Healing The Spirit: Astrology, Archetypes & Artmaking

• 220. Jamie Ridler: Finding Magic in Artmaking

  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/djstarshyne 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].

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• 219. Alison Dale: Virgo & The Spiral of Life

  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-spirit 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].

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• 218. September 2025: The Labyrinth of Change

  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 Process 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].

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• 217. Revisiting The Artist's Way with Mallory Dowd

  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. 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].

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• 216. Joanne Chen: Human Design Projector 101

  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. 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].

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