A $hmedium Sized Change of Plans

A message from Saturn and Pre-Sale for Q3 extended!

Happy Sunday!

Yesterday our July-Sept Q3 edition was supposed to go out; however, I have a funeral this week and getting a whole zine done with funeral, family, and 120F weather hanging over my head miiiight be me girl bossing too close to the sun.

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Yesterday was Saturn Day and that for me is always a good check in place for my own boundaries, standards, and the reality of what both should be(vs what they are). Especially since I’m now fully in my Saturn return; and, am a Capricorn baby.

This has brought up a few things around $HMEDIUM that have led to a shmedium sized change of plans.

Many of you know that this year is the third consecutive year where an important elder of my family has passed. You know what they say about things coming in threes. This week is the funeral for my grandmother (the latest to pass); and, I had not anticipated all that would come up for me(and my family) the closer we got to funeral day.

With that being said, I'm going to be pushing back the release date of $HMEDIUM. You'll get it next weekend, and won’t miss one thing even though it’s a little later than expected.

This means you can still get this quarter’s issue for $5 presale until the official release day.

It's funny, because my editor's letter is about the concept of changing our mind, as soon as you realize you need to-whenever that is; and, sometimes the changes in mind don't always reflect in changes of action immediately. 

I want to leave you with this Saturn-day tip, which is also a quote that I once heard-and still have not figured out the real source of:

It's better to be in a situation you hate for a year, than to be in it for a year and one day.

I definitely don't hate doing $HMEDIUM, but I do hate the super high standards that I put on myself when I don't have to. There are many reasons why we may stick to a situation, person, place, or thing longer than we must. Sometimes it's obligation, sheer stubbornness, criticism, or just passion for whatever it is. Often times, we don't notice we're in something longer than we should, until we reach the "and one day" point. This phrase reminds me that to move towards where you want to go, you must have good boundaries with the outer and inner worlds that we face. To pause. To assess. To keep us from one more day on top of a year, or two, or five, or ten of something that we have changed our minds about.

Thank you for your support of this project!

I'm so happy to be able to pause, so that what we do and what comes out is where it should be-not where we push ourselves to take it.

<3 big love

Auntie Kieu