As babies, if we are lucky, someone looks into our eyes and mirrors our experience back to us…our smiles, our hurts, our engagement with the world. And when someone looks back at us and mirrors our smiling, this teaches us that our experience, our feeling is valid and real. 

As adults, we are having daily interactions that elicit emotional responses from us - laughter, smiles, tears, heartache. And your experience is real and valid.

We are halfway between the spring equinox and the summer solstice. It’s a time of newness springing to life - lambing season, trees transforming from flowers to leaves, and the daytime is definitely longer. It is also taurus season - a sign that loves grounded pleasure, joy, and the comforts of life (with a possibility of stubbornness :). In our current times you may be hesitant to turn towards pleasure while there is so much suffering in the world. It may seem to be in more solidarity to forego any pleasure.