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In Our Nature
Why do we feel so overwhelmed, anxious, disconnected and lost...and what does that have to do with what's happening on our planet?
This show explores the hidden connections and deeper patterns that are forming our inner struggles and the wider crises unfolding around us. From mental health to ecological collapse, productivity culture to planetary grief, from burnout to reconnection, join me to poke around in the stories, systems and patterns shaping this extraordinary time...
...and then let's riff on what becomes possible when we stop pretending it’s fine and feel the feels.
Your host is me: Siobhán Friel. I'm a mental health practitioner, a Work That Reconnects facilitator and I was probably a lavender plant in a past life.
This podcast offers a way to make sense of your inner and outer world, especially if you were shaped by capitalism (like me) and not by a lineage of ecological literacy, love and wisdom.
You haven't missed the boat. There are many boats and this is one. Get in.
In Our Nature
Seeing with New & Ancient Eyes: Astrology & the Work That Reconnects
This is the final part of our short interlude exploring the archetypical language of astrology in the context of our time of extraordinary planetary upheaval.
In part one, we explored astrology as a language of nature and why it's scorned and dismissed (giveway: because it would collapse the economy, no, really). That can be found here: This Ancient Language of Nature Has Much to Say About Our Time of Unravelling
In part two we explore astrology as cyclical and ecological, seeing what is can show us about the Three Stories of Our Time as framed by the late, great Joanna Macy and the Work That Reconnects. That’s here: “Look,” said the Cosmos, “Everything Is Never Not Unfolding in a Dynamic Cycle of Life and Death”
Today, we’re bringing it back to the practical. How do we have embodied experiences of all this (and why does it matter than we do?)
Join for:
- Understanding the spiral of the Work That Reconnects and what it means to See with New and Ancient Eyes
- How to actually use astrology as a practice of perception and belonging
- How it can be explored in communal work, and on your own with examples for you to start with
- An impassioned nod to the way many of us are prevented in exploring these ways of reconnection and embodiment by the structural thrust of capitalism, and how I "afford" to run around looking for Saturn in the land
Mentioned or relevant:
Part one of this astrological interlude: This Ancient Language of Nature Has Much to Say About Our Time of Unravelling
Part two: Look,” said the Cosmos, “Everything Is Never Not Unfolding in a Dynamic Cycle of Life and Death”
My article: The Solar Return of the Work That Reconnects Network
Water Rising event: Astrology. Activism and the Work That Reconnects
I have a few lovely things happening in Aotearoa, Australia or online coming up in the next few months…head here for details and registration.
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WHAT A STUPENDOUS amount of links, are you serious?
Thank you so much for being with me today, you are the neon of lichen at high noon ☀️
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