Meeting 2026 With Intention Not Force with Teagan West

Summary:

Before you rush into a new year, pause. There is another way to begin.

As we step into a new calendar year, we continue to pull on the thread of Right Relationship because it still has so much to teach us. To help us cross this threshold with intention, curiosity, and care, the luminous Teagan West joins us in this week's episode of The UpLevel Podcast. 

Teagan is a ritualist, astrologer, mentor, artist, and ancestral healing practitioner living on Haudenosaunee Land, home of the Seneca Nation. Her work lives at the intersection of ancestral reconnection, cultural repair, astrological storytelling, and community ritual. She reminds us that our relationship with the Earth, the sky, our ancestors, and one another is not symbolic. It is alive.

In this conversation, we explore how astrology can support us in becoming more right-sized within the greater ecosystem of life, especially as we enter a year marked by transition and possibility. May this conversation help you step into 2026 with clarity, courage, and care for all your relations.

In This Episode:

• What it means to step out of hyper-individualism and into reciprocal relationships with nature, community, ancestors, and unseen forces

• Insights into the shift from Earth and Water elements toward Air and Fire, signaling movement, reimagining, and transformation

• How to align personal and professional growth with natural rhythms instead of forcing progress according to cultural timelines

• Using astrology not as prediction, but as a tool for reflection, nervous system regulation, and asking better questions about how we live and lead

• From skepticism in New York’s fashion world to a vocation rooted in ancestral healing and astrological wisdom, Teagan shares how listening deeply changed her path

Order of Topics:

• Setting the Stage for 2026

• Defining Right Relationship

• Personal Journeys and Shifting Perspectives

• Astrology as a Tool for Planning and Attunement

• 2025: The Year of Shedding and Transition

• Previewing 2026: Integration and Possibility

• The Importance of the Right Pace in Organizations

• Listening to the Rhythms & Practical Applications

• Teagan’s Path from Corporate Hustle to Astrological Practice

• The Astrological Landscape of 2026

• Implications for Vision, Structure, and Creativity

• Mindset Shifts and Titrated Growth

• Cultivating Attunement and Belonging

• Rediscovering Collective Belonging

• Embracing Loneliness and the Journey Toward Wholeness

• Guidance for the Year Ahead

  
  

Action Items:

• Embrace "Right Relationship"

  • Acknowledge Interconnectedness: Understand your role as part of a larger ecosystem, including land, ancestors, and community.

  • Shift Perspective: Move away from hyper-individualism towards collaboration and humility.

• Align with Natural Cycles

  • Reframe New Year Timing: Consider aligning personal or organizational cycles with natural events like the March equinox rather than January 1st.

  • Use Astrology for Planning: Employ astrology to understand cosmic rhythms and align actions accordingly.

• Prepare for 2026's Opportunities

  • Reflect on Past Patterns: Use early 2026 as an incubation period to integrate lessons from previous years.

  • Expand Vision Beyond Comfort Zones: Challenge yourself to dream bigger without being constrained by current structures.

• Navigate Astrological Shifts

  • Ride the Wave of Change: Recognize that late summer 2025 initiated shifts requiring adaptation; embrace creative change in 2026.

  • Focus on Air and Fire Energies: Transition focus from material growth (earth/water) to visionary dreaming (air/fire).

• Implement Organizational Changes

  • Prioritize Vision Over Infrastructure: Dream expansively first; build necessary structures afterward.

  • Adopt Right Pacing Strategies:

    • Resist urgency and align projects with natural timing.

    • Leaders should consider slowing down growth arcs when needed.

• Cultivate Attunement Skills

  • Develop attunement by balancing control desires against openness to dialogue within ecosystems (community, nature).

• Address Loneliness through Connection

  • Reweave belonging by connecting deeply with land, ancestry, and collaborative networks, counteracting modern individualistic loneliness.

About Teagan:

Teagan West (she/they) is a Ritualist, Astrologer, Mentor, Artist & Ancestral Healing Practitioner from Haudenosaunee (HOH-den-uh-SHOW-nee) Land, home of the Seneca Nation. Her work exists at the intersection of Ancestral Reconnection, Cultural Repair, Astrological Storytelling, and Community Ritual. Teagan is passionate about recovering Animist ways of relating to Earth + Sky as a vital form of decolonial remembrance, reweaving our collective cosmologies through communal vision.

Teagan devotes much of her personal time to teaching, lineage stewardship + animist ceremony in her community. She creates ritual tools such as Drums, Rattles, and Ceramic Altar Vessels as a form of embodied Ancestral remembrance. She offers Astrological Readings, Mentorship, and guides Ancestral Lineage Healing in both 1:1 and group spaces. Her Substack is home to weekly readings, teachings + storytelling!

Website: thealtarhealing.com

Substack: Altar of Stars https://altarofstars.substack.com/

Instagram: altar.ritual.west https://www.instagram.com/altar.ritual.west/

Ritual Tools: Altar Ritual Arts https://www.instagram.com/altar.ritual.arts/?hl=en

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