Take a pause. Take a deep breath. Listen to your heartbeat for a moment. Be with the quiet... Ahhhh.

It feels good to be here, but many forces can keep us from this place. These forces like to say things like I must, I must. I should, I should. I need, I need. Beneath that is a feeling that how I am now, where I am now is not good enough.

Doesn’t it suck to never feel good enough?? I can relate…

But it’s important to realize that this mentality, however true it can feel, however loud this need to fix or change or fill the void is, it’s not really true and it’s not really us. It was something given to us, instilled in us at a deep level. A combination of genetics or epigenetics and oppressive childhood wounds.

Patriarchy and capitalism want us to feel inadequate. They want us to constantly strive, to constantly fill the void. It makes us good workers, good consumers, and good at disconnecting from our bodies and truth (which these systems rely on).

But I for one am done with this way of life. I hope you are too! Let’s find a “New World” where we don’t all have to feel this way. Where everything that needs to be done, gets done, and where we don’t have to betray ourselves to do it!

May we regain touch with our inner children. May we become the parents they needed. May we connect to friends, partners, and communities that can support us in this journey. May we be their support as well. May we commit to the path, however much courage it takes. And may we find love and joy along the way.

To me that is what this work is about. That is what the planets can help guide us towards. May we find acceptance, presence, and gratitude today, and may we continue to move forward in the big ways and the small! (And so it is.)