October is about the 'how.'

There's plenty of resources in the planetary alignments this month: Mars is at home in Scorpio, Jupiter is exalted in Cancer, and Venus will enter her home in Libra halfway through the month.

The question isn't about whether we have enough resources. The question is how we navigate our relationship with the resources we're given.

How we walk the path is the path itself.

We dive into:

• Foundations for creating true impact without losing your soul.
• Maintaining integrity as a pathway to receiving Divine assistance.
• Creating new, updated contracts with ourselves and others – not out of fantasy or rigid expectations, but out of clear, grounded sight.
• The deeper lessons behind ideological disagreements.

I also pulled Hexagram 10 and 59 from the I Ching. I use Brian Browne Walker's translation of the I Ching.

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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.

In advance of the upcoming Solar Eclipse in Virgo on September 21st, I'm re-sharing a section of my deep dive on the 2025 astrology with Kelsey Rose Tortorice – specifically the part where we discussed the Lunar Nodes in Pisces-Virgo axis.

I hope this serves you!

If you're into my and Kelsey's vibes and transmissions, check out the full conversation:

• Part 1 on this podcast (Outer Planets + Chiron)
• Part 2 on Kelsey's podcast, The Maia Games (The Lunar Nodes, Saturn, and Jupiter)

Here's Kelsey's bio:

Kelsey is a post-capitalist astrologer, teacher, human design experiMentor, and community initiator. Ruled by a 7th house Jupiter in Gemini, they are a student-teacher of the maia; seeking to understand and universalize the mechanics of reality within the context of individuality, relationship, cosmos, and consciousness as a whole.

Kelsey’s frequency facilitates upheaval; disrupting homogenized programming and re-orienting people to their differentiated truth and separateness as a means to arriving to connection & inherent wholeness. With reverence for differentiation and a knack for universalization, they embrace the simultaneous uniqueness and sameness of each human experience. Their work incorporates various modalities, frameworks, and spiritual teachings in honoring and navigating this apparent contradiction.

Kelsey accompanies others on their journeys towards remembering what they Know, and invites deeper levels of autonomy, authenticity, faith, freedom, and surrender along the way.

Kelsey's Links:

• Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/kelseyrosetort
• Website: https://www.kelseyrosetort.com/
• IG: https://www.instagram.com/kelseyrosetort/
• Podcast: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/themaiagames/

If you've enjoyed and benefited from the podcast, I invite you to apply for private mentorship and coaching with me. This is an intensive container, designed to support you in refining your self-leadership skills, moving through important life thresholds with grace, and expanding your capacity for creative expansions.

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 does artmaking serve as a pathway for reclaiming our sense of agency?

How do we practice boundaries and self-care as performers?

How do we tend to our creative well and emotional health through entrepreneurship?

In this super fun and alive conversation with creative coach and luminary Jamie Ridler, we explored the meeting places between art and magic.

We discussed:

🌹Jamie’s experiences in traversing her multifaceted artistic journey – as a theater performer, dancer, creative coach, DJ, entrepreneur, and visual artist

🌹how to cultivate a steady practice that encourages, rather than inhibits or limits our unique energetic expressions

🌹how finding the right teachers can unlock deeper permission for authentic expressions

🌹how to balance our desires for control and freedom

Jamie’s School of Creative Magic is also hosting a symposium called Magic in The Making and I’m one of the speakers! Sign up here.

Here’s Jamie’s bio:

For over 20 years, Jamie Ridler has helped thousands of emerging, aspiring and established creatives answer the artistic call with a confident and courageous yes. Jamie's unique approach, called 'The Studio Way', is rooted in a lifetime as an artist, performer and highly sensitive person. Her mission is to unlock the creative magic lying dormant in the hearts of underexpressed artists everywhere - including yours.

LINKS

The School of Creative Magic: https://www.theschoolofcreativemagic.com

Magic in the Making Symposium: https://www.theschoolofcreativemagic.com/magic-in-the-making

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/starshyne

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6VTV87Su_5xwoCVGt5HaDA

Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/djstarshyne

If you've enjoyed and benefited from the podcast, I invite you to apply for private mentorship and coaching with me. This is an intensive container, designed to support you in refining your self-leadership skills, moving through important life thresholds with grace, and expanding your capacity for creative expansions.

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 wisdom does Virgo invite us to uncover through the process of learning, living, and integration?

What does it mean to embrace cycles and spirals – not just in our bodies, but also our minds?

This conversation with pattern alchemist and integrative guide Alison Dale is a rich tapestry on the energy and archetype of Virgo, which we explored through astrology, Human Design, and Alison’s lived experiences as a Virgo Sun.

We discussed:

🌿 integration intellectual analysis, somatic practices, and artmaking

🌿 surrendering to the wisdom of cycles, work, and rest

🌿 how confusion can lead to imagination

🌿 practicing boundaries as a Projector

I appreciate and admire the panache and fluency with which Alison marries her brilliant insights, deep knowledge, and lived experiences.

Here’s Alison’s bio:

Alison Dale is a pattern alchemist, integrative guide, artist, and writer. As host of Cycles of Time podcast, she weaves astrology, Human Design, and earth-based wisdom traditions into living frameworks for transformation. A mother and disciple of earth’s cycles, her work bridges the personal and the cosmic, inviting others into deeper rhythm, embodiment, and creative truth.

LINKS:

• Alison's website and offerings: https://www.astrosomatics.com/
• Alison's Substack & Embody The Revolution Membership: https://cyclesoftime.substack.com/
• My conversation with Alison on her podcast Cycles of Time on Pisces Season https://cyclesoftime.substack.com/p/the-truth-of-liminality-with-spirit

If you've enjoyed and benefited from the podcast, I invite you to apply for private mentorship and coaching with me. This is an intensive container, designed to support you in refining your self-leadership skills, moving through important life thresholds with grace, and expanding your capacity for creative expansions.

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.

We're back in the thick of the spiral.

September is the Ocean of Life greeting the newly emerged with a little jolt of surprise.

Turns out being a butterfly doesn't mean you're problem-free. You just have new, upgraded problems.

The energy of September is giving spiritual, philosophical, ephemeral, and a little all over the place.

We dive into:

• The mechanics of real progress.
• How to not confuse lack of clarity with botching the process.
• Healing as a spiral, not a straight line.
• What to do when codependent patterns stops being fun.
• Accepting support from the unseen and the non-human realms.

Eclipse season brings intensity, but also unexpected nourishment – especially when you remember to stop hanging on so tight.

I read from Vincent Deary's How We Are.

I also mentioned this episode: 166. Venus in Virgo: Love in Process

If you've enjoyed and benefited from the podcast, I invite you to apply for private mentorship and coaching with me. This is an intensive container, designed to support you in refining your self-leadership skills, moving through important life thresholds with grace, and expanding your capacity for creative expansions.

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 does artmaking connect us with greater intelligence?

How does one overcome creative blocks?

What is the role of paying attention in the collective healing?

In this fireside chat, intuitive tarot reader and therapist Mallory Dowd joined me to talk about The Artist’s Way, a text written by Julia Cameron that we both love and revisit often.

We discussed:

🎨 The connection between artmaking and mysticism

🎨 The vulnerability of giving yourself space to experience creative joy – specifically through the artist dates practice that Julia Cameron prescribed in this text

🎨 Our favorite quotes from the text

🎨 The power of truly paying attention

Mallory's bio:

Mallory Dowd (she/they) is a professional intuitive tarot reader, artist, mystic, teacher, and psychotherapist. As a perennial student and Mercurial being, Mallory’s work shapeshifts and interweaves the gifts of divination, self-compassion, oracular magic, earth-based spirituality, loving presence, creativity, laughter, co-regulation, and play. Mallory is interested in how we cultivate curiosity and the courage to live and express truthfully. She resides in Seoul and offers tarot readings and spiritual guidance globally online and as recorded divinations.

Find Mallory on instagram or visit her website.

If you've enjoyed and benefited from the podcast, I invite you to apply for private mentorship and coaching with me. This is an intensive container, designed to support you in refining your self-leadership skills, moving through important life thresholds with grace, and expanding your capacity for creative expansions.

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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 are the gifts and the challenges of being a Human Design Projector? What does it mean to guide others? How might Projectors orient towards success as a non-sacral being?

As a Generator, I’ve been blessed to be surrounded by wise Projectors and their unique perspectives on life. I’ve also witnessed firsthand some of the difficulties that Projectors work through as they decondition from societal definitions of success and discover the authentic flow of their energies.

In this conversation, my dear friend Joanne Chen, a 2/4 Splenic Projector, joined me to discuss all things Projectors. We talked about Joanne’s journey – from pursuing a career as a classical musician in NYC to living in Bali and guiding others on their spiritual journey.

We also discussed the relationship between Projectors and Generators: how they can support one another in the process of deconditioning, while appreciating each other’s natural gifts.

Here’s Joanne’s bio:

Joanne is an energy refinement mentor and spiritual guide known for her clarity, resonance, and multidimensional approach to transformation.

Rooted in decades of experience as a professional pianist and teacher, she brings the same precision and depth to her current work, supporting clients of all ages worldwide in recalibrating their energetic systems and realigning with their natural frequency.

Her guidance weaves together universal laws, Taoist wisdom, Human Design, Gene Keys, QHHT, breathwork, and nervous system attunement.

She is also trained in Yin yoga and Reiki with a background in cognitive behavior-based teaching and emotional pattern recognition. However, it is her intuitive clarity and ability to hold a safe, potent space that clients often describe as a “breath of fresh air.”

Whether working with high-level visionaries or those undergoing profound personal shifts, Joanne’s work helps people experience their own energy as the architect of reality - and return to truth without bypassing.

Joanne is also offering a special discount for Healing The Spirit listeners for her signature programs. Reach out to her directly for details and mention the podcast!

Find out more about Joanne and her work through her website divinehumangrid.com, her offerings list, and Instagram.

If you've enjoyed and benefited from the podcast, I invite you to apply for private mentorship and coaching with me. This is an intensive container, designed to support you in refining your self-leadership skills, moving through important life thresholds with grace, and expanding your capacity for creative expansions.

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 is the heart of Leo?

How does personal transformation contribute to collective sovereignty?

What does it mean to choose joyous, authentic self-expression in late-stage capitalism?

In this episode, I invited healing medium and award-winning composer Eric Schackne to explore the archetype of Leo, their Sun sign. We discussed themes of shifting identities and multi-dimensional healing & artistic practices through the lens of Leo, filtered through the Chandra symbols for Eric’s Sun, Mercury, and Mars placements in Leo.

Eric’s warmth, generosity, and regal sense of humor really came through in this conversation, and I couldn’t stop smiling whenever I revisit this conversation.

Here's Eric's bio:

Eric Schackne is a healing medium, energetic channeler, spaceholder, organizer, teacher, student, award-winning composer, producer, and fifteen other things. They are the queerest straight-faced goof you will ever meet and thrive when able to weave levity and humor into their heart-centered facilitation style.

Lands and waters that have held and shaped Eric are ancestral to the Tequesta, Miccosukee, Seminole, Mascogo, Taíno(Florida) and Tataviam, Tongva, Chumash(Los Angeles). Eric's praxis is guided by animist and ecological frameworks, Indigenous precepts, somatic abolitionist and collective liberatory practices, and a bunch of other juicy buzzwords.

In 2023 Eric opened their practice for healing and divination called Trans Alchemy as a way to provide access to healing spaces and be useless to capitalism. Check out their Patreon where they offer a free guided embodiment meditation every month ~ Patreon.com/TransAlchemyOfficial

LINKS:

• Join Eric's Patreon: Patreon.com/TransAlchemyOfficial
• Listen to & support Eric's music on Bandcamp: https://ericschackne.bandcamp.com/

If you've enjoyed and benefited from the podcast, I invite you to apply for private mentorship and coaching with me. This is an intensive container, designed to support you in refining your self-leadership skills, moving through important life thresholds with grace, and expanding your capacity for creative expansions.

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.