Awaken and Align

Laura Chung

Awaken and align the podcast provides you with guidance and support to help you awaken and align to your truth. Laura Chung, the host, realized through her own journey that living the life of your dreams means living in alignment with your highest self and activating your limitless potential.

  • 16 minutes 28 seconds
    Cha with Laura and Leah

    Welcome to 차 with Laura and Leah! Cha is a podcast and video series featuring conversations with our friends over tea. We are two diasporic Korean women who were inspired by Nina Simone's quote, “An artist’s duty is to reflect the times.” Cha is our offering to the collective and we hope our conversations inspire you to start having meaningful dialogues and reflections with your own communities. So make sure to brew a pot of cha and join our conversations about art, spirituality, culture, and liberation. 

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    17 April 2025, 1:52 pm
  • 48 minutes 40 seconds
    Cha with Naley by Nature

    Our first guest on Cha is our friend, Naley by Nature. Naley is the founder of NaleybyNature, an independent project to document stories from different corners of the world. She is a filmmaker, producer, and writer and is currently working on bringing greater awareness of the Palestinian genocide to Western audiences. Born and raised in New York, Naley studied media and journalism at Iona College. With the rise in social media, Naley was drawn to all the perspectives traditional media fails to report on. During the pandemic, Naley and her co-founder, Sadia, quit their jobs and started traveling the world to create their documentary.

    Welcome to 차 with Laura and Leah! Cha is a podcast and video series featuring conversations with our friends over tea. We are two diasporic Korean women who were inspired by Nina Simone's quote, “An artist’s duty is to reflect the times.” Cha is our offering to the collective and we hope our conversations inspire you to start having meaningful dialogues and reflections with your own communities. So make sure to brew a pot of cha and join our conversations about art, spirituality, culture, and liberation. 

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    16 April 2025, 10:00 am
  • 1 hour 22 minutes
    Episode 234: April Astrology Forecast 2025

    We begin the episode with a recap of the March transits that correlated with some big news stories. Stephanie and I recap some of the predictions we got right. Make sure to have your pen and calendar ready to mark down some dates. We cover the major transits of April 2025, which include the end of the Venus and Mercury retrogrades, Mars finally leaving the sign of Cancer, and so much more. Happy solar return to the Aries and Taurus babies!

    ⏰ Timestamps ⏰

    • March Recap 0:00
    • April Forecast 20:23

    Show Notes:

    Connect with Awaken and Align:

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    1 April 2025, 10:00 am
  • 58 minutes 33 seconds
    Episode 233: 2025 Year Of The Wood Snake With Forest Lin

    Forest Lin (they/them) is a queer 1.5-generation Taiwanese-American kinesthetic artist, Asian diaspora community organizer, and BaZi Chinese astrology practitioner based in Ohlone territory (Oakland). As a "Dragon meets Goat" Mycelium connector, they cultivate spaces for deeper embodiment, authentic expression, and ancestral healing.

    Through 1:1 BaZi consultations, Forest helps individuals uncover their potential and align with their deeper calling. They honor their teacher, Meng Yu of Tiger Eye Astrology, and their Mycelium Network kin for shaping their vision. In the Wood Snake year, Forest is especially eager to see their budding healing collective, @qiki.club, grow—we provide free/donation based acupuncture pop-up clinics for those who need to restore, rest, build, resist, and withstand the current movements of today’s world.

    During this Snake year, forest will be offering sliding scale BaZi sessions $120-250 and commit to moving 20% to QiKi Club - to sustain movement organizers and provide healing support to those who need it the most.

    ⏰ Timestamps ⏰

    • 1:22 When it's your animal year
    • 2:25 BaZi Chart
    • 3:04 Yang Wood Dragon Year
    • 4:49 Yin Wood Snake Year
    • 7:19 Forest's own transformation
    • 10:42 Yin wood
    • 13:55 Snake year
    • 26:00 Snake shadow side
    • 28:30 The invitation of a snake year
    • 31:17 The snake is the mystic
    • 40:10 Talking about $ with the community 
    • 48:29 Animal compatability with snake
    • 52:03 Forest's advice
    • 57:00 How to work with Forest

    Show Notes:

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    12 March 2025, 11:00 am
  • 1 hour 25 minutes
    Episode 232: March Astrology Forecast 2025

    Buckle up buttercup because March is the month of chacha changes! We begin the episode with a recap of the February transits that correlated with some big news stories. Stephanie and I recap some of the predictions we got right. Make sure to have your pen and calendar ready to mark down some dates. We cover the major transits of March 2025 which feature eclipses, Venus and Mercury retrogrades, and Neptune's ingress in Aries. March is the most pivotal month of 2025 so we wish you ease into the astrological New Year. 

    ⏰ Timestamps ⏰

    • 0:00 February Recap 

    • 8:19 March Astrology Forecast 

    Show Notes:

    Connect with Awaken and Align:

    • If you enjoyed the podcast and you feel called, please share it, and tag me!
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    • Let me know your favorite guests, lessons, or any topic requests.
    1 March 2025, 1:00 pm
  • 1 hour 45 minutes
    Episode 231: Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni Synastry Part 2

    Wear your florals! We are excited to bring you Part 2 of the Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni, Et al. saga. In today's episode, I am joined by Pop Astrologist Tasha Beg to continue the conversation about the natal charts of Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni, Ryan Reynolds, and Colleen Hoover. We talk about the transits and their synastry as it pertains to their lawsuits. Part 1 was filmed on January 3, 2025 and released on January 15, 2025. We have a debrief of all the events that have transpired during the months of January and February 2025 as they correlate to the astrological transits. 

    Show Notes:

    Connect with Awaken and Align:

    • If you enjoyed the podcast and you feel called, please share it, and tag me!
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    26 February 2025, 2:11 pm
  • 2 hours 26 minutes
    Episode 230: Astrology Forecast For 2025-All Zodiac Signs Part 2

    Thank you all for being so patient with me as I took my time and then I had some health issues in January 😥 I hope you all have a healthy, wealthy, and love-filled 2025. Part 2 is for the following rising signs: Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, & Pisces.

    ⏰ Timestamps ⏰

    • 0:00 Libra
    • 29:43 Scorpio
    • 56:49 Sagittarius
    • 1:21:02 Capricorn
    • 1:46:35 Aquarius
    • 2:09:19 Pisces

    Show Notes:

    Connect with Awaken and Align:

    • If you enjoyed the podcast and you feel called, please share it, and tag me!
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    19 February 2025, 11:00 am
  • 3 hours 21 minutes
    Episode 229: Astrology Forecast For 2025-All Zodiac Signs Part 1

    Thank you all for being so patient with me as I took my time and then I had some health issues in January 😥 I hope you all have a healthy, wealthy, and love-filled 2025. Part 1 is for the following rising signs: Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, and Virgo.

    ⏰ Timestamps ⏰

    • 0:00 Intro
    • 34:55 Aries
    • 53:57 Taurus
    •  1:31:09 Gemini
    • 2:02:26 Cancer
    • 2:27:34 Leo
    • 2:57:38 Virgo

    Show Notes:

    Connect with Awaken and Align:

    • If you enjoyed the podcast and you feel called, please share it, and tag me!
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    19 February 2025, 11:00 am
  • 1 hour 19 minutes
    Episode 228: Astrological Midlife Transits Part 2 With Dr Nicole Truesdell

    This is Part 2 of our Astrological Midlife Transits Stories. Are you going through a midlife crisis or are you going through your astrological middle-age transits? This episode is in collaboration with Dr Nicole Truesdell, the host of the Abolitionist Dreamscapes podcast. We share our experiences of these midlife transits as two 40 something women of color going through the thick of it. Your midlife years (36-45) can be some of the most triggering yet transformational times of your life if you surrender to the journey. During these midlife years, the outer planets which are generational planets, activate you to look deeper into yourself and to break free of the status quo. This begs the question, is it only the youth that will save us or awakened mid-lifers as well? 

    Part 1

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh1y-0K5G5M&t=5s

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    13 February 2025, 8:51 pm
  • 1 hour 6 minutes
    Episode 227: February Astrology Forecast 2025

    Hello beautiful souls and Happy Lunar New Year! We begin the episode with a recap of the January transits that correlated with some big news stories. Stephanie and I recap some of the predictions we got right. Make sure to have your pen and calendar ready to mark down some dates. We cover the major transits of February 2025. May you have a healthy, wealthy, and prosperous New Year of the Snake!

    ⏰ Timestamps ⏰

    • 0:00 January Recap 

    • 16:03 February Astrology Forecast 

    Show Notes:

    Connect with Awaken and Align:

    • If you enjoyed the podcast and you feel called, please share it, and tag me!
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    2 February 2025, 4:16 pm
  • 1 hour 19 minutes
    Episode 226: Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni Synastry

    Hello beautiful souls! The interview style podcasts are coming back. In today's episode, I am joined by pop astrologist Tasha Beg to talk about the natal charts of Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni. We talk about the transits and their synastry as it pertains to their lawsuits. We also take a peep at Ryan Reynolds' chart since he is married to Blake Lively and is now a part of the lawsuits. As astrologers, would we recommend that they work together just based on their synastry? 

    Show Notes:

    Connect with Awaken and Align:

    • If you enjoyed the podcast and you feel called, please share it, and tag me!
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    • Let me know your favorite guests, lessons, or any topic requests.
    15 January 2025, 4:12 pm
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