Hey ,

We’re already about three weeks into January, and if I’m honest, a part of me still feels like I’m “catching up” — tidying loose ends, cleaning up, and not quite ready to declare, “Yes, I’m fully in the new year now.”

Maybe you feel something similar: the sense that life has already started moving, while another part of you is still arriving.

In my own background, our annual reset has often been marked more by the Lunar New Year than by January 1st.

This year that day falls around February 17th, and simply knowing that day is yet to come already feels like a gentler, more organic way of saying, “I have a bit more time to land. I don’t have to rush or force the readiness quite yet.”

Against that backdrop, I’ve been sitting this morning and reflecting where I am still unwise.

Not unwise because I don’t know enough.

Unwise because there are places where I know enough what I need to do to support me… and I still don’t always live it.

For example, I know my nervous system prefers certain choices – more cooling, grounding, spaciousness.

And yet there are mornings I still reach for the drink that overstimulates me, and then feel the ripple of heat and restlessness in my body.

Or I know my mind feels clearer and sleep is better when I step away from my phone by 7pm and give myself real presence.

And yet there are days my thumb is scrolling after my awareness has caught up, as if an old part of me is still reaching for noise, instead of silence.

I know there are habits that don’t truly serve my long-term wellbeing.

And I am still in the process of becoming wise enough to consistently choose differently.

For me, this is the difference between knowledge and wisdom.

The space between the two is where we often feel the most self-judgement:

• “I should know better.”
• “I thought I was past this.”
• “Why am I still here?”

But in my experience — and when I sit with others — that space is actually where wisdom is being grown.

It’s the space where:

• you repeat a pattern but see it more clearly than before,
• you fall back into something familiar but come back to yourself more kindly,
• you recognise, “Oh, this is the part of me that’s still learning,” instead of, “I have failed again.”

When I look at it that way, my “unwise” places stop being evidence against me and start becoming invitations:

• to offer more safety to my nervous system,
• more room for my emotions,
• more restoration so my body can catch up to what my mind already knows.

I feel this in you as well.

By the time you’re reading something like this, it already tells me you’ve walked through your own loops of learning.

You care about consciousness, about healing, about living from your heart more than from old conditioning.

You’ve earned wisdom — often through very real, sometimes painful lessons.

You might still be in the middle of an old story, a relationship thread, or a pattern that hasn’t yet fully unclenched.

You might know what would support you and still not always do it.

But that doesn’t cancel any of our wisdom.

It shows us where we might still need more regulation, space, and support to slow down and embody what we already know.

Couple days ago, under the New Moon in Capricorn, eight of you chose to be in the scalar–sound lounge to mark the beginning of this new lunar cycle.

Capricorn holds themes of structure, responsibility, and long-term building; watching you choose restoration as your starting point felt like a very deep, quiet act of wisdom.

The upcoming Full Moon in Leo in a couple weeks will bring a different light: one that touches our heart, our self-expression, our courage to be seen as we are.

Leo asks: “Can I let more of my true self be visible? Can I live a little more from the heart?” 

For many of us, that feels exciting and tender at the same time, because being seen also asks for our nervous system to feel safe enough to open.

Between this Capricorn New Moon and the next Leo Full Moon, we’re in a potent window to work exactly with this theme:

Closing the gap between “I know” and “I am becoming wise enough to live it.”

If you feel that — if you’re aware of where you are still “unwise” in the most human, loving sense of the word — you are very welcome in this next phase of the journey with me.

You can step in through whichever doorway you feel most drawn to right now —

a 1-1 sound journey, an astrology session, or a voice / listening consult etc — all of them are simply different paths into the same intention:

To help our system restore enough capacity so that our next choices can genuinely come from the wisdom of our hearts.

Just a warm reminder before I pen-off, I’ll be holding space in the scalar–sound lounge again this Saturday at 4:30pm QLD (and most weekends thereafter).

If it feels like the right moment to let your body and heart exhale, soften, and be held for an hour in sound and scalar light:

SAVE YOUR SPOT HERE

If you’re not sure which step is best for you, you’re always welcome to reply to this email and share where you’re at.

See you soon,

@akneskendra_phd x