Insights for April 2026
AWAKENING
“Listen to yourself – your mind, body, and spirit.” Margaret Gervais
“What is your quiet knowingness? Margaret Gervais
“The greatest event in human history is happening now. Right now. We are acquiring a new consciousness.
I don’t mean that you are just thinking of new things. I mean there is a transformation now in what we can experience, not what we are experiencing - but what we can experience. An older consciousness limited to the five senses and understanding about power as manipulation and control is dying and a new consciousness is being born. It’s not limited to the five senses.
You know that you are more than a mind and a body. You know that you’ve an immortal aspect. Where is that immortal aspect? It’s here now. And the fact that you can experience that and know that it’s there means you have the new consciousness.
Don’t worry about where it is outside of you, that’s another story all together. But recognizing it in you, how to use it. How do you use it? Well you don’t need to create the ability to manipulate and control any longer. That’s the old understanding of power and it creates only violence and destruction.
Instead, you can choose to align yourself with the immortal part of yourself and that means to align your personality with your soul.” Gary Zukav
“Every breath is a quiet invitation to return to yourself.” Margaret Gervais
“Intuition is noticing what is surfacing.” Margaret Gervais
“We each have our own compass.” Margaret Gervais
“Some of the strongest boundaries are internal, like deciding not to reply, not to argue, not to stay where you don't belong, not to do what doesn't align, and not to replay something in your mind for hours. Peace often comes from changing how and where you choose to show up.” Vex King
“When you are self-referencing you are less vulnerable to others’ responses to you.” Margaret
“What is your truth, moment to moment, and how does it feel, moment to moment?” Margaret Gervais
“What is natural inside of you?” Margaret Gervais
“Awakening can be quiet and patient.” Margaret Gervais
“Confusion is a lower vibration. Let the confusion go and allow the recalibration. The recalibration is aligning your (mind, body, and spirit) with the new energies of these times.” Margaret Gervais
VIPASSANÃ MEDITATION and BUDDHISM
“To meditate is to be alive.
To meditate is to connect.
To meditate is to really feel that you are a miracle of life.
By developing agency over our own breathing, we can strengthen deep looking and understanding, which, in turn, can give us a taste of freedom. Meditation allows us to be exactly how we are and who we are in this moment.” Brother Phap Huu
“Meditation pauses the story in your mind long enough for you to remember that your mind is always telling you a story.” Cory Allen
HEALING
At the end of April, the major planetary shift from earth and water (yin energies) shifted to air and fire (both yang energies). This is a good time to connect with yin energy and yin practices to maintain and retain yin energetic balance in our bodies.
Examples of yin strategies to balance yin with the strong yang energy from the planets:
· Stillness
· Rest
· Silence
· Quiet
· Calm nature
· Swimming – time in water
· Walking
· Allowing
· Receiving
· Simplicity
GRIEF
“If we can learn to navigate the continual flow of transitions in our present life, we will be prepared for our death and whatever may follow, no matter what worldview we subscribe to.” Pema Chödron, “How we Live is How we Die.”
“Death happens every moment. We live in a wondrous flow of birth and death, birth and death. The end of one experience is the beginning of the next experience, which quickly comes to its own end, leading to a new beginning. It's like a river continuously flowing.” Pema Chödron, “How we Live is How we Die.”
Everything under the sun has the fleeting quality of a dewdrop or a flash of lightning.” Pema Chödron, “How we Live is How we Die.”
“We are always in a bardo [in between states] because impermanence never takes a break. There is never a moment when we're not in transition —and believe it or not this is good news.” Pema Chödron, “How we Live is How we Die.”
“We're always in an intermediate state between the past and the future, between the memory of what happened before and the approaching experience that will soon become memory as well.” Pema Chödron, “How we Live is How we Die.”
“Major dislocations and reversals expose the truth underlying all our experience-that there is nothing reliable to hold on to, and that our sense of a solid, stable reality is just an illusion. Every time our bubble is burst, we have a chance to become more used to the nature of how things are. If we can see these as opportunities, we'll be in a good position to face the end of our life and to be open to whatever may happen next.” Pema Chödron, “How we Live is How we Die.”
“Sorrow is an indication of the strength of your memory, which is the past.” Krishnamurti
RELATIONSHIPS
“The only way relationships really work is when both people are able to let things be and work with each other as they are.” Pema Chödron, “How we Live is How we Die.”
ASTROLOGY
There is a powerful triangle activation (a positive activation) in everyone’s chart right now – and for the next four years. It is a very strong alignment that activates and supports awakening.
Uranus, the great awakener, is in Gemini (air sign of thinking and communication), Neptune, the mystic, is in Aries (fire sign of “let’s go” now), and Pluto, the transformer, is of course in Aquarius (Air sign of revolutionary.) Use your mind, think and learn, do it now, and be powerfully transformative.
How will you use awareness and wisdom practices to activate this spiritual evolutionary energy? How will you stay awake, on course, determined, excited, brave, and ever-growing?
Look for this triangle in your transit chart. When you draw the lines to connect these transiting planets, it is a blue triangle – made up of sextiles and trines – all positive motivation energy. If you have had a reading with me in 2026, you will see that I have drawn this triangle on your chart.
And as always, please pay attention to:
1. Your birth Pluto placement to remind you of your evolutionary power journey
2. You progressed sun placement for your current soul journey calling
3. The current placement of the Pluto transit for the maturing Pluto energy activation
4. Nodal axis – south node for your karmic pulse, and north node for your invitation to learn and grow in the sovereignty of your soul
I always review these and point them out during readings. Please review your charts and listen to your recording for a reminder or schedule a check-up reading to review this powerful outline. It will be your guiding light for your own soul’s journey during these intense times of change.
BOOK:
The gift of not belonging. Rami Kaminski MD (All book links are to Powells’s Bookstore in Portland. Please boycott Amazon – for all of the obvious reasons – and support local bookstores.) Also available at FNAC.
“From a renowned psychiatrist comes the first book to explore the otrovert personality—someone who feels like an outsider in any group—revealing all the advantages of being an otrovert.
Were you the kid who never wanted to join after school clubs or go to sleepaway camp? Do you loathe parties but love spending time with close friends one-on-one? Are you allergic to teamwork but thrive creatively and professionally when working alone? Do you struggle to fit in? If so, you are likely an otrovert.
Otroverts are not natural born joiners. Unlike introverts, they are not shy or quiet, and do not quickly tire from one-on-one socializing. Yet in large groups they feel uncomfortable, alienated, and alone.
Unlike those who have been excluded or marginalized, otroverts are embraced and often quite popular. Yet they never feel like they truly belong.
In a culture that puts a premium on joining, many otroverts have gone through life feeling misunderstood. But, contrary to what we have been taught, argues psychiatrist Rami Kaminski, belonging is not a requirement for living a rich, rewarding life. Quite the opposite.
When you have no affinity for a particular group, your self-worth is not conditioned on the group’s approval. You can enjoy deep connection in individual relationships without the obligation to follow the rules the group follows, or care about what the group cares about. Best of all, you know of no other way to think or be, other than for yourself.
The Gift of Not Belonging urges otroverts to embrace their unique gifts, and equips them with the knowledge and tools to thrive in a communal world.
ENGAGED BUDDHISM
THE FOUR COMMONPLACE TRUTH
1. No situation is impossible to change
2. A communal vision, outstanding strategy, a sustained effort can bring forth positive change
3. Everyone can help make a difference.
4. No one is free of responsibility.
Sensei Kaz Tanahashi
War, bombs, murder, genocide, and injustice are deeply disturbing and infuriating to me. I don’t know why everyone is not deeply disturbed and infuriated.
I spend a lot of time processing and trying to understand what is happening because I am compelled to understand the darkness and the light of humans and of culture. Why are some people evolving toward the light of a shared humanity with compassion and care? Why are people drawn to cruelty and barbarism?
What does one do with the upheavals that reveal darkness? We are told to see the lightness that comes from darkness, but it is hard to see that right now. It is hard to stay balanced when seeking a shared humanity that has compassion and care. Perhaps maintaining balance is not the point.
I believe in engagement vs. silence, so I engage. I try to not hide from the truth. I keep learning. I speak up. I show up. I am willing to be uncomfortable. I am willing to risk losing friends and clients. It can be painful and hard. But not as hard as those who are targets of destruction, injustice, racism, sexism, and suffering.
I hope you are learning and finding ways to share what you believe. I hope you speak up. I hope you have comrades. I hope you are taking care of yourself and others around you, and I hope that others are taking caring of you.
Each of us is has a purpose and we all have potential for awareness and growth. Even in the midst of upheaval, intensity and injustice, we can stay on the journey of awakening. If we don’t continue the work of evolving humanity toward great awareness, justice, and compassion, who will!?
We ride the tides of the upheavals. We do our best to stay in awareness and find balance. We stay informed and take a stand. There has always been a dance light and dark. Now it is more lit up, which means it’s a time to wake up.