In this solo episode, I explore February as a threshold, a moment where long-held inner processes give way to decisive outer movement.

We close the Year of the Wood Snake, a Yin year of shedding, strategy, and quiet preparation, and step into the Year of the Fire Horse, a rare and volatile Yang-fire cycle that accelerates destiny, visibility, courage, and change.

This episode weaves together astrology, elemental wisdom, nervous system awareness, and collective symbolism to help you understand not just what is happening — but how to move through it without burning out.

In this episode, we explore:

• What the Year of the Wood Snake has been asking of us (and why it may have felt slow, heavy, or confusing)
• Why the Fire Horse year brings acceleration, risk, leadership, and bold movement
• Saturn entering Aries — and why Saturn is in detriment here
• Neptune moving into Aries and the end of a long, foggy spiritual era
• The rare Saturn–Neptune conjunction at 0° Aries and what it signals collectively
• Why the last Saturn–Neptune conjunction coincided with the fall of the Berlin Wall
• War symbolism, remembrance, and the poppy as a collective archetype
• The Solar Eclipse and New Moon in Aquarius on 17 February
• Aquarius themes of systems, community, responsibility, and the future
• Burnout as the shadow of Fire Horse energy
• Drishti: focus as destiny in a year where fire must be directed
• How to move from performance into mission

This is an episode about clarity, courage, and conscious initiation.

February asks us to stop waiting for certainty, and to begin acting from what we already know.

Did you know you can subscribe to this podcast so that it automatically downloads the next episode for you?

You can check out our respective websites and social media here:

Becky:

www.instagram.com/therosealmanac

Laura:

www.soulsanctuarystudios.com

www.lauraclaytonwellness.com

In this episode, we explore the yogic principle of Saucha — often translated as cleanliness or purity — and why it has very little to do with perfection, and everything to do with clarity.

Saucha is one of the Niyamas in yoga, but it’s not a rule or a discipline. It’s an invitation to notice what we’re carrying — physically, mentally, emotionally, energetically — and what is quietly asking to be released.

We talk about how Saucha applies not just on the yoga mat, but in everyday life: in our homes, our bodies, our minds, our relationships, our digital worlds and even our patterns of worry.

This is a conversation about clearing space so life can move through us more freely.

In this episode, we explore:

• What Saucha really means in yoga (and why ‘purity’ is a misleading translation)
• The body as a vessel: food, energy and clarity
• Clutter, the home and energetic space
• Mental clutter, overthinking and thought hygiene
• Energetic attachments, boundaries and cord clearing — grounded and accessible
• Why worry is not care, but energetic pollution
• Social media, information overload and digital Saucha
• Email inboxes, unsubscribing and unfinished energetic loops
• Astrology and Saucha: how working with the Moon helps with energetic and emotional hygiene.

Did you know you can subscribe to this podcast so that it automatically downloads the next episode for you?

You can check out our respective websites and social media here:

Becky:

www.instagram.com/therosealmanac

Laura:

www.soulsanctuarystudios.com

www.lauraclaytonwellness.com

In this episode, we explore drishti — the yogic practice of focusing the gaze — and how it extends far beyond the mat into the way we live, choose, pray, and create.

Drishti is not just about where the eyes look, but about where our energy, attention, and devotion are placed. In a world that constantly pulls at our focus, drishti becomes a spiritual practice of simplification, clarity, and conscious choice.

We talk about how focus itself can become prayer — how our actions, choices, and commitments can turn everyday life into a moving offering. This episode invites you to examine where your gaze is going — and whether it truly deserves your life force.

As we look ahead to the Year of the Fire Horse and the wider shifts of collective consciousness, we reflect on what it means to live with clarity, devotion, and openness, becoming vessels for what wants to move through us, rather than scattering ourselves across what doesn’t matter.

This is an episode about focus as devotion, discipline as freedom, and life as prayer.

Did you know you can subscribe to this podcast so that it automatically downloads the next episode for you?

You can check out our respective websites and social media here:

Becky:

www.instagram.com/therosealmanac

Laura:

www.soulsanctuarystudios.com

www.lauraclaytonwellness.com