Self Reflections

18/02/2026

Ever felt exhausted after being around certain people?

Or calmer in certain spaces?

That’s energy.

Marléne Nunes and I, Paula Perdigao-Rehder are running a one-day online Vortex Energetics workshop.

No experience required.

We teach simple tools to help you clear subtle stress and feel more balanced in everyday life.

You’ll receive your own magnetic Vortex cards, a manual and a workbook.

Small shifts.
Noticeable difference.

If you’d like details, message me.
-Paula

16/02/2026

The energy right now can be feeling overwhelming for some. It’s all part of the new cycle we have stepped into.
The body, mind is feeling it.
Some are feeling at ease, easing into the shift with flow yet still anticipating because it a new frequency.

The energy also make you feel like you’re standing between worlds, as if something new is trying to be birthed but taking its sweet time. Foreign.

Many may feel the pull to return to basics ... to reset, restart, begin again, or go back to old ways of doing things. Energy may feel stagnant.
For others the pace is quickening, the drive is evident.
Pay attention to where you are. What you chose today shapes your tomorrow.

For many, the current energy causes unpleasantness because it moves between aggression and dullness, back and forth creating flickers of hope while still leaving you feeling unsettled.
Physical pain being a big thing. It seems to be showing up in the structural parts of the body.

This energy is not an enemy, it is carrying you toward the eclipse portal on the 17th, it’s carrying you through it.
The Fire Horse is galloping in.
Many feeling are already the heat, the ground thumping beneath them.
Don’t fear.
Choose self-love.
Take it slow regardless of which side you are experiencing it from.

Some are ready to receive the life~changing blessings, and some are grieving karmic endings.

But regardless of which side you are standing on, change is coming. The end of karmic cycle is upon us. And a new cycle begins … Life is changing drastically for everyone, you are not an exception. You can’t run, you can’t hide … !
You can pretend, feel you are untouched but take heed, you are not exempted.

14/02/2026

🪐🔥 Saturn in Aries :
A new cycle opens up : the end of a karmic cycle ends.

Saturn in Aries isnt easy navigation but it also isn’t here to punish you.
It’s here to mature you.

No more reacting.
No more outsourcing power.
No more waiting for someone else to go first.

Your impulses are becoming intention.
Fire becomes focus, but keep it contained.
Courage becomes consistency.

This is what self-leadership looks like as you grow into your own authority.
Quiet.
Steady.
Unapologetic.

The invitation is to act without applause, lead without permission and stand rooted without needing to prove.

Saturn in Aries is disciplined fire, it’s not loud, it’s not reactive.
It’s real.

The era of impulsive fire is over, this cycle is where instinct becomes wisdom.

A little context for those new to cosmic guidance:

Saturn represents structure.
Responsibility.
Time.
The part of life that asks you to mature.

Aries is the first spark of the ‘I AM’, it’s about self & about initiation.
It represents action, courage, raw instinct.
It’s unapologetic.

And 0° — resembles the very beginning — it is pure potential, its unconditioned, untested.
It’s a doorway 🚪

Saturn at 0° Aries isn’t just a transit. It’s a reset of how we use our will.

Fire — but focused.
Action — but accountable.
Power — but earned.

Welcome to the next 2,5yrs of your life !

10/02/2026

There comes a moment on the human journey when we must gently turn our gaze away from the noise of the outer world and bring it home to self — back to the quiet chamber of the soul.

Many spend their lives scanning the horizon for someone to blame…it’s easy to say
this person hurt me,
that situation broke me,
you made me feel small,
you are the problem.

Yet the deeper truth is this: what is stirred within us is often touching an older wound, a forgotten tenderness, a place still asking for our own love and responsibility.

The blame game may offer temporary relief, but it keeps us tethered to the illusion of powerlessness. The victim role can feel strangely comforting — until we realize it asks us to hand over the authorship of our own life.

Yes, the outside world may knock us down at times. Life will test the heart. People will misunderstand us. Storms will come.

But victory is not found in never falling —
it is found in learning how to rise from within. It’s found in knowing who you are so profoundly that the sound of the outside world can’t touch you inside.

True strength is born the moment we stop pointing outward and begin listening inward.

And remember this, always:

What people say about you is not a reflection of who you are — it is a reflection of who they are, their perceptions, their wounds, their level of awareness.
The stories which create the quilt of unresolved issues they carry with them.
The echo of words decades old still held in the jumbled chaos of the thinking mind.

Do not build your identity from the passing opinions of others. Root yourself deeper than that. You are so much more powerful that the judgement of another.

Return to your essence.
Return to your core.
Get to know who you are.
Take responsibility for your healing.
Reclaim your inner authority.

Because the most important relationship you will ever cultivate…
is the one you have with yourself.

And when that relationship becomes anchored in truth, no external voice will ever have the power to define you again.
Because … you will begin to see the outside world as a beloved teacher, not a monster of an enemy.

09/02/2026

You don't need approval to follow what feels right to your soul. Trust what your inner voice keeps repeating. It's guiding you exactly where you're meant to go.

Learn to read your energy. Learn to read the energy of others. Learn to discern your truth. Learn to feel what others miss.

This awareness is your compass. This awareness is your unique gift!
This awareness is your way back home to you.

02/02/2026

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Spirit / Shamanic dreaming a form of divination. So today’s sharing entitled spirit dreaming will be the 1st to fall under my series entitled the origins of ...

02/02/2026

"The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are.
You trade in your reality for a role.
You trade in your sense for an act.
You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.
There can't be any large~scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first."

JIM MORRISON🪽

01/02/2026

DESTINY ACCELERATES WHEN YOU ARE READY TO MOVE WITH IT.

February 1, 2026 — Full Moon in Leo

This Full Moon in Leo brings the heart into clear awareness, illuminating where self-expression has been quieted in order to maintain approval, safety, or belonging.

Emotional truth rises now — not to be performed, softened, or explained away — but to be acknowledged.

This lunation marks a return to authenticity, where confidence is no longer shaped by external validation, but anchored in self-recognition.

What becomes visible under this moon reveals where your light has been ready to live openly and without hesitation.

Something clarifies within you.
The need to be seen evolves into the capacity to see yourself clearly.
And from that clarity, self-trust and embodied confidence begin to guide your next steps.

This is a moment of quiet courage — where alignment replaces approval, and presence becomes power.

01/02/2026

Have you ever truly believed that you had worked through something, only to find it hadn’t completely been so? The story hadn’t changed, the challenge had deepened.

This can be a familiar emotional trigger. A recurring relationship dynamic. The same internal struggle, resurfacing in a different form. An unresolved situation becoming more complex.

This can feel discouraging, like progress keeps slipping through your hands …. but often repetition is not regression. It is refinement. This isn’t failure, it’s you returning to familiar ground, but not as the same person because the situation has allowed you to grow.

Let me explain.

What once showed up for you as conflict or struggle may actually be boundary fatigue or self doubt which transforms into hesitation or acts of over responsibility.
The underlying concept remains unchanged, but the way it presents becomes more refined. The scenario may begin to present itself in ways you didn’t expect because the resistance is still present.

✨boundary fatique = the exhaustion, emotional distress, and burnout resulting from the constant need to maintain, negotiate, or defend personal boundaries in work and life ✨

This is how growth becomes stable rather than fragile. The soul revisits lessons until the response becomes natural. That’s growth.

As we ALL move through a period of collective recalibration and shift in the early parts 2026, many people are noticing old themes resurfacing, this time with new intensity.
Unresolved matters prolonging.
This is growth not failure. Growth unfolds in spirals - not straight lines.

The key to navigate this period is curiosity and acceptance instead of resistance and blame.
What you resist - shall continue to persists, this is a guarantee.

Regardless of how much work you have done, if you haven’t gotten the lesson, if you haven’t understood the bigger picture, if you remain in active nervous system respond and conflict it shall persist.

At this point it is important to ask what the lesson is, to ask what you can do differently this time round.
You may have believed you’ve understood the lesson but if it’s persisting … you clearly haven’t, dig deeper!

Maybe you don’t need to not apply more effort, but more presence. Maybe it’s not more explanation, but clearer boundaries.
Not more endurance, but softer compassion.
Maybe you shouldn’t place all focus on the challenge … surrender to outcome without trying to control how outcome will be.

When you stop rushing resolution, blaming the world outside of you.
When you stop demanding that things happen when you want them to and how you want them to without accepting that everything has a Devine
plan even if it doesn’t align to the ego’s need or the emotional fatigue …. that’s when the repetition loses its charge. Right there is when the shift happens.

When you truly surrender to the power of the higher intelligence and the natural flow of circumstance without judgement, accusation, charge … the story shifts.
The lesson will complete itself when it feels acknowledged rather than conquered.

A Gentle Reflection to help you process …

If a familiar challenge has reappeared, pause before labeling it a setback.
Notice how your response has changed.
Notice what feels easier than before.
Notice what no longer hooks you the same way.

Your soul repeats lessons only until they no longer require struggle to be understood. Don’t blame, victimize, threaten.
Growth is happening, even when the path feels familiar, frustrating, like it’s dragging …
Surrender. Trust, Fly.

When your heart and mind are in coherence, you become a magnetic field of creation - a living pulse of the universe in motion. Things align.

26/01/2026

Today my post here is of a different nature, it’s about speaking for the voiceless !

Today let you and I be the voice of these magnificent animals … we have no right to witness harm being done to them through capture when after all we are the ones who created this mess for them by taking away their natural habitat to build our homes - they need your signature.
Please do the humane thing for the baboons 🐒

https://www.facebook.com/share/1AkN7qUR6r/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Animal Survival International (ASI) is deeply troubled over the City of Cape Town’s intention to capture two troops of free-ranging chacma baboons from the vicinity of the Cape Peninsula near Simon’s Town, sterilize the males and confine the troops within fenced enclosures.

26/01/2026

Have you ever walked away from a conversation feeling tired?

No conflict. No obvious tension. Nothing dramic in the conversation yet, your energy felt fatigued.

This is caused through what’s called energetic information. You see, communication is not just about words. It is an exchange of vibrations.

When two people speak from different energetic rhythms, the nervous system must work harder to bridge the gap. Over time, this becomes draining, even in loving relationships.

The nervous system is designed to seek efficiency. When communication flows naturally, energy is conserved. When it does not, the system remains slightly activated, monitoring the tones, timing, and responses.

Awareness is the biggest resolve but there are many more ways to handle this types of communication fatigue. Let’s explore ….

Establishing healthy boundaries without the need for confrontation.
A boundary could be as simple as shortening conversations. Choosing not to engage deeply when the energy feels mismatched & depleting. Not explaining things … the list goes on.

When you honor your energetic limits, your nervous system recalibrates. Exhaustion fades. Clarity returns.

This week why not pay attention to where in conversations your energy leave you feeling nourished and where you are left depleted.

Important to remember that this not about who you love, or don’t like. It’s not about who you should care about or not care about.
It’s solely about being in awareness of how your body responds in conversations.

25/01/2026

Good morning beloved beings …. What a glorious day it is today 🌞

We are one week away from the WESTCOAST WELLNESS DAY organized by Michael of Prana Love and taking place at the Sunningdale Hall (opp. Westcoast Village) in Tableview on the 31st January 2026.

💫Join us, come share your gifts, there is still time to arrange this
💫 Join us, come indulge in a day of healing the mind body & soul
💫 Join us, come spoil yourself to one or two beautiful practices to kick start the week for you
💫 Join us, come meander around and meet us all
💫 Join us, maybe come do an Nia Dance Class or join a gentle yoga flow on the day.
💫 Join us, there is so much to choose from

If you have no plans for your Sunday, we really look forward to seeing you there.

I share the link to Quicket below, it’s the doorway which will get you into the sacred space.

You will either want to join this event simply to experience a full day of self-care and joy, regardless of where you live in Cape Town. OR or if you live in the Western Seaboard area of Cape Town (Milnerton to Melkbos), you will get to know the Yoga, Pilates and other movement studios that operate....