To be perfect is to change often

A Sunday night roundup: Recommendations, check-ins, and eclipse thoughts.

Did you see the eclipse? Or better yet — did you feel it? Do you sense an internal shift happening this month?

I knew the eclipse was coming for weeks, but didn’t anticipate how desperately I’d want to properly view it until days before, when I drove around to nearly every store in my parents’ town trying to find the appropriate viewing glasses, and nobody had them.

It’s funny how certainly we know we want something when it’s withheld from us. The wavering ends.

Every astrologer I follow on Substack and Instagram said that April was a transformative month; that in the weeks before and after the eclipse, we would collectively experience disruptions, face truths we’ve buried, and experience an abundance of new energy. I had already felt this happening to me internally, and so perhaps for this reason — in addition to my basic desire to connect to humanity and the universe — I woke up on the day of the eclipse needing to experience it. I had ordered eclipse glasses online two days earlie…