Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Psychic Teachers. I'm your host, Samantha.
Speaker 2: Fay, and I'm Deb Bowie. Oh.
Speaker 1: We are so happy to have you join us for
Speaker 1: our monthly Q and A show as we come to
Speaker 1: pretty much the end of February, and that means spring
Speaker 1: is right around the corner. I am so excited as
Speaker 1: I sit here looking out at snow covering my lawn.
Speaker 2: I keep thinking of crocuses in the snow, and I
Speaker 2: hear Jimmy Lou Harris singing roses in the snow. I
Speaker 2: don't have any flowers in my snow, do you, Samantha.
Speaker 1: No, just lots and lots and lots of snow.
Speaker 2: Oh me too. I can't believe it. Here we are
Speaker 2: in the sunny.
Speaker 1: Sound, I know, but spring is coming. We can't wait.
Speaker 1: In the meantime, let's all just pretend that we're sitting
Speaker 1: together around a nice little fire on a cozy Sunday evening,
Speaker 1: and we're just going to share some wonderful stories and questions.
Speaker 2: I'm ready.
Speaker 3: That's wrong, Okay, I'm ready too.
Speaker 1: I'll start our first one says my husband got up
Speaker 1: one morning disturbed with a very lifelike dream that we
Speaker 1: had divorced, and he said I was the happiest I
Speaker 1: had ever been. Then the next morning, a coworker told
Speaker 1: me she had a dream about me the other night,
Speaker 1: that me and my husband had divorced, and that I
Speaker 1: told her I was the happiest I had ever been.
Speaker 1: I told her about my husband's dream and how weird
Speaker 1: that was. So it's not even been a week, and
Speaker 1: now my husband unexpectedly quit his job. So I researched
Speaker 1: divorced dreams and saw it doesn't always mean a mary
Speaker 1: to divorce. It could be the ending of a job.
Speaker 1: Do you think that since I was happy in both dreams,
Speaker 1: this is a good change.
Speaker 3: Yes, I do.
Speaker 1: Most of our dreams that we have are symbolic, and
Speaker 1: our subconscious mind can only speak to us through symbols.
Speaker 1: That is the language of the subconscious. I wish the
Speaker 1: subconscious were a little bit more clear and blunt. So,
Speaker 1: for example, pregnancy dreams don't always mean you're going to
Speaker 1: get pregnant. Usually they mean it's the birth of something new,
Speaker 1: like a new job, or a new source of income,
Speaker 1: or a new friendship coming to you. Same with divorce dreams,
Speaker 1: they don't always mean divorce. It means an ending, a
Speaker 1: break a breakup, So it could be the end of
Speaker 1: a job, it could be the end of a friendship. Yes,
Speaker 1: it can be the end of the marriage, but usually
Speaker 1: it's more symbolic. So I would say that, yes, this
Speaker 1: means that you're going to be very happy with the
Speaker 1: new path your husband's going to take after leaving this job.
Speaker 2: All right, Our next one says I'm a new listener
Speaker 2: and seeker. I'll admit that prior to the last two years,
Speaker 2: I was a staunch atheist and non believer. I'm a
Speaker 2: psychiatrist and lived my life mostly based in science and
Speaker 2: provable fact. Then my husband had an experience that I
Speaker 2: could not ignore. Shortly after his mother died of cancer.
Speaker 2: We were watching television when he started to tell me
Speaker 2: that light was coming out of his body where his
Speaker 2: solar plexus is. He said that the light was telling
Speaker 2: him it's all going to be okay, and that quote
Speaker 2: all of the pain is gone. He looked as though
Speaker 2: he was incredibly happy and experiencing something or somebody that
Speaker 2: I could not detect. I was watching, terrified on the couch,
Speaker 2: hand clutching my phone, getting ready to call an ambulance
Speaker 2: because I thought he was having a manic or psychotic break.
Speaker 2: The whole episode lasted about five minutes, which felt like
Speaker 2: hours to me. When he came back, he told me
Speaker 2: that he had seen the light, and also that his
Speaker 2: entire life flashed before his eyes, and that it ended
Speaker 2: with him dying in my arms. Thankfully, when he died,
Speaker 2: I appeared elderly. I really couldn't make sense of this.
Speaker 2: For months, I kept watching, waiting for signs of any
Speaker 2: kind of psychiatric illness, but none came. He was just
Speaker 2: my husband, just more at peace. Since that time, I've
Speaker 2: been exploring the things we cannot see. It has helped
Speaker 2: me realize that I am intuitive and that I have
Speaker 2: some spiritual gifts too. I was just wondering if either
Speaker 2: of you had a take on this experience and what
Speaker 2: it could have been. It was life altering in the
Speaker 2: best possible way and really opened my mind and heart
Speaker 2: to spirit love. Listening to your show on my way
Speaker 2: to the hospital each morning. You both bring me so
Speaker 2: much joy. Thank you so much for that comment. I'm
Speaker 2: so glad that this listener is in a place where
Speaker 2: she is open and receptive now to what she can't prove.
Speaker 2: First of all, I have no doubts whatsoever that what
Speaker 2: your husband experience was absolutely real. I don't deny in
Speaker 2: any way the idea that he really did have this experience.
Speaker 2: It may have been his mother talking to him. Who
Speaker 2: knows what it was or where it came from. But
Speaker 2: how life affirming it really was for him to have
Speaker 2: that experience and for you to witness it, even though
Speaker 2: it was probably kind of scary for you, as you
Speaker 2: mentioned at the time, but later when you got a
Speaker 2: way to telescope out and away from this experience, you've
Speaker 2: come to some wonderful realizations about the continuity of consciousness
Speaker 2: and the continuity of spirit and what life really is
Speaker 2: all about, far beyond what we can see with our
Speaker 2: ordinary senses. A book we would recommend to you is
Speaker 2: by doctor Raymond Moody. It's called Glimpses of Eternity. It's
Speaker 2: a book on shared death experiences. I also think that
Speaker 2: when we become open to the world and what we're
Speaker 2: learning from it in a different way as you have been,
Speaker 2: where you're willing to undertake the idea of being an
Speaker 2: intuitive and that you have all these spiritual gifts, and
Speaker 2: that's a wonderful thing.
Speaker 1: I think this is such a cool experience because the
Speaker 1: fact that he was laying on the couch relaxing and
Speaker 1: he had this light come out of his solar plexus.
Speaker 1: A lot of people think that our connection to our
Speaker 1: soul body like when we askt will travel. It's been
Speaker 1: described as being either in the heart chakra or the
Speaker 1: solar plexus chakra. I think it was Sulvan Muldoon who
Speaker 1: said his was in the third eye chakra, but for
Speaker 1: a lot of people, it is right there in the
Speaker 1: solar plexus. I think his mother came to visit him.
Speaker 1: I think he had a shared almost like a near
Speaker 1: death experience. I think his mother was so excited that
Speaker 1: her pain has gone, that she's okay, that life goes on.
Speaker 1: She had to share it with the person she loves
Speaker 1: so much here in this world. And I think in
Speaker 1: doing that he kind of got like his own life review.
Speaker 1: Doesn't it sound like that?
Speaker 2: Sounds like he certainly had an opportunity to really connect
Speaker 2: with his spiritual being in some way, doesn't it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, how amazing, What a miracle and a gift he
Speaker 1: was able to experience that. But how cool for our
Speaker 1: psychiatrist listener friend, as you said, who's super left brain
Speaker 1: and obviously very smart to have this experience. Now she's
Speaker 1: going to be able to see both sides every situation,
Speaker 1: which I think is really really cool. I would also recommend,
Speaker 1: in addition to Glimpses of Eternity, which is just a
Speaker 1: book about people who have had experiences exactly like this.
Speaker 1: So I think both you and your husband would really
Speaker 1: get a lot out of it.
Speaker 3: But there's also the.
Speaker 1: Noetic Science Institute, and I think, being a psychiatrist, don't
Speaker 1: you think this listener would love the research there?
Speaker 2: Absolutely? That is a wonderful website for all sorts of
Speaker 2: fascinating information.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and they have classes.
Speaker 1: Most of them are all on zoom or also anything
Speaker 1: with Dean Rayden Real Magic I think would be a
Speaker 1: great one to read too. Okay, Our next one says,
Speaker 1: my dad was not close with his parents, and unfortunately,
Speaker 1: when my sister and I hit our teens, their contact
Speaker 1: with us became limited as well. When they passed, I
Speaker 1: hadn't spoken to them in over twenty years. Fast forward
Speaker 1: to when my youngest was two and a half years old.
Speaker 1: It's midnight, I'm lying in bed with my husband, when
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, I hear my daughter yelling a
Speaker 1: boo over and over again in her bedroom. She's in
Speaker 1: her bedroom, door closed and is having what sounds like
Speaker 1: a rousing game of peekaboo by herself. I listen a
Speaker 1: little longer, and when she doesn't stop after a minute
Speaker 1: or so, I go into her room to tell her
Speaker 1: it's time to settle down. When I open the door,
Speaker 1: I see her sitting up in her crib, covering her
Speaker 1: eyes and facing the wall opposite, and then goes boo.
Speaker 1: I admit I was a little freaked out about it,
Speaker 1: since our house is one hundred and forty years old.
Speaker 1: I spoke with the psychic medium friend about it. She
Speaker 1: told me it was my grandmother who had come to
Speaker 1: visit my daughter. I was so surprised by this because
Speaker 1: I honestly hadn't thought about my dad's parents in a
Speaker 1: long time, and wouldn't have even guessed that they would
Speaker 1: ever be interested in great grandchildren.
Speaker 3: They never met.
Speaker 1: The midnight peekaboo game never happened again, and now I
Speaker 1: wonder if they ever do visit us still, even though
Speaker 1: we weren't on good terms for years. Well, I think
Speaker 1: that when families don't talk like this, there's so many reasons,
Speaker 1: and there's his side and her side, and my side
Speaker 1: and their side, and it gets very, very complicated and convoluted. However,
Speaker 1: the bond of love is eternal, and I have no
Speaker 1: doubt that your grandmother was popping in to visit and
Speaker 1: just see how you're doing, and see what her great
Speaker 1: granddaughter was all about, and play a little game with her.
Speaker 1: I told everyone on the show many times about the
Speaker 1: time I saw that little Irish man leaning over my
Speaker 1: daughter's basinette when she was first born, and you know,
Speaker 1: we had the bassinet right next to the bed, and
Speaker 1: he was singing a song in Gaelic. And it was
Speaker 1: years later that I found out it was my former
Speaker 1: husband's great grandfather. And that still astounds me that someone
Speaker 1: no one alive has ever met would take the time
Speaker 1: to come and visit my daughter when she was first born.
Speaker 1: We don't know what all of the soul connections are.
Speaker 1: You know, your grandmother could have a special soul connection
Speaker 1: with your daughter that you might not be aware of.
Speaker 1: But also I think it is just the bonds of family,
Speaker 1: and when families stopped talking and they aren't close, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of pain there and a lot of regret.
Speaker 1: And a lot of sadness, and maybe your grandmother is
Speaker 1: just trying to make peace with all of that. But
Speaker 1: the listener did send a us video and it is
Speaker 1: a really cool thing to see playing Peekaboo all by yourself.
Speaker 2: Our next one says, recently, my witchy friend and I
Speaker 2: were talking about spirit animals animal guides. She suggested that
Speaker 2: mine may be a spider, because they always seem to
Speaker 2: find me no matter where I am. I live in
Speaker 2: a house with three other people, and without a doubt,
Speaker 2: I will always be the one to come across a
Speaker 2: spider at all times of the year. However, I am
Speaker 2: petrified of spiders. I know you've covered this topic before,
Speaker 2: but I'm wondering if it is possible for us to
Speaker 2: be scared of our spirit animal. I may have a
Speaker 2: lot of explaining to do for mine if that's the case. Okay,
Speaker 2: there are lots of things to unpack in this lovely
Speaker 2: concise email. First of all, Spider may not be your
Speaker 2: spirit animal person. Spider just may be a teacher for you.
Speaker 2: I think we all have lots of different animal folks
Speaker 2: who work with us. But if your sense is that
Speaker 2: Spider is your primary teacher, then I would invite you
Speaker 2: to look at all the wonderful gifts that Spider give us,
Speaker 2: one of which is that in many indigenous cultures, creation
Speaker 2: stories center around spider. In Lakota, for example, spider is
Speaker 2: called Ectomy, and Ectomy is the weaver of stories, the
Speaker 2: weaver of truth. Spider is who teaches us white writing.
Speaker 2: For example, Spider is the weaver. If you look at
Speaker 2: Greek mythology and you see the legend of Arackney an
Speaker 2: Ariadne and the big weaving contests they had, and oh, shoot,
Speaker 2: I've got the goddess wrong. Maybe I think it was Athena. Okay,
Speaker 2: let's try that. In any case, the god is that.
Speaker 2: I think it was Athena lost the weaving contest to
Speaker 2: a mortal named Arackney, and she was so angry that
Speaker 2: she turned Erecne into a spider. And that's where the
Speaker 2: scientific name for spider comes from. There's some kinds of
Speaker 2: spiders whose webs, the actual thread of their webs, is
Speaker 2: stronger than almost anything else on earth. They're just wonderful beas.
Speaker 2: So look at all the gifts that spider give us
Speaker 2: in that way, And yes, I understand being petrified of
Speaker 2: your connection to your primary animal person. Everybody who listens
Speaker 2: to this podcast knows that Hawk and I have been
Speaker 2: together for a very long time, and Hawk is a
Speaker 2: great teacher for me. Folks, if I were at your
Speaker 2: house and there was a spider there, I would have
Speaker 2: a conversation with the spider. I would put the spider,
Speaker 2: perhaps on a dustpan or a piece of paper, and
Speaker 2: gently walk the spider outside. I would be just fine.
Speaker 2: If I was at your house and you had a
Speaker 2: parakeet in a cage, I would beg you not to
Speaker 2: make me sit in the same room with that bird
Speaker 2: in that cage. I am beyond reason terrified of birds.
Speaker 2: It's a long and convoluted story, goes through many lifetimes.
Speaker 2: I get all of that, and yet here I am
Speaker 2: with a hawk as my primary teacher. So I would
Speaker 2: say to you that, yes, it is indeed possible. And
Speaker 2: I would say that, rather than focusing on your fear,
Speaker 2: think in terms of the gifts that person is giving you,
Speaker 2: and try that in that direction and see if that
Speaker 2: is helpful to you. And you can still be afraid,
Speaker 2: but you will find yourself being braver. And I'm kind
Speaker 2: of joking about the parakeet in the cage. I've reached
Speaker 2: a point where I'm better. I'm still want to be
Speaker 2: in a house with one. I'm certainly happy being outside
Speaker 2: and folks flying around me. And that's okay. We'll give
Speaker 2: yourself some time and ask for help and guidance from that,
Speaker 2: and you'll get it. You'll be amazed. I recommend Ted
Speaker 2: Andrew's wonderful book Animill Speak to the That is an
Speaker 2: amazing book to help you work with your connection with
Speaker 2: your animal folks.
Speaker 1: All right, I have a silly question. I know you
Speaker 1: call everything or for legged friends, in this case eight
Speaker 1: legged friend. But when I think of animal guides, I
Speaker 1: don't think of insects.
Speaker 2: Oh no, Samantha, stop.
Speaker 3: I mean, I just don't.
Speaker 1: But now that I think about it, I guess you
Speaker 1: could have like a bumblebee as your guide. But what
Speaker 1: I'm asking is, could she have an animal guide and
Speaker 1: an insect guide?
Speaker 2: Oh dear, all right, let's do this again. Let me
Speaker 2: walk you through the dab language of this and most
Speaker 2: indigenous cultures that I know of. There is no word
Speaker 2: for animal. The word animal doesn't exist. Instead, we speak
Speaker 2: of nations or peoples with an as people's plural, and
Speaker 2: there's no hierarchy. So when you think about insects or
Speaker 2: bugs or whatever, most folks think, oh, they're lower on
Speaker 2: the chain than elephants. No no, no, no, no, no no.
Speaker 2: Everybody has a place in the gift giving circle. And
Speaker 2: that's what it is. A circle, and there's nobody in
Speaker 2: the middle. We often think conceive of ourselves as two
Speaker 2: leggeds as being in the middle of that circle, and
Speaker 2: we're not. Here's the language you've heard me use. Two leggeds,
Speaker 2: four leggeds, swimming, crawling, flying, and standing people. So that
Speaker 2: encompasses two legged people like us, four legged people like
Speaker 2: we think of animal people with four legs. Swimming, that
Speaker 2: includes everybody who lives in water. Crawling is all those
Speaker 2: people that you're describing bugs and spiders and insects, and
Speaker 2: that doesn't just mean birds. That means bats and butterflies
Speaker 2: and bumblebees. And then standing people are all the plant people,
Speaker 2: the mushroom, the mysilium people, and the rock people. Mother
Speaker 2: Earth for sale.
Speaker 3: I love that.
Speaker 1: Did you see the news story recently of the cow
Speaker 1: who learned to use tools?
Speaker 3: No, Oh, it is so sweet.
Speaker 1: She has learned how to use a brush to scratch herself.
Speaker 2: Oh, for goodness sake.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she's an absolutely beautiful, beautiful cow.
Speaker 2: I had not seen that.
Speaker 3: Our next one.
Speaker 1: Says, I had a crazy dream. I dreamt I was
Speaker 1: walking down a city street, and I think it might
Speaker 1: have been a place like heaven or the astral plane,
Speaker 1: because I felt absolute peace, love, harmony, tranquility, and serenity.
Speaker 1: I felt so safe. I can't express enough how wonderful
Speaker 1: I felt in this dream. As I'm walking down the
Speaker 1: city street, I noticed up ahead there's a man on
Speaker 1: the other side of the road. He motioned for me
Speaker 1: to come over, so I did. When I got there,
Speaker 1: he said, hello, it's good to see you again. I
Speaker 1: looked at him a little puzzled, but he also felt familiar.
Speaker 1: It was a strange yet familiar feeling. Anyway, he goes,
Speaker 1: last time you were here, I took your picture. Do
Speaker 1: you want to see it? I said, yes, I would
Speaker 1: love to see it.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 1: He pulls out this picture, and when I first looked
Speaker 1: at it, a symbol flashed before my eyes was really bright,
Speaker 1: almost blinding.
Speaker 3: For a split second.
Speaker 1: It looked like the symbol of the flower of life. Then,
Speaker 1: as I'm starting to focus in on the picture, I
Speaker 1: see myself by the street lamp that I was currently
Speaker 1: standing under. It was surreal because I was aware that
Speaker 1: I was dreaming this. I was lucid. It was incredible
Speaker 1: and felt so magical. I felt like I was in
Speaker 1: heaven or a place comparable to that feeling of love.
Speaker 1: I want to go back. I've never really had a
Speaker 1: dream like that before. I've dreamt of a photograph before,
Speaker 1: but nothing with the symbol that flashed before my eyes.
Speaker 1: I just thought I would send this. It was remarkable
Speaker 1: for me. Thank you for your show. I've been a
Speaker 1: faithful listener for years. I'm a flower grower. I spend
Speaker 1: most of my time alone with the plants and Samantha
Speaker 1: and Deb in my ears. Thank you times a million
Speaker 1: for the work you do. The world is a lot
Speaker 1: less lonely. Oh, thank you so much for that. And
Speaker 1: I just wanted to share that last bit because Deb,
Speaker 1: I love hearing what people do while they're listening to
Speaker 1: our show. Doesn't It does feel really neat to think
Speaker 1: about people at work or driving to work, or in
Speaker 1: their garden and we get.
Speaker 3: To accompany them.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 1: So this is a really really cool experience, and the
Speaker 1: fact that you were lucid and completely aware that you
Speaker 1: were dreaming. This to me is one of the hallmarks
Speaker 1: of an astral or soul travel dream. Not a symbolic
Speaker 1: dream like our earlier listener dreaming about her and her
Speaker 1: husband divorcing. This seems like an actual visitation.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: According to dream research, seeing yourself in a photo can
Speaker 1: mean that you're working on loving and accepting yourself exactly
Speaker 1: as you are, and so that could be another one
Speaker 1: of the messages that this man was trying to bring you,
Speaker 1: because you were in this place of total love and
Speaker 1: acceptance and serenity. And I wonder if sometimes I think
Speaker 1: our souls just need reminders that you are perfect loved.
Speaker 1: You come from perfect love, you were made in perfect love,
Speaker 1: and too perfect love. You will return, but you always
Speaker 1: are there. And I wonder if some of those experiences
Speaker 1: in this dream visit are to remind you of that
Speaker 1: the Flower of life symbolism. It's often called the blueprint
Speaker 1: of the universe. Tefinitly did a whole show on the
Speaker 1: Flower of Life years ago. I'll have to try to
Speaker 1: find it. But that symbol is about creation, life and interconnectedness,
Speaker 1: and so in dreams it can be a sign that
Speaker 1: you are on the right path, or you're being guided
Speaker 1: on the right path and are working on achieving higher
Speaker 1: states of awareness. It's almost like he's in your life
Speaker 1: guiding you to level up. If life is a video game,
Speaker 1: you are leveling up, is how I would interpret that.
Speaker 1: What a really cool experience, What an affirming experience.
Speaker 2: Absolutely a day into studying the flower of life symbolism
Speaker 2: which can take you down a rabbit hole for I
Speaker 2: don't know the next fifty years of your life if
Speaker 2: you break the Flower of life down into its basic form.
Speaker 2: The flower of life is composed of interlocking vesica pisces,
Speaker 2: which are two interlocking circles to go on and on
Speaker 2: and on. The sacred geometry of all of that is
Speaker 2: just fascinating. So enjoy that rabbit hole as you're processing
Speaker 2: what you've experienced. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And the fact that she's a gardener and the Flower
Speaker 1: of life is all about creation, Yeah, I think that's
Speaker 1: really a deeper layer of symbolism for her.
Speaker 2: Absolutely. I love it.
Speaker 1: All Right, let's take a very quick break. We'll be
Speaker 1: right back.
Speaker 2: Hi, y'all, please join me in all I've got going
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Speaker 2: of the Year, co author with Claire Gelder, is available
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Speaker 2: I so hope you will enjoy it. Learn about your
Speaker 2: numerology or your animal guides from personalized reports on my website.
Speaker 2: Check out my e booklets about working with crystals to
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Speaker 2: I look forward to working with you.
Speaker 1: Welcome back, Deb.
Speaker 3: Do you want to share our next question?
Speaker 2: A new crystal owner here with a question I haven't
Speaker 2: heard you answer before? When is the moon full? When
Speaker 2: I looked online for the date, I encountered the following
Speaker 2: confusing information. Sunday, February first, five nine pm Eastern Standard time.
Speaker 2: So which evening is best for cleaning crystals? Should it
Speaker 2: always be the full night before the moon reaches peak
Speaker 2: or the full night afterwards? Perhaps the night when midnight
Speaker 2: is closest to the actual peak time. This is a
Speaker 2: great question. Most metaphysicians that I know believe that we
Speaker 2: live in the rising energy of the full moon for
Speaker 2: about three days before the moon is full, and we
Speaker 2: still maintain that full moon energy for about two days
Speaker 2: after the moon has been full. So if I were
Speaker 2: looking at what this person writes Sunday February first, at
Speaker 2: five nine pm Eastern, I would have cleaned physically and
Speaker 2: cleaned energetically my stones and put them on a table
Speaker 2: in front of a window, for example, or if it's
Speaker 2: safe to do so outside, and do this sometime during
Speaker 2: the day on Sunday, February first, for example, so that
Speaker 2: when the moon reached its peak of fullness at five
Speaker 2: oh nine Eastern time, they would already be there absorbing
Speaker 2: that moon energy, and I would leave them there at
Speaker 2: least until about the same time the next day. That's
Speaker 2: sort of the short answer to that question. But really,
Speaker 2: as the moon is waxing from new moon to full
Speaker 2: moon is about increasing. So if what you want to
Speaker 2: do is to increase your connection or your energy to
Speaker 2: your stones, working with waxing energy is great. And conversely,
Speaker 2: if you want to release or let go, you work
Speaker 2: on the waning moon from after the moon is full
Speaker 2: until it is the dark of the moon before it's
Speaker 2: new again.
Speaker 3: Don't you have an e course on that I do.
Speaker 2: On my website. It's not a course, it's an e
Speaker 2: booklet called Moon Magic and More, and it gives all
Speaker 2: of what I've just said and a lot more about
Speaker 2: understanding really the eight primary phases of the moon. We
Speaker 2: talk mostly about those three phases, but really they're eight,
Speaker 2: and there are lots of things that you can do
Speaker 2: to deepen your connection to moon energy.
Speaker 1: Well, it has rained or snowed on almost every full
Speaker 1: moon we've had here where we live for the last
Speaker 1: several months.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 1: So something else you can do if you don't obviously
Speaker 1: want to take your crystals out in the rain or
Speaker 1: the snow, is you can put a bowl of water
Speaker 1: out and have it charged with the full moon energy,
Speaker 1: and then you can strain it and keep that. You
Speaker 1: can put it in a spray bottle, and if your
Speaker 1: crystals have a hardness level of seven or higher, you
Speaker 1: can just soak them in that moonwater or sprits them
Speaker 1: with that moon water, or if they have a hardness
Speaker 1: level under seven, you can use the indirect method and
Speaker 1: just put the crystals in a bowl and then submerge
Speaker 1: that bowl in the moonwater. And that's another way to
Speaker 1: charge your stones with the moon energy without taking them outside.
Speaker 2: And keep this in mind, if, for example, on the
Speaker 2: night of the full and you've laid them all out
Speaker 2: on the table and it starts to rain, that moon
Speaker 2: is still up there. The moon energy is still there.
Speaker 2: You can't see it, but it's still there beyond and
Speaker 2: coming through that rain or that snow.
Speaker 1: All right, Our next one says in March twenty twenty five,
Speaker 1: I found love letters my husband of eighteen years wrote
Speaker 1: to a twenty nine year old coworker. He's fifty one.
Speaker 1: It was an emotional affair of sorts, as she barely reciprocated.
Speaker 1: While this alone was a terrible betrayal and I am
Speaker 1: still not over it. That isn't what I'm writing about.
Speaker 1: During a marital counseling session post love letters, he relayed
Speaker 1: that my deep dive into the spiritual path bothered him
Speaker 1: and he hated having the stuff in the house.
Speaker 3: Most of the.
Speaker 1: Items were relegated to one room, my meditation spiritual room.
Speaker 1: This infuriated me, Like he gets to act like the
Speaker 1: good guy and judge me. While he couldn't be loyal,
Speaker 1: I thought to myself, I'll show him, and I threw
Speaker 1: all of my spiritual things away, my books, my decks
Speaker 1: and crystals, my pendulums. Some were very special to me
Speaker 1: as they were gifts or very unique pieces. I may
Speaker 1: have even thrown away my dead grandmother's brooch as I
Speaker 1: can't find it. Some of the books are not in
Speaker 1: print anymore. It was a moment of complete rage towards him,
Speaker 1: and towards myself, and even towards the spiritual path, as
Speaker 1: I was blindsided and what good is this intuitive stuff for?
Speaker 1: I have felt like a sad, smaller version of myself.
Speaker 1: Since then, there were nights I cried, lying down in
Speaker 1: the shower until the water ran coal just staring. I
Speaker 1: increased alcohol. I stopped invoicing clients and just worked, and
Speaker 1: then got overburdened and avoided responding to work demands at all.
Speaker 1: I stopped feeding myself spiritually and no longer went into
Speaker 1: my meditation room. Finally, in decem I started to feel
Speaker 1: like myself again. I rebought one deck, my favorite one.
Speaker 1: I did a New Moon ritual with a stick my
Speaker 1: dog handed to me a candle, a glass of water,
Speaker 1: and a postcard. It felt very lovely like home. During
Speaker 1: the ritual, spirit told me it's okay to let the
Speaker 1: sadness of throwing out my beautiful treasures go, that the
Speaker 1: practice and intention is the most crucial thing, and I
Speaker 1: can start from scratch. Anything that wants to find me
Speaker 1: will My question is.
Speaker 3: What was that?
Speaker 1: Was it just rage and hurt? Was it spirit teaching
Speaker 1: me to start over with something haunted? Why did I
Speaker 1: throw everything away and shut down the spiritual aspect of
Speaker 1: myself for months?
Speaker 2: Oh? Wow? All right.
Speaker 1: My heart goes out to you, because obviously I think
Speaker 1: an emotional affair. Gosh, my friends and I were just
Speaker 1: debating this a couple of months ago. What's worse like
Speaker 1: a physical one night stand affair or an emotional affair.
Speaker 1: I don't think there is any worse or better or
Speaker 1: not as hard. I think it's all hard. And what
Speaker 1: you were going through was not only righteous rage and anger,
Speaker 1: but also grief. You were grieving, grieving the lack of trust,
Speaker 1: grieving the lack of support, grieving all of it. And
Speaker 1: whenever we are on the other hand of adultery, we
Speaker 1: always tend to kind of look at ourselves like what
Speaker 1: did I do wrong? What could I have done better?
Speaker 1: Maybe a part of you throwing away the spiritual items
Speaker 1: was you just trying to find a way back to
Speaker 1: the marriage you and your husband had known. And if
Speaker 1: he pointed out that this was something that really bothered him,
Speaker 1: then you were like, well, then I'm just going to
Speaker 1: get rid of it. But I think it's also grief,
Speaker 1: And I think what we need to recognize is that
Speaker 1: grief isn't just losing someone who has transitioned.
Speaker 3: To the other side.
Speaker 1: There is a profound grief that comes from the end
Speaker 1: of a marriage. And I think that even though you
Speaker 1: two are working on reconciling, it's going to be a
Speaker 1: new marriage once you guys get on the other side
Speaker 1: of this. And so when we are going through grief,
Speaker 1: like your spirit guides are saying to you, we have
Speaker 1: to give ourselves so much grace.
Speaker 3: And I think.
Speaker 1: Everything they said to you was absolutely right. That you
Speaker 1: can start again and whatever wants to find you will
Speaker 1: find you. And so I just hope that you don't
Speaker 1: keep blaming yourself for any part of this, and I
Speaker 1: hope that you don't point fingers at yourself because you're
Speaker 1: doing all of the right things. You're not denying your
Speaker 1: spiritual side, You're respecting yourself in this situation, and you
Speaker 1: are working on so much healing and growth.
Speaker 3: Do you want to add to that?
Speaker 2: I sure do. One of my favorite books is a
Speaker 2: young adult book that was written in the nineteen sixties,
Speaker 2: I think by Catherine Marshall. The name of the book
Speaker 2: is Christy. And there's this wonderful Quaker lady teacher preacher
Speaker 2: in the back hills of Empire Bridged Appalacchia. Her name
Speaker 2: is Miss Alice Henderson. And Christie is going through a
Speaker 2: dark night of the soul, as any young woman might
Speaker 2: be at Christie's age, and she's angry and she's hurt,
Speaker 2: and she's got all these raging emotions. And Miss Alice
Speaker 2: Henderson looks at her in a scene and says, he
Speaker 2: who has never shook his fist in the face of
Speaker 2: Heaven has never known God at all. I love that line.
Speaker 2: I love that line so much that it was one
Speaker 2: of the few quotes in my book that I wrote
Speaker 2: some years ago about grief. Because to be angry with
Speaker 2: spirit is to deeply connect with spirit. We can't be
Speaker 2: angry at something we don't know and have some other emotions.
Speaker 2: For I have been angry with spirit in my life,
Speaker 2: and Miss Alice's wonderful line has been very helpful to me.
Speaker 2: And so when you've had such emotion that brought you
Speaker 2: to a place of just throwing away all the symbols
Speaker 2: of your connection to spirit, I get that, and I
Speaker 2: also love that you came to a place of coming
Speaker 2: back to spirit with such lovely simplicity. So yes, Samantha, Indeed,
Speaker 2: rage is such a part of grief, is such a
Speaker 2: part of the pain and the heart that goes with
Speaker 2: so much that we grieve in our lives beyond physical death.
Speaker 2: And I just think that maybe there still will be
Speaker 2: gifts that you will learn from this experience as you
Speaker 2: move forward in your spiritual journey.
Speaker 1: Well said, our hearts go out to you, because that's
Speaker 1: a really difficult betrayal to overcome. I think what you
Speaker 1: have to do is focus on sacred selfishness and really
Speaker 1: just loving and supporting yourself. That's what we're going to
Speaker 1: pray for you.
Speaker 2: Okay. I wanted to share a vision I had about
Speaker 2: fifteen years ago because it is such a hopeful message
Speaker 2: that might help others at the end of ten years
Speaker 2: of unsuccessful infertility treatments in the middle of an awful divorce,
Speaker 2: I was working with a flower essence practitioner who helped
Speaker 2: me with several different alternative therapies. One day, as she
Speaker 2: guided me through a meditation session, I had a vision
Speaker 2: of my maternal grandmother. Now this surprised me because I
Speaker 2: never had much of a relationship with any of my grandparents.
Speaker 2: They were all very reserved people who didn't seem to
Speaker 2: want emotional connections and preferred that their grandchildren just go
Speaker 2: off and play and not bother the adults. The vision
Speaker 2: was simply my grandmother appearing as she would have in
Speaker 2: the nineteen thirties, a young farmer's wife in a depression
Speaker 2: air address with Bob Hare, looking rat happy as I
Speaker 2: never saw her in life, smiling at me with her
Speaker 2: arms wide. She said to me, it doesn't have to
Speaker 2: be that hard, and then the vision faded. It was
Speaker 2: such a simple thing, but it has stuck with me
Speaker 2: through my struggles in life that maybe I don't have
Speaker 2: to always try so hard to fix myself. Maybe I
Speaker 2: am just enough as I am, and maybe I have
Speaker 2: the right to be happy. Thanks so much. Your podcast
Speaker 2: is always a bright spot in my week.
Speaker 1: Well, Samantha, this email is a bright spot in my week.
Speaker 2: Well mine too. But I want to read this again
Speaker 2: because I truly believe that in so many ways, what
Speaker 2: this listener has said is really what I know I
Speaker 2: need to learn. And maybe if you hear it again,
Speaker 2: it'll work with other people to learn stuff. So listen again.
Speaker 2: She said to me, it doesn't have to be that hard,
Speaker 2: and then the vision faded. It was such a simple thing,
Speaker 2: but he has stuck with me through my struggles in
Speaker 2: life that maybe I don't have to always try so
Speaker 2: hard to fix myself. Maybe I am enough just as
Speaker 2: I am, and maybe I have a right to just
Speaker 2: be happy. Hella.
Speaker 1: Wow, And that's someone who worked really hard. You know,
Speaker 1: she's in her depression era address, so that's probably a
Speaker 1: message she had to learn too. And I wonder if
Speaker 1: this listener isn't one of those generational chain breakers. Maybe
Speaker 1: and she's going to break a mantra that may have
Speaker 1: existed in that line of the family of you gotta
Speaker 1: work hard, you got to always be doing, going, proving,
Speaker 1: But we are enough just as we are.
Speaker 2: That is such at a lesson for all of us.
Speaker 2: I think, and I know it is for me.
Speaker 1: I know, I know it is. It is so hard.
Speaker 1: I was telling you before we hit record. I was
Speaker 1: watching that new documentary on near death experiences called Renaissance,
Speaker 1: and one of the things that always comes up in
Speaker 1: those documentaries is that we are loved and perfect just
Speaker 1: as we are, and that all is always forgiven. And
Speaker 1: I think that's such a beautiful message, and I think
Speaker 1: so many of us forget it on the day to day.
Speaker 1: And I went to scroll through my phone after I
Speaker 1: finished that documentary and something popped up on Instagram, and
Speaker 1: deb you know, I've said this many times on the show.
Speaker 1: As a Catholic, not so good with all the nitty
Speaker 1: gritties of the Bible, especially the Old Testament.
Speaker 2: I'm probably gonna have to help you out here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you might.
Speaker 1: The person had posted a line from Genesis and it's
Speaker 1: after Cain kills Abel, and it was about God loving
Speaker 1: Abel so much and loving Cain just as much, even
Speaker 1: though he just committed the first murder, that he put
Speaker 1: a mark on Cain that would protect him from ever
Speaker 1: anyone trying to seek revenge or retribution, and he sent
Speaker 1: him to live in the east of Eden in the
Speaker 1: land of Nod and that's when he found his wife
Speaker 1: and had a family and lived on his happy life.
Speaker 1: And I don't know, deb I never I thought the
Speaker 1: Mark of Cain meant he was like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: stuck in hell the rest of his life.
Speaker 3: Who knows.
Speaker 1: I don't know what the Bible intended for him, But
Speaker 1: in my mind he was punished. He's like the og Judas,
Speaker 1: you know. I never read it that way, that God
Speaker 1: so loved everyone so much, so unconditionally, that even the
Speaker 1: first murderer he protected. I think I was just raised
Speaker 1: on too many supernatural type stories where people are looking
Speaker 1: for the mark of Kane, which means you were possessed
Speaker 1: or you know all that stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's not what the mark of Kine is about.
Speaker 1: Mark of protection, Yeah, for just love and forgiveness.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And I just think, why can't we do that to ourselves?
Speaker 1: Like the listener we were just reading before, forgive yourself,
Speaker 1: forgive your part and your marriage. It's not because you
Speaker 1: were spiritual, it's not because of any of that, And
Speaker 1: forgive yourself for throwing all of that stuff away.
Speaker 3: We all need that message again and again and again.
Speaker 1: It doesn't have to be that hard, and you are
Speaker 1: enough just as you are, and we all have a
Speaker 1: right to be happy.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, we do. Thank you so much for this femail.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's take our last quick break of the show
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Speaker 1: Our next one says my story about connecting with spirit
Speaker 1: is similar to Samantha's. While I do not remember seeing
Speaker 1: spirits as a child, I do know that I was
Speaker 1: incredibly frightened to sleep alone, and that fear went on
Speaker 1: through college. As a child, I would often sneak into
Speaker 1: my parents' bedroom to sleep on their floor rather than
Speaker 1: be alone in my own room. I got married in
Speaker 1: my early twenties, and my new husband and I bought
Speaker 1: a small house. Shortly after we moved in, I woke
Speaker 1: up in the middle of the night to an elderly
Speaker 1: woman leaning over me. She was clear, but not solid.
Speaker 1: I could see every line on her face. She did
Speaker 1: not speak or move. I started to panic and made
Speaker 1: a sound in my throat, and it woke my husband up.
Speaker 1: The woman dissolved. It's the best way I can explain
Speaker 1: what I saw. The next morning, my husband asked me
Speaker 1: why I had left the night life on in our bedroom,
Speaker 1: and I told him I hadn't. He told me when
Speaker 1: I had woken him up the night before that the
Speaker 1: room was bright. Of course, there was no light on.
Speaker 1: Similar incidents happened twice in that same house. First, I
Speaker 1: saw an elderly man that I did not recognize standing
Speaker 1: at the foot of my bed.
Speaker 3: Again.
Speaker 1: His outline was sort of silvery or translucent, but very clear.
Speaker 1: He did not speak or move. He also dissolved after
Speaker 1: a minute or two. The last time that it happened
Speaker 1: in that house, it was my father standing at the
Speaker 1: foot of the bed. He passed away after a long
Speaker 1: illness when I was nineteen. I loved him very much,
Speaker 1: but he was an alcoholic and our relationship was complicated.
Speaker 1: Seeing him there frightened me. I spoke out loud, and
Speaker 1: I told him I was scared and not to come
Speaker 1: back again.
Speaker 3: He has not.
Speaker 1: That was nearly twenty years ago, and I have lived
Speaker 1: in multiple houses since then. I have seen other spirits,
Speaker 1: but never again my father, and never as clearly as
Speaker 1: I did in that first house. I am no longer afraid.
Speaker 1: What has changed, which is not the experience itself, but
Speaker 1: my understanding of it. I desperately want to see my
Speaker 1: father again. I would now welcome friendly spirits to visit me,
Speaker 1: and I have invited them to do so on multiple
Speaker 1: occasions without success. I wonder if I did have a
Speaker 1: clairvoyant gift that I suppressed and am now unable to access.
Speaker 1: I have tried to connect in other ways in hopes
Speaker 1: of accessing that part of myself again, including visiting two
Speaker 1: different mediums, neither of whom were able to establish any
Speaker 1: contact on my behalf. I have also used many of
Speaker 1: the techniques in Samanita's book Heavenly Alliance to try to
Speaker 1: connect with my personal spirit guides. I have requested signs
Speaker 1: and have not received them. I once asked to see
Speaker 1: an American goldfinch as a sign, but the closest I
Speaker 1: got was a pine warbler. I wonder why other people
Speaker 1: so easily receive signs when I do not. My maaternal
Speaker 1: grandmother died when I was about six, but she was
Speaker 1: very interested in the occult, and my mother says that
Speaker 1: if anyone would have come back to give a sign,
Speaker 1: it would than her. Did I lose my ability to
Speaker 1: connect with spirit when I asked my father to leave.
Speaker 1: What can I do, if anything, to regain it? I
Speaker 1: only recently discovered your podcast in love It. Thank you
Speaker 1: for bringing light, joy and nosis into this often dark world. Okay,
Speaker 1: so you're right, we do have a lot in common
Speaker 1: because I've shared many times how I woke up and
Speaker 1: saw that lovely gentleman at the foot of my bed
Speaker 1: when I was sixteen, and got on my knees and
Speaker 1: prayed to God and said please take it away because
Speaker 1: it scared me so much.
Speaker 3: And I was able to get it back.
Speaker 1: But it was not easy, and it did take a
Speaker 1: lot of work, and it wasn't so much. Yes, I
Speaker 1: took a lot of intuitive development classes. I took meditation classes,
Speaker 1: all that stuff. I read, all the books I got reiki.
Speaker 1: It wasn't all of that. It was, but it wasn't.
Speaker 1: It was something that had to happen internally inside of me.
Speaker 1: We had a lovely man on my other podcast, Enlightened
Speaker 1: Them Paths, named doctor Bradley Nelson on last month, and
Speaker 1: he book about heart walls and how we all build
Speaker 1: walls around our heart to protect ourselves and how we
Speaker 1: have to really be cognizant of that and work to
Speaker 1: take them down. And I think maybe you have built
Speaker 1: a heart wall either around your heart, or maybe a
Speaker 1: third eye wall that you just need to gently, methodically
Speaker 1: and consistently tear down. The simplest thing I did to
Speaker 1: help it was really simple. I would repeat over and
Speaker 1: over and over again as I walked the hallways to
Speaker 1: get to each of my classes I was teaching for
Speaker 1: a couple of years. I would say, it is safe
Speaker 1: for me to see. It is safe for me to see.
Speaker 1: It was one of my mantras, and I really do
Speaker 1: think that helped. I did some past life regression work
Speaker 1: to find out if there was any past life issue
Speaker 1: that was blocking my fear of opening up. I did
Speaker 1: a lot of inner reflection on forgiving myself and accepting
Speaker 1: myself as I was, and looking at the sh dado
Speaker 1: stuff of being afraid to be seen as different in
Speaker 1: woo woo and weird. That helped significantly. And I also
Speaker 1: did a cord cutting ritual where I'd cut the cord
Speaker 1: to the aspect of myself that was afraid of doing
Speaker 1: intuitive work. So all of those things might help you
Speaker 1: find this connection again. But ultimately, what I think you're
Speaker 1: being led to do is really work on forgiving yourself
Speaker 1: and your father, and so I think looking at doing
Speaker 1: some ancestor type work where maybe you have a little
Speaker 1: table in your home or your office where you have
Speaker 1: like a photo of your dad and an item that
Speaker 1: reminds you of your dad, and maybe a crystal that
Speaker 1: serves us a physical connection to you and your dad,
Speaker 1: and a candle in front of it, and maybe just
Speaker 1: every morning light that candle and just send love to
Speaker 1: your dad, and send forgiveness to your dad, and send
Speaker 1: love and forgiveness to yourself as well, and just start
Speaker 1: to have that type of dialogue without needing proof in
Speaker 1: the beginning, do you know what I mean, Without needing
Speaker 1: to see him again at the foot of your bed,
Speaker 1: without needing to see an American goldfinch bird, just trusting
Speaker 1: and having that dialogue with your father and just have
Speaker 1: no expectation of what will come of it, just seeking
Speaker 1: connection from that bond of love and forgiveness and see
Speaker 1: what comes out of that. Do you agree to I do.
Speaker 2: Agree so, Mantha. And the other thing that I would
Speaker 2: recommend is what I have found in my life when
Speaker 2: I feel like I really should be able to connect
Speaker 2: or get information or whatnot, is to just stop, just quit,
Speaker 2: walk away, Go do the dishes, Go do the laundry,
Speaker 2: go read a book about I don't know anything other
Speaker 2: than metaphysical stuff. And when I can get out of
Speaker 2: my own way, that is often and answers come. So
Speaker 2: overseeking and overdoing for me is always a and I'm
Speaker 2: not getting anything is always a sign for me that
Speaker 2: I need to just let go, and what I'm looking
Speaker 2: for will come in the oddest way sometimes that I
Speaker 2: might not have been expecting or anticipating.
Speaker 1: That is a great suggestion. Dev I am reading the
Speaker 1: weirdest book right now. I went to our little library
Speaker 1: book sale a couple of weeks ago and I found
Speaker 1: this book called The Key by Whitley Strieber. You know
Speaker 1: Whitley's school, The Community, Okay, Yeah, So he's on a
Speaker 1: book tour for the sequel to The Communion, and this
Speaker 1: strange little man knocks on his hotel room door, and
Speaker 1: I'm only halfway through. I don't know if it's an angel,
Speaker 1: if it's an off planet being, if it's his guide,
Speaker 1: I don't know. But they spend the whole night in conversation,
Speaker 1: and Whitley asked him like, can I take notes? And
Speaker 1: one of the things this little man says to Whitley
Speaker 1: after he asks him, what is psychic ability and how
Speaker 1: can we access it. I've got to send you the
Speaker 1: paragraph of how this man answers it because I need
Speaker 1: our psychiatrist email listener friend to help me interpret it.
Speaker 3: It was just a lot of technical stuff.
Speaker 1: But one of the things he says is you have
Speaker 1: to develop super position. And I was like, what is that?
Speaker 1: So I had to look that up. And it's the
Speaker 1: ability to be focused on one thing and yet be
Speaker 1: aware of everything else going on around you. To maintain
Speaker 1: that concentration but not hyper focused, so you block out
Speaker 1: everything else. And that's kind of to me what you
Speaker 1: were just saying to this listener.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's where we let go that stuff comes intimes. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it really is. I mean, think about this when you've
Speaker 2: got something you want to remember, Like for me, I've
Speaker 2: got lyrics going through my head. Who wrote that song?
Speaker 2: Where did it come from? And I am just nuts
Speaker 2: about it until I find it? And if I will
Speaker 2: stop being perseverative about who wrote the lyrics that I'm
Speaker 2: I'm singing in my head and I go do something
Speaker 2: else and I think later, eventually it will come back
Speaker 2: and it will say John Cougar, Mellencamp and I go, oh, okay, thanks.
Speaker 1: That's so true, because we have to give ourselves that
Speaker 1: grease of space.
Speaker 2: That's right, exactly. Okay, thank you for that question. Shall
Speaker 2: we move on? Yes? I did my first vanishing spell
Speaker 2: this week for a former friend who has a very
Speaker 2: negative and disruptive energy for me and my marriage. She
Speaker 2: recently reappeared in my life unexpectedly. I wrote her name
Speaker 2: on paper and folded it away from me. I added
Speaker 2: pepper oil and rosemary and set it on fire. As
Speaker 2: I looked into the cauldron, I was shocked to see
Speaker 2: a nail had appeared. I've never used a nail in
Speaker 2: my practice, and the cauldron was cleaned before I used it.
Speaker 2: I know this is significant, but I'm not sure what
Speaker 2: that means. Can you give me some insight?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know if you saw this email, but
Speaker 1: she included a picture I did.
Speaker 2: I did.
Speaker 3: There's a nail there.
Speaker 2: I saw it.
Speaker 3: Is that like an apport?
Speaker 1: Like just something spiritually appearing?
Speaker 2: Okay, here's the real short answer to this woman's question
Speaker 2: from dem I don't have a clue. I have no life.
Speaker 2: I'm not being funny. I mean it. I don't have
Speaker 2: a clue. Well, well, I may know why, but I
Speaker 2: don't know how that nail got in that cauldron? Did it? Anyway?
Speaker 2: All right, let me start at the beginning. Okay, First
Speaker 2: of all, I don't do vanishing spells, particularly maybe once
Speaker 2: or twice in my whole life have I done anything
Speaker 2: where I put something away from me. Rather, I would
Speaker 2: much rather work in bringing in light energy and bringing
Speaker 2: in the positive rather than banishing the negative. That's my perspective.
Speaker 2: Those have you been listening to this podcast for a
Speaker 2: long time. I'm the one who jokes about Samantha being
Speaker 2: light and bubbly and pink right. Well, when it comes
Speaker 2: to my work, I can be that way too, and
Speaker 2: so I'm not a banishing kind of gale. I would
Speaker 2: instead do a protection spell, a border spell, for example,
Speaker 2: or I would do something to wish this person well
Speaker 2: in their life away from me. So my focus would
Speaker 2: have been different than what this person did the nail.
Speaker 2: I am aware that that is a symbol of unpleasantry
Speaker 2: in relationships. I understand that somebody once offered me nails
Speaker 2: that they had pulled from a coffin.
Speaker 3: And I so the hell offered you that.
Speaker 2: We will not talk about that on gone air. Okay,
Speaker 2: but somebody offered me nails, thinking I might want to
Speaker 2: use them in my work, and I'm like, no, I
Speaker 2: don't work goals. And I really ended relationship with that person.
Speaker 3: Oh that scares me.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Sorry, what's your view of fire? Because I don't do spells,
Speaker 3: But I.
Speaker 1: Read all these books and we have all these authors
Speaker 1: on and I look at their stuff and I see
Speaker 1: different things, like, if you want something to happen really
Speaker 1: really quickly, you write your goal or intention and then
Speaker 1: you burn it, and then I see other things. No,
Speaker 1: you only use fire to get rid of stuff.
Speaker 2: The answer is that works the way you believe it works. Okay,
Speaker 2: And again it's about intention, but I understand the question
Speaker 2: really is about the nail, and the answer is, I
Speaker 2: really don't know how that nail appeared in your caldron
Speaker 2: answer to that, But I do know this. I knew, No,
Speaker 2: I wouldn't keep that nail.
Speaker 3: What would you do with it? Throw it into running water?
Speaker 2: I would either do that or I would bury it
Speaker 2: and give it back to mother Earth. Because remember, nails
Speaker 2: are made of iron, which.
Speaker 3: Is a bury it off your property, right right?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'd probably like get a little bag of salt
Speaker 1: and put the nail in that and then bury it.
Speaker 2: No folks song called rock, Salt and Nails.
Speaker 3: You know, Yeah, Okay.
Speaker 1: Our last one says, I know I am not alone
Speaker 1: in saying that your podcast has greatly enriched my life.
Speaker 1: I think of you both as mentors and friends. I've
Speaker 1: gotten so much out of the work you do that
Speaker 1: keeps my passion's curiosity and confidence alive and thriving. Wow.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Samantha. Your connection to Catholicism and the beautiful
Speaker 1: way you model your ability to hold space for religion
Speaker 1: and metaphysics has been a catalyst for me to get
Speaker 1: back to my Catholic roots. The last four to five months,
Speaker 1: which has been amazingly fulfilling the world of spirituality, after life,
Speaker 1: angels and so on, sort of brought things full circle
Speaker 1: for me. I owe a lot of this to you.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 3: Thank you again.
Speaker 1: My late grandmother, who I adored, was what I called
Speaker 1: the Queen of Catholics. I was rebellious and rejected traditional
Speaker 1: religion most of my teen and adult life. She accepted
Speaker 1: the fact that I had resisted religion, including making my confirmation,
Speaker 1: and never forced it on me. I had been playing
Speaker 1: with the idea of making my confirmation, and when I
Speaker 1: found out through my new church that this would occur
Speaker 1: on Easter, which happens to fall on my late grandmother's
Speaker 1: birthday this year, which is very rare, I knew I
Speaker 1: had to do it. Since signing up, I have been
Speaker 1: asked to select a confirmation name. I wasn't feeling pulled
Speaker 1: toward any specific saint name and just left it open
Speaker 1: for God to show me what it should be. Not
Speaker 1: long after I heard deb mentioned on the podcast being
Speaker 1: named after Saint Deborah. I knew in that mon that
Speaker 1: was my confirmation name. What better person to honor in
Speaker 1: a name that reflects my spiritual connection than one of
Speaker 1: my primary spiritual mentors of my life so far, Deb Bowen. Oh,
Speaker 1: Deb past the tissues.
Speaker 2: I got some things to say about this for aidad Okay.
Speaker 1: She continues, it gets better. I looked into Saint Deborah
Speaker 1: and saw that she is connected to bees and bee keeping.
Speaker 1: My husband's spirit animal is the bee, and we very
Speaker 1: much help each other grow spiritually. He is a non
Speaker 1: Catholic church goer and was another catalyst for me seeing
Speaker 1: the value in church and traditional religion. I was so
Speaker 1: happy to see an additional connection to this name and
Speaker 1: saying it still gets better. I feel like I'm watching QVC. Wait,
Speaker 1: there's more. I had been meaning to send this email,
Speaker 1: and just last night, as I was falling asleep, it
Speaker 1: occurred to me, what was my grandmother's confirmation name? Oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, it was Deborah. I was stunned and overwhelmed
Speaker 1: remembering this. I owe my Catholic roots to my grandmother
Speaker 1: and am doing this confirmation ceremony mostly in her honor,
Speaker 1: And it hadn't even occurred to me to ask myself
Speaker 1: what her confirmation name was. All this time, I knew
Speaker 1: intuitively I had to come to it on my own,
Speaker 1: and I feel her smiling on all of the non
Speaker 1: religious ways I connect to spirituality as represented by deb
Speaker 1: I hope the story makes you both smile and know
Speaker 1: that this Easter I will be taking on the name
Speaker 1: Deborah as part of my spiritual identity with my grandmother,
Speaker 1: my husband, and my psychic teachers in my heart.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, I am so embarrassed.
Speaker 3: Why why are you embarrassed?
Speaker 2: I'm honored, but I'm so embarrassed. I mean, good golly,
Speaker 2: oh my golly. Oh, that's a huge honor, and I
Speaker 2: so appreciate it. Thank you so much. What I actually
Speaker 2: said on that episode she's referring to was not Saint Deborah,
Speaker 2: but Judges Deborah. In the Old Testament of the Book
Speaker 2: of Judges, there is a woman named Deborah, and.
Speaker 3: She heard Saint Deblis.
Speaker 2: She heard that.
Speaker 3: There's a reason for that, because.
Speaker 2: I don't know anything about Saint Deborah. I'm honored, and
Speaker 2: I thank you. And I love that it's about your
Speaker 2: grandmother and your husband and about connecting to your own
Speaker 2: spiritual growth and process. And I love that when one word,
Speaker 2: no matter what the word is, becomes a catalyst and
Speaker 2: a connector amongst so many ways of being in the world.
Speaker 2: For example, in my newsletter early in January, I wrote
Speaker 2: about my word for the year being empty. That is
Speaker 2: my word empty, and so much happened, and so many
Speaker 2: of you have written me about how that has felt
Speaker 2: to you to find that word as a lists for
Speaker 2: you as well. So I love all of our connection
Speaker 2: with that. But the web just keeps growing with that word,
Speaker 2: and I have a feeling that your confirmation name will
Speaker 2: keep growing with you in layers of how you look
Speaker 2: at the meaning of all the information that comes connected
Speaker 2: to that word. For you. So when Easter comes around,
Speaker 2: I will be thinking of you and your confirmation name
Speaker 2: on that morning. How wonderful. Thank you.
Speaker 1: We should light a candle for her on Easter morning,
Speaker 1: I will.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I love that. That is so beautiful.
Speaker 1: She's right, there is more because think about everything that
Speaker 1: had to happen, Easter's landing on her grandmother's birthday.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 1: I mean the connections, that's so so beautiful.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: I try not to read reviews of my books because
Speaker 1: you know that's tricky and hard. And someone left a
Speaker 1: review and it said something like I really enjoyed this
Speaker 1: book even though I heard most of this on her podcast,
Speaker 1: and it wasn't like a bad.
Speaker 3: Review, do you know what I mean? But I just
Speaker 3: looked at.
Speaker 1: That and I was like, yeah, after fifteen years, do
Speaker 1: I have anything new to say? Which just kind of
Speaker 1: sent me into this little slump. Does that ever happen
Speaker 1: to you where you're like, yeah, I don't know that
Speaker 1: I have anything new to offer or say or give.
Speaker 1: And then I read an email like this and it's like, no,
Speaker 1: it doesn't have to be that hard. Samantha to Echo
Speaker 1: or other listener, just keep on keeping on and sharing
Speaker 1: your light. That's what it's all about.
Speaker 2: It really is, and golly we're trying. We do have
Speaker 2: some new things coming up this year and some things
Speaker 2: we want to revisit.
Speaker 1: But anyway, thank you so much everyone. All of these
Speaker 1: emails and stories just are really so touching and so
Speaker 1: affirming and remind us that.
Speaker 3: We really are a community.
Speaker 1: We really are sitting around a little fireplace tonight listening
Speaker 1: to all of this and connecting with one another. And
Speaker 1: if any of these stories have touched your heart, I
Speaker 1: really would invite you all to say a prayer for
Speaker 1: all of these listeners who are going through big stuff
Speaker 1: and happy stuff and hard stuff, because we can all
Speaker 1: use every bit of positive energy floating our way.
Speaker 2: Absolutely we can. There's no such thing as enough light
Speaker 2: and love in the world.
Speaker 3: That's great. Thank you guys so much.
Speaker 1: If you want to send in a question, remember just
Speaker 1: email us Psychic Teachers at gmail and we will be
Speaker 1: back with you next week. In the meantime, be the
Speaker 1: light for yourself and others.
Speaker 2: Take care everyone.
Speaker 1: Thank you for listening to Psychic Teachers, your podcast for seekers,
Speaker 1: light workers, mystics, and magical thinkers. If you like the show,
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Speaker 1: have a great week.