The Wholistic Hypnotist

10/24/2026

I’ve been looking into this upcoming Mercury retrograde in Scorpio, and naturally, I had to pull up my own birth chart to see where it lands. And wouldn’t you know it? The symbolism is rather fascinating, considering everything I’ve been experiencing lately.

I’m an Aquarius Rising, which places Scorpio in my 10th house when using the Whole Sign house system.

Now, for those unfamiliar with astrology, the 10th house represents our public identity, career, reputation, authority, and the legacy we leave behind. It’s how we step into the world and what we become known for.

And Scorpio? Scorpio is associated with transformation, hidden truths, personal power, and the things we sometimes keep tucked away, even from ourselves.

Mercury retrograde begins October 24 and continues through November 13, 2026. Astrologically, retrogrades are traditionally considered opportunities to revisit, reconsider, and reevaluate certain areas of our lives.

So, according to this interpretation, mine is taking place in the very house associated with being seen, heard, and recognized.

Well, isn’t that interesting?

Because I’ve spent a considerable amount of time examining the beliefs we inherit, the identities we’re handed, and the ways we learn to make ourselves smaller to accommodate other people’s expectations.

And lately, I’ve been asking myself some of those very same questions.

Who decided what I was capable of? Who determined how visible I was allowed to become? And at what point did I begin waiting for permission to do the things I already knew I could do?

There’s something rather poetic about Aquarius Rising meeting Scorpio in the 10th house. Aquarius questions convention. Scorpio invites us to look beneath the surface. And the 10th house asks what we’re going to do with what we’ve discovered when it’s time to step into the world.

I don’t believe the planets are making decisions for me. I do, however, appreciate the opportunity to examine my life through another symbolic lens.

And right now, that lens seems to be pointing toward something I’ve been working on for quite some time.

Allowing myself to be seen as the person I’ve already become.

Perhaps the most interesting question isn’t what this Mercury retrograde will uncover.

Perhaps it’s what I’ve already uncovered and am finally ready to share.

And that brings me right back to my favorite question.

Who told you that you had to remain small?

And more importantly, why are you still listening?

10/23/2026

10/23/2026

You know, every time Mercury goes retrograde, people start talking about their computers crashing, their phones acting up, and all the things that are supposedly going to go wrong. And I always find that interesting because there’s another way of looking at this that I think deserves a little attention.

On October 24, Mercury turns retrograde in Scorpio, and in astrology, Mercury represents how we think, how we communicate, and how we process information. Scorpio, on the other hand, is associated with everything we tend to keep beneath the surface. Our deeper emotions, our fears, our secrets, and sometimes the truths we’ve become very good at hiding, even from ourselves.

Now, put those two ideas together for a moment, because this is where it gets interesting.

Think about how many conversations you’ve had in your head that you’ve never actually had with another person. Think about the things you’ve wanted to say but decided against because you didn’t want to hurt someone’s feelings, create an argument, or make somebody uncomfortable. And then think about how often you’ve been the one left feeling uncomfortable because you chose to keep those words to yourself.

I wonder how many of us learned to do that so early in life that we don’t even recognize we’re doing it anymore.

Especially women. How many of us grew up hearing that we needed to be good girls, that we shouldn’t talk back, that we needed to be polite, agreeable, understanding, and accommodating? How many times were we told to let something go, even when something inside us was practically screaming that it mattered?

And somewhere along the way, we started believing that keeping everybody else comfortable was our responsibility.

But who told you that?

That’s a question worth spending some time with, because the beliefs we carry aren’t always beliefs we consciously chose. Sometimes they’re simply instructions we heard so often that they became part of the way we see ourselves. And after enough years, we stop questioning them because they feel familiar.

Now, Venus is retrograde during this same period, and astrologically, that brings relationships, personal values, and our sense of worth into the conversation. I find the symbolism of these two retrogrades happening together rather fascinating. One invites us to examine what we’re thinking and saying, while the other invites us to consider what we value and what we’re willing to accept.

And I wonder how often those two things are in conflict.

How often do we know what we want but struggle to say it? How often do we recognize that something isn’t right for us but convince ourselves to tolerate it anyway? How often do we wait for somebody else to acknowledge our feelings before we allow ourselves to believe those feelings are valid?

Here’s something I’ve come to understand through the years, both personally and through the work I do with people. Sometimes the conversation that changes everything isn’t the one we finally have with somebody else. It’s the one we finally allow ourselves to have within.

Because there’s a tremendous difference between recognizing that something happened to you and continuing to believe that what happened gets to define who you are today.

And that’s really what I’d like you to think about as we move through these next few weeks.

What have you been carrying around that you’ve never given yourself permission to acknowledge? What truth have you been softening to make it easier for somebody else to hear? What boundary have you wanted to establish but talked yourself out of because you were worried about how someone might react?

And perhaps the most interesting question of all is this: When did you first learn that your voice was something you needed to be careful with?

You don’t have to answer that publicly. You don’t even have to have a conversation with the person involved. Sometimes recognizing the pattern is where the change begins, and sometimes the most meaningful thing you can do is sit quietly with yourself and ask whether the beliefs you’ve been living by still belong in your life.

I don’t believe we need a planet moving backward in the sky to give us permission to examine our lives. But I do think there’s something rather beautiful about using these moments as reminders to become a little more curious about ourselves.

So while everybody else is worrying about Mercury messing up their emails, maybe we can spend a little time examining the messages we’ve been sending ourselves for years.

Because you might discover that the voice you’ve been waiting to hear was your own all along.

And wouldn’t that be something?

The Wholistic Hypnotist

10/19/2026

I’ve been doing a little digging into what’s happening astrologically between October 18 and 26, and I came across something that sent me down a rather interesting rabbit hole. It involves Venus, Scorpio, Pluto, Black Moon Lilith, and a planetary pattern that astrologers have traced back approximately 100 years.

Now, you know I love my witchy things, but I also like understanding what I’m talking about. And when I started looking into this particular alignment, I found myself thinking less about the planets and more about us, especially the women who came before us and the things we’ve inherited without ever realizing it.

Let me explain.

Venus is currently retrograde in Scorpio. Astrologically, Venus represents love, relationships, beauty, pleasure, and what we value. Scorpio deals with transformation, power, intimacy, and the things we keep buried beneath the surface. When Venus moves retrograde through Scorpio, astrologers interpret it as a period of revisiting our relationships and examining the beliefs we carry about love and personal worth.

Then we have Black Moon Lilith, which is particularly interesting to me. Lilith is associated with autonomy, independence, and the parts of ourselves we’ve been conditioned to suppress. She’s become a symbol of the woman who refuses to surrender her identity simply to make someone else comfortable.

And that got me thinking.

How many of us grew up hearing that we needed to be good girls? We were supposed to be polite, accommodating, respectful, and agreeable. We learned to keep the peace, even when keeping the peace meant keeping our mouths shut. We learned that putting ourselves first was selfish and that being loved sometimes required us to make ourselves smaller.

But who decided that? And why have we continued passing those expectations from one generation to the next?

Around October 19 and 20, Venus forms a square with Pluto. In astrology, Pluto represents power, control, and transformation, while a square represents tension that invites examination.

And isn’t that an interesting combination when we’re talking about relationships?

Think about how often we confuse love with obligation. How many people remain in situations that make them unhappy because they’ve been taught that leaving, disagreeing, or establishing boundaries somehow makes them a bad person?

How many women have spent their lives managing everyone else’s emotions while barely acknowledging their own?

Now, here’s where this gets really interesting.

On October 23, Venus reaches what’s known as a cazimi, meaning it’s in the heart of the Sun. Astrologers associate this conjunction with illumination and renewal. But this particular Venus Star Point is significant for another reason.

According to the Venus Star Point tradition, it marks the final Scorpio conjunction in a repeating pattern that stretches back to approximately 1926. As the pattern gradually shifts toward Libra, astrologers interpret this as a transition from Scorpio’s themes of power, survival, and transformation toward Libra’s themes of equality, fairness, and partnership.

Think about that for a minute.

What was life like for women a hundred years ago?

In the United States, women had only secured nationwide constitutional protection for voting rights six years earlier. Many women still faced substantial restrictions on their financial independence, employment opportunities, and personal autonomy. Marriage was often treated as an expectation rather than a choice, and the idea that a woman should prioritize her own happiness was hardly the prevailing message.

Now think about the women in your family.

Your grandmothers, your great-grandmothers, and the women who came before them. Think about the things they were taught, the expectations they lived under, and the lessons they passed along to their daughters.

Some of those lessons were meant to protect them. Others were simply the way things had always been done. And many were passed down so naturally that nobody thought to question them.

Until somebody did.

And that’s the part I find fascinating.

Because when I look at the past hundred years, I see women questioning the roles they were assigned. I see women challenging expectations, demanding autonomy, and recognizing that their value extends far beyond what they can provide for someone else.

And yet, here we are in 2026, and how many women are still struggling with the belief that they’re selfish for saying no? How many still feel guilty for having needs of their own? How many are waiting for permission to live a life that actually belongs to them?

We’ve made enormous progress, but some of the oldest beliefs are still living comfortably inside us.

As we move toward October 24 through 26, Mercury approaches its retrograde in Scorpio, and Venus prepares to return to Libra. Astrologically, these movements add another layer of reflection around communication, relationships, and the balance between our needs and the needs of others.

What have we been taught about love that we’ve never questioned? Why do so many people associate being a good person with being endlessly accommodating? Why do we sometimes feel uncomfortable expressing our needs, even when those needs are perfectly reasonable?

And here’s something else to consider.

Just because you’ve believed something for forty years doesn’t mean it’s true.

Just because your mother believed it, and her mother believed it before her, doesn’t mean you have to carry it forward.

We inherit all sorts of things from our families. Traditions, recipes, stories, values, and sometimes beliefs that were formed in circumstances very different from the lives we’re living today.

We get to decide which ones still belong.

That’s what I find so meaningful about this particular astrological moment. A hundred-year pattern associated with Scorpio’s themes of power and transformation is shifting toward Libra’s symbolism of balance and equality.

What a fascinating metaphor for the conversations we’re having about relationships, independence, and personal freedom.

Maybe it’s time we reconsidered what keeping the peace actually means. Maybe genuine harmony requires everyone to have a voice, rather than expecting one person to remain silent so everyone else can stay comfortable.

Maybe loving someone and maintaining your independence were always meant to exist together.

And maybe the next generation deserves to inherit something different.

So, if you’re someone who enjoys working with astrology, lunar cycles, or spiritual symbolism, this could be a beautiful time for some personal reflection. Light your candles, pull out your journal, or simply give yourself a few quiet minutes to think.

Ask yourself what you’ve been taught about your worth, your relationships, and your right to make choices for yourself.

Then ask the question I keep coming back to.

Who told you that?

And once you’ve asked it, consider whether that belief still deserves a place in your life.

Because here’s what I hope we eventually understand.

We can appreciate the people who came before us, recognize the circumstances that shaped their beliefs, and still choose a different direction for ourselves.

We can honor our history without repeating every part of it.

And we can teach the next generation that love doesn’t require silence, that respect goes both ways, and that having a voice is something every human being deserves.

A hundred years from now, people will look back at the choices we’re making today. They’ll examine what we believed, what we accepted, and what we finally decided to change.

I wonder what they’ll say about us.

The planets will continue their cycles, just as they always have. But here on Earth, we have an opportunity to examine the stories we’ve inherited and decide which ones we’re going to keep telling.

And that, my friends, is where I believe the real magic happens.

You have every right to question what you’ve been taught, and every right to decide what you believe now.

You Are the Awakening.

The Wholistic Hypnotist

10/18/2026

If I could take away one thing you’ve been carrying for far too long, something that weighs on your heart, occupies your thoughts, or quietly steals your peace, what would you finally be ready to set down?

I’m genuinely curious. What’s the one thing you wish you could be free of?

10/16/2026

🖤 Pluto Has Stationed Direct. Well, Isn’t That Interesting?

After five months of retrograde, Pluto has finally stationed direct, and if you’ve been doing some serious soul-searching lately, this might resonate with you.

In astrology, Pluto is associated with transformation, the subconscious, hidden truths, and those parts of ourselves we’d sometimes rather leave tucked away in a dusty corner.

And here’s what I find fascinating.

We spend so much of our lives believing we know who we are. We know what we like, what we fear, what we’re capable of, and what we aren’t.

But how much of that did we actually decide for ourselves?

How much was handed to us by parents, teachers, relationships, religion, or society? And how much have we continued carrying simply because we’ve never thought to question it?

That’s what I love about the symbolism of Pluto. It invites us to dig a little deeper.

Maybe these past five months have brought old patterns to the surface. Maybe you’ve been questioning relationships, beliefs, or even the direction your life is taking. Maybe you’ve simply felt that something is changing, even if you haven’t quite figured out what it is yet.

And maybe none of that has happened. That’s perfectly fine too.

But here’s something worth considering.

What if the person you’re becoming is actually the person you’ve always been, underneath everything you were taught to believe about yourself?

Pluto moving direct is a lovely symbolic reminder that we can take what we’ve learned about ourselves and actually do something with it.

Because recognizing a pattern is one thing. Deciding what to do with that recognition is something entirely different.

So here’s my question for you today.

What have you discovered about yourself lately that you can no longer pretend you don’t know?

Now THAT might be worth sitting with for a while. 😉

And remember, the planets may give us something interesting to contemplate, but we are still the ones making the choices.

You are the awakening. 🖤

10/08/2026

So, something interesting happened today while I was working on designing hypnotic journeys for my clients.

Well, I've had the same few lines from *Nothing's Gonna Change My Love for You* playing over and over again.

And I mean OVER and OVER. Lol.

It's a song about unwavering love. Love that doesn't change. Love that doesn't ask you to prove anything or become anything other than who you are.

And here I am, literally creating journeys to help people reconnect with themselves, release old beliefs, and remember their own worth.

Well, isn't that interesting?

It got me thinking about how often we spend our lives trying to become someone worthy of love, acceptance, or approval, when perhaps the real journey is learning to recognize that we were worthy all along.

And maybe that's what my subconscious has been trying to get my attention about today.

That I don't have to prove anything to anyone. I have been loved all along.

Now I'm curious. Have you ever had a song pop into your head at just the right moment, and when you really listened to the lyrics, they seemed to speak directly to something happening in your life?

Because I think sometimes the most interesting conversations we have with ourselves begin when we finally pay attention to what's already playing in our heads.

10/04/2026

Food for thought…
Fear and fear based emotions give off a lot of energy. Remember that. If something needed to feed off of that energy, what would they do?

10/04/2026

Well, apparently Venus woke up today and chose emotional archaeology. 😜

Venus officially went retrograde in Scorpio today, October 3, and this one is especially interesting because the last time Venus moved through this same Scorpio and Libra retrograde territory was in 2018.

Astrologically, Venus rules love, relationships, money, pleasure, self-worth, and what we value. Scorpio likes to dig underneath the surface, so this can be a really interesting time to revisit what we want, what we tolerate, and what we’ve simply outgrown.

So think back to fall 2018. Who were you? What were your relationships like? What did you believe you deserved?

And please, nobody panic. 😂 This does NOT mean your ex is cosmically scheduled to show up at your door.

Maybe the real question isn’t what’s coming back.

Maybe it’s realizing how much you’ve changed since the last time Venus brought you here. 💫

09/30/2026

Humans forget. Every single thing on this planet can survive without them, but the humans cannot survive without every single thing.