Connect the Dots with Aria

This week’s post is sit-down with Reema Rachel, Wellness Tech Visionary and Founder of the HIRA Collective. I love how Reema shares her story: from FaceTime-ing her grand-uncle and chatting with her grandmother about health and Yoga, through the moments of experiencing non-integrous “spiritual” practices, and eventually building the tech behind HIRA (which means diamond in Hindi). Within our roots...

Thank you to everyone who tuned into my live video! Do you find yourself in the same patterns again and again, despite your good intentions and rational thinking? I have. One of mine started with a frustrated grip of a disposable coffee cup, when I had 8 reusable cups sitting comfortably in my kitchen cabinet at home. This Leo season, we are exploring different ways to reclaim lost parts of oursel...

Thank you to everyone who tuned into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app. Today’s video kicks off the Sun-kissed Leo season. I’ve been sitting with the feeling of authenticity, rather than what I think and how present. It reminded me of a practice that an energy healer prescribed to me many years ago—the practice of reintegrating previously discarded parts of the Self. I’ve sh...

Thank you to everyone who tuned into my live video! _________________________________________________________________________ We are always changing — whether we want to or not. There are ways to meet changes with sweetness, gentleness and presence. In this final Cancer Season video, I explore the felt difference between routine and Ceremony, and the three main elements that make the latter a plac...

Thank you to everyone who tuned into this week’s live video! _________________________________________________________________________ When I first sat in Ceremony, I loved the part where the Elements and Directions were called in. Back then, in my newness, I felt like this act was profound but only related to it superficially; now there is a touch more depth and (hopefully) maturity. This week’s...

Working towards self-love and authenticity is certainly something that starts as a solo journey, but we need others to see and experience different parts of ourselves. Sitting in Ceremonies helped me with this in truly surprising and unexpected ways. Ceremonies are sacred containers, and what is sacred is different for each of us. Ceremonies are activated by powerful human dynamics—intention, will...

Happy Summer Solstice & the start of Cancer season. The waters of Cancer relate to our emotional bodies, our need for nourishment, rest, comfort and nesting. This Solstice that feeling has been as strong as my desire to make plans, do things, organize life differently. All my opposite natures have come out to play! In today’s video I share both personal and astrological energies around this, along...

Communication is relational, sensory, and subtle. Today’s video explores how the complexity of every byte of information we take in with our sense organs as we navigate our day, and how it shapes our expression—verbal and non-verbal. In a way, how we communicate is the output of what we’ve taken in! * How do our environments imprint on our nervous system—and how to tell what’s truly ours vs. what...

This Week’s Invitation: Gemini—sign of the twins—invites us to become aware of how we perceive the world. The way we perceive our surroundings shapes our mind and, ultimately, how we communicate—and in this second week of this air sign, we’re reminded of how the flood of information (sensory, emotional, relational) impacts how we think, speak, and connect. If your mind has felt scattered or overwh...

The energetic invitation of Gemini—a mental and air sign—is to become aware of the quality of our thoughts—where our thoughts are sourced from, how they scatter or loop, how that feels, and how they shape our choices. I’m noticing a certain windy quality on my thoughts—uncharacteristically all over the place, buzzing loudly and busily, but largely ungrounded. If you’re feeling restless or lost in...

Thanks for joining me live! Taurus season draws to a close, and this week’s video invites you into a deeper exploration of relational harmony as a living, breathing practice. In relationships we are often used to performing, creating façades, having uncommunicated expectations, and avoiding being present with ourselves (and by extension our environments and others). Drawing on the medicine of Mapl...

Note: I just went LIVE for the first time! Thank you to everyone who tuned in. This is the recording (the video format is different from what it usually is). This week, The Beauty Way reminds us that braiding mysteries (holding space for what we do now know) actually strengthens us. How can that be?!?!?!As children, most of us probably remember the feeling of discovering the world curiously and pl...

Last week, we explored how Rose Medicine teaches us to root deeply and weather life’s storms with grace. This week, we continue walking the Beauty Way , sitting with the medicine of the Cedars—honouring the Sacred. What is Sacred to you, truly? What is it in your life that you honour and protect? What is your relationship with what is Sacred to you? In todays video, you’ll sip on: * Why “doing” yo...

The more chaotic and pressure-filled the world outside gets, our invitation is into the stillness and quietude. Taurus Season, the first Earth sign in the new wheel of the Zodiac. If Aries was our Creative Spark, Taurus is the soil that receives the seeds of what we are growing. Being a Venus-ruled sign, Taurus is about relationships and connectivity to the material—our bodies, the Earth, and to t...

Alright, you’ve all felt this as I have right? Stuck, doubtful, or like nothing you're doing or creating matters, that feeling of drudgery as one mundane day bleeds into the next. Today’s video is NOT about ‘fixing’ that. Watch and let yourself: * Learn why doubt, frustration, and/or creative blocks are natural phases of the creative process * Embrace where you are right now; and how the ‘ artist’...

We set measurable goals, we work toward them, and often… we actually reach them! Then what? I have chased the imagined feelings of achieving my metric-based goals. But my own history shows me, that when I reach them, I don’t feel those feelings . Instead, I just move onto the next project or expand my goal. In this video, you can reflect on: * How much of your creative process, and your enjoyment...

Chronic burnout and exhaustion are standard and accepted states of being. It is considered normal. It is not. It is not a happy or sustainable way to move through our days and weeks. When I found myself in this place, I realized that my creative process was misaligned from who I actually was . In refining my creative process I now include two essential elements that help break the burnout cycle. T...

Traditional advice on ‘how to manifest your dreams’ has not always worked for me. It has worked sometimes, and made me feel great; other times, it has crashed! Eventually, after a lot of trial and error, I figured out why! This video explores my more sustainable, and personalized approach to creative processes. 🔹 Clear Space First – Creativity thrives when we release unfinished projects, old habi...

Congratulations friends, we made it through the seas of our inner unknowing-ness and formlessness (Pisces season)! Huzzah!!! I know 12 videos this month was a lot, but what can I say… there is a lot happening and going to unfold as we move through 2025, so I hope this series supported your through what is rising within you. One fun little reminder: over the coming months, as the Sun transits a zod...

Our journey through Pisces season comes to its pinnacle today when the Moon is in full illumination in the sign of Virgo. Today is also a Lunar Eclipse—when the shadow of the Earth falls on the face of the Moon. Virgo and Pisces are polar opposites. While Pisces is… Formlessness, the Dream, and Dissolving Separation (into the ocean of Oneness) Virgo is… Form, the Doing, and Refining our Master-cra...

To recap… we’ve been journeying through Pisces season and getting friendly with Formlessness—as an aspect of Creation. In the last video, we explored receptivity and nourishment while the Moon moved through the watery sign of Cancer. This energy is required if we desire manifesting our Essential Will through inspired action, and that is the energy of Leo. The Moon in Leo can feel uncomfortable emo...

The mental, psychological and emotional exhaustion a lot of us feel, comes from our practices of over-thinking and over-doing; which is another way of saying that we are not great at receiving restoration, and nourishment that regenerates us. The Moon in Cancer over the next couple of nights, while the Sun is in Pisces (both water signs), supports our deep nourishment. We can only truly be nourish...

Why have we been following the zodiacal guidance of the Moon through through Pisces season? Because the like many wise ancient cultures, we are choosing to harmonize with cosmic frequencies, so that we can stabilize internally through times of great change. The Moon’s energy archetype is introspective, reflective and by nature tuned to rhythm of change and cycles. So when the Moon moves through th...

We’ve been following the zodiacal guidance of the Moon—the celestial archetype of our unconscious, our hidden motivations and our past programs—through this 2025 Pisces Season. Today, we are at the halfway point, with the Moon transiting through Taurus, which lies opposite to Scorpio, which is where we started our journey through Formlessness a few weeks ago. Scorpio was about coming into right re...

After a New Moon, we enter what is called the waxing phase, where we start seeing the silvery smile across the evening sky. After the Pisces New Moon, we move into the elements of desire, manifestation, will and action as the Moon transits Aries . This lunation holds the keys to existing as an individual, while remembering oneness, giving it the power to see through the illusion of separation. If...