71. How I Reframe My Struggles in Magical Language

<p>Reframing my struggles with astrology has helped me not only re-commit to living here but to do so with wild aliveness, authenticity, and joyful presence. This is because astrology is a <em>magical</em> language: the words are more than new vocabulary terms.&nbsp;</p> <p>Astrology provides codes for accessing technologies for speaking magic, for healing, and for dreaming the emergence of new timelines for ourselves and for our world.&nbsp;</p> <p>In this episode, I share how on the side of portal of the magical word <em>Scorpio</em>, we open into a realm for healing our relationship to the unconscious, to trauma, to buried memories, and to the dead.&nbsp;</p> <p>You'll find here:&nbsp;</p> <p>- a study of the ancient Sumerian myth "The Descent of Inanna" - the precursor to the myth of Persephone&nbsp;</p> <p>- a look at ways modern psychoanalysis has shaped our understanding astrology and myth, and what this has to do with emergence</p> <p>- a discussion of the 8th House in astrology as our closet and our underground, which tends to open up for us the deeper we go in our enmeshed relationships&nbsp;</p> <p>- co-dependency versus what I call "gate-walking" (how to hold sovereignty and our own shit within our deep partnerships)&nbsp;</p> <p>- the connections between alchemy, astrology, and psychology&nbsp;</p> <p>- my own version of the 7 stages of an underworld journey and why I'm so passionate for helping myself and those who are interested in learning with me to find tools and skills for moving through stage 2 (gnarly feels) and 3 (being with what's here).&nbsp;</p> <p>- how in ancient Sumerian language "ear" and "wisdom" are the same word, so in the original Descent when it begins that Inanna "opened her ear" to the Great Below, it refers to the wisdom she wanted to learn from the underworld, and how wisdom is so much of the gift of the journey&nbsp;</p> <p>- a discussion of how crucial it is to give our shadow self - the unconscious that bubbles up - a witness to listen and reflect back without judging, adv