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03/13/2026

03/13/2026

🎲✨ CHANCE ENCOUNTERS can change the whole direction of our lives.

A casual chat with a stranger at the bank, a book that beckons to you from the shelf, or a last-minute lunch invitation might lead to transformative consequences.

Join us on the podcast this week as we circumambulate the phenomenon of the chance encounter.

For Jungians, these moments are more than happy accidents.

They may be understood as encounters with the deeper ordering principle Jung called the Self, which disrupts the ego’s plans and invites us toward something larger.

Fairy tales often feature animal visitors offering the main character a surprising and unexpected choice. These stories can be powerful guides for recognizing the potential of chance encounters and making the most of them.

We also discuss how, in an age of overstimulation, you can be receptive to the possibilities of the chance encounter.

These moments usually speak softly and quietly rather than arriving with a trumpet sounding from the hills. They are visitations, not tools for self-improvement, and we must be open to allowing them in.

🎧 Find the episode wherever you get your podcasts, or via the link in the first comment on this post.

03/05/2026

🌎⚓ COAGULATIO marks the psychological moment when possibility takes shape.

Uncertainty recedes as we commit to our choices, and life slows and “thickens” into stable commitments and a predictable path.

Join us as we continue our exploration of Jung’s alchemical stages.

Today, we discuss the concept of coagulatio, or the solidifying of what was once fluid.

Coagulatio involves settling into a path, a vocation, a relationship, or an identity.

Yet these stages of solidification also carry with them loss.

Incarnating something in the real world – in our creative life, our marriage or our career – means letting go of infinite possibility.

🎧 Find the episode wherever you get your podcasts, or via the link in the first comment on this post.

03/04/2026

🥷🌘 INTRUDER DREAMS stage a boundary crisis: something arrives without the ego’s consent, and the dreamer wakes in a cold sweat, suffused by fear, shame, or outrage.

This week on the podcast we analyze a selection of vivid listener-submitted dreams about intruders.

We begin with the word itself, “intrusion,” asking how a visitor can feel deeply unwelcome, but at the same time carry something with the potential to protect, repair or even save us.

We cover:

🗝️ How meaning changes depending on whether we read the intruder as a threat vs as a messenger.

🗝️ How intruder dreams can point to weak boundaries, often disguised in waking life as “being nice” or “keeping the peace,”

🗝️ Intruder dreams as communications of unexpressed anger.

🗝️ How the mind negotiates trauma, dissociated affects, and developmental change.

🗝️ Detailed guidance on working with your own intruder dream

The listener dreams we discuss feature a camel that shatters windows and becomes a man when welcomed; an animus-like husband as mediator between ego and unconscious; blank eyes and the golem as images of unfinished consciousness; and the “friendly threat” of unexpected roommates with bolognese.

🎧 Find the episode wherever you get your podcasts, or follow the link in the first comment on this post.