Mystic Balance: Journey Through Masculine & Feminine

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Hello and welcome to Practically Magic.

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I am Courtney Pearl, pagan folk
witch, intuitive card reader, healer,

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spiritualist, Celtic priestess,
teacher, artist, and mystic seeker.

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I am on a journey of discovering
true and real magic and I wish

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to share it with you, the world.

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We're gonna start today's
episode by pulling a card.

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And today I am using my
tried and true favorite,

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the Ethereal Visions deck,
which has two extra cards in it.

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It is the traditional tarot deck
for the most part, except for it

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has the well and the artist in the
major arcana, which is something

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that traditional tarot does not have.

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So I love it for that reason.

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but I am going to pull a card today.

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Today's episode subject we're
gonna talk about today is

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masculine and feminine energies.

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I'm gonna talk about balancing masculine
and feminine energies and what that

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means and talk a little bit about that.

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And I don't know if this card
is going to be in line with the

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subject we're gonna talk about or
if it's just going to be simply.

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what it is you need to hear today.

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I'm actually going to pull
two cards because I pulled

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first the Ace of Pentacles.

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And I feel like this is going to
require a little bit of a clarifying

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card, which I sometimes need in
divination when you're pulling cards.

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You might get a card where you're
like, I know the symbolism of

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this card, but I don't know what
it's trying to tell me today.

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And so I'll pull a second card.

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So I have pulled the Hierophant as
the second card, which is interesting.

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And this one looks a little bit
different than the Rider Waite Smith.

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It has kind of this holy God
looking figure in the center.

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He's sort of like he's making the sign
of the cross and he has kind of a cross.

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staff or wand that he's
holding in his hand.

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This has the golden foil
on it, which I love.

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It's sort of this idea that we're looking
to something more wise or more spiritual

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or with more authority than ourselves.

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It can sometimes be that we are that
authority, but I feel like because I

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pulled it with the Ace of Pentacles,
it feels kind of like there's this

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beginning kind of feeling
that comes with that.

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And in this particular card, we have
a hand going over the pentacle and

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a hand going under, which to me is
a little bit like one of my favorite

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symbols that I absolutely love in.

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in paganism and Celtic lore is the
viscus pisces, which is the, it's sort

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of like a Venn diagram inside of a
circle, but it's turned on its side.

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So there's a circle above and there's
a circle below and it kind of creates

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this little crab shape in the middle,
like a Venn diagram would in the middle.

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And this is sort of the
idea of as above, so below.

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Which if you're in the witchy
world, you've heard that phrase

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more than once as above so below.

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So I think that this card is coming
forward for us today because we're

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going to talk a lot about balance.

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We're going to talk a lot about
varying degrees of energies.

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And I feel like this is helping us
welcome this beginning topic that

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we're going to we're going to begin
to understand and collect some wisdom.

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about this.

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I don't ever feel like I am
the one who is partaking this

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wisdom as some authority figure.

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I always feel like I am just the
learner who is sharing what I'm learning

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or what I'm going through and just
giving that opportunity to others

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who are maybe at the beginning of
their journey to find their path and

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what it is that they're looking for.

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I do think that I've had experiences.

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I think that I've had knowledge.

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I think that I have had, I'm well
read, well researched in a lot of

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these topics, but I never consider
myself when I pull this card as

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myself to be the higher friend.

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And it wasn't until I pulled this
card for another reading that I said,

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well, maybe I'm looking for a mentor.

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Maybe this card means that
I am looking for something.

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And I had a friend pull that.

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pull me aside, I guess, in the
best term, pull me aside and say,

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what if you're the higher fund?

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What if you're the one who's going
to be offering this wisdom and

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this knowledge to other people
and being a mentor for others?

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And I thought, well, that is a very
unique way to look at it, in my opinion.

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Maybe that's the way
other people do see it.

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And so I'll let you decide.

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As a listener today, do you?

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glean something new and a beginning
out of this conversation we're about

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to have today or is it that you are
seeking some guidance from others?

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Today's topic is I'm so excited to get
into it because it is one of my absolute

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favorite things to contemplate, to
gather, to, I don't know, just kind of

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philosophize about in particular, which is
this idea of the masculine and feminine.

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And I want to start out with a little
bit of story, a little bit of folklore,

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a little bit of mythology that comes
into play when we talk about this.

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And for me, the come from from the
Celtic sense, I like to use the Welsh

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mythology, the Celtic mythology, but
that isn't the only place and only

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culture that this shows up, which
it shows up in a lot of ways in many

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cultures across many mythologies.

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So I want to talk about the sacred union.

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Now, the sacred union comes up a lot.

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It's even mentioned in the Bible.

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It's mentioned in many
different spiritualities

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with many different contexts.

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But essentially, the sacred union is
the balance between the masculine and

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feminine as it would be a marriage.

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And I want to be very clear that
when I am talking about masculine

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and feminine energies today, I
am not talking about gendered.

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The idea that these energies are
gendered as man and woman, or that

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there is only those two genders, I
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going to talk about these energies as
they exist within each one of us and

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expand it out into the universe itself.

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That there is not a duality, as
in there has to be one or the

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other, because I truly believe,

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that we are not a species or a planet
of just duality of one or the other.

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But I'm gonna talk about masculine
and feminine energies as if they

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are two different things and
how there are an infinite amount

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of possibilities in between.

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Okay, so let's say if there was a
pendulum swinging back and forth,

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there is masculine on one side and
feminine on the other, there is.

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an infinite number of points
between those two extremes.

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And that is more or less what
we're gonna talk about today.

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So I'll get into that
a little bit as we go.

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But in the stories of the sacred union, we
were talking about a lot of mythologies,

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particularly in the Celtic tradition that
have to do with kings and the goddess.

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And in pre -Christian times, it is very
common for you to see certain folklore or

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certain traditions, even that still have,
there's still evidence of it today in the

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culture that the king, in order for him to
have that sovereignty of his realm or his

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kingdom, he would have to be tested and

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a proven worthy of his king role,
his kingship, by the goddess.

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And the goddess can be represented
by a queen, a woman, a priestess,

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or the very land itself.

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So the idea that the land is the
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masculine, and that in order for him
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he would have to be approved by
the goddess herself, by the land.

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And he would have to make a sacred
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he was going to protect and provide.

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And we see this in the stories
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King Arthur being one of my favorites.

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The very first mentions of King Arthur
are some in the Welsh mythology, the

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story of Mabon and some of the stories
in the Mabinogi Arthur is mentioned.

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And I know we think of him as a
very British character, but he has

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a claim, his kingship and his role,
there are claims to him in almost

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every part of Northern Europe.

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There is a lot of places that claim
to be either the birthplace of King

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Arthur or this is where King Arthur's
court of Camelot was or all kinds

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of stories that happened around him.

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But in the story of King Arthur,
we see that King Arthur has many

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different queen roles that are played
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For example, you have his...

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wife, Gwenevere, who is sometimes
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There are some that put her name up
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or they call her Gwenevere.

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Arthur means great bear in Welsh.

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Arth is bear.

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We're talking about how in order for

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Arthur to prove his ability to be
king, he has to make certain promises

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that he will align the Christian and
pagan, that he will be an advocate

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for balance and that he is not just
marrying Guinevere, but he is also

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marrying her as a stand -in for the land.

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But we also see this in that the lady
of the lake or the high priestess of

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Avalon, however you happen to associate
with that story, she's the one who

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has to present him with Excalibur.

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And in some stories it's his half
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Lafay, Morgane of the fairies.

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She is the one who is also a
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upon him this gift of Excalibur.

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The idea is that Arthur cannot be deemed
King of Britain without some test and

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without some proof that he is worthy and
that the goddess or representations of the

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goddess have given him his sovereignty.

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And we call these sovereignty goddesses.

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Right?

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So we also see like remnants
of this in the culture now when

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we have like the May Queen.

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A lot of places in Europe still celebrate
May 1st and they have the May Pole and

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they have festivities celebrating springs,
celebrating the fertility of the land.

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During the Beltane time of the year,
there are fires lit in the fields.

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The cows are cleansed and
walked through the fires.

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Lots of ritual and lots of old world
mythology that is tied up into that.

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these kinds of things are
still practiced today.

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If you go to Europe, they still
do lots of these traditions that

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are part of the festivals there.

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And one thing they have is they
have the horned god or the green

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man that represents the king
or represents the horned god.

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And he has this wedding
with the May Queen.

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So a maiden is chosen to
represent the May Queen.

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And there's sort of a sacred
union happening there.

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And sometimes, I mean, it's referred
to in the old rites of Beltane that

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there would be fertility rites, right?

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There would be people exercising
their fertility in the

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fields, on the soil itself.

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You know, you can take
that for what it is.

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people get very frisky during this time
of year when May is coming up and there's

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a lot of like blessing the land and
its abundance, that the seeds that are

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planted will be fruitful in the season.

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And so there is a lot of symbolism in
that when there is a union between a

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masculine and a feminine in the mythology,
in the stories, it's representing both.

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balances of those energies and that
in the coming together of those,

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there's a sacred union that happens.

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This is also mentioned in the New
Testament in the story of Jesus.

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And a lot of people say when they
bring in the Gnostic gospels and

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bring those back into the test in the
New Testament, there is a lot more

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evidence that perhaps Mary Magdalene
was a representation of the feminine.

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when Jesus was the masculine and that him
being king of the Jews or him being coming

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as the savior, that he would not have been
able to have an atonement for his people

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without that sacred union of the feminine.

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And so that was taken out because
it didn't serve the message that

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the emperors and the religious
leaders wanted to display.

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They were much more literalists
and the Gnostics were much more of,

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Well, this is a representation of what we
believe as the sacred union that perhaps

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because Mary Magdalene came from a royal
line and so did Jesus that their sacred

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union was actually the atonement and what
that means for his story, his mythology.

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And we see that in the story of Isis
and Osiris in the Egyptian mythology.

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We see that with in the Chinese
symbol of the yin and the yang are the

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masculine and feminine energies that
are balanced when they are equal and

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tied together in the yin yang symbol.

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All of these represent these divine
coming together of these energies,

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which I'm going to talk about in
some magical contexts and what that

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means for us as people as individuals
and what that means for our society.

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So I wanna talk about how,

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Again, just to reiterate these energies
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masculine and feminine, I am not talking
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but that there are infinite combinations
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as a woman, the feminine, and then
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something like productivity, efficiency,
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that when we paint a wall, we see
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walls used to be white, boring, and
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the time of year, the time of
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and an entire being and existence
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we would dry up, we would be scorched,
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a more masculine come from, like that I
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and how much is actually
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affects the tides and the influence
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bodies, that it's connected to the water
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on men's emotions, just as much
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the balance between the practical side
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But it seems like in those shows,
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do it and not consider any of the
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the debate whether or not actually
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that compassion or having the
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emotional impact of the situation,
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is a pregnancy or the idea of like the
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when everything that is happening is
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family, her spouse, her partner,

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would not be helpful and supportive
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You're growing a human being.

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No one is going to say
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job during pregnancy is to exist
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her unborn baby can be nourished.

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She doesn't have to actively do much other
than take care of herself because that

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baby is growing and developing even when
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all she needs to do to be productive.

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it doesn't mean nothing is happening.

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or building a house, we are in that
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development and planning, that stage of
rest, that stage before a person writes

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a book, when they are just going for
walks and meditating and it doesn't look

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like much is happening, but actually
all of those ideas and that energy

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That to me is a great representation of
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There's a lot of opinions about what
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So I'm just relaying
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valued the masculine so much for so long.

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mental health because they honestly don't

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know how to value themselves without
constantly being productive and having

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something to show for their time and
having there be product over process.

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to me art is just a symbol for life.

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In creating an art piece, I
feel like that is how we come to

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00:33:05,736 --> 00:33:07,846
understand living and our lives.

446
00:33:09,026 --> 00:33:16,336
But to me, making art, when you're
a little kid, when you're just

447
00:33:16,336 --> 00:33:20,936
a newly budding artist at three
and four years old, you don't

448
00:33:20,936 --> 00:33:22,606
care about what the product is.

449
00:33:23,636 --> 00:33:24,166
Right?

450
00:33:24,406 --> 00:33:26,836
Little kids don't care what
their artwork looks like.

451
00:33:27,536 --> 00:33:30,526
They're gonna hang it on the wall
or the fridge, or they're gonna

452
00:33:30,526 --> 00:33:31,366
throw it away in the garbage.

453
00:33:31,466 --> 00:33:33,086
They honestly don't care at that age.

454
00:33:33,126 --> 00:33:36,846
They really don't care what
it is that they've made.

455
00:33:37,686 --> 00:33:42,406
But they honestly could care less
what is hanging up on the fridge.

456
00:33:43,196 --> 00:33:47,536
They are much more concerned
with the actual playing in the

457
00:33:47,626 --> 00:33:49,416
paint and the colors and...

458
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459
00:33:49,766 --> 00:33:52,886
doing finger painting and getting
their fingers messy and feeling

460
00:33:52,886 --> 00:33:58,496
the texture and creating lines
and shapes that just feel good.

461
00:33:59,196 --> 00:34:04,376
It's so much more embodied, the
idea of just like, I'm creating.

462
00:34:05,876 --> 00:34:09,466
They have really very little
concern about the creation itself.

463
00:34:10,526 --> 00:34:16,396
And sometimes when you're learning to
be an artist, I am teaching artists

464
00:34:16,576 --> 00:34:18,906
to go back to that idea and say,

465
00:34:19,756 --> 00:34:23,306
Sometimes you're gonna create a
masterpiece out of all you're playing.

466
00:34:24,156 --> 00:34:25,436
Sometimes you're not.

467
00:34:26,336 --> 00:34:30,836
But you cannot be so hung up
on what the product is that you

468
00:34:30,866 --> 00:34:32,276
forget to enjoy the process.

469
00:34:32,276 --> 00:34:39,416
That the process of creating is just
as productive and powerful as what

470
00:34:39,416 --> 00:34:40,856
the product is when you're finished.

471
00:34:42,176 --> 00:34:46,066
To me, the sacred union is a coming
together of those two things.

472
00:34:47,366 --> 00:34:48,936
That without both,

473
00:34:50,226 --> 00:34:54,886
without the logical and practical and
the emotional, without the sun and

474
00:34:54,886 --> 00:34:57,166
the moon energies within each of us.

475
00:34:59,136 --> 00:35:04,796
We can be so out of balance because
if we were completely feminine,

476
00:35:04,816 --> 00:35:10,086
completely into our feminine energy,
we might not ever get anything done.

477
00:35:10,776 --> 00:35:16,456
We might end up so depressed at
feeling everything that's going

478
00:35:16,456 --> 00:35:18,906
on because I would be feeling.

479
00:35:19,396 --> 00:35:26,486
everything that everyone else is feeling
all the time, including the atrocities

480
00:35:26,506 --> 00:35:32,126
going on in Gaza and the atrocities
going on in the Ukraine and all of

481
00:35:32,136 --> 00:35:33,586
the things happening on our earth.

482
00:35:33,636 --> 00:35:36,826
It would be all I could think
about and feel all the time.

483
00:35:37,396 --> 00:35:38,786
I would never leave my bed.

484
00:35:41,056 --> 00:35:48,186
And I could not possibly stay in a nothing
but masculine energy all the time because

485
00:35:48,186 --> 00:35:54,316
we burn out and we do not see the value
of our own existence, our worthiness

486
00:35:55,246 --> 00:35:58,316
as human beings just for existing.

487
00:35:58,996 --> 00:36:04,946
That I was created, let's say for
argument's sake, in image of the divine.

488
00:36:05,566 --> 00:36:08,806
I am a child of the
divine, which means that,

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490
00:36:09,976 --> 00:36:11,746
I'm worthy just by being here.

491
00:36:12,396 --> 00:36:18,136
I have the worthiness of
love just for being a person.

492
00:36:19,086 --> 00:36:22,436
And a lot of people struggle with that
because they were raised to believe

493
00:36:22,436 --> 00:36:27,656
that your worth is tied to how much
you can get done, how much you can show

494
00:36:27,656 --> 00:36:29,546
up for yourself, your accomplishments.

495
00:36:29,906 --> 00:36:31,246
Where are you ranked?

496
00:36:31,616 --> 00:36:34,446
Where is the competition in all of this?

497
00:36:35,046 --> 00:36:38,776
When that is overtaking
everything, then we cannot truly

498
00:36:38,786 --> 00:36:40,126
find our worth in all of that.

499
00:36:41,676 --> 00:36:43,926
And then I want to touch
on just for a quick second.

500
00:36:44,036 --> 00:36:49,126
And again, I might have to save
this for a whole nother episode,

501
00:36:49,686 --> 00:36:53,996
but there is something that
ties feminism to ecofeminism.

502
00:36:55,226 --> 00:37:00,186
Something called ecofeminism is the
how we treat the feminine, how we

503
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treat women in our society, how we
value the feminine within each of us.

504
00:37:06,146 --> 00:37:08,976
is also tied to how we treat the land.

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If we cannot value something for existing
just as it is, we may not be able to

507
00:37:18,126 --> 00:37:25,256
value land and creatures of the earth
just for existing exactly as they are.

508
00:37:25,966 --> 00:37:28,906
If everything is being seen as,
well, what can it do for me?

509
00:37:29,676 --> 00:37:33,916
And we're kind of coming from a come
from of colonization, like everything

510
00:37:33,916 --> 00:37:37,596
has to have a purpose, everything
has to serve humans in some way or

511
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capacity, then we are not fully re

512
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-
the land for existing just for
what it is, for what it does.

513
00:37:47,226 --> 00:37:52,606
And one example that one of my mentors
was giving, she lives out in an area where

514
00:37:53,336 --> 00:37:56,036
it's by Antelope Island here in Utah.

515
00:37:56,406 --> 00:38:02,936
And there's a space of land out
there that is to the naked eye, to

516
00:38:02,936 --> 00:38:04,946
the human eye, as we have seen it.

517
00:38:05,196 --> 00:38:07,926
as we've looked at it, it
just looks like barren land.

518
00:38:07,966 --> 00:38:14,206
It's a lot of sagebrush, it's a lot of
just kind of natural plant life, and it's

519
00:38:14,416 --> 00:38:19,126
just like wide open spaces of desert land.

520
00:38:20,756 --> 00:38:25,946
And the city that she lives in was
debating what to do with this land, and

521
00:38:25,956 --> 00:38:29,676
they came up with a proposal where they
wanted to build ballparks out there.

522
00:38:29,716 --> 00:38:34,076
They wanted to turn all of
it into like a couple of,

523
00:38:34,426 --> 00:38:38,106
baseball diamonds and kind of
recreational area, things like that.

524
00:38:39,496 --> 00:38:46,596
And happily, I believe the ending
of this story is that this city and

525
00:38:46,596 --> 00:38:52,186
the people of the city came to the
conclusion that that land, even if it's

526
00:38:52,236 --> 00:38:55,996
not being used by humans, is very much

527
00:38:58,786 --> 00:38:59,566
serving a purpose.

528
00:39:00,796 --> 00:39:10,096
That just by existing as home to the
wildlife, growing the natural plants that

529
00:39:10,096 --> 00:39:13,356
belong there, it is serving a purpose.

530
00:39:14,476 --> 00:39:19,746
And that we are not coming in
just to bulldoze all of it,

531
00:39:19,806 --> 00:39:25,406
create it into something that
seems more useful to us, which...

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533
00:39:25,546 --> 00:39:29,926
I'm not much of a sports person myself,
so I cannot see how it's more productive

534
00:39:29,926 --> 00:39:36,606
as a ballpark than it would be as plant
life and home to the animal kingdom.

535
00:39:37,196 --> 00:39:42,566
But that's again, looking for the balance
in the masculine and feminine energy,

536
00:39:43,146 --> 00:39:47,396
that it isn't always about how much money
we can make, how much can we monetize

537
00:39:47,406 --> 00:39:53,116
something, how much can there be capital
gain, but whether or not something serves

538
00:39:53,116 --> 00:39:55,426
a purpose just simply for existing.

539
00:39:56,886 --> 00:40:00,766
Oh man, there's so much more to say
about this subject and the balance

540
00:40:00,766 --> 00:40:04,486
between masculine and feminine
starts within each individual person.

541
00:40:05,166 --> 00:40:06,556
It starts with you.

542
00:40:07,616 --> 00:40:10,746
And stopping and taking a
moment to question, where

543
00:40:10,746 --> 00:40:14,206
does my value lie for myself?

544
00:40:14,816 --> 00:40:19,826
Where have I always felt the
most valuable to society?

545
00:40:20,516 --> 00:40:23,646
Is it when I'm really productive
and getting a lot done?

546
00:40:23,926 --> 00:40:27,436
and I have a lot of certificates
on my wall and I've been ranked

547
00:40:27,936 --> 00:40:32,816
on some, I don't know, billboard.

548
00:40:33,566 --> 00:40:37,856
I don't even know if I've been
ranked as number or the top

549
00:40:37,886 --> 00:40:40,646
five somethings of whatever.

550
00:40:41,126 --> 00:40:48,956
And it's like, stop and ask
yourself, do I believe that my power

551
00:40:49,146 --> 00:40:53,386
comes through even when I am not?

552
00:40:54,246 --> 00:41:02,206
producing and accomplishing, my own
personal worth shows up when I am just

553
00:41:02,996 --> 00:41:09,116
existing, when I am just here, when I
am nurturing others and when I am being

554
00:41:09,116 --> 00:41:13,446
nurtured in my valuable member of society.

555
00:41:15,106 --> 00:41:18,996
And I want you to question that
within yourself and find what parts of

556
00:41:18,996 --> 00:41:22,466
yourself that you maybe put too much,

557
00:41:23,586 --> 00:41:24,456
emphasis on.

558
00:41:25,406 --> 00:41:27,766
Where are you out of
balance on those energies?

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00:41:28,886 --> 00:41:31,070
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560
00:41:31,596 --> 00:41:37,996
And feminism itself, the movement
of feminists, it's a movement that

561
00:41:38,006 --> 00:41:40,016
brings about equality in society.

562
00:41:40,106 --> 00:41:44,496
I believe that it is a movement
that says we have been valuing the

563
00:41:44,496 --> 00:41:49,066
masculine far too much in our society
and allowing women to show up as an

564
00:41:49,076 --> 00:41:53,416
equal part of it, not as a masculine.

565
00:41:54,656 --> 00:41:59,116
And that's really important too because
the only time women have been valued in,

566
00:41:59,946 --> 00:42:02,756
the corporate world in our society in.

567
00:42:04,826 --> 00:42:09,966
You know, in business is when she
can show up as masculine as possible.

568
00:42:11,036 --> 00:42:14,776
And even then it's hard for her because
she's going to be called too bossy or,

569
00:42:14,976 --> 00:42:18,316
you know, she's going to be called all
manner of names if she's really, really,

570
00:42:18,696 --> 00:42:20,626
really showing up as very masculine.

571
00:42:22,066 --> 00:42:27,176
And we shouldn't have to, we should
be able to show up men and women.

572
00:42:28,146 --> 00:42:34,576
Holy and fully ourselves, both in the
masculine and feminine energy is playing a

573
00:42:35,266 --> 00:42:39,526
in who we are and how we show up in
the world and be valued for that.

574
00:42:40,466 --> 00:42:45,806
So anytime you feel like you're
getting triggered or threatened by

575
00:42:45,806 --> 00:42:50,676
a feminine power, it is showing you
the unhealed parts of your soul.

576
00:42:51,396 --> 00:42:56,406
So if there's any part of this discussion
that you felt threatened, especially maybe

577
00:42:56,406 --> 00:43:00,886
if you happen to be a man, and you're
saying, oh, this is so disrespectful to

578
00:43:00,886 --> 00:43:03,596
men, we're not respecting men enough.

579
00:43:03,976 --> 00:43:08,666
I want to ask you, maybe we've
respected the masculine energy in men

580
00:43:09,006 --> 00:43:13,726
far too long and that what we need to
do is balance it with some feminine

581
00:43:14,026 --> 00:43:20,426
so that not only women but men also
can show up with all the parts of

582
00:43:20,426 --> 00:43:23,036
themselves and be respected for that.

583
00:43:23,816 --> 00:43:26,316
It's something that I want
for my boys growing up.

584
00:43:26,546 --> 00:43:30,176
When I participate in the feminist
movement, when I call myself a

585
00:43:30,176 --> 00:43:32,456
feminist, it's because I want my boys

586
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587
00:43:32,996 --> 00:43:36,886
to show up in a world where they are
respected for however they show up.

588
00:43:38,046 --> 00:43:43,396
That whatever colors they prefer, whatever
their sexuality, whatever gender they

589
00:43:43,396 --> 00:43:49,306
identify, whatever it means for them,
they will be respected and valued.

590
00:43:50,486 --> 00:43:53,856
And that is what I hope for a balance
in the masculine and feminine.

591
00:43:54,446 --> 00:43:55,256
Hmm.

592
00:43:57,206 --> 00:43:59,716
I do not have a question
from a listener today.

593
00:43:59,836 --> 00:44:03,316
Um, I would love to get
questions from a listener.

594
00:44:03,356 --> 00:44:08,616
So if you happen to be listening today
and perhaps this discussion sparked

595
00:44:08,616 --> 00:44:14,776
something in you that you would like to
ask more, um, something that you have been

596
00:44:14,776 --> 00:44:20,656
mulling over, like what is going on in
my life that I would like to reach out to

597
00:44:20,656 --> 00:44:25,566
Courtney and see if I can get some answers
to these questions and they can be.

598
00:44:25,666 --> 00:44:30,016
Magical questions, but they don't have to
be they can be divination tarot questions.

599
00:44:30,386 --> 00:44:35,406
They can be Questions about your
personal life, but when you write in

600
00:44:35,406 --> 00:44:42,586
to me you will Just need to look me
up on my social media and find me.

601
00:44:42,626 --> 00:44:51,816
I'm on Facebook Courtney Pearl or on
Instagram at prism underscore healing

602
00:44:52,356 --> 00:44:57,506
I'm also on TikTok at Prism
Healing and I don't know how much

603
00:44:57,506 --> 00:44:59,186
longer TikTok is gonna be a thing.

604
00:44:59,196 --> 00:45:01,976
There's kind of some debates on
whether or not this country is

605
00:45:01,976 --> 00:45:03,626
going to allow TikTok anymore.

606
00:45:03,986 --> 00:45:07,586
I don't really care one way or the other,
but I did do a really cool reading for

607
00:45:07,586 --> 00:45:13,816
my birthday in March where I did what's
in and what's out for me this year and

608
00:45:13,816 --> 00:45:15,796
it turned out to be a fantastic reading.

609
00:45:15,796 --> 00:45:19,086
So if you follow me on TikTok, it's kind
of where I like to do a little bit more

610
00:45:19,086 --> 00:45:21,866
of my fun, silly and some of my even

611
00:45:22,736 --> 00:45:28,426
healing work and kind of highlighting
and advertising what it is I do.

612
00:45:28,796 --> 00:45:33,026
So follow me on TikTok if
you'd like to find me there.

613
00:45:34,036 --> 00:45:37,446
But on Instagram, I like
to do some live readings.

614
00:45:37,676 --> 00:45:42,316
So you might catch me there when I'm
doing a live card reading session,

615
00:45:43,096 --> 00:45:44,716
kind of putting that out to the world.

616
00:45:45,836 --> 00:45:51,186
And you can also find me on my website,

617
00:45:52,006 --> 00:45:52,142
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618
00:45:52,146 --> 00:45:54,946
prism -healing .com.

619
00:45:55,456 --> 00:46:00,226
I would like you to look at my website
because you would be able to see my

620
00:46:00,226 --> 00:46:02,626
workshops that are available coming up.

621
00:46:02,706 --> 00:46:08,316
I have some events, Tarot for Tips we
do once a month where we pick a coffee

622
00:46:08,326 --> 00:46:13,846
shop, we go and reread tarot cards and
oracle cards for just pay as you can.

623
00:46:13,856 --> 00:46:16,876
And it's just super fun to get
out there and meet the community.

624
00:46:17,336 --> 00:46:20,436
So find me on my next
Tarot for Tips event.

625
00:46:21,886 --> 00:46:25,636
I do have a healing through art
workshop that comes up every

626
00:46:25,636 --> 00:46:27,326
month at the end of the month.

627
00:46:27,456 --> 00:46:31,516
And this is an emotional
process done in a group session.

628
00:46:31,916 --> 00:46:34,776
This is one of my absolute
favorite things to do.

629
00:46:34,976 --> 00:46:36,966
It's for anyone age 13 and over.

630
00:46:37,256 --> 00:46:42,436
And what we do is we do a painting
class, but it isn't about the painting.

631
00:46:42,656 --> 00:46:46,026
It's kind of like going back into
our inner child and being able to

632
00:46:46,026 --> 00:46:50,656
paint out colors and shapes that are
connected to our emotional energy.

633
00:46:51,076 --> 00:46:54,106
So we're painting that
energy out onto the canvas.

634
00:46:54,496 --> 00:46:59,106
We're not making any particular
pictures, just shapes and colors.

635
00:46:59,546 --> 00:47:01,796
And they always turn out
absolutely fantastic.

636
00:47:01,816 --> 00:47:07,366
So I highly recommend if you live in
the area in Utah where I'm at, come to

637
00:47:07,366 --> 00:47:08,756
one of my Healing Through Art workshops.

638
00:47:09,936 --> 00:47:14,206
I'm gonna be doing a Heart
Smart Art workshop for kids.

639
00:47:14,286 --> 00:47:17,206
It's an immersive experience
to raise emotional intelligence

640
00:47:17,216 --> 00:47:18,946
for children and their parents.

641
00:47:20,056 --> 00:47:23,536
So you can find those events on my
website, but you can also see my

642
00:47:23,536 --> 00:47:29,806
individual sessions and services
that I provide, private card reading

643
00:47:29,826 --> 00:47:35,236
sessions, private emotional process
sessions, and Reiki sessions if

644
00:47:35,236 --> 00:47:36,696
you're looking for some healing work.

645
00:47:36,846 --> 00:47:42,046
So please go to prism -healing .com
to look at all that I have to offer.

646
00:47:42,606 --> 00:47:46,676
And of course, my blog,
which is on my website,

647
00:47:47,976 --> 00:47:50,776
If you look at the pull down menu,
you'll be able to go to my blog.

648
00:47:50,826 --> 00:47:54,906
But why I really want you to pay
attention to that is because I have a

649
00:47:54,906 --> 00:47:59,626
blog post for each and every episode that
I've been doing for Practically Magic.

650
00:48:00,146 --> 00:48:06,426
Now this helps you because if you have
any questions or any resources from

651
00:48:06,446 --> 00:48:10,401
the episode today, something that you'd
like to learn more about or if there's

652
00:48:10,526 --> 00:48:13,446
a book recommendation that I can give.

653
00:48:13,446 --> 00:48:13,898
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654
00:48:13,898 --> 00:48:15,806
then I will be giving it on my blog.

655
00:48:15,856 --> 00:48:21,126
So I do kind of a synopsis of the
episode and a link to, to listen.

656
00:48:21,516 --> 00:48:25,966
And then I also give you some resources
to help you learn more about this.

657
00:48:26,666 --> 00:48:31,456
There are some articles about ecofeminism,
which I will post about on my blog.

658
00:48:32,926 --> 00:48:35,976
For now, I would like to just
thank Ride the Wave Media.

659
00:48:36,036 --> 00:48:40,876
Jess Blaine and the team for making all
of these episodes possible, for doing

660
00:48:40,876 --> 00:48:45,856
the editing and doing such a good job
making me sound coherent and smart.

661
00:48:46,606 --> 00:48:49,766
And I would like to thank Sarah
Albert, my neighbor and friend

662
00:48:49,936 --> 00:48:51,566
at Daybreak Treasures Boutique.

663
00:48:51,646 --> 00:48:54,706
She features me as an artist
there on her website, so you can

664
00:48:54,756 --> 00:48:58,186
take a look and even buy some of
my paintings if you would like.

665
00:48:58,886 --> 00:49:02,776
And a special shout out to Synchronicities
and Sandy where I work every Wednesday

666
00:49:02,776 --> 00:49:04,476
as an intuitive energy worker.

667
00:49:04,866 --> 00:49:06,796
I absolutely love Synchronicities.

668
00:49:06,846 --> 00:49:08,126
I love hanging out there.

669
00:49:08,486 --> 00:49:09,986
I love doing sessions there.

670
00:49:10,286 --> 00:49:14,706
So I'm there every Wednesday, nine to two,
and they have a beautiful gift shop and a

671
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Himalayan salt cave and a Silanite cave.

672
00:49:18,986 --> 00:49:22,206
Lots of really cool healing
spaces to hang out in there.

673
00:49:22,626 --> 00:49:24,176
So special thanks to them.

674
00:49:24,986 --> 00:49:30,706
And I would like to invite you to make
your world magical in your everyday life.

675
00:49:31,226 --> 00:49:34,356
Use magic to strengthen
your relationships, heal.

676
00:49:34,486 --> 00:49:35,896
prosper and thrive.

677
00:49:36,146 --> 00:49:38,146
We will see you next
time, Witches and Wizards.

678
00:49:39,206 --> 00:49:40,346
Thank you for listening.