This Crazy Little Thing Called Life

This is the October Akashic & Astrology forecast where Astrologer Stevie Calista & Meg Thompson walk you though the tension & recalibration this month is offering up on a silver platter. 

This month is asking you a very important question: 'Who are you when thing's don't go to plan?' it's very akin to the question 'who are you when no one's looking?' 

Do you feel like you have to convince other people? Are you willing to allow them to see you as the villain or the hero of their story even when you know you are neither? This is a great month to anchor into who you are and let that be all you need.

This is a big month for fine-tuning your skillset around being uncomfortable. For fine tuning your relationship with your own magic and getting real about your willingness to grow from discomfort...

or you could fall prey to the oh so human condition of complaining about it...

 Maybe you'll do both.

THE ASTROLOGY WE COVER:

October 3 — Venus stations retrograde in Scorpio
Begins the 40-day Venus retrograde journey around desire, relationships, values, pleasure, intimacy, and worthiness.

October 6 — New Moon in Libra
A Venus-ruled New Moon emphasizing balance, relationships, and intentions, with Venus retrograde adding a deeper layer of reflection and recalibration.

October 12–18 — Pluto stations direct in Aquarius
Themes of power, transformation, control, intensity, and the collective come forward as Pluto begins moving direct.

October 23–24 — Sun enters Scorpio + Mercury stations retrograde
Scorpio season begins, followed by Mercury retrograde—a potent combination for revisiting communication, plans, perceptions, and what’s happening beneath the surface.

October 26 — Full Moon in Taurus
A deeply embodied Full Moon bringing themes around security, the body, worth, emotional triggers, projection, and staying rooted in who you know yourself to be.

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When was the last time you looked in the mirror and believed you were worthy of the life you actually want?

Or walked through the woods and remembered, even for a second, that you belong here?

September is asking us to turn down the noise and come back to what’s actually ours.

This month’s Astrology + Akashic Forecast is an invitation to cultivate the skill of discernment: What deserves your attention? What are you carrying that was never yours? What do you value enough to protect, tend to and actually build your life around?

With Venus moving through her shadow ahead of October’s retrograde, questions around desire, worth, relationships and values begin bubbling to the surface.

Meanwhile, Virgo season brings us down to earth: tend to the details, have the conversation you've been avoiding, read the fine print, check the spreadsheet, make the decision you're circling. Less obsessing over everything happening out there. More tending to the life directly in front of you.

We move through a month of discernment, details, action, relationship recalibration and finally a little more play.

In this Episode Meg & Stevie dive into:

• Venus, desire + worthiness
• The Virgo New Moon + Aries Full Moon
• Discernment and knowing what’s actually yours
• Relationships, boundaries + over-responsibility
• Getting out of overwhelm and back into your life
• Why September is asking you to slow the hell down

This month is about putting your energy, attention and care in the places you value most.

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What does it actually mean to moved like a matriarch?

In this episode, we’re taking another pass at the cross-section between reality, capacity & standards—and today, we’re focusing on capacity.

The reality is, our modern world is designed around a 24-hour model of capacity. But women experience shifts in energy, hormones and capacity throughout the month. We are not the same woman all month long. Heck, we’re likely not the same woman all day long.

So what happens when we hold ourselves to standards and expectations that don’t match our actual capacity?

I share the story of a client who had a huge vision for her business, but her energy was bleeding in a thousand different directions—to family, friends, coworkers and everyone else who needed something from her.

We dive into what happens when our energy is spread thin versus concentrated.

Because the answer isn't necessarily lowering the standard.

It’s facing reality.

You can still have the vision.

You can still want more.

But you have to build it with the woman who actually exists—not the imaginary version of you with unlimited time, energy and capacity.

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What if you’re not failing?

What if you’re measuring yourself against standards that don’t account for the reality of your life — or the actual capacity you have to meet it?

In this episode, Meg explores the invisible PhD of motherhood: raising humans while regulating yourself, tending relationships, carrying the mental load, pursuing meaningful work and somehow believing you should be doing all of it exceptionally well.

We’re talking about the crossroads between standards, reality + capacity — and why the answer isn’t necessarily to lower your standards.

Maybe it’s time to stop using your inability to do everything well, all at once as evidence that you’re failing.

In this episode: motherhood as PhD-level work, the difference between standards and capacity, invisible labor, the “I should be doing more” trap, and a different way to measure whether you’re actually doing a good job.

Failure, Motherhood and the PhD You Didn’t Know You Were Working On.

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Everything changes!! A nodal shift, two Eclipse's & a whole lot of opportunity.  

August = a threshold month.

This month you're being invited to stop talking about the life you're building and start living like the woman or man you've been becoming. 

In this Akashic & Astrology forecast, resident astrologer Stevie Calista & host, Meg Thompson walk you through the energetic themes of August week by week—from grounding into the practices that actually sustain your humanity, to navigating revelations, embracing small miracles, and integrating everything you've shed so you can step fully into what's next.

The question isn't What will happen?

The question is:

Who are you willing to become when it does?

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Two Eclipse's & a whole lot of opportunity.  August = a threshold month.

This month you're being invited to stop talking about the life you're building and start living like the woman or man you've been becoming. 

In this Akashic & Astrology forecast, resident astrologer Stevie Calista & host, Meg Thompson walk you through the energetic themes of August week by week—from grounding into the practices that actually sustain your humanity, to navigating revelations, embracing small miracles, and integrating everything you've shed so you can step fully into what's next.

The question isn't What will happen?

The question is:

Who are you willing to become when it does?

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This isn't a month to force your way forward. July invites you to activate your inner silly goose and whimsical bitch.

It's an invitation to come home. Not the place you live, but to the place within yourself where safety, belonging, and devotion are cultivated.

This is  a month to fortify your inner home, tend to what truly matters, and discover that your greatest strength comes from the way you care for yourself before trying to carry everyone else.

Main Themes:

• Fortify Your Inner Home – Why real stability begins within, and how tending to your emotional home changes everything else.
• Pressure or Presence? – The subtle ways "have tos" and "shoulds" disconnect us from ourselves—and how to return to what's right in front of you.
• Expect the Unexpected – Uranus and Mars bring surprising shifts that may ask you to change course through action rather than control.
• The Gifts Hidden in Plain Sight – Why this month asks you to attune yourself to beauty, possibility, and the unexpected gifts life is already offering.
• The Cancer New Moon – A powerful invitation to plant new seeds around home, family, nourishment, emotional safety, and belonging.
• Dreams Into Reality – How Jupiter's trine to Neptune supports creativity, reinvention, trust, and bringing long-held visions into form.

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What if the very thing you've been praised for... Is the thing keeping you stuck in overwhelm?

This episode is SO SPECIAL.  No matter where you are in your journey as a woman...Hustling in your career in your 30's, running around like a chicken with your head cut off chasing toddlers.

Ending friendships that were more like emotional-vampire-ships in your 40's.

Finally figuring out money and investing in your future, buying homes, navigating the loss of a parent in your 40's and 50's and anywhere in between. 

This episode is an offering to the truth of what it means to be a woman in this world.

To carry what was never yours to carry.

To remember who you are at any age (including into your 60's) and find a sense of freedom you didn't even know was possible. 

In this episode I dive in with former 1:1 client Monica Woods. 

This is deeply personal conversation about how Monica healed six decades in 6 months. 

How she started to ask: "What is actually mine to carry?"

This is a front-row seat to the work we do together inside MATRIARCH.

In this episode, we explore:

• Why over-functioning often masquerades as love and leadership.
• The identity crisis that can come when motherhood, caregiving, or responsibility has defined who you are.
• The hidden cost of organizing your life around being indispensable.
• The difference between being an enabler and being an example.
• How grounding yourself in other people keeps you disconnected from yourself.
• Why pressure isn't the way of the matriarch—capacity is.
• What it means to become unavailable for what was never yours to carry.
• How changing one woman changes a marriage, a family, and the generations that follow.

A question to sit with:

What am I still carrying that was never mine to carry?

And...

What becomes possible when I finally put it down?

Ready for your own MATRIARCH era?

MATRIARCH is my six-month 1:1 mentorship and community journey for the woman who's done building her life through pressure, over-functioning, resentment, self-abandonment, and proving.

This isn't another self-improvement program.

It's an initiation into matriarchal leadership.

A place where you learn what is and isn't yours to carry.

Where your presence begins reorganizing your relationships more than your effort ever could.

Where you stop surviving your life...

...and begin leading it.

If this conversation felt less like a podcast and more like someone putting words to an experience you've been carrying for years, I have a feeling MATRIARCH is calling you too.

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This is a month of movement, experimentation, and meeting life directly rather than trying to think your way through it.

This isn't a month to prepare for your life. It's a month to participate in it. To stop waiting for more clarity, more confidence, or more permission—and begin moving like the woman you're becoming instead.

Stevie Calista and Meg Thompson weave the Akashic Forecast with the Astrology of the month to create a map for the energy ahead.

Main Topics:

From Insight to Action – As Jupiter completes its final weeks in Gemini, you're invited to stop endlessly collecting information and begin trusting what you've already learned through lived experience.

Building Through Embodiment – With Venus, Mercury, and Jupiter activating Cancer, this month asks you to create from a place of nourishment, emotional honesty, and connection rather than pressure, performance, or survival.

Questioning the Rules – As Saturn and Neptune travel through Aries, old identities, assumptions, and inherited expectations are being challenged so that something more authentic can emerge.

Leadership Through Participation – With Pluto continuing its retrograde journey through Aquarius and the Summer Solstice illuminating a new season of growth, you're asked to stop observing your life from the sidelines and fully enter the arena of your becoming.

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This month begins and ends with a Full Moon, opening in Scorpio and closing in Sagittarius, guiding you from emotional truth into lived truth. With the Sun in Taurus, you’re asked to slow down, come back into your body, and get honest about what’s actually creating safety—and what’s just familiar.

As Mercury meets Chiron in Aries, old wounds around identity, voice, and self-abandonment may surface—not to break you, but to show you where you’ve been leaving yourself behind. And as Pluto stations retrograde in Aquarius, you’re invited to reclaim your power from the places you’ve been giving it away in order to belong.

This isn’t a month to fight for who you’ve been. It’s a month to tell the truth about what it’s costing you to stay there—and to begin choosing the woman you’re becoming instead.

Main Topics:

• The Cost of Staying the Same – With the Scorpio Full Moon, you may come face-to-face with the emotional truth of what you’ve been holding onto—and what it’s been costing you to keep defending it. 
• From Protection to Presence – Taurus season asks you to slow down, reconnect to your body, and build a sense of safety rooted in self-trust rather than control or avoidance. 
• Healing the Point of Self-Abandonment – As Mercury conjunct Chiron in Aries activates old identity wounds, you’re given the opportunity to speak, think, and choose differently—especially in the places you once left yourself. 
• Reclaiming Power + Choosing Truth – With Pluto retrograde in Aquarius and the closing Sagittarius Full Moon, you’re asked to take your power back from the collective and land in your own truth—even if it changes who or where you belong.

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