Healing The Spirit: Astrology, Archetypes & Artmaking

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit jonathankoeofficial.substack.comIn addition to studying the astrological patterns for the coming year, I also practice connecting with the spirit of the year for insights, inspiration, and guidance.In this episode, I share a deep dive on the first theme I received for the year.To hear more, subscribe here.

Resources and Links* Support the podcast on Substack here* Work with Jonathan 1:1* book a reading here* apply for a mentorship container here* Try the breathwork and meditation app Open for 30 days free hereWhat questions and explorations are most relevant to us in 2026, given its astrological and energetic flavors?This year, I invited artist and astrologer Mara Smith to discuss the arc of the coming year. 2026 completes the outer planets’ transition into new signs. It also features: * The Saturn-Neptune conjunction, which happens approximately every 36 years. * The nodal axis shifting into Aquarius-Leo* Jupiter moving into LeoMara and I weaved a unique analysis that divides the year into 3 equal parts, inspired by Mara’s focus on the decans in her practice.Mara Smith is an artist who enjoys playing at the intersections of mythic time, clock time, and synchronicity in mundane reality. An educator by trade and lifelong musician, under the musical project finfeather she blends genres to create a wide variety of songs, many of which are hymns planets, archetypes, and the decans of the tarot. Her astrological self is currently materializing in a flirtatious experiment with an alter ego, Lizzie, a devoted student of timelord, Saturn. Mara brings Lizzie's griffs, or creations, to life through music, poetry, prose, contemplations and conversations with the many divine individuals she is fortunate to know in community near and far.Listen to her music on Bandcamp and SoundCloud.Visit Mara’s website: www.lizziesgriffs.comConnect with her on IG @finfeathermusic and @lizzies_griffs This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jonathankoeofficial.substack.com/subscribe

January 2026 invites us to create space for our dreams as our best plans.Through the month’s astrology, the personal planets move in a tight Capricorn stellium into a tight Aquarius stellium, while making aspects to Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus before they leave water and earth signs.We explored:* Balancing softness, structure, rest, and devotion in your life.* New Year guidance on planning from what you do know instead of spiraling on what you don’t know yet.* Working with the Cancer Full Moon and the Capricorn stellium to practice intentional gratitude for areas of relative ease.* Reflection questions for the final chapters of Saturn and Neptune in Pisces and Uranus in Taurus, including grief, disillusionment, maturing your dreams, and choosing which realities you’re willing to participate in.​* How the late-month Aquarius stellium and conjunctions to Pluto can shift the tone from “getting your life in order” to radically reimagining your role in community, culture, and collective dreaming.​Support the creation of this podcast by becoming a paid subscriber. You’ll receive access to 1-2 bonus episodes a month, subscriber-only essays, and exclusive first-look at drafts of new essays.If you’d like to work with me 1:1, I offer single guidance sessions as well as private mentorship containers (3 months+). We co-create a supportive field for you to move through important life thresholds with grace and deepen your capacity for creative expansions using astrology, human design, and energy work.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. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jonathankoeofficial.substack.com/subscribe

For our last episode in 2025, I decided against my better judgment to go into confessional mode.2025 was a rude teacher. One who slapped me across the face and then threw the paper I just submitted into the furnace.2025 resisted my efforts for linear planning and thwarted my plans for maintaining status quo.Instead, She taught me to find my own standards...and then to pour gasoline on the little matches I lit along the way.Got any questions for me? Submit them here. Sign up for my newsletter to read my essays and be the first to hear about new offerings here.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. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jonathankoeofficial.substack.com/subscribe

Joining me today are TanyaMarck Oviedo and Nick Venegoni of The Queer Spirit podcast. They're beloved kin to me, who are living, breathing testaments to the power of building skillful connections.We recently got together for a Care Chat, short mindful conversations where we discussed transitions in our lives, the importance of community, and the power of intentional living. I shared my personal journey of losing a job while finding relief and growth through the process. TanyaMarck discussed the experience of navigating deep grief as they lost family members and the healing power of creative practices. Nick reflected on the importance of boundaries and how he recently re-committed to an art practice. They also shared their journey building a care-centric nonprofit that grew out of their podcast.We explored themes of breaking old patterns, birthing new ideas, and the magic of connection even when living in different places. Find their podcast, Queer Spirit, here.Nick's bio and linksNick Venegoni, MA (he>they), is a holistic psychotherapist based on unceded Ohlone territory (San Francisco, CA), where he supports queer folks to heal from trauma and anxiety, to create more joyful lives and fulfilling relationships. He is the creator and co-host of The Queer Spirit podcast and co-facilitator in The Queer Spirit Community. Nick’s primary spiritual practices these days include Earth based wisdom, Buddhist Psychology, Mindfulness meditation, and sound healing.Connect with Nick at www.queerhealingjourneys.com as well as on Instagram @holisticqueerhealingTanyaMarck's bio and linksResiding on Tongva Land, TanyaMarck Oviedo (they/them) is a  two spirit, nonbinary, queer, native indigenous person of color and has been a person in recovery since 1989. As an embodied practitioner, medicine person, witch, educator and mentor, they share over 3 decades of care-centric wisdom and channeling via space holding, circle facilitation, mentoring, and community service work. TanyaMarck and Pluto (very magical medicine dog) are the founders of Vamonos Wellness, a healing arts and care practice that’s deeply rooted in curanderismo and community service.Connect with TanyaMarck at www.tanyamarck.com as well as on Instagram @tanyamarckSign up for my newsletter to read my essays and be the first to hear about new offerings here.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. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jonathankoeofficial.substack.com/subscribe

December asks us to trust in the power of possibilities amidst unexpected transitions and confusions.The mutable grand cross is back in action and we're invited to question our attachments. This is a month that can bring a lot of fun if we're not rigid about outcomes.In this episode, we dive into:Connecting to our power when we know less than we'd like.Prioritizing sincerity and honesty.The line between hope and wistful thinking.Committing to learning as the point of being alive.Sign up for my newsletter to read my essays and be the first to hear about new offerings here.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. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jonathankoeofficial.substack.com/subscribe

A riff on some topics that are currently alive in my reality:Why external confirmation is an unreliable predictor of 'success' when you're in the process of building new realities – and what you should look for insteadHow to interpret shocking disruptions on the path of consistently choosing to respond to Life as your True SelfWhy going beyond mental formulas of what's worked in the past and stepping into rogue mode might ultimately yield more interesting and maybe even satisfying resultsHow training your system to befriend The Mystery might be the smartest investment(Unrelated note on the cover art: I found this toy while running near my house. He seems like the cutest duck superhero who's been through a lot and is somehow even more hope-filled than ever. Could he be the new mascot for the podcast?)Sign up for my newsletter to read my essays and be the first to hear about new offerings here.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. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jonathankoeofficial.substack.com/subscribe

This conversation is a masterclass in the art of embracing and claiming personal power.Over the past 6 years, I've witnessed Britten LaRue grow her capacity as a teacher, an astrologer, and a community leader. We got together to discuss the concept and experience of Living Emergence, which is also the name of Britten's new membership space offering, and we quickly jumped into the deep end of the pool.Some topics we covered:Uncovering our power.Coming home to ourselves.Anchoring through change.Embracing the paradox of messiness while finding one's fixed point of integrity.Authentic change vs. people-pleasing.Britten's bio:Britten LaRue, M.A., spends much of her time speaking and writing as a teacher, author, and public astrologer. Britten’s deepest calling is to be a midwife for those in the process of birthing their own inner knowing, healing from shame, and learning to trust themselves again with the reckless freedom they deserve. Creator of Emergence Astrology, she has served thousands of students through the transformational programs and courses at The Emergence Astrology School, and is most proud of how she connects the folks in her community to one another. Britten is the author of Living Astrology: How to Weave the Wisdom of All 12 Signs into Your Everyday Life. You can explore with Britten at her podcast Moon to Moon. Join Britten's membership space: https://brittenlarue.com/living-emergenceSign up for my newsletter to read my essays and be the first to hear about new offerings here.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. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jonathankoeofficial.substack.com/subscribe

November asks us to move more slowly, more deliberately, and often in directions we didn't expect to.This is a month that comes with a looming, menacing sense of dread.But not all hopes are lost. In fact, it'll present the perfect opportunities for practice. Over and over again.In this episode, we dive into: How to heal a heart that's broken (again).What to do when you can't do it all.Healing as noticing the mismatch between perception and reality.How small moves are the biggest.Sign up for my newsletter to read my essays and be the first to hear about new offerings here.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. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jonathankoeofficial.substack.com/subscribe

I'm so thrilled to have Kelsey Rose Tortorice back on the pod!Kelsey is a student teacher of the maia, translator of the languages of consciousness & talisman for upheaval. This conversation is all of that and more. The second we got on the call, we started riding the wave of the frequency, so this is an unedited, Kelsey-and-Jonathan-meeting-the-moment transmission.Some topics we covered: The disintegration of tribal agreements.The awakening of individual frequencies.Personal authenticity, meeting the present moment, and parking metaphors.The role of emotional alchemy.Ancestral healing.We also discussed the Pisces-Virgo nodes, the Cross of Sleeping Phoenix, and the role of consciousness systems to map frequencies.Kelsey's offerings: Kelsey's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/kelseyrosetortInOur Authority: https://www.kelseyrosetort.com/authority2027 The Breakdown w/ Jessa Reed: https://www.jessareed.com/2027Lab Partners: https://www.kelseyrosetort.com/labpartnersKelsey's Podcasts: https://www.kelseyrosetort.com/podcastsWebsite: https://www.kelseyrosetort.com/Sign up for my newsletter to read my essays and be the first to hear about new offerings here.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. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jonathankoeofficial.substack.com/subscribe

In the email exchange leading up to our conversation, my guest Kristina Marie wrote "The Hero is Dead."That sentence stopped me in my tracks. It's a suspicion I've had for a while, but maybe there's still a part of me that doesn't want it to be true. "What do you mean? But I love my hero's journey stories!" that part protested.In the episode, Kristina and I dove straight into this topic. We discussed: The new myths we're living, telling, and weaving in the face of crumbling structures and collapsing old paradigmsThe difference between the mystic's journey and the hero or heroine's journeyWhat a transformational story isThe journey of becoming the person who can tell our own stories as its own unique processIt's a profound conversation and my mind was blown with epiphany after epiphany throughout.Here's Kristina's bio:For more than a decade, I worked as a journalist and an editor at top national magazines, including Travel + Leisure and T magazine at the New York Times. Since launching Voyages of the Spirit nine years ago, I’ve combined my publishing skills, intuitive gifts, and creative wisdom to mentor writers, leaders, visionaries, mystics, and storytellers. I guide my clients in structuring their transformational stories and birthing their books, awakening their creative genius, discovering their personal mythology, and building an ecosystem for their life’s work.Join Kristina's group program Story Map.Visit Kristina's website and follow her on Instagram.Sign up for my newsletter to read my essays and be the first to hear about new offerings here.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. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jonathankoeofficial.substack.com/subscribe

What does it mean to build a business based on your soul's gifts?How is this path different than conventional, old-paradigm business?How do we practice devotion, creativity, and commitment to Life on the entrepreneurial path?In this special conversation with mission mentor Aaron Rose, I discussed my winding, non-linear path into running a spiritual business. Originally recorded live on Instagram, the discussion was too rich with embodied wisdom and heart medicine for me not to share with all of you here.For those of you who resonate with this and would like to go deeper, Aaron currently has two relevant offerings:God is My Boss: a comprehensive course on turning your soul’s gifts into a business that changes the world for the better and abundantly resources you in the process.Create a Thriving Business by Sharing Your Soul's Gifts: a free masterclass on the foundations of running a spiritual business.Aaron has been an important mentor for me on my mission path (which includes running a business!). His offerings are thoughtfully crafted, deeply impactful, and I highly recommend you check them out.Aaron's bio:I’m a transformational coach, mission mentor, speaker, writer, and human being committed to doing my part to create a world where we all thrive as our true selves.My lifelong devotion to liberation has included chapters as a youth activist, conflict resolution mediator, permaculture designer, cultural consultant at Fortune 500 companies, leadership coach, and more. I now mentor heart-centered beings in stepping into greater leadership and impact. My specialties include: helping people understand the unique design of their divine mission, reconnect with their personal power, build a business based on their gifts, and overcome their fear of visibility to share their message with confidence.My work blends transformational coaching, subconscious reprogramming, and prayer to support you in fulfilling your mission, following your own inner compass, and bringing your dreams to life.My inspirations and teachers include: the one eternal God / Infinite Intelligence, the Rising Star lineage, and all who walk the Christed / Krystic path in devotion to organic life and divine truth. The paths are many, the destination is One.Aaron's email list: https://www.aaronxrose.com/emailAaron's website: https://www.aaronxrose.com/Aaron's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aaronxrose/Sign up for my newsletter to read my essays and be the first to hear about new offerings here.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. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jonathankoeofficial.substack.com/subscribe

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.Sign up for my newsletter to read my essays and be the first to hear about new offerings here.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. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jonathankoeofficial.substack.com/subscribe

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/kelseyrosetortWebsite: https://www.kelseyrosetort.com/IG: https://www.instagram.com/kelseyrosetort/Podcast: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/themaiagames/Sign up for my newsletter to read my essays and be the first to hear about new offerings here.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. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jonathankoeofficial.substack.com/subscribe

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 freedomJamie’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.LINKSThe School of Creative Magic: https://www.theschoolofcreativemagic.comMagic in the Making Symposium: https://www.theschoolofcreativemagic.com/magic-in-the-makingInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/starshyneYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6VTV87Su_5xwoCVGt5HaDASoundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/djstarshyneSign up for my newsletter to read my essays and be the first to hear about new offerings here.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. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jonathankoeofficial.substack.com/subscribe

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 ProjectorI 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-spiritSign up for my newsletter to read my essays and be the first to hear about new offerings here.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. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jonathankoeofficial.substack.com/subscribe

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 ProcessSign up for my newsletter to read my essays and be the first to hear about new offerings here.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. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jonathankoeofficial.substack.com/subscribe

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 attentionMallory'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.Sign up for my newsletter to read my essays and be the first to hear about new offerings here.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. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jonathankoeofficial.substack.com/subscribe

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.Sign up for my newsletter to read my essays and be the first to hear about new offerings here.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. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jonathankoeofficial.substack.com/subscribe

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/TransAlchemyOfficialLINKS: Join Eric's Patreon: Patreon.com/TransAlchemyOfficialListen to & support Eric's music on Bandcamp: https://ericschackne.bandcamp.com/Sign up for my newsletter to read my essays and be the first to hear about new offerings here.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. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jonathankoeofficial.substack.com/subscribe