Mirrors of equanimity. Season of Libra and autumnal equinox

Blonde woman in jungle of Bali

As I’m writing these lines, a lot has been going on in my life. The Virgo season felt like an uprooting, culminating with quite a strong Eclipse season which liberated me from many beliefs I did not need anymore in my life. You know…Eclipses are portals of acceleration that many times decide for ourselves where we did not have the strength to do it. BLESS THEM!

This Virgo season also came up with a lot of healing in my life and around me, for the people I love. Toxicities were magnified so that their frequencies could be pinpointed and understood, released, embalmed. How was it for you?

For me these past weeks brought a hurricane of changes. In my home, I abruptly needed to start major renovations. In my healing, I finally was ready to put myself first and honour my needs. Though hurtful, it felt like a balm on my heart to be able to speak the language of my soul and accept that frequencies change, people change, and connections yes..come to an end if the relation is not evolving in the same direction or rhythm. I prayed more for me and my loved ones and I started my ezoteric practice with Mr. Rudolph Stein, with whom I wanted for a long time to grow. In my work, I took on so many projects I am now barely navigating, not very proud of this but hey…one learns as one lives. In my astrology practice, I am extremely grateful I started teaching and facilitating classes, my first course was on the astrology of relocation. And oh, boy, how much joy it brought me! Now I am SOOOO ready to jump into a new cycle of my life, with the Libra season and the power of the scales equinox approaching in a couple of days.

Libra…the cardinal sign of balance, equity, equanimity. Libra, the antagonist. Libra, the judge of fairness. The middle way. The identity shift. Libra, the sign of beauty and learning in relationships, the compromise for better or worse, the growth through the eyes of the other. The indecision. The frustration of not being able to go one way. Libra, the one who steps in the opposite direction when the tides are too heavy, too concentrated on doing. The beauty of balanced relationships. Libra, the first sign of the 3 seasons of expansion and the going within. Libra, the sign of my Moon and my Mars.
Oh, I LOVVEEE how Libra teaches us that we need “THE OTHER” just like he/she is. That’s the only way we can truly understand ourselves. We need to see what’s beyond our limited exploration of life and open up to various perspective. Libra, the middle point of the pendulum swing. Libra, the archetype of solid marriage between two partners who have intentionally decided to walk together, learn from each other and grow while holding each other’s hands. For better, for worse.

Did I tell you that a couple of my teachers, masters and healers are Libra archetypes? Astrology does work! :))

We are on the verge of a threshold of the balanced forces that start to build the middle ground. The equality of night and day. The journey of the feminine embracing the masculine.

Now it’s the time to consider shifting from our self-centred growth to the relational and transpersonal journey ahead.

The scales have ancient roots. Babylonian astrologers associated the constellation with the judgment of the living and the dead, while the Egyptians saw it as the scene of the final weighing of the soul. The Greeks initially considered Libra’s scales to be the claws of Scorpius until the Romans, during the era of Pax Romana, elevated them to a symbol of justice and civic harmony. Libra is more than a pleasant mediator; it is a force that catalyses transformation, often through challenging conversations and moral reckonings.

Libra is the antagonist because she initiates the necessary confrontation with injustice or imbalance. Libra’s role is to identify situations where the pendulum has swung too far one way and to shift the tides back toward equilibrium. Libra’s quest for fairness isn’t passive; it involves actively holding space for different perspectives and sometimes inciting conflict to catalyse growth.

Libra’s ruling planet is Venus, the goddess of love, beauty, diplomacy and harmony. During Libra season the Venusian qualities of diplomacy, aesthetic appreciation, fairness and affection are amplified. The interplay between beauty and fairness is central to the Libra archetype, one cannot exist without the other. Under Libra’s influence, we are drawn to refine our sense of beauty, whether through decorating our spaces, creating art, buying elegant clothing, or enjoying fine food. Libra energy encourages us to elevate our environment, but it asks us to consider why. Are we seeking external harmony to avoid conflict or to create a foundation that supports inner equilibrium? The distinction matters, because Libra’s purpose is not to plaster over problems with prettiness. Instead, it seeks to build a truly equitable and aesthetically pleasing world.

Libra actively initiates new cycles. Libra initiates exchange and relationship between individuals. This sign, she notes, sets into motion the needs of the air element: mental, conceptual and communicative capacities. Through conversation, negotiation and compromise, Libra helps us develop the skills needed to function within a collective, whether that is a romantic relationship, a family, a business or a society.

The autumnal equinox (for the Northers part of the World) is the pivot from the light half of the year to the dark half.

As leaves turn from green to gold and drop from trees, we are invited to reflect on the cycles of life and death, growth and decay. This seasonal transition mirrors the Libra pursuit of equilibrium between light and dark, between our bright, outgoing selves and our shadow, our unconscious material. The equinox calls us to honour both. There is beauty in the impermanence of change, and Libra’s Venusian eye helps us appreciate the aesthetic splendour of fall even as it reminds us that all forms are transient.

For me, Libra season is a stop. A stop in outer growth, as too much of it can’t be done if our (inner) shadow is not prepared. And preparation for the season of Scorpio, where we dive deep into the soul’s unconscious.

During the next weeks we might let go of beliefs, habits or relationships that weigh us down and make space for more sustainable patterns. After September’s energy which was “medicinal and transformative,” Libra times will need us to return to a more balanced way of being.

  1. What are the experiences of the past 6 months you need to deeply understand and harmonise within yourself?
  2. What are the conversations you need to have in order to honour your soul and your needs, still see the other’s view?
  3. Where is the balance between autonomy and connection, healthy, intentional compromise and fairness?

I always look at ingress charts of changes. This means looking at the sky energy and pattern when a celestial phenomenon happens. This year, the kite formation in air and fire signs will mark the theme of the entire Libra season. Doubled by the Venusian pattern in work and health related sign of the virgo, trying to make its’ way while being reimagined by Uranian rays of revolution. The square between Mars coming home to Scorpio and Pluto’s rebellion in Aquarius adds up to the pattern of the season – tension, aggression, desire, shadowy energy of the warrior wanting to be released or much worse…enhanced. Mercury and the Moon in Libra pinpoints for the need of commitment and diplomacy in all affairs of the heart and of the world. Let’s see how we can navigate this pattern of tides shifting outside and within.

On a personal level, there are incredible things we can do during these weeks. Here are some healing prompts I invite you to consider and practice.

  1. Where in your life are you over-giving, and where are you withholding?Identify where you have lost your balance in the quest for doing or achieving. Reflect where you gave too much and frustrated your soul. Return to the mothership and retrieve your soul energy from places that are far from equal exchanges. I did it, felt re-energising!
  2. Don’t forget to heal your heart wounds through diplomacy and conversations. Nothing and nobody needs to take up space in your soul as long as they didn’t win it. If you do trick your mind into staying in imbalanced relations, your soul will diminish in strength.
  3. Consider journaling about where you feel overextended or undernourished, and make a list of small changes that could restore equilibrium.
  4. What small act of design, adornment, or artistry could restore balance to your daily environment? Beautifying your environment can be a sacred act. Reorganise a room, create an altar, hang artwork or invite fresh flowers into your home. Aesthetic improvements can shift your energy, inspire more gratitude.
  5. Examine your decision‑making processes. Are you considering all voices? Are you weighing options fairly? In group settings, whether at work, in families, or within your own activism, implement consensus where possible. Do relationship check-ins. Communicate openly about boundaries, desires and fears. Libra is also about facing the shadow of unresolved conflict.
  6. Take care of your kidneys, this is the season when Libra urges you to take care of the body’s energy battery, the kidneys. Qi gong, mineralisation, yoga, quality sleep, letting go of as much fears as possible.
Lovely being, take care of your energy and heart!
Until next time,
Blessings!
#WomenAreHealing

The tribe is still the best medicine

human and AI hand touching eachother
I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.– Maya Angelou

As I’m writing this message (yes, I know, I bit later than the usual promised Sunday), I hear and see many people around me that are complaining about the lack of quality time with dear ones. The rhythm of this summer has been quite hectic. Trapped among to do’s and planning for the latter part of 2025, I think we can all agree we turned summers more and more into active times in between what we didn’t close in spring and the prospects we need to arrange for the end of the year.

Way too often, we turn busy into being and it is taking a toll in the long run.
For our bodies, minds but most of all, for our souls. We are evolving into individualistic beings, interested in self-development and we forget that we can only be as good, evolved, healthy as the people around us. Like the old saying says: If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.

The other day, I came across an emotional video from one of Bad Bunny’s Puerto Rico residence concerts. The energy of the masses is yes, contagious. But another thing caught my eye. They were all holding each other. Into rows of pure human energy. They didn’t need to sing, they were already attuned to the artist, the words, the melodies, the vibe. Somehow, before singing the words, connectivity started in holding each-other and transmitting waves of joy all around. There was something almost heavenly about seeing our species entangled in one of the most natural and nurturing way of communication: togetherness.

When we finally step into the world and into the open air, survival means staying close. To our parents, to what we knew, to the familiar.

Archaeologists tell us that early humans carried heavy stones and hunted game not just for themselves, but for the group, evidence that generosity was as essential to survival as strength. Over time, these circles grew into villages, into cities, into cultures.

Nature mirrors our own understanding of safety and progress. In forests, trees are linked underground by a vast fungal network, passing nutrients and signals to each other, the “wood-wide web.” In the savannah, elephants travel in herds that shelter their young in the middle. In the ocean, orcas move in pods that hunt and protect together.

Everywhere in nature, life is cooperation and togetherness.
Our biology will never forget what the mind sometimes does: we are made to experience life together.

When we hug, hold hands, or sit shoulder-to-shoulder, our bodies release oxytocin, the hormone that builds trust. Cortisol, the stress hormone, drops. Heart rate slows. Blood pressure steadies. By contrast, studies now show loneliness and separation can harm health as much as smoking fifteen cigarettes a day.

In all eras, connection kept and will keep us alive and well.

We can feel it in real time: the way a friend’s hand on our back softens the knot in our chest. The way shared laughter loosens something heavy inside us. Our nervous systems talk to each other beneath the level of words. We can send a thousand messages, but nothing replaces the alchemy of being in the same room. Of looking into each other’s eyes.

Presence carries what technology can’t: the micro-shifts in expression, the sync of breath, the grounding warmth of skin near skin.

During the pandemic, many of us learned the hard way that even daily video calls couldn’t satisfy the hunger for being together. Face-to-face contact offers something irreplaceable: a full-spectrum exchange of signals that tell the body, you are safe, you belong.

We are swiftly stepping into a world where artificial intelligence will be everywhere, solving problems, writing code, even simulating love conversation. But no matter how advanced it becomes, it will never offer the warmth of a human embrace or the electricity of presence.

Mo Gawdat, a former Google executive, calls human connection the most valuable currency of the future. In times when machines will handle more of our tasks, our ability to comfort, to read a room, to hold space for someone’s grief or joy, those will be the skills that matter most.

AI will learn to create the perfect idea. But it will not be able to confort you and make you feel less alone the same as real connection would.
The story of our species has always been a story of us. We began around the fire. We built cities and networks. Now we stand at the threshold of a new era, with tools our ancestors couldn’t imagine. How we will direct these shifts…it really is a choice.

Connection can be found in the simplest of gestures. Drinking coffee in the morning really intentionally beside your family and off your phone. In sharing activities with your loved ones. In deciding to work collaboratively and meet with your work colleagues. In loving IRL more than you are swiping on an app.

We are wired for each other. We are built for tribes and communes.

Across the long arc of human history, we have survived not because we were the fastest or the strongest, but because we belonged to each other. Long before skyscrapers, contracts, and career ladders, our ancestors lived in clusters of huts or under the open sky, moving as one body and energy. They shared food, raised children together, mourned and celebrated as a unit. The tribe, whatever shape it took, was the original life-support system.

You can still see this truth alive today in places where communal life is still a daily reality. In parts of Indonesia, for example, multiple generations share one compound. Kitchens are open to the whole family. Children grow up with aunts and uncles as second parents, grandparents as constant guides. These micro-moments of togetherness are part of the nervous system of the group, continuously regulating and reassuring its members.

Across the Pacific, in parts of South America, the market square still functions as both an economic and emotional hub. Psychologists studying these cultures note that frequent, low-level social contact doesn’t just feel good, it keeps cooperation smooth, reduces conflict, and strengthens the group’s resilience in hard times.

The pattern is universal in more matrilineal or community-oriented societies: life is organised not around the lone individual, but around the interwoven “we.” Work happens in teams where roles shift fluidly, each person stepping in where they’re needed. Decisions are made in circles, not behind closed doors. Children are the shared responsibility of the community. The health of one is the health of all.

Compare this to the hyper-individualist model dominant in much of the modern world. Here, independence is prized above interdependence. Personal space is defended at the cost of shared space. Nuclear families live in isolation, far from extended kin. We are encouraged to “stand on our own two feet”, a phrase that sounds strong until you remember that, in evolutionary terms, standing alone was a death sentence. Anthropologists have shown that early humans cut off from their group rarely survived. Our nervous systems are still wired for tribe, but our social structures often leave us to fend for ourselves.

The cost is measurable. Without the daily micro-support of a tribe our stress systems run hotter, our immune systems weaken, and our emotional resilience erodes. We become more anxious, more suspicious, more fragile.

The irony is that even in our fragmented cities, tribes still form. They are there in your workplace team that pulls together under a deadline, in the circle of friends who show up when you’re sick, in the family WhatsApp group that buzzes every morning. A tribe is any group that shares responsibility for one another’s survival, physical, emotional, or spiritual. It might be blood relatives, colleagues, neighbours, or fellow volunteers. What matters is the steady exchange of support, trust, and presence.

We thrive in these micro-tribes because they mirror the way we evolved to live: embedded, connected, responsible for and to each other.

full moon in black background

If I can give a headline to the next two decades, it’s this: we survive and prosper together. Pluto’s long passage through Aquarius (settling in and holding court to the mid-2040s) presses on systems, networks, and the social fabric itself, forcing deep reform where our communities either fray or fortify. Aquarius is the circuitry of the collective; Pluto is the voltage of transformation. Put them together and the message is clear: power shifts to the networked, those who pool resources, build mutual aid, share intelligence, and design fair rules of participation.

On the personal plane, Pluto transits are uncompromising teachers: they purge what’s performative, leaving what’s essential and resilient. In Aquarius, they ask us to become better collaborators, emotionally fluent, technically literate, civically engaged. The wealth that compounds here is social capital: the reputations built on reliability; the alliances forged through shared work; the safety nets woven by showing up again and again. Health follows the same law: nervous systems co-regulate in loving community; chronic stress eases when care is distributed; prevention thrives when knowledge is shared. If Capricorn’s era optimised empires and verticals, Aquarius optimises networks, and networks thrive on reciprocity. (source: The Astrology Podcast)

So what does “strategy” look like under Pluto in Aquarius? Form your tribes, communes, group, sisterhoods, at work, at home, in your block, online, but make them real, consistent, reciprocal, embodied when possible.

Every species that survives does so together. The forest. The herd. The pack. The pod. Us. So don’t wait for the big moments. Call someone now. Walk with them. Share a meal. Hug longer than you think you should. Stand close enough to feel a heartbeat that isn’t your own.

Because the truth is simple: we live better, longer, and truer when we live together.

“Humans are fundamentally a social species,” as psychologist Julianne Holt-Lunstad puts it, and the need to be social is part of our neurobiology. Crucially, it’s not just about having people around you, but having meaningful connection with them.

The story of humanity is a story of connection. And as we write the next chapters with AI by our side, it’s comforting to know the plot remains the same: we need each other.

Until next week,
Stay connected to your beloved ones!
#WomenAreHealing

Do you have a SOUL ATLAS?

woman near a waterfall sculpture
Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. … But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you”. Anthony Bourdain

As I’m writing this weekly message…my mind, as always, is flying away to faraway places. The ones I’ve been to, the ones still to be discovered. Places that exist or worlds I want to create. Be it creative work (where I imagine worlds that don’t exist anymore) or plain travelling, expansion is a core value I embody. I usually travel when others work the most and experience life more in alignment with my energy and soul needs. I made my life like this and the current design might seem, I know, extremely lucky.

The urge to leave and expand is deep within me and it’s always been like that. There is so much more of this World I am open to experience…because my soul asks for it.

The voyages of the mind and body really start with the soul urge.

Haven’t you noticed beforehand? If you were lucky as myself, to travel outside the mother country, you might have seen that you tend to experience each place you went to in a different manner. It starts with different landscapes and climates, some good or some bad for you. But it really goes deeper than that. Something in your soul recognises, attracts, flourishes or hates the place you’ve chosen to travel to.

Your spirit has already travelled and seen it all. But your soul is hungry to discover or rediscover Earth’s wonders in new forms.

Holiday locations might be chosen not just by climate or cost, but by the energy they embody and how it interacts, opens your soul up or triggers deep healing within you.

Just like there is a deep soul meaning why you were born in your country, there is an even deeper one why you need to travel to develop your soul with different perspectives. And we can identify this in your charts and astro energies.
Why are we vibing differently with each travel place? Ley lines, geomancy, sacred geographies and….astrology!

I bet you arrived in a new country or city and felt an inexplicable sense of calm, as if you’d finally found something you didn’t know was missing. Or conversely, landed in a famous city only to feel oddly out of tune with its rhythm.

The destinations we choose are more than just points on a map. There are unseen energies, in the earth beneath our feet and the skies above, that subtly guide where we will feel most alive.

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There is this concept I came about many years ago in my spiritual research and travels: LEY LINES. I’ve never let it go afterwards. And yes, today, I never push pay on a plane ticket without previously understand what that destination will bring as energies and lessons.

Ancient and old texts speak about a grid of invisible energy lines circles the globe, linking especially sacred sites and places of good energies in a grand pattern.

Ley lines are thought to be straight energy lines that connect ancient and sacred landmarks across the world. Stonehenge, the Egyptian Pyramids, Machu Picchu, the Great Wall of China + MANY MORE. They all form a powerful hidden energy grid.

In simpler terms, imagine the Earth crisscrossed by straight spirit veins. Where these lines intersect or run through, you often find places long regarded as sacred or powerful. Glastonbury Tor and Avebury stone circle in England, for example, lie along the famous St. Michael’s ley line, which runs across southern England and is said to emit a remarkable energy. Visitors often report feeling a distinct “buzz” or spiritual uplift at these spots that once visited, there can be no doubt that this is, indeed, a very special spot. Another renowned alignment, the Apollo–Athena line, is believed to run through sites dedicated to Apollo and Athena across Europe, from Delphi in Greece through Mont Saint-Michel in France and onward. Across the globe, similar patterns are pointed out: Peru’s mysterious Nazca Lines have been linked by some to a vast ley network, and in Australia the Aboriginal Rainbow Serpent songline is often compared to a ley line, connecting the sacred monolith Uluru with other points of power. Hawaii, Iceland, Antarctica and Bali are similar places of high-level frequencies.

The term ley lines was coined in 1921 by British antiquarian and businessman Alfred Watkins, who noticed that prehistoric sites in England often fell into alignment. Watkins originally suggested these alignments were old trackways for trade or pilgrimage, the “old straight tracks” of our ancestors. He himself did not claim any mystical energy, but the idea of a secret network of power in the earth soon captivated the emerging New Age movement. Dowsers began searching for these unseen lines, “keen on detecting leys” wherever they could.

What started as a mundane mapping of ancient roads evolved into a spiritual and paranormal quest: a belief that the Earth has meridians of force, much like the human body has lines of energy in acupuncture.
So you see, if you know what you want and need, you can actually choose a ley line spot you travel to and (re)charge your frequency with the information and gifts of that particular place. This of course will ask you to go beyond travel agencies offers and explore the intricacies and needs of your soul path.

Skeptics, scientists, will raise all eyebrows. Modern science has not confirmed any measurable “lines” of energy under the ground, you won’t find ley lines in a geology textbook, and magnetometers typically detect no unusual fields along the alleged routes. But we are not only science. We are meaning makers.

Isn’t it intriguing that so many cultures built holy sites on strikingly linear paths? Perhaps our ancestors knew more than we give them credit for, or perhaps the alignment of sites is part of a geomantic design we have yet to decipher. Even some scientists and researchers have felt compelled to investigate. In the 1970s, an Argentinian physicist named Eduardo Balanovski brought a gaussmeter to a massive standing stone in Wales – and found “significant magnetic anomalies” in the area around the megalith. He concluded that “the people who put it there knew about its power, even if they didn’t know about electromagnetism.

Around the same time, the Dragon Project in Britain began studying Stonehenge and other stone circles for unusual energies. Their researchers detected intermittent ultrasonic pulses at sunrise near one monolith, and noted that at summer solstice the usual background ultrasound mysteriously fell silent inside the stone circle, almost as if the stones were dampening the normal vibrations in the air. They also found higher variations in radiation readings at stone circles compared to control sites (though no clear pattern emerged).

The results of these scientific experiments were intriguing yet not definitive. Perhaps that is exactly as it should be. The point for a traveler is not to prove ley lines scientifically, but to remain open to the experience of a place’s energy.

By seeking out Earth’s power spots, those nodes on the ley line grid or any place that calls to your spirit, you may be doing more than sightseeing. You might be replenishing something in your soul, plugging into a source of inspiration and vitality that defies logical explanation.

Others along the ages have explored geomancy and sacred geographies as deeper understandings of travel and exploration, connection of the soul with various Earthly places.

Human fascination with invisible Earth energies seen as sacred alignments, vortexes, or spiritual power points has endured across cultures and millennia. A growing body of interdisciplinary research spanning geophysics, archaeology, neuroscience, and spiritual traditions has begun to explore the underlying physical, psychological, and cultural factors that give rise to these beliefs.

A number of ancient sites have revealed intriguing, though not definitive, electromagnetic properties. For instance, the Dragon Project led by Paul Devereux in the 1970s and 80s explored the Rollright Stones in England, detecting occasional spikes in ultrasound emissions and magnetic disturbances. At Giza, a 2018 theoretical study showed that the shape of the Great Pyramid can focus specific electromagnetic wavelengths, forming natural resonators at key internal chambers.

At Delphi, Greece, modern geology confirmed ancient legends: hallucinogenic gases (like ethylene) emitted through fault lines may have induced trance states in the priestesses of Apollo. Similarly, “earth lights” or unexplained glowing spheres have been frequently reported at tectonically active or magnetically anomalous sites lending possible geophysical explanations to the perceived sacredness of these places.

Beyond measurable phenomena, many theories stem from alternative sciences like dowsing or geomancy. Later thinkers, such as John Michell, expanded the ley lines ideas into global spiritual grids, akin to the dragon lines of Chinese feng shui.

Equally compelling is the human experience at these sites. Visitors often report sensations such as deep calm, tingling, visions, or a sense of sacred presence. Some of these responses may be influenced by expectation, aesthetics, or environmental cues like infrasound or light quality.

Scientific studies such as those by Miller and Lonetree in Sedona, Arizona have measured EEG brainwave changes correlating with geomagnetic micro-fluctuations, suggesting a resonance between brain states and environmental fields. Phenomena like “earth sounds” (ultrasound or infrasound pulses) detected at solstice moments in stone circles have been linked to subjective reports of peace or awe.

Sacred geographies are a global phenomenon. In Asia, Mount Kailash is revered by multiple religions, considered Earth’s “crown chakra.” Feng shui traditions map invisible energy currents across China. Even anomalies like the South Atlantic Magnetic Anomaly (which includes Machu Picchu) or the Bermuda Triangle have been integrated into Earth grid theories suggesting “nodes” of energetic concentration, whether beneficial or disruptive.

Though science has yet to confirm a unified “Earth energy grid,” there is growing acknowledgment that many sacred sites coincide with detectable geophysical anomalies, be they magnetic, acoustic, or geological.

How can we work through what the soul needs with astrology? Everybody has a map of his/her soul, based on the natal energetic imprint and how the soul could expand and learn in exchanges with the energetic map of Earth.
Not all of our travel destinations are written in stone; some, I believe, if not all of them, are written in the planets and the stars. And they can be easily identified through astrocartography, astrolocality and relocation charts.

If ley lines are the Earth’s mystical grid, astrocartography is your personal cosmic map, a combination of your birth chart with the energetic geographies of the globe. Some places might bring you more luck, more money, more love, other places more knowledge or restructuring. And so on. Astrocartography as a field was popularised by American astrologer Jim Lewis in the 1970; he believed that by converting the birth chart into a map, one could find one’s “power spots” around the world. Since then, the technique has been embraced by astrologers worldwide and even entered mainstream travel discourse. Modern astrologers like Clarisse Monahan and Lisa Stardust have brought astrocartography to a broader audience, offering insights on how to “plan your next trip” using the stars. Each world area represents a geographic zone where a given planet’s energy from your charts will be stronger for you and thus generate transformation within and in the environment you experience.

For example, the simplest elements of Astrocartography could tell you where in the world you can expand parts of your soul (these are embodied by the principles of each Planet in your charts):

  • Sun Line – A place where you shine. These locations tend to make you feel “at home”, able to be your best and truest self, basking in vitality, confidence and success. It’s as if the sun comes out for you whenever you’re there. But these are places in which you can also work the negative Sun patterns in your chart.
  • Moon Line – Where the heart is. Moon line places touch you on a deep emotional level. You might find a profound sense of comfort or nostalgia, making them ideal for inner reflection or even starting a family. Under the Moon’s silvery glow, life changes can happen naturally, you feel nurtured enough to transform. But these are places in which you can also work the negative Moon patterns in your chart.
  • Mercury Line – The curious corridor. Travel here and you’ll likely be buzzing with mental stimulation. These are great places to learn, write, talk and meet new people. You might find yourself striking up conversations in cafes or journaling late into the night, mind racing with new ideas. But these are places in which you can also work the negative Mercurial patterns in your chart.
  • Venus Line – Allure and harmony. On your Venus line, love is in the air. These locales are favourable for romance, friendship, art, and comfort. You may notice you feel and even look more attractive – as one guide puts it, “visit your Venus line… it’s the perfect place to meet your true love,” and it can also bring money and abundance. But these are places in which you can also work the negative Venusian patterns in your chart.
  • Mars Line – Adventure awaits. Mars energises a place with action and assertiveness. You might feel bolder and more driven, terrific for pursuing ambitious projects or thrilling outdoor exploits. Just watch for tempers flaring; Mars’s heat can ignite passion and conflict, so stay mindful not to rush into quarrels under this influence. But these are places in which you can also work the negative Mars patterns in your chart.
  • Jupiter Line – Luck and expansion. Jupiter is the planet of growth, optimism and “good vibes,” so its line is where fortune tends to favor you. Opportunities seem to multiply, and you often experience a bigger, richer slice of life. If you’re seeking to broaden your horizons (in career, knowledge, or even waistline given Jupiter’s love of abundance!), consider a sojourn on this line. But these are places in which you can also work the negative Jupiterian patterns in your chart.
  • Saturn Line – Lessons and legacy. Saturn’s locales are serious and can be challenging. These might not be carefree vacation spots; instead, they’re places that test and mature you. You may go through trials or feel lonely or hardworking – yet if you stick with it, you come away stronger and wiser. Traveling here is like a rite of passage that forces you to “grow. But these are places in which you can also work the negative Saturnian patterns in your chart.
  • Uranus Line – Expect the unexpected. Uranus brings change, surprise, and liberation. On this line, you might have electrifying experiences – sudden changes of plan, chance encounters, even awakenings. It’s the energy of the unconventional. Wonderful if you’re seeking a break from routine or a spark of innovation, but hold on tight because the ride could get bumpy. But these are places in which you can also work the negative Uranian patterns in your chart.
  • Neptune Line – Dreamy shores. Under Neptune’s influence, places feel otherworldly. These could be spiritual retreats or simply destinations where you feel like you’re in a beautiful dream. Meditation, art, and imagination flourish here. However, Neptune can also blur reality – one might feel disoriented or find that a paradise has its illusions. It’s ideal for soul-searching or creative inspiration, as long as you stay grounded. But these are places in which you can also work the negative Neptune patterns in your chart.
  • Pluto Line – Transformation ground. Pluto is intense; its line is where you may confront deep changes. People often experience some form of rebirth or profound catharsis in these places – not always easy, but ultimately empowering. It could be where you overcome a fear, end one chapter of life and begin another. If you feel stuck and crave a breakthrough, a Pluto line trip might be the volcano that shakes things loose. But these are places in which you can also work the negative Plutonian patterns in your chart.
But what I DO is more complex. I combine various astrocartography techniques with ley lines information and other energy imprints knowledge into a special analysis for your soul only.
If you need a particular type of energy to explore, I combine for you the energies of planet Earth with what your soul map (and that is your bundle of astro chart) to offer you an in-depth analysis you can use more intentionally when you travel. My analysis for you is a custom world energetic map overlaid with lines representing where each of your soul parts can experience journeys of healing, expansion, joy, restructuring and so on. This is VIA ANIMAE ATLAS.
Maybe you want your honey moon to be adventurous but not dangerous. Or your studies to help you in your career but not take a toll on your energy and give you burnout. Or maybe you want to increase your creativity and communication skills and nourish the deep insights. And yes, there are also extremely important places of body healing if you need an acceleration of some sorts in this area.
Travel and explorations outside your natal country are not leisure, this is a matter of intelligence and intentionality.
You will get your lifetime map for intentional travels.
Doesn’t this sound sooooo good?

As I see it, at its heart, choosing travel destinations by energy is about transforming a holiday into purpose. It invites you to treat the world as more than a series of vacation photos or bucket-list checkboxes. Instead, the world becomes a dynamic landscape of potential personal epiphanies, each location a chapter in your story that can unlock a different facet of your being.

When you align where you go with what you need or desire on a deeper level, travel can become profoundly healing and inspiring.

Travel, like life, is a blend of the planned and the unexpected. By planning with energy in mind, you set a positive intention. And you say “I am going to this place to invite this into my life.” The universe often responds in kind, sometimes in wonderfully literal ways and sometimes by completely surprising you.

If you want to understand the frequencies of change and what they are doing in your own astrological charts and life, come to VIA ANIMAE.

Until next time, thank you!

#WomenAreHealing

“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller.

But does she have a caring heart?

blonde woman in a rice field in the morning
I had someone tell me a long time ago: “you will never be a leader, you care too much and this is weakness.”

It was a woman who said that. A woman telling another woman she can’t do something, probably because of immaturity, or spite or envy. To this day for me, this is an abomination. Remember this short conversation, I will come back to it later in this healing letter.

It might seem for many decades that we are living in a toxic patriarchy, now infused with strategically placed images of broligarchy figures, the so called “wise-guys” of tech. But I continue to ponder why we as women have endured it for so much time. Because we did and we still consciously accept and replicate among ourselves the same heartless behaviours that fostered the unbalance we now see in the world.

The truth is the feminine shadow is currently extremely strong. The rise of the toxic masculinity is just a balancing response. Knowing this, how about changing this for the better?

This year is definitely going to be different and, in many aspects, stronger than 2024. In changes, transformations and also unbelievable recklessness. More (aggressive) manly than balanced. But this is where we are as individuals and as a collective.

In astrology, 3 major planets are changing their element and polarity, from feminine to masculine energies. Uranus, Neptune and of course, the star of the season, Pluto, are migrating taking their first steps into uncharted territories.

We’ve never experienced fully, intentionally, Pluto in Aquarius energy as a collective, as the dwarf planet was discovered in early 1930 and it was then in the sign of Cancer, so real-time analysis were not possible. Uranus is bringing its major unpredictability and innovation spirit to whatever Pluto is demanding or uncovering for humanity. Neptune is adding its borderless energy in a very spiritual year of 9, dissolving paths and destinies while enhancing both imagination and delusion. Saturn is a seriousness, structural sigil to whatever Neptune wants to dream more of.

Their tango back and forth over the 1st degree of masculine elements and signs is no easy experience.

This spring might seem unusual, not ordinary, a bit unpredictable. Like an uprooting of some sort that needs us to awaken and unite more consciously. Spring and summer bring forth immense power and aggression, indubitable energy, but also…a chance for guiding this new start with the heart, not the mind.

I see this moment like a special light taking us by the hand and guiding us from the start of summer. Jupiter, the great amplificator will move sign from curious, expansive and superficial Gemini to caring Crab. And it will stay there until June 2026, amplifying whatever he finds in the sign of emotionality and intuition. The good and the bad. But let’s focus on the good for now, as we are a bunch of conscious women and we understand energies and the world on a higher level.

For me, the Crab is truly the special feminine sign that is most connected with multiple realms. The Crab feels all the feels and ensures a deeper understanding of The Caring Principle and why today’s world really needs a comeback on it.

With Jupiter in Crab, we will build the homes we need in our souls, families and workplaces. The darker it might get around us, the cosier should get within us.

So you see, Jupiter, as magnifier, might just be what we need to tone a bit the year down and start a very important wave: the rising of exceptionally Caring Feminine Leaders. I do believe new women leaders and healers will appear or become more visible, and definitely rise to meet this great occasion of building a world that cares more than it destroys. Time will tell if these months starting June will bring about the women we need to move forward with more grace, acceptance, gratitude and consciousness. The strong ones. The caring ones. The kind ones. Because being kind and caring and devoted is actually a great achievement and quality in a leader. Which reminds me to go back to the start of this message and thank myself that I never took advice from the people that wanted me to fail. As a leader, colleague, friend, woman.

So if you are starting or envisioning your own rising this year, here it is, as per usual, a prompt list to help your journey become more focused but also more intentional:

Do you feel like you deserve a bigger role in the world?

What is the real intention behind your pursuit in leadership, career, business, entrepreneurship, etc? The feeling you weave the entire cloth with. The good leader has a higher meaning than money or success.

How strong and vibrant is your support system: family, partner, friends, etc? Do you feel connected and emotionally engaged with them? A good leader needs a good ecosystem.

What is the source of your higher calling? Can you think of doing more with your project or job, with higher meaning and larger impact?

How emotionally regulated are you? To be a good leader means knowing your own needs and fulfilling them. You are the energy and intention you bring to a space.

How are you practising what you preach? Kindness and care are verbs.

It will never be clearer than in this moment: abundance starts within the soul. And this is the time for good women leaders to rise to the occasion.
Until next time, thank you for being here and reading my weekly healing letters.

Happy New Lunar Year, my dears! The energies of 2025 are only now starting to be charged into the Earth realm. So take it easy and inhale, exhale! This is a journey of recharging until the Spring Equinox. Take it all in and absorb the positives you need to create the best with what 2025 has in store for your.

For What’s next personalised consultations, I am a message away.

Xoxo,

Roxana

#WomenAreHealing

Rest your wings for later, honey

Blonde woman in a sunny rice field

I must admit, I wanted to write about judgement and how this year is gently inviting us to release and let go, accept and forgive while forging a better cycle for ourselves. Away from all the prejudice and criticism we fuel our lives and relationships.

But as it always happens, another topic stole my attention and took over this newsletter. Just as the year began, almost all my closest people are experiencing a slower pace. Whether they like it or not, even the astrology of 2025 is advising us to cool off, calm down and breathe before starting the journey. Delayed projects, put-on-hold-relationships, inner tension and lack of energy to do most of the daily work.

But this is quite a normal pace for this time of the year.

As I always say, January is more like a transition month, a transient couple of weeks to take advantage of, before initiating greater, newer endeavours. This is why maybe a lot of people are always struggling with these weeks just after the Xmas and Western New Year’s Eve. We expect too much, too soon, too fast. We define ourselves through the rapid pace, not by the calmness and grounding of our movements and choices. Slow has become synonym with weak or poor. Taking fewer jobs and giving yourself a break from always being the best has never been more condemned by the culture of productivity and efficiency.

But Nature and Earth has a different rhythm and definitely a soul of her own. And this year we’re not invited, but tied up until end of April to experience what slow means for our lives, wellbeing, maturity of choices, relationships and projects. Mars Retrograde will be followed by Venus Retrograde and Mercury Retrograde. Almost all the personal planets will put pressure on us to calm down, reconsider and change innerly.

We are starting 2025 in a retrograde mood.

What it means is that we need to take our foot off the acceleration pedal and wait a bit. Wait to see the first whispers of the year. On a political, economic, philosophic but also spiritual level. Inform from reliable sources, dig a bit deeper into what is estimated for 2025, what are the forces behind this realignment on a Global level. And remember, everything is actually guided by energy and spirituality. You can connect with that part of you that is your Soul calling and intuitive place.

It’s not a coincidence that the planet of action and initiation, Mars, is retrograde since early December going (apparently) backwards until the end of February in the sign of Cancer. There is this incredible need to go inward and connect with what makes us nurtured, sure, at peace. The mother’s caring nature and the care with which we are feeding our lives. This process needs silence and peace. Not action or discombobulation.

There are big shifts happening right now. All over the world, the chaos that swallowed the end of 2024 is silencing our most active drives. The Trumps are taking over the US again and with them, a new wave is spreading across companies, nations and individuals. Political regimes are changing abruptly all over the world and people are beginning to say and show what they need. Something like an inner volcano is deeply moaning in the collective conscience. Different in language and behaviours, identities, but united in the need for change and revolution.

These are the months we need to build something higher in our conscience. So these months, with all their blockages are deeply needed. Whether you believe me or have the patience to read this through, you need to stop. Breather. Reflect. Do what’s necessary, not what’s extra. Listen, reflect, project. If you act in an opposite manner, you might experience unwanted and frustrating delays, closed doors.

You might experience low energy levels now, the need for constant emotional reassurance or the inability to make stir decisions unless we feel 200% secure, abandonment issues or playing the victim in some ways in our relationships. Tension might build up if we are not careful and backfire energetically at the expense of our loved ones. We might feel weak or too vulnerable which might also attract defensiveness in relations. The seat of emotions is now troubled by the energies of every moment in which we chose against our better judgement or needs. Yes, these might be extremely heavy times.

But what do we do with this? As always, here are some prompts you might use. Take this time to:

  • Get settled in your own life, I am sure the end of 2024 was not far from being hectic. What do you need to purify, cleanse and rearrange?
  • Reprioritise what is a must versus what can be planned and launched later in the year.
  • Get more quality time at home, with your relatives, connect with your parents more gently and build that inner mother within you.
  • Move your body gently in any ways you like. Sanity walks, yoga, stretching, dancing. I would advise especially women to opt for less cortisol or muscle training and slower, lighter forms of movement. Your choice is nevertheless your own.
  • Sleep as much as you can. Prioritise quality sleep before 12 AM so your bodily functions can regenerate accordingly.
  • Look deeper at your inner traits of masculine versus feminine and how they are entangled while working together. Maybe it’s time your masculine served the feminine more by respecting her needs and rhythm.
  • Visit your local sauna maybe once per week. Sauna has incredibly good results with mental health and it’s been proved through many studies.
  • Take care of your microbiome and eat as diversely as possible. Reduce inflammation by taking out sugar, carbs and seed oils. Practice intermittent fast. Eat at home and warm food, as much as you can, you will notice the difference immediately in your mood. Probiotics, Omega 3, Magnesium and D3 are the essentials for your starting the year kit.
  • Reduce caffeine as it induces more anxiety and frankly it distorts your idea of how much stuff you can do daily. Since I quit coffee, my pace has become gentler and my work more focused.
  • Talk better to yourself. I use daily expressions like: “I give myself the peace I need”; “I am already doing the best I can do”; “I am my best friend”. If you are respecting the words you say to yourself, you are respecting your needs.
  • Revel into the Planetary Sky of January 21st to 25th. No less that 6 planets are now beginning their somewhat aparent alignment in the night sky, four of them visible to the naked eye. According to BBC, “There is an imaginary line that the path of the Sun traces across the daytime sky, and this is known as the ‘ecliptic‘.

    The ecliptic is due to the fact that Earth and all the other Solar System planets formed out of the same flat disc of gas and dust that once surrounded our infant Sun. This means the planets in the Solar System all occupy roughly the same orbital plane – Earth included – and therefore all more or less follow the line of the ecliptic in the sky. So, when multiple planets are visible in the sky, they’ll located be roughly along this line.” It’s not a unique phenomenon, like the Internet said, but a very common experience that happens annually. Nevertheless, it is still a beautiful thing to watch.

We are entering in the season of Aquarius tomorrow and a New Moon is waiting for us at the crossroads of the New Chinese Year. As always, I am here to guide you so be sure to send this newsletter to your friends as well.

But for now, rest your wings, honey. They will need this time to fly to newer realms once this time is over.

Xoxo,

Roxana

#WomenAreHealing

Chapter 9 | Ready for it?

blonde women in the jungle on a sunny day

“And so may a slow
Wind work these words
Of love around you,
An invisible cloak
To mind your life.”

As I am writing these first words for #WAH in 2025, the year feels like it is still trying to begin somehow. The energy is sluggish, sometimes unclear and the next is still hidden from our sight. Nature mimicks it well. Days of fog mix in with days of cringy suns. Well, this is normal for a 2024 that has not really ended, right? Those of you reading me for sometimes already know this.

The transition between years is actually made in these weeks of January, February and March.
The first glimpse of the new clothes of 2025 will actually be seen around January 29th with the New Chinese Year (of the Wooden Snake) and subsequently around February 28th during Losar | New Tibetan Year. The climax of this beginning is, of course, for Western (and Northern) societies, the Spring Equinox coming March 20th together with its Eclipses.
So you see, there is never a fixed moment when we say goodbye to the past and welcome the new. It’s always a liminal space and time that allows us to shed, become lighter, get carried away or refocus.
These upcoming weeks are crucial for preparing for 2025, numerologic year of 9 and a Pisces destiny cycle in western astrology.
  1. We navigate into the coming year, moving from the tangible and palpable toward more subtle energies. The energies around us, but especially those within us.
  2. Health will be an important theme, but many of us might also turn to other methods than modern medicine, more towards holistic healing than treatments. During this period, we might encounter conditions we’ve never heard of or for which there is still no exact treatment.
  3. We may begin to feel tendencies to sacrifice ourselves for others, to find mechanisms that explain why others do not function well and to attempt an illusory repair. But what lies behind these tendencies of ours? Do we genuinely want to contribute, or do we seek attention, hoping that we, too, can be seen, understood, and saved?
  4. We might become more intuitive and find it easier to connect to the energies of others. This ability can help if we work in fields where it is a useful skill, but at the same time, if we are too empathetic, certain spaces may leave us feeling drained of energy. It’s crucial to discern between people, spaces, and experiences.
  5. We are called to greater compassion, forgiveness, and the ability to leave behind suffering, judgments, traumas, and moments that may still weigh on us. Let us not grow rigid, but instead, accept that those moments and those people merely brought us face-to-face with our own blocks. Through them and because of them, we could no longer run from ourselves.
This is a cycle of Neptune. We might feel drawn to live experiences that are, in fact, utopian. It’s important to observe how we mentally manage imagination and practicality, clarity. What do you want to close and leave behind as you enter 2026? 2025 can be the year when we recognise how we’ve held onto situations, memories, people, or contexts that haven’t been ours for a long time. We can look back to see what decisions we’ve made throughout this cycle and how they’ve supported us. 2025 is the year we can count our blessings from the years before, starting in 2017. It is not a singular year but a nearly collective one.
  1. We are likely to feel more vulnerable to disappointment or hurt. We might find ourselves dreaming more, both literally and metaphorically.
  2. We can be open to experimenting with different methods of recreation that enhance our imagination, creativity, and aesthetic spirit. However, it is important not to channel these tendencies or openness toward addictive substances, of any kind, that could endanger our health or our anchoring in the daily, practical reality.
Let us dream, but let us distill and begin to work with and for our dreams. Let us believe, but let us also explain, even if only through the lens of our personal truth. Let us retreat when we feel the need, but stay connected to everything and everyone that is part of our lives.

Let us view troubles or obstacles with greater wisdom, even if it is difficult.

  1. Let us identify our limiting beliefs and examine the programs or mantras guiding our lives. What is blocking us? What is influencing us? Where do these come from, and to which family members or close circles do we feel a misplaced loyalty? How well do we truly know our families? Secrets, hidden truths, unspoken words, or forgotten things might come to light during this cycle.
  2. Sometimes, we may need to learn to detach from strict programs and endless daily to-do lists. We might allow others to take on tasks that we could have always delegated anyway. We can give ourselves the chance to disconnect, to create, to hope. To be less of an “organized robot” and more of a spirit filled with imagination and creativity. After all, isn’t this the essence of humanity? This year, we may see how the impossible becomes possible. A new idea born now might be precisely what we need to leave behind a job or a program that no longer benefits or constrains us. To-do lists shouldn’t live our lives; we should live them.
  3. We will no longer seek perfection because we will always need to adapt to new states of being to overcome obstacles. But how can we understand what lies beyond us if we don’t let go of ourselves?
  4. The tendency to see problems might grow stronger in those who resist spiritual experiences.
  5. Perhaps we will overcome our tendency to hide and to conceal, driven by the need to be perfect.
Our faith might be tested through various ailments, people, or illusory relationships.

Judge less, detach from excessive rationality, or from the habit of finding flaws in everything. Where we are inflexible and too strict, we will be guided or compelled to reshape ourselves around others, other circumstances, or other concepts.

Some of us might feel the urge to break away from reality and retreat, to isolate. This is fine as long as we use the time to reconnect with our inner selves and understand what we must leave behind to begin a new cycle in 2026.

Perhaps we will find the support we need to stop suppressing our desires and intuition. Life is not just about what must be done, but also about what can be created.
Neptune

In relationships, we may need to trust the other person more and stop being constantly suspicious. At the same time, imbalanced energy in this area might expose us to people or relationships marked by ambiguity, deceit, illusion, or chaos. Really bad relationships will break, for the 2 to seek their own fulfilment and healing within other paths.

We will learn to travel with our imagination, if not with our passport. We might understand those who are different, unseen, un-helped, or abandoned, and we will be asked to offer them a helping hand or a kind word. Giving and returning to faith are beautiful ways to balance this year’s energy in our personal destinies.

We find mental peace if we allow ourselves to believe we deserve it and that it can meet us. We can allow ourselves to believe we are supported by something greater than ourselves.

This year might seem slow at times or, at other moments, too fast. Opportunities and people might pass us by before we can recognise them.

Dreams will have a significant influence on our minds, but they may also be the path to healing our souls. Isolation and regeneration in retreats, monasteries, or quiet, inaccessible places can be of great help.

Let us cultivate an appreciation for art in all its forms in 2025.

2025 feels like an ending, perhaps of something started in 2017. Or maybe the end of a path, an identity we built and proposed for ourselves since then. But there is no ending without a new beginning, is there? So why not see endings as moments that make us freer, lighter, more flexible, and more open?

Gently, we lay down all that is no longer ours (or never was). It will feel easier to travel through the year with just our hand luggage.

In 2025, we cannot change anything about the past, and the future is still unclear beyond a few steps ahead. So we can pause to contemplate, evaluate, forgive ourselves, and let ourselves be. Like after a race where it doesn’t matter what place we’ve finished, only that we’ve surpassed ourselves.

That person who left painfully wasn’t truly yours or even their own. That job you left when you had no energy left wasn’t the place that served you well, anyway. We are not victims but creators of our own healing and evolution. Creators of our own suffering as well if we do not pay attention.

In 2025, everything we’ve lost in recent years becomes, in fact, a gain. Look back and see: would you still be who you are today without everything you’ve already lived?
2025 begins with many personal planets in retrograde, in a very tight row (Mars, then Venus, then Mercury). Not by accident. Because 2025 will feel like it’s pulling us back, throwing us toward ourselves more than ever, blocking external motion so we stop running from the movement within.

This year, past situations may repeat. People might return so that we can let go, integrate the lessons, and be content with where we’ve arrived, without them, but stronger.

If we were to describe 2025 in one word, it would be “purpose” or “meaning”, an invitation to live with intention and elevate every aspect of our lives.

Next week I will dive deeper into the Karmic Cycle we are stepping into starting January 12th, which will last for 1.5 years.

Until then, I am here to support, guide or just…see YOU.

With love,

Roxana #WomenAreHealing

photos: Edy Wiratama, Bali 2024.

Beannacht

by John O’Donohue

On the day when
The weight deadens
On your shoulders
And you stumble,
May the clay dance
To balance you.

And when your eyes
Freeze behind
The grey window
And the ghost of loss
Gets into you,
May a flock of colours,
Indigo, red, green
And azure blue,
Come to awaken in you
A meadow of delight.

When the canvas frays
In the currach of thought
And a stain of ocean
Blackens beneath you,
May there come across the waters
A path of yellow moonlight
To bring you safely home.

May the nourishment of the earth be yours,
May the clarity of light be yours,
May the fluency of the ocean be yours,
May the protection of the ancestors be yours.

And so may a slow
Wind work these words
Of love around you,
An invisible cloak
To mind your life.

Aren’t we all word lovers?

blonde woman with small cat

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”

blonde woman with small cat

No, I am not going full on Biblical on you this Moonday. I know we are a very eclectic bunch, each with our own interpretation of what and how the Divine (energy) is.

But I did write this message on sweet (and sainty) Sunday, so it must have influenced my mind a bit.

As you already know, I almost never end up writing about what I plan to write. Most of the times, I let myself feel the energy of the day and build on it.

For most of the past 2-3 weeks, I made a habit of noticing how people used words and language around me.
  • I heard friends talking poorly to themselves in times of deep suffering.
  • I had friends manipulating words to get their way in business and save money, while ignoring the white elephants in the room – their own choices.
  • I saw people use words as knives on the street and at TV.
  • I witnessed weak politicians trying to convince yet another generation that their work is meaningful and in support of a country.
  • I scrolled on social media and saw random guys and gals making fun of less educated people as from a place of entitlement and superiority.

+ so much more.

Yes, there were also glimpses of goodness, but they were rare and shadowed by the ugly.
Oh, we are so words-damaged as a collective!
I don’t think I’ve always been good with words. This was definitely not a love affair, but more like a relation built in time, with effort and a lot of struggle.

In my early childhood years, it was hard for me to be assertive, to express my feelings and my thoughts through carefully selected language. I feared inappropriate words would come out of my mouth and be judged and rejected, punished or ignored or laughed at. It was not always the case, of course.

In time, I practiced words and language so much so that now, there is not a day in my life without reading and writing and speaking. Be it astrological charts, communication strategies, content, presentations, articles, interviews, books or just casual journaling. In this word loving process of +40 years, I understood the power of words to reflect our intentions, match our energies, support our manifestation and connect with others.

Words are now my strength. And my vulnerability. And my anchor (to connect with you all). And windows for the future I can and will create.
Together, we are transitioning very spiritual times when it comes to the use of words. How we speak is now more than ever a prayer or a sin. Because whatever you speak now, it will come into existence!

I won’t bore you with the details, but words will lift us and hit us until summer of 2025. And then they will make us or break us. We have a very limited window of opportunity to wake up and start building a different version of our speaking magic.

We either learn to use words wisely, “to select our thoughts like we select our clothes” (quote from Eat, Pray, Love – the movie) or we will experience loosing more and more, on our own account. People, faith, material gains, friends, health.

So, this week, as Mercury prepares to walk its last steps in (aparent) retrograde motion, let it be your new start with words. Think of it like a new relationship you are curious to grow. Words are energy. Words come from a special place. Words are gifts of the Divine that we sometimes use as weapons against each other. What side of the story will you be on?
Ask yourself how your words are impacting your everyday experience. A couple of helping prompts to feed your process:

1.What are the gaps between what you think and what you say? To yourself, to others. Be sure honesty and dishonesty are felt in your energy and seen in your eyes.

2.How are you using words to uplift you (and others) and not bring everybody down?

3.Are you actually communicating interesting stuff about you or others or are you just gossiping your way through superficial connections and mindless scrolling?

4.What style of communication do you actually have, far from the family programming or belief system?

5.Anything you say, you inform you cuantic field. From that on, you will manifest it, good or bad very fast, especially these months. Now that I’ve got your attention, how suddenly responsible are you now?

6.How can you make words your love language day by day?

Until next week, respect, embrace, love words!

Roxana

#WomenAreHealing

dear August, please break me softly

Happy woman in plein air

Each week I am planning a diverse set of themes for the Women Are Healing newsletter. And when it comes the time to actually write it, I find it more natural to go with my intuition in that moment. And yes, what happens is that I change completely the topic. Usually, what I feel in the moment, I prioritise.

But this week something different happened. This end of week I travelled quickly between Bucharest and Brasov to meet a dear artsy friend and my niece. As one does on the train, looking through the moving glass only activates that part of the brain that is more introspective and pensive. And it suddenly came to my mind: oh my God, here we go,

It is August already!

We still have 5 months of this year, but it somehow feels that we went through a lot since early January already. August is the 8th month in a 8th year and includes what astrologers call Lion’s gate on August 8th. 8 yes, is a number of wealth and abundance, but most of the times is the number of control, power, manipulation and resistance. And just like one of my teachers says: before receiving a spiritual gift, you must first pay a price.

August is gonna ask us to pay or sacrifice something.

Some of us think that August comes with rest and recuperation after a busy, yet thrilling year. But for us astrologers, August is a reset month. One that we don’t see but we feel it coming.

This month is full of events on our cosmic (and also energy) sky. And NO, I can’t lie to you at all, it’s gonna be intense.

Mercury retrograde will bring back themes like work relations, contracts, joy, ex-es, relationships that need clarification and yes…final release. The transit will be tougher than others and will require discipline, a trait not many of us have mastered.

The New Moon in Leo (coming August 4th) will open new (heart & abundance) roads for the next 6 months, but only if we truly find the balance between us and the other one.

Full Moon in Aqua (coming August 19th) will probably be the toughest with a lot of important (and difficult) conversations on our sky. The Full Moon will bring sudden releases and changes (even if we will not be ready to experience them), testing our readiness to change beliefs so that we embark on the road we always say we want to drive/walk on. This change will be felt, experienced and then understood.

August also brings a powerful T-Square configuration involving Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Venus. The entire summer is not only under powerful, spiritual retrogrades (Neptune in Pisces, Saturn in Pisces, etc), but it wants action, change, being in charge of one’s destiny. And as we all know, change is not something our brain prioritises. Survival needs to thrive in familiarity. But expansion needs this seed of change, even a forced on to move on, forget, heal, expand, try something else, have courage. Yes, Mercury will ask us to slow down (in thinking and actions), but this T-square on the sky, in mutable signs, will scream: TAKE A STAND in your own life and CHANGE!

Whenever it’s hard to live, I just…reduce my days to the simplest form. We are still in the middle of Leo season, and simplicity is the highest vibration of this archetype. Love is simple if it comes from the heart, the center. Work is simple if it’s done with joy. Obstacles are not so tall if we reduce them to their essence.

This August, we sacrifice something so that we get what we say we want.

What we can all do is prepare. I found that reducing our experienced life to its simplest form comes in very handy when we are transitioning intense times. Some clues on my part for you:

  • In work, prioritise the essential. Work smarter, use AI tools when needed, deliver the things you need to finish. August needs you to expand less and finish the things you initiated 6 month ago in February.
  • take care of your home, clean it, donate the clutter, release the unwanted. September will come with a lot of new beginnings and it needs empty spaces to manifest.
  • find time for prayer, meditation, sitting still and just…breathe
  • eat less (yes, you heard me right), do some fasting, drink more water or soups, let your digestive system declutter as well. People usually stuff their mouths with food in summer while on holidays. Well, summer is actually the best time to reset your digestive system and renew it cells and processes.
  • watch your energy levels, change always comes with a different vibration. Starting August 22nd anyhow, our attention will be on the body, our routines, how we are taking care of our health and health checks.
  • if you’re into smoking, drinking, recreational drugs, maybe less of that will help you sleep better. Because by now, all scientists as well as old traditions agree on 1 thing: sleep is the best, most efficient, also free, method/tool to renew your mind, body, balance the nerves and hormones and ensure good disposition throughout the day.
  • do some work with your hands in nature, wether is in your garden or just doing yoga on a deserted island.
  • if it doesn’t bring you joy or make you more responsible, then put it aside.
  • for those of you planning to travel, do it responsibly, add some creative outlets on your journeys and listen to what the heart whispers when you relax your pace.
  • speak less, listen more.
  • breathe more. I am currently reading Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor and try to develop a more consistent pranayama (breathing) practice. I know my friend Ramona will enjoy this recommendation of mine for you this month, the Bee breath from Yoga with Adriene, free on youtube.
  • no, don’t do all of these, just pick the ones (or invent other ones) who you can focus on during the entire month.

    Until next Monday, take care of yourself and try to cultivate more conscious, simple choices and actions.

    Roxana

    #WomenAreHealing

Are you doing it slow?

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No, no clickbait here. Or maybe just a bit :). But are you doing it slow?

By that I mean: what’s your rhythm, how fast are you living, how fast do you finish your tasks or over-accomplish? Are you truly experiencing life or consuming it like it’s a box you need to tick on your agenda?

Today, we rarely think of slowing down. From the coffees we drink to the devices we scroll on or the countless holidays we want to go on, from the advertising that tells us we can do more or buy faster, every system we are integrated in screams at us and pushes us to the limits. We are taught that: “if you feel you can’t, you can a bit more.”

We no longer have to run for our lives from a lion, but we are definitely choosing to live in the middle of a savanna every day.

Yes, we are choosing. You heard me right. Some of us consciously choose to live like this, burning life at both ends. Other don’t actually know what life and boundaries are. It’s definitely not our sole fault, but it is our responsibility to mend it.

Slow living is a mindset whereby you curate a more meaningful and conscious lifestyle that’s in line with what you value most in life. It means doing everything at the right speed, not at a slower speed. Instead of striving to do things faster, the slow movement focuses on doing things better. Often, that means slowing down,  doing less, and prioritising spending the right amount of time on the things that matter most to you.

Slow living is part of the wider slow movement which began in the 1980s in Italy. Faced with the opening of a McDonald’s in the heart of Rome, Carlo Petrini and a group of activists formed Slow Food, a movement that defends regional food traditions.

Carl Honoré, one of the most well-known authors and speakers on the slow movement, helped bring the concept of slow living into the mainstream in 2004 with the publication of his book In Praise of Slowness. His speech is extremely relevant today. Because more and more people are acknowledging that faster isn’t always better.

We are living the fast life, not the good life.

Why we live with speed:

  • we like adrenaline and the rush of blood that we experience
  • we are part of systems of working and being that don’t mean well for real, they just need to exploit us for their own benefit or profit.
  • slow has been demonised as a word for years and years, you don’t want to seem the slacker of the bunch
  • when we rush, we don’t think about the reality of our life

Choose 1 day. This is all I ask you. 1 day. Do things with intention, whether you are washing dishes or sending emails. Try to slow down. And understand that slowing down is not actually slower. We are all living at a faster pace that we should. Even exercising slow living – we want to do it quickly. Slowing down is just…normalising life rhythm.

Pick 2 gateways to slow living from the above:

  • choose to drink a herbal tea not coffee first thing in the morning. Coffee has nothing to do with helping your body get active. It only hides the tired effect (being tired is stored in kidneys and adrenals) and throws you on a caffeine spiral for the rest of the day. As a long time caffeine aficionada, I almost reached 3-4 coffees per day in 2019-2020. I was angry and trembling and tired all the time. When I quit caffeine I began to see the benefits of experiencing the right amount of time in a day, with its natural rhythm. Turn to lemon warm water and qualitative sleep if you want to see how it works better for your body. If you can’t quit coffee, add warm water or ghee to it and stop drinking it after 1-2 PM, or else your circadian rhythm (which mean quality of sleep) will be deeply affected.
  • look at your day agenda or list or planning and choose 1 main item for the day (personal an/or at work). Concentrate on that item (project, endeavour) and make it intentionally the centre of your active day. You will see that all other items on the list will get done if you want to, in their own rhythm. Be rational about the time you have in a day to do stuff, overly crowded agendas are usually markers of people that: have low self-esteem and get their validation from the crowded agendas and being masters at busy, have low barriers and don’t know how to fulfil their needs properly, or have no idea of what time management means. Either cause is fixable, either with a coach, book, therapy and most of all with individual motivation.
  • yes, I know cycling and running and gym and HIIT are very popular right now. They are also helping you be part of a community and get you be connected with other people. I understand, it’s great. But we as a species need high cortisol in small amounts and definitely not on a regular basis. HIIT sequences though effective, are also increasing the inflammation in the body and generate severe anxiety if they are done often, also affecting sleep. If your stance on this subject is: “I’m fine, I just don’t have time to work out anyway, so I’m safe”, it’s also wrong. Movement has never been about getting into a dark room and sweat for hours. Movement is also you picking up cherries in your grandma’s orchard. Movement is you cleaning the house. Movement is a slow walk in the morning or after a summer rain. Movement is yoga while you also notice your body and how it moves. Movement is hiking on a mountain trail. Movement is tai chi or qigong on a lake. Movement is dancing at a party or in your bedroom. And so on. If you are working out like crazy, slow down and opt for 1-2 slower trainings per week (at least). If you are not into sports, find a slow movement exercise and do it regularly, it calms the mind and grounds the body.
  • look at your hands. they are to be used not only to type or scroll, but essentially more for domestic activities and worldly experiences. Pet your dog or cat with intention, bake for your loved ones, take care of your plants, etc. Do this daily, for at least 10-15 minutes. See how it feels, especially in the mind, to be…human.

    My written essay on the power of hands below.

  • learn to be smart with (your) time. Saturn is a very important part of our character according to astrology. The Lord of Karma and Time teaches us patience, building slowly and most of all (perceived) delays in our manifestation. If you don’t know how to practice Saturn and build resilience, write me a message and we’ll astro-meet. I know that you are a woman and by science, you can do them all, but do you want to?
  • practice slow sex. When Sting many years ago started practicing Tantra, many laughed. Nowadays, the world seems to be polarised between fast dating (and yes, dopamine-infused sex) and people aiming to make sexual experiences more intentional and qualitative. One of my past lovers once said to me: I don’t want it to go fast, I want it to go longer. It definitely surprised me (and my ego), but I took notice. I was so in a hurry that I neglected the main need: to enjoy sex more and over a longer time period. Why are we in a hurry to end something that we love?

Slowing down lets you savour your life. What do you want to choose for yourself? Well, getting in touch with your inner tortoise once in a while might just be a very smart way to…live richer, not faster.

Happy Full Moon in Capricorn, women! And take care, this is the second full moon in Capricorn this summer (we only get 1 per year) and it’s conjunct Pluto to the orb, trining Uranus in Taurus. Releases, releases, releases. Maybe you can release the busyness and just … slow down. Until next time, slowwwwwwww downnnnnn.

with love,

Roxana #WomenAreHealing

To your Hands, with Love

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Hands. Two. For your feminine one, for your masculine another one.
Two hands have taken you from your mother’s womb.
Two hands have placed you at your mother’s breast.
Hands have touched and comforted you while you were sleeping.
With your hands you learned the world. To play, hug, to caress, to carry, to fight, to make bread, to show love to your cat or dog, to stay away from hot or cold stuff.

 

In traditional healing techniques and energy work, hands are the start and finish of one’s body energy circuits. In Reiki, the therapist feels with her hands the areas of your body that need healing the most. In Reflexology and Acupuncture, hands hold important points linked to organs or meridians.

When we are single and with no permanent partner for a longer time, what we really long for is not sex, but touch, the hands of a beloved on our skin.

So you see…Hands are so important for what makes us human, happy and healthy.

Nowadays we use hands (and fingers) to work on laptops, scroll on TikTok. Countless hours per day we are using these God given links to the Universal Energy to connect with technology and less and less with…ourselves and among ourselves.

So get back to loving your hands so they will love you too. Hands are a 2 way street of giving and receiving when used for our good. Through our hands, we include the World and the World includes us back.

How can we make our Hands a more active part of our being and receiving of Love?

Caress your child or your fury cat (or your dog), she needs your affection and you need her balanced energy.

Water your flowers and touch them with love.

Hug your partner, your sister, your mother. For at least 20 seconds, right?

Work the land a bit, when connecting to the earth, our hands gently balance our entire energetic footprint to match what it needs: nature’s rhythm.

Make a summer lemonade, squeeze and feel the lemons give out their sunny juice.

Dance with your hands – yes, you can. You can experiment with flamenco, Balinese gestures or even Chinese moves. Or you can play a bit with Mudras, for me it is so much fun to do this as an exercise after a long writing session.

Do some yoga with Adriene and be steady in your hands as they will hold your body.

Summer is here and we’re all into melon and ice-cream. But what about baking an apricot pie for you and your loved ones? Things cooked with love will always taste better.

Write a kind message using pen and paper. The act of writing like this reinforces the strength of your fingers and hands.

Go play with ceramics a bit. This weekend I visited the Museum of Ceramics at Piscu, a wonderfully (and rather new) location outside Bucharest dedicated to the old tradition of pottery and ceramics. They also have short pottery classes, it felt so refreshing to feel the water and the clay giving life to a shape. The Museum has a modern, eco architecture and is extremely quiet. More like a meditation spot full of arts and crafts, this is how I felt it. Piscu is a formerly pottery centre, and its novel museum houses a collection of maps, old photographs and documents, antique tools and machinery, and, above all, lots and lots of pots.

Add your ideas…and do them with love. Let’s re-create this World with more love for all of us in it. 

From my hands to yours is just a temporary space that needs to be filled in with … love and both our intention to meet.