The Earth is not waking up anymore—she’s alive. Buzzing. Blooming. A little feral, honestly.
This is the season of fire, fertility, creativity, and connection. The moment where what’s been quietly growing says, “Okay… now we live.”
In this episode, we talk Beltane as a threshold—where desire meets action,
where creation asks for courage,
and where life gets a little louder in the body.
We work with Rabbit medicine (soft, alert, wildly fertile) and explore what it means to step out of hiding
and into the open meadow of your own life.
No perfect ritual required. No pressure to get it “right.”
Just this question:
What in you is ready to live?
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Episode 101: April 2026 Astrology, Tarot + Earth Medicine
April is a turning point—a high-energy, action-driven month defined by a powerful Aries stellium that moves us out of reflection and into embodiment. If March asked you to dream, April asks:
What are you actually going to do about it?
This month, we explore the balance between bold initiation and sustainable growth, weaving together astrology, tarot, and earth medicine to help you move forward with intention, clarity, and resilience.
Astrology Highlights
April 1 — Full Moon in Libra
A relationship reset. Where are you out of balance, over-giving, or avoiding truth in your connections?April 9 — Mars enters Aries
Motivation, drive, and action return. This is “stop overthinking and start moving” energy.Mid-April — Mercury enters Aries
Communication gets direct, fast, and honest. Speak clearly—but maybe don’t burn every bridge.April 17 — New Moon in Aries
A powerful fresh start. Initiate something new, take the lead, and trust your instincts.April 19/20 — Sun enters Taurus
Grounding energy returns. Build, stabilize, and sustain what you’ve started.Late April — Uranus enters Gemini
A major collective shift in how we think, communicate, and understand reality. Innovation and new perspectives emerge.
Tarot of the Month — Three of Pentacles
This is the card of sacred work.
The Three of Pentacles reminds us that our creativity, our purpose, and our livelihood are not separate. This is about devotion to your craft, collaboration, and building something meaningful in the material world.
Your work matters. And you don’t have to do it alone.
Earth Medicine Allies
Carnelian — Creative Fire & Life Force
A stone of vitality, courage, and action. Carnelian activates your root, sacral, and solar plexus chakras—helping you move from idea into embodiment.
Medicine: Move. Create. Use your energy.
Date Palm — Resilience & Sacred Growth
An ancient tree of life that thrives in harsh environments while producing nourishment and sweetness.
Medicine: You can grow something meaningful even in difficult conditions.
Camel — Endurance & Resourcefulness
A master of survival and long-distance travel, camel teaches pacing, conservation, and trust in your inner reserves.
Medicine: This is a pilgrimage, not a sprint.
Themes of the Month
Initiation & bold action
Sacred work and aligned purpose
Sustainability vs burnout
Resourcefulness and resilience
Building something that lasts
Reflection Questions
What am I ready to start—even if it’s imperfect?
Where am I being asked to take the lead in my own life?
What am I building, and is it sustainable?
Where do I need to pace myself instead of pushing harder?
What resources do I already have that I’m not fully using?
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Episode 100: Vernal Equinox + Ostara: History + Spiritual Significance
welcome to ostara, little rabbits!
aka the moment where the sun says, “okay fine, we can have equal airtime…for now.”
the vernal equinox is a threshold. equal light, equal dark, and then from here on out? we rise. this is the season of soft beginnings, tiny green shoots, creative urges that won’t leave you alone. and that feeling of “okay…I think I’m ready.” not fully ready, not perfectly ready—just…ready enough.
across cultures, this time of year has always been about rebirth. easter. passover. holi. ostara. different stories, same truth: life is coming back and so are you. your job right now isn’t to have it all figured out. your job is to plant something, start something, say yes to something, even if it scares you, especially if it scares you, because rabbit medicine doesn’t wait for fear to disappear. rabbit says, “move anyway.”
New podcast episode is live - Episode 100: the Vernal Equinox & Equinox: History & Spiritual Significance
go listen, go journal, go touch some grass (literally) and maybe…bury an egg with your intentions like the magical little weirdo you are 🥚.
Episode 99: March 2026 Astrology Forecast: Virgo Lunar Eclipse, Temperance Tarot & Spring Earth Medicine
This month walks in like a lion and leaves like a lamb — and somewhere in between, we get edited by the astrology.
March opens in Pisces fog. Mars moves into Pisces. Mercury is retrograde. Venus finishes her swim through emotional waters. Motivation feels tidal instead of tactical.
Less productivity theater. More nervous system attunement.
And then on March 3rd, the sky sharpens. A Total Lunar Eclipse in Virgo rises — and this one matters.
This eclipse is part of the Pisces/Virgo nodal cycle we’ve been living since 2024 — a two-and-a-half-year initiation around faith and function. Spirit and systems. Surrender and discernment.
Virgo doesn’t destroy. She edits. And this one, friends, is a sacred edit.
Over-functioning. Perfectionism. Trying to earn peace through productivity. This eclipse may reveal where you’ve been holding everything together alone — and gently remind you that you don’t have to.
As the month unfolds, heat returns (Venus in Aries), momentum builds (Jupiter direct in Cancer), and the Aries Equinox ignites the astrological New Year.
Tarot for March is Temperance — the angel pouring between cups without spilling. Balance in motion. Integration after transformation.
And our Earth Medicine allies support this recalibration:
Iris — blooming after winter, reclaiming your voice
Larimar — fire cooled by water, regulated calm
Great Blue Heron — measured stillness, sovereignty, liminal wisdom
March begins in fog, sharpens through release, reignites at the equinox, and then settles into embodied strength.
You don’t have to carry all of it anymore.
Listen to the full March Astrology, Tarot & Earth Medicine forecast here: CENTERED ON SPOTIFY
Episode 98: Lent, Ramadan, and the Spiritual Significance of Fasting
Why do so many religions fast?
Fasting is one of those practices that refuses to stay in a single box. It’s biological. It’s psychological. It’s political. It’s mystical. It’s communal. It’s deeply personal. It is both ancient and suddenly trendy with the biohack bros who have a podcast mic and hype protein shakes.
What happens when we choose hunger on purpose?
Across deserts and monasteries, temples and kitchens before dawn, human beings have stepped into emptiness — not because suffering is holy, but because hunger tells the truth.
In this episode, I wander through Lent and Easter, Ramadan and Eid, Yom Kippur and teshuvah, Hindu vrata, Jain purification, Buddhist simplicity, and even the Stoics who practiced voluntary discomfort. The theologies are different. The claims are not interchangeable. But the pattern hums beneath them all.
Fasting humbles the body. It clarifies desire. It strips away distraction. It reminds us we are not self-sustaining.
In ancient agricultural worlds where famine was never far away, fasting ritualized dependence. In our modern world of constant availability, it interrupts excess. Either way, hunger becomes a teacher.
This is not a diet episode. This is not detox culture.
This is about repentance and return, about submission and surrender, about resurrection and repair, and about learning what truly sustains us.
Because every fast eventually ends the same way:
With a table. In community. Steeped in gratitude.
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Episode 97: The history and lore of Imbolc: a stirring of the seeds
Imbolc arrives as a whisper between worlds — a quiet hinge between the deepest dark of winter and the first subtle return of light. Though the land may still be covered in snow, life is stirring beneath the surface. In this episode of the podcast, we explore the ancient roots of Imbolc, the layered meanings of ewe’s milk and “in the belly of the Mother,” the mythology of Brigid, and how this season invites us into gentle preparation, purification, and tending the seeds we’ve planted. If you’ve been feeling something quietly shifting inside you, this episode is for you.
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Episode 96: Astrology, Tarot, + Earth Medicine for February 2026
February feels like a doorway. With Neptune and Saturn activating Aries, eclipse season opening, and the Year of the Fire Horse igniting forward momentum, we’re being invited into a braver relationship with becoming. In this month’s astrology, tarot, and earth medicine reading, I explore the deeper collective cycles shaping February 2026, alongside the Tarot archetype of The Moon and the medicine of Moonflower, Selenite, and Wolf. This episode is an invitation into conscious self-awareness, shadow integration, courageous participation in your life, and remembering that none of this requires perfection—only presence, honesty, and the willingness to take the next true step.
Episode 95: Astrological Forecast for January 2026
January is a threshold and a transitional month from a 9 year to a 1 year. It shows up like that friend who loves you enough to say, “Okay… holidays are over. What are we actually doing here?” Capricorn has entered the chat, the Hermit is standing at the threshold with his lantern, and Raven is perched nearby whispering, “Pay attention.”
In this episode, we walk right into the grown-up end of the pool: astrology, tarot archetypes, earth medicine, and humor — because otherwise the existential dread gets bossy.
We explore Capricorn season as devotion, not punishment — the slow climb, the long game — while Cancer’s Full Moon asks whether your heart is fed, not just your to-do list. We track big transits like Venus shifting into Aquarius, the New Moon in Capricorn, Mercury and Mars electrifying Aquarius, and the cosmic mic-drop: Neptune stepping into Aries and putting boots on our dreams.
Then we turn the lantern toward the deeper mythology of the Hermit — not isolation, but initiation. Not running away, but stepping back far enough to hear yourself again. From there, earth medicine arrives as the council:
Quaking Aspen teaching the truth of interconnectedness.
Lapis Lazuli calling us into honesty, vision, and ethical awareness.
Raven carrying voice, mystery, and threshold magic.
Together, they remind us how to carry our own light without abandoning ourselves — and how to return from solitude with something real to offer.
This month is refinement, integration, and holy practicality. Less confetti cannon, more “find the boots you can actually walk in.”
If you’ve been craving structure with soul, truth without cruelty, and spiritual work that survives contact with real life, this episode is your winter lantern.
Episode 94: 2026 Archetypes-the Wheel of Fortune, the Magician + the Fire Horse
Happy New Year, friends!
It’s Angelica — your friendly neighborhood bruja, omen translator, and occasionally the woman staring at cards in the corner saying, “Huh… that’s interesting.”
Every year around this time, I like to step back and ask:
What stories are we walking into together?
Not predictions.
Not doom.
More like: archetypal weather.
In this week’s podcast, I’m exploring 2026 through three symbolic lenses that have been talking to each other in really beautiful ways:
the Tarot cards of the year
the Chinese zodiac’s Fire Horse
and Horse in the South from the shamanic medicine wheel I work with
Before we get mystical: none of this is fortune-telling. These are metaphors — ways of paying attention.
The Tarot of the Year
For 2026, we’re working with The Wheel of Fortune and The Magician.
The Wheel reminds us that change is not personal punishment. Life turns. Seasons shift. Doors open and close. Control is… well, overrated.
The Magician stands beside the Wheel and asks:
Okay — given what is, what can I create? What tools do I have? What can I do with integrity and intention?
We’re not passengers. But we’re also not the pilot of reality. We’re collaborators.
Enter: The Fire Horse
Then we add another archetype in the mix: 2026 is the Year of the Fire Horse.
I’m not teaching Chinese astrology here — I’m honoring it as symbolic language.
Horse is movement, boldness, independence, momentum. Fire adds creativity, courage, heat… and sometimes impatience.
Historically, Fire Horse has had a complicated (and honestly, patriarchal) reputation, especially regarding strong-willed girls and women. So we reclaim it differently:
Fire Horse is life-force that refuses to shrink.
And that, to me, is holy.
Horse in the South
In the shamanic framework I was taught, Horse lives in the South — the direction of Fire.
South is creativity. South is transformation. South is the power that moves through us — not the power we hoard.
Horse carries prayers. Horse carries messages. Horse carries energy between worlds.
Put all of this together and 2026 doesn’t feel chaotic.
It feels like a year where power wants to move — and where our work is learning how to carry it wisely.
Not burnout. Not martyrdom. Not control-freakery.
Steady, sovereign, creative fire.
In the episode, I share reflections, some humor, and practical ways to ride this energy instead of getting dragged behind it.
We talk pacing, ritual, creativity, nervous systems, and — importantly — how not to set everything on metaphorical fire.
Click to listen: 2026 Archetypes
I also created some intersectional Journal Prompts and a Tarot Layout. (yes, it is shaped like a horseshoe for you!)
And as always, I’d love to hear what you’re noticing, dreaming, and working with. Comment on the blog or hit reply and tell me what’s moving for you.
With candles lit and horses unbridled — but gently,
Angelica
winter solstice + capricorn season
The Winter Solstice arrives like a held breath. The longest night. The quiet hinge of the year. A sacred pause before the light begins its slow return. 🌑✨
This is not a moment for forcing clarity or pushing forward. This is the threshold—where rest is medicine, darkness is fertile, and intention is planted beneath the surface.
For this Solstice, I’m sharing a Winter Solstice Tarot Spread designed to help you:
Release what the dark is composting
Name what wants to be carried into the light
Listen for the wisdom that only shows up when we slow all the way down
I also dropped a re-post podcast episode exploring the history, symbolism, and soul-level meaning of the Winter Solstice—across pagan and Christian traditions, the Wheel of the Year, and the quieter inner rituals we all perform when the year turns.
No hustle magic.
No glow-up pressure.
Just fire, shadow, and the slow return of hope.
It’s also CAPRICORN SEASON, WITCHES!
welcome to capricorn season, beloved overachievers. please take a number. then sit down. preferably.
It’s Capricorn Season — the time of year when everyone suddenly becomes aware of deadlines, bank accounts, bones, and the crushing realization that rest feels rebellious. The vibes are serious-but-sarcastic, the energy is competent yet depleted, and Saturn is here asking why you’re tired while fully knowing he is the reason.
As a Capricorn, I feel qualified to say this: we are so tired, like, ancestrally tired.
This is the season of ambition, responsibility, emotional restraint, and carrying way too much because “someone has to.” Capricorn energy wakes up exhausted, makes a plan anyway, and then resents everyone who seems to be having fun without a spreadsheet. That’s because we are convinced we built it, and nothing was manifested for us.
Capricorn doesn’t run wild.
She builds systems.
Then she maintains them.
We are talking:
• chronic over-functioning
• productivity as a personality trait
• rest that must be earned (spoiler: it doesn’t)
• humor so dry it’s basically a survival strategy
Capricorn season is peak “I’ll rest after this one last thing,” which is a lie we tell ourselves every year, and every year Saturn nods like, yes… one more thing.
And yet—here’s the twist nobody tells you about Capricorn: this sign is not about grind culture. It’s about sustainability.
Capricorn rules bones, time, and long-term vision. She knows burnout isn’t noble and exhaustion isn’t a flex. The lesson isn’t to work harder—it’s to build a life that doesn’t require you to constantly prove your worth through suffering.
So this season asks us: Where have I confused discipline with self-punishment? What if rest is part of the plan, not the reward? What if doing less is actually the most responsible choice?
Capricorn season is permission to stop romanticizing burnout, put the clipboard down, and take a nap like it’s a strategic decision (because it is).
I’ll be sharing Capricorn correspondences, astrology, and painfully accurate memes.
Rest is productive.
Boundaries are sexy.
You don’t need to earn your worth.
Enjoy these Capricorn Season memes while we all lie down “just for a minute” and accidentally have a spiritual breakthrough.
Episode 92: Astrological Forecast and Earth Medicine for December 2025
December is here, and it feels like a crossroads wrapped in a winter blanket. This month brings us right to the bendings of the lunar nodes—the karmic pivot points—where the universe asks us to pause, breathe, and decide what we truly believe. And at the very same time, Earth Medicine invites us to crawl into the cave, curl into our own ribs, and let the year settle into our bones.
It’s a potent mix of crossroads + hibernation, truth-telling + sacred rest. And honestly? That feels exactly right for the closing chapter of 2025.
In this month’s Centered Podcast, I walk you through the big astrology of December:
✨ the Gemini Full Moon that clarifies the story
✨ Neptune’s final station in Pisces (yes, the end of an era)
✨ the Sagittarius New Moon and what wants to be born
✨ Solstice + the Sun entering Capricorn
✨ Jupiter square Chiron and the questions it stirs
✨ Mars moving into Capricorn, where it finally finds clean direction
This is the month where dream meets reality, where intuition meets discernment, where surrender meets structure.
And alongside the astrology, we explore December’s Earth Medicine allies:
🐻 Bear, who teaches us to honor our cycles and trust the cave
💎 Blue Topaz, the stone of gentle, honest clarity
🌼 Narcissus, the winter bloom of self-recognition and soul-truth
❄️ Owning where you are, without shame or rush
🌙 Hibernation + sacred rest, as the most ancient form of preparation
December is not subtle.
It asks you to inventory the year with tenderness, to name what’s dissolving and what’s ready to be built, and to let yourself rest enough to hear the next true step.
If you're craving a quieter rhythm, if you're on the edge of a decision, or if you're simply exhausted from holding too much for too long—this episode is for you.
Listen to the full December Earth Medicine & Astrology episode here:
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I’ll be offering 12 days of magical, limited-edition, ritual-infused offerings — everything from tarot to crystals to mini altars to grief medicine to sacred art. This is my version of an advent calendar for witches, mystics, intuitives, healers, grief-walkers, and anyone craving beauty + meaning at the end of the year.
Each day, I’ll be releasing one-day-only offerings that weave together everything I love:
tarot
earth medicine
crystals
ritual
grief healing
art
shadow work
energy healing
Expect:
The 2026 Moon + Stone Healing Calendar
Portable altars
Mystery tarot envelopes
Reiki
Solstice rituals
Crystal mystery bags
Shadow work tools
Grief medicine
Sacred art
Digital tarot goodies
Day 1 is still on until 12pm, and I am offering my beautiful Angie-designed Desktop Calendars with Tarot, Earth Medicine and affirmation for the month. A little irreverent and cheeky, but insightful and beautiful. Check out the offering right here:
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Episode 91: on grief, gratitude and the holy scream
This week, I’m returning to the writings that shaped the earliest years of my healing after my daughter Lucia’s stillbirth in 2008. These three essays — one on the holy clearing power of the scream, one on the deep and complicated dance of gratitude during suffering, and one on the Buddhist tonglen practice — map my journey through grief, spiritual awakening, sobriety, and self-compassion.
These pieces were written from the raw center of my heart:
when I was newly grieving,
newly sober,
newly trying to exist inside a body again,
newly understanding what compassion actually means.
In this episode, I read:
1. “Scream, Baby” — written two years after my son Zachary’s birth and his time in the NICU, exploring pain, primal release, and the scream as an act of healing.
2. “Gratitude” — an essay confronting spiritual bypassing, toxic positivity, and what gratitude looks like when you’re grieving, not in spite of grief.
3. “Tonglen: A Meditation for When You’re in the Weeds” — a compassionate, trauma-informed exploration of the Buddhist practice that helped me breathe inside my pain instead of trying to outrun it.
Here is a brief (2 minute) meditation for those moments after you scream or when you feel stuck.
Here is a brief (4 minute) tonglen practice meditation:
If you’re grieving, healing, overwhelmed, or simply human — this episode is for you.
Here are some essential tonglen resources by Pema Chödrön:
Good Medicine: How to Turn Pain Into Compassion with Tonglen Meditation
Additional Articles & Teachings on Tonglen
“Good Medicine For This World” – an article on Lion’s Roar that explores how Pema Chödrön and Alice Walker talk about tonglen. Lion’s Roar
“Tonglen: The Path of Transformation” by Pema Chödrön (via Nalanda Translation) – a practical guide for the practice. Nālandā Translation Committee
Wikipedia summary on tonglen’s origins, practice, and context. Wikipedia
Additional Writings on Tonglen
Training the Mind: & Cultivating Loving-Kindness Chögyam Trungpa
Bodhichitta: Practice for a Meaningful Life by Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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Episode 90: Astrology + Earth Medicine for November 2025
Welcome to November, my loves. We’re deep in Scorpio season — the time of year when the veil thins, the shadows stir, and transformation stops being an abstract concept and becomes something we actually feel in our bones. This month’s astrology isn’t here to make us comfortable; it’s here to make us real.
In this episode, we walk together through the cosmic landscape of November 2025, guided by the intensity of Scorpio and the wild optimism of Sagittarius. From the Taurus Full Moon that grounds us in our bodies to the Scorpio New Moon that strips us down to our truth, this month’s energy teaches us how to compost fear into courage, endings into beginnings.
We’ll unpack the big transits and explore what they mean for our collective healing. It’s a month of revelations, boundary work, and bold leaps of faith. Then, we turn to our Earth Medicine for November — Peony, Citrine, and Octopus — each offering its own kind of magic for this rebirth season. Together, they hold the energy of this month’s theme: Grab it while you can.
If Scorpio asks what must die, Sagittarius asks what you’ll do with the life that’s left. This episode is your permission slip to let go, trust your timing, and take the opportunities the Universe places in front of you — even if they scare you a little. Especially if they scare you a little.
🎧 Listen to this episode of Centered on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you find your cosmic medicine. Or listen right here on my website (see below)
💛 Follow along on Instagram @themoonandstone for Earth Medicine updates and daily astrology insights.
Episode 89: Re-post The History of Samhain, Halloween & the Days of the Dead
We’re going back to the roots of spooky season, my pretties. This re-post dives into the ancient fire festival of Samhain and how it shapeshifted into our modern celebration of Halloween. From Celtic bonfires to trick-or-treating, saints to spirits, and mummers to masks, we’ll explore how humans across the world honor their dead when the veil grows thin.
This one’s a listener favorite, so light a candle, pour a little cider for your ancestors, and let’s walk together between worlds.
#Samhain #HalloweenHistory #WheeloftheYear #PaganTraditions #HonoringtheDead #SpookySeason
Some sources:
How the Early Catholic Church Christianized Halloween by Patrick Kiger
The Pagan Mysteries of Halloween. JeanMarkale.Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween. LisaMorton.The History of HalloweenWhat's the Deal with Halloween? Everything Everywhere.
The Origins of Trick or Treating History Channel.The History of Mummers.
Interested in being in circle with me, honoring the dead on Samhain?
I am hosting a distance ancestors cacao ceremony and guided shamanic journey. Connect with the ancestors and find healing in your ancestral line. It is a wonderful way to start doing the work of healing and honoring the agrarian calendar.
Episode 88: Earth Medicine + Astrology for October 2025 with Angie
Episode 87: Astrology + Earth Medicine for September 2025
Centered Episode 85: August's Astrology + Earth Medicine with Angie
In this episode, Angie—your cruise director through the cosmos and lover of lion-hearted wisdom—guides us through the astrology of August 2025, a month pulsing with retrogrades, portals, and a quiet kind of transformation.
With Mercury, Saturn, Neptune, Pluto, and Chiron all retrograde, the skies are asking us to slow down, look inward, and do the sacred work of integration. We're not meant to push forward this month—we’re meant to listen to the rumblings beneath the surface.
We explore the Lion’s Gate on 8/8, a potent spiritual portal of renewal and soul alignment, followed by an emotionally clarifying Aquarius Full Moon on 8/9. Mercury stations direct on 8/11, Venus conjoins Jupiter in Cancer, and by mid-month we’re pivoting toward Virgo’s grounded energy with a deeply healing New Moon at 0° Virgo on 8/23—our official threshold into Eclipse Season.
Alongside the cosmic currents, we’re held by earth medicine:
Sunflower teaches us to follow the light, even when it's hidden—and to lean toward each other when we can't find it on our own.
Mountain Lion offers courage, presence, and sovereignty, especially in moments when we feel uncertain or unseen.
Peridot brings heart-cleansing, solar plexus-strengthening clarity—reminding us we don’t have to carry what’s not ours.
This month is about emotional recalibration, intuitive trust, and preparing the soil for the eclipses to come. Grab your peridot, light a candle for your inner mountain lion, and meet us in the sunflower field between fire and stillness.
