Imbolc, the deepest point of winter, and the importance of structure, a shout out to fellow astrologer @saturnandhoney and the upcoming direct square between Saturn in Aquarius & Uranus in Taurus on 2/17.

Maco Monthervil @observhaitian is a sun sign Aquarius who feels deeply and shares his journey growing up as a queer black male in a Haitian enclave in the southern United States. his instagram account @menwhofeel has gathered traction since its becoming last year, Maco’s desire to fill a gap and respond to toxic masculinity from the perspective of a sensitive and relational heart.

Inauguration day is well timed with the United States natal chart activations and a direct conjunction of Mars & Uranus. lauren soap boxes (sorry about that f-bomb, but it was fitting) and a conversation with Virgo Sun, Scorpio Rising astro-soul healer & Reiki practitioner Pam Janousek. we talk about the journey of getting out of your own way when it comes to service and her meditations on truth they have emerged out of a sense of duty to knowing what you are looking at when during a time of fake news and echo chamber algorithms.

the new moon in capricorn is happening 1/12/2021 with a tense emphasis on feelings of depression, isolation and the required enthusiasm/tension pushing us towards social change . in the wake of last week’s attempted coup at the capital, a friend check in turned interview took place. Liam McConville aka the yoga grouch spoke with Ren about his experiences growing up in Staten Island, his relationship with words and dirty haikus and his journey to self through the lens of yoga, his experiences with the now disintegrated Yoga To The People and what it’s been like living alone in Queens during nearly a year of social isolation. you can find Liam on instagram @general_tsos_existential_dread

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Ren introduces some topics for 2021’s astrology involving the Saturn square Uranus energy and Mars’ movement into Taurus as an insurrection at the capital incites. guest Dustin Oliverson joins the conversation on being a Capricorn, a mason, a musician, and Reiki Master in training. we hear his story and insight into the mystical.

lauren gives an intimate retelling of her own journey into consciousness - the vacillation between spirituality and substance abuse and her ten years of recovery in confluence with her service to others through reiki & inspired astrology. not interested in her story? no hard feelings... just scrub forward to minute 39 and get the short but sweet full moon report - the last of 2020.

lucky enough- lauren’s sister, dr. andrea leigh hickman, is just that! sun, moon in capricorn with a virgo rising, andrea has been a career military doctor. after a brief winter solstice report, the sisters chat about animals and love, hard work and leadership, an upcoming deployment, pilgrims and capitalism and the military (oh my!) and the nature of capricorn in both service & sacrifice.

a centering meditation & astrological forecast and conversations with earth mother & evolutionary astrologer kimberly kelley. we talk about her journey with energy, her relationship to nature and witchcraft and have a discussion on this week’s astrology following the solar eclipse and entering the grand conjunction on the winter solstice. find her @earthmotherdrummer

back by popular demand, this is the first half of chris & lauren’s chat ... a biographical exposition of their friendship and retreat experience at karme chöling in 2011. we chat about dharma, guru issues, and lots on meditation and it’s benefits. humour and inside stories def included.