#136 - Belinda Matwali - Trauma-Informed Astrology - Invest in Your Inner Technology
Release Date: 02/12/2026
#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_outlineThis 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!