The Hum and the Holler

We figured out how to do this! Gone are the days of our edited, scripted podcast but we are now in a glorious epoch of doing a casual, unscripted livestream and posting the audio up here a few days later. Listen in to the audio from our first ever virtual treehouse for the January spell of 2023's Home, where we discuss togetherness magic, the Aquarius New Moon, and non-linear time. 

For our very last episode of The Hum, we question New Moons as a time of spiritual hustle, propose a new way of attuning to the New Moons, sacrifice some sound quality (a few bumps and rustlings) in order to get this out on time, and say goodbye to this podcast and hello to new ways to connect in 2023!

In this chapter, we chat about conflict, rissssk, the intimacy of knowing our shadow sssssides, vi-o-len-ceh and sssssibilance.

We are in eclipse season, with one eclipse falling on Nov 8th, which is Election Day here in the US (which I call voting day on the podcast for some reason?). Listen for tips on how to stay well and grounded during these wild times!

There's a lot of astrological kerfluffle this month, against the backdrop of some beautiful support for thinking and talking it through. My apologies for the poor audio quality this month! My house is in some creative disarray and I don't have access to the closet I usually sequester myself in!

In which we explore what is both wonderful and terrible, the importance of being able to say you don't know, and what we learn when we look at the parts of ourselves that make us cringe.

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In which we celebrate Virgo season, cover the upcoming Mercury Retrograde, and take note of how Mars just keeps squaring everybody.

In which we explore the other side of the mountain.

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The Leo New Moon is here to help us reconnect to our hearts, to collective struggle, and to imagine a future worth living in. 

In which we find our unlikely hero surprisingly unafraid and entertaining expansive ideas...

We are in the midst of all the big things. Cancer energy is teaching us how.

On this month's episode we reach one of our favorite chapters and wax philosophical about opacity, living in the mountains, teasing as love, and much more.

This month we are deep in eclipse season with some major Aries action and a few Scorpio sprinkles on the side. Tune in for strategies and support about navigating these wild times. **IMPORTANT CORRECTION!** In the podcast I say the April 30th eclipse is at 28 degrees of Taurus—it was actually at 10 degrees and 28 minutes of Taurus, I goofed and transposed the numbers! So if you want to know what planets or points in your chart were affected, check for ones falling between 8 and 12 degrees of Taurus, Scorpio, Leo, and Aquarius. 

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This month's fable takes us into some deep, visceral feelings, moving from queasiness to the beauty of the darkness to hints at further explorations of the beloved and the strange.

This New Moon holds a lot of stories and brings us into a month full of Neptunian, watery energy (with some Plutonian undertones). This month we get into the impact of the Venus-Mars conjunction on our relationships, and best and worst days for processing + creating.

This month's fable brings us a whirling conversation with swifts, and our podcast meditates on that whirling feeling of urgency familiar to us all.

This month's astrology has a lot of twists and turns, and we cover: What can activism look like when we feel overwhelmed, pessimistic, or isolated? How can this month's astrology help us center ourselves between self and other, between being too selfish or too self-sacrificing? What the hell is going on with the US right now? And is the whole year going to feel this way?

All this and more in this edition of The Hum.

And we're back! Thank you all for your patience with this one—we needed some time before we were ready to record again, and when we were we found ourselves diving deep into the main themes of this year's fables: uncertainty, the unknown, our shadow sides, all that good stuff.

We've made it to the end of our year-long riddle! This month's spell is the solution (or final clue?) and we take you through the entire riddle, moving from the scatalogical to the mystical and back again, for a deeply embodied dive into our philosophy of healing.

My friends! This is one humdinger of a time, astrologically, so please be extra gentle to yourselves during holiday times and wintry times and ongoing Covid times. My apologies for the rough quality of the sound on this episode, I've had a health flare up and holidays all week so I did what I could to get this out to you by the New Moon. Here's hoping some stray background noises don't diminish your capacity to enjoy and benefit from this astro rundown.

This upcoming month should be interesting—we've got four planets turning direct and a few pretty packed lunations. Joy, nihilism, party atmosphere, reconciling with our own shadow sides—a little something everyone.

We're walking toward winter and gathering all the unexpected joy we can cram into our mouths along the way.

Y'all, this month is a lot! An eclipse, Mercury AND Jupiter retrograde, and the 2nd square between Saturn and Uranus. Yipes! But don't freak out, The Hum has some practical tips for navigating an astrologically wild time without panicking.

This month we are deep in the dreamscape, with some discussion on the difference between fireflies and moths and deep respect for all the mysteries. 

This month, Jo and Corina wax lyrical on lullabies, being together, being apart, and how to be in a body.

Join us for a conversation about April's spell, "Hover Here Briefly" in which we get real deep into the weirdness of this image and how it relates to the tarot deck, minimalist music, and the sound of one moth flying.

Welcome to a truly oceanic Pisces Season! We'll also experience Spring Equinox and an energizing shift to Aries Season before the next New Moon, so get your last bit of hibernation on now before everything is just popping.

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It's March! We're swirling in the worlds within worlds of Pisces season. This month we find an answer for the riddle this calendar asks—but is it the right one? Or are we caught in a vortex? Jo does a spot-on performance of clarity-seeking-from-within-the-vortex, Corina can't stop reminding us that it's Pisces season, and we touch on spiritual bypassing, the individual in the collective, and how to stay attuned to nuance and complexity. Woof!

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A quick look at the astrological themes humming through these times. Each month Corina looks at the highlights of what's happening in the sky from New Moon to New Moon, and offers some advice on how to work with what's coming up. 

This  episode takes us from the Aquarius New Moon of February 11th, 2021 up to the Pisces New Moon of March 13th—we'll begin with that New Moon next month.

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Each month sister witches, artists, and healers Jocelyn Mosser and Corina Dross take you on a journey through the images and spells in their annual illustrated calendar.

This month we look at February's image: The Hum and the Holler. We also introduce a riddle, play a game that yields many metaphors, offer some nerdy rituals, and work with the magic of listening. 

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