EPISODE: 179

September 22, 2026

How to Use Your Birth Chart to Navigate Deep Life Transitions

With Meli Neubek

Resources

About Episode

Your birth chart can help you navigate life transitions more than most people think.

Meli Neubek is an astrologer, co-host of Celestial Curiosities, and one of my closest friends, which means she has full permission to tell me when my two-hour-a-day YouTube astrology binge is starting to look like a coping strategy.

I recorded this a few weeks after March 3rd, when I woke up feeling like I’d been under anesthesia for six years inside a dynamic I’d been calling sovereignty. Both of our charts, apparently, had this written.

So we sit with the real question: what is astrology actually doing when it lands, and where does it turn into another way to outsource trusting yourself? Meli walks through the difference between predictive, psychological, and evolutionary work, why she practices tropical over sidereal, and what Saturn was doing to my second house the day everything cracked open.

She also names something rarely said out loud: how suicidal thoughts can show up as part of an identity death, and why that’s not a sign something’s gone wrong.

You’ll learn:

[0:00] Introduction

[4:05] Carrying on the Kelly Brogan chicken legacy

[6:58] Why free-ranging chickens survive when caged ones don’t

[10:58] Falling down an astrology hole after an abrupt awakening

[15:09] When astrology becomes an addictive reality filter

[26:06] Choosing launch dates by the planets

[28:11] The season defines the archetype, not the stars

[36:43] The generational planets shifting from earth to fire

[45:02] Asking Mellie’s mother to move out after a decade 

[55:54] Suicidal thoughts and raw sharing as part of the anatomy of transformation

[1:10:05] The Socratic paradox and admitting you know nothing

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    Resources Mentioned:
  • Profit First by Mike Michalowicz | Book
    Steven Forrest, Forrest Astrology | Website
    Backyard Chickens | Facebook Group

    Find more from Meli:

    Meli Neubek | Website
  • Celestial Curiosities | Website

    Find more from Kelly:

    YouTube: Reclamation Radio with Kelly Brogan, MD
    Instagram: @kellybroganmd
    Website: kellybroganmd.com
    Join Kelly’s monthly membership, Vital Life Project here.
    Get Kelly’s new book The Reclaimed Woman here.
    Discover Kelly’s Relaxed Woman System here.
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