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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.
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In Our Nature
“Look,” said the Cosmos, “Everything Is Never Not Unfolding in a Dynamic Cycle of Life and Death”
This is part two of our short interlude exploring the archetypical language of astrology in the context of our time of extraordinary planteraty 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
Today we’re seeing what astrology can show us about the Three Stories of Our Time as framed by the late, great Joanna Macy and the Work That Reconnects.
Join me for a quickie on:
- Why “Business as Usual” is the fundamental denial of cycles…and why astrology doesn’t let us get away with that
- How astrology shows the Great Unravelling as natural, painful, and utterly unavoidable
- And what about the Great Turning already?
- How astrology and the Spiral of the Work That Reconnects both remind us (over and over and over again) that life is nourished and fed by a spiral of expansion, contratction, death and rebirth
- Er yay to all that?
Mentioned or relevant:
Part one of this astrological interlude: This Ancient Language of Nature Has Much to Say About Our Time of Unravelling
Richard Tarnas, author of the mind-bogging Cosmos & Psyche
My article: The Solar Return of the Work That Reconnects Network
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