Rerooting Circles

There isn't much to say which is why it is time for me to take an official pause. Subscribe to find out when I will come back and what might be the focus when, or if, I do. Take good care of yourselves and others out there. 

We are officially in the season of Spring here in the Northern Hemisphere. Along with the Aries energy we will be invited this month to tend to our soil.  Both in our external world and our inner world. In this episode I will be providing a guide on how to work with the Lovers energy (which the Tarot card/season we are in for 2022) during the month of April. I will provide you with some guidance as we explore the human process of projections and how they can be catalysts for personal and collective growth .

In this episode we will be discussing ways to say good-bye to the winter months through reflecting and review while welcoming the spring energy. I will guide your through a meditation/visualization I have named “Moving From Winter to Seed”. We will discuss the current zodiac sign, which is the last zodiac sign in the zodiac wheel, and using that insight to root us through the month of March. Of course we will give mention of our New Moon and I will provide us with a collective Tarot reading at the end. 

A few ways to support yourself through a full moon phase. Accessible ideas on how to honor a full moon phase. * Acknowledge it * Scale it * Get creative * Celebrate  * Create a playlist  

This epiosde is full of invitations to root into the winter season. From reflecting on January's experience and the Wolf moon to engaging with ancestrial experienences are woven in and out of the message in this offering. There is also a collective Tarot Reading to support us through Febrary. References in the episode include: Maria Sofia Marmandies Lindsay Mack Grey Matters Now- Anne Jullian

This season, with the Lovers energy, will be a chance for us to Reroot ourselves through weaving our hearts desires into each and every experience this year. This is the Lovers invitation.  In this episode I provide you with a simple way to create an anchor for you that can support your through the year. We discuss the energy of what the Lovers Card presents to us and how the Wolf moon can give us the type of guidance that we need.

As we wrap up the end of our time in the 2021 energy, we reflect on the larger lessons that the collective experienced this year. A simple, but powerful ritual is offered as a way to support all that is not meant to go with us into the new year.  I also share how the Lovers season will shift the podcast. Thank you all for listening and I hope that you have a smooth transition into 2022.  

This episode starts off right where we left off. Lindsay weaves in an important point when working with Tarot, that all cards show up for people differently.  I then ask them about their process with inclusivity and reparation that they weave into their podcast, teachings, and business model. The take away is the importance of investing in anti-racism education and being open to making mistakes.  We end the episode with next years card and energy of the year- The Lovers and Gemini work. If you are wanting to go deeper and prepare for opening and grounding into this work, I recommend checking out Lindsay's offering, The Threshold.  www.tarotforthewildsoul.com

Part 1 of my conversation with Lindsay Mack from Tarot for the Wild Soul Podcast and creator of Soul Tarot. It is a conversation on how each of us experienced the Hierophant this year and the story of how she became a podcaster.  www.tarotforthewildsoul.com Lindsay also shares the lineage regarding the Card of the Year. They mentioned Mary K. Greer but the other individual that they referenced, was Angeles Arrien.  https://marykgreer.com/ http://www.angelesarrien.com/    

10 Strategies to support you in feeling more ease through the holidays. Gratitude, Take a Walk, Set Boundaries and 7 more. 

In Soul Tarot, the Temperance card is seen as a card that connects us with something larger than us. It is the act of ritualizing our connection to our supportive spirit team. How can you take some time under this Cold December Moon to do just that? 

I was visiting Pioneer Town in Yucca Valley this past week. I share a some history of the indigenous people from this area and some more from my chat with Anne Julian from the Gray Mattes Now Podcast.  Article - Yucca Mountain; Sacred Land or Wasteland https://sites.coloradocollege.edu/indigenoustraditions/sacred-lands/yucca-mountain-2/ Gray Matters Now Website https://www.greymattersnow.com/  

It is the second to last full moon of the year. How can this energy help prepare you for the season? Taking time to reflect and honor what comes up for you in each moment while also just being okay with mistakes we make. 

This is a co-woven episode with Anne Julian from the Grey Matters Now Podcast. We get into how our podcasts came to be and share some perspectives on the field of therapy. It is personally a very vulnerable episode but one that I hope you enjoy. 

Have you wondered if you are intuitive?  Well, you are. We all are. We have an innate center which can guide us towards on our path. This month, find out how Scorpio Season and the Beaver Moon might influence your experience in connecting to your intuition. 

Halloween is the only day in the year that one can experience being accepted completely.  You can be anyone you want to be and people will praise you for it.  It is an invitation to explore parts of our inner desires and belongings. In those depths we can connect to our creative powers as well.  Find out what I am connected to this Halloween.   We also set time for our Monthly Reflective Ritual.  

This is a very special episode. Yekaterina Siebelewsky zooms in from the Netherlands to share her wisdom and experience being a Wise Woman. We have deep conversations about how she creates the beautiful content on her instagram feed, what witchcraft is, the history and reason why the word "witch" has such a charge, how to connect with ancestors behind the veil and so much more. Follow Yekaterina for more resources on her website- www.houseofthewisewoman.com Or on her Instagram feed @houseofthewisewoman Or her Youtube channel -  https://www.youtube.com/c/HouseoftheWiseWoman

My 7 year old son was home sick so he joined me on the podcast. I ask him to define a few big words, what is a pandemic and what does it mean to quarantine. We also talk about what it was like to take a COVID tests and how he feels about COVID. He shares great ways to keep yourself protect from any virus. Helpful words from a 7 year old. He also wants everyone to be respectful.  

Change is all around us and nature can help us tune into the medicine of how to evolve with our surroundings rather than against them. Tapping into simple strategies on how to lower anxiety and increase a sense of inner ease.  Tarot Spread Included

Compassion, do you practice it? How about on yourself? In this episode Tina speaks about the importance of rooting into compassion. She shares how another podcaster, Melissa, does it with over 100 different head mates (which you will learn more about) and how Tina actually found an in road through psychedelics. A practical skill is discussed at the end too.  

We start this episode with a few announcements and then get into our monthly reflective questions. At the end I share a recording from a new platform I am on called, Wisdom. The talk is titled "The Power of a Tilt."  

Thank you Ral Christman Sr from the Podcast - Live from the Rez, for an opportunity to be reminded how powerful an unexpected gift can be. Much love to all of you as we tilt into another season on the wheel of the year. I shared the following in this podcast-  From the book - "Braiding Sweetgrass" by Robin Wall Kimmerer Llewellyn's Witches' Datebook 2021 Tinctures- Redwood Tips and Motherwort-  From Mythic Medicinals

It has been a rough 24 hours so this episode I leaned on words that were from another. From the book, Herbal Rituals by Judith Berger, I read a couple of pages from the September chapter. May it soothe you as it did for me. 

Three weeks into the school year and both kids are quarantined for two weeks. Chloé (4th grade) and I talk about this as we weave September's moon energy into the episode. Tips and real life threaded throughout this episode. 

This episode provides you with the end of the month reflective questions, prepares you for the opportunities woven in Autumn, and opens up pathways for you to root into yourself at this very moment. 

Are you feeling like you are in the dark?  Liking you are in a time of trying to navigate through a dark tunnel and you have no idea which way to go. Between the COVID virus and the state of our environmental collapse, are you feeling overwhelmed, worried, like you're treading through deep water, or wading out into the ocean not knowing if it is safe. This episode is a life boat in which you will find another soul feeling the same way.  

Chloé (9 years old) is back to share her wisdom and experience in creating spells and rituals when starting the new school year.  A simple and powerful way to help the whole family manifest what they desire. From the basics to examples on how to create a powerful spell, this episode is for the whole family.  

A short episode on how far we have all come this year and how to align with the last summer months energy. Inviting listeners to connect with the new moon and preparing for the Autumn season. 

As always, we dedicate the last week of the month to reflect, review, and honor our experiences through the month. Tina shares how a childhood memory may have been the reason she moved through a huge collective grief this month. 

In this episode, Tina focuses on uplifting a story from a Kumeyaay elder, Virginia Christman, which was heard on the Podcast called, Live From The Rez.  Woven through was the importance of listening to others stories from the lens of resilience. To not just at others through a trauma lens but to also recognize the resilience of those who individuals.  Much respect and appreciation to the the Live From The Rez team. Thank you!!  Go check them out!!  

In this episode, we root into what to do when we experience grief. Hint; nothing. We just stay with it. Tina roots into what decolonization means as an avenue to practice staying with grief. If you are uncomfortable with this movement, the Tarot cards (5 & 6 of cups) are here to support you.  References:  Native Land App Podcast- Decolonize Social Work Website- www.unsettelingamerica.wordpress.com

What season are you in? How can embracing the seasons and their unique characteristics help you in your life?  In this episode Tina goes through the distinct behavioral, visual, and energetic changes that happen throughout the year. By linking the seasons to life experiences, we can understand and trust ourselves better. It is also a way to communicate what we are experiencing.  

We all have a source of energy within us that is exactly like the sun. When connected to it, we can move in an aligned way that feels integrated and purposeful.  This episode, is full of ways to do this and bring awareness about why it is important to do this work.  Resource that was discussed - Podcast - "Understanding the Chakras" with Asha Nayaswami 

Have you read the book, "Braiding Sweetgrass" by Robin Wall Kimmerer?  There is a chapter about strawberries in that book that was the inspiration to this episode. Along with that Tina talks about the Summer Solstice and how the month of June got its name. As well as how the 4 of cups is woven into strawberries. 

The tree of cups are a symbol of celebration, femininity, and collective mutual respect. In today's episode, Tina interviews the amazing artist Pepä Ivanoff. Pepä shares her experience and perspective with the Tarot.  Find her on instagram - @pepallama She shared her teacher was - Biddy Tarot  And the app I spoke about was Labyrinthos.... This is such a fun episode and one that encourages the listener to play with their own personal way of connecting with their own intuition.  

How could the Two of Cups have anything to do with the Tulsa Race Massacre?  In this episode we explore how the Two of Cups is an invitation on how to tend to your heart space even in the most disturbing and difficult times.  I reference Lindsay Mack and her podcast - Tarot for the Wild Soul, specifically episode 44 "The Soulmate in the Mirror: Exploring the "love" cards in the Tarot".   

I start off this episode talking about my experience in France but there is a weaving of the importance of building a relationship with our intuitive voice. The recent attention that Brittany Spears has received is just one example of how the system of mental health is flawed but this episode isn't focused on what is wrong with that system. It is focused on ways we can build, through individual practices, a more aligned life for ourselves and those around us.  We can start this month, under the Thunder Moon with a lesson from the Eagles.  

A gentle meditation that guides us back through May. Bringing us through the events, feelings, and successes. Allowing us to review and reflect before moving into our summer months.  Tina then starts the conversation around the Cups Suite in the Tarot. She focuses on the relationship of this suite to our sacred heart center. There is discussion on the Ace of Cups as the initiator of this suite.  

As a Therapist, I have spent a lot of time learning, practicing and teaching about different coping skills and strategies that support us. Everyone of these strategies is represented in the Minor Arcana cards of the Tarot.  In this episode we explore what strategies the last few cards in the Sword suite has to offer us. Hint 8- Letting someone help us 9- Dream world  10 - Reflection and Review As of today, Chloé's podcast is still in the works but as soon as it airs, I will share it.  

After we gain awareness of how our brain pulls us into story we are assisted with the 6 of Swords. This is a reminder that it is helpful to allow others to support us so that we can tend to our inner child's needs.  Sometimes this card is about that journey away from harm. Which may include leaving old identities and beliefs behind.  Once on the other side, our brain continues to send us warning signs that we may not have what we need. The 7 of Swords is a reminder to acknowledge what type of projections you are making to right that fear.  Checking-in with the minds fear helps us to move forward in an open and expansive space. 

The 5 of Swords has often been considered a warning card that a battle or bullying is taking place. While that might be true the battle is really going on constantly in our own mind. It might be subtle, sometimes we are not even aware of it, or it is loud and painful.  Tina walks us through how the 5 of Swords is a deep card for understanding this process and helping us pull out the threads so that we can re-weave our own reality. 

If you felt disappointed, frustrated and stuck this month you were not alone. Tina talks through her own process this month which lead her to a deeper understanding of how beliefs can lead to disappointments.  Reflective questions to engage a process towards discovering what the lesson might be when we start to feel stuck, disappointed, or frustrated. 

Tina uses the lens of a therapist and Soul Tarot to explain what is illuminated in the Swords suite. She uses examples to help the listener recognize how these cards show up in our own life.  Swords- Air and Libra energy. 

Many High School and Middle School students are returning to on-campus learning this month. After more than a year of independent and isolated learning, we imagine that they might be excited but school is still not normal.  This episodes provides you with simple discussion approaches and questions to ask our youth and why it is crucial to do so. 

In this weeks episode, we get deep into Tarot wisdom. If you have been feeling a little different this month, not bad, not great, but something a little different, this episode might provide you with some awareness. Always coming from a loving and supportive place, Tina will walk you through a spread and share some insights from the the Tarot space.  

Last episode I said something that was not true. So, I apologized for it. This awareness and process is strongly weaved into the  Hierophant. In this short episode, I share how and why and invite you into questions on how to humanize mistakes and right wrongs.    

The last episode of each month is dedicated to review and integration. After two weeks of gun violence here in the U.S., it was important to take some time to hold our hearts. In this episode we do just that, together, in a sacred way while also tapping into the power of the Sap Moon.  There are reflective questions to support you and a tarot card to ground us through this time. 

Chloé (9) is back, a year after we started this podcast. Her and I (mom) talk about what the past year has been like, including the positives and challenges. I recommend taking a listen to last years episodes to hear the difference in maturity and how we understood the virus back then.  As a therapist, I can hear a child that is adjusting to her new world and is not living in fear. Grateful that we have maintained our health through this year and are able to have maintained a few social activities which have benefited our whole family.    

When we live in alignment with the moon, we avoid burn out. If you are new too connecting with the moon phases, Tina starts at the very beginning and discusses what each phases is and how those phases hold important energetic lessons for us. She provides a simple moon meditation which creates a connection between the listener and each moon phase. This podcast is empowering.  Cassandra Wilder of Goddess Ceremony and the Cyclical Podcast was discussed in this episode.  You can find more information about her here.  https://www.cassandrawilder.com/

 As we adjust to the increasing safety of our new world, how can we bring the lessons from this past year with us? In this episode, Tina explores how we can discern between our ego and our expansive mind. To move forward with integrity towards the desires that are building within our personal and collective consciousness.  There are practical exercises provided as well as three Tarot cards. Tina shares the root meanings of these Tarot cards and encourages the Listener to use their own inner knowing to explore how the cards might help us move forward.

As you approach the end of a month, it is helpful to have a practice to review how you have changed. This episodes provides listeners with 6 prompts to guild their reflections.  We discussed the book "Herbal Rituals" by Judith Berger - you can purchase the book here. We also discussed the podcast Medicine Stories - take a listen to episode number 59.