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Spencer Michaud discusses the Full Moon in Sagittarius I, finding meaning through an exploration of Decanic Tarot, Fixed Stars, and the I-Ching. . #astrology #fullmoon #sagittarius #gemini #forecast #monthlyforecast #tarot #decans #fixedstars #traditionalastrology #mythology #divination #iching #youtube #livestream #zodiac #spencermichaud #astrodad #traditionaltechniques #nurturingthemes . Visit Spencer: https://www.spencermichaud.com/ . Visit Third Coast Mojo: https://www.etsy.com/shop/ThirdCoastMojo . Visit the Webinar Store: https://www.spencermichaud.com/p/store_9.html . Finding value in these videos? Help Spencer keep creating content by buying him a coffee! Thank you for your support! :) . Support the Channel: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/spencermichaud . Venmo: @spencermichaud . PayPal Me: http://www.paypal.me/spencermichaud . Thank you for supporting your local astrologer! : ) . Book a reading / tutoring session: https://spencermichaudastrology.as.me/ . Subscribe to the Newsletter: https://www.spencermichaud.com/p/subscribe.html#.YC2Gu157lp8 . Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/spencermichaud/ . Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/spencermichaud.bsky.social . Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../spencer.../id1498982837 . Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1BZBpFaFRUBeUVrdPtRZ5X?si=kuKimd0wSr66qCUAQ6rzNw . Soundcloud: http://www.soundcloud.com/spencermichaudastrology . Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/spencermichaudastrology . https://youtu.be/bk43tMk7Q0Q

In this week's I Ching forecast, we find productive ways to deal with obstruction while following the tracks and signs leading us forward. Listen to this episode for more insight into how to work with this flow this week! I Ching Resources and Links: https://linktr.ee/ichingcafe Timestamps 0:00 Intro 0:46 Last week's recap 2:58 Hexagram 12 Standstill 6:24 Hexagram 12 Standstill, Changing Line 1 8:58 Hexagram 12 Standstill, Changing Line 6 9:41 Hexagram 17 Following Tech Specs Main or Present Hexagram - Hexagram 12 Standstill Changing Lines - 1st and 6th Positions Outcome Hexagram - Hexagram 17 Following

In this month's I Ching forecast, we return to better times and the best of ourselves, if we do the work, while protecting our energy. Listen to this episode for more insight into how to work with this flow this month. I Ching Resources and Links: https://linktr.ee/ichingcafe Timestamps 0:00 Intro 0:43 Last month's recap 2:13 Hexagram 24 The Return 4:18 Hexagram 24 The Return, Changing Line 3 7:46 Hexagram 36 Darkening of the Light Tech Specs Main or Present Hexagram - Hexagram 24 The Return Changing Lines - 3rd Position Outcome Hexagram - Hexagram 36 Darkening of the Light

Dare To Dream with Debbi Dachinger Maja D'aoust, The Part of You You've Been Avoiding Is Actually Your Greatest Power What if the darkest parts of you aren't broken - they're just unfinished? Practicing witch, alchemist, and shadow work scholar Maja Daost joins Debbi Dachinger to reveal the truth about shadow integration that pop culture gets completely wrong. From dark archetypes like the cannibal mother and hubris to the hidden serpent power blocking humanity's access to its own source, Maja dismantles the watered-down version of shadow work and replaces it with something ancient, precise, and transformational. She also does a live card reading revealing the exact shadow preventing humanity from stepping into its power — and the antidote hiding in your reptilian brain. Your darkness isn't your enemy. It's your unfinished story. Topics: – The shocking truth about shadow self that pop culture gets wrong – What shadow really is: dark matter, death & the unconscious realm – Tools for shadow work: psychopomp, ancestors & underworld journeys – Dark archetypes vs. archetypes: the inversion that changes everything – The Shadow Seer Tarot: hands, cave art & the birth of a new deck – The cannibal mother, hubris & recognizing dark energies in your life – How to call someone out on shadow behavior without triggering defense – Synchronicity vs. omens: there's a crucial difference – Common shadow patterns destroying relationships & how to break them – LIVE card reading: what shadow is blocking humanity's power source – The serpent, the Nephilim & your reptilian brain as the antidote – First safe steps into shadow work without creating a crisis – Most transformative readings: healing disease & winning an election – Maja's next dream: rainbow light codes & color healing ABOUT THE GUEST: MAJA DAOST Maja Daoust is a practicing witch, scholar of alchemy and occult lore, transformational psychologist, and creator of the newly released Shadow Seer Tarot — published through Inner Traditions. With a master's degree in transformational psychology focusing on shamanism, the I Ching, and ancestral wisdom, Maja Daoust has spent over 20 years reading tarot and guiding clients through the hidden architecture of the psyche. Her work transpersonalizes the shadow, helping individuals and groups recognize dark archetypes, integrate unconscious patterns, and reclaim their original power source. She works as a live oracle, individual guide, and group facilitator — and deliberately stays off social media to protect client privacy and personal sovereignty.

In this week's I Ching forecast, we have intense energy as we get super focused and clear about what is really important right now while watching for seeds of negativity. Listen to this episode for more insight into how to work with this flow this week! I Ching Resources and Links: https://linktr.ee/ichingcafe Timestamps 0:00 Intro 0:34 Last week's recap 2:53 Hexagram 41 Decrease 7:35 Hexagram 41 Decrease, Changing Line 1 9:05 Hexagram 41 Decrease, Changing Line 3 11:02 Hexagram 41 Decrease, Changing Line 4 12:35 Hexagram 41 Decrease, Changing Line 5 13:34 Hexagram 44 Coming to Meet Tech Specs Main or Present Hexagram - Hexagram 41 Decrease Changing Lines - 1st, 3rd, 4th and 5th Positions Outcome Hexagram - Hexagram 24 The Return

Spencer Michaud discusses The Astrology of June 2026, finding meaning through an exploration of Decanic Tarot, Fixed Stars, and the I-Ching. . #astrology #june #june2026 #gemini #cancer #forecast #monthlyforecast #tarot #decans #fixedstars #traditionalastrology #mythology #divination #philosophy #iching #youtube #livestream #zodiac #spencermichaud #astrodad #traditionaltechniques #nurturingthemes . Visit Spencer: https://www.spencermichaud.com/ . Visit Third Coast Mojo: https://www.etsy.com/shop/ThirdCoastMojo . Visit the Webinar Store: https://www.spencermichaud.com/p/store_9.html . Finding value in these videos? Help Spencer keep creating content by buying him a coffee! Thank you for your support! :) . Buy me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/spencermichaud . Venmo: @spencermichaud . PayPal Me: http://www.paypal.me/spencermichaud . Thank you for supporting your local astrologer! : ) . Book a reading / tutoring session: https://spencermichaudastrology.as.me/ . Subscribe to the Newsletter: https://www.spencermichaud.com/p/subscribe.html#.YC2Gu157lp8 . Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/spencermichaud/ . Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/spencermichaud.bsky.social . Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../spencer.../id1498982837 . Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1BZBpFaFRUBeUVrdPtRZ5X?si=kuKimd0wSr66qCUAQ6rzNw . Soundcloud: http://www.soundcloud.com/spencermichaudastrology . Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/spencermichaudastrology . https://youtu.be/MHsYXw0blyo

WEEKLY WISDOM & INSIGHTS 05/20/26SPIRITUALLY GUIDED TRANSFORMATION & EMPOWERMENT⚡️ CURRENT ENERGIES⚡️ INTUITIVE INSIGHTS⚡️ MAIN THEMES OF:⚡️ COSMIC ORDER⚡️ A HIGHER CELESTIAL DESTINY!⚡️ SUN ENTERS GEMINI⚡️ SUN URANUS CAZIMI⚡️ URANUS CONJUNCT SEDNA⚡️ OH, THE WEBS WE WEAVE⚡️ MIND VS. MATTER⚡️ RELEASE⚡️ PEACE - LET THERE BE PEACE!⚡️ MOVEMENT & CONNECTIVITY⚡️ EXPECT MIRACLES⚡️ HEALING SACRED LINES - LINEAGE⚡️ A TIPPING POINT REACHED - EXCEEDED⚡️ A MILLION DREAMS ⚡️ FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LAST⚡️ YOUR COMMENTS & QUESTIONS LIVE!INCORPORATING INTUITIVE INSIGHTS, ANCIENT WISDOM, ASTROLOGY, TAROT, I CHING, SABIAN SYMBOLS, AND MORE, DearJames®, AND THE UNSEEN (SPIRIT, SOURCE, & SYMPHONY), HIGHLIGHT THE CURRENT WEEKLY ENERGIES, MESSAGES FROM THE UNSEEN, AND THIS EPISODES MAIN THEMES OF COSMIC ORDER, A HIGHER CELESTIAL DESTINY!, SUN ENTERS GEMINI, SUN URANUS CAZIMI, URANUS SEDNA CONJUNCT, OH THE WEBS WE WEAVE, RELEASE, MIND VS. MATTER, FREE AT LAST - FREE AT LAST - THANK GOD ALMIGHTY WE ARE FREE AT LAST!, A MILLION DREAMS FOR THE WORLD WE'RE GONNA MAKE, A TIPPING POINT REACHED - EXCEEDED...WATCH WHAT HAPPENS NEXT!!!, HEALING SACRED LINES - LINEAGE - IT'S ALL COMING BACK TO ME NOW!, UPLEVELING, THE CHARIOT, HEXAGRAM 34 - GREAT VIGOR, MOVEMENT AND CONNECTIVITY, "OUT OF THE BLUE," EXPECT MIRACLES - A MIRACLE, RAINDROPS ON ROSES AND WHISKERS ON KITTENS, THESE ARE A FEW OF MY FAVORITE THINGS, WHEN THE DOG BITES - WHEN THE BEE STINGS - WHEN I'M FEELING SAD, PEACE - LET THERE BE PEACE!!!, AND THE EXPANSION THAT FOLLOWS.JOIN US LIVE EVERY WEDNESDAY ON:Facebook | YouTube | LinkedIn8:00am Pacific - 11:00am Eastern - 5:00pm European (GMT+1)DONATE: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=L7T9WW9JRATFE⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠JOIN THE PRIVATE FACEBOOK GROUPWeekly Wisdom & Insightshttps://www.facebook.com/groups/398986111992445/BOOK A PRIVATE CONSULTATION DearJames® offers Intuitive Insight, Answers, & Advice…To Your Life Questions with 60 and/or 90-Minute Intuitive Consultations. He also offers a combined 60-Minute Private Consultation with Human Design Expert @TheLadyJaclyn: 30-Minutes Intuitive Insights / 30-Minutes Human Design.For more information and to BOOK YOUR CONSULTATION: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://shop.dearjames.com/collections/intuitive-consultations⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠FOLLOW - LIKE - SHARE - SUBSCRIBE⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://linktr.ee/dearjames⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠INSPIRED TO SHARE THIS EPISODE...PLEASE DO 

In this week's I Ching forecast, we delve into our personal and work families and find a way to lead them with love and power while navigating towards better times. Listen to this episode for more insight into how to work with this flow this week! I Ching Resources and Links: https://linktr.ee/ichingcafe Timestamps 0:00 Intro 0:46 Last week's recap 3:16 Hexagram 37 The Family 9:58 Hexagram 37 The Family, Changing Line 3 12:44 Hexagram 37 The Family, Changing Line 5 14:37 Hexagram 37 The Family, Changing Line 6 16:32 Hexagram 24 The Return Tech Specs Main or Present Hexagram - Hexagram 37 The Family Changing Lines - 3rd, 5th and 6th Positions Outcome Hexagram - Hexagram 24 The Return

WEEKLY WISDOM & INSIGHTS 05/13/26SPIRITUALLY GUIDED TRANSFORMATION & EMPOWERMENT

In this week's I Ching forecast, we double down on joy, sharing, collaboration and the pursuit of happiness, while honoring our commitments. Listen to this episode for more insight into how to work with this flow this week! I Ching Resources and Links: https://linktr.ee/ichingcafe Timestamps 0:00 Intro 0:28 Last week's recap 2:23 Hexagram 58 Joy Tech Specs Main or Present Hexagram - Hexagram 58 Joy Changing Lines - None Outcome Hexagram - None

Spencer Michaud discusses the New Moon in Taurus III, finding meaning through an exploration of Decanic Tarot, Fixed Stars, and the I-Ching. . #astrology #newmoon #taurus #horoscope #zodiac #forecast #tarot #decans #fixedstars #traditionalastrology #mythology #divination #iching #spencermichaud #nurturingthemes #astrodad . Visit Spencer: https://www.spencermichaud.com/ . Visit Third Coast Mojo: https://www.etsy.com/shop/ThirdCoastMojo . Visit the Webinar Store: https://www.spencermichaud.com/p/store_9.html . Finding value in these videos? Help Spencer keep creating content by buying him a coffee! Thank you for your support! :) . Buy me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/spencermichaud . Venmo: @spencermichaud . PayPal Me: http://www.paypal.me/spencermichaud . Thank you for supporting your local astrologer! : ) . Book a reading / tutoring session: https://spencermichaudastrology.as.me/ . Subscribe to the Newsletter: https://www.spencermichaud.com/p/subscribe.html#.YC2Gu157lp8 . Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/spencermichaud/ . Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/spencermichaud.bsky.social . Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../spencer.../id1498982837 . Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1BZBpFaFRUBeUVrdPtRZ5X?si=kuKimd0wSr66qCUAQ6rzNw . Soundcloud: http://www.soundcloud.com/spencermichaudastrology . Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/spencermichaudastrology . https://youtu.be/yKxY0wV7tkE

The Witch Scholar unpacks shadow work, alchemy, and the unseen forces shaping your life

In this episode of the Redefine Business Podcast, host Brittni Schroeder sits down with Andie Thueson, a Human Design and Astrology guide and host of the Own Your Peace podcast, for a fascinating deep dive into self-discovery and aligned entrepreneurship. Andie shares her journey from health and wellness blogger to soul purpose coach, and breaks down how Human Design — a system combining astrology, the I Ching, and quantum physics — can serve as a personalized roadmap for life and business. She walks listeners through the five energy types (Reflector, Manifestor, Manifesting Generator, Projector, and Generator), explains how each type is designed to move through the world differently, and introduces the concept of "authority" — your body's unique way of guiding decisions. Brittni and Andie also explore how astrology layers on top of Human Design, including how placements like the Midheaven can shape your brand voice and content strategy. The episode wraps with a candid conversation about why copying someone else's business strategy often backfires — and how understanding your own design can help you build a business that feels authentic, sustainable, and energizing. Whether you're new to Human Design or curious about how to apply it practically in your business, this episode is packed with insight, relatable moments, and actionable takeaways. Free Resources: https://andiethueson.com/resources/ Website: andiethueson.com | Instagram: @therealandiethueson   Resources: The Meeting Place Membership Rock The Reels 1:1 Coaching Free Client Welcome Guide Additional Trainings and Resources Connect with Brittni: Follow me on the Gram - @brittni.schroeder Join my Facebook Group  Visit my website Subscribe to my Youtube You can find the complete show notes here: https://brittnischroeder.com/podcast/human-design-and-astrology-expert-andie-thueson

I Ching · Book of Changes · Part 1 of 2 (Hexagrams 1-45) The Book of Changes (Traditional: 易經; Simplified: 易经; Legge: Yî King, Wade-Giles: I Ching; Pīnyīn: Yìjīng; Bopomofo: ㄧˋㄐㄧㄥ; Korean: 역경; Japanese: 易経; Vietnamese: Kinh Dịch) Fúxī (伏羲), King Tāng of Shāng (商湯), King Wén of Zhōu (周文王), his son the Duke of Zhōu (周公旦), and Confucius (孔子) have traditionally been credited as the originators of the trigrams (八卦 bāguà), hexagrams (卦 guà), hexagram statements (彖 tuàn), line statements (爻辭 yáocí), and Ten Wings (十翼) commentaries. "The I Ching does not offer itself with proofs and results; it does not vaunt itself, nor is it easy to approach. Like a part of nature, it waits until it is discovered." — Carl Jung Different combinations of three yang (⚊) and yin (⚋) lines create the eight trigrams, namely: ☰ (乾 Qián Heaven, the sky. S. Untiring strength; power.) or (Father. NW) ☱ (兌 Duì Lake, or marsh. Collected water. SE. Pleasure; complacent satisfaction.) or (Youngest daughter. W) ☲ (離 Lí Fire, as in lightning; the sun. E. Brightness; elegance.) or (Second daughter. S) ☳ (震 Zhèn Thunder. NE. Moving, exciting power.) or (Oldest son. E) ☴ (巽 Xùn Wind; wood. SW. Flexibility; penetration.) or (Oldest daughter. SE) ☵ (坎 Kǎn Water, as in rain, clouds, springs, streams, and defiles. The moon. NW. Peril; difficulty.) or (Second son. N) ☶ (艮 Gèn Hills, or mountains. NW. Resting; the act of arresting.) or (Youngest son. NE) ☷ (坤 Kūn The Earth. N. Capaciousness; submission.) or (Mother. SW) When three lines are added to a trigram the resultant pairs of trigrams constitute the sixty-four hexagrams. The lower trigram is called 'the inner,' and the one above 'the outer.' The lines are numbered from one to six, commencing with the lowest. To denote the number of it and of the sixth line, the terms for 'commencing' and 'topmost' are used. The intermediate lines are simply 'second,' 'third,' &c. As the lines must be either whole or divided, technically called strong and weak, yang and yin, this distinction is indicated by the application to them of the numbers nine and six. All whole lines are nine, all divided lines, six. The Book of Changes is included as one of the Five Classics (五經) of the Confucian canon and Confucius said, "If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yì, and might then escape falling into great errors." (Analects, VII.16) Scottish translator James Legge was a Hong Kong missionary, Non-Conformist Pastor of the English Union Church, and the first professor of Chinese studies at Oxford University. The original manuscript of his translation was nearly destroyed after being soaked in the Red Sea for a month. Cover: Leftmost Guardian of the Yî by cartoonist Robin Bougie (2024), released by him into the public domain. Special thanks to Lancy (王欣兰), a graduate student at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, for her help with Chinese pronunciation.

In this week's I Ching forecast, we power up the vibes and energise our people while keep an eye out for areas we should step back from. Listen to this episode for more insight into how to work with this flow this week! I Ching Resources and Links: https://linktr.ee/ichingcafe Timestamps 0:00 Intro 0:44 Last week's recap 3:30 Hexagram 16 Enthusiasm 10:09 Hexagram 16 Enthusiasm, Changing Line 3 11:17 Hexagram 16 Enthusiasm, Changing Line 5 13:52 Hexagram 16 Enthusiasm, Changing Line 6 16:45 Hexagram 33 Retreat Tech Specs Main or Present Hexagram - Hexagram 16 Enthusiasm Changing Lines - 3rd, 5th and 6th Positions Outcome Hexagram - Hexagram 33 Retreat

In this month's I Ching forecast, we move into recuperation after a tough time, some relief from the storm, while supporting growth around us. Listen to this episode for more insight into how to work with this flow this month. I Ching Resources and Links: https://linktr.ee/ichingcafe Timestamps 0:00 Intro 0:36 Last month's recap 3:34 Hexagram 40 Deliverance 8:03 Hexagram 40 Deliverance, Changing Line 2 9:38 Hexagram 40 Deliverance, Changing Line 4 12:58 Hexagram 2 The Receptive Tech Specs Main or Present Hexagram - Hexagram 40 Deliverance Changing Lines - 2nd and 4th Positions Outcome Hexagram - Hexagram 2 The Receptive

Spencer Michaud discusses the Full Moon in Scorpio II, finding meaning through an exploration of Decanic Tarot, Fixed Stars, and the I-Ching. . Check out our Extended Spring Sale! ALL Readings & Recordings are 20% OFF until Monday 5/4! The sale includes all Natal, Transit, and Tutoring Sessions, plus save on the Decan Webinar Series, our Dignity & Devotion Planetary Magic Series with Tanja Andrews & the Stars & Cards Tarot Webinar. . Use Code: SPRING20 at checkout! . #astrology #fullmoon #scorpio #taurus #forecast #monthlyforecast #tarot #decans #fixedstars #traditionalastrology #mythology #divination #iching #youtube #livestream #zodiac #spencermichaud #astrodad #traditionaltechniques #nurturingthemes . Visit Spencer: https://www.spencermichaud.com/ . Visit Third Coast Mojo: https://www.etsy.com/shop/ThirdCoastMojo . Visit the Webinar Store: https://www.spencermichaud.com/p/store_9.html . Finding value in these videos? Help Spencer keep creating content by buying him a coffee! Thank you for your support! :) . Support the Channel: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/spencermichaud . Venmo: @spencermichaud . PayPal Me: http://www.paypal.me/spencermichaud . Thank you for supporting your local astrologer! : ) . Book a reading / tutoring session: https://spencermichaudastrology.as.me/ . Subscribe to the Newsletter: https://www.spencermichaud.com/p/subscribe.html#.YC2Gu157lp8 . Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/spencermichaud/ . Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/spencermichaud.bsky.social . Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../spencer.../id1498982837 . Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1BZBpFaFRUBeUVrdPtRZ5X?si=kuKimd0wSr66qCUAQ6rzNw . Soundcloud: http://www.soundcloud.com/spencermichaudastrology . Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/spencermichaudastrology . https://youtu.be/Jh-0UQ13Sik

What if everything you were trained to become… wasn't enough? In this subscriber-only episode of Living the Tao, Taoist Master Mikel Steenrod explores the ancient story of Wangziqiao—a Zhou-era prince who mastered the refined arts of order and discipline, only to walk away from them in search of something deeper. After years of training in the mountains, he is given a simple object—a whistle carved from the bone of a crane. One breath, and the heavens answer. A crane descends. He mounts it and vanishes into the West. This episode goes beyond the story to explore its deeper meaning, including: The tension between structured living and spiritual freedom The crane as a symbol of transcendence and immortality The transformation from heaviness to lightness in internal cultivation The connection to the I Ching and the cycle of return This is a focused symbolic breakdown designed for listeners ready to go deeper into Taoist thought and practice.

In this episode, we're sharing a feng shui qi forecast for the month of May 2026! First, we discuss what's going on in nature and what you can expect energetically this month, and then Anjie shares an I Ching reading for the Holistic Spaces Podcast listener community. We also share our feng shui suggestions to make the most of this month's energy.What we talk about in this episode:-The significance of the May solar terms beginning with the start of summer on May 5th-How the energy shift supports expansion, growth, and joyful blooming-The influence of fire qi and the importance of warmth and openness-The Chinese zodiac influence: the month of the snake and its relationships with other animals-Lucky and challenging days for each zodiac sign in May 2026…and much more!Mentioned in this episode:Our Feng Shui Energy Map EkitRegister for our free & on-demand Feng Shui plant workshop, available for a limited timeHarmonize your Home with Feng Shui PlantsEnhance your qi, prosperity and wellnessThanks so much for listening to the Holistic Spaces Podcast brought to you by Mindful Design Feng Shui School!-Sign up for our newsletter for exclusive complimentary special workshops and offers for our newsletter subscribers ONLY! -Make sure you're following us on Instagram for feng shui tips and live Q&A's.-Learn about our courses and certification on our website at: Mindful Design School.-Check out our older episodes on our Holistic Spaces Podcast archive.Time stamps for this episode:[03:43] May's solar terms[06:50] May, the month of the Snake[09:35] Aligning with the qi of May[12:00] An I Ching reading for the Holistic Spaces listener community[17:03] Connecting with natural beautyMORE QUESTIONSHire one of our Mindful design school Grads for a 1-1 consultation. We know so many personal questions come up. That's why you need a 1-1! Laura and Anjie offer all these freebies, but if you want to learn more it's time to ask a professional. learn more HEREORDER OUR NEW BOOK HERE

In this week's I Ching forecast, we learn humility and the middle path to balance, while activating our next step and closing off things well. Listen to this episode for more insight into how to work with this flow this week! I Ching Resources and Links: https://linktr.ee/ichingcafe Timestamps 0:00 Intro 0:37 Last week's recap 3:21 Hexagram 15 Modesty 8:37 Hexagram 15 Modesty, Changing Line 1 9:43 Hexagram 15 Modesty, Changing Line 5 11:36 Hexagram 63 After Completion Tech Specs Main or Present Hexagram - Hexagram 15 Modesty Changing Lines - 1st and 5th Positions Outcome Hexagram - Hexagram 63 After Completion

Spencer Michaud discusses The Astrology of May 2026, finding meaning through an exploration of Decanic Tarot, Fixed Stars, and the I-Ching. . Check out our Spring Sale! ALL Readings & Recordings are 20% OFF until Friday 5/1! The sale includes all Natal, Transit, and Tutoring Sessions, plus save on the Decan Webinar Series, our Dignity & Devotion Planetary Magic Series with Tanja Andrews & the Stars & Cards Tarot Webinar. . Use Code: SPRING20 at checkout! . #astrology #may #may2026 #taurus #gemini #forecast #monthlyforecast #tarot #decans #fixedstars #traditionalastrology #mythology #divination #philosophy #iching #youtube #livestream #zodiac #spencermichaud #astrodad #traditionaltechniques #nurturingthemes . Visit Spencer: https://www.spencermichaud.com/ . Visit Third Coast Mojo: https://www.etsy.com/shop/ThirdCoastMojo . Visit the Webinar Store: https://www.spencermichaud.com/p/store_9.html . Finding value in these videos? Help Spencer keep creating content by buying him a coffee! Thank you for your support! :) . Buy me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/spencermichaud . Venmo: @spencermichaud . PayPal Me: http://www.paypal.me/spencermichaud . Thank you for supporting your local astrologer! : ) . Book a reading / tutoring session: https://spencermichaudastrology.as.me/ . Subscribe to the Newsletter: https://www.spencermichaud.com/p/subscribe.html#.YC2Gu157lp8 . Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/spencermichaud/ . Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/spencermichaud.bsky.social . Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../spencer.../id1498982837 . Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1BZBpFaFRUBeUVrdPtRZ5X?si=kuKimd0wSr66qCUAQ6rzNw . Soundcloud: http://www.soundcloud.com/spencermichaudastrology . Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/spencermichaudastrology . https://youtu.be/iHaAkaFGDjY

In this subscriber-only episode of Living the Tao, Taoist Master Mikel Steenrod explores one of the most difficult and universal parts of life: waiting. Drawing from the ancient wisdom of the I Ching, Steenrod examines why nearly 28% of its hexagrams deal with waiting, delay, or obstruction in some form. Focusing on Hexagram 12 — Standstill and Hexagram 5 — Waiting, he explains the profound difference between stagnation and preparation. When is waiting a trap? When is waiting nourishment? When should you preserve your energy… and when should you prepare to cross the great water? This episode explores the symbolism of the lines, the accumulation of pressure behind change, and the Taoist understanding of timing, patience, and action. If you've ever felt blocked, uncertain, or trapped in a period of delay, this episode offers an ancient lens through which to understand what kind of waiting you're experiencing—and what to do next. Subscribe now on Supercast for full access to this episode and the full archive of subscriber-only teachings.  

A profound and modern approach to playing the ancient board game• Offers a comprehensive guide to the traditional Hindu game gyān caupar—a predecessor to Snakes and Arrows—and includes a three-color gameboard allowing readers to play• Analyzes archetypes of consciousness with the 72 squares of gyān caupar, enriched by spiritual references to deepen the game's messages• Offers instruction for conducting personal development ceremonies and receiving guidance from the gameThe origins of Snakes and Arrows trace back to gyan caupar, or the “game of knowledge,” a spiritual board game from ancient India. Like other forms of divination, such as the I Ching and the Tarot, the game offers a playful yet profound approach to explore the self, the present, and the future as well as understand one's destiny.Polina Rud delves into the oracle, shedding light on gyan caupar's archetypal wisdom and its power as a divinatory tool. Using a 72-square gameboard, players are invited to step back and observe their lives from above, seeing the emotional and behavioral patterns that guide their steps and, at times, lead them astray. Rud shows how the 72 squares represent different levels of human experience. Each square provides a philosophical key while practical exercises reveal the hidden beliefs and obstacles that hinder progress in the area of life that matters most to the player. The game's ascending path mirrors spiritual evolution and guides players toward enlightenment, akin to systems like the Kabbalistic Tree of Life or the Road to Paradise. Rud shows how gyan caupar symbolizes the psyche's journey, leading toward the ultimate prize: cosmic consciousness.The Cosmic Game of Snakes and Arrows offers a way to learn more deeply about who you are while fostering a connection with the divine.Polina Rud is a writer and therapist with a diploma from UNAM in suicide prevention and psychosocial crisis intervention. She holds a master's degree in International Relations and is completing a PhD on artists who resist authoritarian regimes and challenge the status quo. As part of her research, she has worked closely with people processing trauma linked to political violence and social rupture. She is the co-founder of El Mundo Duele, an NGO that provides psychological support to human rights and climate activists. Polina spoke at the Nobel Peace Talks on mental health and resilience in activism.https://polinarud.com/Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/earth-ancients--2790919/support.

In this side quest from the Hospicing Modernity's Magic series, I make the case that Synchromysticism is modernity's best available form of omen logic. And that getting good at it is one of the more reliable ways to get good at magic. We'll cover Seneca's distinction between the candle and the comet The rise and decline of synchromysticism as a subculture. Jung on the I Ching and psychoid archetypes. The Māori concept of wairua. And the practical toolkit. Show Notes Chris Knowles on Cosmic Connections: Mystical Practices & Reality's Hidden Language. Wearing Jung's Skin Like A Pelt. Jake Kotze on The Higherside Chats.

In this week's I Ching forecast, we are moved towards that which attracts us, demonstrating patience, and then tapping into the harvesting and gathering in of resources. Listen to this episode for more insight into how to work with this flow this week! I Ching Resources and Links: https://linktr.ee/ichingcafe Timestamps 0:00 Intro 0:33 Last week's recap 1:59 Hexagram 31 Influence 4:45 Hexagram 31 Influence, Changing Line 3 8:22 Hexagram 45 Amassing or Gathering Together Tech Specs Main or Present Hexagram - Hexagram 31 Influence Changing Lines - 3rd Position Outcome Hexagram - Hexagram 45 Amassing or Gathering Together

In this week's I Ching forecast, we learn how to master the balance of substance and form, while being watchful that our light is well protected. Listen to this episode for more insight into how to work with this flow this week! I Ching Resources and Links: https://linktr.ee/ichingcafe Timestamps 0:00 Intro 0:39 Last week's recap 2:57 Hexagram 22 Grace 8:08 Hexagram 22 Grace, Changing Line 6 10:11 Hexagram 36 Darkening of the Light Tech Specs Main or Present Hexagram - Hexagram 22 Grace Changing Lines - 6th Position Outcome Hexagram - Hexagram 36 Darkening of the Light

Spencer Michaud discusses the New Moon in Aries III, finding meaning through an exploration of Decanic Tarot, Fixed Stars, and the I-Ching. . Check out our Spring Sale! ALL Readings & Recordings are 20% OFF until Friday 5/1! The sale includes all Natal, Transit, and Tutoring Sessions, plus save on the Decan Webinar Series, our Dignity & Devotion Planetary Magic Series with Tanja Andrews & the Stars & Cards Tarot Webinar. . Use Code: SPRING20 at checkout! . #astrology #newmoon #aries #horoscope #zodiac #forecast #tarot #decans #fixedstars #traditionalastrology #mythology #divination #iching #spencermichaud #nurturingthemes #astrodad . Visit Spencer: https://www.spencermichaud.com/ . Visit Third Coast Mojo: https://www.etsy.com/shop/ThirdCoastMojo . Visit the Webinar Store: https://www.spencermichaud.com/p/store_9.html . Finding value in these videos? Help Spencer keep creating content by buying him a coffee! Thank you for your support! :) . Buy me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/spencermichaud . Venmo: @spencermichaud . PayPal Me: http://www.paypal.me/spencermichaud . Thank you for supporting your local astrologer! : ) . Book a reading / tutoring session: https://spencermichaudastrology.as.me/ . Subscribe to the Newsletter: https://www.spencermichaud.com/p/subscribe.html#.YC2Gu157lp8 . Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/spencermichaud/ . Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/spencermichaud.bsky.social . Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../spencer.../id1498982837 . Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1BZBpFaFRUBeUVrdPtRZ5X?si=kuKimd0wSr66qCUAQ6rzNw . Soundcloud: http://www.soundcloud.com/spencermichaudastrology . Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/spencermichaudastrology . https://youtu.be/zPccKoSYxyw

In this subscriber-only episode (1-174), Taoist Master Mikel Steenrod explores the turtle as an organizing force within Taoist thought. Beginning with a classic teaching story of a turtle withdrawing beneath a storm, the discussion expands into the turtle's deeper symbolic and practical roles across Taoist tradition. The episode examines how the turtle shell became an early tool for extracting order from chaos through divination practices that predate the I Ching, and how its structured form influenced cosmological thinking. Mikel also discusses the ancient Daoist board game Liubo, modeled after the turtle's undershell, which functioned as both entertainment and a symbolic map for understanding movement through the universe. The turtle's association with longevity, containment, and the preservation of qi is explored, along with its comparison to jade as a storage medium for essence. The discussion then connects these ideas to Taoist cosmology, including the emergence of differentiation from chaos and the need for ordering devices to understand reality. This episode presents the turtle as a model for survival, perception, and energetic containment, offering a practical and symbolic framework for navigating chaos while preserving vitality.   Full episode available to subscribers, along with AMA access, commentary, and community discussion.

In this week's I Ching forecast we mobilise our troops and resources, with a clear strategy, and undertake the challenge while clearing out the weeds of chaos. Listen to this episode for more insight into how to work with this flow this week! I Ching Resources and Links: https://linktr.ee/ichingcafe Timestamps 0:00 Intro 0:34 Last week's recap 3:15 Hexagram 7 The Army 6:12 Hexagram 7 The Army, Changing Line 3 7:36 Hexagram 7 The Army, Changing Line 6 10:17 Hexagram 18 Work On What Has Been Spoiled Tech Specs Main or Present Hexagram - Hexagram 7 The Army Changing Lines - 3rd and 6th Positions Outcome Hexagram - Hexagram 18 Work On What Has Been Spoiled

In this month's I Ching forecast, we grab a paddle and ride the wave of opportunity and expansion ahead while we turn back to ourselves and better times. Listen to this episode for more insight into how to work with this flow this month. I Ching Resources and Links: https://linktr.ee/ichingcafe Timestamps 0:00 Intro 0:34 Last month's recap 3:15 Hexagram 42 Increase 6:12 Hexagram 42 Increase, Changing Line 5 7:36 Hexagram 42 Increase, Changing Line 6 10:17 Hexagram 24 The Return Tech Specs Main or Present Hexagram - Hexagram 42 Increase Changing Lines - 5th and 6th Positions Outcome Hexagram - Hexagram 24 The Return

This is the second of a series of posts about the literary alchemy of J. K. Rowling, a discussion jumpstarted by a post by ‘Iris' at a Strike fan website, an article that championed a Jungian perspective on this subject. The first post in this series, Literary Alchemy – A Primer for Those Interested in J. K. Rowling's Artistry, both explained what the ‘Iris' post asserted and reviewed much of the critical literature that the brevity of the S&E Files article prevented her from discussing. See that post for links to this material. The conversation between Nick Jeffery and John Granger above was recorded in the same spirit as the first post was written, namely, simultaneously a welcome to Strike fans and Rowling readers who have learned about literary alchemy only recently and an introduction to the work of the last twenty five years on this subject. Upcoming posts in the series will include a counter-point discussion in the debate Rowling is fostering about whether a psychological or spiritual perspective is better for understanding art and life and a review of the alchemical signatures that crowd Rowling-Galbraith's Hallmarked Man.This post is largely links to sources for points Nick and John discuss in their naturally enthusiastic and contrarian conversation, question by question. Enjoy!1. Welcome to the Conversation! (Nick) I just sent out an article about literary alchemy, John, in response to an article written by ‘Iris' and posted on the Strike-Ellacott Files website, a piece titled ‘What is Literary Alchemy? Spotting symbols that map Strike and Robin's growth.' What advice or guidance would you give to, say, Cormoran Strike readers who are brand new to the subject? * There are three types of alchemy and it is important to understand the common ground they share and the differences between them;* The first type is alchemy proper, which is to say ‘metallurgical alchemy,' the sacred science of purifying metals and the adept's soul via the creation of a Philosopher's Stone that will transform lead to gold and exude an elixir of life, the drinking of which will bestow immortality;* The second and third types of alchemy derive from interpretations of metallurgical alchemy's aims and the symbolic texts detailing the work in the hermetic laboratory;* Literary alchemy is the use of metallurgical alchemy's language, colors, sequences, and symbols in plays, poetry, and story to foster an edifying and transformative experience in the artist's theater or reading audience;* Psychological alchemy is Carl Jung's use of metallurgical alchemy's texts during and after WWII to illustrate his ideas of the integration of the conscious and unconscious aspects of the human mind;* Metallurgical alchemy was practiced in China, the Levant, India, and Europe within the revealed religious traditions of Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Islam, and Christianity until its degeneration in the late Medieval period and eventual evolution into the strictly materialist chemistry we know today;* Literary alchemy has been a continuous stream in literature from Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare, and the Metaphysical poets through to Dickens, Yeats, the Inklings, Joyce, Nabokov, and J. K. Rowling;* The academic study of “alchemy in literature” was the province of Baconian and allegorical readings of Shakespeare (cf., Beryl Pogson, Peter Dawkins, Martin Lings) until the late 20th Century and the advent of academic specialists in ‘Hermetic Studies,' e.g., Stanton Linden, Lyndy Abraham, and Charles Nicholl (cf., Cauda Pavonis: A Journal of Hermetic Studies, 1982-2000).* Jung and his followers used their psychological interpretations of metallurgical alchemy as allegories of the soul to interpret mythology (cf., Erich Neumann, Marie-Louise Von Franz, Robert Johnson);* Jungian analysis of story using Jung's ideas of subconscious archetypes within a collective unconscious was popularized by Joseph Campbell in his guides to Joyce's Ulysses and his more well known works on mythology (e.g., The Hero With a Thousand Faces);* ‘Isis' in her S&E Files article, ‘What is Literary Alchemy?,' suggests that Rowling-Galbraith is writing an allegory of soul transformation in the Cormoran Strike series using metallurgical alchemy's symbols and sequences as understood by Carl Jung and his disciples rather than as used by English writers since the 13th Century;* It's a challenging theory, the depth of which is hard to grasp without an appreciation of the types of alchemy, what they have in common, and their differences in approach and subject matter.2. The Lake: (John) What I found most fascinating in your post, Nick, was your best guesses about where Rowling would have learned about literary alchemy. She claimed in 1998 that she'd read a lot of alchemical texts from which she set the “magical parameters” of the Hogwarts Saga; if you had only three chances to name one of those books, what would you choose? * Charles Nicholl's The Chemical Theatre;* Titus Burckhardt's Alchemy: Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul (or Mirror of the Intellect: Essays on Traditional Acience and Sacred Art);* Lyndy Abraham Summerhaze's Marvell and Alchemy or her Dictionary of Alchemical Imagery;* Martin Lings' The Secret of Shakespeare3. Carl Jung, Alchemy: (Nick) I see you're chafing at the bit, John, with book titles I haven't mentioned so let me name-drop the author not on my list because, as you pointed out, he wasn't really a literary alchemist so much as a psychologist who discussed alchemy as a means of illustrating his own ideas about the ‘Great Work.' You've written, though, that literary alchemy as with metallurgical alchemy is a subset of soul-allegories or Psychomachia. Don't Jung's ideas jibe with that? * Yes and no!* Jung's ideas of the soul and archetypes (or archetypal forms) are based on late 19th Century Volkischer German ideas, which is to say, modern and materialist (some say ‘vitalist') premises. His hostility to Christianity and Judaism was grounded in his acceptance of Darwinian evolution and derived philosophically from Nietzsche (see Richard Noll's The Jung Cult and The Aryan Christ).* He conflates the spiritual with the psychological, consequently, and embraces integrated individual psychological health as the telos of human existence, none of which is consistent with traditional metallurgical or literary alchemy (see Titus Burckhardt's Mirror of the Intellect, Philip Sherrard's ‘An Introduction to the Religious Thought of C. G. Jung,' and Harry Oldmeadow's ‘C.G. Jung & Mircea Eliade: ‘Priests without Surplices'? Reflections on the Place of Myth, Religion and Science in Their Work.'* Psychological alchemy, insomuch as it is ‘Jungian,' is well removed from the other two types of alchemy. Which is not to say that Rowling is not a Jungian and hence a Jungian psychological alchemist.4. Back into the Lake: (John) You covered in your article, though, Nick, the several reasons to think it possible, even probable that the evidence from Rowling's life suggests she is using Jungian ideas in her literary alchemy. Iris over at S&E Files obviously thinks that is the case. What are the for and against ideas with respect to Rowling being a Jungian? There's Plenty of Evidence That Rowling IS a Jungian Writer:John Granger's discussion in Troubled Blood: A Jungian Reading* Robin's name-dropping Jung in conversation about astrology;* The Jungian notes sounded throughout Strike 5: Archetypes, Synchronicity, Persona;* The connection between Jung's illustrated ‘New Book' and Talbot's ‘True Book;' and* Pointers to Cupid-Psyche myth as understood by Jungians (see below)The Advent of Prudence Dunleavy, Jungian Psychologist, in Ink Black Heart* Hard to imagine a more sympathetic portrait of a Jungian than half-sister Prudence!* She clearly was the genius behind the Rokeby reconciliation in Hallmarked ManThe Cupid and Psyche myth underpinning the Strike series* A Mythological Key to Cormoran Strike? The Myth of Eros, Psyche, and Venus (note the discussion here of the Jungian understanding of this specific myth)* Ink Black Heart: Strike as Zeus to Robin's Leda and as Cupid to Mads' Psyche* ‘Rowling Points to Myth of Cupid and Psyche in order to Console Strike Fans Disappointed with Hallmarked Man‘* The Hallmarked Man‘s Mythological Template (Nick Jeffery, John Granger)Anything Else? Oh, yeah —* Rowling studied mythology in her ‘Classical Studies' program at UExeter and almost certainly encountered Jungian interpretation of myths there (e.g. the work of Neumann, Johnson, Campbell).* Rowling told Val McDermid if she had not become a successful writer she would have sought training and certification as a psychologist. * Her work reflects a broad reading in psychology (cf., Louise Freeman Davis' ‘J. K. Rowling and the Phantoms in the Brain,' ‘Cormoran Strike and the Itch that Cannot Be Scratched') and it is likely that she has read her fair share of Jung and Jungian authors during her studies.* Rowling benefited from psychological therapy and exercises herself when suffering from depression, the experience of and recovery from which she depicted in story via the Azkaban Dementors and Robin Ellacott's treatment for PTSD in Lethal White.And There is Plenty of Evidence That Rowling Is NOT a Jungian Writer:* Rowling has never been asked or revealed how she learned about literary alchemy; this includes, of course, any reference to Carl Jung, whose work was not focused on literary alchemy per se but a psychological interpretation or explanation of metallurgical alchemy's symbolism.* All that Rowling has revealed about her experiences as a patient seeking help with depression are about Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), which treatment modality owes nothing to Jung or to Jung's students.* It is possible that Rowling encountered esoteric metallurgical alchemy, the precursor to literary alchemy, in her study of astrology, the complementary traditional sacred science to alchemy, a skill-set with which we know she was accomplished. That route to alchemy would have led her to Perennialist interpretations of alchemy, most notably Titus Burckhardt‘s Alchemy, Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul; the paperback cover of the Penguin Metaphysical Library edition of that book (1974) features an androgynous giant named REBIS standing on a dragon and a winged golden sphere (i.e., Rubeus, Norbert, Snitch).* As mentioned above, it is more likely that she encountered literary alchemy in her study of Shakespeare. The year she was studying for her A Levels, she traveled to see a production of King Lear which has prompted the idea that it was on her list of texts to prepare for her tests. The most challenging interpretation of Lear then in print was Charles Nicholl's The Chemical Theatre (1980), a book that explains almost every scene in perhaps Shakespeare's greatest tragedy as a parallel step in the Great Work of alchemy. If the budding astrologer was fascinated by this allegorical interpretation of the Bard, the most popular work in print at that time that championed reading Shakespeare as the author of soul allegories was Perennialist Martin Lings‘ The Secret of Shakespeare (1984).* Literary Alchemy is a tool set employed not only by Shakespeare but by a host of Rowling favorite authors to include Dickens, Nabokov, Lewis, and Tolkien. This view of alchemy, that is, as an allegorical depiction of the soul's transformation that affects that same cathartic experience in its theater or reading audiences, is the one found in Rowling's work, which is well removed from psychological alchemy, an analytic art which, though it springs from metallurgical alchemical texts, does not aim at the transformation at work in the sacred art or the science of traditional alchemy. * Rowling's use of chiastic structures and psychomachian allegory, tools that complement literary alchemy in spiritual perspective and aim, make a Jungian rather than a literary and Perennialist view of alchemy seem unlikely.* Alchemy: Jung, Burckhardt, or Maclean? John Granger, April 2007* Rowling's Soul Triptych Psychomachia: Is It From Shakespeare's ‘Macbeth'? John Granger, September 20245. The Debate at King's Cross: (Nick) So, John, you've mentioned Jung quite a few times in your posts about the Mythological framework of the Strike series and even written about the Jungian ideas of animus and anima with respect to Cormoran and Robin's relationship. You seem fairly confident, though, that Rowling is writing from the traditional esoteric ideas of alchemy a la Shakespeare rather than Jung's. Why is that? * Everything you just said!* As noted, Jung's ideas are modern and psychological while the stream of literary alchemy in English Literature is almost exclusively more Medieval and pointedly spiritual;* The Most Notable Exception: Angela Carter's The Passion of the New Eve (1977), that reads like a Jungian ‘Red Book' slide-show (think Bombyx Mori) or a transgender Odyssey written for feminists. Rowling has never mentioned her to my knowledge but it would be surprising if she hadn't read this book more than once. What Alana Bolton Cooke wrote about Carter's Passion could be said about Rowling's literary alchemy if she is a Jungian writer (or about Galbraith's fictional Elizabeth Tassel?):Angela Carter in The Passion of New Eve (1977) uses the exoteric phases of alchemy and Carl G. Jung's theory of esoteric alchemy as a means of demonstrating allegorically the idea ofrebirth and renewal. The purpose of this allegorical method is to produce an 'alchemical' change of thought in the reader about sexuality and gender associated with women's repression and liberation. In the novel Carter develops themes and ideas explored in her essay, The Sadeian Woman: An Exercise in Cultural History (1979), an analysis of the Marquis de Sade's pornography and its affect on the roles of men and women in society. The clash of opposites involved in combining alchemical symbolism, feminism and pornography within the fiction can be seen as representative of the state of chaos present in alchemy before the beginning of change. The circular narrative and alchemical structure of the fiction creates a literary version of the alchemical process as it brings together opposites involved in chaos, represented by events and characterisation that the protagonist, Evelyn/Eve, experiences, until, in the manner of alchemy, harmony is reached. The harmony created represents women's empowerment. Carter uses Evelyn's individuation process to encourage growth within the reader by altering patterns of thought to bring about change through self-confrontation and self-knowledge. The structure of Carter's fiction, thus, corresponds to the process of esoteric alchemy contained within the structure, imagery and symbolism of exoteric alchemy. The fiction is designed to stimulate the unconscious of the reader and make conscious hitherto unknown and repressed thoughts about gender and sexuality to bring about change in the lives of men and women.* I think what Rowling said she was trying to do with Harry Potter's meeting with Dumbledore at the dream-like King's Cross strongly suggests she is aware of the two approaches and wants readers to discuss them – but that she has made her own choice, however conflicted she may be.* In her 2008 interview with Adeel Amini, Rowling said that her hope for Harry's post-mortem conversation with Dumbledore at King's Cross was to stimulate “a debate” among readers about whether it was a psychological moment, that is, a fantasy in which Harry understands what he's been missing all along, or a spiritual event in which he is actually speaking with the late Headmaster:Enough Potter-plot, I think. Moving on to a slightly more contentious issue, Rowling has categorically said that she does believe in a higher power, a statement reinforced by her childhood church-going (“Till I was 17,” she clarifies). It must be difficult to reconcile her religious beliefs with those that denounce Harry Potter as anti-Christian, I wonder aloud. Rowling's expression does not change a fraction. “There was a Christian commentator who said, which I thought was very interesting, that Harry Potter had been the Christian church's biggest missed opportunity. And I thought, there's someone who actually has their eyes open.“I think he said it before the publication of the seventh book, and with the publication of the seventh book I think that clarified a lot of people's view on where I was standing. But I should emphasise that I am not pushing a specifically Christian agenda, and indeed till the very last moment in book seven, one can interpret what happens to Harry after he presents himself with death as him going into an unconscious state in which his subconscious reveals to him what he already knew.” I hum in faux-comprehension of what she's referring to; luckily my clued-in companion is nodding wildly. Proceed. “Any re-reading of Chapter 35 will show you that there's nothing that the Dumbledore he sees tells him that he couldn't have guessed for himself or already realised, and of course there's a key piece of information that Dumbledore doesn't articulate that Harry has realised. So you can deliberately interpret it that way, or you can say that he did go into a state of limbo beyond which there was another life, and that idea was expressed repeatedly, and most explicitly at the end of book five, Order of the Phoenix, where Harry understands that there is an ‘on', that you do go on. “I wanted there to be a debate there, so of my three main characters - when they come into the room which examines death at the Ministry of Magic - Hermione, the ultimate sceptic and a hyperrational person, hears nothing behind the veil and is scared of it. Ron is just uneasy; Ron is someone who does not grapple with anything deeper than beer, if he can avoid it. Harry's drawn to it, and therein lies Harry's slightly reckless, almost morbid streak, because Harry does have a hint of that dangerous adolescent trait which is the attraction to death.” Heavy. Obviously with this ambiguity, you do get a fair degree of misinterpretation as well; there is a certain section that does dislike Harry Potter intensely. “Oh, vehemently,” says Rowling, before muttering under her breath “…and they send death threats.”* I think that “debate” she's trying to foster is between the psychological, call it ‘Jungian' “just inside your head” subconscious perspective, and the authentically spiritual view of her work (well, of art and human existence, too, of course). And that this debate is one she has had for most of her life. Check out her comments about the “greatest missed opportunity” and explain to me how that doesn't line up with her preferring the spiritual, albeit “not explicitly Christian,” to the psychological and humanist. 7. Jungian Readings of Rowling's Work: (Nick) John, you're familiar with what has been written by Potter Pundits because of your PhD critical literature surveys; what are the better ones about Rowling and Jungian psychology and what do they emphasize? Here are seven off the top of my head (and Thesis ‘Works Cited' drafts):* Grynbaum, G.A. (2000). The Secrets of Harry Potter. The San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal: Reviews From a Jungian Perspective of Books, Films and Culture, [online] 19 (4) pp. 17-48* Patrick, Christopher and Sarah (2007), ‘Exploring the Dark Side: Harry Potter and the Psychology of Evil,' in Mulholland (ed.), The Psychology of Harry Potter, BenBella Books, pp 221-232* Gerhold, C. (2011). The Hero's Journey Through Adolescence: A Jungian Archetypal Analysis of “Harry Potter.” PsyD. The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. * Rectenwald, Bob (2019). ‘Carl Jung's Impact on the Work of J. K. Rowling' * Skipper, Alicia and Kate Fulton (2021) ‘Out from the Shadows into the Light: Persona and Shadow in Harry Potter‘ in Anne Mamary (ed.) The Alchemical Harry Potter: Essays on Transfiguration in J. K. Rowling's Novels, McFarland, Jefferson, NC, 2021, pp 79-96* The Unfolding Journey, Jung's Shadow Self in Harry Potter: Confronting the Darkness Within (YouTube video)* My own Troubled Blood: A Jungian ReadingBob Rectenwald's piece is the best of the six I didn't write but it shares the several faults all the Jungian pieces make:* the first failing of even the best Jungian readers is the assumption that Rowling is a Jungian, which is an open question;* the next is that Jung's ideas (and Joseph Campbell's) are indisputably true; and* the last is, when alchemy is mentioned, the critics do not clarify either the commonalities of or the differences between literary alchemy, psychological alchemy, and Jungian analytic psychology. * Note, though, that Rowling, while aware of such Jungian tropes as the Hero's Journey, tweeks it shamelessly, adding a symbol of Christ and resurrection scene in every Potter story (cf., How Harry Cast His Spell, ‘The Harry's Journey,' pp 21-28).* Read her brief PotterMore piece on alchemy and note that it is written in such a way that it can be read as confirmation of either a psychological or spiritual perspective on alchemy and art:One interpretation of the ‘instructions' left by the alchemists is that they are symbolic of a spiritual journey, leading the alchemist from ignorance (base metal) to enlightenment (gold). There seems to have been a mystical element to the work the alchemist was engaged upon, which set it apart from chemistry (of which it was undoubtedly both an offshoot and forerunner).This “original writing” by Rowling, especially the words “spiritual” and “mystical,” suggests that she is a Perennialist rather than a Jungian, at least with respect to her understanding of alchemy. But the debate is still possible with Jungians who read those words as cyphers for the subsconscious contact they hold we have with archetypes.8. Back to the Alchemy: (John) I think the real question of whether Rowling's literary alchemy is predominantly literary and spiritual or psychological in orientation comes down to the postmodern confusion about the immaterial aspects of the human person, which is to say, the soul (or mind, psyche) and the spirit. Rowling's recent work may seem prosaic or secular to a casual reader who compares it to the relatively otherworldly and “obviously” symbolic Potter books, but she loads each Strike book with Shakespearean romance of soul and spirit, i.e., alchemical dramas, and hermetic tropes. I'm writing a piece now about the lions, dogs, incest, and the red man and white woman in Hallmarked Man, each of which are touchstones of alchemy. I think, though, that your work with Rowling's favorite books and her epigraph sources, Nick, point to a strong spiritual rather than psychological foundation in Rowling's work —* Louisa May Alcott, Little Women* Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle* The Victorian Women Poets in Running Grave* Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh* Robert Browning, The Ring and the Book* The Jungian love of the I Ching, Running Grave's epigraph source9. Jung in Running Grave: (Nick) Rowling's favorite writers, from Shakespeare and Nabokov to C. S. Lewis and Victorian Women poets, all clearly believe in a world-transcending spiritual realm. Given the quantity of the Jungian scholarship in Rowling Studies that Iris referred to and you've mentioned, it's curious -- if Rowling is aware of it and is resistant to it -- that she doesn't push back against it explicitly in her work. Can you think of a character that seems something like Jung in the books, someone as bad as Prudence Dunleavey is good? I can think of three:* United Humanitarian Church's guru Jonathan Wace in Running Grave: his “psychologizing of religion,” the comparative religion avenue to denial of any true faith, the psychological critical analysis of a patient using mythological tropes (”Artemis”), the cult leader, and the abuser of women and children -- he's a ringer for Jung! * Paul Satchwell, one-eyed serpent with a one-track mind, in Leamington Spa, a true Jungian artist working psycho-sexual motifs graphically on canvas:Naked figures twisted and cavorted in scenes from Greek mythology. Persephone struggled in the arms of Hades as he carried her down into the underworld; Andromeda strained against chains binding her to rock as a dragonish creature rose from the waves to devour her; Leda lay supine in bulrushes as Zeus, in the form of a swan, impregnated her.Two lines of Joni Mitchell floated back to Robin as she looked at the paintings: “When I first saw your gallery, I liked the ones of ladies…”Except that Robin wasn't sure she liked the paintings. The female figures were all black-haired, olive-skinned, heavy-breasted and partially or entirely naked. The paintings were accomplished, but Robin found them slightly lascivious. Each of the women wore a similar expression of vacant abandon, and Satchwell seemed to have a definite preference for those myths that featured bondage, rape or abduction. (Troubled Blood, 542)* And then there are the Masons, kind of an old school Jungian cult in Hallmarked Man. Like the UHC and “harmless” fraternal and charitable group with Christian touches but which doesn't change a man or human nature per Hardacre (and which harbors the rich and powerful like Lord Branfoot). * Coupled with Prudence, the Front of Jungian Beliefs, we get the front and back of Jung in Rowling's work, a characteristic touch of Rowling nuance as she did with Islam in Hallmarked Man.10. Conclusion: (John) I'm obviously not a Jung fan and I don't think Rowling is writing Jungian psychomachia in alchemical symbols a la Angela Carter, but I see how people would come to a contrary conclusion; Rowling's ‘spiritual not religious' public statements and political positions with respect to Same Sex Attraction and abortion line up much more easily with New Age and Jungian types than with any kind of orthodox Christianity. The great thing about essays like Isis' at S&E Files is that it brings more people into the conversation of what literary alchemy is and the various approaches to it. You've been reading about literary alchemy for several years now, Nick; what do you think the person whose first encounter with the subject was the S&E Files article do to hone their alchemy detection skills? * “Read your books and online talks, John!”* How Metallurgical Alchemy Worked and How it Became Literary Alchemy (from Deathly Hallows Lectures, Chapter 1):Alchemy, in a nutshell, was the science for the perfection or sanctification of the alchemist's soul. This heroic venture I need to say straight off is all but impossible today because the way we look at reality, at ‘things' per se makes the Great Work itself almost an absurdity. Unlike the medieval alchemists, we moderns and postmoderns see things with a clear subject/object distinction, that is, we believe that you and I and that table are entirely different things and between them is there is no connection or relation. The knowing subject is one thing and the observed object is completely ‘other.'To the alchemist that is not the case. His efforts in changing lead to gold are based on the premise that he as the subject will go through the same types of changes and purifications as the materials he is working with. In sympathy with these metallurgical transitions and resolutions of contraries, his soul will be purified in correspondence as long as he is working in a prayerful state within the Mysteries (sacraments) of his revealed tradition.Now, historically there was an Arabic alchemy, a Chinese alchemy, a Kabbalistic, as well as a Christian alchemy; each differs superficially with respect to their spiritual traditions but in every one, the alchemist was working with a sacred natural science or physics to advance his spiritual purification. This was only possible because he looked at the metal he was working with as something with which he was not ‘other' but with which he was in relationship, artifex and artifact in sacred art imitating and accelerating the work of the Creator creating a bridge, so that, as lead changes to gold or material perfection, his soul was going through similar transformations and purifications.The common ground is the logos in every created thing, to include persons (cf. John 1:9), which are all continuous with the Logos fabric of reality. As much as the alchemist identifies with this metaphysical ground, purifying himself of the ‘old man' or ego-driven individual and identifying himself with the spiritual Heart or light within him, that light will become his dominant quality, hence his “illumination” or “enlightenment”. And lead or solid darkness turning into gold, hard light.How does this edifying magic become the scaffolding for Harry's adventures? Largely through the genius of William Shakespeare. Hermetic wisdom and alchemical efforts were such commonplaces in Elizabethan England that Shakespeare and his contemporaries recognized, I think. that the magic of staged drama is essentially alchemical. If we groundlings are all watching what's going on up on the stage and everything is working the way it's supposed to, the subject-object distinction dissolves inasmuch as we identify with the characters and their agonies through our logos-imaginations. As they go through their changes, like the metals in a crucible, we identify with them and pass through the same cathartic moment.As the great dramatists of that period realized, “if what we're doing is alchemical, why don't we use alchemical imagery and language, too?” And, voila, literary alchemy is born. This stream of English literature in which narrator or characters and the reader or audience in correspondence pass through the stages of the alchemical work, the black the white and the red (basically dissolution, purification, and then perfection) runs through the next five centuries of poetry, stage work, stories and novels. You may not have recognized it, but its a big part of things you have read.* Literary Alchemy: Sacred Science, Sacred Art, and ‘The Alembic of Story':A Perennialist Explanation of J. K. Rowling's Signature Hermetic Symbolism This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit hogwartsprofessor.substack.com/subscribe

In this week's I Ching forecast, we focus on completely endings successfully while getting the most of the harvest around us. Listen to this episode for more insight into how to work with this flow this week! I Ching Resources and Links: https://linktr.ee/ichingcafe Timestamps 0:00 Intro 0:36 Last week's recap 1:55 Hexagram 63 After Completion 5:44 Hexagram 63 After Completion, Changing Line 4 6:48 Hexagram 63 After Completion, Changing Line 5 8:01 Hexagram 55 Abundance Tech Specs Main or Present Hexagram - Hexagram 63 After Completion Changing Lines - 4th and 5th Positions Outcome Hexagram - Hexagram 55 Abundance

Spencer Michaud discusses the Full Moon in Libra II, finding meaning through an exploration of Decanic Tarot, Fixed Stars, and the I-Ching. . #astrology #fullmoon #libra #aries #forecast #monthlyforecast #tarot #decans #fixedstars #traditionalastrology #mythology #divination #iching #youtube #livestream #zodiac #spencermichaud #astrodad #traditionaltechniques #nurturingthemes . Guided Group Study: The Silmarillion - 2026: https://www.spencermichaud.com/2026/03/guided-group-study-silmarillion-spring.html . Visit Spencer: https://www.spencermichaud.com/ . Visit Third Coast Mojo: https://www.etsy.com/shop/ThirdCoastMojo . Visit the Webinar Store: https://www.spencermichaud.com/p/store_9.html . Finding value in these videos? Help Spencer keep creating content by buying him a coffee! Thank you for your support! :) . Support the Channel: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/spencermichaud . Venmo: @spencermichaud . PayPal Me: http://www.paypal.me/spencermichaud . Thank you for supporting your local astrologer! : ) . Book a reading / tutoring session: https://spencermichaudastrology.as.me/ . Subscribe to the Newsletter: https://www.spencermichaud.com/p/subscribe.html#.YC2Gu157lp8 . Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/spencermichaud/ . Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/spencermichaud.bsky.social . Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../spencer.../id1498982837 . Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1BZBpFaFRUBeUVrdPtRZ5X?si=kuKimd0wSr66qCUAQ6rzNw . Soundcloud: http://www.soundcloud.com/spencermichaudastrology . Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/spencermichaudastrology . https://youtu.be/o91d2NU2iRc

In this week's I Ching forecast, we leave behind the last three weeks of changing line intensity and double down on getting a higher perspective. Listen to this episode for more insight into how to work with this flow this week! I Ching Resources and Links: https://linktr.ee/ichingcafe Timestamps 0:00 Intro 0:47 Last week's recap 3:04 Hexagram 20 Contemplation Tech Specs Main or Present Hexagram - Hexagram 20 Contemplation Changing Lines - None Outcome Hexagram - None

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In this week's I Ching forecast, lots of change comes at us as we vigorously cut through our obstacles and build foundations to support accelerated growth. Listen to this episode for more insight into how to work with this flow this week! I Ching Resources and Links: https://linktr.ee/ichingcafe Timestamps 0:00 Intro 0:40 Last week's recap 1:57 Hexagram 21 Biting Through 4:30 Hexagram 21 Biting Through, Changing Line 4 5:43 Hexagram 21 Biting Through, Changing Line 5 6:42 Hexagram 21 Biting Through, Changing Line 6 9:44 Hexagram 3 Difficulty at the Beginning Tech Specs Main or Present Hexagram - Hexagram 21 Biting Through Changing Lines - 4th, 5th and 6th Positions Outcome Hexagram - Hexagram 3 Difficulty at the Beginning

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In this week's I Ching forecast, we light up for ourselves and others in clarity and energy. Plus we turn back to better times. Listen to this episode for more insight into how to work with this flow this week! I Ching Resources and Links: https://linktr.ee/ichingcafe Timestamps 0:00 Intro 0:34 Last week's recap 2:48 Hexagram 30 The Clinging 10:46 Hexagram 30 The Clinging, Changing Line 3 12:40 Hexagram 30 The Clinging, Changing Line 4 14:45 Hexagram 30 The Clinging, Changing Line 6 17:10 Hexagram 24 The Return Tech Specs Main or Present Hexagram - Hexagram 30 The Clinging Changing Lines - 3rd, 4th and 6th Positions Outcome Hexagram - Hexagram 24 The Return

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EVEN MORE about this episode!Why are so many high achievers exhausted, burned out, and stuck—despite doing everything “right”?Join Julie Ryan with Human Design experts Shayna Cornelius and Dana Stiles of DayLuna as they reveal how your Human Design chart, energy type, and authority may explain your exhaustion—and how to realign with your natural flow. After burning out in corporate careers, Shayna and Dana began experimenting with their Human Design as Projectors—honoring their emotional authority and radically reducing forced effort—and within weeks, recognition, alignment, and opportunity began flowing in.In this episode, they break down what Human Design actually is—a synthesis of astrology, the I Ching, the Kabbalah, and the chakra system—revealing how your birth data unlocks a personalized body graph that maps your energy type, decision-making authority, and life themes. You'll learn the “not-self” signals that show you're out of alignment, the emotional cues that confirm you're on track, and why so many high achievers feel stuck when they're living against their design.Julie even shares how turning down an MBA decades ago perfectly reflects her Manifesting Generator wiring—proof that your intuition may already know your design. From entrepreneurship and leadership to embodiment and the collective shift approaching 2027, this conversation is a powerful reminder that you're not here to copy someone else's path—you're here to live your own energetic truth.Guest Biography:Shayna Cornelius and Dana Stiles are Human Design experts, best-selling authors, and co-founders of DayLuna, dedicated to empowering others toward self-love, personal freedom, and radical authenticity. Through their top-charted DayLuna Human Design Podcast, transformational courses, live readings, personalized ritual kits, parenting blueprints, and their book Your Human Design: Discover Your Unique Life Path and How To Navigate It With Purpose, they make the complex system of Human Design grounded, accessible, and actionable—helping individuals align with their purpose in business, relationships, parenting, and spiritual growth.Episode Chapters:(0:00:00) - Living Your Truth(0:02:00) - Why We Spend Our Lives Being Somebody Else(0:06:00) - Julie's MBA Story and Thinking Outside the Box(0:09:00) - Human Design Types: The Five Energies Explained(0:11:00) - Julie's Manifesting Generator Reading(0:16:00) - How Shayna and Dana Found Human Design(0:18:00) - The One-Month Experiment That Changed Everything(0:22:00) - Human Design's Origins: Ra Ahu's Download(0:25:00) - Ancient Wisdom Meets Modern Consciousness(0:27:00) - The 2027 Paradigm Shift(0:30:00) - The Merlin Synchronicity and Spiritual Zeitgeist(0:33:00) - Signs You're Out of Alignment: Not Self Themes(0:36:00) - Trusting Intuition Over Logic(0:40:00) - Does Personal Vibration Educate Better Than Words?(0:41:00) - What True Authenticity Looks Like(0:45:00) - Integrating Business Success With Spiritual Alignment(0:47:00) - Human Design at Work: Employees and Entrepreneurs(0:49:00) - Myths About Success: Imposter Syndrome and Perfectionism(0:51:00) - When Two People Share the Same Design(0:52:00) - First Steps to Reconnect With Your Inherent Flow(0:55:00) - Why Do We Incarnate?(0:59:00) - Julie's Closing: Two Rings of Light➡️Subscribe to Ask Julie Ryan YouTube➡️Julie's Intuitive Trainings✏️Ask Julie a Question!

In this episode, JJ Flizanes welcomes Erin Hines, a Human Design business coach (and repeat guest from West Coast Women Rising), to kick off a new series-style conversation on Human Design—what it is, why it's gaining traction, and how it can help you better understand your energy, decision-making, and natural way of operating in life and work. What You'll Learn What Human Design is and where it came from (a modern system developed in the late 1980s) How Human Design blends ancient and modern systems (astrology, I Ching, chakras + physics/biology concepts) The "science of differentiation": why your uniqueness matters and how it supports more ease in life The 5 Human Design types and what each one needs to manage energy well: Generators & Manifesting Generators: consistent energy when doing what lights you up; built to respond Projectors: here to guide; thrive by waiting for invitations and honoring rest Manifestors: here to initiate; thrive by informing and allowing cycles of burst/rest Reflectors: sensitive mirrors of environments; thrive with downtime and supportive spaces How type can reduce shame and friction (e.g., why open-ended questions can feel hard for "response-based" types) The basics of reading a Human Design chart: Type, Centers (defined vs open), and deeper layers like gates/channels Mentioned in the Episode Erin's free Human Design chart option (available many places; Erin's includes helpful click-for-explanations) Erin's "Intro to Human Design" custom report for deeper insight Erin's podcast: Rebel to Rise: Where Business Meets Human Design (includes business strategy + HD education) Connect with Erin Hines Erin's website: DarnGoodBusinessCoach.com Find Erin on: LinkedIn Listen to: Rebel to Rise: Where Business Meets Human Design  

In this episode, JJ Flizanes welcomes Erin Hines, a Human Design business coach (and repeat guest from West Coast Women Rising), to kick off a new series-style conversation on Human Design—what it is, why it's gaining traction, and how it can help you better understand your energy, decision-making, and natural way of operating in life and work. What You'll Learn What Human Design is and where it came from (a modern system developed in the late 1980s) How Human Design blends ancient and modern systems (astrology, I Ching, chakras + physics/biology concepts) The "science of differentiation": why your uniqueness matters and how it supports more ease in life The 5 Human Design types and what each one needs to manage energy well: Generators & Manifesting Generators: consistent energy when doing what lights you up; built to respond Projectors: here to guide; thrive by waiting for invitations and honoring rest Manifestors: here to initiate; thrive by informing and allowing cycles of burst/rest Reflectors: sensitive mirrors of environments; thrive with downtime and supportive spaces How type can reduce shame and friction (e.g., why open-ended questions can feel hard for "response-based" types) The basics of reading a Human Design chart: Type, Centers (defined vs open), and deeper layers like gates/channels Mentioned in the Episode Erin's free Human Design chart option (available many places; Erin's includes helpful click-for-explanations) Erin's "Intro to Human Design" custom report for deeper insight Erin's podcast: Rebel to Rise: Where Business Meets Human Design (includes business strategy + HD education) Connect with Erin Hines Erin's website: DarnGoodBusinessCoach.com Find Erin on: LinkedIn Listen to: Rebel to Rise: Where Business Meets Human Design  

In this episode, JJ Flizanes welcomes Erin Hines, a Human Design business coach (and repeat guest from West Coast Women Rising), to kick off a new series-style conversation on Human Design—what it is, why it's gaining traction, and how it can help you better understand your energy, decision-making, and natural way of operating in life and work. What You'll Learn What Human Design is and where it came from (a modern system developed in the late 1980s) How Human Design blends ancient and modern systems (astrology, I Ching, chakras + physics/biology concepts) The "science of differentiation": why your uniqueness matters and how it supports more ease in life The 5 Human Design types and what each one needs to manage energy well: Generators & Manifesting Generators: consistent energy when doing what lights you up; built to respond Projectors: here to guide; thrive by waiting for invitations and honoring rest Manifestors: here to initiate; thrive by informing and allowing cycles of burst/rest Reflectors: sensitive mirrors of environments; thrive with downtime and supportive spaces How type can reduce shame and friction (e.g., why open-ended questions can feel hard for "response-based" types) The basics of reading a Human Design chart: Type, Centers (defined vs open), and deeper layers like gates/channels Mentioned in the Episode Erin's free Human Design chart option (available many places; Erin's includes helpful click-for-explanations) Erin's "Intro to Human Design" custom report for deeper insight Erin's podcast: Rebel to Rise: Where Business Meets Human Design (includes business strategy + HD education) Connect with Erin Hines Erin's website: DarnGoodBusinessCoach.com Find Erin on: LinkedIn Listen to: Rebel to Rise: Where Business Meets Human Design  

In this episode, JJ Flizanes welcomes Erin Hines, a Human Design business coach (and repeat guest from West Coast Women Rising), to kick off a new series-style conversation on Human Design—what it is, why it's gaining traction, and how it can help you better understand your energy, decision-making, and natural way of operating in life and work. What You'll Learn What Human Design is and where it came from (a modern system developed in the late 1980s) How Human Design blends ancient and modern systems (astrology, I Ching, chakras + physics/biology concepts) The "science of differentiation": why your uniqueness matters and how it supports more ease in life The 5 Human Design types and what each one needs to manage energy well: Generators & Manifesting Generators: consistent energy when doing what lights you up; built to respond Projectors: here to guide; thrive by waiting for invitations and honoring rest Manifestors: here to initiate; thrive by informing and allowing cycles of burst/rest Reflectors: sensitive mirrors of environments; thrive with downtime and supportive spaces How type can reduce shame and friction (e.g., why open-ended questions can feel hard for "response-based" types) The basics of reading a Human Design chart: Type, Centers (defined vs open), and deeper layers like gates/channels Mentioned in the Episode Erin's free Human Design chart option (available many places; Erin's includes helpful click-for-explanations) Erin's "Intro to Human Design" custom report for deeper insight Erin's podcast: Rebel to Rise: Where Business Meets Human Design (includes business strategy + HD education) Connect with Erin Hines Erin's website: DarnGoodBusinessCoach.com Find Erin on: LinkedIn Listen to: Rebel to Rise: Where Business Meets Human Design  

In this episode, JJ Flizanes welcomes Erin Hines, a Human Design business coach (and repeat guest from West Coast Women Rising), to kick off a new series-style conversation on Human Design—what it is, why it's gaining traction, and how it can help you better understand your energy, decision-making, and natural way of operating in life and work. What You'll Learn What Human Design is and where it came from (a modern system developed in the late 1980s) How Human Design blends ancient and modern systems (astrology, I Ching, chakras + physics/biology concepts) The "science of differentiation": why your uniqueness matters and how it supports more ease in life The 5 Human Design types and what each one needs to manage energy well: Generators & Manifesting Generators: consistent energy when doing what lights you up; built to respond Projectors: here to guide; thrive by waiting for invitations and honoring rest Manifestors: here to initiate; thrive by informing and allowing cycles of burst/rest Reflectors: sensitive mirrors of environments; thrive with downtime and supportive spaces How type can reduce shame and friction (e.g., why open-ended questions can feel hard for "response-based" types) The basics of reading a Human Design chart: Type, Centers (defined vs open), and deeper layers like gates/channels Mentioned in the Episode Erin's free Human Design chart option (available many places; Erin's includes helpful click-for-explanations) Erin's "Intro to Human Design" custom report for deeper insight Erin's podcast: Rebel to Rise: Where Business Meets Human Design (includes business strategy + HD education) Connect with Erin Hines Erin's website: DarnGoodBusinessCoach.com Find Erin on: LinkedIn Listen to: Rebel to Rise: Where Business Meets Human Design  

In this episode of the Holistic Spaces podcast, we share our Qi forecast for March 2026 and explore the energy unfolding this month, including the key solar terms and what's shifting in the lunar calendar. We reflect on themes of awakening and emerging potential, and the gentle dance between Yin and Yang as spring energy begins to rise.We also offer some practical feng shui tips and pull an I Ching reading to help you align with March's momentum—so you can nurture your own growth while staying connected to and supported by your community.What we talk about in this episode:March as a threshold month, transitioning from winter to springThe solar term 'Awakening the Insects', signifying the stirring of lifeMarch as an invitation to clear stagnation and welcome new beginningsMarch's full moon, known as the 'Worm Moon'Rabbit month bringing supportive energy for certain zodiac signs…and much more!Mentioned in this episode:2026 Feng Shui Amulet for Protection and LuckOur Feng Shui Energy Map EkitThanks so much for listening to the Holistic Spaces Podcast brought to you by Mindful Design Feng Shui School!-Sign up for our newsletter for exclusive complimentary special workshops and offers for our newsletter subscribers ONLY! -Make sure you're following us on Instagram for feng shui tips and live Q&A's.-Learn about our courses and certification on our website at: Mindful Design School.-Check out our older episodes on our Holistic Spaces Podcast archive.Time stamps for this episode:[04:47] Understanding the Energy of March[09:06] Exploring Lunar and Zodiac Influences[13:19] I Ching Reading for March[17:32] Harnessing Potential Energy[21:55] Balancing Yin and Yang in Feng ShuiMORE QUESTIONSHire one of our Mindful design school Grads for a 1-1 consultation. We know so many personal questions come up. That's why you need a 1-1! Laura and Anjie offer all these freebies, but if you want to learn more it's time to ask a professional. learn more HERENEW EPISODES OF THE HOLISTIC SPACES PODCAST BY MINDFUL DESIGN ARE AVAILABLE EVERY MONDAY.Thanks so much for listening to the Holistic Spaces Podcast brought to you by Mindful Design Feng Shui School!Sign up for our newsletter for exclusive complimentary special workshops and offers for our newsletter subscribers ONLY! Make sure you're following us on Instagram for feng shui tips and live Q&A's.Learn about our courses and certification on our website at: Mindful Design School.Check out our older episodes on our Holistic Spaces Podcast archive.MORE QUESTIONSHire one of our Mindful design school Grads for a 1-1 consultation. We know so many personal questions come up. That's why you need a 1-1! Laura and Anjie offer all these freebies, but if you want to learn more it's time to ask a professional. learn more HEREORDER OUR NEW BOOK HERE

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Hear Jade's testimony of growing up behind the Iron Curtain and during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. She shares how communist atheism, along with Buddhism, Taoism, and traditional folk beliefs, shaped her view of suffering, healing, and the supernatural. These influences eventually led her into fortune-telling and divination. Yet even in that spiritual darkness, the faithful witness of Chinese believers began to bring light into her life.The story takes a pivotal turn when her husband is diagnosed with terminal cancer. Through grief, doubt, and the timely influence of Christian colleagues, they begin to explore faith and ultimately choose baptism. Follow Jade's journey from the transactional spirituality of her upbringing to a personal relationship with God, where she discovers hope, comfort, and the assurance of being chosen and loved.Let us know what you thought of the show! Follow One80 on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or our website.Never miss a One80. Join our email list. Follow us on Instagram.Share One80, here's how!OneWay Ministries

In this episode of the Holistic Spaces podcast, we explore the nine-star key numerology forecast for 2026, the Year of the Fire Horse. We share how nine-star key—an ancient system connected to the five elements and the I Ching—helps you understand your energy in relationship to your environment and the year ahead. We also walk you through how to calculate your principal nine-star number, which sets the foundation for navigating 2026.We then break down the forecast for each principal number, from a year of fluctuation for number one to rapid growth for number nine, highlighting the unique opportunities, gifts, and lessons each energy brings. What we talk about in this episode:The nine-star key is an ancient form of astrology intertwined with the five elementsThe unique energies and opportunities for the year for each principal number of the nine star keyHow understanding your nine-star number helps you navigate the year's challenges and gifts…and much more!Mentioned in this episode:How to Calculate Your Own Nine Star Number2026 Feng Shui Amulet for Protection and LuckOur Feng Shui Energy Map EkitThanks so much for listening to the Holistic Spaces Podcast brought to you by Mindful Design Feng Shui School!-Sign up for our newsletter for exclusive complimentary special workshops and offers for our newsletter subscribers ONLY! -Make sure you're following us on Instagram for feng shui tips and live Q&A's.-Learn about our courses and certification on our website at: Mindful Design School.-Check out our older episodes on our Holistic Spaces Podcast archive.Time stamps for this episode:[02:53] Understanding Feng Shui Numerology[04:47] Calculating Your Principal Nine-Star Number[07:55] Forecast for Principal Number One[09:11] Forecast for Principal Number Two[10:39] Forecast for Principal Number Three[11:34] Forecast for Principal Number Four[13:03] Forecast for Principal Number Five[14:22] Forecast for Principal Number Six[16:27] Forecast for Principal Number Seven[17:39] Forecast for Principal Number Eight[19:40] Forecast for Principal Number NineMORE QUESTIONSHire one of our Mindful design school Grads for a 1-1 consultation. We know so many personal questions come up. That's why you need a 1-1! Laura and Anjie offer all these freebies, but if you want to learn more it's time to ask a professional. learn more HERENEW EPISODES OF THE HOLISTIC SPACES PODCAST BY MINDFUL DESIGN ARE AVAILABLE EVERY MONDAY.Thanks so much for listening to the Holistic Spaces Podcast brought to you by Mindful Design Feng Shui School!Sign up for our newsletter for exclusive complimentary special workshops and offers for our newsletter subscribers ONLY! Make sure you're following us on Instagram for feng shui tips and live Q&A's.Learn about our courses and certification on our website at: Mindful Design School.Check out our older episodes on our Holistic Spaces Podcast archive.MORE QUESTIONSHire one of our Mindful design school Grads for a 1-1 consultation. We know so many personal questions come up. That's why you need a 1-1! Laura and Anjie offer all these freebies, but if you want to learn more it's time to ask a professional. learn more HEREORDER OUR NEW BOOK HERE

Unlock the transformative power of intentional space and energy as Shannon Bailey, founder of Fierce Feng Shui, shares over 30 years of wisdom in creating harmony at home, work, and beyond. Discover how decluttering, mindful design, and the alignment of energy can support personal growth, prepare you for the upcoming Fire Horse year, and help you set meaningful intentions. Filled with practical tips, personal stories from her home remodel and gardening adventures, and guidance on Feng Shui and Chinese astrology, this conversation inspires action and transformation in everyday life.  Key Takeaways:   Feng Shui aligns your environment with your inner energy, promoting clarity, focus, and balance.  Decluttering and intentional placement of objects can create immediate shifts in energy and perspective.  The Year of the Snake is a time for reflection, shedding old patterns, and preparing for a major reset.  Setting intentions in your space—through objects, layouts, or symbolic items—amplifies your goals.  The upcoming Fire Horse year brings high energy, action, and leadership opportunities; preparation and mindful planning are key.  About Shannon Bailey:  Shannon Bailey, Founder of Fierce Feng Shui, has been telling people where to put it for over thirty years. Specializing in applying Western Feng Shui principles to homes, businesses and outdoor landscaping, Shannon has even done websites and virtual environments. She draws wisdom and inspiration from Western and Chinese Astrology, the I Ching, myth and symbolism across many cultures.   After starting her career in the Midwest, she moved to the Bay Area for a decade and has now returned to Kansas City to play with flowers, dig in the garden, remodel old homes with her husband and tell him where to put it. Shannon, her husband, and 7 kitties (4 kitties moved in from outside) all reside in a 1908 Kansas City shirtwaist that was purchased pre-gutted, but had an amazing porch. The remodel has been slow, dusty, expensive, and exhilarating. The cats haven't been much help.   Shannon is available for teaching classes and workshops, private consultations and Chinese Astrology. Connect with Shannon Bailey at:  https://www.fiercefengshui.com/  Connect with Dr. Michelle and Bayleigh at:  https://smallchangesbigshifts.com  hello@smallchangesbigshifts.com  https://www.linkedin.com/company/smallchangesbigshifts  https://www.facebook.com/SmallChangesBigShifts  https://www.instagram.com/smallchangesbigshiftsco  Thanks for listening!  Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page.  Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below!  Subscribe to the podcast  If you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. You can also subscribe in your favorite podcast app.  Leave us an Apple Podcasts review  Ratings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on Apple Podcasts, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you have a minute, please leave an honest review on Apple Podcasts.