Back But Not The Same | July 2025 Moon Letter
A New Season of Sharing
Dearest readers, I’m so glad to be back!
Welcome to a new season of sharing over here on the Golden Goddess Alchemy Substack page. You’re receiving this message because, just like me, you are a self-initiated goddess who is always eager to learn, explore, create, and transform.
Since April, I’ve taken a bit of a sacred pause (unforeseen but divinely planned).
Why? Chaos took hold starting in May. Feeling this surge at the end of April, I remember writing my planner…EMBRACE CHAOS in red ink. And so it was….event after event, family, travel, changes, and responsibilities demanded my attention, but most of all, a time to regroup.
I’ve been gathering inspiration, ideas, lessons, and experiences in the silence and occasionally the chaos of Goddessing IRL.
I often call this the initiation. There will always be one at new levels of this journey. This is when we got through tests and challenges, to really integrate and embody A Goddess Complex in everyday life. It’s not always roses, sometimes it’s a rude awakening. Typically, because they are blind spots we are being called to work through.
New perspectives and some limited beliefs are resurfacing for me around perfectionism and productivity. And, like clockwork, sisterhood wounds came back to be released. Oooo wee…we’ll come back to this in just a moment…trust me.
After all that, I feel compelled to do things differently.
I feel the nudge to experiment, play, and reconnect with you (my dear readers and fellow goddesses) with new ways to share fresh perspectives, and a reenergized vibe for our page. I’m still me, but wiser, freer, and more rooted in my truth.
So here’s what’s up….instead of the weekly post, each month, you will get a Moon Letter from me. A monthly reminder to take notice of your goddess energy and the rhythm of the moon. A gentle nudge to remind you of your divine purpose and to invite you into self-reflection, self-love, presence, and realignment.
Each time, you’ll get a guide for the current season, informed by transmissions of the lunar phases. All rooted in joyful devotion to thriving in our goddess self and flowing with the moon.
Consider it a love note from one goddess to another.
Golden Goddess Alchemy’s Monthly Moon Letter is how we will continue to celebrate our ever-evolving feminine essence, which in turn impacts our planet, our wombs, relationships, deepest cravings, and moods.
Rather than seeing them as unwanted guests or inconveniences, we’ll invite their wisdom and acknowledge their presence as divine mentors and guides.
This month, though? Whew. I’ve been riding waves of emotions and choosing boundaries over recurring toxic cycles. As a result, I’m embracing my wild, creative energy, laughing more and crying more, and enjoying the peace I've created in the safety of my home and life. Making magic in the mundane and allowing a shift out of old dynamics that don’t work for me anymore. All of it has been nourishing my creative side back to life.
Ya’ll Fell That? It’s growing pains…
Here in North America, we’re currently under a waning moon stationed in the sign of Taurus, while the sun has been in Cancer. It’s been a rainy stormy, as well as scorching hot summer, here in South Texas. Along with that, I’ve been holding space for dear loved ones as we’ve had several beloved souls make their transition in the last few months. With that, I’ve been reminded how Texas summers can scorch the skin and test the roots. Just like my garden surges in growth after the rain and the heat, I know we are also responding to these unseen forces. We’re all shifting and growing, and it is both a beautiful and painful reminder that we are still alive.
Whether it be moonlight, our own emotional tides, we don’t always have words for it, so I’ve been finding the language by deepening my knowledge of astrology. Not as a cage, but as a gauge of what’s going on.
With the sun in Cancer, we’re in a season of inner housekeeping. Emotional sorting. Fortifying the support you need for the blooming goddess you’re always becoming more of.
☀️ Sun in Cancer until July 22: The watery, emotional sign of the mother, the home, the soft interior spaces. We often talk about safe spaces, but… Are you a safe space for you? This is a time to check your emotional pantry (so to speak). What have you held for too long? What do you need to release, enjoy, or plan for to stay safe, secure, nourished?
How do you mother yourself… truly?
Not just through self-soothing bubble baths and quiet nights, but through boundaries, discipline, nourishment, and the brave choice to let go.
Let this Cancer sun teach you the art of sacred self-tending. Not just to indulge, but as preparation for your next evolution.
🌖 Waning Moon in Taurus | Venus Day (Friday, July 18)
This is time of soft release and sacred embodiment. Taurus is ruled by Venus, the goddess of beauty, pleasure, and worth. And on Friday, her day, the moon is at home in her sign, inviting you to slow down and savor the beauty and pleasures of your home. Not just as a place, but a feeling.
A waning moon is supportive to letting go. Letting go of what's no longer aligned through the body…
Through pleasure.
Through breath.
Through ritual.
Let this be the weekend you rest like you trust yourself.
Less hustle, more presence. Sometimes you just need to take the pressure off and sway your hips. Your divine feminine doesn’t bloom under force. She unfolds in vibration and through rhythm.
So now, let’s get to the uncomfortable lesson I learned this month.
There Are Women I Love That Are Still Unhinged. Unhealed. Unregulated.
So, how do I rise without becoming hardened?
So let me say this: not everything is our burden to carry. But everything is an invitation to learn and grow. Doing your healing work helps the collective, even if the women around you never know it and never say thank you. You don’t have to fix people. Doing your goddess work ripples, whether seen or unseen.
You might be feeling emotionally exhausted from the energy shifts, as well as from strained relationships with the women you love (mother, aunts, sisters, friends)… know that you’re not alone. Many of us doing this goddess work, have been hurt by a woman who never healed her own pain...that’s been a strong message with this Cancer season energy, and I’ve been working through that, too.
This past season, I’ve was tested with another iteration of what it means to thrive while still showing compassion and love for women in my life who are hurting, projecting, traumatized, yet choosing survival and war over healing and emotional regulation.
But, there is no shame in outgrowing dysfunction.
And I know it gets tricky, when it’s close family dealing with some real shit. Especially when it’s women you wish you could truly help and also feel safe with. But, you’re not crazy, you’re being tested in your evolution.
When unhealed women, don’t do the innerwork to shift out of their unhealthy patterns and beliefs, they can often lash out at what they don’t understand.
Not because you’ve done something wrong… but because your evolution reflects a freedom they haven’t yet allowed themselves to claim. Your mere existence is triggering dissonance in them.
Love doesn’t mean sacrificing myself or bending my boundaries.
As I deepen my own work and bloom to new levels, more boundaries are not only required but vital.
This is choosing not to engage and entertain nonsense and unhealthy patterns. But choosing to walk with your goddesses, the ones who whisper truth in the dark when it feels like no one else can hear you.
There are times when we encounter a reminder of how the feminine can be distorted in your family, your friendships, or even within yourself, but this isn’t about blame or battle.
It’s about awareness.
Where am I still unhealed, unhinged, unregulated?
Is my soul asking me to address areas where I am still in survival mode?
If this speaks to something in you, drop a 🌀 in the comment and feel free to share in the private group chat.
This month, my lesson came through my garden.
My tomato plant is growing fast and messy, stretching toward everything nearby. Towering over my parsley, spinach, and even the fence. If I leave her unchecked, she’ll choke out the other herbs. But with a little care, some floral wire, and a gentle lift, she rises with strong roots. Even more radiant. Even more fruitful.
I’ve realized: I am just like that tomato plant.
I grow wild, fast, and abundantly in solitude, but I bloom best within structures that support me with love and mutual respect. Some relationships, like some plants in my garden, can’t thrive in the same plot.
Long before this path, I use to tolerate so much nonsense from women in my life (I once called friends or sisters) who refused to seek help and inner guidance.
And, because I was usually their safe, stable space, on a given day, I could be ambushed with a torrent of drama, accusations, conflict, and demands on my time and energy. This would be startling to my nervous system. My body would literally tell me that we were not aligned.
When I’d calmly try to assert a boundary, an adult tantrum would arise out of them, because I was not playing my expected “role”. Then projection, manipulation, and resentment would ensue. It was exhausting, because I knew this didn’t feel like love, respect, or sisterhood. It was actually emotional coercion, and energy hijacking.
My reclusive nature has taught me something deeper: not everyone deserves to grow beside you. So, I learned it was necessary to prune and protect what mattered to me.
This is the real Goddess journey. The difficult and necessary decision to cut away what strangles your sacred energy. To name what’s not working out well in your garden.
In The Artist Way, Julia Cameron calls them “crazy-makers.” And oh, have I known many of them. Women and men who thrive on drama, emotional anarchy and drag it into your life like a badge of intimacy.
When you arrive in your calm, they may misread your composure as cold, because they aren’t regulated in their emotions to receive peace and poise.
They will see you as distant. Guarded. Because, they never sit still with their own emotions. They could even feel rejected by your devotion to yourself and your well-being. Not realizing, we are a safe space teaching them to be a safe space for themselves.
I too, have moments of craze and enjoy drama, but I use it for my creative expansion and expression, not to heap onto others, destroy my life or tear down theirs. I let myself rampage, rage, and go emotionally wild, and alchemize it within my safe structures I build with intention. Like my art, my writing, my passions, my hobbies. So that I can enjoy a healthy relationship with myself and others.
As I trimmed the tomato plant today, I noticed she grows best when I give her space and strong support. Her biggest harvest yet is coming and so is yours.
Thank you for being here.
Thank you for returning.
Thank you for evolving with me, even in my pauses and silence.
If this letter feels like it hit home for you, I invite you share it in the comments and also to share this publication with someone else who is learning to live in rhythm with their inner goddess.
Peace and love,
