The Designed Life

After weeks of intense astrological build-up, the Spring Equinox opens the door to a new astrological year, and this one feels unmistakably different. With the Sun entering Aries and immediately activating Saturn and Neptune in Aries for the first time, we’re stepping into the seeding of an entirely new collective storyline around identity, leadership, and selfhood. If the last few weeks have felt...

I’m so excited to share this conversation with cultural philosopher, strategist, and fascinating human, Chelsea Riffe ✨ This episode is a deep dive into curiosity, original thinking, and what it means to develop your own philosophy in a world that constantly tells us what and how to think. We talk about why curiosity is being quietly trained out of us, how endless inputs (social media, AI, media...

The meaning of what's come to be known as your "Big Three" is a bit illusive, so in tihs episode, I break down how to synthesize your Rising, Sun, and Moon in your natal chart as an entry point to deeper self-understanding. Rather than reducing astrology to personality stereotypes, I reframes these major placements as an energetic blueprint: Rising sign → your motivating life force a...

March is a powerful month, and much of that power comes from the lunations. This month activates the Pisces–Virgo axis , illuminating the ongoing eclipse dialogue between intuition, belief, imagination, and surrender (Pisces) and discernment, embodiment, systems, and practical care (Virgo). This axis teaches us how to zoom all the way out and all the way in — and how to let those perspectives info...

Welcome Pisces season! Pisces season of 2026 is a PACKED season, friends! As a continuation of Aquarius season, we also have the continuation of eclipses, the official culmination of the Saturn-Neptune conjunction, a Mercury retrograde in Pisces, and Jupiter stationing direct. This season is messy, confusion, and ultimately asks us – what can you rely on when you don’t have all the information? Wh...

Today I’m sharing an intimate, embodied conversation I had with somatic life coach Kayleigh Martin about connection, integration, and staying human in polarized times. What begins as a reflection on instant relational depth expands into a rich dialogue on somatics, trauma, lineage, power, and the radical act of weaving – rather than rejecting – the fragmented parts of ourselves. Kayleigh and I exa...

What creates safety? Safety is defined as: the condition of being protected from or unlikely to cause danger, risk, or injury. But what are the components that actually create a sense of safety in a person’s life? And how do we continue to create it in the midst of world that is constantly changing, and feeling less safe and secure. In this episode I discuss 5 main components that add to a experie...

February is a powerful month – perhaps THE MOST powerful month of the year, and part of that power comes from the lunations. This month activates the Leo–Aquarius axis, spotlighting the tension and dialogue between individual identity, leadership, and self-expression (Leo) and collective responsibility, systems, and humanitarian vision (Aquarius). We open the month on February 1 with a Full Moon i...

Welcome Aquarius season! Aquarius season of 2026 is framed as one of the most intense energetic hotspots of the year, marked by collective upheaval, systemic change, and powerful moments of unity and care. This is a season where disruption and innovation coexist—where old ways of thinking fracture while new ideas, identities, and collective visions begin to crystallize. At its core, this season in...

This week I chat with the content queen herself Xanthe Appleyard! Our conversation explores what it means to lead, create, and build sustainably – from a foundation of pleasure and self-trust. Xanthe shares the organic evolution of her “ leisure ethic ” – a values-based framework rooted in autonomy, integration, and choice. Although I wanted to explore all of Xanthe’s 12 principles, in 60 minutes...

In this new style of episode I'm sharing an overarching view of the astrological energetics of Q1 so that you can approach the first three months of the year with an broad sense of how the energy will flow. For each month I also share a creative practice, somatic practice, and meditation or reflection suggestion to support you in the month ahead – all are listed below for easy reference. My ho...

*Time stamps are available below so you can jump ahead to your sign.* 2026 is a pivotal year that piggy backs on so much of the change that was seeded in 2025. For all of us we’re going to be experiencing a ramping up in our communication, a willful desire to be wholly our weird, wild, rebellious, and contrarian selves, and ultimately we’ll be ending the year having shed many protective layers to...

January offers us a chance to balance our relationships to our bodies and felt experience with our work and our desire to turn ideas into reality. The Full Moon in Cancer 13º on January 3rd is very concerned with our relationship to our felt experience. There’s an opportunities to look back on the last 6 months and year to assess how our relationships to our bodies, nourishment, and collective car...

Welcome Winter and Capricorn season! This season is here to help us get deliberate and purposeful with our energy, our ambitions, and what how we plan to work with 2026. We wrap up the end of the year and we start the year with a sense of the familiar. There’s a pull towards the past – past ways of operating, building, old dreams and ambitions. There’s a feeling that what worked before must work a...

Brand strategist and wonderfully inspiring Ylani Estwick joins me today for a conversation about building from an intuitive and heart-center vision, and cultivating motivation by leaning in to your purpose. Ylani shares her journey of transitioning from a decade-long copywriting career into a more intuitive, purpose-led business rooted in authenticity and inner alignment. She discusses how persona...

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 an...

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 askin...

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...

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...

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 fram...

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...

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 so...

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 st...

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: ​It starts with you – reclamation ​Know w...

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, a...