08/28/2026
You’re going to think I made this up. But honestly, it’s so wild I literally couldn’t, even if I tried…🤯😂
Six lunar cycles before I met my husband under a full moon eclipse, I ended a relationship under another one.
It was the end of May 2021, and I had been repeating a relationship pattern that looked eerily similar to the one I had already lived through before, with my ex-husband.
Different man. Different circumstances. Same underlying pattern.
Except this time, I recognized it a lot faster. My intuition had become so strong at that point that I actually knew he had betrayed me before I had any physical evidence.
The night it happened, as I was falling asleep, a woman’s face suddenly appeared in my mind’s eye so vividly that it startled me awake.
I had never seen her before…
But the following night, I did.
That experience ultimately led me to end the relationship, and I remember having this incredibly strong feeling afterward that I had just broken a curse.
I was DONE.
I knew I would never settle for less than what I deserved again.
And honestly, I wasn’t particularly interested in another relationship at all unless it was with my King. The man I was going to marry and build a family with.
The next few months felt like a massive rebirth. And in July, a local DJ friend of mine randomly decided to throw a party called Rebirth.
And if you’ve been following along with my recent stories, you already know that “rebirth” has a rather interesting habit of showing up in my life…
So there I was, newly single, fire dancing my ass off at a party called Rebirth, feeling more alive and more like myself than I had in a long time.
At some point that night I jokingly told my friend that I felt like he had thrown the whole party just for me.
He had no idea what I had just been through or how significant the whole Rebirth theme felt to me at the time.
But without missing a beat, he said:
“I did.” 😂
Obviously, he had not secretly organized an entire party around my breakup lol. But it was one of those little moments where I felt like life was winking at me.
I even jokingly put one of my married guy friends in charge of finding me a husband. His wife was a Goddess, he clearly knew how to keep a Goddess happy, so naturally I decided he was qualified to locate a King for me too. 😂
Then in October, after an incredibly powerful spiritual experience with two friends, The Goddess Reborn poem flowed out of me like lava. 🌋
And on November 5th, I posted a little toast:
“On this Scorpio New Moon I am raising my glass to Death…
To the death of what no longer serves our highest good
So the Light of what does may expand and shine its brightest for the highest goal of all…”
Eleven days later, I met Russel. ❤️🔥👑❤️🔥
And the chain of events that led to us meeting is almost as wild as the night itself.
Shortly before that, one of the women I had shared that powerful experience with ended up staying with me for about a month while I helped her through a really difficult chapter in her life.
At the time, I had been experimenting with something I had already written about in what would eventually become my book, Rise and Shine:
Give when you feel called to give. Give from your heart, for the joy of giving, and don’t worry so much about how it’s going to come back to you.
The Divine is keeping score. We don’t have to.
So I helped my friend because I felt called to help her, without really thinking about what I was going to get out of it.
Turns out, what came out of it was something I never could have predicted…
During the month she stayed with me, we became incredibly close. And toward the end of her stay, one of her best friends came back to Kauai for her babymoon.
Her name was Roxy.
Roxy and I had actually known each other for years. We were both fire dancers and had always been friendly, but she had moved away from Kauai years earlier and we’d never really had a chance to become close.
But because of everything that had happened with our mutual friend, Roxy and I ended up spending a bunch of time together that week.
We went out on a Nā Pali mermaid adventure, did a sweat lodge ceremony, had a Goddess spa day that ended with a lovely potluck, and just had a really beautiful week of women hanging out together.
And while I was staying late one night to help clean up after the Goddess potluck, Roxy mentioned that her cousin was flying in around midnight.
If you read my Magic 8 Ball story, you might remember this part… 😂
He was single, apparently pretty cool, and when I asked Roxy the obviously important question of how tall he was, she said:
“Pretty tall. Like 6’5”-ish.”
Hmm…
I was excited to meet him. 😏
The next day, Roxy reached out to let me know that the massage therapist from our spa day was returning the following day.
Which just so happened to be the day before the full moon eclipse.
And that’s when I finally met Russel.
And this is another one of those little details that meant absolutely nothing to me at the time…
I was actually supposed to get my massage a couple days earlier during our Goddess spa day, but I gave my appointment to my friend’s daughter because she was leaving the island the next day and wouldn’t otherwise get one.
So the massage therapist came back a couple days later for me and Roxy’s mom… which meant I happened to be there the day after Russel arrived.
Funny how that works. 😉
I was hanging out in the living room talking with everyone when I saw him walking around outside through the windows after coming home from surfing.
I remember looking at him and thinking…
“Hmmm. He has nice arms.” 😂
He now tells me that when he walked in and saw me, his first thought was:
“Now THAT is a beautiful woman.”
So clearly, things were off to a promising start. 😉
We all hung out and talked for a while, and then it was time for my massage.
Now, this was a Lomi Lomi massage.
Which, for those of you unfamiliar with Lomi Lomi, basically means you’re naked, covered in massage oil, with a strategically placed sarong covering the important bits.
And the massage table was set up in the living room.
Meanwhile everyone else was making dinner in the kitchen and taking food outside to the barbecue, which required occasionally walking through said living room.
So yeah…
Russel basically saw me naked before we even knew each other. 😅
After the massage, I was still sitting on the table, covered in oil, wearing approximately enough fabric to keep this story Facebook-friendly, when Russel casually wandered over, inserted himself into the conversation I was having with the massage therapist and offered me a snack.
And the funny thing is, toward the end of my massage I had literally been lying there thinking about how hungry I was.
So my internal reaction was basically:
“Oh good, hot surfer brought snacks.” 😂
I immediately knew he was trouble.
But like… the good kind. 😅
That night, we all made plans to go to the beach the following evening to watch the full moon lunar eclipse.
The next day I went over to their house again to make pregnant Roxy fresh tangelo juice from the tree in my yard. While I was talking to him and his aunt about our plans, I mentioned that I wanted to head down early to watch the sunset and moonrise, gather firewood and get everything set up.
And before I even had to ask, he offered to come along and help me.
Perfect. 😇
So that evening, Russel and I headed down to the beach together.
I knew exactly where to find the good firewood, so naturally I loaded up the 6’5” surfer and made him use those nice arms to haul several loads down the hill to our spot. 💪🏼💪🏼
Then he tried to start the fire…but it was a little windy and he was having some trouble.
Now, Russel is literally a Marine, so I wouldn’t be at all surprised if he was actually playing coy. But I am a fire dancer named Soulfire, so I jumped at the opportunity to show off my fire building skills.
And I tell you what, I know how to build a fu***ng fire. 🔥
Apparently this impressed him. 😉
By then the moon had risen over the ocean, the sky was getting darker, and his cousin and aunt were still nowhere to be found.
So we settled in beside our fire, just the two of us.
Then we discovered there was supposed to be a full moon party farther down the beach, and eventually a bunch of people started showing up.
But someone had forgotten part of the DJ equipment, so instead of the big loud dance party they had planned, it turned into this much smaller, mellower gathering with some small speakers and live musicians jamming along to the music.
Which honestly worked out perfectly for us. There was music drifting down the beach, people started fire dancing near the other fire, and we basically ended up with our own little private VIP fire and a fire-dancing show… quite the ambience. ✨
Eventually Roxy and her mom showed up and we did a little ceremony together while the eclipse began.
At one point we were all lying on our blankets watching the sky, and Russel reached over and quietly took my hand.
Which was pretty dang cute. ☺️
Later, Roxy and her mom went home because it was getting late and pregnant Roxy was very tired. IYKYK 🤰🏻
But Russel and I stayed, and then things started getting wild…
About a month earlier, I had noticed this group of stars in the sky that looked like a giant heart. And that night, the eclipsed moon just so happened to be sitting right inside it.
So of course I pointed it out to Russel.
As I’m showing him this giant heart in the stars surrounding the eclipsed moon, nēnē geese go flying over us, squawking into the night. Again, IYKYK. 😉
And then…
A huge, bright shooting star goes flying straight through the heart toward the moon. 💫
I KID YOU NOT.
We both shouted “WOAH!” and laughed in amazement.
“That was crazy!” 🤯
I mean seriously, you can’t make this up.
And somewhere in the midst of all this magic, the hot surfer and I were obviously starting to like each other. 😏
A little later, Russel tried to kiss me while we were standing beside the fire, but I turned my head so he had to kiss my cheek instead. 😂
It wasn’t that I didn’t want to kiss him. I did.
But we were standing next to this smoky fire and it just didn’t feel like the right moment, and I didn’t want our first kiss to be contaminated by campfire smoke. 😂
Which is kind of ridiculous considering my name is Soulfire…
What can I say?
Women are complex creatures. 😅
Sometime after the moonlight had started returning, we decided to go for a walk down the beach. By then the neighboring party had mostly died down. The speakers were off and there were only a few people left sitting around the fire.
But there was this beautiful girl there singing the most mesmerizing, almost operatic love song.
We walked over to listen, and as we got closer and I could finally see her face in the moonlight, I realized I knew her…
It was my friend’s daughter…
And her name was Amora. ❤️🔥
Because apparently the giant heart, eclipsed moon, nēnē geese and shooting star weren’t subtle enough. 😂
We listened to her sing for a while, thanked her for sharing her beautiful gift of music, and then continued walking down the beach, eventually sitting together on some rocks beside the ocean.
And then Russel took me through this powerful breathwork experience, after which we sat there taking in the beauty of the ocean sparkling in the moonlight before heading back to our fire.
The moon was fully illuminated by then. And the nēnē flew over us AGAIN.
At this point it was probably after 1am, and I have this little tradition I like to do where I jump into the ocean under the full moon before heading home. 🌊
Neither of us had brought swimsuits though, so naturally, I invited the man I had known for approximately 24 hours to go skinny-dipping with me. 😂
I mean… he’d basically already seen me naked anyway and it was nighttime so what the heck?!
(I realize this sounds quite risqué, but it was honestly completely innocent. I wasn’t trying to seduce the man, I’m just kind of a hippie.) 😅
So we stripped down and ran into the ocean under the full moon. 🍑🍑🌝
And when I came back out, Russel was waiting for me with a big beach towel and wrapped me up in it.
❤️🔥
Of course, I had absolutely no idea what had just begun.
I didn’t know he would extend his trip just so we could have more time and spend almost every day of the next three weeks together.
I didn’t know the magic was somehow going to get even crazier from there.
And I certainly didn’t know that the hot surfer who brought me snacks while I sat naked on a massage table would become my husband and the father of my daughter. ❤️🔥👑❤️🔥
But looking back now, this is the part that really gets me…
Six lunar cycles earlier, under another full moon eclipse, I had walked away from a pattern I had been repeating for years.
The same pattern I talked about in my first eclipse post…
Different people.
Different relationships.
Different faces.
Leaving my first husband four years earlier after that solar eclipse was a massive turning point in my life, but I was still learning how to recognize and decode the patterns my experiences were reflecting back to me.
So when that pattern showed up again in a different form, I recognized it sooner. I listened to myself sooner. And I got out sooner.
Eventually something shifted deeply enough that I didn’t just leave another unhealthy relationship… I stopped being available for that kind of relationship altogether.
The pattern changed first, and THEN my life reflected that change.
And looking backward, I can see so many of the seemingly random threads that somehow brought Russel and me together.
Helping my friend.
Her staying with me.
Becoming closer with Roxy.
Giving away my massage.
Going back to the house on the exact day I did.
All these little choices that seemed completely unrelated at the time, because that’s the thing…
You can’t always read the whole story while you’re still inside it.
Sometimes we’re living in the middle of a sentence wondering why none of it makes sense…
And every once in a while, we get to look back and finally understand how perfectly it was being written all along.
Five and a half years ago, an eclipse marked the end of a story I was finally ready to stop repeating.
Six lunar cycles later, another one opened a chapter I never could have written for myself.
Tonight, another full moon rises into an eclipse.
And I’ll be watching it beside the King who found his way into my heart beneath one five years ago. ❤️🔥🌕👑❤️🔥
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