Deconstruction The Art of Descent: Astrology, Alchemy & Becoming (Vika Bradford)
In this episode, I sit down with my friend Vika Bradford to explore descent — into grief, rage, dissociation, identity loss, and the underworld passages that shape us.
Vika shares from her lens as a karmic astrologer, weaving Pluto, the 8th and 9th houses, and mythic death-and-rebirth symbolism into a conversation about growth and transformation. I hold the dialogue through a psychological and nervous system framework, asking what it truly means to stay with what hurts rather than bypass it.
Together we explore:
Dissociation as protection
Rage as a sacred and valid response to loss
Repeating patterns and radical self-responsibility
The metaphor of “mining for gold” in the underworld
The movement from discipline to devotion
Why self-inquiry is a lifelong unfolding
This episode is being released during the potent week of the Saturn–Neptune conjunction — a moment astrologically associated with the meeting of structure and dissolution, reality and dream, discipline and surrender. Whether you relate to astrology symbolically or literally, the themes of this transit mirror what we explore here: how we dissolve old identities and build something more honest in their place.
Take what resonates. Leave what doesn’t. Stay curious.
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