Episode 030: How can we practice sitting pretty at the edge of the possible without feeling powerless? In this episode, Bess and Sandy prepare to meet and greet the amorphous—using astro and tarot to cultivate a calm in the face of life’s clearings and navigate mysterious terrains step by star-studded step. The convo covers patience, waiting, creating secure habitats, soothing anxiety, staying close to the present, getting comfy with silence, deep listening, and expanding consciousness. Toss your worries to the wild winds and let the answers arrive from parts uncharted! Inside Your Cosmic Snack Pack: The IC: Inhabiting your chart’s bunker as a precious inner sanctum to shelter you as the world shifts and shakes outside your lair. Venus: Befriending soft spaces of ease and pleasure to help pave the path through uncertainty and birth a secure sense of ok-ness in every moment. The High Priestess: Harnessing this archetype as a deity for deep listening, quieting into your own style of spacious “knowing” without having to “figure out.” Hypnosis for Homecoming: Feathering your inner nest with incubation anchors to keep you snug in the present, so the future can carry you in its astral arms all on its own. Star Party Podcast Website: https://starpartypodcast.com Bess Matassa: http://bessmatassa.com Sandy Sitron: https://www.sandysitron.com David Freund, Podcast Editor: https://www.skywolfmusic.com/

Episode 029: How can we meet what meets us with both mojo and mood ring malleability? In this episode, Bess and Sandy power up and spread out in the face of all kinds of weather—using astro and tarot to ecstatically endure and elementally adapt, learning to respond to and relish all the celestial snacks that come to the party. The convo covers interconnectedness of being, values to lean on, sources of support, concepts of strength, and surviving and thriving. Live on and make love to it all! Inside Your Cosmic Snack Pack: Aspects: Harnessing these telephone lines of intersign communication in your birthchart to unleash a cosmic completeness of self. Saturn + Jupiter: Tapping these two planetary teachers to learn how to both competently hardnose it and adaptively expand. The 10s: Letting these four full-on tarot lifeworlds help you embrace the entirety of experience and live through it to tell the tale. Value Vault Hypnosis: Taking a guided journey through trials and tribulations, as you summon your most treasured supports to meet you on the other side. Star Party Podcast Website: https://starpartypodcast.com Bess Matassa: http://bessmatassa.com Sandy Sitron: https://www.sandysitron.com David Freund, Podcast Editor: https://www.skywolfmusic.com/

Episode 028: How do we make sense of the star-studded stories of our lives? In this episode, Bess and Sandy elevate the everyday to epic proportions—using astro and tarot to claim our personal place on the planet and sync our tiny tales with an even taller order. The convo covers our fundamental aliveness in the face of the mystery, the right to be here and take up space in our narrative, values, creative wayfinding, motivation, reanimation, and resurrection. Infuse your life on the ground with supercharged cosmic context! Inside Your Cosmic Snack Pack: Mars: Harnessing this hotblooded planet to connect with what brings us alive, assert our rights as worthy participants no matter how we power up, and heal the hustle to immediately act or analyze. The Magician, The High Priestess, The Empress, and The Emperor: Using these four figures to make sense of our world: attuning our senses, trusting our sense of things, feeding the senses, and claiming our sense of significance. Poetic Participation Hypnosis: Stage a scavenger hunt for substance, and correspond with your cosmic guides to reveal higher meaning. Loving your Star Party studies? Join Bess starting January 1st for The Cosmic Capsule Collection, a 12-month astrology and tarot immersive that gifts you fluency in every sign, planet, house, and card through the sweet, simple rhythm of the calendar year. Learn more at the link below, and enroll by December 21st! Astro + Tarot Course: http://thestarparlor.com/course Star Party Podcast Website: https://starpartypodcast.com Bess Matassa: http://bessmatassa.com Sandy Sitron: https://www.sandysitron.com David Freund, Podcast Editor: https://www.skywolfmusic.com/

Episode 027: How can we keep the faith as we walk through the fire? In this episode, Bess and Sandy stand and face the change—using astro and tarot to navigate the inevitable shifty shakes of existence, learning to love and lose and live all over again each and every time. The convo covers grief, meaning making, self-soothing, acceptance, steadiness, leaning into the limbo, and navigating the void. Power up your personal phoenix and embolden your belief in all the selves you can’t yet see! Inside Your Cosmic Snack Pack: Inconjunct Signs: Using these unlikely buddies as escorts through what seems inconceivable, leaning on new modalities and elements in times of limbo. Chiron, Saturn, and Pluto: Activating this planetary trinity to break open, move through the magma, and make good on what’s good and ready to change. Tarot Numerology: Taking a spin through the Minor Arcana’s numbers to uncover the precise flavor of flux you’re ready to face. Hypnosis for Shapeshifting Support: Relaxing into your inner stability and learning to float through the void with the greatest of ease. Loving your Star Party studies? Join Bess starting January 1st for The Cosmic Capsule Collection, a 12-month astrology and tarot immersive that gifts you fluency in every sign, planet, house, and card through the sweet, simple rhythm of the calendar year. Learn more at the link below, and enroll by December 21st with a special 20% discount for Star Party listeners (code STARSTUDY).  Astro + Tarot Course: http://thestarparlor.com/course Star Party Podcast Website: https://starpartypodcast.com Bess Matassa: http://bessmatassa.com Sandy Sitron: https://www.sandysitron.com David Freund, Podcast Editor: https://www.skywolfmusic.com/

Episode 026: In the luminosity of daybreak, how can we summon the courage to lock eyes with what’s here and dear? In this episode, Bess and Sandy sift through the swirl to summon flashes of insight—using astro and tarot to uncover how to hone what we know, and how to act in ardent alignment with the lit-up lines of our lives. The convo covers taking responsibility for our intuitive hits, discovering our soul direction, and synching our subconscious intentions with our actions in the wide world. Step into the sun-kissed sparkle and see for mystical miles! Inside Your Cosmic Snack Pack: Saturn: Using the sign and house element of this force of gorgeous gravity to sieve out the extraneous matter and divine what has the most wondrous weight. The Houses: Exploring the sign on each house cusp as a clean and clear call to approach the contents within. Justice, The Tower, The Sun, and The World: Letting ourselves be shocked, rocked, settled, and spread by the simple soul essences that show up in our lives. Higher Self Hypnosis: Meeting up with your internal illuminator and liberating your deepest “yes.” Star Party Podcast Website: https://starpartypodcast.com Bess Matassa: http://bessmatassa.com Sandy Sitron: https://www.sandysitron.com

Episode 025: How can we show up at life’s altars with suppleness, making sacred what longs for our attention and acceptance? In this episode, Bess and Sandy bow down and hone in—using astro and tarot to partner with the currents and cultivate sweet loving care where it’s called for most. The convo covers slowing down, finding strength in submission, acts of service, and “taking the shape” without losing our sense of self. Dedicate yourself to divinity on the daily! Inside Your Cosmic Snack Pack: The 12th House + The Ascendent: Exploring this arc as a key to meeting your chart’s “gods”—learning to answer to and elevate their energies without feeling powerlessly possessed. Virgo: Letting the care-filled curation of this sign archetype help you slow down and focus in on what matters most. Death + The 9s: Using these cards to practice letting yourself be changed by life, becoming a part of nature as you allow inevitable seasonal shifts to point the way. Loving Care Hypnosis: Placing soft attention on our internal energy body so we can move through the world in partnership with every divine detail. Star Party Podcast Website: https://starpartypodcast.com Bess Matassa: http://bessmatassa.com Sandy Sitron: https://www.sandysitron.com

Episode 024: How do we sniff out the celestial essence that courses through each birth chart’s complex chambers? In this episode, Bess and Sandy tap into the “take home” points—using astro and tarot to track the central dramas and heroics that lead us straight to the core of each chart’s bespoke beat. The convo covers intuitive reading techniques, astrology as a living language, and simplifying this art form without losing one bit of its intricacy. Put your hand to your chart’s chest and fall in love with the larger-than-life force! Inside Your Cosmic Snack Pack: The Elements (00:11:55): Using these four natural beauties as poetic entry points for clarifying the chart’s sea of tangled lines and playing with different reading styles. The Moon (00:30:25): Connecting with this emotional chart center to self-soothe, understand each other’s signature heart beats, and uncover our deepest teachings. The Kings (00:43:22): Harnessing these immersive icons to lead us straight towards the chart’s big truths. Intuitive Path Hypnosis (00:48:39): Building trust in your ability to see exactly what each astro landscape wants to reveal, exploring lessons, inspirations, and gifts through your inner knowing. Star Party Podcast Website: https://starpartypodcast.com Bess Matassa: http://bessmatassa.com Sandy Sitron: https://www.sandysitron.com

Episode 023: How do we touch in with the tenderest places, building bonds with ourselves and others that are fully fluffed and fiercely faithful? In this episode, Bess and Sandy probe the contours of the human heart—using astro and tarot to move closer to what beats beneath the hunt to hold and be held. The convo covers the capacity to stay “with” our emotional range, the dance of coming towards and taking space in partnership, and how to give ourselves the seashelled protection to support secret diary sharing. Turn the lights down low and whisper your hopes and fears to the heavens! Inside Your Cosmic Snack Pack: Lilith (00:15:45): Using this lunar point in your chart to make peace with your full complexity, without fearing like it has to “cost” you closeness. The 5-8th Houses (00:30:37): Activating this arc of interpersonal development to track your own journey of relating—balancing your emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual needs. Strength and the Empress (00:41:51): Exploring these archetypes to support us in opening our hardened casings and stepping forward heart first while still remaining intact. Hypnosis for Emotional Sustenance (00:49:05): Tapping the subconscious to anchor and protect as we reach in and reach out. Well + Good article: https://www.wellandgood.com/types-of-intimacy/ Star Party Podcast Website: https://starpartypodcast.com Bess Matassa: http://bessmatassa.com Sandy Sitron: https://www.sandysitron.com

Episode 022: In a world gone wild with power moves, how can we plump our pillows for downy dreams? In this episode, Bess and Sandy tuck in between the silk sheets—using astro and tarot to soothe overwrought systems and restore allegiance to the sweetness of self. The convo covers recalibration of our currents, energetic protection, finding sanctuary, fears of failing to produce, and learning to value self replenishment. Unroll your sleeping bags and bundle up astro babies! Inside Your Cosmic Snack Pack: Sun Signs + The 6 Polarities (00:17:10): Using your Sun sign to restore your original shape and divine exactly what you have energy for; and working along the axis with your “opposite” sign to tap your bespoke blend of bedding down. Venus (00:34:48): Revaluing the parts of us that are here to have fun with filling, and placing more pleasure in our calming cups. 9 of Wands, King of Pentacles, The Star, Queen of Cups (00:43:10): Exploring this tarot quartet to discover the elemental flavor we’re craving that will create most ease in this moment. Hypnosis for the 7 Types of Rest (00:50:53): Engaging in a full-bodied practice that beauty balms every piece of you in need of nutritive nurturance. Dr. Saundra Dalton Smith: https://www.drdaltonsmith.com/ Star Party Podcast Website: https://starpartypodcast.com Bess Matassa: http://bessmatassa.com Sandy Sitron: https://www.sandysitron.com

Episode 021: How can we risk reaching out to catch the tastiest stars on our tongue tips? In this episode, Bess and Sandy keep the faith alive—using astro and tarot to seed our greatest expectations and step seamlessly into the current of lovable life. The convo covers organic rhythms of empty and full, floods of feeling, realism and utopianism, nourishment in times of hopelessness, and the courage to start again. Show up on your own doorstep with flowers and chocolates intact! Inside Your Cosmic Snack Pack: The Moon (00:12:00): Understanding how to feed our elemental needs and be a forever precious part of the flow that pulses inside and around us. The 10th-12th Houses (00:21:55): Tapping different flavors of hope—from the pragmatic to the transcendently transportative—and using the signs on the cusp of these houses to embody our full arc of expectation expression. The Death Card, Temperance, and the 6s (00:32:50): From the down-and-out to the daring acts that hold nothing back, how we learn to link arms with life once again. Hypnosis for Wishery (00:43:05): Clutch your hopes and dreams to your beating heart with a guided journey to the end of the rainbow. Star Party Podcast Website: https://starpartypodcast.com Bess Matassa: http://bessmatassa.com Sandy Sitron: https://www.sandysitron.com