Letters from Bali

The Lion's Roar in Your Hair, A Letter for Leo Season

Written from the porch in Pererenan, where the frangipani is dropping petals faster than I can sweep them. It's Leo season, and Bali knows it. The afternoons have gone gold and long, the roosters ...

What the Waxing Moon Is Asking of You Right Now

A letter for the days when you're not quite there yet, but close. I woke up this morning before the roosters, which almost never happens, and walked out to the rice fields with my tea still too ho...

What Chinatown, Matcha, and a Mercury Retrograde Homecoming Taught Us

  Letters from Bali · Family & Astrology What Chinatown, Matcha, and a Retrograde Homecoming Taught Us a pit stop on our way home from india became its own small pilgrimage. a layover th...

The Threshold Before the Eclipse: A Letter for Leo Season

A letter from Bali on Leo season, the coming eclipse, and the ritual of stepping into your own light without apology.

Is This the Best Mercury Retrograde Ever?

A love letter to the planet everyone loves to blame. Something has felt tender this week. Plans rearranging themselves without asking. A message meant for one person landing in the wrong inbox. The...

New Moon in Cancer: Coming Home to Yourself

A letter for the New Moon in Cancer, written from my kitchen table in Pererenan, the rain just starting on the roof. There is a New Moon in Cancer this week, and if you have felt unusually quiet, ...

The Dark Before the Bloom: A New Moon Letter

Written the evening before the sky goes dark. Tomorrow the moon disappears completely. Not shrinks — disappears. Here in Bali the fishermen still watch for it, because a moonless night means a diff...

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 ...