If you can't have an honest dialogue with yourself, who can you have one with? With the moon in a trine with Mercury, the winged messenger, this session turns inner chatter into an honest monologue of knowing.

Rest a hand on your heart and say: I am loved. I matter. I make a difference. Witness your breath and notice any constriction. Hold a finger under your nose and find your dominant nostril: right for sun, left for moon. Let a rainbow of light shower over you and notice where the colors land or get stuck. Choose your miracle as a color, word, sound or feeling, and watch it charge at you like a long-lost friend. Then bathe each chakra in color, violet at the crown down to ruby red at the root, with its seed sound.

The bowls felt like velvet under my hands. Near the end, baby raccoons started hooting outside, and Jeremy went out to check on them.