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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. JOIN THE MEMBERSHIP HERE - and get access to this month's practice to anchor into who you are. BOOK A 1:1 Akashic Session - HERE BOOK a 1:1 Astrology Session with Stevie - HERE Send us a message and let us know what you love about this episode Work with Meg: www.Megthompson.com

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 + worthinessThe Virgo New Moon + Aries Full MoonDiscernment and knowing what’s actually yoursRelationships, boundaries + over-responsibilityGetting out of overwhelm and back into your lifeWhy September is asking you to slow the hell downThis month is about putting your energy, attention and care in the places you value most. LINKS: Audio Reading with Stevie - CLICK HERE $7 Energy work & Weekly forecast - CLICK HERE Send us a message and let us know what you love about this episode Work with Meg: www.Megthompson.com

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. Episode link - Hot, Holy & Hormonal - Click here  Send us a message and let us know what you love about this episode Work with Meg: www.Megthompson.com

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. Send us a message and let us know what you love about this episode Work with Meg: www.Megthompson.com

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? Want the energy work practice that accompanies this forecast? Join the membership for $7 a month. CLICK HERE. Send us a message and let us know what you love about this episode Work with Meg: www.Megthompson.com

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.. If you're feeling called into deeper support, MATRIARCH and private 1:1 mentorship are now open. Links to both are included below. LINKS to work with Meg: $7 Energy work practice & weekly forecast - CLICK HERE Matriarch group mentorship program - CLICK HERE THE ONE 1:1 mentorship with Meg - CLICK HERE to book a medicinal sales call Send us a message and let us know what you love about this episode Work with Meg: www.Megthompson.com

The Women Who Carry Everything Rarely Change Their Lineage 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. ➡️ Learn more and join us here: www.megthompson.com ➡️ Book a medicinal sales call here: BOOK YOUR CALL Send us a message and let us know what you love about this episode Work with Meg: www.Megthompson.com

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. Connect with Stevie: CLICK HERE Join DECIDED - https://meaghanthompson.podia.com/decided Send us a message and let us know what you love about this episode Work with Meg: www.Megthompson.com

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. Join DECIDED - Click here Send us a message and let us know what you love about this episode Work with Meg: www.Megthompson.com

If you’re still trying to “figure out who you are” before you move… this month is going to make you very uncomfortable. April brings a powerful shift from reflection into motion. This month invites you to recalibrate to what’s real for you now, release outdated identities, and begin taking bold, embodied action toward the life you’ve been circling since last October. With fire building and momentum returning, this is about turning insight into movement—without abandoning your depth. Main Topics Recalibration & Identity Shift – Letting go of who you were and orienting to who you are now, without shame or nostalgia. From Emotional Overwhelm to Embodied Action – Moving through energetic noise, reclaiming your agency, and taking aligned, grounded steps forward. Play, Paradox & Personal Power – Reintroducing play, navigating ambiguity, and softening into a more creative, self-led way of moving through life. WANT MORE? • This episode pairs well with - THE SECRET HEIST Done kicking the dream down the road waiting for when you feel ready? Book a 1:1 Mobilize Session with Meg Thompson CLICK HEREWant to work with Meg 1:1? Schedule a call CLICK HERE STEVIE CALISTA links: Website - CLICK HERE Instagram - CLICK HERE Send us a message and let us know what you love about this episode Work with Meg: www.Megthompson.com

What if there was a framework for reclaiming agency in a world that constantly tries to hijack our attention, emotions, and power? There is:   It's one part feminine cunning a dollop of secrecy as strategy 2 parts nervous system leadership   Mix well with a selenite wand and weave into your aura to become truly ungovernable in a time where the collective is constantly trying to pull us into reaction.   Want the step-by-step audio recipe?   Tune into the latest episode. Main Topics • A Lineage of Power – The ancient lineage of women who once held structural world-shaping influence — and how that sovereignty was gradually hijacked over time. • Reclaiming What Was Stolen – Why we may be living at the edge of a cultural correction where women are remembering their agency. • The Lost Arc of Feminine Leadership – Maiden, Mother, Enchantress, Crone — and the cultural erasure of eldered feminine wisdom. • The Illusion of Power “At the Top” – How modern systems concentrate power and why meaningful change often begins in small, decentralized worlds. • Beyond the Fantasy of Saving the World – Moving from idealistic change-making into grounded, mature leadership. • Reclaiming Eros & Instinct – Letting go of performing goodness and reconnecting with instinct, creativity, and life force. • Nervous System Leadership – The difference between reacting while hijacked and responding from a grounded seat of knowing. • Danger & Instinct – Learning to act like a predator in nature: decisive, protective, and led by instinct. • Strategic Visibility – Why Lisa created the “Glitch Witch” persona and how identity can act as energetic protection. • Encoding Your Work – Communicating in ways that resonate deeply with the right people while remaining invisible to others. • Legacy & Generational Wealth – Expanding the definition of wealth beyond money into agency, emotional inheritance, leadership, and the worlds we leave behind. Links to connect with The Glitch Witch, Lisa: www.theglitchwitch.com https://www.instagram.com/the.glitch.witch Send us a message and let us know what you love about this episode Work with Meg: www.Megthompson.com

In this episode, Meg Thompson sits down with Sam Nacman to explore what it means to stand on a legacy threshold — no longer who you were, not yet fully who you’re becoming.  Together, they unpack initiation, responsibility, and what it means to build your life and work with end-of-life vision — not just end-of-year goals. This conversation dives into building without elders, the risks of using powerful modern platforms without containment, and why pace — not speed — is the medicine of this moment.  They simplify Human Design back to its core (your energy type is about how your aura functions, not your personality) and explore deconditioning as a lived practice, not an information addiction. If you’re in the dark room before what’s next — feeling the pull toward deeper architecture, patience, and legacy — this episode will meet you there. Get the Weekly Akashic Forecast in your inbox every week — grounded guidance to navigate collective pressure without losing yourself.  Visit: https://megthompson.myflodesk.com/2025forecast If this episode meets you in the dark room before what’s next — you’re not alone. The seat isn’t gone.  It’s waiting. Connect with Sam: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/intheforgottenseat/ Here is a link to The Artist's Way COHORT https://intheforgottenseat.as.me/theartistsway Receive 15% off an Initial Human Design Reading with SAM using code TCLTCL15. Here is the booking link:  https://intheforgottenseat.as.me/initialhumandesign Send us a message and let us know what you love about this episode Work with Meg: www.Megthompson.com

Feel like you're standing in the “dark room before what’s next?” this episode is your map. The month of March is a turning point.  We’re standing at the end of the zodiac (Pisces) and the birth point of Aries — with eclipses, Mercury retrograde, and Saturn + Neptune sitting at zero degrees. This is the reset. The rebirth. The moment where something must end so something new can begin. If you’ve been feeling tired and wired… shedding but unsure how to move forward… this episode will help you understand why. Inside this forecast, we break down: The Virgo South Node Lunar Eclipse — what you’re being asked to release (especially control and over-functioning)Jupiter moving direct — reconnecting to your deeper truth and “why”The Pisces New Moon + Equinox — nature’s true new year and a powerful clarity pointSun conjunct Saturn — taking responsibility and starting before you feel readyVenus + Chiron — worthiness, confidence, and healing through honest conversationThe theme of the month: Decentralizing the Other. No one is coming to save you. This is about self-mastery, agency, and using your voice differently. You’ll leave this episode knowing: What this intense in-between energy actually meansWhere to focus your energy each weekHow to move from shedding into grounded action Send us a message and let us know what you love about this episode Work with Meg: www.Megthompson.com

In this February Akashic & Astrology Forecast, with resident Astrologer Stevie Calista, we explore the powerful reminder that you are the medicine—the antidote to overwhelm, collective anxiety, and rapid global change. This episode breaks down February’s astrology, eclipses, and major planetary shifts in tangible, grounded, and practical ways, helping you understand how to work with the energy in real life—your body, your relationships, your home, and your daily choices. Main Topics February Astrology Forecast: You Are the Medicine – How grounding into small, embodied moments becomes the most powerful response to collective intensity and technological acceleration.Aquarius Season, Eclipses & Collective Pressure – What it means to care about the collective without emotionally bypassing yourself, and how to stay rooted in what you can influence.Practical Astrology You Can Use – Saturn, Neptune, Venus, eclipses, and Mercury retrograde explained in clear, usable language so you can apply the insights to your nervous system, creativity, intimacy, and decision-making.Want more?  Go deeper with the Year-Ahead Forecast Companion Guide—mapped by quarter so you can plan your year with clarity and presence. Includes the Year-Ahead Forecast, a full 19-page transmission, and an energetic grounding and clearing practice to help you integrate and work with this year’s energy. - CLICK HEREThe Year-Ahead Forecast with Stevie Calista goes even deeper - click here.Get the weekly Akashic Forecast delivered straight to your inbox every week: CLICK HERE Send us a message and let us know what you love about this episode Work with Meg: www.Megthompson.com

January Akashic & Astrology Forecast This episode is an invitation—not a push. January isn’t asking you to hustle, manifest, or figure it all out. It’s asking you to slow down, feel what’s real, and let something new take shape in the dark. In this episode, we explore January as the womb of the year—a liminal, watery threshold where endings complete, identities soften, and the future quietly begins forming beneath the surface. If you’ve felt overwhelmed by change, unsure how to move forward, or resistant to the pressure of “new year, new you,” this forecast will help you orient without forcing clarity. What This Episode Covers Why January is not a launching month—and why that’s a giftHow to work with the discomfort of the unknown instead of trying to escape itWhat Neptune’s final degree in Pisces means for your emotional and spiritual lifeHow slowness, grief, and softness are actually preparing you for what’s nextWhy your relationship to uncertainty now sets the tone for the entire yearSend us a message and let us know what you love about this episode Work with Meg: www.Megthompson.com