If you didn’t know, I’ve been running a 150+ kid before-school and after-school program. When we have 80+ kids running around and playing, a hierarchy ALWAYS forms! The cool thing is it’s structured differently based on the activities/games we’re playing that day. The issues come when the kids at the top of the hierarchy absolutely dominate the game to the point the kids that aren’t as good no longer want to participate. Once this happens, their focus generally shifts to ruining the game for everyone else. We’ll have 60 kids loving life having a blast playing the game while 30 kids are upset, angry, and determined to end the game as quickly as possible. When I’ve asked these kids why they’re doing that their responses are always along the lines of, “I don’t even have a chance at winning here… and I know I’m not going to win the other game either, but at least I’m not one of the worst so it’s a lot more fun!” Winning is fun and losing sucks 😢😢 But never even having a chance to play makes people want to change the game entirely. So this brings me to my main point. Think about it for a moment, what games are you designed to win? What do you excel at that others don’t? Do you lean into that or are you still playing games you have no shot at winning?

Last week we had the New Moon in Aries with the Sun + Venus and this week Venus has entered its home sign of Taurus! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Venus – relationships, beauty, value systems, luxury Moon – emotions, the mind, intuition, our inner world, emotional safety New Moon – fresh start, internal reset, introspection creating a new beginning, death and rebirth Aries – ACTION, initiation of & creation of movement, courage, raw pioneering energy, high energy, determination, warrior-like spirit Sun – vitality, leadership, authority, power, creativity, self-expression, the soul ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Our inner-emotions (Moon) and core self (Sun) have been getting a boost of action-focused energy from Aries while our value systems (Venus) were adjusting to give us the support required in this new cycle of universal energy. With Venus now in the strong, convicted, and slower moving sign of Taurus our value system is starting its own journey of growth and expansion. We're slowly and steadily beginning to move forward with this new support/value system. The universe put us in the fire (New Moon + Sun + Venus in Aries) to burn away the old so that we can slowly begin the process of growing in beautiful new ways! New growth doesn't happen instantly... it takes time. A huge part of Venus being in Taurus is understanding beautiful things take time to create. It's super important to start replacing the pressure of "the rush" and "right now" for slow and steady progress. We're all experiencing the multi-year journey called life, and the end destination FOR ALL OF US is death. Rush is literally imaginary. There is no escaping Saturn's ring. Things unfold exactly as they should. We're here to enjoy the ride. So, take a breath. Breathe deep. Enjoy the air. The life we're living is beautiful and Venus in Taurus is here to remind us.

If you haven't already, I recommend reading this post: here about Mars + Saturn + Sun in Pisces as it sets the stage for Mercury's transit. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Mercury – intellect, information, expressing ourself, how we share information (writing, speaking, communication in general), and how we think through + analyze information Mars – action, inner drive, aggression, assertiveness, ambition, courage, raw energy Saturn – discipline, self-control, karma, growing through challenges, delays/obstacles to overcome, hard work, patience, responsibility, structure, maturing & self-realization Sun – vitality, leadership, authority, power, creativity, self-expression, the soul Pisces – endings, transitions, flow ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ How we think through and express our problems, obstacles, work, challenges, purpose, and inner-drive is now beginning to undergo the Pisces --> Aries maturation (Saturn) process. Mercury will help us become even more selective about the things we choose to give our energy to. It'll also help us determine what's even worth thinking about, and what's worth sharing with others as some things are better left unsaid.

Mars – action, inner drive, aggression, assertiveness, ambition, courage, raw energy Saturn – discipline, self-control, karma, growing through challenges, delays/obstacles to overcome, hard work, patience, responsibility, structure, maturing & self-realization Sun – vitality, leadership, authority, power, creativity, self-expression, the soul Pisces – endings, transitions, flow ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ With Mars (action) joining Saturn (maturing) and the Sun (inner soul) in Pisces (endings and transitions) this transit is all about becoming more selective (mature) in how we use our energy. Instead of scattered efforts towards things that are meaningless/no longer serving our path, Saturn is bringing our focus towards actions (Mars) that are truly meaningful for our Soul’s (Sun) development. With Mars representing action and Saturn representing delays it’s important to avoid allowing the inner frustration of things not being ready yet (Saturn) to build under the surface (Pisces) which is likely to end up in us exploding/lashing out in anger at the wrong moment (Mars). If we let these energies freely flow through us (without suppression) while remembering the universe is on our side and wants us to win, Saturn’s stability will grace us with lasting success. Hope you enjoy this Easter weekend 🐣

I’m colorblind and growing up I absolutely hated art classes and creative coloring/drawing assignments! Losing points while constantly hearing my goofy teachers tell me my color choices were “wrong” and “not quite right” always made me so mad 😡 Then, a few years ago, the creativity juices started flowing out of nowhere and I painted this for myself. It forever changed my relationship with art & creative self-expression. Instead of always worrying about being “correct” and “perfect” I’m now just focusing on allowing the universe to share its message through me 🙂 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⬇️ Comment Below ⬇️ What’s something you’ve created just for fun? I’d love to know!