Full Circle: July 2026

The medicine that is everywhere

What if the changes we most need in our life aren’t huge overhauls, but micro adjustments in how we how meet what is?

This past month saw the arrival of an astrological event people have talked about for decades—Barbault’s basket. A conjunction of the four outer planets so rare it hasn’t happened in one hundred years. Though the conjunction officially came into alignment on July 18th (my birthday, I’m still curious about that one…) it will remain in effect for the next four years, changing, according to astrologers, the very trajectory of humanity.

This must have been why all my astrologer friends have been talking about this month for the last year with their eyebrows raised. But every time I tuned into the energies of this past July, I felt something different than huge or dramatic shifts. For me, this month felt like it held a kind of homecoming, an arrival, a piece retrieved, small shifts to touch our center.

I thought about this as I wandered the gardens of Esalen on the California coast last week while on retreat with Aja Daashuur. On this particular day, I was jet lagged with a headache. I considered booking it back to my room to rest or rushing into the bookstore to find Ibuprofen, but something told me to just keep walking, slow, slow, and see who is here.

So, I walked. And inevitably I encountered California poppy—a classic pain-relieving plant—ubiquitous, everywhere, seeding itself in every corner of the garden. I gently snipped a single satin flower head with my fingers and slipped it between my teeth, and as the bright orange blossom met my tongue something melted inside me. The ocean stretched out for leagues in all directions, I continued walking, slow, slow and my headache gently washed away.

The medicine you need has already arrived. You don’t have to pull it from the otherworld, it’s here. The changes we need to make do not require us to detonate our life, but to make the subtle choice to come more fully into the sunlight of ourselves. And this month we glimpsed the power of embracing these subtle shifts.

In this month’s Full Circle video post, I’m reflecting on the energies we encountered this past month, and what it means for what’s unspooling ahead of us. In this special episode I’m also doing a revisit of our energies for this whole year, as we are officially past the halfway point. I also talk about my top five moments of inspiration and revelation in our written roundup. May they bring you light.

Thank you, to all my readers here who have supported me in my own micro shifts towards my own light. I am so grateful for your presence here. If you’d like to access this whole post (as well as all paid subscriber content) you can sign up below.

But before we disappear behind the garden wall, here’s a short excerpt from my original private channeled reading for this month. May it meet you, giving you something exactly where you are.

“Don’t discount what is everywhere.

Don’t discount what is already present in your life.

Don’t discount what is already accessible and right there for you—the tools you’ve gained, the things you know, the way you have connected with yourself.

The shifts you need to live a life in which you feel more connected to yourself, your creativity, your unfolding, are not dramatic shifts. They are small shifts in being, noticing who or what is here—where once you did not see.

Everywhere there are signs coming to help you. Everywhere there are guardians.

Notice that the world is cheering for you.

Notice that the world wants what is best for you and your becoming.

Notice the way in which the world desires your particular unfolding.”