Keeping the spirit of my Year of Attunement going, I’m refreshing the format of this here newsletter, which you may already have noticed.

You all were very helpful by answering my single-question survey about what you’re curious to see when you open this newsletter. So that’s what I’m doing.

For 2026, I'm pulling a tarot card to guide each of my blog posts. The card I pulled today was the King of Pentacles, which indicates mastery over the earthly, material sphere.
Here are some recent examples of where I do have the material wisdom and competence of the King of Pentacles.

I've picked Attunement as my word of the year for its senses of harmonizing with another's state and put in desirable condition and the post-Industrial-Revolution set a machine in order for work.

As a beloved former colleague and mentor put it in a recent LinkedIn message, I'm "building an 'otherwise' world and collecting compatriots to join."

I'm not expecting the remaining months of 2025 to settle down any more than the year has so far, but I do feel well ballasted to meet what they bring.

This transformative moment of caterpillar goo as I figure out how to make my business be what I want it to be in my life, it's a time to work inwardly, to give new ideas a rich ground for germination. I'm striving quietly, with sunshine soaking into me rather than heat burning me up.

Knight of Swords

decisive, swift action on an idea that has taken over your thoughts; intellectual ambition, strength, and action that can be exciting and also blindly fruitless

2 of Swords

two equal forces competing against each other; a choice is required that is challenging the intellect

Death
accepting the ending of a cycle and the start of something new; uncertainty amidst transition

10 of Pentacles
the culminating card of the journey from ace to 10 for the pentacles (suit of earth & worldly goods)
abundance will come in the long term, leaving a legacy behind

As I’m working on reconfiguring my business to be what I want, I’m trying to bring some lightness, ease, and fun to how I work. This is a week of intuitive play.

Ace of Cups
the kernel/seed of the suit of cups (suit of water, emotions)
a fresh start with emotional receptivity and openheartedness