A Grounding Ritual To Help Air Signs Get Out Of Their Heads

When thinking about any astrological sign, understanding the element that sign is associated with can lend a lot of insight. Take air signs, for example; air is volatile and sporadic, and where earth and water are bound to the Earth in a sense, air signs are, well, up in the air and in their heads.

"Air represents the capacities we have in our ability to process information and communicate," Herstik says. "So I think an imbalance often happens where air signs tend to live very much in our head."

"For air signs to find balance, someone can work with breathwork, pranayama. Working with the breath regularly connects the mind with the body and integrates them together. It's been transformative for me," she says. "That and being very present in the moment, not allowing yourself to future-trip. The future-tripping is a sign of an air imbalance."

And if your thoughts are running a mile a minute, another practice Herstik recommends for all the overthinking air signs out there is getting your thoughts out by putting pen to paper.

"You could write a letter; you could write a poem," she says, "or you could just free-write and get everything out of your mind onto a piece of paper."

The idea with journaling in this way, she explains, brings all those thoughts out of your head and into the physical plane, where their newfound tangibility makes them appear much less intrusive. And once you do that... "Rip it up and burn it," Herstik says. "That's working with fire, which is a complementary element to air. And it also releases all those thoughts in that way—if you were feeling yourself getting fixated on a certain thought."