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Welcome folks. Good to see you.
This is my last day in the space that I've lived in for almost a
year. Some of you know that in a
unexpected turn of events last spring and eclipse season, I was
displaced from my home because of all kinds of things, many of
them having to do with Pisces. It was a Pisces eclipse, so
there was a water leak and damage because of that, and then
mold and, yeah, environment that was toxic and had to go.
And through the immense generosity of a stranger, my
neighbor's mom, my partner and I were able to stay in this space
almost for an entire year. And now that's changing.
So I mentioned last week big changes in my life.
I know that many who are here and also not here are also in
immense times of change. And that's really the theme of
this time is immense change. And I'm guessing that I'm not
alone in feeling kind of sensation of stepping out over
an abyss. I heard a story recently about a
a being who became a deity who reached transcendence by
stepping out over an abyss. And this being had tried
throughout their life to reach enlightenment and had gone
through all these tests and trials and tribulations and had
met what they perceived as a final Test.
And this was a test of their desire body, their lust and
attraction. And in the test, they didn't
give in, but they still felt the longing, they still felt the
draw. And so they thought that they
had failed the test, that just because they had wanted
something that they knew would pull them from the path, that
that was a failure of the test. And so they walked out over this
abyss and jumped into it, not knowing that that was actually
the final Test. So they gave their life.
They were like, I didn't succeed, I failed and I got to
end this. And they jumped out over the
abyss and that was the final Test.
And these Dragons came up from the abyss and lifted them up and
brought them into the sphere of of their transcendence.
So that story just arrived as I was talking, but it feels like a
good one for the astrology of the week ahead.
So I'll just go into my spiel now.
I'm going to start to flow the way that I do.
I'm an associative, intuitive astrologer.
I can be tangential. So as you hear these words, let
them wash over you. Always take what works and leave
the rest and make the meanings that are meaningful for you.
As is my practice, and as I often do in somatic space, I
drew some cards today. After I had kind of journaled
done my own process with the astrology of the week ahead, I
tuned in with one of my favorite decks, the Lineages of Change.
And so 2 cards came forward to guide our practice today.
And the first is the Seed of Earth.
And in this image there are dominant colors of gold and
yellow and green and purple and black.
And there are these beautiful blooms coming up from what looks
like a river of golden sunlight. And then behind the blooms is a
face. And the face, the blooms are
covering the eyes, but the nose and the mouth are pointing
upwards on the diagonal. And it looks like this face is
just taking in the lusciousness of the scent of these blooms and
kind of basking in the golden glow of the light that's there.
And so if you're looking at the image, also just notice what you
see. So the seed of earth responds to
the page of pentacles or discs. In a traditional tarot.
The keywords are entitlement, good news, exploration,
curiosity and adventurousness. The description says delight in
the adventure. Revel in your own curiosity
drawing you forward. This is a moment for exploring
and enjoying it. Good news is all around you.
It only needs your attention. In reverse, this card calls you
back to your wonder. You may think you know it all or
need to know everything urgently.
Take your time. There's always more to discover.
What's the most exciting thing on the horizon?
And then there's a quote by Devorah Major from Tradewinds.
And they say we do not know a planet that is home.
We're always home. It's our job to see and map and
learn languages and stories and carry them from place to place.
And then the second card that came through is The Root of
Fire. I love this card.
I draw it all the time. It's like one of the ones that
comes to get me often. And this card has a lot of
colors, a lot of warm colors, Reds and oranges and golds and
pinks and purples. And there's this figure, this
like sensual, curvaceous figure that has a stance that just
seems really bold and empowered and playful and also deeply
sensual. That's what comes forward
through me. And behind the figure is this
just glow of what I take as a kind of like cosmic creative
light, divine light. So the root of fire relates to
the Knight of Wands in a traditional deck.
And the keywords here are excitement, energy, flexible
intuition, adventure, and excessive energy.
And the description says we can always harness the energy of
excitement, following an intuition that feels like
internal sparks in order to turn and face our next adventure.
You hold the whole future within you, bringing abundance wherever
you go. You seek what is seeking you.
You gather what you need to survive in reverse.
Consider how to stay and write relationship when there's a lot
of energy involved. What's good for you can harm
others if not channeled through solid grounding.
Find a rhythm that works for you and those you love.
Who is calling for your fire? And then there's a quote from
Audrey Lorde, from her writing uses of the erotic as power.
And the quote says, when we begin to live from within,
outward in touch with the power of the erotic within ourselves
and allowing that power to inform and illuminate our
actions upon the world around us, then we begin to be
responsible to ourselves in the deepest sense.
And the cards also have plant allies.
And I didn't mention the one for the seed of earth, but the one
for the root of fire is dandelion, which is an Aries
season and and Aries energy ally.
And the description that they offer here says survival,
perseverance against all odds, nourishment, flexibility and
resourcefulness. And if you're in the northern
hemisphere, dandelions are abundant right now.
So you might consider going to gather some of them and then
consider brewing them as a detox tea or roast the roots for
dandelion coffee. You can make dandelion leaf
pesto or dandelion wine. Dandelion flour syrup is like
honey, and dandelion helps clear stagnancy from the liver.
And in elemental medicine, the liver is one of the places where
we store anger and frustration, which can be energies that
certainly have a lot of reasons to be emerging right now, not
just because it's airy season, but because of all the things.
So this week, the astrology starts off today with Venus
conjunct with Ceres. And Ceres is a grainmother,
Earth goddess energy, and her story is deeply one of loss, but
also of reunion and remembering and transformation.
So in her loss she mourns and she becomes humble.
She leaves her place in the heavens and comes down to take
the form of an earthly person, an old woman, which is different
than many gods. You know, in the story, the
Greek stories of the gods, when they take human forms, they're
often beautiful, you know, like strapping and whatever, you
know, godly kind of human forms. But Ceres comes in and takes a
very humble form and she practices humility.
And so that word, humble humility, is the root word of of
humus, right, which is the earth.
And in her transformation, she's grieving.
And she's grieving the loss of her daughter.
And her daughter has been stolen and abducted by forces which are
profoundly oppressive and domineering and violent.
And her daughter has been taken to the realms of hell, into the
underworld. And she doesn't know how to get
her back. And so she releases herself into
the Underworld, and that's part of the transformation and part
of the call for reunification. And in her release of herself to
the Underworld, she releases her attachments to what she grows on
Earth as the goddess of grain. She stops growing grain.
And so then humanity is also released to the underworld, and
humans begin to die, and they can't make their sacrifices to
the gods anymore. And this is what gets things to
turn around. The gods start to pay attention
and they realize that they need to negotiate.
And so they do. And the negotiation doesn't get
serious. Everything that she wants.
But what it does get is season and cyclical growth.
And so throughout this process of negotiation and
transformation, what happens on earth is that seasons happen.
And so there are seasons of abundance and seasons of
fallowness and series in her reunification with her daughter,
who has now become the queen of the underworld.
They bring forth into humanity the rights of transformation and
the rights of transformation. The Ellicinian rights or
mysteries are a ritual practice, an initiation practice for human
beings to face our fear of death and dying and ending and
impermanence, and actually to travel into the underworld in
our own psyches and embrace what is there for us.
And in embracing what is there, we make the space for new growth
to happen. So Ceres and Venus are conjunct
today, and Venus also has a lot of resonance with Earth.
And Venus is in her home sign of Taurus, a very earthly
placement. And they are trying with the
South Node in Virgo, sextile the North Node in Pisces.
And I'm feeling this, you know, very much as a time of rituals
for letting go. And in the letting go of things,
there's a lot of grief and there's rage and there's
upsetness that things couldn't be different than they are.
But there's also a sense of the need to let go of things because
when we hold on too long, what happens is we oppress life.
Actually, life needs us to let go.
Life needs compost in order to grow, and the Earth needs our
tears. The Earth needs our grieving,
and that is what makes space for new growth to emerge.
I woke up today with just deep sorrow and grief for the Earth,
knowing, you know, that there's this ongoing news of what the
Trump administration is doing to the planet right now, destroying
protections for the environment, for animals, for plants, for
water, for us, and taking all of our resources, right?
40% of every dollar you spend if you live here in the so-called
United States goes to a war machine.
And right now that war machine is raging, and it's raging and
an indiscriminate, completely nihilistic and and sadistic way.
And it's doing that with our resources, right?
And so there is a big call right now.
There's a big movement to practice politics of Refusal.
And this is Ceres, right? Ceres says, I'm not going to
grow grain anymore for your sacrifices.
So while we might individually feel powerless in the face of
the war machine, those of us that are participating in this
economy do have a little bit of power.
And part of how we wield our power is by working differently
with resource. And so this might be a time that
because of many conditions, including fabricated economic
scarcity, many things are becoming much more expensive.
It's more and more challenging to survive economically.
Well, you know, corporations and the oil companies and the ultra
wealthy continue to get ultra wealthy.
This is a time when many people need to reduce, right?
And there's a kind of call to reduce consumption and to let go
of the idea that more is more and embrace the idea that less
could be more. We don't need to participate
with the myth of constant economic growth in order to have
abundance. Abundance actually can come more
fully when we let go of the need to have personal attachment and
possession and learn to share with one another this sense of
being humbled, right. The humility of coming back to
the earth, of not needing to have everything for ourselves.
And in that opening up to what might be offered and what we can
help Co create and cultivate together could bring forward so
much abundance and richness that could expand deeply beyond our
personal lives and bodies. Those of you that are paying
taxes, those of us that are paying taxes, you know there's a
big movement right now for more tax resistance and tax strike.
There are consequences to that. Maybe you're a person that feels
inclined to consolidate power with others who are willing to
risk those consequences. There are consequences to giving
up our attachments, and a lot of the consequences, especially
when we're dealing with Taurus energy, have to do with not
knowing where we're going to get our comfort or our safety.
Letting go of what's familiar, letting go of what's stable.
Huge risk involved when we let go in the Taurian realms because
that's life, that's sustenance, that's body, that's materiality.
So threatening that is a it's a big risk and it doesn't serve us
to pretend that it's not. It serves us to turn towards the
risk. So when we turn towards the
risk, what happens? We feel it.
We get to get in touch with our grief, with our fear, with our
loneliness, with the parts of us that are completely freaked out.
And when we feel the feelings that are there, that's when we
can transform them. That's actually when we have the
most power to be in our own choice and agency.
Pretending to not be scared is not courage, right?
That's avoidance. And that often leads to really
unconscious action, turning towards our fear and actually
allowing ourselves to feel the fear that's there and uncoupling
shame from that. Allowing ourselves to be soft,
human, fragile relational beings that have needs and
acknowledging when there are fears allows us then to work
skillfully with fear and to make choices from places of
consciousness. And that's freedom.
If there is any such thing as being free inside of these
material bodies that are completely restricted and shaped
by our conditions and the consequences of many, many,
many, many choices and situations that are not inside
of our control. So on Tuesday, the asteroid Juno
is in Aquarius and it's sextile with Neptune in Aries.
And this feels to me like a sending out of mycelial threads
into the collective. And Juno is all about
commitment, and Aquarius is all about consciousness, and Neptune
is all about the way that subtle dreams become reality.
And Aries is all about personal power.
And so in this aspect, I am feeling the ways that many of us
are dreaming new dreams. And we're sending out these
hyphy threads, right? These mycelial passages to one
another. We share information together,
we share inspiration, we resonate and connect in ways
that are unpredictable and. And chaotic and underground and
completely organic and rhizomatic.
So they don't move through the pathways of empire.
They move underneath it all. And there's something that's
happening. There's so much that's happening
that's beyond the kind of noise of what we might be experiencing
in our most material. And I'm going to say superficial
day-to-day. And when I say superficial, what
I mean is the most obvious, the most surface layers.
There's so much that's happening underneath the surface of
things. And a lot of what's happening is
happening because of everything that also is not happening
anymore. So the sacrifices that have been
made, the lives that have been lost, the losses and the letting
goes that we are ourselves involved in, they don't just
disappear into nothingness. They transform and they become
something else. And so we're all part of some
kind of chaotic unknown happening right now that
actually has a lot of power. And the power is the power of
our dreaming and attention. There is a war happening right
now fighting for our attention, right?
And attention is probably the most valuable currency that any
of us have. And when we put attention
towards things, they grow, they become manifest.
And attention is directed by our intention.
And so this aspect to me this week feels like a real call to
be intentional about our intention.
And then this feels like it gets amplified as we move towards
what happens on Wednesday and Thursday.
So on Wednesday, Mars is sextile with Uranus, and Mars is at the
very last degree of Pisces, which is the last degree of the
entire Zodiac. And Uranus is at the very last
degree of Taurus. And Uranus will be leaving
Taurus later in April, and it has been transiting Taurus since
2018. These last degrees of any sign,
but especially Pisces and Taurus, are so thick and full of
stuff. There's so much stuff that
builds up and accumulates in Taurus and Pisces just as
energetic signatures. Taurus is about the dense
materiality of the body and Earth.
Pisces is about the collective dream space and psychic
energetic space, and so much gets built up there.
A lot of people, myself included, probably a lot of
people here, are experiencing the symptoms of these late
degrees right now and the symptoms of these kind of
anoretic influences. It feels like you're just full
of shit, that your life is full of shit, right?
Full of stuff. Things might feel so stuck, so
stagnant, so never ending, so full.
You might actually be experiencing bodily and physical
symptoms of that where stuff is coming out.
You might be having inflammatory reactions or like you don't feel
good. You feel really sluggish.
It's like you're full of stuff. It could be that situations that
have been, you know, weighted gravitational forces in your
life over these last seven or eight years of Uranus in Taurus
feel like they're really amplified right now.
And you're like, motherfucker, is it ever going to end?
Right. Like there might be certain
situations where you're like God, this situation still.
And if things are feeling like that for you know that the
intensity and the frustration and the acuteness is meant to
really get you to push it out of your system.
And so there is actually like a wisdom in the inflammatory
response in the body, right? Like that's pushing things to
the surface. It's pushing things to the
system. When we get really frustrated,
when we feel like I've had enough of something, I'm so done
with this feeling. That's a really important
threshold in order to be able to let go actually, and cut a cord
with something and step into something new.
So we've been approaching this for a while.
There's been so much happening in Pisces now for like 3 years.
So you may have been feeling this, you know, over the last
couple of years, like the sense of saturation and fullness and
doneness and blah, just like let's get it out.
And this week there might be like some particular kinds of
manifestations of that, especially as you move towards
the middle of the week. Then on Thursday, we have the
first quarter lunation and this is a first quarter Moon in
Capricorn. And Capricorn is on the Cardinal
cross with Aries. And the Cardinal signs are all
about movement and shift and change.
Aries is about manifestation and initiation of new energy.
And Capricorn is about building something that's solid and being
able to work wisely and skillfully with what comes from
the past. And so Aries is about the
future. But Capricorn says nothing
starts from nowhere, right? Pay attention to what you've
already learned and root into the foundations that have
already been built. You've built your own
foundations through trial and error, and foundations have also
been built for you through ancestral forces.
And there is a lot of resource to draw upon.
And resources include failures as well as successes, right?
We learn a lot from where we fail.
We learn a lot from pain and obstruction and challenge.
And this is a big lesson that Capricorn brings in.
And on that day of the first quarter Moon, Mercury is
finishing its retro shade. So it started its retrograde
shadow on February 11th and that's when it passed 22° of
Pisces. And then it had its whole
retrograde in late February to late March.
Then it's stations direct and over the last couple of weeks
it's been traveling direct going back over this terrain.
Then it first passed in the later half of February.
So you might reflect back to February right now if your
memory allows you to do so or if you have some kind of technology
that logs your memories for you. And particularly you might
contemplate Pisces in your chart and what has been underway in
process in that part of your chart.
So 22° of Pisces as a Sabian symbol is represented as a
medium, as a spiritualist bringing through a spirit.
And the symbolic interpretation of this has to do with the
expenditure of life force in order to be vessels and conduits
for spiritual energy. In this symbol, we are reminded
that we're always working with subtle energies, with invisible
forces, with unseen allies, and also the stuff that is floating
in the collective sphere that might be unknown or unfelt.
There's so much that we are sensitive to and vessels for
that is beyond what we can be conscious of at any given time.
But many of us are compelled to become more conscious, to settle
energies so that we can work skillfully with them and so that
we can be conscious vessels for them.
And this is what a medium does. And if you're working with
astrology or divination of any kind, or if you're a person who
tunes in with your intuition, which I know that all of you
are, that's why you're here, then we are people who Orient
ourselves towards becoming more skillful conduits and vessels
for subtle energies. And This is why I work with
astrology, right? I work with astrology so that I
can divine messages that help me attune myself to the deeper
lessons that are coming through. Not to avoid them, not to
manipulate them, but to be more present inside of them.
Because I believe that I can work with those energies that
they want to collaborate with me and they're going to be working
with me whether or not I'm conscious of it.
But my consciousness can increase the efficacy of
collaboration often. So this symbol asks us to really
cultivate and develop the strength of subtle
consciousness, which is incredibly challenging.
Working with subtle consciousness is harder.
It's more challenging than working with dense
consciousness, right? You can pick up something and
smash it without being that conscious of what you're doing.
But to create something from a dream requires profound
attention, and to recognize where you're already inside of a
dream and to shift the dream requires really strong inner
strength. So working with this energy, we
want to tune in with our intention again, what is it that
we are wanting to create and Co create in the world?
And in that intention and attunement, what we're not
wanting to do is ignore the external and the quote UN quote
realities that are discordant with our intentions or desires.
So we're alive at a time of fuckery and war, right?
I'm guessing none of us here are trying to manifest that.
I'm guessing everybody here is really on a path of trying to
manifest in their lives what is loving, what is healing, and
what feels truly well. The realities that we live
inside of can be so disheartening and depressing and
disturbing, and they can cause us to feel intense apathy and
feelings of failure and our own kind of defeat.
That's very easy, right? To feel that in many ways.
There are plenty of people who will meet that through spiritual
bypassing and avoidance. And they'll be, they'll be like,
oh, I'm just here with what I'm creating.
I'm loving light inside. So I'm going to push away that
other reality. I'm going to ignore that it's
happening and I'm going to build a bubble around myself so that I
only experience what I want to experience.
And I'm just going to give my opinion there and say that I
don't think that's very effective and that it can often
be extremely harmful because there's not an active engagement
with the harm that's actually happening, which can be really,
you know, deeply disappointing for people who are trying to be
in relationship with those folks and are experiencing some of the
negativity or harm that's happening.
It's a completely different practice to be deeply aligned
with what you are wanting to manifest with the love, with the
brilliance, with the Wellness that you know is possible and
that you can access in moments of quietude or meditation or
concentration on beauty. While you are also present with
everything that's happening in the external, including that
which is deeply discordant with your own desires and dreams.
And this is what a medium has to do.
This is what a channel actually has to do, is be able to
concentrate effectively on their own energy inside of
environments that can be deeply distracting.
They need to be able to maintain their link with spirit, which is
subtle force and frequency, in order to bring spirit through
into the dense realms where there's all kinds of opposition
and oppression and otherwise. And so while we are experiencing
human life in 2026 on planet Earth together, and there's a
lot that's happening that is really discordant with the
dreams that many of us have and hold dear, there's also an
opportunity right now to be these mycelial webs with one
another by resonating consciously in our frequencies
inside of the realities that we're in.
Not trying to escape them, not trying to avoid them, not trying
to pretend that they're not here, not taking ourselves
outside of them, but actually really rooting and grounding
inside of them and saturating our spaces with intentionality
and making ourselves conscious vessels for the subtle energies
and subtle frequencies that we are connecting with
intentionally. And so This is why we practice.
This is why we pray, This is why we do somatic exercises, and
this is also why we come together and share with each
other so that we can remind and remember each other inside of
the hellish landscapes that are being created by sadistic,
nihilistic dreams. We can remember together that
there are other dreams that are happening, and the more that we
can do that together, the more strength and power those dreams
accumulate. Mars moves into Aries the same
day as the first quarter Moon, and as Mercury leaves its
retrograde shadow, this is a big ignition switch.
Mars is coming into its fiery home, into its domicile, and the
first aspect that it's going to make is on Sunday when it
conjoins with Neptune. Mercury, as it finishes its
retrograde shadow will also be conjunct with Palace and Pisces.
So this is strategy coming through and this is will for
action also coming through. It's also fucking insanity,
right? We have a completely insane war
monger. You know, war monger is plural
manifesting religious war and spiritual terrorism and earthly
destruction that's happening and we are here and this is I think
the the moment that we've all arrived for there are prophecies
that are coming true and the prophecy is one of a spiritual
war and the prophecy is 1 also of a return of some kind of
priced consciousness, Messiah consciousness.
I don't know, but I'm just going to put it out there that that's
all of us. And it's not one guy like
showing up like, hey, I'm back. You know, the message that has
come through all the prophets is that we are all vessels of God,
right? God is with inside all of us.
The divine is when inside all of us, Goddess, God X, however you
want to name them, that is, we are all here, and the
remembering of that is the only thing that can actually counter
the absolute insanity of these hellish forces that are dreaming
a terrible dream on earth right now.
So now is the time I see in the comments.
Messiah means being led by the divine.
Literally us right now. Yes, now is the time we're here.
We're alive at an extremely confusing time.
Mars is going to be conjunct with Neptune in the early
degrees of Aries. What the fuck is happening?
What does that mean for you, for me, for any of us, for survival,
for any individuals, or for the Earth as a whole?
Who knows? It's overwhelming, it's
confusing, it's terrifying, it's enraging, and it's also a time
that calls for profound faith and embodiment of deep love and
purposefulness. Yes, E says.
I mean, it is Easter. Thank you.
Yes, we are risen. OK, so I'll leave that there.
I'm just going to go up quickly through the chat.
So I see Kay is talking about the Artemis 2 space mission
being live. Yeah, the first space mission, I
think, with a woman astronaut. I saw a transmission the other
day, one of the astronauts just talking about the gift that it
is to live on planet Earth and how we really need to take care
of this gift. C says they're in a depression
slump. Last week, they sat with it and
felt part of the deep pool of depression was the gift of
refusal. Yeah, yeah.
This feeling of just like the Depression, the actual word is
to push you into the ground, right?
And then when you're pushed into the ground, the opportunity is
to bury something, to sacrifice something, make it sacred, give
it back, divest in economies of war, invest in economies of
life. O says what you're talking about
reminds me of the Seed of Pentacles card you pulled, how
the face had its eyes covered and how we sometimes can't see
the change, but there are other senses that can help us feel the
changes. Yes, X says let's all send love
to the Michigan and Anashinabe lands on April 11th.
Statewide protests against the data centers that are stealing
all the water, A says. It's been so frustrating trying
to express my feelings to a place that feels satiating to
those asking and receiving it. I'm so sick of talking about how
I feel. Totally.
Let's stop talking about it and feel it and let the feelings and
the consciousness and the embodiment of feelings be the
transformation, A says. They tried to bury us.
They didn't know we were seeds. Yes.
OK. So that's the practice we're
going to work with. They tried to bury us.
They didn't know we were seeds. OK.
All right. Well, let's dance together
through this week. And we are connected across time
and space. Hope to see you next week.
Bye for now.