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• PHD Session:Fire Element Repatterning for Inner Radiance

  • When
    June 22, 2026
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    3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    Online via Video Conferencing

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  Join our next Personal Holographic Discoveries
  Monday June 22  2026,  at 3:30-4:30 PM Eastern
  [12:30pm Pacific | 1:30pm Mountain | 2:30pm Central | 8:30pm London UK]

  Group Session for....

  Fire Element – Inner Radiance Repatterning

  
  

  Ignite the part of you that is ready to shine more brightly this summer. This June, our PHD group session will weave the wisdom of the Fire element with your Life Repatterning process so you can rekindle joy, deepen connection, and let your inner radiance lead the way.

  The sacred cycle of Fire

  In the Five Element cycle, Fire is the energy of high summer – warmth, celebration, connection, and the peak of outward expression. It governs the Heart, and Small Intestine meridians, our capacity for joy, intimacy, and “sorting out” what truly nourishes us. When Fire is non-coherent, it can show up as anxiety, emotional withdrawal, agitation, or a sense that your light has gone out, even when life “looks fine” from the outside. When your Fire is balanced, you feel alive, present, and able to both give and receive love; your enthusiasm is grounded, and your heart feels like a steady, welcoming flame.

  How Fire nourishes Earth and shapes our Metal

  In the nurturing cycle, a steady Fire warms and ripens the Earth element, creating a felt sense of stability, nourishment, and “having a place to stand.” When your Fire is coherent, it feeds your Earth with confidence, optimism, and emotional warmth, making it easier to feel grounded, cared for, and supported in your everyday life.

  Fire also “controls” and refines the Metal element – your sense of self-worth, appreciation, value, and right use of your gifts. Balanced Fire softens harsh self-criticism and perfectionism, allowing you to feel genuinely valuable, inspired, and worthy of abundance.

  The Four Lenses: Emotional, Mental, Spiritual, Seasonal...

  Emotionally: Coherent Fire supports joy, playfulness, trust, and the ability to form meaningful, heart-centered relationships, instead of swinging between guardedness and emotional overwhelm.

  Mentally: It brings clarity, creativity, and presence in the moment, helping you make decisions from the heart rather than fear, pressure, or old survival patterns.

  Spiritually: Fire is the light of consciousness – the part of you that knows how to love, connect, and express your true nature with warmth and authenticity.

  Seasonally: Summer and the weeks around the solstice amplify Fire’s qualities of expansion, celebration, and outward expression, making this an ideal time to repattern how you relate to joy, connection, and visibility.

  A personal glimpse of Fire repatterning

  When my father died in April of my eighth year, my Fire element dimmed overnight. Surrounded by anxious adults, I became “Mom’s helper,” the serious, responsible eldest who watched over younger siblings, feeling vulnerable and hyperaware of my remaining parent’s movements.

  By August – and every August after - I felt a dread of returning to school and a relentless pressure to be prepared long before September, as if one misstep would bring back that vulnerability and the sensation of my world collapsing. Vacations, concerts, and lazy summer days with friends had no place in my calendar. It was more important to feel totally in control and prepared than to feel joy. Looking back, I can see how my Fire element had slipped into a non-coherent pattern: the season that should have been about warmth, play, and connection became a time of fear, pressure, and emotional shutdown.

  One of my earliest healing shifts came when I learned to anticipate the energy of August and consciously choose a different pattern. Instead of bracing for dread, I began to plan joy – small getaways, creative projects, moments of connection – and to let my inner flame glow again on my own terms. The essence of Fire repatterning is to reclaim the season of your radiance from old survival stories and choose how you want your light to shine now.

  What this session will support...

  • Bring your Fire energy into alignment so your inner light feels steady, warm, and genuinely yours.
  • Update or enliven your Life Vision intention through the lens of joy, relationship, and heart-centered contribution, letting Fire infuse your existing vision with more aliveness and connection.
  • Clarify specific intentions related to relationships, purpose, meaning, or passion – where you’re ready to feel more lit up and more fully yourself.

  In this session, you’ll update or enliven your Life Vision intention through the lens of joy, relationship, and passion. You will name specific intentions where you’re ready to light up like a flame - in love, purpose, or creative expression. If you’ve been feeling a little lost, or too serious and disconnected from others, or hesitant to be fully yourself, this is a beautiful moment to let summer’s Fire energy help you soften, brighten, and come home to your own warmth again.

  This repatterning will help you:

  • Update your Life Vision Intention with Fire element qualities of joy and passion
  • Align your actions with that vision so it moves from intention into form
  • Let summer’s Fire energy help you soften, brighten, and come home to your own warmth again.

  “This summer, tend your Fire and let your Life Vision glow warm and real—come step into the light that’s already yours”

  Join me for the next PHD Repatterning

  Monday June 22, 2026  at 3:30 -4:30pm Eastern... 

  
  

  With light and love

  Carolyn
  
  

  carolyn@lighttravels.com

  www.LightTravels.comn

  
  

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  Your registration includes the opportunity to:

  • Send in your information for the live session via zoom
  • Download the post-session custom notes
  • Video recording access and audio MP3 download.

  Registration Options Include:

  • Member and Non-Member Fees
  • Premium Membership Purchase (this session is then free)
  • Bring a Friend at a reduced price
  • A combination of the event plus one: one Holographic Coaching sessions with Carolyn Winter... to dive deeper into your personal circumstances

  
  

  If you’re currently a LightTravels.com subscriber but not yet a premium member, this is a wonderful time to step in more fully. Purchase a premium membership with this event (see registration options). 
  

  
  

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• Aligned for Mercury Retrograde 2026

  • When
    June 29, 2026
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    6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

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  Mercury Goes Retrograde Once Again
  Monday, June 29, at  6:00 pm Eastern Time

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  The Aligned for Mercury Retrograde Session
  With Julie Simmons & Carolyn Winter

  VIA ZOOM 

  Make Mercury Retrograde your cosmic co‑pilot. Join astrologer Julie Simmons and energy practitioner Carolyn Winter for a lively, co‑led tune‑up that turns glitches into guidance and delays into perfect timing. Bring your biggest retrograde gremlins—we’ll alchemize miscommunications into clarity and momentum.

  

  Customize the ride: send your intentions and sticky issues ahead, join live or catch the replay, then use the session notes to integrate and keep the sparkle going.

  Astrologer Julie Simmons writes about THIS Mercury Retrograde...  

  Mercury Retrograde in Cancer: How We Feel is Who We Are

  Drowning, as we are, in a sea of too much information and not enough wisdom, we look for something to hold on to. Time to reach for our feelings, our empathy, the ability of all humans to mirror each other, to know how it feels to be someone in a different skin, and to recognize our kinship with all that lives.

  Mercury is always about the mind, that untrustworthy trickster who makes us think that there really is a pot of gold. But the Trickster has bigger fish to fry when it’s retrograde. Turned inward, toward the soul, Mercury opens us to the possibility that this inner landscape is real. Not just real but that it belongs only to me. Here is my felt sense, the great big sea of imagination giving rise to my best ideas. And so it has always been.

  How can we know our subconscious thoughts? Through dreams and synchronicities, reactions in the gut, and instinctive reflexes. Despite this we have become a species that likes to categorize and pathologize our behaviours. Mercury retrograde in Cancer reminds us that the way we inhabit our inner being and the expression that comes from that makes sense in our understanding of who we really are.

  Want to know your subconscious thoughts? They are written in your body, in your weaknesses as well as your strengths. Plain as day, or the nose on your face. What if you didn’t judge them as flaws but understood them as messages from within?

  What if you imagine, while Mercury is retrograde, how it was for your grandparents and their grandparents? If you con-sider (with stars) that your mother was once an infant at the mercy of her parents, or your father was a toddler reaching for his future? Cancer takes us back—not always to the good old days. Looking back can tell a story of difficulty or wounding, mistreatment and neglect. But always there was something that nourished your soul, your cells. What was it?

  This isn’t for extraction to make you better or to make you great. It likely won’t get you likes. It’s a quality to be received with the awareness that you wouldn’t be here, reading this, looking for sea glass amongst the stones, if there hadn’t been some kind of connection.

  Jupiter has been in Cancer since the summer of 2025 and will move away on June 30th. If Mercury retrograde recapitulates this journey, it ask us to consider the needs of all living beings in a world that appears to be in self-destruct mode. How do you hold this? What have you learned about the interconnectedness of all that lives?

  Wars create horrifying deprivation, which goes against the grain of all that Cancer and Jupiter are meant to bring. Mercury asks us to hold that awareness without blame (although that’s challenging), without fear for our own security (also challenging). Where does the inclination for self-destruction come from? How do we lose connection with the goodness of Life Itself?

  The essence of any Mercury retrograde is felt most strongly when it conjuncts the Sun (July 12). That is when the winged messenger, Mercury, offers messages for us to use or ponder as we turn to the second half of the retrograde journey. What form of meditation will you use to still yourself and listen for such a message?

  Warmly 
  Julie Simmons

  Mercury Retrograde, made easier

  Starting June 29, Mercury appears to move backward—often bringing mix‑ups with messages, schedules, and agreements. If you write, broadcast, build for the web, publish, or practice law, you may feel it more. It’s not a curse; it’s a cue to slow down, clarify, and realign.

  
  

  What tends to happen
  During retrograde, details get slippery. We mishear, misread, and miss appointments. That’s why people advise waiting on big commitments. But life doesn’t pause—contracts still get signed, homes bought, celebrations planned. The invitation is to work with this energy so you move through it with more ease, insight, and even humor.

  
  

  How this group session helps
  Astrologer Julie Simmons and Life Repatterning coach Carolyn Winter combine clear astrological timing with practical energy work. Julie frames what this specific retrograde is asking of us—where to be careful, and where to lean in. Carolyn leads a live group Life Repatterning to shift patterns of frustration and miscommunication into clarity, calm, and better outcomes.

  
  

  You’ll leave with:
  • a grounded understanding of the retrograde themes at play
  • a reset in your personal “signal” so conversations, decisions, and details land cleanly
  • simple practices to navigate contracts, launches, and life logistics without drama

  
  

  About the method
  Life Repatterning works well at a distance and in groups. We identify the energetic patterns that keep you stuck, then flip them so you resonate with what you want—clear communication, timely decisions, and a steadier pace. In a group field, change is amplified; you benefit personally while contributing to a collective shift.

  
  

  Mercury Retrograde dates in 2026
  • Feb 26–Mar 20 (shadow Feb 12–Apr 9)
  • Jun 29–Jul 23 (shadow Jun 12–Aug 6)
  • Oct 24–Nov 13 (shadow Oct 4–Nov 30)

  
  

  Next live session
  Monday, June 29, at 6:00 pm Eastern
  Join us on Zoom for a focused, supportive hour. Bring a project, decision, or conversation you want to navigate with more ease, and let’s turn retrograde from a headache into a helper.

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  with light and love 

  Carolyn Winter. Life Repatterning Coach and 
  Julie Simmons, Astrologer

  
  

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