Mabon and Autumn Equinox Preparation with Virgo New Moon, Venus, Persephone, Demeter and Mercury | Maiden and Mother Archetypes

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Something shifts when the season starts to turn, and you can feel it before the calendar confirms it. I’m naming that threshold and using it as a portal into the Virgo new moon, the approach to Mabon and the Autumn Equinox, and the deeper descent that always arrives as we move toward fall. If you’ve been craving a reset that is practical and soulful, this is the kind of grounding that doesn’t bypass your body. We talk about routines, nervous system support, and why Virgo medicine is less about perfection and more about discernment, structure, and real nourishment.

From there, we drop into myth as psychology through Persephone and Demeter. Persephone’s descent becomes a powerful mirror for individuation: separating self from family roles, loosening enmeshment, and returning to relationship with clearer boundaries and sovereignty. I connect that to modern life in a tangible way, including the small “leaving the nest” moments that reveal where we are still clinging, still avoiding independence, or still refusing to receive support.

Astrology adds heat and depth this week: Venus moving into Scorpio spotlights feminine shadow work and the golden shadow gifts we haven’t claimed yet, Mercury moving into Libra raises themes of equality and reciprocity in relationships, and Uranus retrograde asks what is awakening within you right now. I offer simple journaling prompts and a permission slip to focus on the one thread that calls to you most, instead of trying to do everything at once.

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Integration Happens When You Stop Forcing The Magic | Navigating Your Window of Tolerance for Grief and Joy in Liminal Spaces | Somatic Yielding Practice to The Earth and Opening to Receive | Spontaneous Transmission

The weirdest part of spiritual growth is not the breakthrough, it is the quiet that comes after. I am recording from that partly cloudy in-between, the portal between eclipse seasons, where your life looks the same on the outside but everything is rearranging on the inside. If you have been feeling unmotivated, untethered, or strangely disconnected from your usual goddess work, I want to offer a different lens: liminal space is not a mistake, it is where integration happens.

I bring in Hecate, queen of witches and guardian of the crossroads, to name the paradox of this season. The in-between can feel like stuckness while it is actually the place where movement occurs, where the unconscious shifts into new paradigms you have been building toward. I also talk about Hygia, the goddess of hygiene and daily tending, and why the most spiritual thing you might do right now is refresh your habits, care for your body, and let the “human life” part of you be the altar. We also explore what it means when tools like tarot or ritual lose their charge, and how that can be a call to trust intuition without props.

From there, we get practical and somatic: receiving as a yin state, yielding through the body, and simple practices like lying on the earth, breathing into the belly, and using heart-opening yoga poses to soften bracing. I share a personal story from officiating a friend’s wedding and the grief that hit on the drive home, unpacking how joy and grief travel together and how expanding your window of tolerance helps you hold more of both. If you are navigating eclipse season integration, nervous system sensitivity, or a quieter phase of spiritual practice, this one is for you.

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Leo Eclipse Season 2026 and Unlocking What you Want Through Reclaiming Desire from Shame and The Witch Wound | North Node in Leo South Node in Aquarius Collective Shift | Wanting a Home and Partnership Can Be Feminist Too | Spontaneous Transmission Episode

Desire is supposed to feel like a pull toward life, so why does it so often feel like a threat? I’m Casey Dunne, and I recorded a raw, unscripted spontaneous transmission on the hidden ways we resist wanting, especially when we’re sitting in uncertainty and the not knowing of an eclipse portal. If you’ve ever gone numb around your dreams, your work, your relationships, or your future, this is a gentle but direct invitation to look at what’s really underneath the shutdown.

We start with the bigger cultural field: the anger and exhaustion that comes from medical gaslighting and the long history of female desire being ignored, under researched, or dismissed. When the system teaches women not to trust their own bodies, it makes sense that many of us look elsewhere for wisdom, including spiritual education, ancestral knowing, and elder guidance. From a somatic therapy perspective, desire isn’t a performance goal. It grows from safety, truth, and embodied self trust.

From there, I bring in astrology as a meaning making tool: the collective North Node shift into Aquarius with the South Node in Leo, and why the path isn’t about abandoning your past. It’s about integrating your gifts, reclaiming your shine, and meeting the witch wound that says being seen is dangerous. I also share how dreamwork can surface shadow material right now, plus a practical exercise: two islands, a bird, and the seeds you choose to carry into your next chapter.

If something in you is ready to want again, press play, then share what landed with you. Subscribe, send this to a friend who’s in a “what now?” season, and leave a review so more people can find the work.

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