When receiving love as a child is contingent on living up to someone else's expectations, you might grow into an adult who lacks a sense of self. This can lead to codependent behavior in relationships, an inability to be authentic, and a big fear of rejection. Nurturing a sense of self enables you to be confident, resilient, and to act from a place of joy instead of fear.

Death scares most of us so much that we resist even the smallest, most superficial change in our lives. But what if these little changes were supposed to be surrendered to, as practice for The Big One? If you let yourself grow, if you let yourself change, if you let parts of you die, what kind of you could you create? What kind of reality could you dream of? How radically could things shift?

Receiving love can feel even more vulnerable than giving it. For those who people-please as a means of self-protection, it can feel downright dangerous. That doesn't mean it isn't necessary, rewarding, and deeply healing. If we could all learn how to let ourselves be loved, it could change everything.

The next few years are going to be influenced by eclipses in Libra and Aries, also known as the "Me vs. We" axis. This will be a time of unpacking where we tend to overgive and where we take too much. All relationships benefit from a little balance, even the ones we have with ourselves.

The past holds the keys to our future. Looking back can give us clues to who we've become and who we're becoming. The ways our wounds manifest as patterns of behavior and proof of our own resilience can be found by simply looking back. Where have you been? Where are you going?

In today’s late-stage catialist nightmare, where we’re all expected to give 100% One Hundred Percent of the time, a break can feel like a luxury most of us can’t afford. But what if it’s the thing we need most in the world? What if the pause is the birthplace of regeneration, revolution, inspiration, intention, wisdom and rest? What if the pause is the main ingredient in thriving? How would you change how you move through the world? How would you embrace The Pause?

Those of us that grew up in chaotic households may have developed certain coping mechanisms to help us survive. As we grew older, these traits may have started to hurt us more than they helped. These are our default settings. They are just a program. We didn't have a say about what was initially downloaded into our minds, but we do have a say in what we download now. What are your default settings? How are you reprogramming yourself?

Being tolerant of the intolerant is the way we have been told to behave by those trying to High-Road anyone upset about their own oppression. It's a kind of gaslighting that keeps the good quiet and the bad loud as hell. Philosopher Karp Popper believed that being tolerant of the intolerant will do nothing more than ensure the destruction of tolerance itself. Be intolerant to intolerance, however, and we will all be OK.