Down to Energy

Land with me and my dear friend Rachel, as celebrate the opening of Intuitively Wild - her apothecary and studio in upstate New York. A space that is a true reflection of all that she is: rooted in ceremony, ritual, herbalism, healing, community, and devotion.

This wonderful conversation touches on:

*The evolution of Intuitively Wild that led to the opening of a physical space!

*Following you intuition and self-trust as the bridge between knowing and doing

*Stepping into a new self - how Rachel prepared for and is embodying this chapter of life

*Redefining joy and embracing the many forms that joy can take

*Ritual as a devotional lifestyle - centered around presence and intentionality

*Reconnecting with yourself as a necessity, not a nicety

*Ritual is for everyone - showing up in devotion to however your life uniquely looks

*So so much more wonderful goodness

Intuitively Wild is located in High Falls, New York - connect with Rachel through any of these channels (highly recommend her podcast!)

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Nature works in cycles - and astrology gives you a practical framework for embracing them.

We often resist the phases of the cycle that don’t align with our energy, or desire to constantly produce (eternal summer anyone?). But every part of the cycle is valuable, necessary, and connected to what comes next.

Seeing that interconnection by understanding the full picture - helps soften resistance so seasonal living can feel more accessible.

This episode explores the cycle of energetics and the granularity it offers gives clear direction steps for how to lean into the parts of the cycle of life that you find yourself resisting.

Inside this episode:

*The zodiac as a system for working with your energy as it changes over time

*How the 12-sign cycle forms a meaningful sequence, each phase informing and supporting the next

*The elements as the motivating, inspiring force behind each season - and how to tap into them

*The modalities as the functional, “how” for leaning into whatever part of the cycle you are in

*Why understanding the full cycle reduces resistance and so cyclical living can feel more tangible vs aspirational in your life

*How to start working with this through annual and monthly cycles!

Let's hang:

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Knowing astrology and delivering a powerful astrology reading are two different skills.

You might have a wealth of astrological knowledge, but readings can easily become overly technical, educational, scattered, or difficult for the client to digest.

In this episode, we explore how to make “readings” within energetic disciplines (astrology, Human Design, and beyond) relatable to an audience who doesn’t know your craft - so your clients can internalize, remember, and apply what you share in their lives.

Inside this episode, we explore:

• What constitutes a "good" reading with 3 core components as a guide
• The different skills you're juggling when offering a session
• How to put the astrology down and meet someone where they are
• Reflections to help you define the type of astrologer you want to be, the readings you want to give, and what actually facilitates that

The core components of giving impactful readings:

• Language: translating terminology into relatable human language, themes, and narrative
• Structure: creating a grounding anchor for yourself and the client so the conversation can flow naturally (instead of gripping tightly to scripts or placements)
• Dialogue: drawing out context and personal story from your client’s real life and weaving it together with the astrology

Trust and practice underpin this entire process, so you can move beyond chart regurgitation and into resonant readings that have lasting impact.

The Mentorship:

For support in translating your craft into conversation, you can apply for my Astrology Mentorship!

This collaborative, private experience is customizable depending on your current skillset and goals. Alongside developing the three core components we discuss in this episode, we also focus on inner embodiment of your role as an astrologer, and the external messaging that supports booking readings and sharing your gift with your community!

Apply today and we'll schedule a chat to see if we're a good fit!

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When the astrology chatter gets loud AF due to shifting energies & conflicting interpretations - it’s easy to get overwhelmed and lose yourself in the noise.

This episode gives you practical tools and orientations for staying connected to your intuition and the energy of the moment - without getting sidetracked by cultural dialogue.

We Explore:

*A practical way of relating to astrological dialogue in a way that feels empowering instead of paralyzing

*Trusting your intuition > the noise - yes, even when you’re not an astrologer!

*Coming home to yourself and naming what’s resonant and relevant to your life in this moment

*Process for pairing your life chapter themes with the astrology of the moment

*How to stay connected to your actual life instead of drifting into prediction or excessive meaning-making

*A four-step, holistic (and simple!) process for moving forward and co-creating with the energetics through your lived experiences

*Remembering that these energetic moments are actually a process and a cycle with a much larger time horizon to play within (there is no rush!)

This episode is about staying in relationship with the energetic moment - and cultural dialogue around that moment - so you can integrate it into what it means FOR YOU, and release the rest.

Check out the Constellations Calendar to support you through the 2026 Spring Equinox, currently on sale for just $33!

I'd love to hear how this episode impacted you - DM me on your channel of choice to let me know!

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Dive into Edi's world of fun, connection, IRL experience, and travel on your Leo Full Moon walk (the perfect time to consider your relationship to FUN).

Cozy up as we chat about:

• Why we feel like we have to earn fun and other blocks to embracing it
• Online vs IRL community spaces - the vulnerability of meeting up in person, and the healing and belonging that can come from ass shaking by a pool
• The value of experiences and offerings that can be seen as "intangible" (we're witnessing collective curiosity about this and chat about what's stopping us from leaning all the way in)
• Fun as resistance. Connection and friendship as our lifeforce.
• Accessibility of travel lifestyle + accessibility of energetic work for people who don't know their birth info, like Edi!
• Energetics of structure (earth) vs spontaneity and chaos (fire) - Edi's experiences in exploring and disrupting her relationship with both!
• Environmental disruption as a catalyst to identity exploration and reclaiming joy
• How to deepen your relationship to fun and connection today!
• So many more juicy, casual, enlivening acknowledgements woven in!

And as for the incredible IRL experience Edi is hosting this JUNE in Portugal?

Check out The Link Up here: https://blanktelastudio.com/the-link-up

Where internet friends become IRL soulmates. A space to remember that friendship IS productive and having fun isISspiritual. All while remembering who the fuck you are, why you chose this life and what becomes possible when we gather.

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Edila is an IRL experience curator, business mentor and remote life educator for when you’ve outgrown your business (and life) and are ready to build from who you’re becoming - letting fun and pleasure lead to allow dreams louder than your doubts:

Connect with her!

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See you next time :)

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New year, new episode series (!!) exploring the energetic polarity between opposing signs. When you understand the motivation behind these energetics (whether you have Capricorn or Cancer placements or not), you can redirect the misaligned or shadow expressions into something more easeful and life-giving.

Take Capricorn: the part of you that wants to build something that lasts (the motivation) can show up as overworking or burning out (the shadow expression). When you reorient back to the impulse of that energy, you can more easily access the balancing side of the axis (Cancer) which gives genuine you permission to rest, rejuvenate, and nourish yourself - so you can ACTUALLY achieve that motivation.

We talk about:

• Energetic spectrums: why and how opposite energies are actually two sides of the same coin, not necessarily "opposites" but moreso partners that need each other to function optimally
• Cancer aka your inner world: the part of you that needs emotional safety, nourishment, and a rich inner life to build an outer life you love.
• Capricorn - outer world: the part of you that builds, contributes, and achieves - your connection with material reality that grounds inner sensitivities.
• Finding integration: how to explore and cultivate the side of the axis that's less natural for you via practical, everyday rituals.
• Personal stories: I'd be remiss if I didn't reference my Capricorn moon and stellium here!

Reflect:

• Is Cancer or Capricorn more natural for me?
• Where am I over-indexing on one - in an effort to resolve its imbalance, while avoiding the opposite side of the spectrum?
• What has Capcirorn season revealed to me about my relationship to structure?
• What structure actually allows me to feel held - and to BE?
• Where am I over flowing, leaking energy, and need more boundaries?
• Where can I experiment and play with the less familiar side of the coin?
• What does balance between the two feel like in my body?

Perhaps these questions - or the Capricorn New Moon, or a 2026 word - had stirred an intention for you - how will you bring that to life?

The Integration Dash is a FREE, Notion-based system for translating intention into lived reality (the Capricorn part of you will love it!!) The dash is free and available here.

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Your birthday is a powerful energetic reset and threshold into a new orientation, energetically, to the year ahead! In this episode, I break down what’s involved in a “birthday reading” and how your astrology reveals themes, timing, and support available in each unique annual cycle.

I walk through a mini birthday reading for myself, using my recent 34th birthday as an example, to pull back the curtain a bit on how these readings actually work! Both behind the scenes and in lived experience.

We explore:

• What a birthday reading actually is (how it’s different from a normal reading)
• Techniques I use (solar return charts, profection years, and transit/timing tooling)
• How to identify overarching themes and the energetic arc for your year
• Reflections from my 33rd year cycle now that it’s complete
• Personal life updates since turning 34 and taking a mini break from the pod
• Two major themes I see for my 34th year, how they’re already showing up, and how they reframe big milestones ahead

You’ll leave with a clearer understanding of what to for in your own solar return chart - and a feel for the thematic, integrative experience you can expect from a birthday reading or season of life reading.

Currently booking birthday readings for January and beyond! If it’s not your birthday, Season of life readings offer a similar lens for looking ahead and integrating major themes of this season of your life.

What did this bring up for you? Hop into my socials with questions and reflections!

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New free offering alert: The Integration Dash is A Notion-based system that helps you turn your intentions, truths, or identity shifts into a lived reality across all areas of your life.

It uses the guidance of the astrological houses to support you in cross-pollinating any intention or truth into your WHOLE life so it moves from concept to embodied action.

The dash is free until 1/23 and available here.

The queen of content and business strategy breaks down how to translate felt, intuitive, energetic work into clear, grounded value that your audience can connect with.

SO obsessed with her, this conversation, and opening up a dialogue that amplifies work that supports your HUMANNESS.

We dig into:

• Landing the plane when the outcomes of your work and offerings are emotional, energetic, somatic, intuitive, etc.
• Creating and marketing programs around felt experience vs hard skills
• Staying connected to the essence and heart of your offer while selling
• Hyping your internal experiences as hard as the financial goals of your business
• Differentiating between personal experience to boundary vs expression to bring to your audience
• Xanthe’s relationship with astrology and it's unique removal of shame and affirmation of her decision-making
• Bringing integrity into the sales processes and "status quo" we accept within the coaching space
• SO MUCH MORE JUICY STUFF

Xanthe is legit incredible, check her out on:

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It's not what you think. Power is not a forceful assetion - it's embodying and owning it on the INSIDE. Get down to dive into all things power with the embodiment, somatics queen herself: Maia (maiaben).

Tune in for a fresh take on personal power, action vs inaction, what it means to embody your strength, and the capacity building required to call your TRUE power back to you.

This episode covers ALL the angles on personal power:

• The reframe of a lifetime: you're in your power when you know you DON'T have to use it.
• Maia's journey from a chaotic, dysregulated use of power - to finding yoga and energy work - to reclaiming power internally.
• How to create the structure and nervous system capacity needed to hold power
• Embodying power & confidence as an MAGNETIC quality (others either pull towards it or away from it)
• Capacity: the more you can hold (earth energy) within your body, self-trust & containership - the more you can flow, the more power you can tap into.
• Softness as a strength, new definitions of vulnerability, and feminine leadership
• Power as nature, feminine, a choice, relational, communal, inaction, and more.
• Other fun chats on archetypes as mirrors, building invisible masculine forces to support us, and how to empower others.

What an honor to have Maia on the pod!? Here's her instagram and website!!

Her Creative Living Program changed my life!

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Psychic mediumship, but bring it down to EARTH. How to leverage your intuition, communicate with your guides, and ground your inner knowing into your life in a way that empowers the F out of you.

Caroline, a psychic healer and medium, joins me in an incredible conversation about tapping into your psychic gifts (we all have them!), building your intuition, aligning with our mundane reality so you can access spiritual support and transform your everyday choices, relationships, and life itself.

There were SO many parallels between Caroline’s world of connecting you with your “soul self” and astrology/energetics, you’ll love this conversation where we:

• Clear the fuss about what communicating with your spirit team really means
• How to differentiate between ego thoughts (”I” stories) and intuitive guidance
• What your “soul self” is and how to know when you’re living FROM that place
• Nervous system work and the importance of balancing your lower chakras before ascending into other realms!
• How to embody and DIGEST spiritual insight so they can actually impact your life
• Practices to connect with your guides and create safe boundaries for yourself

If you’ve ever felt curious about intuition, psychic gifts, or what it means to live more fully from your soul self, this conversation will leave you feeling grounded, inspired, and ready to trust yourself more deeply.

Connect with Caroline!!

• Her incredible program that teaches everything we've spoken about goes live SOON, join the waitlist today: https://itspeaceinchaos.myflodesk.com/unshakablewaitlist
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