Cara Matsukane

Cara Matsukane Writer & Intuitive Coach | For the women ready to show up with devotion & bring forth something wholly their own.

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When I complete this weekly planning ritual, I start my week with clarity, intention, and excitement.When I skip the rit...
06/05/2026

When I complete this weekly planning ritual, I start my week with clarity, intention, and excitement.

When I skip the ritual, I end up chasing squirrels all week and ending my days feeling like nothing of substance got accomplished.

I call it a ritual because I treat it as sacred - it is my weekly meeting with the divine, asking what wants to come through me this week while prioritizing what matters most to my body, heart, and spirit.

If you're seeking clarity, intention, and presence in your daily life, the weekly ritual of Sacred Planning is for you. The third element in my full Devotional Planning Ecosystem, this is the piece that starts aligning your calendar with your values and energy, bringing all the other elements of the ecosystem together in harmony.

The post is free on Substack - link is in my comments.

I started honoring the lunar cycles and something in my body softened.I stopped expecting my energy to move in a straigh...
06/03/2026

I started honoring the lunar cycles and something in my body softened.

I stopped expecting my energy to move in a straight line, always on, always producing.

There are weeks I can birth entire worlds. There are weeks I can barely feed myself. Both are holy to me, because both are part of a natural rhythm that I’ve learned to tune-in to.

The culture told me consistency looks like the same output every day. My body told me consistency looks like honoring the cycle. I chose my body.

Now I plan my work around the moon, not the other way around. What wants to be made moves with the light:

New Moon 🌑 Intention setting. Plant the seed in the dark.
Waxing Crescent 🌒 Beginning to form. First tiny movements toward the vision.
First Quarter 🌓 Building energy. Take action. The resistance meets you here. Keep going.
Waxing Gibbous 🌔 Refinement. Trust what's taking shape. Practice. Ritual.
Full Moon 🌕 Harvest, reflection, celebration. Let yourself receive what you've made.
Waning Gibbous 🌖 Gratitude. Integration. Share the harvest. Turn inward.
Last Quarter 🌗 Releasing. What's ready to fall away. What no longer belongs.
Dark Moon 🌘 Rest. Deep listening. The fertile void before the next becoming.

The moon doesn't ask you to produce the same thing every week. She asks you to know where you are in the cycle and honor it.

My Substack publication, She Who Makes, is released on the lunar cycle. It's my way of staying in tune myself, and guiding others to do the same. You can subscribe for free at the link in my comments.

Spent the weekend in the mountains to celebrate with . Delicious food, great convos about the patriarchy and cults, a s...
06/02/2026

Spent the weekend in the mountains to celebrate with . Delicious food, great convos about the patriarchy and cults, a spa day, farmer’s market, and lots of laughs. Feeling lucky to have such kindred spirits in my life. Happy early birthday to my beautiful bestie!!

Happy Full Moon. A time to celebrate our wins from the last lunar cycle. This cycle was unique: bookending May - the las...
06/01/2026

Happy Full Moon. A time to celebrate our wins from the last lunar cycle. This cycle was unique: bookending May - the last Full Moon was on May 1st.

In my latest Substack post, I share about The Art of Celebration and 20 ideas to embody celebration energy to revel in whatever was created, harvested, and brought in this cycle.

Link in comments.

Friday Creatrix Vibes ✨More on my publication, She Who Makes.Link in comments.[Images courtesy of Pinterest]
05/29/2026

Friday Creatrix Vibes ✨

More on my publication, She Who Makes.

Link in comments.

[Images courtesy of Pinterest]

I stopped chasing discipline and started building altars.The Daily Rituals are the newest installment of Devotional Plan...
05/27/2026

I stopped chasing discipline and started building altars.

The Daily Rituals are the newest installment of Devotional Planning. Two practices. Five to ten minutes each. One at the threshold of your morning, one at the threshold of your evening.

A day held between two intentional moments is a fundamentally different experience than a day that starts when your phone buzzes and ends when you fall asleep mid-scroll.

The Daily Altar. The Daily Close. A container for your devotion.

Link in comments for the full post, the printable, and the instructional video.

Last week I was taking care of a loved one after surgery.By Saturday I was overbooked, overwhelmed, and standing in the ...
05/27/2026

Last week I was taking care of a loved one after surgery.

By Saturday I was overbooked, overwhelmed, and standing in the shower unable to quiet my thoughts. My breath went shallow. My chest got tight. The panic was rising and I couldn't think my way out of it.

I called my husband into the bathroom. Asked him to sit with me. To hold my hand.

He asked: do you need solutions or just my presence?

I told him solutions. I didn't have the capacity to make decisions and I needed him to take charge. So he did. He made the calls. He handled cancelling the plans we had. He took the weight.

There was a time I couldn't have asked for that. Couldn't have let myself be the one who needed holding.

The return to yourself is slow. Asking for help can feel hard. But I'm practicing.

Being sober for 11+ years has taught me that dampening the dark spots in life also dampens the light.You can’t numb pain...
05/27/2026

Being sober for 11+ years has taught me that dampening the dark spots in life also dampens the light.

You can’t numb pain without also numbing joy. To live a whole hearted life you must build your capacity to contain the profound sadness our bodies can hold.

We are able to feel so much - sometimes it can feel like it will destroy us, and sometimes we let it.

But I believe that being human is a choice we make as souls so that we can experience the broadness and depth of feeling that is available in our human bodies.

I pulled into my driveway and parked.Four-bedroom, three-bathroom suburban home. Dual income, no kids. Six figures. Luxu...
05/27/2026

I pulled into my driveway and parked.

Four-bedroom, three-bathroom suburban home. Dual income, no kids. Six figures. Luxury car I paid for in cash. Everything looked right.

Hands on the steering wheel, I had one thought:
"Whose life is this?"

It felt like no part of my life actually belonged to me.

I wrote about what came after. La Loba, the bone collector. The slow work of gathering what was actually mine. And a workbook to help you define your own measures of success.

Link in comments. 🔗

Most of what you call your personality is just the shape you learned to take to stay safe, and stay attached when your s...
05/27/2026

Most of what you call your personality is just the shape you learned to take to stay safe, and stay attached when your survival depended on it.

The way you soften your voice. The way you apologize before speaking. The way you make yourself small so no one feels threatened by your fullness.

None of that is you. It's what your brain thought you needed to do to survive the environment and relationships you grew up in.

The work is meeting the one who's been performing this whole time.

And asking her: who are you when you stop?

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