December brings a powerful shift in orientation — the kind that doesn’t announce itself loudly but quietly reveals what the entire year has been shaping in you. The month opens with a clarifying Gemini Full Moon, a Mars–Saturn reality check, and Neptune lifting out of retrograde, clearing just enough of the fog for insight to land. Mercury’s opposition to Uranus delivers breakthrough understanding, and the final sweep of the Water Trine helps release emotional residue before the new year begins. The Sagittarius New Moon offers fresh direction, though not fixed — Saturn and Neptune still in Pisces keep things fluid by design.

In Human Design, the Sun moves through an archetypal arc: Gate 9 (devotion), Gate 5 (natural timing), Gate 26 (refinement), Gate 11 (illumination), Gate 10 (authentic self), Gate 58 (vitality), and Gate 38 (meaningful struggle). Together they highlight focus, rhythm, discernment, imagination, identity, and purpose — a month-long recalibration of what actually matters.

December’s theme is reorientation: seeing your life with clearer eyes, shedding what can’t continue, and recognizing the possibilities that only appear at year’s end. What’s emerging now is true, even if it’s not fully formed yet.

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If you’ve been feeling the pressure of the season — the noise, the urgency, the “shoulds,” the endless decisions — this episode will land right where you are. We’re talking about something most people never consider during the holidays: how Black Friday quietly hijacks your energy and pulls you out of your own inner authority.

In this conversation, we explore why high-pressure sales cycles activate the Not-Self, why even the most grounded people get swept into urgency, and how the open centers in Human Design become louder when the world is shouting for your attention. This isn’t about shaming spending or avoiding desire. It’s about understanding the deeper relationship you have with pressure, impulse, identity, and your own knowing — especially when everything around you is engineered to pull you away from it.

You’ll learn how each center responds to holiday stimulation, why gifting can be just as energetically loaded as buying for yourself, and what actually shifts when you pause long enough to let your real authority speak. We’ll walk through three simple, powerful practices to bring you back into clarity — whether you're deciding on a purchase, choosing gifts, or navigating the emotional intensity of the season.

And if you want deeper insight into how your own design handles pressure and decision-making, I’ve added links below to your Human Design Energetic Blueprint and the Frequency Labyrinth community — both designed to support you in building that unshakeable inner yes.

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If you’ve been feeling ungrounded, disconnected, or like you’re carrying everything on your own, this episode will meet you where you are. We’re talking about the kind of spiritual support most people don’t even realize they need: a team of guides who help you feel steadier, clearer, and more anchored as you move through everyday life.

In this conversation, we explore why guidance has always been part of human experience, why so many people today feel unsupported even with strong intuition or spiritual practice, and how guides actually help you hold boundaries in both your inner and outer world. This isn’t about outsourcing your life to something mystical — it’s about remembering that you don’t have to navigate uncertainty, transition, or rapid growth by yourself.

You’ll learn how the relationship with your guides begins, why the first signs are usually subtle, and what shifts when you finally stop white-knuckling your way through your inner world alone. We also cover what guides are not so you can approach this work with clarity, agency, and grounded discernment.

And if you’re curious about meeting your own support team, I’ve created a guided journey to help you connect with a Guardian Guide — a steady, accessible starting point. The link is blow.

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In this episode, I’m joined by fellow Celtic shamanic practitioner and intuitive healer Dani Smith for a grounded conversation about what it actually means to build a spiritual support team & how to practice safely in a world full of overwhelm and mixed messages.

Dani shares her path into Celtic practice, and how that shift helped her reconnect to her body, her inner seasons, and her own self-trust. She breaks down her “sacred triangle” of support: you, your guides, and the humans who genuinely have the capacity to hold you—therapists, mentors, practitioners, and friends who meet you where you are.

We talk about the messy middle of healing:

• why you don’t need to be a practitioner (or have an hour-long meditation routine) to have a real spiritual life

• how to weave simple, meaningful practices into a busy day—omen walks, clearing energy while doing dishes, five minutes of automatic writing between naps

• what integration actually looks like in practice (often rest, stillness, and letting things land instead of sprinting to the next breakthrough)

We also get into safe practice and ethical spirituality—opening and closing space, setting clear intentions, working with trusted guides, and spotting red flags like spiritual ego, fortune-telling, or any practitioner insisting “my way is the only way.” Underneath it all is the slow rebuilding of self-trust and learning to discern who—and what—feels safe in your nervous system.

If you’ve wondered how to build a spiritual support team that’s real, sustainable, and rooted in everyday life—not performance or perfection—this conversation offers both language and lived experience to guide you.

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This episode continues our listener-favorite series on moving from doubt into intuitive clarity—but this time, we’re going deeper. We’re exploring the archetype of the North Star: the part of you that remembers who you’re here to become long before you feel ready to embody it.

We’ll look at the North Node through both astrology and Human Design—the signs, houses, gates, and lines that shape your soul’s direction—and how this energy acts as a compass for your intuition. I share why embracing your North Star can feel both strangely familiar and profoundly uncomfortable, and how your conditioning, nervous system, and past identities can make it difficult to hear the guidance that’s been whispering all along.

If you’ve ever felt pulled toward something you couldn’t explain, wrestled with the tension between who you’ve been and who you’re becoming, or found yourself caught in the trap of “fixing” instead of evolving, this conversation will help you reconnect to the deeper wisdom already moving through your life. Your North Star isn’t a destination—it’s a relationship. And when you learn how to orient toward it, doubt loses its power and intuitive clarity finally has room to land.

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In this conversation with my Celtic Shamanic practitioner peer Judy Crooknorth, we get real about what it takes to hold sacred space—without making clients carry our unfinished stories. Judy is a trained therapist and intuitive healer, and together we unpack the gritty middle ground where nervous-system repair meets soul work: how to tell when a pattern is emotional vs. spiritual, why discernment matters more than “quick fixes,” and the lifelong practice of becoming a neutral vessel for healing.

We talk boundaries (saying no when you’re not the right fit), the savior archetype and ego checks, and why embodiment is the point—those moments when a client stops mid-sentence and says, “That’s not my voice anymore.” We also wander the Celtic Wisdom Wheel, reframe the Void (from terror to pure potential), and trade very human rituals for finding beauty in the mundane.

• How to discern spiritual roots vs. emotional expression (and why it’s often both)

• Soul retrieval, power retrieval, and why talking about change isn’t the same as embodying it

• Ethics in spiritual practice: trauma literacy, referrals, and refusing the “one-weekend shaman” myth

• Working with the savior complex without burning your work—or your people—down

• The Void as fertile ground + seasonal medicine from the Celtic wheel

It’s an honest, grounded look at the intersection of therapy, spirituality, and the courage it takes to walk beside others without losing yourself.

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November hums with electricity meeting water, emotion meeting revelation. Uranus dominates the sky, opposing Mars, Mercury, and Venus, shaking loose what’s become rigid while the Grand Water Trine softens what resists. It’s not chaos — it’s movement. Energy wants to flow again. Mercury’s retrograde from Sagittarius back into Scorpio turns the mind inward, and Saturn’s station direct in Pisces at month’s end grounds what’s been shifting into lived understanding.

Through the Human Design lens, November’s story unfolds through the Quarter of Mutation — the season of transformation and creative renewal. We begin in Gate 44, the Gate of Alertness, where instinct notices the echo of the past and the wisdom tucked inside it. Then the Sun steps into Gate 1, the Gate of Self-Expression, opening the door to individuality and authentic creation. Gate 43 follows with insight and epiphany — sudden clarity that interrupts old mental loops. Gate 14 moves that awareness into embodied purpose: using power with integrity, not pressure. Gate 34, the Gate of Power, translates that strength through the body — vitality in motion. And Gate 9 closes the month with focus and devotion, turning revelation into rhythm.

Together, these gates mirror the sky’s tension — Uranus as Trickster, the Water Trine as Alchemist — teaching that true mutation doesn’t happen in isolation. It happens when feeling and awareness meet, when instinct becomes creativity, and when the body becomes the bridge between electricity and emotion.

November is a month of cathartic wisdom — not the flash of awakening, but the steady current of transformation that rewires you from the inside out.

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Everyone’s talking about “finding your voice,” but most people are forcing it. In Human Design, the Throat Center isn’t just about communication — it’s the bridge between energy and manifestation, where truth becomes sound and sound becomes creation.

In this episode, we explore how your voice moves through timing, not pressure — and how your Mercury placement reveals the unique way your truth wants to be expressed. You’ll learn why silence is part of your voice, how to tell when you’re forcing vs. flowing, and three ways to work with your Throat energy so your words actually land.

Because your voice isn’t something to perform — it’s something to remember.

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