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Living the Spiral

Living the Spiral

Di: Alison Dale
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Living the Spiral with Alison Dale explores the rhythms of time, from lunar cycles to life pivots. It’s part astrology & human design, part seasonal check-in, and an invitation to move with change rather than fight it.

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  • 🎙️Liberation Magic: A Conversation with Aki Hirata Quetzalyolotzin

    🎙️Liberation Magic: A Conversation with Aki Hirata Quetzalyolotzin
    Jul 26 2026

    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

    Interested in being interviewed on Living the Spiral: Magicians? Send Alison a DM.



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    1 ora e 8 min
  • 🎙️ Leo Season 2026: Expansion & Release

    🎙️ Leo Season 2026: Expansion & Release
    Jul 22 2026

    Leo Season 2026: Stepping Onto Pride Rock

    If you want to go deep into your own chart and how this season lands for you personally, my books are open at hearthandspiral.com. And I also want to invite you to join the waitlist for ELAmap, the new astrocartography app my partner and I have been building- it's going live next week on the Aquarius full moon!

    This Leo season episode traces the sign all the way back to Babylon and Egypt, through the Thema Mundi, the ancient world chart with the sun in its own home in Leo, and into the Human Design gates of the season and the transits of an eclipse-charged summer.

    We cover the nodes shifting into Leo and Aquarius, a Full Moon in Aquarius standing cazimi opposite a Jupiter-Sun conjunction, Mars easing into Cancer, and the total solar eclipse in Leo on August 12, the first of a new two-year series and the season's real centerpiece.

    The season's invitation is to step fully into the light, and to figure out which parts of that radiance are true and which were only ever built for applause. Come out of the den before Virgo season asks you to get to work.

    Key dates:July 24/25 · Mercury stations directJuly 26 · Nodes shift into Leo and AquariusJuly 29 · Full Moon in Aquarius / Sun cazimi Jupiter, Gate 31August 1 · Lughnasadh/LammasAugust 6 · Venus enters LibraAugust 9 · Mercury enters LeoAugust 11 · Mars enters CancerAugust 12 · Total Solar Eclipse in Leo, Gate 4 (Formulization)August 17 · Venus sextile JupiterThanks for listening! Find more posts at livingthespiral.com, or on IG and TikTok @hearthandspiral



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    1 ora e 12 min
  • What's Provoking You Right Now?

    What's Provoking You Right Now?
    Jul 4 2026
    Hey friends,I’m trying something new here on Living the Spiral. For years I’ve moved through forecasts of different shapes - weekly deep dives, then biweekly on the full and new moons, then monthly, always tracking the sun and planets through the signs, gates and seasons. That work isn’t going anywhere- it’s my foundation. But today I felt called to record without a plan, to speak from the hip instead of from research, and to let whatever wants to come through actually come through.This is new for me in a specific way. I’m a 5/1 in human design, and that one line in my unconscious profile is about investigation, about laying a foundation before anything gets said out loud. I’ve spent years earning trust with myself by going deep before I speak. So sitting down to talk without that groundwork first is its own kind of edge. But as a self-projected projector, I need to speak out loud to know what I mean and what I desire. So it’s also, I think, exactly what today is asking of me. Listen in the player above or find Living the Spiral wherever you listen to podcasts <3.The Gate of the NowIt’s Friday, July 3rd as I record this, and we’re sitting inside the Mars-Uranus conjunction in Gemini, in Gate 20, the Gate of the Now. Mars and Uranus meet up roughly every two years, so the conjunction itself isn’t rare. What is rare is the sign. This is the first time this pairing has landed in Gemini in about 84 years, after about a decade of these conjunctions happening in Taurus. A new flavor of energy is moving through, and it’s arriving right as the United States marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.I don’t think that timing is incidental. The Fourth of July always falls when the sun is in the Gate of Provocation (39), whose gift is dynamism and whose siddhi is liberation. There’s no liberty without provoking or bringing attention to the thing that’s making you feel trapped. The gate of Provocation is a Cancer gate, and I keep thinking of the crab: a creature built to withdraw into its shell, and also built with claws. Hiding isn’t the only option. Sometimes the claws come out because the shell alone won’t do the job anymore.So we’ve got Uranus and Mars electrifying the present moment while the sun sits in the gate of Provocation, and the message underneath all of it feels pretty blunt: look around at where you believe yourself to be trapped, and take action. Shock the system a little. Move.My own Chiron in thisMy natal Chiron sits in the Gate of the Now, so this conjunction is landing directly on it. Chiron is the wound we hold that can eventually become the thing we teach from, once we’ve alchemized it. For me, this wound is about not feeling heard and not feeling fully seen by my community. Gemini rules communication and local networks, and this placement sits in my 11th house, the house of larger community and friendship groups, so having Uranus and Mars stir that up is landing in a very specific spot.What I’m noticing under the provocation is a pattern I’ve built without meaning to. I tune myself down sometimes. I round off the complexity of what I actually think so that I’ll be easier to receive, softer to meet in the moment. And that habit, born out of wanting to be understood, ends up being the very thing that keeps me from being fully met. A Chiron wound reopening tends to work that way. It doesn’t just point at the wound. It points at the strategy we built around the wound so we don’t feel it as intensely, and asks whether that strategy is still serving us. The pain can turn into medicine once it has an outlet.This is where self-understanding becomes part of the medicine. I've spent years with astrology, human design, the gene keys, meditation, and deep reflection, and what they've shown me about my own wiring is specific. The only channels active in my chart are collective understanding circuits, and my sun gate is Gate 64, the gate that alchemizes Confusion into Illumination. So much of my design leans toward the big picture, toward zooming way out across long stretches of time and pattern. So when my Chiron is met by Uranus and Mars in the Gate of the present moment, I feel real friction there. For a long time I treated that friction as something wrong with me, something to smooth over or apologize for to my community. Now I hold it differently. It's information about how I'm built, and it lets me meet the now on my own terms instead of forcing myself into a shape of how the now should look that was never mine. I think this is available to anyone doing this work with their own chart. Getting to know yourself this closely means you can choose your response instead of running the old strategy without noticing. And once that kind of self-knowledge starts to settle in, it stops feeling like a personal project, and starts feeling like part of something much bigger moving through all of us.From tribal bargain to individual ...
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