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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 Important Links: Sign Up For the Weekly Forecast - CLICK HERE www.Megthompson.com Attuned - CLICK HERE Let's Connect on Instagram - CLICK HERE

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 Important Links: Sign Up For the Weekly Forecast - CLICK HERE www.Megthompson.com Attuned - CLICK HERE Let's Connect on Instagram - CLICK HERE

2026 is an Air + Fire year—and nothing stays the same. This is a cycle of rapid movement, innovation, and recalibration.  Perspective shifts. Energy accelerates. Action replaces hesitation. Some of you will feel lit up by the momentum.  Others may feel disoriented by how little control exists outside of you. This year asks for flexibility over certainty, intuition over overthinking, and embodied leadership over waiting for the perfect plan. Air changes how we think. Fire demands that we move. You’re being invited into a new relationship with uncertainty—one where discomfort becomes capacity and stillness becomes strategy. Innovation won’t come from force. It will come from presence, discernment, and the willingness to act before the full picture is visible. In this episode, we explore: Why 2026 is a catalytic year of innovation and changeHow air and fire energy push you to think differently and act boldlyWhat it means to lead when timelines dissolve and intuition matters more than certaintyHow to stay grounded while everything acceleratesThis isn’t about predicting outcomes.  It’s about building the internal structure to meet what’s coming. 🎧 Tune into this forecast to understand the energetic themes shaping 2026—and how to move with them instead of resisting them. You don’t need a perfect plan.  You need presence, adaptability, and the courage to begin. Let’s go. CLICK HERE to get the 2026 Akashic Record Companion: a 19-page PDF with monthly Akashic messages, a guided energy attunement, and the complete 2026 forecast—all in one place. CLICK HERE to connect with Stevie Calista and learn how you can work with her. Send us a message and let us know what you love about this episode Important Links: Sign Up For the Weekly Forecast - CLICK HERE www.Megthompson.com Attuned - CLICK HERE Let's Connect on Instagram - CLICK HERE

December is the ground shaking beneath your feet—the month where fantasy collides with reality and you realize just how much you’ve survived, and are ready  to thrive.   Big changes are coming down the pipe, the kind you look back on and say: I lived through that?  It’s time to show up with courage, devotion, and your big-girl  (or boy) pants. This month is all about themes, not timelines: THEME 1: Walking Into the Unknown This month opens by dragging you into the unlit corners of your potential. You’re not scared of the dark—you’re scared of your imagination. This is your work: meet the shadows, integrate them, and step into a new perspective as the Gemini Full Moon cracks your mind wide open. THEME 2: Feeling Everything Again Your senses switch from dim to technicolor. Let the tears flow, taste the joy, and soften the walls you’ve built around feeling. You incarnated to feel. Let yourself be human. Mars–Saturn pushes you into action while Neptune’s direct motion blurs the line between intuition and illusion. THEME 3: Celebrate Your Wins & Your Failures Throw yourself a failure party. Seriously. Reflect on what went beautifully and what went horribly wrong. Both matter. Both teach. Mars in Capricorn and the Sagittarius New Moon light a fire under your devotion—this is vision-making season. THEME 4: Quiet Illumination The solstice brings soft breakthroughs. Light returns, inside and out. Let the insights simmer without trying to make meaning too fast. Mercury–Neptune and Venus–Saturn might stir emotional tension, but it’s all clarity in disguise. THEME 5: Enter the Void The end of December is not for planning—it’s for dissolving. Rest. Bathe. Breathe. Sink into the darkness that births everything. The void is fertile. The answers live in the silence. January can wait. JOIN THE FANTASTICAL VOID - https://www.megthompson.com/the-fantastical-void Send us a message and let us know what you love about this episode Important Links: Sign Up For the Weekly Forecast - CLICK HERE www.Megthompson.com Attuned - CLICK HERE Let's Connect on Instagram - CLICK HERE

Conflict isn’t a failure. It’s an opportunity to use all that inner work you've been cultivating -  in relationship. It's where the rubber meets the road.  This week, Meg sits down with Lena Morgan, a woman who’s spent decades helping others feel seen—from birth rooms to boardrooms—to talk about what really happens when we stop avoiding the hard stuff. Inside this episode: Why we were never taught how to fight well (and how to change that).How to identify your Fight Language and stop taking everything so damn personally.What it means to move from peacekeeping to power—without losing connection.How inner work meets outer communication when emotions run high.Why every woman becomes a matriarch the moment she feels understood.If you’ve ever found yourself spiraling mid-conflict, this conversation will bring you back home to your body, your truth, and your capacity to connect—even in the fire. It's like I always say "Relationship is the Playground Of Transformation." Send us a message and let us know what you love about this episode Important Links: Sign Up For the Weekly Forecast - CLICK HERE www.Megthompson.com Attuned - CLICK HERE Let's Connect on Instagram - CLICK HERE

A cosmic roadmap for navigating November’s void with ease, grace, and a little cha cha. In this November 2025 Energy Update, we dive into the astrology and Akashic messages guiding you through Mercury retrograde, Scorpio season, and deep shadow work. This month isn’t asking you to do more—it’s asking you to let go. Stillness is your strategy, darkness is your teacher, and transformation is already underway. Resident astrologer Stevie Calista breaks down the cosmic shifts—Mercury retrograde in Scorpio, the New Moon’s call to reclaim your power, and Saturn’s push for grounded responsibility—while Meg weaves in the Akashic forecast for a roadmap to move through it all with ease, grace, and a little cha cha. In this episode: We get real about releasing control, softening into the unknown, and why the dark is actually your best teacher. What you’ll walk away with: Permission to pause (without guilt).Proof that peace ≠ complacency.A reminder that endings are medicine.A call to reclaim your energy.And a hot take: you don’t need to “fix” the void—just feel it.Send us a message and let us know what you love about this episode Important Links: Sign Up For the Weekly Forecast - CLICK HERE www.Megthompson.com Attuned - CLICK HERE Let's Connect on Instagram - CLICK HERE

If Part 1 cracked open what it means to move from Superwoman to Matriarch, this episode dives into the fire and responsibility of actually embodying her. Motherhood initiates you—but the matriarch is forged in the flames of maturity, devotion, and surrender. This isn’t about doing more, it’s about becoming the rooted, embodied woman your family’s frequency depends on. In Part 2: Embodying the Matriarch, we explore: The initiation that begins when you let the maiden die.How culture’s obsession with agelessness keeps women stuck in survival.The sacred power of personal responsibility—not over-functioning, not detaching, but standing in self-trust.The 3 C’s of matriarchal stewardship.The truth that your nervous system is your altar—and your wellbeing shapes your family’s entire ecosystem.Why the matriarch leads by frequency, not force.This conversation is for the woman learning to hold paradox, create space, and lead her life from devotion instead of depletion. If you’ve been feeling the pull to redefine power in your partnership and remember the woman you’re becoming—this episode is your reminder: You are the hearth. You are the home. You are the frequency your family follows. CLICK HERE to listen to part 1 of this series. Send us a message and let us know what you love about this episode Important Links: Sign Up For the Weekly Forecast - CLICK HERE www.Megthompson.com Attuned - CLICK HERE Let's Connect on Instagram - CLICK HERE

October’s forecast calls you to SHOW UP—for yourself, your ancestors, and the future you’re shaping. Eclipse season, relationship mirrors, and ancestral devotion invite release, balance, and belonging. Tune in for the guidance this month holds. In this episode, we explore: Why letting go can feel like struggle (and what’s really happening beneath the surface).How eclipse and Libra season energy is pushing us to find balance in relationships.The liberation that comes from composting what no longer belongs to you.What the Aries Full Moon is bringing up about self vs. others.The power of devotion and the invisible ways it changes you.Venus in Libra, Pluto’s shift, and what it means for power, joy, and balance.Remembering you belong—and why showing up matters more than ever.Closing out the month with clarity, flow, and ancestral support.This is the month to keep showing up—for yourself, for your ancestors, for the future you’re calling in. STEVIE CALISTA LINKS: Website - https://www.steviecalista.com/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/farmhousemoon/?hl=en Send us a message and let us know what you love about this episode Important Links: Sign Up For the Weekly Forecast - CLICK HERE www.Megthompson.com Attuned - CLICK HERE Let's Connect on Instagram - CLICK HERE

If you feel... Overwhelmed & overstimulated - dancing the dance of mother, partner, career & professional laundry lady who's bringing more than just dinner to the table. While wanting more in your partnership.... Dreaming for more for your life... Maybe you're carrying the emotional, physical & devotional weight of your family on your own…  Or you feel like the only way forward is to push until your partner finally concedes (and by then you don’t even want it anymore)… This episode is for you. Being the matriarch isn’t about doing it all yourself. It’s about holding the vision, extending the invitation, and knowing your partner is capable of stepping up. In this conversation, I share what it really looks like to: Release the “superwoman” role and reclaim balance.Invite the masculine to the table without power struggles.Let go of control and lean into trust (even when it feels vulnerable).Shift from competition into true union in your marriage.Create intimacy by tending to the vision together.If you’ve been longing for a deeper, more connected partnership—this episode is your invitation into becoming the matriarch your family actually needs. Send us a message and let us know what you love about this episode Important Links: Sign Up For the Weekly Forecast - CLICK HERE www.Megthompson.com Attuned - CLICK HERE Let's Connect on Instagram - CLICK HERE

What if the answer isn’t another pivot, but a deeper rooting? No more jumping ship because what you’re doing isn’t working anymore… No more launching another program because it’s what you’ve always done even though it hasn’t been working the way it used to… No more puddles of stagnancy and self-doubt. This is fortification. This is descending into your roots. This is for those who are brave enough to remember and recognize that it’s never been about changing the external circumstances to get internal freedom.  In this episode, we explore how your "career" and "work" are inviting you into a deeper evolution. Why forcing, fixing, and jumping ship won’t get you where you want to go—and how fortifying your relationship with your work changes everything. This is a audio adventure and walk through of what  FORTIFY the 6-week 1:1 mentorship + Akashic coaching program will be like. CLICK HERE to learn more and save your spot or visit www.megthompson.com/FORTIFY Send us a message and let us know what you love about this episode Important Links: Sign Up For the Weekly Forecast - CLICK HERE www.Megthompson.com Attuned - CLICK HERE Let's Connect on Instagram - CLICK HERE

Tune in for your September forecast with Resident Astrologer Stevie Calista & Host Meg Thompson. This month is all about releasing perfectionism, loosening the grip of “shoulds,” and learning to trust yourself enough to make more mistakes.  Eclipse season is here, and with it comes a fire of transformation, anger as a sacred portal, surprise revelations, and the chance to rewrite old patterns.  From rage as medicine, to unexpected breakthroughs, to giving yourself the grace you so freely give everyone else—September is your invitation to step into freedom, presence, and possibility. This episode breaks down the astrological weather woven with channelled akashic messages to paint a energetic picture for each week. Learn more & connect with Stevie Calista - here Send us a message and let us know what you love about this episode Important Links: Sign Up For the Weekly Forecast - CLICK HERE www.Megthompson.com Attuned - CLICK HERE Let's Connect on Instagram - CLICK HERE

Here’s the truth: “Getting paid to be you” has been sold to us like it’s the holy grail of freedom. But here’s the part no one tells you—it can just as easily become another performance trap. Another hustle. Another way of proving instead of actually living. In this episode, I’m walking you through the alchemy of dethroning this shiny mantra and what it really takes to feel free in your work and your life. Spoiler: it’s not more courses, more clients, more followers, or another spiritual playbook for success. We’re getting into: Why chasing more never gets you where you think it will.How my business went from defining me… to simply being what I do.The subtle but powerful difference between branding yourself and becoming yourself.The dance between survival mode, choice points, and actual maturity.And yes—a story about Benji, pasta, parmesan, and salt (because you know I can’t leave out the messy, human parts).If you’ve been trying to “make it work” by being more visible, more polished, more everything… this one’s for you. Because the alchemical approach to getting paid to be you isn’t about performing harder. It’s about slowing down, purifying what’s in the way, and finally becoming the version of you who can walk through the right doors. Listen with your body, not just your mind. Something new wants to move through you. Send us a message and let us know what you love about this episode Important Links: Sign Up For the Weekly Forecast - CLICK HERE www.Megthompson.com Attuned - CLICK HERE Let's Connect on Instagram - CLICK HERE

A powerful look at how Human Design can guide you out of consumerism’s “never enough” trap and back into balance, self-trust, and real freedom. Consumerism is in the air we breathe—and it’s shaped even the spiritual and self-help worlds, selling growth from a place of “you’re broken.” In this episode, Meg shows you another way. She reveals how to spot the trap, walk a different path in your own life, and use Human Design to see when you’re out of balance so you can return to alignment and self-trust. Send us a message and let us know what you love about this episode Important Links: Sign Up For the Weekly Forecast - CLICK HERE www.Megthompson.com Attuned - CLICK HERE Let's Connect on Instagram - CLICK HERE

August is here to show you what’s real. This month isn’t just about checking in—it’s about witnessing yourself. Who are you now, really? August shines a light on the scaffolding of your life and asks you to reckon with how far you’ve come since January. The frequency you chose back then? It’s taking form now. And not without a little chaos, clarity, and cosmic confrontation. With Mercury retrograde stirring the mental pot and Uranus squaring off with old routines, this month invites you to listen inward like never before. The Akashic energy is asking you to stop outsourcing your knowing. Your guides, your wisdom, your truth—it’s all in you. But will you trust it? Expect breakthroughs, resistance, some big emotional weather, and a new relationship with order. You are not who you were. And that’s not a problem—it’s a portal. Priority Takeaways: August is a mirror. Look back to January and ask: Who have I become?Your guidance is not outside of you—it’s already in your bones.Mercury Retrograde (through Aug 11): Slow down. Do what lights you up. Let joy be your GPS.Full Moon in Aquarius (Aug 10): Harmonious, clarifying, and community-minded. Expect revelations.Venus-Jupiter alignment (peaks Aug 12): Big feelings. Big beauty. Big desires. What are you craving?Virgo Season begins Aug 22: Welcome order. Routines return—but not the old ones.New Moon in Virgo (Aug 23): Plant new seeds around service, structure, and what devotion really looks like now.Uranus square: Your outdated systems won’t cut it anymore. That’s the point.By the end of the month: rejection = redirection. Pain might be the portal.Your nervous system and inner compass are the most trustworthy tools you have.This isn’t about perfection. It’s about refinement. A sacred reorganization. A month where your inner truth isn’t just a whisper—it’s the blueprint. GET THE FREE GUIDED MEDITATION HERE Stevie Calista links: Website - https://www.steviecalista.com/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/farmhousemoon/ Send us a message and let us know what you love about this episode Important Links: Sign Up For the Weekly Forecast - CLICK HERE www.Megthompson.com Attuned - CLICK HERE Let's Connect on Instagram - CLICK HERE

July is asking us to come home—to the land, to our bodies, to our feelings, and to what truly matters. With water and earth guiding the way, this month is about grounding like your life depends on it (because it kind of does). Emotions are high, the cosmos are chaotic, and Uranus is stirring up your nervous system in a big way. But within the mess lies the medicine. This forecast invites you to deepen your emotional intelligence, rewire your relationship with self-worth, and choose presence over performance. It’s a month for tending—to your bonds, your bones, and your body—with grace, curiosity, and a whole lot of earth energy. Priority Takeaways: Ground in your body daily—don’t just process emotions, feel them.Tend to your bonds—let go of outdated expectations and allow others to surprise you.Nervous system regulation is non-negotiable—Uranus in Gemini = mental chaos.Notice your desire to “figure it out” and instead lean into curiosity.Full Moon in Capricorn (July 10): Take radical responsibility and build new internal structures.Leo Season begins July 22: Let joy, play, and creative self-expression lead the way.Leo New Moon (July 24): Rebirth yourself—even if the collective doesn't quite get it.End of the month = wild card: Can you loosen your grip and let life surprise you?Send us a message and let us know what you love about this episode Important Links: Sign Up For the Weekly Forecast - CLICK HERE www.Megthompson.com Attuned - CLICK HERE Let's Connect on Instagram - CLICK HERE