A Message from the Magic in You

Magic, B.o.B. - "I've got the magic in me." 

Hermit x Six of Cups - "Follow the yellow brick road."

Pt. 1 of this week's message. Shower thought inspo struck again. I wanted to get to know the collective I've been receiving messages for even more deeply, so this is my attempt at that. As they say, take what resonates and leave the rest. Stay tuned for pt. 2 <3 

(I also admittedly had to step away for a sec mid-show and was confident the stop-start wouldn't be obvious... I was wrong, it's v obvious hahaha. So if we could collectively pretend it's not, that'd be >>> :-)) 

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Okay you guys first of all hey and happy Monday sorry this is coming to you on a Monday without warning. I in addition to this have just recently started a new side hustle and yeah so I had to work all last weekend which is totally fine it just kind of threw me off of my routine for message of the week but we're getting to it now thank you for being accommodating um whoa yeah and I guess just going forward like I'll just make the note that like this may come out on a Sunday it may come out on a Monday but either way it will come out and we're gonna just be adaptable and trust the timing of whenever I get to it when I get to it cool um second thing second as you probably figured out I am not walking I am sitting on the back porch because a thunderstorm has just rolled in which is I'm actually really enjoying um but yeah I just thought that the sound of the rain in the background might be nice so hopefully that's true when I listen to this back um and then lastly and thirdly and this actually does have to do with today's reading so I had a shower thought earlier last week I was just thinking about how like I've been sending these messages out into the ether and you know reading for this unseen collective and I was just feeling like dang like I really want to get to know this collective better um yeah like I want to know them not necessarily by like name or location but I was like energetically like I wanna I want to understand them more and as I was thinking about this the song Magic by BOB um it like came through before I could even finish my thought around this I'm like I'm not gonna sing it but you know like I got the magic in me every time I touch that track it turns into gold and when I was tuning into this I was like oh my gosh okay so anyway the message I was getting around this is like A this is a magical powerful collective that these messages are intended for and if you're receiving them congrats you're part of that um but it's funny because there's like there's two ways it's saying this to me. It's like on one hand this collective is magical and they know it right like you've had certain experiences you've seen things you've felt things you've been a part of things and I mean you could say I'm confirming something but like I'm confirming something you already know like yeah I guess whether or not how consciously you let yourself know that it's like you know you're magical and you know it okay but on the flip side it's like this is a really magical powerful collective and they don't even fucking know okay and it's not to belittle or deny the experiences that you have had and all of that it's just to say that like the walk that you've walked it is deep it is powerful you have done things and even if you've been on this journey for years even if you've been on this journey and you're like miles deep into it somehow some way we're still only scratching the surface of what's actually possible yeah untapped potential there's this huge there's like a wellspring of untapped potential kind of like I'm yeah I'm getting like the ocean like we know a lot about the ocean we also know like nothing about the ocean that's you that is you that is this collective so yeah powerful stuff magical stuff and I guess when I put that in the context of the question oh I haven't even told you guys about the question okay so A that's that like that was the first thing that I got yesterday when I set uh went and sat down with the cards I actually came up with two prompts the first question I came up with was just like okay what's the most important thing for me to know about this collective at this time so that I can give them like that's important for me to know so I can give them the best and highest readings possible. And I got a card for that but also just thinking about this song in the context of that question. It's like I am reading for people that just again the amount of untapped potential within and the messages that are finding me are finding me in order to help set some of that free and in motion recognition okay even just helping you recognize that like hey this is here for you if you want to use it cool okay when I asked that question I also got a card begin say it out loud I got the three of swords and while I was tuning into that message I actually realized like oh my gosh okay rewind I asked another question got cards for that then I went to channel the message so I had two sets of cards two different prompts that I thought was going to be this week's message of the week but actually as I was getting into the first message I realized oh my gosh there's actually like it kind of needs to be its own podcast episode so yeah there's this story from my experience and this whole thing that I'm being guided to talk about but again it wants to be its own podcast episode so my intention is to get that out by Wednesday. And then for today um we're gonna be talking about the second prompt that I came up with and the cards that I pulled for that. Okay hopefully that wasn't too confusing. Okay basically I asked the question about like what do I need to know about the collective so that I can give better readings or like give the best and highest readings and then I realized like okay that's really helpful for me but at the same time I was like well what about the collective like what can they know about themselves so that they can receive these messages in the best and highest way possible so that they can be in the best and highest energy of perception as they're receiving what's coming through for me to share with them. That's what we're gonna talk about right now. Okay cards I got we have the Hermit and the six of cups okay with the six of cups this is not unique this actually happens a lot it didn't it usually doesn't mean anything but a lot of times I look at this card and I'm just like munchkin land like that's what comes to mind and there's usually nothing to it like nothing behind it it's just like I'm just reminded of munchkin land but today next to the hermit munchkin land is coming through it but there's actually there's some substance behind it and so that's what we're gonna talk about. Okay um okay the picture these two cards are painting together the message that they're giving me well like first let's set the scene we have the hermit who is facing away from the Six of Cups back to the six of cups and he's walking away from it like in the opposite direction and so that actually did develop into this scene from the Wizard of Oz where like you know Dorothy's like singing dancing with all the munchkins I'm starting to actually think is I'm like is this an okay word to be saying I don't actually know I just started feeling weird all of a sudden sorry um intrusive thought but basically Dorothy they're they're singing they're dancing like follow the yellow brick road and and there's this clarity of like oh okay I'm explaining this horribly let me rewind um Dorothy was lost and in order to get where she's going the advice she's given is like oh you just need to follow the yellow brick road right and that starts as this very like colorful vivid enthusiastic song and dance now that she's made this decision to follow the yellow brick road she's received this guidance everyone's so happy about it that she's agreed to it and yeah it's just this whole cute little number and then at some point Munchkin land is in the rear view Dorothy's on the yellow brick road but she's like by herself with Toto and this yellow brick road is all she has and that is basically setting the stage for this whole Hermit Six of Cups situation. One thing I'll say is like sorry I was waiting for that um one thing I'll say is like I feel very strongly like this message is coming through to say that like this collective has all had a very similar experience where like we realized we were lost is the simplest way to put it just like Dorothy we ended up somewhere where we just felt like I don't even know where I am anymore. Um and yeah like I'll just I don't want to speak for everybody but I'll just say I have not ever met anybody on a similar path deeply engaged in this work who didn't like wake up one day and was just like what the fuck is going on and this can look like different things for different people it can look like feeling like anxiety and hopelessness and despair it can look like like we talked about like feeling lost it can look like something that's hard to articulate but it's just like things feel off things feel not quite right feels like something's missing but you just you don't even know what it could be when you look around and everything just I mean it looks like nothing's missing. And um yeah I guess said another way it's like I don't know of anyone who has been like totally quote unquote fine and just woke up one day and decided like I think I'll walk the path to enlightenment like usually there's some sort of discomfort or even pain that like triggers like I think I need to go on this journey towards enlightenment. It doesn't always sound like that but but you get what I'm saying. Anyway I think a lot of times as that like awakening is triggered there is this influx of like signage and synchronicity and just these chance encounters all that jazz and it's not just once it's not just twice it's not even like 10 or 20 times it is like everywhere you go it's just like holy I'm experiencing something that's just like nothing like I just it's just like too wild to be true and yet it's true. Okay you all know what I'm talking about. That to me is this like Six of Cups munchkin land energy where it's like you had this inkling you had this idea you've awakened to this suggestion that like maybe I should follow my heart and then the universe gives you this whole song and dance through all these signs and symbols and like you hear things you run into people like just all this stuff it's this whole song and dance that just makes you feel like yeah I'm gonna do it I'm gonna follow my heart and so you step onto the path you step onto the yellow brick road and it's all fun and games and singing and dancing and all of this external encouragement and then the next thing you know you're like Dorothy you're on the yellow brick road walking Munchkin land is in the rear view and now you're just on this path by yourself and things are getting low key like creepy and like you know lions, tires and bears oh my and also there's this wicked witch that's trying to kill you over a pair of shoes. And so it can just be a lot and it might feel very far from like the song and dance you were doing in the beginning and so I feel like part of this message is just acknowledging the fact that this messages and these messages in particular might be finding you at a time where you feel like you are for some reason all by yourself you're all alone and you're all by yourself and you can't quite figure out why maybe and the truth is you may be alone you may be alone but you are not like by yourself or you may be by yourself but you are not alone okay um the the being by yourself the being alone is so intentional it is so profound and intentional how do I explain this it's like when you were first getting started on this journey and you were flooded with signs right you knew that you and the universe were like in lockstep that there was this partnership going on six of cups a lot of the times for me like for me personally has really brought through this message of like safety and it can also bring up I think this is more traditionally it can talk about feelings of like the past and nostalgia and so in this situation really what I'm getting from this is like I'm looking at this card and one of the things I'm getting from it is like a feeling a sense of like safety stability abundance even like emotional safety right like unconditional love access to unconditional love you feeling like you have the like access to these things when you're like in a certain set of circumstances or surrounded by a certain group of people or when you're feeling certain emotions and like when you're absolutely not feeling certain emotions and like one of the things that even got you like out of that situation and onto the path that you're on was feeling like yeah was feeling like that was a something that you were outgrowing like a shoe that was becoming too tight something that you were having to like shrink yourself to fit and not like just it wasn't feeling right and again it's like at the same time that you're starting to have that realization you're also being flooded with like signs synchronicities these coincidences that are just it's like you are feeling like there's gotta be more this can't be all there is and it feels like life was reflecting right back at you like yes there is more this isn't all there is like go on this journey like say yes and go on this journey and so you did and that was like you starting to walk away from what you once felt so safe and secure in these things outside of yourself that you once associated with safety and security um yeah and that's like you know cue the munchkin land scene like follow the yellow brook road and we're singing and we're dancing and we're like oh my gosh we're going on the path so fun so cute now it's like you've been walking this path for a while like we said and there's this sense of feeling alone but it's deeper because where once upon a time you were walking away from it's like you had placed your sense of security in certain people places things you decided to pick pick that up to take that sense of security and you wanted to like give it to something else and so you did you gave it to those signs those synchronicities all of the like external validation that like it's safe for you to follow your heart and trust and like co-create life with the universe and part of the reason that the point of the journey you're at feels so lonely and potentially at times not all the time but at times it can feel like dark and scary and uncertain and like you don't have a lot of foresight is because sometimes the signs the synchronicities they get quiet maybe you're so Used to like seeing a certain angel number and then you're not seeing it anymore. Or maybe you're just realizing, like, huh, it's been a while since I've like, I don't know, had my jaw dropped by synchronicity or something like that. And it's not because you're doing anything wrong, it's not because you're not on the path, and it's not because the universe, like you're not in partnership with the universe anymore. Basically, what this is like coming up to show you is that the safety that you had in external things and circumstances, people, etc., life was showing you, like, hey, you're meant to like take that and have it in yourself. And you were like, okay, yes, I'll do that. Thanks for showing me the signs. But when the signs stopped or slowed down, you maybe started to feel like, oh, maybe I'm doing this wrong. I haven't seen a sign in a while. And then you'd get a sign again, and then you'd be like, oh, okay, great. And then the signs would quiet down again, and then you would start to be like, wait, where did the signs go? Okay, so then it was like all of a sudden your sense of like safety, security, being on track, etc., was still placed in something outside of you. That thing just went from being like a place, a person, an external circumstance, to signs which are still external and are still outside of you when you're not perceiving the fact that you are seeing those signs because of something within you. And so this hermit energy, it's like you're at this point in the journey where you might be feeling more alone, not because you are like without anything, but it's to show you that everything that you are putting your faith in, this walk that you've been doing with the universe, it's not you and the universe outside of you, it is you and the universe. Hello, the magic within you. I've got the magic in me. It is in you. And so sometimes what you perceive as like isolation and loneliness. I mean, it is those, sorry, it's not loneliness. I mean, it can feel lonely, but like isolation and being alone, regardless of you know, whether you are still social and are interacting with people today, there might just be like an underlying sense of like in the grand scheme of things, I feel a sense of isolation or separation or I'm alone. That's real and true, and it's so intentional and on purpose. Um, yeah, so like first point, it's not because you're off track or you've done something wrong or you've like gone the wrong way. Um, not that at all. And it's also not this sense of isolation because everything that you were ever associated with was bad or wrong, and other people can't be trusted, and like no one's on your level on your frequency. It's nothing like that either. This period of isolation, isolation to the point where it's like even like the signs and the synchronicities are a lot more quiet, is so that you can be with you, with the goal of you finally understanding, realizing, knowing from experience very deeply, the fact that everything that you perceived and wanted the world around you to give you is already within you. Is already within you. Lindsay Mack talks about how the hermit doesn't have yeah, I like the word foresight. It doesn't have the large foresight, like I said. Um I think she says more specifically, like the hermit can only ever see like at most a few steps in front of him, but mostly he's just looking at like the step that he's currently taking. And it's like the reason that that's happening, the reason that there is that fogginess, if you will, is because when everything around you is hard to make sense of, is hard to see clearly, it's not a sign that something's going wrong. It's it's it kind of forces you to go within. It's like there's nothing else to see out here. You have to go within. You have to take a look inside. And in that instance, it might be like, you know, a last ditch effort, a last resort, because there's nothing else you can see outside of you anyway. But that's happening, and it wants you to get used to doing that because the hermit is all about learning how to live your life from the inside out, and it's like moving forward, it wants you going within to be like the first step that you ever take, even if you feel like in the external world there's clarity and certainty, and you could see miles in front of you. It's like see that, perceive it, but do it from the inside out. And that's what this card is teaching you. Because when you can be isolated and by yourself, and it's honestly like only through being isolated and by yourself can you actually know, can you truly know the truth about the safety, the love, the abundance, the security, the trust, being something that can be internally sourced. When there's nothing for you to cling to, nothing to attach to, when there is nothing around you for you to attribute those sensations to, and yet you're still feeling them, um, the conclusion, the fact remains that those things are literally coming from you. You are the one creating it. And you don't need a sign in order for it to be true. You don't need a sign to even remind you that it's possible. You are the sign. Your own internal world becomes the sign, becomes the clarity. Um, when I was doing my course, Lindsay Marie Atkinson, she, I like how she talks about this card. She says, like, um, uh, she talks about like inner wisdom and how the hermit he's like going it alone so that he be he can become so familiar with his inner wisdom. Um to the point where you know when life inevitably picks back up again, when things become loud, when there is all this external stimulation again all of a sudden, he will know the sound of his inner wisdom so well that he no longer needs silence in order to perceive it. And that that is why the time of isolation is such a gift, is because it is literally allowing you to familiarize yourself with yourself, like your true soul-level self. And then not only will you be able to hear it, no matter how loud life gets, you'll also be so familiar with trusting it and following it without question, to the point where you don't even have to think about it. It literally just gets to be second nature. Hermit energy is your inner compass. It literally is your inner yellow brick road. Like I I know how cheesy that sounds, and I'm saying it because it's true. I'm saying it because it's literally true. What else? So the magic is in you, and you've only scratched the surface. This is a magical collective, and they don't even know how powerful they are. Like they know that they're powerful, they know that they're magical, but the extent of it is still what's like lost on all of us. When I'm saying that, I don't feel like defeated, I don't feel exhausted, like, oh my god, there's still more magic to uncover. Like, no, like I feel electric. I feel electric knowing that like, and and so my hope is like that that's what it feels like for you too. It's like it doesn't feel like oh my god, this there's just like this never-ending amount of things to learn and experience. It feels like, oh my god, like there's this never-ending amount of things to learn and experience. It is like an endless well of magic and potential and power. That is the journey we're being invited to go on, to like tap into that literally limitless, endless, bottomless pit of potential. And to explore it and like to have fun with it. And this hermit energy is not a punishment, and it's honestly not lonely. It's like in some ways, I would be surprised if if like if you really okay, here's what I'll say. The hermit, hermit energy is not concerned with the past, and it is not concerned with the future, it exists like so deeply in the present moment, because in order to access the magic within you, in order to hear your inner wisdom, you can literally only do that from the present. And so it's not like a crime, it's not bad to reflect on the past, and it's not, you know, there there are there are benefits in you know, times where it's good to like consider the future and what it is you want to create. But you have to come back to the present moment because that is where your intuition is going to be able to reach you, that is where your inner wisdom is going to be able to find you. And the magic that we're tapping into, the the unlimited potential, it exists when we allow ourselves to be present in the present moment. And so I'm saying that because it's like when used correctly, this hermit energy, I would be surprised if you even realized that you were like quote unquote in isolation. Because part of this energy I'm getting is like there is so much to explore within you. I don't know how you would get bored. I don't know how you would get bored, and I also don't know how you would feel like there is anything lacking. This feels so good. It's like when you use herbit energy correctly, when you embrace it and use it to your advantage, you're not you might be in isolation, but you're not alone because you are so full with yourself and like the endless potential of magic that there is to explore within you. And it's fun. It's fun, it is deep. But it's fun. It just it's mind-blowing. And like, yeah, I'm getting like time standing still, like just you didn't, oh, you've been at this for hours and you didn't even like, yeah, like, yeah. The Yellow Rick Road doesn't have to be scary. And when you travel it like this way, you'll be to the Emerald City in no time. Like not because you got there faster, but because the journey was just that much more like enjoyable. I'm also getting two, like um uh with the six of cups. Okay, so like whatever it is that you like walked away from the first time around, like um, if there were uh like relationships that you had to take a step back from, or just like I don't know, clubs or jobs or whatever, like organizations that you were a part of that you were like actually I I can't commit to this right now. Um like to be fair, there may be some things where you're like, no, like I actually need to like I stepped away from that and I need to like stay stepped away from it. Like that's actually something that didn't resonate with me then, and it's not really a part of what I'm trying to create or who I am moving forward, fine. But I'm also getting that like some of these things maybe don't have to be like maybe we put them down, we stepped away from them, we had to like take a step back and isolate, but it's not that we have to like stay isolated and separate from that thing forever. Some of these things and like use your own discernment, um, but some of these things are like very much allowed to be part of our lives, should we choose them? It's just like we had to take a step back from it to isolate, not because that thing was bad or wrong, but it's like our own engagement with it, like we were relating to it in a way where again, like we were giving it the power, we were attributing love, stability, safety, abundance, etc. to that thing. And so we were engaging with it from like an unbalanced place, you could say, and by going on this path and having like coming to this fuller understanding around sense of self, it's like we can actually go back to those things if we want, if it feels good for us, if it lights us up, and knowing that we're doing so from like a more grounded, fuller place and our relationship to it will be different this time. Yeah, it's like once upon a time we maybe liked things in our minds. We were like, oh, I like this, I enjoy this, because I could never do that. I appreciate this about this person because like I don't I don't have the courage to do that because I am I'm not like that at all. When the truth is we actually probably enjoy those things and resonate with those things, like we can recognize those things in other people and appreciate them so deeply because those qualities exist in us. If they didn't, we wouldn't even be able to recognize it, we wouldn't even be able to perceive it. And so should we choose to be in relationship with those things again, it's like we'll be doing it from a place of recognizing. I love that because it resonates with the part of me that is also like that. So anyway, this message just gets me excited. Okay, let's put it back in the context of the question. What does the collective need to know in order to better receive the messages that are finding me to be able to share with them? Um the messages that I'm sharing, it feels like they are largely contributing to emphasizing and amplifying the wisdom that you yourself have been discovering while you have been in this hermit energy. These messages are here to reiterate what your soul already knows, which is that the magic is within you, the power is within you, the universe is within you. It's not I have access to the magic, it's not the magic is with me, it's the magic is literally inside of you, which means it is yours to wield or not wield, but it is no one's like it's not available for anyone to take away. It is in you. Okay. Anything else? I just remembered too. I got this, um, I got a new Oracle deck last week. And for this week's card of the week, I was like, ooh, I want to get like a final message. And so this was the first time I have pulled a card for someone other than myself. So maybe that's what we'll do right now. Okay, this card is called the Cosmic Heart. Devotion, potency, make your life a moving prayer. And now I gotta go to a little booklet to see what any of that means. Okay, the cosmic heart. When you surrender to a state of devotion, you find yourself flowing with all of life. You're being called to refocus your attention deep within, to the intelligence of your own heart, to bow with deep reverence to the inner temple, to live your life in devotion to this place, to make your life one big moving prayer. Perhaps you felt a bit off-kilter lately, sensing that the potency of why you're doing things has gotten a little watered down or weak. Perhaps you've forgotten what made you start doing them in the first place. Guys, this is so good. If so, this is your call to take a moment and reconnect with the truth at the very center of your heart. I mean, can we just this is so hermit-coded. Um, to get back to the essence of what you're about, to devote your life to what you care most about, to turn your gaze deep, deep, deep, deep. There are seasons for harvesting and seasons for sowing. Right now you're being called to plant your soul's seeds and sing to them with deep devotion, to feed them with sweet waters of your own soul, to lose yourself in the potency of what it is that most expands your heart, to live your life according to what makes you come alive rather than what everyone else thinks to make your life one big moving prayer. I'm obsessed. I don't know, that kind of feels like a mic drop to me. Like what else can like what else can I say to that? I'll just repeat the line that I like. You're being called to refocus your attention deep within to the intelligence of your own heart. Live your life in devotion to this place. Okay. I'm gonna leave it there. I know that this is technically part two of the reading, but I really feel like this is actually an even better segue than I could have imagined for what I'm gonna talk to you guys about on Wednesday with the Three of Swords. Yeah. Okay, I love you. I hope you enjoyed the rain. Um, if you wanna go deeper, you know where the link is. And I will see you guys in a couple of days. Peace and love.