The Tower & The Child: The Alchemy of Letting Go

When I pulled The Tower this morning, I smiled the way you do when sometimes the cards call your soul’s bluff.

Scorpio season always brings lessons in destruction and renewal—but this year, the themes are sharper.

I’m walking through my Chiron return, a season of reckoning and rebirth, with my progressed Moon in Scorpio illuminating what must be released.

So it feels fitting to write about one of my own Tower moments—the kind that unravels everything you think you know about love, faith, and control.

As someone born with a natal complex with Pluto, I’ve known my fair share of collapse and resurrection.

But one particular initiation—the one that first cracked my heart wide open—began the day I became a foster parent.

The Call to Nurture

Over a decade ago, I answered the quiet call to foster.

But, like many things in life, you don’t realize what that commitment means until you are in the middle of it—until your heart becomes both sanctuary and battlefield.

Sometimes, fostering is simple sacred service: a temporary place of healing until a child can safely return home.

But there are also cases where your intuition whispers that returning home may not bring safety or stability.

Those are the ones that keep you awake at night—the ones that test your trust in the Divine’s plan.

My very first placement was such a case.

A bright, beautiful child whose spirit seemed to shine despite all he’d endured.

For six months, I was his entire world—and he, mine.

I took time off work to care for him full-time, channeling every ounce of love and intention into creating safety, rhythm, and warmth.

At the time, I was just beginning to practice manifestation and energy work.

Each month, I visualized his future: a home filled with laughter, security, and belonging.

I set intentions, cleared trauma, and believed I was co-creating the outcome with Spirit.

And miracles did happen.

His health improved, his joy returned, his energy radiated wholeness again.

Then came the call.

A family member—previously deemed unfit—was granted custody.

My knees buckled. The anger, grief, and disbelief came in waves.

And after the storm, only silence remained.

It was in that silence that I finally began to hear what the Divine had been whispering all along.

The Fall

That silence became my teacher.

It showed me that I had not been surrendering—I had been bargaining.

I had wrapped control in the language of faith, gripping the outcome because I was terrified of losing what I had grown to so deeply love.

It was a revelation that cut straight to my core wound:

that deep, ancient belief that safety depends on control.

That love will abandon me unless I manage every variable.

That the unknown cannot be trusted.

But true surrender is not passive.

It is an act of sacred courage—a willingness to release your timeline and trust that the Divine intelligence within all things knows more than you do.

When I finally unclenched my heart and let go, I felt something remarkable: the quiet hum of peace beneath all of the layers of pain.

It was as if the Universe exhaled through me, whispering, “Now, let Me.”

The Tower fell, but in its rubble, I found truth.

That love does not need control to be real.

That faith begins precisely where certainty ends.

That the soul’s evolution often hides inside the heartbreaks we resist most.

The Alchemy of Allowing

This is the Scorpionic art—the sacred death that precedes rebirth.

To allow is not to give up; it is to stop interfering with the Divine choreography.

When we surrender, the ego mourns what it cannot fix, but the soul begins to bloom in the dark.

That’s the paradox: our deepest transformation doesn’t come from holding on—it comes from allowing collapse to do its most sacred work.

The moment I stopped clinging to how I thought things should unfold, the energy shifted.

Grace entered.

I began to feel life moving through me rather than against me.

It was as if the Universe took my broken plans and wove them into a pattern too vast for me to initially see.

This was not loss.

It was initiation.

And through it, I was reborn into my Empress self—the mother who loves without possession, who is learning to create without demand, and who trusts the unseen cycles of death and rebirth. Breaking the generational cycles before me, and helping to heal ancestral patterning that has been carried in my lineage for far too long.

The Rebuild

From that soil of surrender, everything changed.

My intuition opened.

My spiritual gifts began to softly awaken.

My understanding of love transformed.

Looking back, I see that The Tower never came to destroy me—it came to free me.

It stripped away the illusion that I was ever in control, revealing the truth that I have always been held.

Sometimes grace wears the mask of devastation.

Sometimes love’s highest act is to let go.

And sometimes, the collapse you fear most is simply your soul rearranging itself into greater alignment.

Final Blessing

If you are standing in your own Tower moment, trembling at the edge of surrender, know this:

You are not being punished—you are being purified.

The fire is making space for what’s real.

Let it.

Because when you finally release the need to control the outcome,

you make room for miracles that were waiting for your yes all along.

Wishing you much love along your journey, now and always,

Seraph

Unraveling the Savior Shadow

Lately, life has been pulling me through a quiet reckoning.

Every lesson seems to reach down into the roots of my oldest wiring—

the places formed in childhood, where silence meant safety

and love, had to somehow, be earned.

From those early imprints grow certain shadows—

the ones that whisper, If I can just help enough, give enough, fix enough,

I’ll finally be safe. I’ll finally be loved. …I’ll finally be enough.

It’s from that shadow that I’ve sometimes held on too tightly.

Not out of malice, but out of a tenderness that doesn’t know where to land.

Out of a need to try to keep everything from unraveling.

Out of a desire to genuinely love…to help…and to encourage.

Have you ever seen someone’s light so vividly that you long for them to see it too?

You pour in your energy, your hope, your heart—

until you realize the helping has become holding.

And somewhere along the way, the holding has slipped into enabling and control.

That realization burns.

It humbles.

It dismantles the illusion that love and rescue are the same thing.

Sometimes the deepest devotion isn’t in what we do for others,

but in what we refuse to keep doing.

It’s stepping back.

Letting the Divine—not our own will—have the final say.

Surrender is not the same as indifference.

It’s trust, stripped bare.

There’s a moment in every healer’s journey

when they must learn the difference between being of service and being in saviorhood.

One honors free will.

The other quietly violates it.

I used to see surrender as weakness.

My inner achiever called it quitting. Giving up. Lowering my standards. Abandoning.

But I’m learning that true surrender is the ultimate expression of power— and of love -

the kind that doesn’t grasp, doesn’t chase, doesn’t perform.

It breathes. It allows. It honors free will and the messiness of life - and it lets life do the rearranging. And, allows Spirit to take the lead.

When we unclench our grip on how we think things should unfold,

we make space for unseen forces to move.

Sometimes that means doors close.

Sometimes it means people fall away.

But it always means truth takes the throne again.

So ask yourself:

    •    Where are you holding on to something that’s asking to be released?

    •    What outcome have you been trying to “manage” out of fear it might fall apart or disappoint you?

    •    Whose healing have you mistaken for your responsibility?

    •    When in your life did you learn these patterns? How can you help your body to re-identify safety in relationship - in a way that honors surrender and liberation?

The shadow of fixing runs deep—it’s tender, ancient, and born from love that learned to overwork. To prove. To take take responsibility for burdens that were never theirs to carry.

But there’s liberation in naming it.

There’s power in loosening its hold.

And there’s peace in remembering that your love is no less pure when you finally let go.

We don’t always rise in the light.

Sometimes, we rise in the dark-

but only when we finally stop trying to save what was never ours to carry.

With much love always, for every step of your journey,

— Seraph 🖤

Healing Conditional Worth: My Grand Cross and the Myth of Constant Motion

There was a time in my life when silence felt like death.

If I wasn’t producing, achieving, or holding everything together, an invisible dread crept in—an emptiness so dense it hummed behind my ribs.

I didn’t call it fear back then.

I called it discipline.

I called it strength.

I called it drive.

But underneath, I was terrified that if I stopped moving, I’d somehow vanish.

That my life would never achieve it’s full potential and purpose.

That’s what happens when worth is welded to motion—

when every pause feels like proof you’ve failed.

The Architecture of Pressure

I was born under a Grand Cardinal Cross—four engines firing in opposite directions.

Aries. Cancer. Libra. Capricorn.

Four voices whispering, go, do, fix, prove.

It’s cosmic ambition written into my bones.

But that geometry can turn sacred fire and leadership into self-exile.

Because that same force that builds worlds can burn its creator alive.

No one tells you that success has a heartbeat,

and sometimes it’s loud and driven enough, to drown out your own.

If you allow it.

The Hidden Transaction

But back then, I was not yet awakened. I was still operating my life on autopilot.

For decades I lived inside an unspoken contract I carried deep within: produce or disappear.

Love, safety, belonging—everything seemed to live on the other side of effort.

If I just achieved a little more, maybe I’d finally rest.

But rest never came.

Every victory dissolved into the next mountain to climb.

The applause was fleeting; and the ache I carried was always present.

That’s the poison of conditional worth:

it never lets you arrive.

The Moment the Engine Stalled

Burnout didn’t crash in—it eroded me.

It took years.

But, little by little, the drive that had once made me unstoppable became a kind of gravity well.

Until one day, I woke up and couldn’t fake ignition any longer.

The silence was brutal.

It stripped me of every identity that had ever earned me approval.

No titles, no output, no accolades—just me.

No more distractions that had allowed me to hide from myself all those years.

And I didn’t know how to meet her.

Stillness wasn’t peace yet; at that moment, it felt like exposure.

It was foreign, raw, and incredibly uncomfortable.

But exposure is sometimes the exact crossroad where transformation begins.

The Descent

At first, the deafening quiet felt like failure.

But then it became my mirror.

I saw the child who learned far too early that love was safer when she was useful and performing.

I saw the woman who mistook motion for meaning, worth, and identity.

I saw how praise became the drug, and productivity the needle.

I saw with sober realization all the years that I had been feeding my worth to the fire just to keep it burning and alive.

Only to ignore my own inner growth.

So I let it die.

Not instantly.

Certainly not without futile attempts to negotiate, bargain, and plead.

But in my own way and timing, through my own reckoning with truth and self.

And in the ashes, I found something I’d never recognized—

a pulse that didn’t depend on achievement.

The unearthing of a well that has grown into a source of my deepest joy, purpose, and fulfillment.

Reclaiming the Body

Healing came slowly, through my body first.

Learning to breathe without measuring the inhale. Without any witness, applause, or measurement mark.

I allowed myself to finally just be.

Letting a day pass without proof of progress.

Letting myself fully feel the twitch of guilt and choosing to stay anyway.

Worth became a practice of presence.

And presence became a daily benchmark of choosing to stay and not dissociate, even when it hurt and was uncomfortable.

The Grand Cross still hums in me—

but now its momentum moves through muscle, not anxiety.

It creates art, not panic.

It builds from an internal well of devotion, and not depletion.

And I intentionally choose when and how to engage and direct it.

Integration

My chart hasn’t changed, but my relationship to it has.

The Cross that once chained me to motion now fuels sacred creation.

I no longer chase worth—I remember it.

When I rest, nothing collapses.

When I’m silent, I’m still here.

When I move, it’s for joy, not survival.

This is what it means to alchemize a pattern:

to turn the same energy that once consumed and dominated you

into the fire that illuminates your path.

And supports and allows you to radiate in your alignment.

“My stillness is not the absence of power.

It is the moment I return to myself.”

Reflection Practice

If you’re walking this same path, these reflections may help you listen more deeply to your own rhythm.

    1.    Where does motion become a shield in my life?

    2.    What am I afraid will surface if I stop performing?

    3.    What part of me still confuses exhaustion with devotion?

    4.    How can I let fire become warmth instead of proof?

May the ones who have carried far too heavy burdens on their backs finally set them down.

May the builders remember they were always born whole.

And may every Grand Cross heart learn that its worth was never forged in the doing—

it was carved in the stillness before the first spark.

May your journey to fullness, sovereignty, and deep, authentic joy always lead you home.

With much love, always,

Seraph

The Hidden War of Perception: Glamour, Control Tactics, and the Alchemy of Awareness

A Sovereign Path Series Epilogue- Truth Beyond the Veil: Electronic & Energetic Manipulation

If someone had told me a year ago that energy could be used to distort communication or even interfere with how information is received online, I would have smiled politely and changed the subject. The idea seemed too far-fetched—more myth than possibility. I believed in energy healing, intuition, synchronicity—but the notion that anyone could consciously manipulate those same energetic currents to control outcomes? Or somehow apply those skills to electronic communication portals? That felt outside my reality.

Yet reality has a way of stretching you when you walk a spiritual path.

Recently, I found myself in the middle of what can only be described as a form of spiritual warfare—an initiation I never asked for, yet one that reshaped everything I thought I knew about energy, perception, relationship dynamics, and power. It began with subtle ripples: messages that failed to send at crucial moments, online posts that seemed to stall or vanish, psychic readings and tarot pulls that felt strangely “off,” as if the current of truth itself had been rerouted. At first I blamed algorithms, timing, coincidence. But patterns kept repeating, and my intuition kept whispering: this isn’t random.

Through a winding path to clarity, I began to understand that I was witnessing the deliberate use of energetic manipulation—a combination of black magick (the willful bending of energy to override another’s will) and glamour magick (the veiling of perception through illusion). The intent wasn’t curiosity or experimentation; it was control—the need to dominate outcomes, to attempt to hold power over truth itself.

Realizing this was disorienting at first. But beneath the shock, something steadier rose: conviction.

Because when you are sovereign—in mind, body, and spirit—the concept of coercing another person’s energy is not only foreign; it is deeply repellent and unsettling. It violates the natural law of freedom and the sacred right of choice that every soul carries. My work, my heart, and this space I am trying to build, are rooted in the opposite current: liberation, empowerment, and truth.

So I choose to write about it—not to sensationalize, or in any way induce fear or doubt, but to illuminate. To shine a light on a topic that isn’t often discussed but needs to be, as it is all around us.

Because awareness breaks spells. And truth dissolves illusion. And once you see how these patterns of control operate, you can no longer be unconsciously bound by them.

This post is both a reflection and a declaration: that sovereignty is non-negotiable, and that light, once awakened, can never be dimmed.

What I didn’t realize at first is that none of this is new. Humanity has always wrestled with the unseen—different languages for the same truth. Every culture has its stories of energy used for healing and for harm, of perception bent through intention, of power seeking to shape reality. The names change—glamour, binding, evil eye, psychic attack, manipulation—but the pattern remains. When energy is used to control rather than connect, the current turns shadowed. And that shadow is what we must learn to recognize and transform.

The Larger Landscape

Across cultures and centuries, mystics have described unseen forces that shape perception:

    •    Glamour in Celtic lore—fae enchantments that made a thing appear fairer or invisible.

    •    Bindings and curses in magick—acts meant to silence or restrict.

    •    The Evil Eye in Mediterranean tradition—the gaze that drains vitality.

    •    Mass persuasion in psychology and media—the manipulation of collective attention.

Different language, same principle: energy, emotion, and intention can influence how reality is perceived.

When wielded responsibly, these currents can heal or inspire.  When twisted toward control, they become the shadow we call black magick.

Understanding Black Magick

In esoteric study, black magick isn’t about darkness or aesthetic—it’s about coercion.

It is any energetic or ritual attempt to intentionally override another’s free will.

Rather than aligning with cosmic flow, it tries to bend it. And in doing so, it inverts and distorts spiritual law.

Common patterns include:

    •    Projecting emotion and will to confuse or silence.

    •    Binding a person’s symbols—name, image, website—to block communication.

    •    Seeding fear or self-doubt so the person restrains themselves.

In every case it operates through fear or illusion. So, for example, distorting energy through your worry that a warning post you are making won’t be seen or received instead of grounding and sending it out calmly - knowing that it will be received in perfect timing, just as you intended.

Even among practitioners, this path is known to backfire.  Manipulating another’s sovereignty traps the manipulator in the same web of distortion they cast.

Energy, Emotion, and the Digital Mirror

Many sensitives notice that energy and technology interact strangely.

From a grounded view, our emotional and electromagnetic states influence how we engage with technology, not its circuits.

When we’re anxious or charged, timing glitches, uploads stall, and focus slips; when we’re calm, everything flows.

Energetically, we say the current is clear; psychologically, we call it coherence.

Either way, our internal state becomes the interface between vibration and machine. It is through this energetic space that manipulation and distortion can be willfully injected.

How Glamour Magick Operates

Glamour is the art of perception management.

Rather than attacking, it re-colors attention. In other words, it alters, or manipulates how you view something.

It can manifest as:

    •    Others overlooking what’s right in front of them.

    •    A fog of indifference around something normally magnetic.

    •    Emotional confusion that blunts discernment.

Glamour doesn’t rewrite truth; it veils it—like mist over a mirror.

Its fuel is consent through doubt.  The moment we reclaim certainty - the moment we speak the truth, the illusion collapses.

Recognizing Energetic Interference

These patterns don’t prove external manipulation, but they signal when awareness is needed:

    1.    Repeated glitches or blocks when expressing truth (ie. you try to send a text or publish a post with multiple errors out of the blue and no internet instability).

    2.    Sudden exhaustion or throat tightness before communication.

    3.    People misinterpreting clear words.

    4.    Feeling unseen or energetically muffled online or in person.

Recognize and use these as a reminder to ground, clear, and reaffirm your intentions before posting and communicating.

De-Glamouring: Returning to Clarity

Remember that TRUTH breaks the illusion - always.

1. Name the distortion.  “This is fog, not fact.”

2. Ground into the body.  Breath, spine, feet, earth—embodied, grounded presence breaks enchantment.

3. Reassert sovereignty.  “Only truth moves through my words.”

4. Clear emotion.  Cry, move, write—release static before you speak again.

5. Repost or restate.  Action from coherence re-aligns energy.

6. Seek witness.  Shared truth multiplies light; transparency helps to dispel illusion.

Truth is frequency.  When you broadcast from grounded, embodied truth and coherence, distortion cannot sustain itself.

Remind yourself that low vibration cannot touch high vibrational energy. Do not allow yourself to slip into low vibrations of fear, worry, anger, or frustration.

Connect to ether. Spirit expands, balances, and clears. When we slip into lower vibrational energy or try to control, we constrict and destabilize.

The Lesson

Scorpio teaches mastery through exposure: nothing healed stays hidden.

By facing manipulation head on - rather than fearing it, you transmute it.

Control loses power when it is met with consciousness.

Truth is not fragile—it is alchemical fire. And it can literally dissolve illusion instantaneously.

There are many ways electronics, communication, and energetic fields can be influenced.  Two of the most common—and least discussed—are black magick and glamour magick.  Until recently, I was unaware that these tactics existed within the spiritual or digital space.  But I can tell you first-hand that they do—and that in the hands of a skilled energetic practitioner, they can be unsettlingly effective. But, only temporarily - because while black magick may be effective short term, it can never sustain itself longterm. And that is exactly why it should never be feared.

Why would someone do this?  The motive is almost always control.  And you don’t seek to control another person unless fear is sitting at the root.  Fear of loss.  Fear of exposure.  Fear born of envy or greed.  In this case, perhaps all of the above.

For those who walk a sovereign path—aligned in mind, body, and spirit—the idea of coercing another’s will without consent is deeply disturbing.  It violates the very current of liberation, justice, and empowerment that defines spiritual integrity.  I cheer for the freedom and ascension of others, and in my small corner of the world I’m choosing to shine light on this subject—to speak truth where illusion thrives in silence.

Because once awareness enters the room, the spell is already breaking.  Seeing through distortion strips it of power, and every trial becomes a teacher.  Each encounter reveals wisdom about energy, discernment, and the unshakable nature of truth.

So the next time something feels “off”—that post that took far too long to upload, the warning message that arrived strangely late, the potent social post that seemed invisible, the reading that felt misaligned—pause and consider whether energetic interference might be at play.  Then bring it into the light.

Distortion and illusion cannot survive exposure to truth.  And, as the old saying reminds us, the truth really does set you free.

Wishing you clarity that dissolves distortion—and truth that shatters illusion and binding,

Seraph

xoxo

The Alchemy of Closing Karmic Loops

Epilogue to the Sovereign Path Series

While I once questioned whether I believed in karma, I now know that I do. This past year brought a startling lesson- soul-defining, resonant, and deeply clarifying. I don’t see karma as punishment, but as a mirror of our choices and free will, paired with the essential lessons our soul still longs to master. These lessons often rise like old, familiar patterns resurfacing, asking us to respond differently this time- to see with new eyes and choose with greater truth. It sounds straightforward, but in practice can be profoundly painful.

And on this path, there comes a point when the illusion cracks. The mask falls. The strings that once pulled you become visible. And in that raw moment, you realize you’ve been locked in a cycle—not because you weren’t strong enough, but because you hadn’t yet seen clearly enough. Sometimes the karmic echo is loud, other times it slips in through dreams or subtle triggers. You may not know whether it’s the first encounter or the twentieth, but something in you recognizes the resonance: I’ve danced with this energy before. The question is- will it play out again, or will you finally close this loop?

Karmic loops are not punishments. They are classrooms. They replay lessons until you embody the truth—until you let go of ego and illusion and stand with total honesty, surrender, and humility. They circle back until you stop trying to control the outcome, rationalize the illusion, or avoid the truth- and until you finally choose yourself, and most importantly, until you finally choose the truth.

The Hidden Hooks of Karma

Karmic entanglements thrive on hooks—attachments, fears, obligations, old wounds that keep us chained to people, patterns, or power struggles. They whisper that you have to fight, prove, or win. But every time you grasp tighter, you lose a little more of yourself.

The real enemy isn’t the person or the circumstance. It’s the bondage itself.

Detachment as Sacred Rebellion

Detachment doesn’t mean numbness or cold withdrawal. It means choosing to carry your own essence lightly. It’s the quiet power of walking out of the cage without defending, explaining, or dragging anyone with you. It’s refusing to let the same loop drain your energy one more time.

Detachment is how you shift from pawn to sovereign. It is the soul saying: I don’t need to win this fight—I already won by leaving it behind.

Forgiveness as Liberation

Forgiveness is not for them. It is for you.

It is the sword that severs the cord. It’s not about excusing harm or pretending betrayal didn’t happen. It’s about saying: I refuse to keep bleeding from this wound.

When you forgive at the soul level, you release the karmic charge. The loop collapses. The energy you were leaking returns to your body, your creativity, your future.

Forgiveness doesn’t mean reconciliation. It means sovereignty. It means freedom.

And yes - this step is painfully hard. But it is also utterly necessary. Because when you finally release the emotional entanglement, what rises in its place is nothing short of alchemy. The freedom you feel is purifying, empowering, and absolute.

The Threshold Moment

There always comes a threshold moment. You know it when it arrives because the weight of the old story no longer fits inside your body. You’ve fought, endured, explained, and tried every angle—and still the loop brings no peace. The ending carves itself into your bones until denial and avoidance are no longer possible.

This is the moment where the past can no longer be resurrected. The door is sealed. You cannot go back. And if you’re honest with yourself, you don’t actually want to. Because what waits behind you is only repetition—another round of exhaustion, another cycle of proving, another version of the same pain dressed in different clothing.

The wisdom is not behind you. It is in the crossing.

It is in choosing to step forward with scars that testify to your endurance, eyes clear enough to see illusion for what it was, and a heart that no longer consents to chains.

Threshold moments demand surrender. They demand honesty with yourself so complete that ego no longer has space to hide. They require humility—the courage to admit when something is truly done. And they invite you into sovereignty: the radical act of closing the book and walking into the unknown, trusting that life on the other side will honor your choice to be free.

Karmic Loops as Soul Work

Here’s the profound paradox: the very loops we resist most fiercely are often the ones our soul came here to master.

These repeating patterns—whether in love, family, friendship, work, teacher dynamics, or even in our own inner battles—aren’t accidents. They are invitations. They are the curriculum of your life.

The deeper the hook, the greater the lesson. The heavier the repetition, the more profound the breakthrough waiting on the other side. These loops aren’t here to punish you—they are here to grow you. They are here to free you. They are the forge where your character, compassion, and sovereignty are tested and strengthened- and you emerge empowered in ways you hadn’t imagined or hoped for.

The Brutal Grace of Forgiveness

Let’s be honest: forgiveness is not easy. Especially when you’ve been betrayed, abandoned, taken advantage of, or deeply wounded. It feels unjust to release what has scarred you. Your ego wants repayment. Your body remembers the pain. Your soul sees the grave injustice.

And yet—without forgiveness, the loop continues. You stay bound to the very thing that harmed you. The wound festers, the story repeats, and new cycles form on top of the old ones.

Forgiveness doesn’t mean you condone the harm. It doesn’t mean you let the person back in. It doesn’t mean you minimize what you went through. Forgiveness is the final act of sovereignty: I choose not to be entangled with this anymore. I choose to free myself.

It is both the hardest work and the most vital. Forgiveness collapses karma. Forgiveness ends the contract. Forgiveness returns your soul to itself. And it truly breaks the cycle- you fully release the karmic loop and pattern on your end.

The Alchemy of Karmic Closure

    •    Clarity → See the illusion for what it is. You address the avoidance, the over-rationalizing, and the denial.

    •    Detachment → Stop feeding the loop with your energy.

    •    Forgiveness → Cut the cord at its root and release the emotional entanglement, or you will carry this forward into your future.

    •    Forward Motion → Claim your freedom and move into creation, sovereignty, and empowerment.

This is not theory. This is soul work. And it is the very work your ancestors whisper for you to embody, because every loop you close in your life sends ripples back through the lineage.

Reflections for Your Threshold

    •    What am I still trying to resurrect that is already finished?

    •    Where am I pretending I still can’t see the truth?

    •    What new life might be waiting for me if I finally step across the threshold?

    •    What lesson is begging me to listen and be mastered?

A Simple Detachment + Forgiveness Ritual

    1.    Write down the loop you are ready to close—name the person, pattern, or story.

    2.    Speak this aloud: “I release you. I forgive you. I forgive myself. This loop is now fully complete.”

    3.    Burn or tear the paper, visualizing the energy cords dissolving into light.

    4.    Place your hands on your heart and affirm: “I walk forward free, sovereign, and whole. This lesson I take with me in full and I release every attachment to the rest.”

The Crown of Sovereignty

Every karmic loop asks the same essential question: Will you keep circling, or will you rise?

Closing a loop is not weakness—it is wisdom. It is the moment you finally see that the fight was never about winning; it was about awakening. It was about finding the courage to detach, the humility to surrender, and the strength to forgive so fully that the hook dissolves into dust.

This is the crown of sovereignty: to walk forward unchained, no longer defined by what broke you, but empowered by what freed you.

Your ancestors are watching. They know the weight of what you carry. And they are whispering now: “You are the one. End it here. Close the loop. The future will be different because you had the courage to choose truth.”

Karma is not here to punish you. It is here to wake you. The loops that once felt endless and unbearably heavy are not meant to define you, but to refine you. They repeat until you see clearly- until you stand in humility and surrender, until you choose truth over illusion, avoidance, or denial. Until you choose sovereignty over bondage. Until you choose yourself over inaction, over the false safety of uncertainty, over the facade of comfort.

Closing the loop is the most courageous act you can take. It asks for your honesty, your detachment, your humility, and your forgiveness—even when it feels impossibly hard. But this is how cycles end. This is how the future shifts. This is how you step into the life that has been waiting for you all along.

✨ The question now is simple, and it is yours alone to answer: Will you circle again, or will you rise?

Walk through the threshold. Claim your freedom. Step into the empowered life ahead that has been waiting for you- not just in this lifetime, but beyond countless lifetimes before.

The Archetype of the Fool: The Sacred Leap Into Your Soul’s Evolution

The Fool is card 0—a circle, both empty and infinite. He is the place where endings collapse into beginnings, where innocence and mastery meet.

In early tarot decks, there were actually two Fools—one at the beginning and one at the end of the Major Arcana. From them came the Jokers in modern playing cards—wild cards that exist outside the rules. The Fool reminds us that your soul’s path is not about playing by the rules—it’s about learning to trust the flow of Spirit.

Lessons of the Fool:

    •    Trust the unknown. The path is revealed one step at a time.

    •    Travel light. Freedom arrives when we let go of baggage and control.

    •    Begin again. Every ending is an invitation to rebirth.

    •    Sacred risk. Growth and transformation live at the edge, not in the comfort zone.

    •    Feminine flow. The Fool doesn’t force or strategize—he aligns, responds, and allows life to carry him.

Shadows: Where the Fool Can Trip Us Up

    •    Recklessness - mistaking chaos for freedom.

    •    Escaping responsibility under the guise of “freedom”. Avoidance through the costume of adventure.

    •    Becoming jaded; losing innocence to cynicism after wounds.

    •    Insecurity; being mocked, misunderstood, or dismissed by a world that fears surrender.

The Fool’s challenge is to stay aligned—moving in trust with Spirit, not in avoidance. Holding on to wonder without losing discernment. Staying open-hearted, even after we’ve been hurt.

The Fool’s Gifts

    •    Creative genius: Infinite possibility springs from nothingness. Alignment with your life path and trusting the flow of opportunity often sparks genius and magical synchronicities.

    •    Magnetism: Authentic joy naturally attracts people and opportunities.

    •    Resilience: Every stumble becomes sacred wisdom.

    •    Beginner’s mind: The courage to reinvent yourself again and again.

    •    Detachment: When we release attachment to outcomes, we live in Spirit’s flow—and miracles enter with ease.

Perhaps the greatest gift: The Fool never forgets that life is meant to be lived, not controlled.

The Fool Across Wisdom Systems

The Fool shows up across countless wisdom traditions, each revealing a different facet of his medicine. Here are just a few examples of how this archetype appears.

    •    Gene Keys: The Fool mirrors the transformation from shadow into gift. For instance, the “shadow” of the Gene Key of Purposelessness often feels like wandering without direction—yet this is the very soil in which the gift of Totality (living fully engaged and present in life) is born. Think of someone leaving a career that no longer fits, feeling “lost” - only to discover that in letting go, a deeper calling emerges. In other keys, innocence matures into universal love, echoing the Fool’s unguarded, trusting heart.

    •    Human Design: The Fool embodies the Generator’s sacred response—waiting to engage with what life offers and invites rather than forcing outcomes. As this is often when the magic unfolds. Picture this: a casual “yes” to an unexpected conversation leads to a profound relationship or opportunity. This is the Fool’s magic—life opening when we are aligned with Spirit’s invitations.

    •    Astrology: The Fool channels Uranus’s liberation and sudden disruption, Neptune’s dreamy innocence, and Sagittarius/9th House’s quest for truth. Think of a Uranus transit that upends your life—painful in the moment, yet later revealing itself as the crack through which your soul light poured forth and you began to live more authentically. Whenever these archetypes light up in your chart, you are being invited to leap into your next evolution.

The Fool is the archetype that bridge all systems: he is the risk of not knowing, and the reward of discovering. In every system, the Fool teaches the same thing: alignment with Spirit’s flow is not passive—it is the most courageous act of surrender. And often, when the most beautiful magic begins to unfold.

How the Fool Unlocks Growth

    •    Creativity awakens when perfectionism dissolves.

The Fool doesn’t wait for perfect conditions—he creates as he goes. Start messy, respond to the moment, and you’ll find inspiration pouring through you. Creativity is the child of trust, not control.

    •    Fear transforms when failure becomes initiation.

The Fool knows there is no such thing as wasted experience. Every wrong turn, every fall, becomes compost for wisdom. When we shift from “I failed” to “I learned,” we alchemize fear into growth. Fear dissolves when failure becomes a sacred teacher instead of a punishment.

    •    Faith strengthens when you discover the net always appears.

The net isn’t visible until you leap. But think back—every time you dared to risk (love, relocation, new work, new path), wasn’t there always something that caught you? Spirit always meets us mid-air. The Fool shows us that life is not here to punish us, but to hold us as we risk becoming more.

    •    Joy heals because play is sacred medicine.

Play reopens the heart. It quiets the inner critic and invites the nervous system back into regulation. Joy is not frivolous—it is a spiritual practice, a feminine flow state that magnetizes abundance.

    •    Evolution accelerates when you release attachment.

This is perhaps the Fool’s deepest teaching. We cannot cling to outcomes and still walk in Spirit’s flow. Detachment does not mean apathy—it means trusting that what falls away was never meant to stay, and what is aligned will arrive in perfect timing. At some point we stop waiting to be ready, and just take the leap. And, in releasing control, we step into flow—and flow always carries us where we are meant to go.

Practices to Embody the Fool

Reflections:

    •    Where am I hesitating to leap without certainty?

    •    What identity or outcome am I clinging to that Spirit is asking me to release?

    •    How might my life expand if I chose trust and flow instead of control?

    •    How can I invite more presence into my day today?

Embodiment Practice

Dance barefoot outdoors—no choreography, no music, just the rhythm of your body. This is Fool energy: moving in presence, free from the mind’s judgment, carried only by Spirit. Embrace freedom, connection, and spontaneity in your body today in some form or way - be fully present in that moment and allow yourself to connect.

Simple Ritual Idea:

    •    Choose a talisman (stone, feather, flower).

    •    Place it on your altar as your Fool’s Charm.

    •    Each day, hold it and ask: Spirit, where are you inviting me to trust today?

    •    Affirm: “I release attachment. I leap into the flow of life, and life always catches me.”

The Fool is not foolish. He is the sacred wanderer who knows that the map is written only as we walk it. He is not here to make sense to the world. He is here to make sense of the soul. He walks between beginnings and endings, laughing at the illusion of control, showing us that alignment with Spirit is the only true safety.

To embody the Fool is to live unattached, yet deeply engaged and present. To let go of the script, yet meet each moment with your whole heart. This is where freedom lives - not in certainty, but in trust.

The Fool whispers: You cannot cling and fly and fly at the same time.

He is the bridge between masculine planning and feminine surrender, showing us that the flow of Spirit is not weakness, but the highest form of wisdom.

When you live in this flow, you discover the secret paradox:

You were never falling. You were always being carried.

Solar Eclipse in Virgo: The Alchemy of Truth, Healing, and Sovereignty

“When the lights go out, truth is revealed in the shadows.”

This is the essence of eclipses, and this one will be no exception. By their very nature, eclipses alter light — the Sun or Moon is temporarily obscured, shifting the way we see from Earth. Symbolically, when light is blocked, consciousness is too. What rises instead are the contents of the subconscious: hidden truths, unresolved patterns, and fated turning points. Eclipses reshape storylines and timelines, ushering in endings and beginnings with an often-Uranian jolt. Secrets surface, surprises unfold, and the unexpected accelerates. And because eclipses only occur when the luminaries align with the lunar nodes, they are inherently karmic — stirring soul contracts, ancestral echoes, and the work we came here to do.

On September 21st, the Solar Eclipse in Virgo opens a threshold unlike any other — one that demands clarity, purification, and integrity. Eclipses are cosmic resets, portals of fate, and this one in Virgo carries a precision-cutting blade. It will illuminate what is broken, toxic, or distorted - not to punish us, but to strip away illusion so we can rise more sovereign in truth and authenticity.

But there’s tension. This eclipse opposes Saturn retrograde in Pisces — the archetype of karmic lessons, boundaries, and the weight of spiritual responsibility. Where have we surrendered to confusion, denial, or fantasy? Where have we avoided responsibility by drifting or numbing instead of stepping into embodiment? Saturn is calling us back into alignment. And he does not always call nicely. We can expect to have some somber element of maturity here - and if we embrace it, Saturn often rewards in wisdom and maturity later.

But, there is also a glimmer of grace in the mix, as the great Benefic of wisdom, teaching, and prosperity, Jupiter is in supportive alignment. Jupiter in Cancer sextiles this eclipse, reminding us that healing is not just about discipline, but also, nourishment. The path forward is not sterile perfection, but fertile compassion. Jupiter reminds us that expansion is possible if we also root ourselves in care.

Deeper Currents: Neptune, Mercury, Venus, and the Equinox

Adding to the potency, Neptune retrograde at 0° Aries — the creation point of the zodiac — also opposes this eclipse. Neptune here asks us to take a hard look in the mirror and dissolve the falsehoods, illusions, and limiting beliefs that keep us from stepping fully into our power. This is a moment to release spiritual bypassing and embrace clarity, even when it stings.

Meanwhile, Mercury in Libra and Venus in Virgo are in mutual reception, strengthening one another. Together they weave a call to balance: harmony with order, relationship with routine, and the head with the heart. They remind us that sovereignty is not about rigidity or isolation, but about holding sacred equilibrium in our lives.

The Fall Equinox arrives just hours later, echoing this message of balance. As light and dark find equality on Earth, we are asked to seek compromise, peace, and restoration in our own lives. The timing is exquisite — an eclipse reset, followed by an equinox rebirth.

Virgo’s Razor: Cutting Away Illusion

Virgo is the sign of purification, discernment, ritual, forgiveness, and embodied truth. This eclipse is not about lofty spiritual ideals that dissolve into nothingness — it’s about boots on the ground. And it asks us to get real with ourselves and examine our lives:

    •    Where in your daily life are you out of alignment with your soul?

    •    What details are you neglecting that are costing you vitality?

    •    Which commitments drain your sovereignty instead of strengthening it?

This eclipse is a sacred audit. Not to shame, but to free you.

Saturn Retrograde in Pisces: Karma, Boundaries, and the Cost of Avoidance

The opposition to Saturn retrograde in Pisces drags unconscious patterns to the surface. You may feel the weight of karma now — the ancestral and personal contracts that echo through your choices. Saturn reminds us that while life can feel overwhelming, we still hold sovereignty over what we choose each day: our habits, our health, our service, and the energy we give or withhold.

Saturn calls us to focus, simplify, and release the unnecessary weight we’ve been carrying — physically, emotionally, and spiritually.

    •    If you’ve been avoiding self-love, Saturn will show you the cost.

    •    If you’ve been hiding in illusion, Saturn will crack the mirror.

    •    If you’ve been carrying others’ burdens, Saturn will reveal where boundaries must be drawn.

This is not punishment — it is initiation. Saturn teaches through resistance. What feels heavy now is what roots you into truth later, breaking down illusion so you can grow beyond your own limitations and step into sovereignty.

Jupiter in Cancer: Hope, Healing, and the Return of Nurture

Amidst the stripping down, Jupiter in Cancer offers nourishment. It says: You are not meant to heal through discipline and restraint alone. Healing comes through tenderness, family, belonging, and ancestral wisdom.

Jupiter sextiling the eclipse is like a hand reaching out in the dark — reminding you that growth is possible, and that compassion is the soil where true change takes root.

Ask yourself:

    •    What feeds my spirit?

    •    What rituals or practices restore me?

    •    What relationships remind me I am worthy of love and expansion?

Scorpionic Depth: Why This Eclipse Matters

Eclipses are fated turning points. In Virgo, the spotlight is on:

    •    Health and vitality (your body as temple).

    •    Sovereignty over your energy field.

    •    Discerning truth from distortion.

    •    Rituals that heal, not numb or allow for escape.

This eclipse is not about surface-level “self-care.” It’s about ruthless honesty and reclamation of power. In true Scorpionic fashion, it’s about cutting ties with what poisons you — be it toxic patterns, relationships, beliefs, or illusions — so that what remains is real, sovereign, and indestructible. Virgo is encouraging you to step into sacred growth.

Reflections for the Virgo Eclipse

    •    What old story of perfectionism or “not enough” am I ready to release with love?

    •    What spiritual practice or ritual helps me stay grounded when the details of life feel overwhelming?

    •    Where have I been carrying weight that isn’t mine, and how can I lovingly set it down?

    •    What illusion or falsehood am I ready to dissolve so I can see myself more clearly?

    •    How can I bring more harmony into my daily routines, balancing service with self-love?

    •    What does sovereignty mean to me right now — and where am I being called to reclaim it?

    •    If I were to choose clarity over comfort, what truth would I finally honor?

This Solar Eclipse in Virgo is not gentle — but it is sacred. It is the kind of medicine that stings before it heals. Saturn in Pisces reminds us that illusions cost us more than truth ever will. Neptune in Aries reminds us that clarity is freedom. Jupiter in Cancer reminds us that healing is always possible when rooted in love. And the Equinox reminds us that balance is both the path and the promise.

Your ancestors stand with you at this threshold. They want you to remember: to choose clarity over comfort, sovereignty over silence, and healing over illusion.

When the lights return after this eclipse, you will not be the same. You will be clearer, freer, and closer to the truth of who you are.

Astrology for Joy & Peace: How Your Chart Can Help You Thrive in a Chaotic World

We live in an age of speed. News cycles, inboxes, and to-do lists that seem to never end. Add children, work, hobbies, house and yard maintenance, and any type of extracurricular activities and obligations, and it just doesn’t seem like there are ever enough hours in the day.

Your astrology chart holds the keys that can point you towards inviting more joy, peace, and presence. It’s not about escaping chaos, but learning how to navigate it with wisdom and meaning. And, learning how to invite more balance into your life.

Your chart is like a personal guidebook: it shows you where to rest, where to play, and how to come home to yourself.

The Moon: Your Emotional Anchor

Your Moon describes what nourishes your nervous system. When life feels chaotic, tending your Moon is like taking a long exhale.

Examples:

    •    An Aries Moon might find peace in a quick jog, catching a comedy show, or dancing in the kitchen.

    •    A Taurus Moon may feel restored by baking bread, drinking tea, tending a garden, or taking a long bath.

    •    A Gemini Moon might calm their mind by journaling, joining a book club, or having a playful chat with a friend.

    •    A Pisces Moon may need to put on music, cry, and let the emotions wash through. Or they may find sitting near the beach or joining a sound bath session becomes their favorite new destressing jam.

Tip: Next time you feel scattered, do one simple activity for your Moon sign. Notice how quickly your system resets.

The Rising Sign: Daily Alignment Practices

Your Rising Sign is the doorway you walk through each day. When honored, it makes life feel smoother and less resistant.

Examples:

    •    Leo Rising: Wear bold colors, try adding solar or sun salutations to your morning routine, tap into an inner child activity that brings you joy, give a genuine compliment to someone each day. Joy comes when you shine, light others up, and connect with your inner creative genius.

    •    Virgo Rising: Create a 10-minute morning ritual—make your bed, light a candle, write a to-do list. Order = peace. You could also try barefoot meditation outdoors, gardening, or joining a productivity or organizing app such as Finch.

    •    Capricorn Rising: Keep a weekly planner. List your top 3 must dos each morning. Morning yoga, boundaries with tech (protect your focus), evening reflection in which you write one sentence on how you honored your long term goals. Even small goals achieved bring a sense of calm progress to your Earth moon.

    •    Pisces Rising: Begin your day with meditation or prayer. Quiet mornings ripple into calmer days. Dream journaling, one small act of kindness daily, energetic maintenance, walks in nature.

Venus: Your Joy Frequency

Venus shows where you find sweetness and delight. Stress melts when you connect with your Venus.

Examples:

    •    Venus in Sagittarius → plan a spontaneous day trip, take a new class that lights you up, or read an inspiring book.

    •    Venus in Libra → rearrange your home, add some favorite flowers, or go to an art exhibit.

    •    Venus in Cancer → host a cozy dinner, cuddle, make a favorite family recipe.

    •    Venus in Capricorn → invest in a quality item that makes life feel elegant and stable. Take a structured creativity class - pottery, weaving, woodworking - something that produces something tangible.

Venus reminds us: joy doesn’t have to be big—it can be woven into small, daily pleasures.

Ceres: Your Inner Nourishment

Ceres reveals how you give and receive care. Many of us burn out because we ignore this placement.

Examples:

    •    Ceres in Virgo: Peace through meal prep, herbal teas, or organizing your pantry.

    •    Ceres in Gemini: Nourishment through books, podcasts, coffee out with friends or bookclubs, and lively chats.

    •    Ceres in Scorpio: Recharging with energy work like reiki or breathwork, shadow work, fasting, or sacred intimacy.

    •    Ceres in Aries: Restoring energy by starting something new, even if small. Other ideas include any type of high intensity cardiovascular activity like running, kickboxing, hot yoga.

Tip: Make one Ceres-aligned activity part of your week—it becomes an anchor point you can always return to.

The 5th House: Your Playground of Joy

The 5th house shows where your inner child lives. It’s the antidote to overwork and stress.

Examples:

    •    5th house in Aquarius → learning something new (like astrology!), community theater, stargazing, escape room meetup with friends, etc.

    •    5th house in Cancer → scrapbooking, cooking with kids, revisit a favorite childhood game or host a family game night with friends.

    •    5th house in Leo → painting, performing, catch a comedy night show, or even just singing loudly in the car.

    •    5th house in Taurus → nature walks, chocolate or wine tasting, picnics, investing games, any new tactile class or hobby - flower arranging, knitting, sculpting or painting, pampering spa day, etc.

The 5th house teaches that joy isn’t a luxury. It’s medicine.

The IC: Rooted Peace

Your IC is your private sanctuary—the inner home you carry with you.

Examples:

    •    IC in Sagittarius → joy in travel, storytelling, taking new classes, or decorating with global treasures.

    •    IC in Capricorn → peace through family traditions, financial or long term goal planning, or creating stability at home.

    •    IC in Gemini → joy through bookshelves, writing nooks, trivia games, and cozy conversations.

    •    IC in Scorpio→ time alone, meditating in stillness, water baths, occult studies like tarot.

The IC whispers: “When in doubt, return to what feels like home in your bones.”

Asteroids: Subtle But Powerful Guides

While subtle, asteroids can often hit uncannily true. They add nuance to your joy & peace toolkit. Some you could layer and consider might be:

    •    Euterpe (27): Look to the house in your chart where music, art, and delight uplift you.

    •    Amor (1221): How love energy softens your life.

    •    Hygiea (10): Rituals of cleansing—like yoga, baths, or decluttering—that restore health.

    •    Vesta (4): Where tending a sacred flame (a practice, altar, or project) can help add calm focus.

    •    Psyche (16): Where your soul longs for beauty, intimacy, and gentleness.

Example: Someone with Vesta in the 6th house (the house of daily work and routine) may find peace in lighting a candle before starting their daily tasks—it’s simple, but profoundly centering. My suggestion? Try an idea or two and see if they land. If they do and its something you enjoy, its worth considering at least temporarily adding to your daily routine and evaluating in a month to see if it makes a meaningful difference.

Final Reflection

Chaos will always exist in the outer world. But your chart offers you some personalized hints of where you can look to reclaim a sense of calm, nurturing self activities, and ways to reconnect to your inner joy. There will nearly always be nuances - aspects, transits, progressions, day/night chart differences, rulers, sects, etc. - but it provides a really wonderful foundation from which you can start off with and build upon. So, in summary the key placements you may want to consider starting with would be:

    •    Moon = emotional reset

    •    Rising = daily rhythm

    •    Venus = delight

    •    Ceres = nourishment

    •    5th House = play

    •    IC = rooted peace

    •    Asteroids = subtle allies

The more you honor these placements, the less life feels like survival—and the more it feels like true, embodied living.

Next time the world feels heavy, open your chart and ask: Where is joy waiting to be invited back in? You may discover something small and simple that brings you significant more life balance.

Journal Reflections:

    •    Moon Sign: “What simple ritual always soothes me when I feel scattered?”

    •    Rising Sign: “How can I honor my rising sign tomorrow morning to set the tone for the day?”

    •    Venus: “What small pleasure can I indulge in today that will reconnect me to beauty and pleasure in life?”

    •    Ceres: “What does true nourishment look like for me right now—and am I giving it to myself?”

    •    5th House: “When was the last time I let myself play without expectation? How can I recreate that?”

    •    IC: “What does ‘home’ mean to me, and how can I bring more of that energy into my daily life?”

Breaking Chains of Spiritual Warfare: Love, Sovereignty & the Sword of Truth

Sovereign Path Series Epilogue

The Trap After Freedom

You cut the cords. You broke the tethers. For a moment you felt free. But then — the heaviness returned. You find yourself stuck, unable to move forward in the ways in which you desire, and unable to manifest the abundance and joy you know is meant for you. It is as if invisible chains still bind you, keeping your soul from stretching into its fullness. These are the anxious after effects once you leave - the desperate spells to keep you further tethered, to rob you of any light of hope and further growth, and to force you to return back to their facade of comfort.

This is the hidden snare after freedom. Not failure, but initiation. The deeper mirror has arrived. And, you are not meant to turn away.

The Three Currents of Liberation

1. Unconditional Love

Unconditional love is not soft or sentimental. It is a primordial current — the essence of Source, the spark from which you were created. It existed before fear, before heartbreak, before the walls you built to survive and protect yourself.

But it is not enough to know this love exists — you must let it fill you. To align with it means to open yourself to its flow and to embody it within, beginning first, with love for yourself. Not the fragile self-approval built on doing or pleasing, but the unshakable knowing: “I am worthy. I am whole. I am loved without condition.”

Because you are.

And, when you embody this love - when you align yourself with Source and you stand firmly in alignment with the unconditional love that is your birthright - distortion cannot anchor in you. Spells dissolve. Manipulations slide away. Attacks collapse. Because no shadow can take root in a vessel overflowing with unconditional love.

Practice: Place your hand on your heart. Whisper: “I remember. I return. I am love.” Sit in meditation and breath work, until this truth moves from thought to presence, until it begins to overflow within you.

2. Sovereignty

Sovereignty is not a crown. It is your anchor. The deep ground of your being that no one else can own. Not fear. Not manipulation. Not even the voices of your past.

It means no one else owns your will. Not a partner, not a group, not a psychic manipulator. True sovereignty isn’t rebellion for rebellion’s sake; is self-possession of your soul.

When you stand anchored in sovereignty, attempts to bend or bind your path collapse before they reach you. Their spells, their projectors, their manipulations shatter against the fortress of your will aligned in truth with Spirit. And sovereignty is contagious. Your freedom reminds others that they, too, can be free.

Practice: Stand barefoot on the earth. Speak your name back into your body: “I am sovereign. My will is my own. I do not consent to any presence, energy, or bind that is not aligned with my highest good. Not now, not ever.” Repeat until your voice steadies like fire. And cut cords as often as needed until this tether, and any new attempts at a tether, no longer return.

3. Divine Truth (The Sword of Light)

Divine Truth is not vague or soft. It is the cutting clarity that severs illusion at its root. It is the Sword of Light — and no shadow can withstand it. It slices through glamour, illusion, manipulation. But truth is also uncomfortable - it reveals where you colluded in your own bondage, where you gave your power away. And it asks you to witness this so that this lesson you are mastering will become embodied and you will never, ever again need to repeat it.

Aligning with truth also means you no longer stay silent in the face of distortion. You speak. You expose. You cut cleanly with clarity. Both for yourself, and for others. This is not cruelty or revenge — it is liberation. Because when the truth is spoken, illusions collapse, and those around you see the choice before them with unmistakable clarity. And you step further into your own alignment, sovereignty, and self love when you do so.

And here is the promise: when you stand in truth, divine protection rises with you. Every. Single. Time.

Practice:

    1.    Speak aloud once a day: “I align with Truth. I cut distortion at its root.”

    2.    Ask yourself what illusion you see around you is ready to dissolve today . Name it clearly. Burn or tear the page. Let the act remind you: truth dissolves distortion.

3. Journal the lies you’ve told yourself (“I’m unworthy"“, “I can’t ever seem to reach my financial goals”, “I am not ready for relationship”, “I can’t escape”, “They will reject me if I expose this” etc) and then burn this page and replace it instead with soul-truth (“I am unconditionally loved”, “I am the author of my own story”, “abundance flows freely to me when I am in alignment with my life”, “I am free”, “My worth does not in any way depend on the approval of others”, etc).

The Turning Point

After freedom comes the real test. The choice to hold steady when shadow circles again.

If you have broken free, this is the hour to rise higher, not retreat. Anchor deeper into love, sovereignty, and truth. That is the ground in which no attack can touch.

And for those still caught in distortion, those still enabling harm, still working in covert ways to actively spell cast and bind - know this: you are seen, your actions are witnessed and spiritual laws are in play. You are not beyond accountability if you choose to continue.

Unprovoked attacks against another may appear to slip through unnoticed. The validation that you feel by affirming someone else’s agenda may soothe your ego for a moment. But it will always prove hollow in the end.

The same threshold stands before you. You are not beyond reclamation. Turning back may not erase the past, but it restores your essence and spares you from the spiral that only grows harsher the longer you refuse the mirror.

Do not risk stagnating your own growth, dimming your gifts, and facing karmic lessons that need not come -unless you force them to.

The path is open. But the doorway narrows the longer you wait.

The Final Blessing & Call to Action

When you root into love — not as an idea, but as a living force that flows and fills you from within — you become unshakable. When you embody sovereignty as your anchor, no hand can bend your will. When you wield truth as a sword of light, distortion crumbles, clarity clears the way forward, and you will find protection that surpasses your imagination.

This is not just about breaking chains. It is about becoming untouchable to the forces that once bound you. It is about standing in your essence — whole, radiant, unbound, and fearless.

So breathe. Place your hand on your heart. Say it now as a vow:

    •    I anchor in unconditional love — for myself first, and through me for the world.

    •    I stand sovereign. My will is my own.

    •    I wield the Sword of Truth and I do not look away. I know that I am protected and safe, always.

And then — act. Write one truth. Speak one boundary. Release one chain.

Because every small act of love, sovereignty, and truth is not only your freedom — it is a signal fire. And it lights the way for the next soul to rise.

Your soul is ready. The path is open. And your rising is the blessing your ancestors have been waiting for. They are cheering you on. And once you pass this test, align yourself fully with Source, and master the lessons you are being offered, you will often find a latent gift becomes unlocked. It happened for me and I have seen it for my friends. Once you are free and you have embodied and integrated the lessons that your soul has been invited to learn you will find yourself transformed. Stronger than you were when you began, more aligned with your life path, and more empowered than you could have imagined for yourself.

The choice is yours and the finish line is within sight. You are almost there.

Astro-Wellness: Your Rising Sign as a Sacred Blueprint for Daily Rhythms

The Rising Sign is not a surface mask — it is your soul’s horizon line, the incarnate threshold through which you took your first breath and stepped into this life. It describes how your body meets the world and how the world in turn meets you. Your Chart Ruler, the planet governing your Ascendant, shines like a lighthouse across the sea of your life. It helps to orient you back to your essence whenever you drift from alignment.

Together, your Rising Sign and Chart Ruler form what we could call, your Astro-Wellness Blueprint: the map of your body’s sensitivities, the style of movement and rest that nourishes you, and the daily rhythms that keep you connected to your joy. When you fall out of step with this blueprint, your body whispers through fatigue, tension, or imbalance. When you live in alignment with it, you feel restored, radiant, and in line with your soul’s original design.

This is where astrology becomes wellness: your Ascendant + Ruler don’t just tell you who you are — they help to reveal how to live in a body that supports your growth, your healing, and your joy.

Below is a list of Ascendants (your first house) and their chart rulers. This will provide you with a basic, foundational view of how this works; each chart will layer the house/zodiacal archetype of where your chart ruler falls as well as aspects that flavor and nuance how these are expressed and talk to each other. While each of us have our own unique blueprint, this will give you a broad overview and provide basic themes you can play with and contemplate.

Mars-Ruled Risings (Aries & Scorpio Ascendants)

Archetype: The Warrior / The Alchemist

You are initiated through intensity, struggle, and truth. Mars challenges you to act, learn initiative and boldness, to confront stagnation, and to transmute raw energy into sacred purpose.

    •    Body-Shadow: Excess heat; inflammation, anger, muscular tension, restless fire.

    •    Wellness Key: Mars risings need release work—not chaos, but conscious movement that transforms pressure into vitality.

    •    Embodiment Practices: Controlled exertion; breath of fire, fasting, drumming, strength training, running or kickboxing, sauna + cool immersion.

    •    Joy Path: Joy emerges when courage and fire become fuel for creation, not destruction—when action is aligned with spirit and your fire is harnessed in service of life.

Sun-Ruled Risings (Leo Ascendants)

Archetype: The Radiant Flame

You are called to embody sovereignty, to shine as a solar vessel of warmth, clarity, vision, and creativity. Ultimately, to lead and inspire others. The Sun teaches you that your radiance is not for applause, but for sacred offering.

    •    Body-Shadow: The Sun governs the heart, circulation, and vital force itself. Misalignment can manifest as exhaustion, prideful strain, spinal tension, depletion from constant giving.

    •    Wellness Key: You thrive when your body is tended as a living flame—fed with joy, expression, the warmth of connection, and renewal in meaningful ways.

    •    Embodiment Practices: Sun salutations, expressive dance, basking in sunlight, music, creative projects.

    •    Joy Path: Joy is your compass. It arrives when you create from overflow, not obligation. True joy arrives when your radiance is shared - when you create not for applause, but as an offering of your flame for others.

Moon-Ruled Risings (Cancer Ascendants)

Archetype: The Lunar Vessel / Keeper of Waters

You live by cycles, apprenticed to the wisdom of ebb and flow. The Moon teaches you to find safety not in control, but in rhythm and cycles of nourishment and release.

    •    Body-Shadow: The Moon rules fluids, digestion, fertility. Misalignment shows up as digestive imbalance, emotional heaviness, water retention, or absorbing and/or being swept into others’ emotions.

    •    Wellness Key: Moon risings thrive in cyclic alignment—tracking phases, living with lunar cycles, eating seasonal foods, and tending to rhythms of rest and renewal.

    •    Embodiment Practices: Reflective journaling, water immersion, belly breathing, cooking in rhythm with the seasons, lunar phase practices.

    •    Joy Path: Joy arises when you honor your own tides instead of taking on responsibility to regulate everyone else’s.

Venus-Ruled Risings (Taurus & Libra Ascendants)

Archetype: The Keeper of Harmony / Artist of Balance

You are called to weave beauty into daily life and embody harmony and stability in body and relationship. Venus reminds you that pleasure and presence itself is medicine.

    •    Body-Shadow: Venus governs the throat, kidneys, and complexion. Misalignment manifests as overindulgence, sugar sensitivity, imbalance or nervous tension from disharmony, or reliance on external approval.

    •    Wellness Key: Wellness comes from sensual devotion—rituals that ground you in the body through art, beauty, sound, touch, taste, and connection.

    •    Embodiment Practices: Song, sacred adornment, mindful eating, movement with music, breath set to rhythm, relational check-ins.

    •    Joy Path: Joy awakens when beauty becomes devotional, not decorative—when harmony heals and becomes the vessel of love - springing from deep, authentic abundance, rather than pleasing others and seeking approval.

Mercury-Ruled Risings (Gemini & Virgo Ascendants)

Archetype: The Sacred Messenger / The Code-Healer

Your initiation is into rhythm and translation—learning to flex and bridge body and mind, spirit and matter. Mercury guides you to heal through words, breath, and movement.

    •    Body-Shadow: Mercury rules the lungs, nerves, intestines, and the faculty of coordination. Misalignment surfaces as nervous overstimulation or depletion, worry, gut anxiety, restlessness.

    •    Wellness Key: Your body thrives on regulated rhythm—steady breath, structure and clear routines, mental stillness, and mindful flow.

    •    Embodiments: Walking meditations, journaling, mantra-based yoga, herbal medicine for digestion and nerves.

    •    Joy Path: Joy is found in coherence—when your curiosity and routines bring clarity rather than scattering and your words and practices become bridges rather than fractures.

Saturn-Ruled Risings (Capricorn & Aquarius Ascendants)

Archetype: The Gatekeeper of Time / The Sacred Architect

In ancient astrology, Saturn is the furthest wanderer, the planet at the edge of visibility. To the ancients, Saturn was the keeper of limits — of time, mortality, and boundaries. For those born under his rulership, life unfolds through tests, responsibilities, and the weight of necessity. Yet these tests are initiations, helping to sprout deep roots of profound wisdom and mastery.

    •    Body-Shadow: Ancient texts associated Saturn with cold and dryness, heaviness in bones, joints, and skin. When out of rhythm, Saturn bodies manifest rigidity, pensive or heavy somberness, or depletion.

    •    Wellness Key: Wellness comes from cultivating sacred structure and measured rhythm. Saturn risings thrive not by excess but by moderation, by practices that strengthen the body slowly and steadily, much like stonework carefully, methodically built with patience.

    •    Embodiment Practices: Dawn rituals, strength-building over time, fasting for clarity, contemplative practices (meditation, chanting, solitude), tending hearth and home as sacred ground.

    •    Path to Joy: Paradoxically, joy arrives through discipline. When you live in alignment with Saturn’s rhythm, boundaries create freedom, and limits open into deeper meaning. Joy is found in the quiet pride of mastery, the dignity of work done well, and the serenity of knowing you are in rhythm with time itself.

Jupiter/Neptune-Ruled Risings (Sagittarius & Pisces Ascendants)

Archetype: The Seeker / The Mystic Dreamer

You are initiated into expansion and surrender. Jupiter stretches you into meaning, Neptune dissolves you into unity. Together, they remind you that wonder itself is wellness.

    •    Body-Shadow: Jupiter expands - misaligned, it can bring excess in liver, hips, or circulation. This can manifest in patterns of overindulgence, excess weight, escapism, addiction, exhaustion, or immune depletion.

    •    Wellness Key: These risings need sacred expansion and flow—open horizons, water immersion, devotional practices that restore awe and immersion in the greater whole.

    •    Embodiments: Pilgrimage walks, sunrise runs, swimming, dreamwork, ecstatic dance, dream journaling, chanting, and gratitude practice.

    •    Joy Path: Joy arises as wonder—when life feels larger than you, yet holds you gently within it.

The Lighthouse and the Compass

Your Rising Sign is your incarnational doorway; your Chart Ruler, the lighthouse that orients you through storm and calm alike, and helps to guide you back to alignment. Together, they form your soul’s wellness compass:

    •    The Rising shows you where the body mirrors the soul’s shadow and struggle when you are out of rhythm.

    •    The Ruler reveals the practices that restore vitality and clarity.

    •    Together, they lead you back to your deepest joy; the joy of living in sync with your soul’s authentic design.

And yet, the sky is never still. Transits to your chart ruler or Ascendant flavor this compass, tinting its light. When Jupiter blesses your ruler, vitality often expands; when Saturn presses down, the body may feel heavier, asking for rest and refinement. Mars transits can ignite inflammation or motivation, Venus can restore harmony through beauty and pleasure, and Neptune may invite surrender to subtler rhythms.

The ancients understood these planetary movements not as random disruptions, but as seasonal teachings - temporary overlays that refine your practice and deepen your embodiment. By tracking transits to your Rising Sign and ruler, you learn when to lean into discipline, when to allow softness, and when to celebrate expansion.

Astro-Wellness then, is not static. It is a living relationship between your natal blueprint and the ever-turning heavens. Your Rising and Ruler are your constant teachers, but the transiting sky adds its color, reminding you that wellness is not a fixed state - it is an ever changing dance with time itself. It isn’t about chasing perfection or following rigid routines. It is instead about learning to live in relationship with your Rising rhythm—listening when your body signals misalignment, and honoring the guidance of your body and chart ruler like a steady beacon.

When you align with this blueprint:

    •    The body stops being a battlefield and becomes a teacher of deep wisdom.

    •    Health shifts from discipline into devotion.

    •    Joy ceases to be fleeting and becomes a living, steady current.

Where To Start:

Locate your Rising Sign & its Chart Ruler in your natal chart. Reflect on where its themes appear in your body today. Choose one embodiment practice this week as an offering. Give yourself a month and contemplate shifts and changes you notice. Consider the following daily reflections:

• What practice is my Rising calling me into today?

• What “light” (deeper insight) is my chart ruler shining on my path right now?

• Where is joy waiting for me in my body, if I choose to honor it?

This is the heart of Astro-Wellness: not a list of health hacks, but a return to your soul’s original harmony. Your Rising and Chart Ruler hold the keys. When you walk in rhythm with them, you are not only well — you are whole.

The Mirrors We Hold

Breaking Free Into Sovereignty

We are all mirrors for one another. Every encounter, every conversation, every triggered emotion is a reflection inviting us to see ourselves more clearly. Sometimes the reflections are beautiful, affirming what we already love about ourselves. Other times, they are raw and confronting—forcing us to see the shadow traits and wounds we’d rather keep hidden.

But perhaps the most dangerous and powerful mirror is the one we hold up to ourselves—and so often distort.

The greatest lies we ever hear aren’t whispered in someone else’s voice. They are the subtle deceptions we feed ourselves. The stories of “I’m fine” when we’re unraveling inside. The “it’s not a big deal” when our soul is begging us to admit it is. The “I can’t” when fear is choking possibility at the root. These self-lies are poison disguised as protection.

And shame is their enforcer. Shame shackles us to our past—reminding us of our mistakes, amplifying our flaws, convincing us that we’ll never outgrow the wounds we carry. It thrives in silence, secrecy, and self-betrayal. But here’s the truth: shame only has power when we keep bowing to it.

Think of the times you’ve walked a path because it felt like the safe, logical, or familiar choice—only to realize it was draining the life out of you. Those choices, however well-intentioned, are rooted in fear. Fear of judgment. Fear of change. Fear of failure. Fear of being truly seen. And yet, those paths that promise safety often end up being the most soul-deadening of all.

There is another way.

It begins when you stop lying to yourself. When you peel away the mask, strip off the layers of shame, and admit what you truly desire. When you honor the whispers of your intuition, even when they don’t fully make sense. Because how many times has that inner nudge carried you somewhere far more magical, far more expansive, than your mind could ever have planned?

Alignment is not about perfection—it’s about courage. The courage to live your truth even when it disrupts expectations. The courage to burn down old narratives and rebuild a life that actually feeds your soul. The courage to see the reflection in the mirror—shadow and light—and say, This is me. And I choose freedom.

Because when you stop lying to yourself, you stop giving shame its power. You reclaim the keys to your own liberation. You stop chasing paths that look safe but lead nowhere, and instead step into the unknown terrain of your own true becoming.

And yes, it will be uncomfortable. Choosing freedom always is. It means outgrowing relationships that can’t hold your truth, releasing patterns that once defined you, and daring to be seen in your wholeness. But on the other side of that discomfort lies a kind of joy that is deeper, truer, and more enduring than anything safety could have ever given you.

The mirror will always be there, waiting. The only question is: will you keep looking away, or will you finally meet your own gaze without flinching?

Your mirror can enslave you, or it can awaken you. The choice is yours—but your soul already knows the answer.

Journal Reflections

• What truths are you afraid to admit to yourself right now?

• Where does shame still hold you hostage—and how can you reclaim your power in those places?

• Think of a time you lied to yourself for “safety.” What was the cost of that choice?

• What is your intuition quietly whispering that you keep ignoring?

• If you stopped running from your reflection and embraced every part of yourself—shadow and light—how would your life expand?

The Blood Moon Eclipse: A Choice Point of Power & Healing

Twice a year we enter eclipse season. This month offers us two eclipse events. On September 7th, the skies deliver a rare and potent event: a Blood Moon, a total lunar (or full moon) eclipse at 15° Pisces. Lunar eclipses always bring intensity and reflection—truth revealed, shadows exposed, endings and beginnings, often woven together. But this one carries an unmistakable spiritual weight, the kind that can alter the trajectory of our lives if we meet it with courage.

Think of this eclipse as the cosmic version of nuclear fusion. In fusion, immense pressure and heat ignite a process where two separate elements unite, releasing incredible energy that powers stars. An eclipse symbolically mirrors this—tremendous tension gathers in our lives, pressure builds around old wounds or patterns, and under this force, something new fuses into form. A new light is born from what once seemed impossible - or perhaps even unseen to us - to integrate.

The Pisces–Virgo Axis: Spirit and Service

Because this eclipse occurs at 15° Pisces, it awakens the polarity axis of Pisces and Virgo. Every full moon already carries a polarity story, but an eclipse amplifies this energy significantly.

    •    Pisces is considered the most spiritual sign of the zodiac. It holds the energy of compassion, transcendence, unity, and spiritual surrender. Pisces reminds us to surrender, dissolve boundaries, and trust the flow of the unseen. In its highest potential, it dissolves separation and helps us remember we are more than our wounds, more than our identities, more than the small story we’ve been living; and it reminds us that at our core, we are all connected. In its shadow, it can lure us into escapism, denial, or bypassing—losing ourselves in the fog and never ending merging nature of its vastness.

    •    Virgo, standing opposite, offers us the gifts of discernment, clarity, embodied healing, and sacred service. Virgo asks us to refine, organize, and bring life to order. At its best, Virgo grounds the dream of Pisces into daily, embodied action—it asks, how do you live this truth in your body, in your routines, in your relationships? In its shadow, Virgo can fall into over-analysis, criticism, or perfectionism that keeps us from ever truly living our full potential and feeling whole.

This eclipse on the Pisces-Virgo axis asks us to weave these forces together: to bring our spiritual longings (Pisces) into tangible, embodied practices (Virgo). To allow both compassion and transcendence, but not lose the grounded reality of real-life integration. It reminds us to release the fears and old patterns or habits that hold us back; reminding us that we don’t have to control every detail of our life to be safe and that we never have to earn our worth. It teaches us that when we release control we don’t lose power, we gain a new kind of strength - one that flows from a place of alignment and not force. And it also reminds us of the importance and value of energetic boundaries; that, no matter how well intentioned you are, you cannot pour from an empty cup. The magic of this harmonious integration happens when we blend the energies consciously: excellence and boundaries with compassion, doing with being, conscious surrender, faith with precision, intuition with discernment, vision with practicality, etc.

Fated Change and the Eclipse Mystery

Astrologers hold different views on eclipses. Some encourage ritual and manifestation; others caution against it. I personally see eclipses as fated portals—moments where the hand of destiny is stronger than our own intention-setting. For this reason, I do not manifest with absolutes during eclipses the way I would with a normal new or full moon. Instead, I tend to go inward and reflect and listen. I notice what is surfacing, what is breaking open, what is dissolving. And I reflect within myself: What wants to be healed here? What am I being asked to see that perhaps I haven’t yet seen in full? How can I embody this new change?

Eclipses are like wild cards in the cosmic deck. They can bring sudden, rapid change, insight, or illumination, that alters everything overnight, but just as often, their effects ripple out more slowly over the next six months to come. Sometimes we don’t recognize the eclipse’s teaching until a later turning point makes its pattern clear. Sometimes we see external shifts and material reality changes (relationship or job for example, beginning or ending) and sometimes it is more subtle and internal - a change in our perception or mindset. But, they always mark a turning point of some point.

When Eclipse Effects Unfold

One of the most common questions I hear is: “When will I feel the eclipse?” The truth is, the effects of a total lunar eclipse are rarely confined to the day itself.

    •    In the moment: You may feel waves of emotion, revelations, or sudden endings on the day of the eclipse. This is the raw shadow material surfacing for release. This will likely be especially prominent this eclipse as Pisces is a water sign and this is a total lunar (or full moon) eclipse which means it magnifies a normal full moon cycle which typically signifies release.

    •    Two weeks after: The energy often continues to reverberate until the next new moon, as the themes settle into your system and start shaping your choices.

    •    Three to six months: Many eclipses work like seeds planted in shadow. Their stories begin to play out over the season ahead, especially when other transits re-activate the same degree.

    •    Up to 18 months: Because eclipses are tied to the lunar nodes, their full impact can ripple through your life until the next set of eclipses, or even longer. Often you only realize in hindsight that a major shift began under an eclipse portal.

With a total lunar eclipse, like this Blood Moon at 15° Pisces, the emphasis is often on culmination and closure—a harvest of sorts, where what has been building finally comes to light. But don’t be surprised if the real transformations unfold slowly, like a tide reshaping the shoreline.

The Healing Potential

    •    Release of old cycles: Eclipses tend to close chapters that were never fully resolved. If something resurfaces now, it is not punishment—it’s an invitation to complete the loop with more intentional awareness.

    •    Acceleration of growth: What normally might take years to shift can pivot in weeks. Eclipse energy condenses time. While radical shifts aren’t always the norm, they certainly are not rare in eclipse portals. Quantum leaps can happen under eclipses. Especially when angular houses and personal planets are involved.

    •    Integration of shadow: This is not about destroying the past, but fusing it into wisdom. Like nuclear fusion, you become more luminous when you accept the pressure, surrender to the process, and let transformation burn away illusion.

How to Work with It

    1.    Ground Yourself – The intensity of an eclipse can scatter your nervous system. Get barefoot on the Earth, take salt baths, or place your spine against a tree. Breathwork, body shaking (to release trapped emotion), or simple yoga flows and walks in nature can help release the pressure.

    2.    Name the Shadow – Write down what old patterns, doubts, or stories are surfacing. Naming them takes away their power. You cannot heal what you refuse to see.

    3.    Create a Choice Ritual – Rather than “manifesting,” honor the eclipse by making a conscious choice. On the night of the eclipse, light a single candle and say aloud something simple such as: “I choose to release what no longer fuels me, and I choose to ignite my next chapter with clarity, strength, and love.” Burn a piece of paper with your limiting belief written on it. Allow the ashes to return to the earth.

    4.    Anchor the Light – Follow up the release with something that roots you in joy: singing, dancing, journaling gratitude, or preparing a nourishing meal. Transformation is not only about letting go but also about inviting new frequencies into your body and nourishing yourself.

    5.    Stay Compassionate – Eclipse portals stir emotion in everyone. If people around you act out, remember they too are under the same cosmic pressure. Hold compassion without sacrificing your boundaries.

Why This Eclipse Matters

This Blood Moon at 15° Pisces is not simply a celestial event—it’s a cosmic mirror. It shows us where we’ve hidden our light behind shadow, fear, or complacency. But like nuclear fusion, the energy of this eclipse asks us to use the pressure - surrender to it - not resist it. Pressure is the birthplace of stars, and in this moment, you are asked to become your own source of radiance.

We are at a collective crossroads. Each of us can choose contraction—clinging to what we’ve outgrown—or expansion, stepping into authenticity, truth, and true, luminous power. The choice, is up to us.

Final Reminder:

You are not being broken down—you are being refined. This Blood Moon eclipse is not the end, but the ignition. Trust that the pressure is purposeful. Trust that your soul knows the way. Lean into the emotional wisdom of Jupiter in Cancer, the intuitive knowing of Pisces, and the discernment and practicality of Virgo. Ground, release, choose, and rise.

Reflections:

• What patterns or storylines are surfacing now that may have begun 6–18 months ago? What wants to close, so something new can be born?

• How would your daily routine change if you prioritized more healthy boundaries, nervous system regulation, and micro habits over productivity? What would you add? What would you release? How can you invite balance into this area of your life?

• Where are you being asked to surrender control and trust the flow of life? Where might you be avoiding truth by escaping or numbing?

• What practices, routines, or embodied actions could help you ground your spiritual insights into tangible healing?

• What patterns, fears, self-doubt, or stories are surfacing that you’ve been carrying for far too long? How do you see them more clearly now?

• From this moment forward, what are you choosing to release, and what new energy or truth are you choosing to carry with you?

  After journaling or reflecting, sit for a few moments with your hand over your heart or belly. Let your body feel the truth of what you’ve reflected upon. Integration happens not only in the mind but in the body and spirit.

When Energy Becomes a Weapon: Seeing Through Subtle Attacks

My Experience Since Leaving. Epilogue to the Sovereign Path Series.

When I left the group, I thought distance and clear separation would mean freedom. I left quietly, I did not retaliate, I have not used names or lashed out. I have cleared the karmic and akashic energy. I have simply spoken the truth with the intention of helping others and shining a light on a subject that, quite frankly, is not talked enough about. But I will be honest, about a heavier side effect of leaving that I did not expect - I have been attacked regularly since I left. These attacks have ranged from obvious and overt to very subtle and nuanced. They have ranged in seriousness and amplified reach. And, I want to share about my experience so that you too can recognize these patterns. Naming what is happening isn’t about fear - it’s about discernment and empowerment. When we see clearly, we reclaim our power to choose differently, to protect our energy, and to walk forward in a future aligned with truth. These attack patterns don’t always show up like you think they will. In fact, some of the things that I’ve experienced may surprise you - manipulations in how others read your energy, divination tool interference, energetic mimicry within connection to others, physical changes such as changes to my moon cycle, seeding of doubt, confusion and amplification of emotion with others - both in discord and elation, etc. The bottom line is that, at least in my experience, this is often a different kind of interference than you might anticipate—its much more quiet, deliberate, and nuanced - aimed not always at my body but at my energy and mind. And it is often built around a small speck or thread of truth making it very easy to second guess, dismiss entirely, or become confused about. And while I have shielded most of these, there have been a few stark lessons along the way.

Over the past several months I’ve experienced many forms:

    •    Spellwork and hexes (group or singular) designed to disrupt flow, steal or confuse gifts, futures, and bonds, and physically harm.

    •    Psychic attacks that strike at night or in moments of vulnerability.

    •    Glamour tactics that cloud perception, making the false appear true.

    •    Subtle energetic manipulation, woven into the edges of my (or other’s) awareness.

Here are a few examples:

• I had an argument with someone I rarely argue with, that was amplified and intense. The argument ignited over a seed of truth but the energetic interplay was much more dynamic and intense than it would have been without outside influence.

• I had a past life reading where the storyline was altered and the manipulator (who has been my sister in multiple past lives) re-authored the events to suit the outcome and narrative that they desired. It included just enough truth that it was very plausible. But, when I sat with it later and reflected, the energetic imprint and distortion was visible and undeniable.

• Divinatory tool readings have been manipulated on a few isolated occasions where the outcome was glamoured - both in a negative way on one occasion and an overly optimistic on another. Both again, to suit a desired outcome.

• Strong seeds of doubt have been implanted on multiple occasions - these I usually detect quickly but on a particularly chaotic day that was already high with emotional energy - I fell susceptible. And, it took me a day to recognize. Again, doubt and negativity seeded to suit desired outcomes.

Most recently, I experienced a spell crafted with one purpose: to distort and hide the truth itself. It didn’t try to silence me outright—it tried to confuse me, to make me doubt what I knew and second-guess what was clear in my bones.

How It Works

The tactics are rarely direct. They operate like smoke, slipping in through openings and hiding in the corners:

    •    Backdoor Access: They find ways to keep energetic access points open, often through old connections or cords left uncut.

    •    Watchers: Energy has been placed at the edges of my field, monitoring, waiting, reporting back.

    •    Peripheral Sitting: They don’t always strike—sometimes they hover at the edges, waiting for moments of distraction, emotional charge, or energetic lows or illness, because they know you are more vulnerable then.

    •    Through Others: If they can’t reach you directly, they often spy through connections—friends, shared spaces or tethers that they hold with someone you may still be in contact with - energetically or otherwise, or anyone who might unknowingly carry a line back to you.

    •    Timing: Any that were successful, were always when I was emotionally engaged, distracted, or processing something big. Always when my guard might have been lowered.

The goal is simple: to seed chaos, fear, or discontent. To silence or intimidate truth. To fracture clarity, stir confusion, and pull me off-center. Though the experiences can feel devastating in the moment, they often clear space for renewal. Each attack has the potential to catalyze deep healing and a new sense of spiritual alignment.

I Am Not Alone

This isn’t just about me. This is not a private, past life, or interpersonal conflict. This particular individual casts these spells and energetic workings routinely - almost like clockwork, in ritual, to an entire list of individuals. Anyone who there is any seed of discord, threat, or they sense resistance with. Often including those who have chosen to leave. And, they don’t just end with the individual themselves. In some cases, particularly those who are still actively tethered - they also include friends, acquaintances, and even persons that are only loosely connected in their lives. Anyone who might pose a threat, help expose, explore the truth, or empower them, or help them break free; anyone who refuses to feed the manipulator’s illusion. If you are involved in a dynamic like this and seeking help, clarity, or advice from someone else - even a non-professional like family or friends; be aware these people are often being attacked energetically also. Ask them. Have you felt anything “off” or different recently? Any unusual dreams, disruption in your temperament, mood, or how you feel in general after we talk or get together? The goal is to isolate you. To keep you confused, feeding into their negative loops (which strengthens their connection), and keep you dependent upon them. They love to see a backslide.

For some, the attacks show up as sudden doubts, strange mood swings, physical upset (something as simple as indigestion, random sexual feelings, disorientation or ungroundedness, headaches, throat ache, etc) or out-of-character conflict. For others, it’s physical exhaustion, depression, helplessness or anxiety, sleepless nights, indecision, or repeating patterns of miscommunication, mental fog, and disorientation.

The common thread is often some form of disruption. If you feel targeted, destabilized, ruminating, “off your game”, or constantly second-guessing yourself—know that you’re likely not imagining it, and you’re not alone.

Protecting Yourself

Awareness is the first shield. But there are other practical, energetic steps you can take. Here are a few simple ones:

1.    Close the Backdoors

    •    Identify lingering energetic ties (ex-partners, friends, energetic connections, past groups, old mentors, etc). Cut or cleanse those cords with ritual. Understand that if you continue engagement, you need to keep interaction short, maintain strong energetic boundaries, limit emotional entanglement, and use strong discernment. And always, cleanse your field afterwards.

    •    Audit your digital and energetic spaces—who has access, and why? Use strong discernment and rely upon your intuition to guide you.

 2.    Clear the Watchers

    •    Visualize a sweep of bright light moving through your field, dissolving anything that lingers without your consent.

    •    State clearly: “Only energies aligned with my highest good may remain.”

• Watch for signs (flickering candle wicks without a breeze, shadow movement, auric or subtle energetic changes, etc).

    3.    Anchor in Truth

    •    Journaling: Write what you know to be true before confusion sets in. Return to these pages when distortion tries to take hold.

    •    Body check: Truth feels grounding. Lies feel slippery. Let your nervous system, your intuition—not your mind—be your compass.

4.    Shield Daily

    •    Mirror shields: Surround yourself with reflective light, returning all distortion to Source.

    •    Salt + water: Baths, foot soaks, or even rinsing hands in salt water clears residue.

    •    Prayer or intention: Call on guides, ancestors, or deities aligned with truth to stand guard and help protect you.

• Energy Work: Regularly engage in energetic clearing, maintenance, and fortification

• Grounding: If you’re experiencing energy drains, try a simple grounding ritual: place both feet on the earth, visualize roots anchoring you deep into the soil, and affirm, “My energy is sovereign, my body is a temple, and I am protected”. This small daily act plants the seed of energetic sovereignty.

 5.    Community Vigilance

    •    Talk about what you notice. Share patterns. Manipulation thrives in secrecy and isolation—naming it breaks its spell. Make no mistake - if you are under energetic attack like this, it IS spiritual warfare. It is not about choosing sides - it is about choosing your own sovereignty, truth, and freedom. And it needs to be spoken for what it is - and with much more openness so we can learn from, and help, each other.

Turning the Tactic on Its Head

The irony of these attacks is that they strengthen what they seek to destroy. Each attempt to confuse me only sharpens my own clarity and grows my gifts. Each recognition strengthens my own intuition and teaches me. Each tether cut, frees me more. Each interference pushes me deeper into sovereignty.

And, it will do the same for you.

Because while chaos may be seeded, truth roots deeper. And once you’ve seen through the fog, you can never unsee the truth.

Closing Thoughts

Remember who you are. Lean into your own intuition. Trust yourself first - always. If you feel yourself under attack, spend time sitting with yourself and how you feel about something before you take action. Your intuition and your connection to Source cannot be taken from you and they cannot be manipulated. Your sovereignty, intuition, and spiritual protection are your strongest shields.

If you’ve felt the sting of unseen hands pulling at your energy, know this: it is not a sign of weakness. It is a sign of your own power. They would not target you if you were not standing on something true, something somehow threatening to their illusion. Do not give in to fear. Stand in your own sovereignty and truth. Because without your consent, they are limited in their reach.

The sad reality of this is that this is often orchestrated by someone who has not done their own healing. Instead of getting to the root of their own trauma and wounding, they are spiritually bypassing and attempting to bend and control their own - and other’s (aka your!)- reality so that they don’t have to sit with the truth. And while I am deeply compassionate on this point, not confronting this in truth - both for yourself, your loved ones - and this manipulator - allows them to continue to bypass. We all have dark nights of the soul. We all have lessons that we are fated to confront and learn from as part of our soul’s evolution. And we are all given opportunities to heal and live our lives abundantly and from a place of true joy, peace, and wholeness. Manipulation may putt the ball. It may delay some of these truths from surfacing. But it will never bring the long-lasting wholeness and healing that each of us deserves and desires. The hard truth is that indecision will make separating and taking the leap from this, all the harder. Every hook that has been used, or has ever been successful, has been tethered to an area of weakness or wounding. Breaking free will never be easy. But the sooner you choose to make that cut, the easier it will be.

This is a heavy post. Many of the posts in this series are heavy. And they deal with dark, uncomfortable topics. Spiritual warfare isn’t pleasant, pretty, and certainly not fun. But, if it’s a path you’ve encountered in your life journey, trust that it is here for a reason and offers a valuable lesson. And how you choose to respond to that lesson will largely determine how it unfolds in your future - as a gift, a shameful moment or experience you regret, or a trauma that you may be tempted to suppress and bury. There is nothing to be ashamed from if you have been entangled in manipulative entrapment. The danger is in letting the wound define us. These attacks are not the whole story - they are simply a chapter. The real story is in how we rise, heal, and embody more light and sovereignty than ever before afterwards. The beauty in every lesson we are offered is that when you sit with the work of untangling and healing you take away the power that has been held over you. Every ounce of shame, guilt, and vulnerability becomes alchemized into a strength, and ultimately, a gift. You learn to heal - not just bandaid and bypass - but truly heal - the areas that they exploited. You become stronger, more resilient, and if desired, you can become a guide for others to help them heal in their own journey. And for those of you who have leadership in your future? Well you will undoubtedly become all the more prepared as a result of this trial. When you do the work, you truly do become all the better for it.

When we recognize what is happening and choose not to fear or resist it, to set aside our own ego and meet it with clarity, discernment, and protection, we begin to embody a deeper freedom. We move from being pulled into other’s shadows to anchoring in our own light. If you take anything from my story, let it be this: your energy is sovereign, your body is sacred, and your spirit cannot be stolen. With each act of discernment, with each ritual of grounding, and with each moment of finally choosing yourself - you plant the seed of liberation. And those seeds ripple outward, empowering not just you, but the collective as well. So let the heaviness fall away. Step forward lighter, clearer, freer, and more empowered with awareness, clarity, and hope. This is not about fear, it is about freedom. This is not about being attacked, but about remembering and standing in who you truly are. Because when you stand in your own truth, when you stand in your own sovereignty, and when you stand aligned in your life path with your ancestors, guides, and spirit team surrounding you, you will find that you have far more power than you ever thought possible and this little test? You will pass it, grow from it, and bloom wildly more brighter as a result.

Leaving an unhealthy group dynamic is never just about the hardships of doing so and breaking away from attacks - it’s about what comes after. The relief that follows, the weight that lifts, the freedom to breathe in your own energy again - this is where empowerment begins. And while there will always be shadows to name, there is also joy, clarity, and abundance waiting on the other side. In a future installment on this series, I’ll share what it feels like to step beyond the attacks: the tremendous release, the lessons carried forward, and the spiritual strength that rises when your sovereignty is reclaimed.

Until then, much love always,

Seraph

The Sisterhood Wound: Why You’re Afraid to Speak, Lead, or Shine

Why Women Stay Silent: The Hidden Wound No One Talks About

There’s a grief that lies in our bones, which we rarely name.

It’s the ache of betrayal without a blade. A silencing that doesn’t come from force, but from side-eyes, group chats, and a quiet withdrawal of warmth the moment you dare to become too much—too loud, too visible, too different.

This is the Sisterhood Wound.

And whether you were shamed by a friend for sharing too much, rejected by a group when you dared to lead, or quietly punished for shining brighter than what was “allowed,” this wound shapes more of our self-worth than we realize.

What Is the Sisterhood Wound?

The Sisterhood Wound is a collective trauma rooted in centuries of competition, scarcity, and betrayal among women and feminine beings. It shows up when:

    •    You hesitate to speak your truth in a group.

    •    You play small so others won’t feel uncomfortable.

    •    You avoid leadership to avoid being targeted.

    •    You distrust other women’s motives—especially in spiritual or professional circles.

    •    You shrink after being praised, fearing the backlash.

Historically, our power as women was dangerous. Over time, in countless ways, it was quietly targeted and diminished. To survive, women were often forced to betray each other. Think: witch trials, arranged marriages, inheritance laws, exclusion from education, etc. Survival meant loyalty to patriarchy over sisterhood. And despite our many advancements, that ancestral scar still echoes today. And if you are a man and you’re reading this, and identify with it, it’s likely because you carry a similar community wound. Sadly, these are far more common than we think. And they are important to recognize, name, and heal, because without doing so, they will hold you back and replay in different variants, over and over again in your life.

Personal Signs You’re Holding This Wound

    •    You second-guess yourself after sharing something vulnerable.

    •    You feel “energetically punished” when you set healthy boundaries.

    •    You fear being seen, even if you crave it.

    •    You’ve felt scapegoated in friend groups.

    •    You shrink your own magic and magnetism so others don’t feel insecure.

Let me say this clearly: none of this means you’re broken. It means your nervous system has learned to associate safety with invisibility—and that can be healed.

When This Wound Shows Up in Community

Recently, (story shared within the Sovereign Path Series), I witnessed this dynamic unfold in real time.

What began as a sacred space for growth and initiation slowly revealed fractures beneath the surface—moments where others bypassed hard truths, betrayed private trust, stood with a leader even if it went against their gut instincts, or quietly silenced one another’s voices.

Because when the Sisterhood Wound is active inside a community, it creates fertile ground for control, confusion, and silence.

Some of us questioned ourselves:

“Was I too much?”

“Did I misread the energy?”

“Is it safer to stay quiet than risk conflict?”

Others felt pressured to conform to the collective story, fearing exile if they dared to speak against it.

Why This Happens in Group Dynamics:

1. The Group Mindset - Why We Stay Quiet

When we sense conflict, exclusion, or betrayal within a group, most people don’t act from their highest selves - they act from survival. The nervous system reads rejection or confrontation as a threat. This triggers what psychologists call fawning (appeasing), freezing (shutting down), or mirroring (aligning with the dominant voice to avoid exile). And in spiritual spaces or other groups centered around healing, spirituality, or personal growth, where we expect safety and authenticity, this can often look like:

• Staying silent rather than risking being seen as “the problem”

• Siding with the most charismatic voice to avoid being targeted

• Self-betraying (“I’m fine, it’s fine”) while quietly collapsing inside

• Bypassing harm with “love and light” language (or other superficial stories of false community or celebration) to maintain the illusion of harmony

This isn’t weakness. It’s wiring.

Our ancestors learned that exile from the tribe meant death. And our nervous systems still carry that memory.

2. How Manipulators Exploit This Wound

Trust me when I say, a manipulative leader doesn’t always look like a tyrant or a readily visible person you can easily peg. More often than not, they appear supportive, magnetic, and benevolent on the surface. But underneath, they’re studying the group, sensing vulnerabilities, and using our longing to belong as leverage.

Some common tactics:

• Reframing Dissent as Betrayal -

Anyone who questions the narrative gets labeled as “negative”, “unspiritual”, simply “doesn’t understand”, or is “not in alignment”. This is intentional - it weaponizes the Sisterhood Wound - making others fear becoming the next exile. Healthy leaders aren’t afraid or threatened of respectful discord, curious exploration, or discussions that open a collective mindset or group perspective. They genuinely want to learn from each other, support each other, and support the greater good of the collective.

• Creating Conditional Safety

Approval, access, or visibility within the group is tied (usually subtly) to obedience. Those who comply are “chosen”, “seen”, or validated in some way. Those who challenge are usually subtly pulled out of positions of influence or iced over. If you are in a group with subtle or overt control dynamics, rethink the psychological health of that community. Healthy communities support your psychological safety - they encourage you to respectfully share opinions, questions, and wins. There is no hidden rivalry or competition.; they cultivate a culture of genuine camaraderie.

• Controlling the Story

When harm happens, the manipulator reframes it so they remain the benevolent guide and others are blamed, dismissed, or doubted. Or, other methods, such as triangulation is used to seed multiple storylines and create conflict and control through interpersonal dynamics. Over time, this erodes trust - but the illusion of harmony keeps people quiet. Respectful discord is healthy. Mature people understand that there will always be differences of opinion and that no one person is ever without error. A healthy leader understands the need to hold compassionate truth and to also let energy naturally ebb and flow. They cultivate a culture dynamic of openness, compassion, synergy, and respect. The human experience will never be perfect, nor will your spiritual path. And healthy leaders understand perfection and control are not the goal.

• Exploiting Spiritual Bypassing

You may hear phrases like “we’re all mirrors”, “you’re being triggered”, “this points to an unhealed wound”, “you’re being offered a lesson”, “don’t focus on negativity”, “we don’t need to go into the shadow - we’ve transcended that”, “focus on your higher timeline”, “this is sacred work -its not for everyone”, etc. Underneath all of it, the manipulator leverages one unspoken fear: “If you challenge me, you will lose your belonging.” And because the Sisterhood Wound (or some other community wound that you hold) already tells us “being seen isn’t safe”, we comply, collapse, or retreat - even when something feels deeply wrong on a subconscious level. Healthy leaders understand life is cyclical - we all have seasons that include challenges, lessons, and dark nights of the soul as well as beautiful seasons of abundance, flow, and ease. A good spiritual mentor is there to help guide you into sitting in your discomfort, unearthing what rises to be witnessed and healed, and helping to compassionately hold space and support you through that process.

3. Why We Turn On Ourselves Instead of Speaking Up

Here’s the deepest layer of psychology in all of this: When conflict or harm happens, we often self-betray before we challenge the group.

Why?

• Attachment>Authenticity

Our nervous system is wired to protect connection first. We would rather suppress our truth than to risk rejection.

• Inherited Scarcity

We’ve internalized the belief that safe, supportive, aligned communities are rare. We cling tightly to the one we have, even if it wounds us. Or, if we suffer from any kind of abandonment wound around community or “family”, this may show up in a similar fashion, as a fear and scarcity wound, if our sense of belonging is subconsciously threatened.

• Trauma Conditioning

Many of us grew up in dynamics where love was conditional - so we normalize subtle forms of manipulation, exclusion, or control.

• Ego + Self Protection

Sometimes we turn on ourselves instead of speaking up because our ego wants to protect us from feeling foolish. It whispers, “Don’t admit you were wrong, don’t show you were fooled.” At its root, ego is trauma-born - it once kept us safe when harm was very real. But left unchecked, integrated, and fully healed - what once protected us can now limit us. Because here’s the truth: admitting we were deceived isn’t weakness - it’s courage. Every time we choose honesty over ego, we reclaim our power, honor ourselves, and free ourselves to grow. True strength is choosing authenticity over ego, clarity over illusion, and ourselves always over any misplaced fear. Every time we do, we reclaim our own sovereign power and step into growth.

Sovereignty is the Antidote

But, while these moments were painful— they were also clarifying.

Because they exposed the trap of the Sisterhood Wound inside group spaces:

We silence ourselves to belong, then abandon ourselves in the process.

And this is wildly dangerous. And far more slippery and subtle than you might imagine.

The turning point comes when you name what is happening - inside and around you. You use your discernment and listen to your body’s whisper when something feels off or misaligned, you choose yourself and healthy boundaries, and you reclaim your sovereignty. Because these moments you experienced reveal where sovereignty begins:

not in controlling others,

not in bypassing discomfort,

but in choosing truth over belonging. Time and time again.

In recognizing that your belonging starts when you claim yourself - because your sovereignty is held within you - it is not held externally in someone else’s approval or control. True leadership, true sisterhood, true community - they never require bypassing your instincts or compromising your truth.

The gift of this ordeal is seeing, with clarity, the pattern for what it is. The Sisterhood Wound is not just your wound—it’s ours collectively. Naming it helps us stop internalizing the shame and start breaking the cycle together. It helps us to start recognizing this wound and taking action directly to heal it. And manipulation always loses its power when you step into sovereignty and clarity - because clarity cannot be controlled.

How This Wound Protects Itself

When unhealed, this wound tends to recycle through the same behaviors:

    •    Bypassing: Pretending harmony exists while ignoring harm.

    •    Betrayal: Sharing one story publicly, another behind closed doors.

    •    Silencing: Withdrawing connection when someone speaks a truth that’s uncomfortable.

These aren’t signs of weakness. They’re survival strategies rooted in centuries of fear.

But sovereignty asks us to pause, name them, and choose a new response.

Moving Through the Ordeal

Healing this wound isn’t about going back to how things were before. It’s about stepping into a deeper truth:

    •    That you don’t have to dim your light to belong.

    •    That your voice is not a threat—it’s medicine. And you are meant to speak it boldly.

    •    That healthy boundaries and clarity create more real connection, not less.

This is the work of sovereignty:

Choosing authenticity over acceptance.

Choosing discernment over illusion.

Choosing your soul’s truth even when it costs you temporary belonging.

Why Healing This Wound Matters

This isn’t just about friendship.

Healing the Sisterhood Wound is what frees your voice, ignites your leadership, and unlocks your legacy. Because if you’re still afraid to shine in front of women - or any group or community, you’ll subconsciously sabotage your own success.

Until you repair this fracture, you may:

    •    Resist mentorship or community.

    •    Avoid collaborations out of mistrust.

    •    Stay small to avoid being resented.

• Avoid opportunities out of fear of being misunderstood.

• Avoid true intimacy and connection with others.

This is not your fault. But it is yours to shift.

Re-Parenting the Sisterhood Wound

You don’t need to wait for an apology or the perfect circle to begin healing. You can become your own safe witness.

Here are a few sacred self-repair tools:

1. Name the First Memory

Close your eyes and reflect. When was the first time another girl or woman made you feel “too much”? Name her. Name the moment. And speak this aloud:

“You didn’t know how to hold my light. That wasn’t my fault. I release all judgement around this and reclaim my power.”

2. Daily Nervous System Affirmation

Say this to yourself as you prepare to speak, post, or lead:

“It’s safe to be seen. It’s safe to be powerful. I choose love over fear, truth over silence.”

3. Mirror Practice

Look yourself in the eye and say:

“I trust you to speak boldly and speak the truth. You are always safe. I have your back.”

Journal Prompts for Integration

    •    When have I silenced myself to keep the peace? What did that cost me?

    •    Who did I give my power to, and why?

• Where have I traded authenticity for belonging?

    •    What am I most afraid will happen if I let myself shine fully?

    •    Where do I still crave approval or validation from others?

    •    What kind of sisterhood feels safe, sacred, and aligned for me now?

You are not alone in this ache. What you’ve carried is part of a much larger story - one woven through generations of women taught to compete, conform, survive, and stay small. But this is the turning point. Every time you speak your truth, choose your voice, and take up space, you break the old spell and create a new possibility for all of us.

Your Light Is a Catalyst, Not a Threat

Your voice, your vision, your visibility—they’re not betrayals of the collective. They’re medicine. They’re invitations for others to rise.

The Sisterhood Wound taught us to fear each other. It embedded this fear.

But your healing teaches you to belong to yourself—and in doing so, to also belong to others who are ready to love you without condition or control.

It’s time to befriend your own brilliance.

To boldly speak the truth.

To shine unabashedly.

To lead with integrity, radiance, and grounded humility.

Together we do this.

Not with fake and ill supported threads, but with hand and soul bounded celebration - holding and uplifting each other.

Because as one of us heals and shines, we encourage our sister next to us, to do the same.

And together, that is how we support healing and true change.

I’ve felt the sting of this wound myself - many times in my life and often wondered where its root was held. I’ve sat in many circles where I wanted so badly to belong, only to feel invisible, dismissed, or even subtly undermined. I used to think the problem was me. But over time, I realized these patterns weren’t about my worth - or even about my confidence - they were reflections of pain passed down through generations of women, pain that taught us to compete instead of trust.

The real work begins when we name it. When we remember that we are not each other’s enemies. When we choose to rise above old scripts and instead build spaces rooted in trust, encouragement, and sovereignty.

If you’ve carried this wound also, I invite you to pause and reflect: Where have I silenced myself in order to belong? And what would it feel like to stand in my own truth anyway?

Because this is how the Sisterhood Wound begins to heal - one voice, one truth, one act of courage at a time.

The Sovereign Path Epilogue III: False Loyalty & The Breaking of Psychic & Psychosexual Tethers

Some bonds are not love at all, but entrapment disguised as loyalty. Naming the tether is the first act of freedom. This post explores how tethers trap us in waking life and in the dreamscape.

Some bonds nourish. Others drain. Not all chains are visible. And some are not bonds at all, but energetic traps crafted to disguise as intimacy, loyalty, and even “love”. These traps are tethers - psychic cords designed to bind your will. Some are woven in silence, through attention, secrecy, or desire. These cords, once hooked, can leave us bound in ways we don’t understand. We may even wake up wondering why we feel pulled towards someone we don’t consciously choose, or why our own clarity keeps collapsing into confusion.

But, once they are seen for what they truly are, they can be broken.

Once broken, your sovereignty returns.

And if this has been you, hear this: It does not mean you are weak. It means your soul is learning to reclaim its freedom. Once these patterns are seen for what they are, and named, their hidden power over you dissolves.

What They Are, In Plain Terms:

A psychosexual tether is an energetic + psychological binding created through intimacy, attention, and manipulation.

It hijacks the body’s bonding chemistry (dopamine/oxytocin), overlays it with glamour (image, mystique, spiritual authority), and locks it in with control patterns (guilt, secrecy, intermittent reward, etc.).

The result: you feel compelled to stay connected even when your soul knows you should walk away.

How They Begin:

Psychosexual tethers rarely start with something obvious. They are seeded in small moments - an unspoken agreement, an unresolved attraction, a dynamic where secret itself fuels the charge. Over time, this exchange of energy becomes a loop: longing, guilt, release, repeat.

The tether works because it bypasses conscious choice. Your energy is engaged whether you want it to be or not. And the stronger it stays hidden, fed, and unacknowledged, the stronger it grows.

The Astral Realm: Where Hidden Tethers Are Often Forged

But what happens when the cords aren’t formed in daylight? What if the entanglement begins in places we barely remember - the dreamscape?

The astral and dream realms are fertile ground for manipulation. Here, our guard is lowered, our subconscious is wide open, and our most primal energies - desire, fear, longing - rise to the surface. For those who seek control, this becomes the perfect entry point.

Why? Because the dream body doesn’t distinguish between “just a dream” and a lived experience. When someone plants a sexual or emotional tether in the astral plane, the body and psyche register it as real. Over time, the victim may awake with cravings, confusion, or an unexplainable sense of attachment that feels “fated” - but is in truth manufactured.

These tethers are especially potent in relationships that are not overtly romantic. When overt intimacy is absent, the manipulator uses astral encounters to “fill in the gap”, weaving cords of sexual charge and psychic energy that create an addictive pull. What should have remained platonic or sacred is quietly rewired into obsession, dependence, a false sense of loyalty, or longing.

Step by Step for How These Tethers Form:

    1.    Hook: Love-bombing, sexual charge, soulmate mirroring - sometimes energetically mimicking a real connection, other times fabricating a false karmic or soul bond.

*This was perhaps one of the most disturbing things I saw in my experience, as it is highly convincing and truly cruel to do to someone. See previous posts for in-depth discussion regarding how this works.

    2.    Glamour: A crafted mystique - spiritual leader, chosen partner, or some sort of “special role” is crafted around them.

    3.    Bonding event: Intense intimacy or some sort of “secret sharing” that seals the tie. This can feel very real, even if there is no romance involved.

    4.    Intermittent reinforcement: Unpredictable warmth/cold patterns keep you addicted.

*See previous posts for in-depth discussion on how this works energetically and on your Nervous System.

    5.    Debt + Obligation: They make you feel like subconsciously you “owe” them — your silence, your loyalty, your energy, etc. Loyalty born from debt is not devotion - it is a tether that drains the very strength it pretends to honor.

    6.    Isolation: They pit people against each other (aka use triangulation techniques); you become elevated as the “chosen one” until you’re discarded and replaced.

    7.    Fear: Some sort of true fear pattern is created and reinforced typically involving the group, your identity, or destiny to keep you trapped, such as “If you leave, you lose everything — me, the group, your path.” Depending on how long you have been under this influence, how strong the tether is, and how long this loop has been reinforced and embedded, this can seem very real and threatening.

How It Works:

    •    Chemical Loop: Dopamine anticipation + oxytocin bonding + cortisol stress = an addictive push-pull dynamic is intentionally created.

    •    Meaning Loop: Ordinary control dressed up as “destiny, karma, or a shared mission.” With a truly gifted energetic practitioner these loops are individually crafted and created for the unique wounds and desires of the person, their energetic make-up, and the intentional purpose the creator wishes for them to serve.

    •    Energetic Loop: Your focus, fear, and even sexual energy feed the cord.

    •    Context Loop: Group dynamics normalize it so you doubt your instincts. And remember, glamour works by dulling your instincts, your agency, and your gifts. You are seeing all of this through a fogged lens and not true clarity.

How to Know If You’ve Been Bound Through Astral or Dreamscape:

• You’ve had recurring dreams of intimacy with someone you would never consciously choose in waking life. The dream feels strangely real and leaves a residue.

• You wake up with unexplained arousal, longing or guilt, as if something happened that you can’t fully place.

• You often feel drained, foggy, or heavy after sleep, as though your energy has been siphoned overnight.

• There’s a nagging pull toward a person that doesn’t match your real-life discernment. You know in your bones it’s not right, but something unseen keeps tugging you back.

• You may notice loops and cycles - moments of clarity where you want freedom, followed by sudden confusion, longing, or return.

Other Ways These Tethers May Feel:

    •    Compulsion stronger than free choice: you “decide” but feel dragged. You are being energetically coerced as the tether and loops in place keep you under their control.

    •    Brief highs, long lows.

    •    Guilt or debt replaces your joy.

    •    Shrinking life: fewer friends, family connection, hobbies - ultimately, less freedom, vitality, and less self.

    •    Constant tension: keeping them happy means betraying your own peace. As you awaken to this you will start to notice this dissonance more clearly but may still feel “bound’ in a sense. For example, even if you decide to walk away, you may feel like you can’t yet - you will not find clarity and decisive energy until you break the tethers.

Seeing is Believing (Self-Test):

Ask yourself:

    1.    Freedom Test: Could I walk away tomorrow without fear of collapse?

    2.    Debt Test: Am I staying because I want to, out of true love or community, or because I feel a sense of obligation, as if I somehow “owe” them?

    3.    Expansion Test: Do I feel larger, freer, more myself in this bond — or smaller and trapped? Is this bringing out the best in me?

    4.    Sunlight Test: If someone I trusted read our last 10 messages, would they call it love or control? Have any of the above shared feelings or experiences landed as true?

    5.    Future Test: If they vanished for 30 days, would my life expand or collapse?

If your answers lean toward fear, debt, collapse, or shame → it’s not love, it’s a tether.

The Wider Web: Other Tethers That Bind:

Psychosexual tethers are only one thread in the web.

Here are the others:

• Psychic Tether: Obsessive thought and focus, constant pull

• Emotional Debt Cord: Guilt and obligation used as currency.

• Trauma-Bond Cord: Abuse—>reward—>abuse, cycling until you can’t leave

• Group/Collective Cord: Belonging tied to hierarchy, exile used as threat.

• Magickal/Ritual Cord: Intentional energetic bindings, often with objects. Can often times be used to ensure you don’t physically leave a group.

• Ancestral/Karmic Cord: Past-life or family entanglements exploited by manipulators.

A skilled black magick practitioner rarely uses just one. They weave layers - a net that feels impossible to escape until you see each thread and break them.

Breaking the Tether:

Here is the uncomfortable truth - you are never powerless against these tactics. The cords may feel real to you and binding - but they are truly smoke and mirrors once you see them for what they really are.

To break them:

    •    Name it aloud: Truth itself is a sword. What was hidden cannot stay hooked once spoken. Speaking the truth weakens and dissolves the glamour.

    •    Reclaim your dreamscape & Revoke Any Debt: Before sleep affirm: Only what is of Spirit may enter here. My soul belongs to no one but the Divine.

• Practice Daily Sovereignty: Breathwork, prayer, or shielding rituals remind your system where your authority lies.

    •    Walk away: Even small steps reclaim freedom; one step alone helps to weaken the net.

    •   Call back your fragments: Imagine drawing your energy out of every dream, fantasy, memory, or feeling where it does not belong or where you do not consent for it to be. See it return to your body, your heart, your Spirit.

•  Reset the body: Movement, breath, rest, salt, grounding — heal your nervous system.

    •    Repattern bonds: Surround yourself with people who make you feel bigger, freer, clearer. Reconnect with friends, family, and hobbies - anything that allows you to start seeing the contrast, feel again, and reconnect consciously to your body, your innate desires and will, and true, healthy connection and relationship.

    •    Shield: Protect your field with intention (Prayer, Mediation & Visualization, Ritual, Salt Baths, LBRP/Middle Pillar/Rite of the Headless One; whatever aligns with your spiritual path - but do energetic protections and field maintenance regularly - especially before sleep, group activity, or any astral travel). Set the daily intention for your field: Only love and truth may enter. All else returns to Source.

Here’s the truth: even in dreams your soul is sovereign. No glamour, no hidden contract, no erotic entanglement has the right to bind you without your consent. Naming these tactics with clarity is the first cut of the sword. Recognizing them dissolves their hidden power. And, once seen, they can no longer weave themselves silently around your spirit. Each act of reclamation loosens the cords until they dissolve entirely.

When you begin to see even your dreamscape and astral plane as holy ground - sacred, sovereign, untouchable - you reclaim the parts of yourself that were once hijacked in the shadows. This is where true freedom begins.

Why This Is Done:

At its root, tethering (and really any form of black magick) is about power, control, and self benefit. The manipulator feeds off sexual and psychic energy like a battery, especially when they can attach it to secrecy or shame. It makes them more powerful, youthful, magnetic. It feeds their ego and allows them greater power to achieve their goals.

Non-romantic dynamics are often targeted precisely because they bypass defenses. If the waking relationship doesn’t “make sense” as intimate, the dreamscape tethering fills the gap, making the pull feel destined. And rarely does the trusting or non-suspecting person confront a teacher, mentor, or otherwise platonic figure in their life about crossing sexual lines in a way they’ve never seen in the physical plane or have any “proof” they can use to justify such an accusation. So, its usually dismissed as “in their head” or unrelated - especially if they are already under glamours (which nearly always goes hand in hand) and is already dulling their intuition, and fogging their sense of clarity and discernment.

The Truth About Love & Loyalty

Real loyalty is chosen freely.

Real love never imprisons, it frees.

Real bonds expand your soul.

Anything else is glamour, imbalance, and energetic theft and coercion. And when you name it — it begins to die.

Entrapment and false loyalty are not love - they are illusions that borrow your strength until you name them.

If you find yourself bound, it does not mean you are weak - it means your soul is being trained in the art of reclaiming its freedom.

Tethers only hold as long as you call them love or loyalty. The moment you name them for what they truly are, their hold over you begins to break. Real love expands your world - false loyalty shrinks it. The Sovereign Path is simple: consciously choose expansion, every time.

Freedom Is Your Birthright

Psychosexual cords, whether formed in waking life or woven in dreamscape, are never stronger than your Sovereign will aligned with Spirit. Once named, they dissolve. Once claimed, your freedom can no longer be taken.

You are not bound. You are sovereign. And in remembering that truth, you are already free.

Anchoring in the Body: Making Abundance Real

You can visualize the perfect home, recite affirmations, and write down your million-dollar goals —but if your body doesn’t feel safe to have and keep wealth, it will subtly push it away. Usually without you even realizing.

Abundance isn’t just a mindset. It’s not something you “call in” - it’s something you inhabit. It’s a full-body signal — the way your breath settles, the way your feet meet the ground, the way your nervous system decides, “Yes, this is safe for me.”

Embodiment is the bridge between wanting more and actually living it. You don’t become wealthy by thinking richer thoughts. You become wealthy by teaching your body what it feels like to already have what you desire.

And at the center of embodiment is presence — being so anchored in your senses that abundance stops being a future fantasy and becomes something you hold in your cells right now. When you’re fully present in your body, abundance stops being a mental wish and becomes a lived, sensory truth. The way you stand, breathe, and move tells your nervous system:

I am safe to have more. I am ready to keep more. I am worthy of all of it.

This is where the inner work stops being theoretical - and starts truly changing your reality.

Why the Body Decides If You’re Abundant

Your nervous system is your wealth thermostat.

It constantly asks, often below your awareness:

    •    “Am I safe to receive more?”

    •    “Can I trust this will last?”

    •    “Do I know what to do with it once I have it?”

When the answer is “no” — even subtly — your body will self-sabotage to bring you back to its “safe” baseline, even if that baseline is scarcity.

Examples:

    •    You get an unexpected check… and immediately feel the urge to spend it down. (Your body is more comfortable with emptiness than overflow.)

    •    You land a big client… and then “forget” to send the invoice. (Your nervous system is allergic to claiming your value.)

    •    You receive praise… and deflect it or change the subject. (You’ve learned visibility isn’t safe.)

    •    You finally have savings… and still feel tense, scanning for the next emergency. (Safety hasn’t been anchored into your physiology yet.)

Rewriting these patterns isn’t about more willpower, discipline, or enlightenment — it’s about teaching your body that abundance is safe, normal, and repeatable.

Your Elemental Wealth Code

Your chart’s elemental balance tells you how to embody abundance — and where your body may need extra support to feel safe keeping it.

How to Use This Chart:

    1.    Check Your Element Balance – Look at Sun, Moon, Ascendant, and personal planets (Mercury, Venus, Mars). Are most in one element? Missing one entirely? This shows where you thrive — and where you can consciously build strength to maximize your potential.

    2.    Look at Jupiter – Its sign/element shows your wealth growth style. Match your practices to this element to amplify results.

    3.    Check Your 2nd & 8th House Signs – These reveal the core energy you must embody to fully anchor abundance (self-worth & resources vs. shared wealth & transformation).

    4.    Part of Fortune – Its sign/element is your “natural wealth frequency.” Practices in this element feel the most effortless and joyful.

Pro tip: If your Jupiter, 2nd/8th house signs, or Part of Fortune fall in an element you’re missing — make that your daily focus. You’ll rebalance faster and notice results in both how you feel and what you attract.

Element	If Weak of Missing	If Abundant	Examples of Best Anchoring Practices	Bigger Life Gift
Earth (Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn)	May struggle to feel rooted or trust the long game; abundance feels abstract	Can build & keep, but may resist change or have risk aversion	Weighted grounding (weighted blanket or sandbags on hips) Gardening or planting something to watch grow, Cooking a full meal from scratch with mindful steps	Earth’s gift is the power to make the invisible visible – to give spirit and dreams a home in the physical world.
Water (Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces)	May struggle to receive or feel emotionally safe with wealth.	Deep feeler; but may get overwhelmed or overgive.	Floating in water, ritual or salt bath, Listening to emotion-evoking music with hand over heart, Receiving stillness – letting yourself be fully supported for 5 minutes in meditation	Water’s gift is the ability to merge with life so fully that abundance becomes an unbroken current.
Fire (Aries, Leo, Sagittarius)	Hesitant to act or embody confidence.	High drive but may burn out or skip savoring life.	Running or hot yoga to ignite vitality, Standing in sunlight while speaking affirmations aloud, Lighting a candle before work to signal “power hour”	Fire’s gift is the courage to initiate and the warmth that inspires others to rise with you.
Air (Gemini, Libra, Aquarius)	May overthink instead of acting.	Generates ideas easily but can detach from the body.	Deeply belly breathing while holding a grounding stone, Aromatherapy journaling – inhale then free-write visions “Sky gaze” for 60 seconds to expand perspective	Air’s gift is the vision to connect ideas and people, carrying abundance on the winds of possibility.

6 Unique Ways to Anchor Abundance in the Body

1. Weighted Grounding

Lie on the floor with a weighted blanket or sandbag over your hips. This physical pressure cues your body: You are supported. You are held.

2. Prosperity Pulse Tapping

Hand over heart, tap gently with your heartbeat while repeating: “I keep what’s mine. I grow what I have.” Links abundance to your life force.

3. The “Harvest” Walk

Pick up one natural object for every abundant thought you have on a walk. Keep them in a jar as a physical record/visual reminder of wealth awareness.

4. Elemental Breath Reset

Breathe Earth, Water, Fire, or Air patterns to balance your abundance frequency (choose the element you need most each day). This will help rebalance your abundance frequency.

• Earth: Deep belly exhale/inhale for stability

• Water: Slow, wave-like inhale through the nose, exhale through the mouth for flow

• Fire: Quick energizing inhales/exhales for confidence

• Air: Long, expansive inhales and sighing exhales for clarity

5. Touch as Wealth Encoding

While moisturizing, imagine sealing abundance into your skin like a golden seal. This reframes basic care as energetic investment.

6. Luxury Temperature Training

Use warm towels, cool water on wrists, or sunlight on your face — pause, ground in presence, and fully receive the sensation to train your nervous system to savor comfort. This conditions your nervous system to register pleasure and comfort as safe, repeatable, and worth holding onto.

Where Inner Wealth Becomes Real

Abundance isn’t in the numbers — it’s in the nervous system.

When your body learns to feel safe, worthy, and at home with more, you stop chasing and start keeping. Opportunities stick. Wealth stays. Relationships deepen.

Anchor it in your body, and abundance stops being a goal — it becomes your baseline reality.

Not because you wished harder, but because you became the person who lives, and embodies, it without effort.

Piercing the Illusion: Exposing Energetic Implants and Taking Back Your Power

The Sovereign Path Series Epilogue - How Lies Get Into Our Field & Steer Our Choices

Sometimes the conflict you feel with a friend didn’t come from a real event at all.

It was planted.

Not as gossip in your ear, but as a program in your energy field — a story that feels like truth because it’s been coded into you.

These are energetic implants of false narratives, and they are not misunderstandings or accidents.

They are weapons of control — carefully crafted to divide, isolate, and keep you dependently bound to a system that feeds on your energy.

At the core of this is not care, love, or genuine concern.

At the core is pure narcissistic predation wrapped in a smile.

It’s the kind of malicious design that will quietly decay the very best parts of your life, your vitality, and your future all the while convincing you that it’s “helping” you.

How Energetic Implants Work

An energetic implant is a deliberate act.

It is a multi-layered package placed in your field during a vulnerable or altered state, built with strategic intention, to manipulate your perception and your choices.

It contains:

    •    A story — a lie, exaggeration, or distortion that is twisted to become “your truth.”

    •    A strong emotional charge — fear, mistrust, guilt, outrage, or longing - to lock it in place.

    •    Anchors — mantras, affirmations, gestures, songs, incense, or talisman objects that reactivate it automatically.

    •    Tethers — energetic cords binding you to the person or group who installed it.

The Implant Cycle

1. Finding the Entry Point

They find your vulnerabilities — fear of losing friendships, a need for belonging, anxiety about money or health, spiritual ambition - whatever it is that is unique to you and your own core wounds -and that is how they gain access.

2. Opening the Field

You’re guided into an altered state through “healing” work, mantras, breathwork, meditation, or ritual. Your defenses drop; your suggestibility spikes.

3. Seeding the Story

The narrative is introduced. It may have no real event or cause - or, it may be based on a sliver of truth that has been exaggerated or distorted. There is just enough truth or story woven to make it plausible under a suggestive state.

Examples:

• ”Did you notice how they didn’t respond to your message? That’s because they’re pulling away from you.” Exaggerating and distorting simple silence into a signal of rejection.

• “Are you sure they really have your best interests at heart?” Planting a seed of suspicion without giving any evidence.

• “I’m getting a strong feeling that they’re jealous of you - it’s in their energy right now.” Positions the manipulator as the authority on unseen truth.

• “The’ve been distant lately - and remember that time they didn’t support your idea? This is just who they are.” Exaggerating small frictions into patterns and linking unrelated events into a distorted narrative.

• “I hate to tell you this, but I think they are preparing to leave you behind.” If shared for example with someone with a known fear of abandonment this takes their wound and attaches it to a false “reality”, playing upon that core fear and creating a strong emotion that creates conflict between two people.

Even unnecessary fabrications of false narratives to explain why someone might have left a group: “She’s very busy and has small children.” Knowing full well the true reason the person left but planting seeds to create a plausible story for strategic damage control. The core goal always being to control the narrative and reassert power. And when someone challenges the truth later? They are isolated and discredited, often through false stories to break remaining trust, bury the truth, and prevent any credible influence in the future. The intention is always to reassert power through control, fear, and dependency. Safety, prosperity, and spiritual growth are framed to only come through the manipulator - it keeps the group dependent and loyal by framing the outside world (and especially ex-members) as a “threat”.

4. Binding with Emotion

The story is paired with a strong emotional trigger so your body encodes it as reality. Now it feels like memory.

5. Anchoring the Program

Anchors — mantras, affirmations, gestures, objects — are charged to reactivate the implant over and over. Ever time they are used, it reinforces the energetic manipulation and spellwork.

6. Tethering to the Source

Group rituals and shared practices link you to a collective thoughtform (egregore) that keeps continuously feeding the connection.

7. Reinforcement Loop

    •    Reward: small synchronicities,”miracles”, or “wins”, that seem to prove the story or their power.

    •    Punishment: fear-based warnings of loss, bad luck, scarcity, or danger if you doubt or leave. Those who do leave are talked about, vilified, and attacked through false narrative and further implants - usually under suggestive states 1:1 work, group ritual, small gatherings using triangulation and energetic techniques, etc.

Make No Mistake — This is Black Magick

The steps used by themselves are not. But weaved with the intention to manipulate will, remove natural discernment and free choice - using energetic force without your consent - not for mutual empowerment or benefit but for control, dependency, and to serve one’s own ego - unequivocally is.

Black magick isn’t about props or aesthetic — it’s the use of spiritual or energetic force to override free will for personal gain.

For example:

    •    Intent: To control, divide, create dependency, and secure financial and energetic benefit.

    •    Method: Covert implantation of stories during altered states, anchored with strong emotion, tethered to a source, and reinforced over time.

    •    Outcome: Dependency, distorted relationships, loss of sovereignty, loss of vitality, and eventual collapse of your life’s foundation. Quite literally, a loss of your gifts, connections, finances, and even destiny and health.

The Cult-Like Reality

This is not misguided “help.” There is no core of genuine care, love, or concern. It is calculated. And at the central essence is ego and a desire for your money, your sovereignty, and your blind devotion. There is no real care about the cost this brings to you. And make no mistake, this cost is very real and can be very high.

It thrives by keeping you dependent and isolated, reprogramming your perceptions until you defend the very structure that is destroying you.

It is cult-like in operation — with a central figure holding perceived power, a controlled narrative, and an “in-group” bound by fear and false loyalty.

The spell is designed to keep you compliant and blind to the truth:

    •    There is no real familiarity here.

    •    There is no genuine care or concern.

    •    There is only extraction — of your trust, your energy, your gifts, your resources, and your future.

The Stakes of Staying

The longer you remain, the more your instincts dull and your life force drains.

Relationships outside the group fracture.

Your choices narrow until they all serve someone else’s agenda.

And here’s the worst part:

You may actually start defending the very system that is hurting you.

That’s the final lock on the door — when you become your own jailer.

The longer you stay the harder it becomes to leave the illusionary cage.

Recognizing the Signs

You might be carrying an energetic implant if:

    •    You feel sudden mistrust or conflict with someone without any clear cause.

    •    Your reactions feel “too big” or strangely repetitive.

    •    You only feel relief when you’re back in their presence or using their tools.

    •    You feel guilt or fear when questioning the story.

    •    The “truth” can only be verified through them.

• You feel real fear about the idea of speaking out or leaving the group. Even once you see the truth yourself and know the risks and cost.

Breaking the Spell

    1.    See It for What It Is — Ask: Did this come from my lived experience - did it actually happen that way or was it “given” to me?

    2.    Cut the Cords — Daily visualize unhooking cords from your heart, mind, sacral, crown, and solar plexus.

    3.    Neutralize the Trigger — When the thought comes, say: “This is not mine. I release it now.”

    4.    Replace the Anchor — Create affirmations or gestures that root you in yourself, not anyone else.

    5.    Reclaim Your Field — Stand in your own energy before making any decision.

Daily Protection Protocol

If you have been in a manipulative energetic system, daily protection is non-negotiable — especially when you leave. Retaliation can come in the form of psychic attack, emotional hooks, or renewed attempts to pull you back in. They can glamour you subtly, attack your nervous system creating feelings of dizziness and disorientation, and they can weave manipulation and distortion over and over again through new thougtforms, suggestive narratives, energetic imprints in your relationships, and so on.

Every day:

    1.    Shielding — Visualize yourself inside a sphere of brilliant, impenetrable light. Nothing harmful enters, nothing draining leaves.

    2.    Grounding — Imagine roots from your feet deep into the earth, anchoring you in your own body and truth.

    3.    Sealing — At the end of the day, see your energy field smooth and sealed — no leaks, no open cords.

    4.    Sovereignty Statement — Say aloud:

“I am sovereign. I withdraw all permission for anyone to use my energy, influence my mind, or direct my path without my conscious consent. I stand in my own light, now and always.”

Remind yourself of the first rule in magick and Creatorhood - that no one else has power over you unless you give them that power. Honor the power that you hold in your own protection and the belief that you hold in that protection and within yourself. Believe and stand firm in your own sovereignty. Refuse to give your power away.

The Choice

The most dangerous prison is the one you don’t realize you’re in.

Once you see the bars — the false story, the emotional hook, the anchor, the tether — you face the choice:

Stay, and keep feeding the system that is hollowing you out.

Or walk away, break the cords, and reclaim the life force that was always yours.

The moment you choose sovereignty, the spell begins to shatter.

You don’t need their permission. You never did.

Your truth doesn’t need to be installed by anyone.

It lives in you already — and it’s yours to keep.

The Fire of Clarity: Breaking Free When Trust Has Been Used Against You

Sovereign Path Series Epilogue

Most of us don’t give our trust easily - and if you’ve lived through betrayal or trauma, you tend to safegate it even more fiercely.

We guard it, test it, and only open that door when we believe we’ve found someone worthy of it. And when we finally hand it over, we hold it close, certain we’ve placed it well.

That’s why clarity - real, piercing clarity - can feel less like relief and more like fire.

It’s not just the loss of the person we trusted.

It’s the sting of realizing that trust itself has been weaponized and used as a tether.

When Trust Becomes the Chain

People who manipulate know the value of trust. They are incredibly skilled and artistic in how they use it.

Because they know it’s rare for you.

So once they have it, they guard it - not by continuing to earn it, but by weaving it into the very illusion they need you to believe.

You remember the good moments.

The loyalty they showed early on.

The way they seemed to have your back when it mattered.

And because those memories are real, they become the reason you keep giving the benefit of the doubt, over and over again - even when the cracks start to show.

This is why the fire of clarity burns so deep: it has to melt the bond that trust created before it can set you free.

5 Signs Your Trust Is Being Used Against You

1. Your loyalty is assumed, not appreciated. They stop showing gratitude for your trust - it’s treated as a given. Subtle control tactics.

2. Your doubts are turned back on you. When you question something, you’re told you’re imagining it or being “negative”. Or in some other way, you are dismissed or diminished.

3. Your trust is used as leverage; as cloaked manipulation. They remind you of the times they “helped” you to steer your choices now, the healing or growth they’ve helped you with in the past, or the “sacred bond” or mission you share.

4. You excuse red flags because of past good moments. The memory of how they once treated you keeps outweighing the reality of now. You excuse behavior in them that you wouldn’t in others.

5. You feel more responsible for protecting them than for protecting yourself. Your well-being starts taking a back seat to keeping the peace. This is often very subtle.

If you read these and feel a pang of recognition in any of them, know that you are not weak - you are waking up. And that is the first step to reclaiming your power.

Stage One: The Shock of Seeing

Before clarity, you’re breathing smoke.

You think it’s air.

You adapt to the heaviness in your chest, the dull ache in your heart, the constant second guessing - and you tell yourself it’s just life.

You gaslight yourself into avoiding the real truth that lies underneath the smoke because its far less painful.

But, then comes the strike.

The moment something sharp cuts through and you can’t unsee it.

Your eyes water. Your skin prickles. Every instinct says, Step back. Retreat. Pretend you didn’t see it.

And when trust is involved, the inner voice adds:

But what if I’m wrong about them? What if I’m misjudging? What if I ruin something good?

The truth is, clarity doesn’t erase the good memories - it simply forces them to sit beside the harm you didn’t want to see. That’s where the burn begins.

Stage Two: Standing Steady in the Fire

Scorpio wisdom teaches us that fire is transformation disguised as destruction.

It’s not there to harm you - it’s there to show you what is real.

The parts of you that were never truly yours - the false beliefs, the fear-rooted obligations, the loyalty that only flowed one way- none of that can survive this heat.

When trust has been weaponized, the pain doubles: you’re grieving the person and the version of yourself who believed in them.

How to steady yourself here:

1. Name the moment trust turned into control. There’s usually a point where you began shrinking yourself to keep them comfortable. Where you slowly eroded your own radiance, agency, and sovereignty. Find that point.

2. Gather proof from your own history. Write down three times you were right about someone’s motives - remind yourself you can read people accurately when you’re not glamoured and you are grounded, connected, and present.

3. Anchor in a truth outside of them. This could be a trusted friend, mentor, or a spiritual practice that doesn’t shift with their approval.

Stage Three: Rebuilding from the Embers

On the other side of that burn is not emptiness - it’s you, unbound.

The smoke has cleared. The ground feels solid again. You’re raw, but you’re standing in your own light.

This is where trust begins again - but differently this time.

• You trust yourself first. You don’t hand your discernment away. Not for anyone.

• You verify before you believe. Trust is built through consistent actions and shared history, not just words. You listen to your body and observe closely.

• You make it mutual. No more one-sided loyalty. You pay attention to where the balances erode so they don’t become slowly unbalanced in any new dynamic.

• You remind yourself that most people are not manipulative. That you can trust others again. But never again by giving away your own agency and discernment.

The fire has taught you that trust is sacred.

It’s not proof of someone else’s worth - it’s proof of your own. And if someone wants it, they meet you in the light, not in the smoke.

The Takeaway

Clarity will challenge your comfort, but it will also reveal your capacity.

You’ll see what you tolerated, and settled for, because you didn’t yet fully embrace your own worth.

You’ll recognize the manipulations you once called love - or loyalty.

And you’ll feel your spine straighten as you realize: this is what it’s like to walk in my own light.

So when clarity feels like fire, don’t run from it.

Stand in it.

Let it burn away what’s been dimming you.

And when the embers cool, you’ll see - you were the flame all along.

Catalyst Courage: Standing for Truth When It Costs Everything

Sovereign Path Series Epilogue

Some truths cost more than others.

They are not whispered in safe corners or shared only with the willing - they are declared in the open, knowing the price will be exile, chains, or death.

And yet, they are the truths that shift the axis of the world.

Every age remembers its threshold keepers - those who stepped back across the line when they could have turned back.

Stephen before the Sanhedrin.

A philosopher in the streets of Alexandria.

A god-king on the banks of the Nile.

A queen at the gates of the underworld.

They chose to stand, to descend, to face the stones - and in doing so, they set ripples in motion that would outlive empires.

Catalyst courage does not look like safety.

It looks like loss, like endings, like standing alone on the edge of everything you’ve known.

But when the ground shakes beneath you, it is not the end of the road- it is the opening of the path.

Stephen & Paul: The First Catalyst of the Church

In the Bible, in the book of Acts, Stephen becomes the first Christian martyr.

Falsely accused of blasphemy by the Sandedrin, he does not hedge his words or soften them to keep his place in the community. Or, even to save his own life.

But instead, he boldly spoke the truth.

He recounts the story of Israel and points to Jesus, who they had just crucified, as the fulfillment of prophecy, knowing full well that truth would not be received gently.

As the stones fly, Stephen looks up and sees something no one else in scripture has recorded:

Jesus, standing at the right hand of God.

In every other recording, He is seated - but here, He rises as if to honor Stephen’s courage. A symbolic standing ovation.

On the sidelines stands a young Saul, an intern at the time - holding the coats of the executioners. Have you ever wondered why this obscure detail is included?

Saul is a Jew, a Pharisee, and a Roman citizen - a triple threat whose background gives him unparalleled influence.

That day, he is a witness to what truth can cost.

It plants a seed in him that will crack open on the Damascus road, transforming him into Paul, the missionary who will carry the gospel across the Mediterranean and, ultimately, through generations, to us.

Stephen’s courage became the seed of a mission that reshaped history.

Esoteric & Pagan Parallels

This same archetype - the courageous stand that becomes a transformational seed catalyst - appears in many traditions.

Hypatia of Alexandria: The Light Keeper

In 5th century Alexandria - a city where pagan philosophy, Jewish tradition, and Christian theology met in both dialogue and conflict - Hypatia stood as one of the last great teachers of the classical world. A neoplatonist philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer, she taught that the study of the cosmos was a pathway to the divine.

When political and religious tensions rose, Hypatia could have retreated into private life. She could have softened her teachings to appease the rising tide of orthodoxy. Instead, she continued to teach openly, drawing students of all faiths.

Her public murder by a Christian mob was meant to silence her voice - but it became a symbol of resistance. Her name was carried like a banner by Renaissance humanists, Theosophists, and modern mystics.

Her courage preserved a lineage of sacred knowledge that would inspire seekers for centuries.

Her lesson reminds us that standing for wisdom when the world demands silence plants seeds of truth that will long outlast the walls built to contain them.

Osiris: The God Who Would Not Stay Dead

In the Egyptian Mysteries, Osiris ruled as a just and noble king until his brother Set, driven by jealousy, murdered and dismembered him, scattering the pieces across the land. The act was meant to erase him from both throne and memory.

But Isis, his devoted queen, refused to let his story end.

She searched the Nile and desert, gathering each fragment, reassembling him through sacred rites, and breathing life into him long enough to conceive their son, Horus.

Osiris’s death became the initiatory myth of Egypt - a pattern of death, dismemberment, and resurrection that every initiate symbolically walked.

In the temples, initiates “died” to the old self and were reborn into divine kingship, mirroring Osiris’s journey.

This myth reminds us that even when the world tears you apart, what is sacred can be gathered, restored, and reborn stronger than before.

Inanna: The Queen Who Descended

Inanna, the Sumerian Queen of Heaven, chose to descend into the underworld - not as punishment, but by her own will.

At each of the seven gates, she surrendered a piece of herself: her crown, her necklace, her rings.

By the time she stood before her sister Ereshkigal, she was stripped bare, without status or protection.

Ereshkigal struck her dead and hung her on a hook.

For three days, the world above languished.

Through divine intervention and careful bargaining, Inanna was revived and returned to the living world - but not unchanged.

She emerged with deeper sovereignty and wisdom, knowing the cost and gift of her descent.

Inanna’s story became the archetype of sacred initiation: surrender what you think defines you, endure the underworld, and rise with a truth that no one can take from you.

Her lesson reminds us that sometimes the path to your highest power leads straight through the gates of loss.

The Modern Thread

Catalyst moments are not confined to history or myth.

One day, I too stood at a crossroads: remain silent and stay inside a circle, or speak the truth I could no longer swallow - knowing it would cost me belonging and community that I had come to value.

I chose to stand. And to honor truth.

The loss was real, but so was the abundance: clarity that cut through illusion, freedom from the weight of compromise, opening of my gifts, and mission that could only be born on the other side of that decision.

The pain of these crossroads moments is not something to bypass or brush aside.

Loss is real. Grief is real. There is an ache in walking away from what was familiar and comfortable, even if it was no longer aligned.

Allow yourself to feel it fully - because bypassing unacknowledged grief only hides in the shadows and slows your growth.

But do not let it be the place you pitch your tent.

The void it leaves is not meant to remain empty - it is the fertile ground where new relationships, new opportunities, and a deeper self take root.

Honor what you’ve lost, but keep your eyes on the horizon of what’s being born.

The Quiet Courage of the Crossroads

The stories of Stephen, Hypatia, Osiris, and Inanna are dramatic, visible, and often violent turning points.

But life does not always hand us a stage and an audience when it asks us to be brave.

Sometimes, the catalyst comes in the form of a private conversation that shatters an illusion.

A job you can no longer ethically remain in.

A relationship you know you must release.

A truth that burns in your bones but would cost you connection if you spoke it.

These moments will not be recorded in scripture or myth, but they are no less sacred.

The ripple effects of a single act of integrity - even unseen - can shift the landscape of your life and the lives of those around you.

Here’s the Invitation:

When you find yourself at such a crossroads- whether it’s the kind history remembers or the kind only you and a handful of others will ever witness - pause and look deeper.

Ask yourself:

• What courage is being asked of me right now?

• What would standing in truth look like here?

• How might this decision ripple far beyond what I can see?

Because even the smallest acts of courage plant seeds.

And though you may never see their full bloom, they have the power to change the course of lives, lineages, and futures.

When the choice comes - whether in a public square or in the quiet of your own heart - take the step.

Not because it is easy, but because it is the only way to walk into the life that is truly yours.

Sovereign Path Series: Part 7. The Real Work Begins: Sovereignty as a Lived Practice

The moment the illusion breaks is not the moment you feel free.

It's the moment you realize how much of your life was shaped inside someone else’s frame.

You saw through the manipulation. You named the false leader. You broke the pattern - quietly, bravely, without applause.

But now you’re standing in the echo - and it’s not liberation you always feel at first.

It’s disorientation. It’s grief.

You begin to realize - if the version of you that sought safety in dysfunction is gone - what rises in its place?

This isn’t the “empowerment moment” everyone talks about.

This is the invisible rebuild.

The quiet, often painful process of learning to live without the emotional scaffolding that once told you who you were, how to belong, and what to believe.

And this is where sovereignty begins.

Not in the rupture, but in the rebuild.

Not in the anger, but in the choices you make after it cools.

Not in theory, but in the small, lived decisions you make every day - when no one is watching.

This final chapter of The Sovereign Path isn’t here to inspire you.

It’s here to help ground you in what truth actually requires.

It’s here to walk with you as you meet the question:

Can I trust myself enough to be the authority now?

What No One Tells You About The “After”

Once you’ve seen through the illusion, the power games, or the manipulative group dynamic, you expect to feel powerful. Lighter. Stronger. Clearer.

But, instead, most people feel:

• Wobbly: stripped of the emotional anchors that once kept you upright

• Hyperaware: watching for betrayal in every room

• Cynical or jaded

• Exhausted: grieving time, energy, trust lost

• Ashamed: for not seeing it sooner

• Tempted: to soften the truth in exchange for belonging again

• Uncertain: about who or what to trust - including themselves

Comfort becomes seductive.

Doubt becomes soothing.

And it’s easier to gaslight yourself than to face what your intuition already knew.

That’s not failure. It isn’t regression.

That’s withdrawal.

You’ve just unplugged from something that regulated your nervous system, even if it harmed you and distorted your perception of love, truth, or power.

The Science of Sovereignty: A Nervous System Perspective

When we’ve been in high-control environments - spiritual or otherwise - we become wired to external cues.

Over time, our sense of “safety” attaches, and becomes outsourced, to:

• Approval

• Certainty

• Belonging

• Authority figures, “elders”, or “guides” who seem to “know better”

• Familiar patterns that help us feel in control

When that system collapses, it’s not just emotional-its somatic. Your body doesn’t yet know it’s safe. This is why people often go back - to the group, the teacher, the “maybe it wasn’t that bad”.

Not because they are weak or naive.

Because they haven’t yet learned to re-anchor in themselves. Their system is still frozen in fear, loyalty, or the illusion of comfort.

The work now isn’t just emotional.

Its physiological.

And it’s sacred.

Living Sovereignty in Real Life - What Embodied Sovereignty Actually Looks Like

Here’s what real sovereignty looks like - not as a concept, but in motion:

It’s not dramatic.

Its consistent.

And often invisible.

• Choosing honesty over comfort.

• Saying “I need space” when urgency pressures you

• Listening to your body’s cues instead of overriding them for approval

• Asking: “Is this true for me?” before accepting something blindly as wisdom

It’s noticing when you want to give your power away - even subtly.

It’s witnessing yourself in old patterns without shame - and choosing differently.

It’s leading yourself, when no one else is guiding you.

In Conversation:

• You pause before agreeing.

• You notice if your body tightens when someone speaks with authority and how you feel in conversations with people.

• You say “I’m going to sit with that”, instead of reflexively nodding. You listen to your gut. Your discernment. Your instinct.

• You notice if you are choosing comfort, familiarity, and acceptance over what truly aligns with your soul and feeds your vitality, goals, and dreams. Because glamour and manipulative tactics will dull your vitality - true life alignment will fuel it.

In Decision-Making:

• You don’t ask five people what they’d do.

• You weigh your values.

• You ask, “What outcome feels most honest to me, even if it’s uncomfortable?”

In Relationships:

• You no longer mistake intensity for intimacy.

• You stop confusing being needed with being loved.

• You speak your needs without demanding others meet them.

The Temptation to Return to False Safety

This is where many fall back asleep.

When faced with the pain of truth, people often bargain with the past.

• “Maybe they didn’t mean harm.”

• “It wasn’t that bad.”

• “They helped me too.”

• “This is part of my life path.”

• “Maybe I misunderstood.”

• “Who am I to judge?”

And if the community still offers warmth, acceptance, routine, identity?

It can be very tempting to return.

But, this is where you need to be brutally honest with yourself:

• Are you choosing truth - or comfort?

• Alignment - or appeasement?

• Are you fueling your vitality and growth - or self sabotaging, avoiding, and sitting in denial?

• Are you feeding cycles of confusion - or seeking deep truth within yourself?

Sometimes the most dangerous manipulation is the one you gaslight yourself into staying in - because leaving would mean facing your own complicity.

That is where ego steps out of balance and pride becomes your greatest adversary.

Sovereignty asks you to feel the shame, the regret, the grief…

and still not hand your power back.

The Slow Rebuild: A Different Kind of Strength

You can’t rebuild on false ground.

This part of the journey isn’t about doing more.

It’s about doing differently.

• Reconnecting with your body as a compass

• Rebuilding emotional safety from the inside out

• Learning to hold complexity without collapsing

You don’t need a new group.

You need to build trust with yourself again.

And yes, it will feel lonely at first.

But you’re not abandoned.

You’re in between.

And that’s where your integrity roots itself for real.

Integration Tools for the New Foundation: Building Your Sovereignty Muscle

1.The Daily Truth Audit: Reclaiming Inner Authority

This isn’t just reflection. It’s self-leadership in real time; in micro-moments.

Each evening - or whenever you feel your energy was pulled off center - ask yourself:

Where did I override my inner knowing today?

Did I say yes when I meant no? Did I stay silent when I wanted to speak?

Where did I follow someone else’s voice instead of my own?

Was I trying to please, prove, or belong? Did I shrink to avoid discomfort? Am I still seeking external validation or approval?

Where did I hold my ground, even when it was hard?

Celebrate it. Mark it. This is you rebuilding self-trust.

What part of me needed support, clarity , or safety - and how can I offer it now?

This is not about judgement. It’s about self-nurturing, reparenting, and tending to your inner child.

Repeat this for 3 weeks. Patterns will emerge. You’ll begin to see, not just what pulls you off path - but what strengthens your center.

Sovereignty isn’t found in big declarations. It’s found in these micro-moments of honesty with yourself. Its found in the silent celebration of choosing yourself over and over, each and every day.

2. Embodied Reanchoring Practice: Teaching Your Nervous System You’re Safe Without Control

When you’ve lived inside distorted power dynamics - spiritual or relational - your body learns to associate certainty with safety. When illusion breaks, your nervous system often stays in fight/flight long after the threat is gone.

This practice helps rewire that response, so you stop chasing authority outside yourself.

Do this daily, especially after emotional activation:

1. Sit or lie down. Uncross your limbs. Breathe slowly into your belly.

2. Place one hand on your heart, one on your lower abdomen.

3. Say aloud:

   I’m here now.

   I am safe and I am loved.

   I choose my pace.

   I don’t need to know everything to be safe.

4. Scan your body for tension. Notice any urge to seek answers or fix a feeling.

   Let the urge come.

   Don’t follow it.

5. End with this statement:

   I trust myself to lead, even in the unknown.

This rewires the loop that says “safety = control” and replaces it with “safety = presence”. Ultimately, it will help you to replace your need for control with presence.

You become your own anchor. Not the next method. Not the next mentor. You.

3. The Discernment Inventory: Clearing the Residue of Influence

When you’ve been shaped by systems that distorted truth in the name of love, light, power, or authority, discernment isn’t automatic. It must be rebuilt - carefully, intentionally, and with self-compassion.

This tool helps you check for lingering energetic or psychological residue - and teaches you how to recognize alignment from fear-driven loyalty.

Ask yourself regularly (weekly or when entering new spaces):

1. When someone inspires me, do I feel more connected to myself - or more dependent on them?

Do I leave their space with clarity - or with a desire to chase approval?

2. Does this person/path invite me deeper into personal responsibility or deeper into performance?

Are they creating mirrors - or contracts of silence?

3. What unspoken agreements am I making to stay connected here?

Am I betraying any truth to stay included?

4. Is this relationship helping me trust myself more - or trust myself less?

This is the litmus test.

Discernment doesn’t mean paranoia - it means presence. The goal isn’t to fear influence, but to recognize it before it becomes entanglement.

4. The Boundary Repatterning Practice: Saying No Without Explaining Yourself

One of the deepest wounds after spiritual distortion or people-pleasing systems is the belief that you must justify your clarity. That you must soften your no. Or earn your space.

This tool helps you reclaim boundaries as an act of self-trust, not defense. Reclaiming your “no” without guilt.

Practice this boundary repatterining once per day:

1.Say no to something low-stakes but automatic.

• Decline a text conversation you don’t have energy for.

• Don’t offer advice when you feel pressured to respond.

• Postpone a task you are not emotionally available for.

2. Notice what rises.

Guilt? Fear of being misunderstood? Pressure to explain?

3. Breathe into the tension. Say silently (or aloud):

• I am not responsible for managing someone else’s perception of my limits.

• My boundary is not a betrayal.

4. Reflect with curiosity, not critique:

What part of me believes it must be liked or accepted to be valid?

This is nervous system work. Identity work. Integrity work. And it takes repetition to rewire. Start with the smallest no - and keep building from there.

The New Devotion: Self-Loyalty Over External Validation

Eventually, your choices no longer stem from fear.

They’re born from clarity.

Not from proving.

But from alignment.

Sovereignty doesn’t mean doing it alone.

It means not collapsing your truth to keep the peace and stay connected.

It means being able to:

• Receive support without dependency or losing center

• Love without self-abandonment

• Speak without self-censorship

• Connect without shape-shifting

This is the Path Now

You’re not looking for a new savior.

You’re not asking someone to hold what you’re fully capable of carrying.

You’re done choosing comfort over clarity.

You’re done gaslighting your gut and your future for someone else’s convenience.

You’re done bypassing what your body already knows.

Because now, you’ve remembered something ancient and immovable:

You are the authority you were waiting for.

You are the truth-teller now.

You are the one who sees clearly - and lives accordingly.

And you are recommitting to yourself, your future, and your highest good.

You’re no longer living for acceptance, answers, or permission.

You’re living in response to your own wisdom - however slowly it speaks, however inconvenient it feels.

This is sovereignty in practice:

• Unpolished

• Unapologetic

• Unshakably yours

This isn’t about being perfect.

It’s about being honest enough to no longer betray yourself.

Because sovereignty isn’t just something you claim.

It’s something you build - moment by moment:

One choice at a time.

One boundary at a time.

One reclamation at a time.

And sometimes, one day at a time.

That is sovereignty.

And that is everything.

And if you’re still shaking while you walk it - you’re not alone.

Most of us are still learning to trust our own feet again.

But every honest step is sacred.

And you’re already further than you think.