Hello Friends: I'm so very thankful that you are a part of my life. Your presence impacts me and I feel very lucky to be in your orbit. We've had some lovely Venus trines this week: November 24th: Communicative Mercury Rx conjoined mellifluous Venus at 5:51 pm PT, an informative, pleasing voice November 26th: Beauteous Venus trined expansive Jupiter Rx at 8:31 am PT, blessings and mercy abound November 26th: Sweet Venus trined Saturn Rx at 3:47 pm PT, committed to love and beauty Gabe is with...
7 days ago • 8 min read
Hello Friends: Today, November 19th (or tomorrow, depending on your time zone), is the New Moon in Scorpio opposite disruptive Uranus in stable Taurus at 28 degrees. This portends some unique energy to make those changes you've been wanting to make, but couldn't make stick. Or couldn't get clarity on. Or put away to do normal, regular, habitual life. Your "One Day" dream. New Moon in Scorpio Spread Perhaps it's an art project, a long-researched business, the end of a relationship, a big trip...
16 days ago • 7 min read
Dear Friends: There's a time-sensitive transit I want to tell you about. It's important to know this. Likely many of you have been shaken up recently by disruptive Uranus returning for the last time in earthy, fixed, everything-body-and-home Taurus. Some of you have been affected by health issues (like me), moving, financial concerns, travel woes or wonders, or perhaps an awakening of pleasure. I suspect in these weeks, you've also been given a new awareness or flash of curiosity. Perhaps a...
21 days ago • 6 min read
Hello Friends: I've recently returned from another cathartic experience, this time closer to home in downtown Austin. There are so many things I'd love to share with you here and in person, as you wind down 2025 and take advantage of the current retrogrades. Retrogrades are ideal times for reflection, reconsidering, resting, and restarting. Mercury stationed retrograde in Sagittarius on Sunday, while Jupiter, the expansive, beneficial planet of faith and justice, is stationing retrograde...
25 days ago • 6 min read
Hello Friends: If you've seen the movie Chocolat, the opening scene is a hooded character making her way through a harrowing gale, determined to begin a new life. That's what it felt like to me this past eclipse season and full moon in Aries. I've left my role at Marketing for Hippies with immense gratitude for the experience of nearly two years of creating meaningful change and impact within the organization, and I wish Tad and the team success beyond measure. The decision wasn't without...
about 2 months ago • 5 min read
Hello Friends: I did something super scary. Making greens from warm and cool red, blue, and yellow Well, I've been taking a watercolor class at Laguna Gloria, but that's not scary. More like fun. A commitment to myself to not work 100% of my waking hours. Instead... As part of an exercise for creating a lean canvas to build my new company, I asked my community for feedback. It's important to be around our customers--the people we are serving--to make sure they are receiving value from our...
2 months ago • 6 min read
Hello Friends: I've returned from a residential retreat hosted by Dr. Katrina Curry at Stowel Lake Farm on Salt Spring Island, BC. It was recommended to me by my friend Tim McDiarmid because Stowel Lake Farm is similar to what I am hoping to build with Equanimity Labs & Studio--an intentional community built on permaculture for startups, writers, and artists residencies. I didn't know how much my life would be changed by the land and people I met in that very short week. By the Stowel Lake...
4 months ago • 5 min read
Hello Friends: We are in the middle of summer, which has been fairly temperate here in Austin, TX. We've been used to a cadence of 100+ degree weather by now, but these days have been lovely, with rain sometimes, and the evenings are blissfully breezy. When Uranus entered Gemini, we were shocked by the "100-year floods" that sent gushing rivers and streams into homes and places of respite and enjoyment, taking away beloveds. We had been used to the dryness and "predictability" of nature...
5 months ago • 7 min read
Hello friends: As we move through the days around the 4th of July, a national holiday rife with symbolism, significance, controversy, and paradox, we've been drenched by literal storms here in Central Texas. Flash floods have surprised the Hill Country, taking precious lives and testing our capacity for more grief and bewilderment. And yet, beneath this intensity, a deeper archetypal pattern is stirring. It's striking how this shows up in sky-based systems. Fireworks on Lake Travis Today, the...
5 months ago • 4 min read