Build Your Life Like a Scientist; Live It Like An Artist

February 27, 2026 | The Solar Rhythm 🌞 | Cosmic Love Letters Archive

Part of the 2026 newsletter series exploring Sovereignty through the Chakras.

Sacral: I can desire and create. But I cannot command emergence. Sovereignty in the Sacral Chakra becomes desire without coercion.

In this issue: Build your life like a scientist; live it like an artist

Today is Dominican Republic’s Independence Day. For years, I only knew this to be true, but not the full story on how my nation came to be liberated.

That’s by design. The less connected we are to where we’ve come from, and the less history we know of the land we live, the more colonization works.

I had a sense in college, as I was beginning my first-generation education / colonization journey in The Americas, that I wanted to know more about where I’d come from. But in between keeping up with the studies of my degree and maintaining my relationship, there was no time to learn more.

Decades before I ever started reading again about the land of my ancestors, it was my family’s storytelling that kept me connected. In the 90s, in between the NY and NJ living rooms, we gathered and told stories and danced.

For holidays, whether they were Dominican or American, for birthdays, births, weddings, and deaths, we gathered out of joy and yes, survival.

And in between the stories, and the silence of navigating this new land without instructions, I discovered a new voice: mine. In Spanish, in English, in dozens of countries around the world, I witnessed infinite versions of myself.

Using Earth to Accomplish

The birthdays between decades have been one of the most pausing transitions I’ve had in my life. Mine began early, when I turned 20.

The night before my 20th birthday, I cried at how “old” I felt. I knew intuitively that the shift from teenager to “-enty” would be significant. It was.

Poetically, just mere months before my 23rd birthday is when papi died. He was 79.5, and despite his age, I didn’t know he’d been ill for years.

The shock of his death threw me into a spiral that would define the first half of my life. I operated with urgency, “Have the experience before it’s too late.”

In quick succession, I got my first tattoo, big chopped my hair, got my nose pierced, and ended my engagement. I wanted to LIVE. And live meant fast.

The problem was, I didn’t know who I was. I didn’t know what I liked, much less what I loved and wanted to devote myself too.

The PhD, while it granted me careers and salaries that facilitated my exploration of the world, was never my full home. It was just the place I lived.

And it was fine for a while. Until it wasn’t.

The question became: What AM I living for?

The triggers for “I can’t do this anymore” are different for everyone. Mine were a combination of feeling spiritually dissonant, plateau’d in my career, and burned out, not from overworking— from undercreating and underconnecting.

Using Earth to Unravel

As a scientist, I’ve approached unraveling my life systemically. Well before I became doctor, I have been a researcher. A documentarian of experiences.

My thirst for living after my father died led me to great adventures around the world. But it also led me through ideas and creativity. Between books and art, and my body, I’ve explored what else is possible on this planet.

I have spent so many years dabbling in my own life while being fully immersed in others’. So when I started my “healing” journey, it was actually me trying to make sense of all that had happened in my life so far.

It's when my psyche started asking: What have I lived? What did I inherit from family, from society? What do I want to keep? What do I give myself permission to release? What story am I telling about my own life?

Returning to Dominican Republic reminded me that liberation looks like joy. What we know of generational trauma is that we have a lot of it collectively, and that systems of oppression have oppressed all peoples at some point.

We know what oppression looks like but what of its opposite, expression? What if all the ideas we had for that song, for that play, that book, that outfit, what if they just all existed? For us to see? What if the purpose of being on Earth is to create the visions that come to mind? And to be present along the way?

That's the question I brought back to Dallas with me.

Using Earth to be an Artist

In the last Lunar newsletter, I talked about the journey of questioning my existence in Dallas and rooting after decades of prolific travel.

The first half of my life helped me develop horizontally, accumulating experiences, skills, and knowledge about being a professional and human alike.

But now I’m entering vertical development, reorganizing how I perceive and relate to experience in my day to day.

After all the mountains, oceans, and monuments I’ve witnessed around the world, I’m choosing to sit down to write what I feel. To paint the light. To draw the lines. To play rhythm on the piano. I’m choosing to join communities where being in the community is the norm, where art is the point of discussion.

Not just once on a trip, but repeatedly. I’m choosing to embed art profusely.

So much of my healing arc at the beginning was focused on inner child. And that is necessary, as that’s where the initial safety of expression lies.

But then comes the inner teenager, the artist, the rebel, the one with big emotions and not big enough containers. That version of us created before it was deemed unproductive, before it was seen as a waste of time.
That version of you needs a seat at the table too. What are her dreams about?

Working With Your Artist

Liberation is not escape. It is expression where you stand.

Earth teaches us that our time is finite**—which means** your depth must be selective. You don't have to live every possible life. But you must choose the life of your desire, repeatedly. That's what I help you do.

Whether you’re a beginning, returning, or experienced artist, use the framework below to gauge your relationship with your artistic desires.

Layer 1 — Consumption “I love this.”
Layer 2 — Identification “I wish I could do this.”
Layer 3 — Permission “What if I try?”
Layer 4 — Practice Showing up. Just practicing.
Layer 5 — Embodiment “I am someone who paints.”
Layer 6 — Transmission Others feel permission because you are practicing visibly.
Announcement: Starting this spring, I’ll be offering one-off private coaching sessions at the Dallas Arboretum. These are 90-minute sessions specifically related to your inner work related to creativity.

For Dallas folks:

Catch me at the Creative Arts Center Fridays in April 2026
 

For everyone else:

Read more about using Queen Mindset Leadership® to navigate your creative inner work. New blog dropped today.

Reminder: You are free to create just because. Do something today.

Con cariño y soberanía,
Dra. García