Heidi offers the solace of poetry at a threshold moment -- precarious and painful -- in our country. POEMS The Threshold / Kim Krans' Wild Unknown Archetypes "Government" and "Before the Fire" by Marie Howe "This Fragile Tower" by Heidi Rose Robbins

Heidi welcomes the New Year with Poetry! POEMS "An Essential Worker's List of Pandemic Chores for the Kids" by Wendy Stead "I want that Goose to be a Tree" by Brooke McNamara "This is a Hammer" by Maya Stein www.heidirose.com // @heidiroserobbins

Ellen Fondiler and Heidi welcome Capricorn and delve into the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn in Aquarius. POEM "To be of Use" Marge Piercy

Heidi and Samantha talk daily writing practices & process, the power of private creation, the sensitivity of a 12th house Taurus sun, Cancer moon and how those energies align with her artist-entrepreneur mama self, a storyteller of her lineage. POEMS "I am Not Old" "Vagina" and "What it Means to Be a Woman" by Samantha Reynolds

Sasheer Zamata is my guest. We talk about comedy, race, best friends, and nesting! POEMS "For Nothing is Fixed" James Baldwin "The Hermitage" by Maya Stein "A House Called Tomorrow" by Alberto Rios

Inspiration and strengthening for difficult hours.

Heidi shares portions of her twelve new astrology books with her family! POEMS: "The Blessing of the Old Woman, The Tulip and The Dog" by Alicia Suskin Ostriker "Summer Kitchen" by Donald Hall

Ellen Fondiler and Heidi welcome the sign Sagittarius! Poem Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches by Mary Oliver

Heidi takes a look at the next few weeks through an astrological lens to help summon clarity, faith and healing. POEMS: "Faith" by David Whyte "Stay" by Jan Richardson

Heidi shares some of her writing from early in the quarantine. READINGS: "Center Down" "Why You Should Pick Me" and "Thank you" by Heidi Rose Robbins