I love to be. To be human and all that comes with it, is an extraordinary gift. To be alive. To be here now. To be on Earth. To be together. To be alone. To be real. To become. This year has been a very strong one for so many of us and yet, still…there is being in the midst. The chance to breathe, to dance, to sing, to embrace, to witness, to experience. Please notice the exquisiteness that is encompassed in your very life. It is magnificent that you are here with an invitation to be…
Read MoreDo you know that the entire zodiac lives inside of you? That every facet of every sign can be found somewhere inside the universe that is your personal psyche? You are a Capricorn and you are also a Pisces, a Scorpio, a Leo, etc. Regardless of where your Sun shines, you also have many other planets in your birth chart that indicate further characteristics of your personality. Even without a planet or star residing in an area of your birth chart, that part of you exists and reigns over what is called a “house”. The houses from the 1st to the 12th are a map of your entire existence. Perhaps worth taking a look one of these days…
Read MoreIt takes a certain way of being to be a dreamer. I am not talking about the typical daytime or night-time variety. As you can see, being a dreamer has many nuances as well as different places to exist within our own minds and in the minds of others. Dreamers could be seen as ethereal, flaky, new-age, visionary, tribal, mystical, aloof, mysterious, etc. There are so many ways in which society perceives the archetype of the dreamer. I wonder if all of us are dreamers in there somewhere, and maybe it is just a matter of how much we nurture or allow this infinite well of possibility to flourish…
Read MoreOn this rambunctious Gemini full moon (Gemini is an air sign notorious for its trickster energetics), it would be wise to gain some objectivity. At the same time, Mars retrograde aggravates even the most peaceful and serene of us. There is a gnawing quality to this moon, a sandpaper-like roughness that will not go away. What is there to be exposed will eventually come to the surface like acne. It isn’t pretty but the clearing of the old will be done, if not with a twist of violence…
Read MoreI don’t know who you are becoming and I don’t know about me either. What I do know is that I can feel, see, witness, observe, notice, and experience myself changing in real-time! This could be a new experience for me. Now, these aren’t drastic changes, but they are incredibly profound ones. Changes that are textural, tangible, and axiomatic. In fact, I feel a new self emerging and I don’t yet know who she is…and, I am excited to meet her over time…
Read MoreA seed has been planted in my heart. It is a vision of beauty and bold materialization. It is nearly an impossible task that one such as myself could ever imagine successfully bringing to fruition. And yet, it is there, planted as a gift that is relentless in nudging me from within. What does it mean? Is it a metaphor? Is it a blueprint? Can it be both? I suppose time will tell but as I am already drawing up the plans in my mind's eye, I suppose I’ll have to surrender to seeing what I cannot unsee…
Read MoreOne week has passed after the recent eclipse season came to a heightened conclusion and I am still feeling the aftershocks. I love them though, as I can definitely say my life has taken some dramatic twists in recent days. In fact, just weeks ago I was scouring the basement of my own despair and wondering “how” this would all work out. Taking a running leap into the unknown at full speed and arriving in New York City without a plan was starting to look slightly foolish. Could I really do this? Yes, my heart was still clear and my faith, unwavering. But how?? Then the answers started to arrive one by one…
Read MoreWhat comes to mind when you envision your resources? Do you immediately think about your bank account? Or do you look out your window and take in the view? Some of you may begin to feel your body, your strength, energy, or tiredness. Do people come to mind? Relationships you have built over time? Or perhaps you take a tour through time and retrace the steps you’ve walked up to this moment. As someone who loves words with a fervor, there is something about re-sourcing that really inspires me. The dictionary’s researched origin of this beauty you might ask? Dating back to the “early 17th century: from obsolete French ressourse, feminine past participle (used as a noun) of Old French dialect resourdre ‘rise again, recover’ (based on Latin surgere ‘to rise’)…”
Read MoreIf you are falling, dive. ~ Joseph Campbell
I was recently gifted this quote from a new acquaintance and I couldn’t feel more resonance. There is something so powerful about accepting one’s fate and these words really hit home for me. True story, I have been attempting to articulate my recent journey with the planetary body Pluto for the past couple of years. Right now I am underneath it, so if you don’t hear from me or if you are wondering where I am, you can know that I am dancing with this well-known and underestimated death star…
Read MoreIf the circumstances of life allow you to stay within a cocoon of your own making, this is a great time to do so. Slip into an imagined gel-like substance that pervades every inch of your external reality, only to suspend your internal reality for the depths of review and inner work. For me, no amount of squirming will slough off the “unwanted” realizations, the parts of me that are resisting being seen under the microscope of truth. Instead, I think I will bask in this discomfort and allow for a surrender like no other…
Read MorePerspective is King. I’ve heard this title given to cash, yet I believe that perspective takes the crown. We do live in a materialistic world where many seek to fill the inner voids of despair and loneliness with money and what money can buy. However, imagine if you were in that insatiable seeking mode of needing more and more and then suddenly had a perspective shift. One that reminded you of the actual necessities of life that reconfigured your priorities instantaneously…
Read MoreSomehow deep in my bones, I have unlimited access to eternal optimism. Maybe this is my true superpower or is this because I am an Enneagram 7, the Enthusiast? Or perhaps this is due to my unwavering faith? The faith that has come alive in me from direct experience of living the impossible into reality. What matters is that I remember everything is possible, even in the face of great challenges and obstacles, and to help my friends remember this too…
Read MoreMaybe it is because I am waking up in one place now for the foreseeable future after a year of travel and spontaneous adventures. Perhaps it is because I adore my bed so much and the way my skin feels perfectly supported by my super soft sheets. Or maybe I’ve been thinking about morning routines and how they shape our days ahead. I think all three to be honest, and I am deeply curious as to how your morning looks on you…
Read Moreempathy | ˈɛmpəθi | noun [mass noun] the ability to understand and share the feelings of another. Do you know anyone who is not in some sort of transition in their life? Me neither. It appears that each of us is confronted with some major life shift in some way or another and if we are not, our nearest and dearest is which also affects us. And tis’ the season for change as we cross the equinox threshold from summer into fall, which was immediately noted by the wind and drop in temperatures here in New York as if on cue. Scarves out, warm beverages in hand, leaves everywhere and boots replacing the wedge*…
Read MoreI’m laying absolutely still in the morning watching the sun rise in reflection upon my bedroom wall. And yet, it feels like waves are surging with great force within my psyche continuously. There is no imagined peace in the midst of such intense change. The only “real” peace I can muster is coming from my deep well of faith and even there I am having to cultivate it from the fertile ground of near depletion…
Read MoreI’ve been sharing lately that I feel I am somewhere between 90 years old and 9 months of gestation. My body aches from the wrath of 2 weeks of schlepping boxes out of a home into a storage unit over to UPS and then up four flights of stairs. Somehow it isn’t over as I continue to decipher my future life and wade through belongings that have a semblance of meaning in all of this, I am just not sure what…
Read MoreI’m at the airport and boarding in 15 minutes on a one-way flight to New York City. The last week has been a whirlwind of change, literally dismantling a life I had created in Jackson, Wyoming to head to NY without a plan. Many of you have asked what inspired such a move. My answer: I am listening. I don’t know what is on the other side of this moment, who I will meet, or what I will “do”. I am clear that I am an artist and that I don’t want to starve, other than that, I am diving deep into the mystery unfolding from within and without…
Read MoreThe heart is. Is that where my home is? Wherever my heart pulls, calls, nudges, or dares me to go? Right now I am surrounded by life in the uprooted form. My belongings are strewn about into piles of purge, sell, pack, and awaiting the inevitable…change. Have you ever heard that our home represents our mind and body? And that is why it can be helpful to clean the house when needing perspective. If what I see right now is my mind/body, I can only describe it as the elegance of upheaval. My color palette of the last 6 years is swathing my view, yet the serenity of what has been is no longer. There is no going back, I am (mind/body in the form of material possessions) soon being distributed amongst the valley I have always called home in some form or another…
Read MoreWe are cyclical in nature. Whether we feel it as we traverse life through seasons, or days and nights amidst the sun and the moon, or observe it within our very own bodies, hormones, emotions, and age. There are life cycles and there are death cycles, and there are cycles of karma that reverberate throughout time. Have you ever noticed how the anniversary of a birth, death, or perhaps a trauma holds a particular energy? Have you wondered why this is so?
Read MoreMe too. This moon is so bold and bright that I’ve been sleepless for days. It isn’t just light either, it is the fire of transformation. There is no other way to spin this astrology but to recognize the intensity for what it is. Fire is both life-affirming and death-inducing. The paradox of this element and the aspects of this full moon are blazing within the individual psyche at a supercharged pace. Can you feel it?
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