#16: “Cosmic Edging” with Nadia Betkouchar

Welcome back to the sacred and slutty world of “Love, Lust & Magick”! Today, Gabriela is joined by the mythic astrologer, writer, and Gemini Goddess Nadia Betkouchar. In this episode, Nadia talks about her mystical origin story at Costco that led her to drawing up natal charts by the time she was 13. The two talk about the long gone Bodhi Tree bookstore here in LA, and how this was Nadia’s adult introduction to astrology and magick through the lineage of elders that gathered there. Then Nadia and Gabriela talk about their shared Scorpio Moons- how this enables Nadia to infuse her eroticism into everything she writes, even turning on people in the process, and how this placement moves and feels everything from an erotic place.

Then we get deeper into Nadia’s story- and how she went from interviewing rockstars to being a professional astrologer and mystic. The two discuss the cyclicality of spiritual practice, and the discomfort necessary for creation before diving into one of Gabriela’s favorite subjects- the Goddess of Love. Nadia speaks on the how the Goddesses imperfections help us embrace our own, and how Ishtar showed up to her again and again until she listened. Nadia and Gabriela discuss the power of the Ishtar-Inanna and the story of descent in the underworld, and how this Goddess reminds us of the limits of duality, and what happens when we meet ourselves in our expansiveness without fear. Nadia then dishes on erotic asteroids, her favorites to work with in readings, and how this is an avenue to bring a more holistic vision of the feminine to astrology. The episode concludes with Nadia reading the erotic asteroids in Gabriela’s chart… which is very illuminating, to say the least. We hope this episode inspires your own mythic magick, on all planes and in all ways.

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