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02/17/2026

A local Rhinebeck patient restored their energy and balance through a personalized plan combining naturopathic care and acupuncture—measurable lab improvements and reduced fatigue within weeks. We begin with a thorough assessment and tailor treatments to you. Ready to feel like yourself again? Learn more: https://wix.to/KiZsYgA

02/16/2026

The Fire Horse: What This Year Is Really About

The Horse in Chinese cosmology is the animal of the Heart.

Not the heart of greeting cards and romantic comedies. The Heart of classical Chinese medicine — the Emperor of the body-mind-spirit. The sovereign organ that houses the Shen: our consciousness, our capacity to love, to perceive truth, and to connect meaningfully with all living things.

The Heart belongs to the Fire element. So when we say Fire Horse, we are saying: the Heart's own animal, carrying the Heart's own element. This is not redundancy. This is amplification. This is the Shen at full brightness.

When this energy is harmonized, it manifests as:

🔥 Emotional vitality — the capacity to love deeply, to feel real compassion, to connect heart-to-heart with others

🔥 Illumination — Fire's great gift is light. The ability to see clearly into the depths of things. To reveal inner truths the way a flame illuminates a dark room

🔥 Adventurous spirit — the courage to explore new territories, both outer and inner, with genuine enthusiasm and openness

🔥 Ceremony and propriety — the virtue the Fire element governs is 禮 (Lǐ), often translated as ceremony, propriety, or right conduct in relationship. The understanding that how we move through the world matters

When unbalanced, this same energy becomes:

Restlessness. Anxiety. Scattered attention. Sarcasm and bitterness. A heart that races without resting — what the classical texts describe as Shen disturbance. The unsettled spirit.

This is the medicine teaching of the Fire Horse year:

The heart must be both wild and tended. Free and rooted. Passionate and at peace.

This year does not ask you to brace yourself. It does not ask you to hold on for the ride. It asks you something far more demanding and far more beautiful:

Can you let your heart be fully awake — and fully at rest — at the same time?

That is the Fire Horse. That is the practice. That is the medicine.

02/16/2026

Year of the Fire Horse 🔥🐎

Everyone is telling you to hold on tight this year. Buckle up. Brace yourself. Wild ride ahead.

With respect — this is not what the Fire Horse is.

The Horse in Chinese cosmology is the animal of the Heart. The midday sun. The peak of summer. The moment when light reaches its fullest expression and nothing is hidden.

Its also the moment of the return of the feminine.
Which is about Receptivity — the capacity to receive, to listen, to hold space
Yin wisdom — the intelligence of the dark, the unseen, the intuitive
Nurturing force — the energy that sustains, gestates, and brings forth new life
Relational power — the feminine principle governs the connective tissue of relationship itself.

Add Fire to that and you don't get chaos. You get profound illumination. Comprehension that penetrates beneath surface appearance.

丙午 — Bing Wu — Heavenly Fire meeting the Horse. This is the Shen at full brightness. The spirit of clear seeing. The Heart sovereign seated in awareness, not reactivity.

The Fire Horse doesn't ask you to hold on.

It asks you to see clearly. With the eyes of the heart.

There's a difference.

02/15/2026

May the war within you find its end.

Through the ancient and patient work of laying down what was never yours to carry.

May the breath come easily. May it reach the places that have been holding — the jaw, the chest, the low belly, the places behind the eyes where grief has lived so long it has forgotten it is grief.

May those places soften. Not because they are forced. Because they are finally safe.

May you find beneath the noise of your life a silence that is not empty but full — full the way the earth is full before anything breaks through the surface. Full the way midnight is full. Full the way a seed is full.

May you discover that peace is not the absence of difficulty but the presence of something deeper than difficulty. Something that was there before your first breath and will be there after your last. Something that does not need to be created because it was never destroyed.

May you stop waiting for the world to be healed before you allow yourself to be still.

May you stop waiting for permission.

May you know — in your body, not only in your mind — that the stillness you carry into a room changes the room. That the peace you cultivate in your own bones is not a private luxury but a public service. That every moment you spend in genuine equilibrium is a moment that ripples outward in ways you will never see and do not need to see.

May you trust the practice. The slow work. The unglamorous mornings. The days when nothing seems to move and the days when everything breaks open at once.

May you be granted the patience to sit with what has not yet resolved.

May you be granted the courage to feel what you have been postponing.

May you be granted the humility to receive help — from the traditions that came before you, from the teachers who carried them forward, from the earth that holds you whether you notice or not.

May you remember that you are not the first person to seek this. That for thousands of years, in every culture and on every continent, human beings have sat down, stood up, closed their eyes, opened their hands, and asked for exactly this. You are not alone in this asking. You have never been alone in this asking.

May the peace you find within you become the peace you offer to others — not as instruction, not as correction, but as presence. As the quiet proof that another way of being is possible.

May your breath be easy.

May your heart be steady.

May your bones remember what your mind forgot.

May you rest in what you are.

01/20/2026

Going through old photos of our beautiful annual Moondance in Costa Rica with Abuela Ana Itzpapalotl. So many powerful memories, so much growth, in myself and within this profound community of human beings. Thank you to Life that I get to go again this year, my 9th year, with my 13 year old daughter. This is sisterhood in all its marvel and complexity. This is men supporting women’s prayer. This is elders who are revered for their wisdom and life experience. This is special relationships between Madrinas and ahijadas. It’s not perfect, drama happens, but we get the opportunity to lean in, to learn, to get humble and empty ourselves so we can get ever closer to the Great Spirit. What a profound honor and blessing to be a Moondancer.

01/19/2026

Parkinson's Disease: 3 little Known Early Warning Signs we should all be paying attention to. Parkinson's is noted as one of the fastest-growing neurodegenerative diseases, outpacing even Alzheimer's in its rate of increase. U.S. studies showing a nearly 50% rise in new cases. Read here to know what to look out for.

In the last year, three people I know have been diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease. Each time, I've sat across from someone whose life has just shifted—a diagnosis that marks the beginning of a long, uncertain road with limited conventional treatment options. Each time, I've thought: what if we ha...

01/15/2026

The little known warning signs of Parkinson's Disease that show up as much as a decade before diagnosis. You don't need to watch and wait. There's much you can do to protect your brain and reverse neurodegeneration. Especially if you have a family member with this diagnosis, this is a must read. Read more: https://wix.to/diUqMS6

01/07/2026

You're not late - we've only just begun

Join Us Here There's Still Time to Join Us We're in the first week of The Final Shedding—a 10-session Qigong series designed to help you release what's finished and nourish what's emerging. If you've been thinking about joining, now is the perfect time. All sessions are recorded, so you'll have ac...

01/05/2026

12/20/2025

Could we sit in the darkness without pretending it isn't dark? The lights go up earlier each year, it seems. Storefronts blaze with cheer, carols loop endlessly, and everyone asks about your plans. Yet for many of us, this season—the stretch from late November through the new year—feels less like celebration and more like survival. Do you feel it? The burden of being cheerful? Do you feel out of step with the season everyone else is celebrating? If you're struggling right now, if the darkness feels heavier than it should, if you can't quite muster the joy everyone expects: you're not alone. Read more: https://wix.to/48wncuE

The lights go up earlier each year, it seems. Storefronts blaze with cheer, carols loop endlessly, and everyone asks about your plans. Yet for many of us, this season—the stretch from late November through the new year—feels less like celebration and more like survival. Do you feel it? The burde...

12/04/2025

We've been sold a story that salvation lies in self-improvement, that if we could just heal our trauma, set better boundaries, manifest our desires, align our chakras, we would finally arrive at some state of completion. But the truth is simpler and more challenging: we become whole not by perfecting ourselves but by taking our imperfect, still-becoming selves and offering them in genuine relationship with others doing the same difficult work.

In an age of sides, of us vs. them, of tribalism wearing the mask of righteousness, where people gather not to connect but to confirm their shared judgments of those who are not like them. This is collective ego, the cult-of-the-self scaled up to group size, still fundamentally about defending position rather than opening to connection.

Real community happens in a different place entirely—not in the certainty of our positions but in the humility of the Great Mystery, in the recognition that none of us has all the answers, that control is an illusion, that something larger than our individual or collective understanding holds us all.

I invite you read my latest journal entry on trustworthiness and what it takes to hold this in community. We're truly in this together. Let's keep looking for how to lift one another up.

11/24/2025

Can I trust you? So many privileged people these days talk about "feeling safe" as if safety is an external condition, not an internal state. There is a disease of distrust in others, definitely a result of a consumer-motivated culture where one constantly wonders: what are you trying to sell me? We scan every interaction for the transaction hidden beneath it, the angle, the manipulation. We've become expert threat-assessors, building elaborate systems to protect ourselves from being fooled, used, or disappointed.
But rarely does someone ask the question of themselves: Am I trustworthy?
This reversal—from defensive evaluation to radical self-examination—is where the real work of trust begins. And it requires something our culture has almost entirely abandoned: radical self-responsibility. Read more: https://wix.to/AdDaWb2