Grateful Life Wellness with Melodie Polansky

09/11/2026

09/11/2026

Maybe the fire is here to change us. 🔥

I’m not an astrologer. I’m just someone who has always been fascinated by the way our inner lives seem to move in seasons, and lately, I’ve been paying more attention to the sky.

2026 is the Year of the Fire Horse in Chinese astrology. Whether you believe in astrology literally, symbolically, or simply use it as a mirror for reflection, fire + horse feels strangely appropriate for this chapter of my life.

Movement. Independence. Courage. Restlessness. Burning away what no longer fits.

And the realization that sometimes you can’t become who you’re becoming while continuing to live exactly as you have been.

This past year has held a lot.

There have been beautiful wins. I helped bring a dream into physical form. I’ve stretched creatively, taught, made music, held space for people, tried new things and watched ideas that once lived only in my imagination become real.

There have also been struggles.

Relationships have changed. I’ve questioned myself, my work, my direction and where I belong. I’ve had moments of feeling incredibly inspired and others when I’ve wondered what on earth I’m doing.

Underneath all of it, I keep feeling:

Something is changing.

My own astrology echoes some of this. With so much Gemini in my chart, curiosity, communication, learning and reinvention have always been part of me.

But I’m realizing reinvention isn’t always about becoming someone new.

Sometimes it’s about returning to yourself.

Taking off identities you’ve outgrown.
Listening to your own voice again.
Making peace with what didn’t work.
Keeping what did.
Trusting you don’t need to know exactly what comes next.

Maybe that’s why these words have been speaking so loudly to me:

Rest. Renew. Return.

Rest from constantly proving.
Renew what still feels alive.
Return to the parts of yourself you’ve lost along the way.

I don’t know exactly what this next chapter holds, and I’m becoming okay with that.

Here’s to whatever this season is asking us to release, and whatever is waiting on the other side. 🔥

What is this season asking you to let go of, become, or return to?

08/28/2026

Beautiful night for a sound bath! Pisces Full Moon Eclipse Energy is still very much alive!!!

08/16/2026

It’s time to exhale.

08/14/2026

There’s something magical about an evening at Iris Aisle. 🌾✨

Join Melodie Rose of Grateful Life Wellness on September 2 from 6:30–8:00 PM for an evening of gentle breath, meditation, beautiful music, and quiet introspection.

Surrounded by wildflowers, towering pines, birdsong, and the rolling Iowa countryside, we’ll settle in as the sun pours through the stained-glass windows that casts warm amber light across the space while the cool evening breeze moves through.

Come exactly as you are. Slow down. Breathe deeply. Listen inward. Exhale.

September 2 | 6:30–8:00 PM
Iris Aisle • Winterset, Iowa

08/04/2026

I’ve been thinking about my light, how much it has been dimmed to make others comfortable, how much I have dimmed it with negative self talk, or the words and actions that have pierced it, or taken from it. With the last full moon I was shown how to bring back the pieces of me-through visualization, but also action. That action is the act of rebellion against the stories I have told myself about how hard it is to create art, or how my work isn’t good enough when I compare it to others-I am taking back pieces of myself that I shoved away, and I’m blasting through the layer of silt and ash. I am here to play, to have fun, to be whimsy and magical.

08/03/2026

August 12th | Register through my website! Can’t wait to be back in this magical space!!