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Hello Reader, I hope this email finds you tuned into the sensations moving through your body. If not, now's a great time to pause and observe your breath moving in, softening your jaw, neck, and shoulders, and gently easing out again. This week in the Awakening the Phoenix podcast, Episode 4 explores an element of the new era that attracts a lot of negative attention. When someone hears that the new global background frequency is bringing Gate 51 - the Gate of Shock, it's often seen as a...

Hello Reader, I hope this finds you present to the moment. If you're feeling like your presence is dispersed, pause and take a breath in through your nostrils. Even close your eyes if you are able and bring your awareness to the sensation of the air entering your nose, expanding your chest, and softening your belly. Pause before your chest is completely filled and be present to the sensations of holding. Not gripping or grasping, simply containing the awareness within that breath. Now,...

Hi Reader, I hope this finds you well. I have some happy news that I'm excited to share. But before I do, I want to acknowledge that there's a lot going on in the world and in each of your lives that may be stressful or creates fear and even pain. I'm reminded often of Joseph Campbell's invocation: "Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy. The warrior's approach is to say 'yes' to life..." I can remember first...

Hi Reader, April has arrived and brought a word with it. Rootedness. I've been sitting with it the way I sit with all the themes that come through for the monthly Gatherings — not trying to define it too quickly, just letting it settle and show me what it wants to say. What's come up so far is a way of understanding that may seem unusual: How can rootedness actually increase resilience, vitality, and flow? Because rootedness, as I'm coming to see it, isn't about being firmly fixed and...

Hi Reader, I looked up the definition of balance this week. Not because anything was particularly out of balance — but because the word kept lighting up for me, the way words do when there's something more for me to see. And with the spring equinox just behind us, it felt like the right moment to sit with it. One of the definitions stood out and took me on a path that surprised me. A condition in which opposing forces are equal to one another. Not centeredness. Not the absence of tension....

Hi Reader, I want to share something from the Money Mirror guide — one idea that has quietly, yet profoundly, changed my own relationship with my finances. It starts with a word: budget. Notice what happens in your body when you read it. For most people, it lands with weight. Obligation. Restriction. Fear. The feeling of being hemmed in. The numbers in a budget are like sharp-edged guardrails — designed to scare you back into line. There’s nothing warm or inviting about the experience. Now...

Hi Reader, It was the mid-70's. I was eleven or twelve, standing in the kitchen, holding the phone. On the other end of the line was a stranger asking for my parents, a creditor. I didn't fully understand what that word meant yet, but I knew the script. My mother and stepfather had explicitly laid down the rules for me to obey. "Good morning/afternoon/evening. Suchnsuch residence. May I ask who's calling?" And when I heard the creditor's name, I faced a deeply unpleasant choice. I could...

Hello Reader, "Do not seek water, seek thirst," wrote the Sufi poet Rumi. With the beginning of the new year, it's common to consider what to do differently in the coming months. We usually go straight for the "water"—the resolutions and the checklists. But what if the secret to a transformative year isn't in the seeking of results, but in the cultivation of a deeper internal thirst? The common perception is that if you start with what you're doing, you can change who you are. When in fact,...

Hi Reader, The Winter Solstice is the moment when the Earth's Northern Hemisphere is angled furthest from the Sun. From that moment on, it begins to reverse its tilt on the familiar journey to the longest day. We can imagine it as being like going to the bottom of the well, furthest from the light. So, this morning, we in the Northern Hemisphere visited the bottom of the well of solar light. Equally, those in the Southern Hemisphere reached the greatest amount of light. And now, they're on...