This is the week everything softens right before it gets serious.

The first half has a gentle, compassionate, intuitive, open-hearted quality to it. If you’ve been craving tenderness, you’ll find it. If you’ve been needing to feel your way through something, the conditions are right. There’s room to process, connect, and let things land. Even old hurts might feel less sharp. And forgiveness of yourself or someone else might come more easily than expected.

But don’t get too comfortable, because the tone’s gonna shift.

The energy will stop asking how you feel about it and start asking what you’re going to do about it. It moves from dreaming, imagining, or “holding space” to building, proving, and yes, showing your work. I don’t mean your intentions or your vision board. Your work.

You might feel a subtle pressure building, like a restlessness that says enough thinking, time to move.

So think of the energy this week as a bridge. The first half is reflective and full of feeling. But the second half asks you to do something with all that feeling. In other words, the dreaming phase is closing, and the building phase is opening.

What could that look like? Well, things that have been sitting still might suddenly need a decision. Or conversations you’ve been avoiding might find you anyway. This is acceleration. And the more you cooperate with it, the less it feels like being pushed and the more it feels like finally getting started.

The belief that won’t survive this month

“I’m still figuring it out.”

It sounds like self-awareness, doesn’t it? It feels responsible, like you’re being thoughtful, careful, doing your due diligence before you commit. And maybe, for a while, that was true.

But at some point (and you probably know exactly when that point was) “figuring it out” stopped being process and started being protection.

I don’t mean protection from making the wrong choice, but protection from making any choice. Because choosing means you could be wrong, you’re accountable, and it counts now.

So, if you’ve been figuring it out for longer than you’d like to admit, maybe somewhere along the way, the research became a refuge. I’m sure “I need more information” started out sounding smart, but now it’s really just delay in a nice outfit.

You have enough and know enough. The missing piece isn’t information; it’s decision.

Why this matters

The next few weeks are some of the most structurally significant of the year because they’re asking you to stop rehearsing and start building.

Whatever you’ve been circling, this is when it asks for a committed yes or a clear no. Not “I’ll think about it” or “maybe later.” It’s time for an answer you can stand behind.

You don’t have to be certain. You just have to be willing. Certainty comes after, built from the accumulation of showing up, following through, and doing the thing before you feel ready.

That’s what this time rewards. Motion.

Jonni

P.S. I remember realizing, years ago, that I don’t make decisions the way most people describe it. I got married quickly, divorced quickly, said yes to a baby, a house, a lease, so many things before I had it all figured out. That’s because I learned that if I waited until I felt ready, I’d think myself right out of the moment. The window would close while I was still “gathering information.” So I move…not recklessly, but definitely before the readiness arrives. Because it never does. I’ve learned that you build it on the other side.