Feeling daunted by the thought of shorter, darker days? Want to know how to embrace the magic of the solstice?

We’ve got you! Sarah is here to give you the tools to reflect on the year and encourage your practice. She shares her reflections on the power of the winter solstice and provides tips for getting back into your practice, incrementally, bit by bit, mirroring the sun’s incremental shift of light. Winter is the time to dream…

In this episode, you’ll learn

• How the Solstice can be worked with in your practice
• How darkness can be a gift
• Solstice ritual suggestions

It’s time to wrap up the year, and Sarah shows you how.

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Our Hermit Year

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Future Self Workshop

January Jumpstart

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Did you find yourself repeating old patterns this year? Feel like you didn’t achieve enough?

If you’re feeling ready to change for good, our host, Sarah, is primed to tell you how. Using Tarot archetypes as guides, Sarah poses transformative, reflective questions that lead to long-lasting change. With practical tools and suggestions, this episode will give you the insight to recognize how to elevate your spiritual practice and embrace the progress you have made on your journey so far.

In this episode you’ll learn:

• How to utilize Tarot archetypes
• How to know what problems are worth expanding your energy to solve
• What impact honesty can have on your relationship with yourself
• How to shift loneliness to solitude

Say goodbye to destructive cycles and welcome in the new year ready to thrive!

STRENGTH YEAR EPISODES

Listen to S6 E132 Our Strength Year

Listen to S6 E133 The Shadows of Strength With Theresa Reed

Listen to S6 E151 The Strength Card Demystified

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Do you need help to prioritize your practice? Are other people’s emotions getting the better of you?

In her first recording since the US election, Sarah shares her thoughts on preparing for the upcoming year and harnessing the courage to move forward. She highlights how to recognize the toxicity pervasive in mainstream culture and how to ensure you stay grounded amongst the noise. Learn how to control and effectively process your emotions at this heightened time could be just the ticket to avoid burnout…

In this episode, you’ll learn

• How to refine your energy
• How to nourish your life force
• When a conversation is a projection rather than a dialogue
• How to get back to focusing on personal dreams

If you’re ready to utilize your strength from this year and launch into the next prepared and grounded, this episode is for you!

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Do you want to make more art or dissolve your writer’s block? How do prolific artists find the time, energy, and passion to compose art? Have you wondered how to weave your creative practice and the natural world together?

In this Moonbeaming episode, host Sarah Faith Gottesdiener and Jacqueline Suskin, a poet who’s written over 40 thousand poems uncover Jacqueline’s creative process for on-demand poetry writing by way of improvisation, muses, and channeling energy.

In this episode you’ll learn:

• How to become the bridge to channel messages from the macro to the micro
• Life as practice through patience and observation
• How to tune into Earth’s rhythms and the impact of seasonal cycles of creative work
• Examples of how to create a simple ritual when receiving creative, intuitive gifts

If you want to renew inspiration and revive curiosity, translate energy transmission into creative projects and collaborate with Earth’s cycles, this episode is for you.

About Guest: Jacqueline Suskin is a poet and educator who has composed over forty thousand improvisational poems with her ongoing writing project, Poem Store. Suskin is the author of 8 books, including The Edge of The Continent Volumes 1-3, Help in the Dark Season, Every Day is a Poem, and A Year in Practice, with work featured in various publications including the New York Times, the Atlantic, and the Los Angeles Times. An ecstatic earth-worshiper, she lives in Detroit where she works as a teaching artist with InsideOut Literary Arts, bringing nature poetry into classrooms with her Poem Forest curriculum.

Jacqueline’s Links:

• Book: A Year in Practice
• Website
• Instagram

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Are you stuck in the sometimes confusing path of spirituality? Do you ask yourself, ‘Is this really for me?’ or ‘Am I required to share my spiritual gifts for a happier life?’

Hint: You don’t have to.

If you haven’t listened to part 1 and part 2 of this mini series, Thoughts on a Future Spirituality, go back and take a listen before jumping into this final part.

In this Moonbeaming episode, host Sarah Faith Gottesdiener gets personal and talks about her early reluctance to mysticism, tarot as a portal to her psychic abilities, and the path to understanding which of her spiritual gifts to keep close and which gifts thrive in broader community. This episode is packed with business tips for mystics, psychics, modern witches, and artists.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• The concept and practice of timeline weaving
• Energetic hygiene for highly sensitive and psychic people
• Consent for the utilization of spiritual gifts
• Advice for service-based businesses
• The value of lunar practices and archetypes in spiritual and healing work

If you’ve been on the fence about your spiritual path, want to utilize your gifts effectively, or need guidance and preparation on your mystical and creative profession, this episode is for you.

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Don’t you want better life lessons? Want to learn how to define your spirituality so you can live your life in the truest, magical way possible?

If you haven’t listened to part 1 of this mini series, Spirituality is not a self-improvement project, go back and take a listen before jumping into this one.

In this Moonbeaming episode, host Sarah Faith Gottesdiener shares how she defines spirituality and its core aspects: prioritization of the Spirit, the natural world, engagement with the truth, its paradoxical nature to the personal and the collective, and the deep connection to creativity.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• The importance of treating things as alive and worthy of acknowledgment
• How detachment and love can access the truth
• How personal vulnerabilities often reveal universal experiences
• How the Many Moons planner is an all-in-one, fun tool to support your spiritual engagement practices

If you’re looking for how to align with your true nature, to start shifting your perspective, and have fun with spirituality, this episode is for you!

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Are you an avid self-help consumer who’s always looking to improve yourself and do you question your life every few years? Have you been wondering if you’re truly in touch with your unique spirituality?

In this Moonbeaming episode, host Sarah Faith Gottesdiener introduces common subconscious scripts called The Three S’s of Colonialism: shame, scarcity, and separation, and how spirituality is often misconstrued as a self-improvement project when it’s actually quite different from wellness, self-help, or even religion. Curious?

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• How to release yourself from the co-dependency of self-development
• How to identify what you may need for trauma healing
• For practitioners: becoming more responsible on the language of spirituality, healing, and trauma

If you’re ready to discern what can actually support your ongoing healing and what spirituality genuinely offers, this episode is for you!

Moonbeaming listeners, save 40% this fall at www.quarto.com/campaign/witchcraft.

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Episodes mentioned:

You Are Not Going To Hell: A Conversation with Eryn Johnson about Healing with the Hierophant

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Do you get anxious about big planetary transits? Are you looking for cosmic allies during these times of collective transitions and transformations?

In this Moonbeaming episode, host Sarah Faith Gottesdiener invites Jeff Hinshaw of Cosmic Cousins to share some insight on something many of us are anticipating or curious about: Pluto entering Aquarius. What are the potential challenges of this transition and what does it offer to the collective consciousness?

Jeff discusses his favorite astrological support system: asteroids.

In this episode you’ll learn:

• How asteroids bring gender balance to the often patriarchal planetary system in astrology
• The details and nuances that asteroids represent and the 4 feminine archetypes
• Highlighting Pallas (asteroid) in Aquarius in 2025
• Big themes the collective consciousness may experience

If you want to acquire special knowledge on asteroids as a healing resource and need nurturing support during big, collective transformations, this episode is for you!

Moonbeaming listeners, save 40% this fall at www.quarto.com/campaign/witchcraft.

About Guest: Jeff Hinshaw is the founder of Cosmic Cousins: Soul-Centered Astrology and has made several contributions to the world of astrology. Exploring the intersection of astrology and spirituality, Jeff discusses the connections between astrology and other esoteric practices, such as tarot, psychology, meditation, and yoga. Some of Jeff’s deepest areas of interests, in which he has participated in extensive study and research, is connected to the Planetoids, including: Chiron, Eris, Black Moon Lilith, and the Asteroids. Jeff is captivated by these placements because they offer much needed vocabulary for incorporating more feminine, queer and gender-expansive archetypes into the astrological conversation.

More on Cosmic Cousins:

Cosmic Cousins Website

Instagram @cosmic.cousins

Cosmic Cousins Substack

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Do you feel like you’re different and don’t belong? Have you had different kinds of jobs or businesses or side hustles and still can’t find a good fit? Do you tend to seek external validation to see if you’re on the “right” path?

In this Moonbeaming episode, host Sarah Faith Gottesdiener invites Xenia Marie Ross Viray, an imagination healer and frequency artist, and they talk about what to do when you don’t feel like you belong, how to create your own language and opportunities, and simply, how to listen to your heart.

This week, you’ll learn:

• The use of imagination as a healing tool for psychological wounds
• Saturn’s supporting role in activating your dreams and creative processes
• Differences between visions and fantasies
• How self-acceptance unlocks all creativity

If you are insecure about not fitting in and want to create your own vision… this episode is for you.

Moonbeaming listeners, save 40% this fall at www.quarto.com/campaign/witchcraft.

About Our Guest

Xenia Marie Ross Viray (she/they) is an imagination healer, frequency artist, and creativity catalyst with a focus on experiential learning containers and writing. She is the eldest of three sisters, and her name means kindness to strangers. Born as a brick-and-mortar fashion business, Myths of Creation is a container for experiments, art, writing, and gatherings at the intersection of creativity, spirituality, and meaning-making. Xenia's offerings are designed to support spirited innovators bring their natural genius into form and include Create Your Cosmology, a course in authentic belief systems, Imaginal Temple, a creative mystical mentorship, the Garden of the Imaginal Substack, and an evolving cornucopia of courses, workshops, and 1:1 sessions which you can find at MythsofCreation.com and @mythsofcreation on IG.

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Has this year…been a year? Have you dealt with one curveball after another? Are you continuously trying to heal and recover from burnout because you feel it in your bones that you will?

Whether you’re sick, angry, or very exhausted: It’s. Not. Your. Fault.

In this Moonbeaming episode, host Sarah Faith Gottesdiener shares about long COVID and burnout, framing the Star as a card to help us with dark times. She challenges ableist notions in spirituality and shares how the Star card in Tarot offers itself as a symbol of hope, faith, and healing after being dealt with serious trials. The Star card is soul retrieval and this is a guide to recognize the process.

This week, you’ll learn:

• The importance of hope and faith as healing tools
• The three lines in Tarot explained through a Jungian lens
• What the "Sequence of Sight" is within the cards and how to use them
• Practical application of Star card energy

If you’ve been on a treadmill of unfortunate circumstances, difficult challenges, and want to apply healing through the Star Card’s guidance, this episode is for you!

Moonbeaming listeners, save 40% this fall at www.quarto.com/campaign/witchcraft.

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How do you re-enchant your world when there are constant, repetitive curveballs in your life? Do you seek to improve your life and wellbeing and let that vibrate out to the world?

First, if you haven’t listened to Part 1 yet, please go back and do so before you jump into this one.

In this Moonbeaming episode, host Sarah Faith Gottesdiener reflects on life challenges and highlights the necessity of tools and practices to remain connected to intuition. She emphasizes the importance of mindful creativity and enchantment in enriching and romancing life.

Sprinkle magic in your day-to-day and let it exponentially impact your life like a mycorrhizal network. The episode offers magical maxims, inspiring listeners to integrate intuition and magic into their lives and regain a sense of wonder and connection.

This week, you’ll learn:

• The signaling of what’s missing in your life and questions to ask yourself
• Silvia Federici’s work on Re-enchanting the World
• Foundational magical ideas to reinvigorate your daily life

If you’ve been exhausted, confused, needing change, and wondering how to re-enchant and romance your inner and outer world, this episode is for you.

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