Laura Plumb

04/11/2026

When Mars and Saturn occupy the same sign, it forms what is known as Yama Yoga — named for Yama, the god of death and dharmic justice. Its qualities are discipline, obstacles, and perseverance. In 2024, this yoga was active for 38 days, from March 15 to April 23, with April 10th the heart of it, in Aquarius. You can look back in history to see what that period was like.

Mars is quick, determined, passionate, decisive. Saturn is slow, methodical, uncompromising. When they share the same sign, it’s a strong feeling of push-pull.

Mars is a fiery planet, and Saturn is air, wind, Vata. So their conjoining can also be like fire with strong gusts behind it, a wildfire - unpredicatably dangerous.

This conjunction can bring friction and sudden disruptions, but when handled consciously, it can produce power and endurance.

Look where Pisces is in your Jyotish, or Sidereal chart to see where this may be playing out in your body, and life.

It is in the 8th house for the US Prez and one version of Iran’s chart, who both also have Ketu across their Ascendant by sign and Nakshatra (Magha).

Once we are past the exact degree conjunction on the 19th/20th, things begin to lighten up. But pay attention to the pressure leading up. Let’s all do what we can to diffuse it, or direct it to Good.

Light workers alight!

After a year that has given us challenging transits, and events, to date, things begin to ease up later this month. Jupiter goes to Cancer in June, and the Kala Sarpa breaks in July.

Akshaya Tritiya is usually the most auspicious day of the year, but this year it falls on the same days as the Mars Saturn conjunction. Perhaps that will help ease the intensity.

April 18-20 are good days to avoid crowds, travel, confrontations. Deep breaths, deep sadhana, prayers for all living beings. Let’s harness this energy for enlightening transformation.

All love 🙏🏽

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04/09/2026

Mental Spring Cleanse. Emotional Reset. Algorithm disruptor. Spiritual reclamation.

Peace, beauty, love is our essential truth. Nature knows it, and nature remembers you.

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Photographs by Nikki. DM me if you want her for your photographs. She’s the best 💛

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04/07/2026

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
- Martin Luther, shared with me today by

Light workers got to light. Dharma, once it finds you, must be lived. For “Dharma protects those who protect Dharma.”

Out beyond all the doom and gloom, there is a field, where we’ll be planting apple trees and cherry trees and mango and avocado and flowers and all kinds of pollinators, and we will be planting the seeds of a word safe, beautiful and nourishing foe all children everywhere. I’ll meet you there 💛🍃🍃

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04/06/2026

I love Banyan Botanicals, and their dedicated efforts to preserve and protect endangered plants, trees, and Ayurvedic herbs is one of the many reasons why.

This article details their work to ensure guggulu survives, with some of the key reasons guggulu is so important to Ayurveda. https://glnk.io/kovw3/laura3hv

04/04/2026

Don't you love it when science proves what the body knows?

Your Body Already Knows What Time It Is

03/31/2026

There is something really beautiful growing in America. Something long in its soil, quietly growing, but not often celebrated or cultivated.

People are “neighboring.”

People are walking a casserole over to a neighbor’s house, or picking up their groceries, or driving them to appointments, babysitting their children, or attending their trials, alerting to danger, and just about anything to protect and nurture.

We are joining together in community, in dance, in song, in art-making and story-telling. We are seeing each other, genuinely curious about one another, acknowledging each other with respect.

We are finding our voices and our strength in one another. We are throwing off the propaganda that we all emerged from the cowboy, here to dominate and divide, and remembering we come from the land, from the earth, living under the same sky, breathing the same air.

In India they have a saying, Vasudhaiv Katumbakam. We are all family. Let’s take care of each other.

I guess in the US, we might say, He ain’t heavy, he’s my brother…

I hope you are finding good neighbors, and feeling the love of good community. Art heals. Nature does too 🙏🏽

03/30/2026

Incredible art by .soul.art who also creates the music.

This is a view of the reality we are able to perceive through deeper and deeper states of awareness, high and higher states of consciousness.

Existence emerges from vibration, light eventually emerges from vibration.

In the emergent, creative field, it is all patterns of light in flow. In this field, we are one.

If we all spent more time here, in this reality, we could create a world more just and beautiful for all.

I am here for it. How about you?

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Thank you .soul.art for your illuminating art 🙏🏽🕊️✨

03/25/2026

Breathing in peace
Breathing out peace for all

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Please share with yourself and everywhere it is needed.

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03/24/2026

Day 6 of the Spring Navratri is dedicated to Mata Katyayani, who represents courage, strength, determined action.

Maa Katyayani is the slayer of Mahishasura, the buffalo demon who sought to destroy the world and take it all for himself.

She has four hands, one holding a sword, two holding flowers and the final granting blessings.

While she is fierce, truly this story represent the slaying of illusions, selfishness, greed and over attachment. In this way, she liberated us from our own confinements and suffering.

Maa Katyayani helps us remove the obstacles that stand in the way of our truth. So we can embody our authentic authority and walk in the world as a living blessing wherever we go.

Red is the color of Maa Katyayani. This year, this day also falls on Tuesday, day of Mars (Martes, Martedi, Mardi). So red is the color of the day.

If you like, today in your daily ritual, you can light a candle and ask for forgiveness, for healing, for blessings. Maa is a generous, compassionate presence.

May we be free 🙏🏽


Thank you for sharing this beautiful reel ✨🙏🏽

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🪬💛🧿☀️Credits:

🎥 💃🏻 .soul.art
Music 🎼 Papaoutai remixed by mikeeysmind, chill77, unjaps. Original by Stromae.

🎚Remixed Vision +📇 Interpretation by The MATRIX Oracle 2026™️ All Rights Reserved.

01/14/2026

Makar Sankranti is the moment, in Vedic astrology (Jyotish), when the Sun enters Makara—Capricorn—marking its transition from Sagittarius. This transit point is called a sankranti, considered a sacred threshold and one of the few *solar* festivals observed each year.

In Jyotish, this event signals the beginning of Uttarāyaṇa, the Sun’s northward journey. Symbolically and energetically, this is understood as the gradual return of light, vitality, clarity, and forward momentum after the inward, darker half of the year. The Sun in Capricorn emphasizes discipline, responsibility, and purposeful action—inviting steady progress, structure, and alignment with dharma.

This is one of our most obvious displays of the precession of the equinox as the Sun last entered Capricorn around December 22 roughly 1,600–1,700 years ago, around the 3rd–4th century CE, and thus Makar Sankranti was linked to the Winter Solstice. (Pull out your sky app and point it to the Sun, you will see that astronomically speaking hte sun has just entered Capricorn.)

Precession of the equinoxes: The background stars slowly shift relative to Earth’s seasons at a rate of about 1 day every 72 years. Today, the Sun enters the sidereal constellation of Capricorn around January 14–15, not December 22. The difference between December 22 and mid-January is about 23–24 days, which multiplied by 72 years per day gives roughly 1,650–1,700 years.

So, in ancient times—when the seasonal solstice and the stellar constellations were closely aligned—the Sun truly entered Capricorn at the winter solstice. What we now call Makar Sankranti preserves that ancient astronomical memory, even though the sky itself has slowly shifted.

Spiritually and agriculturally, Makar Sankranti has been honored as a turning point—when nature begins to stir, days slowly lengthen, and life starts to move outward again. It is an auspicious time for renewal practices, charity, prayer, and intentions that are rooted, sustainable, and guided by steady wisdom.

The Sun is said to be “sensitive” at these thresholds, so remember your inner light and know that we are on the return.
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Thank you for these images 🙏🏽

01/09/2026

Remember the new year chart (a few posts back). We have everything we need to meet the challenges of our time.

That’s not to say it is easy, but we have our self-care practices, our spiritual practices and we have like-hearted community. Venus and Jupiter light the way as the old, the cruel, and the non-life supporting burn.

Together, now, this year, we stand in peace, we walk in peace, we rise in peace.

Thank you for reflection 🙏🏽

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01/08/2026

I know you’ve seen this, but I think we need to keep seeing it. Aloka is an enlightened presence. I am sure Bhumi would love him and want to walk too.

We are blessed to be blessed by Aloka and the walking monks. .usa

“Aloka doesn’t mind the fog at all—he just trots along calmly, keeping a steady pace.

It feels like walking through a dream! The world is so still and soft this morning, and Aloka’s peaceful spirit fits right in. Even when we can’t see too far ahead, he reminds us to just keep moving forward with a kind and steady heart.

May you and all beings be well, happy and at peace. 🙏✨”

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