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Kindness is Not Matching Energy: Q & A About Relationships on the Spiritual Path May 14, 2025

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This week, we've got another relationship episode, complete with the support of Tarot and some spiritual maxims. We are here to remember that relationships are sacred, and sometimes, staying sacred means making hard choices. Sarah tackles questions from the Moon Studio Patreon
about:

How to handle friend break-ups ethically
What to do when you are poly but want to have good spiritual hygiene but want love
Feeling like your spiritual growth and your romantic relationships are in opposition

Sarah ends this episode in a Tarot reading, see what cards come up around spiritual growth and relationships!

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Love in A F*cked Up World: Dean Spade on Love, Relationships and Community Building, Now May 07, 2025

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Want more depth from your relationships? Feeling lonely and aren't sure what to do about it? You aren't alone, beloved. In a very special episode, we are very excited to welcome author, professor, and organizer Dean Spade! Dean breaks down why he felt called to write his latest amazing book, Love in a F*cked Up World: How To Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell Together.

This episode explores:

Why we are conflict avoidant, and why it's not your fault
How to build deeper relationships
Simple ways to check yourself
How honesty can strengthen all your relationships, including the one with yourself

This is an episode you will take notes from, listen to numerous times, and forward to friends.

Dean Spade Bio:
Dean Spade has been working to build queer and trans liberation based in racial and economic justice for the past two decades.
He is a professor at the Seattle University School of Law. He has written 3 books, his latest is Love In A F*cked-Up World.

Find Dean here and here.

Links mentioned:

Creative Conflict

Mariame Kaba

transformharm.org

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All We Have Is Everyday: Community-Led Exploration of the Hermit's Gifts Apr 30, 2025

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In part 4 of our deep dive into the nuances of the Hermit archetype, Sarah Faith Gottesdiener and some members of our Moon Studio community—our Patrons!—join in on an expansive, intimate exploration around what living the Hermit archetype has given them, so far this year.

Tune in to be delighted, affirmed, and expanded by open and intimate shares from our patrons!

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Relationships in A Hermit Year plus Your Questions Answered with Special Guest Dean Spade! Apr 23, 2025

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In part 3 of our deep dive into the nuances of the Hermit archetype, Sarah Faith Gottesdiener explores some of the challenges that come with being an intuitive, mystical, sensitive person wanting to have healthy relationships of all kinds. In this episode, Sarah discusses the different challenges intuitives and sensitives face trying to find right-fit relationships in a numbed out, often cruel world.

Plus, we have the delightful author of Love in Fucked Up World, Dean Spade, on the show to answer listener questions!

Tune in to learn about:

Why you got so exhausted masking and why it is better to unmask
Why you attract people who don't understand you
How to know if you are ending past life contracts with others
What soul friends are and why it's so important to look for them
How to find new, healthy, intimate relationships

The questions Dean and I answer are these:
Can someone who is committed to spirituality and growth be friends with folks who have no interest in personal growth and change?

How to know when a friendship has run its course, or when it is white supremacy influenced disposability?

What to do when beloveds have very different political beliefs as you—to stay or to go?
If you want to feel affirmed and less lonely, tune in for today's episode!

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The Lonely Path of the High Priestess: Common Struggles on the Spiritual Path Apr 16, 2025

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In part 2 of our deep dive into the nuances of the Hermit archetype, Sarah Faith Gottesdiener explores some of the challenges that come with being an intuitive, mystical, sensitive person. While the struggle of the High Priestess is real, it is also a beautiful path of self-discovery and collective healing. Tune into this episode for remedies to the pain and wounds that can accompany being a spiritual person in a material world.

Tune in for:

The top issues that clairvoyants, healers, and intuitives face
Why you feel so lonely on a path that is supposed to grant you belonging
3+ remedies to try for more support and belonging

If you want to feel affirmed and less lonely, tune in for today's episode!

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Healing The Hermit: A Collective Tarot Reading Apr 09, 2025

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What does it mean to embody the more challenging aspects of our mystical life?
Stepping into the mystery can be challenging, especially now. We've already dealt with so much upheaval and heartbreak, and it's only April! But the Mystic, which is what the Hermit it, reminds us that the divine speaks to each one of us uniquely. But how to learn how to listen? And where to begin? In this episode, Sarah offers up a collective Tarot reading that will help you take the next right step into the unknown.

Tune in for:

More on why we've been conditioned to fear the unknown, and how we can embrace it
What the Virgo/Pisces nodes help us integrate
A comprehensive reading that might just have the exact message you need to hear

If you want some support directly from Sarah, by way of the Tarot, this episode is for you.

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How to Make the Unconscious Conscious with Somatic Depth Coach Antonia Dolhaine Apr 02, 2025

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Do you avoid chaos? Can you recognize when your body is trying to tell you something? Are you afraid of the unknown?

In this conversation, Sarah is joined by former Cirque du Soleil acrobat turned somatic depth coach Antonia Dolhaine. Working in a way that Sarah describes as the future, Antonia has mixed multiple modalities with her own experiences to make her work unique. Antonia shares her journey to working as a somatic depth coach and details common themes that arise with her clients, from mind-body disconnections to fear-led success. They also discuss depth psychology, nervous system healing, and why shapeshifting is imperative for growth.

You’ll learn:

Why chaos is a needed ingredient of change
How to harness the unknown
How to build embodied awareness
How to access your unconscious
The power of your imagination

If you feel like there are missing components in your integration practices, this episode is for you.

Antonia Dolhaine is a former Cirque du Soleil acrobat turned somatic depth coach and author of the weekly substack, SpaceUnknown. She specializes in supporting uncommonly creative and ambitious powerhouses to transform the fear-driven patterns of struggle that fueled their current success into the freedom and ease needed to inhabit the next octave of their unique genius.

Check out Antonia’s Instagram here and website here

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