In this episode, I sit down with our resident astrologer / resident witch Kessli Hall, for a 2026 Insight. MY BABES, next year is giving baddie Olympics.

We zoom out to the big collective shifts: outer planets moving from water + earth into fire + air (yin → yang), aka: the end of “dreaming about it” and the beginning of doing it. We talk embodied leadership, why being seen trying is about to be cool again, why collaboration becomes non-negotiable, and what all of this means for business, visibility, community, and your message.

What we cover

• The collective weather report for 2026: from dreaming → doing
• Pluto in Aquarius + the collapse of guru/pyramid models (hello horizontal leadership)
• Saturn + Neptune in Aries: action-based authority, not status
• Uranus in Gemini: the future of message, media, storytelling, and “made by human”
• Jupiter in Leo: visibility, creativity, joy, and leadership as life-force
• Mercury retrogrades in water signs (check-in seasons, not “bad luck”)
• Why collaboration is basically mandatory, and why it’s the fastest portal to expansion

Links / Ways to work with Kess

• Equinox Mastermind (intimate leadership + identity work)
• Architected (tools + resources + ongoing support)
• The Mirror (her astrology-to-business AI tool + transit prompts)

PART TWOOOOO BINSHES!!! Too juicy to do one. In this episode, I sit with Ximena again for Part II of our conversation on eros, power, and what it really means to be fully alive in your, YOUR body.

We go into the myth of Lilith and Eve, why women’s desire has been treated as dangerous for thousands of years, fantasy novels as portals for reclaiming sensual power, and how witches, grandmothers, and “too much” women were historically punished for knowing too much and feeling too deeply.

We also explore capitalism’s invisible pact with women’s bodies, the difference between reclaiming power with others vs. climbing into patriarchal power over others, and why pleasure is political, ecological, and revolutionary.

UGH!

We talk about:

🦢 Lilith, Eve, the apple, and why “seeing the unseen” has always been punished in women

🦢 Witches, grandmothers, and the way women who know the earth get exiled and called crazy

🦢 The capitalist pact between productive work and reproductive labor (and how women’s bodies got drafted into it)

🦢 Fantasy novels, fairy smut, and why women are flocking back to sensual worlds written by women

🦢 Pleasure as a measure of freedom, and how systems profit from us being numbed out and exhausted

🦢 Power vs. patriarchal power: hierarchy, pedestals, and why some “feminine power” spaces still feel masculine

🦢 The body as first land: sovereignty over our flesh, our boundaries, our pleasure, and our aliveness

🦢 Eros as life force, present-moment pleasure vs. performing an optimized self

This is a conversation about women, yes—but really it’s about every human who’s tired of being OPTIMIZED and controlled, and is ready to remember that feeling deeply is not a liability. It’s the revolution baby!!!!

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OH MY GOD what a juicyyyy episode! I sat down with someone who has shaped entire eras of my life: philosopher, ecosomatics thinker, and regenerative guide Ximena Gabilondo!

What begins as a reunion between past-life versions of ourselves ( jungle farming Maia and ecofeminist-activist Ximena) quickly becomes a masterclass in ecology, embodiment, and personal power. Together we explored why so many of us feel disconnected from our bodies, our creativity, the earth, and our own desire, and what it actually takes to reclaim the natural intelligence living inside us.

Ximena unpacks ecofeminism in a way that lands not in the mind but in the BONES: how the violence, extraction, and objectification done to the earth mirrors what has been done to women’s bodies, and why liberation can only happen through the body, not around it.

The conversation travels through:

🦢 The split between mind and body that created our current systems

🦢 Why optimization culture is just capitalism wearing yoga pants

🦢 The invisible ways we treat ourselves as products instead of living beings

🦢 Reclamation as a lived, somatic practice (not a concept)

🦢 The erotic as the force of life, creation, and connection

🦢 Ecosomatics and remembering your body as part of the earth

🦢 How patriarchy and capitalism depend on your disconnection

🦢 The power (and threat) of women who feel pleasure without permission

🦢 Lilith, Eve, witches, and the ancient fear of women who can see

This is one of those episodes that rearranges your insides, I AM SURE. You may want a notebook. You may want to lie on the floor. You may want to leave your whole life.

And that's ok because that's what Ximena does to our psyches.

Lil Glossary:

🦢 Ecofeminism: How the domination of land and the domination of women come from the same worldview, and how seeing this changes everything.

🦢 Ecosomatics: Reconnecting to the body as land, as ecosystem, as a living landscape with its own intelligence.

Catch part II for: Eco–erótica

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