Bought your first tarot deck and don’t know where to begin? Booked a reading with your favorite astrologer and not sure what to ask? In this special episode, I break down the key elements in opening up and asking for guidance, be it from cards, star charts or any mode of divination. I talk about setting intentions, rituals for before and after a reading, and getting to know your guides (think: inner children, future selves, ancestors, angels, past lives, higher powers and gods) and framing your questions.

And if you’re giving a reading, or receiving one, what should you look out for? I share some of my personal detectors for calling out bullshit in a reading, and for asking the right questions. I share some of my favorite tarot spreads, along with books that changed the way I practice, including Mary Greer’s Tarot Reversals, Alejandro Jodorowsky’s The Way of the Tarot, and Rachel Pollack’s Seventy Eight Degrees of Wisdom. Whether you’re looking to read yourself or your friends, my intention is to provide you with the inspiration to develop your own practice.

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What can the planets tell us about our awakening age of artificial intelligence? Quite a bit, as it happens. In 2023, Pluto, the planet of the underworld, death and fate, entered Aquarius, the sign of technology and new ideas. Only two years into a two-decade Aquarius residency, Pluto has unleashed the dark god of AI, and revealed the cynicism and one-size-fits-all dehumanization at the heart of big tech. Must it end here? What are our choices, beyond strapping into patent leather and doing high kicks, like Carrie-Anne Moss in The Matrix?

To make sense of the future, I pull an opening card: Judgment, which gives us insight into fate, calling, and awakening. What is our individual assignment in this harrowing new chapter? I talk about Pluto’s previous editions, namely in Scorpio (think: the AIDS Crisis in the 1980s and early 1990s) and in Capricorn (flash to the 2008 financial crisis and its aftermath). Devastating periods, which did, at great cost, inspire new modes of activism and consciousness. If the heroes of the ACT UP generation can teach us anything, it’s how to face an impossible enemy.

As for the present? I talk about the final season of The Comeback, and invoke Lisa Kudrow’s Valerie Cherish as a messiah of optimism and originality in an age of pre-arranged playlists and human isolation. We dig into Pluto’s possibilities for reinvention, and for Aquarius’ high aspects of idealism, inventiveness and originality. It ain’t over ‘til it’s over.

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What if collapse isn't a crisis, but an initiation?

Beltane, or May Day, marks the peak of Taurus season: fire, fertility, flowers, libido, and the solar god Bel. But this year, a powerful Scorpio full moon pulls us into the underworld, and this week's tarot card is The Tower.

Most people fear The Tower. I don't.

The Tower is necessary destruction. Beltane is creative life force. Together, they're teaching us that renewal requires rupture.

In this episode:

• The true meaning of Beltane and May Day in pagan spirituality
• Taurus season, embodied pleasure, and the Horned God
• The Scorpio full moon and underworld truth-telling
• The Tower tarot: collapse, awakening, rebirth
• The Goddess, the divine masculine, and healing beyond patriarchy
• Persephone and Pluto: death, sex, transformation
• Taurus–Scorpio polarity: body vs. shadow, stability vs. surrender
• Why real optimism is a radical act

Whether you're here for Beltane rituals, Taurus season astrology, Scorpio full moon energy, The Tower tarot card, or divine masculine healing, you're in the right place.

The Tower falls. The flowers bloom. We build again, consciously.

🔥 Like, subscribe, and drop a comment: What is falling away in your life right now?

Happy Beltane. Go light a fire. 🌸🔥

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On April 19, Taurus season launches the spring into its peak, and the gravitas of the bull inspires embodiment and enthusiasm. I introduce us to the themes of my birth sign by pulling its corresponding tarot card, the Hierophant, which commands us to bring the divine down to earth, and to set the terms for our power in our day-to-day lives. The themes of Taureanism are solidity, sensuality, and simplicity.

With a full moon in Scorpio on May 1st (the pagan holiday of Beltane), a new moon in Taurus on May 16, and planets like Uranus and Venus entering Gemini, it’s a season of lightning downloads and powerful debuts. As the noise of the world continues to rage, the planets challenge you to stand your ground and stick to actual, lived-in reality, so as not to fall into the matrix. What are you about?

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For queers the world over, few texts hit quite as hard as the X-Men. It could be because of the queer metaphors, gender fluidity, operatic melodrama, or byzantine plots. Or it’s the fact that mutant men happen to be stacked (and insatiably curious), and their lady counterparts are fearsome and chic.

I’ve wanted to talk about this for so long! I break down the romances and real ones of the X-Men through the lens of astrology. What are the signs of Jean Grey and her counterpoint Emma Frost? How does Mystique’s devotion to Destiny explain compatibility in astrology? And could it be possible that Storm and Magneto are peas in an astrological pod?

This one goes out to all X-fans, with or without deep astrological knowledge, and to queer cosmic geeks who might be a little X-curious. And friends, I’m dying to know how you read the charts of Polaris, Forge, Havok, and all your favorite hot-blooded mutant powerhouses. Welcome to Heavenly Bodies. I hope you survive the experience!

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Resplendent drag artist, comedian and newly minted akashic master Kiko Soirée joins me to talk about their transition into mediumship. They talk about their gradual spiritual awakening and metamorphosis, how they began to dip into psychic play, and explain the marvels of the akashic records, a field of consciousness containing all knowledge—past, present and future—which can be accessed by all.

This episode is designed as a primer for those who are just starting to “come online” to their intuitions, feelings or curiosities around the deeper mysteries around them. Kiko and I offer tips on how to cruise liminal spaces and make contact with your guides. It’s meant to be fun.

Kiko offers akashic readings, which you can book via kikosoiree.com. And, for listeners in the New York area, don’t miss the latest edition of their live musical comedy advice show, Dear Kiko, at Littlefield on April 15. Tickets are available at linktr.ee/kikosoiree.

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Don’t expect your life to calm down any time soon. Uranus, the promethean fire-bringer of the planets, enters Gemini on April 27, and promises to delivers chaos, creativity and, of course, backlash, to the sign of the twins through 2033. Uranus brings new technologies, movements and ways of thinking, and, in Gemini, a sign of duality and ambivalence, its gifts will often come with a heavy price.

I break down Uranus’s role as the planetary chaos agent or trickster, and how, with sweeping change comes devastating backlash. I talk about Uranus’s tour of Taurus, from 2018–2026, and the ways it redefined our understanding of money, sexuality, gender and human rights. And then…it gets messier. The last time Uranus was in Gemini was the 1940s, a decade of devastation and reinvention, often at the same time. What does this spell out for the age of AI, cultural discourse and self-definition? Where do you fit into all of this insanity? And how should you ride this frequency without getting sucked under? This is some next level cultural astrology, and if you’re listening to this podcast, I know you’re game for the future. Let’s break it down together.

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Finally: March 20 marks the spring equinox, when the sun delivers its light to the world in perfect balance. With this solar reset comes Aries season, the launch of the astrological year and the proper beginning of spring. We’ve had enough dealing and healing and talking and processing: it’s time to strap on your go-go boots and hit it hard.

Aries is the sign of the individual, the warrior, the hero at the beginning of their great saga. With Mercury and Jupiter freshly out of retrograde, there is a drive towards looking forward and making your life happen. As the Jewish holiday of Passover and Persian holiday of Nowruz hit, we ride on themes of light, liberation and great crossings. A full moon in Libra on April 2, along with a new moon in Aries on April 17, set the stakes for the battles to come: whom must we face, and what are the terms for the next round in the ring?

As Venus enters Taurus, we prepare to make our spring and summer debuts. The bathing suit you ordered all those months ago has finally arrived, and you’re ready to show off the new you. Send us pictures of your Venus in Taurus debut to ask@heavenlybodiespodcast.com.

Aries marks the beginning. We’re only just getting started. See you as this all evolves…

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