Reinvigorate your love affair with life this month with the little things—the way your own hair falls across your pillow in the morning, the carefree strides your cat takes across the room, the subtle echoes of sound throughout your living space—and trust that the ripples of these small noticings will culminate into alignment with the lust life has for itself.

Flaunt your newfound abilities if only because you can. In letting go of culturally superimposed standards for perfection and marketability, you shed embodied white supremacy and capitalistic mindsets in favor of love, passion, desire, pleasure, and above all, art.

With several viable vaccines in our near future, we’re wandering toward what a post-Covid world will be like, even though we must get through what is shaping up to be a harsh winter (at least in the Northern Hemisphere). With this new dawn in the distance, it’s time to consider what you need to heal from and how you will do it. Where will you put in labor to become a full and functioning person again?

In the midst of a global pandemic that only shows signs of exponentiating and what may be one of the most contested elections in history, the future we have been putting off is fast approaching. You will need all your skills as we literally fight for our rights to exist, to speak out, and to save the world before it enters irreparable environmental catastrophes.

In Pleasure Activism, Adrienne Maree Brown says, “I don’t think things are getting worse; I think they’re getting uncovered. This is the unveiling, and at the end of the unveiling, we have nakedness. And that nakedness calls for new desire.”

Heading into a Mars retrograde that will last until the end of the year, it’s time to get serious about our plans for the fall, and unfortunately we’re not talking about holiday plans with family or back-to-school jitters (although those definitely play a role); we are preparing for the futures we don’t want to happen.

As global unrest and uncertainty continues, it has become increasingly important to assess not only the intent of your actions (light), but also the bias of your perspective (lens) and the impact of your wake (laser).

As two white priestesses, poets, and activists in our community, it is difficult to take up reality bandwidth with anything other than the historical racial justice movement happening right now. However, we feel strongly that we want to continue to support our communities in all their diversity and are prepared to make a thousand mistakes as we venture more visibly into the realm of standing in solidarity with our black, indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) allies, acting as traitors to systems that harm them.

While creativity has taken a backseat to self-care for several months now, you may feel its reemergence as it asks, what can I not help but make? Now is the time to explore the trapeze between artistic mediums as you play with depth, texture, meaning, and pressure. How can you add another dimension to whatever is calling you? What are you beginning? What makes you a beginner?

Honor the weight of your initial decisions as you emerge into this new world. What compromises must you make as you balance your current and future well-being?

Welcome to the Earth’s kindest apocalyptic wake-up call. In your bones, you knew this reckoning was coming.

One of my clients recently told me, “efficiency is a type of divinity.” While the universe seems to be asking a lot of everyone these days, we continue to receive messaging that leveling up is the way to thrive.