Letters from Bali

The Rain Finally Came

  Ritual · Monsoon Season · Southern India The Rain Finally Came For three days I waited for it. You could feel it building, thick in the air, the kind of stillness that comes before somethi...

expect a miracle: what the uluwatu sunset is trying to tell you

  Letters from Bali · Astrology expect a miracle writing to you from the isha centre, sadhguru's ashram in india, where i've come home to my motherland for something i didn't know i needed. ...

How to Dress for Your Energy: Making Getting Dressed Part of Your Spiritual Practice

Getting dressed is already a ritual. You do it every morning, in the same order, in the same room, at the same threshold between the private self and the world. The question is not whether it is a ...

Welcome Home: A Letter for Cancer Season

Written from Bali, as Cancer season holds the world in her arms. There is a particular quality to this time of year — the way light softens and the air asks less of you. Cancer season arrived on J...

The Homecoming — On Cancer Season, Softness, and Coming Back to Yourself

We are in the season of the crab, the moonchild, the one who carries her home within her. Cancer season runs from June 21 through July 22 — and whatever you’re feeling right now is exactly what you...

The Sun Has Crossed the Threshold, Notes on the Solstice

The sun moved into Cancer yesterday. If you felt something shift, you were not imagining it. Notes from Bali on thresholds, water energy, and the quiet turning of the wheel.

On the Longest Day: A Solstice Letter from Bali

Written at the peak of the sun, from Pererenan, Bali. The longest day of the year arrived quietly here. No fanfare. Just a peculiar stillness in the morning air — the way the light came through th...

The Longest Light: A Solstice Letter from Bali

A letter written on the eve of the Solstice, from Bali, where the flame trees are in full bloom. There is a moment each June when the sun simply stops. Not dramatically. Quietly. It reaches the fu...

The Last Days of Gemini: A Letter on Standing at the Threshold

We are in the final days of Gemini season — the last stretch before the summer solstice carries us into Cancer. A letter from Bali on thresholds, numerology, and dressing like the woman you are bec...

Standing at the Threshold: What the Solstice Wants You to Know

Written from Bali, five days before the solstice. There is a particular quality to the air here in the days before June 21st. The light arrives earlier and stays longer than it should. The birds s...