Living the Spiral

<p><strong>Get your Gemini Season Guidebook </strong><a target="_blank" href="https://www.hearthandspiral.com/shop/p/aries-season-astrology-human-design-guidebook-r3jgf"><strong><em>here</em></strong></a><strong>!</strong>Alison of Living the Spiral shares Gemini season 2026 horoscopes by rising sign. With Uranus newly in Gemini and a Gemini New Moon on June 15, each sign is guided through the house Gemini activates and what Uranus may revolutionize over the next seven years, with key dates including the Uranus cazimi around May 22, the Sagittarius Full Moon on May 31, the Mars–Pluto square on May 25, Uranus square the nodes on June 12, Venus entering Leo on June 13, and the Venus–Jupiter conjunction in Cancer on June 9. She has a Gemini season guidebook available at <a target="_blank" href="http://hearthandspiral.com">hearthandspiral.com</a> and invites listeners to work with her through astrology and human design readings, coaching, and her Tending the Hearth offering.</p><p>00:00 Welcome </p><p>02:47 Why Rising Signs Matter</p><p>03:09 Gemini Season Big Shift</p><p>03:31 Aries Rising Third House</p><p>06:00 Taurus Rising Money Values</p><p>08:26 Gemini Rising Identity Rewire</p><p>11:19 Cancer Rising Twelfth House</p><p>14:22 Leo Rising Community Shakeup</p><p>17:33 Virgo Rising Career Calling</p><p>20:21 Libra Rising Beliefs Travel</p><p>22:48 Scorpio Rising Deep Transformation</p><p>25:39 Sagittarius Rising Partnerships</p><p>28:41 Capricorn Rising Routines Health</p><p>31:15 Aquarius Rising Creativity Play</p><p>33:34 Pisces Rising Home Roots</p><p>37:01 Wrap Up Resources and Links</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://www.livingthespiral.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_2">www.livingthespiral.com/subscribe</a>

<p><strong>Get your Gemini Season Guidebook </strong><a target="_blank" href="https://www.hearthandspiral.com/shop/p/aries-season-astrology-human-design-guidebook-r3jgf"><strong><em>here</em></strong></a><strong>! </strong>In this episode, Alison shares a refresh to Living the Spiral, moving from full/new moon episodes to a monthly rhythm with three releases: a season-ahead episode (with rising sign horoscopes, key transits, and a Human Design gate walkthrough), ongoing “Magicians” interviews, and a third, more spacious big-picture episode. She also points listeners to her written Mandala 64 Walk on Substack via <a target="_blank" href="http://livingthespiral.com">livingthespiral.com</a> and mentions a new astrocartography app project in the works. She then welcomes Gemini season (May 20/21–June 20), describing its breezy, curious, pollinator energy and its links to breath, lungs, arms, and childhood. She weaves in Gemini mythology (Babylonian Great Twins; Castor and Pollux) and outlines the six Gemini Human Design gates (20, 16, 35, 45, 12, 15), plus major transits, and closes with offerings like the Gemini season guidebook and astro-human design readings at <a target="_blank" href="http://hearthandspiral.com">hearthandspiral.com</a>.<strong>Work with Alison</strong></p><p>Alison is an ecosomatic astrologer, Human Design guide, and spiritual teacher based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She weaves together astrology, Human Design, the Gene Keys, the Celtic wheel of the year, and somatic practice into readings, courses, and seasonal gatherings that help people attune to the deeper rhythms they're already living inside.</p><p>Her Soul Shine readings combine astrology and Human Design into a single session that looks at your chart, your body, your timing, and what's asking to move in you right now. If you want to go deeper into how the current transits and your own design are intersecting, her books are open.</p><p>You can find her full offering of readings and courses at <a target="_blank" href="http://hearthandspiral.com">hearthandspiral.com</a>, and follow the Living the Spiral podcast and Mandala 64 Walk here on Substack.</p><p>00:00 Welcome and Updates</p><p>01:21 New Monthly Format</p><p>02:38 Mandala 64 Walk</p><p>04:43 Magicians Interview Series</p><p>06:27 Big Picture Episodes</p><p>08:43 Summer Schedule and App</p><p>10:00 Gemini Season Begins</p><p>11:49 Gemini Body and Breath</p><p>14:17 Gemini Childhood and Air</p><p>19:23 Mercury and Ecosomatic Lens</p><p>23:39 Gemini Myth of Twins</p><p>27:30 Human Design Gates Intro</p><p>31:19 Gate 20 Presence</p><p>35:40 Gate 16 Skills</p><p>38:52 Gate 35 Change</p><p>41:56 Gate 45 Gatherer</p><p>45:04 Gate of Caution</p><p>48:21 Solstice Gate Extremes</p><p>53:28 Six Gates Recap</p><p>55:24 Uranus in Gemini Era</p><p>58:29 Uranus Cazimi Revelations</p><p>01:01:07 Mars Square Pluto</p><p>01:05:00 Sagittarius Full Moon</p><p>01:08:45 Mercury into Cancer</p><p>01:10:07 Venus Jupiter Sweet Spot</p><p>01:11:52 Uranus Squares Nodes</p><p>01:15:22 Gemini New Moon</p><p>01:17:14 Chiron Enters Taurus</p><p>01:20:51 Season Wrap and Offers</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://www.livingthespiral.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_2">www.livingthespiral.com/subscribe</a>

<p>In this <strong><em>Living the Spiral: Magicians </em></strong>episode, host Alison Dale frames magic as making the invisible visible through attention and intention. She interviews Rachel Simon Stark, founder of Widening Circles Collaborative, about ancestral reclamation, cultural repair, and collective liberation. Rachel describes being contacted in 2018 by her grandmother Ruth during a rock-bottom period, which initiated Rachel’s ancestral work and led to her nine-week course Cultivating Culture that emphasizes grounding, guided tools, community processing, and service. Drawing on urban planning’s focus on belonging, Rilke’s “Widening Circles,” and identity as a fluid river, she discusses chosen ancestors, more-than-human ancestors, boundaries rather than walls, and meeting ancestors in their wholeness. The conversation addresses trauma, shame vs humility, colonialism and indigeneity, being future ancestors, releasing victimization into agency, and Rachel’s plan to offer the course again around October/Samhain.Thanks for tuning in!</p><p><strong>Work with Rachel:</strong>To learn more about working Rachel and the Widening Circles Collaborative, visit her website at <a target="_blank" href="https://www.wideningcirclescollaborative.com/">wideningcirclescollaborative.com</a>.</p><p>Follow Rachel on <a target="_blank" href="https://www.instagram.com/rachelsimonstark/">Instagram</a> and on Substack at Rachel Simon Stark, where she writes the deep and thoughtful publication <a target="_blank" href="https://wideningcirclescollaborative.substack.com/"><strong>hi•ne•ni : here i am</strong></a><strong>.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>Work with Alison:</strong>Book a reading or explore more of what I offer on my website at <a target="_blank" href="http://hearthandspiral.com">hearthandspiral.com</a>, follow along at <a target="_blank" href="https://www.instagram.com/hearthandspiral/">@hearthandspiral</a> on Instagram, or on Substack at <a target="_blank" href="https://www.livingthespiral.com">livingthespiral.com</a>.</p><p></p><p>00:00 What Magic Really Is</p><p>02:31 Meet Rachel Simon Stark</p><p>04:41 Grandmother’s Wake Up Call</p><p>07:23 From Dreams to a Course</p><p>10:46 Urban Planning Meets Soul</p><p>14:22 Why Widening Circles</p><p>18:37 Homecoming to Lineage</p><p>22:46 Inside the Nine Week Container</p><p>28:22 Future Ancestor Mindset</p><p>30:35 Identity as a River</p><p>39:22 Resistance and Hard Histories</p><p>43:09 Beyond Shame Toward Humility</p><p>49:57 Beyond the Melting Pot</p><p>51:27 Ancestral Creativity</p><p>54:37 Grandfather on the Road</p><p>58:04 Calling In Ancestors</p><p>01:00:16 Wise and Well Debate</p><p>01:06:46 Boundaries Not Walls</p><p>01:11:58 Roots Over Progress</p><p>01:23:18 Indigenous Marrow</p><p>01:27:38 What Ancestors Need</p><p>01:33:57 Course and Farewell</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://www.livingthespiral.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_2">www.livingthespiral.com/subscribe</a>

<p>Hey friends, happy New Moon in Taurus. We’re 2 weeks out from that potent full moon in Scorpio… how are you all doing out there? How did that lunation show up for you? </p><p>This new moon is conjunct the Medusa Star and happens on the same day that Mars meets Chiron. So while it’s not necessarily gentle, it’s still exalted in Taurus, and the gate that it’s falling in is a deep reminder of the power of our personal agency, care, and contributions.</p><p>Thanks for liking, sharing, and reviewing Living the Spiral- it truly helps me to reach more people and continue writing and recording this labor of love.</p><p></p><p>Living the Spiral is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p><p>xo</p><p>Alison</p><p><em>Questions about this moon or my offerings or anything else?</em></p><p><em>Write me at </em><a target="_blank" href="mailto:[email protected]"><em>[email protected]</em></a><em> or DM me at </em><a target="_blank" href="https://www.instagram.com/hearthandspiral/"><em>@hearthandspiral</em></a><em> on Instagram.</em></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://www.livingthespiral.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_2">www.livingthespiral.com/subscribe</a>

<p>The Full Moon in Scorpio and the Season of Speaking Your Truth</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://tidycal.com/hearthandspiral/beltane">Sign up for the Beltane Ritual next Tuesday at 5pm MST here!</a>I'd love to invite you to my May 5 Zoom ritual “Blossoming into Beltane” (somatic work, a bit of vocalizing, creative practice, and cross-cultural Beltane teachings).</p><p>In this full moon episode I riff on the Taurus–Scorpio axis as security and intimacy (throat and genitals) and track it through Human Design: Moon in Gate 44 (alertness/“coming to meet,” splenic instinct, ancestral pattern-recognition) and Sun in Gate 24 (rationalization, getting out of mental loops into invention and silence). I also ground Beltane as a Gaelic fire festival (bonfires, maypole, flowers, fertility) opposite Samhain/Halloween, and share my course “Your Heart is a Compass,” weaving the Wheel of the Year with G-center gates, Inanna dream symbolism, and practices like coherent breathing.00:00 Scorpio Full Moon Welcome01:24 Mayday Timing Clarified02:15 Beltane Ritual Invite03:25 Finding Your Voice05:49 Wheel Polarity Taurus Scorpio09:19 Gate 44 Meeting Shadows12:47 Gate 24 Mind to Silence15:19 Instinct and Reason Integration20:07 Beltane Origins and Traditions23:31 Heart Compass Course Vision31:51 Why We Need New Maps34:26 Grounding Practices and Closing</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://www.livingthespiral.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_2">www.livingthespiral.com/subscribe</a>