Before I get to the podcast, I want to share this- sometimes acknowledging simply where we are allows energy, life to move again.
The Queen of Swords stands at a threshold, the blade in one hand, the old story in the other. She invites you to step beyond the addiction to doing, fixing, or being needed.
This encapsulates what I feel today.
I think I just need to be quiet and create and sing.
Have you ever had one of those days where you just feel overwhelmed with information?
Like you can't even feel what's inside, or hear what's inside?
Because it's all just this jumbled mess.
You feel hollowed out and too full at the same time.
That's how I feel today.
All these things I wanted to do, all this pressure to write and share and speak and create. And yet I feel incapable of really having a clear thought. I just feel so cloudy in my head.
And so a walk in the woods to see two colors, green and blue, with some brown.
Simple.
To feel the breeze. Hear the birds. A deep exhale. And moving out of that cloudy head into the body.
Feeling the cool morning on my skin.
The sun peeking through the trees.
My breath moving in and out of my body.
The smell of the woods, of the trees, of life.
Oh, it's all reminding me of what happens when I get stuck in the head.
Feeling almost severed from my body. Disconnected from life.
I get lost in the clouds of the mind.
It feels good to put my feet on the ground.
And sometimes our plans change. Away from content creation to life creation.
Processing strawberries to freeze. With music on I can sing to. Feeding sourdough. Eating sourdough. Making refried beans for later. Cleaning the house.
Clearing away the cobwebs from both the house and my mind.
My spirit restored.
My cave tended to.
Giving myself what I really need.
A gap.
Sacred time to integrate and rest.
Process. Be. Feel.
Tap into who I am and who I want to be. By being that in the moment.
Right now.
and now… The Podcast :)
In this short and sweet episode, I share a stream of consciousness rant I recorded when I was driving last weekend. In it I weave and explore energies of this new moon in Taurus, the ogham tree Willow, the 24th Gene Key and how all of this comes together to support us living more deeply in alignment with our soul.
It is a little ‘outdated’ as I meant to share it last week but my days were caught up in helping my cat, Mabel, who was giving birth and had some complications- if you’re interested in that story- I shared a couple notes on the Substack app and IG about the experience.
After this morning and what I shared above, I realized this short and sweet episode still feels relevant and valuable.
We will explore how addiction to thinking makes us almost mechanistic and how creating gaps in our day through sacred self time, we invite the visionary, creative mind to come forth.
I hope you find this episode inspires you to find some time this week to notice habitual thoughts looping and invite in a pause to see if you are nurturing the pathways that lead you where you want to go.
With love,
Annie
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