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✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West✧ WEEK AHEAD ✧ July 27th, 2025 - Venus -> Cancer + Mercury Cazimi ♌This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit altarofstars.substack.comDRUM RAFFLE FOR PALESTINEAs many of you are likely aware, Palestine is in the most severe stages of forced starvation. The situation has reached its limit in more ways than one, and there are some incredible organizations working to get FOOD + WATER into the North + South of Palestine right now.The Sameer Project is one of those groups. To contribute resources to their on-the-ground efforts, I am running a MUTUAL AID RAFFLE this week. I am...2025-07-2717 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West✧ WEEK AHEAD ✧ July 13th, 2025 - Mercury Rx in Leo ♌Hi friends ~ I don’t have much to share this week by way of written words. Feeling tired and taking time to do the necessary work of adjusting to the changing container of the moment. Slowing down as much as I can, creating space for presence + capacity for kindness.Mercury stations Retrograde on Thursday this week, bringing us into a 3 week reflection process on the stories that shape our identity. Everything is changing, if you can’t tell. As within, so without. This transit comes at a timely moment to check-in with what is most ESSENTIAL within ours...2025-07-1245 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West✧ WEEK AHEAD ✧ June 29th, 2025- Uranus in Gemini ⚡️This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit altarofstars.substack.comMy friends! We astrologers have had no shortage of big events to talk about this year. And it ain’t over yet — in many ways this is just the beginning. A new era, ruled by new elemental energies and collective planetary influence, is beginning. This Summer holds some of the most major changes we’ve seen in Astrology in decades.Getting this podcast out a week early, so you have some time to prepare.On July 7th, we hav...2025-06-2805 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West✧ WEEK AHEAD ✧ June 22nd, 2025 - Solstice + Cancer New Moon ♋︎This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit altarofstars.substack.comHey loves! Sending this one out early, as a means of celebrating the Solstice / the Sun’s entrance into Cancer. Next week, the Sun + Moon will come together, conjunct our beloved Jupiter, all in the Cancerian part of the sky. New Moon Cazimi magick! A formal introduction to this watery realm, and all the depth it will bring over the coming year~ I am thinking about the birthright of belonging, and the continuity of life. I am thinking about co...2025-06-1909 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West✧ WEEK AHEAD ✧ June 16th, 2025 - The Great RememberingHello beloved ones. I’m coming to you this week with a fierce, tender heart. I want to talk about the astrology from the perspective of how it can help us hold reality. How it is interfacing with the moment we’re navigating collectively. There are no answers here, only inquiry. I am trying to be honest and make this space one of discovery while we keep turning towards the world with courageous hearts.I hope you are safe. I hope you are feeling the support of your beloveds close by, and the ancestors standing at your back...2025-06-1436 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West✧ WEEK AHEAD ✧ May 12th, 2025 - SCORPIO FULL MOON 🦂Hello my loves. Coming to you here with a full heart, as deep as it is wide with joy and grief in each hand. Feeling the teachings of Scorpio coming in STRONG, in the heart of Taurus’ season. It is always like this. Every year, as the landscape bursts into full-fledged vitality with a beauty unmatched, we are reminded by the Full Moon of Scorpio’s immanent mirror. A reflection on life + death, and everything in between.THE FULL MOON IN SCORPIO occurs on Monday, May 12th at 12:55pm EST.This week’s podcast feels to be...2025-05-0855 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West✧ WEEK AHEAD ✧ March 23, 2025 ♈ FINAL ARIES ECLIPSE! ♈This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit altarofstars.substack.com^* me, looking at me, in the mirror as we prepare to make it thru this HOME STRETCH of Astrology.For real tho, y’all, this Eclipse in Aries is just the Beginning (of the End). Time has been extra spiralic + warpy lately, and I have a feeling it is how babies + mothers might feel as they prepare to enter the world. Or as dying folks might feel as they prepare to leave it. I have not lived to have ei...2025-03-2306 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West✧ WEEK AHEAD ✧ March 16th, 2025 - Venus + Mercury Rx ♈ CAZIMIS !This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit altarofstars.substack.comHi friends ! How are you doing? How was the first Virgo Eclipse of this rodeo? Are ya winnin, son?Seriously tho — I am writing this the morning after the Virgo eclipse, and I can really feel the heat / integration brewing. All the more reason to create space within for spaciousness, awareness, and presence. Change is afoot; as within, so without.This week, the alchemy continues. Venus + Mercury are officially both moving retrograde together thru Aries, inviting us to...2025-03-1502 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West✧ CONSTELLATIONS ✧ a conversation with Jeanelle SalvoWOW, my friends, I am so over-the-moon excited + honored to share this very special conversation with you all, with the incredible Jeanelle Salvo. I have been following her work for many years, and more recently have had the absolute privilege of knowing Jeanelle on a deeper heart-level. Ancient remembrance of sisterhood unfolding.I will let the conversation speak for itself. It is basically 90-minutes full of a lifetime’s worth of teachings, that I know I will keep returning to for years to come. SO grateful to Jeanelle for her generosity of heart + wisdom of spirit, for sh...2025-03-131h 25
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West✧ WEEK AHEAD ✧ March 9th, 2025; VIRGO LUNAR ECLIPSE 🌚Oh fair maiden, the one that teaches us how to attune our bodies to the rhythms of the Natural World. How contorted this energy can become by the standards of Empire. What is at its core a highly-evolved intelligence of organization and sustainability, has now become a cog in the wheel of capitalism. The True Heart of Virgo is as pure as the white bone of the moon, now blackened by the soot of unattainable perfectionist standards.I have said it before & I’ll say it again; I believe that Virgo is one of the archetypes that is...2025-03-0752 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West✧ WEEK AHEAD ✧ March 2nd, 2025 - VENUS RX ❤️🔥 Aries -> PiscesOn Saturday, March 1st, Venus stations retrograde in Aries. Here, She is in the sign of Her Exile, preparing to make the descent into the underworld. For 40 days and 40 nights, Venus will disappear from the night sky, making the subterranean journey to explore the hidden caverns of the Heart. On April 12th, she will re-emerge as the Morning Star, a harbinger of victory + beauty; hope as a memory of the future. The Full Moon in Libra that day will honor the glory of Her Return, as the goddess emerges once more in her place of exaltation; Pisces....2025-03-0255 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West✧ WEEK AHEAD ✧ Feb 23rd, 2025 - PISCES NEW MOON + Mars DIRECT!This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit altarofstars.substack.comHi my friends — whew! This is a big week. In many ways, it is a turning point, a breaking open of the tension that’s had us contorted in discomfort + liminality since last October. Yes, this is a full-circle moment indeed!!Two major astrological events happening this week; Mars stations DIRECT in Cancer on Sunday, Feb 23, followed by a Pisces New Moon on Thursday Feb 27th! Interestingly enough, both of these transits are a call-back to what was coming up f...2025-02-2102 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West✧ CONSTELLATIONS ✧ a conversation with Andrea Durfee ❤️Wow my friends. This has been a long-time dream of mine, since the inception of the Altar of Stars, to share conversations with people that I deeply admire & adore. It feels SO beyond special to me to be sharing this first conversation with the incredible Andrea Durfee of ARA Creative Wellness!A birther of worlds, a weaver of dreamscapes, a devotee of Goddesses.Andrea is a creative powerhouse, SO dedicated and inspiring in how she shares her gifts with the world. I have followed her work for many years, and didn’t even realize we li...2025-02-1853 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West✧ WEEK AHEAD ✧ Feb 16th, 2025 - Pisces Szn + the Dreambody! ♓️This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit altarofstars.substack.comThis week, the Sun enters Pisces and officially initiates the season of dissolution. The calm before the storm, the dark before the dawn; Pisces is the space between endings + beginnings, between death + rebirth.Like the suspended state at the top of each breath, this is the place where EVERYTHING + NOTHING exists all at once. The sea of puer potential, access to the unmanifest magick of the dream world; Pisces contains the multitudes from which we birth the Dream into...2025-02-1508 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West✧ WEEK AHEAD ✧ Feb 9th, 2024 - LEO FULL MOON! ♌On Wednesday, Feb 12, 2025 a 8:53am EST, we have a VERY Full Moon in Leo. Temple of the Radiant Heart — we are invited to share our light out into the world in unbound, full-spectrum prismatic magick. I LOVE Leo energy, and this Full Moon moment feels like a living invitation to bring more love into our bodies, to be transmitted out into the world. You are the prism; your gifts are the scattered rainbows of light. What you care about matters more than anything else.HEART-FULL EXPRESSION, COUER-AGE, UNADULTERATED JOY. Sharing your gifts with the world as BIRTHRIGHT. Th...2025-02-0746 min
Moon to Moon170. Courting the Divine with Teagan West of The AltarIn this episode, I share a conversation with the very magnetic and wise Teagan West of The Altar. Teagan is one of the three 13th Readers for The Magician’s Table this year. We discussed: - how we met through the Magician’s Table webs of Jonathan Koe (first 13th Reader) and Nicole France-Coe (past participant and then 13th Reader last year) - our shared experiences and connections as 12th house individuals - the astrological connections between our charts - Teagan’s upcoming Saturn Return - the impor...2025-02-061h 09
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West✧ BONUS TRANSMISSION ✧ February 2025This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit altarofstars.substack.comA Bonus transmission on the current energies for the month of February 2025 onwards. Lots of planets stationing direct, preparing to shift gears and take us along for the ride. It serves us well to give way to fluidity and being "in process". 2025-02-0401 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West✧ WEEK AHEAD ✧ Feb 3, 2025 - Venus Retrograde preparation!This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit altarofstars.substack.comAll about Venus this week, as the Lover enters pre-retrograde shadow. Let us attune to the Truths that the Heart is trying to whisper, in an effort to bring more LOVE into our lives + the world.For all of January, Venus has been exalted in Pisces, the place where the Lover can effortlessly shine the unbound unconditional love + compassion that is BIRTHR…2025-02-0207 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West✧ Week Ahead ✧ Jan 26th, 2025 - IMBOLC & Aquarius NEW MOON ♒This week brings the MAGICK of the Heart of Winter, celebrating the Celtic festival of IMBOLC on Feb 2 & a New Moon in Aquarius on Wednesday morning!Something is stirring, deep beneath the blanket of snow on Earth’s surface. The Snowdrops are preparing to push thru the soil, a signal of Spring soon to come. Imbolc; in the belly of the Mother. A harbinger of Hope, as a memory of the Future. New beginnings warming themselves underneath the surface, germinating, preparing for new life to unfurl.Imbolc marks the halfway point between the Wi...2025-01-2436 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West✧ Week Ahead ✧ Jan 19th, 2025 - Aquarius Szn + Pluto Cazimi! ♒This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit altarofstars.substack.comHello my friends! Aquarius season hath arrived! We are deep in the Visioning Cave of Winter, exploring the dreamscape and bringing the Sacred down to Earth!This week, the Sun enters Aquarius, and immediately forms a Cazimi with Pluto. This is an opportunity to gain insight around what the Lord of the Underworld has been …2025-01-1605 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West✧ Week Ahead ✧ Jan 12th, 2025 - Cancer Full Moon + NODAL AXIS SHIFT!The Cancer Full Moon, as a vibe^. Occuring on Moonday Jan 13 att 5:26pm EST, we have a BIG cancer full moon. Luna is in her power spot here, as the moon rules Cancer. Amplification of our emotional process, needs, and tending.The added layer here is that Mars is making its way backwards thru Cancer, along its retrograde journey. This is NOT an easy movement. Mars does not have an easeful time in cancer, the sign of its fall. Depletion of the water element leads to exhaustion; a literal drought that allows for the fire...2025-01-0945 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West✧ 2025 THEMES ✧ Wide-view of patterns + energiesThe Vibe^ of 2025 is ALCHEMICAL, TRANSFORMATIVE INITIATION PROCESSES! Buckle up babies, we’re in for a wild ride.I wasn’t sure if I would share more about the themes at play for the year, however as I record more of the Year Ahead Personal readings for folks, there’s a LOT more insight that’s come thru. It felt right to share this one with everybody!If you’ve listened to the Full Year Ahead podcast, this is a continuation + builds off of what was talked about in a more thematic way. Could be cool to li...2025-01-0855 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West✧ YEAR AHEAD 2025 ✧ Full Reading!This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit altarofstars.substack.comFirst of all, THANK YOU to all of those that have joined as subscribers for this next leg of the journey here at the Altar of Stars. It has been a real process of courage + experimentation to take this step towards growth + reciprocity, and it means the absolute WORLD to me that so many of you have chosen to support this leap!! THANK YOU, from the bottom of my tender heart to yours! 2025-01-0305 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West✧ Altar of Stars 2025 ✧ THANK YOU!Thank you all for being here, cheers to another year of growth, change, and MAGICK!CH-CH-CH-CHANGESSSS….GENTLE REMINDER that this Weekly podcast will shift to Substack paid subscribers come 2025! One full moon reading will still be available for all each month, however if you want access to the weekly readings, join us here on substack! 20% discount code below!…:...:…:...:…:...:…:...:…:...:…:...:…:...:…:...:…:...:…:...:…:...:…:...✧ ALTAR OF STARS // ONLINE COURSE IS OPEN! ✧ » JOIN US AT THE ALTAR TO LEARN THE LANGUAGE OF THE COSMOS! »Group Mentorship begins in March 2025! NOW ACCEPTING NEW STUDENTS to join the Spring Cohort!! Hope to see some of you 2025-01-0305 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West✧ Week Ahead ✧ Dec 29th, 2024 - Capricorn New Black Moon ♑Wow, my friends. Here we are. At the final threshold of 2024. What a year. May it go out with a bang, as heads hit pillows for deep winter rest. This prayer is one of integration, slowness, and a gently-held nervous system. May we find ways to give ourselves a moment of breath before entering the initiation that is 2025.In this week’s podcast, I offer some words about Devotion from a Capricornian lens. Satkara, truth in action.Rather than New Year’s resolutions, I’m offering up New Year’s devotions. How do you show up for w...2024-12-2749 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West✧ Week Ahead ✧ Dec 21st, 2024 - WINTER SOLSTICE + CAPRICORN SZN ♑WINTER SOLSTICE + CAPRICORN SZNSolstices + Equinoxes are the Time Turners. They are the ones who take the Great Wheel of Life, and initiate new cycles. The Winter Solstice marks the initiation of the Cailleach, the wise elder witch, Mother of Life + Death, the one who weighs our lives on the barren bones of our own survival. The one who knows what it takes to build a world, in the face of time and the dying light.The Winter Solstice, in the Northern Hemisphere, initiates us into the Astrological Season of Capricorn. Grandfather Time, Saturn-ruled, the...2024-12-2052 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West✧ Week Ahead ✧ Dec 15th - GEMINI FULL MOON ♊︎OKAY FAM. Big week! Last FULL MOON of 2024! Mercury stations direct on the SAME DAY!On Sunday, December 15th at 4:01amEST, the full moon peaks at 23* of Gemini. It will be VERY close to Jupiter, currently retrograding in Gemini, and opposite its planetary ruler Mercury, who stations direct in SAG the same day as the full moon.A lil topsy turvy, which way is up? Does it matter? Are riddles meant to be solved? Don’t girls just wanna have fun?All of the above, and none of the above. Try not to ta...2024-12-1245 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West✧ Week Ahead ✧ Dec 8th - 2025 Prep + Overall & Energy Read!This week is laying some MAJOR groundwork for the year to come. Mars has officially stationed retrograde, joining Mercury in a Fire sign retrogression. What if conflict is an invitation into deeper connection?This week I also talk a bit about the larger energetics at play, preparing us to step into 2025. We have a VERY big tone shift ahead of us next year, with ALL major planets shifting signs come Springtime. It feels the conditions are being intentionally stirred for major paradigm shifts.A reminder that this Weekly podcast will shift to Substack-only subscribers. One...2024-12-0648 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West✧ Week Ahead ✧ Dec 1st - SAG NEW MOON ♐︎In the wee hours of the morning on Sunday, December 1st, we have a New Moon revealing its mysterious face in Sagittarius. Here, as we gather around the fire of the heart, we listen for the story of our lives.Opportunistic, Idealistic, and hopeful - this Sag New Moon asks us to consider what truly feels meaningful to us. To feed the fire of the spirit, sometimes we must pause to consider the BIG questions about our life... Not expecting any answers ;)I LOVE Sagittarian energy. It is a refreshing breath of perspective, amidst a...2024-11-2841 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West✧ Week Ahead ✧ Nov 24th, 2024 - Sag Szn + Mercury Rx! ♐︎Sagittarius Sz has arrived, fresh off the bat with Mercury Retrograding through it's integrative process!This is the Myth of our lives, both personal + collective. Sagittarius helps us hold perspective as we integrate all of the shadowy truths we unearthed in Scorpio's underworld garden.I’m in travel mode, so I’ll let the podcast speak for itself. Next weekend, on December 1st, we have a New Moon in Sag to initiate us officially into all of this wisdom-seeking medicine — more on that in next week’s episode.«««…:…»»»«««…:…»»»«««…:…»»»«««…:…»»»«««…:…»»»«««…:…»»»«««…:…»»»«««…:…»»»ALSO — for those of you interested in 1:1 Astrology readings with me, MY BOOKS ARE OPEN FOR WINTER! :)2024-11-2221 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West✧ Week Ahead ✧ Nov 17th, 2024 - Pluto Enters AQUARIUS! ♒︎Okay family, the moment has finally arrived. On November 19th, Pluto will enter Aquarius + never look back. A generational milestone, a moment that will usher us into a whole new collective paradigm.This is BIG. I know Astrologers have been talking about this for literally the entire year, but if that’s any indication, this is a huge moment for the collective fabric of reality. A whole new energetic frequency making its way through the tapestry, that will change our foundations forever.The last time Pluto was in Aquarius, we had MULTIPLE revolutions take place ac...2024-11-1542 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West✧ Week Ahead ✧ Nov 10th, 2024 - Taurus Full Moon + Mars in Leo ❤️🔥Okay y’all, what is there to say. So much, AND ALSO — this is not the time for sweeping platitudes. This is the time for grieving, raging, feeling, weeping, and letting it all move through.I want to acknowledge that I recorded this podcast on Nov 4, the day before our World shifted. I debated on whether or not to record an entirely new episode to address all that's stirring, but I also feel that much of the Astrology of this week speaks for itself. AND - there's so much more here than the Astrology alone. Perhaps I'll spea...2024-11-0847 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West✧ Week Ahead ✧ Nov 3rd, 2024 - Mars-Pluto ConjunctionHey y’all — I hope you’ve been enjoying the season’s Ancestral blessings and keeping your people close. It’ll likely pay off in the year to come! 2025 is already feeling like a big paradigm shift as I tune in.This week literally starts off with a BANG! Our first peak Mars-Pluto Opposition occurs on Sunday, November 3rd, 2024. This will be the first in a sequence of THREE oppositions occurring between now and April 2025. In other words, we have entered a powerful portal of Regeneration — and intensity. A story is unfolding, the end as a beginning. Here, we sta...2024-11-0140 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West✧ Week Ahead ✧ October 27th, 2024 - SCORPIO NEW MOON ♏ SAMHAIN!Ahh yes, spooky season. Perhaps most magickal time of year, especially if you identify as “wicce”, or wise person, from the original use of the word. The veil is thinning, the doors to the otherworld are open, and we are surrounded by the closeness of our more-than-human kin.This time of year is very dear to me. It is a time when Ancestral Veneration + Ceremonial Celebrations of the dead are widely practiced, across cultures worldwide. This is something I’ve come to practice year-round, however I can feel the potency of this Samhain season + the closeness of our be...2024-10-2640 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West✧ Week Ahead ✧ October 22nd, 2024 - SCORPIO SZN ♏ + Venus in Sag!Ahhh yes, my favorite time of year again. *Stretches out Bat wings* … SCORPIO SEASON! All the good ghoulies are out, and the Sun begins its journey of illuminating that which has been waiting in the shadows, all year long.In my experience, Scorpio is one of the most understood signs. Above all else, when I share Astrological readings with folks who have Scorpio Suns, their most frequent reflection is how others raise an eyebrow or IMMEDIATELY judge them. It’s so sad to me, that pop-culture Astrology has *quite literally* demonized this sign.And, I get...2024-10-1945 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West✧ Week Ahead ✧ October 13th, 2024 - ARIES FULL MOON + End of 2024This week brings our first lunation after the clearing of Eclipse Season -- a Full Moon in Aries on Thursday, October 17th at 7:26am EST. This is also the first Full Moon we've had in Aries that HASN'T been an eclipse in over a year.The moment presents an opportunity to truly hit the refresh button in the Aries domain of our charts, and celebrate the ways we've learned SO much from that territory over the past two years. Celebrating the ways you've Self-advocated, set clearer boundaries, and cultivated deeper trust with your Self are key themes.2024-10-1337 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West✧ Week Ahead ✧ October 6th, 2024 - Eclipse Aftercare + NavaratriWe have a Grand Water Trine being initiated by the ruler of last week's Eclipse -- Venus in Scorpio. As the Dark Goddess dances with Saturn in Pisces & Mars in Cancer, we're invited to tend to the waters within, and all the emotions they're likely still digesting.I speak about the Myth of the Minotaur as a mirror for Venus' process in Scorpio, and touch on Jupiters upcoming Retrograde in Gemini as an ode to the collective need for mitigating information overwhelm. There's some clear collective tending we're being initiated into for the rest of the month.2024-10-0439 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West✧ Week Ahead ✧ Sept 29th, 2024 - LIBRA ECLIPSE ♎ + LILITHFor the past year, we’ve been cycling thru Eclipses on the Aries-Libra axis. If you’ve been here awhile, you’re probably already aware that this week brings our LAST eclipse in Libra on this side of the axis. The South Node has been threshing this territory, supporting us in releasing old patterns of fawning, self-abandonment, and people-pleasing on behalf of “keeping the peace”. Libra knows that relationship requires skillfulness. It requires our ability to hold multiple realities at once, without negating one on behalf of another. True Justice requires our capacity to hold the full nuance + c...2024-09-2734 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West✧ Week Ahead ✧ Sept 22nd, 2024 - Autumn Equinox + Libra Magick! ♎Libra has a HUGE responsibility, as Cardinal Air and the initiator of the Autumn Equinox. Whereas its counterpart Aries gets all the fun of initiating us back into full-bursting spring, Libra must do the gentle work of reminding us that we must too descend into the darker half of the year. Every year, the spirit of Libra comes as a loving yet knowing reminder of what must be. The truth of this sign is often overlooked and overshadowed by diminishing stereotypes of being flaky + flirty. Sure, maybe in our current socio-cultural dynamics this expresses as such; however...2024-09-2131 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West✧ BONUS ✧ Transmission for the Pisces/Virgo Eclipses!Hi my friends! There has been a LOT coming thru around the upcoming Eclipses, especially tuning into the energies along the Virgo/Pisces axis. Shouldn’t be surprising, as Piscean energy can tend to stir a LOT of information incoming from the liminal realms. However, these particular messages felt big, like something to keep in our back pocket as we maneuver the next two years of eclipses on this axis, that we’re only just getting a sneak-peek into on Tuesday’s lunation.It’s a bit edgy for me to share these more channeled transmis...2024-09-1425 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West✧ Week Ahead ✧ Sept 15th, 2024 - PISCES LUNAR ECLIPSE ♓My friends! This week is big. We’ve already entered eclipse season, making our way through those velvet curtains into the halls of great Karmic undoing. But there is an added layer of emphasis here, as we are ALSO being initiated into our first (partial) Eclipse on the Pisces-Virgo axis.On Tuesday, September 17th at 10:34pm EST, we will have our very first Pisces eclipse. The eclipses occur on the “Nodal Axis”, aka, eclipses happen when the luminaries (sun + moon) are conjunct the North + South Nodes. New + Full Moons always occur on an axis, same as the calcul...2024-09-1247 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West✧ Week Ahead ✧ Sept 8th, 2024 - Pluto + Mars Rx; IMPACT :: ♇Hekate, looking very Kali Mā with her hounds. The moment is alive, full, important; considering the impact of these next few weeks within the larger space of our timeline will serve us well. Pay attention to what’s stirring, knowing that its implications will continue to reveal their significance in the larger teachings of your life into 2025 and beyond.This week, it felt necessary to unpack the importance of Pluto’s final act in Capricorn for the rest of our lifetimes. BIG, lifelong teachings + impact! Endings as new beginnings, opening potential to give birth to ourselves. Hekate at th...2024-09-0841 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West✧ Week Ahead ✧ Sept 1st, 2024 - VIRGO NEW MOON ♍Beloved Virgo, Vestal Virgin, Maiden of the Harvest. This week, we have a new moon occuring at 11* of this gracious Earth sign. As the luminaries come together in Virgo's sanctum, we are invited to consider the preciousness of our attention, as perhaps our greatest currency.Where our attention goes, energy flows. If our mind is scattered, thus will be our experience of reality. Yet if we are focused, clear and intentional, these conditions will be reflected in our experience of life.The New Moon occurs at 9:55pm EST on Monday, Sept 2... it is an opportunity...2024-08-3143 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West✧ Week Ahead ✧ August 25th, 2024 - Virgo, the Threshold Keeper ♍Virgo season has arrived, in full swing. As the maiden sweeps through the landscape, she is veiled and true as we are ripe for transformation. Summer brought us BIG energies, both sweet and challenging, and now it is time to thresh the wheat from the chaff.To cut away the excess. This is the wisdom of refinement, that Virgo is attuned to like a fine instrument. The intelligence of the Earth in all Her cycles, Virgo knows how this goes. She stands at the gateway to remind us that in order for life to sustain itself long-term...2024-08-2440 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West✧ Week Ahead ✧ August 18th, 2024 ♒ AQUARIUS FULL MOON + Virgo Szn!The Full Moon in Aquarius occurs on Monday August 19th, at 2:25pm EST. It answers to Lord Saturn, a harbinger of necessary limitation. Realism can be a welcomed ally when overwhelm sets in. Refinement is a gift to any process. Thresh away the excess.Honoring the limitations of what is, allows us to be at peace with wherever we're at in the process. A sobering reality check, yes. But also, how can this support our long term vision in making the journey more sustainable? How can you simplify whatever it is that's up for you...2024-08-1746 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West✧ Week Ahead ✧ August 11th, 2024 - Mercury Rx + Mars; Moments of IntensityOof. Mercury is in the microwave, and it’s showing. How ya feelin out there? Are things a lil crunchy edgy, or perhaps smooth sailing? Without labeling the conditions as good or bad, simply noticing without judgement what IS. That is the practice for these times.Mercury retrograde is from August 5-28th. It began its retrograde in Virgo (ouch) and will regress back into Leo this week. We are retracing our steps. We are taking it back ten paces, to return to the Heart and ask ourselves honestly; am I clear on what I care about? Wh...2024-08-1040 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West✧ Week Ahead ✧ August 4th, 2024 ♌ LEO NEW MOON ❤️🔥The Leo New Moon peaks in the morning, on Sunday August 4th at 7:13am EST. This weekend, IMHO, is a time to recenter amidst the otherwise bumpy energies afoot.Leo has taught me that self-acknowledgement is one of the most powerful practices of returning home to my power. Celebrating my little victories + triumphs along the way not only reminds me of my strength, but also creates a foundation of self-trust that little can shake me from.It has always been interesting to me that Pride is one of the 7 deadly sins. In excess, yes, it...2024-08-0238 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West✧ Week Ahead ✧ July 28th, 2024 ❤️🔥 LEO + Chiron Rx: Fierce Love EmbodiedThe heat’s turned WAY up this Summer y’all. Lots of fire energy in the mix, especially Leo / Aries. How you feelin’? If it’s present — what’s the agitation trying to tell you?I have often said that the discomfort in this sacred agitation is evidence of old ways of being, rubbing up against new ones. In that space, friction emerges. That very friction creates the fire of transformation, that sparks us into new ways of being. And, its damn UNCOMFY sometimes. Like, crawl-outta-my-skin, overwhelmed by the slightest triggers & reactive more than usual. If this reso...2024-07-2739 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West✧ Week Ahead ✧ July 21st, 2024 🌚 FULL BLUE MOON in Capricorn!Once in a Blue Moon…How big, how blue, how beautiful! This Full blue moon in Capricorn is our SECOND of two full lunations since the beginning of Cancer season. It is a call-back moment to the full moon we had on the day after the Summer Solstice, June 22nd! Cancer-Capricorn, Sun + Moon, these primordial ancestors want to support us in creating systems of CARE.As opposing signs, Cancer-Capricorn is the axis of Legacy. It initiates us into the reality of what it means to be given a life, inextricably tied to the reality of be...2024-07-1940 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West✧ Week Ahead ✧ July 14th, 2024 💥 VITAL FRICTION: Mars-Uranus conjunction in TaurusFirstly to say, big astrological events like this are not meant to be feared. They might not affect you personally at all. However, this is one that hold implications for the collective family in big ways.Uranus has been in Taurus for many years now, shaking up our foundations to reveal what new life is ready to come thru. When we fight this process, it makes it all the more uncomfortable. Like taking grape cough syrup or getting a new tattoo, the outcome it often better than the initial discomfort.As Mars, the planet of...2024-07-1335 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West✧ Week Ahead ✧ July 7th, 2024 ❤️🔥 Systems of Love + Fierce CareDuring the New Moon, the Sun and Moon were in cahoots, whispering dreams and seeding prayers for all that we are becoming. Something has been planted in the fertile soil of our subconscious, that will grow in us as the moon builds into the Full Blue Capricorn Moon at the end of July.Cancerian reminds us that we are, indeed, the dream of our Ancestors, even though we may not have consciously chosen to be so. And in this mysterious bond, we have access to ANCIENT CARE + support that is yearning for our receptivity. The...2024-07-0737 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West✧ Week Ahead ✧ June 30th, 2024 ♋︎ CANCER NEW MOON + Saturn RxDiscipline gives way to freedom. Becoming emotionally invested in what we want allows for true devotion to fuel us. Allow your care to chart your course.This week, Saturn stations retrograde (on June 29th) in Pisces, asking us to review and renew the commitments we made to ourselves in March 2023. Notice how far you’ve come, and what your emotional investment has allowed you to cultivate in your life.It’s okay to fall off the horse. The experience that comes with it shows us what we really care about, and why we decided to get...2024-06-2938 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West✧ Week Ahead ✧ June 23rd, 2024 ♋︎ Cancerian WisdomThe wisdom of Cancer reveals to us the untapped well of MAGICK that is constantly flowing thru our emotional bodies.When we refine the listening practice to this lunar realm within, it can be honed like a fine-tuned instrument, guiding us towards larger truths in our lives that only the body can pick up on.Cancer rules all the fluids in our body, from the plasma to milk. The only zodiac ruled by the Moon, she takes on the exalted expression of dear Luna in her qualities. This speaks to something deep beneath the surface...2024-06-2332 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West✧ Week Ahead ✧ June 16th, 2024 🌞 Summer Solstice + FULL MOON in Capricorn!This week, the Sun enters Cancer, ushering us across the threshold of the Summer Solstice. I talk about the rituals of our ancestors + the deeply animist ways of relating to Earth + Stars, that these thresholds specifically remind us of.Venus + Mercury ALSO enter Cancer this week, bringing a welcome tone shift from all the Gemini energy we've been swirling in! Enter tenderness, vulnerability, and connection from the heart.Within hours of the Summer Solstice beginning, we have a Full Moon in Capricorn holding down the Great Grandfather energy of this eternally matriarchal/grandmother...2024-06-1536 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West✧ Week Ahead ✧ June 9th, 2024 - Re-Committing to Self-LiberationEdgy, Clunky, Friction — these are the words that emerge in the face of this weeks somewhat activating astrology.Mars enters Taurus, where it begs us to slow TF down. The momentum we've been building for the past month or so needs a sustainable pace. Move at the speed of Nature - which is likely much slower than you'd think. Recommit to a longer timeline.Mars will immediately square Pluto in Aquarius, illuminating the influence of Collective tension within our own process + pace. Take it easy, one step at a time.At the end of...2024-06-0834 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West✧ Week Ahead ✧ June 2nd, 2024 - NEW MOON in Gemini ♊︎ Writing New StoriesAs Above, So Below. Gemini - the Magician, the Sacred Trickster, Hermes.Within the wisdom of Gemini lives the Gem of Truth that everything in this Manifestation is filtered through MIND. Our mind is the unique lens we look thru at the world, to write our stories of reality as seen through our unique vantage point.The experiences we’ve been thru and the unique context we’re living in have shaped the very nature of our Personal Myth, informing our idea of self as the Narrator. The “I” in the story IS the intelligence of your...2024-06-0141 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West✧ JUPITER in GEMINI ✧ for the Rising Signs!This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit altarofstars.substack.comJUPITER IN GEMINI for the RISING SIGNS!2024-05-2809 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West✧ Week Ahead ✧ May 26th, 2024 - The Medicine of Gemini; Sacred TricksterWith Jupiter having freshly entered Gemini, we are ushered into a new foundational energy for the rest of the year. As outer planets, Jupiter + Saturn’s placement gives us the backdrop of our shared collective reality + its energetic expression.While Jupiter was moving slowly but surely thru Taurus, we were collectively in a time of preparation; gathering resources for what is to come, preparing our soil and tending the seeds. Now, as Jupiter enters Gemini for an entire year, the wind picks up and sweeps us from our somewhat stagnant comfort zone.Inspiration // Inspiratus; to be...2024-05-2539 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West✧ Week Ahead (Pt 2!) ✧ May 19th, 2024 - FULL MOON in Sagittarius!This lunation asks us to consider the intersection of our personal wisdom and the collective reality, examining what it is that our unique gifts are offering to the world. Learning the systems and gathering data is the work of Gemini, as Sagittarius implements strategy through lived wisdom + experience.How do both interact as we cocreate the world with one another, holding multiple realities at once? How can we consider the unique gifts that each of us have to offer, based on our unique experience + context that has made us who we are?Wisdom is most...2024-05-1922 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West✧ Week Ahead Pt 1 ✧ May 19th, 2024 - Jupiter enters Gemini!Like the sacred bee, Gemini takes what’s been growing in our garden and allows it to spread across the landscape through its service as the pollinator. This week, as Sun, Venus + Jupiter all enter Gemini, the dream of Taurus now expands into the powerful potential for collective growth. Take a minute to celebrate all that you’ve grown in the past year, especially the things that maybe didn’t look like major moves in their slowness. So much is happening beneath the surface, as the Earth always reminds us each Spring. What is blossoming in your garden...2024-05-1835 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West✧ Week Ahead ✧ May 12th, 2024 - Tending the Collective GardenThis week, the potentiating miracle-gro of Jupiter in Taurus reaches its culmination through a Cazimi with the Sun, on May 18th! SUCH a beautiful gift in celebration of all we’ve been growing for the past year and beyond — taking a moment to boost and fortify our soil as we prepare to actualize our dreams of what’s been growing.This moment presents the wisdom of craftsmanship, and the potentiating energy of collaboration — turning towards one another and learning from the mirror of a shared process. Cocreation in motion, shaping the future with each movement.Mercury...2024-05-1135 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West✧ Week Ahead ✧ May 5th, 2024 - NEW MOON in TAURUS! ♉Abundance abounds! This is perhaps one of THE MOST fertile weeks of the year, for so many cosmological reasons!This week, we have a New Moon in Taurus on Tuesday May 7th, making an exact sextile to Saturn; Slow Magick embodied!The soil of the Earth is FERTILE + black like the moon, ready to provide resource + abundance to the gentle gardener that is willing to tend the seeds in a way that fortify their growth.Devotion is an active force we can call upon from the Heart - What do you care about...2024-05-0441 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West✧ Week Ahead ✧ April 28th, 2024 - Beltane + Venus in Taurus!♀Beltane is here, the Celtic Cross-Quarter Holiday that beckons the Sun in its glory to nourish the fields of our lives. To give thanks in celebration for the gift of life that has been handed to use directly from our Ancestors. A Fire Festival that welcomes Belenus, the Sun God, to once again bless the Earth with the force of life itself, that gifts us with abundance + resource. Taurus season huzzah!AND -- Venus enters Taurus this week. A reminder of how we can enjoy the physicality of our experience here on Earth. Even and ESPECIALLY when...2024-04-2841 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West✧ Week Ahead ✧ April 21st, 2024 - FULL MOON in Scorpio! ♏Fresh out the gates of Taurus season with an electrifying conjunction between Jupiter + Uranus, we enter this week with a renewed sense of clarity in regards to the path ahead.Tuesday the Full Scorpio Moon reminds us of the power of our emotionality, our sense of self deeply informed by the Truth of our emotional experience. Give yourself time to process + compost some of what emerged for you over the past month, and offer it back to the Earth + Waters.Mercury goes DIRECT after a nearly month-long retrograde, bringing further clarity as it turns around...2024-04-2035 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West✧ Week Ahead ✧ April 14th, 2024 - Eclipse Integration + Durga Mā ! ❤️🔥DURGA MĀ : Om Dum Durgayei Namaha (Sanskrit: ॐ दुं दुर्गायै नमः)This week brings the calm after the storm, an INTEGRATION from the past month of eclipse season! Sharing a favorite myth of Durga's origin in honor of Navaratri!Navaratri (9 nights of the Goddess) began the day after the Solar Eclipse in Aries, so having this fierce goddess energy in the field felt like a perfect opportunity to illuminate how these symbols can help us integrate the Eclipse energies!There is so much here, and I will let the Kathā Upaya (storytelling as medicinal remedy!) Speak for itself. Enjoy! Jai Durga Maa! 2024-04-1340 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West✧ Week Ahead ✧ April 7th, 2024 - Solar Eclipse in Aries! ❤️🔥My friends! It’s safe to say this week holds some BIG energy, with our Total Solar Eclipse in Aries occuring on Monday, April 8th. What I want to highlight about this moment is that not only with the Sun + Moon be coming together exactly conjunct at 19* of Aries, but ALSO Chiron will be joining them at this exact degree! Which means we have a CHIRON CAZIMI occuring within the same moment as the Eclipse! This is huge, and worth the consideration of how the eclipse moment both empowers a massive transformation to take place wi...2024-04-0637 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West✧ Week Ahead ✧ March 31st, 2024 - Mercury Rx in Aries! ❤️🔥Painting by mk Cooper // @bearded_artist_studioThis week brings a heavy dose of slowness, along with a reality check that we can't always move at the pace we're accustomed to. Or at least, that it's not always helpful to.Mercury stations retrograde on Monday April 1st at 27*, and will subsequently move backwards thru the entire constellation of Aries over the next 3 weeks. We are collectively hitting the rewind button on our thinking process, returning to the place we began with a (hopefully) curious heart.With ALL of the other Aries energy already...2024-03-3136 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West✧ Week Ahead ✧ March 24th, 2024 - Lunar Eclipse in Libra ⚖️Vedic Depiction of the Headless God of Karma, KETU - the dragon’s tail…Wow, what a humble reminder of the wisdom of the Eclipses. The karmic portal of reality opens, revealing all of its timeless wisdom. Sense impressions from past experience, unprocessed memories, unconsious patterns — all rising to the surface to be seen, known & understood.As I always say, to see is to free it. As we turn the light of awareness into the shadow, those patterns and hidden wisdom beneath the surface begins to be set free. Illumi...2024-03-2339 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan WestECLIPSE SEASON 2024 Overview!This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit altarofstars.substack.comThe Full Eclipse Download for the Aries/Libra axis! * Lunar Eclipse (Full Moon) in Libra conjunct South Node: March 25th, 2024* Solar Eclipse (New Moon) in Aries conjunct North Node: April 8th, 20242024-03-2103 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan WestWEEK AHEAD: March 17th, 2024 - Eclipse Preparation! <3Wheel of Samsara — life is anything but normal.This week, we enter the shadow of eclipse season. We are in the vestibule; the space between cycles, the liminal territory where anything is possible.When we let our minds get out of the way, we can see the true nature of this moment, and all that it holds for our soul-level process in this life. There are massive karmic implications to eclipse cycles, as they allow us to work out all of the karmic sludge we've been carrying for lifetimes, or for generations.Give yo...2024-03-1737 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West✧ Week Ahead ✧ March 10th, 2024: Piscean Liminality & Sacred TransitionsTHE MOON // THOTH TAROT DECK — PISCESThis week brings a time of transition, as we integrate the Pisces New Moon and begin to prepare for Eclipse Season! In this space, there is a sense of timelessness, a liminal nature that only Piscean wisdom can truly help us understand.It is the porousness of the veil between form & formlessness, the subtle sensitivity to our more-than-human reality. If we attune ourselves to it and listen intently, we can feel all of the many ways that unseen forces are swimming through the landscape of our shared reality....2024-03-1034 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West✧ Week Ahead: March 3rd, 2024 - NEW MOON in Pisces ♓️PISCES // Vesica Piscis — the Womb of the Cosmos. The Center of the Whole — The Heart of the Universe. 2024-03-0334 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan WestSOMATIC PRACTICE: Dreaming with the Earth BodyThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit altarofstars.substack.comSettle in for this 40min guided somatic practice, to create a bridge between our Dreaming Body, and the Dreaming Earth. This Saturn-Mercury-Sun Cazimi in Pisces is the perfect moment to create a bridge between the unseen & the tangible, through our bodies 2024-02-2702 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West✧ Week Ahead ✧ Feb 25th, 2024; CAZIMI in Pisces & Saturnian Magick!What would it look like if we took our Magick seriously? If we gave as much credit to the unseen world, as we do the seen & tangible? These ways of knowing and sensing into the more-than-human world were second-nature to our ancestors, yet we have lost this powerful ability to dream with the Earth.This week, as Saturn and Mercury meet in the temple of the Sun at 9* of Pisces, there is the possibility for reawakening this sense of magick, that allows for imagination to re-enchant our reality. To take our visions and dreams seriously, and consider...2024-02-2531 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan WestRUNE STUDY: Intro - Taking Up the Runes!Hello my loves! I have exciting news to share!Thus begins the long awaited RUNE STUDY Journey! Over the coming months, I will be sharing the esoteric interpretations of each of the 24 Runes in the Elder Futhark system, one at a time!I have been sitting with the Runes as part of a personal exploration & reclamation of Ancestral Divination tools, as instructed by my Scandinavian ancestry! This system is SO rich in oracular magick, and also so very mysterious to explore! The intention of the Rune Study will be to share philosophical talks...2024-02-2120 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan WestWeek Ahead; Feb 18th, 2024 - FULL MOON in VirgoThis week brings a huge tone shift to the collective field of reality, as the axis of Virgo/Pisces gets activated with the dance of Sun & Moon. This axis turns our attention to the multidimensional nature of Healing & Service in the world.How do you offer yourself in service to the collective human family, that actually energizes and nourishes YOU in return? Reciprocity is the nature of true service, that creates a feedback loop of mutual care; giving and receiving in the same act.‘Service’ in the capitalist frame can insinuate giving ALL of yourself in o...2024-02-1936 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West✧ Week Ahead ✧ February 11th, 2024: Crystallization & Collective ResponsibilityThis week offers a deepening into the true heart of Aquarius Magick, which holds the potential to create a bridge between the seen & unseen forces in our reality that intersect within each of us.Connecting us to the radical visioning of personal & collective responsibility, this week builds upon the seeds of potential that the New Moon planted within us, allowing our visions to crystallize with even greater clarity.Watch the REPLAY from our Aquarius New Moon Ritual to deepen into the magick!!PS - the first series of our RUNE STUDY teachings will...2024-02-1132 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan WestVisioning Practice: Aquarian Worldbuilding, Channeling Ideas into RealityThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit altarofstars.substack.comMy friends! I wanted to offer one of THE MOST potent practices I’ve created for visioning & bringing our ideas into a more tangible reality.This is a significantly somatic practice, one that involves bringing our ideas thru the nervous system & energy centers of the body to identify stored limitations & experiences we have that may impact our ability to…2024-02-0605 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan WestWeek Ahead; Feb 4th, 2024 - NEW MOON in Aquarius!This week brings a flowering New Moon in Aquarius, that ushers us into the heart of Aquarian energy in such a powerful way. We've been moving with quite a bit of new and powerful planetary shifts into Aquarius, and this New Moon moment serves as a true initiation into this territory of our collective lives.Crystallization is the word of the week; we are beginning to see the potentiality of new worlds, born from new visions. As we harmonize our inner & outer reality, there is a playful invitation to expect the unexpected, and LEARN from it!2024-02-0434 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan WestWeek Ahead; Jan 28th, 2024 - Emergence & Breakthroughs, Uranus!Within an emergency, there is the potential for emergence - for a new reality or potential to burst forth from the tension created within an emergency. It is safe to say the collective soul is in the midst of a spiritual emergency, and this week reminds us of the potential for breakthru in these moments.With Uranus freshly redirected in Taurus, in a harmonizing trine with Mars + Mercury conjunct in Capricorn, it is likely our process will undergo a process of illumination, where we see what's been hiding in the periphery of our own stories & greater path...2024-01-2833 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan WestWeek Ahead; Jan 21, 2024 - FULL MOON LEOThis powerful Full Moon in Leo occurs on January 25th, 2024 at 12:54pm EST.If there was one deity that could embody this week, it is the Essence of Sekhmet. The powerful Egyptian goddess, a symbol for BOTH war & healing. Within her grace holds the potential to fight for what we believe in, using the power of love.This Leo force of the heartfire is the essence that connects all things. It gives us courage to RISE TOGETHER, to claim our inherent and unique creative power to bring a new world into being — for the good of...2024-01-2130 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan WestWeek Ahead; Jan 14, 2024 - PLUTO IN AQUARIUS // On Worldbuilding!Mercury re-enters Capricorn and brings clarity, grounding, and the power of planning into our thought processes. This refers back to our process in December 2023, and gives us a second look at what we were thinking with new eyes. Slow medicine is still key for being able to see clearly!PLUTO ENTERS AQUARIUS on January 20th! Paradigm shift, Worldbuilding new realities, envisioning what is possible to BIRTH A NEW WORLD into being! The faculties and power of IMAGINATION are so vital for this shift. We need to BELIEVE a new world is possible, and Pluto in Aquarius will...2024-01-1539 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan WestSPECIAL New Moon Capricorn Transmission 1/11The Symbols of this Lunation;Sabian Symbol 21* Capricorn; A Relay Race.Fixed Star at 21* Capricorn; Sulaphat in Constellation of Lyra the Harp, Sulaphat (from Arabic As-Sulahfah; “Tortoise”) In reference to the tortoise shell that Hermes turns into an instrument to play the music of life! Inspiration; inspiratus - “to be breathed into”… Slow magick. May we move slowly & intentionally like the turtle — without urgency. Committing to the long term vision, taking it moment-to-moment. Willingly receiving the torch of responsibility from our Ancestors, embracing our role as the face of our lineages...2024-01-1221 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan WestGuided Ancestral Practice; Assessment of the 4 Blood LineagesHi Friends! Happy New Moon in Capricorn!! I wanted to offer a little gift for you all to take into deeper practice with this Lunation, that comes from the Ancestral Lineage Healing work that I hold with folks in 1:1 space!This is the predecessor step to the larger Ancestral Healing work. It is a simple assessment of the 4 blood lineages, without necessarily seeking to establish connection yet. For ritual safety reasons, its best to maneuver that deeper connection work in the presence of a practitioner, as sometimes the waters are more muddy than you expected...2024-01-1019 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan WestWeek Ahead; Jan 7, 2024 - NEW MOON in Capricorn! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit altarofstars.substack.com/subscribe2024-01-0726 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan WestWeek Ahead; Jan 1, 2024! The Strengh That Stays ∞ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit altarofstars.substack.com/subscribe2023-12-3127 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West2024 at a Glance; Astrology Overview!Happy Full Moon in Cancer my friends! I hope your holidays were easeful and nourishing, however you celebrated. Kindness to the parts of us that have a difficult time this Season of the Year. May the crossing of this threshold bring liberation and hope.2024 brings BIG energy, revitalizing and redirecting our creative fire to be a force of powerful change in the world. LOTS of Aries energy in the Springtime, that ushers us into a sweet & connection May/June era. Summer of 2024 gets a bit more emotionally edgy, with competing forces of fire and water...2023-12-2618 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan WestEnd of 2023 // Solstice + FULL MOON in Cancer! Dec 26th, 2023 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit altarofstars.substack.com/subscribe2023-12-2133 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West✧ A Vision from The Great Bear Spirit ✧ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit altarofstars.substack.com/subscribe2023-12-1513 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan WestSOLSTICE DOWNLOAD 12/22/2023The Winter Solstice is an IMMENSELY powerful moment across the history of human life for ritual. As the darkest, longest night of the year engulfs the light, prayers for the return of the Sun & therefore the collective life-force energy, for the survival of all.The Return of the Light is the illumination of Truth. Gradual, increasing light that fills the soul with the Light of Understanding. It is a Revolution in Motion. Within & around us.As the scales tip and the light begins to return, we leave the inner cave of the heart where deep...2023-12-1339 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan WestSagittarius New Moon | December 12, 2023This New Moon in Sagittarius is like the Great Hawk Spirit, soaring just high enough to see the horizon line. What does the Dawn bring? What Song of Self will you sing?In a way, this Lunation DEMANDS that we stop playing small, and move towards embodying a more authentic expression of Self. Because the world NEEDS us to live more unapologetically into our Truth. We all rise together.Who are you NOW, in this moment? Give acknowledgment to every past version of yourself, that has contributed to the embodied wisdom that you know carry...2023-12-0834 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan WestWeek Ahead Reading; Dec 5, 2023 - Venus in Scorpio <3 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit altarofstars.substack.com/subscribe2023-12-0518 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan WestThis Week's Astrology; Nov 27th, 2023! ✾This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit altarofstars.substack.comHello dear ones…This week is like being on a ship out at sea. We begin in an unexpected swirling and churning of the Waters, turning everything upside down. Any efforts tto control the storm will be ineffective — give way to the chaos, as it’ll soon settle.There’s big transformative energy afoot. Shapeshifting our inner & outer realities. As within, so …2023-11-2701 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan WestFull Moon Gemini & Sag Season! Nov 2023The week leading up to the full moon in Gemini packs a powerful punch. A reminder to check in with our own capacity, before blazing full speed ahead. Saturn meets us at the doorway between Scorpio & Sag season, reminding us to move slowly and intentionally. Balance this fiery spirit with watery tenderness & deep presence.There is wisdom in checking with our body’s capacity to bring forth the visions and desires we have into the world. We are constantly negotiating between spirit & soma. The force of drive & inspiration is strong — just make sure you give your body enou...2023-11-2129 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan WestNovember 2023; Scorpio → Sagittarius SznScorpio Season has been nothing short of intense, and we enter Sag season with quite a bang. This moment asks us to cut away the excess, to manage intensity and hone this power with precision — for the good of all. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit altarofstars.substack.com/subscribe2023-11-1919 min
✧ ALTAR OF STARS ✧ with Teagan West✣ Where it all begins... ✣Here is where we begin. The heart, essence, and intention behind this space. A place to speak freely, unfiltered and openly about the reality of the subtle.Each month, I will be sharing New + Full moon transmissions, and any additional astrological events that come through. I will also weave in other topics that inform this work, namely Ancestor Reverence, Animism, Esoteric arts and Śakta Tantric philosophy. These are all vital elements of my spiritual worldview, and influence this work greatly.You are STRONGLY invited to ask questions, and even request talks about the various events t...2023-11-1809 min
The Outliers PodcastSifting Through The Bullsh*t In Our "Health" System feat. Austin WestBONUS EPISODE: Stephanie welcomes back Austin West, a show favorite, to join her in this thought-provoking episode. This episode is bound to turn some heads, ruffle some feathers, but hopefully create some conversation and curiosity around the information we are fed. The two talk about everything from MDMA therapy to feminism.
Austin and Steph discuss:
SSRIs and depressions
MDMA therapy
Conventional research methods and why we need to be thoughtful of what we ingest
The importance of a child's intuition
Feminism...
+ more!
Host: @stephteagan
Guest: @austin_noteast of @en...2022-09-0725 min
The Outliers PodcastTestosterone Talk, ADHD, and Ending Mental "Disorders" feat. Austin WestIn this episode, Steph is joined by Austin West for the second time! He was a favorite from their first podcast episode together, where they chatted about divorce, drinking, and psychedelics!
This time around, the two discuss:
Body dysmorphia in men
Austin's story of taking testosterone and the consequences it brought
The implications of changing your body with quick fixes
How trauma manifests itself physically
Living with ADHD
Why we need to stop calling diagnoses "mental disorders" [especially with children]
+ more!
WATCH THE FULL EPISODE ON YOUTUBE HERE
Host: @stephteagan
2022-05-251h 06The Outliers PodcastDivorce, Drugs, & Drinking Friends feat. Austin WestDo people really change? Steph's guest this week, Austin West, proves that it's possible to not only change but to rewrite your story and change your entire life for the better.
Steph and Austin discuss:
- Divorced parents
- Distrust
- The addiction cycle
- Drinking friends vs. real friends
- Drugs vs. medicine: what's the difference?
- THC
- The world is too easy now: how it's killing us
- MDMA therapy
- How mushrooms got...2022-01-111h 21
Roblox ExplainedEpisode 13: Wild WestTeagan explains the game Wild West. Listen to learn about hostile sheriffs, robbing banks, and who would win between a crocodile and a bear. Now David really wants a panini... (cue Teagan eye roll)2020-12-1118 min