Divine Lessons

Stop. Be still. Reflect. When the Universe tells you to do any of these things—to not ignore the flashing intuitive caution lights going off in your energy—you should listen. If you don’t, it will force you to, whether or not you ‘have time’. 

When things around us no longer line up with the path we’re meant to be on, we have to honor the changes needed to realign with a new way of being. It always starts as subtle nudges, feelings, fleeting thoughts. But if we don’t acknowledge those, it becomes a louder energetic pressure building until it bursts. If you push past that, you often get put in a “time out” that MAKES you be still. It could be a flat tire, a broken appliance or electronic, a missed paycheck, a drop in revenue, or literal physical illness but whatever form it takes, now you’re forced to face what you should’ve acknowledged before. 

The past few weeks, my spiritual team kept telling me to scale back both in business and life. To pull back into hermit mode, to focus on the projects that needed finishing. But even knowing better, as an Aries, I persisted. Because even those of us who know better sometimes just do human things and ignore the Divine warning. 

Then came the autoimmune flare that physically knocked me into forced rest. When even that didn’t stop me, Mercury retrograde in Leo kicked in it took out the ball joints on my truck. (We go through this every other retrograde; I should know by now, but I always pretend it’s not coming. My truck knows. I know. But nonethless…) Then, when even that didn’t stop me, my TikTok live access got suspended for a week. (In fairness, they’d been telling me to cut back on lives, and I refused to listen.) 

In short, they really sat me down in every way and said, “I told you what you’re supposed to be doing; now I will show you that you don’t really have an option.” 

At first, I was frustrated, irritated, and fully aware I was under intense spiritual attack on top of it all which is something that had been going on for most of the week and the week before. Here I was, with a large cut to my income, bills coming in, no vehicle, and not many options while being sick on top of it. I crashed a bit under the pressure. When I thought I was getting ahead, freelance opportunities fell through without warning. When my truck was supposed to be fixed and I started making plans, they delayed it three days. When I thought I was feeling better, exhaustion knocked me down again. They weren’t playing around. 

Saturn retrograde in Aries (Saturn is by the way, the planet of discipline, boundaries, and hard lessons) was teaching me to stop fighting the timing, to reflect on how I lead and where my limits are, to rebuild with intention. 

So I did the only thing I could: I sat down and got clear on what they were trying to teach me. Patience. Navigating crisis with grace. Trusting the Divine timing. Pulling myself back from distractions. Making peace with what’s out of my control. Focusing on how to shift my business model to create success while allowing space for projects that feed my soul and not just throwing cards on a live. 

Even in the middle of all this, I was frustrated. I love a good spiritual lesson, but I also have bills and money to deal with in the very real human experience. I got snarky with them. Made some offhand comments during meditation. Then they politely (not really) reminded me: If you’re half the witch you like to think you are, you could create something out of nothing. So maybe put your money where your mouth is. 

To say I doubted myself would be an understatement. Money and prosperity have never been my strong suit personally. I thought I just sucked at it, and mostly I didn’t mind because I could do it for others and that in turn benefited me. But now, I was being told to learn how to do it for myself too. Cool. Nothing like the pressure of things crashing around you to create the perfect environment for learning. They said, “Get over it and figure it out.” So I did. 

I also knew they allowed energetic blocks and spiritual attack to infiltrate this part of my life for a reason. I could take the easy way out and ask for help, or I could create what I needed with them. So I did. So it is. I surrendered. I lit candles. I said the words. I did the things. I held my breath. I trusted. I released. I reworked my protection. I pulled cords. I put up barriers. My soul tribe rallied around me with energy, candles, protection, and good vibes. They helped pull cords, they fed into me, they lifted my soul and energy in ways only those aligned with the same purpose can. 

And then… it happened. Notifications of orders, payments, the money I needed for the things I needed and extra to boot…all in less than 12 hours. 

The bigger takeaway isn’t just that my magic worked. I know it works, every day, for my clients. It’s that I needed to start listening. To draw boundaries the moment I felt the first warning. To pour as much energy into myself as I poured into everything draining me. To trust that I’m capable. To acknowledge that I have people who will go to war with me spiritually and energetically. To see that I’m capable of the things I doubted, magically and mundanely. 

That, my friends, is the real experience of the Divine, within ourselves and beyond us. It’s not the pretty pictures on social media or the stories people sell about being untouchable in the spiritual realm. It’s not about props, performances, catchphrases, or cards. It’s not pretending that nothing bad ever happens to a practitioner or a “real witch.” 

The actual experience of spirituality is in those moments when we are purely and utterly human and forced to realize that even though that brings reality and limits, we are capable of creating magic. 

As the New Moon in Leo rises this week, it offers an invitation to step into your power with boldness and clarity. After the storms and slowdowns, this lunar reset reminds us that real magic lives in showing up authentically, in trusting the timing, in trusting your own power and in claiming your light claiming your light, and defending it, without apology. 

This New Moon isn’t just about new beginnings; it’s about rebirth through resilience. It’s a cosmic nod to the courage it takes to listen, to release, and to create from a place of strength. 

So here’s to the fierce light within us all ready to shine even brighter after this ridiculously dark night.