Made For This with Laurel Kassor: Astrology from Abstract to Impact

About Made For This with Laurel Kassor: Astrology from Abstract to Impact

Your birth chart is your soul’s itinerary for consciousness. Your life is the excursion into experience. Made for This is where we connect the constellations and make sense of it all. Hosted by astrologer and Soul A.R.C. Astrology™ founder Laurel Kassor, Made for This: Astrology from Abstract to Impact pairs intimate conversations with live birth chart readings to explore the relationship between who we are, what we’ve lived through, and who we’re choosing to become next. Each episode, Laurel sits down with a spiritual entrepreneur, practitioner, educator, creative, or wonderfully weird human and walks the wheel of their birth chart alongside them—tracing the plot points, patterns, tensions, talents, transformations, and impact written across their astrology and reflected through their lived experience. Every guest is a living case study. Every life gives the chart meaning. Using Laurel’s signature Soul A.R.C. framework—a practical approach rooted in astrological awareness, relational resonance, and conscious creation—each conversation takes astrology out of the abstract and puts it where it belongs: in the context of an actual human life. Because as you'll see, astrology doesn’t happen to you. It happens through you. And somewhere in the stories, readings, and revelations of another soul’s arc, you might just fill in a few plot holes of your own. Welcome to Orbit, Seekers.

Publisher

Laurel Kassor | Soul A.R.C. Astrology

Category

religion & spirituality · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

16 Jun 2026

Latest episode

5 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

18 episodes in the feed.

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   5 Oct 2026

   EP17 ‘Rewilding’ After a Life of Masking: Taking the Vow of Radical Self Acceptance with Bobbi Sol

   What happens when you learn early that being fully yourself might cost you your safety, belonging, or love? In this episode of Made for This, Laurel Kassor walks the birth chart of clinical mental health counselor Bobbi Sol for a raw conversation about queer identity, evangelical Christianity, neurodivergence, military service, masking, chosen family, and reclaiming the parts of yourself you once learned to hide. As Laurel explores Bobbi’s Cancer Sun, Pisces Moon, and Leo Rising chart, they trace the astrology beneath those repeating patterns. Bobbi shares how growing up queer, deeply spiritual, and neurodivergent in a Southern Baptist and evangelical environment taught them to read the room, adapt, peacekeep, and become what the environment required. Today, Bobbi works with queer and neurodivergent clients through a philosophy they call rewilding: reclaiming the parts of ourselves that have been demonized, ostracized, othered, or buried for survival. In this episode: How Bobbi’s childhood taught them to read the room, adapt their voice, peacekeep, and create safety through relationship What Ceres in Libra and Mercury and Chiron in Cancer reveal about belonging, family, communication, and early survival strategies How Pluto in Scorpio in the fourth house square Jupiter in Leo reflects the collision between family, religion, queerness, and the desire to be fully seen Coming out as a teenager, refusing to fit the mold, and unexpectedly finding queer chosen family inside a Christian summer camp How Saturn in Aquarius in the sixth house shows up through military service, authority, rigid systems, body expectations, health, work, and survival Why joining the military recreated the same masking strategies Bobbi had developed in childhood How Bobbi’s Pisces Moon connects to partnership, emotional safety, and the relationships that became anchors during periods of depression and transition Coming out socially and professionally as nonbinary and trans, becoming a mental health counselor, and beginning a PhD focused on changing the systems they now work within Timestamps: 00:00 Meet Bobbi Sol: Cancer Sun, Pisces Moon, Leo Rising 01:25 Rewilding Queer & Neurodivergent Identity 03:44 Bobbi’s Birth Chart & Formative Plot Points 21:30 Childhood Survival, Family & Learning to Adapt 32:47 Pluto in Scorpio: Religion, Family & Queer Identity 36:35 The Moment Bobbi Learned Being Queer Wasn’t Safe 48:45 Coming Out & Reclaiming Self-Expression 54:05 Finding Queer Belonging at Christian Summer Camp 01:05:58 Saturn in Aquarius & Entering the “Real World” 01:06:31 Joining the Military During Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell 01:13:22 Military Culture, Queerness & Losing Their Voice 01:16:44 The Same Survival Story, Different System 01:17:03 “The Mask Glued to My Face” 01:24:15 Pisces Moon: Love & Partnership as an Anchor 01:26:23 Coming Out Again as Nonbinary & Trans About Bobbi Sol Bobbi Sol is a clinical mental health counselor serving queer and neurodivergent communities. Their work centers on rewilding—helping people reclaim the parts of themselves that have been othered, suppressed, or shaped by survival. Drawing from narrative therapy and personal mythology, Bobbi helps clients reconnect with identity, belonging, and a more authentic way of being. Connect with Bobbi Sol: @uncorkedwitch Listen to Y’all What the F*ck: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/yall-what-the-fu-k/id1889184251 (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/yall-what-the-fu-k/id1889184251) Connect with Laurel Kassor Website: soularcastrology.com/madeforthis Threads: @astro_aries

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   28 Sept 2026

   EP16 Solid in the Chaos: Ceres, Somatic Healing & Attachment Repair with Sam Johnson

   What happens when the survival strategies that once protected you start getting in the way of the life, relationships, and business you want to build? In this episode of Made for This, Laurel Kassor walks the birth chart of somatic business and relationship coach Sam Johnson, founder of The Alchemy of Truth, for a raw conversation about attachment, grief, self-trust, nervous system healing, and becoming solid in the chaos. Sam shares how early experiences of loss, instability, and relational rupture shaped her path toward somatic healing—and how she eventually turned that lived wisdom into work supporting high-achieving leaders, founders, and women who are ready to stop overfunctioning and start living with more intimacy, impact, and embodiment. As Laurel explores Sam’s chart, they unpack the themes beneath her Virgo Sun, Aries Moon, and Capricorn Rising: refinement, resilience, control, relationship patterns, existential fear, and the deep work of transforming pain into purpose. If you’re drawn to somatics, attachment healing, astrology, personal development, trauma-informed leadership, or building a business that actually feels good in your body—this one is for you. ✨ In this episode: Why Sam's earliest experiences of security, nourishment, and care left a lasting imprint on her nervous system How body-based trauma work helped her stop looping in therapy and start actually completing the story her system was holding The connection between death fear, control, and the need to make life feel predictable when it never was What Sam’s Aries Moon and Mars reveal about urgency, protection, and navigating chaos The role of Pisces, Neptune, and the twelfth-house themes of grief, faith, surrender, and the unknown How Chiron and sixth-house themes connect to healing practices, refinement, and making meaning through service Why her relationship with religion, identity, and truth changed so dramatically in her teens How her salon, relationships, and periods of chaos became turning points that eventually led her into refined, high-touch coaching work Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction to Astrology and Somatic Coaching 05:47 The Developmental Age Method in Astrology 08:26 Understanding Ceres and Its Influence 13:57 Exploring Early Developmental Experiences 28:25 The Impact of Loss and Caregiving 40:08 Navigating Death and Transformation 41:10 The Alchemy of Truth and Personal Beliefs 43:35 Jupiter's Influence on Beliefs and Identity 50:00 Chiron's Role in Healing and Refinement 01:02:06 Exploring Relationships and Dismantling Beliefs 01:11:23 Mastery Through Experience and Transformation About Sam Johnson Sam is a somatic business and relationship coach and founder of The Alchemy of Truth. Drawing from somatic experiencing, early developmental trauma work and attachment repair, Sam helps clients move beyond simply understanding their patterns and towards experiencing meaningful change in the body. Connect with Sam Johnson: @SomaticallySam https://alchemyoftruth.kartra.com/page/primalalchemyretreat (https://alchemyoftruth.kartra.com/page/primalalchemyretreat) Connect with Laurel Kassor Laurel is the founder of Soul Arc Astrology and host of Made for This, where she blends astrology, embodiment, and soul-led strategy to reveal the deeper blueprint behind your life. Website: https://soularcastrology.com (https://soularcastrology.com) Instagram: @soularc_astrology Threads: @astro_aries Subscribe for astrology, soul-led business, self-inquiry, and conversations for practitioners, creatives, and curious cosmic humans.

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   21 Sept 2026

   EP15 Escaping the Trauma Factory: How to Change Your Frequency After Hard Resets with Brie Rhiannon

   Brie Rhiannon fell off a bathroom counter at three months old, got her first concussion, and her first house Saturn in Capricorn said that was only the first lesson in hard knocks. Now this second-generation astrologer & self-described transformation specialist shows you how to change your frequency, out loud, in one sentence. Laurel Kassor, host of Made for This, sits down with Brie Rhiannon, whose path has taken her from child acting and fashion to aerospace, renewable energy, tarot, and spiritual work. What begins as a conversation about birth charts becomes a deeper exploration of transformation, trauma, frequency, and what happens when we stop apologizing for the way we’re wired. Laurel and Brie challenge the old playbook and explore why astrology’s real power comes from evolving with new knowledge—and using it as a practical tool for understanding yourself, your patterns, and your life. In this episode, you’ll discover: Why Brie calls herself a transformation specialist How engineering, physics, and astrology became part of the same worldview Why she sees the birth chart as a factory-default setting—not a life sentence How childhood concussions, performance pressure, and health crises shaped her path The relationship between trauma, polarity, and nervous-system regulation Why one-size-fits-all spirituality and meditation don’t work for everyone How frequency practices can support greater calm, clarity, and self-trust How astrology can help us recognize patterns without limiting our potential Laurel traces key turning points in Brie’s life through astrology, connecting medical trauma, theater training, mental-health challenges, career pivots, heartbreak, and her return to spiritual practice CHART RESONANCE We look specifically at Brie's Scorpio stellium in the 10th, Saturn in Capricorn, Mars retrograde in Gemini & a Cancer Moon opposite Uranus to understand how a life of hard resets isn't a blockage, but a blueprint for frequency work. CHAPTERS 00:00 From Aerospace to Astrology: Meet Brie Rhiannon 05:38 Growing Up With an Astrologer Mom 12:24 Why You Can't Alchemize What You Don't Understand 20:18 Saturn in Capricorn & the Developmental Age Method 29:14 Becoming a Theater Kid at Age Four 35:56 The Stage Accident Before Her 17th Birthday 40:26 An Eating Disorder After a Concussion 45:28 Mars Retrograde & the Pillar 6 Urge to Fix Everything 50:23 Neptune in the 12th House & the Black Flood 55:57 Getting Honest About Bipolar & Finding Stability 1:00:01 Ceres in Libra: Why Safety Feels All-or-Nothing 1:11:42 Climate Change Awakening & Career Pivot 1:17:16 Jupiter in Leo: Bali & Returning to Spirituality 1:23:45 The Birthright Spiritual Woman & Her Wizard Dad 1:27:06 Chiron in Cancer: Intuitive Tools Her Family Taught Her 1:29:04 How to Change Your Frequency (Out Loud) 1:32:34 Why Meditation Doesn't Work for Every Chart 1:34:33 Work With Brie: Workbooks, Sessions & Energy Work ABOUT BRIE RHIANNON Brie Rhiannon is a transformation specialist, spiritual practitioner & second-generation astrologer who turns physics & engineering principles into tools for understanding your own energy. She offers 1:1 sessions, energy work & digital workbooks. Website: https://brierhiannonrecords.com/ (https://brierhiannonrecords.com/) Threads: @brierhiannon Connect with Laurel Support the Show → soularcastrology.com/madeforthis (http://soularcastrology.com/madeforthis)

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   14 Sept 2026

   EP14 Peeling Back Layers: Breaking Down (and Through) Seasons of Over-Giving with Mackenzie Gelina

   Most people learn to overgive before they learn to trust themselves. Mackenzie Gelina shares how yoga, shamanic healing, and seasonal astrology became the path back to her voice after grief, people pleasing, and years of feeling unsafe in her own body. Astrologer Laurel Kassor sits down with the founder of Big Love Studio for a conversation that turns personal history into a roadmap for self-trust. Mackenzie opens up about the practices that helped her untangle energetic cords, reconnect with her intuition, and build a business around helping women stop silencing themselves. You’ll discover: How Mackenzie’s Libra Moon reflects themes of emotional safety, relationship, acceptance, and overgiving The Saturn–Neptune conjunction in her fifth house square her Moon, and the tension between creative surrender and needing structure to feel safe The “fix it” tension between her Libra Moon and Taurus Mercury Why Ceres conjunct Venus in Taurus became such a literal signature for textiles, comfort, beauty, food, and material resources How the mat can become a mirror for meeting yourself with more honesty and less judgment Why shamanic healing can uncover what is blocking your expression on an energetic level The surprising way grief, redirection, and intuition shaped Mackenzie’s path How seasonal astrology can help you understand your own cycles and make clearer choices Why structure, safety, and self-expression are more connected than you think Laurel also brings her signature astrological lens to Mackenzie’s chart, tracing the patterns behind early experiences of danger, voice suppression, and the lifelong need for clear rules, grounding, and agency. The conversation reveals how formative moments can echo for decades, and how healing asks you to reclaim choice where it was once taken away. This episode is for anyone who has ever felt too much, too loud, too sensitive, or too unsure of their place. It’s also for the practitioners, creatives, and spiritual seekers who want a deeper understanding of how astrology, embodiment, and energy work can support real transformation. Mackenzie shares how those lessons now live inside Big Love Studio, where she offers seasonal astrology, shamanic healing sessions, and gentle yoga practices designed to help people feel more at home in themselves. If you’re craving a conversation that is equal parts insight, resonance, and soul-deep permission, this one will stay with you. Get in Mackenzie’s Orbit: @biglovestudio | http://biglovestudio.com/ (http://biglovestudio.com/) Get in Laurel’s Orbit: @astro_aries | soularcastrology.com/madeforthis (http://soularcastrology.com/madeforthis) Chapters 00:00 Meet Mackenzie Gelina: Shamanic Healing, Yoga & Astrology 00:52 From People-Pleasing to Shamanic Healing 04:35 Yoga, Discomfort & Learning to Trust Yourself 07:22 Reading Mackenzie’s Birth Chart 12:22 How Childhood Experiences Shape Adult Patterns 14:03 The Childhood Drowning Experience That Resurfaced Years Later 21:17 Childhood Trauma, Emotional Safety & Self-Expression 31:31 Libra Moon, Emotional Comfort & Overgiving 34:36 Pluto, Authority & Being Told She Was “Too Much” 48:55 Relationships, Identity & Learning to Choose Yourself 59:43 Finding Her Voice Through Art, Astrology & Self-Advocacy 01:18:55 Grief, Life, Death & Rebirth Cycles 01:25:13 Truth, Self-Trust & Shamanic Healing 01:29:49 Breaking the Rules of People-Pleasing 01:35:08 The Ever-Evolving Journey of Becoming Yourself

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   7 Sept 2026

   EP13 Divergent Destinations: Following the Divine Downloads with Kacie Knight

   Laurel Kassor interviews Kacie Knight, founder of Luminous Evolution, about the winding path that led her from movement arts and crisis support to spiritual education and embodied transformation. Together, they trace the early experiences, identity deaths, divine downloads, and repeated reinventions that shaped Kacie’s work with lightworkers, entrepreneurs, and seekers. Kacie shares how her approach blends energy work, subconscious rewiring, movement, and “reality recoding” to move people beyond insight into lived change. Laurel uses Kacie’s birth chart and the Soul ARC Astrology™ developmental age method to connect the constellations between her story, her purpose, and her capacity to help others navigate transformation. Key topics • Kacie’s unexpected path from aspiring professor to gymnast, crisis worker, doula, professional hula hooper, movement teacher, and spiritual educator • Evolutionary alchemy, embodied transformation, and Kacie’s “prep the field” practice • Why mystical experiences without identity-level integration can become “mystical masturbation” • Receiving her first “divine assignment” around age 8 • A serious gymnastics injury and fractured neck that ended one identity and opened another • Leadership, operations management, crisis response, and training crisis-line volunteers • Becoming a professional hula hooper at 28 and building a business around movement, flow, and embodied teaching • Motherhood as initiation and another divine download that called Kacie into online spiritual work • Ceres-Neptune, rhythm, regulation, embodied channeling, and spiritual openness • Trusting the process, reclaiming mastery, and expanding our capacity to hold transformation Timestamps 00:00 - Welcome + Kacie Knight 02:05 - From professor dreams to spiritual work 05:52 - “Prep the field” + holistic transformation 06:58 - Mystical experience vs. embodiment 09:22 - The developmental age method 11:13 - Breech birth, early delivery + C-section 15:29 - Chiron in Taurus: assess, diagnose, correct 17:41 - Jupiter in Scorpio: death + rebirth 20:23 - Sagittarius stellium + drive to teach 24:54 - Belonging + the next developmental layer 27:11 - Kacie’s first divine assignment 36:30 - Life as a competitive trampoline gymnast 37:13 - Fractured neck + identity death 43:03 - Neptune, Ceres, rhythm + circles 45:33 - Altered states + worship through movement 47:27 - Pluto-Saturn: authority, crisis + responsibility 53:43 - Training crisis-line volunteers 58:20 - Saturn return, marriage + business formation 60:32 - Doula work, dance + a new path 67:46 - Jupiter vs. Chiron: teacher vs. practitioner 71:22 - Motherhood as initiation 71:33 - Divine download + moving online 73:56 - Trusting process + the 12/6 axis 80:02 - Neptune-Ceres + embodied channeling 85:56 - The completion cycle + reclaiming mastery 91:26 - Evolutionary codex + mastery of process 95:15 - Reverse nodes + the import/export model 101:40 - Sparkle Field Activation + working with Kacie 106:07 - Soul ARC readings + closing ABOUT KACIE KNIGHT Kacie Knight is a spiritual educator, rebirth specialist, and the founder of Luminous Evolution, a mystery school for lightworkers ready to own their gifts. Through her signature method, Evolutionary Alchemy, she blends embodiment work, belief repatterning, and divine channeling to help people bring their soul's magic into tangible, real-world form. Connect with Kacie: http://www.kacieknight.com/links (http://www.kacieknight.com/links) Connect with Laurel & support the show: http://www.soularcastrology.com/madeforthis (http://www.soularcastrology.com/madeforthis)

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   31 Aug 2026

   EP12 Voicing The Invisible: Trusting Your Voice Enough to Be Seen with Kelsey Lewis

   The way you learn to use your voice as a child can shape everything - confidence, visibility, perfectionism, even the career you build. Astrologer Laurel Kassor and tarot baddie Kelsey Lewis trace the hidden moments that taught Kelsey when it felt safe to speak, when it felt risky to be seen, and how those early patterns later showed up in teaching, wellness, podcasting, and personal reinvention. Kelsey - a former teacher, intuitive coach, tarot reader, and co-host of Tarot Tales - shares the lived experiences behind her transformation: the seven years she spent teaching, the Saturn return that blew her life open, and the moment she realized her voice, body, and presence were all connected to a deeper pattern of self-trust. Laurel uses Kelsey’s birth chart to reveal why her story keeps circling back to communication, belonging, and the tension between being an individual and being part of a collective. You'll discover: Why Mercury in Cancer can make voice, care, and safety inseparable How a childhood attachment pattern can echo into adulthood as fear of being unheard What a Leo Sun in the fifth house reveals about visibility, creativity, and being celebrated Why a sun-moon opposition can create a lifelong dance between self-expression and collective awareness How Chiron and Pluto show up in moments of embarrassment, pressure, reinvention, and purpose What starts as an astrology reading becomes a powerful story about identity, visibility, and the strange way childhood moments can become the blueprint for adulthood. If you’ve ever wondered why certain situations still hit a nerve - public speaking, being judged, changing paths, or finally being seen - this conversation hits home. Perfect for astrology lovers, former teachers, creative entrepreneurs, anyone navigating reinvention, and listeners who want a deeper understanding of how early emotional patterns shape the life you build next. Timestamps 05:12 Childhood Development and Early Experiences 18:53 Navigating Childhood and Family Dynamics 28:22 Balancing Individuality and Collective Awareness 35:58 The Role of Chiron in Personal Growth 48:08 Navigating Authority and Performance Anxiety 57:15 Transformation Through Action and Self-Discovery 01:02:50 The Influence of Jupiter in Relationships 01:09:51 Podcasting: A New Era of Visibility 01:18:45 Crisis of Purpose in Higher Education 01:26:59 Self-Discovery and Expression ABOUT KELSEY LEWIS Kelsey Lewis is an intuitive coach, tarot and oracle reader, and the founder of Soul Light Affirmations, where she helps people navigate personal growth and life transitions with grounded, practical tools. She's also co-host of the podcast Tarot Tales alongside Heather Schultz. RESOURCES Tarot Tales podcast (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9MBdcni7Zrp4I1DEtaHK3WBVqcesEwnb) Bookings: soullightaffirmations.com (http://soullightaffirmations.com) Instagram: @soullightaffirmations (https://www.instagram.com/soullightaffirmations/) 📲 Find Laurel: (http://www.instagram.com/soularc_astrology)Threads: @astro_aries (http://www.threads.com/astro_aries)Work with Laurel → (http://soularcastrology.com/links)soularcastrology.com/madeforthis (http://soularcastrology.com/madeforthis)

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   24 Aug 2026

   EP11 The Edge of Liminality: Turning Supernatural Survival into Spiritual Skills with Rae Cyr

   What happens when the impossible doesn’t just happen to you—but leaves witnesses? In this episode of Made for This, Laurel sits down with psychic medium, author, trauma coach, and Sunshine Seer founder Rae Cyr to trace a life lived at the edge of liminality. Born blue and placed in an oxygen chamber, Rae entered the world already hovering between life and death. From hearing spirits call her name in a centuries-old home to experiencing a premonition of her father’s death, being physically defended by an unseen presence, and leaving an echo of herself behind at the scene of a devastating car accident, Rae’s spiritual gifts have never existed solely in theory. Using Laurel’s Developmental Age Method, they follow the formative plot points embedded in Rae’s birth chart—including Ceres and Pluto in Scorpio, her Aries Sun, Mercury in Aries, and Chiron in Cancer—and uncover how consistently her chart reflects the experiences that shaped her. Content note: This conversation includes discussions of childhood loss, domestic violence, substance misuse, near-death experiences, physical assault, and a serious car accident. Please listen with care. Together, they explore: What it means to live and receive information outside ordinary time The moment Rae’s spiritual experiences became physically undeniable How an intuitive warning helped Rae survive a catastrophic car accident Why her friend continued hearing Rae’s voice after Rae had been removed from the car The relationship between trauma, psychic perception, and practical problem-solving How Rae became a safe place for people navigating stories others struggle to hold Why her hardest experiences now inform her advocacy, teaching, spiritual work, and game development How survival becomes service when the wound shows you which problem you’re here to solve Rae’s story is living proof that the chapters that nearly take you out can become the exact experiences that prepare you to help someone else find their way through. Connect with Rae, explore her consultations, community, books, upcoming events, and follow the development of her metaphysically accurate divination game, Sunnyvale, at sunshineseer.org (http://sunshineseer.org). ABOUT RAE CYR Rae Cyr is a psychic medium, certified trauma coach, and the founder of Sunshine Seer LLC, where she offers readings, consultations, and spellwork to help people move past limiting beliefs and align with their desired reality. She's the author of the upcoming book Wellness Is a Witch and is developing an educational tarot and divination video game (referred to in-episode as "Sunvale" — confirm exact title), designed to teach real metaphysical skills through play. She also serves on the board of the Connecticut Welcoming Pagan Network. Website: sunshineseer.org (http://sunshineseer.org)Threads: @sunshine.seer (https://l.threads.com/sunshine.seer) 📲 Find Laurel: (http://www.instagram.com/soularc_astrology)Threads: @astro_aries (http://www.threads.com/astro_aries)💫 Work with Laurel → soularcastrology.com/links (http://soularcastrology.com/links)🌀 Join The Kindred → soularcastrology.com/thekindred (http://soularcastrology.com/thekindred)

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   17 Aug 2026

   EP10 Rebuilding Reality: Returning to the Body After Psychological Abuse with Kirsten Mah

   Warning: Listener discretion advised She learned early that getting hurt was the only way she’d receive love. Then she married into eight and a half years of coercive control, drug-fueled delusion, and isolation so total she didn't know reality had cracked until after illusion shattered. Kirsten Mah went from Canadian army reservist to solo mom of three to the woman who built the astrology software that . In this episode, Kirsten and Laurel trace her chart all the way back to a formative moment at one year old, through a childhood punishment that taught her body’s pain equals attention, into a relationship with a man living in a full delusional break, and out the other side into the work she's building now: trauma-informed massage therapy fused with medical astrology. Her chart doesn't just confirm the story. It maps the exact cosmic mechanics of how she survived it — and how she's putting herself back together, on her own terms. What you'll walk away with: — Why "you need a sense of self before you can set a boundary" isn't a platitude, it's the mechanism disordered relationships exploit — How a single childhood incident can wire a nervous system to associate punishment with love, and what it actually takes to unwire it — Why Kirsten now treats astrology, medicine, and the body as one interconnected system instead of separate specialties Chart tease: Kirsten's Pluto-Ceres conjunction in Sagittarius in the 5th house is the throughline of her story — the same placement that shaped an early wound around touch and pleasure is the placement driving her toward trauma-informed therapy as her life's work. ABOUT KIRSTEN Kirsten Mah is a Canadian army veteran, solo mom of three, and the creator of Cosmic Mechanics — the astrology software Laurel personally uses and swears by. She's currently training to become a Registered Massage Therapist, building a practice that fuses bodywork, medical astrology, and trauma-informed healing. Kirsten writes and teaches about astrology and healing online, where she's building a following on the strength of making complex spiritual and psychological concepts actually make sense. Website: https://cosmicmechanics.com/ (https://cosmicmechanics.com/)Instagram: www.instagram.com/the.heartcore.healer (http://www.instagram.com/the.heartcore.healer) Threads: www.threads.com/the.heartcore.healer (http://www.threads.com/the.heartcore.healer) About The Show Astrology doesn’t happen to you. It happens through you. Welcome to Made for This, the podcast where we demonstrate the “holy cow - I feel so seen” power of Soul ARC Astrology™—a pioneering system of Astrological Awareness, Psychological Resonance, and Quantum Creation. Hosted by astrologer Laurel Kassor, we explore the intersection of the stars and the soul to turn your "abstract" experiences into "impactful" success. Whether you are a spiritual entrepreneur, creative, educator, or soulful seeker every episode is a living case study for your own evolution. Connect with Laurel: ✨ Enter my orbit: www.soularcastrology.com/madeforthis (http://www.soularcastrology.com/madeforthis) 🪡 Let’s yap on Threads: www.threads.com/astro_aries (http://www.threads.com/astro_aries) 🎙️ Full Podcast Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMaPs5YTemd4&si=uDDsjg7xVbfOhkam (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMaPs5YTemd4&si=uDDsjg7xVbfOhkam)

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   10 Aug 2026

   EP09 Alchemy Through Humiliation: Turning Shame into High Performing Copy with Ilana Khin

   Ilana Khin spent her whole life terrified of being humiliated — until she built an entire coaching practice around walking straight into it instead of away from it. In this episode, Ilana Khin, copywriter and Existential Kink–certified coach, joins Laurel to talk about existential kink coaching, honest business performance, and why the fear of humiliation might be the most useful thing in your chart. What you'll walk away with: Why chasing "authenticity" as a brand identity can actually be the least honest thing you do and what to build instead The reframe Ilana calls "alchemy through humiliation," and why she says it's the fastest path to real creative and business power How to spot the difference between a business built on performance and one built on honest expression, before your audience does Chart tease:  Ilana's Chiron sits in the house of public image, locked in a tight square to the placement that gave her, as an infant, her first lesson that strangers — and attention — aren't safe. "Alchemy through humiliation" isn't a phrase Ilana found. It's the shape of her chart. ABOUT ILANA KHIN Ilana Khin is the copywriter and Existential Kink–certified coach behind Creatrix Copy, where she helps solopreneurs, mystics, and artists write and build from their most honest selves instead of a polished performance. She's currently mid soul-initiation — she sold what she owned, went nomadic in 2025, and has been dancing her way through Latin America. Threads: www.threads.com/ilana.khin (http://www.threads.com/ilana.khin)Website: https://linktr.ee/ilanakhin (https://linktr.ee/ilanakhin) About This Channel Astrology doesn’t happen to you. It happens through you. Welcome to Made for This, the podcast where we demonstrate the “holy cow - I feel so seen” power of Soul ARC Astrology™—a pioneering system of Astrological Awareness, Psychological Resonance, and Quantum Creation. Hosted by astrologer Laurel Kassor, we explore the intersection of the stars and the soul to turn your "abstract" experiences into "impactful" success. Whether you are a spiritual entrepreneur, creative, educator, or soulful seeker every episode is a living case study for your own evolution. Connect with Laurel: ✨ Enter my orbit: www.soularcastrology.com/madeforthis (http://www.soularcastrology.com/madeforthis) 🪡 Let’s yap on Threads: www.threads.com/astro_aries (http://www.threads.com/astro_aries) Stay in orbit by subscribing & sprinkle some stardust by sharing this podcast with the astro baddies in your life.

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    3 Aug 2026

    EP08 The Body Keeps The Receipts: Trusting Yourself After Trauma with Nastia Artamonova

    Somatic practitioner Nastia Artamonova nearly drowned at two years old — and spent the next thirty years learning how to trust her own body again. In this episode of Made for This, astrologer Laurel Kassor pairs Nastia's story with a live birth chart reading, tracing an exact Chiron-Moon conjunction in Leo through a lifetime of fascia work, nervous system healing, and reclaiming safety in the body. Nastia is a somatic practitioner, body educator, and public speaker who calls herself a body alchemist, someone who survived decades of combat training in her own body and turned it to gold. Laurel reads Nastia's exact Chiron-Moon conjunction in Leo against her natal Ceres-Sun-Mercury stellium in Pisces, showing how an infancy spent being filmed rather than held became a lifelong pattern of needing to be witnessed to feel safe — and how her Saturn return finally forced her to trust her own body instead of outsourcing that job to everyone else. If you've ever needed someone else's permission to trust your own body, this episode is made for you. What you'll walk away with: Why physical symptoms are often the body's way of surfacing unprocessed emotion, and how to work backward from symptom to root cause How a single early-childhood event can quietly shape decades of self-trust, and how to spot that pattern in your own life What it actually means to trust your body again, beyond the wellness cliché, and how fascia hydration factors into nervous system safety Chart tease: Nastia's exact Chiron-Moon conjunction in Leo shows up right at birth, tied to a lifelong pattern of needing to be seen to feel safe — and her Saturn return finally forced her to build that safety from within instead of outsourcing it to everyone else. CHAPTERS 00:00 Meet Nastia Artamonova, the body alchemist turning survival into her life's work 01:20 What "somatic practitioner" actually means 07:12 Reading Nastia's chart: Chiron-Moon conjunction in Leo, front and center from birth 16:57 Raised through a camera lens: being filmed instead of held 23:29 The near-drowning at two years old, told in full for the first time on mic 27:09 The one time no one was watching: connecting the pond to a lifetime of self-trust 33:44 Why Nastia works backward from the body to solve problems most people chase in the mind 37:16 Moving to Italy alone at nineteen and the identity crisis that followed 47:37 Saturn return during lockdown: opening a bar and becoming "the lady in red" 59:21 When Saturn demolished everything: losing her home, her health, her sense of self 1:02:18 Her Kundalini awakening and the exact day she remembers being reborn 1:09:27 Why she waited for permission to call herself a somatic practitioner 1:19:21 Fascianated: the fascia-hydration course that turned out to be her life's work ABOUT NASTIA ARTAMONOVA Nastia Artamonova is a somatic practitioner, body educator, and public speaker who helps people reconnect the mind-body relationship through fascia work and nervous system education. Website: www.nastialavista.com (www.nastialavista.com) CONNECT WITH LAUREL KASSOR Website: soularcastrology.com (http://soularcastrology.com) Stay in orbit by subscribing, let me know what's resonating and leave a comment, sprinkle some stardust by sharing with the Astro Hoes™ in your life. #SomaticHealing #BirthChartReading #MadeForThis

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    27 Jul 2026

    EP07 Processing Past Lives: Writing Through the Witch Wound with Lanna Graham

    Before she had words for it, she already felt the pull of the unknownl. She was barely a year old when she climbed toward the flame. What she learned instead wasn't about fire. It was that exploring the unknown comes with a cost. But Lanna Grace has been burned before — literally. And she's done letting that stop her. In this episode of Made for This with Laurel Kassor, energy expert and dark romance author Lanna Grace shares the story behind nearly two decades of spiritual work, multiple lifetimes of being killed for her gifts, and how she's finally channeling it all into fiction that processes past life karma in real time. Through a live Soul Arc Astrology™ reading, Laurel reveals the birth chart signatures of the witch wound, Pillar 12 saturation, and why people with this level of Neptune placement are literally built to receive from beyond the veil. Together, they explore: ✨ Neptune square the Sun — why oracles keep suppressing their gifts to survive ✨ Chiron in Taurus in the 6th house — psychic senses as a technical skill set ✨ What childhood abandonments look like in a birth chart — in real time ✨ Being called a liar at 14 in court — and how writing became the healing ✨ Past lives, the witch wound, and why the exploration kept getting her killed ✨ Neptune transiting a 4th house Pisces stellium — 14 years of beautiful, brutal meandering ✨ Dark romance as active alchemy — channeling past life memory into fiction ✨ The difference between free flow writing and automatic writing ✨ Chiron moving into Taurus — what it's activating for Gen X right now ✨ Why so much of what we call mental illness is unscaffolded spiritual awakening Lanna opens up about a childhood shaped by abandonment, abuse, and the suppression of gifts so powerful they got her killed in past lives, a 14-year spiritual unraveling that began the moment Neptune entered Pisces, and the moment she finally stopped performing her spirituality and started writing from it instead. This conversation is for anyone who has ever thought: Why do I feel everything so much more than everyone around me? Why does following my intuition always seem to come with a cost? Why do I know things I have no logical right to know? Am I too weird, too deep, too much for this world? What if everything I've been through was actually preparing me for this? If you've ever felt like your magic was more burden than gift — and wondered if you'd ever find people who actually get it — this episode is for you. 📲 Find LANNA GRACE: @Threads: @moonoverpisces Website: www.campsite.bio/moonoverpisces (http://www.campsite.bio/moonoverpisces) 📲 Find LAUREL KASSOR: Instagram: @soularc_astrology (http://www.instagram.com/soularc_astrology)Threads: @astro_aries (http://www.threads.com/astro_aries)💫 Work with Laurel → soularcastrology.com/links (http://soularcastrology.com/links)🌀 Join The Kindred → soularcastrology.com/thekindred (http://soularcastrology.com/thekindred)

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    20 Jul 2026

    E06 Near Death, New Direction: Fight, Flow, & Find Your Way to Inner Safety with Patricia Scibek

    Since childhood, the only consistent thing in her life was inconsistency — constant moves, shifting caretakers, and a survival instinct that taught her the best defense was a good offense. But when a ruptured appendix became a near-death experience, she was forced beyond the veil and came back with all the answers. Patricia Scibek is an oracle, writer, and adventurer living in Egypt. Through divination, mediumship, animal communication, and intuitive guidance, she helps people navigate both the visible and unseen worlds with greater trust and clarity. In this episode, Patricia shares her cinematic journey—from a premature birth that had her in an incubator, to the horses that taught her how to regulate and trust herself, to the deadly experience that awakened a deeper relationship with intuition and transformed the way she sees the world. Through a live Soul Arc Astrology reading, Laurel reveals the birth chart signatures of survival, nervous system regulation, spiritual awakening, and the alchemy that becomes possible when we stop dismissing our sensitivity and start honoring it. If you've ever sensed there was more to this world than you could explain—or wondered if your sensitivity might actually be your greatest gift—this episode is for you. CHART TEASE A chart built to survive anything and metabolize. Patricia's placements speak to a lifelong reckoning with protection, belonging, and the slow discovery that the most powerful container she could offer others was the one she first built within herself—through horses, through martial arts, through revolutions, through death, and back again. IN THIS EPISODE Losing a second mother figure before age one & what that imprinted early A premature birth, constant moving & grandparents as the golden ticket Manifesting a horse at seven and what it actually taught her about trust & nervous system regulation Martial arts since thirteen & mastering survival through structure Growing up without religion and staying open to the unseen world The near-death experience that changed everything Living through two Egyptian revolutions Founding a nonprofit for Indigenous women's self-defense Letting go of martyrdom & why oracle work expands her instead of depleting her "I came back with all the answers and none of the questions. You have to prompt me. You ask the question and I'm like — yeah, I know this." "The horse gave me stability. It gave me trust. It gave me consistency. The only thing consistent in my life before that was inconsistency." "This is the only thing that makes me expand. Everything else required me to shave off pieces of myself. My oracle work doesn't." ABOUT PATRICIA SCIBEK Patricia Scibek is an oracle, writer, and wanderer based in Egypt who has spent her life moving between the visible and invisible worlds — literally and figuratively. She offers pay-what-you-can divination rooted in the belief that intuitive guidance should be accessible to everyone, and her readings draw on tarot, mediumship, animal communication, and past life regression. Website: psoracle.com (http://www.psoracle.com)Social: @psoracle CONNECT WITH LAUREL Laurel Kassor is an astro-oracle, biz strategist, and the founder of Soul Arc Astrology™ — a system that turns birth charts into precision tools for real-world impact. She hosts Made for This, where she pairs guests' lived stories with live chart readings to prove, episode after episode, that astrology doesn't happen to you — it happens through you. Website: soularcastrology.com

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    13 Jul 2026

    E05 Holding Up the Moon: Stabilizing the Emotional Body with Oriyah Soul

    She watched her mother lose herself in relationships, watched her father get arrested at ten, survived enmeshment, abandonment wounds, PMDD, and a nervous system crash—and she's only twenty-two years old. Oriyah Soul is an entrepreneur, poet, and cycle-syncing guide who helps women remember that their bodies are not betraying them. They're communicating with them. In this episode, Oriyah shares the experiences that shaped her: growing up with a single mother, deciding at a young age that she would never repeat the patterns she witnessed, building an entire inner world to survive, and eventually realizing that the very wounds she tried to outrun were living inside her body. Through a live Soul Arc Astrology reading, Laurel reveals the birth chart signatures of inherited pain, emotional resilience, and the profound connection between our bodies, our histories, and our healing. If you've ever looked at your parents and thought, "That will never be me," only to discover those same patterns quietly living inside you—this episode is for you. CHART TEASE A chart built to feel deeply, survive profoundly, and turn pain into wisdom. Oriyah's placements speak to a lifetime of breaking generational cycles, listening to the body, and helping others understand that healing often begins with what our symptoms are trying to say. IN THIS EPISODE • Growing up with a single mother and witnessing unhealthy relationships • Childhood enmeshment and deciding not to repeat inherited patterns • Her father's arrest and the impact of emotional absence • Building an inner world as a way to survive • PMDD, burnout, and a nervous system collapse at twenty • Learning to stop abandoning herself • The connection between emotional pain and physical symptoms • Why the body often carries what the mind isn't ready to face • Cycle syncing, shadow work, and helping women reconnect with themselves MEMORABLE MOMENTS "I am Mother Earth. I embody her. I am here to plant seeds on her behalf." "I looked at my mother from a very young age and I said: that will never be me." "My mother taught me how to fantasize without actualizing." "My body said: Oriyah, enough is enough. You have to face your demons because you're carrying them in your body." "I take a symptom and I show people how it's mirroring their emotional world." ABOUT ORIYAH SOUL Oriyah Soul is an entrepreneur, poet, and cycle-syncing guide who helps women reconnect with their bodies, rhythms, and emotional worlds. Through a blend of cycle syncing, shadow work, somatic practices, and intuitive guidance, she teaches that symptoms aren't betrayals—they're messages. CONNECT WITH ORIYAH SOUL Website: Substack (https://l.threads.com/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fopen.substack.com%2Fpub%2Foriyahsoul%3Futm_source%3Dthreads%26utm_medium%3Dsocial%26utm_content%3Dlink_in_bio%26utm_id%3D97760_v0_s00_e0_tv3_a1denngihlxeri&e=AUBCpshGdCUJE4q_2J1Ch1mWiMd4w76RoWydDbSxWBuoQ3YCnSWaBPm93EO0ra1E4En8D-mKehh1pSiLDegdYNFnf4I8bSY0rfAqR7cPig) Instagram: @oriyahsoul.intuitive.af Threads: @oriyahsoul.intuitive.af CONNECT WITH LAUREL Website: soularcastrology.com (http://soularcastrology.com) Instagram: @soularc_astrology Threads: @astro_aries Join The Kindred: soularcastrology.com/thekindred (http://soularcastrology.com/thekindred) If this conversation lit something up in you, subscribe, leave a review, and share it with someone who needs to hear it.

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    6 Jul 2026

    E04 Making Sense of the Mess: Why Intuition Is a Business Strategy with Veronica Dietz

    She was lost in the ocean at one year old, nonverbal until three, adultified at five, and somehow still grew up knowing exactly what she wanted—including the house she manifested at eleven by visualizing it so clearly that when her parents finally showed it to her, she said: "Yeah. I made that happen." Veronica Dietz is a business advisor, brand architect, and founder of Tyche Digital Agency and VD Advisory Group, where she helps founders uncover the invisible, load-bearing issues keeping their businesses stuck—the problems hiding underneath the loud symptoms everyone else is trying to fix. In this episode, Veronica shares the experiences that shaped her: learning to reinvent herself every time her family moved, being kicked out two weeks before her eighteenth birthday, becoming a single mother, quitting a job on Friday and moving to Las Vegas by Sunday, and slowly learning to trust the intuition she'd spent years trying to control. Through a live Soul Arc Astrology reading, Laurel reveals the birth chart's pattern recognition, discernment, and a lifetime of seeing things before everyone else does. If you've ever felt like you could see things other people couldn't—but weren't sure whether to trust yourself—this episode is for you. CHART TEASE A chart built to observe everything, trust the downloads, and make sense of what everyone else misses. Veronica's placements speak to a lifetime of learning that intuition isn't the opposite of strategy—it can be the strategy. IN THIS EPISODE • Being lost in the ocean at one year old and growing up with uncertainty from the start • Being nonverbal until three and learning to observe before speaking • Reinventing herself every time her family moved • Manifesting the exact house she wanted at eleven • Getting kicked out before her eighteenth birthday and rebuilding from scratch • Why pattern recognition often gets mislabeled as manipulation • Divorce, single motherhood, and learning to trust herself • Why intuition became the foundation of her work and business philosophy MEMORABLE MOMENTS "The truth is I was born this way. It took years of learning to trust that gut, trust those downloads." "Every time we moved, I thought: this is a new opportunity. I get to rebrand myself." "I manifested that house. And I looked at my parents and said: Yeah, I made that happen." "I'm a manipulator. But I could just see what everyone needed—and I used my powers for good." "No one is coming to rescue you, Veronica. You have to be this person you keep giving to everyone else." ABOUT VERONICA DIETZ Veronica Dietz is a business advisor, brand architect, and founder of Tyche Digital Agency and VD Advisory Group based in Las Vegas. She helps founders stop chasing loud symptoms and start solving the quiet, underlying issues actually driving the problem—using a blend of strategy, psychology, pattern recognition, and what she lovingly calls "damn near psychic discernment." CONNECT WITH VERONICA Website: thealignededit.veronicadietz.com (http://thealignededit.veronicadietz.com) Threads: @theveronicadietz Podcast: The Aligned Edit with Veronica Dietz (https://open.spotify.com/show/2QikcYUpQiOXq9zy6pSvab) CONNECT WITH LAUREL Website: soularcastrology.com (http://soularcastrology.com) Threads: @astro_aries Join The Kindred: soularcastrology.com/thekindred (http://soularcastrology.com/thekindred)

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    3 Jul 2026

    E03 Walking Between Worlds: Grief as a Portal to Purpose with M Abeo

    CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains themes of abuse, sexual assault, suicide, depression, and grief. At seventeen, lying in a hospital bed after a suicide attempt, M Abeo made a vow: nobody would ever make them feel like they didn't want to exist again. They've spent the last three decades learning how to keep it. M Abeo is a storyteller, photographer, two-time TEDx speaker, author, and Suicide Care Tender whose work creates spaces where people feel seen, heard, and valued in the depths of their most painful moments. Raised in a strict Roman Catholic Italian household, M questioned God at nine, survived assault and depression at 17, and lost their brother while thirty thousand feet in the air, flying away from his city. In this conversation, M shares the experiences that shaped them: finding their voice in a family that didn't make room for it, learning to live with profound grief, navigating identity as a queer and trans person, and discovering that their deepest wounds were the blueprint for their life's work. Through a live Soul Arc Astrology reading, Laurel reveals the birth chart signatures of grief, resilience, and the extraordinary capacity to walk in darkness, gather meaning there, and return carrying something useful for others. M didn't just survive the underworld, they built a sanctuary inside it. If you've ever wondered whether your pain could become your purpose—this episode is for you. CHART TEASE A chart built to walk between worlds and come back with something to offer the people still trying to find their way through. M's placements speak to a lifetime of transforming grief, loss, and survival into art, community, and care. IN THIS EPISODE • Growing up in a strict Catholic household and questioning God at nine • Losing their brother and learning to live with grief • Surviving sexual assault, depression, and a suicide attempt at seventeen • Being queer, trans, and learning to live authentically • The surprising role a $15.99 plant played in healing • How Faces of Fortitude and The Little Bloom Book were born • Why pain can become purpose when it's witnessed and given somewhere meaningful to go • Building a community centered on grief care and belonging MEMORABLE MOMENTS "I have this deep innate need in me to make sure other people don't hurt the way I have." "I'm never gonna let anybody make me feel this way ever again." "That $15.99 plant got a schedule, got oils, got grace." "If you cut that shit down and you find out what's under that growth for you—you're unfucking stoppable." ABOUT M ABEO M Abeo is a storyteller, photographer, two-time TEDx speaker, author, and Suicide Care Tender. Through their portrait project, Faces of Fortitude, and their growing suicide care community, M creates spaces where survivors feel seen and reminded of a simple truth: this was a big deal, and so are you. CONNECT WITH M ABEO Website: Faces of Fortitude (http://linktr.ee/facesoffortitude) Instagram + Threads: @facesoffortitude Book: The Little Bloom Book (https://store.bookbaby.com/book/the-little-bloom-book) CONNECT WITH LAUREL Website: soularcastrology.com (http://soularcastrology.com) Threads: @astro_aries Join The Kindred: soularcastrology.com/thekindred (http://soularcastrology.com/thekindred) If this episode sparked something for you, subscribe, leave a review, and share it with someone who needs to hear it.

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    3 Jul 2026

    E01 Can't Run From the Dead: Embracing Mediumship with Casey Cady

    She saw her first dead person at five years old, grew up being told her gift was demonic, and spent decades trying to outrun something that absolutely refused to leave. Casey Cady is a psychic medium, educator, and mentor based in Rhode Island who helps people connect with their deceased loved ones, navigate life's transitions, and find peace on the other side of grief. But before she built a thriving practice, she spent years hiding her abilities inside an evangelical world where anything outside of Jesus was considered possession. In this episode, Casey shares the winding road that brought her home to herself: seeing spirits as a child, struggling with religious trauma and OCD, running away at eighteen, leaving Christianity, becoming a mother, and the unexpected TikTok that changed everything. Through a live Soul Arc Astrology reading, Laurel reveals the birth chart signatures behind Casey's journey and why the very thing she was taught to fear became the work she was always meant to do. If you've ever been told that the thing calling you is dangerous, wrong, or not for someone like you—this episode is for you. BIRTH CHART TEASE A chart built to make the invisible visible. Casey's placements speak to a lifelong journey of transforming fear into purpose, finding belonging after religious conditioning, and becoming the person others turn to when they need to feel safe in the dark. IN THIS EPISODE • Growing up evangelical and being taught her gifts were demonic • Seeing spirits as a child and hiding it for years • Religious trauma, OCD, and fear of possession • Running away at eighteen and rebuilding her life • Coming out and leaving Christianity • The TikTok that unexpectedly launched her mediumship career • Why grief work became her calling • Turning childhood fear into purpose MEMORABLE MOMENTS "I can't run from the dead. They will go over oceans of time to find you." "No one's really afraid of the dark until you make someone afraid of the dark." "I took something that was so terrifying to me and turned it into something that is really beautiful." "You're never out of alignment with your birth chart. You're just in an alignment you don't like at the moment." ABOUT CASEY CADY Casey Cady is a psychic medium, educator, and mentor who helps people reconnect with their loved ones on the other side of grief. Through private readings, mentorship, and group events, she creates spaces where people can experience healing, connection, and the comfort of knowing that love doesn't end with death. CONNECT WITH CASEY Website: www.caseycady.com (http://www.caseycady.com) Instagram: @casey.cady.mediumri Threads: @casey.cady.mediumri CONNECT WITH LAUREL Website: soularcastrology.com (http://soularcastrology.com) Instagram: @soularc_astrology Threads: @astro_aries Join The Kindred: soularcastrology.com/thekindred (http://soularcastrology.com/thekindred) If this conversation lit something up in you, subscribe, leave a review, and share it with someone who needs to hear it. Because astrology doesn't happen to you. It happens through you.

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    3 Jul 2026

    E02 Alchemizing the Exile: Reclaiming Identity with Giulia the Polymath

    CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains discussions of parental abuse, emotional manipulation, suicidal thoughts, and disordered eating. She grew up as an echo of someone else—told what to believe, how to behave, and even what to like. Then one December day, the tower fell, and Guila walked out the door with everything she owned and never looked back. Guila is the founder of Words of Algol and a true polymath whose studies span occultism, philosophy, psychology, astrology, numerology, and human design. Today, she helps people reclaim authorship of their own lives by reading the fine print on their soul's story. In this episode, Guila shares what it was like growing up in an isolated and controlling environment, being shaped into someone she never truly was, and the moment she realized she had to choose herself—even if it meant losing everything she had ever known. Through a live Soul Arc Astrology reading, Laurel reveals the birth chart signatures of exile, identity reclamation, and the alchemy that can happen when survival finally gives way to self-discovery. If you've ever wondered who you might be without everyone else's expectations living inside you—this episode is for you. CHART TEASE A chart built to dismantle inherited identities and transform survival into wisdom. Guila's placements speak to a lifetime of questioning, rebuilding, and learning that becoming yourself sometimes requires grieving the person you were taught to be. IN THIS EPISODE • Growing up under parental control and emotional manipulation • The experience of never being allowed to develop an authentic identity • The tower moment that changed everything at seventeen • Why anger can become a catalyst for healing • Learning to trust yourself after years of conditioning • Rebuilding life from the ground up • The relationship between survival and discernment • Turning pain into a practice of helping others reclaim themselves MEMORABLE MOMENTS "I realized I didn't even know what I liked." "Everything I thought I knew about myself had been chosen for me." "Sometimes leaving is the first time you get to meet yourself." "Anger wasn't the opposite of healing—it was the thing that finally let me exist." ABOUT GUILA Guila is the founder of Words of Algol and a multidisciplinary practitioner whose work blends occultism, philosophy, psychology, and symbolic systems to help people understand themselves more deeply. Through her writing and guidance, she invites others to question inherited narratives and reclaim the freedom to choose who they want to become. CONNECT WITH GUILA Website: Words of Algol (http://linktr.ee/thehdprofiler) Instagram: @wordsofalgol (www.instagram.com/wordsofalgol) Threads: @wordsofalgol (https://www.threads.com/@wordsofalgol) CONNECT WITH LAUREL Website: soularcastrology.com (http://soularcastrology.com) Instagram: @soularc_astrology (http://www.instagram.com/soularc_astrology) Threads: @astro_aries (http://www.threads.com/astro_aries) Join The Kindred: soularcastrology.com/thekindred (http://soularcastrology.com/thekindred) If this conversation lit something up in you, subscribe, leave a review, and share it with someone who needs to hear it.

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    16 Jun 2026

    E00: Made For This: Reinventing the Zodiac Wheel with Laurel Kassor

    What if your birth chart wasn't something that happened to you — but something that happens through you? Before the guests, before the live readings, before any of it — this is the episode where it all begins. Laurel Kassor pulls back the curtain on the wild, winding, and undeniably chart-confirmed story of how a neurodivergent Aries with a lisp, a World of Warcraft heartbreak, and a download on a street literally called Foresight Drive ended up reinventing the zodiac wheel. You'll hear how a childhood of feeling fundamentally different led to a lifelong obsession with the human experience, how astrology became the skeleton key that unlocked her own self-understanding, and why she built an entirely new system to share what she found. By the end, you'll understand the lens this whole show looks through — and the Oracle Mind dreaming it all up. CHART TEASE Ceres retrograde conjunct the Ascendant in Libra, opposite Mercury retrograde in Aries — the chart of someone who spent a lifetime learning to anchor her own communication, assign her own worth from within, and translate what she knew into something the world could finally receive. WHAT YOU'LL GLEAN A plain-language intro to Soul Arc Astrology™ — the ARC framework, the 12 Pillars of Experiential Consciousness, and why this system hits differently than anything you've encountered before What it actually means that your birth chart is a dynamic equation of consciousness — not a fixed fate, but a map of your co-creative capabilities Why astrology isn't something that happens to you — and what changes when you finally understand that it happens through you 00:10 — Welcome to Orbit: show intro & what Made for This is about 01:13 — Laurel's origin story: born two weeks late, half-deaf, speech delays 02:34 — ADHD diagnosis at age seven — and the autism realization at 35 04:48 — High school and the "Human Experience" elective that left a mark 06:24 — College years: choosing teaching, and the vision that made her walk away 08:40 — Falling into astrology 13:21 — The Astro Ho era — and the bar story 18:07 — Introducing "the celestial software update" 22:51 — How Soul Arc Astrology came into being 25:46 — What is Soul Arc Astrology? The ARC framework explained 30:01 — The 12 pillars of experiential consciousness 33:39 — The purpose of Made for This 38:25 — Laurel's birth chart: Ceres on the ascendant 40:39 — Mercury, Ceres, and a lifetime of anchoring communication 44:36 — The wound around intelligence & the Mercury Retrograde native's journey 47:02 — Saturn, Jupiter, and the MC: here to be a teacher 48:56 — Closing reflection: not afraid anymore ABOUT THE SHOW Made for This with Laurel Kassor: Astrology from Abstract to Impact Hosted by Laurel Kassor, astro-oracle, biz consultant & founder of Soul Arc Astrology™. Every episode pairs a soul-led practitioner's story with a live Soul ARC Astrology chart reading — showcasing in real time that your birth chart is not abstract insight. It’s your blueprint to real world impact. CONNECT WITH LAUREL If this conversation lit something up in you, your kindred spirits are waiting. Join The Kindred → https://soularcastrology.com/thekindred (https://soularcastrology.com/thekindred) Click here to Work with Laurel (https://soularcastrology.com/links)

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