Hey Gorgeous!

It’s a snowy Sunday morning here in New York City as I write this. I’ve got my smooth jazz playing, incense burning, and a hot mug of black coffee. It’s calm and peaceful, and I’m spending my time exactly the way I want to (creating this). Whatever small pleasures or luxuries you can find in your days this week, I wish you the presence of mind to absorb them. Savor the last days of this yin month of January, and make sure your cup is full for February!

February’s going to be different. It’s a universal 3 month. We kick off with a bright full moon in Leo. We have our first eclipse of the year on the 17th, which is also the first eclipse in Aquarius since 2009/2019. Uranus ends its retrograde and moves forward. And we have the planets Saturn and Neptune meeting together in the sign of Aries for the first time in over three centuries. More specifically, they’re meeting at 0 degrees of Aries, the very first degree of the entire zodiac, and that hasn’t happened in thousands of years…

So February is bringing us some new new. And it’s Black History Month for us here in the United States 🥳!

Of course, we can always find moments of stillness, quiet, and presence at any time. And, we just might feel like picking up the pace in February, or feel like there’s greater activity around us and in the air in general. Change and opportunity might call us forward into a more active state. And that’s okay. Action is as much a part of our natural rhythm as being in stillness.

Reflecting on the Gwendolyn Brooks quote above, February might feel like daybreak. We already know that in the northern hemisphere we are increasing in daylight as we progress toward Spring. I sense that a dawning will be observable and palpable for at least one aspect of our lives. But it will just be the dawn. We have some time before we’re standing in the full intensity of the Sun at high noon. So let yourself stretch and yawn if you need to, as you rise from the bed of January.