Healing The Spirit: Astrology, Archetypes & Artmaking

On the surface, Venus and Mercury are flirting, playing, and cajoling with the outer planets. But underneath, there’s a more profound lesson at play.
Interdependence is a tricky concept. We’re so immersed in our resistance to skillful relationality, so we instead toggle back and forth between codependency and hyper-independence.
How do we behave in ways that reflect the interconnected nature of our wellness, liberation, love, and truth?
How do we collaborate without holding ourselves back?
How do we truly and intentionally bring out the best in one another?
I offer some practices here. Have a listen and let me know your thoughts.
Resources & Links
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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.
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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 healingthespiritpodcast@gmail.com.


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Welcome to August!
We discussed three themes for August 2026:
* Power is relational.
* Prioritize your heart.
* Surrender into the mystery.
This month, we’re being asked to listen deeply. To pay attention to what truly wants to be communicated and expressed beyond the words.
We’re also asked to understand and experience our heart expansion more deeply. The journey is ecstatic, euphoric, and sometimes excruciating, and the reward of choosing the heart is that new doors will open for you.
Finally, we’re walking into eclipse season in August, and there’s major shedding that would like to occur in our lives. This is not failure. This is a graduation point. Stay close to your spiritual practice, trust the Inner Sage, and let the big emotions move through, so you can make space for the new.
Resources & Links
Book an Astrology Reading here.
Sign up for Creative Exorcism, 9 weeks of daily guided ritual to unleash your inner creative beast 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 here
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 healingthespiritpodcast@gmail.com.


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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.
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Resources & Links
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 here
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 healingthespiritpodcast@gmail.com.


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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.
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Resources & Links
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 here
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 healingthespiritpodcast@gmail.com.


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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.
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Resources & Links
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 here
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 healingthespiritpodcast@gmail.com.


This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jonathankoeofficial.substack.com/subscribe