Meditation begins 29 minutes in - if you prefer to go straight to it. Before then I talk about my trauma-informed-sensitive motivation for offering it.

I speak about:

when a meditation-instruction is overruling habituated emotional patterns, and how that can seem like your are required to suppress emotions to follow orders, and then it can feel like that old trauma of individuation being forbidden! Like your internal feelings doesn't matter.

If you can't follow my associations here- It is fine, It is far- stretched perhaps, but based on my own experience with guided meditations like this one.

Okay, so I just want to be sensitive to the fact, that many of us have grown up in environments, that denied what we were feeling as real and appropriate, which can make you doubt your whole perception of reality.

For very good reasons it can feel like you can't trust that the smile is real, like a distrust fixed in the psyche, because of past hurt.

That's why I prefer a version of this meditation that acknowledges that you may not feel like smiling.

You can allow in this divine radiance, if you want. No threat. The spirit of this meditation represents a reliable, secure approval of who you are.

It guides an emergence that allows self-activation - a place to call your whole - really as part of healing from the dynamic of projecting internal mood on the outside world as to confuse external circumstances with internal feels.

All this introduction and motivational text is going to be make the meditation pale in comparison!! :-) But just take it as a reset of patterns, and it will take time for it to settle- The spiritual exercises I offer is an ongoing practice.

- The meditation is quite short, but you can always pause it and sit longer, if you got in touch with internal gentle pleasure at one point.

• Mannah

https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/

Author, Mentor, Speaker and Regression Therapist, Vicki Werner shares about the secrets to healing and her near-death experience. She narrates her own book, on that same topic, which can be found here: https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/The-Secret-to-Healing-and-Recovery-Audiobook/B09X6324CB

Listen to this conversation if you are curious about:

• Causes of illness and wellness modalities
• Near-death experience where Vicki got a choice to live or..
• Dying - but not staying dead
• Past Life Regression
• PTSD
• Release of emotional trauma and opening a dialogue with your body
• Energetic beings of light
• The body is not attacking itself
• Healing from within
• The gift of sight
• Dysregulated parasympathetic state we live in
• There are always another layer to release
• Empathy, Insight and Wisdom from illness
• Vicki Werners story including about her husband who is a healer!
• Source energy
• Your celestial body
• How we can have all the knowledge, yet the wisdom is when it is integrated into all our levels
• Purpose will cut you at your knees
• Lean into healing- engaged healing

For some reason I forget to give her any titles in the interview, but you can find all about her right here:

https://vickiwerner.com/

I loved to hear a NDE in a different way and to compare it to regressions - let me know if you have any comments here:

[email protected]

- Mannah

"Religiosity that is hostile to sex is the product of authoritarian society." & "The socially irresponsible man is the man absorbed in sexual conflicts." Wilhelm Reich, The Mass Psychology of Fascism, which was banned by the Nazis - These quotes point to what I share in this experimental episode. It is a tapestry of the messages of Wilhelm Reich (24 March 1897 – 3 November 1957) who was a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, Aries, sexuality fight, Mars in Cancer in square, for emotional, healing reasons, fighting against limited freedom in the family- Mercury in Pisces holstic thinking

I mention Reich carried trauma, but of course we do not exactly know about a persons internal condition- but facts are that his mother committed suicide in 1910 after his father discovered she had had an affair and little Reich was involved in admitting to his father about the affair. Imagine the weight of that. And then his father died and WW1 broke out and Reich had to flee from his home and join the army. After this is when he studied with Freud at the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute

But this talk is a lot more about the message Reich was fighting for and tragically he really had to fight for his right to speak about it. The way I talk about it is completely none-linear, meaning I blend his points from The Function of the Orgasm, 1942, with Mass Psychology of Fascism, 1933, and The Sexual Revolution, 1936............ Find something a lot more organized and contextualized here: https://wilhelmreichmuseum.org/about/research-and-publications/

Orgone energy is orgasm meeting organism; a vital cosmic force all around us- he started to built orgone accumulators and was imprisoned and his works burned and he died! Tragic! But we have access to much of his writing today, so in this episode I swirl in his theories and hope you can manage to hang in there as I talk.

Some core themes:

• The physical basis for neurosis ...childrens blocked impulses
• Trauma blocks the life force, Orgone
• The ability to have an orgasm is an attribute of a healthy person
• With neurosis you need more Orgone
• Repressed feelings and sexual needs manifest as chronic muscular tension and creates character structure as a protective armour to keep the person from contacting his own underlying feelings
• Character structure is protecting unwanted emotional reaction; that is the product of mass suppression
• Distorted sexuality in a capitalistic society
• Exploitation of sexual interest

...and more...

I hope it entertains you in a substantial way - for any comments and critique text me at [email protected]

Again - I am no expert and this is mix a mans work throughout around 20 years - I am just reading, sharing and want you to join me in free associations to the theme...

find me on https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/

- Mannah

Meet Astrologer and Bestselling Author Marguerite Manning as she explains about what Karmic Astrology is and how to read a persons karma in the birth chart from a special technique. Marguerite is a Gemini so be prepared to receive a lot of information - she even takes the technique around the zodiac, so you might recognize yourself. Join us as we talk about:

-How Marguerite came to pair karma and astrology and the 12th House

-The lessons we signed up for in this lifetime and how that works

-Free will as the best and worst thing

-12th House as the secrets from a past life + more

-How the Soul likes anything familiar...

- Embrace the loss from prior lives, rather than loose again this lifetime

- Improper programming and how you can bring information forth to the conscious mind

-Marguerites presentation of all the signs, when they are on the 12th house

-Cosmic Karma and inspiration from Edgar Cayce

- Life Purpose as it relates to the Sun and prior lives

-The technique for her therapy for the soul

-Principles related to religious teachings -

-Why we do not remember past lives

-The Universe is set up in your favor

-JUNO and the promise you made around love

-Encouragement to follow what is meaningful to you

Read more on Marguerite here:

https://www.margueritemanning.com/

Find the mentioned books here:

https://www.margueritemanning.com/books/

Contact me Mannah here:

https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/

If you feel like sharing the program you just heard, link your people up with https://therapeuticastrology.pairsite.com/

Has religion hurt you too? You are most welcome, as we speak about recovering from the impact of religion, especially the impact of growing up in a religion. Laura Anderson is a psychotherapist and has a PhD in Mind Body Medicine. She is also the founder of Religious Trauma Institute AND Center for Trauma Resolution and Recovery! Plus the author of "When religion hurts you : Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion" and she is podcaster in Sunday School dropout

We talk about:

-To leave a religion is not just stop believing - leaving church is just the beginning of the deconstruction process

-Spiritual abuse

- To identify with being a sinner aka shame

-To be raised in the awareness that we do not deserve life

-How you need to build internal resources to allow happiness and excitement to not overwhelm your system

-Volunteer-work for God serving a higher vision while neglecting your own security requirement

-I will just put in a few quotes from Dr. Laura Andersons IG:

-"In healing religious trauma, it may be necessary to grieve your idea of who god was, or gods existence entirely"

-"Denial is a defense mechanism that keeps us from seeing things how they truly are/were, because if we did see them for how they truly are/were, it would feel consciously intolerable"

-"Recovering from high control religion often includes grieving the ways we were taught about the world, people, and how to navigate relationship."

-"Recovering from high control religion often includes: Grieving normal childhood and adolescent development - Being able to make mistakes and learn from them- Privacy - Comprehensive sex education - Being threatened with the punishment of hell - Requirement to take on tasks that are meant for adults - Viewing your bodies as evil

-"When we have a sense of internal safety, our boundaries are able to expand and change"

- Hope you will tune in - we are sharing experiences as well as hearing Dr. Laura Andersons knowledge in this area she has specialized in around control and abuse. She is building communities and changing worldviews, I say that is an 11th house sun.

I recommend Dr. Laura Andersons Instagram for inspiration:

https://www.instagram.com/drlauraeanderson/

Here is her website:

https://drlauraeanderson.com/

And her podcast:

https://podcasts.apple.com/za/podcast/sunday-school-dropouts/id1689312239

Feel free to contact me for comments:

[email protected]

I also just got myself a linktree, so modern I am:

https://linktr.ee/therapeuticastrology

- Mannah

Mannah here in a slow talk about allowing the natural flow of breath.... I sort of forgot the astrology in this one, but my best guess is that Saturn is at play, when we experience confinement - we need it, but can overdo it at the expense of intimacy. It's like an overactive left brain. Join me in this solo as I speak to:

-Some bodily dysfunction we don't notice yet ignore..... I don't know that I know, sort of logic

- Tensions, contraction and the possibility to transform it

- Inner wounded child

- Advice as the devil

- Distortions

-Fear of the past in the present going into the future!

- You cannot take it with you when you die

- Desire for heartful connection

- Unconscious trying hard to be loved

-The need to plug in to something in order to heal, rather than thinking it away, explaining it away

-Helping Professionals and the risk of burn out by the impulse to stop the other persons pain

-Identities creating pressure creating chronic illness - potentially

- Awareness of your inside while in communication with another

-The personalization of a collective pathology due to modern life

- Interviewing- pressure

- Long held muscular patterns

-Strategies of disconnection and just force your way through

- Breathe instead

- What are you afraid of?

- Fear, internal conflicts, and the way you relate to them

- Wounds carried over from life to life

- Meditation & Self Examination

Reach out if you feel like it, at [email protected]

https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/

- Mannah

"The birthchart depicts psychic structure, but the psyche is intrinsically dynamic and constantly evolving within the framework of that structure. Fate reflects the unfoldment of character while also acting as a spur to its further development." - Dr. Glenn Perry

Glenn is a therapist, astrologer, and author of nine books and director of the Academy of AstroPsychology. Join us in this RICH with information interview as Glenn Perry talks about:

-Zodiacal Signs as Developmental Stages -

(here is a quote from his article by the same name:

"Coincident with growth of awareness is the subjective sense that time is accelerating. This experience appears to be universal. With each new stage, there is a widening and deepening of awareness accompanied by a quickening of time. The older we are, the more we see and the faster time passes. In effect, each sign has its own unique perspective in time and space and this perspective is intricately tied to that sign's psychology")

- How each sign symbolizes a phase of a whole cycle

-How we (have to)incorporate the experiences and lessons of a previous sign in a developmental cycle

These are the stages Glenn Perry will outline in this episode:

Aries/1st 0-2 2 years Taurus/2nd 2-5 3 years Gemini/3rd 5-9 4 years Cancer/4th 9-14 5 years Leo/5th 14-20 6 years Virgo/6th 20-27 7 years Libra/7th 27-35 8 years Scorpio/8th 35-44 9 years Sagittarius/9th 44-54 10 years Capricorn/10th 54-65 11 years Aquarius/11th 65-77 12 years Pisces/12th 77-90 13 years

- Trauma so the developmental tasks are not met

- Astrology as a Diagnostic Tool

- The inescapable ambiguity and indeterminacy to birthcharts

-The similar charts of Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin who were born on the same day, February 12, 1809 - detailed history lesson included!!

- Deep dive into Mars Moon square, as he uses it as an example to understand the concept of integration

- Integrating into a higher version of the archetype

- LOTS more with great interpretations, such as Pluto in the second house and Moon in the 12th House

...

FIND more on Dr. Glenn Perry right here:

https://aaperry.com/

Check out all of his books HERE:

https://aaperry.com/astrology-books/

Mannah:

https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/

"With soul comes an intense sense of value, an ordering of desires, and a respect for common things because they have such impact upon the human spirit" p 44, The Planets Within, Thomas Moores first book! I am happy to present you with this meeting with author and therapist Thomas Moore (https://www.thomasmooresoul.com)who is a great source of inspiration to me. I love the way he writes.

Join us as we talk about:

• A world with soul! as opposed to a world without soul such as cultures materialism in economics, politics, values, and life-style (p45) Basically a world without soul is dead
• Imagination which is undervalued
• Prophesy (a quote: "The prophet within sees things in way quite different from ego, that is his madness. His perspective blurs time so that the past seems closer to the present and the future not quite so full of surprises")
• The art of dreamwork and access to secrets of the psyche
• How the psyche moves beyond the individual
• How psychotherapy is not about life but about soul
• Marsilio Ficinos work on translation and astrology
• Ficinos approach to psychotherapy and natural magic
• Saturn and depression
• Pleasure NOW !
• Relationship to James Hillman astrologically and what Thomas Moore has learned from him
• Divine madness and the 4 kinds of nonerational consciousness
• Ego-Soul and the narratives we are living in

If you want to work with me at any capacity feel free to reach out at [email protected]

-Mannah

LINK to Thomas Moore:

This is Thomas Moores bibliography I recommend checking out, just because if you are a soulful type like me, you might daily have thoughts about something he actually wrote a book on:

https://www.thomasmooresoul.com/books

Also, just another quote that sets the tone for Thomas Moores message, I feel:

"We can vivify the essential Man in us all and thereby transcend what seems "natural". The life of the soul, in fact, may seem unnatural, the familiar "opus contra naturam" a working against what seems to be our nature. When people say, "that's human nature" there may be neglect of the soul; because what seems natural may be only the atmosphere of the archon, the Governor of that sphere of life lived and felt unconsciously. A psychological attitude goes against what appears to be only natural, peeking through that limited realm, gaining a perspective on the planetary spheres where they are revealed to be circles of glass". (Thomas Moore, The Planets Within, p 37, 1979/1982)

My web:

https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com

Have you tried to desperately wanting to quit doing/consuming something, but it just seems that life without it is boring or even unpleasant? Let's talk about addictive behavior as a trauma response and about how we can start to move away from instant gratification, binge-eating and dependency on sugar and overeating for our pleasure - because it never really give us what we need, anyway PLUS if it feels intense to look at this habit, then we better do it.

Addiction to sugar and food is an effect of eating, when not actually hungry, but consuming as a way to deal with stress. Once addicted I don't think it works anymore to look at the current emotions as a cause, because so much is bound up in habit and physical dependency. But of course many deep reflections are in place in this topic, for example:

• Do you treat yourself with lots of sugar and lots of food?
• What childhood memories do you have, that could have made you now tie together being good to yourself and unhealthy eating?
• How do you manage fatigue? Could there be another soothing technique for you even when vulnerable?

In this talk I reflect on the causes of addiction, the symbols for addiction, pisces!!, the social influences when its not any addiction but FOOD and sugar, cravings of specific types of food, which can be called emotional hunger, as it hijacks you and you can think of anything else, expect you just want to fulfill this need as soon as possible.

I also try to show you some respect, because I'm sure you KNOW, that the overeating and binging sugar is not good for you, and that you already have many experiences with the negative effects on body and mind - And I hope that we, just by being nonjudgemental about it, can help pull it out of the blindspot and into the present moment, so we don't delude ourselves, but cultivate some tolerance for the emotional hunger, which I also just call anything, that is not actual hunger for healthy food.

You are welcome to reach out at [email protected] or check my website therapeuticastrologer.com

- Mannah

First some thoughts on last chapter including finishing my sentence on (Pluto in) Virgo being a transitional sign and also asking myself af question that no one else is asking me, but you might come to wonder, as you dive into evolutionary astrology to discover the internal differences in this branch of star wisdom. That was a long sentence. Let's do bullet points instead:

• A comment on spiritual bypassing and blindspots in relationship that need repairs
• Being connected to something higher than myself can connect me to others - but is
• Unfinished business and to set out to finish it
• To feel like you do not deserve love - is the best incentive to fit perfectly into religion
• Preparation to understand stages by reading Ken Wilburs definition of stages vs state and levels as representing more complexity and how stage conceptions are relevant according to what you want to keep track of
• Dane Rudhyars mulitilevel approach to astrology
• The consensus level, where the need to belong is everything. Consensus identity is an extension of the community you grow up, its the herd mentality that give structure and order and where you blindly trusting the authorities, the tradition and church - The movie I try to pronounce the title of is: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11813216/

• The individuated stage, where the need for authenticity and follow their own inspiration is promoted. Individuated is when you start to question norms of society and you are compelled to seek out answers outside what you were told. it can be a lonesome path without security around you. When integrated in this stage you can go against the system in a way that changes the system and the rights of underprivileged actually changes and it becomes the new norm inside consensus (e.g. womens right to vote, legalise gay marriage, don't beat children! and other social issues that are now "but of course!" but individuated people influenced the consensus people to make it obvious)

• The spiritual stage, where the need is to commit to a higher truth, orient to the collective in a holistic way. The feeling is that you are connected to all life- to nature, animals and the universe. You are motivated by divine principles and spiritual insights in the way you choose and live your life. You learn true surrender, as you follow one or more spiritual teachers where there can be blissful experience and inner freedom, but also tough lessons of compassion for others.

You can find more material here:

https://mauricefernandez.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/The-Soul-Age-Astrology-Journal-Sept-2022.pdf

https://schoolofevolutionaryastrology.com/essence-of-ea/the-four-evolutionary-states/

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