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August 31, 2025

Open Book

Poetry / Astara Raven

Wildness is surrendering to the innate power that flows through you and all things. Your sovereignty starts with you stepping intentionally into your own “library,” pulling a book or two or three off the shelves, and reading.

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“Magic’s just science that we don’t understand yet.”

Arthur C. Clarke

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There is an entire library inside of you. 🌳✨ And a

There is an entire library inside of you. 🌳✨
And an entire universe too.

Across cultures and centuries, humans have imagined a place where all records of every experience of every soul live.

The Akashic Records. 📚
The Book of Life. 📖
The Tree of Life. 🌳
The Cosmic Web. 🕸️
The 8th Dimension. 🌀

Different languages and traditions pointing toward a similar mystery: What if there is a field of information larger than the individual mind — the greater mind of consciousness itself? What if we are already connected to it? 🧠

This is where our next Inner Space Academy adventure begins.

On 10/10, we’re gathering for Tree of Life, Tree of Self — a workshop exploring the relationship between your own inner architecture and the larger fields of information we sometimes call the Akashic Records.

And as an architect, I keep coming back to this: our own architecture already holds the key.

🗝️ Our body.
🗝️ Our electromagnetic field.
🗝️ Our DNA.
🗝️ And yes, even our imagination.

Imagination is a built-in technology; it is an interface between our personal consciousness, our body, and the spirals of light that make up our greater consciousness. 🌀✨

Accessing the bigger dimensions of Self isn’t about astral traveling somewhere far away — although that is fun too. 🛸

Tree of Life. Tree of Self.
And one very curious doorway that has been inside us all along. ✨🫀✨

10/10 at 10am-1pm (in a 10/1 year!)
In person and on zoom.
Location and link shared upon booking.

Join @orionsongcatcher and me, we’ll learn tools and techniques to permission our own infinite dance — metabolizing what has been while nourishing the moonshot that wants to grow.

We’ll explore the Akashic field through the lens of my Heartifact Ecosystem — bringing mystical traditions into conversation with the body, nature (shamanism), intuition/imagination, and the energetic architecture already alive within you.

The green light for Inner Space Academy is always on — this is an evergreen program designed for entry when you feel called. 🚦🌲

Ready to turn on your inner yes?
We’ll even talk to trees. 🌳
Join us.

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Full Moon + Chiron in Aries love letters. 🌕♈️❤️‍🔥

Full Moon + Chiron in Aries love letters. 🌕♈️❤️‍🔥

What would you write today in a love letter to yourself?

How about starting with: What do I want?

First, slow down enough to even know what you want.
Second, choose it.

It’s hard to know what we want when we are too busy. 🤯
But staying busy makes us such good consumers! 😈
Dang.

Speaking of things slowing us down for reflection: Chiron — the core wound that has no words — retrograded back into Aries on Sept 17 and will remain in Aries until April 14, 2027.

Chiron began moving through Aries in 2018, so this is its final return before the chapter that began 8 years ago now officially closes.

This is a time for completion of an old wound that might still be unconsciously making decisions for you.

Hello physical symptoms that might not want to quit.
Hello frustrations with autonomy in relationships. Hello desires you keep putting on hold. Hello places you’re still waiting for permission. Hello all the ways you put your foot on the brakes.  There is no map for your dreams. You are the map. And you’ll have to go first. (Very Aries) 🔥😉

Think about the version of you who entered 2018 who may have needed certain armor or strategies to survive that timeline.

You don’t have to wear it, carry it, or agree to it anymore in 2027.

As the chapter that began in 2018 moves toward completion over these next 7 months, this is one final pass through Aries themes around identity, courage, independence, sacred anger, self-trust, taking up space, and the right to simply be who you are.

To want what you want, simply because you want it.  Become more you.  More you than you know how to be.

If you need some help finding where this late-degree Aries territory — and early-degree Taurus — is lighting up your personal sky, I am here for you.

Throw me a DM if you’re ready to explore your Soul Star Maps. ♈️✨

#aries #chiron #astrology #humandesign #soulstarmaps
 tags in order: @marimiqadzze @jessiereyez @laurieandersonofficial
@laurieandersonofficial  @iamroymong @laura.catella @julian.snips and Dr. Julia Mossbridge @harken.farm @realterryreal @salzburgerfestspiele and @peepingtomdance @youchoosepodcast and @bluofearth

Juicy, fierce, feisty…and messy. 🔥 Happy Virgo Ne

Juicy, fierce, feisty…and messy. 🔥

Happy Virgo New Moon. 🌚
I’m calling it a Tantra New Moon in my newsletter today.

This moon holds a very particular Virgoan quality of inner exploration: homecoming in our body.

Tantra simply means weave. Coming home from a body perspective is weaving presence into form.

So…

What do you want to practice until your body knows it?

Pleasure? Trust? Courage? Rest? Receiving? Desire? Discernment? Creativity? Boundaries? Play? Intimacy? Spaciousness? Strength?

We can understand something intellectually for decades and then begin practicing it relationally and somatically until a different response becomes available.

That is intuition muscle.

Not intuition as some mystical voice that tries to hand us the “right” answer. Intuition as relationship. Embodied intuition. Something strengthened through attention, experimentation, discernment, mistakes, repetition, pleasure, feedback, and lived experience.

Juicy, fierce, feisty...and messy. 🔥

(How you like me with no makeup on?)

Today’s New Moon newsletter explores Tantra, desire, embodied intuition, and the gorgeous mess of being alive.

After enlightenment, be sure to dance. 💃🏽😂

Read the full newsletter via the link in bio.

Speaking of weaving presence, the lunar rhythm also inspired @orionsongcatcher and me to extend Early Bird pricing one more day for our @illuminatinghearts Fall Equinox Sound Portal — through the new moon, 9/10 at midnight CT. Let the sound take you home to your body and restore precious life force to yourself at Bancroft Street Market on September 19th. Tix at bio link too. 🎶✨

#NewMoon #VirgoNewMoon #Tantra #Embodiment #AstaraRaven

Do less. Live your full spectrum. 🌈 Swipe for the

Do less. Live your full spectrum. 🌈
Swipe for the full rainbow. 😂

We were at a wedding yesterday when the dance floor lights flashed the entire rainbow over us. As we took enough selfies to get the best one, the universe winked and said, “How about one in every color?” 😂  What a perfect reminder: we contain the whole spectrum. 🌈 Thanks, universe! Now here’s a reminder from us. 😉

Our longest sale ends tonight! 🙌🏼🙌🏽
That’s 25% off private sessions!  No code needed. Ends midnight CT.

Do less, you say?

Oooo! Self-care, yay! 🥳

Hey, wait... 🤔

What happens in all that space? 🤯
Why do I feel so much??!!! 😩

Doing less leaves room for being. (Woot!)
But being means FEELING the full spectrum. 🌈

Because the not fun thoughts and fears we avoided or numbed out? They often rush in when we finally make space.
 You’re not crazy. It’s physics.
(Nature surely dislikes a vacuum)

What makes our healing and transformation work unusual is that we understand the physics.  
The vacuum is real, yo. 😘 The fear that flies into the space we make, that’s (temporarily) real too. 🥹

We teach and hold space for you to meet yourself with compassion in the gap, inside the mess. We help you build circuits for contradiction and paradox. We hand out permission slips that the mess is okay.  So if you’ve been thinking about diving inward with us, today’s a beautiful day to take the trust fall. 🌊

Take advantage of our longest sale ending tonight, 9/7.
Grab Early Bird ticket for Fall Equinox Sound Portal by 9/9. 
#soundhealing #soundalchemy #soulcare #selfcare #doless

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