Mid April 2024; Gateways of Courage, and a Class
Hello my friends,
If you are just settling in to read this newsletter, I have a seat and enjoy. I am going to keep it as it is as it was started seven days ago and, I am finally wrapping it up. Enjoy, share … take it in
I am starting this newsletter on April 4. We are in the middle of a nor’easter / blizzard. It reminds me of the Prince song “sometimes it snows in April.” A beautiful song about grief, and inevitability, and the patience of living a human life. I’m not entirely sure when this newsletter will get to your phone/desktop/tablet due to the storm and the pesky friend we all have in the current mercury retrograde (retrograde until April 25). But nonetheless, I am feeling urge to begin it now, so that it is received at the exact divine right time for you.
I really feel strongly that I wanted to speak to you before our big total solar eclipse on the new moon in Aries on April 8, 2024 (Nonetheless, I did not get it out).
It is clear that we all know about it. When I talk about astrology, which I do, because astrology and our cosmic body, mind spirit, well, these things are all linked together, and it takes time and research to understand why it makes sense. It’s not the kind of thing you just read a newspaper and a horoscope or in a quick 30 second TikTok or meme around sun sign personalities or simple things. But there is a much, much larger energetic reasoning of these things happening. Eclipses have been powerful events in our history for many years.
I myself felt as though at least energetically, I was like a bird, for the eclipse, a quieting down and taking shelter, while the moon covers what is seen, cloaking what is known. It was a radically highly Electric/magnetic time.
I myself actually felt physically unwell off and on throughout the day and a half around it. The magnitude of what happens during the quiet of energetic phenomena may have reverberations. Like ripples later. However, physically, or electrically, it can be felt right away.
We just got through a lunar libra eclipse on March 25. This time brings about fated rearrangement of ones personal and spiritual life in ways that makes sense for some and not for others. I know many of you out there have been struggling with intense emotions and feelings, either in yourself, or around you, as things fall apart and break away, either in a literal sense, in a relationship sense, or quite frankly, in a psychic sense. In mental health and mental fragility. Anxiety, sufferers and people that are sensitive that have not dealt with those psychic accumulation of taking self-care and radical self affirmation, well, they may be experiencing a bit of a breakdown right now.
It is necessary during this time frame in April, as it is a powerful month, to practice, not only self-care, but freedom of choice, contemplation of one’s aspirations and hopes, even if it is not entirely seen; grounding in nature, or with creativity and strong discernment of one’s own intuitive response to others around you. “Where do I end and you begin“ and vice versa energy.
When I teach my psychic development classes, I often have the joy of seeing the response of people understanding how powerful their own psychic body is. And how the reflection of the world around us is much to our surprise a strong mirror to our well-being. This is why as the world speeds up With technological advances, we are becoming more fragmented energetically, and mentally than we used to.
We need love and tender care more than ever. We need the practice of contemplation and groundedness. Benevolence and care towards our neighbor, and boundaries and discernment, with darker forces, that seem to be rattling at the cages of our good souls.
We are collectively working on our trauma in ways that we may not fully understand. Until a little bit of space is taken from other people, places, and things that may have habitually clouded our judgment. And then in the light of awareness that comes there is an up leveling of our spiritual course. It’s happening all around us.
If ever, there was a time to ask of yourself. What am I here for and what is the illusion of what I’m trying to prove to the world, or an old world around me that seems to be dying away, that IS dying away…… what NOW is the task that I am seeking to be the hero in my own journey.
Well, this is the time. April is ripe for giant epiphany of awareness. That will probably take affect over the next 3 to 6 to 12 months for just about everybody in some manner.
For some, it will be relationships, romantic, and otherwise. For others. It will be around career, vocation. Then for some, it will be around working with the shadow, and releasing years and years and years of spiritual/psychic trauma, and for some, it will be around a higher education and learning, and possibly one’s physical health (Or the health of those around us).
With Jupiter and Uranus, making a very rare and powerful conjunction on April 20. It proves to bring about sudden if not, inevitable, ripple, effect of solutions and broader answers to the forefront. In our hands.
I’m sure some of you have noticed strange things happening in the “big people, big money, Hollywood type stuff “that is falling and breaking and cracking open. This is par for the course for our years of Pluto in Aquarius
There is a powerful sense of rebellion brewing. If you have ever heard the expression “the meek shall inherit the Earth” well, this is just the first inkling of that energy .
So beyond that, how does it affect us all? Well, I’ve always said this. Everything always begins within you. Your heart is the electro of magnetic field that connects the mind with body. Your heart is your intuitive center that reminds you where your true north is.
This is a fantastic time to start dwelling on the things that you want to rearrange for yourself, even if it starts with taking notes about it. Talking to a good friend about it, starting the therapy, going to the gym. Restocking that refrigerator, getting out the old paints, Really working on where those fear blockers are that are stopping up the flow of energy that everyone needs.
Everyone is in for something of a rearrangement. Some are more aware of it. Some are aware of it happening now. And some have more to come in the future.
What a time to be alive. What a time to be here. I for one I’m really grateful. If we didn’t have a world of people, feeling wobbly and uncertain, where would we even begin with the questions of How did we even get here? The first step to anything whether it’s about a relationship or a career or health or anything of a matter is how did I get here? What brought me to this moment?
There are many new themes developing in the reflection of what I see with my clients, and what I see is my path and my voice. I too, and rearranging as well. So grateful to be part of that.
I had a memory the other day, as I was putting bird food out in my bird feeders as this time of year always gets me excited to see the awakening of the world and hear their song really early in the morning. When I was a child, my mother was diligent and adamant at feeding the birds, my father as well, I thought about both of them in heaven, as I filled up the birdfeeders and pondered the times I have felt them nearby and in their presence, since they have left the physical and moved beyond the great World of spirit.
I’m sure many of you have moments like this, and I know you do..
In that moment, I remembered both my mother and I feeding the birds when I was eight or nine during the cold winter months, and having them flock near a big bay window I would sit at. We lived near the most gorgeous, wooded area, and I could’ve watched them for hours.
I also remembered her assuring me that it was going to be OK whenever I saw a dead bird or anything that troubled me to extreme ways as I was a broken animal saver has a child.
All these memories kept flooding into me about my connection to feeding the birds and the aspect of the word “mothering”.
That’s all we are supposed to do is be the version of the best version of whomever we have had relationships with, and filter carefully and with grace what we’ve learned from the darker, more traumatic moments, the challenging and scary times.
Without the urge to bypass them, and not run away from them, yet to actually integrate them into Acceptance.
You see the beauty of it is is someday many of us will mostly be reflecting on relationships we’ve had whether they are with someone who has passed, or with someone who has parted from our life. They will be gone. But never gone.
The greatest gift you can give is to love and love truly. Both inwardly to all of our inner selves, and to our tribe, our community, our fellow humans. Love Is a necessary and vital ingredient in the storm of life.
These times of having a computer in our hand that can keep us separate or together. It is definitely around choice.
It’s with gratitude and grace and beauty and reverence that I hope many of you can weave into your daily doings AND your larger story.
We are all worth it!
If you’re interested in learning more, I have openings in my mediumship class which is scheduled now for June 8th. You can read about it here and sign up as well. I would love to see you there with all your beautiful questions about our loved ones on the other side, and how to access teaching yourself about everything that is Respect and gratitude for the process of the people that have been in our lives. To Meditate to connect. Sign symbols and messages.
So I leave you with this thought on courage and new beginnings:
So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.
- Mitch Albom
All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.
- Mitch Albom
We're in a freefall into future. We don't know where we're going. Things are changing so fast, and always when you're going through a long tunnel, anxiety comes along. And all you have to do to transform your hell into a paradise is to turn your fall into a voluntary act. It's a very interesting shift of perspective and that's all it is... joyful participation in the sorrows and everything changes.
- Joseph Campbell
Well. I will be sending out a newsletter sooner than later once this pesky mercury retrograde goes away.
There are shifts and turns for me as well.
And may The spark of light that I carry with me, help to ignite yours.
In loving gratitude,
Sarah