9.16-9.22.2025: Change, Joy, & Guide

My friends, the message is pretty straightforward this week: As you navigate change, let joy be your guide.

This week, under the New Moon in Virgo, we welcome the Autumnal Equinox and beginning of Libra Season. Even though the temps aren’t exactly fall-like in MN, the leaves are changing color. Halloween decorations are popping up in neighborhoods. The days are growing shorter… As the saying goes, change is the only constant. Change for the better, change for the worse. The pages turn. There’s no stopping them.

So rather than dwell on the anxiety or dread that impending change can bring, why not instead focus on finding joy in the present moment? And letting that joy lead us through the portal?

I am reminded of the “breadcrumb analogy” from Elizabeth Gilbert’s amazing book Big Magic. In this quote, she’s talking about following the breadcrumbs of your CURIOSITY, which I think can also be applied to JOY: “It may not set your head on fire. It may not change your life. It may not change the world. It may not even line up with previous things that you’ve done or been interested in. It may seem very random and make no sense. And I think the reason people end up not following their curiosity is because they’re waiting for a bigger sign. And your curiosities sometimes are so mild and so strange. And so — almost nothing, right? It’s a little trail of breadcrumbs that you can overlook if you’re looking up at the mountaintop waiting for Moses to come down and give you a sign from God.”

So this week, start by noticing where you find joy. Where you feel joy. Where joy is sparked for you. Now, try sneaking up on that joy and following it around for awhile. Let it lead you to the next thing and the next.As you navigate the changes this week/month/year brings, let joy be your guide.