Author: Suzanne Beenackers

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Retrieved, story added and reposted Jan 2026

Someone told me we’re starting a new 8 year long cycle.
Although I have not been able to track exactly what the astrological profiles of this year are, two search results immediately caught my eye:

The year is considered a “Universal Year 1”, because of its numerology.
2+0+2+6=10= 1+0 = 1
It’s about to give us a complete reboot, no exception (because it’s “universal”).
By the end of this year, none of our lives will be the same.

And in February, notoriously slow moving planets Neptune and Saturn will be coming together in Ares (the first sign of the Zodiac) for the first time in 36 year.
And aside from their slow moving nature and both representing a male energy;
These two planets are definitely on two opposing sides of the spectrum personality wise!

Saturn represents structure, karma, the inevitable. It represents a truth that cannot be changed.
While Neptune represents not just delusion but also imagination and a boundless reality that spans across all dimensions and includes all beings, the living and the dead, and the unknown.

With these two opposing forces both coming together in Ares, the sign of the boisterous and brave Ram – the only one strong enough to save humanity’s ass right now because it keeps pushing forward without looking up nor back! – both our lives as well as our minds will be stretched to their breaking points.

I expect this year to be an equalizer (the “universal” aspect);
But also the year we have to choose what we want to save.

Saturn will demand us to be consistent and will hold us accountability for every choice;
And Neptune will clear what’s left, taking anything we’re wishy washy about into the depths of the ocean.

2026 is a year of reckoning.

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~Suzanne Beenackers
Catacombe
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Some around the time in October/November 2023, when I lost access to this site.
And then a few in between.

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Retrieved, story added and reposted Dec 2025

There are few moments I remember more vividly from the memoir “Eat, Pray, Love” than the moment Elizabeth Gilbert is on the bathroom floor sobbing because her marriage and life are falling apart.
For the first time in her adult life she turns to God, in prayer.

She asks God what she should do, and God answers:
“Go to bed Liz.”

Sometimes life is so overwhelming that we forget the basics of our self-care.

But it also reminds me of a quote I definitely have no recollection of where I heard it or who said it, but it is a pretty well known one.
It’s about a wisdom that you need sit for an x amount of time in meditation every day.
Except when you’re really busy:
Then it’s double.

We’re so busy solving the not-working things that come on our path, or investing in the goals we want to accomplish, dedicating entire chapters of our life to them;
That the day-to-day seems expendable.
Something we can brush aside until we have sorted all that other shit out.

Except, of course;
It isn’t.

You cannot go without sleep, or social life, or keeping your house in good shape.
Regardless of you not remembering five years from now if you attended to them or not.

But on a deeper level, it will have made all the difference if the upcoming years you live by what you know to be true in the area of self-care;
Or if you let it be overwritten by every other urgent thing.

The way I am tackling it recently, is that I dedicate just as much planning and strategy to the self-care as to the rest.

It has its own journal/ planner.
It’s own daily moment of reflection of how the past 24 hours went and what can be improved.

It’s the pillar that says:
You are more than just your work.

You are still human.

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~Suzanne Beenackers
Catacombe
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Holiday break incoming!
This Monday, 22 December, you receive one last post.
And then we’re going on a break until Monday 5 January 2026.

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Starting June 2023, they found their final form as blogposts here on the Catacombe blog, pretty quickly.

But I’ve always been aware there were singular posts/ borderline poetry, still on social media, floating somewhere down my timeline.

Some at the beginning when I did not know what this series would be.
Some around the time in October/November 2023, when I lost access to this site.
And then a few in between.

And in addition to that there are the ones I did post on the blog, but whose stories revolve around things I no longer offer.
I will retrieve those too;
And give them a new story, that has the timeless quality they deserve.

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Retrieved, story added and reposted Dec 2025

For seven full years, I followed the same mentor. She had a change of direction, distancing herself from the work she created when I followed her. Yet if anything my connection to that same work has grown even stronger over time.

It reminds me of my fondness for romantic relationships where there is a borderline insurmountable distance between us.
I have been a fan from male idols since I was a teen. But in my case, this was not a phase but an early sign of my preferred relationship style;
Distance will be mandatory.

And it can be the only element, meaning “we” can have only the distance and not the relationship, as was obviously the case with Jon Bongiovi and Axl Rose, who were my teen idols.
My love blooms in the space between us.

So when the mentor created this distance, the space she left behind excited me.
This was now mine to fill.

It’s been “years” without her *) -quotation marks since she never left my thoughts and I kept studying her work – but it is not until now that I start to see the logic, the brilliance, the deceptively simple principles that were the rock solid foundation under her work.

A set of them, although she never said any of these out loud, would be;

If “it” cannot be NOW?
If at least some action cannot be done immediately?
And if it is not something that you will ingrain and carve into your everyday reality, to be with you until the end of your days?

Then don’t do it.

In all likeliness, your life currently consists of two things:
1. The things you wanna do every day.
AND
2. The things you resent doing;
Postpone;
And then an endless list of shoulds, wants and dreams.

Only one of those two things is your purpose.
And it’s not the second.

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~Suzanne Beenackers
Catacombe
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*) I would like to give you the name of the mentor.
This posted was written weeks ago, and I have since started studying her newer work as well, and was so warmly welcomed by her personally.
You can find her on Instagram under @katrinaruth_ which is her new account.

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Starting June 2023, they found their final form as blogposts here on the Catacombe blog, pretty quickly.

But I’ve always been aware there were singular posts/ borderline poetry, still on social media, floating somewhere down my timeline.

Some at the beginning when I did not know what this series would be.
Some around the time in October/November 2023, when I lost access to this site.
And then a few in between.

And in addition to that there are the ones I did post on the blog, but whose stories revolve around things I no longer offer.
I will retrieve those too;
And give them a new story, that has the timeless quality they deserve.

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Catacombe is email-list free!!

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But no additional or promotional emails are sent – just the blog, sec.

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Retrieved, story added and reposted Nov/Dec 2025

Today, finally, I woke up energized and excited. Because after years of following this creative calling, as described above, I am now in such smooth and easy waters.

Because I figured out WHY creativity is such a complicated calling.

The good news is:
None of it has anything to do with the art itself.
You being inspired to create something will always be the unpredictable, inefficient, vulnerable process, that demands you to show up will all your attention, and give the best of yourself.

Like slugs only eating the freshest youngest leaves (and I remember even going as far as eating only the tip of the asparagus, but I think that is myth since asparagus grows underground!);
In the same way the snail of your creativity will insist on having “only” the tip of the asparagus of your time.

And you can go feed the stalk to the rest, your creativity really doesn’t care.
Just don’t bother them with such inferior, your-attention-all-over-the-place-or-in-your-phone-crap.

Who could blame them.

However!
Aside from our creative calling clearly having impossibly high standards, being territorial and ruthlessly pushing the competition out;
It is all incredibly good news.

Because those asparagus stalks and full-grown crop your creative snail refuses to eat?
Provides excellent building blocks to build what you really need.

Systems.

This can be a business, a blog, a content planner.
A sales strategy, a job, a career, a community.

Your success, growth, and peace of mind are not in the quality of your art.

They’re in how well you’re able to build a system to deliver value;
Or on how well you are able to deliver value within already existing systems.

It’s not just the rule for artists;
This goes for everybody.

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~Suzanne Beenackers
Catacombe
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ABOUT THE LOST POST SERIES

I have been consistently posting “What Do Rock Stars Need To Hear Today” for a while now.
Starting June 2023, they found their final form as blogposts here on the Catacombe blog, pretty quickly.

But I’ve always been aware there were singular posts/ borderline poetry, still on social media, floating somewhere down my timeline.

Some at the beginning when I did not know what this series would be.
Some around the time in October/November 2023, when I lost access to this site.
And then a few in between.

And in addition to that there are the ones I did post on the blog, but whose stories revolve around things I no longer offer.
I will retrieve those too;
And give them a new story, that has the timeless quality they deserve.

.

Catacombe is email-list free!!

Yes – you can subscribe to receive new blogposts;
But no additional or promotional emails are sent – just the blog, sec.

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also goes out on ->
https://www.youtube.com/@TheNewRockStarChannel.

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🗞️📰 since MAY 2024: SUBSTACK