Embracing the pivot
*My toddler's voice*: What's going on here?
Oh, how I’ve missed you, gorgeous human.
I hope you are taking exquisite care, despite the fact that the world is burning and the U.S is being slowly swallowed by fascist oligarchs (deep breaths).
As you may have noticed, this Substack publication is now astral pathways, formerly known as TMI.
I have so much writing I want to share, but it didn’t feel right to do so without at least a teensy explanation as to WTF is going on here.
I started TMI in the Summer of 2021 during an existential crisis. I felt like my life was falling apart, my reality ripping at the seams, so I wanted to document it because by writing about the things I was going through, I felt less alone and somehow less unhinged. I named the publication TMI because I love oversharing on the internet.
After I had my baby in 2022, I felt a shift. I’d undergone the biggest life transformation, motherhood, and so this space, too, needed to shift. I wrote about motherhood and all of the grief and rage and bliss that comes with it.
In the Fall of 2023, I was laid off from my job, vaulting me into yet another personal transformation—who am I, as an adult, without a job? Without a paycheck? I leaned into my astrology and tarot practice to ground me, and thus launched a new dimension of TMI, the greenhouse, where I shared my ruminations via tarot cards and digital spells every week.
Finally, in 2024, I launched my business, astral pathways. Yet another transformation, one where I finally surrendered to my gifts and my joy. Admittedly, I didn’t know where this publication fit in with my new web of content creation. Also, I’m a stay-at-home mom with very limited time for anything other than caretaking, so work had to come first.
And now here we are in 2025, and I am probably undergoing yet another transformation that I will have a name for once I see the other side of it. But I know now that this Substack space is precious to me, and I’m so grateful to every single person who’s stuck around through my many pivots.
I used to have this idea that commitment meant doing the same thing over and over again, even when you didn’t want to. And maybe for some people, that’s what it looks like. But what I’ve learned the last couple of years is that commitment to me means staying true to the ways in which I am changing, transforming, and allowing that to show me the way forward. As they [gestures broadly] say, change is the only constant. And I am reminded over and over again that when I surrender to burning it down and rising from the ashes, I am always better for it.
So… what’s next?!
I’m so glad you asked! Once I took off the constraints and the pressure of this space, I began bursting with content ideas, go figure. Here are some of the pieces that are currently in the works, and that (I hope) make you want to stay for every one of my future evolutions:
Educational pieces on astrology, like how to tap into your intuitive powers using your Moon sign or WTF is a Saturn return
Tarot character studies: deep dives into the Tarot Major Arcana using fictional characters and their story arcs
The real ass writing you’ve missed over the last six months
I hope you’re as excited about this new iteration as I am. The core of this publication has not changed. I am still a chronic over-sharer who writes for those of us who have been told our whole lives that we are “too much”. But with astral pathways as our new container, I feel like I’ve up-leveled the quality and breadth of content that’s begging to be seen.
Thank you, as always, for being along for the ride.
Ayu