#370-"As if Joy Weren’t Strewn All Around"-Week of June 22, 2026

#370-"As if Joy Weren’t Strewn All Around"-Week of June 22, 2026

A brief note. These episodes are prerecorded during a five-week period away. I am not tracking current events in real time. Hold what I offer here alongside what you are actually living. Tend What Is Real We are in the first full week of Cancer season. The Solstice has turned. The light is beginning its slow arc back toward darkness, not as loss, but as the natural rhythm of a living world that knows how to move between fullness and rest. This week is quieter in its archetypal signature — an invitation to let what has moved through in recent weeks begin to settle into meaning. Key Cycles This Week: Thursday, June 25: Venus in Leo trines Saturn in Aries. Sun in Cancer squares Neptune in Aries.  Two movements pulling in different directions. Venus trine Saturn brings grounding to the heart. After recent intensity, this transit supports commitment to what genuinely matters — relationships, creative work, values lived as practice rather than ideal.  At the same time the Sun squares Neptune, bringing emotional blur and permeability alongside that clarity. Stay close to what grounds you. Let the blur be present without letting it make decisions. Saturday, June 27: Mars in Taurus sextiles Jupiter in Cancer.  A genuinely nourishing contact. Embodied action in service of what genuinely nourishes. What you are doing and what you genuinely value may feel more aligned than usual today. Let this ease be felt. Mars is preparing for a significant transition and Saturday offers a good closing note before the crossing. Sunday, June 28: Mars enters Gemini, remaining until August 11.  Six weeks of deliberate Taurus momentum gives way to something quicker and more multi-directional. Mars in Gemini brings ideas that become impulses, communication that becomes action. In a field already electrified by Uranus in Gemini, this adds further activation to the mental field. The invitation is to carry something of Taurus into the new sign — the deliberateness, the knowing of genuine resource — so that speed and discernment move together. Larger Frame Cancer season asks not what you are building or achieving but what you are genuinely tending — with care, with patience, with attention that nourishes rather than extracts. That question is its own orientation in uncertain times. The large thresholds of recent weeks are working in the background as large transits do. Slowly. In the body. In ways that will take months and years to fully reveal themselves. This week offers something simpler: a moment of grounding in what genuinely matters, a closing of one chapter of action and the opening of another. Reflection Questions 1. Where this week does what I am doing and what I genuinely value feel more aligned than usual, and what does that alignment want me to notice? 2. As Mars moves from Taurus into Gemini, what quality of the deliberate and embodied do I want to carry into faster more multi-directional terrain? 3. In Cancer season's invitation to tend rather than achieve, what in my life is asking for more patient nourishing attention? Tend what is real. Move with discernment into what is new. Let Cancer season do its deeper work in you. The web of life is patient. It knows how to hold what is growing even when we cannot yet see it. If the themes of this transmission are resonating — the healing of our relationship to body, earth, and what genuinely nourishes — I want to let you know about two upcoming offerings rooted in exactly this territory. On July 11 I am offering a free Earth element taster workshop, Root in the Sacred. And on July 16, the Root in the Sacred group coaching program begins — a deeper container for those ready for sustained work with the Earth element, with the body, with what it means to belong to the living world on your own terms. You can find details on both at ontheedgesofchange.com under What's Open Now. Both are invitations, not urgencies. If they are calling to you, trust that. 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.

#369-"I Am the Wisdom of Millennia"--Week of June 15, 2026

A brief note. These episodes are prerecorded during a five-week period away. I am not tracking current events in real time. Hold what I offer here alongside what you are actually living. -- The Wound Beneath Many Wounds This is a week of significant arrivals. Venus in Leo moves through a rapid sequence of major contacts. Chiron crosses into Taurus, beginning nearly eight years of healing work in the realm of body, earth, and resource. And the week closes with the Sun entering Cancer at the Summer Solstice. Key Cycles This Week: Monday. June 15: Venus in Leo sextiles Uranus in Gemini.  A liberating opening. Venus in Leo leans toward authentic self-expression. Uranus electrifies that impulse, breaking open stale patterns and quickening the creative field. Notice the difference between radiance that comes from genuine self-expression and the performance of radiance designed to manage how others see you. Uranus helps clarify which is which. Tuesday, June 16: Venus in Leo trines Neptune in Aries.  Vision follows liberation. The heart and the imaginal field move in alignment. Creativity, inspiration, the sense that something more luminous is possible. In a collective field saturated with ugliness and cruelty, the capacity to remain open to beauty is not escapism. It is resistance. Let the imagination open today while holding what arises with gentle discernment. Wednesday, June 17: Venus in Leo opposes Pluto in Aquarius.  The week deepens. Venus opposite Pluto surfaces power dynamics in relationship, places where love has become entangled with control or desire shadowed by fear of loss. Collectively this opposition names what has long been visible: the way systems of power have sought to control the feminine, the relational, the creative. Where in your own life has love or creative expression become entangled with power in ways worth examining? What is being asked to transform? Friday, June 19: Chiron enters Taurus, remaining until September 13 before briefly retrograding back into Aries, then returning to Taurus until May 2034. This is the threshold of the week. Perhaps of the year. Chiron in Aries since 2018 has been working the wounds of identity, the right to exist and assert a self in the face of systems that deny that right to so many. It has also been working the wound of radical disconnection from the web of life. The mythology of the rugged individual who needs no one and owes nothing. The belief that life is fundamentally competitive rather than reciprocal. The armoring against interdependence that produces its own profound poverty and loneliness. That wound does not end as Chiron moves into Taurus. It deepens into new territory. Chiron in Taurus turns the healing work toward the body, the earth, and the deep unmetabolized wounds in our relationship to the living world. The wound of an economy built on extraction, of profound inequality where abundance exists alongside deprivation by design, of a civilization that severed its understanding that the earth is not a resource to be used but a living web of which we are part. Nearly eight years. A generational healing arc is beginning. Honor the threshold. Sunday, June 21: Sun enters Cancer. Summer Solstice and Sun sextiles Chiron in early Taurus.  The longest day in the northern hemisphere. A sacred pause in earth-based traditions, a moment to feel the fullness of what has been growing and to honor the turn. The Sun sextiling Chiron freshly arrived in Taurus is a gentle blessing on this new healing arc, the light of the Solstice illuminating what Chiron has come to work with. Spend time in the natural world if you can. Let the body be held by something older and larger than the current crisis. Larger Frame Chiron in Taurus initiates an era of healing in the domains that matter most for the continuation of life on this planet. The body. The earth. The radical inequality of who has access to sustenance. The severed relationship between human civilization and the living web it depends on. This is the wound beneath many wounds. The one that colonial dominator culture has both created and depended on to sustain itself. Chiron in Taurus will not let it remain invisible. The Summer Solstice opening this era is fitting. The longest light, blessing the beginning of a long healing. Reflection Questions 1. Where in my relationship to body, earth, money, or resource do I sense a wound that has not yet been fully named or witnessed? 2. As Chiron begins its long transit through Taurus, what does genuine healing look like in the domains of physical life, sustenance, and belonging to the earth? 3. On this Solstice threshold, what have I been growing in this half of the year that deserves to be honored in the fullness of this light? Stand at the Solstice threshold before moving on. Feel the earth beneath you. Let the body remember that it belongs to something ancient and reciprocal. We are not only living through breakdown. We are living through the beginning of a healing larger than any of us can fully see from inside it. Podcast poem: Cornwall Swamp by Julie Cadwallader Staub 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.

#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.