I have spent most of my adult life becoming. Becoming educated. Becoming financially secure. Becoming a lawyer. Becoming an entrepreneur. Becoming an author. Becoming a wife. Becoming someone who could survive things my younger self couldn’t have imagined. There was always another mountain, and invariably, I would climb it. Then - sometime around crossing the threshold into the crone phase of my life - another question started creeping in: What if becoming isn’t the point anymore? What...

I convinced myself I needed to walk away from my 25-year legal career to become someone new: the teacher, the mentor, the mystic. And then I found out it wasn’t true.

Today, I woke up to freezing temperatures and reports of early snowfalls from friends and family across the country. As Mercury and Jupiter both turn retrograde, and Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune continue retracing their paths in the sky, everything in Nature is beckoning us to direct our focus inward. Samhain, Día de los Muertos, All Souls Day, Armistice Day, and the many other autumnal observances of death, ancestors, and the cyclical nature of life do not just represent dates on the...