It's 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.
Well guys, it's here March 2025. I've been looking at March 2025
for a really long time and I broke down the astrology back in
May of 2024 for the 2025 year ahead that I gave in June.
Because every single year I give a year ahead for the next year
around the solstice, the summer solstice, and then I do a follow
up in the fall. And March is not the most
intense month of 2025, but it'll sure feel like it as we go
through it. There is a breather this year,
but it's not for a few months yet.
So I know it's easy to get lost in despair and worry and fear
and doubt. And that is human.
There is no blame to have any emotion.
Make no mistake, when I'm telling you to hold on to hope,
it is never with a judgement against worry, fear, doubt,
insecurity. The world is a pretty messy
place right now and it would be regardless.
You have to remember I was looking out at 2025 back in the
90s, knowing it was going to be a poop show.
And I even just like didn't want to look at it for a really long
time. So I didn't study it in depth
until we got closer into it because it was very intense and
very out of context. So there were multiple paths
available. None of them were super fun, OK.
And they all had a few things in common.
And that is massive systemic change, which we've been going
through. We've been going through massive
systemic change for about 30 years.
It's intensified in the last 17. OK, so now don't go away because
I'm going to give you some solutions.
I did a poll in the Patreon for supporting members and I asked
what they wanted more of and whether they were there, and
people overwhelmingly voted with how to deal with the energy.
And so that's really what the Awake Space Astrology podcast is
all about. And of course, I dial in deeper
in patron only podcasts and in the community and through live
streams. But never think you're getting
shortchanged here and you can always think a patron in the
Spotify comments because without the patrons, there is no podcast
or anything else. A lot of people have been asking
where I've been on TikTok. Well, astrologers are not immune
to transits. I say that all the time and with
great frequency. And I have had my own transits.
So not only was I also walking through concrete in February, my
mother's been not feeling well. And so we've been trying to get
to the bottom of that. And of course, when it rains, of
course, and there's been other family things to deal with.
And as a Cancerian, I'm always going to choose my family.
So been dealing with those things.
And some days it's been as much as I can do to get the podcast
up and, and to be available to patrons.
So I'll be back on TikTok. You're probably going to see a
lot more clips from the podcast. I've got some wonderful help
editing so that I'm not doing all it all on my lonesome.
So that's exciting. In this episode, we're going to
go through the Astrology of March.
I have a very special guest, Kimberly Bellew, who has the
MCE, and you're going to hear more about that.
It is a metaphysical collective exchange that you can check out.
She has a Patreon and an Etsy shop, and she sent me some gifts
and I did an unboxing. So you could check the video out
on Spotify if you're listening to this on YouTube or anywhere
else. So Patrons, Patrons gets some of
this podcast done in segments so they'll get like just so they
can refer to the headlines or whatever.
I'm, I'm changing up some stuff in the Patreon.
I put out the weekly schedule. Monthly schedules don't work for
me because, well, they just don't work for me.
I have a 9th house sun and a 9th house Mercury and a Sagittarius
Mars. And well, outlines help and
routines to some degree. Thank you.
Saturn in my 6th house. However, I'm going to do some
patron only pods at the different tiers.
OK, so we've got the patron spotlight and wonderful patron.
Rachel is in our spotlight this week.
She is a PhD research chemist, really amazing.
Also a high school chemistry teacher.
And we have a wonderful rousing talk.
And that'll be for all patrons this week.
You can check out Rachel. Let me let me grab that
schedule. I can tell you what's going on
in the Patreon. I'm not going to lie, some of
you in the comments made me cry. So the podcast comes out today,
March 3rd podcast release and we're going to do a member poll
in relationship to the podcast. So we'll see who listened The
4th of March. We have a patron only live and
that is all patrons in the chat, the paying patrons.
So if I say sorry it's a patron only live, all patrons is free
as well as paid. So patron only live and a
magazine release on the 4th. It might be the 5th before I get
the magazine out. I had a family emergency tonight
that I had to take care of. And so I'm still writing
articles. I'll talk about the magazine a
little bit later in the podcast. And then we've got the Patron
Spotlight coming out on the 5th and I might switch those around
so you're not missing any content.
And then I've got a couple different patron only podcasts
coming out on the 6th, so they'll be one for the $15 and
up tier. I'm going to do a very special
one for the mystery school and and up as well.
So those are going to get switched UPS.
I think every every week I'll do some of the higher tiers 'cause
I like to give them some love and they've been very patient
with me. Game Night Live stream on
Fridays. We we are putting our attention
onto some conscious dissociation and role-playing and there's
plenty of astrology talk. Super fun.
And I fixed the Zoom webinar chat so that the panelists can
chat as well. So 'cause it's been killing us
and I finally figured out how to do that.
It wasn't obvious. We got the patron slumber party
on the 8th and then Sunday Link update is in the chat.
So if you're a supporting patron in the Awake Space lounge, which
is where we try to keep things a little more lighthearted, a
little community centered, it's where you can just go to
celebrate. We try to keep the venting
chamber for the primordial screens and the in the
headlines, Laurie predictions. You know, that's where under
specific news articles we can have discussion.
We've got a creativity channel, etcetera.
But once a week doing a slumber party, That's right, once a week
doing a slumber potty. And then of course, the podcast
will come out. So super fun, super fine.
I'm not going to lie, I'm feeling pretty proud of myself
for getting all that recording done.
So have your favorite beverage. Take a few deep breaths.
If you didn't get a chance to listen to the Pisces New Moon
meditation, I urge patrons to go check that out.
That's for $5 and up, and it's a creative visualization to help
you connect to your higher guidance.
You can use it even if it's not the Pisces New Moon.
In fact, I'll probably edit it a little bit to make it just
tuning in with your guidance. I really like the editing I did
on that. I did that one myself.
I didn't ask anybody to help me with the editing, and it's
pretty cool. I want to talk to you before I
come through the shit show that's March.
I want to talk to you more about how we can actually harness this
energy to our advantage instead of getting caught up in the
collective waves of worry, fear, doubt, insecurity, panic, all
the all the big fields that including outrage that deplete
us over time and how we can replenish ourselves in this
energy. So there's that.
So grab your tea, grab your coffee, grab your matcha, grab
your cocoa. And whether we're driving to
work or school, or we're studying, or we're taking the
kids on a walk, or we're taking ourselves on a walk, or we're
shopping, or we're folding laundry and cleaning the
kitchen, we're doing it together.
All right, let's get started. There will be talk of rumors of
war, end of time, end of days, and the profits on every street
corner will be hailing the end of the world.
And if I had a dollar for every time that happened, I'd be a
very wealthy woman. There will be discordance in
March in the outer world because we're dealing with systems
change. We're dealing with power
dynamics change. And I'm going to tell you that
everything and everyone in charge right now, with some
exceptions but few, will not be here with great longevity, OK?
They're not going to be here for two decades, OK?
They're not going to be here for a decade.
There's going to be rapid change in the preceding months and
years because everything on this planet is changing because we're
in another rung on the wheel of evolution, and hopefully not
revolution, because revolution just tends to lead us with
another despot. You know, revolution means to
turn in a single turn on a wheel, whereas when we're
evolving, we're moving up in spiral.
Unless we're devolving, but that's a discussion for another
day. I personally don't think
nihilism is very sexy, nor do I think it is realistic.
I think fatalistic nihilism is a cause of many of our problems
and this energy. In March, we have Venus already
retrograde. Mercury will be retrograde on
the day of the full moon, which is also an eclipse.
And it's easy to look at that and go that's a lot, but wait,
there's more. We have Neptune entering Aries
and a solar eclipse. All of this I'm covering in the
magazine as well. It's volatile.
These are the winds of change that are blowing in hot and
hard. And yet it is in this chaotic
space that is almost liminal that we can create our own
magic. Now, most people mistake magic
with getting their own way all of the time, and I think there's
many a practitioner who can tell you for certain that that isn't
how it works. That we can create a bubble of
reality around us that is a little harder to shatter when we
are able to hold our consciousness steady.
Now, I wrote an article for the magazine on what it means to
hold our consciousness, and I gave one of my very favorite
exercises, which is narrating your reality.
It's easy to get caught up in the social media and the means
and the rallying cries and people just begin repeating one
another. And that is a very dangerous
thing. Emotions are contagious.
Thoughts are contagious, but to hold your consciousness allows
you to sway the collective consciousness.
But you can't do it for that reason.
Do you remember Jeannie in Aladdin?
You know, when Robin Williams played the Jeannie Cosmic Power
in any bitty living space? We are.
Jeannie's in a bottle in her own right.
And I'm not talking about gin. Don't correct me on the
mythology, I'm well aware of it. We're going with a cartoon, but
imagine the greater part of you is connected to the whole of the
universe, and it's squeezed into this physical being, which is
your physical body. And we are powerful, and we're
more powerful when we connect collectively.
And yet the collective is. So I'll trained, and I will
wager that it was done purposely, because notice how
they whip people up into a frenzy?
Because the more we are blowing our wad of energy impotently by
screaming into the void, the less we are able to join
together in concert, expending much less energy and being much
more effective. The energy in March is one that
if you can hold study in your faith.
And I'm not talking militant, connecting to your God, your
goddess, your all that is, your higher self, your guides, your
guidance, your ancestors, whatever you want to call it,
your source, your universe. If you can do that and trust
that you can be like water, as Bruce Lee said us to be.
Be like water, my friend, and you influence outcomes, and they
don't have to be big influences. You're not going to get World
Peace. First of all, that's probably
unattainable at any point in time.
We have never had it. There may be things you were
unaware of, and maybe now you're finding that being aware is not
always what you thought it would be.
But if you can hold your consciousness, and I'm not
saying put your head in the sand like an ostrich, but if you can
hold your consciousness in the face of what is and see it that
it is what it is, and put your feet firmly on the ground and be
in the moment and assess the reality of your present moment,
then you can help shift the tide ever so slightly.
And it's ever so slightly that will make the difference.
That is power. Power is not in the grand
gestures and the big manifestations and the oh look,
a new car, oh, I won the lottery.
Miracles and manifestation are when the most unlikely little
things occur. When someone you thought would
never choose a certain direction for their own benefit suddenly
gives you a call and says, I've decided to do this thing that
will help me. Or when you can see through the
cracks, see the light, even on a dark and dreary day.
That is the space where magic happens and we will need our
imaginative faculties this month to imagine solutions, not
problems. Anyone can point out a problem.
Anyone. It doesn't take a genius to
point out a problem. That's why all those pseudo
intellectuals do it. Oh, they talk around and round
about what is wrong with the world and blah blah blah.
It takes a genius to find a solution.
And as Einstein once said, the same thinking that creates the
problem cannot find the solution.
You have to think differently. My friends and I know that the
world looks scary to many people right now, and I know we get
through it. A lot of you want to know when
it's going to be OK. And I always say OK is relative.
And people say when is it going to be better.
And I say when we make it better.
And that too is relative. We have to get clear, we have to
be concise, and we have to be focused.
And you can have ADHD and focus, you just have to redirect.
It takes practice. Ask me how.
So the most powerful thing you can do this month is start each
day intentionally and go to bed each night intentionally.
The way I do this is I as I roll over into my bed, I feel the
mattress under me and I say, oh gosh, I like the way this feels.
I like my sheets. I'm middle-aged so I get the
good ones. I like my sheets, Malcolm, my
dog is usually snuggling right up next to me and oh, I love
Malcolm. And I say I'm going to sleep for
as long as I need and be as rested as I can so that I can
approach my day with the energy I need to be of service to
myself and my community. And yes, that includes my
family. I don't see community as
exclusive of family. And then when I wake, I tell
myself I'm awake. And before I look at my phone
and check the Patreon or read my emails or check the news, I take
care of my physical needs, including making my coffee.
And I go sit outside or on the steps if it's inclement.
And I look at the sky and I say what a lovely day.
Today is a lovely day, even if I don't feel like it's lovely,
because some days I wake up on the wrong side of the bed just
like anybody else. But I do my best to correct my
course and then I remind myself of my intentions for the day.
Not, oh, I intend to do those, but my intention is to be of
service. How am I serving today?
What is my agenda? When I do that, everything goes
well. It's the days I forget and I
check the news before I've had my coffee that things go South
pretty rapidly. And yet I can catch it by
noticing and say, oh, I think I need to do a reboot.
And I'll go outside and I'll look at the sky.
I'll say, oh, what a lovely day. How can I be of service now?
Those are things I've done to trigger myself into a state of
consciousness, and that is the slipstream of thought that I
choose to be on instead of getting swept up in the furor of
life. I'm giving you this exercise in
preparation for what's coming next because I'm going to go
over March's astrology, and in the outer world, it is going to
be very unstable. I don't think you need to be an
astrologer to figure that out. It's pretty evident about what's
going on right now. And yet we have the great
ability, the great ability to influence our own daily
existence even in the midst of struggle.
Learning to do that makes all the difference in the world and
it is honestly the basis of true wealth.
I think we can see from the billionaire's behaviour that
they honestly have an affliction.
They do not know how to be satisfied.
They do not understand the joy of service and service isn't
about self denial. We can be comfortable and serve,
but if you do not know when you are full, when you have had
enough and when you are sated, well then nothing is ever
enough. What a sad life that is.
But likewise, self deprecation, false humility, pretentious
virtue and performative behaviour doesn't get us
anywhere either. Learning to find your sweet
spot. Reasonable contentment,
satisfaction in the moment is one of the most powerful states
of consciousness you can't possess, and it is not one that
you will maintain 100% perfect ever in your life.
It is a constant balance, and balance isn't a constant thing.
In order to balance, you have to notice when you're off balance
to readjust. A ballerina doesn't stay on
their toes by standing still. They are consistently
correcting. Even though it may be difficult
to notice with your eyes, they are consistently correcting
their balance. Balance requires movement and so
we notice when we're slipping if we're lucky and we course
correct. And by doing that, you are
difficult to manipulate. You are difficult to outrage.
Doesn't mean you won't be angry, but there's a big difference to
outrage and anger. And for those of you who are
tuning in from the 168 countries who listen, it kind of impacts
everybody. And do keep those of us in
America in your good thoughts. And I think you've realized if
you're in our community, we're not standing by Willy nilly.
There are many ways to make a difference.
Mine is to educate. All right, I've postponed it
long enough. Let's take a look at March.
And by the way, if you are a supporting patron at the $5
level and up this Tuesday coming out is a special code so that
you can stream the 2025 year ahead for free.
Because I just, I was going to wait till April or May and I, I
just can't, it's, it's too volatile.
I'm like, no, people need this. But if you're a free patron,
you'll get a very, very special discount.
You'll get it for a very, very special price.
And I think you'll you'll be happy with that as well.
So if you're wanting that, you can head over to the link in the
show notes. All right, let's talk about
March 2025. It's a month Venus is retrograde
in Aries. Although I did a segment last
week. If you missed it go back and
listen. But Venus in Aries isn't bad.
Everybody talking about Venus in Aries is ruining my.
No, Venus in Aries retrograde is not bad.
It's forcing review of what matters to you, what are your
values, what is personal. And that may mean there's some
painful things, but it's to review so you can make the
necessary changes and the necessary adjustments so that
you're more aligned authentically with your own
self. OK.
And like I said earlier, sometimes awareness can be
painful because when we've deluded ourselves, when we've
bought into an illusion, when we've lived in the Maya of this
world, then we are prey to artifice, compromise, masking.
And when we start peeling back the layers and get into the
nitty gritty, well, it can be a lot.
I'm still avoiding for giving you the astrology.
I hate giving news like this. It's a bumpy month.
OK, Remember when I used to always say it's crunchy on the
crunchy meter scale? This is at a one to 10.
It's a 12 OK, and it's pivotal and leaves us to April and April
is end of April is but I'll spend this month, which is nice
and long, getting you ready for next.
So God, we got to live one day at a time, though people don't
borrow trouble, don't borrow trouble, don't borrow trouble.
All right, let me see where is. Let me get and find my projects
there it is 2025 year ahead. All righty.
I find what's interesting is I wrote this back in May and June
of 2024 and but slide 4 says New Year's Eve kicks off with a bang
that sets action into motion. Old scores are not settled.
And then New Year's Day 2025 in action is an action that too has
consequences. And that's kind of the theme of
2025 March. I'm just going to read through
this list very rapidly. I'm not.
And then I'll get into what's going to happen.
We've got Venus retrograde on the 1st, the second had Mercury
conjunct Neptune and the Sun squared Jupiter.
March 3rd Mercury ingresses into Aries.
So get ready for people to be popping up and having lots of
opinions. Be careful, people may take
things very, very personally where it's not intended as well.
March 5th Mercury's is sex style Pluto.
We could see some interesting air traffic with that.
We could also see some missiles, probably not in the United
States, but rocket launches, things like that.
March 7th, the Sun is trying Mars.
That's going to be a little spicy.
March 11th, Mercury is conjunct Venus.
March 12th we have the Sun conjunct Saturn, which might be
a somber day. March 14th, the sun is sextile
Venus. We have a full moon and Mercury
stations retrograde. And Oh yeah, if there's an
eclipse, that's a total lunar eclipse, and I'll talk about
that next week. We've got the Sun ingrass Aries,
which is the equinox on March 20th.
March 21st we have Venus sextile Pluto, which should be kind of
interesting because Venus retrograde sextile Pluto will be
when Venus is at, you know, 1° of, of Aries.
March 22nd we have the Sun conjunct Venus, the Sun in March
23rd the Sun is sextile Pluto, and then March 24th the Sun is
conjunct Mercury. Let's see, we have March 25th
Mercury is sextile Pluto again because it's retrograde, and
then March 27th Venus ingress Pisces and Venus is conjunct
Neptune. That's a very magical day.
And as we get towards the end of March, we'll talk about how you
can use that magical energy. March 29th, we have Mercury
conjunct Neptune and the new Moon, which is a partial solar
eclipse. And again, we'll be talking
about eclipses. Oh, next week, just because I
don't want this episode to be like forever and a day long
since I started recording late. And then we have a very historic
moment. March 30th, Neptune ingresses
into Aries. Oh boy, we haven't seen that
since 1861. Does that ring a bell?
Now? History does not often repeat,
but it does rhyme. And if you haven't noticed, the
United States is somewhat divided.
I I honestly don't think we're as divided as they want us to
feel. And I feel certain things are
starting to unite us a little more than divide us.
I know there's diehards out there however been reading the
pulse online especially and not living in a vacuum so.
But I think we can expect some historic events.
This is what I had to say about March. close saves and close
shaves. A lot of could have been worse
energy. And that's the attitude I want
you to hold. If somebody said, oh, my God, I
could have had an accident, but you didn't, OK, Oh, my gosh,
that plane could have hit the other plane, but it didn't.
OK, Oh my gosh, this. This could have been a war, but
it wasn't. We can recognize what could have
been, but we must recognize what is OK.
So close shaves and close shaves.
A lot of could have been worse energy, still a lot of water.
Big monsoon rains globally and that includes cyclones,
hurricane like winds, typhoons, atmospheric rivers, etcetera,
causing landslide, mud slides, erosion events, sinkholes,
strange tides, floods, etcetera. And that's going to be
throughout March. And in fact, we're going to
start kind of March off with some crunchy weather and then at
the end of the month, we're going to see it again.
We could see issues with chemicals, radiation, solar and
otherwise toxic waste plastics and issues to do with water
quality, bad virus and flu season continues.
Lots of school closures and hospitals worldwide
unrestrained. Unlikely to see any kind of
lockdown now. I was have been saying for
multiple years that a COVID isn't over.
Obviously we know that, but we're going to see multiple
viruses. And I know a lot of people are
focusing on the bird flu. It is a concern.
But you can see there's no measles.
And then there has been a case of rubella also reported, which
is German measles, which is very serious.
And of course we've heard about mumps and, and what have you.
I think we're going to hear about more.
And so hygiene, wash your hands, wash your stuff, and wash with
soap and water when you can. Hand sanitizer is an emergency.
Major and Rachel and I actually talk about that on the Patron
Spotlight. World leaders continue to flex.
We could see missiles, drones, and conventional weapons used,
especially submarines, Sonic weapons, espionage, NATO
involved in a conflict around March 13th and 14th.
Again, I wrote these predictions back in May and June of 2024.
When days see within days of the full moon, which is on the 14th,
we look like we're on the brink of war, but things stall out.
Could be last minute diplomacy, a national tragedy or emergency
that stalls the leader or preempts an attack.
Could also see things just not work as Mercury stations
retrograde. Collective sigh of relief.
However, it could also be an accidental breach of boundaries
or borders that causes tensions to spill over.
Extremely intense weather and of March.
Very wet, lots of flooding. Dam integrity is weak globally.
Storm surges are massive. Now there's another whole page
OK of of information and but I don't want to freak everybody
out. So it it's there's a lot going
on in the world. We're going to, we're going to
see some power outages. And when we talk about the grid
in America, people are talking about it in correctly, OK,
incorrectly. People act like we have one big
National Grid and we do not. We have hundreds of grids in
this country, if not thousands that are interconnected.
Texas is its own deal and they they need to work on that shit.
But we don't just have one singular power grid.
OK, First of all, that would be dumb to do Texas and I don't
even think all of Texas's is on when I think they have like 2
but it's it's kind of dumb. But having different relays with
is smart because if one goes down you can feed into another.
Now these could be three issues with Transformers.
This could be power outages due to weather.
This could be any manner of things.
There is potential for conflict in the United States, OK, it is
obvious there. There are wrecking balls
happening to the system, which did need restructuring, but it
didn't need to be so damn messy and and playing whack a mole
with with agencies and policy and ignoring our Constitution is
usually not a favorable thing to do.
So there could be some interesting policy decisions
that come out of the administration that 'cause
people to protest and protest. Lovely.
And I do know we have veterans protest on the 14th in
Washington, DC. And I was like, oh, wow, that's
interesting. We'll see how that goes.
It is. If you live in the Washington,
DC area, especially those of you who've had readings with me in
the last six months, especially actually the last year and a
half when we've looked at March and April, I have been
concerned, especially into the end of April, I've been very
concerned about the DC area. Do be cautious and I would say
anywhere within an hour of Washington, DC especially, there
could be some interesting happenings and that could be
police action. That could be quasi, you know,
security rules like checkpoints and things like that.
I've been asked, do I think there's going to be martial law?
And I talked about that in the Martyrs Direct live stream that
I did for patrons for free and paid, and it is in my Patreon
and it is something you just have to sign up and you can go
watch. And I did talk about the
potential for martial law. I don't give it an 80% chance.
OK, so that means I am uncertain.
It is not out of the realm of possibility and it is also not
something I'm going to say you need to overly worry about.
But I would say be more than ready for that potential between
mid March and early May because things are very, very volatile.
And I think we'll know more as we get past that eclipse because
that eclipse is a bit gnarly. It's it's a bit interesting,
darlings. So March is spicy.
It's not all that favorable for a couple of people in the
administration. There's a lot of physical
pressure there. And so we could see illnesses
with leaders, etcetera. My predictions are already out.
So the predictions that are in the magazine are already out in
the Patreon because if you are a magazine subscriber and that's
at the $15 level and up of the Patreon, I always give you the
sneak peek of what's in the headlines and your horoscopes.
So those are up. This week is a week.
Every week is a week this month. So now these are the things I
think are most likely to be up in the headlines.
And don't get mad at me that it's not good news because
honestly 90% of what's in the headline isn't good news.
It's not my fault. So March 1st through the 3rd,
the moon in Aries is demanding and fiery.
And since this is coming out on the third, you'll probably
recognize some of these things that were in the headlines.
Financial news, corrections and markets, issues with banking or
payment gateways, and that's all currencies as well.
Discovery of arsonists or terrorist, issues with
explosives. Weather patterns change, storm
systems stall cycling weather, which we're seeing believe the
Indian Ocean. Peace agreements fall, fail in
all regions. Peace agreements fail in all
regions. Oh, I wrote Peach.
My editor's gonna have fun with that.
Iranian leadership under pressure.
Issues with King of Jordan, Chemical spills, oil leaks, or
issues with corrosive materials. Let's see.
Volcanic eruption or firestorm or issue with lava flows and
lahars. Issues with military's rogue
units or mercenaries. Increase in geothermal
activities. Military contractor under
investigation or speaks out against current policies.
Retailer of note may face bankruptcy or close locations.
Not Joann's because they had already done so.
Authoritarians on shaky ground in Eastern Europe, Western
Europe, Levant, North and South America.
Attempted coups, insurrections and political violence.
Political violence in city center, mall or other public
venue. Could see a shooting or stabbing
Poland, dealing with border security and potential sabotage
or terrorist attacks. Issues with military.
Oh I broke that twice. International organizations
under strain or face crisis, UN, NATO, etcetera.
Leaders of all forms face opposition.
Potential assassinations or deposing of leaders.
Political dissidents and political protests on mass.
And we saw that a little bit in Europe.
Leaders in business, politics and entertainment face backlash
by lawsuits and legal means. And we saw some of that March
3rd through the 5th with the Moon in Taurus.
The moon in Taurus is excited with the shake UPS.
Things could get heated. We could see earthquakes above 6
point O, possible increased potential of seismic activity,
any active seismic zone. I'm, I'm not picking directions
right now 'cause just everything's a little more
volatile. But the activity above a six
point O would be in the more active fault lines, probably
offshore. OK, as Neptune is in the later
degrees. Neptune does play a role since
it's in a sextile with Uranus right now.
Explosions both accidental and man made.
Arsons of government buildings and or manufacturing plants that
could also be attempted. Global financial crisis
announced or stock markets fall. Crypto markets volatile.
They could tank. I wrote that before it started
tanking. Food poisoning or disease caused
by food. Issues with cattle herds,
disease or pests. Explosions at manufacturing or
food processing plants. Issues with munitions, depots,
plants or stolen weapons and equipment.
Massive accident involving semi trucks and or rail.
Talk of sanctions against major world powers.
Can also be boycotting or buy insurance too.
Tech sector challenged union activity.
Calls for strikes, contract disputes and layoffs.
Trump's health in question or go or he goes off the rails in some
way. Cybersecurity breaches, data
breaches, DNS server attacks, malware and ransomware, issues
with livestock, food production, processing and farms and
ranches. We could see a big accident or
explosion or fire, could involve some kind of radiation or gas
leak, could be more than one kind of event globally.
And and it it could just be, you know, just a regular accident.
Could see outburst by people of note, temper tantrums, outrage
and ranting. Big erosion events, landslides,
mudsides, sinkholes, levy breaches, dike failures and dam
breachers. Global.
All of my predictions are global unless I'm mentioning in AUS
event. Huge weather issues, lightning,
hail, hurricanes, tornadoes, cyclones, sandstorms or
torrential rain and flooding. Australia.
Watch out for that financial institutions, big bank, private
equity firms and credit card companies under pressure, retail
giant under pressure or strain, maritime accident with or issues
with Navy bases, authority figures, leaders challenge,
scandals revealed and lies exposed.
March 5th through the 9th. The moon is in Gemini isn't able
to go forward fast and things are bumpy because you know,
Mercury's pre retrograde so it's starting to things will feel a
little wibbly wobbly. We could see big wind,
fluctuating currents, temperatures swinging wildly.
Could be hurricanes, microbursts, tornadoes,
sandstorms, unseasonable wind. And it isn't necessarily when I
say hurricane, it's like hurricane level wind, multiple
storms active in one region. This is global issues with air
travel, delays, air travel, air traffic control and accidents of
small aircraft and helicopters. Could be military poison,
poisoning or air quality. Water quality discussed.
Massive car accident. Pile up issues on freeways or
high speed rail. Issues with gas, chemicals or
radiation. Issues with commercial flights,
airports or air traffic control or employees at airports or
airlines. Rockets, satellites, ISS,
International Space Station and astronauts.
Data breaches and communication disruptions.
Meteorites, Northern Lights or space debris falls to earth.
Missiles, drones and sneak attacks.
Legal matters, justice and federal high courts.
Global major author, Speaker of thought, leader speaks out or
has scandal, issue with music industry, streaming service or
high profile entertainer. International agreements where
negotiations fail. Issues with NATO, European Union
journalists or journalism in the news.
Violence towards journalists or it could be being locked out of
the press corps. Secrets leaked or revealed from
corporations or government agencies.
Documents discovered that cause scandal or shed light on an
unsolved mystery. Major manufacturer issues,
recalls or has investigation into faulty parts, explosion in
air, satellite fails or falls to earth, meteorites or shooting
stars or some strange happenings in the sky or lights in the sky
could include space station astronauts having issues.
And then we wind up the week, March 7th through the 9th.
The moon in Cancer brings it all up.
Every last thing that happened in the past is up on deck and
people are grabbing torches. March 7th could see an
explosion, fire issue in a neighborhood or restaurant, big
weather on deck, rain, snow, ice, flooding, high tides on
rivers, breaches of sea walls, Rand or levees.
Big snowmelk could cause flooding on tributaries of large
rivers, arsons and fires and domestic dwellings.
UK government may be under strain.
Public uprisings, global accident on major roads,
freeways or bridges. Issues with foodborne illness,
especially listeria and salmonella.
Issues with dairy or dairy farms or dairy products, recalled
poultry and eggs as well. Leaders and politicians under
pressure or strain. CEO or a world leader has a
health issue or steps down due to health or is deposed.
Big rain, issues with rivers, floodplains, you know,
atmospheric rivers, hurricanes, hail, big tides.
Economic crisis or currency values, influx, inflation, trade
imbalances. Person of note has a health
crisis. Heart attack, stroke or
disoriented, dizzy or falls in public.
Populist leader under pressure or attacked verbally or
physically. Attacks in public spaces.
Mass casualty event or school shooting or stabbing.
Hopefully that one is wrong. Banking and currencies under
strain, erosion causing storms, hurricane waterspouts, big
waves. OK, so we're going to see some
big weather because I wrote like three things about it.
Restaurants close, issues with food supply and or drop my
mouse. I don't want to edit a whole lot
of this episode because I'm so tired.
You know what Monday is besides podcast day?
It's mom and daughter day. That means I'm not going to get
any sleep. Oh, where did that go before I
dropped it? Oh, that's right, secrets leaked
or revealed from corporations or government.
It rolled all the way up to the last page.
Here we go. Major infrastructure destroyed
or big failure of dam bridges or shopping center potential
seismic activity mostly offshore but ranging from a 5.8 to 7
point O potential tsunami. I'm thinking that would be more
like in the Indonesia, Philippines, the Asia Pacific
region, maybe as far north as Japan, but it could be in any
active region in the Ring of Fire.
OK, water quality issues, environmental issues and climate
change, water wars begin and that's arguing over who has the
rights. Let's see, there we go.
So that's what we've got until the Moon moves into Leo and that
is going to be some big energy as well, especially on the 9th
when the Moon moves into Leo and it imposes Pluto and we can
expect a big butter booms with that as well.
Global. Does that mean it's happening to
you directly? No, no it doesn't.
But do you want to be apprised of what's going on?
Clyde, I told you that 2025 would be the year that that no
one, well unless they're very narrow lensed, could say climate
change does not exist because it sure as hell does.
So we're all being impacted by it globally.
Yeah, we're going to see the impacts with weather, climate
conditions. I mean, North Carolina's got
fires going on. It's freaking March.
You know, that's unheard of in March.
So, you know, there's there's all manner of things going on.
So again, go back and listen to the segment before this and
remember, we can hold our consciousness because we have to
look at what's happening right to us, right in front of us, OK?
The time to panic is when it is time to panic, all right.
The time to get ready to run is when it's the time to run.
But letting our cortisol spike and our adrenaline rush when it
is a perceived threat that is not directly in front of us and
not directly happening in the moment actually harms us and
does the perceived enemy no harm at all.
So keep your hands busy. That's what my great grandma
always used to say, keep your hands busy.
And that's why she taught me to do embroidery and crochet when I
was a little girl. And they have gotten me through
many a crisis in life because you have to focus on those
things. So get crafty, get creative.
It's time to start our starts or look at starting our gardens.
We had a wonderful patron spotlight last week.
You can check that out in the Patreon, regardless of
membership level with a wonderful patron Sam, where we
talked about small space gardening.
And so there are things we can control, and that's what we want
to put our focus on because everything outside of our
control is outside of our control, OK?
And we can gather together intentionally.
We can put our focus on the outcomes we'd like to see.
And it's honestly never as strong a magic when we try to
get rid of a problem versus empower a solution, OK, there's
a big difference. I don't like that thing.
I want it gone. Makes it very difficult to
remove. Whereas I want to see more of
this when we work with the energy, with the grain versus
against it, things are 10 times more powerful.
So I ask you, what are your solutions?
I'll put a pull up. You let me know what kind of
solutions do you want to see? Do you want to feel more at
ease? Do you want to have your food
planned out? Are you looking at a different
kind of economic plan and how you spend your money?
We all have the power to do something, no matter how small.
All right, And next week in my patron spotlight, the wonderful
Leslie Poston of Cyberspace Podcast joins me and we talk
about the importance of hope to your brain chemistry.
So you'll find out more about that next week.
All right, let's do. Speaking of patrons, let's do a
patron shout out and then we will talk to Kim.
And don't worry, I'm going to leave you on a high note this
week, but let's shout out to patrons.
It's time for patrons shout outs.
Without patrons, there is no podcast.
So big things to all my patrons. We always give our shout outs to
the Dewest members. And so here we go.
We have Sarah or Sarah. You spell your name the same as
my daughter. TJ Divine AF.
Lori Lovelady, Jess Evelyn Taylor, Jackie, Melissa, Julia
Kelsey Abigail Drennan Ayla Arteanna.
Smitten Jazz kitten. I've been waiting to say your
name. Tricia Kelsey Tracy JC Martha
Jennifer Allison Flighty Girl Juan Sarah Leah Christine
Catalina Alicia Nicole Taylor Julia Babs Shannon Haley Kelly
Haley K You guys spell your names different.
Heather L Katie, Utah Beverly Nikki or Nikki Fox Yasmine D
Mary D the Jersey bee, Amo Kelly MF Allison, Cassie, Aretha,
Annie, Rose, KJ, Matthew and Kendra.
I want to say big shout outs as well to the late night crew.
A lot of times I'll go on live late at night if I can't sleep
or my brain's busy. And a lot of times that crew
involves Ellie and Alicia and Ralph and Lizzy and Oh my gosh,
we have Taryn and Nicole sometimes catches us and Katie
in Australia with her beautiful baby dog Casey, who's hanging
out in Japan, our international crew, Brendan in Ireland and
all, and oh, Heather also in Ireland.
So shout out to my international crew.
And if I miss you and you're international, let me know.
We'll give you a shout out. All right, let's talk to Kim.
All right, this interview is near and dear to my heart.
I have Kimberly Bellew with me and she is one of my original
supporters back in 2020 on Tiktok when I had like 5 people
and one of my very first patrons.
It's been a ride, and she is the founder of the MCE, and I'm
going to let you talk about that.
She's also a maker of magical goodies, and I have some to show
off because she sent me some. Yeah.
And I haven't looked at them yet.
I've been a good girl. Oh, you've.
Been very good. Thank you for this opportunity
to be on the podcast. The MCE is the Metaphysical
Community Exchange, and it's a Patreon I wanted to create to
create a community. Right now it's just rough out
there. I know you've talked about it.
I just want to have a safe space in a place where people can feel
comfortable, have conversation, learn, and.
Just create that village. Everybody needs a village.
Right. And in the village you're you're
envisioning are people who are practitioners of a variety of
beneficial, you know, whether it's tarot readers, people who
do crystals, people who do astrology, psychic is whatever
it is a place to grow, talk shop, etcetera.
Yeah, so I separated out the communities based on kind of
like of a high level metaphysical area.
We have tarot, mediumship, psychic abilities, witchcraft
and just plain old spirituality. And it's, it's a place to talk
shop, but also promote small businesses.
I kind of want to make a directory that everybody can
link up that small business and anybody who's in the Patreon
could just look for service. And I want to be able to
interview people, you know, raise voices and just have that
community vibe. Also exchange items, kind of
like a metaphysical yard sale or trade.
And I think that's important. It's something that I know is
going to be needed online. Just the way things are going
financially around the globe. We're going to need that ability
to exchange here is 3 crystals for a deck of tarot cards,
things of that nature. So that's kind of, that's kind
of the direction I'm going in. And I wanted it, you know, it's
behind on the paywall, put it behind on a small paywall.
I have just like community member level and that's about 5
diodes amounts and then menopositions, menopositions
level and that's $10 a month. So I do that just to protect the
community. I don't want, yeah, I don't want
people to go in there with bad intentions.
I want to have a judgment free zone, and that's the biggest
thing. I know things are going to get
rough for everybody, but especially those in the
metaphysical community. So I just want to have that.
Yeah. I just want to have that safe
corner of the world for them and that was my inspiration to kind
of put things together. I love that.
That's a great idea. And I like the idea of an
exchange, especially when you're just getting started out, too.
It's a way to build confidence. I did that plenty.
I traded actually astrology for therapy back in 1999.
That gave me a lot of confidence, even though I was
already charging for readings. But my therapist was like, I was
like, I want to pay you. And he was like, I'd actually
rather you do astrology for me. I was like, oh, really?
OK, you know, he was very cool and very rare and special person
helping that Mama out. But and then other times when I
didn't have a lot of money, I would trade for a massage, you
know, making sure it's equal or with a medium or a tarot reader
or somebody who did something a little differently than me as
we've moved along. It's a great way to start when
you talk about a Safeway to have a conversation for you.
What are the elements of safety that that you're bringing for
people? It's coming down to feeling
comfortable being authentic, not being judged, being able to have
an open but respectful conversation, and just not
having drama. I've seen you laugh.
I've seen so many platforms that have drama and people feed into
that. I don't want that in my Patreon.
I would hope that would not have happened.
I just want people to feel like they can communicate, they can
talk about what they think, what they feel, and not have to
worry, not looking. For fight, you do see that
extended in some spaces, metaphysical spaces, I think a
lot of times because there's elements that are looking when
they feel, when people feel powerless, they're looking,
they're looking for that. They think they're finding
answers. And then you get, you know,
dogmatic fights and there's room kind of for everything.
Yeah. So I love that you're you're
doing that so. Yeah.
Go ahead. I think it hurts our our
community globally when we attack each other.
I kind of look at the witch wars on TikTok.
TikTok. I'm like, those were a really
good example of what I was talking about.
They both had a little bit of power and they don't realize
it's patriarchy adjacent and by dividing ourselves, you know,
right. And yeah, it's.
They're like popularity contests, like back in high
school. Inch.
Yeah. You know, communication, ideas,
knowledge. We don't have to one up each
other. We need to come together
globally because dividing us takes away our power.
Yeah, absolutely it does. It does.
So you, you are a polymath. OK, So I happen to know Kim very
well 'cause she's been, she's one of my, my real ones who's
been through the whole, the whole right.
It's been a journey, but I happen to know you do a lot of
things. You're very handy.
You do your own, you do a lot of DIY stuff.
You have an Etsy shop as well. We're going to do a little
unboxing of things today. But for you, you tend to work a
lot with nature and natural elements.
Let's talk. About that, so kind of speaking
on a DIY, I'm really taking things back to when our
grandparents were around. It's more than just the anti
processed foods, chemical movement.
It's stuff we can find in nature.
I practice witchcraft by by you know myself and foraging and.
And you you lean into the Celtic tradition, correct?
Yes, I learn more into, you know, the Irish path.
I'm not, you know, obviously living in Ireland, so I'm not
considered an Irish witch, but that's the path I kind of go
along. That's your ancestry.
Yeah, I'm only second generation, so, you know, my
grandfather was, you know, immigrated here when he was 17,
and we've been in the Boston area.
Couldn't tell. To generate yes the accent.
Now I'm trying to patrol it right now.
No, I love it. I love it when you say my car.
My car I'm trying to speak so slow.
You said be inauthentic. Yes I love all of you.
Get the letter ripped. Pack the car the have a yard.
Exactly. But but with that said, I I do
things like make my home cleaning products, you know, my
own large detergent, pine saw. People don't realize pine saw
was literally made from pine needles and vinegar.
That's all. And it's absolutely kind of
ridiculous to buy that at the store.
Nature supplies, you know, and I make things at home, cut costs.
It allows me to put my little witchy spin on protections and
cleanses. And it just, it just feels
better. It's a it's, it's all areas.
It saves me money. It's natural.
I know I'm not, you know, poisoning my family.
And it's easy. It's so easy.
And that's some of the things I'm bringing to the community as
well, not just all traditional thoughts of metaphysics, you
know, working this in day-to-day and what you could do.
You know, I put up a little pictures all the time in Patreon
of saying, hey, you're making a cup of tea, stir your
intentions, use certain herbs and your tea, things of that
nature. And that's also something I'm
bringing to the community. I build things.
I become my own home handyman. I've always had a knack.
I like to take things apart, investigate and put it back
together or make it better. If I see something on the TV, I
can build it. Yeah, I.
Love that. That's just my personality.
Mm Hmm. Well, and just for your
listeners to know, you know, you are the head of your household,
you know, you are the breadwinner for your family and
it is, you know, on you to make sure things are happening.
And I think there's a lot of people who will think they need
somebody else. Now, granted you do hire
contractors for like important stuff like electrical and roofs
and things like that, but you make your own honeydew and
you're the honey who do's. I know there's a lot of people
who think, oh, I can't do that because I didn't learn how to
use power tools as a kid. What do you say to that?
You too is your friend. Honestly, YouTube's your friend.
I used to think the same thing. Is that patriarchal mindset.
I can do it, a power tools, a man's thing.
No, it's not it's easy. Just look it up, see a couple of
videos, follow along, and eventually you'll be putting up
walls, building your own furniture, fixing anything that
broke in your house. It's easy stuff.
And that's kind of some of the things as well.
I'm bringing to the Patreon that attitude of you can do it.
You don't need anybody's help unless you want it.
Right, and you know, if it's if it's two person job, obviously,
you know, you know, but there are many things that we can do
and be self-sufficient in. And I think when I see the term
witch, knowing that it was always a derogatory term, you
know, people didn't they thought they were wise people.
They were people who were good at nature crafting.
They were people who were makers and and connected to nature and
they might have had traditional beliefs that went way back.
Maybe they forgot about it like from the time of the Druids or a
more indigenous lifestyle, because Europe had indigeneity
as well, right? But and so got got knocked out
by the Romans in general, but it was there and it's been carried
forth. Like my great grandma did a lot
of witchy stuff. She wouldn't ever classify it
herself. So sad because she was very much
a churchgoer. And one of the things people had
a problem with women was their independence.
And that's why so many got accused of witchcraft.
Whether they were not was their independence.
And women today need that empowerment.
So I love what you're doing. What do you say to this when
people are like, oh, I don't want to call myself this or.
Be yourself. Knowledge is as power.
Not having to rely on somebody else is the most empowering
thing. And if you need to, that's OK.
Asking for help, OK, but you can do it.
You don't need to fall behind somebody else.
Independence. It's not a bad word, no matter
who makes you believe it is. You're not that lonely cat lady
that everybody is against, right?
Now, how can you be lonely when you got a cat?
Exactly. Exactly.
It's kind of like those, I shouldn't say men.
It's fact that the reason why cats, especially Black Cats, are
associated with witches was back into I think it was the 1400s
around the bubonic plague side. They were used to catch rats and
the witches or medicinal women. We keep the cats for that.
And because someone someday just decided, oh, that's a witch,
they have a cat. Cats are the devil.
They got rid of the cats and the bubonic plague happened because
nobody was there to catch the rats.
So like, our people have always been geniuses.
Right, exactly. But it it's again, it's that
judgement that gets the best of people and it's kind of like if
it's do no harm, why do you care?
Who cares like. I'm of an age where you had to
be undercover unless you were in very specific places, so I spent
like 20 years very, very quiet about what you did.
Same here. Yeah, I'm, I'm on the end of
Gen. X, but I grew up in a Catholic
religious house in Boston, Irish Catholic.
So my parents were actually really relaxed.
They didn't force me to church, but I still have respect for the
church at the time. But being brought up that way,
we had to hide any signs of witchcraft, Tara, things like
that. And now I have my malaria,
practicing witchcraft and carrying crystals.
It's the 1st of the month. I was smoke cleansing my house,
prepping up the protections and you know, my little spells and
she was all Thor. She's like, don't forget it's
the first mom, let's go. We have to get the house cleanse
180 Growing up that would have been taboo.
Kind of do that in your room, not all public so.
Yeah, and I love that it, it creates community in the home
when you get to do it together. Yeah, you know, that's that's we
forget community starts there in in our dwellings.
Yeah. So to have everybody on board is
really nice. So you have an Etsy store also
called MCE, right? Yes, because behind you is like
jewelry stuff. Yes, all my balls.
Sorry. Yeah.
Oh my goodness, jewels and bracelets.
I actually this feels really good.
I'm just starting to open one. You sent me a couple things, so
I'm opening. One of.
Oh those are beautiful. Oh wow, oh wow this feels so
good. I'm getting tingles all over.
Wow, she sent me a beautiful amethyst.
It's Amethyst, right My. Glasses are.
It is smoky quartz. OK, So it's not.
I was like, my glasses are screwing up, is it?
But it is smoky quartz. OK, you did not know this, but
smoky quartz is one of my very very very favorite stones.
Yes. I don't talk about it very much.
I should talk about it more because I talk a lot about
hematite because it's a a lot of people need that right now.
I have, oh, this just, oh, I have.
It's beautiful. My MSS.
Oh, this is gorgeous. It's gone on my desk.
You know, I got more. You sent me more stuff.
Yes, I did. Kim That's why this is Kim's
very first podcast interview, so.
Yeah, I did. I was going to say excuse my
nervous just you can hear my voice.
You've been just fine. You've been just fine.
Oh wow, look at these. These are beautiful.
I love that. What else?
Now these are these. These types of things are in
your Etsy store, correct? Yes, yeah, I try to do as much
crystal based jewelry. Oh, these are gorgeous.
Look at that. You spoiled me.
What the hell? It's a thank you for everything
you do for us. Oh my God.
Well, it. Oh, wow.
These are going on right now. Look at this.
Perfect. Actually, not that finger.
We'll leave it there for now. That's OK.
It fits perfect. I took my nails off.
They were bugging me. I'll get them back on tomorrow
but or Monday. But that's gorgeous.
This is a little Onyx. Yep.
Oh that's gorgeous. I love that.
Bohemian style. That's me.
I'm the Bohemian. Yes, and I have some new ones I
just made today. Oh, pretty.
Oh, those are gorgeous. Look at that.
Isn't that beautiful? That's really pretty.
Oh, I love that. So for right now I find the base
and I can put the crystals in the gems in them, but I'm trying
to learn how to actually make the ring bands and the base
myself so. That's very cool.
Yeah, so I'm excited, but I'll be putting up a bunch of new
jewelry. Sorry jewelry, I can't talk
today. It's.
OK. A bunch.
Of new problems today. Yeah, this week early in the
week probably like Monday, Tuesday and I'll have a whole
new Slough so and I'll be doing a Patreon discount.
So anybody in my Patreon or Lori's Patreon I'll be putting
up probably like a 20% discount. So very nice.
I'll make sure that's in the post when I put it up in
Patreon. So I'll do that when I put this
segment specifically up. And then, yeah, but I'll put the
Patreon link in the show notes because you're going to be
giving me some links for the show notes.
So I've been bugging you forever to move your Tookus.
Yeah, and, and put yourself out there.
You're doing great. I'm proud of you.
Thank you. I'm really trying now.
I'm a Charlie girl. I'm I get very nervous being on
camera off. Cam.
I'm fine, I can ramble on, I have no problems.
It's that pesky camera kind of just makes me shy.
I'm going to find some. I'm going to find some old
videos from 2013. Eli found them.
We all know Eli at this point. Eli Gomez, he found them on my
old Vimeo account. And from when I was forced and I
mean force, I was working for an online Business School and they
said, hey, there's this thing called live streaming.
We got 300 students for you. And I was like, I, I don't do
camera and they're like, no, you do great presentations.
I'm like as a voice over person, I'm a vocalist.
I am not an on camera person. And they're like, Nah, you're
great, you're going to do it. And I was like, I do not like my
daughter will vouch. There's a lot of pictures like
this, like, so I know I look like a natural.
I'm not. It's a lot of practice, so just
keep doing it. Yeah, that's why I'm making you
guys get up here. I'm definitely working on it.
You're doing great. Yeah, and I'm working on
ignoring the feedback I get. Like, it's like the ADHD brain.
It's like squirrel. That's why I sound funky today.
I'm like OK. Yeah, you're getting a little
echo in your own headphones. Yeah.
So I'm like slowly moving my head back so I can hear you.
That way I don't get as much feedback 'cause when I don't
hear myself talking through the headphones, I'm much more
relaxed. Right.
Oh, it's like that for everybody.
You're doing great. And if, and that's the thing I,
I want to highlight more of the people who are doing good work
out in the world, There are some, you know, just here's the
deal. Here's a Laurie lecture.
There are a lot of very confident, well practiced.
Now, they might be shy actually like me, but they just have more
practice in front of the camera. And because they're more
confident on camera, they they're able to put themselves
out there and, and meet whatever agenda they have, neither good
nor bad. I'm not saying there's anything
bad with that or good with that. It's just the truth.
But there's so many talented, heartfelt, heart centered people
doing good stuff. And you are a wealth of
knowledge. Like you're an advocate for
people. You're an advocate for people
who well tell you, tell the story.
You know you, you are amazing. My child is nervous spicy and
you know, being a single parent of a nervous spicy child with
other disabilities both developmental and into medical.
I've had a fight her school system pretty much all our lives
and advocate for proper care, proper support and now they're
transitioning to adulthood, turning 18 in a couple months.
So I'm on that aspect currently advocating and really trying to
set them up into a good transition to adult supports,
which are slowly needed right now prior to this past election
and what this current administration is doing.
This is an area that has been inadequate for years, for
decades. And we're trying to get them
into a good spot where they can be as independent as possible.
And part of that is going to my legislators, you know, lobbying
for bills, working with places like the Arc, you know, the Arc
with my state within my region. And right now they have a
support company or service provider that comes out once a
month. And I've been asked to volunteer
on the human rights committee. And then it's just occurred in
the last two weeks, I've been asked to volunteer and become a
board of director members for the same company.
I can actually affect change through this company and
safeguard the clients for this company.
And it's something I've always done.
I do the same for animals, an animal activist as well.
I also volunteer at our local animal rescue league with my
child. And being an activist advocate
is something that I've kind of, it's natural for me, but it's
something I'm proud, you know, I'm very proud to do it.
I always help everyone around me and that's my goal.
And that's what I love. You're bringing that to the
table too, like helping people understand how they can be
advocates and providing resources.
You do that a lot in the Awake space Patreon in our community
organizing thread. You put up useful resources,
links to organizations action steps people can do besides cool
recipes, you know for other things.
And again you're a polymath. The time of the one note Johnny
is over. You know it.
It is very important for people who are multi passionate multi
skilled to understand that makes you a multi faceted person.
So like when you're looking at a diamond that's been cut, it
sparkles more because of the amount of facets it has.
So I, I love that, you know, you're starting to put yourself
in your own setting. And I really encourage people to
check out what Kim is doing and check out the links in the show
notes because Kim's got lots of giddies.
She gives a lot, 120% of herself to everything she does.
And I appreciate you more than you know, because having
patrons, it's, it's not about the money, it's about people who
love what you do. And there are, you know, there
are many other ways to to make an income.
You know, it's, it's really, that's fabulous.
It's not like it's not important, but it's also that
unshakable and unwavering appreciation because it there
are long nights sometimes and those messages and the support
of of community coming the other way is really priceless.
So thank you and thank you for the really pretty unanimian
rings. You're welcome.
Thank. You I'll get the earrings on for
pictures. I can't do it with the
headphones. Thank you so much.
Thank you for me having on your podcast.
I listen every Monday. Heart of the press is, so I hope
everybody you know takes a listen.
Yeah. Man, that Smokey Quartz is
sweet. Kim had no idea That Smokey
Quartz is one of my very, very favorite crystal friends.
That's my friend Seth at Orich. Voltage calls them.
I literally felt this tingles and then I grabbed it.
So she picked out a goodie. I'm still wearing some beautiful
rings she sent me. She spoils me.
That's one of the things I'm doing is I'm bringing people in
the no longer published tier of cosmic surfers on, especially if
they have a business they want to shout out.
We got to support one another every time we support a small
micro business, a little business owned by a mom or pop
or individuals like myself or Kim is money that isn't going to
the big boys, at least not directly.
And so the more we can circulate within our own economy, the
better there is that. I also want to give a shout out
to my best friend in the whole wide world, Kirsten Soga, who is
an amazing chocolatier. And I happen to know she's been
making chocolate in the chocolate kitchen again.
And it is biodynamic, which is better than organic.
It is, Oh my God, her base cacao is beyond fair trade and it is
divine in and of its own right. I can eat it and I'm allergic to
chocolate so it is not processed in any way that gets me.
And it is so beautifully grown and it has its own many
different flavors depending on the otare it comes from.
But anyway, Kirsten is an outstanding chocolate lady, so I
will put her link in my show notes.
You can check her out. Kirsten's also running at the
mystery school meetings for me every single week.
She facilitates that coming together.
Anybody can facilitate the meetings, but Kirsten make sure
they happen. And I appreciate that.
So giving Kirsten a big shout out here.
We'll get her back on the podcast.
It's always meaningful conversation when we get a
chance to do that. Mystery School is getting some
special pods this month. I'm getting around to all the
stuff I've been wanting to do. What it mean.
Not enough time, but now that I'm getting a little more help
in the editing department, slowly but surely we're building
a really good team. Shout out to Alicia, my
assistant, for doing her damnedest to keep me in line.
And that's like herding squirrels.
And my daughter. As always, Sarah is is an
Immaculate partner in crime and you can check her out during our
Friday game nights. I know a lot of people don't
quite understand why we'd be role-playing, but I'm trying to
teach the power of turning your attention for a couple of hours
and doing something that seems meaningless, but it's fun.
There is power in that because it takes away the do or die, the
life or death and nature of the moment, so you can restore and
get back into the fray. We always sleep really good
after game night, and all of us have been finding that, so
that's super fun. What a ride, what a ride, what a
ride. I'll give you a sneak peek of
the article. I'm going to read the whole
thing because it's long, but I always read the articles all out
for a special patron only podcast for magazine subscribers
and above. But I want to read to you a
little bit about what I wrote about holding consciousness.
All right? One of the most important
lessons any metaphysical student can learn is how to hold their
consciousness steady. Think of the scene in Star Wars
The Empire Strikes Back when Luke is in the swamp with Yoda.
Yoda is having Luke focus on levitating the fighter that has
sunk into the muck and Luke struggles to hold his
consciousness beyond the outcome and the fighter falls back and
sinks into the mud. Why?
Luke is trying to force the outcome.
It isn't until Luke can allow his focus to flow that the
fighter can be removed from the mucky swamp.
It's not mere fiction though. We don't often use our
consciousness to levitate items, and why would we?
A neat parlor trick, a way to show off.
We certainly can't manipulate physical objects until we can
focus our own consciousness on ourselves.
Without self mastery, actualization, and realization,
we are unable to manipulate the world around us.
But what does that? What does it mean to hold our
consciousness? To hold our mind steady, to be
unwavering, to allow ourselves the ability to be mentally and
emotionally supple in the face of a quick, chaotic outer world
grants us to be more. Grants us more than peace.
It grants US power. And much like Luke and Swamp,
holding our consciousness takes time and practice.
We won't automatically succeed. We will.
We will waver. Even Yoda wavered, it's just
that in comparison to a neophyte, his wavering was less
perceptible. We will never be 100% mindful at
all times. We will never achieve perfection
in our consciousness and that is not a flaw.
That is part of our design. To expect perfection or even a
modicum of mastery at the beginning of a learning process
is ego based. Holding ourselves to arbitrary
high standards is not only a form of self oppression, it's
egotistical and gives us the excuse to stop practicing.
An effective, effective practice for holding your consciousness
steady. Regardless of outer
circumstances is something I call hyper awareness.
It's something I developed during the last leg of my
healing journey from PTSD. Some people might call it CPTSD,
though the DSM 5 does not recognize CPTSD.
We often find ourselves hyper vigilant when life seems
chaotic, our brains producing the hormones that trigger fight
or flight reactions and leaving us at the mercy of that state of
consciousness. However, science has proven that
our brains are designed to do what we tell them to do, and we
are not at the mercy of our limbic system, even if it feels
like it. Full disclosure, it took weeks
of practice before I noticed a measurable difference, and it
was several years of daily practice before I was more
responsive versus reactive on a day-to-day basis.
I also had the added benefit of weekly sessions with a PhD
psychologist, the late Doctor John Silva, who monitored my
progress and helped me measure results.
It helps to have a team and a judgement free support system.
That's my way of saying I'm not making any health claims.
Hyper awareness in the everyday. Hyper awareness is a concept of
flipping the switch on hyper vigilance or extreme stress.
A gentle way to begin this practice is to do the following
one. Narrate your actions to stay in
the present moment. Imagine you wake up in the
morning and instead of just rolling out of bed and
robotically stating starting your day like you always do, you
start by saying or thinking I am awake.
If you stretch before rolling out of bed, narrate that too.
I'm stretching my arms and I yawned.
Now I'm going to roll out of bed.
My feet are on the ground. It seems silly, yet this
deceptively simple practice is helpful to in grounding you to
your present moment. You can do this with any task
like washing dishes, driving your vehicle, doing computer
work. It's important to be descriptive
as well. My feet are on the floor.
The hardwood is cold against my toes.
I want to put socks on. Hyper awareness in the everyday
continued 2. Pay attention to your body
posture and correct it as often as necessary.
Our body responds to our thoughts and emotions.
Paying attention and correcting our posture and bodily reactions
helps us further release tension and stress.
You can lower cortisol and other stress hormones by changing and
holding a less defensive posture.
It might feel uncomfortable at 1st and vulnerable because we do
things to protect ourself unconsciously.
So try this alone at home rather than in public venues when
you're first starting, just to make it gentle and easier.
If you notice your hands are clenched, open your hands.
Taking a few deep inhales and exhaling slowly will help
release the tension. If you notice you're sitting
with your arms folded across your middle and you're hunched
over, sit up straight, stretch, and allow your arms to move to
your sides. We often hunch and clutch our
bodies to protect our vital organs when we feel a threat.
The goal of noticing and changing your body posture is to
help your body, mind, and self feel less threatened and secure.
And three, if you have thoughts on repeat, learn to pattern
interrupt. Intrusive and obsessive thinking
is a tough thing to shake, as easy as it it as it's easy to
get stuck in a loop when we're feeling overwhelmed and
hopeless. All right, if you want the rest
of the article with the rest of that exercise, you can check out
the magazine and the patron coming out this week.
I was hoping to have it out on Tuesday, but we'll see how that
goes as my writing schedule has been interrupted by life.
Because it's March, it's 2025. But again, you if you're a
magazine subscriber and you haven't seen your horoscopes and
the headlines in the sneak peek and edited hot off the presses
right after I wrote them, you can check those posts out in the
Patreon posted them last week. So yay.
So friends, I know, I know things are uncertain and I know
there are people who claim to have special insight and they're
saying we're going to have a civil war and they're going to
saying we're going to have a nuclear war.
And I do not see global thermal nuclear war.
I do see the potential for tactical use of weapons.
Unfortunately, I don't think it's a guarantee or a certainty
it will happen, but I do see the potential.
I do see the potential for Europe taking action in defense
of Ukraine depends on what happens here and how we further
isolate ourselves in the United States and how things happen
here. But I am concerned about the DC
area as we move towards the end of April.
I think if you're going to protests that you need to be
very, very mindful of your surroundings and be very, very
prepared for pushback, especially if you're in the DC
area and, you know, wherever you live, you know, so far it's been
pretty good. But things could turn around
that full moon. So I think we're going to see
interesting events. I think we could see several
world leaders this month have health crises.
We could see people to be deposed.
We could see don't get your hopes up.
It may not be the ones we want, but it could be.
There could be some health crises going around.
Whether or not we hear about it or see it in the moment remains
to be seen. You have a lot more power then
you know, and that doesn't mean we can wave a magic wand and
suddenly make everything OK. But you can make what you can OK
in the moment, all right? And if it's your birthday month,
you can still have a good birthday, I said so OK, what's
going on outside of you and your immediate environment does not
mean you don't get to have a good birthday.
You can have a very good birthday even if the whole world
is having a crisis. And we've had multiple members
talk about how they've had personal good days in the middle
of the shit show, OK in the Patreon.
I just love the comments and the activity in the community that
has built up in the awake space. It is like hearts joining
together. Like minds could be dangerous,
but like hearts grow beautiful gardens.
And Oh yeah, I thought I'd talk a little bit about gardening.
Why don't we do that to end the podcast and talk a little bit
about what you can do to grow a little bit of a little something
something on your own. So gardening and astrology, some
of the oldest subjects. I'm going to move the mic a
little closer. One of the oldest subjects when
it comes to astrology is horticulture, which gardening is
included in. The phases of the moon play a
large role in gardening. In fact, that's where people got
the idea for the manifestations. OK, which manifestation just
means to reveal. There's a whole process in that
where we're getting clear, we set intentions, we allow things
to maturate, and then we harvest or receive.
And there's 8 phases. All right, but we'll, let's talk
about new and full moons. On new moons, we want to plant
our seeds. OK, This is a great time to
germinate. You can do it in the three days
of the phase. Full moons are not a great time
to plant. OK, now you could buy plants at
the nursery on a full moon. That would be fine.
In fact, if you're just getting started gardening, you might
just want to buy starts. OK, another thing about
gardening you want to know is you don't have to grow all your
food. You can just buy a couple
plants. You just get a tomato plant and
try it out. If you've never done it before,
you can get some green onion seeds and try those.
You know, you don't have to do a big garden, but growing some
easy things like lettuce, spinach, charred rocket or
arugula, very easy to grow. Yeah, there are times, and I'm
writing more about this. I'm putting in a little
gardening guide into the Awake space Astrology magazine.
There are times where certain signs work better with certain
kinds of fruit and vegetables. OK, so with the new moon being
in Aries this month and also being a total or not a total,
but a parcel solar eclipse, if it's not an eclipse where you
live, meaning if it's not visible where you live, you then
you start things. You can start seeds or you could
get things like tomatoes, Peppers, chilies, you know, bell
Peppers, chilies, anything in the Capsaicum family, radishes,
these these types of things, things have a little bit of
space or bite to them. With that new moon in Aries,
it's great time to get either starts and you could get any
kind of start or plant seeds for those kinds of things.
Try radishes. Those were pretty simple to
grow. Watercress would be another one.
So those are all things you can do full moons, not a great time
to plant seeds and start germination, but it's a great
time. You can go buy pull up plants at
a nursery or something or a garden center.
You know, again, if you're just getting started, I wouldn't
invest a ton of money. I would, I would start with
something you like to eat, OK, something you like to eat,
something be like, I'd be really proud of this if I grew this.
I I look forward to cooking it. OK, so you know, you don't have
to be like I have to survive and I'm going to build a survival
garden. If you're just getting started,
probably not the best idea. If you're an old hand at
gardening, you can improve your gardening by looking at the
times for planting. That's what the Farmer's Almanac
uses is it's basically Astro Astro meteorology and and
gardening astrology as well. So those are just a couple of
tips. This month is not a bad month to
get starts. It's not a bad month to plant
seeds, depending where you live. All righty.
So to end the podcast with something pleasant, something
hopeful, I thought we would talk about the upside of 2025.
It was going to be disruptive regardless.
And I kept saying that it wouldn't matter which
administration. We were looking at global
change. And we are change resistant
creatures. That usually takes a crisis for
humans to wake up, become aware. Because when we're comfortable,
there's no need to change, right?
If you're comfy and it's amazing at the amount of discomfort we
can be comfortable with, then there's no change.
Sometimes things have to be knocked about to make a
difference. And no, it didn't have to go
this way. There were other potentials and
possibilities, but it's a possibility that became the
probability that is the present. So we're going to live with
that. That's where we're at.
Magical thinking isn't going to suddenly shift us into a new
reality. What will help is collectively
shifting our attention on our awareness.
And March is a really good month to do that with Mercury
retrograde coming up. And we'll talk about that next
week more. And in the Awake Space Astrology
magazine, I've written a Mercury retrograde and a Venus
retrograde survival guide because they'll both be
retrograde this month. And that's not a bad thing, to
be honest. It's slowing the roll, OK?
There will be mishaps and strange happenings and things
that make you go, hmm, all through March.
And if you look at it from an outside perspective, instead of
being collectively embarrassed, which we can still be if we want
to go, ah, that's a good thing that's going to slow the roll.
That's a good thing that's causing pressure to be applied.
That might slow things down. That might cause a redirection
because because redirecting is easier than stopping something
that's in full momentum. And like I said about anything
started during the Mars retrograde period where people
were barreling forward is bound to not work out all the way for,
you know, at all. And in fact not Mercury.
But Mars is in its shadow phase. OK.
There is no pre shadow phase. It's a pre retrograde is the
technical term, but there is the shadow which is the post
retrograde phase where the planet is going to trace back
over the area it was retrograde. So Mars is in its shadow until
it gets back into Leo when it will be opposing Pluto and
that's at the end of April and that's when I expect some big
bada booms to happen. It doesn't mean it's going to be
civil war, the end of the world, but we probably will see some
kind of military action somewhere in the world.
Doesn't necessarily mean the United States.
OK, the best thing you can do is take it a week at a time to
suck. I am in the Patreon, and in
fact, let me end you with some comments from the poll I put out
on Sunday. I was very moved because I was
asking people what they wanted more of as we move through 2025
with a very cute little meme of a dog that says I'm curious.
So I asked people because I can come up with a million different
things, but I want to know what people want, you know, what do
you want more of? And I'll make it.
And so the options were I want more beginner level astrology.
I'm here for the horoscopes, I'm here for the discounts.
I want more about using the energy of these times.
I'm here for the chat and live streams and other please list in
the comments. There are so many comments, by
the way, the overwhelming majority of people that 56% of
respondents voted for. I want more about using the
energy of these times and we had a message from Andy from down
under. I'm really happy with what you
share as is. That being said, as a Libra Mars
and decision making for this one is hard.
I'd say energy work or transits if I had a gun to my head.
Jen with the black heart. It's just how her username is.
Merch. I'm get to merch someday.
She's on me about merge Corey choose choose when also.
But honestly I'm living everything.
Still want to go through it all and learn more.
I appreciate it. All the live streams have been
so great. I'm still low tier but hoping to
change that later. Well thank you Corey.
I appreciate everybody who supports the podcast, whether
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Maybe you don't make content by yourself.
Maybe you're also not almost 56 years old making content by
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But anyway, as just a $5 level and you know, and everything,
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But anywho, if you go into the shop, the e-books are free.
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Then there is the Guide to Instinct and Intuition where you
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There is so much information in the Patreon.
It can be overwhelming. We're working on cleaning it up.
But yeah, so, so much good information coming your way and
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week. We're going to talk about that
full moon coming up in Mercury retrograde.
We'll give you a survival guide, I'll give you what's in the
headlines, and I'll help you with more information about how
to manage the energy.