gathering hearts
as the wheel spins
I’ve had my eye on mid-February 2026 through early April 2026 since last year.
And now, the micro-era has arrived.
We are in it now. It is on.
And all I want to do is gather our hearts and BE TOGETHER. I want our hearts to accompany each other through this time period.
One space where I endeavor to stay “together, in time” is the Lunar Library. Here is the first minute from our Aquarius Solar Eclipse video as it is relevant to the rest of today’s message -
And, you know, IF one was on The Price is Right, and IF one spun the wheel, and then IF one ran off-stage while it spun, or tried to affect the wheel, forcing it into a certain result; one would be disqualified and receive no prizes.
That is kind of the point I am making. What are the best/most appropriate behaviors while the wheel spins? Certainly different behaviors than after the wheel stops spinning. While the wheel spins, the ideal behavior is most likely to stay still and watch the wheel spin until it stops and you see what it landed on.
Of course, this type of stillness is not “natural” in our culture.
We love to force a thing.
We love to perceive humanity as “in control”.
But then here comes Eclipse Season.
TONIGHT - we are gathering for the Eclipse Season magic class where I will lay out the wisdom I’ve cultivated after a decade of working with (and around) Eclipse energy.
Join us if you can. I have put together a rad presentation that I think you will love, and we will gather our hearts - either in real time or through the recording.
MONDAY - 2/16 - 6:30-8pm L.A. time on Zoom
If you are ready to tune into the energy of The Year of the Horse (starting tomorrow!), there is a lot of horse-power ready for you on the Free Page.
I say a lot in the video there as well, but one thing I want to highlight is that in the Year of the Horse, alignment is super important. Horses are very strong, but also can be really sensitive and skittish. We don’t want our Year of the Horse to run off in a “wrong” direction. Making this a great time to ask ourselves - is my energy welcoming to what I hope will arrive quickly? am I in alignment on all levels? am I ready to go fast? do I know which directions I want to run? am I ready to receive invitations from the Year of the Horse?
AND… This Saturday I am hosting our first ever Magic 1/2 Day online - think of this like a spiritual-artistic co-working moment, with a big dash of heart and soul. We’ll start off with some very chill movement and meditation, then I will share a revealing art exercise and then we will creatively co-work (I encourage collage or coloring) and then enjoy a meditation for peace to finish.
SAT. 2/22 8:30 to 11:30am L.A. time on Zoom
AND… we only have 10 Visions to go in our 99 VISIONS audio library. You can access this collection of magical-philosophical talks and meditations from 99 VISIONS either in the Library or in the paid Friday space of this Substack.
This week, on Friday, I will actually be sharing the talk and meditation with everyone because, fortuitously, they really “match” the observer/witness energy we need to watch the wheel spin.
Well, here we go my friends. Let’s watch the wheel and see where it lands.
Until next time,
Jess
“The important thing about despair is never to give up, never wrap up and put away a sterile life, but somehow keep it open. Because you never can know what’s coming; never. That’s the great thing about life, the crucial thing to remember. You may beat your fists on a stone wall for years and years, and every consideration of common sense will say it’s hopeless, forget it, spare yourself; and then one day your bleeding hand will go through as if the wall were theatrical gauze; you’ll be in another realm where birds are singing and love is possible, and you’d have missed it if you’d given up, because it might be only that one day the wall was not stone.”
- Allen Wheelis
“We do not find our own center. It finds us. We do not think ourselves into new ways of living. We live ourselves into new ways of thinking.”
- Richard Rohr
Let me keep my mind on what matters,
which is my work,
which is mostly standing still and learning to be
astonished.
- Mary Oliver
The Uses of Sorrow
(In my sleep I dreamed this poem)
Someone I loved once gave me
a box full of darkness.
It took me years to understand
that this, too, was a gift.
- Mary Oliver
“I don’t mean it’s easy or assured, there are the stubborn stumps of shame, grief that remains unsolvable after all the years, a bag of stones that goes with one wherever one goes and however the hour may call for dancing and for light feet. But there is, also, the summoning world, the admirable energies of the world, better than anger, better than bitterness and, because more interesting, more alleviating. And there is the thing that one does, the needle one plies, the work, and within that work a chance to take thoughts that are hot and formless and to place them slowly and with meticulous effort into some shapely heat-retaining form, even as the gods, or nature, or the soundless wheels of time have made forms all across the soft, curved universe - that is to say, having chosen to claim my life, I have made it for myself.”
– Mary Oliver
“Simplicity in conduct, in beliefs, and in environment brings an individual very close to the truth of reality. Individuals who practice simplicity cannot be used because they already have everything they need; they cannot be lied to because a lie merely reveals to them another aspect of reality. An attraction to simplicity is essentially an attraction to freedom - the highest expression of personal power. We are taught to think of freedom as something one has, but it is really the absence of things that brings freedom to the individual and meaning into life. To let go of things - unnecessary desires, superfluous possessions - is to have them. Lao Tzu believed that an individual life contains the whole universe, but when individuals develop fixations about certain parts of life they become narrow and shallow and uncentered. Fixations and desires create a crisis within the mind. As individuals let go of desires, feelings of freedom, security, independence, and power increase accordingly.”
- R.L. Wing, The Tao of Power
“Between where you are now and where you’d like to be there’s a sort of barrier, or a chasm, and sometimes it’s a good idea to imagine that you’re already at the other side of that chasm, so that you can start on the unknown side.”
- David Bohm
“Downtime is where we become ourselves, looking into the middle distance, kicking at the curb, lying on the grass or sitting on the stoop and staring at the tedious blue of the summer sky. I don’t believe you can write poetry, or compose music, or become an actor without downtime, and plenty of it, a hiatus that passes for boredom but is really the quiet moving of the wheels inside that fuel creativity.”
- Anna Quindlen
“You don’t need to be burned out to go on hiatus.”
- Danielle LaPorte
And I, infinitesimal being,
drunk with the great starry
void,
likeness, image of
mystery,
I felt myself a pure part
of the abyss,
I wheeled with the stars,
my heart broke loose on the wind.
- Pablo Neruda
“How then does light return to the world after the eclipse of the sun? Miraculously. Frailly. In thin stripes. It hangs like a glass cage. It is a hoop to be fractured by a tiny jar. There is a spark there. Next moment a flush of dun. Then a vapor as if earth were breathing in and out, once, twice, for the first time. Then under the dullness someone walks with a green light. Then off twists a white wraith. The woods throb blue and green, and gradually the fields drink in red, gold, brown. Suddenly a river snatches a blue light. The earth absorbs color like a sponge slowly drinking water. It puts on weight; rounds itself; hangs pendent; settles and swings beneath our feet.”
— Virginia Woolf, The Waves
“There is nothing that is not spiritual for those who have learned how to see.”
--Richard Rohr
“Learning to love the world means that you cannot be pleasantly indifferent about its future. But there is a wisdom in knowing that change has come before and, what is more, that it will keep on coming, often when you least expect it; unplanned, spontaneous, and sometimes, even just in time.”
- Lyndsey Stonebridge
“Nature is resilient, and we are part of nature. If you are losing faith in your fellow human beings, look around at the leaves and grasses, at any green thing. Long, long ago, when early life began to run out of food, nature created a miracle—a molecule that use the energy of sunlight to turn air and water into nourishment. Alchemy! We can do the seem. Take a breath in. The very air is a gift of that miracle process, and every breath out is a gift back to the green world. We are connected, always, and regeneration is inherent in life. Trust in that, and we will find our way.”
- Starhawk
“We call everything a river here. We are that kind of people.”
― Richard Brautigan
Always love your insights! 💖
I look forward to Tuesdays on your substack. I’ve been feeling rickety for the past couple of weeks. Suddenly, today, I’m calm. I don’t know if it’s because I’m in the eye of the storm or because my body is over the biggest hump of this energetic shift but I’m present and so curious if we’ll be seeing the fruits of our labor soon. Thanks Jess!