Healing The Spirit: Astrology, Archetypes & Artmaking

Somehow, you’ve found yourself in the thick of the drama of life.Feelings getting hurt.Misunderstandings abound.The stakes feel high.You can choose to fight the experience. Find someone to blame. Work hard to find the ‘right’ solutions.Or you can choose to allow it in. To see everything as part of what you’re building. Even if you can’t fully understand how the pieces are fitting in right now.This is your invitation to trust in the soft, supple strength of focusing on your own paper.If this message resonates, book a Cards Reading here._______Resources & LinksSign up for Creative Exorcism, 9 weeks of daily guided ritual to unleash your inner creative beast here.Book a Cards Reading here.Apply for private ongoing guidance. This work refines your self-leadership skills, moves you through important life thresholds gracefully, and expands your capacity for creative expressions in career, relationships, and life.Support the podcast on Substack hereTry 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 Instagram @jonathankoeofficial, and listen to my music. For podcast-related inquiries, email me at [email protected]. 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

Have you noticed how hard it is to walk around with the belief that nobody likes you?Or how tough conversations get when you already decided that everyone’s out to get you?Or how complicated it gets to move forward when you choose to believe that you’re going to fail anyway?If this is where you’re at, and you’re ready to begin shifting the pattern, this reading is for you.I pulled from the gorgeous Woodland Wardens deck.If this episode resonates, book a Cards Reading with me here._______Resources & LinksSign up for Creative Exorcism, 9 weeks of daily guided ritual to unleash your inner creative beast here.Book a Cards Reading here.Apply for private ongoing guidance. This work refines your self-leadership skills, moves you through important life thresholds gracefully, and expands your capacity for creative expressions in career, relationships, and life.Support the podcast on Substack hereTry 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 Instagram @jonathankoeofficial, and listen to my music. For podcast-related inquiries, email me at [email protected]. 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

Reality check: Are you holding your breath right now, as you’re reading these words?When you hold back your breath, you’re also constricting your inherent power. Exhale. Let the body loosen. Let the belly soften.You’re experiencing feelings that seem to contradict each other. Pain and affection. Loneliness and closeness. Allow them to lead you into a new way of seeing.What if you move at the pace of your body? How is your awareness showing you the right next move?What are you truly here to see?Sit with your power. Not power over. Power as agency. Power as choice. Power as creativity, beauty, participation, wisdom. Return to your own knowing. Keep your attention on what’s actually here, and let that be enough._______Resources & LinksSign up for Creative Exorcism, 9 weeks of daily guided ritual to unleash your inner creative beast here.Book a Cards Reading here.Apply for private ongoing guidance. This work refines your self-leadership skills, moves you through important life thresholds gracefully, and expands your capacity for creative expressions in career, relationships, and life.Support the podcast on Substack hereTry 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 Instagram @jonathankoeofficial, and listen to my music. For podcast-related inquiries, email me at [email protected]. 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 with Nisha Mody is a banger.We discussed:* The complexity of mother-daughter relationship* The importance of honesty, accountability, and addressing systemic issues (like patriarchy, generational gap, and cultural expectations) in the process of ancestral healing* The ways that love, guilt, and responsibility get tangled in the space between family members* The difference between escape and freedomI loved how grounded this conversation was. We weren’t just talking about healing in the abstract, but about the everyday messiness of real relationships: from awkward conversations about boundaries with primary caretakers to the subtle ways we might abandon ourselves to find belong at the start of romantic relationships.I’ve long admired Nisha’s eloquent, honest shares about her divorce, ancestral healing, and career transitions. Her newsletter is full of practical wisdom and loving-yet-unflinching call-ins.If you resonate with Nisha’s perspective, consider joining her upcoming workshop (Saturday, July 18, 2026) for mothers and daughters with James-Olivia Chu Hillman: Navigating Tension and Connecting with Intimacy.Nisha’s bio:Nisha Mody (she/her) is a healer and writer who lives in Los Angeles on Tongva land. She supports her clients to actually like themselves instead of believing the lies ruminating in their head. She is currently writing a memoir about how her abusive marriage helped her learn the difference between escape and freedom. You can find her on Instagram @healinghypegirl and her website www.nishaland.com._______Resources & LinksJoin Nisha’s upcoming workshop for mothers and daughters with James-Olivia Chu Hillman: Navigating Tension and Connecting with Intimacy.Sign up for Creative Exorcism, 9 weeks of daily guided ritual to unleash your inner creative beast here.Book a Cards Reading here.Apply for private ongoing guidance. This work refines your self-leadership skills, moves you through important life thresholds gracefully, and expands your capacity for creative expressions in career, relationships, and life.Support the podcast on Substack hereTry 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 Instagram @jonathankoeofficial, and listen to my music. For podcast-related inquiries, email me at [email protected]. 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

When you watch your process with more curiosity and less judgment, you begin to see that angelic forces are helping you along.Sometimes, aid comes in the form of a changed perspective. Perhaps you don’t need to obsess around “Am I moving forward?” Because in many ways, you always are.The rebel, the comic, and the creator are present this week. The rebel questions everything. The comic reminds you not to take it too seriously. And the creator is here to be the bridge, to take the next step, and to make something meaningful from what you’re feeling right now.Breathe. Pause. Trust in the support available. Stop trying to make life what it’s not._______Resources & LinksSign up for Creative Exorcism, 9 weeks of daily guided ritual to unleash your inner creative beast here.Book a Cards Reading here.Apply for private ongoing guidance. This work refines your self-leadership skills, moves you through important life thresholds gracefully, and expands your capacity for creative expressions in career, relationships, and life.Support the podcast on Substack hereTry 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 Instagram @jonathankoeofficial, and listen to my music. For podcast-related inquiries, email me at [email protected]. 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 back with monthly readings…And maybe even weekly ones!I pulled cards and channeled three interconnected themes for the month:* Creative reclamation: Queen of Wands is the main theme, the mascot of this month. There’s a force in you that wants to break through. You’re invited to go after what you want, to be seen, and to have new experiences. Be sure to make room for pause and reflection after these breakthroughs.* Transformation through Fertility & Abundance: The Empress is the portal, the work we’re here to engage. Pay attention to the subtle, yet significant and life-supporting ways that abundance is already present in your reality. Luxuriate in what’s already available.* Treat Imbalance as a Teacher. Adjustment / Justice is the teacher and the anchor point. Notice where things aren’t reciprocalThis is a month for pruning, for looking clearly, while not rushing to make the discomfort right or wrong.Go deeper by joining my course Creative Exorcism here. For 9 weeks, you’ll be guided to do a daily ritual that heals your relationship to creativity and recovers artistic expression._______Resources & LinksSign up for Creative Exorcism, 9 weeks of daily guided ritual to unleash your inner creative beast here.Book a Cards Reading here.Apply for private ongoing guidance. This work refines your self-leadership skills, moves you through important life thresholds gracefully, and expands your capacity for creative expressions in career, relationships, and life.Support the podcast on Substack hereTry 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 Instagram @jonathankoeofficial, and listen to my music. For podcast-related inquiries, email me at [email protected]. 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 juicy episode for a juicy topic!There are three places I’d look to if you come to me wanting to heal your creative trauma:* how you define creativity and what being an ‘artist’ means to you* who you put pedestals and the stories that hold the pedestals* your relationship to workI discuss all three points in great detail.If you want to go deeper, join my course Creative Exorcism here. For 9 weeks, you’ll be guided to do a daily ritual that heals your relationship to creative and recovers your creative confidence._______Resources & LinksSign up for Creative Exorcism, 9 weeks of daily guided ritual to unleash your inner creative beast here.Book a Creative Spirit Reading here.Apply for private ongoing guidance. This work refines your self-leadership skills, moves you through important life thresholds gracefully, and expands your capacity for creative expressions in career, relationships, and life.Support the podcast on Substack hereTry 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 Instagram @jonathankoeofficial, and listen to my music. For podcast-related inquiries, email me at [email protected]. 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 excited to share my new course, Creative Exorcism. This one has been over a year in the making!In this episode, I discussed:* What is a creative exorcism?* Who could benefit from a creative exorcism?* How do we perform one?Enrollment is open now. Learn more about the offering on the course page here.Early bird rate is available until Monday, June 29, 2026.Our journey begins on Monday, July 6 until Friday, September 4, 2026.If this offering resonates, I hope you join us!_______Resources & LinksJoin Creative Exorcism, my upcoming summer course on unleashing your inner creative beast here.If you’ve enjoyed and benefited from the podcast, I invite you to apply for private ongoing guidance with me. This work is designed to support you in refining your self-leadership skills, moving through important life thresholds with grace, and expanding your capacity for creative expansions.Be the first to hear when spots open up for singing lessons and somatic sessions in the Vocal De-Armoring style here.Support the podcast on Substack hereTry 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 Instagram @jonathankoeofficial, and listen to my music. For podcast-related inquiries, email me at [email protected]. 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

My relationship with the creative force was one of the most fraught areas of my life.It’s the one area that brought up the most fear, the most anxiety, and the deepest heartbreak.It’s also an area where I’ve learned to do the most significant, personally-meaningful transmutation and alchemy.In this episode, I share some of my current contemplations on reclaiming the inner creative.Engaging with our innate creative force, seeking the holy grail of true artistry, and walking the spiritual path are not separate endeavors.And for the creative mystic, the challenge of bringing all these facets together into a cohesive, flowing conversation is one of the most satisfying endeavors._______Resources & LinksJoin the waitlist for Creative Exorcism, my upcoming summer course on unleashing your inner creative beast here.If you’ve enjoyed and benefited from the podcast, I invite you to apply for private ongoing guidance with me. This work is designed to support you in refining your self-leadership skills, moving through important life thresholds with grace, and expanding your capacity for creative expansions.Be the first to hear when spots open up for singing lessons and somatic sessions in the Vocal De-Armoring style here.Support the podcast on Substack hereTry 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 Instagram @jonathankoeofficial, and listen to my music. For podcast-related inquiries, email me at [email protected]. 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 might aligning with Deep Time assist us in trusting ourselves and, more importantly, trusting the constant unfolding of the cosmos?In this episode, I invite us to contemplate the nature of time to consider how we relate to our own processes.From the perspective of deep time, we are always in process. Across lifetimes, across different chapters within our current lifetime, and across myriad collective evolutions we move through.At the same time, the human experience of impatience, frustration, and disappointment comes with the territory. The question isn’t about avoiding or bracing for these experiences. But rather, how one can create space for deeper curiosity toward various layers of our experiences.Curiosity is a portal. It’s a way of aligning with the larger flow of life, with the trickster current, with this cosmic body we are part of.I invite you to gaze at your own resistance the way you might gaze at a beautiful aquarium. Letting yourself be in awe without feeling the need to interfere. To treat the light, spacious observing of your own patterns as a creative practice, a way of learning to enjoy the view of your own becoming. This is what mystics and sages call presence: being so engaged with your experience that the impulse to fix or change it dissolves.Paradoxically, this becomes the secret to alchemizing tension. Because life is always expanding in all directions._______Resources & LinksIf you’ve enjoyed and benefited from the podcast, I invite you to apply for private ongoing guidance with me. This work is designed to support you in refining your self-leadership skills, moving through important life thresholds with grace, and expanding your capacity for creative expansions.Join the waitlist for an upcoming summer course on unleashing your inner creative beast here.Be the first to hear when spots open up for singing lessons and somatic sessions in the Vocal De-Armoring style here.Support the podcast on Substack hereTry 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 Instagram @jonathankoeofficial, and listen to my music. For podcast-related inquiries, email me at [email protected]. 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 this episode of Healing the Spirit, I speak to the experience of stuckness.Why does stuckness feel so intense?How might we understand the deeper energetic current that contributes to feeling stuck?What vaster perspectives might we lean upon to help us move through these challenging impasses with grace and power?I also contextualize this inquiry in the current astrology. We’re entering a week full of squares: between Mars and Pluto, the Sun and the lunar nodes, and between Venus and Saturn.Whether you’re listening as these transits unfold or finding this episode later, I invite you to carve out some space to dialogue with your stuckness and to recognize it as a nexus of creative energy, waiting to flow towards more authentic expressions._______Resources & LinksSupport the podcast on Substack hereJoin the waitlist for an upcoming summer course on unleashing your inner creative beast 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 Instagram @jonathankoeofficial, and listen to my music. For podcast-related inquiries, email me at [email protected]. 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 last few years, the word ‘liminal’ has become a mainstay within the public discourse. And yet, navigating our own liminal moments with grace remains an elusive art. It still requires awareness, attention, and practice.In this episode, I contemplate the in‑between times: when the old chapter has dissolved but the new one hasn’t quite landed yet in our system. Losses re-organize our sense of belonging, not just on a larger identity level, but also through the disappearance of familiar rituals that hold micro moments together.How might we support ourselves and others as we walk through these bridge periods?It’s easy to forget the basics in these moment. To abandon simple practices and timeless principles that actually keep us sane and connected when everything else feels like an emergency.I walk through three ways we tend to respond to these bridge periods. Some of us check out and take a metaphorical (or literal) nap, watching life pass us by like a video game. Some of us go into hyperfocus and hyperpanic, building giant checklists, trying to control every possible outcome, our minds going a million miles per hour even when our bodies are lying in bed.And then there’s a third way that’s much rarer. We can choose to fully ground into this chapter. To treat the bridge itself as holy ground. To recognize it as a temple in its own right.Those who practice this third response glow in the midst of transition because they’re not trying to escape, numb out, or fast‑forward. They’re fully present to the exact moment they’re in._______Resources & LinksSupport the podcast on Substack hereSign up for my newsletter 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.Join the waitlist for Venus & Mars, a 3-month alchemical immersion to rekindle your inner flame and fall back in love with your life here.This podcast is hosted, produced, and edited by Jonathan Koe. Theme music is also composed by me! Connect with me through Instagram @jonathankoeofficial, and listen to my music. For podcast-related inquiries, email me at [email protected]. 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

Uncertainty is really up in the air right now. Many of us are navigating periods of intense existential questioning. About our work, relationships, and place in a world that’s changing at a pace that feels almost impossible to keep up with.What’s shifted is that this isn’t just an individual exploration anymore. The collective is asking these questions now, and for those of us who have been sitting with these kinds of questions for a long time, we’re feeling the amplification of everyone else beginning to ask them too. Sometimes in ways that look a little like an allergic reaction 🙃In this episode, we contemplate what it actually means to find spaciousness when the ground beneath us feels like quicksand.Spaciousness, to me, is really a perceptual switch. A kind of inner discipline that prioritizes allowing and softening, rather than the muscling or efforting kind many of us are habituated into.As we head into a Mercurial week featuring a Mercury cazimi and a conjunction with Uranus in Gemini, we look to the archetypes of the messenger and the magician to consider our uncertain times. Mercury teaches us that uncertainty cannot actually exist without spaciousness. They are two sides of the same coin.Whatever feels uncertain or unresolved right now, instead of relying on your mind to find the one exact solution (which, frankly, never really exists) allow yourself to sit with your imagination. Be playful with your uncertainty. Be like jellyfish: No spine, no rigidity, and one of the oldest surviving creatures on the planet._______RESOURCES & LINKSSupport the podcast on Substack hereSign up for my newsletter 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.Join the waitlist for Venus & Mars, a 3-month alchemical immersion to rekindle your inner flame and fall back in love with your life hereThis podcast is hosted, produced, and edited by Jonathan Koe. Theme music is also composed by me! Connect with me through Instagram @jonathankoeofficial, and listen to my music. For podcast-related inquiries, email me at [email protected]. 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 this episode, I share an unedited version of my conversation with astrologer and musician Mara Smith about the astrology of 2026, focused on the first four months of the year from January through April. We recorded this at the start of the year, and I’m excited to offer it here in a form that preserves the spontaneity, thinking-on-our-feet energy, and insight of our original exchange.I love exploring astrology as a lens not just to anticipate what may unfold, but also to reflect back on lived experience. And now that this first stretch of 2026 has passed, I invite you to listen with your own experience in mind and consider how our delineations and predictions resonate with what you lived through.Mara and I explored the year’s opening tone, including the powerful “cazimi town” feel of January, with Venus leading the way through Capricorn alongside the Sun and Mars. We also talked about the clarifying but not always comfortable quality of the early-year transits, and the major threshold moment of Saturn and Neptune entering Aries, which shifts the energy from preparation into action.Overall, this conversation points to a year that begins with structure being challenged and rebuilt, asking us to move with more intention, courage, and willingness to act before everything feels fully settled. I hope this episode offers something useful for your process and deepens your understanding of the first part of the year.Resources and Links* Support the podcast on Substack here* Apply to work with Jonathan here* Visit Mara’s website: www.lizziesgriffs.com for current offerings and connect with her on IG @finfeathermusic and @lizzies_griffs* Try the breathwork and meditation app Open for 30 days free here* Join the waitlist for Venus & Mars, a 3-month alchemical immersion to rekindle your inner flame and fall back in love with your life here 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

Resources and Links* Support the podcast on Substack here* Apply to work with Jonathan here* Try the breathwork and meditation app Open for 30 days free here* Join the waitlist for Venus & Mars, a 3-month alchemical immersion to rekindle your inner flame and fall back in love with your life here_______The theme for May 2026 is: You already have everything you need.What might we find when we garner the courage to really look deeper into our compulsion to search for more?What lost states of paradise might drive the never-ending seeking for better?How might we surrender to our form, our spirit, and who we actually are?And what might begin to blossom as we allow ourselves to settle into the core of our essence? 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

Resources and Links* Join Ashley’s Magnetic Habits Bingo 101 here* Support the podcast on Substack here* Book a single session with Jonathan here* Apply for ongoing guidance container with Jonathan here* Try the breathwork and meditation app Open for 30 days free here* Join the waitlist for Venus & Mars, a 3-month alchemical immersion to rekindle your inner flame and fall back in love with your life here_______We welcome back the brilliant Ashley B. Jones!This time, we discussed the thing that every wildly creative, singularly unique person I know seems to struggle with the most: consistency.We know it works. But for some reason, it is so damn hard for us.Ashley designed a practical, genius framework to tackle this very problem called Magnetic Habits Bingo.It’s helped her take the leap to move to her dream city and go after the life she wants. And she’s been sharing it with students and clients who had phenomenal results.Listen to this episode to discover her secret sauce 🌶Ashley’s bio:Ashley is a Favorite Self Coach, psychic reader, and energy healer who helps recovering people-pleasing perfectionists and professional procrastinators trust their intuition to take aligned action that makes their dreams their reality. 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

“Who you are is never a problem. You never have to change who you are.If you know that something is coming from your core, and there are people around you who makes that a problem – this is not something to solve within yourself.This is a matter of you recognizing that in that moment, when other people seemingly can’t understand you, it’s because they can’t understand themselves.”This is the core of the message I wanted to convey in this episode.When I hear people talk about the conflict between their individual dreams and the collective, I hear the underlying illusion of separation.In Truth, we are never separate. We are always entangled with one another – influencing, evolving, and showing each other the way towards growth.Under an intensely Martial sky, it’s easy to forget that we’re part of a collective body that’s trying to move the story along in our own ways.May we never forget how beautiful and essential our individual uniqueness is.And may we never forget how our individual emanation contributes to the collective unfolding._______Resources and Links* Join Galactic Warrior: From Imaginary Fear to Embodied Courage, a guided journey & embodiment workshop for the New Moon in Aries here* Book a 20-minute recorded tarot reading here* Support the podcast on Substack here* Book a single session with Jonathan here* Apply for ongoing guidance container with Jonathan here* Try the breathwork and meditation app Open for 30 days free here* Join the waitlist for Venus & Mars, a 3-month alchemical immersion to rekindle your inner flame and fall back in love with your life here 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

Resources and Links* Join Galactic Warrior: From Imaginary Fear to Embodied Courage, a guided journey & embodiment workshop for the New Moon in Aries here* Book a 20-minute recorded tarot reading here* Support the podcast on Substack here* Book a reading with Jonathan here* Apply for ongoing guidance container here* Try the breathwork and meditation app Open for 30 days free here* Join the waitlist for Venus & Mars, a 3-month alchemical immersion to rekindle your inner flame and fall back in love with your life here_______What spiritual lessons does Aries teach us?What might Aries energy show us about showing up more fully in the face of the heat, intensity, and speed of our human experiences?I wanted to come on and share a realization that dropped in for me right after recording the April episode.Aries can be an uncomfortable energy to work with. When life invites us to move into the unknown, or to dance at a tempo that’s quicker than our comfort zone, it can be easy to lose the calm, grounded posture we’ve worked hard to cultivate – especially when one is used to conflating presence with a slower, more measured tempo.The cardinal fire of Aries helps us recognize the gap between what we’re genuinely drawn to and rigid identity constructs that hold us back. It shows us where our ideas of being tethered, grounded, or regulated are rooted in performance rather than moment-by-moment truth.For most of my life, I resist Aries energy because I was scared of being irresponsible.But when I recognize that I’m a vessel for cosmic intelligence that always flows through, true power and freedom become available without the need to constantly prove myself. 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

Resources and Links* Join Galactic Warrior: From Imaginary Fear to Embodied Courage, a guided journey & embodiment workshop for the New Moon in Aries here* Book a 20-minute recorded tarot reading here* Support the podcast on Substack here* Book a reading with Jonathan here* Apply for ongoing guidance container here* Try the breathwork and meditation app Open for 30 days free here_______What intervention is present in my current reality? What isn’t going according to plan? And how might that be good for me?April asks us to step into Deep Faith.The current of the river is strong and it looks intimidating. What normally feels second-nature to us suddenly seems out of our control.In the quickening chaos of Aries energy, we’re reminded that wisdom doesn’t move at the pace of logic. Some of the most challenging transits of April are also the most generative – even if it doesn’t seem like it when it’s unfolding.The work is to recognize that wisdom is cultivated over time. And it requires you to fully immerse in the experiences that life presents.As the old saying goes, “You should sit in meditation for 20 minutes a day. Unless you’re too busy, then you should sit for an hour.” 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

Resources and Links* Support the podcast on Substack here* Work with Jonathan 1:1* book a reading here* apply for ongoing guidance container here* Try the breathwork and meditation app Open for 30 days free here“I’m most interested in writing a love letter to humanity. Even more so than travel.”For many in the astrology and tarot world, Jeff Hinshaw is no stranger. You may know him through his deeply beloved podcast Cosmic Cousins or the Brooklyn Fools Tarot Journey.Recently, Jeff and I caught up to discuss the process of creating Travel Tarot, in which Jeff collaborated with Lonely Planet and Studio Muti. Specifically, we discussed how the deck deepened his embodied understanding of the Mercury retrograde phases and sharpened his awareness of creative synchronicities.It’s an expansive deck that’s also gentle to the nervous system – an energetic signature I always feel whenever I interact with both Jeff as a person and his work. I know that this deck will expand many people’s relationship with the tarot, and the world at large.Jeff also generously shared his current process as a practitioner and a human walking his path. We touched on the Saturn-Neptune in Aries conjunction (a big astro signature this year), as well as some early data on the magic of this deck.Order your copy of Lonely Planet Travel Tarot here.Visit Jeff’s website for current offerings here.Subscribe to Jeff’s Substack here. 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 is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit jonathankoeofficial.substack.comAlright dear ones… In this episode, we get REAL.Let’s start with the baseline premise that everyone who’s listening is doing The Work™️: practicing being honest with themselves and others, acknowledging our humanity and fallibility, and committing to being a kind human being who’s not intentionally trying to hurt people for no reason.And yet, even when you do all the things, the inevitable will still happen.You rub people off the wrong way. Often when you least expected it.You were simply living your life. Being you. Responding as you. Then out of left field, something you said set them off. Your perspective, your phrasing, your tone, something in the way you showed up activated them in ways that are unpleasant to everyone involved.I must admit, I’m dissatisfied by the easier explanation of: “Oh, they’re just projecting onto you. Don’t worry about it.” Because while that’s usually true, I know that this experience, like everything in life, is a fantastic opportunity for me to also look at my own stuff.So, what’s going on here? Is there more than what meets the eye? How might we take this painful experience and tend to what is ours to process, while releasing that which aren’t?

Resources and Links* Join Venus & Mars, a 3-month alchemical immersion to rekindle your inner flame and fall back in love with your life, starting on March 2, 2026 here* Support the podcast on Substack here* Book a reading with Jonathan here* Apply for a mentorship with Jonathan here* Join the waitlist for Venus & Mars, a 3-month alchemical immersion to rekindle your inner flame and fall back in love with your life here* Try the breathwork and meditation app Open for 30 days free here_______Have you ever felt like your muse is working you overtime? That ideas continue streaming even when you’re well past your ability to execute them?My guest today is the brilliant guide Verena Borell. She’s no stranger to the experience of burnout, which she experienced at multiple junctures in her journey.I initially invited Verena to contemplate her natal Venus in Aries with me. And our conversation led to Verena beautifully sharing her experience as an entrepreneur and practitioner.Her Venus in Aries placement wouldn’t let her resign to these patterns, though. Through continued reflection and experimentation, Verena created her unique blend of evolutionary astrology, somatic experiencing, and other modalities to heal herself and teach her clients to soften and slow down.This conversation is fresh and brilliant. I hope Verena’s generous share of her journey inspires you and reminds you that you’re not alone if these patterns are present for you, too.Connect with Verena:Website: https://www.verenaborell.com/enWeekly Newsletter: https://verenaborell.myflodesk.com/newsletter-htsSoul & Soma Podcast: https://www.verenaborell.com/podcastSubstack Creating My Full-Body-Yes-Life: https://myfullbodyyeslife.substack.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

Resources and Links* Join Venus & Mars, a 3-month alchemical immersion to rekindle your inner flame and fall back in love with your life, starting on March 2, 2026 here* Support the podcast on Substack here* Book a reading with Jonathan here* Apply for a mentorship container with Jonathan here* Try the breathwork and meditation app Open for 30 days free here_______Where in my life am I still trying to squeeze my mermaid self into a box that was never designed for my essence?March calls us to simultaneously explore our mythical selves and take aligned actions.March begins with an intensely Piscean sky, with all the personal planets, along with Sun and Rahu in Pisces.We then shift into the fiery Venus in Aries, teaching us how to be with difficult emotions and potential ruptures. Meanwhile, Mars in Pisces is an invitation to channel big emotions into art, collective dreaming, and courageous action.Along the way, this month encourages you to treat your life as an alchemical laboratory, to work skillfully with misunderstandings and unclear structures, and to remember that you are not here to wait for miracles.You’re here to become one. 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

Resources and Links* Join Venus & Mars, a 3-month alchemical immersion to rekindle your inner flame and fall back in love with your life, starting on March 2, 2026 here* Support the podcast on Substack here* Book a reading with Jonathan here* Apply for a mentorship container with Jonathan here* Try the breathwork and meditation app Open for 30 days free here_______Wow. This was the most fun I had recording a podcast episode in a while!We had a range questions – from how to show up authentically in dating, finding mutual satisfaction with the audience of one’s creative project, the feeling of always wanting more, the fear of sharing our art, and how to balance alone time with quality time with loved ones + how to work with not feeling like there’s enough time to develop our ideas.If you find yourself thinking, “I have a question and I want to ask too!” join the Substack here. All subscribers will be able to ask me questions for the pod!Special thanks for those who courageously shared their questions! 🤍 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

Resources and Links* Join Venus & Mars, a 3-month alchemical immersion to rekindle your inner flame and fall back in love with your life, starting on March 2, 2026 here* 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 benefits might we begin experiencing when we work with Venus & Mars? Are there any precautions we might want to take as we intentionally attune to their influence? How might this work impact our greater communities?In this episode, I introduce Venus & Mars, a 3-month alchemical immersion to rekindle your inner flame and fall back in love with your life.In this immersion, we approach archetypal studies from a holistic, embodied, and creative lens. We also bring in contemplative practices, somatic explorations, and energy medicine tools. Listen in & join us for this unique, nourishing experience if you feel the call! 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

Resources and Links* Support the podcast on Substack here* Book a reading with Jonathan here* Apply for a mentorship container with Jonathan here* Try the breathwork and meditation app Open for 30 days free here_______In this episode, multi-modality oracular artist and the human behind The Glitch Witch, Lisa Quigley, joined me for an expansive conversation about the process of maturing as a spiritual practitioner, nurturing the Aquarian consciousness, and what it actually takes to build a business that can hold your depth.This is the first episode in a series I’m doing throughout 2026, Inside The 10th House, where we’ll explore the unique journeys of practitioners who are committed to growing and sharing their spiritual gifts with their communities and the world-at-large.We also explored:* Lisa’s journey of Aquarian evolution from being a rebel without a cause into remembering her innocent, visionary self.* Making a conscious transition from a period of voracious acquisition of certifications in healing modalities into embodied integration of skills and perspectives.* How engaging in energy work and setting up a clear ‘hello’ to her people helped clear the projector bitterness.* Communicating and articulating what we do as multi-modality practitioners without flattening it into a neat box or alienating your audience.* Extraterrestrial contact work as a portal to more fully embodying being human.Lisa Quigley is a multi-modality oracular artist, soul archaeologist, and energy architect of The Glitch Witch Otherworld. She helps imaginative baddies, sensitive dreamers, and homebody bookworms get their vision off the secret pages of their journals — and into the physical world.As an award-nominated author and long-time mystic, Lisa bridges galactic remembrance with grounded leadership so you can turn your “glitches” into your greatest magic.The Glitch Witch Otherworld is a mythic parallel realm where your archives of lost magic are recovered, and where artists, mystics, and multidimensional humans restore their destiny timeline.Connect with Lisa: https://theglitchwitch.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

Resources and Links* Support the podcast on Substack here* Join the waitlist for the upcoming Venus & Mars immersion 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 hereWe’re excited to introduce a new interview series on the podcast: Inside The 10th House!Inside The 10th House dives into the internal work and the process that practitioners, artists, writers, creatives, and visionaries move through, as they birth their work into the world.Over the years, I’ve had private conversations with colleagues, peers, and mentors about the joys, challenges, and transformations they undergo as they become the vessel for the work that wants to come through them. My intention with this series is to convey: * How each person’s journey is unique and how it’s influenced by their backgrounds, their practices, and the path that emerges.* How the creative process is almost universally non-linear and unpredictable. I hope you enjoy this exploration, and that you find solace, inspiration, and a sense of kinship through these conversations. We’ll start our series tomorrow with Lisa Quigley (aka. The Glitch Witch)! 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

Resources and Links* Support the podcast on Substack here* Join the waitlist for the upcoming Venus & Mars immersion here* Book a reading with Jonathan here* Apply for a mentorship with Jonathan here* Try the breathwork and meditation app Open for 30 days free here_______This conversation was so much fun. I invited two of my favorite diviners, Erin Kelley and Mallory Dowd – both of whom are brilliant tarot readers and intuitives in their own rights.We discussed their relationship with The Wheel of Fortune card: what they think of when this card comes up in personal and client readings, their favorite ways to be with the inevitable changes and surprises in life, and how this archetype might color 2026 energetically.We also invoked some of our favorite Tarot thinkers by reading passages from their writings:* Jessica Dore’s Tarot for Change* Amanda Yates Garcia’s article 2026 is our year to break the Wheel of Fortune* Christine Payne-Towler’s Tarot of The Holy Light* Sallie Nichols’s Tarot and the Archetypal Journey: The Jungian Path from Darkness to LightMallory Dowd (she/they) is an intuitive tarot reader, therapist, and artist in love with the world. Her work draws on her clinical training, lived experience, studies in tarot and astrology, and earth-based spiritual practices. Mallory is interested in grief, imagination, and play and is devoted to the honest, slow work of healing through relationship. Mallory offers intuitive tarot readings, therapeutic support, and spiritual and creative mentorship. They share their writing on Instagram and Substack and are currently working on two podcasts: Seeding Spells (daily divinations and love notes from the tarot) and an upcoming conversational podcast about love and grief.Mallory’s website: https://www.mallorydowd.com/Erin Kelley is a writer, devotional astrologer, and esoteric strategist with a feral heart. Her intuitive gift of right timing is the essence behind her work, affectionately called Slow Magick. Erin believes desire is holy, change happens when it is time, and that Eros is the driving impulse connecting this moment to the next. Before leaping into her second act, Erin spent over a decade creating award-winning go-to-market strategies. She now uses her instinctual abilities with her well-honed analytical skills to craft practical, effective recommendations for engaging with the subtle realm in everyday life. Erin offers astrological consultations and mentorship, is the steward and facilitator of several charmed offerings, and is the producer, editor, and host of The Nature of Invisible Things podcast. She finds much joy and satisfaction in sharing her love of the divinatory arts, helping others reconnect with the magick within and re-enchant their lives.Erin’s website: https://slowmagick.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

Resources and Links* Support the podcast on Substack here* Book a reading with Jonathan here* Apply for a mentorship container with Jonathan here* Try the breathwork and meditation app Open for 30 days free here_______February 2026 is an invitation into inevitable changes.The month begins with a Full Moon in Aquarius, with 4 personal planets and Pluto in Aquarius. Change is here. A revolution is here. We simply have to get out of the way.We explored:* Finishing chapters of our lives and hopping into the next one, even when something feels unresolved.* How to handle regrets and overthinking with wisdom and grace, especially when changes feel out of our control.* How discernment can help us take small, possibly imperfect steps towards the best direction we can see.* The unique role of mystics and conscious seekers during the intensity of eclipse season, Saturn-Neptune conjunction, and Mercury Retrograde in Pisces.* Squares to Uranus in Taurus and the conflict between ideals and capacity. 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 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.

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 second theme I received for the year.To hear more, subscribe here.

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 [email protected]. 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 [email protected]. 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 [email protected]. 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 [email protected]. 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 [email protected]. 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 [email protected]. 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 [email protected]. 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 [email protected]. 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 [email protected]. 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 [email protected]. 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 [email protected]. 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 [email protected]. 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 [email protected]. 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 [email protected]. 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 [email protected]. 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 [email protected]. 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 [email protected]. 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