When the Avalanche Reveals the Valley

A conversation with author Ella Larson about hot trolls, hidden valleys, and finding magic in the ruins of the familiar

Nov 6, 2025 • Vanessa Couto

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October 2025

Romancing Pluto: The Werewolf at the Threshold

It is not in fleeing the monster, but in honoring our hybrid desires — body, soul, and ego — that we find our way through endings and into the uncanny…

Oct 30, 2025 • Vanessa Couto

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Walking to the Edge of Desire: My Husband Reads Romance

For our wedding anniversary week, Jason stepped into my world of romance novels—book boyfriends, monster lovers, and all—to share his grounded take on…

Oct 23, 2025 • Vanessa Couto

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The Enchanter of the Deep – Courting Neptune

To romance Neptune is to drift into the depths, where longing dissolves certainty and dreams undress us. He is the lover who enchants through mystery…

Oct 16, 2025 • Vanessa Couto

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Crossing the Threshold: On Liminality, Descent, and Becoming

Thresholds are pauses that ask us to release what’s past and step into what’s becoming. In this conversation with Brian Clark, we explore descent…

Oct 9, 2025 • Vanessa Couto

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Seeing Red: Honoring Mars in a Time of Courage*

A guide to working with Mars as ally and teacher, shaping courage into a daily practice. By channeling Mars’s raw energy into creativity, and drive, we…

Oct 1, 2025 • Vanessa Couto

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September 2025

The Art of Falling in Love with the In‑Between

I’m so delighted to share the very first episode of Romancing the Threshold. This podcast has been brewing at the hearth for a long time, and now the…

Sep 26, 2025 • Vanessa Couto

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Sleeping With the Enemy (and Other Planetary Affairs)

Your birth chart is an epic rom‑com written in the stars: part divine drama, part cosmic fling. The planets you resist most are simply lovers in…

Sep 17, 2025 • Vanessa Couto

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Romancing the Sky-Shaper

A sudden storm that shatters your rut and clears the air for the life you didn’t know you were craving.

Sep 3, 2025 • Vanessa Couto

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August 2025

The Lover beneath the Armor - Courting Saturn*

Saturn doesn’t just test your resolve — he woos it, shaping passion into purpose. In Aries, he’s the lover who dares alongside you, but only if you meet…

Aug 27, 2025 • Vanessa Couto

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How to Romance the Planets

Less doomscrolling, more swoon-worthy transits. Astrology as sacred romance.

Aug 14, 2025 • Vanessa Couto

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June 2025

Real imagined conflicts - Saturn & Neptune in Aries

The easy simplicity of going towards war, as opposed to facing the terrifying conflict within.

Jun 23, 2025 • Vanessa Couto

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