Returning to My Roots

I learned this year
that safety can quietly turn into a cage.

That stillness, held too long,
stops being rest
and starts becoming delay.

They say 2025 was the year of the Snake.
And I felt that in my bones.

Snake came to clear the path.
To strip away what was no longer true.
To ask me to shed skins I’d been wearing for years—
out of habit,
out of comfort,
out of fear.

There were endings.
Grief.
Detox.

Cycles closing
whether I was ready or not.

Veils lifted—again and again.

I saw where my art had gone quiet,
not because it lacked life,
but because I wasn’t releasing it.

I wasn’t letting it meet the world.

I stepped away from escape.
From substances.
From noise.
From dopamine without direction.

I slowed my body.
I rested an injury.
I paused work.

I cleared the dead plants from last season—
or turned them into fertilizer.

Because growth needs space.
And truth needs air.

Now the Snake is done with me.

2026 is the year of the Horse.
And I can feel it arriving.

And I was born under this sign.
Horse has always been in me.

I didn’t lose my way—
I slowed
so I could shed what wasn’t mine.

Snake cleared the ground.
But Horse is my nature.

Movement.
Freedom.
Forward motion with heart.

This isn’t a reinvention.
It’s a return.

Horse moves forward
even when the ground is unfamiliar,
even when the horizon isn’t fully visible.

Freedom through motion.
Alignment through courage.
Power through presence.

I’m still healing—
but I’ve learned that rest alone isn’t enough.

Movement is medicine.
Flow is where the deeper repair happens.

So I strengthen my core.
I rebuild my foundation.
Not just to prevent injury—
but to become the man my future requires.

Forward.
That was the motto where I came from.
And it followed me west.

I leave behind shallow connections.
Half-lived creations.
Ideas that never completed the circle.

I step into full release.
Full expression.
Full truth.

I trust that when I share my work,
my story,
my vision—
the right people will find me.

I am becoming through motion now.

Let go of what no longer serves.
Trust the clearing.
Charge forward with courage.

Today is a blessed day.

And I walk toward my future
with my head high,
my body awake,
and my heart finally in stride.

Onward.
Upward.
And home.