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* Who I am, what The Sidler Digest is, and why spirituality shows up in this space

* How my Aunt Helen and her nightly moon reports started all of this

* The 28-day lunar cycle as an actual, usable project management framework

* New Moon: planning, intentions, starting clean

* Waxing Moon: deep work, execution, pointed energy

* Full Moon: review, reality check, course correction while there’s still time

* Waning Moon: closure, loose ends, deciding what doesn’t come with you into the next cycle

* Why this isn’t woo woo — it’s a humane system that maps to how humans actually work, that humans have used for literally all of history

* An invitation to try it even without believing anything mystical

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This episode is a live recording from August 12, 2026: the New Moon in Leo and a solar eclipse. Good enough reason to check in.

What we cover:

A quick intro to who I am, how I work, and what this publication is

What's changing at Sidler Studios: I've been building quietly for years and I'm now letting people in

A two-week astrological forecast, useful whether you're a believer or just someone who notices when the current shifts

The Leo solar eclipse: creativity, identity, the courage to be visible

Virgo season starting August 22: time to implement what just came up

The Pisces lunar eclipse on August 28: intuition, clarity, things revealing themselves

A personal astrology transit map I've been testing, written in plain human language, no degrees or jargon

A small fall learning cohort: 12 people or less, you help build the curriculum, very much not a generic course

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I don’t know if any of you have watched the documentary series Hundred Foot Wave, but I feel like we’ve all been faced with a huge ass swell of our lifetime and some big metaphorical hundred-foot waves.

I think we have all collectively been going through experiences, internally and externally, that maybe we haven’t ever before in our lives, and never will again. Even if we had a little bit of a heads up or follow astrology, I don’t think any of us could’ve ever been fully prepared for this month. However, we didn’t have any option but to ride it.

If you haven’t watched the series on HBO Max, I definitely recommend giving it a watch. As I explained it to my friend, there lies a town in Portugal (Nazaré) with monstrous hundred-foot waves that the world has never really paid attention to. That is, until two big-wave-loving humans came together. A soul in Nazaré connected with a soul in the States.

Their love, wonder, and awe for these natural phenomena brought them together in a way that the world couldn’t see coming, especially both of their worlds and everything else that it affected, for the better, and for everything else.

Without giving the whole story away, I wanted to relate the metaphor of the hundred-foot wave to something that I think we’ve all been going through recently. Specifically the second half of July’s astrological transitions.

Whether you are into astrology or not, whether you think it’s woo-woo and ridiculous, or you respect it as an ancient mystical science, totally up to you. But I think that we cannot deny that there have been some huge shifts in energy this month.

If you were somehow immune to any sort of disruptions, challenges, or complete shocks to your world, consider yourself extremely fortunate.

When you see the waves on the docuseries, your mind will be blown, your soul will be humbled, and hopefully you will be in awe of these beautiful behemoths that we are fortunate enough to witness on our world.

These things are massive. And that’s even just visually. I can’t even fathom what sort of physics are actually happening within the whole phenomenon. How quantitatively powerful they are.

The surfers who dare to surf these waves are not for the faint of heart. They are courageous, beyond what most of us could ever imagine. They have dedication, mastery, unparalleled respect for the water and each other.

Everyone who came near, witnessed, or surfed those waves came out a different person.

Facing a literal huge ass mountain of moving water, maneuvering your little meat suit on a little board so that you can gracefully skate across it, is absolutely insane for most of us. Yet somehow, there are those who do it.

Beautifully, majestically (or not so much), but they do it. And what comes after is never the same. The person they were before they stepped foot on that board is not the same person who left that wave. For better, for worse.

Even those who, after their first attempt, decided that was way too intense and they didn’t want to do that again. Some came back around and wanted to do it again. It knocked them on their ass, but they wanted more. Some instead received inspiration that took them a different direction. Regardless of what the outcome was after, it was life-changing for every single person who got near or experienced those waves.

So, as I sit here on the day that Mercury goes direct. While we are still not fully out of the swell coming from the cosmos, I wanted to zoom out and share these thoughts with you. I want to hear what this experience has been like for you. Whether you are into astrology or not. I want to open the floor to discussion. I really want to hear about these huge energy shifts.

What has been coming up for you? What things came out of left field? How are you doing, truly? How are you walking out of this month versus how you walked into it?

And also, if you have any thoughts on the docuseries itself, astrology, or anything else, drop it here.

But really, I wanted to just check in and say hi, everyone. I hope you are okay. I know it’s been a rough go. And we are almost in the clear. You’re not alone. We are all sitting in this swell together.

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