Sikiliza

Have you felt the energy shift in the air lately? As we navigate this particular season, our personal lives have coincided with a once-in-a-lifetime energetic convergence. Within a single 24-hour window on February 17, we witnessed a rare alignment: the onset of Ramadan, the beginning of Lent, and the Lunar New Year. Couple that with the recent annular solar eclipse in Aquarius and a weighty, profound Saturn-Neptune conjunction, and it becomes clear: there is a palpable, collective cosmic reset occurring. Part of this reset involves stepping into the  Year of the Fire Horse . In Chinese astrology, the signs and elements cycle so that the Fire Horse appears only once every 60 years—the last was in 1966. The Horse represents freedom, deep intuition, and untamed movement. When paired with the element of Fire, you get a fiercely independent, deeply passionate energy. Essentially, my reading of this is that Fire Horse energy is the universe giving us permission to stop being limited by ...

  One day you wake up from the reverie and madness of your life and realize that, somewhere along the way, you lost huge parts of yourself. You look at your reflection in the mirror. You hear yourself in conversations with those around you. You go over messages and emails you sent over time, and you struggle to recognize that person from the core that you are. Mentally, you give yourself a look over; you touch your cheeks, a touch on the neck, shoulders, tap your chest and tummy just to see if you are all there. How did things get here? How did I get here? Sounds familiar? Well, this was me coming into the Moyo Tulivu  Silent weekend retreat. I was both recognising and not recognising whole parts of myself as I wove into every day. Some of these internal knots and ties paralysed me, while others swept me away. Both were oddly uncomfortable because I did not feel like I was in the driver seat of my own life. The much-needed noble silence offered a great pause—an invita...