Step into a conversation that reimagines everything you thought you knew about astrology.

In this episode of The Mystical Underground, Rob and Trish MacGregor talk with British author and “real‑life Indiana Jones” Graham Phillips about his new book, *The Original Zodiac: What Ancient Astrology Reveals About You*—a reconstruction of an 18‑sign zodiac that predates the familiar 12‑sign system by thousands of years. Phillips explains how clues from ancient Mesopotamia and the carved animals of Göbekli Tepe led him to this lost zodiac, why its animal signs—like the Spider, Swan, Vulture, Mouflon, and Lioness—may describe personality traits with surprising accuracy, and how he used a blend of historical research and modern AI to test the patterns he found.

The discussion ranges from personal readings for the hosts based on their “original” signs to Phillips’s wider adventures tracking down relics behind the legends of the Holy Grail, King Arthur, Merlin’s possible voyage to North America, and the hidden purpose of Stonehenge as a prehistoric observatory and healing center. If you’re fascinated by ancient mysteries, synchronicity, or new ways to look at your own birth chart, this episode offers a rich mix of speculative history, investigative storytelling, and cosmic what‑ifs.

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Join Trish for the February 2026 astrological forecast...

February 2026 is a packed month in the skies, with fire-sign intensity, a rare historic conjunction, and the first Mercury retrograde of the year shaping the astrology for every sign. Trish MacGregor’s **Star** Power forecast walks you through the key transits and what they mean for your creativity, money, relationships, and long-term dreams.

Big February 2026 energies

- Full Moon in Leo on February 1 lights up creativity, communication, work, health, money, and partnerships depending on your sign, often bringing emotional closure or breakthroughs.

- A rare Saturn–Neptune conjunction at 0°45' Aries on February 20 occurs for the first time since 1703, blending structure and intuition and kicking off a powerful new cycle around leadership, vision, and spiritual growth.

- A solar eclipse in Aquarius on February 17 acts like a “double new moon,” opening doors in areas like career, networks, spirituality, home, and personal reinvention, while Uranus adds surprises and the need to watch for scams or too-good-to-be-true offers.

Mercury retrograde in Pisces

- Mercury turns retrograde in Pisces on February 25 (Pacific) and February 26 (Eastern), ending March 20, activating different houses for each sign—from career and income to partnerships, home, travel, and health.

- Trish emphasizes the “three R’s” for navigating this retro: **revise**, review, and reconsider, plus double-checking communication, contracts, travel plans, and digital life as miscommunications and delays are likely.

Highlights for each sign

- Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius get a strong push toward leadership, travel, creativity, teaching, and taking bold steps—if they respect rules, protocols, and timing.

- Taurus, Virgo, and Capricorn are asked to ground their intuition in practical strategies around income, home, career, health, and behind-the-scenes work, while staying alert for financial or professional “too good to be true” opportunities.

- Gemini, Libra, and Aquarius see shifts in networks, partnerships, communication style, and visibility, with chances to send a brand viral, step into politics, or completely reset personal trajectories.

- Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces navigate emotional and financial turning points, deepened intuition, and strong calls to honor their creative, spiritual, and inner life while managing retrograde-related mix-ups with travel, money, partners, and technology.

Why this month matters

- With Saturn entering Aries for a two-and-a-half-year stay, February sets the tone for new commitments in leadership, responsibility, and how each sign structures its ambitions.

- Coupled with Neptune in Aries and a potent Aquarius eclipse, the month invites you to align mystical insight with real-world strategy and to treat every delay, glitch, or miscommunication as a cue to slow down and listen to your inner guidance.

Charlie Hall joins The Mystical Underground to share how a lifetime of psychic sensitivity, haunted places, and uncanny synchronicities have shaped her path as a medium, musician, and rising paranormal filmmaker.

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Episode focus

The conversation traces Charlie’s journey from a “spooky child” in Northern Ireland who saw spirits, predicted events, and grew up amid ghostly household phenomena, to a working medium who now uses her abilities on paranormal investigations across the UK.

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She talks about her father, musician and druid Clive Culbertson, how Druidic ritual and stone circles deepened her connection to earth energies, and how music, writing, and film became creative outlets for those experiences.

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Spirit, death, and other realms

Charlie describes early encounters with apparitions, poltergeist-like activity, and a translucent crystal‑like being that appeared during meditation, including the physical sensations that convinced her these were not “just imagination.”

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She explains her current view of mediumship: consciousness and “spirit” as an energetic field where past, present, and future all coexist, and mediums tap into points in that field rather than simply talking to the dead in a traditional sense.

Haunted locations and the Black Nun

One highlight is Bonamargy Friary in Ballycastle, a ruined 16th‑century Franciscan site where Charlie feels pursued by unseen presences, hears children, and becomes fascinated with the legend of Julie McQuillen, the prophetic “Black Nun.”

She recounts local lore about McQuillen’s grave, eerie modern experiences on the grounds with her druid father, and research linking the friary to nearby Dunluce Castle—a place that felt uncannily familiar to her from childhood.

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Synchronicity, angels, and dream guidance

Synchronicities and repeating number patterns—especially 1‑1‑1—become a personal navigation system for Charlie, culminating in the day she asks angels for a sign and literally finds a small silver angel charm at her feet.

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She shares how following those signs and vivid “night visions” has led to songs, published horror fiction, and major life turns, echoing the show’s ongoing exploration of mind‑blowing synchronicities and creative inspiration from dreams.

New projects and where to find her

Charlie talks about writing for Haunted Magazine as a brand ambassador, contributing features on the paranormal and horror, and her expanding work in indie film as a sound recordist, assistant director, and on‑screen commentator.

She previews her role in the upcoming paranormal TV series “Haunt Me If You Can,” joining horror director Dean of the Dead, comedian Mike Fielding of The Mighty Boosh, and explorer Titchy Tiff to test a skeptic’s views at haunted sites, and shares where listeners can follow her as “HauntedCharlieHall” across social platforms.

Mystical Underground welcomes money consciousness coach and author Sarah McCrum for a deep dive into the surprising spiritual side of money and how it shapes our lives. Drawing on her channeled book "Love Money, Money Loves You," Sarah explains how she began receiving “messages from the energy of money,” why money is actually a beautiful, supportive energy, and why the first step in her “new blueprint” for making money is to forget everything you think you know about it.

- Why relaxing and enjoying life can actually help money flow more easily.

- How religious and cultural beliefs quietly wire fear, guilt, and “poverty consciousness” into our relationship with money.

- Why Sarah describes money as a beautiful, supportive energy that wants to work *with* you, not against you.

- Practical ways to treat money as a relationship, not just a number—especially around debt, work, and investing.

- What “true wealth” means when you blend purpose, wellbeing, and prosperity instead of choosing one over the other.

In this conversation, Sarah explores why so many people live in fear and stress around money, how religious and cultural teachings have hard‑wired poverty and guilt into our money stories, and how relaxation and enjoyment can actually help money flow more easily. [2] She and the hosts dig into hot‑button topics like Elon Musk, government waste, debt‑based economies, credit cards, crypto, and the global “affordability” narrative, while contrasting scarcity thinking with the lived experience of abundance.

Sarah also shares practical and provocative ideas for blending wealth with wellbeing: treating money as relationship, understanding debt as “borrowing other people’s energy,” choosing aligned work over soul‑crushing paydays, and using investing and business to support people and nature rather than exploit them. Along the way, she reframes true wealth as a set of “currencies," money, time, relationships, and wisdom, all grounded in wellbeing, and offers stories of readers who transformed their income and stability simply by changing their relationship with money.

If you’ve ever felt conflicted about wanting money, worried you’ll never have enough, or curious whether it’s really possible to be both prosperous and spiritually grounded, this episode will challenge your assumptions and give you a very different way to think about value, abundance, and what money actually wants from you.

https://sarahmccrum.com/

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Rob and Trish MacGregor, along with producer and “disembodied voice” of Jon, talk with Colorado artist and author Ken Elliott, whose book *Manifesting 1-2-3… and you don’t need 3* is based on more than two decades of collecting real-world stories that show how thoughts literally take form in the non-physical and then materialize in our lives. Ken shares how out-of-body explorer William Buhlman and the extraordinarily gifted Judy Goodman opened his eyes to what he calls the “behind-the-scenes” mechanics of manifestation, including Judy’s ability to actually see thought-forms building on the other side like wisps of smoke congealing into solid objects.

Ken explains why repeated thoughts, whether loving intentions or persistent worries, start as vaporous constructs in the non-physical, gradually becoming more three-dimensional until they “cross over” into physical experience, and how gratitude acts like a power boost that clears fear and accelerates these creations. He tells some remarkable stories: sending Judy a simple yellow rose in a silver vase in thought that arrived to her in spirit, “dipped in gold”; watching a business plan on the other side revert from nearly complete form back to smoke when he gave up on it; children effortlessly manifesting what they want, like a golden retriever that appeared in the family’s life within a week.

The conversation dives into health and “miracles,” including cases where glaucoma, officially labeled “not curable” on mainstream medical sites, simply disappeared after people created clear inner “movies” of a future where the condition was no longer a problem. Ken also talks about near-impossible misses in car accidents, why there’s “no time” in the non-physical and what that means for future creation, and how communities and belief systems on the other side can mirror what people cling to here.

Ken breaks down his simple framework:

1: Make a vivid movie of your desired future, without over-specifying every detail so the energy can find the most efficient path to you.

2: Take real-world action on your fears so they don’t tangle up your intentions “like a spider web” over your manifestations.

3: Recognize that you actually don’t need “step three” because you already are the power—far larger and more loving on the other side than you can imagine here.

From Paris café daydreams to life plans, past lives, and why “you’re always in your plan” even when life feels off the rails, this episode offers both practical tools and mind-bending stories about how consciously directing thought can change health, money, stress, and everyday experience.

Learn more about Ken’s work, his newsletter, and hundreds of manifestation stories at https://www.manifesting123.com, and see his art at https://www.kenelliott.com

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Steve Rother joins Trish and Rob for a deeply personal, mind-bending conversation about why we incarnate, how “the Group” first came through, and what it really means to be a spirit pretending to be human.

Steve Rother is a pioneering spiritual teacher, channel, and author known for his work with non-physical beings he calls “the Group.” A former general contractor who “went kicking and screaming” into metaphysics, Steve has spent the last three decades teaching worldwide, including five live channels at the United Nations in Vienna and New York. He and his wife traveled the globe for 15 years offering workshops, private sessions, and trainings that help people access their own intuitive and channeling abilities. His latest book, Spiritual Psychology: The Twelve Primary Life Lessons, explores how to understand everyday challenges from a spiritual perspective.

In this episode, Steve shares the powerful New Year’s Eve beach ceremony that cracked him open to the Group and instantly redirected his life from construction projects to global spiritual work. He explains how his channeling began in old-school internet chat rooms, evolved into books translated into multiple languages, and eventually took him to the UN, where delegates asked questions about everything from Kosovo to planetary evolution.

The conversation ranges from soul contracts and past lives to multidimensional realities, the rising feminine, and why we are “spiritual beings trying to cope with being human” rather than humans looking for a spiritual experience. Steve unpacks the Group’s teachings on why we choose our parents, lovers, and even our most painful experiences, and how trauma can be reframed so it loses its grip and becomes a source of power.

Trish, Rob, and Steve dive into simultaneous lifetimes, the multiverse, and what the Mandela Effect might reveal about thinning walls between dimensions. They also explore extraterrestrials as “extra-dimensional” beings (EDs), nuclear interference by advanced civilizations, and the idea that some ET races function as humanity’s parental line. The discussion then turns to AI, anti-gravity tech, quantum and ternary computing, and why Steve believes we are on the verge of a massive technological and spiritual leap.

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Susan Browne is a spiritual and wellbeing coach with over a decade of experience helping others connect with angels and raise their vibration. A teacher of the Diana Cooper School of White Light and qualified Guild of Energists trainer, she has developed her own intuitive style of tapping into the guidance of angels. The author of Angel EFT, Susan has a passion for nature and lives in County Kerry, Ireland.

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Arthur Versluis, Ph.D., is the founder and president of the Hieros Institute, a nonprofit dedicated to restoring the sacred to modern life. Formerly Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at Michigan State University, he is the author of numerous acclaimed books, including Sacred Earth and The Secret History of Western Sexual Mysticism. His latest book is Alchemical Lightwork: A Guide to Creating Cultures of Light and Spiritual Awakening. In it, Arthur blends ancient alchemy with the modern practice of lightwork to offer a bold roadmap for personal and cultural awakening.

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3 Souls Paranormal from Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania. Their paranormal investigation team consists of Scott Nolte, Frank Cirri, Mark Castner and Rob Thomas. They have investigated some of the most haunted cemeterys, asylums, and prisons. They continue to bring evidence they capture for everyone to see.

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