The Alchemy of Closing Karmic Loops

Epilogue to the Sovereign Path Series

While I once questioned whether I believed in karma, I now know that I do. This past year brought a startling lesson- soul-defining, resonant, and deeply clarifying. I don’t see karma as punishment, but as a mirror of our choices and free will, paired with the essential lessons our soul still longs to master. These lessons often rise like old, familiar patterns resurfacing, asking us to respond differently this time- to see with new eyes and choose with greater truth. It sounds straightforward, but in practice can be profoundly painful.

And on this path, there comes a point when the illusion cracks. The mask falls. The strings that once pulled you become visible. And in that raw moment, you realize you’ve been locked in a cycle—not because you weren’t strong enough, but because you hadn’t yet seen clearly enough. Sometimes the karmic echo is loud, other times it slips in through dreams or subtle triggers. You may not know whether it’s the first encounter or the twentieth, but something in you recognizes the resonance: I’ve danced with this energy before. The question is- will it play out again, or will you finally close this loop?

Karmic loops are not punishments. They are classrooms. They replay lessons until you embody the truth—until you let go of ego and illusion and stand with total honesty, surrender, and humility. They circle back until you stop trying to control the outcome, rationalize the illusion, or avoid the truth- and until you finally choose yourself, and most importantly, until you finally choose the truth.

The Hidden Hooks of Karma

Karmic entanglements thrive on hooks—attachments, fears, obligations, old wounds that keep us chained to people, patterns, or power struggles. They whisper that you have to fight, prove, or win. But every time you grasp tighter, you lose a little more of yourself.

The real enemy isn’t the person or the circumstance. It’s the bondage itself.

Detachment as Sacred Rebellion

Detachment doesn’t mean numbness or cold withdrawal. It means choosing to carry your own essence lightly. It’s the quiet power of walking out of the cage without defending, explaining, or dragging anyone with you. It’s refusing to let the same loop drain your energy one more time.

Detachment is how you shift from pawn to sovereign. It is the soul saying: I don’t need to win this fight—I already won by leaving it behind.

Forgiveness as Liberation

Forgiveness is not for them. It is for you.

It is the sword that severs the cord. It’s not about excusing harm or pretending betrayal didn’t happen. It’s about saying: I refuse to keep bleeding from this wound.

When you forgive at the soul level, you release the karmic charge. The loop collapses. The energy you were leaking returns to your body, your creativity, your future.

Forgiveness doesn’t mean reconciliation. It means sovereignty. It means freedom.

And yes - this step is painfully hard. But it is also utterly necessary. Because when you finally release the emotional entanglement, what rises in its place is nothing short of alchemy. The freedom you feel is purifying, empowering, and absolute.

The Threshold Moment

There always comes a threshold moment. You know it when it arrives because the weight of the old story no longer fits inside your body. You’ve fought, endured, explained, and tried every angle—and still the loop brings no peace. The ending carves itself into your bones until denial and avoidance are no longer possible.

This is the moment where the past can no longer be resurrected. The door is sealed. You cannot go back. And if you’re honest with yourself, you don’t actually want to. Because what waits behind you is only repetition—another round of exhaustion, another cycle of proving, another version of the same pain dressed in different clothing.

The wisdom is not behind you. It is in the crossing.

It is in choosing to step forward with scars that testify to your endurance, eyes clear enough to see illusion for what it was, and a heart that no longer consents to chains.

Threshold moments demand surrender. They demand honesty with yourself so complete that ego no longer has space to hide. They require humility—the courage to admit when something is truly done. And they invite you into sovereignty: the radical act of closing the book and walking into the unknown, trusting that life on the other side will honor your choice to be free.

Karmic Loops as Soul Work

Here’s the profound paradox: the very loops we resist most fiercely are often the ones our soul came here to master.

These repeating patterns—whether in love, family, friendship, work, teacher dynamics, or even in our own inner battles—aren’t accidents. They are invitations. They are the curriculum of your life.

The deeper the hook, the greater the lesson. The heavier the repetition, the more profound the breakthrough waiting on the other side. These loops aren’t here to punish you—they are here to grow you. They are here to free you. They are the forge where your character, compassion, and sovereignty are tested and strengthened- and you emerge empowered in ways you hadn’t imagined or hoped for.

The Brutal Grace of Forgiveness

Let’s be honest: forgiveness is not easy. Especially when you’ve been betrayed, abandoned, taken advantage of, or deeply wounded. It feels unjust to release what has scarred you. Your ego wants repayment. Your body remembers the pain. Your soul sees the grave injustice.

And yet—without forgiveness, the loop continues. You stay bound to the very thing that harmed you. The wound festers, the story repeats, and new cycles form on top of the old ones.

Forgiveness doesn’t mean you condone the harm. It doesn’t mean you let the person back in. It doesn’t mean you minimize what you went through. Forgiveness is the final act of sovereignty: I choose not to be entangled with this anymore. I choose to free myself.

It is both the hardest work and the most vital. Forgiveness collapses karma. Forgiveness ends the contract. Forgiveness returns your soul to itself. And it truly breaks the cycle- you fully release the karmic loop and pattern on your end.

The Alchemy of Karmic Closure

    •    Clarity → See the illusion for what it is. You address the avoidance, the over-rationalizing, and the denial.

    •    Detachment → Stop feeding the loop with your energy.

    •    Forgiveness → Cut the cord at its root and release the emotional entanglement, or you will carry this forward into your future.

    •    Forward Motion → Claim your freedom and move into creation, sovereignty, and empowerment.

This is not theory. This is soul work. And it is the very work your ancestors whisper for you to embody, because every loop you close in your life sends ripples back through the lineage.

Reflections for Your Threshold

    •    What am I still trying to resurrect that is already finished?

    •    Where am I pretending I still can’t see the truth?

    •    What new life might be waiting for me if I finally step across the threshold?

    •    What lesson is begging me to listen and be mastered?

A Simple Detachment + Forgiveness Ritual

    1.    Write down the loop you are ready to close—name the person, pattern, or story.

    2.    Speak this aloud: “I release you. I forgive you. I forgive myself. This loop is now fully complete.”

    3.    Burn or tear the paper, visualizing the energy cords dissolving into light.

    4.    Place your hands on your heart and affirm: “I walk forward free, sovereign, and whole. This lesson I take with me in full and I release every attachment to the rest.”

The Crown of Sovereignty

Every karmic loop asks the same essential question: Will you keep circling, or will you rise?

Closing a loop is not weakness—it is wisdom. It is the moment you finally see that the fight was never about winning; it was about awakening. It was about finding the courage to detach, the humility to surrender, and the strength to forgive so fully that the hook dissolves into dust.

This is the crown of sovereignty: to walk forward unchained, no longer defined by what broke you, but empowered by what freed you.

Your ancestors are watching. They know the weight of what you carry. And they are whispering now: “You are the one. End it here. Close the loop. The future will be different because you had the courage to choose truth.”

Karma is not here to punish you. It is here to wake you. The loops that once felt endless and unbearably heavy are not meant to define you, but to refine you. They repeat until you see clearly- until you stand in humility and surrender, until you choose truth over illusion, avoidance, or denial. Until you choose sovereignty over bondage. Until you choose yourself over inaction, over the false safety of uncertainty, over the facade of comfort.

Closing the loop is the most courageous act you can take. It asks for your honesty, your detachment, your humility, and your forgiveness—even when it feels impossibly hard. But this is how cycles end. This is how the future shifts. This is how you step into the life that has been waiting for you all along.

✨ The question now is simple, and it is yours alone to answer: Will you circle again, or will you rise?

Walk through the threshold. Claim your freedom. Step into the empowered life ahead that has been waiting for you- not just in this lifetime, but beyond countless lifetimes before.

The Archetype of the Fool: The Sacred Leap Into Your Soul’s Evolution

The Fool is card 0—a circle, both empty and infinite. He is the place where endings collapse into beginnings, where innocence and mastery meet.

In early tarot decks, there were actually two Fools—one at the beginning and one at the end of the Major Arcana. From them came the Jokers in modern playing cards—wild cards that exist outside the rules. The Fool reminds us that your soul’s path is not about playing by the rules—it’s about learning to trust the flow of Spirit.

Lessons of the Fool:

    •    Trust the unknown. The path is revealed one step at a time.

    •    Travel light. Freedom arrives when we let go of baggage and control.

    •    Begin again. Every ending is an invitation to rebirth.

    •    Sacred risk. Growth and transformation live at the edge, not in the comfort zone.

    •    Feminine flow. The Fool doesn’t force or strategize—he aligns, responds, and allows life to carry him.

Shadows: Where the Fool Can Trip Us Up

    •    Recklessness - mistaking chaos for freedom.

    •    Escaping responsibility under the guise of “freedom”. Avoidance through the costume of adventure.

    •    Becoming jaded; losing innocence to cynicism after wounds.

    •    Insecurity; being mocked, misunderstood, or dismissed by a world that fears surrender.

The Fool’s challenge is to stay aligned—moving in trust with Spirit, not in avoidance. Holding on to wonder without losing discernment. Staying open-hearted, even after we’ve been hurt.

The Fool’s Gifts

    •    Creative genius: Infinite possibility springs from nothingness. Alignment with your life path and trusting the flow of opportunity often sparks genius and magical synchronicities.

    •    Magnetism: Authentic joy naturally attracts people and opportunities.

    •    Resilience: Every stumble becomes sacred wisdom.

    •    Beginner’s mind: The courage to reinvent yourself again and again.

    •    Detachment: When we release attachment to outcomes, we live in Spirit’s flow—and miracles enter with ease.

Perhaps the greatest gift: The Fool never forgets that life is meant to be lived, not controlled.

The Fool Across Wisdom Systems

The Fool shows up across countless wisdom traditions, each revealing a different facet of his medicine. Here are just a few examples of how this archetype appears.

    •    Gene Keys: The Fool mirrors the transformation from shadow into gift. For instance, the “shadow” of the Gene Key of Purposelessness often feels like wandering without direction—yet this is the very soil in which the gift of Totality (living fully engaged and present in life) is born. Think of someone leaving a career that no longer fits, feeling “lost” - only to discover that in letting go, a deeper calling emerges. In other keys, innocence matures into universal love, echoing the Fool’s unguarded, trusting heart.

    •    Human Design: The Fool embodies the Generator’s sacred response—waiting to engage with what life offers and invites rather than forcing outcomes. As this is often when the magic unfolds. Picture this: a casual “yes” to an unexpected conversation leads to a profound relationship or opportunity. This is the Fool’s magic—life opening when we are aligned with Spirit’s invitations.

    •    Astrology: The Fool channels Uranus’s liberation and sudden disruption, Neptune’s dreamy innocence, and Sagittarius/9th House’s quest for truth. Think of a Uranus transit that upends your life—painful in the moment, yet later revealing itself as the crack through which your soul light poured forth and you began to live more authentically. Whenever these archetypes light up in your chart, you are being invited to leap into your next evolution.

The Fool is the archetype that bridge all systems: he is the risk of not knowing, and the reward of discovering. In every system, the Fool teaches the same thing: alignment with Spirit’s flow is not passive—it is the most courageous act of surrender. And often, when the most beautiful magic begins to unfold.

How the Fool Unlocks Growth

    •    Creativity awakens when perfectionism dissolves.

The Fool doesn’t wait for perfect conditions—he creates as he goes. Start messy, respond to the moment, and you’ll find inspiration pouring through you. Creativity is the child of trust, not control.

    •    Fear transforms when failure becomes initiation.

The Fool knows there is no such thing as wasted experience. Every wrong turn, every fall, becomes compost for wisdom. When we shift from “I failed” to “I learned,” we alchemize fear into growth. Fear dissolves when failure becomes a sacred teacher instead of a punishment.

    •    Faith strengthens when you discover the net always appears.

The net isn’t visible until you leap. But think back—every time you dared to risk (love, relocation, new work, new path), wasn’t there always something that caught you? Spirit always meets us mid-air. The Fool shows us that life is not here to punish us, but to hold us as we risk becoming more.

    •    Joy heals because play is sacred medicine.

Play reopens the heart. It quiets the inner critic and invites the nervous system back into regulation. Joy is not frivolous—it is a spiritual practice, a feminine flow state that magnetizes abundance.

    •    Evolution accelerates when you release attachment.

This is perhaps the Fool’s deepest teaching. We cannot cling to outcomes and still walk in Spirit’s flow. Detachment does not mean apathy—it means trusting that what falls away was never meant to stay, and what is aligned will arrive in perfect timing. At some point we stop waiting to be ready, and just take the leap. And, in releasing control, we step into flow—and flow always carries us where we are meant to go.

Practices to Embody the Fool

Reflections:

    •    Where am I hesitating to leap without certainty?

    •    What identity or outcome am I clinging to that Spirit is asking me to release?

    •    How might my life expand if I chose trust and flow instead of control?

    •    How can I invite more presence into my day today?

Embodiment Practice

Dance barefoot outdoors—no choreography, no music, just the rhythm of your body. This is Fool energy: moving in presence, free from the mind’s judgment, carried only by Spirit. Embrace freedom, connection, and spontaneity in your body today in some form or way - be fully present in that moment and allow yourself to connect.

Simple Ritual Idea:

    •    Choose a talisman (stone, feather, flower).

    •    Place it on your altar as your Fool’s Charm.

    •    Each day, hold it and ask: Spirit, where are you inviting me to trust today?

    •    Affirm: “I release attachment. I leap into the flow of life, and life always catches me.”

The Fool is not foolish. He is the sacred wanderer who knows that the map is written only as we walk it. He is not here to make sense to the world. He is here to make sense of the soul. He walks between beginnings and endings, laughing at the illusion of control, showing us that alignment with Spirit is the only true safety.

To embody the Fool is to live unattached, yet deeply engaged and present. To let go of the script, yet meet each moment with your whole heart. This is where freedom lives - not in certainty, but in trust.

The Fool whispers: You cannot cling and fly and fly at the same time.

He is the bridge between masculine planning and feminine surrender, showing us that the flow of Spirit is not weakness, but the highest form of wisdom.

When you live in this flow, you discover the secret paradox:

You were never falling. You were always being carried.

Breaking Chains of Spiritual Warfare: Love, Sovereignty & the Sword of Truth

Sovereign Path Series Epilogue

The Trap After Freedom

You cut the cords. You broke the tethers. For a moment you felt free. But then — the heaviness returned. You find yourself stuck, unable to move forward in the ways in which you desire, and unable to manifest the abundance and joy you know is meant for you. It is as if invisible chains still bind you, keeping your soul from stretching into its fullness. These are the anxious after effects once you leave - the desperate spells to keep you further tethered, to rob you of any light of hope and further growth, and to force you to return back to their facade of comfort.

This is the hidden snare after freedom. Not failure, but initiation. The deeper mirror has arrived. And, you are not meant to turn away.

The Three Currents of Liberation

1. Unconditional Love

Unconditional love is not soft or sentimental. It is a primordial current — the essence of Source, the spark from which you were created. It existed before fear, before heartbreak, before the walls you built to survive and protect yourself.

But it is not enough to know this love exists — you must let it fill you. To align with it means to open yourself to its flow and to embody it within, beginning first, with love for yourself. Not the fragile self-approval built on doing or pleasing, but the unshakable knowing: “I am worthy. I am whole. I am loved without condition.”

Because you are.

And, when you embody this love - when you align yourself with Source and you stand firmly in alignment with the unconditional love that is your birthright - distortion cannot anchor in you. Spells dissolve. Manipulations slide away. Attacks collapse. Because no shadow can take root in a vessel overflowing with unconditional love.

Practice: Place your hand on your heart. Whisper: “I remember. I return. I am love.” Sit in meditation and breath work, until this truth moves from thought to presence, until it begins to overflow within you.

2. Sovereignty

Sovereignty is not a crown. It is your anchor. The deep ground of your being that no one else can own. Not fear. Not manipulation. Not even the voices of your past.

It means no one else owns your will. Not a partner, not a group, not a psychic manipulator. True sovereignty isn’t rebellion for rebellion’s sake; is self-possession of your soul.

When you stand anchored in sovereignty, attempts to bend or bind your path collapse before they reach you. Their spells, their projectors, their manipulations shatter against the fortress of your will aligned in truth with Spirit. And sovereignty is contagious. Your freedom reminds others that they, too, can be free.

Practice: Stand barefoot on the earth. Speak your name back into your body: “I am sovereign. My will is my own. I do not consent to any presence, energy, or bind that is not aligned with my highest good. Not now, not ever.” Repeat until your voice steadies like fire. And cut cords as often as needed until this tether, and any new attempts at a tether, no longer return.

3. Divine Truth (The Sword of Light)

Divine Truth is not vague or soft. It is the cutting clarity that severs illusion at its root. It is the Sword of Light — and no shadow can withstand it. It slices through glamour, illusion, manipulation. But truth is also uncomfortable - it reveals where you colluded in your own bondage, where you gave your power away. And it asks you to witness this so that this lesson you are mastering will become embodied and you will never, ever again need to repeat it.

Aligning with truth also means you no longer stay silent in the face of distortion. You speak. You expose. You cut cleanly with clarity. Both for yourself, and for others. This is not cruelty or revenge — it is liberation. Because when the truth is spoken, illusions collapse, and those around you see the choice before them with unmistakable clarity. And you step further into your own alignment, sovereignty, and self love when you do so.

And here is the promise: when you stand in truth, divine protection rises with you. Every. Single. Time.

Practice:

    1.    Speak aloud once a day: “I align with Truth. I cut distortion at its root.”

    2.    Ask yourself what illusion you see around you is ready to dissolve today . Name it clearly. Burn or tear the page. Let the act remind you: truth dissolves distortion.

3. Journal the lies you’ve told yourself (“I’m unworthy"“, “I can’t ever seem to reach my financial goals”, “I am not ready for relationship”, “I can’t escape”, “They will reject me if I expose this” etc) and then burn this page and replace it instead with soul-truth (“I am unconditionally loved”, “I am the author of my own story”, “abundance flows freely to me when I am in alignment with my life”, “I am free”, “My worth does not in any way depend on the approval of others”, etc).

The Turning Point

After freedom comes the real test. The choice to hold steady when shadow circles again.

If you have broken free, this is the hour to rise higher, not retreat. Anchor deeper into love, sovereignty, and truth. That is the ground in which no attack can touch.

And for those still caught in distortion, those still enabling harm, still working in covert ways to actively spell cast and bind - know this: you are seen, your actions are witnessed and spiritual laws are in play. You are not beyond accountability if you choose to continue.

Unprovoked attacks against another may appear to slip through unnoticed. The validation that you feel by affirming someone else’s agenda may soothe your ego for a moment. But it will always prove hollow in the end.

The same threshold stands before you. You are not beyond reclamation. Turning back may not erase the past, but it restores your essence and spares you from the spiral that only grows harsher the longer you refuse the mirror.

Do not risk stagnating your own growth, dimming your gifts, and facing karmic lessons that need not come -unless you force them to.

The path is open. But the doorway narrows the longer you wait.

The Final Blessing & Call to Action

When you root into love — not as an idea, but as a living force that flows and fills you from within — you become unshakable. When you embody sovereignty as your anchor, no hand can bend your will. When you wield truth as a sword of light, distortion crumbles, clarity clears the way forward, and you will find protection that surpasses your imagination.

This is not just about breaking chains. It is about becoming untouchable to the forces that once bound you. It is about standing in your essence — whole, radiant, unbound, and fearless.

So breathe. Place your hand on your heart. Say it now as a vow:

    •    I anchor in unconditional love — for myself first, and through me for the world.

    •    I stand sovereign. My will is my own.

    •    I wield the Sword of Truth and I do not look away. I know that I am protected and safe, always.

And then — act. Write one truth. Speak one boundary. Release one chain.

Because every small act of love, sovereignty, and truth is not only your freedom — it is a signal fire. And it lights the way for the next soul to rise.

Your soul is ready. The path is open. And your rising is the blessing your ancestors have been waiting for. They are cheering you on. And once you pass this test, align yourself fully with Source, and master the lessons you are being offered, you will often find a latent gift becomes unlocked. It happened for me and I have seen it for my friends. Once you are free and you have embodied and integrated the lessons that your soul has been invited to learn you will find yourself transformed. Stronger than you were when you began, more aligned with your life path, and more empowered than you could have imagined for yourself.

The choice is yours and the finish line is within sight. You are almost there.

Astro-Wellness: Your Rising Sign as a Sacred Blueprint for Daily Rhythms

The Rising Sign is not a surface mask — it is your soul’s horizon line, the incarnate threshold through which you took your first breath and stepped into this life. It describes how your body meets the world and how the world in turn meets you. Your Chart Ruler, the planet governing your Ascendant, shines like a lighthouse across the sea of your life. It helps to orient you back to your essence whenever you drift from alignment.

Together, your Rising Sign and Chart Ruler form what we could call, your Astro-Wellness Blueprint: the map of your body’s sensitivities, the style of movement and rest that nourishes you, and the daily rhythms that keep you connected to your joy. When you fall out of step with this blueprint, your body whispers through fatigue, tension, or imbalance. When you live in alignment with it, you feel restored, radiant, and in line with your soul’s original design.

This is where astrology becomes wellness: your Ascendant + Ruler don’t just tell you who you are — they help to reveal how to live in a body that supports your growth, your healing, and your joy.

Below is a list of Ascendants (your first house) and their chart rulers. This will provide you with a basic, foundational view of how this works; each chart will layer the house/zodiacal archetype of where your chart ruler falls as well as aspects that flavor and nuance how these are expressed and talk to each other. While each of us have our own unique blueprint, this will give you a broad overview and provide basic themes you can play with and contemplate.

Mars-Ruled Risings (Aries & Scorpio Ascendants)

Archetype: The Warrior / The Alchemist

You are initiated through intensity, struggle, and truth. Mars challenges you to act, learn initiative and boldness, to confront stagnation, and to transmute raw energy into sacred purpose.

    •    Body-Shadow: Excess heat; inflammation, anger, muscular tension, restless fire.

    •    Wellness Key: Mars risings need release work—not chaos, but conscious movement that transforms pressure into vitality.

    •    Embodiment Practices: Controlled exertion; breath of fire, fasting, drumming, strength training, running or kickboxing, sauna + cool immersion.

    •    Joy Path: Joy emerges when courage and fire become fuel for creation, not destruction—when action is aligned with spirit and your fire is harnessed in service of life.

Sun-Ruled Risings (Leo Ascendants)

Archetype: The Radiant Flame

You are called to embody sovereignty, to shine as a solar vessel of warmth, clarity, vision, and creativity. Ultimately, to lead and inspire others. The Sun teaches you that your radiance is not for applause, but for sacred offering.

    •    Body-Shadow: The Sun governs the heart, circulation, and vital force itself. Misalignment can manifest as exhaustion, prideful strain, spinal tension, depletion from constant giving.

    •    Wellness Key: You thrive when your body is tended as a living flame—fed with joy, expression, the warmth of connection, and renewal in meaningful ways.

    •    Embodiment Practices: Sun salutations, expressive dance, basking in sunlight, music, creative projects.

    •    Joy Path: Joy is your compass. It arrives when you create from overflow, not obligation. True joy arrives when your radiance is shared - when you create not for applause, but as an offering of your flame for others.

Moon-Ruled Risings (Cancer Ascendants)

Archetype: The Lunar Vessel / Keeper of Waters

You live by cycles, apprenticed to the wisdom of ebb and flow. The Moon teaches you to find safety not in control, but in rhythm and cycles of nourishment and release.

    •    Body-Shadow: The Moon rules fluids, digestion, fertility. Misalignment shows up as digestive imbalance, emotional heaviness, water retention, or absorbing and/or being swept into others’ emotions.

    •    Wellness Key: Moon risings thrive in cyclic alignment—tracking phases, living with lunar cycles, eating seasonal foods, and tending to rhythms of rest and renewal.

    •    Embodiment Practices: Reflective journaling, water immersion, belly breathing, cooking in rhythm with the seasons, lunar phase practices.

    •    Joy Path: Joy arises when you honor your own tides instead of taking on responsibility to regulate everyone else’s.

Venus-Ruled Risings (Taurus & Libra Ascendants)

Archetype: The Keeper of Harmony / Artist of Balance

You are called to weave beauty into daily life and embody harmony and stability in body and relationship. Venus reminds you that pleasure and presence itself is medicine.

    •    Body-Shadow: Venus governs the throat, kidneys, and complexion. Misalignment manifests as overindulgence, sugar sensitivity, imbalance or nervous tension from disharmony, or reliance on external approval.

    •    Wellness Key: Wellness comes from sensual devotion—rituals that ground you in the body through art, beauty, sound, touch, taste, and connection.

    •    Embodiment Practices: Song, sacred adornment, mindful eating, movement with music, breath set to rhythm, relational check-ins.

    •    Joy Path: Joy awakens when beauty becomes devotional, not decorative—when harmony heals and becomes the vessel of love - springing from deep, authentic abundance, rather than pleasing others and seeking approval.

Mercury-Ruled Risings (Gemini & Virgo Ascendants)

Archetype: The Sacred Messenger / The Code-Healer

Your initiation is into rhythm and translation—learning to flex and bridge body and mind, spirit and matter. Mercury guides you to heal through words, breath, and movement.

    •    Body-Shadow: Mercury rules the lungs, nerves, intestines, and the faculty of coordination. Misalignment surfaces as nervous overstimulation or depletion, worry, gut anxiety, restlessness.

    •    Wellness Key: Your body thrives on regulated rhythm—steady breath, structure and clear routines, mental stillness, and mindful flow.

    •    Embodiments: Walking meditations, journaling, mantra-based yoga, herbal medicine for digestion and nerves.

    •    Joy Path: Joy is found in coherence—when your curiosity and routines bring clarity rather than scattering and your words and practices become bridges rather than fractures.

Saturn-Ruled Risings (Capricorn & Aquarius Ascendants)

Archetype: The Gatekeeper of Time / The Sacred Architect

In ancient astrology, Saturn is the furthest wanderer, the planet at the edge of visibility. To the ancients, Saturn was the keeper of limits — of time, mortality, and boundaries. For those born under his rulership, life unfolds through tests, responsibilities, and the weight of necessity. Yet these tests are initiations, helping to sprout deep roots of profound wisdom and mastery.

    •    Body-Shadow: Ancient texts associated Saturn with cold and dryness, heaviness in bones, joints, and skin. When out of rhythm, Saturn bodies manifest rigidity, pensive or heavy somberness, or depletion.

    •    Wellness Key: Wellness comes from cultivating sacred structure and measured rhythm. Saturn risings thrive not by excess but by moderation, by practices that strengthen the body slowly and steadily, much like stonework carefully, methodically built with patience.

    •    Embodiment Practices: Dawn rituals, strength-building over time, fasting for clarity, contemplative practices (meditation, chanting, solitude), tending hearth and home as sacred ground.

    •    Path to Joy: Paradoxically, joy arrives through discipline. When you live in alignment with Saturn’s rhythm, boundaries create freedom, and limits open into deeper meaning. Joy is found in the quiet pride of mastery, the dignity of work done well, and the serenity of knowing you are in rhythm with time itself.

Jupiter/Neptune-Ruled Risings (Sagittarius & Pisces Ascendants)

Archetype: The Seeker / The Mystic Dreamer

You are initiated into expansion and surrender. Jupiter stretches you into meaning, Neptune dissolves you into unity. Together, they remind you that wonder itself is wellness.

    •    Body-Shadow: Jupiter expands - misaligned, it can bring excess in liver, hips, or circulation. This can manifest in patterns of overindulgence, excess weight, escapism, addiction, exhaustion, or immune depletion.

    •    Wellness Key: These risings need sacred expansion and flow—open horizons, water immersion, devotional practices that restore awe and immersion in the greater whole.

    •    Embodiments: Pilgrimage walks, sunrise runs, swimming, dreamwork, ecstatic dance, dream journaling, chanting, and gratitude practice.

    •    Joy Path: Joy arises as wonder—when life feels larger than you, yet holds you gently within it.

The Lighthouse and the Compass

Your Rising Sign is your incarnational doorway; your Chart Ruler, the lighthouse that orients you through storm and calm alike, and helps to guide you back to alignment. Together, they form your soul’s wellness compass:

    •    The Rising shows you where the body mirrors the soul’s shadow and struggle when you are out of rhythm.

    •    The Ruler reveals the practices that restore vitality and clarity.

    •    Together, they lead you back to your deepest joy; the joy of living in sync with your soul’s authentic design.

And yet, the sky is never still. Transits to your chart ruler or Ascendant flavor this compass, tinting its light. When Jupiter blesses your ruler, vitality often expands; when Saturn presses down, the body may feel heavier, asking for rest and refinement. Mars transits can ignite inflammation or motivation, Venus can restore harmony through beauty and pleasure, and Neptune may invite surrender to subtler rhythms.

The ancients understood these planetary movements not as random disruptions, but as seasonal teachings - temporary overlays that refine your practice and deepen your embodiment. By tracking transits to your Rising Sign and ruler, you learn when to lean into discipline, when to allow softness, and when to celebrate expansion.

Astro-Wellness then, is not static. It is a living relationship between your natal blueprint and the ever-turning heavens. Your Rising and Ruler are your constant teachers, but the transiting sky adds its color, reminding you that wellness is not a fixed state - it is an ever changing dance with time itself. It isn’t about chasing perfection or following rigid routines. It is instead about learning to live in relationship with your Rising rhythm—listening when your body signals misalignment, and honoring the guidance of your body and chart ruler like a steady beacon.

When you align with this blueprint:

    •    The body stops being a battlefield and becomes a teacher of deep wisdom.

    •    Health shifts from discipline into devotion.

    •    Joy ceases to be fleeting and becomes a living, steady current.

Where To Start:

Locate your Rising Sign & its Chart Ruler in your natal chart. Reflect on where its themes appear in your body today. Choose one embodiment practice this week as an offering. Give yourself a month and contemplate shifts and changes you notice. Consider the following daily reflections:

• What practice is my Rising calling me into today?

• What “light” (deeper insight) is my chart ruler shining on my path right now?

• Where is joy waiting for me in my body, if I choose to honor it?

This is the heart of Astro-Wellness: not a list of health hacks, but a return to your soul’s original harmony. Your Rising and Chart Ruler hold the keys. When you walk in rhythm with them, you are not only well — you are whole.

The Mirrors We Hold

Breaking Free Into Sovereignty

We are all mirrors for one another. Every encounter, every conversation, every triggered emotion is a reflection inviting us to see ourselves more clearly. Sometimes the reflections are beautiful, affirming what we already love about ourselves. Other times, they are raw and confronting—forcing us to see the shadow traits and wounds we’d rather keep hidden.

But perhaps the most dangerous and powerful mirror is the one we hold up to ourselves—and so often distort.

The greatest lies we ever hear aren’t whispered in someone else’s voice. They are the subtle deceptions we feed ourselves. The stories of “I’m fine” when we’re unraveling inside. The “it’s not a big deal” when our soul is begging us to admit it is. The “I can’t” when fear is choking possibility at the root. These self-lies are poison disguised as protection.

And shame is their enforcer. Shame shackles us to our past—reminding us of our mistakes, amplifying our flaws, convincing us that we’ll never outgrow the wounds we carry. It thrives in silence, secrecy, and self-betrayal. But here’s the truth: shame only has power when we keep bowing to it.

Think of the times you’ve walked a path because it felt like the safe, logical, or familiar choice—only to realize it was draining the life out of you. Those choices, however well-intentioned, are rooted in fear. Fear of judgment. Fear of change. Fear of failure. Fear of being truly seen. And yet, those paths that promise safety often end up being the most soul-deadening of all.

There is another way.

It begins when you stop lying to yourself. When you peel away the mask, strip off the layers of shame, and admit what you truly desire. When you honor the whispers of your intuition, even when they don’t fully make sense. Because how many times has that inner nudge carried you somewhere far more magical, far more expansive, than your mind could ever have planned?

Alignment is not about perfection—it’s about courage. The courage to live your truth even when it disrupts expectations. The courage to burn down old narratives and rebuild a life that actually feeds your soul. The courage to see the reflection in the mirror—shadow and light—and say, This is me. And I choose freedom.

Because when you stop lying to yourself, you stop giving shame its power. You reclaim the keys to your own liberation. You stop chasing paths that look safe but lead nowhere, and instead step into the unknown terrain of your own true becoming.

And yes, it will be uncomfortable. Choosing freedom always is. It means outgrowing relationships that can’t hold your truth, releasing patterns that once defined you, and daring to be seen in your wholeness. But on the other side of that discomfort lies a kind of joy that is deeper, truer, and more enduring than anything safety could have ever given you.

The mirror will always be there, waiting. The only question is: will you keep looking away, or will you finally meet your own gaze without flinching?

Your mirror can enslave you, or it can awaken you. The choice is yours—but your soul already knows the answer.

Journal Reflections

• What truths are you afraid to admit to yourself right now?

• Where does shame still hold you hostage—and how can you reclaim your power in those places?

• Think of a time you lied to yourself for “safety.” What was the cost of that choice?

• What is your intuition quietly whispering that you keep ignoring?

• If you stopped running from your reflection and embraced every part of yourself—shadow and light—how would your life expand?

The Sisterhood Wound: Why You’re Afraid to Speak, Lead, or Shine

Why Women Stay Silent: The Hidden Wound No One Talks About

There’s a grief that lies in our bones, which we rarely name.

It’s the ache of betrayal without a blade. A silencing that doesn’t come from force, but from side-eyes, group chats, and a quiet withdrawal of warmth the moment you dare to become too much—too loud, too visible, too different.

This is the Sisterhood Wound.

And whether you were shamed by a friend for sharing too much, rejected by a group when you dared to lead, or quietly punished for shining brighter than what was “allowed,” this wound shapes more of our self-worth than we realize.

What Is the Sisterhood Wound?

The Sisterhood Wound is a collective trauma rooted in centuries of competition, scarcity, and betrayal among women and feminine beings. It shows up when:

    •    You hesitate to speak your truth in a group.

    •    You play small so others won’t feel uncomfortable.

    •    You avoid leadership to avoid being targeted.

    •    You distrust other women’s motives—especially in spiritual or professional circles.

    •    You shrink after being praised, fearing the backlash.

Historically, our power as women was dangerous. Over time, in countless ways, it was quietly targeted and diminished. To survive, women were often forced to betray each other. Think: witch trials, arranged marriages, inheritance laws, exclusion from education, etc. Survival meant loyalty to patriarchy over sisterhood. And despite our many advancements, that ancestral scar still echoes today. And if you are a man and you’re reading this, and identify with it, it’s likely because you carry a similar community wound. Sadly, these are far more common than we think. And they are important to recognize, name, and heal, because without doing so, they will hold you back and replay in different variants, over and over again in your life.

Personal Signs You’re Holding This Wound

    •    You second-guess yourself after sharing something vulnerable.

    •    You feel “energetically punished” when you set healthy boundaries.

    •    You fear being seen, even if you crave it.

    •    You’ve felt scapegoated in friend groups.

    •    You shrink your own magic and magnetism so others don’t feel insecure.

Let me say this clearly: none of this means you’re broken. It means your nervous system has learned to associate safety with invisibility—and that can be healed.

When This Wound Shows Up in Community

Recently, (story shared within the Sovereign Path Series), I witnessed this dynamic unfold in real time.

What began as a sacred space for growth and initiation slowly revealed fractures beneath the surface—moments where others bypassed hard truths, betrayed private trust, stood with a leader even if it went against their gut instincts, or quietly silenced one another’s voices.

Because when the Sisterhood Wound is active inside a community, it creates fertile ground for control, confusion, and silence.

Some of us questioned ourselves:

“Was I too much?”

“Did I misread the energy?”

“Is it safer to stay quiet than risk conflict?”

Others felt pressured to conform to the collective story, fearing exile if they dared to speak against it.

Why This Happens in Group Dynamics:

1. The Group Mindset - Why We Stay Quiet

When we sense conflict, exclusion, or betrayal within a group, most people don’t act from their highest selves - they act from survival. The nervous system reads rejection or confrontation as a threat. This triggers what psychologists call fawning (appeasing), freezing (shutting down), or mirroring (aligning with the dominant voice to avoid exile). And in spiritual spaces or other groups centered around healing, spirituality, or personal growth, where we expect safety and authenticity, this can often look like:

• Staying silent rather than risking being seen as “the problem”

• Siding with the most charismatic voice to avoid being targeted

• Self-betraying (“I’m fine, it’s fine”) while quietly collapsing inside

• Bypassing harm with “love and light” language (or other superficial stories of false community or celebration) to maintain the illusion of harmony

This isn’t weakness. It’s wiring.

Our ancestors learned that exile from the tribe meant death. And our nervous systems still carry that memory.

2. How Manipulators Exploit This Wound

Trust me when I say, a manipulative leader doesn’t always look like a tyrant or a readily visible person you can easily peg. More often than not, they appear supportive, magnetic, and benevolent on the surface. But underneath, they’re studying the group, sensing vulnerabilities, and using our longing to belong as leverage.

Some common tactics:

• Reframing Dissent as Betrayal -

Anyone who questions the narrative gets labeled as “negative”, “unspiritual”, simply “doesn’t understand”, or is “not in alignment”. This is intentional - it weaponizes the Sisterhood Wound - making others fear becoming the next exile. Healthy leaders aren’t afraid or threatened of respectful discord, curious exploration, or discussions that open a collective mindset or group perspective. They genuinely want to learn from each other, support each other, and support the greater good of the collective.

• Creating Conditional Safety

Approval, access, or visibility within the group is tied (usually subtly) to obedience. Those who comply are “chosen”, “seen”, or validated in some way. Those who challenge are usually subtly pulled out of positions of influence or iced over. If you are in a group with subtle or overt control dynamics, rethink the psychological health of that community. Healthy communities support your psychological safety - they encourage you to respectfully share opinions, questions, and wins. There is no hidden rivalry or competition.; they cultivate a culture of genuine camaraderie.

• Controlling the Story

When harm happens, the manipulator reframes it so they remain the benevolent guide and others are blamed, dismissed, or doubted. Or, other methods, such as triangulation is used to seed multiple storylines and create conflict and control through interpersonal dynamics. Over time, this erodes trust - but the illusion of harmony keeps people quiet. Respectful discord is healthy. Mature people understand that there will always be differences of opinion and that no one person is ever without error. A healthy leader understands the need to hold compassionate truth and to also let energy naturally ebb and flow. They cultivate a culture dynamic of openness, compassion, synergy, and respect. The human experience will never be perfect, nor will your spiritual path. And healthy leaders understand perfection and control are not the goal.

• Exploiting Spiritual Bypassing

You may hear phrases like “we’re all mirrors”, “you’re being triggered”, “this points to an unhealed wound”, “you’re being offered a lesson”, “don’t focus on negativity”, “we don’t need to go into the shadow - we’ve transcended that”, “focus on your higher timeline”, “this is sacred work -its not for everyone”, etc. Underneath all of it, the manipulator leverages one unspoken fear: “If you challenge me, you will lose your belonging.” And because the Sisterhood Wound (or some other community wound that you hold) already tells us “being seen isn’t safe”, we comply, collapse, or retreat - even when something feels deeply wrong on a subconscious level. Healthy leaders understand life is cyclical - we all have seasons that include challenges, lessons, and dark nights of the soul as well as beautiful seasons of abundance, flow, and ease. A good spiritual mentor is there to help guide you into sitting in your discomfort, unearthing what rises to be witnessed and healed, and helping to compassionately hold space and support you through that process.

3. Why We Turn On Ourselves Instead of Speaking Up

Here’s the deepest layer of psychology in all of this: When conflict or harm happens, we often self-betray before we challenge the group.

Why?

• Attachment>Authenticity

Our nervous system is wired to protect connection first. We would rather suppress our truth than to risk rejection.

• Inherited Scarcity

We’ve internalized the belief that safe, supportive, aligned communities are rare. We cling tightly to the one we have, even if it wounds us. Or, if we suffer from any kind of abandonment wound around community or “family”, this may show up in a similar fashion, as a fear and scarcity wound, if our sense of belonging is subconsciously threatened.

• Trauma Conditioning

Many of us grew up in dynamics where love was conditional - so we normalize subtle forms of manipulation, exclusion, or control.

• Ego + Self Protection

Sometimes we turn on ourselves instead of speaking up because our ego wants to protect us from feeling foolish. It whispers, “Don’t admit you were wrong, don’t show you were fooled.” At its root, ego is trauma-born - it once kept us safe when harm was very real. But left unchecked, integrated, and fully healed - what once protected us can now limit us. Because here’s the truth: admitting we were deceived isn’t weakness - it’s courage. Every time we choose honesty over ego, we reclaim our power, honor ourselves, and free ourselves to grow. True strength is choosing authenticity over ego, clarity over illusion, and ourselves always over any misplaced fear. Every time we do, we reclaim our own sovereign power and step into growth.

Sovereignty is the Antidote

But, while these moments were painful— they were also clarifying.

Because they exposed the trap of the Sisterhood Wound inside group spaces:

We silence ourselves to belong, then abandon ourselves in the process.

And this is wildly dangerous. And far more slippery and subtle than you might imagine.

The turning point comes when you name what is happening - inside and around you. You use your discernment and listen to your body’s whisper when something feels off or misaligned, you choose yourself and healthy boundaries, and you reclaim your sovereignty. Because these moments you experienced reveal where sovereignty begins:

not in controlling others,

not in bypassing discomfort,

but in choosing truth over belonging. Time and time again.

In recognizing that your belonging starts when you claim yourself - because your sovereignty is held within you - it is not held externally in someone else’s approval or control. True leadership, true sisterhood, true community - they never require bypassing your instincts or compromising your truth.

The gift of this ordeal is seeing, with clarity, the pattern for what it is. The Sisterhood Wound is not just your wound—it’s ours collectively. Naming it helps us stop internalizing the shame and start breaking the cycle together. It helps us to start recognizing this wound and taking action directly to heal it. And manipulation always loses its power when you step into sovereignty and clarity - because clarity cannot be controlled.

How This Wound Protects Itself

When unhealed, this wound tends to recycle through the same behaviors:

    •    Bypassing: Pretending harmony exists while ignoring harm.

    •    Betrayal: Sharing one story publicly, another behind closed doors.

    •    Silencing: Withdrawing connection when someone speaks a truth that’s uncomfortable.

These aren’t signs of weakness. They’re survival strategies rooted in centuries of fear.

But sovereignty asks us to pause, name them, and choose a new response.

Moving Through the Ordeal

Healing this wound isn’t about going back to how things were before. It’s about stepping into a deeper truth:

    •    That you don’t have to dim your light to belong.

    •    That your voice is not a threat—it’s medicine. And you are meant to speak it boldly.

    •    That healthy boundaries and clarity create more real connection, not less.

This is the work of sovereignty:

Choosing authenticity over acceptance.

Choosing discernment over illusion.

Choosing your soul’s truth even when it costs you temporary belonging.

Why Healing This Wound Matters

This isn’t just about friendship.

Healing the Sisterhood Wound is what frees your voice, ignites your leadership, and unlocks your legacy. Because if you’re still afraid to shine in front of women - or any group or community, you’ll subconsciously sabotage your own success.

Until you repair this fracture, you may:

    •    Resist mentorship or community.

    •    Avoid collaborations out of mistrust.

    •    Stay small to avoid being resented.

• Avoid opportunities out of fear of being misunderstood.

• Avoid true intimacy and connection with others.

This is not your fault. But it is yours to shift.

Re-Parenting the Sisterhood Wound

You don’t need to wait for an apology or the perfect circle to begin healing. You can become your own safe witness.

Here are a few sacred self-repair tools:

1. Name the First Memory

Close your eyes and reflect. When was the first time another girl or woman made you feel “too much”? Name her. Name the moment. And speak this aloud:

“You didn’t know how to hold my light. That wasn’t my fault. I release all judgement around this and reclaim my power.”

2. Daily Nervous System Affirmation

Say this to yourself as you prepare to speak, post, or lead:

“It’s safe to be seen. It’s safe to be powerful. I choose love over fear, truth over silence.”

3. Mirror Practice

Look yourself in the eye and say:

“I trust you to speak boldly and speak the truth. You are always safe. I have your back.”

Journal Prompts for Integration

    •    When have I silenced myself to keep the peace? What did that cost me?

    •    Who did I give my power to, and why?

• Where have I traded authenticity for belonging?

    •    What am I most afraid will happen if I let myself shine fully?

    •    Where do I still crave approval or validation from others?

    •    What kind of sisterhood feels safe, sacred, and aligned for me now?

You are not alone in this ache. What you’ve carried is part of a much larger story - one woven through generations of women taught to compete, conform, survive, and stay small. But this is the turning point. Every time you speak your truth, choose your voice, and take up space, you break the old spell and create a new possibility for all of us.

Your Light Is a Catalyst, Not a Threat

Your voice, your vision, your visibility—they’re not betrayals of the collective. They’re medicine. They’re invitations for others to rise.

The Sisterhood Wound taught us to fear each other. It embedded this fear.

But your healing teaches you to belong to yourself—and in doing so, to also belong to others who are ready to love you without condition or control.

It’s time to befriend your own brilliance.

To boldly speak the truth.

To shine unabashedly.

To lead with integrity, radiance, and grounded humility.

Together we do this.

Not with fake and ill supported threads, but with hand and soul bounded celebration - holding and uplifting each other.

Because as one of us heals and shines, we encourage our sister next to us, to do the same.

And together, that is how we support healing and true change.

I’ve felt the sting of this wound myself - many times in my life and often wondered where its root was held. I’ve sat in many circles where I wanted so badly to belong, only to feel invisible, dismissed, or even subtly undermined. I used to think the problem was me. But over time, I realized these patterns weren’t about my worth - or even about my confidence - they were reflections of pain passed down through generations of women, pain that taught us to compete instead of trust.

The real work begins when we name it. When we remember that we are not each other’s enemies. When we choose to rise above old scripts and instead build spaces rooted in trust, encouragement, and sovereignty.

If you’ve carried this wound also, I invite you to pause and reflect: Where have I silenced myself in order to belong? And what would it feel like to stand in my own truth anyway?

Because this is how the Sisterhood Wound begins to heal - one voice, one truth, one act of courage at a time.

The Sovereign Path Epilogue III: False Loyalty & The Breaking of Psychic & Psychosexual Tethers

Some bonds are not love at all, but entrapment disguised as loyalty. Naming the tether is the first act of freedom. This post explores how tethers trap us in waking life and in the dreamscape.

Some bonds nourish. Others drain. Not all chains are visible. And some are not bonds at all, but energetic traps crafted to disguise as intimacy, loyalty, and even “love”. These traps are tethers - psychic cords designed to bind your will. Some are woven in silence, through attention, secrecy, or desire. These cords, once hooked, can leave us bound in ways we don’t understand. We may even wake up wondering why we feel pulled towards someone we don’t consciously choose, or why our own clarity keeps collapsing into confusion.

But, once they are seen for what they truly are, they can be broken.

Once broken, your sovereignty returns.

And if this has been you, hear this: It does not mean you are weak. It means your soul is learning to reclaim its freedom. Once these patterns are seen for what they are, and named, their hidden power over you dissolves.

What They Are, In Plain Terms:

A psychosexual tether is an energetic + psychological binding created through intimacy, attention, and manipulation.

It hijacks the body’s bonding chemistry (dopamine/oxytocin), overlays it with glamour (image, mystique, spiritual authority), and locks it in with control patterns (guilt, secrecy, intermittent reward, etc.).

The result: you feel compelled to stay connected even when your soul knows you should walk away.

How They Begin:

Psychosexual tethers rarely start with something obvious. They are seeded in small moments - an unspoken agreement, an unresolved attraction, a dynamic where secret itself fuels the charge. Over time, this exchange of energy becomes a loop: longing, guilt, release, repeat.

The tether works because it bypasses conscious choice. Your energy is engaged whether you want it to be or not. And the stronger it stays hidden, fed, and unacknowledged, the stronger it grows.

The Astral Realm: Where Hidden Tethers Are Often Forged

But what happens when the cords aren’t formed in daylight? What if the entanglement begins in places we barely remember - the dreamscape?

The astral and dream realms are fertile ground for manipulation. Here, our guard is lowered, our subconscious is wide open, and our most primal energies - desire, fear, longing - rise to the surface. For those who seek control, this becomes the perfect entry point.

Why? Because the dream body doesn’t distinguish between “just a dream” and a lived experience. When someone plants a sexual or emotional tether in the astral plane, the body and psyche register it as real. Over time, the victim may awake with cravings, confusion, or an unexplainable sense of attachment that feels “fated” - but is in truth manufactured.

These tethers are especially potent in relationships that are not overtly romantic. When overt intimacy is absent, the manipulator uses astral encounters to “fill in the gap”, weaving cords of sexual charge and psychic energy that create an addictive pull. What should have remained platonic or sacred is quietly rewired into obsession, dependence, a false sense of loyalty, or longing.

Step by Step for How These Tethers Form:

    1.    Hook: Love-bombing, sexual charge, soulmate mirroring - sometimes energetically mimicking a real connection, other times fabricating a false karmic or soul bond.

*This was perhaps one of the most disturbing things I saw in my experience, as it is highly convincing and truly cruel to do to someone. See previous posts for in-depth discussion regarding how this works.

    2.    Glamour: A crafted mystique - spiritual leader, chosen partner, or some sort of “special role” is crafted around them.

    3.    Bonding event: Intense intimacy or some sort of “secret sharing” that seals the tie. This can feel very real, even if there is no romance involved.

    4.    Intermittent reinforcement: Unpredictable warmth/cold patterns keep you addicted.

*See previous posts for in-depth discussion on how this works energetically and on your Nervous System.

    5.    Debt + Obligation: They make you feel like subconsciously you “owe” them — your silence, your loyalty, your energy, etc. Loyalty born from debt is not devotion - it is a tether that drains the very strength it pretends to honor.

    6.    Isolation: They pit people against each other (aka use triangulation techniques); you become elevated as the “chosen one” until you’re discarded and replaced.

    7.    Fear: Some sort of true fear pattern is created and reinforced typically involving the group, your identity, or destiny to keep you trapped, such as “If you leave, you lose everything — me, the group, your path.” Depending on how long you have been under this influence, how strong the tether is, and how long this loop has been reinforced and embedded, this can seem very real and threatening.

How It Works:

    •    Chemical Loop: Dopamine anticipation + oxytocin bonding + cortisol stress = an addictive push-pull dynamic is intentionally created.

    •    Meaning Loop: Ordinary control dressed up as “destiny, karma, or a shared mission.” With a truly gifted energetic practitioner these loops are individually crafted and created for the unique wounds and desires of the person, their energetic make-up, and the intentional purpose the creator wishes for them to serve.

    •    Energetic Loop: Your focus, fear, and even sexual energy feed the cord.

    •    Context Loop: Group dynamics normalize it so you doubt your instincts. And remember, glamour works by dulling your instincts, your agency, and your gifts. You are seeing all of this through a fogged lens and not true clarity.

How to Know If You’ve Been Bound Through Astral or Dreamscape:

• You’ve had recurring dreams of intimacy with someone you would never consciously choose in waking life. The dream feels strangely real and leaves a residue.

• You wake up with unexplained arousal, longing or guilt, as if something happened that you can’t fully place.

• You often feel drained, foggy, or heavy after sleep, as though your energy has been siphoned overnight.

• There’s a nagging pull toward a person that doesn’t match your real-life discernment. You know in your bones it’s not right, but something unseen keeps tugging you back.

• You may notice loops and cycles - moments of clarity where you want freedom, followed by sudden confusion, longing, or return.

Other Ways These Tethers May Feel:

    •    Compulsion stronger than free choice: you “decide” but feel dragged. You are being energetically coerced as the tether and loops in place keep you under their control.

    •    Brief highs, long lows.

    •    Guilt or debt replaces your joy.

    •    Shrinking life: fewer friends, family connection, hobbies - ultimately, less freedom, vitality, and less self.

    •    Constant tension: keeping them happy means betraying your own peace. As you awaken to this you will start to notice this dissonance more clearly but may still feel “bound’ in a sense. For example, even if you decide to walk away, you may feel like you can’t yet - you will not find clarity and decisive energy until you break the tethers.

Seeing is Believing (Self-Test):

Ask yourself:

    1.    Freedom Test: Could I walk away tomorrow without fear of collapse?

    2.    Debt Test: Am I staying because I want to, out of true love or community, or because I feel a sense of obligation, as if I somehow “owe” them?

    3.    Expansion Test: Do I feel larger, freer, more myself in this bond — or smaller and trapped? Is this bringing out the best in me?

    4.    Sunlight Test: If someone I trusted read our last 10 messages, would they call it love or control? Have any of the above shared feelings or experiences landed as true?

    5.    Future Test: If they vanished for 30 days, would my life expand or collapse?

If your answers lean toward fear, debt, collapse, or shame → it’s not love, it’s a tether.

The Wider Web: Other Tethers That Bind:

Psychosexual tethers are only one thread in the web.

Here are the others:

• Psychic Tether: Obsessive thought and focus, constant pull

• Emotional Debt Cord: Guilt and obligation used as currency.

• Trauma-Bond Cord: Abuse—>reward—>abuse, cycling until you can’t leave

• Group/Collective Cord: Belonging tied to hierarchy, exile used as threat.

• Magickal/Ritual Cord: Intentional energetic bindings, often with objects. Can often times be used to ensure you don’t physically leave a group.

• Ancestral/Karmic Cord: Past-life or family entanglements exploited by manipulators.

A skilled black magick practitioner rarely uses just one. They weave layers - a net that feels impossible to escape until you see each thread and break them.

Breaking the Tether:

Here is the uncomfortable truth - you are never powerless against these tactics. The cords may feel real to you and binding - but they are truly smoke and mirrors once you see them for what they really are.

To break them:

    •    Name it aloud: Truth itself is a sword. What was hidden cannot stay hooked once spoken. Speaking the truth weakens and dissolves the glamour.

    •    Reclaim your dreamscape & Revoke Any Debt: Before sleep affirm: Only what is of Spirit may enter here. My soul belongs to no one but the Divine.

• Practice Daily Sovereignty: Breathwork, prayer, or shielding rituals remind your system where your authority lies.

    •    Walk away: Even small steps reclaim freedom; one step alone helps to weaken the net.

    •   Call back your fragments: Imagine drawing your energy out of every dream, fantasy, memory, or feeling where it does not belong or where you do not consent for it to be. See it return to your body, your heart, your Spirit.

•  Reset the body: Movement, breath, rest, salt, grounding — heal your nervous system.

    •    Repattern bonds: Surround yourself with people who make you feel bigger, freer, clearer. Reconnect with friends, family, and hobbies - anything that allows you to start seeing the contrast, feel again, and reconnect consciously to your body, your innate desires and will, and true, healthy connection and relationship.

    •    Shield: Protect your field with intention (Prayer, Mediation & Visualization, Ritual, Salt Baths, LBRP/Middle Pillar/Rite of the Headless One; whatever aligns with your spiritual path - but do energetic protections and field maintenance regularly - especially before sleep, group activity, or any astral travel). Set the daily intention for your field: Only love and truth may enter. All else returns to Source.

Here’s the truth: even in dreams your soul is sovereign. No glamour, no hidden contract, no erotic entanglement has the right to bind you without your consent. Naming these tactics with clarity is the first cut of the sword. Recognizing them dissolves their hidden power. And, once seen, they can no longer weave themselves silently around your spirit. Each act of reclamation loosens the cords until they dissolve entirely.

When you begin to see even your dreamscape and astral plane as holy ground - sacred, sovereign, untouchable - you reclaim the parts of yourself that were once hijacked in the shadows. This is where true freedom begins.

Why This Is Done:

At its root, tethering (and really any form of black magick) is about power, control, and self benefit. The manipulator feeds off sexual and psychic energy like a battery, especially when they can attach it to secrecy or shame. It makes them more powerful, youthful, magnetic. It feeds their ego and allows them greater power to achieve their goals.

Non-romantic dynamics are often targeted precisely because they bypass defenses. If the waking relationship doesn’t “make sense” as intimate, the dreamscape tethering fills the gap, making the pull feel destined. And rarely does the trusting or non-suspecting person confront a teacher, mentor, or otherwise platonic figure in their life about crossing sexual lines in a way they’ve never seen in the physical plane or have any “proof” they can use to justify such an accusation. So, its usually dismissed as “in their head” or unrelated - especially if they are already under glamours (which nearly always goes hand in hand) and is already dulling their intuition, and fogging their sense of clarity and discernment.

The Truth About Love & Loyalty

Real loyalty is chosen freely.

Real love never imprisons, it frees.

Real bonds expand your soul.

Anything else is glamour, imbalance, and energetic theft and coercion. And when you name it — it begins to die.

Entrapment and false loyalty are not love - they are illusions that borrow your strength until you name them.

If you find yourself bound, it does not mean you are weak - it means your soul is being trained in the art of reclaiming its freedom.

Tethers only hold as long as you call them love or loyalty. The moment you name them for what they truly are, their hold over you begins to break. Real love expands your world - false loyalty shrinks it. The Sovereign Path is simple: consciously choose expansion, every time.

Freedom Is Your Birthright

Psychosexual cords, whether formed in waking life or woven in dreamscape, are never stronger than your Sovereign will aligned with Spirit. Once named, they dissolve. Once claimed, your freedom can no longer be taken.

You are not bound. You are sovereign. And in remembering that truth, you are already free.

When Spiritual Power Becomes Control: A Story Of Spellwork, Silencing, & Sovereignty

Sovereign Path Series - Prologue: Overview

There is nothing more whole than a heart that has been broken open by truth. - Rumi

Let’s be clear.

This isn’t just about drama or hurt feelings.

This is about spiritual manipulation - the kind that hides in plain sight behind soothing words and performative wisdom.

The kind that wears the mask of mentorship but feeds on power and dependency.

Distorted leadership and twisted teachings that prey on trauma rather than truly heal it.

I discovered something I wasn’t intended to see on the Scorpio Full Moon.

Something that at first I thought couldn’t possibly be true.

Something that once I saw, I could not unsee.

My spiritual teacher deeply, intentionally manipulating others to rob, distort, and cast illusion for a false sense of power and control.

For a long time, I didn’t want to believe what I was seeing.

Because it meant acknowledging that someone I once trusted - that I sincerely believed was a friend and had even invited to vacation and stay with my family - was actively using their power to control, confuse, hurt, and divide.

And the damage? It ran deep.

A gross misuse of power. Betrayal. Creating opposition, energetic depletion, physical ailments, and deep wounding.

And, in some cases, altering life trajectories, gift expansion, and relationships.

The Pattern: Charm, Control, Collapse

She cloaked herself in goddess-like energy, but behind the scenes, it was all strategy:

• Find your vulnerability

• Mirror your pain

• Tether onto your deepest wounds and insecurities, masquerading as the “ideal” antidote

• Offering healing in exchange for loyalty

• And if you don’t comply?

  Erase. Smear. Attack. Distort. Discredit. Deplete.

This is narcissism in spiritual clothing - using divine language to disarm, then dominate.

People called it community and initially it truly felt that way.

But in reality, it was curated hierarchy,

And when someone shined too brightly - or threatened to step out of line in any meaningful way - the web tightened.

That’s what happened to me.

I was watched.

Talked about.

Lied to and lied about.

And when I started forming deeper connections that weren’t part of her plan - that somehow threatened her power and plans to misuse our gifts to grow her community- they were cut at the root through glamour magic, emotional triangulation, energetic manipulation through reiki and spellwork, and group manipulation behind the scenes.

Spiritual Warfare Is Real - and It Doesn’t Always Look Like What You Expect

This wasn’t just emotional.

This was energetic.

This was very real spellwork with intention - the kind that distorts perception, entangles clarity, and turns people against their own intuition.

I know what it feels like to be gaslit psychically.

To have your life path invaded.

To feel your own energy being used against you.

And what’s worse?

When others see the control, but say nothing because they are either afraid they will be next, fear rejection, or don’t want to be embroiled in the “drama”.

This is the dark side of spiritual communities that no one wants to talk about:

• Where “peace” is used to silence.

• Where “light” and distortion - that is intentionally crafted to play on your own wounds and insecurities - is used to blind.

• Where gaslighting and spiritual bypassing protects the abuser and shames the truth-teller.

What It Took To Leave

When I saw the truth in full - the manipulation and underlying magic - I couldn't unsee it.

At first, I wasn't sure how to move.

The fixer in me rose up. The protector. The sacred rage. The part of me who once believed that if I just showed enough care or clarity, people would understand.

I kept asking: How could I possibly walk away from friends I cared about, when I could see they were caught in something they couldn’t yet name?

But the deeper truth was: they had to see it on their own.

They were being called to reclaim that truth in a way only their soul could lead them to.

So I made a choice - one of the hardest spiritual decisions I’ve ever made or felt equipped to fully make.

To walk away in silence.

Not out of fear, or any inkling of not wanting to get involved, but ultimately out of respect.

Respect for each of our own sovereignty, life path, and individual discoveries and lessons.

To fully trust in the outcome I was shown and to stop pouring energy into a battle of distortion that wasn’t mine to fix.

I began quietly reducing engagement. I held energetic support for the truth and for each person in the group, excluding the triad of those involved at the top.

Twelve cord cuttings.

Not in anger - but in deep spiritual reverence.

Clearing entanglements. Releasing attachments. Weakening the dark magic that lie at the undercurrents of the spellwork and psychic spying being used.

Honoring connection without rescuing.

Then I erased every trace of my presence in the group and private text with the leader. Not to disappear, but to prevent my words, memories, and shares from being twisted and used.

That’s when the real attacks began.

Daily.

Sometimes multiple times a day.

Relentless.

It was my first real exposure to spiritual warfare - and I had a steep learning curve.

At one point, I faltered. I let emotion reopen a door I’d sealed shut. And I felt the energetic blowback immediately. That was the final lesson.

And so I left. Quietly. Completely.

Not with bitterness - but with a fierce trust in divine timing.

Knowing that the truth would reveal itself in the right way, at the right time, to all who needed to see it.

But even then, the smear campaign grew louder.

The lies and twisted truths multiplied.

I don’t know every word that was spoken - and honestly, I’m grateful.

But I know enough to say this with certainty:

This was unprovoked warfare.

And its roots were power. Control. Fear.

Fear of being exposed. Fear of losing image. Fear of losing control. Ultimately, fear of losing money.

And let’s be very clear -

This isn’t about one person being manipulated.

It is about a systemic pattern of spiritual abuse.

One I’m certain began long before I arrived in the group….and may very well continue unless truly seen and recognized for what it really is.

At the core of it?

Narcissism.

Unhealed Wounding.

Jealousy.

Spiritual bypassing.

The kind where charm masks control.

Where “healing” and the level of “teaching” you allow others becomes hierarchy.

Where power feeds on praise and insecurity and hollow praise becomes currency.

It’s a toxic loop.

And when it’s cloaked in spiritual language and a false sense of security within a teacher-student relationship, it is far more dangerous.

Because it seduces the seeker - and silences the truth-teller.

What This Really Is: A Return to Power

This isn’t just my story.

It is a collective wound resurfacing: the distortion of feminine power, cloaked in control, envy, and quiet manipulation.

It echoes the sisterhood wound.

The witch wound.

Where sacred circles fracture under the weight of shadow - and the distorted narrative is propelled at all costs - even if it means there is a scapegoat so that another can preserve her illusion of power.

This isn’t personal.

It’s ancestral.

And, it’s time we name it.

But something is shifting.

Truth is rising.

The spells are breaking - not because we fought back, but because we refused to stay silent.

There is a sacred kind of rage that purifies.

There is a clarity that cuts cords.

And there is a voice that, once claimed, can never be caged again.

Mine has returned.

Maybe yours is rising too.

And that is the unexpected gift that comes after the fire.

To Those Still Healing

I’m not here to convince anyone.

I’m not here to smear, point fingers, or cast blame.

I’m here to affirm what you already know deep in your bones:

• You can trust again

• You weren’t crazy

• You were never the problem

• You became a mirror too clear for someone still hiding from their own shadow

• You weren't difficult - you we're uncontainable, and that was never part of their plan

Truth doesn’t need approval.

True healing doesn't bypass shadow.

It walks straight through the darkest parts - torch in hand.

If these words stir something within you - whether that be grief, rage, or relief - you are not alone.

Truth is not always comfortable, but it is always clarifying.

May your body be a safe place for this knowing to live and land.

And to those of you who are still unsure, who feel something is off but can’t yet name it - I honor your journey.

Awakening is often not a lightening strike, but a slow, aching thaw.

May you trust the quiet wisdom in your gut.

May you know that when you are ready, truth will not abandon you.

This is my story. It is my truth. This was the wild, unexpected, initiatory event in my own Chiron Return.

I do not speak to be believed or validated. I speak to be free and to never forget what this lesson has taught me.

Truth, once voiced, becomes a lifeline - not just for me, but for anyone waking up from illusion.

Let this post be a flame. May it burn away illusion, and light the path back home - to truth, to integrity, to sacred remembrance - for us all.

Together, we rise - not in competition, but in reclamation.

For true feminine fire is bold.

She is radiant, unwavering, and unapologetically whole.

She does not chase. She does not shrink. She does not silence truth to soothe ego.

Let the full truth surface.

Let what was hidden be seen.

And may what is seen be fully healed - at last.

More soon.

The path forward has only just begun.