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As I’m writing this message…the New Moon in Gemini is in full swing. For me it means a beautiful chart formation that hopefully I will be able to activate and grow over the next 6 months to 1 year. But it also means mental stress and an overly anxious brain that is less patient and more restless now.

Blaming it on the Gemini New Moon? Never…

These days though are showing us, whether we want | like it or not, where the mental work needs to begin. Where it needs to become a more dedicated practice. Where we need to take control of the thoughts, words, patterns we so easily absorb through family, society or just pure ignorance.

It might feel like a wall we are hitting. But what if that wall is actually the doorway?

There are lunations that whisper, and others that strike a tuning fork within our psyche. Today’s New Moon in Gemini is one such moment. And it is very visible, as Gemini are ruled by the daily Mercury.

This is a celestial tuning of the mental body to a new octave of consciousness. A moment of something we need to start learning (or relearning). These days it will be less about certainty and more about perspectives and new portals of understanding.

As a Gemini Soul Destiny holder, I usually think of the twins as mirrors functioning in supreme harmony with our inner and outer reflections. Geminis are masters of reflections. Whatever we are, crave to be or resent, they will mirror and embody it so relentlessly that hiding would be impossible.

The Gemini archetype is where the self first sees its reflection in another, in language, in gesture, in symbol, then returns to do the inner work.

Geminis mirroring is about interaction. In every conversation, every mimicry, every attempt to articulate the inexpressible, Gemini learns who it is becoming.

The Twins are not split; they are iterative. Each twin reflects and refracts the other, discovering nuance.

This New Moon offers us such a mirror. It invites us into a sacred process of mirroring that is both embodied and mental. It is not enough to think differently; we are being called to listen differently, speak differently, and above all see ourselves as refracted through the lens of others.

There is a celestial mathematics of the energy of the Sky. Always. This week also.

Whether we take the time to do the work, the energy is still here, active, directing us.

Here are some prompts to use this week considering the aspects of the New Moon in Gemini and its geometry.

1. Go deeper into the realms of the mind. This New Moon is like a double shot of Gemini, which makes it 4 Geminis. What is hidden there and needs to come out? This is a good time to begin the detoxifying of the mind and the relations you have and mirror who you are. Or do they? Start with some somatic realigning: the famous (and easy) 4-6-8 breathing. Breathe in on 4 counts, hold for 6 counts, breathe out for 8. After 10 repetitions of this cycle, mind clutter will decompress and thoughts will rearrange into cleaner shelves.
2. How can you start a mind inquiry process for the next months? Pluto aspects this New Moon in a bigger planetary formation and asks us to think bigger, with a perspective. Pluto is already retrograde, so the process is even more introspective and inward oriented. Look for that psychological depth and ask yourself more: What do I believe because I was told, and what have I discovered through lived inquiry? There’s a detoxification of inherited thought patterns, especially those internalised through unconscious mimicry.
3. Whatever your mind births now, it needs to materialise according to a solid plan. This is where Saturn comes in and asks us not only for patience, but also for understanding that this moment is a seed that needs to evolve through input and stable work, a plan that you and only you need to put together. Make structure out of instinct and idea. The mirrored self is responsible for its reflection. This is an invitation to commit to your inner student. You are not supposed to know yet. You are supposed to explore, fail, reframe, and try again.
4. This is a very intuitive New Moon. Neptune, the master of illusion and delusion is active and fully charged. This ain’t no word or communication lunation. This is a word frequency lunation. Listen more than what you actually hear, there is a meaning that needs to be uncovered.

The entire celestial configuration indicates toward experiential learning, that teaches through trial, response, and adaptation. Over the next several months, this geometry suggests we will be learning not from static truths, but from the mutable flow of interaction, conversation, and inner questioning. It’s fire and air, none the less.

The Gemini archetype thrives on questions: What is this? Why does it matter? Who said so? Why should it mean something for me directly? Yet in our digital age, curiosity is often commodified into distraction, endless scrolling and fake news. A Gemini can change their clothes, job, love life, or residence as swiftly as they change their mind, highlighting their restless and ever-evolving nature. This duality is not indicative of deceit but rather a reflection of their multifaceted personalities and insatiable curiosity.

This New Moon asks us to reclaim curiosity as a sacred act. A quiet devotion to meaning-making.

So…

• expect for the next months a surge in relational and cognitive mirroring. People around you may act as catalysts, sometimes helpful, sometimes triggering. Stay curious about your reactions; they are teachers in disguise. Open-ended pathways, are you ready to embrace them?
• Old thought-forms, especially collective beliefs or ideological frameworks that no longer serve your soul’s path, may begin to disintegrate. Let them. This is a moment of clearing the mental field, detoxing from borrowed truths to make room for authentic understanding.
• Use this time window to write, teach, speak, mentor, communicate, learn something new or just listen more to the people around you. Detox your language, notice your habitual expressions. Which phrases, idioms, or thought patterns are inherited rather than chosen? Begin editing your inner monologue.
• Literally look in the mirror. Speak to yourself out loud. Observe what emerges. This is you witnessing you.
• Join or initiate a learning group where exchange is based more on curiosity. Choose one person each day to listen to without interruption, correction, or agenda.

Under this Gemini New Moon, our consciousness is invited to split into multiplicities.

We are all mirrors now. And what is the obstacles you are now facing are just the doorway?

Until next time, thank you!

#WomenAreHealing

As with everything else important in our life, travelling is another way of not only expansion, but most of all self-awareness, acceptance, healing and discovery of our inner potential and imposed limitations.

We are all on our own journeys. Most of us are travelling only in our heads though.

According to the latest World Tourism Barometer from UN Tourism, an estimated 1.4 billion tourists travelled internationally in 2024, indicating a virtual recovery (99%) of pre-pandemic levels. But there are 8.2 billion human beings on the planet currently. A simple math exercise would indicate that 73% of the world population stays at home (and let’s remember still many don’t a home either).

The numbers might be estimated, but the reality is not far from me saying: YOU ARE THE LUCKY ONES in this statistics. Be it you are moving around with you family, job or just having enough money to see the world, an incredible large part of the world’s population will not see the world beyond their hometown or home country, not even once in their lives. Due to live options, fears, customs and traditions, but most of all, due to lack of financial means and time.

Apply this 17% on your own family, let’s say of 7 people (4 grandparents, 2 parents and yourself). Yes, you might or might not be the only one who will travel in your entire family.

Very few (almost none) of my family members have traveled to date. My parents have never left the country. In my close family, I am definitely the lucky one who gets to see faraway continents and islands and people and customs. Who gets to open her heart more to the differences between people and cultures, while returning to the gratefulness of being part of a (still) free land. I started travelling in 2008 (those were the days of the city breaks and short-carriers’ deals) and I never stopped. My natal chart is definitely showing I was (and still am) a traveler across worlds and oceans, and I embrace this as my most wonderful expression of the love I have for this incarnation.

Traveling is an expansion technique for the soul, the mind, the body. But it is rarely accessible to the ordinary man and woman. It is the commodity of the rich, privileged, open-minded, but most of all, the lucky.

Having these simple numbers in mind, I can’t un-see the fact that we, the 17% are so lucky. So…as with any other thing we are granted access to, it also comes with great responsibility, whether we like it or not.

And this leads me to greater depths of today’s healing message: How many of us 17% really apreciate it and how many are we taking traveling for granted?

Recently, I noticed several Romanian public figures (I can’t fathom to see them as “influencers”) who wrote on their social media accounts negative reviews on faraway places they visited. Be it Bali or The Maldives, the recollections of their experiences were in my view superficial, limited and not to mention somehow distructive for the culture. Let me explain why.

While their views and usage of social media is (still) a free speech right and I am in agreement with that, the negative ripple effect of their understanding of travelling to those places could impact: 1.the wellbeing and income of these places who mostly base their existence on tourism and 2.the traveller who wants to experience the world and now

So, it really comes down to these people publishing reviews that prevent other people from experiencing the world with all its differences and inequalities, but also diminishing the positive effect of distribution of money from the wealthier to the poorer. Yes, tourism and travelling is also in my views a means through which we can exert our right to support the cultures and places who are maybe kept more under poverty by the current geopolitical and economic systems.

As an experienced traveler but also critical thinker, let me give you my view on how I approach travelling in a way that I believe is more nurturing to the entire players in the field.

1.First of all, travelling must really be a conscious and intentional decision. And it requires a healthy and rested body and mind.

If you want to rest and unwind during you 2 week something holiday, travelling might not be a correct option. Studies have shown (and I believe common sense says the same) that going on a trip activates the human system more than it relaxes it. You go to a place you don’t know, eat food your body/microbiome is not accustomed to and live off a different timezone. By the time your body settles into the new, you need to go back home. So, rest and recuperation happens at home, where you can control the parameters. Discovery of new places needs another mental approach.

When you travel, all your senses are excited. You see new things, you smell new aromas, you hear new words. And so on. Expansion really needs full commitment and awareness. Once you understand this, it gets easier when travelling might become more difficult (accidents, delays, bad food, etc).

2.Let’s say you’ve settled this. You want to explore and expand. You choose your destination based on the budget, time and personal context.

If you have a week, opt for a nearby location that gives you a similar timezone. If you have more, then look for further options.

For me, Europe in the past years has not been an option. Plane ticket prices have soared as well as accommodations, not necessarily having a rational explanation. Too much for my taste and the offering. But Europe is still a viable option if you only have a couple of days to move your suitcase around.

As for me, I tend to give myself the option to leave for at least 2 or even 3 weeks. Constant travelling to far places has been my jam for the past 3-4 years. Asia mostly I feel is a heart home and Indonesia is definitely its center. I have been able to see less fortunate (but infinitely more beautiful and spiritual) places and contribute to their welfare.

3.You now have the destination. Start learning about it more. See travelling blogs, read tripadvisor reviews. Read about the culture, its economic and political context. This way, you will be less surprised by local realities and yes, if anything undesirable happens on the spot, you will not make a fool out of yourself or the destination on social media.

I’ve seen reviews from people who didn’t bother to understand that sharks are found in the Maldives or that Bali has areas of garbage. As far as I am concerned, these are tourists not travellers. Uninformed but full of expectations.

If you are not doing your research at home, there is another good way to understand the local context: talk with the locals, doh! Hire a local guide, engage with any local vendor, service provider, artists, community member. For example, this is how one could understand that Indonezia has a problem of garbage collection and recycling, and this hugely impacts not only the tourism but also the local communities. That NGOs all over the islands are doing their best with the few resources they get from govern of Jakarta. That the local population still lacks ecological education and that also a lot of the litter comes from tourists that misbehave.

4.But this is really a question of critical thinking. An un-researched and malice review can actually lower the income of poorer community members who actually rely on tourism to survive.

So I begin to wonder: where do we all get our references when it comes to travelling? Who do we look up to, who do we read or watch? There are a lot of bloggers, vlogers, youtubers and yes, “influencers” who seem to throw their own limited views online just because they can. And it’s ok as long as this is the system we are all living in. But how about being more self-critical about that? How about giving the chance of real storytellers to enchant us and give us the perspective of expansion and understanding?

We used to read travelling books written by talented storytellers. Why do we now look at random people exposing in a post only the negativity that they have experienced at their own ignorance?

I do believe that places are energies. The way a destination looks, smells, vibrates is just an external manifestation of a vibration. This is why some of us vibrate with some destinations, others with … others and some with none. Travelling is an exchange of energies between 2 people, 2 places, 2 cultures, 2 realities.

Travelling is the way we let ourself expand and explore. The more stuck we are, the harder it gets to have a positive experience anywhere outside the home.

If you want to travel for real, here are some of my prompts for you. For a conscious, more balanced exploration:

• The outer journey should assist us with the inner one. Why are you travelling? What are you running away from or what is the question you need and answer to?
• Become more aware of your uniqueness in the world, but also the quieting of the ego that says: “my life is more important thank other people’s”. When you travel, you’re invited in the home of another. Respect that!
• If you want to understand a place, then immerse in the local realities. Talk with the people, be curious, ask as many questions as possible. Understand their reality and why they need you and your resources. You might just think again before posting the way you view the world from the top of your ego.
• Get information beforehand from reliable resources. Read the books, talk with positive people, experienced travellers and avoid the ones who usually say: hmm, I didn’t like that of this there. They could actually prevent you from having the best time of your life because they will impose their own realities over you. No place is perfect, but all places are equally worthy.
• If you can, hire local guides or talk with a tourism agency that operates locally. You need people on those grounds who know the realities.
• If you have any problems with flexibility or disconfort, know that any destination might increase them. Different food, noises, atmosphere, heat and so on. Prepare mentally to bend your mind and break your inflexibility. Remember that people just like you thrive there. So it’s a matter of adaptability, that’s all.
• Check the details of your tickets, accommodations before. Read the reviews, ask the questions, ask for the services, make a list of all urgent numbers you should call in case of anything. Travelling is like a project and should not be treated lightly of with carelessness.
• Upon return, be kind and write that thank you note to the travelling agency or agent, a message to your guide or hotels. Be grateful for they have kept you safe, in comfort and entertained. This is more than a money-services exchange. This is energy and bonding with a place that you were lucky enough to see. This is how you support maybe a not so fortunate economy and community to get their own needs met.
• Travelling releases karma and builds more dharma. So choose those places that you can actually use for your own uplifting and becoming.

Know thyself & know your travels! Remember, you’re the lucky 17%! Don’t waste that!

I sit alone on a Saturday afternoon in my nearby church. Sun beams are gently illuminating the holy interior as I quiet my mind and just look at the paintings. It smells like burnt candles. I hear soft voices beneath the altar. All the red chairs are carefully placed after a quick baptism.

In this quiet revery, suddenly I notice. The wind blowing the foliage outside makes sure the light and dark dances on the face of a silver icon. And in that moment it suddenly dawns on me: we are actually halfway on our journey between light and dark.

The Autumnal Equinox is here.

From now on until March, life begins to slow down. Life will get darker. We are called to embrace our shadow as the most beloved part of ourselves. The part that we mostly hide, despise, neglect, ignore or chase away.

This week’s blog article is a milder, shorter message to accompany all our transitions to another season in our lives.

Transitions happen without our decisions. Transitions happen because we need them and don’t usually have courage to start them.

In astrology, starting points of transitions are symbolised by Eclipses, the dual/paired lunar and solar events happening 2 times a year, meant to strike swift endings and beginnings.

Today we are stepping into the season of balance, of beautiful Libras.

And we are also in the middle of Autumn Eclipse season and the veil is thin. (read below my last week’s article on the first Eclipse).

We lost something or someone during the past week, but life will soon ask us to be brave and fill that void with something new. A new feeling, a new activity, a new meaning, a new project. Nobody will be able to stand still this autumn. We need to move forward. Even in complete darkness.

We don’t know yet what to put in that place that is now liberated. And the guidance is to listen carefully and wait. Wait until the middle of October to start anything. Let the waves of this transition settle.

I see autumn as a sudden descend into the darkness of our souls. The decisions we took and affected our lives and the lives of others, the actions we are not so proud of, the sins we’ve been tolerating in our nature and around us, the greed with which we expect everything from others and nothing from ourselves.

Today, the equinox marks the perfect balance of Yin and Yang, as day and night are equal. From here, Yin energy rises as autumn’s changes begin—the air cools, leaves turn golden, and nature prepares for its final harvest before winter.

Here are some introspection prompts for your darkness:

1. Am I ready to stand up for the life I am living and admit to the darkness I create?
2. Am I ready to look for balance or am I still excited in the face of chaos and dopamine?
3. When and where am I betraying my values, principles, needs so that I can get rewarded by quick, easy gratification moments?
4. Who are the people I am influencing with my poor decisions?
5. When and where am I playing the generous woman for others to perceive me as good?
6. What am I getting from hiding my darkness?

Our happiness is determined solely by the darkness we reject, neglect or entertain.

This autumn will mean transitions of all sorts. Pluto retrograde for the last weeks in Capricorn, autumn Eclipses, the advent of winter retrogrades and the dawn of changing the destiny nodes in 2025, they will all push us to embrace the most hidden and unloved part of us: the darkness. Nobody can escape. Either with inner work or outer suffering, we will all journey into the dark if we want to rise again into the light.

Until next time, embrace your darkness!

This week’s blog title is actually inspired by one of my friends. During our most recent meet-up, as I was venting passionately, on an on about the changes this summer brought to my life and the problems I had with certain relationships.

She suddenly turned to me and said: we need to stop feeding the wolves.

No, she was not referring to people, but to contexts, behaviours, poor personal limits and our constant oblivion to feeding the unbalanced, immature and sometimes poisonous relationships.

Whatever you accept, you deserve. The Universe is simple in observing you: “oh, she accepts that in her life, then she might want more of that, let’s windfall with it right now!”

You don’t get what you want, you get what you are.

Access to your energy and love and care is Godly. Be careful in these times of chaos who you are feeding with your gifts and if they reciprocate. If there’s a lack of mutual contribution, you will feel it right away in your body, health, luck.

This 2024 hasn’t been easy. To any of us. I wrote about this year in January and most of the things I felt back then (unfortunately) came to life.

Some of us experienced power struggles in relationships and a lot of dark patterns. Others became money obsessed and lost people and joy due to this hunger for more. I counselled women on loss, truth, acceptance, understanding and anger.

After a very different February energy (Pluto was entering Aquarius and the matrix changed), a cloudy incoherent spring with Neptune squaring Lilith followed. But this summer, oh, THIS summer really felt like an “all or nothing” energy. Most of the times, all = nothing, especially during August.

I’ve always said an 8 year is not about money, but about acknowledging the problems we have with money, the bad patterns, the fears or obsessions. 8 is not about power, but about power dismantling and the mental pain necessary for the transformation you’ve been delaying. This is the lesson of Pluto in Capricorn, that ends this autumn. This is also the lesson of Saturn in Pisces. The energy of discipline, truth, rigour and endurance is probably the core of this autumn. How will you embrace it?

To be abundant is to learn to appreciate who and how you are in the middle of poorness or failure. 8 teaches us this: the only power we have is the one to lead our own life on the path of truth. Power is within us, as us.

Now, as I am writing these words, Pluto is re-entering Capricorn (at 29 degrees, the grade of urgency and deep clearance) as part of its annual retrograde season, while Uranus begins its own retrograde in Taurus season. September will be packed with sudden endings and extremely sudden beginnings at the same time. The Eclipse season starts right in the middle of the month, echoing a divine path we will all walk on starting next February 2025. Curious for more? Then, let’s dive into your unique birth chart and the blessings you have laid before you.

For some of us will be harder. For other, will be softer. But we will feel these months, I assure you of it.

A short thinking or journaling prompt for this next week, as we are stepping into another cycle of clearance.

1. What are the big changes you’ve navigated since 2008, on all levels? Which area was the most activated: self, relations, career, control, trust, etc?
2. How have you been able to understand your patterns, structures, control and adapt them to a softer, kinder life?
3. Did you integrate this findings in your practice today? Information without practice equals mental and emotional turmoil. What can you do during these months to finally GET THIS?
4. Who are you feeding with your energy while you get nothing or less in return? You are loved and you matter without those relationships, you do know that?
5. Are you the friend you expect others to be with you? Matchy-matchy!

Potential remedies, depending on your own practice:

• spend time doing something you love with all your heart. A comedy, a book, a walk in the park, sex. Joy opens the heart and dismantles any negative emotion.
• try softer body practices: Balinese massage, yoga, qi gong, pranayama (breathing). Transformation and turmoil is somatized rapidly this year, so take it easy.
• pray! I restarted praying more a couple of months ago, and it’s a practice I now hold dear to me. Who knows, it might guide you well during these months too.

• listen to a new podcast for the soul. My friend Ana has launched her soothing podcast a couple of weeks ago, and I am guiding you to listen to her. 15-30 minutes per week with a counsellor who really gets what you are going through. Find it on Spotify.

Until next week, take care (of your energy)!

Roxana

#WomenAreHealing

As we step timidly in the last month of what should have been a more balanced (in temperatures) spring, all hearts around me keep asking me: “Roxana, is May going to be better that April?”

Fresh out of many plane travels across multiple timezones, I rest my body now near my cat, in my home sanctuary, far from the busy streets of Europe and closer to the Godly energy of Rebirth of Jesus. Whether you are Ortodox or not, this end of the week brings a new chance of redemption and light.

But don’t get me wrong, May is also full of cosmic events. A shift towards the summery vibes will be more palpable now. The month alchemizes 2 very different energies: Taurus and Gemini. One builds and stabilises whatever we initiated under the Aries season and Gemini spreads, explores, rejoices, gossips. Fix energy blends with mutable energy. Earth with Air. Only when analysing elements we can get a glimpse of how adaptability and acceptance are the smart ways to cultivate the inner authority.

Jupiter, the Master Manifestor and the The Great Luck Bringer will close its cycle in Taurus energy, where it rejoiced and brought us abundance and tangible gains. Now Jupiter steps into Gemini, the Manifestor of the Mind & Communication. For the next year starting the end of May, we are invited to analyse our beliefs, mental patterns, how we communicate (and yes, also gossip), how we interact with others and explore life, networks, ideas. If you have a book on your mind, write it! If you want to teach, jump on the wagon! If you are planning a trip to faraway lands, act on it! (wink wink)

If exploration is what your souls is hunger for, activate that part of your soul in you that aligns with Jupiter, the higher self. Well, yes, practice this on Thursdays, the Day of Jupiterian energy.