Sometimes, the posts just write themselves…the words come spilling out faster than my hands can type.
This is one of those moments.
There are moments in life when you think you’re circling back…only to realize you’ve arrived somewhere entirely new.
Today was supposed to be simple.
I was going to return to my old gym—part of this health and healing chapter I’ve been gently stepping back into. It’s been years since I’ve walked through those doors, and something in me felt ready.
But when I got there… everything had changed.
New systems. New rules. Two apps just to open the door.
And standing there, phone in hand, I felt it—that quiet inner nudge:
This isn’t your place anymore.
And here’s the thing—
that little voice is always there.
But we don’t always stop long enough to hear it.
I could have just as easily turned around, gone home frustrated, and called it a wash.
That would have been the easy reaction. The automatic one.
But instead… I paused.
And in that pause, something else had space to speak.
I remembered my friend Monica mentioning a detox yoga studio right across the road. So I drove over—not with a plan, just with a willingness to do something different.
And there she was.
Katie.
Ten years ago, we met through yoga at church—two women searching, stretching, asking deeper questions about healing and life. We built something meaningful back then.
Our classes were taught by our mutual friend Dede Schreiner—a pastor’s wife—who had this quiet, powerful way of holding space for people to simply be who they were. No judgment. Just love.
Katie and I both felt that.
And even back then, we spoke about wanting to embody that same presence…
that same kind of love.
The three of us even hosted a small health symposium together—
I screened Forks Over Knives, and Katie brought her Pampered Chef tools. With Dede holding the space, we stood side by side, creating recipes from my kitchen through her lens—food, healing, and community all in one room.
And this morning… Katie walked out of that studio, locking the door after a class she was now teaching.
And it was like meeting both the same woman—and someone entirely new.
We stood there and talked for nearly an hour.
Her path has deepened. You could feel it.
Not in what she said—but in how she was.
Grounded. Open. Transformed.
And in that moment, it felt full circle.
Because now… she’s the one holding that space.
And I realized something even more beautiful:
Sometimes we don’t reconnect to relive the past…we reconnect to witness each other’s becoming.
So here I am.
Not going back to the old gym.
But stepping into something new.
And later today, I am so grateful to say, I’ll be taking her class! Crazy, eh?
A warm vinyasa. Gentle. Intentional. Exactly what my body—and my back—needs.
Because lately, I’ve been feeling the Fire Horse.
The drive. The passion. The go, go, go.
I love my job. I truly do.
But I can also see how easy it would be to burn myself out—working days on end, pouring from a cup that doesn’t always get the chance to refill.
And with dark moon Lilith in Virgo right now… don’t even get me started.
Because if you really understand that energy, you know this isn’t about chaos or rebellion for the sake of it. This is about the body. The quiet knowing. The moment when something simply doesn’t feel right—and you finally listen.
Lilith is that untamed voice inside of us. The one that doesn’t negotiate. The one that says, no… this isn’t aligned, even when everything on the outside looks like it should be.
And Virgo?
Virgo brings it down into the physical. Into the nervous system. Into the daily rituals and routines we either honor… or override.
It’s the difference between pushing through… and paying attention.
It’s realizing that burnout doesn’t happen all at once—it happens in the small moments when we ignore what our body is trying to tell us.
The tension.
The fatigue.
The resistance.
That moment standing outside the gym today—that was it.
I could’ve forced it.
I could’ve figured out the apps, pushed through, followed the plan.
But something in me said no.
Not loudly.
Not dramatically.
Just clearly.
And instead of overriding it… I listened.
That’s Lilith in Virgo.
Not destruction—
discernment.
Not rebellion—
realignment.
It’s choosing what actually nourishes you, even when it means changing direction.
Even when it means letting go of what used to work.
Even when it doesn’t make sense on paper.
Because the body doesn’t lie.
And if we’re willing to pause long enough to hear it…
it will always lead us somewhere better.
And that’s where the Chariot comes in.
The Chariot doesn’t move forward with one force alone.
It’s pulled by two energies—two harnesses—often moving in different directions.
One pulls with fire.
The other with feeling.
One says go.
The other says ground.
And the real power…
is in learning how to hold both.
To guide them.
To bring them into alignment.
Meeting Katie today felt like stepping into that second harness.
The one that softens. That steadies. That restores.
Not instead of the fire—
but in devotion to it.
Because I don’t want to lose what I love by running it into the ground.
I want to sustain it.
Nourish it.
Move forward in a way that feels whole.
And maybe that’s what listening really is.
Not choosing between who we are—
but learning how to guide all parts of ourselves
in the same direction.
The Chariot doesn’t ask us to push harder.
It asks us to lead ourselves… wisely.
How cool is that?
—
Feed the fire.
Honor the body.
Listen to the pause.