modern mystic

In this grounded yet mystical episode, Kilkenny is joined by renowned spiritual medium Rebecca Rosen for a deep dive into intuition, healing, and navigating the spiritual dimensions of everyday life. Together they explore how to make the paranormal normal, how to strengthen your intuitive muscles, and how to move from fear and doubt into faith and trust. Whether you've doubted your gut, questioned the whispers of spirit, or felt stuck in repeating patterns, this conversation is full of both cosmic downloads and practical tools to help you tune in and turn your life into a living heaven. In this episode, you'll learn: How to recognize and trust your intuition (and why it's not “woo”) Why gut feelings are subtle and how to get quiet enough to hear them Tools for calming the monkey mind and getting to spiritual “neutral” How to work with doubt and shift into trust (even when it's hard!) Why guides often connect in dreams and how to decode the signs The importance of calling your energy back daily (plus how to do it) How trauma, inflammation, and intuition are energetically connected The power of soul contracts & how to stop attracting the same lessons What illness reveals about emotional energy and how to reclaim your wellness Why some people are born to be polishing stones in your life How to avoid choosing from shadow and start choosing from light Tips for navigating life as an empath, parent, or caregiver without draining yourself

Take a deep dive into the actual nuts and bolts of how to manifest anything. Offered in this compelling interview episode are concrete steps to help you realize the magic of manifesting. Topics covered include:

What IS meditation actually? What is it not? How does meditation work and what are the innumerable benefits of this practice? In this soulcast episode detailed are:

Do you ever feel like you want stronger, clearer guidance and answers from the Universe? Or maybe you feel like you are pretty well connected to your intuition and/or a bit psychic but want to make that affinity even more formidable so you can make optimal decisions all of the time? In this scintillating interview episode w/ internationally recognized author, psychic medium and spiritual teacher MaryAnn DiMarco we cover:

What exactly is plant medicine and how can we use the chemical, energetic and spiritual properties of plants to heal and transform? In this fascinating interview episode discussed is the following:

How do we wake up, evolve our consciousness and become more skillful in our lives? In this riveting interview episode w/ brilliant Psychotherapist & Priestess, Ashley Turner, we uncover how psychology and spirituality aren't antithetical but actually support one another. We also dive deep into how to find support and inspiration during the potent & poignant phases of perimenopause and menopause. Also uncovered is what exactly is the priestess path and actionable steps we can take to add more spirituality into our parenting / caregiving, businesses from a psychospiritual perspective.  Discussed in depth:

Curious about specific ways to connect with your spirit team? In this interview episode, this seemingly obtuse topic is broken down into actionable steps.

In this fascinating interview episode debunked are the  myths and stereotypes that psychic abilities and mediumship are “out there” but in fact normal everyday occurrences if we are paying attention. Discussed is:

We all have trauma and Inner Child work is one of the most potent modern practices to heal it and to lead a life with more substantive joy. In this empowering & uplifting interview episode discussed is:

Understanding goddess spirituality and the real history of matriarchy can deepen & unlock powerful places within ourselves & within all of our lives. In this riveting interview episode, world renown author and activist, Vicki Noble, discusses how she helped midwife modern spirituality, shamanism, feminism and multiculturalism in western spiritual circles as we know it today. Discussed in this episode:

Guess what? You don't suck because you feel stuck & uninspired. It is so very human to feel in a rut and so very normal to feel stale. In this interview episode, discussed are many ways to reignite inspiration!

Do you like to initiate projects and interactions? Do you feel inertia often and like things to stay the same? Or are you adaptive and can have many disparate viewpoints? Each astrology sign has a quality & a temperament called a “mode” that characterizes the majority of ways it expresses itself and acts. Understanding these 3 simple categories can act as a cheatsheet in helping you deepen your understanding of astrology, yourself and those around you. In this pithy episode you will learn:

In this brave and real conversation w/relationship expert, Stefanos Sifandos, we take a deep dive into spiritual terrain not always spoken of such as : They key questions to ask yourself about your childhood to break ancestral patterns and move towards greater healing for yourself. Tips and practical things that men can do to help mitigate the often negative toxic masculine culture in which we live. Key actions & a framework to support finding one's path of healthy masculinity within oneself and within this world (that everyone can apply & consider to find & balance their inner masculine energies) Real talk surrounding the shadow of pornography and its common impact on oneself and intimate relationships.  The importance of having clear agreements in a relationship.  Actionable steps to making sex sacred in relationships and to making it something of meaning and substance. How to alchemize anger.  The Importance of becoming a key anchor for your partner(s) but not trying to do the work for them. Understanding the dance of codependency & narcissistic tendencies.  Why the honeymoon phase of a relationship waning is a good sign & what to do next. 

Have you always sensed that this is not your first lifetime and that you have been around before? Do you mostly not believe in past lives but then every so often you have an inexplicable experience of deja-vu? Or perhaps you feel pulled towards a certain culture or country but don't know why?  In this interesting episode, we will answer these questions and also explore:

Did you know that each planet is a psychological archetype that lives within you? By learning to embody the powerful lens of astrology, we can uplevel our understanding of ourselves and improve our lives. Discussed in this most joyful interview episode: Each planet and what it represents from a psychospiritual perspective  How to practically apply the teachings and understanding of the planetary archetypes into our day-to-day lives How planets can act together  Why integrating the knowledge of the planets can help us find more self acceptance and inner peace 

In this fascinating episode, explored are the reasons why working with life's rhythms that are all around us is life changing, and how in doing so we can uncover more profound harmony within and without. Discussed is: What are the rhythms of nature around us that we are underutilizing but are a great source of potential mental and spiritual wealth? Practical ways we can use rhythms to improve our lives. How to work with the sun and the moon phases to support our physical and mental health as well as our overall well being. This episode ends with a revitalizing meditation that will be sure to leave you inspired to find and to dance to your own beat in every chapter of your journey. Contemplate the mesmerizing natural cadences: the sun's gentle rise and fall, the moon's ever-changing phases, and the rhythmic embrace of the ocean waves. Acknowledge the subtle shift in our biorhythms due to the advent of electricity over the past century and a half.The benefits of safely harnessing the power of sunlight are detailed. Delve into other related illuminating insights shared in Episode #58 - Revolution Rest: Burnout & The Quest for Rest, Modern Mystic Podcast  Connected are the dots between morning sunlight exposure, improved sleep quality, reduced stress levels, and a decrease in reported feelings of depression. The 8 Moon Phases are unraveled that appear in the intricate 29.5-day cycle of the moon and the unique energy each phase can bring to our lives if we work with them. The importance of aligning with the dance of the universe through seemingly simple yet profound daily practices is emphasized and a guided short meditation practice with one way to do so is offered.  

How do we consciously live into the paradoxes of life? In this scintillating interview episode, discussed are powerful questions & practices for folks to contemplate as a launching off point to integrate their spirituality into their worldly life. Discussed are: Powerful questions for folks to contemplate as a means to integrate their spirituality with their sexuality.  The importance of getting to know your shadow, your deepest wounds & unconscious tendencies.  Ideas for micro rituals as a way to tend to your own energy. How to integrate embodiment into our spirituality.   This episode ends with a sumptuous meditation.  SHOW NOTES: A mystic is humbled by the mystery and lives in the great paradoxes such as there is both nothing and everything to know. They are cognizant of the fact that there is no knowing the great mystery. The mystic lives in humble devotion to the mystery and lives in relationship to the mystery. They are both intrigued and seduced by the mystery but don't try to figure it all out. There's more of a seduction and flirtation with it. A Mystic has a more embodied knowing vs. an intellectual knowing; a heart-gnosis of sorts. A Mystic has a more right-brained relationship to life itself. They let the questions ultimately dangle in the air and relish in the humble bow. They are ok to live within the paradox and the question. They are in the dance of romance.  Alexandra shares her spiritual journey from childhood into adulthood. Tantra means to weave all aspects of life together including integrating one's sexuality.Discussed are powerful questions for folks to contemplate as a launching off point to integrate their spirituality with their sexuality.  There are many different expressions of feminine and can we all be the rainbow at any given moment. Softness vs. Feistiness is discussed as well as the notion of attracting sacred partnerships and lovers. Really get to know your shadow, your deepest wounds & unconscious tendencies. Your wounds will be where you return again and again.  “Fate” is your unconscious leading the show. What are the patterns that keep arising? They are the key to who you are on the inside. How can you take responsibility for your story and remind yourself that you are the author of your own life? How your unconscious is your ghost author is uncovered. People who trespass us help show us where to clean up the street so to speak. Practices of feminine embodiment are detailed. How is my energy really reading? How is my body and breath moving around in any given space? Our energies are openings and closures to everything in life: money, romance etc... Is your heart and energy open if you are looking for love? Study the energetics of you in order to heal. Get in touch with your own heart first. Practice and heal solo first. Micro rituals are discussed as a way to tend to the garden of your own energy. Disconnect to connect consistently. When we do rituals, our unconscious becomes conscious. Questions to ask oneself to heal the split between spirituality and sexuality. How to integrate embodiment into our spirituality. This episode ends with a sumptuous meditation.  Guest:Alexandra Roxo: Alexandraroxo.com  *Our Monthly Mystic Members get Alexandra's sensual embodiment practice for FREE! ☄️Opportunities to work with Kilkenny:  ✨Vibrant Venus Elite Coaching: book an exploratory call today: modernmystic.love/coaching  ✨The Modern Mystic Membership is an on-line haven to support your body, mind and soul giving you access to a library of over 100 tantric yoga, meditation, breathwork, astrology, and intuition development classes.To get a sampling of FREE videos on this elegant membership platform: modernmystic.love ✨I offer profound psychic medium readings modernmystic.love/astrology  ✨I offer one-on-one Astrology Oracle readings. (*This includes a copy of your birth chart and an audio recording of the session) modernmystic.love/astrology  Invitation to support the Podcast: ✨Subscribe, 5 star rate and review the podcast on Apple Music, Spotify or wherever you listen to it. These 3 things can take 30 seconds and are hugely beneficial for the podcast. ✨Become a patron for as little as $3 a month: patreon.com/modernmysticpodcast Engage with Community  ✨Join conscious conversation & community in the Modern Mystic Podcast Private F-book Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/959629444823656/ ✨Get inspiring insights on IG: @mystickilkenny @modernmysticlove

All of us have the power and choice to re-architect the structure of our brain to be healthier, happier and of greater service. Discussed in this fascinating interview episode with award winning author & TED Talk speaker, Shauna Shapiro, are the differences between meditation and mindfulness, empathy and compassion, and how to leverage all of these concepts into our day-to-day lives. To embody practices, we have to understand them and science helps us with this. You will learn in this episode: How what you practice grows Why your attention is your greatest currency  How the understanding of neuroplasticity in science has changed everything How mindfulness and meditative practices positively impact every sector of your life The difference between meditation and mindfulness (because they are different!) How these practices make you a better citizen and family member Why compassion is more advantageous than empathy  Why compassion for yourself is crucial  SHOW NOTES: The art of attention is discussed. Your attention is your greatest currency. Your attention implicates every arena of your life: the quality of your  Neuroplasticity is the capacity at any age to reconfigure our brain and its thought patterns. How to rewire your mind: Neuroplasticity & spirituality   All of us have the power and choice to re-architect the structure of our brain to be healthier, happier to be of greater service. What we practice grows stronger both for the good and for the bad.  Neuronal pruning concepts are detailed such as pruning neural pathways. Every time you go on new pathway it prunes automatically prunes the old pathway  Difference between meditation and mindfulness is broken down. They are distinct and separate things that support each other. Meditation is the practice and exercise so we can grow mindfulness. It's going to the gym, so we can grow our mindfulness which is a state, a way of being and a way of paying attention. Attention is your most valuable resource. Ask yourself, can I be present? On average a Harvard study shows, our minds wander 47% of the time! So most of us are missing pretty much half our lives. Meditation is part of practice so we can grow our mindfulness in moment-to-moment life. This model of mindfulness is detailed with clear steps to use.  Many people feel they can't meditate.  The many benefits of meditation are discussed. So many of us don't feel worthy of taking time to care for ourselves. These practices are self-love practices.People who practice mindfulness and meditation are better citizens of the world. The myth that meditation and mindfulness practices are selfish is debunked with science.They make people more generous and more compassionate. There is data to prove this. The science is very compelling.  The convergence and confluence of the feelings of compassion and empathy are broken down. To embody practices, we have to understand them and science helps us with this. The ways that empathy and compassion work in our brain are discussed and then how to leverage these feelings in impactful ways are detailed. The Tibetan definition of compassion is considered incomplete if it does not include ourselves. Furthermore, a compassionate act that is not healthy for you, is not even considered compassion. ✨HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT!:  The doors for the Modern Mystic Membership are now open! Monthly Mystic Members get access to a library of over 100 tantric yoga, meditation & breathwork classes as well as short “Mystic Hack” videos which have topics including astrology, tarot cards, developing psychic abilities, grounding/protecting/growing your energy and more! Sampling of FREE videos on the elegant Mystic Membership platform:  modernmystic.love ✨I offer profound psychic medium readings modernmystic.love ✨I offer one-on-one  Soul Psyche Mapping Astrology Readings. Book via (*This includes a copy of your birth chart and an audio recording of the session) modernmystic.love ✨Give it a 5 star, 1 line review on Apple Music (takes literally 2 min either from an iPhone or via the Apple Music store on all other devices) or on Spotify. This is HUGE as it helps get it heard more which supports the podcast. ✨Join conscious conversation & community in the Modern Mystic Podcast Private F-book Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/959629444823656/ ✨Get inspiring insights on IG: @modernmysticlove @mystickilkenny

Wildness is both what you think it is and its opposite. In this most inspiring interview episode, discussed are specific and concrete things you can do every day to create a more connected, grounded, and liberated life! When we only move through life from a place of thought as opposed to connecting with our instincts, we forget our own belonging. Integrating the wisdom of our body and the natural world's rhythms can forge a sense of reconnection in our lives and daily devotions surrounding these ideas are offered as well. Stay connected to that soft wild animal that is you.  Discussed are: How our breath and heartbeat are a reminder of our instincts and our intuition  Practical and concrete tips to practice to create a feeling of belonging  The importance of a sacred morning routine and how to create one (even if 30 seconds!) How to come back to the animal of your body How wildness doesn't have to be loud & crashing but quite the opposite what you think  How to being primal helps you to stop skating over life  How to make a spiritual checklist which will shift everything daily How every single emotion we have is a signpost and an invitation back to our wildness The exploration of the notions of our essential self vs. the social self. What the process of rewilding requires A very helpful discernment practice is offered to help you make decisions.  You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves ~ Mary Oliver SHOW NOTES: A Modern Mystic nourishes connectIon to self, source and others. They go to the quiet places to listen on purpose and pay attention to these doors.  “The doors to the world of the wild Self are few but precious. If you have a deep scar, that is a door, if you have an old, old story, that is a door. If you love the sky and the water so much you almost cannot bear it, that is a door. If you yearn for a deeper life, a full life, a sane life, that is a door.” ― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run WIth the Wolves The mystic puts themselves into spaces and places where they can be available for that connection. The body knows that we belong. Our minds make lives homeless. “The art of belonging is the recovery of the wisdom of rhythm.” Full quote: “Our bodies know that they belong; it is our minds that make our lives so homeless. Guided by longing, belonging is the wisdom of rhythm. When we are in rhythm with our own nature, things flow and balance naturally. Every fragment does not have to be relocated, reordered; things cohere and fit according to their deeper impulse and instinct. Our modern hunger to belong is particularly intense. An increasing majority of people feel no belonging. We have fallen out of rhythm with life. The art of belonging is the recovery of the wisdom of rhythm.” ― John O'Donohue How are we starting our days? The importance of even a 30 second sacred morning routine using the senses. How to stop skating over our life and the wisdom of becoming more primal. The importance of being outside every day is discussed. Make sure you are scheduling time for pause, transition, exhale and integration. How a journaling practice can help you open to noticing things that bring you joy.  How every single emotion we have is a signpost and an invitation back to our wildness. The exploration of the notions of our essential self vs. the social self. The process of rewilding requires a lot of attention and slowness. A very helpful discernment practice is offered to help you make decisions.  Tara shares her beautiful poetry word medicine to punctuate the conversation. Guest: Tara Eschenroeder Website: greatabidingyoga.com IG: greatabidingyoga *All of my monthly members get a FREE yoga class with Tara!!!   ✨HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT!:  The doors for the Modern Mystic Membership are open! Monthly Mystic Members get access to a library of over 100 tantric yoga, meditation & breathwork classes as well as short “Mystic Hack” videos which have topics including astrology, tarot cards, developing psychic abilities, grounding/protecting/growing your energy and more! Sampling of FREE videos on the elegant Mystic Membership platform:  modernmystic.love ✨I offer profound psychic medium readings modernmystic.love ✨I offer one-on-one  Soul Psyche Mapping Astrology Readings. Book via (*This includes a copy of your birth chart and an audio recording of the session) modernmystic.love ✨Give it a 5 star, 1 line review on Apple Music (takes literally 2 min either from an iPhone or via the Apple Music store on all other devices) or on Spotify. This is HUGE as it helps get it heard more which supports the podcast. ✨Join conscious conversation & community in the Modern Mystic Podcast Private F-book Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/959629444823656/ ✨Get inspiring insights on IG: @modernmysticlove @mystickilkenny  

Abundance is not just about wealth. It is a holistic state of having more than enough in every aspect of your life. It's about manifesting your dreams, connecting with the universe, and living in alignment with your purpose. This soulcast episode is packed with a ton of practical tips on how to attract & create more abundance in every arena of your life such as money, health, relationships, home, career and spiritual knowledge. Discussed are the ideas of: What abundance actually means The architecture and mechanics of affirmations  Ways to use your body & your senses to tap into more abundance Concrete strategies to amplify abundance and heal any stuck abundance patterns from past lives or from your family of origin Clear ways to elevate your health, finances & relationships "Abundance isn't something we acquire, it is something we tune into." - Wayne Dyer "The key to abundance is meeting our limited circumstances with unlimited thoughts. - Marianne Williamson  "You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance." - Kahlil Gibran  ✨HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT!:  The doors for the Modern Mystic Membership are now open! Monthly Mystic Members get access to a library of over 100 tantric yoga, meditation & breathwork classes as well as short “Mystic Hack” videos which have topics including astrology, tarot cards, developing psychic abilities, grounding/protecting/growing your energy and more! Sampling of FREE videos on the elegant Mystic Membership platform:  Modernmystic.love ✨I offer profound psychic medium readings modernmystic.love ✨I offer one-on-one  Soul Psyche Mapping Astrology Readings. Book via (*This includes a copy of your birth chart and an audio recording of the session) modernmystic.love ✨Give it a 5 star, 1 line review on Apple Music (takes literally 2 min either from an iPhone or via the Apple Music store on all other devices) or on Spotify. This is HUGE as it helps get it heard more which supports the podcast. ✨Join conscious conversation & community in the Modern Mystic Podcast Private F-book Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/959629444823656/ ✨Get inspiring insights on IG: @modernmysticlove @mystickilkenny

In this modern age where most folks are rushing from here to there and are feeling stressed out, we forget that we can be more intentional with our lives and in doing so experience more meaning and more joy. In this interview episode discussed are the following topics: Detailed practices of paying attention, witnessing and noticing to experience more connection with oneself and others How artistic principles and shapes, color and pattern can be windows into experiencing more presence & delight  How small rituals can affect us in big ways. The two most important questions to ask others and yourself What “olympic listening” is and how it can help your life The importance of integrating despair into our lives without using our spirituality to airbrush it out. When we notice the nuances of life and those around us, we deliver ourselves back to the present moment, forge more meaningful connections and impact our communities more powerfully. This episode ends with a soothing short meditation.    SHOW NOTES: As mystics, we remember there are two wings of a bird, grace & effort. We can also practice the 2 “other” wings of vulnerability and confidence. Definitions of art and how to weave artistic concepts into everyday life as discussed. Pay attention, witness and notice. Can we be a witness to the art of another's life? The profundity and art of pausing and asking questions. Spirit & the language of color & texture are discussed.Practical ways to invite art into our lives to feel more joy are as well. How small rituals can affect us in big ways.Notice the nuance! Nuggets of our inner messages we say to ourselves can shift so much. The ways we integrate the full spectrum of humanity and its deep despair into our lives without using our spirituality to airbrush the hardness out, but using the hardness as a tool to embrace it all. The two most important questions to ask people and yourself and the value of these. What would this world be if we told each other how we really were doing. The practice & benefits of Olympic Listening for ourselves and others. The potency of daydreaming. This episode ends with a soothing short meditation.  ✨Offering: Kathryn is so generously offering anyone who becomes a monthly mystic member by Dec 1, 2023 a heart yarn shag on a fence ✨ modernmystic.love Guest: Kathryn Pannepacker Kpannepacker.com IG: @kpannepacker   ✨HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT!:  The doors for the Modern Mystic Membership are now open! Monthly Mystic Members get access to a library of over 100 tantric yoga, meditation & breathwork classes as well as short “Mystic Hack” videos which have topics including astrology, tarot cards, developing psychic abilities, grounding/protecting/growing your energy and more! Sampling of FREE videos on the elegant Mystic Membership platform:  Modernmystic.love   ✨I offer profound psychic medium readings modernmystic.love ✨I offer one-on-one  Soul Psyche Mapping Astrology Readings. Book via (*This includes a copy of your birth chart and an audio recording of the session) modernmystic.love ✨Give it a 5 star, 1 line review on Apple Music (takes literally 2 min either from an iPhone or via the Apple Music store on all other devices) or on Spotify. This is HUGE as it helps get it heard more which supports the podcast. ✨Join conscious conversation & community in the Modern Mystic Podcast Private F-book Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/959629444823656/ ✨Get inspiring insights on IG: @modernmysticlove @mystickilkenny

Relationships can be the dojo, the temple and the sacred crucible for deeply satisfying transformation & self knowing if we learn to work with them from this lens. In this fascinating interview conversation, discussed is how to integrate relationship connection tools into one's life and spirituality. Also unpacked is “attachment theory”, the concepts of emotional intimacy, vulnerability and boundaries, plus other concrete ways to experience all of your relationships as opportunities to see yourself and your patterns in ways you wouldn't otherwise.  Show Notes: Relationships are a profound spiritual journey to self-revelation. Relationship radiates out to one-on-one in the way of all of our loved ones including relationship with self and with the divine too. So the term implies a lot of things, not just romance. A Modern Mystic has the ability to see what lies underneath or deeper than we realize, not apart from every day but woven into modern day life. Life is a gift, challenge and game to go into the depths of the unseen. There is actually no dichotomy between spiritual and day-to-day. Spiritual bypassing can be happening as an avoidance of interacting in relationships i.e. I don't wanna deal with this so I'm just going to do practice.  How can we learn the tools of relationship and connection and integrate them into day-to-day life? Relationship is an opportunity to see ourselves more deeply with the opportunity that loved ones can bring up within us.  Ask Self when triggered in any relationship, how is this an opportunity?  Unpacked are: ✨The terms of emotional intimacy, vulnerability & boundaries and ways we can integrate them to support ourselves and others in relationship. ✨Ways to mindfully go into emotions and then hold them.  ✨Attachment science & styles, and how our partners can be an oracle.  ✨How boundaries are life giving & ideally are fluid.  ✨How to energetically walk away from someone. ✨Why conflict is good and necessary. ✨How one's relationship with self and interior life is foundational for all other relationships.  Like a garden, we need to create perimeters/boundaries, certain shade and sometimes even you have to change boundaries which ideally are fluid and dynamic. For some people it feels like a LOT of work but it makes our connection richer. You notice the flavors, the depth and connection becomes that much more spectacular and nuanced.  Be exploratory and experimentally. How we dance in partnership with space away from each other is so key.  When our nervous system gets triggered, so often you can trace it back to an attachment style issue. It's a lens. The goal is to have ways in which to move towards a secure relationship meaning we feel safe able to be who we are separate from our partner and then to come back together resulting in our stuff not coming up so strongly. Theme to think about when contemplating relationships: oneness vs. individuality; separate and connected as a way for the ecosystem of a relationship. Contemplate ways to move from co- dependence and into inter-dependence. Carve out sacred time for me to be with them and then sacred when we come back together.  Fear can come up within couples, what if my partner changes and/or I change? What does it look like if we go and change? Can be confronting!  Tips are offered to water seeds of relationships.The reminder to zoom out & to zoom in.  This conversation ends with a moving and powerful relational meditation. Guest: Damodar Cordua empoweredconnection.me ✨HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT!:  The doors for the Modern Mystic Membership are now open! Monthly Mystic Members get access to a library of over 100 tantric yoga, meditation & breathwork classes as well as short “Mystic Hack” videos which have topics including astrology, tarot cards, developing psychic abilities, grounding/protecting/growing your energy and more! Sampling of FREE videos on the elegant Mystic Membership platform:  modernmystic.love ✨I offer profound psychic medium readings modernmystic.love ✨I offer one-on-one  Soul Psyche Mapping Astrology Readings. Book via (*This includes a copy of your birth chart and an audio recording of the session) modernmystic.love ✨Give it a 5 star, 1 line review on Apple Music (takes literally 2 min either from an iPhone or via the Apple Music store on all other devices) or on Spotify. This is HUGE as it helps get it heard more which supports the podcast. ✨Join conscious conversation & community in the Modern Mystic Podcast Private F-book Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/959629444823656/ ✨Get inspiring insights on IG: @modernmysticlove @mystickilkenny  

The two week period of 7/26 - 8/12 surrounding Lion's Gate (aka 8/8) each year is a powerful epoch that has been revered in cultures around the world since ancient times where there is increased opportunity for potential abundance & ancestral healing flowing between the physical and the spiritual realms. The ancient Egyptians built the pyramids in alignment with this day!  In this scintillating soulcast episode, there are all kinds of wisdom nuggets shared to bring you into alignment with this expansive cosmic energetic weather pattern that you can draft off of. ✨HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT!:  The doors for the Modern Mystic Membership are now open! Monthly Mystic Members get access to a library of over 100 tantric yoga, meditation & breathwork classes as well as short “Mystic Hack” videos which have topics including astrology, tarot cards, developing psychic abilities, grounding/protecting/growing your energy and more! Sampling of FREE videos on the elegant Mystic Membership platform:  modernmystic.love ✨I offer profound psychic medium readings modernmystic.love ✨I offer one-on-one  Soul Psyche Mapping Astrology Readings. Book via (*This includes a copy of your birth chart and an audio recording of the session) modernmystic.love ✨Give it a 5 star, 1 line review on Apple Music (takes literally 2 min either from an iPhone or via the Apple Music store on all other devices) or on Spotify. This is HUGE as it helps get it heard more which supports the podcast. ✨Join conscious conversation & community in the Modern Mystic Podcast Private F-book Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/959629444823656/ ✨Get inspiring insights on IG:  @mystickilkenny @modernmysticlove

In this riveting interview episode with meditation master, intellectual powerhouse & former non-dual tantric monk, Sally Kempton, discussed are the following: Awakening Kundalini Energy  The Power of Initiations Meditation vs. Mindfulness  The Differences Between Religion & Spirituality  What is Tantra & Is It Associated with Sex? How to Work with Goddess & God Energies to Awaken Ourselves  A 9 Minute Tantric Meditation  sallykempton.com Sally's Books: “Meditation for the Love of It” “Awakening Shakti” *My monthly mystic members are getting 2 FREE Meditations from Sally! Become a Monthly Mystic Member Today!   ✨HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT!:  The doors for the Modern Mystic Membership are now open! Monthly Mystic Members get access to a library of over 100 tantric yoga, meditation & breathwork classes as well as short “Mystic Hack” videos which have topics including astrology, tarot cards, developing psychic abilities, grounding/protecting/growing your energy and more! Sampling of FREE videos on the elegant Mystic Membership platform:  modernmystic.love ✨I offer profound psychic medium readings modernmystic.love ✨I offer one-on-one  Soul Psyche Mapping Astrology Readings. Book via (*This includes a copy of your birth chart and an audio recording of the session) modernmystic.love ✨Give it a 5 star, 1 line review on Apple Music (takes literally 2 min either from an iPhone or via the Apple Music store on all other devices) or on Spotify. This is HUGE as it helps get it heard more which supports the podcast. ✨Join conscious conversation & community in the Modern Mystic Podcast Private F-book Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/959629444823656/ ✨Get inspiring insights on IG: @modernmysticlove @mystickilkenny

In this most compelling interview episode with award winning author, Maia Toll, discussed are the following juicy topics: Why the sticky moments of life are spiritual practice very much worth going forward through. Specific ways the body can lead us to both the mythical and the mystical. Why paying attention to the pre-verbal and non-verbal information is equally important. How language is one of the oldest metaphysical tools. Tips to become a writer. Concrete ways to use writing simply as a spiritual practice. Show Notes: Mysticism is all about connection and being able to sense beyond your own skin. Mysticism is the ability to feel in and to feel out. Part of the mystical and spiritual journey is to go through sticky moments. People might want to retract. Yet if it's sticky, you are already there and so you might as well go forward because you have to go the same amount of distance back as forward. How the body can lead us to mythical and mystical.  There are many more avenues in your body that are taking in info. all of the time and we don't have words to translate into these avenues that we are used to. Pay attention to pre-verbal and non-verbal information around us. The body offers us sensations: flash headache, hands shaking, nauseous & ringing in ears.  Be a detective and investigate the body's sensations, don't be a dictator. Concept of the wider self vs. vertical self.   The power of the body as a GPS into the mystical world. Concrete brilliant brainstorm.  Notice energy leaks along with literal injuries. Language is one of oldest and most metaphysical tools. If you can name someone or something, you have power over it. Language is something that pulls ideas from the invisible to the visible and concrete. Language is an incredible tool. Language does have power. A spell is pulling something from the ethers and giving it substance with intention. Words are vibration, and vibration holds power and energy. When we craft and hone with words, then things become manifest. Words are identifiers and have resonance.  Unpacked is how Maia changed her name and a conversation around the potential power around changing one's name. How claiming a new name formally or less formally can activate a certain part of yourself.  Tips for becoming a writer and or for implementing writing as a spiritual practice. How Maia worked with the notion of death when studying to be a priestess is Ireland and the questions to allow yourself to ask. Why not skipping the death & decay cycle in the growth process is crucial.  Fantastic closing practice and “homework.”   Guest: Maia Toll https://maiatoll.com/ ✨HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT!:  The doors for the Modern Mystic Membership are now open! Monthly Mystic Members get access to a library of over 100 tantric yoga, meditation & breathwork classes as well as short “Mystic Hack” videos which have topics including astrology, tarot cards, developing psychic abilities, grounding/protecting/growing your energy and more! Sampling of FREE videos on the elegant Mystic Membership platform:  modernmystic.love ✨I offer profound psychic medium readings modernmystic.love ✨I offer one-on-one  Soul Psyche Mapping Astrology Readings. Book via (*This includes a copy of your birth chart and an audio recording of the session) modernmystic.love ✨Give it a 5 star, 1 line review on Apple Music (takes literally 2 min either from an iPhone or via the Apple Music store on all other devices) or on Spotify. This is HUGE as it helps get it heard more which supports the podcast. ✨Join conscious conversation & community in the Modern Mystic Podcast Private F-book Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/959629444823656/ ✨Get inspiring insights on IG: @modernmysticlove @mystickilkenny

Discussed in this interview episode are the practical nuances, science and energetics of manifesting. Manifesting is a buzzword but do you know the concrete details of how to implement this practice into your everyday life because that is the only way this artform works!? Broken down in this compelling episode: - How the brain works and plays a part in our manifesting. - Why it can be so hard to create the life we want. - The one key to actually manifesting your dreams and desires. - Hacks to raise your vibration.  - How saying NO & using the “negative” actually is a powerful way to manifest (despite what you might hear). SHOW NOTES:  Being a mystic is the practice of following the breadcrumbs and remembering we are in control if we let ourselves be in control. Mindset is everything.  We manifest what we are ~ not what we want. Hard work of saying, “What would it feel like to not be poor/sick/sad etc…” You have to put in inspired action as well. Yet, doing the things doesn't have to be grueling. The nuts and bolts of manifesting are detailed.  How the neuroplasticity in the brain works & how to leverage it so we can create an upgraded reality.  The importance of appreciating something when it comes to you and basking in that gratitude not moving onto the next manifestation too quickly.  The importance of getting our goals in check is detailed. Sometimes we think we want things but are you being present and having fun as you try to achieve these goals along the way? The importance of getting to the underlying feeling of what you are aiming to manifest which connects to the energetics of what you want is detailed. Can you embody that which you want? If you are going to think a shitty thought that's not true you might as well think a positive one even if it's not true yet.  Worry is a misuse of imagination. What's the best that can happen in a society that trains us always to think about the worst that can happen.  When we have to go through hard karma, if we pivot thoughts our hard karma can be less. How saying NO is a hack and can be a manifesting tool.  The language of the body is the emotions.The language of the mind are the thoughts. There is no right way to meditate. If you do it for ten min, your immune system gets a boost 70%. Going “general” to assess gratitude and how to do this. What is the address we are putting into the GPS system of our life? The power of looking at things differently & the power of how you speak to yourself is discussed. This inspiring episode ends with an embodied practice from Mel Robbins' book, The High Five Habit. You'll get a boost. Clap for yourself and for your spirit team!  *My monthly mystic members are getting a FREE Manifesting Meditation from Joe! Become a Monthly Mystic Member Today! Guest: Joe Longo https://www.inspirecreatemanifest.com | https://www.instagram.com/inspirecreatemanifest/ https://www.tiktok.com/@joe_longo ✨HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT!: The doors for the Modern Mystic Membership are now open! Monthly Mystic Members get access to a library of over 100 tantric yoga, meditation & breathwork classes as well as short “Mystic Hack” videos which have topics including astrology, tarot cards, developing psychic abilities, grounding/protecting/growing your energy and more! Sampling of FREE videos on the elegant Mystic Membership platform:  modernmystic.love ✨I offer profound psychic medium readings modernmystic.love ✨I offer one-on-one  Soul Psyche Mapping Astrology Readings. Book via (*This includes a copy of your birth chart and an audio recording of the session) modernmystic.love ✨Give it a 5 star, 1 line review on Apple Music (takes literally 2 min either from an iPhone or via the Apple Music store on all other devices) or on Spotify. This is HUGE as it helps get it heard more which supports the podcast. ✨Join conscious conversation & community in the Modern Mystic Podcast Private F-book Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/959629444823656/ ✨Get inspiring insights on IG: @modernmysticlove @mystickilkenny

Astrology is an ancient science that has been around since the ancient Egyptian & Babylonian times. The planets, stars, and astral bodies' movements all influence the tides and the earth, so it makes sense since we are made up of the same elements as the earth, that they would have an impact upon us too. Throughout much of history up until the 17th Century in much of Eurasia, astrology was considered an academic discipline. In this riveting interview episode with Natlie Levin discussed is: How we can better relate to the energy called Mercury that lives within us pertaining to our mind, thought processes and how we communicate. How knowing which sign your Mercury is in can help you improve your relationship with your mind and help you understand how both you and your people communicate. Detailed is how Mercury acts in each of the 12 zodiac signs How Mercury in retrograde is nothing to fear & ways to leverage this period of time that happens a few times a year. How to skillfully and practically work with lunar and solar eclipses (and what exactly they are!). Show Notes Every single person has the archetype of mercury in their chart in a certain sign which can tell you about your mind's disposition & your communication style. Mercury represents the mind, our mental thought processes and communication. Discussed is how to understand and work with one's mercury energy from the perspective of which sign it is in within one's birth natal chart. A wise life strategy is to get to know the archetype of each planet and then you can talk to them within yourself and work with them in the manner they manifest within your birth chart. When Mercury goes into retrograde, words have more impact. Mercury is the messenger of the gods and is stopped in the sky. So wise things to ask oneself: Do I really need to say this? What am I trying to accomplish in doing so? Contemplate all of the “re” words such as: re-systemize, rethink, recalibrate, renew, refresh…also however in your life you can slow down . Society doesn't teach us that slowing down is good so it's a new way to view slowing down. Slowing down is a warrior path in a world that wants to speed us up faster and faster.We can take micro rests. “Pratyahara'' means in Sanskrit to pull one's senses inward.  Create pockets of peace.  How to work with eclipse energy is discussed. Eclipse energies are heightened. They are extra emotionally charged. Can you invite them to flow and not push them down? They can be a portal for spirits to come and go. The iInvitation is to see some big life shifts & aha moments. Sometimes physical illness can manifest. Energetically they can feel like a really weird time. Can I get as much rest as possible? Think back-to- basics. What's the new perspective and the new angle? It's an invitation to change energy. When power goes out, look for other sources of charge. Strategies to work with both solar and lunar eclipses are detailed. Astrology is meant to be supportive and to help make life doable. Astrology can help us know and accept ourselves more fully. Guest: https://www.natalielevinastrology.com/  YouTube: Natalielevinastrology.com IG : natalielevinastrology F-book - Natalie Levin  *All of my monthly mystic members get 20% off of one reading with Natalie ✨HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT!: The doors for the Modern Mystic Membership are now open! Monthly Mystic Members get access to a library of over 100 tantric yoga, meditation & breathwork classes as well as short “Mystic Hack” videos which have topics including astrology, tarot cards, developing psychic abilities, grounding/protecting/growing your energy and more! Sampling of FREE videos on the elegant Mystic Membership platform:  modernmystic.love ✨✨I offer profound psychic medium readings modernmystic.love ✨I offer one-on-one  Soul Psyche Mapping Astrology Readings. Book via (*This includes a copy of your birth chart and an audio recording of the session) modernmystic.love ✨Give it a 5 star, 1 line review on Apple Music (takes literally 2 min either from an iPhone or via the Apple Music store on all other devices) or on Spotify. This is HUGE as it helps get it heard more which supports the podcast. ✨Join conscious conversation & community in the Modern Mystic Podcast Private F-book Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/959629444823656/ ✨Get inspiring insights on IG: @modernmysticlove @mystickilkenny  

You may have preconceived notions about mediumship & psychic powers, but the truth is everyone has access to these capacities to some extent. Psychic work can act like a bridge between the seen and unseen creating many opportunities for profound healing and deep understanding of the truth that when people die they change form but they never leave us. In this fascinating interview episode, the topics discussed are: How everyone is psychic and has the potential to develop this skill set The difference between being psychic and being a psychic medium Concrete tips and strategies of things to practice to build your psychic muscle  The ways your spirit team and loved ones are around and can offer support  How to raise your vibration  The mechanics of traveling through the 7 Realms of Consciousness  How to get clues about your past lives  What are the Akashic Records? Signs that you are a psychic medium A guided meditation to connect with a loved who has passed or a spirit team member SHOW NOTES: A mystic is aware of all the magic that we don't see. A Modern Mystic walks among us and actually is us! There are a lot of stereotypes of mystics and psychics.  The practice of meditation can open up many expansive & energetic capacities and experiences.  Death and loss can test our faith and move us towards trusting the unseen energies or the opposite. You can ask for a specific sign from your loved ones. Loved ones who have passed, they still keep their personalities so we can recognize them but don't hold grudges. We come into this life signing a soul contract about what lessons we came to do. This lifetime plays out exactly how it's meant to as we all have our own journey and lessons we came here to learn. The soul has a goal and the concept of  “death doors” are discussed. Simultaneous healing in dual realms can happen for both the person who has passed and the individual  still embodied.  Ask loved ones who have crossed for help and know they come to celebrate our happy times too.  On the “other side”, there is literally no time and space.  You never know who will show up in a reading.Be discerning whom you go to a medium and make sure to get a recommendation as it's a very vulnerable experience. You can be vexed with words…as words carry energy.  Being present to all the mini deaths that show up in our lives. The relationship with ego and psychic mediumship is also discussed. The universe is continually trying to send you messages.  The “Seven Realms of Consciousness” are detailed and delineated which are the planes of consciousness and astral travel (including what the Akashic Records are).  “Heaven” is just beyond our own aura.  Many Lives and Many Masters - by Brian Weis https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/34452 All we are is love and light in the end after we shed all the other things.  This conversation ends with a lovely meditation that connects us into our intuition and soul.  You don't have to see spirit visually to be a psychic medium. Spirit uses our senses to give us information. Spirit is persistent.  Signs that you are a psychic medium.  Guest: Marcie Lee https://www.marcielee.ca/about-me  ✨HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT!: The doors for the Modern Mystic Membership are now open! Monthly Mystic Members get access to a library of over 100 tantric yoga, meditation & breathwork classes as well as short “Mystic Hack” videos which have topics including astrology, tarot cards, developing psychic abilities, grounding/protecting/growing your energy and more! Sampling of FREE videos on the elegant Mystic Membership platform:  modernmystic.love ✨✨I offer profound psychic medium readings modernmystic.love ✨I offer one-on-one  Soul Psyche Mapping Astrology Readings. Book via (*This includes a copy of your birth chart and an audio recording of the session) modernmystic.love ✨Give it a 5 star, 1 line review on Apple Music (takes literally 2 min either from an iPhone or via the Apple Music store on all other devices) or on Spotify. This is HUGE as it helps get it heard more which supports the podcast. ✨Join conscious conversation & community in the Modern Mystic Podcast Private F-book Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/959629444823656/ ✨Get inspiring insights on IG: @modernmysticlove @mystickilkenny  

Burnout is real in our society whose constant overculture promotes an attitude of achievement over rest, noise above quiet and society's glorification of busy. What if we actually practiced pausing and made peace our end game? In this soulcast episode, you will learn: The root of “burnout” is not always what you think The main factor of western culture's rat race speed and mentality  Which radical acts of rest and relaxation we can pepper into our lives to help mitigate the inordinate amount of stressors that most of us face on a daily basis. A brief meditation that you can repeat daily to tune into the frequency of rest & restoration  SHOW NOTES: Rest is Radical, Rest is Revolutionary, Rest is recuperative. Rest is regenerative. Rest is restorative.  Revolution Rest: Burnout & The Quest for Rest  Burnout is real in our society whose constant overculture promotes an attitude of achievement over rest, noise above quiet and society's glorification of busy. What if we actually practiced pausing and made peace our end game? In this soulcast episode, you will learn: The root of “burnout” is not always what you think The main factor of western culture's rat race speed and mentality  Which radical acts of rest and relaxation we can pepper into our lives to help mitigate the inordinate amount of stressors that most of us face on a daily basis. A brief meditation that you can repeat daily to tune into the frequency of rest & restoration  ✨HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT!: The doors for the Modern Mystic Membership are now open! Monthly Mystic Members get access to a library of over 100 tantric yoga, meditation & breathwork classes as well as short “Mystic Hack” videos which have topics including astrology, tarot cards, developing psychic abilities, grounding/protecting/growing your energy and more! Sampling of FREE videos on the elegant Mystic Membership platform:  modernmystic.love ✨✨I offer profound psychic medium readings modernmystic.love ✨I offer one-on-one  Soul Psyche Mapping Astrology Readings. Book via (*This includes a copy of your birth chart and an audio recording of the session) modernmystic.love ✨Give it a 5 star, 1 line review on Apple Music (takes literally 2 min either from an iPhone or via the Apple Music store on all other devices) or on Spotify. This is HUGE as it helps get it heard more which supports the podcast. ✨Join conscious conversation & community in the Modern Mystic Podcast Private F-book Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/959629444823656/ ✨Get inspiring insights on IG: @modernmysticlove @mystickilkenny

Inside each of us lives a library of the Universe and if we read from this, we can learn who our most authentic selves are and heal our traumatized parts as well as the parts of ourselves we have ostracized. In this deeply profound episode with Dr. Michael Sapiro, discussed is: The difference between selfishness and self focus. The power of nature as a tuning fork and how it aligns us to who we really are. The importance on finding the meditative and breathwork practices that are a match for your disposition How to support PTSD How men can move towards living in more healthy masculinity The deepest questions to help you discover and align with your “heart values.” We all have an innate genius that wants to come out. The more awareness we bring to every layer of self, than the more we can thrive. SHOW NOTES: Being a “modern mystic” is taking time to be with the ordinary and great mystery of life.  The difference between selfishness and self focus is discussed. The need to love ourselves: our body's health, our mind's well being and our spiritual life. Our bodies, brains and hearts need our tending as we are manifestations of what is most sacred. Unpacked is the importance of awareness to all aspects of self and the somatic component of our emotions. The language of emotions is sensation.  The importance of finding the “right” meditation and breathwork specifically for your disposition and the importance of learning to be with “boredom.”  In facing ourself in meditation, we get to know wounded parts of self, the parts of us that we punish or banish and don't know how to greet, or love in addition to the Self.  Using creativity to support working with trauma and PTSD.  Inside of you is library of the Universe. Each of us has to read what's inside ourself and living from that. Then we will learn to work with wounded parts of self.  Nature is a tuning fork to align us with ourselves and has the power to heal us.  Discussed is how we can align with our heart values and some questions we can ask ourselves to do so.  Why am I not living alignment? His job is to help people recognize heart values and then live in them all the time.  Discussed is the practice of Yoga Nidra (& iRest)  where you travel through all of the Koshas, the layers of Self. There is a whole episode on the Koshas that has been very popular called Journeying Through Yourself: Your Energy Map of the 5 Koshas - Episode # 49 Discussed is the notion of how to try and create “healthy masculinity.”  Unpacked is shame vs remorse. This interview ends with a supremely lovely, brief guided meditation that can be listened to again and again.   Guest: Dr. Michael Sapiro michaelsapiro.com IG: dr-mike-noise  michaelsapiro.com ✨HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT!: The doors for the Modern Mystic Membership are now open! Monthly Mystic Members get access to a library of over 100 tantric yoga, meditation & breathwork classes as well as short “Mystic Hack” videos which have topics including astrology, tarot cards, developing psychic abilities, grounding/protecting/growing your energy and more! Sampling of FREE videos on the elegant Mystic Membership platform:  Modernmystic.love ✨I offer profound psychic medium readings modernmystic.love ✨I offer one-on-one Soul Psyche Mapping Astrology Readings. Book via (*This includes a copy of your birth chart and an audio recording of the session) modernmystic.love ✨Give it a 5 star, 1 line review on Apple Music (takes literally 2 min either from an iPhone or via the Apple Music store on all other devices) or on Spotify. This is HUGE as it helps get it heard more which supports the podcast. ✨Join conscious conversation & community in the Modern Mystic Podcast Private F-book Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/959629444823656/ ✨Get inspiring insights on IG: @modernmysticlove @mystickilkenny    

Plant Spirit Communication is a practice that can be a powerful tool in one's arsenal of working with unprocessed trauma, challenging times and shadow work. In this episode you will learn: What Plant Spirit Communication is and exactly how it works. Why this potent practice is worth doing and how it can support you. How you don't have to work with plants physically to benefit from them and how to do so.  How & why working energetically with poisonous plants can be a venue for healing shadow work and allow us to know ourselves even more fully. Concrete ways to build your intuition. This practice ends with a short, lovely guided meditation where you will meet a “poisonous plant!” Show Notes: The internet has been impactful for the modern mystic in positive and negative ways. It has been an expansive well for deep teachings. Yet there are so many out there one has to sift through charlatans for the actual deep teachings is what everyone is looking for. Kali Yuga Age is the Sanskrit term for this era we live in of mass suffering at huge levels.  To not look at these things is to deny aspects of ourselves as we are all connected so we feel what's going on in the world in subtle ways. Imperative to not only focus on light and love. If only focus is on life's suffering, it's neurotic just like to only focus on light just highlights some wound within self.  Kathryn shares about her background and path which led her to becoming a plant communicator and educator. Poisonous plants can teach us about alchemizing toxins into medicine. They are mystical and excellent for doing trauma work, they clear away things and good for shadow work. The benefits of learning how to work with plant communication and then the boons of working more specifically with poisonous plants are discussed. The times when things are falling apart, can be great opportunities to learn about yourself the most and drop into what potential is being offered here. Wrathful deities snap us out of our delusions, burn away confusion and reveal how we are not living the life we truly want to be.  Plant Spirit medicine idea, theory and practice holds that everything has morphic resonance and fields. When an individual's vibrational field and a plant's vibrational field overlap, plant medicine happens. They run through our unique thought systems.  If you connect with rose, you might get these messages: elegance, boundaries, venusian qualities. If you connect with psychoactive hallucinogens, you get a very different effect. Plants will hold us in difficult feelings with the energy of, “This is ok, this is even normal and natural. And if you stay with us, you can really become more yourself.” Working with plants on an energetic field works on subtler layers of Self, less dense but no less profound. How to initiate plant communication is discussed as is how to build your intuition. Short meditation connecting to a poisoness plant. Guest: kathrynsolie.com ✨HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT!: The doors for the Modern Mystic Membership are now open! Monthly Mystic Members get access to a library of over 100 tantric yoga, meditation & breathwork classes as well as short “Mystic Hack” videos which have topics including astrology, tarot cards, developing psychic abilities, grounding/protecting/growing your energy and more! Sampling of FREE videos on the elegant Mystic Membership platform:  modernmystic.love ✨I offer profound psychic medium readings modernmystic.love ✨I offer one-on-one Soul Psyche Mapping Astrology Readings. Book via (*This includes a copy of your birth chart and an audio recording of the session) modernmystic.love ✨Give it a 5 star, 1 line review on Apple Music (takes literally 2 min either from an iPhone or via the Apple Music store on all other devices) or on Spotify. This is HUGE as it helps get it heard more which supports the podcast. ✨Join conscious conversation & community in the Modern Mystic Podcast Private F-book Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/959629444823656/ ✨Get inspiring insights on IG: @modernmysticlove @mystickilkenny

So often as humans, we traverse the earth looking for another to complete us, a soul mate, a twin flame. Or sometimes we are in romantic partnership, but are left feeling a continued sense of longing or dissatisfaction, even when our partners are pretty great. This 25 minute uplifting “Soulcast” is punctuated with some concrete practices you can use in your day-to-day life towards feeling more whole & complete. You are the Essence of the Essence, The intoxication of Love. ~ Rumi   ✨HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT!: The doors for the Modern Mystic Membership are now open! Monthly Mystic Members get access to a library of over 100 tantric yoga, meditation & breathwork classes as well as short “Mystic Hack” videos which have topics including astrology, tarot cards, developing psychic abilities, grounding/protecting/growing your energy and more! Sampling of FREE videos on the elegant Mystic Membership platform:  modernmystic.love ✨Now offering one-on-one  Astrology Soul Psyche Mapping Readings. Book via (*This includes a copy of your birth chart and an audio recording of the session) modernmystic.love ✨Book a Psychic Reading w/me today modernmystic.love ✨Give it a 5 star, 1 line review on Apple Music (takes literally 2 min either from an iPhone or via the Apple Music store on all other devices) or on Spotify. This is HUGE as it helps get it heard more which supports the podcast. ✨Join conscious conversation & community in the Modern Mystic Podcast Private F-book Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/959629444823656/ ✨Get inspiring insights on IG: @modernmysticlove @mystickilkenny

Discover how sacred myths, archetypes and creativity depict sacred understandings that can help us know ourselves more fully, and live in more aligned ways. In this illuminative interview episode with Professor Bill Mahony, Ph.D. discussed is: What Tantra is and how Tantra holds that by turning toward and engaging with the world, one can find one's own deep inner freedom. Detailed ways to think about and work with myths & archetypes to both empower you and to help you grow. The Differences between Tantra & Buddhism.  Buddhist notions of suffering & what the Four Noble truths are. How creativity and the arts are deeply connected to our spirituality . The definition of Dharma and how we can apply it in every situation. This conversation is deep, inspiring and full of interesting information. SHOW NOTES: Tantra is aligning with life itself and the notion that existence itself is a good thing within all the disappointments and complications. This is different from other philosophies. Tantra holds that by turning toward and engaging with the world, one can find one's own deep inner freedom. It is a world affirming ideology. Narratives that express these ideas tend to have male and female components.   A Mystic closes one's eyes, to open oneself. There is a singular presence within all beings that is unifying and greater than all of us.  By knowing this sacred divine presence of all things, its inherent interconnectivity, it defines one's understanding and one's place in the world. The one within the many is the theme we see across cultures of this perennial Philosophy.  Ideas of presence & power are discussed. Discussion of myth, archetype & narratives of connectivity. Listen to stories, myths and archetypes and then ask yourself, “What is this saying about who I am?” “Which character in the story I tell is me?” From a mystical perspective, “All of the characters in the story are an aspect of the great Self, of me.” Oh, I am a hero…and knowing this, how can I live in the world ? Or I am the lover. Sacred stories give models and paradigms for us. Sacred myths encompass and remind us of both our humanity and our own greatness too.  Discover how myth and stories depict sacred understandings. Learn how to work with different archetypes, gods, goddesses and their codes. How statues and sacred physical objects can reflect back the forces and powers that we are seeking such as goodness, gracious & benevolence and then plant them within by honoring. How choosing myths and archetypes that light us up is the way to go. What is Tantra and how it is an embodied practice and also how it is different from Buddhism? Tantra is a weaving of practices and philosophy. How you do what you do matters.  Discussed is the Buddhist notion of suffering and the Buddhist 4 Noble Truths. Suffering is everywhere. Suffering is from not knowing one's connectivity between things. How poetry and the arts are connected to spirituality. A “Mystic” is the ability to see things that would otherwise remain hidden. A Mystic is a seer and a visionary. Contemplate thinking of our lives as our masterpieces.  The importance of the topic of Dharmic is detailed. Dharma in India means “ integrity”, that which upholds. Dharma in Buddhism are the sacred teachings that support awakening. What is the single most important question you can ask yourself when thinking about your Dharma in any given moment? What can I do in any situation that can bring less suffering and more integration to me and to the world and people I am interacting with? We can only do this when in Presence, when we are remembering who we are at our essence. OM TAT SAT - May it be so. Guest Bill Mahony: wkmahony.com Host: Kilkenny Tremblay modernmystic.love ✨HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT!: The doors for the Modern Mystic Membership are now open! Monthly Mystic Members get access to a library of over 100 tantric yoga, meditation & breathwork classes as well as short “Mystic Hack” videos which have topics including astrology, tarot cards, developing psychic abilities, grounding/protecting/growing your energy and more! Sampling of FREE videos on the elegant Mystic Membership platform:  modernmystic.love ✨Now offering one-on-one  Astrology Soul Psyche Mapping Readings. Book via (*This includes a copy of your birth chart and an audio recording of the session) modernmystic.love ✨Give it a 5 star, 1 line review on Apple Music (takes literally 2 min either from an iPhone or via the Apple Music store on all other devices) or on Spotify. This is HUGE as it helps get it heard more which supports the podcast. ✨Join conscious conversation & community in the Modern Mystic Podcast Private F-book Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/959629444823656/ ✨Get inspiring insights on IG: @modernmysticlove @mystickilkenny

Your health, body and cells are always being impacted by the weather of your psyche and the tsunamis of stress or peace that we allow to flow. In this fascinating episode, NyTimes best selling author & scientist, Dr. Elissa Epel, shares her groundbreaking work which proves the benefits of spiritual practices & healthy lifestyle choices on our physical and biological health. While aging and death are inevitable parts of this earth walk, we don't have to accept that the quality of our life has to deteriorate at a rapid rate. The cultivation of concrete actions and certain states of mind can improve our odds at living better now and living healthy right up to the end of our lives. SHOW NOTES: *Note: My monthly Mystic Members will be receiving FREE chapters of Dr. Epel's NYTimes Best Selling book, The Telomere Effect! https://www.modernmystic.love/plans-pricing  Dr. Epel is a groundbreaking contemplative scientist and always trying to integrate ancient wisdom from practices.  Discussed is the health span & the disease span. Much of your aging health nature vs. nurture. Life experiences and how we respond to them turns out To be more important than our genetics in chronic disease as we age. There's also a mystery that we can't reduce and measure well. While aging and death are inevitable parts of the earth walk, we don't have to accept that the quality of our life has to deteriorate at a rapid rate. There are concrete actions and lifestyle choices that can improve our odds at living better now and living healthy right up to the end of our lives. Older people are more resilient and come with more coping and stress management skills. They experience more positive emotions.  Chronic and toxic stress speeds up our aging processes and how we look and what diseases we develop. Emotional states are connected to how well we age and our mitochondria. Discussed is what Telomeres are within our bodies, how they are impacted with stress overtime and how they are linked to our aging processes. It is now scientifically proven that what's happening in our minds and how present we are to the current moment affects our health and how much we age. Our bodies, our physiology and our cells are affected which is now scientifically proven with what's happening in our minds and how present we are to the current moment. Practices of mindfulness, being in flow states and not in fight or flight really impacts how we look, how we feel and how we age. Managing stress well is one of the biggest factors in shaping our health and aging processes. Mind/body practices dampen down on the inflammatory pathways, gene expression pathways & master controls for inflammation. Cells are always being impacted by the weather of your psyche and the tsunamis of stress that we are allowing to flow. Discussed is metabolic health. Dr. Epel also shares how she navigates being a female high powered scientist in a patriarchal world and how being authentic led her to her groundbreaking work.  The best medicine is peace of mind. It is our inner comfort and inner life that matters and drives our outer one. - Dalai Lama Guest Elissa Epel Website: elissaepel.com Host: Kilkenny Tremblay: modernmystic.love ✨HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT!: The doors for the Modern Mystic Membership are now open! Monthly Mystic Members get access to a library of over 100 tantric yoga, meditation & breathwork classes as well as short “Mystic Hack” videos which have topics including astrology, tarot cards, developing psychic abilities, grounding/protecting/growing your energy and more! Sampling of FREE videos on the elegant Mystic Membership platform:  modernmystic.love ✨Now offering one-on-one  Astrology Soul Psyche Mapping Readings. Book via (*This includes a copy of your birth chart and an audio recording of the session) modernmystic.love ✨Give it a 5 star, 1 line review on Apple Music (takes literally 2 min either from an iPhone or via the Apple Music store on all other devices) or on Spotify. This is HUGE as it helps get it heard more which supports the podcast. ✨Join conscious conversation & community in the Modern Mystic Podcast Private F-book Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/959629444823656/ ✨Get inspiring insights on IG: @modernmysticlove @mystickilkenny    

Tarot cards are a powerful tool which offer a snapshot of the current energy of your life  in the present moment. They can help reflect back to us perspectives and answers about our lives when we are unclear or stuck. This interesting interview includes an overview of Tarot with its history and the meanings of the Minor Arcana cards (Ace through Ten, Paige, Knight, Queen and King cards get broken down). Also discussed is the meaning of the suites: cups, pentacles, wands and swords, and the most important thing to consider when giving or receiving a tarot reading. This episode ends with an uplifting meditation. SHOW NOTES: “Bhakti” is loving devotion and being of service to others in that devotion with this practice.  Tarot cards are a powerful tool and a snapshot of the current energy of your life is in the present moment. Where is the energy stuck in our lives and where is it flowing? Which people and circumstances in our lives might we need to engage with more fully and which ones would benefit from taking a step back from? Discussed is some history about Tarot Cards and the “Original Deck” that is most widely used in the Western world today called the Rider-Waite-Smith deck. Detailed is the general meaning of the suites: cups, pentacles, wands and swords. The meanings of each of the Minor Arcana cards (Ace through Ten, Paige, Knights, Queen and King cards) are gone through at length in addition to the more “challenging” cards of this hefty part of the deck. Also mentioned is the single most important thing to consider when giving or receiving a tarot reading. This interview episode ends with an uplifting meditation. Guest Michel McQueen: @saintlytarotmystic ✨HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT!: The doors for the Modern Mystic Membership are now open! Monthly Mystic Members get access to a library of over 100 tantric yoga, meditation & breathwork classes as well as short “Mystic Hack” videos which have topics including astrology, tarot cards, developing psychic abilities, grounding/protecting/growing your energy and more! Sampling of FREE videos on the elegant Mystic Membership platform:  modernmystic.love ✨Now offering one-on-one  Soul Psyche Mapping Astrology Readings. Book via (*This includes a copy of your birth chart and an audio recording of the session) modernmystic.love ✨Give it a 5 star, 1 line review on Apple Music (takes literally 2 min either from an iPhone or via the Apple Music store on all other devices) or on Spotify. This is HUGE as it helps get it heard more which supports the podcast. ✨Join conscious conversation & community in the Modern Mystic Podcast Private F-book Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/959629444823656/ ✨Get inspiring insights on IG: @modernmysticlove @mystickilkenny

Clairvoyance, Clairaudience, Clairsentience, Claircognizance, Clairalience, Clairgustance are capacities we all have, we just have to learn how to develop them. In this engaging episode, learn exactly what these “clairs” are and concrete, accessible ways to develop them more fully which opens up layers of richness in our life. Show Notes: Detailed in this “soulcast” are how to access your “clairs” that each one of us has in practical ways. ✨HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT!: The doors for the Modern Mystic Membership are now open! Monthly Mystic Members get access to a library of over 100 tantric yoga, meditation & breathwork classes as well as short “Mystic Hack” videos which have topics including astrology, tarot cards, developing psychic abilities, grounding/protecting/growing your energy and more! Sampling of FREE videos on the elegant Mystic Membership platform:  modernmystic.love ✨Now offering one-on-one Psyche & Soul Mapping Astrology Readings. Book via (*This includes a copy of your birth chart and an audio recording of the session) modernmystic.love ✨Give it a 5 star, 1 line review on Apple Music (takes literally 2 min either from an iPhone or via the Apple Music store on all other devices) or on Spotify. This is HUGE as it helps get it heard more which supports the podcast. ✨Join conscious conversation & community in the Modern Mystic Podcast Private F-book Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/959629444823656/ ✨Get inspiring insights on IG: @modernmysticlove @mystickilkenny  

Astrology is the most ancient science that uses the elements to understand and unlock the most illusive and fascinating parts of Self, and to bring our lives back into greater balance. In this riveting conversation with Debra Silverman, astrologer and psychotherapist to many well known folks, she reveals the three main aspects of one's chart (which aren't your sun and moon signs!) that she always considers. Also unpacked is how extreme play and fun go hand-in-hand with seriousness on the spiritual path. Never forget that your soul is in love with you. You might as well start falling in love now. This episode ends with an uplifting closing meditation that can be played again and again. Show Notes: A Mystic is someone who is comfortable going in between worlds: the worlds on the inside with eyes closed; the spirit world based on where spirit and the planets are; and the outside world where the rocks, mountains and trees are. It's having one foot in and one foot out. It is traversing these two worlds as easily as the inhalation and the exhalation of the breath. There's no resistance back and forth between all these realms. We can use the elements as a launching point to understanding ourselves more fully. Discussed are the four elements, the “missing element” and how to embody the elements so Spirit can use us fully. Carl Jung the original psychiatrist said, “Psychology will be a dinosaur science until it includes astrology.” Psychology is moving around furniture. Astrology is getting under it and asks, What is the purpose of a lifetime?  The very important influence of Saturn in one's astrological chart is detailed. It teaches us like a mean principal, or a Grandpa. You can learn to dance with him. Saturn is your life lesson. Identify the element it's in. The North Node is a secret when you are looking in drawers of astrology. It doesn't show up as a personality trait. If you want to get realized more quickly, go down this backstreet. We often resist it. The opposite of N. Node (True Node) is S. Node which is what you did in past lives and your comfort land.  Astrology is the oldest science on earth and its invitation is to help you find freedom. Debra looks at 3 indicators: Saturn, North Node (which sign?) and the Rising sign. Find your way through the labyrinth of astrology through starting with the elements. Pay attention to the Universe's cues!  What is a “progressed moon” and how long is this cycle that we are always somewhere in? Also unpacked is how extreme play and fun go hand-in-hand with seriousness on the spiritual path. In the soil of pain wisdom is grown. One sign of wisdom is to be able to cultivate the presence as to when the hardships begin, the lessons are in process. Why do we know what's good for us and we don't do it?  Debrah leads a profound & uplifting closing mediation. Never forget that your soul is in love with you. You might as well start falling in love now. Debra's Info: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/debrasilvermanastrology Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/debrasilverman_astrology/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@debrasilvermanastrology YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/silvermanastrology Pintrest: https://www.pinterest.ca/debrasilvermanastrology/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DebraSilverman   ✨HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT!: The doors for the Modern Mystic Membership are now open! Monthly Mystic Members get access to a library of well over 100 yoga, meditation & breathwork classes as well as short “Mystic Hack” videos which have a myriad of topics ranging from: how to ground, protect and grow your energy; to astrology & tarot card videos; to developing one's psychic abilities and more! Get a sample of some FREE videos and find the Membership area here: modernmystic.love ✨Now offering one-on-one Astrology Readings. Book via modernmystic.love (*This includes a copy of your birth chart and an audio recording of the session) ✨Give it a 5 star, 1 line review on iTunes (takes literally 2 min either from an iPhone or via the iTunes store on all other devices). This is HUGE as it helps get it heard more which helps the podcast get supported. ✨Join conscious conversation & community in the Modern Mystic Podcast ✨ Private F-book Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/959629444823656/ ✨Get inspiring insights on IG: @modernmysticlove @mystickilkenny

Journeying Through Yourself: Your Energy Map of the 5 Koshas Do you know you have a map within yourself that can be used to heal wounds, understand yourself and help navigate your life's path? In this “soulcast” episode learn about the ancient & profound subtle body architecture called “the Koshas.” Discover how this inner framework is connected and can be utilized as a tool for self empowerment & self knowing.  Show Notes: A journey can become a sacred thing: Make sure, before you go, To take the time To bless your going forth, To free your heart of ballast So that the compass of your soul Might direct you toward The territories of spirit Where you will discover More of your hidden life, And the urgencies That deserve to claim you. May you travel in an awakened way, Gathered wisely into your inner ground; That you may not waste the invitations Which wait along the way to transform you. May you travel safely, arrive refreshed, And live your time away to its fullest; Return home more enriched, and free To balance the gift of days which call you. - John O'Donohue   Discussed in detail are what a Kosha is, where each layer of Kosha lives within you, and how the layers are connected in detail. Also shared are concrete ways to work with and experience these Koshas in ourselves and in our lives literally and from a psychospiritual perspective.   ✨HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT!: The doors for the Modern Mystic Membership are now open! Monthly Mystic Members get access to a library of well over 100 yoga, meditation & breathwork classes as well as short “Mystic Hack” videos which have a myriad of topics ranging from: how to ground, protect and grow your energy; to astrology & tarot card videos; to developing one's psychic abilities and more! Get a sample of some FREE videos and find the Membership area here: modernmystic.love ✨Now offering one-on-one Astrology Readings. Book via modernmystic.love ✨Give it a 5 star, 1 line review on iTunes (takes literally 2 min either from an iPhone or via the iTunes store on all other devices). This is HUGE as it helps get it heard more which helps the podcast get supported. ✨Join conscious conversation & community in the Modern Mystic Podcast ✨ Private F-book Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/959629444823656/ ✨Get inspiring insights on IG: @modernmysticlove @mystickilkenny  

Lama Tsultrim Allione is one of the few female Lamas in the Buddhist tradition today. She shares her fascinating & unique journey of traveling to India & Tibet as a teen, living  with American yogi Ram Dass, the eminent Harvard psychologist and psychedelic pioneer and ultimately, by the age of 22, becoming the first American ever to be ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist nun. Discussed in this profound episode are reflections about: learning to become Conscious of Consciousness, Buddhists notions of the gender spectrum and the importance of the female perspective balanced with the male perspective in all arenas including spirituality. Also detailed is the Lama's 5 step Tibetan Buddhist practice she has modernized to support Westerners working with & overcoming their “demons” such as addictions, fears and disorders. This powerful episode is punctuated with an uplifting Buddhist practice that can be listened to again and again. SHOW NOTES: A Modern Mystic is someone who can live in this world at its speed but maintain a deep practice so that their presence in this world can then be of benefit to others. Lama shares her astonishing life's story and speaks of her unique path of traveling to India and Tibet as a teen where she lived with American yogis, Bhagavan Das and Dr. Richard Alpert (aka Ram Dass), the eminent Harvard psychologist and psychedelic pioneer. She then hitchhiked across northern India to see His Holiness the Dalai Lama in  Dharamshala and ultimately, by the age of 22, became the first American ever to be ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist nun. One revelation she had was the inquiry, how much was she not noticing because she was moving too fast and making too much noise? Discussed is the idea of Awareness opening up into larger Awareness and Conscious becomes aware of Consciousness during meditation. Figures W.B. Yeats, an Irish Mystic poet and early writer on Yoga, Paul Brunton are mentioned. Lama was suited for and committed to the teachings, but not the monastic lifestyle. Then she was presented with Koan (a contemplation), “How could she maintain depth of practice, commitment to the spiritual path and deepen this path all while being a mother.” Listen to your intuition and to what's calling you, even if it doesn't make sense. Often those inklings are connected to past lives. Listen to what's inside.  How would spirituality be different if it was by women, for women and would it be different? Women's Spirituality movement in the early 80's is discussed and the recognition that women's stories weren't there nor were there spiritual paths for women by women. We have them by men for men, and then women get to participate in what they are allowed and not allowed to do. It's all controlled i.e. who can become a priest, and not a priest. You can be in a female body and feel your dominant energy is male or vice versa. Gender is at the highest level of Tibetan Buddhism spirituality, irrelevant. Lama shares the story of the female Buddha, Tara. In many Eastern traditions, particularly Tantric Buddhism, there is a lot of fluidity with deities. Deities are embodiments of enlightened energies. In some deity practices, a man might visualize himself as a female deity or vice versa or in some practices, you visualize both in Union. There's a kind of gender fluidity and philosophical understanding that there is no gender at the Absolute level of reality, it's a construct. Buddhism gives us both understandings: there is gender and no gender. As feminists, we need equality in decision making and equal representation, as females do see things differently and we need that equally to the male perspective.  Unpacked is the idea of our Shadows which in the Tibetan Buddhist practice of Chod are called “Demons.” Lama speaks of her lineage and teacher Machig Labdron whose practices she's modernized in her brilliant book, Feeding Your Demons. Our “demons” are our present preoccupations, the issues in our lives blocking our experience of Freedom. Our demons might come from the conflicts we have with our lover, anxiety we feel when we fly, or the discomfort we feel when we look at ourselves in the mirror. Fear of failure could be your particular demon, or addiction to tobacco, alcohol, drugs, pornography, or money. We might have a demon that makes us fear abandonment or a demon that causes us to hurt the ones we love. A person with an eating disorder might have a demon demanding huge amounts of sweet or fatty food. The demon of anorexia tells us that we have failed if we eat and that we will never be thin enough. A fear demon might be telling us we can't go up in high buildings or take a walk in the dark. The word for Demons is “Mara” which is anything that blocks up from our own freedom and liberation. Anything that keeps us away from the present moment. She discusses her five step process she developed to make accessible the practice of 11th Century Machig Labdron. She details this Shamanic practice and how your body becomes food for these various obstacles. She realized this could be a foreign idea for a westerner to do and thus she teaches it in a way that's more practical and useful.  Feeding not fighting is a feminine approach; to talk, to nurture and to incorporate the enemy.  What we resist, persist. It's a psychospiritual practice, a blending of East and West. There is still a great need for the fierce feminine.  Men can be so scared of women's fierceness. Incorporate the fierce, wise feminine that has been taken away from us all. Women have been kept out of religious hierarchies, even in Bushism, with few exceptions. Lama Taultrim shares about her path of emphasizing the feminine and her journey trying to decide if talking about the feminine was really important. She shares how the events of 9/11 solidified this path for her in her mind's eye. We have a problem in this country and in all world religions where women are vacant from the table of leadership. Women often tend towards more talking and working things out. If you birth a child, you know more about what goes into a human life and would be more hesitant to go to war. Lama punctuates this conversation with the stirring Buddhist practice of “Sharing the Merit.” taramandala.org F-book & IG: Lama Tsultrim  Check Lama Tsultrim out every Sunday at 9am PST for “Lama Live”  Lehigh Valley Speaking engagement on 10/27/22 @ 7pm in Baker Hall: https://zoellner.cas.lehigh.edu/content/littner-memorial-lecture-presents-lama-tsultrim-allione?fbclid=IwAR10dtAcqJSi72DD989xarLuoMHQo71UTpzAGBk-Or7JIv9VNuzS6UXcBJM  

Show Notes: Astrology is our soul's blueprint and offers us clues and signposts about our life's lessons and keys to our empowerment. The whole point of astrology and all of our mystic and mindfulness practices is to embody and inhabit our lives more fully. In this delightful episode packed with insights, our host, Kilkenny, has a playful and deep conversation with the hosts of the Inner Bloom Podcast unpacking life topics of both joy and challenge while tying together psychological stages & experiences with astrological wisdom . https://www.innerbloompodcast.com/  https://www.astro.com/horoscope https://www.modernmystic.love/  ✨HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT!: The doors for the Modern Mystic Membership are now open! Monthly Mystic Members get access to a library of well over 100 yoga, meditation & breathwork classes as well as short “Mystic Hack” videos which have a myriad of topics ranging from: how to ground, protect and grow your energy; to astrology & tarot card videos; to developing one's psychic abilities and more! Get a sample of some FREE videos and find the Membership area here: modernmystic.love ✨Now offering one-on-one Astrology Readings. Book via modernmystic.love (*This includes a copy of your birth chart and an audio recording of the session) ✨Give it a 5 star, 1 line review on iTunes (takes literally 2 min either from an iPhone or via the iTunes store on all other devices). This is HUGE as it helps get it heard more which helps the podcast get supported. ✨Join conscious conversation & community in the Modern Mystic Podcast ✨ Private F-book Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/959629444823656/ ✨Get inspiring insights on IG: @modernmysticlove @mystickilkenny  

Does each person have one power animal guide or several? What are concrete ways you can connect to your power animals for guidance, wisdom and support? In this interview with Shaman and author, Alyson Charles, discussed are these things and more! Detailed is how you can really heal and embody life more fully using power animal medicine. Specific animal teachings and psychospiritual practices & perspectives are offered for common human experiences such as creating boundaries, friendship, mourning, romance, divine union/partnership & abundance. This conversation ends with a powerful shamanic meditation. Show Notes:  A key pillar of being a Modern Mystic is full permission to have human, earthy experience and full permission to also have mystical, spiritual experience. If we have a misstep, we give ourselves grace and compassion as we all came in here to grow and evolve. Each of our paths are unique and creative. Our journey won't look like anyone else's. Alyson shares about her fascinating journey about being a top athlete, and how a crisis allowed her “divine intervention” & spiritual awakening to unfold. The moments of breakdowns and crises, often bring the greatest growth. As humans, we can't escape childhood patterns and stories we have been told. We have a core power animal who stays with us our entire earth walk. Then we also possess supporter animal allies that each bestow different wisdom teachings depending upon what we are going through in our lives to share different teachings and lessons. Each animal has a medicine for us and comes in to help us. Alyson shares how she receives her psychic downloads. Discussed is how you can really heal and embody more fully being in this world using the power animal medicine. Detailed are suggestions as to how to meet your power animal and how you can make connection points with the animal. You can ask them questions and do a guided journey or meditation to call them in either your core power animal or a supporting one. The information via your animal team will come in differently depending upon how you receive with your specific gifts. Power guides really appreciate an “invitation” as they are not pushy and overbearing. Call them in with an invitation and intention, give them an offering, look into their eyes, ask them questions. You can also if it feels in alignment ask the animal to stay with you and continue to work with you. There are certain animals that are holding space for lots of people right now like fox and bear. Detailed are the wisdom, teachings and medicine of Frog, Snake,Tiger, Dolphin, Bear, Hummingbird, Armadillo, Dragonfly, Black Jaguar, Coy Fish, Duck and Deer. When we deeply dive into crevasses and places within ourselves, our psyche, and work with them in aligned ways, then we become more integrated people and trust in ourselves more fully which can lead to our intuition refinement. Working gently with our shadow in the way of animals that freak us out is discussed and how we can pivot from fear to love with any animal we feel resistant to. Alyson shares her relationship with the word “Shaman” and the art of answering the call of divine instruction. Specific animal teachings and medicine are offered for common human experiences such as creating boundaries, friendship, mourning, romance, divine union/partnership & abundance. This conversation ends with a shamanic meditation. For more information on our guest Alyson: alysoncharles.com ✨HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT!: The doors for the Modern Mystic Membership are now open! Monthly Mystic Members get access to a library of well over 100 yoga, meditation & breathwork classes as well as short “Mystic Hack” videos which have a myriad of topics ranging from: how to ground, protect and grow your energy; to astrology & tarot card videos; to developing one's psychic abilities and more! Get a sample of some FREE videos and find the Membership area here: modernmystic.love ✨Now offering one-on-one Astrology Readings. Book via modernmystic.love ✨Give it a 5 star, 1 line review on iTunes (takes literally 2 min either from an iPhone or via the iTunes store on all other devices). This is HUGE as it helps get it heard more which helps the podcast get supported. ✨Join conscious conversation & community in the Modern Mystic Podcast ✨ Private F-book Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/959629444823656/ ✨Get inspiring insights on IG: @modernmysticlove @mystickilkenny

So many of us spend our lives circling around the same blocks but haven't figured out how to clear them once and for all. In this riveting interview, discussed is how to ask the optimal questions to heal inner issues that show up for us time and time again in different circumstances with different people, and how to determine if they are from this lifetime or past lives. Wisdom about the energetics of relationships, Akashic Records and Money Codes are also shared in this fascinating episode.  SHOW NOTES  A Modern Mystic anchors spiritual realms into their reality. Knowing how to operate the energetics of things.  3 Truths: 1) What you know 2) What you know you don't know 3) What you don't know you don't know. To be a mystic, a conscious seeker of life, is to be able to ebb and flow with all 3 aspects of these. Quest of life is to be able to sit with the question. = Quest-i-on The energetics of relationships are discussed.  How to ask the questions and the “why” about the stories we tell ourselves. How in doing so midwives spiritual understandings.  Buddhist aphorism, “To know and to not do, is to still not to know.” Information -> knowledge -> wisdom.  The opulent opportunity to experience the holy in day-to-day moments like doing dishes requires rigor.  So many people struggling to clear a block and it's from a past life: Ask yourself the question: “Is this of this lifetime or is this of the past?” and trust the answer that arises. If there is a theme that keeps showing up like, I am always facing this same story with a different person, if a situation is on “repeat”, often it is not rooted in this lifetime.  Does it feel “sticky?” Raise your energy (with meditation, breathwork, dancing, singing etc..) and then ask if from past life? Then trust even if the answer comes in your voice which it often will! Often the Universe will speak in your voice but not in the first person, in a directive manner. *The key is reflecting on what are the energies from past lives for past life work and not as important are all the details of what exactly happened.   Akashic Records are detailed. They are the energetic place, library, where the stories of what you experienced in past lives are stored. They are the memories of the soul's experience.  How to move towards and heal from past lives. The soul remembers and can help us be compassionate with Selves when we are rooted in past life wounds. The soul and past life version of you can see from a higher vantage point and heal, and isn't attached to what did or didn't happen. Our soul also remembers that everyone agreed ahead of time whether you hurt someone or you got hurt to learn and grow in a lifetime together.  Spiritual Amnesia and how we often forget everything is here for our spiritual growth. Suffering is our attachment to outcome. How do we get to the root of the theme? What is the common theme thread of the big challenges in your life? How does it make you feel? Different scenarios, but find common triggering feeling. We run life 10% conscious mind. 90% unconscious. Pull it all forward and now you are aware of the theme. If you have worked on this theme and still feel stuck, then probably it is something from soul consciousness and spanned other lifetimes. Does it feel sticky or brings up a strong emotion?  Pay attention to your dreams which are often from past lives (*check out Soulcast Episode #44 of Modern Mystic ~ What Dreams May Come). Soul consciousness trickles into dreams. Follow this dream memory that is flowing through. Explore this to get clear on energies and blocks along the way.        3. Since YOU are your own healer…you can say when something feels hard, yucky or sticky, “I don't know what time and space this comes from, I am asking for it to be healed now.” the Universe wants to be in relationship with you. Or if something feels really exciting and joyful you can say, “That feels amazing, like a remembrance, and I am asking that this remembrance  be fully activated within me now.” Discussion regarding healing work and the ego. Conversation about abundance and money codes. Concluding delightful meditation. ✨HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT!: The doors for the Modern Mystic Membership are now open! Monthly Mystic Members get access to a library of well over 100 yoga, meditation & breathwork classes as well as short “Mystic Hack” videos which have a myriad of topics ranging from: how to ground, protect and grow your energy; to astrology & tarot card videos; to developing one's psychic abilities and more! Get a sample of some FREE videos and find the Membership area here: modernmystic.love ✨Now offering one-on-one Astrology Readings. Book via modernmystic.love (*This includes a copy of your birthchart and an audio recording of the session) ✨Give it a 5 star, 1 line review on iTunes (takes literally 2 min either from an iPhone or via the iTunes store on all other devices). This is HUGE as it helps get it heard more which helps the podcast get supported. ✨Join conscious conversation & community in the Modern Mystic Podcast ✨ Private F-book Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/959629444823656/ ✨Get inspiring insights on IG: @modernmysticlove @mystickilkenny

What is the state of your dream life? Are your dreams scary, lovely or non-existent? Are you using your dream life to your full advantage and is it helping you evolve and grow? In this inspiring soulcast episode, discussed are the spiritual and scientific states of sleep and various tactics and techniques you can use to cultivate a more fulfilling and powerful dream life. Various traditions since time immemorial have regarded dreams as a sacred portal to your unconscious and a way to receive powerful messages from the Universe. Practical ways to develop your dream recall as well as tips for lucid dreaming are offered.  Show Notes: "To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come. When we have shuffled off this mortal coil must give us pause..."​​ ~ Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1 The etymology of the word “dream' is discussed as well as the intersectionality of dreams and shadow work. Also detailed are the 4 states of consciousness in the yogic tradition and the scientific brain waves correlated with each state.  Sleep issues are often associated with the throat chakra.  Tips and tools for dream recollection and lucid dreaming are offered as well as the benefits of day and night dreaming. ✨HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT!: The doors for the Modern Mystic Membership are now open! Monthly Mystic Members get access to a library of well over 100 yoga, meditation & breathwork classes as well as short “Mystic Hack” videos which have a myriad of topics ranging from: how to ground, protect and grow your energy; to astrology & tarot card videos; to developing one's psychic abilities and more! Get a sample of some FREE videos and find the Membership area here: modernmystic.love ✨Now offering one-on-one Astrology Readings. Book via modernmystic.love ✨Give it a 5 star, 1 line review on iTunes (takes literally 2 min either from an iPhone or via the iTunes store on all other devices). This is HUGE as it helps get it heard more which helps the podcast get supported. ✨Join conscious conversation & community in the Modern Mystic Podcast ✨ Private F-book Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/959629444823656/ ✨Get inspiring insights on IG: @modernmysticlove @mystickilkenny

Your “rising sign” (aka your “Ascendent”) in astrology is your soul's signature vibe and knowing it can act like a north star in your life. When we become depressed, stuck or anxious, the energy and lessons that our Ascendent offers can bring more peace and balance into our lives. It also reflects our physical appearance and how the world perceives us. In this “Soulcast”, Kilkenny breaks down each of the 12 astrological Ascendent/Rising signs from a psychospiritual standpoint & offers concrete and practical ways you can think about these energies in your day-to-day life. Detailed are each Ascendent/Rising sign's correlations to: certain planets, psychological qualities, tarot cards, body parts, energies & more!  SHOW NOTES:  Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. ~ Confucious  Your Rising Sign (aka Ascendent) is an indicator of your soul's journey and flavor in this lifetime. It's your soul's signature vibe and an important key to unlocking your fullest potential of your destiny. It is where your soul wants to land and isn't that what life in the end is about?  Often we come into this world more like the energy of our Ascendent and then when our ego begins to develop around the ages of 3-5, we begin to consecrate our personalities and thus become more like our sun signs (listen to episode #41: What Does Your "Sun Sign" Really Say About You Anyway?) Discussed is how to find your Ascendent on your natal chart and then more detailed information regarding each specific Ascendent sign including some generalized  physical characteristics in addition to themes, lessons and characteristics that one can contemplate aligning with to create more harmony and self knowing in one's life. Also discussed are tarot cards, colors and other practical applications one can utilize to support oneself by knowing one's Ascendent.  Keep on your path, this path of the rising and the falling that we call life. And every time you are lost and down, depressed and anxious, at a loss for time, energy, resources…look to your rising sign like the north star for its themes, for its lessons and for its guidance, and it will nourish you at the most fundamental level so you can rise up once again friend. ✨HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT!: The doors for the Modern Mystic Membership are now open! Monthly Mystic Members get access to a library of well over 100 yoga, meditation & breathwork classes as well as short “Mystic Hack” videos which have a myriad of topics ranging from: how to ground, protect and grow your energy; to astrology & tarot card videos; to developing one's psychic abilities and more! Get a sample of some FREE videos and find the Membership area here: modernmystic.love ✨Now offering one-on-one-astrology readings. Book via modernmystic.love ✨Give it a 5 star, 1 line review on iTunes (takes literally 2 min either from an iPhone or via the iTunes store on all other devices). This is HUGE as it helps get it heard more which helps the podcast get supported. ✨Join conscious conversation & community in the Modern Mystic Podcast ✨ Private F-book Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/959629444823656/ ✨Get inspiring insights on IG: @modernmysticlove

The messages & healing we most need will never stop trying to be delivered to us. Discussed in this potent interview with herbalist & author, Asia Suler, is how to cultivate our finding & receiving of these messages all around us which connect us back to both ourselves, our Source and our ancestral wisdom. Also unpacked is the power of metaphor that is not only a helpful language for articulating metaphysical experiences but also the way flowers & plants communicate their healing properties. How to connect with nature in urban settings, the Celtic notion of “the Other World” and the hidden power in our name are also delved into.  Show Notes: To be a Modern Mystic is to be in a relationship with the beloved qualities of the mystery itself and not just focusing on the “answers.” Embarking on this journey in the Modern Age is not a block but just an invitation to the next level encounter of the mystery to fall in love with.  Discussed is the term Animism, the viewpoint  that all creatures, plants, trees, flowers, rocks, rivers, weather systems possess a distinct aliveness and spiritual essence.  Kids don't see plants as any different than a person; however, we lose this natural ability to see we are one living being in a collection of living beings that make up a living world through enculturation. The messages & healing we most need will never stop trying to be delivered to us. Sometimes that can look like hardship and crisis but always underneath healing wants to be delivered.  Intellectualism and spiritualism don't have to be antagonists but can be viewed as two sides of one coin. We can blend these two arenas and through intellectualism, we can access spirituality. The concept of our “Wider Self'' is discussed, and the idea that there is no divorcing Self from what you are a part of which is nature . You are a part of nature's dream made manifest in this body in this lifetime and so there is always the opportunity to reach out to nature and have a conversation. Nature is a parent mirror that never forsakes us. A parent ideally mirrors their child: their goodness etc... We are missing the primary connection with the parent mirror of nature often in our Modern Day Age. You don't have to do anything special for nature to speak with you because we promise you nature already is doing so. Find a “gatekeeper” in an environment: a sentinel tree, stone, waterway and notice the feeling of sitting with an elder. Introduce yourself for that's a basic building block for building a relationship. You might feel silly which tells you that you are on the right track as silliness is looking around and seeing what's normally done, and then turning a cultural norm on its head. Our sharing of where we are from and what we care about trains our brain to recognize various aspects of nature as living sentient beings. Create a practice of sitting consistently with this gatekeeper to create a relationship which at times can lead to an almost psychedelic perceptionship. Metaphoric thinking is discussed and is an ancestral skill as there is only so much you can learn from literal thinking. Metaphoric thinking helps more synapses and connections to be made in your brain as metaphor connects one thing to another. Metaphor is a bridge because spiritual truths can't be expressed literally so metaphor supports how we gather, store and transmit knowledge to convey spiritual truths.  In western herbalism there is a doctrine of signatures, a story of a plant's lifetime that will tell you about its medicine. i.e. Mullein which grows around the highway. This plant clears our lungs of pollution. Sometimes a plant offers a non-literal/metaphorical story of how it is growing and communicating to you which might be on a physical level or on an energetic level. Many of us have had the experience of being uplifted by smelling a flower and it shifts you! Flowers and plants have broad spectrum multi dimensional healing powers to them. All you have to do is step outside and look around. Their messages you need are trying to come to you, just often in very creative ways and so it's up to us to pay attention to them. The message you most need will never stop being delivered. Step outside and look around as answers and messages ARE being communicated to you, just put a creative cap on to see and receive them.  When we work with plants as medicine, we are inviting emotional and spiritual healing in. Plants are our elders, those who came before us who made our lives possible, thus connecting to plants is connecting to one's ancestry. Without plants, humans wouldn't exist on the planet. They connect us back to our Source. Plants are conduits that help us develop a deep relationship with the soul of this planet.  We came here to learn and to grow ourselves and on earth's life path. That's our mission.  Everything that manifests in the way of mental or physical illness appears so we can remember the WHY. Why we came here and why we are earthlings to begin with. Plants help us get to the heart of remembering and then the need for major crisis diminishes. They are a support structure, we can lean into… The bedrock belief of the pan-Celtic tradition is that physicality itself is a gateway to interacting with the other world and not divorced from spirituality. Being on earth is just the other side of the coin or veil. These 2 worlds are intertwined and run parallel to each other and the “other world” is actually larger. The “other world” is a place where our ancestors as well as spirits live. The Irish ancestors had these incredible philosophical traditions and we can draw upon them for strength which can be refreshing to be among the continuance of such a belief system. These beliefs are not “far out there”, they are here in our transitions, our earth and our ancestry. They are there and ready for us to access.  The power of language and the magic of one's name are discussed. Our names hold some gems of wisdom and metaphoric thinking for you for language holds frequency. ✨HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT!: The doors for the Modern Mystic Membership are now open! Monthly Mystic Members get access to a library of well over 100 yoga, meditation & breathwork classes as well as short “Mystic Hack” videos which have a myriad of topics ranging from: how to ground, protect and grow your energy; to astrology & tarot card videos; to developing one's psychic abilities and more! Get a sample of some FREE videos and find the Membership area here: modernmystic.love ✨Now offering one-on-one-astrology readings. Book via modernmystic.love ✨Give it a 5 star, 1 line review on iTunes (takes literally 2 min either from an iPhone or via the iTunes store on all other devices). 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Your “sun sign” can help you understand so much about your ego, how you came to shine and what you came to learn in this lifetime. In this “Soulcast”, Kilkenny breaks down each of the 12 astrological signs from a psychospiritual standpoint & offers concrete and practical ways you can think about these energies in your day-to-day life. Detailed are each astrological sign's correlations to: certain planets, psychological qualities, tarot cards, body parts, energies & more!  SHOW NOTES: Your “sun sign” is how your ego has shown up in this world to shine. It reveals information about the sectors and manner you are here to share your unique gifts and how you are here to serve. If you don't identify with your “sun sign”, which is more rare but certainly happens, you probably have some other major aspects going on with your astrological chart that are at play. This is when getting an astrological reading can be exceedingly informative. Each of the 12 western astrological signs are discussed in great detail. Their low & high road tendencies are shared in addition to their main life's lessons. Also included are each astrological sign's correlations to: certain planets, energies, tarot cards, body parts, psychological qualities & more!  Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine. ~ Charlotte Brontë ✨HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT!: The doors for the Modern Mystic Membership are now open! Monthly Mystic Members get access to a library of well over 100 yoga, meditation & breathwork classes as well as short “Mystic Hack” videos which have a myriad of topics ranging from: how to ground, protect and grow your energy; to astrology & tarot card videos; to developing one's psychic abilities and more! Get a sample of some FREE videos and find the Membership area here: modernmystic.love ✨Now offering one-on-one-astrology readings. Book via modernmystic.love ✨Give it a 5 star, 1 line review on iTunes (takes literally 2 min either from an iPhone or via the iTunes store on all other devices). This is HUGE as it helps get it heard more which helps the podcast get supported. ✨Join conscious conversation & community in the Modern Mystic Podcast ✨ Private F-book Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/959629444823656/ ✨Get inspiring insights on IG: @modernmysticlove

We are here to learn & grow through our own humanity and the hardships we have, not just the triumphs. Discussed in this rich and powerful interview with Empowerment Strategist & Soul Mentor, Bonnie Wirth, are ways to support and process our understanding of trauma, anxiety, depression and the jewels of wisdom that can come from suffering. Also covered are what questions to ask ourselves when things feel hard and some fabulous techniques to access your intuition & deep knowing. From topics of enlightenment to ego, from parenthood to finding personal wholeness, there are so many wisdom gems in this not to be missed episode. SHOW NOTES: A Modern Mystic means to yearn for something more beyond what is in our most physical reality and to seek our greater purpose in this life. Discussion of what it means to be in a healthy relationship with one's ego. The goal is to be free from the limitations of ego and making choices from the highest aspect of personality. We are here to learn and to evolve through our own humanity and the hardships we have, not just the triumphs. Bonnie shares of her own upbringing filled with various compounded traumas as an incest and rape survivor. She speaks of her path from feeling suicidal and broken, to making meaning of her traumas and how she asked for Divine support with this meaning making to reclaim her power. The spiritual law: ask and you shall receive. How she took her pain and suffering, and turned it into gold. It is so key to develop a way to converse with one's own higher power which will look differently for each person.  Four core wounds of human condition: abuse, abandonment, co-dependency and loss.  Trauma is trauma whether it is an extreme experience or something people perceive as “smaller” for it changes your experience of yourself and of the world. Trauma causes us to seek out behaviors to soothe ourselves and when we reach out seeking that higher power, it helps us come into a place where what has affected us mentally and emotionally can no longer take us.  Recovery from trauma is not easy but possible. There are jewels of wisdom that come from suffering. Our soul came here for the human experience and evolves from the lessons of despair. Our soul is looking to remember our own light and who we really are, which is our greatest purpose.   When we are operating out of the “lower” part of ego, we are looking to be served. When operating out of the “higher” aspect of ego, we are looking to serve.  The importance of integrating our spiritual life into our emotional bodies and moment-to-moment life is discussed. Bonnie doesn't view anything like anxiety and depression as “good” or “bad” as everything has purpose. If it is in front of us, it is asking something for us to understand. When we are experiencing something we would label a “negative emotion” it is an indication that we are out of alignment with who we really are, that's why it hurts so badly. We are too separated from Source and it is an invitation to come back to Source because it hurts so badly. Depression is an indication we are spending too much time in the past. Anxiety is an indication that we are stuck too far in the future buying into a story that might not be true. The key with either anxiety or depression is to come into the present moment and to be conscious about where we are taking our life. Bless the past and work through pain, the wound and understand it had purpose and couple this with deep trust that all will be well and is guided by the Divine. Discussion on enlightenment. Wholeness is when spirit, mind and body are working congruently. Just because something is challenging, doesn't mean it's wrong. Ask yourself, what is being asked of me? What are solutions here that I haven't even considered? This challenge is asking me to take a look, to stop, reflect and consider what is the Universe asking of me? What do I believe about myself that isn't true?  Do you feel you aren't good enough? What are my limiting beliefs about possibilities and whose voice am I listening to? Pose a question and then ask: is the energy of this light, excitement and expansive? Trust in where you are being guided by guides over the logic of ego. Then let your ego bring it into formation. Ways to connect with intuition & guides are expounded upon. Ask yes and no questions. Described Is how to use divination tools including your body! Spiritual Parenting and Grandparenting advice.  Continue to extend compassion, mercy and forgiveness to yourself, even when you don't get it right. This episode is punctuated with a gorgeous meditation. I am the light, the light I am. ✨HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT!: The doors for the Modern Mystic Membership are now open! Monthly Mystic Members get access to a library of well over 100 yoga, meditation & breathwork classes as well as short “Mystic Hack” videos which have a myriad of topics ranging from: how to ground, protect and grow your energy; to astrology & tarot card videos; to developing one's psychic abilities and more! Get a sample of some FREE videos and find the Membership area here: modernmystic.love ✨Now offering one-on-one-astrology readings. Book via modernmystic.love ✨Give it a 5 star, 1 line review on iTunes (takes literally 2 min either from an iPhone or via the iTunes store on all other devices). This is HUGE as it helps get it heard more which helps the podcast get supported. ✨Join conscious conversation & community in the Modern Mystic Podcast ✨ Private F-book Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/959629444823656/ ✨Get inspiring insights on IG: @modernmysticlove                

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. - Anais Nin To be human is to go through periods of feeling stuck in all the arenas of our lives at various times. In this solo/soulcast, Kilkenny discusses psychospiritual ways to view and to interact with our own stuckness. When we feel like no growth is happening, we might be propelled to anesthetize ourselves and for some of us this includes moving towards addictive tendencies. This soul pep talk includes concrete strategies to work with our own feelings of stuckness. ✨HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT!: The doors for the Modern Mystic Membership are now open! Monthly Mystic Members get access to a library of well over 100 yoga, meditation & breathwork classes as well as short “Mystic Hack” videos which have a myriad of topics ranging from: how to ground, protect and grow your energy; to astrology & tarot card videos; to developing one's psychic abilities and more! Get a sample of some FREE videos and find the Membership area here: modernmystic.love ✨Now offering one-on-one-astrology readings. Book via modernmystic.love ✨Give it a 5 star, 1 line review on iTunes (takes literally 2 min either from an iPhone or via the iTunes store on all other devices). This is HUGE as it helps get it heard more which helps the podcast get supported. ✨Join conscious conversation & community in the Modern Mystic Podcast ✨ Private F-book Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/959629444823656/ ✨Get inspiring insights on IG: @modernmysticlove

Each of us has a Spirit Team of unseen energies that are available for wisdom and support in our day-to-day lives. In this compelling interview with award winning author, Calista, discussed are how to safely access these angels &/or guides and the revelation that there are both male archangels and female archangels called the Archeiai. Covered are who your guides could be and the growing & fascinating awareness of unicorn and pegasus consciousness. This episode ends with a guided meditation that will support you in connecting to your spirit team.  Show Notes  Technology in alignment as a way to connect to each other, share our wisdom and to experience our collective oneness can be viewed as being “mystical” in a modern sense.  Nearly 8 in 10 Americans believe in angels and ⅓ of Britans believe they have a guardian angel designated to them and nearly half of all of those aforementioned people don't assign angels to any religious doctrine.  Calista's story of going from being a cancer research scientist to a spiritual teacher, healer and author. Detailed are who the female archangels are (the archeiai) and how they are really intertwined and connected to the male archangels. Ideas are shared as to how to safely connect to our angels and spirit team as well as questions to ask when doing so. Discussed are unicorn guides and their recent surge and expansion in the collective consciousness. The difference between Unicorn energy and Pegasus energy. How we live in societies who encourage us to be work horses. Unicorn energy is about being playful, joyful and remembering our own unique magic. F.L.Y. - First…Love…Yourself. Unpacking this acronym from a “spiritual” perspective and connecting to source as an act of love. Also the importance of practicing deep self compassion. This episode ends with an exquisite guided meditation that will support you in connecting you to your spirit team.  All of my monthly members will receive 25% off Calista's upcoming Unicorn Healing course. ✨HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT!: The doors for the Modern Mystic Membership are now open! Monthly Mystic Members get access to a library of well over 100 yoga, meditation & breathwork classes as well as short “Mystic Hack” videos which have a myriad of topics ranging from: how to ground, protect and grow your energy; to astrology & tarot card videos; to developing one's psychic abilities and more! Get a sample of some FREE videos and find the Membership area here: modernmystic.love ✨Now offering one-on-one-astrology readings. Book via modernmystic.love ✨Give it a 5 star, 1 line review on iTunes (takes literally 2 min either from an iPhone or via the iTunes store on all other devices). This is HUGE as it helps get it heard more which helps the podcast get supported. ✨Join conscious conversation & community in the Modern Mystic Podcast ✨ Private F-book Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/959629444823656/ ✨Get inspiring insights on IG: @modernmysticlove  

The more we are in sync with the natural world, the more we are in rhythm with the flow of magic and Source. In this scintillating interview episode, unpacked are the power & pitfalls of sacred community, the importance of embracing endings and ways to create sacred spaces. Also discussed is the sociological notion of “the witch wound” and the growing popularity & reclamation of the word “witch” in addition to its actual accurate definition. There is a collective surge of urge to be in the space of creative, healing, magic, consciousness and transformation, and how if you are resonating with these themes, you are part of the tipping point that will usher in a new world known as the Age of Aquarius. SHOW NOTES: We have trillions of organisms in us; oceans of water & minerals; fire of electricity that keeps our heart beating our entire life and the air of intuition keeping our inner compass on track. We are so bioelectrically fed by this earth and the modern mystic learns to listen to nature and to recognize that we are part of this food chain and that how we stay in right relationship with the earth matters on both a macro and micro level. Both physically and somatically as we learn to connect to nature's teachings, we herein connect to the collective heart field using nature as the template.   Dual vs. Non-dual philosophy. How we can view both the body and the mind as tools to experience the Divine and our humanity, and not have to separate ourselves from these aspects of self to experience Spirit. “Samelena” is a Sanskrit word for co-mingling. The Modern Mystic breathes and weaves effortlessness the earthly and the celestial into the beautiful fabric of life. It's a shared sacred whole tapestry. When we connect to the elements, we can use them as a bridge to traverse the mystical and then back to the mundane, and then back and forth, and back and forth. The importance of communing with nature and recognizing that we are woven into nature and not better then is shared and the function of humility as a seeker. “Magic is the art of changing consciousness at will.” ~ Dion Fortune  “The sum is greater than the parts.”~ Aristotle The power of community is detailed. The shadows and growth edges of community, and both strategies for choosing and leading community are discussed.  The sometimes necessity of dissolving community as well as the lessons that can be learned from this process and the value from the ending cycle of things is unpacked as well. The sanctity of the dissolution aspect and dying phase in all areas of life is of great value and can be composted. Using the touchstones of feeling safe and being seen in community can be helpful to contemplate. The more we are in sync with nature, the more we are in sync with the flow of magic and the Divine. The more we bring nature into our life and see the mystery and the magic in the changing of seasons and feed ourselves with it, we will get healthier as human beings living on a healthier earth. Discussed is Regenerative living. This does require us to slow down and learn lessons from nature.  A myriad of specific ideas for how to create sacred space. Think about all of your senses to do so. Our minds are like metal and we attract what we think about. Hacks for purifying space are shared. A rattle can break up stale energy & a drum can call it in. Bring  light to darkness instead of eradicating darkness. Unpacked is the “witch wound” from a sociological perspective which primarily manifests in western feminine culture and amidst spiritual communities as well. Collaboration over competition is the key. The historic definition of a “witch” is a wise one devoted to nature who tried to create good alignment with the natural world. The historical context of this collective karmic wound that can show up in community and in the collective unconscious is detailed. 40/50,000 individuals were accused of being “witches”and executed for over several hundreds of years. The growing popularity of this word and archetype is noted.  Witches & Mystics have to learn first how to master their own nervous system. Think about how much power you can wield in your own life when you can be the master of your own nervous system and commit to practices that help you do so.  Everything is a vibration.  There is a surge of urge to be in the space of creative, healing, magic, consciousness and transformation. Lightworkers of this world are ushering in a new age. More people are getting more motivated to make a difference. It doesn't take everyone, it just takes enough people to cause a tipping point. If you are listening and resonating with these ideas, then you are a part of this tipping point that will usher in a new age known as the Age of Aquarius.. This episode closes with a lovely grounding meditation. Radiant Sutras ~ The Heart of the Universe pulses in all hearts. There is one who is the life in all forms. There is one who is joyful in simply existing in all bodies. Explore the life that is the life of your present form. One day you will discover that it is not different than the secret. One and your heart will sing triumphant songs of being home everywhere. Sue Elkind's Info: digyoga.com ✨HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT!: The doors for the Modern Mystic Membership are now open! Monthly Mystic Members get access to a library of well over 100 yoga, meditation & breathwork classes as well as short “Mystic Hack” videos which have a myriad of topics ranging from: how to ground, protect and grow your energy; to astrology & tarot card videos; to developing one's psychic abilities and more! Get a sample of some FREE videos and find the Membership area here: modernmystic.love ✨Give it a 5 star, 1 line review on iTunes (takes literally 2 min either from an iPhone or via the iTunes store on all other devices). This is HUGE as it helps get it heard more which helps the podcast get supported. ✨Join conscious conversation & community in the Modern Mystic Podcast ✨ Private F-book Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/959629444823656/ ✨Get inspiring insights on IG: @modernmysticlove  

Since the moon is literally made up of the same earth matter as you with its pull affecting the waters on the entire planet and we are made up of primarily water, we humans have an inextricable connection to this satellite. This scientific knowledge, even if it feels “out there”, is an invitation to delve even deeper into our Self knowing for when we look up to the sky for wisdom, it helps us find the guidance within which is where all the answers abide. Discussed are concrete ways to integrate the moon and its teachings into our day-to-day life including exploring the 12 western astrological moon archetypes & how they can inform the needs & emotional body of ourselves and of our people. Also discussed are various other strategies to bring more moon inspired empowerment into everyday life. SHOW NOTES: “The Moon Lives in the Lining of Your Skin.” ~ Pablo Neruda Being a Modern Mystic is about opening up to what really IS in the moment without a spiritual agenda.  People have been tapping into the moon's wisdom since ancient times. Looking to the sky for answers helps us look for guidance within where all the answers live. The more we cultivate a connection with the sky, the more answers we will have. As above, so below.  Fun & interesting moon facts are discussed. The moon in astrology is about our emotional memory from past lives and from our childhood. When we find out our “natal moon” astrological sign, we begin to work with our emotional body and learn where we are vulnerable and where we can get hurt. There are opportunities here to heal harder lessons of childhood and learn how to meet our primary emotional needs. We can also use it to “reparent” ourselves. Learning about our moon sign and that of others can help us get our needs met and give the gift of meeting our loved ones' needs. Discussed in detail are the 12 astrological moon archetypes (we each possess one of these) and what is healing and nurturing for each one in very practical and inspiring ways. Your natal moon shows your reigning emotional need so you can then come up with strategies to meet it.  How to bring the moon's wisdom and teachings into our everyday life. A kid's perception of their mother is reflected in their natal moon sign and house. One can be a more mindful parent knowing your child's natal moon sign and meet their needs more fully. Understanding the moon is understanding the background music that's playing throughout the day.  Living & moving in tandem with the phases of the moon is also a profound practice to live and work with. Tara Vogel's Info: https://www.luminaryparenting.com/  IG: @luminaryparenting  ✨HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT!: The doors for the Modern Mystic Membership are now open! Monthly Mystic Members get access to a library of well over 100 yoga, meditation & breathwork classes as well as short “Mystic Hack” videos which have a myriad of topics ranging from: how to ground, protect and grow your energy; to astrology & tarot card videos; to developing one's psychic abilities and more! Get a sample of some FREE videos and find the Membership area here: modernmystic.love ✨Give it a 5 star, 1 line review on iTunes (takes literally 2 min either from an iPhone or via the iTunes store on all other devices). This is HUGE as it helps get it heard more which helps the podcast get supported. ✨Join conscious conversation & community in the Modern Mystic Podcast ✨ Private F-book Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/959629444823656/ ✨Get inspiring insights on IG: @modernmysticlove