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On the Soul"s Terms

Chris Skidmore

The wisdom of stories. Approaching what the ancients knew. On the Soul"s Terms: The Podcast

society & culture philosophy

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#106 | The Seventh House | Encountering the Other

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2025/10/09

Step through the door marked “Descendant” and into the seventh house, where the self meets the other and the mirror talks back. We dive into the psychology of partnership, the craft of vows, and the often-misunderstood terrain where love and conflict live side by side. I unpack why the descendant tends to fall into the unconscious, how projection turns lovers into open enemies, and what it takes to retrieve the disowned parts of ourselves without losing our center. Along the way, we lean on p...

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#105 | Brian Clark | The Second Half of the Houses

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2025/09/26

What happens when we venture beyond the horizon of self and encounter the world? In this profound continuation of our houses journey, Brian Clark and I explore the second half of the astrological wheel - where we meet the other, confront our shadows, and discover our place in the cosmic order. Recorded during a solar eclipse at the equinox (coinciding with Brian's 76th birthday), our conversation takes on a synchronistic quality that exemplifies how astrology works through us rather than mer...

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#104 | Allerlirauh "Thousandfurs" | with Ryan Nielsen

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2025/09/18

What can a centuries-old fairy tale teach us about our astrological journey? In this illuminating conversation, jazz musician and professor Ryan Nielsen explores the Grimm Brothers' tale "Allerleira" (Thousand Furs) as a profound map of psychological development through the first six astrological houses. Ryan shares his personal path from a rigid religious upbringing to discovering the healing language of depth psychology and astrology. Drawing on Marian Woodman's work, we unpack how fairy t...

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#103 | Kira Sutherland | The Sixth House

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2025/09/04

Dive deep into the astrological sixth house with medical astrologer Kira Sutherland as she unpacks the fascinating connection between health, routine, and mythology. This episode reveals how this often-overlooked house serves as the critical integration point between our personal journey and our relationships with others. The conversation weaves through mythology, with Artemis emerging as the powerful sixth house archetype – self-contained, knowledgeable, and deeply connected to healing wisd...

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#102 | The Sixth House | Habits & Helpers

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2025/08/29

What happens when we fly too close to the sun? The sixth house of the zodiac teaches us this crucial lesson as we transition from the boundless creativity of the fifth house into a realm where we must learn our limits. Through the cautionary tales of Icarus and Phaethon—young men who attempted great feats without proper training—we discover why developing skills and respecting boundaries matters. These mythological figures crashed spectacularly because they lacked sixth house wisdom: the dis...

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#101 | Storytime with Libby Rose Waite | Persephone...

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2025/08/14

What if Persephone's abduction wasn't just a tragedy, but the beginning of her empowerment? Storyteller and dream witch Libby Rose Waite weaves a spellbinding retelling of the Persephone myth that challenges everything we thought we knew about this ancient tale. Rather than focusing solely on Demeter's grief, we witness Persephone's transformation from a silenced princess to the powerful Queen of the Underworld. The story begins with Persephone trapped between her mother's suffocating...

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#100 | Vive Oldham | Re-membering Pleasure | The...

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2025/08/07

What happens in our bodies and nervous systems when we engage in spontaneous creativity? How might reclaiming our relationship with pleasure transform our capacity to navigate life's challenges? These questions form the heart of my conversation with Vive Oldham, somatic educator and facilitator of the "Pleasure as a Revolutionary Act" summit. Vive shares the transformative moment when, burned out from city life, she sat drawing with her young children and discovered something remarkable – af...

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#99 | The Fifth House | Unbridled Creation

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2025/07/31

Emerging from the ancestral depths of the Fourth House, we enter the vibrant, sun-drenched Fifth—a radiant palace where creativity, pleasure, and passion dance freely. This episode invites you into a profound exploration of the Fifth House not merely as astrological territory, but as the sacred space where your most essential self yearns to play. We uncover the distinction between bios (the linear story of life) and zoe (the indestructible life force) that Carl Kerényi elaborates in his work...

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#98 | Rough-Faced Girl | The Threshold between the...

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2025/07/24

The mysterious threshold between the fourth and fifth houses marks one of life's most profound transitions—the journey from our family roots to authentic self-expression. As we cross from Cancer's lunar realm into Leo's solar domain, we face the challenge of leaving familiar patterns behind to discover our unique creative voice. Through the Algonquin fairy tale of "The Rough-Faced Girl," we discover a powerful metaphor for this astrological passage. Unlike her more familiar Grimm Brothers co...

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#97 | The Fourth House | The Earliest Imprints

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2025/07/17

Venture beneath the surface as we explore astrology's most mysterious territory - the fourth house. This is where we cross the threshold of the Imum Coeli (IC), descending to "the bottom of the sky" to discover our deepest foundations. The fourth house holds the key to understanding your emotional inheritance - not just your physical home or family structure, but the psychic atmosphere you absorbed during your formative years. Like Odysseus longing to return home after years of wandering, we...

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#96 | The Fourth House | with Melanie Reinhart

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2025/07/10

Dive beneath the surface of your astrological chart with renowned astrologer Melanie Reinhart as we explore the mysterious fourth house - what she beautifully describes as "a place of gentle mysteries." The fourth house sits at the very bottom of our chart, marked by the Imum Coeli (IC) - "the bottom of the sky" - or what Melanie playfully calls the "I don't see" or "I can't see." This midnight point of our chart plunges down into our ancestry, our time in the womb, and perhaps back to our v...

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#95 | Cameron Allen | The Third House | Learning by...

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2025/06/21

Have you ever noticed how children learn through their bodies—running, jumping, playing—long before they absorb abstract concepts? This natural embodied learning reveals the true essence of the third house in astrology, traditionally associated with siblings and education but holding far deeper mysteries. Join astrologer and herbalist Cameron Allen as he unveils the lunar wisdom of this often-misunderstood astrological house. Unlike the broadcasting energy of the ninth house that transmits k...

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#94 | Hansel & Gretel | with Collette Davis

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2025/06/12

In this episode of On the Soul’s Terms, recorded under the olive trees of Epidavros, I’m joined by Collette Davis for a slow, winding exploration of Hansel and Gretel through the lens of the 3rd house. We sit with the archetypal threads of this beloved fairy tale—breadcrumb trails, dark forests, devouring mothers, and sibling bonds—and reflect on how they echo through the astrological terrain of early learning, memory, intuition, and the rational mind. The 3rd house becomes a space not just o...

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#93 | The Third House | Siblings, Language, Early...

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2025/05/29

We leave behind the sensual landscape of the Second House and wander into the neighbourhoods of the Third — the realm of language, mimicry, siblings, and the looping rhythms of early life. In this episode, we explore how our voice is shaped by what we echo, the childhood accents we absorb, and the environments that teach us how to move, speak, and remember. From the myth of Echo to the sibling stories of Hermes and Apollo, Castor and Pollux, and even Cinderella, we reflect on how our earliest...

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#92 | The Handless Maiden | The Second House

On the Soul"s Terms ·

2025/05/15

In this episode of On the Soul’s Terms, we descend into the second house through the haunting and luminous fairy tale of The Handless Maiden. This story, from the Brothers Grimm and echoed in myths like Sedna’s from the Arctic, brings us into the realm of value, worth, the body, and the living vs. the dead. We explore what it means to be exchanged for gold, to lose one’s hands — the instruments of touch, feeling, and connection — and what it takes to grow them back. Through three acts, this t...

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#91 | Cameron Allen | The Inner Physician | Forgotten...

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2025/05/08

In this episode, I sit down with astrologer, herbalist, and movement practitioner Cameron Allen. We first crossed paths earlier this year at the FAA conference on the Gold Coast, and it felt like one of those instant recognitions—someone you haven’t met, but already know. This conversation is the first of two. It’s more of a landing—an invitation to meet Cameron and listen in on the threads he’s weaving together. We touch on embodiment, herbal medicine, medical astrology, Unani Tibb, and the ...

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#90 | Money, Worth & Value

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2025/05/01

In this second chapter of our journey through the houses, we leave behind the bright burst of first breath and enter the quiet, grounding terrain of the Second House — the house of value, money, body, worth, and what it means to truly belong here. We reflect on what happens after Rumpelstiltskin tears himself into the earth — a fitting image for the descent from the daimonic into the material. From here, we explore the deep resourcing available in the 2–4am hours, the hiddenness of self-worth...

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#89 | Brian Clark | The Houses of Astrology |...

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2025/04/17

In this episode of On the Soul’s Terms, I’m joined once again by mentor, astrologer, and long-time friend Brian Clark for a slow, reflective journey through the first six houses of the astrological chart. Rather than treating the houses as categories to memorise, we approach them as inner dwellings—places of memory, emotion, ancestral inheritance, and lived experience. From the Fool’s first step in the 1st house, through embodiment in the 2nd, early relationships in the 3rd, the deep dreaming...

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#88 | Rumpelstiltskin | Identity, the Daimon & Naming...

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2025/04/10

In this sidecar episode, we enter the strange and potent dream of Rumpelstiltskin, one of the darker Grimm tales — a story of impossible expectations, survival bargains, and the long road to reclaiming one’s name. Told in three acts, this tale speaks directly to themes of the First House: identity projected too early, the mask we learn to wear, the persona that helps us survive but at a cost. We explore the alchemical pressure to turn straw into gold, the demonic helper who extracts a price, ...

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#87 | The First House | Crossing the Threshold

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2025/04/03

In this opening episode of the new series, we take our first breath—together—into the mystery of the houses. We begin at the threshold: the Ascendant, the eastern horizon, the moment of arrival. Before the name, before the role, before even the voice—there is presence. The First House is where the self enters the world, where the daimon is born alongside you, and where the mask you’ve crafted begins to take shape. We explore the house not as a concept but as a temple: a soul-place with doors,...

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