Weaving the Threads
Threads from the Week of June 23, 2025.
Dear relatives,
Over the next year, I will be experimenting with a renewed structure for the letters. It’s something I’ve been thinking about and working towards, and it has finally culminated in a way that feels good to me. I hope that the refreshed format will help me write to you more consistently, from a place more true to how my mind works, which is to say: in spirals, constellations, and threads. The letters will serve as a space where I can weave it all together, holistically. Thank you for taking this journey with me!
Weaving the threads from the week, here are 5 reflections and 2 insights that I want to remember.
MONDAY | The Moon’s Day
Something is happening in my mind that I can’t put my finger on. It’s akin to the sensation that inspiration can elicit, but my body tells me there is something more, something deeper. I don’t know how to name it yet. Maybe I don’t need to, but I do want to understand it better.
The sensation I feel keeps looping back to the birth of this letter-writing project, specifically a post that I shared on August 11, 2022. In that letter, I attempt to describe the quality or sensibility that I try to cultivate in my work with clients, and in my creative pursuits. It’s an ephemeral endeavor, I know. It may be hard to define, but it is embodied—you know it when you feel it.
Recently, an acupuncture client told me that the touch I provide is consistent, as in it is woven throughout everything I do: through palpation, in conversation, and even in the music that I play during sessions. (Note: You can listen to the playlist here.)
It was humbling to receive their feedback, and certainly tracks. I do want people in my life, however we’re connected, to feel safe, warm, and at ease in my presence. I want people to see the beauty and gravity of their light, to comprehend that, to be human, is to be in relation with everything.
In that same August letter, I also wrote the following: “Making art has always been a helpful way for me to remember and integrate information. The act of keeping a record through artistic expression is praxis—embodiment as creative grist, or a way to leave evidence.”
It reminded me of a passage from Tyson Yunkaporta’s brilliant book, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World. He writes, “The only sustainable way to store data long term is within relationships—deep connections between generations of people in custodial relation to a sentient landscape, all grounded in a vibrant oral tradition.” In contemplating this quote, alongside Jupiter’s recent entrance into the sign of Cancer, I’ve been thinking about the connection between my creative and spiritual practice, intergenerational healing, and cultural expression. For me, they are all intimately interwoven. The meeting place or threshold between these topics speaks to the feeling of deep-time-connection that I am here to encourage. It’s an impulse that is ancient, beyond the limits of colonial constructs. It reaches and stretches, it relates.
TUESDAY | Mars’ Day
Jupiter is cazimi in Cancer. For a brief moment, the greater benefic, the planet of abundance, expansion, and law, is in the heart of the Sun. This renewal for Jupiter happens once a year, in a different sign, and I’ve been thinking about how it will unfold over the next 12 months. What if there were a renewed or expanded sense of how protection, safety, and care were practiced? The Sun is our great luminary after all, bestowing the gifts of warmth and heat, which we absorb through the plants we consume, as well as through the skin, our largest organ. When we take in the Sun, it's as if we are within the temple of Ra, empowered and embodied by the eyes of light.
WEDNESDAY | Mercury’s Day
A New Moon in Cancer. The Moon is nestled between Jupiter and the Sun, sitting at the same degree. My mind swirls with themes related to high emotions, the turning of tides, leadership, and optimism. New Moons signify a time to move inward and plant seeds of intention, to contemplate and meditate. It is common to associate the New Moon with planting new seeds, but seeds hold memory. The body of a seed is connected through deep time, across generations. While there is a sense of a fresh start, this New Moon also feels like a renewal, a repairing or regeneration.
THURSDAY | Jupiter’s Day
Mercury sextiles Uranus, the Sun sextiles Mars, and Mercury enters Leo. There is the buzz of change, a sensation of relentless heat and will, while communication synapses cross the junction between Cardinal Water and Fixed Fire, between a principal, emotive path and a crystallized, creative form.
FRIDAY | Venus’ Day
Mercury trines Saturn. Something about this moment is bringing an idea or thought into form, or reshaping structures of communication and language. There is a reworking here that gives insight into the long-term, into a wisdom that is diligent, steadfast, and persistent, and is moving toward a new way of thinking.
SATURDAY | Saturn’s Day
Mercury trines Neptune.
A question and quote that swims in my heart, from Intelligent Mischief:
“What if we repaired the harm and cultivated a politics based on kindness and love? Because politics is about power. The power to make the decisions that impact all of our lives. The power to distribute resources. So if we love our people then we have to engage in a politic underpinned by that love. We have to harness the power to make the decisions that ensure that we are all thriving. That we all have shelter. That we all have enough to eat. And access to affordable education and health care. That we're all able to pursue our dreams. That we are able to bring our most beautiful gifts to the collective.”
SUNDAY | The Sun’s Day
Next week will begin a series of retrogrades, including Mercury, Neptune, and Saturn. In a letter from March, a week prior to the Equinox, I wrote: “In the unfolding, I see patterns between the principle of Sankofa and planetary retrogrades. When planets in the sky look like they’re moving backward to us humans, it makes sense how we’ve come to understand these as periods of introspection. When applied through Sankofa, different possibilities spring forth.”
As I think and feel, with the muscle of my heart-mind, about what has come before and what will unfold in the week ahead, I sit with this idea:
“Start with the visceral to ignite the cerebral, and end with the political.” —Bryant Terry
Many thanks for being here.
Until the next one,
Christian
p.s.
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If you’d like to work together, please visit my website, where you will find more information on my offerings, including acupuncture and astrology. You can learn more about my work and values via interviews I’ve done with homies Sheree Mack, Rose Blakelock, and Jamee Pineda.