This morning I woke up and was already thinking of Anna's talk on how there are no emotions, they're all constructs. And as I thought about how we create our emotional responses rather than have them against our will, I realized that the frustration, resentment, and disappointment I've been feeling towards someone lately can easily be reframed to gratitude. Their change in behavior has given me so many gifts that I wasn't fully acknowledging. I was aware of these gifts and even grateful for them, though not acknowledging them fully enough to release the negativity I was sending out. I woke up thinking of these things because they were also on my mind and heart last night, though I hadn't yet come to that conclusion. I had consciously decided that as I was falling asleep I would visualize my pink heart energy reaching directly to theirs with unconditional love and acceptance, gratitude, and peace, connecting us. This filled me with gratitude for the gifts this experience has given me in this moment and all month. During a long meditation this morning that was my focus again. My energy has certainly been buoyed by this tide!

I want to share a little about natal / star charts and why I’ve come to appreciate them more deeply over time. For most of my life, I was a skeptic. Not a hard no, but definitely a “this feels interesting… with a giant beach of salt.” That skepticism is ironic, considering my maternal great-great-grandmother was a palmist, and belief in these systems was simply woven into her way of life. Over the years, something softened. Maybe it was learning that we’re literally made of the same carbon as the stars. Maybe it was seeing my own charts and noticing how uncannily they reflected my inner life, my patterns, and my long arcs of becoming. Or moments like when Anna shared about the impact our thoughts have on our cells, and how our cells, in turn, affect the world around us. That felt like a bridge between science and mystery I could actually stand on. I don’t see charts as fate or fortune-telling. I see them as maps. Frameworks. Mirrors. Another way of understanding the raw materials we’re given and how we might work with them more consciously. For me, they’ve become a source of curiosity, wonder, and self-compassion rather than certainty. I’m sharing my own chart here not as proof of anything, but as an invitation to conversation. 💫 I’m curious: - Have you ever had your natal or star chart done? - Did it feel accurate, illuminating, neutral, or totally off-base? - Do you consider yourself a non-believer, a skeptic, somewhere-in-between, or all-in? - What frameworks (astrology, science, spirituality, psychology, or otherwise) help you make meaning of your life? There’s no right answer here. Just curiosity and conversation.