#364-"You Will Come at a Turning of the Trail"--Week of May 11, 2026

#368-The Secret of My Own Dignity"-Week of June 8, 2026

A brief note. These episodes are being released during a five-week period when I am away and not tracking current events in real time. The archetypal patterns I offer are reliable. What is expressing them in the world right now is yours to hold alongside what I offer. ___ Completion, Crossing, and New Beginning Something is completing and something is beginning this week. Venus, who has been moving through Cancer since mid-May, turning the relational field toward nurturing and genuine care, is preparing to leave. Before she goes, she has significant work to do. Key Cycles This Week: Tuesday, June 9: Venus conjuncts Jupiter in Cancer. Mercury in Cancer squares Saturn in Aries.  Two movements pulling in different directions. Venus meeting Jupiter in Cancer amplifies what nourishes — warmth, generosity, the sense of genuine belonging. This is one of the more beautiful transits of recent weeks. Let it land. Let what is good be felt fully rather than held at arm's length by the urgency of everything else. At the same time, Mercury squares Saturn. The feeling mind meets hard reality. Difficult conversations may be necessary. The gap between what is longed for and what is currently possible becomes harder to ignore. Hold both. Expansion and honest reckoning are not contradictions in a genuine threshold time. Friday, June 12: Venus in Cancer squares Chiron in Aries.  Before Venus leaves Cancer, she meets the Wounded Healer. This square touches old relational wounds — places where the longing for genuine belonging has met disappointment or the pain of being too much or not enough within systems never designed to hold the fullness of who you are. For many, this wound is not only personal. It is ancestral and collective. Venus square Chiron does not offer easy resolution. But the Shamanic tradition has always known that when a wound is brought into honest awareness and witnessed rather than managed, something in it begins to metabolize. What surfaces this week around old relational pain may be less a sign that something is wrong and more an invitation to witness what has long needed witnessing. Saturday, June 13: Venus enters Leo, remaining until July 9.  The register shifts. Where Cancer sought quiet belonging and nourishment, Leo seeks expression, visibility, and the joy of being fully seen in one's vitality. This is not vanity. It is the soul's genuine need to be witnessed in its radiance, not only its tenderness. In a collective moment asking so much gravity and endurance, Venus in Leo is not a distraction. It is replenishment. Sunday, June 14: New Moon at 24 degrees of Gemini.  The lunation cycle renews in the sign of the Communicator. In a field still charged by Uranus in Gemini, what wants to begin here is not a return to familiar patterns of thought but genuinely new perception. In a time when the information field is saturated and often deliberately disorienting, this lunation asks: what new way of knowing is trying to emerge in you, from your own direct experience rather than what you have been told? Plant that. Larger Frame This week holds the full arc of Venus in Cancer — her expansion, her reckoning with old wounds, and her departure into Leo. What have you learned since mid-May about what genuinely nourishes you? Where has old relational pain asked to be witnessed? Venus carries what she has learned in Cancer into Leo. The nourishment becomes fuel for expression. The tenderness becomes the ground of genuine visibility. And the New Moon in Gemini opens a new chapter in how we think and communicate, with ourselves, with each other, with the larger world trying to find its new form. Reflection Questions 1. Where am I being invited to let genuine goodness or expansion actually land rather than holding it at arm's length? 2. What old relational wound is asking to be witnessed rather than managed right now? 3. As Venus moves into Leo and the New Moon plants new seeds, what wants to be expressed that has not yet had enough room? Let what is good be felt. Let what is wounded be witnessed. Let what is new have the quiet attention of this lunation. The web of life is always reorganizing toward something, even when we cannot yet see its full shape. Podcast poem: Wisdom of the Deer by Kent Osbourne If this transmission has been useful, share it with someone who might need orientation in these times. Support the show [https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=PR62BTYSEB5PQ] Go to Sheila's website for information for transformational resources:  https://www.ontheedgesofchange.com This episode was co-created with generative AI, engaged as a soul-aligned ally in service of transformation. At the edge where technology meets myth, I choose insight over noise, and alchemy over automation. Thank you for dreaming the future with me.

#367-"As Invisible as the True Stars at Daybreak"--Week of June 1, 2026

What the Feeling Body Knows A brief note before we begin. The next several episodes have been created in advance, during a period when I am away on pilgrimage. I am not tracking the daily news cycle or what is unfolding in real time. If significant things have shifted in the collective field since these episodes were recorded, I trust you to hold what I offer here alongside what you are actually living. The archetypal patterns are reliable. The specific events that express them are yours to track. ___ There is a quality of turning inward this week. Mercury, the Communicator and Storyteller, enters Cancer on Monday and will remain there, through retrograde, until August 9. Nearly ten weeks of the mind moving through the waters of feeling, memory, ancestral knowing, and the interior life. This is not a week for speed or surface. It is a week for depth and for what the feeling body knows that the analytical mind cannot easily reach. Key Cycles This Week: Monday, June 1: Mercury enters Cancer, remaining there through retrograde motion until August 9.  Mercury in Cancer thinks through feeling and communicates through attunement. For those trained by dominant culture to distrust feeling as a source of knowing, this extended transit is an invitation into a different way of understanding. What do you know through your body? Through what arises when you are still enough to listen? Simply notice the shift as it begins. Tuesday, June 2: Sun in Gemini sextiles Saturn in Aries.  A grounding thread. The Conscious Self connects easily with the Structurer, offering clarity and form. A good day for honest communication and bringing practical shape to what the interior work of the week is revealing. Just enough groundedness to keep the inward turn from becoming untethered. Wednesday, June 3: Mercury in Cancer squares Neptune in Aries.  Just days into Cancer, Mercury meets the Dissolver. Blur, emotional porousness, the thinning of boundaries between what is yours and what belongs to the collective field. This is not a transit for important decisions. It is a transit for poetry, for dream, for the kind of knowing that arrives sideways through image and metaphor. There is information in the blur. It simply speaks a different language than analysis. Larger Frame Mercury in Cancer for nearly ten weeks, including a retrograde cycle, is asking something that dominant culture rarely supports. It is asking us to slow down enough to feel. To treat emotional intelligence not as a liability but as a genuine form of knowing. The collective shadow surfacing in these times lives not only in institutions and policies. It lives in bodies. In inherited emotional patterns. In what has been passed down through generations without being named. Mercury in Cancer, over these coming weeks, may bring some of that into language. Not all at once. Not cleanly. But with the particular tenderness that feeling-based knowing carries when given enough space. Reflection Questions 1. What does my feeling body know right now that my analytical mind has been moving too fast to hear? 2. As Mercury settles into Cancer for an extended stay, what emotional truths, family patterns, or questions of belonging are quietly asking for my attention? 3. When the blur arrives and clarity dissolves, can I stay with it long enough to let it speak in its own language? This is a quieter week in register, though not in times. The invitation is inward. Into feeling. Into what the body knows. Into the long memory that Cancer carries. Let yourself be moved. Let what is tender have room. The web of life speaks through the heart as much as through the mind. Podcast poem: Daybreak by Galway Kinnell Support the show [https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=PR62BTYSEB5PQ] Go to Sheila's website for information for transformational resources:  https://www.ontheedgesofchange.com This episode was co-created with generative AI, engaged as a soul-aligned ally in service of transformation. At the edge where technology meets myth, I choose insight over noise, and alchemy over automation. Thank you for dreaming the future with me.

#366-"If We Surrendered to Earth's Intelligence"--Week of May 25, 2026

Where Is Your Source of Genuine Meaning? This week the pressure deepens. It opens on Memorial Day in the United States, a moment when a nation is asked to honor its dead, even as it struggles to honestly name what so many of them died for, and what continues to be sacrificed in the service of systems that were never designed for everyone. An Elder perspective (which we can all carry) does not bypass that tension. It holds it. Key Cycles This Week: Monday, May 25: Mars in Taurus squares Pluto in Aquarius.  Memorial Day. A confrontation between force and transformation. Where your will or resources meet something that does not yield easily, this is not a transit to push through with more force. Stay grounded. Feel where your actual resources are. Resist the pull toward reaction in a week that will offer plenty of provocation. Collectively, this transit on Memorial Day carries particular weight. The structures of power being challenged right now were built on specific choices, specific violence, specific mythologies of superiority. That is not abstract history. It is present architecture. Tuesday, May 26: Sun in Gemini trines Pluto in Aquarius.  A day later, tension eases into something more workable. What felt like confrontation yesterday may begin to reveal its deeper pattern. A good moment for clarity, for seeing beneath the surface with less distortion and more genuine perception. Thursday, May 28: Venus in Cancer squares Saturn in Aries.  The Relational One in the nurturing sign of Cancer meets the Structurer, and it is not an easy meeting. This transit carries a deeper archetypal current worth naming. Venus represents the feminine principle, relational and attuned to what nourishes connection. Saturn in its wounded expression becomes external authority that restricts and defines what the feminine is permitted to be or decide. This is the oldest survival pattern many have inherited, the feminine adapting and deferring under systems never designed to hold her sovereign. We are watching that pattern in its most literal form right now, in the ongoing legislative assault on women's autonomy and rights. This transit asks where in your own life you have been running on adaptation rather than authentic choice. That clarity, even if tender, is more useful than the blur. Sunday, May 31: Full Moon at 10 degrees of Sagittarius and Mercury in Gemini sextiles Chiron in Aries.  The Full Moon illuminates the Gemini-Sagittarius axis, the axis of information and meaning. Gemini gathers data. Sagittarius asks what it means and what larger truth it serves. In a time when information is being generated and weaponized at unprecedented scale, this lunation asks where your source of genuine meaning actually is. Not what you have been told to believe, but what in your own deeper knowing actually orients you. Mercury sextiling Chiron weaves in the wounded healer thread. Something that has needed to be said may find its moment here. Larger Frame This week moves from confrontation to clarity to limitation to illumination. What is being asked is a particular kind of maturity. To stay present to what is difficult without collapsing into it. To be honest about relational limitation without abandoning the longing for genuine care. To locate ourselves not in the information stream, which is vast and often deliberately disorienting, but in genuine meaning. That is always the Elder's work. To hold the longer view when immediate pressure makes the longer view feel impossible. Reflection Questions 1. Where am I being asked to meet something immovable this week, and what does genuine power look like in that encounter, as distinct from force or reaction? 2. In my relational field, where am I being called to greater honesty about what is genuinely nourishing versus what has been running on adaptation rather than authentic choice? 3. Beneath the volume and speed of the current information field, what actually orients me? What is my source of genuine meaning? This is a week that asks for groundedness more than brilliance. You do not have to have answers. You are asked only to stay present to what is real, resist the pull toward reaction, and keep returning to what genuinely orients you. The web of life holds more than the current noise suggests. Podcast poem: How Surely Gravity's Law by Rainer Maria Rilke If this transmission has been useful, share it with someone who might need orientation in these times. Support the show [https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=PR62BTYSEB5PQ] Go to Sheila's website for information for transformational resources:  https://www.ontheedgesofchange.com This episode was co-created with generative AI, engaged as a soul-aligned ally in service of transformation. At the edge where technology meets myth, I choose insight over noise, and alchemy over automation. Thank you for dreaming the future with me.

#365-"I Felt the Possibility of Reverence and Celebration”-Week of May 18, 2026

A Recalibration of the Personal Field This is a week of genuine shift. Three personal planets change signs within two days. Mars enters Taurus. Venus enters Cancer. The Sun moves into Gemini. How we act, how we relate, and how we perceive are all recalibrating simultaneously. This is happening within a larger collective reckoning that has not quieted. The basement contents of colonial, dominator, and white supremacist culture continue surfacing in ways that are difficult to look at and equally difficult to look away from. This week's astrology does not take us out of that reckoning. But it offers different ground to stand on within it. Key Cycles This Week: Monday, May 18: Mars enters Taurus. Venus enters Cancer. Mercury in Gemini sextiles Saturn in Aries.  Mars slows from the heat of Aries into something more deliberate and embodied. In a time of collective overwhelm, your body is being invited to act from genuine resource rather than reaction. Venus entering Cancer turns the relational field toward what genuinely nourishes, toward tending, toward care that cannot be scaled or automated. Mercury sextiling Saturn asks that insight become form and that what is being thought actually land somewhere real. Tuesday, May 19: Mercury in Gemini trines Pluto in Aquarius.  Depth without obstruction. Things living below the surface of awareness may find language now. Conversations that have felt too large or too heavy may suddenly become possible. You might notice an unusual capacity to say what is true without losing your ground in the saying of it. Wednesday, May 20: Sun enters Gemini.  Gemini season begins. Curiosity, connection, the recognition that reality is plural and perspective always partial. This year the Sun enters a field already charged by Uranus. Watch for what becomes suddenly visible, in the world and in yourself. Thursday, May 21: Venus in Cancer squares Neptune in Aries.  A tender and potentially disorienting transit. The longing for genuine belonging meets dissolution and blur. Slow down before acting on what may still be forming. This transit also touches collective grief, the gap between a world organized around genuine care and what current systems actually deliver. That grief is not weakness. It is moral clarity. Friday, May 22: Sun conjunct Uranus in Gemini. Mercury sextiles Saturn in Aries. The electric center of the week. The Conscious Self meets the Awakener directly. Sudden insight. A realization that reorganizes how you understand something important. A break in an old pattern of thought. Sun conjunct Uranus is not always comfortable, but it carries genuine liberation. Mercury sextiling Saturn again offers grounding, a reminder to let what is illuminated find structure. Sunday, May 24: Sun in Gemini sextiles Neptune in Aries.  A gentler close. Imagination in service of clarity. A sense of larger possibility. Let what has moved through you this week begin to settle into meaning. Larger Frame Mars in Taurus asks us to slow the body and act from genuine resource. Venus in Cancer asks us to tend what is real and nourish what cannot be commodified. Sun in Gemini with Uranus asks us to see more clearly and let the old frame break if it must. The patterns of colonial and dominator culture becoming visible in public life do not dissolve on their own. They require exactly these capacities. The steadiness to act without urgency. The willingness to tend what is genuinely vulnerable. The courage to see clearly even when clarity disrupts comfort. This is the inner work that makes outer change possible. Reflection Questions 1. As the body slows and the relational field turns toward genuine nourishment, what am I being called to tend that I may have been moving too fast to notice? 2. Where this week did something become suddenly clearer, a pattern named, a frame broken, a truth that could finally be spoken? What do I want to do with that clarity? 3. How am I staying connected to both the grief of what is surfacing collectively and the ground of what I genuinely value? This is a week of recalibration. Stay close to what genuinely nourishes you. Stay willing to see what is being illuminated. Stay connected to the web of life, which holds more than any single narrative can contain. The reckoning continues. And so does the life that is reorganizing within it. Podcast poem: Seeing Through the Story by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer Support the show [https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=PR62BTYSEB5PQ] Go to Sheila's website for information for transformational resources:  https://www.ontheedgesofchange.com This episode was co-created with generative AI, engaged as a soul-aligned ally in service of transformation. At the edge where technology meets myth, I choose insight over noise, and alchemy over automation. Thank you for dreaming the future with me.

#364-"You Will Come at a Turning of the Trail"--Week of May 11, 2026

Rooting What Is Genuinely New This is a week of gathering and crossing. After the weight of recent weeks, there is a breath here. A moment of coherence before the next movement begins. And what is gathering is significant. At the end of this week, three of the five personal planets will change signs within two days. The relational field, the communicating mind, and the instinctual body are all crossing thresholds nearly simultaneously. It is worth paying attention to what you are carrying into this crossing, and what you might be ready to leave on this side of it. Key Cycles This Week: Tues, May 12: Mercury in Taurus sextiles Jupiter in Cancer.  The mind finds some ease. Something clicks into place. A piece of understanding arrives that feels both true and spacious. Let it ground you before the acceleration that follows. Thurs May 14: Sun conjunct Mercury in Taurus.  What has been circling internally may find language now. This conjunction also marks the midpoint of a four-month Mercury cycle, the moment when something you have been developing moves from testing into building. If a project or evolving body of work is ready to take more visible shape, this is that threshold. Sat, May 16: New Moon at 26 degrees of Taurus conjunct Uranus in early Gemini and Mars conjunct Chiron in Aries.  The New Moon invites planting, but not simply what is comfortable or familiar. With Uranus nearby, what wants to take root is genuinely new. Something that may ask you to leave a known identity behind and root yourself in authentic emergence rather than safe repetition. What do you actually value that is genuinely new? Not what survival required you to prioritize, not what has served you in a chapter that may now be completing.  At the same time, Mars meets Chiron, the Wounded Healer and Shamanic One. In the ancient understanding, the wounded healer does not heal despite their wound. They heal through it. The medicine they carry to the people is precisely what was forged in their own descent. Where you have been most broken open may be exactly where your most authentic medicine lives. Sun, May 17: Mercury enters Gemini and conjuncts Uranus. plus Venus in Gemini sextiles Chiron in Aries.  The mind quickens and the acceleration arrives. Stay anchored in the body and direct experience even as the mental field speeds up. Venus sextiling Chiron offers a relational thread, healing available in honest conversation and the simple act of being witnessed in something tender. Reflection Questions 1. What is genuinely wanting to take root in me right now, not what should, but what my body and deeper knowing recognize as authentically new? 2. Where in my own story has a wound or difficult passage begun to reveal itself as a form of medicine or gift? 3. As the mental field begins to accelerate, what helps me stay anchored in my own direct experience? This is a real crossing. Let what is true become speakable. Let what wants to grow, even if it surprises you, have the quiet attention it deserves. Podcast poem: Questo Muro by Anita Barrows Support the show [https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=PR62BTYSEB5PQ] Go to Sheila's website for information for transformational resources:  https://www.ontheedgesofchange.com This episode was co-created with generative AI, engaged as a soul-aligned ally in service of transformation. At the edge where technology meets myth, I choose insight over noise, and alchemy over automation. Thank you for dreaming the future with me.