This episode takes an honest look at doubt—how it disguises itself as logic, caution, or control—and what it takes to move beyond it into true intuitive clarity.

With the Sun moving through Gate 57 — Unease, Intuition, Clarity — we’ll explore how this frequency heightens instinct and tests self-trust. I share why this gate is deeply personal for me as someone who carries both Gate 57 and the 57-10 Channel of Perfected Form, and how your Human Design, Gene Keys, and nervous-system patterns reveal where your intuition gets drowned out by fear.

If you’ve ever second-guessed a gut feeling, over-analyzed a truth you already knew, or mistaken anxiety for intuition, this conversation will help you reconnect to the quiet authority of your own body. Doubt isn’t failure—it’s the fog before clarity.

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October carries the energy of regeneration — less about spectacle, more about integration. Mercury’s move into Scorpio sharpens conversations to the bone while the Aries Full Moon lights a fire of bold clarity. Venus and Jupiter open a pocket of sweetness, then Venus shifts into Libra as Pluto turns direct, recalibrating relationships and surfacing transformation. The Sun’s tension with Jupiter reminds us that growth isn’t always about going bigger, while Mercury’s conjunction with Mars brings words with sharp edges. A triple threshold follows: the Libra New Moon inviting new balance, Venus retrograding into Pisces to stir old stories, and the Sun’s descent into Scorpio — the season of endings becoming compost. Mercury’s move into Sagittarius widens vision, and the month closes under a Grand Water Trine, where intuition, emotion, and spirit flow together in deeper currents.

Through the Human Design lens, we move from Gate 18’s refinement into Gate 48’s well of depth, followed by Gate 57’s intuitive clarity. Gate 32 carries us into continuity and legacy, Gate 50 calls us back to values and balance, Gate 28 tests meaning through risk, and Gate 44 closes the month with the alertness to patterns and the possibility of re-weaving.

October is a month of regeneration. Eclipse season cleared the field; now the gates and transits walk us through the archetypal arc of Refinement, Intuitive Wisdom, and Sustainable Roots.

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This episode takes an honest look at people-pleasing through the lens of Human Design. Where do we bend, over-correct, or shrink ourselves just to keep others comfortable — and what does it cost us?

With the Sun moving through Gate 18 — Judgment, Integrity, Perfection — we’ll explore how this energy reveals the fracture of pleasing others and the gift of standing whole. I share why this gate is personal for me and how your design and astrology show the subtle ways people-pleasing hides in authority, profile, and open centers.

If you’ve ever traded integrity for approval, this conversation will help you see judgment not as a weapon but as a compass — guiding you back to resonance and wholeness.

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This episode dives into the September 21st Solar Eclipse in Virgo. With the Sun and Moon meeting in Gate 46 — the Gate of the Determination of the Self — this eclipse pulls us out of the mind and back into the body. It asks us to stop treating life like a burden to carry and start experiencing it as something alive in every step.

We’re standing at a culmination point, with the South Node close by, showing us the old Virgo habits that have to go — the over-functioning, the self-critique, the chase for perfection that drains joy. Mercury hosts the eclipse, sharpening communication both within and without, while Saturn’s opposition demands that what begins here is sustainable. Add Venus in Virgo squaring Uranus in Gemini, and the themes of devotion, disruption, and surprise are impossible to ignore.

This isn’t about reactivity. It’s about learning to respond from presence — to make choices rooted in the body instead of panic. And woven through it all is a reminder we rarely let ourselves claim: joy doesn’t have to be earned the hard way. Sometimes the easier path is the truer one.

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I’ve been wanting to weave more shamanic insight into the podcast, and this episode is the first step. In a polarized, chaotic world where real spiritual support often feels thin, tending your inner life matters more than ever. When you show up from a more healed place, everyone benefits.

This week, I share the Celtic teaching of the Three Cauldrons from The Cauldron of Poesy: Coire Goiriath (Warming), Coire Ernmae (Motion), and Coire Sois (Wisdom). These aren’t chakras to “balance” but living vessels that can be full, tipped, or overturned. We’ll explore what each cauldron holds, their states at birth, and how sorrow and joy shape them over a lifetime.

You’ll also learn three simple ways to begin working with your own cauldrons — and I’ll share how I support people through this work in my 1:1 offering, Healing Through the Labyrinth.

The book I recommended in the episode is Rhonda McCrimmon's The Cauldron and the Drum: A Journey into Celtic Shamanism

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This episode dives into the September 7th Lunar Eclipse in Pisces. With the Moon in Doubt opposite the Sun in Confusion, this eclipse isn’t here to hand us neat answers. It’s asking us to live inside the question — to notice where we grasp for certainty and instead lean into what we can feel, sense, and trust in our body.

We’re standing at a threshold moment where old cycles are dissolving and something new is quietly pressing through. The past and future overlap, endings blur into beginnings, and the usual rules of time feel thin. Collective patterns are shifting, the stories we tell are being disrupted, and the ways we relate to truth, power, and one another are being rewritten.

There’s also a tug-of-war between pushing forward just to prove something versus expanding in ways that actually nourish. The invitation? To let urgency fall away and choose growth that feels rooted, supportive, and real.

This isn’t about quick fixes. It’s about letting the mystery do its work — and allowing a deeper pattern of meaning to slowly take shape.

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September 2025 is a threshold month, defined by a Pisces Lunar Eclipse (Sept 7), a Virgo Solar Eclipse at 29° (Sept 21), Saturn retrograding back into Pisces, Mercury’s shift from Virgo into Libra, and the rumble of Uranus retrograde in Gemini shaking what we thought was stable. This isn’t about control — it’s about surrender, reorientation, and emergence.

Through the Human Design lens, we move from Gate 40’s resolve into Gate 64’s imaginal initiation under the Pisces eclipse, then to Gate 47’s transmutation work as Saturn re-enters Pisces. Mid-month, Gate 6 brings the friction of intimacy as Mercury moves into Libra, followed by Gate 46 at the Virgo Solar Eclipse, where the body itself becomes the threshold for delight and ecstasy. The month closes with Gate 18’s confrontation with judgment, integrity, and the weight of expectation.

September is an initiation. The eclipses dissolve certainty, the planets rearrange the stage, and the gates walk us through the archetypal arc of Threshold, Reorientation, and Emergence.

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This episode dives into the August 23rd New Moon in Virgo — a Black Moon at zero degrees that marks a threshold reset.

With the Moon in Gate 59, the Gate of Intimacy, we’re moving through the Gene Key spectrum of Dishonesty → Intimacy → Transparency. Virgo’s call for refinement collides with a square to Uranus in Gemini, shaking up neat plans and breaking down the walls we’ve built around closeness.

We’ll explore what this lunation means for intimacy, truth-telling, and harvest — plus how each Human Design profile can work with the invitation to strip down, get real, and let transparency become the seed.

Because this isn’t just a new moon — it’s a Black Moon reset before eclipse season, a chance to release the walls and begin again from truth.

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