Your Weekly Oracle Reading + Astro Transits (11.20.2023)
Your rebirth is bringing karmic rewards and a new journey.
Happy Monday, friends.
I hope this weekend treated you kindly.
Transparently, this last week was incredibly challenging for me. I fell into a deep depressive episode and had a mental breakdown. I’m sharing this with you for two reasons:
I think when people witness you doing this type of work and facilitating healing practices for others, they assume that you must have all the answers and all your shit together. That couldn’t be further from the truth. We are still navigating through our own traumas and triggers, our own karma, and our own mental health challenges. The healing journey is not an attempt to never feel pain again. That’s completely unrealistic. It’s an attempt to deepen our capacity to navigate the pain that will inevitably arise through the course of life, and as scary and heavy as this week was for me, I’m so grateful that I was able to implement the practices I’ve accumulated throughout these last few years in order to move through that storm as safely as possible.
Something that crept up on me during this time was, “Where did I fuck up? Where did I make a wrong turn? How did I end up back here?” I had to remind myself that what can sometimes feel like two (or 10) steps back is actually preparation to launch forward. I know it’s easy to fall into shame and blame when you feel like you’re fucking up, but that’s not helpful and it’s not always true. I look at this journey like a long drive. You’re bound to hit some bumpy roads—and even a really frightening disaster that you’re not sure you’ll survive—but if you keep driving, if you keep moving forward in whatever way you can, it will inevitably pass and you’ll experience the clearing.
There was a massive rebirth that occurred this last week. I know this was true for me, and after some conversations with people closest to me, it seems to be true for others as well.
If you went through a dark and heavy period, or felt like you were dealing with old shit again and it pissed you off, you’re right on track. Surrender to the unfolding of this journey. There was destruction to your old foundations, because what you’re moving into is going to require something completely new from you.
With that said, let’s get into this week’s astrological transits—
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