Recorded on a forest walk under the first Venus square Pluto on September 15, and released under the second on October 20. This is part one of a three part story, shared from the middle of it.

In this Experimenting in Real Time episode, I reflect on my Virgo rising season, the Balsamic Moon, my crafting era, and the shadow side of over giving. I’m releasing the need to be recognized and choosing presence, intimacy, and reconnection with my spirit instead.

Look back to September 15 with me.

What was initiated in your values and relationships?

What tension is asking to transform?

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On today's Experimenting in Real Time forest walk I'm unpacking what happened when the transiting Sun and Earth lit up my Design Nodes, Gate 6 and Gate 36, the once a year moment when the sky retraces the exact unconscious axis your body has been walking your whole life.

I talk through what it's meant to live inside Gate 6, the gate of friction, testing, and the peacemaker energy I share with my daughter's own design sun. I trace the pull toward Gate 36, the gate of crisis and surrender, and why my Virgo south node's need for control keeps bumping against my Pisces north node's call to release the outcome.

I also share what came up in a recent card reading with my mentor, the mantras I'm carrying into the season, and an invitation for you to check what's showing up on your own nodal axis right now.

If you've ever felt like your body knew something before your mind caught up, this one's for you.

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The Aries Last Quarter Moon on July 7, 2026 marks the end of a 2.5 year lunar cycle that began with the New Moon Solar Eclipse in Aries back in April 2024. Reflecting on that full arc, from the seeds planted at the eclipse, through the breakthroughs of the First Quarter Moon, the boundary work of the Full Moon, and now this moment of integration.

At the center of this reflection is the cardinal square between Aries and Capricorn: the tension between building the structure that carries your work and surrendering into the undoing that makes deeper capacity possible.

In this episode:

🌗 The full timeline of the Aries lunar cycle, from the New Moon Solar Eclipse in April 2024 to this Last Quarter Moon in July 2026

🌗 The cardinal square between Aries and Capricorn, and what it means to move from overworking and under receiving toward presence, boundaries, and rest as a birthright rather than a reward

🌗 Naming a wound around worth and intellectual achievement

🌗 The Revolutionary Reflections essay and the birth of Season 2, Tools for the Revolution

Wherever you are in your own lunar cycle, this episode is an invitation to reflect on what is ready to be released, and what you are being asked to lead.

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