April 2024 – High Energy Month

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We left March with a roar and the energy of the sun introducing frequencies with minor disruptions in our technology, energy and sleep patterns.

April is generally known as the fourth month. April’s collective numerology contains the vibration of “three,” which represents harmony, wisdom, and understanding.

We’ve been building on finding innovative ways to support each other, new stories/chapters, and the need to heal the collective from lifetimes of wounding and fear-based beliefs.

The energetic themes of April are: 

  • Emotional Mastery where this energy supports us in acknowledging and addressing our emotions with clarity and understanding.
  • Mental Discipline: Practice mindfulness and stay present in the moment. Erase negative impressions from your mind. Adjust your beliefs to healed emotions.
  • Increased Awareness and our curiosity of what is higher consciousness with the possibility of developing stronger intuition.
  • Technology Focus where we begin to be curious and embrace the importance of technological advancement and exploration. Computers, neurotechnology, and more. Possible social media blackouts or breakdowns. Experiences with frequency, sound and vibration.
  • Respect for the Universal Laws: Reflect on the principles of Universal law and the interconnectedness of all things. Healing, evolution and Oneness within yourself will be a continued highlight. 

LOTS of Aries Fire energy this month! The IAM energy and energy of ‘starts’ or resets.

Key Astrological Highlights this month worth noting. 

April 1: Mercury Retrograde -A Time to Regain Lost Opportunities—Don’t fear this energy; instead, view it as a time when the universe provides a mental break to review and renew past opportunities. 

April 5: Venus Enters Aries—Ignition for Spiritual Growth. This is a time when the heart broadcasts love and vibrant energy that some may interpret as assertive. Use the Aries fire to spark passion where love matters. 

April 8: New Moon Solar Eclipse in Aries – Choose your Gateway to a Calmer, Creative, Spiritual Life. 

1:22 PM CDT, a total solar eclipse arrives in Aries, marking the opportunity for new, fresh, exciting, and the potential to hit the reset. The IAM energy encourages you to embrace individuality and pursue your passions. Intuition expands, and forgiveness and reconciliation create healing and success in relationships, allowing the transmutation of negative energy. 

April 10: Mars-Saturn Conjunction in Pisces. The action and assertiveness of Mars meet with the discipline and structure of Saturn in the mystical energy of Pisces, influencing us to confront our fears and limitations to change. 

April 11: Mercury interacts with the Sun in Aries, boosting mental clarity, expanded communication, and psychic abilities. New information is here for us to decipher.

April 19: Welcome Taurus Season with a Mercury-Venus conjunction asking us to focus on finding stability amid intense shifts.

April 20: Jupiter-Uranus Conjunction—This is a time and opportunity to heal the belief system of the collective unconscious. This may bring some disruption to our systems, creating advancements in technology, finance, and environmental support.

April 23: Full Moon in Scorpio allows us to deepen our access and awareness of the Life Force. The full moon squares Pluto, reminding us of the importance of understanding and healing our shadow self as we identify coping and survival skills based on fear-based events that no longer are needed. We can celebrate this shift in our human experience.

April 25: Mercury moves directly, making any decisions more straightforward. Mercury shadow season remains until May 13, which may cause lingering effects from unresolved issues during the retrograde.

April 29: Venus is in its home base of Taurus, reminding us to enjoy life and the comforts of home, improve our finances, and spend time with family.

April 30: Mars Enters Aries (his home base), reminding us of the powerful energy boosts available for creativity, confidence, and determination to pursue what we once thought challenging. This is the path of the Spiritual Warrior.

We continue to shift and change with the universe, encouraging a new path. Allow the universe to bring you aligned opportunities. Be aware and curious about events, ideas, and happenings.

Shine your light and let the world see your brightness💓 Be blessed.  ~Laurie

March 2024 – Marching Forward

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We enter March quietly, leaping from the leap day (2-29) gateway. We’re feeling the pressures of the Universe to move. Some days, it feels like we have to force our way forward and march into each day while carrying the world’s weight on our shoulders. We are shedding, clearing, cleansing, and purging. We like efficiency and structure. 

March is known as the third month. However, March’s 2024 collective numerology is the vibration of “Two,” representing duality, harmony, balance, and partnership. 

The energy of the number 2 resonates with:

  • Abundance, prosperity, union, and divine intervention.
  • Explore or align your life with your soul’s mission and divine purpose.
  • It is a time to have greater faith in yourself and embrace life’s polarity.

In March, we continue to shift to a higher perspective, embodying Universal laws of nature, oneness, and unconditional love. Our relationships will change as we continue to heal and evaluate wounds we’ve collected along our timelines. Discomfort, fear, and transformation are necessary steps meant to awaken and attune us to our true nature, but they are also signs of collapsing timelines and moving us closer to personal lines of time. This change is taking time to ease through, and we may feel symptoms of imbalance, sleepiness, memory loss, and sadness we don’t understand. We CAN have peaceful resolutions to new or old problems. We can leave older versions of ourselves behind and allow space to mourn what we once knew to be true. We are becoming more equipped than ever to manifest a higher vision. 

On March 10, a New Moon arrives in Pisces, bringing a time/energy of introspection and connection with the intangible realms. This transit inspires us to dive deep beyond time and space, trusting our intuition’s wisdom and allowing space for dreaming. Neptune’s watery energy brings cloudy confusion, so to help navigate this energy, focus on aligning with the greater forces that guide your path.

On March 19/20, the Sun enters Aries, Spring Equinox, and a time of transition and renewal. The beginning of the Aries season during the equinox is a time of balance between light and dark. It’s a period that invites us to embrace both aspects of ourselves – the light that illuminates and the darkness that holds potential. We are encouraged to sit with whatever arises, approaching it with love and acceptance. Our timelines continue merging, giving us the opportunity to understand, heal, and decide the gift we are given. By witnessing the alchemy of light transmuting shadows, we can reveal the potential for growth and evolution – and that is the Universe’s gift for ‘doing the work.’ 

We leave March through the gateways of Eclipse Season. The Penumbral Lunar Eclipse in Libra on March 25 holds potent energy for shifting dynamics between Aries (I AM) and Libra(I BALANCE) polarities. As the eclipse illuminates the karmic destiny of relationships and partnerships, it will emphasize the themes of balance, harmony, and justice. The Moon in Libra urges us to seek fairness and equality in our interactions with others, stressing the importance of diplomacy, cooperation, and compromise. It prompts us to examine our relationships and alliances, ensuring they are based on mutual respect and understanding. As a result, we are invited to confront imbalances and conflicts between us within our partnerships, guiding us toward a resolution that promotes harmony and unity. 

All in preparation for the catalyst of energy we’ll experience with the Solar Eclipse in Aries on April 8. This eclipse moves across the United States in a pattern some speculate as transformative.  

This month is about finding your center, peace, and purpose. Every moment is a quantum leap to reclaim your power to choose and remove where you are running on autopilot and where you are living a higher level of conscious living. Become the author of a new chapter or new book! 

Shine your light and let the world see your brightness💓 Be blessed.  ~Laurie

February 2024 – How Will you Navigate the Dance of Pluto?

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Pluto has moved into Aquarius, and you may or may not be wondering how it impacts you. Pluto’s energy will touch all of us in some form. Pluto is about transformation. It pushes us to go and grow, deepening our self-knowledge. It describes how we deal with power, personal and non-personal, be it through experiencing the power of others or exercising it ourselves. It is shadow, death, and rebirth and the cycles we explore between. 

Pluto is about death and rebirth. It is related to our subconscious, those things that tend to remain hidden. Pluto brings change. It is an ‘outer’ planet, so it will impact and drive environment, community, and societal change, for those changes necessary to advance. Our humanness will respond and show us (illuminate) where we need work. Chiron (how and what needs to heal) remains in Aries, challenging us to understand old wounds, heal them, and live without creating new wounds. 

Timelines are collapsing, adding further healing opportunities to create change that can bring joy, happiness, and peace into our lives and those around us. 

Pluto will be in this place for 20 years, giving us time to work with the energy of profound change, profound discovery of self, and our response to the world. This energy will impact all, and we will all learn to dance with the transformative power of Pluto. It’s not all bad, but it does provide a doorway for transformation. Other planets will help us – i.e., Uranus will create doorways for new, unknown, unusual, and unexpected change. Chiron will push on our wounds. Saturn will remind us of what we believe to be our reality and where we meet resistance. Jupiter will encourage us to seek our purpose and challenge our beliefs. All will help teach us to trust ourselves, plug into our divine energy, seek within, and shine our light brighter. 

The energy of the planets seems confusing, and we need to pay more attention to information. We are feeling the impact on our evolution and the journey.

February’s collective numerology carries the number ONE vibration of balance, compassion, love, and new beginnings. The energy of the number ONE also resonates with the following:

  • Individualism and independence, leadership
  • Initiations and spiritual awakenings, new beginnings
  • Divine guidance that you are on the right path.
  • Needing to align thoughts with dreams to manifest success.

We might not think of planting seeds now, but the universe encourages us to prepare and plant. It’s a pioneering month.  Most important I Hope you Dance.

Shine your light and let the world see your brightness💓 Be blessed.  ~Laurie

January 2024 – Individualism, Oneness and the year ahead.

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Wondraing…… The Milky Way is said to be one of billions of galaxies in the observable Universe. It contains between 200-400 billion stars, the one most familiar to us being the sun which science says is middle-aged at 4.6 billion years. The oldest star in the galaxy is 13.2 billion years old – said to be nearly as old as the Universe itself (13.8 billion years) – and the Earth is about 4.5 billion years old. These are all scientific best guesses. Distances are measured in light-years, and the Milky Way galaxy is believed to be 1000,000 light-years in diameter. The enormity and vastness boggle our minds and challenge our imagination yet give us a placeholder for where we fit in all this.

Consider this perspective, and we can see how we view our world as limited or limitless. We can remain small, overwhelmed, and myopic or let go of this view in favor of seeing and accepting a bigger picture and all the possibilities. If we believe we are composed of material from those very stars that inhabit the Milky Way, we know we are connected to Earth and the entire Universe at all times, in life and death….. and we are not very small or limited.

We share energy in this immense place as we are energy with all. We are forever preparing, avoiding, or experiencing energy shifts as energetic beings. We’ve been working hard, shifting, clearing, and transmuting our energy fields in preparation for ‘something’ different. Many can feel the shift of the energy; we feel change because we are energetically connected.  

2024 is a BIG year.  

Pluto moves into Aquarius and will be there for the next 20 years. Saturn in Pisces will continue to remind us how we experience reality, where we feel resistance and the rules we choose to abide.2023 was the year of the rabbit and a ‘Seven’ year, and 2024 is an ‘Eight’ year and the year of the Dragon. We move into the energy of ambition and action-oriented powered by the possibility of dynamic growth-obsessed Dragon energy. The universal ‘Eight’ year brings us closer to completing a 9-year cycle in 2025 and preparing for a Universal year of ONE in 2026. Fierce determination will be required as we continue navigating the energies of shifting systems that highlight the need for change while questioning our role and power in influencing our personal change.  

I’ve created TWO end-of-year podcasts to explain the overall energy and the individual impacts of 2024. I suggest this in preparation for the year ahead. 

  • Get clear and serious. An 8 Universal Year brings many opportunities to expand and reach new heights. You can also expect to be driven out of your comfort zone, forced to step up, or get stepped on!
  • Take your goals seriously in the 8 Universal Year. If you don’t have goals – create them.
  • Take time to align more directly with your authentic calling in life. If you don’t know that calling – find it.
  • Step into the year with your heart and mind open, willing to learn new navigation skills that combine your mind and heart. Learn your energy fields as ONE system that, when your Physical, Etheric, Emotional, and Mental bodies all work together, helps you face change, challenges, and success on a higher level.   
  • Know the constant is change as existing systems, structures, and concepts soar to new levels of success or disintegrate while new ones take over.
  • Take control and be your authority. Lead yourself. It is a year of individualism. Individual – individuate – and individualism will be terms we hear and energy the Universe pushes in 2024. Be a strong individual who can contribute healthily to humanity. 

We are one with the Universe. Created from Stardust, here, as humans, we experience our soul journey and know that our actions, emotions, and beliefs impact us and others. Our sensitivities to energy and the energy of others will ebb and flow to support and challenge us as we continue to evolve. Most important.

Shine your light and let the world see your brightness Be blessed.  ~Laurie

December – Endings, beginnings, gratitude and giving.

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It is the busy season, and as we systematically wind up the last month of 2023, we attempt to jam it all into a few weeks. It is a season of endings and new beginnings; sometimes, we must finish something before we begin something new. Have you struggled to complete something that lingers in your life? This year, the universe helped many complete things they may have been holding on to, thus creating a vortex of space for 2024 to fill in.

Between December 12 and December 21 is an excellent time for us to release energies. We may become busy with the holiday season, but spirit somehow always finds ways to help us slow our pace so that we may focus within. This is a nine-day span, but what about the 12 days of Christmas?  

In some cultures, there are 12 days of blessings, which may be a simple reminder to focus on the energy at that moment. I see this period as the 12 days of gratitude and blessing for all that is and all that is possible. The new moon in Sagittarius on December 12 will remind many what to AIM for. There are also some significant planetary transitions happening this time of year, where we move from the energy that has influenced our AIM for the last few years to the energy of USE. This includes a deeper understanding of our power, our energy, our love, and how to put it to use effectively. The strength of 2024 will provide numerous transitions and help us to move along on our journey and celebrate the growth of our inner light. 

Winter Solstice December 21. It is the midpoint of winter, the shortest day of daylight, and the longest point of darkness. The world is very still, and the land is dormant, much like what happens within us when we go through dormant cycles. In this quietness, it is an opportunity to contemplate a ‘season’ past or the ‘season’ that was and then the ‘seasons’ yet to come. Like when the earth goes dormant, internal growth remains, which we should nurture.  

This time of year also helps us hold a vigil on intent. Various’ festivals of light’ are celebrated and have been for thousands of years, serving as a reminder that the light will indeed return after the darkest day. (December 21) Ceremonies and events of many cultures used fire as a sacred element. The purpose was to allow it to burn for the night to burn off one’s dross or rubbish (English term), the ‘stuff’ we no longer need, thus revealing our gold (the golden light). In some cultures, it is a deliberate, intense, and intent-full night of dancing, drumming, rattling, chanting, meditating, healing, and holding space for this light. It is a time for us to remember to share our light.  Perhaps December 31st celebration of New Year mimics this tradition and has been aligned with the Calendar year. It is a time to reflect on the past while welcoming hope for the New Year.     

In December, as many are experiencing a final push of inward work, we can also be reminded of our perception of perfection. We are always ‘perfect,’ though we might not feel at our best at times; we are experiencing all we need for our particular journey. On December 27, we’ll feel the energy of the emotional Full Moon in Cancer and reflect on our past, present, and future.   

I hope you experience calm and peace this holiday season and are surrounded by people who love and support you. I wish for you to shine your light so bright that others recognize your soul essence. 

Shine your light and let the world see your brightness Be blessed.  ~Laurie

November 2023 – Deep changes and gateways to New Beginnings

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November is jam-packed with ancient wisdom and spiritual energies, offering us a divine awakening and a powerful call to action. It encourages us to look at how our life journey has brought us to this moment. Nothing is by accident; everything we need to move forward, and grow is here now, regardless of our current situation. The key is to look deep inside ourselves, lean, heal and grow.

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Here are some essential tips to harness and use this month’s cosmic energy:

1. Set Clear Intentions: With the New Moon in Scorpio on November 13, use this energy to set clear and specific intentions for what you want to achieve. The shadowy archetype energy of Scorpio is I DESIRE, and this transformative energy can amplify your intentions and help you manifest your desires.

2. Embrace Inner Transformation: Scorpio into Sagittarius season encourages deep introspection and exploration. Use this time to dive into your emotions, process and understand any fears or limitations, and engage in personal growth, self-discovery, and expanding your mental beliefs.

3. Navigate Conflicts Mindfully: This month’s energy can bring sudden changes. Stay adaptable and focus on resolving conflicts with patience and creativity rather than reacting impulsively. Use the gift of pause when possible. 

4. Channel Mars’ Energy: Leverage Mars’s fiery, assertive energy to start and finish projects. The Eclipse on October 28 had the potential to wipe away old boundaries or create opportunities where you need new boundaries. Define your needs and be proactive in pursuing your goals.

5. Practice Open Communication: Foster trust and intimacy by communicating openly and honestly with loved ones. Patience and strong listening skills are needed, but they will help in more profound and fulfilling conversations. 

6. Say NO to What No Longer Serves You: Heal emotions and shed old habits and beliefs. Let go of what no longer serves your growth and make space for new opportunities.

7. Stay Flexible: Adapt to unexpected circumstances and embrace fresh perspectives and solutions.  

November – Deep Changes and Gateways to New Beginnings

November is jam-packed with ancient wisdom and spiritual energies, offering us a divine awakening and a powerful call to action. It encourages us to look at how our life journey has brought us to this moment. Nothing is by accident; everything we need to move forward, and grow is here now, regardless of our current situation. The key is to look deep inside ourselves, lean, heal and grow.

Here are some essential tips to harness and use this month’s cosmic energy:

1. Set Clear Intentions: With the New Moon in Scorpio on November 13, use this energy to set clear and specific intentions for what you want to achieve. The shadowy archetype energy of Scorpio is I DESIRE, and this transformative energy can amplify your intentions and help you manifest your desires.

2. Embrace Inner Transformation: Scorpio into Sagittarius season encourages deep introspection and exploration. Use this time to dive into your emotions, process and understand any fears or limitations, and engage in personal growth, self-discovery, and expanding your mental beliefs.

3. Navigate Conflicts Mindfully: This month’s energy can bring sudden changes. Stay adaptable and focus on resolving conflicts with patience and creativity rather than reacting impulsively. Use the gift of pause when possible. 

4. Channel Mars’ Energy: Leverage Mars’s fiery, assertive energy to start and finish projects. The Eclipse on October 28 had the potential to wipe away old boundaries or create opportunities where you need new boundaries. Define your needs and be proactive in pursuing your goals.

5. Practice Open Communication: Foster trust and intimacy by communicating openly and honestly with loved ones. Patience and strong listening skills are needed, but they will help in more profound and fulfilling conversations. 

6. Say NO to What No Longer Serves You: Heal emotions and shed old habits and beliefs. Let go of what no longer serves your growth and make space for new opportunities.

7. Stay Flexible: Adapt to unexpected circumstances and embrace fresh perspectives and solutions.  

October 2023 – Deep Changes and Gateways to New Beginnings

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The Season of fall reminds us to let things fall away that are no longer needed. Nature reminds us there is beauty in change and opportunity for new growth. As the leaves fall, we see the shape of the foundational tree holding all the leaves. So, in this Season, we are encouraged to go to the depths of our being to experience our foundation. 

October is the tenth month, and the number 1 signifies new beginnings, leadership, and independence. You’ll have the opportunity to set the tone and step through the gateways created by the eclipses and the Sun’s alignment with Arturus. October’s 2023 collective numerology carries the number eight vibrations and a cycle of birth, death, and rebirth. The Season of fall reminds us of this cycle. It can also be a month of abundance, drive, risk-taking, and feelings of ‘going for it’ as the gateway’s express options. Where might the infinity sign of 8 show up for you? Where might the universe be pointing forward? 

Oct 11-midmonth, Chiron will show us what fears we are working on. Everyone is fighting some battle; remember this and that the energy of kindness is needed. Pluto moves direct in Capricorn, which can create death-rebirth in significant areas such as patterns of our cultures/societies and technologies. The New Moon Solar Eclipse in Libra on Oct 14, asking for more balance, peace, and harmonic energy exchanges. It’s a perfect time for a new beginning and setting your New Moon intentions will be necessary to establish the forward pace and give birth to a new cycle. 

Oct 16-19 – The Sun aligns with Arcturus, one of the brightest stars in the night sky, opening a powerful, energetic portal, allowing Arcturus’ radiant light codes to merge with the Sun’s rays. These light codes have a profound effect on our spiritual and healing journey. They accelerate our healing process, enabling us to delve deeper into the meaning behind the experiences we encounter on our life’s path. The Sun’s alignment with Arcturus carries a significant message: it encourages us to shift our perspective and consider that the events and circumstances in our lives are not merely happening to us but for us.

We finish the month with a partial Lunar Eclipse in Taurus on Oct 28. This windowed illumination shines its light on the depth of understanding of what was shed in the past to bring you to this moment of growth or awareness. The focus of the moon will also be on what adjustments are yet needed. This illumination cycle continues into 2024 and is the gateway of growth and evolution. It is a time to harness your internal strength with honesty. The universe sees you and your potential, but do you?

Shine on.  In Gratitude and be Blessed.  ~Laurie

2023- September – the Gateway to Fall

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With Venus, Mercury, Saturn, Neptune, and Pluto all retrograde – it’s a time of inward processing, understanding, and release. September’s ascension energies will continue to clear and enhance our nervous and endocrine systems. Recent shifts and the illumination of the two full moons of August brought awareness of our disharmonies, patterns, or issues, and we are processing them now. Some have revealed how we may unconsciously feed our fear, limitations, scarcity, and misery. Where might you blame external energies for your beliefs or actions/non-actions? Our higher senses become heightened during these internal processing times, and now we are wondering/wandering what the next stage of our life purpose or focus is.

September is known as the ninth month. However, September’s 2023 collective numerology carries the number seven vibrations of self-awareness and inner wisdom. The energy of seven also holds the vibrational energy of integrity, truth, alignment, and faith. September boosts the opportunity for spiritual evolution and intuition. As we become more introspective, it creates growth.  

Understanding yourself – is growth

Challenging your old patterns or beliefs in a new light – is growth

Aligning yourself to this new understanding – is growth

Practicing the energy of introspection and intuition – is growth  

As the days grow shorter and the Sun’s warmth mellows, the ascension energies swirling around us begin to integrate more calmly. With the arrival of a new month, we step into the sacredness of September, a time of subtle shifts and harmonious alignments.

This month, Cosmic shifts carry a distinctive and assertive energy, urging you to respond to a clear and resounding call to action. These movements propel you towards taking decisive steps and embracing a proactive approach to your goals and aspirations. In parallel, the cosmic shifts direct your focus inward to explore and redefine your core belief system and life philosophy. This inner exploration prompts you to examine the foundations upon which you build your perspectives, values, and understanding of the world and question if they are valid.

On Sept 22 – The transition into Libra season and the fall equinox brings the theme of finding equilibrium/balance within your divine mastery. This energy will highlight a more profound quest for balance and harmony in relationships and within yourself. The Sun is descending, marking a pivotal moment of equilibrium between light and darkness as we move into the fall and winter months. This creates your portal for how you want to be in the world. Things to ponder in the time of retrograde, slow down, shifts, and resets.  



September is a great month to reflect and set intentions that are now aligned or have become clear. Get organized and prioritize these intentions. Embrace and welcome the change that happening. Create a routine that supports you and has space for the universe to drop things in. Be present with your energy, and internalize what your energy is or isn’t. Don’t wish for more or less, but be aware of where it is or isn’t and what creates and uses it. Learn, practice, and develop any areas you want to improve, shift of change, and whenever possible, align yourself to the positive energy available to you. 

Shine on  In Gratitude and be Blessed.  ~Laurie

August 2023 – Summer wanes, retrogrades and play

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Welcome, August – that time when summer energy begins to fade. We sense the oncoming of fall-winter. Last summer vacations are planned, and talks of back-to-school begin. It’s also Leo time- romance, creativity, fun, passion, outgoing, and outside. It’s gateway season, and this year, more retrogrades are encouraging us to internalize. Where are we in our lives? What do we want, and the bigger question – how will we get what we want? 

Depending on your journey, you might find yourself dreaming, thinking, planning, or acting. Leo’s archetype is ‘I WILL,’ so the energy gives us the surety to act, but we have many retrogrades us slowing down. We’ll feel that the universe is putting the brakes on some areas of our lives, such as existing or new relationships, family, careers, finances, or health. Energy doesn’t just impact us personally; it also affects our outer world, which might be finance, housing markets, corporate advances, manufacturing, retail, etc.

The large outer planets (Saturn, Neptune, Uranus, Pluto, Jupiter) have slower rotations and often show how we respond to outer things in our life – systems, processes, community, and social norms. Inner planets (those closest to the sun impact us more internally – Mercury, Venus, Mars, Moon)

Retrogrades slow down, soften or hold the energy in place.

  • Pluto retrograde in Capricorn – shadow, death of old, rebirth of something better/new.
  • Saturn retrograde in Pisces -relates to self-discipline, strength of character, and our responsibilities.
  • Neptune retrograde in Pisces -relates to our imagination, doors to the mystical.
  • Uranus retrograde in Taurus – relates to our uniqueness, intuition, and gateway for sudden events or insights.
  • Venus retrogrades in Leo – Venus relates to how you love.
  • Mercury retrogrades in Virgo – Aug 23: Relates to how you think. Represents reason, common sense, communication, and learning and skills. Signs most impacted are Gemini and Virgo.
  • Chiron (not a planet) retrograde in Aries illuminates our wounds and what to heal/help.

Venus is the energy that will impact us most this month. Venus is the planet of love and relationships, while Leo is the sign of love and romance. Venus retrograde takes a direct hit at love and our relationships. We may struggle with expressing our love in an open, healthy way. We may struggle with friendships, work relationships, and meeting new people. This can be a good time for reconnecting with old flames and your own heart. If you have children, they will likely be more rebellious, so try to have more patience with them. Retrogrades are perfect times for healing, self-assessment, and changing directions. It’s a time when the universe slows and provides more breathing room for processing, reflection, decisions, and only taking action when the planets go forward again. It can be frustrating for signs that like to take action NOW and figure out all the details later. You get a breather from the pressure of a do-society for signs that like to take a slower pace and have plans in place.

August is a time for fun, play, and relaxation, and this year, the universe is conspiring with all the retrogrades to encourage us to slow down, pay attention, and maybe add a few pauses in our day.

Shine on 💓 In Gratitude and be Blessed.  ~Laurie

Words from the Wise – Owl Medicine

I’m not the problem. You are not the problem. The problem is the problem, and we are here to resolve it.

Use Owl medicine when needing to look at a situation in a new way. Meditate in darkness for a few minutes over the next few days and see what might be revealed to you. Tap into your elder wisdom, that of the past, your cellular knowledge passed from your ancestors. Observe your environment, watching and listening for signs that might give you the answers you seek. In the space of void, the universe can provide. ~LaurieWondra – Owl Lady

Listen to Owl Medicine

July 2023- Pressure or Ignition?

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Welcome to July, As we integrate the powerful June solstice energies and enter a new chapter, we enter the third quarter of 2023. This is a month of anticipation and possibility. The stakes are high, and we continue to ride the waves of this massive energetic shift unfolding.

Understandably, many things may appear confusing, and the path ahead may seem uncertain. Most have been shedding and leaving things behind that just don’t fit into our lives any longer. Many may have been experiencing times of incredible tiredness, sleepy time, then followed by surges of energy. Sleep patterns have been disrupted.  I’ve found there have been a few days I’ve slept 10-12 hours, then the next I’m only sleeping 3-4 hours.  It’s a time to listen to what your body needs, and just go with it. Learning to listen and trust.   It is essential to trust that everything is unfolding as it should.

Faith and tuning into the sacred vibrations of your heart will provide you the strength to move through this any significant changes. Each experience, challenge, and opportunity we encounter is a necessary part of our personal and collective growth. And for many, you are experiencing HUGE changes. Life altering, perspective shifting change.

July is known as the seventh month. However, July’s 2023 collective numerology carries the “number five” vibrations of freedom, curiosity, and change. The energy of 5 also holds the magnetic vibrations of:

  • Growth and confidence
  • Creativity, flexibility, and progress
  • The embodiment of the soul-centered individual
  • Desire, adventures, new possibilities, and romance

What to Expect Astrologically in July 2023? Listen to What’s Up with the Energies of July

In July, we find ourselves immersed in the transformative energies of the vibrations of the heart and higher consciousness. This is a time of profound heart regeneration, urging us to embrace change and become more intimately acquainted with our most authentic selves, even when faced with the discomfort it may entail. Are you brave enough to leap. Do you have courage to create the shift you desire. It’s a month packed with shifting waves of energy. We begin with a Full moon in Capricorn and new moon July 17 in Cancer. In the July the north(direction) and south(past) nodes are changing to Aries and Libra, and we leave Cancer season as we enter the season of Leo on July 22.  Saturn and Pluto remain retrograde, continuing to stir up things we need to leave behind and Venus will be retrograde from July 22 to Sept 3, impacting most Taurus, Libra and Leos but we’ll all feel the Venus energy associated with love, pleasure, and creativity, causing us to question – Are we living the life we want?

Shine on 💓 In Gratitude and be Blessed.  ~Laurie