#148 - Bob Falconer: You Can’t Heal from Major Trauma Without Connecting to Spirit - Beyond IFS
Release Date: 04/20/2026
#150- Phoebe Wyss - Inside the Cosmic Mind: Archetypal Astrology and the New Cosmology
Therapeutic Astrology Podcast
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...
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#149 - Dabney Lawless: THE FUTURE IS HERE - A Conversation Between Evolutionary Astrologers As the World Reshuffles Itself
Therapeutic Astrology Podcast
We have been on the edge for so long - now we are here! What do we do now with the confrontational and autonomous energy? If you want inspiration to answer that for yourself, this is the episode to tap into. Even if not, because there is more to this conversation - You will meet Evolutionary Astrologer and teacher Dabney Lawless, who also has her own YouTube channel with excellent interviews and solo content. In this episode, she shares why she believes astrology is, in a way, lawless, as well as her own recent healing experiences through Chiron transits. We then dive into a collective energy...
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#148 - Bob Falconer: You Can’t Heal from Major Trauma Without Connecting to Spirit - Beyond IFS
Therapeutic Astrology Podcast
Robert Falconer (Bob) is with us for the third time, and it is such a rich hour. Listen to this one if you want to learn more about what dialoguing with Spirit is, how a domination structure does not want people to have connection to spirit, how it is essential to heal from trauma, and why desire is a very good thing!! TAP in with us and learn more about: -How to let go of the raft (the tools, worldviews, and methods that once helped us can later become limitations if we cling to them) -Distinctions between channeling and dialogue with spirit -Jung’s active imagination as it relates to...
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#147 - Joel Blackstock: Mystical Experiences in Therapy - BrainSpotting & Emotional Transformation
Therapeutic Astrology Podcast
Our guest today, Joel Blackstock, is deeply inspiring. Whether you’re passionate about therapy or simply curious, this conversation is getting you there - we explore the natural therapeutic evolution, how pattern recognition is central and then Joel breaks down the differences between EMDR and Brainspotting, and then takes us further into Emotional Transformation Therapy. I highly recommend listening to this one. He shares so many powerful reflections, including: “I want my shadow in the room, so I know where it is” which feels especially resonant coming from a fellow Pluto in Scorpio...
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#146 - Justin Wilford, PhD: Your Parts Have a Spiritual Core - Healing Unattached Burdens as Lost Souls in Internal Family Systems
Therapeutic Astrology Podcast
This is such a rich episode! Meet Justin Wilford (IFS practitioner, writer, and former academic) who for some sick reason has two PhD's. But that is all in the past. Now he is full time working with IFS (Internal Family Systems therapy) both client-work, teaching groups and retreats. COME and be with us as we explore the core ideas of IFS, including multiplicity, Self, burdens and the UB's, and the insight that our parts are not just protective, but sacred. Justin shares how his thinking has evolved from viewing parts as mechanisms or metaphors to experiencing them as beings with their...
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#145 - Jason D. Batt, Ph.D. - Depth Psychology, Myth and Artificial Intelligence: Soul and the Machine
Therapeutic Astrology Podcast
"What are the deeper psychological needs trying to be met through this new technology? What are the hidden archetypal patterns at play in turning to the prospect of a different kind of mind, a mind not quite human, perhaps a mind that is more than human? In this liminal space, we find a spectrum of fantasies ranging from a coming utopia ushered in by the potentials of these immaculately conceived technologies, to the enslavement or destruction of humanity by rogue AI that has outsmarted its programmers."* WELCOME to such a rich episode, where technological philosopher, mythologist, futurist...
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#144 - Kingsley Dennis (p.2) Beyond Conditioning - Connecting to Something Higher - The Modern Seeker & Sage Talks
Therapeutic Astrology Podcast
This is the second part of our (yes, yours and mine!) meeting with Kingsley L. Dennis, who holds a PhD and works as a full-time writer and researcher. He is the author of more than twenty-five books and numerous articles, making it no small task to choose what to focus on!! But today is long planned job (planned by myself Mannah)of me bringing some challenging questions to Kingsley, as I recently read his 2020 book "The Modern Seeker: A Perennial Psychology for Contemporary Times." We explore what the perennial path is, and how it can be expressed through the modern language of psychology....
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#143 - Sian Sibley - Black Paths and Green Cathedrals - Unveiling the Green
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...
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#142 - Maja D’Aoust - Astrology of the Shadow Self- Working with Oppositions in Your Natal Chart
Therapeutic Astrology Podcast
”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...
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#141 - Katharina Westblikk - The Path of Esoteric Astrology - Beyond the Individual
Therapeutic Astrology Podcast
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...
info_outlineRobert Falconer (Bob) is with us for the third time, and it is such a rich hour. Listen to this one if you want to learn more about what dialoguing with Spirit is, how a domination structure does not want people to have connection to spirit, how it is essential to heal from trauma, and why desire is a very good thing!!
TAP in with us and learn more about:
-How to let go of the raft (the tools, worldviews, and methods that once helped us can later become limitations if we cling to them)
-Distinctions between channeling and dialogue with spirit
-Jung’s active imagination as it relates to IFS
-How IFS is a raft! Bob's staircase truly excites me
-How confusion, cognitive dissonance, and uncertainty are actually the fastest way to grow
-ASK: “How do I develop my relationship with this?”
-Stand on the Abyss !!
-Any person remains fundamentally mysterious!!
-the alternative to the "attempt to kill the psyche "
-Neoplatonism, theurgy, and the embodied descent of divine energies
-Ecstatic energy
-REVISION the history of spirituality in the West
-Hunger, yearning, and loneliness are not signs of failure but forces that can carry a person home to the divine. Desire becomes distorted only when reduced or controlled
-Spirit being plural
-How Spirit after the book said: "You have tried to storm the Palace of Wisdom through its sewer system"
-How demons keep people chained as long as they remain afraid of them but the way forward is not to violently cut cords
-His comments on lasting transformations: be curious about the parts that brought the old structures back, it is a SLOW PROCESS BASED ON LOVE
-we go into Bob's current transits as he has Uranus right on his Venus now (29 degrees) and have an upcoming transit of Saturn to his Sun. Major development about to give way it seems and I think his current studies of tantra could be related to his Venus in taurus and his upcoming major book project could be related to Saturn approaching, as he has felt some resistance to it and it is a major work. But it could be many other things going on this life that I do not know about, remember in these interviews I always just guess a bit from what I know whereas in a deep conversation about life events, I would understand the symbolism better- but it does point to that something does not satisfy Bob anymore, it is as if another wisdom establish, that could be a broad way to look at the current and coming energy for him. Of course, as an Aries, he marches to his own drummer regardless.
youtube video here: https://youtu.be/JW_uCCi0wfk
check Bob out here:
the book we speak about here:
https://www.amazon.com/Spirit-Robert-Falconer/dp/B0G2GJTHR3
and me here:
https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/