Dance, Sing, and Straighten the Spine

How I found my song through an explosion of the heart

Photo taken by author’s friend that inspired this story

Just before Venus entered Aries on March 1, 2025 in retrograde I found myself unraveled by ailments I could not explain.

At first it seemed I was suffering from heart palpitations. I felt like my breast plate had broken above my heart. I felt like my heart was breaking in the most literal sense.

It was when those palpitations spread over my right chest plate that I knew it was likely not my heart.

Then my head began to hurt in an unfamiliar pain not so easily cured by IB Profen. This streak of fear in uncharted waters lasted for days and I knew something was terribly wrong.

So I prayed. I placed my hands in prayer pose and asked God to please protect my soul’s vessel that is my aging body so that I may live as long as my son.

I moved with conscious resistance from prayer pose to what I describe as open prayer pose. As I moved I felt the pain move through my veins.

These weird pangs of pain transmuted into reminders of goals and actions I’ve been procrastinating to complete. I need to start exercising!

By guardian angel was speaking to me through my body.