by Jessica | Oct 12, 2019 | Aries, Illuminated Lunations, Libra
I found myself, recently, in an uncomfortable and prolonged state of hyper-vigilance. I could feel the way my body wouldn’t allow myself to fully relax. The tension behind my heart, and in my shoulders, as if bolstering myself, readying myself, for the next fresh hell...
by Jessica | Sep 28, 2019 | Illuminated Lunations, Libra
What had started out feeling good no longer did. So, I did the hard but right thing. I decided to take space from the relationship. To adjust the situation, take care of me, instead of adjusting myself. My Ego protested. But I love this friend! Isn’t there another...
by Jessica | Sep 13, 2019 | Illuminated Lunations, Pisces
I was sitting down to a breakfast I’ve had for 15 years due to dietary limitations. The almond butter was arguing with me. It had been itching my throat lately, so I got the peanut butter and cashew butter out of the pantry. No, no, and no. Dry mock “toast” for me. I...
by Jessica | Aug 30, 2019 | Illuminated Lunations, Virgo
I was at a beach in Kauai, topaz blue waves gently lapping, when I overheard a conversation between the two women next to me. “I’ve been so screwed up…something something… Mercury retrograde…something something…I just can’t figure things...
by Jessica | Aug 17, 2019 | Aquarius, Illuminated Lunations
I’m so great at anticipating, I told the nurse who was about to jab me with a needle, that if there were an award for the skill of anticipation, I’d have it. In fact, I’d worked myself up into such a state of feverish anticipation over the prospect of seeing my own...
by Jessica | Aug 1, 2019 | Illuminated Lunations, Leo
When I saw, on social media, that the founder of a magazine that consistently rejected my work had died, I felt that old feeling of rejection rise up again. It brought up another more recent interaction, too, when, on the cusp of being super jazzed about being able to...
