# My Renaissance

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Podcast: [I am OPTimist](https://stenobird.com/podcast/i-am-optimist-7143643)
Published: 2026-04-22T04:10:59+00:00
Episode link: https://www.monikabravo.blog/p/my-renaissance
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What has initiated has been taking shape as it grounds. This is Taurus season. Full moon in Scorpio on May 1st, a lunation as when I was born 62 years ago, happy solar return to me. Living with a Scorpio moon in my 9th house has made me seek for deep truth, only to realize after a long journey, that it emanates from within. There is a particular kind of discomfort that comes with understanding that something new is emerging from within. My body has been recording this passage sometimes as tension in the fascia, the membrane that holds water while binding muscle and bone together. This is a beautiful membrane that is allowing fluids and flow at the same time. It is like a breath that wants to go deeper, as it aspires within the rib cage and then slowly releasing, making space for what is new. This is a feeling pulled in more than one direction at the same time, but the interesting thing is that the orientations are not what matters; what matters is the flow, aware, aspiring, and exhaling. This is a new sensation of the self that has slowly been metabolized in the last years but now starts being shaped. Even though I do not have a final definition, I can sense it in the body; it comes here first, so the threshold is here. The discomfort I feel is how my life is composting and metabolizing itself. It is not discomfort in the sense of pain; there is no pain, there is no emotional pain, there is no physical pain. It is just an adjustment that has to happen on a moment-to-moment basis. It is productive and real, and even though I am speaking words, the resolution is not in the mind or with logic. It is more the adaptation of this flow on a moment-to-moment basis, with the body at its center. I will say this is a Renaissance being born again from the inside out, as I carry ev…

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