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I first came across the term “holding space” when I lived on Maui. Everybody was talking about “holding space” for this and that, and thanking others for how well they were “holding space.” One day at a parent meeting at my daughter’s school, I just raised my hand and asked: “What exactly do you guys mean when you use that phrase?” Ha! It’s funny to look back to not knowing these incredibly useful words. Since then, I have come to see them as the center of my personal and professional practices. Let me explain my understanding then… When you “hold,” rather than mold, manipulate, or master, then you are mindfully giving support and a flexible boundary to something without jumping…

🌒 MAIDEN 🌔 MOTHER 🌖 CRONE 🌘 There’s a meditation I like to do and to give, in which you / we receive messages from different ages of Self. It’s profoundly comforting, to connect with and remember that we are ALWAYS ALREADY every age we were and are going to be. We have access, in any moment, to the wisdom of every season of our life. I find this wildly, radically helpful. I snuggle into and wrap myself in this wisdom. I already am all of me. Embracing the cyclical and overlapping nature of Time removes the veil of Overculture that teaches us Aging is B.A.D. Ripe-Rotting-Rotten. I’ll never stop being the Maiden. She’s the one who teaches me to…

View this email in your browser (*|ARCHIVE|*) http://www.workingwithyourwheel.com ** A powerful cycle is ending. A new one now begins. ———————————————————— Are you ready for it? In this newsletter, I’ve got thoughts on the past cycle (wowsa!), a link to the next set of New Moon notes and horoscopes for D Mag (really excited about what came through), and a special announcement you won’t want to miss at the bottom. The last few days, the Moon traveled through Cancer, the same territory in the sky that held July’s eclipses, and which currently hosts Mercury, slowing at its station Wednesday evening (officially at 11:02 pm CST), within an hour after the New Moon. (This email is timed to release after both the…

** *actual footage of you rising up and out from the eclipse basin ———————————————————— Well… THAT happened?! This particular eclipse window has been wildly activating for me. How about you? Some serious PORTAL energy. Let’s break it down: To the ancients, eclipses were a Big F Deal. The Sun and the Moon are the two luminaries. With an eclipse, the light of one of the luminaries get blocked out. The world isn’t the same in the aftershock. Eclipses happen when the paths of the elliptic for both luminaries meet exactly. In astro terms, we call these points “the nodes.” The nodes are described in Vedic astrology as the Head (north node, known as Rahu) and the tail (south node, known…

** Mercury Retrograde: July 7 – 31 ———————————————————— Quick Astro Lesson: When a planet is “retrograde,” it appears to be going backwards from the perspective of Earth. To the Ancients, this was a Big Deal. That meant that it was a time when we need to slow down and consider our relationship with that particular planetary archetype. How are we doing with that part of our psychic space? What patterns and behaviors need our noticing so that we can shift into more skillful expressions of that archetype? We have a lot of planets retrograde right now, and Mercury just shifted on the 7th. Mercury does this 3 times a year, and it’s a notable time for tech glitches and misunderstood…

Dear reader, Let us feel into a truth together: Why is it that we are not taught to tune in to and trust our intuition as children and, especially, as adolescents? What do you know in your deepest deepest heart is true here? If we learned to always trust our inner knowing, our truth, the synchronicities from the Universe, the gentle nudge from the unseen realm urging us towards our psychic senses, THEN WE COULD NOT BE SO EASILY CONTROLLED. Rather, we are taught to be “good” and “rational,” which is code for docility, submission, and rule-following. Our intuition comes from a liminal space outside of the hierarchies and structures of Culture, Government, Family, and Religion. None of these four…

View this email in your browser (*|ARCHIVE|*) http://www.workingwithyourwheel.com THE PAST IS HERE FOR SPRING CLEANING https://www.workingwithyourwheel.com/blog-1 Hey guys! I’m excited to share a little video I made for the astrology of the coming two weeks. In it, I focus primarily on the energies of the Full Moon in Scorpio, which is happening this Saturday, May 18, at 4:11 PM CST. In the video, I posit and argue that the polarity between Sun in Taurus opposite Moon in Scorpio is like the great 1980s film Poltergeist, story by Steven Spielberg. Have you seen it recently? It’s amazing! One of my all-time favorites as a kid. CLICK HERE (https://www.workingwithyourwheel.com/blog-1) to watch! https://www.crowdcast.io/e/working-with-the-moon-in Announcing my first ever live webinar next Thursday, May 23,…

** The gift of noticing… ———————————————————— We live in a world of automated time. This was one of the most radical shifts that occurred with the Industrial Revolution. It was train travel that made this a requirement, in the first half of the 19th century with the invention of the steam engine. Now time itself had to become as standardized as the products produced in factories. By @joewebbart Before, I didn’t reflect much about how my own life had become standardized. Intellectually, I knew it. I taught courses in Modern Art, and a huge part of Modernism is the relationship between visual culture and the technologies of modernization. I laughed knowingly when, in Downton Abbey, Maggie Smith’s aristocratic character asks:…

** The way to change is through the fear… ———————————————————— At the last full moon, on the first day of Aries, I sent out a newsletter with a potent ritual for calling in balance to relationships. You can find it here (https://mailchi.mp/a529a0544c15/after-winter-spring-always-comes) . Did you try it? I would love to hear from you about how it’s going. In it, I suggested you take four sheets of paper, noting your Gratitudes for what is working in relationships, your Dreams for better balance in relationships, the Mindset Changes you’ll need to shift, and then Action Steps to take to make it manifest. I tucked my papers under my mattress and am now ready to recognize the wild floodgates of change I…

** Be beautiful. Be bold. Say and do brave things. ———————————————————— 20-Minute Two-Week Astro Weather Report! Get out your calendar and your journal! New Moon in Aries. April 5, 3:50 AM CST. Click the image above for a brief discussion of the astro weather coming up for us the next two weeks until our second Full Moon in Libra on April 19. I outline three main energies that I see that we’ll be in. Listen if you’d like to work with the qualities in the air rather than have them work on you. Listen if you want tips for digging into your bravery. Listen if you like or want to learn a little more about astrology. As always, the invitation…