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Mannah

Therapeutic Astrology Podcast by Mannah (TAP) is place to learn og and feel into healing methods, psychological insights and the mystery pointed to by forgotten languages of the soul. My name is Mannah, and I aim to inspire you to a rich life on all levels of experience. As you listen, let the existential questions breathe into your inner realms where Wholeness is always present. 

We are in good company with thought leaders, authors, and healers of our time - or sometimes of past times as I may read the authors alive in solo episodes. In common my variety of guests have a wish to stop fragmentation and care for a greater view of this embodied spiritual life. My own primary path is through Evolutionary Astrology, and in each episode I spend a few moments to tap into my guests birth chart.

Let's TAP in together - no matter where you are, you have a place to call Whole.

My website: https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com

Mannah, Trauma Therapist & Astrologer

Copenhagen, May of 2023

Therapeutic Astrology Podcast

In her book Black Paths and Green Cathedrals: A Guide to Ecological Paganism, Sian Sibley writes: "greed and gluttony are not just permitted, they are encouraged, driven by a profiteering media that feeds our fears because fear sells. And yet, no one ever tells us what 'enough' even means. We are kept hungry on purpose, starved of contentment, because a person who knows they have enough is a person who cannot be controlled." WOW. This wow factor goes all through our conversation.
 
So welcome dear listener to TAP into a conversation about:
 
-How working with trees is very different from working with flowers and plants: flowers are quick, but trees ask us to slow down because they move at a much slower pace than we do
 
-By selling your time, you are giving away the best part of your life 
 
-The Industrial Revolution and the enclosure of land helped cut people off from the land and moved them into dehumanizing conditions in towns, mines, and mills
 
-One striking example of dehumanization was the invention of food like the sandwich and the Cornish pasty
 
-Much of modern life has handed our survival over to supermarkets and systems, leaving us deeply dependent and cut off from the sources of life
 
-This disconnect is not just about being "green" in the modern sense of recycling or veganism, but about a root-deep wound in how we see ourselves as above nature instead of within it
 
-What it means to be plant-blind and how admit to being just that
 
-Humans are incredibly new compared to the plant world, yet religion and science have often trained us to think we are superior to it
 
-CRYSTALS! There is no real proof behind claims of "ethically sourced crystals," and that label often becomes something we tell ourselves to feel better
 
-Sacred plants are also being harmed by spiritual consumption, such as frankincense, where overuse is contributing to the endangerment of Boswellia trees
 
-If people cannot grow food, gather water, forage, or provide for themselves, they become dependent on systems that then hold power over their lives
 
-The drop test: If a plant can anticipate an outcome, alter its response, and remember past experiences, that fits a definition of intelligence !
 
-Sacred trees appear across cultures, including the world tree in Norse mythology and the enlightenment tree in Buddhism -Many ancient goddesses was nature deities connected to animals, serpents, and the living earth but later mythologies and patriarchal systems have diminished these earlier feminine powers
 
-Plant magic and herbal practice traditionally integrate astrology through planetary correspondences/esoteric sympathies
 
and...So Much Good Stuff in this one!! 
 
From Aeon books website: "Sian Sibley is a writer, witchcraft practitioner, and ecologist from Wales, with over thirty years of experience in plant spirit magic. She holds master's degrees in Biological Science and Ecology and Spirituality, blending scientific insight with esoteric wisdom. As the leader of the DragonOak Coven for 27 years, she has guided practitioners in structured, nature-based spiritual practices that honour both tradition and personal growth."
 
Be well everyone and check out these links:
 
link to the books: https://spirit.aeonbooks.co.uk/author/sian-sibley/23782 
 
link to Sian sibley: https://www.dragonoak.org/
 
link to Mannah: https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/
 
HERE is the VIDEO version: https://youtu.be/q7dzbpBdOdE

#143 - Sian Sibley - Black Paths and Green Cathedrals - Unveiling the Green

"Using astrology psychologically is not a recent trend, though; it was widespread among the alchemists of Europe, such as Paracelsus and Athanasius Kircher, who sought to undergo the great work or magna opus of transforming and transmuting the self. Astrology later attracted the attention of Western psychologists and psychiatrists" (quote from Maja D'Aoust)
 
TAP in with us as we speak of: Shadow work, subconscious influences, counter-part, your double ganger and alter-ego and why it is so important and so natural! 
 
Here are some of the themes we talk about:
 
-The unexpressed energy in shadow
 
-Doubles and the shade and its role within magical traditions
 
 -In the shadow is also our biological instinct and here is a great quote from Maja: 
 
"The impulse and compulsion of instinct serves to keep you and all other life-forms alive. Without instinct, we would not survive; therefore instinct deserves as much respect and veneration as intelligence."
 
-Identifying with limited information (bias)
 
-There should be no shaming about having a shadow- we are bound to it, living in this reality!
 
-The dualistic nature of the universe 
 
-Pagen history and mythology
 
-REMEMBER WHERE YOU COME FROM
 
-Why (we think) social media is toxic now but started as an utopia
 
-Different terminologies and perspectives on the Soul
 
-The need to have more insight on death and the afterlife journey
 
-Grief and love even though there "is no loss" because there is a perception of separation with death
 
-How the I Ching helped Maja realize shadow astrology
 
-Sharing esoteric wisdom and how I find some purpose to talk publicly about books that inspired me
 
-Eclipses and double ganger experiences 
 
Rich with information!! Enjoy!!!
 
Find the video version here:
 
https://youtu.be/XihPW3VDOwo
 
-Mannah
 
Find more on Maja here:
 
http://www.witchofthedawn.com/
 
https://godismyboyfriend.com/
 
the book: 
 
 https://www.innertraditions.com/books/astrology-of-the-shadow-self
 
 
 
Mannah:
 
https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/

#142 - Maja D'Aoust - Astrology of the Shadow Self- Working with Oppositions in Your Natal Chart

I had to do one more interview at the astro-conference when I heard Katharina Westblikk speak!! It turns out she also works therapeutically at her Arhat Center.
 
She is an esoteric astrologer, healer, yoga teacher, lecturer, and the owner of Arhat Center in Bergen, Norway.
 
Tap in as we talk about what esoteric astrology is..I come into the conversation with a certain frame of reference due to the high horse I have experienced many esoteric astrologers to be on, but there is an explanation of the hight. Also...Mind you, I'm in a sensitive state as I didn't get much sleep... Be intrigued together with me as Katharina dives into esoteric wisdom with us.
 
Mannah
 
Find more on Katharina here:
 
https://esoteric-wisdom.com/
 
Mannah here:
 
https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/
 
Youtube version: https://youtu.be/fN7k8EGvx8E

#141 - Katharina Westblikk - The Path of Esoteric Astrology - Beyond the Individual

This is part 2 of a 2-part series with Maurice Fernandez, master astrologer with more than 30 years of experience. In this shorter episode we speak about spiritual development, the adaptation of our brain and biology to the energetic update and how to tell if a spiritual teacher are trustworthy. I hope you enjoy it. I made this mini-series with Maurice to celebrate entering my 40s. 
 
PS I am having my own Uranus into Gemini moment - or "progress is here-moment" - as I brought my so-called "old" heavy recording gear, just to discover that the modern smartphone is a way better recorder, than all I had brought. 
 
Hey find more on Maurice here:
 
https://mauricefernandez.com/
 
Mannah here:
 
https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/
 
the video version here: https://youtu.be/L_05OqcYhqg

#140 - Maurice Fernandez on Neurodivergence with Uranus in Gemini & on the Global Issue of Spiritual Bypass (p.2)

This is part 1 of a 2-part series with Maurice Fernandez, who once upon a time managed to educate me (Mannah) as an Evolutionary Astrology. Now what is that? Well, we identify the soul's evolutionary journey through the natal astrology chart and questions of the purpose of this life is in the forefront. In this first conversation we tap into the growth of consciousness that unfold over multiple lifetimes, and how one can truly find meaning, not by making it up, but by really discovering why we are here. I also get Maurice's take on neurodiversity as it is reflected in astrology.
 
As I am stepping into my 40s, I bring you this mini-series with a great teacher of mine, who never ceases to inspire and open me up to realizations. I hope you enjoy it.
 
PS: The audio is less than good on this one. I had taken all my recording gear to Sweden to meet Maurice, and it seems the recorder was too tired to turn on. I will do my best to ensure better audio in upcoming interviews.
 
Loving eclipse wishes for you all, Mannah
 
 
 
LINKS
 
video version of this interview:
 
https://youtu.be/NscSeuJbGXI
 
Maurice:
 
https://mauricefernandez.com/
 
Mannah:
 
https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/

#139 - Maurice Fernandez on Past Lives, Karma & Evolutionary Necessity (p.1)

"Culture looks and acts a lot like a religious cult, and as writer and magician Alan Moore has said, every culture started out as a cult." (quote from Brian James, Traumadelic, 2024) In this conversation, my very Jupiterian guest says: EXPANSIVENESS IS THE KEY and he also says "sometimes we just loose our shit!"
 
Listen to this thought-provoking conversation about the so-called myth of trauma. It is a longer episode, but I invite you to stick around, because we get into so important themes like what is is that attracts so many people to trauma work - and what you can do when you are caught by a belief. Brian James is a depth counselor, archetypal coach, and podcast host (see link below), and we share a love of yoga, interviews, depth psychology, and a mutual tendency to question overly simplistic views!! You could even say we "trauma bond" over our experiences in (leaving) therapy schools........a little into the conversation. Like I said -please stick around!
 
For those who care to read this text, I will mention I mix up an important word, but I mean to talk about the parentalism, a term that contains an objection within it!!! The heart of that critique in parentalism and in this conversation is actually captured in a quote from James Hillman, quoted in Brian James' Traumadelic:
 
"The more I believe my nature comes from my parents, the less open I am to the ruling influences around me. The less the surrounding world is felt to be intimately important to my story. Yet even biographies begin by locating the subject in a place; the self starts off amid the smells of a geography. We are ecological from day one."
 
TAP in with us as we explore:
 
- Brian's experience with a series of remembrances
 - Another way of understanding causality
 - Radical ambivalence
 - A critique of "small t" trauma
 - Experiences with Gabor Maté and other role models that are not always easy to engage with in a nuanced way
 - Being right or wrong is constructed ! Go beyond!
 - Are we truly responsible for all our actions?
 
-What it means to be triggered, and how we understand it without trauma
 -The importance of finding your own path
 -A howl in the wilderness of modernity
 -The experience of being an outsider, while still longing for connection
 -The myth of trauma within the psychedelic world
 - The cliché of non-reactivity vs. responsiveness – and the risk of overriding one's instinct to be affected
 – Thinking in elements, because it is all archetypal
 
-Attending to the soul
 - Understanding suffering and authentic reactions
 
-Our animal nature
 
-Ego defenses and reactions that upsets others
 
-disillusionments of our time
 
-It is an affront to nature and the soul when we can't challenge what we are to learn and speak up about what we feel
 
-Still reactive? Thank God!!
 
TO BE OF THIS EARTH !!!
 
-in terms of astrology we mostly speak jupiter, and I mention a danish therapist, that is Ulla Rung Weeke and if you do understand danish, I recommend this interview with her: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz05yQCSBrE&t=380s
 
I hope you enjoy it, I truly did, and I am not trying to sell anyone anything, but I did really feel like Brian would be such a safe space to be in depth therapy with. I loved to be free and personal in this interview.
 
HEY if you want to SEE this interview - you will find it here: https://youtu.be/D-PCzdFyh9I
 
Follow the links for more in this energy:
 
Brian James:
 
https://brianjames.ca/
 
Brain James podcast, HOWL IN THE WILDERNESS:
 
 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/howl-in-the-wilderness/id1381115676
 
 
 
Mannah:
 
https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/

#138 - Brian James - The Cult and Myth of Trauma - Trust Your Soul's Response - Howl in the Wilderness

If you are curious about mediumship, I really recommend this interview with medium, teacher and author Tiffany Hopkins. We talk about her book, "Beyond – A Living Person's Guide to the Dead" (2025), which I find to be an easy read, as well as very informative and mind-expanding. I would call Tiffany Hopkins a visionary in this area of mediumship, and I am so glad for this conversation with her. You are very welcome to tap in with us as Tiffany Hopkins shares about:
 
-How she became a medium in a town of mediums
 
-Tiffany worked in tech for 20 years, and it is not too far off from mediumship
 
-Spiritualism, the Second Great Awakening, and Lily Dale
 
-How mediumship and working with AI are similar
 
-The need for discernment
 
-Staying connected to different aspects of your being
 
-The foundation of mediumship and why it changes us
 
-The experience becoming real as it is shared
 
-Creativity and mediumship—where you receive and express
 
-The importance of therapeutic support and being validated
 
-The countercultural component of mediumship
 
-Will mediumship be culturally accepted?
 
-Mediumship as inherently healing and care work
 
-The therapeutic context
 
-Now—what if not all the information is from spirit? Tiffany has a neuroscience background and offers her new two metaphors for what is happening in mediumship
 
-Evidence for Spirit
 
-Improvisation as we listen to both at the same time
 
-Can you bring in information and integrate it?
 
-The spiritual connection is not practical!
 
-LONELINESS—and a potential loneliness renaissance
 
-the social construct of this one romantic partner (I relate this comment then to the Pluto in Scorpio generation)
 
-The Pluto in Scorpio generation is born from 5th of November 1983 to 10th of November 1995 (with retrograde returns during the period so be sure to check out your actual birth day) and we talk about the deep heartbreak that often comes in relationship because we are to grow so much, that we need the pain head first- for healing to occur the trauma need expositon/confrontation/that we dare deal with it. 
 
Thank you for being with us- see 
 
the video version of this episode:
 
https://youtu.be/-lcloIIbIr4
 
FIND Tiffanys books right here:
 
 https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Living-Persons-Guide-Dead/dp/1454958391
 
Website:
 
https://tiffanyjhopkins.com/unseen
 
 
 
Mannah:
 
https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/

#137 - Tiffany Hopkins - Beyond - A Living Person's Guide To The Dead - Mediumship as a Healing Practice

This is a wonderful conversation with another "therapeutic astrologer". Belinda Matwali is an astrologer, holistic therapist, and meditation teacher, working internationally as a global wellness expert. I really enjoy her focus on self-empowerment!! So we may not be controlled.
 
Tap with us in as we speak about:
 
-How Belinda works with clients who seek her guidance
 
-The inner astrology & the inner technology
 
-Astrology for self reflection within spiritual psychology 
 
-The importance of having a spiritual philosophy 
 
-Astrology NOT just as information, but INITIATIONS 
 
-Lived Wisdom
 
-The noise on social media 
 
-Belinda wants to empower people so we can navigate transits
 
-Being trauma informed come through as she speaks of how we learned early to override our body's signals and weren't trained to trust our intuition.
 
-The risk of transference of trust into another astrologer
 
-The potential of Neptune in Aries - and also saturn and the whole shift with the outer planets in air-fire this year 2026
 
-How Belinda do NOT in fact look to the chart to learn about a trauma 
 
-Working with the potential in the chart
 
-Repressed parts of the chart (blindspots)
 
-You are not stuck, but can do the inner work
 
-Take your personal power back
 
-Saturn and Neptune in Aries as the rights of the individual and the expansive energy of Uranus in gemini and Pluto in aquarius that will help us TRUST our SENSES
 
-Self-inquiry when addictions kicks in
 
-Would you rather be with what you know even if it is not serving you, rather than the unknown?
 
-the importance of investing in your self-empowerment
 
-Belinda also share her way to meditation by fasting (Chiron in Taurus)
 
-Spiritual nutrition as the spiritual wifi
 
-the developmental chart, where you mature into it
 
-Sun-Chiron in Taurus in the 12th that really caught my eye in Belindas chart, as a mirror of what she is doing with meditation and nutrition and spiritual guidance 
 
-a few good worlds on the meaning of eclipses (feb 17 & march 3) as the will be on importance for both Belinda and myself.
 
Find Belinda Matwali right here:
 
https://www.belindamatwali.com/
 
and here: https://www.instagram.com/belinda_matwali
 
and me Mannah:
 
https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/
 
and the video version of this episode:
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px7Ra0dUvho
 
 
 
Be well out there
 
And remember
 
you have a place to call whole!

#136 - Belinda Matwali - Trauma-Informed Astrology - Invest in Your Inner Technology

Today you will meet the best kind of influencer, Iman Moeinian, whose thoughtful YouTube channel brings depth to philosophical questions. Iman Moeinians core interest is in philosophy, metaphysics, especially traditional metaphysics. I invited him to speak with me about René Guénon and Traditionalism, because he did excellent talks on the topic. TAP in with us as we speak about what has been lost in the modern world, and how the timeless wisdom of the ancient traditions can still orient our lives, like when we choose to slow down.
 
I wanted a real casual talk so we could meet in our shared humanity, and I believe it succeeded.
 
 The recorder was on from the beginning, and you are with us through everything!
 
 Here is a few notes about what we go through in our little more than an hour together:
 
-How Guénon has a critique of modern individuality and truth as a personal affair
 
-Guénons bio which is quite secretive 
 
-Intellectual intuition!! (the kind of intuition that today is dismissed as superstition)
 
-The traditional view of art where art should surely delight but also point to higher truth and not only pleasure
 
-Critique of modern psychology! Jung popular, but Iman argues Coomaraswamy is even more important
 
-The question of the subconscious versus spiritual origin of healing
 
-What is metaphysics ??
 
-We have several critiques actually such as modern writers sometimes borrow from older masters without reference 
 
-We have a great Ananda Coomaraswamy spotlight throughout! He was a philosopher, a major thinker, mastered many languages, he had a precise mathematical style, and not widely read, so he is one Iman is bringing to a wider audience these days. 
 
Of course, we also have fun looking at Iman's chart toward the end. We find astrological clues behind his precise craft, his ability to critique where it's needed, and his spirit of careful service for example by reading, editing, writing, and doing the hard work. Through his Uranus–Jupiter conjunction in Aquarius we see some social reform going strong in past incarnations, and with both planets retrograde, a current-life rethinking of the Aquarian progress and revolt. 
 
I truly recommend Iman Moeinian - you can find some of his work here:
 
https://www.youtube.com/@imanmoeinian
 
 
 
My web is:
 
https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/
 
Thank you so much for being with us!! 
 
PS if you prefer the video version and you don't know where to find it - Here it is:
 
https://youtu.be/xHk6zwyXHJI

#135 - Iman Moeinian - René Guénon: Traditionalism, Metaphysics, and the Modern World

2026 is a year when the wheel is turning in a big way, and I have the honor of speaking with Gary Lachman shortly after he's turned the big seventy; his own significant turn. Gary is a writer and musician, he was a major influence in mid-1970s as a founding member of the rock
 band Blondie Blondie and other bands. In the 1990s, he transitioned to full-time writing, producing influential works on mysticism and occultism. This intro is inspired by wikipedia but the book we speak about today is a much more accurate and detailed "presentation" - as we speak of his book that is a memoir of magic, rock and roll, and becoming who you are! It is called "Touched by the Presence: From Blondie's Bowery and Rock and Roll to Magic and the Occult" published november 2025 by Inner Traditions.
 
In the publishers intro it says about Gary that he is a prolific author and lecturer on consciousness, counterculture, and the Western esoteric tradition. The big question about how we went from big music business to that of an esoteric writer, is what the book we speak about, will answer.
 
And. Here we are in the beginning of 2026 talking in way about the forces than can be controlled and those which cannot. At least these my after-reflections. Here are some clues about what you will be tapping into with this wonderful interview with Gary Lachman:
 
-The true self beneath layers of sleep, social conditioning, and optimization
 
-why Gary wrote this memoir differently than his other books: not commissioned, no plan, written during a difficult period as a way to assert and protect his sense of self
 
-a key turning point in 1975: discovering Colin Wilson's The Occult while living on the Bowery and playing with Blondie, and how that book became the doorway into consciousness studies and the esoteric
 
-R.D. Laing and "the sane response to an insane world": family double-binds and gaslighting
 
-the "false world" theme through existentialism and Gnosticism: gnosis as direct felt knowledge, the demiurge idea, and modern parallels like post-truth
 
-"You're poking your finger through this paper wall… it was just scenery, but you had accepted it as reality, and suddenly you realized you could do that"
 
-You might know the name that's on your passport, but who is that person?
 
-the explanation on Gurdjieff's core teaching that is about waking up from "sleep" or mechanical living:
 
-The purpose of the Work (also called the Fourth Way) was to break habitual, unconscious patterns that keep people functioning automatically and Gary personally tried this discipline, and also Aleister Crowleys.
 
-systems of esoteric psychological development
 
-many people (including himself) first encounter the Work through Ouspensky's writing, not through Gurdjieff directly
 
-books like "A New Model of the Universe "opened entire fields for him: the idea of an esoteric current running through history
 
-Gary is honest about having gone through a hard time when writing this book and as a related theme I ask him to pull up a poem he write when teenager, that I (Mannah) relate to personally. I was surprised he had it in his memory, and could recite it so well - look forward to that part of the interview!!! At least if you also know that feeling of "what is there to tell"... The poem is dark and romantic, dealing with death, defeat, and resignation, not necessarily a literal wish to die, but a youthful fascination with world-weariness, sorrow, and the idea of giving up.
 
-choosing to transcend by writing, by working, by staying alive and engaged
 
You also get the story of the title of the book "touched by presence" and here is a recommendation from Gary, a short (and super cool!!!) film his son made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=919SNRJtMRc
 
 
 
thank you all for listening, and i hope you're settling into the new year..and into your own power; as you will have noticed, the wheel is already on the move.
 
-Mannah
 
LINKS
 
the book we speak about: https://www.innertraditions.com/touched-by-the-presence
 
https://garylachman.co.uk/
 
https://www.gary-lachman.com/
 
Video version of this podcast: https://youtu.be/Mt1vmWzkuT4
 
 
 
More Mannah:
 
https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/

#141 - Katharina Westblikk - The Path of Esoteric Astrology - Beyond the Individual

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