Aug. 15, 2026
Witch Trials to Today: Why We Still Fear the Word
Show Notes: The Word Witch — Reclamation, History & What It Really Means
The word "witch" carries centuries of weaponized fear. In this episode, Courtney traces its etymology from Old English wicca (magic, sorcery) back to German roots meaning "bending and shaping reality"—a definition that mirrors the actual work of energy healing, intention-setting, and neural rewiring that modern practitioners do every day.
But somewhere between medieval Christianity's spread and King James's demonology texts, the word became a tool of control. Women who were healers, herbalists, independent, or simply in total control of themselves were burned and hanged. The witch trials weren't about devil worship. They were about silencing women's power, their livelihoods, their autonomy.
Courtney refuses to sanitize her work anymore. She's done warping her brand to make others comfortable. When she stands in networking meetings and says "I'm your local witch," she's reclaiming a word that was meant to destroy her ancestors. Energy healing, tarot, spellwork, ritual—it's all witchcraft. And she's honored to say it.
The episode also addresses the real tension: people still flinch at the word. Communities present themselves as inclusive, then edit her out of reels for using it. The bias runs deep. But Courtney's challenge is simple: check what you believe about witches, and ask yourself why.
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Hello, welcome to Practically Magic. I'm excited
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today to be doing something a little bit different.
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We're going to do some crafting today. So while
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I'm talking about our subject, I'll show you
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some things that we're making and talk about
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the Wheel of the Year turned to the harvest season.
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We're going to start today's episode as we always
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do with pulling a card. And today I'm using the
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Everyday Witch Tarot. We're in my dining room.
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So if you think it looks a little different or
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you Hear some odd noises here and there just
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know we're in a different part of my house And
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that's why and that's what's gonna happen. Maybe
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we'll have guests joining us unexpectedly as
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we're here in the middle of the house the hearth
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the central part of the house So the tarot that
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we're going to pull today if you haven't been
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watching my show. I pull a card and we are going
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to trust that this card is just right for you.
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And the message that it gives you is just what
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you need today, no matter what time of year or
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when you happen upon this episode. All right.
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And I never know what the card is going to be
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ahead of time. Only a few times have we pulled
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a card ahead of time. So, oh. Okay, I have a
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couple of background stories to go with this
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card. So if you are watching on YouTube, you
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can see what the card looks like. This fantastic
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knight of cups riding a broom over shark -infested
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waters with his cup that is overflowing with
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heart bubbles. Do you know what this makes me
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think of? And I don't know if anyone else remembers
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this, but when I was a kid growing up, we used
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to listen to Dr. Laura. Yes, very conservative,
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AM radio. Dr. Laura, she wrote books like The
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Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands. You can
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go ahead and comment and write in on your thoughts
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about that. I will probably agree with you if
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you have anything to say about good old Dr. Laura.
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But what I do remember... from growing up is
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that Dr. Laura used to say something to women
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about choosing a husband or choosing a mate,
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choosing a person to be their person. And she
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used to say this thing. Microphone's like creeping
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away from me here. She used to say this thing
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where she say. Pick someone who would swim across
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shark -infested waters to bring you a lemonade.
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Like, that's how you know that they were really,
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truly a committed, loyal, loving person to be
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your person, right? And not bad advice. I mean,
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overall, find someone who's really that committed
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to you. But there's a shark in the water on this
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card. And I do think of the night of cups as
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grand gestures of love, grand gestures of emotional
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commitment. So I think that works perfectly.
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A lot of times when I'm doing card readings on
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a live TikTok, I get a lot of questions like,
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is so and so really into me? Is so and so going
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to come back to me? I also happen to be on forums
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with people who are just at the beginning stages
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of engaging with witchcraft and energy work and
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things like that. And they will say, oh my gosh,
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I did a love spell and I asked so and so to come
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back to me and blah, blah, blah, and this and
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that. This really represents those like red flags
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in a relationship. I feel like even if it's not
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a romantic relationship, if it's something that
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you are invested in emotionally in a relationship
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of any kind, this would be the card suggesting
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to you that if they're just not that into you,
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if the evidence supports that you are far more
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committed and willing and putting in the effort
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than they are, then that's something to be aware
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of, right? So pay attention to when they're giving
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those grand gestures towards something that shows
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that, yes, they are just as emotionally invested
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in this relationship that you have as you are.
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And then decide what you're going to do with
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that relationship accordingly, I guess, would
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be the message today. So what are we doing in
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my dining room today? Well, I thought it would
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be fun since when I'm recording this, we just
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had the weekend where August 1st, Saturday was
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Lunessa or La Masse or the mass. However, you
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prefer to pronounce it in all of the history
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and background and language and how that works.
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You can decide. But it is the harvest season,
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the first harvest season. So we talked a little
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bit about healing cycles when it comes to what
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it means when the wheel turns towards this time
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of year and what is it that we are focusing on.
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And we've had our dog days of summer, right?
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When Litha, summer solstice happened, we were
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kind of in a rest and see sort of sit back and
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watch, observe moment. This is the moment when,
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in the turning of the wheel of the year, in the
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alchemical cycles of transformation, you might
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have set a lot of stuff down for the summer and
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not taken it up, taken up the mantle of working
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on it, but it's now all very much in front of
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you, like it's laid out on the table, much like
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the table I have in front of me, which I'm going
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to show in just a minute. If you have all of
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this stuff that you've set down, you've said
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no to any new things for a minute to see what
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sort of things you want to pick back up, this
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is the time of sorting it out, right? A lot of
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times, reading tarot for this season, I might
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get a lot of sevens. Seven of pentacles is probably
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a great tarot card to associate with this feeling
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or this energy or this vibe of essentially Sort
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it out. What are you picking up? What are you
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going to invest your time and energy in? What
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lights your fire? And what needs to be set aside?
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You might love it all, but it doesn't mean it's
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all for you. So we're gonna be making bundles.
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I have some leaves that I foraged over the weekend.
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If you follow me on social media, you might have
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seen my Instagram. my TikTok at Prism Healing
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where I showed a video that my husband took of
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me. He caught a little video of me out in the,
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we were at Bridal Falls and here I was out there
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just like pulling Mullen out of the ground. You
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know what I noticed though, we're in a drought,
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we're in Utah and I noticed that the Mullen or
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Mullen, however you pronounce it, It's not as
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vibrant this year, which is good because Molina
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is invasive. We don't want it to spread. It was
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brought here by settlers like my own ancestors,
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and we don't want it to flower and spread. So
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I imagine if you live in a place like... Where
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I live, we're doing the environment as service
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by pulling all of that out of the ground before
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it flowers, before it spreads. So it's good and
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it also makes perfect big nice leaves for bundles
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that we're going to be making today. So I pulled
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a bunch of melon and the other thing is, is that
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it has nice big stalks with the flowers at the
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top and you pull those out and you pull all the
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leaves off and you hang the stalks upside down.
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They make great, which is torches, which I'll
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show you in a minute. So lots of great crafting
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can be done at this time of year. I'm laying
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out, I've already, ooh, look at this leaf is
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like double, doubled up. It's split in the middle.
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I don't think I've ever seen that. That's interesting.
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You'll have to be watching instead of listening
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if you want to see what that looks like. But
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mullein leaves, mullein leaves, they are very
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nice and full and they are... I found a couple
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of good ones, but a lot of them were dry and
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brittle already. So it was kind of hard to find
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ones that weren't eaten up by insects or dried
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out. Here's one that's not so pretty. It's holes
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in it. Now, we're making smudging bundles for
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smoke cleansing. However, I need to just reiterate
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that for me personally, it's important that when
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I engage with smoke cleansing, I try to be...
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honor more of what is... localized plants and
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herbs that are indigenous to my own homeland
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rather than something that is sacred to the indigenous
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people of this land of which I am not indigenous
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of. I try to engage with that appropriately instead
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of appropriating. I have been gifted and I have
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used white sage bundles. However, I use it very
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specifically for very specific purposes and aligned
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with what I'm given permission to use it for.
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I personally don't purchase them and use them.
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out of my own choice. So I do encourage you to
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kind of look at what would be appropriating a
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culture or a sacred practice that maybe your
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own ancestors didn't use, but we all do have
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a history in most cultures of some sort of smoke
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cleansing, smudging of some kind. Saning is what
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they call it in the Nordic. Nordic. Ancestry
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so I tend to call it that and today what herbs
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I have in association with that are going to
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be I collected some pine and juniper There is
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some white or I'm sorry not white white sage
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We were just talking about There is some Utah
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sage brush That's very prominent here that smells
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really good and can also be added to the bundles
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and burned. I would look into what that practice
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means because when I do home cleansings and I
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come and bring some smoke cleansing to use, I
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do not use it to clear the space. It purifies
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the air. It's got a lot of, you know, there's
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a lot of science back to how smoke cleansing
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can be beneficial to the space. However, culturally
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and spiritually, just using saging as a way of
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cleansing a space is inaccurate. And so I would
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do your research, look into it more, but I will
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give you just a little bit to... as a jumping
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off point to your learning about it, is that
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a lot of times it was used to call in ancestors.
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So it would be more used as a bringing in the
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positivity or bringing in the protection and
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the affirmations of what the space is going to
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be, more of like the blessing part of the cleansing
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process. So when I go through a home cleansing
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session and I've done a couple in person, I can
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do them from a distance. I can just do them where
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someone orders a home cleansing for their address.
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I can do it from where I am for their space.
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I don't necessarily have to be in the space to
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do it, which is the way energy work works. But...
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I've done a couple of really great home cleansing
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and I have a certain process that I go through.
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One of the things that I make sure I do is I
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use sound to cleanse, drumming, bells, rattles,
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certain items and tools that I feel are perfect
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for breaking up negative energy, residual energy,
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the previous owner's fingerprint, whatever that
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might be in the space and banishing it. you know,
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letting it move on and then sort of opening up
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the space like a vacuum to then welcome in new
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energy and new space and so that's when I use
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the smoke for cleansing or more for blessing
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and protecting and saying and calling in this
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space is for love, this space is for the new
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owners, blessing the space for them and preparing
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the space for them to use it. So I would look
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into how you want to actually use your smoke
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cleansing when it's appropriate and what sort
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of rituals you want to cultivate from that. But
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I have picked some pine and some lavender. Here's
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some lavender I got permission to clip from some
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nearby spaces in my neighborhood. I will say
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also, if you haven't seen my previous episodes
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about root and ritual, the book was very powerful
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in being able to open up some ideas on how to
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engage with plant life when you are going to
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be collecting and foraging. It is really, really
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important that you tap into intention with collecting.
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the herbs that you're going to use. Even with
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the pine, I didn't clip the pine directly from
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a tree. I did just take what was fallen already.
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All right, so let's get to it. We are going to
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take some of these mullein leaves and lay them
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out. Everything is still wet or moist. from picking
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them. These are really great to overlap with
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each other, and I'm putting it all on a brown
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paper. So I'm going to tilt the camera down just
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a bit so you can see the workspace that I'm working
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with. I'm going to overlap these leaves a little
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bit, a couple different kinds. And then the lavender
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smells really, really strong. And I had to wait
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until it was shady or evening before I picked
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from the lavender bushes because they have a
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lot of bees and other pollinating insects that
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love lavender bushes, which is great. Again,
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I only ask permission of the lavender bush. Can
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I pick some of these pieces? Pine is especially
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difficult because it's usually either takes a
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long time to dry or you're trying to like clip
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it from a tree and it usually is not going to
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be dried at all. Or these these pieces that are
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dried I got this from fallen bushes. It's gonna
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be you know Very crumbly essentially, but we're
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rolling it up like a burrito We're gonna let
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the mullin or mullane leaves Kind of wrap around
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and give like a really tight See because I have
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some of the little bits exposed I'm gonna grab
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a couple of leaves on the outside too And let
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them wrap around to keep them all bundled Nice
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and taint in there And then string, which I'm
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going to want to wrap around the leaves. And
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then I'm going to also make sure that they tie,
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leaving a little string to hang it with. Am I
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as good at talking and working as Martha Stewart
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does when she does her shows? Not so much. Not
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so much. As soon as I get going, I'm losing track
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of what I was saying. That's right. Can't all
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be good at everything, right? So I just go through
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making sure that these get tied with some string
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access left over so that I can hang it upside
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down. I just hang it in my art room, honestly.
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With all the bundles and my art paintings that
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are drying and then tie it so that these can
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hang and dry. Make sure you use string that can
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burn and not leave some kind of toxic feeling
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things in the air when you're burning it because
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essentially you will be burning after it's dried,
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if you're smudging. So I'm tying this at the
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ends, and then I'm going to leave some string
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to hang it so that it'll hang upside down. I
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can do it this way. And if I want it nice and
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pretty, I just cut the ends so that they are
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nice and tidy. I have a very colorful string.
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to use for these bundles today. Okay, so I could
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use the white sage. I could use the Utah sage
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brush. I could take the lavender. Whatever it
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is you're using, make sure that you actually
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can burn it when it's dried, right? That's the
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idea. I may or may not be able to get the camera
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back to where it was originally, but that's okay.
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We're just finishing up. Yeah, you may have little
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buggies. I just have ants to crush as they go
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along. Send outside. All right friends, so this
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is our art project today. We are doing a little
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bit of crafting, which is also perfect for the
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season for a Luna set is to harvest, to harvest
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what it was that we've been working on growing
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and cultivating throughout the year. And so whether
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that's physical plants that you have been cultivating
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and that you are doing something with at this
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time, remember what harvest seasons. were about
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to our Indigenous ancestors, to those that took
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the opportunity to come together from their various
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places where they farmed or where they lived.
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And it was time to kind of gather as a community.
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So you see a lot of county fairs at this time.
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It's a great opportunity to show off what you
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feel you've been working on and cultivating.
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So if it's in business or in relationship or
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in family or you know whatever it is that you
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feel like has been your area of focus and goals
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that you've had since the planting season. This
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is a really great time to give yourself a pat
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on the back. During this cycle and when the autumn
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equinox comes at the end of September it's sort
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of that end of summer You know feeling that we
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all get that fall is on the way shorter days
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are coming and We get to reach out and Connect
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again with our community. So if you felt a little
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out of out of place or Disconnected in some way
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either spiritually or from family or from you
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know, the earth. This is a great time to reconcile
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that difference basket weaving, crafting. It's
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what it's all about at this season. So lean into
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it, enjoy it. I am going to personally recommend
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that if you did not take the opportunity to slow
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down in the summer and at the height of summer
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when it was time to rest and set things aside
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and you didn't do that, You need to check in
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with yourself and ask if you are really feeling
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burned out if you're feeling like you just kept
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going and you burned the candle at both ends
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when you felt that Maybe you should have taken
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some time for yourself there is going to come
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a sort of I was gonna say come to Jesus, which
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is a strange thing for a pagan to say I understand
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but It is kind of like a come to Jesus moment
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where you are going to be confronted with the
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choices that you've made. If you feel that your
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body is wearing down, you're getting sick, you
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are getting resentful, angry, burned out, irritable,
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and you start feeling a lot of those things during
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this shift of the season, this is great awareness.
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By the way, I am saying this from personal experience
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that that is kind of what I did. I looked at
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my summer and I said, gosh, I really need to
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clear my schedule because I've got way too much
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going on. I am. As I've mentioned before on the
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podcast, a stay -at -home mom, essentially, I
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am the primary caregiver of my three boys and
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their home for summer. So the fact that I could
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think that I could, I don't know, run a business
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and a podcast and all of the million other things
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that I sign up for, thinking that I had the time
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and energy to do that during summer while being
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a full -time mom, full -time home, domestic home
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manager, whatever you want to call that, it's
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not realistic. truthfully. So I thought I was
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clearing my plate quite a bit. I was, you know,
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taking a lot of things that I was doing, obligations
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and commitments, and pulling back on all of them.
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And essentially what I did is I just, I piled
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more on. I ended up doing more this summer than
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I have ever done ever, and somehow was juggling
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all of the things at once. But then I got to
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the turn of the wheel of the year, Lunasa, August
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1st came, and I have been unwell, was to say.
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My body is showing signs of wearing down and
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feeling tired and having low energy, and it's
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time for me to actually be forced to pull back
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on a lot of stuff. and say, you gotta pick up
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what really matters and only spend the time and
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energy on those things. So if you feel that you're
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in that space right now during this cycle, you're
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not alone. We all are confronted with that. So
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if the kids are going back to school, if you
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are able to clear your plate just a little bit
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more, I recommend that you do. And I recommend
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that you let it all sit. sit in front of you
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on the table and decide what is really going
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to be important, what's going to matter. And
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reach out to your community if you can. Speaking
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of community, as we wrap up today's episode,
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don't forget that we have currently active and
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live right now the Practical Magic 2 tickets
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are available to win. Go to Ride the Wave Media.
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You have to subscribe to this podcast and submit.
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your email so that we can give you the map. If
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you're in the Salt Lake South Jordan area, there
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is a map of where the 10 pairs of tickets are
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located. It is so much fun to go hide them in
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special locations that are connected to this
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podcast and parallel frequencies. We chose very
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specific spots where we had worked or where we
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have friends and those tickets are hidden all
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over the local area. On September 10th, we are
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going to be watching an early screening of Practical
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Magic 2 together with my witchiest witch friends.
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So please go get those tickets so you can come
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join us and see the movie with us. No greater
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event happening this year for witches than practical
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magic 2 coming out. I'm so excited So please
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go get your tickets We have 10 pairs free that
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we are giving away and you can come with us.
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We're gonna see it with light and love Reiki
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This is their event Aurora's enchanted apothecary
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their client appreciation event they rented out
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the theater for this screening and we get to
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tag along so go to ride the wave media you have
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to subscribe to this podcast and submit your
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email so that we can give you the map if you're
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in the salt lake south jordan area there is a
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map of where the 10 pairs of tickets are located
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it is so much fun to go hide them in special
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locations that are connected to this podcast
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and parallel frequencies. We chose very specific
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spots where we had worked or where we have friends
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and those tickets are hidden all over the local
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area. On September 10th, we are going to be watching
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an early screening of Practical Magic 2 together
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with my witchiest witch friends. So please go
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get those tickets so you can come join us and
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see the movie with us. No greater event happening
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this year for witches than Practical Magic 2
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coming out. I'm so excited. So please go get
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your tickets. We have 10 pairs free that we are
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giving away and you can come with us.
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Hello, welcome to Practically Magic. I'm excited
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today to be doing something a little bit different.
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We're going to do some crafting today. So while
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I'm talking about our subject, I'll show you
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some things that we're making and talk about
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the Wheel of the Year turned to the harvest season.
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We're going to start today's episode as we always
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do with pulling a card. And today I'm using the
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Everyday Witch Tarot. We're in my dining room.
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So if you think it looks a little different or
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you Hear some odd noises here and there just
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know we're in a different part of my house And
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that's why and that's what's gonna happen. Maybe
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we'll have guests joining us unexpectedly as
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we're here in the middle of the house the hearth
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the central part of the house So the tarot that
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we're going to pull today if you haven't been
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watching my show. I pull a card and we are going
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to trust that this card is just right for you.
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And the message that it gives you is just what
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you need today, no matter what time of year or
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when you happen upon this episode. All right.
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And I never know what the card is going to be
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ahead of time. Only a few times have we pulled
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a card ahead of time. So, oh. Okay, I have a
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couple of background stories to go with this
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card. So if you are watching on YouTube, you
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can see what the card looks like. This fantastic
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knight of cups riding a broom over shark -infested
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waters with his cup that is overflowing with
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heart bubbles. Do you know what this makes me
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think of? And I don't know if anyone else remembers
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this, but when I was a kid growing up, we used
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to listen to Dr. Laura. Yes, very conservative,
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AM radio. Dr. Laura, she wrote books like The
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Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands. You can
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go ahead and comment and write in on your thoughts
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about that. I will probably agree with you if
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you have anything to say about good old Dr. Laura.
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But what I do remember... from growing up is
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that Dr. Laura used to say something to women
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about choosing a husband or choosing a mate,
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choosing a person to be their person. And she
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used to say this thing. Microphone's like creeping
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away from me here. She used to say this thing
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where she say. Pick someone who would swim across
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shark -infested waters to bring you a lemonade.
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Like, that's how you know that they were really,
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truly a committed, loyal, loving person to be
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your person, right? And not bad advice. I mean,
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overall, find someone who's really that committed
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to you. But there's a shark in the water on this
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card. And I do think of the night of cups as
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grand gestures of love, grand gestures of emotional
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commitment. So I think that works perfectly.
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A lot of times when I'm doing card readings on
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a live TikTok, I get a lot of questions like,
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is so and so really into me? Is so and so going
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to come back to me? I also happen to be on forums
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with people who are just at the beginning stages
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of engaging with witchcraft and energy work and
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things like that. And they will say, oh my gosh,
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I did a love spell and I asked so and so to come
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back to me and blah, blah, blah, and this and
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that. This really represents those like red flags
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in a relationship. I feel like even if it's not
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a romantic relationship, if it's something that
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you are invested in emotionally in a relationship
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of any kind, this would be the card suggesting
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to you that if they're just not that into you,
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if the evidence supports that you are far more
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committed and willing and putting in the effort
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than they are, then that's something to be aware
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of, right? So pay attention to when they're giving
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those grand gestures towards something that shows
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that, yes, they are just as emotionally invested
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in this relationship that you have as you are.
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And then decide what you're going to do with
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that relationship accordingly, I guess, would
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be the message today. So what are we doing in
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my dining room today? Well, I thought it would
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be fun since when I'm recording this, we just
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had the weekend where August 1st, Saturday was
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Lunessa or La Masse or the mass. However, you
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prefer to pronounce it in all of the history
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and background and language and how that works.
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You can decide. But it is the harvest season,
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the first harvest season. So we talked a little
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bit about healing cycles when it comes to what
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it means when the wheel turns towards this time
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of year and what is it that we are focusing on.
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And we've had our dog days of summer, right?
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When Litha, summer solstice happened, we were
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kind of in a rest and see sort of sit back and
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watch, observe moment. This is the moment when,
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in the turning of the wheel of the year, in the
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alchemical cycles of transformation, you might
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have set a lot of stuff down for the summer and
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not taken it up, taken up the mantle of working
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on it, but it's now all very much in front of
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you, like it's laid out on the table, much like
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the table I have in front of me, which I'm going
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to show in just a minute. If you have all of
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this stuff that you've set down, you've said
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no to any new things for a minute to see what
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sort of things you want to pick back up, this
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is the time of sorting it out, right? A lot of
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times, reading tarot for this season, I might
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get a lot of sevens. Seven of pentacles is probably
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a great tarot card to associate with this feeling
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or this energy or this vibe of essentially Sort
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it out. What are you picking up? What are you
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going to invest your time and energy in? What
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lights your fire? And what needs to be set aside?
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You might love it all, but it doesn't mean it's
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all for you. So we're gonna be making bundles.
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I have some leaves that I foraged over the weekend.
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If you follow me on social media, you might have
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seen my Instagram. my TikTok at Prism Healing
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where I showed a video that my husband took of
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me. He caught a little video of me out in the,
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we were at Bridal Falls and here I was out there
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just like pulling Mullen out of the ground. You
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know what I noticed though, we're in a drought,
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we're in Utah and I noticed that the Mullen or
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Mullen, however you pronounce it, It's not as
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vibrant this year, which is good because Molina
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is invasive. We don't want it to spread. It was
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brought here by settlers like my own ancestors,
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and we don't want it to flower and spread. So
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I imagine if you live in a place like... Where
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I live, we're doing the environment as service
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by pulling all of that out of the ground before
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it flowers, before it spreads. So it's good and
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it also makes perfect big nice leaves for bundles
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that we're going to be making today. So I pulled
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a bunch of melon and the other thing is, is that
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it has nice big stalks with the flowers at the
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top and you pull those out and you pull all the
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leaves off and you hang the stalks upside down.
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They make great, which is torches, which I'll
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show you in a minute. So lots of great crafting
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can be done at this time of year. I'm laying
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out, I've already, ooh, look at this leaf is
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like double, doubled up. It's split in the middle.
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I don't think I've ever seen that. That's interesting.
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You'll have to be watching instead of listening
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if you want to see what that looks like. But
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mullein leaves, mullein leaves, they are very
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nice and full and they are... I found a couple
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of good ones, but a lot of them were dry and
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brittle already. So it was kind of hard to find
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ones that weren't eaten up by insects or dried
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out. Here's one that's not so pretty. It's holes
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in it. Now, we're making smudging bundles for
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smoke cleansing. However, I need to just reiterate
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that for me personally, it's important that when
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I engage with smoke cleansing, I try to be...
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honor more of what is... localized plants and
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herbs that are indigenous to my own homeland
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rather than something that is sacred to the indigenous
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people of this land of which I am not indigenous
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of. I try to engage with that appropriately instead
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of appropriating. I have been gifted and I have
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used white sage bundles. However, I use it very
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specifically for very specific purposes and aligned
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with what I'm given permission to use it for.
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I personally don't purchase them and use them.
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out of my own choice. So I do encourage you to
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kind of look at what would be appropriating a
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culture or a sacred practice that maybe your
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own ancestors didn't use, but we all do have
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a history in most cultures of some sort of smoke
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cleansing, smudging of some kind. Saning is what
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they call it in the Nordic. Nordic. Ancestry
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so I tend to call it that and today what herbs
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I have in association with that are going to
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be I collected some pine and juniper There is
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some white or I'm sorry not white white sage
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We were just talking about There is some Utah
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sage brush That's very prominent here that smells
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really good and can also be added to the bundles
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and burned. I would look into what that practice
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means because when I do home cleansings and I
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come and bring some smoke cleansing to use, I
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do not use it to clear the space. It purifies
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the air. It's got a lot of, you know, there's
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a lot of science back to how smoke cleansing
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can be beneficial to the space. However, culturally
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and spiritually, just using saging as a way of
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cleansing a space is inaccurate. And so I would
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do your research, look into it more, but I will
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give you just a little bit to... as a jumping
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off point to your learning about it, is that
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a lot of times it was used to call in ancestors.
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So it would be more used as a bringing in the
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positivity or bringing in the protection and
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the affirmations of what the space is going to
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be, more of like the blessing part of the cleansing
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process. So when I go through a home cleansing
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session and I've done a couple in person, I can
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do them from a distance. I can just do them where
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someone orders a home cleansing for their address.
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I can do it from where I am for their space.
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I don't necessarily have to be in the space to
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do it, which is the way energy work works. But...
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I've done a couple of really great home cleansing
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and I have a certain process that I go through.
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One of the things that I make sure I do is I
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use sound to cleanse, drumming, bells, rattles,
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certain items and tools that I feel are perfect
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for breaking up negative energy, residual energy,
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the previous owner's fingerprint, whatever that
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might be in the space and banishing it. you know,
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letting it move on and then sort of opening up
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the space like a vacuum to then welcome in new
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energy and new space and so that's when I use
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the smoke for cleansing or more for blessing
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and protecting and saying and calling in this
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space is for love, this space is for the new
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owners, blessing the space for them and preparing
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the space for them to use it. So I would look
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into how you want to actually use your smoke
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cleansing when it's appropriate and what sort
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of rituals you want to cultivate from that. But
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I have picked some pine and some lavender. Here's
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some lavender I got permission to clip from some
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nearby spaces in my neighborhood. I will say
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also, if you haven't seen my previous episodes
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about root and ritual, the book was very powerful
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in being able to open up some ideas on how to
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engage with plant life when you are going to
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be collecting and foraging. It is really, really
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important that you tap into intention with collecting.
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the herbs that you're going to use. Even with
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the pine, I didn't clip the pine directly from
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a tree. I did just take what was fallen already.
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All right, so let's get to it. We are going to
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take some of these mullein leaves and lay them
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out. Everything is still wet or moist. from picking
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them. These are really great to overlap with
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each other, and I'm putting it all on a brown
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paper. So I'm going to tilt the camera down just
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a bit so you can see the workspace that I'm working
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with. I'm going to overlap these leaves a little
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bit, a couple different kinds. And then the lavender
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smells really, really strong. And I had to wait
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until it was shady or evening before I picked
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from the lavender bushes because they have a
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lot of bees and other pollinating insects that
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love lavender bushes, which is great. Again,
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I only ask permission of the lavender bush. Can
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I pick some of these pieces? Pine is especially
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difficult because it's usually either takes a
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long time to dry or you're trying to like clip
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it from a tree and it usually is not going to
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be dried at all. Or these these pieces that are
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dried I got this from fallen bushes. It's gonna
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be you know Very crumbly essentially, but we're
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rolling it up like a burrito We're gonna let
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the mullin or mullane leaves Kind of wrap around
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and give like a really tight See because I have
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some of the little bits exposed I'm gonna grab
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a couple of leaves on the outside too And let
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them wrap around to keep them all bundled Nice
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and taint in there And then string, which I'm
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going to want to wrap around the leaves. And
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then I'm going to also make sure that they tie,
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leaving a little string to hang it with. Am I
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as good at talking and working as Martha Stewart
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does when she does her shows? Not so much. Not
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so much. As soon as I get going, I'm losing track
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of what I was saying. That's right. Can't all
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be good at everything, right? So I just go through
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making sure that these get tied with some string
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access left over so that I can hang it upside
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down. I just hang it in my art room, honestly.
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With all the bundles and my art paintings that
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are drying and then tie it so that these can
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hang and dry. Make sure you use string that can
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burn and not leave some kind of toxic feeling
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things in the air when you're burning it because
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essentially you will be burning after it's dried,
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if you're smudging. So I'm tying this at the
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ends, and then I'm going to leave some string
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to hang it so that it'll hang upside down. I
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can do it this way. And if I want it nice and
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pretty, I just cut the ends so that they are
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nice and tidy. I have a very colorful string.
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to use for these bundles today. Okay, so I could
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use the white sage. I could use the Utah sage
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brush. I could take the lavender. Whatever it
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is you're using, make sure that you actually
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can burn it when it's dried, right? That's the
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idea. I may or may not be able to get the camera
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back to where it was originally, but that's okay.
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We're just finishing up. Yeah, you may have little
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buggies. I just have ants to crush as they go
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along. Send outside. All right friends, so this
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is our art project today. We are doing a little
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bit of crafting, which is also perfect for the
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season for a Luna set is to harvest, to harvest
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what it was that we've been working on growing
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and cultivating throughout the year. And so whether
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that's physical plants that you have been cultivating
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and that you are doing something with at this
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time, remember what harvest seasons. were about
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to our Indigenous ancestors, to those that took
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the opportunity to come together from their various
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places where they farmed or where they lived.
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And it was time to kind of gather as a community.
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So you see a lot of county fairs at this time.
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It's a great opportunity to show off what you
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feel you've been working on and cultivating.
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So if it's in business or in relationship or
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in family or you know whatever it is that you
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feel like has been your area of focus and goals
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that you've had since the planting season. This
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is a really great time to give yourself a pat
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on the back. During this cycle and when the autumn
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equinox comes at the end of September it's sort
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of that end of summer You know feeling that we
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all get that fall is on the way shorter days
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are coming and We get to reach out and Connect
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again with our community. So if you felt a little
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out of out of place or Disconnected in some way
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either spiritually or from family or from you
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know, the earth. This is a great time to reconcile
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that difference basket weaving, crafting. It's
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what it's all about at this season. So lean into
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it, enjoy it. I am going to personally recommend
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that if you did not take the opportunity to slow
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down in the summer and at the height of summer
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when it was time to rest and set things aside
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and you didn't do that, You need to check in
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with yourself and ask if you are really feeling
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burned out if you're feeling like you just kept
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going and you burned the candle at both ends
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when you felt that Maybe you should have taken
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some time for yourself there is going to come
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a sort of I was gonna say come to Jesus, which
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is a strange thing for a pagan to say I understand
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but It is kind of like a come to Jesus moment
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where you are going to be confronted with the
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choices that you've made. If you feel that your
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body is wearing down, you're getting sick, you
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are getting resentful, angry, burned out, irritable,
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and you start feeling a lot of those things during
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this shift of the season, this is great awareness.
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By the way, I am saying this from personal experience
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that that is kind of what I did. I looked at
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my summer and I said, gosh, I really need to
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clear my schedule because I've got way too much
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going on. I am. As I've mentioned before on the
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podcast, a stay -at -home mom, essentially, I
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am the primary caregiver of my three boys and
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their home for summer. So the fact that I could
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think that I could, I don't know, run a business
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and a podcast and all of the million other things
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that I sign up for, thinking that I had the time
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and energy to do that during summer while being
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a full -time mom, full -time home, domestic home
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manager, whatever you want to call that, it's
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not realistic. truthfully. So I thought I was
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clearing my plate quite a bit. I was, you know,
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taking a lot of things that I was doing, obligations
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and commitments, and pulling back on all of them.
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And essentially what I did is I just, I piled
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more on. I ended up doing more this summer than
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I have ever done ever, and somehow was juggling
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all of the things at once. But then I got to
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the turn of the wheel of the year, Lunasa, August
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1st came, and I have been unwell, was to say.
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My body is showing signs of wearing down and
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feeling tired and having low energy, and it's
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time for me to actually be forced to pull back
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on a lot of stuff. and say, you gotta pick up
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what really matters and only spend the time and
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energy on those things. So if you feel that you're
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in that space right now during this cycle, you're
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not alone. We all are confronted with that. So
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if the kids are going back to school, if you
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are able to clear your plate just a little bit
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more, I recommend that you do. And I recommend
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that you let it all sit. sit in front of you
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on the table and decide what is really going
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to be important, what's going to matter. And
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reach out to your community if you can. Speaking
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of community, as we wrap up today's episode,
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don't forget that we have currently active and
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live right now the Practical Magic 2 tickets
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are available to win. Go to Ride the Wave Media.
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You have to subscribe to this podcast and submit.
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your email so that we can give you the map. If
00:25:56.180 --> 00:25:59.000
you're in the Salt Lake South Jordan area, there
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is a map of where the 10 pairs of tickets are
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located. It is so much fun to go hide them in
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special locations that are connected to this
00:26:11.480 --> 00:26:15.950
podcast and parallel frequencies. We chose very
00:26:15.950 --> 00:26:19.690
specific spots where we had worked or where we
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have friends and those tickets are hidden all
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over the local area. On September 10th, we are
00:26:27.869 --> 00:26:30.450
going to be watching an early screening of Practical
00:26:30.450 --> 00:26:33.470
Magic 2 together with my witchiest witch friends.
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So please go get those tickets so you can come
00:26:36.650 --> 00:26:41.890
join us and see the movie with us. No greater
00:26:41.890 --> 00:26:44.869
event happening this year for witches than practical
00:26:44.869 --> 00:26:48.509
magic 2 coming out. I'm so excited So please
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go get your tickets We have 10 pairs free that
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we are giving away and you can come with us.
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We're gonna see it with light and love Reiki
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This is their event Aurora's enchanted apothecary
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their client appreciation event they rented out
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the theater for this screening and we get to
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tag along so go to ride the wave media you have
00:27:13.779 --> 00:27:17.500
to subscribe to this podcast and submit your
00:27:17.500 --> 00:27:21.980
email so that we can give you the map if you're
00:27:21.980 --> 00:27:25.000
in the salt lake south jordan area there is a
00:27:25.000 --> 00:27:29.160
map of where the 10 pairs of tickets are located
00:27:29.160 --> 00:27:32.660
it is so much fun to go hide them in special
00:27:32.660 --> 00:27:36.130
locations that are connected to this podcast
00:27:36.130 --> 00:27:39.369
and parallel frequencies. We chose very specific
00:27:39.369 --> 00:27:42.849
spots where we had worked or where we have friends
00:27:42.849 --> 00:27:45.910
and those tickets are hidden all over the local
00:27:45.910 --> 00:27:49.250
area. On September 10th, we are going to be watching
00:27:49.250 --> 00:27:52.049
an early screening of Practical Magic 2 together
00:27:52.049 --> 00:27:55.210
with my witchiest witch friends. So please go
00:27:55.210 --> 00:27:57.710
get those tickets so you can come join us and
00:27:57.710 --> 00:28:01.769
see the movie with us. No greater event happening
00:28:01.769 --> 00:28:04.730
this year for witches than Practical Magic 2
00:28:04.730 --> 00:28:08.069
coming out. I'm so excited. So please go get
00:28:08.069 --> 00:28:12.690
your tickets. We have 10 pairs free that we are
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giving away and you can come with us.
