Our Waking Dream

About Our Waking Dream

Our Waking Dream is a weekly invitation to get curious about being human—and discover how much we can change about the way we experience life. Why do we keep repeating the same patterns? What can we do with emotions that overwhelm us? How do we navigate uncertainty, trust ourselves, and create a future we're excited to participate in? I'm Coco Swanson, a leadership mentor and spiritual strategist. Each week, we use astrology as a map of the moment, exploring what the planetary movements might illuminate about our lives, relationships, work, and the world we're creating together. And then we experiment. Drawing on nearly thirty years of work in human transformation, I bring together embodiment, emotional intelligence, energy medicine, movement, and imagination. We explore these things through experience, not just conversation. We might move an emotion through the body, question an old belief, try a different response to conflict, or discover something wonderful about ourselves that we've been overlooking. What we understand intellectually doesn't always change how we live. Sometimes we need to feel something, move something, or try something we've never tried before. And what we practice within ourselves travels into our relationships, families, leadership, workplaces, and communities. Personal transformation and culture change aren't separate endeavors. There's room here for depth, humor, mystery, and a little irreverence. We'll get things wrong, surprise ourselves, and keep learning. Let's see what's possible. cocoswanson.com (http://cocoswanson.com)

Publisher

Coco Swanson

Category

education · religion & spirituality

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

28 Jun 2025

Latest episode

25 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

70 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   25 Oct 2026

   Scorpio Season 2026: Turn Emotional Gunk Into Gold | Taurus Full Moon

   Welcome to Turbo Scorpio season! If you've been caught in old emotional narratives, rehearsing arguments, or feeling the weight of what's happening in the world, this week's Our Waking Dream is for you. With Mercury stationing retrograde in Scorpio, Venus retrograde moving back into Libra following her cazimi, and the Taurus Full Moon illuminating the Scorpio–Taurus axis, we're exploring the relationship between our emotional underworld, our patterns of relating, and our capacity to transform what we're carrying. Scorpio invites us into the shadowy material of our lives: the emotions, projections, desires, and stories that can hold enormous power over our experience. Venus and Mercury retrograde bring opportunities to revisit how we perceive, communicate, love, and exchange energy. And Taurus reminds us that transformation doesn't have to remain an intellectual or spiritual exercise. We have bodies. We're made of Earth. We can move. This week I'm teaching two experiments in emotional alchemy: Stirring the Cauldron, using movement, breath, and imagination to transform emotional charge, and Earth Alchemy, bringing our dilemmas into contact with the Earth and practicing releasing what we think we know. We'll also explore what these practices might make possible in our relationships, leadership, workplaces, and communities. Because when we learn to work with our emotional experience, we can bring something different into the situations we're trying to change. I'm Coco Swanson, a leadership mentor and spiritual strategist working across somatic healing, energy medicine, emotional intelligence, and culture change. https://cocoswanson.com (https://cocoswanson.com)

2. 

   18 Oct 2026

   Can Conflict Bring Us Closer? | Transforming Emotional Triggers

   What if conflict could become one of our greatest tools for transformation? When someone gets under our skin, we can spend an extraordinary amount of energy analyzing what they did, defending our position, and replaying the argument. But the reaction itself can hold the evolutionary material. This week on Our Waking Dream, I’m sharing a practice for working with emotional triggers through sensation, breath, sound, movement, and compassionate inquiry. Rather than simply managing conflict, what if we learned to use it? To discover something about ourselves, interrupt familiar patterns, and create new possibilities in our relationships? Sometimes we find our way closer to each other. Sometimes we discover how to part with greater understanding. Have a problem you’re wrestling with? Bring it to my free Solutions Lab. We explore life’s dilemmas together and experiment with new ways of meeting them. I also work privately with individuals and leaders and offer an ongoing Leadership Studio. Come explore: cocoswanson.com (http://cocoswanson.com) This week’s astrology: Pluto direct in Aquarius, Venus retrograde in Scorpio square Pluto, and Mercury preparing to retrograde.

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   11 Oct 2026

   How to Use Your Energy During Times of Change | Astrology + Human Capacity

   Change is afloat. Personally, professionally and collectively. So where is your energy going—and how can you use it to become more empowered during times of change? This week on Our Waking Dream, we work with four human capacities: embodiment, emotional intelligence, heart wisdom and our ability to dream and imagine. We also look at the current retrograde season—Pluto, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus and Venus—and what is being revisited, reworked and prepared for change. We finish with a practice for working with a problem through the body and sound, and four journal inquiries: 1. Where is my energy being drained right now? What is draining it, and what is feeding it? 2. What is being asked in my life to be revisited, reworked or reviewed? 3. What am I carrying emotionally, or in my heart, that I would rather not direct my future? 4. What do I want to use my energy for? I’ve spent nearly thirty years exploring how we develop the human capacities that shape how we live, relate, lead and create. Leadership Studio, Solutions Lab + working with me: cocoswanson.com (http://cocoswanson.com)

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