I was freshly-turned 27 and deeply lost in the knowing that I had to make a career change. I just didn’t know what that career change was.

At the time, I was a high school history teacher. I knew I wanted to be a teacher since I was six years old. There were no teachers in my family, and it was one of my deepest knowings that has continued my entire life.

As early as I can remember I was setting up classrooms in my basement, forcing my younger sister and cousins to “play school” with me. I volunteered as early as eighth grade in a classroom, and continued to be on a well-understood track to graduate college with my teaching degree in tow.

Once I graduated college, I immediately began a teaching program in Spain. I ended up teaching in Burgos, then Madrid, then took my teaching adventures to Thailand.

Once I got home from three years of teaching abroad, I was hired at a local high school in the suburbs of my hometown of Chicago. A sinking feeling came when I started my first year, because I almost immediately knew that this could not be the rest of my life.

Everything about the scenario I was in was correct by societal standards and on paper. I worked in a top public school, the building itself was beautiful, I had incredible colleagues, students and more.

The knowing was there though, and she was persistent. I wasn’t happy. My soul felt zapped.

So, in September of 2019, after two years of teaching back in the States, freshly after turning 27 and starting my sixth year of teaching, I sat down to write this:

It’s easy to sit as the version of me now and have convenient amnesia for the daunting feeling of the unknown that I was embarking on back then. I’m seven years out from this version of me. I’m now the version of me that has lived out what was on the other side of this knowing.

Some of the questions she had that I can confidently answer now:

How can I live my knowing if I don’t actually know what my knowing is?

It all feels so daunting, where do I even begin?

What do I want?

I still have these questions now, btw. Even though I can confidently answer them for the 2019 version of me, the 2026 version of me still has them.

Maybe these questions will always be there for us, and they’re inherently a part of our knowing and the sacred spiral of healing and getting to know ourselves.

“The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don’t know.”

- Albert Einstein

I am so grateful to this 2019 version of me, because she SHOWED UP. She was curious. She listened. The version of me now, in September 2026, was sending her signals all along. Telling her that her knowing was right, but that it’s up to her to go and explore and discover what that actually means for her. For us. For me. For this journey we get to call life.

So — what if you don’t know? What if it all feels so daunting, you don’t even know where to begin?

Here are some useful steps that helped me close the gap between not knowing and knowing:

While I share these steps, I believe there is an inherent need to understand yourself here. I can tell you what I did, but I also want you to feel into what works for you. To understand your own complexities and nuance. I’d love to hear what you’ve done to close the gap, too.

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Action Creates Clarity

Between when I wrote this 2019 journal entry and when I eventually opened up my business, I went on probably 20 coffee dates with people I admired* who were living out the version of me that I wanted to be. This 2019 version of me took action. She took the baby steps. She wanted to be inspired. She believed that one small step each day would eventually lead to something. She didn’t know what that something was exactly. She PURSUED regardless. Which brings me to…

*Big ol asterisks on this: Make sure you are receiving advice from those that you genuinely trust, or others that have walked a similar journey to what you’d like to be on. There’s nothing worse than having a knowing and getting that knowing squashed by the peanut gallery.

Pursue Yourself

Action creates clarity, but it can also feel daunting on WHICH action step to take if you don’t even know who you are. If you were anything like me in 2019, you were told your whole life who you should be.

“If you don’t know what to pursue, pursue yourself” - Emma Grede

Some ways I pursued myself looked like getting a birth chart reading, reading LOTS of self-help books (I remember distinctly devouring Designing Your Life and doing the workbook alongside it), journaling and meditating, and getting quiet enough to actually hear myself think. To actually hear what my body and heart had been telling me for so long. Which made me realize deep in my bones that….

This Is Bigger Than You

Once you’ve pursued yourself, take this a step further and connect to something bigger than you. If you believe in The Universe, A Creator, God, Source… what do you believe they created you for? What unique gift do you have that the Universe needed you to come earth side to express?

"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” - Mark Twain

Once you embrace this, you remember…

The People On The Other Side

Think of all the other people on the other side of a knowing that are calling to you. Your future self isn’t the only one calling, it’s all the clients, colleagues, the love of your life, the experiences, your future children… all of it. They are on the other side of this knowing, calling you home. This helps bring you forward, because your knowing is a calling. You have to get out of your own way sometimes to remember there are other people to serve on the other side of this.

The person who can help you remember this calling the most probably hides in…

Prior Journal Entries

When writing this “Here’s a start” post, I definitely didn’t know that the version of me in September of 2026 would be using it as writing material. I love that my prior self is giving me this wisdom now. She didn’t know what to write then, but by her not knowing, here I am, finishing out our thoughts.

Our prior selves are wise, just as wise as our future selves. Which is why you need to…

Talk To Your Future Self, And Believe Them

I’m a firm believer that we are living a timeline that is vertical, with all our versions living simultaneously stacked upon one another. If this is actually true, then our future selves are living, right now. They are sending us signals, because they know that they need the version of us NOW in order to become the version they are now, too.

So, in order to believe in yourself, you have to believe in them. You have to believe that the vision they are sending you, the desires and dreams you have now, are directly from them, because they are already experiencing them.

Perhaps the most boring and practical advice from them is the most important, and that is…

Health Is Wealth

You can see how I started this 2019 journal entry to myself, hungover and anxiety “written”. Ya gal had to reckon with herself, and she gave up drinking in 2022, never looking back, which is a story for another time — one that my 2019 self probably wouldn’t believe. We can’t become the future version of us and close the gap between knowing and not knowing if we don’t take care of this vessel we were given.

I hope these help you close your own gap between the knowing that is deep within you, and the version of you that is already living this out.

As I close out writing this post, I look back fondly at that 2019 version of me. I look back at the six year old version of me too, who knew she wanted to be a teacher.

Ironically, here I am, still teaching. It just doesn’t look like what I thought it was going to. Dare I say, it’s turned out so much better. Not necessarily easier, but I know it’s right for me.

Don’t worry, I still have gaps to close in 2026. I suppose I always will. Which means somewhere out there is a 2033 version of me reading this post the way I read “Here’s a start”. She knows something I don’t know yet, and is probably smiling, proud, and a deeply amused by it. I can’t wait to meet her.

I’d love to hear about what you don’t know now, and where you feel this might be bringing you.

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Hi, I’m Bridget! I’m a writer, intuitive coach, and entrepreneur based in Chicago. After leaving a tenured teaching career to build a business rooted in purpose, I’ve made it my mission to help the dreamers, the creatives, and the ones with a vision in their hearts who are brave enough to live their knowing.

Here, I write about the beautiful reality of actually following this. Entrepreneurship, intuition, personal essays, identity shifts, and everything in between. I’m so happy you’re here, and I know it’s no coincidence we’ve crossed paths.

Want to go deeper? Here’s how we can work together:

• The Intuition Studio — my community for people building lives led by intuition. Workshops, replays, intuitive guidance and community that has lived their own knowing, too.

• Work with me 1:1 — for personalized sessions, coaching and support.

• Come hang with me on Instagram, Substack, or browse my website — I’d love to connect.

I continued reading through her content post-by-post, and instead of feeling inspired, a slight panic hit me like a wave itself:

Logically, I know that my worst-case-scenario answer to missing the wave isn’t true. Logically, I know that this woman is KILLING IT and that she’s an inspiration and an example of what can be true for me and so many others. Logically, I know my voice matters, and that there is room for all of us in this space.

I also know that divine timing is real, and that what’s meant for me truly cannot miss me. I believe in this so much that I say it at the beginning of every intuitive guidance session I conduct.

I believe it, but I also know another truth that many of us know well: Our bodies don’t lie, and what’s meant for me will miss me if I don’t actually get in the water.

What I felt looking at this woman’s work was a reminder of several things. First, it had me thinking about what divine timing actually means.

Since my first reaction looking at her posts wasn’t inspiration, but a slight wave of panic that I’ve missed my time, I’m now sitting with this version of me and getting curious around why she’s feeling what she’s feeling.

What I know to be true now is that divine timing and following a knowing can be tricky. It takes practice to understand what stage of a knowing you are currently at.

For example, I might KNOW I’ll catch the wave one day, but simultaneously know that there are different stages of my being that I need to embody prior.

One of the most important stages of following a knowing is recognizing the times in life that we need to be on the shore. To sit and observe, watching and learning from the other surfers that are more experienced. They’re riding their perfect wave, hitting their stride.

As an observer, this can be very frustrating. Because the inner thoughts might come rolling in… I want to get in the water! I want to ride the wave too! They make it look so easy, I can do it! Cue, I want an oompa loompa NOWWW.

Instead of being inspired and preparing for our turn, we might run into the water, totally and completely HUMBLED when we get knocked off the board and we’re struggling to swim back to shore.

When I felt that slight wave of panic I had when consuming this woman’s work, what I felt was completely valid and completely human. I know that what triggers us can unlock gold that’s been patiently waiting to be accessed and tended to in our bodies.

What I’m tending to now is this feeling of being afraid I’ll miss the wave. I know this pang of fear might actually be pointing me towards something deeper.

It’s acting as a pull, to let me know something is meant for me, but that there also is an art of knowing exactly when, and releasing attachments to when that timing comes.

All I have to do is keep showing up.

I wrote these unfiltered thoughts in my notes app to come back to, and it’s what I’ll close on for us:

I think so many of us feel so behind right now, we’re afraid we’ve missed the wave.

You’re not alone though. The wave will come. You haven’t missed it. The one that is meant for you will swell every aspect of your being and hit so beautifully that you’ll forget about all the other waves in the first place.

You’re not late, there’s still so much time. If you see someone else hitting their wave or stride, take it as a sign that yours is coming. You just have to keep showing up for it, maybe try different approaches while you’re at it, and know that more waves will come.

There’s a sweet spot in a knowing, a knowing that says “yes, there’s a wave for me, but maybe not right now”. I will get there, but I’m watching from the shore at this moment. I’m gathering up the courage to become the surfer that gets on their board.

Don’t stay on the shore forever, though. Observe, learn, and go play. You’ll catch something that was always out there, waiting for you, too.

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Hi, I’m Bridget! I’m a writer, intuitive coach, and entrepreneur based in Chicago. After leaving a tenured teaching career to build a business rooted in purpose, I’ve made it my mission to help the dreamers, the creatives, and the ones with a vision in their hearts who are brave enough to live their knowing.

Here, I write about the messy, beautiful reality of actually following this. Entrepreneurship, intuition, personal essays, identity shifts, and everything in between. I’m so happy you’re here, and I know it’s no coincidence we’ve crossed paths.

Want to go deeper? Here’s how we can work together:

• The Intuition Studio — my community for people building lives led by intuition. Workshops, replays, intuitive guidance and community that has lived their own knowing, too.

• Work with me 1:1 — for personalized sessions, coaching and support.

• Come hang with me on Instagram, Substack, or browse my website — I’d love to connect.

After my sublease fell through, I had a brief “oh shit” moment, and wondered if it was a sign from the universe that I wasn’t supposed to go to LA. After a few very tearful and stressed-out calls to trusted friends and loved ones, I doubled down. I was moving to LA.

What transpired is linked in this post. It was a wild ride, and I ended up finding a sublease opportunity that turned into an 11 month stay in Los Feliz, Los Angeles. The happy, in the city of angels.

What I love and sometimes deeply regret about following my own knowing is that I don’t do much research before taking big leaps. I had only been to LA three times before moving, and it wasn’t until that third time, where I was standing on Manhattan Beach pier after healing from shingles and a break up, that I deeply felt the magic. Cue, third time’s the charm.

Sometimes we don’t see the magic of a place until it’s our time to. Until our knowing kicks in, cascading a green light onto us saying:

The thing about following your knowing though, and that rush of “I’m supposed to be here” is that it usually isn’t just one on-a-whim feeling. The feeling I had standing on Manhattan Beach Pier was an accumulation of years of wondering “what if” from versions of me that came prior.

It came from the version of me in 2019, sitting in a classroom as a high school history teacher on her 45 minute lunch break, wondering if she was ever going to be able to have a Tuesday afternoon that belonged entirely to her.

It was from the version of me in 2022, working from her childhood bedroom in the very unsure & shaky beginning days of full-time entrepreneurship, knowing that one day she’d be able to see the fruits of her labor, and spread her wings to live somewhere new again.

I had the knowing then, but neither of those versions of me knew the destination yet. They just knew there had to be more.

When I was standing on Manhattan Beach Pier, it was like a lightning bolt to the system saying “we’ve arrived”.

I spent 11 months in LA, and it did not turn out to be anything like I expected. Some might say "the grass wasn’t greener”. I’d say that this phrase needs to be retired, because the grass was… nonexistent, it wasn’t even a color. What it was though, was mine.

One of the biggest misconceptions about following our intuition is that a “correct knowing” leads to a life that will immediately feel better. That if we are truly “meant” to go somewhere, things will flow once we arrive.

I’ve followed my knowing long enough to know this isn’t the truth. A knowing doesn’t guarantee the outcome, but it does ask for our willingness to find out.

Now reflecting on my LA experience, my year there did not feel “right” by conventional standards. It was isolating, hard to be away from my family while going through grief, and uncomfy.

I’m only two weeks off of moving back home to Chicago for the foreseeable future, so I’m not here to wrap my LA experience up into a bow yet. I’m very much still in the integration process, and imagine I’ll be here for a while.

What I do know is I have lotttss of material to work off of, and that even though LA wasn’t what I thought it would be, the experience itself brought me closer to my knowing than I’ve been in years.

Coming home to Chicago has felt like the biggest exhale, but going and living in LA was one of the biggest times of expansion I’ve ever had. It was the large contraction to help me give birth to this version of me that is now quite physically and literally coming back home to herself.

Did I have to move across the country twice in one year to find this version of me? Maybe not. But maybe if I didn’t, the process to getting where I am today would have been a lot slower or eventually redirected by the universe regardless.

If you’re anything like me, when a knowing comes rushing in, it’s almost impossible to ignore. Sometimes there’s a reluctancy to it. It might not come in as excitement, but as an assignment or prerequisite.

As something your inner teacher or the universe is giving you, and that you know you have to pass before you make it to the classes you really want to be in. I’m not saying that’s exactly what LA was for me, but it’s the closest way I can describe it now.

So, I moved across the country twice in one year so you don’t have to. I’d encourage you to do the same though, in your own way, because we sometimes have to physically be elsewhere to actually hear ourselves think. Our bodies have to move, to go through changes, to witness ourselves outside of the selves we’re familiar with. To expand beyond comfort zones, to see what we’re capable of on the other side of a knowing.

Whether this knowing is accompanied by excitement or reluctance, we still must discover what’s on the other side, or else it will always be this looming presence. A “what if” that hovers like a stubborn cloud.

I personally don’t want to know what’s on the other side of not following a knowing, because the times I haven’t have been a big ol slap-in-the-face (cue getting shingles on my literal face), but that’s a story for another time.

So, maybe your knowing isn’t asking you to move across the country, but I’d bet it’s asking something more of you.

Maybe your future self is reaching back to you too, welcoming you both home.

Whatever this is for you, I hope you take the chance on finding out.

So, what journey are you ready to take, even if it means you come right back to where you started? I’d love to hear your story in the comments, or if you’ve done something similar too!

And to my Substack subscribers and the friends I was lucky enough to meet in LA: you were the magic.

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Hi, I’m Bridget! I’m a writer, intuitive coach, and entrepreneur based in Chicago. After leaving a tenured teaching career to build a business rooted in purpose, I’ve made it my mission to help the dreamers, the creatives, and the ones with a vision in their hearts who are brave enough to live their knowing.

Here, I write about the messy, beautiful reality of actually following this. Entrepreneurship, intuition, personal essays, identity shifts, and everything in between. I’m so happy you’re here, and I know it’s no coincidence we’ve crossed paths.

Want to go deeper? Here’s how we can work together:

• The Intuition Studio — my community for people building lives led by intuition. Workshops, replays, intuitive guidance and community that has lived their own knowing, too.

• Work with me 1:1 — for personalized sessions, coaching and support.

• Come hang with me on Instagram, Substack, or browse my website — I’d love to connect.

The dream felt very poetic, because today we happen to have a new moon eclipse in my beloved home-sign of Leo.

Eclipses bring changes that are both expected and unexpected. They act as portals into our destiny, bringing us fated truths that are marker-points on this journey we call life.

This month happens to bring not one, but two eclipses. The first being today, and the second on August 28th in the sign of Pisces, ending a two year story that had us exploring both our dreams and the diligence it takes to show up for them daily.

When I was doing year ahead readings earlier this year, August stuck out to me like a flashing neon-sign saying “pay attention!!”. The cards consistently showing up were fast, emotionally fulfilling, and action oriented.

August felt like the turning of the page, the month where we get to participate in the fruits of our labor that we have been building towards the last seven months.

The thing is though, we have to be the one turning the page. It doesn’t feel like the universe is going to do it for us this time.

This month feels action oriented in two ways, and very poetically tied to my dream:

Eclipses remind us, we can’t control what happens to us, but we can control how we respond. No matter what, you will have to turn the page at some point.

This should empower you, not shut you down. It should remind you of the agency you always have within.

If we think about the specific eclipse today, it’s in the sign of LEO. The sign that does not apologize for shining and being themselves.

Jupiter has been in Leo since the end of June, and the south node moved in a few weeks ago. The south node holds what you’ve already mastered, what comes so easily to you that you stopped noticing it’s a skill. Jupiter is the planet that wants this exact skill, your inner genius, to get bigger.

So, the sky is currently pointing straight at what you’re already good at and asking you to stop being modest about it. No big deal.

If I were sitting across from you, telling you about this eclipse right now, this is what I’d say:

Remember, you are the sun, and you were born to shine.

So, here’s what I’d do this month to work with this eclipse energy. Journal prompts, rituals, book and article recs, and more. Light a candle, get cozy and let’s dive in…

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That obsession though, can tip me towards perfectionism. Making sure that every essay I publish is well polished, and admittedly run through Claude multiple times to make sure I have no grammatical errors and everything looks cohesive.

What I started noticing is that this has kept me from actually posting. I keep punting things down the line, and say to myself “I’ll do it when I have more time” or “I’ll do this when I’m not traveling” or “I’ll do this when I’m home in October”.

Welp Bridget, and fellow reader, the time is now.

I just recorded our August Intuitive Guidance Video in The Intuition Studio. Each month, I record a 30 minute video discussing the energies for the month ahead, and the message that kept coming through for us is “let it be messy”.

A client asked me a genuine question recently when we were out to coffee, which made me stop and think for a second before answering:

After pausing, I answered with a solid “yes”. There’s a deep sense of integrity in me that pulses through my veins, and if I tell a client to do something, it usually means I’ve tried it myself, or that I’m about to have to try it myself.

Alas, that’s where we are today. While I was giving the messages in our video this morning, I thought to myself “Welp, I’m going to have to practice what I preach”.

The second I hit “publish” on the August recording, I came right here to Substack. I’m giving myself one hour to write this post. No Claude, no AI, no overthinking. Just showing up here, messy, and letting the words pour out as fast as my thoughts can keep up with them.

It feels liberating for this perfectionist! My goal for the rest of the year is to publish one essay on here per week. My perfectionist-self started sweating when I set this goal for myself, because I am currently packing up my life in LA this week, unexpectedly moving out a week earlier than planned (nothing like a fire under your butt to get things going), and officially embarking into the unknown on where I’ll be living next.

I know I am entering into one of my busiest seasons, and I don’t want that to be an excuse for me not to show up and write. I don’t want it to keep me in freeze mode. I want it to liberate me, and share in real time.

I just turned 34 this past Friday, and my one wish this year is to be as close to my version of inner peace as possible. Part of that peace is letting my perfectionism have her rightful rest. She’s done an amazing job for me thus far, and now she gets to express herself in ways she hasn’t let herself prior.

So, here’s to letting it be messy. Here’s to being in motion, and seeing where this journey takes us without filtering it through every external resource that’s made available. The world needs your story, your creativity and your he(art). Nothing like Leo season to remind us of this!

I’ll leave you with the card I pulled for the Studio members this month. It gave me chills while reading, and I’d love to hear if you relate to it too.

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Hi, I’m Bridget! I’m a writer, intuitive coach, and entrepreneur based in Los Angeles by way of Chicago. After leaving a tenured teaching career to build a business rooted in purpose, I’ve made it my mission to help the dreamers, the creatives, and the ones with a vision in their hearts who are brave enough to live their knowing.

Here, I write about the messy, beautiful reality of actually following this. Entrepreneurship, intuition, personal essays, identity shifts, and everything in between. I’m so happy you’re here, and I know it’s no coincidence we’ve crossed paths.

Want to go deeper? Here’s how we can work together:

• The Intuition Studio — my community for people building lives led by intuition. Workshops, replays, intuitive guidance and community that has lived their own knowing, too.

• Work with me 1:1 — for personalized sessions, coaching and support.

• Come hang with me on Instagram, Substack, or browse my website — I’d love to connect.

Next week, I’ll be back in my hometown of Chicago for three weeks. On August 15th, I’ll pack up and leave LA, the place I’ve called home the past year, for the foreseeable future. Chicago will be my home base again as I begin a season of traveling and much-needed decompression.

Some people might see this as moving backwards, or falling behind. I’d be lying if I didn’t say my own ego sees it this way at times as well, especially coming up on the eve of my 34th birthday.

Luckily for me, I’ve been here before, and the choice to return is usually where the magic happens.

In 2017, I had just moved to Australia solo after a very mentally taxing five months of living and teaching in Thailand. I had a two-year visa, a job lined up as an au pair and I was READY to start fresh.

Shortly after arriving in Australia, I fainted at my friend’s kitchen table. I had a month off before I began my new job, and I decided it was time to go home for a reset.

Little did I know, I would never set foot back in Australia.

Once I got back to Chicago, the knowing trickled in. My body felt like it had been on a runaway train and had no choice but to get off the tracks. Being home felt like the biggest exhale, and my body knew it was time to stay.

I moved back in with my parents after three years of living and teaching abroad, ending up in the exact same place I had always said I would never come back to. I was served big ol’ piece of humble pie.

What I didn’t know yet was that coming home would be what catapulted me forward.

I got a job teaching high school in the Chicago suburbs. I honed my teaching craft. I began working with a naturopath. I met friends who are now like family to me. There were a few karmic-lesson types in there too, don’t worry. I started my business. I grew roots so deep that they eventually gave me the freedom that brought me straight here to LA.

Life loves to repeat itself, and I feel I’m in a similar space now, spiraling back to where I was in 2017.

When I moved to LA this past September, I ended up landing in Los Feliz, right next to Thai Town. I felt a slight pang of discomfort when I saw the name.

My time here has eerily mimicked my time in Thailand. I’ve felt the high highs and low lows. I’ve spent a lot of time alone here. I’ve also met incredible, soul-fam humans. I’ve had culture shock, feeling out of place. I’ve had mysterious health issues. I’ve gotten back into creativity and writing. I lost someone I loved in the same timeframe I lost someone when I was living in Thailand, having to navigate this far from the comfort of home.

I’ve always noticed patterns, and even though this time feels similar, it also feels different. Dare I say, “same same, but different”. IYKYK.

But now, I’m nine years wiser, and a new story is playing out. It doesn’t feel abrupt. It doesn’t feel defeating. It doesn’t feel humbling.

It feels like the decompression chapter. One where I get to reset, and shift back to neutral. One where if I do decide to come back to LA, I’ll be stronger and more ready than the version of me who landed here prior.

I’ve already started fielding these questions, both from other people and from my own mind:

Are you moving back to Chicago?
When are you coming back to LA?
Where are you going to live next?
Does not signing a lease mean I’m falling behind?
Am I moving backwards if I don’t stay?

The honest answer is I don’t know yet, and I feel very at peace with this. I also know how lucky I am to be able to have a safe space to land back home, and I never take this for granted.

I know I’ll be sharing more with you here, in real time, too.

I came across this from @thatglasgowwitch yesterday, and it’s my favorite question I’ve pondered so far:

When I was on the phone with my friend last month telling her about all of this, she told me what I want to pass on to you now, in case you need it also:

“You’re not behind. You’re moving towards something”.

So, here’s to the sacred spiral, and may we always be brave enough to find our way back home. May we know that returning home, whatever home means to you, is not always regression. Sometimes it’s the sacred spiral bringing you back to the place that knows exactly how to catapult you into your next beginning. I’d love to hear what you are moving towards, too.

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Hi, I’m Bridget! I’m a writer, intuitive coach, and entrepreneur based in Los Angeles by way of Chicago. After leaving a tenured teaching career to build a business rooted in purpose, I’ve made it my mission to help the dreamers, the creatives, and the ones with a vision in their hearts who are brave enough to live their knowing.

Here, I write about the messy, beautiful reality of actually following this. Entrepreneurship, intuition, personal essays, identity shifts, and everything in between. I’m so happy you’re here, and I know it’s no coincidence we’ve crossed paths.

Want to go deeper? Here’s how we can work together:

• The Intuition Studio — my community for people building lives led by intuition. Workshops, replays, intuitive guidance and community that has lived their own knowing, too.

• Work with me 1:1 — for personalized sessions, coaching and support.

• Come hang with me on Instagram, Substack, or browse my website — I’d love to connect.

Anytime a birthday comes around, I see it as a portal. The days leading up to it being reflective, the day itself becoming the threshold, and the days after catapulting and transforming me into what this new year and its promise can bring.

Reflecting on my life, I never in a million YEARS would have expected to be where I am now. I should have known when I was obsessed with Into The Wild and Woodstock as a kid that I would be living out a more non-conventional life in the future.

What I didn’t know is that this life would involve leaving my tenured teaching career, entering full-time entrepreneurship, being single with no kids, leaving my hometown, living in LA. Living a life that I created, far removed from what was envisioned and expected from my midwestern upbringing.

Inevitably around each birthday though, the “shoulds” start to creep in.

Last week, I caught myself in the middle of a “shoulds” moment. I’ve been looking at rentals on Zillow, thinking that I should probably move into a place of my own. I should probably sign another year-long lease. I should probably stay in LA because I’m just now finally finding my footing, almost one year later.

The closer I inch towards 34 though, the more I start to question why we were sold the ideal of what life should look like in the first place:

Go to college.

Accumulate the debt.

Graduate.

Go to the 9-5.

Upgrade the car.

Buy the home.

Get the dog.

Find the spouse.

Get married.

Have the baby.

Retire by 65.

Eat, sleep, repeat.

I’ve stood in the middle of these moments prior. I graduated college. I did have the tenured teaching career. I had the apartment. Standing here, I deeply questioned why I was so unhappy. I had everything I thought I should want, and realized that it was never what I actually desired.

A friend advised me on the danger of borrowing desires, and I had to slowly crawl my way out. For me, it was learning how to understand my knowing. How to actually follow my intuition. Meeting others doing the same, putting myself in these rooms. Knowing when a pivot had to be made, and how to support the version of myself who could bravely embark and take action on this.

Slowly but surely over the last five years, I have now built a life where I can truly have the freedom of choice, and I do not take that lightly. It’s why I’m writing this from a cafe on a Saturday, quite literally obsessed with helping others follow their intuition, having made a whole career out of this.

When I see other peers living the “shoulds life” described above and how happy they truly are, I know that my path isn’t better than theirs either. No path is better than the other.

I do argue though that the standard has to change, and that it’s time to start circulating a new narrative. Because the new path can, and maybe should look a lot like this:

Maybe it looks like deciding if college is actually right for you.

Maybe it looks like opening the LLC.

Maybe it looks like investing early.

Maybe it looks like having the 9-to-5, but leveraging your career differently. Switching companies. Becoming a sponge. Letting each chapter teach you something.

Maybe it looks like creating content online.

Maybe it looks like purchasing investment properties.

Maybe it looks like traveling, living in Airbnbs, or spending a season in a city that cracks open a new version of you.

Maybe it looks like retiring by 40.

Maybe it looks like pivoting careers in your 50s.

Maybe it looks like consciously deciding whether having kids is right for you.

Maybe it looks like consciously deciding whether marriage is right for you.

Maybe it looks like asking if where you live actually supports your professional and personal goals.

I understand this is an idealized map, but maybe we’re not so far from it. Because I’m finding myself currently standing in it. I personally know and have met so many others that are, too.

I believe there are no rules anymore, and that we’re living in the modern-day wild, wild west. We are the pioneers we’ve been waiting for.

We have the open road ahead of us, with nothing but a dream and hope that there is gold to be struck along the way. We have to fend for ourselves, be lawless in a way, and trust that the risk is worth its weight in the gold to be found.

I’ll leave you with what was lovingly reflected back to me, in hopes you remember this too:

Your life doesn’t have to look normal to be right for you.

The more we all begin to listen to ourselves, to question the path laid out, asking if it’s right for us, we give others permission to do the same.

I hope you strike gold. I also hope that when you do, you encourage others to do the same. That you don’t ever forget the magic you hold.

I’ll be writing more about how to actually hold this life once you get it too, it’s not easy. I will never sugarcoat that. But I do believe that it’s the greatest reward we can be given in this lifetime.

I'd love to hear how you're living out your own antithesis of the "shoulds." What does your version of the new frontier look like?

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About the Author

Hi, I’m Bridget! I’m a writer, intuitive coach, and entrepreneur based in Los Angeles by way of Chicago. After leaving a tenured teaching career to build a business rooted in purpose, I’ve made it my mission to help the dreamers, the creatives, and the ones with a vision in their hearts who are brave enough to live their knowing.

Here, I write about the messy, beautiful reality of actually following this. Entrepreneurship, intuition, personal essays, identity shifts, and everything in between. I’m so happy you’re here, and I know it’s no coincidence we’ve crossed paths.

Want to go deeper? Here’s how we can work together:

• The Intuition Studio — my community for people building lives led by intuition. Workshops, replays, intuitive guidance and community that has lived their own knowing, too.

• Work with me 1:1 — for personalized sessions, coaching and support.

• Come hang with me on Instagram, Substack, or browse my website — I’d love to connect.

I was perusing leases in Chicago, apartments in Austin. Anywhere that might feel a little easier and more familiar on my nervous system than LA.

I’m coming up on a year of living in LA, and I’ve been feeling the pull of “what’s next”. In the years of following my own intuition, I’ve had to REALLY figure out what that “what’s next” feeling actually means.

Does it mean I’m moving? Does it mean I’m just uncomfortable and in the messy middle? Does it mean I’m actually meant to leave? Does it mean my chapter here has come to an end, or it’s just starting? Does it mean I’m self sabotaging and running away from something I’m supposed to endure? Does it mean I’m meant to stay and ultimately bloom?

I caught myself here and paused. My mind was racing with these questions, and it didn’t feel heart-led. It felt rushed and worry-led, and that’s when I know my ego has stepped in and my intuition has left the room.

So I closed the app.

LA is not for the weak. Its sheer size will disorient you. I’ve listened to stories from friends who have been here four years and are only now just finding their footing.

I’ve wanted to give up on this city multiple times, I won’t lie. When I first moved here, I couldn’t even look at the magnet on my fridge that said “Someone in Chicago loves you”.

But every time I have wanted to give up on this city, it pulls me back in. This city has bet on me, over and over, in ways that make me stop and ask: is this real life?

In my nine months of being here, I met my favorite author Brianna Wiest in a Walmart. I shook the hand of Matt Gottesman, someone who’s work I’ve admired for years, at an event I bought tickets to the night before where he happened to be the keynote speaker. I passed my neighbor Jack Black on the street two blocks from my house like we were two buddies meeting up for our daily walk.

It’s not only the celebs, but the people too. The random encounters. The people that I meet that feel just like me. They moved here with a dream. They moved here to become someone, to create. To remember that it is normal to want to pave the road less traveled.

Every time I’ve wanted to leave, LA has pulled me back in. Not with force, but with these moments of magic.

This weekend was another magical “is this real life” day in LA. I had signed up for a To Be Magnetic meet up that happened to be a fifteen minute walk from my house. Once I got there, I didn't realize that Jessica Gill, their chief content officer who I'd watched speak on a stage just four months earlier, would be leading it. She came right up to me after introducing the event, and we chatted away like we'd met before. Jessica is a personal expander of mine, and that conversation alone felt like a sign I was exactly where I was supposed to be.

I ended up meeting other women on this walk and we all were there to participate in the upcoming “Be Seen” challenge TBM is hosting. One woman is raising funds to finance a British Christmas rom com she’s producing and directing, another was wanting to make music and share her art inspired by Trinidad and Tobago, where her family is from. We all were there for the same challenge, but expressing the results we wanted from the challenge in our own unique ways.

I left the walk feeling so rejuvenated and energized, and few hours later I drove out to one of my favorite coffee shops in Pasadena to write. I sat down, glanced over and saw the woman next to me was reading The Mountain Is You by Brianna Wiest. I had to say something, and we ended up talking for the better part of a half hour about life and the seasons we move through.

Two magical moments, back to back. LA betting on me, yet again.

This weekend also happened to be a blue moon, which is not lost on me.

Blue moons happen once every two to three years. They’re synonymous with the phrase “once in a blue moon”. Synonymous with rarity itself, with miracles.

It feels like this moon reminds us that we get to bet on ourselves again. That we can get another chance.

Here’s what I keep coming back to, outlining in my journal and notes app over and over again:

The inspiration you’re looking for might be you.

The light you’re searching for in the dark might be you.

The step you’re waiting to take might actually be asking you to pause. To stop scrolling, to close the app, to sit still long enough to hear what you actually want.

It feels like this moon is gently probing questions, asking us:

What if this was the chance?

What if it was in you the whole time?

If not you, then who?

And what do you actually want?

It’s not a time to give up. It’s a time to look within, to get honest about what you want, and let the next step show itself from that place. To be gentle with yourself in this process too, and to know this is all unfolding in your own timing.

If you want tangible steps to harness this blue moon energy, here’s what I’d suggest: Do a sweep of your space, clear out what no longer fits, and donate what belongs to an older version of you. Signal to the universe that you’re ready. Write yourself a letter from where you want to be six months from now, or use a site like futureme.org to have it delivered to you later. And if you want to go deeper into this energy together, we did a whole Once In A Blue Moon workshop inside The Intuition Studio that was made exactly for this moment.

Then journal on this: What do I feel this blue moon is opening for me? What second chance am I ready to let come back around?

You got this. You’re closer than you think. You also don’t need a blue moon to happen to remember that miracles exist. You being alive is the miracle, and that’s all you need.

So, just like LA had bet on me over and over, I’m betting on you. The moon is too.

BTW, I am starting to rental-hunt in LA. I'm going to be writing more about this in the coming weeks. I've always believed action creates clarity, so I'm putting my feelers out there, but the "what's next" feeling finally has somewhere to land. Stay tuned!

About the Author

Hi, I’m Bridget! I’m a writer, intuitive coach, and entrepreneur based in Los Angeles by way of Chicago. After leaving a tenured teaching career to build a business rooted in purpose, I’ve made it my mission to help the dreamers, the creatives, and the ones with a vision in their hearts who are brave enough to live their knowing.

Here, I write about the messy, beautiful reality of actually following this. Entrepreneurship, intuition, personal essays, identity shifts, and everything in between. I’m so happy you’re here, and I know it’s no coincidence we’ve crossed paths.

Want to go deeper? Here’s how we can work together:

• The Intuition Studio — my community for people building lives led by intuition. Workshops, replays, intuitive guidance and community that has lived their own knowing, too.

• Work with me 1:1 — for personalized sessions, coaching and support.

• Come hang with me on Instagram, Substack, or browse my website — I’d love to connect.

I was so excited for her in this session, deeply FEELING the shift she was about to take, this brave step into the next portal of her becoming.

I’ve given hundreds of readings in the past five years, and there are certain sessions that stick out, a common theme arriving amongst all of them.

In these sessions, they're not looking for an answer. They're looking for someone to recognize that they're at the edge of something big. For someone who can see where they're headed and say: yes. It's time. And yes, you are ready.

I’ve had my own threshold moments. Teaching abroad, leaving my teaching career, recently leaving my hometown of Chicago to move to LA.

Each moment there is a feeling of extreme discomfort prior. As if I didn’t make this move, a part of me would wither and die.

I call these threshold moments soul contract moments. I think of them like seeds we were born carrying. Seeds meant to bloom at certain points in our lives. Seeds interwoven into our very DNA, quietly guiding us toward the people, places, losses, and experiences that shape who we become.

Some seeds we’ve been watering our entire lives, becoming completely in awe of the bloom when they finally happen.

Some arrive through discomfort. Through endings. Through “touch the stove” moments we have to experience for ourselves before the lesson finally clicks.

Some seeds are meant to have an end date, thanking them for what they taught us, letting them regenerate back into the earth.

If you start paying attention, your body knows when a seed is getting ready to bloom before your mind does. For me it shows up as restlessness and a knowing I can't logic my way out of. A feeling that if I don't move towards it, something essential will be lost. Like a version of me in the future is calling me home, sending warning signals. It's also not just a future version of me doing the calling, it's everyone on the other side of this decision too.

I think of this like a match and domino effect, each seed lighting the way for the next one. Each brave decision creates the conditions for the next one to be possible. Your move to a new city makes the book deal possible. The book deal makes the speaking stage possible. The speaking stage reaches the person who needed to hear exactly what you had to say. None of it happens if you don't make the first move. That's why it can feel so high stakes when you're standing at the threshold, because it is. Not following one seed doesn't just affect you. It affects everything that was meant to grow from it.

If I never quit teaching in Chicago, I never would be sitting here writing this Substack from a coffee shop on a Monday in California. I never would have met you. It’s wild to think that maybe you, the reader, were calling me to bloom this entire time.

We do have free will. We can decide not to follow these seeds. And honestly? It's so much easier to stay comfortable, to tell yourself not yet, to choose the familiar over the unknown. We scroll, we stay busy, we convince ourselves we're not ready. But the seeds don't forget. And the longer we wait, the louder they get. The more you follow the seeds, the path you know that was laid out for you, it does get easier. You build resilience, confidence, and your courage becomes the light-post for others to follow theirs.

What you can do today:

Grab your journal and something to write with. Then ask yourself these questions, watching this video while you’re at it.

• Think back on the moments in your life that felt like milestones. The decisions that changed everything. The doors you walked through even when you were afraid. Write them down. Notice what they have in common.

• Where in your life right now do you feel that familiar restlessness? That quiet hum that something is ready? What are you telling yourself about why it’s not time yet?

• What is one seed you know you’ve been carrying, maybe for years, that is asking to be watered right now?

One day, you’ll look back at your life, realizing you were blooming the whole time. These threshold moments, these soul contract moments, were all creating a self sustaining garden. If this resonated for you today, I’d love to hear what seeds you feel are about to come into bloom.

If you’d like to dive deeper, I recommend our Once in a Blue Moon: Exploring Timeline Shifts, Your Life In Bloom, and Signs, Synchronicities + Symbolism workshops in The Intuition Studio, your online sanctuary into the portal of your intuition. I’d love to see you inside!

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About the Author

Hi, I’m Bridget! I’m a writer, intuitive coach, and entrepreneur based in Los Angeles by way of Chicago. After leaving a tenured teaching career to build a business rooted in purpose, I’ve made it my mission to help the dreamers, the creatives, and the ones with a vision in their hearts who are brave enough to live their knowing.

Here, I write about the messy, beautiful reality of actually following this. Entrepreneurship, intuition, personal essays, identity shifts, and everything in between. I’m so happy you’re here, and I know it’s no coincidence we’ve crossed paths.

Want to go deeper? Here’s how we can work together:

• The Intuition Studio — my community for people building lives led by intuition. Workshops, replays, intuitive guidance and community that has lived their own knowing, too.

• Work with me 1:1 — for personalized sessions, coaching and support.

• Come hang with me on Instagram, Substack, or browse my website — I’d love to connect.

These graduates are staring into the unknown, filled with promise, uncertainty, student loans and everything in between. They’re at the edge of their big leap, ready to embark on what’s on the other side of this decision.

After the ceremony, I went out to lunch with my cousin and his friends. I sat down, and my cousin introduced me to his friend, immediately telling us: “you two will get along”. He was right, and we started yapping away.

She revealed to me that she was actually supposed to be in the same law school graduating class today, but she recently took a different type of leap than today’s grads, dropping out last semester to pursue other ventures. She doesn’t necessarily know what those ventures are yet, or even if she wants to go back to law school.

She expressed both a feeling of “what if I had graduated today” and also a deep self-awareness that graduating from law school today was not meant to be her path.

We swapped stories and both had similar paths. She just turned 27 (Saturn Return anyone?!) and I felt as if I was talking to my 27 year old self. We are both highly ambitious, followed the path we thought was meant to be laid out for us, finally got there, looked around and realized it wasn’t our path to be had. Everyone else seemed happy, but why weren’t we? We did all the “right” things, so what’s next?

Towards the end of lunch, she asked me a question so good I told her I needed to write down. She asked me “How do you trust yourself that you made the right decision when it feels so hard?”.

I took a deep breath before answering because I know that feeling. I wanted to make sure I answered truthfully, because I did not want to sell her the false narrative of “everything is going to be AMAZING because you followed your dreams!!”. Because in my experience, it's usually been the opposite, at least at first.

My biggest case of this feeling was when I went into entrepreneurship full-time. I quit my tenured teaching career in May of 2022 after two years of serious consideration and building my business on the side. When I quit, I felt like I had the whole world ahead of me. I had the freedom of schedule, the flexibility, and had finally achieved what I wanted for so long.

Four months after taking my business full time, I found myself sitting in a Chase Bank parking lot, crying so hard I could barely walk inside to open my business bank account, questioning all of my life choices.

I felt it again being here in LA, thinking I’d be here to write a book and in reality the city has initiated me into one of my deepest portals of becoming.

In answering her question, I told her that I don’t have all the answers, but I do have lived experience that has taught me time and time again what it means to take the leap, and what actually happens after.

So, here’s my answer.

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It has officially been eight months since I moved to LA, and in the best way this city, and version of me, is nothing like what I thought she was going to be.

I originally came here for a three month sublease in Santa Monica, with the sole intent of spending my time finishing a book that I started writing last summer.

And here we are, eight months later, with no book finished, not living in Santa Monica, and the universe having the last laugh.

Let’s go back to the beginning…

Before I came to LA, I was living in my hometown of Chicago in my favorite (IYKYK) apartment in Logan Square. I had manifested this apartment in the most wild way and was living out my dream of having a full-time entrepreneurial city gal chapter.

By June of 2025, I had lived in this apartment the last year and a half, and the time was coming to tell my landlord if I was going to resign. I could start to feel my inner knowing creeping in, asking me “do we really want to stay here?”.

I wanted to push this knowing away, because logically I was NOT leaving. I loved that apartment and would have shouted this from the rooftops until the cows came home. But if you know me, and if you’re reading this, you KNOW the knowing. Once the awareness is there, it’s almost impossible for this knowing to leave.

2025 was also not an easy year for me by any means. By the time I was having to tell my landlord again if I was resigning, I was coming off of healing from a breakup and a six week slowww + painful recovery from getting shingles on my face. Logically, I did not think that a cross country move was wise to add on top of this.

But alas, the knowing persisted. I kept returning to a moment I had in April of 2025 when I was standing on Manhattan Beach Pier, visiting LA for my friend’s wedding. I was looking out at the ocean, freshly healed from shingles, and it hit me: “there is a chapter for you here”.

I came home to Chicago and began asking for and receiving every sign under the sun, but apparently I needed signier-signs. I decided to sit down in my favorite bay window chair and meditate with the future version of me, one year from now.

I asked this version of me what she would tell or show me if we were still in our Chicago apartment. In the visualization, I saw her sitting in the same bay window chair, looking out at the snow with a deep feeling of longing and “what if”.

I then pulled a card after the meditation, and got the Two of Wands from the Light Seers Tarot deck. The card looked EXACTLY what my visualization looked like, and the description had my jaw on the floor. This was the final push, after working through many logistics/overthinking nights, that got me to fully trust and end up saying “no” to resigning my lease.

The second I made the decision, it was go-time. I quickly found a furnished Santa Monica sublease that felt so aligned. The furniture in my Chicago apartment was offered to me as a very cheap bundle to buy, but I decided to say no and get rid of all my belongings too. I was going to use this as a time to start fresh.

My move-in day was September 1st, and I had everything set up for the move before leaving for one of my best friend’s birthday trips in August. This trip was in Olympic National Park, dubbed our “Twilight trip”.

Before I left, I had a friend tell me to pay attention to future glimpses of me on the west coast when I went out there. Once I got to the coast, I felt the ringing of her words and the magic of what the west coast was going to open for me.

As the trip was coming to an end, I was officially two weeks out from moving to California. We were driving back through Olympic National Forest towards Seattle when I got a text message that made my heart drop.

My Santa Monica sublease had fallen through.

I was SO upset, and my body started scanning for every thing that went wrong. I questioned if this was a sign from the universe that I wasn’t supposed to move, but I knew deep in my soul that this was not the case. I was supposed to be in LA. Upon getting the news, I called my friend Lauren who lived in Santa Monica, and she reassured me that things like this happen in LA all the time and that I will find another apartment.

One hour later, I got a text from Lauren with a screenshot from her friend Alexa, saying that her roommate situation fell through, asking if Lauren knew anyone who could be her roommate in Los Feliz starting in September. Ironically, I also knew of Alexa prior. We were both from Chicago and had mutual connections/had been in each other’s orbits, but just did not meet in person yet. I took this as my signiest-sign, and the first time I met Alexa was when I walked through my new apartment’s doors.

The rest is history.

Looking back, I know now that my Santa Monica sublease falling through was divine intervention. Somewhere along the way, I’ve realized LA was never asking me to produce something. She was asking me to meet myself.

Ironically, I feel like my sublease falling through was LA herself initiating me, calling me home and telling me, “it is safe to root.”

When I say root, I don’t think she means stay forever either. I think she means, figure out who YOU are. Figure out what it means to make a home within yourself.

She’s asking me: who are you without the structure of your family, without being defined by grief, without your prior identities of being home-grown, a wanderer, or nomadic?

It has all come down to this concluding question:

Who are you when nobody defines you?

I’m definitely still figuring that out! I’ll be writing more about LA, what this city has opened (am I finishing my book?!), and more in the coming weeks. Thank you for being here, and if you’re also someone who has followed their knowing to a city that called to them, I’d love to hear from you.

Every month in the Studio, I film a 30 minute video tuning in and pulling cards on the energy for the month ahead. I was especially excited for May, because this month is anchored by two full moons making the second, on the 31st, a blue moon.

Blue moon months are synonymous with rarity. They give us the opportunity to rewrite our stories and to shift onto the timeline that we want to experience. They give us a chance to witness a miracle.

In this clip specifically, I asked what timeline we are bravely being asked to step into. We got the 10 of swords 😅 which I will never sugarcoat! When we reach the 10 of swords, we’ve made our way through a mental battle and are ready to finally come up for air. It’s essentially a rock bottom card.

The brave thing about rock bottoms is that they ask us to rise after a period of allowing ourselves to just be in it. This card asks for compassion, gentleness, and in this deck, emphasizes the moon at her fullest in the background. It’s the one time of the month that she has to be seen. To be witnessed at her fullest expression. To not hide. Maybe in our rock bottoms, we’re bravely being asked for exactly this. To be seen, to be witnessed. To not hide, even when we most want to.

This card, called “Cracked Open” from Rebecca Campbell’s Starseed Oracle was pulled in the video as well, and I feel it beautifully explains what these rock bottoms do for us:

“Don’t let the weight and density of the world squash your tender spirit. Instead, let it call even more of it home. Into your body. At the center front of your life. It’s through the extreme pressure of life’s trials that diamonds are cultivated. It’s when things are at their darkest that we cultivate proper faith and our light is ignited. It’s through the crumbling that we can allow our wounds to be alchemized. Let your pain, sorrow, and losses make you not break you. Let life alchemize your tragedies into gold.”

- Rebecca Campbell

May reminds us that no phase lasts forever. That it’s safe to both retreat, and be seen. I feel anyone reading this probably has been told they’re “too sensitive” at some point in their lives too - but what if that was your superpower?

We'll be exploring these themes and more in The Intuition Studio this month. Our May Studio Circle is Monday, May 11th at 4pm PST. We'll be diving into how this blue moon month is specifically impacting you, and pulling cards for each other. Our Once In A Blue Moon Workshop is Monday, May 18th at 4pm PST. We'll be exploring the tools on how to step into your greatest timeline shift. Both are open to Studio members, and you're always welcome to just come and listen.

I’ll also be sharing more personal essays here on Substack this month. This platform has been such a sanctuary to explore, and also learn from! I’ll see you all soon and happy MAY. 🌕

I’ve been very deep in a grief portal over here, and reading this quote makes me wonder how the world can continue to move on without us, too. I’ve grappled with this for some time now, first when my friend Julie passed when I was 18, and now again with the passing of my friend Lo this past month.

Another dear friend that I met when I first came to LA also experienced a significant loss of a loved one exactly one week after Lo passed. We went for a walk around Lake Hollywood Reservoir when we both got back to LA, processing together. What we both concluded without a shadow of a doubt is that it did not feel like they were gone. That yes, our loved one’s bodies are gone, but their essence is still here. That we would always remember them. That we would carry their light, in the best way we knew how. That because they lived, their ripple effect will always be felt.

She told me her loved one was showing her signs through owls and music, which was the exact same for me after Julie passed, to the point I got my one-and-only tattoo, an owl, on my wrist.

We both talked about how healing receiving signs is and she shared some songs with me that I added to my Heal playlist that I’ve been listening to and created to help me through Lo’s passing.

One of the songs I have on repeat is called Dissect the Bird by John Craigie. The verse that stands out to me every time I listen is this:

The universe is not against you
The universe is not against you, it went through a lot
Just to give you a chance, it must've wanted you
Pretty bad
No pressure though, no pressure though
The universe went through a lot but no pressure, bro
You don't gotta be perfect, you don't gotta be a saint
Just don't waste it, this was not a mistake

Every time I listen to this song it makes me cry, and brings a key remembrance: There is a reason we are all here. The universe must've wanted you pretty bad, and the same was true for Lo, for Julie, for every person whose absence has left a mark on this world. The ripple doesn't stop just because the person does.

Reflecting On My Own Ripple Effect

While I am feeling the ripple of the people I’ve lost, it’s also made me reflect on my own. Lo’s passing stripped me down to a level of rawness I have not felt in quite some time. It made everything so perfectly clear and equally unclear to me. It’s been six weeks since her passing, and I feel I am just now coming up for air.

Grief has a way of creating a fracture point for all other areas of your life that were already on shaky ground. But in that fracturing, something else happens too, you get returned to yourself.

As I’ve been in a process of rebuilding, I’m noticing I’m returning to what I used to love. I had a lot of laughs at my childhood home in Chicago reading old journal entries, and I’ve been writing and walking like the life I’m building depends on it.

I do feel our ripple effect comes from our most authentic state, and for me that has always been writing. I’ve journaled since I was nine as a way to process my emotions, and found this entry from when I was twelve and deep in my Outsiders era. It's wild how our prior selves layer onto who we're becoming.

Lo’s passing has me sitting in this new space, asking: where do I want to go from here? In order to create a ripple effect, we have to take action. My small step is this : writing, and sharing my story and my grieving process in hopes it can help someone else. Who knows where it can take me, too.

Now, what is your ripple effect? What gifts did you come here to own?

I hope in reading this that you reflect on your own journey, and remembrance of why you are here. If you’re still breathing, it means you’re still in the game. Your Earthly story isn’t finished yet, and maybe you’re just getting started. The following are some ways you can remember your essence, and in turn your ripple effect and impact you came here to make.

Activity: The Gallery of You

For this activity, I want you to pretend we are creating a gallery of you. A collection of the things that move you, shape you, reflect you back to yourself. In your journal or on your notes app, write down your current or all-time favorite:

• Quote

• Song

• Piece of art

• Movie

• Book

Reflecting: Looking at the list above, what is the common denominator? What does this tell you about your essence?

Going Deeper: How can you help others understand more about you? What impact can you make by showing others this gallery of you? Bonus points if you share this with someone or tag me on social media @intuitivelybridget! I’d love to see.

If you use ChatGPT, try this: "Can you tell me about my essence and the ripple effect I'm meant to have on this world using this curation of my favorites?" Then paste your list. You might be surprised what it reflects back.

I also have a workshop called The Essence of You in The Intuition Studio, your one-stop-shop to all things intuitive development.

Journal + Reflection Prompts:

• Where in your life have you already made an impact without trying?

• Who has shaped you simply by being who they are?

• What parts of yourself have you been holding back that could ripple outward?

• If your presence alone is enough, how would you move differently?

I’d love to hear how this post resonates for you, and what ripple effect you feel you’re meant to create. PS - sharing music is my love language. If you have any songs that have helped you heal through grief or loss, I’d love to hear them.

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I’m currently back home in Chicago, putting the pieces back together for what this new reality looks like before heading back to LA. In all honesty, I haven’t been sure how to return to work or this space. The only way I know how to ease back in is through writing. I’ve been journaling since I was 9 as a way to process my emotions, and I find myself coming back to this practice again and again as a way to heal.

What I keep reminding myself of is the Japanese art style of Kintsugi - where if an object breaks, instead of erasing the damage they highlight the scars with gold, making it more beautiful and valuable than the original piece.

This hasn’t been my first experience with acute grief either, as many of you know my story and that my friend Julie passed in a car accident on her way to my house when I was 18. I’ve spent my days since then dedicating my life’s work to following the thread that connects our human body and infinite soul - our intuition.

I also know that we heal in community, and that I am so grateful for the one I’ve created here. I know that sharing our experiences opens our hearts for others to share theirs. I want to return to my work in my rawness, and not override the human experience of it all.

Grief has a way of reminding us that the world keeps spinning whether we’re ready or not. It also has a way of making life incredibly clear, showcasing what is truly important. I know this is going to change the scope of my work forever. I’m not sure how just yet, but I know it will reveal itself in time.

It’s also not lost on me that spring is arriving. Nature has always been another way I put my pieces back together, and the woods by my childhood home have witnessed me at every stage of life. My dad and I were walking in the woods together this past week and he made me stop on the path, look around and reminded me that in a few months, everything in the woods will be alive again.

So, here’s to putting the pieces back together. Slowly, imperfectly, and with every ounce of human rawness. Here's to our loved ones that life has cracked us open to grieve, and everyone that got to love them, be loved by them, and be impacted by their story.

As I slowly return, I’ll be opening my 1:1 sessions again next week and will see you in our Membership Portal, which is now being transitioned into being called The Intuition Studio (more on this later!).

Talk soon and thank you for being here. I know it’s no coincidence we’ve crossed paths, and as I keep telling all my friends these last few weeks, you’re stuck with me.

In my years of doing this work and listening to my intuition, what I’ve learned is that whenever discomfort arises, this discomfort creates the most change. It requires MOVEMENT. Action. Turning inward. Finally saying, “enough is enough”.

This month sets a precedent for the next six months to come, giving us a clue into where our energies want to be focused. When we get to this level of discomfort, our bodies + intuition are screaming at us : “LOOK OVER HERE!!”.

This creates a point of awareness, and a knowing deep in our soul that something has to change. Reminder: you wouldn’t be here if you weren’t ready.

Eclipse Season Reflections

You’ve probably noticed that you’re not the only one going through this change either. We have eclipse season this month, and eclipses quite literally eclipse out of our lives the people, places, jobs and opportunities that are no longer supportive of the person we’re becoming. They can also bring in MIRACLES if we allow ourselves to receive them.

Our solar eclipse in Aquarius on February 17th ushers in a new story for us, asking us: What creative gifts did I bring into this world that will help heal humanity? No big deal!

Whatever is asking to be born from you can, and should, be born from an innate joy. What do you spend hours doing that makes you lose track of time? What has been your through-line your entire life that you always come back to? How can you use this gift, bring it out into the world, and heal those around you as a result? Most importantly, what is being born from you is presenting itself to heal YOU and your inner child, and that makes it all worth it.

Our February Workshop: The Art of Symbolism, Signs + Synchronicities

This workshop will explore how our intuition communicates through symbols, signs and synchronicities. When you start to notice signs showing up, this means you’re on the cusp of change. Come ready to learn how to recognize meaningful symbols, ask for and act on signs with clarity, and how to create your own personal symbolic language with your intuition. You can join us in the Membership Portal, or at a drop-in rate linked here. Hosted LIVE on Zoom February 23rd at 6pm CST.

Workshops I recommend for this month that are self-paced and uploaded in the Membership Portal:

The Essence of You Workshop - this workshop helps you remember your innate ESSENCE and is great if you’re feeling lost on your purpose/need a reminder of this

Your Life As A Canvas: Creativity in the New Year Workshop - this workshop connects you back to your innate creativity and gifts, setting a precedent for the year to come

Activity: Preparing for Eclipse Season

Eclipse season is more of a “buckle up” energy versus a “let’s prepare for this” energy, but it doesn’t hurt to try! We experience eclipses every six months, and this eclipse season officially opened this week. We’ll feel the impact of this season moving through March, and most potently between the eclipses on February 17th (Solar Eclipse in Aquarius) and March 3rd (Lunar Eclipse in Virgo).

For this activity, I recommend creating an account on TimePassages the astrology app, or looking at astro-charts.com for this. Wherever Pisces is in your chart, this can feel like the final “curtain call”. For example, if Pisces is in your 2nd house, this might feel like the final curtain call on working on patterns around worthiness. If it was in your 10th house, it might be the final curtain call on a career path.

Tuning into your chart, what do you feel the cosmos are wanting you to close the curtain on? What do you feel this area of your chart has taught you the most? How can you BOLDLY act from this area now? What step do you want to take as a result of all of the work accumulated here?

PS - We’ll also be discussing more in our Portal Circle hosted in the Membership Portal this next Monday the 9th. I also love The Modern Astrologer’s Moonlit Living Membership for deep dives on all the astro-tea for eclipses.

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Prompts for February:

These prompts can double as journal and tarot prompts:

• What final “curtain call” do I feel is happening in my life? Is it a job, relationship, way of being, etc?

• What new identity am I ready to step into after this curtain call?

• What do I feel this eclipse season is opening for me?

• Where do I see myself six months from now? Who am I surrounded by, how do I feel, and what vision do I have for myself then?

• What small action step can I take today to help fulfill this vision^? What bigger action steps can I take over the next six months to foster this vision?

Personal Updates + What I’m Up To

Between still catching up on the lessons 2025 taught me, to settling into a new city, being an empath in a changing world and all the things in between - I am definitely feeling the chrysalis-to-butterfly vibes described above.

LA has felt like one of the biggest portals into my becoming. When I felt the call to move out here last April, I honestly didn’t know why other than a clear overwhelming feeling of peace that told me “it’s time”. That’s how my intuition has always worked, and I feel I’m coming into another knowing that “it’s time”. I’ve been working on new offerings behind the scenes, updating my website, and diving more into creativity to connect back to my essence. I’m not sure I have the words for it yet, but it feels like whatever force builds mountains must be the force that’s in me (and all of us) too.

Communities I’m connecting in:

Wilde House Paper Cultivation Conversations Coffee Club - I went to their live event in LA this past weekend and LOVED it! Highly recommend checking if they host in your city.

Diana Davis’ Recess for Creatives

Moonlit Living by The Modern Astrologer

Currently reading: Worthy by Jamie Kern Lima and up next is The Courage to be Disliked by Fumitake Koga

Substack articles I’m loving:

A Gentle February Journaling Practice

The Art of Being Unreachable

You Can Feel It Because Your Next Era Has Arrived

An extremely non-comprehensive list of how to increase your surface area for luck and magic (and instantly sprinkle fairy dust on your life)

Where I’m heading next : Staying put in LA for now! I have lots of midwestern visitors escaping the cold to come see me, and am so excited to have them here 🌞

Our card of February:

Our card of the month is the Ace of Cups. How PERFECT for the month of love! The Ace of Cups reminds us that at any moment, we can decide love is back and here to stay. This month might bring in an actual romantic partner, a deepening within your current partnership, or a feeling of bliss and joy you’ve been waiting for a long time now. Your heart was never meant to stay closed, and it’s a beautiful month to speak and act from the heart. Share your creativity, express yourself, and allow yourself to open up to receive the love you know you deserve. This is exciting, and brings so much hope!*You can learn more about the Ace of Cups, linked here. I used the Light Seers Tarot Deck today!

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Let’s remember the essence of YOU

As we entered 2026, I started to feel the noise around me getting louder and louder, specifically on social media. I admittedly spend a lot of time on social media as both a personal consumer and professionally for my business. As I was scrolling away, I started to feel my essence and intuition slowly start slipping away too.

ALL of these questions started coming up while I was scrolling : Should I have moved to LA? Why am I still single? Will I ever get to the point of entrepreneurship where I feel I’m excelling and not catching up? When will I reach my health goals? Should I be doing more to help the state of the world? Will I ever be happy that I’m just allowed to be ME, exactly as I am right now? Cue the spiral…and whenever this happens, I know it’s time to pull back and take a big ol pause.

Our intuition is our greatest ally, and I feel mine was slowly calling me back to her, telling me : it’s safe to be here, now. It’s safe to spiral, it’s safe to return inward so that you can remember that you were always whole. To remember that exactly who you are today is perfect, and that is more than enough.

I share all of this because I know that many of us are in this process of shedding (we’re in the last few weeks of the Year of the Snake btw, let it RIP 🔥). We’re suspended between who we were and who we must become. It doesn’t mean we have to change everything at once, but it does mean we’re being called to observe, notice, and get curious around the answers that come from within.

I’ll be sharing more in our Essence of You workshop this Monday at 4pm PST/6pm CST, hosted on Zoom in the Membership Portal. I’ll take you through activities, prompts, and a guided meditation to connect back to your essence, and teach you how you can bring this out into the world.

You can join us in the Portal linked here for a 14 day free trial, and kick start this year together! I have a feeling this workshop will be a favorite. If you’d like to join this workshop as a drop in, you can join us linked here.

I’m currently reading Brianna Wiest’s The Pivot Year, which I began on my birthday this year. This was the page for today, and I feel it’s perfect for all of us that are currently exiting this shedding period and embracing this space between.

Prompts to connect to your essence:

These prompts can double as journal and tarot prompts:

• If my seven year old self was standing in front of me, what would they share with me right now?

• If the version of me one year from now could give me advice, what would they share?

• If my loved one was standing in front of me, what would they tell me they love me for?

• What do you feel you came here to share with the world? What has been a guiding light/north star your entire life?

What I’m up to!

Substack articles I’m loving:

The Gentle Art of Being Seen: Reframing Personal Branding

It Is Urgent and Imperative That We All Permanently Exit Instagram (don’t worry, I’m not leaving my beloved Insta, but I loved the points made here)

Currently reading: Worthy by Jamie Kern Lima. I had no clue that the founder of IT Cosmetics was such a BOSS and philanthropist! I was gifted this book a year ago by one of my clients and finally picked it up to read, and it found me at the perfect time.

Journals I’m using to connect back to my essence:

-Pieces of You by Wilde House Paper

-The Best Year Journal by Intelligent Change

Where I’m heading next ✈️: Staying put in LA for now! I’ve been exploring my neighborhood more and putting effort into creating more community and roots here!

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Our card to remember our essence:

Our card to remember our essence is the King of Cups. If there was any card to help remember our essence, the King of Cups is it. This King has reached a level of self mastery in terms of their own inner world and knowing. I’d argue it is one of the most intuitive and emotionally intelligent of the deck, and it means it’s time to shine a light on your inner world. “Take a chance on your creativity and ability to express your heart”. This is a great time to connect back with loved ones, nature, creativity and those moments that make you feel ALIVE. Your emotions and intuition are your compass, and you’re worth getting to know at a cellular level. Your inner world is also worth sharing, and you’re right on time. *You can learn more about the King of Cups card, linked here. I used the Light Seers Tarot Deck today!

Xo, Bridget Rose

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2026 is the year of a brave + bold YOU.

If there is any year to put your stake in the ground and claim a year as YOUR year, 2026 is it. 2026 carries the energy of a year one in numerology, closing out a nine year cycle that began for us collectively in 2017.

If you look back at 2025, I’m sure it was a lot. It was a year 9 numerology wise, and year 9’s in numerology signify the completion of a 9 year cycle. If you talk to anyone about this year, I’m sure there will be an element of “this year tested me” and another element of “but I’m so grateful that it did”. I’m sharing an activity on this below, but the year 2025 ends a cycle that started for us in 2017, opening up a fresh nine year journey going into 2026.

You might have felt squeezed this year, but it was a year that forced us to come out of the cocoon and claim our right as the butterfly that can finally take flight.

The training wheels are off my friends. 2026 is a year one in numerology, and if there is any year that is a time to make a bold claim, this one is IT. The year to put your stake in the ground, take up space, and claim the adventure you want to embark on. I truly believe 2026 is the year of YOU.

2026 Year Ahead Readings

This is my fourth year of doing year ahead readings, and every year I get a giddy anticipation prior to releasing these. I love witnessing a story unfold overtime, and there’s something about the new year that allots space for this feeling of anticipation and hope.

These readings were created to come back to throughout your year, thinking of them as your own personal podcast as we piece your story together. I intentionally use tarot in readings because tarot reveals a story that reflects the hero’s journey, the journey of what it means to be a human. It takes courage to come here and say “you know what, I’m going to experience it all”.

Our years are meant to be messy, exploratory, and filled with gentle encouragement to keep following what lights you up. These readings are certainly not meant to be “written in stone”, but to be used as a roadmap to continue to come back to as your year unfolds.

Your PDF is your guide as well, helping you weave your story month by month as the seasons go on. It’s why I intentionally section out the PDF at each solstice and equinox, giving you a seasonal snapshot into what the each season itself is opening for you.

These readings do sell out every year, and I am SO grateful that they do. Whether you’re a returning client or it’s your first time receiving a year ahead, thank you for trusting me to be the one your receive guidance from. I’m so excited to witness this year unfold for you.

Each reading includes:

• Overall messages for 2026 using solstices + equinoxes as turning points

• A month by month exploration with tarot and oracle cards for self reflection

• Channeled messages and guided insights throughout

• A PDF with your cards, rituals, journal prompts, reflection pages, and seasonal spreads

2026 Year Ahead Reading options:

1:1 Zoom Session (60 min): Explore your year ahead with me! This is an interactive, open dialogue. Ideal if this year is bringing change and you want to work through it together. Book your 1:1 session linked here. *I recommend booking these in advance because December does sell out.

Audio Recording (30 min): Consider this your personal “podcast” reading. It’s perfect for on-the-go reflection and just as potent as a live session. Also makes a great gift for the holidays. Book your audio recording linked here.

Gift a Year Ahead Session: You can gift a 1:1 session linked here, and gift an audio recording linked here.

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A Year 9 Activity : Let’s Time Travel Together

Taking out your journal and opening up to a fresh page, let’s time travel back to 2017. Write out the years 2017 - 2025 listed on the page, leaving room to write a sentence (or as much as you want!) for each year. If you have difficulty remembering, I recommend looking at the pictures from these years on your phone.

Example: “2017 was the year I moved to Australia and learned that…”

Now, looking back at all 9 years, what did you learn? What cycle do you feel you completed in these last 9 years?

Looking ahead to the year 2034, where do you want to be? What do you want to have accomplished? What are you building in these next 9 years that you are excited about? I highly recommend watching this Instagram post too.

You can look at your own personal numerology to add an extra dose of insight to this, which I discussed how to do in our November Portal circle call in the Membership Portal, linked here!

Prompts going into 2026:

These prompts can double as journal and tarot prompts:

• What am I ready to CLAIM for 2026? What stake/s am I putting in the ground?

• If the version of me in 2017 could give me advice, what would they tell me?

• If the version of me in 2034 could give me advice, what would they tell me?

• What am I most proud of from my 2025 story? What do I feel 2025 opened for me?

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My Time Traveling Story

Looking back at my own 2017, this was the year I finished teaching English in Thailand, moved to Australia with the intent of staying for two years, got hired as a nanny, fainted at my friend’s kitchen table, had a month off, decided to fly back to Chicago on a whim for the month, andddd never went back to Australia. I applied to two teaching jobs in the Chicago suburbs, and happened to get the one I applied for. I would absolutely say this was fate. My living abroad days were over, and I spent the next 9 years in Chicago up until this recent move to LA.

This is my first time really reflecting on this and typing it out. 2025 was wild as well, squeezing me into my next version of becoming. I will write out the whole story at one point, but through all of the extremes (a breakup, shingles, a cross country moving to LA, the wholeee shebang), I really feel this was one of the best years of my life. I told my friend last night that this year made me not afraid anymore. I had to work through my own psyche to finally say “enough is enough”. To put MY stake in the ground and take all of my power back. I feel the best I’ve felt in a LONG time (also thanks to my gut protocol!) and cannot wait to see what the next nine years have to teach me.

I will be writing more on my Live The Knowing Substack starting in 2026, and you can subscribe linked here!

Workshops this Month

Monday November 24th at 6pm CST: Sacred Reset & Gratitude Workshop. With Thanksgiving and the holidays around the corner, this is going to be a sacred reset/gratitude workshop. We will be focusing on the concept of gratitude, and I will also be leading us through an energetic healing reset before the holidays. Come ready to be cozy and feel a boost of healing energy before the wildness begins! I am opening this workshop up to the public, and you can join us linked here.

UPLOADED in the Portal: November Portal Circle. Happy 11/11! November is one of the best months of the year to envision the manifestation in your life that you want to create. November is when we start to feel our numerology for the next year, so in this portal circle we will be calculating you personal numerology for 2026, along with discussing insights around what the energy of November is opening for you. We’ll be pulling cards for each other as well. If you’ve never pulled cards for someone before, you’re in the right place! Come ready to relax, try something new, and receive. *You never have to stay for this part either, you can come for the Portal insights then leave!

Both workshops are included in the Membership Portal, your online sanctuary and portal for all things intuition. There are over two years worth of content in the Portal, and you can join us linked here for $33 a month. You can cancel and rejoin anytime as well. See you inside!

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What I’m Up To!

• Currently reading : God of the Woods by Liz Moore and How to Manifest by Lacy Phillips. God of the Woods has sucked me IN! I haven’t read a fictional novel in a while, I’m glad to be back!

• Song & lyrics of the week: Bloomsday by Samantha Crain

• Where this header pic was taken: Chicago! I did a branding photoshoot this summer and loved all of these pics by Danielle Rose Photo

• Where I’m heading next ✈️: San Francisco for Thanksgiving, and Chicago soon for the holidays!

Our card going into 2026:

Our card for going into 2026 is The Hanged Man. This is the year to turn that frown upside down! The Hanged Man is a beautiful card to remind us that we can honor the pause. That in these last six weeks of the year, we’re not supposed to do it all. In fact, the power of the pause is the whole point. This allows us to see our lives from a different perspective, to maybe recognize the part of us that we couldn’t see prior. This is giving “I need a silent retreat” vibe. Make sure you take some time in these last few weeks of the year for YOU. The card after this is the Death card, so get ready to TRANSFORM. You wouldn’t be here if you weren’t ready, and it’s time to pause so you can really take the time to remember how you’re meant to shine. *You can learn more about the Hanged Man, linked here. I used the Light Seers Tarot Deck today!

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When I was pulling our cards of the week yesterday for Instagram, I immediately noticed a wave of peace wash over me. It feels like this week, the message wanting to repeat itself is this: “Universe, show me how good life can get”.

As we come into the last months of 2025, there feels like a beautiful dust-settling energy. This doesn’t mean there isn’t still time to become all who you want to be, but it does mean that the seeds have been planted. It almost feels like a preparation stage, or a “knowing” stage. Knowing that you’ve taken all of this time to set yourself up for a miracle to come, and maybe that this miracle is already here.

Moral of the story : this energy feels FUN. It feels relaxing. It feels like you’ve created the life you healed for. I feel those of us that are drawn to learning about our own intuition and following this sometimes forget that there are times in life we don’t always have to be working towards the next goal. I definitely need to remind myself of that too!

We also have the new moon in Libra tomorrow, and new moons are historically introspective. They are the time of the month where we can shut out the noise, take a breather, look up at the stars and let the world pass on by. Libra energy invites us to declare love and balance in our lives. It reminds us that we can experience two realities at once. It’s also a week to claim self love and say “I accept myself fully”.

Activity for this week : The concept of unhooking

When we’re asking the universe to show us how good our lives can get, this naturally comes with an awareness around the question : “What if the other shoe is going to drop?”

A REALLY good book for this is called “The Big Leap” by Gay Hendricks, but you can also do another activity called “unhooking”. I learned this from a class I took with Seraphina Capranos, and it deeply resonated. I always had a hard time resonating with the concept of cord cutting, and she suggested “unhooking” instead. I felt cord cutting was harsh, and this invited a softness that I needed.

Instead of cord cutting from what you KNOW you don’t want, you can simply “unhook” from these negative thought patterns, limiting beliefs, people, etc. Especially if what is holding you back (a job, relationship, etc) cannot leave your life at this moment, you can energetically unhook and call your power back.

I recommend doing this activity standing up. Close your eyes, and imagine that the person, situation, place, etc that you feel is holding you back is in front of you. You can thank this energy for it’s lessons, but then ask to call all of your power back and unhook from the energy. It doesn’t mean you can’t come back to it at some point, but this leaves room to energetically take it off the shelf for a while and call back YOUR power. Imagine that after you have unhooked, you feel a weight lifted and energy is pouring back into you. If you unhooked from this energy, what are you excited will come take it’s place? What does the universe have in store for you once this activity is complete? You can journal on these questions and see how you feel after this activity. I recommend free writing and at least taking 7 minutes to reflect on what comes up for you.

We will be going deeper together with these themes in the Membership Portal this month. You can join us linked here!

Prompts for this week:

These prompts can double as journal and tarot prompts:

• What am I currently healing for? What version of me is waiting on the other side?

• What am I ready to unhook from for the time being? What do I know is not serving me anymore?

• What do I feel this new moon in Libra is opening for me?

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Events this Month

IN PERSON Astrological Chart Workshop at 111 Candle Bar for Sorelle in Santa Barbara. this Friday October 24th at 5:30pm: Come ready for a night of celestial magic to learn about the foundations of your Astrological birth chart, including identifying your ‘Big 6.’ Bridget will share her intuitive wisdom to help you learn more about your astrological placements and answer any chart curiosities you may have! You’ll get a copy of your birth chart and journal prompts to deepen your learning, and leave with an understanding of your life’s roadmap written by the stars. You can purchase tickets linked here.

ONLINE Monday October 27th at 4pm PST/6pm CST: Beyond The Veil: A Mediumship Workshop. Join us for a cozy fall night where we go beyond the veil. Together we will be exploring mediumship and what it means to be the bridge between two worlds. You will learn how to practice connecting to your higher self, guides and loved ones on the other side. Come curious, you’ll do great! This is hosted in the Membership Portal, you can join us linked here.

Personally…I’m learning it’s safe to be happy

This weekend I was set up on a few “blind friend dates”. I’ve had friends reach out to set me up with friends that they have in LA, and have had so much fun meeting new people. Most new friends that I’ve met are also other transplants, and I’ve loved that our common denominator is that all of us were called to this city for a reason.

LA carries magic, there is no other word for it. I’m currently living on the east side of LA, and nothing about this side of town is what you expect from the movies. There are palm trees, yes, but there is no ocean or glitz and glam. It’s more grungy, and carries a buzz of creativity that reminds me of Brooklyn in NYC or Logan Square in Chicago. The universe quite literally orchestrated me to be in Los Feliz instead of Santa Monica (this is a wild story, and when I have the energy to tell it I will because I’m honestly still processing the miracle and intricacy of it), and the more I am here, the more I realize it is exactly where I need to be.

This weekend I got my aura photo read at Sacred Light, I was able to explore Topanga, and then hang in Santa Monica with my good friend Lauren (aka @themodernastrologer). I kept saying to Lauren that I feel LA is a playground, and my other friend Diana (@dianadaviscreative) explained it as the other end of a magnet. When I was in Chicago, I kept feeling this pull/buzz to be in LA, and now that I’m here, that “buzz” has finally subsided. It feels like I’ve found the other end of the magnet. With this buzz ending, I feel like I can finally settle in. I feel it is finally safe to be happy.

I won’t lie, this was one of the hardest years of my life - emotionally, spiritually and physically, but I truly believe that doing this work makes it all make sense. That there is a plan greater than we can humanly comprehend that is bringing us along on a journey that when we zoom out, is truly miraculous.

So - I hope this week (and every week) you believe in the miracle of your story, and stay open to miracles. I hope you take the chance when the opportunity is opened to you, and I hope you allow yourself to be proud of the life you have created.

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Monday October 27th at 4pm PST/6pm CST: Beyond The Veil: A Mediumship Workshop. Join us for a cozy fall night where we go beyond the veil. Together we will be exploring mediumship and what it means to be the bridge between two worlds. You will learn how to practice connecting to your higher self, guides and loved ones on the other side. Come curious, you’ll do great!

Uploaded in the Portal: October Portal Circle. October is represented by the number 10 in numerology, which symbolizes the completion of a cycle to open you to manifestations long awaited. We discussed the aftermath of eclipse season, along with insights on what you can expect energetically this month. You can watch this recording in the Portal!

Our card of this week:

Our card of this week is the Five of Cups. This week, you might not be able to clearly see the miracles in front of you. This is okay! Sometimes we need to cry, we need to reflect, and we need to come back to our center. This is a great week to create a gratitude list, and to also know that this feeling is temporary. This card is ultimately a redirect to ask you to remember all you already have. I love what this card says : “you did what you could, at the time”. It’s not a week to beat yourself up, but to honor where you are at and where you can continue to explore and ultimately rise. It doesn’t have to all make sense this week, and it’s not supposed to. This card literally talks about unhooking as well, so it’s a great week to do our activity. Your heart is worthy of being held, and you have always been worthy. *You can learn more about the Five of Cups linked here. I used the Light Seers Tarot Deck today!

See you next week! xo Bridget

The Autumn Equinox : Embracing the Shift

We’re just coming off eclipse season, and you can feel both the lingering shift beneath the surface and the stark awareness of what we’ve all been experiencing collectively. The Autumn Equinox was yesterday, and this marks the beginning of autumn, where we have both equal parts day and night. The guiding myth with the equinox is when Persephone, the daughter of Demeter and Zeus, is taken by Hades into the underworld until spring.

It’s the season that marks our personal decent into our own “underworld”. It helps us remember that if we embrace this darkness, if we embrace our own decent, then come spring - we rise anew.

This is a beautiful season to ask yourself: What personal decent am I ready to embark on? So much can change in six months. You can go into hermit/creation/introspection mode, and become anyone you want to be.

This season reminds us of the discipline it takes to get there (I just finished Into The Magic Shop by Dr James Doty, HIGHLY recommend reading in this season!), and this Virgo Eclipse we had on Sunday knows that without discipline, we cannot achieve our dreams. You owe it to yourself to show up for YOU. You deserve to give yourself the same love you give others, and it’s beautiful to witness your own personal evolution and how it shifts and emits love to the world around you.

Let’s dive in together! New seasonal offerings to support this shift and last chance for eclipse season readings

These seasonal offerings are intended to help you navigate the current shift that comes with eclipse season and the Autumn Equinox. I recommend the Eclipse Season offerings if you enjoy diving into the cosmos/astrology, and Autumn Equinox if you want more of an understanding on closing out this year. The following are the descriptions and their links.

Autumn equinox readings descriptions + links (these close October 15th):

These readings will look at the shift that comes with the changing of the seasons, and what the last three months of the year are opening. In the 1:1, we will do a tarot spread for each month (similar to year aheads), to close out 2025.

• The Shift: An Autumn Equinox Session | 1:1 reading that looks into the last three months of the year and what this season is opening for you

• Autumn Equinox Small Group Reading | TOMORROW at 4pm PST/6pm CST. Limited to 4 participants

LAST CALL : Eclipse season readings descriptions + links:

Now that eclipse season is said and done, what shift did you notice? These sessions will explore what this season opened for you, and what you can expect moving into next eclipse season in March!

• Eclipse Season 1:1 Reading with Astro Insights | This is a 1:1 reading with me, we will dive into what this eclipse is opening for you along with looking at your personal astrology transits

• Eclipse Season Tune In | This is a 15 minute audio message sent straight to your inbox. I highly recommend if you are more on-the-go!

Activities for this season 🍃 your decent and personal paradox…

In your journal, take some time to define your own personal paradox. What are you currently feeling? Is it joy and grief, roots and wings, etc? After writing this down, ask yourself : how can I embrace both? What part of your inner world are you willing to decent into so you can come anew in the spring?

If you have a tarot or oracle deck, you can ask your deck “what is my personal paradox I am meant to embrace right now”? Pull two cards and notice if there are any differences between them, and how you can embody both. These are great to come back to throughout the season if you need a pick-me-up!

You can discover more activities in our Membership Portal from our The Shift: An Autumn Equinox Workshop. This is uploaded in the Portal, along with a meditation to help support this shift, linked here!

Prompts for this autumn equinox:

These prompts can double as journal and tarot prompts:

• What is currently “falling” away in your life?

• What shift do you feel this equinox is opening for you/preparing you for?

• What is your personal paradox right now? Is it roots and wings, joy and grief, etc? How can you allow yourself to embody both?

• Where do you see yourself six months from now on the Spring Equinox?

Personal updates on my own decent…

I am OFFICIALLY in LA. I’ve dedicated myself to being here for at least six months (that’s what my lease is at lease!) and my first two weeks here have been engulfed in my own personal paradox and “decent”. I’m embracing the shift of the sheer excitement of being here, along with the stark reality that I just uprooted my entire life to move somewhere completely new. I’m exhausted, elated, and all of the motions in between. I love routine, so establishing a new one here will take some getting used to. I also love to explore, so I’ll be using my time here as much as I can to have both roots and wings.

This Sunday was the day I started my three month gut detox protocol, which not so coincidentally aligned with this Virgo eclipse. This protocol has been a longgg time coming, and I’m excited to see how I feel after it’s all said and done. My intention behind this is to be preventative and release inflammation in my body, along with sticking to something I said I would do for a while now. I’m excited to keep you all updated, and I know California and being in the sun is exactly what I need to heal.

Let’s hang in the Membership Portal!

The Membership Portal is your one-stop-shop for all things intuition. There are over two years worth of content in the Portal, and you can explore to your heart’s content! The following are the two events we had in September. You can find these recordings and access to all prior workshops and intuitive guidances videos inside, and can join us linked here for $33 a month. Can cancel/rejoin anytime as well. See you inside!

Uploaded in the Portal: Eclipse Season + Autumn Equinox Portal Circle. September is jam packed! September is represented by the 9 in numerology, which symbolizes imminent endings and new beginnings. This month coincides with eclipse season and the Autumn Equinox, bringing in the necessary shifts for our personal and collective evolution. I’ll be discussing Eclipse season + Autumn Equinox insights, and we’ll be pulling cards for each other as well.

Uploaded in the Portal: The Shift: An Autumn Equinox Workshop. The Autumn Equinox signifies the season of harvest and equality, bringing balance back into our lives as we prepare for the closing of the year. We will spend part of this workshop reflecting on the months prior, and how to set intentions to shift into a beautiful harvest for the fall season. We will close with a guided meditation, receiving clarity around the shift you are experiencing.

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Our card of this shifting season:

Our card of this season is the Five of Pentacles. I asked what we are shifting in this season, and what a beautiful card to receive. This card reminds me of the Ferris Bueller quote: “Life moves pretty fast, if you don’t stop and look around every once in a while, you might miss it.” There is a paradox associated deeply with this card in tarot - the characters in the card are left out in the cold, but above them is a beautiful stained glass window marking hope. The shift here is that there is always hope. It’s hope that keeps our dreams alive, and make sure in this season you look within to find your own personal glass window that you can peer through. You always have the key, and remember you are THAT powerful. *You can learn more about the Five of Pentacles linked here. I used the Light Seers Tarot Deck today!

Xo, Bridget Rose

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Your Magnum Opus

Last Thursday, we had the full moon in Capricorn. Capricorn is our legacy, and the opposite side, Cancer, forces us to look at our inner world and emotional state. Capricorn happens to be the most public part of our chart, and it's a sign that asks us: What legacy do I want to leave behind?

In sessions lately, I keep coming back to the term “Magnum Opus”. This is defined as “a large and important work of art, music, or literature, especially one regarded as the most important work of an artist or writer". It got me thinking, what is this client's Magnum Opus? What did they come here to create? How can I help them connect to what they came here to leave behind?

We all come here with something to create. With a legacy to leave behind. Capricorn reminds us of this, serving as our personal assistant and sometimes looming authority figure that sets our booties straight if we forget that we are the heroes in our own story. That whatever this piece of work is, you also get to help so many people in the process. Your Magnum Opus could be your children, the poetry book you've been wanting to write, or it can be as simple as the way you make others feel.

You have a Magnum Opus. Full moons, especially ones in Capricorn, don't shy away from this. You are meant to be seen. You are meant to leave behind a legacy. If you do not feel you are there yet, you can always climb another mountain. You can take the time to step back, return to base camp, and reconsider. Just don't give up. Pay attention to the FEELINGS you are currently having. The opposite of Capricorn is Cancer, and our feelings point us to something that needs to change. That restless feeling you have? The feeling of exhaustion walking into work when you know this isn't where you are supposed to be? The feeling of sheer butterflies and excitement when you enter into a relationship you've been doing the inner work for? These are all pointing towards something.

So - what is your Magnum Opus? What is the body of work you feel you came here to create and leave behind? I'd love to hear!

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My Magnum Opus

Not going to lie, this full moon, which happens to coincide with the actual starting of my cycle, kicked my butt. This full moon personally hit my 1st house of identity. It was the last full moon of my 32nd year, and I feel it stripped me raw of all logic to actually SIT in my emotions. I have a lot of logic - I was born the first daughter, Capricorn Rising, Virgo Moon and Leo Sun. I know we don't have to use astrology to make sense of everything, but I have been looking into my own identities and the roles I have played, and astrology definitely helps when trying to make sense of it all. I've asked myself questions: Where have stepped TOO much into the “oldest daughter syndrome” (Cap Rising)? Where have I stepped TOO much into going into over-critical-worry-wart mode (Virgo moon)? Where have I stepped too much into my own ego where I can't even get out of my own way (Leo sun)?

I honestly feel that because of these placements, it's exactly why I've dedicated my life's work to intuition. My inner critic/ego is LOUD. I love her, and I lovingly call my ego Tegdirb, Bridget spelled backwards (which also happened to be my drunk alter ego when I still drank, she's just grown up now). I honor her as well, but always question why she wants to protect me so much. A lot of it stems to where most of us can probably pin it back to - the inner child. Somewhere along the way, our intuition gets clouded, the one we knew so well as a child, and now as an adult we have to remember to fight for.

This last week I geared up with the version I am now, Tegdirb, and my inner child, and decided we are flipping the script. This last week I asked myself these questions instead: How can I HONOR my role as a leader (Cap rising)? How can I HONOR that I want to do things the right way with integrity (Virgo moon)? How can I HONOR my inner child and that I am meant to shine (Leo sun)?

So, my Magnum Opus? Time will tell, that is for sure! I had some incredible encounters last week with strangers that reminded me that I am exactly where I need to be. I feel with all of the narrative flipping, I'm stepping more into my BECOMING versus my worrying that I am not where “I thought I would be” by 33. Birthdays are portals, and I am sure feeling it! I hope you are too.

Activity for the week: Flipping the Narrative

Step 1: List three main grievances in your life right now. Example: "I feel lonely and am nervous I am going to be single the rest of my life."

Step 2: Now, list three ways you can flip the script on these grievances. Example:“I am so happy I get this time to learn about myself while I am single. This time is opening up space for more love and a partnership that meets me deeply, one that I can enjoy for the rest of my life.”

Step 3: Looking at your big three in Astrology (Sun, Moon and Rising), what are your grievances with these signs? How can you flip the script to love them and honor that you carry these with you as a blueprint in this lifetime?

Bonus Step 4: If you use ChatGPT, you can enter in your answers and ask it to flip the script for you! I recommend doing this after you've already written your own interpretation of flipping the script.

Last chance to book! Summer Solstice + Akashic Records Readings

Both of my Akashic Records sessions and Summer Solstice readings are having their final “sunset”. My summer solstice readings will probably be back next year, but my Akashic Records readings are officially ending after this month. The last day to book a Solstice reading will be TOMORROW, and an Akashic Records will be July 31st. These offerings have brought me so much joy, and I'm excited to see what starts to come in their place!

BOOK AN AKASHIC RECORDS SESSION

BOOK A 1:1 SUMMER SOLSTICE SESSION 🌞 HERE

BOOK AN AUDIO RECORDED 🌞 SUMMER SOLSTICE READING HERE

Prompts for the week:

These prompts can double as journal and tarot prompts:

• What legacy do I feel I am supposed to leave behind? What is my “Magnum Opus”? Am I currently living a life that is supporting this legacy?

• Is the current mountain I am climbing lighting me up? This "mountain" can be your career, a relationship, living situation, or multiple “mountains”.

• If the answer is no to the above, am I brave enough to climb another mountain? What mountain do I actually want to climb? What steps will it take to get me to the peak of this?

• If a friend came to you with the current position YOU are in and needed advice, what would you tell them? How can you begin to follow your own advice?

July in the Membership Portal

Uploaded in the Portal: July Portal Circle. July is represented by the number 7 in numerology, which symbolizes an energy of trust. The number 7 is about keeping the faith, and diving deeper into your own spiritual + inner wisdom. This circle was hosted last night, and is now uploaded into the Membership Portal.

Monday July 28th at 6pm CST: You Are The Sun Workshop. This is a workshop about self confidence and remembering your power. We will be going through manifestation activities to remember how to radiate confidence, and who you came here to be. This workshop is inspired by the start of Leo season and the quote: “It's not what you want, it's what you are”.

You can find these recordings in our Membership Portal, and can join us linked here for $33 a month. Free to cancel and rejoin at anytime. See you inside!

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Our card of the week

Our card of the week is the Seven of Swords. Ooo the Seven of Swords. I feel this card swoops in when we have been lying to ourselves. When we hide in the shadows of who we actually want to be. This is a great card of taking stock - who do you usually take advice from? Are the people around you serving you? Are the accounts you are following on social media draining or inspiring you? YOU are your own best cheerleader. Take inventory this week. Clear out the mental clutter. Fight for what you know to be true. I deeply love this part of the card description for us, and it honestly brought a tear to my eye: “When things feel incongruent, life can feel as if we are living a lie. You cannot deceive your heart, sweet light…alone and vulnerable under the light of the moon, the only thing that matters is the truth". *You can learn more about the Seven of Swords linked here. I used the Light Seers Tarot Deck today!