Dear Dreamers,

Howdy, howdy. How are you doing? How are you dreaming? January, it felt, pummeled me, and I know a lot of others felt the same. Besides the world feeling extra on fire, I was sick with something that was not the flu or COVID but instead echoed the nightmarish bronchitis episodes of my youth. I felt like Dylan Thomas. Kafka. After a day of it, I was thoroughly done with the whole enterprise, and yet, it persisted, for almost two weeks.

The Lawyer bought me Gatorade, cough drops, NyQuil, peppermint tea, ginger and turmeric shots, dinner more times than I can count. They tucked me into bed every night. Told me I had one more day or they’d drag me to the doctor themself. I couldn’t blame them for this — not only because, a few weeks before my falling ill, their father had died in a terrible and sudden and unexpected way.

Terrible how I thought, when my father died — oh nothing, really. I couldn’t. My brain searching for a handhold and only finding absence. And yet, when their father died, all I could think was: oh fuck, he really loved you. Fuck, he really loved you.

Which is all to say, I am not trying to make this a bummer of a newsletter, not at all. But I think it is important not to pretend, especially when one is a mystic, and giving mystical advice, that the “real” world has no hold on us. That it does not impact us, that because we are spirit we can not also be flesh.

This weekend, our flesh is going camping. In the fire, I will throw a portion of whatever we’ve made. I will say a prayer to the wind and sky and water and trees. I’ll wish him a good journey once more.

In this way, and in so many others, despite it all, the love lives on and on and on.

Sending you good dreams,
Cowboy

P.S. Be sure to send me all your love questions, quarrels, quandaries, and the like! It is the season of the lovers after all.  :-)

For many of us, it was a historically rough beginning to the year. If you’re so inclined, you may think that this is an omen for the rest of 2026, but rest assured, all is not lost. In this reading, I pulled three cards (after blessing my deck, covering my hair, and lighting a candle) to shed a little insight on what this year has in store for our collective love life.

The Tower tells us that big changes are coming, whether we want them or not. There is no more time for lolling about in old relationship patterns, especially if the people that surround us have been warning us off of them for a long time (ouch). This card also reminds us that while change is hard, and can sometimes disturb/disrupt us deeply, what remains is something deeply transforming. In other words, your world might just be rocked by love this year, by someone you never expected but will serve you well.

The Star is a beautiful card to pull for this question! The Star symbolizes renewal, blessings, hope, and meaning. What this tells us that in 2026, if a lover seems to good to be true, and vetting proves that they simply are what they are, we should allow ourselves to luxuriate in the beauty (even if it is brief). Magic covers our head like a veil, with the Star, and we can allow such light to shine through in our connections, too.

The World tells us that, well, the world is our oyster in terms of love in 2026. Though change may rock us with the Tower, we will be brought closer to ourselves, and our sense of connection, with the Star. This allows The World to shine through, and take us to the end of the cycle, which is a feeling of deep completion and a sense of new beginnings. Out with the old, and in with the new, and in this case, much better.