Einstein, Emily Blunt, and Why There Is No Plan B

Taylor Marsh explores the power of the Gemini New Moon and what it means for your creative path — drawing on Einstein's trust in intuition, Emily Blunt's viral "just quit" advice, and her own lifelong commitment to Plan A.

With 2026's forward-motion energy reaching its apex, Taylor unpacks why this is the moment to act on instinct, embrace risk, and stop waiting for the "perfect moment" that doesn't exist. She shares an excerpt from her thriller Darker Than Blood, explains the difference between intuition and instinct, and breaks down why the upcoming retrograde slowdown is actually something to celebrate.

What you'll learn:

• Why Einstein believed intuition informed his greatest discoveries — and what that means for you
• Taylor's nuanced response to Emily Blunt's "just quit your job" advice
• The difference between intuition and instinct — and how truth connects them both
• Why the Gemini New Moon marks a pivotal window for action and authentic choices
• How retrograde energy is actually a gift for creatives and entrepreneurs
• What synchronicity, self-love, and the vagus nerve have to do with finding your purpose

Resources mentioned:

• Einstein's 1929 quote on intuition and the 1919 eclipse
• Emily Blunt interview on Betches (re: Devil Wears Prada 2)
• Darker Than Blood by Taylor Marsh (2025)
• Psychology Today — research on intuition, the gut-brain axis, and the vagus nerve
• Shirley MacLaine on dancers and junk food

Connect with Taylor:

• Website: taylormarsh.com
• Instagram: @MsTaylorMarsh
• X: @TaylorMarsh

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How is the Gemini New Moon treating you? Opening weeks of June have been powerful, at least for me. These next two weeks, they're the last window to accept where you are in the moment and make choices. It's important to emphasize, however, that 2026 energies so far have jettisoned humanity into a new era. What I talked about for weeks earlier in the year, a time of forward motion meant to catapult humans to evolve and level up. Choose a new path that is more authentic, even if it scares the crap out of you. Only you can make the leap into authentic purpose. Every time a moment prime for action and new choices appears, humans make a choice to take a strategic leap or wait. Oftentimes, faith in yourself will strengthen your resolve, even when all the information is not available at the moment you take the risk. So that brings me to Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity and General Relativity, which were published in 1905 and 1915 respectively. A quote from Einstein from 1929. I believe in intuitions and inspirations. I sometimes feel that I am right. I do not know that I am right. I was not surprised when the eclipse on May 29th, 1919 confirmed my intuitions. I would have been surprised if I had been wrong. Welcome. I'm Taylor Marsh, author and host of Blue My Mind Podcast. Organized religion in all its forms is how humans understand our existence. What is missing is an understanding of the energy of the universe and how humans are affected by the phenomenon we experience. An eclipse unveils truth and it can also expose dark energy. If a person is on the wrong path, an eclipse can disrupt life and change our direction through energetic force. I have faced this personally over my many years as a creative artist. And I think I really have to emphasize this point. A human, especially someone who is creative, an artist that has purpose, has only one choice. Plan A. There can be no plan B if you are a creative artist. I learned this myself. Einstein's imagination informed his genius. Perhaps he could see the evolutionary path of his calculations through his vision. Expertise in what drives a person, our purpose, can lead to a psychic phenomenon portal where you see where your creative vision will lead. During my hiatus, the few weeks in spring, Betches did an interview with Emily Blunt of Devil Wears Prada 2. And what Blunt said stoked a firestorm. Emily Blunt's advice for people who hate their jobs is quote, quit. Just find something that you deeply want to do. Even if you're earning no money, as long as you love it, you'll be happy. Now for me, plan A had to work because there was no plan B. The quest I have been on started for me as a kid, in private, but has never waned. I do not suggest the path I have taken should be yours. My exploration reveals timing, however, that applies to everyone. A creative vision is under the what I want category, if you will. This is the architecture of your life at this moment. It is the big picture. What am I good at? This is the micro. Before you manifest your dream job, a person often has a period of exploration and other jobs just to get by and pay the bills. What I would say is make sure the job you choose builds on what you want and what you're good at in the present moment. Like if you're a great typer but don't want to be a secretary, what else can you do to make ends meet while you work on your dream job? What I would say to Emily Blunt's just quit your job is this never take a job just for money that does not hone a skill you intend to use when your vision manifests or comes closer into view. And I will tell you, I don't believe in goals because I've been so sure about my path for so long. But one of the things that I have learned when I started doing the instinct and the truth thing, and then paying attention to energies that I felt is prepare to be surprised. Energy shift all year and timing matters. And I will say, choosing not to act at a time that is that favors action is still a choice. It is your reaction to good timing, I'm not ready. And it's perfectly legitimate. Missing windows when the astronomy favors risk and the need for change often hits our gut, and we either get scared, we convince ourselves we can't really do this, or maybe we have vices that have turned into addictions that are playing with this. Even our diets. When you go on a binge of eating junk food, that has been my Achilles heel my entire life. I'll never forget reading one of Shirley McLean's books, and she said, I think she said, dancers, dancers all have one thing in common, and that is we all love junk food. Well, as an artist, I can tell you that's that's been a problem of mine. I also, when I quit sugar, I really quit sugar, except I kept drinking wine. I still drink wine occasionally. The only thing I can say is at this, my third act, I do allow myself, I've learned to eat dark chocolate simply because milk chocolate triggers me. Anyway, but you have to embrace the energy and where you are in life as a series of changes, and nothing is permanent. Science is the penultimate event for humans. Experience led to all we know about life, whether someone refuses to accept the universe is a map or not. And even scientists, their discoveries come through experience. Experience is the whole ball game, what you are doing. And as far as I can tell, even when you're blessed with some gifts and you and you through your truth and you're you're doing meditation and you're getting downloads, human life will still remain a mysterious phenomenon. The connection between truth and instincts is underappreciated and often just ignored. People think truth is an option and little eyes do not matter. Truth is spirit's connection to us, and the only thing that can tame human conceit. What evolves from there is not only miraculous, it is mysterious. Intuition is a form of unconscious intelligence that is as needed as conscious intelligence. That's a psychologist from the Max Planck Institute, Berlin, 2023, and I found it on psycholytoday.com. Experts often confuse intuition with instincts and ignore the sequential reality of these two creative powerhouses, both of which connect to truth. Quote, sometimes the heart is smarter than the head, also found on psychology today and said by Matthew Hudson. The heart center is connected to the gut, the gateway to truth, purpose, and the phenomena of intuition and the law of attraction. Intuition is connected to collective higher consciousness, in my opinion. Instinct is physical. Our emotions inform both our instincts before intuition even arrives. The gut and the heart contain a significant amount of neural tissue and are connected to the brain by way of the vagus nerve, the so-called gut brain and heart brain axes. In addition, we know that neurotransmitters and hormones such as dopamine and serotonin can influence cognitive processes and emotions. These biochemical signals might also contribute to our intuitive responses. Intuition and instinct are creative tools for finding purpose across your life. Success depends on the truth you tell yourself through the years of progress. Your intuition will be faulty if you are living lies, and your instincts will be off target if you don't tell yourself the truth. Your instincts will weaken and become manipulative through conceit or ego if truth is not present. I have to say, I believe fear is impossible if there is solid self-love in your life. Now, on another level, synchronicity is part of this process. And it will occur when you're on the right path and when you're listening. Synchronicity is a fun game that can answer questions, but they are personal. This is a personal thing. Not everything you experience when you are alone is meant to be shared, and that's the mistake people make. Until we are comfortable with ourselves alone and find out what our instincts are telling us when we don't have pressure, we will be off track. An epiphany of joy at having two separate events meet up is a message. All are predicated again on truth. Now, I'm not a self-help coach, I am not a therapist. A human is in connection with the universe and self, or he or she is not. Serious mental health issues belong with medical experts. I am not a medical expert. From the beginning, I chose instincts and I did not care what it cost me. College educated with a BFA. I never thought what would happen if I learned performing was not for me. This was unimaginable because I I knew it was the way out of where my life began. Plan A was artistic, but the foundation was spiritual. Chaos of my childhood took me on a fact-finding tour that revolved around religion, sex, and men. I want to read a brief section from Darker Than Blood, my thriller that we published in August of 2025. Feelings are truths, while deeper emotions tie to experiences and actual events. Except the connections to experiences that roiled my life are missing. The through line from the first snapshot to when I step through puberty is a void. Driven by questions dogging me, an experiment evolved into purpose. I research, diagnose, and advise on the energies derived from planetary movements and cycles, how these events impact humanity collectively and humans personally. Instincts drive my decision process. Intuition is sensory and connected to a powerful information portal and can lead to a phenomenon called downloaded messages. The process when information appears through the mind from somewhere beyond physical life. Phenomenology requires human imagination and the act of radical acceptance of mysterious connections we cannot explain, but which our experiences prove are real. This is when my life began to make sense. That is from the lead character, Gaynel Debs. And I tried to make this book an explanation of how to use these energies and how life can impact a character. So today, as we land at the apex of 2026 forward motion with the Gemini New Moon, after months of forward motion, the slowdown energy arrives as June ends. Slowdowns during the year are natural astronomical phenomenon. They're not anything to worry about. They are a thing to celebrate because you get to slow down and look at what came before the slowdown. Now, the great underworld energy is now in retrograde, a humanitarian-wide energy to review and reverse huge mistakes, but also undo progress when dark energy is present and light is weaker. Especially right now, to review what has happened in the early parts of 2026 and mull what happens next. Where do you need changes? You ride the slowdown by feeling into how these seasons impact your life, your intuition, your instincts, your heart center, your gut feeling, but most importantly, your emotions. Whatever energy is dragging you down needs to go. Quit the commitment on something you may really want, but just hasn't happened. And ask yourself what you are good at creating that strengthens the tie to your emotions and say yes. It is time to move on to that thing in your gut that says, I really want to do this. I may be really bad at it. Know that all of your efforts, even the big failures, especially the big failures, tell you more about yourself than fear and waiting until the quote unquote perfect moment, which does not exist. And as I say every every day to people who listen to me, the most important thing you can do in this is take time out to have fun and stoke your joy. You can have epiphanies when all the worries are down and you're playing with your kitty or your dog or your children or taking a bike ride all alone. But above all, make sure you make time for fun and joy. After all, we're heading towards summer. Thanks so much for listening. My name is Taylor Marsh. You can reach me on social media and at Taylormarsh.com. Until next time, I don't know.