Therapeutic Astrology Podcast

#152 - Lauren Donelson - Beyond the Information - A Conversation Between Therapeutic Astrologers

To us, astrology feels completely natural. But for many, it still sits outside the system, also the system of psychology, even though the obviosly go well together. As Neptune is influencing Saturn in a critical way right now, the lines may begin to loosen. This is a conversation with Lauren Donelson, who is a psychotherapist, intuitive healer, and yes, an astrologer. We share the vision of directly usindg astrology in the healing work - so welcome to an echo chamber what we feel strongly about. TAP in with us as we explore rich themes together and Lauren Donelson brings up many important reflections: at one point she says, "they don't belong to the institutions, they are ours," speaking about gifts that are often treated as something you need certification to even have them. Here are just a few notes on what we speak about: -How completely obvious it is to use Parts Work/IFS and Astrology together - and examples of how that would look -Embodiment, containing, holding and connecting to medicine plants -Mercurial gifts, both the technical explanatory ones and the more artistic ones -Would you trust an IFS therapist who is not also a registered psychotherapist? -How awful it is that what we can go out and call ourselves titles that relies on what education we were able to buy, and not solely on qualifications -And about the registering...do you trust someone with a register more than you own intuition and if so, I wonder why we became that way... -Ancestral healing -Environmental destruction !!! and justice -Building relationship with the land -Being magic /in Self !!! -and how it is TIME TO LISTEN deeply because the earth is speaking Astrologically, we speak about the whole gamut of Saturn, Neptune and lots of Pisces glimmer in there too, since Lauren and I have that Sun sign in common, and also Uranus through Taurus, because, as I envy in Lauren, she's got a lot of Taurus energy for embodiment, gardening, connecting to animals and nature, and her music (that we even get a tiny piece of)- It WAS truly refreshing to be with another and very qualified therapeutic astrologer-I really do hope you enjoy it LINKS: youtube: https://youtu.be/DlBiR8GKTEA [https://youtu.be/DlBiR8GKTEA] Find Lauren: https://www.laurendonelsontherapy.com/ [https://www.laurendonelsontherapy.com/] instagram: https://www.instagram.com/embodied_healing [https://www.instagram.com/embodied_healing] find me: https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/ [https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/]

#151 - Manda Scott: Imagine Every Human Being Living to Their Fullest Potential

Manda Scott "lights the fires of possibilities", as she calls it, in this much needed episode on thrutopias, the total collapse and how we can emerge into a completely new paradigm. Manda impresses me so much, she has been a published writer for 30 years and writing still, she is also the founder of ACCIDENTAL GODS. I really hope you will enjoy this episode where we get informed, sparked and interrupted in our normal thinking. So grateful for this interview - may it be of great importance to you too. Here are some notes about what we TAP into in this episode: -Bringing knowing back to those who have forgotten -Complexity versus complicated -Thrutopian fiction -Why we do not need more dystopias -Writers and artists imagining different futures -Letting go of tribal divisions -Remembering that we are part of the web of life -Our culture as locked in early adolescence -The natural state of humanity as wholeness -Inner coherence, trauma therapy and talking to the web of life -Ask the web of life: "What do you need me to do?" -Collapse into extinction and emergence into a new system -The caterpillar, the cocoon and imaginal cells -Awake dreaming and sleep dreaming -Aquarian themes run strongly through this conversation, as the archetype is prevalent in Mandas chart. LINKS: youtube edition: https://youtu.be/3_AGgwCICcs [https://youtu.be/3_AGgwCICcs] Manda: https://accidentalgods.life/ [https://accidentalgods.life/] https://www.youtube.com/@AccidentalGods [https://www.youtube.com/@AccidentalGods] https://substack.com/@eceni/p-158280401 [https://substack.com/@eceni/p-158280401] Mannah: https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/ [https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/]

#150- Phoebe Wyss - Inside the Cosmic Mind: Archetypal Astrology and the New Cosmology

Phoebe Wyss is a seasoned astrologer with more than 40 years of experience, she is the author of three astrology books and a meditator on the Osho path. In this episode, I speak with Phoebe Wyss about cosmology, sacred geometry, quarter days, synchronicity and experiential astrology as a path of self-discovery. We also talk about her pioneering astrology game Lebensrad, the Wheel of Life, which she created and published in Germany in the 1980s. The game was built on synchronicity, and Phoebe describes how people repeatedly received answers that felt uncannily relevant to what they were already thinking or struggling with. This became part of her research into why astrology works. The Wheel of lige describes the 12 signs as 12 basic archetypal forms or vibrations of energy, all emerging from the oneness at the center. Phoebe also shares her current approach to experiential astrology, where students physically enter the chart, sit in the place of their astrological placements, and speak from that inner position. The deeper is truer. Finally, we reflect on Phoebe's own chart, especially I ask about her Uranus return. LINKS: youtube version: https://youtu.be/Ri6U6tv_Vn8 [https://youtu.be/Ri6U6tv_Vn8] Phoebe Wyss: https://www.astrophoebe.com/ [https://www.astrophoebe.com/] The book we speak about: https://www.amazon.com/Inside-Cosmic-Mind-Archetypal-Astrology/dp/178250110X [https://www.amazon.com/Inside-Cosmic-Mind-Archetypal-Astrology/dp/178250110X] Mannah: https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/ [https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/]

#149 - Dabney Lawless: THE FUTURE IS HERE - A Conversation Between Evolutionary Astrologers As the World Reshuffles Itself

We have been on the edge for so long - now we are here! What do we do now with the confrontational and autonomous energy? If you want inspiration to answer that for yourself, this is the episode to tap into. Even if not, because there is more to this conversation - You will meet Evolutionary Astrologer and teacher Dabney Lawless, who also has her own YouTube channel with excellent interviews and solo content. In this episode, she shares why she believes astrology is, in a way, lawless, as well as her own recent healing experiences through Chiron transits. We then dive into a collective energy reading, where many passionate themes arise - some political, others more personal. This is a recommended episode for all astrology lovers, because Dabney is so wellspoken and her way of speaking incredibly rich. Enjoy. LINKS link to this chapter on youtube: https://youtu.be/UF7rWOZUBXw [https://youtu.be/UF7rWOZUBXw] Dabneys popular and enriching channel: https://www.youtube.com/@lawlessastrology/videos [https://www.youtube.com/@lawlessastrology/videos] Website: https://lawlessastrology.com/ [https://lawlessastrology.com/] Mannah: https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/ [https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/]

#148 - Bob Falconer: You Can't Heal from Major Trauma Without Connecting to Spirit - Beyond IFS

Robert Falconer (Bob) is with us for the third time, and it is such a rich hour. Listen to this one if you want to learn more about what dialoguing with Spirit is, how a domination structure does not want people to have connection to spirit, how it is essential to heal from trauma, and why desire is a very good thing!! TAP in with us and learn more about: -How to let go of the raft (the tools, worldviews, and methods that once helped us can later become limitations if we cling to them) -Distinctions between channeling and dialogue with spirit -Jung's active imagination as it relates to IFS -How IFS is a raft! Bob's staircase truly excites me -How confusion, cognitive dissonance, and uncertainty are actually the fastest way to grow -ASK: "How do I develop my relationship with this?" -Stand on the Abyss !! -Any person remains fundamentally mysterious!! -the alternative to the "attempt to kill the psyche " -Neoplatonism, theurgy, and the embodied descent of divine energies -Ecstatic energy -REVISION the history of spirituality in the West -Hunger, yearning, and loneliness are not signs of failure but forces that can carry a person home to the divine. Desire becomes distorted only when reduced or controlled -Spirit being plural -How Spirit after the book said: "You have tried to storm the Palace of Wisdom through its sewer system" -How demons keep people chained as long as they remain afraid of them but the way forward is not to violently cut cords -His comments on lasting transformations: be curious about the parts that brought the old structures back, it is a SLOW PROCESS BASED ON LOVE -we go into Bob's current transits as he has Uranus right on his Venus now (29 degrees) and have an upcoming transit of Saturn to his Sun. Major development about to give way it seems and I think his current studies of tantra could be related to his Venus in taurus and his upcoming major book project could be related to Saturn approaching, as he has felt some resistance to it and it is a major work. But it could be many other things going on this life that I do not know about, remember in these interviews I always just guess a bit from what I know whereas in a deep conversation about life events, I would understand the symbolism better- but it does point to that something does not satisfy Bob anymore, it is as if another wisdom establish, that could be a broad way to look at the current and coming energy for him. Of course, as an Aries, he marches to his own drummer regardless. youtube video here: https://youtu.be/JW_uCCi0wfk [https://youtu.be/JW_uCCi0wfk] check Bob out here: https://robertfalconer.us/ [https://robertfalconer.us/] the book we speak about here: https://www.amazon.com/Spirit-Robert-Falconer/dp/B0G2GJTHR3 [https://www.amazon.com/Spirit-Robert-Falconer/dp/B0G2GJTHR3] and me here: https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/ [https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/]