Hello everyone, I owe you a sincere and honest update... Over the last week, my family experienced an unexpected emergency that hit all of us very hard. I have been on an intense emotional rollercoaster and, truthfully, I have not been able to show up in any meaningful way. I have not had the emotional capacity to post, comment, teach, communicate properly, or be as present inside the Academy as I intended to be. I am deeply sorry for disappearing without explaining what was happening. I know that my absence affects more than just me. You joined this space expecting guidance, structure, classes, communication, and consistency, and I take that responsibility seriously. Alongside everything happening within my family, I have also been navigating a much deeper personal transition. The Identity Alchemy Challenge did not end when the scheduled challenge ended. The work has continued unfolding inside my real life, and I am experiencing the uncomfortable reorientation that happens when an old identity no longer fits, but the new identity has not fully stabilized yet. Some areas of my life have changed dramatically because of the identity work we completed together. I can see clear evidence that I no longer think, respond, create, or make decisions in quite the same way. At the same time, I have also fallen back into old habits and coping patterns in other areas, particularly when I became emotionally overwhelmed. It has been humbling to experience both realities at once: genuine transformation and old survival patterns resurfacing. My life, my work, my relationship with creativity, and the way I want to lead this community are all shifting. I have been gaining much more clarity about what I want the Academy and the larger ecosystem around it to become. I want to build something meaningful, sustainable, manageable, and genuinely supportive, rather than repeatedly overextending myself, burning out, disappearing, and trying to return by pushing myself even harder. But even positive change can be a tremendous amount for the nervous system to process.

Welcome to your first Fun in the Sun challenge of Summer Term! Since this week is all about reconnecting with the Academy, exploring the campus, and choosing what you want to focus on this season, your challenge is to complete a little Summer Orientation Scavenger Hunt. 🏛️⚜️ Complete as many of the following as you can: ☀️ Visit a part of the Academy you haven’t explored in a while. 🔮 Choose one department you want to spend more time in this summer. 📚 Revisit one class, teaching, or resource that still feels relevant to where you are now. ⚜️ Introduce yourself again or share a little update about where you are currently in your journey. 🔥 Reconnect with your House and check in with your fellow alchemists. 🏆 Review the Summer Quarter Cup and decide how you want to participate this term. 🧭 Choose one personal focus for the summer. This could be intuition, divination, astrology, embodiment, energy work, identity, self-leadership, spiritual practice, or anything else that feels alive for you right now. ✨ Bonus challenge: Find one teaching, practice, or resource inside the Academy that you had forgotten about and share what you rediscovered. When you’re finished, come back to this post and comment: DONE + your House name For example: ✅DONE 🔥 House of Wands Completing the challenge and commenting with your House earns 15 House Points toward the Summer Quarter Cup Championship! 🏆☀️ You do not have to complete everything perfectly. The whole point is to explore, reconnect, and get curious about where you want this summer to take you. Next week, we begin our deeper exploration of the Intuitive Alchemy Method, so consider this your chance to get settled in, dust off your alchemist robes, and choose where you want to grow. Happy exploring, alchemists. ☀️⚜️🏛️

I just want to talk about what I'm experiencing at this point in the Identity Alchemy Challenge. Day 23/28: We are getting close to the end now and everything is going according to schedule and my body is literally feeling the gradual shifts that haven taken place. The work is compounding and now the body is catching up to the work we've done up until now. I want to start by saying, It feels VERY uncomfortable to have more time and energy. It's like my mania wants to kick in a spend it all like a kid with too much money in a candy shop. I want to GOOO even when I'm meant to be still. My body spent its whole life being overactivated and in overdrive. This is part of living with bipolar. It's been my mission to manage my bipolar by giving myself structure and managing my energy intentionally and my body simply wants to get up go go go go. So much is coming up that hasn't been processed over the years and it has triggered my PTSD symptoms, to be honest. My time in the military suppressed parts of my identity that didn't have the space or acknowledgement to be processed so it got shoved down. Im at a point in my life, many years later, that I'm able to now process it. My nervous system is already always activated from a biological stand point so things compound quickly when living with bipolar. It's like always being turned on and the military trauma added to this and made it MUCH worse. Part of finding myself outside of the military, is managing the need to operate from hyper vigilance and urgency. I'm VERY aware of when I'm activated and even now as I type, I'm speeding up while typing and feeling the tension and speed rise as autopilot starts to take over simply by talking about this. What has been helpful for me is to intentionally SLOW DOWN as often as I can but ESPECIALLY when I notice things start to become rapid like my talking or my thoughts, or when I feel like I can't sit still. This creates the sensation of wanting to jump out of my skin. I'm developing the discipline to overcome this and so the work is working but it has been HARD.

Fifty conscious choices to show up as the new identity. Fifty signals. Fifty data points proving it is real. #HouseOfSwords #IdentityAlchemy

Welcome to Day 1 of the Intuition Bootcamp. I'm so glad you're here. This week is not about learning something new. It's about stopping the interference so you can finally hear what you already know. Today we're starting with the foundation: Calibration. What you need to do today: 1️⃣Watch the Welcome Video & Day 1 video inside the classroom 2️⃣Do the calibration drill inside the lesson 3️⃣Catch yourself in at least 3 moments today where you knew the answer before your mind got involved — write them down to record them 4️⃣Come back to this post and comment DONE ✅ once everything is complete Your one question to carry through today: "What was my first response — and did I follow it?" That's your whole practice today. Everything else builds from that. 🏆 QUARTER CUP CHAMPIONSHIP (FREE & PREMIUM MEMBERS) Every one including free members are able to participate and earn points for their house. Each day you complete earns your house 50 points. That means showing up, doing the work, and coming back here to mark yourself done. Seven days, seven check-ins, 350 points on the table. Your house is counting on you — and so is your intuition. Once you've watched the video and completed the drill, come back here and comment DONE ✅ with your house name so your points get logged. 🤔💭QUESTIONS & FEEDBACK And if anything comes up — a question, a moment that surprised you, something that landed differently than you expected — drop it below too. This is a community, not a classroom. You don't have to do this alone. 🤍 Let's go. Day 1 starts now.