{"podcast":{"title":"Reclaim Within the Podcast: Emotional, Spiritual, & Somatic Intelligence","slug":"reclaim-within-the-podcast-emotional-spiritual-somatic-intelligence-7116379","podcast_index_feed_id":7116379,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/2480619.rss","website_url":"https://reclaimwithin.substack.com/podcast","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/2480619/34262257674ef2ffc3545b091a667c25.jpg","author":"Ash B","episode_count":41,"summary":"I am here to reclaim within, to plant the seeds of remembering, & to bring heaven to earth. I am here to teach you how to Build your own Inner Kingdom. Thank you for Joining me. Building INNER Kingdoms Course, Community + Freedom Work, Cosmic Alchemy","last_synced_at":"2026-07-30T02:20:21.232885+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/reclaim-within-the-podcast-emotional-spiritual-somatic-intelligence-7116379"},"episode":{"title":"Ep. 35 - Why I Walked Away From Astrology & Why I’m Returning","slug":"ep-35-why-i-walked-away-from-astrology-why-i-m-returning","published_at":"2026-05-06T13:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/reclaim-within-the-podcast-emotional-spiritual-somatic-intelligence-7116379/ep-35-why-i-walked-away-from-astrology-why-i-m-returning","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/reclaim-within-the-podcast-emotional-spiritual-somatic-intelligence-7116379","url":"https://reclaimwithin.substack.com/p/ep-35-why-i-walked-away-from-astrology","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/193116909/15847c3b03e2935cf6a34fb1bfcdb1e9.mp3","summary":"Ep. 35 - In this episode, I open up about my relationship with astrology, how I found it when I was 13 years old during a huge life shakeup, why I fell so deeply in love with it, how it became my full-time work, why I eventually walked away, & why I am now feeling called to return to it from a very different place inside of myself. I share what I believe astrology actually is: not a belief system, not a fixed identity, & not a tool that was ever meant to box us in or flatten the depth of who we are. To me, astrology is an archetypal language. It is a symbolic language that can meet us at whatever level of consciousness we bring to it. I also speak honestly about what turned me off from astrology for a season, especially the ways I saw it being used through meme culture & pop culture astrology as a reductive, dismissive, or victimizing framework. I share why that felt so disheartening to me, what I had to wrestle with in myself, & what has helped me come back into relationship with astrology now with more humility, reverence, trust, & respect for the mystery. This episode is really about symbolism, consciousness, free will, archetypes, mystery, & what it means to engage something sacred without reducing it. In this episode, I explore: * why the tools meant to help us know ourselves more deeply were never meant to box us in * how astrology first supported me during one of the hardest seasons of my childhood * the journey from private study to full-time professional readings * why I stepped away from astrology for a period of time * why astrology is not a belief system * astrology as an archetypal + symbolic language * the difference between using astrology as a trap vs using it as a mirror * why consciousness matters in how we engage archetypal tools * the chart as a see…","meta_description":"Ep. 35 - In this episode, I open up about my relationship with astrology, how I found it when I was 13 years old during a huge life shakeup, why I fell so…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1536,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/reclaim-within-the-podcast-emotional-spiritual-somatic-intelligence-7116379/episodes/ep-35-why-i-walked-away-from-astrology-why-i-m-returning/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/reclaim-within-the-podcast-emotional-spiritual-somatic-intelligence-7116379/ep-35-why-i-walked-away-from-astrology-why-i-m-returning.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}