[Just a heads-up, this episode is 3/4 video and then becomes audio only as the video was corrupt, but I was able to edit the audio together from back up audio files.]
What does it actually mean to trust yourself?
Not conceptually, but as a lived, embodied practice?
In this episode, we dive into the messy, beautiful process of reclaiming your authority: the moment you realise you’ve been outsourcing your decisions, the terror of saying no when everything in your conditioning screams yes, and what happens when you finally stop performing and start listening to your body. We explore the Leo-Aquarius axis, the myth of the isolated family unit, why we’re all drowning trying to save each other, and how your core wound might just be your greatest gift.
In this episode we explore:
The Leo-Aquarius axis and what it means for the collective as we move into the Aquarian age
Why “belonging” doesn’t mean conforming; it means being yourself within community
The myth of the nuclear family and why we’re all “drowning trying to save each other”
How motherhood became Jessie’s gateway to trusting her intuition unconditionally
Gate 29 and the journey from saying yes to everything to honouring when cycles are complete
The difference between the gift of commitment and the shadow of half-heartedness (and knowing when it’s time to let go)
Why your core wound is your greatest gift
This conversation is for you if:
You’re navigating your Saturn return or a major life transition
You struggle with saying no (or saying yes to the wrong things)
You’re questioning the traditional paths you were told to follow
You want to understand the Leo-Aquarius energy shaping our collective future
You’re a parent trying to find your village in a world of isolated family units
You’re learning to trust your body and intuition over external authority
You are a Sag rising, or have strong Sag, Leo, or Aquarius placements, are a 6/2 or 5/2 Profile.
You have ever struggled with commitment / or bi passing emotions
Meet Jessie Eccles:
Jessie Eccles is an astrologer, Human Design reader, and teacher who helps people understand their personal timing, patterns, and decision-making so they can live and work in a way that actually fits their life.
After leaving a corporate career during early motherhood, she built an business centered around self-trust, cyclical living, and redefining success outside of productivity culture. Her work blends practical guidance with psychological and symbolic insight, helping clients move from external validation toward internal authority.
She teaches astrology and Human Design, offers personal readings, and mentors women, especially mothers, in building lives and businesses aligned with their values, energy, and real capacity.
Connect with Jessie:
Website: https://jessie-eccles.mykajabi.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jessieeccles
Timestamps
3:50 – The Leo-Aquarius axis in family dynamics
7:20 – What “belonging” really means in the Aquarian age
19:30 – Ebonie’s midlife unraveling and radical honesty about what she wants
24:30 – Facing your greatest fears and living through them
28:00 – Jessie on the moment she couldn’t override her intuition
32:30 – The 6/2 Profile journey: staying in the body when things get tough
38:00 – Embodying Gate 29: commitment, half-heartedness, and knowing when cycles end
45:00 – Leaving corporate life and the moment no amount of money could keep her
49:00 – Becoming full of yourself means saying no more than you ever imagined
A vector of the kanizsa triangle tattoo that Jessie shares in the podcast.
“Your core wound is your greatest gift.
You go through it so that you can share it and heal others.”
Jessie Eccles
EBONIE :What does being ‘full of yourself’ mean to you? What are you FULL of?
JESSIE: I’d say I’m full of awareness.
Pattern recognition.
And trust, especially self-trust.
I don’t need everyone to agree with me anymore, and I don’t need to convince people. I trust my perception, my pace, and my decisions even when they don’t look conventional. That actually makes me more compassionate and less reactive because I’m not trying to perform a life anymore.
EBONIE: What do you see as the most important or valuable shift or change you’ve made for yourself in your adult life?
JESSIE: The biggest shift was moving from achievement-based identity to self-trust-based identity. I used to feel safe when I was doing things “right.” Motherhood broke that.
EBONIE: Complete this sentence: “At my essence I am full of .....”
JESSIE: At my essence I am full of curiosity, devotion, and awareness. I’m deeply interested in understanding patterns in people, in cycles, in timing, in why things unfold the way they do. I don’t experience life as random. I experience it as meaningful. And I think the core of my work is helping people trust themselves enough to participate in their own life again instead of just reacting to it.
“ I’m always gonna be learning how to say no to things that aren’t right for me, because that’s just, my journey. It’s not something I’m good at, right? But I can recognize and pivot -, lean into that Manifesting Generator part of me, I can pivot, I can let things end.”
Jessie Eccles
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