✨ The Passage of Shifts: Sept 15 – Sept 30, 2025 ✨Themes: Intimacy → Release → Balance

🗂️ What’s Inside This Newsletter

• 🌌 Whispers of the Planets — overview of cosmic themes, including the Solar Eclipse & Autumn Equinox

• 🌙 The Lunar Mood — how the Moon’s movement shapes the collective

• 🗣️ What People Might Be Saying & Doing — not-self tendencies & awareness cues

• 💞 Relationships & Conditioning — guidance on decisions & influence fields

• 💰 Money & Investing — when to pause, when to plan

• 🚗 Travel & Safety Notes — best/worst windows for trips & driving

• 🧘Upcoming Courses — Designed to help you navigate the intensity of eclipse season, retrogrades, and shifting collective energy

• 🧘 Self-Care & Practices — kriyas, meditations, and nervous system resets

• 🥗 Recipe for the Season — nourishing dish to calm Vata and ground the body

• 🌿 Closing Reflection — integrating awareness without overreacting
  

🌌 Whispers of the Planets

This half of September is a threshold passage. We move from charged emotional undercurrents toward the powerful Solar Eclipse + New Moon (Sept 21) and Autumn Equinox (Sept 22). These back-to-back cosmic events create a pivot: endings, beginnings, and a strong rebalancing of light and dark.

• Solar Eclipse (Sept 21): A karmic reset. Eclipses magnify shadows and truths we usually gloss over. This one stirs intimacy, responsibility, and personal balance.

• Autumn Equinox (Sept 22): Day and night stand equal — inviting us to reassess where our own balance has tipped too far into overwork, reactivity, or depletion.

• Ongoing Retrogrades: Saturn, Neptune, Uranus, and Pluto all retracing steps → collective revisiting of values, structures, spirit, and endurance.

  
  

🌙 The Lunar Mood

• Sept 15–20: Emotional waters rise — people feel reactive, tribal, wanting connection but also easily disappointed.

• Sept 21: New Moon + Eclipse → a potent reset, but unstable. Great for meditation, poor for logistics.

• Sept 22 (Equinox): A deep exhale — the collective feels a pause, though still raw.

• Sept 23–30: Energy shifts into mental critique, problem-solving, and “fix-it” mode. This can be constructive if awareness is high, but can turn nitpicky or judgmental.

  
  

🗣️ What People Might Be Saying & Doing

The Not-Self Collective in this window may show up as:

• “Why does nothing feel settled?!” (restlessness, forcing answers)

• “You never listen to me!” (tribal drama, projecting unmet needs)

• “I just need everyone to calm down” (overwhelm, withdrawal)

• “If I don’t fix this right now, everything will fall apart” (over-control, judgment)

👉 Awareness cue: If your words or thoughts feel like they must correct, fix, or prove — it’s likely the transit, not your truth. Pause. Breathe. Let the wave pass.

💞 Relationships & Conditioning

This is a sensitive period for partnerships and community bonds.

• Volatility: Emotional waves (mid-month) and mental critique (late month) make it easy to lash out, nitpick, or assume others are the problem.

• Drastic Decisions: Eclipse season can create the urge to break bonds, move out, or “end it all.” Unless clarity has been building for months, avoid impulsive choices right now. Wait until after Oct 3 for clearer ground.

  
  

• Conditioning Fields: Many will feel collective frequency pressure — taking on moods, doubts, or dramas that aren’t truly theirs. If you feel judgment rising in your body, ask: “Is this mine, or am I amplifying the field?”

  
  

👉 Healthy leverage: Instead of cutting ties, use this time to observe how conditioning plays out in your relationships. Notice where you collapse into roles (caretaker, fixer, judge) instead of staying present. True clarity about bonds comes after the eclipse ripples settle.

💰 Money & Investing

• Sept 15–20: High emotional volatility → not the best for big purchases or risky investments. Stick to essentials.

• Sept 21–22 (Eclipse + Equinox): Do not initiate major financial moves. Information is clouded.

• Sept 25–26: More grounded energy → better for practical financial planning or purchases.

• Sept 29: Good for review and long-term thinking, but not launch.

• Sept 30: Critical energy may push snap judgments — hold steady.

  
  

🚗 Travel & Safety Notes

• Best Days to Travel: Sept 25–26 (grounded, practical, smoother flow).

• Caution Days: Sept 18–19 (emotional volatility), Sept 21–22 (eclipse + equinox = unstable), Sept 30 (judgment-heavy).

• Driving: Tempers flare easily around Sept 18–19. Leave early, drive slower, avoid forcing schedules.

📌 Upcoming Courses to Support You in These Times

These offerings are designed to help you navigate the intensity of eclipse season, retrogrades, and shifting collective energy:

• 🧘 Mind & Meditation — Begins Sept 27

• 🌸 Vitality & Stress — Begins Oct 18

• 📚 Level One Kundalini Yoga — Begins Oct 25

• 💞 Authentic Relationships — Begins Dec 13

• ❤️ Conscious Communication — Begins Jan 16, 2026

  
  

🧘 Self-Care & Practices

• Meditations:

  • Meditation for Emotional Balance

  • Kirtan Kriya (Sa Ta Na Ma) 

  • Meditation to Release Judgement 

• Kriyas:

  • Navel Strengthening Kriya → for grounding during emotional storms.

  • Kriya for Elevation → after the eclipse, to reset the nervous system.

• Self-Care:

  • Rest deeply — even short naps.

  • Limit stimulation (less screens, caffeine, chaos).

  • Warm, moist foods for nervous system calm.

  • Time outdoors — especially sunrise/evening light to regulate cycles.

    
    

🥗 Nourishing Recipe Idea: Golden Root Stew

Perfect for grounding Vata energy during volatile transitions.

Ingredients:

• 1 tbsp ghee or olive oil

• 1 onion, diced

• 2 carrots + 1 sweet potato, chopped

• 1 cup cauliflower florets

• 1 can coconut milk

• 1 cup vegetable broth

• 1 tbsp turmeric, 1 tsp cumin, pinch cinnamon

• Sea salt, black pepper

• Fresh cilantro to garnish

Instructions:

1. Sauté onion in ghee/oil until golden.

2. Add carrots, sweet potato, cauliflower, spices. Stir until fragrant.

3. Pour in coconut milk + broth. Simmer 20 minutes until tender.

4. Season, top with cilantro. Serve warm with rice or quinoa.

   
   

🌿 Closing Reflection

This period is not about “fixing” but about listening. The whispers of the planets remind us: balance arrives not through control, but through presence. If irritation, fear, or judgment arise, ask: “Is this me — or the sky moving through me?”

Leverage: Awareness makes the difference. Let the waves wash through, rest when your body says so, and step forward gently when clarity opens (esp. Sept 25–26).