Welcome to 2026! It's a special (long) episode... the first of the year, and my first ever guest on The Sage & The Song. Join us for a deep dive into the archetypes, anthems and astrology that will nourish and inform the year ahead.

Special Guest Verana Faye Bailowitz joins me for a juicy conversation on what to expect and how to gracefully navigate this year ahead. Drawing from the wisdom of numerology, tarot, astrology and intuition for what we all need to remember in these tumultuous times, we also bring you a selection of songs. We invite you to learn and sing these songs as anthems, in order to keep yourself buoyant, brave and kind in the midst of the mystery.

This is a long one, so take your time with it and enjoy the journey!

The Songs:

• Wisdom In Collapse - written by Ahlay Blakely
• Remember Me Again - written by Britta GreenViolet
• Turn The World Around - written by Harry Belafonte 
• Courage -  South African Anti-Apartheid song written by Eric Bogle
• The Unfolding - written by Leila Strong

Our Guest: Verana Faye Bailowitz is a birth keeper, astrologer, songstress and a guardian of transition, transformation, and growth. If you appreciate her wisdom in this conversation, please show her some love by supporting her upcoming "Wombs of the World" trip to South Africa as well as her forthcoming album of birth songs by donating to her GoFundMe campaign.

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False urgency, be gone! We will not longer buy the illusion that January 1st is the optimal time to hit the ground running.

In this episode, we explore what it can actually look like for leaders, parents, biz owners, artists and humans with bodies to honor the season's rhythms instead of falling prey to the society pressure to "hit go" in the middle of the season of rest.

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Dwight Eisenhower said "plans are worthless, but planning is everything." What a paradox!

In this episode, we explore why the rapidly changing landscape of ecology, politics, economics and technology means that keeping plans is virtually impossible—but oddly, that doesn't mean it's not worth doing.

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A "compass question" is one that is always helpful, sometimes confronting, and will guide us toward truth.

In this episode of The Sage & the Song, I share my favorite compass question that reminds me "the sacred" is always here, now, just a choice away.

The Song: What Sacred Space Is This - written and performed by Britta GreenViolet.

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The world—in all its beauty and chaos—is a bewildering place. And it is our division from mother nature that threatens the future of our species on this planet. It's time to re-wild our plan for 2026, and beyond.

In this episode, I invite you to join me for this year's Annual Planning Challenge, happening LIVE December 11-19th. Hear why I changed the name (again) and why wildness is at the center of my planning framework.

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What’s one decision from your past (recent or not) that you regret, or wish you had made differently?

In this episode of The Sage & the Song, I share a potent framework for assessing your most questionable past decisions so as to learn from them—plus a simple checklist for ensuring that any choice you make is congruent with your integrity, authenticity and intuition.

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90-97% of your actions and experience are dictated by your unconscious mind—which means your mental noise, fixations and unchecked reactivity are wreaking havoc in your relationships, joy and productivity.

In this episode of The Sage & the Song, I share a simple, fast and effective technique for quieting the mind in less that 30 seconds. Plus, the success story of my first real attempt to command the unconscious mind.

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My Tantric Buddhist teacher mentioned how taken aback she is when she sees Buddha statues and other depictions of deities in people's bathrooms. This made me laugh... and then it made me think.

In this episode of The Sage & the Song, I pass along a teaching I received from my teacher Anuttara Lakshmin Nath that's made me think twice about the depictions of deities in my house. Join me to assess our relationship with these sacred objects in an attempt to appreciate, not appropriate.

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I'm not Christian, or even religious—and I've started to pray the rosary.

Today on The Sage & The Song, I share how working with roses as a plant medicine opened up newfound curiosity about the ancient devotion of the rosary, which led me to Mother Mary, which led me back to Mother Earth, and to the tenderness and desires of my own heart.

The song in this episode is "Let It Be" written by The Beatles, covered and performed by Britta GreenViolet.

Mentioned in this episode:

• The Way of the Rose by Clark Strand & Perdita Finn
• Isis Mary Sophia by Rudolph Steiner
• Untie the Strong Woman by Clarissa Pinkola Estés
• The Madonna Secret by Sophie Strand
• The Mother Mary Oracle deck by Elana Fairchild
• The Mary Magdalene Oracle deck by Megan Watterson

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We are always choosing—either consciously or unconsciously.

In this episode of The Sage & the Song, I share 3 contemplations on decision-making and rumble with the aftermath of our choices. We discuss how you can't force clarity (and what to do in the meantime while you wait for it to arrive), and I offer a potent yet simple framework from learning from past decisions that led you into regret or some other form of suffering.

The songs in this episode are "Busy Yourself" and "Good Choices" by Laurence Cole⁠.

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