Cosmic Soup Bowl Podcast: Recent Episodes
Ashley Otero
Like a comforting and nourishing pot of your favorite soup, the Cosmic Soup Bowl is a labor of love created to be an evergreen source of food for thought!
April 6, 1:30 PM ET
Elodie joined me to record this episode for the Cosmic Soup Bowl. Our intention was to have a leisurely, fun, and free-flowing discussion about Alice in Wonderland and the doorways we find to healing through stories, myth, and imagination as well through the dream body. Jupiter’s transit through Pisces inspired and catalyzed our decision to get together and chat about the ways this transit is reflected through the dreamy scapes of Alice’s journey down the rabbit hole.
In this episode, we let our minds wander and allow ourselves to explore various matters of psyche, healing, and nature. A few topics you’ll hear us exchange ideas about include: Jupiter’s meanings and how they are reflected in the story of Alice in Wonderland; scenes from the early 1950’s animation; commentary on connection to the body and to nature; the meaning and importance of myth and imagination in a human life; the similarity and accessibility of dream states through psychedelics versus sleeping; the curious relationship we keep with time and how Saturn shows up as a main archetypal thread in Alice in Wonderland; how we can’t have Jupiter without Saturn; the wonder of children’s imagination; dream physiology from an East Asian healing perspective; Elodie’s recalling of a synchronous dream and the appearance of the goddess Xiwangmu the night before our conversation; and the symbols in Alice’s dreams based on some Jungian takes.
0:00-11:20
Reconnecting and orienting to the episode themes
11:21-11:55
Intro music
11:56-16:10
Orienting to current and previous year of transiting Jupiter in Pisces
16:10-1:18:30
Tapas (all the episode themes start emerging!) / Main course aka Alice, healing, and dreams
1:18:33-1:19:30
Closing/outro
Elodie:
IG @9th_house_astrology https://9thhouseastrology.wordpress.com
Ashley:
IG @heavenandearthsomatics
References:
(1951). Walt Disney's Alice in Wonderland. Racine, Wis: Whitman.
Lewis Carrol Birth Chart: https://www.astro-seek.com/birth-chart/lewis-carroll-horoscope
Alice in Wonderland publication chart: https://oxfordastrologer.com/2012/09/the-fabulous-chart-of-alice-in-wonderland.html
Maatta, Jerry. HII, Katedralskolan, Uppsala, Sweden, March 1997. An Analysis of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
https://www.alice-in-wonderland.net/resources/analysis/interpretive-essays/an-analysis-of-alices-adventures-in-wonderland/
Robson, David. Britain, February 2015. Five things Alice in Wonderland reveals about the brain
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20150225-secrets-of-alice-in-wonderland
Stranger 941. July 2016. Deeper, Hidden Meanings and Themes in Alice in Wonderland
https://owlcation.com/humanities/Alice-in-Wonderland-What-Intriguing-Message-Does-it-really-Hold
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Lakota native American, on intuitive intelligence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtQ7oJKDjRg
Michael Meade on Cultivating Mythic Imagination:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNLOIQrIh3A
Otero, Ashley. The Numinous Dancing Wu. May, 2021.
https://www.cosmicsoupbowl.com/blog/2021/5/12/0d093dmhy1q2vxidwa6l56dn8jle68
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Coming back to the show after a 2.5+ year pause, I’m publishing the first episode back on the Lunar eclipse in Sagittarius which coincides with the Wu Woo Wednesday series that began in the spring of 2021. In Chinese, Wu is translated as a number of words. A few relevant to this series include: Five (wǔ), as in five spirits or elements, shaman (wū), and dance (wǔ), which is also symbolic in the context of the five elements/spirits.
In this series, I talk about the context of healing through Chinese medicine and what it means to be supporting the continuity of humanity and helping people maintain or return to their sense of being human. That’s quite a feat living in today’s sped up and fragmented world, though I hope to offer inspiration and maybe some clarity when you think about health, healing, medicine, humanity, and what you’re doing here. In this episode we’ll lightly explore the symbolic connections between Jupiter’s transit through Pisces, the nature of dreaming, and the cycle of death and rebirth through various poems and thoughts shared by psychologists, teachers, Taoists, yogis, doctors, healers, spiritual culture, and practitioners of wisdom sciences.
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