I am interrupting your regularly scheduled life for this, because I want to share the significance of today and this moment with you.
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Today is 8/8. The Lion's Gate Portal. The most potent manifestation day on the calendar, when the sun sits in Leo and the star Sirius rises, and the double eight, the number of wealth and infinity, stacks on itself. And it is landing in a year that numerology calls a 1, a year built for brand new beginnings. So if some part of you has been waiting for a sign to begin, this is the loudest sign you are going to get.
So I just want to remind you that, You are so fucking lucky.
I donโt mean this in the woo woo sense, although I low key do. But for my nerds in the room, I want you to think about what it took for you to be here, reading this, in this body, on this day.
๐ Science class in session: The odds of the one egg and the one cell that became you. The generations of women who survived everything they survived so that you could exist. The stars that had to burn and die to make the matter you are built from. You are a statistical miracle who already beat the longest odds there are, just by waking up this morning.
Yes, this life comes with its challenges. We have all been handed ours. But contrast is how you learn who you are, and once you truly learn who you are, you finally get to fall in love with yourself.
And today of all days, you get to (and should intentionally) release:
The shame. The guilt. The old story you keep telling about yourself. The patterns you already outgrew. The catastrophizing, the dramatizing, the urge to call somebody out. Set it down.
Every woman you know is carrying something you cannot see, so let them live, let them figure it out, and remember that their story does not have to become a chapter in yours. You are allowed to just exist, in peace, in flow, because ease can only walk into a room where you have finally stopped bracing.
So read this slowly, and let it land, because I want you to feel every word. You can read it outloud or write it 8 times in your journal. I did both!
You are lucky.
You are loved.
You are powerful.
You are beautiful.
You are magnetic.
You are expansive.
You are worthy.
You are worthy.
You are worthy.
And the most powerful thing you can say for yourself right now is: I am ready.
Because the moment you are truly ready, everything starts to move toward you.
Keeping it real, though, it may not arrive in the exact shape you want it to, but it will arrive in the way you actually need so that whatever was meant for you can finally fall the fuck away and make room for what is.
Say this part out loud and if you are listening to the audio version, say it with me.
I am ready. I am ready. I am ready.
Have the luckiest day. The luckiest weekend.
Until the next letter,
Vanessa
P.S. There is real science that when women are under stress, we reach for each other. UCLA calls it tend and befriend, and it is wired into us at a biological level. So no, you are not too much for needing your girls. So no, you are not too much for needing your girls. Half of what you're carrying this week could be healed by having a long dinner with women who care to know this version of you. Honestly, sometimes the medicine is just a girls' night out. Book it.
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