- The perspective of plants + plant memory

- Centralizing ancestral relationships in both everyday life + ceremony

- The importance of connecting to your own medicine from your own land first

- The harm of appropriating and capitalizing on Native culture

- Her journey of finding a place for herself in the dance world

- The importance of letting yourself be informed by many people

- Her studies in Germany at Folkwang, immersed in the work of Pina Bausch

- Art as a tool for connectivity, altering spaces + holism

- Gestures and practices that create accessibility + relevance in institutional spaces

- Using art to facilitate creative and utilitarian output

- Combining cinematic approaches to concert dance processes

- How live performance is one of the last few things that demand our attention

- Art and dance as essential for survival + re-imagination

- How change can help us see what is enduring about us

- The Lovers + 6 of Swords

- Venus stationing direct

- Mars enters Aries

- Saturn retrogrades back into Capricorn

- Mercury stationing retrograde in Cancer

- Sun entering Cancer

- Summer Solstice

- Eclipse in Cancer

- Justice + King of Pentacles + Page of Cups

- Sun square Neptune

- Mars conjunct Neptune

- The importance of centering within and without

In this episode, we talk about eclipses through the lens of Hellenistic astrology. What are they? What do they mean? Are they auspicious? Can we do magic on eclipses? All of that + more inside this episode with Michael J Morris.

- Strength (reversed) + 6 of Pentacles

- Venus (still) Retrograde

- Mercury moves into Cancer --> preparing for retrograde

- Mars squares Venus

- How we navigate the nagging feeling that “time is running out”

- How she has changed her working habits away from burn out and towards curiosity

- Releasing goals as the only worthwhile pursuits

- Dance as a form of cultural activism

- How birth trauma activated the urgency of self care work + advocacy

- Why self care is revolutionary and political

- The role of community in addressing one’s self care needs

Alkistis Dimech is a dancer, choreographer, a writer and also a publisher. She and her partner run Scarlet Imprint where they print works on the esoteric + occult. In this episode, dance, exploring the daimonic space, what it means to interact with what she calls the “occulted body”, and again re-orienting ourselves to a different narrative of time.

- The challenges of engaging + practicing alternative healing within our systems

- The importance of healthcare within the framework of social justice

- Transparency around lineage as a way to participate in justice

- The value of failure + why we shouldn’t be afraid of it

- The necessity of self-forgiveness

- The multidimensionality of every story, business, life, situation

In this week's episode, Mary Grace offers the teacher and support of Taurus.

- How necessary joy + pleasure are to “stay with the trouble”

- Re-imagining the indirectness of our survival and primal needs

- The false binary of survival + pleasure

- The body as the altar + container for magic

- How she emerged from the art world into the work of a “kitchen witch”

- How being a settler is a fundamental orientation to how she relates to the land

- How she thinks about reciprocal relationship to the land in her practice

- Taking space to honor what is difficult right now

- The uninterrupted life that’s happening all around us

- Simone’s work and how she became known as the Black Fairy Godmother

- How I’m grounding with cooking + reading

- The optimistic value of compost

- The worst thing we can do right now

- Dis-ease calling us to healing and SHIFT

- The discrepancies in care she witnessed when working in healthcare

- Where birth work + sex work intersect for her

- What is full spectrum birth work?

- Racism + privilege in birth and birth work