Our Waking Dream

Coco Swanson

Our Waking Dream is an astrology podcast for people who are capable but overwhelmed — navigating growth, pressure, and change. You can feel when something is off — in your work, your relationships, or your direction — but it’s not always clear how to move forward. Each week, Coco Swanson uses astrology as timing to help you understand what’s unfolding and how to work with it more effectively. This is embodied astrology — integrating your nervous system, emotions, and patterns so you can reduce overwhelm, make clearer decisions, and respond with more steadiness. You’ll learn how to regulate under pressure, expand your perception, and move forward with greater clarity, purpose, and agency.

  1. 3d ago

    Where Are You Spending Your Attention? | Virgo New Moon

    Where are you spending your attention—and what are you feeding with it? We scroll without meaning to. Pick up the phone without remembering why. Take in enormous amounts of information and somehow end up feeling less connected to the life right in front of us. Our devices are extraordinarily good at capturing attention. Life often asks for it much more quietly. A notification knows how to interrupt us. A relationship often doesn’t. A body can whisper for months. A garden doesn’t send a push notification. Neither does a dream. With the Virgo New Moon arriving September 10/11, this episode of Our Waking Dream explores attention as a resource, listening as a practice of care, and what changes when we begin noticing what our lives are quietly asking for. Spiritual strategist and leadership mentor Coco Swanson explores three ways of listening: to the body, to where our attention is going, and to another human being without deciding in advance what they need. If something in your own life has been asking for attention, you can work privately with Coco in a Clarity Session. Or, if you’re looking for an ongoing place to practice living, relating, creating and leading with more awareness and choice, join Leadership Studio. Explore ways to work with Coco: cocoswanson.com Journal inquiries from this week: • How much of my attention is going into a little black box—and how much toward the living world around me? • What in my life would flourish with a little more of my attention? • What has been whispering while something louder has had my focus? • If attention is something I feed my life with, what do I want to feed more deliberately? Caring for life isn’t always dramatic. Often it’s listening closely enough to notice what needs tending—and doing it again tomorrow.

    Where Are You Spending Your Attention? | Virgo New Moon
  2. Aug 30

    How to Follow Through on What You Really Want | Jupiter Trine Saturn

    What helps you keep going with something you care about—not for a week, but long enough to bring it to life? On August 31, Jupiter in Leo trines Saturn retrograde in Aries for the first of three times. Jupiter brings expansion, passion, creativity, and possibility into conversation with Saturn’s structure, discipline, limitations, and devotion. The following day, Mars in Cancer squares Saturn, bringing another piece into the picture: care. What does the human being doing all this creating need in order to continue? In this episode of Our Waking Dream, spiritual strategist and leadership mentor Coco Swanson explores what it takes to trust our instincts and follow through on our desires and our mission. We look at passion and pleasure as sources of energy, the possibility that some of our limitations may be helping us, and what changes when care becomes part of agency. Bring your journal. We’ll explore: • What do I want to bring to life? And what about it makes me feel more alive? • Where could I let passion, pleasure, and love become more centralized fuel rather than something I postpone until the work is done? • What do I love enough to keep showing up for? • What limitations might be helping me—and how? • What do I need to feel emotionally resourced? • Where might more structure, discipline, or devotion help bring my dreams to life? We’ll also work with simple practices for bringing more care and passion into the way we work: taking micro-resourcing breaks, following the part of a project that has energy, and noticing where we have enough agency to make the conditions around us a little more human. What happens when care and passion become part of how we work rather than what we get when we’re finished? Maybe follow-through isn’t only about asking more of ourselves. Maybe it’s also about learning how to feed the human doing the work. Join upcoming free Solutions Labs and receive new episodes, practices, and writings: https://cocoswanson.com/solutions-labs

    How to Follow Through on What You Really Want | Jupiter Trine Saturn
  3. Aug 23

    Pisces Lunar Eclipse: Let Go, Trust Your Intuition & Tend Your Dreams

    What happens when the life you thought you wanted doesn’t quite fit anymore? You’ve changed. The world has changed. Maybe you’re exhausted, questioning your direction, or realizing that some of what you’ve been carrying simply doesn’t matter to you the way it once did. This week on Our Waking Dream, leadership mentor and spiritual strategist Coco Swanson explores the upcoming Pisces Full Moon lunar eclipse as a powerful reset around intuition, letting go, service, imagination, and what we choose to devote ourselves to now. With the Moon in Pisces opposite the Sun and Mercury in Virgo, and Uranus in Gemini shaking up the conversation, this eclipse invites us to loosen old ideas about what life should look like—and dream beyond what we already know how to make happen. Journal inquiries: 1- What have you outgrown but haven’t given yourself permission to let go of? 2- What—or who—do you really care about now? 3- When you let go of ideas about what your life should look like, what are you naturally called toward or inspired by? 4- How devoted are you to bringing what your heart is speaking into form? Coco also shares practices for strengthening intuition and tending your dreams—not just personal dreams, but what you dream of for the world at large . Your dreams don’t have to make money. They just need to make your heart sing. To join a free Solutions Lab and receive new episodes, practices, writings, and offerings: cocoswanson.com/solutions-labs #PiscesEclipse #PiscesFullMoon #LunarEclipse #Astrology2026 #Intuition

    Pisces Lunar Eclipse: Let Go, Trust Your Intuition & Tend Your Dreams
  4. Aug 16

    What If Pleasure Is Pointing You Toward Your Purpose? l Sun-Mercury-Jupiter in Leo

    What if what brings you pleasure isn’t a distraction from what matters—but information about where you’re meant to go next? Especially in difficult times, it’s important to know the difference between a heart that needs care and a heart that’s ready to lead. Sometimes we need to rest, grieve, cry, or receive support. And sometimes there’s a YES underneath it all—something we love, something that brings us alive, something asking us to follow it. This week on Our Waking Dream, Coco Swanson explores a beautiful moment of harmony in the sky as Venus in Libra sextiles Jupiter in Leo and Mercury in Leo trines Saturn in Aries. Along with the astrology, she shares journal inquiries and embodied practices for following pleasure, strengthening joy, practicing compassion—and giving our YES somewhere to go. Journal inquiries: What does a full-bodied YES feel like for me? Conversely, how do I know when my heart needs care—to cry, rest, grieve, or heal? What do I authentically love? What brings me the most joy and pleasure? What if my pleasure is pointing me toward my purpose? What would I do about it? Where could what brings me alive also be of service? Sometimes your heart needs care. Sometimes your heart is ready to lead. Learning the difference changes everything. Bring whatever dilemmas or problems are alive for you to a free Solutions Lab, held every other Sunday. Bring what weighs you down, watch them shift, and leave with new tools. cocoswanson.com/solutions-labs For ongoing practices, live experiences, meditations, and deeper support, explore the full ecosystem at cocoswanson.com. #Astrology #JupiterInLeo #VenusInLibra #EmotionalIntelligence #SomaticPractices

    What If Pleasure Is Pointing You Toward Your Purpose? l Sun-Mercury-Jupiter in Leo
  5. Aug 9

    Feel It. Move It. Reclaim Your Joy. l Leo New Moon Eclipse Aug 12

    What happens when we give ourselves enough room to fully feel the heartbreak, fear, anger, grief—all of it? Does the heart have a natural pathway back to joy? Do our lives actually make room for that process? And when we do process what we’re carrying, does it move and reconcile—or do we find ourselves recycling the same feelings and stories again and again? In this episode of Our Waking Dream, spiritual strategist and leadership mentor Coco Swanson prepares us for the Leo New Moon Solar Eclipse on August 12 with new journal inquiries and embodied practices for emotional healing, expression, and release. We explore how to create daily pathways for our emotions to move, how sound and movement can support emotional processing, and how even envy and comparison can become information about what our hearts long to experience and express. This eclipse begins a powerful six-month reset of the heart. Because healing our hearts isn’t only about releasing pain. As old wounds reconcile, we create more room for joy, passion, creativity, courage, authentic self-expression, imagination, and purpose. Journal inquiries: Does my life create enough space for my heart to fully feel, process, and reconcile what it experiences? When difficult emotions arise, do they move through me—or do they keep recycling? What sounds, movements, environments, people, or practices help me feel safe enough to feel and express what I’m feeling? Who do I compare myself to, and what might that comparison reveal about something I long to experience, express, or develop? Don’t chase purpose. Build the conditions where purpose naturally grows. If you’d like support with whatever you’re navigating, I host a free live Solutions Lab every other Sunday from 12–1 PM PT. Bring whatever is alive—we’ll work through it together. cocoswanson.com/solutions-labs #LeoNewMoon #LeoSolarEclipse #EmotionalHealing #HeartHealing #OurWakingDream

    Feel It. Move It. Reclaim Your Joy.  l Leo New Moon Eclipse Aug 12
  6. Aug 2

    Heal Your Heart. Awaken Your Purpose. Leo-Aquarius Noted (2026-2028)

    How does your life begin to change as your heart softens and heals? On July 26, the Lunar Nodes shifted into Leo and Aquarius, beginning an 18-month journey that will continue through March 2028. In this episode of Our Waking Dream, leadership mentor, somatic expert, and visionary Coco Swanson explores what it means to consciously heal and integrate the places where the heart has learned to close—through rejection, comparison, heartbreak, invisibility, fear of being seen, or simply forgetting who we are. Every time an old wound is reconciled, more energy becomes available for joy, creativity, courage, imagination, and contribution. As the heart softens, imagination expands. New ideas emerge. New relationships form. New possibilities become visible. This episode introduces simple practices for building a life filled with moments that naturally heal the heart, nourish the imagination, and create the conditions for purpose to unfold over the next 18 months. This week’s journal inquiries: • When my heart softens and heals, what begins to change? • What naturally brings me joy? What have I loved for as long as I can remember? • Who comes alive in similar ways? Who inspires, nourishes, and expands my imagination? • If I keep feeding my heart and imagination over the next 18 months, what might become possible? I entrain all parts toward my greatest joy and service. If you’d like support exploring these practices, Coco Swanson hosts a free live Solutions Lab today from 12–1 PM PT. Bring whatever is alive—together, the group explores practical ways to navigate life’s challenges with greater clarity, connection, and possibility. cocoswanson.com/solutions-labs #OurWakingDream #Leo #Aquarius #NorthNode #SouthNode #HeartHealing #Imagination #Purpose #Astrology #EmbodiedLeadership #EmotionalIntelligence #PersonalGrowth #Leadership #SolutionsLab

    Heal Your Heart. Awaken Your Purpose. Leo-Aquarius Noted (2026-2028)
  7. Jul 26

    Aquarius Full Moon: Reclaim Your Heart’s Power & Reimagine the Future

    Where have you unknowingly handed your power to someone or something else? If your imagination were no longer consumed by what’s broken, what would you create? We are in one of the most significant astrological turning points of the year. As the lunar nodes begin a new 18-month journey through Aquarius and Leo, an Aquarius Full Moon joins Pluto opposite Jupiter, alongside a sky full of powerful transits inviting us to rethink power, purpose, relationships, and the future we’re creating together. This week on Our Waking Dream, leadership mentor, somatic guide, astrologer, and spiritual strategist Coco Swanson explores what this extraordinary moment asks of us. Our outrage often reveals what we love. Our inner dialogue becomes the atmosphere we live inside of. Journal Inquiries • Where have you unknowingly handed your power to someone or something else? • What feels most broken or unjust in your life, your family, your work, or the world? What does it reveal about what you deeply love? • If your imagination were no longer consumed by what’s broken, what would you repair, restore, protect, or create? • What small shift could you make today to create more care, honesty, generosity, or healthy boundaries? • How can we become living examples of the cultures we’re longing for? If you’d like support navigating these questions, join me for today’s free Solutions Lab from 12–1 PM PT. Bring whatever’s alive, and we’ll explore it together. We gather every other Sunday. cocoswanson.com/solutions-labs #AquariusFullMoon #PlutoInAquarius #NorthNodeInAquarius #SouthNodeInLeo #AstrologyPodcast #LeadershipDevelopment #SomaticLeadership #EmotionalIntelligence

    Aquarius Full Moon: Reclaim Your Heart’s Power & Reimagine the Future
  8. Jul 19

    Can Following Our Hearts Rearrange Our Lives? | Creating Gentle Containers for Vulnerability

    What naturally leaves you feeling more resourced than when you began? What happens when we suspend analysis long enough to begin studying what genuinely resources us? What happens when we commit to creating gentle containers for vulnerability so we can begin practicing following our hearts? Right now, a rare relationship between Jupiter, Pluto, Neptune, and Uranus creates an exceptionally supportive window for peeling back the layers of conditioning that keep us from living authentically. What if we listened more deeply to our heart’s desire, practiced following even the smallest nudges, and allowed our authentic nature to ignite the unique contribution we’re here to make? In this episode of Our Waking Dream, leadership mentor and spiritual strategist Coco Swanson explores the relationship between authenticity, vulnerability, and heart’s desire. Together we explore journal inquiries, embodied practices, the difference between fear that protects us and fear that accompanies growth, and how creating gentle containers for vulnerability can help us practice following our hearts with greater courage and compassion. Perhaps authenticity isn’t something we become. Perhaps it’s what remains when we begin peeling away everything we’re not. To join upcoming free Solutions Labs and receive new podcast episodes, practices, writings, Leadership Studio teachings, and offerings, visit: https://cocoswanson.com/solutions-labs

    Can Following Our Hearts Rearrange Our Lives? | Creating Gentle Containers for Vulnerability

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Our Waking Dream is an astrology podcast for people who are capable but overwhelmed — navigating growth, pressure, and change. You can feel when something is off — in your work, your relationships, or your direction — but it’s not always clear how to move forward. Each week, Coco Swanson uses astrology as timing to help you understand what’s unfolding and how to work with it more effectively. This is embodied astrology — integrating your nervous system, emotions, and patterns so you can reduce overwhelm, make clearer decisions, and respond with more steadiness. You’ll learn how to regulate under pressure, expand your perception, and move forward with greater clarity, purpose, and agency.

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