Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Psychic Teachers. I'm your host Samantha Fay,
Speaker 1: and I'm Deb Bowie, and today we've got a lot
Speaker 1: of great stories and some really really interesting questions. Devin,
Speaker 1: I've got to be honest, I'm not sure I have
Speaker 1: insider answers for all of them.
Speaker 2: No, we never do. But you know, over the years,
Speaker 2: as we have done this Q and A so that
Speaker 2: I have learned to trust what comes up as we're talking,
Speaker 2: and we hope it's.
Speaker 1: Helpful exactly all right, So, given that calveat do you
Speaker 1: want to start us off?
Speaker 2: I'm happy to okay. Our first question says my favorite
Speaker 2: episodes are when the warmth of your wisdom and connection
Speaker 2: come through your off script reflections. I love to hear
Speaker 2: you talk about what you're reading, what you noticed on
Speaker 2: your walks, what cards came up for you on your
Speaker 2: daily pools. It's also fun to hear how humanly psychic
Speaker 2: you are in such experiences as being startled by visits
Speaker 2: from deceased parents. Yep, I really hope you bring more
Speaker 2: of these reflective episodes back. Thank you for that. We've
Speaker 2: got a lot of comments about that. I'm halfway through
Speaker 2: the episode and have paused because I want to put
Speaker 2: in a request for an episode based on Deb's describing
Speaker 2: how she got the Five of Pentacles quite a bit
Speaker 2: in her daily draw recently. I'd love an episode with
Speaker 2: perspective on some of the challenging cards in the terureau,
Speaker 2: the quote bummer cards, exploring the dimension and wisdom there.
Speaker 2: I'd also love to have more shows that were rich
Speaker 2: and reflections about spiritual concepts or challenges like attachment, etc.
Speaker 2: Just a thought or on developing a quote practice. Well, okay, Samarica, look.
Speaker 1: You want to share why you're gloating right now?
Speaker 2: Well, I want to share because here's the rest of
Speaker 2: our year planned out for us. These are joking aside it.
Speaker 2: I'm grateful for these kinds of suggestions and questions.
Speaker 1: Well, you're grateful because you're always pushing for more of that,
Speaker 1: and I'm always like, but we're teachers, so we need
Speaker 1: to teach.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know that is here.
Speaker 1: You are proven correct.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm just saying that. You know that is a
Speaker 2: running theme in my life right now. Is my collaborations
Speaker 2: with you and with Zarah and with Claire, and my
Speaker 2: idea of teaching is to ask questions and to provoke thought,
Speaker 2: and a didactic part of answers is not so much
Speaker 2: the way I do things, and I'm aware of that. Whoever,
Speaker 2: given this person's questions and comments, I do want to
Speaker 2: come back and talk about the notion of patterns in
Speaker 2: to row pulls, for example, daily card pulls, or the
Speaker 2: idea of quote boomer cards. I don't believe in that
Speaker 2: concept of Boomer cards. Yes, indeed, there are certainly aspects
Speaker 2: of certain keys in to row that make us think
Speaker 2: and invite us to look at challenges that we may
Speaker 2: be facing. I'm not implying that this is what the
Speaker 2: person said, but one of the things when I teach
Speaker 2: a course, invariably an intercourse particularly, somebody will say, oh,
Speaker 2: I'm really scared of the devil card, for example, because
Speaker 2: I think the devil's evil. Okay, let's talk about that,
Speaker 2: because there really aren't any evil keys in the deck.
Speaker 2: The five of pentacles that this person is referring to
Speaker 2: is indeed for the I don't know, maybe six weeks
Speaker 2: where I was doing doing this almost daily. I missed
Speaker 2: a few days along the way, but for a while
Speaker 2: there then I did an assessment of what I had
Speaker 2: come up every day. Yes, there were a lot of
Speaker 2: five of pentacles, a lot of fives of wands too, actually,
Speaker 2: so I knew that I was in a period of
Speaker 2: challenges of unsettled decision making that needed to be going
Speaker 2: on during that period. So I took that information of
Speaker 2: the repetitiveness of the fives as a suggestion to me
Speaker 2: to pay attention to come up with some answers or
Speaker 2: solutions for me that would work for how I might
Speaker 2: deal with it is seemingly chaotic or unclear, and so
Speaker 2: it was a gift. I saw those as a gift,
Speaker 2: not as a bummer or a bad challenge in any way.
Speaker 2: And also when we talk about dimensions and wisdom and
Speaker 2: reflections on spiritual concepts and challenges, I love that kind
Speaker 2: of conversation. And what does it mean to develop a practice?
Speaker 2: You and I both have a practice? Could we articulate
Speaker 2: it clearly to someone else? I don't know, but I
Speaker 2: think that would be an interesting thing to attempt to do.
Speaker 2: So I'm really grieful anse suggestions.
Speaker 1: Yeah, these are great suggestions. We'll definitely make a note.
Speaker 2: Good, Okay, thank you.
Speaker 1: Y Our Nextwood says, I would love your insights into
Speaker 1: some experiences I had the first experience happened when I
Speaker 1: was in my early twenties. It was a cold, frosty
Speaker 1: night and I was letting my dog outside at my
Speaker 1: parents' house. I suddenly began seeing these colorful, almost twinkly
Speaker 1: lights all around me. My dog, who was older and
Speaker 1: had a bad hip, got very excited, wagging his tail
Speaker 1: and trying to jump up on his hind legs. I
Speaker 1: was so disoriented trying to figure out what I was seeing.
Speaker 1: I was spitting all around as my dog was hopping
Speaker 1: in every direction, wrapping my legs up in his leash.
Speaker 1: I thought maybe frosty tree branches were catching the light
Speaker 1: from Christmas decorations nearby, but there wasn't anything close enough
Speaker 1: to have that effect. I was overcome with this peaceful,
Speaker 1: comforting feeling, almost like I was being sedated. That's the
Speaker 1: best way I can describe it. These lights were accompanied
Speaker 1: by a sort of sound I had never heard before,
Speaker 1: and genuinely, I'm not sure how to explain it. The
Speaker 1: closest sounds to compare it to would be bells or
Speaker 1: chimes with frequencies or tones I was not familiar with.
Speaker 1: It felt like these lights had a conscious awareness, like
Speaker 1: they were almost dancing and interacting playfully with me, like
Speaker 1: they really wanted to make their presence known. I went
Speaker 1: inside and immediately told my mom, who knows I'm prone
Speaker 1: to quote interesting experiences, and her first response was jokingly
Speaker 1: asking if I was under the influence of anything. For
Speaker 1: the record, I was completely sober. A couple of years
Speaker 1: passed before I heard these tones and frequencies again. I
Speaker 1: was now married and living in a different state with
Speaker 1: my husband. He's in the military, and at the time
Speaker 1: we were living on base. I woke up one night
Speaker 1: feeling a presence in our room with these sounds playing
Speaker 1: directly into my ear. There were no lights accompanying the
Speaker 1: sound this time. Although the sound was unmistakable, this time,
Speaker 1: it sounded more electronic, something like a synthesizer. I was
Speaker 1: trying to rationalize it, thinking it surely must be some
Speaker 1: sort of test on the loud speakers throughout the base.
Speaker 1: I got out of bed, opened the window, and there
Speaker 1: was no sound outside. I was once again overcome with
Speaker 1: the same calm, peaceful feeling. We only lived in that
Speaker 1: house for a year, and I had this experience on
Speaker 1: two separate occasions while living there. The fourth time it
Speaker 1: happened we were stationed overseas in England and my husband
Speaker 1: was deployed in the Middle East. It was the lonely
Speaker 1: and stressful time in both of our lives. I had
Speaker 1: very minimal contact with him and was isolated from all
Speaker 1: our friends and family back home. I would let my
Speaker 1: dogs sleep in bed with me most nights. This was
Speaker 1: a different dog than the one with me during my
Speaker 1: first encounter. One night, I woke up in my nearly
Speaker 1: pitch black bedroom, and when I opened my eyes, I
Speaker 1: saw bright, colorful orbs in the upper left hand corner
Speaker 1: of my bedroom, toward the foot of my bed. They
Speaker 1: were mesmerizing, and I could see them clear as day.
Speaker 1: At this time, my dog noticed them as well, and
Speaker 1: was sitting at attention, slightly growling and whining, unsure what
Speaker 1: to do, almost as if to say, what are you?
Speaker 1: Don't get too close to my girl. I was overcome
Speaker 1: again with that same calm feeling, and I told him
Speaker 1: it was okay. As I pat him, neither one of
Speaker 1: us could look away. Soon my room returned to darkness,
Speaker 1: but I was no longer afraid as I had been
Speaker 1: the previous nights. Whoever or whatever visited my room that
Speaker 1: night reassured me that I wasn't alone and I was
Speaker 1: protected in some way. About a year ago, I stumbled
Speaker 1: across a video online about different angel visitations, and one
Speaker 1: example described my experiences perfectly. I previously mentioned these experiences
Speaker 1: to a medium. I was told it was a deceased
Speaker 1: relative visiting me. I have had very distinct visitation dreams before,
Speaker 1: as well as clear signs in my waking life from
Speaker 1: loved ones who have crossed over, and these experiences felt
Speaker 1: much different. Although I won't dismiss the option that these
Speaker 1: lights and sounds were a loved one, these experiences just
Speaker 1: don't really feel human in that way, so I'm not certain.
Speaker 1: I would love to hear your thoughts. Does that sound
Speaker 1: angelic to you or something else entirely well? To me,
Speaker 1: this definitely sounds angelic, and I do not mean to
Speaker 1: disagree with the medium you spoke to, But in my experience,
Speaker 1: when our loved ones pop in like that, it's usually
Speaker 1: a bright light, almost like a camera flash, whereas when
Speaker 1: our angels visit the orb the flash of color. The
Speaker 1: orbs of color do tend to be either golden or pink,
Speaker 1: or blues or purples. And then the fact that it's
Speaker 1: accompanied by what to me sounds like heavenly music. Is
Speaker 1: another tell that it's very angelic, and I would love
Speaker 1: for you to reflect on what was going on in
Speaker 1: your life when these experiences happened. I mean, obviously the
Speaker 1: one in England happened to help you remember and realize
Speaker 1: you're not alone, you're protected, you're safe, you are loved.
Speaker 1: But I wonder if you thought about things going on
Speaker 1: in your life right before, during, or after you had
Speaker 1: those experiences, was it also a message of you're not
Speaker 1: alone or we're with you. Sometimes I'll get something similar
Speaker 1: like that when I'm either going through a difficult time
Speaker 1: or even better, when something really good is around the corner.
Speaker 1: It's almost like the angels get excited and they're like
Speaker 1: heads up, something good's coming. So I just think it'd
Speaker 1: be interesting for you to reflect on that. But to me,
Speaker 1: this definitely sounds angelic.
Speaker 2: Do you agree? I'm no angel expert, but I will
Speaker 2: certainly trust your stakes here, so yes, I would say so.
Speaker 1: Well, I just know I've had experiences like this. I
Speaker 1: haven't had the music accompanied by the flashing orbs of colors,
Speaker 1: but I have seen the different colored lights and when
Speaker 1: I will do mediumship readings, especially so like if a
Speaker 1: loved one spent a lot of time in a hospital
Speaker 1: towards the end of their life, I will often ask
Speaker 1: them to show me that period of time, because that's
Speaker 1: when I'll get a lot of good validations about who
Speaker 1: was able to be there and say goodbye and that
Speaker 1: type of thing. And when I'm trying to focus on that,
Speaker 1: I can't tell you how many times I've seen through
Speaker 1: that deceased loved one's memories those colored orbs in a
Speaker 1: corner of the hospital room. And so I'll test that
Speaker 1: and I'll say to the client, oh, gosh, when your
Speaker 1: mom was in the hospital towards the end, and she
Speaker 1: always look up to the top right or was she
Speaker 1: always looking in the corner over here? And so I
Speaker 1: think it's just another validation that our angels are with
Speaker 1: us and in that liminal time, either when we're in
Speaker 1: bed or when we're in the actual liminal space between
Speaker 1: living and crossing over, it's very easy for our angels
Speaker 1: to reach out to us.
Speaker 2: I think that makes sense to me. Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 2: I love that.
Speaker 1: Thank you for sharing those experiences.
Speaker 2: Okay, the next one says, I have a question for
Speaker 2: you about reading to row at an event or festival.
Speaker 2: When you're doing multiple readings in a row for different people,
Speaker 2: what do you do to cleanse your deck and keep
Speaker 2: the energy fresh from reading to reading? Also, do you
Speaker 2: have a specific deck that you use for those situations
Speaker 2: and do you find you need to really cleanse your
Speaker 2: energy after the event is over? Yes, yes, yes, and yes.
Speaker 2: Let me explain. When you're doing back to back readings
Speaker 2: in a situation like that, the easiest way to shift
Speaker 2: the energy from one reading to another for your deck
Speaker 2: itself is to hold it in one hand and with
Speaker 2: your fingers of the other hand, tap the deck three times.
Speaker 2: I've been doing that for years. It seems to work.
Speaker 2: Why three times, I don't know. It just seems like
Speaker 2: the right number to me. But basically, what I'm doing,
Speaker 2: the physical act of tapping the deck that way is
Speaker 2: a symbol of how I am metaphorically, well, actually it's
Speaker 2: not metaphorically, shooting the energy from the previous reading out
Speaker 2: of the deck and to be taken up into the atmosphere.
Speaker 2: The other thing I always do is shuffle three times
Speaker 2: between each reading, so the cards get shuffled, the deck
Speaker 2: gets shuffled, and the tapping happens between readings like that.
Speaker 2: I also take a deep breath and just hold the
Speaker 2: cards in my hand for a minute and just ask
Speaker 2: that I also be cleared so that I am ready
Speaker 2: and receptive for the next person and the work that
Speaker 2: I'm going to do with them. So it's about both
Speaker 2: the cards and me and whatever I have on my table.
Speaker 2: And this is entirely up to you. But for years
Speaker 2: when I would do festival kind of readings, I always
Speaker 2: have representative items on the table of the four directions
Speaker 2: and spirit, so I would often have a candle, a feather,
Speaker 2: a seashell, and I've always done this a piece of
Speaker 2: termalated quartz because the clear courts helps with receptivity, and
Speaker 2: the termaline access a barrier and a protection and a shield.
Speaker 2: And that's just my choice. There's no right or wrong
Speaker 2: to that anyway, but that's just what has always worked
Speaker 2: for me. The other thing you can do is ring
Speaker 2: a bell. You can change the vibration in the space
Speaker 2: physical space around you. Just ring a bell one time
Speaker 2: or clap your hands. Anything that shifts energy will clear
Speaker 2: the way for the next reading. So you can try
Speaker 2: any of those if you'd like. Yes, I have a
Speaker 2: deck that has for almost fifty years been the deck
Speaker 2: that I read from for other people and work from
Speaker 2: actually for myself as well, And it is my very old,
Speaker 2: very battered, very worn Waite Smith deck. I have a
Speaker 2: lot of other decks. I use them for other things,
Speaker 2: but that is the deck that I read for other
Speaker 2: people with. And absolutely, you walk in the house and
Speaker 2: you put those clothes that you've had on in the
Speaker 2: laundry room, and you take a shower, and when you
Speaker 2: do that, I do a chakra balancing exercise in the shower.
Speaker 2: I do that actually every morning. But particularly if you've
Speaker 2: been in a place where you've been absorbing a lot
Speaker 2: of people's energy, and not about negative energy necessarily, just
Speaker 2: about absorbing the energy and the connection that it takes
Speaker 2: to do this kind of work. Clear that away. You
Speaker 2: might want to smug yourself as well with whatever kind
Speaker 2: of local herb you work with, so you might want
Speaker 2: to do that. Incense works as well, so whatever. But yes,
Speaker 2: set those delineations between readings, and to take care of
Speaker 2: yourself when it's all over as well, and your deck.
Speaker 2: I'd certainly put that deck out in maybe in a
Speaker 2: bowl of rice for example, or out in the moonlight
Speaker 2: or something, or the sunlight if it's not direct sunlight,
Speaker 2: but in some way to give the deck a break,
Speaker 2: and to recharge the deck as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, those are all great suggestions. I think it's like
Speaker 1: you said, it's about intention and what you feel is
Speaker 1: clearing and cleansing and resetting for you. The only thing
Speaker 1: I would add is, I know when I do readings,
Speaker 1: I always need a pen and paper next to me,
Speaker 1: and I will write the person's name down, or I'll
Speaker 1: just write images or symbols that are coming to mind,
Speaker 1: and so when they leave, I will rip that paper
Speaker 1: up to disconnect from the energy. But again, it's just intention.
Speaker 1: The same thing can be done by, like you said,
Speaker 1: ringing a bell, clapping your hands, or knocking. It's just
Speaker 1: important to do those activities combined with the intention of clearing,
Speaker 1: releasing and almost like what was that at just sketch,
Speaker 1: like erasing the energy, you know, so you're a clean
Speaker 1: slate for the next person to come at your table.
Speaker 2: Fun at your sketch. So there's a long time to you.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's take our first quick break. Will be right back. Hey, guys,
Speaker 1: if you're going to be near long Island in July.
Speaker 1: I hope you'll come see me at Amineville Apothecary Thursday night,
Speaker 1: July twenty third, I'm going to be teaching my manifest
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Speaker 1: covers how to identify and clear old patterns that are
Speaker 1: holding you back, the science behind manifesting, and how to
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Speaker 1: Then in August, I'll be teaching an Intuitive Development weekend
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Speaker 1: Hope to see you this summer. Welcome back, okay. Our
Speaker 1: next one says, I've recently had the pleasure of meeting
Speaker 1: deb in her Magic of the Ordinary class and am
Speaker 1: delighted to connect with Samantha via email. Samantha, I've been
Speaker 1: listening to your wonderful book heavenly alliance. I'm glad they
Speaker 1: let you read this one yourself.
Speaker 2: Yeah, me too.
Speaker 1: In the chapter where you discuss the ways in which
Speaker 1: our guides and angels make themselves known to us, you
Speaker 1: mentioned a tingling or pressure in the shoulder as one
Speaker 1: of the signs. I've been getting this exact sensation multiple
Speaker 1: times a day for about a year now. As I've
Speaker 1: become more conscious of spirit and my connection to my guides.
Speaker 1: I've come to associate this with my guide or angel
Speaker 1: as a sense of well being always washes over me
Speaker 1: when I get it. But it was amazing and so
Speaker 1: validating to hear you mention this in your book. Is
Speaker 1: there anything you recommend I do when I experience this sensation?
Speaker 1: I always smile and say thank you, but perhaps there's
Speaker 1: something more. Well, that's a great question. It's often called
Speaker 1: your spirit guides hello, or their tell or their signal
Speaker 1: to you that they are around you, And it is
Speaker 1: so exciting when you feel that and you make that connection,
Speaker 1: and it's just a wonderful thing. And if any of
Speaker 1: you are listening, going well. I've never felt that you
Speaker 1: can start to practice a type of meditation called sitting
Speaker 1: in the power and there's a lot of great examples.
Speaker 1: You can go on YouTube and search that up. There's
Speaker 1: classes you can take on how to do sitting in
Speaker 1: the Power of meditations, but it's really pretty simple. You
Speaker 1: just want to get yourself into a meditative space and
Speaker 1: do your best to clear your mind. And you're not
Speaker 1: meditating and is sitting in the power meditation for any
Speaker 1: purpose other than to connect with your own body, your
Speaker 1: own energy, and your own sensations so that you start
Speaker 1: to learn what it feels like to be fully present
Speaker 1: in your own energy field. Once you're able to do that,
Speaker 1: then you want to visualize expanding your energy field, pushing
Speaker 1: your aura out even further and ask your spirit guides
Speaker 1: to step closer and tell you what their calling card is.
Speaker 1: And so for some people, like this lovely listener, it
Speaker 1: could be that pressure, that feeling, that tingling on your shoulder,
Speaker 1: could be your right shoulder, your left shoulder, It could
Speaker 1: be at the back of your neck. I had one
Speaker 1: student it was always her ankle, which I thought was interesting.
Speaker 1: She would feel a tingling sensation on her right ankle
Speaker 1: and she knew that was her guides coming closer. So
Speaker 1: it's different for everyone. Some people might feel a fluttering
Speaker 1: in their stomach. But you always want to start with
Speaker 1: getting very comfortable with how your own energy feels. And
Speaker 1: once you're there and you're locked into your own energy field,
Speaker 1: push out just with your intention of your thought and
Speaker 1: ask your guides to come forward and specifically ask them
Speaker 1: to show you what their unique calling card is for
Speaker 1: you and when you feel it randomly, like this listener
Speaker 1: was saying, what do I do? I think what she
Speaker 1: or he said is absolutely perfect. Smile and say thank you.
Speaker 1: But I always try to take a moment soon after
Speaker 1: I feel that to just sit in my little reading
Speaker 1: chair or sit in my meditation space and try to
Speaker 1: tune in to see if there's a message for me,
Speaker 1: because sometimes that'll happen and you're just busy, you're talking
Speaker 1: to a friend or you're cooking dinner, and you can't
Speaker 1: do it at that moment. And I have found I
Speaker 1: know this has happened to you two deb If they
Speaker 1: do that, I feel their calling card and I don't
Speaker 1: have time to meditate. Within the next couple of hours,
Speaker 1: I'll get that absence of sound in one ear and
Speaker 1: then I know, like, okay, they're trying to communicate something
Speaker 1: to me, and so I need to go into meditation.
Speaker 1: So I would just recommend that you keep doing what
Speaker 1: you're doing, smile and say thank you, but then do
Speaker 1: try to carve out time to meditate with the intention
Speaker 1: of connecting with them for any guidance. And you know what,
Speaker 1: you might sit and meditate and be like, all right,
Speaker 1: you popped in today and interrupted my work or my
Speaker 1: conversation or whatever you're doing. Thank you, that's fantastic. What
Speaker 1: do you have to tell me? And you get crickets nothing,
Speaker 1: and you're like, well, what the heck was that? It
Speaker 1: could just be them popping in to be like, hello,
Speaker 1: I'm here, I'm checking in on you. It could be
Speaker 1: that when you ask for the message, you're not picking
Speaker 1: it up because maybe you're not in the right receptive mode.
Speaker 1: But it will come to you. It will come to
Speaker 1: you later on that week, either in a dream or
Speaker 1: in an AHA moment, or when you're journaling something, or
Speaker 1: you just have this insight of like, oh, okay, I.
Speaker 2: Want to add two things to that, please, okay. I
Speaker 2: One is to really work with your chakra system so
Speaker 2: that you know which Claire is your most prevalent Claire,
Speaker 2: because hoping for a visual sign isn't gonna work for
Speaker 2: most folks, or let me rephrase that for those of
Speaker 2: us who are auditoring, that's not going to work. I
Speaker 2: can't see anything. What I have to do is to listen,
Speaker 2: as you say, Samantha, for that moment of silence in
Speaker 2: my left ear, and when that happens, I know, whoops,
Speaker 2: he's got something to say. I need to sit down
Speaker 2: and shut up and listen to this as soon as
Speaker 2: I can. But that's been a long time building of
Speaker 2: a relationship. Work on where your clare strength is, and
Speaker 2: that will help you to come up with a better
Speaker 2: communication technique with your guide. And then the other toption is,
Speaker 2: and you touched on this in some way, Samantha, is
Speaker 2: the idea that there is likely to be some kind
Speaker 2: of symbol or sign coming along that is unusual. That
Speaker 2: is your guide speaking to you in some way. I
Speaker 2: was driving on Sunday and saw a hawk, but the
Speaker 2: hawk was standing on the ground, and I thought, well,
Speaker 2: hello there, this is different because you know, usually we
Speaker 2: see him flying or soaring around, So here is this
Speaker 2: hawk standing on the ground. And I didn't see any
Speaker 2: prey or any reason that this hawk was standing on
Speaker 2: the side of the road in the grass. But there
Speaker 2: she was, and I just know that at some point
Speaker 2: I'm going to have a conversation with my guide and
Speaker 2: the realization of whether or not that was a sign
Speaker 2: or it was just a hawk happening to be on
Speaker 2: the grass, or if it was some kind of message
Speaker 2: for me? What was it? And that will come when
Speaker 2: I sit down and really listened for it.
Speaker 1: Well said, ready for the next That's what I am.
Speaker 2: This person says, after listening to your most recent episode,
Speaker 2: I had to write. As we know, women have been
Speaker 2: systematically erased from history for centuries. So while I found
Speaker 2: the episode fascinating, I can't say I was surprised. It
Speaker 2: reminded me of an essay I wrote for a university
Speaker 2: religion class about forty years ago on the shift from
Speaker 2: matriarchal to patriarchal societies. In essence, I argued that in
Speaker 2: prehistoric times, women and men were more equal. Women hunted, labored,
Speaker 2: and contributed alongside men while also bearing children. But as
Speaker 2: human brains evolved and babies became more dependent at birth,
Speaker 2: women's roles changed. Physical adaptation and child care demands gradually
Speaker 2: pushed women away from hunting, while men specialized women became
Speaker 2: responsible for nearly everything else. At the same time, men
Speaker 2: came to understand their role in reproduction. Women once revered
Speaker 2: for the mystery of birth lost some of that sacred status,
Speaker 2: and dependence on men for protection and resources helped usher
Speaker 2: in the patriarchy. The great irony to me is that
Speaker 2: all of this happened in the course of making us,
Speaker 2: supposedly quote smarter. As I listened to the podcast, I
Speaker 2: couldn't help imagining generations of churchmen shaping the narrative to
Speaker 2: keep women subordinate. Those old messages still echo idolized women
Speaker 2: into impossibility, shame them into silence, and exclude them from power.
Speaker 2: And of course that struggle is far from over. Women
Speaker 2: everywhere are still fighting for equality, bodily, autonomy, and dignity.
Speaker 2: I hope my daughters see more real progress in their lifetimes,
Speaker 2: and I choose to believe that one day the pendulum
Speaker 2: will settle closer to balance, where women and men can
Speaker 2: better understand one another, honor their differences, and meet each
Speaker 2: other with compassion. Thank you for such a thought provoking episode.
Speaker 2: As a very lapsed Catholic, I found it especially compelling,
Speaker 2: and it made me wish my mother were still here,
Speaker 2: so we could have had one of our spirited debates
Speaker 2: about it. Ooh, Samantha, this email took my breath away.
Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you, thank you for this email. And
Speaker 2: I do too wish your mom could have been here
Speaker 2: for a spirited debate with you about it. That would
Speaker 2: not have been the conversation with my mother.
Speaker 1: I know what would she have said.
Speaker 2: Oh, honey, my mother was a Southern lady, and there
Speaker 2: were just things you didn't say and do and talk about.
Speaker 2: It's all I can tell you about me at Cakra.
Speaker 2: But I love this email, and of course it spurs
Speaker 2: me to make suggestions of book titles that I know
Speaker 2: have made before. But I certainly recommend When God Was
Speaker 2: a Woman by Merlin Stone, which is a book on
Speaker 2: matriarchal society's pre patriarchy, taking us back to Anana and
Speaker 2: some of those gales. When the Drummers were women is
Speaker 2: another great book.
Speaker 1: Can I recommend one? Yeah, I've read it several times.
Speaker 1: Revolution from Within by Gloria Steinem.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, Gloria Steinem. Oh. I mean we can go on
Speaker 2: and on about the feminist movement of literature and how
Speaker 2: wonderful that was. But yes, I would love to see
Speaker 2: that balance of the pendulum that this listener is talking about.
Speaker 2: And I'm so honored and so appreciative that when Samantha
Speaker 2: and I choose to do the research and we appreciate
Speaker 2: the valid that it was important and meant something to you.
Speaker 2: So thank you so much for your comments.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I really do appreciate that, and I resonate with her.
Speaker 1: I think about my dad all the time and the
Speaker 1: spirited debates we could have about all sorts of stuff,
Speaker 1: especially these UFO files that keep dropping.
Speaker 2: My dad and I would have had a spirited debate.
Speaker 2: We wouldn't have. I don't know, but by the time
Speaker 2: he'd gotten really elderly, he may have agreed with me.
Speaker 2: There were things that, particularly when I was a teenager,
Speaker 2: that we disagreed on vehemently, and at some point he
Speaker 2: came over to my side of the fence and that
Speaker 2: was really wonderful.
Speaker 1: Okay, our next one is a little bit long, so
Speaker 1: let's take a very quick break and we'll be right
Speaker 1: back to jump into it because it's a really interesting
Speaker 1: question about a dream visit.
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Speaker 1: Okay, welcome back. Our next one says I started listening
Speaker 1: to your podcast about two years ago on Spotify one
Speaker 1: day when I was searching for something on how to
Speaker 1: connect deeper with my intuition. I usually look for something
Speaker 1: to listen to when I drive to work and home,
Speaker 1: which is about an hour each way. I learned lots
Speaker 1: of stuff from your podcast. I know that I'm not
Speaker 1: psychic or have any special gift, but I certainly am
Speaker 1: aware that there are higher forces, angels and guides who
Speaker 1: are always assisting me. Seven months ago, my husband passed
Speaker 1: away very suddenly from a massive heart attack at the
Speaker 1: age of sixty four.
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1: Ten days after his passing, I had a visit from
Speaker 1: him in my dream. This visit was as real as
Speaker 1: any person in conversation or visit what the loved.
Speaker 2: One can be.
Speaker 1: He was a lot younger in my dream. We were
Speaker 1: sitting and visiting in a very, very large religious gathering
Speaker 1: where food was being served and everybody was laughing and
Speaker 1: having fun. My husband and I are sitting and talking.
Speaker 1: His sister walks by us with a stunned look on
Speaker 1: her face and her jaw dropped as she saw my husband.
Speaker 1: She knew he had passed on and she was stunned
Speaker 1: to see him with me. As we're talking, my husband
Speaker 1: looks over at his sister and he tells me it's okay.
Speaker 1: Ignore her. We keep visiting and having our conversation, and
Speaker 1: then another female walks up to my husband and says,
Speaker 1: why are you here. You're not supposed to be here,
Speaker 1: You're gone. He gets very upset and tells her it's
Speaker 1: not of her business and that he's here to visit
Speaker 1: as well. Then he adds and I know my mom
Speaker 1: is over there serving food, and she does not need
Speaker 1: to know. As we are talking, all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: he takes his watch off his wrist and takes my
Speaker 1: watch off my wrist and switches them. Then he looks
Speaker 1: at me and says, I know it's a little tight,
Speaker 1: but that's okay. All of a sudden, I woke up
Speaker 1: and my dream was over. The Next morning, I shared
Speaker 1: that dream with my youngest son, who was also very
Speaker 1: upset about his dad being gone so early, and I
Speaker 1: tell him about his dad exchanging the watch. I asked him,
Speaker 1: what do you think that means? My son says, Mom,
Speaker 1: are you kidding me? Dad actually gave you his watch,
Speaker 1: And I said yeah. Then he goes on to tell
Speaker 1: me that at the time of the service, just before
Speaker 1: the cremation, my oldest son took one of his expensive
Speaker 1: watches and put it in his soup pocket just before
Speaker 1: the cremation. To this day, I'm trying to figure out
Speaker 1: what it all means when my husband gave me his
Speaker 1: watch and he took mine. I do get beautiful messages
Speaker 1: and playfulness and adventures, almost as if I totally live
Speaker 1: another life when I'm asleep, But I would really appreciate
Speaker 1: your help in bringing some closure or answers to this dream.
Speaker 1: Since then, he has visited two or three other times,
Speaker 1: but none of them as clear as this watch dream.
Speaker 1: I love listening to you both. Oh well, thank you
Speaker 1: so much, and again, so so sorry for your loss.
Speaker 1: I think there are some things I just want to
Speaker 1: highlight before we get to the watch that are significant.
Speaker 1: And so many of the dream visitation stories I've gathered,
Speaker 1: it's so very often that there is this very very
Speaker 1: large hall, and the way she says at a religious
Speaker 1: gathering spot, a lot of people will describe it as
Speaker 1: a cathedral, some describe it as a huge, great hall,
Speaker 1: But it does seem to be like there's this meeting
Speaker 1: place between our world and their world, and the sister
Speaker 1: coming up and the other friend coming up, and the
Speaker 1: mom over there. It seems as though it had only
Speaker 1: been ten days since he crossed over. So first of all,
Speaker 1: what a test to the immense amount of love he
Speaker 1: had for you and his family, because that takes a
Speaker 1: lot of energy to get through in a dream that quickly.
Speaker 1: And it also seems as though he wasn't given permission
Speaker 1: to do that, you know, because that's something I've been
Speaker 1: shown time and time again. We need to get permission
Speaker 1: to visit our loved one in a dream state, because
Speaker 1: we have to make sure they're ready to receive it,
Speaker 1: that they're not in too much grief. We have to
Speaker 1: learn how to work with our energy to do that.
Speaker 1: And it almost seems like your husband did not wait
Speaker 1: for any of that permission, did not follow those rules.
Speaker 1: Was just like, that's my wife. I have to tell
Speaker 1: her I'm okay, and I have to do the watch
Speaker 1: things so my son knows I'm okay. My children know
Speaker 1: I love them and that I saw the watch being
Speaker 1: put into my soup. Don't you think that's what that is?
Speaker 1: Deb Or do you have a different take?
Speaker 2: I need clarity on something. I'm not sure I read
Speaker 2: this correctly. The son took the watch off of his
Speaker 2: arm and put it in his suit, into the father's pocket.
Speaker 1: I don't know. This is why pronouns are so hard.
Speaker 1: I thought that too, like did he take off his
Speaker 1: own expensive watch and put it in his dad's suit
Speaker 1: so it would be cremated with his dad? Or did
Speaker 1: he take his dad's watch off so it wouldn't be cremated.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm glad to know. I'm not clear on that
Speaker 2: either the pronouns got lost me somewhere, but in any case,
Speaker 2: there was a switch of watches or a movement of
Speaker 2: watches that this man used as some kind of a
Speaker 2: physical symbol to connect with his family. Whatever the answer
Speaker 2: to that may be, I don't know that it much
Speaker 2: matters at this point. I just have this image if
Speaker 2: this fella getting over on the other side and the
Speaker 2: conference table is waiting for the life review for him
Speaker 2: to come and sit down and begin this process of
Speaker 2: transitioning into the other plane, and he's like, Nope, not yet,
Speaker 2: I got stuff to do. I got to talk about
Speaker 2: life one more time. I'll be back. I can just
Speaker 2: that's the image I have of this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I also wonder what the watches if it
Speaker 1: has to do with.
Speaker 2: Timing, timing and time itself. Yeah, you and I have
Speaker 2: talked so many times, and all of the work that
Speaker 2: we have done talks about how different time is on
Speaker 2: the other side. So maybe he'd been over there for
Speaker 2: a long time in his quote time.
Speaker 1: No, I mean the timing of his passing. I have
Speaker 1: a lot of clients who have lost their significant other
Speaker 1: in their sixties and it creates a lot of excess
Speaker 1: pain because that's the time when you're usually typically pretty
Speaker 1: much done raising your kids, you're heading into retirement, and
Speaker 1: it's this time you've worked your whole life for to
Speaker 1: just enjoy each other, and then one of you was gone.
Speaker 1: So in addition to the immense amount of grief, there's
Speaker 1: anger and what the hell, Like, what happened? This is wrong?
Speaker 1: And the timing is off. And so I wonder if
Speaker 1: he was trying to say, like, yeah, the timing is off,
Speaker 1: but I'm still here and you know, and that's why
Speaker 1: he's keeping her watch with him, like I'm going to
Speaker 1: be with you until it's your time.
Speaker 2: I don't doubt that a bet. I think there are
Speaker 2: lots of messages and lots of symbols have help its
Speaker 2: assistance to her and her children about this time of transition.
Speaker 2: And I would just invite her to keep notes, keep records.
Speaker 2: Certainly what she's written to us would be helpful to
Speaker 2: put in a journal and date information, because I have
Speaker 2: a feeling that if he's been once, he'll be again.
Speaker 2: He's been deceive her one time, he'll be back.
Speaker 1: Oh for sure, Well, she said he has, but just
Speaker 1: nothing as significant as the watch symbolism.
Speaker 2: I think he'll keep coming.
Speaker 1: I do too, but your full gift, yeah, absolutely beautiful.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, The next one says, the Kentucky Derby
Speaker 2: has always been a big event for my family. We
Speaker 2: get in touch every Derby day to chat about the
Speaker 2: field of horses and our bets. I almost always bet
Speaker 2: a small amount once. It's become a tradition for years.
Speaker 2: The way I picked my horse was by reading the
Speaker 2: list and getting a feeling or just liking a name.
Speaker 2: Then in twenty twenty three, I decided to pull one
Speaker 2: to row Key to help me decide on my bed.
Speaker 2: That year, I pulled the Magician. I went on my
Speaker 2: betting site and looked at the list of horses running
Speaker 2: the Derby. I do not look at the line up
Speaker 2: ahead of time. The only horse I thought would work
Speaker 2: was Mage Match m Age, so I put my twenty
Speaker 2: dollars down and a couple of hours later I watched
Speaker 2: him win the race. For the next two years I
Speaker 2: also picked horses who placed or showed, never the favorites,
Speaker 2: and all based on a card pull. Last year I
Speaker 2: missed the race, so this year, when I got a
Speaker 2: text from my cousins discussing who to bet on. I
Speaker 2: went to my deck, got clear and asked for some
Speaker 2: insight on the race. I pulled the Queen of Wands,
Speaker 2: so I went to the list. My first pick was
Speaker 2: Albus because Albus double door wielded a wand but that
Speaker 2: felt like a stretch. I went back and stared at
Speaker 2: the cart a few more minutes, then looked at the
Speaker 2: field again, since the Queen is all in gold in
Speaker 2: apparently in her deck. When I saw Golden Tempo, I
Speaker 2: knew I needed to put half my bet there. Both
Speaker 2: of these horses were long shots. We were having friends
Speaker 2: for dinner, so I got busy cleaning the house and
Speaker 2: totally missed the race because it only lasts like, you know,
Speaker 2: half a second or so. I didn't realize this until
Speaker 2: Tech started hitting my phone stating, can you believe that?
Speaker 2: And what a race? So I pulled up the derby
Speaker 2: and there it was. Golden Tempo had come from behind,
Speaker 2: all the way behind to win the race. At the
Speaker 2: last moment. I logged onto my back sit and I
Speaker 2: had one big I have watched the race over and over.
Speaker 2: It truly was one for the ages. Footage of the
Speaker 2: first woman trainer to win the derby. Seeing her horse
Speaker 2: come from the back of the pack to winds was
Speaker 2: so much fun. I have watched it over and over again.
Speaker 2: I don't write this to say that everyone should start
Speaker 2: using their cards for gambling. Thank you. Let me read
Speaker 2: that sentence again. I don't write this to say that
Speaker 2: everyone should start using their cards for gambling. I just
Speaker 2: wanted to share a super fun story. I do pull
Speaker 2: a card every day and love working with them to
Speaker 2: clear balance and center myself. Using them once a year
Speaker 2: in this fun way has become one of my favorite traditions.
Speaker 2: Thank you for your presence once a week and all
Speaker 2: the light you bring into the world. Wow, here's what
Speaker 2: I know about the Kentucky Derby. I know three things
Speaker 2: about the Kentucky Derby. I know about the hats, I
Speaker 2: know about the mint Jillis. I'm trying to get the
Speaker 2: words out. And I know Dan Fogelberg's run for the Roses,
Speaker 2: that wonderful song. That's what I know about the Kentucky Derby.
Speaker 2: I don't know that i'd ever.
Speaker 1: Actually tell you know that you could use your troll
Speaker 1: cards to help you win some money next year.
Speaker 2: So now I know that other people can do, but that.
Speaker 1: Is such a great example of using to row and
Speaker 1: your intuition.
Speaker 2: Well idious and don't misunderstand. I'm delighted this woman won
Speaker 2: this money, and this is great and good for her.
Speaker 2: And I can't imagine trying it, but I think, who knows.
Speaker 2: It's an interesting process and it is exactly as you say,
Speaker 2: she pulls a key and then.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because she first was like, oh, well, Albus Dumbledore
Speaker 1: has a wand and then her intuition was like, eh, something's.
Speaker 2: Off right exactly, and then she goes with this other
Speaker 2: one and look at this.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, and it was a come from behind.
Speaker 1: I'm not a sport person, but that was a very exciting.
Speaker 1: I do love the Kentucky Derby.
Speaker 2: I catch it. I really don't know anything about it,
Speaker 2: but I did see on the news about the fact
Speaker 2: that this horse was trained by a woman, which you know,
Speaker 2: his Kentucky Derby is fraught with so much history, so
Speaker 2: there's all that. But in any case, this was an
Speaker 2: interesting use of tourou And who's to say. I hope
Speaker 2: she wants to get next year.
Speaker 1: I know, Well, it's just a fun way to test
Speaker 1: your intuition. Take the money and the gambling out of it.
Speaker 1: It's just a really quick and easy and instructive way
Speaker 1: to work with your intuition. Like I said, I'm not
Speaker 1: a sports person. I don't really know anything about sports.
Speaker 1: But my husband watches sports all the time and I'll
Speaker 1: walk in and I'll go, oh, who's in the blue shirts?
Speaker 1: They're going to win? And he's like, damn it, don't
Speaker 1: tell me that. But I'll look at the colors of
Speaker 1: the field and one will stand out. And then you know,
Speaker 1: a good way to test if you're connected and tuned
Speaker 1: in that week?
Speaker 2: What's your percentage of being right?
Speaker 1: Pretty good?
Speaker 2: Of course it is. I love it.
Speaker 1: I'm sure yours is too. You've just gotta click it
Speaker 1: on for a second and see if a color stands
Speaker 1: out to you or a name.
Speaker 2: Now, it's one basketball game. In my whole life, I've
Speaker 2: never seen a football game. I've watched some suffing contest.
Speaker 1: Well, it's just another tool for our psychic tools that we.
Speaker 2: Could absolutely so folks use it and whatever your sport is,
Speaker 2: enjoy have fun with it. This was a great example.
Speaker 2: Thank you for this.
Speaker 1: It was These are all such good questions and wonderful stories.
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Speaker 1: we're all connected in this way. We hope you have
Speaker 1: a wonderful week filled with your own calling cards from
Speaker 1: your spirit guides and maybe a visit from your angel
Speaker 1: as well. Remember to be the light for yourself and others.
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