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Hello Astrology Soulmates! It's so good to sit with you for a moment. I always love these opportunities where we can slow down together and explore the language of astrology in a deeper way. If you've studied astrology for a while, you may have noticed that there comes a point where simply knowing keywords doesn't quite feel like enough anymore. You begin to sense there is a richer conversation happening in the chart, but you're just outside of it. Learning astrology is a lot like learning a new language in that knowing a few words can help you recognize what's happening, but it rarely allows you to truly enter the conversation. I learned this very personally while studying Korean. When ...
Why Set up a Home Yoga Practice?Developing a home yoga practice can be a lifeline. For many people, group yoga classes are not viable for reasons like cost, time, availability of childcare, and transportation. Unfortunately, disabled people are still rarely considered by mainstream studios, and racism and transphobia are as prevalent in the yoga industry as they are in wider society. Even for people who do feel comfortable in group yoga classes, setting up a home practice can bring the tools of yoga to life in a totally new way. If yoga is medicine, then our home practice is how we prescribe our own healing. Yoga can become a transformative part of our everyday lives, rather than ...
The fear of death is not a flaw in the human system; it is part of our design. A healthy awareness of mortality keeps us cautious. It prevents reckless behavior. It encourages us to look both ways before crossing the street and to step back from the edge of cliffs. In that sense, this fear is protective—it helps keep us alive. Most of us carry this awareness quietly. It may surface after the loss of someone we love, during an illness, or in the stillness of the night when life feels especially fragile. These moments can be sobering and uncomfortable, but they usually pass. The fear rises, reminds us that life is precious, and then recedes again. In my years of working as a ...
In my book Burn & Brew Rituals: Incense Blends and Cozy Drinks for Balance, Healing, and Inner Peace, I share a practice built on a simple premise: the body listens to the world through the senses long before the mind understands it. A curl of smoke. A warm cup in the hands. A repeated moment that asks nothing of you. These ordinary gestures become orientation points—small places the spirit returns to when life grows larger than language. When I created this daily grounding practice, I did not know I was also developing a survival strategy. There are days when the atmosphere feels different. Nothing visible has happened in your immediate surroundings, yet people move ...
