How are human bodies extensions of the lands we live on? How do we remember threads of connection interwoven in the earth? How might deepening our elemental connections assist us in times of uncertainty?

In the past few months, I have been collaborating with Marika Clymer and Carolyn Egan on a zine project, lovingly named Bodies of Land. This issue is an ode to the energetics of Summer 2024 seen through the lens of the body, plants, and planets, and it's incredibly gorgeous. It's available for digital download here.

In this episode, I invited Marika and Carolyn to explore he themes that run through the zine, including the land as a body, the human body as an extension of the land itself, and how astrology can bring us closer to our inherent connection and belonging with the rest of creation.

We also discussed how knowledge can become pathways to deepen connections rather than barriers to deny connections with life, being with uncertainty, and the energetics of fire.

We also explored the behind the scenes process of creating the zine, including how the three of us ended up collaborating on this zine, and how the summer has immersed us in experiences that deepened our embodiment of the themes of the zine.

Carolyn and Marika have taught me so much through the generous sharing of their perspectives and their presence in the process of creating this zine.

If you resonate with our discussions, we invite you to check out the zine here.

Links:

• Marika's shop, where you can get super cool merchandises
• Carolyn's shop, where you can get potent herbal medicines and guides

If you enjoyed this podcast, consider booking a reading with me. I offer astrology, divination, and subtle alchemy sessions.

I also offer a 6-month mentorship container Night Vision.

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Try the incredible breathwork and meditation app Open for 30 days free using this special link.

This podcast is hosted, produced, and edited by Jonathan Koe. Theme music is also composed by me! Connect with me through my newsletter, my Instagram @jonathankoeofficial, and my music. For podcast-related inquiries, email me at healingthespiritpodcast@gmail.com.

What do astrologers learn from the practice of forecasting? How might studying astrology and contemplating the future help us be more present to our daily reality?

In this conversation, I invited the incredible astrologer Sabrina Monarch for a discussion on the practice of astrological forecasting. Over the years, Sabrina and I have both cultivated a practice of sharing our perspectives on astrological transits with our audience and our communities. It's a rich practice that have assisted us both in honing our unique astrological voices. We thought we'd share some lessons we've learned as well as how this practice has expanded us as practitioners and as humans.

Sabrina has been practicing & teaching evolutionary astrology for many years now. She was someone I studied with very early on in my journey, and my experience learning with her was invaluable to who I've become as an astrologer. Early in my studies, I signed up for her newsletter and quickly became enchanted by the inspired, image-driven, vivid ways that Sabrina wrote about astrology. Her forecasts were beyond mere delineations – they hold potential to transport readers into expanded experiences of reality.

From now until August 11, 2024, Sabrina is running a Kickstarter campaign to support the creation of her forecasts & her podcast throughout the coming year. Through the Kickstarter, you can make a pledge to support Sabrina's work & in exchange receive discounted tuition for her signature course, Evolutionary Astrology Intensive, as well as workshops, readings, and a new course called Glamor Magic.

Links to connect with Sabrina:

• Sabrina 2024-2025 Kickstarter Campaign
• Sabrina's website
• Sabrina's podcast, Magic of The Spheres, and her YouTube channel
• Sabrina's Instagram

If you enjoyed this podcast, consider booking a reading with me. I offer astrology, divination, and subtle alchemy sessions.

I also offer a 6-month mentorship container Night Vision.

Listen to & purchase my new song Friends on Bandcamp. You can also listen to it on your favorite streaming platforms.

Try the incredible breathwork and meditation app Open for 30 days free using this special link.

This podcast is hosted, produced, and edited by Jonathan Koe. Theme music is also composed by me! Connect with me through my newsletter, my Instagram @jonathankoeofficial, and my music. For podcast-related inquiries, email me at healingthespiritpodcast@gmail.com.

How do we honor the complex paradox of our interdependence with the world as exquisitely unique individuals in this lifetime? How do we remember our inherent belonging to the earth and cultivate an ongoing practice of reciprocal connections? How do we embrace neutrality as pathways into the mystery of life?

In this episode, I introduce Deep Spirit Medicine, a 6-week foundational energy cultivation course. Deep Spirit Medicine is an experience designed to guide you to listen to your inner guidance, to develop clear perception, and to cultivate reciprocal relationships with the world around you. Through guided meditation and communal discussions, this course seeks to build a foundational practice for intuitive development.

Deep Spirit Medicine lies at the heart of my practice as a mystic, an astrologer, a facilitator, and a human. It is foundational to everything I do.

This work was developed by my teacher and mentor, Deborah Kremins, who also trained me to teach this work. I'm grateful for her guidance and I'm honored to share this work with you.

Read more about the upcoming round of Deep Spirit Medicine here.

The next round of Deep Spirit Medicine will start on Thursday, July 18, 2024. We will have a maximum of 20 participants, so it will be a small and intimate group.

If you feel the resonance, I hope you will consider joining us.

If you enjoyed this podcast, consider booking a reading with me. I offer astrology, divination, and subtle alchemy sessions.

I also offer a 6-month mentorship container Night Vision.

Listen to & purchase my new song Friends on Bandcamp. You can also listen to it on your favorite streaming platforms.

Try the incredible breathwork and meditation app Open for 30 days free using this special link.

This podcast is hosted, produced, and edited by Jonathan Koe. Theme music is also composed by me! Connect with me through my newsletter, my Instagram @jonathankoeofficial, and my music. For podcast-related inquiries, email me at healingthespiritpodcast@gmail.com.

How might we uncover our own truth in a world of infinite options? How do we contextualize the inevitability of trends in spiritual spaces? How do we approach traditions with discernment and wisdom?

In this episode, I explored the complexity of trends and traditions within spiritual spaces.

These can be polarizing topics.

Too often, it's easy to either chase trends while losing a sense of who we are or to dismiss trends as mere fads.

Likewise, it's also tempting to fall into the trap of revering traditions at all costs, neglecting to ask important questions rooted in common sense and to harden ourselves around "That's just the way things have been done."

I will be teaching the next round of Deep Spirit Medicine, a foundational energetic cultivation course, which will begin on Thursday, July 18, 2024. Join the waitlist here.

If you enjoyed this podcast, consider booking a reading with me. I offer astrology, divination, and subtle alchemy sessions.

I also offer a 6-month mentorship container Night Vision.

Listen to & purchase my new song Friends on Bandcamp. You can also listen to it on your favorite streaming platforms.

Try the incredible breathwork and meditation app Open for 30 days free using this special link.

This podcast is hosted, produced, and edited by Jonathan Koe. Theme music is also composed by me! Connect with me through my newsletter, my Instagram @jonathankoeofficial, and my music. For podcast-related inquiries, email me at healingthespiritpodcast@gmail.com.

Where does the rubber meet the road when it comes to our spiritual practices? What principles, beliefs, and values underlie our spiritual practices? How might contemplating them more deeply help us orient towards practices that align with the chapter of life we're in?

This is the first installment (hopefully of many more) where I explore the theme of embodied practical spirituality. Our spiritual practices don't exist in a vacuum. They are part of the larger ecosystem of our lives.

How do we begin building bridges between our so-called mundane realities and our spiritual lives? What caused the divide in the first place? How might we begin dissolving the arbitrary divisions and embracing the potential for our daily reality to initiate us?

Drop any questions you may have for me here.

Photo by Andres Siimon via Unsplash.

If you enjoyed this podcast, consider booking a reading with me. I offer astrology, divination, and subtle alchemy sessions.

I also offer a 6-month mentorship container Night Vision.

Listen to & purchase my new song Friends on Bandcamp. You can also listen to it on your favorite streaming platforms.

Try the incredible breathwork and meditation app Open for 30 days free using this special link.

This podcast is hosted, produced, and edited by Jonathan Koe. Theme music is also composed by me! Connect with me through my newsletter, my Instagram @jonathankoeofficial, and my music. For podcast-related inquiries, email me at healingthespiritpodcast@gmail.com.

I've been sitting on this episode for some time.

I've known that the podcast wanted to shapeshift since the beginning of the year, but I didn't know exactly what Healing The Spirit 2.0 will look like so I stayed devoted to the rhythm we've established.

This week, it became clear that the first right move is to pause the weekly contemplations to create space for new pursuits, explorations, and most importantly, experiments.

This summer, we'll be playing with new formats, new rhythms, new approaches.

I invite you to join me in the mystery ride.

If you enjoyed this podcast, consider booking a reading with me. I offer astrology, divination, and subtle alchemy sessions.

I also offer a 6-month mentorship container Night Vision.

Listen to & purchase my new song Friends on Bandcamp. You can also listen to it on your favorite streaming platforms.

Try the incredible breathwork and meditation app Open for 30 days free using this special link.

This podcast is hosted, produced, and edited by Jonathan Koe. Theme music is also composed by me! Connect with me through my newsletter, my Instagram @jonathankoeofficial, and my music. For podcast-related inquiries, email me at healingthespiritpodcast@gmail.com.

How might we approach friendship, art, and spirituality as creative experiments? How do we practice presence in grief? How might we increase our capacity to change our minds and shift our practices?

Halfway through this conversation, Mary Schuch casually said something that stopped my heart in its track, "Just because it's not fun, doesn't mean it's not a gift." That's something I've always admired about artist, creative, and astrologer Mary Schuch – her ability to hold wisdom with humor and to serve truth with irreverence.

Mary and I recorded this conversation at the tail end of Jupiter in Taurus, a period marked by changes and reminders of life's transient nature. We discussed the current states of our relationships with art, how friendship is a practice, and balancing the intensity of life with slowness.

If you can't get enough of our vibe, I recommend that you listen to our podcast "My Life Is Better With You In It"

Mary's bio:

Mary Schuch (she/her) is committed to showing up for the experience of belonging in a human body. In this lifetime, Mary is steadily walking a resonant path and striving to remember the inherent relationality of all beings. Informed by her upbringing as a homeschooled pastor's kid and the eighth of eleven siblings, Mary is reclaiming her right to exploration and education through meditative multidisciplinary living. She is devoted to practices incorporating writing, music, art, breadmaking, astrology, movement, and being outdoors. A beneficial byproduct of years of manual labor, Mary’s reverence for contemplative time has grown through work in gardens, kitchens, on a commercial lobster boat, and an oyster farm. She is originally from the Chicago area and currently lives on an island in Maine.

Connect with Mary on Instagram @maryschuch and book a reading with her.

Resources mentioned:

• Mary and Jonathan's podcast, My Life Is Better With You In It
• Our conversation with Leah Garza and Dana Balicki
• The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
• Amanda Yates Garcia and Beth Pickens "The World Needs Your Art"
• Our first conversation on Healing The Spirit, "Why Are We Obsessed with Cults?"

If you enjoyed this podcast, consider booking a reading with me. I offer astrology, divination, and subtle alchemy sessions.

I also offer a 6-month mentorship container Night Vision.

Listen to & purchase my new song Friends on Bandcamp. You can also listen to it on your favorite streaming platforms.

Try the incredible breathwork and meditation app Open for 30 days free using this special link.

This podcast is hosted, produced, and edited by Jonathan Koe. Theme music is also composed by me! Connect with me through my newsletter, my Instagram @jonathankoeofficial, and my music. For podcast-related inquiries, email me at healingthespiritpodcast@gmail.com.

How might nurturing ourselves and slowing down our thoughts bring new possibilities? How might gentleness facilitate deeper, more profound transformations?

As we transition into Cancer season, we contemplate the unexpected yet profound relationship between Mercury and the Moon.

Astrological lineup:

Mon 06.17 Venus enters Cancer; Mercury (Gemini) squares Neptune (Pisces); Mercury enters Cancer; Mercury conjoins Venus in Cancer

Thurs 06.20 Sun (Gemini) squares Neptune (Pisces); Sun enters Cancer

Sat 06.21 Mercury (Cancer) sextiles Mars (Taurus); Full Moon in Capricorn

Sun 06.22 Mercury (Cancer) squares NN (Aries)

If you enjoyed this podcast, consider booking a reading with me. I offer astrology, divination, and subtle alchemy sessions.

I also offer a 6-month mentorship container Night Vision.

Listen to & purchase my new song Friends on Bandcamp. You can also listen to it on your favorite streaming platforms.

Try the incredible breathwork and meditation app Open for 30 days free using this special link.

This podcast is hosted, produced, and edited by Jonathan Koe. Theme music is also composed by me! Connect with me through my newsletter, my Instagram @jonathankoeofficial, and my music. For podcast-related inquiries, email me at healingthespiritpodcast@gmail.com.