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My friend and client Heather is a brilliant creative. She’s a generator and she felt this curiosity and energy to explore the world of AI several years ago, when it was still kind of creepy (still is at times, ha) and when we really didn’t understand what ic could do. What she has built over the last few years is nothing short of amazing.

At Atlanta Tech Week a couple weeks ago, I got to see her moderate several panels and tell her story. It was such a full circle moment because I remember the conversations years ago when we first met. She had this insatiable curiosity, and every time she would talk about AI and what it might be able to do - I could feel the energy it was giving her.

Now seeing her on stage speaking, she wasn’t just sharing what AI has enabled in her work across Atlanta. She’s also sharing what she’s learned about herself along the way, the risks, the near misses, and the responsibility we have.

Witnessing her embody this role as guide had me reflecting on the things about Heather that she didn’t realize were preparing her for this moment all along. Her curiosity, her sensitivity, her deep care for humanity.

Witchy humans are amazing. Our gifts have seemed like a distraction. Often, they are the things we were most challenged with or have always questioned. (I believe that all humans have the potential for these gifts, it’s really a question of whether they are nurtured and safe to express.)

I have a 6th sense that makes zero sense. I’ve always had it. Sometimes I call it my spidey sense. I’ve never marketed myself as psychic, but I am.

In corporate, this looked like constantly managing expectations and messaging. I knew a shipment was going to be late before the manufacturing team making it even knew. People don’t like it when you know their business before they do 🤣
(Also of note, no matter how much heads up I gave them, they were still late. An important lesson for 26 yo me - you can’t deny others their lessons, and hypervigilance is a toxin.)

I know you also have gifts that may have often felt like a blessing and a curse, so I want to take some time to unpack the role they play and why they might not have made sense without this context.

Where We Are Going

As a humanity, we are constantly evolving. Human Design is the modality that most clearly articulates this reality for me. It’s happening on so many layers:

• We have those with individual and integration circuitry literally evolving in front of our eyes. Our role is to bring newness into the world through our form (bodies) and beingness.

• We have the current background frequency that is changing next year. It’s been in the final phase of current frequency since the 1960’s. This is the least stable part of the cycle because background frequency moves from the 6th line to the 1st line.

• We have the shift from strategic to receptive which is a cycle that takes thousands of years to complete and we are somewhere in the messy middle with quite a mix in the ways we process information.

(This is a small sample because you aren’t here for some techie Human Design rabbit hole!)

The overarching theme is important: these shifts are moving us toward individual expression, depth of relationship via emotional connection, and awareness through our emotional system.

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Skills for the Future

This is in no way an exhaustive list of the skills that don’t make sense today, but it’s a valiant start. Each of these can be broken down further into more specific skill sets, and they relate to other important skills that begin to create a web of creativity, relationship, and awareness that will be the fabric of the way we will live in the future.

My goal is to help you see the parts of you that are oriented to where we are going. The attributes that are in you because you are who you are, and that you can therefore foster because 1) you deserve it and 2) because the quality of our future is intertwined with how we develop and prioritize these skills.

- Sensitivity: in a world that is increasingly flooded with mental information, sensitivity is an internal mechanism that brings you to a truth and a knowing that lies only within you, for you. Your truth is the only place that you can make aligned decisions for yourself.

- Self trust: embracing your sensitivity, nurturing it, honoring it is what leads to deeper self trust. You start to see that you truly are the only person that can make correct decisions for yourself. That comes with responsibility, which is scary in a world that is so quick to condemn, however it also leads to agency and personal power.

- Directing and moving energy: we are creators. We are energetic beings that are bringing newness into existence. Being masterful at how energy impacts you, what energies are near you and knowing how to transmute them are vital skills in an era when most people are ignorant at best.

- Connection and communing: In essence this skill is about caring and connecting with people. Everything happens through people. Life is lived out through the people you come in contact with, from the day that you are born. Being in connection with and having depth of relationship with people is even more important when the underlying connective tissue between us is changing.

- Hyper local organizing skills: the people living at a specific intersection of time and place are the only ones that can determine what they need at that intersection. As large organizational structures break down, it’s those hyper local groups that will be able to step into the gap. We’ve seen this across the United States as the federal government implodes. From Minneapolis citizens organizing to protect their neighbors to Mamdami’s ability to transform systemic infrastructure issues in NYC - the way we take care of each other is changing quickly. This skill is inextricably linked with the next…

- Creative access: our creativity is the single most differentiating factor as human beings. Bringing something into existence that did not exist before it was a thought in your mind is a creative power that we each hold. Your ability to access that power is what I’m calling Creative Access. This is not mastery. This is not being practiced and having skills at a specific type of creation. It is the practice of accessing your creativity, which is deeply related to self trust because in times of deep uncertainty our creativity is our lifeline.

- Body led intelligence: our bodies were literally designed to lead us through this massive transition. If you are alive at this time, it’s because you have a role to play in helping us make this transition from transactional, survival frameworks to unique expression powered through deep connection. Your body knows. One of my favorite things to remind my clients is that your body holds every answer that you are seeking.

- Capacity for Complexity: this is possibly THE skill that opens the gates to being able to robustly develop the others. If the evolution we are going through tells us one thing, it’s that the human experience is complex. Any belief or desire for that to be different is actually an investment in dehumanizing ourselves, because that is what happens when we can’t be honest about our human experience. Leaning into the experiences that stretch us, that help us hold more than one truth, and that strengthen our ability to stay present in the hard moments opens up so much possibility for connection, awareness, creativity. This skill is the gateway to building the future we all desire.

Role Models

Coming back to Heather, the privilege of witnessing her share everything she has learned in the AI world with the audiences at Atlanta Tech Week was such a sight to hold because I saw first hand what has gone into building her experience and point of view the last few years. She is truly living out a key role in this transition, and it’s wisdom that we deeply need.

Who are the people that you see deeply rooted in themselves and in their own process? Maybe they use modalities like this to know themselves better, or maybe they don’t. I have never been a purist of any system. However, you know when someone is doing their work and showing up for our evolution and liberation.

What are the systems and structures that we need to make it possible for the kids today to grow into these types of humans? Is it cooperative childcare? Is it accessible enrichment?

We know what it’s not. It’s not the technification of learning. It’s not surveillance. It’s not the penal system. It’s not homogenization (treating everyone as the same). It’s not ableism. Or any ism for that matter.

(note: These topics might make you uncomfortable, and that’s ok. We are at a difficult inflection point where we know the things we’ve been doing are not working, and yet we don’t have the skills to build the way forward yet. That is by design uncomfortable, and we will navigate these challenges together.)

The future is differentiation. It’s every system, organization, and structure being able to recognize uniqueness as a strength, and empower it.

Who are the people in your life that are role modeling this, and how can you continue to embody it for yourself?

If you see yourself in these skills and want to be a meaningful part of the transition we are going into with 2027, please be sure to check out the Witchy Builders Retreat this November. I still have a few spots left, but this retreat will fill up. If your authority is a yes, lock in your spot soon!

Ok my loves, as always I would love to hear what comes up for you as you dive in. Go gently, and keep taking the next step you know to take.

xoxo,
Andrea

Surrender does not mean don’t do your part. Surrender is not lazy. Surrender is not passive.

Water flowing in a stream doesn’t just stop flowing when it hits a rock. It keeps moving, and moves around whatever it comes up against….slowly smoothing out whatever is in the way as it goes.

To surrender you have to understand what’s yours to do and what’s not. This is the edge, and believe me - it is an EDGE.

This week has been an initiation into a new layer of surrender for me (and for my family). My dad (a Leo Rising) went to the ER on Saturday for his exactly 1st hospital stay in 69 years (his last stay was when he was 8). It has been terrifying at moments, tender, nostalgic, and sweet - all in one.

I truly wish the astrology was not so “on the nose”, but alas - here we are. A Leo south node eclipse. A moment when something happens that changes life drastically.

Eclipses are a masterclass in surrender.

Here’s the thing I need you to remember: whatever has come up or is going to come up with this eclipse is 1) always here for your highest good - you will learn, transmute, and grow from this and 2) you are uniquely equipped with your strategy and authority to navigate it impeccably. You cannot do it wrong.

With that said, it’s also really effing hard.

A piece of surrender that we don’t meditate on enough is the trust that it requires. Trust in yourself. Trust in your process. Trust in all of the micro decisions you’ve made that have gotten you to the point your at right now.

This medical adventure is such a good example of that, so I’m going to continue to use it. My dad is a yoga teacher. He transitioned to yoga from the finance industry about 20 years ago because my mom wanted to open a yoga studio, and he wanted to make sure he was able to partner with her for it on that level.

My point: He’s very strong and active. He eats very healthy food. He does all of the things. These are the micro decisions that are underlying the current scenario.

And yet, anatomically something is not right which has compiled in a 5 night and counting hospital visit with no answers as of yet.

The micro-decisions are one piece, fate is the other. This is the reason so many of these things are revealed or spike during eclipses. Energetically, eclipses reveal what is hidden from you.

Whatever is being revealed, please go forward gently. You will be tempted to try to blame yourself or someone else, and while we always want to be accountable - it’s important to remember you are always doing the best that you can in that moment. Forgive past you, and move forward with the knowledge you now have.

The more you practice this self compassion, the more self-trust you will foster. The more you trust yourself, the more you will be able to trust the divine, your life, your inner authority, etc. It ripples outward. Without the inside trust, there is no outside trust - and therefore no ability to surrender!

I hear you. You’re saying, that’s great in theory but how do I even put this into practice?

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Excellent question. Let’s unpack that.

I said this at the beginning, surrender is to be at the edge of what is yours and what is not yours (i.e. your own micro-decisions vs. the fated events you cannot control). Let’s focus on how you know what is yours so that you can be on the healthy side of that balance.

When you are trying to control or you are taking on more than what’s yours - this looks like overefforting. Overefforting cuts you off from the mystery and abundance that’s available in the fated (or divine) piece of the equation. It also erodes your self trust because you are trying to do the divine’s job, you can’t do the divine’s job, so you doubt yourself, then you work harder, and now you’re stuck in a very exhausting loop and all the while not able to trust yourself.

Here is how you know you’re overefforting:
- You’re tired.
- You’re hyper focused on the details and the form something takes instead of connecting with the energy of it.
- You’re not able to hear your inner authority (Human Design speak for that inner knowing).
- You feel frustrated/angry/bitter/disappointed (your HD not self) in how things are going.

The best way I know to unwind overefforting is to intentionally sloooooow things down so you can hear your inner authority. Reorient your bar for success to line up with your signature (this is the feeling that corresponds to your Human Design Energy Type - satisfaction, peace, success/recognition, surprise/delight).

What this does is move your awareness to an internal marker vs. whatever external marker has you blindly driving forward and unable to hear your own inner guidance.

With that said, underefforting also creates suffering.

Here’s the catch though: your literal only way to know if you are underefforting is through your inner guidance. If you’re not building that inner trust, you are literally flying blind. At first, some undereffort is required to get things re-balanced after long periods of overefforting - and that is HEALTHY. :)

Here is how you know you’re underefforting:
- Your momentum has stagnated.
- You’re not seeing evidence of the change you want to see - apply this to whatever area you’re focused on (work, health, relationships).
- You feel frustrated, bitter, angry (your HD “not self”) about this stagnation.
- You’re using your trust as an excuse to avoid the hard thing (this one is tricky! Use caution.)

When you notice yourself underefforting, the answer is to look at the situation through loving eyes. The conditioning of shame and blame will just swing you on the pendulum to overefforting and skip the ability to surrender once again.

Ask one gentle question: if my dream had already come true, what is the thing I would be doing now that I know is needed? Then, do the thing.

As we navigate the fallout of this eclipse, take this moment to determine where you are at. Are you overefforting? Underefforting? What can you start to practice daily to realign your energy to that place of surrender and trust?

Once you have your answers, share it below in the comments or with a friend. Create some accountability for yourself so that you can begin to practice. You will slip back into whatever the worn pathway is for you, but with some connective tissue around the new way - you will catch yourself and come back to that state of surrender. The state where magic can enter and you can witness your dreams coming true!

(originally published on andreawardberg.com)

Dear ones that are local to Atlanta…I’m hosting my first Witchy Night Out on September 18th, 2026 - the weekend of the Equinox! I would love to see you in person and start to build those accountability networks with deeper relationships - join us!

Yesterday, my little ones went back to school! Atlanta has the earliest start time of any place I know of, and every year I am keenly aware of the lingering 2-5 weeks of summer that the rest of the country/world has! I guess going first has it’s perks because it has me thinking about what worked this year, and also what we have in the coming weeks (a.k.a. eclipses coming…)

This season impacts us all: Whether you have kids or not, back to school is a societal movement that we all feel in one way or another. Traffic patterns change, store layouts change, and sales synchronize to grab your attention. Your neighbors, your friends, and even your memories - Back to School is a cultural phenom. This year (and next), the movement is going to be extra charged, for reasons I unpack below.

If you have little ones going back to school in the coming weeks, I share my best hacks and how to prepare in the full post. (To my ATL mamas that are also starting this week, I’m sorry this doesn’t give you time to implement ahead of time - but there are some practices that carry into the first few weeks of school!)

These hacks are the reasons I feel steady going into this transition, but now I want to talk about why this season is not your usual Back to School vibe.

This August is going to rock us all. Right as the sun moved into Leo, so did the lunar nodes - joining Jupiter who moved there the week before! The nodes are the places where the sun and moon’s orbits intersect and create eclipses. It’s really unusual for the nodes to move into a sign right at the same time of Jupiter, and Jupiter expands whatever it touches.

August is giving disruption.

The impact of eclipses happens on both a personal and a collective level. In the collective, leadership is going to be most impacted by the eclipse on August 12th. It’s happening in Leo with Jupiter present, two factors that both speak to leadership. Jupiter is the benefic leader. The bringer of goodness. Leo is the sign of heart centered Leadership - also of creativity, children, and self-expression (which is why we associate Leo with performing arts).

So, the sun is here (eclipses only happen when the sun or moon is in the sign with one of the nodes), Jupiter is here making everything bigger, and Uranus is making an angle to this eclipse which tells us it’s energy is involved and there will be surprises!

Here’s what we know about Eclipses:

• Eclipses bring disruption. The energy is unstable.

• Eclipses bring pivots.

• Eclipses expose the shadow, especially a south node eclipse (which is what we have on August 12th).

• Eclipses are fated moments. They’re not bringing energy to “work with” or seed intentions. They’re bringing events that directly impact your evolution and often point you in a new direction.

This is a lot for our systems to take in and integrate. Add to it Back to School, and you have a lot of disruption happening on top of an already chaotic time of year.

For all of you that don’t have young kids, you are still going to be feeling the impact - and you can be especially supportive for the people in your life with young ones.

Parents, you are not broken. There’s nothing wrong with you. Things that usually feel fine and easy to navigate are not going to feel fine. They’re hard right now, and it doesn’t mean you’re doing anything wrong.

For a breakdown of which part of your life specifically is being impacted for you (based on your rising sign), scroll all the way to the end of this article.

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Some Tips for All of Us

One of my favorite memes of all time says “Did you drink your water and get some sun today? You’re basically a house plant with more complicated emotions.”

Lower your expectations of yourself.

Now is not the time for being hard on yourself or “ripping bandaids off”. You know what helps your energy stay balanced. Devote yourself to those things this month. Bilateral movement (a simple walk), music, touching grass. Keep it simple.

For those with Kids or if You are Going Back to School - My BTS of BTS 🤣

The hacks I use at this time are helpful for transitions in general, but I am all hands on deck for Back to School. You can use all of these hacks on yourself, even if you don’t have little kids!

In our house, one of my children is very fixed (Taurus Rising, Leo Sun) and the other is very stubborn and holds a grudge like no other (Virgo rising, Scorpio sun).

Change in routine for my oldest is SO hard. He physically suffers. My youngest is a lot more flexible, but has acute social anxiety.

Your kids (and you) might be just fine, but for those of us with deep feels (shout out to Dr Becky Deeply Feeling Kids) - I’m bringing you the details on what I do to help ease the transition.

Start before you think you should

• I started 10 days before school started with what I call “practice”. We were on family vacation the week before, so this is the timeframe I had to work with.

• First, it was edging wake up time earlier. I started about 15 min earlier than what they’ve been waking up at, and worked my way backwards to get to the right time the day before school started.

• My eldest slept through both alarms the day before school started, but woke up 15 min before his alarm on the first day of school. The practice will be messy! That’s why it’s practice :)

Emulate the Emotional Experience You’re Anticipating

• This year, my youngest starts school before his brother. This is the first time in his life this has happened. I wanted to give him practice leaving earlier than his brother, and riding separately to school.

• My partner and I split up, one of us took each child, so that he would have some practice at this separation before the pressure of school starting.

• Even though the little one’s camp didn’t start until an hour and fifteen minutes after his school drop off ends, we aimed to leave in time for drop off and then hung out nearby before camp started. It was a way to get the muscle memory of what the mornings will be like going.

Grease the Slide

• The change in morning schedule really compresses everything for the grownups trying to hold the container of everyone getting where they need to go. What can you move to the night before?

• Pick out clothes (for you and for the little ones), pack snacks, think through lunches, take showers, and whatever else you can pull in to the night before to take the pressure off. Start doing this during practice week!

• Start bedtime extra early. This eases the pressure you feel to get them to sleep at the right time. We started putting pajamas on way earlier than usual, and when the kids asked we just said we wanted to have time for stories and to unwind. When your stress level goes down, so does the pressure they feel and hence their resistance.

Create an Incentive

• My kids are not going to “practice” just for practice sake! Honestly, I’m not super motivated to do it either, so I get it. Last year, it was the promise of donuts on Friday. This year, I promised them an extra $10 of spending money for a Walmart trip if they would practice with me.

• We all need something positive to focus on when things get hard. On the days the kids were up in the middle of the night and therefore ended up oversleeping, they rallied quicker because they really wanted to have that celebration in the toy aisle at the end of the week! (this will obviously differ depending on your kids age - but pick something they are excited about.)

Get Back to Basics

• For the first 3 weeks of school, plan on keeping these principles above.

• In addition, try to keep your schedule light and predictable. Eat at home. Get ready for bed early. Make it cozy!

Use your Helpers

• I have several tools that I use strategically at transitions throughout the year.

• Melatonin: Back to school, returning from long school breaks (i.e. Holiday Break), time changes. I use a literal whiff of melatonin to help my kids re-orient their schedule. I use the liquid melatonin and give them 5-10 drops (1 dropper full is 1MG, so it’s probably .1 MG maximum). This is important because too much melatonin can have the opposite effect…which I have experienced myself (thankfully not my kids!).

• Essential Oils: This “fearless” blend is my go-to in transitions. It helps with the anxious energy that we all feel about the unknown. My 7yo has it in a roller I made him at the moment, and it’s giving him such comfort! (I get zero incentive for sharing. I just want you to know what works! And maybe I'll look into a referral bonus for next time 😆)

Week 1 is deceptive. There’s so much momentum and excitement, you’re likely to think - wow we did it! Then week 2 rolls around and you’re dealing with overstimulated restraint collapse in the worst way. Week 3 is when you start to work out the kinks, and by week 4 you are in a groove. Remind yourself of this when you’re in that second week and navigating the melt downs (theirs or yours - lol).

Even if you think you’ve got it nailed by the end of week 1, keep up the routine. Do not give in! I promise you’ll regret it!!

If you’re reading this and you have 3 or more weeks before school starts - PERFECT! Start looking at when you can implement some of these hacks.

If you’re reading this and school started yesterday - IT’S OK! You can still Grease the Slide, Get Back to Basics, and there’s always next year to practice!

If you found this helpful OR if you have people you love with little ones going back to school in this wild month we are about to navigate, please share this article with them. We are all navigating so much pressure at this time of year. I hope these hacks help ease some of it so that we can be in the wonder of how these children are stepping up to the experiences this new school year will bring.

Breakdown of What Part of Your Life is Experiencing the Leo Eclipses

(reminder: the nodes stay here for 18 months, so these themes will be working themselves out over that timeframe - bonus points if you know the rising signs for the members of your fam!)

Aries: 5th House Creative expression, romance, children
Taurus: 4th House Family, home life, emotional safety, Parents
Gemini: 3rd House Communication, siblings, ideas, and people you see day to day
Cancer: 2nd House Finances, values, security, resources
Leo: 1st House identity, Self-presentation, how you see yourself
Virgo: 12th House Subconscious, rest, hidden patterns, healing, spirituality
Libra: 11th House Friendships, social groups, long term vision and plans
Scorpio: 10th House Career, reputation, public path, your legacy
Sagittarius: 9th House Beliefs, travel, higher learning, philosophy, Astrology
Capricorn: 8th House Shared resources, intimacy, taxes, loans, debt, joint accounts
Aquarius: 7th House Partnerships, business + love, 1:1 relationships
Pisces: 6th House Health, routines, service, day to day work/labor

Over to You

Have you started to notice any changes in the areas mentioned above in the last 6 months? We actually had our first eclipse in this series back in February. What other concerns do you have about this season and navigating transition? Please share your thoughts in the comments or just hit reply in your email. I love hearing from you!

Cheers to a new school year and to an easeful and protected Eclipse season!
xoxo,
Andrea

Sometimes, you don’t realize you’ve been putting yourself into a weird shaped box until you start to feel cramped for a while, get a peek outside of the box, and then look back and say oh shit! The planet of disruption just went into my first house of identity in May, and the impact has been subtle but WILD.

And so, I’m coming out of the witchy closet. This is not new for ANY of you. Ha.

When I look back over everything I’ve written and created the last 15 years, the through-line is my witchyness. However, the misalignment was me not centering it. This summer brought all of that to light through wild astrological timing and few divine encounters you can read about in full detail here.

As clarity arrived like a freight train, my first instinct was to map out a project plan and have everything polished and curated for a big reveal. Sometimes the corporate reveals its head in sneaky ways. First, I couldn’t wait THAT LONG to tell you because some of you have been with me since the Be Here and Serve days – 13 years ago! Second, I don’t want to build in the same ways I’ve built in the past, which is going to require time, patience, experimentation, and engagement from YOU.

It’s giving practical magic: the porch light is on and the work is available to anyone who is searching for help. Except the porch is my website and our digital connection! Maybe it’s not a spell from a book, but it’s a ritual, an inner child exercise, a deconditioning framework, or just a caring human saying I see you and I believe you can get through this. All of these are our modern spells.

Now is a great time to remind you to take what resonates, and leave the rest. I’m not here to convince you of anything. The medicine has to match the person, and that is where your inner authority will always reign supreme. (note: My references to inner authority are through the lens of Human Design.)

“Your Witchy Mom Friend” (YWMF) is a space to hold the complexities of returning to the wisdom our ancestors knew, the wisdom of plants and animals, the brilliant cosmic systems that help us understand them and ourselves, the relationships we build in the process, and the full and radiant life we get to live when we follow this witchy path.

Why witchy?

Witch literally means wise woman. Starting as early as the 4th and 5th centuries, Western European men in power decided women that were no longer useful to them (read no longer having kids) are a threat to their power. They were often the ones with experience, and therefore healers. They also had their own property and sovereignty – something these men felt they were entitled to take from these women.

Here’s the rub, I know in my bones these women did disrupt their power. These women brought care and knowledge to a population that was already hard to beat into submission. I am really effing proud to come from a lineage like that. I think a little witchy spirit is what we all need right now!

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Is this space just for moms?

I know you already know the answer: No! But I also know you need the reassurance, and I understand that.

This space is for the people who “give a shit”, as my Substack friend Terri would say.

I am happy to be a second mom to any who need it, including the kids in the chickfila playground whose parents are done dealing with them. If they’re acting out, I will call them on it and make sure they’re playing safely with each other.

So, while I am your mom friend for all of the reasons this missive has described, you are welcome however you identify ♥️

Metamorphosis and Faith

For the last 6 years, my business has been a caterpillar. It feels weird to say, but so accurate when I look at all of the challenges I’ve had with it. Most businesses never stop being caterpillars, and that is beautiful in so many ways. What comes next is a massive amount of uncertainty, but within it the promise of truly making a difference.

When a caterpillar goes into the cocoon, it turns into soup before it starts to reorganize into a butterfly. YWMF is now in the cocoon starting to identify the types of cells, where they all go, etc. However, this project has many aspects that deserve my very best – not what’s left over.

Over the next months, I have some exciting offerings coming – the first of which you all voted on: Energetic Hygiene and Protection is coming next month, just in time for these August eclipses (more soon, I promise). I am also hosting a beautiful retreat in Asheville Nov 13th (of course) to the 15th.

There are 3 distinct phases of this process, which I go into detail on in the full article. It won’t be a linear progression – it will be cyclical. A spiral. Like all of life. I fully expect to move in and out of these three phases in a really beautiful woven pattern, possibly until the next call to metamorphosis arrives…

How are these tectonic movements impacting you? Are you surprised by my big reveal? I’m so excited to bring you some practical tools later this week for navigating this season of disruption - hello eclipses

Hello dear friend,

How are you holding up?

I’m standing on the ledge of a completely new existence, and my nervous system is screaming ITS SO DANGEROUS. All the while, that still quiet voice inside me knows that while that might be true - this is such an exciting time. This ledge is the only way!

Six years ago, I took the plunge and shuttered my Business Management Agency. I was deep in my second burnout, we were shut down in COVID, and the invitations I was getting as a projector in Human Design were all around sharing/teaching/coaching using Human Design.

At that point, I was not new to major changes. As I dive deeper into Astrology, having Uranus in my 6th house is really about abrupt shakeups in my work life - and LIBERATION within daily tasks and routines. (Notice I did not say FROM, because none of us escapes life. However, my daily life does actually feel liberating.)

When the Chani App came out with their annual readings in December/January, mine was all about waving your freak flag. I literally thought to myself, I’m not sure how I can do that MORE? Ha. Jokes on me. Turns out - I can!

The months since Uranus moved into Gemini in April have been eye opening. I feel more me than I have in years. I feel more courage, more clarity, more energy. With that, the level of resonance I require on an energetic level is rising.

I love my work. I deeply love the transformation I have the honor of guiding my clients through, however the resonance of the business itself has not been a match and I’ve been at a loss for how to shift that.

This is work that I’ve been doing for SIX YEARS and has impacted hundreds of clients, and yet I’m painfully aware of how hard it is to describe my work - for me! Let alone for anyone else.

As I self-diagnose, I’m realizing a couple things are true:

• I’m doing work that is innate to me, but that doesn’t really have popular language around it in the public discourse.

• It’s up to me to create that language and convey the transformation this work offers.

What’s interesting I’m hearing so many stories from you. There are a lot of us in this liminal space.

The work we are doing is for the FUTURE. That’s why it 1) seems so strange to a lot of people, 2) feels so damn good to us, 3) makes such a huge difference for our clients!

What Someone Wiser Than Me Says about this Moment

When I was at Relaxed Money in February, one of the people I most look up to in the world was sharing her journey to basically becoming a MF goddess and giving no Fs about what anyone says. Yes, I’m talking about the one and only Lynne Twist.

During this very transparent Q&A, she shared an analogy from nature that she feels really describes the moment we are living in. She described the moment we are in as the Caterpillar as it is getting close to the time to transform. She said, Caterpillars are hungry little buggers. They’ll eat through a whole tree with no awareness. They have an insatiable appetite. This is a very clear parallel with consumerism in our current cultural moment.

What happens next is that there are these cells called “Imaginal Cells” that tell the caterpillar’s system to stop eating and start making the cocoon. Imaginal Cells guide the whole process from stopping the consumption to creating the cocoon to forming an entirely new body structure as a butterfly.

Here is the key: in order to move into this transition, these Imaginal Cells have to FIND each other. If they don’t, the caterpillar will literally keep consuming and consuming until it explodes on the inside and dies.

Her message, and I believe it describes the calling we feel, is that WE are the Imaginal Cells. Those of us who have a deep desire for a more just, loving, healthy, equitable, and joyful world. We must hospice the old and doula the birth of the new.

How do we do that? We do what our ancestors have always done. We look to the earth for her medicine. We look to spirit for guidance and intuition. We hold each other in loving kindness, even when it has to be from afar.

Moving my Business in That Direction

In May, I started feeling the pressure to get deeper clarity around my business’ own metamorphosis. Naturally, I started a new year long Business Astrology course - as one does. The clarity it’s giving me is absolutely life-giving, and such a reminder that 1) there is always an opportunity to deepen and learn more and 2) being a human is so freakin magical.

Turns out, I’ve been shoving myself and my business into a box that we just don’t fit in. So, I’m currently working on what it looks like to break out of that box! (More to come very soon on all of that.)

In the meantime - what support do you want most in August?

• Eclipse Survival Guide (Yes - eclipses are coming!! We have 2 in August.)

• Energetic Hygiene and Protection (That spidey sense that someone’s ill will is influencing your path is correct - let’s fix it!)

• Something else (write me please!)

We Are Finding Each Other

If you are also going through a metamorphosis in your work and life, I want you to know that I see you and I believe in the work you are here to do. There are two things that have helped me stay on the rails as everything

• Trust. Trust in your inherent value. Trust in the value of your life experience. Trust in the fact that you are being guided by a benevolent force beyond what you can comprehend. Trust that you are loved.

• Walk the line of feeling your feels and doing it anyway. If you dehumanize yourself in the process, you’re just propagating the very system that is coming down. If you don’t keep taking that next step forward, same same. However, that line is uniquely yours. Only you know when you need to show yourself some compassion or when you’re letting fear keep you from taking the next step. (Authority in Human Design is really helpful for teasing this out.)

If this is the only thing you take away from this article, may it be: we are created to expand, and expansion comes with contraction. Whatever is feeling crunchy or like it’s not working is also giving you important feedback. In the end, we will win. That has already been decided ♥️

A morning dance party in the midst of shifting tectonic plates.
A rave where you meet the coolest people and need a week to sleep and recover.
A huge picnic that gets rained out, but everyone stays and has fun in the mud.

These are the things that come to mind when I think about the first month of Summer. Especially the rain. (If you’re in Atlanta, you know.)

The STRETCH has been real, but there was a sweetness to it. Some of the aha moments feel like I should have gotten it months if not over a year ago. A call for grace.

• My kids swam on a swim team for the second year in a row. It nearly killed me on several occasions, but it is so rewarding to see them start to love a sport so dear to me.

• I posted on LinkedIn for 30 days and have had so much fun there. If you’re on LI, find me there pls!

• I switched operating systems!!! This one has been a LONG time coming. Canceling my disjointed Teachable, Calendly, and Flodesk contraption in an hour long meeting with my ops team felt like so much success!

• We took 2 long weekend trips, and I remembered how fun these little excursions are! More of this please.

• I took another huge step toward getting off of Meta platforms. I wrote about it here.

I’m not the only one stretching. My clients have been navigating massive shifts as well. I’m wondering how many of you have too?

Two of my mastermind members moved or are in the process of moving.
One left a corporate job she’s been wanting to leave for over 3 years!
Another has completely rebuilt her speaking career after surviving one of the hardest years of her 25 year long career.

During our mastermind monthly call this week, I could feel the intensity of the last 6 months for each of us. The solstice might have been last week, but the reflective energy is still with us and will remain for a bit.

June was the last month of Jupiter in Cancer. This is the happiest place for Jupiter - it’s home. On Monday, Jupiter moved into Leo and a completely new part of our lives.

On the same day, Mercury went retrograde in Cancer bringing all of the emotions that we need to review in whatever part of your life Cancer governs - for me, it’s my 2nd house…always a doozy!

And all of that on the same day as the full moon in Capricorn (which was squaring Saturn - it’s ruler).

Is anyone else feeling like the novice who just got told to go back to their books and to read between the lines???? Just me? Ah…ok 😅

No One Gets a Pass

I think most of you felt this before you even heard about astrological timing and the Human Design prophesy of this year and the next - things are *changing*. FAST.

One thing the timing does is give us a little energetic confirmation for what we’re feeling, and it helps us get really specific with it.

No one gets a pass. Not billionaires. Not good girls. Definitely not yes men.

We are all meat sacks getting exposed to the same star dust, my dears. What makes the difference is what we do with it. While the physical may not have caught up to all of the work and love you have poured in - it will. It is energetic law. Your faith and inner knowing is what allows it to come into the physical on a faster timeline.

Life is going to keep life-ing, and to wish for it to be any different is a wish for lifelessness.

Challenges. Accountability. Fear. Frustration. These are all a part of the process.

Who is on your team as you navigate the speed and depth that life is operating at today? Do you have accountability systems in place? Are you getting the help you need?

I was using a tool that one of my Astrology mentors created to try to unpack this full moon and everything around it that has been “illuminated”.

It said:

“Are you in therapy working through this dynamic? Because what you’re describing goes beyond astrology—it’s intergenerational trauma that needs real professional support to untangle.”

Honestly, this comment made me so happy, because YES. I love a machine that knows it’s limits!! And also yes - I am incredibly blessed to have several people I am going to as I continue to unwind trauma.

Not one of us is doing this alone. (Shameless plug for my retreat in November if you are looking for people doing this work alongside you♥️)

July starts with a Bang (Literally!)

And so we will continue friends…this season still has so much for us. As we start the new month, a lot of change is underway. This week two planetary forces collide, and we really don’t know what will happen - Uranus is involved 😆

We do know it’s going to be shocking, unsettling, and will continue to push us on our trajectory - either towards the world we want or the world we are terrified of. We get to choose - with our attention, our actions, and how we show up in the midst.

Below is my post for the full moon on Monday. All of this applies to us friends. We might need to walk this week (or crawl) so that we can run later this month. It will be worth it though! Things are going to start connecting later in the month, and it’s all happening FOR us.

What’s being illuminated for you right now?? The only thing that’s giving me consistent confidence is the fact that we have each other.

The year of the closing door references an energetic shift we are on the precipice of. The astronomical event happens next year, however the energetic shift moves at a pace that we don’t discuss much and therefore don’t relate to easily.

It’s a slower, more layered movement. We started to feel the shift 60 years ago as the planet moved into the last phase of its current configuration. It just so happens that was the time of the civil rights movement.

We are literally at the door step of massive change. I know you can feel it too. The groundswell is real, and it’s getting a huge boost as we get closer and closer to the astronomy of it all happening early next year.

When You Realize Wrong is Right

I was made for the new Era. I’m a quad right projector. Nothing about me makes sense in the old paradigm, and it’s taken me 47 years to feel a regulated nervous system as I say that. Nothing makes you feed into “the system” more than feeling like there’s something not quite right about you.

The old paradigm prioritizes sameness for safety, so there is this inherent sense of danger when you’re different. Often, I was different in ways that made me vulnerable in a predatory system. I care - A LOT. I sense other people’s feelings and needs. Yes, I have had a wide range of experiences, but I’ve also learned from them in a different way because of how my energy works.

As spirit would have it, none of this is on accident. These are all skills that are needed right now as we go through this wild change. Whatever is different about you is also needed.

The nearness of these changes hit me hard last summer. As a result, I did what I know to do - create. Revolutionary was born in the fall of last year, and a 12 month mastermind for Female Founders quickly followed. Then, in February I led 30 people through Unshakable, a mini course on cultivating inner safety.

I’ve joked about surviving a Mars profection year as a Projector with my mastermind. It was NO joke! But, I’m really proud of this work. Things are changing so fast, and we are learning real time what is needed to meet this moment with clarity and resolve.

The Stakes are Higher than We Think, In a Very Personal Way

What I feel in my bones is that this era we are moving into is stunning for human connection and creative energy (this expresses in so many ways - from intellect, to art, to music, to problem solving, to

However, this level of creative expression requires a lot from us physically. The consequences for treating our bodies the way we learned to in the old paradigm will be more severe. Literal health problems. We cannot keep limping along this way. We’re seeing it already, and the newest generation in the workforce is notorious for opting out.

Rather than trying to condition Gen Z with toxic traits, we need to be learning from them. Yep. I said it.

Hear me out. We did what we had to do to survive. Most of what we are unwinding here has been part of a massive experiment to see how far humanity can actually push itself away from what we are truly here to do: be in relationship and create.

Now, it’s time to come back - and the energy of the new era we are entering is going to leave no space for anything else.

The assignment for those of us who accept it is to continue creating our life in a way that matches this vibe, and how that needs to look is going to be unique for each of us. In a lot of ways, this is going to feel disorienting because no one is going to be able to give you answers. (Personally, I think this has always been the case? It’s just more stark now because the new era is hard wired for individuality.)

Set Your Sights On the Prize

Every day, I get a glimpse of what’s possible in the New Era. Raising two children in the midst of this transition has be so very close to the destruction of the old and the creation of the new.

I am super excited for possibilities these changes create for humanity. I am also under no guise that this is going to be easy - I’m living the deconstruction every day. The great news is that “many hands make light work”. The immediate impact of each of us joining in with our gifts is felt so deeply. We are all needed to help our communities, countries, societies make this transition with as much grace as possible, and I think we can alleviate massive suffering that is happening while we are at it!

Companies and governments on all levels are going to have to learn how to not depend on overworking and underpaying. Resources will be forced to re-distribute if those hoarding them are not willing to do it themselves. The unhoused will be housed. The medically fragile will be cared for. The poor will be provided for.

I know these seem like irrational dreams given what we are seeing today, but I am asking you to shift your gaze from our violent oppressive past. As one white man said (and he probably stole it and didn’t give credit): “What got us here won’t get us there”. That is to say: We are going somewhere different now. This is the same caliber of change we went through when we transitioned from a Feudal society to an Industrial society, and you and I get to shape it.

When you start to feel lost in the sauce of the newest drama in the fall of Empire, double down on everything that makes us human:
- Create
- Dream
- Listen
- Love
- Repair
- Prioritize Joy

The stakes for losing our focus are higher than they’ve ever been, but we can hold each other in solidarity as we continue to take each necessary step. What step is calling you right now? Please share in the comments for accountability and encouragement!

Sending you so much love. You did a great job this month! I’m so proud of the work we are doing.

xoxo, Andrea

“Shame needs to change sides” has become a rallying cry for sexual assault victims everywhere as Gisele Pelicot bravely shares her story and how she is reframing her experience.

That should also be true for financial abuse.

In the late stage capitalism (especially in the US), we live in a society built on financial abuse. First by those enslaving, then by those impoverishing. Human capital has been the primary target of extortion in capitalism since the feudal days.

I think it’s important we understand the violence and abuse that was used to put these systems into place and keep them there. Families separated, rebels squashed in the most violent way possible, children sold into enslavement to prevent desolation. No, I’m not talking about Colonial times - I’m talking about Feudal Europe. This is the lineage that capitalism comes from.

Do not misread me. I’m not talking about commerce when I name the harm in Capitalism. Commerce is a system of exchange that humans have engaged in for thousands of years. Capitalism is a power structure within commerce that at it’s core extracts. Capitalizes. Hence the name.

Those abuses at the core of our system continue today. The system has found much more subtle and in many ways more powerful ways to keep it in place: namely shame, social pressure, unrestrained price gouging, a predatory credit system, and more.

Yet all the while, we are taught that if you just “pick yourself up by your bootstraps”, you will beat the system.

Listen, you can (and I believe you will) beat the system. But as Audre Lorde taught us, you cannot do it using the tools of the system.

Money Myth #3: I did something wrong and that’s why I don’t have enough money

In a society that preys on the average person, is it your latte or is it the barrage of predatory marketing that makes you feel your “pain points” in an effort to sell you things that will never leave you feeling fulfilled? Asking for a friend 😂

This fundamental tool of linking our morality with our bank account is a concept that showed up in Europe in the Victorian Era. It’s been around a minute. It was particularly useful for the church to 1) guilt wealthy society members into tithing large sums of money to the Church to quell their conscience for the harm enacted to acquire such sums and 2) keep the poor members in check by making them feel like their allegiance to the church will heal them of the reason for their poverty.

The second point is really interesting to me because as a descendant of working class ancestors, my lineage has really wrestled with this one. If your financial wellbeing is associated with how “good” you are, in a system built to extort you - you will never be “good enough” unless you jump the power ladder and figure out how to extort others. This is how the Epstein class was built my friends.

It probably seems ridiculous as you’re reading this. It’s wild to me how the system has colluded to keep us absolutely blind to its abuse.

• Overdraft fee = shame

• Low credit score = shame

• Credit rejection = shame

• Can’t afford housing = shame

• Late fees = shame

Our immediate first sensation is that we are bad. Unworthy. We’ve done something wrong.

I’m done with it. I’ve had all of these…every last one. Please join me in a collective EFF THAT.

Shame. Must. Change. Sides.

The last 6 years have radicalized me. I have seen things I cannot unsee. DAYS after declaring bankruptcy in 2022, ads for lines of credit showed up in our mailbox. Literal days.

The events above are COMMON events for anyone living in a predatory and abusive financial system. You are good. You are always good. You are doing the best you can in a financial system that is imploding in front of our eyes.

• The financial companies charging exorbitant fees

• The blatant racism and misogyny in financial applications

• The deliberate stripping of consumer protections and consumer rights

These are just a few of the examples of where the shame needs to be directed.

Even when we do break these vicious cycles, the myth of morality continues to play in the background. This belief that the church introduced to our ancestors, and then perpetuated, has become a key element of sustaining extortion in capitalism. We are constantly trying to fill the void inside of an inherent mistrust of our value.

Part of the destabilization we are seeing right now is because these lies are breaking down at a rapid pace. Starting with Millennials, you have a generation raised to understand their inherent worth clashing with a system that depends on you believing the opposite. Have I just explained the workplace’s issues with Millennials or what?!?

It only gets better with Gen Z…and Gen Alpha?? If my kids are anything indicator, they will create the new world order with their bare hands if they have to.

This, or course, has the Epstein class literally coming up with whatever they can to try to force women into childbirth and create new myths about the prison industrial complex. These are their only ideas for keeping people poor. It’s truly wild when you step back and look at it.

As I’ve been doing my own work in the free Good with Money workshops with Kate Northrup over the last week, it has been so refreshing to give my BODY the signal that I am good. To be honest about what money truly is. (I talked about this in my first article in this series.)

It’s one thing to know intellectually that shame needs to change sides, and it’s another for our bodies to register this change.

When Kate talked about the reason behind the title “Good with Money”, she said she wants us to both feel like we have skills when it comes to money (aka Good at managing money) and to feel at peace with money (as in - I’m good with it).

The last workshop took place yesterday, and the replays are up until April 23rd (next week!). I will be watching the replays over the weekend myself. There are so many layers of goodness in these workshops!

Whether you join me there or not, I hope you know that you are good. No matter what number is in your bank account, YOU ARE GOOD. You are a beautiful human deserving of everything you desire.

If you had an aha moment reading this article, I would love to hear about it in the comments. I am a big believer that what we can name can heal.

much love,
Andrea

Note: I am a proud partner of Kate Northrup’s. I have been a part of Kate’s community for 15 years now, and it is such an honor to talk about the impact her work has had on me. Good with money is no longer available this year, but I will let you know when it’s back! If you do go on to do work with her through my link, I may receive an exchange as part of her affiliate program.

In my family, many relationships have been sacrificed on the altar of money. As a kid, this was confusing and really painful. The dynamics that are created within families as they try to figure out how to survive late stage capitalism-cannibalism are absolutely brutal. Interestingly enough, these experiences seeded an ambivalence towards money that has taken a LOT to unpack.

If you’re just tuning in, welcome! This is a series on my journey to a healthy relationship with money. Spoiler: the journey is ongoing! There is no great “arrival” and fixed ending, but a lot of really wild learning on the way. If you missed the first piece, you can find that here.

This series is in honor of the Good with Money series from my friend Kate Northrup. Kate was the first person to help me understand money as an important tool, and more so - my relationship with money as something to cultivate with respect in both directions.

I was already in Kate’s feng shui world when she released her bestselling book Money a Love Story. It was mind-blowing to read someone’s story that I could see myself inside, especially when it relates to the way fear of money had shape shifted into ambivalence.

Money Myth #2: Money Doesn’t Matter

In my case, ambivalence towards money was a trauma response.

I am not an exception here. So many of us have been harmed for the sake of money. Families torn apart. Siblings that don’t speak. It continues in my own family to this day, and it is absolutely devastating.

So, in a sense, I agree. For me, no relationship is worth losing over money. I don’t care how much it is. Money doesn’t matter more to me than the humans in my life.

Interestingly enough, it is not money causing the harm. It’s the humans. This is where we bust the myth. Our inability to reconcile harm within a penal system destroys relationships. Money is not the source, but it is absolutely an amplifier.

It’s often easier to blame money, because it’s definitely a factor. When we cannot wrap our heads around how someone could be so cruel, we blame the money.

We make a decision, conscious or unconscious, to dissociate from money. This is done at a young age for most of us, so it’s not a logical decision. We just see incredible harm coming from the direction of money (someone who has it), and we make the next logical choice to get as far away from that as possible.

Not caring about money doesn’t address the underlying issue. We are at a point where the generational pain that people have inflicted on each other in the name of money MUST be reckoned with.

In short, money does matter because it will amplify whatever it touches.

If you are someone trying to make a difference in the world, money will amplify that good. If you are someone who cares about humanity, money is a tool to help your work go further. Healing the underlying root of your ambivalence to money is vital to you becoming a good steward to money and resources.

As I discussed in the first part of this series, money is simply a representation of the value being created. When many of us “check out” or start saying we don’t care about that value, we create an opportunity for those who are trying to gain power to take advantage of that value.

What does this look like? We undersell ourselves. We get out of alignment with reciprocity. We are giving more that we receive out of fear of upsetting someone. We no longer have a clear view.

Kate was the first person to help me see that my ambivalence was actually a power transfer from myself to those who wanted power over me.

One of the primary reasons money DOES matter is because it is the main expression of power in our daily lives. Your relationship to money has everything to do with your relationship to power, and those of us trying to make the world a better place do need access to power in order to effect change. The difference is we are using it for the good of humanity.

I believe we are being called to get honest about why money is an important part of how we are going to do the work we are here to do. Money will never be more important than the relationships we are building and the humans in our life, however it will be a powerful ally in that work if we can get into right relationship with it.

What does right relationship with money look like?

It looks like prioritizing people over profit.
It looks like humanizing work.
It looks like valuing unpaid labor.
It looks like reciprocity.
It looks like healthy growth.
It looks like generosity.
It looks like being fully vested in each other’s humanity.

Right relationship with money then paves the way for reciprocity in relationships. Within those healthy relationships, there can then be space for remembering how to repair and deepen relationships as we “human” together. These are skills that have been systematically removed from us because they make it harder to extort power.

I’m curious how this myth lands for you. Do you flirt with ambivalence? What would it look like for you to care about money in a way that centers humanity?

Let’s have it go to the right places and amplify the things you care about most!

Next up….Myth #3. You’re going to love this one…

Did you join me for Good with Money?? I can’t wait to have more of these discussions together. I’m calling in big money for us because we have to be able to operate within the system (hello rent?) while we tear it down and create horizontal economies where we can truly flourish! (If you missed it, do not worry. I will let you know when it’s back!)

Note: I am a proud partner of Kate Northrup’s. I have been a part of Kate’s community for 15 years now, and it is such an honor to talk about the impact her work has had on me. This training is absolutely free, but if you do go on to do work with her I may receive an exchange as part of her affiliate program.

I can get into the astrology behind it, and later I will. However, sometimes it’s important to just say the thing. It has sucked.

Within the suck, there have been glimmers of hope for getting to the other side, many ups and downs, and in the end a deep understanding of how late stage capitalism is accelerating our deconditioning process.

The result? I don’t give a fuck what’s in my bank account. My bank account does not determine what I’m going to do, what I deliver, and definitely not how I feel about myself. At the start of this journey, that ever changing number was the source of so much anxiety. Now, it’s one data point of many that I’m tracking, and one of the least important ones.

I didn’t come to not giving a F easily. The road to this point has been mostly layer after layer of the onion of generational financial trauma unraveling.

Friends, we are so messed up in the head in how we understand money, and while yes our thoughts are a part of it, there is an entire unseen realm which is the generational trauma we are all carrying.

Some people have it, and are afraid it will disappear.
Some people had it, and it did disappear. Or more accurately, it was taken.
Some people haven’t had it in this lifetime, or many lifetimes, but they want it and know they should.
Some people didn’t have it, and now they do.

There are so many ways we are each coming at this, and at each intersection the understanding of money distorts your feelings about yourself, your sense of safety, and your ability to see how infinitely valuable you are.

This money healing journey has gone on for over 20 years now, and I am not sure that I will ever be done with the healing. That’s the weird part about ancestral healing. It sometimes doesn’t end in our lifetime.

However, I can tell you that today, my understanding of money is so much healthier! I am learning to see…

Money as a tool.
Money as a support for my mission.
Money as available when I need it.
Money as a resource I tap into. One of many.
Money as something with movement.
Money as a delayed external reflection of what is internal.
Money as not finite.
Money as made up!
Money as something created every day through the skills and resources we bring into the world.

My dear friend Kate Northrup has been a huge part of the healing process for me. I have known Kate’s work for over 15 years. It’s really rare to be learning with someone for that long, and such a testament to Kate’s commitment to this work.

In February, I went to her event Relaxed Money Live, and I am not exaggerating when I tell you it changed me from the inside out. What Kate does is match the parts of our money journey that are unseen and in the body with a healthy framework for understanding and working with money.

She is teaching a free live series next week called Good with Money that I am so excited for (this offering isn’t currently available, but it will be back next year!). If you can get even 10% of the transformation that was in that room in February, I know it will change the trajectory for you!

In tribute to the workshop coming up, this is going to be a myth busting series to take us into some of the most transformative spaces I’ve traveled to over the last 6 or so years.

Ok, so the astrology of this is super interesting to me. If you are not into the astro details, skip down a bit!

The hellish times financially coincide almost exactly with Uranus in Taurus, which is coming to a close on April 24th. Taurus is my 12th house, which has to do with the subconscious, the behind the scenes, and healing. Taurus is my partner’s 2nd house, which has to do with your personal finances.

Wherever Uranus is, it disrupts and destabilizes. In Taurus that is about resources and money, as Taurus rules themes of finances, banking, etc.

In addition, my chiron is in Taurus. Wherever Chiron is in your chart is this special place of wounding that will actually never heal. It’s just the nature of Chiron.

The combination of Uranus conjunct Chiron in the sign all about our financial security and resources matches exactly with my experience of cathartic healing through an incredibly painful and difficult process with finances, and the freedom I feel on the other side of it. Uranus brings us disruption to free us.

I know and trust that everyone’s process is different. For many of you, it won’t be as challenging to heal your relationship and experience of money. However, if it is - let me be a testament that you will get through it and you will thrive on the other side.

(astrology moment over, for those who are skipping ahead)

Money Myth Busting - Money is Scarce

As part of this series, I want to tackle some of the myths I have been excavating around money. The first of these is this idea that Money is scarce and finite.

We have this idea that there is one pot of money and that is the only place that we are all drawing from. I completely understand where this idea comes from. We are looking at it from a linear perspective of if I add up what each of us has, then that’s the pot. When I give you money, I have less and therefore the pot doesn’t change.

Wellllllll….we’ve been lied to. Ha.

There’s no pot.

It’s more like a whirlpool, waterfall, river, creek network of resources that are constantly swirling, pooling, draining, moving, filling, draining. You get the idea.

Along these lines, water is being added all the time.

This is the thing that really blew my mind when I thought about it. Money is created when value is created. Money itself is meaningless. The value is what holds meaning. More value being created? More money. No value being created, no juice.

Money is just an agreement we have all made as a way to represent that value. It’s all made up. It’s being printed every day. There is a LOT of money out there and it’s being added all the time. We can discuss whether this is how it “should” work, but the fact is - it does.

The scarcity of resources is something that was a very real experience for our ancestors. It was manufactured by the withholding and or manipulation of land and nature over many many generations. In some cases (like my lineage), we are talking about 1,400-1,800 years or longer.

It wasn’t ever true, however their ability to move out of the system was much more limited.

With that in mind, we can think of money as something that represents the immense value humans and the natural world are bringing into existence every day. It’s far more than any of us can wrap our minds around, and definitely more than any currency circulating. This is what I can get on board with when people say we live in an abundant world!

The literal million dollar question: What opens up for you if you orient to the idea that money is abundantly available? How do you move through life if that’s true?

For me, I feel less fear of missing out. I feel less of a rush. I feel less comparison. I feel less judgement, of both myself and of others. I feel literally more relaxed.

This is exactly why we both liberate ourselves and fight oppressive systems when we stop believing the lie of scarcity. When we’re in the space of trust and availability, we are also in connection with the truth of how much value we are generating and the source of our personal power. Everything is possible from here!

I’d love to hear in the comments how that makes you feel. Next up, Myth #2…..

Much love,
Andrea

P.S. Good with Money is over for this year, but it will be back next year so be on the lookout! This is such powerful work for us to be doing right now!

(note: I am a partner with Kate Northrup and may receive a bonus for any purchases made through my links. I do not partner with just anyone. I’ve known Kate for over 15 years and have personally received incredible transformation from her work. I’m excited to be in the space together.)

For me, my sun, mars and south node are in Pisces. I’m a Gemini Rising, and my Saturn is in Virgo - opposing all of the Pisces business.

The best way I can describe it is using one this amazing quote:
“When something goes wrong in your life, just yell ‘Plot twist!’ and move on.”
(The internet seems conflicted about who originally said this, but whoever it is - Thank You!)

On the 18th, I turned 47.

I simultaneously feel like I’m still in my 20’s and like I’m a cat with 9 lives. I honestly cannot explain it, other than to say time is a spiral and life is wild. Lol.

As a 6th line in Human Design (6/2 is my profile), I’m staring coming down from the roof in the face. (That happens during your Chiron return at 50….)

In addition, this past year was a Mars year for me using a method called Annual Profections in Astrology. This is a process by which each year you live corresponds to a house starting with year 0 being your 1st house. (you can calculate yours here.)

When I reflect back on the past 12 months, there was an insatiable push in my life. Mars was relentless, and I’m really proud of how I showed up.

• I published two digital courses. HDxFundamentals, which Courtney and I started in 2024 and published in July of last year and teaches you the Fundamentals of your Human Design. Then, in the fall I launched Revolutionary, which helps you understand your role in the Revolution through the lens of your Human Design and Astrology.

• I taught a brand new mini course in February called Unshakable, all about feeling steady within yourself when the world feels unsafe (hello, every day…)

• I created a mini-series called The Cosmic Tea where we talked about the transits we just lived, alchemizing their lessons, and then planned for the coming transits in the following month.

• I quiet launched a Mastermind that started in January with 6 amazing trailblazers where we use Astrology and Human Design to navigate the many travails of being a business leader the year before 2027.

• I published 45 articles and videos for this publication: Nine Centered Living.

• Something I’ve shared along the way, I created a community support network for those most at risk in my son’s school under the current regime.

All of this went on while maintaining a private coaching practice, parenting two incredible humans, working to heal my body from undiagnosed MCAS, and diligently showing up for the work of liberation in every corner of my life.

Mars takes no prisoners. It’s full speed ahead and take charge of your life, especially in the area of life that your natal Mars resides and the house that’s being activated by the Profection. For me, these were the 10th and 11th houses - Legacy & Community, in Pisces and Aries.

For those new here, those are the two signs that have been lit AF in the last 12-14 months. We are all feeling it, but I had a special cocktail of BUILD IT AND SHE WILL COME that has required every tool in my toolbox to show up for in a sustainable and “loving towards my body” kind of way!

Sometimes, the cosmos does that. You get a special cocktail, and it’s up to you to do with it what you can while recognizing your own humanity.

Lately, it feels like the people I’m meeting and that are organizing with me all have a cocktail. It’s not the same, but it’s potent AF. Some are experiencing the transits in their 1:1 relationships. Some are experiencing the transits in the house of taxes and shared resources. Some others are experiencing them in their 1st house of identity.

What I think is incredibly powerful is having the context and the specificity that Human Design and Astrology deliver. I can spot patterns so much more quickly and alchemize the lesson that is coming up for me real time. I’m not creating drama around it or questioning.

I didn’t come to this plane to mess around in this lifetime, and with the current geopolitical situation - I’m really grateful for that. I’ve always wanted the most efficient and effective ways to create change, and it’s time for us to put all of the skills and awareness we’ve built into action.

One of my favorite quotes lately is from Valarie Kaur:
“The majority of us oppose authoritarianism. We are the majority. We must act like it.”

A second one is from Gisele Pelicot:
“Shame has got to change sides.”

This moment requires breaking from your conditioning. This moment requires increasing your capacity for discomfort.

To create change, we have to be able to be honest. Honesty does piss people off sometimes. Often actually.

However, that discomfort is also good for them. No one helped anyone by being comfortable lying to themselves and each other.

Whatever season you’re in, we need you. We need your honesty. We need your discontent. It’s going to push you in ways you didn’t know were possible, but I promise it will be worth it.

While I’m excited to see what this next year around the sun will bring with Venus as my Time Lord, I’m really proud of how Mars pushed me. I’m proud of all of us that are finding ways to resist and build something outside of Oppressive systems. You don’t have to know your Time Lord or any of this stuff to do that! Although, it does give me clarity when I understand the “cocktail” I’ve been given to work with.

Every group of neighbors, every group of parents, every group text is rebuilding a piece of the community tapestry that we need to be able to rebuild better from what this regime is tearing apart.

If you’re protesting today, stay safe. Love on each other. If you’re not, find your own way to resist. Collective action is meaningful, and it will help bring hope back where despair has taken root.

Sending you so much love!

It’s a holy assignment.

Hate requires a certain degree of self loathing that we have been unlearning our entire adult life.

It is not human nature to hate. That is something we have been taught THROUGH violence for thousands of years, especially those of us with European ancestry.

It takes a lot to unwind it. Many many generations in my lineage have been working on this in their own way; however, the piece that alluded them is the self hatred that is seeded in so many aspects of our culture.

A beauty standard that is not human.

A work expectation that is not human.

A parenting ethic that is not human.

Seeing your neighbor as someone to respect/fear/compare yourself to, rather than an interesting human living out their unique life that you get to be in relationship with.

Yes, I too still get freaked the eff out by the actions of this regime. The reason we feel paralyzed when you see the headlines is because it is not the actual arena we are here to take action in. The headlines create a disconnect our bodies are trying to make sense of.

Yours and my resistance are more personal.

It’s seeing your beauty as you are, in the messiness and realness of life as a human.

It’s getting honest about the work that gives you energy and trusting that above what the machine tells you is valuable.

It’s parenting and caring for others in a way that values their humanity.

It’s investing in your neighbors and getting to know them for who they are, sometimes inconveniently.

This moment calls for immense courage. Each of these acts of resistance goes against a very worn neural pathway that has literally kept your ancestors away from harm. It doesn’t matter that you’re not in harm’s way today. Your cells think differently, until you show them gently that they can change their programming.

Back to the Headlines

DT is an accelerator. He forces you to decide, are you on the side of fear? Or are you on the side of humanity?

Humanity says, I believe people deserve decency.

Fear says, I must control by force to ensure the outcome that I want.

DT is not the fucking point.

The point is that as a human species, enough of us chose fear to where that is the dominant way of treating each other. And we are getting a heavy dose of the results of that medicine: violence, dehumanization, mistreatment.

It’s an opportunity to reckon with all the ways you have accepted this is the way is has to be, even though every cell in your body knows otherwise.

Your resistance is remembering and taking action from a different place. From a place of compassion. From a place of humanity. From a place of curiosity. From a place of heart.

That resistance is literally tapping into a tool that violence and fear do not and never will have - coherence. Truth. They lust after it, but they will never have it because the truth of humanity is love.

When enough of us choose a new way (which Malcolm Gladwell said in “Tipping Point” is about 10%), the tide of humanity shifts. I believe we’ve already reached the tipping point. I believe that we have reached critical mass to make a meaningful change, but that hasn’t rippled through to our systems and institutions YET.

Now is not the time to give up. As they say in Erie (where I spent 8 formative years in my 30’s), “DON’T GIVE UP THE SHIP!”

Ways to Move from Freak Out to Clear and Ready to Resist

1. Look at the themes of your Sun Sign. This is the part of your chart that gives you fuel. Find ways to bring more of these themes into your day to day life! (I go deep on the how and why in Module 2 of Revolutionary!)
   To get started, you can literally type “summarize the major themes for (put your sign) sun sign” into the google search bar. These are the themes that are designed to bring you energy!

This is what my search gave: “Pisces (February 19 – March 20): Spirituality, Imagination, & Empathy. Focuses on creativity, healing, and connecting to the unseen. Compassion and intuition drive this sign.”

Pretty spot on!

2. Prioritize Joy. There is a very good reason that organizers say “Joy is the Resistance”. Joy takes you out of fear. Joy fills your sacral and floods you with energy. Joy is inherently unique to what actually lights you up, so it cannot be taken away!

“I will not allow the light of my life to be determined by the darkness around me.” – Sojourner Truth

3. Immerse yourself in the natural world for at least a few minutes every day. Remember what the natural world knows. It knows destruction: tornados, floods, hurricanes, fires. It also knows rebuilding, and rewilding. It’s such a good reminder to our nervous system that we will also withstand destruction, and we will also rebuild!

4. Dive into your Astrology and Human Design. These modalities reveal so much about your specific role as we navigate the destruction and rebuilding of this time. If you want to study that with me and with a wonderful community, Revolutionary might be right for you. Our first live call is this Thursday, March 19th, 2026! While the program is geared towards showing up for the moment we are living out right now, it will change the way you think about all parts of your life.

As one participant said, “I relate so strongly to my roles now; I have peace that I don’t have to be doom scrolling and rage reposting to have a place. I’m paying attention to the regenerative places, and spending time there. I have a greater trust and peace of mind.”

My loves, that peace of mind is what makes you impossible to manipulate. 👏🏻👏🏻

We are in this together, and we are going to get on the other side. It’s going to take each of us stepping into the unique role only we can fill, but we are going to do it and we are going to win.

Love will win.

I remember sitting across from my client at a patio table on a warm spring Atlanta day. She had just shared the turmoil she was in around her home. She and her husband had been looking for a new home for months, but each place seemed to fall through.

There was a key transit that was about to move out of her 4th house of home within two weeks of that meeting. I explained that once Saturn moved out of her 4th house in a little over a week, things were going to open up with this search. She messaged me about 2.5 weeks later that they just had an offer accepted on a new house and would be moving within a month!

This is the part where people say, results are atypical. Except in my world, these results are typical! The reason is because it’s not me actually doing anything (which would lead to atypical results - because human 🥰), it’s just you learning to translate the lessons showing up in your life through a framework that’s been around for millennia.

These are the types of revelations we can have when we dive into our Astrology and Human Design.

Astrology is a tool that has been used for millennia to navigate times of uncertainty. I cannot think of a better use for it today! Human Design was created to decipher our own decision making capabilities. When you bring them together, it’s incredibly potent.

Last year, as I sat with my chart in one of the most dire times of my life, I realized so many aspects in my chart point me to teaching. While I have experience teaching, both in training and as an adjunct professor, I didn’t realize that so much of what I do with my clients is teaching them how to understand these systems so that they can apply them with depth and nuance.

Diving into the meaning of having my midheaven in my 9th house reoriented me in how I show up publicly. Your mid heaven is your most public point in your chart, and where it’s located says a lot about what people expect from you energetically.

Teaching you modalities that help you make sense of the chaos in life changes feels like the highest service of everything life has taught me. These aspects are not just “fated”. There is an energetic resonance and you have the inner authority to decide where it matches up.

For me, being an adjunct professor wasn’t a match at the time. However, teaching in my own virtual school? Yes please!

There are infinite ways that an energy can be expressed in your life. You might have the exact midheaven placement I have, but the way it expresses through you is unique to your life force. That’s the reason why “be like me” programs cannot get you to the level of discovery you need to navigate times like this.

You need be like yourself programs, and that is exactly what Revolutionary is!

Fear not, there is a whole module on your midheaven and how to break down what it means for you, along with 7 other aspects that make up what I call your constellation. The ahas I’m sharing with you here are things you will be learning for yourself!

You are unique, and that’s why only you can know how you are meant to show up right now. However, if you are alive right now it’s because you are meant to show up.

Every one of us is needed in the Revolution.

What’s the deal with the Early Bird bonus? (Expires at midnight on Sunday)

When I sat down to write the email about opening the doors to Revolutionary, I wanted to make it special.

I wanted it to feel like a celebration, because when you feel more clear and courageous about how you’re meant to help us navigate a collapsing society - that feels like a big fucking deal.

1:1 sessions are something I typically only do within my 3 month coaching container and my mastermind. The reasoning is, I don’t feel success (my Human Design signature) when I just see the chart and not the process of applying it. However, in a 2 month course like Revolutionary, I do get to see you apply it. That feels so so good to me. So, I am sweetening the deal for those of you with the clarity that this program is for you with a bonus 1:1 session (worth +$400) when you sign up by Sunday.

This is my way of honoring your courage and the process you’ve gone through to get clear on this being your next step, and it will give you individual guidance to support you in applying the work we do within Revolutionary. Win win!

It’s time

Several of you are already diving into the modules of Revolutionary, and nothing lights me up like the aha moments that are already happening.

If you know you’re ready for this work, I hope you’ll dive in and get this bonus! I can’t wait to see what magic will unfold for you.

I am so excited to come into your inbox today. The doors to Revolutionary are officially OPEN, and I cannot wait to dive into your unique ROLE in the Revolution.

When I tell you this program has kept me grounded the last two weeks in the midst of Eclipses and the havoc we are seeing on the global stage, I mean it is possibly the only thing that has kept me grounded, aside from work on the ground with our vulnerable families locally.

It is the one thing that I know can help you feel more clear and steady in what feels like an earthquake that does. not. end.

What we are living through is not natural. It is not natural to have so many different crises coinciding with the technology to be aware of them all at the same time. Our bodies literally cannot handle it.

However, we have the power to train ourselves to focus on the things that we can impact. We can build our confidence and awareness so that we are listening to our intuition and using our skills in a way that feels meaningful, while giving a big middle finger to the forces that would have us distracted and numbing out.

Astrology and Human Design helped me come back into a place of personal clarity in a very dark time, and I know that it will support you if you feel the pull to join me for Revolutionary.

I want to name something before we get deeper into what Revolutionary is all about. If you are not into Astrology or Human Design and you have no desire to learn it, this is not going to be for you. I love you and wish for you a way to feel the clarity that these modalities provide, but it’s not going to be this program.

If you’re still here with me, then I have to assume that you are Astro/HD curious, and so let’s see if Revolutionary can support you right now.

As a multi-passionate person, getting involved has never been the problem for me. Getting TOO involved and getting burnt out are my issues, which then have caused me to pull back and be more cautious about what I promise myself to.

In a society limping along on failed systems (hello, childcare crisis? Labor shortages? Yet unemployment is soaring?), we are all at risk of burning out. Those burn out experiences have caused us to pull back, rightfully so, to protect ourselves to whatever extent we can.

Here’s the challenge:

• Supremacy Delusion thrives when we are not actively resisting it, and Supremacy Delusion is the reason our support systems are all failing.

• When we pull back our energy, Supremacy Delusion steps into the gap.

• When we move into that protective stance so as not to burn out, we distance ourselves from our neighbors and the people around us.

• Meaningful communion is literally one of the reasons we are alive right now. A fulfilled human experience depends on communion. So by pulling back, we are inherently going to feel what we call in human design “not self” (out of alignment).

• If we re-engage without an awareness of how we can most sustainably do so, we will also get thrown into not self because of burn out and end up in the same cycle.

This is what has been the game changer for me with Human Design and Astrology. In the last 16 months of engaging, I have not burnt out. I have definitely had a few experiences on the brink, because who isn’t on the brink with this regime??? Friends and neighbors at risk of getting kidnapped? It’ll send you to the brink!

However, I’ve been able to step back and learn from the brink. Then, reengage once I integrate what I’m learning. In somatics, the term to describe this is titrating. Awareness allows you to move from dysregulated to regulated with more ease and agility.

The primary tool to build this awareness is your own internal guidance system through Human Design. No other system gives you immediate feedback the way your own body does. Starting to feel frustration, bitterness, anger? Time to reevaluate. Feeling successful? Satisfied? At Peace? Great. Keep moving forward.

From there, we can look at things like your Human Design profile to understand the specifics of how your energy shows up in a space. We can look at your Astrology to understand what actually gives you energy. We can better understand the types of activities that are regenerating for you. These are the areas of your chart that we look at in Revolutionary.

This simple process is what gave me the courage and clarity to do something completely out of my comfort zone, like setting up a community defense network. That small step has turned into a bedrock for our community. (We met yesterday morning, so I feel especially emotional about how much having that group means to me.)

I don’t know what your small next step is, but I do know that through this work you will be preparing for it.

If you are reading this and know that Revolutionary is the right next step for you, I want to encourage you to take this step now by offering a really special fast action bonus. Now, if you have emotional authority, it might take you a couple of days to make this decision, which is why the bonus goes through Sunday at midnight EST 🥰

This bonus is a 1:1 session with me for everyone that signs up before Sunday at midnight EST.

I have been trying to think of what is the best way to honor you for being ready to make this commitment to yourself and to the movement, and the most special way to honor that is to sit down together and look at what is uniquely happening in your life.

Are you ready to show up for the revolution??

I am so excited to do this work together with you. We need you and every single person that says yes to humanity right now. I believe in us. We will win. Love will win.

The energy has been really funky this week as Mercury came to a stop and then finally turned around (into retrograde) on Thursday. I have been really reflective and nostalgic all week, which feels very on brand for Mercury in Pisces….

Two weeks ago, we celebrated 1 year since forming a Community Defense Network for my son’s school. You’re probably wondering, what the heck is a CDN. I’m so glad you asked! It was actually here in the wormholes of Substack that I learned what a CDN is.

After the inauguration last year, I didn’t know what was going to happen, but I knew it was going to be terrible. I didn’t imagine cities being occupied. I didn’t imagine people being murdered in plain daylight for standing by their neighbors. I wish I had been wrong, but here we are.

In the dark days after the 2024 election, I first had to grieve. More than anything, I was grieving that as a collective we had chosen such a violent path.

Then, after the inauguration and the plain display of dystopia - the grief turned into resolve. I decided that while others might not realize what they had just voted for, I did and I knew there was something I could do about it.

The first thing I knew to do was to sit with my Astrology and HD charts every week to better recognize the ways I could utilize my innate energy to disrupt this crazy train. I was reminded that Rising sign is all about is circulating information (Gemini Rising), and that I have Mercury in Aries which is all about initiating.

Out of this self study, my program Revolutionary was born…which is re-opening next week. I take you through my entire process and help you decipher what YOUR chart means for your role right now.

The aha’s I got through that process gave me the clarity and courage to start meeting with some of the refugee moms I know at school. I wanted to better understand what could actually be of help for them and their neighbors. Out of those conversations, the Community Defense Network was born, and we’ve been meeting for over a year now!

A CDN is a group of regular people who meet on an ongoing basis about a topic vital to their community. In our case, it was about being on the ground to reduce suffering for our Black, Brown, Indigenous, Immigrant and Refugee friends through the school our kids go to together.

While we haven’t had to navigate the worst of what we’ve seen of this regime in our neighborhood at this point, and I pray we won’t ever have to, we have been able to show up for our neighbors in so many ways. We provided transportation for two little 6 year olds who lost their home to a fire at the start of the school year. We created a gofundme for a family that lost their dad at the young age of 32. We supported families that lost their TPS in getting access to several local agencies to support them in their asylum process. These are just a few examples of how we have been able to show up.

In each case, the missing link was someone with enough availability to learn the issue and spend a little bit of time organizing around it - right at the intersection of two areas that are lit up in my Astrology (Gemini spreading information and my Mercury using my voice to bring community together).

In addition, as things have gotten horrific in other parts of the country, we have learned, pivoted, engaged, and prepared in ways we would not have if we weren’t meeting on a regular basis. We are so much stronger together.

If you are reading this I know that you too all want to be a part of building the world that we want for ourselves and for the little ones, but there are so many things to navigate in order to do that. Burnout, uncertainty about our skills, not knowing where to start, systemic inequities even in organizing spaces. It’s a lot!

This is where Astrology and Human Design come in. They give you the cheat sheet! You can easily identify the types of things that you are a natural fit for, navigate and adjust based on you inner compass, and learn to express your innate gifts at the same time.

My story is not unique. I have shared this process with 10-15 clients over the last year, and the results have been incredible. We don’t think to use Astrology and HD in this way, but for me this is where the magic is. The practical application of your unique design is affirming, clarifying, and energizing!

In an ideal world, we wouldn’t even need the cheat sheet because we would just be following what is correct for us from birth on. While that may be the dream, it isn’t exactly what we signed up for! The human experience is really built on the joy and satisfaction of navigating contrast to come back to yourself, and being alive right now is quite the journey with the level of supremacy delusion conditioning we have to navigate in order to find our way back.

It’s a lot, and I’ll take every cheat sheet I can get!!

What are the stories that you have found yourself revisiting this week? How can you bring them front and center and access a deeper understanding or level of healing around them?

Mercury Retrograde is all about the RE - revisit, review, remind. This part of your life has been under immense pressure the last 3 years, yet these themes have been going on for longer because before Saturn moved into this house in 2023 - Neptune had already been there since 2011.

Mercury is going back through this same part of your chart to help you review and alchemize the stories and experiences you had while this area of your life was undergoing transformation with Neptune and Saturn. Now that those two planets have moved on, Mercury is here giving us perspective and helping us heal through telling an empowering story about our journey.

Where is all of this happening for you? (If you don’t know your Rising Sign, make sure you pull that first on astro.com!)

Mercury Retrograde in Pisces by the Signs (Rising Sign):

• Aries Rising (12th House): Secrets, subconscious, mental health, isolation, and spiritual, creative work.

• Taurus Rising (11th House): Friendships, networking, community, long-term goals, and technology.

• Gemini Rising (10th House): Career, public reputation, status, and authority figures.

• Cancer Rising (9th House): Travel, higher education, legal matters, and belief systems.

• Leo Rising (8th House): Shared resources, intimacy, debt, taxes, and deep transformation.

• Virgo Rising (7th House): Partnerships, marriage, business contracts, and one-on-one relationships.

• Libra Rising (6th House): Daily routines, health, work environment, and organization.

• Scorpio Rising (5th House): Romance, creativity, children, and pleasure.

• Sagittarius Rising (4th House): Home, family, roots, and emotional foundation.

• Capricorn Rising (3rd House): Communication, short trips, siblings, and mental processes.

• Aquarius Rising (2nd House): Personal finances, values, and self-worth.

• Pisces Rising (1st House): Self-image, appearance, and personal identity.

We are at the beginning of this retrograde period, so keep this list handy as we move through the next month and a half. Mercury doesn’t clear it’s shadow until mid April. I’m excited to share more about how you can use your Astrology to understand your role in the revolution very soon. You might not realize it, but every choice you make to show up as more yourself creates ripples of impact through the biosphere!

Sending you so much love and blessings for a joy filled weekend, in spite of the tech snaffoos and miscommunications 🤣

There’s big astrology happening. Dare I say revolutionary transits. If you follow other astrologers, you will hear things like the last time this happened (insert big momentous thing - the civil war started, the Berlin Wall came down, the revolutionary war started, etc.).

I’ve read those lines so many times, and yes they are true, but I don’t need the transit to tell me that something really f#^€ed up is happening.

I love Astrology. It has been a really powerful framework for me to understand the energies present and how to work with them.

It can also be confusing as hell and distracting. Each energy exists on a continuum, and they interact with each other. It’s not clear cut. When you’re too focused on the mental, you miss the opportunity experience how the energies are playing out - whatever that may be.

To show up for this moment and tell you something that will hopefully help you, I have to constantly go back to what I know to be true from what I have lived - not just what I’ve studied. There are frameworks, and there is how the energy actually expresses. The latter cannot be predicted. The latter has to be lived.

We have never lived these transits at this level of consciousness. In some cases (Saturn and Neptune conjunct at 0 degrees Aries), we have no recorded history of having lived this energetic signature. Some astrologers calculate it last happened over 6,000 years ago, which is wild to think about!

We are experiencing a moment that has the potential to change everything with essentially no user manual. No point of reference that reflects where we are today.

Potential is the operative word there. The potential of this moment relies on our courage to continue to show up as our fullest expressed self.

The authoritarian crack down happening around us is a direct response to the rise in self expression, especially in Millennials and Gen Z. (I’m Gen X, but I’ve been talking about this for 15 years.) We cannot move forward blindly thinking everyone is on the same page. This is a pendulum that will continue to swing until we do the necessary work to heal the deep wounds underneath.

The people who benefit from you and I not expressing ourselves are going to do everything they can to stop us. The only tools they have are fear and violence. We are seeing the violence glorified and escalated, while we are seeing the most courageous expressions of human kindness of our lifetime.

This moment is the turning point though. The regime and its fandom don’t understand that the universal law of energy is that the harder you push back on something, the bigger it grows. The more violence they throw, the bigger love grows. The more fear they try to evoke, the bigger love grows.

Love that says - not on my watch.
Love that says - I see you.
Love that says - do not suffer in silence.
Love that says - you are just like me.
Love that says - I see you for you.
Love that says - you deserve a good life.
Love that says - I will work with you to seek justice.
Love that says - there must be accountability and repair.

This is the moment where all of the work you have been doing to figure yourself out shines like a light in deep darkness. In order to sustain a love for others like this, you have to love yourself. In order to love yourself, you have to understand yourself.

The Astrology is supporting us. The Astrology is saying, “when all is said and done, what do you stand by?”

I am absolutely fascinated by the uniqueness of the transits we’re seeing. I am also at risk of becoming distracted by the academic takes. About two or three articles in, I felt the pull to step away from overanalyzing. I literally could spend hours listening and researching every hot take.

Yet, in the end, what matters is how we live this out, and that can only be done in your time x space reality.

What does your authority say?
Are you following your strategy?
Are you feeling satisfied, successful, at peace or delighted? (Your guidepost based on your HD Type.)

This moment is huge, and it’s being defined by the accumulation of hundreds of millions of little actions taken by you and me every day. Every action of love is 7x more powerful than an action of fear or hate. You can trust what you are living out when you’re following your inner guidance without question.

You are in a unique intersection of the work that is uniquely here for you to do. I am here to help you learn the language of of that intersection and help translate the messages, but the way you live it out in your day to day interactions is what truly matters.

We are writing history in real time ♥️

Many of you are asking, what can I do? How can I help? And I have shared many practical steps in this post for taking action. However, the transits right now are pointing to a bigger charge.

We must remember how to dream what we want to see into existence (Neptune at 0 degrees Aries), and then put the smallest steps in place towards that dream (Saturn at 0 degrees Aries).

The first step to remembering how to dream is to truly get to know yourself. Only then can you access your dreams and desires, which then fuel you to show up in a sustained way. The last thing the regime wants you to do is get to know what makes you tick! Which is why it is absolutely vital that you do it.

Be in the study of you. If you’re here, you know I love Human Design, Astrology and the inner child for that. We will continue to deepen our study here (I have something exciting coming this week for just that!). It is also true that there are so many ways to do this. Simply getting to know your desires and your motivations is also incredibly powerful work.

Protect your attention like a ninja. Do not fall prey to thinking about the worst. It’s ok to be honest about what might happen - in fact it’s vital for your Inner Child. However, then transition straight into what you desire and your biggest dream. You get to shape the energy!

What does it look like for you to be in the study of yourself and to cultivate Love that can conquer all?

Don’t overcomplicate it. Take time to dream, even 5 minutes will make a huge difference. Figure out your next small step toward that dream, take the step, and repeat. Share your process here in the comments so that we can encourage each other!

Not only was it this week very demanding work-wise, we had school canceled for ice that never appeared, and then organizing kicked into high gear as we see signs of increased threat in Atlanta. Whew. It’s a lot friends.

My community is full of members who are most at risk, and most days they are the only reason I am able to fight the fog and keep one foot in front of the other.

The grief is overwhelming. The exhaustion is cutting. The absolute RAGE is out of this world.

And yet, my kids need to eat dinner and 500 snacks every day. They’ve outgrown most of their wardrobe, so I need to focus and buy clothes. What does fit them is buried under a mountain of laundry. LIFE. How?

As I am in constant conversation with my inner child (which I will teach you about next week), the theme that keeps popping up is needing something fun. Something just for me. Then, as Dr. Becky describes - the misplaced responsibility (This is what it is - not guilt.) creeps in.

What I had to remind my inner child (and I’m now reminding you too): pouring into yourself is more important than ever right now.

We need to be fueled for the marathon that this fight is going to be. Yes, there will be acute points where we have to pull on our energy stores to get through. However, most of the challenges of this year are the 1,000 cuts we experience every day in things like psychological warfare, scare tactics, threats, etc.

We all need to go into each week with a plan for treats!

With that in mind, I thought I would share some of the things that fueled me this week:

- attending this powerful call with Valarie Kaur on what she learned on the ground in Minneapolis.
- planning a trip to an in person event (what!! Haven’t been to one of those since Covid!), where I also get to see one of my best friends from college!
- making these yummy treats and yes we ate the whole batch by Wednesday. Definitely making more this weekend…especially if it actually snows!
- going on a shamanic journey and seeing wild connections with my healing journey over the last year.
- connecting with a neighbor and feeling so supported by her experience and wisdom.
- running into a parent I know from my son’s school and having an impromptu lunch together.
- remembering an unused certificate for a week’s stay somewhere, and lucking into being able to book it for my kiddos school break next month!

The energetic work that we’re doing in Unshakable has been one of the most healing experiences for myself and my clients. At the core, it honors the part of you that is in this physical world has needs, desires, and opinions.

I spent so much of my life orienting to everyone else’s needs, desires, and opinions. It was absolutely a badge of honor how “easy going” I was. I put that in quotes because really what I was is self abandoning.

I promise to break all of this down in a way that is empowering and healing, but what I need you to know right now is that your inner child is good. They’ve always been good.

These ways of orienting to life are a trauma response, and they leave you operating with limited access to your fullest self, including limiting your fullest creativity - which is what we most need right now in order to topple a fascist regime!

So, while yes - you will be building inner safety with me, you will also feel more creative, energized, fortified, and steady. You will come away with a clear understanding of what you need in order to feel resourced and ready for the role only you can play in the revolution.

Whether you are joining me for Unshakable or not, what I most want you to think about today and over the weekend is: “How can I best tend to myself?” Then, make a plan to do it, whatever that thing or those things are. Follow through for yourself.

Take a break from the news, social media, and the myriad of ways we’re being hypnotized right now. Be in physical proximity to people. Have conversations. Be a good friend.

I hope to see you in our private group tomorrow, but if not - I’ll be back with more next week.

xoxo, Andrea

If you read through the page and were confused, I’m so sorry. Please take a second open it, refresh and see if it makes more sense now!!

I’ve extended the $22 price so you have a moment to actually see the page and see if this program will support you as we navigate (gestures wildly) all of this trauma happening to us real time.

I am humbled and reminded that as a 6th line, a part of me will always need to third line things. There was a whole section on the page that didn’t save right and was referencing an in person event I did years ago 🫣

So confusing!!!

Anyways. It’s all cleared up now. Thank you for your grace. I love you and cannot wait to be together for a few weeks of growing more resilient and resourced in the face of the constant s*^+ slinging coming from the authoritarian insanity.

This is a two week virtual coaching container together including: a private Signal group, 2 live calls, 2 weeks of encouragement and exercises with me. And I’m stoked for it!!

We all have a role, and you need a deep sense of inner safety to be able to step into that role and hold the MF line.

I love you. We’re doing this. Here we go!
(BTW, you get access to the intro to inner safety workshop the moment you sign up!)

xoxo,
Andrea

In the face of fear and terror, you are steady in yourself and your values. Then, you move forward in alignment with those values.

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”

— Nelson Mandela

Fear is a tactic old as time. I’m not going to bore you with the ways it’s used. I don’t want to give it that much breath. Listen, the Empire does not WANT to fall - much less the small minded people manipulating it. Fear is all they’ve got.

HOWEVER, the only way fear works is if you are taken out of yourself.

Therefore, to conquer fear - we must be so deeply connected within ourselves that nothing can take us out. This is what makes us Unshakable.

Starting on Sunday, I’m inviting you to learn tools to bring you back to yourself in this moment when fear is being slung like poop in the streets.

There’s a workshop to get you started as soon as you sign up, there’s a community space and two live calls. There will be messages via a pricate message group during the two weeks to help you center and strengthen your inner relationship with yourself.

Today is the last day to get all of this support for $22. Tomorrow it will be $33, and then it will go to $44 and so on.

“I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.”

— Rosa Parks

You Inner Being is the only source of safety that is unconditional.

Not your bank account.
Not the roof over your head.
Not your job or career.
Not your 401k.
Not your partner.
Not your parents.
Not your health insurance.
Not your uber regimented schedule.
Not the approval from the person you are most dying to get it from.

All of these things are conditional, as they should be. To be human or human made is to have conditions to it.

We are seeing in real time how “conditional” the government is - meaning, it only works if everyone buys into it on all sides. The truth is, many have been subverting it for decades - and it’s all coming to a head in this very moment.

The only thing that is unconditional is your Inner Being.

It’s ok. Yes, it’s uncomfortable, but everything needs to be reorganized. Your Inner Being has a plan, and your Inner Child is creative, smart, and resourceful.

When your Inner Child doesn’t remember that your Inner Being is always there, it feels scared and lonely. If your Inner Child doesn’t know your Inner Being, that leaves you constantly searching for that anchor in places that are just not set up to provide unconditional steadiness (aka anything from the list above).

That’s why we are going to introduce them to each other, do some fun exercises so they get to know each other, and build up the needed trust between the two most important parts of you:

• your inner child - the part of you that interacts in the world

• your Inner Being - the part of you that connects beyond the veil

This is the work we will be doing in Unshakable. When you are connected to the well of true unconditional love and knowing, you feel clear eyed and ready to face whatever the times will bring.

I hope you will join me because to navigate this moment, we need to be unshakable. ♥️

Here we are loves. We are in the belly of winter right now, and every part of me is screaming. I hate it.

We are deep in it my friends. The time between Solstice (December 21) and Imbolc (February 1) is the deepest dark in the Northern Hemisphere. In opposition, this time is the brightest light for our friends in the Southern Hemisphere which corresponds to the end of June and all of July here.

What’s interesting is that both times are not about action. In the winter, it’s a time of composting and breaking down nutrients deep under the surface. In the summer, it’s a time of letting things grow as the sun shines bright. It’s very external.

I’ve been having to remind my inner child of the purpose of winter. I’ve been having to reorient, and as I do that I’m seeing connections in this season that I had never understood before.

Winter is a time to do less and focus on just being. Winter is a time to digest and learn and process everything that transpired, the three seasons before. Winter has a time to identify what didn’t work, where is their excess, where is there scarcity, and make adjustments before you plant seeds in the spring.

In the fall of empire, it’s effing hard to winter.

But my body demands it. I need more sleep. I need more quiet. I need to have intentional breaks from the outside noise.

In a world that floods our system every day with dread, winter feels selfish. Winter feels almost foolish. But would I call Mother Earth foolish? She could take me out in an instant if she wanted to, so no. I think she is wise.

In the northern hemisphere Winter is ruled by Saturn. Capricorn season kicks off winter at the winter solstice. From there we go through 20 January and transition into Aquarius season, which is also ruled by Saturn. Saturn is a planet of boundaries and of limits, but it is also the planet of strength and the bones.

What if this winter is just tearing down what is not meant to be anymore, down to the bones?

In addition to being in a season ruled by Saturn, we are in a Saturn heavy time. With Saturn coming to the end of its time in Pisces next month and the sun going through two signs that Saturn rules, Saturn is ruling this moment. This winter is cutting deep.

When we are in a Saturn heavy time, everything feels harder and like life or death. And we are seeing a lot of death.

I don’t want you to be lulled into only seeing the hard side of this time though. Everything in the human experience has a gift and a challenge. The gift right now is that when we’re being honest and learning the lessons Saturn is trying to teach us, it can be really liberating.

Saturn is destroying the things that are not supporting you, the things that are façades, and structures in your life that are just not sustainable. If you notice that something is wobbly or unstable, it’s really important to listen and take the hard step that Saturn is asking you to take.

For the last 3 years, Saturn has been in my 10th house of career and legacy, and right now it’s exactly conjunct my sun. When I tell you this transit has kicked my ass, I’m really not even touching the surface. I have been counting down the days until Saturn leaves Pisces!

I would love to tell you that I embraced Saturn‘s lessons with Grace. I would be lying. There were many times, especially in the early months of this transit where Saturn brought me to my knees. I have questioned so many things about my career and how to be in service to a crumbling society in the last three years.

In the meantime, I have shown up for my clients, I have followed my human design strategy and authority, and more than anything utilized this time to deepen my mastery of the systems that I work with. So maybe in the end, that is Grace.

Saturn teaches us to accept the losses as necessary components to our eventual success.

In a little over a month, Saturn will leave Pisces and won’t be back for 28 years. Next week, Neptune will leave Pisces and won’t be back in our lifetime.

We are living in times that will be written about for generations to come. Who do we want to be in this time? What is it going to take for us to rise to that version of ourselves? Saturn is telling us - INVEST THERE, because that is what is going to last.

Falling apart, or breaking down, is a necessary component of Saturn’s process. It’s also an incredibly human thing to do in the face of a society that dehumanizes everything it touches. The last three years, I have broken down more times than I can count - this past weekend included.

Yet, I keep coming back to what I know to be true. My humanity is my greatest strength. I will not let anyone take it away from me - ever.

Being a 10th house Pisces sun, I guess I’m meant to wear that on my sleeve! Yet, that truth is for all of us. Leaning into your humanity is a revolution in this moment, and the only thing I know to be consistent in the face of an unraveling of systems that were harmful from the moment they were made.

If you are breaking down, let it happen. Let what needs to go leave. The rebuilding is coming love, and it will take time.

On February 1st, I’m kicking off a two week coaching experience to support us all in feeling safe as the empire falls around us called Unshakable. This is the perfect time to look at the lessons Saturn has been bringing into your life uniquely, so that you can feel internal safety no matter what is happening around you. That inner sense of safety is going to be our anchor, no matter what 2026 continues to bring. ♥️