Energetics and Design With Sarah

21/01/2026

𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔: 𝐀 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫-𝐑𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐌𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐲 𝐑𝐗
𝐹𝑒𝑒𝑙 𝑖𝑡. 𝑅𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 𝑖𝑡. 𝐻𝑒𝑎𝑙 𝑖𝑡.

This year, all three Mercury Retrogrades move through the water signs — making 2026 a deeply emotional, intuitive, and subconscious-focused cycle.

Mercury Retrograde Dates:
• Feb 26 – March 20 | Pisces ♓️
• June 29 – July 23 | Cancer ♋️
• Oct 24 – Nov 13 | Scorpio ♏️

Water signs govern emotions, intuition, memory, the subconscious, and nurturing. So while we’ll still experience classic Mercury Retrograde themes (communication hiccups, tech glitches, delays, revisions), the real work this year happens beneath the surface.

What Makes These Retrogrades Different?

Emotional Processing Comes First:
Feelings don’t stay buried. Old emotional patterns may resurface—not to punish you, but to be seen, felt, and integrated.

Communication Shifts:
Expect communication to become:
• Less logical, more feeling-based
• Intuitive rather than linear
• Emotionally charged, indirect, or even secretive

And, What isn’t said may speak louder than words…

Key Themes You May Notice
✨Emotional Overload
Unresolved feelings resurface; familiar emotional loops repeat until acknowledged.
✨Intuitive Hits
Heightened gut instincts, psychic nudges, vivid dreams, symbolic messages.
✨Relationship Re-evaluation
Deep dives into existing bonds, attachment patterns, or past relationship wounds.
✨Nervous System Sensitivity
Increased overwhelm, mood swings, mental fog, or emotional fatigue—rest is essential.
✨Revisiting the Past
Memories, ancestral themes, childhood patterns, and subconscious beliefs rise for healing.

How to Work With These Retrogrades:
• Slow down decision-making
• Journal, reflect, and emotionally check in
• Strengthen nervous system support (rest, water, grounding practices)
• Trust intuition—but verify before reacting
• Release what no longer feels emotionally safe or aligned

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💬 Mantra for 2025 Mercury Retrogrades:

“I listen beneath the words. I honour what my emotions are teaching me.”

Make sure tho save this for later!

16/01/2026

We still have just month left of the Wood Snake year, and this final stretch isn’t about rushing ahead — it’s about finishing the shedding.

The Snake moves slowly and deliberately, and right now she’s asking us to wrap things up, release what no longer fits, and close chapters with intention. Think loose ends, energetic clean-ups, and honest reflections rather than bold new beginnings. This is the pause before the pace changes.

And you can probably feel it already. The stillness is starting to itch. The urge to move, decide, and act is building beneath the surface.

That’s because the energy is preparing to shift from quiet strategy to full momentum. When the Fire Horse arrives on February 17, 2026, the gates don’t gently open — they swing wide. The Horse is all about freedom, movement, independence, and courage. It doesn’t overthink. It runs. Add the year’s governing Fire element, and not just once but doubled, and everything speeds up. Passion gets louder. Decisions happen faster. Patience gets shorter.

This is Fire with legs.

The Fire Horse year brings boldness, visibility, leadership, and rapid progress. It’s a year that favours inspired action, innovation, and choosing authenticity over comfort. Expect big ideas, fast shifts, and a collective intolerance for stagnation — especially in areas like technology, systems, and the way we work and live. If it feels like life is accelerating, it’s because it is.

That said, Fire burns bright and fast. This isn’t a year to run on empty or confuse urgency with alignment. The magic of the Fire Horse comes from directed momentum, not chaos. Move your body, follow what lights you up, take the risk — but pace yourself. Rest isn’t optional this year; it’s strategy.

So use these final Snake weeks wisely. Finish what needs finishing. Release what you don’t want to carry forward. Because once the Fire Horse takes off, there’s no standing still.

Run toward what lights you up — just don’t set yourself on fire in the process.

15/01/2026

The Fire Horse hasn’t officially arrived yet, but understanding its energy now helps you prepare rather than react.

Here’s a preview of how this upcoming energy will interact with your Chinese zodiac sign ✨

15/01/2026

𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐧! 𝐂𝐚𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐧 ♑️
(𝑀𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑦 19𝑡ℎ 𝐽𝑎𝑛 2026 𝑎𝑡 6:52𝑎𝑚 𝐴𝑑𝑒𝑙. 𝑇𝑖𝑚𝑒)

Our first New Moon of 2026 arrives early — and it arrives with intention.

This New Moon falls in Capricorn, the Earth sign of structure, legacy, responsibility, and long-term vision. Capricorn doesn’t rush. It builds. Brick by brick. Choice by choice. And that makes this lunation one of the most powerful moments of the year for setting foundations that actually last.

𝑾𝒉𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒎𝒐𝒐𝒏 𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔...

New Moons are always about beginnings — but when one lands in Capricorn right at the start of the year, the timing is no accident. There’s a quiet synchronicity here, like the universe asking:

“What are you ready to take seriously now?”

This Moon doesn’t push or pressure. Instead, it gently invites reflection:

✨ Where do you want to be by the end of this year?
✨ What do you truly want from your work, your purpose, your contribution?
✨ Does your current path nourish you — or drain you?

Capricorn energy isn’t just about promotions, titles, or money. True success here is sustainability — emotionally, energetically, and financially. A life you can actually stay in.

𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒎𝒐𝒐𝒏:

✨ Long-term goals & vision
✨ Career, purpose, and direction
✨ Integrity, responsibility, and commitment
✨ Building something meaningful (not just impressive)
✨ Emotional + material harmony

This is also a powerful creation point. If you’ve been sitting on an idea — a project, a book, a business, a Substack, a new offering, a new way of working — this is your signal. Capricorn loves momentum that comes from consistency, not urgency.

𝑨 𝒌𝒂𝒓𝒎𝒊𝒄 𝒎𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 (𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂 𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒐𝒏𝒆!)

What makes this New Moon especially potent is that Saturn (Capricorn’s ruler) is conjunct Neptune in Pisces. This is rare. You won’t experience a New Moon with this exact energetic signature again in your lifetime.

Saturn brings karma, lessons, maturity, and accountability. Neptune dissolves illusions, heightens intuition, and asks for soul-alignment.

Together, they blur the line between dream and responsibility — asking you to bring your visions into form, and your spirituality into reality.

This lunation is especially activating for Capricorn, Pisces, Gemini, and Sagittarius, but everyone can feel this recalibration.

𝑹𝒆𝒇𝒍𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒓𝒈𝒚:

Take a moment — journal, meditate, or sit quietly and explore:

✨What version of success am I no longer available for?
✨Where am I ready to commit for the long haul?
✨What needs restructuring so I don’t burn out again?
✨What would it look like to honour both my ambition and my emotional wellbeing?
✨What am I ready to begin — and tend — over the next 12 months?

Write your intentions down. Speak them aloud. Create a simple Moon ritual or a vision board for 2026. This is about anchoring your vision into reality, not wishing it into the void.

This New Moon isn’t loud — but it’s powerful.
Choose wisely. Build intentionally.
And let this be the moment where your future quietly begins.

Sarah
Energetics ᐁ Design

14/01/2026

So often it isn’t the people that are wrong —
it’s the unhealed parts of us that feel unsafe receiving, trusting, or being supported.

Healing isn’t about fixing you.
It’s about clearing what’s been stored in your energy so your system can soften, open, and flow again.

𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐀𝐯𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 ✨
𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒂𝒚, 𝑻𝒖𝒆𝒔𝒅𝒂𝒚 & 𝑻𝒉𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒅𝒂𝒚 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 | 7–10pm

No need to be anywhere other than the comfort of your own home. Energy knows no limits of time or space.

During your session, I hold a safe, grounded container — allowing energy to move, clear, and recalibrate through your system.

I don’t do the healing to you — your body, soul, and nervous system do the work. I simply support the flow, remove interference, and hold space for what’s ready to release.

Healing can support:
• emotional release and nervous system regulation
• clearing stagnant or heavy energy
• stress, overwhelm, and energetic burnout
• reconnecting with your intuition and inner safety
• restoring balance across your energy bodies

Once your session is complete, you’ll receive a detailed energetic report emailed to you, outlining:
• what was cleared
• what came through
• integration guidance moving forward

You don’t need to push.
You don’t need to force.
You just need to be willing to receive.

If this landed, trust that nudge.

Book here:
🔗 https://energetics-design.square.site
💌 DM to book or ask questions.

Sarah
Energetics ᐁ Design

13/01/2026

Motherhood isn’t a phase.
It’s a neurological transformation.
This reframes so much of what women have been told — and felt — for generations.
Worth the read. ✨

She Proved Women’s Brains Change During Motherhood, Permanently.
They told her motherhood was instinct.
Hormones.
Emotion.

Something soft. Temporary. Something you went back from once the baby slept through the night.

Then she put mothers in an MRI machine—and proved something far more radical.

Motherhood doesn’t just change your life.
It rewires your brain.

Permanently.

Her name is Pilyoung Kim, and her work changed how science understands motherhood—not as a phase, but as a neurological transformation on par with adolescence.

For most of modern medical history, the maternal brain was treated as an afterthought. Pregnancy research focused on the fetus. Postpartum research focused on pathology—depression, anxiety, breakdown. Motherhood itself was framed as something women handled, not something their brains actively adapted to.

Pilyoung Kim suspected that assumption was wrong.

She noticed a contradiction that wouldn’t let go.

Mothers routinely perform feats of attention, endurance, emotional regulation, threat detection, and multitasking that would overwhelm most people. They read micro-expressions. They wake instantly to subtle sounds. They anticipate needs before they’re expressed.

Yet culturally, motherhood was described as cognitive decline. “Mom brain.” Fog. Forgetfulness. Loss.

Kim asked a different question.

What if the maternal brain isn’t deteriorating—
what if it’s specializing?

Using high-resolution neuroimaging, she began studying women before pregnancy, during pregnancy, and after childbirth. What she found stunned even seasoned neuroscientists.

The brain didn’t just change.

It reorganized.

Regions associated with emotional processing, empathy, motivation, threat detection, and executive function showed measurable structural and functional shifts. Gray matter volume changed. Neural networks strengthened. Sensitivity to social cues increased.

This wasn’t damage.

It was adaptation.

Just as adolescent brains rewire for independence, maternal brains rewire for caregiving. The changes weren’t random. They were targeted. Purposeful. Evolutionary.

Most striking of all?

These changes persisted.

Years later, mothers’ brains still showed patterns distinct from women who had never given birth. The maternal brain did not “snap back.” There was no reset button.

Motherhood left a lasting neurological signature.

This explained something millions of women had felt but couldn’t articulate.

Why they sensed danger before it appeared.
Why they could hold an entire household’s emotional state in mind.
Why they felt both more vulnerable and more powerful than ever before.

It also explained why early motherhood feels so overwhelming.

A brain undergoing structural reorganization is not broken—it’s busy.

Imagine learning a new language while running a marathon while never sleeping fully while being responsible for another human’s survival.

That’s not weakness.

That’s neuroplasticity under pressure.

Kim’s research reframed postpartum struggle in a way many women had never been offered.

You are not failing to cope.
Your brain is actively remodeling itself for care.

The awe in this discovery is quiet but profound.

Motherhood is one of the few experiences that alters the adult brain at a structural level. Not temporarily. Not symbolically.

Physically.

And yet society treats it as invisible labor. Expected. Unremarkable. Something women should endure gracefully without recognition.

Science now tells a different story.

The maternal brain is more attuned, not less.
More responsive, not diminished.
More complex, not compromised.

That doesn’t mean motherhood is easy.
It means it is serious.

It deserves respect—not platitudes.

Dr. Pilyoung Kim didn’t romanticize motherhood. She measured it. And what she found replaced shame with pride.

The fog? A side effect of reorganization.
The intensity? A recalibrated threat system.
The emotional depth? Expanded neural connectivity.

Nothing about this is accidental.

Motherhood leaves a mark because it matters.

And once you see it that way, something shifts.

Exhaustion becomes evidence of work being done.
Sensitivity becomes skill.
Change becomes achievement.

The maternal brain is not a loss of self.

It is an expansion.

One that science finally learned to recognize.

If you value this work and would like to support the time, research, and care it takes to preserve and share women’s history, you can Buy Me a Coffee. Every contribution helps keep these stories alive and accessible, told with respect and truth.
Thank you for being here.
Thank you for remembering.
And thank you for honoring the women who came before us—and the legacy they continue to build.

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12/01/2026

✨ From Awakening Your Goddess ✨

Your birth month carries a spirit animal and mythical creature walking with you.

Did yours resonate?

08/01/2026

Human Design is relatively new to many.

Just like astrology, we can explore and unpack many layers within your chart — each one offering deeper insight into how you are uniquely designed.

This system is all about bringing you back to you — how you operate, how your energy flows, and how you’re naturally meant to move through life.

It’s not about fixing yourself.
It’s about understanding yourself.
And with Human Design, I help you embody this.

Here are some of the areas we explore in your chart (depending on the type of reading — Soul Map foundations, deep dives, or expanded sessions):

𖦹 Energy Type – who you’re here to be

𖦹 Strategy – how you’re designed to move through life

𖦹 Authority – how you’re meant to make aligned decisions

𖦹 Signature Theme – your alignment checkpoints

𖦹 Incarnation Cross – your soul purpose and life theme

𖦹 Profile – how you’re here to live that purpose

𖦹 Centres – how you feel, process, and experience energy

𖦹 Gates – your innate gifts and consistent traits

𖦹 Channels – how energy flows within your chart

𖦹 Planets – how and where your energy is expressed

Each layer builds on the next —
from foundational understanding to deeper self-awareness, integration, and embodiment ✨

Offers on my website:

Soul Maps $88
(Understanding the Foundations of your Design)

Soul Discovery $177
(Foundations + Discovering your uniqueness)

🔗 https://energetics-design.square.site

08/01/2026

Gratitude. The highest vibration ✨

07/01/2026

My beautiful soul sister has finally poured her heart into a book of real depth, meaning, and truth.

This didn’t come together quickly.
It was shaped by real life, not timelines.
Written through lived moments, not deadlines.
Formed through years of experience, reflection, and deep care.

I’ve witnessed her journey firsthand — both personally and through her many years working in mental health — and I know how much heart, integrity, and quiet dedication has gone into this.

This is the guide she wishes she had years ago. One created from lived experience, clinical knowledge, and genuine compassion — all woven together.

If you are someone (or love someone) trying to better understand ADHD — whether in yourself, a partner, or the next generation — I truly can’t recommend this enough. It brings clarity, language, and understanding to experiences that are so often unseen or misunderstood.

So proud of you. So proud of this work.
This will help so many feel seen 💛

✨ Understanding ADHD in Adult Relationships ✨

Now available! Follow link in post below 👇🏼

This guide didn’t come together quickly 💚

It was shaped by real life, not timelines.
It was written through lived moments, not deadlines. It grew through experience, not urgency.

It took years of lived experience,
over a decade working in mental health,
and a lot of quiet reflection on what actually helps in real relationships.

It’s the guide I wish I had 21 years ago — it’s a guide that’s been put together by heart, experience and clinical knowledge all in one.

ADHD can shape adult relationships in ways that are often unseen or misunderstood and for a long time, this was just writing things down.

Notes.
Observations.
Patterns I kept seeing again and again

Over time, it became something more intentional — a guided learning experience, designed to support understanding from the very first chapter, with reflection, insight, and practical tools woven throughout.

This isn’t about fixing anyone because they’re not broken — they’re uniquely wired. Learning how their mind works, rather than trying to change it, can quietly transform the way relationships feel and function

It’s about clarity, compassion, and finally having words for experiences that have always felt hard to explain.

It’s for the future - the future parents, partners or anywhere where ADHD is included in their story.

Today, I’m finally sharing it. I actually can’t believe it myself, what a ride!

✨ Understanding ADHD in Adult Relationships ✨ is now available.

To quietly mark the launch, I’ve added a very limited 25% discount at checkout & even before that ive made it so it’s accessible to all by cost.

If this feels relevant to you — or to someone you care about — it’s there when you’re ready.

🤍 And if someone comes to mind, you’re welcome to tag or share because believe me it shapes so much more than our relationships it shapes our whole lives.

Thank you 🙏
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07/01/2026

Bookings are now open via my new website ✨

Available:
• Monday, Tuesday & Thursday
• 7–10pm
• 45-minute sessions

Each session is followed by a full intuitive breakdown so you understand exactly what was cleared and what your energy is asking for next.

Exchange: $88

Distance doesn’t dilute energy — intention directs it…

Book here 👇🏼
https://energetics-design.square.site