THE DEEP BRIEF

Week of August 4, 2025

I’m so tired of watering.

Yesterday I stood among our flower gardens, hose in hand, calculating how many more minutes until I could move to the next bed. We have so many separate gardens now, and each one is a universe of blooming demands. The daily ritual of keeping them alive has become this beautiful, exhausting meditation on what it means to tend something bigger than yourself.

Thank the cosmos for our well and the rain tanks that catch every precious drop when the skies finally open. But still. The relentless dailiness of it all. The way beauty demands such ordinary, unglamorous devotion.

It made me think about this final week of the cosmic communication scramble we’ve been swimming through for the past few weeks. That planetary backward dance that everyone loves to blame for their tech glitches and missed connections, but which is actually the universe’s most sophisticated recalibration system.

What I’ve noticed is most of us are exhausted. Not just me. Collectively, spiritually, emotionally, we’re wrung out from nearly three weeks of reviewing, revisiting, and having our carefully laid plans gently detonated. And just like Tuesday’s 8.8 earthquake in Russia that sent tsunami warnings rippling across the Pacific, sometimes the earth has to shake things loose to restore balance, literally and metaphorically. 

This week, as we come through the final phase of this cosmic reset, we’re not just getting our communication channels back online, we’re getting an education in why the universe occasionally forces us to slow down, back up, and reconsider everything we thought we knew about our direction.

THE WEEK’S ENERGY

There’s something exquisitely intelligent about the way the cosmos orchestrates these periodic disruptions. Like a master gardener who knows that sometimes you have to stop watering, stop tending, stop interfering, and let the roots figure out how to find water on their own.

This final week of the backward cosmic dance is more than surviving until things return to “normal.” It’s recognizing that these cycles of apparent chaos are actually the universe’s way of upgrading our operating systems and forcing us to develop new neural pathways, creative solutions, and levels of patience we didn’t know we possessed.

Think about it. When everything flows too smoothly for too long, we stop growing. We get comfortable with our habitual responses, our predictable patterns, and our safe little loops of sameness. The cosmic reset periods shake us out of our spiritual complacency and demand that we remember how to be the adaptive, creative, resourceful beings we really are.

By the end of the week, as communication slowly untangles itself and forward momentum gradually returns, you might notice a strange reluctance to go back to how things were before. Your system knows it’s been recalibrated for something different and more aligned. It’s ready for something that honours what you’ve learned during these weeks of enforced reflection.

WHAT IT MIGHT FEEL LIKE

You might feel simultaneously relieved and apprehensive as things start flowing again. Like you’ve been holding your breath for weeks and are finally allowed to exhale, but you’re not quite sure you remember how to breathe normally.

There could be a weird nostalgia for the slower pace, even though it drove you crazy. You might catch yourself missing the built-in excuse to delay decisions, avoid difficult conversations, or postpone launching that thing you’ve been preparing for months.

Some of you will notice that projects, relationships, or plans that felt urgent a few weeks ago now feel… optional. Like you now have enough perspective to realize you were rushing to things that weren’t actually aligned with your deeper truth.

And some of you might feel impatient to make up for lost time. You might sprint back into productivity mode to prove that you can handle normal-speed life again. But your nervous system might feel raw and overstimulated, like you’ve been living in a sensory deprivation tank and suddenly someone turned all the lights back on.

You might also feel that some of the “problems” that felt so pressing before the backward dance have mysteriously resolved themselves not through your effort or intervention, but through the simple alchemy of time, space, and cosmic timing doing what they do best. Can I get a hallelujah?

SOUL PERSPECTIVE

What I’m sensing from the field this week is that these cyclical disruptions are recalibration. The universe isn’t trying to make our lives difficult no matter how it looks. It’s more trying to keep us from getting stuck in patterns that no longer serve our evolution. Just like earthquakes release tectonic pressure that’s been building under the surface, these cosmic reset periods release psychological and spiritual pressure that accumulates when we’re moving too fast, gripping too tightly, or operating from outdated programming.

This kind of backward dance forces us to slow down enough to notice what we’ve been unconsciously dragging along. Old stories? Expired beliefs? Relationships that have outgrown their purpose? Projects that were born from ego rather than soul guidance? It interrupts your autopilot mode long enough for you to remember you have other options.

This isn’t permission to become a spiritual couch potato waiting for signs from above. You’re developing the skill to recognize when you’re acting from wisdom versus when you’re acting from worry. When you’re moving toward something versus running away from something. When you’re trusting the process versus avoiding your part in it.

The intelligence behind these cycles is training us to become more sophisticated collaborators with reality. To develop the ability to tend what’s in front of us while trusting that the larger orchestration is happening at a level beyond our immediate perception.

Like my gardens, I can water, weed, and deadhead, but I can’t force a bud to bloom or a root system to develop faster than its natural rhythm. My job is to show up consistently with love and attention, and let the mysterious intelligence of growth handle the rest.

HOW TO BE WITH IT

As things start moving forward again, resist the urge to immediately return to your previous pace. By the end of this week think of the re-entry like coming up from a deep dive. Rise slowly or you’ll get the spiritual equivalent of decompression sickness. Before jumping back into full-speed mode, ask yourself: What did these weeks teach me that I don’t want to forget? What old habits am I finally ready to ditch? What part of me is trying to be born?

Pay attention to what feels effortless versus what feels forced as communication and technology smooth out. The things that flow easily are likely aligned with your recalibrated energy. (Winning!) The things that feel difficult might be outdated patterns trying to reassert themselves.

Create buffer zones in your schedule. Don’t pack every moment with catching up, making up for lost time, or proving your productivity. Your system needs integration time to anchor what you’ve processed over the past weeks.

And most importantly, trust what wanted to fall away during the disruption. If certain plans, relationships, or projects lost their appeal during this time, that’s information, not failure. 

YOUR WEEK IN ONE SENTENCE

“At the end of the week, I come out from my universal timeout actually changed, not just relieved it’s over.”

MINI PRACTICE FOR CONSCIOUS RE-ENGAGEMENT

Each morning, before checking email, diving into your to-do list, or scrolling, sit quietly for five whole minutes and ask: “What wants to be different now?” Then try one small thing that demonstrates you got the memo from your soul. By week’s end, you’ll have created actual proof that you didn’t just survive the universal disruption, you let it transform you.

ANYWAY

This week, when you feel the familiar urge to sprint back to old speeds, remember, you’re not the same person who entered this cycle nearly three weeks ago. You’ve been composted by the universe and are coming through as richer soil for whatever wants to grow next.

Don’t rush the re-entry. The cosmic reset isn’t over just because things start working again. The real work is integrating what you’ve learned so you don’t need such dramatic interruptions to course-correct in the future.

Honour the process. And water what’s truly alive. 😉