Melissa Maranda Holistic Counseling, Healing & Life Coaching

12/06/2025

12/04/2025

SUPER FULL MOON in Gemini is Thursday, December 4th at 5:15 PM Central time.
This is the last of three super moons this year giving it great power for supporting what needs to happen for each person at this time. It is an expansive time that can trigger old wounds that still need healing, and clear insights into what still needs to be cleared released or completed. This aspect could be challenging but the truth of it can also come with the freedom of release.
There is opportunity with this moon for opening to more love and intuition of the heart. It is a good time to examine if you truly love what you are doing, whom you are with, and where you are in your life. If you come up with a deficit, ask yourself what you can change or intend to change to bring you more into alignment with your truth.
So, this moon is both about celebration and acknowledgment and moving to a higher vibration, as well as looking at what still needs to be released so you can be free to move on. It comes with highs and lows and possible tension. Embrace both and use the energy wisely by being in neutrality and working with the energy of love. Some of the challenges as well as the highlights will be around relationships which are in the spotlight. Change what is in your power to change and accept with neutrality what is not in your control.

(Powerpath School of Shamanism)

11/18/2025

New Moon in Scorpio is Wednesday, November 19th at 12:48PM Central time.
This is a potentially volatile, intense and unstable time designed to get you moving out of your comfort zone, pushing the envelope and breaking through obstacles that have plagued your path forward for a time now. Take advantage of sudden change and uncertainty to birth a new cycle, a project that has been on the back burner, a new attitude, or a new practice you have been meaning to include in your life.

We are still in a time of inner processing, refining what is important and getting clarity from our hearts. Use your emotional intuition as a compass and use patience as an ally as you move into your next step.

Others around you maybe challenged as well. Stay in your own lane but hold a compassionate space for people to go through what they need to.

(Powerpath School of Shamanism)

10/17/2025

A little humor

10/01/2025

A few days ago, I literally helped someone gain the confidence to pass their driving test, and today I worked with someone on their college Spanish class! Anything is fair game in therapy. 

09/20/2025

The New Moon with a partial Solar Eclipse is Sunday, September 21 at 2:54 Central time. The Equinox, autumn in the northern and spring in the southern hemisphere is Monday, September 22 at 1:19 PM Central time.
This is a powerful time for stepping up and into your life in a bigger way. Although this eclipse is not as intense as the the Lunar one earlier this month, it is still prompting us to literally get our lives on a better track, and to take responsibility for our intentions, desires, discernment, boundaries and choices.

Beware of impatience and false bravado as you become inspired by what your next steps may look like. It is still prudent to think before you leap, speak or act. It is a good idea to take an inventory of where your life is and where you may need to take a step forward and up into a higher level of functioning. Maybe it is about health, diet and practices or maybe it is about how you relate to others or maybe it is about putting boundaries against what does not serve you or maybe you need to eliminate something in your life in order to move on.

The Equinox is always a time to honor change, balance, and the need to do something new. It could be a small shift. Any change will have significance.

(Powerpath school of shamanism)

09/05/2025

FULL MOON in Pisces and TOTAL LUNAR ECLPISE is Sunday, September 7 at 1:08 PM Central time.
Known as the blood moon for its red hue during the eclipse, this full moon is a powerful gateway to clearing the path of old patterns and karmic debris. The time between the 2 eclipses (next one is a partial solar on September 21) is the most intense window of rattling the cage of our known structures, patterns, beliefs, attachments, and habitual ways of living. The energy is volatile and unpredictable, confusing or enlightening, painful or ecstatic. Hard truths could surface and the foundations of something you either believed in or counted on for stability could show signs of fragmenting.

Think of this full moon time as a giant clean out much like a flash flood, immensely powerful in its ability to scour out the dead wood and accumulated debris. It is best not to resist but to work with whatever is coming up proactively, making wise choices, setting new boundaries, and being responsible for organizing the flow of energy in ways that serve you better.

(Powerpath School of Shamanism)

08/19/2025

NEW MOON in Virgo is Saturday, August 23rd at 1:06 AM Central time.

This New Moon is all about a restart, a fresh start, a blank canvas, and a huge opportunity for the reinvention of whatever needs it at this time. There is support for taking charge and being proactive with reorganization and reconfiguring what does not work or is not sustainable.
In addition to this being a very practical, organized and productive time, it is also an opportunity for an elevation in consciousness and a raising of vibration. To honor this, make sure you take some time for spiritual practices, intention setting and truth telling around what needs to change. Staying optimistic and positive is very helpful as it imprints the quantum field with your best vision of the future.

(Powerpath School of Shamanism)

08/07/2025

I have talked to several people this past week who feel that "everything is burning down at once". The Bible story of the Tower of Babel and the the Tower Tarot card both represent how this means you are "leveling up" when this happens:

The Tower tarot card is one of the least-loved cards in the deck, but it offers powerful wisdom about big life changes. What’s the spiritual meaning of…