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The Vertical Energy This Week…

The intense energy continues! We’re coming off the angry Mars-Pluto Opposition on April 26th, which was followed by a powerful supermoon new moon in Taurus yesterday, April 27th. BIG TIMES!

Pluto continues to show us where the cracks are and is asking us all to get clear on our values and what we truly want our world to look like. Pluto doesn’t always destroy in the physical sense, but it shakes off any illusions or lies. It’s up to us to bring in the radical, creative new energy that architect the more sustainable and responsible future we wish to see.

The power of this new moon will last for about two more weeks. It’s an extremely useful time for taking steps towards what you seek. I’ve been emphasizing action a lot this spring for a reason, the energies are asking us to draw the line in the sand for ourselves and take steps towards taking our future.

According to Kabbalah, we are about two weeks into the very powerful cycle that will last for another five weeks. As I spoke about last week, this time will be heightened in two ways:

* We’re being asked to confront our fears and limiting beliefs more directly than ever in order to heal and overcome them. This isn’t a bad thing, this can be an opportunity, it’s on an accelerated timeline. This is very Plutonian.

* We’re being challenged to hold faith over fear more strongly than ever in order to transcend these Plutonian energies. This a huge opportunity for us to grow our faith, strengthen our trust muscles if you will. If we can do this, we can harness all this intense energy for our own good and the good of the world. This is truly about having the conviction about your own life that’s so strong you can bring things to fruition no matter what’s going on around you. We all have this power available to us - can you try to harness it???

This good new is that all planets are still direct until May 4th, when Pluto turns retrograde. Now’s the time to empower yourself!

Time for some context…

The Horizontal Integration This Week…

On a grand scale, our world is shakey and unstable because Pluto is hitting all the vulnerable parts and asking us to confront what we may have willfully ignored. We have a lot of work to do as a collective if we’re to move us all into a new era that’s more sustainable and balanced.

On a personal level, we’re being asked to shake off the ways we’ve been masking ourselves to please others, get more vulnerable with our feelings, and get more honest about our values. How do we truly want to live? Can we reconnect our minds and bodies to live with more joy and stop deriving joy from hatred and divisiveness? Can we follow what we love in life and encourage others to do the same without judgement? These aren’t easy lessons, but they’re necessary and very helpful to ponder.

The key to these tests is understanding the energy behind them and how they’re encouraging us to command our own channel and vibration.

Your Vibe This Week…

What is a “vibration”? What does the term “frequency” even mean? From my point of view, your vibe is the energy you transmit into the world through your thoughts, words, and actions.

If you’ve been a little performative with your vibe, maybe thinking, talking, and acting in a way that’s in the best interest of others and not yourself, this is a time you may find you’re no longer able to do so.

While we all need to work in communities and adjust our vibes to collaborate, you should never have to truly fake it just to fit in. In this new era we’re being asked to shake off these acquired parts of our personalities and unleash our vibes, our truest selves.

Trust me, I’ve had several friends recently learn my deep love of astrology in very recent days, and they kind of love it. It’s part of my vibe, but I’ve definitely kept it pretty toned down until now.

Managing your vibe takes practice and it’s the key to steadiness and growth as we move into this new era and things around us feel a little prickly and hard. Maintaining a high vibe - confidence and clarity around who you are and living with integrity - will allow us to transcend the small, egoic vibes we see all around us. This is how we be a light for those looking for it.

Managing Your Vibe This Week….

* Ground Your Vibe: Each morning determine a best practice for yourself that grounds you into the day with certainty beyond doubt, love over hate, and faith over fear. You’ll always be asked to believe in something you can’t see, this is faith, but when you choose the highest vibration thoughts you can they’ll put the filter on your day, which will make all the difference.

* Actively Nurture Your Vibe: To maintain a vibe and create change in your life you must be active. Give yourself a sacred pause before you make choices during your day so you choose you think, speak, and act in a positive and productive manner every single time.

* See this time for what it is: We know these years are a recalibration period and it requires a lot of rolling along with the change energy. We’ve all experienced change on an individual level and know that this time too shall pass. We can handle this time when we zoom out and embrace the lessons we’re being served. They’re here for our growth and evolution so don’t resist them. This helps us maintain our vibe of confidence and clarity. The less affected we are by the moment to moment, the easier time we’ll have creating real change for the better.

* Let it Go: It’s easy to hold on to every bad moment and stinging exchange, but that lowers your vibe and it can be irreversible. When our vibe gets too bogged down it’s easier to give up. Don’t. Let the little things go and hold onto the certainty over doubt that you can always shape the life you want. We all have the same amount of power available to us. The Universe wants to dance and play with us, but we have to engage it. This is what your vibe does - gets co-creation moving in the direction you want it to go. Take care of your vibe so you can do this!

We’re living in big times, there’s no doubt about it.

The new world we’re shaping will be different than the previous centuries we’ve known, and that’s okay. If we do our part it will lead us to a better, more sustainable future. Chaos precedes progress, which is pattern that’s played out in history many times before. The progress will come for each of us, and our world, however. In that I am confident.

Trust yourself and be well.

I’m holding the light for you.

Let’s have a good week!

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Casey Barber is one of those magical people who exists in many orbits and seems to know everything about almost any topic I’m just about to dive into. I always think of her as a living, breathing encyclopedia. Plus, as a trained journalist, she’s excellent at writing about everything she knows which makes her Substack one of my absolute favorites. There’s literally no topic she doesn’t cover and it’s always, as advertised, a good time. (I mean, where else will you find ukulele renditions of your favorite Taylor Swift songs, an ode to merino wool, meal planning ideas, and a review of the TWA Hotel at JFK?!)

On top of all that, she’s a Human Design expert and has just started bringing her passion and knowledge to the masses. Don’t pass up a reading with her if your HD-curious! She’s the perfect person to have on your side.

In a recent catch-up we both agreed we’re in another one of our rolling stone eras. Given change is often our default mode, we figured it was a good time to huddle to discuss this pronounced period, how we’re handling it, and provide some solid tips for anyone interested.

Yes, I coach people through this all the time, but it doesn’t mean I get a hall pass from the rollercoaster. As Casey and I acknowledge, we’re built for change. Having navigated (more than?) our fair share, we’re prepared to help people experiencing these choppy waters for the first time.

I mean, we met in 2011(!) (thankfully Casey look this up for us!) at King Arthur Flour baking camp in Vermont, which was way before I had a second child and was still in the early stages of my food writing career. The fact that we’ve moved from butter crusts and yeasted breads to spirituality, cat tarot, and human design goes to show you just how much ground we’ve covered in 14 years.

Thankfully, experiencing so much change has made us a little less fearful and somewhat wiser. We both find ourselves a little more willing to hold on loosely as life continues to move forward and trust in the outcome.

In our conversation we discuss how we’ve learned to find the lessons in shifts and pivots, and as Casey writes so eloquently, how to handle life “when the ground feels like it’s falling out from under your feet like when you hit the wrong note on the bone organ in Goonies.”

Yes, we love our pop culture references and I appreciate her embracing my assertions that A Wrinkle in Time is a factual book, and that Practical Magic is, in fact, a documentary. (I even reference the newsletter I wrote about it: Practical Magic is Always Available to You!)

So listen and watch, and let us know in the comments how much of this resonates with you. We’d love to hear about!

About Casey! Casey Barber is a storyteller, artist, and creative strategist who believes fun is something to be taken seriously. Through her weekly newsletter, A Good Time with Casey Barber and her 1:1 creative sessions, she loves helping everyone find space for inspiration and enjoyable experimentation. Curious about your Human Design? Sign up for Casey's 30-minute Human Design Download session!

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This is your Monday morning blend of spiritual and energetic insights, coupled with practical guidance, to help you capably handle whatever comes your way this week.

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This was a BIG leap for me. I think it might make it easier to find me if you don’t already follow my substack: FOLLOW HERE

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Join me this Wednesday, April 23, at 9:30 am Eastern!

I’ll be having a LIVE conversation with my friend Casey Barber !

We'll be talking about how both of us are dealing with so much uncertainty and big change energy in the atmosphere these days, and how we've gotten better at going with the flow over the years. How very Gen X of us!

I promise, it won't be a downer — I stand by the title of Casey’s newsletter!

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And if you can't make it live, don't worry! I'll send out the replay once we're done chatting.

The Vertical Energy This Week…

This week is intense! I’m not going to go day by day because there are so many angles and planets at play. The big theme is that it’s all leading to the Mars-Pluto opposition on Saturday, April 26th. Mars is the builder and Pluto is the destroyer and it’s always tense when they stand off! Just be aware, don’t be scared, and keep it all in context.

The planets are right on cue with burning down what’s no longer working and showing us where the cracks are so we can architect something more responsible and sustainable for our future.

The new moon in Taurus ushers in new opportunities and a breath of fresh air the day after on Sunday, April 27th.

This tracks with the typical patterns of the planets and life in general. The planets move is forward by bringing in this upheaval and instability that force us to step back, take stock, and rearrange.

As we’ve discussed, the veil of complacency has been lifted and we’re all be inspired to take action with all that’s going on.

The Horizontal Integration This Week…

While it’s easy to point at the world stage and focus on the egos and shadows, this time is calling for us to go inward and do the work, too.

Intense big energies ramp up our own energy and we’re be given a lot of opportunities to honestly assess the stories that have been holding us back. We’re being asked to examine the roles our own egos play in keeping us safe and the naive fogs we’ve been living in that have kept reality at bay.

* Now that this fog is burning off, where does this leave you?

* As we see conflicts rise and energies ignite wars of words and values, can you lead yourself with integrity through this storm?

* Will you allow yourself an ego-death no matter how much you want to hold onto what’s kept you safe all these years?

The good news is that when we ramp up our spiritual work that Universe can work even more deeply with us. The co-creation intensifies, we begin to see real and big breakthroughs as well double-down on our own faith and action.

This makes this week a really important time to do this spiritual work. There’s no better time to get real about what’s on your heart and take action towards it.

What to Do This Week: Talk to Yourself Wisely

* Focus on abundance language, not scarcity

* Connect with the Universe and maintain your connection

* Speak your values and create connection in community

* Use your words to speak the future you want to see into existence from love, not ego

Trust yourself and be well.

Let’s have a good week!

“Be mindful of your self-talk. It’s a conversation with the Universe.”

- David James Lees

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Storms happen, but you never have to be stuck in the messy aftermath. Your life can be meaningful and fulfilling; you’re meant to live happily and with ease. It’s my mission to empower you with this truth.

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This is your Monday morning blend of spiritual and energetic insights, coupled with practical guidance, to help you capably handle whatever comes your way this week.

I’m on Apple Podcasts!

This was a BIG leap for me. I think it might make it easier to find me if you don’t already follow my substack: FOLLOW HERE

Workshop at Kerri Rosenthal on April 23rd!!!

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Hi All! Last week’s podcast was a little long, mostly because we were at the intersection of SO many big energies and the world stage was reflecting that. Today we’ll get back to a more manageable timeframe.

We’re not even halfway through a year of recalibration so don’t sit back just yet. Hopefully the information I’m serving up will help you handle what’s coming next.

The best advice I can give at this moment is to stay sharp, stay nimble, and keep your hands on the steering wheel even when you encounter a detour.

Vertical Energy Information for the Week…

ALL PLANETS DIRECT as of April 12th!! WHAT?! This is exciting!

Yes, Mercury, Venus, and Mars are still getting up to full speed, but at least they are out of their retrogrades. This full direct period will last for about the next three weeks. (Pluto goes retrograde on May 4th.)

This is a really good window to make hay while the sun shines, so to speak. It won’t be perfect, of course, but at least we’ll have a break from the walking-through-mud feeling.

Pluto in Aquarius continues. A lot of people are shaking their heads at all the recent developments, and this is really Pluto showing us how important it is to stand up and actively work for the future we seek. It won’t be handed to us. The Neptune move into Aries (the planet that asks for clear action) is doubling down on this energy, so don’t be reticent to make your moves.

April 12th was the full moon on the Libra-Aries axis and formed a grand cross to the upcoming Mars-Pluto opposition on April 26th. Even though this moon has passed, look for themes of simmering situations reaching a boiling point. Conclusions will be drawn, endings will happen. I’ll talk more about the upcoming opposition next Monday, it will be a pronounced time period.

I’ve been listening to some Kabbalah podcasts and one of them said that 40 days prior to this full moon our soul was undergoing a cleansing to release small, egoic energies, in order for a new soul to come in on the April 12th full moon. This tracks with the themes of relationships and releasing. It may just mean you’ve been releasing an outdated version of yourself so a new one can enter. I love finding these through lines between all the different energies, because they’re mostly all saying the same thing but in different languages.

April 20th will be one of those days when a lot happens. The sun enters Taurus and there are several other alignments that day. Taurus season is all about the finance, property, business, and valuables. There will be some great changes that come after the new moon in Taurus at the very end of the month and beyond, and I’ll talk more about that in the future. This applies to anyone with Taurus factors in their charts.

Uranus in Taurus continues to affect share markets (think lightening bolts and sudden surprises). Uranus shifts to Gemini in July.

Practical Application of these Energies in the Horizontal…

Here’s the theme of this week: Meet change with innovation, and hold a certainty beyond logic that you can continue to shape your own destiny.

Change is a response to pain and right now all the planets are layering on top of each other with the same message: stay sharp, be flexible, and innovate wherever we need to in our lives.

However, it’s very important to remember that we are whole just as we are. No person, economy, narrative, or physical location can take that away from us.

We need to lean deep into our faith, our own growth edge, and not be paralyzed. As we head into the unknown we already possess everything we need to shape our own destinies. When we do this for ourselves the whole collective will benefit.

But what does this mean?

I’ve heard some people say that our soul’s are trying to take back over from our minds.

More practically, I think we’re being ask to return to using our hearts as a compass and not rely solely on our brains. Reestablishing our mind-heart connection is essential as we move forward.

The big energies are stripping away our structures and comforts, and the very few are trying to control the masses. When things feel out of control the best thing to do is turn inward and honestly ask how you feel, what have you been ignoring, what truth you want to acknowledge.

We’re being challenged to strip back our own layers, connect with community, soften our sharp angles, and grow. This is how we’re going to architect a future with greater balance and more equanimity.

The call from Aries is asking us to act. It’s time to embody our visions and move toward them with clarity, but to do this you need to have clarity about what you’re seeking.

I find that when people begin to have clarity an inner joy starts to form. This enables them to embody their path more easily as they journey forward. It’s a dance with the unseen, this is co-creation.

This is why momentum right now is so important. If we stagnate, we’ll get caught in the mire and life will be forced upon us. Don’t get stuck! Create momentum and keep moving forward!

This Week: Be the Light

It can be so hard to face personal fears and act lovingly towards everyone when there’s a lot of upheaval, but this is the challenge of being the light I talked about last week.

This really is the ultimate work for right now.

How to work with the big energies this week:

* Maintain connection with the unseen and ask for guidance

* Create momentum towards what you seek in your life with your actions & words. Do so with complete certainty

* Do the spiritual work of tuning into your heart, getting very honest with yourself, and keep a healthy degree of faith in the larger process

* Cultivate inner joy and allow life to flow from that place

I know this time is bananas, but we can handle it so long as we do the work.

Be the light and the entire collective will benefit.

I’m holding the light for you as you navigate this time.

Trust yourself and be well.

Let’s have a good week!

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Storms happen, but you never have to be stuck in the messy aftermath. Your life can be meaningful and fulfilling; you’re meant to live happily and with ease. It’s my mission to empower you with this truth.

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Hi All, Thanks for your nice notes and comments about this little podcast. It’s been so fun to work on and I’m glad you like it!

As I pointed out last week, I’m all about giving you practical strategies for optimizing your life in the real world, and setting them within a large spiritual framework.

In other words, I’m here to bring you spiritual and mystical insight coupled with grounded service. I want everyone to have a healthy degree of faith and knowledge about the vertical (spiritual), use their discernment every day, and then practically apply your knowledge every day in the real world (horizontal).

Creating momentum in your life, collecting the data, and using it to inform your next steps is always the best way to shape your next steps. MOMENTUM is how we get out of dead ends, counteract intertia, and handle the plot twists (i.e. those times when your life view really blows up and shifts pretty quickly). And yes, you can create momentum no matter the state of the world. In fact, it’s more important now than ever before. More on that to come!

When we do this the unseen is right there waiting to support us and IT DOES! The change you seek is through you. This is how I work with my clients and what I hope I’m effectively conveying to you here.

What I’d like you to take away from these few minutes each Monday morning is that we all have the ability to empower ourselves. There’s always a bigger picture at play and I can read it pretty well. (This is very helpful for people when they’re just being introduced to these concepts!)

I’m bringing this all to you so you can get your life on a positive and productive path by acting and moving with clarity. It’s not hard, but it does require your active engagement. This work never ends, it’s an ongoing cycle sent to help us evolve and live lives we love.

It’s all there for you and I always love helping people do this work. The reward is seeing them get on the path that excites them, cultivate inner joy, and learn to more deeply trust the process.

Vertical Energy Information This Week…

Retrogrades draw to a close! That’s right, Mercury turns direct April 7th (today!) and Venus turns direct April 12th. There is always a little shadow period when they turn direct, which means there still might be some glitches in your life, but don’t sweat it too much. They’ll return to full power by the last week of April. These planets retrograde fairly regularly so we are mostly used to these times. Focus on the “re” words and let everything get up to speed again before you go full bore into new projects.

Full Moon in Libra on April 12th! This is just a regular full moon, not an eclipse full moon. We’re still feeling the heavy chaotic eclipse energy. This is in Libra which is all about balance and relationships and all Libran themes. It will hit everyone a little differently depending on your chart. For this full moon, just take a step back from anything having to do with cultivating your image or brand identity (this is Aries energy), and relationships (Libran energy). We always want to give full moons a little space to see what might come in. Full moons often bring closures, but that’s not always a bad thing.

As a reminder, we now have Neptune in Aries, which has been a BIG shift this week. This is STILL one of the most powerful periods of the year to plant seeds and take new initiatives. It’s going to continue to take hold through October. Keep focusing on your bigger dreams and making them real. Saturn will layer into Aries in May, which will help give shape and tasks to these dreams.

2025 is the year we’re being called to act. (It’s no coincidence I’m calling my program MOMENTUM, because we ALL need to be taking more action this year!!!) All the big energies are pushing us to make the rubber meet the road in our own lives. It’s easy to do this when you’re dialed in to who you are, what you want, and how you want to live.

I know there is a lot of pain right now, I feel it too. We are still in the early part of this birthing process of a new era. This new Aquarian era is not going to be handed to us, we have to shape it and right now we’re being handed lots of valuable lessons from the shadow side, the Pluto side, we need to learn from them and we ARE- so keep going because we will get there when we do the work.

The Veil of Complacency continues to lift. Where have leaders in our life been complacent to the point they’re now complicit with detrimental actions? Where have you been complacent and now find yourself wanting for change? These are the big energies of this year.

There’s a lot of talk about a big Earth shift coming in February 2027 via the Human Design world. I find it interesting but it’s not a topic I dive into deeply. I think in general we’ll be moving from our solar plexus chakras into our heart chakras at that time and I hope a more loving collective will take root.

As a reminder, we still have Saturn shifting into Aries in May, Jupiter shifting into Cancer in June, and Uranus shifting into Gemini in July. Stay tuned this podcast for the week-to-week!

Practical Application of these Energies in the Horizontal…

Heady concepts aren’t all that helpful if they don’t have a practical application to your life right now!

All the big energies are calling for action so I want to talk a little more about this today. I want to share how there are always forces and counterforces in our world and what it means when we’re being asked to “be the light.” Especially during times like these.

My teacher Michael has always told me there’s a dark energy that will dance with our shadow and ego and do everything it can to hold us back in life. In other words, while we’re being invited to evolve and move more towards love by all these big Earth shifts right now, the dark will pull at us to hold us back from this by infusing us with doubts and insecurities, terrible situations, and more.

The dark is not fun! We’re seeing a lot of dark right now in our lives and these big energies are stirring up a lot for people. The forced shedding, the bursting of the beautiful lies, it’s been a lot to handle.

How do we create momentum in this wild world? Especially given what’s going on with the economy and the protests??Momentum is not magical thing, it’s moving forwards towards what you seek using tools you have or can access. You can still connect with other people, you can still get organized, you can still create businesses or income streams. You can still cultivate inner joy and gratitude. Life is still intended to be lived no matter politics or any man made situation.

Ask yourself: How can I serve others through my joy? How do I want to live? It’s still up to you. No person or place can make you stuck in your story.

The light shines out the dark every time, so the antidote to the dark is being the light.

But what does that mean??? How do we apply this esoteric advice to our lives???

It means filling our hearts with love and inner joy and making every attempt we can to overcome difficult situations while maintaining faith that we’re always supported by a loving higher power.

This all sounds easy and makes a lot of sense when I write it, but it’s a lot harder to do when you’re in the thick of it. (This is one of the main reasons why I’ve started this podcast - to help everyone with this!) The dark knows how to hold us back. When we give up on a situation or succumb to the dark side of our thoughts we can’t be the light, and we’ll stay where we are, no longer having faith and being highly skeptical of the entire concept.

Yes, the unseen sends us situations to aid in our evolution and they’re not always fun, but the dark actively tries to hold us back from our evolution, which can make our challenges even harder to surmount.

So, to be the light, especially at a time where there’s a lot of darkness in our world, I invite you to harness your inner joy, the force inside you, and create momentum in your life so you actively move forward towards what you seek.

When you hold onto this faith, always choosing love over fear and taking steps in a positive direction, despite evidence around you to the contrary, you ARE the light.

How Your Actions Affect the World…

When you’re the light, the unseen will see this and swoop in with support and bring you more of what you seek, encouraging you to continue, and eventually the dark will no longer have a grip on you that it once did. It never disappears entirely, but you’ll know how capably you can handle it.

This is what will change our world, when we all choose to power ourselves with love over fear and take action towards what we seek.

It will shine out the darkness, no longer allowing it to have a grip on our life and our world so tightly.

So, with all the planetary movements and big energy shifts we’re going to a lot of dark (Pluto-types) rising up and to actively keep us down. This is when in every situation you must actively choose to power yourself with love over fear.

How to Handle the Energy Right Now:

* Ground yourself in inner stillness and remind yourself to have faith over fear. What you power is what powers you. Then ask for support or guidance from a higher power and turn it over to them.

* Actively engage with creating momentum in your life towards what you seek. Reach out to community, make the call, do the research. Whatever it is that will move you forward.

* Remember the concept of service through joy. Focus on cultivating inner joy from your true essence and serving the world through that in whatever way you can. When you serve through joy the energy passes through you and infuses into the larger collective. The more joy the better.

I know how the world looks right now, I’m here too. This week I’m choosing to power myself with love and faith and the knowledge we can handle this time and see it for what it is. A chance to evolve and architect a more responsible and sustainable future.

Trust yourself and be well.

I’m holding the light for you.

Let’s have a good week!

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What You Need to Know This Week:

Important to note: I always say “you’re never stuck in your story,” because it’s true. But people don’t want to change if their story is decent or good. But then times come along and really shake things up and your story is changed for you. This can be unsettling, but I can tell you it’s happening for a reason. The next year or so is going to change everyone’s story and this is why it’s important to listen to the big energies at play and learn to ride the wave.

Changing stories doesn’t have to be scary, but it requires trust and faith in a higher power. Spirituality is a greater part of the path forward, and that can be whatever you make it. Don’t live in the vertical world all the time, you need a pragmatic approach to life. When you work with the energies at play it will all be much easier and more enjoyable, because then you are really shape the next steps you envision.

Solar Eclipse in Aires on 3/29: This is heralding a bold fresh start in Aries, the fire sign. It’s like being forced forward to a new beginning, which is bold and exciting. This is a time to take hold of whatever is offered to you and move forward. Pay attention what powers you and stay in faith, joy, and create momentum in your life. Aries is the first sign of the Zodiac, so this is a fresh start to the new year. Plant as many seeds as you can for the next two weeks and nourish them all year long. This time invites bold action, willingness to take steps forward, honesty and forthrightness. Take whatever has been making you angry and alchemize it into an invitation to start anew.

Neptune shift into Aries on 3/30: Neptune is usually associate with intuition, spirituality, imagination, and illusion and it’s been in passive watery Pisces, which is similar. NOW it’s shifted into Aries, a fire sign associated with action, mastery, and motion. Aries fire comes in to burn off the fog of Pisces. Clarity, expansion and growth are our friends. This is when we start walking our talk. It’s time to step up and meet ourselves and be our own heroes. It’s a time to be decisive and move forward and create momentum. (Neptune will briefly shift back to Pisces Oct 2025 - Mid 2026.)

Pluto in Aquarius for the long haul: As we’ve spoken about before, this is a new era focused on transparency, a better balance of masculine & feminine, getting out of victim consciousness and shaping the lives we envision. The new astrological shifts layers into this ramping up the potency of this new era.

The Veil of Complacency has been lifted: According to Yeshua via The Freedom Transmissions, this year the Veil of Complacency has been lifted. There’s no more comforting ourselves with beautiful lies and illusions. We have to see the facts and emotions for what they are, get real about what’s on our hearts, and start working towards how we want to live based on facts, not fiction. None of us can afford to be complacent, it’s time for us to stand up for our lives and our beliefs.

Note: All of these transits & spiritual themes have THE SAME MESSAGE:

- It’s time for ACTION on our values, moving forward towards how we want to live, and embracing radical new, creative energy.

Moving Away From → No more hanging out in pure potentiality. No more complacency. No more dreaming and waiting for the right time. No more victim consciousness.

Moving To → In this new era we must make our potential real. Become our own heroes, work on self-mastery, make real our dreams. It’s time to for action, balance, speaking our minds, moving forward to a world with more equanimity.

Think of this all as being presented a fresh pile of sand. It’s up to us to build the castle with our own two hands.

It’s important to understand this because it clearly points to the direction in which we’re being pointed. In May, Saturn will shift into Aries and layer in another level of this lesson. (We’ll get to that in May!)

Our future is more about individual work that benefits the collective. It’s time for a more balanced approach to life that includes both the horizontal (real world) and the vertical (spiritual world.)

Here’s What You Need to Focus on This Week…

There’s no better time to focus on knowing who you are, knowing what you want, and knowing how you want to live.

This week and the next few months are going to carry a lot of energy with them so here’s what I encourage you to focus on:

* Focus on your energy alignment: balancing your being and your doing.

* The change you want to see happens through you, not to you. Get honest about what changes you want to make and be really clear about what’s on your heart. What have you being trying to outrun? Can you take back your power and own it and empower yourself?

* Note if you’re experience any pass-throughs right now and get honest about what they’re asking of you and your personal evolution. There are lot of ego deaths right now, it’s a big theme of these transits. Are you experiencing one? The sooner you acknowledge it the sooner you can grow from it.

* Pay attention to any clues or signs you receive. They never come in as a printed manual, unfortunately, but you know them when you see them. Are you receiving whispers? What are they?

* Ask yourself, what would you do if you had 20 times the confidence you do right now? How would that feel? This is how we harness our inner fire and move forward.

“Life is really up to you. You must choose what to pursue.” My Spamalot! inspiration for the week. It’s time to make the change you want to see…what will you choose to pursue? It’s up to you!

As a reminder, it’s all there for you, always. We’re always being pushed towards our dreams and there’s always a way to get where we want to go.

Are you ready for action?? My 6 Week to Getting Unstuck & Writing Your New Story is perfect for you!!

6 Weeks to Get Unstuck & Write Your Next Chapter:

* Gain clarity on who you are now & what you want for your next steps

* Create a plan with clear action-oriented steps for how you want to live

* Deepen your co-creative work with the unseen through an accessible spiritual practice

* Write a new story for the next 12-months that makes you glow with inner joy

* Feel really good about getting on a more positive & productive path

You’re never stuck in your story!

Trust yourself and be well.

Let’s have a good week!

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It’s a big week!

* Solar eclipse coming up - be aware and keep your eyes peeled for new opportunities and sychronicities.

* Neptune shifts into Aries

* This is a recalibration period and we can handle this so long as we ground ourselves.

Trust yourself and be well.

Let’s have a good week!

xxKelsey

My original coaching program teaches simple and clear steps, in an inviting and practical way, to help you find clarity and shape the life you envision.

You’re never stuck in your current story, even if you’re convinced you are. Your life can be meaningful and fulfilling; you’re meant to live happily and with ease. It’s my mission to empower you with this truth.

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I just returned from a retreat in Sedona with a group and our mentor, Carissa Schumacher. I’ll write more about this in the coming weeks, but I wanted to tape this today to get it out into the world.

Trust yourself and be well.

Let’s have a good week!

The highlights today include:

* A little bit about eclipse season and mercury retrograde. Don’t be scared, just be aware.

* How this is all part of a bigger plan and how that’s so hard to accept when we’re in the thick of it.

* The higher forces at play and how simply being open to that concept is enough.

* How to handle this time individually, which is how I coach my clients.

* When I work with clients I translate this world for them, so there’s no need to get into esoteric concepts or dubious systems. I focus on concrete action steps that lead you to shape the life you envision. That’s it. There’s no need to get too into the beyond and how that influences our world at large. I give you your power back so you can respond to situations as the creator of your reality.

As a reminder, my intention with this Substack is to share simple concepts, in an inviting and practical way, that will help you shape the life you envision.

You’re never stuck in your current story, even when you think you are. Your life can be meaningful and fulfilling; you’re meant to live happily and with ease. It’s my mission to empower you with this truth.

Kelsey Banfield Coaching is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. I really appreciate your support as it enables me to continue to empower you so we can all shape the lives we envision and architect a more responsible and sustainable future 💫

The highlights for the week include:

* Mars is now direct but won’t achieve full power until late April / Early May.

* Mercury retrograde shadow has started. This is not doom and gloom, just use this period to “reassess” and “revise” and all the “re” words.

* Pluto in Aquarius is still the main event. We’re being asked to heal what’s being dredged up and find the middle road ahead so we can architect a more responsible and sustainable future.

* People keep asking me “where is the divine support in all this?” And I give an answer.

* I talk about how to harness divine support in your individual lives and how we can do this as a collective as well.

* I review a few general examples on how you dance first, then the music will play.

We can do this.

Trust yourself and be well.

Let’s Have a Good Week.