The Ravens Nest

10/14/2026

10/08/2026

You Are Not Every Emotion You Feel

What if your biggest obstacle isn't failure—but identification? Something happens, anger rises, and almost instantly the mind says, “I am angry.” Fear appears, and it becomes, “I am afraid.” Sadness arrives, and suddenly it feels like, “This is who I am.” Vedantic self-inquiry invites you to look more carefully at that experience. There is a subtle difference between saying, “I am angry,” and noticing, “Anger is arising in me.” The emotion is real, and you don't have to deny or suppress it. But does the presence of an emotion automatically mean that the emotion defines you?

That tiny shift in perspective can create an enormous amount of space. You can notice anger without immediately speaking from it. You can notice fear without allowing it to make every decision. You can notice jealousy without turning it into a permanent story about yourself. You can notice a painful thought without assuming that the thought is the truth. This is one of the deeper movements of self-observation: learning to distinguish between what you experience and the identity you construct around that experience.

The moment you can observe something clearly, you are no longer completely lost inside it. This doesn't mean becoming detached from life or pretending difficult emotions don't exist. It means becoming conscious enough to respond instead of automatically reacting. At first, that space may last only a few seconds. But sometimes a few seconds are enough to change what happens next. The emotion appears, you recognize it, you breathe, and then you choose.

Maybe transformation doesn't begin when you finally eliminate every difficult emotion. Maybe it begins when you realize that you can experience an emotion without allowing it to become your identity. You can feel anger without being anger. You can experience fear without becoming fear. You can witness a thought without obeying it. And sometimes, that space between experience and identity is where real inner freedom begins.

09/30/2026

🦂 🔥 Mercury Enters Scorpio Today

At a Mabon gather last Saturday, I pulled the Scorpion card. The image stayed with me: a scorpion in darkness, with a glowing ball of fire emerging from its tail. And a triangle above it. An unusual card for me...and the message has now become clear.

At the time, it felt like something stirring in the dark — asking to be brought into the light, with self-materialized power.

Interesing, Scorpion arrived on the tail of a release that had already shifted for me. A couple of weeks prior, a significant trauma resurfaced that I genuinely believed I had already dealt with. But it came back asking to be witnessed and processed from an entirely different perspective — not to pull me backwards, but to show me there was another layer I was finally ready to see and release.

And now Mercury enters Scorpio. 🦂
Mercury governs our thoughts, words, memories and communication, while Scorpio draws us beneath the surface — toward what has been unspoken, buried, avoided or not yet fully understood.

Over the coming weeks, we may notice memories resurfacing, old conversations carrying new meaning, truths finally finding words, or something we thought we had put to rest asking to be looked at differently. Note that everything that resurfaces is not meant to return. Sometimes it returns because we are finally able to meet it from a different place, and for me - that came after nearly a decade. 💝

Give it time to unfold. Mercury enters Scorpio on September 30th. Its pre-retrograde shadow begins on October 4th. Mercury stations retrograde in Scorpio on October 24th. It stations direct on November 13th.
Its post-retrograde shadow completes around November 30th and Mercury remains in Scorpio until December 6th. So this is not one conversation or one moment of revelation. The energy of the next couple months gives you time to work through and heal what has remained emotionally unfinished. Something that appears small in early October may become connected to a much larger story later.

And that triangle 🔺️...third eye opening to see the unseen. Take time to reflect and notice: What has been hidden that you are ready now to be see differently — and transform in the light. 🕯

Need some spiritual support or otherworldly insights? Reach out 🫶

- WildRising ✨️