Your Guide to the Spring Equinox

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Spring is a time of renewal growth and fresh beginnings! In this episode we discuss the magic of the Spring Equinox exploring what it means, how it influences our lives and the beautiful traditions that come with it.

We also talk about Ostara’s symbolism, traditional Chinese medicine and simple low-effort rituals to help you embrace the energy of the season. So grab your headphones, get cozy and let’s celebrate the wonders of the Spring Equinox together!

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Join Molly’s 4 Seasonal Reiki Sessions of 2025 For The Price of 3 https://mollydonlan.com/ceremony 


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Transcript

Transcript

welcome to demystify magic with Molly and Madison I'm Molly a former skeptic turned full-time energy healer and
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teacher and I'm Madison a born and raised witch running my family's Crystal shop and we're here to explore all
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things woo through the lens of both science and spirituality so that you can find the moments of magic in your
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everyday life and create an intentional spiritual practice so if that's what you're into find a cozy spot take a deep
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breath and let's demystify some magic howdy Duty friends howdy Duty
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friends Oh
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Lordy are you in for a treat today yes yes you're in for a blast from the past
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from past Molly and past Madison who had their [ __ ] together more so than current Molly and Madison do yeah current Molly
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and Madison it's not looking good it's struggling this is a rough month this we've got a lot going onever heard balls
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in the air you ever heard of neuro virus I have this week
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but well our loss is your gain yeah because exactly we are bringing the
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previous more polished versions of ourselves back from the past because time is not real and they're going to
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talk to you about the Spring Equinox yeah and they're gonna they're going to be very organized and they're going to
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be very fun and I'm I love doing these replay episodes because I always wonder what our Magic Moment was last time we
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did one it was like the the most apropo Magic Moment like you had just met your boyfriend and I had just started reading
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books and I was like a remember when two transformational moments in our lives
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equally so some might argue equally so anyways if you want to celebrate the
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Spring Equinox with us when we do have our [ __ ] together Madison makes a great candle at the healing hedge witch we'll
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link that in the show notes one of my faves I have mine ready to burn and Molly hosts A really lovely
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spring equinox raiki ceremony yeah and for the first time ever we're doing a bundle so you can get all four of the
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seasonal ceremonies of 2025 for the price of three so don't miss that because that's a killer deal I thought
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you were saying that we were doing a bundle like that you could get the class in the candle which is a great idea we
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should have done that but I was like well that's the first time hearing of this maybe if enough people ask for it
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we will do that next time yeah let us know if that's something that you'd be into and let me know if you think Molly
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should tell me at the summer solstice I like when I just drop things
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on you when you're recovering from the neuro virus M yep running on Saltines in
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a prayer Saltines and a prayer anyways enjoy the show love you
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bye we are back for the final I guess the conclusion of our solstices and
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equinoxes we we started last year at the summer solstice and now we've gone
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through over the last year the summer solstice the Autumn Equinox the winter
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solstice and now the Spring Equinox yeah we are here to give you our Deep dive on
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the Spring Equinox through the perspectives of traditional Chinese medicine and through the wheel of the
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year yeah I'm excited and then you'll have to let us know what should we do for the summer solstice this year should
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we do like a recap should we do some like low effort rituals should we do what what should we what should we talk
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about cuz I feel like I feel like it's going to be weird should we just replay the episode I don't know just repost it
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every year that means that we're coming up almost on the oneyear anniversary of this podcast
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W that is wild I can't believe that as I started like intro this episode I was
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like oh this is the last one we've done all the others but before we get started
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Molly what was your magic moment this week okay my magic moment is that I finally
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hired someone to help me in the background of my riky
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training so um yeah so I hired a community engagement manager Jade she's
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amazing she's one of my graduates I actually only posted the job to my graduate Community cuz I really wanted
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it to be someone from within the training program that is is helping like improve the training program so she's
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been really active in our graduate community and is now answering like administrative emails for me so I don't
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get bogged down with those and is helping me like approve the efficiency of the back end of the training so that
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I can really focus on supporting the students and supporting graduates and it's just been really nice it's been
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really nice to take that that weight off of my shoulders and you know I'm I'm
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someone that has like really big Visions for what I want this like community in this training to become and those all
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those Visions feel like big and possible now that I have someone who's helping me with the more day-to-day operations
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tasks so yay yay this is the year of Delegation we love to see it yeah I'm in
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my delegation era creating space yes staying in my magic yes yes yes it's the
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best what's your magic moment okay my magic moment is not going to sound like a magic moment when I start talking but
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I promise we're going to get there okay so a couple days
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ago I got an email from my mom with a screenshot of a review that we got on
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Yelp oh this is a we got review we got in October of 20123 I don't look at our
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Yelp I don't use Yelp I use Google reviews like most people I feel yeah and
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when I tell you this is the most unhinged review I've ever seen for anything in my life what does it say oh
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it's long but before I I'm gonna read you this review okay but before I read
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you the review I'm going to tell you why it's my magic moment uhhuh because it is
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nasty this is one of the nastiest things I think that someone has said about something that I've done kind of to my
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face wow um and it's my magic moment because a year ago I would not have been
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able to function knowing that somebody felt this way about our store famously when we started this
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podcast I could not look at the review section for months and months and months
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Molly and I had a very specific agreement that she would read the reviews of this podcast and send me the
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nice ones because I was so afraid that if we got a mean review that I would not be
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able to continue to record this podcast I was very afraid of any kind of like you know especially it's like the store
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and this podcast both feel very personal to me mhm and so I used to
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equate people's negative opinions about either the podcast or the store with
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this idea that something was wrong with me that I had done something wrong by the sheer nature of this person doesn't
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like me mhm and some like some local tea
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is that there's maybe like a group of people in the spiritual community in the Tampa Bay area that like don't love the
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healing head switch or spell crafter because we were very successful ooh and
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so I believe that this review was written by someone in that sphere because none of it is true I'm
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dying to know what it says I'm dying to know what it says so here's my reading of this review wait
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wait wait wait wait I before you read it I just want to say I'm so proud of you cuz I remember a year ago or maybe a
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little longer you got a negative review and I had to talk you off a ledge oh yeah um because you were so upset and I was
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like bestie it's it's okay like it's nothing you did like and that time that
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so the first negative review we ever got you can go find it it's on our uh Google reviews it's someone bought something
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fragile and then broke it broke it and then we wouldn't return it like we wouldn't give them their money back
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because we sold it to them in one piece and it came back in multiple pieces very clearly like that's just like that's
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just how it works right like that's just you know them the rules yeah that threw me over the edge this
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review is personal oh I can't wait okay I'm I've got my popcorn and my mom sent it to me and she goes who pissed in her
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Cheerios all right I'm ready I'm ready everyone get your popcorn get your tea
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okay okay okay came in here with my husband looked intriguing from the outside the inside sucks wouldn't
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recommend coming in here the employees and owner are so snarky the way they they treated us was as if they thought
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they were of a higher power it's funny because everything they had in their store was just fake witch items from
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Amazon that they overcharge like crazy in their store if I could give zero Stars I would don't come here I'm sure
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you could get the real stuff at the real price somewhere else fake Witchcraft and snotty people working here who think
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they're above you because they know fake witchcraft from probably some random fake Witch Book they ordered off Amazon
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it's embarrassing don't spend your money here on fake bull crap they order from cheap on Amazon to make big sales to
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feed themselves too funny horrible store hope downtown Tarpon replaces the store
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with something a bit you know real good luck on begging Tarpon to let them keep your crappy store ladies what what is
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why do they mention Amazon like 17 times like and I ask again who piston her
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Cheerios that is so funny it's and that is what's Magic about it is that it is
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funny to me in this so I'm just going to set the record straight for Kiara G of Tampa Bay FL and
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I only say her name because it's public on the review you can go see it on yel we don't buy our stuff on
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[Music] [Laughter] Amazon and I don't know like
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specifically because she mentions like the fake witchcraft books I'm like you know like I'm we're not the only place
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you can buy these books like these book sellers also sell on Amazon like I can't stop who also sells on
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Amazon it's so funny it is so funny I okay I read this in my first thought was
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God I wish I just ordered everything on Amazon it would be so much easier
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like oh gosh so that's my magic moment my mom
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responded please like a dramatic reading of her response of course I do Christy did Christy did not come to play
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luckily we were fortunate enough to buy the building that houses our little shop so we'll be creating magic here for quite some time we spent a great deal of
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time curating the items in our shop and we carry a number of small maker items that I can assure you aren't from Amazon
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we also go to the largest gem shows in Tucson and Denver to Source our crystals as close to the mine as we can most
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shops in the area don't take the time to do so and it shows in the quality of our inventory it's unfortunate that you
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didn't Vibe with us but not everyone does and that's okay I'm sure there are other shops in the Tampa Bay area that are far more in alignment with your
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energy I love her I love her amazing and that's my
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magic moment so just know that if you if you leave a negative review on this podcast we will do a dramatic reading of
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it Jay uhhuh and yeah you know who you
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are um and just a slight slutt a a slutt
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plug that's for when you um have a promiscuous and you plug something
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promis why what just happened when you promiscuous
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promiscuous why did I turn it two bucks funny anyways just a quick subtle plug
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that if you've been to the healing hedgewitch or spell crafter or ordered online from either of those places and
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you want to drown out the nasties in the reviews I actually don't think spell crafter has any RWS yet drop us a review
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on Google or on Yelp I guess wait speaking of reviews we have something exciting to announce oh my God what a
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perfect segue moment great segue you're welcome uh so I didn't even do that on
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purpose I know we did this for the winter solstice and y'all loved it so we
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are doing it again we are doing a giveaway we are going to be giving away one of Madison's beautiful not from
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Amazon spring equinox candles as well as a ticket to my not even sold
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on Amazon as well as a ticket to my online spring equinox raiki
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ceremony we are going to be giving both of those things away to one lucky person who leaves us a review so if you want to
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win both of those things all you have to do is leave us a review wherever you're listening to this podcast it could be
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five stars it could be one star just know that if it's one star we will get a little te haha out of it and send us a
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screenshot of your review to demist byic gmail.com by noon Eastern Standard Time
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on Monday March 18th so less than a week away and we will be picking a winner
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later that day we'll also be sharing some of our favorite reviews over on Instagram so make sure you're following
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us there at demy Magic and yeah if you want to just join the ceremony and you
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don't want to wait for the giveaway we'll we'll leave the link down there and if you want to get a candle we'll also leave the link down there so either
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way and if you entered last time you can screenshot your old review and send that
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to our email as well don't feel like you can't participate because you already left a review don't delete your review and redo it can't they review more than
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once no oh okay yeah you can only do it one time do whatever you
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want do what you got to do do what you got to do all right beautiful let's dive
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in do you want to go first do you want me to go first let's do it I'll go first so I'm going to start off talking about
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ostara which is the fancy term for the Spring Equinox I always always always
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almost say the spring solstice and I know that it's wrong every time but I have like a last sound it kind of does
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MHM mhm but anyways what I think is so funny about the Spring Equinox and this
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episode is I feel like we've touched on the Spring Equinox in so many of the
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previous episodes cuz we've been like I feel like we've been building towards this moment so I had to really like
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think hard of like what haven't we already said about the Spring Equinox so it's on March 19th this year
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it's also the beginning of Aries season so that's the start of the year in the zodiac calendar so if you haven't been
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feeling you know like we talked about in our winter solstice episode if the New
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Year feels super blah for you I've even been seeing a lot of people start to say in the past couple weeks like the new
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starts in March the new year starts in March and I want to comment and be like it's because the Spring Equinox
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like you're experiencing what you're supposed to experience because this is a different
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form of the New Year this is energetically for me when the New Year
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kind of starts I even I finally finished my 2024 bingo card like two days ago I'm very excited
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about it it like hit me in the middle of the night I was like oh it's time I am inspired the new year is happening it's
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happening so ostara also kind of symbolizes those kinds of themes it's
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also really tied to fertility both fertility and like because of this idea of birth and Rebirth of like entering a
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new era mhm and what I think is so fun I was doing notes for this episode the
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other day and literally half of my notes are about Easter not even about ostara because
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Easter is so oara coded I can't even begin to it to lay it on me bunnies
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symbol of fertility as we famously say boinking like
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rabbits make that the sound clip of the episode eggs a symbol of birth and
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rebirth this like the circle of life die we diey eggs
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oh my [Laughter] God I can't tell if that's like
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mindbending or very silly I think it's both yes not either or yes it's pretty on
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brand for me in a shocking turn of events and on that note of how Pagan
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Easter is like my family this will not surprise you to he my family was like not really an Easter family
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[Laughter] we always we used to go out to brunch on Easter because like you know it's just a
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day that everybody does brunch and so that was just all I knew was like my mom told me when we were going to brunch and
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that was Easter Easter is the first Sunday after the first full moon after
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the Spring Equinox sorry wait what that is how the day of Easter is decided it's
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based on the full moon it is based on not only the full moon but also the
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Equinox so you have to figure out when the equino is and then when's the next full moon and then the Sunday after that
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why is it so complicated first of all I don't know and that sounds like it belongs in a Spellbook it does you meet you meet with
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your coven on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the Spring Equinox like that sounds
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fake you turn bunnies into chocolate and you go hunt for
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eggs like that is why to me so suddenly I'm like I kind of [ __ ]
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with Easter right I know I'm like pastels have to be like some sort of color magic
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in there and I saw a lot reading about oara that pastels are a big part of that
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as well I'm like okay so it's we go so like we just stole ostara and made it
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Easter it even kind of sounds like Easter I like ostara better that sounds like a character I would choose on like
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Mario Kart I agree you're not
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wrong but really most of what I learned throughout my research for this episode is that ostara is Easter if you are just
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honest about what Easter is I love this like what is more birth and rebirth than
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he like he is risen like Jesus rising from the dead in this time of in this time of
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rebirth in this time of like New Beginnings I just think that that's so cool I mean I know that we see a lot
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around Christmas time people talk about how Ule is like or how Christmas is
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basically like rebranded Ule mhm that has nothing on Easter I just can't get
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over it so I'll be making an Easter basket this year long story short I'm into it I'm into it I love the Easter
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themed Sweet Tarts those are my faves my uncle has the date on his calendar every
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year when peeps hit the shelves see okay we we have peeps all
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year round up here in Maine is that not the case down there no maybe they do now maybe that's changed but when I was a
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kid I remember like my my dad being like it's a Walsh family
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holiday it's peep time it's peep time Peeps are on the shelves the the grocery stores send out
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flyers that say peep this and it's just a picture of my uncle
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the best part about that was I blatantly watched you take a sip of water while I
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made that joke and chose to continue anyway cruel this is how she treats me
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[Laughter] everyone okay so I wrote down a couple
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low effort ritual ideas do we want to save those for the end after you go or do we want to do some mostara themed now
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and yeah let's do some mostara themed okay they're very basic love so plant
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something that is what I'm most excited about with Springtime you know the
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flowers are starting to bloom where I am it's just hot we've just gotten back to
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hot um and so um I'll probably buy a new house plant rather than because I don't
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have a ton of outdoor space as we know I actually have zero outdoor space I also have zero indoor space left for plants
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but that hasn't stopped me um but bring something green into your house whether
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it's like one of those little herb plants for the from the grocery store or a full-blown house plant or planting
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something new in your garden had a lettuce yeah sure a had a lettuce yeah
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why not why not eat some leafy greens what made you think of a head of lettuce you said the plants from the
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grocery store and I was like mhm I could go for some Iceberg right now I meant like like the little pots that have the
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herbs in them I know what you oh okay okay I know what you meant and I know
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what I meant green is green Madison so
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true everybody were planting one head of iceberg lettuce this year for the Spring
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Equinox remain calm everyone I quit I'm out of here I don't
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know if you could hear that subtly in the background but Woody just wheezed at me when I made that F he's like
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no join the club Woodford it's bad oh what else you got eat some
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Iceberg eat some Iceberg spring cleaning I'm clean in my house I'm committed
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she's imitating me people she's making jokes when I laugh she's imitating my little hand
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movements I'm imitating out of support thank you I appreciate it
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but I'm taking spring cleaning uh literally this year and getting witchy
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with it so refreshing my altar cleaning my house really I'll just be doing Molly's mundane Magic series um and
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finding all the ways to take my house cleaning and make it a little bit more spiritual cuz I have been suffering in
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that department and I'm really trying to follow the season mhm I don't know if it's like been hard for you recently I
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feel like right before it's like always right before I get a burst of motivation
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in anything mhm I have like severe regression yeah I feel like a baby the
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slingshots got to pull back before it sends you forward I'm like a baby in sleep regression but the regression is
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cleaning my house yeah that's fair that's
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fair okay next to my list is to just go for a walk this is the day where day and
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night are equal in length and that is I don't know why I find that concept to
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just be so fun and cool it happens twice with both the equinoxes the Autumn Equinox is the same thing we're just going into the period of the Year where
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the days will slowly get longer instead of getting shorter and specifically I think like because of where I live the
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the length of the day and night is really one of the few ways that I can really recognize the seasons and so if
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you live in a place where it's either still really cold or you're like me and it's just already summertime and we've
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all just accepted that we're in that 8mon hellscape getting out and observing that
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part of the Year where you can really see in front of you the way that the
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year is slowly changing and the seasons are slowly changing mhm that is a really
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effective way to observe this time of year and like kind of harness that energy I love that and then last of my
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list is to do a little meditation that can be active meditation through your walk where could you find one of those
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you like my little seg I threw in there for you I like it you can find the perfect meditation
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if you want to meditate with me and Molly on the Spring Equinox you can join
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Molly's spring equinox ceremony or join our giveaway to enter it for free I was
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going to say you could just listen to next week's episode because we're going to do like a little mini reading and mini meditation but I like the fact that
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you queued up the Spring Equinox ceremony because that is really
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the the best you have so many options you could do the mini meditation in our next
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episode as like like a pregame yeah a teaser yeah exactly a little intro get
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you warmed up MH and then join the spring eox ceremony yeah love that all
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right tell me about traditional Chinese medicine okay what's so fun is as you're sitting there talking through your
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rituals I'm like mhm mm really trying not to interrupt uh-huh uhhuh so as
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we've talked about on the Pod before traditional Chinese medicine is the basic concept is that we as humans our
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physical emotional Harmony the harmony within us uh is echoed by the harmony
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outside of us so when we align with the energy of nature we experience more
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alignment more Harmony within us basically the idea is that the human body is like a microcosm within the
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macrocosm of the world around us so it's just a fancy way of saying when we do
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things eat things walk through life what the [ __ ] am I
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saying the things we do do eat walk those are the pillars of The Human
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Experience anyway I thought you were doing great thank you I'm just going to going funny as you as you stop and
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you're like what the [ __ ] am I saying I'm sitting here being like uh Molly's so much more eloquent than me
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I Stumble through all my words through my half and then you're immediately like metaphor perfect explanation walk eat do
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anyway so the idea is when we live in alignment with the energy that's
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happening in Spring we experience almost like we experience less resistance
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whether that resistance is illness or tension or emotional disharmony we
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experience less resistance when we move through life in alignment with spring and so spring uh I always like to think
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of what's actually happening in nature so if we think about not where you are Madison but where I
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am right the ground is starting to defrost so we too are starting to
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defrost so if you have felt like a lack of motivation a lack of momentum already
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at the start of this year or maybe you started feeling really productive when everyone told you you needed to have a New Year's resolution and then you came
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crashing down a week or two later that's because we've been been hibernating
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energetically for the last couple of months and so now we start to defrost so
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you might feel a surge of momentum I know for me in the last week I have felt
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so motivated to declutter my house like I have felt excited to spring clean and
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I tend to wait for that excitement to hit because then I know the energy is starting to move in that direction and
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so we're starting to defrost and at the same time when we think about what we do in spring from like a a a a growth
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perspective this is the time that we start to plant the seeds so in order for
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us to plant the seeds first we need to weed the garden and so we can think of that as a metaphor for our environment
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in order to bring new energy in we need to release the old energy that's not serving us we can think of that as a
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metaphor for our uh mental health in order to bring new rituals new routines
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new uh positive emotions we need to release the things that are bringing us negativity or things that are no longer
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serving us we can think of this in the physical body in order to find relaxation we need to release tension
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right and at the same time in traditional Chinese medicine the organs that are connected with the spring
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season are the liver and the gallbladder which we know are connected to this idea
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of detoxification so being able to release the things that no longer serve us being able to release process
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emotions that we've maybe been holding on to grudges that we've been holding on
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to anger um being able to really move
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through our emotions and and metabolize them rather than holding on to them or
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trying to avoid them and in doing so we start to create more space energetically
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for us to bring in and plant the seeds of the manifestations and the things that we want to create in our life
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through the spring and the summer I love when we just do this thing where we say
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the same thing in our different fonts it's so fun as I love to hear the slight ways that it's going to be different
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through the Chinese medicine perspective I also really love the idea of letting go of
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anger and like rebirth through the lens of forgiveness mhh that is a perspective that I really
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really resonate with and also is just like such an interesting way to look at it that I don't think I've ever seen
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before you ready to geek out further please the element that is associated
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with this season in traditional Chinese medicine is wood which is connected to
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the energy of living growing grounding right so we think of I always
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think of it as this is a time to root in order to rise so if we think about a
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tree that wants to grow big and the big expansive branches and take up space
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right it needs to First grow really firm roots and that is what spring is all
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about is like laying the foundation really getting rooted in your routines getting rooted in your environment
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getting rooted in yourself so that you can expand because
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this is also the shift from the more Yin Seasons the more quiet introspective restful um like soft passive energy to
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the more young Seasons which is the more active the more doing the more creative
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energy more expansive energy and so in order to expand in order to grow the
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branches really big we have to grow Deep Roots and I always see the spring as this opportunity to do that that's why
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we often feel this gust of motivation to clean our house declutter change our
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routines up change our our hair change our makeup change our clothes
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because we're really trying to get grounded in what do we want to create
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and getting those roots really really deep in ourselves and in our experience and in our routines can help create that
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and I think that visual also really can help people who their version
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of rooting might not look the same as others you know as people are talking
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about slowly like coming out of their shell in the new year starts in March and this level of motivation that growing of roots can
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also be a very internal thing mhm and there can be a need and an element of
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rest oh always in that as well that I think is important to acknowledge this
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time of year too because we're like going to start seeing more and more of that energetic ramping up and you might
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notice a lot more people in a way more active in a more like in a more
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energetically forward state of being yeah yeah and if you are still in that
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retraction that's okay too yeah we need balance with all things and so some of
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the things that you can do is get really clear on the things
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that you're ready to release and I like the word routine keeps coming through for me whenever I'm like talking about
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this like getting clear on the parts of your routines that are working for you and What needs adjusting and what I mean
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by that is not do a 180 of your morning routine and all of a sudden have a 90 minute long spiritual morning routine
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where you meditate and then you chant and then you pull tarot cards and whatever because we've talked about that before and that's not sustainable for
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most of us what I'm talking about is how can you make twom minute adjustments in your
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routine so that you can consistently sustain the things that
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bring you closer to the things that you want to create that help almost like how can you water the garden right through
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your routines at the same time you want to start finding ways that you can safely
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express your emotions right that liver that gallbladder they need they need you
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to express the anger to feel the anger to express the frustration the irritation to acknowledge it rather than
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suppress it otherwise we find we create imbalance and we can see that show up in
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the body in the mind in our routines in all of it so finding safe ways that you can express emotions whether that is
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through um I I tend to find like this time of year because the sun is coming out for the first time in like what
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feels like a million years in Maine I find movement I'm much more excited to do so that might be going for a walk
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going for a run taking a dance class just sitting outside in the sun with your dog you know like whatever the case
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may be maybe for you it's starting therapy starting journaling voice
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memoing your friend to vent you know like whatever the case may be finding a way to safely express your emotions so
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that you can process them rather than just holding on to them and then spring cleaning is also on my list and in
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particular really spring cleaning like decluttering so I'm I'm doing this
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challenge right now on my Instagram it was like a very impromptu challenge that people want to do but I've been getting
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this meal delivery service and I didn't know what to do with all the boxes and uh so I decided every week in
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March when my meal delivery service comes in I'm going to fill a box with stuff to bring to donate and get a box
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of stuff out of my house every week in March and so if you want to join the challenge I'm holding you accountable
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over on Instagram uh but doing something like that can not only create physical
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space but also helps create space in the mind and energetic space as well and how
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you do anything is how you do everything so when we start to really practice letting go of you know the 72 rubber
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bands in your junk drawer then we become better at letting go of maybe the resentment that we've
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been holding on for someone stealing your pencil in third grade and not giving it back or whatever as an example
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that was specific is there something you want to talk about
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no we're holding on to this one for another spring
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yeah and at the same time while you're clearing out get clear about what you want to call in what seeds do you want to plant this year you know like what do
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you want to create for your life this is really like I think of this as like new year new me you know like everything
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that people says about January 1 that you didn't feel motivated to do congratulations now you get to do it
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what what is your resolution or your intention for the year what do you want to create for your life what do you want
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to call in who do you want to be come December 2024 and how can you start to
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plant the seeds of that now yeah this is always my deadline for my word of the year what is your word of the Year
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slowly we love mine is dream bigger love that she's got two words I've got two
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words I got a sentence and if you decided on your word of the Year already
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please send it to me on Instagram I love to hear everybody's choices mhm mhm we love it we love it right is there
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anything else on your list I don't think so what about what about you I don't think so all right I'm excited about next week we're doing a little reading a
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little meditation here on the Pod and again if you want to pick up a spring equinox candle or join the Spring
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Equinox Reiki ceremony both of those links will be in the show notes yes and
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we will see you next week and bye thanks for listening to demystify
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magic with Molly and Madison if you want to learn more about us you can find all our links in the show notes we'd love to
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know what you think of today's episode so drop us review or give us a shout out on social media and don't forget to let us know your magical moment of the week
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okay love you bye

welcome to demystify magic with Molly and Madison I'm Molly a former skeptic turned full-time energy healer and
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teacher and I'm Madison a born and raised witch running my family's Crystal shop and we're here to explore all
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things woo through the lens of both science and spirituality so that you can find the moments of magic in your
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everyday life and create an intentional spiritual practice so if that's what you're into find a cozy spot take a deep
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breath and let's demystify some magic howdy Duty friends howdy Duty
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friends Oh
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Lordy are you in for a treat today yes yes you're in for a blast from the past
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from past Molly and past Madison who had their [ __ ] together more so than current Molly and Madison do yeah current Molly
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and Madison it's not looking good it's struggling this is a rough month this we've got a lot going onever heard balls
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in the air you ever heard of neuro virus I have this week
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but well our loss is your gain yeah because exactly we are bringing the
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previous more polished versions of ourselves back from the past because time is not real and they're going to
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talk to you about the Spring Equinox yeah and they're gonna they're going to be very organized and they're going to
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be very fun and I'm I love doing these replay episodes because I always wonder what our Magic Moment was last time we
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did one it was like the the most apropo Magic Moment like you had just met your boyfriend and I had just started reading
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books and I was like a remember when two transformational moments in our lives
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equally so some might argue equally so anyways if you want to celebrate the
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Spring Equinox with us when we do have our [ __ ] together Madison makes a great candle at the healing hedge witch we'll
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link that in the show notes one of my faves I have mine ready to burn and Molly hosts A really lovely
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spring equinox raiki ceremony yeah and for the first time ever we're doing a bundle so you can get all four of the
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seasonal ceremonies of 2025 for the price of three so don't miss that because that's a killer deal I thought
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you were saying that we were doing a bundle like that you could get the class in the candle which is a great idea we
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should have done that but I was like well that's the first time hearing of this maybe if enough people ask for it
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we will do that next time yeah let us know if that's something that you'd be into and let me know if you think Molly
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should tell me at the summer solstice I like when I just drop things
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on you when you're recovering from the neuro virus M yep running on Saltines in
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a prayer Saltines and a prayer anyways enjoy the show love you
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bye we are back for the final I guess the conclusion of our solstices and
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equinoxes we we started last year at the summer solstice and now we've gone
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through over the last year the summer solstice the Autumn Equinox the winter
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solstice and now the Spring Equinox yeah we are here to give you our Deep dive on
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the Spring Equinox through the perspectives of traditional Chinese medicine and through the wheel of the
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year yeah I'm excited and then you'll have to let us know what should we do for the summer solstice this year should
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we do like a recap should we do some like low effort rituals should we do what what should we what should we talk
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about cuz I feel like I feel like it's going to be weird should we just replay the episode I don't know just repost it
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every year that means that we're coming up almost on the oneyear anniversary of this podcast
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W that is wild I can't believe that as I started like intro this episode I was
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like oh this is the last one we've done all the others but before we get started
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Molly what was your magic moment this week okay my magic moment is that I finally
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hired someone to help me in the background of my riky
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training so um yeah so I hired a community engagement manager Jade she's
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amazing she's one of my graduates I actually only posted the job to my graduate Community cuz I really wanted
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it to be someone from within the training program that is is helping like improve the training program so she's
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been really active in our graduate community and is now answering like administrative emails for me so I don't
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get bogged down with those and is helping me like approve the efficiency of the back end of the training so that
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I can really focus on supporting the students and supporting graduates and it's just been really nice it's been
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really nice to take that that weight off of my shoulders and you know I'm I'm
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someone that has like really big Visions for what I want this like community in this training to become and those all
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those Visions feel like big and possible now that I have someone who's helping me with the more day-to-day operations
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tasks so yay yay this is the year of Delegation we love to see it yeah I'm in
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my delegation era creating space yes staying in my magic yes yes yes it's the
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best what's your magic moment okay my magic moment is not going to sound like a magic moment when I start talking but
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I promise we're going to get there okay so a couple days
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ago I got an email from my mom with a screenshot of a review that we got on
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Yelp oh this is a we got review we got in October of 20123 I don't look at our
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Yelp I don't use Yelp I use Google reviews like most people I feel yeah and
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when I tell you this is the most unhinged review I've ever seen for anything in my life what does it say oh
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it's long but before I I'm gonna read you this review okay but before I read
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you the review I'm going to tell you why it's my magic moment uhhuh because it is
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nasty this is one of the nastiest things I think that someone has said about something that I've done kind of to my
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face wow um and it's my magic moment because a year ago I would not have been
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able to function knowing that somebody felt this way about our store famously when we started this
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podcast I could not look at the review section for months and months and months
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Molly and I had a very specific agreement that she would read the reviews of this podcast and send me the
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nice ones because I was so afraid that if we got a mean review that I would not be
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able to continue to record this podcast I was very afraid of any kind of like you know especially it's like the store
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and this podcast both feel very personal to me mhm and so I used to
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equate people's negative opinions about either the podcast or the store with
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this idea that something was wrong with me that I had done something wrong by the sheer nature of this person doesn't
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like me mhm and some like some local tea
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is that there's maybe like a group of people in the spiritual community in the Tampa Bay area that like don't love the
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healing head switch or spell crafter because we were very successful ooh and
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so I believe that this review was written by someone in that sphere because none of it is true I'm
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dying to know what it says I'm dying to know what it says so here's my reading of this review wait
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wait wait wait wait I before you read it I just want to say I'm so proud of you cuz I remember a year ago or maybe a
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little longer you got a negative review and I had to talk you off a ledge oh yeah um because you were so upset and I was
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like bestie it's it's okay like it's nothing you did like and that time that
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so the first negative review we ever got you can go find it it's on our uh Google reviews it's someone bought something
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fragile and then broke it broke it and then we wouldn't return it like we wouldn't give them their money back
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because we sold it to them in one piece and it came back in multiple pieces very clearly like that's just like that's
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just how it works right like that's just you know them the rules yeah that threw me over the edge this
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review is personal oh I can't wait okay I'm I've got my popcorn and my mom sent it to me and she goes who pissed in her
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Cheerios all right I'm ready I'm ready everyone get your popcorn get your tea
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okay okay okay came in here with my husband looked intriguing from the outside the inside sucks wouldn't
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recommend coming in here the employees and owner are so snarky the way they they treated us was as if they thought
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they were of a higher power it's funny because everything they had in their store was just fake witch items from
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Amazon that they overcharge like crazy in their store if I could give zero Stars I would don't come here I'm sure
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you could get the real stuff at the real price somewhere else fake Witchcraft and snotty people working here who think
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they're above you because they know fake witchcraft from probably some random fake Witch Book they ordered off Amazon
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it's embarrassing don't spend your money here on fake bull crap they order from cheap on Amazon to make big sales to
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feed themselves too funny horrible store hope downtown Tarpon replaces the store
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with something a bit you know real good luck on begging Tarpon to let them keep your crappy store ladies what what is
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why do they mention Amazon like 17 times like and I ask again who piston her
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Cheerios that is so funny it's and that is what's Magic about it is that it is
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funny to me in this so I'm just going to set the record straight for Kiara G of Tampa Bay FL and
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I only say her name because it's public on the review you can go see it on yel we don't buy our stuff on
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[Music] [Laughter] Amazon and I don't know like
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specifically because she mentions like the fake witchcraft books I'm like you know like I'm we're not the only place
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you can buy these books like these book sellers also sell on Amazon like I can't stop who also sells on
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Amazon it's so funny it is so funny I okay I read this in my first thought was
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God I wish I just ordered everything on Amazon it would be so much easier
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like oh gosh so that's my magic moment my mom
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responded please like a dramatic reading of her response of course I do Christy did Christy did not come to play
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luckily we were fortunate enough to buy the building that houses our little shop so we'll be creating magic here for quite some time we spent a great deal of
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time curating the items in our shop and we carry a number of small maker items that I can assure you aren't from Amazon
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we also go to the largest gem shows in Tucson and Denver to Source our crystals as close to the mine as we can most
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shops in the area don't take the time to do so and it shows in the quality of our inventory it's unfortunate that you
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didn't Vibe with us but not everyone does and that's okay I'm sure there are other shops in the Tampa Bay area that are far more in alignment with your
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energy I love her I love her amazing and that's my
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magic moment so just know that if you if you leave a negative review on this podcast we will do a dramatic reading of
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it Jay uhhuh and yeah you know who you
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are um and just a slight slutt a a slutt
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plug that's for when you um have a promiscuous and you plug something
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promis why what just happened when you promiscuous
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promiscuous why did I turn it two bucks funny anyways just a quick subtle plug
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that if you've been to the healing hedgewitch or spell crafter or ordered online from either of those places and
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you want to drown out the nasties in the reviews I actually don't think spell crafter has any RWS yet drop us a review
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on Google or on Yelp I guess wait speaking of reviews we have something exciting to announce oh my God what a
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perfect segue moment great segue you're welcome uh so I didn't even do that on
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purpose I know we did this for the winter solstice and y'all loved it so we
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are doing it again we are doing a giveaway we are going to be giving away one of Madison's beautiful not from
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Amazon spring equinox candles as well as a ticket to my not even sold
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on Amazon as well as a ticket to my online spring equinox raiki
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ceremony we are going to be giving both of those things away to one lucky person who leaves us a review so if you want to
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win both of those things all you have to do is leave us a review wherever you're listening to this podcast it could be
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five stars it could be one star just know that if it's one star we will get a little te haha out of it and send us a
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screenshot of your review to demist byic gmail.com by noon Eastern Standard Time
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on Monday March 18th so less than a week away and we will be picking a winner
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later that day we'll also be sharing some of our favorite reviews over on Instagram so make sure you're following
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us there at demy Magic and yeah if you want to just join the ceremony and you
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don't want to wait for the giveaway we'll we'll leave the link down there and if you want to get a candle we'll also leave the link down there so either
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way and if you entered last time you can screenshot your old review and send that
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to our email as well don't feel like you can't participate because you already left a review don't delete your review and redo it can't they review more than
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once no oh okay yeah you can only do it one time do whatever you
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want do what you got to do do what you got to do all right beautiful let's dive
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in do you want to go first do you want me to go first let's do it I'll go first so I'm going to start off talking about
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ostara which is the fancy term for the Spring Equinox I always always always
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almost say the spring solstice and I know that it's wrong every time but I have like a last sound it kind of does
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MHM mhm but anyways what I think is so funny about the Spring Equinox and this
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episode is I feel like we've touched on the Spring Equinox in so many of the
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previous episodes cuz we've been like I feel like we've been building towards this moment so I had to really like
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think hard of like what haven't we already said about the Spring Equinox so it's on March 19th this year
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it's also the beginning of Aries season so that's the start of the year in the zodiac calendar so if you haven't been
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feeling you know like we talked about in our winter solstice episode if the New
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Year feels super blah for you I've even been seeing a lot of people start to say in the past couple weeks like the new
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starts in March the new year starts in March and I want to comment and be like it's because the Spring Equinox
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like you're experiencing what you're supposed to experience because this is a different
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form of the New Year this is energetically for me when the New Year
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kind of starts I even I finally finished my 2024 bingo card like two days ago I'm very excited
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about it it like hit me in the middle of the night I was like oh it's time I am inspired the new year is happening it's
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happening so ostara also kind of symbolizes those kinds of themes it's
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also really tied to fertility both fertility and like because of this idea of birth and Rebirth of like entering a
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new era mhm and what I think is so fun I was doing notes for this episode the
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other day and literally half of my notes are about Easter not even about ostara because
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Easter is so oara coded I can't even begin to it to lay it on me bunnies
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symbol of fertility as we famously say boinking like
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rabbits make that the sound clip of the episode eggs a symbol of birth and
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rebirth this like the circle of life die we diey eggs
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oh my [Laughter] God I can't tell if that's like
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mindbending or very silly I think it's both yes not either or yes it's pretty on
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brand for me in a shocking turn of events and on that note of how Pagan
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Easter is like my family this will not surprise you to he my family was like not really an Easter family
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[Laughter] we always we used to go out to brunch on Easter because like you know it's just a
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day that everybody does brunch and so that was just all I knew was like my mom told me when we were going to brunch and
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that was Easter Easter is the first Sunday after the first full moon after
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the Spring Equinox sorry wait what that is how the day of Easter is decided it's
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based on the full moon it is based on not only the full moon but also the
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Equinox so you have to figure out when the equino is and then when's the next full moon and then the Sunday after that
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why is it so complicated first of all I don't know and that sounds like it belongs in a Spellbook it does you meet you meet with
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your coven on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the Spring Equinox like that sounds
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fake you turn bunnies into chocolate and you go hunt for
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eggs like that is why to me so suddenly I'm like I kind of [ __ ]
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with Easter right I know I'm like pastels have to be like some sort of color magic
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in there and I saw a lot reading about oara that pastels are a big part of that
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as well I'm like okay so it's we go so like we just stole ostara and made it
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Easter it even kind of sounds like Easter I like ostara better that sounds like a character I would choose on like
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Mario Kart I agree you're not
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wrong but really most of what I learned throughout my research for this episode is that ostara is Easter if you are just
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honest about what Easter is I love this like what is more birth and rebirth than
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he like he is risen like Jesus rising from the dead in this time of in this time of
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rebirth in this time of like New Beginnings I just think that that's so cool I mean I know that we see a lot
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around Christmas time people talk about how Ule is like or how Christmas is
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basically like rebranded Ule mhm that has nothing on Easter I just can't get
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over it so I'll be making an Easter basket this year long story short I'm into it I'm into it I love the Easter
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themed Sweet Tarts those are my faves my uncle has the date on his calendar every
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year when peeps hit the shelves see okay we we have peeps all
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year round up here in Maine is that not the case down there no maybe they do now maybe that's changed but when I was a
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kid I remember like my my dad being like it's a Walsh family
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holiday it's peep time it's peep time Peeps are on the shelves the the grocery stores send out
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flyers that say peep this and it's just a picture of my uncle
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the best part about that was I blatantly watched you take a sip of water while I
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made that joke and chose to continue anyway cruel this is how she treats me
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[Laughter] everyone okay so I wrote down a couple
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low effort ritual ideas do we want to save those for the end after you go or do we want to do some mostara themed now
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and yeah let's do some mostara themed okay they're very basic love so plant
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something that is what I'm most excited about with Springtime you know the
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flowers are starting to bloom where I am it's just hot we've just gotten back to
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hot um and so um I'll probably buy a new house plant rather than because I don't
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have a ton of outdoor space as we know I actually have zero outdoor space I also have zero indoor space left for plants
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but that hasn't stopped me um but bring something green into your house whether
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it's like one of those little herb plants for the from the grocery store or a full-blown house plant or planting
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something new in your garden had a lettuce yeah sure a had a lettuce yeah
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why not why not eat some leafy greens what made you think of a head of lettuce you said the plants from the
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grocery store and I was like mhm I could go for some Iceberg right now I meant like like the little pots that have the
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herbs in them I know what you oh okay okay I know what you meant and I know
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what I meant green is green Madison so
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true everybody were planting one head of iceberg lettuce this year for the Spring
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Equinox remain calm everyone I quit I'm out of here I don't
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know if you could hear that subtly in the background but Woody just wheezed at me when I made that F he's like
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no join the club Woodford it's bad oh what else you got eat some
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Iceberg eat some Iceberg spring cleaning I'm clean in my house I'm committed
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she's imitating me people she's making jokes when I laugh she's imitating my little hand
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movements I'm imitating out of support thank you I appreciate it
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but I'm taking spring cleaning uh literally this year and getting witchy
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with it so refreshing my altar cleaning my house really I'll just be doing Molly's mundane Magic series um and
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finding all the ways to take my house cleaning and make it a little bit more spiritual cuz I have been suffering in
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that department and I'm really trying to follow the season mhm I don't know if it's like been hard for you recently I
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feel like right before it's like always right before I get a burst of motivation
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in anything mhm I have like severe regression yeah I feel like a baby the
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slingshots got to pull back before it sends you forward I'm like a baby in sleep regression but the regression is
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cleaning my house yeah that's fair that's
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fair okay next to my list is to just go for a walk this is the day where day and
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night are equal in length and that is I don't know why I find that concept to
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just be so fun and cool it happens twice with both the equinoxes the Autumn Equinox is the same thing we're just going into the period of the Year where
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the days will slowly get longer instead of getting shorter and specifically I think like because of where I live the
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the length of the day and night is really one of the few ways that I can really recognize the seasons and so if
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you live in a place where it's either still really cold or you're like me and it's just already summertime and we've
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all just accepted that we're in that 8mon hellscape getting out and observing that
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part of the Year where you can really see in front of you the way that the
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year is slowly changing and the seasons are slowly changing mhm that is a really
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effective way to observe this time of year and like kind of harness that energy I love that and then last of my
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list is to do a little meditation that can be active meditation through your walk where could you find one of those
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you like my little seg I threw in there for you I like it you can find the perfect meditation
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if you want to meditate with me and Molly on the Spring Equinox you can join
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Molly's spring equinox ceremony or join our giveaway to enter it for free I was
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going to say you could just listen to next week's episode because we're going to do like a little mini reading and mini meditation but I like the fact that
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you queued up the Spring Equinox ceremony because that is really
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the the best you have so many options you could do the mini meditation in our next
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episode as like like a pregame yeah a teaser yeah exactly a little intro get
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you warmed up MH and then join the spring eox ceremony yeah love that all
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right tell me about traditional Chinese medicine okay what's so fun is as you're sitting there talking through your
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rituals I'm like mhm mm really trying not to interrupt uh-huh uhhuh so as
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we've talked about on the Pod before traditional Chinese medicine is the basic concept is that we as humans our
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physical emotional Harmony the harmony within us uh is echoed by the harmony
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outside of us so when we align with the energy of nature we experience more
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alignment more Harmony within us basically the idea is that the human body is like a microcosm within the
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macrocosm of the world around us so it's just a fancy way of saying when we do
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things eat things walk through life what the [ __ ] am I
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saying the things we do do eat walk those are the pillars of The Human
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Experience anyway I thought you were doing great thank you I'm just going to going funny as you as you stop and
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you're like what the [ __ ] am I saying I'm sitting here being like uh Molly's so much more eloquent than me
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I Stumble through all my words through my half and then you're immediately like metaphor perfect explanation walk eat do
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anyway so the idea is when we live in alignment with the energy that's
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happening in Spring we experience almost like we experience less resistance
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whether that resistance is illness or tension or emotional disharmony we
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experience less resistance when we move through life in alignment with spring and so spring uh I always like to think
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of what's actually happening in nature so if we think about not where you are Madison but where I
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am right the ground is starting to defrost so we too are starting to
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defrost so if you have felt like a lack of motivation a lack of momentum already
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at the start of this year or maybe you started feeling really productive when everyone told you you needed to have a New Year's resolution and then you came
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crashing down a week or two later that's because we've been been hibernating
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energetically for the last couple of months and so now we start to defrost so
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you might feel a surge of momentum I know for me in the last week I have felt
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so motivated to declutter my house like I have felt excited to spring clean and
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I tend to wait for that excitement to hit because then I know the energy is starting to move in that direction and
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so we're starting to defrost and at the same time when we think about what we do in spring from like a a a a growth
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perspective this is the time that we start to plant the seeds so in order for
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us to plant the seeds first we need to weed the garden and so we can think of that as a metaphor for our environment
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in order to bring new energy in we need to release the old energy that's not serving us we can think of that as a
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metaphor for our uh mental health in order to bring new rituals new routines
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new uh positive emotions we need to release the things that are bringing us negativity or things that are no longer
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serving us we can think of this in the physical body in order to find relaxation we need to release tension
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right and at the same time in traditional Chinese medicine the organs that are connected with the spring
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season are the liver and the gallbladder which we know are connected to this idea
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of detoxification so being able to release the things that no longer serve us being able to release process
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emotions that we've maybe been holding on to grudges that we've been holding on
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to anger um being able to really move
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through our emotions and and metabolize them rather than holding on to them or
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trying to avoid them and in doing so we start to create more space energetically
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for us to bring in and plant the seeds of the manifestations and the things that we want to create in our life
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through the spring and the summer I love when we just do this thing where we say
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the same thing in our different fonts it's so fun as I love to hear the slight ways that it's going to be different
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through the Chinese medicine perspective I also really love the idea of letting go of
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anger and like rebirth through the lens of forgiveness mhh that is a perspective that I really
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really resonate with and also is just like such an interesting way to look at it that I don't think I've ever seen
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before you ready to geek out further please the element that is associated
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with this season in traditional Chinese medicine is wood which is connected to
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the energy of living growing grounding right so we think of I always
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think of it as this is a time to root in order to rise so if we think about a
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tree that wants to grow big and the big expansive branches and take up space
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right it needs to First grow really firm roots and that is what spring is all
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about is like laying the foundation really getting rooted in your routines getting rooted in your environment
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getting rooted in yourself so that you can expand because
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this is also the shift from the more Yin Seasons the more quiet introspective restful um like soft passive energy to
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the more young Seasons which is the more active the more doing the more creative
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energy more expansive energy and so in order to expand in order to grow the
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branches really big we have to grow Deep Roots and I always see the spring as this opportunity to do that that's why
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we often feel this gust of motivation to clean our house declutter change our
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routines up change our our hair change our makeup change our clothes
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because we're really trying to get grounded in what do we want to create
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and getting those roots really really deep in ourselves and in our experience and in our routines can help create that
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and I think that visual also really can help people who their version
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of rooting might not look the same as others you know as people are talking
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about slowly like coming out of their shell in the new year starts in March and this level of motivation that growing of roots can
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also be a very internal thing mhm and there can be a need and an element of
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rest oh always in that as well that I think is important to acknowledge this
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time of year too because we're like going to start seeing more and more of that energetic ramping up and you might
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notice a lot more people in a way more active in a more like in a more
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energetically forward state of being yeah yeah and if you are still in that
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retraction that's okay too yeah we need balance with all things and so some of
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the things that you can do is get really clear on the things
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that you're ready to release and I like the word routine keeps coming through for me whenever I'm like talking about
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this like getting clear on the parts of your routines that are working for you and What needs adjusting and what I mean
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by that is not do a 180 of your morning routine and all of a sudden have a 90 minute long spiritual morning routine
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where you meditate and then you chant and then you pull tarot cards and whatever because we've talked about that before and that's not sustainable for
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most of us what I'm talking about is how can you make twom minute adjustments in your
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routine so that you can consistently sustain the things that
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bring you closer to the things that you want to create that help almost like how can you water the garden right through
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your routines at the same time you want to start finding ways that you can safely
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express your emotions right that liver that gallbladder they need they need you
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to express the anger to feel the anger to express the frustration the irritation to acknowledge it rather than
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suppress it otherwise we find we create imbalance and we can see that show up in
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the body in the mind in our routines in all of it so finding safe ways that you can express emotions whether that is
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through um I I tend to find like this time of year because the sun is coming out for the first time in like what
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feels like a million years in Maine I find movement I'm much more excited to do so that might be going for a walk
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going for a run taking a dance class just sitting outside in the sun with your dog you know like whatever the case
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may be maybe for you it's starting therapy starting journaling voice
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memoing your friend to vent you know like whatever the case may be finding a way to safely express your emotions so
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that you can process them rather than just holding on to them and then spring cleaning is also on my list and in
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particular really spring cleaning like decluttering so I'm I'm doing this
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challenge right now on my Instagram it was like a very impromptu challenge that people want to do but I've been getting
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this meal delivery service and I didn't know what to do with all the boxes and uh so I decided every week in
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March when my meal delivery service comes in I'm going to fill a box with stuff to bring to donate and get a box
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of stuff out of my house every week in March and so if you want to join the challenge I'm holding you accountable
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over on Instagram uh but doing something like that can not only create physical
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space but also helps create space in the mind and energetic space as well and how
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you do anything is how you do everything so when we start to really practice letting go of you know the 72 rubber
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bands in your junk drawer then we become better at letting go of maybe the resentment that we've
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been holding on for someone stealing your pencil in third grade and not giving it back or whatever as an example
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that was specific is there something you want to talk about
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no we're holding on to this one for another spring
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yeah and at the same time while you're clearing out get clear about what you want to call in what seeds do you want to plant this year you know like what do
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you want to create for your life this is really like I think of this as like new year new me you know like everything
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that people says about January 1 that you didn't feel motivated to do congratulations now you get to do it
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what what is your resolution or your intention for the year what do you want to create for your life what do you want
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to call in who do you want to be come December 2024 and how can you start to
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plant the seeds of that now yeah this is always my deadline for my word of the year what is your word of the Year
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slowly we love mine is dream bigger love that she's got two words I've got two
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words I got a sentence and if you decided on your word of the Year already
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please send it to me on Instagram I love to hear everybody's choices mhm mhm we love it we love it right is there
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anything else on your list I don't think so what about what about you I don't think so all right I'm excited about next week we're doing a little reading a
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little meditation here on the Pod and again if you want to pick up a spring equinox candle or join the Spring
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Equinox Reiki ceremony both of those links will be in the show notes yes and
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we will see you next week and bye thanks for listening to demystify
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magic with Molly and Madison if you want to learn more about us you can find all our links in the show notes we'd love to
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