Mercury, the trickster of the bunch, the planet of communication, contracts, our learning style, our thoughts will station retrograde early Monday morning at 12:56 EST, at 4 degrees in Virgo, one the sign it rules, along with Chiron, who happens to be in Aries and stationed retrograde just a few days prior. Virgo, in my eyes, is the organizer of physical chaos, right down to the minute details. In mind and body, Virgo works to make the physical as perfect as possible. The work we are meant to do to balance out the human bodies we incarnate as we feed our souls. The Sabian Symbol of 4 degrees in Virgo states, “A man dreaming of fairies.” Burgess’ way of telling us to open to existence of other possibilities. As I am writing this, the heady sense of a time loop comes, my déjà vu lighting up like fireworks. I have been in this moment before, the exact phrase of this Sabian Symbol sinking into my cells. This is what so many people are experiencing these days. Of course, there is a large population that still might wink wink at you like you are fucking nuts and belong in a nut house. It certainly had that atmosphere growing up and “knowing things.” But it turns out as I have engaged myself in a world of podcasts with entrepreneurs that are just as spiritual, and others across the online space, there are a lot more of you out there remembering, or just knowing from the get-go and standing firm in your foundation of Faith. I applaud you and it is one of those traits that I admire about the younger generations.

     Mercury will travel back into Leo, his destination at 21 degrees Leo. The Sabian Symbol, “A carrier pigeon.” This degree implies our spiritual purpose. I find it amazing again, as more déjà vu creeps, that spiritual purpose is what keeps that pilot light flaming, our Vesta, who happens to be conjunct the New Moon at 21 degrees in this chart and trine Chiron retrograde in Aries. See, freaking amazing! Our heads, our souls, our bodies, our minds, all interconnected and taking step by step to bring us to our true selves, releasing the patriarchal control and switching on our codons. Great freedom lies close, and with that great responsibility.
We must go back several hours and take a look at the New Moon in Leo at 12 degrees. The Sabian Symbol stating, “An old sea captain rocking.” With a New Moon, we have both the Sun and the Moon conjoined as one. Your subconscious and conscious merging in the contemplation of the ups and downs of the journey of life carries us into our Crone stage of peace in the decisions and reflections that come through.  Quite a statement as Venus walks between the worlds of Leo and Virgo, her entrance into Virgo, much later in the evening. Venus, the planet of feelings, beauty, self-worth, and all the resources associated with these concepts will reflect into our external world, is conjunct Mercury with a 4-degree orb, uniting their energies, where they will merge on August 8th, the Lion’s Gate Portal at 3 degrees, a degree that represents freedom from prejudice. The union of Mercury and Virgo create a Yod, the Finger of God, both in a quincunx to Neptune sextile Pluto. A mission to realize the propaganda that continues to infest the human collective. Pluto is running his excavators, bringing our memories, our so-called junk DNA, to the surface, and Neptune, the memories, breaking out of their containers, for Mercury and Virgo to bring the truth, our spiritual purposes, into alignment.

    Mercury and Venus are also square Uranus in Taurus, pushing us break free, feel the electrical energy that we certainly are capable of working with, and in that square, Uranus is contributing to a grand minor trine with Neptune and Pluto, fueling the generational healing that comes through the discernment of information we are being bombarded with. Uranus is the planet of perseverance of energy, of awakening. This is emphasized by Mercury and Venus’ square to Mars and Jupiter in Gemini, Mars, a planet of action, aggression, assertiveness, and Jupiter, expanding anything he touches, but they also square Saturn, a planet that sends off the energy of delays, discipline, karma, and restrictions. He runs a tight ship and is asking us to believe in ourselves and the dreams we have. Under his wing, he is pushing you to be aware of your energy, be discerning, especially when it comes to social media and the news. Gemini rules communication, our community, our extended family members. Things spread fast under Gemini, with a quick shapeshifting ability, and Gemini can work both sides of one coin. Gemini has the ability to be in two places at once.
 
     Mercury’s retrograde continues to work the energy of the Yod, but here, the movement of the Moon away from the Sun and its conjunction to Vesta will create a fusion of energy, a stellium between the Sun, Moon, Vesta, Venus and Mercury. It is here that our subconscious and conscious have merged with the template of what creates our flame and the mind space and feelings to go with it. What is beautiful is that the Sun will be sextile to Mars and Jupiter, while simultaneously being square to Venus and Mercury. There is no disconnection here, as every decompartmentalized piece of us is being pushed to work together and really stand in our own unique expression within our communities.

    Mars and Jupiter are also sextile the North Node and trine the South Node, inviting us to take the opportunity to engage in our Gemini qualities, the South Node sends the energy of what Libran characteristics and events serve you or don’t.  There is a lot of mutable energy here, so lots of changes, downloads and upgrades in various forms. The solar flares are getting stronger every day. We are being guided in the direction that is best for each one of us, if you are willing to listen to your own Soul, your intuition.

     What and where does this influence you? Those of you who have planets or angles between 21 degrees of Leo and 4 degrees of Virgo will feel the energy more intensely. Say for instance your Moon is in Leo at 21 degrees, the themes will involve your subconscious, and the themes of the house Leo is in. It will also involve the house where Cancer lays, and the energy ping pongs across our charts and the subtle influences weave their magic. So, if someone has their Moon in Leo at 21 degrees in the 4th house. That individual may feel as if his or her family has influenced their thought and family patterns deep into their soul and it is his or her mission to now clean up any issues in order to move on. It is part of their mission right now. Siblings and cousins, and the area surrounding where he or she lives will also be involved. There may be discomfort between dreams and wishes, or who they network with and power struggles between how they present themselves publicly. This Yod is asking us to see the bigger picture and how everything is working for us and not against, even though it may very well feel like this. This is just one example of many of how astrology can express itself through your chart.
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     If you are interested in how exactly these planetary energies are working in your life and would love astro coaching where we look at your chart, you learn how the energy functions along with how the transits are working with your energy, you can contact me here. Let’s set up a free 20-minute consult taking a peek at your chart and what you wish to work on. I have single sessions, packages, and subscriptions so that you can explore your astro blueprint on your time! I look forward to working with you!

​      Oh, hello, hello, my kindred spirits. How are you? There has been some pretty intense energy that, if you haven’t noticed, has seemed to elevate with each astrological event these last few years. I have certainly felt an increase in intensity, and with my passion for finding patterns and my obsessive pull to astrology and the metaphysical arts, the evidence is truly amazing. We of course, as humans incarnated here on Earth, no matter your incarnated background.
The one thing I normally get nuts about is the generalization of things, in medicine, in massage, in astrology. Because it is all interconnected! And while that interconnection can get overwhelming in the details of its infinite energy, I feel there are too many instances where we over compartmentalize. The forever sticky web with no beginning and no end, and as the dichotomies of life follow, the beginning and the ends. So much to wrap our left brain around in a world of indoctrination and programming meant to keep people in a state of fear and separated from Source, aka, the patriarch.

     I imagine we must have had an overly matriarchal society at one point in order for us to be in the absolute extremes we are in now, but as the patriarch is fallen apart, and quite resistant in its efforts, there of course has been an immense disservice to woman, the Goddesses of this world. The pure beings of womb power and pussy portals. In the anger of maltreatment though, there was an extreme move in the feminist movement that stinks with aura of patriarchal perfume. But let’s not forget the men that have been at a disservice as well. Indoctrinated and programmed in a different sense. And women have played a part in that as well. I mean think of our childhood rhymes, “Boys go to Jupiter to get more stupider, and girls go to Mars to become rock stars.” This and whatever experiences we have gone through life. The list of oppression and repression on both sides is extensive, and one might find themselves completely biased as he or she dives deep into their own culture and experience.
     
     You might have thought I have digressed as this piece of oral and written expression is based on Chiron turning retrograde today, but as I mentioned before, it is all interconnected and what I am channeling most, and my fingers find their way across my keyboard. We are in a time where I believe at the core of my being that our movement is dying from the patriarch and moving into a time with the Divine Feminine and the Divine Masculine are meant to balance each other out. The yin and the yang, we each have our own feminine and masculine sides, and many of us have lived with one side overriding the other. The imbalance has slowly drained our energy, or perhaps, quickly drained, depending on you expressed a side of you that you have depended on to survive.
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     Which leads back to Chiron, the wounded healer, a Shaman in his own right, balancing his life as he lived his life fused as a horse and human, representing our ability to live according to our animalistic side and our human side. I sympathize fully with Chiron, as he sits in my first house of Taurus, conjunct Sedna and Lust. The fusion of these energies is quite strong in my experiences and significant people in my life with strong Chiron themes. Chiron has certainly impaled his energy throughout my awakenings. And where the balance tipped of attaining to be all spiritual, I have also screamed and shouted in moments that I certainly came here to fucking human as well. A story of spiritual imposter syndrome.  Another story for another time.
Chiron in Aries, the wound of the self, of aggression, assertion, beginnings, impulses, initiation, willpower, of the war we create within ourselves. Where Chiron and Aries fall in your chart along with any aspects to him will give the base of the theme you are meant to play out in your life. In the course of your life, you will see these themes and be able to work with them by the evolving charts such as your progressions, solar arc or solar returns, the events and people that come into your life. Somewhere, there is Chiron pushing you along to evolve in a balance of being human and a spiritual being.

 Welcome to 2024 My Beautiful Soul Tribe,
     
     While the last two months have been a bit challenging, well, a bit more than a bit, I am excited for the best that is yet to come in 2024. The beautifully set up crossroads that Hekate has dominion over, working with Saturn energy.  December brought Mercury retrograde in Capricorn, and if I thought Mercury retrogrades in the water element were emotional, Capricorn has its own category when it’s to emotions, especially when Mercury happened to sextile Saturn in Pisces. Nothing like an opportunity to visit ideas of ambition and spirituality and the beautiful alignment that is necessary for us to grow and ascend.

    I noticed a collective theme of course, my own theme of self-worth hitting me like a ton of bricks and Source pushing the issue of boundaries, reevaluation, and redoing. All the re-s. Oh yes as tears slide down one cheek and then the other, and hidden issues rise up to the surface that I never thought were issues. A deep dive into understanding how astrology works in my life. With my clients, the concept of self-worth and the physical manifestation of that has surfaced in their lives, and the bottom line, Capricorn hit pockets of money, quite detrimentally.
  
    I not only had the pleasure of the collective Mercury retrograde in Capricorn and Sagittarius, it’s connection to Saturn, and the other planets like Mars and the Sun that it danced briefly with along the way, my own Sun in Pisces has Neptune hanging out, the deep, dark ocean exerting its pressure and presence activating my Grand Water Trine with Mars and Uranus, and the mutable T square that squares the opposition of my natal Neptune opposed to my natal Moon conjunct Jupiter, but Uranus and Jupiter are teasing and shocking, triggering Chiron and opposing my natal Uranus. Yes, thank you Saturn as you exert your heavy, earthy presence in my heavy, watery house. Nothing like a little spiritual discipline, or openness to every entity out there that requires some heavy lessons. Spiritually, it has been a busy few years in my world in ways that I never imagined and not so comfortable. To add to the discomfort and the much necessary shadow work, my progressed Moon has been traveling through my progressed 8th house of Aquarius.

     The last month, my progressed Moon sat at 29 degrees, the degree of crisis in astrology, or more consciously communicated, the culmination of all 8th house Aquarian energy opposing Saturn in the second house. Now let me tell you, Umm, a holy shit kind of month, but thankfully, Aquarius’ well known ability to detach and present an icier kind of numbing front, I have sat with each crisis with an inner knowing and observation of the moment. It has also certainly helped in detaching and being aware enough to spiritually and mentally maneuver the unexpected. I had days where I certainly broke down and cried a bit, but I worked through those moments, writing, journaling, asking questions, and affirming that on the other side of this chaos is so much better. It has been probably one of the loneliest months I have had in a long time, these last two and a half years of that feeling stronger than I have had in a big hot minute, but yep, it totally peaked this last month.

     My world where I walk between worlds is hardly lonely, as I might explain such a statement. I know Spirit, Source, multidimensional beings are always around. I feel them. The loneliness I describe is that of a late night sipping a jalapeno margarita or glass of red wine and exchanging stories from the depth of your Soul’s. Perhaps, a feeling that you do not feel all plugged in. Connection with another human.
 
     Here we go Piscean energy! The Mutable energy is nothing new, and having a Gemini Moon certainly can attest to intellectual adaptability, but this ride in mutable water will be quite the journey, my progressed 9th house also holding my Midheaven conjunct Pholus. It is going to be a year of spiritual discipline and go-getting for sure. I mean that is already the base of my life, Spirit always here. And as a lesson of transformation through my progressed 8th house, my bouts of Faith in in Source or Spirit have stayed strong. Revisiting my own trust and Faith in myself, well is a whole other story, but Faith in Spirit has welded a new blueprint into my system, that is slowly grabbing momentum.  
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     So here we are in January, right, one might think that cool beans, new year and while that may be the case for some that this resonates with, especially any Sagittarian or Capricorn Suns, January is the beginning of the end of my year, the land of in between as I also pick up themes for the upcoming journey. My Solar Return will be on March 15th this year, a beautiful, hardworking, nutty journey for sure, as I have observed through several charts and astrological transits. I am excited, a little nervous, and frankly a whole lot of determined. I guess when you experience those moments in crisis, a deep, inner resolve comes forward to fuel that determination on levels not yet experienced. 

     For those of you interested in what the heck may be going on, let me give a little breakdown through this month. January brings a New Moon on 1/11. I cannot help but love that date and the synchronistic Angel numbers. The number of the day will also be 11, 1+11+2024. It is an awesome day for sure and I certainly believe that there is a portal gate, emphasized by the Sun-Pluto conjunction on 1/20, which also happens to equal 11 and The Chinese New Year.  I will be writing my affirmations daily, shouting them daily, as many times as I can. The Chinese New Year happens to be on February 10 this year, bringing in the year the Wood Dragon. This day also happens to equal 11. A master number for a year of mastery. Uranus brings his earthy strength into this complex relationship as well when he turns direct on January 27th, another day that adds up to 11. Are you seeing the synchronicities here. Can you feel the change, the huge amount of energy working its way in the spiritual world? 

     If you are interested in a mini-E-book with of the astro days coming up for the year, download it here or click on the icon below. We have amazing energy and potential to elevate ourselves, holding space for our dreams to come true. If you are interested in booking a consult where we look at the energy of the year ahead for you, or any of my other services, you can email me at [email protected]. I send you each a heartfelt hug and can’t wait until the next time! Bye-bye!

​      Hello, hello my Beautiful Soul Tribe! It simply never stops amazing me how quickly time passes, yet the warp of time has taken on whole different definition since the beginning of the pandemic and has perpetually transformed even more. Evolution. Ascension. This is my perception and definition. With the beautifully blessed schedule I have had, the energetic work expanding, and people, places, and events rising up in memory, there has been new habits busting out and a push to get my ass moving.

     When I decided to open an office to serve my massage clients in 2016, the whole process was absolute magic from the very get go. It had only been three years since I became a full-time licensed massage therapist serving clients in their home. I was so blessed. There was a deep-rooted belief in the power of touch and transfer of energy, and a belief in myself. My business grew by word of  mouth, many clients became like family and the lessons I learned were mammoth.

     I began my career as a massage therapist living in a house that was facing foreclosure. I am so grateful to my friends that let me live there at that time because I was just in the beginning of learning the process of manifestation with the Law of Attraction the only law I knew. I had lived in a poverty state of consciousness my whole life, beautiful programming that can condition us, although I had a belief that I was always taken care of and I would make it, the rest of my beliefs were quite skewed, embraced victimhood, and my idea of self-worth was pretty much not there.

     It was in  November of 2011 that I moved into this house as a single Mom of two girls, 6 and 2, two fathers-my relationship with them the absolute manifestation of lack of self-worth and a continual conflict of power. It was also four months after I visited Sedona for the first time.  My job at the OB/GYN’s office gone in August. A combination of fired and quit. It was a day I worked triage and took a phone call from a woman who had been waiting weeks for her mammogram results, that were positive for Stage 3 carcinoma of the breast. I could hear her despair and her knowing something was wrong on the other end, and my disgust at the doctor and medical assistant for not contacting her immediately while simultaneously, the woman who was a boss over me not respecting the time I had requested off for my counseling appointment for the next day.

      I went to the beach that night, a long walk, my heart breaking for the woman who I had talked with earlier that afternoon. My place no longer in the nursing field as I realized number one, how much energy I was taking in. This is when I became partially aware of being an empath. Number two, my time in nursing that I had loved the most had been when I worked with My Dad of Docs, four years at private office with a doctor who loved his patients, loved to teach and was an absolute mentor. So when we merged with this corporation, which I considered the Devil, the rest of my life began to fall apart. I could no longer work for this a corporation that wanted to see 30 plus patients a day. I went from a doc spending as long as it took with his patients, mostly pregnant, to menopausal woman. I watched them shipped in and out, questions they had been burning to ask, a time frame thrown in there that enabled many prescriptions to be written instead of what healthcare should actually be. Yep, I was done that night. I had no clue how I was going to do anything, but between the double whammy of a situation, my decision was firm.

     My Dad of Docs had been diagnosed with multiple myeloma a few years before and it was progressing fast. Hence the decision to merge, (conspiracy ideas heading towards this corporation making it so no docs would take call for him, especially when we had a shitload of patients that had left this corporation to begin with). So by the time we merged, we stayed in his office until December 2010, then moved over to their office. It was not long after that Doc had to go away to Arkansas for treatment, and blessed I was, my independent, out of the box self, to work under one of the older docs. Awe, Thank Source, the Gods and Goddesses for him!!

     And on went 2011, a continuation of being ripped apart from the inside out. What a contract I signed up for!! I had continued working as a postpartum nurse for the birth center that I had worked for since 2006, and also became a midwife’s assistant. I applied all over the place for waitressing job, no one wanted to hire me due to being overqualified and the time constraints a single mother of two with no support would have. I picked up a few agency jobs here and there, worked as a medical transcriptionist, and sold everything I could in my house.

     I was not making the cut. Child support was not happening.  There would be a month where I was unable to pay the water in order to pay the electric and vice versa. So I learned to live off 5-gallon water containers and a little cooler with the refrigerated items my girls needed. It was definitely one of the lowest, roughest patches I had in my life. This was also the time in my life where I spent crying every day for a good six  months. So grateful, so damn grateful that I learned those lessons. Oh!!! So GRATEFUL!!

    There are a whole lot of events in between this time to the time I started school in November 2012 for massage, but for now, the story is how seemingly quick my life took off once I started school. There was a steady determination to finish at the top, not to mention how much I feel in love with massage. My world opened up like crazy. This is where I became even more intentional with my energy and learned about Reiki and the actual transference of energy. The massages performed on me helped to facilitate healing in the most profound way. There was support through my friends in my class and I was walking on a regular basis.

     In clinicals, I wrote my name and phone number on a bunch of business cards and gave them to every client I serviced. In April, on the last day of class for the basic massage program, I left school, drove to Port Charlotte, and aced my NCBTMB exam for my license. The next day, I started apprenticing for the school and began to pick up regular clients. I had a few months left of class since I had signed up for the certified medical massage, but I was earning money and building my base. I felt amazing. I loved what I did, and oh, how my business grew over the three years.

     So when the opportunity knocked again (this was a second or third opportunity of offer) to open my own office, my solar plexus lit up. It was the Full Moon of July 2016 and I remember sitting inside my little Toyota Corolla, looking at the Full Moon and saying yes, not knowing how the hell I was going to be able to do this. That feeling anchored in. I looked at the office, made a deal, went home and began the paperwork for a EIN number, and from there, my life jingled in synchronicity.

     I busted my ass. I was attending two different colleges full time, homeschooling my girls, running my mobile business, while setting up all the appropriate paperwork for functioning in a city, and all handy work in my office, which, by the way had 3 rooms, a front office, a little back room with a sink and a bathroom. Everything had to be feng shui. I did it all, the shopping, the painting, hanging pictures, and whatever else needed to be done. I would be at the office till 2 in the morning during those two months of set up. It was invigorating, amazing, inspiring, and just the beginning. I was so blessed!

     I have not thought about this feeling in a while. Memories lately rising to the surface that brought a sense of elation through my self work. The current moments of a progressed Moon at 29 degrees in the progressed 8th house, a solar return Venus at 29 degrees in the 2nd house, an almost finished waning Saturn opposition between the 4th and 10th houses, the roller coaster of events of a Uranus opposition in the 1st and 7th house, and the last year of a 1st house solar return all tightly knitted together with the Ascendant, Sun, Mercury, Neptune, who happens to be a waning square to my natal Neptune in the 8th house, and Saturn in Pisces to boot, all bring on the critical moments that resurrect the Phoenix.

     It is a surreal, weird ass feeling with definite moments of frustration and tears that I have learned to just let float on by while immersing myself in those emotions as an observer. I am watching pieces of me die, quite dramatically, from my own Karma, my own experiences, and journeys through these last few years. I have no doubt on the other side, I will be tremendously changed. The last few months I have gone back to the drawing board, revisiting Sedona in April, and May, listening to trusting the process, relearning the 12 Universal Laws instead of only the Law of Attraction, educating myself and spending many moments in meditation and connecting with others.

    And as I ask Source and guides for clarity in their signs, their omens, and our beautiful communicative relationship, memories come rushing to the surface of the things that once brought me joy, of how good I felt in these moments, of words and actions that lead me to the path of least resistance. Thank a beautiful ambulance for shouting that message out to me. Who would have thought. There is nothing in my life now that can top the despair, I felt in 2010 through 2012, but it has been a beautiful reminder to remember those moments and the moments of gratitude I felt after I jumped out of bed in my place in 2013. I was so happy to be happy. I was so grateful to be moving in such a beautiful direction.

    Uranus in the first house brings these beautiful epiphanies, whether they are epiphanies of joy, or sadness, or perhaps, the patterns of double whammies that lead to tremendous transformation. This has been my experience. My dance with a Saturn square Uranus activated in 2020 and 2021 to bring that double whammy to my home front and my relationship as a natal transit, but also to my career and my identity as the transits of that time. It is in those moments that astrology comforts me, along with my knowledge of intentional living, honing my energy and finding where the opportunities lie. And as I mentioned the multitude of planetary challenges above, Chiron was never mentioned, yet his presence is forever engrained as he sits in my natal  first house, all my dramatic life events leaving him with a leading role as well. This is the beauty of a chart will planets and points in every house except one!

      I started off today with an immense amount of gratitude that began my journey into an full time entrepreneur. Massage still an absolute passion of mine and my ability to just tap in and work the mind, body, and soul. I am here over ten years later working with clients that I have served for years, my load not quite as heavy as it was when I opened my office, yet I have no desire to work on that many people, or as many days in a row. That path led me to a kick in the ass burnout. An idea I am very familiar with. But I do have a deep desire to continue on as a entrepreneur, building another business while I work with massage clients on a limited schedule. As we grow, our needs grow, our bodies change, the energy we work with has changed and my parameters for rest, for self-care work more and more towards being absolutely non-negotiable. This my friends, is also a beautiful lesson of the North Node in Aries, or any first and ninth house transits.

       Onward I go, putting one foot in front of the other, even if I fall, or take a few steps back. As I reflect back, my vision is on the road ahead, the road I am on at this very moment as I balance my Soul in the multiverse and this 3D world. I wonder how many others are feeling this way, or similar. How many of my Soul Tribe friends are out there wondering when we will meet up. It is no longer a time of thinking we are alone in this world. Between social media, the pandemic, and the boom created by the isolation and fear that was created, there is this innate knowing that in a world of 8 billion people, there are is a small percentage of people that we can definitely vibe with. Shit, just one percent of 8 billion is 80 million people. I sure in the heck could not and would not want to handle that many people. Yep, so even if I multiply this number by 0.00001, I will still get 80,000 people. Working with these numbers definitely keeps things in my perspective as an introverted extrovert! It is a number that still holds a crap load of energy, but yet, makes me smile from ear to ear with the simplicity of being able to reach out and touch someone’s Soul.

     I leave you now with these personal thoughts, a piece of my beautiful journey. It is definitely a trail of breadcrumbs and I love getting older. With age comes wisdom if you are interested, and overlooking the years brings me a place where I can see how all of these different pieces of the puzzle actually fit together. Life makes more sense, feels more peaceful, and reiterates the importance of reaction and inner calm. And chaos, oh for me, I have learned to maneuver chaos better and better. The idea of chaos is a knowing that in those moments of pure frustration, the strength of clarity will stand up tall and send me flying into the next dimension. I will take the ride, because in the extremes of my emotions, my highs are so damn high, and my lows, well, they just keep getting easier to cope with.

     I will see you with my next test of integrity and showing up, my friends. Let this article be a peek into making my brain my bitch, (Thank you Katherin Zekina!), and the learning from Atomic Habits ​ by James Clearly. I am ready to shine and serve in a much different way in way that works with how I have changed. Until next time my Friends and Fiends. Much Love!!