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You've come so far in everything
that you have learned about yourself,
Speaker:how your energy works, what you need,
Speaker:and this month is a little sacred
opportunity too for you to practice that,
Speaker:for you to integrate that. You have
the ingredients to create inner peace.
Speaker:Hello and welcome back to
Remember Why You Are Here,
Speaker:a podcast for seekers and sensitives
where you can relax, receive,
Speaker:reconnect to yourself and remember
the most important thing of all:
Speaker:why you're here. I'm Asia
Suler, author, teacher,
Speaker:Earth Intuitive,
Speaker:and this is our intuitive
reading for December,: Speaker:Cannot believe we're at the
end of this year already,
Speaker:but the card that came up for
this month actually brought me
Speaker:so much relief and peace, so
I'm excited to hop into it.
Speaker:The themes for this month include
new states of inner clarity,
Speaker:creating inner peace,
Speaker:having the skills to know how to create
inner peace, allowing contentment,
Speaker:and rejuvenation before the unfurling.
Speaker:So without further ado, let's get into it.
Speaker:I felt like there was a stone that
wanted to come in for us this month.
Speaker:I haven't picked any cards
relating to stones yet in the
Speaker:reading, since I started doing
readings at the beginning of this year.
Speaker:So I decided to work with the
crystal ally deck for this,
Speaker:which is by Naisha Ahsian, who I think
is going by a different name now,
Speaker:Samaya Aster. And I have had this deck...
Speaker:this deck was gifted to
me many, many years ago,
Speaker:and it was one of the first decks I worked
with that got me really interested in
Speaker:stones. And I have since gone on
to work with stones in my practice,
Speaker:to study the Daoist
lineage of stone medicine.
Speaker:And so in this reading for this month,
Speaker:I'm going to combine what
was in the guidebook,
Speaker:but also what I know of with
this stone that came through,
Speaker:as well as the messages that came through
my channel and my guides. So the card
Speaker:that I got for this month
is Tourmaline: Inner Peace.
Speaker:On the card,
Speaker:it is a pathway to a temple,
Speaker:and inside the temple it looks like
a pink bubblegum bubble inside of the
Speaker:temple. And I know that I remember
reading when these cards were created,
Speaker:that images of the stones were
actually embedded into the
Speaker:cards.
Speaker:And so there's tourmaline
images in here of closeup
Speaker:pictures of tourmaline,
Speaker:and I was excited about getting this
card because tourmaline has such
Speaker:clear, direct, potent energy.
Speaker:And of course the theme of inner peace.
Speaker:Who doesn't like that? And I just want
to leave a little note here to say,
Speaker:if you listened to the November reading,
Speaker:know that when I picked that card,
Speaker:our Lady of Thousand Waters,
Speaker:one of the key things it
said about November was being
Speaker:able to allow the emotions in the waters
to move through you so that you can
Speaker:come to a place of peace.
And then for December,
Speaker:I pick "Inner Peace," or
Tourmaline. I just loved that.
Speaker:That felt like such a special
little arc for all of us. So in
Speaker:this deck,
Speaker:one of the things that is said in the
card for tourmaline is that this is about
Speaker:living in the current moment,
Speaker:about releasing emotional patterns
from the past to be able to
Speaker:experience peace, joy, and healing. Also,
Speaker:can I just say that in that
reading for last month,
Speaker:that is exactly what we were talking
about as something that we were doing in
Speaker:November is allowing
these emotional patterns,
Speaker:these emotions to move up and
through us. And in this month,
Speaker:one of the pieces of guidance in
this guidebook is all about rewriting
Speaker:those emotional patterns,
Speaker:of renegotiating those patterns so
that you can experience more joy,
Speaker:you can experience more healing, and yes,
Speaker:you can experience more inner peace.
So all that work we did last
Speaker:month, everything that came
up for you in the last month,
Speaker:it is here to now help
you reach this space
Speaker:of experiencing more inner peace,
Speaker:of expanding your capacity to experience
inner peace. So part of the description
Speaker:specifically says,
Speaker:"Inner peace is a vibratory state in
which you're able to perceive and release
Speaker:emotional patterns that may be influencing
the reality you are experiencing.
Speaker:This release of old patterns enables
you to experience life in the moment
Speaker:without feeling the need to play out
emotional habits that were created in the
Speaker:past." And the affirmation
for this card is,
Speaker:"I live and create in the moment."
Now,
Speaker:I'd love to talk about what I understand
with tourmaline and tourmalines,
Speaker:and help you connect in from a
little bit more of a Daoist lens,
Speaker:because that's my background
in studying stones.
Speaker:And I think this will really help complete
some of the picture. So tournalines
Speaker:are considered to be nourishing
tonics. So tourmalines in general.
Speaker:And tourmalines come in a lot of
different colors. There's pink tourmaline,
Speaker:there's green tourmaline,
there's watermelon tourmaline.
Speaker:Tourmalines are thought
to both build and cleanse,
Speaker:to draw things out of latency in our body.
Speaker:So draw things from where they've
been hidden or stuck in the crevices,
Speaker:in the corners, and allow
them to come up and out,
Speaker:clearing anything that's lingering.
Speaker:And what really came up for me when I got
this card is this sense of like, whoa,
Speaker:we did so much emotional cleansing work
in November, and now in this month,
Speaker:it's almost like allowing the
last of those waters to flow.
Speaker:Like really letting whatever
needs to come up and out,
Speaker:allowing it to be released from you so
that you can come back into integrity
Speaker:with yourself, come back
into a sense of wholeness,
Speaker:like a greater sense of wholeness than
existed before. In Daoist stone medicine,
Speaker:tourmaline is often used for
restlessness, insomnia, agitation,
Speaker:PTSD.
Speaker:We know that all of the gem-quality
tourmaline that exists has high
Speaker:lithium content. Lithium is a compound
that's often used in treating depression.
Speaker:So there's this lifting.
There's a bringing up and out.
Speaker:There's a sense of processing
and releasing and letting go of
Speaker:these patterns that have kept you in
hard places or have kept you stuck in
Speaker:darker places. This is also a stone
that is really rich in minerals.
Speaker:So there's a vitality and aliveness
to it, a nourishment to it.
Speaker:In Chinese medicine, it's
thought to nourish the blood.
Speaker:It helps bring you into
a sense of aliveness,
Speaker:helps you to feel more alive because
you are releasing what you don't need
Speaker:anymore. You are coming
into the present moment,
Speaker:coming into fullness in this deeper way.
Speaker:I really see tourmaline
as a stone of strength
Speaker:and directness. It's helping you
to know which direction to go into,
Speaker:have this strength, to really have
the clarity of this is who I am,
Speaker:this is where I am,
Speaker:this is my life. So let's move
into what specifically came in
Speaker:for me through my guides and
through my channel with this card of
Speaker:tourmaline, or inner peace. Well,
Speaker:this is a theme that's been
coming up a lot recently,
Speaker:but I really think we're
getting to a new level of it.
Speaker:And this is this theme of clarity.
Speaker:There's a sense that whatever
you worked through in November,
Speaker:the spiritual catchup
that happened in November,
Speaker:was important because of all
the things that you've learned,
Speaker:especially this past fall,
about who you are, how you work,
Speaker:what you need. And now in December,
Speaker:there's this piece where it
feels like what's on offer is
Speaker:your ability to integrate what
you've learned about who you are,
Speaker:how you work, what you need.
And this month, this integration month,
Speaker:has this potential for inner peace
because once you understand how you
Speaker:work and what you need, you have the
ingredients to create inner peace.
Speaker:That's what inner peace is.
Speaker:Inner peace has nothing to do
with our outer environments.
Speaker:Our outer environments can be pure chaos,
Speaker:and yet we can be able to access
inner peace when we know what
Speaker:we need,
Speaker:when we know what it feels like to be
still inside of ourselves to embrace these
Speaker:places of peace. You've learned something
in this last arc of the year about how
Speaker:you specifically operate.
Speaker:You've learned the value of
prioritizing inner peace,
Speaker:especially when the outer world
is chaotic and overwhelming.
Speaker:There's been times this autumn
where you have been given the task
Speaker:of accessing inner peace despite
what's been going on around you.
Speaker:And so now in December,
Speaker:all of that learning is becoming
so beautifully integrated.
Speaker:It's becoming so much more available,
Speaker:and you're really able to see how much
you've learned in your ability to find
Speaker:and maintain these states of inner peace.
You knowing how your energy
Speaker:works is what gives you this ability
to create inner peace in your life.
Speaker:And you have learned so much about
that in this last arc of the year,
Speaker:this fall - knowing how your
unique energy functions in
Speaker:this world, what you
need, what works for you.
Speaker:This is how you create peace.
Speaker:And you have been doing a lot of research
into this this past fall. And so now,
Speaker:this December,
Speaker:there's this opportunity to really sink
into that. And this might sound a little
Speaker:simplistic, but I think it
needs repeating like forever,
Speaker:that this is a time and a month
for you to focus on the light,
Speaker:to focus on your inner light, to
focus on what brings you alive.
Speaker:Where I am in the northern hemisphere,
we are moving into the solstice season.
Speaker:So we are getting close
to the winter solstice,
Speaker:a time when all of our festivals
revolve around these festivals of light,
Speaker:this acknowledgement that the light
is returning, that life is returning.
Speaker:And so there is an
invitation here to know that
Speaker:when you gift yourself
time to focus on the light,
Speaker:to focus on yourself,
Speaker:to focus on the things that make you
feel alive and bring you connection,
Speaker:when you allow yourself time
for contentment and peace,
Speaker:that this inner peace that you can
access creates more harmony in the
Speaker:world around you.
Speaker:The world needs you to be
able to access inner peace.
Speaker:It is really incredible what a
ripple this creates in the fabric of
Speaker:reality around you. So there is a theme
this month of allowing contentment,
Speaker:of allowing that contentment to be there
even in the midst of the busyness of
Speaker:the holiday season, the
overwhelm of the season,
Speaker:getting ready to go on the holiday
break and be on a break from school.
Speaker:There's a lot that tends to
happen in our culture in December.
Speaker:And yet I also want you to give yourself
permission to drop into the contentment
Speaker:of this month. I'm
talking Hallmark movies,
Speaker:cozy socks, like that kind of contentment.
Speaker:Whatever it is that makes you feel
like your life is a Hallmark movie,
Speaker:give yourself that this
month. It is not selfish.
Speaker:It is not going to take you away
from being a compassionate, kind,
Speaker:active participant in this world.
It's actually the opposite.
Speaker:It's going to help you create more
inner peace so that you can show up,
Speaker:you can show up and be this
overflowing cup. And so give yourself
Speaker:that. Give yourself that inner sanctuary.
Speaker:Thinking back to the image of this card,
Speaker:of this bubblegum pink
bubble inside of this temple.
Speaker:It's like give yourself that
sanctuary this month and it
Speaker:will be really profound what you're able
to access and tap into and share with
Speaker:others from the state of inner peace.
And like, listen,
Speaker:you earned this after the hard
work that you did in November of
Speaker:all the emotional clearing,
all the emotional release.
Speaker:This feels like some hard earned peace.
Speaker:Just a little bit of a peace plateau,
Speaker:space to rest a little bit, to
get some twinkle in your life,
Speaker:to just enjoy the moment
in any way that you can.
Speaker:And to give yourself space
for rest, for integration,
Speaker:for joy,
Speaker:to create rituals that mark the
sacredness of this time. This is an
Speaker:incredibly sacred time of the
year, this time of, where I live,
Speaker:the winter solstice.
Speaker:Maybe you're getting close to the summer
solstice if you're in the southern
Speaker:hemisphere.
Speaker:There's a reason why this has remained
one of the most sacred times in our
Speaker:cultural imagination,
Speaker:despite the difference of the
changing of the tides of religion
Speaker:and time and place.
Speaker:And it's because this time of getting
into the shortest days of the year,
Speaker:it lengthens the mysticism.
Speaker:It lengthens the unseen,
Speaker:it invites us into
deeper tides of our life,
Speaker:into these places where
the mystical reigns.
Speaker:And so any way in which
you can mark this time,
Speaker:the sacredness of this time,
Speaker:to give yourself permission
to sink into that sacredness,
Speaker:is going to be really important.
Speaker:And it's something that you're being
asked to do this month. Because there's
Speaker:this sense of this month that
this is the rejuvenation before
Speaker:the unfurling, that going into January,
Speaker:as we often do in the start
of this Gregorian calendar,
Speaker:that this is the time in which
we initiate new projects,
Speaker:we set new goals for the year.
Speaker:And the way I saw it was like a seed
head emerging from the ground in
Speaker:January.
Speaker:It's like that very first
unfurling from the seed
Speaker:of this tiny little sapling or this
Speaker:tiny little seedling.
Speaker:And that energy of
rolling up from the earth,
Speaker:rolling up,
Speaker:will come in January if you give yourself
time and permission to be in the earth
Speaker:right now. If you give yourself
this time of inner peace,
Speaker:of stillness, of rejuvenation,
Speaker:of giving yourself permission
to experience contentment.
And this is a choice.
Speaker:There's a place here where
inner peace is always a choice
Speaker:because there will always be
things going on in the outer world.
Speaker:There's always going to be kerfuffles,
always going to be busyness.
Speaker:There's always going to be invitations.
Speaker:There's always going to be
things on the to-do list.
Speaker:So this is a potent moment
for you to choose inner peace,
Speaker:for you to practice all you
have gleaned in this past year,
Speaker:everything you've learned about yourself,
Speaker:and really incorporate it into a practice,
Speaker:a ritual of creating
inner peace for yourself,
Speaker:of allowing yourself to rest in states of
Speaker:peace whenever they do exist, to
breathe into them, allow them to expand,
Speaker:and to know that you have come so far.
You've come so far in everything that you
Speaker:have learned about yourself, how
your energy works, what you need.
Speaker:And this month is a little sacred
opportunity too for you to practice that,
Speaker:for you, to integrate that and
for you to choose inner peace,
Speaker:to know that you are
worthy of experiencing
Speaker:peace, that what you give
to the world innately,
Speaker:just through being yourself,
Speaker:gives you that permission slip
to take time for inner peace,
Speaker:to know that this is a power
that you bring to the world,
Speaker:that when people move from
a place of inner peace,
Speaker:it moves and ripples out in the
fabric of the world around them.
Speaker:And you are one of those people.
Speaker:So it's important that you
prioritize inner peace,
Speaker:that you have the strength.
Speaker:It's a strength to give
yourself permission to do this,
Speaker:to give yourself permission to
access states of inner peace. And
Speaker:everything that you've learned this year
that you've specifically really touched
Speaker:into this fall is here to
help you access that state
Speaker:more and more. So when it is there, when
you are feeling it, breathe into it,
Speaker:expand into it,
Speaker:feel it just like you practiced
feeling your emotions in November.
Speaker:We all are practicing that.
Now, practice feeling peace,
Speaker:practice letting peace be
the thing that you feel.
Speaker:Building capacity for feeling
peace inside your system,
Speaker:for knowing that it's not boredom,
Speaker:it's not lack, it's not lesser than,
Speaker:it's not selfish, that this is
an important life giving energy.
Speaker:And you're giving yourself time to
simply practice feeling the peace,
Speaker:allowing it in,
Speaker:and allowing it to expand.
So if you know that
Speaker:you want to create a holiday
season that is full of
Speaker:peace and twinkle and magic
and mysticism that is guided
Speaker:by the natural world,
definitely check out my class,
Speaker:Holiday Magic and Medicine Making.
Speaker:This is a class I used to
teach every single year live,
Speaker:and now I have it online.
Speaker:I go over the plants that I
love working with for this time.
Speaker:I have seasonal recipes,
herbcraft, mysticism,
Speaker:Yuletide magic,
Speaker:all the fun stuff that comes
up with celebrating this time.
Speaker:I've had people tell me that they
listen to it every single solstice,
Speaker:that they drop into it again and again
to try a new recipe or to try a new
Speaker:concoction. So that is on my
website if you're interested.
Speaker:It's just a really fun thing to listen
to when you're wrapping presents or when
Speaker:you're making cookies. So if
you're interested in that,
Speaker:you can head on over to AsiaSuler.com.
I also have a very
Speaker:deep,
Speaker:mystical offering coming up that I'm
going to be talking about in the next
Speaker:podcast.
Speaker:So if you know that you
don't just want a season of
Speaker:depth or a season of mysticism,
Speaker:this class is actually going to see
you through the whole winter season.
Speaker:And it has been one of the most
profoundly impactful things I have taught,
Speaker:I have offered.
Speaker:I've seen really amazing experiences
happen for people inside of this
Speaker:particular offering, and
I'm super delighted to be
bringing it back this year.
Speaker:So if you know you're ready to go deeper
Speaker:into mystical practices this winter,
Speaker:into connection with your innermost
self, definitely stay tuned for that,
Speaker:because that's going to be an exciting
thing that's opening next week. And I am
Speaker:in the last month of my sabbatical,
Speaker:I cannot believe how
fast this year has gone.
Speaker:I'm so delighted that
I've gotten this time.
Speaker:I'm really embracing the message of this
month to create inner peace and to not
Speaker:get into the mode of, oh, I need to do
so much before the sabbatical ends, or,
Speaker:oh, all the things I have to
hop back into with the new year.
Speaker:I'm really giving myself permission
during this time to take stock of all I've
Speaker:done, to be in the moment,
Speaker:and to enjoy the kind of space I've
created in my life. So if you have
Speaker:ideas for future episodes, including
episodes in the new year coming up,
Speaker:leave me a voice message.
Speaker:Head on over to AsiaSuler.com/remember
and leave me a voice note.
Speaker:I've been loving continuing to receive
your voice notes as I am on the
Speaker:sabbatical. And I am really excited.
Speaker:And it feels good to be really excited
to be returning in the new year,
Speaker:to be back in full flow
of creating courses,
Speaker:of launching new content. I've already
started to dip my toes in a little bit,
Speaker:and I'm really excited for what's
about to come up. So until then,
Speaker:may you have a truly magical, restful,
Speaker:hallmark, cozy,
Speaker:contented season full of inner peace.
Speaker:And as you touch those
innermost shores of yourself,
Speaker:may it help you remember that
most important thing of all:
Speaker:why you're here.
