Moonbeaming

Sarah Faith Gottesdiener

Moonbeaming is a show for the modern witch and magical critical thinker. Join your host Sarah Faith Gottesdiener as she discusses tarot, magic, the moon, creativity, healing, business, witchcraft, and more.

  • 1 hour 7 minutes
    Chronically Ill Friendships, the Power of Vulnerability, and the Gifts of Death with Brooke Manning, Poet and Death Doula

    How do you support a friend with a chronic illness? Do you have a chronic illness and are wondering how to create more support and transparency? In this episode, Sarah meets with close friend Brooke Manning to discuss the ingredients of a nurturing, long-lasting friendship. Brooke explores the crossover between death and friendships, and how both require vulnerability, curiosity, and acceptance. This conversation will help support you in navigating relationships and change.

    In this episode you’ll learn

    • How to authentically nurture your friendships
    • Ways to support chronically ill friends
    • How to identify your boundaries in friendships
    • What accepting death can gift us
    • How to begin a death practice

    If you want to invest in relationships and community more in 2025, while still taking care of yourself, and open to the gifts of change and endings, this intimate conversation is for you.

    We’ll be creating a special in-person event together in Los Angeles February 15th, sign up here.

    About Brooke: Based in Toronto, Brooke is a queer, polyamorous, polytheistic pagan, artist, musician, poet, clinical hypnotherapist and death doula. Brooke facilitates monthly death-positive workshops and is currently studying Psychotherapy at the Gestalt Institute of Toronto.

    Check out Brooke’s website here.

    Follow Brooke’s Instagram here.

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    22 January 2025, 11:00 am
  • 1 hour 14 minutes
    To the Omniaudience and Beyond with Laraaji

    How can laughter enhance our meditative practice? What can non-linear sensations teach us? How is minding our own business a spiritual practice? Today, we are joined by the one and only Laraaji to take a deep dive into the omniverse. Get ready to embrace the non-linear and understand the power of this moment!

    In this episode you’ll learn

    • How laughter can enhance your practice
    • What the non-linear can teach us about ourselves
    • How to find safety in the omniverse
    • Why minding your own business is spiritual

    Don’t miss out on this enlightening and joyful conversation.

    About Laraaji: Ambient experimental musician & Laughter Playshop Guide lives in Harlem NYC. Has recorded over 50 Solo and collab albums of original music for inspirational and healing listening since 1978. List includes Ambient #3 (Day of Radiance) produced by Brian Eno, Flow Goes the Universe, Vision Songs Vol 1, Unicorns in Paradise, Segue to Infinity. LARAAJI currently tours as a solo and collaborative musician/Laughter Playshop guide internationally. With a vision of deep listening sound baths and therapeutic laughter releasing.

    Check our Laraaji’s website here.

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    15 January 2025, 11:00 am
  • 1 hour 6 minutes
    The Shadows of the Hermit with Maria Minnis

    What are we discussing when we talk about the shadow? What are the shadows of the Hermit? What do you do when you get the Hermit reversed? We are joined to today by tarot scholar, author, and all-around genius Maria Minnis to discuss all things shadow Hermit. By the end of this episode, your mind will be blown, your practice will be enhanced, and you'll never think of the Hermit the same way again. 

    In this episode, you’ll learn

    • What the shadow is
    • What the Hermit reversed means, and what to do about it
    • What the Hermit's shadow can help us with

    This is a masterclass in the Tarot, and a don't miss episode. 

    About Maria: Maria Minnis is an unapologetically Black and queer tarot reader of 20+ years who teaches people about blending their spirituality with magic, liberation work, and eroticism in their everyday lives. She believes that the end result of all magic should be to cultivate a more equitable and empathetic planet. She lives in Los Angeles with her partner and their naked kitty. She is the author of Tarot for the Hard Work. Find Maria here and on Instagram here. 

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    8 January 2025, 11:00 am
  • 1 hour 18 minutes
    Our Hermit Year

    Are you ready for 2025? After this episode, you'll be! 

    In this episode, Sarah discusses the energetic signature of our archetype of the year: The Hermit. 

    In this episode, you’ll learn

    • The key meanings of the Hermit
    • Why we are in a "Hermit Year"
    • Ways to make the most of 2025

    For the very best outcome for 2025, use this episode as a primer, and then join us for the Hermit Workshop! 

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    1 January 2025, 11:00 am
  • 16 minutes 49 seconds
    Open Your Heart: A Meditation To Close Out the Year

    And just like that, the end of 2024 is upon us. Say goodbye to The Strength Year with a supportive practice.

    This week, Sarah leads a heart-opening and heart-strengthening meditation.

    Use it any time you need to connect to yourself, open your heart, clear your heart center, and strengthen your heart intuition.

    Thank you for a beautiful year, and we will see you soon in our January workshop series!

    MOON STUDIO WORKSHOP LINKS

    Our Hermit Year

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    January Jumpstart

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    25 December 2024, 11:00 am
  • 17 minutes 1 second
    The Gifts of the Dark: A Winter Solstice Special

    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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    January Jumpstart

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    18 December 2024, 11:00 am
  • 51 minutes 5 seconds
    Stop Repeating the Same Patterns Next Year: Welcoming in the Energies of 2025

    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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    Our Hermit Year

    Mystic Vision

    Future Self Workshop

    January Jumpstart

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    11 December 2024, 11:00 am
  • 36 minutes 39 seconds
    Get Prepared for Next Year: Avoid Manipulation and Burnout plus Practical Focus Tips

    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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    4 December 2024, 11:00 am
  • 1 hour 3 minutes
    How to Make Prolific Art: Becoming the Bridge, Communing with the Muse, and Tuning into Earth’s Rhythms with Poet Jacqueline Suskin

    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.

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    27 November 2024, 11:00 am
  • 33 minutes 39 seconds
    How To Use Your Spiritual Gifts: Sarah’s origin story

    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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    20 November 2024, 11:00 am
  • 30 minutes 28 seconds
    Thoughts on a future spirituality: Unlock Your True Nature, Creating Better Problems, and Having Fun (pt. 2)

    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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    13 November 2024, 11:00 am
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