Capricorn Season 2018 Astrocast with Bess Matassa + Sandy Sitron

12/20/18 • 67 min

This week's episode features our monthly Astrocast with Numinous resident astrologers Bess Matassa and Sandy Sitron, in which we'll explore the key cosmic shifts of Capricorn Season 2018-19. The themes of the season are to find a balance between effort and allowing, to cultivate radical trust in what we can't yet see, and to construct boundaries and safe containers to help birth the legacies we long to create. Transits we'll be discussing include:

Uranus stationing direct in Aries and Mars transiting through the sign of the ram

The Lunar Cycle, including the significance of the dec 22 Cancer Full Moon and the Jan 5 Capricorn New Moon

Venus moving out of Scorpio and entering Sagittarius

The Tarot cards for the New Year, as we move from Justice/High Priestess year in 2018 to Hanged Man/Empress year in 2019.

Uranus stationing direct in Aries and Mars transiting through the sign of the ram

The Lunar Cycle, including the significance of the dec 22 Cancer Full Moon and the Jan 5 Capricorn New Moon

Venus moving out of Scorpio and entering Sagittarius

The Tarot cards for the New Year, as we move from Justice/High Priestess year in 2018 to Hanged Man/Empress year in 2019.

Previous Episode

Psychedelic Healing with Jesse Carlota Heid

Jesse Carlota Heid is the very first person I invited to be a guest on THE NOW AGE. We connected when Jesse wrote a piece for The Numinous about her former life as a habitual psychedelics user, and what this experience taught her about how we heal—still one of my favorite articles on the site. Now over ten years sober, Jesse is a writer, healer, advocate, and ritual artist, as well as being a proud infertile mother. And she is also one of the most magical speakers I have ever met, with a unique gift for articulating deeply complex and mystical concepts.

In episode #2 of The Now Age, we discuss:

When and why "self-medicating" can be a good thing
How and why our bodies store emotional pain
Living with undiagnosed Endometriosis since childhood—and how she manages her own chronic pain
The lasting fallout of abuse, poverty, and neglect and how to heal from trauma
The power of "Story Medicine" and her work with the mythopoetic approach to healing
The fallout from the colonization of and her own separation from her indigenous Mexican heritage

You can discover more about Jesse and her work @alignedspirit on Instagram.

Next Episode

Healing Systemic Racism with Lama Rod Owens

In the final episode of 2018, Ruby talks to Lama Rod Owens, co-author of the book Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love and Liberation, about the spiritual work of healing systemic racism. World events coupled with the advent of social media as a platform for the literal raising of consciousness, have helped this to emerge as the collective healing work of our times—as much a personal issue as it is a public and a political one.

As Ruby wrote in this piece for The Numinous, Radical Dharma offers a powerful and compassionate perspective for anybody confused about their role in this—and is ESSENTIAL READING for anybody working in the healing, wellness or self-help space, or otherwise actively engaged in this work. Among other topics, in this episode we discuss:

How to talk about the things we're scared to talk about.
The importance of saying the 'wrong thing' in order to progress conversations about race.
Healing racism as part of our collective dharma.
Understanding the 'psychic mutilation' of whiteness.
How we are addicted to being triggered and the importance of boundaries as self-care.
How all systems of oppression are harmful to everybody—including those perceived to be benefitting from these systems.

You can learn more about Lama Rod Owens and his work HERE and purchase your copy of Radical Dharma HERE.