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Nov 12 · Nov 19 · Dec 3 · Dec 10
Thriving in midlife Awakening
Butterfly Elder
4 weeks to thrive in your midlife
With Medicine Woman Asha Frost and Wayfinder Leslie Tagorda
What if the chaos and crisis of midlife were an invitation into emergence and awakening? A new vision of your life, identity, and values, filled with purpose, freedom, and joy?
For folx 38-60+ who wanta to emerge from their metamorphosis with purpose, clarity, and the flight of the Butterfly Elder.
Early bird through October 23 | Save $111 USD when you order both Inner Winter and Astrology for Changemakers. See how
The Butterfly is the Elder
When we go through our midlife sparked by biological markers like (peri)menopause and cosmic cycles triggered by the outer planets will we feel pain and confusion or profound purpose and clarity?
To turn into the Butterfly is to become the Elder.
And your metamorphosis can be filled with purpose and clarity.
In the Western World we have been sold a story about midlife that says something has gone wrong. That the exhaustion, the grief, the restlessness, the sudden zero tolerance for anything that no longer fits: these are symptoms of decline.
In the natural world, the butterfly does not skip the chrysalis. Inside that shell, the caterpillar does not pause or hold its breath. It dissolves. It liquefies. And then, from that formless place, it reorganizes into something it could never have become by simply pushing harder. What looks like falling apart is actually the most sophisticated kind of becoming.
The star medicine confirms it. From your late thirties all the way through sixty, a series of cosmic transits arrive like clockwork, each one knocking on the door of a different part of you, each one asking: are you ready? You do not have to face those transits alone, and you do not have to white-knuckle your way through them. There is medicine here, if you know how to find it.
What an AwakeningMeans
Your capacity is not broken.
The dark night of the soul has a purpose.
The cosmos has a timeline for your transformation.
You are the medicine.
Did you know that your midlife cycles are divinely timed?
Awakening to the Call
The first wave arrives as disruption. Old structures begin to feel too small. Relationships, careers, and identities that once fit no longer do. This is not a crisis; it is the first knock. Something in you is ready to wake up.
Choosing Your Liberation
The pressure intensifies. Opposing forces pull at you from every direction: who you have been and who you are becoming, what others need and what your own soul is asking for. This is the transit that asks you to stop choosing by default and start choosing with intention.
Emerging as the Healer
Chiron, the asteroid known as the wounded healer, returns to the place it occupied when you were born. This is the transit that transforms your deepest wound into your greatest gift. The places you have hurt the most become the places you have the most to offer.
Activating the Elder
Saturn completes its second full return. This is the transit of legacy, authority, and full arrival into your own wisdom. The elder does not hustle for permission. She simply knows, and leads from that knowing.
How this came to be
The Medicine Woman and The Wayfinder Who Went Through the Fire
Butterfly Elder was first planned for last year (2025). But when the time came, both of them were in the dark night of the soul themselves. They listened to what Asha calls the bear growl: that inner signal that tells you where your energy actually belongs. They paused. They rested. And then they went through everything they had been preparing to teach.
For Leslie, that meant a thyroid cancer diagnosis discovered while she was deep in the writing of her manuscript. Two surgeries. A radioactive iodine treatment. A conversation with her own body that completely changed the way she understood her voice and her worth. She came out the other side cancer-free, and with a clarity she had not had before.
For Asha, it meant navigating neurological symptoms with no clear answers, sitting inside the terror of not knowing, and ultimately finding the medicine that could only have come from having been that afraid. Her new book, The Inner Winter, was written from inside that season.
Butterfly Elder is now emerging twelve months later, and both women are carrying everything they have learned. This is not a curriculum they developed from the outside. It is one they lived. When Leslie says the chrysalis is meaningful, she knows. When Asha says there is medicine in the winter, she has found it herself. What they are offering is testimony, and an invitation for you to find your own.
The Butterfly Elder Journey
Your Four-WeekExperience
Each week reflects the metamorphosis of the butterfly, from Caterpillar to Pupa to Chrysalis to Flight.
Week 1 · Nov 12
Leslie introduces the midlife planetary transits (Pluto, Chiron, and Saturn) and maps out the transit timeline so you can see exactly where you are in the larger arc of your becoming.
Asha guides a somatic exploration of what your body already knows. How do you recognize that something is shifting? Where do you feel it? And what happens when you tend to it instead of pushing it down?
Week 2 · Nov 19
Leslie explores the transit tension points: the moments in your cosmic timeline when opposing energies peak and ask you to choose. Crisis is one option. Intentional transformation is another.
Asha leads a shamanic journey and soul retrieval to call back the parts of yourself that may have been left behind: the pieces from the past that are ready to be witnessed, moved through, and woven back in.
Week 3 · Dec 3
Leslie introduces Chiron not just as the wounded healer but as teacher and mentor: the part of your chart that reveals the gifts born from your hardest experiences, and the contribution you are here to make because of what you have been through.
Asha guides a reflection on the teachings of this season. What are the lessons? What has this time asked of you? And how do you begin to embody the elder who carries that wisdom, not as someone who has been broken, but as someone who is the medicine?
Week 4 · Dec 10
Leslie guides a star medicine integration: how to hold all of the midlife transits you have moved through or are moving through, and how to set your sights on the cosmic invitation ahead.
Asha leads a dreaming and visioning practice, reclaiming your destiny from a different place, with a different capacity, having evolved through everything you have carried. What does living your medicine look like from here?
Our live cohort meets live
November 12 –December 10, 2026
Nov 12, Nov 19, short break, Dec 3, and Dec 10
Early Bird Pricing
Early Bird Book Bundle Promotion: Save $111 USD!
Save $111 USD when you buy both books ($444 USD / $333 USD)
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- Step 1 Buy Astrology for Changemakers By Leslie Tagorda (Weiser Books)
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Choose Your Path
Save $111 USD on any tier when you buy both books before October 23, 2026
Activate
$444 USD
- Four live group sessions with Leslie and Asha
- Guided ceremonies and group healing
- A supportive circle of seekers
- Reflection journal
- Replays of every live session
Emerge
$666 USD
Limited to 20 spots
- Everything in Activate
- Your personalized astrological midlife timeline created by Leslie from your birth date, time, and place
- Specific dates, themes, and journal questions for each cycle
Take Flight
$1332 USD
Limited to 10 spots
- Everything in Emerge
- A 1:1 healing session with Asha (Sacred Medicine)
- A 1:1 Star Medicine Session with Leslie
Meet your guides
Asha Frost
Leslie Tagorda