Down to Energy

Join me today as I reflect on my 34th year, set intentions for 35, and share updates for the podcast's next evolution. Rather than speaking to a check list of things I learned from last year, or big goals I have for next year - we talk about cycles, not forcing clarity, embracing the unknown, and taking time to pause.

• 34 was about the unknown, grief, authenticity, love, and joy.
• 35’s specific goals are still taking shape, rather than trying to control something that's still making itself known - I share what my intention is for how I'm showing up: from love.
• I share my relationship with love, remembering my roots, integrating awareness of suffering and grief into my orientation to love - and how and where it’s applied practically.

You won’t leave this episode with a hard and fast to do list or process - but you will leave with more curiosity about how different chapters of your life connect, permission to embrace the not-knowing, and an invitation to explore what love means to you, too.

The podcast will be taking a little break as I step back to get more intentional about conversations, episode types, and more!

We won’t be gone long, can’t wait to see you for Season 3. Be sure to subscribe so we pop back into your feed when back in action!

Let’s hang:

• Free Values Dash! (use Venus Rx to clarity your values & how you want to organize your life around what you care about)
• Stay connected on Instagram (tell me what your favorite episode of the season was!)
• Explore ways to work with me (maybe even apply to work with me 1:1!)

So appreciative of you always!

Today we get to chat with Morgan Markowski, multi-hyphenate founder of Soft Pivot! A brand that empowers creative entrepreneurs to build businesses that fit their life without burnout, toxic hustling, or forcing a path that doesn't align.

I mean - say no more!?

This is the conversation for when your life or business aren’t totally lining up - and you want a different option than starting over again from scratch. We chat about how to spot the misalignment, how to run a new experiment, and what soft pivoting really looks like.

Tune in for a expansive chat about:

• Soft pivoting away from hustle culture - separating your worth from productivity and performance while still being deeply devoted, ambitious, and strategic about your work.
• Soft Pivot philosophy - adjusting your direction through small choices and experiments instead of assuming you need to burn the whole thing down (again).
• Trusting yourself > outsourcing your answers - recognizing when another coach, course, expert, or external strategy is replacing your own discernment (and how to come back to your own wisdom)
• Running 30 / 60 / 90 day experiments - testing ideas, gathering data, and integrating what you learn as a tangible way to pivot softly and realign your work and life.
• Comfort in uncertainty - taking action without needing to know exactly where every decision will lead.
• Multi-hyphenate lifestyle - how Morgan allows entrepreneurship to exist alongside other work, income streams, creative projects, and nontraditional opportunities.
• Finding YOUR version of success - bye conventional career and entrepreneurship models of success, hello your own definition of a life well lived.

Connect with Morgan:

• Website
• Substack
• Newsletter
• Instagram
• Dear Creator Podcast
• The Business & Life Audit - get to the root of whats keeping you spinning!

Morgan interviewed me on Dear Creator!

• Spotify
• Apple

Connect with me 😊

• Website
• Instagram
• Free things!

What's one experiment you're going to run this month? Let us know!

Thank you so much for being here - as always, subscribing, liking, and sharing the show is so helpful to us! Adore you!

Obsessed with how GOOD creating an even higher level of content has felt over the last few months. In this episode I share what’s contributing not just to the higher output, but mainly to it feeling really easy, unconstricted, free - and exactly how I want it to feel.

This is more about creating the environment and conditions that allow creative output to feel the way you want it to feel (less about the “do more” and more about “make it feel better”).

Within that I share my:

• Intention setting process: naming my goals, how I wanted to feel over the summer, how I wanted to show up online and why that was important
• Unblocking process: anticipating what could get in the way of the desired experience and working around it
• Soft relationship with structure: naming the goals, having the system, but relating to it in a completely new way
• Practicing taking action: from desire and intuition rather than should’s or pressure or obligation
• Energetic best practices: how I stayed in contact with myself, supported my nervous system, and strengthened my 2nd and 3rd chakras to support my creativity
• Holistic approach: letting content co-mingle with other creative endeavors like my rebrand and summer wedding
• Freedom from overthinking: knowing when to let creative ideas marinate longer vs get out of my own way and share them
• Human first approach: the content engine is nothing without material you’re connected to feeding into it!

You’ll walk away with new ways to relate to the energetics of the content creation process: a flexible ground (earth energy), a connection with yourself (water energy), allowing your creative process to be free (fire energy).

This is all through the lens of my personal experience - I’m not a content coach, just a fellow business owner, creative, and human interested in the ambitions of life - feeling really freaking good.

Integration Prompts:

• Intention setting: how do you want your creative expression to feel over the next 3 months, why that (specifically)?
• Soft structure: does your structure allow you to move freely or are you resisting it anywhere? What would experimenting with something new feel like there?
• Self connection: do you feel like your cup is full? where could you choose nourishment before output?
• Freedom in expression: what guardrails could you put in place to think about your expression less and simply do it more?

Offerings mentioned:

• Seasonally Committed: 2 week astrological coaching experience
• Mentorship: custom packages for emerging creatives and/or astrologers
• Book a free 20 minute call to chat through any of my offerings!

Let's connect, shall we? I’d REALLY like to hear how this landed for you!!

• Website
• Instagram
• Free things!

Did someone say: wedding episode!? Hollis and I debrief on all things wedding including:

• Identity shifts: the subtle and big ways the process reworks your identity
• Relationship changes: the new undertone of our romantic relationships & how communal relationships also got reshaped!
• Managing expectations and projections: from others as you get into the planning process and how to come back to your own vision
• Making it your own: rituals, practices, and decisions that helped us create experiences that felt like a true reflection of ourselves and our relationships
• Letting go of emotional responsibility: that we were both holding in certain relationships and trusting in our people and the process
• Friends and community: as a major resource for support and staying sane in the process!
• The logistics: how each of our experiences were structured, what was prioritized, and why!
• Visibility, celebration, and IRL community: what it’s like to receive being witnessed, celebrated, and supported by everyone you love.
• Our advice: for anyone thinking about getting married - which can also be applied to other major creative life milestones!
• The astrology of both our wedding days: because we obviously had to address this!

Was so fun to share this with you - would love to hear what stands out to you in my DMs! Here’s where you can reach us:

You can connect with Hollis here:

• Website
• Substack
• Podcast
• Threads

And find me here:

• Website!
• Instagram
• Free things!
• Astrology Readings
• Threads

Please rate this episode, subscribe to the show, and share with your bestie who's wedding is on the horizon! Thank you so much, friend.

Receiving just isn't the opposite of giving. It's a process of opening up, allowing in, and being available to the moments, experiences, and people that you want to be in true relationship with.

Receiving is a pretty word that get's thrown around sometimes - but in practice is a lot more layered and complex than we usually give it credit for.

This episode gets into the nuance, prerequisites, and the benefits of opening up to receive - with reflection questions, tips, and integration support so you can take inventory of your own ability to receiving: where you’re available to it, and what’s still blocking you from allowing it in.

In this episode, I chat with you about:

• What receiving is and the different forms it takes in our lives
• Why you can’t receive with your head - why it’s a heart centered process of opening up
• What’s required to receive: the prerequisites to making yourself available
• How to notice when you’re receiving versus immediately giving back, taking over, or trying to prove your worth
• The energetics of receiving and why practicing it balances out the tendency to overthink, and the impulse to constantly produce and be the one adding value
• What receiving has taught me about relationships, intimacy, and intuition - and creating the space to let more in

Would truly love to hear how this episode impacts you and your own perspectives and experiences with receiving. Reach out to me on any of the platforms below and let me know!

Connect with me:

• Book a reading with me
• Peep my website
• Free things
• Signup for my newsletter
• Connect on Instagram or Threads!

Thank you so much for being here - please support the show by liking, subscribing, or sharing with those you think would enjoy it!

At some point in your astrology journey you’ve wondered: what’s the difference between placidus vs whole sign houses? Which version of my chart is more accurate? Why are there multiple systems?

Today I sit down with my astrology and real life bestie, Hollis - for a human centered exploration of this question.

We each prioritize different house systems in our own practice, and through collaborating over the last year - expanded how we think about and work with them. Rather than telling you which is better or debating the different systems merits - we explore how each offer meaningful, complimentary insights to your lived experience.

Yes, you’ll walk away with a better understanding of the differences of the house systems. But mostly, you’ll gain practical ways to explore them both in your own chart and relationship to astrology - so it can be a tool that keeps helping you understand yourself and your life circumstance.

In this chat, we cover:

*Why there’s no one “correct” house system

*The differences between Whole Sign and Placidus in approachable language

*How each system offers a different lens into your life rather than competing truths

*How this part of astrology continues to deepen your self awareness, connect you with your intuition, and trust yourself first before any external tool

*Ways to get more curious with this aspect of your birth chart and seasonal transits

*Practical ways to begin exploring the different systems and parts of your life they illuminate

*How our own relationships with astrology have evolved - and how yours can too

We’re so excited to hear what this conversation sparks within you, what other questions you have, and one insight that you take about yourself from either system!

You can connect with Hollis here:

• Website
• Substack
• Podcast
• Threads

And find me here:

• Website!
• Instagram
• Free things!
• Astrology Readings
• Threads

Tenderness around finances, the impulse to prove yourself, scarcity mindset, trouble receiving or trusting…Chiron in Taurus brings these themes up.

Not so you can fix them, but so you can build a different relationship to them.

This episode dives into what Chiron is, what it represents in astrology, and how it’s current transit through Taurus might be showing up for you.

Let’s put it in human terms and explore:

• What Chiron is astronomically and symbolically
• The archetype of the wounded healer and integration of opposites
• Chiron in your birth chart: your core wound
• Chiron as a verb: an ongoing process of healing and re-relating to the things that are tender
• The power of your tenderness in creating meaning in your life experiences
• Chiron in Taurus themes including money, self worth, value, safety, the body, nature, and more
• The opportunities this transit offers, how you may already be experiencing healing, and what to do when you’re in the tenderness of it
• Practical ways to work with Chiron in Taurus before it retrogrades into Aries

This is the first conversation of many! I want to hear from you about what resonates, how this has been showing up, and what questions you have so I can continue to support you in it.

Connect with me:

• Book a reading with me
• Peep my website
• Free things
• Signup for my newsletter
• Connect on Instagram or Threads!

Post mentioned in episode about evolving our sense of value and self-worth over time.

Adore you friend! Please like this episode and subscribe if you were into it, appreciate you.

Julie Lane is the ultimate muse for creating from the messy middle, from the process itself, and not hiding yourself along the way.

From where I sit, she seems to live in constant conversation with (and expression of) her truth in the moment, and her identity even as it evolves and reconfigures itself.

This chat picks her brain about her creative life, process, and expression of her whole self through life's ups and downs. It will feel like a warm hug and invitation to loosen your grip on certainty, reconnect with your truth, and express more of your humanness.

Get excited to dive into:

• Julie's relationship with art, how she reconnected with it after decades in a different career.
• Trusting intuitive nudges and making feeling-led decisions when the end of the road isn't clear.
• How grief connects you to your authenticity, values, and what truly matters - and choosing to express experiences of grief online.
• Slowing down enough to notice the beauty in the moments we would otherwise rush past in pursuit of what's next.
• The power of self belief and what you choose to believe.
• Overcoming perfectionism and releasing the pressure to have everything figured out.
• Building a business and creative practice that reflects who you are - not who you think you should be, or what you were told success is.
• Allowing your work to evolve alongside you, and letting your humanness be seen along the way.

This is a conversation about trusting yourself, embracing uncertainty, and discovering that the most meaningful life is built one honest step at a time.

Julie is absolutely wonderful and would love to hear from you:

• Instagram
• Threads
• Website
• Substack

I would of course also love to connect with you - if you haven't yet, check out my new website, freebies, and offerings!

• My NEW website: Jessonhumanterms.com
• Instagram
• Freebies
• Blog

Please subscribe and like this show if you're enjoying it! So grateful you're here.

Celebrating the launch of my new brand by sharing all about how I arrived to this experience, and how I’ve changed personally and professionally through the process.

This is a human-forward episode focused on my experience and the lessons from this whole chapter of my life. We explore:

• How I arrived at a rebrand without even knowing what a “brand” even was
• How this new container for business is allowing me to show up with more trust, ease, and creativity
• Flexibly relating to the brand guidelines and “earth energy” of it all so it can keep evolving with me
• The experience of rebranding and getting married within 5 weeks of each other!!
• Life themes of commitment, trust, beauty, and savoring the season
• Replacing the old story of “success has to be hard” with its inverse
• Living from love, trust and true devotion

Thanks so much for being a part of my community and witnessing me in this exciting milestone!

The new linkys I know you’re dying to check out:

• The website!! www.jessonhumanterms.com
• Ways to work with me
• Free offerings
• Rooted evolution newsletter
• Instagram - let me know what you think!

Where you can find the amazing brand strategist I worked with - Natascha of Moons & Things Co.!

When is it time to stop building your life, your identity, your work - and start living it? And what does it look like when you stop optimizing, and start living, enjoying, and being in it?

A recent roadtrip (including the complete rescheduling of my bachelorette party) showed me what it takes to step into the life you’ve so intentionally created - and live in it embodied, easeful, and joyful.

This episode is an exploration of:

• Why ease often feels uncomfortable and scary at first - especially for the parts of us that want to stay in control
• Why you get stuck in building, thinking, and striving and how to shift into enjoyment, ease, and living it
• My intentions for my 2 week roadtrip through California vs. what actually happened (family visits, solo time, bachelorette, and integration included)
• Why being witnessed and receiving love from your people is vulnerable and what that discomfort is inviting you to lean into around belonging, connection, and letting yourself be known
• How rescheduling the bachelorette party forced me to get comfortable with uncertainty in relationships
• What the energetics of self-sufficiency say about shifting into a more easeful season

This ones for the builders, the thinkers, the intentional planners that are ready to put that energy down - and fully embrace living what they’ve created.

Reflection prompts: integrate this episode

• What are you still in building mode around - for an experience that's already happening?
• Where do you feel like you're having to earn the ease, the rest, the joy, the reciprocity?
• What's one thing you will enjoy this week by shifting out of the doing, the thinking, the optimizing?

Daily Practice: add this to your existing journaling or gratitude practice:

• Pick your desired feeling (ease, joy, flow, whatever it is for you)
• Write: "I embrace [your word]" - and then note where you let that in today. Even one small moment counts.
• Option to name an area that you intend to bring that to life the next day

Seasonally Committed:

• 2-week astrological coaching experience where we build the container for your next season together (as validated by your seasonal energetics!)
• Waitlist here!

Let me know what you think of this episode + more links!

• Instagram
• Threads
• The Integration Dash (free)
• Integrative Life Coaching
• Mentorship for Astrologers
• Newsletter Signup

Thank you for being DOWN to Energy! Remember to subscribe and like this episode, and or forward along to a friend to support the show. It is oh so appreciated. See you next time, friend!