Our Infinite Energy

Hellllooo, September!

 

"Vivid Metamorphosis" via National Geographic

S E P T E M B E R  2 - 8

Last year, I confessed that September is my favorite month. It is the year's summit, when the numerology of the year and month match, and we feel its energy most forcefully. 2012 has been governed by the 5 vibration. Our year's focus has revolved around experiences in freedom, profound change, and breaking through old realities. Accordingly, September is a time of colaescence. We will review everything that we have experienced in the past 9 months, integrating those changes necessary to moving forward. We understand our new reality, where we're headed and who we are most strongly throughout the entirety of this month. 

As we ease into September this week, we fully understand the new reality unfolding before us. What's most exciting about this month is seeing the evidence of changes in our lives - the immaterial has become material, thanks to our doing. What we envisioned for ourselves a year ago (when we were merely creating a foundation for our current experiences) has begun to manifest. We'll notice a distinct shift in our reaction and perception to situations. Likewise, opportunities will arise that reflect our new path. On Thursday, Sept. 6, Venus connects with Leo in the same position of our July/August Mercury retrograde, raising the issues we examined during this time to be revised and repurposed. 

This is a time of great transformation - celebrate the potential, growth and purpose of this moment. Share what's changed most for you this year in the comments section.

love & light to you all

 

[the week ahead] Mercury Retrograde, Wk. 1

don't you love this antique map image?! Found it here.

J U L Y  15 - 21

Yesterday, Mercury went into retrograde, prompting us to take a much needed pause until August 8. We find ourselves at the apex of this powerful 5 year. The first half was spent identifying what needed to change. Now, and for the rest of the year, we embark on actualizing that change. So this Mercury Retrograde is particularly well-timed, as its energy encourages us NOT to take action, rather to exist in a place of reflection, revision and contemplation. Embrace the pause. Rest your spirit and, most importantly, turn off the mental - don't overthink or analyze or critique. Spend the next 3 weeks letting your heart connect with your passion and vividly dreaming, without editing, about your ultimate goals. 

The new moon arriving late Wednesday/early Thursday will help us see the options and choices unfolding before us. Leo's influence, in both our new moon and this retrograde, aids us in bringing new perspective to old situations. If we allow our mind to rest, it creates distance from our current circumstances, so that we're not looking at them myopically.  

For the next 3 weeks, consider not only how far you've come in understanding yourself since January, but consider the seeds that you planted waaay back in 2008, when this new 9 year cycle began. What were your goals then? What were your obstacles? How did you express yourself? The retrograde helps us acknowledge the past and integrate the lessons learned. Celebrate your journey.

love & light 

This Saturday - Card Reading Event w. Free People at Rockefeller Center!

I'm so pleased to share that I'll be doing a card reading event in collaboration with Free People this Saturday, July 14th from 12-9 at their Rockefeller Center location. If you purchase any of their zodiac-inspired merchandise, you can sign up for a complimentary 20-30 minute reading! With the Mercury Retrograde providing a course correction for the next 3 weeks, it's the perfect time to reflect on your past, present and future. A reading is not about predicting your future, rather, it is about addressing where you are in the present. By clarifying those obstacles, you allow all levels of your spirit to be healed and integrated, clearing a path to achieve the future you visualize. 

If you're in the area, stop by and say hello!

 

Hello, July!

vintage beach photo found here

July 8 - 14

Over here in NYC, we've been assaulted by a heat wave. With 90+ degrees days, the sun has been unrelenting. Your skin immediately becomes salty with sweat and the first thing you want to do when you get home is shower. Since July began, the weather's intensity is part and parcel to the intensity of our experience. This week will be particularly busy and it leads up to Saturday's Mercury Retrograde.  

Let's talk about July's numerology - the 3 energy. This month's happenings are crafted around creativity, self-expression and innovation. We'll seek experiences that make our heart skip a beat and feel more connected to our ultimate goals. We're more than halfway through our year of break-throughs but it doesn't always result in celebration. All of the challenges that we've successfully avoided for years, along with the coping mechanisms aiding our avoidance, are no longer at a safe distance. We are confronting difficult issues that we've surpressed, ignored or even believed to be behind us. Last week, I watched friends (and myself), literally break down in order to break through. Don't worry - once we face these challenges and develop ways to actually deal with them, as opposed to pretending/believe that they're not there (facing the reality vs. the illusion), our passion will have a more open outlet. We are eliminating restrictions, which inevitably leads to powerful changes in the way we see ourselves and behave. The intensity in our lives is building as we approach Saturday's Mercury Retrograde.  

This Mercury Retrograde (the second, out of three this year) has a firey energy, further connecting us to the flames that stoke our passions, our deepest callings in this lifetime. As always, the planet's reverse motion prompts reflection, revision and preparation. Once the planet turns direct on August 8th, we'll be so much further along in knowing what we want and how to get it. We will come out of it with a much stronger understanding of the changes that have taken place this year and how we can find balance in all that we hope to achieve. 

Until then, ride this week's wave of intensity and then enjoy the slowing halt that Saturday brings. 

love & light.

 

[the week ahead] A New Moon + Summer Solstice

Tea Plantation, Malaysia via National Geographic

June 17 - 23

Dear readers, I owe you an apology. For two weeks I’ve neglected you! I promise you that my time away from you has been fruitful. Way back when (okay, it was May 27^th), I mentioned that June is governed by the 2 energy. The lessons are about balance and bringing two opposite ideas into harmony. No surprise that my life has, lately, played out accordingly. I’ve been reminded (several times over) about the important lesson of making choices on behalf of my energy levels: what I can take off my plate to bring a little more balance to all of the work I’m currently focused on? Where am I wasting energy? The freelance world requires me to switch my brain from one subject to another - styling, homeopathy, writing and the typical array of other personal tasks, errands, dreaming, etc. For those of us that want to do it all, it becomes a matter of challenging yourself to take one weight off in order to nourish the other ventures. Thanks for your patience.  

And here we are - halfway through the year. For me, June is always overcast with themes of recognition and taking pause. We reflect on how far we’ve come. We have more clarity of the goal that we committed too back in January. It’s a time of deep, inner reflection and it’s important to make time for it. This Tuesday, the new moon helps us in the resolutions and new adventures department. The new energy further promotes what we’re already doing and helps us sink our heels in a bit deeper. It also aids us in disconnecting from our past in an extremely significant way. Our purpose and what’s changing for us is more in focus.

Following the new moon, a flood of energy comes our way on Wednesday with the entrance of Summer Solstice energy. The Sun and Moon unite and, as a result, bring all levels of our being (spiritual, physical, mental, emotional) together in a life-altering way. Now, I always hesitate to use such an impactful, dramatic  phrase like, “life-altering,” but given the numerological year we’re in, that’s what the 5 year is all about: change, adventure…and more change. This week, we’ll feel this shift most on our emotional plane. Don’t be surprised if you’re feeling a bit more sensitive and “on edge” than usual. Embrace where you’re going and from where you’ve come.   

love & light

[the week ahead] A More Complete Vision

May 27 - June 2

The final week of May brings many gifts, namely a fuller picture of what's ahead: our next, big step. Beginning Sunday, walls come down. We'll find ourselves planning, organizing, clearing, making lists and bringing a sense of structure to our separate ideas in preparation for this next phase. We continue to visualize what the future has in store for us, except our understanding of what's coming is more whole. It will be an exciting week as opporunities and experiences continue to unfold in our favor. Many of us are juggling several different pieces of a structure still incomplete. We're prompted to reflect on how we manage our industriousness versus our leisure and, also, how we manage several changes happening at once. I've been hearing a lot of, "when it rains, it pours" and yes, everything is changing simultaneously. As I've mentioned, we're undergoing a sea change on all lanes of our life, not just one avenue. Whether or not a material reaction will follow is less important than the fact that, mentally and emtionally, we're all ready to move forward.

As we transition into June on Friday, we'll find ourselves resonating even more strongly with this year's 5 vibrations -- change and freedom will govern our experiences, readying us to undergo dramatic changes with excitement and trust, rather than fear. There is nothing to fear. We're able to handle anything that comes our way. Trust in what you want, without rushing it. 

We'll also feel the arrival of the new month's 2 energy. June's journey is all about bringing our ideas and the material reality into balance. The 2 vibration is an experience of energy and idea coming together in harmony. The pictures we've been drawing in our minds will soon come to fruition. We will see choice in opposites, answers within dualities. The 2 energy is about nurturing all of our endeavors and understanding the way in which they coalesce. This is a time to exist in the present. Waiting feels like no fun, but in waiting we are more open to the lessons that come when in a state of patience. Patience brings harmony. Change follows harmony. 

Love & Light to you all. 

 

[the week ahead] Solar Eclipse + New Moon

"ring of fire" solar eclipse in China's skies, 2010 courtesy of natgeo.com

May 20 - 26

Today’s solar eclipse begins this week with a supportive hand pushing us toward change. The gentle, guiding energy it brings helps us reflect on the breadth of our journey and prepares us to walk through new doors. This event helps nudge us forward into the reality we’ve been picturing for ourselves and brace us for dramatic changes to come at the end of the month. The solar eclipse also rounds out another theme we’ve been experiencing for the past month: letting go of the past and moving, unencumbered, into the future we drafted for ourselves long ago.

I must sound like a broken record, but I can’t believe how fast this month has come and gone. A month guided by the 1 vibration always leaves me feeling a bit depleted of energy. We simultaneously straddle two worlds, with one foot planted in old ways and the other wanting to sprint on a new path. There’s a lot of insecurity that arises for us as a result. What’s the one area in your life bringing the least and most amount of security? What one area of your life keeps you tied to a former way of being? To what are you most looking forward to?  

This week we’ll feel our feet coming together to face the same direction. We’ve been patiently waiting for the pieces of our imagined future to lock in place and the last two weeks of this month will bring a stronger sense of security and stability. We’ll feel strongly connected to our instincts and our passions. Any hesitation or desire to move backwards will fall away. Today’s new moon and solar eclipse will surround us with energy that supports new experiences and new ways of thinking. Like a snake shedding its skin, prepare to wriggle out of your old ways: habits, behaviors, relationships, jobs, living environments. By the end of the week, we’ll find ourselves excited and prepared to “move in” to our new world.

love & light.   

 

[the week ahead] Super Moon + More On May's 1 Energy

 Saturday's Super Moon! via natgeo.com

May 6 - 12

I really dragged my feet through all of last week. Every task felt like an insurmountable inconvenience. And from what I hear, many of you felt the same way. The general feeling was slow-mindedness and a lack of motivation. Here in NYC, the overcast, gray days didn’t help our vital energy.  Several people remarked that it felt like another Mercury Retrograde. 

In fact, Mercury has been influencing our experience, not because it’s spinning backwards but because it’s connecting with other planets throughout May. Energetically last week's planetary positions in combination with the new month, did return us to the place of the March Mercury Retrograde and raised some of the issues we discovered in that time. We were forced to re-address these issues. We especially took away a feeling of stagnancy -- waiting as opposed to doing. Last week, I personally felt like I was walking through a fog with very dim lighting, not knowing what to reach for to ground my senses or help get my bearings. It’s no wonder this feeling resonated with so many people when we consider that last week was a major transition into May’s 1 energy.

Often we consider only the lighter energies of the 1 vibrations -- having boundless, optimistic energy connected to our excitement of embracing the new. We neglect to remember that a 1 vibration not only comes with these novel experiences centered around the theme of new beginnings, but also letting go. In order to move forwrad, we must break through and free from the old, before we can step into an entirely new reality. The image of Dorothy landing in Oz is an image I consistently rely on. We’ve gone from black and white to color; it is exciting, but also unexpected and slightly jarring. We want to take in the color of our new world but, like Dorothy experienced, it is unknown to us.  Excitement is accompanied by wonder and bewilderment. 

We begin this week with Saturday’s “Super” Moon, continuing to illuminate our new path and helping to dispel the fog. This week we’ll settle into our new surroundings with an increased optimism and a map in hand.  Much of last week’s confusion will lift and we’ll feel more clear about where we presently are, and what’s ahead.  The beauty and challenge of a 1 month is that we are simultaneously moving into a new house…and moving out of an old one. Last week’s confusion was a result of feeling straddled between two separate realities. A 1 energy requires us, at times, to resist the desire to take giant leaps, and rather, walk with small, thoughtful steps -- one foot in front of the other. This week has that experience of, before I do this, I have to do this and I’d rather being doing this, but I’m required to do this first.  For this reason, it can feel deeply frustrating, as it did last week. Staying present is an important antidote to our desire to race forward. When we are present, we are more spiritually and mentally flexible. We are more open to subtle messages, more connected to our instinct.   

love & light to you all.

[the week ahead] New Beginnings Arrive With May

April 29 - May 5

What’s the one thing you are changing most right now? 

What are the first three bullet points of your plan? 

Transitioning from a thinking place to a doing place will influence our week, along with the spirit of new beginnings.  

Last Friday’s new moon helped to usher in and solidify our new reality. It comes as no surprise that the new reality will involve following our heart’s deepest truth and mixing in a bit of adventure.  Two weeks ago I talked about seeing through the illusions and that this process of disobeying the perceived (or desired) mirage is integral for our spirit to let go of hindrances. We are focused on investing our effort, our energy toward a plan that is long lasting, rather than simply for the moment. 

On Tuesday we welcome May, a new month governed by the 1 vibrations. We enter this month with such a clear understanding of the map we hold and how we'll cross the terrain. The 1 energy brings out our natural leadership abilities. Paired with this 5 year's active energy, we'll find ourselves wanting to take charge, proudly carrying our new ideas, reveling in our individuality and fearlessly articulating what we want to achieve! There is no holding us back. Fast paced and with a clear trajectory, we are focused on translating the imagined into the material. The start of May propels us forward with focused momentum. 

A 1 month begins a new cycle. It carries the spirit of the originator, the leader, the creative spark that ignites an initial flame. The 1 vibrations help nurture our creative spirit and support a diverse range of ideas and initiatives. This is a month to connect with your creativity -- artistic, entreprenurial, individual.

[the week ahead] A Plan Forms

The theme this week is seeing through illusions. 

Anytime we conclude something it is shaped by our ability to see through the illusion. Like a desert wanderer, we are always tempted to believe that the salvation of water is real. It takes courage to acknowledge that the water is simply a mirage.  The conclusions we are experiencing, along with the promise and plan for new beginnings, indicate our self-honesty and the ever-important reality checks we give ourselves, whether regularly or when we need them most.  

Under April's 9 numerology, we continue to recognize the grand scale of what's ahead. It's not a sub-journey that's ahead. The choices we are making align with our deepest objective in this lifetime, our true Lifepath. Last week, we pierced through some of our long held delusions and boldly moved forward. Last week was filled with beautiful voyages into unchartered, and ultimately, rewarding territory. When my best friend heard that two of her steady clients were restructuring their business, she turned those potential endings into new beginnings by breathing life into "waiting list" ides and pursuing new projects. I finally ended a four year relationship, one in which I had been avoiding being honest with myself about the heavy burden I was carrying. I feel lighter than ever before.  Another girlfriend of mine recognized that what she needs right now, more than anything, is daily structure. After almost a year of freelancing, has said "yes!" to a new full-time job. We're deeply aligned right now with April's influence of endings and beginnings and it's clear that nothings is holding us back. We are primed to map out a plan. 

This Saturday, April 21st, our plan solidifies.  The new moon that occurs brings an optimism to our experiences which will help ground us in both our confidence and sense of direction. We'll start to dedicate more time to establishing a sense of structure and purpose.  The 5 vibrations of the 2012 year's numerology, continue to bring a sense of adventure and power to our experiences.  

We are absolutely, undeniably, couragelously and amazingly breaking free and breaking through.

What's on the other side of your wall?

Love & Light to you all...