When You Cannot See the Forest For the Trees.

Jan 22

January has been it’s own year, for sure & we knew this was coming. 2026 has already been a journey & we could even just say… LIFE has been it’s own journey.

To get to this moment, this breath, this blog… it has been a journey. One we feel we might just be constantly trudging through… not noticing just how needed our light is. Just how important showing up is. How powerful it is that we keep on keeping on. How many souls don’t. How tenacious you actually are - how powerful you actually are! We can forget all these things… in the midst of “it”. In the midst of the journey.

We can get so fixated on the destination or the problem itself that we forget the breath. We can compare our winter to the highlight reel of the summer of others & we forget the joy of a healthy body & the light of the candle next to us. We can sometimes miss the forest… for the trees.

Stepping into this year or even if we zoom out… stepping into this human lifetime: we knew this would happen. We knew we’d get lost, forget the gratitude or even the joy of living. When we’re “in it” we can sometimes get lost staring at the page, the astrology, the problem, the situation at hand, the destination itself & not recognize just how blessed we are to be alive, to be here, present & aware… to be awake & focused!

To care… truly, to care, my dear reader, is such a special gift. One we forget we are giving to the world at each & every moment of our lives. Not everyone has such a generous & loving heart as you do. You are so needed, I’m grateful you’re here!

Our Daily Bread, A Fresh Candle…

I had a moment this morning while lighting a fresh candle. My brain, on autopilot, said to me: “This is my last candle & I don’t know when I’m going to be able to get my next one. Should I go out today? There’s a storm this weekend… will this candle make it? Do I have enough? What if I don’t have enough? What if the lights go out? What if I run out of this candle?”

Lack lack lack lack lack … when lighting a fresh candle. A brand new, fresh candle. A favorite smell of a candle… one I got on clearance. A favorite smell on clearance?! What luck & joy I had when purchasing it! Yet, in THIS moment: fear & scarcity. Fear, lack & fear fear fear again.

I paused, clocked the mindset & course corrected. I took a moment to breathe & reminded myself: “I have more than enough for today… which IS all I have. I have more than enough for THIS day (this daily bread) & that is all that is promised to me”.

Balancing the tightrope walking line of being prepared, being present & being forward thinking / moving is a daily balance. One that WILL look differently each & every day. One that will oscillate, change & shift as WE shift. One that WILL look differently than someone else’s. As our reality shifts, as our environment shifts, as our timelines shift & as our lives shift - our balance WILL shift.

… & a Stressful Podcast.

I had just finished watching a podcast the other day & was as stressed as could be. It was a podcast with two of my “favorite” podcasters! What could go wrong?! They were discussing the changing world from both of their individual perspectives & specialties. One quite grounded, one channeled.

After watching the podcast… my mind was all over the place & I felt unprepared for the changing world; I was scared, nervous & a bit angry to be honest with you. Why had I not been given these steps? Why had God not told me that THIS was the way to be prepared?!

I went straight to the God of my own understanding & asked: “Why have you not told me to do all the things these Podcasters are telling me to do? Why do I feel so unprepared for what is to come? Why have you left me out of being “in the know”?”

What God said to me was some of the most calming yet quantum yet confusing yet harsh information (paraphrasing but this was the meat of it): “That wasn’t for you. What YOU need is going to be different from what they need in what you have labeled “the changing world”. If you needed something… I would have sent it to you - over & over & over again until you received & accepted it. I would have created the “thing” you needed to appear to you.

I didn’t send you that Podcast, Sarah. You chose to watch it even though one of the podcasters hasn’t been resonating much with you recently (eeshk, God) & of course that is going to stress you out. Peeking into a life & a timeline that is NOT yours is absolutely going to stress you out. So take a step back & breathe with me. You have all you need for today & tomorrow if you need more - I will gift it to you without the need to “earn” or work for it… it will be as clear as day & you’ll know exactly what to do in the moment you need to do it.”

** God can be harsh with me sometimes, this is the way the God of my own understanding speaks. It’s why I put a wee disclaimer on YouTube (link below): the channels are not always gentle. God (to me) is not a Yes Friend, but an honest one.

What does this mean for me, Sarah?

We’ve been discussing “Separate Timelines” for a while now (video explaining my view on this subject linked below) & what we’re stepping into nowadays is this: my Unity Consciousness & the path to get there is going to look wildly different than yours. This does NOT mean we’re on “separate” timelines… it just means our individual path is going to look different.

AKA: what is meant for you is only meant for you | what is meant for me is only meant for me.

Above all, what matters most is this: having our daily grounding moment, our daily connection to the God of our own understanding can erase all fear. It reminds us that:

Our channels are clear. We get the download, the “thing”, anything that we need or want in JUST the right moment.
We are all on different courses: what I “need” is different than what you “need”. What today means for me is going to be different than what it does for you. That is a okay! We can BOTH be on our own individual highest timeline AS WELL AS the human collectives highest timeline while equally living completely different lives. While equally having what we want AND need… & that being completely different.

Following My Own Advice.

The Astrology of the current is bonkers & we are past the mid way point (of no return) but also in completely uncharted waters as a human collective. As I write this… Neptune is finishing up it’s final turn at 29° Pisces & in less than a week enters Aries energy - for the first & only time in our lifetime. This will be a massive aesthetic change for the collective. Here for it, excited about it & equally nervous about it!

I’ve been researching the dates of this transit & looking at my life from above: past, present & future. This transit (for me) is a journey including cycles from February 2012 & March 2023 to now & then taking me to March 2035 & to 2038.

** These dates are when Neptune changes signs but also when he changes houses in my own chart. To discover what this transit means for you & your chart, please reach out directly to book a session (link below).

As I was journaling this morning, reading my Language of Letting Go Book (linked below), a bit of Scripture & the Astrology of today I realized… Mars enters Aquarius tomorrow. You know Mars & I have a very special relationship (Blog on Mars & Mastering Mars program page linked below) & I had to step back a moment: How did I not know or realize that this transit was just about over? Was I not watching it? Was I not “working with it”? Was I too “this or that”?

I stepped back further & realized:

I was following my own advice on working with the 2026 - 2038 Neptune transit & not the monthly transits.
I was getting a bit too caught up in the “worries” of my daily life that I forgot that time was passing. I forgot that I had lived to see another day & that those “worries” have not “taken me down” yet… the astrology kept on going even though I was not tracking it. That truly - being anxious about things has not added a single year to my life (thanks, Jesus!)

I followed my own advice & then immediately judged myself for it! Thinking I was “doing something wrong” or forgot a transit, or forgot to DO something. I was still tracking the transits but also… I felt like I was chasing my own tail. My mind was racing, I was trying my best & yet… I was missing the point of “it all” AKA life! I couldn’t see the Forest for the Trees.

That phrase has been throwing pebbles at my face recently & I couldn’t help but stop & giggle at myself & the moment. Sometimes a growth mindset can be a bit harsh. Sometimes my Capricorn Moon… is just plain mean. Sometimes I have to sit back & just let the “mindset work” GO & be present with my breath. Letting my brain… brain! It’s going to worry, it’s going to think these thoughts. Being IN uncharted territory - my mind wants me safe - this is a good thing! But being in the unknown does NOT have to equal being unsafe.

When it comes to my thoughts I can choose:

to identify with them or not
to give them attention or not
to work on changing them or not
to breathe into them or not
any number of things… or not.

At any moment, at any breath or time… we are all given the choice: to chose! We can choose how to be at any moment. We can choose to focus on any thing, any podcast, any thought, literally anything at all across ALL time & space. We GET to choose. Sometimes that can be overwhelming… so we choose something familiar (me with that Podcast) & sometimes we choose to lean into the unknown & do something new & different. Neither is right or wrong… it is all just a choice.

‘Cannot See the Forest for the Trees’ - Origin & Astrological Connection.

I woke up this morning with the title & idea for this Blog fully formed. The God of my understanding usually does things this way: daily & completely. I still flounder with that fact (as you can see reading this article)… something I am working on: daily & completely.

So naturally, as I sank into the standing desk, a press of coffee & my referenced candle burning… I wanted to go back & find the origin of the phrase itself & quote the first person who said it. I found two “origins” & one writing (linked below) that encompasses them both. The years that this phrase goes back to are 1533 & 1546 with 1546 being the moment it was truly “captured in print”. But the idea, the meaning had been swimming in the collective for that time period.

Curious… as an astrologer & someone who follows patterns for a living… I then (naturally) checked the astrology for that time period & oh boy what did I discover:

1533: Neptune was in late degree Pisces & Pluto was in Aquarius
1546: Neptune was in Aries & Pluto in Aquarius

Exactly where we are now, my dear. What fun & what a pattern! The rest of the astrology of that time is equally bonkers & I couldn’t imagine living in it. I was grateful for MY current astrology… however bonkers it is. But these two boulders, Neptune & Pluto, swimming in the same energy that this phrase was “birthed” made me smile. What a full circle moment.

What does this mean & what does it have to do with me, Sarah?

Zoom OUT. What I would love for you to do at this juncture is ask yourself: when was the last time I viewed not just MY life from above but the entirety of my day-to-day circumstances from above? Family issues, work stuff, etc. & view it without emotions - just as the situation?

Take a moment here, pause & just view your life like a movie… in all it’s detail, from above. Not as the actor of you… but as either the viewer or the director.

Then I would love for you to zoom out even more & view the human collective we are in from above. Not from the God of your understandings view point but your chosen world & all it’s intricacies as YOU know it to be… your chosen reality - from above:

How YOU view the massive awakening, shifting, growing, purging, upgrading, etc. that we are in the middle of. Whatever this ascension means to you… please take a moment & view the whole human experience from above.

I was told this parable once a long time ago & it always stuck with me: what if, every week, everyone in town had to come to the center & throw their troubles, worries, difficulties, issues, etc. into a public pile & view it all as a whole. You would actually be quite grateful for your “troubles” wouldn’t you? Comparison is not always the best metaphor & can, yes, be quite a thief of joy, but truly… you’d gladly, willingly, gratefully take your “troubles” back & walk home with them lovingly in your arms. We all would.

Just as I wouldn’t want the Astrology of 1546 & am GLADLY accepting the Astrology of 2026. The “off roading” we’re in… is now quite a gorgeous ride.

Our mindset changes everything.

Being in the minutia, in the grit of it, in the story itself… we can sometimes get lost in our own character - forgetting we are a part of the whole. We can sometimes get bogged down by BEING such a bright light in a sea of “darkness”… these are not easy roles to play, my dear. I am not saying that any of this is easy… but when we step back, zoom out, take a step back & breath - realizing that we are past the point of no return (past the middle) of the greatest awakening the human collective has ever known. That some of us CHOSE to be here, chose to be alive as a human soul for this moment. That we chose our family, problems, homestead, space, spouse, etc. & said: “this is perfect! This upgrades me & is the perfect environment for deep, complete, lifetimes over of change! Tallyho! Let’s GO!” & jumped into our human body & chart.

For a moment, please, let this knowledge offer a respite from being IN the story, IN the problem & know, my dear, that nothing lasts forever. If you’re going through hell… please don’t build a house. Just keep going - step by step, breath by breath & focus on the point past the finish line.

It’s Already Here.

If you take nothing else away from this blog, I offer you this: It’s Already Here. Whatever “it is” that you’re worried about, stressing over, contemplating, trying to “figure out” is already here. This is the post-it note for the day today: It’s Already Here.

When we view the “thing” from past the finish line, into the day to day of it… we can sink away from the HOW & learn to just BE in the vibration we want to be in.

I can judge myself for this, that & the third (thanks again, Cap Moon!) OR… I can be in the vibration of trust, surrender & living the daily life I desire to be living.

The best, blessed most abundant day I could ever imagine nowadays is when I get to write, create, be with Sibyl & listen to soft Jazz Music at the comfort of my own pace. Moving (as a dear soul friend once said) at the speed of trust.

THAT IS TODAY. I get to write this beautiful blog, I get to write my weekly email, I get to study at my own pace, do my at home workout whenever I so choose… I am safe, loved, supported, creative, generous, rich, safe & honest… right here & right now! The ONLY thing that had to shift was my mindset & that, my darling reader, is what I will leave you with:

Our mindset, truly, changes everything.