There’s an unsuspecting moment, after a period of being inward, where something begins to shift. It may be subtle at first, but unmistakably marked by wanting to respond instead of retreat. To act ~ even in small ways ~ where before we may have stayed in observation a bit longer.
Over the past couple of months, I’ve been writing about what I’ve come to think of as The Art of Disappearing ~ phases where life asks us to step back, go quiet, and loosen our grip on identity…while something deeper reorganizes itself beneath the surface.
There is a brilliant, sacred intelligence in those spaces ~ a reorientation that happens when we’re not constantly expressing, reacting or defining ourselves in real time. And…there’s also a point where that phase completes. Not because we’ve arrived at a definable clarity, but because we are now ready to “live our way into the answer”.
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given to you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
These words were written over 100 years ago by the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke. I’m always amazed and comforted by the realization that no matter how much the world changes, the essence of the human experience remains the same. And, as Rilke writes, I’ve always loved this idea…that clarity isn’t something we arrive at through effort or analysis alone, but something we grow into through lived experience. And yet, so often, we try to do the opposite. We try to think our way to certainty ~ to understand something fully before we move…to name the answer before we’ve actually lived the question.
But life doesn’t really work that way. More often, the process of arrival is quieter ~ and definitely less linear. We’re already inside of something ~ participating in it, adjusting to it, working around it ~ and then, almost imperceptibly, our perspective shifts. We see it from a slightly different angle and it’s obvious. Nothing externally has changed, but our relationship to it has.
April, home to Aries season, is always firey ~ but April 2026 turns up the volume. I’ll be sharing more about the unprecedented Aries energy coming through, in the coming days and weeks, but Mars returning to its home sign of Aries marks this shift. It brings energy back into the body ~ into instinct, into movement. And once that energy starts to return, it becomes very difficult to stay where we’ve been.
April 9, 2026 - May 18, 2026
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