Live Weekly Update: Good luck, babe 💫 (plus, we're learning *together*)

One day, I’ll officially, formally, figure out how and what I want to write about Chani Nicholas and why I love her astrological readings and think they are a force for good in our current conditions. I’m shameless in sharing that I do make some decisions based on Chani’s insights around what’s happening in the skies (like the decision to record his update because June 8-10, 2026 were described as some of the luckiest days of the year) but I’m not alone in that. Chani does the same, obviously. Whether it’s an astrology app that blends social justice values that guides you, or historical texts and documentaries that uncover what’s been deliberately obscured and thereby redirect us toward better ends, or even if you just sit with the wisdom of your grandmother’s words or the story of a stranger, what really matters is how we make meaning of our reality based on where we choose to place our attention. That’s how we learn. The good news is that our individual commitments to learning are actually part of the process of what we are learning, together, sometimes without even realizing it. Perhaps this is how we grow our souls and become kindred spirits. And that might be exactly what leads us to meet in meaningful ways, one way or another. I’ve been wondering, what if the sort of things we tend to call “serendipities” aren’t really all that mystical, but rather practical and predictable affirmations that inevitably emerge based on how we are attuned? Some take it as a sign of being on the correct path, that we are aligned with who we are becoming and right where we are supposed to be. The ‘we’ here isn’t just us individually. ‘We’ is you, me, and everyone with shared visions and values who are navigating this historical moment in the way that is most true to what only they can do. I’m noticing more and more, with a real depth of appreciation, how this glint of serendipity weaving throughout our own everyday lives can also signal a way to locates ourselves within others, within something much larger than our discrete selves. When we are paying attention to the same things, taking in similar information, considering present conditions, and aiming for shared goals, it makes sense that we might also realize we have resonant ideas, strategize with parallel techniques, develop familiar approaches. Even better when we arrive there by following our own unique paths. This is an encouraging mark of affirmation and alignment between and among us. Because, ultimately, we still find each other. We land on similar truths. We create emergent possibilities. We nurture complementary projects. For instance, I am not the only one talking about intimacy, and I am grateful for that. I learn from other writers and follow creators who are doing their work, which does not need to feel like a competitive space. There is room for all of us to share our contributions, especially because we all connect to something slightly different in our own particular ways. This is a the value of diversity and complexity in real life. Propagandized group think is a dangerous thing, but liberatory collective consciousness raising is what we need. While they may look nearly identical on the surface in terms of how we share, shift, pivot, and move, there is hope in the later. Our differences and particularities do not need to be eliminated in order for us to harmonize how we elevate the ways we exist. In fact, that harmony can be a key for finding each other, even when spread far apart across cities, countries, this whole entire planet. Remember, we see evidence of survival in the school traveling an ocean jet stream, awe in the fluidity of the starlings’ murmuration, and power in the people who rise together. In all these examples, the ‘we’ is a multiplicity of bodies that manage to sync up. The anatomy of such movement embodies the loving will to participate and a commitment to trust the part of the process that is our own while understanding it does not strictly belong to us. Perhaps this is how we learn, by taking in cues that help us more gracefully move through whatever is present, over time, together. Visit my Buy Me a Coffee shop to register for Romancing the Revolution and join via Zoom on Sundays or download the pages from past few months. Buy Me a Coffee Members get discounted access at $10 for every Sunday in a month! Get full access to Want to Know at coriwong.substack.com/subscribe