Surrendering to the Dark Night of the Soul

Anné ["Anna"] Klint is a spiritual rebel who refuses to play by anyone else's rules—including her own from yesterday. As an energy worker and psycho-spiritual insurrectionist, Anné's work is a love letter to women who are absolutely done with playing small. She's here for the midlife mystics who are sick of hiding their soul gifts, tired of prioritizing everyone else's comfort over their own truth, and ready to become so ungovernable in their self-love that they accidentally start a revolution. Liberation is your birthright!I first connected with Anné a few years ago when she invited me to be part of an online summit she was hosting. We hit it off, and last year we started teaching together, in Santa Fe and online, and we’ve become good friends in the process. Anné has a lot of wisdom to share, based on her own experience of navigating the dark night of the soul. She’s now on her third tour through the underworld, and she offers some very useful advice for these times, as all of us are now experiencing a collective dark night of the soul. We talked about:* The personal crisis that catalyzed Anné’s transition from artist to soul guide and healer;* The dark night's mandate to kill off old versions of self and old ways of living;* What it looks like to surrender to the process vs. coping and resisting;* The collective dark night and the opportunity to open to greater power and possibility;* Navigational guidance for the dark night - starting with radical curiosity;* The power of dis-identifying with what we think we know and who we think we are;* The gifts on the other side of the dark night, when we're willing to face the pain;* And much more!Find out more about Anné’s work:* main site: AnneMKlint.com * Anné on Substack: The Love and Liberation Diaries* Receive a free 10-day self-compassion challenge: SelfCompassion.rocksJoin Anné and me in Santa Fe for a women’s mini-retreat! Saturday, July 12th: Uranus in Gemini - Know and Express Your Revolutionary Truth. All women are welcome, including astro-beginners. Early-bird pricing through July 1st. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit embodiedaquarian.substack.com/subscribe

Solstice greetings! The chart of yesterday’s Solstice - the “birth chart” of the new season and blueprint for the next three months - is not messing around! The Cancer Sun conjoins with expansive Jupiter, and activates the tense square to Saturn and Neptune in Aries. The Solstice chart also features TWO yods or “fingers of fate” - dynamic, pressurizing configurations - involving Mars and Pluto. I went into all the Virgoan details about the Solstice in last week’s livestream for founding subscribers, but the gist is: the energies are speeding up, and we’re under relentless pressure to evolve. Yes, world events are reflecting the most distorted expression of planetary energies (Neptune in Aries - the fog and deception of war). But at an individual level, we have the power to co-create with the cosmic forces for the highest good. And these forces are about to get even MORE dynamic…On July 7, Uranus, planet of revolution and liberation, will move into Gemini, the sign of perception, communication and connection. Slow-moving Uranus was last in Gemini 1941-1949, so for many, this will be the first Uranus in Gemini transit in our lifetimes.Uranus in Gemini wants to shatter old, limiting thought forms, expand your mind into wild new territory, liberate your radical message, and inspire exciting new connections aligned with your authentic self.At the same time, media inundation and information overload are likely to ramp up to even more extreme levels, increasing the potential for anxiety, overwhelm and distraction. Navigated unconsciously, your mind and energy could be scattered in too many directions, that are ultimately not fulfilling, meaningful or productive.To support you in navigating these new frequencies with awareness, I’m super-excited to once again team up with soul guide Anné Klint to offer a women’s mini-retreat. Join us live in Santa Fe on Saturday, July 12th, 10am to 3pm for Uranus in Gemini: Know and Express Your Revolutionary Truth. This will be the first retreat in our new series - Cosmic Navigation to Inner Guidance. (We’ll convene again on September 27 and November 15 - save the dates! Astro-themes TBA.)In this retreat, you’ll practice owning your own mind and strengthen your capacity to discern your inner truth separate from the external noise. To counter the scattering, staticky potential of Uranus in Gemini, you’ll be guided to ground into your body’s sovereign inner compass.Together we’ll call in calm and quiet to cultivate your inner witness - the higher expression of Gemini. We’ll slow down to utilize these new frequencies in ways that are fulfilling, creative and aligned with your essence.* Receive expert astro-guidance to see how Uranus in Gemini is activating your personal birth chart;* Dream into and set intentions for YOUR highest expression of Uranus in Gemini;* Through a plant meditation, invite an herbal ally to help you ground deeply into your own knowing;* Practice embodiment through mindful movement and spark your creative expression;* Be deeply seen, heard and held in your sacred humanness.All women are welcome, regardless of prior astro-experience (including beginners). Early registration pricing through July 1st.Get all the details & sign upI hope to see you in Santa Fe! Questions? Just hit reply.love & Solstice blessings, Emily This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit embodiedaquarian.substack.com/subscribe

I’m super-excited to once again team up with my good friend Katie Todd to offer Summer Soul Liberation - a container of support for shedding the default, unconscious patterns that hold you back and catalyzing your path of greatest fulfillment.Check out our conversation about the North and South Nodes in your birth chart - the axis of karma - which we’ll be working with in the group. We talk about Katie’s inspiration for this program (her own South Node cringerriffic activation), how I discovered the power of the Nodes (my cringe-ifying moment), and why I always prioritize the Nodes when I read birth charts. We start Tuesday, July 1st (9am Pacific/12pm Eastern), and will meet every other Tuesday through August 12th (four sessions total). The early-bird registration rate of $250 is available through tomorrow night.Everyone is welcome, regardless of prior astro-experience. Get all the details. Questions? Just hit reply and I’ll be happy to answer. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit embodiedaquarian.substack.com/subscribe

Why would you devote your precious time and attention to learning the Cosmic Science? Let me count the ways:* develop greater understanding, acceptance and compassion for yourself and others;* reconnect with natural cycles and natural time, and with your own instinctual nature;* become more aware of your purpose and gifts, as well as self-sabotaging patterns;* open to and increase connection with the Great Mystery, the divine order behind apparent chaos;* expand your awareness and blow your mind!I’ve been studying astrology for more than 40 years and it STILL blows my mind on a regular basis. If you’re intrigued by astrology and inspired to learn more, I hope you’ll join me for a new 10-week course, Astrology 101.I’m super-excited to share my love and passion for astrology, teach you the foundations of the Cosmic Science, and give you the knowledge and skills to start interpreting your own chart. This course is for complete beginners as well as more advanced students who want to solidify and expand their understanding of the basics. You’ll be working with your own birth chart, and I’ll use students’ charts as examples in class.We start Thursday, June 26, 9am Pacific/12pm Eastern. Recordings are available if you can’t make it to the live class, and you’ll have access to the recordings indefinitely. The early registration fee of $285 is available until June 13. If you took Astro 101 in 2022 and want to re-take the class, you can do so for half-price! Just hit reply and I’ll send a separate link.Get all the details and sign upWhy study astrology with ME? I recently received the following super-sweet (and hilarious) testimonial from a participant in last year’s mentorship, who had taken Astro 101 with me in 2022:"To sing Emily’s praises as an as astrologer, a spiritual guide and as a teacher, I would need the Berlin Philharmonic, the Vatican Choir, 1000 dancers with bells, and Ethel Merman at full tilt. The journey with Emily through the intricate realms of the Zodiac—exploring Planets, Archetypes, Signs and House -- is transformational. Emily is a masterful astrologer, skillfully blending profound insights with sophisticated methodology that fosters a deep and lasting comprehension of this ancient, ever-evolving practice. She radiates energy and joy yet balances it with a serious and compassionate demeanor. No questions are considered unworthy, and no insights dismissed. My experience studying with Emily has been nothing less than awe-inspiring and transformative. This course has changed my way of seeing --permanently. Study with Emily. It is the opportunity of a lifetime." - Jonathan DavidYou can read more feedback from students, many of whom are now professional astrologers, here.I hope to see you in Astro Summer School! Any questions? Just hit reply. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit embodiedaquarian.substack.com/subscribe

A proud product of public education, John Coleman received his undergraduate degree in history from Western Connecticut State University. Alas, that was to be the end of his flattering academic titles. Unwilling to once again become a debt slave to usurers, his graduate studies were scotched at the half-way point. John wasted over a decade of his professional life attempting to establish a high school for a community who took neither themselves nor their worldview seriously. Burned by these unseemly experiences, on Holy Saturday of 2013 Apocatastasis Institute was founded.The Institute primarily exists to protect the humanities in se, and to provide a haven for academics in a disintegrating professional field. The author of Hurt: Some Thoughts On Disillusion, Distrust, and Disorientation These Last Few Years (2015), The Trotsky Train: Some Words To The Discupulate (2018), An Excess Of Love (2024), and Pearls Before Swine (2024), John daily continues his work of restoring formal classroom learning in light of the proper personal, social, and political ends of a school.In 2025 John won the Excellence In Education award from the Education 2.0 conference organization. I first got to know John a few years ago, when I studied Latin under his excellent tutelage at Apocatastasis. I interviewed him for the podcast back in November, 2022: Agency, Vision and Discipline. John and I intended to focus this conversation on health and the connections between health and education, but we ended up having a much broader discussion, exploring questions like: What makes a healthy society? What’s the role of education in reforming society? And how does a conditioned lack of agency impede that reform? We talked about:* Formal education as the last coming-of-age ritual we all share in common – and how and why John believes that ritual is coming to an end;* The role of AI in future education – and what John sees as a positive outcome of that trend;* How commerce has taken over education and turned teachers into “service sector workers” vs. the role that teachers have historically played;* Formal education as a fulcrum for social reform – and what kind of education would contribute to a healthy society;* How modern pedagogy saps the agency of both students and teachers – and lack of agency as a fundamental social problem;* And much more!In the conversation, John mentions an article by Ted Gioia: What’s Happening to Students?Find out about John’s work:* main site: www.ApocatastasisInstitute.wordpress.com* Apocatastasis on Substack* Geopolitical Turnings Conference Replays* coming up in July: Health Conference* Rumble channel* Bitchute channel* Telegram channel* Contact John: [email protected] This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit embodiedaquarian.substack.com/subscribe

A week ago, on March 30th, Neptune moved into Aries for the first time in our lives. The planet of dreams, spirituality, Source and the unconscious last journeyed through the sign of the Ram from 1861-1875. A slow-moving planet changing signs is a very big deal! It’s like entering a new era, a new chapter - both collectively and in our personal lives. This year we’ll get a preview of Neptune in Aries until October 25th, and then Neptune will reverse back into Pisces. Neptune will return to Aries on January 26, 2026 and stay until 2039.As we’re in this transitional phase of Neptune’s sign change, I thought it would be useful to review the past 14 years of Neptune in Pisces. To that end, I’m sharing a talk I gave in 2011, when Neptune first entered Pisces. The talk was at New Renaissance Bookstore in Portland, Oregon. I re-listened and thought it was actually pretty great (except for the thousands of “um’s” throughout the talk - geez, I hope I’ve improved on that front!). I’m going to teach a live webinar all about Neptune in Aries on Friday, April 25th, 9am Pacific/12pm Eastern - more details soon! (And yes, there will be a recording if you can’t make it live.) This class will be FREE to all paid subscribers! If you’re already a paid subscriber, you’ll automagically receive the Zoom link and the replay. If you’re not already a paid subscriber, you can upgrade below, or the class will be available for purchase (registration coming soon). In the meantime, notice what’s shifted for you over the past week - what have you sensed since Neptune moved into Aries? Especially in your spiritual life, the dreamtime, art and creativity, healing… I’m looking forward to hearing all about it on the 25th - and to sharing my own noticings.And p.s.! My upcoming collaboration with the magnificent energy worker Katie Todd starts next Thursday, and we’ve got a few openings. If you’re a woman who’s ready to expand, and want astro-energetic support for upleveling your life, check out our Cosmic Container for Earthly Expansion. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit embodiedaquarian.substack.com/subscribe

Greetings!If you’re feeling inundated, overwhelmed, amped-up and generally confounded by these swirling times - you’re not alone! This week features some of the most extreme astrology of the year, a massive portal of change. I’ll be sharing my Solar Eclipse transmission tomorrow, with all the astro-details about what’s going on and how you can work with the powerful planetary energies. But in the meantime…Zooming out to the bigger picture of now - we’re in a time of preparation. 2025 really gets going in May and June, on the other side of Mars, Venus and Mercury retrograde, and as Jupiter and Saturn form their third and final exact square.Jupiter-Saturn is a cycle of creation. Jupiter brings the inspiration, enthusiasm, big ideas and vision for the future, while Saturn is the planet of manifestation, strategy and structure - the practical work it takes to bring your dream into reality.Jupiter and Saturn started their square last summer, challenging you to define your vision, and expand beyond your blocks and fears to manifest your big dreams. As Jupiter and Saturn move toward their final square, exact in June, it’s GO time! (Paid subscribers can access my webinar all about the square, Faith & Focus to Create Your Most Fulfilling Future).I’m thrilled to once again collaborate with Katie Todd, my good friend and energy worker extraordinaire, to offer a container and structure (Saturn) for your expansion (Jupiter) - Cosmic Container for Earthly Expansion. We’re calling in 8 women who are ready to expand for a transformational 8-week journey, starting April 10th. We’ll be exploring different issues related to expansion through the lens of the astrological planets. Katie will do group energy work to help you FEEL and co-create with the planetary energies in your body. Each participant will also receive a personal, two-on-one astrology + energy work session from both of us.You can find all the details here, and feel free to hit reply with any questions.love, Emily This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit embodiedaquarian.substack.com/subscribe

Equinox Greetings!Yesterday I gathered with founding subscribers for our quarterly livestream to celebrate the Equinox. I started the livestream with an interpretation of the Equinox chart and I want to share the audio with you because this Equinox is highly unusual and a Very Big Deal. The chart of the Equinox can be read as a blueprint for the new season, and as the “birth chart” for the new astrological year.Why is this Equinox so special? For the first and only time in our lives, the Equinox Sun - at the very first degree of the zodiac (0 Aries) - is conjunct Neptune at the very last degree of the zodiac (29 Pisces). AND, according to Bibhu dev Misra, author of Yuga Shift: The End of the Kali Yuga & the Impending Planetary Transformation, this Equinox marks the end of the Kali Yuga (may it be so!).This Equinox also occurs between two powerful Eclipses, and features both Mercury and Venus retrograde.Listen to the above audio (23 minutes) for all the Virgoan details! The Equinox chart is below. At the start of the livestream, I played Shine, by Fia, which feels like an appropriate Equinox anthem.If you’re already a founding subscriber, you can find the full video replay here. If you would like to join me and our amazing community for future livestreams, you can become a founding subscriber below.Also! Re-Ignite Your Money Magic - A Venus Retrograde Reset & Upgrade starts tomorrow, and you’re welcome to jump in! I’m collaborating with Soul Sherpa Anné Klint and we’re excited to support you to make the most of this Venus retro and come into a more conscious, joyful and abundant relationship with Money. Wishing you a miraculous Equinox rebirth! love, Emily This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit embodiedaquarian.substack.com/subscribe

dear friend,If you’re new to my Substack, welcome! If you were already subscribed to my podcast, you’ll now also receive written bi-weekly astro-energy updates, timed around the New and Full Moons. (Basically, what I used to send to my newsletter list via Squarespace - those two entities are merging.)Paid subscribers receive my New and Full Moon transmissions. These bi-weekly, 45-minute-ish recordings illuminate the current and upcoming astro-influences, what they’re asking of you, and how you can best work with them. Founding subscribers are also welcome to join me at a quarterly livestream, where you can connect with our amazing community, ask your astro-questions, and share what’s showing up in your world. The first livestream will be Saturday, September 23rd.The Pisces Full Moon transmission is a gift, so if you’re not familiar with my work, you can check it out. Enjoy, and if you feel so inspired, you can upgrade to a paid subscription. love, EmilyThe Embodied Aquarian Age is a reader-supported publication. The Leo New Moon that started this lunar cycle (August 16th) was a call to radically own your creative power. Now the Pisces Full Moon, the culmination of the cycle, reveals the unconscious blocks that get in your way. What is ready to be healed, released, surrendered or alchemized so you can become the creator god/goddess you were born to be? This will be the third of four consecutive Super Full Moons. Just as the Moon will appear larger and brighter than usual, FEELINGS may also be super-sized. There’s a lot to grieve, process, digest and integrate, and it’s all likely to come up around this lunation. This is a time to retreat, to allow time and space for simply BEING, feeling and resting. The veil is thin at this Full Moon and support and guidance are available by connecting with the dreamtime, your infinite soul self, invisible allies and the Great Mystery. I go into all the Virgoan details in the 53-minute recording. If you have some astro-techno skills, you can get more insight into what this Full Moon means for YOU. Find the house in your birth chart that contains 7° Pisces. The areas of life signified by this house are where events are coming to fruition, culmination or completion and where you’re invited to: * reconnect with your spiritual source and receive an infusion of divine love; * open to guidance from your dreams, intuition and imagination; * surrender having to have all the answers or the perfect plan and trust the mysterious flow of life; * let go of, grieve and dissolve the past;* recognize and release your inner Victim; * and allow for more acceptance, compassion and forgiveness.The card I picked for this Full Moon, from The Mayan Oracle by Ariel Spilsbury and Michael Bryner, was Imix.Qualities: source of life, divine nurturance and support, primordial Mother, undivided primal waters, primal trust and nourishment, receptivity, self-loveShadow Wisdom: issues of deep, primal trust and survival, lack of self-love, feeling unsupported by divine nurturance or unworthy to receive, betrayal, abandonmentShadow Transformation: Surrender and trust in the larger pattern to provide what you need. Open to receive. Communicate your feelings, desires and dreams.Affirmation: “I trust unconditionally the source of divine nurturance.”“Imix sounds a call in your life to go beneath the surface, to plumb your own primal depths. Go to the abundant wellspring of the life force to find the nourishment for which you yearn. In trust and receptiveness is found the source of movement. From the primordial waters of unity flows the spiral of eternal emergence. Allow others to give fully to you, for in that receptivity the circuit of love is completed.“The entire universe is made up of love. Give and receive. If you are not fully receiving the gifts offered by the universe, you can short-circuit your connection with the natural spirals of growth. Give freely and unconditionally without attachment to how your gift is received. Dip into the deep well of self and fill your cup with sweet waters. Offer this gift unconditionally. Trust in the situation at hand.“Primal trust means making choices moment by moment, with no guarantees. It means not trying to control the outcomes in your life. Trust your steering mechanism of heart-knowing. Trust the transformational processes that are at work in your evolution.“Call on Imix, the source of life, primal waters of creation, the root source, the primordial Mother, to nourish and care for you. In truly accepting this reservoir of sustenance, you will have unlimited resources to care for others as well as yourself. Remember that you are always embraced in the arms of the Divine, no matter what the exterior circumstances of your process or situation.” - Ariel Spilsbury This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit embodiedaquarian.substack.com/subscribe

I was inspired to record a transmission detailing this potent cosmic moment. If you want a visual, you can find the last quarter Moon chart here (the PDF will automatically download when you click the link).The astro-energies this week are EXTREME. Today’s last quarter Moon in Sagittarius opposes Mars and squares Neptune, stirring up potential confusion, distraction, overwhelm and exhaustion.The higher potential? We’re being called to release what’s distracting us, what’s sucking our vital life force, what’s no longer in alignment with our deeper soul selves - and to listen to and honor our intuitive knowing, our longings, our dreams for a more beautiful future.Tomorrow Mars will (at last!) emerge from its retrograde shadow, ending its 6-month retro cycle (can I get an amen??). Next week’s Spring Equinox and Aries new moon will be major catalysts for acting on the insights and wisdom we’ve gained over the past six months, and launching powerful new life directions.If you missed my webinar all about Mars retrograde - where I go into how you can work effectively with Mars-Neptune, and much more - you can find the replay here.I also want to offer some writing prompts for journaling and reflection, to help you deepen into and uncover the gifts of this time. These prompts are from a Mars retro writing retreat I led with my brilliant writer friend Jen Violi last December. (FYI, Jen and I are offering another mini-retreat combining astro, writing & ritual on April 1st - Fire Words.)* How are grief, sorrow, and surrender part of this Mars Retro journey for you? What gifts might be washing ashore for you from the ocean of sorrow? What might you need to release into the outgoing tide?* Write a love letter to yourself from Mars or Neptune. Let yourself write in the voice of one of these wise planet ancestors. What do they want you to know? You might start with “Dear ____, I have something to tell you…”* In what ways are you already tending your inner fire/ feeding your desires? What might you add to your repertoire?* Where or what or who is the source of your life force? What are 3 -5 possible practices you might explore to reconnect with source in the coming week?I also want to let you know that the new incarnation of Emily’s Astro-Verse is about to start! I consider this group to be my “inner circle” of astro-friends.When you sign up for the 6-month Astro-Verse, you’ll receive:* All of my new and full moon recordings (12 total)* An exclusive monthly group livestream on Zoom, where you can ask your astro-questions and share how the wild energies are showing up in your world* A discounted rate on personal readings* And the opportunity to share your offerings with our amazing communityWe’ll start with the Aries new moon, which I’m planning to send out this week! Everyone is welcome, and the group is offered on a sliding scale. Join the Astro-VerseAnd finally, save the date for a special, FREE event next Monday: The Soul of the Equinox - A Visual & Astrological Exploration of the New Season. I’m teaming up with my friend Rita Roberts, an intuitive artist who will channel the Equinox energies and do a live drawing while I discuss what I see in the Equinox chart. We’ll meet at 2pm Pacific/5pm Eastern for about an hour on March 20th No need to sign up - I’ll send out the Zoom info before we meet. You can read all about it on my blog.Wishing you ease, support and GRACE as you surf the tides of this wild and watery week! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit embodiedaquarian.substack.com/subscribe