The Harmonious Path

02/24/2026

MERCURY RETROGRADE IN PISCES.

February 26 to March 20, 2026.

The First Water Descent of the Year.

On February 26th, Mercury stations retrograde in Pisces.

From Earth, it appears to move backwards. Astronomically, it’s an optical illusion. Energetically, it is a recalibration of perception.

This is the first of three Mercury retrogrades in 2026 and all three occur in water signs.

Pisces.
Cancer.
Scorpio.

That is not random 2026 is emotionally karmic.

This year’s Mercury cycles are not primarily about logistical disruption. They are about emotional reckoning, spiritual maturation and boundary correction.

Mercury is the Messenger Between Worlds.

Mercury governs thought, speech, contracts, transport, media, technology, commerce and how we interpret reality.

In mythology, Mercury (Hermes) travelled freely between heaven, earth and the underworld. When ancient astrologers observed Mercury retrograde, they described it as the messenger descending into the underworld to retrieve lost or hidden information.

Psychologically, that still holds true.

Retrograde periods are not chaos cycles.

They are retrieval cycles.

They are review.

They are re-seeing.

Emotional & Spiritual Reckoning.

Pisces rules.
The subconscious.
Dreams.
Spirituality.
Collective grief.
Compassion.
Illusion.
Addiction.
Karmic residue.
Endings.

Because Pisces governs the unconscious, this retrograde is less about surface level confusion and more about emotional cleanup.

You may feel.
Old wounds resurfacing.
Memories replaying.
Buried feelings emerging.
Emotional exhaustion.
Heightened empathy.
Increased psychic impressions.

This is deep reflection.

This is healing through awareness.

Mercury is considered in its “fall” in Pisces meaning linear logic is not strong here. Facts blur. Boundaries soften. Clarity can feel slippery.

Distinguishing intuition from fantasy becomes essential.

Intuition is calm.
Fantasy is charged.

If something feels dramatic, urgent or romanticised pause.

Relationships & Nostalgia.

Mercury stations closely conjunct Venus in Pisces, and aligns again with Venus on February 28.

This brings themes of.
Love.
Self worth.
Money.
Creative expression.
Romantic memory.

The past may return.

Ex-partners, old friends, unfinished emotional conversations.

But not always for reunion.

Often for closure.

Pisces can romanticise what was not healthy. Rose coloured reflection is common under this influence.

Boundaries are essential.

This is a time for.
Vulnerable, honest conversations.
Revisiting emotional standards.
Reassessing where you gave too much.
Soft reconciliations or gentle dissolutions

Not dramatic endings, clear ones.

Communication & Productivity Shifts.

The retrograde keyword is “Re.”
Revisit.
Revise.
Review.
Repair.
Reflect.

This is not a favourable window for.
Rushing major contracts.
Impulsive financial commitments.
Launching large new ventures.
Making emotionally charged decisions.

Miscommunications are likely. Signals can be vague. People may assume rather than clarify.

Be direct.

Read twice.

Pause before posting.

However, creatively this is powerful.

Pisces energy supports.
Writing.
Music.
Art.
Film.
Spiritual work.
Creative problem solving.

Logic may struggle.

Imagination thrives.

Major Astrological Intersections.

This retrograde occurs during an eclipse corridor.

A Lunar Eclipse in Virgo occurs March 3.

Virgo governs detail, order and discernment, directly opposing Pisces.

This creates tension between illusion and clarity.

Between surrender and precision.

Expect fated feeling shifts.

March 17 is particularly pivotal, as the North Node of Destiny aligns with the retrograde energy.

Karmic themes may surface.

Fated conversations.

Destined closures.

Situations that feel larger than personal preference.

This is not a casual retrograde.

It carries weight.

The Collective Layer.

Pisces governs what is hidden behind the veil.

Mercury retrograde pulls that veil back slowly.

Collectively we may see.
Scandals surfacing.
Emotional truths rising.
Narrative rewrites.
Institutions questioned.
Spiritual discourse increasing.

Water does not reveal sharply.

It blurs first.

Confusion may precede revelation.

That is part of purification.

As a Medium.

Pisces retrogrades thin the veil.

Dreams intensify.

Synchronicities increase.

Spirit communication can feel heightened.

But discernment is essential.

If guidance feels frantic, it is not guidance.

True messages arrive steady.

This is a powerful time for.
Dream journaling.
Meditation.
Automatic writing.
Emotional forgiveness work.
Clearing ancestral residue.

Not escapism.

Not avoidance.

Not bypassing.

The Shadow.

Pisces ungrounded can manifest as,
Escapism.
Addictive tendencies.
Emotional overwhelm.
Spiritual delusion.
Avoiding difficult truths.
Blurred personal boundaries.

Stay grounded.

Water must be contained to be healing.

Who Feels This Most?
Gemini.
Virgo.
Sagittarius.
Pisces.

And anyone with strong personal planets in mutable signs.

This retrograde touches mutable energy deeply, adaptability is required.

How To Navigate.

Recommended.
Review contracts.
Reconnect with old friends.
Finish unfinished projects.
Journal nightly.
Track dreams.
Meditate.
Reassess emotional boundaries.

Not recommended.
Major impulsive commitments.
Signing significant new contracts without review.
Large emotional decisions made in reaction.
Launching something without refinement.

Clarity returns after March 20.

Wisdom arrives during.

Pay attention to what resurfaces. It is not random.

This is the first water descent of 2026.

The year is not asking us to move faster.

It is asking us to feel deeper.

Mercury retrograde in Pisces is not here to punish you.

It is here to dissolve illusion.

The mind is shedding.

The heart is reorganising.

The collective is clearing emotional backlog.

Mercury does not abandon us when he retrogrades.

He simply turns the message inward first.

And when he moves direct, we speak from a truer place.

Justine. ✨

02/23/2026

If this stirs something in you…
If you feel the remembering…

My six-week Identity Recalibration is a guided journey through embodied reclamation — assessment, emotional wisdom, self-direction, radiance, energetic accomplishment, and integration.

This is not theory.
This is alignment in the nervous system, the field, the body, and the life.

Enrollment is open.

“The image of the Goddess inspires women to see ourselves as divine, our bodies as sacred, the changing phases of our lives as holy, our aggression as healthy, our anger as purifying, and our power to nurture and create, but also to limit and destroy when necessary, as the very force that sustains all life. Through the Goddess, we can discover our strength, enlighten our minds, own our bodies, and celebrate our emotions. We can move beyond narrow, constricting roles and become whole.”
— Starhawk

WOMAN OF EARTH YOU ARE THE EMBODIMENT OF THE DIVINE FEMININE—THE POWER OF THE GODDESS IS IN YOU!

A woman cannot know all that she is until she accepts herself as she is.

This acceptance is an open channel to all potentiality, as long as she is rejecting any part of herself she is severing herself from her full power by investing it in creating and maintaining a false self image.

It takes courage to release the social pressures of our western society in order to be ourselves, because there is pressure to conform to a collective ideal of what comprises a woman's worth, we all want to be loved, admired and appreciated so it's no surprise that we succumb to the knife, to botox to starvation, to selling ourselves short by denying our truth and struggling to compete with men in a male oriented world at the expense of our own feminine essence.

It is time for us to awaken, fully appreciate and re-discover who we are; our first task is to re-occupy our bodies with loving appreciation and to celebrate instead of sublimate our sexuality, our body is the temple that houses our creative power but it is not who we are, we are the embodiment of The Divine Feminine creative life force married to the Divine Masculine consciousness.

How does the Divine feminine manifest in us?

A woman is born with the wisdom of the earth, her need to create, protect and nurture life is innate, she is an instinctive healer, intuitive visionary, creative genius, her intellect is infused with insight, she has the gift of the seer, she knows how to create beauty and to restore beauty, she knows how to plant seeds so that they will grow, to create space for the sacred to dwell, she is a willful, stubborn pillar of strength, she can withstand pain that no man could bare, she knows how to sacrifice for love, she is fiercely protective of the innocent and the helpless, she is "naturally" empathic, kind, just and generous.

She is the mother of her children but she is now being called to be the mother of this planet.

The doors are opening now for western women (in particular) to re-discover themselves and be free to create the life that they want to live, we now have a voice, we can now make a difference on a global level, this is a privilege and a responsibility.

We are the ones with the feminine qualifications needed to restore the balance in this world, we have to be the pillars of strength and justice now, we have what it takes to heal this planet and create beauty, unity, peace, equality, restore the environment and dismantle greed from world rule, but we have to start with claiming our own power and restoring our own wholeness because our capacity to heal this world is only as great as our capacity to heal ourselves and our capacity to create peace and unity will only be as great as our capacity to create peace and unity within ourselves.

Not all of us are here to be social workers but all of us are here to be all that we can be, to raise our consciousness and to choose love and that alone will transform the collective, It is the time for the Goddess, she has risen to create integration of the masculine and the feminine on this planet, it is already happening.
Jai Goddess!

Be fearless, trust yourself, let go of your self depreciating programs, they are not who you are, everything that you need is already inside of you.

The power of the Goddess is in you.

© Caroline de Lisser
Art: see photo

Sacred Divine Feminine

02/13/2026

⚜️ The Root of Abandonment ⚜️

Abandonment doesn’t begin when someone leaves.
It begins the first time you leave yourself.
As children, we are wired for connection; we depend on caregivers for safety, love, and belonging. When those needs are unmet, our nervous system makes a painful trade: authenticity for attachment.

If love only came when you were quiet, good, strong, or useful, you learned to exile parts of your Self.
If anger, sadness, or joy were punished, you learned to silence them.
And if your needs went unmet long enough, you learned to stop needing at all.
This is how abandonment begins: not as a single event, but as a pattern of inner exile. You abandoned yourself so others wouldn’t abandon you.

⚜️ How It Shows Up in Adulthood

Unhealed abandonment weaves itself into every corner of adult life. It’s not always obvious; it hides behind habits that seem normal.

1. Hypervigilance
You scan for danger in every relationship: a tone change, a delayed text, a sigh. Your nervous system doesn’t distinguish between now and then. It believes rejection is coming, so it prepares for war.

2. People-Pleasing and Over-Giving
You keep earning what should have been freely given. You call it love, but it’s survival, a desperate attempt to prevent loss.

3. Avoidance and Emotional Withdrawal
You fear the same closeness you crave. You disappear before someone can see your need. You confuse distance with safety.

4. Obsession and Control
You fixate on others: their moods, attention, silence, because focusing on them distracts you from your own pain. It’s not love; it’s self-abandonment disguised as care.

5. Chronic Shame
You feel defective for wanting too much or being too sensitive. Every unmet need from childhood becomes proof that you were the problem. Shame keeps you loyal to your wound.

These patterns are not character flaws; they are adaptations. They were once brilliant strategies to keep you safe. But now they stand between you and wholeness.

⚜️ The Path to Integration

Healing abandonment is not about making sure no one ever leaves.
It’s about refusing to abandon yourself again.
Integration is the slow, sacred work of reuniting with the parts you left behind, the child who felt invisible, the teenager who shut down, the adult who performs to survive.

Here’s where to begin:

1. Awareness: Name the Pattern

Start noticing when you leave yourself. Do you change your tone to keep the peace? Stay silent to avoid conflict? Obsess over others instead of tending to your own sensations? Each moment of awareness is a homecoming.

2. Sensation Over Story
When the wound activates, don’t spiral into why. Drop the story and feel the body. Tight chest, hollow stomach, trembling hands; this is where your Self is speaking. Presence with sensation heals what thinking cannot.

3. Re-parenting: The Inner Bond
Your abandoned child doesn’t need logic; they need presence. When fear rises, close your eyes and whisper inwardly:

“I’m here now. I won’t leave you again.”

This small act of self-love rewires the nervous system over time.

4. Boundaries as Self-Love
Setting boundaries isn’t rejection; it’s reunion. Each time you say no when you mean no, you strengthen the bond between your adult Self and your inner child.

5. Practice Staying
The next time you want to run, hide, or numb, pause. Take one conscious breath. The courage to stay in your body, even for a moment, begins the cycle of return.

⚜️ Coming Home

Healing abandonment is not the end of your story; it’s the return to your beginning.
The parts you left behind are not broken; they are waiting.
Each time you stay, each time you breathe through fear, you take another step Home.
Your abandoned parts whisper: “Please stay.”

And when you do, the Self answers, “Worthy.”

( ✍️ J.Mike Fields )

02/13/2026

Calling all women, this is a free workshop you probably don’t want to miss ❤️‍🩹💖

Join Maanee Chrystal, founder of the Somatic Institute For Women & 1000's of women world wide in this 3 part, trauma informed workshop series investigating the hidden, rejected & denied aspects of women.

02/13/2026

This is where it all began for me in 2004 and where I realized my true life‘s purpose 💖

There are so many wonderfully gifted beings coming into this space and sharing their spiritual wisdom, I hope to see you there!

🔮 If You’re “Spiritual Curious,” This Weekend Was Built for You! One ticket unlocks crystals, psychics, healers, and 90 live experiences. Join the Body Mind Spirit Celebration in Raleigh, NC for a powerful weekend of metaphysics, natural health, energy healing, and personal growth.

✨ 195+ Exhibitor Booths
🔮 50+ Psychics, Healers & Intuitive Readers
🎤 90 Live Presentations & Performances
🌿 Natural Health • Spirituality • Conscious Living

Discover crystals, tarot, astrology, Reiki, energy healing, sound healing, meditation, holistic wellness, metaphysical tools, and spiritual teachings—all under one roof.

🎟 Admission includes the exhibit hall + ALL presentations
🚗 FREE parking
📅 Feb 21–22
⏰ Sat 10–7 | Sun 10–6
📍 NC State Fairgrounds – Exposition Center, Raleigh, NC

🎟 $14 advance | $15 at the door
🌐 Register, attend, or exhibit: www.bmse.net

✨ Explore Within ✨

02/05/2026

The image of the Goddess inspires women to see ourselves as divine, our bodies as sacred, the changing phases of our lives as holy, our aggression as healthy, our anger as purifying, and our power to nurture and create, but also to limit and destroy when necessary, as the very force that sustains all life.

Through the Goddess we can discover our strength, enlighten our minds, own our bodies, and celebrate our emotions. We can move beyond narrow, constricting roles and become whole.

~ Starhawk

Art by Autumn Skye ART

01/29/2026

The third great shaking is upon us

01/26/2026

KEEP GOING - YOU HAVE GOT THIS!

09/02/2025

https://www.havenofknightdale.com/event-details/elevate-fest-2025-1