09/13/2026
This Moment in Time
There are moments in time that ask more of us. There is so much happening in the world right now—fear, division, injustice, uncertainty, systems that are supposed to help people but seem to be harming instead. It would be easy to spend all of our energy looking at everything that’s wrong. But could we give more of that energy to what we can make right? Starting with the person in the mirror.
Many of us have spent years doing the inner work—healing, recovering, unlearning, breaking patterns, learning boundaries, finding our voices and figuring out who we are underneath everything we were taught we were supposed to be. Psychology has a word for part of this: individuation. It’s the process of separating who we actually are from our conditioning, the roles we’ve learned to play, old survival patterns and the expectations placed upon us. In simpler terms, it’s becoming ourselves. I’ve spent a good portion of my own life doing exactly that.
But at some point transformation has to become more than something happening inside of us. Eventually what we’ve learned has to change the way we actually live. This keeps bringing me back to the word transfiguration. Transformation changes us. Transfiguration is when that change becomes visible because WE begin living differently.
How do we treat people? What are we willing to stand up for? What are we supporting with our time, energy and money? What do we continue participating in simply because it’s easier than questioning it? What do we do when something inside of us knows something isn’t right? Finding our voice doesn’t mean much if we’re afraid to use it, and having values doesn’t mean much if they never make their way into our choices.
Healing doesn’t happen in isolation from the world around us either. Eventually it changes our relationships, our families, our workplaces and our communities. It changes what we tolerate, what we participate in and what we’re willing to challenge.
Human beings have a deep need to belong. We want to be accepted by our families, our communities and whatever groups we identify with. There is nothing wrong with wanting to belong, but history has shown us over and over what can happen when belonging becomes more important than our own conscience. People stay quiet. They look the other way. They go along with things they know aren’t right because standing apart from the group can come with a cost.
And throughout history, people who didn’t fit neatly into the roles society created for them have often paid that cost. Women who were too independent, people who questioned authority, people who challenged accepted beliefs, people whose voices or ways of living threatened the status quo. Sometimes what a society labels dangerous tells us as much about the society as it does about the person being labeled.
I think real change requires people willing to think for themselves, question what they’ve been taught, listen to other perspectives and even change their minds when they learn something new, while still being willing to stand up for what they know is right. That doesn’t mean everyone has to agree, and it certainly doesn’t mean believing our way is the only way. It means having enough sense of self to stand on our own when we need to and enough humility to come together when something requires all of us.
ME to WE, without abandoning ME.
That’s part of what I’ve been seeing in the movement from the South Node in Leo toward the North Node in Aquarius. We find our own voice, creativity, sovereignty and light, but then what do we do with it? How do our gifts become contributions? How does our own healing make something better for somebody else? How do we challenge systems that are hurting people instead of helping them while also taking responsibility for our own little piece of the world?
None of us can carry the weight of the entire collective, but every one of us contributes to it through what we support, what we tolerate, where we put our money, what we ignore, what we’re willing to speak about, how we treat people, how we care for the earth, what we teach our children, what we create, what we protect and what we’re willing to change. Every choice we make becomes the creation of something.
Virgo season brings all of this right back down to earth for me—our bodies, homes, relationships, resources, nervous systems, work and communities. And quite literally for me, my garden.
I’ve been a gardener for most of my adult life, and there is a lot you can learn by paying attention to what grows. You can’t make every plant thrive under the same conditions. Some need more light. Some need protection. Some need pruning. Sometimes something needs to be moved because where it was originally planted is no longer where it can thrive. Some things require years of tending before you ever see what they’re capable of becoming, and sometimes you have to stop trying to save something that has already run its course and make room for something new to grow.
People aren’t plants, obviously, but I don’t think we’re entirely different either.
Now, as we move toward the Autumn Equinox and another harvest, I can see all of it happening right outside my door. Some things are still blooming. Some are going to seed. Some are ready to be harvested. Some have run their course. Some need to be cut back, and some need to be left alone because they’re already preparing for whatever comes next.
Life isn’t all that different. What have we learned from everything we’ve moved through? How have we grown? What wisdom are we carrying forward? What have we outgrown? What are we finally ready to stop carrying? And what are we planting now—not only for ourselves, but for our families, our communities, Mother Earth and the people who will come after us?
I don’t think we need to spend the rest of our lives searching for another part of ourselves to fix. At some point we have to live what we’ve learned. Knowledge becomes practice. Healing becomes embodiment. Transformation becomes transfiguration. ME becomes WE without ME having to disappear.
Our souls are never willing to take a back seat forever. Eventually we’re asked to live what we came here to remember.
So at this moment in time, the question I’m asking myself isn’t what else I need to learn or who else I need to become. It’s what am I going to build with everything I’ve already learned, and what does my little piece of it contribute to the whole?
Staci Lee ✨
