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Spontaneous Transmission: The Archetype of Hygieia for Cleansing The Temple of Soul and Psyche | Pluto Retrograde | Where Psychology Meets Sacred
Letting go of a beloved name can feel like losing a home and sometimes it’s the only way to finally live inside the truth. Today I’m recording in real time with snow falling outside and Pluto stationing retrograde in Aquarius overhead, a transit tied to platforms, community, and the shadow work of how we show up in public. What follows is a vulnerable rebrand reckoning: why I’m releasing “coven” from the subtitle, what I’m grieving, and why authenticity sometimes means doing less until the foundation is real.
From there, I introduce Hygieia, the goddess of hygiene, prevention, and maintenance. We expand “hygiene” beyond showers and toothbrushes into spiritual hygiene and mental hygiene: clearing what you pick up from clients, conversations, the news, and social media, and learning to spot which thoughts are actually yours. This is nervous-system-friendly, sustainable work that supports somatic healing and helps you stop burning out from carrying what was never meant to be carried.
I also name the witch wound and priestess wound: the embodied fear of being too visible, too integrated, too hard to categorize when you’re both a therapist and a priestess in the same breath. We talk Human Design (the 3-5 profile, trial-and-error wisdom, and projection fields), and why I’m moving from Patreon to Substack to prioritize long-form, evergreen spiritual psychoeducation that you can actually sit with. We close with a simple guided cleansing practice you can return to anytime.
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Intro music composed by my dad, Mike Dunne: [Spotify link]