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From Doubt to Intuitive Clarity II: Following Your North Star

This episode continues our listener-favorite series on moving from doubt into intuitive clarity—but this time, we’re going deeper. We’re exploring the archetype of the North Star: the part of you that remembers who you’re here to become long before you feel ready to embody it.
We’ll look at the North Node through both astrology and Human Design—the signs, houses, gates, and lines that shape your soul’s direction—and how this energy acts as a compass for your intuition. I share why embracing your North Star can feel both strangely familiar and profoundly uncomfortable, and how your conditioning, nervous system, and past identities can make it difficult to hear the guidance that’s been whispering all along.
If you’ve ever felt pulled toward something you couldn’t explain, wrestled with the tension between who you’ve been and who you’re becoming, or found yourself caught in the trap of “fixing” instead of evolving, this conversation will help you reconnect to the deeper wisdom already moving through your life. Your North Star isn’t a destination—it’s a relationship. And when you learn how to orient toward it, doubt loses its power and intuitive clarity finally has room to land.
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Conversations: Bridging Therapy and Soul Work with Judy Crooknorth

In this conversation with my Celtic Shamanic practitioner peer Judy Crooknorth, we get real about what it takes to hold sacred space—without making clients carry our unfinished stories. Judy is a trained therapist and intuitive healer, and together we unpack the gritty middle ground where nervous-system repair meets soul work: how to tell when a pattern is emotional vs. spiritual, why discernment matters more than “quick fixes,” and the lifelong practice of becoming a neutral vessel for healing.
We talk boundaries (saying no when you’re not the right fit), the savior archetype and ego checks, and why embodiment is the point—those moments when a client stops mid-sentence and says, “That’s not my voice anymore.” We also wander the Celtic Wisdom Wheel, reframe the Void (from terror to pure potential), and trade very human rituals for finding beauty in the mundane.
What you’ll hear
How to discern spiritual roots vs. emotional expression (and why it’s often both)
Soul retrieval, power retrieval, and why talking about change isn’t the same as embodying it
Ethics in spiritual practice: trauma literacy, referrals, and refusing the “one-weekend shaman” myth
Working with the savior complex without burning your work—or your people—down
The Void as fertile ground + seasonal medicine from the Celtic wheel
It’s an honest, grounded look at the intersection of therapy, spirituality, and the courage it takes to walk beside others without losing yourself.
Links to Judy’s podcast & IG below:
Judy on IG – The Seer and Shaman
Judy's Podcast on Spotify - The Seer's Sanctuary
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November's Energy Mix: Cathartic Wisdom Arrives

November hums with electricity meeting water, emotion meeting revelation.Uranus dominates the sky, opposing Mars, Mercury, and Venus, shaking loose what’s become rigid while the Grand Water Trine softens what resists. It’s not chaos — it’s movement. Energy wants to flow again. Mercury’s retrograde from Sagittarius back into Scorpio turns the mind inward, and Saturn’s station direct in Pisces at month’s end grounds what’s been shifting into lived understanding.
Through the Human Design lens, November’s story unfolds through the Quarter of Mutation — the season of transformation and creative renewal. We begin in Gate 44, the Gate of Alertness, where instinct notices the echo of the past and the wisdom tucked inside it. Then the Sun steps into Gate 1, the Gate of Self-Expression, opening the door to individuality and authentic creation. Gate 43 follows with insight and epiphany — sudden clarity that interrupts old mental loops. Gate 14 moves that awareness into embodied purpose: using power with integrity, not pressure. Gate 34, the Gate of Power, translates that strength through the body — vitality in motion. And Gate 9 closes the month with focus and devotion, turning revelation into rhythm.
Together, these gates mirror the sky’s tension — Uranus as Trickster, the Water Trine as Alchemist — teaching that true mutation doesn’t happen in isolation. It happens when feeling and awareness meet, when instinct becomes creativity, and when the body becomes the bridge between electricity and emotion.
November is a month of cathartic wisdom — not the flash of awakening, but the steady current of transformation that rewires you from the inside out.
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Finding Your Voice: Power, Timing, Mercury & the Throat Center

Everyone’s talking about “finding your voice,” but most people are forcing it.In Human Design, the Throat Center isn’t just about communication — it’s the bridge between energy and manifestation, where truth becomes sound and sound becomes creation.
In this episode, we explore how your voice moves through timing, not pressure — and how your Mercury placement reveals the unique way your truth wants to be expressed. You’ll learn why silence is part of your voice, how to tell when you’re forcing vs. flowing, and three ways to work with your Throat energy so your words actually land.
Because your voice isn’t something to perform — it’s something to remember.
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The Myth of Willpower: Rethinking Motivation Through Your HD Will Center

This episode takes an honest look at the myth of willpower — how we’ve been conditioned to measure our worth through effort — and what it really means to work with your energy instead of against it.
Through the lens of the Will Center — the heart of commitment, promises, and worth — we’ll explore how both defined and undefined Wills experience motivation, procrastination, and integrity differently. I share how the Will’s tribal circuitry reveals our ancestral relationship with power and reciprocity, and how shamanic wisdom reframes willpower as sacred exchange rather than endless proving.
If you’ve ever felt guilty for not being “disciplined enough,” pushed through when your heart wasn’t in it, or confused procrastination for failure, this conversation will help you understand what your energy is really saying.Because true willpower isn’t about force — it’s about alignment, honesty, and keeping promises your spirit actually made.
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From Doubt to Intuitive Clarity: Learning to Trust What You Already Know

This episode takes an honest look at doubt—how it disguises itself as logic, caution, or control—and what it takes to move beyond it into true intuitive clarity.
With the Sun moving through Gate 57 — Unease, Intuition, Clarity — we’ll explore how this frequency heightens instinct and tests self-trust. I share why this gate is deeply personal for me as someone who carries both Gate 57 and the 57-10 Channel of Perfected Form, and how your Human Design, Gene Keys, and nervous-system patterns reveal where your intuition gets drowned out by fear.
If you’ve ever second-guessed a gut feeling, over-analyzed a truth you already knew, or mistaken anxiety for intuition, this conversation will help you reconnect to the quiet authority of your own body. Doubt isn’t failure—it’s the fog before clarity.
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October's Energy Mix: Regeneration, Intuition & Rooted Wisdom

October carries the energy of regeneration — less about spectacle, more about integration. Mercury’s move into Scorpio sharpens conversations to the bone while the Aries Full Moon lights a fire of bold clarity. Venus and Jupiter open a pocket of sweetness, then Venus shifts into Libra as Pluto turns direct, recalibrating relationships and surfacing transformation. The Sun’s tension with Jupiter reminds us that growth isn’t always about going bigger, while Mercury’s conjunction with Mars brings words with sharp edges. A triple threshold follows: the Libra New Moon inviting new balance, Venus retrograding into Pisces to stir old stories, and the Sun’s descent into Scorpio — the season of endings becoming compost. Mercury’s move into Sagittarius widens vision, and the month closes under a Grand Water Trine, where intuition, emotion, and spirit flow together in deeper currents.
Through the Human Design lens, we move from Gate 18’s refinement into Gate 48’s well of depth, followed by Gate 57’s intuitive clarity. Gate 32 carries us into continuity and legacy, Gate 50 calls us back to values and balance, Gate 28 tests meaning through risk, and Gate 44 closes the month with the alertness to patterns and the possibility of re-weaving.
October is a month of regeneration. Eclipse season cleared the field; now the gates and transits walk us through the archetypal arc of Refinement, Intuitive Wisdom, and Sustainable Roots.
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6 Ways Human Design Helps You Choose Integrity Over People-Pleasing

This episode takes an honest look at people-pleasing through the lens of Human Design. Where do we bend, over-correct, or shrink ourselves just to keep others comfortable — and what does it cost us?
With the Sun moving through Gate 18 — Judgment, Integrity, Perfection — we’ll explore how this energy reveals the fracture of pleasing others and the gift of standing whole. I share why this gate is personal for me and how your design and astrology show the subtle ways people-pleasing hides in authority, profile, and open centers.
If you’ve ever traded integrity for approval, this conversation will help you see judgment not as a weapon but as a compass — guiding you back to resonance and wholeness.
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Solar Eclipse in Virgo: Culmination and Emergence

This episode dives into the September 21st Solar Eclipse in Virgo. With the Sun and Moon meeting in Gate 46 — the Gate of the Determination of the Self — this eclipse pulls us out of the mind and back into the body. It asks us to stop treating life like a burden to carry and start experiencing it as something alive in every step.
We’re standing at a culmination point, with the South Node close by, showing us the old Virgo habits that have to go — the over-functioning, the self-critique, the chase for perfection that drains joy. Mercury hosts the eclipse, sharpening communication both within and without, while Saturn’s opposition demands that what begins here is sustainable. Add Venus in Virgo squaring Uranus in Gemini, and the themes of devotion, disruption, and surprise are impossible to ignore.
This isn’t about reactivity. It’s about learning to respond from presence — to make choices rooted in the body instead of panic. And woven through it all is a reminder we rarely let ourselves claim: joy doesn’t have to be earned the hard way. Sometimes the easier path is the truer one.
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Building Your Spiritual Support Structure: The Three Cauldrons

I’ve been wanting to weave more shamanic insight into the podcast, and this episode is the first step. In a polarized, chaotic world where real spiritual support often feels thin, tending your inner life matters more than ever. When you show up from a more healed place, everyone benefits.
This week, I share the Celtic teaching of the Three Cauldrons from The Cauldron of Poesy: Coire Goiriath (Warming), Coire Ernmae (Motion), and Coire Sois (Wisdom). These aren’t chakras to “balance” but living vessels that can be full, tipped, or overturned. We’ll explore what each cauldron holds, their states at birth, and how sorrow and joy shape them over a lifetime.
You’ll also learn three simple ways to begin working with your own cauldrons — and I’ll share how I support people through this work in my 1:1 offering, Healing Through the Labyrinth.
The book I recommended in the episode is Rhonda McCrimmon's The Cauldron and the Drum: A Journey into Celtic Shamanism
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