i invited my lover and partner and soon to be baby daddy on the pod to make a time capsule episode just weeks ahead of becoming first time parents and welcoming a new baby into the world and our arms and our lives. we shoot the shit a bit, answer some questions from the internet, and let you in on our usually private experience of being very much in love and navigating reality in conscious partnership. here is some of what we talk about: what it was has been like to fall in love with each other very young and to grow together and apart and together for 14 years our conceptualizations of "the maia" and our different but intertwining journeys with spirituality, embodiment, and esoteric knowledge being in relationship and cohabitating as a manifestor-generator pair being a couple that contains one 3rd line who needs to make and break bonds the experience of 5th line projection inside of our long term, intimate partnership what it has been like to be in the liminal space that is pregnancy, on the cusp of parenthood if you'd like to help us extend our parental leave beyond 4 weeks for budway and 8 weeks for kelsey, you are invited to contribute to our registry / parental leave fund at babylist.com/kelseyandbudway. if you want more from the two of us together, show some support by following @sweetgeometry on instagram. learn about & join kelsey's student membership at kelseyrosetort.com/studentmembership. find budway's music on spotify at budway ferris & the mutual magic support future episodes of the maia games podcast by becoming a patron for $8/month: patreon.com/themaiagames