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The veils we've been wearing kind of
fall away and we're able to be ourselves
Speaker:more fully in this world.
Speaker:We're able to see ourselves more clearly
and we're able to access more vision of
Speaker:our future.
Speaker:Hello and welcome back to
Remember Why You're Here,
Speaker:a podcast for seekers and sensitives
where you can relax, receive,
Speaker:reconnect yourself, and remember
that most important thing of all,
Speaker:why you're here. I'm Asia Suler, author,
Speaker:earth intuitive teacher.
And in this episode today,
Speaker:we are going to be looking into the
energies ahead for the month of September
Speaker:2026.
Speaker:Feels like there's some
big stuff up this month,
Speaker:so I'm curious to get into
the reading. Before we start,
Speaker:I wanted to let you know that my books
for my one-on-one intuitive readings,
Speaker:Your Soul's image are officially
open. They opened yesterday.
Speaker:I went ahead and let the
newsletter list know first.
Speaker:So it's possible they might be
getting all gobbled up already.
Speaker:But if you're interested in this reading,
Speaker:it is basically like these
monthly intuitive readings only.
Speaker:It's personalized for you one-on-one.
Speaker:And I'm calling it your soul's image
because in the reading I go in and I
Speaker:download an image from your soul
for you to help you connect to your
Speaker:true self, your wider
self, who you really are,
Speaker:and receive guidance for where
you're at this point in your life.
Speaker:I'm also bringing in and helping to
introduce you to one of your spirit guides
Speaker:as well as answering three questions
that you have about your life right now.
Speaker:So I have both pre-recorded and live
one-on-one sessions available for
Speaker:that.
Speaker:If you want to check out that link here
to see if there are any readings left.
Speaker:And if there aren't any readings left,
Speaker:I'll probably be releasing the next
batch of readings sometime in October for
Speaker:the last two months of the year.
And if you want to hear about that,
Speaker:you can follow that link to go ahead
and get on the wait list so that you'll
Speaker:know right away when those
new readings release. Okay,
Speaker:so let's get into the
themes for this month ahead.
Speaker:So some themes for this month of
September are protecting your energy,
Speaker:identity transformation,
welcoming back exiled parts,
Speaker:endings and beginnings and
downloading visions of the future.
Speaker:So I decided to work with this
deck called The Shaman's Oracle:
Speaker:Wisdom and Guidance from the Ancestors
by John Matthews and Will Kinghan.
Speaker:And I wanted to work with this deck
because this deck works with images
Speaker:from caves spanning the whole world.
Speaker:They're digital images from paintings
inside caves and rock art on
Speaker:the cards.
Speaker:And I wanted to work with this deck
because I'm getting ready to prepare to go
Speaker:back to France in just a few
weeks to visit the painted
Speaker:caves there again of the paleolithic
to keep working on my book about the
Speaker:deep ancestors. This book is
one, I know I've said before,
Speaker:it'll be years in the making,
Speaker:but I'm really excited to go back to be
inside those caves to be in the presence
Speaker:of the deep ancestors in that way,
to be in the presence of this art.
Speaker:And so I felt excited about the idea
of working with this deck that had
Speaker:images from caves around
the world inside of it.
Speaker:But I knew when I chose this deck
that what I was hoping for was that
Speaker:it would be an image from a cave I was
familiar with and I could talk a little
Speaker:bit about that cave and
about that specific image.
Speaker:And I was lucky that I did pick a card
that had one of those images and that
Speaker:feels particularly good because it feels
like we can go a little bit deeper with
Speaker:this card in what actually
the message is for this month.
Speaker:So the card that I picked and that
I'm about to go deeper into in just a
Speaker:moment, but the card that I picked
was the ancestor of exile card.
Speaker:So in this card,
Speaker:we see a line drawing from a
cave of a wooly rhinoceros,
Speaker:a animal that is now extinct
in the booklet for this deck.
Speaker:This card is described as one
of reconnection and return,
Speaker:a restoration type feeling, maybe being
restored to one's family, one nation,
Speaker:finding a new direction home.
Speaker:And the quote from the
ancestor in the book,
Speaker:because the booklet in the deck is
designed to help connect you with the
Speaker:ancestors. And the quote here
is, "I am the ancestor of exile.
Speaker:I have born witness to many kinds of
separation and have watched the suffering
Speaker:of those who are driven away
from their home or country.
Speaker:Yet there is a deeper exile still in
exile from the south and I stand ready to
Speaker:help lost people find their way
back to their place of belonging.
Speaker:Draw strength from me when you need
reconnection or support in times of
Speaker:loneliness." So I was
happy that my intention in
Speaker:picking this card was already to
go deeper than what was there.
Speaker:And I do this anyways
with the monthly readings.
Speaker:The card is kind of a jumping off
point for me, an anchor point for me.
Speaker:And then I channel and I bring in the
other energies surrounding this month and
Speaker:connected to this card.
Speaker:So this felt particularly good because
this card and bringing in this idea of
Speaker:the exile is really only
Speaker:one part of this month and also
is pointing us towards a longer
Speaker:story that we're in
the midst of right now.
Speaker:And I'm going to get to that in just a
moment, but before I talk about that,
Speaker:I want to talk about the image on the
card and where it actually comes from.
Speaker:So this image of the wooly
rhinoceros comes from Chauvet Cave.
Speaker:So Chauvet Cave was discovered in 1994,
Speaker:so it was relatively recent in terms
of a discovery and it's home to some of
Speaker:the oldest known cave art in the world,
Speaker:so dating back roughly 36,000 years.
Speaker:And this discovery was
particularly poignant when it
Speaker:happened because when it was discovered,
Speaker:it was found to be nearly twice
as old as the cave art in Lascaux,
Speaker:which was huge because at the time
Lascaux was kind of like the crown
Speaker:jewel of cave art.
Speaker:And we had this thought that
cave art was relatively recent,
Speaker:maybe only like 15, 16,000 years old.
Speaker:But here we found this cave art
that was 36,000 years old and we see
Speaker:that this tradition continued for tens
of thousands of years and that our
Speaker:ancestors were making art much
further back than we had anticipated.
Speaker:And so this was a landmark
find Chauvet cave.
Speaker:If you've ever seen the movie Cave of
Forgotten Dreams with Werner Herzog,
Speaker:this is about this cave, Chauvet.
So this was a huge discovery.
Speaker:It has never been open
to the public because the
Speaker:environment is so fragile.
Speaker:And the reason why it was
so well preserved is that
there was a rock fall about
Speaker:21,000 years ago that sealed
the cave off from airflow
Speaker:from outside moisture.
Speaker:And so the cave was like
this perfectly preserved
Speaker:series of chambers that was
showing us this exquisite art,
Speaker:really truly high art,
Speaker:including art that was designed
to look like and create the effect
Speaker:of animation.
Speaker:And one of the things I love about
this rhino is that this rhino,
Speaker:though it's isolated on the card,
Speaker:it actually is part of a panel of
wooly rhinos that includes a rhino that
Speaker:is painted in succession to make it
look as if the animal is in movement and
Speaker:surely would have by the
flickering light of a fat lamp.
Speaker:And so this is a very iconic
image and that felt just
Speaker:powerful to receive, powerful to
receive from this really deep place,
Speaker:this place where we have evidence of
the oldest known cave art in the world.
Speaker:And this does point to me,
there's a depth to September.
Speaker:And I'm going to be fully honest with you,
Speaker:right now I'm recording this in the
midst of eclipse season in August.
Speaker:Obviously I have to prerecord these.
And so from where I'm at right now,
Speaker:I'm like, whoa,
Speaker:there's some deep stuff happening this
month and it feels like September,
Speaker:it's almost like there's even more depth.
Speaker:It's like something that we are
initiating in the midst of eclipse
Speaker:season is deepening when we go
into September, the deep cave.
Speaker:So that feels profound.
Speaker:Just to speak a little bit
about the wooly rhino itself.
Speaker:So wooly rhino is an extinct species.
Speaker:This was a ice age species, megafauna.
Speaker:The wooly rhino is what you would
consider a dangerous animal.
Speaker:And this is one thing that makes Chauvet
Cave in particular really interesting
Speaker:is that a lot of the animals depicted in
the cave, like cave lions for example,
Speaker:would be what we would
consider dangerous animals,
Speaker:not so much the animals that would be
prey animals or animals just gently
Speaker:grazing nearby. And so the wooly
rhino would be among those animals.
Speaker:They were probably similar to contemporary
rhinos in that they are herbivores
Speaker:and very gentle beings, but if surprised,
Speaker:if threatened, if they're young,
were endangered at all, very,
Speaker:very fierce, formidable,
protective energy,
Speaker:protective guardian. And so
Speaker:this particular image comes from a panel
in which two wooly rhinos are actually
Speaker:engaged in a fight.
Speaker:And it's interesting because there's
actually a big misnomer about the cave art
Speaker:that we've found and that it's
all depictions of conflict or
Speaker:battle or hunting scenes. And that
actually really is not true at all.
Speaker:It's very uncommon.
Speaker:And so this is actually what we perceive
to be what we think is a conflict
Speaker:between two male rhinos. And it's
interesting because the rhinos,
Speaker:they have these two horns. If
you look at the wooly rhino,
Speaker:that front horn is sort of this very long
swooping curved horn and it looks very
Speaker:formidable and it is,
Speaker:but that long curved horn was actually
more likely used to sweep away
Speaker:ice and snow to be able to eat
the grass that was underneath.
Speaker:And one thing, clearly I totally
dork out about all of this,
Speaker:but one thing I find so interesting
is that we had not found an intact
Speaker:specimen of wooly rhino
when we found this artwork.
Speaker:And there are certain aspects of the art,
Speaker:including this sort of fatty hump on
the back of the wooly rhino that we were
Speaker:like, is that just artistic
license? What is that?
Speaker:And then we found a perfectly preserved
wooly rhino in the permafrost and found
Speaker:out that yes, it did have
that exact characteristic.
Speaker:So these drawings were also made
in really, really beautiful detail.
Speaker:So I love that little fact.
Speaker:It just adds to the magic and the
mystery and the majesty of this card.
Speaker:Okay, so let's get into then what
this wooly rhino, what this card,
Speaker:what the deep ancestors, what my guides
are telling me for this month ahead.
Speaker:What is up for us here in this
collective? Okay, first and foremost,
Speaker:this was so clear the moment I picked
this card and then dropped into the
Speaker:channel.
Speaker:September is a continuation of the soul
retrievals that happened in August.
Speaker:So if you remember in my
August intuitive reading,
Speaker:I talked about it as a month
of spontaneous soul retrievals.
Speaker:So I can already say from where
I'm at in August right now,
Speaker:this has absolutely been true for me.
Speaker:Soul retrieval can look like a lot of
things like a memory you had forgotten,
Speaker:like crying for days about things
you thought you had fully grieved.
Speaker:It can look like having a
passion or an interest come back.
Speaker:I also had a soul retrieval meditation
that I put up on the Remember Why You're
Speaker:Here Substack, and I know a lot of people
have profound experiences with that.
Speaker:So soul retrievals when a part of us that
was lost somewhere along the way that
Speaker:went and protected itself from the
present moment because the charge of the
Speaker:present moment was too much,
when we welcome those parts back,
Speaker:when we bring those parts back.
Speaker:And it was fascinating to me when I
got this card of the exile because it
Speaker:felt to me very much like this message of
Speaker:these exiled parts,
Speaker:these extinct parts
coming back and that this
Speaker:is a continuation of what
happened in August and also an
Speaker:integration. So you might still be
having pieces and parts come back,
Speaker:but we're also integrating
everything that happened in August.
Speaker:And this is one of those things where
soul retrieval can happen and it can be
Speaker:big and profound, but we might
not see the changes right away.
Speaker:Often we need that integration time. It's
like coming back after a long journey.
Speaker:These parts of ourselves,
Speaker:they need integration time to
come back after this long journey.
Speaker:And when they do, they bring with
them their talents, their passions,
Speaker:their perspective, and their ability
to unlock new versions of our future.
Speaker:So that's really what we're
encountering this month.
Speaker:And specifically I heard the
importance of protecting whatever it
Speaker:is that has returned.
Speaker:And so you might be starting this
month feeling a little tender,
Speaker:feeling like you uncovered
a part of yourself,
Speaker:uncovered part of your memory,
Speaker:uncovered a part of your dreams that
felt like they had been shunted away or
Speaker:stuffed away or hidden away
in order to protect them.
Speaker:And there's a tenderness
that comes with that.
Speaker:So whatever it is that
you understood, uncovered,
Speaker:received, connected with in August,
Speaker:there's a deep sense here in
September of you protecting that,
Speaker:protecting those parts.
Speaker:I thought it was really interesting in
particular that this term exile came up
Speaker:because the concept of exile
parts in internal family
Speaker:systems or IFS is very similar
to what we would talk about as
Speaker:soul loss in a shamanic
understanding or soul retrieval.
Speaker:So exile parts in internal family
systems are one of three main parts.
Speaker:So there's exile parts, there's the
managers, and there's the firefighters.
Speaker:And so the exile parts are normally
the parts of us that carry pain.
Speaker:They're the parts of us that
are connected to trauma, shame,
Speaker:unmet needs in childhood,
Speaker:and they're often holding memories
from times when we felt scared,
Speaker:from when the charge was too much,
Speaker:from when we felt abandoned
or overwhelmed or unloved.
Speaker:And the name exile parts
comes because often that pain,
Speaker:as we've talked about before and as
we talked about in last month's August
Speaker:reading, that the pain is too
overwhelming in some ways. And
Speaker:in the IFS system,
Speaker:it's like the other parts of us in our
internal family system push these exiles
Speaker:out of our consciousness awareness.
Speaker:And I think that there's a way to view
it too of less like they're being exiled
Speaker:and more like they're being
sent away to be protected,
Speaker:like this situation is rough
enough and so we need to send these
Speaker:parts away. But it is
a protective strategy.
Speaker:It's protecting us from
being flooded by pain.
Speaker:And so these young parts in this system,
Speaker:these exiled parts often
carry core beliefs,
Speaker:and these are core beliefs that we don't
even realize we're carrying around.
Speaker:Sometimes core beliefs like
I'm unlovable, I am unworthy,
Speaker:I'm not enough, it's
my fault, I'm not safe.
Speaker:And so we know that these parts
are coming back online because
Speaker:oftentimes these feelings will come
up, these thoughts will come up. And
Speaker:I love this. In IFS,
Speaker:the goal is first we sort of
check in with our protector parts
Speaker:and we're like, "Hey,
Speaker:can I have your permission to bring
this exile back?" Because we want all of
Speaker:ourselves home. This is
the soul retrieval aspect.
Speaker:And then what we do with exiles
is we just witness their story.
Speaker:We hear their story so that they can
unburden themselves from the extreme
Speaker:beliefs that they've been
carrying that are just not true.
Speaker:And I love that term
unburden. It's an unburdening.
Speaker:So if you experienced any times
in August where, like I said,
Speaker:you were crying for days,
I'm raising my hand,
Speaker:or you were able to see these beliefs,
Speaker:these unconscious beliefs
you're carrying around,
Speaker:that is a kind of soul retrieval.
Speaker:You are retrieving and bringing home
these parts of yourselves that have been
Speaker:really managing and dealing
and holding this pain for you.
Speaker:And sometimes it's like
Speaker:the way things come in
is the way they come out.
Speaker:So it's like if it came
in with a lot of pain,
Speaker:sometimes we will have pain
when they go out. And so
Speaker:we are unburdening them just by
hearing them, by being with them.
Speaker:And there's a sense that you have
already undertaken that in August.
Speaker:And like I said in August,
it was sort of spontaneous.
Speaker:A lot of these were spontaneous.
Speaker:And I think eclipse season has really
focused us, really focused us on that.
Speaker:But I want to bring your attention
to this idea of exile as an
Speaker:ancestral concept, right?
Speaker:If we were to be exiled
from the community,
Speaker:that would mean death because we as
human beings survive in community.
Speaker:So when we're talking about
welcoming home exiled parts,
Speaker:the parts of ourselves that
we thought were unlovable,
Speaker:that we thought were too much when we
welcome those homes, what does that mean?
Speaker:It means the opposite of death. It
means life. It means life again.
Speaker:And so this profundity of this
journey of soul retrieval,
Speaker:which we are still on
moving into this month,
Speaker:the profundity of this is that the
parts of ourself that felt unalive,
Speaker:that felt dead, that felt disconnected
from reality, that felt numb,
Speaker:those start to dissolve because we
bring back these parts and we feel alive
Speaker:again. That's the goal.
Speaker:That's why soul retrieval happens.
Speaker:And that's the ultimate path always that
we're moving towards is integration and
Speaker:life living again.
Speaker:And so this might be continuing
to happen for you this month,
Speaker:integrating the parts
that you called back,
Speaker:integrating the really painful
beliefs that they had been holding.
Speaker:And along with that comes
this fierce protector,
Speaker:wooly rhino energy of really calling in
Speaker:this sense of empowerment and protection.
Speaker:So again,
Speaker:I love just thinking about rhinos and
these are wooly rhinos in particular that
Speaker:yes, we're covered with hair.
But I love thinking about them as
Speaker:these gentle giants really.
But if you cross the line,
Speaker:you're going to get cut. You know what
I'm saying? It's that kind of vibe.
Speaker:And so
Speaker:that's the kind of vibe my guides
are asking us to have this month.
Speaker:You are a gentle, benevolent giant,
Speaker:but if someone crosses that line,
it's like, no. That protector energy,
Speaker:there's a sense of it needing
to be strong this month.
Speaker:Protect the time that you
need, the space that you need,
Speaker:protect these parts that came
back. As they're integrating,
Speaker:it can be a very tender time.
There can be vulnerability to that.
Speaker:So protect yourself in the ways
that you need to allow these parts
Speaker:and their visions, their
potentials, their passions,
Speaker:their ability to access new futures,
Speaker:allow them to come online by giving them
the protection that they need to settle
Speaker:back in this home.
Speaker:It's like when you're coming home
after a long time being away,
Speaker:that is a tender time. So really give
yourself this protection this month.
Speaker:And in particular, this idea of space,
Speaker:if you identify as being
sensitive or empathic,
Speaker:space itself is a kind of
protection. So asking yourself,
Speaker:what kind of space do I need this month?
Speaker:What kind of space do
I need around myself?
Speaker:What kind of space do I need with my time?
Speaker:What kind of space do I need to feel
my own energy? Protect your space.
Speaker:It's like that wooly rhino energy. Again,
Speaker:someone moves into your space and it
doesn't feel good, it's like back off.
Speaker:So there's this energy here
of protecting your space.
Speaker:And this is going to be really important
for creative projects because as I've
Speaker:talked about, when these
soul parts come back,
Speaker:we then end up having more
creativity, having more vision,
Speaker:having more passion.
Speaker:And I do feel like there's going to
be further deepening into our creative
Speaker:projects this month, and you're going
to need space and time for that.
Speaker:So that is on offer.
Speaker:You're also in the midst of a time
of identity shift and transformation.
Speaker:When these parts come back,
Speaker:they transform how we view
ourselves in positive ways.
Speaker:We see ourselves more holistically. We
understand ourselves at greater depths.
Speaker:And because of that, we're
going to want different things.
Speaker:We're going to go about
life in a different way.
Speaker:We're going to need different things.
Speaker:And so as this identity
shifts and transformation take
Speaker:place, as you integrate and
come into more wholeness,
Speaker:giving yourself that space and time
and that protective layer is really
Speaker:important.
Speaker:It also came up this month that
it was really going to be a really
Speaker:vivid opportunity to take some
visionary time this month.
Speaker:I'm in the Northern Hemisphere and
once we start tipping in a fall,
Speaker:I always feel it.
Speaker:It's this energy of the portal between
the world starting to open and visions
Speaker:being able to be more accessible.
Speaker:And so we're kind of hitting
this beautiful twining of the
Speaker:two, especially if you're in the
northern hemisphere right now,
Speaker:but even if you're not, this twining
of these parts coming back online,
Speaker:this soul retrieval happening along
with the shift of the seasons.
Speaker:And the shift of the seasons is opening
up this portal into this ability to
Speaker:download these new visions of the future.
Speaker:So for you to take some sort
of visionary time this month,
Speaker:clearly I will be in the caves, but
whatever is your version of the caves,
Speaker:maybe it's taking a
day away to go hike and
Speaker:be in the mountains, or maybe
it's going on a weekend retreat.
Speaker:Maybe it's simply turning off all
the lights as soon as your kids go to
Speaker:bed and sitting in darkness every
night for three nights in a row,
Speaker:whatever works for you and your schedule
and your life at this time of your
Speaker:life,
Speaker:but taking some time to allow the visions
to come in because I really do feel
Speaker:like there's going to be some visionary
aspects to this month, like depth here,
Speaker:depth in our visions where you can
download more information about your
Speaker:future.
Speaker:It's felt a bit like the past
few months or even longer,
Speaker:I don't know,
Speaker:but it's felt a little bit like we
kind of know the first few steps,
Speaker:but then everything else is like, I'm
not totally sure what's happening next.
Speaker:And it feels like there's going to
be this portal opening in September
Speaker:of being able to see more of that future,
Speaker:to really download that if
you give yourself the space
and the time to do that.
Speaker:And you're really going to be clearing
the space for your own growth because one
Speaker:of the things that did come up for
this month is endings and beginnings.
Speaker:We're at an ending and a beginning
time. We're between seasons.
Speaker:One season is ending, another is
beginning. The same is true in our lives.
Speaker:One season is ending and
another is beginning.
Speaker:So just be aware of the
endings and beginnings in
this month and know that it's
Speaker:part of this greater cycle
and give yourself this space
and this visionary time
Speaker:to simply be with what is.
Speaker:It's a powerful thing when we retrieve
these parts of ourselves that the
Speaker:parts of us that no
longer are true kind of
Speaker:fall away.
Speaker:The veils we've been wearing kind of
fall away and we're able to be ourselves
Speaker:more fully in this world,
Speaker:we're able to see ourselves more clearly
and we're able to access more vision of
Speaker:our future.
Speaker:So I really do have a deep
feeling about this month
Speaker:and what might be possible for
us here. It feels profound,
Speaker:it feels powerful, it feels tender,
Speaker:and it feels like there's
a lot of potential.
Speaker:So just really beaming out
from my heart to yours,
Speaker:just encouragement and care during this
time in whatever way you can to create
Speaker:that cave for yourself and to know
that it's big what you've been doing,
Speaker:the processes that you've been
in, it's big, it's important,
Speaker:and it's because the gifts that you
have to bring to this world are big and
Speaker:important as well.
Speaker:And my guides really want me to
Speaker:express this in very clear terms
that this month will be a month in
Speaker:which you feel that more deeply and
really see that more deeply inside of
Speaker:yourself, not just as a cognitive concept,
Speaker:but really feeling the truth of you as
someone who has deep gifts to bring to
Speaker:this world. Okay. I'm feeling emotional.
Speaker:That's how I know this
material is coming in strong.
Speaker:So yeah, September,
Speaker:let's see what rolls ahead
for us in this month.
Speaker:If you are loving this podcast,
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Speaker:to me.
Speaker:Thank you for the ways in which
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Speaker:this world to support this
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Speaker:to support these readings
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Speaker:that's sending energy and it just
really means a lot. And yeah,
Speaker:if you haven't found your way yet to
the Remember Why You're Here Substack,
Speaker:that's a really rich space for
continued conversation and deeper
Speaker:writings and entry points
into these podcasts.
Speaker:And so I would absolutely love to
see you there. And in the meantime,
Speaker:just take deep care. We're crossing
a threshold, it feels like,
Speaker:stepping into September.
Speaker:And so the more mindful we
can be crossing a threshold,
Speaker:the more we can then be present
for our arrival on the other side.
Speaker:And it does feel like we
are arriving into a depth of
Speaker:another side. And I, for one,
Speaker:am really curious about
what will unfold as
Speaker:we do this integration work,
Speaker:as we protect what is really
such a beautiful, bright,
Speaker:soulful new beginning. So take deep care.
Speaker:May you find moments of reprieve.
Speaker:May you be able to create
those visionary times in life,
Speaker:times in this month where you can just
be open to what it is that wants to be
Speaker:communicated to you.
Speaker:And may the unfolding of this month help
you remember that most important thing
Speaker:of all, why you're here.
