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Hello, welcome to Practically Magic. I'm excited
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today to be doing something a little bit different.
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We're going to do some crafting today. So while
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I'm talking about our subject, I'll show you
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some things that we're making and talk about
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the Wheel of the Year turned to the harvest season.
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We're going to start today's episode as we always
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do with pulling a card. And today I'm using the
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Everyday Witch Tarot. We're in my dining room.
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So if you think it looks a little different or
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you Hear some odd noises here and there just
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know we're in a different part of my house And
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that's why and that's what's gonna happen. Maybe
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we'll have guests joining us unexpectedly as
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we're here in the middle of the house the hearth
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the central part of the house So the tarot that
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we're going to pull today if you haven't been
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watching my show. I pull a card and we are going
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to trust that this card is just right for you.
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And the message that it gives you is just what
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you need today, no matter what time of year or
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when you happen upon this episode. All right.
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And I never know what the card is going to be
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ahead of time. Only a few times have we pulled
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a card ahead of time. So, oh. Okay, I have a
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couple of background stories to go with this
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card. So if you are watching on YouTube, you
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can see what the card looks like. This fantastic
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knight of cups riding a broom over shark -infested
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waters with his cup that is overflowing with
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heart bubbles. Do you know what this makes me
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think of? And I don't know if anyone else remembers
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this, but when I was a kid growing up, we used
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to listen to Dr. Laura. Yes, very conservative,
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AM radio. Dr. Laura, she wrote books like The
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Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands. You can
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go ahead and comment and write in on your thoughts
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about that. I will probably agree with you if
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you have anything to say about good old Dr. Laura.
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But what I do remember... from growing up is
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that Dr. Laura used to say something to women
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about choosing a husband or choosing a mate,
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choosing a person to be their person. And she
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used to say this thing. Microphone's like creeping
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away from me here. She used to say this thing
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where she say. Pick someone who would swim across
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shark -infested waters to bring you a lemonade.
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Like, that's how you know that they were really,
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truly a committed, loyal, loving person to be
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your person, right? And not bad advice. I mean,
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overall, find someone who's really that committed
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to you. But there's a shark in the water on this
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card. And I do think of the night of cups as
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grand gestures of love, grand gestures of emotional
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commitment. So I think that works perfectly.
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A lot of times when I'm doing card readings on
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a live TikTok, I get a lot of questions like,
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is so and so really into me? Is so and so going
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to come back to me? I also happen to be on forums
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with people who are just at the beginning stages
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of engaging with witchcraft and energy work and
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things like that. And they will say, oh my gosh,
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I did a love spell and I asked so and so to come
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back to me and blah, blah, blah, and this and
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that. This really represents those like red flags
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in a relationship. I feel like even if it's not
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a romantic relationship, if it's something that
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you are invested in emotionally in a relationship
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of any kind, this would be the card suggesting
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to you that if they're just not that into you,
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if the evidence supports that you are far more
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committed and willing and putting in the effort
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than they are, then that's something to be aware
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of, right? So pay attention to when they're giving
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those grand gestures towards something that shows
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that, yes, they are just as emotionally invested
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in this relationship that you have as you are.
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And then decide what you're going to do with
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that relationship accordingly, I guess, would
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be the message today. So what are we doing in
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my dining room today? Well, I thought it would
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be fun since when I'm recording this, we just
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had the weekend where August 1st, Saturday was
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Lunessa or La Masse or the mass. However, you
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prefer to pronounce it in all of the history
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and background and language and how that works.
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You can decide. But it is the harvest season,
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the first harvest season. So we talked a little
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bit about healing cycles when it comes to what
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it means when the wheel turns towards this time
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of year and what is it that we are focusing on.
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And we've had our dog days of summer, right?
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When Litha, summer solstice happened, we were
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kind of in a rest and see sort of sit back and
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watch, observe moment. This is the moment when,
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in the turning of the wheel of the year, in the
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alchemical cycles of transformation, you might
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have set a lot of stuff down for the summer and
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not taken it up, taken up the mantle of working
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on it, but it's now all very much in front of
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you, like it's laid out on the table, much like
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the table I have in front of me, which I'm going
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to show in just a minute. If you have all of
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this stuff that you've set down, you've said
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no to any new things for a minute to see what
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sort of things you want to pick back up, this
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is the time of sorting it out, right? A lot of
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times, reading tarot for this season, I might
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get a lot of sevens. Seven of pentacles is probably
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a great tarot card to associate with this feeling
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or this energy or this vibe of essentially Sort
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it out. What are you picking up? What are you
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going to invest your time and energy in? What
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lights your fire? And what needs to be set aside?
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You might love it all, but it doesn't mean it's
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all for you. So we're gonna be making bundles.
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I have some leaves that I foraged over the weekend.
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If you follow me on social media, you might have
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seen my Instagram. my TikTok at Prism Healing
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where I showed a video that my husband took of
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me. He caught a little video of me out in the,
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we were at Bridal Falls and here I was out there
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just like pulling Mullen out of the ground. You
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know what I noticed though, we're in a drought,
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we're in Utah and I noticed that the Mullen or
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Mullen, however you pronounce it, It's not as
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vibrant this year, which is good because Molina
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is invasive. We don't want it to spread. It was
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brought here by settlers like my own ancestors,
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and we don't want it to flower and spread. So
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I imagine if you live in a place like... Where
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I live, we're doing the environment as service
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by pulling all of that out of the ground before
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it flowers, before it spreads. So it's good and
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it also makes perfect big nice leaves for bundles
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that we're going to be making today. So I pulled
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a bunch of melon and the other thing is, is that
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it has nice big stalks with the flowers at the
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top and you pull those out and you pull all the
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leaves off and you hang the stalks upside down.
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They make great, which is torches, which I'll
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show you in a minute. So lots of great crafting
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can be done at this time of year. I'm laying
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out, I've already, ooh, look at this leaf is
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like double, doubled up. It's split in the middle.
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I don't think I've ever seen that. That's interesting.
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You'll have to be watching instead of listening
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if you want to see what that looks like. But
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mullein leaves, mullein leaves, they are very
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nice and full and they are... I found a couple
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of good ones, but a lot of them were dry and
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brittle already. So it was kind of hard to find
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ones that weren't eaten up by insects or dried
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out. Here's one that's not so pretty. It's holes
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in it. Now, we're making smudging bundles for
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smoke cleansing. However, I need to just reiterate
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that for me personally, it's important that when
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I engage with smoke cleansing, I try to be...
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honor more of what is... localized plants and
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herbs that are indigenous to my own homeland
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rather than something that is sacred to the indigenous
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people of this land of which I am not indigenous
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of. I try to engage with that appropriately instead
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of appropriating. I have been gifted and I have
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used white sage bundles. However, I use it very
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specifically for very specific purposes and aligned
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with what I'm given permission to use it for.
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I personally don't purchase them and use them.
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out of my own choice. So I do encourage you to
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kind of look at what would be appropriating a
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culture or a sacred practice that maybe your
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own ancestors didn't use, but we all do have
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a history in most cultures of some sort of smoke
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cleansing, smudging of some kind. Saning is what
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they call it in the Nordic. Nordic. Ancestry
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so I tend to call it that and today what herbs
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I have in association with that are going to
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be I collected some pine and juniper There is
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some white or I'm sorry not white white sage
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We were just talking about There is some Utah
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sage brush That's very prominent here that smells
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really good and can also be added to the bundles
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and burned. I would look into what that practice
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means because when I do home cleansings and I
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come and bring some smoke cleansing to use, I
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do not use it to clear the space. It purifies
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the air. It's got a lot of, you know, there's
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a lot of science back to how smoke cleansing
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can be beneficial to the space. However, culturally
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and spiritually, just using saging as a way of
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cleansing a space is inaccurate. And so I would
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do your research, look into it more, but I will
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give you just a little bit to... as a jumping
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off point to your learning about it, is that
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a lot of times it was used to call in ancestors.
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So it would be more used as a bringing in the
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positivity or bringing in the protection and
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the affirmations of what the space is going to
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be, more of like the blessing part of the cleansing
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process. So when I go through a home cleansing
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session and I've done a couple in person, I can
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do them from a distance. I can just do them where
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someone orders a home cleansing for their address.
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I can do it from where I am for their space.
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I don't necessarily have to be in the space to
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do it, which is the way energy work works. But...
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I've done a couple of really great home cleansing
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and I have a certain process that I go through.
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One of the things that I make sure I do is I
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use sound to cleanse, drumming, bells, rattles,
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certain items and tools that I feel are perfect
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for breaking up negative energy, residual energy,
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the previous owner's fingerprint, whatever that
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might be in the space and banishing it. you know,
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letting it move on and then sort of opening up
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the space like a vacuum to then welcome in new
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energy and new space and so that's when I use
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the smoke for cleansing or more for blessing
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and protecting and saying and calling in this
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space is for love, this space is for the new
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owners, blessing the space for them and preparing
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the space for them to use it. So I would look
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into how you want to actually use your smoke
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cleansing when it's appropriate and what sort
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of rituals you want to cultivate from that. But
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I have picked some pine and some lavender. Here's
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some lavender I got permission to clip from some
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nearby spaces in my neighborhood. I will say
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also, if you haven't seen my previous episodes
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about root and ritual, the book was very powerful
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in being able to open up some ideas on how to
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engage with plant life when you are going to
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be collecting and foraging. It is really, really
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important that you tap into intention with collecting.
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the herbs that you're going to use. Even with
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the pine, I didn't clip the pine directly from
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a tree. I did just take what was fallen already.
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All right, so let's get to it. We are going to
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take some of these mullein leaves and lay them
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out. Everything is still wet or moist. from picking
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them. These are really great to overlap with
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each other, and I'm putting it all on a brown
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paper. So I'm going to tilt the camera down just
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a bit so you can see the workspace that I'm working
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with. I'm going to overlap these leaves a little
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bit, a couple different kinds. And then the lavender
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smells really, really strong. And I had to wait
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until it was shady or evening before I picked
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from the lavender bushes because they have a
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lot of bees and other pollinating insects that
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love lavender bushes, which is great. Again,
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I only ask permission of the lavender bush. Can
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I pick some of these pieces? Pine is especially
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difficult because it's usually either takes a
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long time to dry or you're trying to like clip
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it from a tree and it usually is not going to
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be dried at all. Or these these pieces that are
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dried I got this from fallen bushes. It's gonna
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be you know Very crumbly essentially, but we're
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rolling it up like a burrito We're gonna let
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the mullin or mullane leaves Kind of wrap around
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and give like a really tight See because I have
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some of the little bits exposed I'm gonna grab
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a couple of leaves on the outside too And let
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them wrap around to keep them all bundled Nice
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and taint in there And then string, which I'm
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going to want to wrap around the leaves. And
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then I'm going to also make sure that they tie,
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leaving a little string to hang it with. Am I
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as good at talking and working as Martha Stewart
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does when she does her shows? Not so much. Not
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so much. As soon as I get going, I'm losing track
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of what I was saying. That's right. Can't all
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be good at everything, right? So I just go through
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making sure that these get tied with some string
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access left over so that I can hang it upside
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down. I just hang it in my art room, honestly.
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With all the bundles and my art paintings that
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are drying and then tie it so that these can
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hang and dry. Make sure you use string that can
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burn and not leave some kind of toxic feeling
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things in the air when you're burning it because
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essentially you will be burning after it's dried,
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if you're smudging. So I'm tying this at the
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ends, and then I'm going to leave some string
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to hang it so that it'll hang upside down. I
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can do it this way. And if I want it nice and
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pretty, I just cut the ends so that they are
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nice and tidy. I have a very colorful string.
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to use for these bundles today. Okay, so I could
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use the white sage. I could use the Utah sage
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brush. I could take the lavender. Whatever it
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is you're using, make sure that you actually
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can burn it when it's dried, right? That's the
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idea. I may or may not be able to get the camera
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back to where it was originally, but that's okay.
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We're just finishing up. Yeah, you may have little
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buggies. I just have ants to crush as they go
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along. Send outside. All right friends, so this
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is our art project today. We are doing a little
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bit of crafting, which is also perfect for the
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season for a Luna set is to harvest, to harvest
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what it was that we've been working on growing
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and cultivating throughout the year. And so whether
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that's physical plants that you have been cultivating
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and that you are doing something with at this
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time, remember what harvest seasons. were about
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to our Indigenous ancestors, to those that took
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the opportunity to come together from their various
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places where they farmed or where they lived.
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And it was time to kind of gather as a community.
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So you see a lot of county fairs at this time.
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It's a great opportunity to show off what you
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feel you've been working on and cultivating.
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So if it's in business or in relationship or
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in family or you know whatever it is that you
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feel like has been your area of focus and goals
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that you've had since the planting season. This
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is a really great time to give yourself a pat
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on the back. During this cycle and when the autumn
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equinox comes at the end of September it's sort
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of that end of summer You know feeling that we
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all get that fall is on the way shorter days
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are coming and We get to reach out and Connect
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again with our community. So if you felt a little
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out of out of place or Disconnected in some way
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either spiritually or from family or from you
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know, the earth. This is a great time to reconcile
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that difference basket weaving, crafting. It's
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what it's all about at this season. So lean into
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it, enjoy it. I am going to personally recommend
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that if you did not take the opportunity to slow
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down in the summer and at the height of summer
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when it was time to rest and set things aside
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and you didn't do that, You need to check in
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with yourself and ask if you are really feeling
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burned out if you're feeling like you just kept
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going and you burned the candle at both ends
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when you felt that Maybe you should have taken
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some time for yourself there is going to come
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a sort of I was gonna say come to Jesus, which
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is a strange thing for a pagan to say I understand
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but It is kind of like a come to Jesus moment
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where you are going to be confronted with the
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choices that you've made. If you feel that your
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body is wearing down, you're getting sick, you
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are getting resentful, angry, burned out, irritable,
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and you start feeling a lot of those things during
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this shift of the season, this is great awareness.
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By the way, I am saying this from personal experience
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that that is kind of what I did. I looked at
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my summer and I said, gosh, I really need to
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clear my schedule because I've got way too much
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going on. I am. As I've mentioned before on the
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podcast, a stay -at -home mom, essentially, I
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am the primary caregiver of my three boys and
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their home for summer. So the fact that I could
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think that I could, I don't know, run a business
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and a podcast and all of the million other things
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that I sign up for, thinking that I had the time
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and energy to do that during summer while being
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a full -time mom, full -time home, domestic home
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manager, whatever you want to call that, it's
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not realistic. truthfully. So I thought I was
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clearing my plate quite a bit. I was, you know,
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taking a lot of things that I was doing, obligations
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and commitments, and pulling back on all of them.
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And essentially what I did is I just, I piled
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more on. I ended up doing more this summer than
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I have ever done ever, and somehow was juggling
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all of the things at once. But then I got to
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the turn of the wheel of the year, Lunasa, August
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1st came, and I have been unwell, was to say.
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My body is showing signs of wearing down and
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feeling tired and having low energy, and it's
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time for me to actually be forced to pull back
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on a lot of stuff. and say, you gotta pick up
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what really matters and only spend the time and
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energy on those things. So if you feel that you're
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in that space right now during this cycle, you're
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not alone. We all are confronted with that. So
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if the kids are going back to school, if you
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are able to clear your plate just a little bit
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more, I recommend that you do. And I recommend
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that you let it all sit. sit in front of you
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on the table and decide what is really going
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to be important, what's going to matter. And
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reach out to your community if you can. Speaking
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of community, as we wrap up today's episode,
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don't forget that we have currently active and
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live right now the Practical Magic 2 tickets
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are available to win. Go to Ride the Wave Media.
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specific spots where we had worked or where we
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have friends and those tickets are hidden all
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over the local area. On September 10th, we are
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going to be watching an early screening of Practical
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Magic 2 together with my witchiest witch friends.
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So please go get those tickets so you can come
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event happening this year for witches than practical
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magic 2 coming out. I'm so excited So please
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go get your tickets We have 10 pairs free that
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we are giving away and you can come with us.
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This is their event Aurora's enchanted apothecary
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their client appreciation event they rented out
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the theater for this screening and we get to
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tag along so go to ride the wave media you have
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to subscribe to this podcast and submit your
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email so that we can give you the map if you're
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in the salt lake south jordan area there is a
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map of where the 10 pairs of tickets are located
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it is so much fun to go hide them in special
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locations that are connected to this podcast
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and parallel frequencies. We chose very specific
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spots where we had worked or where we have friends
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and those tickets are hidden all over the local
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area. On September 10th, we are going to be watching
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an early screening of Practical Magic 2 together
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with my witchiest witch friends. So please go
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get those tickets so you can come join us and
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see the movie with us. No greater event happening
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this year for witches than Practical Magic 2
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coming out. I'm so excited. So please go get
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your tickets. We have 10 pairs free that we are
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giving away and you can come with us.
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Hello, welcome to Practically Magic. I'm excited
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today to be doing something a little bit different.
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We're going to do some crafting today. So while
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I'm talking about our subject, I'll show you
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some things that we're making and talk about
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the Wheel of the Year turned to the harvest season.
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We're going to start today's episode as we always
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do with pulling a card. And today I'm using the
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Everyday Witch Tarot. We're in my dining room.
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So if you think it looks a little different or
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you Hear some odd noises here and there just
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know we're in a different part of my house And
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that's why and that's what's gonna happen. Maybe
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we'll have guests joining us unexpectedly as
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we're here in the middle of the house the hearth
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the central part of the house So the tarot that
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we're going to pull today if you haven't been
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watching my show. I pull a card and we are going
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to trust that this card is just right for you.
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And the message that it gives you is just what
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you need today, no matter what time of year or
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when you happen upon this episode. All right.
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And I never know what the card is going to be
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ahead of time. Only a few times have we pulled
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a card ahead of time. So, oh. Okay, I have a
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couple of background stories to go with this
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card. So if you are watching on YouTube, you
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can see what the card looks like. This fantastic
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knight of cups riding a broom over shark -infested
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waters with his cup that is overflowing with
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heart bubbles. Do you know what this makes me
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think of? And I don't know if anyone else remembers
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this, but when I was a kid growing up, we used
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to listen to Dr. Laura. Yes, very conservative,
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AM radio. Dr. Laura, she wrote books like The
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Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands. You can
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go ahead and comment and write in on your thoughts
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about that. I will probably agree with you if
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you have anything to say about good old Dr. Laura.
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But what I do remember... from growing up is
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that Dr. Laura used to say something to women
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about choosing a husband or choosing a mate,
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choosing a person to be their person. And she
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used to say this thing. Microphone's like creeping
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away from me here. She used to say this thing
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where she say. Pick someone who would swim across
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shark -infested waters to bring you a lemonade.
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Like, that's how you know that they were really,
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truly a committed, loyal, loving person to be
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your person, right? And not bad advice. I mean,
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overall, find someone who's really that committed
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to you. But there's a shark in the water on this
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card. And I do think of the night of cups as
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grand gestures of love, grand gestures of emotional
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commitment. So I think that works perfectly.
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A lot of times when I'm doing card readings on
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a live TikTok, I get a lot of questions like,
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is so and so really into me? Is so and so going
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to come back to me? I also happen to be on forums
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with people who are just at the beginning stages
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of engaging with witchcraft and energy work and
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things like that. And they will say, oh my gosh,
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I did a love spell and I asked so and so to come
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back to me and blah, blah, blah, and this and
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that. This really represents those like red flags
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in a relationship. I feel like even if it's not
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a romantic relationship, if it's something that
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you are invested in emotionally in a relationship
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of any kind, this would be the card suggesting
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to you that if they're just not that into you,
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if the evidence supports that you are far more
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committed and willing and putting in the effort
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than they are, then that's something to be aware
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of, right? So pay attention to when they're giving
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those grand gestures towards something that shows
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that, yes, they are just as emotionally invested
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in this relationship that you have as you are.
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And then decide what you're going to do with
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that relationship accordingly, I guess, would
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be the message today. So what are we doing in
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my dining room today? Well, I thought it would
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be fun since when I'm recording this, we just
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had the weekend where August 1st, Saturday was
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Lunessa or La Masse or the mass. However, you
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prefer to pronounce it in all of the history
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and background and language and how that works.
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You can decide. But it is the harvest season,
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the first harvest season. So we talked a little
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bit about healing cycles when it comes to what
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it means when the wheel turns towards this time
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of year and what is it that we are focusing on.
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And we've had our dog days of summer, right?
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When Litha, summer solstice happened, we were
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kind of in a rest and see sort of sit back and
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watch, observe moment. This is the moment when,
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in the turning of the wheel of the year, in the
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alchemical cycles of transformation, you might
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have set a lot of stuff down for the summer and
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not taken it up, taken up the mantle of working
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on it, but it's now all very much in front of
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you, like it's laid out on the table, much like
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the table I have in front of me, which I'm going
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to show in just a minute. If you have all of
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this stuff that you've set down, you've said
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no to any new things for a minute to see what
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sort of things you want to pick back up, this
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is the time of sorting it out, right? A lot of
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times, reading tarot for this season, I might
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get a lot of sevens. Seven of pentacles is probably
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a great tarot card to associate with this feeling
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or this energy or this vibe of essentially Sort
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it out. What are you picking up? What are you
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going to invest your time and energy in? What
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lights your fire? And what needs to be set aside?
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You might love it all, but it doesn't mean it's
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all for you. So we're gonna be making bundles.
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I have some leaves that I foraged over the weekend.
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If you follow me on social media, you might have
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seen my Instagram. my TikTok at Prism Healing
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where I showed a video that my husband took of
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me. He caught a little video of me out in the,
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we were at Bridal Falls and here I was out there
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just like pulling Mullen out of the ground. You
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know what I noticed though, we're in a drought,
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we're in Utah and I noticed that the Mullen or
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Mullen, however you pronounce it, It's not as
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vibrant this year, which is good because Molina
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is invasive. We don't want it to spread. It was
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brought here by settlers like my own ancestors,
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and we don't want it to flower and spread. So
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I imagine if you live in a place like... Where
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I live, we're doing the environment as service
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by pulling all of that out of the ground before
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it flowers, before it spreads. So it's good and
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it also makes perfect big nice leaves for bundles
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that we're going to be making today. So I pulled
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a bunch of melon and the other thing is, is that
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it has nice big stalks with the flowers at the
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top and you pull those out and you pull all the
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leaves off and you hang the stalks upside down.
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They make great, which is torches, which I'll
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show you in a minute. So lots of great crafting
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can be done at this time of year. I'm laying
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out, I've already, ooh, look at this leaf is
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like double, doubled up. It's split in the middle.
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I don't think I've ever seen that. That's interesting.
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You'll have to be watching instead of listening
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if you want to see what that looks like. But
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mullein leaves, mullein leaves, they are very
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nice and full and they are... I found a couple
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of good ones, but a lot of them were dry and
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brittle already. So it was kind of hard to find
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ones that weren't eaten up by insects or dried
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out. Here's one that's not so pretty. It's holes
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in it. Now, we're making smudging bundles for
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smoke cleansing. However, I need to just reiterate
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that for me personally, it's important that when
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I engage with smoke cleansing, I try to be...
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honor more of what is... localized plants and
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herbs that are indigenous to my own homeland
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rather than something that is sacred to the indigenous
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people of this land of which I am not indigenous
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of. I try to engage with that appropriately instead
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of appropriating. I have been gifted and I have
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used white sage bundles. However, I use it very
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specifically for very specific purposes and aligned
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with what I'm given permission to use it for.
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I personally don't purchase them and use them.
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out of my own choice. So I do encourage you to
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kind of look at what would be appropriating a
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culture or a sacred practice that maybe your
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own ancestors didn't use, but we all do have
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a history in most cultures of some sort of smoke
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cleansing, smudging of some kind. Saning is what
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they call it in the Nordic. Nordic. Ancestry
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so I tend to call it that and today what herbs
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I have in association with that are going to
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be I collected some pine and juniper There is
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some white or I'm sorry not white white sage
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We were just talking about There is some Utah
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sage brush That's very prominent here that smells
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really good and can also be added to the bundles
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and burned. I would look into what that practice
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means because when I do home cleansings and I
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come and bring some smoke cleansing to use, I
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do not use it to clear the space. It purifies
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the air. It's got a lot of, you know, there's
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a lot of science back to how smoke cleansing
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can be beneficial to the space. However, culturally
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and spiritually, just using saging as a way of
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cleansing a space is inaccurate. And so I would
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do your research, look into it more, but I will
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give you just a little bit to... as a jumping
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off point to your learning about it, is that
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a lot of times it was used to call in ancestors.
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So it would be more used as a bringing in the
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positivity or bringing in the protection and
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the affirmations of what the space is going to
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be, more of like the blessing part of the cleansing
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process. So when I go through a home cleansing
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session and I've done a couple in person, I can
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do them from a distance. I can just do them where
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someone orders a home cleansing for their address.
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I can do it from where I am for their space.
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I don't necessarily have to be in the space to
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do it, which is the way energy work works. But...
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I've done a couple of really great home cleansing
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and I have a certain process that I go through.
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One of the things that I make sure I do is I
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use sound to cleanse, drumming, bells, rattles,
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certain items and tools that I feel are perfect
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for breaking up negative energy, residual energy,
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the previous owner's fingerprint, whatever that
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might be in the space and banishing it. you know,
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letting it move on and then sort of opening up
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the space like a vacuum to then welcome in new
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energy and new space and so that's when I use
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the smoke for cleansing or more for blessing
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and protecting and saying and calling in this
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space is for love, this space is for the new
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owners, blessing the space for them and preparing
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the space for them to use it. So I would look
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into how you want to actually use your smoke
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cleansing when it's appropriate and what sort
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of rituals you want to cultivate from that. But
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I have picked some pine and some lavender. Here's
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some lavender I got permission to clip from some
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nearby spaces in my neighborhood. I will say
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also, if you haven't seen my previous episodes
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about root and ritual, the book was very powerful
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in being able to open up some ideas on how to
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engage with plant life when you are going to
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be collecting and foraging. It is really, really
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important that you tap into intention with collecting.
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the herbs that you're going to use. Even with
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the pine, I didn't clip the pine directly from
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a tree. I did just take what was fallen already.
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All right, so let's get to it. We are going to
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take some of these mullein leaves and lay them
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out. Everything is still wet or moist. from picking
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them. These are really great to overlap with
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each other, and I'm putting it all on a brown
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paper. So I'm going to tilt the camera down just
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a bit so you can see the workspace that I'm working
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with. I'm going to overlap these leaves a little
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bit, a couple different kinds. And then the lavender
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smells really, really strong. And I had to wait
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until it was shady or evening before I picked
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from the lavender bushes because they have a
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lot of bees and other pollinating insects that
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love lavender bushes, which is great. Again,
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I only ask permission of the lavender bush. Can
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I pick some of these pieces? Pine is especially
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difficult because it's usually either takes a
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long time to dry or you're trying to like clip
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it from a tree and it usually is not going to
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be dried at all. Or these these pieces that are
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dried I got this from fallen bushes. It's gonna
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be you know Very crumbly essentially, but we're
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rolling it up like a burrito We're gonna let
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the mullin or mullane leaves Kind of wrap around
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and give like a really tight See because I have
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some of the little bits exposed I'm gonna grab
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a couple of leaves on the outside too And let
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them wrap around to keep them all bundled Nice
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and taint in there And then string, which I'm
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going to want to wrap around the leaves. And
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then I'm going to also make sure that they tie,
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leaving a little string to hang it with. Am I
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as good at talking and working as Martha Stewart
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does when she does her shows? Not so much. Not
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so much. As soon as I get going, I'm losing track
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of what I was saying. That's right. Can't all
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be good at everything, right? So I just go through
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making sure that these get tied with some string
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access left over so that I can hang it upside
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down. I just hang it in my art room, honestly.
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With all the bundles and my art paintings that
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are drying and then tie it so that these can
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hang and dry. Make sure you use string that can
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burn and not leave some kind of toxic feeling
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things in the air when you're burning it because
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essentially you will be burning after it's dried,
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if you're smudging. So I'm tying this at the
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ends, and then I'm going to leave some string
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to hang it so that it'll hang upside down. I
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can do it this way. And if I want it nice and
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pretty, I just cut the ends so that they are
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nice and tidy. I have a very colorful string.
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to use for these bundles today. Okay, so I could
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use the white sage. I could use the Utah sage
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brush. I could take the lavender. Whatever it
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is you're using, make sure that you actually
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can burn it when it's dried, right? That's the
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idea. I may or may not be able to get the camera
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back to where it was originally, but that's okay.
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We're just finishing up. Yeah, you may have little
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buggies. I just have ants to crush as they go
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along. Send outside. All right friends, so this
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is our art project today. We are doing a little
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bit of crafting, which is also perfect for the
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season for a Luna set is to harvest, to harvest
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what it was that we've been working on growing
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and cultivating throughout the year. And so whether
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that's physical plants that you have been cultivating
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and that you are doing something with at this
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time, remember what harvest seasons. were about
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to our Indigenous ancestors, to those that took
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the opportunity to come together from their various
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places where they farmed or where they lived.
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And it was time to kind of gather as a community.
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So you see a lot of county fairs at this time.
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It's a great opportunity to show off what you
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feel you've been working on and cultivating.
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So if it's in business or in relationship or
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in family or you know whatever it is that you
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feel like has been your area of focus and goals
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that you've had since the planting season. This
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is a really great time to give yourself a pat
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on the back. During this cycle and when the autumn
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equinox comes at the end of September it's sort
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of that end of summer You know feeling that we
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all get that fall is on the way shorter days
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are coming and We get to reach out and Connect
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again with our community. So if you felt a little
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out of out of place or Disconnected in some way
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either spiritually or from family or from you
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know, the earth. This is a great time to reconcile
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that difference basket weaving, crafting. It's
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what it's all about at this season. So lean into
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it, enjoy it. I am going to personally recommend
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that if you did not take the opportunity to slow
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down in the summer and at the height of summer
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when it was time to rest and set things aside
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and you didn't do that, You need to check in
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with yourself and ask if you are really feeling
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burned out if you're feeling like you just kept
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going and you burned the candle at both ends
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when you felt that Maybe you should have taken
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some time for yourself there is going to come
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a sort of I was gonna say come to Jesus, which
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is a strange thing for a pagan to say I understand
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but It is kind of like a come to Jesus moment
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where you are going to be confronted with the
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choices that you've made. If you feel that your
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body is wearing down, you're getting sick, you
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are getting resentful, angry, burned out, irritable,
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and you start feeling a lot of those things during
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this shift of the season, this is great awareness.
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By the way, I am saying this from personal experience
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that that is kind of what I did. I looked at
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my summer and I said, gosh, I really need to
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clear my schedule because I've got way too much
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going on. I am. As I've mentioned before on the
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podcast, a stay -at -home mom, essentially, I
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am the primary caregiver of my three boys and
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their home for summer. So the fact that I could
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think that I could, I don't know, run a business
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and a podcast and all of the million other things
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that I sign up for, thinking that I had the time
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and energy to do that during summer while being
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a full -time mom, full -time home, domestic home
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manager, whatever you want to call that, it's
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not realistic. truthfully. So I thought I was
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clearing my plate quite a bit. I was, you know,
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taking a lot of things that I was doing, obligations
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and commitments, and pulling back on all of them.
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And essentially what I did is I just, I piled
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more on. I ended up doing more this summer than
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I have ever done ever, and somehow was juggling
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all of the things at once. But then I got to
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the turn of the wheel of the year, Lunasa, August
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1st came, and I have been unwell, was to say.
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My body is showing signs of wearing down and
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feeling tired and having low energy, and it's
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time for me to actually be forced to pull back
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on a lot of stuff. and say, you gotta pick up
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what really matters and only spend the time and
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energy on those things. So if you feel that you're
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in that space right now during this cycle, you're
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not alone. We all are confronted with that. So
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if the kids are going back to school, if you
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are able to clear your plate just a little bit
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more, I recommend that you do. And I recommend
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that you let it all sit. sit in front of you
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on the table and decide what is really going
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to be important, what's going to matter. And
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reach out to your community if you can. Speaking
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of community, as we wrap up today's episode,
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don't forget that we have currently active and
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live right now the Practical Magic 2 tickets
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are available to win. Go to Ride the Wave Media.
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You have to subscribe to this podcast and submit.
00:25:51.519 --> 00:25:56.180
your email so that we can give you the map. If
00:25:56.180 --> 00:25:59.000
you're in the Salt Lake South Jordan area, there
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is a map of where the 10 pairs of tickets are
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located. It is so much fun to go hide them in
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special locations that are connected to this
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podcast and parallel frequencies. We chose very
00:26:15.950 --> 00:26:19.690
specific spots where we had worked or where we
00:26:19.690 --> 00:26:24.890
have friends and those tickets are hidden all
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over the local area. On September 10th, we are
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going to be watching an early screening of Practical
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Magic 2 together with my witchiest witch friends.
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So please go get those tickets so you can come
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join us and see the movie with us. No greater
00:26:41.890 --> 00:26:44.869
event happening this year for witches than practical
00:26:44.869 --> 00:26:48.509
magic 2 coming out. I'm so excited So please
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go get your tickets We have 10 pairs free that
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we are giving away and you can come with us.
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We're gonna see it with light and love Reiki
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This is their event Aurora's enchanted apothecary
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their client appreciation event they rented out
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the theater for this screening and we get to
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tag along so go to ride the wave media you have
00:27:13.779 --> 00:27:17.500
to subscribe to this podcast and submit your
00:27:17.500 --> 00:27:21.980
email so that we can give you the map if you're
00:27:21.980 --> 00:27:25.000
in the salt lake south jordan area there is a
00:27:25.000 --> 00:27:29.160
map of where the 10 pairs of tickets are located
00:27:29.160 --> 00:27:32.660
it is so much fun to go hide them in special
00:27:32.660 --> 00:27:36.130
locations that are connected to this podcast
00:27:36.130 --> 00:27:39.369
and parallel frequencies. We chose very specific
00:27:39.369 --> 00:27:42.849
spots where we had worked or where we have friends
00:27:42.849 --> 00:27:45.910
and those tickets are hidden all over the local
00:27:45.910 --> 00:27:49.250
area. On September 10th, we are going to be watching
00:27:49.250 --> 00:27:52.049
an early screening of Practical Magic 2 together
00:27:52.049 --> 00:27:55.210
with my witchiest witch friends. So please go
00:27:55.210 --> 00:27:57.710
get those tickets so you can come join us and
00:27:57.710 --> 00:28:01.769
see the movie with us. No greater event happening
00:28:01.769 --> 00:28:04.730
this year for witches than Practical Magic 2
00:28:04.730 --> 00:28:08.069
coming out. I'm so excited. So please go get
00:28:08.069 --> 00:28:12.690
your tickets. We have 10 pairs free that we are
00:28:12.690 --> 00:28:14.450
giving away and you can come with us.
