This weekend marks my Solar Return (alongside a New Moon), and I can feel the Capricorn energy moving through me.

Each year around this time, I deliberately create space to reflect on what I have lived, made, and learned in the year that’s closing, and to listen for what wants to emerge in the one ahead.

This year has been especially rich. There have been surprises (in the best possible ways), deep shifts in my inner and outer world, and a quiet sense that some old threads are thinning while new ones are beginning to weave themselves in.

This morning I had a beautiful conversation with a friend about the idea of a personal mandala. I’ve explored myself through many lenses - archetypal, energetic, identity-based - but this felt different. Deeper and more holistic.

I’ve often spoken about how we weave our lives, that we are tapestries in motion. But today, in meditation, I asked to see the full mandala. At first, all I could perceive were the threads holding everything together: the ...