Our Waking Dream

Happy Equinox. Aries season is on — anyone feeling an increase in energy, passion, or pressure?

For many of us, it can land as a push to act, initiate, and begin — yes. And, Aries is a trial-and-error sign. That same pressure can show up as perfectionism, hesitation, or impulsiveness that doesn’t quite land.

This reflects the nature of Aries. It moves fast. It plays. It initiates. And it learns through doing — not through getting it right the first time.

In this episode of Our Waking Dream, strategist and mentor Coco Swanson offers a crash co...

Anyone feeling emotionally exhausted but strangely fired up at the same time right now? Ideas are returning. Passion is stirring. Projects want to begin. And yet there is still weight in the system — grief, confusion, old chapters finishing.

This Pisces New Moon arrives at the very end of the zodiac just before Aries season begins. One cycle closes. Another prepares to start.

In this episode of Our Waking Dream, spiritual strategist and educator Coco Swanson explores this strange threshold many people are standing in right now: tired and ready at the same time. Anyone with a...

Are you feeling emotionally stretched right now?

For many of us, the last few months have stirred deeper emotional waters. Feelings and observations about the state of the world that were easier to set aside before may be surfacing again — grief, tenderness, fatigue, or simply the sense that your heart has been carrying more than usual.

When emotions build slowly like this, the nervous system often shifts into management mode. We keep functioning and moving forward while a deeper layer of feeling waits quietly underneath the surface. Jupiter now stations direct after months of retrograde th...

Emotional overwhelm gets louder during eclipse season. Sensitivity rises. What used to work may suggendly feel insufficient. If you're feeling tender, reactive, or quietly exhausted, it might be increasing due to this March 3 eclipse.

Eclipses illuminate misalignment -- especially in the systems needing restoration. On this Virgo Full Moon, it is time to examine our self care routines -- how we care for our body, mind, and spirit . When our practices are in line, life flows with way less overwhelm.

In this episode of Our Waking Dream, strategist and mentor Coco Swanson explores how to...

Have you felt a spark lately — the urge to move, change, or finally claim what you want? Not because everything is clear, but because something inside you is waking up?

We’re entering an Aries crash course this spring. It’s a bridge between what’s falling away and what wants to be born. This is a time to notice your impulses, name your desire, and let go of attachments to how it “should” unfold.

With Saturn and Neptune now conjunct in Aries, a new cycle begins around will and purpose. This timing asks us to align per...

If you’ve been circling what feels heavy, outdated, or relentless, this week may intensify that awareness. In seasons of rapid change, it’s easy to fixate on what’s collapsing — the old patterns, structural fatigue, or the parts of life that no longer align.

This episode arrives on the eve of a new moon eclipse on the 17th, squaring Uranus in Taurus and activating our relationship with resources and sustainability. Three days later, on the 20th, Saturn and Neptune meet in Aries, beginning a rare new structural cycle.

Together, these movements shift attention away from wha...

Have things felt heavy, repetitive, and draining? We’ve been moving through a season of old patterns resurfacing — in relationships, money stories, work dynamics, and global leadership breakdowns — leaving many of usfeeling confused, grief-stricken, fatigued, or burned out.

This episode arrives during Saturn’s final days in Pisces, closing a long cycle of karmic review that began in 2023 and intensified over the past several months. As Saturn prepares to move into Aries on Feb 13, this is a powerful window to name what’s ending, forgive what’s ready to be released, and consciously restructure the patterns that no longer de...

If emotions have been close to the surface and old grudges harder to ignore, this week may feel charged. Many people are noticing where the heart has been holding on — to resentment, fatigue, or fixed positions that no longer reflect who they are becoming.

This episode lands during a dynamic sequence. A full moon in Leo opens the heart through release and honesty, and shortly after, Uranus stations direct in Taurus, shifting momentum around values, resources, and stability. Together, these movements create a window where emotional clearing gives way to dynamic change. Release first, then movement.

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If you’ve been feeling the exhaustion of caring deeply while witnessing leadership fail and responsibility diffuse, you’re sensing a collective strain. Many people are carrying fatigue, frustration, and moral pressure as care for the planet and its inhabitants continues to erode.

This episode arrives as Neptune enters Aries on January 26, marking a turning point within an ongoing season of confusion. While clarity hasn’t fully arrived, the tide is beginning to shift toward greater support for agency—first in your own life, then in how you engage with the world. This is spiritual activism rooted in love...

Divine discontent is in the air. Many people are feeling a quiet but persistent tension — a sense that something isn’t right, paired with a deeper question about where their own power to create change actually lives when systems feel overwhelming.

As familiar structures fracture and what was once hidden becomes harder to ignore, ethics and responsibility move to the foreground. This Aquarian moment invites reflection on what truly governs our choices — personally, professionally, and collectively — beyond reaction or inherited norms.

In this episode of Our Waking Dream, spiritual strategist and educator Coco Swanson explores values...

Does life feel like a lot of effort right now? Staying steady, showing up, and being responsible can feel heavy, especially when your system is asking for more softness and space. Many people are carrying pressure while trying not to lose their heart in the process.

January heightens this tension between commitment and surrender. Capricorn energy emphasizes responsibility and long-term building, while Pisces invites imagination, feeling, and spiritual openness. Together, they ask how to keep moving forward without becoming hardened or depleted.

In this episode of Our Waking Dream, spiritual strategist and educator Coco Swanson...

As this week unfolds, many of us feel pressure to stay productive and decisive — even while we're still tired, letting go, or emotionally tender. This tension is heightened right now, as expectations around responsibility and momentum clash with a deeper need for rest, care, and recalibration.

Astrologically, we’re moving through a rare Capricorn conjunction with the Sun, Venus, and Mars, alongside longer cycles of release as Neptune, Saturn, and the North Node continue their work in Pisces. This can bring questions about authority, expertise, and legacy — while revealing where productivity has become disconnected from nourishment.

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This turn-of-the-year moment can intensify the gap between how we’re expected to show up and how we actually feel. The pressure to have clarity, goals, and momentum often collides with very real fatigue, grief, and nervous system overload.

Astrologically, the Cancer Full Moon on January 3, 2026 opposes a strong Capricorn emphasis from the Sun, Venus, and Mars — a combination that can amplify themes of responsibility, productivity, and legacy. This may feel like an internal push to “get it together” at the exact moment your system is asking for care, safety, and nourishment.

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The solstice arrives with a strong Piscean emphasis, as the North Node, Saturn, and Neptune continue their long collaboration in Pisces. This episode explores the deeper work of this season—release, forgiveness, surrender, and the truth that alignment often comes through letting go rather than holding on.

With Venus in Sagittarius forming tense aspects to both Saturn and Neptune, questions of value, desire, and trust rise to the surface. Loss, confusion, and emotional intensity become part of the initiation, asking how we meet change without closing our hearts and how we allow grace, flow, and serendipity to le...

This episode of Our Waking Dream centers on the December 19 New Moon in Sagittarius, a transitional lunation shaped by mutable tension and release. The Sun and New Moon in Sagittarius square Neptune in Pisces, while Venus in Sagittarius squares Saturn in Pisces, continuing a season defined by change, flow, and the clearing of long-standing patterns.

With Saturn and Neptune now direct in the final degrees of the zodiac, this New Moon marks a moment of closure alongside renewed vision. Sagittarius brings passion, adventure, and conviction; Pisces brings imagination, spirituality, and manifestation through the subtle realms. Together, they...

This week, the Grand Water Trine returns with Saturn and Mercury newly direct, creating a softer and more harmonious emotional landscape than we’ve felt in weeks. Two weeks ago, something surfaced—emotionally, relationally, internally—and this is the moment to revisit it and notice what has shifted.

With water trine support and two planets moving forward, this week offers clarity, emotional nourishment, and a deeper understanding of how we hold space for ourselves and others. It’s also a powerful time to release what is ready to go and celebrate what has changed.

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Saturn and Mercury are direct—just in time for the November 4 Full Moon squaring the moon’s nodes. This combination brings forward momentum after weeks of inner recalibration. Both planets have been retrograde in water signs, reshaping structure (Saturn) and perception (Mercury) in our emotional landscapes.

In times of change, it helps to stay aware of how we are with loss, with transition, and with uncertainty itself. How can we align with clarity and presence so we support, rather than hinder, the momentum moving through our lives?

Join spiritual strategist and mentor Coco Swanson for insi...

This week, we’re moving through a beautiful grand water trine—with Mercury retrograde in Scorpio, Saturn retrograde in Pisces, and Jupiter retrograde in Cancer all flowing in sync. This is a week of softening, review, and release.

Expect old emotions—resentments, unresolved stories, subtle grudges—to rise gently to the surface. Not to overwhelm you, but to be witnessed, metabolized, and cleared. The water element invites nurturance, listening, and emotional spaciousness for yourself and the people you care for.

Join spiritual strategist and mentor Coco Swanson for grounded insight into the week’s astrology, plus pract...

This week on Our Waking Dream, we’re exploring the sextile between Uranus in Taurus and Neptune in Pisces. Although this isn’t just a weekly transit; it signals a seasonal invitation to gently look at what’s shifted in you: your values, what you care about, how you spend your energy, and how your current practices, hobbies, and care routines are feeding your soul right now.

Join spiritual strategist and mentor Coco Swanson for grounded insight—beginning with the first ten minutes of astrology and closing with practical tools rooted in energy medicine and contemplative practices. These we...

Mercury stations retrograde today in Sagittarius and conjuncts Mars this week. It’s a potent time to notice where your belief systems are shifting and how your passions may be changing as part of a larger era of growth. Pause and reflect before acting—consider how these changes relate to your service to the greater good.

The first half of the show is an astrology lesson. In the second half, you’ll get practical tools to help you create change this week, including the “passion dance” practice—living in your passion through exaggerated movement to reconnect with joy and serv...

This week's show is guided by the Taurus Full Moon on November 5. As the outer planets stir up big changes, this is an invitation to use lunar energy and earth-based ritual to anchor what’s shifting in real time. Gentle lymph drainage lets the body flow, helping you support growth as change moves through both the physical and emotional layers.

Join spiritual strategist and mentor Coco Swanson for grounded insight into how this Full Moon deepens ritual and lays foundations for your transformation.

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This week, Coco reviews a longer transit that we’re all probably feeling right now: Uranus moving retrograde at 0° Gemini. It’s a time to look at awakenings—both disruptive and illuminating—around ethics and communication.

Uranus is in Gemini until its last brief return to Taurus, before settling in Gemini on April 26, 2026. This is an invitation to notice intense patterns in how we connect, and to release fixed ideas so your perception can realign with deeper truth.

Join spiritual strategist and mentor Coco Swanson for grounded, plain-English insight focused on awakening through the stars and every...

This week, Neptune retrogrades into Pisces for its final passage, October 22 through January 26. This rare window marks the closing of a 13–14 year cycle—a sacred chance to integrate the spiritual, creative, and emotional growth seeded since 2012. The invitation is forgiveness, surrender, letting go, softening, and preparing for the new reality in 2026 when Neptune shifts into Aries.

The shadows are real: confusion, deception, sickness, delusion. If you’re feeling these energies, trust Neptune is active in your chart. Pause, look at what’s not real, what’s changing at your core and in the collective—what we’ve lost, what’s r...

This week, Pluto stations direct in early Aquarius. It’s a moment for honest observation, letting go of structures and beliefs that can’t stand the test of time, and facing the collective question: Are your/our ethics fit for the future? Simple rituals—like creating an altar for what you’re ready to release, or writing a love letter to the old ways—can help honor what’s ending and invite a new beginning.

Join spiritual strategist and mentor Coco Swanson for grounded, plain-English insight on deep transformation and new ethics for a changing world.

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This week’s Full Moon in Aries illuminates the energy of inner peace warriors everywhere. The fire, the tension, and the opportunity for transformation rise both personally and collectively. The call is to honor both those on the front lines—like Greta and fellow activists—and each inner warrior working toward peace and balance.

Listeners receive transformational practices: Ujjayi breath and Shakedown—simple, real ways to move through intensity and restore body/soul equilibrium.

Join spiritual strategist and mentor Coco Swanson for grounded, plain-English insight rooted in practical spirituality, energy work, and movement.

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How is everyone feeling as we shift out of eclipse energy into Libra season? It's a gorgeous week to take note—what feels harmonious and balanced in your life? What patterns need attention to bring about more beauty and balance?

This week's episode of Our Waking Dream invites listeners to gently clear and tone the voice—and to literally sing with others as a playful, sweet practice for harmonizing together.

Join spiritual strategist and multi-sector mentor Coco Swanson for grounded, plain-English insight into the week’s astrology and effective tools for self-observation, somatic release, and attune...

This week, we close out this season’s eclipse cycle with a rare Blue Moon—our second New Moon in Virgo—opposing Saturn retrograde at the last degree of Pisces.

It’s a call for radical honesty and intentional release: notice which karmic patterns want to be completed, and focus your energy on a radically honest look at what needs tending and care in your live.

Join Spiritual Strategist and Mentor Coco Swanson for grounded, plain-English insight into the week’s astrology and practical tools rooted in energy healing and contemplative practices.

Ready for deeper...

This week, we close out this season’s eclipse cycle with a rare Blue Moon—our second New Moon in Virgo—opposing Saturn retrograde at the last degree of Pisces.

It’s a call for radical honesty and intentional release: notice which karmic patterns want to be completed, and focus your energy on a radically honest look at what needs tending and care in your live.

Join spiritual strategist and mentor Coco Swanson for grounded, plain-English insight into the week’s astrology and practical tools rooted in energy healing and contemplative practices.

Ready for deeper...

If you’re feeling unusually wobbly, confused, or emotionally electric right now, you’re not alone. This eclipse energy—plus Mercury and Saturn both perched at the very end of their signs—has even the most grounded among us feeling unstable, overwhelmed, and extra judgmental (of ourselves and others). The urge to fix, the noise of old criticism, and questions about boundaries are peaking.

This week, Coco Swanson invites you to pause and breathe before reaching for old habits. Instead, discover gentle, body-based rituals for healing communication and letting go.

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The first eclipse of the season is complete, yet we're still in its tide. During this powerful window, Saturn retrogrades in Pisces and opposes Mercury in Virgo this week, amplifying a collective season of BIG letting go. This is not a week for striving, but for release and redreaming—allowing what’s unraveling to guide gentler ways forward.

In this episode, Coco Swanson shares practices for softening, forgiving, and finding new possibility—especially for leaders, deep-feelers, visionaries, and anyone navigating change. With North Node ☊ in Pisces ♓︎ and Mercury ☿ in Virgo ♍︎, there’s support for organizing the small things while letting...

This week, Our Waking Dream is all about preparing—emotionally and energetically—for the Pisces Full Moon Eclipse on September 7.

Join Spiritual Strategist and mentor Coco Swanson to explore why this window is ultra-charged: as the Full Moon meets the North Node, you have a rare opening to pause, feel what’s stagnant or delusional, and release it—making space for a new level of dreaming.

Listeners practice the cycle: Feel, Release, Dream Big, Release Again, Care for What Matters—so that come eclipse, your growth is grounded and true.

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Feeling like nothing is going according to plan? If heartbreak, overwhelm, or major pivots keep throwing you off balance, this isn’t failure—it’s a sacred cue that you’re being asked to tend what matters most, right now. Your losses and breakdowns can become the seeds of your next major breakthrough.

Join spiritual strategist Coco Swanson, 25+ year leader, mentoring visionaries, creators, and families across the globe—blending practical wisdom, trauma-informed healing, real work strategy, and embodied astrology for systemic change.

This week, as Virgo season sharpens our focus and Pluto, Neptune, and Saturn retrograde...

As late summer pivots in the northern hemisphere, this episode of “Our Waking Dream” invites you to consciously shift from Leo’s exuberance into the authenticity and embodied care of Virgo season.

You are guided to let your present-day light reveal how your values and needs have honestly changed. The episode clarifies what is ready for gentle release— as a meaningful act of care.

With the North Node in Pisces and the South Node in Virgo, Coco Swanson shares practices for consciously returning outdated patterns to source and tending what still matters with real, grounded presence...

Venus and Jupiter unite in Cancer—a cosmic summons to expand our sense of emotional safety, care, and belonging.

Jupiter magnifies whatever it touches. With Venus conjunct Jupiter in Cancer, we’re invited to slow down and tend to ourselves and each other on a deeper level. It’s a time for reassessment and radical emotional care—a season to soften old shields, clear lingering resentments, and give our heart’s true imagination a safe place to land.

Instead of analyzing our feelings, we simply make space to feel them.

The sun’s in full swing in bold, radiant Leo, and Mercury Retrograde (until August 11) spins its communicative lessons. This episode invites you beyond astrology basics—straight into the heart of courageous self-expression, leadership, and true connection.

Explore Leo’s highest callings:

-Authentic, heart-centered leadership

-Creative courage, generosity, and vulnerability

-Real self-love that radiates, not performs

Yet watch for the shadow....Ego, inflated pride, performance for applause, and drama-driven attention.

With Mercury in retrograde, communication drama is turned up: old wounds, overreactions, or feeling unseen can su...

Hosted by Coco Swanson, Spiritual Strategist—this week’s Our Waking Dream dives deep as Saturn and Neptune retrograde together in Aries, forming a harmonious sextile with Pluto in Aquarius, and all three move backwards through September. This rare cosmic window supports collective and personal reconfiguration, inviting you to pause, review, and let your dreams or ambitions shift into new, more authentic forms. It’s a gentle reset for anyone feeling the world—or themselves—changing beneath the surface. This is astrology made accessible and supportive for all levels.

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This week, let’s pause and gently notice what—within you, or around you—needs extra care, love, or attention. As Mars meets the South Node in Virgo and the North Node in Pisces, it’s a reminder to soften your focus on details, to loosen the grip on lists and plans, and simply let yourself surrender into the beauty of right now.

Ask yourself: What are you carrying that’s ready to be released? Which parts of you feel overlooked, or in need of loving care? Can you allow some worries and old habits to fall away, maki...

This week, Saturn stations retrograde alongside Neptune at the very start of Aries—a rare astrological moment that signals it’s time to step back, reflect, and realign. Rather than pushing ahead, the cosmos invites you to ask: What are you truly called to build? Which dreams and structures are ready for a gentle review?

What to Expect in This Episode

Spiritual Strategist Coco Swanson unpacks the current retrograde energy, bringing you:

After seven years of Uranus shaking up our values and sense of home in Taurus, this week marks a real threshold: Uranus moves into Gemini. This isn’t just an astrological headline—it’s a call to notice how the disruption and change in our values might reshape the way we perceive, communicate, connect, and understand truth.

Each week Spiritual Strategist Coco Swanson delivers a timely astrology forecast, blending basic astrology lessons with practical tools rooted in energy medicine, somatic awareness, and wisdom traditions. Discover how to bring esoteric wisdom into your daily life and navigate the curren...

This week on Our Waking Dream, we dive into the astrology of June 29, 2025, as Venus conjuncts Uranus in Taurus—a rare cosmic invitation to reimagine and embody our values. Since 2018, Uranus in Taurus has pushed us to break old patterns and rethink what truly matters. In this episode, Coco Swanson unpacks the meaning of this powerful alignment, guiding you through beginner-friendly astrology, practical somatic tools, and simple rituals to help you ground these changes in your body and daily life.