Healing The Spirit: Astrology, Archetypes & Artmaking

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.


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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 freedom
I 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.
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Resources & Links
Join 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 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

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.
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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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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.
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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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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 work
I 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.
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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 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 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