The more I’ve prepared for tomorrow’s Soul Voice Activation, the more excited I am about this one. If the past week or so has felt heavy, reflective, emotional, or like old stories have suddenly come back around for another look, there may be a reason. We are moving through a period that astrologers associate with reflection, release, and seeing familiar things from a new perspective. And I’ve been feeling that personally. I’ve been thinking a lot about the way we label people and experiences as “good” or “bad,” especially when we’ve been hurt. Sometimes healing asks us to see more of the story. To remember that something painful may also have contained love. That someone who hurt us may also have been acting from their own wounds. That a difficult experience may have changed us in ways we now value. Understanding doesn’t mean excusing. Compassion doesn’t mean reopening a door. It can simply mean we are finally able to hold the whole story without being trapped inside the wound. And that is such a powerful place to enter tomorrow’s 8/8 Lion’s Gate. The Lion’s Gate is associated with courage, visibility, sovereignty, power, abundance, and manifestation. So tomorrow we’re going to work with both sides of that threshold: What am I ready to release? and What am I ready to create now? And our guide is going to be Thecla. If you don’t know her story yet, you are in for something incredible. Thecla was an early Christian woman who refused the life that had been chosen for her. She was eventually thrown into an arena with wild animals. A lioness was released toward her. And instead of attacking Thecla, the lioness ran to her, lay at her feet, and became her protector. I cannot stop thinking about this image. Thecla did not tame the lioness. The lioness recognized her. Tomorrow we are going to meet our own lioness. The part of us that carries instinct, boundaries, anger, creativity, authority, desire, discernment, and the courage to choose differently.