Connect the Dots with Aria

This week’s post is sit-down with Reema Rachel, Wellness Tech Visionary and Founder of the HIRA Collective.

I love how Reema shares her story: from FaceTime-ing her grand-uncle and chatting with her grandmother about health and Yoga, through the moments of experiencing non-integrous “spiritual” practices, and eventually building the tech behind HIRA (which means diamond in Hindi).

Within our roots - be it family, past, experiences, ancestry, or culture - diamonds live.

We talked about some difficult stuff: cultural appropriation, feeling safe to be seen in community spaces, showing up as we think we “should” (and moving through it), authenticity and accountability within and with others.

Our conversation felt aligned with the current astrological themes. Today, the Full Moon illuminates Aquarius (innovation, community, technology), and Sun rests in Leo (self, authenticity, radiance from within).

What does that mean in English? To me, it opens up some space between a deep desire for community and connection, alongside a desire to rely on a strong and robust sense of Self. In my life, this space has had a history of paradox where I choose one, or the other, not both. Happily, that’s been changing!This, and more is up for evaluation and reconstruction for us all, and it is something Reema gives voice, leadership and experience to.

I truly hope you enjoy this episode!

HIRA a tech platform which offers a range of rigorously vetted therapists and healers, who have done the work of tending to roots and ancestries of the human collective. I’m glad it exists!

Note: This is not an advert for HIRA. I have not been compensated in any way. The views expressed her are personal.

Thank you to everyone who tuned into my live video!

Do you find yourself in the same patterns again and again, despite your good intentions and rational thinking?

I have. One of mine started with a frustrated grip of a disposable coffee cup, when I had 8 reusable cups sitting comfortably in my kitchen cabinet at home.

This Leo season, we are exploring different ways to reclaim lost parts of ourselves. In this video, I share about reclaiming what we bury in our inner or underworld.

Warning: This is a strange one, so stay with me here. It’s starts of with eco-guilt (repeatedly forgetting my reusable coffee cup) and the story of the Akkadian/ Sumerian Goddess Inanna’s descent into the underworld.

I learned that despite my best and purest intentions, the realities that I bury within me pour out in “small” and mundane ways, everyday.

I got to see inner pollution, outside of me; and eventually, the clean-up as well.

Even today, I love the morning coffee-walk to my local cafe. It is a small thing, but because it once hid big inner truths underneath, I appreciate my daily reminder:

“For what is inside of you is what is outside, and the one who fashions you on the outside is the one who shaped the inside of you"

— The Thunder: Perfect Mind

If you are this is Meggan Watterson’s (feminine theologist and author) one-minute take on Inanna and her descent through the gates of judgement.

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… are committed to basking in inner brilliance—loving life through loving themselves

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Today’s video kicks off the Sun-kissed Leo season.

I’ve been sitting with the feeling of authenticity, rather than what I think and how present. It reminded me of a practice that an energy healer prescribed to me many years ago—the practice of reintegrating previously discarded parts of the Self.

I’ve shared it towards the end of the video.

The first time I did this practice, I was continually guided by the healer to “feel” it.

“I AM feeling!!!!” I replied firmly!

She had to guide me down from my observer mind into my body.

Turns out, she was right. In my hesitation and desire to avoid facing myself, I thought about the feelings and experienced avoidance, which I was feeling.

It’s a subtle shift in the body.

When you actually permit yourself to feel what you’ve been avoiding.

The healer knew it. I knew it too.

The practice is really simple; I think that’s what makes it profound.

Accepting abandoned parts of ourselves is rough, and yet, this particular Leo season seems to offer support to those of us who desire experiencing our lives more authentically, more fully and more lovingly.

If you did the practice and want to share how you felt…

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A 4-week program is for women who...

… know that there is more to them than the roles they play in life,

… sense the incredible power and wisdom in their bodies, that they were never taught to listen to,

… are reclaiming peace, health, pleasure and joy in their relationships—with self, others and their world,

… are committed to basking in inner brilliance—loving life through loving themselves

Thank you to everyone who tuned into my live video!

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We are always changing — whether we want to or not.

There are ways to meet changes with sweetness, gentleness and presence.

In this final Cancer Season video, I explore the felt difference between routine and Ceremony, and the three main elements that make the latter a place where we can meet ourselves as we are.

This week, we had the outer planet Uranus newly entering the air sign of Gemini, as well as the Full Moon in Capricorn. If Ceremony feels like medicine for you, then this is a gorgeous week to support and steady yourself, so that when the unexpected comes knocking, you have inner grace and capacity to meet it.

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When I first sat in Ceremony, I loved the part where the Elements and Directions were called in. Back then, in my newness, I felt like this act was profound but only related to it superficially; now there is a touch more depth and (hopefully) maturity.

This week’s video explores the Intelligence of Ceremony through relationship with the elements.

This intelligence is relational. It occurs from experiencing our interactions with the 4 elements, individually and as part of a living cycle of progression.

The seasons and Western astrology follow the same elemental progression: Fire > Earth > Air > Water.

The zodiac archetype of Cancer season is the the first (and cardinal) Water sign in the wheel. In terms of human consciousness, it initiates us into the raw experience of feeling what is present.

In this video, I explore the medicine of relating to the water element during peak Summer; how it brings clarity, ease, and richness in our physical bodies of course, and also in our emotional, psychological and spiritual bodies; and how to hold ceremony to honour the Waters within and around us.

Working towards self-love and authenticity is certainly something that starts as a solo journey, but we need others to see and experience different parts of ourselves. Sitting in Ceremonies helped me with this in truly surprising and unexpected ways.

Ceremonies are sacred containers, and what is sacred is different for each of us.

Ceremonies are activated by powerful human dynamics—intention, will, action, receptivity, and so they work on us quietly and profoundly in unsuspecting ways.

In today’s video, I share how sitting in Ceremonies helped me feel more of who I was, in relationship with others.

As well, since today is the New Moon in Cancer, we are invited to come into real presence with whatever we are feeling right now.

Let yourself sip on this invitation.

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Happy Summer Solstice & the start of Cancer season.

The waters of Cancer relate to our emotional bodies, our need for nourishment, rest, comfort and nesting. This Solstice that feeling has been as strong as my desire to make plans, do things, organize life differently.

All my opposite natures have come out to play!

In today’s video I share both personal and astrological energies around this, along with the theme for this season—Ceremony.

The more restless, complex and intense the world gets, the more I am finding stability in the infrastructure and connective nest of daily Ceremonies.

Here is where we orient ourselves to what is true and real.

It is how we call all parts of ourselves home, and drawn in to rest and nest.

It is when we can accept what is in front of and within us with a mountain of support and guidance.

Join me as we explore the liminal space of Ceremony in our lives over the weeks of Cancer season.

I hope you will join me on our exploration through Cancer Season.

Reclaim and reconnect with Connect the Dots.

Communication is relational, sensory, and subtle.

Today’s video explores how the complexity of every byte of information we take in with our sense organs as we navigate our day, and how it shapes our expression—verbal and non-verbal. In a way, how we communicate is the output of what we’ve taken in!

* How do our environments imprint on our nervous system—and how to tell what’s truly ours vs. what we’ve absorbed and not yet processed

* Do we have a process of mental digestion—how our thoughts and emotions are metabolized through our system, and ultimately expressed

* What practices to help you with clarity and being present with what is, during times of mental overwhelm

Our bodies know how to release what they no longer need through the digestion and elimination processes, which happen automatically without mental effort from us.

Our minds, however require the same processes to compost old thoughts & beliefs, distill truths and direction, and eliminate mentalities that are wasteful. This is how we can make room for new thoughts and visions that give and support life.

Aligning to Spring Winds of Gemini

With the Full Moon in Sagittarius (Gemini’s Opposite)

* Gemini season stirs curiosity, duality, and the interplay of oppositional, yet complementary forces which animate life.

* The Gemini-Sagittarius axis reminds us that communication is not just about speaking—it’s about listening, taking in, feeling into what’s reacting within us.

* Mental integration invites balancing curiosity with clarity, and chatter with wisdom.

This Week’s Invitation:Gemini—sign of the twins—invites us to become aware of how we perceive the world.

The way we perceive our surroundings shapes our mind and, ultimately, how we communicate—and in this second week of this air sign, we’re reminded of how the flood of information (sensory, emotional, relational) impacts how we think, speak, and connect.

If your mind has felt scattered or overwhelmed by too much input, this video is for you. Remember: you’re not essentially ‘off track’—you’re being shown where your filters and perceptions need some loving attention.

In this video, we explore:

* 🌬 How your sense organs feed your mind’s perceptions—and why that matters for authentic communication.

* 🌱 The duality of your inner world: the divine and the mortal twin within.

* 🌀 The flood of information (news, opinions, conversations) and how it can cloud your perception filter.

* 🪞 The magic of stillness: practices to distill and process the noise so you can hear your original thoughts.

Just like you have to clear your cache or cookies on your browser to make it run faster, our minds need similar clearing, so that our essential nature can speak through.

✨ How to Align to the Winds of Gemini

* Carve out time for stillness and reflection, so you can review what you’ve unconsciously absorbed through your day. This way you can let things go more quickly and tune into what’s truly aligned for you.

* Attend to what you’re perceiving, and how you communicate—both with people, and even with AI language models (if that’s part of your everyday)—keeping in mind how the ‘mirror effect’ works.

The energetic invitation of Gemini—a mental and air sign—is to become aware of the quality of our thoughts—where our thoughts are sourced from, how they scatter or loop, how that feels, and how they shape our choices.

I’m noticing a certain windy quality on my thoughts—uncharacteristically all over the place, buzzing loudly and busily, but largely ungrounded. If you’re feeling restless or lost in thoughts, with looping repetitive thoughts, then this video is for you!

* First, please know that mind restlessness is a characteristic of the Gemini season, and you are not ‘in the wrong’ necessarily for feeling that way.

* Gemini season reveals our relationship to our thoughts. So, if you’re experiencing overwhelm, stuck repetitive (almost addictive) thoughts, listless or distracted in the mind, this video has some practical tips for you.

* A little reminder that tending to your mental body is as important as tending to your physical one. I’ve also included an alignment technique from an old Ayurvedic teaching that I’ve been working with recently.

This Gemini season offers a chance to meet our minds with curiosity and compassion, in a way brings coherence to the whirlwind we may be experiencing.

✨ Aligning to The Spring Winds of Gemini

* New Moon, Sun, and Mercury in Gemini: These energies amplify mental activity curiosity, problem-solving, flexibility, and the need to sort what’s truly aligned. While this can be very inspiring and creative, it can easily overwhelm our nerves and emotions.

* Saturn in Aries: This is a fresh 27-year Saturn cycle. One of the invitation is to check-in and see if our thoughts are rooted in a healthy, sovereignty, robust sense of self and healthy personal power.

Whatever you are experiencing this season, these are gateways for aligning mind, body, and soul, if we choose it!