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Mannah Guldager

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. Tap in with us for psychological insights, existential exploration, astrology, spiritual healing and living with purpose!

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

Mirek Kanik is a psychotherapist, hypnotherapist and dynamic life coach based near Perth in Western Australia. He is author of the 2015 book: "I Am a Modern Mystic - So Are You: How to Engage Your Intuition for Real Change", which we dive into in this episode. TAP in to be inspired around how to allow for more mysticism in your own therapeutic practise. Here is some of what we talk about:
 
-Mireks definition of mysticism and a mystic
 
-Experiences with modern mysticism in psychotherapy
 
-Mysticism as a therapeutic tool
 
-How we sense each other and in fact can never lie to anybody
 
-The flow point in therapy
 
-How advice is in fact dis-respectful
 
-Fear of the unknown & brain functioning 
 
-Heart and brain coherence (is heart or brain most important?)
 
-TRANCE- flow- the in-between -the sleep-like state
 
-Just as we having a fun time, I bring up the DARK mysticism! In the notes to Mirek writes: "Dark mysticism may emerge through experiences such as suicide, grief, or the sudden loss of a loved one. It belongs to the realm of the occult—not in the popular sense, but as something hidden, mysterious, and ultimately incomprehensible. Dark mysticism is unexplained suffering." 
 
-How we influence each other with our heart-fields
 
-To open yourself up as a therapist - to the mystical flow or even channelling 
 
-Neptune, Pisces, 12th house
 
-Psychologists versus psychotherapists!
 
-Psychotherapy as an art where therapeutic rapport is essential
 
-Mireks alternative Ph.D
 
-The validation comes from people doing better
 
-Mysticism and parenthood
 
-The need to help and give, songs from a happy pisces moon
 
I hope you enjoy it
 
LINKS:
 
 
 
https://www.headofficehealth.com.au/en/mirek-kanik
 
the book: 
 
https://a.co/d/03dpWLI2
 
 
 
Mannah:
 
https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/
 
 
 
 
 
video: https://youtu.be/Das_jaHi2Gs

#159 - Mirek Kanik - Modern Mysticism in Psychotherapy - Being a Modern Mystic

"Microdosing, like the diminutive hobbits Bilbo and Frodo in The Lord of the Rings, has been able to diversify and develop by not bringing attention to itself; by not worrying about legislation, patent protections, or medical acceptance; and even by not having much concern about current conventional scientific methodologies (some of which are inappropriate for measuring improvements in subjective states)." (From page 279 in "Microdosing for Health, Healing, and Enhanced Performance") 
 
THIS conversation is so special, and I feel so much love from Jordan and Jim - I mean in a quiet way where it lives inside their curiosity, their presence and openess, plus what you will hear is based on their decades of research. If you have never heard of microdosing, you are about to of course, but also here is some help from their book, where they for one (out several) thing say that microdosing is "a very small dose of a classic psychedelic (LSD, psilocybin, mescaline) and certain additional substances (including Banisteriopsis caapi, Amanita muscaria, and others) that in higher doses strongly alter consciousness."
 
MEET authors & my guests today: 
 
James Fadiman, PhD has been professionally involved with psychedelics for more than sixty years. Dubbed the "Father of Modern Microdosing," he developed the protocols and dose ranges that define the practice today. He holds a BA from Harvard and a PhD in psychology from Stanford, has taught at three universities, and cofounded the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. Jordan Gruber, JD is a former attorney, writer, and editor with a long-time interest in psychology, psychedelics, and human potential. He has written and edited more than a dozen books across widely varying fields and has been close friends with Fadiman since 1990.
 
Here they are together with me talking about their book: "Microdosing for Health, Healing, and Enhanced Performance" from Aeon Books 2025.
 
Join us as we go through themes such as:
 
-Why does the world need this right now?
 
-Can we use alchohol to microdose? 
 
-A generation is turning away from alcohol toward microdosing plus the authors say microdosing is already starting to replace alcohol at social events
 
-ADHD medication as stimulants vs. microdosing that is restoring equilibrium so symptoms eventually go away vs. just functioning 
 
-Depression & the serotonin myth
 
-Chronic Pain: from being in pain to having pain (when I read the quote I said "I love this" but then when I heard myself say it, I was like...it doesnt sound too good to still have pain, but Jim and Jordan explains very well and we also hear a personal story from Jordan around pain and medication)
 
-We also touch on the connection between microdosing and their earlier work on multiple selves (Your Symphony of Selves)!! so interesting when you are into parts-work & the multimind-model
 
-Should you keep microdosing forever?
 
-What science hasn't caught up to yet
 
-The millennia-long relationship with these plants ("For millennia, microdosing has been one way to become more aware of our relationship with all living beings")
 
-Microdosing is very very popoular BUT its growing popularity has happened without influencers, celebrities or big pharma behind it, which may be exactly why it feels trustworthy 
 
-The afterglow from psychedelics and the second-day effect of microdosing
 
-AND very importantly, I think, Jim and Jordans sweet astrological connection! 
 
Thank you for listening and share the episode if you feel like it
 
-Mannah
 
LINKS:
 
youtube version: https://youtu.be/ZbRq3MNrPsc
 
Podimo version: https://podimo.dk/therapeuticastrologypodcast
 
Jim: https://www.jamesfadiman.com/
 
the book we speak about: https://www.microdosingbook.com/
 
also the book we speak about: https://spirit.aeonbooks.co.uk/product/microdosing-for-health-healing-and-enhanced-performance/95425
 
Jordan Gruber: https://www.instagram.com/jordangruber123/
 
& https://jordangruber.com/ 
 
MANNAH: https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/

#158 - Jim Fadiman & Jordan Gruber: The Pre-Science Paradigm-Shifting Case for Microdosing

"Long before their appearance in the modern West, psychedelic medicines were understood and revered as portals into sacred space." WELCOME today you will hear about SUCH a progressive and wise theme, when we talk about sacred medicine in older age. In fact it is a revolution— in the role of elders in our society. My guest and author today also write:
 
"What a delight to meet my inquisitive, slightly edgy younger self again! And yet, altering my consciousness in older age, I found the weight of life experience grounded me like an anchor. I knew myself, my mind, my strengths. Years of meditation had taught me how to deal with that old trickster, fear. Now, pot invited me to put on music and dance, dive deep into conversation, and simply ponder life with a joy I'd never known. If that was what happened with cannabis, I couldn't wait to revisit psilocybin."
 
Her name is Abbie Rosner, she is leading a movement of conscious aging, and in the book she shares not only her own experience but more than 30 older psychonauts share how their psychedelic experiences helped them heal old wounds, align with their authentic selves, and experience profound love and forgiveness. Her book is called "Psychedelics and the Counterculture of Aging" and is published in july of 2026 by Inner Traditions.
 
In this interview we adress topics such as:
 
-Why the focus of baby boomers 
 
-Aging before and aging now!
 
-Bringing in psychedelics for the benefits for older adults
 
-How it can help prepare transition:
 
"Experiencing this paradox of simultaneously being everything and nothing may be about as close as we mortals can get to the divine. It can also extend a level of comfort to the idea of our own mortality. Some find that moving beyond the boundaries of self is useful for making peace with death."
 
-The shift of consciousness 
 
-The experience of being PRESENT
 
-Safety around drugs
 
-and a word that I now love and will use all the time: MULTI-GENERATIONAL COMMUNITIES
 
In the end we touch on the the Leo-Aquarius archetype in Abbies chart that for example show that she will live from a truth that has not yet become conventional which matches the fact that she gives voices to pioneering psychedelic elders.
 
Thank you for being with us, here are some links to look at:
 
 
 
LINKS
 
the book: https://www.innertraditions.com/psychedelics-and-the-counterculture-of-aging
 
Abbie: https://www.abbierosner.com/
 
myself: https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/
 
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu7spZDxAAo

#157 - Abbie Rosner - Psychedelics and the Counterculture of Aging

Dr. Cynthia Li is a Physician, Author, and Integrative Healer and - will I add - an excellent speaker as you will hear in this interview on her brand new book: "The Medicine of Flow: Harmonizing Your Inner State for Effortless Healing". She shares how she was merging with the emptiness, when the book wrote itself into a series of letters to her younger self. Cynthia has a wonderful speaking flow and I hope you will feel a piece of healing, just from listening to this.
 
 Here is some of what we touch on in this interview:
 
-Opening to the flow of LIFE
 
-Rapid healing
 
- The understanding of flow and that illness is part of a continuum with healing
 
-Illness is not a gift, but part of life and can show us things
 
-Our energy patterns are connected to our consciousness state
 
-Our RELATIONSHIP to the symptoms
 
-Energy fields and heart-brain coherence
 
-Our Electromagnetic fields
 
-What EMBODIED FLOW is
 
-Playing as one orchestra
 
-The radiance of an energy field
 
-Being synced up and attuned for example when you have clients
 
-What to do before and after clients in terms of energetics
 
-QiGong becoming less and less physical 
 
-What happens in healing circles both with need of coherence and prevention of taking on others energy
 
-Flow states
 
-The collective field and communications in sacred places
 
And even more then this. I am so happy you are with us. Go be calm and active at the same time and let ancient wisdome guide and enliven you (If I could put a smiley here I would, but read my many inner smiles)
 
-Mannah
 
 
 
LINKS
 
https://www.cynthialimd.com/
 
 https://www.newharbinger.com/9781648487255/the-medicine-of-flow/#nh-book-accessories
 
https://a.co/d/03PHGl6V
 
Mannah
 
https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/
 
Youtube of this episode: https://youtu.be/etGn8y8XW_U

#156 - Dr. Cynthia Li - THE MEDICINE OF FLOW - Just One Conscious Awareness Away - QiGong for Health

Quote: "Initiations into esoteric societies prepare—or are intended to prepare—the initiate to think about what is beyond life and even what might lie beyond death, and to consider his actions not in relation to his ambition but in relation to the Divine Will. Indeed, the symbolism of death and self-sacrifice is common to initiation rites." (...) "Often, the initiation rite gives the initiate a new body by making it symbolic or talismanic. Most notably, there is frequently special symbolism that relates to the sexual organs. These are no longer the animal organs but acquire some sacred status."
 
Welcome to a very special conversation with Angel Millar, whose quote appears above.
 
His newest book has just been published!! I will just copy his bio from the publisher, Inner Traditions, as my own rephrasing is going to make it worse I'm sure: Author Bio: Angel Millar is a highly esteemed author and lecturer on spirituality, symbolism, sorcery, and self-transformation. He began studying magic and trance in his early manhood and was initiated into the Illuminates of Thanateros in London at the age of 19. Now residing in New York City, he is a certified consulting hypnotist and the author of "The Three Stages of Initiatic Spirituality", "The Path of the Warrior-Mystic", and "Transcend the Chaos".
 
IN THIS CONVERSATION, we touch on topics such as fundamentalism in esoteric communities, dreams and visions that are more than representations of aspects of the personality, true HUMILITY, how sex and self-transformation can come together, encounters with a supernatural woman, how to FEEL if someone is not for you, even if they say all the right words, and in the end, we find out what Angel really thinks of therapy and how his Capricornian nature points us to what is REAL.
 
Angel has a great cardinal (initiatory) nature, so in the astrology corner at the end, we talk about the fusion of what we can call a whole cardinal cross, in fact.
 
I HOPE you too also feel this interview is evocative and worthy of your further exploration and contemplation.
 
LINKS
 
THE BOOK we speak about: https://www.innertraditions.com/supernatural-woman-and-the-male-initiate
 
 
 
Angel Millar simply go to: https://angelmillar.com/
 
 
 
Mannah: https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/
 
 
 
the youtube version of this episode:
 
https://youtu.be/j6HU9wiBJcg

#155 - Angel Millar - Supernatural Woman and the Male Initiate: Bonded Through Dreams

"If patients stay in the system long enough, they learn to control all words and gestures linked to fantastical thinking, delusions, grandiosity, and hallucination. Through hard experience they learn the fruit of their best thinking is not approved of by the professionals involved in their care. They learn Orwellian doublethink, a capacity to believe in two opposing points at the same time. They discover the skill of believing the reality their mind often presents them with, while at the same time fitting in with the actual reality reinforced by mental health workers."(....)
 
"The scale of suffering of our mentally disordered is rarely investigated as a factor of the disconnections between who we are now and those who went before us."
 
David Stokes has written a truly exceptional book, where I feel he says all the things we are not supposed to say - when working in publically funded social work at least. "Masquerade At The Crossroads of Good And Evil - Holism and Spirit Work in Mental Health and Addiction" is published this year, 2026, at Aeon Books. A much needed book!!
 
This is a shorter interview, as the audio was really poor, but I have edited it so it is a lot better for you to listen to now. I'm hoping to meet David again for a follow up. But enjoy this shorter interview on what the Crossroads is, what the Masquerade is, and how to incorporate a holistic approach into social work, not by suggesting anything spiritual to clients, but by meeting their own aspirations. 
 
Find the incredible special and thoughtprovoking and caring book here: 
 
https://spirit.aeonbooks.com/author/david-stokes/23787
 
Mannah here:
 
https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/
 
youtube version of this interview https://youtu.be/oYd5MxocABE

#154 - David Stokes: Masquerade At The Crossroads of Good And Evil - Holism and Spirit Work in Mental Health and Addiction

"In modern culture, our sensitivity to our embodied soul has largely retreated into the shadow. An individual may be an excellent athlete or a consummate dancer, for example, but that does not guarantee a healthy relationship with our sensual authority, emotions, or imagination. Indeed, to excel in these areas and achieve our goals of efficiency and precision, we need to focus acutely on breathing, muscles, bones, and rhythm. This creates false gods of perfectionism and achievement." (from page 44 of Body as Shadow, 2026)
 
I am so glad to welcome teacher, lecturer, workshop facilitator, supervisor and Jungian Analyst Erica Lorentz to this chapter of TAP. Erica is the author of Body as Shadow - Jungs Method of Embodied Healing, that she just published after many years of conceiving it. Themes that come up include healing of trauma, where do you go during dissociation, trust the somatic unconscious, what does it mean if there is only darkness when you go into your imagination, and what the subtle body is, even though it cannot fully be expressed in words. Erica spontanously shares from this place in the book that magically enough already was more own favorite, both this quote but also other passages around this lunar consciousness:
 
"As we use the radar of our own experience to feel what a client is emitting—sensing something in the field between us that has not yet flickered into focus—we must soften into it. This is a lunar consciousness (in alchemy, a "making of the silver"). Schwartz-Salant (1982) describes what it means to perceive this kind of awakening and sight:
 
'This shift of consciousness can be described as a movement from a "solar consciousness" that readily leads to interpretations, into a "lunar consciousness" that focuses upon images and imaginal perceptions. This shift involves an introverted act in which psychic energy—attention and consciousness—is surrendered to the unconscious and to a symbolic sense of oneness, the One Continuum.' (p. 140)
 
Jung discovered this introverted act in psychic energy, which he called "indirect thinking" (1971), when he followed his soul into the underworld."
 
Erica has practiced Authentic Movement for many years, and had the experience of healing a serious headache through - she shares how that happened, and we speak a whole lot on Jungian psychology, symbolic journeys, and how the whole embodied soul got pushed into the shadow, and for us to heal, we need to reconnect to it and go into the imaginal creative space.
 
So all in all - I hope you will tap in with us - beforehand Erica had asked me to look astrologically at how the book will be received and so I interpret the Saturn aspects to her natal chart, which are many, to be a place of solid authority and a lasting impact and things becoming real now- Erica mentions the new beginning, and I totally agree that right now and the coming year is big initiation into being her own person, having her own sense of authority rather than having to rely on social expectations - I don't know obviously how anyone will receive her work, but from my own perspective this book was a joy to read, beautifully written and points to what we long for collectively...at least I do.
 
FIND MORE HERE:
 
https://ericalorentz.com/
 
the book: https://www.karnacbooks.com/product/body-as-shadow-jung/98276/?MATCH=1
 
Mannah
 
https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/
 
youtube version: https://youtu.be/4mkzAyTzDAU

#153 - Jungian Analyst Erica Lorentz: Body as Shadow - Jungs Method of Embodied Healing

To us, astrology feels completely natural. But for many, it still sits outside the system, also the system of psychology, even though the obviosly go well together. As Neptune is influencing Saturn in a critical way right now, the lines may begin to loosen. This is a conversation with Lauren Donelson, who is a psychotherapist, intuitive healer, and yes, an astrologer. We share the vision of directly usindg astrology in the healing work - so welcome to an echo chamber what we feel strongly about. TAP in with us as we explore rich themes together and Lauren Donelson brings up many important reflections: at one point she says, "they don't belong to the institutions, they are ours," speaking about gifts that are often treated as something you need certification to even have them.
 
Here are just a few notes on what we speak about:
 
-How completely obvious it is to use Parts Work/IFS and Astrology together - and examples of how that would look
 
-Embodiment, containing, holding and connecting to medicine plants
 
-Mercurial gifts, both the technical explanatory ones and the more artistic ones
 
-Would you trust an IFS therapist who is not also a registered psychotherapist?
 
-How awful it is that what we can go out and call ourselves titles that relies on what education we were able to buy, and not solely on qualifications
 
-And about the registering...do you trust someone with a register more than you own intuition and if so, I wonder why we became that way...
 
-Ancestral healing 
 
-Environmental destruction !!! and justice
 
-Building relationship with the land
 
-Being magic /in Self !!!
 
-and how it is TIME TO LISTEN deeply because the earth is speaking
 
Astrologically, we speak about the whole gamut of Saturn, Neptune and lots of Pisces glimmer in there too, since Lauren and I have that Sun sign in common, and also Uranus through Taurus, because, as I envy in Lauren, she's got a lot of Taurus energy for embodiment, gardening, connecting to animals and nature, and her music (that we even get a tiny piece of)- It WAS truly refreshing to be with another and very qualified therapeutic astrologer-I really do hope you enjoy it
 
LINKS:
 
youtube: https://youtu.be/DlBiR8GKTEA
 
 
 
Find Lauren:
 
https://www.laurendonelsontherapy.com/
 
instagram:
 
https://www.instagram.com/embodied_healing
 
find me:
 
https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/

#152 - Lauren Donelson - Beyond the Information - A Conversation Between Therapeutic Astrologers

Manda Scott "lights the fires of possibilities", as she calls it, in this much needed episode on thrutopias, the total collapse and how we can emerge into a completely new paradigm. Manda impresses me so much, she has been a published writer for 30 years and writing still, she is also the founder of ACCIDENTAL GODS. I really hope you will enjoy this episode where we get informed, sparked and interrupted in our normal thinking. So grateful for this interview - may it be of great importance to you too. Here are some notes about what we TAP into in this episode:
 
-Bringing knowing back to those who have forgotten
 
-Complexity versus complicated
 
-Thrutopian fiction
 
-Why we do not need more dystopias
 
-Writers and artists imagining different futures
 
-Letting go of tribal divisions
 
-Remembering that we are part of the web of life
 
-Our culture as locked in early adolescence
 
-The natural state of humanity as wholeness
 
-Inner coherence, trauma therapy and talking to the web of life
 
-Ask the web of life: "What do you need me to do?"
 
-Collapse into extinction and emergence into a new system
 
-The caterpillar, the cocoon and imaginal cells
 
-Awake dreaming and sleep dreaming
 
-Aquarian themes run strongly through this conversation, as the archetype is prevalent in Mandas chart.
 
LINKS:
 
youtube edition: https://youtu.be/3_AGgwCICcs
 
 
 
Manda:
 
https://accidentalgods.life/
 
https://www.youtube.com/@AccidentalGods
 
https://substack.com/@eceni/p-158280401
 
 
 
Mannah:
 
https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/

#151 - Manda Scott: Imagine Every Human Being Living to Their Fullest Potential

Phoebe Wyss is a seasoned astrologer with more than 40 years of experience, she is the author of three astrology books and a meditator on the Osho path. In this episode, I speak with Phoebe Wyss about cosmology, sacred geometry, quarter days, synchronicity and experiential astrology as a path of self-discovery.
 
We also talk about her pioneering astrology game Lebensrad, the Wheel of Life, which she created and published in Germany in the 1980s. The game was built on synchronicity, and Phoebe describes how people repeatedly received answers that felt uncannily relevant to what they were already thinking or struggling with. This became part of her research into why astrology works. The Wheel of lige describes the 12 signs as 12 basic archetypal forms or vibrations of energy, all emerging from the oneness at the center. 
 
Phoebe also shares her current approach to experiential astrology, where students physically enter the chart, sit in the place of their astrological placements, and speak from that inner position. The deeper is truer.
 
Finally, we reflect on Phoebe's own chart, especially I ask about her Uranus return. 
 
LINKS:
 
youtube version:
 
https://youtu.be/Ri6U6tv_Vn8
 
Phoebe Wyss: 
 
https://www.astrophoebe.com/
 
The book we speak about: 
 
 https://www.amazon.com/Inside-Cosmic-Mind-Archetypal-Astrology/dp/178250110X
 
Mannah:
 
https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/

#159 - Mirek Kanik - Modern Mysticism in Psychotherapy - Being a Modern Mystic

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