Clear Light Creative

Edward Varnie is the Writer and Director of independent films such as Release, Fathers, and The Weight. In this episode, he and Chiara Luce discuss what it takes to make your vision a movie and how he's done it again and again RESOURCES - Like Brothers, by Jay & Mark Duplass - The Artist's Way, by Julia Cameron - A Love Supreme, by John Coltrane - Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell - Steal Like an Artist, by Austin Kleon - Chiara's Jazz to Work by Playlist EDWARD'S PROJECTS - Fathers: Learn more about and support his latest feature film - @FathersTheMovie: Instagram - The Weight: Instagram - Latest award-winning short - Release: Watch his premiere feature-length film on Amazon Prime. - Portfolio - Instagram - Twitter “Life's what happens when you're busy making other plans.” John Lennon “To live in the meantime means to live an artful happy life.” Rev. Dr. Dwight D. Andrews - Episode Webpage - Follow Clear Light Creative on Instagram . . --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/clear-light-creative/support

On Halloween night, October 31st, 2020, there will be a full moon in the sign of Taurus, known as The Hunter's Moon. The last time this happened was in 1944, and the last time it was a Blue Moon… well, what even is a Blue Moon? Michelle and Chiara discuss this and so much more. In this episode, they define the energy of this potent magical night. They share what to watch out for, both good and bad, and why this moon is a supercharged rarity and how to make the most of it. They also share traditional pagan Samhain and Halloween Rituals. RESOURCES - Michelle's Transit Support Group - Samhain - Halloween Rituals - Follow us on Instagram @clearlightcreative - How to look up your birth chart: Go to Astro.com > Free Horoscopes > Drawings & Calculations > Extended Chart Selection Once there Enter your information Then scroll down to Display & Calculation Options Click True Node and Descending Node Then scroll to Additional Objects and click Pars Fortunae Lilith Chiron Ceres Pallas Juno Vesta Then click “Click here to show the chart” SHOW NOTES (1:30) Episode Intro (2:07) Where to find the Samhain - Halloween rituals (3:11) What's making Chiara happy (3:36) Episode Corrections (5:19) Astrology Interview Starts (5:50) About Michelle's Transit Support Group (7:48) How Chiara got Libra New Mooned + Mercury Retrograde woes (10:24) What happens when Venus is on your Ascendant (13:53) The definition of a Blue Moon (15:17) The astronomy of Full Moons (15:50) The zodiac signs that will be most affected by this Full Moon (16:28) Strange things that happen during the Full Moon (17:35) What happens when the Moon is conjunct Uranus (19:46) The Psychology of Opposites - Moon vs Sun - Taurus vs Scorpio (23:01) The origins of Halloween + Practicing Samhain Rituals + Full Moon Rituals and their importance (25:25) Aha moments to watch out for this Saturday (28:34) Comparing the energy of this Full Moon and the Taurus eclipse cycles in 1994-95, 2003, 04, 05, and 2012, 13, 14 (33:25) Where to find a real Pagan Samhain Ritual + A Ritual to honor and communicate with your ancestors . . . --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/clear-light-creative/support

You may have heard of the "dreaded" Saturn Return. Well, right now, it's about to happen to THE INTERNET, which turned 29 in August. HBD World Wide Web, we love you! Astrologer Michelle Gregg and Host Chiara Luce discuss what dramatic changes this might bring, including privacy infringements and governmental regulation. What, if anything, will change as our favorite entity undergoes this dramatic transit? The discussion then turns to what the Saturn Return might be like for anyone with Saturn in Aquarius. Listen to learn about the energies, that any 28 to 29-year-olds or 58 to 59-year-olds will work with as they reach 30 and 60. Keep listening to learn how to make the very best of this life-affirming event. Follow Clear Light Creative on Instagram Check out The Clear Light Creative Podcast Website Look up your own astrological birth chart here. SHOW NOTES (2:50) Chiara talks about what's making her happy. (3:54) Women go through a 2nd puberty in their late 20's and early 30's. (7:42) Dream journaling and how to do it. (11:47) Next week's guest - Indie writer and movie director + SUPPORT BLACK ARTISTS (18:50) What the Saturn Return signifies. (22:30) Potential governmental interference with the internet. (23:00) Privacy and boundaries with the internet and Neptunian energy. (26:17) The timeframe of Saturn in Aquarius. (27:30) What to keep in mind if you have Saturn in Aquarius. (30:10) Even if the energy is fearful, don't let the fear drive you. (31:20) Defining Pluto's signature fear-based energy. (32:42) The two kinds of energies that make up Aquarians. (34:10) The higher vibration of your Saturn return. (35:07) What the Saturn return signifies for EVERYONE. (35:55) Saturn Return babies (37:44) New ways we'll be doing the internet. . . . --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/clear-light-creative/support

On this Clear Light episode, Chiara Luce interviews yoga teacher and breathwork maven, Cheryl Crawford ERYT- 500, RCYT, BS in Education about Kundalini yoga. Learn about this mystical yoga and how and why it sparks magical changes throughout the body and mind. Within the episode, we address the controversy surrounding Yogi Bhajan. We also discuss Cheryl's life-long work as a school teacher and how she now teaches Kundalini and breathwork in schools. Learn more about Cheryl here: https://ladyinhale.com/ Click HERE to learn more about, or donate to Cheryl's Non-Profit, On the Same Breath, which teaches yoga and breathwork in schools. Follow Clear Light Creative on Instagram Check out The Clear Light Creative Podcast Website RESOURCES Chiara's book recommendation: Man's Search for Meaning, by Viktor Frankl Listen to Chiara's Interview as a guest on the On-Call Empath Podcast Where to find Cheryl's Book - Best Practices for Yoga In Schools Kiss the Ground: A Nonprofit supporting sustainable agriculture Cheryl's Wellness Recommendations Shaman Durek - Ancient Wisdom Today Podcast Luke Storey - The Life Stylist Podcast Rob Bell - The Robcast Guru Singh - The Guru Singh Podcast SHOW NOTES (0:00) Chiara starts with what's making her happy. (5:40) The back story on Yogi Bhajan and the controversy around Kundalini yoga. (8:20) Chiara's experience as a guest on The On-Call Empath (13:00) Next week's podcast episode preview: The internet's Saturn return and Saturn return in Aquarius (15:00) Interview Starts (16:05) Cheryl defines Kundalini Yoga. (18:20) Why Chiara started taking Kundalini classes. (20:33) What is the science supporting Kundalini? (22:50) Why do Kundalini practitioners wear white? (23:30) How Cheryl came to Kundalini and became a yoga teacher. (30:55) Learning to meditate because of Kundalini mantras. (33:55) The focus on breathwork as a classical singer and trained actor. (36:25) Our purpose in life as humans. (36:42) Working with children as a teacher and yogi. (40:15) The ancient origins of Kundalini. (40:50) Addressing the controversy around Yogi Bhajan. (45:50) Where you can find Cheryl. (46:05) About Cheryl's Nonprofit, On the Same Breath. (50:25) Chiara's round of closing questions. (54:31) Yoga is not evil. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/clear-light-creative/support

If you think Mercury Retrogrades are a doozy, get ready for Mars, y'all. Mars Retrograde is upon us and lasts until mid-November. In this episode, Chiara Luce talks with astrologer Michelle Gregg about using those energies to our advantage. Also, the pandemic planets, (yes there is a whole group of planets throwing their weight around and creating all kinds of creepy COVID coincidences) are on the move again. I ask Michelle what this means for us, for the Fall, and for the pandemic, and it's BIG. RESOURCES Chiara's book mentions: - Swing Time, by Zadie Smith - Fledgling, by Octavia E. Butler - Attached, by Amir Levine and Rachel S. F. Heller Chiara Luce's Mars Retrograde Tarot Pull - Episode Webpage Clear Light Creative's Instagram - to see more Tarot with Chiara Luce SHOW NOTES (2:05) The new episode format. (4:04) How to see Chiara's tarot pull about things to keep in mind for Mars Retrograde. (5:35) What's Making Chiara Happy this week - Novels by black female authors, and being a guest on other people's podcasts. (10:35) About the next episode - Kundalini Yoga (13:19) Doing inner work during a retrograde. A sense of control in overwhelmingly uncontrollable times. (14:23) How to book a tarot reading with Chiara Luce. (15:07) Astrology interview begins. (18:28) What happens when Jupiter goes direct. (20:09) All about Mars Retrograde. (23:22) How to see how Mars Retrograde will affect you. (24:49) Listen up if you've got personal planets in cardinal signs. (25:48) What to do during Mars Retrograde. (30:41) How Mars interacts with the COVID clump/conjunction planets. (34:39) More things to do in order to have a successful Mars Rx. (36:10) What the transits of the fall mean for the pandemic. (37:08) Jupiter+Pluto conjunction - Nov 12th a spike in fatalities? Soooo SOCIALLY DISTANCED HALLOWEEN PEOPLE. (48:00) Oxygen mask on first. Practice personal development during this time. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/clear-light-creative/support

Loryn Pretorius is a Wig & Makeup artist. She teaches and works in film, on Broadway, and as the personal makeup artist for Kate Pierson of the B52's. She is also a master manifestor and in this episode, shares the story of how she went from starting at a MAC counter in Florida and growing up in a low-income, single-parent household, to working at the Metropolitan Opera and making a home in New York City with her husband and cat babies. Please excuse your host as she potentially sets a world record for the most amount of "ums" in an intro. Please and Thank you! RESOURCES Like Brothers by the Duplass Brothers - Amazing book for artistic collaborators, especially filmmakers. The Art of Asking by Amanda Palmer - For artistic imposter syndrome. The Butchering Art by Lindsey Fitzharris - Loryn's book recommendation. The Wig and Makeup School where Loryn Teaches QUOTES "If you dig it, do it. If you really dig it, do it twice." - - Jim Croce "Those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind" - - Theodor Seuss Geisel aka Dr. Seuss SHOW NOTES (04:57) The new episode format. (05:23) What's making Chiara happy. (15:45) The interview starts (27:00) Hope what feels like a very long and unbearable in-between period after leaving school and landing a job. (29:46) Imposter syndrome as an artist. (33:00) Saying yes and giving people a chance when you're in a position of power. (41:35) The markers of a good teacher. (53:00) Losing a parent while finishing a degree. (53:45) Getting a grant. (55:30) Loryn's favorite kind of makeup to do + different professional makeup categories. (57:56) Loryn's manifestation process. (1:00:00) How Loryn booked the Broadway World Tour of Shrek the Musical (1:00:53) Dealing with a period of time where there are no job offers after a period of big professional success. (1:03:30) Getting your dream job overnight and packing your bags and moving within days. (1:05:10) Leaving a job or field you used to love to preserve your love of the art form. (1:09:22) How to manifest. You have to know what you want. (1:14:00) Asking the Universe what is in your highest and best interest when you're at a fork in the road. (1:16:20) Chiara starts the final round of questions. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/clear-light-creative/support

Our guest is Reiki Master Julia Spinolo, Ph.D. She tells us all about Reiki and how she, a traditional Nurse from the standard western medical tradition, came to it as she recovered from breast cancer. Chiara comes clean about her pathological procrastination. Chiara and Michelle discuss Uranus in Taurus and what happens when it moves into Gemini. (I'll tell you what happens, World War II, the Civil War, AND the Revolutionary War!) . RESOURCES Julia Spinolo Reiki Master, Ph.D: insta: @dr.juliaspinolo - FB: Dr. Julia Spinolo - Web www.juliaspinolo.com Reiki Resources - old episodes of Julia's show Medical Girl, Mystical World. Domestic Violence RAIN hotline: 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) Julia's favorite resources: @Wholistic.psychologist @paul.selig Chiara's mention: @theheartalchemist What's making Chiara happy: You are a Badass at Making Money by Jen Sincero Look up your astrological birth chart: www.Astro.com . SHOW NOTES (02:34) What's making Chiara Happy this week. (05:13) How to help build morale with friends, + continue to support social causes and movements you care about. (07:50) Why I just dropped a bunch of podcast episodes, and the insanity of procrastination. (09:08) Why Chiara is ratting herself out. “Secrets make us sick.” + Healthy expression of needs equals finding help. (11:00) Ways empaths + HSPs can cleanse and protect their aura. . (15:00) Interview Starts (17:05) Julia's definition of Reiki. (19:25) What the energetic body is. (20:55) How healing the energy body correlates to the physical body + Cell frequencies. (29:50) Anyone can practice energetic healing. (30:45) Easy ways to check in with and heal your own energy. (32:58) How Julia became a Reiki practitioner + her Breast Cancer story. (38:23) Resources legitimizing Reiki healing. (42:25) How remote healing works for Julia. (44:40) Reiki's History. (45:54) Using intuition to tune into your body. (48:57) Choosing an energy healing modality to work with. (55:10) Julia's use of stones + Chiara's obsession with malachite. (57:00) Chiara's final questions start (1:13:32) How to win at being a Human! (1:15:45) Where you can find Julia online. . (1:17:00) Astrology Interview Starts (1:18:50) Countries have birth/natal charts. (1:19:04) Chiara presents her conspiracy theory. (1:20:30) Michelle backs it up with astrological research. (1:21:53) What a square is. (1:23:19) What a Uranus return is + the energy of Uranus. (1:25:50) Mars-Uranus-War. (1:26:37) Defining Taurus energies. (1:28:20) Uranus in Taurus - the economic issues leading up to the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and World War II. (1:30:28) What Uranus in Cancer will mean for the USA. (1:31:23) The historical facts to back the theory up. (1:39:25) The dates that Uranus will be in Taurus and Gemini. (1:40:55) Michelle's wrap-up “BE WHERE YOU ARE.” --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/clear-light-creative/support

Donnine is a Latinx Art Director in the Advertising Industry. We'll talk about how she went from a lower-income family to her current, well-earned success, and the importance of representation in minority communities, as well as creative practices and mentorship. Then, Chiara and Michelle talk about the astrological placements and phenomena at play in the deaths of the artists who make up, “The 27 Club.” RESOURCES Find Donnine: @donnine_ + donnine2@icloud.com Donnine's favorite creative resource: Invisible Creatives: an online database where minority creative professionals can share their portfolios. Making Chiara happy this week is: Spotify's Binaural Beats Sleep Playlist Look up your astrological birth chart: www.astro.com SHOW NOTES (02:40) The satisfaction of being able to physically create what you imagine. (04:17) Story about Judd Apatow on sucking as a stand-up comedian. (07:31) Sucking when you're starting out IS NORMAL. (10:10) Questions to ask when you think, “I can't do it.” (11:05) Who told you that you were bad at whatever thing you think you can't do? (12:27) What's making Chiara happy. (13:51] Interview Starts (16:56) What it means to be a successful female creative. (18:01) Donnine starts her story. (20:21) Art Directors vs. Graphic Designers. (22:45) Perusing Animation. (24:22) The key to advertising is… (26:11) Winning a D&AD Pencil. (26:16) Defying the odds. (32:12) Landing freelancing gigs. (35:09) When you're certain that you have something in the bag and then… you don't. (36:11) Make spec work. (37:10) Donnine's time management strategy and tips. (37:51) Learning Limits and time management. (39:53) Donnine's on how to work better and faster. (43:51) Advocating for minority representation in your work and workplace. (48:35) The importance of mentorship in companies + how to become a mentor right now. (53:26) Lessons through dance. Dance as church/spiritual practice/renewal. (54:51) What ecstatic dance is. (55:08) The benefit of getting grounded in your body when your job is to be in your head. (57:11) Listening to your inner guidance + shaping a narrative on social media. (1:01:37) Closing questions. (01:12:26) Astrology Starts (01:13:31) Define the 27 Club. (01:23:31) The definition of a Progressed Lunar Return, and how it's NOT the Saturn return. (01:18:29) The correct age of the Saturn return 29-30. (01:20:26) Why so many musicians are in the 27 Club? (01:20:46) The meaning of Neptune. (01:23:21) Which Neptune conjunctions signal substance abuse issues? (01:23:41) We go over Janis Joplin and Amy Winehouse's charts. (01:25:26) Half nodal return definition. (01:27:53) Sobriety and being 27. (01:29:69) Famous sober thought leaders. (01:30:58) Define a Nodal Return. (01:31:50) The highest vibration of Neptunian energy (01:32:24) A disclaimer + how to pull up your birth chart. (01:33:26) Tips for people who have similar placements to those in the 27 Club, and to people who are about to go through their progressed Lunar Returns. (01:37:16) How Chiara went from being an atheist to developing a spiritual practice. (01:38:26) What the Saturn return is. (01:39:26) How progressed lunar returns work with Saturn returns. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/clear-light-creative/support

We're here to debunk sun sign astrology - - You can't just light his car on fire because you're a Scorpio, Becky... bad form, and that's giving astrology a bad name. Justifying every little thing because of your Sun Sign is not astrology, and in this episode, we'll tell you why. (Did all of the Scorpios read that last sentence and think, "Wanna bet?") Lick your wounds fellow water signs, and heal up. The bulk of this episode is with a trauma expert who has 35 years of experience. She'll enlighten us about the signs and symptoms of PTSD and give us excellent tools for handling it. COVID-19 is called a crisis for a reason, meaning that we're ALL experiencing trauma at this time. If you're feelin' "off", I highly recommend checking out the episode, especially Claudia's four ways to help move through sleepless nights, meltdowns, freakouts, and more. RESOURCES Meditation App - Headspace Counseling Apps - Better Help and Talkspace Suicide Prevention Hotline: 1-800-273-8255 Sexual Assault Help: (National and Atlanta Area Local) RAINN 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) Day League 24 HR CRISIS HOTLINE 404-377-1428 Atlanta Local: Feminist Women's Health Center RESOURCES from Claudia's Questionnaire Atlanta Community Foodbank Snap Judgement The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk, M.D. ——> Chiara got it for free on the Libby App SHOW NOTES (04:55) Interview Starts (09:26) Definition of trauma (10:26) Definition of PTSD (12:53) 4 Types of PTSD symptoms – Type 1: Intrusive Symptoms (14:16) What does it mean to be triggered? (15:32) Type 2: Emotional Withdrawal Symptoms (16:43) Type 3: Changes in thoughts + feelings (23:03) Type 4: Autonomic Nervous Symptom components (26:26) Explaining triggers to your partner (28:39) Why Chiara created this podcast (42:26) The 4 things to try with PTSD +Trauma symptoms: physical, creative, spiritual, self-care (55.15) Dealing with Depression (1:00:10) A summary of the 4 suggestions + Long-term ways to cope (1:04:30) Ending Questionnaire (1:15:53) Astrological Insights Starts (1:17:20) Sun Sign Astrology Definition (1:19:45) What the Sun represents (1:20:00) How Chiara got into Astrology (1:26:15) Chiara + Michelle Define Astrology (1:28:08) Transits – you actually talk about them all the time. Mercury Retrograde anyone? (1:32:45) Ways that Michelle is NOT her Sun Sign (1:34:00) Definitions of houses in Astrological Birth Charts (1:35:10) If you're an astrology skeptic try this! (1:37:00) Debunking Horoscopes (1:38:02) Amazing Birth Chart fact! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/clear-light-creative/support

Ryan Walker Page is a Dancer, and a Choreographer for stars Dua Lipa, St. Vincent, Doja Cat, and Kim Petras and a Movement Director for the likes of Samuel L. Jackson and Renee Zellweger, to name a few. In this episode, Chiara and Ryan discuss his late arrival to dance, his exit due to a life-threatening eating disorder, and finally, how he became a household name in the Hollywood dance world. Astrologer, Michelle Gregg, then talks about the startling correlations between the birth chart of George Floyd and the chart of the 13th amendment, and how we can work with that energy in the ongoing fight for justice. RESOURCES Click to find Ryan-Walker Page + @Ryanwalkerpage Click to find Clear Light Creative + @clearlightcreative Get justice for Breonna Taylor: Click here and here Click for the charity for women with AIDS in Atlanta, GA. Ryan's creative reco: Dance and Stuff Podcast Hosted by Reid Bartleme and Jack Ferver. Click for Fiona Apple's 1997 VMA Speech THE EPISODE (2:59) **Trigger Warning** We'll be talking about eating disorders. (4:02) It's been 140 days since Breonna Taylor was murdered. Her murderers have still not been arrested. (4:35) If you want to learn more about Chiara Luce check out the trailer. - (4:40] INTERVIEW (6:19) Dance relegated to the internet bc of the pandemic. (11:50) Ryan starts his story + his background. (16:25) Performing arts boarding school. (24:00) College + taking a 5-6 year break from dance. (27:27) Healing from his eating disorder + moving to LA. (30:32) Ryan talks Rufus Wainwright. Chiara fangirls. Ryan shares exactly how he got the job. (33:11) Becoming a choreographer, starting with St. Vincent and Dua Lipa. (40:40) Learning self-love. (45:35) Lessons from the natural world. (50:00) Chiara's ending round of questions. - (1:03:42) ASTROLOGY (1:07:45) The 13th Amendment Chart: Sagittarius and Aquarius. Freedom! (1:08:02) What's a synastry chart? (1:08:35) What does the Sun signify? (1:09:45) This synastry chart is a karmic and soul purpose mashup. (1:13:00) George Floyd's death date + Mars square Mars (1:14:26) Venus Retrograde + racial violence. (1:18:08) How Chiron plays into this + what Chiron signifies. (1:20:18) Neptune, Pisces, and the 12th House (1:24:00) What astrology ACTUALLY is. (1:26:56) What to do with this energy now. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/clear-light-creative/support

Learn about this new expansive resource for aspiring artists, wellness seekers, and astrology enthusiasts. The host, Chiara Luce, is a career creative who has, among other things, created and directed original work for Cirque du Soleil, acted off-Broadway and helped make some of the coolest sets in Hollywood. Check out the trailer to learn more about this season's upcoming interviews with professional artists and healers from various fields, and all walks of life. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/clear-light-creative/support