All righty, it is the Awake Space Astrology podcast.
I'm Lori Rivers, your host here to help you with some
inspiration to get those aspirations out into the.
World this podcast is being. Recorded live in Patreon.
And to answer Maria's lovely question, Hello Lori.
How are you? Well, it's 2:37 AM mountain
time. I spent all day being meticulous
in my recording only to find out I had technical problems.
No matter what I did to try to fix that audio, it wasn't
getting fixed. So we're doing it all over again
and I get to do it with you. How exciting.
I didn't go to the studio to record it, thank God, because I
would have been really frustrated because Sir Malcolm
isn't feeling very well. He is 13 years old and his hips
are hurting and he's been wanting to be very attached to
the Mama. So we'll get him into the vet
and get him some pain meds because at his age, I wouldn't
put him into surgery. So but there we go.
So good morning, good morning, good morning.
Happy Monday, everybody. And we are recording alive.
So I had plans for this podcast and you know what they say the
best laid plans go to waste, but we will definitely talk about
the exactly what I was going to talk about on the podcast.
And one of those things is, is I had a wonderful conversation
with Maverick Choice, who has been a member of this community
for years now as an astrology student of mine.
Sorry I'm old. They are an amazing holistic
therapist and coach and they're starting a coaching program.
And I invited them to talk about the the danger of being overly
attached to the pathology of a label and how you can turn your
neurodivergence into a superpower with time and care.
And she's got a six month program coming.
That interview will be up. It doesn't start until December,
the program. And so we'll get it up and get
it in the position it deserves. Love Maverick to pieces.
And it's been a joy to watch them in their journey and their
understandings and unfoldings and how they synthesize all of
the beautiful teachings they've been studying.
And they inspired me. And I was thinking about the
language I use when I talk about training your mercury and how
that could be discouraging to people with an ADHD diagnosis or
an autism or a spectrum diagnosis or any kind of
learning challenge. And I meditated after our
conversation and I thought, how can I find better language to
talk about how to adapt your thinking?
And the word that came to me instead of training or
discipline, which neither one of those are negative words to me.
They excite me 'cause that's how my little neurodivergent brain
works. It's like new stuff and you guys
are witnessing my discipline, as I say here, rerecording the
podcast and the word that came to me was tuning.
So I want to ask the audience, what do you think of the term
tuning your mercury? What do you think of that
instead of training? I think it's a it's a smoother
term. It feels smoother.
I have synesthesia, so words feel and have texture.
Yeah. You love the Yes as an ex
violinist. Yeah.
And that's what I was thinking of tuning an instrument or
finding your pitch. Yeah.
And so because our Natal Mercury is.
How? We process input, and not just
words and thoughts, but also textures.
It's how we perceive, and it's how we output our understanding
of perception. Right?
Yeah, you can tune the radio. And thoughts are frequencies of
energy. We have thought waves, we have
thought patterns, right? And there's energetic
frequencies. The sign your Mercury is in and
the house your mercury is in describes.
How you? Best receive and transmit
information blocks of thought because thoughts are energy and
by learning to tune to the frequency that is the preferred
one for yourself. OK, is, is a life practice,
right? And we all have thoughts and
habits that don't serve us. And those could be through
social cultural programming in the theosophical literature,
they used to call it inherited, inherited thought patterns.
And those are that's, that's just cultural and and social.
And it could be family patterns. And we love to blame mom and dad
or grandma and grandpa. And maybe they do deserve some
blame, but it goes so far back. It's so far back.
It's hard to find the beginning of it when we think about it.
And so learning to tune into thoughts that, and I'm not
talking about bypassing, but just thoughts that serve us
better is what I'm going to be talking about today.
And the reason for that is because we have Mercury conjunct
Mars still, as I'm recording this with you, it was all day
yesterday and I was thinking it's in Scorpio.
Scorpio is a great time to transform and take.
And with Mercury conjunct Mars, that's like transformative
action, the the thoughts following the action and the
action following the thoughts. And it can be really impulsive
on one level, but on another, it can be a great epiphany.
That's a transforming epiphany. And that's what I'm hoping I
leave you with. So as I always say in the
introduction, get your tea, get your coffee, get your matcha,
get your Red Bull, get your H2O because it is the Awake Space
Astrology podcast and we are going to be on this ride
together. So whether I'm helping you get
the laundry done, or we're on a hot girl or a hot guy walk, or
we're settling down for a nice rest, or we're going to school
or whatever we're doing, if we're in traffic, you get a
beautiful bubble to help you through your commute and you'll
always get perfect parking because that's my special mojo.
Thanks to everybody for their well wishes for my buddy
Malcolm. A lot of times people think he's
my boyfriend, but he's actually my dog and we've been together
now for Oh my gosh, what, 12 years?
He's 13. He might be even older, but
that's the best guess. And he's just been he cried out
in pain a little bit ago, like, you know, couple days ago.
He doesn't whine or cry. And so again, I'll get him into
the vet and we'll get him some some pain medication or
something because he was a jumping fool when he was a young
dog and he hasn't been jumping a lot over the last four years.
But he didn't complain much either.
So he's a very stoic terrier and he's been not feeling his best.
So thanks for the Reiki, thanks for the love.
And and he spent the day with me today because he didn't want me
to go. And I do accommodate my dog and
it didn't ruin my day. I'm going to tell you that
because I am blessed to have this guy with me for the many
years that I have, and I'm going to accommodate the crap out of
him. He is a Taurus.
He is. And being uncomfortable isn't
good, So, but he's eating, he's drinking, he's doing all the
biological functions. So he's doing good, just getting
old. And I'm not there yet myself.
But my mother, she was like, yeah, I know what that feels
like. So we're going to just treat him
up and make him feel better. So thank you for your patience.
And I think it's kind of fun to record the podcast together as a
treat. The.
Audio drivers in my computer were the problem, even though I
bought, you know, a new mic for the Home Office, a new sound
interface, and I was still having so much noise and no
amount of editing was fixing it. So yeah, so.
But anyway, so I always say consciousness expresses in a
spectrum and I've been trying to think of practical ways of, of
positing this to people and, and helping you really understand.
You're never, ever stuck. You know, you, you, you can tune
your tuner to frequencies that are more minimal.
I last week I talked about the tug of war.
This week I want to talk about the transformations and
transformations are are done in small incremental steps.
We don't ever want to make a giant leap because again, go
back to last week's episode and we were talking about bouncing
around in our consciousness, but learning to question ourselves
and use discernment towards ourselves.
You know, if you have thought patterns that are less than
helpful for yourself. Like I'm all alone, I nobody
gets me, I'm weird, I'm a freak, I'm too much, I'm not good
enough. I'm the only one, you know, I'm
afraid of rejection. In fact, that's something
Maverick and I talked about was rejection sensitivity and, and
how to kind of work through that really, really powerful
interview. So I can't wait to get it up for
you guys and those repetitive. Thoughts.
We have are habits OK? Doesn't mean they aren't true.
They can be true in a certain reality, but that doesn't mean
it's the only reality we can experience.
And so when we have these repetitive thought patterns, we
can ask ourselves a few questions.
And this is something you learn to practice in the mystery
school curriculum. You know you can.
Ask yourself. Those same coaching questions we
do in the hot seat, You know, where does this feel in my body?
How, how is this serving me? Not in Not in a judgmental or
condescending way. We don't want to beat ourselves
up that that defeats the purpose of investigation, but in a
curiosity way, like how is this serving me?
How is this helping me? What is this doing for me?
Is this to my benefit? Is thinking this thought really
doing me any favors? You know, how else could I look
at this? You know, just like if, if you
have a hard time learning something, it it doesn't mean
you can't ever learn it, it just you don't know everything right
now. And so when we.
When we. Learn to self examine our
thoughts and be like wow I think that thought a lot.
I wonder how I could change just a little bit of that.
Like, man, I'm never going to get it.
This is too hard. Maybe.
What can I do differently? Right.
Yeah, exactly. Danny says the thought forms can
be strong. They can, especially if they're
well practiced. And I remember your tip of
adding yet. So like, I'm never going to get
it. Well, I I might get it.
I just haven't gotten it yet. And notice how you just like
you're weakening that very strong thought for him, right.
And Katie says that she used those coaching questions all the
time in the mystery school for the win.
Yeah, it's it's a great self actualizing process.
The New Moon in Libra is coming up on the 21st, and that's one
of the things that got me thinking about this as well.
We've got Mercury conjunct Mars and Scorpio.
This is a great time to take action on transforming our
thinking. Don't think you're going to get
it all at once or not. I still work on myself.
I've been doing this stuff for decades, you know, like decades,
and I'll still find less than useful thoughts popping up that
I have to be like, hey, what's going on with that?
Yeah, but how can I think about this differently?
How long do I want to feel this way?
That's one of my favorite coaching questions with clients
is that they're like, I'm really pissed, you know?
Like, you're really pissed. Well, you sound really pissed,
you know? Yeah.
Well, how long do you want to be there?
And that's usually shocking to somebody because everybody's
trying to get you not to be angry or not to be frustrated or
not. And.
And does it give somebody permission to say, hey, well,
yeah, I I kind of want to be mad for the next hour.
OK. You want to set a timer for
that? And then how do you want to feel
after that? What do you want to do with it?
Because it's OK to feel any feeling, whether it's fear,
grief, pain, right? You feel all the feelings.
It's languishing in them. And I used to say luxuriating in
them because as a Cancer sun, Cancer Mercury, we can mope
pretty well. And so it's sometimes it does
feel good to wallow a little bit in the muck and have a pity
party and, and eat some emergency carbs and luxuriate in
it. It's human.
But do we want to live there all the time?
No, it leads to bad personal hygiene.
And that's a joke. But the Libra new moon is that
28 degrees 21 minutes of Libra. It's at the very end of the
sign. It's a very matured new moon and
it's in the third day can notice how carefully I pronounced that
because this will be downloaded. Hopefully captions will be put
in, but anyway, so be in the third day can, which is governed
by Gemini, which is governed by Mercury.
And so to set the intentions and we'll do the intention setting
guide later before the new Moon. We want to have really clear
thoughts and I've got to, we'll move into the new moon talking a
little bit, but we want to have really clear understanding of
our intentions for this. Not that they won't work if we
don't, but we want to. Come to them with.
Curiosity cause Mercury and Mercury ruling.
Gemini is curious. It's very curious.
What does this button do? I wonder how this could.
Work. I wonder what else I could do.
I wonder how can I approach this in a different way, so when my
software and my sound wasn't working.
At first. My stubbornness came in and I
was like, I'm not going to rerecord.
Spent all day recording. Like hell am I going to record
again. Those were my thoughts.
Well, guess what I'm doing at 2:56 AM Mountain Time on Monday
the 20th of October. I'm rerecording in my Patreon
because I don't trust anything for right now and I guess AWS is
down. I said there'd be Internet
disturbances, so we're doing it on my phone and I'm doing it in
Patreon because I sat there after updating all the drivers
I've already. Bought new equipment?
I haven't been happy with the sound.
I knew it wasn't, not the microphones.
And I was like, what else can I do?
What resources do I have? And that's how I walked.
Out. Very quickly from the
frustration to taking action. Was what do I have that I can
use? Well, I've got Patreon.
And I don't think any patron is going to complain about being
available while I record this. So gets to be a treat, right?
So that's some of the things we can do is come with curiosity.
What else do I have? What resources do I have?
What can I? Do differently.
These are all good questions to ask ourselves with Curiosity as
we move towards the New Moon on the 21st.
And Mercury will still be an orb to Mars.
And we'll do. Actually, I'll just go through
the New Moon Special podcast in this live recording and I'll
just edit it to be a separate file.
How's that? We'll just.
Get it all done now. Sometimes you have to punt and
sometimes you have to laugh through it, but yeah, see, there
you go. I have no complaints in the chat
here and it's actually kind of fun for me to have an audience
anyway. But sometimes why it takes me
longer to record 'cause I TuneIn kind of to the audience.
Like I, I try to tune in, like, what do people really need?
But what would be soothing for them?
What would people enjoy? How can I help them get through
the week differently, You know? And so, yeah, I'm writing on the
cosmic waves, I can tell you that much.
It's at this point I had to tune up pretty high, No substances,
just just my thoughts. And I'm glad I've got a comment
here from Laura saying couldn't sleep and this is soothing.
So I'm glad to hopefully put you to sleep.
I've got another extra that I'll put in as well.
I came up with a meditation that will help people tune their
mercuries. Tune your mind.
When we look at esoteric literature, metaphysical
literature, the energy work side of things, learning how to tune
your mind is essential because too.
Often. There is this compulsion to move
with frequencies that don't service.
That's how we can be manipulated.
That's how we get told we're deficient.
We're not enough. Look at every single commercial
telling you you're not thin enough, you're not pretty
enough, you're not handsome enough, you're not ripped
enough. You've got too many wrinkles,
you've got too much Gray hair. Look at the young people getting
Botox, you know, and they don't have any skin problems or facial
problems. You know, I see, you know, 20
year olds doing it. And unless you've got a migraine
or a reason, you know, like TMJ, you, you are beautiful.
You learn to see your beauty. But you know, you, they don't
make any money off that. In spiritual quote UN quote
spiritual circles, so often there is misinformation taught
because somebody's on an ego trip and they want followers.
I am reluctant in this position. Very reluctant.
I was actually really happy living a fairly monastic life.
Meaning, give me my books and my studies and my practices.
I love to teach, but I don't want followers.
I want people who want to grow and learn and expand.
And if I can share something I've learned, great.
And then go off and prosper and gather and spread it yourself,
you know? And so when we learn to manage
our consciousness, that's another word for tuning our
mercury. It's understanding how to notice
where we're at. And.
How to switch it up into a space that serves us better?
Sometimes being in a self defensive consciousness is
worthy and necessary because sometimes we do have to defend
ourselves. And sometimes in defending
ourselves, we show other people. 'S self advocacy.
Other times it's good to be in a, you know, transactional
mindset, which is our social conditioning because if you're
going to the grocery store and you're just walking through and
you're saying superficial hellos and nodding to neighbors, that's
a social contract. And, and it's OK, they said hi,
I'm going to say hi back. There's nothing wrong with that.
And then other times we might want to double think of how
we're responding and we're not on a default program and we want
to be more deliberate in our consciousness.
I think I've decided to change it from transcendent because too
many people equate that with enlightenment and, and you know,
perfection. And, and I think just
deliberation in our consciousness, making the
decision how I wish to respond versus react to life.
When we can see where we are in our consciousness, we can
observe it and decide, is this where I want to be right now?
Is this how I want to feel right now?
Is this how I want to respond right now?
If you know, and right now there's a real tug of war going
on because we see a lot of despotism and injustice and
cruelty and, and, and heartbreaking unmerciful
behavior all over the place. And, and it's easy to be
debilitated in those thoughts. I too, I can watch those videos
and listen to the news and just feel abject grief.
And then we witnessed such beautiful actions like have what
happened on Saturday, October 18th, and people coming out in
the hundreds of thousands, 7 million people just in this
country, just in the United States coming together
peacefully, joyfully coming together in community.
And we are. The tears were joyful.
The relief was joyful. No, it's not going to change the
world right now, but it let people know they weren't alone.
And for all of the 7 million that showed up, they had people
supporting them like I was teaching.
I couldn't go because my class started at exactly the time of
the protest because somebody me didn't use their noggin when
they scheduled it. But what was I teaching people
how to do? Use their natural rhythms to
make decisions in their businesses.
And these are solar printers. These are people with small
businesses, writers, an optician, an esthetician, you
know, people who are one person operations with maybe some help,
you know, and that's how we change the world, right?
So that was my subversion that day was teaching people how to
thrive and use their own natural personal rhythms to make a
difference in the world and make a difference in their own life.
And that's great. And my parents represented at
the protest and met lots of young people and they were so
excited young people were there this time because last time
there wasn't so many young people and they protested, you
know, things like Vietnam too. So they're old aunts.
So it's important to understand with the current energies, we
don't want to stay in that despair.
That's how they defeat us. They rob us of joy.
And it can be very triggering for us who have experienced
abuse in any way. Because one thing abusers do is
they make you feel powerless. They they rob you of your joy.
They rob you of hope and a lot of times they'll wait till you
have a good day and then the other shoe drops and and a lot
of our lower psychic ability is often developed in traumatic
circumstances. So this can be a very triggering
time for people. And that's why there are those
saying your joy is the antidote because that that's what they
fear. Because if you are in a more
relaxed consciousness or a more empowered consciousness, you're
better able to make decisions for yourself and other people
around you. You're less likely to operate
out of fear. And that's cold comfort when
it's affecting your family. That's cold comfort when it's
directly impacting you and your community.
And yet, when we look at the great leaders in social justice
movements, every single one has talked of hope and resolve.
There's been a lot of Maya Angelou's work on TikTok
recently, and I heard Joan Baez singing in Spanish at the San
Francisco rally I saw. I saw beautiful videos of Joan
Baez, she's an old hand at this and they speak of strength and
love and fortitude and yes, the big feelings of fear, etcetera,
and oppression. But you, you, we can't bow to
that. And if we have an ounce of
privilege, showing up for those who can't show up for themselves
is essential globally. And one of the things that gives
me great hope is there are people all over the world who
are standing up for right human relations, for right thinking.
And this these are terms that are used in theosophy.
So when they talk about right, they mean aligned, you know,
aligned, not unaligned. It doesn't mean right or left.
It means or even correct its alignment.
It is rated right when you write an object that has fallen.
So with the New moon coming with Curiosity, with Mars and Mercury
conjunct transformative thoughts, it's a powerful,
powerful thing. The New moon in Libra is about
mutuality and it's about mature relationship.
It's not about hearts and flowers and romance.
That would be Taurus's job. Thank you very much.
Libra is about the contracts or social contracts, our mutual
obligations, our agreements, our ability to negotiate mutually
beneficial arrangements and so often through social and
cultural programming in relationship with other.
And this would be one-on-one relationships.
So best friends, business partners, clients, like if you
do one-on-one consulting or you know, if you're a reader, a
therapist, a consultant of any kind.
And then of course our significant others or our
roommates can fall into the 7th house, of course.
But that marriage is a contract and all contracts are
negotiated. It is often because of
socialization and cultural beliefs that we don't make
mutual agreements. We operate off default settings
or cultural and social beliefs. There will be those online
saying with this new moon in Libra is the time to manifest a
partner. And I'm going to say no, it is
not time to manifest a particular person.
It is a time to manifest, OK, We're set intentions around what
partnership actually means to you and mature the
understanding. So in a general view, before we
get into specifics for the patron only podcast, in a
general view, being curious and asking yourself, what does
partnership really mean to me? What is a mutual partnership?
What is the give and take? What am I willing to give and
what am I willing to receive in this?
Because a lot of times people say I just want somebody to get
me. I want somebody to understand
me. But if you don't understand
yourself, how the hell can you expect anybody else to
understand you? You have to be able to
communicate you to you before you can communicate you to
anybody else. And for nobody else is going to
show you who you are. They're going to show you where
you've been. OK, So because this is a mature
new moon in Libra for us on the personal level, since it has a
light quality of Gemini ruled by Mercury, we want to come with
maybe a little sense of humor. We want to come in with our
questions for ourselves of what does clarity around partnership
look like to me? Whether you're in partnership,
what can be renegotiated? Where have you maybe given more
than you receive? Or maybe you haven't even
allowed yourself to ask for what you really want, because maybe
you haven't let yourself admit what you actually want or need,
right? Torres, as ruled by Venus, is
about what needs do you have. What does security look like?
Libra ruled by Venus is how you negotiate to get it met.
OK, so come with curiosity. What does clarity look like and
feel like to you? When your thoughts are super
clear, how does your body feel? Feel into that.
Take a deep breath and breathe it in and exhale.
It out and ask. Yourself, what does clarity feel
like in my body when I really, really am clear and come from
that space when you set your intentions and the intention
setting part of this podcast is patron only.
So we'll go house by house in that and we will make sure that
you get some some help in that. If you get the magazine, if
you're in the horoscope or the, you know, the deep dive and
horoscope tier, the $15 tier and up, you already have some
information on setting intentions with this new moon
coming up on the 20. It's a powerful new moon,
doesn't really have a lot of crappy stuff happening with it.
It's it's. And most new moons aren't all
that dramatic anyway. But it's very powerful on a
collective level. We're looking at the social
contract, we're looking at what is.
Right and just and. Fair not just to ourselves, but
to those around us and and saying, you know.
This is what matters so. We can't force other people
through our intentions, right? It would be nice, but imposing
our will on others or trying to manipulate others into
agreement? It only works just so far.
You can have a very strong will and will things into being.
They usually fall apart pretty fast, you know, and by pretty
fast. I'm thinking in geologic time,
you know, it might work for you now, but it may not in 20 years.
So we really don't want to look at I want this particular person
or this particular job or I need this.
I need society to wake up. Well, you know, work on you.
How can you be more clear if you're awake?
What are you doing with your wokeness?
How are you taking action in the world?
If you have a modicum of privilege, how are you using
that to make a difference? It's it's OK to.
Opine it's OK to have. Opinions.
But what are you doing about it? How are you making things?
Better in your local community in in because people are looking
at the big picture. But so much of what is acted out
happens at the local level, and that's why I've been hammering
on that. And I want to remind you, if
you're looking for action steps, we're starting at the very
beginning at the American Blueprint Civics for everyday
people. That is.
I've decided I'm just going to. Publish the the podcast through.
Patreon and it's at patreon.com/american Blueprint.
You can read about it in the show notes, but anyway, every.
Single episode, there's an action.
Step you can take and we're starting bite sized.
Pieces we're starting with. You know, watching a city
meeting or a county meeting and finding out what's important to
you and that and, and then we'll get to greater and greater
action steps. Don't think the little stuff
isn't important because you're all about to find out over the
next year or so how very, very important local government is.
And that's why they don't want you thinking about it.
That's why they always want you looking at the president.
Yes, we've seen the dangers of having a bad one and we've seen
what holes need to be plugged up, but in the social contract
you'll see how important local is and even the smallest act.
Is going to have an impact, so none of you are without power.
They wouldn't be trying to. Oppress you if you.
Didn't have it. All right, let's give some
really important patron shout outs.
Thanks to all the patrons who hung out with me as we recorded
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proud. So walk on and enjoy the rest of
the podcast. The Grand Trine's happening.
This week, because there's. More than one.
We've got Mercury and Mars conjunct throughout the week.
It's moving into a nice tight grand trine between Jupiter and
Saturn, and this is a great time for not just deconstruction,
because I think too many. People look at deconstruction.
Without an eye to reconstruction, because you have
to, you don't just tear something apart and leave it
there. If you've ever renovated a
house, you know you don't just leave a room unfinished.
Not if you want to be comfortable and and so
deconstructing and taking responsibility and
accountability. For for the roles we pay play
default. Through social programs and and
social class and economic status and blahdy blahdy blah and our
biases, etcetera. It's not that that isn't
important, but then what? How do you build?
Forward and this is a great time to transform our thoughts at.
Large and our. Thoughts on the inside and I
talked about tuning your Mercury at the beginning of the podcast
and this is a great time to retune our thinking and and be.
Very deliberate. And intentional and recognize
how we think ourselves into disempowerment.
How we allow? Ourselves to be disempowered and
how and instead of blaming ourselves because I see that so
much like Oh my God, I've done this to myself I've I've held
myself back my stinking thinking got in the way and that self
flagellation it's it's on one hand it's debilitating on the.
Other it's self indulgent. And and you're human,
everybody's human. We do this.
So notice and redirect. That's how you make the
transformation. This is a massively alchemical
time to transform our thinking in ways that not.
Only help. Embolden US, Empower us.
Infuse us with our agency. It's also, you know.
A remarkable time to shift our. Thinking and our consciousness
in ways that allow us to really dig into living you know we get
X amount of time on this planet and.
It's short. It goes by so fast.
It's there's so much more we can do when we give ourselves
permission to grow. And that energy is here.
There's nothing more wonderful than, you know, being able to
transcend. Our former self.
And that that means? Rise above it.
To transform and become a version of self that is
outstandingly almost. Unimaginable at a certain.
Point in our life and we can make those radical shifts, you
know, in moments sometimes. You know.
And then other things we have to strategize.
And realize it's. Incremental and not put
pressure. On ourselves but that that's
part of this and then as. We go through the week we have
between about the 20. 3rd and the. 28th Mars really tucks into
that grand trine and with Jupiter and Saturn and on a
collective level. This is.
This is power to the people. And this is.
Global and you're going to be seeing people.
Really rising up and demanding. You know, there's a lot of power
and a lot of force. People forget that Scorpio and,
and you know, in a modern sense, especially as it's governed by
Pluto, is about power and people see it as destructive energy.
It's not it's power, it's understanding power and it's
like the people. Start to really.
Understand where the power truly.
Lies. And there will be pushback
potentially against the people and I don't think it's going to
be that effective. But I do think as we go through,
the weak, the weak minded, the insecure, the controlling,
domineering, abuse of consciousnesses are going to
push back in the face of joy and, and they're going to lose
this battle. This is not a battle they're
going to win, but they're going to amp up and the people are not
going to have it. And I think we're going to see
some truly historic things between now and the end of the
month. I'm very excited about it.
It is, it's a push. It's not an end.
It's not an end point, but I think the people will be
emboldened, and that's in so many different places in the
world. And again, anybody who grew up
with dominance and control, factoring in their life, you
know, what happens when you start to succeed and there's
somebody who wants to control you, They're going to make it
harder. They're going to throw obstacles
at you. But I think we're going to see
people kind of linking arms and being like, no, no, no.
So this is I I the fellowship of the rings keeps coming into my
mind with, you know, the support of one another is 1 stumbles,
another gathers them. The energy of Samwise Ganges,
that wonderful. Loyal.
Kind friend who could walk through Mordor and and get his
friend to the goal. That is how we can be for each
other and I'm very bold in there on an.
Individual. Level.
This is creative, powerful if you are an artist, a musician,
if you are a poet, a writer, if you're a dancer, if if you just
love those things, if you're a therapist, if you're a
counselor, a coach, an astrologer, A metaphysician, any
human being. Whatever you're whenever.
You connect to the muse. And if you've ever done that
when you're. Aligned, and the energy is
flowing and it's coursing through your system and you
could feel it, sense it, taste. It, touch it, see it.
And and you're just vibrant and the energy is coursing through
your system and it feels like it will never end.
Tap into this because this is a fire hose of creation.
And remember, for anything that happens that appears
destructive, there is an equal opposite reaction to that and
that is creativity. And for every act of war, there
is an act of peace. And people are going to be
demanding this. And Linda, one of our patrons
here has commented, People are recognizing that joy is a valid
expression, not of resistance necessarily, but of claiming a
different future. Yes, it is stating this is the
reality we are setting. The foundation for this is.
How we build forward, the people are.
Showing resilience and they are showing there is a way to go.
There is faith, there is hope, there is peace, there is love,
there is justice, and this gets created forward and that is the
thing I am most excited about. As we move through October,
there will be things in the external world that are
difficult to witness. And yet if you put your focus on
the people who stand resilient in these times, the people who
continue to uplift and be of service regardless of how heavy
it is, the people who show up. Michael the librarian, my God,
he does his service. Mandy Patinkin and his wife
often giving strong messages. People who are using their
privilege, their voice, their influence are showing that
people it's OK to ask for help, it's OK to express the struggle.
Don't live in it. OK, I think people often
misunderstand me. I'm not a hive.
I have only person It's OK to express our work and and
resilience means the ability to bounce back after challenging
circumstances. And and if we don't acknowledge
the challenging circumstances, how the hell do we know we
bounce back? We can move forward And and I've
mentioned earlier in the podcast that some of the great poets
have been their words have been circulating through TikTok.
Doctor Maya Angelou's words, profound wisdom there somebody
who struggled and suffered and spoke truth to power.
Great, great wisdom, and it's a shame when we.
Say, oh, it's too bad. She's not here to inspire us.
When she planted the seeds in anyone who heard her words to be
with her and to stand with her and to express like her seem
like Mr. Rogers, we as grown adults are not.
To look for the helpers. We are to be the helpers.
We don't need another Mr. Rogers.
We need that Mister Rogers inside of us to.
Show up. He planted the seeds.
OK, every single great teacher, every single world teacher, has
planted the seeds to allow each person to express and to be.
Authentically in themselves. You don't have to act like them.
You have to challenge, channel that of you out into the world
if you want to. Be the change in the world you
seek. You've got to do that inside job
first if you want to see. People, be braver.
You need to be braver. And that braver could just be
that you decide to leave the house today and look up at the
grocery store and say hi to somebody and risk risk
rejection, risk them not saying hi back, right?
You can hold the door. For someone and make their day,
you could buy somebody a coffee, you could hand somebody a pair
of stocks socks. You could ask that goofy and
bring joy to a small child. You could find volunteer
opportunities. Rejection's part of life.
They're going to be people who think you're the bee's knees,
and they're going to be people who think you're a.
Fool nobody. Likes being rejected.
It's. Part of life, right?
Yeah. And Elizabeth says, as somebody
who's been on the receiving end of a random smile, it really
can't change the whole day. I asked strangers saved my life
when I was 19 years old. They'll never know it.
I was walking in London and I was having very dark thoughts,
and it was very difficult time. And I was contemplating what I
could do to not feel that way anymore.
I didn't want to feel at all anymore.
And in London, nobody gave you eye contact.
And I kind of like that I came from a small town and it was
impossible to be anonymous. And I really.
Loved the anonymity of London. But at 19, walking down this
road, just really not able to escape the way I was feeling and
being raw on the inside and being stoic on the outside.
And across the street, this woman in a lovely cloche hat
looked at me straight in the eyes and smiled and saved my
life because I was so startled by her looking in my direction.
There was no one else around. There was only me.
It could have been an Angel was a human Angel, but I was so
startled she disrupted my thoughts.
Maybe she was psychic, maybe she was just a helper, or maybe she
was just a really nice lady and I was so distracted.
Wondering why, she smiled. At me, I forgot all those
horrible feelings. We can switch our consciousness
in an instant. We can switch our consciousness
in a moment. It takes 90 seconds to.
Wash. The hormones through the body of
anger, rage, emotional pain, negative thinking.
We takes 90 seconds. That is a minute and 1/2.
We can switch our. Consciousness and if you think
you're not needed on the planet at this time, think again.
This is a collective experience and no one is remiss from it.
This is a collective experience and everybody has an opportunity
to contribute and you contribute.
Whether you do so deliberately. Or not.
Imagine using your agency to align your consciousness into a
better feeling space, so you feel better in your own skin and
you're transmitting that out into the world.
And it uplifts people, whether you.
Purposely uplift others or not. You contribute to the energetic
and magnetic field. There's no magic wand.
Except us. We are it.
Right, right. And JC says I too have been in
the depths of despair and kept going due to a simple kindness,
those simple acts of kindness not to make anything happen.
We don't have to know what someone is going through.
We could just. Be a little.
Kinder, a little gentler. Not just with other people, but
with ourselves. I am you and you are me, and we
are we together, said The Beatles.
And with that. I think I'm going to leave you.
I hope I've left you inspired. I hope you have a great week.
I've been trying to energize and energate and.
Edify you. As we've gone through these dark
and crazy transformational times and I wish you the best of
weeks, thank. You.
For listening to the podcast and if you want to hear that
wonderful interview with Maverick Joyce, we'll be getting
it out next week.