Wheel Of The Year - Cycles

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Courtney Pearl: Hello witches and wizards.

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Welcome to Practically Magic.

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This is Courtney Pearl, pagan
witch, card reader, healer,

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

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I have been discovering the true
and real magic and I wish to

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share it with you with the world.

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

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Today's episode is going to be
about cycles and the Pagan Wheel

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of the Year and cycles of healing.

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So calling it the Wheel
of the Year episode.

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And I am going to pull a card
from the Gaia Oracle deck

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that I have just received.

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I know I, I've been saying that a lot.

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I have a new deck.

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The truth is I have been getting a lot
of new decks lately and I do have my own

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little cleansing ritual when I have a new
deck to play with or to use for divination

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purposes especially for my tarot
decks, which I, I hold in high regard.

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So if you receive a new deck that
you are playing with it's a good idea

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to do your own cleansing rituals.

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Cleanse it of all of the past
energy that it's interacted with.

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And to find a way I use Reiki.

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to cleanse it.

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Sometimes with my tarot decks,
I really want to get a personal

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imprint of my energy with the cards.

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And so I will actually put
them under my pillow and sleep

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with them for a little while.

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Lucky, lucky tarot decks
that get to sleep with me.

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Yeah, for today's episode, I'm
pulling from the Gaia deck because

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it it symbolizes Gaia is like the
goddess of mother Earth energy.

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And so I think because we're talking
about the wheel of the earth and natural

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cycles Gaia is a perfect symbolism to
incorporate into our episode today.

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The card that I have pulled
is the evolution card.

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So it says here on the card, earth
changes, climate change, transformation.

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That's been coming up a lot since January.

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Transformation.

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We're in a time of transformation.

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The imagery on this card is it's the
sun with a very faint silhouette of a

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landscape, maybe trees or mountains.

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It's not very clear what the
silhouette is because it's like,

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the silhouette it's it's the shadow.

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And it's interesting because there
are, there's one sun, one bright sun.

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And then there's two
reflections of that sun.

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So three orbs of light
total in this image.

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And it kind of looks like when you're
looking at a sunset, but you don't

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want to look directly at the sun.

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So you squint your eyes and in
your squinting eyes, you can kind

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of see the reflection or the like
image of the sun in your eyes.

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And so there's, it looks like
there's three suns instead of one.

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And it's interesting because the
second one, the middle one, looks

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as though it is surrounded by a
ring of spirals in this image.

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And I love that because what
we're going to be talking about

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today has a lot to do with cycles.

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And in the Celtic symbology, that
is often represented as spirals.

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You will see a lot of spirals in Celtic
art Celtic symbolism And spirals are

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very personal to a sort of Celtic healing
tradition because it helps to represent

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the idea that we are not on a linear line.

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We like to think we are, we like
to think of us Time is linear.

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We like to think of us as moving
constantly forward in our lives.

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Like we leave the past behind us, we're
in the present, and then there's this

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line ahead of us that we're on, this
trajectory that we're on, this path.

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But the truth is our paths are much more
cyclical and look more like a spiral.

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than anything else, because
you are going to constantly

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run into patterns in your life.

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You are going to constantly see
how patterns play a part in who

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you are and how you deal with life.

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And a lot of times we do feel like we
are back in the same position we were

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already in at another point in time.

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People often see this when they're in
relationships, when they're looking

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for love, they'll see that like, The
relationships that they are having

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constantly seem to navigate similarly.

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A lot of people are trying to break
out of patterns because they're

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toxic or sabotaging and they're not
congruent with what they really want.

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These cycles and patterns
are incredibly powerful.

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And it goes really perfectly with the
theme of this card, which is evolution.

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We cannot evolve without those cycles.

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We cannot see our patterns
without the pattern.

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Patterns repeat themselves.

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But the good news is you're never
in the exact same place again.

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So even though you feel like you're in the
same place, like you've gone through this

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cycle before and maybe it's like, Oh, I'm
at this point in a relationship and now

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it feels just like past relationships.

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Why do I keep doing this?

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Why do I keep finding partners that do the
same things or treat me the same way when

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I'm trying to find something different?

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And the truth is that happens so that
you can look at that and reflect on that.

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But you're never in the exact same
place again because truthfully it

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spirals upward or spirals downward.

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You're never in the exact same place.

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So if you're raising your
vibration, you are spiraling up.

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It's kind of like leveling up
if you want to see it that way.

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It's like, You're hovering over the same
place you were in before, but you're

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not in the same place you were before.

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You're hovering over it.

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You're looking at it from now
a completely new perspective.

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Hopefully that's a higher perspective.

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A I've been here before and
I know exactly what this is.

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I know exactly what I'm doing.

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Rather than, oh, here we go again.

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I'm totally lost and confused
and I have no idea what to do.

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But if it's not a trajectory upward,
it might be a trajectory downward.

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And then it's another opportunity
for you to see that, wow, what

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I'm doing is clearly not working.

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I am not evolving the
way I should or want to.

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So even that is a good thing.

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Even that Can be spun to see it
as, wow, this is an invitation.

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This is an invitation for change.

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I need something different.

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I need something new.

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And if you're in that kind of position
in life, you feel like there's patterns

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you are just stuck in and you just
not feel like you can break forward.

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I'm going to highly recommend emotional
processing because it is one of my

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favorite modalities for helping people
to get unstuck and to realize what

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really is the deeper invitation going on.

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And that card is so perfectly
aligned with what we're going to talk

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about today because cycles are so
important in healing work, in magic

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work, in whatever work you're doing.

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When it comes to self work,
you cannot ignore cycles.

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And today I want to talk a little bit
about cycles and the pagan wheel of

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the year, but I'm going to talk about
it in the sense of healing cycles.

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In self awareness cycles because we
have come from a tradition that I

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know for myself coming from a Mormon
background, which is just a branch

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of Christianity, which is fairly new
to the earth, if you're looking at

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the timeline of the entire earth and
the entire existence of human beings.

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Even Christianity is fairly new and
it's not just Christianity, but like

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patriarchal belief systems, such as
the Zeus or Ra in Egypt, Zeus in Greek.

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These are patriarchal societies.

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And In that come from, there is
a very masculine come from, and

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that sort of tends to reiterate to
us humans that we are separate or

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different or maybe even above all of
the natural things of the world, and

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it separates us from the natural.

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So for example well, let's just look
at how the past few hundred years

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has affected Turtle Island, America,
North America that I live on here.

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We call it Turtle Island because that
is comes from a mythology and folklore

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of the Indigenous people on this land.

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And You know, just looking at how
people from Northern Europe have come

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to this land and sort of treated it
like they had a claim to it, a God given

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right to use it however they will and
see ourselves as different or sort of

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superior to the natural cycles of it.

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Like trees are just objects
or, you know, the seasons come

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and go, but we are the same.

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We are above all that.

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We continue to go to work and
do what we do every single day.

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And the more I thought about the
subject of cycles and the more I

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thought about the pagan wheel of the
year, which I'm going to talk about,

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the more I thought about how we
distance ourselves from the natural.

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That even within our own bodies,
have we really been in tune with the

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natural cycles of what we are doing
or what we need or how we thrive?

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And how did we get so far in our mentality
of how we interact with that, that we

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think we're not affected by cycles?

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That we are like, yeah, yeah,
yeah, seasons come and go, but

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like, I still have to go to work.

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I still have to go to school.

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I still have to get up
every day at the same time.

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I mean, we have separated ourselves
so much that we think we are

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not affected by those cycles.

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We're just like, I'm going
to just live my life.

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And, you know, The truth is
separating ourselves from that

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has done us a world of disservice.

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And I'm going to invite
everybody listening to welcome

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cycles back into your life.

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Whether that means the seasons, whether
that means the cycles of the moon.

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The monthly cycles, or whether that
means just tracking your own personal

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cycles of when you feel at your most
productive and when you are in need of

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rest, because just being aware of your
cycles or where your cycles might be off.

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is going to give you so much
insight and healing into yourself

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that you will be transformed.

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It will be like a new life.

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And so I'm going to talk about it
in terms of the wheel of the year.

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So, whether you're a pagan or not,
it doesn't matter because as I always

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say on my show, these are things
that help you live a magical life.

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And I happen to resonate very
deeply with the wheel of the year

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because it helps me understand what.

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The ancient peoples before we considered
ourselves separate from the earth

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and the, and the seasons and the, and
the kin of the animals and plants.

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When we considered ourselves part
of all of that, part of that web and

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interconnection between all living
things, this is what our bodies would

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naturally want to do is be a part of that.

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That is where the Pagan Wheel of the Year
comes from, and it marks these holy days.

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Which I think is much more productive
to us than let's say getting a dart and

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throwing it at a calendar and then being
like, That's the day we're going to

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celebrate love, you know, I'm not sure
the historical implications of like St.

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Valentine's Day or St.

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Patrick's Day or these other holidays
that we tend to celebrate in our

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culture now, but I think some of them
do coincide with the ancient holy days.

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And I think some of them
are Again, sort of random.

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So hear me out.

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We're gonna go through
the wheel of the year.

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Today, on the day that this podcast
is going to be released, I hope,

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if I've planned it all outright, is
actually the first day of spring, which

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we sort of mark those in our lives.

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In, in the more modern culture, we
kind of just tend to go, Oh, cool.

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It's the first day of spring.

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That's nice.

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And then move on.

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But in the pagan wheel of the
year, these are very holy days.

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These are very significant days to the
clan, to the community, to the culture,

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to what's going on in our lives.

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Even if some of the things that
they did in ancient times, we don't

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necessarily have to worry about.

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They still need to be respected.

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So, We have the first day of spring,
but actually the Pagan Wheel of

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the Year starts on November 1st.

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So we're starting actually with
Samhain, which is November 1st.

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And I'm going to kind of integrate some
story time into this as we talk about it.

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So, I have I know in our podcast
episode last week, I talked about

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Ostara, which is where the term
Easter comes from and rebirth.

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And we're going to talk a
little bit more about that.

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But Samhain starts in,
in Welsh it's Calangaff.

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I may, I might not be pronouncing
that exactly right, but Calangaff.

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I'm trying.

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I'm trying.

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I've been learning Welsh for quite a
while now, but I'm not very fluent.

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I'm not good at it.

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So, I'm just trying to
pronounce it correctly.

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Samhain is November 1st, it's kind
of where Halloween comes from.

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October 31st is celebrated as Halloween.

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But Samhain is the third
of three harvest holidays.

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So it starts a new year.

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It's the year when the last of the
vegetables and fruits are harvested.

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And in, especially in a Celtic
tradition, it is one of the in betweens.

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It's not an equinox and
it's not a solstice.

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So it's not a sun or solar holiday or
holy day, but it is significant because

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in the Celtic tradition and many,
maybe many other traditions around

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the world, but I know from my studies,
Celtic tradition, it is significant

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to honor the in between stages.

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So it's not a solstice or an
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And we understand in between spaces to
be very sacred because it's like the veil

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thins between our world and other worlds.

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The fey world, the other world,
Anuvin or even the world of the

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spirits, where we go after we die.

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So those, those are the reasons
why that That Halloween is

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considered to be like a thin space.

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So there's a lot more spookiness
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it's actually a very sacred holiday.

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It's not just a day for spooky
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So we move into from Samhain, we're
moving into then the winter solstice,

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which is December 21st, 22nd.

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is probably historically the reason
why Christians decided to celebrate

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Christ's birth at that point in time.

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Because historically, pagans and
indigenous cultures before Christianity

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all over the world were already
celebrating the longest night of the year.

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That was a year that they would
mark as a day of celebration.

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The darkest, or darkness, or going
descending into darkness, and

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then that is the day when they
celebrate the return of the light.

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So a lot of solar symbols like circles,
spirals the yule log, these are symbols

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that you will see are even pre Christian.

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The Christmas tree.

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for the most part is still much
more pagan than it is Christian.

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I know that we love to take symbols
of the that were already there

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during that time of the year.

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And Christianity has sort of liked to
Oh, well, actually, you know, the candy

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cane is the shepherd hook, and it means
the shepherds that came to see Christ

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when he was born, blah, blah, blah.

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So we like to, like, manipulate
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them as Christian as possible.

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But the truth is, a lot of
them were pre Christian.

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A lot of them were pagan in origin.

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Inviting a tree into your
home and decorating it, that

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is definitely pagan origin.

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centered has to do with honoring the trees
that stay green throughout the winter.

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And and even dispelling spirits.

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That come in the darkness,
things like that.

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The wreath making a circle out of
those greenery was a symbol of the sun.

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And it was a, again, an
invitation to bring the sun back.

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So before maybe the early peoples
of the earth were a little

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concerned when the darkness came
that the light wouldn't come back.

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So they came up with ceremony and
ritual and practices that would be

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inviting the sun back at yule time.

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So from Yule, we go into into
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Imbolc is the holiday that's
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It's in between the
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So it is, for a lot of traditions, it
is the beginning of spring, even though

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it isn't technically spring equinox yet.

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A lot of those traditions would start
to celebrate the return of spring.

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This is when we start to talk about
the sun returning and the Wildlife

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returning to life and the buds growing
and the full moon of that season

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is called the moon of germination
because we're germinating the seeds.

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Either they're allowing seeds to
start in their homes, inside, indoors,

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or you might be planting bulbs in
the earth before it has completely

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thawed to get ready for spring.

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So that is the time of Saint
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There is a lot of traditions
and folklore that happen to

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mark that holy day and occasion.

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Then we move into the spring
equinox, obviously Ostera.

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So happy Ostera today if you're listening
on March 19th, because that is the day.

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Supposedly the first
day of spring in 2024.

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And we're going to talk a
little about the traditions that

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happen at this time of year.

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But we're actually marking the
halfway point, meaning that the

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daylight and the dark are equal.

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That's why it's called equinox.

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And these are marking the occasions
in the Northern Hemisphere.

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So if you're listening in the
Summer and Southern Hemisphere, I

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know a lot of these are going to be
opposites of the dates, but stick

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with me because it's just, Opposite.

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We move from Alastaira into Beltane,
which is May 1st or May Day.

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And a lot of the Northern European
traditions of this day are still intact.

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You can go and maybe people don't always
realize where they were originated,

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but Beltane is mentioned a lot in texts
because it's sort of fertility rites.

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It's like maybe the ancient pagans,
they had certain fertility ceremonies

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or rituals that had to do with.

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Engaging in activities that would
produce babies and the maypole

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comes from these traditions.

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So the maypole is a phallic symbol
with flowers bursting from the top.

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So if you didn't recognize that
that was a fertility symbol and that

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we're dancing around the phallic
symbol, well, that is what it is.

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It's just where, where it originated.

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It was basically a blessing.

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So So the Horned God
would marry the May Queen.

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There would be fertility rites happening.

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There'd be sacred marriages, the sacred
marriage between the king and the land.

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This is when all that
symbology is happening.

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And it is a cleansing.

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A lot of bonfires are lit and they
would make, they would bring the cows

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and sheep from one field or pasture or
from their, indoor enclosures, their

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stables, and they would bring them out
into the herds, out into the pastures.

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So this is when they bring them
out into the fields and they

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pass them through the bonfire so
that they're cleansed with smoke.

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And this is a spiritual cleansing and
it's also a practical cleansing because

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the smoke would kind of cleanse the
parasites off of them and whatever,

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you know, might be living in their fur.

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So all of this is happening
at Beltane, Mayday.

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Welcoming spring, welcoming
warm weather, welcoming sun.

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And then we move into summer
solstice, which is again

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the longest day of the year.

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This is when we celebrate
the root, the sun.

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And this also marks the so a lot of those
are the planting seasons when we go from

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in bulk to Ausra and then into Beltane.

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These are planting seasons.

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We're planting seeds,
we're planting crops.

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We're we're bringing our
livestock out into the fields.

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And these, mark those occasions,
because that was really important to

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indigenous peoples all over the world.

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These are occasions that
need to be marked because it.

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Our survival of our village, of
our clan actually depends on that.

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So they're marking these occasions
because they're actually offering

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these things up to their gods, to their
deities and saying, please bless the

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land, make it abundant, make it fertile
so that our village can live another

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year and then after summer solstice.

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We go into which is
Lunesta or Lammas, Lammas.

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I'm not sure if I'm saying
that totally correctly.

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So if you are indigenous like Celtic
Ireland and Scotland, you, you can

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correct me on how I'm pronouncing that.

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Then we move into August
1st, which is Mabon.

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Now it's not originally called Mabon.

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That was actually a pretty new term.

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And there's a lot of Welsh mythology.

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comes with the story of Mabon
and Mabon has nothing to do

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with August 1st or that holiday.

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That was more of a, like, the
founder of the Wiccan religion

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kind of gave it that name.

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So there's some debate on whether
or not it should be called that, but

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otherwise it doesn't have a name.

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So I prefer to just go
ahead and call it that.

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Mabon is August 1st and that marks
the first actually the summer solstice

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starts the first harvesting season.

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So there are three harvesting holy days
and that is when we start to harvest.

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So in the summer we're harvesting
berries, we're harvesting Peas,

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we're harvesting all of those fruits
and vegetables that, that come into

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season at that time of the year.

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And then August 1st, we're
starting to harvest the apples,

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the apricots and peaches.

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They start to, you know, come into season
during that time at the end of summer.

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And then we come back into Samhain again,
and we have gone through the full wheel.

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Now, what this means for us is that if
we do not pay attention to those markings

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or just marking the seasons as we go
through them, our bodies are already

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responding to those natural cycles.

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We've all heard of the seasonal
affective depression disorder where

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you, you get depressed during winter.

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And that might sound like a terrible
thing, like an affliction, that you

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get during winter, but actually what
is deep, what is happening is your

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body is responding to the natural
cycles of hibernation in winter.

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And I like to refer to the
word depressed as deep rest.

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Basically, You need that rest.

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Everybody does.

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We need hibernation.

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We need moments.

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And whether it comes with the seasons or
it comes with the cycles of our lives,

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it might be daily, it might be monthly,
but to be able to understand that our

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bodies naturally need moments of rest
when we're not as productive and we're

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just living off of the harvest of our
more productive season, that is important.

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A natural cycle.

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I love there was research done with trees.

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I was watching and reading about this
where they were injecting certain hormones

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into trees, like certain chemicals that
make the trees continue productivity,

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continue their growth season.

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Something like steroids for trees.

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I'm not exactly sure, but the research
was showing that can they force trees

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that are many hundreds of years old.

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And go through their own growing seasons.

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That's what makes the rings
in the tree trunks, right?

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We cut a tree and we can see the rings.

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Well, that's because there are seasons
of growth and there are seasons of rest.

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And they were injecting these trees
just to see if they could get the

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trees to continue their growth
instead of stopping and resting.

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Well, The trees died because
they figured out that the trees

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actually needed that rest.

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It's part of their cycle, natural cycle.

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It's part of what they need.

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So if constant productivity and
expecting ourselves and each other and

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our entire society to be constantly
in productivity mode does not seem

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entirely fair, if we're not honoring our
cycles, We are, and we're not wintering.

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We're not allowing ourselves the moments
of winter to happen where it's like,

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I am not going to, I'm going to permit
myself to not require anything to be done.

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For this amount of time,
I'm gonna just rest.

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I'm gonna do nothing.

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I'm going to winter.

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Then we're, Essentially offering ourselves
up to being sick, allowing disease and

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I use that word meaning disease as an
illness and disease meaning dis ease.

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We are allowing that to happen
and that is why we get more sick.

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Our immune system is compromised.

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We cannot function properly when we are
just in productivity mode all the time.

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That's kind of like.

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not allowing the balance of life.

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So I'm going to do an episode on masculine
and feminine energy and balancing those.

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And that's going to come into
play a lot when it comes to that.

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But I just want to leave you
with the idea that cycling is

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something you need to be aware of.

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Women tend to cycle with the moon.

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And I wish someone had told
me that and explained it to me

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that way when I was a young girl
looking at starting my own cycles.

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I saw cycles, I saw starting my
womanhood and the, the kind of

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natural things that happen during
that time, I saw it as a curse.

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And that's because most
women do see it as a curse.

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It was called a curse for a long time.

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And wasn't until I was in my thirties
that a naturopathic doctor offered me

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hormone therapy and said, you know, I
would like you to time your home hormone

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therapy based on the phases of the men.

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I want you to do these hormones during
this time and these hormones during this

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time, and I want you to track when is
the dark moon and when is the full moon.

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And that was the first time in my
entire life I had ever been told that.

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And I thought, how sad is it that
we're going through our life expecting

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ourselves to just pretend like every
day is exactly the same, that we're

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required to get up and do the same
amount of work every single day.

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And last year I met a woman who who does
these amazing holding space workshops

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and she said, I purposely track my
cycle to know when My time is coming

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and to plan a couple of days off.

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She owns her own business,
she runs her own business.

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So she's able to do that probably more
easily, but she purposely says, I am

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going to purposely do less on those days.

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not plan any special outings, not plan
play dates, not plan work appointments,

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things like that, workshops, whatever.

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I'm not going to plan any of it during
those three days because I want to

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spend most of my time in bed reading
or taking care of myself or resting

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because that is what her cycle needs.

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I have been studying the Avalonian
cycles of healing and in in the

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Mythic Moon of Avalon book she talks
about marking each full moon with the

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mythology of the five goddesses and
the wealth in the Welsh mythology.

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And she says in February, that's
the full moon of germination.

451
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You're germinating your
intentions for the year.

452
00:30:17,035 --> 00:30:22,455
And then we are moving into what is
going to be the moon of evocation.

453
00:30:23,185 --> 00:30:27,355
So she says, and I'm quoting from
the book, a calling forth of new

454
00:30:27,355 --> 00:30:31,285
beginnings from out of slowly
weakening entanglements of shadow.

455
00:30:31,885 --> 00:30:33,595
And this is in the mythic moons of Avalon.

456
00:30:33,635 --> 00:30:37,365
I will resource this at the end, and
I will also post that in my blog.

457
00:30:37,395 --> 00:30:38,815
So you know where to find that.

458
00:30:39,300 --> 00:30:45,710
And I love how she explains the
Avalonian Cycles of Healing, which I

459
00:30:45,710 --> 00:30:50,940
now use when I am doing an IPT process
or a session with someone, because

460
00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:55,150
even an emotional process session is
going to go through an entire cycle.

461
00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:58,330
We're going through
the cycle of emergence.

462
00:30:58,380 --> 00:31:01,820
We're going into the cauldron,
into the darkness of our heart,

463
00:31:01,900 --> 00:31:05,570
into our bodies, figuring out
what it is that is stuck there.

464
00:31:05,990 --> 00:31:09,860
So we're going through a
confrontation stage and then

465
00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:12,930
we're kind of going to emerge.

466
00:31:13,445 --> 00:31:18,325
From that stage into kind of the
working it into our new lives.

467
00:31:19,105 --> 00:31:23,415
So you have to go through that entire
cycle in order to come out the other side

468
00:31:23,425 --> 00:31:25,125
and know exactly what it is you need.

469
00:31:26,745 --> 00:31:31,520
And being stuck or having stuck
energy, Like I was saying about

470
00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:35,590
cycles before, that is just an
invitation to look into that deeper.

471
00:31:36,660 --> 00:31:42,180
And there is real magic in being able
to address what cycle am I in right now.

472
00:31:42,490 --> 00:31:44,720
Am I in a cycle of transformation?

473
00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:47,260
Am I, am I in a cycle of confrontation?

474
00:31:47,260 --> 00:31:50,340
Am I in a moment where I'm
really at battle with myself?

475
00:31:51,075 --> 00:31:54,935
Or am I doing really well because
I just came out of that cycle?

476
00:31:54,975 --> 00:31:58,445
So now I'm using and utilizing
new ideas into my life.

477
00:32:00,245 --> 00:32:00,665
All right.

478
00:32:00,775 --> 00:32:04,355
So we've talked a little bit about
those traditions and the cycles

479
00:32:04,355 --> 00:32:06,175
of the year and cycles of healing.

480
00:32:06,845 --> 00:32:12,605
What I did do today is I skipped
story time and I just want to go

481
00:32:12,605 --> 00:32:16,385
through a couple of stories that have
to do with the first of the year.

482
00:32:16,425 --> 00:32:19,295
The first the spring of the
year because today is spring.

483
00:32:19,295 --> 00:32:20,585
I want to mark this occasion.

484
00:32:21,045 --> 00:32:25,375
One of my favorite stories, and this
comes from No Country for Old Women.

485
00:32:26,515 --> 00:32:30,155
And it's the story of
the Calais in Scotland.

486
00:32:30,605 --> 00:32:33,425
This is kind of an origin
story and I won't read it.

487
00:32:33,435 --> 00:32:34,875
I'm just going to kind of paraphrase that.

488
00:32:34,875 --> 00:32:36,665
I'm going to just summarize
it real quick for you.

489
00:32:36,995 --> 00:32:40,305
But if you ever get ahold of this
story in the way that it's written

490
00:32:40,305 --> 00:32:43,555
in this book, it's absolutely
Absolutely beautiful with imagery, so

491
00:32:43,555 --> 00:32:45,485
please read it if you have the time.

492
00:32:46,255 --> 00:32:53,385
It's the story about how on a Beltane
morning, Michaljech is an old woman.

493
00:32:54,045 --> 00:33:00,560
She has creaky bones and she's starting to
to get to a point where she's She always

494
00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:05,110
goes to the well of youth and drinks
from the water and dips into the lake.

495
00:33:05,590 --> 00:33:08,910
And when she dips into the lake,
she always is renewed young again.

496
00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:10,960
And this is how the mythology goes.

497
00:33:11,540 --> 00:33:14,140
But in this story, she's
actually questioning it.

498
00:33:14,150 --> 00:33:18,580
She's wondering if she should do that
or if she should just let herself die.

499
00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:24,040
Because in this new world, in this new
age, she has become kind of powerless

500
00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:28,580
powerless against humans and the
atrocities that they have They have put

501
00:33:28,610 --> 00:33:34,540
upon the earth and she can no longer
have the energy to continue making

502
00:33:34,550 --> 00:33:38,700
the earth and making it what it is
because she's just, she's just so tired.

503
00:33:39,110 --> 00:33:43,965
So she's contemplating just giving
up, letting her, you life end.

504
00:33:44,545 --> 00:33:49,545
And as she's, as she's doing this,
she's thinking she's hearing the dog

505
00:33:49,575 --> 00:33:53,975
barking and she knows if she does not
get to the lake by the time the dog

506
00:33:54,555 --> 00:34:00,115
starts barking or the dog is there,
then she won't, she'll run out of time.

507
00:34:00,215 --> 00:34:01,305
She won't make it.

508
00:34:01,735 --> 00:34:03,195
So she has to make this decision.

509
00:34:03,860 --> 00:34:08,230
And she starts making her way down
the hill, down the forest to the lake.

510
00:34:08,730 --> 00:34:13,680
And she notices at some point in
this journey, she notices a fox on

511
00:34:13,680 --> 00:34:15,730
the ground and the fox has died.

512
00:34:16,580 --> 00:34:21,840
And she's devastated at this image of
like, look at this fox that's died.

513
00:34:22,420 --> 00:34:28,920
But in that moment, she, she lays down
with the fox and she, she's thinking to

514
00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:31,190
herself, I think I might just die too.

515
00:34:31,300 --> 00:34:33,240
I think I'm going to go with this fox.

516
00:34:33,430 --> 00:34:39,130
What would it be like to just let myself
rest eternally as this fox has done?

517
00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:47,450
And she, in the last moments, as
she's thinking about her worth and

518
00:34:47,450 --> 00:34:54,830
how she can contribute to the, the
land, she decides to pick up this

519
00:34:54,830 --> 00:35:02,260
fox and carry it to the lake that may
be She can't save the world, but she

520
00:35:02,260 --> 00:35:04,040
can make a difference for this fox.

521
00:35:04,140 --> 00:35:07,120
She can make a difference for
this one thing, this one creature.

522
00:35:08,590 --> 00:35:14,130
And she picks up this dead fox's body and
she starts, her bones are old and creaking

523
00:35:14,130 --> 00:35:17,100
and she doesn't even know if she's gonna
make it because she's almost too late.

524
00:35:17,290 --> 00:35:18,490
Her body is giving out.

525
00:35:19,095 --> 00:35:22,975
And she somehow gets herself
to the lake, but it's too

526
00:35:22,975 --> 00:35:24,375
late because the dog is there.

527
00:35:24,735 --> 00:35:29,195
The dog is waiting and
it's, it's baring its teeth.

528
00:35:29,195 --> 00:35:31,585
It's growling at her and it's
not going to let her past.

529
00:35:31,865 --> 00:35:33,345
It's not going to let her get to the lake.

530
00:35:34,655 --> 00:35:40,735
And something happens where
she's able to, the dog is able

531
00:35:40,735 --> 00:35:43,315
to step aside and allow her past.

532
00:35:43,525 --> 00:35:47,555
And she goes into the lake and she dips
her entire body with the fox in her

533
00:35:47,555 --> 00:35:50,345
arms into the lake and emerge again.

534
00:35:50,775 --> 00:35:56,385
And she's whole and young and
the fox is young and alive.

535
00:35:56,585 --> 00:36:03,595
And she and the fox again are ready to go
again, ready to have another life lived.

536
00:36:04,645 --> 00:36:11,145
And this is symbolic, just as the
Christians use this time to think of

537
00:36:11,165 --> 00:36:17,295
Ostera, think of Easter and Christ's
death and resurrection, that the

538
00:36:17,355 --> 00:36:21,855
stories of death and resurrection are
far older than Christian tradition.

539
00:36:22,475 --> 00:36:23,515
We are.

540
00:36:24,655 --> 00:36:25,845
Constantly.

541
00:36:26,545 --> 00:36:32,605
re energized and the traumas
and things we have happened in

542
00:36:32,605 --> 00:36:36,385
our lives, they are like death.

543
00:36:37,175 --> 00:36:40,505
Winter and rest is a form of death.

544
00:36:42,015 --> 00:36:45,235
And if you're coming out of something
very traumatic, something that

545
00:36:45,245 --> 00:36:50,875
broke you, something that absolutely
devastated you, maybe it's a death that

546
00:36:50,875 --> 00:36:53,555
happened in your someone close to you.

547
00:36:53,975 --> 00:36:55,345
Maybe you lost someone.

548
00:36:56,615 --> 00:37:02,230
Maybe there's been a an ending of
a relationship and maybe you've

549
00:37:02,230 --> 00:37:03,630
been struggling with addiction.

550
00:37:03,890 --> 00:37:07,000
Maybe you have a spouse that's
struggling with addiction.

551
00:37:07,520 --> 00:37:11,680
There's some, some traumatic
moment that happens in your life.

552
00:37:11,750 --> 00:37:15,000
And it is like a egoic death.

553
00:37:15,470 --> 00:37:17,470
It's allowing a part of yourself.

554
00:37:18,100 --> 00:37:18,830
to die.

555
00:37:19,610 --> 00:37:23,250
It might be the part of you that
thought, nothing bad will ever happen

556
00:37:23,250 --> 00:37:28,130
to me because I'm going to make sure
and control my life enough that I

557
00:37:28,130 --> 00:37:30,030
will never let something bad happen.

558
00:37:31,320 --> 00:37:37,290
And that bad thing that happened, it
ends up being your death, a sort of

559
00:37:37,290 --> 00:37:39,140
death that you have to go through.

560
00:37:40,250 --> 00:37:43,790
And then the cycle brings you
back around again to rebirth.

561
00:37:44,845 --> 00:37:46,745
And spring is a reminder of that.

562
00:37:47,005 --> 00:37:51,405
It's a reminder that even if a part
of you had to die for you to move

563
00:37:51,445 --> 00:37:54,985
forward, you are going to move forward.

564
00:37:55,855 --> 00:38:01,025
Let that part of you die so that
the whole of you does not die.

565
00:38:03,405 --> 00:38:10,955
and spring will allow you to renew
again, to resurrect, to rebirth into

566
00:38:11,145 --> 00:38:15,655
what is now moving forward your new life.

567
00:38:17,395 --> 00:38:23,555
So there's so much more to go on about
that, but I hope that gives you an

568
00:38:23,555 --> 00:38:30,815
understanding of how to utilize cycles in
your life, how to see yourself in cycles.

569
00:38:31,335 --> 00:38:35,125
And if you're not sure what cycle you're
in, that's what people like me are for.

570
00:38:35,345 --> 00:38:42,925
Find yourself a person like me, a healer
a, a guide, a mentor, a life coach.

571
00:38:43,005 --> 00:38:46,600
There are a lot of people out
there with the it is their

572
00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:49,070
calling to be that for someone.

573
00:38:49,720 --> 00:38:52,370
And it doesn't mean they're any
better or more wise than you.

574
00:38:52,390 --> 00:38:55,970
It just means that that is their
predisposition to help you.

575
00:38:58,140 --> 00:39:06,560
I'm going to use this opportunity to to
invite you to practice in the traditions

576
00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:12,030
of Ostera in Easter and to have a
different kind of perception about it,

577
00:39:12,220 --> 00:39:16,700
that it's not just Christian based about
Jesus and the, and, and the resurrection,

578
00:39:16,700 --> 00:39:21,580
but that Easter can be a marking for
you and what it means for your life.

579
00:39:21,990 --> 00:39:26,100
Maybe even writing down, what is
it that you are emerging from?

580
00:39:26,660 --> 00:39:30,160
What sort of death have you
experienced in the last year or in

581
00:39:30,160 --> 00:39:37,080
the winter or anytime really that
you are ready to be reborn from?

582
00:39:38,755 --> 00:39:42,445
I have a question from a listener
and this one was a good question I

583
00:39:42,445 --> 00:39:44,315
really want to address really quick.

584
00:39:44,405 --> 00:39:48,435
I had a question come in that said are
these practices that you were talking

585
00:39:48,435 --> 00:39:50,025
about, are they safe for children?

586
00:39:51,205 --> 00:39:55,395
And my answer to that very
simple short answer is yes.

587
00:39:56,605 --> 00:40:02,340
And my long answer is Even better than
that, I think they should be for children.

588
00:40:03,490 --> 00:40:08,740
I actually started this journey when I
sort of, walked away from the theology

589
00:40:08,760 --> 00:40:10,960
and the structure of Mormonism.

590
00:40:11,520 --> 00:40:14,820
That was hard for me because
Mormonism is very organized.

591
00:40:15,300 --> 00:40:19,660
They actually have books for families
to follow along with the scriptures

592
00:40:19,690 --> 00:40:23,510
and the lessons and, you know, Whatever
it is that they're doing at church and

593
00:40:23,790 --> 00:40:25,750
do at home with your kids and family.

594
00:40:26,270 --> 00:40:28,880
And there's a part of me, the
teacher part of me, that loves that.

595
00:40:29,090 --> 00:40:30,280
I love that structure.

596
00:40:31,220 --> 00:40:37,280
So when I started to walk away knowing
that that wasn't true and authentic

597
00:40:37,280 --> 00:40:43,910
for me, that the the doctrine of
that tradition was not right for me

598
00:40:44,100 --> 00:40:47,290
the thing I was most afraid of was
what am I going to teach my kids?

599
00:40:47,750 --> 00:40:54,500
How am I going to offer them
values and spirituality without

600
00:40:54,550 --> 00:40:56,140
some kind of structure or guide?

601
00:40:57,150 --> 00:41:00,940
And that is when I found, you
know, the wheel of the year pagan

602
00:41:00,940 --> 00:41:06,830
practices Celtic practices, Gnostic
Christianity, secular Buddhism.

603
00:41:07,160 --> 00:41:12,290
The more I grasped onto some values that
I really wanted to teach my children, the

604
00:41:12,290 --> 00:41:16,885
more I was like, not only is this great
for But I wish I had had it as a kid.

605
00:41:16,895 --> 00:41:21,025
And I wish that all kids were being
taught this way, because whether

606
00:41:21,025 --> 00:41:23,095
you're a Christian or whether
you're Mormon or whether you're

607
00:41:23,105 --> 00:41:26,805
anything, these values are universal.

608
00:41:27,535 --> 00:41:31,795
And basically they're teaching you
how to listen to your own Intuition

609
00:41:31,815 --> 00:41:36,625
and your own heart and to claim and
own your sovereignty over your life

610
00:41:37,485 --> 00:41:41,095
Which is something I want my kids to
have more than anything no matter what

611
00:41:41,095 --> 00:41:45,165
their spiritual beliefs are I want my
kids to know that they have the power

612
00:41:45,525 --> 00:41:49,705
they have connection to the divine to
whatever higher power that they believe

613
00:41:49,705 --> 00:41:55,655
in and I did come across a book that I
absolutely love and it helps teach kids.

614
00:41:55,745 --> 00:41:59,915
It's called circle round So if you
are looking for practices for kids

615
00:41:59,935 --> 00:42:03,685
specifically That's, that's a good one.

616
00:42:03,735 --> 00:42:05,755
And I'll reference that later too.

617
00:42:06,045 --> 00:42:11,255
But absolutely, I have noticed that kids
are far more receptive to some of these

618
00:42:11,255 --> 00:42:14,275
ideas that I'm teaching than even adults.

619
00:42:14,895 --> 00:42:16,795
And that's because they're
not so set in their ways.

620
00:42:16,975 --> 00:42:22,695
I mean, when I'm teaching adults how to
do magic, and I might even be You know,

621
00:42:22,695 --> 00:42:24,625
explaining to them how to create a spell.

622
00:42:25,325 --> 00:42:29,465
Sometimes adults are like, Oh, I actually
used to do this when I was a kid.

623
00:42:30,185 --> 00:42:35,245
I used to like take leaves
and sticks and pine cones and

624
00:42:35,245 --> 00:42:36,935
whatever I could find outside.

625
00:42:36,945 --> 00:42:40,255
And I would put them in a bowl and I would
mix them up and I would call it a potion.

626
00:42:41,805 --> 00:42:44,365
Well, that's already
intuitively spell work.

627
00:42:45,065 --> 00:42:49,315
And we are just all returning back to
what it is that we did when we were kids.

628
00:42:50,135 --> 00:42:56,535
So it's actually a lot easier to To be
a witch when you pretend you're a kid.

629
00:42:57,695 --> 00:42:59,035
So I invite all of you to try it.

630
00:42:59,385 --> 00:43:00,375
Just be a kid again.

631
00:43:00,605 --> 00:43:01,565
That's really all it takes.

632
00:43:01,845 --> 00:43:02,805
That's really all you're doing.

633
00:43:03,775 --> 00:43:05,665
And your inner child will love it anyway.

634
00:43:06,170 --> 00:43:07,130
I love that kind of stuff.

635
00:43:07,810 --> 00:43:09,030
So that's a great question.

636
00:43:09,060 --> 00:43:14,010
And hopefully I'll be able to address that
even more as I go in future episodes, what

637
00:43:14,010 --> 00:43:16,180
I do with kids, what I do with my kids.

638
00:43:16,660 --> 00:43:21,690
But for now, because it's Ostara,
please invite your kids to be working

639
00:43:21,690 --> 00:43:24,790
with the symbolisms of Ostara.

640
00:43:25,400 --> 00:43:33,270
Easter, the dying of the eggs is just
another invitation to talk about the magic

641
00:43:33,270 --> 00:43:35,600
of fertility, the magic of manifesting.

642
00:43:36,150 --> 00:43:40,840
And if you are from a Christian come from
and you would like more of that, I highly

643
00:43:40,840 --> 00:43:47,230
recommend that you look up the story of
Mary Magdalene when she goes to convince

644
00:43:47,390 --> 00:43:50,560
Tiberius Caesar about the resurrection.

645
00:43:50,980 --> 00:43:57,055
And he says something to her like No
way did a guy die and come back to life.

646
00:43:57,215 --> 00:44:00,335
That's as real as if that
egg in your hand was red.

647
00:44:00,985 --> 00:44:04,765
And then how the story, the myth
goes is that she's holding an egg

648
00:44:04,825 --> 00:44:08,015
and as he says that, it turns red.

649
00:44:08,775 --> 00:44:12,095
And I don't know if this connects
to the Easter traditions,

650
00:44:12,115 --> 00:44:13,785
but I do love that story.

651
00:44:13,815 --> 00:44:17,015
And that's a great one to tell
your kids as you're dying eggs.

652
00:44:17,055 --> 00:44:18,725
And you can refer to that story.

653
00:44:19,145 --> 00:44:24,635
So that's one that I love that comes
from the Gnostic Gospels of the Gospel of

654
00:44:24,635 --> 00:44:26,495
Mary and the Gospel of Philip and Thomas.

655
00:44:27,315 --> 00:44:30,275
So tune in next week.

656
00:44:30,305 --> 00:44:34,215
We're going to do an episode on
the cycles of healing, specifically

657
00:44:34,215 --> 00:44:36,035
about trauma in the body.

658
00:44:36,405 --> 00:44:36,865
So.

659
00:44:37,335 --> 00:44:39,685
If you need a trigger warning
ahead of time, we are going to

660
00:44:39,685 --> 00:44:42,895
talk about trauma, but we're going
to talk about it in broad sense.

661
00:44:43,325 --> 00:44:47,065
What has to do with how we
hold trauma in the body.

662
00:44:47,115 --> 00:44:51,675
And I can't wait for that episode
because It's fascinating to me and it's

663
00:44:51,705 --> 00:44:55,875
super helpful for anybody to understand
their body a little bit better.

664
00:44:57,025 --> 00:45:00,915
Please don't miss my next
healing through art workshop

665
00:45:00,915 --> 00:45:03,875
is on March 28th from 6 to 8 p.

666
00:45:03,875 --> 00:45:04,095
m.

667
00:45:04,125 --> 00:45:07,835
So if you live locally in Utah,
anywhere in the Salt Lake Valley, it's

668
00:45:07,845 --> 00:45:09,705
worth coming over to South Jordan.

669
00:45:10,080 --> 00:45:11,120
That's where we do it.

670
00:45:11,480 --> 00:45:14,260
It is going to be an
emotional process session.

671
00:45:14,730 --> 00:45:19,700
It's where we do a meditation painting
out shapes and colors, moving energy

672
00:45:19,700 --> 00:45:23,200
out of the body, and a little bit
of guided journaling to help you

673
00:45:23,200 --> 00:45:28,455
with those cycles of emergence,
confrontation, all of the cycles of

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healing are included in that workshop.

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So it's an amazing workshop and I would
like to invite all of you to come and

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join me and let me know if you're a
listener when you come and sign up

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to come because I'd love to say hi.

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I am here to help you use magic in your
everyday life to strengthen relationships,

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to heal, to prosper, and to thrive.

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If you would like more information
on these and other subjects, Find

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me on my social media, Instagram
at Prism underscore healing.

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On Facebook, I'm Courtney
Pearl or my Facebook page,

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Courtney Pearl's Prism Healing.

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Events for Tarot for Tips, Healing
Through Art, and my favorite for

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kids, Heart Smart Art, an immersive
experience to raise emotional

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intelligence for children and adults.

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You can find all of those and register
for them on my website, Prism.

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org.

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dash healing dot com.

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That is where you can book
private sessions for healing,

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private card readings.

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And my blog has all of the resources for
this episode and for all of my episodes.

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So take a look at my website and on any
of those platforms, if you would like

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to private message me some questions
about magic, healing, energy, or even

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some personal questions about your
life that you would like my insight on.

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Please.

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Slide into my DMs and get me
those questions and I will

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feature them as a future questions
from a listener on episodes.

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Some things that I mentioned in today's
episode, you can look up Mythic Moons

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of Avalon by Jenna Telandry Circle Round
Raising Children in the Goddess Tradition

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by Starhawk, Diane Baker and Anne Hill.

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And I would like to give a special
thanks to Just Blane and his

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team for producing and managing.

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at Ride the Wave Media and
all of the support at the

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Daybreak Business Community.

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This time I'd like to give a special
shout out to Fresh King Benjamin for

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support in helping me understand social
media and giving me some tasks and

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getting me on track with all of that.

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I'd like to thank Daybreak Treasures
Boutique for featuring me as an

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artist and for sponsoring my events.

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I hope to see you next time right here.

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Go do some magic, my witches and wizards.