There’s a moment in every healing journey where you realize you’ve been betraying yourself — just to stay chosen.

August brings that moment right to the surface.

It’s raw. It’s uncomfortable. But it’s also the beginning of something real.

We’re walking through a massive energetic portal this month — with the Lions Gate peaking on 8/8 and a fiercely liberating Aquarius Full Moon following the next day. Together, they stir up a truth many of us have tried to avoid: you were never meant to fit in.

And the places you once contorted yourself to be accepted?
They’re starting to feel unbearable.

This isn’t about rebellion for rebellion’s sake.
It’s about choosing your soul — especially when it means walking a different path than the people around you.

But here's the twist: while all this truth and expansion energy is coming in, so is some deep emotional excavation.

Kinda like you're simultaneously grieving, burning, and breaking open — and being stretched into something wilder, freer, and more aligned than ever before.

If you’ve been feeling betrayed, disappointed, unseen… you’re not imagining it. August is surfacing some of the oldest wounds many of us have carried: the wound of being left behind, the fear of not being enough, the ache of silencing ourselves to keep the peace.

It’s okay if your nervous system is buzzing.
It’s okay if you’ve felt off, or lost, or unsure about everything.
This is the season of undoing the version of you that was built from fear and survival.

The Five of Pentacles came forward for the month — and honestly, it tracks. It’s the card of not-enoughness, of scarcity, of exile. But this month, it doesn’t feel like a punishment. It feels like a rite of passage.

Maybe you’re not being abandoned.
Maybe you’re being initiated.

So if you're in that weird in-between space — leaving behind the old version of you, but not quite sure what’s next — you’re right on time.

You’re not late. You’re not broken. You’re expanding.

And no, you don’t need to have it all figured out.
But you do need to stop gaslighting yourself about what hurts.
This is the month to name the places you feel betrayed — even if it’s by your own silence.

Let yourself grieve who you used to be.
Let yourself be angry.
Let yourself want more.

This month’s energy is working with your Heart and Root Chakra- so you might feel emotions surfacing around home, stability, connection, or rejection. You might be called to take your power back from the places that taught you love was conditional. You might feel ready to scream, to cry, to walk away from roles you never chose.

Please do.

This is your moment to stop abandoning yourself to stay in rooms your soul has outgrown.

Need support? I’ve got you.

→ I’m hosting an in-person healing circle this month called The Courage to Be the Outsider - timed with the Lions Gate + Aquarius Full Moon. We’ll be doing energy work on the outsider wound, and calling back pieces of your soul you’ve left behind in exchange for approval. You can snag a spot HERE.

→ AND FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE TOO FAR TO PARTICIPATE IN-PERSON... Introducing a special 5-day quantum recalibration aligned with the moon + stars — and guided by the many voices of your soul. I'm hoping to do these every month for different themes based off the energies at play !!!!

These activations will appear in your inbox daily, where you ill be guided in short affirmations and activations.

• Daily mini energy healings (targeting specific consciousness's like your Ego, Inner Child, Higher Self, and more)

• A pre-recorded mediation/activation

• Daily soul prompts + integration support

Each day brings you into deeper contact with your own truth, while clearing the frequencies that keep you looped in patterns of fear, doubt, and self-abandonment.

You just need to bring a solid 2-3 intentions for the healing container in order to receive what you most need, repeat the daily activations and voila, healing at your fingertips for a fraction of the price!!

Check out the details HERE.

→ And below there’s a guided ritual and activation you can do on your own, designed to help you come back home to your truth, even if it means leaving everything else behind.

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Activation: Outsider Soul Retrieval + Truth Reclamation Ritual

You’ll need:

• A mirror

• Labradorite or Rainbow Obsidian

• A safe, quiet space

1. Sit in front of a mirror. Gaze into your own eyes.
Whisper: “I see you. I believe you. I forgive you.”

2. Place your hand on your heart. Say aloud:
“I call back every part of me that betrayed herself to stay loved. I return to my truth. I belong to myself.”

3. Breathe. Ask:

• Where have I been pretending?

• What old stories are keeping me in survival mode?

• What part of me is ready to expand beyond fear?

4. Journal or speak what arises. Let the answers be raw.

5. End by placing your crystal over your heart.
Say: “It’s safe to be different. It’s safe to walk away. I am already enough.”

This month is a massive energy recalibration.

If you feel alone, you’re not.
If you feel broken, you’re not.
If you feel like walking away from it all — you might be walking toward yourself.

There is courage in the choice to stop performing.
There is expansion on the other side of honesty.
And there is deep support for your journey — even if it’s not coming from the old familiar faces.

You’re not too much.
You’re not making it up.
And you’re not alone — even if this phase feels lonely as hell.

This is the path of the ones who came to do it differently.

You don’t have to go back.
You just have to keep going.

-Lish