Birthing the New with Emily Nachazel

This one is a gift. My moon rituals usually live inside the Practice Library for paid subscribers, but so many of you have been sharing that you’re feeling tender and wide open right now, like this new moon is touching something deep. So I wanted to offer this one freely. I hope it meets you right where you are. So get cozy and drop into this energy with me 🤍Scorpio is a water sign, and of all the water signs, it may be the one that goes deepest. Pisces might argue the point (those two have been trading the title for a long time), but Scorpio carries something particular: the instinct of an investigator. It wants to know what’s underneath. It isn’t satisfied with the surface story, and it isn’t afraid of the dark places where the truer story tends to live.That makes the New Moon in Scorpio a beautiful time to go in. It’s a potent moment to examine the beliefs we’ve been carrying, especially the ones that are long held, or buried under years of stories and conditioning, or so familiar we’ve stopped noticing they’re beliefs at all.This new moon, we’re turning that Scorpio gaze toward our relationship with our intuition.When I say intuition, I mean the voice that guides you. It’s the one you can come back to again and again, the one that doesn’t always have the why behind the answer but has the answer. Most of us have heard it. Many of us have also, at some point, turned the volume down, or found good reasons not to listen.So often what blocks us from hearing our intuition isn’t a lack of ability. It’s the old patterns and old stories, and the sneaky beliefs we hold about what it might mean if we became more intuitive, more clear, even more psychic.So in true Scorpio fashion, we’re going to look at the shadow first. Then the light. And then we’re going to practice holding both.This ritual is inspired by Practice 10 in my book, Lead Like a Matriarch.For this ritual, you’ll need:About 15 minutes in a quiet, private spaceA journal and something to write withA candleAnything else you’d like to bring in, like something to burn or an element that helps you feel close to yourselfLight your candle. Close your eyes and take a few full breaths, inhaling fully and exhaling completely. Imagine setting everything else on a shelf for a little while: the to-do list, the schedule, the things for the children running through your mind. They’ll be there when you’re done. For now, let yourself drop deeper into presence and deeper into curiosity.After you’ve sat with the ritual, how are you feeling? Take some time to reflect on what surfaced and let yourself continue to write for as long as it feels good.You don’t need to clear every block between you and your intuition today. Sometimes bringing a fear into the light is enough to shift it, move it, soften its grip, and sometimes it isn’t. Both the fear and the pull have a place here, because both the expansion and the contraction are needed to birth the new. What this practice offers is awareness, which, at its most basic, is what intuition is.Questions To Sit WithWhen you wrote about what scares you, whose voice did the fear sound like?What did you notice in your body when you let yourself feel the excitement?When was the last time you knew something before you could explain why?Where is your intuition already speaking in your life, and what would it look like to trust it a little more this lunation?What becomes possible if the fear and the pull can both be true at once?I’d love to hear what came up for you in the comments.If this ritual spoke to you, there’s more waiting for you. The Practice Library is where all of my moon rituals live, alongside somatic exercises and emotional alchemy practices, and we add something new every month. It’s just $8 a month to upgrade, and you can start with a 7-day free trial.Big Hugs,Emily This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit emilynachazel.substack.com/subscribe

I’m back on the podcast, and I’m coming to you from the bathtub. The day after I submitted the final manuscript for my book, while I waited (somewhat patiently, somewhat impatiently) for Amazon to approve her, I found myself right back in the place where this whole book began: The Fertile Void.And so instead of worrying, I did what I teach my clients to do and I created (this podcast, for you!).Inside this episode, I share:* The story of 11/11/2025, the random Tuesday afternoon I got in the bath and started writing a book nobody was asking me for* Why the feminine births instead of builds, and what that means for how we create* A creation truth the womb knows, but we often forget * Why engaging with spaciousness is a skill, especially for busy women and mothers, and what happens when we rush to fill it* A first look inside my book, Lead Like a Matriarch, and the paradigm shifts it walks you throughThe Fertile Void shows up in all kinds of seasons: after a launch, between clients, coming back from maternity leave, in a lull in dating, or right after you hand something you love over to forces outside your control. Each one asks the same thing of us. Can we stay with the emptiness long enough to see what wants to come through?I’m glad I was able to embrace the emptiness, with the initial conception of the book and also in this tender waiting period between book submission and approval. She’s here now and obviously her astrology is perfect (more on that another time). Get your copy of Lead Like a Matriarch here: www.emilynachazel.com/bookAnd when you get her, please share a photo. I want to see this creative baby out in the wild!Big Hugs,P.S. My first book, Lead Like a Matriarch, is officially here! She came into the world in the early hours of October 23rd a few of days after recording this episode. You can now grab your copy at emilynachazel.com/book. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit emilynachazel.substack.com/subscribe

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit emilynachazel.substack.comEVOLVE 2-Day Creative Retreat in Oakton, VAGrab Your Ticket: https://www.emilynachazel.com/evolve-2026This month, for our Birthing the New paid subscriber call, I came in honest about the fact that I felt pulled in about seven different directions — and then realized that was the teaching.I held up the proof copy of my book for the first time on this call. It still says NOT FOR RESALE across it, there are still edits to make, and we’re aiming for a 10/10 publication date. There’s a retreat next week. There was a first day of preschool. There are two children now instead of one.So we started where the pull actually lives, which is the body, and we got curious about it instead of trying to fix it.Because feeling stretched across too many rooms isn’t one message. Sometimes it means your energy is spread too thin and it’s time to get discerning. Sometimes it means your focus needs to narrow. And sometimes it simply means you are expanding, and the rest of you hasn’t caught up to the size of the life yet.Wherever you find yourself in your own stretch right now, there’s nothing wrong with you for finding it uncomfortable. The discomfort is information, not evidence that you’ve done something wrong.If you can carve out the time for this month’s replay, I’d love for you to join us. The practice inside is one I return to constantly, especially in seasons like this one, and it will meet you again in whatever comes next.Become a paid subscriber to access this month’s live replay ↓Inside I teach:A short grounding practice for calling your energy back to you when you’re depleted, scattered, or pouring out more than you’re taking inThe three things a big emotion is actually asking for — and how to tell which one you’re working with before you go looking for meaning that isn’t thereWhy “just leap, just invest, just do the thing” is incomplete advice, and what it looks like to engage the edge of your comfort zone without shrinking back or blowing up your systemCharacter Work — a full guided somatic practice for giving a big feeling a body, a gesture, and a voice, then turning up the volume until you can hear what it’s been trying to tell youAnd after you tune in, I’d love to hear:Who showed up when you turned up the volume?What did that character want, and what’s your integration action item?And if there’s a specific emotion you keep bumping into, or a phrase you keep catching yourself saying — I’m so stretched thin, I’m so overwhelmed, I’m so pulled in every direction — tell me. I’ll build a future call around learning to work with it on a body level.Your big feelings are not obstacles to your expansion.They’re the messengers telling you how to hold it.

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit emilynachazel.substack.comBecome a paid subscriber on Substack to access the full ritual. Leo is the sign we usually assign to the spotlight — the roar, the crown, the one at the center of the room. And there’s real truth in that. But underneath all the shine, Leo is the sign of the heart. The sign that rules children, our relationships with children, and the child living inside each of us. The sign that asks whether you have the courage to be seen without your armor on — first by yourself, then by anyone else.A new moon in Leo lands with this particular kind of tenderness. It’s a fire sign, yes, but the fire here isn’t performance. It’s courage. The steady flame that lets you drop the walls long enough to actually meet yourself.So this new moon, we’re going to do something Leo would love. We’re going to visit the younger version of you.Not to fix her, or to tell her what she got wrong, or to teach her something she should have known. But to see her. To let her see you. To find out what she came here to say.Because Leo knows that your inner child arrives as a teacher. She has a message. This lunation is asking you to be still enough to hear it.For this ritual, you’ll need:About 20 minutes in a quiet, private spaceA journal and something to write withA candle — Leo’s element is fire, and the flame is here to lend you a little of its courageLight your candle. Let yourself gaze into the flame for a few moments before you settle. Soften through the jaw, the third eye, the space around your heart. Notice any armor you’re wearing today, and let yourself set it down. This is not the moment to be on guard.And then, when you’re ready, let a younger version of yourself come forward in your mind’s eye. Don’t overthink it — trust whichever version arrives. Let her see you. Let yourself see her.She has come with a message.After you’ve sat with the ritual — how are you feeling? Take some time to reflect on what surfaced and let yourself continue to write for as long as it feels good. While the meeting is still fresh, write down what she said to you — even if it came as an image, a feeling, a color, a sound, rather than a sentence. And write down what you said back to her — the words of love, of acknowledgment, of you’re doing a great job that she may or may not have received the first time around.To close, place your right hand over your heart and your left hand on top. Feel your heartbeat. This is the same heart that has carried you through every chapter of your life, and it’s still carrying you now.

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit emilynachazel.substack.comWe’re smack in the middle of eclipse season. A new moon eclipse in Leo last a couple of weeks ago, a full moon eclipse in Pisces this week. And as I shared on the call, eclipses are less “random chaos” and more spiritual chiropractic adjustments. Things shift, things surface, things get released. What comes in and what goes out during this window is always, always for your highest good, even when it’s uncomfortable.But the astrology was really just the doorway into the real heart of this call: a practice for anyone who’s been feeling extra porous lately. Extra tired. Extra achy. Extra full.The full somatic practice for identifying what isn’t yours to carry starts at the 25 minute mark of this call. Become a paid subscriber to unlock the rest of this call. Learn more about EVOLVE, my upcoming 2-day retreat in Virginia: https://www.emilynachazel.com/evolve-2026Become a paid subscriber: https://emilynachazel.substack.com

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit emilynachazel.substack.comBecome a paid subscriber on Substack to access the full ritual. Leo is the sign we usually assign to the spotlight — the roar, the crown, the one at the center of the room. And there’s real truth in that. But underneath all the shine, Leo is the sign of the heart. The sign that rules children, our relationships with children, and the child living inside each of us. The sign that asks whether you have the courage to be seen without your armor on — first by yourself, then by anyone else.A new moon in Leo lands with this particular kind of tenderness. It’s a fire sign, yes, but the fire here isn’t performance. It’s courage. The steady flame that lets you drop the walls long enough to actually meet yourself.So this new moon, we’re going to do something Leo would love. We’re going to visit the younger version of you.Not to fix her, or to tell her what she got wrong, or to teach her something she should have known. But to see her. To let her see you. To find out what she came here to say.Because Leo knows that your inner child arrives as a teacher. She has a message. This lunation is asking you to be still enough to hear it.For this ritual, you’ll need:About 20 minutes in a quiet, private spaceA journal and something to write withA candle — Leo’s element is fire, and the flame is here to lend you a little of its courageLight your candle. Let yourself gaze into the flame for a few moments before you settle. Soften through the jaw, the third eye, the space around your heart. Notice any armor you’re wearing today, and let yourself set it down. This is not the moment to be on guard.And then, when you’re ready, let a younger version of yourself come forward in your mind’s eye. Don’t overthink it — trust whichever version arrives. Let her see you. Let yourself see her.She has come with a message.After you’ve sat with the ritual — how are you feeling? Take some time to reflect on what surfaced and let yourself continue to write for as long as it feels good. While the meeting is still fresh, write down what she said to you — even if it came as an image, a feeling, a color, a sound, rather than a sentence. And write down what you said back to her — the words of love, of acknowledgment, of you’re doing a great job that she may or may not have received the first time around.To close, place your right hand over your heart and your left hand on top. Feel your heartbeat. This is the same heart that has carried you through every chapter of your life, and it’s still carrying you now.

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit emilynachazel.substack.comThis month, for our paid subscriber call, we gathered around a question I hear from so many women who are carrying a lot: how do we actually let ourselves be held? So many of us say we want more support, and then when it arrives (the babysitter, the assistant, the partner we finally asked more of), it can leave us feeling like we have more to hold, not less. We slowed down long enough to feel why that happens, and what it truly takes to receive support that feels like support.Last month, in our Birthing the New call, we named what we most want for this season and how we want to show up. This felt like the natural next movement. Once we know what we want, we have to be able to let ourselves be supported in it, and to meet the resistance that so often rises the very moment we reach for the thing we most desire.We looked at what happens to support when there is no feedback woven through it, how it can start to feel overbearing, or misaligned, or unappreciated on both sides, and how feedback is the thing that lets support actually land. And then we went underneath all of it, into resistance, which I believe is the single most important skill to grow if you want a business and a life that hold you, rather than one you are forever holding together.We completed this month’s call with a somatic practice by dropping into the body to meet the part of us that says “no, but...” right at the edge of a dream, and asking it what it actually wants. Wherever you are with support in your life right now, whether it feels abundant or thin, whether you are the one always holding or the one learning to let go, there is nothing wrong with that. You are right on time.If you can carve out a few minutes to watch this month’s replay, I would love for you to join us. The practice inside is one you can return to again and again, any time a desire meets that familiar hitch in your body, no matter the season you find yourself moving into next.Inside I teach:A one-to-two-minute box breath that settles the nervous system into rest and digest, a far more generative place to create fromWhy support without feedback can leave you with more to do, not less, and how to turn feedback into a dance you get to leadThe truth about resistance that so many caring, intuitive women miss, and why it is neither a red light to obey nor a green light to charge straight throughA guided practice for turning your resistance up instead of down, letting it become a character, and asking it who it is and what it needsThe three things to write down afterward so the shift ripples into your next 24 to 48 hours instead of staying on the cushionAnd after you tune in, I would love to hear: What did your resistance have to say? What is the one small thing you are doing in the next day or two to show a tender part of you that you have got her back? Share with me in the comments. There is so much power in being witnessed, in naming out loud what you want and how you are choosing to be supported in it.I will be honest with you. I teach this, I lead these practices, and I still feel the hands around my own throat when resistance comes up, especially at the edge of something I deeply want. That is the truth of this work. We do not arrive at it once and keep it forever. We come back, and back, and back again, ideally most days, or (almost) most days in this particular season of small children.The full live, including the guided resistance practice, lives inside the paid subscription, right alongside our monthly moon rituals (this month’s full moon in Aquarius ritual is already waiting in your feed) and our monthly community calls. If you know you need this kind of space, a place to keep coming home to yourself and to the parts of you that are asking to be heard, the door is open to you. It is just $8/month, and it is built around practice, ritual, and integration, rather than more information to consume. We are well past the information age. What serves us now is the space, and the company, to actually return to ourselves so we can take action from a place of intention and alignment.Let what you most want lead what comes next. I will see you in the comments, or inside the next live.Wishing you support that truly feels like support,EmilyGet more from Emily Nachazel in the Substack appAvailable for iOS and Android

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit emilynachazel.substack.comCancer is the sign of the home, of mothering, of nourishing, of the long tender work of taking care. It’s the sign that knows what it means to feel, and to lead a family, and to hold the emotional weather of the people you love. It’s the sign of the ocean and the moon and every soft body of water you’ve ever returned to.And as the moon’s own sign, this new moon is where she’s most herself. Not asking us to plan or produce or push toward anything. Just asking us to feel.A new moon in Cancer is the most intimate seed-planting of the year. The intentions here don’t need to arrive as clean, articulated goals. Cancer isn’t asking for the perfect language. She’s asking you to notice which area of your life is quietly waving its hand — ready for a shift, or a reset, or just to be looked at again, as if you’re meeting it for the first time, or seeing it after a long time apart.Maybe it’s home. Maybe it’s family. Maybe it’s something with the mother, or with your own mothering.Whatever comes forward — trust it. And then ask the question that this whole lunation lives inside of:What part of me needs nourishing right now?What part of me craves caretaking?What part of me is asking for a little more love?And then — how can I give this to myself?Subscribe nowFor this ritual, you’ll need:About 15 minutes in a quiet, private spaceA journal and something to write withWhatever your intuition tells you would feel really good to bring in today. A crystal. An essential oil. A bowl of water. Trust what comes.Settle into your seat, sitting up but soft. Let your shoulders drop. Imagine yourself plugging into the earth beneath you. And when you're ready, place one hand on your belly and one on your heart, and ask the question.After you’ve sat with the ritual — how are you feeling? Take some time to reflect on what surfaced and let yourself continue to write for as long as it feels good.And try not to worry about perfectly articulating what you find. Under this moon, the work isn’t in the action. The most powerful manifestation happens in the feeling itself — the biggest magic we can make is with our desires. Come back to the feeling as many times as you can this cycle.I’d love to hear what came up for you in the comments over on Substack: https://emilynachazel.substack.comBig Hugs, Emily

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit emilynachazel.substack.comThis month, for our Birthing the New paid subscriber call, we gathered to slow down long enough to feel the shape of the summer already forming in front of us — the travel and the milestones and the long bright days — and we let ourselves get honest about what we actually want from this stretch of the year before it slips past us. We looked at a few of …