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Something's Got to Change
** And I’m here for it. ———————————————————— Dear reader, It’s the Full Moon in Pisces. The full moon is a time in the cycle when we celebrate all we’ve been growing, all that we love, all that we’re showing up for in this moment. This one’s a special one for me since I’m a Pisces Sun / Mercury / Venus, a combination that gifts spirituality, intuition, and imagination. My chart has Pisces in its natural 12th House, a house where we can lose ourselves if we don’t caretake and protect our energy. With placements like mine, the only way not to drown from what feels like the harshness of life is to journey into the depths of our healing, and…
WTF is “working with your wheel?” 🌀
** “That’s sound like therapy.” ———————————————————— That’s the response I get most often when I answer questions about what the work I do looks like. It’s hard to describe what I do in a sentence because it’s variable to the client and where I am in my process and it’s not a line of work that’s widespread or – let’s be honest – institutionally sanctioned. But I’ve created this newsletter in order to try. So here goes. If you’ve been wanting to work with me but are hesitant, or if you’re curious to better understand what I offer to people, this is your email. THE WHEEL is a term that is multivalent, which means that it contains the possibility and…
On devotion, and the intimacy of details
View this email in your browser (*|ARCHIVE|*) http://www.workingwithyourwheel.com ** Do you feel the shift? ———————————————————— I honestly can’t believe what a learning trip the summer has been for many of us. It’s not hyperbole to say I’m like a different person. And I’m hearing this from so many of you. It truly feels like a new chapter. Like emergence. It is. And it’s an honor to be part of your story-telling. Thank you for witnessing mine. In this newsletter, I want to say a few words about the incredible medicine of this New Moon in Virgo, which initiates today, Friday, Aug 30. If there’s ever a lunar cycle to set an intention, it’s this one. The symbol for Virgo is…
Why I love the term Holding Space
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…
The Long Body
🌒 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…
☀ Know Thyself ☀
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…
This Chariot Ride
** *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…
The Case for Clear Requests
** 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…
You don't really believe in that, do you?
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…
Don't Let Go: Poltergeist + the Full Moon in Scorpio
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,…