Rainbow Medicine Lodge

05/23/2026

05/21/2026

Most people are very good at one thing: looking away.

From the anger they do not want to admit is there. From the grief that never fully left. From the fear that quietly governs choices they tell themselves are rational. The mind is extraordinarily creative when it comes to avoiding what is uncomfortable. It rationalizes. It distracts. It stays busy. It looks away.

But what you refuse to face does not disappear. It waits.

Jung called this the Shadow: the repository of everything we reject, suppress, and deny in ourselves. Not because these things are evil, but because at some point we decided they were unacceptable. Too much. Too dark. Too shameful. And so we pushed them underground.

The problem is that the unconscious does not simply store what we put there. It acts. The things we refuse to look at in the light find their way into our lives through the back door. Through the relationships that repeat the same painful patterns. Through the reactions that feel disproportionate and we cannot explain. Through the fears that surface at three in the morning when the distraction finally stops.

What you refuse to face in the light, you will meet in the dark. Not as a punishment. As a law. What is not integrated does not stay buried. It returns, again and again, in forms that grow harder to ignore the longer they are avoided.

The only way through is toward. The courage to look at what you have been avoiding is not the beginning of destruction. It is the beginning of freedom.

What have you been refusing to look at, that you already know is there?

ShadowWork

04/27/2026

5 POWERFUL THINGS TO PRACTICE

1. Let it go.
When someone triggers you, pause instead of reacting. Triggers are mirrors—they reveal where healing is still needed within you. Holding on only disturbs your peace; letting go sets you free.

2. Accept what is.
Resisting reality creates suffering. The Buddha taught that peace begins the moment you stop arguing with what already exists. Start where you are, with what you have—that’s where real change begins.

3. Let them.
If they want to leave, let them. If they choose chaos, let them. You are not here to control others—you are here to master yourself. 𝖥𝗋𝖾𝖾𝖽𝗈𝗆 𝖻𝖾𝗀𝗂𝗇𝗌 𝗐𝗁𝖾𝗇 𝗒𝗈𝗎 𝗌𝗍𝗈𝗉 𝗂𝗇𝗍𝖾𝗋𝖿𝖾𝗋𝗂𝗇𝗀 𝗐𝗂𝗍𝗁 𝖾𝗏𝖾𝗋𝗒𝗈𝗇𝖾 𝖾𝗅𝗌𝖾’𝗌 𝗃𝗈𝗎𝗋𝗇𝖾𝗒.

4. Trust in timing.
𝖭𝗈𝗍 𝖾𝗏𝖾𝗋𝗒𝗍𝗁𝗂𝗇𝗀 𝗎𝗇𝖿𝗈𝗅𝖽𝗌 𝗐𝗁𝖾𝗇 𝗒𝗈𝗎 𝗐𝖺𝗇𝗍 𝗂𝗍 𝗍𝗈—𝖻𝗎𝗍 𝗈𝖿𝗍𝖾𝗇 𝖾𝗑𝖺𝖼𝗍𝗅𝗒 𝗐𝗁𝖾𝗇 𝗒𝗈𝗎 𝗇𝖾𝖾𝖽 𝗂𝗍. 𝖣𝖾𝗅𝖺𝗒𝗌 𝖺𝗋𝖾 𝗇𝗈𝗍 𝖽𝖾𝗇𝗂𝖺𝗅𝗌. Life has a rhythm, and forcing it only creates frustration. Trust the process.

5. Look for glimmers.
𝖦𝗅𝗂𝗆𝗆𝖾𝗋𝗌 𝖺𝗋𝖾 𝗌𝗆𝖺𝗅𝗅 𝗆𝗈𝗆𝖾𝗇𝗍𝗌 𝗈𝖿 𝗉𝖾𝖺𝖼𝖾, 𝗃𝗈𝗒, 𝗈𝗋 𝖻𝖾𝖺𝗎𝗍𝗒—𝖺 𝗌𝗆𝗂𝗅𝖾, 𝖺 𝖻𝗋𝖾𝖾𝗓𝖾, 𝖺 𝗊𝗎𝗂𝖾𝗍 𝗆𝗈𝗆𝖾𝗇𝗍. 𝖶𝗁𝗂𝗅𝖾 𝗍𝗋𝗂𝗀𝗀𝖾𝗋𝗌 𝗉𝗎𝗅𝗅 𝗒𝗈𝗎 𝖽𝗈𝗐𝗇, 𝗀𝗅𝗂𝗆𝗆𝖾𝗋𝗌 𝗅𝗂𝖿𝗍 𝗒𝗈𝗎 𝗎𝗉. The more you notice them, the more your mind learns to rest in gratitude.

You don’t need a complete life overhaul…
just a shift in how you respond to life.

Practice these daily…
and watch your inner world transform.

04/18/2026

It opened.

At 7:51 AM EDT this morning, the New Moon crossed zero
degrees Aries. And with it: the Sun, Mercury, Mars,
Saturn, Neptune, and Chiron all in the same sign
simultaneously.

Seven planets in Aries. A Stellium that last existed in
1821, when there was no electricity, no photograph of
Earth from space, no woman alive who could vote in any
country on this planet.

Here is what the planetary mathematics actually mean.

In astrology, a Stellium concentrates energy the way a
lens concentrates light. Seven planets in one sign is
not seven separate energies operating independently.
It is one beam. Aries is the first sign, the initiating
fire, the irreversible decision to begin. A New Moon
here is a beginning inside a beginning.

But here is what makes this specific.

New Moons in Aries happen every year. A Stellium of
seven planets in Aries at the same moment does not. The
mathematics require every one of those planets to be in
the same 30-degree arc simultaneously, which happens
once in roughly two centuries because each planet moves
at a completely different speed. Mercury laps the Sun
four times a year. Saturn takes 29 years to complete one
orbit. Neptune takes 165 years.

To have all seven of them overlap inside Aries at the
same New Moon required 205 years of orbital patience.

It opened this morning.

What are you beginning?