We have a partial solar eclipse happening on Saturday April 30th at 18:45 UTC , and I’ve been feeling the churning this past week:

Shadow aspects, unhappy memories, frustrations, and discontents – it’s very like the eclipse to bring these things to the surface.

Times of great challenge are also times of great reclaiming: Reclaiming our feelings of resilience, personal power, faith, magic, and healing wisdom. Reclaiming old ways while adopting new. Reclaiming our sense of purpose, and conviction in what truly matters.

It is often in times of challenge or recovery that we turn more deeply to Spirit - for guidance, understanding, support.

One of the big lessons I think many of us took from 2020 was the necessity of being able to adapt and thrive. Change is the only constant, and so much feels beyond our control. And yet, there IS hope, opportunity, invention, innovation, and magnificent healing that is happening all over the world - right now.

How do we tap into that, and invite some of it our way?

The power of air: It helps us to become unblocked, get moving again, feel inspired and think and communicate in new ways.

To truly heal our relationship to the Earth, we have to make an effort to rejoin it, and that means consciously cultivating our relationships to the spirits of the land and nature that surround us.

If you've been feeling like you need a positive energy shift in your life recently, good news!

Yes, you read that correctly: If we approach it from a different perspective, we can delight in Mercury Retrograde. Here's how: