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Love your shadow to love yourself to love someone else💗

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Feeling productive on a Monday is always hard, but the effort required to motivate on the Monday following a holiday could cut glass. I should know—I planned to have this blog post done bright and early on the first Monday of the year, and yet, here it is hitting your feed on a Wednesday night instead.

Thankfully, according to astrology, I have an excuse.

Here’s why…

Channeled messages for the astrology of the month ahead—including Inauguration Day in the U.S.🇺🇸

I don’t know about you, but I love the last month of the calendar year. And not for holidays, snow, or parties. I love it because it feels like crunch time before finals. We’re all giving our best last push to make the grade before the year is over…

In my decade+ of channeling messages and reading tarot, I’ve found that one of the best ways to predict the future in your day-to-day life doesn’t involve cards, crystals, or even clairvoyance—

I’m a big fan of making even the most mundane parts of day-to-day life feel witchy. If there’s a story I can tell myself that transforms the mundane into magical, I will choose to create that narrative…

We’re training for a marathon, not a sprint. And boy, have we been well trained…

Buckle up, babes! November is one roller coaster you’re gonna want to be strapped in for. October gave us a slow build on the momentum, but that acceleration isn’t quite over.

“I need to unplug/take a social media cleanse/go dark,” these phrases have become commonplace in our modern vernacular. The pull of social media’s siren song has enticed us all—except maybe your off-the-grid former classmate who now owns a tin foil hat to stop the government from reading his thoughts. Kidding…sort of. 

My point is, that few of us are immune. Myself included…

A channeled message for the Collective from the energy at large:

Take a deep breath. That anxious feeling in your chest isn’t because something has gone wrong, but because something is about to go really right.

This feels like a Tower month but in the best of ways. For those who don’t speak Tarot, that means life may feel like it’s crumbling around you, but I get the feeling we’ll see the purpose in it all even as it’s happening. Stay the course. Keep your eye on the prize.

When I had a semi-popular vegan blog in the early 2010’s, I started a segment called “Dinner & a Movie” where I’d pair a movie, TV show, or other piece of visual entertainment with a recipe that felt on-theme. It only had a few installments before I closed the blog in favor of my own website, but it was still one of my favorites—combining two things that speak to the core of my being: movies + delicious vegan food.

This post is inspired by the intuitive messages I receive while sending the readers of this blog distance Reiki each month.
While the reading always represents the general collective, if you’d like to be a specific recipient of Reiki, follow my IG stories where I ask for any last-minute requests to be included just before sending out healing.

We may be starting back-to-school season, but the feeling in the air is that of finals time.

If there was ever a divine template for Carrie Bradshaw’s arc from sex columnist to single cat lady, the Norse goddess of love & fashion is it.

Likewise, other Friday deities like Venus, Aphrodite, and Ishtar LOVE a good aesthetic. Whether it’s a pearl necklace, a sea foam crown, or some well-placed war paint, there’s a reason we instinctively like to get dressed up on a Friday night.

So why not honor Friday the 13th by infusing your fashion with a little magic?

Let's get into the astrology of the month ahead...

September 1st: Uranus Retrograde begins - Uranus on a normal day is that weird, loose-cannon kid in class who says something unexpected to the teacher just to shake things up. This retrograde energy feels like a mix of intensifying and quieting that aspect in ourselves—the saying something part, not the weirdness. The weirdness will remain either way and likely will feel intensified.