🎙️ Seven-Eight Magic: A Conversation with Stephanie FoleyA Magicians interview with Alison of Living the Spiral

Stephanie Foley of Moon Feather Hollow joins Living the Spiral for a conversation that started with a shared obsession over the number seven and unfolded into something bigger: the relationship between seven as process and eight as the structure that holds it. We trace this through Inanna's eight-point star and seven gates, the seven planetary days of the week, grief and the gold buried in returning cycles, the masculine wound around shedding and regeneration, and the shift from matriarchy and patriarchy toward what Stephanie calls synarchy.

In this episode:

How Stephanie and Alison found each other through Substack and recognized a shared body of work

Inanna's descent, the seven gates, and the eight-point star

Why seven is the living process and eight is the structure that holds it

Returning to old grief from a new vantage point in the cycle

Building a life around the seven planetary days

Moon Feather Hollow as an imaginal sanctuary

The masculine wound and the fear of shedding

Moving from matriarchy and patriarchy toward synarchy

Asynchronous voice notes and untethering from performance

A shared Jupiter placement in Gate 34, the gate of power

Find Stephanie:Website: moonfeatherhollow.comSubstack: Seasons and Stars (stephaniefoley.substack.com)YouTube: Moon Feather Hollow

Find Alison:Substack: Living the SpiralInstagram: @hearthandspiralWebsite & sessions: hearthandspiral.comAlison's Ecosomatic Astrology course opens this fall, six Tuesdays on Zoom, September 22 through October 27. Recorded if you can't make it live. Register at https://www.hearthandspiral.com/ecosomatic-astrology-human-design

Both Ends of the Axis

My Uranus opposition landed the same day as the Leo solar eclipse, and it taught me something about integration, fire and air, and letting go of nodal shame. In this episode: two eclipses landing on my personal planets a year apart, fruit-versus-mycelium and flowers vs. wildfires, and why every axis in the chart needs both ends instead of a winner.

Mentioned in this episode:

Sign up for my new course Ecosomatic Astrology 101, starting September 22nd on the fall equinox → https://www.hearthandspiral.com/ecosomatic-astrology-human-design

Ecosomatic Human Design (bundle discount if you take both, plus a free one-on-one consultation)

If you've got Leo or Aquarius placements, or this eclipse landed on your own personal planets, I'd love to hear where it showed up for you.

Liberation Magic: A Conversation with Aki Hirata Quetzalyolotzin

This week for the Magicians series on Living the Spiral, Alison sits down with Aki Hirata Quetzalyolotzin, a medicine woman, storyteller, and founder of Minka Brooklyn and Minka Mystery School. They talk about claiming a cosmic slut identity after divorce, what magic actually means, why decolonial liberation starts with desire, and how love and grief are the same act.

Topics covered

[02:00] On claiming a new identity after divorce

[08:00] On work as an offering rather than a role

[11:00] On what magic really means

[17:00] On liberation and undoing separation

[24:00] On desire as a creative engine

[53:00] On trauma culture and what comes after naming it

[55:00] On love as a brave act

[1:04:00] Aki's offerings and where to find her

About Aki

Aki Hirata Quetzalyolotzin, also known as Jewel Moon Medicine Woman, is a multidisciplinary energy healing facilitator and community organizer whose work centers on decolonial spiritual liberation. She has dedicated her life to studying mysticism, philosophy, and various healing systems. She lives between Japan and the US and is teaching this summer in LA, the Berkshires, and New York, including a Young Witches School for teenagers working with intuition and oracle cards, and a Reiki training during the Lion's Gate portal built around what she and her teacher call Earth Evolution Reiki.

Writing: Field Notes from the Inbetween on Substack

Instagram: @soulflowermedicine

Teaching home: Minka Brooklyn

About Alison

Alison is an ecosomatic astrologer, Human Design guide, breathwork practitioner, and creative sovereignty coach based in the high desert outside Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her work lives under the name Hearth & Spiral, where she blends astrology, Human Design, somatic practice, and myth into a path back to the body and the land. She hosts Living the Spiral as both a podcast and a Substack publication, and co-created ELA Map with her partner Jackson.

Writing: Living the Spiral on Substack

Instagram: @hearthandspiral

Website: hearthandspiral.com

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