135. Sacred Commerce: Asha Ramakrishna on Money, Spirit & Ancestral Healing
Plenty with Kate Northrup
Kate Northrup
4.8 • 840 Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
What if your business was a temple?
In this week’s episode, Kate talks with Asha Ramakrishna—priestess, molecular biologist, and author—about Sacred Commerce: an emergent framework bridging capitalism and consciousness. Asha reveals the four ethos of sacred commerce—Feel Good, Be Wealthy, Give Back, and Liberate—and shares how merging the magical and the logical allows us to heal our relationship with money and purpose.
They explore Blue Lotus as a sacred symbol of rebirth, Lakshmi energy, human design as a business map, and how knowing your dharma type can guide your offerings and marketing in an energetically aligned way.
In this episode you’ll discover:
✨ The four ethos of Sacred Commerce
✨ Why pleasure is essential to prosperity
✨ How wealth, dharma, and liberation interconnect
✨ Using astrology and human design to decode your “soul map”
✨ Blue Lotus, Lakshmi, and ceremony as allies in business
✨ Why your conscious sun holds your key to expression
“Sacred commerce is about merging the magical and the logical—heaven and earth, sun and moon—so that business becomes a bridge to liberation.” — Asha Ramakrishna
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00:00 Kate opens with the magic of Asha’s arrival and the portal of Blue Lotus
03:10 What is Sacred Commerce? A bridge between capitalism and consciousness
07:42 The four ethos: Feel Good, Be Wealthy, Give Back, Liberate
14:10 Blue Lotus, Lakshmi, and the sacredness of abundance
20:30 How to redefine wealth and permission to prosper
26:15 Giving back through widening your energy sources
33:20 Bridging spirituality and capitalism with ceremony and offering
38:40 Vedic astrology and human design as business maps
46:00 The conscious sun and incarnation cross: finding your instructions
54:00 How stories and oral tradition unlock transformation
59:00 Discovering your dharma type and archetype for sacred work
1:03:00 Where to learn more and connect with Asha
Links and Resources:
The Priestess Code: Awakening the Modern Woman by Asha Ramakrishna
Your Soul Map: Liberation, Human Design, and the BIPOC Experience by Asha Ramakrishna & AC Brown
Relaxed Money
The Money Reset – Free Audio Experience
Connect with Asha Ramakrishna:
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| 0:00.0 | And part of this moving, bridging from capitalism is merging the magical and the logical. |
| 0:07.0 | Merging the sun and the lunar. |
| 0:10.0 | Everything in your chart is intended to support the full expression of your conscious sun. |
| 0:17.0 | And we come back to the sun again, right? |
| 0:19.0 | Not only biologically, connect to it, connect to the sunrise and the sunset, but also |
| 0:25.0 | you have a very unique expression of what you're here to fully express and shine about. |
| 0:30.7 | Hello, today's episode is so delicious and divine when Asha Ramakrishna walked into my podcast studio, I could just feel |
| 0:43.9 | that we were suddenly in a portal. And you'll hear about that at the beginning of the episode. |
| 0:50.1 | So she is the steward of an incredible body of work called Sacred Commerce, which is a bridge from where we are now with a version of capitalism that certainly does not work for everyone. |
| 1:04.0 | And it is a bridge to a more beautiful economic possibility for us all. |
| 1:10.0 | So in this episode, we talk about the four ethos of sacred commerce, one of which is, is it actually |
| 1:18.4 | spiritual to be wealthy? |
| 1:21.8 | And she says yes, and we'll find out why. |
| 1:25.5 | We also talk about how to decode your specific instructions for stewarding the work |
| 1:34.1 | that wants to come through you in this lifetime in a very specific way that is unique to |
| 1:41.3 | you using both Vedic astrology and human design as supporting bodies of work |
| 1:48.0 | for that. Asha is a priestess. She has a background in molecular biology and business development. |
| 1:55.7 | She is the best-selling author of Awakening the Modern Woman, the Priestess Code, Awakening the Modern Woman, |
| 2:02.6 | and also the co-author of Your Soul Map, Liberation, Human Design, |
| 2:06.8 | and the Bipak experience that she co-wrote with A.C. Brown. |
| 2:10.5 | She is a modern day priestess. |
| 2:13.4 | She is delicious. |
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