Everything is changing, how are you doing?

It's a wild time to be alive, and I'm here for it

My last post was August 6, 2025. This is a quick update—things are moving pretty fast for me right now, and I’m into it.

First, some sad/complicated news. In October, my long-term messy Venus-square-Pluto will-they/won’t-they relationship with my ex-husband-and-always-soul-mate J ended, because he overdosed and died.

As you can imagine, I had a lot to process and am still processing. I describe our whole story arc on my page My Prison Story. (Scroll down to “The reconciliation and release” if you just want the update.)

This is the end of a 12-year chapter in my life that was incredibly difficult and transformed who I am on every level. And honestly, I’m feeling both grief and relief that it is finally over. I feel like my life belongs to just me again, and it’s a good feeling.

In January, a word for the year came to me: coherence. I have lived a compartmentalized existence since I first met J in 2013, and I wanted to undo that. I wanted every part of my life to fit together, to make sense, to be aligned, and support my wellbeing, happiness, and creativity.

After declaring this intention to the Universe, it helpfully started making all the places in my life that were not coherent painfully obvious to me. (The Universe is helpful like that. 😅) Systems that had been limping along for years started breaking in ways that made it undeniable that I needed structural change.

Working through this has involved a ground-up restructuring of my entire technical stack and business landscape. I transitioned out of certain business obligations that had been unsustainable for a long time, but where the exit path was just not apparent before. The stars finally aligned to make it all make sense and be doable.¹

As part of that restructuring, I got really into using AI (Claude Code) to build tools to help me. For example, I built a local tool to help me sort through my email Inbox and went from 4k+ messages down to Inbox Zero in one day. (And no, not by “Select All > Archive” 😂—I have FOUR planets in Virgo, I had to go through every single message.) AI helped by coming up with search strings that grouped similar messages together, letting me process much faster.

This was all prelude to moving from Gmail → Fastmail. I’m also in the middle of migrating these tools:

• WHM/Cpanel → Ploi (server management)

• MAMP → ServBay (local development)

• Google Calendar → BusyCal writing a script to help me better manage subscribed calendars

• LastPass → 1Password

• as well as dealing with all technical debt, legacy code, and untenable situations generally!

I’m still studying astrology, and 2026 is the year of all years in terms of Astro Happenings. I wrote about that more over here on my Astro substack if you are interested. I’m currently enrolled in two year-long classes, some shorter classes, and several astro communities. 😅

So my days right now (outside of class) consist of working on the above technology migrations, and designing specs for Claude Code to implement. I have written a tutorial about how to get up to speed on AI coding over here on cheekyboots if you are interested!

The AI landscape has changed a lot in the last few months. The tools now are lightyears ahead of where they were a year ago. The post Something Big is Happening went viral recently explaining how much things are changing right now. And I want to be in it! It’s very exciting for a DIY tech nerd like me.

And if right now you’re like wait, I thought you were a neurodivergent self-help writer…where is all this tech/AI coming from…well now you know what I meant by “coherence” and “de-compartmentalizing my life”. 😂

I’ve always been a web developer who wants to live in the future, and I’ve always been a woo person who has a special interest in personal growth. I have mostly kept those two separated because those worlds don’t have a huge amount of overlap. But I don’t care anymore. 🤷🏼‍♀️ Yolo.

If you want to get into agentic AI development, vibe coding, or just to understand what is happening, I recommend watching Nate B Jones channel on Youtube. It’s really helped me have the right mindset around how to work with Claude Code and get a handle on where this is all going.

How are you doing?! I’d love to hear from you…

P.S. I’m not trying to ignore all the madness coming from the gov’t. I know, it’s exhausting. I’m living through that too with you, it’s just not as fun to talk about. 🫠 I don’t think it will last forever though, and we can get through this. Humans have lived through worse and cleaned up after worse. We can still create the future we want. ✊

1. Specifically, this is the end of my Saturn Opposition, as Saturn moves out of Pisces. The Saturn Opposition is something everyone goes through around age 42-45, the midpoint between the Saturn Return around age 28 and again at 55. It is a “midlife reality check” and often involves releasing obligations that belong to a younger you and no longer reflect who you are. If you want to know more about your own “milestone transits”, I have a Major Long-term Transits report over here on AstroLiberation. It’s free, and there is a calendar button that lets you look at any period in your life! ✨