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Stewardship & the Return to True Nature

Stewardship & the Return to True Nature

A journal from the forest and the stars

As the echoes of eclipse season linger—Virgo’s earthy precision, Aries’ fiery initiation, Libra’s recalibration—we stand in the threshold of something subtle yet powerful: a return.

These aren’t just celestial events. They’re archetypal energies moving through the body, the heart, and the field. They’re not asking to be understood. They’re asking to be embodied.

True harmony may not lie in keeping the peace,
but in the fierce clarity of living in alignment with one’s own truth.

The Feminine Rising: Voice, Desire & Devotion

Venus is ascending now, emerging from her 40-day underworld passage through Aries and Pisces. She returns covered in stardust and saltwater—tender, fierce, unapologetic.

The feminine voice rises—not in polished perfection, but in raw, creative truth. No longer hiding her longing or her widom. No longer betraying herself to be digestible.

Mercury, freshly direct after his retrograde, travels with her. Together, they tell a story of reclamation.
A story of voice. Of truth.
Of no longer waiting for permission to be real.

Saturn offers structure.
The North Node pulls the path into focus.
The cosmic pattern whispers:

This is not the time to shrink your compassion. This is the time to expand the heart.

Listening to the Land: A Walk Through the Gulch

Today we walked into the gulch.
We’re staying in a remote corner of Huelo, deep Haiku Maui. Way down at the end of the road.

To get here, you drive down Hana highway, then veer off to a rough dirt road.
The dirt road grows rougher and rougher until you’re moving no faster than if you walked.

And then, the rainforest opens, and there it is:
our home, the gulch, blue ocean.
Perched over cliffs and the crashing sea,
wrapped in wild forest and tangled vines,
mangoes, coconuts, guavas, sugarcane,
streams twisting through the terrain.

We walked with Lucy and Naga, our pups,
watching how they splashed in the water in the stream,
how they greeted the pigs, goats, and chickens that roam wild.

There is no real trail here. No steps but the ones chosen in the moment.
No clarity but the one earned through presence.

“There is no paved path through the gulch of the soul. You find your footing by feeling.”

The descent is messy.
No signs, no markers.
Just loose earth, sugarcane, cobwebs, and tall grass.
And in between, the shimmer of sunlight breaking through canopy.
Birdsong. Stillness. Beauty that catches you mid-step and fills you.

It reminded me of time with my kumu, Uncle Kimokeo, deep in the valleys of Honokōhau.

He worked the land with intuition, not an agenda. “Plant ti here. Papaya trees over there. Taro where the water pools and flows. Move that stone. Divert that water.”

He didn’t command the land. He conversed with it.

A true steward doesn’t control.
A true steward listens and responds.

That’s what this walk felt like. That’s what this moment in the sky reflects.

The terrain of the heart is no different. It is wild. Sacred. Demanding. Beautiful. To walk it is to become responsive, aware, and rooted.

Not claiming ownership of land, but practicing care.
Not forcing shape, but listening for what is already alive and asking to be tended.

strat·e·gy

/ˈstradəjē/ noun

  1. a plan of action or policy designed to achieve a major or overall aim

Stewardship as Strategy

The sacred geometry of this moment—Venus, Saturn, Mercury, Neptune—forms a living strategy. Not one drawn on paper, but one etched in breath, in stillness, in sensation.

This isn’t strategy for control.
It’s strategy for communion.

To witness.
To feel.
To respond with clarity.
To live from the pulse of what is real.

The Recalibration of the Heart

As Mercury meets Neptune in Aries, the mind dissolves.
The oracle steps forward.
The heart speaks.

Logic may no longer be the guide.
But something older is.
The flame within. The instinctual knowing. The intuitive thread.

This is a warrior heart awakening,
not to fight, but to stand firm in sacred truth, in Aloha.

This Astrology Is Not Abstract

It’s alive. Asking:

  • Where am I not fully present?
  • What part of me is rising from the underworld?
  • Where am I still filtering my voice to maintain comfort?
  • Am I letting desire shape my direction—or fear?
  • Am I leading—or listening to what life wants from me?

Journal Prompt to consider;

  • Where am I not fully present and just following the path?
  • What part of me is ready to rise from the hypnosis?
  • How can I tend to my life like sacred land—intuitively, honestly, and with care?

Let the voice return.
Let the breath slow.
Let the beauty guide.
Let the true path form beneath your feet.

This is the return to true nature. Wildly at peace. Peacefully wild.

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Awakening to Infinite Consciousness

Awakening to Infinite Consciousness: Deepak Chopra’s Path to Self-Realization

Deepak Chopra has long stood at the intersection of ancient wisdom and modern science, offering profound insights into the nature of reality, consciousness, and human potential. His teachings present a compelling invitation—to awaken beyond limited self-concepts and experience life as pure, boundless consciousness.

Beyond Perception: The True Self

“You are infinite consciousness itself—imperceivable, inconceivable, yet enabling every perception and thought,” Chopra emphasizes. The foundation of his teachings rests upon the realization that consciousness is fundamental, infinite, and irreducible. Everything perceived as form, including our own bodies and identities, is transient illusion or Maya.

According to Chopra, awakening doesn’t mean acquiring something new, but rather removing the illusions obstructing what has always been inherently present:

“Awakening is immediate presence, dropping all concepts and beliefs. When you embrace pure awareness, you see the infinite present in every finite experience.”

The Five Barriers to True Awareness

Chopra frequently cites ancient yogic philosophy, specifically the five kleshas, to explain obstacles to authentic self-realization:

  1. Ignorance (Avidya): Misunderstanding transient perceptions as fundamental reality.
  2. Attachment (Raga): Clinging to impermanent experiences.
  3. Aversion (Dvesha): Rejecting life’s inherent impermanence.
  4. Identification (Asmita): Confusing one’s infinite self with the ego or constructed identity—what Chopra playfully calls the “selfie.”
  5. Fear of Death (Abhinivesha): Resulting from the erroneous identification with temporary physical existence.

“If you solve the first one—ignorance—you solve them all,” Chopra clarifies. “You are the consciousness which enables the persona. You and the universe are consciousness, period.”

Direct Experience as the Pathway

Chopra insists that intellectual understanding, philosophy, religion, or science alone won’t grant true awakening. The real path is direct experiential awareness:

“Only direct experience can give you access to reality, not religion, not philosophy, not science. It doesn’t matter if you’re reading the Upanishads, Nietzsche, or Chopra; they’re maps, not the territory.”

In this sense, spiritual realization transcends all conceptual frameworks, and consciousness becomes accessible only by surrendering completely to presence, devoid of interpretation or mental constructs.

Memory, Imagination, and the Infinite Field

Exploring consciousness further, Chopra explains memory and imagination not as stored neurological phenomena, but as superpositions within infinite consciousness:

“Every time you remember or imagine something, you go to the source of all experience, which is consciousness.”

From this perspective, death itself is merely a transition within consciousness, a recycling of memories and potentialities:

“You never really die; you recycle. Consciousness isn’t affected—only forms and phenomena are transient.”

Reality as the Infinite Dream

Drawing from both ancient wisdom and modern quantum theory, Chopra describes reality as an infinite cosmic dream—Lila, the divine play:

“This whole thing is a lucid dream in a vivid now, and it’s ungraspable. Wake up to what or who is dreaming—and that which is dreaming never left home.”

He further explains:

“The formless becomes all form. Zero equals one equals infinity.”

Chopra’s teachings suggest embracing life as a playful, dynamic manifestation of consciousness, an ever-unfolding cosmic expression.

Transforming Pain and Suffering

Addressing human suffering, Chopra offers a powerful reframing:

“Every challenge contains infinite creative possibilities when viewed from pure consciousness.”

From this higher vantage point, pain and grief become opportunities for deep personal evolution, inviting profound creative responses rather than resistance.

The Future: Consciousness, Technology, and Human Potential

Deepak Chopra also reflects on the contemporary context of rapid technological advancement and its relationship to consciousness:

“Our technological evolution has outpaced our emotional and spiritual evolution, therefore we are in a dangerous phase. We have medieval minds with modern capacities. The choice is ours: we can destroy or heal, depending on our collective awakening.”

For Chopra, the true future of humanity lies in awakening to consciousness itself, transcending ego-driven separation, and harnessing infinite possibilities for collective growth and healing.

Living from True Power

Ultimately, Chopra defines success and true power in terms of inner joy and self-realization, unaffected by external circumstances:

“True power cannot be taken away from you. It comes from your connection to your source—immune to criticism, totally fearless, beneath no one. Joy is the only measure of true success.”

His ultimate guidance remains profoundly simple and transformative:

“Take it easy. Resist nothing. Flow effortlessly with existence.”

Through his teachings, Deepak Chopra invites humanity to rediscover its essential nature—as infinite consciousness, eternally expressing itself through boundless creativity, compassion, and joy.

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Midwives of Imagination

A reflection on healing, consciousness, and the creative force of transformation

We’re not here to hand you tools or tell you what to do. We’re here to invite you to imagine. To remember.

Healing doesn’t come from thought. It doesn’t live in the step-by-step of structured systems. Real transformation arrives through experience—through ritual, through presence, through the mysterious language of the imagination.

Bringing the Formless into Form

“Through the imagination, we’re bridging the formless into form.”

Consciousness is formless. And imagination is the bridge that lets it land. Our collaborations aren’t mechanical—they’re mythic. Not about control, but about expression.

We don’t want to systematize healing. We want to paint with it, sing it, dance it back into the body.

Ritual as Reality

We remember the ancient ones—the healers who used feathers, smoke, and bone to pull grief and illness from the flesh. It wasn’t just theater.

“Through the imagination, the body believed—and so it released.”

Not because it was tricked, but because it was seen.

There’s a voice we’ve both encountered—quiet, persistent, whispering “I’m not here.”  The entity of illness. But the moment we truly see it, name it, stop feeding it, the body begins to let it go. It surrenders to the greater power of compassion and healing.

We Are Not Leaders. We Are Midwives.

This is why we call ourselves midwives, not leaders. We’re not here to direct—we’re here to tend to the threshold, holding space for something true to emerge.

There’s a sacred architecture to this process—one that lives in art, in memory, in touch. It’s what mystery schools have always known:

“You can’t unlock the truth by thinking about the key—you have to use it.”

This is the power of ritual. Of creative practice. Of experience.

Imagination Is Medicine

  • Compassion is a kind of imagination.
  • Empathy is a kind of transmission.
  • Healing only happens when we are fully present
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