What if the most powerful tool you have for calming your nervous system, clearing your mind, and navigating life’s most intense moments is something you’re already doing every day?

In this episode of the Mainly Moonology Podcast, I’m joined by breathwork coach and human optimisation specialist Sam Adams for a deeply grounding conversation about breathwork, why it’s gaining momentum now, and how to use it safely and effectively in real life.

We explore what breathwork actually is (and what it isn’t), why not all techniques are suitable for everyone, and how simple, science-backed breathing practices can help you regulate anxiety, sleep better, and build resilience during emotionally charged periods. Including those weeks when the astrology feels relentless.

This conversation is especially relevant if you’re feeling overwhelmed, run down, emotionally sensitive, or mentally overloaded, or if you’re curious about breathwork but unsure where to start.

In this episode, we cover

• What breathwork is and its wide range
• When breathwork helps and when it overwhelms
• Key safety notes and limits for intense practice
• Why breath holds calm some but stress others
• Oxygen, carbon dioxide, and altered states explained
• Effects on the nervous system and brain chemistry
• Astrological relevance with Uranus entering Gemini
• Preparing your nervous system for tough weeks
• A nightly practice to aid sleep and clarity

A quick technique proven to ease anxiety
Breathwork’s role in grief and life transitions
Rediscovering ancient practices for modern times

Practical techniques shared in this episode

Sam guides listeners through two accessible practices you can start using immediately:

Coherent breathing for sleep and nervous system regulation

A gentle, rhythmic breathing pattern designed to calm the nervous system, support deep sleep, and help your brain reset overnight.

The physiological sigh for anxiety relief

A quick, research-backed technique to reduce anxiety in the moment and signal safety to the body.

Both practices are suitable for everyday life and don’t require experience with breathwork.

About my guest

Sam Adams is a breathwork coach and former life coach who blends nervous system education, ancient breathing techniques, and modern science to help people move through stress, trauma, and transition. Her work focuses on helping clients do less, regulate more, and reconnect with who they truly are beneath the noise.

Find Sam online

• Instagram: @samadamscoach
• Website: https://sam-adams.com/

Final note

If the world feels intense, the astrology feels challenging, or life feels like a lot right now, this episode is your reminder that regulation comes before revelation.

Sometimes the most powerful thing you can do is simply… breathe.

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The Last New Moon of the Year + A Week of Healing Energy

As we approach the end of the year, most of us are thinking about what we’re ready to leave behind. Yet this week brings something different. The final New Moon of 2025 arrives on December 19 (USA) and December 20 (UK/Europe/Australia), and it invites a fresh start even before the calendar turns.

This episode explores the astrology of the week, why the energies feel both challenging and hopeful, and how to work with it all in a steady, grounded way.

In this episode

• The flavour of this week’s Sagittarius New Moon

Even with some intense aspects, it has an uplifting, optimistic core if you consciously lean toward it.

• The tricky transits: Mars square Neptune + Sun square Saturn

What they mean, how they may show up, and how to handle feelings of confusion, frustration, or heaviness.

• The healing moments woven through the week

A beautiful Sun trine Chiron and Venus trine Chiron later in the week bring genuine chances to mend, reconnect, and reset emotionally.

• A spontaneous healing chant

Yasmin shares the chant “In Nana” for invoking deep healing and invites you to bring to mind anything in your life that needs resolution or renewal.

• Mars moves into Capricorn

What this shift means for stamina, drive, motivation, and the part of your chart that will receive a burst of determination.

• The deeper meaning of a late-December New Moon

Why this is a powerful moment to reframe your mindset, reclaim optimism, and decide not to carry the heaviness of 2025 into the new year.

Key links mentioned

• Free Mars-in-your-chart PDF

Discover where your drive, determination, and push will be activated next:

https://moonmessages.com/mars

• Free ‘Release 2025’ Meditation

Let go of the emotional weight of the year and get ready for a clearer 2026:

https://moonmessages.com/release2025

Timestamps

00:03 – Why this time of year feels reflective.

01:06 – The Sagittarius New Moon and its mixed energy.

02:16 – Understanding Mars square Neptune.

03:20 – Understanding Sun square Saturn.

04:09 – The healing power of Sun trine Chiron.

05:19 – Spontaneous guided healing chant.

07:03 – Calling in healing.

08:30 – Mars enters Capricorn: stamina and determination.

09:18 – Mars PDF mention.

10:22 – The New Moon chart details.

11:19 – Using this New Moon to reset your mindset.

12:28 – Jupiter’s supportive role.

13:49 – Free 'Release 2025' meditation.

14:38 – Recap of the week’s themes and supports.

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A Week of Big News, Healing and Honest Conversations

This week I’m joined by Londoner and astrologer Israel Ajose to explore a powerful moment in the skies. With Mercury activating Saturn, Neptune and Uranus, and Neptune completing its final sweep of Pisces, we’re entering a week where information moves, truths surface, and conversations have the potential to heal.

We talk about the emotional sensitivity of this moment, why forgiveness may feel easier, and how Neptune’s long Piscean cycle has shaped collective spirituality. We also look ahead to Neptune in Aries and what it means for self-defined spiritual practice - less guru, more inner authority.

If there’s a conversation you’ve been avoiding, a bridge to rebuild, or truth to speak kindly - this energy supports it.

In This Episode

• Mercury aspects + wave of communication, ideas + news

• Why sensitive conversations may bring reconciliation

• Neptune retrograde ending + the close of a 14-year Piscean chapter

• The shift toward spiritual autonomy with Neptune in Aries

• Collective compassion + global emotional themes

• Israel’s top three astrologers and why they matter

• Details about his Sacred Planets Astrology Academy

Takeaways

• This is a week for speaking gently but honestly

• Emotional clarity comes when voice and heart meet

• Neptune endings = release, compassion, closure

• New spiritual identity begins with internal authority

• Healing often starts with one conversation

Listen + Share

If you know someone who needs this kind of astrology - someone navigating emotion, communication or forgiveness - please pass it on.

Israel's website: https://www.sacredplanets.co.uk

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Can one sentence really change the way a difficult aspect behaves in your birth chart? That is the question we explore with humanistic astrologer Kathy Rose in this week’s episode of Mainly Moonology. Together we look at the psychology of chart tension, the power of pithy affirmation, and whether behaviour change can actually re-shape the way your horoscope expresses itself in real time.

Kathy walks us through how she identifies a therapeutic mantra from a natal chart using tension-points like Mercury overwhelm, Moon–Saturn heaviness, over-responsibility to others or Western Hemisphere people-pleasing patterns. We also discuss neuroplasticity, and why new thought pathways can heal old emotional imprints rather than bind us to them forever.

We then bring the work into the skies of right now. You’ll hear us craft a mantra for the Full Moon in Gemini and explore how to use affirmations to redirect Uranian buzz, calm mental overstimulation and stay present instead of spiralling into “catastrophic future thinking.” Kathy shares a mantra for this Full Moon and offers a powerful universal affirmation for the year ahead.

We also talk about women, confidence, the incoming astrology of 2026 and why imposter syndrome is rising now not as a setback, but as a call to claim space and voice. Kathy describes why Saturn–Neptune in Aries may be the era of spiritual self-sufficiency, decision-making confidence and healing through self-belief.

This conversation blends astrology, psychology, mantra, mindset and the real mechanics of rewiring the brain. If you’ve ever wanted to use astrology to change your patterns instead of just understand them, you’ll love this.

Find out more about Kathy Rose at https://www.roseastrology.com/

Find out more about her Therapeutic Mantra course at https://www.astrologyuniversity.com/shop/search-by-astrologer/kathy-rose/therapeutic-mantras/

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This week I am joined by the wonderful Laura Day, internationally renowned intuitive, author and teacher, for a powerful and very timely conversation about what 2026 is really asking of us. With Saturn and Neptune meeting in Aries, a once in a lifetime energetic shift is beginning to ripple through all our lives. Laura breaks it down with her signature clarity, humour and psychic precision.

We talk about how to work with the collective fog, how to ground yourself when everything around you feels uncertain, and how to choose one goal that can reset the entire direction of your life. Laura shares simple, practical tools for navigating the coming year using her Prism method. If you have been feeling sensitive, overwhelmed or on the cusp of change, this episode will help you understand why.

This episode is sponsored by the Moonology Diary 2026. It is the ultimate guide for anyone who wants to work with the cosmic weather of the year ahead and manifest with more intention and flow. If you want to stay aligned with the energies of the planets and the Moon each week, it is your companion for creating your dream life. www.moonologydiary.com

In this episode we cover:

• What the Saturn–Neptune alignment in Aries means for you

• How to use intuition to make grounded decisions in uncertain times

• Laura’s Prism technique and why it works

• How to choose your one transformative goal for 2026

• How to turn confusion into clarity and momentum

• Why 2026 could be a turning-point year for so many of us

Connect with Laura Day:

Website: www.lauraday.com

Instagram: @lauradayintuit

For info about Laura's London workshop visit https://lauraday.com/event/the-prism-workshop-at-home/

If you enjoy this episode, please rate, review and share it with someone who needs a bit of cosmic guidance right now.

Happy listening, and may 2026 be the year you step into your power.

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This week on the Mainly Moonology Podcast, we’re diving into one of the most powerful astrological moments of the season. The Scorpio New Moon, sitting opposite Uranus and aligned with a rare Uranus–Neptune sextile, is bringing breakthrough energy that can feel emotional, liberating, and deeply spiritual all at once.

I’m joined by fellow Aussie astrologer and author Vanessa Montgomery, and together we unpack what this week’s cosmic weather really means for your manifesting, your emotional healing, and your ability to break free from old patterns.

If you’ve been feeling ready to start again, release something heavy, or reconnect with your intuition, this episode will help you understand why the timing is so right.

Listen now and use this New Moon to shift your life forward.

Vanessa’s website:

https://astroallstarz.com

It’s also the perfect moment to start thinking about 2026.

The astrology of next year is big and bold, and if you want to stay aligned with every New Moon, Full Moon, eclipse, and key transit, make sure you’ve ordered your Moonology Diary.

Get your Moonology Diary here:

https://moonologydiary.com

Your future self will thank you.

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If you’re feeling a touch of déjà vu, you’re right — Mercury retrograde made me do this!

Last week, this chat with the brilliant Kelly Surtees went up on YouTube… but thanks to a little cosmic confusion, it never actually made it to the podcast feed. So here we are again, giving this conversation the proper love it deserves — because it’s a big one.

This episode unpacks Uranus’s final visit to Taurus — the planet of shake-ups, surprises, and awakenings returning for one last spin through the earthy sign of stability. Kelly and I explore what this means for the world and for you, based on your Rising Sign.

Expect aha moments, breakthroughs, and maybe a nudge (or shove!) from the universe reminding you to break free from what’s holding you back.

In this episode:

- What Uranus back in Taurus means collectively and personally

- How to find your Rising Sign and why it matters

- The lessons of Uranus in Taurus since 2018

- How this final chapter could bring liberation, innovation, or closure

- A dash of Mercury retrograde humour — because of course this episode had to go missing

Timestamps by Rising Sign:

(If you don’t know your Rising Sign, grab your free chart at moonmessages.com/freechart)

00:00 – Intro: Mercury retrograde strikes again

04:20 – Aries Rising: Money, values, and radical self-worth

07:42 – Taurus Rising: Reinvention, identity, and shaking up your image

11:03 – Gemini Rising: Inner transformation and old patterns resurfacing

14:25 – Cancer Rising: Friends, community, and sudden shifts in your social circle

17:50 – Leo Rising: Career surprises, visibility, and professional breakthroughs

21:16 – Virgo Rising: Study, travel, and fresh philosophical perspectives

24:48 – Libra Rising: Shared finances, intimacy, and releasing control

28:20 – Scorpio Rising: Partnerships, collaborations, and relationship freedom

31:55 – Sagittarius Rising: Work, wellness, and daily routines that need a reset

35:22 – Capricorn Rising: Creativity, romance, and pleasure reimagined

38:49 – Aquarius Rising: Home, family, and foundations evolving

42:12 – Pisces Rising: Communication, writing, and new ways to share your voice

Mentioned in this episode:

Kelly Surtees: kellysastrology.com

Yasmin’s Moonology Diary 2026: moonologydiary.com

Next week:

We’ll dive into the final Mercury retrograde of the year — a time to reflect, refine, and realign before stepping into a whole new 2026.

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If you feel like everything’s gone bananas this week, you’re not alone. A lot of people are struggling to keep up with all the madness and mayhem - and now here comes the planet of craziness, Uranus, changing signs and moving back into Taurus just as we reach the Full Moon.

So yes… it’s about to get even wilder!

I’m super happy to be joined by one of the best astrologers on the planet, Kelly Surtees. In fact, what she said was so good that we ended up creating two episodes from our one conversation!

In this main episode, we talk about:

• Uranus’s big move and what it means
• The upcoming Full Moon
• Cryptocurrency and astrology
• Plus a few other fascinating topics

And if you want to hear the bonus episode, go to moonmessages.com/kelly to listen to Kelly’s deep dive into what this week’s astrology means for each of the Rising Signs.

It’s one not to miss — in fact, it’s two not to miss!

Find Kelly at www.kellysastrology.com

Sign up for Kelly's 2026 course at https://www.astrologyuniversity.com/shop/search-by-astrologer/kelly-surtees/plan-2026-course/

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