Stepping into The Eternity of Every Moment
Entering the Year of the Serpent 2025

For most of my life, I perceived my journey to be filled with experiences happening to me as a separate individual from everyone & everything else. As a devotee of psychedelic medicine and sacred ceremonial traditions, I’ve had powerful experiences of cosmic alignment that occasionally revealed something far greater at play. Moments that I can only describe of having a deeper clarity – when the synchronicities of fate and my personal choices lined up giving me an overwhelming awareness of the interconnection in all life. Yet those experiences were fleeting, and not something that felt in any way continuous or seemingly sustainable. Although they did provide me with a north star in practice toward a realization that felt true. Yet now, more and more, I am coming to perceive that in every given moment, the universe is offering us all conditions to awaken into a deeper relationship with consciousness. Relationships, dreams, hardships, discoveries – in every breath every single day – we are a taking part in a vast interwoven symphony of life. One endless synchronicity inviting us to embrace the eternal now. We cannot dictate what occurs to us, nor control what happens next for ourselves or others, but we can choose how to respond, interpret and process our experiences. In 2024, my soul selected a relentless path where avoiding the illusion of control felt utterly impossible. Heartache, sickness, loss, confusion, despair, ecstasies.. you name it.. I was IN IT. I can’t by any means claim mastery over this teaching of boundless interconnection, but I am humbly no longer resisting it as a powerful truth in my life.

Many of us are moving through incredibly intense challenges, requiring earnest and often difficult decisions to change and grow; choosing to face undigested parts of our shadows and heal trauma even if the result is complex life disruption. Zoom out a bit and our socio-political divide has never been more contentious and volatile. Zoom out a bit more and we are in the midst of the most intense environmental crisis our world has faced in recorded history as flood and fire ravage cities, towns and countryside across the world. Add in the quantum acceleration of AI, full disclosure of inter-dimensional and extraterrestrial life (queue the “drone” shows!), a pandemic, a psychedelic renaissance, widespread warfare & genocide and so on… and it’s safe to say we are facing an unprecedented human-wide Rites of Passage the likes of which has not been seen for millennia. And this critical-mass transformation feels utterly unavoidable by ALL of us, no matter who you are or where you live.

In this pivotal moment, where both our micro & macrocosm life experience rests on the threshold of initiation, there appears to be two pathways opening up before us. The first is to hunker down and turn our backs in fear, isolation, separation and resistance. Pointing fingers of blame at the “others” and shaming ourselves as victims of the woes of a world that has lost its way. Pounding our fists, kicking and screaming into the night at how unfair things are, how uncomfortable life is and how others are responsible. (I’ve been here. No judgement, but from my experience, this path only leads to more suffering.) And our second option? To humbly and courageously rise in conviction. To face the unknown with an open heart & mind, and trust in the power of the human spirit to heal, create and transform in Real Time. To choose to awaken beyond the strategic mind, using the intense squeeze of uncertainty within personal and collective healing to discover a new untapped human potential. To join together and trust in our capacity to co-create a new way to exist interdependently with one another and this world. Some may think there is an option 3. To avoid it all and go on in willful ignorance with business as usual. But the tidal wave is cresting dear friends and change is utterly unavoidable. It will and is catching us all one way or another, and its best to not be caught in our bath robes when it does.

It’s a tall ask. A brutally difficult task as we each have to be willing to experience undigested pain and deep sorrow as we navigate a genuine healing process. Disentangling old patterns, forgiveness of ourselves & others, letting go of expectations and ideals, releasing the stories that define us and so much more… There are days I find myself army crawling through each moment feeling the weight of it all. Yet at other times, I couldn’t be more inspired and in awe of how courageous, compassionate and caring humanity can truly be (WNC was a beautiful lesson in our response to Helene for me); and I honestly believe we’ve only seen a fraction of what we are truly capable of if we stay the course. Not by reacting to what happens outside of us as separate from us, but by tapping into that infinite spring of inspiration and strength that arises from within that unites us.

2025 doesn’t seem like it’s going to get any less complicated. The natural (and unnatural) disasters, the political divides, the controversies and conspiracies, the super moons, the transits, the solar flares, the warfare, etc. Things don’t appear to be slowing down. I believe before harmony and balance can be restored, in both personal and collective healing, there seems to be a need for a purge of what no longer serves to turn the tide. In this case, it’s likely going to be a big shake out of an old entrenched paradigm of materialistic, patriarchal, authoritarian, selfish and ignorant ways of life before the dawn of a new day. So I’m choosing to keep my beginners mind open. To stay humble on the path and see how I can be of service during this time of profound change. Most importantly, I’m also learning to be as genuine, kind and honest as I can toward myself in the process. To take the time to slow down for my healing and learning needs with patience, dedication and care. It’s a work in progress. It’s a daily commitment. It’s a lot of Work! But real and lasting peace comes from within. And there is no way we can ask of others what we cannot attune to within ourselves. This includes tending to our genuine joy, passions and things that provide a deeper sense of purpose with as much devotion as we tend to needs of those we love.

I don’t know where this is all going at this point, but I’m grateful to have chosen this time to incarnate alongside so many super heroes and rock stars who are bravely choosing to evolve together. So… Here’s to 2025!! The year of the Mighty Serpent. May our intuitive wisdom guide us when we cannot see the way. May we shed the skin of our separateness to awaken to our true interconnective nature. And may we courageously choose to become the greatest expressions of our authentic selves for the benefit of all life. As one people united by love. Aho.