1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:03,960 It's the Awake Space with Lori Rivers, and this week we're 2 00:00:03,960 --> 00:00:07,320 talking about using our creativity as an act of 3 00:00:07,320 --> 00:00:10,240 rebellion and an act of self empowerment. 4 00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:13,920 Because I'm not going to lie, it's a very spicy week. 5 00:00:13,920 --> 00:00:16,360 And if you want to know what's up in the headlines and get a 6 00:00:16,360 --> 00:00:19,240 heads up ahead of that, then you need to head over to the 7 00:00:19,240 --> 00:00:21,920 Patreon. There's just a lot. 8 00:00:22,360 --> 00:00:27,240 Of changing tide energy. But that doesn't mean things 9 00:00:27,320 --> 00:00:32,320 resolve right away and it doesn't mean we get the endings 10 00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:35,400 we're hoping for the way we want them. 11 00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:40,640 And I'm really going to suggest this week you let go of outcomes 12 00:00:40,640 --> 00:00:43,040 and you learn to just kind of roll with things. 13 00:00:43,040 --> 00:00:45,360 I know it's hard. It's hard everywhere. 14 00:00:45,360 --> 00:00:52,360 It's hard here too, OK, as we move into the next stage of 15 00:00:52,360 --> 00:00:55,200 massive systemic change. This is something I've been 16 00:00:55,200 --> 00:00:58,920 talking about for years and people used to call me a fear 17 00:00:58,920 --> 00:01:00,400 monger. Good times. 18 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:05,720 Change is inevitable. How we deal with it is up to us, 19 00:01:05,960 --> 00:01:10,240 and I asked the Awake Space community members if there was 20 00:01:10,240 --> 00:01:13,720 anything they wanted me to cover because I know that energy is a 21 00:01:13,720 --> 00:01:19,080 spicy meatball right now. And so I've got some great 22 00:01:19,080 --> 00:01:24,880 feedback from the members of the community about this very topic. 23 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:30,640 Because creativity isn't just art or dancing or writing. 24 00:01:30,960 --> 00:01:34,920 Creativity is how we take the wellspring of our energy and put 25 00:01:34,920 --> 00:01:40,240 it out into the world, whether we're doodling or gardening or 26 00:01:40,320 --> 00:01:46,480 baking or arranging A room that is using your creative energy. 27 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:50,680 And we're going to talk about that for this week's episode 28 00:01:51,240 --> 00:01:58,360 because we all need a way to put our hands into action, a way to 29 00:01:58,720 --> 00:02:03,320 stop focusing on the things that are outside of our control 30 00:02:03,320 --> 00:02:06,720 because we do need to pull our energy back to center. 31 00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:09,400 That's something else I'm going to cover because somebody asked 32 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:11,720 what's the difference between grounding and centering? 33 00:02:11,720 --> 00:02:14,640 And I think that's. A great thing to talk about. 34 00:02:14,640 --> 00:02:17,240 We're going to talk about that first and why it. 35 00:02:17,240 --> 00:02:22,160 Relates to our creative energy. Notice I'm always pointing to 36 00:02:22,160 --> 00:02:27,040 the heart center when I say center grounding is down at your 37 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:28,640 feet. And so in the next segment, 38 00:02:28,640 --> 00:02:31,520 that's what I'm going to be talking about. 39 00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:36,120 And as always, we're going to do the what's in the headlines for 40 00:02:36,120 --> 00:02:38,000 the patrons. But I will cover a little bit 41 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:40,760 about what I expect to see this week. 42 00:02:41,600 --> 00:02:46,440 And if anybody calls me a fear monger, you have no idea how I 43 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:53,000 sit with information and try to make it as useful and as 44 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:57,240 practical as possible without scaring the bejesus out of you. 45 00:02:57,320 --> 00:03:01,240 So deep breaths, get your. Teeth. 46 00:03:01,640 --> 00:03:05,760 Get your coffee, get your matcha, get your Red Bull, get 47 00:03:05,760 --> 00:03:09,920 your H2O and whether we're going to work, taking the kids to 48 00:03:09,920 --> 00:03:13,640 school, out in the garden, taking the cat in the backpack 49 00:03:13,640 --> 00:03:17,720 in the park, taking the doggie for a walk, going to the gym or 50 00:03:17,720 --> 00:03:21,640 folding laundry, we're going to. Do it together. 51 00:03:21,880 --> 00:03:24,840 I don't think it's it this month, but you can start getting 52 00:03:24,840 --> 00:03:28,440 your hopes up. Over the weekend, a lot. 53 00:03:28,440 --> 00:03:31,960 Of people were feeling uneasy. And there's a lot of reasons to 54 00:03:31,960 --> 00:03:35,200 feel uneasy when you're looking out in the world and social 55 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:40,520 media is full of people speaking with their whole trusts and some 56 00:03:40,520 --> 00:03:43,800 of them know what they're talking about and we are looking 57 00:03:43,800 --> 00:03:48,240 at a very unstable moment in time, as I record. 58 00:03:48,240 --> 00:03:53,360 This the Moon in Taurus is moving to conjunct Uranus, which 59 00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:57,440 isn't having any other planetary aspects at the moment. 60 00:03:58,320 --> 00:04:01,920 At the moment. Next week we look at Mars moving 61 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:05,360 into a sex style with it, but right now it's kind of the 62 00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:08,520 cheese standing alone, and that means that energy. 63 00:04:08,520 --> 00:04:12,640 We feel it's going to have a release early Monday morning, 64 00:04:12,640 --> 00:04:16,360 probably before I get the podcast out, so there could be 65 00:04:16,360 --> 00:04:21,000 significant events. And we human beings are very 66 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:23,120 sensitive. And remember, I always say we're 67 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:25,720 transmitters as much as we're receivers. 68 00:04:25,720 --> 00:04:30,320 However, learning how to be a transmitter is something that 69 00:04:30,320 --> 00:04:33,840 takes time and practice. That's why people suggest 70 00:04:33,840 --> 00:04:37,360 meditation. That's why people have physical 71 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:41,240 activities that they do to move the energy out. 72 00:04:41,320 --> 00:04:44,480 And one of the greatest things we can do is be creative. 73 00:04:44,680 --> 00:04:49,760 So for me, I go into community. I put my life force into 74 00:04:49,760 --> 00:04:52,840 community One that's one place it gets fueled. 75 00:04:53,240 --> 00:04:58,840 And then recording the podcast is an act of expressing creative 76 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:01,040 energy and be like, that's great for you, Lori. 77 00:05:01,040 --> 00:05:04,560 What about me? So when it comes to using our 78 00:05:04,560 --> 00:05:07,800 creative energy, understand that that it is. 79 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:13,040 It is a true act of rebellion. It is looking at the maelstrom 80 00:05:13,200 --> 00:05:17,120 happening out in the world, looking at the shit show it is 81 00:05:17,120 --> 00:05:25,080 and saying I refuse to let the conditioning I have of being 82 00:05:25,080 --> 00:05:30,280 small and unseen take. Priority. 83 00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:37,800 I refuse to be cowed into submission in this time of 84 00:05:38,080 --> 00:05:41,360 massive systemic change. I refuse to be manipulated. 85 00:05:41,760 --> 00:05:45,280 I refuse to be. Silenced. 86 00:05:45,320 --> 00:05:47,600 Now, I'm not talking about getting on social media and 87 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:49,760 giving people a piece of your mind, because I might. 88 00:05:49,760 --> 00:05:54,280 Feel good for two seconds but. When we can work the collie 89 00:05:54,280 --> 00:05:57,640 wobbles out, when we can work that anxiety out, that 90 00:05:57,640 --> 00:06:00,320 depression out. And I'm not saying it's a cure 91 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:06,560 all at all, you guys know me. But when we have these big big 92 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:11,640 moments in time, and this week we have more than a big moment 93 00:06:11,640 --> 00:06:13,800 in time. Like as we move to the 1st of 94 00:06:13,800 --> 00:06:17,960 April with a full moon, no April Fools there, we're watching this 95 00:06:17,960 --> 00:06:22,520 energy build and it will be very easy to be short tempered. 96 00:06:22,800 --> 00:06:25,880 It will be very easy to be on edge. 97 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:29,200 Want to put the covers up over our heads. 98 00:06:29,720 --> 00:06:34,120 And that is how we become defeated human beings. 99 00:06:34,400 --> 00:06:37,880 There are a lot of academic practices and I'm going to 100 00:06:37,880 --> 00:06:40,200 address kind of a question they put because. 101 00:06:40,680 --> 00:06:43,800 They're being taught that systems impact all of us and 102 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:47,280 therefore we can't avoid it. And on one hand that is true. 103 00:06:47,720 --> 00:06:52,120 And yet there are ways to work within that to build small 104 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:55,000 systems both within. Ourselves. 105 00:06:55,480 --> 00:06:58,800 And in the outer world, to some degree, we're not going to be 106 00:06:58,800 --> 00:07:02,320 able to change the big picture stuff and we're not going to. 107 00:07:02,320 --> 00:07:05,200 Solve all of the. Isms in the. 108 00:07:05,200 --> 00:07:08,480 World. But we can definitely work on 109 00:07:08,480 --> 00:07:14,920 our immediate arena, our media area, our home, our family, 110 00:07:15,760 --> 00:07:20,280 where we move through the world with as much power as we have 111 00:07:20,640 --> 00:07:24,040 and some people have more and some people have less. 1 is not 112 00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:27,760 better than the other. Before I get into using your 113 00:07:27,760 --> 00:07:33,000 creative energy, your son, your creative life force, we're. 114 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:36,760 Going to talk about centering versus grounding. 115 00:07:36,760 --> 00:07:39,760 So I've been saying for quite some time, you're not going to 116 00:07:39,760 --> 00:07:41,760 be able to ground right now. You're just not. 117 00:07:41,760 --> 00:07:44,680 It's not going to be lasting. You might get it for a few 118 00:07:44,680 --> 00:07:46,840 seconds and then you're going to blame yourself. 119 00:07:47,200 --> 00:07:49,160 I wonder what the hell is wrong with me. 120 00:07:49,160 --> 00:07:52,680 Nothing is wrong with you, OK? Nothing. 121 00:07:52,960 --> 00:07:56,920 The energy is not about grounding right now because 122 00:07:56,920 --> 00:08:02,000 we're in the next phase of massive systemic change. 123 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:05,760 And this massive systemic, it's not like a four phase process. 124 00:08:05,760 --> 00:08:10,320 It's going to be continuing over time, OK? 125 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:15,480 It just is the the dynamics in the world and how we do things, 126 00:08:15,560 --> 00:08:19,160 They are all changing. And you're not doing anything 127 00:08:19,160 --> 00:08:21,400 wrong. And I'm going to repeat myself. 128 00:08:21,680 --> 00:08:26,200 You are not doing anything wrong energetically, emotionally, 129 00:08:26,200 --> 00:08:30,400 physically, no matter what happens, you didn't invite this 130 00:08:30,400 --> 00:08:32,640 into your life. You didn't make it happen. 131 00:08:33,039 --> 00:08:35,880 We are collectively going through one of the greatest 132 00:08:35,880 --> 00:08:40,720 changes in human history since the end of the Bronze Age, and 133 00:08:40,720 --> 00:08:43,320 that's huge. And it's a really big concept in 134 00:08:43,320 --> 00:08:45,280 his heart. I have a hard time wrapping my 135 00:08:45,280 --> 00:08:46,840 head around it. OK. 136 00:08:46,880 --> 00:08:49,160 And I've been looking at it for years. 137 00:08:50,640 --> 00:08:55,040 So grounding isn't really going to happen because it's not time 138 00:08:55,040 --> 00:08:57,320 to ground. There's nothing to ground to. 139 00:08:57,600 --> 00:09:00,800 We sent her. And notice I always point to the 140 00:09:00,800 --> 00:09:05,720 heart space because the center is here and it would be down 141 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:08,480 your torso. So the heart center, all of this 142 00:09:08,480 --> 00:09:11,200 front and back is here. And then we have our solar 143 00:09:11,200 --> 00:09:14,880 plexus. If we send her, we calm the 144 00:09:14,880 --> 00:09:16,560 solar plexus. OK. 145 00:09:17,280 --> 00:09:19,240 And. Everybody's solar plexus is 146 00:09:19,240 --> 00:09:22,440 probably out of whack right now. Over stimulated, under 147 00:09:22,440 --> 00:09:26,240 stimulated, because that's where our gut instincts are. 148 00:09:26,240 --> 00:09:29,520 That's our, oh shit, shit's about to hit the fan, right? 149 00:09:29,560 --> 00:09:31,920 Or there's nothing I can do. And we'll feel that there. 150 00:09:32,480 --> 00:09:37,320 If we can come to center, we give all of our systems, all of 151 00:09:37,320 --> 00:09:40,880 our energy centers, but also the minor energy centers throughout 152 00:09:40,880 --> 00:09:43,840 the body, including the hands and feet, etcetera, the eyes, 153 00:09:44,240 --> 00:09:47,760 etcetera. It's a little wild right now, so 154 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:51,880 coming to center is a constant practice. 155 00:09:51,880 --> 00:09:55,720 Notice how I'm bringing my hands in and I know I popped a nail 156 00:09:56,480 --> 00:09:58,760 and I popped a nail right before I recorded, Damn it. 157 00:09:59,440 --> 00:10:01,920 But guess what? We're rolling anyway. 158 00:10:01,920 --> 00:10:03,920 We're going to bring ourselves back to center. 159 00:10:03,920 --> 00:10:09,200 I have meditations for patrons at the $5 level and a things to 160 00:10:09,200 --> 00:10:12,920 help reduce anxiety, like calm the solar plexus. 161 00:10:13,240 --> 00:10:16,480 Things to help us envision A pathway forward. 162 00:10:17,400 --> 00:10:22,120 Things that help us just bring ease and let go of the tension. 163 00:10:22,120 --> 00:10:25,920 Because worry is a misuse of imagination, especially in times 164 00:10:25,960 --> 00:10:31,320 of unique stress and strain. Because let's say all hell 165 00:10:31,440 --> 00:10:33,560 breaks loose. And I'm not saying it will, but 166 00:10:33,560 --> 00:10:37,640 let's say all hell breaks loose. Being able to tune in to 167 00:10:37,640 --> 00:10:40,560 possibility helps you find solutions. 168 00:10:40,600 --> 00:10:43,680 That's how your brain works. If you're in the fight, flight, 169 00:10:43,680 --> 00:10:49,800 freezer, fawn mode, then you can actually be a hindrance more 170 00:10:49,800 --> 00:10:54,120 than a help to the people around you. 171 00:10:54,240 --> 00:10:59,760 Panic does not help. Panic causes problems and it's 172 00:10:59,760 --> 00:11:04,560 easy to be panicked even in, you know, if you're in a dangerous 173 00:11:04,560 --> 00:11:08,080 situation. Panic is quick because it's a 174 00:11:08,080 --> 00:11:12,320 survival instinct, but if you have a lot of people panicking 175 00:11:12,320 --> 00:11:16,960 at the same time as chaos, and it does not serve longevity for 176 00:11:16,960 --> 00:11:20,400 everybody around us. So we want to learn how to 177 00:11:20,440 --> 00:11:26,080 recognize and turn our attention to what can be done. 178 00:11:26,800 --> 00:11:32,480 Sometimes it's not alive, but there's still something that can 179 00:11:32,760 --> 00:11:37,240 be done until there isn't. Learning how to come to center 180 00:11:37,240 --> 00:11:41,880 is very, very important. And again, I have meditations in 181 00:11:41,880 --> 00:11:46,440 the community, but here on the podcast, let me just give you a 182 00:11:46,440 --> 00:11:51,440 quick tip on coming to center. So when you're feeling frazzled, 183 00:11:51,440 --> 00:11:56,240 your energy is frenetic, you're kind of all over the place, 184 00:11:56,400 --> 00:12:01,920 you're irritable, you're cranky, you're kind of spinning out on 185 00:12:01,920 --> 00:12:07,760 what might happen and what the problems are around. 186 00:12:08,480 --> 00:12:11,880 And other people are cranky and irritable because the energy, 187 00:12:11,880 --> 00:12:14,640 you can cut it with a knife. Right now, one of the things you 188 00:12:14,640 --> 00:12:18,560 can do is take a moment to yourself if you can, if you have 189 00:12:18,560 --> 00:12:21,240 to go to the bathroom and lock the door hard if you have 190 00:12:21,240 --> 00:12:24,240 toddlers, but I wouldn't leave them outside. 191 00:12:24,840 --> 00:12:28,560 But I always say children are our mastery partners because we 192 00:12:28,560 --> 00:12:30,800 have to learn how to function with them. 193 00:12:30,800 --> 00:12:33,160 Not always helping with the concentration, right? 194 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:37,280 Wine, breathing number wine. Check it when you're a frenetic. 195 00:12:37,360 --> 00:12:39,800 Ask yourself a question, how is my breathing? 196 00:12:39,840 --> 00:12:42,360 And then check your shoulders. They're a little high. 197 00:12:42,360 --> 00:12:45,960 Let's bring them down. Let's relax the job and we can, 198 00:12:45,960 --> 00:12:48,120 you can breathe with the kids. You can make it a game. 199 00:12:48,120 --> 00:12:51,320 OK, We're going to do belly breaths now and we're going to 200 00:12:51,320 --> 00:12:53,120 take it, breathe in through our nose. 201 00:12:53,160 --> 00:12:55,320 And if they don't, it's fine. They can breathe through their 202 00:12:55,320 --> 00:12:57,280 mouth. You know, they've got goobers. 203 00:12:57,640 --> 00:13:03,160 It's OK to go, OK? Because if you're a shallow up 204 00:13:03,160 --> 00:13:08,720 here, you're you're feeding your amygdala, you're feeding the 205 00:13:08,720 --> 00:13:11,360 panic, you're feeding the adrenaline, you're feeding the 206 00:13:11,360 --> 00:13:13,800 cortisol. We want to take it slow. 207 00:13:14,240 --> 00:13:19,200 We want to shake out if you can, OK, Shake out the body, get the 208 00:13:19,200 --> 00:13:22,720 tension patterns, relax. And then we're going to take a 209 00:13:22,720 --> 00:13:25,560 deep breath in through the nose if you can. 210 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:28,760 Through your mouth is fine. If you can't, and we're going to 211 00:13:28,760 --> 00:13:34,280 take a deep breath in, make sure that belly is nice and full. 212 00:13:34,520 --> 00:13:38,920 Imagine an inner tube being filled up, and then we're going 213 00:13:38,920 --> 00:13:42,360 to exhale as slow as we can. The first one might be a lot 214 00:13:42,360 --> 00:13:45,200 like it might be like that, and that's OK. 215 00:13:45,400 --> 00:13:51,000 You might have a little primal moment, do it again, then relax 216 00:13:53,800 --> 00:14:01,360 and breathe out again. It might take five more times. 217 00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:04,200 Make it a game if you have little ones. 218 00:14:04,320 --> 00:14:07,240 Make it a game because if if. You're. 219 00:14:07,240 --> 00:14:10,560 Tense and anxious, they're picking up on it OK. 220 00:14:10,560 --> 00:14:13,400 And that's not a blame thing. But if you're wondering why, 221 00:14:13,400 --> 00:14:15,480 like, I'm in a mood, my kids are in a mood. 222 00:14:16,040 --> 00:14:19,920 Emotions are contagious. Stanford University proved that 223 00:14:20,040 --> 00:14:22,040 OK in a study. You can look it up. 224 00:14:22,880 --> 00:14:28,360 So if you want them to be a little calmer, learning to calm 225 00:14:28,360 --> 00:14:32,000 yourself and and moving that energy through. 226 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:35,320 Now, if they have an earache or a Tony ache or they don't feel 227 00:14:35,320 --> 00:14:40,320 good, then yeah, they're going to be crying and agitated 228 00:14:40,840 --> 00:14:43,640 because that's how they get their needs met. 229 00:14:43,720 --> 00:14:47,680 The problem is we didn't learn skills to get our needs met as 230 00:14:47,680 --> 00:14:50,480 we got older into the latency years. 231 00:14:50,480 --> 00:14:57,320 You know, the 9:00 to 12:00 until individuation around 1314 232 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:01,160 and and everybody talks about self regulating. 233 00:15:01,160 --> 00:15:03,400 Children are not designed to self regulate. 234 00:15:03,400 --> 00:15:05,840 Children look to their parents for regulation. 235 00:15:06,120 --> 00:15:08,760 That is part of how human beings are designed. 236 00:15:08,760 --> 00:15:11,480 And we learn to regulate together. 237 00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:13,760 We can Co regulate. All right. 238 00:15:13,760 --> 00:15:18,160 I'm not saying it's one thing to have really clingy, right? 239 00:15:18,640 --> 00:15:20,440 It's another thing to understand. 240 00:15:20,760 --> 00:15:23,080 We are always Co regulating all the time. 241 00:15:23,080 --> 00:15:26,920 We do it in community as well. Especially in the awake space. 242 00:15:26,920 --> 00:15:31,640 I felt the quiet and the quiet was tense and I was feeling a 243 00:15:31,640 --> 00:15:35,880 certain way myself. So I went into our awake space 244 00:15:35,880 --> 00:15:37,360 lounge. I'm like, hey, the energy's 245 00:15:37,360 --> 00:15:42,760 pretty gritty right now. How's everybody doing and listen 246 00:15:42,760 --> 00:15:45,320 to what was going on with people? 247 00:15:45,680 --> 00:15:49,280 And then I said, I'm covering this topic on the podcast, but 248 00:15:49,280 --> 00:15:52,240 is there anything you guys want me to talk about? 249 00:15:52,640 --> 00:15:55,720 And talking about centering versus grounding was one of 250 00:15:55,720 --> 00:15:58,760 those. So centering is just coming back 251 00:15:58,760 --> 00:16:03,280 into yourself so that you're not your energy isn't scattershotted 252 00:16:03,320 --> 00:16:06,760 all over the place. It's just that feeling of I'm 253 00:16:06,760 --> 00:16:10,800 here, I'm whole, I'm integrated. I'm here, I'm whole, I'm 254 00:16:10,880 --> 00:16:14,440 integrated. Grounding is more of an anchor 255 00:16:14,440 --> 00:16:18,080 point and we just don't get to anchor into much right now. 256 00:16:18,480 --> 00:16:22,360 So we're wanting to come into ourselves, and centering is 257 00:16:22,680 --> 00:16:25,880 honestly a more powerful thing to do in general. 258 00:16:25,880 --> 00:16:29,120 So this is great practice. And again, if you have little 259 00:16:29,120 --> 00:16:32,320 ones, you can do it with them. If your animals have been acting 260 00:16:32,320 --> 00:16:34,880 up, notice how their behavior changes. 261 00:16:34,920 --> 00:16:40,280 I was restless about two hours ago, and so was Malcolm, my dog. 262 00:16:40,440 --> 00:16:44,600 Once I started practicing what I preached, he simmered down 263 00:16:45,240 --> 00:16:49,720 because my energy wasn't spiky and on edge. 264 00:16:50,600 --> 00:16:54,560 Let's take a look a little bit at what everybody asked for in 265 00:16:54,560 --> 00:16:57,520 the awake space. And we may as you listen to 266 00:16:57,520 --> 00:17:00,760 this, there may be news that comes out right around the time 267 00:17:01,080 --> 00:17:04,400 this podcast is published. I wish I could tell you, but it 268 00:17:04,400 --> 00:17:07,680 involves the rain is so it's, you know, it could be storms, it 269 00:17:07,680 --> 00:17:10,200 could be tornadoes, it could be lightning. 270 00:17:10,200 --> 00:17:14,640 It could be some really big bombings in the Middle East. 271 00:17:14,680 --> 00:17:20,240 It could be more, more interesting economic news and 272 00:17:20,319 --> 00:17:24,160 all of that just is kind of an assault on our nervous system. 273 00:17:24,240 --> 00:17:30,320 That's why I decided to do an episode to empower you, to give 274 00:17:30,320 --> 00:17:35,160 you some skills and tools and to show the power of community. 275 00:17:35,160 --> 00:17:38,120 Because I knew what I was going to talk about. 276 00:17:38,120 --> 00:17:40,760 I didn't have to reach out, but I thought, you know, let me just 277 00:17:40,800 --> 00:17:44,280 ask what people need right now. And with Uranus and Taurus, our 278 00:17:44,280 --> 00:17:48,800 needs kind of get disrupted a little bit or it might be harder 279 00:17:48,880 --> 00:17:53,480 to know what we need because the world is changing and, and we 280 00:17:53,480 --> 00:17:56,840 might think we may have been raised to believe we needed 281 00:17:56,840 --> 00:18:00,400 something and it isn't really authentic to who we are. 282 00:18:00,640 --> 00:18:03,760 And we may not know how to know what we want. 283 00:18:03,760 --> 00:18:07,440 And so this is kind of disrupting it, especially if you 284 00:18:07,800 --> 00:18:10,920 followed the rules and did everything you were supposed to 285 00:18:10,920 --> 00:18:13,600 do. And now that reality is being 286 00:18:13,600 --> 00:18:17,120 shaken apart. And so how do you know what you 287 00:18:17,120 --> 00:18:19,560 want? And should you even try, right? 288 00:18:20,200 --> 00:18:23,560 And that's why we're looking at the power of creativity today. 289 00:18:23,640 --> 00:18:26,560 So first, we're going to come to the center because our creative 290 00:18:26,560 --> 00:18:29,360 energy comes out from here, right? 291 00:18:30,480 --> 00:18:35,240 A creative energy just exudes out from the heart center 292 00:18:35,280 --> 00:18:39,400 because it's an expression of our self, OK? 293 00:18:39,400 --> 00:18:43,520 It's our spirit versus our soul. It's our spirit. 294 00:18:43,520 --> 00:18:47,720 It's the thing that animates us. It doesn't mean you have to be 295 00:18:48,120 --> 00:18:50,480 an artist in a traditional sense. 296 00:18:50,480 --> 00:18:55,800 It doesn't mean you have to be a singer or a dancer or a writer. 297 00:18:56,400 --> 00:18:59,360 It could be how you arrange a fridge. 298 00:18:59,400 --> 00:19:01,800 It could be how you grocery shop. 299 00:19:01,840 --> 00:19:06,680 It could be how you put yourself out there in the world. 300 00:19:06,960 --> 00:19:12,880 You know, we need kindness. We need practical solutions to 301 00:19:12,880 --> 00:19:16,040 everyday problems, and anybody can see a problem. 302 00:19:16,440 --> 00:19:19,800 All those futurists that people say, oh, they're geniuses, I beg 303 00:19:19,800 --> 00:19:23,120 to differ. I beg to differ that looking at 304 00:19:23,120 --> 00:19:28,440 problems makes you a genius, a genius find solutions, Anybody 305 00:19:28,440 --> 00:19:33,200 can see the problem. How to solve the problem takes a 306 00:19:33,200 --> 00:19:36,480 real genius. And each one of us has unique 307 00:19:36,480 --> 00:19:39,120 genius. It's not just about the IQ 308 00:19:39,120 --> 00:19:43,800 number that measures verbal and mathematical intelligence. 309 00:19:43,800 --> 00:19:46,480 There's so many more ways to be intelligent. 310 00:19:46,640 --> 00:19:49,280 Recently, because of my eyes, I'm not great at housekeeping. 311 00:19:49,280 --> 00:19:52,960 By the time I see a dust Bunny, there's a whole colony, and they 312 00:19:52,960 --> 00:19:55,560 have names. OK, Very, very visually 313 00:19:55,560 --> 00:19:59,120 impaired. And my mother is going to be 79 314 00:19:59,840 --> 00:20:04,120 this year and she's getting tired and I'm not. 315 00:20:04,320 --> 00:20:06,920 Even when I try to help, she follows behind. 316 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:11,720 So it took a while because we live very rudely, but I found a 317 00:20:11,720 --> 00:20:16,320 housekeeping service to help out the person who came over and 318 00:20:16,320 --> 00:20:18,600 because my parents are coming home this week and I wanted it 319 00:20:18,600 --> 00:20:21,520 nice and tidy. From when they got home dusted 320 00:20:21,520 --> 00:20:25,320 and vacuumed and and sure enough, man, when I saw the dust 321 00:20:25,320 --> 00:20:29,800 over, man, I didn't even notice because I can't see it, but this 322 00:20:29,800 --> 00:20:33,920 person could. They were amazing at what day 323 00:20:33,920 --> 00:20:38,560 day, very artful in how they approached it. 324 00:20:38,560 --> 00:20:41,880 They had a whole system, they knew exactly what they were 325 00:20:41,880 --> 00:20:45,000 doing and it was really, really beautiful. 326 00:20:45,920 --> 00:20:53,520 How we do everything comes from here and when we unlock 327 00:20:53,960 --> 00:20:59,880 ourselves authentically, we are able to make more of an impact. 328 00:20:59,880 --> 00:21:02,720 But we have to know that in ourselves too, to actually 329 00:21:02,800 --> 00:21:09,840 recognize that in ourselves. So let's take a look what 330 00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:13,200 patrons asked me. So the members. 331 00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:17,760 So P trains is just short form for members because we're on 332 00:21:17,760 --> 00:21:20,320 Patreon. That's where our community, the 333 00:21:20,320 --> 00:21:23,960 Awake space is. Remember, we're 100% listeners 334 00:21:23,960 --> 00:21:27,080 supported and without them there is no podcast. 335 00:21:27,080 --> 00:21:30,040 So make sure you think them in the comments on YouTube or 336 00:21:30,040 --> 00:21:33,280 Spotify or wherever comments are for the podcast. 337 00:21:33,280 --> 00:21:36,720 So somebody asked, you've been talking about stocking up for 338 00:21:36,720 --> 00:21:41,080 years and I have, I haven't mentioned it as much because you 339 00:21:41,080 --> 00:21:43,760 know, to be honest, the time for warnings is so far. 340 00:21:43,760 --> 00:21:49,280 I gave my warnings and guidance. Let me know time for warnings is 341 00:21:49,280 --> 00:21:52,040 over you, you've given the message now you're teaching 342 00:21:52,040 --> 00:21:57,440 tools to deal with the moment. So I am very guidance LED all 343 00:21:57,440 --> 00:22:01,480 right, As much as I believe in practical rational solutions, 344 00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:05,480 I'm very connected to my guidance and guidance was like 345 00:22:05,480 --> 00:22:09,480 you're done with warnings. It's just that time is over. 346 00:22:09,720 --> 00:22:11,520 Doesn't mean it's too late to prepare. 347 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:15,120 But I've I've talked about it and talked about it and talked 348 00:22:15,120 --> 00:22:18,960 about it for years. So to recap, it is it is 349 00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:23,120 necessary to keep your pantry full of the things you need. 350 00:22:23,120 --> 00:22:26,240 Somebody asked for specifics and I'm like everybody has different 351 00:22:26,240 --> 00:22:29,080 needs. If you have a gluten free diet. 352 00:22:29,120 --> 00:22:32,200 Then you need to make sure you take care of what you need. 353 00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:36,360 I wouldn't blow all my money. I wouldn't spend thousands of 354 00:22:36,360 --> 00:22:38,960 dollars on it, but I would definitely make sure the pantry 355 00:22:38,960 --> 00:22:40,760 stays. Stocked of the things you eat 356 00:22:40,760 --> 00:22:45,640 with regularity, and these are non perishable goods, canned 357 00:22:45,640 --> 00:22:48,480 goods, dried goods. I would learn if you don't 358 00:22:48,480 --> 00:22:51,160 already know how to cook. I think the pandemic helped us 359 00:22:51,160 --> 00:22:53,440 out with that one because a lot of people did learn how. 360 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:57,480 But I would learn how to use lentils, beans, barley. 361 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:02,560 I think grains will be very expensive as we go into the 362 00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:04,520 fall. So I'd make sure I'd have my 363 00:23:04,520 --> 00:23:09,560 pasta, my wheat products. If you do that, barley, legumes 364 00:23:09,560 --> 00:23:12,520 of all kinds. So your lentils, your dried 365 00:23:12,520 --> 00:23:16,920 beans, kidney beans, black beans, get what you can, OK. 366 00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:20,600 And you can store these in glass jars, you know, So if you have 367 00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:25,200 old like pasta sauce jars or anything that comes in a glass 368 00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:27,040 jar, you don't have to buy a bunch of things. 369 00:23:27,040 --> 00:23:29,560 You can reuse the jars like Grandma did. 370 00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:32,960 That's a great way to repurpose things instead of put it in a 371 00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:36,320 landfill. Any kind of supplies that you 372 00:23:36,320 --> 00:23:40,840 use, crafting supplies, arts supplies, anything for the kids, 373 00:23:40,840 --> 00:23:45,200 dogs, gardening supplies. You really want to get your 374 00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:48,440 gardening supplies learning. If you're gardening inside, you 375 00:23:48,440 --> 00:23:50,520 probably don't want to use compost. 376 00:23:50,680 --> 00:23:57,040 But if you are gardening on a balcony or you're learning how 377 00:23:57,040 --> 00:24:00,120 to make a compost bin, that's done properly. 378 00:24:00,120 --> 00:24:02,320 Compost doesn't stink when it's done right. 379 00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:06,520 OK, but you could also like my mom and dad, they just toss the 380 00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:11,360 wet garbage, the just food and not meat products, but egg 381 00:24:11,360 --> 00:24:14,400 shells, vegetables, things that breakdown quickly. 382 00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:18,520 And then my dad wrote a Tilsa then because he built that 383 00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:21,960 garden patched up overtime because there was really bad 384 00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:25,760 soil where they live. And so we just build up where 385 00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:29,640 we're growing and decide what we're growing and do that. 386 00:24:29,720 --> 00:24:33,160 You can have hydroponics. I would really focus on growing 387 00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:36,640 your own leafy greens. They're very, very easy to grow. 388 00:24:36,640 --> 00:24:39,840 They're nutritious, not just, you know, iceberg lettuce, but 389 00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:44,000 you can grow arugula, spinach and watercress, you know, herbs 390 00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:47,480 you can grow in a herb garden. Those are all fairly simple to 391 00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:51,480 grow. It's not just about doing it for 392 00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:55,880 the nutritional value. It is also to give yourself 393 00:24:55,880 --> 00:24:58,440 something creative. And for all the people say, well 394 00:24:58,440 --> 00:24:59,320 I can't. Garden. 395 00:24:59,720 --> 00:25:02,680 You can. It's just you have to learn how. 396 00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:05,960 It's a skill where nobody's born gardening and in fact, we're 397 00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:09,760 going to be doing the astrology of gardening on the 28th. 398 00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:12,120 I'm very excited. It was my daughter's request. 399 00:25:12,120 --> 00:25:14,360 It's only 20 bucks. I'll put the link in the show 400 00:25:14,360 --> 00:25:19,120 notes and we'll talk about how to use moon phases and when to 401 00:25:19,120 --> 00:25:22,600 plant things using the moon and how to garden a little more 402 00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:25,440 successfully. When we take a look at what's 403 00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:29,720 going on with the sky, it's one of the oldest forms of astrology 404 00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:33,960 is using astrology. For agriculture or gardening. 405 00:25:34,360 --> 00:25:38,480 So we'll talk a little bit about the history and we'll give some 406 00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:40,640 tips and hints and that will help. 407 00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:42,840 I've gardened for years and years and years. 408 00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:45,360 I had a beautiful garden while my children were growing up. 409 00:25:45,360 --> 00:25:49,360 Everything was edible, from the herbs to the flowers to the 410 00:25:49,360 --> 00:25:52,280 vegetables and the fruit and berries. 411 00:25:52,840 --> 00:25:55,640 I never wanted my kids to, you know, grab something poisonous 412 00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:58,960 because they were really little. Made sure everything was edible. 413 00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:02,280 And we made fairy salads. What's a fairy salad when you 414 00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:05,840 use? Edible flowers and mint and the 415 00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:08,040 things they liked. But you know, whether it was 416 00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:13,120 violets or carnations or pinks or calendula, those are all 417 00:26:13,120 --> 00:26:14,920 edible flowers. So we'll have a little list. 418 00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:17,360 A little. Ebook a little teeny tiny guide 419 00:26:17,360 --> 00:26:21,280 that'll give you ideas and help you garden with more 420 00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:24,560 effectiveness. A victory garden doesn't have to 421 00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:27,440 be very big and it is creative endeavor. 422 00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:31,640 It's something you learn from. I find that when people make 423 00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:35,080 mistakes anymore or something doesn't work the way they had it 424 00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:38,200 planned out in their head, they just give up on things. 425 00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:41,960 And guys, the one thing you can't afford to do as we move 426 00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:45,160 forward is be defeatist. You're learning. 427 00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:48,320 It's just information like, well, that didn't work, try 428 00:26:48,320 --> 00:26:51,040 again. That's the most important skill 429 00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:54,360 you can cultivate going forward is that didn't work. 430 00:26:54,360 --> 00:27:00,440 What can I do next? That that on on creativity as 431 00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:04,960 well as making sure your needs are met as much as you can. 432 00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:08,400 If you need to get your medications refill, that one 433 00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:11,560 gets to be a little bit less in our hands. 434 00:27:11,560 --> 00:27:14,200 Then we can control the food we have around us. 435 00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:17,080 But make sure you're in good communication with your 436 00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:20,360 pharmacist. I don't see huge breaches of 437 00:27:20,360 --> 00:27:23,800 that particular supply chain too much, especially in the United 438 00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:26,120 States. But I do think we're going to 439 00:27:26,120 --> 00:27:29,920 see some issues with food, whether it's because it can't be 440 00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:34,880 delivered due to rising fuel costs or issues around 441 00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:37,200 fertilizer. We've all heard about that 442 00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:41,200 because of the different chemicals, industrial farming is 443 00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:46,160 going to be impacted. It doesn't mean you can't garden 444 00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:50,800 or support local smaller farms. And you can do that by joining a 445 00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:53,800 CSA as much as you can through gardening. 446 00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:57,320 That's one of the many ways you can help prepare yourself. 447 00:27:57,400 --> 00:27:59,560 I thought that was a great question. 448 00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:03,680 I mean, everybody's were great. The kind of all, there's 449 00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:07,240 different categories, but lots of things happening. 450 00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:11,320 Like I said, this week is going to be crunchy and somebody was 451 00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:16,160 asking about protection, Shields of protection, the old pink 452 00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:19,520 bubble routine, the white light bubble routine. 453 00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:23,000 I like to have like a, a bug zapper around me. 454 00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:25,240 And it's really funny because I think people think it's like 455 00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:29,240 really close in, but mine, it's probably a good 3-4 feet out of 456 00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:34,560 me. If not whiter and and again, you 457 00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:36,920 imagine these things. Imagination is your greatest 458 00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:39,240 tool and but you have to know it works. 459 00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:40,840 You can't just like visualize and go. 460 00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:43,920 I hope it works because it's energy. 461 00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:47,160 So you damn well better know it's working and and look for 462 00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:49,640 evidence that it's working. Be like, all right, I know it's 463 00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:51,520 working and I look forward to the evidence. 464 00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:53,760 That's how you want to think about Shields. 465 00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:56,840 You can cloak yourself. I'm only visible to people who 466 00:28:56,840 --> 00:29:01,320 have the best intentions towards me and meet my idea of my 467 00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:04,280 Wellness because some people have really good intentions but 468 00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:07,360 it doesn't match up with what you decide is good for you. 469 00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:10,720 I have another wing I had. It's almost like a screen and 470 00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:15,200 and this has been active since 1999 and it's been the only 471 00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:20,120 thing that comes through, comes through my guidance first. 472 00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:25,760 It's filtered, so nothing comes to me that hasn't been filtered 473 00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:28,440 by guidance. So things get transmitted before 474 00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:31,040 they get to me. So even if I'm agitated, I know 475 00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:36,680 there's no great car. It's just my instinctual self 476 00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:42,760 picking up on what's going on in the physical world that has my 477 00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:47,840 instincts up of like there could be some interesting things. 478 00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:50,160 But at the same time, I know I'm OK. 479 00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:54,040 I know I personally am OK. I know the people I care about 480 00:29:54,280 --> 00:29:59,800 will be as OK as possible. But as far as energy coming 481 00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:04,120 directly at nothing comes to me that has, that does not serve me 482 00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:09,680 and isn't filtered through love. When I did the check in with 483 00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:12,240 members of the Awake Space, people talked about having 484 00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:15,000 headaches. People talked about just feeling 485 00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:19,560 generally physically, I'm going to say mundane over magic. 486 00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:22,720 Always get it checked out. However, reminding you, if you 487 00:30:22,720 --> 00:30:27,240 can get in the shower, get in a tub and work to let that energy 488 00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:29,680 go down the drain. So if you're feeling a lot, 489 00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:34,400 being as physically active as possible, taking a walk, you 490 00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:37,600 know if that works for you. If the weather is decent, 491 00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:41,040 getting out in the garden, pulling weeds, preparing the 492 00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:45,000 soil, starting seeds, getting your hands in the dirt if you 493 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:47,120 can. It's a good way to discharge 494 00:30:47,120 --> 00:30:48,960 energy. Don't worry about Mama Earth, 495 00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:52,360 she can handle it. Baking if you can, like if you 496 00:30:52,360 --> 00:30:56,120 don't have good weather outside and you can bake, bake or cook. 497 00:30:56,120 --> 00:31:01,320 Make food that feels good to you and nurturing make sure you're 498 00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:04,880 taking your supplements properly, your vitamins and your 499 00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:07,880 minerals. I'll talk about that in a second 500 00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:09,880 notice. No brace on my hand. 501 00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:12,240 I have. I was talking about it in a live 502 00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:17,120 stream at the awake space, but boy did I find out something 503 00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:21,880 very fascinating. I didn't know and so there's 504 00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:24,480 definitely healing going on. I still have a little bit of 505 00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:27,400 soreness here, but that's because they did something 506 00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:29,840 stupid a couple of weeks ago. It's not the tendency. 507 00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:32,600 Super fun. No, it's not carpal tunnel. 508 00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:35,920 I was a dummy. I'll tell you about it later. 509 00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:39,640 Something to look forward to. Anyway, we're going to do some 510 00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:43,240 patron shout outs and then we're going to talk about creativity 511 00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:48,360 as rebellion as we go along. Like I said, it doesn't have to 512 00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:50,600 be the arts. It doesn't have to be huge. 513 00:31:50,640 --> 00:31:55,560 It is something to move your energy and give you some 514 00:31:55,560 --> 00:31:58,720 buoyancy. I don't think it's it this 515 00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:01,000 month, but you can start getting your hopes. 516 00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:05,400 Out without the community of the Awake space, there would be no 517 00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:07,320 podcast. And I like to say without you, 518 00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:10,360 there is no me. So thank you for letting me be 519 00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:14,960 of service this week. Coming up on March 29th. 520 00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:19,400 We are doing the astrology of gardening and it's 20 bucks. 521 00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:23,600 It's going to be a good time. Got a really pretty graphic for 522 00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:28,720 the book cover and it's a small little pamphlets so it's going 523 00:32:28,720 --> 00:32:32,080 to be a really great guide. Things don't have to be big to 524 00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:35,560 be impactful and that's what we're talking about this week 525 00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:40,400 here on the awake space podcast. We are looking at how to take 526 00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:44,520 small bursts of creativity to re empower ourselves and 527 00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:48,760 reinvigorate ourselves and so that's what the podcast is going 528 00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:53,320 to be about for people of the awake space. 529 00:32:53,320 --> 00:33:01,720 So we've got Christie Zinn, Jenny Black Cat, Caitlin, Kate 530 00:33:01,840 --> 00:33:17,640 OCBMP Sarah Chantel Z Simply Sugar News Mochi Cat NIV 759 DP 531 00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:26,520 Frey Nalani, Nat K Heather, Bertie Nester, Kurt Christine. 532 00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:30,200 Sorry Jared. No way. 533 00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:37,520 Jose, Autumn, Jordan, Melissa, Ella Jewelsphere, Amber, Shania 534 00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:43,640 or Shenya J Mintz, Jackie, Leah or Leah. 535 00:33:43,760 --> 00:33:48,920 Jillian and see let's different people. yo-yo. 536 00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:56,520 Peppermint Jazz Olga, Amanda, Alina, Ariana, Ariana, Lupa, 537 00:33:56,840 --> 00:34:03,560 Kelly, Jen, Mark, Sarah, Hana and Megumi. 538 00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:10,199 Melissa Gray, LP, Becca and Jenny, welcome, welcome, 539 00:34:10,199 --> 00:34:11,199 welcome. Thank you. 540 00:34:11,199 --> 00:34:15,080 I see some old pieces returning. That's the great thing about the 541 00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:17,280 Awake space. You can come, you can go, you 542 00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:19,679 come back. And we're always excited to have 543 00:34:19,679 --> 00:34:23,080 you in community. Community is what keeps things 544 00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:24,520 going. And what have I said? 545 00:34:24,520 --> 00:34:28,920 We need community going forward. And I've talked about that for a 546 00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:31,880 long time. In fact, as long as most of you 547 00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:35,560 have been listening to me, the importance of community and 548 00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:39,440 understanding the role community plays in our lives. 549 00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:43,639 And that is also something that can be very creative. 550 00:34:44,080 --> 00:34:47,760 So let's get on with things. Let's talk about creativity as 551 00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:52,360 an act of rebellion, creativity as an act of empowerment, and 552 00:34:52,360 --> 00:34:55,320 why you're not being selfish, OK? 553 00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:58,560 I don't think it's it this month, but you can start getting 554 00:34:58,560 --> 00:35:03,800 your hopes up. So let's talk about ways we can 555 00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:07,840 use creativity as a form of rebellion, as a way to come back 556 00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:12,360 to center, as a way to boost our energy levels if we're feeling 557 00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:16,960 overly tired, or if we. Aren't teetering on the edge, 558 00:35:16,960 --> 00:35:19,040 wondering if we're going to make it. 559 00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:22,320 Creativity takes all kinds of shapes and sizes. 560 00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:26,000 It isn't about being big and gaudy. 561 00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:29,880 It isn't about fine art or music or dance. 562 00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:33,280 It is how we express ourselves in the world. 563 00:35:33,360 --> 00:35:36,880 I talked a little bit about that earlier in the podcast. 564 00:35:37,360 --> 00:35:41,560 Things you can do, whether it is taking time to prepare your food 565 00:35:41,560 --> 00:35:46,920 mindfully, not just shoving it in the microwave or pulling 566 00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:50,560 something out of the freezer, but just taking the time to chop 567 00:35:50,560 --> 00:35:55,720 the vegetables methodically and slowly as you prepare things. 568 00:35:55,720 --> 00:36:00,720 If you're baking, enjoy the textural experience, OK? 569 00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:03,360 Don't just go through. The motions. 570 00:36:03,360 --> 00:36:06,760 It's about mindfully putting herself in the moment. 571 00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:10,880 One of the ways I creatively express myself is putting myself 572 00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:14,520 into service. OK, so when I feel. 573 00:36:15,080 --> 00:36:21,160 Akimbo, the vet word akimbo out of swords, a little scattered. 574 00:36:21,480 --> 00:36:26,400 One of the things I do is I go in to service in my community, 575 00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:28,520 the awake space. I mean, you can almost guarantee 576 00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:31,040 when I pop in, I'm like, how's everybody doing? 577 00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:34,720 It's because I'm feeling it and instead of sitting up in my head 578 00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:38,000 as a political analyst, especially one who specializes 579 00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:41,320 in the region in conflict right now, it is not a good time to 580 00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:44,240 have that speciality. Let me tell you, I have to take 581 00:36:44,240 --> 00:36:47,240 a deep breath. You know, I also have family 582 00:36:47,240 --> 00:36:48,840 over there, people. I care about it. 583 00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:54,120 My oldest friend that I've known as in adulthood is over there, 584 00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:57,600 you know, So these are things I do. 585 00:36:57,600 --> 00:37:02,440 I take a breath, I go into community and I communicate. 586 00:37:02,440 --> 00:37:06,760 Communication is part of how I express my creativity. 587 00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:09,880 Once I have myself centered, then I can write. 588 00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:15,520 I can work on the magazine, I can work on the the booklets. 589 00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:18,440 Almost done for the gardening class. 590 00:37:18,440 --> 00:37:20,320 And it's super cute, very pretty. 591 00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:23,320 These are things that you can put your focus on. 592 00:37:23,320 --> 00:37:26,560 So one of the things about creativity is being able to pull 593 00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:31,880 your focus back and then doing things that fuel you. 594 00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:35,840 It could be playing a game, it could be designing something. 595 00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:39,040 It could be drying out your garden plans. 596 00:37:39,040 --> 00:37:41,200 It could be getting your hands in the dirt. 597 00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:45,840 It could be drying, sketching, doodling, doing zentangles, 598 00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:50,520 crocheting, knitting, weaving, hand spinning, diamond painting. 599 00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:54,720 The list can go on and on. There isn't one particular way 600 00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:56,680 it could be. You need to. 601 00:37:56,680 --> 00:37:59,160 Physically move and shake it out. 602 00:37:59,160 --> 00:38:00,760 Some people love to dance by mom. 603 00:38:02,080 --> 00:38:04,360 If she's super excited about something, she dances. 604 00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:07,120 If she's worried, she dances. She dances. 605 00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:10,320 She's little rising, she dances. So she gets some moving. 606 00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:13,600 When she's not moving, things are serious, right? 607 00:38:14,200 --> 00:38:18,760 So if you want to know more about how to access your 608 00:38:18,760 --> 00:38:21,840 personal creativity, I'm going to be covering some of the 609 00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:25,280 things we see in the astrology chart that help you buoy 610 00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:30,520 yourself up by knowing that kind of activity might help me more. 611 00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:34,160 And we'll be talking about that in the patron only podcast this 612 00:38:34,160 --> 00:38:37,760 week. I had a lot of other questions 613 00:38:37,760 --> 00:38:40,960 that I think I will detail here. 1 again, I think there are 614 00:38:40,960 --> 00:38:43,680 significant events that start the week off. 615 00:38:43,680 --> 00:38:49,000 I think this is a very Monday ish Monday, a very Monday ish 616 00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:51,280 Monday. And if you're wondering like why 617 00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:54,480 this is framed differently because you don't see as much of 618 00:38:54,560 --> 00:38:56,840 my very pretty tough, it's because I took a break. 619 00:38:56,840 --> 00:38:59,560 OK, medium metal and I were talking about it because we 620 00:38:59,560 --> 00:39:04,120 viscerally felt sensations with this energy. 621 00:39:04,120 --> 00:39:10,560 Like I felt very nauseous. She felt shaky and and you know, 622 00:39:10,560 --> 00:39:12,120 we're both psychic. She's a medium. 623 00:39:12,120 --> 00:39:15,840 I'm not a medium. I'm an astrologer and I don't 624 00:39:15,840 --> 00:39:19,240 really deliberately use being psychic in that. 625 00:39:19,240 --> 00:39:22,480 OK partly because I'm super sensitive and I try to keep my 626 00:39:22,480 --> 00:39:25,080 filters up because I don't want to feel everything. 627 00:39:25,120 --> 00:39:27,680 I already feel enough. I'm a Cancerian with a Cancer 628 00:39:27,680 --> 00:39:32,160 Mercury, so when I get those physical sensations, I know 629 00:39:32,160 --> 00:39:36,440 there's significant events and it's fairly significant. 630 00:39:36,440 --> 00:39:39,120 We're going to see quite a bit of change as we move towards 631 00:39:39,120 --> 00:39:43,360 that full moon on April 1st, which is next Wednesday. 632 00:39:43,360 --> 00:39:46,400 I'm not this coming Wednesday, next Wednesday. 633 00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:49,880 It's not an April Fool's joke and it's very dynamic energy. 634 00:39:49,880 --> 00:39:53,120 And of course, we'll talk about that on Monday's podcast. 635 00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:58,280 So I, I was asked a few things like are what about those energy 636 00:39:58,280 --> 00:40:01,320 lockdowns somebody was talking about on social media and has 637 00:40:01,320 --> 00:40:05,680 really picked up. And when I look at the April 638 00:40:06,040 --> 00:40:10,320 predictions I did for 2026, I said be prepared for rolling 639 00:40:10,320 --> 00:40:13,480 brownouts, blackouts. There could be issues with 640 00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:17,160 electricity. There could be events that cause 641 00:40:17,160 --> 00:40:19,880 rationing. And, and that would all be 642 00:40:19,880 --> 00:40:24,320 expected given world events. I would not plan long distance 643 00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:30,920 travel right now. I just wouldn't given the state 644 00:40:30,920 --> 00:40:34,320 of the world and given the state of the United States, I, I would 645 00:40:34,320 --> 00:40:39,440 be cautious if I had to travel. So this is from one of my 646 00:40:39,440 --> 00:40:42,200 members and I didn't have permission to username, so I'm 647 00:40:42,200 --> 00:40:45,560 not going to use the name. I'm just going to read through 648 00:40:45,560 --> 00:40:48,240 this, to be honest. I would like to know how to use 649 00:40:48,240 --> 00:40:50,680 this energy to my advantage, so to speak. 650 00:40:50,680 --> 00:40:53,880 And we're definitely talking about that here on the podcast 651 00:40:53,880 --> 00:40:59,360 today, using that creativity to help shift us mentally and 652 00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:01,960 emotionally. You know, she's talking about 653 00:41:02,360 --> 00:41:06,120 Hawaii and Nebraska and the TSA and ice. 654 00:41:06,120 --> 00:41:11,440 And now I'm even more drained, but I'm trying not to be 655 00:41:11,440 --> 00:41:15,320 because, well, I can't be. I have kids that depend on me, 656 00:41:15,720 --> 00:41:18,120 but the energy is really impacting me. 657 00:41:18,560 --> 00:41:21,000 And yes. And so those are all external 658 00:41:21,120 --> 00:41:23,120 things. That's a lot of news, right? 659 00:41:23,120 --> 00:41:28,040 And when you're a compassionate, empathetic person, understanding 660 00:41:28,280 --> 00:41:32,680 that there's really sad things happening in the world, there's 661 00:41:32,920 --> 00:41:35,400 big problems. All right. 662 00:41:35,960 --> 00:41:39,800 I do want to remind you all that I say at the end of April, there 663 00:41:39,800 --> 00:41:43,120 could be a solution to a current world problem. 664 00:41:43,320 --> 00:41:48,280 And I wrote that back in May, June of 2025. 665 00:41:48,880 --> 00:41:52,640 No context. And a lot of what I was talking 666 00:41:52,640 --> 00:41:56,280 about out of context really has come to pass. 667 00:41:56,280 --> 00:41:59,800 I want us to have hope because things will resolve. 668 00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:04,040 They're not resolving this week. They're just not again. 669 00:42:04,040 --> 00:42:07,800 The tides are shifting. It takes time for a tide to 670 00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:10,600 shift. It takes time for the seasons to 671 00:42:10,600 --> 00:42:14,480 change. It takes time for an idea to 672 00:42:14,480 --> 00:42:16,960 become a real thing. It takes time. 673 00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:19,760 From conception to birth takes time. 674 00:42:19,760 --> 00:42:23,080 Everything takes time. Nothing happens in an instant. 675 00:42:23,080 --> 00:42:27,440 And I would love to wave a magic wand and fix that, but you know, 676 00:42:27,440 --> 00:42:29,080 I can't. Neither can you. 677 00:42:29,080 --> 00:42:32,280 But we can work on ourselves. We are the one thing we have 678 00:42:32,280 --> 00:42:35,600 control over. So I'm going to go more to this. 679 00:42:35,600 --> 00:42:41,040 So first of all, I would read through headlines judiciously. 680 00:42:41,160 --> 00:42:44,480 Be selective in what you're looking at news wise. 681 00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:49,320 This is a long message, so I'm going through it in pieces. 682 00:42:49,320 --> 00:42:53,000 I want to use the macro level energy to my micro level 683 00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:55,360 advantage. I don't know if that makes 684 00:42:55,360 --> 00:42:56,480 sense. It makes total sense. 685 00:42:56,480 --> 00:42:58,640 That's what I talk about on the podcast all the time. 686 00:42:58,640 --> 00:43:02,160 When I give you a theme for the week, it's how to use the 687 00:43:02,200 --> 00:43:04,400 energy. It's how to use the current 688 00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:07,920 astrological transits. If I just sit there and talk 689 00:43:07,920 --> 00:43:10,280 astrology, you're going to get up in your head about the 690 00:43:10,280 --> 00:43:11,920 astrology. That's the one thing I've 691 00:43:11,920 --> 00:43:16,840 learned in the last six years is that give all the astrology 692 00:43:16,840 --> 00:43:19,800 instead of translating it into practical advice. 693 00:43:19,800 --> 00:43:23,320 This isn't just my opinions. I'm translating the astrology 694 00:43:23,320 --> 00:43:25,640 and how you can surf the cosmic tide. 695 00:43:25,680 --> 00:43:32,640 Every single episode is designed to help you for especially that 696 00:43:32,640 --> 00:43:36,920 week, but building skills upon skills to make it through these 697 00:43:36,920 --> 00:43:40,240 changing times. The change is not stopping 698 00:43:40,560 --> 00:43:45,080 anytime soon. OK, because every system is 699 00:43:45,080 --> 00:43:48,040 changing and that means we have to change the systems within. 700 00:43:48,040 --> 00:43:51,240 And that goes to the second part of your commentary. 701 00:43:51,400 --> 00:43:53,880 And you know who you are and I love you. 702 00:43:53,880 --> 00:43:58,160 You're, you're bright and you're a person of service and you are 703 00:43:58,160 --> 00:44:01,080 sensitive and loving and kind and compassionate. 704 00:44:01,440 --> 00:44:05,960 And my goal, because it's such a, a good question or a good 705 00:44:05,960 --> 00:44:08,720 statement even it helps other people. 706 00:44:08,720 --> 00:44:13,000 So, but I, I know you talk a lot about how we could have great 707 00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:16,800 days even when the world energy is impacted, I find it harder 708 00:44:16,800 --> 00:44:20,680 and harder to not be personally impacted day by day. 709 00:44:20,720 --> 00:44:23,120 That is completely understandable because again, 710 00:44:23,160 --> 00:44:26,240 all the systems are changing. It impacts us. 711 00:44:26,240 --> 00:44:29,440 However, what's happening in Hawaii is not physically 712 00:44:29,440 --> 00:44:33,520 happening to you. We can have our attention on it. 713 00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:38,720 We can be aware of what we can do in a situation we have no 714 00:44:38,720 --> 00:44:41,200 control over. But again, it is not your 715 00:44:41,200 --> 00:44:44,800 present reality in where you live unless you live there. 716 00:44:44,800 --> 00:44:46,520 And that is not a selfish statement. 717 00:44:46,520 --> 00:44:50,560 It is being aware of what is directly impacting our 718 00:44:50,560 --> 00:44:53,040 physicality. There are other issues up on 719 00:44:53,040 --> 00:44:54,760 deck that do directly impact you. 720 00:44:54,960 --> 00:44:57,560 But when I say the world can be burning and you can still have a 721 00:44:57,560 --> 00:44:59,200 good day, I'm not. Kidding. 722 00:44:59,600 --> 00:45:02,800 And it's not just about mindset. Everybody has their own 723 00:45:02,800 --> 00:45:06,560 transits, right? Everybody has a Natal chart and 724 00:45:06,560 --> 00:45:10,120 how the transits are moving around it because you have the 725 00:45:10,120 --> 00:45:13,800 Natal chart that's static and the transits move around it. 726 00:45:14,680 --> 00:45:16,680 Go look at my how to find transits. 727 00:45:16,680 --> 00:45:18,720 If you don't know what I'm talking about, listeners, I'll 728 00:45:18,720 --> 00:45:22,680 put a link in the show notes. We all have our unique set of 729 00:45:22,680 --> 00:45:24,880 perceptions. That's a psychological fact. 730 00:45:24,880 --> 00:45:29,160 That's a neurological fact. Our astrology chart shows us the 731 00:45:29,160 --> 00:45:32,920 spectrum of how those perceptions operate. 732 00:45:33,280 --> 00:45:37,400 In my field, we discuss the systems at play on each other, 733 00:45:37,400 --> 00:45:41,280 and so even 1's personal life is determined and impacted by the 734 00:45:41,280 --> 00:45:44,520 system. So understanding that system is 735 00:45:44,520 --> 00:45:46,600 important for personal movement and growth. 736 00:45:47,080 --> 00:45:49,520 Yes. And all the systems are going to 737 00:45:49,520 --> 00:45:50,760 change. So everybody's going to be 738 00:45:50,760 --> 00:45:53,720 discombobulated. Everything we think is normal, 739 00:45:53,720 --> 00:45:58,040 how we do our work in the world, how we buy our food, how we 740 00:45:58,120 --> 00:46:02,880 transport ourselves, how we govern ourselves, all of this 741 00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:05,720 for the foreseeable future is reshaping. 742 00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:09,040 What that ends up looking like is very dependent on the 743 00:46:09,040 --> 00:46:12,720 day-to-day actions of everyone in the collective. 744 00:46:12,840 --> 00:46:18,120 That's why I teach what I teach. Imagine seeing this time period 745 00:46:18,120 --> 00:46:22,760 coming almost 30 years ago. You know, it'll be 30. 746 00:46:22,760 --> 00:46:25,360 Well, actually 96. I started being in. 747 00:46:25,360 --> 00:46:30,200 So it was 30 years ago, God, and seeing it coming out of context, 748 00:46:30,200 --> 00:46:32,400 just knowing everything would change. 749 00:46:33,480 --> 00:46:36,040 But it doesn't mean everything's going away. 750 00:46:36,800 --> 00:46:39,720 So we have to change the system within. 751 00:46:39,720 --> 00:46:45,040 So if we have in our personal system that we have certain 752 00:46:45,040 --> 00:46:48,720 narratives we say to ourselves over and over and over, the 753 00:46:48,720 --> 00:46:52,760 stories we tell ourselves, I'm change resisting. 754 00:46:52,800 --> 00:46:55,200 I can't handle this. I'm too weak. 755 00:46:55,200 --> 00:46:58,160 I'm not big enough. People are always against me. 756 00:46:58,160 --> 00:47:01,840 Some of that may be true, but just because it's true doesn't 757 00:47:01,840 --> 00:47:04,520 mean that has to be the driving force of your system. 758 00:47:05,160 --> 00:47:09,440 OK, well, I don't like change, but I know I can navigate it. 759 00:47:10,440 --> 00:47:11,960 That's a good way to change that. 760 00:47:12,720 --> 00:47:14,280 Yeah. There are people who are really 761 00:47:14,280 --> 00:47:19,120 out to get me and I am able to make myself as safe as possible. 762 00:47:19,920 --> 00:47:24,360 That's one of the reasons I I designed the work, which is in 763 00:47:24,360 --> 00:47:27,120 Laurie's test lab. People in the mystery school and 764 00:47:27,120 --> 00:47:29,080 astrology crew have access to that. 765 00:47:29,080 --> 00:47:32,280 These are really, really short videos, but it's a very, very 766 00:47:32,280 --> 00:47:36,560 powerful process that requires action and practice. 767 00:47:36,560 --> 00:47:41,480 And my daughter, my Co visionary and I are working on doing more 768 00:47:41,480 --> 00:47:44,040 in the test lab. Unfortunately, she got shingles 769 00:47:44,560 --> 00:47:47,360 and I've been working on healing the money wound, the framework 770 00:47:47,360 --> 00:47:49,920 for rebuilding confidence, value and well. 771 00:47:49,920 --> 00:47:52,880 So I got my revisions in, but we've been working on those 772 00:47:52,880 --> 00:47:54,080 things. But we're going to start doing 773 00:47:54,080 --> 00:47:56,720 more lives and getting people moving into action. 774 00:47:56,720 --> 00:48:00,280 You cannot just consume information right now and not 775 00:48:00,280 --> 00:48:02,760 take action. Right now is the time. 776 00:48:02,760 --> 00:48:06,280 You must start taking action even before Mars moves into 777 00:48:06,280 --> 00:48:10,520 Aries, which it will be soon. But you need to start taking 778 00:48:10,520 --> 00:48:16,240 action on yourself. It is so important, redesigning 779 00:48:16,240 --> 00:48:20,800 the systems inside of ourselves, not allowing our default setting 780 00:48:20,800 --> 00:48:22,960 to run the show. And that can be social 781 00:48:22,960 --> 00:48:24,880 conditioning, cultural conditioning. 782 00:48:25,920 --> 00:48:28,560 We often put culture on a pedestal. 783 00:48:28,760 --> 00:48:33,960 And as somebody who comes from cultural anthropology, I can say 784 00:48:34,360 --> 00:48:40,600 sometimes culture is used to justify things that maybe needed 785 00:48:40,600 --> 00:48:42,840 to change a while ago. Like it made sense in the 786 00:48:42,840 --> 00:48:46,400 culture 300 years ago, it doesn't make sense in the 787 00:48:46,400 --> 00:48:50,600 culture now, or it isn't actually the result of culture, 788 00:48:50,600 --> 00:48:53,520 it's a result of a dominating force, like from 789 00:48:53,520 --> 00:48:56,960 colonialization, etcetera. And so learning to not just 790 00:48:56,960 --> 00:49:00,680 deconstruct, but renovate from the inside out, but that you 791 00:49:00,680 --> 00:49:03,600 know, that's all theory, right? Until you take it into practice. 792 00:49:03,600 --> 00:49:06,200 So what can you do this week, this week? 793 00:49:06,840 --> 00:49:10,680 One of the biggest things you can do is really get your hands 794 00:49:10,680 --> 00:49:13,760 into the clay. I'm not saying tune out the 795 00:49:13,760 --> 00:49:16,640 world, but stay lightly apprised. 796 00:49:16,640 --> 00:49:20,080 But overconsumption, and I've talked about this since last 797 00:49:20,080 --> 00:49:25,520 year, overconsumption is going to disable you from taking any 798 00:49:25,520 --> 00:49:28,920 meaningful actions. So things you can do to shake 799 00:49:29,160 --> 00:49:36,080 the despair, you know, or the the lethargy that happens, the 800 00:49:36,080 --> 00:49:40,920 devitalization that happens from being over informed and under 801 00:49:40,920 --> 00:49:45,040 active is clean the house. That's why we say go wash 802 00:49:45,040 --> 00:49:48,720 dishes, get your hands in the water, do the laundry, tidy the 803 00:49:48,720 --> 00:49:53,520 space, reorganize, assess the pantry, take care of your 804 00:49:53,520 --> 00:49:56,960 immediate needs. I was talking with my assistant, 805 00:49:56,960 --> 00:50:00,600 Alicia, and I was like, you know, I was trying to decide how 806 00:50:00,600 --> 00:50:02,800 I was going to address things on the podcast. 807 00:50:02,800 --> 00:50:05,440 And I was like, sometimes we bounce ideas. 808 00:50:05,560 --> 00:50:08,960 And she was like, I was really focused on things in the outer 809 00:50:08,960 --> 00:50:12,960 world, especially in 2024, because I became informed in a 810 00:50:12,960 --> 00:50:18,000 way I hadn't been before. And I was wondering if it made 811 00:50:18,000 --> 00:50:20,880 me selfish when I started pulling things back inside when 812 00:50:20,880 --> 00:50:24,080 I was listening to you and I was coming to center and I felt 813 00:50:24,080 --> 00:50:26,600 selfish for a minute. I said, but it's never selfish 814 00:50:26,600 --> 00:50:30,960 to take care of yourself. Hurting yourself through denying 815 00:50:30,960 --> 00:50:35,520 yourself your needs being met, martyring yourself for a 'cause 816 00:50:35,520 --> 00:50:40,680 that isn't actually yours. Even if it's humanitarian, that 817 00:50:40,680 --> 00:50:44,560 is not solving the problem. That's joining in the problem. 818 00:50:44,560 --> 00:50:48,320 That's joining in the suffering, which does not elevate people 819 00:50:48,320 --> 00:50:51,720 out of it. So when you take care of you, 820 00:50:51,720 --> 00:50:57,280 when you give yourself more resources to help other people, 821 00:50:57,760 --> 00:51:03,240 OK, when you take care of you and your immediate environment, 822 00:51:03,640 --> 00:51:10,440 you are less at risk of panic, which can hurt other people 823 00:51:10,440 --> 00:51:12,640 around. Like think of the people who are 824 00:51:12,640 --> 00:51:16,800 unthinking and run and grab every loaf of bread and horrid 825 00:51:16,800 --> 00:51:19,200 resources. Those people are the weakest 826 00:51:19,200 --> 00:51:21,240 link. They think they're being strong 827 00:51:21,240 --> 00:51:22,640 by taking care of their families. 828 00:51:22,880 --> 00:51:25,240 That's not self maintenance, that's greed. 829 00:51:25,560 --> 00:51:28,960 OK, So like in healing the money wound, I explained money wound 830 00:51:28,960 --> 00:51:32,480 isn't just from being poor. The billionaires have a gaping 831 00:51:32,480 --> 00:51:35,600 hole, OK? A gaping hole. 832 00:51:35,600 --> 00:51:37,560 They do not know how to be satisfied. 833 00:51:38,360 --> 00:51:41,720 All right, If you can't find satisfaction, you're injured, 834 00:51:42,080 --> 00:51:44,200 OK? You have a gaping wound, and 835 00:51:44,200 --> 00:51:47,720 that wound hurts other people. So taking care of ourselves, 836 00:51:47,960 --> 00:51:51,120 making sure we have as much sleep as we can get, the energy 837 00:51:51,120 --> 00:51:54,240 has been very frenetic, and there's been a lot of sleep 838 00:51:54,240 --> 00:51:58,880 disruption because we're dealing with a lot of uncertainty. 839 00:51:59,320 --> 00:52:03,480 And there's no way of knowing. You can be an astrologer, A 840 00:52:03,480 --> 00:52:07,720 psychic, a medium and have an idea of the themes. 841 00:52:07,720 --> 00:52:11,160 You can even get some details, but you will never know exactly 842 00:52:11,160 --> 00:52:14,480 how it plays out. Because 30 years ago if you 843 00:52:14,480 --> 00:52:17,840 would have told me some of the dumb ass stuff that's happening 844 00:52:17,840 --> 00:52:21,080 today by so-called leaders, I would have been like no, no way. 845 00:52:21,080 --> 00:52:22,600 They're not going to be that dumb. 846 00:52:22,600 --> 00:52:25,520 I know they're going to be privileged and competent, but 847 00:52:25,680 --> 00:52:27,960 you know it won't be that incompetent. 848 00:52:27,960 --> 00:52:30,960 Nope, Nope, here we are, here we are. 849 00:52:31,040 --> 00:52:35,840 Look at where we're at. I can obsess over that because I 850 00:52:35,840 --> 00:52:39,480 don't understand that level of stupidity and that's not going 851 00:52:39,480 --> 00:52:42,040 to do me any good. I can't serve you from that 852 00:52:42,040 --> 00:52:46,120 space, right? So making sure adequate sleep, 853 00:52:46,160 --> 00:52:51,160 adequate nutrition, taking your supplements and your vitamins. 854 00:52:51,160 --> 00:52:53,520 We may need more supplements than vitamins. 855 00:52:53,520 --> 00:52:56,240 If you can stock up on those. I know they can be expensive, 856 00:52:56,640 --> 00:53:00,440 but making sure you stock up on those is really important. 857 00:53:00,440 --> 00:53:04,040 And I can't tell you which ones to take because I don't know 858 00:53:04,040 --> 00:53:05,960 you, but that's something you talk to your doctor or your 859 00:53:05,960 --> 00:53:07,680 pharmacist about. OK? 860 00:53:08,320 --> 00:53:13,720 But in my case, I was trying to figure out what was going on 861 00:53:13,720 --> 00:53:16,080 with my tendons. Yes, I overuse them. 862 00:53:16,080 --> 00:53:18,120 I know exactly what I did. OK? 863 00:53:19,640 --> 00:53:23,400 It wasn't my finest moment and I went to do some research because 864 00:53:23,400 --> 00:53:26,720 I was getting concerned because it was harder and harder to use 865 00:53:26,720 --> 00:53:29,320 my hands. In my research. 866 00:53:29,440 --> 00:53:33,160 I saw that there were nutritional supports for 867 00:53:33,160 --> 00:53:38,080 connective tissue and I decided to look because as I was reading 868 00:53:38,080 --> 00:53:43,000 through a list of the supplements, so vitamins and 869 00:53:43,000 --> 00:53:48,520 minerals and lipids, I went and I liked and I had a supplement 870 00:53:48,600 --> 00:53:52,320 that I wasn't taking regularly that I had bought to support my 871 00:53:52,320 --> 00:53:56,440 eyeballs. And I take it a little bit. 872 00:53:56,440 --> 00:53:58,920 Didn't really notice anything, you know, because it's not going 873 00:53:58,920 --> 00:54:01,520 to fix my vision. My vision is mechanical. 874 00:54:01,520 --> 00:54:04,760 It's a mechanical issue. All those people say take Lutein 875 00:54:04,760 --> 00:54:06,960 Laurie, it'll fix your eyesight. No, it won't. 876 00:54:07,080 --> 00:54:11,360 It'll just give my eyes better health so my retina stays 877 00:54:11,360 --> 00:54:13,640 healthier. But it's not going to improve my 878 00:54:13,640 --> 00:54:16,360 vision, I promise. So I go to those things 879 00:54:16,360 --> 00:54:19,200 skeptically. Notice that was a narrative that 880 00:54:19,200 --> 00:54:22,360 stopped me from supporting my body like nothing's going to fix 881 00:54:22,360 --> 00:54:24,640 my eyeballs. Well, no, it's not fixing my 882 00:54:24,640 --> 00:54:29,400 vision, but it did improve my eye health because in taking 883 00:54:29,400 --> 00:54:34,680 that, it not only has helped the tendons in my thumbs from over 884 00:54:34,680 --> 00:54:39,040 in misuse, it also is supporting the connective tissue around my 885 00:54:39,040 --> 00:54:43,040 eyes. And my eyes aren't as tired, go 886 00:54:43,040 --> 00:54:45,760 figure. And so making sure, and it's not 887 00:54:45,760 --> 00:54:48,680 just Loutine, it's a whole thing, but I'm very, very 888 00:54:48,680 --> 00:54:51,240 tickled about that. And so making sure we're 889 00:54:51,240 --> 00:54:55,040 supporting ourselves physically, emotionally. 890 00:54:55,040 --> 00:54:58,120 If you have a therapist, it's a good time to go to a therapist. 891 00:54:58,120 --> 00:55:02,400 If you don't have a therapist, looking for resources like my 892 00:55:02,400 --> 00:55:05,360 podcast, Matilda's podcast, Tracy St. 893 00:55:05,360 --> 00:55:08,680 Croix's podcast. We all talk about things that 894 00:55:08,680 --> 00:55:12,160 help elevate you, give you tools to keep moving. 895 00:55:12,760 --> 00:55:17,800 It is a very good idea to look at side hustles and side gigs. 896 00:55:17,800 --> 00:55:20,240 We just did your natural income path. 897 00:55:21,440 --> 00:55:25,200 That was a wonderful workshop. Everybody got the workbook. 898 00:55:25,560 --> 00:55:29,480 And then we're doing the gardening class. 899 00:55:29,880 --> 00:55:34,160 And then I'll be doing some astrology classes in April and 900 00:55:34,160 --> 00:55:36,600 Matelda and I have an event we're setting up for May. 901 00:55:36,600 --> 00:55:41,400 We'll cover you through the summer months so that you are as 902 00:55:41,400 --> 00:55:47,600 surprised as what we can give you on navigating both the 903 00:55:47,600 --> 00:55:51,720 weather, world events, how to be prepared, etc. 904 00:55:51,720 --> 00:55:54,560 Those are all things that we're trying to do. 905 00:55:54,600 --> 00:55:56,920 I'm going to teach some astrology classes. 906 00:55:56,920 --> 00:56:00,240 I think I'm just going to do a couple workshops because I keep 907 00:56:00,240 --> 00:56:04,600 getting similar questions. And if you want to learn 908 00:56:04,600 --> 00:56:08,120 beginning astrology and you've never done anything outside of, 909 00:56:08,640 --> 00:56:11,880 you know, maybe watching some videos about the signs like your 910 00:56:11,880 --> 00:56:15,320 sun sign, if that's all you know, then go hit my YouTube 911 00:56:15,320 --> 00:56:19,720 channel Beginning astrology tutorial playlist astrology, 912 00:56:19,800 --> 00:56:23,720 real astrology. To be an astrologer takes time 913 00:56:23,720 --> 00:56:25,520 and practice. That's why I spent a lot of my 914 00:56:25,520 --> 00:56:31,600 time translating the astrology into practical everyday tools 915 00:56:31,600 --> 00:56:34,440 for you to use. But yeah, so in the Patron 916 00:56:34,440 --> 00:56:40,200 podcast, I'll go different, I'll go over different ways you can 917 00:56:40,240 --> 00:56:43,600 you express creativity based on your Natal chart. 918 00:56:43,760 --> 00:56:47,560 I'll be talking about what I expect to be up on deck this 919 00:56:47,560 --> 00:56:50,480 week, as well as what's in the headlines. 920 00:56:50,480 --> 00:56:53,240 That segment. If you see my videos on TikTok 921 00:56:53,240 --> 00:56:56,840 and you're relatively new to me, those little clips are actually 922 00:56:56,840 --> 00:57:01,160 part of a much longer video where I go through what I expect 923 00:57:01,160 --> 00:57:04,640 to see in the headlines. For everybody wanting good news, 924 00:57:04,640 --> 00:57:06,520 guess what? You're an egg, all right? 925 00:57:06,560 --> 00:57:11,040 But politically, it's very unstable right now, and it's 926 00:57:11,040 --> 00:57:13,200 going to continue to be. So what do you do? 927 00:57:13,200 --> 00:57:16,160 You take care of you. You take care of your energy 928 00:57:16,160 --> 00:57:18,600 levels. You take care of your physical 929 00:57:18,600 --> 00:57:24,640 health, try to pull your focus back in as much as possible and 930 00:57:24,640 --> 00:57:27,200 what you need to do in the immediate moment. 931 00:57:27,200 --> 00:57:31,000 As as the member of the awake space said, they have kids that 932 00:57:31,000 --> 00:57:32,560 depend on them. That's right. 933 00:57:32,560 --> 00:57:35,400 Focus on them. Do fun things. 934 00:57:35,760 --> 00:57:39,360 Live for the giggles, OK, live for the giggles. 935 00:57:39,760 --> 00:57:42,640 It's so important. Put on some music when you clean 936 00:57:42,640 --> 00:57:44,480 the house and everybody dance around. 937 00:57:44,480 --> 00:57:46,280 My mom used to do that when I was a kid. 938 00:57:46,280 --> 00:57:50,520 It's it's an intense week, but the more you can approach it 939 00:57:50,520 --> 00:57:53,560 creatively, the better that can be in. 940 00:57:53,560 --> 00:57:56,840 Creativity takes many many forms. 941 00:57:57,280 --> 00:58:00,840 Let me know what you decide to do and how it helps you shift 942 00:58:00,840 --> 00:58:05,960 your personal energy by dropping a comment anywhere. 943 00:58:05,960 --> 00:58:08,280 This podcast allows for comments. 944 00:58:08,280 --> 00:58:11,840 I know the videos are now up on YouTube because I changed my 945 00:58:11,840 --> 00:58:14,840 podcasting host. Spotify no longer has the 946 00:58:14,840 --> 00:58:17,400 videos. Can't do anything about that. 947 00:58:17,640 --> 00:58:19,480 You check them out on the YouTube channel. 948 00:58:19,480 --> 00:58:24,920 And I am going to change up how I'm going to link the YouTube 949 00:58:25,280 --> 00:58:30,800 into the Patreon from now on because it's it's there's 950 00:58:30,800 --> 00:58:33,480 reasons, it's technical, but we're going to do it that way. 951 00:58:33,480 --> 00:58:37,760 But you can watch it. This is a free podcast thanks to 952 00:58:38,080 --> 00:58:42,800 the members of the Awake Space, which is proving out that when 953 00:58:42,800 --> 00:58:46,880 community comes together, resources are more easily 954 00:58:46,880 --> 00:58:49,160 shared. So if you want to know more 955 00:58:49,160 --> 00:58:52,920 about how to navigate the week, you can head over to Patreon and 956 00:58:52,920 --> 00:58:57,960 join us as a supporting member. I'm Lori Rivers, and I hope you 957 00:58:57,960 --> 00:59:01,000 have a good week regardless of circumstances. 958 00:59:01,000 --> 00:59:04,800 And remember, fear is a misuse of imagination.