Hi All, Thanks for your nice notes and comments about this little podcast. It’s been so fun to work on and I’m glad you like it!
As I pointed out last week, I’m all about giving you practical strategies for optimizing your life in the real world, and setting them within a large spiritual framework.
In other words, I’m here to bring you spiritual and mystical insight coupled with grounded service. I want everyone to have a healthy degree of faith and knowledge about the vertical (spiritual), use their discernment every day, and then practically apply your knowledge every day in the real world (horizontal).
Creating momentum in your life, collecting the data, and using it to inform your next steps is always the best way to shape your next steps. MOMENTUM is how we get out of dead ends, counteract intertia, and handle the plot twists (i.e. those times when your life view really blows up and shifts pretty quickly). And yes, you can create momentum no matter the state of the world. In fact, it’s more important now than ever before. More on that to come!
When we do this the unseen is right there waiting to support us and IT DOES! The change you seek is through you. This is how I work with my clients and what I hope I’m effectively conveying to you here.
What I’d like you to take away from these few minutes each Monday morning is that we all have the ability to empower ourselves. There’s always a bigger picture at play and I can read it pretty well. (This is very helpful for people when they’re just being introduced to these concepts!)
I’m bringing this all to you so you can get your life on a positive and productive path by acting and moving with clarity. It’s not hard, but it does require your active engagement. This work never ends, it’s an ongoing cycle sent to help us evolve and live lives we love.
It’s all there for you and I always love helping people do this work. The reward is seeing them get on the path that excites them, cultivate inner joy, and learn to more deeply trust the process.
Vertical Energy Information This Week…
Retrogrades draw to a close! That’s right, Mercury turns direct April 7th (today!) and Venus turns direct April 12th. There is always a little shadow period when they turn direct, which means there still might be some glitches in your life, but don’t sweat it too much. They’ll return to full power by the last week of April. These planets retrograde fairly regularly so we are mostly used to these times. Focus on the “re” words and let everything get up to speed again before you go full bore into new projects.
Full Moon in Libra on April 12th! This is just a regular full moon, not an eclipse full moon. We’re still feeling the heavy chaotic eclipse energy. This is in Libra which is all about balance and relationships and all Libran themes. It will hit everyone a little differently depending on your chart. For this full moon, just take a step back from anything having to do with cultivating your image or brand identity (this is Aries energy), and relationships (Libran energy). We always want to give full moons a little space to see what might come in. Full moons often bring closures, but that’s not always a bad thing.
As a reminder, we now have Neptune in Aries, which has been a BIG shift this week. This is STILL one of the most powerful periods of the year to plant seeds and take new initiatives. It’s going to continue to take hold through October. Keep focusing on your bigger dreams and making them real. Saturn will layer into Aries in May, which will help give shape and tasks to these dreams.
2025 is the year we’re being called to act. (It’s no coincidence I’m calling my program MOMENTUM, because we ALL need to be taking more action this year!!!) All the big energies are pushing us to make the rubber meet the road in our own lives. It’s easy to do this when you’re dialed in to who you are, what you want, and how you want to live.
I know there is a lot of pain right now, I feel it too. We are still in the early part of this birthing process of a new era. This new Aquarian era is not going to be handed to us, we have to shape it and right now we’re being handed lots of valuable lessons from the shadow side, the Pluto side, we need to learn from them and we ARE- so keep going because we will get there when we do the work.
The Veil of Complacency continues to lift. Where have leaders in our life been complacent to the point they’re now complicit with detrimental actions? Where have you been complacent and now find yourself wanting for change? These are the big energies of this year.
There’s a lot of talk about a big Earth shift coming in February 2027 via the Human Design world. I find it interesting but it’s not a topic I dive into deeply. I think in general we’ll be moving from our solar plexus chakras into our heart chakras at that time and I hope a more loving collective will take root.
As a reminder, we still have Saturn shifting into Aries in May, Jupiter shifting into Cancer in June, and Uranus shifting into Gemini in July. Stay tuned this podcast for the week-to-week!
Practical Application of these Energies in the Horizontal…
Heady concepts aren’t all that helpful if they don’t have a practical application to your life right now!
All the big energies are calling for action so I want to talk a little more about this today. I want to share how there are always forces and counterforces in our world and what it means when we’re being asked to “be the light.” Especially during times like these.
My teacher Michael has always told me there’s a dark energy that will dance with our shadow and ego and do everything it can to hold us back in life. In other words, while we’re being invited to evolve and move more towards love by all these big Earth shifts right now, the dark will pull at us to hold us back from this by infusing us with doubts and insecurities, terrible situations, and more.
The dark is not fun! We’re seeing a lot of dark right now in our lives and these big energies are stirring up a lot for people. The forced shedding, the bursting of the beautiful lies, it’s been a lot to handle.
How do we create momentum in this wild world? Especially given what’s going on with the economy and the protests??Momentum is not magical thing, it’s moving forwards towards what you seek using tools you have or can access. You can still connect with other people, you can still get organized, you can still create businesses or income streams. You can still cultivate inner joy and gratitude. Life is still intended to be lived no matter politics or any man made situation.
Ask yourself: How can I serve others through my joy? How do I want to live? It’s still up to you. No person or place can make you stuck in your story.
The light shines out the dark every time, so the antidote to the dark is being the light.
But what does that mean??? How do we apply this esoteric advice to our lives???
It means filling our hearts with love and inner joy and making every attempt we can to overcome difficult situations while maintaining faith that we’re always supported by a loving higher power.
This all sounds easy and makes a lot of sense when I write it, but it’s a lot harder to do when you’re in the thick of it. (This is one of the main reasons why I’ve started this podcast - to help everyone with this!) The dark knows how to hold us back. When we give up on a situation or succumb to the dark side of our thoughts we can’t be the light, and we’ll stay where we are, no longer having faith and being highly skeptical of the entire concept.
Yes, the unseen sends us situations to aid in our evolution and they’re not always fun, but the dark actively tries to hold us back from our evolution, which can make our challenges even harder to surmount.
So, to be the light, especially at a time where there’s a lot of darkness in our world, I invite you to harness your inner joy, the force inside you, and create momentum in your life so you actively move forward towards what you seek.
When you hold onto this faith, always choosing love over fear and taking steps in a positive direction, despite evidence around you to the contrary, you ARE the light.
How Your Actions Affect the World…
When you’re the light, the unseen will see this and swoop in with support and bring you more of what you seek, encouraging you to continue, and eventually the dark will no longer have a grip on you that it once did. It never disappears entirely, but you’ll know how capably you can handle it.
This is what will change our world, when we all choose to power ourselves with love over fear and take action towards what we seek.
It will shine out the darkness, no longer allowing it to have a grip on our life and our world so tightly.
So, with all the planetary movements and big energy shifts we’re going to a lot of dark (Pluto-types) rising up and to actively keep us down. This is when in every situation you must actively choose to power yourself with love over fear.
How to Handle the Energy Right Now:
* Ground yourself in inner stillness and remind yourself to have faith over fear. What you power is what powers you. Then ask for support or guidance from a higher power and turn it over to them.
* Actively engage with creating momentum in your life towards what you seek. Reach out to community, make the call, do the research. Whatever it is that will move you forward.
* Remember the concept of service through joy. Focus on cultivating inner joy from your true essence and serving the world through that in whatever way you can. When you serve through joy the energy passes through you and infuses into the larger collective. The more joy the better.
I know how the world looks right now, I’m here too. This week I’m choosing to power myself with love and faith and the knowledge we can handle this time and see it for what it is. A chance to evolve and architect a more responsible and sustainable future.
Trust yourself and be well.
I’m holding the light for you.
Let’s have a good week!
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