In this episode, Adina and Roberta explore the lingering effects of Mercury retrograde in Pisces and the energetic shift into April’s fiery astrological landscape. Reflecting on personal challenges—from technology breakdowns to emotional intensity—they unpack the collective themes shaping this moment and offer insight into how to move through it with awareness and intention.

The conversation centers around April’s tarot archetype, the Queen of Swords (Thoth deck), and her call toward clarity, truth, and discernment. Adina connects this energy to the dismantling of patriarchal conditioning and the reclamation of inner authority, weaving in parallels to fierce feminine archetypes like Kali. Together, they examine the shedding of masks, the courage to face reality, and the importance of balancing intellect with emotional depth.

Roberta provides a grounded overview of April’s key astrological transits, including increased Aries energy, a potent Mercury–Mars–Saturn conjunction, and the influence of Venus moving through Taurus and later into Gemini. They discuss how these shifts may manifest as heightened tension, impulsivity, or conflict—while also offering opportunities for growth, honesty, and renewed vitality.

The episode closes with a look ahead to May’s energy and a reminder of the strength found in integration, resilience, and community support.

Topics Covered:

• Mercury retrograde aftermath and post-shadow effects
• Venus in Taurus: grounding, relational ease, and embodiment
• The Queen of Swords as an archetype of clarity and truth
• Patriarchal deconstruction and reclaiming inner authority
• Aries season: fire, initiation, and emotional intensity
• Key April transits: New Moon, planetary conjunctions, and potential conflict
• Astrology as a tool for self-awareness and reflection

Resources Mentioned:

• The Pattern App (for tracking personal astrological transits)

Listener Takeaway:
This is a time to stay rooted in truth, practice discernment, and navigate intensity with both courage and compassion. As the fire of Aries burns, the invitation is not to react impulsively—but to respond with clarity, integrity, and heart.

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Roberta Anderson is a Professional Home Organizer, Feng Shui Consultant, Home Witch, and Astrologer based in Asheville, NC. With a deep understanding of both practical organization and intuitive energy work, Roberta helps clients create spaces that nourish the mind, body, and spirit. By combining the art of home design with the wisdom of astrology, she guides individuals in aligning their environments with their personal goals and energetic needs. Her holistic approach helps clients clear clutter, improve energy flow, and cultivate a more peaceful and balanced environment.

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In this episode, Adina and Roberta sit down with former Blue Hour host, somatic guide and sole initiate Joshua Zamrin to explore the profound intelligence of the body as a pathway to healing, wholeness, and spiritual integration.

Joshua shares his approach to embodiment work through elemental exploration—guiding clients to connect with the body as a benevolent, intuitive force capable of processing trauma and revealing deep inner truth. He introduces the Genius Frequency Methodologies, a body-based system that uses breathwork, sensation, and energetic mapping to build safety and regulation within the nervous system.

The conversation dives into the limitations of traditional talk therapy and the power of somatic practices to access clarity beyond the analytical mind. Joshua describes how the body can act as an oracle—offering immediate feedback, insight, and direction when we learn how to listen.

Together, they explore:

• What it truly means to embody “wholeness”
• The role of the nervous system in spiritual development
• How elemental forces map onto the body and psyche
• Sensation as a teacher and portal to purpose
• The difference between intellectual understanding and lived integration
• Why safety in the body is foundational for deep healing

This episode is an invitation to shift from thinking your way through healing… to feeling your way home.

Joshua is a soul initiator and somatic guide whose medicine lies in supporting people to descend into their bodies, meet their shadows, and express the gifts of their sensitivities. His presence awakens in others the remembrance of how to feel, reclaim lost parts, and step more fully into their power and self-authorship- co-creating an outer reality reflecting authenticity, aliveness, and soul alignment.
Joshua’s medicine weaves shamanic wisdom and mysticism with evidence-based modalities, drawing upon over a decade of embodied initiations and certifications in the realms of wellness, healing arts, somatics, and the alchemy of soul-guided wholeness.

soulbodywholeness.life

IG: soulbodywholeness

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Roberta Anderson is a Professional Home Organizer, Feng Shui Consultant, Home Witch, and Astrologer based in Asheville, NC. With a deep understanding of both practical organization and intuitive energy work, Roberta helps clients create spaces that nourish the mind, body, and spirit. By combining the art of home design with the wisdom of astrology, she guides individuals in aligning their environments with their personal goals and energetic needs. Her holistic approach helps clients clear clutter, improve energy flow, and cultivate a more peaceful and balanced environment.

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Welcome to Season 11! In this episode, Adina and Roberta to explore what it means to be a modern mystic. Together they discuss how ancient spiritual traditions are being rediscovered and why curiosity, discernment, and personal experience remain essential on any spiritual path.

The conversation moves through a wide landscape of mystical practice—from astrology and archetypal work to intuition, ritual, and the liminal spaces where insight emerges. Adina and Roberta reflect on the importance of honoring traditional lineages while also allowing spiritual practices to evolve and blend in our interconnected modern culture.

They explore the challenges of navigating spiritual authority in an era of AI, influencers, and online teachings, emphasizing the need to recognize the humanity and imperfections of teachers while maintaining personal sovereignty and discernment.

They discuss the role of intuition, imagination, and altered states of awareness and how these capacities are often misunderstood in modern culture.

In this episode, we explore:

• What it means to be a modern mystic
• Reviving ancient spiritual traditions in contemporary life
• Maintaining discernment with spiritual teachers and communities
• The role of intuition, imagination, and liminal states in mystical practice
• Archetypes, attunement, and symbolic language in spiritual work
• Western vs. sidereal astrology and the precession of the equinoxes
• Astrological magic, talismans, and everyday ritual
• Balancing masculine and feminine energies in spiritual evolution

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Adina Arden Cooper is a Shadow Guide and Holistic Therapist. She helps highly sensitive creative visionaries heal trauma so they can not only survive this human experience but thrive in the expression of their greatest gifts. Adina has over 20 years of experience in education and mental health. She's also an artist, a seeker, a mother, and very curious person.

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Roberta Anderson is a Professional Home Organizer, Feng Shui Consultant, Home Witch, and Astrologer based in Asheville, NC. With a deep understanding of both practical organization and intuitive energy work, Roberta helps clients create spaces that nourish the mind, body, and spirit. By combining the art of home design with the wisdom of astrology, she guides individuals in aligning their environments with their personal goals and energetic needs. Her holistic approach helps clients clear clutter, improve energy flow, and cultivate a more peaceful and balanced environment.

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In this episode of Blue Hour, Adina and Roberta explore the astrological and energetic landscape of March, guided by the wisdom of the Queen of Cups. Together, they unpack the emotional depth of Pisces season, the fiery shift into Aries, and the powerful undercurrents of eclipse season.

March invites us into deep emotional awareness, intuitive reflection, and compassionate connection — but also asks us to stay grounded as collective tensions rise.

✨ In This Episode

🔮 Tarot for the Month: Queen of Cups

• Emotional depth, intuition, and inner listening
• The balance between empathy and emotional overwhelm
• Creative practices for processing feelings (art, music, connection)
• How watery Pisces energy amplifies this card’s themes

🌊 Pisces Season → 🔥 Aries Season

• Navigating fantasy vs. reality
• Balancing fluidity with stability
• Preparing for a surge of action-oriented Aries energy

☿ Mercury Retrograde Reflections

• Communication and tech slowdowns
• Why this is a time for introspection rather than big launches
• Revisiting, reviewing, recalibrating

🌑 Eclipse Season Insights

• Why eclipses bring beginnings and endings
• The energetic impact of the February 17 Solar Eclipse in Aquarius
• The March 3 Lunar Eclipse in Virgo and its themes of boundaries and clarity
• Why not to overcommit or over-declutter during eclipse portals

🪐 Saturn–Neptune & Breaking Illusions

• Disillusionment as a necessary awakening
• Political and social realities coming into sharper focus
• The potential for compassionate structural change

🔥 Collective Rage & Emotional Release

• Rising irritability and tension in 2025
• Processing feminine rage in healthy ways
• Breathwork, primal screaming, fire circles, creative expression
• Imagining a more collaborative future

🌙 Dream Work as Guidance

• Why dreams intensify during eclipse season
• Tracking dreams through journaling and tarot
• Using therapy, writing, and ritual to decode subconscious messages

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Adina Arden Cooper is a Shadow Guide and Holistic Therapist. She helps highly sensitive creative visionaries heal trauma so they can not only survive this human experience but thrive in the expression of their greatest gifts. Adina has over 20 years of experience in education and mental health. She's also an artist, a seeker, a mother, and very curious person.

Visit Adina's website to find out more about her work
Follow Fire Bird Creative on Instagram

Roberta Anderson is a Professional Home Organizer, Feng Shui Consultant, Home Witch, and Astrologer based in Asheville, NC. With a deep understanding of both practical organization and intuitive energy work, Roberta helps clients create spaces that nourish the mind, body, and spirit. By combining the art of home design with the wisdom of astrology, she guides individuals in aligning their environments with their personal goals and energetic needs. Her holistic approach helps clients clear clutter, improve energy flow, and cultivate a more peaceful and balanced environment.

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In this deeply moving conversation, death doula and trauma-informed grief worker, Melissa Seligman, shares her lifelong relationship with death, grief, and healing. Melissa speaks with honesty and tenderness about the realities of grief that often go unacknowledged.

The conversation explores the complexities of suicide and sudden grief, the limitations of language, and the profound healing power of presence. We discuss trauma-informed care, Indigenous healing practices, and what it truly means to support someone in the aftermath of profound loss—without rushing, fixing, or pathologizing grief.

This episode is an offering for anyone who has experienced suicide loss, supports others through grief, or longs for a more humane, heart-centered way of being with death.

In This Episode, We Explore

• Melissa’s personal journey with death, trauma, and loss
• The complexities of suicide grief
• Challenges in responding to suicide loss
• The importance of presence when words fall short
• The intersection of trauma and grief
• Self-care for caregivers and grief supporters
• Indigenous healing practices, ceremony, and somatic healing
• Allowing rage, anger, and all emotions in the grief process
• Connection as medicine for trauma and isolation

About Melissa

Melissa is a death doula and trauma-informed grief worker specializing in traumatic, sudden, and suicide deaths. Her work is rooted in Indigenous practices, ceremony, and unconditional presence. She supports individuals and families worldwide, with a particular focus on military life, trauma, and grief.

Melissa is the author of The Day After He Left for Iraq and the founder of Her War Her Voice, amplifying the lived experiences of military families.

Resources & Links

herwarhervoice.com

The Day After he Left for Iraq

Email: Melissa@herwarhervoice.com; Melissa@rootedrite.com

Content Note

This episode includes discussions of suicide, trauma, and grief. Listener discretion is advised, and care is encouraged.

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Adina Arden Cooper is a Shadow Guide and Holistic Therapist. She helps highly sensitive creative visionaries heal trauma so they can not only survive this human experience but thrive in the expression of their greatest gifts. Adina has over 20 years of experience in education and mental health. She's also an artist, a seeker, a mother, and very curious person.

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Roberta Anderson is a Professional Home Organizer, Feng Shui Consultant, Home Witch, and Astrologer based in Asheville, NC. With a deep understanding of both practical organization and intuitive energy work, Roberta helps clients create spaces that nourish the mind, body, and spirit. By combining the art of home design with the wisdom of astrology, she guides individuals in aligning their environments with their personal goals and energetic needs. Her holistic approach helps clients clear clutter, improve energy flow, and cultivate a more peaceful and balanced environment.

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In this episode, Adina and Roberta explore the Prince of Disks from the Thoth Tarot as a guiding archetype for the intense and unstable energies of February.

Beginning with the card itself, they unpack themes of manifestation, determination, reliability, and sacred perseverance. They reflect on January’s guiding card, the Princess of Swords, and its themes of rebellion, clarity, and confronting injustice. February’s Prince of Disks energy, by contrast, asks for patience, embodiment, and commitment to long-term purpose.

The conversation then widens into the astrological energies of February, including a powerful eclipse. They discuss major transits—including Saturn conjunct Neptune, Mercury retrograde in Pisces, and their implications for personal and collective experience.

The episode closes with a practical and compassionate focus on nervous system regulation. Adina and Roberta emphasize grounding practices as a first line of support during chaotic times—caring for the body, prioritizing rest, co-regulation, and staying connected to nature.

This episode is an invitation to slow down, stay rooted, and trust the deeper process unfolding beneath the surface.

In This Episode, You’ll Hear:

• The Prince of Disks as February’s guiding archetype
• Why grounding and determination matter during chaotic times
• Reflections on January’s Princess of Swords energy
• Insights into February’s eclipse season and major transits
• Saturn–Neptune, Mercury retrograde, and creative expression
• Nervous system regulation tools for astrologically intense periods

Perfect for listeners interested in tarot, astrology, embodiment, nervous system care, and navigating collective upheaval with intention.

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Adina Arden Cooper is a Shadow Guide and Holistic Therapist. She helps highly sensitive creative visionaries heal trauma so they can not only survive this human experience but thrive in the expression of their greatest gifts. Adina has over 20 years of experience in education and mental health. She's also an artist, a seeker, a mother, and very curious person.

Visit Adina's website to find out more about her work
Follow Fire Bird Creative on Instagram

Roberta Anderson is a Professional Home Organizer, Feng Shui Consultant, Home Witch, and Astrologer based in Asheville, NC. With a deep understanding of both practical organization and intuitive energy work, Roberta helps clients create spaces that nourish the mind, body, and spirit. By combining the art of home design with the wisdom of astrology, she guides individuals in aligning their environments with their personal goals and energetic needs. Her holistic approach helps clients clear clutter, improve energy flow, and cultivate a more peaceful and balanced environment.

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In this episode, we’re joined by ecopsychologist Ash Lounsbury for a rich and wide-ranging conversation on ecotherapy, bird divination, and remembering our relationship with the natural world.

Ash shares her personal journey into ecotherapy, including how nature-based practices supported her own healing. We explore her current work guiding individuals and communities in nature connection practices, ritual, and bird divination.

A central thread of the conversation is bird divination--a mindful, oracular practice that helps you tune into your inner wisdom. Together, we reflect on our own meaningful encounters with birds and the wisdom they offer through sound, behavior, and presence. Ash emphasizes shifting from identification toward listening, witnessing, and relationship, and how these practices can help us reconnect with nature.

Topics Covered

• Ecotherapy and nature-based healing
• Supporting trauma-informed relationships with nature
• Bird divination as personal and communal practice
• Seasonal workshops, community circles, and individual offerings
• Bird apprenticeship and learning from local species
• Symbolism and lived experience with birds
• Listening vs. identifying in nature connection

Resources Mentioned

The Merlin App

Ash Lounsbury is an ecopsychologist and enrolled citizen of the Wahzhazhe (Osage) Nation. Ash holds a non-clinical Master's in Ecopsychology from Naropa University and Level 1 and 2 certificates in ecotherapy from the Earthbody Institute. Her graduate research culminated in a dissertation on the intersection of ancient bird divination and contemporary ecotherapeutic modalities. Ash sometimes writes about myth, ecohealing, queerness, and birds.
With over a decade of meditation experience, she's had the honor to support Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield's virtual meditation community members. In 2025, she co-founded Earthwild Ecology Club where she co-facilitates virtual ecopsychological workshops.

wakeecohealing.com

Earthwilld Ecology Club

IG: @wake.ecohealing

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Adina Arden Cooper is a Shadow Guide and Holistic Therapist. She helps highly sensitive creative visionaries heal trauma so they can not only survive this human experience but thrive in the expression of their greatest gifts. Adina has over 20 years of experience in education and mental health. She's also an artist, a seeker, a mother, and very curious person.

Visit Adina's website to find out more about her work
Follow Fire Bird Creative on Instagram

Roberta Anderson is a Professional Home Organizer, Feng Shui Consultant, Home Witch, and Astrologer based in Asheville, NC. With a deep understanding of both practical organization and intuitive energy work, Roberta helps clients create spaces that nourish the mind, body, and spirit. By combining the art of home design with the wisdom of astrology, she guides individuals in aligning their environments with their personal goals and energetic needs. Her holistic approach helps clients clear clutter, improve energy flow, and cultivate a more peaceful and balanced environment.

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In this episode, we sit down with Nina Kawar, sculptor and jeweler, to explore her powerful artistic and spiritual journey. Nina shares how her path with clay began during a difficult period in her life, ultimately leading her to pursue art with a focus on healing, resilience, and spiritual transformation. Nina shares how creativity became a lifeline and a form of devotion. Clay and natural materials became tools for listening inward, trusting intuition, and grounding higher realms into physical form.

Together, we discuss jewelry as conduits for healing, intuitive collaboration with materials, and the importance of art as spiritual support during times of collective intensity.

Topics Covered

• Art as healing and spiritual practice
• Resilience through loss and transformation
• The beauty of imperfection
• Spiritual evolution and intuitive creation
• Metaphysical tools
• Jewelry as talismans and healing objects

Nina Kawar is a sculptor and jeweler who is intrigued by the human condition, healing, and consciousness. Inspired by nature and its elements, each piece in her collections speaks to the ebb and flow in embodying her creative energy and life’s cycles. Her fine art sculptures explore her curiosity for patterns, perspectives, and evolution; while her copper electroformed jewelry are healing tools created to assist others on their journey.

Her work is grounded in an interdisciplinary exploration of psychology, biology, and metaphysics. She began her artistic journey in San Diego and earned a BFA from the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh. She later discovered her passion for porcelain at Clemson University, where she received a Master of Fine Arts in Ceramics.

She currently shares her work through her business, Pure Ritual, based in Asheville, North Carolina. After the recent loss of her ceramic studio in Hurricane Helene, she is navigating the next phase of rebuilding her sculptural practice. Her ever-evolving work reflects a personal journey of transformation and the ongoing process of coming home.

ninakawar.com

pure-ritual.com

IG: @ninakawar, @pure_ritual

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Adina Arden Cooper is a Shadow Guide and Holistic Therapist. She helps highly sensitive creative visionaries heal trauma so they can not only survive this human experience but thrive in the expression of their greatest gifts. Adina has over 20 years of experience in education and mental health. She's also an artist, a seeker, a mother, and very curious person.

Visit Adina's website to find out more about her work
Follow Fire Bird Creative on Instagram

Roberta Anderson is a Professional Home Organizer, Feng Shui Consultant, Home Witch, and Astrologer based in Asheville, NC. With a deep understanding of both practical organization and intuitive energy work, Roberta helps clients create spaces that nourish the mind, body, and spirit. By combining the art of home design with the wisdom of astrology, she guides individuals in aligning their environments with their personal goals and energetic needs. Her holistic approach helps clients clear clutter, improve energy flow, and cultivate a more peaceful and balanced environment.

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