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Blood, Belly & Stars
by Shannon Amrein
Blood, Belly & Stars explores healing through the restoration of relationship.Join Shannon Amrein for conversations on embodiment, shamanism, womb wisdom, intuition, soul medicine, and Earth-based healing, along with weekly intuitive readings to guide you through the energies and themes of the week ahead. shannonamrein.substack.com
Episodes
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What Healing Can—and Can’t—Promise You
We’ve been told that if we do enough healing work, life will fall into place, almost magically. Heal your blocks and find the relationship. Shift your money mindset and create abundance. Do the work, have the breakthrough, and become the version of yourself who finally gets to live the life she...
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What Are You Actually Hearing?
What Are You Actually Hearing? What if listening to your body isn’t just about hearing a sensation—but learning to understand where that sensation is coming from? In this episode, we’re not just talking about listening to your body. We’re practicing it. I’ll guide you through a simple, embodied...
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Are You Actually Listening to Your Body?
What if you’re trying to listen to your body and what you’re actually hearing is fear, an old identity, a protective part of yourself, or an experience from your past? In this episode, I explore why learning to listen to your body is more complicated than simply doing whatever your body seems to...
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Knowing Your Body Is Different From Knowing About Your Body
You can know your anatomy.Know the names of your organs and bones.Know what your diagnosis means.Know what your body is “supposed” to do. But knowing your body is something different. It is relational. It is knowing what your body actually feels like. What sensation feels like. What touch feels...
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What Touch Teaches Us About Relationship
More than you might think. In this episode, I explore touch as a mirror for relationship—not just with our bodies and our wombs, but with ourselves, with pleasure, with boundaries, with other people, and with the way we allow ourselves to receive care. I talk about the difference between…
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Things I’ve Changed My Mind About in Healing
Over the years I’ve changed my mind about a lot of things in healing work. I don’t believe that my approaches in the past were wrong, just lacking as much information as I have today. After more years putting these ideas through my own life, working with other people, and paying attention to what...
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You Don't Need to Become Better at Fixing Yourself
For so many women who are drawn to healing, spiritual, embodiment, and self-development work, fixing ourselves can become almost second nature. We notice something we don’t like. We find a pattern. We discover a wound. We identify something that’s “wrong.” And then we get to work trying to change...
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October 2026: The Medicine of Strategy, Fear & Action
EDIT: This post was scheduled to be released October 1st. Somehow technology did what it likes to do sometimes and it got sent out early. In the reading, I mention that as of the time when you’ll hear this, the full moon in Aries will have already happened. Because of the scheduling snafu, that’s...
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You Don’t Have to Go Deeper Yet
We often assume that deeper healing means better healing. We want to get to the root. Find the lost piece. Have the breakthrough. Do the deeper journey. But there’s a beautiful perspective I want to share with you today, about how healing work unfolds in layers. In this chat, I share how I…
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September: Giving, Receiving & Embodiment
What happens when something you’ve been doing for years no longer feels sustainable? In this episode, I’m sharing an update on the future of my week-ahead readings—and the deeper personal lesson underneath that change: learning to recognize when service becomes overgiving, and when giving needs…
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What Are You Being Asked to See?
We’re coming to the end of eclipse season and moving into a time of integration, rooting, and beginning to build whatever the eclipses have brought forward. This week, Wunjo reversed asks us to look at identity: What version of yourself no longer fits? What are you ready to release so you can...
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Turtle Medicine: Slow Down, Ground, Listen
The eclipses are over, and we’re entering a quieter week of integration. After the intensity, confrontation, and transformation of the past few weeks, Turtle and Thurizaz bring a different kind of medicine: slow down, ground, protect your peace, and give what has been stirred up time to settle....
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Where Are You Lying to Yourself?
We’re entering the final eclipse in the Pisces-Virgo eclipse series that began in September 2024. This week invites us to look back at what has been refined, released, and reshaped over the past two years—and to become honest about what still needs to change. With Crow reversed and Wild Boar, the...
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Between Eclipses: Confront What You’ve Been Avoiding
We’re in the powerful space between eclipses—a time of transition and movement from one reality into the next. This week, Wild Boar brings medicine around confronting what you’ve been avoiding, reclaiming your courage, and being willing to face the parts of yourself or your life that are asking…
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What Do You Actually Need? An Eclipse Week Reading
We’re entering an eclipse week, and the energy is asking us to get honest about what we truly need versus what we may simply want. This week’s total solar eclipse in Leo brings illumination, potential endings or beginnings, and the possibility of stepping more fully into a new reality. Raccoon...
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Grace, Intuition & the New Beginning Emerging Within You
This week’s reading offers a welcome exhale after the intensity of the past several weeks. This week is an invitation to slow down, listen deeply, and reconnect with your intuition. Through the wisdom of the runes, Swan medicine, and Chiron’s retrograde, we’re reminded that grace often opens the...
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Illumination, Harvest & Releasing What Has Been Holding You Back
This week’s reading arrives just after the powerful four-planet basket alignment and carries an invitation to notice what is ready to come into the light. This week explores the symbolism of the runes Raido, Isa, and Jera, alongside Beaver medicine, the Aquarius Full Moon, Jupiter cazimi, and the...
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Trust Yourself & Take the Next Step
This week we are standing at a threshold. With a rare astrological configuration peaking in the sky, we’re in a season of profound change. The runes and animal medicine remind us that this is a week for aligned action. Some identities are continuing to fall away. New ways of being are beginning…
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The First Fruits of Harvest
In this week’s reading, we begin with a grounding meditation to call our energy home before opening the space for guidance for the week of July 13th. Through the rune Jera, we’re invited into the beginning of harvest season — a time when the seeds we’ve planted are starting to show signs of...
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Trust Your Intuition, Protect Your Energy & Walk with Self-Respect
Moving into the second week of July, the momentum of the month builds. This week’s reading brings together the rune Laguz and Skunk Medicine—two powerful allies inviting us into deeper trust, discernment, and self-respect. Laguz reminds us to listen closely to our intuition. It speaks of love,...
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Crossing the Threshold: Otter Medicine, Dagaz & Leaving the Old Behind
This week’s reading carries the energy of a threshold. This week, we’re working with the energy of Otter Medicine alongside the rune Dagaz; the rune of dawn and new beginnings. Together, they offer a profound invitation: before stepping into what is waiting for you, ask yourself what old stories,...
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The Summer Solstice Invitation: Transform, Release & Rise
Summer Solstice Medicine: Transmuting Pain & Remembering You’re Not Alone This week carries the radiant fire of the Summer Solstice and an offer of profound transformation. The rune Othala returns once again, reminding us of the importance of our ancestors, soul family, and community. This is a...
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Receive the Light: A Guided Summer Solstice Meditation
The summer solstice is a sacred threshold. It’s the longest day of the year and a peak moment of light and vitality. In this guided journey, I invite you to join me in connecting with the sun as a source of nourishment, healing, and renewal. In this practice, you’ll learn how to receive the codes...
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The Solstice Portal: Stepping Into Who You Are Becoming
As we move into the week of June 15th, we are approaching one of the year’s most beautiful thresholds: the Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year and a powerful portal of light, illumination, and becoming. This week invites us to notice: What is being illuminated in my life?Who am I...
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Love, Intuition, & Choosing Yourself
A two-week energetic reading on self-loyalty, divine love, intuition, and the abundance that opens when we allow ourselves to truly receive. In this special two-week ahead reading for June 1–14, I share the collective energetic themes and medicine that emerged through the runes and animal wisdom...
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The Spiral of Becoming: Patience, New Beginnings & Trusting Divine Timing
In this week’s reading, I explore the energy surrounding the Sagittarius Full Moon, the deeper process of becoming, and the importance of patience as we move through periods of transformation and identity shifts. This episode weaves together astrology, rune wisdom, and animal medicine to reflect…
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Meeting the Spiral movement of Life
This week’s energy is an invitation to meet the movement unfolding in your life from a place of balance. The energy of illumination continues to be present and important for us this week, as well as the energy of forward motion, and the spiral nature of life — the spiral of evolving, rebalancing,...
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Nourishing the Body, Womb & Soul
In this episode of Blood, Belly & Stars, I explore nourishment as a deeply layered experience that extends far beyond food alone. This conversation moves through the many ways we nourish (or undernourish) ourselves physically, emotionally, spiritually, energetically, and through the womb space. I...
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Illumination, Boundaries & Embracing the Unknown
This week’s reading carries themes of illumination, patterns that live within ancestry and chosen family, boundaries, and trusting the unknown. Near the end of the week we have a New Moon in Taurus, happening on May 16th. With Uranus now out of Taurus for the first time in years, this moon may…
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Presence, Joy & Living from the Heart
This week’s energy invites you into presence. In a world that constantly pulls your attention outward, this is a week to return to what’s actually here: your body, your breath, your life, your immediate world. Presence is the medicine that reconnects you to what’s real, to what you can actually...
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Illumination, Boundaries, and Letting the Light in
This week’s energy invites illumination, truth, and refinement. With the Full Moon in Scorpio (May 1st), you may feel called to look beneath the surface, into the places you’ve avoided or protected. We’re also moving towards Bealtaine (May Day), a celebration of light and emergence. This is a...
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Breaking Illusions and Becoming Who You Are
In this week’s reading, I share the energetic themes guiding us forward for the upcoming week starting April 20th. We move from last week’s leadership-focused energy into something more subtle but just as powerful: Dragonfly medicine. This week invites you to finally see through illusions that…
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Love Your Lips: From Disconnection to Devotion
In this episode of Blood, Belly and Stars, I’m sharing the origin story behind my newest offering, Love Your Lips, a four-week journey into reconnecting with the vulva, the pelvis, and the body as a whole. I weave together pieces of my relationship, my work as a shamanic and womb care…
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Leadership, sovereignty, and owning your power
Hello and welcome back to another week ahead check in! This week we’re focusing on the energy of leadership, embodying your power, and taking responsibility for your life, actions, and reactions. Watch to learn about the medicine of mountain lion and why this medicine animal has shown up to…
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Tapping into the energy for the week ahead
Join me for a quick check in for the week ahead. This is a week of fire, movement and momentum. This is a week to move with purpose AND make time to nourish yourself. Lean into the medicine of the earth and the elements to support you this week. Have a lovely week! This is a public episode. If…
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Tapping into our Best Lives: Our past life tapping breakthroughs
Exciting news! A few months ago, my mom and I were invited to contribute a chapter to the upcoming book, “Tap into your Best Life”. In our chapter, we share the story of a transformative past-life EFT tapping session we experienced together ten years ago. This experience helped us understand and...
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A rune reading for the week ahead
This week’s reading is a quick rune reading to prepare you for the week ahead. I hope this reading is supportive for you as you start the week! Thanks for reading Shannon's Substack! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. This is a public episode. If you would like to…
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How good can it get?
Hello and welcome back to the podcast! Listen for: * A guided meditation on receiving and opening to how good can it get (inspired by a message that came up in a recent shamanic journey for a client - it’s so good I had to share a taste of this energy with you!) * Why it’s okay (and even good!)…
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Bridging realities: community, transformation, and discernment
Hello and welcome back to the week ahead reading! In this reading we’re looking at the week of March 23rd. In this episode I touch on: the beginning of Aries season, the Neptune-Sun cazimi on the 22nd, the Saturn-Sun cazimi on the 25th, taking action, and the weekly runic message I pulled for…
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Community, new beginnings, and action
Hello and welcome back to the week ahead reading! In this reading we’re looking at the week of March 16th. In this episode I touch on: the difference between processing and digesting what eclipse season has brought up, the new moon mid week that closes eclipse season, and the weekly runic message…
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This is a week to digest, not process
I’m a day late with this week ahead reading, so I’ve kept it short and sweet. Here’s the big overview for this week: it’s a week to digest, not process. We’re coming out of eclipse season, and it’s time to make sense of and integrate whatever has been illuminated for you. It’s a week to allow...
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An intuitive reading for week ahead
This week is another big one! The biggest energetic signature is the eclipse on March 3rd which closes out the eclipses we’ve had in Virgo for the last year. This is another week to stay grounded and connected to your body and intuition. This is a “destiny week”, meaning that you can work with…
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Weekly reading
Join me for a rune reading + intuitive messages to support you as we start a new week. Themes this week include: cultivating peace, finding your center, and taking time for devotion and/or prayer. I hope this reading is supportive for you! Let me know what resonated in the comments. Wishing you a...
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A message for the upcoming week
Join me as I tap into the energy of this upcoming week and share some messages to help you meet it fully. This is one of the BIGGEST weeks of the year, as we end the shedding and start preparing for the next chapter. I pull a rune and tarot card to help you prepare for the week as well as sharing...
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Neptune, fevers, ending karmic cycles, whole spectrum healing, and pleasure vs intentional touch
Join me for a check in/catch up chat talking about the first 2 weeks of 2026, the end of Neptune’s transit in Pisces, whole spectrum mind-body-soul healing, and the evolution of how I work with the womb from pleasure-based to more physiology-based. I would love to hear any thoughts you have about...
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Soul maps and becoming who you're meant to be
In today’s conversation, we discuss what it means to be follow your soul map and discover what your soul is calling you to do in this lifetime. We share our stories of becoming, starting with sharing our stories from 2016 to now, as a nod to how 2016 is trending right now. We talk about how our...
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The wide world of relationships
Relationships teach us SO much. In this conversation, Samantha and I discuss what we’ve learned from our relationships - romantic, platonic and familial - over the last few years. We talk about attachment styles, letting the past go, how relationships can transform and adapt as life changes, and…
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Saturn return as a rite of passage + initiation
We are both finishing up our first Saturn return, and when Saturn moves from Pisces to Aries in about a month we will be finished with this nearly 3-year long transit! In today’s discussion, we talk about what a Saturn return is (so if you’ve heard this phrase and wondered what it even means,...
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2026: the year that's asking us to step up
In this episode, Samantha & I reflect on 2025 and the lessons, growth, and completion we experienced throughout the year. We also talk about the clarity we received in 2025 and how that is informing the way we’re starting 2026. We touch on how we are revisiting something in January 2026 that was...
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Ending 2025 and starting 2026
In today’s podcast, you’ll hear a snippet of the Year End Circle that I held with Samantha Hoppen on January 31st. We talked about the energy of 2025 and what we’re closing out as we transition into 2026. We also share the energy of 2026, so you can start to plan ahead and prepare for what this...
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Blood, Belly & Stars explores healing through the restoration of relationship.Join Shannon Amrein for conversations on embodiment, shamanism, womb wisdom, intuition, soul medicine, and Earth-based healing, along with weekly intuitive readings to guide you through the energies and themes of the week ahead.
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