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Life feels impossible to swallow right now but I'm choking on *so many* good things.

New puppy. Business is growing. Learning new skills (I’m wrapping up an EFT practitioner + clinical hypnotherapy certification right now). We have house renovations starting very soon (that we’ve been waiting on for months!).

I’m (happily! gratefully!) juggling all of this alongside school schedules, sports, and robotics practice. Homework facilitation and exhausted kids that are very much still adjusting to being in school 5-days a week and not running feral in our backwoods.

In the back of my mind, though, I’m gagging on the reality that I’ll soon be navigating alllllll of this by myself.

CONTEXT:

My husband just accepted a new job. A position he’s been wanting for years—literal dream job for him. I’m so excited because I know how badly he’s wanted this. I’m stoked for him to start down this path. Ultimately it will be really great for our family too.

However…(*big asterisk moment here*)...

This job requires six months of academy training. Which means I’m about to embark on six months of solo parenting. Of juggling alllllll of this by myself.

It’s not the first time I’ve done it. I’ve been a military wife for many, many years. We’re high school sweethearts and Aaron joined the military right out of high school so this has been our entire relationship.

But the last time I navigated six months of solo parenting was one of the darkest times of my life.

We had just moved across the state to a brand-new area where I had no community, no network, no support. I unpacked boxes by myself while I was four months postpartum with our second son.

I was in such a tender spot—trying to juggle two kids instead of one. A precious 2 ½ -year-old who didn’t understand why I couldn’t give him all my attention anymore. And a very, very fussy, particular, personality-filled, blue-eyed 4-month-old baby boy. Again, by myself.

(Also—why does nobody talk about the fact that going from one→two kids is actually so jarring??? In hindsight, going from two to three was no big deal. One to two absolutely caught me off guard.)

Anyways, it was a very rough time. And by rough, I mean I had postpartum rage & depression. I told Aaron I hated him to his face when he returned. When we talk about that time now, after a lot of healing together, he tells me he knew it wasn’t really me talking. He could see and hear that I was in a dark place. 😭

Honestly, when I think back on it—it’s a miracle all three of us made it out of that time alive.

SO YEAH, I’m a little freaked out to navigate six months by myself again. Because it’s hard not to be reminded of how it went last time.

Except—this is the beauty of understanding life with a cyclical mindset: I might be in a similar spot again. This might feel familiar. But I have a different vantage point now. *I* am not the same.

Not to get all Pocahontas on you, but you can’t step in the same river twice. The river is always flowing.

And in this situation, I am the river.

I have more wisdom. More skills. More support.

So yeah, all of this is very top of mind. Knowing I’ve got this huge thing to navigate. And by the way—he’s leaving sometime this month. Sometime this month. So my clock is ticking.

I feel it.

It’s like an internal clock, counting down. A tension in my body because I know my time with my husband is limited. And then he’ll be gone, and that’s going to kick off this six-month sprint.

So I’ll have to keep reminding myself of this story. For a couple reasons.

Because even though I’m a different person now, even though I know these things about myself, my body remembers what that shit was like. And the body doesn’t rewire verbally. That’s not how it works.

So I’m relying on new somatic skills (hence the EFT cert). And I’m leaning on intuitive knowing.

And that brings me here: To the incredible, massive fucking synchronicity of this Virgo Eclipse portal of September 2025.

​ ​ We have two eclipse seasons every year—one in the spring and one in the fall. The exact timing shifts a little, because the astrological calendar doesn’t quite match up with the Gregorian calendar. This year, our autumnal eclipse portal falls in September. ​ And eclipses? They always happen in sister signs (aka, signs directly opposite each other in the Zodiac wheel — I illustrate this for you in my free guide, The Astrology Glossary). They’ll work in that pair for about two years, which means the themes of that sign are front and center during that whole period. ​ Eclipses are a release of chaotic creative force energy. And by chaos, I mean unpredictable, quantum, but also creative. ​ People forget that part. ​ Across global mythology, chaos was the forming agent of the cosmos. Creation comes from chaos. It’s where the good ideas live. It’s where the insights come alive. ​ That’s the energy coming at us in these next two lunar events. ​ Alsoooooo worthy of note is that every eclipse portal has both a new moon and a full moon. We’re starting this one with a Full Moon Eclipse in Pisces—which means RELEASE, baby. Since full moons symbolize endings and this one is a full moon eclipse you can basically think of it like a full moon on crack. We’re talkin’ big karmic endings. A chapter closeout to prepare the way for the Virgo New Moon Eclipse later this month. ​ REFLECT: ​ This is the second Pisces Full Moon eclipse we’ve had since our first was set off September 2024. We’re still working inside that new 2-year cycle of growth, which means this month isn’t a random one-off—it’s a continuation. The work keeps unfolding. ​ So here’s your Practical Woo Tip: embrace the chaos. Expect insights, epiphanies, opportunities, and magic you cannot possibly plan for. ✨ ​ The key is to make space. Create awareness. Then let it land. Be gracious with yourself. Take exquisite care. And let the eclipse magic start rollingggggg! ​

This is your personalized breakdown of where this astro energy is hitting — and how to work with it, not get worked by it. This weekend’s Pisces Full Moon Eclipse is the cosmic kickoff to a six-month arc of transformation. Think of it as a catalytic flashpoint — the insights, downloads, inspiration, and shake-ups you feel now will keep unfolding until the spring. Look to your rising sign as this will show the areas of life that will be lit up for you — the arenas where eclipse magic is likely to crack something open and set off a glow-up. Consider these areas in your next journal or meditation sesh: Aries Rising (Pisces 12th / Virgo 6th): Rest vs. routine. Insights arrive in stillness, but they’ll reshape how you structure your days. Taurus Rising (Pisces 11th / Virgo 5th): Friends, community, creativity. Expect shifts in who you play with, what you create, and what dreams feel alive. Gemini Rising (Pisces 10th / Virgo 4th): Career vs. home. You’re re-architecting your foundations while stepping into new visibility. Cancer Rising (Pisces 9th / Virgo 3rd): Beliefs, wisdom, travel, learning. Your worldview stretches — new teachers, ideas, and paths call. Leo Rising (Pisces 8th / Virgo 2nd): Intimacy, money, resources. Old stories about worth + trust are up for release so deeper value can take root. Virgo Rising (Pisces 7th / Virgo 1st): Self vs. partnership. The way you see yourself (and how others reflect you back) is shifting. Libra Rising (Pisces 6th / Virgo 12th): Work, health, service vs. rest, retreat, soul care. Expect revelations around how you show up for others and yourself. Scorpio Rising (Pisces 5th / Virgo 11th): Creativity, children, pleasure vs. collective dreams. A rewiring of joy, and where your spark connects to the bigger picture. Sagittarius Rising (Pisces 4th / Virgo 10th): Family/home vs. career/public life. Tender private life collides with big work in the world. (👋 hi, me.) Capricorn Rising (Pisces 3rd / Virgo 9th): Words vs. wisdom. Insights into how you think, speak, write — and the bigger philosophies behind it all. Aquarius Rising (Pisces 2nd / Virgo 8th): Money, worth, debts, investments. Expect transformations around resources and where you place trust. Pisces Rising (Pisces 1st / Virgo 7th): Self vs. partnership. This one’s personal: your very sense of self is being rewritten.

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From Ash's Corner

My entire internal world right now feels like it’s being overlaid with that constant reminder you’ll be doing this alone soon. You’ll be alone soon. You’ll be alone. Did you hear me?! ALONE.

The mental checklist we all keep in our brains has a perpetual unticked box (item: solo parenting | duration: 6 months) which is infuriating because that one little item can’t be checked off, it can only be experienced and lived through.

But isn’t this what real life is like? Isn’t this where the planets can actually support us?

This is where I’m leaning into the intuitive knowing as part of my resilience plan.

And right on cue, the cosmos throws a mirror at me. This Pisces Full Moon Eclipse lands the same week Aaron starts academy training. That’s not coincidence—that’s synchronicity. I know it’s going to be challenging. I know it’s going to stretch me. But I also know this eclipse is working for me, for my highest good. I feel it in my bones.

Intuitive knowing tells me the alchemy is going to happen right at that tension point: letting who I am at home contrast with how I’m perceived at work, private self colliding with public self in a spectacular display of personal growth. And wouldn’t you know it—as a Sagittarius Rising, that’s exactly where this eclipse hits. My 4th house (home, family) and 10th house (career, public self).

And holy shit—doesn’t that line up exactly with what I’ve been talking about? Tender private life colliding with the bigness of public work. Hard and tender, but also incredible.

Part of how I know it’s going to be incredible is because I’m locked TF in.

(I know I’m supposed to be a chill CEO or whatever, but I’m also an excitable blabbermouth, sooooooo 1.) we’ve got the Moon Magic workshop coming soon. And 2.) I’ve got a three-month Self-Trust Reset brewing for 2026—an evolution of Sacred Aftermath. Big things are moving.)

Is it uncouth to end a newsletter with a whispered parenthetical? Whatevs, I’m doing it — thanks for being here, love you byyyeeeeee 😘✌️

Thanks for reading!

In cosmic camaraderie,

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