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I’m taking a pause this week.No Weekly Energy Forecast…No Somatic Grounding for Unstable Times.I’m coming off what I’ve ...
03/30/2026

I’m taking a pause this week.

No Weekly Energy Forecast…
No Somatic Grounding for Unstable Times.

I’m coming off what I’ve called hell week for years now… the anniversary of losing two of the most important people in my life within days of each other. And at this point, I trust my body enough to not push through that.

There’s a Full Moon in Libra on April 1… and the card that came through for me is Justice. Same energy. Same message. Alignment. Balance. Truth.

But balance doesn’t always look like showing up the way you always do.

Sometimes it looks like stepping back.
Sometimes it looks like choosing yourself.
Sometimes it looks like not forcing clarity while you’re still inside of something real.

That’s what this week is for me.

The work will be here next week.
I’ll be back with the forecast and Somatic Grounding.

For now… I’m letting things be what they are.

03/25/2026

This book didn’t find me randomly… it found me right before the week everything circles back.

My best friend.
My mother.

There’s a weight to this week that doesn’t need explaining. My body knows it… my breath knows it… the quiet knows it.

Grief isn’t confusion for me… it’s familiarity. It’s memory that lives in the bones.

I’m not searching for answers… I’m sitting with what’s already here.

This book just met me inside it… put words to something I’ve been carrying for years.

Some losses don’t soften…
you just learn how to hold them without breaking every time.

And this week… I’m holding a lot. Thankful for and this book.... if you're dealing with loss and grief... this is a must have.

There’s pressure in the system today… the kind that shows up when your instinct to move meets something that won’t let y...
03/25/2026

There’s pressure in the system today… the kind that shows up when your instinct to move meets something that won’t let you rush it.... Sun conjunct Saturn in Aries.

You might feel the urge to act… to say it… to go for it… and then immediately feel the weight of consequence, timing, responsibility.

That’s the work.

This isn’t about shutting yourself down.
It’s about learning how to direct your fire.

Aries wants to move fast. Saturn asks… can you move with intention?

Aries says go. Saturn says… be ready to stand behind what you start.

So today might feel like friction. Starting and stopping. Pushing and pulling. A sharp awareness of where you’ve been acting on impulse without structure. And also… a very real opportunity.

To choose your response instead of reacting. To make a decision that actually holds. To take yourself seriously in a way that shapes who you’re becoming.

This is identity work. This is discipline in motion. This is learning how to carry your own power without burning everything down around you.

What you do today doesn’t need to be big.

It needs to be intentional.

New week.... new energy forecast. This week feels like something turning. In that quieter, undeniable way where you can ...
03/22/2026

New week.... new energy forecast.

This week feels like something turning.

In that quieter, undeniable way where you can feel it in your body before you can fully explain it.

I’ve been noticing it in real time.

Where my energy naturally pulls back.
Where my interest drops off without force.
Where something that used to feel important just… doesn’t land the same anymore.

And at the same time… where something else is asking for more of me.

More presence. More honesty. More follow through.

That’s Wheel of Fortune energy this week.

It’s not random.

It’s a shift that’s been building for a while now finally coming into motion.

You might see it through a conversation. A realization. A moment where something either clicks into place or clearly doesn’t.

Either way… it’s information. And what you do with that information matters.

This week is asking for awareness in a real way.

Where are you already being moved? What feels different, even if you haven’t said it out loud yet?
What are you still trying to hold onto that your body is already done with?

You don’t need to force anything. But you do need to be honest.

I go deep into all of this… the astrology, the tarot, and how to actually work with the energy in your body… in this week’s forecast.

It’s up now on Substack.... and if you’re wanting support beyond the awareness piece, Somatic Grounding for Unstable Times is there to help you actually move through it.

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Today is March 20th, and the energy is layered.We’ve got the Spring Equinox.The Sun moves into Aries.The astrological ne...
03/20/2026

Today is March 20th, and the energy is layered.

We’ve got the Spring Equinox.
The Sun moves into Aries.
The astrological new year begins.
And Mercury stations direct in Pisces.

That’s a lot for one day.

The equinox always feels important to me. Light and dark are balanced. The Sun crosses into Aries. The zodiac begins again. This is the point in the year that actually feels like a beginning. January 1st never really does. The body knows the difference. The earth knows the difference. Spring begins to stir. The light starts gaining ground. Something wants to move.

And at the same time, Mercury is stationing direct.

Which does not mean everything suddenly clears up by tonight.

It means the pivot begins.

Mercury direct is the moment the tide changes. The mind starts moving forward again. Conversations that felt stuck begin to loosen. Things you’ve been turning over internally start to make more sense. But we are still in the post-shadow, which means there’s still material to review. There are still conversations echoing. Still pieces clicking into place. Still truths settling into the body.

That part matters.

Because today doesn’t feel like a clean slate to me. It feels like the start of a new cycle with full memory of what the last one taught.

Pisces season has been emotional. Revealing. Dissolving. The retrograde dragged old thoughts, old conversations, old patterns back up to the surface for a reason. You weren’t meant to rush past them. You were meant to see them clearly.

Now Aries season begins and the question changes.

What are you going to do with what you know?

That’s the feeling I have in my body today.

A shift. A spark. A forward pull. And also the awareness that just because the wheel is turning doesn’t mean the dust has fully settled.

So move if you feel movement. Pause if you need to. Just don’t confuse “direct” with “done.”

Mercury is moving forward again, but the post-shadow is still teaching. Aries is here, but Pisces just handed you the lesson plan. The year is beginning, and you’re not starting empty.

You’re starting informed.

And that’s a very different kind of power.

POV: you finally decide to confront your own toxic patterns……and suddenly you’re on the phone with your higher self like...
03/18/2026

POV: you finally decide to confront your own toxic patterns…

…and suddenly you’re on the phone with your higher self like “so… we really doing this today?”

Wide eyed... slightly panicked, emotionally exposed... still sipping your little iced drink like everything is fine... because healing doesn’t start with peace and enlightenment it starts with

wait… I do that? oh. oh no....

and now you can’t unsee it.

And here’s the part no one tells you… you’re not here to erase it you’re not here to exile the shadow... you’re here to meet it. To sit across from the parts of you that learned how to survive
in ways that now sabotage your becoming... to say
I see why you’re here... I just won’t let you run the show anymore.

Because this isn’t about becoming “better”
it’s about becoming whole.

Like Carl Jung spoke… Anyone who perceives his shadow and his light simultaneously sees himself from two sides and thus gets in the middle.

Welcome to the beginning... where awareness hits before grace does. whereY you clock yourself in real time and still choose not to hang up

This is what it looks like to start... messy, humbling
a little unhinged... but honest.

And honestly? That’s the bravest part.

If you're ready to take this step.... I'm here to walk beside you.

If my joy… my weirdness… my dancing in the kitchen… my ritual work… my existence… makes someone uncomfortable enough to ...
03/16/2026

If my joy… my weirdness… my dancing in the kitchen… my ritual work… my existence… makes someone uncomfortable enough to call it cringe?

That tells me everything I need to know.

Because here’s the thing about being fully yourself… it exposes people who are still performing.

I’m not here curating a life that fits neatly into someone else’s expectations. I’m here living mine… loudly, honestly, mystically, sometimes chaotically… and VERY much on purpose.

I’ve spent too many years doing the work… the somatic work, the spiritual work, the shadow work, the ritual work… to shrink myself so someone else can feel more comfortable in their own cage.

If that’s cringe to someone?

Cool.

While they’re busy rolling their eyes… or talking s**t... i’m over here laughing with my friends… snuggling my kids.... making art… writing poetry.... drinking far too much coffee.... pulling tarot cards… lounging with my cats.... dancing barefoot in my kitchen… not giving a f**k.... and living a life that actually feels like mine.

Week 7 is live.Inside Somatic Grounding for Unstable Times we’re talking about something a lot of people misunderstand w...
03/16/2026

Week 7 is live.

Inside Somatic Grounding for Unstable Times we’re talking about something a lot of people misunderstand when they start working with their nervous system... capacity.

Why small things can suddenly feel huge. Why a conversation, an errand, or one more decision can feel like too much. Why regulation doesn’t mean you can suddenly handle everything life throws at you.

This week’s post dives into the Window of Tolerance… the range where the body can feel, think, and respond without tipping into overwhelm or shutdown.

We map what sympathetic overload looks like.
What dorsal collapse looks like. And how the nervous system slowly widens the ground between them.

There’s also a deeper somatic practice this week… one that helps you actually find the edges of your window instead of just hearing about it.

Because capacity isn’t built by pushing harder.

It grows by learning the rhythm of your own system. Touching the edge… and returning to ground.

Paid subscribers can read Week 7 now and get access to all previous weeks in the series.

Somatic Grounding for Unstable Times
$15/month • $155/year
Inside The Liminal Space.

New week, new energy forecast.March 16–22 holds one of those quiet but powerful turning points in the astrological year....
03/15/2026

New week, new energy forecast.

March 16–22 holds one of those quiet but powerful turning points in the astrological year.

We’re moving through the final waters of Pisces season, with a New Moon in Pisces midweek… and then on March 20 the Spring Equinox arrives and Aries season begins. That moment marks the astrological new year, when the entire zodiac cycle resets.

If January 1 always feels a little arbitrary to you, this is why. The real energetic reset happens here… when the light begins returning, the Earth shifts seasons, and the zodiac moves from the last sign back to the first.

You can often feel that shift in the body before you fully understand it. Pisces season tends to dissolve things… old identities, old emotional stories, old ways of relating to the world. By the time Aries arrives, there’s space for something new to begin.

This week carries that threshold energy.

There’s a lot happening astrologically inside the forecast… Mercury retrograde continuing in Pisces, the New Moon inviting emotional reset, and the equinox opening the door into a new cycle of action and movement.

The tarot card for the week is Three of Cups, which brings in themes of community, support, and remembering that growth rarely happens in isolation. The people who witness us… the ones who walk beside us through the messy middle of transformation… are part of the foundation we build our next chapter on.

If you want the full breakdown of the astrology, the tarot, and a ritual for crossing this seasonal threshold, the full forecast is up now on Substack.

And if the intensity of the last few weeks has been hitting your nervous system, I’ve also been writing a deeper series called Somatic Grounding for Unstable Times inside the paid section of The Liminal Space.

Week 6 just dropped this past Monday and explores safety in the nervous system… what ventral vagal regulation actually looks like in real life, why calm can feel suspicious after prolonged stress, and hhow the body slowly relearns where it can land.

Because understanding the astrology is one thing.
Learning how to live inside these cycles without burning out is another.

Both spaces are there for you.

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Pattern recognition.... what was once a hyper-vigilant trauma response.... is actually one of my favorite skills and gre...
03/13/2026

Pattern recognition.... what was once a hyper-vigilant trauma response.... is actually one of my favorite skills and greatest super powers.... and let's not even get started on that Scorpio intuition.

It’s also the one that gets people the most uncomfortable.

Because the moment someone realizes you’re noticing the patterns… the inconsistencies…
the timing… the energy shifts… suddenly you’re “reading too much into things.” You’re “overthinking. “You’ve got the wrong idea.”

Classic.

People love to try you first. And when that doesn’t work… they try to gaslight you. But here’s the thing about pattern recognition.... once you see it, you can’t unsee it.

The behavior. The contradictions. The little cracks in the story. And every single time someone has tried to convince me I was “crazy” for noticing something…

I’ve eventually been proven right.

So if “crazy” means having top-tier intuition and immaculate pattern recognition… then yeah.

I’m certifiable.

The last few months have been… a lot.Personally. Professionally. All of it.Like a lot of people right now, I’ve been try...
03/12/2026

The last few months have been… a lot.

Personally. Professionally. All of it.

Like a lot of people right now, I’ve been trying to figure out what the next steps actually look like. I’ve sent out resume after resume, application after application, looking for ways to create some stability alongside the work I’ve built for so many years.

And mostly… silence.

No responses. No traction. Just the strange liminal space of trying to move forward while the doors you’re knocking on don’t seem to open.

At a certain point I realized there was one thing I did have control over.

The work I’ve already built.

As a single mom running a heart-led practice, there’s always that quiet pressure underneath everything… making sure the kids are supported and the work you believe in can continue to stand on its own two feet.

So instead of continuing to pour energy only into places that weren’t responding, I turned back toward my own house and started rebuilding it.

Over the past few months I completely reworked my website so it actually reflects the depth and direction of the work I’m doing now.

Not just cosmetically… structurally.

There are now four clear ways to work with me:

• Somatic + Energetic Reset
• Insight Sessions
• Embodied Integration (six-month container)
• The Magnum Opus (twelve-month alchemical initiation)

Different entry points, but the same intention that’s always been at the heart of my work… helping people come back into relationship with themselves in ways that are embodied, conscious, and real.

Sometimes when the world isn’t opening doors, you build your own house and invite people in.

If you’ve been circling this work for a while, consider this your invitation.

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