Wrestling with Life - and Learning to Release

control eclipse equinox Mar 13, 2026

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about healing, timing, and the mysterious way things unfold in our lives. Why certain insights arrive when they do. Why something we have wrestled with for months, years, sometimes decades, suddenly loosens its grip.

As we move into the final stretch of eclipse season, and begin the phase of integration, many people are noticing small yet meaningful shifts. Synchronicities appearing where there were none before. Patterns becoming visible. A quiet awareness emerging in places that once felt dense or confusing. It is one of the things I love most about eclipse portals - they rearrange things.

Over the years I have witnessed, again and again, that something people have been pushing against with great effort can suddenly fall into a new alignment. Not because the problem disappeared, but because the relationship to it changed. The pushing softened. The grip loosened. The body exhaled. What once required wrestling begins to respond to allowing.

I often describe eclipses as kaleidoscopes, portals where energy shifts and reconfigures. But I also experience them as an expansion of space.

Imagine for a moment that your life has been held very tightly in your hands. Every decision, every outcome, every timeline carefully gripped. When things are held that tightly, movement becomes difficult. Change feels threatening. Life cannot easily rearrange itself. But when the hands loosen, space appears.

And in that space, something remarkable happens -  breath returns, vision widens, possibilities that could not fit inside the old shape begin to appear.

Take a moment now and imagine your life with just a little more space in it. Perhaps that space shows up in the physical realm - less clutter, fewer obligations, a clearing in your environment that allows you to feel your own energy again.

Perhaps it appears in the mind - fewer distractions, less scrolling, more room for imagination to wander into new territory.

Or perhaps it appears in the body - a deeper breath, a softening of the shoulders, the quiet recognition that you do not have to carry everything alone.

When spaciousness enters the system, life begins to respond differently. Alignment can click into place without force. The next step becomes visible without struggle.

This is the dance between wrestling and release.

The wrestling can have its purpose. It can teach us about our strength, resilience, our capacity to stay present with difficulty. In wrestling with life we discover where we are rigid and where we are adaptable. We learn about courage. We build muscles of discernment and awareness.

But the wisdom comes when we realise that not everything is meant to be conquered. Some things are meant to be allowed.

Through this final week of eclipse season, I want to invite you into that softer place of awareness. A space where you loosen the grip just enough for life to move again.

 

You may find it helpful to reflect on a few gentle questions:

  • What practices help my body and mind soften, settle, and return to themselves? Can I give them a little more time this week?
  • What have I been wrestling with that might reveal a new rhythm if I stopped fighting it quite so hard?
  • Where might my attempts to control life actually be slowing it down?
  • What is one final intention I want to place into this eclipse season - one that would create meaningful change in my health, my mindset, or the way I shape my future?

 

Healing is rarely a straight line. It is a dance between effort and surrender, between learning when to stand firm and when to open the hands.

This week, see where you can release just enough to create space - for clarity, for grace, for the universe to move through you and alongside you.

Sometimes the greatest shift does not come from pushing harder, but from becoming spacious enough to receive what is already trying to arrive.

Sending blessings for grace, awareness, and flexibility.

- Jennifer

 

As we approach the Spring Equinox on 20 March, I’m opening space for a special online gathering to mark the moment we move from winter into the light here in the northern hemisphere. At 2:15pm GMT, just before the turning point of the Equinox, we’ll come together to release what winter has asked us to complete and to welcome the new cycle of growth beginning now. This event is offered freely, or as a Pay It Forward contribution, allowing those who wish to support scholarships for future events and sessions to do so.

Alongside this, I’m opening registration for the Sovereign Boundaries Series - a four-part journey exploring how conscious boundaries restore clarity, energy, and direction in your life and work. These sessions move beyond surface-level boundary setting, guiding you into deeper sovereignty, alignment, and the courage to live your path with integrity. The full series is £99, and £77 for my newsletter community. You can use this link to book the series and receive your discount, with gratitude for your connection. I look forward to journeying with you!

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