May Day, the first day of Pluto retrograde, and our first broadcast from a new studio. The air felt unsettled and the bowls sounded anxious, so for the first time on a live I called on Archangel Mikhail to clear the space. I teach retrogrades as a softer time to reflect on change and take it in.

Take three deep breaths and hold the third. Drop a golden cord into the belly of the Earth and let any heavy, thick place in the body dissolve down it. Breathe at your own pace, with the exhale longer than the inhale. Picture a golden column of light through your center, sit at its top, and let sunlight shower down it. Move inward toward its center and feel energy rush outward. Then breathe each center's color, from ruby red to the thousand-petal lotus at the crown.

Midway, I read a short poem about a little garden as holy ground. All is well.