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IHDS Certified Human Design Analyst · Gene Keys Guide · Creator of The BE Method™. Heal, Liberate & BE™ Remote sessions worldwide.

Monthly energy guidance and remote healing for those ready to understand what is actually moving in their lives. There is so much moving beneath the surface of our lives — and most of us can feel it even when we cannot name it. I am Lori Otruba, founder of The Soul Collaborative and creator of The BE Method™ — a personalized healing approach drawing on six modalities, guided by what your system is

ready to receive. I am also an IHDS Certified Human Design Analyst and Gene Keys Guide offering monthly energy guidance through Human Design, Gene Keys & Astrology.

Sometimes the most important move you can make isn't forward. It's inward, back toward whether the thing you're building...
07/05/2026

Sometimes the most important move you can make isn't forward. It's inward, back toward whether the thing you're building is actually yours.

That's the work of this stretch. Something you've outgrown gets lighter, ready to be set down, and you're finally willing to let it go. When Neptune turns retrograde on the 7th, the pull is inward, toward checking whose vision you've been chasing before you put any more into it.

By the 10th, as Venus meets the South Node, the way you've made yourself smaller to be chosen is ready to be released. You don't have to bring it into what comes next.
The clarity you've been waiting for is closer than it's been in weeks. The inner work of these days is what sets it up.

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There's a kind of restlessness that doesn't mean anything is wrong. It's what it feels like to be ready to move before y...
06/28/2026

There's a kind of restlessness that doesn't mean anything is wrong. It's what it feels like to be ready to move before you know where you're going.

That's where July opens. Something in you wants to move, even if the direction hasn't shown up yet. Mercury retrograde in Cancer keeps circling you back to something you thought you'd already settled, and there may be more in it than you saw the first time. The restlessness is pointing you somewhere. The only question is whether you're willing to look where.

Then, July 3rd turns electric as Mars meets Uranus. Something moves, a conversation, a decision, a realization that catches even you off guard. Stay open to it, even when it comes in sideways.

The weeks ahead are going to ask you to know what you actually want. This first stretch is where that knowing starts.

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Some months ask you to push forward. July asks you to remember what you came here for.Something in you is ready to move ...
06/28/2026

Some months ask you to push forward. July asks you to remember what you came here for.

Something in you is ready to move before you can identify what it is, and Mercury retrograde in Cancer keeps circling you back to feelings you'd filed away for later. The first stretch of the month turns you inward, less about building the thing and more about checking that the vision is yours rather than a shape you took on to make it easier for other people.

From there, it clears, one specific piece at a time, through the New Moon in Cancer on the 14th. By the time the Sun moves into Leo on the 22nd, the pull turns outward, toward being seen and putting to use what you worked out in private. The month closes on the first harvest, August 1st, with an honest count of what grew this season and what you're ready to set down without calling it a failure.

This is one piece of a larger answer; the rest is still ahead of you.

You know how much quiet energy it takes to keep being an easier, more adjusted version of yourself? After a month of rea...
06/21/2026

You know how much quiet energy it takes to keep being an easier, more adjusted version of yourself? After a month of real movement, June closes by letting you put that down. This is a homecoming, and not to some polished, elevated version of you, to the present, imperfect, fully human one, with moods and contradictions, days of fire and days that are just hard. This week asks you to stop shaping yourself to fit everyone else's expectations and just be where you are. The ground settles. Be the mountain, it doesn't push, it just holds.

Ever notice how the things you say too fast are usually the ones you'd take back? This week rewards the pause. A New Moo...
06/14/2026

Ever notice how the things you say too fast are usually the ones you'd take back? This week rewards the pause. A New Moon on June 15 opens a clear window for one honest intention, and the Summer Solstice on June 20 marks one of the most significant turning points of the year. This week asks you to let what's been coming up in you settle before you put it into words, and to speak only from what's left once it does. Ideas are forming with unusual clarity. You don't have to act on all of them yet, just pay attention to what's showing up.

Most of us quietly assume what we bring isn't anything special. This week makes that harder to believe. A rare Venus-Jup...
06/07/2026

Most of us quietly assume what we bring isn't anything special. This week makes that harder to believe. A rare Venus-Jupiter conjunction in Cancer on June 9 expands your capacity to love, to belong, and to offer what you carry. This week turns outward, toward the people around you and what you actually bring them. What you have to offer is bigger than you tend to treat it, and this week has a way of making that visible.

You know that feeling when life is basically fine, and something in you is still restless for more? June opens right the...
05/31/2026

You know that feeling when life is basically fine, and something in you is still restless for more? June opens right there, with a pull toward something more alive. This week brings the hunger you've been quietly managing up to the surface and asks you to pay attention to it. You don't need to do anything with it yet, just let it show you what it's pointing at. Underneath that hunger, something quieter is running too, an invitation to trust a timing that isn't yours to control, to move with the rhythm of things rather than against it.

Lately, you reach for something you've always been sure of, and it doesn't quite fit your hand anymore. The energy is sh...
05/31/2026

Lately, you reach for something you've always been sure of, and it doesn't quite fit your hand anymore. The energy is shifting in June, and you've probably been feeling it for a while, not just in your personal life but in the world around you. Things that once felt solid no longer do. The old ways of thinking aren't holding, and the new ones haven't settled in yet. That space in between, where what you used to believe no longer fits and what comes next isn't clear, can feel uncomfortable, uncertain, and sometimes even a little frightening.

The June 2026 Energy Guidance Report is live. Drawing from Human Design, Gene Keys, and Astrology, it walks you through four weeks of what this month is actually bringing, from the hunger of the opening week through the Summer Solstice on June 20, Chiron entering Ta**us, and Jupiter moving into Leo, all the way to the homecoming energy of the final week.

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You made it to the final week of May. How are you doing — really?I ask that sincerely because if you have been showing u...
05/24/2026

You made it to the final week of May. How are you doing — really?

I ask that sincerely because if you have been showing up for the energy of this month — going deep in week one, finding your voice in week two, being present to the awakening of week three — your system has been through something real. Even if it did not look like a lot from the outside. Inner work is real work. And this week knows that.

Week four is not asking for more from you. What it is offering instead is something I personally find really beautiful — the conditions for everything this month has moved through you to finally land. To settle. To become something you actually carry forward rather than something that passed through and left without taking root.

This is the exhale week. Let it be that.

The week opens Sunday in a field of release — the emotional experience of finally putting something down — and then moves into the field of deep inner resource that is always available when you stop trying to manufacture energy and simply allow it. Monday brings Mars squaring Pluto retrograde, which is the week's most direct challenge. It is asking you, honestly, where you are still applying force to something that actually needs patience? The stillness this week is not you being stuck. It is you being wise.

By Tuesday, the energy shifts into genuine enthusiasm — not the frantic kind, but the deep cellular kind that comes from finally knowing what you are for. And Saturday, the last day of May, offers a quiet breakthrough and a sense of real abundance. Not the loud kind. The quiet, settled, this-is-real kind.

May ends exactly the way a good initiation should — with you knowing something you did not know at the start. Trusting something you were not sure you could trust. Arriving somewhere that feels, even just a little, more like home.

Swipe through for your day-by-day energy guide for May 24–30 — plain language, no jargon, just honest guidance for moving through the final week of this remarkable month.
And if something in May's energy has been showing up strongly in your own life and you want to explore what it means within your personal Human Design chart, the link in my bio will take you to the full May Energy Report and my booking page.

Heal, Liberate & BE™

Can you feel how alive this week is?After two weeks of going deep and finding your voice, the energy of week three is as...
05/17/2026

Can you feel how alive this week is?

After two weeks of going deep and finding your voice, the energy of week three is asking something that sounds simple but is actually one of the most powerful invitations the planets can offer — can you be completely, fully, unreservedly present to what is actually happening right now? Not planning the next thing. Not replaying last week. Just here — alive to what is in front of you in this moment.

This is the presence week. And the energy is set up to support it in a way that rarely happens.

Two significant moments anchor this week. On Wednesday, May 20, the Sun shifts into the field of radical presence — lighting up everything that has been quietly forming in the stillness of the last two weeks. And then Friday, May 22, brings the Uranus cazimi — the exact meeting of Uranus and the Sun. Uranus is the awakener. When it meets the Sun exactly, things that have been building just out of sight can suddenly become impossible to ignore. An old pattern may crack open. A possibility you genuinely had not considered may arrive.

Friday is not a day to plan for. It is a day to be available for.

Stay open this week. Something real is moving.

Swipe through for your day-by-day energy guide for May 17–23.

And if something in this week's energy is showing up strongly in your own life and you want to explore what it means within your personal Human Design chart, the link in my bio will take you to the full May Energy Report and my booking page.

Heal, Liberate & BE™

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