The Curiosity Solution Podcast

AI is stressing engineers and other people out. Michael has some tips on how to make yourself indispensable in this changing marketplace. We also veered into "my why" for starting the podcast!

Michael has been debugging software for 40 years, and getting paid to do that for much of that time, including at Microsoft, Tableau, and Salesforce. At some point, he noticed that every technical problem he encountered was actually a squish...

August 2026 I Ching Forecast: Deliverance: The Storm Breaks

Month's Energy: Hexagram 40 Clarifiers: Hexagram 19 (line 1) · Hexagram 56 (line 6) · Hexagram 8 (line 6)

August opens the Fire Monkey month 8/7-9/6. The Monkey carries us across a real threshold, the last blaze of a Fire Horse summer meeting the first cool edge of metal and water. Yang Fire pressing on Yang Metal, and then, in the Monkey, water is born. Pressure that's ...

Ruoyun Xu Killian, Human Centered business advisor and speaker, is on a mission to put the human experience back into marketing and business. She’s helped build 100-year brands like BigCommerce, Serenity Kids, Rebel Cheese, and University of Texas Center for Sports Communication and Media to create a sustainable Human Centered Marketing system. She believes that by humanizing the way we do business, we can humanize our societ...

Core (48 – The Well): The month centers on flexibility. Yin Wood bends, it doesn’t break. Nature is the guide to this concept, as well as the mentor for when life becomes stressful. We have a deep well of knowledge to tap into. This requires flexibility of mind, because uncertainty is uncomfortable. Expect this wisdom to shift something fundamental in your psyche. Once you drink from the clear waters of consciousness, y...

"We are what we tolerate." We all want to be seen, supported, and inspired. K. Margaret Solorio experienced the pandemic of 2020 as a time of dissolving an old identity, and an opportunity to become curious about who she was becoming. She wrote her book "Make Ease Your Vibe" as a way to capture this transformation and offer guideposts for others who are in similar situations. She is an Angel Reiki Master, a former wine maker, and h...

We stand at a threshold where something enormous is being asked of us, and the question is whether we have built the foundation strong enough to hold it.

Month (and Year!) card, #28, Excess

The image is of a ridge beam under extraordinary pressure. The center is heavy; the ends are weak. This is not a time of ordinary effort. Something has grown beyond its normal bounds, and it demands that you rise with it or risk collapse. The e...

Judy Tsafrir, MD is a holistic adult and child psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and astrologer with a private practice in the Boston area. She is the author or the award winning book “Sacred Psychiatry: Bridging the Personal and Transpersonal to Transform Health and Consciousness” She is currently working on an oracle deck entitled “Threshold Medicine Oracle Deck: A Symbolic System for Navigating Personal and Collectiv...

May is a good month to reflect on what has happened, and prepare for what is coming. This requires inner work, intestinal fortitude, and courage. The Yin Water supports the introspection, and the Snake's Yin Fire aligns with Joy and inspiration. Even so, the I Ching card for the month is 43, Resoluteness. This speaks to the need to stay focused on the task at hand, and to be prepared to have your character tested. This is easier wh...

We had such a great conversation, spanning the range of the newsroom, helping people refine their zoom presence and skills, to working with sorority rush intro videos, to the final gift we can give to our parents: making sure they are taken care of during their later years. Kim and Mike are true gifts to the community at large. I know you'll enjoy this show!

Kim Barnes spent more than 30 years as an award-winning television news an...

Fear may be in the forefront of people's minds, but so will courage and the power to manifest your dreams. With self-discipline, concentration, and an eye towards reaching your potential, one can overcome the overloaded, exhausted patterns. Transformation is inevitable, as are growing pains. Relying on those with experience will help turn that inexperience and vulnerability into fertile ground, ready for new growth!

Month card: 26...

This is the month to focus on cultivating your intuition. There will be a lot of opportunities for distraction and projects that will take you off course. If you don't challenge your perspectives and "KNOW" what is yours and what is something that others wish to impose on you, the incredible momentum will be lost. This grounding happens easiest when you notice the beauty around you, even in the most mundane tasks and everyday activ...

The Fire energy of 2026 is fertile soil for technological advancement. Brenni Larson has been creating a platform especially for spiritual leaders, healers, and intuitives.

Her mission? "To harmonize heart-based leadership with advanced AI automation, empowering conscious practitioners to reclaim their energetic bandwidth, scale their global impact, and build grounded legacies through digital alchemy and earth stewardship."

Yang Metal Tiger indicates a need for serious decluttering and pruning of all things: people, ideas, belief systems, maybe jobs. It's a time of transformation, instability, conflict, and stress. However, if one can use this time to pause, gather inner resources, and see where it's time to drop the rope of fear and burdens, the Tiger will be able to leap forward and claim the prize!

Month Card:

49, Revolution

Clarifying Cards:

64, ...

2026 promises to be filled with rapid movement, loads of enthusiasm, and several Phoenix-from-the-Ashes moments. We all need to learn to how to ride the waves of change, lest we be caught in the undertow and suffer needlessly.

The Year pillar is the Yang Fire Horse, I Ching card 28, Excess.

The Month pillar is the Yang Metal Tiger, I Ching card 49, Revolution.

The Day pillar is the Yin Earth Rooster, I Ching card 56, The Wanderer.

Join astrologers Kathy Biehl (no relation that we know of!) and Donna Woodwell as they discuss how they help others find their future path using journaling and astrology in their annual workshop! We talk about how illness often acts as a catalyst for redirection, how curiosity plays out in our birth charts, and why channeling our inner 5 year old's incessant "Why?" questions create a life of our dreams!

Also, you'll find out how si...

This last month of the Yin Earth Snake year is very supportive of shedding the last vestiges of old habits, unsupportive situations, and people who have used you for their own gains. Gone is the Yang Earth of December. Fertile Yin Earth is ready to help you grow, but only if you remove the thorny people, places, and things that keep you small.

The card of the month:

25, Innocence: Look at your world as if seeing it for the first ti...

Diane Sorensen is a Boundaries & Empowerment Coach, guiding women to embrace authenticity and heal generational patterns of people-pleasing, perfectionism, and co-dependence.

Through her coaching, podcast- Chaos to Connection, and speaking engagements, Diane empowers women, many who are mothers, to cultivate deeper self-awareness, establish healthy boundaries, and create lives filled with purpose and connection. Her philosophy,...

The Yang Earth Rat month (12/7-1/4/26) is a time to change your mindset from one of only seeing obstacles to noticing where the opportunities are. There will be growing pains as we all move into a season of new beginnings, with that "fresh from the egg" awkwardness, filled with the fits and starts of trying something new, failing, trying again, and getting better with each attempt. It's a month for sharing, expanding, encouraging, ...

Some call it a mid-life crisis, but others refer to it as the SOUL coming home. Join us as Sarah Veyland, Stress Relief Coach, discusses how she deconstructed her formerly rigid existence and found her way back to the expansiveness that her soul was crying out for.

BIO: Sarah Veyland is a writer, stress relief coach, business consultant, tarot reader, and lifelong student of what it means to live a meaningful life. After years of ...