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🌕 This week is the big full moon lunar eclipse in Virgo. It might be a little messy. If you want to see it, go outside shortly after 6:00am ET.

💡 I’m sharing 11 pattern interrupts you can do in 10 minutes or less, as well as 10 Insight Timer tracks for a quick reset.

🧘‍♀I’m super-excited for my Self-Care for Stress Reduction workshop at
THRIVE Pilates & Yoga. Deets below.

💕 Per usual, I have much to share regarding your own self-care.

💸 Discounts on individual consultations are still on offer for the next two weeks.

ADDING IN A PPS: If you would like to know more about how current world events coincide with the astrology of the Saturn-Neptune Conjunction, the Mars square Uranus, Eclipse season, and this Pisces season, watch CHANI Nicholas here and/or Jana Roemer’s IG Story here.

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I want to take a moment to say that I recognize that what I recommend is often not easy. It’s phucking hard to change our patterns and habits. It can feel guilt-ridden to take five or ten minutes to ourselves when other people need us. Setting up a luxurious hot bath sounds like a lot of extra work. A 20-minute break from work or screens? Nerve-wracking. Asking for support feels uncomfortable. 

I remembered the other day the way I got to meditation showers in the evening: it was hot and sweaty in Saigon—every day. I was newly divorced and I was breastfeeding. TLDR: most of us showered before bed. Breastfeeding often involved lying down with the baby and early mornings meant getting to bed sooner rather than later. SO, I would get out the pack-n-play and set it up near the bathroom. Then I would put the baby in it, put her on Skype with my mom, and she would entertain Baby. Then I would have my dimly lit shower. This continued once we repatriated and probably through her three years of preschool. While I was making dinner, my mom, on Skype, would play Elmo songs (or whatever) and Goose would dance. The reset before we continued on with dinner-bath-bed became ESSENTIAL. A much better parent was I than I otherwise would be. The release from the tension of the workday and then the commute to and from preschool to scoop her up, sometimes just before they closed at 6:00—so worth it! By the time she was this age, I would actually light candles, find a ten-minute meditation, and those accompanied my evening shower. I suppose I received “permission” for this indulgence from the allergist, who wanted us to shower and change when we came home in the evening. I digress.

A lot of my practices happen before she awakes, or after she’s in bed. I also taught her—not in any kind of call-CPS-kind of way—that we respect people when they’re doing yoga or meditating. It’s a tool people use to calm down and get centered. I did the same for her. I did yoga with her, and had kids’ yoga DVDs for her. This was by no means “picture perfect.”

But adding in little rituals—lighting a candle when we sit down for dinner together. Suggesting she have a cup of hot tea (now that’s older), while I have my shower. Turning on her pink salt lamp and her bedtime meditation for her even though she is fully old enough…Having the wherewithal and patience not to gloss over or forgo those little moments despite the stress is a gift.

I recognize the challenges in carving out time to care for ourselves as a matter of course. It also requires some creativity. Most importantly, it requires us to recognized AND BUY INTO the fact that when we are better resourced, we’re better to and for the people around us. Self-care isn’t selfish. That's why I'm a big fan of the myriad ways of getting to meditation and mindfulness without the expectation of being able to sit for extended periods of time. But also, the nervous system is where it's at.

In this 90-minute session, we'll identify your current obstacles to clarity, calm, and agency. Examining your routines and day-to-day, we'll craft your personalized map to establishing and maintaining new rituals and your agency. We'll explore what sacred living means to you, identifying where magic is already trying to emerge in your routine. We’ll transform some of those ordinary moments into ritual experiences tailored to your lifestyle, schedule, and nervous system needs. This session is specifically focused on rest for the remainder of this winter, and flowing into spring and that renewal energy.

What You'll Leave With:
A new relationship to self-care and self-resourcing • Specific practices you can actually sustain • Permission to find the divine in the ordinary • The understanding that you don't need to escape your life to transform it • Tools for turning transitions, meals, commutes, and bedtime into medicine for your soul

Investment: $108
Investment before March 13: $72

This is presence that fits your real life, not Instagram's version of what spiritual practice should look like.

90 minutes • In-person (Philadelphia) if this is your first session with GlobalGalLexi, or online if we’ve had a previous session together.

In this magical cauldron, we'll co-create next steps for your manifesting. We'll review your natal chart and the upcoming transits, and identify the path to maintaining and manifesting your intentions as the cosmic new year begins at the Equinox. This session is similar to the Embodied Astrology Reading, but we are applying the current transits, of which there are many powerful signatures right now.

If you already have a chart with GlobalGalLexi, the energy exchange is $72. To do this with a new chart the investment is $108.

This is for you if: You already have some understanding of astrology and/or your birth chart • You're ready to work with universal energy for manifestation • You want strategic support for your intentions • You're curious about astrology as spiritual technology.

(For sessions from February 14 through March 13.)

I am now offering individual sessions virtually if you cannot make it in-person (for co-creators with whom I’ve had at least one session previously.)

💝 If you have had a birthday since the first time we worked together, my gift to you is a complimentary one-hour session. Contact me to book.

Last month I had the honor of being invited to host a private workshop. It was so much fun! One of the participants told me later that one of the reasons she enjoyed it was because they got to get together with friends and have fun doing an activity that wasn’t just getting together for drinks—and they learned something new.

Reach out if you’d like to host one yourself (minimum of four participants).

The scrolls are back at Mr. Rabbit! That also means the astrology is back on the blog! At least one thing has gone write with Mercury in Pisces.

📖Even though we are moving into the eclipses of the Aquarius-Leo axis, we still have a couple more on the Pisces-Virgo axis, and Tuesday’s is one of them. We’ve been living these eclipses since 2024, so the storyline continues through 2027. 

🐉This eclipse happens in the South Node, as all the other Virgo eclipses before it over the past few years. It’s a releasing eclipse. If you imagine the shape of a dragon on the moon, The South Node is the tail of the dragon; it sweeps everything away. It’s a place of release and loss. When a sign enters the South Node, the significations of that sign decrease. Since it’s in Virgo, we (society) will lose the desire for: facts, data, discernment. It can mean a loss of checks and balances. Ultimately, as the South Node transits through Virgo, it goes through a clearing and a healing. 

🧠Personally, this will depend on where Virgo lives in your natal chart (which house), there may also be a release of perfectionism there. Societally, a reduction of perfectionism could serve us in our movements -- no person or political movement is perfect. We may need to double down on not having to be perfect in order to be allies, to be in community. We must maintain the ability to think critically. Let’s let go purposefully. 

I include recent dates because the outer planets move slooooowly, but their current placements are significant. NOTE: There are actually some beautiful dates to manifest with here. Embrace them!

📡 February 25: Mercury retrogrades in Pisces. Not its best sign to begin with. Communication, technology, accounting, and technology—that’s where the disruption occurs. This will likely feel similar to when Mercury was in Sagittarius last fall and retrograded there. That period of time was also known as November and December. But the good news is that Mercury will be done with its two worst signs for a long time.

🌕 March 3: Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Virgo - This full moon closes out the eclipse axis of the past two years, with the South Node in Virgo (releasing, letting go, sweeping away), and the North Node in Pisces (expanding, ravenous, insatiable). Reflect on the last six months to the TWO (2!) new moons in Virgo we had last fall, and if your memory serves you, what you’ve released over the last two years.

💝 Set Intentions Here: March 5 - The sun in Pisces trines Jupiter in Cancer. Again, when a planet is exalted, it’s the best possible place it can be in the course of its cycle. Jupiter is a benefic (planet that brings abundance) and expands what it touches. This is glorious energy. (Where Pisces and/or Cancer are in your chart are the best areas, but with this signature, it all works).

😎 Manifest Here: March 7 - Mercury Cazimi, a sun-Mercury conjunction, bringing insights and clarity. “Cazimi” means the heart of the sun. It’s the most beautiful moment of a Mercury retrograde, a new cycle for the speedy messenger planet. 🔮 💟 Venus-Neptune conjunction in Aries: Find the beauty, harmony, and connection in the fantasy, just be sure it’s not too good to be true.

🪐 Set Intentions Here: March 8 - Venus-Saturn conjunction in Aries. Honor your self-worth, values, and relationships with commitment. If any boundaries need to be shored up, now’s the time.

💙 Manifest Here: March 10-11 -Jupiter goes direct in Cancer. Again, when a planet is exalted, it’s the best possible place it can be in the course of its cycle. Now through June 30 is our last call to work with this glorious, abundant energy for the next 12 years.

❤‍🔥 BRING IT ON❣ March 20- the Equinox and the cosmic new year. Mercury goes direct in Pisces. I'm coming out...this is our great emergence ‼ Intentions ready, restored from winter, feeling aligned...no pressure. How do you want to bloom or emerge?💐

🌊 🪐 Sun Shine in Aries March 22 and March 25: If you haven’t yet set intentions for Neptune and Saturn in Aries, I’d try to do so here. Once Mars enters Aries in April, it will be full speed ahead. The sun is conjunct Neptune on the 22nd (What are your dreams? Envision the ideal.) Then Sol shines with Saturn on March 25 (Boundaries for all). Neptune is the fantasy, Saturn is the container to hold it while the two are traveling together.

🌩 ⚡ 🚦 June 14: New moon in Gemini, where Uranus is, and 45-47’s birthday. It's his Uranus return. Uranus awakenings and breakthroughs are sudden and disruptive. This new moon will aspect the other outer planets, and by this point, we’ll have more concrete insight into what the Saturn-Neptune conjunction of February 20 has ushered in.

Sometimes we just need a quick reset. Whether it’s sitting in meditation midday or a walk or an after-work shower or the simple need to calm down and cool off. All of the tracks below are 15 minutes or less.

108 Chant of a Mantra on Fear by Deva Vasuda - 13 minutes | Chanting is a brilliant way to interrupt habitual responses to stress.

Inviting Bliss Into Your Life by davidji - 7 minutes | Breathe in love, breathe out fear. This one hits just right when you need a reframe.

Self-Soothing For Your Mental Health by John Siddique - 12 minutes | Ridiculously effective.

Willow Tree Meditation by Ana Barreto - 12 minutes | This visualization is brilliant as an antidote to overwhelm.

Ten Breaths Meditation by Mary Waldon, PhD, LCSW - 4 minutes | Good ol’ fashioned breathing and counting almost always work.

SA TA NA MA : Achieve Mental Balance by Lea Longo - 7 minutes | Again, chanting for mental clarity.

Meditation to Replenish by Beth Kurland, Ph.D. - 8 minutes | A brilliant meditation for when fading doesn’t even begin to cover it. I use it midday.

The Warrior by Michelle DuVal - 10 minutes | Again, another very effective mindfulness meditation with lots of space for breathing.

A Breathing Space for Frazzled Moments by Clare McGregor -7 minutes | It is what it says.

Just Got Home by Andy Hobson - 12 minutes | This end-of-day meditation is just what the therapist ordered.

*To help folks with the overwhelm that comes with downloading and using Insight Timer in its 9th or 10th year, I’m highlighting some of my favorite teachers, artists, and tracks. Check out previous lists here.

If you haven’t heard this buzzword yet, you will. I've been using it for months (the technique for decades), but now I hear the phrase everywhere. Sort of how we've moved from "mindfulness" to "intentions" and “manifesting" to “nervous system rewiring.”

In my late twenties I decided to quit smoking. I had been very un-mindful, and I was seeking clarity, so I gave up all the “sins.”

I wouldn't recommend it now, but then I used the Chantix program--it wasn't just a pill--and what a pill it was. That was some roller coaster ride (you can read about its problems here). Anyway, the best part about it was that the program provided a framework for changing one’s habits. I was single then, so there was time for big things like cooking and going to yoga studios or gyms or climbing our little local mountain. But at home, what I had was a plethora of sticky notes all around my door frame. Each one had something I could do that took 7-10 minutes, thus could replace the time I would spend on smoking one cigarette. It was kind of sad because I lived in a converted dairy barn, and the screened-in porch was a delight. I never sat on it again once I quit.

All the things on the sticky notes–those were pattern interrupts. I never smoked throughout the day. I’d always hated it. I never got up to a pack a day, or anything like that, because my smoking was more physical habit than addiction, often a response to a stimulus. But because of those post-it-notes-as-pattern-interrupts, I was an early blogger.

I digress.

One of the best quotes I’ve heard in the past year was "we keep trying to fix the mind with the mind, when the best way to [heal] the mind is through the body.” Spot on.

I'm a big fan of pattern interrupts. Sitting in meditation is a pattern interrupt. It's something we do that disrupts habitual thinking and patterns of behavior. We want to interrupt habitual responses that keep us in a protective (fear-based) state: thought spirals, negative self-talk, harmful responses to stress, heightened states of arousal, flare-ups of chronic pain, getting caught up in the same fight, different day…

Our workouts are pattern interrupts--they take us out of the mind and into the body, especially when they're unexpected. I always encourage folks to maintain their regular exercise. Many people (myself included) tend to give up their regular exercise when life gets overwhelming and there's just “not enough time.” Big workouts can be one of the first things to go. But f I can maintain those little moments like a midday yoga nidra, listening to a guided meditation while I shower, standing on a yoga mat during a virtual meeting, a few minutes of legs-the-whatever (wall), a short walk outside, alternate nostril breathing, then at least there is that. And if I give those up, you'll find me in burnout at the second-to-last thing I really needed to get through in order to just get through.

Since I keep bringing it up, I figured I’d share some ideas.

The purpose of the pattern interrupt is to expand our capacity to meet life's demands. We want to move ourselves out of fight-or-flight mode, and back into the window of tolerance. Support is another way to do this, but that's another episode. We want to break up the pattern, but we also want to prevent the build up of stress, decrease cortisol, and increase endorphins and the good hormones like dopamine and serotonin. Perhaps we can approach the day (and the people who inhabit it) with a little more loving kindness, warm-hearted curiosity, space in our brain, and dare I say it—intention, and be triggered a little less with irritation, annoyance, anxiety, and frustration.

A few pattern interrupts you can do in ten minutes or less: (if there’s a helpful link, I’ve added it). Try: adding one pattern interrupt to your day every day between now and the Equinox.

I’d love to help you determine what fits your day and lifestyle best in an Everyday Embodiment session or Winter Reset, Spring Bloom.

If you want to dive deep into the astrology, CHANI is offering 30 days of free access to the CHANI app to support you through eclipse season. Use the code SUPPORT30.

A friend of mine is involved with New Sanctuary Movement, an organization that supports immigrants with “leadership development, Accompaniment, Political Education, and campaigns such as Immigration Reform, Driver's Licenses for all and Deportation Defense.” This is a brilliant organization to volunteer with or donate to.

Reach out to me to take advantage of the current discounts. I hope to see you in a session, or in the THRIVE Self-Care for Stress Reduction pop-up next week.

Yours in peace,

💚 Alexis (Lexi)