Charting 2026 With Astrology - Narayana Montúfar

Change can feel chaotic until you have language for it. We sit down with astrologer and author Narayana Montúfar  to decode 2026 as a year that anchors a wider shift that started in 2020—out of heavy earth patterns and into an era defined by air and fire: ideas, networks, learning, and bold beginnings. Instead of fortune-telling, we focus on practical astrology you can use, the kind that grounds you in timing, choice, and embodied ritual.
 
 We start with the Moon—your inner wiring for safety, sleep, nourishment, and love—and why knowing your Moon sign can transform how you care for yourself. Then we reframe Saturn. Forget the fear: Saturn is the great builder, showing up in seven-year checkpoints and the famed Saturn return to help you craft the life that lasts. Nadiana’s “Written in Your Stars” maps cycles for Saturn, Jupiter, Venus, and beyond, and her free calculator pinpoints peaks and endings so you can plan with precision. We also explore her celestial art—birth chart paintings that turn your placements into color and motion—and her Luminous Year 2026, a living calendar with rituals, meditations, mantras, and journal prompts that keep astrology in your body, not just on your feed.
 
 The key is elemental alignment. Ask how you relate to air (mind, language, learning) and fire (will, initiation, spirit). If your brain feels passive, learn something new. If your fire is low, move and create; if it’s too hot, pace it with reflection. Two simple tools guide the year: find the house Aquarius rules in your chart to see where power returns, and treat Mercury retrogrades in water as emotional rewrites rather than glitches.
 
 If you’re ready to swap anxiety for agency, this conversation gives you the map and the mindset. Listen, share with a friend who needs a compass for 2026, and subscribe so you don’t miss what’s next. If this episode helped, leave a quick review—it helps more seekers find their timing.

Bio: 

Narayana Montúfar is a writer, astrologer, Akashic Records practitioner, visual artist, and the author of Moon Signs: Unlock Your Inner Luminary Power & Written in Your Stars: Use Your Saturn Return, Pluto Square, and Other Planetary Cycles to Become Your Best Self. Narayana thrives on maintaining a sacred and intimate connection with the sky through her writing, private readings, and abstract painting. She believes the power of the universe is best harnessed when we try to access it within ourselves. Narayana was featured as one of Vogue’s 13 Astrologers to Follow in 2021 and one of Medium.com’s Authority Magazine 2020’s Strong Female Leaders. She was also chosen as one of Destig Magazine’s Top Artists to Collect in 2020 and has appeared in numerous podcasts.
 
 Between 2011 & 2023, Narayana was the Senior Astrologer for Astrology.com & Horoscope.com. She now serves as the in-house astrologer for House of Intuition and currently writes for Forever Conscious and Parade. You can also find her writing and astrological insights in Vogue, Teen Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Well+Good, Refinery29, Women’s Health, PopSugar, Bustle, Brit+Co, The Zoe Report, and more.

Website: www.naramon.com
 Readings: https://www.naramon.com/astrology-readings
 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/narayanamontufar/
 Threads: https://www.threads.com/@narayanamontufar
 Weekly Newsletter: https://www.naramon

Chapters

• 0:01 Meet The Astrologer And Her Work
• 5:15 Finding A Calling In The Stars
• 10:40 Moon Signs And The Feminine
• 17:30 Using Saturn And Life Cycles
• 25:00 Building The Timeline And Tools
• 31:00 Art From Birth Charts
• 37:05 Why 2026 Signals A New Era
• 43:20 Elemental Shift To Air And Fire
• 50:10 Comfort, Agency, And Embodiment

Transcript

GDC: 0:01

Welcome to Belief Being and Beyond with your host, Granddaughter Crow. Hi everybody, Granddaughter Crow here with yet another episode of Belief Being and Beyond. And we actually are going beyond today because I got an astrologer, right? And this is such a special show because we're kicking off 2026 with help from an astrologer. Not so that you float up into the stars, but that you can draw down your strengths, make them grounded, embodied. It's going to be a brilliant conversation. Let me tell you before I bring her on who I have here for you today. Today I have Narayana Montúfar. She is a writer, right? We'll be talking about her books, astrologer, like I just said, also Akashic Records practitioner. Always love that visual artist, of course, all things creative. And also the author of Moon Signs. It is available. And written in your stars, which I think is just so personalized. That book is using your Saturn return, Pluto Square, and other planetary cycles to become your best self. Which I'm not sure if you guys know a lot about astrology, but Saturn return, Pluto Square, those are the things that we're like Mercury retrograde, whoa. But she is able to do this so that you can utilize these tools to become your best self. And we'll talk a little bit about that. Okay, so she thrives on maintaining a sacred and intimate connection with the sky through her writing, private readings. Remember, private readings and abstract paintings. I just got to tell you guys, she will do a personalized birth chart painting for you. We'll mention that a little bit more in the show. Very excited, obviously. So she believes that the power of the universe is best harnessed when we try to access it from within ourselves. As above, as so below, I love it. She also was featured as one of Vogue's 13 astrologers to follow in 2021. She was the senior astrologer for astrology.com and horoscope.com. Yeah, she knows her stuff, right? And now she serves as the in-house astrologer for House of Intuition and currently writes for Forever Conscious and Parade. You can also find her writing and astrology insights in Vogue. Hello, Teen Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Women's Health, and more and more. And it keeps growing and it keeps growing. I am so excited. Nariana, I got you on the show.

Narayana: 3:11

Yay! I'm so excited to be here. I feel such a strong connection with you immediately. And when we conversed about uh having this beautiful collaboration, I was just really excited. Yeah, so thank you so much for inviting me.

GDC: 3:32

Oh, it's uh all my pleasure to be able to have you on the show and to share you with the listeners. And oh my goodness, let's just kind of jump in a little bit. So, astrology. Yeah, I mean, we all know astrology. You get, oh, my sun sign is this and my moon sign is that. But the beauty about you is that you take all of this studying and help embody it and reflect it. So it's not just like the scary astrologer reading, oh, your life's gonna suck today. Hang on, kids. You know, it's it's more of a, oh, well, this is gonna be kind of uh a square or an uh opposition, and this is how you can make it grow for you, which I love about you. I too feel an immediate connection with you so much so, listeners. Have you ever have you ever accidentally been like, oh, hi, bye, mom? Oh, oh, I love you, or whatever at the end of a call. At the end of my call with Nariana, it was like, I was like, okay, love you, bye. I was like, what did I just say? You know, I'm like past life, Akashic Records, what's going on? But I really enjoy that. So my first question to you is with astrology, I mean, you pretty much full-time astrologer. So you are looking at the cosmos on behalf of us and translating it here for us. What drew you to the stars? And how is it that you are able to translate? I know that's an odd question. How do you translate it? And you're like, I just do, granddaughter crowd, but you translate it into an embodiment. What drew you to the stars?

Narayana: 5:19

Well, these translation, this is gonna be a little bit of like a long uh answer, but yes, going over, you know, we know everybody knows their sun sign, right? I always knew it was a Scorpio, the most misunderstood sign, but we won't go there today. Maybe another time. I always knew that, but when I had my first astrology reading as a teen, I was still living in Mexico City. The one thing I remember was the astrologer telling me, You are here to serve. That's the only thing I remember. And I didn't get it at the time. I was too young, I was a teenager, and I was like, Oh, okay.

GDC: 6:03

Is there any money with that? Like what?

Narayana: 6:07

And then fast forward to 2011, because like the reason why I think that I'm able to translate astrology is because I was in the incubation for a really long time. So I started my my editorial career in astrology in 2011, so I've been doing astrology full-time ever since. But it was more from an editorial lens, you know, like actually translating English into Spanish content, assigning pieces, you know, our horoscopes, articles, anything to astrologers, numerologists, Chinese astrologers. So I was in that incubation for a good amount of seven years before I actually decided to fully step into my role as an astrologer because I felt like I needed to. It was during that time that I in that incubation period, I actually started going to classes in person because I said to myself, I need to know what I'm doing. I need to know what I'm doing. You know, there are a lot of editors who were okay doing that without fully knowing, but I'm I'm I'm not Scorpio. I like to dive deep. Yes. I don't like to be told. I I, you know, in my human design, I'm I am an investigator. That's one of my profiles. So I go on rabbit holes. Um I love doing that. And in 2018, when I was taking it more seriously, and I was still at those jobs, but I life just took me in that direction. I started getting all these interviews by like really big publications, you know, Refinery29 would interview me every single week, and my name just started growing, and I just felt like I needed to step into that role. And that was the first in 2018, my Reiki teacher, because Reiki was kind of like my gateway into healing myself through, you know, healing my trauma, healing, healing my my shadow. My Reiki teacher said, I would love a reading from you. And then I said, Oh, I'm happy to introduce you to. I mean, I know so many fantastic astrologers. And they said, No, I want this reading from you. And that was the universe pushing me. And ever since then, I have never stopped doing readings. I've been doing readings ever since. So I've done hundreds of them. And when I decided to shift my my role as like a managing editor to a senior astrologer, my husband said, Are you sure you want to do this? This is a big shift. And I don't want you to lose all your editorial, you know. I've been doing editorial for so long. And I said, This feels right. Because when I started studying astrology, everything, it was almost like I was downloading. It was just, this is my this is my language. I've no, I know this, I've known this before. So it was more like remembering. And that decision changed my life drastically.

GDC: 9:28

Wow.

Narayana: 9:29

My life started taking off, I became happier, I became more empowered, and and and here we are.

GDC: 9:39

Love it. Because when I was talking to you, I was kind of like, I speak astrology because it is a language in and of itself, and it's not just memorizing the sign or memorizing the planet, it's understanding the energy that is within the sign that drives the sign. It's understanding the energy within the planets, and then understanding how these all talk to each other. And I'm just like, and I love it that you do this, that you you were in the editorial because we will get into it, but I was reading some of what you write, and I'm like, excellent translator. I mean, if you know astrology, it's it's like, oh, okay, yeah, I got it. If you don't know astrology, you're like, oh, okay, I got it. I mean, you really are very clear in what you write. So, moon signs. I do want to touch on your first book because I love moon signs. I think we have the same moon sign, Leo and Moon. Yay, yes, right, which is why we're on the podcast being all sparkly. Exactly, exactly. So you have uh your first book was moon signs. Unlock your inner luminary powers. You what inspired you to go with the moon sign? Because so many people go with the sun, and the sun is like, oh, everybody knows their sun sign, just like you said. What inspired you to go to the moon signs?

Narayana: 11:17

You know, looking back, I was having a really, really beautiful moon activation in my in my bird chart that changed my life. And I won't get into technicalities, but looking back, I'm realizing that that was the beginning of my work to empower the feminine, which is a big part of my work. Makes sense to empower the feminine because since we've lived in a patriarchal society for thousands of years, and we were not like that, you know, humanity, uh, you know, it's a myth. I won I won't go into other things, other opinions that I have, but I got you though. I got you, yeah. Yeah, thousands of years in this patriarchal solar, not that the sun is bad, the sun is is the giver of life in in our solar system. We wouldn't be just like plants can live without the sun. We couldn't either. I'm not saying that it's more like the patriarchal lens that we experience for so long of the sun, the the leadership, visibility, go, go, go, the these, these conditioning that we've had for so long about how only the light matters. You go to sleep every night, right? Yes. At the moon. You go to sleep every night, you heal, you dream, you receive messages through your subconscious mind. Why do you think we sleep one third of the time? We need that. It's the dark, it's the feminine, it's what holds us in our most nurturing, in our most vulnerable. That's the moon. It's the unconscious. The soul, the sun is conscious, right? It's what you're aware of. Your moonshine is all of the things everybody sees about you, but not you. Except for you. Who you are, who you truly are behind closed doors, how you are in your most vulnerable. And it is through the moon that you get to know yourself. At a more practical level, the moon rules your sleeping patterns, your eating habits, how you love what you need to feel loved. And so at that time, I wasn't realizing that because the moon was so my progress moon was so prominent in my chart. I didn't realize that that was the beginning of that. But ever since I've just been in on this journey to empower the feminine, the divine feminine. Also, we do that by empowering the divine masculine. I'm very aware of that.

GDC: 13:59

I agree.

Narayana: 14:01

And so I think that was the reason behind it. And I'm just kind of putting two and two together a couple of years ago, but that that was the beginning of it all.

GDC: 14:14

Love it. And I also love that you said, you know, empowering the divine feminine does not mean that we are subtracting from the divine masculine, it's about equalizing. Yes, I agree so much, and I absolutely, I mean, I come from the Navajo Nation, and that's actually a um, it's not uh, it's it's more of a matriarchy. So there's a little bit of me that uh that naturally understands the matriarchy and and having that mother and all of that, but then again, I'm a cancer son, so of course I'm gonna be all about the moon because you know the roles cancer.

Narayana: 14:57

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I mean, I remember when I found out my moon sign, it was like it all makes so much sense. I mean, it on that's why the book is called Unluck, it's to unluck, right? Yes, like my relationship with my mom, my mood swings, you know, this desire to be acknowledged, because Leo is all about being acknowledged, it's not about being seen like you'll read in the memes, it's about feeling acknowledged.

GDC: 15:30

Oh my goodness. And so then you have another book, your second book. And I love this because a lot of people say written in the stars, oh, it was written in the stars. And I love that you're like, no, it's it's written in your stars using your Saturn return, which I'm like, uh, I'm coming up on my second Saturn return in Taurus. So I'm like, all things, gotta buy the book. How can I do this to empower myself instead of be afraid of my Saturn return? And Pluto squares and other planetary cycles to become your best self. I love the approach. And so talk to us a little bit about, well, I guess Saturn return, Pluto Square, these are harsher types of at least that's how I understand it. It's it's harsher for me because it's like Saturn is old to me, old father time, the voice in your head that's like, what have you been doing? Are you on the right path? You know, be responsible, and you know, all of those types of things, which I feel like I am until Saturn return happens, and then I have to re-examine everything. Under my first Saturn return, I went to school. I start or I went I started uh college when I was 30. And now I'm coming up on my second one, and it is kind of scary. So, written in your stars, can you tell us a little bit about that book and what inspired that book? Give us a little bit of an overview because that's on my list to get. I need that book. Yeah.

Narayana: 17:01

I'm gonna send you a copy as a gift. Yeah, I'm gonna send you a copy as a gift for sure. For your Saturn return.

GDC: 17:12

I need all the support I can get.

Narayana: 17:15

Yes. So the reason why I wrote this book, first of all, it was the book I wanted to have when I started studying astrology. There isn't one, there isn't one. Somebody I saw somebody posting on Threads recently that to be an astrologer you have to understand the the patterns. Like your mind has to understand the patterns, and I agree with that. Astrology is a language of energy. That's the first thing that astrology is, right? That would be my definition. This the the shortest definition, it's a language of energy. But it also is the study of patterns, like the movements, the returning, the you know, Saturn return, the squares, the it's like a cyclical motion. If you look, you know, I love that you have the sun behind you, the cyclical patterns of the moon, Venus, Mars, and time, the concept of time. With this book, what I'm trying to help people understand is that the Saturn return, it's much more than just the Saturn return. For example, have you heard of the seven-year itch?

GDC: 18:34

Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. Long time ago. I've heard of that, yes.

Narayana: 18:37

That's how Saturn moves in seven-year intervals. So it's it's a whole circle around your chart. And so every seven years you get a visit from Saturn. It's like a chuck-in. Oh, so how are you doing with that? Okay, so how are you doing with that? Okay, so okay, now it's time to work on this. And so this book sheds sheds light on that seven year, seven years, seven year. When are the times when Saturn is gonna come knock at your door? When are times to work hard, times of contraction? But it's but it I also shed light on how important Saturn is to build your life, the life of your dreams, that would you want, whether that is relationship, career, family, it's all Saturn. Saturn is the great builder. And actually, it was really important that you said, you know, in traditional astrology, there there's an and and and we have to also talk that astrology, patriarchy, was infused in everything, including astrology, because that's you wouldn't survive otherwise, right? Saturn and traditional astrologers, uh, I'm not a traditional astrologer, but I do take things from it that resonate with me. Um Saturn is like the old ground. Kind of like the matriarch that along with Venus and the moon, you know, with with the moon being the mother and Venus being the lover, but like Saturn's kind of like that grandma energy, kind of tough love that you need to build the life of your dreams. If you're not working with Saturn, the long term is gonna be difficult. So that's what I wanted to shed light on. And I do that with every single planet. For example, Saturn takes 29 years to go around the zodiac. Venus does that in one year. You get your Venus return every year. How are you gonna how are you gonna enjoy it? Venus is about pleasure and enjoyment. How to work with it and not against it. For example, I work with you're gonna have also information about your Jupiter return every 12 years. Every 12 years at age 12, you know, um 24, la la la. Those are moments of expansion instead of contraction, right? So it's it's kind of knowing your own timeline, and it is more about flowing with your own, and and it this is all by age. So you're gonna see in the book I have a timeline in which you can look how old you are and what activations you're gonna have next year, for example. Are you having a Saturn transit? Because there are many more, not just the return, there's the square, the opposition, all of that. Or are you having a Jupiter transit, or are you having a nodal activation, which is destiny, fate, soul, soul path, and all of that? What's coming in the next year? What to focus on? That's what I wanted to create, that book, because when I was studying, uh it the all the parts were kind of all over the place, and nothing really encompassed it. And when I took on this job, because I'm famous for giving myself really difficult, you know, homeworks or tasks, I realized why no one has had ever done it. Okay. Not easy. It's not easy. Well, it's easy with the ones that are predictable, like the moon. Most of the planets are predictable, they're easily predictable. We're we know exactly where they're gonna be. Chiron and Pluto, which are not planets, right, right? Pluto was demoted. Yes, because it does not behave like a planet. Right. It doesn't mean that it's not important, by the way. It's even more important, in my opinion.

GDC: 22:47

I love it.

Narayana: 22:48

And Chiron, the wounded healer, which I'm obsessed with, and if you want to find out about, I have a video a YouTube video and a blog on my website. It's my favorite archetype of the healer. Also has an irregular orbit.

GDC: 23:05

Irregular orbits.

Narayana: 23:07

So those are less predictable, and they were difficult. It was difficult for me to bring them in because of the generations, for example. No, but not everybody's gonna get their Pluto square at the same time. It depends on the generation you were born. Chiron, everybody gets their Chiron return at around 50. That's a very important time, for example. It's a time of healing, but there are many different chiron activations throughout your life, and and and when they happened, when they happened, will vary according to your generation. Oh well, that's why nobody had done it before.

GDC: 23:52

That makes so much sense, but you did. You figured out a way to be able.

Narayana: 24:00

I figured out a way, not only that, and I and this is when I give my husband, who is an aerospace engineer, credit because he helped me a lot. Like the timeline was his idea, and he said, Why don't we do this? And I was so I was so stressed out at time. I was like, I don't think I can wrap my mind around this. He said, It's gonna work, and we did it together, and that's why I created a calculator that's on my website, it's free to use. I didn't post it just for the book, in which you enter your information, you pick the planet, and there it is, bam, bam, bam, exact times of beginning, exact times of endings, and when all of this is gonna peak, because like when you're telling somebody, oh, you're in a period of transformation, the next question is when is this gonna end? Yes, it's very true. It's true. When is this gonna end? And also, that's definitely not the question to have. The question is, how do I work with this?

GDC: 25:02

Make me better to to work with it.

Narayana: 25:05

Astrology is so much better when you work with it and you don't resist it. I love that. Because it's all inside of you, it's all here, it's not out there, it's not the planets did this to me. No, no, it's it's part of us. We were born with this, we decided this. You know, we choose our charts, that's the belief.

GDC: 25:28

I I agree with that. I absolutely agree with that, and I and I love that you said we can't blame the planets because what am I supposed to do in a Mercury retrograde? Like, who am I supposed to blame for that? I know, right?

Narayana: 25:44

And sometimes it's not even retrograding. Things happen, and you're like, oh yeah.

GDC: 25:50

Yeah, you know, this is a really good time. Tell us your website. It is it's www.naramon.com. Perfect. On your website, I was blown away because you do have that calculator, you do have these books, you do book personal one-on-one sessions for people who want to for you to explore their charts and everything, and then you do this thing that I have never seen before. You paint pictures based on people's charts. I saw some of your pictures, and I'm talking about energy translator. That's exactly what that was. It the these are just like these beautiful, like looking at it and and seeing the light and the contrast and the darker colors and everything. You know, people, you can get a personalized birth chart painting right on the website. Can I just ask what inspired you to do that? And because I've never seen that before. Astrology.

Narayana: 27:01

I know it's gonna sound ridiculous, but I never went to art class. You are kidding me. I didn't. I so in my chart I have a stellium in the fifth house. Creative, which is the house of creation, you know, children, romance. I have a lot of planets there. And every time I've got in a reading, they said, You're an artist. Right. And I said, uh what? I mean, I love art. I I used to say I love art, but so through that untopping, I felt like it was on topped potential. And at that time, I think I was having my Neptune, Neptune. I was having a Neptune-Neptune sexile or trine, I don't remember right now, but anyway, Neptune, which is the planet of creativity and spirituality, was in a very friendly position to my natal Neptune. And all those years I just stepped into that. I got an art studio, I started going to art classes, but I hated the art classes. I didn't like them. I didn't learn anything. I mean, I I I'm experiential. Yes. And so I just needed to get dirty. And I got an art studio where I was living in San Francisco at the time, and I think that year I started selling my paintings. They just started going. Wow. Mm-hmm. And I I want to be honest that I struggle with that a little bit. It's it's because I have Saturn there.

GDC: 28:32

Okay, so so it's gonna be all, are you sure you did that right?

Narayana: 28:36

Yes, so it's always this like it can be better, like this. Isn't that enough, you know? And you never know. Sometimes people like the what you consider the ugliest painting, right? That's what art is, it's it's subjective, and so I do sell my paintings, but I also am learning a little bit more to see my art through different dimensions. For example, the luminous guide that you just downloaded in 2026, that's all my art in the background. Wow, that's all my art. And I also think I'm a I'm I'm I'm I see myself more like a celestial artist than an astrologer, actually. I just don't say it that way, but yes, I see it in my, I mean, I know it's gonna sound silly, but I see it in my Instagram posts, I see it in my newsletters, and like in the way that I read for people. So all of it is art. You know, I've done installations before. Um so and I think that 2026 is gonna shift on how we see art, by the way. Big time.

GDC: 29:37

Okay, let's get into 2026. You know, let's do it, let's get into 2026. So you just mentioned the luminous year 2026. You guys go to her website and you can like immediately purchase and download this beautiful guide, which I was flipping through and I was like, this is so practical, it's not intimidating, and it talks like about what you call it a living calendar and a ritual guide for 2026. And in such you're like, this is the astrology, here's the moons and all this, but here's how to embody it in your soul purpose. You've got ritual work that people can do individually on their own, meditations, like mantras, journal prompts, self-knowledge to take us through 2026 and help us to grow. So definitely pick that up. But I want to know what is I've been looking at your Instagram and you're like, oh, 2026 is different. Talk to us about that.

Narayana: 30:54

2026 truly feels like the beginning of a new era that astrologers have been talking about for a while. Okay. It just kind of packs a lot of and and and I don't want these words to give anybody scary vibes, okay? Because the word change scares people. But it's interesting because it's the only constant in life. Nothing nothing in the universe stays the same. Absolutely nothing. Everything's constantly moving, evolving, shifting, right? 2026 is really it solidifies uh what began in 2020, which was a major shift uh at the beginning of a 200-year cycle when we're talking about cycles. Oh wow, and and people are like, oh no, 2020-five was bad. I mean, yes and no. Right. Yes and no. That people have been waking up ever since. Do you think that would be accurate? Absolutely. There's been a quantum jump. Just look at how many people didn't believe in astrology, and now they do. Now they want to know themselves all of a sudden. Right? There have been good things. In 2020, we began a 200-year cycle of air. Oh, the element of air. And we closed the 200-year cycle of earth. Wow. Yes. So think about that, right? It's no longer like the rat race and accumulation and like material possessions, and that's earth. Yes. At its low vibration. Right. Yes. Air is about the intellect, the mind, the intuition. I mean, you the intuition comes through the through the mind as well. It's about learning, it's about time traveling, talking, speaking, everything that's that's air, right? It's also about activism and and all of these things. It's the we all have a lot of aquarian activations that have been starting back to back since then. Okay. Yeah. So 2026 is basically the way I see it. It's solidifying all this enormous shifting that has been going on since 2020. Oh, that makes sense so much. Yeah, that's why everything's like kind of decomposing. And this year specifically, everything started decomposing because of another 35-year cycle that is a resetting.

GDC: 33:40

Oh. See, she just this is what I'm talking about. This is in her books, this is in how she does, how she perceives. Book an individual one-on-one with her. Okay, so anyway, what uh what else?

Narayana: 33:54

And so what that means is that everything will change around us, because all of the outer planets starting from Jupiter, Jupiter changes signs every year, so that's not rare. That's normal. But Saturn also, so Jupiter begins a one-year cycle, but that's normal. Saturn begins a two and a half year cycle, right? Then we have Uranus beginning an eight-year cycle, then we have Neptune beginning a 14-year cycle. This is all within the 200 years I was telling you about, and this is all within Pluto that started a 20-year cycle last year. I get it, okay. So everything's gonna shift, and also I was also what a lot of astrologers are calling in it what it is, it's like we also had a lot of planets in earth and water. Now we're having the planets in fire and air. So this elemental composition is drastic. So things are gonna be things are gonna pick up, things are gonna be dynamic. Everybody's gonna start new storylines, new jobs, new careers, new partnerships, you name it, moving to another country, moving to another place within the country. Everything is gonna shift, but that's why it's been so intense because we've been letting the old, all these old cycles die.

GDC: 35:20

Oh, that's why it's been so difficult for people, including me. I mean, I do one-on-one sessions, and everybody's like, ah, 2025, the year of the snake. I shed, I shed. I'm like, and then we go into the horse in the air and and all of that kind of stuff. But it's just and the the horse in the Chinese zodiac is going to be fire. So it just all these patterns make sense. I'm just like, I feel a little bit more comfortable within my body talking to you about these really big things. It I really do. I'm like, oh, there's an explanation, you know.

Narayana: 36:04

And that's why I find so much comfort in astrology. Yes. You know, for example, my teacher was talking about 2020 since I was studying astrology. A lot of astrologers were talking about it. You're just not paying attention. Sorry. Like, if you didn't know, you're just not paying attention. When that happened, it's not that I was glad, I was just glad that I had something to guide me. There it is. Help me understand what the world is going through, what I'm going through, what my family's going through, how to work with it. I went on vacation right before in purpose. I went to South America. No, I'm serious because I'm a big traveler, I have Sagittarius in my chart a lot, and if I don't get out of my zone, I I I need that. That's where I get my inspiration. Right. I said, We're going. And and that happened. And I just like, I already did my trip. I don't care, you know. Yeah. So that's why I find comfort in astrology, not for predicting and not for fear-mongering, but to understand what is happening around us and what is happening with us. How do we insert ourselves? Because we're social beings, right? So, how do you insert yourself in a new paradigm? So, that's a question for your listeners. Yes. How do you insert how how you are transforming, changing, evolving, and awakening? If you're listening to this, you're awakening. How do you insert yourself in this new paradigm that is all about community building, learning? A lot of astrologers are talking about telepathy becoming a thing in the next decade.

GDC: 37:46

I knew you were gonna say that. My mind hurt now. I'm just kidding. That's funny.

Narayana: 37:52

I know, but whoa. So the possibilities are endless if you are open. There it is. Yeah. There's so much you can build because since we're starting, if you heard, we're starting a lot of cycles that are gonna last decades. Right? Yeah. So the think think about the last 14 years. That's that's something that I can really help you. 1415, what was going on then? For me, that's when I started astrology, 2011. I got married. See? Yeah, yeah. So much, so many of us started things into 2010, 2011, 2012, like those three years were pivotal. And so now, not that we need to stop doing that, but even if you know, for example, you you got married, you'll continue your marriage, but there will be a shift there. There's uh, you know, maybe you do things differently in a certain way. I will continue doing astrology, but I've been trying to adapt this year to new processes, new tools, new ideas, and all of that. That's why the luminous guide is to me that new. I'm such a nerd. I might not look like it, but I'm a very nerd. I mean, I come from editorial, right? So I think that astrology can really lose its magic if you're just too focused on prediction, too focused on what's gonna happen, and you're not embodying what's happening, if you're not going outside and looking at the moon, you're looking at the stars, if you're not in touch with that, yeah, then astrology becomes boring. That's what I've learned. Yeah. So it's about embodiment, it's about feeling. You know, how do you how did you feel about in that new moon? Yeah, how do you feel what what came through? And that is really the magic because otherwise you try to control things, and I've seen that happen a lot, by the way. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, I went through that phase myself, yeah, yeah. We tried to. I'm gonna have to control this. I'm gonna have to control that. You know, Scorpios a little bit of control freaks. No, it's just just just of course I look at my chart a lot, but I just how can I use this? How can I vibe a uh at this wavelength?

GDC: 40:17

I absolutely love it. So if you guys want kind of a roadmap, a little bit of a guide to help you through this transition, to make it like for you to like I like to say, dance with the energy in the way that you can, shift in your energy, millions of combinations, pick up the luminous, the luminous year 2026, a living calendar. Because in this, she's able to help us to go, this is what's going on, as above, so below, and this is how you can embody it, this is how you can self-discover. I mean, literally, we've got journal prompts in there. I love journal prompts because sometimes I'm sitting there going, This is so big, what question do I need to ask myself? Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Narayana: 41:08

Mm-hmm. Yeah, because each planet rules a certain thing, right? Of our each planet rules a certain area of our lives, and each zodiac sign is the energy through which that planet speaks. I like that. Right. So um that that's also why I think it's helpful. Like for me, meditation has been huge. I resisted it for so long. And it's the only thing that has meditation and tarot are the two things that have saved me during my darkest moments. Legit. I even feel bad because I was like, well, I I only consult the tarot when I'm at my lowest. Is that bad? No. It's not, it doesn't matter. Yeah. These are the tools that you need to get to know yourself. And so for me, meditation is also important, and that's why I'm putting it in there, you know, little little sensory acts, for example, like just little things that can get you in the groove of the seasons. And I'm injecting a little bit of Egyptian cosmology there because that's kind of like my latest obsession. Seasonal, seasonal energies to work with the Egyptian gods, you know, like ISIS and a couple of others. And that's also what has been helping me connecting with them, with the with their help, with their guidance, and I want to share that with others.

GDC: 42:35

My goodness. I too align with the Egyptian pantheon and all of the lore that comes from that. If you ever see my even my logo, you'll see the eye of Horus in the middle of the raven, you know? Well, yes, I think I noticed that. Yeah. And so that's like the core. It kind of all drags back to that. And then you've got the the pyramids and they align with the stars, and it's this ancient wisdom that you're bringing to us with practical application. And the way, I mean, it's literally a handbook. And you guys, you can download it, and so then you could carry it on your tablet, you know, and you could be like, Oh my goodness, what's gonna happen? Should you know, and then you could go, oh, this is what is happening, and now I know how to shift with the planetary movement. I'm all about with things, you know, the working with things versus dominating and controlling, and you know, and it's not because I always have done that, it's because I tried dominating some things and you know, shifting myself in different ways. It didn't work. And then when it comes like this, it's like, oh, you mean this is organic? It is organic.

Narayana: 44:00

You know, for example, the Mercury retrogrades, they're annoying. I mean, every single one is different. They can be really annoying, but they can be incredibly useful as well. If you I was born is I have Mercury retrograde in my chart, it's the only retrograde planet that I have in my chart. So I love it for the most part. When everybody's freaking out, I'm like, woohoo! Because it's like my language, and I use it. I'm gonna redo this. Yeah, I'm gonna revise this project, I'm gonna rethink that. And the reason why Mercury goes retrograde so often, yeah. By the way, 40% of the population has Mercury retrograde in their bird chart, because that's how long Mercury is retrograde every year. So a lot of us, a lot of the people who are it here first, you heard it here first, people. Um sometimes they can be magical if you work with them. They are helpful. They and and especially in 2026, they're gonna be in water science. So pull out your tissues and all of that. You know, it's gonna be like all of a sudden you're gonna be thinking about your first crush and things like that. But we need them, and and the and the proof that we need them is that they happen because the mind, right? You need to change your mind about things all the time.

GDC: 45:16

Yes. Oh my goodness. You know, I wish I learned astrology a long time ago, and I've read different books, and some of it I get scared, like what I was saying at the beginning of the show. Oh my god, I'm going into Saturn Return. What do I do? And you're just like, oh no, this is a really good place for you to be. And it and then reflecting on what you said. And listeners, I really encourage you to go to her website. What is your website one more time? Uh www.naramon.com. Naramon.com. You guys, I'm gonna have it in the notes. Um, check it out. You the calculator, I want to get into the calculator because the way that you're explaining things make me feel like supported instead of oh, I gotta predict when I'm gonna have my next meltdown, you know. And how to work with these energies, you make it so easy to flow. I is there anything like as we move into 2026 as we're wrapping up, what is what would you say to the listeners about, you know, what would be helpful, maybe a question or a tool that they can kind of walk into it with beyond all of the things that you have to offer. What would you say to the listeners as they begin 2026? Of course.

Narayana: 46:51

So I think I have two up two tools to share. Please share. The one is like if you already know your chart, which I have off a calculator on my website, just look at your house ruled by Aquarius. Okay. In that house, for me is career. For you, it might be probably something else, you know, your cancer rising. That area is what's gonna get an injection of energy, a big push this year. So focus a lot of your energy. It's easy, you know, it's easy. It's like the number of the house. Um because that's where Pluto is, and Pluto had a rough beginning when Pluto entered Aquarius at the beginning of 2025. That was rough. But now all of that intensity is gonna kind of like it's gonna start figuring itself out. That's the area of life where you take your power back when you begin feeling powerful. Like let's say if it's the second house, it's finances, right? If it's the third house, it's communication, if it's the fourth house, it's ancestry, if it's the fifth house, it's romance, you know. That's the area you'll probably feel like there's a lot of tension in that house. There was a lot of tension this year, on and off, but that's where Pluto's gonna take a lot of energy from a lot of the other planets, right? That's kind of like a a little bit of like an advanced tool. The second tool that I would love to give you is that you inspect, and of course, you can do this with astrology too, but you can just do it by being conscious. What is your relationship with the air and the fire elements? Oh, it's very simple, right? We take the elements for granted, but they're in us. I mean, I'm breathing air, right? Yes, I'm I'm that that's the air. I'm breathing air, I'm talking to you. We're doing an air thing, which is talking, podcasting. This is the air element, the intellect, the mind, the conversation. And what is you know, what's my relationship with that? Am I utilizing my brain? Am I utilizing my intelligence, learning something new? That's the one tool that I'll give you. If you're not learning something new, you're missing the book. It could be anything, it could be astrology, it could be marketing, it could be music, it doesn't matter. What matters is that you're learning that you're stimulating your brain, not by being on TikTok all day. I literally just told that to my mom. I'm like, you spend too many hours on TikTok. Are you kidding me? That's the that's I'm not saying TikTok is bad, I post there too, but that's that's a more passive stimulation for the brain. Right. You want an active stimulation, which is learning, absorbing information. It could be social media, it could be shamanism, it doesn't matter as long as you're learning something. Yeah, and then what's your relationship with the fire element? Do you have a lot of fire like me, and you might need to tone it down this year because you already have that, or if you don't have a lot of fire, if you second guess yourself a lot to initiate things, then you might need to work with that element by candle gazing, working out, running, anything that's like that's gonna get you up, that's gonna get you dancing, right? Get you up up and excited. Fire is an initiator to a certain degree, fire is intuition, yeah. Also, I'm sure that you as a uh in shamanism, you you connect with that, you know, sometimes spirit, yeah. Spirit, it's spirit. Absolutely. So think about that. What do you need a little bit more of that, or do you need to reconnect with those elements? Because those are the elements that are gonna take over for the next decade and a half.

GDC: 50:57

Decade and a half. You know, I feel seen because I know my chart and I know where my you know Aquarius is, and I'm like, that makes so much sense. And I know myself, and I actually with the fire that I have, I'm like, don't run people over, don't go too fast. You know, yeah, it's it's personalized and it's beautiful. The uh interpreter of energy uh is with us here today. I just like I told you when we were hanging up, I love you. You're just me too.

Narayana: 51:35

It's such a good, it's such a good fit here. Like I'm just so grateful for for you listening and making space for me to nerd about what I'm passionate about because I'm so passionate about helping people and it's really my soul path. And right every time that somebody's yeah, this is my purpose, and so every time that somebody gives me the space to um express and and maybe hopefully, and I'm hoping that this is gonna help somebody understand. Yeah, I love this, and we're friends now.

GDC: 52:14

Friends now that seals the deal, you guys. If you want to learn something new and you don't know what to learn, follow like download the luminous year 2026. Every day you can learn something more. It is a living calendar that will walk with you for your own personal self-discovery. Thank you so much, Nariana. You are just a jewel, and I have to have you back on the show. You guys say something, comment, share this. Share this, and we gotta have you back on the show. We just do anytime. Anytime. You heard it here, you heard it here. You guys have a wonderful 2026. You are not alone. The cosmos is above you and within you, and I love you, and we'll see you on the flippity flip.

Narayana: 53:13

Bye, adios, adios.