“As the sun moves through Libra before crossing into Scorpio’s shadowed terrain, October asks us to trade politeness for truth. In the Northern Hemisphere, the days shorten and the light turns amber and low; below the equator, the world stretches open into spring warmth. Something in the air sharpens our attention, pulling us away from small talk and toward what actually matters. With Venus retrograde from the month’s opening days and Mercury joining her late in the month, this is no season for rushing. Let October be a place to look honestly at what you’re holding onto and what’s ready to be composted, released, or simply acknowledged.”
Keep in mind that the last Mercury In Retrograde of 2026 will happen October 24th-November 13th.
During this Mercury In Retrograde season, may we rewind, reflect and remember the co-creative trails that we have blazed together already during this Year of the Fire Horse.
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As we take a deep dive into the season of Virgo, may its grounding energy create a sense of order, structure and routine amidst the plethora of chaotic tidal waves manifesting in the theatrical 3D realm.
Virgo season started on August 22nd and will last till September 22nd; marking alignment with the equinoxes taking place on Planet Earth at that time.
When body surfing the waves on the crest of the last eclipse of the season on the Full Sturgeon Moon on August 28th . . .
Keep in mind that Full Moons during Lunar Eclipses are like Full Moons on steroids.
Remember that, during these rapidly shifting ebbs and flows, meditation on resiliency is a trait that humans can awaken with the energy medicine of Sturgeon.
If you can dig on rocks & gemstones…it’s always a good idea to recharge them outside under the Full Moon cycle which lasts a few days before and after the actual Full Moon.
Perhaps a little sea saltwater bath to cleanse and energize them at night during your sleep cycle will support your soul development during the Dreamtime.
Are you noticing how these powerful energies are triggering emotional releases, helping unearth hidden truths and perhaps serving as catalysts to breaking toxic patterns or relationships?
Eclipse seasonal energies and their aftershocks can be felt consciously by a growing body of people; as well as feel powerful and intense.
May we surf these energies so as to feel inspired to let go of stagnant habits, emotional baggage, and limiting beliefs.
And yet, it’s as if Great Spirit prefers providing a gentle nudge to return to our soul purposes.
Truly, it can be hard to perceive that in the throes of Climate Change, not to mention the militaristic and fear mongering cabal that still clings to a Planet of the Apes mindset.
Make no mistakes about the truth that humans are capable of creating beauty and showing our better angels with our humanity.
But we all know the factions of hidden hands that repress free and clean energy, shoot down ET crafts, and then lie to the general public that human made, reverse engineered technology are somehow a demonic threat from another planet.
Besides, people who have been reading this blog know that I don’t demonize demons. Inter-dimensional beings, like demons, don’t fly in spacecrafts or require clean up crews or autopsies after crashes because they aren’t sentient beings.
But if you’re listening to the raving lunatics that are looking for some false flag holy war, then that’s exactly what you’ll hear parroted by the likes of the current American Yale Law School Grad & Vice President from the MidWest.
A New Moon in Virgo on September 11 awakens feelings of safety relating to order and clarity, even in emotions. Tis the season to get organized, and get down to the nuts and bolts of everyday business affairs.
Try being more tolerant and accepting of life’s imperfections. It is better to trust life and let it follow its own path. Not everything must be according to our expectations.
The arrival of the Autumnal Equinox in the Northern Hemisphere or the Vernal Equinox in the Southern Hemisphere will be on September 22nd.
Depending on your planetary location, movement towards cooler temperatures and shorter days or warmer temperatures and longer days will be playing out, respectively.
Energies in the Southern Hemisphere will intensify till climaxing on the Summer Solstice; while Northern Hemisphere energies will turn more yin-ward till reaching their zenith on the Winter Solstice.
Near the end of September, a Full Harvest Moon will happen on September 26th.
Native American and Asian traditional activities include moon-viewing dinners outdoors, harvest blessings, candle-lit gratitude circles, and a Mid-Autumn Festival with mooncakes at this time.
Spending time in meditation, focusing on positive energy, abundance, hope, etc., will be incredibly powerful and healing, not just for ourselves, but the entire planet.
Meditating in a sacred space on a consistent basis builds a growing energetic morphic field.
Group meditation in this way amplifies a field of collective energy.
The power of every individual and groups deepens and heightens our work with cocreative energies that are in alignment with planetary and universal peace consciousness.
Everyone has bias, and of course this is part of the human condition. It isn’t about setting aside our biases, beliefs or judgments.
Rather, it’s about moving beyond them.
Perhaps humanity’s violent and militaristic tendencies are waking us up.
Wars, plotting and scheming, abusive language, temper tantrums and micro-aggressions or even giving someone the cold shoulder are stale old dysfunctional ways of relating to each other that are ready to die and burn in a funeral pyre.
That’s why there is a growing trend of non-violent communication workshops out there so that we can wake up in the ways we relate to each other.
We don’t need to draw our swords and go to war with each other.
Keep in mind that changes in ages are like changes in seasons.
Everything is ephemeral and transitory. And yet, all life is energetic and sacred nonetheless.
Have you noticed the squirrels, and chipmunks scurrying about, and foraging like mad in their preparation for winter stockpiles?
It must run in the family, because groundhogs are gorging before they go to sleep when consistently colder temperatures arrive.
I saw some wild turkeys on a hike the other day, and was reminded of their tendency to steal the winter storage cache of squirrels.
Perhaps they weren’t tickled about turkey’s thievery. But in their industry, squirrels don’t seem preoccupied with vendettas or the dark and stormy days ahead.
We can stand to learn from them in that way; as in how squirrels balance work and play.
May all Beings be free from suffering and awaken to Planetary and Universal Peace,
An iridescent hummingbird symbolizes trans-dimensional quantum energy in a cosmic multiverse scene
If there is any creature created by Great Spirit that embodies the vibration of joy and light, it’s Hummingbird.
These spirited winged creatures dazzle us like a trans-dimensional craft might.
Remember, there is no fear when no fear is present.
During these sacred encounters, the hum of their wings when hovering reflects effective movement between the physical 3D and spirit realms.
Keep in mind there is an infinitely abundant amount of help bursting at the seams in the spirit realm, if only we ask and allow for ourselves to receive!
Incredibly, the ability to fly in any direction; changing directions spontaneously and instantaneously is nothing short of jaw dropping when watching hummingbirds work their magic.
Is anyone else out there inspired at Hummingbird’s power that such a small creature carries in its stature.
Do you remember the old creation spiritual truth that in the beginning, there was sound?
Meditation on Hummingbird awakens a vibrational shift when humming along.
When life gets heavy, take notes from Hummingbird about how to fly into zones of consciousness that reflect the sweetness of life through a felt sense of joyful lightness.
I’ve been making friends with a family of hummingbirds at our home in the backyard.
Like a trans-dimensional craft powering up, the feeling I get is being winked at by them in a lovingly playful way.
What’s in it for me? A New World if you can take it.
It does feel like the grief and dirge of everyday tragedy is transformed into the light; breathing in the air of levity and awakening an experience of being kissed by bliss.
If Hummingbird flies into your energy field, could it be that a past loved one’s spirit checking in on you?
May All Beings Be Free From Suffering And Experience Joy And Light In Their Consciousness,
A monarch butterfly gracefully flies above blooming wildflowers.
Energetically, butterfly supports carrying a playful, light-hearted sense of detachment during our everyday doings.
Isn’t it mind boggling to watch their apparent labor of love by constantly flitting about and sewing the seeds of love?
And yet, Butterfly consciousness holds up a mirror to awaken a real felt sense perceptible experience of levity embodying joy and light.
I watched a butterfly do this the other day…flying around tirelessly, landing on flowers, taking off and not appearing to have a concern in the world about the seemingly endless amount of work to be done or the uncertainty of what might come next on the endless honey-do list.
As I watched in awe, I experienced a shift as my own vibe lightened up.
Seeing them doing their thing invites Socratic self-reflective questions about where we might be landing on the map of consciousness at this moment in time.
Are you in the egg stage of an idea (beginning), the larva stage (manifestation), the cocoon stage (program development) and/or the final stage (transformation)?
Butterfly breathes in an air of creativity to get the juices flowing.
During times of more sunlight and warmer temperatures, movement out in Nature floats to the natural rhythm of Butterly magic.
May this experience give pause to an allowing for gentle growth that is sweet like the fragrant scent of flowers.
May All Beings Awaken To Planetary And Universal Peace,
A father tenderly plays with his child by the window surrounded by toys.
Pip: Classroom Mothership Earth — where the curriculum includes teenagers, trauma, and the quiet radical act of taking care of yourself.
Mara: Today we’re drawing on Ari Joshua Bouse’s writing on the relationship between adult role models and the teens in their lives — the neuroscience, the self-care, the community scaffolding that holds it all together.
Pip: Let’s start with what it actually takes to show up for a teenager.
Raising Kids, Raising Ourselves
Mara: This piece opens with a question that sits underneath the whole thing: what does it mean to be a trustworthy adult in a teenager’s life, and what do adults need to do for themselves before they can be that?
Pip: The post anchors that question in something personal — a grandmother raising five teenagers through the turbulent sixties, holding the household together through poverty and trauma, without a roadmap. And from that comes a line that reframes the whole adult role: “it is incumbent on we parents, caregivers, teachers, coaches and mentors to be good role models of those coping skills and strategies.”
Mara: So the upshot is that modeling isn’t a bonus feature of good parenting — it’s the mechanism. If adults want teens to build resilience, regulate their emotions, practice mindfulness, the adults have to be doing that work visibly, in front of them.
Pip: Which is where self-care stops sounding like a spa weekend and starts sounding like a professional obligation.
Mara: Exactly — and the post is direct about the stakes. A teen acting out doesn’t just affect the teen. It stresses the whole family system, which means the adults’ mental health is part of the equation too. The recommendation is concrete: talk to your primary care doctor, consider a family therapist, treat your own maintenance the way you’d treat a car’s oil change.
Pip: That analogy does a lot of heavy lifting for something you’d find on a bumper sticker.
Mara: It lands, though. The post also describes the school-side infrastructure that supports this — a multidisciplinary team including principals, counselors, a school resource officer, a social worker, and a nurse, working from a trauma-informed and restorative justice lens. The point being that the village is real and already partly built.
Pip: And the post is clear that the village doesn’t replace parental authority — it supports it. Youth empowerment means teens having a voice, not teens running the household.
Mara: Right. The post closes on neuroscience: teens are actually at a uniquely receptive stage for mindfulness practice because of where their brains are developmentally. The “upstairs brain” versus “downstairs brain” framing — prefrontal cortex versus amygdala — is the practical model for why co-regulation between adults and teens matters so much right now.
Pip: So the whole thing is really one argument: you can’t hand a teenager a coping skill you haven’t practiced yourself.
Mara: The thread running through all of this is that the adults and the kids are in the same developmental moment — just at different stages of it.
Pip: More to come from Classroom Mothership Earth. We’ll be back.
Sunset casts a golden glow on gentle ocean waves at the shore
Pip: Classroom Mothership Earth — where the spirit guides show up before the alarm clock does, and honestly, same energy.
Mara: Today we’re covering work by Ari Joshua Bouse, and the territory is emotional navigation — how a spirit animal from the natural world becomes a practical tool for staying grounded when the larger world is burning.
Pip: Let’s start with Duck.
Staying Afloat with Duck as an Emotional Guide
Mara: The question this post is sitting with is a real one: how do we regulate our emotional lives when the noise outside keeps getting louder — eclipse seasons, political fires, the general churn of a world in transition?
Pip: The post sets up Duck not as a metaphor but as an active guide, and the framing is direct: “When we allow Duck’s Chi to paddle into our souls, we are given emotional comfort and protection. We are in our element with water and given assistance while floating in the astral and emotional realms.”
Mara: So the upshot is that Duck’s energy is practical, not decorative. It offers a specific set of tools — balance, adaptability, the ability to let things roll off your back when pressure builds.
Pip: And the pressure in this post is not abstract. There is a pointed aside about the military-industrial complex that could benefit from some Duck-based curriculum. Which, fair.
Mara: The post doesn’t stay in the personal for long. It moves outward — to the way media keeps us locked in ego-centered debate, to the way capitalism and socialism get framed as opposites when they may be two faces of the same structure. The argument is that the same emotional suppression happening inside individuals is mirrored in how societies organize themselves.
Pip: Right — the anxious mind that sleepwalks through its own life and the political system running on distraction are described as the same pattern at different scales.
Mara: The post puts it plainly: “When we are identified with our minds, an endless sea of mental concepts and incessant accompanying emotional reactions are typically dominated by unrealized anxiety. And this hypnotic trance has a tendency to propagate a sleep walk through life.”
Pip: That is a real diagnosis, and Duck is offered as a genuine antidote — not a luxury, not a retreat. The post closes by naming what Duck actually delivers: balance, emotional comfort, adaptability, and a return to safe ground when things get heated.
Mara: And it costs nothing. The post is explicit that Duck is a free guide — no bill at the end of the consultation.
Pip: So the invitation is to treat the natural world as a working resource for emotional life, not just scenery.
Mara: And to notice that the inner work and the outer work are the same project.
A brown bear stands alert in a lush, mist-filled forest clearing.
Pip: Classroom Mothership Earth — where the bear is a philosopher, the moon is a market analyst, and somehow it all holds together.
Mara: Today we’re looking at a piece from Ari Joshua Bouse that moves through Bear Medicine, seasonal cycles, inner stillness, and what it means to come back down to earth — in every sense of that phrase.
Pip: Let’s start with the bear.
Shared Constellations With Bear
Mara: This segment lives at the intersection of the natural world and the inner one — Bear as a lens for examining where we are in the cycle of expansion, contraction, and return.
Pip: The post sets up Bear Medicine as a guide for introspection, and then lands this: “Standing in the space of knowing is a marketing free zone. When we enter the center of a circle, there is nobody to convince or sway.”
Mara: So the upshot is that stillness isn’t passive — it’s a place beyond persuasion, beyond the noise of markets and elections and outcomes. That’s the ground the whole piece is standing on.
Pip: And then it gets economic. The post asks whether we remember when the wealthiest Americans paid around a 90% tax rate — right after the stock exchange crashed. Bear market as literal bear market.
Mara: The Taoist framing ties it together. “Investing in loss” means letting the bullish, expansive emphasis go into hibernation — not as defeat, but as a natural rhythm. Winter Solstice isn’t failure; it’s the season for it.
Pip: There’s a real tension the post holds without resolving: do you withdraw, or come out of the cave? It asks both, directly.
Mara: And it distinguishes prayer from meditation along those same lines — prayer as yang, outward, intention-setting; meditation as yin, receptive, listening. “Walking with one foot in spirit and one foot in ground,” as it puts it.
Pip: The political moment is there too — post-election, beyond cheers and jeers — asking whether you can see the good inside all situations. Revolutionary zeal, the post says, but without the hate.
Mara: It closes on bears themselves: our treatment of them mirrors how seriously we take the environment. The animal and the archetype stay linked throughout.
Pip: Patience, plasticity, planted seeds. The cubs want to come out and play — but not yet.
Mara: The thread running through all of it is that contraction is productive — hibernation isn’t absence, it’s preparation.
Pip: Go quiet enough and something starts growing. We’ll see what comes out of the cave next time.
A magical lion adorned with glowing flowers sleeps peacefully in a mystical forest at night.
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”
-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Please enjoy the following videos below that capture the sentiment. Perhaps listening to them together in peaceful alignment, will be music to your ears, if you’ll pardon the pun . . .
We Shall Overcome
A Full Strawberry Moon on June 29 reflects lineage connections to the Algonquin and other North American nations who noticed the connection between the wild berry harvest to this Full Moon.
Also, Mercury will be in Retrograde on June 29 – July 23. These energies are in alignment with slowing things down, reflecting on the past, and focusing on the here and now.
Energetically, Mercury in Retrograde is a good time to be mindful of subconscious thoughts, including past programming. These energies can be a healing and highly intuitive time when we work with its energies intensionally.
Moreover, our psychic abilities and dreams can become triggered so that we can tap into deeper insights by working with our subconscious minds in ways where the unseen realms yield useful information to light our way.
A colorful New Moon in Cancer rises in the skies on July 14, 2026. Cancer season continues till July 22nd.
As always, new beginnings are in the air. And specifically, the new waves coming into the shores bring back feeling safe in family matters of the hearth, and other related activities like cooking and gardening.
Crabs are known to weather their emotional fluctuations. Might as well be mindful of co-creating a sense of belonging in the world.
Cancer the Crab is a time when we are encouraged to focus on nourishment, self-care, and our emotional health that breathes in a softer tone that supports reconnecting with ourselves and our hearts. Crabs reflect emotional sensitivity and tapping into the feeling realm.
Remember there is God in forgiveness, and it can be good to get out of our heads; especially when getting seduced into negative self talk narratives.
Or perhaps merely an atheistic appreciation the mysterious forces of Nature are enough to be shelter from the storm.
Looking ahead, a Full Buck Moon will happen on July 29. This Moon gets its name from the Native American observation that male deer antlers began growing in late spring and reach peak growth in July. Many Native Alaskans called this moon the Salmon Moon for its timing with salmon runs.
Whereas in Celtic culture, this moon has been known as the Wyrt (Wort), Mead or Herb Moon because most herbs can withstand harvesting by July. And in Anglo Saxon lineage, this moon was known as the Hay Moon. Bees buzzing out and about reinforce that honey is the elixir of life.
It is important for all humans to remember our shared history. This includes our lineage connections to our indigenous ancestral roots that are part of our planetary history before Colonization. This has impacted everyone and continues to do so.
Of course knowing our spiritual roots connects to that truth as well. Because we all have stardust in our DNA, not to mention oral traditions passed down about our cosmic connections to the Sky People.
Speaking of cosmic connections, a growing body of people are talking about Disclosure these days:
Late July’s full moon cycle amplifies a strong need for emotional freedom that can heighten emotional complexities.
Whether you’re an ET, human or otherwise; the resonate point is that harmonizing with groups can be challenging for everyone till you get into the right vibe, if you’ll pardon the multidimensional pun.
Moreover, Aquarian energies that also constitute July’s full moon cycle can intensify in those of us with strong rebellious streaks, our need to assert ourselves, and can make getting along in groups feel more challenging.
But then again, that’s just part of the human condition.
Speaking of the human condition, fear, anger and jealousy aren’t particularly healthy emotional cravings. And yet, all emotions are fleeting and transient, so we might as well see them as they are; no more or no less.
Besides, the power of community shows that people can be good mirrors for each other to reflect on what triggers us, and can shed light on better understanding of our humanity.
Finally, the tides of Leo season roll in from July 22-August 22. Tis the season to broadcast radically confident self-expression through the heart chakra, and a friendly reminder to nurture our inner child. Leo’s energies encourage movement out of the shadows, and stepping into the light with courage and passion.
Of course dominating the spotlight and always stealing the show can be blinding; as is self-stimulation as a form of meddling into the affairs of others. Besides, it can come across as an arrogant form of defensive pride.
Truly, the 3D realm we live in still carries a strong identification as an outer directed culture. Might as well see this reality as a friendly reminder that we stand in a deeper and higher personal authority when we stop chasing after happiness in the form of “praise, likes, or applause.”
May all Beings awaken to God Consciousness, Cosmic Consciousness, Unity Consciousness, Diversity within Unity, Inner Peace and the Universal Pillars of Love and Truth,
Check out this newly created experimental AI Podcast feature that aligns with my writing, compliments of WordPress.
Full Disclosure: Truly, I do take pride in my writing, and have yet to use AI for the written word. However, I have been having fun with playing around with AI for illustrations.
This version of 1 of my more recent writings stars 2 AI created characters named Pip and Mara.
Please enjoy the podcast & transcript below:
Pip: Classroom Mothership Earth — where getting unstuck, staying present, and surrendering to the universe are all on the syllabus, and somehow the homework is actually worth doing.
Mara: Today we’re covering work from Ari Joshua Bouse — one extended meditation on what it means to stop fighting your own stuckness and find your way back to the present moment. Let’s start with the heart of it: surrender as a path through.
Letting Go: Presence, Surrender, and Getting Unstuck
Mara: The central question here is deceptively simple — why do we get stuck, and what does it actually mean to let go? Not as a motivational slogan, but as a lived, embodied practice.
Pip: The post opens with a Rhonda Byrne line that stops you cold: “You can’t feel good when you’re feeling bad about feeling bad.”
Mara: That’s the trap in one sentence. The secondary suffering — the judgment layered on top of the original feeling — is often what keeps people frozen far longer than the feeling itself would.
Pip: And the post gets specific about what that looks like in practice. The reflection on getting stuck on other people’s stuckness, and taking it personally, is one of the more honest things you’ll read about how entanglement actually works.
Mara: The post frames it plainly: “experience teaches that it is freeing to stay centered, and observe those entanglements soften and relax.” Letting go of victim consciousness is described as a process — peeling away layers of an onion, not a single decision.
Pip: Which is where Tai Chi enters — not as a detour, but as a structural argument. Ancient meditative movement practices, the post says, integrate the brain’s hemispheres and re-pattern the neurological system toward emotional regulation. The body is part of the solution.
Mara: The post profiles Professor Cheng Man Ching, who brought Tai Chi to the West against the explicit orders of his masters. He once said he was approximately seventy percent Confucius and thirty percent Lao Tzu, and that learning how to be human takes a very long time.
Pip: Seventy-thirty is a surprisingly precise self-assessment for someone also teaching surrender.
Mara: The post also weaves in bibliotherapy — a medium using reading, film, podcasts, and other materials to support therapeutic change, especially between sessions. It traces back to an independent study in college exploring how clients get unstuck outside the therapy room.
Pip: That thread runs all the way to Pema Chodron, whose work the post closes with — a veteran Buddhist teacher the post credits as a leading force in bringing these principles to Western audiences.
Mara: The throughline is consistent: whether it’s Tai Chi, bibliotherapy, or sitting meditation, the practice is always about carrying the insight off the cushion and into ordinary life.
Pip: Stuckness, it turns out, is less a destination than a habit — and habits, given enough momentum, can be re-patterned.
Mara: Surrender as a technology for change — that’s the real thread running through all of this.
Pip: Next time, we’ll see what else the mothership has on the curriculum. There’s always more to unpack.
Please enjoy the original post that inspired this podcast at the link below:
