Casual Temple

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Happy holidays. I'm Marilee Duffy and I'd like to welcome you to Episode 13 of the Casual Temple. Today I'll be talking to you, the audience, about the approaching New Year 2024 and will reveal.

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The untold gifts from the numbers, stars and cards the coming year olds. But first, before we begin unwrapping our potential and holding our feets in our hands to mold, let's briefly address the proverbial elephant in the room. The number of the episode 13.

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Borrowing the God Kronos's time machine for a minute, we see that the number 13 holds a special significance across many traditions speculated to be due to the ancients observance of a lunar solar lunar solar calendar.

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12 full months and the odd seasonally aligned 13th, slightly less than half in its leg.

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It's the inconstant nature of the 13th moon that lends the number its superstitious concern, though surprisingly in contrast to contemporary practice, more often auspiciously potent than ill divining. Hortense, for every missing elevator button or horror movie Friday in the here and now.

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And here and now there are many lucky correspondences woven into the wisdom.

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Of the past for you to discover.

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I encourage you to do a little research and read about them so you can cast off any trepidation the charged wobbliness of 13 is similar to the infinitely turning in racing #8 the magician's main sneaky sign of power and change, which happens to be encoded through 2024, which we will get into as we.

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So long.

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So this week we're doing something a little different in that there isn't a.

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Guest this week.

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We just in recording this is the day after Christmas for the new Year. It would be interesting to review the collective energy of 2023 first, so that's what we'll do. And then the upcoming energy of 2024.

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Using the the divinatory methods that I use in my practice, the numerology and tarot through the lens of the Hermetic Kabbalah, and I'm sure the planets will make an appearance as we.

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Go along as well.

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First off, I did want to quickly talk about the year of the water rabbit. Then the significance of the number 13.

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First off, I want to quickly talk about the year. The water rabbit. Then we will take a look back at 2023 as it pertains to to numerology, gematria and the Kabbalah tree of what.

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I will look at the tarot cards that relate to 2023 will also share my own personal year number for 2023 and what events occurred to match that energy for me. So we'll look at basically the past before we kind of dive into the future energy of 2024.

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The then we will look at 2024, which is represented by the Wood Dragon in the Chinese Zodiac. Then the number 8IN Hebrew and gematria. We will then also take a look at the number 8 in the Taro and how that helps us understand that collective energy.

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I'll then do a three card spread reading for 2024 for the collective energy of our planet in this timeline in dimension.

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This will help us harness that energy that is available to us and move into the direction of our own true wills. Finally, I'll share some of the things I do in the new year to help guide and anchor my own intentions that will hopefully be useful or an inspiration for you to do your own intention setting.

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OK, let's so let's jump.

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Excuse me. Let's jump into.

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Reflections of 2023. We'll look back before we look forward. So 2023 was the year of the Water Rabbit, which oddly enough is about reflection and seeking balance as a collective and individually. So I look at these things as macro and micro. So as a collective and then on an individual basis.

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And so, 2023 numerology adds up to the #7 in Hebrew, the character that the Hebrew.

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Letter that the Hebrew letter Zayin, which in Geometria matches to China on the tree of the Kabbalistic Tree of Life INA is the great mother that is in the emanation of the Supernal Triangle. So you have catcher Hokama in Dina.

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And it is the Supernal Triad. It is the Supernal Sephira that gives us art form. So that is, you know.

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China is also linked to the planetary energy of Saturn, who is the Lord of Karma of individuals and of the collective, of course.

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So when I speak of the collective, I mean like basically humanity.

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Dimension in this time.

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On the planet Earth.

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The word is I in itself is a paradox, since it means weapon or sword as well as crown and scepter. Zion is the root word for the modern Hebrew, Hebrew word naison.

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Which is which means.

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Food or sustenance, and the word hosanna, which means nourishment.

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As a collective, we are facing times of conflict facing our Karma, Karma and the forms we have brought to the earthly plain within that conflict and struggle. Their lives of promise of calm and serenity.

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The 7th card of the Major Arcana is the Chariots. Chariot is a card of energy moving forward towards a spiritual cold.

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And the writer? Wait Smith the card. The chariot card is driven or the chariot is driven by a black.

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And white states.

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Representing the two pillars in the Cabala Tree of life, the masculine and the feminine energies that create the motion moving us forward, the senses are the question, the quest, and the Riddle of our lives. We are.

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Trying to answer.

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So again, this is like the larger picture and then us as individuals and thinking about what was going on in 2023, there was a lot of action.

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And movements and in karma, you know, Karma is really.

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There's different ways of looking at Karma. I kind of think of karma as.

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You know the unbalance of the true sort of the true nature of, you know, the of spirit. So it's not a bad or good thing. It just means we're trying to rebalance, and nature is on it. It's mission to do that. And so with 2023, you know, we saw a lot of.

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Conflict on earth that you know is really troubling to see.

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And you know, that is part of sort of rebalancing the the karma of the planet but with.

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That there are.

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Like, you know, beautiful, good things. I've seen locally that people have been trying to do sort of ease.

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Suffering and of people here, even in Seattle. So there is like, you know, there is the rebalancing effect of.

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Of karma.

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And so.

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This in the number.

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OK.

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OK. And then so I'll just share that. So for my personal year, there's a personal year number that you can kind of figure out yourself by.

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Adding up.

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All the.

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The numerical values of your birthdays so.

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The two 2 digits.

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Yeah. For your month day and then 4 digits for your year. And then to kind of combine that with the the overall year number, so 2023 which was set.

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You would get so 7 plus whatever the number your birth year was, and then you reduce it down to like one whole number.

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That would give you your personal your number. So my personal uh.

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Year number.

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For 20/23 was 6.

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In the Kabalo Tree of Life, 6 is associated with Netsec, which is the sphere of Venus which rules over our personal relationships.

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So kind of defining that for me in the last year was I went on a trip to the Philippines with my mother and my sister and her two sons, which is, you know, Philippines is where my mom is from. And we went there to meet with her family and then celebrate her 70th birthday.

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So and I was also born in the Philippines. Don't remember much because I was only there for a year and a half.

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And just the system this December just.

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A few weeks.

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Ago I went with two of my friends to Ireland where my dad's family is from.

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So it was a time of connecting to my fathers and my ancestral roots, and also spending time with two friends that I've known for over 20 years.

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So it was, you know, kind.

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Of a nice.

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Cap to the year of sort of this Venus.

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Energy of like relationships and coming together and you know kind of looking after that for myself.

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I'm curious, you know if you would like to share what your reflections of 2023 are, I'd love.

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To hear about it in the comments, what what things that you found looking back, do you kind of relate to that particular number?

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And yeah, we can then do our preview for the New Year and kind of go and move in that direction.

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So 2024 is the year of the Wood Dragon, so you may or may not be familiar that Chinese Zodiac has the.

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The different animals, but the different animals will have like a different element because the Chinese system is very much.

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Very much into like elements and things like that. So this year is the wood Dragon.

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Which is around evolution, improvement, abundance and setting the foundation for long term success.

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So like would.

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And maybe the Western traditions or associate is associated with fire and creative energy, so you can kind of look at it through your W if you're in the West, you can kind of look at.

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The Western interpretation of that of like, maybe there's something about creativity and setting things into motion and that spark of like an idea and kind of getting that started and Dragons for me like I've kind of meditated on what Dragons are.

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As a like a a spiritual energy A to you know, spiritual guide energy. So what I've kind of got from my own meditations and communing with those energies is that they are an energy that was present at the creation if of our material world, so material.

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Build here that we exist on on Earth.

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Yeah, for Dragons. As an energy, they are associated with sort of the primordial energy that was present at the start of the universe, and definitely the start of the creation of the material world that we exist in. So there are these ancient creator beings and.

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And also they're divided up in the different elements as.

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Well, so they are like a really cool energy to look at as far as kind of imagining, you know, like what a dragon would be involved in in creating universe or the material world.

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And also something to share because I live here in Seattle, my oh.

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And so another thing to share is that the Dragon Energy was present at the creation of the universe, and definitely the creation of the material world.

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The Dragon Energy is something that is very interesting to look into and experience for yourself.

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So another thing to think about is that I live here in Seattle and my kundalini yoga teacher said us and Ron would always tell us that Seattle had Dragon or his teacher told him that Seattle had Dragon Energy.

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So I was.

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Kind of like.

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Trying you figuring out what that really meant, because that that's all he said. He didn't really say what that meant, but.

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Seattle historically, in at least the modern age, has been a boom and bust town, so a lot of businesses, you know, started and ended here. But and a lot of like the economy kind of, you know, kind of has rises and bumps and all sorts of things.

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And but I also look at it as that there is a lot of creative energy that exists in Seattle, a lot of forward thinking technology technology has come out of Seattle as far as like something that has been developed by individuals or company and then kind of delivered to the collective. So I kind of look at it.

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In that way as well, so maybe that's.

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Something to consider is you.

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Move into. You know when the Chinese New Year starts, what the year of the wood.

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Dragon would mean.

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To you and how you can harness that energy for yourself.

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OK.

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So 2024 neurology, neurologically starts is the #8 and eight in Hebrew is associated with.

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The letter pet western, maybe English people speaking people will pronounce it checks because it starts with Ch, but I believe it's like it's like a very kind of good role pronunciation. It means life, new beginnings. And when you look at the way that it is drawn, the character itself.

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It looks like a bridge or a doorway.

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And so, you know and so it's.

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Not a door.

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But it's a.

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Doorway. And so it's a liminal space of transformation.

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So it's also linked to this Semitic word for thread, which is also linked to the of the Egyptian word Wick of a candle. So if you think about like thread and then the Wick of a candle is basically a thread in Egyptian hieroglyphs in meditation.

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You know, I've kind of meditated on.

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The Wick in Egyptian hieroglyphs, and it symbolizes the weaving of your fates.

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You know you can leave your faith, but it could also be like changed or or pause. Like if you you blow out a candle, you're kind of like definitely adjusting your face.

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And also if you think.

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About the act of like a breath.

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It connects your feet, your feet is connected to the act of speech and of prayer. So these are ways that you could leave your own destiny. And I'll just share that in my.

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Own practice I've.

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You know, kind of learned that.

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Actually speaking things out loud is very, very powerful. There's a lot of intention setting you can do inside your head and that works as.

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Well, but I feel like if you're really wanting to adjust the track of your life and I kind of see these things as tracks and we're talking about.

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Threads that you can see those threads.

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I kind of see the the the options of your life are kind of laid out in railroad track.

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And so if you want to move over.

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If you railroad tracks from where you are, there's going to be a little bit more energy. There's more energy you need to put into.

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That because there's more effort.

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And the reason I like.

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The imagery of a railroad track is, I think, sure. You've seen those like old fashioned black and white films where the there would be some guy that would have to actually switch the.

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Track right, he.

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Would have to.

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Go in and like pull this lever. It would switch the trap.

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So I think that that is, you know the way is like a magician. We're switching the tracks.

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Over to one we.

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Can see the potentials right? We can see the potentiality of you know where our life can go. And this way you get to choose instead of like having that defined for for you by somebody else.

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So that's why I really love the idea of, you know, I think prayer is a wonderful thing. If you want to, you know, to to help people around you, to help yourself, to commune with the with divinity. So prayer and and speaking your intentions really helps you to weave your own.

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And the number.

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Eight, you know, so I'm a hermetic kabbalist, so we're going to talk about the Kabbalah for sure. So eight is associated to the code on the Tree of life.

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Code is an interesting energy. It is the energy of the magician. Code is associated to the planet Mercury, so there's a lot of correspondences there with like the magician.

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That sort of energy. So the gods, I tend to think about.

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When I'm thinking about Hode are Mercury Hermes and touts because they're also associated with wisdom, writing, communication, and magic. So 8 is a really.

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Like transformative number.

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If you want to think of it about it that.

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Way so hope for me.

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And you know what? I've sort of read, other people have said it. It kind of goes.

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Back to what we're talking about.

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With the WIC with with like the thread.

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Meeting your own destiny prayer.

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So Hood is the way.

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Of reflection and prayer and then setting.

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Into conscious motion and your own destiny.

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So I'd like to take a look at a couple tarot cards just to define a little bit better what that energy is. So here is the.

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Is the magician card.

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It is the first card after.

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The full card, so it's card number one.

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I picked it.

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Though, because you know we're talking about the eight, you know, the eight-year, the eight-year is connected to Hood connected to the magician.

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The tarot card. So we're going to talk about.

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That so the magician, if you look at the magician here, they have all the.

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Tools they need.

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In front of them, they understand the tools to make their intentions. They're well known in.

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The material world.

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So of course you're gonna notice because we're.

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Talking about the.

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Eight that there is a luminous gate or the Infinity symbol, as most people would know it above the magicians's head.

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However, it's on its side.

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And so that's, you know, kind of again thinking like, why would, why would it be on its?

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Side and so to.

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Me, it's, you know, kind of again representing the the motion of energy between the two pillars of masculine feminine pillars of the tree of life.

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So it's on its side because there's a constant shifting of that energy.

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OK.

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So in.

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So as we know it, the Infinity symbol is something that means decorated with ribbons in Latin and in Greek it means simply ribbon. So again, we're going back to sort, Sir, what we talked about before about ribbon or thread and Wicks and ribbons. There's like a continuing.

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Sort of corresponding theme about.

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Eight right. And then what that means and what we can derive from that in our own?

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Way for 2024.

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So also if you think about.

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You know a lot of.

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These symbols are 2D, right? They're recorded on tarot cards are reported in.

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Books and scriptures on tablets. If you think about this symbol of the limus gate of the Infinity symbol as a 3D object.

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You can see how it resembles a torus.

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Right that shape.

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Which is a closed form containing A rotating curve.

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So I always think of a tourist as an object of constant refinement, right? If you look at how you maybe who's seeing visualizations of a torus, it's it's holding its shape, but it's in a constant state of like renewal. It's like.

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You know, refinement. It's like, I think of somebody who's like mining for gold, you know, in a river or something. You're kind of. You're trying to get get to the gold of.

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Of something you know, it's like shaking out all of the things that aren't true that aren't you that aren't the gold. So that's what I think about, what I think the tourists.

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I'm going to think of this sort.

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Of moving energy.

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As we look at the 8th card.

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Of the major arcana.

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Of of.

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Of the tarot, in addition to the magician, so the 8th card is the strength card.

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And again, you can see that there.

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Is that over her head is another luminous gate, another Infinity symbol.

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I love this card because most people, when they look at it, you know, they kind of get a really cool, like, pretty immediate interpretation around sort of like.

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Either like the Taming of Animal or anger or or something energy with something soft and feminine like there's like another approach to manage sort of very forceful fierce energy. Right. A lot of people kind of get that from.

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This card and.

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I think that's a really good impression of when you see this card. It's a really good one.

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I tend to see something a.

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Little deeper. When I look at it, however.

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I'm in sort of my own practice.

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Around again another refinement, right. Like what makes us strong? What makes you know metal strong is you're again refining it, taking out the impurities, making it.

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That's something that's very.

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Strong and useful and valuable.

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So it's kind of under. So I look at this card as understanding our own true strengths and our weaknesses.

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Here you you have this sort of earthly, angelic woman who silently subduing a lion, which is a solar symbol.

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And the sun is linked to Tipper wrath on the Tree of Life, which is the highest spiritual manifestation of knowledge that can be achieved on the material plane.

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Right, there's other.

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Sephiroth. Above. Tipper Rath. Those are very. You know, those are of their own nature. But truth is a pretty high manifestation and understanding of that knowledge on the material plane. So the sun and the lion here is also a representation of our egos, which does not need to be killed or dispersed.

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We're treated in.

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A way of.

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Of acceptance with serenity, calm and patience. Right. That's what we get from this card. We get that this woman.

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Is is approaching this this situation, which would normally would be frightening with serenity, calm and patience. So this is the strength in ourselves, like understanding where we are weak and.

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Where we are strong.

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And and so now we can develop a plan on the way forward, backed by our own wisdom and understanding.

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Of our own shadows of light.

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Because in this card, as she's representing sort of the higher energies of the feminine feminine principle, but also the.

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The earthly, you know, achievements of that principle, like that's really what it's showing us here.

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So we now have a plan to move forward, which is backed by our strength and wisdom of understanding.

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And we now have we have all the tools we need, our minds will and spirit are in alignments and now we can step forward and bring that reality into Mallacoota in our material.

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Plane which is.

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All right, so now we're going to.

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Move on to the tarot that I.

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Pulled 4/20/24. I pulled three cards.

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From the writers weight Smith deck.

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And they're really cool. I'm.

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Very excited to see these because.

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I didn't. I didn't actually. I read all the.

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Stuff about eats before I even pulled these cards, so.

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It was really cool that they they fell.

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The way they did and.

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I'm really excited to.

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Show them to you so.

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In the first position we have the hanged man.

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Second position is the levers third position.

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Is the sun.

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And so first for the hangman, you know.

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I always see.

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Like contemplation and new perspective, right, I think most people see that when they see the hanged man. He doesn't look like he's suffering.

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He's kind of relaxed, kind of.

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Meditative in a way. So he's kind of.

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Seeing things from a different point of view.

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And and the way I kind of read these cards is because they're in threes.

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This is sort of giving us like.

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The past energy that we are starting the.

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World out with.

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So this is sort of the past energy that we are going to be starting with 2023.

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We all have.

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Like a new perspective.

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Even meditating on. Maybe you know what a new world could look like, how we can.

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With how we ourselves can assist in a new world and and be that that strong wisdom holding person moving into 2024.

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So also another thing to think of is there is sort of a negative connotation of the hangman where it could be seen as like martyrdom and sacrifice.

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So those are things to kind of think about as well, like martyrdom and sacrifice.

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There there may be.

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Some positive connotations seen to murder them as far as like a specific agenda being moved forward, but.

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On a personal interpersonal level, you know that's something.

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Really, people take on themselves.

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And you know, it's more out of some form of resentment or frustration with the relationships around them. And then the sacrifice again is really understanding you as a human like the again, those strengths and weaknesses.

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Of what sacrifice actually is?

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And you know how that shows up in your life?

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And you know what you truly.

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Once, instead of having to sacrifice your own, your own true will your own true you for other people not to say that you don't want to help other people and advance other people forward, but it's something to think about. Like, why are you doing those things? Is it to truly be of service or is it something where you are?

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Trying to gain something just for your own ego or your own self. So something to think about.

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And another cool thing is.

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The legs of the hangman are creating the number 4, which is the planetary number of Jupiter. Jupiter is the guru or.

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Prophet of the Zodiac.

00:29:24 Merrily

So that's kind of the guru energy. So it's like there's a lot of wisdom that we're starting 2024 with because we've had this new perspective, a lot of inner work that we've done as a collective on that kind of, you know, working on the vision that we want to see.

00:29:41 Merrily

I'm so you know, very cool. Hey, man.

00:29:47 Merrily

So it's a great place to start, in my opinion, is we're starting from a place of wisdom and understanding.

00:29:53 Merrily

The second position is Lubbers.

00:29:56 Merrily

So again, you know, we talked how the Hebrew letter at it looks looks like a bridge, looks like a doorway.

00:30:05 Merrily

And this particular card I see the the Trinity of energies, right? It's the the Supernal triad.

00:30:16 Merrily

In the Kabbalah, there's three triads, 3 triangles. There is a supernal Triad, triad is the catcher hook Magina. Again, you know, showing up once more.

00:30:30 Merrily

So the masculine and feminine energies sort of the.

00:30:36 Merrily

The Divine human divinity generally, you know, if you were talking about the Supernal triangle, you would say, oh, is that catcher or that God? I see this is, like, sort of the layering of the Supernal triangle also with the triangle of pepperette that's created at the heart Center. The Angel is a solar Angel.

00:30:58 Merrily

So it is like kind of combining the ideas of the human experience, the human destiny, the human balancing of that of those natures. But it's also so creating the solar solar tippets Angel.

00:31:14 Merrily

And in this, the divine feminine in.

00:31:17 Merrily

2024.

00:31:18 Merrily

Is going to play a really strong leadership role.

00:31:22 Merrily

Just by late and this.

00:31:23 Merrily

Is like sort of in the heart of 2024.

00:31:27 Merrily

In this card you see that.

00:31:30 Merrily

The feminine figure she's looking at, the Angel, looking at the Angel for guidance. Looking at the Angel for advice. Looking at the Angel for direction. The man, the masculine figure male figure is looking towards the woman right for that.

00:31:45 Merrily

For it's his direction. His, you know his purpose. So I think that stepping in and and having taking having the feminine.

00:31:56 Merrily

Principle of the feminine divine feminine. Take a more active seat in the direction of how our energies are going to play out in 2024 is going to be huge and I think we're going to.

00:32:08 Merrily

See that?

00:32:14 Merrily

And so we talked to you know, we talked about sort of the bridge of of these energies.

00:32:20 Merrily

And so you have.

00:32:22 Merrily

Hoka is the great father and then you have the great.

00:32:25 Merrily

Mother, that is Dinah.

00:32:28 Merrily

On the Kabbalah Tree of life.

00:32:32 Merrily

So you know.

00:32:33 Merrily

That is.

00:32:34 Merrily

The communication, the bridges that we create between these two energies within ourselves.

00:32:39 Merrily

Within the people around us within sort of like those energies as a whole becoming more familiar and more comfortable with our feminine energy and stepping into that is going to be only beneficial in 2024, really communing with that energy.

00:32:58 Merrily

And so the final position everybody likes.

00:33:00 Merrily

To see the sun.

00:33:02 Merrily

In a tarot reading.

00:33:04 Merrily

So the son card.

00:33:07 Merrily

Is where our energy we're going to lead. Like the end of 2024, as a collective, we're going to be starting 2025 with a lot of sun energy, which is really exciting. So the sun.

00:33:19 Merrily

Leo the child, the divine child. New beginnings. Truth. The son opens up, shines light on all dark places.

00:33:30 Merrily

So think of that too, because it you.

00:33:33 Merrily

Know well this is a great card. You know there's a whole year to work through some of this energy. So if the dark places are going to be shown on that, you know we're going to have to look at a lot of.

00:33:42 Merrily

Really uncomfortable, horrible stuff as a collective human.

00:33:48 Merrily

The human race.

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So we really want to.

00:33:52 Merrily

Keep that in.

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Mind that you know it's necessary to look at those dark things, but there is always the sun to come and help.

00:34:01 Merrily

Kind of.

00:34:04 Merrily

Let us understand that at the at the ends that there's at the end, there's always a light at the end of the tunnel of how of looking at those dark places, and there's a lot of promise and.

00:34:14 Merrily

New things that can be created from sweeping out all of that old.

00:34:20 Merrily

Dusty energy that we don't look, we don't need any longer.

00:34:25 Merrily

And so this, you know, we talked about sort of.

00:34:28 Merrily

The magician card, the 8:00.

00:34:31 Merrily

So here is a really good manifestation. Point is ending the energy with the energy of.

00:34:37 Merrily

The sun.

00:34:41 Merrily

You know, so that will be really strong, jumping off point for that energy.

00:34:50 Merrily

So now that we've covered the energies that are at play, what can we do to harness that for?

00:34:56 Merrily

Ourselves a simple way it is.

00:35:00 Merrily

To set an intention for the year, knowing that the energy around the symbol of a doorway bridge, the connection of the masculine and feminine energy that you can invite that.

00:35:10 Merrily

Into your life and help and ask for how do I?

00:35:16 Merrily

And and have your, you know, maybe ask your guides and your angels, your you know, whatever energies that you.

00:35:21 Merrily

Work with and.

00:35:22 Merrily

How you can see it and how you?

00:35:24 Merrily

Can use it in your life.

00:35:26 Merrily

And since there's a strong call for the divine feminine, that's another energy that you really want to have some focus on. You can even do it in ways that you might not think would would be helpful for you, but honoring the mothers, the sisters, the women in your life honoring the ancestors.

00:35:46 Merrily

The female ancestors of your lineage.

00:35:49 Merrily

I'm your living relatives, your friends. I'm really like, you know, seeing them as strong, feminine forces that you appreciate and that you're happy to have them in your life.

00:36:02 Merrily

That will only when you see that in others you will see that.

00:36:04 Merrily

In yourself so.

00:36:05 Merrily

I you know.

00:36:07 Merrily

That's why people are such great mirrors. They can help.

00:36:10 Merrily

Open that up.

00:36:11 Merrily

Because it's harder to see it in yourself, but you can easily see wonderful qualities and other people.

00:36:20 Merrily

And that is only just, you know that is a way to really help us all step through that new doorway together. And so the doorway again is like the liminal space. It's where potentiality can happen. It's it's the passage, you know, between two worlds, the old World and the new.

00:36:38 Merrily

World, we're trying to create.

00:36:41 Merrily

So some other things you can do it is that you could create like you know some people create a vision board. Some people create a vision box to, you know, kind of put their intentions and objects in to help.

00:36:54 Merrily

Focus your energy.

00:36:55 Merrily

For your, I think that's a good.

00:36:57 Merrily

You need to do.

00:36:59 Merrily

You can use any sort of intention or.

00:37:02 Merrily

Rituals that you see to help.

00:37:04 Merrily

Use that energy for your own benefit.

00:37:08 Merrily

Another thing too to maybe consider if you haven't started doing it, I've been.

00:37:13 Merrily

Doing some lunar rituals with a group of friends of a group of friends of mine and that has been really helpful. And again, that's inviting that divine feminine energy into your space and really considering what it means to kind of be on a on a cycle, right even.

00:37:32 Merrily

Like you create an intention review at the end of the intention happen. Why are we not, you know, let's set another intention you know.

00:37:41 Merrily

It's like a key. It's a.

00:37:43 Merrily

It's a set it review it, set it, review it and it's again about that refinement. Right. Refinement of yourself, refinement.

00:37:51 Merrily

Of what you want.

00:37:52 Merrily

It's always a process.

00:37:57 Merrily

OK, so wow, we've done quite a bit. I'll just say some methods that I've done it kind of get a little involved, but I'll just kind of talk through them. So I use sigils quite a bit in my practice. You can you can use any method of sigil making.

00:38:16 Merrily

I really love using the Sigil engine so sigilengine.com, which is a technomancy tool to draw the sigil for you after you cut, you basically type in your intention and it like creates A sigil for. It's very cool.

00:38:29 Merrily

My husband does a really sweet thing when we go for walks and we see like a cat that is, you know, or a cat or an animal that's missing.

00:38:36 Merrily

On a poster.

00:38:38 Merrily

Cat or a dog? You know, he'll do a schedule like on.

00:38:41 Merrily

The spot.

00:38:43 Merrily

To you know, hopefully get the cat or the animal or the dog home safe and sound to its people.

00:38:50 Merrily

You know, because you know that's again sort of putting that energy out into the world. Like you see it, you can do something about it like.

00:38:56 Merrily

You can't you.

00:38:57 Merrily

Know go and hunt for the dog, I mean.

00:38:59 Merrily

You could, if you wanted to.

00:39:00 Merrily

Or but it's like you see it, you want it to change.

00:39:03 Merrily

You want it to change for a.

00:39:05 Merrily

Better railroad track for that energy to go down.

00:39:12 Merrily

Better energy for that railroad to go down.

00:39:14 Merrily

So that's what we want.

00:39:16 Merrily

I also use planetary energies to boost the energy of my schedule. So when I create and draw the schedule I will like put.

00:39:24 Merrily

Like if let's say if I want to more abundance. So I put Jupiter, you know symbols.

00:39:30 Merrily

On it to kind of.

00:39:32 Merrily

Enhance that Jupiter energy that I want for more abundance in the year.

00:39:39 Merrily

That you know and I the the process of charging a schedule like.

00:39:43 Merrily

There's many methods.

00:39:44 Merrily

I don't exactly want to go into my process because it is kind of involved and it's it involves like other practices that are incorporated, but you can kind of, you know, either you can look up how other people might charge those rules, you can sit and meditate.

00:39:59 Merrily

Like, wait for your guides to tell you how you can charge schedules.

00:40:04 Merrily

UM.

00:40:05 Merrily

I like to charge them because it feels like I'm I'm putting more intention, more focused, like I understand the things.

00:40:11 Merrily

That it it needs.

00:40:13 Merrily

To kind of let it go. And then I don't have to think about it because that's the other thing too, is like letting the signal go, let it do what it needs to do and you.

00:40:20 Merrily

Don't you?

00:40:21 Merrily

Don't have to.

00:40:21 Merrily

Like have all your control levers on it.

00:40:26 Merrily

And and sometimes it depends like I might.

00:40:28 Merrily

Charge it.

00:40:29 Merrily

I kind of let the schedule tell.

00:40:30 Merrily

Me how long it needs to.

00:40:31 Merrily

Be charged for.

00:40:32 Merrily

And then I might burn it. And then we're like, release the the ashes into the world. And that's kind of like another sort of sticking point of putting it into the world and let it do its own, let it go its own way. Right.

00:40:46 Merrily

Without you having to think about.

00:40:47 Merrily

All of the details.

00:40:52 Merrily

Yeah, I would say do a.

00:40:56 Merrily

You know, maybe play.

00:40:57 Merrily

Around with doing, working with some schedules to.

00:40:59 Merrily

Set some of these intentions. You can do a schedule for inviting the balance of masculine and feminine energy. You can do essential for inviting the divine feminine into your life and letting.

00:41:11 Merrily

It show you.

00:41:12 Merrily

And teach you lessons.

00:41:15 Merrily

Yeah, there's many ways.

00:41:15 Merrily

You could work on that for yourself and.

00:41:19 Merrily

Always are valid.

00:41:24 Merrily

So. So we're kind of we're ending the this particular episode here. I want to and I'd say if you are interested in a terror reading for me, I have two options available on Celestial ring guidance.com one is a one question e-mail reading for me. So basically you have a question you e-mail and then like.

00:41:45 Merrily

Few days later, I'll like send you a video of like the reading.

00:41:51 Merrily

And the other is an hour long zoom meeting so face to face zoom meeting or whatever you you know you want to talk about whatever questions you have. You know I do have sort of a general reading if you're not quite sure what you want or you know haven't done tarot readings before we can do like sort of a general check in.

00:42:12 Merrily

Thing and that usually is a good.

00:42:13 Merrily

Jumping off point so.

00:42:15 Merrily

You know, whatever helps you get more clarity around.

00:42:20 Merrily

What you're trying to what things are going?

00:42:23 Merrily

On in your life basically.

00:42:25 Merrily

So I'd love to hear your perspectives on 2024 or what methods you use to set intentions. I you know, please leave a comment below. I was like learning new things. So yeah, I'd love, I'd love to see that. So I want to again say happy New Year, happy New Year to all the wonderful guests.

00:42:45 Merrily

And all the wonderful listeners that I you know that have been tuning into the casual temple, it's been three months since I started releasing episodes. So it's been quite a fun time. So I really appreciate each and everyone of you. And I hope that all of you have a wonderful 2024.

00:43:05 Merrily

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