Hello Friends:

This has been quite a September. Ok, quite a few intense several months. Like a country song, my car died, my dad died, my son left for college, and I am saying goodbye to my home of 18 years. Six days from listing it and hosting an open house on Labor Day weekend, I am under contract with a beautiful family from Toronto, birthing their baby on Monday the 16th. Their eagerly awaiting almost three-year-old big brother has already picked out his room.

Deaths and resplendent life, repeat. That is the energy of Pluto, the planet of transformation and initiation, back in Capricorn--our foundations and structures--until mid-November. We're being asked to take inventory, acknowledge how far we've come, and let go of what we have outgrown. Many parents and loved ones have slipped out of the bonds of their physical bodies to return to the ethereal. Although grief is a natural feeling in this process, pain is equal to the attachment.

This newsletter will be short as I continue to pack and host one of my favorite people, Tad Hargrave, founder of Marketing for Hippies, at the end of the month. Both my client and friend, Tad is coming to Austin to work on some business strategy and has agreed to host one of his day-long Ethical Marketing workshops, which he only does in person in Canada and Europe. It's a rare opportunity to experience his work up close and personal. He has transformed marketing into village consciousness that feels amazing and is highly effective.

Ride the Waves

This upcoming week holds some beautiful energy, if you are willing to stay present to the miracles. Not the ones you were expecting in the way you wanted them...but the ones that are actually better than you could ever imagine.

I've been looking forward to this weekend’s trine with Venus in Libra and Jupiter in Gemini (air signs) as the benefics facilitate an abundance of love and beauty within relationships. Plan fun dates and celebrations with friends on Saturday and Sunday.

The Full Moon Pisces partial eclipse on the 17th is also a Super Moon. You can no longer ignore what's not working in your life. It feels like unraveling energy with no more false security or sustainability. How can you care for your body, including thoughts about your body image? A strong, healthy body that is nourished with enough sleep is unstoppable. Love it with a new experience like salsa dancing or archery and see where that takes you.

The Sun trine Uranus and opposite Saturn will put a spotlight on what needs to go with unexpected revelations. But this time, you'll know how to address it...for good.

As always, you can book a reading to see how these energies can be used for your current challenge or business strategy.

Pisces Blue Full Moon and Partial Eclipse

Tuesday, September 17, 2024
6:30 pm, Austin, TX

Join us for one of our final lunation ceremonies at Casa Paredes, fittingly in Pisces. It's also a partial eclipse with all the surpising acceleration this season brings. We'll center with cacao, followed by letting go with the poetry of Ada Limón and a sound bath. Sips and snacks provided. Always donation-based.

Monday, September 30, 2024
9-5 p.m. | Lotus Ranch, Wimberley, TX

For coaches, healers, facilitators, bodyworkers, yoga teachers, land restorers, and social impact entrepreneurs. This PWYC workshop offers ways to get clients that are deeply respectful, trauma-informed, and conscience-driven.

Marketing can feel good.

That’s the premise of this workshop.

You don’t need to sell your soul to sell your work.

Too much marketing (even by savvy, conscious entrepreneurs) creates either no response or seems “over-hyped” and triggers a “used car salesman” reaction.

In short, it feels awful.

This workshop is my best distillation and collection of those practices and stories. This workshop is for those who know they need to market but who hate marketing.

You don’t have to choose between ethics and effectiveness.

You can sell successfully and sleep soundly.

I had begun

to point my pen

at her heart

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-SHE by Saul Williams

Gentle Flow Yoga & Sound

On Sundays, I teach a gentle Kripalu Yoga class that includes a long sound bath at the end to reset the nervous system. They are held at the gorgeous Yoga Common in the Balcones Woods neighborhood studio from 6 - 7 p.m. Reserve your spot here.

Thank you for being a part of my community. Your support means the world to me.

With much love,

Monica