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06/01/2026

06/01/2026

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06/01/2026

Wheel of Fortune - "I find stability in my calm center, accepting life's changes with grace."

“Today is the first day of the rest of your life. The past is history. The future is mysterious. Then tomorrow—this starts all over again.”

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Jera ᛃ - "Harvest" - signaling a time to reap the benefits of our hard work and enjoy the abundance we've created. If you feel like you lack blessings, Jera suggests that a breakthrough might be near, or it's a good time to reflect and appreciate what you do have (you'll be surprised by how much you can list in a gratitude journal). It also symbolizes the life cycle and the cyclical nature of the Earth. This rune cannot be reversed. Key concepts include year, conclusion, harvest, life cycle, endings and beginnings, abundance, learnings, and growth.

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05/29/2026

🙏✨ *Teyata Gate Gate Paragate Parasamgate Bodhi Soha* ✨🙏

"Thus — gone, gone, gone beyond, gone completely beyond — Awakening. So be it."

This ancient mantra from the Heart Sutra isn't just words to be spoken.

It's a *prayer* to be surrendered into.

Each repetition is an offering.
A releasing of what no longer serves.
A step across the threshold from illusion into truth.

Teyata — *Thus. It is so. Pay attention — what follows is sacred.*

Gate Gate — *Gone, gone. I am leaving behind what I thought I was.*

Paragate — *Gone beyond. I am moving past the veil.*

Parasamgate — *Gone completely beyond. I have crossed fully through.*

Bodhi — *Awakening. I arrive in clarity.*

Soha — *So be it. It is sealed.*

In the work I hold space for — Reiki, Shamanic Healing, energy work — this is exactly what we're doing together. Not fixing. Not forcing. But *moving through.*

The path isn't always comfortable.
But it is always *holy.*

If you feel called to cross a threshold of your own right now, know that support is here. Sometimes all it takes is one session to feel the shift you've been waiting for. 💫

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05/28/2026

What if everything you've ever called "love"… was actually fear wearing love's face? 😮

Stay with me here. 🙏

Buddhism makes one of the most quietly devastating distinctions in all of spiritual philosophy —

The difference between **love** and **attachment.**

And once you see it, you cannot unsee it.

💛 **Love** — *true love, Metta* — wishes wellbeing for another without needing anything in return.
It gives. It frees. It stays warm even when the outcome changes.

🔗 **Attachment** — *Upādāna* — grasps.
It needs the person to stay.
To be a certain way.
To keep making you feel safe.

Here's the line that changed everything for me:

> **Love says "I want you to be happy."**
> **Attachment says "I need you to stay so that *I* can be okay."**

One is rooted in wholeness.
The other is rooted in fear.

And the terrifying part?

**Attachment feels exactly like love.** 💔

It has warmth. Intensity. Even sacrifice.
But underneath it — if you get still enough to look — there is a grasping.
A quiet panic.
A self that is trying to survive through someone else's presence.

Buddhism maps true love into **four immeasurable qualities** called the *Brahmavihāras:*

✨ **Metta** — loving-kindness without condition
🤲 **Karuṇā** — compassion that sits with suffering rather than fixing or fleeing it
🌸 **Muditā** — the ability to genuinely celebrate another's joy without envy
🌊 **Upekkha** — equanimity; loving fully while remaining unshaken

That last one is where most of us get stuck.

Because we've been taught that *intensity* equals love.
That *need* equals depth.
That *suffering over someone* proves how much they matter.

But Buddhism says — **that's not depth. That's dependency.**

Real depth is the ability to love someone completely and still hold your own center.
To be moved by them without being controlled by them.
To grieve their absence without being destroyed by it.

There's a concept in Buddhist philosophy called the **Near Enemy** —

Every virtue has a counterfeit that looks almost identical to it.

The near enemy of love is attachment.

Not hatred. Not indifference.
**Possessive affection.** 🪤

It shows up as:
— Needing constant reassurance
— Making your peace conditional on someone else's choices
— Loving people for who you *need* them to be rather than who they actually are
— Collapsing when a relationship ends because your sense of self was inside of it

Sound familiar? 🙋

It does for most of us. Because we were never taught the difference.

And then there is *Anattā* — **the teaching of non-self.**

One of the most radical ideas in all of human philosophy.

There is no fixed, permanent "you" that loves.
And there is no fixed, permanent "them" to be loved.

Both of you are constantly changing — flowing, evolving, becoming.

Attachment tries to freeze what was *never* a frozen thing.

It tries to possess a river.

And when the river moves — as rivers do — the attachment calls it betrayal.
Calls it loss.
Calls it the end of love.

But Buddhism whispers something different:

**The river was always moving. That was always the beauty.**

So what does this actually look like in real life?

It shows up in the grief you can't release. 🕊️
In the relationship patterns you keep repeating.
In the love you give with invisible strings attached.
In the version of yourself that disappears inside of another person.
In the way you love your children so fiercely it becomes control.
In the way you seek from others what you haven't yet given yourself.

This isn't judgment. This is *recognition.*

And recognition is where everything begins.

The Buddhist path through this isn't to *stop feeling.*

It's not emotional unavailability dressed up as enlightenment.

It is something far more courageous:

**To feel everything — and grasp nothing.**

To love so completely that you no longer need the outcome to validate the love.

To be, as the Buddha described, *a lamp that gives light without needing the flame to be permanent.*

That is not coldness.

**That is the most radical, most liberating form of love that exists.** 🔥

This is the work.
Not just spiritual work.
*Soul work.*

The kind that asks you to look at every relationship in your life — including the one with yourself — and honestly ask:

**Am I loving here? Or am I clinging?**

If this landed somewhere deep in you, I'd love to hear your reflection in the comments. 👇

This is exactly the kind of inquiry we explore in healing sessions at Your Essential Practice — where ancient wisdom meets the very real, very human work of opening the heart without losing yourself in the process.

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*You were never meant to shrink yourself into someone else's need for you to stay the same.*
*You were meant to love freely.*
*And so were they.* 🙏

05/24/2026

When the world gets loud… the Tao gets quiet. 🌿

There's a passage written over 2,500 years ago that reads like it was written for this exact moment.

Tao Te Ching. Chapter 58.
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Lao Tzu saw something power has never been able to teach itself:
When systems grow heavy-handed, the people don't simply obey.
The qualities they try to suppress go underground — and multiply.
"When the government is unobtrusive, the people are pure.
When the government is prying, the people are cunning.
Good fortune follows upon disaster.
Disaster lurks within good fortune."
He wasn't being pessimistic.
He was being precise.
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Right now, many of the people I work with —
empaths, seekers, healers, quiet carriers of deep knowing —
are feeling something they can't quite name.
Not fear. Not grief. Something in between.
The specific weight of watching a world tighten around values that were never yours, while being told your softness is weakness… your stillness is laziness… your sensitivity is a liability.
The meek are not broken.
The meek are load-bearing.
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Lao Tzu also described the sage as one who is:
✦ Sharp — but does not cut
✦ Honest — but does not wound
✦ Straight — but not rigid
✦ Brilliant — but does not dazzle
That is not powerlessness.
That is mastery so refined it no longer needs to perform itself.
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Here is what I want you to hold right now:
The chaos you're witnessing isn't a sign that gentleness has lost.
It's a sign the pendulum has reached its edge.
Chapter 58 reminds us — within every disaster, fortune is already curling itself into being. Within every moment of excess, the correction is quietly assembling.
Your job, if you are one of the ones who feels this deeply?
Do not harden.
Stay legible to yourself.
Keep your inner compass calibrated when the world insists on noise.
Refuse the invitation to become small in the ways that matter — even when smallness feels like survival.
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This is the work.
Not escape. Not bypassing.
Recalibration.
Remembering who you were before the world told you your nature was the problem.
This is what we do in Reiki, in Shamanic Healing, in energy work — we return you to yourself. We clear what isn't yours. We restore what the noise tried to bury.
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If you've been feeling unmoored lately —
absorbing more than you can process —
Know this:
What you're feeling is real.
It is not weakness.
And there is a path back to your center.
That path has always been here. 🌿
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"The soft overcomes the hard.
The gentle overcomes the rigid."
— Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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05/14/2026

9 of Wands - "I draw on the strength and wisdom gained through past experience."

“You have lived a life full of trials & tribulations, but your determination has always helped you to overcome all the obstacles. Your mantra is to keep going on.“

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Eihwaz ᛇ, which means "Yew," is linked to the ash tree in Norse mythology, often associated with Yggdrasil, the Tree of Life. This rune symbolizes the cycle of life, akin to the Death card in Tarot, representing the end of an old phase and the beginning of a new one. Eihwaz also signifies divine protection, wisdom, enlightenment, and purpose, highlighting the connection between different worlds. Key themes include connection, inspiration, endurance, sacred knowledge, protection, life cycles, and divinity.

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