- 1 hour 29 minutes#557 August 2026 Energy Update: Who You Build With, Who You Cut
In today's episode I'm joined by Yvette Mayer (HD Transits Expert) and Lauren Hansen (Resident Astrologer) for the August energy update, and the whole month turns on one question: who are you building it with? In Human Design we move out of the throat-centre gates and into the quarter of duality, so the focus shifts off what you're making and onto your relationships. In astrology it lands from the same direction, with Venus moving home into Libra and Mars dropping into Cancer. It's a relational, reflective and at times emotional month, with two eclipses reshaping who's in your corner. The gates and dates we cover are listed below, so you can check them against your own chart.
KEY DATES FOR AUGUST
Astrology (with Lauren)
- 23 Jul: Mercury stations direct, carrying easier communication into August.
- Late Jul into early Aug: Venus square Mars (Venus in Virgo, Mars in Gemini), over-stimulation and a pull toward discernment, quality over quantity.
- 6 Aug to 9 Sep: Venus at home in Libra, collaboration, harmony and easier relating.
- 6 to 11 Aug: Venus trine Uranus and Pluto, opposite Neptune. Surprising new people and real chemistry, with a reminder to check the details before you idealise anyone.
- 11 Aug to 28 Sep: Mars in Cancer, driven by what and who you care about, protective of home and family, with a passive-aggression risk to watch.
- 12 Aug: Leo solar eclipse (new moon) with the south node and Jupiter. Confidence, creativity and identity, letting go of an old way of leading to grow into the next.
- 15 Aug: Mercury conjunct Jupiter in Leo, a strong day for announcements, pitching, launching and sharing your voice.
- 19 to 22 Aug: Venus opposite Saturn in Aries, defining relationships, setting boundaries and keeping what lasts.
- 23 to 29 Aug: Sun square Uranus, restlessness and aha moments, so ground yourself before any big impulsive calls.
- 28 Aug (AUS): Pisces lunar eclipse (full moon) near the north node, squared by Uranus. Big emotions, with surrender and boundaries needed at once.
Human Design (with Yvette)
- Throughout August: Gates 30 and 41 (root centre and solar plexus), fantasy and quantum possibility, grounding what is possible into reality.
- Throughout August: Gate 33 moving into Jupiter, reflective, looking-back and storytelling energy.
- First half, around 11 to 12 Aug: Gate 7 (leadership by invitation) with Gate 29 in the south node (commitment, and what to release).
- Mid month: Gate 4 in the ajna, creative problem solving and spotting your patterns.
- Late Aug: Gate 59 (intimacy and trust built over time) with Gate 57 through Venus (intuition and instinct).
- End of month: Gate 40 (boundaries and discernment) and Gates 39 and 55 turning on (the channel of emoting).
I trust you will get what you need from this episode, and make sure you come let me know how it resonated with you on instagram @the_human_design_coach
Big love,
Mxx
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30 July 2026, 5:00 am - 31 minutes 6 seconds#556 The Visionary Breakthrough Sessions: Why Rest Feels Unsafe
Welcome to another Visionary Breakthrough Session, a live, intimate coaching experience with members of my private HDx Collective. I coach one member live on air, working through what is really going on beneath the surface, so you can witness a genuine breakthrough as it happens and take whatever resonates into your own life and business.
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In today's episode, I coach Rachel, who has done deep identity work and knows exactly who she is, but under pressure she still snaps back to the old pattern.
Rachel is a 6/2 Emotional Projector.
We unpack how a new identity becomes your automatic default, why staying productive can be a clever way to avoid the discomfort of stillness, why rest feels unsafe when your success was built on hustle, proving and doing and how a dysregulated nervous system, rather than mindset, is often the real thing keeping you from slowing down. As an Emotional Projector with emotional authority, Rachel has huge capacity to feel, so we explore how releasing long-held emotion and finding safety in the body can happen through joy instead of hard graft.
If you have ever known exactly who you want to be yet snapped back into old habits the moment life gets busy, cannot sit still without reaching for something to do, or feel guilty when you rest, this one is for you.
I trust you will get what you need from this episode, and make sure you come let me know how it resonated with you on instagram @the_human_design_coachBig love,
Mxx
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27 July 2026, 5:00 am - 1 hour 1 minute#555 Ainslie MacLeod on Empaths, Narcissists and Past Lives
In today's episode I'm joined again by Ainslie MacLeod, a past life psychic who works with spirit guides to help people find their purpose and heal what they have carried in from other lifetimes. We talk about the shift in consciousness happening right now, why old souls are feeling the state of the world so heavily, and the pattern almost every empath will recognise: the narcissist does not create your wound, they find one that is already there and keep pressing on it.
Ainslie explains why healing that fear at the past life level changes what you attract, and why fight, flight, freeze and fawn are old fears being triggered rather than proof something is wrong with you. We get into boundaries that hold once the calm settles, his course for empaths recovering from narcissistic abuse, and his new podcast Psychics Not Saints, which came out of being over the performance of spirituality. I bring it back to Human Design too: the solar plexus mutation, the deconditioning we all need around hard work, and why joy is not the reward at the end, it is the point.
I trust you will get what you need from this episode, and make sure you come let me know how it resonated with you on instagram @the_human_design_coach
Big love,
Mxx
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23 July 2026, 6:00 am - 25 minutes 17 seconds#554 The Weekly Wrap: What Actually Makes Your Human Design Type
In today's Weekly Wrap, I break down the mechanics that actually create your Human Design type, and why so many people who love Human Design have never been taught this part.
I walk you through what makes a Manifestor, a Generator, a Manifesting Generator, a Projector and a Reflector, right down to the definition. A motor connected to the throat. A defined sacral. The splits that change everything. Once you understand this, you start to see why two Projectors can show up in completely different ways, and why we cannot put ourselves in a neat little type box. Your definition matters just as much as your type.
I also share the seven money principles from The Richest Man in Babylon, written back in 1926 and still holding up, because the principles have never changed. We get into why AI is a skill worth building now rather than later, a LinkedIn growth strategy we are running inside HDx that you can set up with five to ten friends this week, and why getting your eyes on your business metrics is the thing that lets your brain finally see the evidence of your own growth.
I trust you will get what you need from this episode, and make sure you come let me know how it resonated with you on instagram @the_human_design_coachBig love,
Mxx
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20 July 2026, 7:00 am - 28 minutes 41 seconds#553 The Visionary Breakthrough Sessions: Freedom in Restriction
This is The Visionary Breakthrough Sessions, a live, intimate coaching experience with members of my private HDx Collective. In each session, we decode the energetic patterns holding them back and unlock the identity shift required to lead, scale, and succeed in alignment with their Human Design. These sessions are by application only and exclusively available inside the HDx Collective.
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In today's episode, I coach Elese, who is moving through a separation and living under a court order that dictates where she and her daughter can be, right when everything in her is built for freedom.
Elese is a 6/2 Emotional Manifesting Generator.
We unpack why a Manifesting Generator who needs freedom above almost anything feels a court order in her whole body, and why the line two energy running all through her chart resists being told where to live and how. We get into the reframe that actually shifts something, moving from "how long until this is over" to "how do I meet these needs now," and using Gate 50 in her culture to honour her values and her connection to country even inside the restriction. In the second half we turn to work, the nonlinear path of an MG who has built more than one career, and the real question sitting under "employment or my own thing," which is what the thread is and why her design points to building something that is hers and taking it into other communities rather than shrinking inside a group.
If you have ever been stuck in a situation you did not choose and cannot change, quietly waiting for it to be over before you let yourself live, this one is for you.
I trust you will get what you need from this episode, and make sure you come let me know how it resonated with you on instagram @the_human_design_coach
Big love,
Mxx
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18 July 2026, 3:00 am - 33 minutes 20 seconds#552 The Weekly Wrap: Your Repelling Aura Isn't Rejection
In today's episode I'm bringing you the Weekly Wrap, and I'm starting with a human design cheat sheet on aura mechanics, because the manifestor "repelling" aura gets a lot of bad press and I want to clear it up.
Repelling isn't rejection. If you're a manifestor, your aura is doing exactly what it's meant to do: moving the people who aren't your people out of the way so you can inspire the ones you are here to inspire. I run through all five auras so you can feel the difference, from the magnetic pull of the generator and manifesting generator, to the deep seeing of the projector and why that gift is only yours to give when there is an invitation, to the curious, sampling aura of the reflector. If the original human design language has ever made you feel like there is something wrong with you, this one is for you.
From there it is a proper wrap. I share a simple reframe from the mastermind about focusing on the shadow of your defined channels instead of trying to decondition everything. I invite you to look back at who you were ten and twenty years ago and really take in how far you have come. I get into Barbault's Basket, an astrological configuration some are reading as a relaunch after the contraction of the last few years. And I talk about why building business in alignment matters, and the shift from the masculine model to the feminine one.
I trust you will get what you need from this episode, and make sure you come let me know how it resonated with you on instagram @the_human_design_coachBig love,
Mxx
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16 July 2026, 1:00 am - 31 minutes 32 seconds#551 The Weekly Wrap: Your HD Strategy Changes Everything
In today's episode I am talking about your strategy, and why it is one of the most important pieces of your Human Design for coming into alignment.
Your strategy comes from your type, and it is not the endless memes about what your type supposedly says about you. It is a practical tool. When you live in alignment with your strategy and your authority, you decondition, things become more effortless, and you start moving in flow instead of force. I walk through the strategy for each type: initiating and informing for manifestors, responding for generators and manifesting generators, waiting for the invitation for projectors, and gathering data over time for reflectors. I also get into the distinction between how a generator and a manifesting generator work with response, and why informing matters so much when you have a motor connected to your throat.
This is your Monday Weekly Wrap, so I also share what I am loving right now, the money, AI and Human Design mastermind that is lighting me up, what I am learning about lucid dreaming, and what is going on behind the scenes in the business this week.
I trust you will get what you need from this episode, and make sure you come let me know how it resonated with you on instagram @the_human_design_coachBig love,
Mxx
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6 July 2026, 7:00 am - 1 hour 6 minutes#550 July 2026 Energy Update: You Can't Put It Back in the Box
In today's episode I am joined by Yvette Mayer, our HD Transits Expert, and Lauren Hansen, our Resident Astrologer, for the July energy update.
July lands in two halves. The first is slower and more internal. We are carrying the shadow of Mercury retrograde and sitting in Gate 62, so expect pressure, a pull towards the fine details, and your body asking you to slow down, with a fast, fiery undercurrent from Mars conjunct Uranus running alongside it.
The second half fires back up into throat centre gates and communication energy, with Mercury going direct on the 23rd. Running underneath all of it is Jupiter moving into Leo opposite Pluto. Buried desires and old shadows are surfacing whether you want them to or not, and you cannot put it back in the box. We get into what that opposition is asking of you, the Aquarius full moon on the 29th, and how to meet the parts of yourself that come up.
I trust you will get what you need from this episode, and make sure you come let me know how it resonated with you on instagram @the_human_design_coachBig love,
Mxx
Lauren's Details:
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2 July 2026, 12:00 am - 40 minutes 58 seconds#549 The Weekly Wrap: Growth Through Joy, Not Shadow Work
In today's Weekly Wrap I'm talking about growing through joy instead of shadow work.
There is a place for shadow work, inner child work and inner parenting, and I'm not throwing any of it out. But I've had a hunch for about 18 months that landed properly this week, when someone told me they now choose their growth from joy rather than from the work. I sat with it, because it named something I'd drifted away from. For a few years I was growing through play and through what lit me up, and lately I'd slipped back into hunting for the block, the broken bit, the thing to fix. This is me coming back to joy as the way forward.
From a human design view, growing through joy is simply alignment to your design. It's following your strategy and authority, your obsession, your creative urge, the thing that feels good. I bring this into business too, because whatever you keep your focus on is what you create more of, so the better question is not what's wrong, it's how can I have more fun here. I also bring back a short human design segment on type, share what I've loved this week, and give you the certainty mantra that shifted my energy on the spot.
I trust you will get what you need from this episode, and make sure you come let me know how it resonated with you on instagram @the_human_design_coachBig love,
Mxx
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29 June 2026, 6:00 am - 50 minutes 16 seconds#548 The Visionary Breakthrough Sessions: Done Fighting for Peace
This is The Visionary Breakthrough Sessions, a live, intimate coaching experience with members of my private HDx Collective. In each session, we decode the energetic patterns holding them back and unlock the identity shift required to lead, scale, and succeed in alignment with their Human Design. These sessions are by application only and exclusively available inside the HDx Collective.
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In today's episode, I coach Margarita, who is doing work she loves and believes in, yet keeps feeling alone in her business and worn down by a year that promised ease and delivered hit after hit. She is done fighting, and what she wants now is to protect her peace.
Margarita is a 1/3 Manifesting Generator.
We unpack why feeling alone in business is so common right now and what is actually closing out as the old paradigm falls away, what her design says about whether she is built to go it alone or to lead best in partnership, and why going back into corporate on her own terms could be a stepping stone rather than a step back. We get into why pressure is the fastest way to push a visionary away from the work she loves, how to build certainty when everything feels up in the air, and why peace is not a nice-to-have for her but an actual signal of alignment.
If you have ever felt like this year keeps asking you to armour up when all you want is to soften, this one is for you.
I trust you will get what you need from this episode, and make sure you come let me know how it resonated with you on instagram @the_human_design_coach
Big love,
Mxx
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25 June 2026, 4:00 am - 40 minutes 10 seconds#547 The Weekly Wrap: We Manifest Who We Are, Not What We Do
In today's Weekly Wrap I'm taking you through what's been alive for me this week, and it starts with a line that stopped me in my tracks: we manifest who we are, not what we do.
That one came from Colette Baron-Reid teaching her art of manifesting inside HDx. Whatever we practise feeling, we become. So if I keep telling the stories of the challenge, that's the frequency I'm broadcasting. The work is choosing to practise the feeling of all the good that's already here.
From there I get into a few things I've been sitting with. Expanding your capacity to receive in the small, everyday spends, not just the ones with a productive purpose. Trusting your knowing as a muscle you build through consistency. The quiet power of softening into the present moment instead of always being the strong, independent one who holds it all. I also share what I'm relearning from The Big Leap on upper limits, my honest thoughts on AI after a Mo Gawdat conversation on the Diary of the CEO, and a big lesson on never giving your power away to a modality, even one you love.
I trust you will get what you need from this episode, and make sure you come let me know how it resonated with you on instagram @the_human_design_coach
Big love,
Mxx
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