Rebirth and Renewal: The Tale of Blodeuedd

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Hello, and welcome to Practically
Magic Storytelling, a subset of

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the Practically Magic podcast.

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I am your host.

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Courtney Pearl.

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Today I am going to be a Celtic folklores
and give you a little story time, putting

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on my Celtic priestess hat and giving
you a little inspiration with some Celtic

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folklore from my own favorite whales.

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I'm gonna start today's episode
by pulling a tarot card, so we

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are going to get to it today.

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I should be pulling from
the Caltech, uh, tarot.

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I'm sure that would, uh, be a
little bit more aligned with our

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subject matter today, but I'm
gonna go with the witch is wisdom.

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Tarot deck today because that
is just what I felt drawn to.

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And when you follow your intuition, you've
gotta figure out what works for you.

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So we're gonna pull a card and
set up what this episode is about.

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Hopefully the cards telling us
exactly what we need to hear in this

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moment in time as you're listening
to this episode, whenever that might

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be this, we're gonna trust that this
is the card that was meant for us.

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Okay.

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The card that I have pulled is in this
deck, number 10, the offering, and I love.

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The connections I'm seeing already
in the symbolism, so I'm just

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gonna hold it up for the camera.

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If you're watching on YouTube, you
can see it's a man who's giving an

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offering of some sort of liquid.

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It looks like it might be milk,
um, or water to a sapling tree.

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The tree, if you look very closely, has
little ribbons tied to the branches.

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Then there is sort of an ethereal,
ghostly figure of a woman

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standing just off to the side.

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He's surrounded by a forest of
trees and she's watching him.

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Um, I mean, I guess it could
be a male figure, but it's

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just sort of in a feminine way.

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So I'm gonna, I'm going to say
feminine presenting figure, but sort

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of a ghostly, uh, in the background.

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There are all these really cool veins of
that liquid sprouting out from where the

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roots touch the ground of the sapling.

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And it's like these little shoots
of, I don't know, um, it looks like

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magic or power that's just shooting
out from the roots and goes into

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the forest and in all directions.

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There's also a little bird and a fern
in the foreground that you can see.

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Uh, lots of symbolism here.

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Lots going on.

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So, um, the first thing that came to
mind when I saw this card for us is the

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time of year that I'm recording this,
which, um, you know, you'll be listening

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to it at whatever time of year for
you, but I want you to consider this.

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It is the coming of spring.

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I am currently recording this on the
first day of spring, technically,

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uh, March 20th, which is the.

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Spring Equinox here in the northern
hemisphere where we live, um, which

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is a fantastic time for us, pagan type
folks or people who are just really

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engaged in spirituality to start
imagining what offerings we are giving.

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So, uh, a lot of the ancestors
would be giving offerings to

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the land and the trees and the.

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Bulbs and seeds that are being planted.

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Um, it's a very sexual energy
because it's all about kind of,

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um, rebirth and sexuality and
conception and things like that.

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So it gives the impression that, you
know, we, we want the gods of the,

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the higher powers of the, of the
land and the earth to provide for us.

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We need the harvest season to.

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Be abundant, so we might choose to give
offerings, and it's just a really great

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reminder to have that kind of, uh, energy
of gratitude towards things like, I am so

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grateful for the trees for offering the
oxygen we breathe and the food that we eat

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and all that they do to nourish the soil.

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They provide us with so much, we would
not be here, we would not survive.

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We would not live without the plants
and the trees and the birds and

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the bees and all of the things.

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So giving them our appreciation
is really powerful.

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I can see like on the branches,
there's not just little ribbons, but

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also feathers tied to the branches,
which is a great offering because

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things like hair feathers, ash,
um, our coffee grounds, those are.

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Things that can actually
nourish trees, nourish the soil.

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So, um, you know, leaving dead things
around can actually be an offering, not

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just symbolically, but a sign of, you
know, caretaking of the plant itself.

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And I love also that this white
power that you see coming from the.

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Coming from the roots and
connecting to all of the trees.

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I often use that in symbolism, uh,
for visualization and meditation.

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When I'm doing a guided meditation, I
will, um, offer an image of grounding.

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Roots like a tree into the ground.

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But I do like to imagine that those
roots also spread their connection

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some way to all of the other roots
of the other trees in the forest.

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Giving this idea of, um, we are all
connected, we are supported, we are

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part of a community, part of a tribe.

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We, we can lean on others
while they can lean on us.

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It's, it's a powerful imagery
that I think everyone needs

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reminding of from time to time.

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And now what does this have
to do with our story today?

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Well, we're gonna talk about spring coming
and it's okay if you're not listening

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to this, uh, in spring or, um, or like.

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It is the spring equinox, so
that will have passed already.

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I do wanna talk about it because
at any point in our lives we are

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going through cycles and seasons.

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We can go through mini cycles
throughout the day, throughout

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the month, even in an hour and a
half when I do a healing session.

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It's a, an entire healing cycle,
so we were always cycling.

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And what the spring cycle is going to look
like in our healing work, in our lives.

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It is the rebirth part of our healing.

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It's the part where we
come into ourselves.

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We've taken the hardships and the
darkness that we have confronted with,

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and we are bringing it into light.

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And the idea of light and dark plays very
well in the story I'm about to tell you.

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And I'm gonna tell you the story of BLE
with one of my absolute favorite stories

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in the Magi, which is the Welsh mythology.

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Um, I love studying.

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I've taken, uh, a few classes from some
very, very wonderful people who s uh.

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Our authors and experts in Celtic studies.

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So one that I took, um, one course that I
took actually went through deep dives into

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the five goddesses or ladies, depending
on how you look at it, of the Magi.

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So the stories in the branches, there
are four branches in the Magi and this

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story comes from the fourth branch.

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It is, she is.

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Uh, she is an amazing figure to bring
forward during this time of year.

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And the last full moon that we had this
month is the first of four moons in the

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time of Ladi with, according to the mythic
moons of Avalon by Jenna Undre, who I

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studied with, um, who I studied from.

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I should just give her
the credit she deserves.

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She's my mentor.

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Uh, I don't know if she would
even know that she's my mentor,

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but I've taken classes from her.

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I went on pilgrimage with her, so
I. I look up to her quite a bit.

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So a lot of this information is something
that I gathered from her and my studies,

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but is such a powerful story, and I
think by the time I'm done with this

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story, you will love her as much as I do.

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Now, her story starts at the tail
end of the story of Arianne wrote.

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Arian Root was a. A prominent
lady of her times, she had her

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own castle, her own island.

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Her uncle was king.

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It was through her line that sh
that the, um, kingship or the,

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the throne would be inherited.

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So.

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She happenstance, find herself in
the position of be being a mother.

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And the story of how that works
out is just kind of a little bit

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hilarious and a little bit crazy.

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I won't go into that because it is
not her story today, but she finds

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herself the mother of a son, um, and
not particularly pleased about it

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either, uh, and some kind of paint.

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Who is the villain of that story?

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Because she is cursing her son.

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Uh.

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The perspective I choose to take
on it, which was what I was taught,

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is that she doesn't curse him.

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She tests him.

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She gives him these obstacles in his way
of becoming king so that he will be tested

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and proven worthy before he is allowed to
be king, um, as kings should be tested.

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So.

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She's kind of the hero of this story.

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She, she tests him, gives him some tests
where she tells him he will not have a

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name saved for what she will give him.

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So saying, you will not get
a name unless I give you one.

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And then her uncle who
raised the boy is magical.

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He's a magical sorcerer type, and he
tricks her into giving him a name.

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And his name is Lau Gfu.

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If I'm saying that right, my Welsh is
not great, but I'm trying, I'm learning.

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So this means their hair or light hair
with a steady hand is what his name is.

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And then he, she says, you
will not get, you will not bear

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arms safer that I give you.

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Um, again, she gets tricked into giving
him a sword and he has a weapon and

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therefore he is able to bear arms.

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The third one is really kind of
important and special because she

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says, you will not marry a woman of
this earth now being married and, um,

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having a queen was in Welsh tradition.

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And Celtic tradition of that time was very
important because, um, a king would not

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be allowed kingship unless he was able
to marry a woman who represented the.

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Land itself.

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So the marriage wasn't just of noble
blood to noble blood, which is probably

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more the traditions of England,
Britain, and that was in later times.

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This goes back way back and a lot of
people believe that the stories are before

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Christianity, and we're only written
down after Christianity's influence.

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But we are going to, uh, suspend
disbelief for a moment and say if these

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stories are as old as we think they are.

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Chances are that a king or chief of his
clan would never be allowed to ascend

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to the throne and have that kind of
power if he wasn't able to make certain

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oaths and promises to the land itself.

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And so in a lot of these stories,
there is what we call a sovereignty

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goddess, an an archetype of woman.

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That represents the very land itself,
and that this person does not allow the

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man to ascend his power to, to step into
kingship without her blessing, without

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her agreeing, he's worthy without.

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Um, and then, and a lot of
times that's a marriage.

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So think of King Arthur's story,
and again, Keith King, Arthur,

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and Arthur's story is, um, it, it.

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Is rooted in Wales.

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So the same kind of idea.

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He was not made king unless
he could have pulled the sword

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from the stone and then received
Excalibur from the lady of the lake.

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So the lady of the lake, being
the sovereignty goddess in this

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particular story would be like, she
allows him to receive this blessing,

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this sword, and say he's king.

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Okay, so long story short, Arian rude.

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Or long story, long, I guess
Arian Ru tests him and says, you

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cannot have a woman of this earth.

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You cannot marry a woman of this
earth, and therefore kind of keeps

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him from becoming king unless he
can figure out how to do that.

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Well.

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His magical uncle, his magical great
uncle who raised him so wonderful

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is he, his name's Math and he
creates a woman out of Oak Broom.

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Broom is not the thing
that you sweep with.

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That's called a beum.

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It's actually broom is actually a,
a plant that was used to make beams.

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So when we call something a broom, we're
actually, um, calling it the plant.

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That was, that makes the beum.

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That makes sense.

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So broom, a meadow suite, these three
things, the blossoms of these plants.

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We're used to create a woman, so she's not
a woman of this earth because she's made

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from flowers, and her name means flowers.

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It's spelled without a W in it.

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It's Ed.

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I'm not exactly sure if I'm saying
it correctly, but they're different.

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So blow di width means flowers.

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Blow di width means flowers.

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And what's interesting and what I
learned in, um, in some of my studies

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is these three things she's made from
don't actually bloom at the same time,

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which gives us the impression that if
she was made, she, it was probably quite

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a process, maybe like taking a whole
year to make her from these flowers.

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So she is broom magic into life by
these flowers, by great uncle math.

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And now s has his wife, his bride.

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Um, now the problem with that is that
she is not created for someone else.

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She is, but in her mind and in
our mind, why should that make her

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obligated to be this man's wife?

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So while flowers turn towards the light or
the sun for nourishment, lau, who's name

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meaning light flowers, turn to the light.

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So the symbolism here is
that the flowers are made.

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The light.

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So they were supposed to turn
towards light for nourishment.

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She was made from flowers.

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She's meant to be his wife.

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Um, but in creating her own destiny, she
has a bit of a adventure because while ES

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is off somewhere fighting in a battle, she
comes upon a soldier passing through and

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she like a hospitable lady that she is.

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A lady of the castle, she invites them
to stay and she gets to know him better.

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His name is Nu uh, Nu.

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In the etymology of that name, we can
kind of tie it back to Hero or Warrior.

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Um, it's also, uh, his last
name is, or surname Gran, PPP.

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I'm not exactly sure how the
Welch is pronounced, so forgive

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me Welsh my Welsh friends.

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I'm learning, I'm learning this
Welsh, but I'm not good at it.

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So, uh.

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Anyway, his last name Pepper, it means
strong, mighty, vibrant, shining,

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um, now meaning light and oath.

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So she's made this oath to the light, uh,
but she meets Nu and she falls in love.

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They fall in love with each
other, and that makes it quite

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sticky because, um, in Welsh law.

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The time that the Magi was written.

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And this is about 1100 ad so, um, it
has some influences of Christianity

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at that time, but we believe the story
is to be oral tradition, much older.

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Um, it's interesting because Welsh law had
a lot to do with, um, what is a marriage,

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what actually makes a marriage lawful?

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And in this case, a lot of people
think, gosh, she's such a whew.

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She.

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Steps out on her husband and
falls in love with another guy.

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Well, if you take it into context,
actually Welsh law is a little tricky

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because you aren't married, married until
you're married for a year, and then the

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wife or the husband can actually decide
at that point that this marriage isn't

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working and you can go your separate
ways, like an annulment basically, and to

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much to their credit, the women of Welsh.

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At that time, the whales women at
the time, they had a little bit, a

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little bit more autonomy, a little
bit more say in who they got to marry.

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Now, the problem with this is that.

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So in Welsh law, they had
to agree to be married.

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They it, the woman herself had to
say, yes, I will marry this person.

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So it wasn't quite like in England
at the time where it was like women

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were just plain, flat out property
of their fathers and their husbands.

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So fathers were giving their
daughters away, selling their

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daughters away to people.

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And it was kind of like,
that's just a done deal.

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In Wales at the time, it was a
little bit more like, I would like

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you to marry this man 'cause it
would be a good deal for all of us.

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But the daughter, the, the
woman involved had to agree.

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She has to agree that it,
that she's okay with it.

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The problem in this story is ouai with
did not agree to this marriage with Lau.

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Right?

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She was just made out of flowers
and said, here's your husband.

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Good luck.

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This is, this is the way it is.

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So for her to choose Nu is
actually more aligned with what

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she should have been able to do.

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She should have been able to choose
who she wanted for a husband.

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And unfortunately for
flu Lao, she chose Nu.

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So he stays with her for three days.

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She asks him to stay
with her at the castle.

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What, whether, um, she's become, she's
been a good hostess, but she has fallen

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in love and she says, please stay with
me one more night, one more night.

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And during this time they
realize they're in love.

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They are going to.

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Need to make a life for themselves, but
they have to get LAU out of the way.

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And this is where it gets
a little, mm, come on guys.

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So instead of just being like, Hey,
let's just be together, let's just run

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away together we are, we are in love.

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They have devised a plan
to kill Lau Lau himself is.

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Sort of an otherworldly character.

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He is magical.

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He cannot just be killed so easily.

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So he's gonna need to, there's gonna
need to be a plan set in place.

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And so they come up with a plan and
to do this, um, bodied waits till

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her husband comes back and says, um,
so what, she comes up with this plan

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where she's gonna kind of pretend.

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Concern for him.

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She's gonna say, oh, my husband, I
have been, well, you've been away.

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I've been just absolutely wrecked with
worry about whether or not you will die.

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And I just, I just need you
to ease my troubled heart.

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I, I just, I just die
inside thinking of you.

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Being in danger and dying.

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And Lau says, oh darling, you don't
need to wreck yourself with worry.

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I am really difficult to kill.

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Actually, I'm almost impossible to kill,
so you don't need to worry yourself.

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And she's like, okay.

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Okay.

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Well just to ease my.

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My troubled heart, could you just
please tell me if someone were to want

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to kill you, how would they do that?

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I know it sounds so obvious, you
could see right through it, but Lau,

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I guess, trusts his wife so much that
he says, well, in order to kill me.

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You would have to have all
these stipulations in place.

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And it's actually really
complicated, I think I've ever

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written down here somewhere.

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But it's um, it's this whole complicated
affair of situations that have to

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be in place for lau to be killed.

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It's like he has to have one foot.

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In the water of a certain
creek of a certain place.

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One one foot is gonna be on a, a goat
or something, and it has to be on, in

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a trough that's covered with a roof.

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Um, all of these things
have to be in place and.

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Basically the idea of that is that
it cannot be inside or outside.

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It's not on dry land or on water.

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It's.

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All the in-betweens.

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So in the, in the Celtic folklore,
in between spaces are incredibly

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powerful, incredibly magical.

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So like the threshold of a doorway, for
example, a lot of mythology will have,

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you know, someone in the threshold, or
not quite dark, but not quite light,

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like the twilight or dawn time of day.

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It's not daylight, it's not night,
you know, in the other world.

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Um, so this is what this represents.

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It's kind of an in-between space.

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He has to be hit with a spear that
is a certain kind of spear and it

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has to go through the hole of a rock.

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It's a whole thing.

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So he tells her all of this,
and Bo is like, oh, well that

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just makes me feel a lot better.

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But actually it would make me feel
even better if I could see it, if I

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could see what you're talking about.

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I'm just having a really
hard time picturing it.

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If you could just try and put yourself
in that position so that I can see how

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it would be that someone might kill you.

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And then basically sets this all up
so that he would be in position in the

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creek, one foot in the creek, one foot
on a goat, all the things in place so

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that grand could be hiding in the bushes
and with the spear ready to kill him.

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And so that is what happens.

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Grande kills lau instead of
killing him dead, though Lau

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becomes an eagle and flies away.

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And then Renu and Bwe, they
are free to run away together.

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Now, it would all be just great
for them if it wasn't for math.

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The sorcerer, he's gonna go out
looking for Bwe, so he, well, first

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he's gonna go out looking for Lau.

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He's gonna go find him.

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He's turned into an eagle.

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He's not dead.

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So he's gonna go looking for him, and he
goes chasing this trail that he finds.

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And then he's under an oak tree.

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Which remember from the beginning, eth
was made from the blossoms of an oak tree.

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He goes and stands under this oak
tree, and he feels like maggots

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and yucky stuff falling on him.

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And he looks up and he sees that
the eagle has landed on the branch

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of the oak tree, and he's shedding
maggots out of his feathers.

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Like, he's not good.

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This, this makes me feel
like death because like he's.

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He's not well.

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Um, he's pretty, he's looking
pretty rough from what I understand.

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And so, um, math finds him.

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Now what's interesting about this, and
this is also going into the symbology

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of this story and considering different
angles if you will, that maybe Lau still

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loved Bodi with so much that he sought
an oak tree to be close to her, to uh,

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you know, he maybe he was so devastated
at the betrayal of his love of the

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woman was supposed to be his wife, that
he went to the oak tree for solace.

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And I think that's very sweet.

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I think we can.

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We can entertain that idea for a moment,
but math finds him and turns him back

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into a man, um, into the king that he
is, but he has to go chasing after.

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Now.

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Lau is chasing after Grando
and um, ends up killing him.

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And Math finds ble who is running away.

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And he changes her into an owl, and
there's a lot of really cool symbology

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and really things to consider about
this as well, because, um, he turns

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into an owl because in that tradition,
in that culture, owls were seen as

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the most hated birds of the bird
kingdom because they were cast.

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To only hunt at night.

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All the other birds are in the daytime.

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They don't want to associate with the owl.

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The owl is kind of an outcast, so that
is maybe her punishment for what she's

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done is she's gonna be made into an owl.

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But I want you to, again, to remember
that the symbolism of this when it comes

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to the flower maiden, who she was in the
beginning of the story made from flowers.

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Flowers seek light and flower
representing the light.

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Gran new, representing the dark hero
of our story represents the dark.

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And so when she's punished, she
is turned into an owl, which is.

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A dark figure because they,
uh, because they hunt and they

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are nocturnal hunt at night.

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So this whole story gives a lot
of, uh, of symbolism in the dark

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and the light half of the year.

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As we come into the spring equinox, the
Equinox being the halfway point between

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the dark and the light, it is an excellent
time for us to consider what rebirth we

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are going through, what we are moving
towards as we balance out the dark, which

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was the winter, which is the dark moon.

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Every month we get a chance
to sit in darkness and rest.

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Reclaiming sort of phase.

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We get to take on confront
confrontation, confronting our shadow

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side, our shadow selves, and then
we get to move that into light.

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As the spring comes on, we are invited
to take our darkest, darkest parts of

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ourselves, bringing them into light.

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Meaning that we don't conquer
them, we don't push them,

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we don't, uh, destroy them.

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We are learning to love the parts
of ourselves that we can sometimes

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feel is sabotaging us or it can be
difficult, and that means addressing

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things that are uncomfortable.

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Things about ourselves or things that
we really, really don't wanna be or

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things that trigger us and saying what
part of that just needs a little extra

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love and protection so that it can feel
comfortable enough to step into its power.

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I wasn't planning on talking about this,
but this is a really interesting, just

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kind of, um, side myth to, to think
about is the story of Mary Magdalene.

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When I started, um, studying Gnostic
Gospels and, uh, reading Mary Madelin

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revealed that Megan Waters, uh, Waterson.

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She wrote that book and, um, kind
of highlighted some really important

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things about that because we often
associate, uh, Mary Magdalene, you know,

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her reputation not so great because
of, of the way she was painted by the

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Roman Catholic Church in the beginning.

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But it was saying, you know, stories
about her in the, in the Bible about how

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she, her demons, right, her, her, um.

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There were demons that needed
to be exercised from her.

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And that's kind of one of the
famous stories of Mary Magdalene.

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But another consideration from Mary's
gospel is that it's not demons that we're,

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uh, that we're exercising, that we're
casting out, that we're like conquering.

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Instead, what if it's the powers
that those demons are our power.

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That when they don't align with who
we are, our higher self, they may run

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rampant and cause us a lot of problems.

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But if they are seen as our power and
used as a power, they can actually be

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our most amazing assets about ourselves.

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Um.

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Yeah, there's a lot of healing
work invited when doing that kind

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of thing, and the work that I do.

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And the balance is being able to see
that the both, the light and the dark and

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all shades in between are very sacred.

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The InBetween is where the sacredness
is and the Celtic folklore anyway.

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So the in-betweens is where
we can find our balance.

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Now, the thing I love most
about this story of BLE Dwe.

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And what I want to be, the takeaway today
is that even though she was created for

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a specific purpose and that purpose was
serving someone's need, they needed a

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00:31:14,873 --> 00:31:17,513
wife for LAU so that he would have a queen

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00:31:20,363 --> 00:31:22,313
carves her own path.

447
00:31:22,643 --> 00:31:24,798
She's not interested in just.

448
00:31:26,453 --> 00:31:32,693
What is it that you've created me for,
but what do I believe I am created for?

449
00:31:32,873 --> 00:31:34,133
What is my path?

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00:31:36,563 --> 00:31:41,063
And I think this story invites
each and every one of us to

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00:31:41,093 --> 00:31:48,713
look at how much energy, how
much of myself, even from birth.

452
00:31:49,778 --> 00:31:55,898
From the very beginning of my life, how
much have I been devoting to make sure

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00:31:55,898 --> 00:32:02,678
I am what other people want me to be,
that I'm living up to their expectations,

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00:32:02,738 --> 00:32:07,148
to their needs, to what they see me as.

455
00:32:08,618 --> 00:32:13,028
And if I were to remove that,
or even just set it aside.

456
00:32:16,613 --> 00:32:23,393
Leave room for me to figure out
who I am and what I am, am for.

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00:32:23,993 --> 00:32:25,583
What is my purpose?

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00:32:26,033 --> 00:32:27,683
What is my passion?

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00:32:28,553 --> 00:32:38,393
When I look back at my life on my death
bed at 89 years old or whatever age I am.

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00:32:40,658 --> 00:32:49,328
Will I be more proud of the things I've
done that were aligned with me, myself,

461
00:32:50,198 --> 00:32:52,358
what I wanted to do with my life,

462
00:32:54,458 --> 00:33:01,238
or will I feel like I was always
doing and living for others and their

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00:33:01,238 --> 00:33:03,488
approval and their expectations?

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00:33:04,748 --> 00:33:06,608
Now we do that for a reason.

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00:33:06,608 --> 00:33:10,508
This is not a judgment on like,
um, you know, you shouldn't be

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00:33:10,508 --> 00:33:13,928
doing that, because we do that to
connect and bond with our community.

467
00:33:13,928 --> 00:33:17,198
There's nothing wrong with being
like, Hey, I wanna be a part of this.

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00:33:17,198 --> 00:33:19,988
I wanna be a part of other
people, other people's lives.

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00:33:19,988 --> 00:33:21,848
I want people to see me as at service.

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00:33:22,508 --> 00:33:25,538
There's nothing wrong with that
necessarily, but is it aligned

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00:33:25,538 --> 00:33:27,818
with you and your purpose?

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00:33:29,108 --> 00:33:30,218
Because.

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00:33:30,893 --> 00:33:32,453
That is the invitation.

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00:33:32,843 --> 00:33:36,173
Ed's story is inviting us to look at.

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00:33:36,443 --> 00:33:43,823
She may have been created from Flowers
to be the wife of fu, but she decided

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00:33:43,823 --> 00:33:48,833
it was up to her to write her own story.

477
00:33:50,933 --> 00:33:54,953
Unfortunately, in this story,
doesn't have a super happy ending

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00:33:54,953 --> 00:33:59,873
for Poor Bo and, but um, but in
all fairness, they did try to kill.

479
00:34:00,533 --> 00:34:04,613
Her husband, and maybe that was
the wrong way to go about it.

480
00:34:04,673 --> 00:34:05,303
I don't know.

481
00:34:05,303 --> 00:34:09,083
You can debate the rights and
wrongs of things if you want, but I

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00:34:09,083 --> 00:34:16,283
think it's a beautiful story and I
absolutely love inviting the energy.

483
00:34:17,318 --> 00:34:23,888
The archetype of ble diab into my life
during this springtime, considering all of

484
00:34:23,888 --> 00:34:30,068
the things that I am working on and, uh,
the healing that I'm doing, uh, on myself.

485
00:34:30,548 --> 00:34:33,578
What does her story have to do with that?

486
00:34:33,578 --> 00:34:35,168
What does it inspire?

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00:34:36,563 --> 00:34:40,703
So I'm gonna invite you to think
about that as well, and hopefully at

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00:34:40,703 --> 00:34:48,443
least here in Utah where we live, our
spring weather will be coming soon.

489
00:34:48,923 --> 00:34:53,843
As we know, spring doesn't
actually hit until around the

490
00:34:53,843 --> 00:34:56,243
end of April here in Utah.

491
00:34:56,873 --> 00:34:58,943
If you're surprised by that you
haven't lived here long enough, I

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00:34:58,943 --> 00:35:01,283
guess, 'cause that is the way it goes.

493
00:35:02,603 --> 00:35:06,653
But we are going to start inviting
the energy of spring today.

494
00:35:06,983 --> 00:35:11,063
Tonight is my body, my dance party,
where we're gonna dance, move

495
00:35:11,063 --> 00:35:13,793
our bodies, and welcome spring.

496
00:35:14,873 --> 00:35:20,693
I've seen the daffodils starting to
break and bloom, which means spring is

497
00:35:20,693 --> 00:35:28,043
just around the corner, and that makes
me so happy to be coming out of the

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00:35:28,043 --> 00:35:30,323
cocoon and rebirthing into the next.

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00:35:30,683 --> 00:35:31,673
Phase of life.

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00:35:32,603 --> 00:35:37,103
Alright, to close our lovely time
together friends, I would like to

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00:35:37,193 --> 00:35:44,363
thank Ride the Wave Media just Blaine
who produces and, uh, is the network

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00:35:44,363 --> 00:35:47,213
in which this podcast is possible.

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00:35:47,423 --> 00:35:52,193
So if you're interested in a
sponsorship of this or any of the

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00:35:52,193 --> 00:35:57,893
Ride the Wave Media awesomeness,
all of the things produced there.

505
00:35:58,268 --> 00:36:00,038
Please get in touch with us.

506
00:36:00,038 --> 00:36:03,398
They are an amazing group of people
to work with, so I wanna give them

507
00:36:03,398 --> 00:36:06,458
a shout out and a thank you for
all the very hard work that they do

508
00:36:06,458 --> 00:36:08,138
and amazing good work that they do.

509
00:36:09,338 --> 00:36:13,328
Um, I would also like to thank Sarah
Albert at the Sunshine Community.

510
00:36:13,358 --> 00:36:18,338
I am part of NA now officially Ambassador
the Sunshine Community, women in

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00:36:18,338 --> 00:36:23,678
business supporting each other and
holding events and teaching classes,

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00:36:23,678 --> 00:36:25,628
and all of the things that make us.

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00:36:26,003 --> 00:36:27,383
An amazing group of women.

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00:36:27,443 --> 00:36:33,863
I truly believe that it's something
to preserve, something to highlight,

515
00:36:33,893 --> 00:36:36,233
and something to recognize.

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00:36:37,493 --> 00:36:41,093
I'm gonna give a special shout out
today to the Daybreak Inclusion and

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00:36:41,093 --> 00:36:46,163
Pride, people who are working very
hard to prepare for the event in June.

518
00:36:46,433 --> 00:36:50,753
I am very much supportive
and ally and part of the uh,

519
00:36:50,783 --> 00:36:54,323
L-B-G-Q-T community and proudly.

520
00:36:55,373 --> 00:36:59,573
Show my rainbow flag no matter what
the political climate is telling me.

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00:36:59,633 --> 00:37:03,473
I am excited and enthusiastic about.

522
00:37:03,983 --> 00:37:04,823
Inclusion.

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00:37:04,823 --> 00:37:10,433
So, um, my body, my dance party tonight
is giving 10% of the profits to pride.

524
00:37:11,063 --> 00:37:14,813
It may not be much for this event, but
we've been working very hard to raise

525
00:37:14,813 --> 00:37:19,973
money when we can and, um, and at least
awareness to what they're doing over

526
00:37:19,973 --> 00:37:21,563
there, and I'm excited to be a part of it.

527
00:37:21,563 --> 00:37:23,273
So I'll be at that event in June.

528
00:37:23,543 --> 00:37:26,243
I'll be there reading
cards and doing portraits.

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00:37:26,273 --> 00:37:30,473
So if you wanna come to the event, if
you're local, please come see me, check

530
00:37:30,473 --> 00:37:32,153
out my booth at Ride The Way Media.

531
00:37:32,153 --> 00:37:33,473
We're gonna be having a great time.

532
00:37:34,178 --> 00:37:41,498
And as always, if anyone is willing and
able to, uh, support the show, I would

533
00:37:41,498 --> 00:37:47,678
love to see, subscribe if you're on
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534
00:37:47,678 --> 00:37:50,858
platforms that we have this podcast out.

535
00:37:51,248 --> 00:37:56,498
We are building a lot of
great, uh, listens and follows

536
00:37:56,498 --> 00:37:58,118
and community this way.

537
00:37:58,118 --> 00:38:00,338
And, uh, and then we can provide more.

538
00:38:00,338 --> 00:38:03,908
Content for you that hopefully
improves your life and gives

539
00:38:03,908 --> 00:38:06,008
a little magic to your life.

540
00:38:06,608 --> 00:38:08,978
So with that, you can follow me.

541
00:38:09,248 --> 00:38:10,358
I am Courtney Pearl.

542
00:38:10,358 --> 00:38:12,008
I own Prism Healing.

543
00:38:12,008 --> 00:38:14,918
I do healing work, card
reading, all the things.

544
00:38:14,948 --> 00:38:18,518
And you can find me@prism-healing.com.

545
00:38:19,448 --> 00:38:24,128
Um, and you can find me on
Instagram Prism Healing.

546
00:38:24,953 --> 00:38:28,883
Uh, Facebook, Courtney
Pearl's Prism Healing.

547
00:38:29,003 --> 00:38:32,543
I might be changing that, uh, soon
to just prism healing if I can,

548
00:38:32,603 --> 00:38:37,043
if Facebook will let me, but Prism
healing, you'll find me, you'll get me.

549
00:38:37,373 --> 00:38:41,813
And I am here in Daybreak so I
can do sessions from anywhere.

550
00:38:42,443 --> 00:38:44,423
I have clients in Canada, Hawaii.

551
00:38:45,473 --> 00:38:46,223
All over.

552
00:38:47,003 --> 00:38:52,133
So if you are somewhere not local
here in Utah, that's totally fine.

553
00:38:52,133 --> 00:38:54,173
I can do sessions from anywhere.

554
00:38:54,173 --> 00:38:58,163
So find me on Prism healing and we
can do a consultation call and I

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00:38:58,163 --> 00:38:59,663
can answer any of your questions.

556
00:39:00,353 --> 00:39:04,628
And I. One more thing, please private
message me on any of those platforms.

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00:39:04,628 --> 00:39:08,498
If you have any particular questions or
topics you would like to address on this

558
00:39:08,498 --> 00:39:12,818
podcast, something that might help you,
or if there's a particular situation you

559
00:39:12,818 --> 00:39:18,068
find yourself in and you'd like to get
my input, I would love to use that as a

560
00:39:18,098 --> 00:39:20,948
catalyst for conversation on this podcast.

561
00:39:20,948 --> 00:39:25,208
So message out, reach out
to me and we will, um, we'll

562
00:39:25,208 --> 00:39:27,098
help you out as best we can.

563
00:39:27,653 --> 00:39:29,483
I hope you enjoyed today's story time.

564
00:39:29,723 --> 00:39:37,823
Look out for my, uh, story time episodes
and my, um, guided meditation episodes,

565
00:39:37,943 --> 00:39:43,883
and of course, all of the healing content
that I provide on my regular episodes.

566
00:39:44,213 --> 00:39:45,263
We'll see you next time.

567
00:39:45,263 --> 00:39:47,783
Go make magic Witches and wizards.