Are you feeling emotionally stretched right now?

For many of us, the last few months have stirred deeper emotional waters. Feelings and observations about the state of the world that were easier to set aside before may be surfacing again — grief, tenderness, fatigue, or simply the sense that your heart has been carrying more than usual.

When emotions build slowly like this, the nervous system often shifts into management mode. We keep functioning and moving forward while a deeper layer of feeling waits quietly underneath the surface. Jupiter now stations direct after months of retrograde through the emotional terrain of Cancer.

Moments like this often reopen space to notice what our hearts have been processing and to reflect on the kinds of nurturing environments we hope to create for ourselves and for one another during a la ...