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Today you’ll meet Lana Kunštek, a body-oriented and mindfulness-centered psychotherapist from Croatia, now living in Copenhagen. Lana works with embodied spirituality and facilitates dream groups. If you are like Lana says "a dreamer" yourself, you’ll probably enjoy this conversation. I (Mannah) love working with dreams, and my only regret is that I’m not able to translate the whole thing—some parts just remain unconscious to my waking self. Therefore, what we’re talking about is a window, probably not full access, and how to make that window even more clear.
Here's what we explore:
– Living in the imaginative realm
– Body-oriented psychotherapy
– The never-ending path of therapeutic training
– Letting each client teach you how to meet them
– Every person is a mystery
– Recurring dreams and what they ask of us
– The impulse of the dream character
– The overall emotional tone of the dream
– Archetypes and symbols that speak through dreams
– The dream matrix
– Being shifted by someone else’s dream
– Feeling guided by dreams
– How dreams are often direct and unmistakably clear
– Dreams that bring up shadow material
– How to get closer to what a dream symbol means to you
– The question: are we dreaming, or are we being dreamt?
– Not every dream carries the same weight
– All dream characters as aspects of yourself
– Integrating dreams into daily life
– How to interpret a dream that could easily be misunderstood
– Endless therapy trainings — and the lie that says you’re not enough without them
– Lana's storytelling (soon to be published?) also emerging from the dream realm
– The importance of not forcing oneself
– Give the work your commitment and it will grow
– Commit to your soul every single day
– The importance of how the energy moves
– Medicine or poison? Depends on the dayI hope you enjoy enjoy this conversation
LINKS
Find Lana here:
https://www.therapywithlana.com/
https://www.instagram.com/therapywithlana/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lana-kun%C5%A1tek/
Mannah here:
https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/
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“A lot of modern medicine is disempowering... any healing comes from either a pill or what the doctor says — and where am I in all of this? There’s an agent in the middle of it, and that’s where you should build from.”
This quote is from this episode by Dr. Eric (Rick) Leskowitz who is a Psychiatrist, Author, Researcher, Educator and he even has a son who is an astrologer. Rick has worked many years within pain management.
Rick shares how we traveled as a young guy and was struck by how different cultures understand health, illness, and consciousness. Medical school felt disappointing to him because it offered complex terms for things it couldn’t truly explain — like “idiopathic hypertension,” which he critiques as a way of saying “we don’t know” in impressive language. Rick got into meditation which in a way turned out to be the “gateway drug” that led him to explore such practices as yoga, energy healing, and channeling.
Rick’s field feels so resonant and easy to follow, so I let whatever’s alive in me come forward- for better or worse. (Cancer energy for relaxation!!) TAP in as we speak about:
-The story of Franz Mesmer and how early energy healing was discredited
- How mainstream medicine suppresses alternative approaches
- The shift from mesmerism to chemical anesthesia and the continued bias in science against energy and consciousness studies
- Ricks interest in the history of the unconscious (Henri Ellenberger)
- Biofields and magnetic fields
- Tapping studies show real effects — intent and precision matter - Reiki treatment on plants, the field will grow bigger.
- Rick also mention that having an MD and Harvard affiliation has opened doors for him, and I go into a bit of a tangent about how credentials influence perception, which is a drum I often beat - that the world judges on the outer not caring for the inner life.
- Mostly we talk about LIFE ENERGY and I hope you will enjoy it, because the energy from Rick is actually really warm and gentle, as I interpret it.The youtube version of this episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDHP8Erc0Qg
Here are links to find more on Rick:
https://themysteryoflifeenergy.com/
Mannah:
https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/
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“The unseen world is timelessness… so we can always go to the points we need to go to, to find what is missing.” The quote is from this episode by Caitlín Matthews, who is a prolific author and spiritual teacher known for her deep work with Celtic wisdom, ancestral lineages, and the Western mystery tradition.
She has written 85 books and to this day she teaches in various traditions internationally. Caitlín's shamanic vocation emerged early, marked by her unique ability to sing between worlds and embody spirits, which she shares with us in this interview. TAP in as we speak about themes such as:
- Listening to the wisdom held in the land
- How she grew up with severe short-sightedness – which led her to develop a form of echolocation as a child, “singing into space” to sense the world around her
- Early spiritual perception – she experienced communication with nature spirits from a very young age, long before reading books
- Listening to the unseen world – not in a spiritualist sense, but through direct lived experience with spirits and unseen neighbors
- The indigenous considering the impact of decisions on future generations
- Divination and specific questions
- Knowing what we don't know
- Golden Verses of Hierocles — a 2,500-year-old Pythagorean ethical teaching on how to live for example "Honor first the immortal gods… and then the daemons, the spirits that look after you.”
- The importance of a spiritual practice and the context
- Discerning spiritual signals and to "reach through time"
- The shamanistic practice of finding the effect of that is still rolling through the family line, in ancestral healing work
- Helping people transition and why they can hold on longer
- We also talk about grieving and Caitlin says "I get so angry when people are told at work, two months after someone close has died, to ‘cheer up" - I fully agree!!
- I get to ask her a final question that for me often comes up as we speak about ancestral healing, and that is one of family estrangement. Tap in and hear all of that and more. I hope you enjoy this episode and feel like sharing it with others.
Here are the links for Caitlin Matthews:
www.hallowquest.org.uk https://substack.com/@caitlinmatthewstigerna Mannah: https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/ LINK to Youtube version of this interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhrUJG9HMXI -
"We must shift the paradigm from one of separation and scientific materialism to one that recognizes the sacredness and interconnectedness of everything so that we will be able to live in a way that supports the thriving of life on Earth now and for future generations."(Judy Tsafrir, Sacred Psychiatry, 2024.)
In today’s episode, I speak with Judy Tsafrir – a psychiatrist for both adults and children, psychoanalyst, astrologer, and shamanic practitioner. I’m so pleased to have her on the podcast with such a groundbreaking theme. I spend much of our conversation trying to wrap my head around how psychiatry can be sacred.
Judy’s work challenges the reductionist approach of Western medicine - She writes in her book, that true healing isn’t about returning to a broken version of “normal,” but about creating space for deep transformation rooted in intuition, soul, and meaning. In this interview you will hear how she works and what she thinks of the time we are in, especially within allopathic medicine.
Here are some of the core themes we explore:
— The limits of conventional psychiatry, which often ignores the body’s innate intelligence, fails to seek root causes, and disconnects healing from the sacred.
— Why Judy does not support what is going on today in psychiatry, yet the importance of diagnosing
— Her identity as a “Chironic psychiatrist,” embracing the archetype of the wounded healer and the major turning point for her at her Chiron Return
— The existential void created by a materialist worldview and how this contributes to alienation and hopelessness.
— The role of astrology in providing a framework for understanding oneself
— Holistic weaning from psychiatric medications
— Using food as medicine versus relying on pharmaceutical pills
— The range of healing modalities Judy works with, including shamanic practices, energy healing, and meditationThis conversation is a powerful reflection of a new way to view and treat psychological wounds - I hope you enjoy it and learn a little something new!
LINKS:
Judys website: https://www.judytsafrirmd.com/
Judys IG: https://www.instagram.com/sacred_psychiatry/
Mannahs web as usual:
https://www.instagram.com/sacred_psychiatry/
Video Version of this episode: https://youtu.be/DIEKjJ4-qJ0
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My guest today is a colleague in evolutionary astrology and an inspired author. Elisa Robyn has had an eclectic career and now finds herself an author against all odds. She holds a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology and two Master’s degrees—one in Geology and one in Jewish Mysticism. I found her because of this article: https://archive.org/details/judaismandevolutionaryastrology
In this conversation, we talk about how she got to where she is today and how she navigated her different passions. We also discuss the many forms meditation can take, the tendency to juggle multiple disciplins, and how Elisa Robyn serves as a mentor of hope, also now in the stressful collective energy. She emphasizes the importance of paradox - holding both sides. Listen in to meet an inspiring Aquarius person, speaking of flow, her passion of writing, tools to open up consciousness, pluto transits and just chilling with me in this time of transition collectively. Thank you for being with us.
LINKS:
Find Elisa here:
https://elisarobyn.com/
her books:
https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B002FK6LHY/allbooks?ingress=0&visitId=251ec3aa-8415-4ce1-8c42-3f7d3b0da5c4
More Mannah:
https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/
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Tap into the Shaman's Mind with me and discover a hidden truth—the realm of the Gods. Jonathan Hammond is the author of The Shaman's Mind: Huna Wisdom to Change Your Life. He is a spiritual teacher, and in this chapter of TAP, we speak about such a relevant and transformative perspective on the nature of life, to put it like that. It is about our connection to nature and the nature of who we really are.
It is about healing our divisions, changing the limiting material in the unconscious mind, ancient ways, and the understanding that we are all connected (unity consciousness).
Her are some of the points we engage in:
There is not one path We undervalue the power of our mind because we can enter into different realities Everything is alive and has personhood (animism) Choice is a magical power Hoʻoponopono The problem is lighting the way like a directional energy Memorized patterns that are antithetical to our growth The inner child left alone to do the work of accessing magic Imagine a reality and give it legitimacy The problem is that we bail! Trauma is life blindsiding us Destabilizing us into something we have not yet experienced (Pluto?) In the astrology section, we speak of Pluto in Virgo in the 12th house, and I hear that symbolism when Jonathan speaks of service, the feeling of "should"/duty (Virgo), and toxicity being exposed (Pluto) publicly, as well as Jonathan feeling his work is somehow about to reach more people (12th house of the public) Nature is self-interested yet gives to all Indigenous mind that holds both self and collective awareness as we co-evolve Gaia is always moving toward evolution Befriend urges—desires that are part of our soul purpose To work on behalf of Self The idea of humans having dominion over the earth Separation from nature versus the shamanic mind of relationship with the natural world Mind virus The earth evolving to become aware of itself Earth beings in an interdependent world The importance of cooperation Our intrinsic power Mana No one can override your felt sense and truth The three ways of power and why not to send the power up To not care what other people think Our individual essence needs expression, so do not betray that! Nature only wants to be itself Collectively, the nodes are stationed at 27 degrees of Virgo-Pisces, ready for eclipses. In Evolutionary Astrology, the lunar nodes represent our soul's evolutionary path, so what service is drawing you in? A sick culture exposing itself Using your gifts as a lightworker to usher in this special time The Age of Aquarius—we are right at the beginning of it, which is why we are so polarized Spirituality, trauma healing, neurodivergence, and non-binary identities in the public eye To not fit within the old consensus paradigm The new leadership To get out from under the oppression Know you are that! And contribute to the organismI hope you have the time for being with us in the whole of this episode, and if you feel more, check out the links below.
LINKS:
This is the book we speak about: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B086FXM79H
I listened on audio book, so check your audible choices
Website: https://mindbodyspiritmaui.com/
More Mannah:
https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/
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Ruthie Smith is back to discuss the final part of her book, with many different practices and points. Ruthie is a psychoanalytic and energy psychotherapist with 35 years of experience, specializing in trauma treatment and training therapists in gentle body-based healing methods. I hope you will enjoy her sharing a piece of her work here in this conversation.
Here are some of the topics we go through together:
🔹 Two practices to regulate the nervous system
🔹 HeartMath – creating heart-brain coherence
🔹 Transforming state of being and manifesting change
🔹 The process of clearing trauma
🔹 Core beliefs and how to clear them
🔹 Releasing stress in stressful times
🔹 The healing circle with all the archetypal energies involved in the problem
🔹 Tapping, energy balancing, clearing resistance/unconscious blocks
🔹 The infinite field
🔹 PRESENCE, NOT EMPATHY
🔹 A follow-along practice to clear energy blockages
🔹 Inner critic stemming from early life conditioning
🔹 Using tapping to come into the body
🔹 The waterfall of light chakra clearing
🔹 Yawning under energy releasing
🔹 Energy follows intention
🔹 Bringing a sense of safety through imagining water full of light
🔹 Integrating mind, body, and energy and its many systems
🔹 Energy boundaries
🔹 Big energy versus feeling invaded
🔹 How to heal compromised energy bodies
🔹 Healing all the fragments of ourselves
🔹 Shame and early trauma’s connection to archetypal energy
🔹 Active imagination to transforming our state of being
🔹 Therapy to do on your own, living in a vibrational worldLINKS:
Find Ruthie here:
https://theflamecentre.co.uk/ruthie-smith/
The book we talk about here:
https://www.karnacbooks.com/author.asp?AID=25263
Mannah:
https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/
First part with Ruthie Smith:
https://therapeuticastrology.pairsite.com/podcast-episode/84-ruthie-smith-energy-soul-connecting-and-awakening-consciousness-psychotherapy-in-a-new-paradigm/
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I am so glad to meet with Matthew David Segall, whose podcast's name refers to this quote from Whitehead: “The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.” Matt is a philosopher, and if you start to follow his work on Substack, podcast, or newsletters, you will realize he is very productive and helpful in elevating our perspective. Aquarius yes.
In this interview, we begin by discussing his article on time, but it is soon disrupted, as we are recording on a Gemini Moon, leading us in different directions. Particularly, this is because I, Mannah, cannot hold back with interpretations of Matt's archetypes in his birth chart.
Tap in as we speak about:
-Being sensitive to the texture of time
-Astrology as an important source of orientation
-A more cosmologically grounded civilization
-The nature of time Psycho-technology
-No moment is the same, yet the calendar repeats every year
-Time as mysterious
-Time as based on planetary movements rather than the artificial clock
-An Aquarian outlook
-How we can't keep becoming bigger, better, and faster
-Learning how to live more simply, yet fulfilling
-When making the machine more efficient is the priority
-The need to downsize/degrowth
-On the verge of collapse Ideas generated from friction
-How new technologies can be set up to extract wealth
-The eighth house (transformation because of facing our limitations) & Cancer (integration emotionally) rising—interpretations from my heart
-Cancer also being about internal rhythms, the past/history and well-developed imagination I feel this natural and warm energy is with us in this interview - at the expense of some of my deeper questions perhsps, because Matt quickly mentions teh 3 gods I wanted to talk about, but his cancer energy has the intended effect on me - I mean I think it is cancers intention for others to be themselves- and I end up forgetting to interview, and just sharing and being curios from a very personal place
- One part of me (Mannah) recognizes Matt's work in the world almost as its own soul fulfillment. As I felt that - what I call my soul recognizing itself - and I examined myself, it seemed like a past life thing, because in this life it is surely not my destiny to be a philosopher in that sense, where most of my time is spend in social work these days.. There is a grief, it seems, not from who I call "I", but from one part of me, who used to walk the path of a pilgrim or philosopher - a past life memory. There could be many other explanations for that deep surging fire or that internal burning that Matt Segalls work is sparking in me (this is meant in a very positive sense) -could it be - like he speaks about in the end with the series Severance- that the cage of the material structures is just not enough and tapping into footnotes2plato is just like discovering the depth of ones own spirit, As though looking from the trivial routine-cage, which is somehow also needed for parts of us (the earthy part), glimpsing philosophy's way of making connections into deep, reflective understanding through dialoging just works like a magnet when you have a quest for meaning that also needs satisfaction. However, to me, it seems like a very real past-life attraction too!
- Why astrology and therapy are a good idea to combine if you want to be truly seen in a very dynamic way, as ever evolving into your higher potential
-What Matt Segall cares about these days and how knowing contrast leads to a deeper understanding
-Bringing science and spirituality together without losing what’s good about them separately
-Corrupt governance showing us a need for the old system to come to an end
-The concern about repeating history
-Rudolf Steiner as a philosopher to bring in during these times and his 3 main spheres
-The cultural life
- Plutonian quality to expose truth
I am so glad that Matthew David Segall & Footnotes2Plato exists — If you get something out of this conversation, you may want to see the links to continue on with:
LINKS
Matt did a beautiful recording of the article we talk about here: https://youtu.be/Dm8vZ83MUSw
You can read the article here: https://footnotes2plato.com/2015/05/15/minding-time-chronos-kairos-and-aion-in-an-archetypal-cosmos/
Other links; https://footnotes2plato.com/ https://footnotes2plato.substack.com/ https://www.youtube.com/user/0ThouArtThat0
Mannah: https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/
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Such a wonderful episode you are about to hear! Meet David Polidi, who is a licensed independent clinical social worker (LICSW), EMDR certified therapist, consultant-in-training, and IFS therapist. He has such great compassion, which I feel comes through in every episode of his own podcast, Empowered Through Compassion: EMDR and IFS Informed Therapy, and now right here on TAP!! He is also a true eclectic like myself - we Sagittarius moon people will know!
Enjoy as we talk about synthesizing IFS and EMDR. This conversation will make the most sense if you have some knowledge of those frameworks. After the call, I realized that from the very beginning, we had been talking about Chiron in Aries, as this is the title David Polidi uses for his podcast, website, and business. It is activated for him in this time which we talk about in the end of the interview, but also, in general, it is at the top of his chart, influencing his public profile. Chiron in Aries is exactly what he is talking about in his description of strength.
Listen in as we speak about:
— Tunnels that intersect and the treasure in the center
- Helping clients find the truth within
— The internal landscape
— The spiritual core of the healing work
— Memory reconsolidation
— Healing the world through therapy
— Chronic pain and EMDR
— Parts in roles as helpers — potentially coming up when the client’s theme hits home for the therapist
— The fire drill
— The wounded healer (amazingly, I find that the whole conversation was filled with this archetype?!?)
— Helping parts relax back
— Somatic understanding of how the body is trying to communicate with you
— When you or clients are activated / feel pain after BLS
— Healing is not linear
— SUD — problems with checking the data (from Mannah’s point of view)
— The Syzygy Model
— Tapping into self-qualities
— Working with protectors and their levels of urge
— Is it: How do I feel now, or how did I feel back then?
— Chiron in Aries, which is potentially also about breaking free from external authority — and doing it with strength from the inside out - and in the tenth house of career it also signifies working with populations that are somehow different or the odd one out
— David’s great references to movies and the dystopian views of the past playing out in the present
— How characters in pop culture are inside us all from an archetypal perspectiveI hope you felt this interview and meeting of hearts.
Here are some links to follow when you are up for that sort of thing:
LINKS:
Find more om David Polidi:
https://www.empoweredthroughcompassion.com/
His podcast:
https://empoweredthroughcompassion.podbean.com/
Mannahs web:
https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/
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Today, we continue where we left off in Part One with Doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Michael Smith from Soma Dao Qigong. In this conversation, he shares with us the six common ways we experience overwhelm—and, most importantly, what we can do to navigate and heal from it- which are instinctually, viscerally, intuitively, emotionally, egoically, and existentially.
I, Mannah, bring in reflections on the archetype of Pisces, and as you may know, this energy is not just about heightened sensitivity and the risk of overwhelm, but also about profound healing and deep compassion. I recommend this episode anytime you feel overstimulated or fatigued or losing sleep - there is a way to shift states, because maybe what has happened is that we are back in the past, at a nervous system level. Dr. Michael Smith offers powerful imagery and associations to help us break free from the grind- with great generosity, he guides us through methods and exercises to support healing -Let yourself have this one.
Join us as we explore:
Times of Piscean closure and how we are affected by that energy Dreams and how they were revered in other cultures Whether something beyond us orchestrates the messages we receive in dreams How to heal from the symptoms of overwhelm Why working with our earliest traumas is essential Metaphors around the horse, rider, and binoculars Trauma therapy and that the only way is healing the woundI truly hope you enjoyed this conversation as much as I did. Here are the links we mentioned:
Read more about Michael and his background here: https://somadaoqigong.com/about/
Check out his current courses here:
https://somadaoqigong.com/courses/
Mannahs web:
https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/
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Do you wonder if you are living your calling? According to my guest today, the greatest crime against the universe is not living one's calling. Meet Pamela Eakins, author of over 20 books, PhD in sociology, and founder of the Pacific Mystery School.
I highly recommend this interview—I was inspired from beginning to end, and if you're curious about the tarot, I think you will be too. Pamela Eakins published a tarot deck when there were only seven tarot decks on the market and just two publishing presses producing them. In this episode I mention how her writings speak to my right brain - what I mean to say is that the content is guiding my soul, it resonates deeply and I can come closer to the sea of deep consciousness. Like Pamela Eakins writes in Tarot of the Spirit: "The objective of working with tarot, whether as oracle, spiritual path or meditative tool, is to attain a sublime integration of internal contradictory elements in order to transcend conflict or conditioned response patterns and move into a state of inner peace and deep awareness of our true identity"
Here are some of the topics we go into in our conversation:
Desire – In the book Tarot of the Spirit, Pamela Eakins writes: "There is desire to move, desire to know, desire to change, desire to grow, desire to fill up the Void of Life with mystery... No one imbues us with this desire. Desire sprouts and blooms of its own accord, in its own time..... Desire is the only medium strong enough to bind the scholar to that which is studied"
Aquarian ideas/Visionary cosmology/The universe/Sociology/
New paradigm – different ways of knowing, eventually leading us to the field of neurodivergence and being cosmologically divergent
How the Tarot of the Spirit represents the Western Mystery Tradition’s knowledge
How we are made of stars and the universe is within us
The universe at the cutting edge of its existence
Mystical imagination
How to know if your calling aligns with a higher purpose rather than being a result of trauma adaptation
Pamela Eakins' experience of war and how it changed her
The origins of the Tarot of the Spirit for Pamela – a card game
Compromising an academic career to follow spiritual awakening – without knowing what she was doing
Taking big leaps
How tarot has been shamed – as Pamela says, it often happens to those who threaten the system
The sun card – making everything transparent, leading to spiritual realization
The reason why the cards you draw are always the right ones
Pamela’s interpretation of the 1 to 3 cards
The chariot and the karma card interpretated
Trust you are on the right place at the right time To be DRAWN in - not just being led by passion but finding synchronicityIn the end, Pamela answers several questions at once, using the cards and drawing three for us as a collective. Don’t miss that part—there’s real wise download being shared.
Note: Pamela mentions the Salem witch trials but accidently says the another year. The correct years are 1692-1693.
LINKS
Find more on Pamela Eakins school here:
https://www.tarotofthespirit.com/home.html
Her youtube channel with teachings here:
https://www.youtube.com/@pamelaeakins9488
Mannahs website here:
https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/
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So glad to be joined by my podcast colleague, Sheila Bélanger, who also works with astrology in a healing way. In fact, she weaves together archetypal astrology, depth psychology, and shamanic wisdom. She shares with me exactly how she does it—and I love it! For example, she explains how she uses Chiron in inner healing work with generational trauma and how Process Work, as an awareness-shifting model, integrates beautifully with astrology.
Sheila Bélanger is living on the edge in more ways than one—and my Eighth House planets kind of love that.
Topics we cover:
— Transformative integration of astrology, shamanism, and depth psychology
— What do we actually see in the birth chart? Is it the person’s identity, soul, or current life initiations?
— The levels of Chiron: personal wound-gift, generational, and shadow
— What is Process Work Psychology as developed by Arnold Mindell?
— What this year is about collectively (2025)Find links to Sheila Bélanger here:
— Website: https://ontheedgesofchange.com/
— Astrology Alchemy Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/210462Free resources for Mannah’s audience:
— Free Astrology Life Cycles Digital Course from Sheila:
Go to https://ontheedgesofchange.com/astrology
Choose one of the five life passages courses or the Pluto in Aquarius course. At checkout, use this coupon code: MANNAH— Free workshop replay: Key Astrology Cycles of 2025
Go to: https://ontheedgesofchange.com/2025-astrology-cycles-replay-optinMannahs website:
https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/
Video version of this episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QcNzqOQqtE
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Justin Wesenberg channels poetry, and there is a unique story behind how that began. As an author of more than ten books, a meditation teacher, and a spiritual guide, he shares in this episode of TAP how his spiritual awakening set him on a path of service. After years of seeking, he experienced a profound kundalini awakening that transformed his entire life. Now, he seeks to inspire others to find true freedom and deepen their connection with all that is. In the fire of transformation all will dissolve, until only love remains. His books include:
Ascension: The Path to Liberation
Kundalini: The Energy of Awakening
Yoga: The Science of Self-Realization
Unity: The Evolution of Consciousness
Samadhi: The Divine Light
Shiva: The Fire of Transformation
Gaia: Rise of the Goddess
Quantum: A New Reality
The Sacred Nine: Wisdom of the Ancients
Gnosis: Knowledge of SelfJust so you get an idea about the topics he is engaged in. In this interview he shares his awakening experience, the integration time after and how it influences his connection to the universe now plus the promise he made to Shiva. It is beautiful and very inspiring and I think it is meant to be shared with all of us.
We also talk about elevation, because that is huge in his birth chart. When you have the Sun in the 11th house* of broad awareness, high values, progressive ideas, then you will have the need for elevating standards of life - your personal but also on a global level. You can have insights that can really solve problems with this signature. Justin is a cancer Sun, so in this episode we also speak of FEELING the truth - this is the experience you can have from reading or listening to poetry.
LINKS:
Find Justin Wesenbergs books here:
https://justinwesenberg.com/book-series/
His main site: https://justinwesenberg.com/
Books can also be found here: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B07DBFG4HB
or on audible platforms
My website:
https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/
Video version of this episode: https://youtu.be/q19u1ltNMB8
*There is of course more to his chart, there always is more, than I can communicate in an interview where we touch on it lightly - even a lot more to the 11th house but in broad terms it is the higher awareness, it is the personal creativity, strong desire for emancipation and enlightened way of life, and also that tendency we speak about in the end to constantly refine ones creative expression. With Cancer there I feel it is the water from above, like music.
** One more thing: I do say something like "what the planets are doing to us" and of course this is not accurate exactly - but let's go into the more philosophical debate another time.
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Davis K. Brimberg, Ph.D., has written a book about the paranormal phenomena, and in this episode, we explore some of the topics in there. Get ready for a conversation about what traditional academic psychology leaves out!! Davis K. Brimberg is a psychologist, a Scorpio rising, and admirable unafraid of wild animals.
TAP in as we discuss themes such as:
Psychic experiences
Major figures in the field of parapsychology
Abraham Lincoln’s precognitions
Inner awareness and external reality
When there is no evidence that life is going to change
Psychic experiences around emotionally intense situations
Owl handling and owl symbolism
Owls in ancient Egypt
Owls and Lilith- and the idea that psychic abilities are dangerous and bad
Owls as great listeners!Claircognizance
Premonition – a forewarning
Reflections on phobias being connected to past livesChildren remembering previous personalities
Birthmarks that point to past lives
I hope you enjoy this episode!
See below for more on Davis and her book.
LINKS:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D2RVM1HD
https://www.drdaviskbrimberg.com/
https://www.instagram.com/daviskbrimbergphd/
Mannahs website:
https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/
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Dr. Owen Roberts, PhD, has been offering shamanic training for over 30 years and has advanced experience with shamanic healing. Today we speak about how he says, that the planet cannot sustain either our current global economy or anywhere near the current population levels. Dr. Owen Roberts have been working to avert the climate crisis via shamanism since 1979, but now believes we have passed the point where it can be averted, and now entered the stage of collapse they sought to avoid. His focus is now on developing social, agricultural and spiritual structures to save the best of what we have as we move into the next dark age.
TAP in as we speak about:
Can you call yourself a shaman, and is it possible to curse someone? Treating nature as a family member The heart is the source What the spirit guides of the time said about Covid and the decline in health The wave of beings currently working to destroy humanity If you exceed your climate limits, your civilization will collapse The system is designed to exploit Shorten the distance people have to travel Ceremony of little bits of life Connection with the environment The importance of examining your values It's not the consumer that's the problem Invest money in renewables Nuclear power – the mother earth will curse you Shamanic systems of resistance Technological determinism A heartfelt connections to nature and spiritual beings Detecting and understanding the spirit beings which are called “social media algorithms” Psychic manifestations of the human race (this point is so interesting!!)LINKS:
Find more on Dr. Owen Roberts here:
https://shamansdirectory.com/directory/owen-roberts/
Mannahs website is:
https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/
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Welcome to the third and - for now - last segment with John Clarke, a passionate and dedicated IFS teacher and podcast host (Going Inside). In this episode, we explore the theme of anxiety through the lens of working with parts and Self. While this concludes the planned little series on IFS, I’m hopeful that John Clarke will come back for more IFS insights sometime in the future.
NOW for this this episode, we discuss:
- Threat Response in the nervous system
- Downward Arrow Technique (used in several therapies, NARM included) to really located the core fear/belief
- How parts hold and express anxiety and fear and the practise of being okay without knowing
- Is anxiety a part? (We who have seen "Inside out 2" kind of think it might be this orange part??)
- Fear of being taken advantage of
- What happens when a part has no translatable message when interviewed (by yourself or in a therapy session)
- The importance of starting the process by working with protectors
- Understanding the inner critic as a protective response
- Repressed anger and its impact
- Fear / Anger that don’t need to be acted out
- Expressing emotions from multiple parts to acknowledge yourself, without focusing on the responses from other people
- In therapy session - how do we work with unfinished business, in the active imagination
- Collective anxiety and the importance of validating the difficulty of not knowing what the future holds
- BEING WITH (as oppose to doing something
- And two points in the end: From John about feeling fear and doing it anyway as one way of healing the anxiety - and from Mannah just the sense that it holds spiritual importance to overcome fear and anxiety and enter into peace of mind
Happy you are with us - I think we need this if we want to overcome anxiety, to speak openly about it, try and understand it to transform it & liberate from it.
LINKS:
Find more on John Clarke:
https://www.johnclarketherapy.com/
Going Inside Podcast:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/going-inside-healing-trauma-from-the-inside-out/id1728733093
My website:
https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/
Hey if you want to the video versions, they reside here: https://www.youtube.com/@therapeuticastrology
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Phil Mollon PhD is a psychoanalyst, clinical psychologist, and energy psychotherapist. He has pioneered the development of Psychoanalytic Energy Psychotherapy and teaches Blue Diamond Healing, which he will guide us through in this interview. Get ready to tap into deeper healing work and explore the philosophy of healing from an energetic standpoint. Phil Mollon’s journey can perhaps be seen in his authorship—I ask him about that, and he says it’s on a continuum. Here are his books listed; I just like the sound of the titles even:
The Fragile Self: The Structure of Narcissistic Disturbance
Multiple Selves, Multiple Voices: Working with Trauma, Violation, and Dissociation
Remembering Trauma: A Psychotherapist's Guide to Memory and Illusion
Freud and False Memory Syndrome
The Unconscious
Releasing the Self: The Healing Legacy of Heinz Kohut
Shame and Jealousy: The Hidden Turmoils
EMDR and the Energy Therapies: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Psychoanalytic Energy Psychotherapy: Inspired by Thought Field Therapy, EFT, TAT, and Seemorg Matrix
The Disintegrating Self: Psychotherapy with Adult ADHD, Autistic Spectrum, and Somato-psychic Conditions
Pathologies of the Self: Exploring Narcissistic and Borderline States of MindAND the one we speak of today:
"Blue Diamond Healing: Exploring Transpersonal and Trans-Dimensional Aspects of Energy Psychotherapy" from Karnac 2022In this chapter of TAP we talk about themes such as:
-Energy Psychology Approaches
- Freud and Libido - similar to descriptions of life force
- We do the actual Blue Diamond healing!
- The energy system is where information is stored
- Congruence and coherence
- Unconscious objections and sabotage patterns
- The American commercial culture in the energy healing business - yet they all work very well by activating the subtle energy system
-Creating necessary entropy in the too-ordered patterns in the mind- Pathogens and parasites and intrusions that give rise to dysfunctional patterns
-Errant coding that can exist in a number of higher dimensions
- The reason why psychedelic work
- The Blue Diamond Healing and the high heart point as direct access point to the unified field
- The work of William Tiller
- Why we attract more of the same
- The SACRED UNKNOWN EVOLVING SELF
-Transference in a new light
- How the blue diamond field will bring about what we ask, if we dont have internal objections - but what if we have unconscious traumatized parts of us that do object to healing?
- Coherent thoughts expressed in coherent sentences that can work like magic
And much more
LINKS:
Find the book we speak of right here:
https://www.karnacbooks.com/product/blue-diamond-healing-exploring-transpersonal-and-transdimensional-aspects-of-energy-psychotherapy/96169/?MATCH=1
Phil Mollons website:
https://www.philmollon.net/
Phil Mollon also recommends the website of Noel Tobin, who describes very clearly some of the background science:
https://creation-principles.org/
Mannahs website:
https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/
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Do you know about and or practice Energy Psychotherapy? Our guest today, Ruthie Smith, is the Director on a Training Programme teaching energy psychotherapy to counsellors and psychotherapists (run by Energy Psychotherapy Training Ltd.)
I (Mannah) am over the moon about her book, "Energy, Soul-Connecting and Awakening Consciousness: Psychotherapy in a New Paradigm", as it serves as an essential meeting place for different methods and ways of thinking within contemporary trauma therapy, while being rooted in ancient wisdom.
I had an extended interview with Ruthie because the information in her book is vast. You can choose to listen, pause, and come back to it as many times as needed. Personally, I love the long format, and you might too as you join us.
Here’s what you’ll hear about if you choose to stay with us:
Ruthie Smith weaves together insights from neurobiology, epigenetics, and consciousness studies, presenting a framework that alleviates trauma and fosters self-awareness and personal transformation. The meaning of multidimensionality The interconnections of mind and body. How to experience ease and grace in the flow. Methods for clearing trauma from both past and present life. Realising Interdependence From 3D to 5D Quantum Mechanics A glimpse of awakening Manifestation David Hawkins scale (levels of consciousness) The Veils of the ego Past lives coming through into this life Clearing repetition compulsion The aquarian age and aquarian technology How to feel better much quicker The way out of suffering Clearing the clouds of our emotions SHAME Exploring the shift in consciousness and accessing different timelines as part of personal healing and growth. Heart consciousness - PRESENCE Synchronicity Pure Awareness- the light of our true nature A snake unwinding The 4 ways to handle poisoned plants - different antidotes to negative emotions The path of liberation Tantra, the path of joy Dharma - discernment Spiritual principles The noble truths Dhogzhen Are we egoistical or coming from the heart? Traumatic invalidation - when ones own perception is being invalidated - scapegoat archetype Energetic Boundaries Our DNA, how we come from the starts and originally had 12 strands of DNA God Eternal within the body The wisdom in the unconscious The trauma of our age as being disconnected from soulThank you for listening- Be aware of a correction from Ruthie: "Made a mistake with yanas around 56/57 minutes – I say that the first ‘noble truth’ of the Buddha is to do no harm – I was muddled and this is incorrect. I meant to say
‘the first teaching of the Buddha– i.e the first turning of the wheel of the dharma’ - was to do no harm
Similarly it isn’t the 2nd ‘Noble truth’ with Mahayana –
instead say ‘the second teaching of the Buddha– i.e the second turning of the wheel of the dharma’ "
LINKS:
Here is the book Energy, Soul Connecting and Awakening Consciousness - Psychotherapy in a New Paradigm:
https://www.karnacbooks.com/product/energy-soul-connecting-and-awakening-consciousness-psychotherapy-in-a-new-paradigm/97034/
Learn more about Ruthies work:
www.theflamecentre.co.uk energypsychotherapytraining.co.uk Contact: [email protected].uk Find Mannah: https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/ -
Let’s tap into embodied learning, the role of neuroscience in therapeutic work and energetic experiences. I’m so pleased to welcome therapist, teacher, and speaker Kim Barthel. She is a seasoned educator with 40 years of experience- Kim Barthel travels the world providing workshops and mentorship to therapists, educators, social workers, physicians, special-needs care providers, and parents.
With her Sagittarian storytelling and value put on the experienced insights, we are well set up to tap in to these themes:
- Neuroplasticity and its role in knowing
- Why embodiment might come first
- Kim’s definition of healing
- The power of alignment and the expansive tension in us
- The difference between delusional optimism and having hope
- Spiritual connection and its relationship with the nervous system
- How polyvagal theory can ease shame
- The neurobiology of compassion and connection
- The attachment center in the brain
- Astrology’s transformative help—when it’s truly felt
- Staying curious and evolving our knowledge beyond the current research is essential
- Can talk therapy address somatic issues?
- Neurodevelopmental treatment and its impact
- Learning as an ongoing, layered process
- The magic of presence and energetic experiences that are not measurable
- The need for multi-sensory engagement in effective therapy
- The missing emphasis on energy compared to earlier
- Keep learning!!!
Plus, a quick look at the astrological archetypes of Sagittarius, Taurus, and Pluto in Aquarius.
Much love and thank you for listening!!
Learn more about Kim Barthel here:
https://www.kimbarthel.ca/
My website is:
https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/
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Happy New Year! I want to sprinkle some good energy in yor direction, so I’ve invited a great astrologer and writer. Gray Crawford is a full-time astrologer, and as he shares in this episode, his career really took off with Neptune in Pisces. Now, Neptune is changing signs, coming into a conjunction with Saturn. Mercury will be up to all sorts of tricks, the nodes are shifting signs, we got eclipses, Mars-Pluto dynamics — there’s a lot to look at! Gray is incredibly helpful in this episode, guiding us through what it all might mean and I do recommend his writings - see links below.
Best wishes — and remember, YOU HAVE A PLACE TO CALL WHOLE — even if you find yourself alone on New Year’s Eve, surrounded by annoying people, or experiencing anything in between.
Let’s catch up in the new year! We’ve still got lots to tap into, and I personally have a few solo episodes I want to create as well — let’s see how it will all go down in 2025!
Mannah
FIND MORE ABOUT Gray Crawford right here:
https://graycrawford.net/
I recommend his blog:
https://graycrawford.net/blog
His youtube is:
https://www.youtube.com/@graycrawfordastrology
My web is:
https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/
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