Virgo Solar Eclipse 2025 & Autumn Equinox: Trusting through uncertain times.

Hey, friends! The eclipse season for 2025 is officially over. As I’ve been present to explore the habits and routines that no longer foster me, I’ve been open to the information that swims to the surface of my consciousness. I am reminded of a time back in 2006, at the young age of 12, and being on the family computer to read about astrology. There was information about palm reading, astrology, and all sorts of new age-y topics and my heart was thrilled to read into it. In that moment, a guiding adult told me gently that this information was for people who were sick (rough translation from spanish to english). Since then, I shelf-ed astrology in the back of my mind, looking for careers and interests that were “sane” and “normal”.

Several years later, I discovered tarot reading and felt the tool so closely with my intuition. In 2017/2018 I began teaching myself tarot readings and remember the looks on so many people’s faces. People, surprisingly, reacted in fear and concern about my interest in tarot reading. At the same time I had what I considered to be a mentor, who was advanced with the spiritual teachings the world had to offer. This mentor made a comment about tarot reading, and to make sure I was on their good side, I also shelf-ed tarot reading to the back of my mind. I made these topics that I loved so dearly a matter of unimportance.

Over several years, I paid the price by limiting my studies and limiting my beliefs in myself.

Now this blog post isn’t about me — it’s about the timeframe and the beauty that is natural life patterns. As above, so below. We had the same Pisces-Virgo eclipse back in 2006-2008, so it’s no wonder that memories are surfacing from that time period.

Trusting through uncertain times is the theme of this recent eclipse, and with the Fall equinox happening the day after the eclipse, we are entering a new portal in our lives. The energy is shifting and falling away, like the leaves on trees during this time in the northern hemisphere. You may have realized people, places, or things that need to fall away over the last several weeks. Now that we’re in Libra season, we can find the value in the release, and replenish our intentions with people, places, or things that truly harmonize our day-to-day.

I’ve stepped into this portal one foot at a time, towards making my dreams come true as an astrologer and pyschic-medium.

I sincerely thank everyone who’s watched me, purchased a reading from me, and has supported me over the last 5 years. You’ve seen me grow into a mother and a widow, held space for me when I really needed my faith and teachings to pull me through the darkness.

I’m taking a length course on Hellenistic Astrology to formally educate myself on the traditional practice of astrology. This will teach me how to use a variety of timing techniques to outline the phases of one’s life and essentially prepare for the experiences. I’m also continuously training in meditation, currently Yoga Nidra (again), to deepen my understanding of this sacred and beautiful practice that we can give ourselves.

Life is moving in all different directions for me. The house my husband and I shared is up on the market, and I simply don’t know where we’ll be a month from now. Perhaps a month from now, I’ll be near a beach, writing another blog post to let you know how it all went well. 😌

Life is still present, and I’m strong enough now to fully commit to this portal. I hope that you’re feeling the call and inspiration to walk through one step at a time, with a full heart and faith to the brim.

Learning in spirals.

What happens to you is what happens for you. Meaning, that opportunities will come back into your life as another chance to take your path in a new direction or to continue on the same tangent. These chances to grow further into your full self can be a blessing in disguise, as most events that encourage growth, are not always easily identifiable in the moment.

These opportunities are usually uncomfortable because the lesson we’re learning is not fully understood until we change something about that path. For example, a woman I know struggles to voice her opinions and speak up for herself when in an unpleasant conversation. She pushes her words down deep inside of her where her body manifests that suppression in a feeling she describes as a “knot” in her throat. She has felt this in personal relationships from family to romance, and even with colleagues. This woman is a gentle person, who speaks kindly of the world and sees the beauty in all things. However, when it comes to using her voice, she is lost and cycles into suppressing her energy.

Her samskara (mental habit), is to keep her voice silent when her body is urging her to speak out (the knot in her throat). This spiral only leaves her feeling incomplete from that opportunity to voice her thoughts. So, the universe continues to deliver these chances for her to speak up by bringing in people, relationships, and moments where her voice is needed.

I’ve had multiple one-on-ones with this woman to review these repeating lessons and discuss what happens to her energy in those moments. The body is a tool that we can use to understand what affects us and how it affects us. When she’s in a discussion where she is required to defend or speak up for herself, she shuts down and feels a knot in her throat. That is her body’s way of saying, “Hey! Hey, you! Please say what you need to say, or else this current of energy that your mind is creating, stays stuck in our throat.”. I won’t dive too far into the chakras in this blog post, but that opens the conversation to how our body stores energy and it manifests in “louder” language.

After several talks about this, her light began to brighten. With time and effort, she began to speak up! The best part is that she didn’t realize she was spinning her life into a new spiral. One of elevated energy, having passed a “test” in life and moving forward with the rewards of that experience.

Now, learning in spirals is a parallel to the

What happens to you, is what happens for you, my friends.

September 2024 - Card of the Month

XVIII. The Moon

September is the month we transition from sunny, playful Summer to cozy, nostalgic Autumn. This month is about welcoming nature to go within, retreat, and recharge. There is no rush this month to get there, but, simply setting an intention to cool your jets for the next season will be enough to get the ball (slowly) rolling.

Interestingly enough, September is not just a regular month… it’s a magnified month of energy because Eclipse season is here!

Now, the significance of the card of the month has amplified, just like the way eclipses amplify the monthly new moons and full moons.

The Moon card invites us to reflect on not just this past season, but the last 6 months. Eclipses occur about every 6 months. The existence of eclipses in Astrology is routine, however, it’s the aspects the Moon makes that make it one of a kind, each and every single time. Thinking back 6 months, what kind of themes were predominant and spoke loudly to you? Those themes are now present, with the spotlight fully on them for the big finale, as the next show prepares to take the stage.

Dates to remember:

New Moon: September 2nd, 2024 (11 degrees Virgo) 9:56 PM ET.

Depending on where Virgo is in your chart, this lunation will invite you to welcome new or a change of energy in regards to communication. Be mindful of overcriticizing and reserve your judgment when it is called for. Respect the line of communication and remember that listening is just as important as communicating within a conversation.

Takeaway tips: Look at where Virgo is in your chart and any points that are 11 degrees or within 5 degrees (before or after 11). This means the transit is going exact or within orb on a point in your birth chart, making this lunation relevant to you.

Lunar Eclipse (Full Moon): September 17th, 2024 (25 degrees Pisces) 10:34 PM ET.

Depending on where Pisces is in your chart, this lunation is activating the slumber party that has been going on in your Pisces house. Pisces is not out of the woodwork with Saturn still trecking through, bringing all my 1993/4-1996 babies through a major transformation, encouraging one to see life with black Ray Bans instead of rose-colored glasses. Saturns purpose, for those who don’t know, is to encourage you to live truly in the moment because time is not promised. What you make of your time now, is all that matters, now.

The axis shift for Eclipses has officially begun to change with this lunation being the first of the Pisces/Virgo axis. Welcome this lunation with love and open arms because we’re setting the tone this month.

Takeaway tips: Look at where Pisces is in your chart and any points that are 25 degrees or within 5 degrees of that (before or after 25). This means the transit is going exact or within orb on a point in your birth chart, making this lunation relevant to you.

If your interested in understanding your astrological birth chart, there are readings available here.

My Journey to Mediumship

Mediumship was never part of the plan. When I created Mindful Dose back in 2019, it was only to be a yoga instructor who did tarot readings on the side. It was meant to be a hands-on and tactile experience for myself and my students. I dabbled in crystal healing and explored the world of energy healing at a subtle level. The truth is I wasn’t sure where my niche was but, I followed my heart wherever it took me as my life experiences opened doors to the different avenues of energy healing.

And then, the world as we knew it shut down in 2020. I left my job in a crystal warehouse and stayed home with my husband for the 3 months that followed. That quarantine time was frightful at the time, but hindsight tells me that time was a chrysalis of magic and love. We were only a year into our relationship by the time quarantine was enforced, so the 3 months we spent day to day together, brought us closer than gorilla glue on your art project. I can say that time aged our relationship years as we saw every emotion, every habit, every trait of our personality in those 3 months. And we walked away from quarantine, returning to our 9-5 schedule feeling stronger in our connection. It was us against the world.

After returning to our jobs, we realized a lot about ourselves and the fatigue we experienced with our life in NJ. Together, we decided to leave our 10 foot ceiling, 3-bedroom spacious apartment, and move up to the Catskills. We left our jobs, packed a U-Haul and hiked up 100 miles north for the next chapter of our lives together.

For the next 2.5 years, we lived and worked from home together, which was a blessing to the max! We simply continued our quarantine experience where we witness every phase of our day together, it was truly “us against the world” every single day. Not that we were actively fighting against the world, but just to give you an idea of how close we became. We cooked together, we went grocery shopping together, and we ran errands together. We were a unit.

We decided to build a family in the new year after moving up to NY. It took a few months, but Bambini was created and we found out I was pregnant in August 2021. It was my best friend, Kim’s, birthday when I found out and I thought that was such a gift. By this point, Kim had been fighting against brain cancer for 8 months. She was on the road to recovery as her prognosis looked promising.

My pregnancy was great in that I felt welcomed by the parent community, supported by women, and shared so much love with my husband. My birthday came around in February and I had a chance to spend it with Kim, who, by this point was done with her treatment and on the upswing of her healing. I will forever be grateful for this birthday because it was the last time I saw Kimberly. Within a week, she fell sick again and it was determined that her cancer had spread and it was terminal. At this point, I started to grieve, and the last couple months of my pregnancy were emotionally tough. My body was changing faster than I could notice and I was forced to say goodbye to Kim from a distance. Kim, was also changing faster than I could accept.

I made it to 40 weeks and scheduled an induction as I was not showing signs of labor. My husband and I were so stoked to get the show on the road. By this point, Kim, was no longer Kim as I remembered her, so I left my thoughts for her behind so that I can focus on labor. I spent 11 hours in labor before it was decided we had to move forward with an emergency c-section. I remember waiting in the hospital bed for them to move me to the surgery room. I was watching the clock and it was 3:30 AM as Jason changed into his lucky wrestling t-shirt before putting on scrubs.

Our son was born an hour later via C-Section and it was one of the best experiences Jason and I have had as a couple. Witnessing our love come to life in human form is an experience I reflect on, almost daily. By early morning, at a decent time, I texted everyone on my contact list, announcing the birth of our son. A good friend of mine, called shortly after my message to tell me the news that Kimberly, my friend of 16 years had passed only 45 minutes before I gave birth.

To that, Jason said, “It’s cosmic.”

Kimberly was the first person I ever had to grieve for. At 28 years old, I had experienced what is called anticipatory grief, where grief occurs before the person has died. Because of the distance, and my pregnancy limiting my ability to drive towards the end of that/her life, I felt grief in a weird way. I couldn’t understand it, and like all grief, I hated it.

My son’s first year of life was, in the best way, a wild ride. A story for another time.

Jason was there for every first of our son’s life. First Father’s Day, first Halloween, first Thanksgiving, first Christmas, first birthday… Jason even acknowledged our first year without Kim. “It’s cosmic”.

In June of 2023, on a rainy Tuesday midnight, my greatest love…. Jason died suddenly. I don’t have the words to paint the picture of how devastating that time was. How agonizing it was to lose a member of our family, whose sole purpose was to be there for his family. How it was to lose someone you spent every single day of your life with for the last 4 years.

But then… something birthed within me. In the depths of death, light was shown and I learned that our loved ones still live on, even though they’re not here physically with us. Hours after I came home from the hospital with our son, my mother and brother showed up to pick up my son, so that I be alone. When they left, I grabbed mine and Jason’s phone. I made it to the bottom of the steps when my phone began to ring… and it was Jason’s phone, calling mine. I saw his caller ID, his photo, on my screen like I saw a ghost… his phone was in my other hand, screen black and inactive. It was in that moment that I began to recognize when Jason, in the ether, is communicating with me, and when that connection is not active. My evidence is in the 4 years we spent together, day in and day out. When that connection is active, I can feel his presence in my bones and I feel an overwhelming sense of love. When the connection is inactive, I feel it as a memory with a twinge of grief.

When Jason died, I needed closure and I sought a medium to help me find peace in his passing. In our session, she brought him “to life”, and he communicated through her so clear, addressing all the details that were affecting my grieving. He proved to me that he was still with me and that life carries on after we die.

I was inspired by own loss and mediumship experience, to become a medium myself. My story isn’t just about loss, it’s about the expansion of my journey that started way before loss.

Mediumship wasn’t a part of the plan and I’m grateful that it has become the plan.

Get the best of your Tarot Reading

“The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.”

-Arthur Edward Waite

I love tarot readings! I went to college for Media and Communication, and the first concept we grasped is that all media is storytelling. I use tarot cards as a medium to tell a story and then I use intuition to read that story.

When to get a tarot reading…

My first tarot reading was during my last semester in college. I was looking for insight into the next chapter of my life, stepping into a career! The horizon of this transition seemed so wide and I was looking for any answers to help me make the best decisions for my future. The reader made sense of my intuitive traits and opened this world of energy reading. The reading I received was inspirational to the life I was creating and ultimately, led me down a beautiful path I still walk on.

Life-changing events are a common cause to seek out a reading, however, be sure to have grounding practices so as not to get lost in an energy reading. If grief and loss are the source, I encourage you to pray or say a mantra to keep yourself grounded before viewing your reading.

Generally, if energy work is your cup of tea, getting a tarot reading twice a year is ideal to map out the time ahead. An “end of year/beginning of a new year” is a perfect time to start!

If it’s your first tarot reading with me…

I invite you to watch the reading to absorb and listen to the reading. Then, after a while, watch the reading a second time and jot down any words, messages, and imagery that call out to you. This is your intuition playing a part in the reading. When I tap into a tarot reading, I connect my spirit guides with yours to deliver a message that makes sense to you.

Messages from our spirit guides come from a place of love. If anything doesn’t resonate, disregard it and take the parts of the message that do make sense. The information in readings, especially when messages of time (winter, spring, 6 months, etc..) are involved, it’s best to give that reading its full time to play out.

Returning for a reading…

It’s not unheard of to revisit a reading or to return for a new tarot reading. It’s like checking in on the weather report around a particular topic. I recommend returning for a reading every 4-6 months to check in and redirect if needed.

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