the maia games

Venus ties it all together, this year from the oceanic background. After a long, conclusive intro to close out the series, this episode connects me with my Venus ruled friend, former mentee, peer collaborator, and colleague in embodied cosmos, Amalia Golomb-Leavitt. Together we weave into our awarenesses and forms the medicinal role that Venus will play amongst this years' cosmic unfolding.2026 The Cosmic Context is offered in support of your meeting, embracing, digesting, and integrating everything you witness in your multidimensional inner & outer reality this year. May you do so with more presence and honesty than you ever have before.Join us to witness and digest in community throughout the year at quarterly ASCENDENT ASSEMBLIES gatherings where you can listen in on &/or contribute to expansive, collaborative dialogue with your elemental rising group. Enter the solarium at patreon.com/kelseyrosetort for access to these (live and recorded) gatherings and lots more.Places to Play:Find Amalia at amaliaarts.com and on patreon (patreon.com/amaliaarts) where you can find their talk show "One Foot On The Roof."Venus Episode Resources in the 2026 Cosmic Context (free) collection on patreonCONSTELLATION MEDIA: resource the vision at kelseyrosetort.com/constellationmediaAttend Ascendant Assemblies by joining the solarium inside of the orbit field (don't join from your iPhone - it will cost way more!)For a ~free~ intro to 2027 & global cycles check out the "free" collection on the Orbit Field's patreonAnd/or go deep into 2027 study with Kelsey & Jessa via 2027: The BreakdownLearn Human Design via the Living Your Design Podcast (free)Check out Kelsey's other collaborative podcasts Lab Parters (free) and Quality Time (on patreon)^ including the episode of Lab Partners referenced in this conversation, Metabolizing Shame: The World is Burning and We Are CreatingFind Kelsey at kelseyrosetort.com and @kelseyrosetort on IG, or hit "join for free" on patreon to get updates and occasional invitations. (don't join a paid tier from your iPhone - it will cost way more!)

In this episode, I sync up with my astrology & human design almost-doppelgänger, Lex Perkins, to spaciously explore the possible pathways for freedom to unfold this year and beyond via Uranus’ process. What emerges is an extremely meta arrangement of nonlinear genius.2026 The Cosmic Context is offered in support of your meeting, embracing, digesting, and integrating everything you witness in your multidimensional inner & outer reality this year. May you do so with more presence and honesty than you ever have before.Join us to witness and digest in community throughout the year at quarterly ASCENDENT ASSEMBLIES gatherings where you can listen in on &/or contribute to expansive, collaborative dialogue with your elemental rising group. Enter the solarium at patreon.com/kelseyrosetort for access to these (live and recorded) gatherings and lots more.Places to Play:Find Lex at @subtle_influence_ on IG or via email at lex@subtleinfluence.coPolitical Streams in the bodygraph + other 2026: The Cosmic Context Resources on Patreon (free)The Complexity Edge substack articleCONSTELLATION MEDIA: resource the vision at kelseyrosetort.com/constellationmediaAttend Ascendant Assemblies by joining the solarium inside of the orbit field (don't join from your iPhone - it will cost way more!)For a ~free~ intro to 2027 & global cycles check out the "free" collection on the Orbit Field's patreonAnd/or go deep into 2027 study with Kelsey & Jessa via 2027: The BreakdownLearn Human Design via the Living Your Design Podcast (free)Check out Kelsey's other collaborative podcasts Lab Parters (free) and Quality Time (on patreon)Find Kelsey at kelseyrosetort.com and @kelseyrosetort on IG, or hit "join for free" on patreon to get updates and occasional invitations. (don't join a paid tier from your iPhone - it will cost way more!)

My friend, peer, and longtime community member and supporter joins me to swirl around in the energy of eclipses and the nodes. What time is it on the distortion clock? What axes of personal and collective polarity are up for recalibration? Listen in to get swept into the nodal whirlpool with us.2026 The Cosmic Context is offered in support of your meeting, embracing, digesting, and integrating everything you witness in your multidimensional inner & outer reality this year. May you do so with more presence and honesty than you ever have before.Join us to witness and digest in community throughout the year at quarterly ASCENDENT ASSEMBLIES gatherings where you can listen in on &/or contribute to expansive, collaborative dialogue with your elemental rising group. Enter the solarium at patreon.com/kelseyrosetort for access to these (live and recorded) gatherings and lots more.Places to Play:Find Katelyn at @darkhouseluminaries on IG or via email at katelyn.mason@gmail.com2026: The Cosmic Context Resources on Patreon (free)CONSTELLATION MEDIA: resource the vision at kelseyrosetort.com/constellationmediaAttend Ascendant Assemblies by joining the solarium inside of the orbit field (don't join from your iPhone - it will cost way more!)For a ~free~ intro to 2027 & global cycles check out the "free" collection on the Orbit Field's patreonAnd/or go deep into 2027 study with Kelsey & Jessa via 2027: The BreakdownLearn Human Design via the Living Your Design Podcast (free)Check out Kelsey's other collaborative podcasts Lab Parters (free) and Quality Time (on patreon)Find Kelsey at kelseyrosetort.com and @kelseyrosetort on IG, or hit "join for free" on patreon to get updates and occasional invitations. (don't join a paid tier from your iPhone - it will cost way more!)

Vince joins in on the Game commentary to focus on key player in the Maia: Mercury. We explore Mercury's role this year as psychopomp in water - slinging webs across realms, carrying reminders from depths otherwise out of focus, and doing the calculus level awareness computations. See the timestamps at the bottom of these notes for a focused look at each Mercury Rx period in 2026.2026 The Cosmic Context is offered in support of your meeting, embracing, digesting, and integrating everything you witness in your multidimensional inner & outer reality this year. May you do so with more presence and honesty than you ever have before.Join us to witness and digest in community throughout the year at quarterly ASCENDENT ASSEMBLIES gatherings where you can listen in on &/or contribute to expansive, collaborative dialogue with your elemental rising group. Enter the solarium at patreon.com/kelseyrosetort for access to these (live and recorded) gatherings and lots more.Places to Play:Find Vince at @pharmastrology on IG or via email at pharmastrology@gmail.com2026: The Cosmic Context Resources on Patreon (free)Attend Ascendant Assemblies by joining the solarium inside of the orbit field (don't join from your iPhone - it will cost way more!)For a ~free~ intro to 2027 & global cycles check out the "free" collection on the Orbit Field's patreonAnd/or go deep into 2027 study with Kelsey & Jessa via 2027: The BreakdownLearn Human Design via the Living Your Design Podcast (free)Check out Kelsey's other collaborative podcasts Lab Parters (free) and Quality Time (on patreon)Find Kelsey at kelseyrosetort.com and @kelseyrosetort on IG, or hit "join for free" on patreon to get updates and occasional invitations. (don't join a paid tier from your iPhone - it will cost way more!)timestamps for discussion on 2026 mercury Rx periods:1 hr 8 min | Mercury Rx in Piscespre shadow starts Feb 11Rx period: Feb 25 to March 20post shadow until April 91 hr 33 min | Mercury Rx in Cancer (and prior transits)pre shadow starts June 12Rx period: June 29 to July 23post shadow until August 62 hr 03 min | Mercury Rx in Scorpio (and prior transits)

Alia Walston returns to the Maia Games to get Real about Saturn. What does Saturn ask of us this year and how can we honor that? It's big stuff. No short cuts, but big pay off.2026 The Cosmic Context is offered in support of your meeting, embracing, digesting, and integrating everything you witness in your multidimensional inner & outer reality this year. May you do so with more presence and honesty than you ever have before.Join us to witness and digest in community throughout the year at quarterly ASCENDENT ASSEMBLIES gatherings where you can listen in on &/or contribute to expansive, collaborative dialogue with your elemental rising group. Enter the solarium at patreon.com/kelseyrosetort for access to these (live and recorded) gatherings and lots more.Places to Play:Find Alia at aliawalston.com & @aliawalston on IGSubscribe to their substack You Are The SpellAttend Ascendant Assemblies by joining the solarium inside of the orbit field (don't join from your iPhone - it will cost way more!)For a ~free~ intro to 2027 & global cycles check out the "free" collection on the Orbit Field's patreonAnd/or go deep into 2027 study with Kelsey & Jessa via 2027: The BreakdownLearn Human Design via the Living Your Design PodcastCheck out Kelsey's other collaborative podcasts Lab Parters (free) and Quality Time (on patreon)Find Kelsey at kelseyrosetort.com and @kelseyrosetort on IG, or hit "join for free" on patreon to get updates and occasional invitations. (don't join a paid tier from your iPhone - it will cost way more!)Mud Season poem & post by James A Pearson

Britten LaRue joins me in hope, faith, trust, pattern seeing, and all other things Jupiter to trade notes on Jupiter in Cancer thus far and look ahead to Jupiter in Leo.2026 The Cosmic Context is offered in support of your meeting, embracing, digesting, and integrating everything you witness in your multidimensional inner & outer reality this year. May you do so with more presence and honesty than you ever have before.Join us to witness and digest in community throughout the year at quarterly ASCENDENT ASSEMBLIES gatherings where you can listen in on &/or contribute to expansive, collaborative dialogue with your elemental rising group. Enter the solarium at patreon.com/kelseyrosetort for access to these (live and recorded) gatherings and lots more.Places to Play:Find Britten at brittenlarue.com including her Spring 2026 cohort of The Magicians TableListen to Britten's podcast Moon to MoonAttend Ascendant Assemblies by joining the solarium inside of the orbit field (don't join from your iPhone - it will cost way more!)For a ~free~ intro to 2027 & global cycles check out the "free" collection on the Orbit Field's patreonAnd/or go deep into 2027 study with Kelsey & Jessa via 2027: The BreakdownLearn Human Design via the Living Your Design PodcastCheck out Kelsey's other collaborative podcasts Lab Parters (free) and Quality Time (on patreon)Find Kelsey at kelseyrosetort.com and @kelseyrosetort on IG, or hit "join for free" on patreon to get updates and occasional invitations. (don't join a paid tier from your iPhone - it will cost way more!)Paulynne Cheng's Youtube Channel - referenced in discussion

My teacher, John Cole, joins me to contemplate the most influential force of unfolding in 2026 and beyond - Pluto in Aquarius.2026 The Cosmic Context is offered in support of your meeting, embracing, digesting, and integrating everything you witness in your multidimensional inner & outer reality this year. May you do so with more presence and honesty than you ever have before.Join us to witness and digest in community throughout the year at quarterly ASCENDENT ASSEMBLIES gatherings where you can listen in on &/or contribute to expansive, collaborative dialogue with your elemental rising group. Enter the solarium at patreon.com/kelseyrosetort for access to these (live and recorded) gatherings and lots more.Places to Play:Find John at metamorphicsystems.comStudy foundational courses with John and amy at humandesigncollective.com or via their upcoming course The Art of SeeingListen to The Human Design Collective Podcast with John and AmyAttend Ascendant Assemblies by joining the solarium inside of the orbit fieldFor a ~free~ intro to 2027 & global cycles check out the "free" collection on the Orbit Field's patreonAnd/or go deep into 2027 study with Kelsey & Jessa via 2027: The BreakdownLearn Human Design via the Living Your Design PodcastCheck out Kelsey's other collaborative podcasts Lab Parters (free) and Quality Time (on patreon)Find Kelsey at kelseyrosetort.com and @kelseyrosetort on IG, or hit "join for free" on patreon to get updates and occasional invitations.

Jessa is back to help me cast the freedom-autonomy-innovation spell of Neptune in Aries.2026 The Cosmic Context is offered in support of your meeting, embracing, digesting, and integrating everything you witness in your multidimensional inner & outer reality this year. May you do so with more presence and honesty than you ever have before.Join us to witness and digest in community throughout the year at quarterly ASCENDENT ASSEMBLIES gatherings where you can listen in on &/or contribute to expansive, collaborative dialogue with your elemental rising group. Enter the solarium at patreon.com/kelseyrosetort for access to these (live and recorded) gatherings and lots more.Places to Play:2027: The Breakdown Course with Kelsey & JessaInOur Authority Course with Kelsey & JessaFind Jessa at jessareed.com, on patreon, and on IG @jessareedAttend Ascendant Assemblies by joining the solarium inside of the orbit fieldFor a ~free~ intro to 2027 & global cycles check out the "free" collection on the Orbit Field's patreonLearn Human Design via the Living Your Design PodcastFind Kelsey at kelseyrosetort.com and @kelseyrosetort on IG, or hit "join for free" on patreon to get updates and occasional invitations.

Jonathan Koe returns to the Maia Games' cosmic context series to walk across Chiron's bridge with me. Through personal reflection, other-dimensional insights, mythology, and more, we contemplate the last several years of Chiron in Aries and look ahead to what Chiron in Taurus might bring to our understanding of knowledge, healing and consciousness.2026 The Cosmic Context is offered in support of your meeting, embracing, digesting, and integrating everything you witness in your multidimensional inner & outer reality this year. May you do so with more presence and honesty than you ever have before.Join us to witness and digest in community throughout the year at quarterly ASCENDENT ASSEMBLIES gatherings where you can listen in on &/or contribute to expansive, collaborative dialogue with your elemental rising group. Enter the solarium at patreon.com/kelseyrosetort for access to these (live and recorded) gatherings and lots more.Places to Play:Find Jonathan at jonathankoe.com, on substack, and @jonathankoeofficial on IGAttend Ascendant Assemblies by joining the solarium inside of the orbit fieldFor a ~free~ intro to 2027 & global cycles check out the "free" collection on the Orbit Field's patreonFor a Deep Dive consider 2027: The Breakdown with Kelsey & Jessa ReedLearn Human Design via the Living Your Design PodcastFind Kelsey at kelseyrosetort.com and @kelseyrosetort on IG, or hit "join for free" on patreon to get updates and occasional invitations.

Ariana Felix joins me to consider the influence of Mars in 2026.2026 The Cosmic Context is offered in support of your meeting, embracing, digesting, and integrating everything you witness in your multidimensional inner & outer reality this year. May you do so with more presence and honesty than you ever have before.Join us to witness and digest in community throughout the year at quarterly ASCENDENT ASSEMBLIES gatherings where you can listen in on &/or contribute to expansive, collaborative dialogue with your elemental rising group. Enter the solarium at patreon.com/kelseyrosetort for access to these (live and recorded) gatherings and lots more.Places to Play:Find Ariana at arianafelix.substack.com & @arianakatherinefelix on IGFor a ~free~ intro to 2027 & global cycles check out the "free" collection on the Orbit Field's patreonFor a Deep Dive consider 2027: The Breakdown with Kelsey & Jessa ReedLearn Human Design via the Living Your Design PodcastFind Kelsey at kelseyrosetort.com and @kelseyrosetort on IG, or hit "join for free" on patreon to get updates and occasional invitations.

This episode sets the stage, the intention, and the tone for the next ten episodes of The Maia Games.2026 The Cosmic Context is offered in support of your meeting, embracing, digesting, and integrating everything you witness in your multidimensional inner & outer reality this year. May you do so with more presence and honesty than you ever have before.Join us to witness and digest in community throughout the year at quarterly ASCENDENT ASSEMBLIES gatherings where you can listen in on &/or contribute to expansive, collaborative dialogue with your elemental rising group. Enter the solarium at patreon.com/kelseyrosetort for access to these (live and recorded) gatherings and lots more.Places to Play:Find Amalia at amaliaarts.comFor a ~free~ intro to 2027 & global cycles check out the "free" collection on the Orbit Field's patreonFor a Deep Dive consider 2027: The Breakdown with Kelsey & Jessa ReedListen to the Lab Partners Behind the Scenes Podcast Learn Human Design via the Living Your Design PodcastFind Kelsey at kelseyrosetort.com and @kelseyrosetort on IG, or hit "join for free" on patreon to get updates and occasional invitations.

Alia Walston joins me for some real time commentary on the goings-on in the maia.We’re looking retrospectively at 2025 and ahead to 2026 through the lenses of numerology, tarot, astrology, human design, and our latest personal experiences in navigating the polarity of god-human incarnation.Alia’s website: aliawalston.comAlia’s substack: youarethespell.substack.comKelsey’s patreon: patreon.com/kelseyrosetort2027 the Breakdown class: kelseyrosetort.com/2027

Budway is back to capture the essence of what it is to be in our relationship in this moment.We’re answering questions, reflecting on 2025 and our 17 months of parenthood thus far, crying a bit, laughing a bit, and letting you in on some of the potent and transformative as well as the boring and mundane details of our lives and our love.

An unedited stream of conscious reflection on where I’ve been and where I’m going.I talk about my experimentation with interconnectedness in the last season and describe my current relationship to community, deconditioning, my work, resource and exchange, duality, and projection and jealousy.I offer my perspective on how these personal reflections feel connected to where I sense we’re all moving individually and collectively in the next phase of the unfolding.I tell you about the different places you can witness this interconnectedness experimentation that has taken place through me and my network, what may be coming for me in 2026, and how you can join in on the grid work happening in my orbit, including:Lab Partners a Behind the Scenes PodcastThe Living Your Design PodcastQuality Time via patreon Join 🌀the Orbit Field🌀 via 🌞 the Solarium 🌞

jessa and kelsey are back in swap-cast mode to talk about what it's like to be anchored in our (human design) inner authorities.we have watched our ability to anchor to inner authority as a means to clearing both relational codependency and codependency with the state.we talk about it a little in this share, and invite you to sign up for our 5 week course - inOur Authority - starting October 28th.learn more about the course at kelseyrosetort.com/authority.check out our class on 2027: the breakdownfind jessa at www.jessareed.com and @jessareed on IG

an energetic attunement and intellectual reframe about what might actually be happening in your body when your mind registers "imposter syndrome," and how your individual experience of such is connected to the story of humanity's evolution unfolding now. yum!relevant links:patreon.com/kelseyrosetortjessareed.com/2027

interrupting the maia games feed to introduce you to my newest podcast project: LIVING YOUR DESIGN. This is the first episode. You can catch the rest on it's own feed. (listen on spotify)Check out the description below, and if you're into it be sure to follow / subscribe to the LYD Podcast on your fave podcast platform.Head to patreon.com/kelseyrosetort for perks and resources and to get in orbit with me.The LYD Podcast is Your Comprehensive Introduction to the Human Design System - a free, audio-only release of the standard foundational Human Design curriculum as taught by IHDS Certified LYD Guide, Kelsey Rose Tortorice.This transmission of Human Design fundamentals clarifies the basics, including core principles and mechanics, centers, aura type, strategy, authority, and profile. Kelsey demystifies these concepts so that listeners can understand how every piece is rooted in a clear, cosmic, mechanical system, as well as how they’re all synthesized together for practical, differentiated, embodied application.The LYD podcast is a great place to begin your Human Design studies. It's also a fitting place to fill in the holes from self-study, to challenge the superficial understandings that are especially susceptible to mental distortion, or to revisit these foundations with the intent to integrate them in a more rooted, intuitive, personal, and radically honest way.

noah souder-russo enters the matrix in this conversation that weaves together lots of intersecting elements of our spiritual and deconditioning journeys.we eventually land into some story-telling and exploration around a revelation we came to together about what is really at the root of the “not self” pain and tendencies of the undefined solar plexus. is it actually “avoidance of truth and confrontation” or is there something underneath all that? on our way there, we talk about:beingnessmulti-dimensional relatingintegritydistortionthe three layers of awareness& more!noah is 1/4 splenic projector on the cross of eden. his cancer ascendant is ruled by a taurus moon, and his sun is in virgo.find noah at www.iamnsr.com and @noahsouderrusso on IGfind kelsey at kelseyrosetort.com and @kelseyrosetort on IG2027: the breakdown - purchase course patreon.com/kelseyrosetort 

this episode is a heart to heart to heart with Travis Day (1/3 Splenic Projector on the Cross of Consciousness), Vaness Henry (6/2 Ego Manifestor on the Cross of Healing), any myself (5/2 Emotional Manifestor on the Cross of Upheaval.)it's equal parts raw, deep and delightful, and is an interesting, honest, and maybe a little confronting demonstration of three defined egos meeting one another.here's some of what we get into:what the ego has to do with the material world / the maiafelt experiences of the 51-25 (channel of initiation)challenging & deconstructing the concept and language of "ego death"the ego center as the primary place of distortion for the planetthe projector manifestor relationship, specific to ego definitionthe differences in experience of ego definition with three different authoritiesthe nuance and tension of living your design in a not self worldFind Travis & his work at neutrinoseas.comFind Vaness & their work at vanesshenry.comSee what Kelsey's up to at kelseyrosetort.com & support TMG at patreon.com/themaiagames

As the age of the Cross of Planning comes to an end, we are witnessing a breakdown of collective structures, agreements, and conditions that had been assumed to be permanent components of our reality. In 2027, the Cross of the Sleeping Phoenix will emerge as the new, primary background frequency on the planet and reorient all of humanity from these structures and the values that created them towards an era of individuality. This episode is a pre game chat before the class 2027: THE BREAKDOWN with Kelsey & Jessa, which starts on Monday, April 28th 2025. In 2027: THE BREAKDOWN, we’re breaking down the mechanics of this upcoming global paradigm shift, demystifying the “prophetic” sentiments around 2027, and showing you where it actually comes from. We want you to be able to see and understand it for yourself through the lens of your unique and intuitive perception, and to gain a greater sense of trust in your ability to navigate what is taking place on the collective stage as the differentiated individual that you are.