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What Is Going On, Anyway?Ready Set GoFebruary 17, 2026 and it's both a new moon and a new lunar year, the year of the Horse. Things may feel chaotic and disordered and it's not going to get better. What will happen though, thankfully, is you will begin to ride with this momentum and find your steady, easy ground despite the forward motion. Sort of like getting over sea sickness and finding your sea legs, we will become accustomed to this new kind of speed. We learn to feel our peripheral energetic sight and this helps us to make sense of things. We get Hexagram 2. Earth, The Receptive...
2026-02-1732 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?Creative QuickeningFebruary 1, 2026. Full Moon, Imbolc. The wonder of being whelmed without it being over or under. What is this surge? Here we feel all the fullness and slowly wring ourselves in order to release the good juicy talents and gifts we carry. Then we make way to do it all over again. And again. There is a joy here in the realization that our creative parts have made a new something that is being incubated. There is joy is being seen and belonging. This includes all. We long for a future that we can believe in and make proud gestures...
2026-02-0132 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?Deep Breath InWelcome to Season 4! January 18, 2026 brings a new moon in Capricorn. Time to let go of the projects that have passed. This is not just a new chapter, it's a new book. Let go, temper the beast and stay with your own integral story. That's the wisdom for this new moon. Also your theme song: Don't StopFind me here: www.annhedly.comAnd the excerpt from here: Circe by Madeline Miller
2026-01-1829 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?Rejoicing EndingsIt's a HALF Moon! December 29, 2025. We say goodbye to 2025 and open the space, sweep the floor, start to prepare for 2026. We get a wonderful Hexagram that should have us breathing a sigh of relief and I'll share a few wildly recorded moments that got me from there to here. Happy Wishing, Happy New Year. www.annhedly.comI Ching with Clarity Podcast with Hilary Barrett
2025-12-2926 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?Tap the BrakesThis is the Full Cold Moon in Gemini on December 4, 2025. Every bit of my imaginative intuition says this is a time to rest, to stop, to get busy being yourself FOR yourself and no one else. It is the perfect time to reevaluate our people-pleasing tendencies. It is time to rest, re-think and reconsider how we value ourselves. For so many of us (in the northern hemisphere) this is also winter solstice. Staying home, going to bed early and staying cozy warm come naturally. I say lean into this and try even more to slow down. Use your brakes...
2025-12-0330 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?Turned OnThis new moon of November 20, 2025 has me feeling sparkles of hope. I'll share my ideas for what to do with this little push of energy and how to get through these next couple of months using our power of wishing. I hope you will stick with me and do the 13 wishes for the new year. www. annhedly.comYou can find info about Jen Lemen here: www.thepathofdevotion.com
2025-11-2433 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?SlugabooBeginning with the November 5th Super Moon in Gemini, it's taken me to to 11th to complete the task. Is that the message of this moon? The timing of things isn't all up to you? I think it is, even if I don't announce that explicitly. We get Hexagram 17.4-3. Sprouting and new beginnings await. Even for a slug. www.annhedly.com
2025-11-1127 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?Magnanimous TellingOctober 21, 2025. It's a glorious new moon. Open the notebook and enjoy a fresh page. This opportunity to tell the story you'd most like to hear doesn't arise just every day. Take a moment and discover the story inside you that is waiting to be heard. Robert FulghumPema ChodronAnn Hedly
2025-10-2134 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?In the HoleThe Full Moon of October 6th came like a sneaky wave. I got covid and had to lay low for a week. This time we may be feeling out of sorts, wondering about how to proceed. I don't offer much in the way of advice. You'll hear me flail and be generally discouraged by my own lack of enthusiasm. It took a week to pull together, but let's see what the I Ching has for us this time, Hexagram 45 Unchanging. Gathering. I'd advise considering what and who you would gather if you were having a seasonal celebration. What and...
2025-10-1537 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?Outer Blocking Inner CalmSeptember 22, 2025 and it's a new moon in Libra. A new season, some say a new year. The time to gather our resources for a darker time ahead. We've been collaborating and finding unusual connections which can be so very inspiring, yet the time is not open for us to forge ahead. We have to attend to boring mundane tasks and details. Get the wood in, bring in the houseplants, do the laundry. This is all okay. Keep notes of all your inspirations, let this beginning be a new way of allowing the everyday to have prominence.
2025-09-2231 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?Say GoodbyeSeptember 7, 2025. Welcome to our Full Moon in Pisces with a total lunar eclipse to make it fancy. For some reason, I've got it all wrong as I'm introducing and I say full Libra Moon in Pisces. Say what? I just messed it up, oh well! I'm titling this "Say Goodbye" because I talk about how goodbyes challenge our sense of love. I think Goodbyes can be expansive and also really so sad. This full moon gives us an extra cleaning and opportunity to let things go. This old saying let by gones be by gones may have some potency...
2025-09-0739 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?Main Character EnergyAugust 23, 2005 is our New Moon in Virgo. This new moon is your most potent time to rewrite the exalted story of your life as if it is a fairytale. Do include every single detail that brings inspiration. As always, it is most important to understand that the current story you are telling yourself may be actually quite lame. You can tell a story that brings you more joy and more hope and, for goodness sake, more fun. Land Peace FoundationSherri Mitchell Weh’na Ha’mu KwassetSharon Blackie
2025-08-2528 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?Give A Big NoAugust 9, 2025, and it's a Full Moon. With Patience for the Journey we know that this next 2 weeks will be a lot of reaching then grounding and reaching some more. It's a lot like summer travel actually; how we are wanting this journey, but also really needing to rest a lot as we go. I mention this comedian in the podcast: www.peterantoniou.comand my website:www.annhedly.comIf you haven't, please like and follow this podcast! thank you!
2025-08-1030 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?No One Is LookingJuly 24, 2025 and it's a NEW MOON! This is a good one, an epic rebirth, though we won't really understand that and it's going to take a while. The ultimate question to ask and the only thing you need to consider right now is this: Who are you when no one is looking? Take care of that person. Enjoy this episode and follow the podcast. www.annhedly.com
2025-07-2423 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?Shock JoyJuly 10, 2025 brings us another Full Buck Moon. Midyear thoughts remind me to look at my winter solstice wishing. The images around this moon have to do with getting a chance to mometarily surface about the mundane and see clearly. With this instant of clarity we can take the next right steps to fulfill our own regular wishing. Head wishing, heart wishing and body wishing. www.annhedly.com
2025-07-1126 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?The Dream is Dreaming YouJune 25th, 2025 is the new Buck moon. This is a moon in cancer conjunct Jupiter. We are being told it is a benevolent time to send our wishes into action. Please don’t worry if you don’t have all your good wishes lined up for this auspicious moment. It’s okay because even if you don't, somewhere deep inside you, your wishes are doing their good work of holding that space for you. You can relax and continue breathing and occupying your own space. www.annhedly.com
2025-06-2634 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?At CapacityJune 11, 2025. The Full Strawberry Moon. My question for you is this: How can you expand your capacity to hold this moment? Is there more space inside you? Can you think differently, and detox negative thought patterns in order to be more effective at building your capacity for holding compassion? This full moon is pushing our limits and asking for a lot of integrity and intention. It moves us from The Traveler to Enthusiasm. Fortunately, Enthusiasm is a source engine for Joy. This is my wish for you: enthusiastic embodied integrated joy. 56.3.6->16www.annhedly.com...
2025-06-1229 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?Keen to ListenMay 26, 2025. The New Strawberry Moon is upon us. This is a new beginning that also offers the sweetness of this wild berry. It is a time for listening without knowing first what we may hear. I'll talk about blocks to listening and share an excerpt from Krishnamurti on discipline. (below)https://youtu.be/l2n1Gsjra_Q?si=xHaQU5RGEBVC91OCReach out to me: www.annhedly.comand support me via: www.patreon.com/watermoonstudiosor:
2025-05-2632 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?Let Things BeMay 12, 2025 Full Moon. This is our full Flower Moon. I'm feeling squeezed and like I want to keep being hard on myself. Let Things Be is the wisdom that arrives via the I Ching and Hexagram 2. So, maybe, you and me both can take a pause for these next 2 weeks and just let life be what it is. I'm finding a need for flexibility and patience while I observe more and judge less. I hope you find a lot of ease, joy, and if you are so lucky, a box of kittens!www.annhedly.com
2025-05-1238 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?Keep GoingApril 27, 2025, and it's the New Flower Moon. Always, new moons are a time of starting again. This one has a special flavor of exhaustion to it. It's not a bright new beginning, but rather a sort of beginning because we can't stop now. We have to keep going. It means uncovering inner resources that we didn't know we had available. This is good news, but it will not be easy. One bit of advice is to practice being yourself each day without fail, one little bit of time to be your fully human self, to see what could come...
2025-04-2832 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?Banner of LoveApril 12, 2025. It's a Full Pink Moon in Libra. This is a tender moon, full enough to feel you are being stretched. You'll see possibilities that you aren't even sure are yet real. The only way to get there is to create a little bit of your own fairy dust by believing in magic that you haven't felt since you were a very little new human. Actively practicing love, believing in unknown and benevolent possibilities and letting your enthusiasm for life run free is the equation for getting through these times. It may seem hard and obstacle ridden, but you...
2025-04-1231 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?Quick QuestionMarch 29, 2025 brings a new moon and a solar eclipse. It's shaky ground and geez it's hard to build here, nothing feels like a good place to start. However, it's just a little start that begins with a big question. Will you stand up for yourself? Will you make small connections that give you what you need to be expressive? It may be hard to hold hopefullness while things seem to be falling apart. This is a real test to see if you can speak for yourself even at your worst. It's slow and steady and focused change we are...
2025-03-2931 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?Getting WingsMarch 13, 2025. The full worm moon. There is an eclipse with this moon and it's being called a blood moon because it will appear red when eclipsed. This seems to be a time of great change and there is an ask to be ready. This particular kind of getting ready has to do with decluttering negative habitual thinking. It's so easy to just believe that's the way it is, but with the kind of spring that is just beginning, the advice is to get ready for some big changes. Letting some old ways of thinking go will be necessary for...
2025-03-1440 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?Hold One Thing CloseFebruary 27, 2025 New Worm Moon. This moon shows us a tower falling and we are ready to jump, but before we even build the courage to jump, it falls beneath us. We are devastated because we really wanted to jump and isn't the glory taken away by the falling? Anyway, we are stuck with a big mess and that's what this moon is all about. Being stuck in a mess and only being able to tend to one thing, one little thing that you hold close. Ten Meter Tower (I said "Five" in the episode...
2025-02-2827 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?Fully OccupiedFebruary 12, 2025. This full moon in Leo, The Full Snow Moon, anchors a place to remember what it is like to land into oneself. It might seem a wild mess out there, but perhaps finding soft places to land is a welcome practice.www.annhedly.comwww.patreon.com/watermoonstudios
2025-02-1239 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?Surfing WhirlpoolsJanuary 29, 2025 brings us a New Moon in Aquarius, Steffany's Birthday and welcoming new lunar year of the Snake. Is this new moon taking us down the drain, spinning us up, sucking us through to a new way of building social structures together? I'll share my recent fun taking a songwriting class and read my wishes for a new world.
Here are the links I reference in this episode.
Shirley Ellis: The Real Nitty Gritty
Social Change Map by Deepa Iyer
All About Love, Bell Hooks
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2025-01-2933 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?All Wishes GrantedWELCOME TO SEASON THREE!
January 13, 2025
The Full Wolf Moon in Cancer eats Mars. It's cloudy here, so I won't get to see it, but the Moon will cross in front of Mars tonight. In this episode, I talk about the wish that remained unburned and that I will endeavor to be in relationship with this year. We have abundant excerpts, card readings, and a very promising I Ching reading. I talk about reading the book All Fours by Miranda July.
Homework: Make a wish/desire list for 2025 and try to make it to 100...
2025-01-1435 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?Wishy WishOur last new moon of the year brings the magic of wishing. December 30, 2024 and the New Wolf Moon. Make 13 wishes and burn 12 of them. You'll be left for a wish to give life to. Something to nurture and care for and make real.
Joseph Fasano: The Magic Words
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2024-12-3135 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?Wide FocusDecember 15, 2024. The Full Cold Moon in Gemini. I'm feeling exasperated and frustrated. Is this the moon or just me? I'm confronting ideas of who I thought I was and who I want to be. Past and future colliding. I bring in a forgiveness prayer and we get our oracle reading from the I Ching as well as an Art Oracle. All is well. We get advice to be patient and find our communities. Digest Shame. Get Curious.
Info about Byron Katie's The Work:
https://thework.com/
Thich...
2024-12-1554 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?Wondering AroundDecember 1, 2024. The New Cold Moon is upon us. Up here in Maine, it is dark and cold and this is perfect for the time we need to reflect and listen to questions as they arise. I'll give you the opportunity to ask 3 questions and find answers.
I ponder over my early childhood experiences of religious background and spirituality, what salvation means to me and get some spirit guidance from Owls and Foxes. We receive hexagram 38.1 - 64 opposition moving to Before Crossing.
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2024-12-0256 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?No Answers HereIt's a Full Beaver Super Moon. November 15, 2024. We've made it beyond US presidential election 2024 and many of us are wondering what's next. Some hopeful, some fearful. We all want a better future. How do we do this? The I Ching gives us 28, Great Exceeding. We get The Bear and Cedar and Dolphin. Leadership starts inside, and there is a constant need for rest, joy and renewal. Join me as I show you what a just okay podcast is like. I take my time recording over a couple of days and bring it home like only the seasoned almost 2 year...
2024-11-1649 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?It's a Love SongNovember 1, 2024. New Beaver Moon. Dream Big. You may not see the success you seek, but maybe the point is not to ever stop dreaming, but to get really good at the process behind the dreaming. This time I talk about my dreams, a zoom-ish elevator, Orpheus, and we get gifted with Inner Truth.
listen to the song I share:
Road to Hell (reprise), Hadestown
This is a great site for free Readings:
https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/reading/free-online-i-ching/
www.annh...
2024-11-0152 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?The Courage of EarthOctober 17th, 2024 and it's a full Hunter's Moon. It's also a super moon so the bright moon is feeling huge in the sky this week. This time we are given the nudge to have courage and act even if nothing feels right and all circuits are open and noisy and everything feels like Go GO GO! It's okay to take time and listen. It's okay to be receptive and take a moment to listen to your intuition. Action is also staying still and listening.
I mention Bobby Klein's podcast, find it here:
I...
2024-10-1736 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?Let Go What You CarryOctober 2, 2024. It's a New Moon in Libra, our Hunter's Moon. There is an eclipse that we are concerned with this time, giving us a bit of topsy turvy energy. This moment is for setting things down and letting things go. It's time to lay low. Stay still and prepare for the new in this way.
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2024-10-0344 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?Magic Markers for ChangeFull moon, super moon and partial lunar eclipse. September 17th, 2024. What inspires you, and what happened in these last two weeks that felt interesting, magical, coincidental, wonderous, funny, weird and noteworthy? All of those instances and moments are important places to locate your awareness. Imagine a future that continues to hold and facilitate those kinds of hopeful connections. In these next two weeks, we will be given opportunities to look at what doesn't last and what is brittle. Once again recharging a strong connection to our center grounded focus is an important task on our to-do list.
2024-09-1837 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?End Days Innovation ReleaseSeptember 2, 2024. It's a New Harvest Moon and time to get our to-do lists in order. This time we should probably use a pencil or be ready to re-write. Our lists will change as we go and collaborate with a grounded sense of innovative creativity. We don't know what we will be inspired to do next, but one step at a time will get us to dance in relationship with creativity. We are aiming to build a world that we want to participate in and one that offers us back a receptivity and collaboration what we so generously share. The...
2024-09-0254 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?Boss Moon ShiningFull Super Blue Sturgeon Moon. August 19, 2024. Everything seems to be turning upside down and inside out. On the outside world that can look like weather upsets and political instability. On the inside of us? It can feel both vulnerable and exhausting with a tinge of no fucks left. This moon will boss us into a new way of being where we become more friendly with death who gives us the perspective that we've been desperately wanting. If you have the resources you need, you have many gifts and abundances, what then? What will you do with all these treasures...
2024-08-1957 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?Starting Like A DragonNew Moon for August 4, 2024. But it's the 6th and I had a quiet start where I didn't publish for 2 days. That's just fine because this new moon is about potent and creative beginnings. Whatever it is you attend to, whatever it is you put your attention on... that will germinate and grow. This is the same wisdom as always, but this time it's like magic beanstalk beans. Or I think it might be. It's probably worth considering that what you want to see come into being creatively in your life should have some focus in your life these next...
2024-08-0636 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?Where Is The Tiger?July 21st, 2024 and it's a Full Moon. I was given the advice to look back 18 months and consider what was happening then. The suggestion is that we've completed a cycle and can now look at some of those issues from a completely different perspective. For me, that's when this podcast began. I've come a long way, baby! This podcast has become a personal practice for me, and the results are less important. I mean, I love hearing from you, but this is what I do mostly for me. I started off thinking I was doing some public service via...
2024-07-2144 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?Keep On, With the Force Don't StopJuly 5, 2024. It's a new Buck Moon in Cancer. Maybe, hopefully, some sweet nice things will happen and you can relax and take a deep breath out and just be content for a moment. It's the feeling of floating in a body of water and watching the sky move above you, the water below you, while you breathe and float peacefully. At least, that's what I hope for you. Just a little bit of that. Meanwhile, our big message is: Keep Going, don't give up, find that place where your creativity meets reality. Let yourself be inspired, and participate joyfully...
2024-07-0526 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?Solstice! Old gunk, Yay!June 21, 2024. It's the Full Strawberry Moon and Solstice all together now. Perhaps it's a great turning point, but some of the sludge-y gunk may get stirred up first. That's okay because you aren't alone. It may be hard to reach out, but at least try to go and see that you aren't alone in any of this. I'll tell you about my latest squirmy situation... and, offer hope of course.
2024-06-2036 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?Bugly Ugly All AroundJune 6, 2024. New Moon in Gemini. Bugs and Gardening. Seeing myself from every angle. Why is this New Moon such a truth seeker? Not an absolute truth, more like the truth from an innocent asking why and why and why and as you answer you realize that there are so many other ways to see things. I wish us well as we see the good, the bad and the ugly all at once.
2024-06-0839 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?Embrace the Energy and Act!May 23, 2024 This is our full Flower Moon. It's good. Even though I'm tired, this is good. I'll share a little about what's going on for me, and talk about how I think that could make meaning. What is this moment about? Why so full? Even though we may have our hands full at the moment, this is the perfect time to also experience value and worth and let that unlock our flows of easy energy. You are pretty great, now that you know this, use it.
2024-05-2332 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?Don't Give Up, Not YetMay 8, 2024. These next two weeks are tinted by this New Flower Moon in Taurus. My take? Nothing will be so amazingly different and we will still feel the difficulties of these times. However, we may feel a tiny glimmer of hope. And we may have just one thing go our way. Just enough that we don't feel so lost. This is my hope and prediction, but mostly a hope. I'll share my story about this new moon and I reference a poem that I shared a couple of years ago at a local Story Slam.
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2024-05-0921 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?Wittle Baybee Steps.Full Pink Moon. April 23, 2024. How many times do we need to hear, just let it go? It's not so easy though, is it? This full moon we've passed a signpost. The land we've entered has a new ruling party and we don't quite know how to conduct ourselves here. It takes a lot of bravery to know something is right on the inside and then follow through with that knowing on the outside. This is a time for teeny tiny steps in the direction of our inner authority taking charge. I don't foresee this being simple or easy. What...
2024-04-2434 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?Starting Over, Babies.April 8, 2024. It's a new moon and a TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE, and conjunct the wounded healer Chiron. This is a stupendous time for transformation. Whatever your deepest, truest calling is: Listen.
I'll share my take on the chakras (one more time - this one's for me) and how they relate to the 3rd, 4th and 5th dimensions. Maybe, prolly. It's just theory.
Take your time to love this moment now. To be kind to your self and to enjoy a moment of restart. Everything is rebooted. Let's hope it works.
2024-04-0832 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?Have It All. Fry It Up In A Pan.Full Worm Moon, March 25, 2024. Say you could have it all, would you even want it? The limitations of being human are such that we can imagine a lot more than is possible to do. I imagine I'll read all the books, though it's technically impossible. I imagine a second career, more certifications, maybe another degree, world travel, but is it realistic? What happens if I lay out my dreams and take a long considered look at them? What stays, what goes? The last moon we got washed through, and some things fell away whether we liked it or not...
2024-03-2429 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?Someone Shouts for JoyDecember 10, 2024. The New Worm Moon. Probably something will wash away before we begin fresh with this moon. Sometimes our letting go will happen and all we can do is stand back and watch the torrent. Of course, I don't know how this will play out, but hopefully we can recover from whatever left our grasp this time and have a moment with a washed surface to express our creativity.
I'll read "Humpbacks" by Mary Oliver.
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2024-03-1031 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?The Awe of Small ThingsFebruary 24th, 2024. It's a Full Moon and as usual, I'm feeling full and looking for why it's an overfull feeling before remembering that's just how Full moons feel. I share an animal communication about fullness. The small things matter in these two weeks. Pay attention and let yourself be guided by inner wisdom and appreciation for this moment now. Again and again, bit by bit to bring us to the next moment of right action. Now is a time for learning to flow with obstacles and to back off when necessary to fill up and find others with whom...
2024-02-2426 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?Your Heart Knows What You WantFebruary 9, 2024. It's a New Moon and a fresh slate. Time to check in with your heart. Valentine's Day is coming up and your heart wants you to check in, deep within, with the heart's authority before you love anyone else. Your heart wants a chance to direct your life. The promise is that you won't regret this most important shift of leadership. The hope is that this is the kind of revolution that is necessary for our world.
Somatic Practice here: www.annhedly.com
2024-02-0924 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?The Meaning of Life: Act Now! Free for a Limited Time!Full Wolf Moon in Leo, January 25, 2024. A few days later than planned, the podcast is ready. It's completely worth the wait though, I assure you. Somehow, without forewarning. The Meaning of Life has been revealed. It may astound you. It may be the relief you've been searching for and the answer you seek. I talk about the surrender to this full moon, my migraine visitation and the wisdom shared by listening to pain. What does the oracle have as advice for us? Gather your people, find collaborators, partners, supporters. Revolution is in the air.
I'm hosting a...
2024-01-2933 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?Getting Friendly with DarknessNew Wolf Moon in Capricorn, January 11, 2024. Welcome to Season 2! This new moon time has me wanting to develop a friendlier relationship with the Dark. As I feel the prompts of a New Year and all the cheerful resolutions to be made, it seems important to balance it all out with the truth of my experience. I need the dark and the light to figure out my center place and to know how to ask for help that gives me what I need to stay there. Thank you for joining me here for another season of What Is Going On...
2024-01-1126 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?Polishing the ShitDecember 26, 2023. Full Cold Moon in Cancer. It's the last full moon of 2023 and a good time for reflection and appreciation. Intuitively, this next year holds something a little different for us all. Join me to hold space for gratitude, understand where we've been and prepare to push open little pockets of space to hold joy that is sprouting in 2024.
2023-12-2625 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?Ceasefire and HopeNew Cold Moon, December 12, 2023. This New Moon time is giving me a sense of the need for imaginal space to consider new ways of understanding the power of everyday acts. What if I changed my everyday habits and connected with others who also seek change by starting small? This is the last new moon of 2023. I've seen my way through a whole year of new moons with this podcast. The I Ching gives us Radical Change and Sprouting. Both are hopeful and necessitate a big round of courage and fortitude to find out what stays and what goes as...
2023-12-1329 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?Finding Your ShinyNew Blue Moon, August 16, 2023. Your personal shininess is calling. Can you make space and organize your life so that your gifts can breathe? Join me this time as we consider the end of summer and how to let this two week cycle of new moon to full moon give us the space we need to consider ourselves. Also this new moon time has been confrontational in a toddlerish way, unexpected, and geez a little sticky.
2023-12-1332 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?Tending the Hearth and FireFull Beaver Moon in Gemini, November 27th, 2023. Have you been tending your inner fire lately? This podcast is here to remind you that not only do you need the warmth and coziness of a fire to keep you happy this winter, your spirit needs its flame tended as well. Of course not everyone has a woodstove or fireplace to tend, but we can all celebrate the season of darkness with lights, candles, and flame of some sort or another. Let's welcome Hestia and find our feet on the ground once again. Creativity awaits!
2023-11-2828 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?Storytelling for a New WorldNew Beaver Moon in Scorpio. November 13, 2023. What does storytelling have to do with desire? This time on the podcast I consider how rethinking storytelling is one way that I am forming the world I want to live in. This new moon isn't giving us relief from the current intensity of the world. Political strife is omnipresent, and a humanitarian crisis is on my mind. Join me for a moment of storytelling magic that brings me back to my childhood.
2023-11-1330 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?Peering into the DarknessOctober 28, 2023. We've come to the Full Hunter Moon with a partial lunar eclipse. Times are turbulent and people are exhausted. The grief of so much destruction is overwhelming. This time on the podcast we are being called to look into the dark and pull out the corruption which no longer has a place in the hidden realms. It's time to look, really look, at what must come to surface and what hidden talents and intelligences are ready to emerge.
2023-10-2824 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?Responding by GroundingOctober 14, 2023. This is the New Moon in Libra and Annular Solar Eclipse. This time on the podcast I take time to focus on the recent war declared by Israel on Hamas. It deeply affects me and I'm sharing how I'm coping with the daily fear that arises from having family in this region.
The I Ching gives us notice that once again, the place we are in is steeped in the unknown and we must attend to what being that vulnerable means. How do we stay with that uncertainty? How do we lend our strength? I also...
2023-10-1417 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?Urgency and BulliesSeptember 29th, 2023 Full Harvest Moon in Aries. What is going on when you are so full to the brim that everything feels sloshy and messy? Which is worse a real bully in the form of another human or the one who keeps saying mean things to myself? I remember how lovely it is to wander the stacks of a public library. Our hexagram gives us the wisdom of the Vessel and transformation.
2023-09-2938 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?Playing Hooky with AnnIt’s the New Harvest Moon (in Virgo) on September 14, 2023 and despite my best intentions, I left the studio and ran to the ocean to play hooky. What do you do with inner conflict when one part of you wants to ‘do it right’ and the other just wants to play. Who wins? This time on the podcast, me - your host, Ann Hedly, goes rogue and we meet Hecate, goddess of crossroads. We will find out this moon’s hexagram and discover some wisdom about joining forces to move together into this unknown future.
2023-09-1520 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?Giving Up On DreamsFull Blue (Super!) Moon. August 30-31, 2023. What do you do when you're afraid you might give up on your dreams? Do you push onward, refocus, or do you give up and change course? This time on the podcast I consider this question and ask advice from the Oracle. This time, we're considering a full blue moon, which is also a supermoon so it appears just slightly bigger in the sky to our eye. And it's a blue moon, which means it's the second full moon of August and the last blue moon until the year 2037. This full moon is...
2023-08-3126 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?Full Sturgeon Moon, August 1, 2023But for real this time, What is going on, anyway? Why do things seem like they could be easy, but then they are just hard? And also summer is weird. It's either too hot and sweaty or too rainy and it's all just bothersome isn't it? This full super moon is bringing up issues of head versus heart. We must learn the flexibility to move easily from both perspectives. The I Ching offers us "Great Exceeding" and that is just like my garden right now. What is overloaded? What have you outgrown? What must you do? This leads us...
2023-08-0134 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?New Sturgeon Moon, July 17th 2023Danger. Don't worry, I'll talk you through it. Yes, these two weeks will probably bring up challenges, but they have purpose. With the mindset of inquiry you will be able to find out how to flow with the waters. I'm asking questions about how I was raised and by whom. Why am I so much like my siblings and my mother? We react in such similar ways when anxiety arises, I have to wonder where they end and I begin.
So yes, these two weeks may be challenging, but it's not meant to wreck us. If we can listen carefully...
2023-07-1733 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?Full Buck Moon, July 3, 2023Welcome to this Full Buck Moon. Do you know how to ask a good question? Let's consider what goes into this process. Yes, discernment is necessary and also having healthy personal boundaries is key. Are you asking in the spirit of true curiosity, or are you making a commentary with your question? We will consider what needs composting to make way for sustained and nourishing growth.
Grace, Beauty and Community await us this full moon time.
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"The Art of Asking The Right Questions" by Kevin Dickinson
2023-07-0338 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?New Buck Moon, June 18th, 2023When life brings up something that is worn out or has holes in it, we are called to fix, mend, repair or discard. How do we know what to do? When it is our actual world that needs repair, how do we bring our own hands to act and do this important work? I'll talk about some ideas I've got around mending, share a Dad poem for Father's Day, and see what is in store for these next 2 weeks. What does the I Ching advise? Join me for all this and a little more this time on the podcast.
2023-06-1642 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?Full Strawberry Moon, June 3, 2023Welcome to a delightful full moon time. Finally the frost is gone and we've got some room in the soil to stretch out and take up space. What happens when we are rooted? We feel safe and supported and a spark of desire is given the oxygen it needs to burn. That is the creative spark and the beginning of art. What-is-Art is a very big question and I only begin to attend to that in this episode. Chakras, Art, and our Hexagram for these 2 weeks await.
In this episode I use: Total I Ching by Stephen...
2023-06-0248 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?New Strawberry Moon, May 19, 2023Welcome back to this next moon cycle. Intelligence is on my mind and we will discuss artificial intelligence. AI is in the news. Should we fear it? Run from it? What is our responsibility as the outer world continues to change? I also consider that appreciation is a way of bringing more love into the world and creating a flow pattern that gets us through the inevitably tough times of anxiety and depression. Our reading includes return to a hexagram that we received in March and also some promise that things are getting better... albeit slowly.
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2023-05-1852 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?Full Flower Moon, May 5, 2023With the extra spiciness of a lunar eclipse, this full moon is bringing us to a slow-motion-running-in-a-dream-state pace. Why does everything feel so difficult? Is this really the end of times? This episode talks about how to prepare for and engage with this full moon time. Do you want a seasoned guide to bring you through the End of Times? I've got the answers for you and they aren't what you think. Also, Spring is being very slow up here in Maine and that gives us a chance to think things through, plan the garden and get ready for the...
2023-05-0540 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?New Flower Moon April 20, 2023It’s a rare hybrid solar eclipse this month and a new moon. What does AI have to do with this new moon? How can we understand setting intentions for a new moon? What does gardening have to do with philosophical decision making? I’ll talk about these things and more in this episode. Plus, you’ll find out what Hexagram is ours for this 2 week cycle and what that means to understanding our inner and outer worlds.
2023-04-1937 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?Full Pink Moon, April 5-6, 2023It’s full moon time! We’ll talk about the story of Chiron, and gulp! Have THE SEX TALK. It was bound to happen. What is our ever bleeding wound? And how to find balance as we approach these next 2 weeks of springtime (emergent fall in the southern hemisphere).
2023-04-0552 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?Welcome Equinox! March 20, 2023The New Pink Moon in Aries is here. There is a bustle of excitement that spring has arrived in the Northern Hemisphere, the season is changing and there seems to be a lot of support for small achievable steps that feel energizing and aligned. There is a magical balance between light and dark right now, it feels important to utilize this time to understand our own light and darknesses and how they keep us right where we need to be. Here. In the Present moment. Be here now; Be here, wow! Happy Equinox to us all.
2023-03-2053 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?Full Worm Moon March 7, 2023What does making sourdough have to do with understanding pathways? And what if it is okay to express the need to be recognized by our people?
2023-03-0132 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?New Worm Moon in Pisces 2/20/23What can we know about this new moon time? There is more to discover around community healing, and reaching for right action absent of personal stories and attachment to a personal sense of worthiness because of those actions. What if we do the right thing because it is there to be done? I muse around our collective inheritance that awaits.
2023-02-1926 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?Looking back to January 21st, 2023Catching up with January and discovering what was happening according to the oracle. This helps us set up for the year ahead.
2023-02-1216 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?Looking Back to January 2023I cast a hexagram retroactively for the Full Wolf January 6th moon. What was that all about?
2023-02-1115 min
What Is Going On, Anyway?Snow Moon February 5th, 2023Welcome to “What is Going On, Anyway?” Where I use the I Ching and other tools to call in to the invisible divine for guidance, support and direction for the period of time between full and new moons.
2023-02-1121 min2023-02-1000 min
Alopecia LifeE033 Accepting Life on Life's Terms with Dancer & Yoga Instructor, Ann HedlyToday's guest is Ann Hedly. She is a homeschooling mother of 3 boys, and she has a bachelor of fine arts in Dance & Choreography. Practicing the art of relaxation guides how she responds to having alopecia, and with her work as a home educator and yoga instructor. She also made the documentary, Mop Cap, An Alopecia Story which premiered at the Maine International Film Festival in 2017 and is now available on demand worldwide. I know 2020 has added stress to my life, and if you're experiencing something similar, thiis episode is a great way to start a simple meditative p...
2020-08-0649 min