The Designed Life

One of my goals for 2026 is to live more in alignment with my energetic cycles and rhythms, and to detach from the linearity we so often prescribe to. So if that is my goal, this December is my introduction to actually living into that belief and way of being.

In this episode I discuss some of the themes that have been coming into clarity around my work, the way I operate, the fears my business and work-ethic are rooted in, and what I plan to do to align myself with the vision I'm holding for the year ahead – including taking a break on a few aspects of my business.

My invitation for everyone during this time to cultivate some space - even just a little - to assess where and how your energy is being distributed and whether or not that output/production is reciprocal.

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We've almost reached the end of 2025 friends! A year that's truly felt like 20 in 1, but are we really that excited to get into the wildness that will be 2026?

The lunations of the month are right on theme with the rest of the energy that surrounds them.

The Full Moon in Gemini on December 4th is illuminating all the distracting rabbit holes you might finding yourself going down, and asking you – what threads are you following that actually align with the bigger dream?

Then, the New Moon in Sagittarius on December 19th, just before the Winter Solstice is asking us to get very clear about our energetic and intuitive capacities, as well as the boundaries we create to help ourselves stay true to our energy.

It's month that will absolutely be mentally and spiritually stimulating, and will hopefully leave us with more clarity of direction that when we entered.

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Welcome Sagittarius season!

If last season was all about deepening into your intuition, getting really clear about where you needed to heal, and what needed to be released/integrated – this season is all about reformulating our beliefs around what we want to pursue and how we want to take action in alignment with our values. This will be very loud until Mercury moves out of it's post-Rx shadow on 12.16 and the New Moon in Sagittarius on 12.19.

Themes of the weeks

• Week 1 (11.21-11.22) – Reviewing past limitations and expansions
• Week 2 (11.23-11.29) – Practical clarity around intuitive, emotional, and relational transformations
• Week 3 (11.30-12.6) – What action have you taken to embody your true nature in community?
• Week 4 (12.7-12.13) –Spiritual Clarity
• Week 5 (12.14-12.21) – Practicality vs our dreams

Tune in to hear more about how each of these weeks will unfold, and the energy you can tap into to help direct your own creative cycles.

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Key Dates:

• 11.21 Sun enters Sagittarius
• 11.25 Mercury Rx conjunct Venus
• 11.28 Saturn direct 25° Pisces
• 11.29 Mercury direct 20° Scorpio, Venus opposition Uranus
• 11.30 Venus trine Neptune then enters Sagittarius (through 12.24)
• 12.04 Full Moon - Gemini 13°
• 12.08 Mars square Saturn
• 12.10 Neptune direct 29° Pisces, Mercury opposition Uranus Rx
• 12.11 Mercury trine Neptune then enters Sagittarius (through Jan 1, 2026)
• 12.14 Mars square Neptune
• 12.15 Mars enters Capricorn (through Jan 20, 2026)
• 12.19 New Moon - Sagittarius 28°
• 12.21 Venus square Saturn

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Monica Monfre is a long time friend, teacher, dancer, and BRCA1 positive genetic mutation holder. In this episode we talk through how she navigated the loss of her sister to breast cancer, and how that experience has shaped her life since – inevitably discovering her own predisposition to ovarian cancer.

You might hear me learning in real time what some of the terms Monica is uses to describe the experiences of breast and ovarian cancer are, and that's the point of this conversation – to become more familiar with the language of our reproductive health and to reduce the stigmas that go along with things like cancer, menopause, hormone therapy, etc.

Overall this is a conversation about the agency you have over your body and health, the wisdom of our bodies and following our intuition - especially when it comes to preventative care - and the importance of naming your identity, and sharing about your health experiences.

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Mentioned:

Monica’s interview in The New York Times

The Breasties

The Breast of Us

Eps 042: How to work with all phases of the moon

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The phases of the moon have been observed in awe and wonder for centuries. In this episode I discuss each of the 8 main phases, and how they're overlayed onto our days, months, years, eras in life, and even in the stages of our gardens (literal and figurative).

This episode also acts as a framework for folks who are interested in working more intuitively with the monthly lunar cycles as a framework for energetic peaks, ebbs and flows.

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Corresponding Substack articles:

• How to Work with Every Moon
• Know your moon - know your comfort zone (and how to stretch beyond it)

Mysteries of The Dark Moon by Demetra George

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Hello November!! These lunations of this month are fortifying and cathartic.

The Full Moon in Taurus on November 5th is BEAUTIFUL and deeply fulfilling and rejuvenating and it wants you to RECEIVE.

The New Moon in Scorpio on November 20th is conjunct Mercury retrograde and wants us to uncover the deeper narratives that are holding us back from our desired evolutions.

It's a beautiful month of lunations to work with and be fully present to – tune in to learn more about how to work with these energies and how they'll likely be showing up in your own life.

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Welcome Scorpio season!

The witchiest season of the year is here friends, and in these new few weeks ahead we have so much planetary support guiding us into flow, release, cathartic clearing, and deep integration and healing. Bc I'm actually very excited about this season, I start the episode describing which area of life Scorpio season will likely be activating for you.

I'm also trying something new and giving a theme to each week:

• Week 1 (10.22-10.26) – submerging into the waters
• Week 2 (10.27-11.2) – permission to get big with your weirdness
• Week 3 (11.3-11.9) – busy getting shit done and loving all of it
• Week 4 (11.10-11.16) –slow your horses
• Week 5 (11.17-11.22) – end of year review comes early

Tune in to hear more about how each of these weeks will unfold, and the energy you can tap into to help direct your own creative cycles.

Reminder that Constellations Scorpio Season is $111 through 10.28!! Our first call is on Halloween 10.31, and if you're desiring community, support, and alignment through these murky waters ahead – we got you. Join us!

Key Dates:

• 10.23 Sun enters Scorpio

• 10.24 Mercury trine Jupiter & Saturn Rx

• 10.28 Mars trine Jupiter & Saturn Rx

• 10.29 Mercury trine Neptune Rx, enters Sagittarius, then opposes Uranus Rx

• 11.02 Venus square Jupiter

• 11.04 Mars enters Sagittarius

• 11.04 Mars trine Neptune Rx, opposes Uranus Rx

• 11.05 Full Moon - Taurus 13°

• 11.06 Venus enters Scorpio

• 11.08 Uranus Rx re-enters Taurus

• 11.09 Mercury Rx through 11.29

• 11.11 Jupiter Rx through 03.11.26

• 11.12 Mercury Rx conjunct Mars

• 11.17 Sun trine Jupiter & Saturn

• 11.19 Mercury Rx re-enters Scorpio, trines Neptune, then opposes Uranus Rx

• 11.20 New Moon - Scorpio 28°, Sun conjunct Mercury Rx (cazimi)

• 11.21 Sun opposition Uranus

• 11.22 Mercury Rx trine Saturn Rx & Jupiter Rx

• 11.22 Sun enters Sagittarius

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Uranus in Gemini substack

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Welcome to a very special episode! My incredible and inspirational mom, Joan Maloney, joins me to share a little of her backstory – the journey it took for her to get from small town book worm, to receptionist/delivery driver, to thriving business woman with a highly successful graphic design studio.

In this episode she shares stories about her resiliency – from navigating sexual harassment, to starting a business in the midst of physical recovery from back to back car accidents, to running a studio while parenting a young daughter.

She was doing it all before we knew how to crawl, and she blazed a trail for all of us to walk down – must more easily that she did.

I hope you enjoy this little window into her life and our relationship, and be sure to check out her forthcoming book!

Mentioned:

• Studio 318
• Eps 005: Work-life Balance

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I’m thrilled to be sharing this episode describing the pillars of what living a Designed Life means - the practices, processes, perspectives, etc. For so many years I’ve been operating with these pillars in my life and they’ve been infused into my work, but only recently did they fully coalesce into these principles.

The main 3 that operate in a cycle are:

1. ​It starts with you – reclamation
2. ​Know what you’re choosing – alignment
3. ​Water what you want to grow – cultivation

This cycle is then supported by 4 secondary pillars, each connected to a different element:

1. ​ do hard things with great self-care – earth
2. ​ time is what you make it – air
3. ​ it’s all beauty – fire
4. ​ everything has a ripple effect – water

I describe in detail what each of these pillars mean and what they look like in action so you can understand your own life through the lens of Design.

Mentioned

• ​Svādhyāya
• ​The Mysteries of the Dark Moon
• ​Xanthe Appleyard / Leisure Ethic
• ​Kaitlyn Kessler
• ​Identity Evolution Workbook
• ​Jess Ellen Astrology
• ​On Being interview with Matthew Sanford
• ​Ep 019: Unity Consciousness
• ​Jane Goodall’s last words

How often do we carve out time, to then only use it by succumbing to distraction or squandering it with petty little projects? How often do we arrive at a moment of spaciousness only to then not feel capable of immersing ourselves fully into it?

In this episode I layout my schedule for the two weeks I'll be on a solo self-guided retreat – the projects I plan to work on, the books I plan to read, and the activities I plan to enjoy.

I recorded this episode at 10pm the night before I flew out because I was having a lot of creative blocks around what I wanted to share this week and it took me awhile to arrive on this topic. But as I was journalling (in an attempt to stay up all night to get to the airport at 4am) the idea of sharing how I'll be using my time during this solo experience felt timely and relevant.

So also please know that it's not the most structured and cohesive eps I've ever recorded!

I'd love to what resonated for you from anything I shared here, and can't wait to update you on how the trip unfolds!

Mentioned:

• Constellations Scorpio Season
• The Mysteries of the Dark Moon
• Essbe Jewelry

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