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Happy holidays. I hope you all had or having a lovely holiday season as we are ringing in 2025.

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What was the new year rate?

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Let's go through the tarot numerology and the animal of the year for 2025 to get some insights.

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First, let's talk about the numerology of 2025, which adds up to the number 9.

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9 is essentially right before a new cycle begins.

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And is where everything that isn't serving you will be left behind to make room for new energy or new something new.

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9 is made-up of.

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Threes and in the Kabbalah Tree of life there are three triads that are formed by the sephirah on the Tree of Life.

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Essentially, the souls journey has traversed all of the three triangles before.

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It hits milk.

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The material world also knows material world of manifestation.

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So the first triad just to go through sort of, you know, the thing I like the most about the Kabbalah and the Hermetic Kabbalah is sort of the structure of it.

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If you think about 9 again, going back to the number of the year for 2025.

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The first triangle or Triad is is called the celestial or Nemesis.

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Neshama, neshama. It's called the Neshama and it's formed by catcher Hokman Bina. And is the triad of infinite intelligence.

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This is the head or crown.

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Where spiritual information is received.

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Like from the beyond, right? This is the crown. Your head associated with mental processes and the body. And also like if you think about sort of the different bodies you have as human, it's also the mental body.

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And associated with receiving that spiritual information.

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Messages from spirit your ancestors.

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Spirit guides, you know, whatever is beyond comes through. The Crown manifests there.

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Your ideas manifest there and wherever you think that comes from.

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And the second triad is moral or ruak. The infinite love formed by gibberish and tibba.

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This is the seat of the soul and is where your love is given and received.

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So it is your emotional body.

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About in terms of bodies?

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So it is sort of associated with your emotional body, the the love and affection and emotion that you put out toward things that love and affection you receive.

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And it's sort of like the give and take.

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Of that energy.

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And the third triad is mundane, or nefesh, which is the personality formed by Neptune.

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So those are the sephira.

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And this is the last stop before becoming a part of the material reality.

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So the personality is the.

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So if you think it's called, the personality, personality is the vehicle of how we exist in reality.

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So that is like personality. You can think of as like me and Marilee you you are you.

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I'm sort of the things that we know the material around the form they take the sort of the personality.

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So, well, I should say that it's like the beats, the essence before it hits, you know, the material world as you know, who you who you are.

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And so that particular realm is a really good realm of manifestation, especially since it includes yasod, which is the realm of the moon.

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And anything sublunar in sort of the idea of.

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Yeah. Alchemy or hermeticism.

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Those things, like anything sublunar, is definitely like right when it hits before it becomes part of the material reality.

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And so a good example like I've been thinking about lately is.

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There was this quote from Prince where he talks about like recording different songs and you know, he was just like prolific. He would record.

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Has like.

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Many albums of Underrecorded or unreleased music that haven't hit.

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Our ears, yet still sitting, waiting to be released.

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But he would wake up in the morning like 2:00 in the morning, call all his musicians into his home studio and and record a song.

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And they were like, why are you getting us up this early?

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Are.

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We have to do it now.

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It.

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He's like, no, we have to do it now because if I don't record this, Michael Jackson's gonna get it.

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And.

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And it wasn't like.

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Like Michael Jackson was going to sneak into a studio and steal, steal the lyrics or the song. It was like he understood that it was something that was like swimming in the air and he caught it and he wanted to, like, bring it.

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Reality so I think.

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That.

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With Prince is like he kind of understood the sort of sub lunar realm of Yasod and Natsak and hote.

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Like that final triangle before it becomes something.

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So let's.

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So yeah, So what does this mean A93 triangles?

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Does this mean as like a?

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All of us here on Earth as a collective whole, you know, it's kind of a.

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Big thing.

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So essentially you can think of it as like we have passed as a collective.

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Through three gates for the triads, the three triangles and the last step to take is all the things we have learned from the spiritual information from the crown.

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The messages from the ancestors and spirit guides that you've been receiving, the mental planning and consideration, combine that with the emotion of give and take to be applied for what is good for the community is also good for you and vice versa. Like understanding that flow.

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Then the envisioning stage is complete. Like all of that is.

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We are now like ready to put into action like it's sitting there ready to drop into the material plane to be to be realized, right.

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It's here.

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What 9?

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It's like all the things that can happen are.

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So like we all have to be ready to like like to receive it, like Princeton, right?

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Receive that sign.

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Put it into the real world.

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Yeah. So I just kind of wanted to talk through sort of the number 9 and what does that mean as far as you know, my my perspective is like sitting in the Kamala and different triangles and how I understand sort of how energy.

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Really. Just.

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But like how you know, thoughts progress through us as humans and then becomes something that.

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Is in our material reality.

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So right now we're all like 2025 is where a lot of action is going to be taking place.

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I'm really excited to talk through sort of the the different Harrow and the animal of the year because it all to me it all seems to be coming together.

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And it was really fun to kind of put it together today for you guys, so.

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Now this year. So I like thinking about 'cause. You know, I like to look at the.

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Chinese folks.

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They have their different animals of the year and I know that their new year doesn't start until toward the end of January.

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But this year, it's gonna be the year of the wood snake, relieving the year of the Wood Dragon behind.

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So for me, you know, there's different interpretations with the snake means it's a very powerful, very primordial symbol for us humans on Earth.

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It is one of the first evolution, or one of the very earliest evolutions of what we were at some points according to science in the in the evolutionary stack, we were kind of little wriggly.

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You know lizards or limbless lizards, you know, crawling around or whatever we were doing, you know, before we many, many years are into our current form.

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So if you think about a snake, a snake is essentially our spine.

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You think about the shape of a snake and what snake you know. If you look at the bones of a snake, it looks like her spine.

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So our spine.

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You know what does a spine do?

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Our body.

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It carries electrical signals and energetic information through our body.

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It's a very, very like it is that primordial.

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Everything is reconnected.

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It's where head our limbs are all connected.

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It's like the foundation of who we are is people, as beings you know, on this planet, most beings might have like the same sort of structure here.

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So the snake creature, the other thing to think about as a snake.

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And a lot of these, sort of like witchcraft or mystical realms or alchemy or hermeticisms, you know, there's a lot of things about animals that traverse different realms, like they can live simultaneously in two realms.

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Considered very powerful kind of creatures. So the snake is very similar like the snake.

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I think most of us tend to think of a snake is something that associate with the ground or underground, right?

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Lives on the ground, but.

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I'm sure you've seen where snakes can rise up, either on their.

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Like kind of stand up or they can fall up into a tree so they can actually be like an animal of the air, vertical being like we are.

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So they are not only a crawling being, but they can rise up and be a being in the air.

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So why is that?

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So we think about us beings like we're trying to connect back, right?

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Came from depending on how you.

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Consider the structure of our universe.

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We're doing here my.

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Current understanding is for.

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Is that, you know, we came from the realm of spirit.

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Down here.

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Down, down, Malcolm the lowest.

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The lowest realm, lowest medd not mean that it's the worst. It just means that just if you think of structures and how it is, it's like it's the heaviest.

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The lowest someone that's like the material world.

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So that's where the snake.

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But the snake can also become vertical.

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We can become vertical.

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Can connect.

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On the ground, but also connect up.

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In back into spirit.

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And so have like that flow that current you think about the spine, that information?

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So This is why you will see snakes in a lot of different.

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Different practices, it's again, you'll see snakes appearing in different.

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Different regions as a very powerful and meaningful simple.

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1.

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That's probably familiar, and I've talked about on the show is the, you know, the kundalini.

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A sort of as sneaks.

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I was also thought of as hair like my teacher he.

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It was like the kundalini actually means the curl of a hair, but I think a lot of people also think of it as like the snake rising the.

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That female energy kind of rising out, you know, through your spine and out the top of your.

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So it's also associated with sort of that lower energy, lower being kind of like connecting with the higher realms or the higher ways of being.

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And also like another symbol, obviously is the caduceus, with the two snakes.

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Situation like there's like the spine.

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Of the of the Caduceus wand, and there's two snakes, sort of rotating around.

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Rising up again.

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So.

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You have, you know, big symbol of hermeticism is sort of.

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It's the three columns, the snake, the traversing of energy, the exchange of energy, the balance of energy rising, becoming vertical.

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So yeah.

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So that's kind of like the snake and how.

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That I see it as a a very powerful.

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Symbol on what it means to me when I think of like, OK.

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Is yours. You're the snake.

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Becoming a A being of the ground is becoming a being of the error.

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And and it's also OK. So it's also a wood.

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It's a wood sink.

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And so for me in the practices I do what is associated with fire. So with creating new beginnings, you know talked about the number 9.

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Was is the number of the year, so it's the same.

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It's like there's new beginnings that are going to be happening for everybody in some way.

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And so fire is basically burning away anything that is old. You know, if you think about how you would burn your old trash or, you know, people would burn old brush in a forest to clear make way for new trees. It's.

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Same thing is happening but.

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Kind of a dual process because not only is fire cleansing, fire is like the fire.

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Creativity. The fire of emotion, the fire, the energy that makes you want to go out and do something that create something.

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So there's sort of two dual things that are happening, especially if it's like the year of the snake.

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A lot of like transformative.

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Things are going to be happening. It's very it's going to be very interesting.

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And so another thing to think about with that.

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Because of all this, like transformative.

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Because of all this creativity, because of all this burning away.

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Look out for our own energy.

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Number lookout for #1.

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Let's be a little selfish this year, but mainly just around like understanding how you can maintain your energy, because you're gonna need it and a really great way that I have found to really help me understand how I need to, you know, rest and take a break.

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And maximize how I use my own energy.

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Energy is to look into something like human design, I think is excellent for kind of logically breaking down something so.

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It seems so mysterious and strange that really breaks it down to like, here's how your energy is.

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And here's how you can retain and regain energy.

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Energizes you and how you need to rest.

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And so I think that might be a good tool to look into if you're interested.

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Are a lot of free resources.

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To look into human design.

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So I highly recommend that is something to look into for sure and also another resource. We one of our past guests, Noel O'Reilly is a wonderful human design reader.

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So if that's something you wanna.

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Look into she's, you know.

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Put her links down below as well again, but you can also check out episode 39 of Casual Temple if you want to hear more about human design 'cause she really goes into it and explains it really, really well.

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And I'm a big advocate in in as much as like it really is a good system to really get a handle on your own energy.

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Yeah, consider it.

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So finally, we're going to look at the Tarot so.

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Let's take a look at that.

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So I pulled 3 cards. I like to pull 3 because it's so representative of past, present and future.

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And.

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Sorry, checking that OK past present and so it's representative of past, present and future.

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So I pulled 3 cards and they're very.

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They kind of go with the different themes we've already talked about.

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So let's kind of go and then I have.

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A card I pulled from the archetype deck from Kim Kranz. If you've not seen that deck, it's awesome.

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So I pulled one for that year and a new card from a new deck that I got recently.

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From.

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Think his name is Rick Harris?

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Saw him do a talk at the Seattle antiquarian Book Fair on this very old 10,000 page alchemical text, trying to remember what the name is. However, we got to uphold it, and it was really great.

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But he also made these cards, and his company's called archetypal artworks.

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And you can buy these cards on the.

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Also put a lick link down below and they're very cool. So I'll talk about more about that when we get to that stage.

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Be the final card we look at.

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From an alchemical perspective, so I'm excited to share that with you, but we'll start with regular rider Waite Smith.

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This is from the is a beautiful borderless edition of the writer Waite Smith.

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It has these kind of like beautiful muted.

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Colors to it.

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Really, it's really lovely.

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So yeah, so we'll just get started.

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So the first card.

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Is the 8 of cups what was interesting about this card was, you know, when you read tarot, you tend to kind of like pick up?

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Deck.

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And look at the.

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That's like on the bottom of the deck, just, you know, out of curiosity.

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And this is the card at the at the bottom of deck.

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However, you know you're saying like you know this time I like.

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I asked for the three cards to pop out of the deck as I was shuffling it.

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This one was first one to pop out.

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So the 8 of cups is sort of that energy we were talking about before.

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Know it's 8 and this year is the numerical #9.

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The 8 is also about like.

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Leaving things behind.

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Like what are the things that?

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Emotionally, you're just ready to let go of, you know, you need to go on a different path, that sort of thing.

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So I think as a collective, again thinking of like us as a group of people living here on planet Earth.

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What are those things that emotionally we've been holding on to that really aren't serving us going forward?

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Kind of blocking our path.

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So we need to go a different way, go around.

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Something.

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So that's how I think of the 8 of cups 8.

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8 is a magical number. We talked about this last year actually, but 8 is associated to.

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Hermes Mercury and touts.

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Oops.

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Those.

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So it's a God of magic and communication.

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And cups are representative of the element of water.

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Again, with the emotions and sort of depth and things of that.

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So kind of think about that as like what are some things we as a collective need to leave behind that we're sort of emotionally attached to.

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Don't really need any more.

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Play.

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Hey, and so the middle bits.

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Sort.

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The ace of Wands I kind of consider these as like past prime of feature, but since we're kind of looking into the future, it's sort of like you.

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All telling a story.

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It's the ace of wands is, you know.

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The number one for creativity, the.

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We talked about that earlier because we're in the the year of the wood snake fire elements, creativity.

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And in this in this particular card you can see like there's the hand of God or the hand of spirit, the hand of.

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Inspiration however you want to look at it, but it's presenting you with a lot of different like.

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Potentialities to pursue new things to create Ace of Wands of the mind, but also of like your creativity, your passion.

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It's kind of like both things at.

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So that's, you know, interesting that it came up in this particular reading.

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Then third card is the Empress.

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In the journey of the fool, the Empress is the third person you meet in the archetypical.

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And so she is sort of, again, like we, you know, we talked about with.

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Again, with the wood snake and the the elements of wood, the idea of luxury and needing to relax to receive, you know the Empress is very much a feminine figure.

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So the receptivity of that information to get that inspiration.

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That middle card for like you know what?

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Do you want to realize?

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But also like.

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Understand. You know, maybe look for things of beauty.

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What are things you can bring into this world that are beautiful?

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Maybe things that in the 8 of cups weren't weren't beauty.

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Weren't associated with beautiful things with things that can that can be shared with others.

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So the Empress is all about that. She's about like.

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Being in the receptivity mode, she's, you know, she's pregnant. She's beautiful.

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What is she going to like?

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Deliver into the world. We also need to take care of her, right?

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We want to take care of that energy, that.

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Us, right.

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Take care of that receptivity. Energy, we take care of us because we are the same. We are like a vessel that all of this is processing.

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And with.

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So I think yeah, so impressed.

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So essentially, you know, let's review again 8 of.

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Let's leave those things that aren't emotionally working for us behind.

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You maybe take note of them, but it's not.

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Know you don't need to do those anymore.

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The.

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Ace of wands, like what are? You know, there's ideas.

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There's things that you've been wanting to realize, and this goes for me too.

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Like a creature of many ideas.

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But you know what is really waiting there to be, like, taken, taken advantage of?

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To realize into reality.

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And then and in that to make you know, what is the beautiful things that we can make and create in this world and then taking care of ourselves, maybe that's part of it is like taking care of ourselves is also taking care of other.

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So like.

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There's something about that too, as a whole collective so.

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These are like really interesting things and cards to think about.

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And so I'm gonna put them back up here as we move along.

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We're going to look at this slip box.

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So it's this.

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But it's like but Kim brands archetype deck, the Wild Unknown architect deck.

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I really like this 'cause she's got like.

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The really.

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Beautiful images to kind of meditate on. I like things where you can kind of stare at it and meditate on it.

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I'm gonna flip it over.

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Gonna.

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Tell you what it is and what I think it is, but we're also just going to read straight what Kim Kranz wrote about it. 'cause she has, like really great descriptions.

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So this one is the offering.

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So if again, if you think about might pull my lease cards back down actually?

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Think about all the different energies and things we've been looking at.

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It is the offering, literally, the offering, the ace of Wands. What is the offering?

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What is being presented?

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Can you take?

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And you know, you have all the.

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You have all the resources that you can make happen.

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It's just kind of like picking Elaine, picking a road, picking a picking, you know, something to kind of.

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Put out pour all your energy into.

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So that's how I when I pulled this I was like, oh, that's perfect.

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Exactly what sort of these different parts are talking about?

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So let's read show the book.

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What?

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Him, friends says.

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For this particular card, the offering I'm just gonna read it.

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He.

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Kind of like different things on those sides too.

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Read those that are kind of interesting so.

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The offering, the gift, the present, the sacrifice. Unlike many of the cards in the deck, the offering carries a clear as day message and a call to action. As you may have guessed, it is time for something to be given and.

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Up.

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For the sake of the.

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Picture.

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If nothing comes to mind immediately, though, it's likely it will take time and meditation to consider what must be offered and who is to receive it.

00:25:00 Merrily

You'll make excuses, but recognize the link between the word sacrifice and the word.

00:25:06 Merrily

One leads to the other. When we offer up something to the greater good, we lighten our load and become more able to serve.

00:25:13 Merrily

Imagine for a moment, if you are to offer your whole self unconditionally.

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To the world now.

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For.

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Now start small.

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So she has.

00:25:26 Merrily

Like I said, these little things on the edges underneath it says wind light.

00:25:30 Merrily

So this is essentially if you think about when you're in your best, the best, the Chrome code, best version of yourself.

00:25:37 Merrily

Light version of yourself. The bright light version of yourself.

00:25:41 Merrily

So this expresses a generosity donation volunteering when dark. This is like the shadow, right?

00:25:49 Merrily

Has the the light in the dark. This is the shadow.

00:25:53 Merrily

Giving with expectations and keeping track.

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Tab.

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So go.

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I think this is where she has sort of like, you know how.

00:26:04 Merrily

Where can we like go the next level to for understanding? So Odin's sacrifice of his eye in Norse mythology?

00:26:12 Merrily

So if you're familiar with the Norse legends, maybe if you're not, look into it.

00:26:16 Merrily

See how that might relate to.

00:26:20 Merrily

What we're talking about here in like sacrifice and offerings and sacredness.

00:26:25 Merrily

So what do we have here?

00:26:28 Merrily

One of the things on the side says once a week, Gandhi gave up speaking for a day, offering himself to divine silence.

00:26:35 Merrily

The offering can come in all shapes and sizes, so you get to pick.

00:26:39 Merrily

What is?

00:26:40 Merrily

You know what is something that you can?

00:26:44 Merrily

Express that sacrifice, or sacredness. If there's a gift you've been thinking of giving someone special.

00:26:50 Merrily

Time. Yeah, I think these are good reminders.

00:26:55 Merrily

The only offering was such a great.

00:26:58 Merrily

I love when all of these things kind of flow together and kind of form their own story so.

00:27:03 Merrily

Was really excited to pull that.

00:27:06 Merrily

So yeah, here is.

00:27:10 Merrily

Yeah.

00:27:12 Merrily

So this one is the.

00:27:15 Merrily

It was a very small, very small deck.

00:27:18 Merrily

It is very.

00:27:19 Merrily

So archetypal artworks see if I'm holding it right.

00:27:24 Merrily

Archetypal artworks is the deck.

00:27:29 Merrily

Legal Rick Harris. Double check the notes, but I'm pretty sure that was gentleman's name.

00:27:32 Merrily

Was very cool and.

00:27:34 Merrily

Talked a little bit about alchemy together.

00:27:38 Merrily

After his old talk.

00:27:39 Merrily

But I really liked his cards.

00:27:43 Merrily

'Cause while I do consider myself in a way of an alchemist, these things are like this.

00:27:49 Merrily

Is like chemical like chemical symbology of alchemy which is really cool.

00:27:55 Merrily

It over because it was a little like again.

00:27:58 Merrily

Like sitting in with all of the.

00:28:00 Merrily

The cards that we looked in today.

00:28:03 Merrily

But in these cards there's these different.

00:28:08 Merrily

There's like they have the little the alchemical bottles. Like you'll probably like. You took a chemistry.

00:28:14 Merrily

They look like chemistry bottles, but in alchemy these are like the if you think about like the wounds.

00:28:22 Merrily

Of a woman the calabash in voodoo.

00:28:27 Merrily

Through there's a lot.

00:28:28 Merrily

Different cultures. There's a lot of similar things.

00:28:30 Merrily

Cauldron.

00:28:32 Merrily

You know, like where you're like cooking and preparing and mixing and like becoming.

00:28:38 Merrily

The again we talked about sort of the the realm of you.

00:28:41 Merrily

It's like.

00:28:42 Merrily

It's where it's all of that is cooking and becoming.

00:28:45 Merrily

So it's in this jar this container, and I've always liked to think about before I even understood like these particular concepts where I was like.

00:28:56 Merrily

Spirit needs to find a container in the in our material.

00:28:59 Merrily

There, it's constantly looking for a container and so I think it's interesting that, you know, The Alchemist already figured that out. Literally. Put it in a container, but this.

00:29:10 Merrily

I feel like I'm trying to read 'cause.

00:29:11 Merrily

Need my glasses to essentia, OK?

00:29:16 Merrily

Cute.

00:29:17 Merrily

So there's a little you look.

00:29:19 Merrily

At the top trying to.

00:29:21

This.

00:29:22 Merrily

Better here.

00:29:23 Merrily

There is.

00:29:26 Merrily

A little ribbon with some words on it that says Quinta Essentia.

00:29:32 Merrily

And so that's, you know, something to think about.

00:29:35 Merrily

The essential.

00:29:38 Merrily

I guess 5 giga giga.

00:29:41 Merrily

Anybody who knows Latin you can help.

00:29:42 Merrily

Out here it's fine.

00:29:45 Merrily

And then.

00:29:47 Merrily

It's a little. I'm not gonna lie, 'cause. It looks a little bit like the earth burning or some sort of ball of something is burning and on fire, it's literally on fire. When we talked about the wood snake fire, things that you did, you know, become something new.

00:30:02 Merrily

But what's interesting, if you look at these different cards is they have like sometimes a bottle is sealed and sometimes the bottle is open.

00:30:10 Merrily

And so I think here it's sealed. It's kind of like.

00:30:15 Merrily

Again, if you think about the bottle as a woman, you know, making a baby like or like holding the baby for nine months, it's like it.

00:30:25 Merrily

What it is sealed?

00:30:26 Merrily

It's not ready to come out yet, but it's there it is and it is on fire like it wants to exit.

00:30:33 Merrily

So yeah, you know the way Rick talked about how he uses these cards is he just takes one a day and he kind of meditates on it.

00:30:41 Merrily

Like you might stare at.

00:30:43 Merrily

You might do like a little bit of a a gaze, or if you do scrying kind of treat it like a scrying focal points.

00:30:52 Merrily

I've done a little bit of.

00:30:53 Merrily

It's kind of interesting with with these cards because.

00:30:56 Merrily

They're so the symbols are, so can be so strange, but I like that. I like when things are a little bit knots of my current sort of understanding because I think it helps my brain stretch a little bit.

00:31:10 Merrily

Not in my brain, I would say.

00:31:12 Merrily

The deeper archetypal symbology that I all I think all humans have, it helps stretch with that.

00:31:19 Merrily

So you know, again, if you're interested in sort of the meditation aspect.

00:31:25 Merrily

Of a practice. I think these cards are really cool if you're interested in alchemy, I think it's a really good way to understand it, trying to think.

00:31:33 Merrily

We had a couple couple of my buddies on the show.

00:31:40 Merrily

They did.

00:31:43 Merrily

Yeah, they.

00:31:43 Merrily

These paintings that are really amazing.

00:31:48 Merrily

The.

00:31:49 Merrily

Yes, they do.

00:31:50 Merrily

These really amazing paintings and doing a lot of, like, alchemical work, and they talked about, like the bottles and like all.

00:31:56 Merrily

That yeah, bro and.

00:31:58 Merrily

Brock and Chase Lawrence. They were talking about sort of the bottles and how a lot of they're looking into and research for their own artwork was like utilizing sort of these bottles.

00:32:08 Merrily

And then you know, it happened.

00:32:11 Merrily

Run across this deck.

00:32:13 Merrily

In this particular alchemist talking about it, so very very cool.

00:32:18

So yes, that is.

00:32:20 Merrily

You know that is the energy of 2025, you guys.

00:32:24 Merrily

Not only like I'm not, you know.

00:32:26 Merrily

I'm pointing these all things out.

00:32:27 Merrily

This is for me too, like I got so many.

00:32:31 Merrily

Projects. So many things I wanna do so many.

00:32:37 Merrily

And you know, again, I'm gonna bring it back into human design.

00:32:41 Merrily

Human design.

00:32:42 Merrily

You know mine is manifesting.

00:32:45 Merrily

Manifesting generator that is like our MO is like like doing a lot of things, doing a lot of projects, but maybe sometimes not finishing a lot of projects so.

00:32:56 Merrily

I really need their like put my **** behind some projects this year and I hope you do too and I would love you know if you guys have any of your own insights either about the Kabbalah, the Tarot, the scinta, Essentia alchemical card.

00:33:10 Merrily

More information 'cause I honestly am not exactly sure what's in there.

00:33:13 Merrily

Just looks like the world is on fire or marble marble.

00:33:17 Merrily

So you can help me with that.

00:33:20 Merrily

Yeah. So any interpretations you want to?

00:33:22 Merrily

You know 'cause, I always think like I can only see one. I'm only one.

00:33:28 Merrily

Perspective of of the whole. So I think everybody's perspective is is valid and and really opens up sort of understanding.

00:33:36 Merrily

Yeah, I'd love to hear what you think.

00:33:38 Merrily

So you know, again, if you're still celebrating the holidays, happy holidays.

00:33:44 Merrily

Here's to 2025. It's gonna be a very interesting year and.

00:33:50 Merrily

I'd love to know what your.

00:33:52 Merrily

Are going.

00:33:52 Merrily

Be how they're going to move forward.

00:33:57 Merrily

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00:34:01 Merrily

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00:34:10 Merrily

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00:34:15 Merrily

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00:34:18 Merrily

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