In this special episode of The Center of Destiny Podcast, Tara Tao offers a grounded and unique energy forecast for Fire Horse 2026 in relationship to Fire Goat 2027, exploring how these two years work together as one evolutionary cycle of planetary consciousness and personal evolution, ignition and landing.

Fire Horse 2026 marks a powerful ignition point.
Pure life force in motion.

Momentum increases. What has been shedding through the Wood Dragon and Wood Snake years has created the space, humility, and readiness needed to step into new times. What once lived beneath the surface begins to move into visibility, embodiment, and action. This is a year of activation, courage, divine will, and rapid change.

From a trauma-informed and somatic-based lens, this acceleration can feel both exhilarating and destabilizing. Fire Horse does not ask for perfection. It asks for capacity, solid foundations, and regulation. It reveals where our systems are resourced enough to hold momentum, and where more grounding, containment, and internal security are needed.

Fire Horse 2026 carries the spark.
The bold “go-time” of freedom, independence, and liberation.

Fire Goat 2027 is the landing.
The grounding.
The integration of plans, upgrades, and strategy set in motion in 2026.

This new cycle is a time to create, build, and be in relationship with greater embodiment and coherence.

Together, these two years form a single Fire element cycle.

Ignition before grounding.
Movement before containment.
Activation before integration.

This Lunar New Year energy forecast explores:

• How Fire Horse 2026 relates to Fire Goat 2027
• The importance of pacing, containment, and somatic capacity during rapid change
• How to work with acceleration without overriding the body or collapsing into urgency
• Why safety, embodiment, and coherence are essential for lasting transformation

Welcome Year of the Fire Horse 2026 to my friends and community.

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In this special episode, Tara Tao is joined by Gabrielle Bodzin, a deeply trusted ally and co-founder of The Love Fast: A Sacred Pause to Date Yourself.

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Together, Tara and Gabrielle share an expansive conversation on love, dating, intimacy, attachment, and self-worth, offering guidance on approaching dating in a way that truly supports evolutionary love in this lifetime.

This episode is for anyone who has recently left a long-term relationship, feels caught in intense crushes or short-lived situationships, or longs for spiritual union in partnership without losing a sense of self.

Tara and Gabrielle explore limerence, a nervous-system-driven state of intense attraction and preoccupation that is often mistaken for love, yet is more accurately understood as an attachment-based pattern rather than secure connection.

Limerence activates early attachment imprints, often drawing attention away from clarity, self-trust, personal power, and embodied presence by orienting safety and belonging toward another person.

In this conversation, Tara and Gabrielle unpack how modern dating culture, attachment wounds, and the over-emphasis on placing romantic fulfillment onto one person can keep people caught in looping patterns of longing, obsession, isolation, and self-abandonment.

The episode offers a gentle yet radical reframe:

What if the path to real partnership begins with a sacred pause?

Blending somatic-based healing, psychoeducation, ancient wisdom traditions, and embodied lived experience, this conversation offers a grounded and compassionate pathway toward love that is real, sustainable, and aligned with greater destiny.

• What limerence is, how it differs from secure love, and why it feels so intoxicating to the nervous system
• Why losing oneself in love is an attachment-based nervous system pattern, not a personal flaw
• How early attachment dynamics shape attraction, chemistry, and dating choices
• Why boredom, mindfulness, and reduced romantic stimulation can support healing and resensitization
• What evolutionary love requires beyond chemistry, including capacity, nervous system safety, and shared vision for life
• How returning to your body, inner creativity, eros, and spiritual practice supports sustainable partnership
• How to reclaim intimacy, depth, and connection across your life rather than locating them solely in romance

💧 Join The Love Fast: A 4-Month Sacred Pause to Date Yourself

A community-based journey for women ready to break old dating patterns, redirect energy inward, and cultivate inner safety, security, and self-trust from within.

🍃 The Love Fast Begins March 14, 2026.

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Learn more and connect with our featured guest Gabrielle Bodzin:

https://www.gabriellebodzin.com/

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What does it mean to stay human in a world that feels increasingly inhumane?

How do we allow ourselves to feel the depths of our grief, rage, and heartbreak without collapsing into despair, numbness, or helplessness?

And how do we locate our role, our responsibility, and our destiny in the midst of political, cultural, and archetypal collapse?

In this personal and prophetic solo episode, we speak directly to the moment we are living in, and to the dynamic leaders being forged by it.

From hearing the cries of children held in ICE detention centers, to naming the shamanic sickness of colonization, distortions of power, and generational trauma shaping our world, this episode is an invitation to remain human while allowing these times to train our orientation towards the future.

In this episode, we weave collective grief, ancestral memory, nervous system based healing, prophecy, and self-care, reminding us that collapse is not only revealing what is broken. It is also shaping those who can stay present, adaptive, and anchored in embodied vision.

These times require a great capacity to hold paradox.

The ability to grieve and remain resourced.
To reject injustice and stay open-hearted.
To meet the weight of reality without avoidance.

To refine your craft.
To build resilience.
To stand in your role in the web of life.

To bring your life forward as a living prayer and build what comes next.

At the heart of this episode is a call to re-culture, now.

A remembering that how we live, resist, and build today shapes generations to come.

That tending to our nervous systems, our psychic energy, our lineages, our creativity, and our visions is not small. It is the very training ground of evolutionary leadership in these times.

This episode is for those who feel the ache of the world and still sense that they are here because something new is being born through them.

Takeaways

• We are living in a time when staying human requires intention, capacity, and care.
• What we are witnessing on the world stage is not new. It is being revealed, illuminated, and made impossible to ignore.
• Grief and anger are necessary responses to injustice. Without them, we numb, dissociate, or disconnect from reality.
• The way power has been abused, colonization enacted, and empathy erased is not accidental. It is the result of long-standing fragmentation and disconnection from nature, the body, and the sacred.
• Regulating our nervous systems is not avoidance. It is how we prevent fear, helplessness, and rage from being weaponized against us.
• Collapse is not asking us to shut down or harden. It is asking us to grow capacity and remain resourced.
• Our role is not to carry everything or save the world, but to tend what is ours to tend. Our healing, our lineage, our craft, our relationships, our medicine.
• Art, prayer, community, nervous system healing, ancestral repair, and embodied leadership are not secondary in these times. They are essential.
• We are being trained to become future ancestors.
• How we create now will shape generations to come.

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What does it mean to walk the path of the medicine woman, not as a performative identity but as a devotional path?

How do we remember what colonization has eradicated from our ancestral memory and body's intelligence?

How do we restore the sacred technologies of our ancestors and reclaim right relationship with the Earth, our bodies, and the unseen worlds?

In this soul-stirring conversation, I’m joined by Marilu Shinn, evolutionary healer, guide, and long-time student of the Q’ero lineage of the Peruvian Andes.

Together we explore the cosmovision of the Q’ero, the path of the Chakaruna (bridge between worlds), and the embodied reality of walking as a medicine woman in a time of collective unraveling and sacred return.

We journey through the Chakana, the Andean medicine wheel, as a living soul map. We begin in the South with the serpent’s path of soul retrieval, then move through each direction toward personal and collective prophecy.

This episode is an invocation for remembrance, a mirror for healing, and a sacred dialogue on the role of the feminine in anchoring the ancient future.

In this episode, we explore:

• What it means to decolonize the mind, body, and spiritual path.
• The South as the direction where we heal fragmentation, recover lost parts, and return to embodied wholeness.
• The Directions of West, North, and East as living energies to support us in reclaiming power, ancestry, and our role in the web of life in times of prophecy.
• The medicine woman not as martyr or fixer, but as an embodied catalyst.
• The Q’ero as timekeepers, carriers of prophecy, shamanic healers, and stewards of Earth’s energy field.
• Why healing is a spiral, not a straight line, and how to become the living altar for your own medicine

This is for the men and women remembering the soul gifts woven into their flesh and bone. For those who carry ancient codes, whispering to be lived, expressed, and embodied in service to a more whole humanity.

For those who came to walk with beauty, with raw devotion, and with truth.

Marilu Shinn: Kawak Peruvian Energy Medicine Website

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In this multidimensional conversation, founders of Light Meets Dark, Tara Tao and Maurice Harvey Hall return to the podcast for an impromptu, deep exploration of the often hidden patterns of dissociation, spiritual bypass, avoidance, and addictive patterns.

Together, they unpack how trauma lives in the body, how protector parts form to help us survive, and how these parts can create resistance to the very love, intimacy, truth, expression, creative life force we long to embody.

They explore how dissociation often emerges as an inherited response passed down through generations- shaped by un-transmuted ancestral memory, a colonial paradigm, multidimensional forces, and cultural conditioning.

Through the lens of Internal Family Systems, parts work, somatic-based healing, and transgenerational healing, this episode offers a grounded inquiry into what it truly means to feel safe enough to heal.

At its core, this is a conversation about how compassion, especially self-compassion, is the vehicle for transformation and the path that brings us back to ourselves.

Because healing is not just personal.

It is ancestral.

It is relational.

And it is deeply collective.

Light Meets Dark: Bali (August 24-31): www.lightmeetsdark.com

Connect with Maurice: www.innerlightmeditationcentre.com

Book a Session with Tara: https://calendly.com/thecenterofdestiny/newclients

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What happens when your soul asks you to evolve a marriage into something entirely new?

In this deeply vulnerable episode of The Center of Destiny podcast, Tara Tao is joined by temple keeper, mother, and New Earth architect, Saige Esmaili of The Rosewater Temple—sharing her story publicly for the very first time.

Together, they explore:

• The sacred process of conscious uncoupling from an 11-year partnership
• The unexpected emergence of divine union with a mirror soul
• How to re-template family, motherhood, and community from a place of God-led truth
• The grief, courage, and devotion required to move beyond conditioning, false safety, and inherited virtue
• What it means to create a life of alignment—even when it asks everything of you

This episode is an offering to those standing at the edge of transition, where the familiar no longer fits and the future requires a deeper form of listening.

If you are navigating love, identity, family, or sacred thresholds, this transmission invites you into emotional maturity, spiritual integrity, and radical compassion as the foundation of a new paradigm of relating.

Connect with Saige on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/saigeesmaili/

Saige's offerings & website: www.therosewatertemple.com

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In this episode of The Center of Destiny podcast, Tara Tao is joined by Xiangming (Xi) of Earthstar Academy and Womb Temple. Both holders of Taoist and Dragon Lineage medicine, Tara and Xi enter a devotional conversation on divine union, conscious parenting, and the ancestral legacy we are here to tend to.

Together, they trace the journey of sacred partnership through Xi’s lived story of calling in her husband, navigating the initiations of conscious parenting, and transmuting to the echoes of ancestral trauma that have shaped how we love and lead.

This dialogue invites us to feel into the difference between karmic ties and true divine union. What does it mean to choose a relationship not from wounding or familiarity, but for alignment with soul, mission, and evolution?

We speak of the children arriving now, carrying ancient wisdom and future codes, here to midwife a new earth. We explore how dragon medicine offers a fierce and holy blueprint for right relationship, sacred responsibility, cultural stewardship, and relational harmony that ripples for generations to come.

Takeaways

• True love exists and divine union can activate prophecies.
• Children come from the heart of God, requiring conscious parenting.
• The black sheep in families often serve as wayfinders.
• Healing ancestral patterns is crucial for future generations.
• Divine union is a choice and requires daily devotion.
• New earth children are coming in with unique gifts.
• Creating sacred family units is crucial for raising new earth children.
• Karmic relationships serve as lessons for personal growth.
• Dragon medicine embodies the wisdom of right relationship.
• Our relationship with God is foundational to our purpose.

Grail Quest: July 19-22, 2025 in Portugal: www.wombhealth.org/portugal-2025

Connect with XiangMing: www.instagram.com/earthstar.academy

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In this episode of The Center of Destiny podcast, host Tara Tao welcomes her inaugural guest, Maurice Harvey Hall, for a deep and illuminating conversation on self-awareness, shadow integration, and what it means to live as an embodied magician in this reality.

Together, Tara and Mo explore the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model and how understanding our inner parts can radically transform the way we meet life, relationships, and purpose. They dive into the resistance that often arises on the healing path, how unconscious beliefs shape our reality through “spelling,” and the ways ancestral imprints live in our bodies and influence our choices.

Takeaways

• The multi-layered nature of Self and the intelligence of our inner "parts"
• How our shadow material silently scripts or spells our reality
• IFS offers a clear, crucial, and compassionate map for inner healing
• The paradox of desiring transformation while unconsciously resisting it
• Why reclaiming exiled aspects—not just pain but power—is essential for living your destiny
• The sacred role of relationships as mirrors and catalysts for transformation
• We manifest not from what we want but from what we know, making belief work essential
• The paradox of affirmations and mindset work, and why shadow integration is non-negotiable
• How trauma adaptations shape identity and limit our potential until compassionately met
• Ancestral healing and how inherited patterns live in our present experience
• Integration of the wild and the wise, the fierce and the soft, leads to embodied wholeness
• How to wield the demon’s hand with a Buddha heart, activating the Bodhisattva and Dark Magician within

Sound Bites

• "We are not just this one singular being."
• "The deeper that we go, the more of us we find."
• "Life is happening for me, not to me."
• "Your unconscious is spelling a deep knowing upon your field of awareness."
• "Self-sabotage is such an intelligent part."
• "Relationships are a good way to see ourselves."
• "To wield the demon's hand with the Buddha's heart - that's master play."
• "Curiosity is one of the greatest skills you can have."
• "You can have a trifecta of experience within you."
• "There's a richness in allowing for whichever vantage point."
• "What is imagination? You are a nation of magicians."
• "You're creating a future reality and receiving realities."
• "You can only manifest what you truly know."
• "There's an abundance of parts that I can hang out with."
• "Our problems, our shadow, our pain is really not just ours."

Timestamps

00:00
Introduction to the Center of Destiny Podcast

03:12
The Importance of Self-Awareness

07:48
Understanding Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Shadow Work

17:08
Resistance and the Journey of Integration

26:58
Relationships as Catalysts for Shadow Work

34:39
The Non-Dual Perspective on Life

36:17
The Power of Spelling and Imagination

41:35
Beliefs, Shadow Work, and Manifestation

45:08
Understanding Abundance and Scarcity

49:52
Ancestral Healing and Collective Patterns

53:42
Integrating the

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