Show Summary:

• Get cozy and prepare to dive deep into today’s episode, number 13—a number close to our hearts and rich with symbolism.
• Today, we're exploring the profound messages tucked into Oracle card readings and unveiling the wisdom behind the "Past Lives" card, a mystical call to heal our karmic journeys and elevate our vibrations. Let's unravel how this ancient wisdom influences our present challenges and joys as we journey through the tapestry of life's moments.
• Join us as we ponder the power of defining moments and the acceleration of time with age, urging us to consciously craft the life stories we yearn to embody.
• We delve into the art of living true to ourselves, forgiving our past, and, crucially, shaping how we impact others with congruent values and energies.
• From motherhood to mundane moments, we reflect on the simplicity of contentment and the need to reframe our views on judgment and negativity. As we sift through life's myriad scents and sensory gifts, we find gratitude in the simplest pleasures, revealing how they stitch together the quilt of our experiences.
• Plus, we'll share with you our fascination with the mystique of Friday the 13th and its connection to the divine feminine—and of course, draw insights from today's joy-affirming Oracle card.
• As we count our blessings and welcome the sentiments shared through sight, smell, touch, taste, and sound, we invite you to contemplate—what makes you truly grateful?

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Hello, Beth. How are you today? I'm good. Episode

13, is it? Yeah. Oh, lucky

13. Yeah, I like 13. Good number.

Discovered in our last holiday that our hotel does

not have a floor 13. I've heard that about a few

hotels and our buildings that they don't have floor

13. I quite like 13, though. I think it's. I like

13 because it's funny because we sometimes we sit outside and we're, like, counting

the thing. We're like, the floors don't make sense. Like, we know how many floors

are in the hotel. Yeah. And we just discovered it, and they were like,

why isn't there a 13? I was like, oh, do we go down this rabbit

hole, kids? But I was born on the 14th and my house is 14,

but I was nearly a 13 baby. My mum went into labor on the 13.

And so thirteen's always been lucky in our

family, or things have always happened around the 13th as well. So

I like it. It's a good number. I like it. Friday the 13th is, like,

meant to be one of the luckiest days of the year. Not everybody believes

that. Oh, it's funny, isn't it? As well, a lot of.

A lot of people who probably believe there is bad luck, like, where did

that come from? Because do they actually fundamentally believe that, or is it just something

that they've been. They've learned or has been passed down? And I

did some research on that, actually. I just want to see when the next Friday

the 13th is. Because wouldn't it be funny if it's like, when this

episode launches? I know there's the Friday the 12th is the next

one, so it might be. Anyway, so I did some research on this because I

was like, why is why? And this was

only Internet research, so I don't know how verifiable.

There's the caveat there. This is not Britannia

encyclopedia, but apparently the number 13

represents the 13 moons of the year, and it's said to be the

number of the divine feminine. And Friday

is the day is Freya day, and it's the day when the women

come and they gather. And traditionally, we would do our magic.

And so when the Friday and the 13th came

and collided, it was said to be a very powerful, strong day for

women to conjure up the things that us women

conjure up when we get together, whatever that might be. And

there was certainly a time where women gathering was

shrouded in superstition and

some bright spark. I can't remember who it was

or where it. I can't remember where the actual, where it all derived

from. But it then became the superstition that Friday the 13th is

unlucky and so we should all stay at home and stay

behind closed doors in case, I don't know, you get

some witchy spell. Yeah. Depends what side of the

fence you're on, whether you're a witch poo or you're not a witch, because unlucky

for some, but they lucky for really lucky. Not so much for you.

I love that. So we both got our cards this

morning. In fact, I've got a whole, like, I was just laying them out

before you jumped on the call because I think I'm gonna have a, I'm gonna

have an oracle day, I think. An oracle day. A day of

cards. Best kind of day. I was doing a guest

expert session in someone's group last week, and we

were talking about oracle cards and

how we can use them in the everyday. And you should have seen my desk

afterwards. I must have had 15 decks just, just because showing

them just quite how many different

vibes you can get and depending on what you like or what you're working on

or what you're asking or what kind of message, if you want something

direct to the point, if you want something gentle and fluffy. So

I've pulled out the Carl gray, angel guide. Oracle.

I say I've pulled out. They were sitting next to me on the desk just

as the call was starting, and I thought, let's pull a

card. What should we pull the card about today's

discussion? Yeah, let's do that. Let's do that.

And I'll pull one to add to it.

Okay. So I'm going to ask what we're going to talk about today

that is going to benefit the listeners the most.

Joy and contentment. This

is a beautiful card of an angelic being

standing in a field of long grass. And

she's wearing a kind of

reddy burnt orangey reds

dress more like a sari, actually.

And the sky looks like it's made

of lavender fields and heather and very

pretty magic portals. And

whilst the card says on the bottom, joy and contentment. We

were talking about this, weren't we, a couple of weeks ago? Yeah, because I literally

was editing that episode last night. We

were rolling a boulder up a hill and talking about yellow smarties

and sunny and melon. She's got the sun there behind her

and a reddish dress. So this is the joy and the contentment. Right.

But look at her. She's not bouncing around like a

jumpy. It is more that if you look at her face, she's

got, it's not even like a big grin. She just

looks like, yeah, life's good. Life's

good. That looks like contentment to me. That looks like I'm comfortable

here in this moment, stood still in

my contentment. And

that can really bring a form of

joy that I think is more sustainable. I think if you said

to somebody, oh, it was a joyous occasion, then

you think of kind of moments of streaking

delight. Yeah. I think a lot of us, this is what we're aiming

for, this

sustainable, stable.

This sounds really boring, sustainable,

safe. Just point

of, like, our equilibrium point comes to

this. It's like stillness. Yeah. It's like a

nothingness, but isn't nothing. It's like a

just, I don't know what. I think contentment is probably the perfect

word for it. It just being happy in

our lot, in the cards that we've been dealt in the life that we have,

in the surroundings that we have, in everything.

It's an acceptance. I've just looked at the

dictionary. A state of happiness

and satisfaction, freedom from worry or

restlessness, of peaceful satisfaction, free from

worry. That's part of the Reiki

principles. Just for today, I will not worry. And I

think the truth is that we are all human beings

and worry things happen. We're not sure

things are out of our control, but get to this space

of peace. It just makes everything easier to deal

with. Yeah. If we're able to accept

that everything is always as it should

be, then our life can become

blissful. Yes, everything is as it should be.

And what am I doing to feed into that, to

add to that, to continue that, to fuel that

joy and contentment. I like that. Shall I tell you what card we've pulled? And

I pulled it, and I thought, we can talk about this when

we do Oracle card readings, or when you do Oracle card readings, or when anybody's

doing Oracle card readings, and especially when we start to learn

how to use them and trust what's coming through, we can sometimes get

a card and we're like, that's not the card that I want today. I'm

going to put that back in the day, we might be doing a reading for

somebody else, and we think that person doesn't want to hear that message. And we're

really tempted to, like, get another card kind of thing. But we

have to learn to trust that we're

just the messenger, we're the channel for the

message that needs to come through. And I still get surprised today,

even I've done hundreds and thousands of readings for people now. And

even now, when I trust

there might have that first inclination of putting it back in the deck

and chop another card, a softer card. But when I stick to that

and read that and that person goes, oh, my goodness. And you're

like, oh. Then you realize that the magic in it. So when

just literally, then shove all the cards and this come out, I was like, how

does this fit? And I was like, no, it does fit. Let's trust the process.

Let's see what comes, comes through. You'll all be really intrigued to know what the

card is now. Yes, no doubt.

So the card that we have got is past

lives. Wow. Release your past

life karma. You are an old soul with deep wisdom.

Healing your past lives will raise your vibration.

And I'm wondering whether this speaks to

maybe our listeners today who were talking about joy and contentment, who are maybe

not feeling joy and contentment, who are not feeling

that they're in that space, or they maybe feel like that's

a bit of a stretch right now. And

when we talk about past lives, there's a lot to unpack there,

but it also can be part of that healing and

letting go of things that might be holding us

back from being joyful and

content with who we are and where we are. So I don't

know if anything's come through Mel, as I've been. Can you describe

the card? I can. So we've got a,

like a princess, maiden, beautiful,

long, flowing hair, different colours, and she's

beside a unicorn. And the unicorn is equally all. The

unicorn's hair is also flowing, but is

decorated. And the hair of the horse unicorn is

very similar to her hair. It's almost like they're one. They're together. So it's a

very flowy. It is, actually, if you look at her face, you can almost

say that she has got a similar

kind of look as the joy and contentment card in that she's not smiling,

she's not jumping up and down, but she's just holding the unicorn

and holding on for the ride.

Yeah, perhaps she is. So

it's beautiful, card. And for me, past lives

are a massive subject, and I work with them

a lot. I teach in the akashic records, and I've done

many past life readings for others and for self. And there

is always something in there

that. That can answer a question or can

give us more ideas about who we are and who we've been

and how. What made us, like, what has built us

into who we are in this present day. We are multidimensional beings,

and we are so much more than what

we think we are. And

past lives, for me, are, yes, we can

think of them as incidents. Oh, I was a victorian

whatever, or I was a slave in Egypt, or I was a king or a

queen or a pauper or whatever. And my truth is that we've

been all of that. We've been all of that in our existence. There's going

to be elements of us that have

experienced all of those things, those whole myriad of things. I think this is part

of the soul's journey. And within that,

there's hardship and

traumas, quite, almost definitely. There's also amazing

moments of joy and love and strength and

courage and happy times. And

we were talking about this, actually in my akashic records training a couple

of weeks ago, about how I led them all through this

journey. And part of this journey was to help them discover

the reason why they have been drawn

to Kashik records. And actually, the whole

feeling of it for most of the members were,

oh, I found life where I was really empowered and

strong. Yet I think generally when we speak

about past lives, people think that we're going to pick out all the times where

we were bludgeoned and betrayed

and tricked and all of this. But that's

a really tiny part of actually

who we are. And I have seen that it can be

the power moments and the bliss moments and the

amazing relationships that we've had in the past past and the

huge amounts of joy and love that we've experienced that can

actually be as beneficial to relearn

and remember as some of the. As some of the harder

things. And one of the members in soul school

was like, exclaimed on that she's, oh, I always thought that we go in

and we find the bad stuff, we

find the good stuff. I love that.

I think, yeah, maybe we've been conditioned to believe that

because history, all of the bad stuff that did happen

and that we are in a more privileged position

today, hopefully, that it only has to

be bad or that we must have been less fortunate. But when you think

about, often, even when we think about the nineties or the eighties,

or we think of that as in a nostalgic way of actually

it was easier and nicer and there must be be really

big magical moments from the

past where we had joined contentment because life

was simpler. Like, we could just walk the fields and

pick the flowers. Like this card, the card that I called,

that's what she looks like. She could be in any century,

in any country. She could be anywhere in the

world in any timeline, because she is just in a field with nothing

else apart from this quite magical sky.

Actually, the sky looks quite like the hair on the

unicorn. Look at the colors on the past

lives. The hair, the purples, and even the

sky. It's very similar in its

mottled. Yeah. And so

it's all connected. And, yes, we can, if we

think back to our memories, you know, we talk about how life seems to be

getting quicker as we get older. You know what that is? That we have less

defining moments as we get older. When we're younger, we have so many

firsts. The first time we walk, the first time we eat that certain

meal. The first time I've been here, the first time I've heard that word.

The first time I started year

1234. The first time I went and did

this move with my body. The first time I fell in love. The

first time I had a heartbreak. The first time I

had a best friend. Right? We had all of these first times, and

they're big moments in our emotional. It's our emotional

charge that makes a moment very big. And I've seen this in the

Akashic records as well, that it's not just the incidents that

happen that are just scored. It's when we have a strong

emotional experience with it that the

score turns into a paragraph, a chapter, or a whole book. You have a whole

book on one day because of how intense it was.

And so when we look back in our lives, it's those big moments

that we remember. And as we get older and every

day, things become very familiar, and we have our

routines and we're seeing the same thing. Life seems to be going

quicker because we don't have so many defining moments.

What if we did? What if every month we went,

this month, I'm going to have a defining moment. This month I'm going to do

something. If not for the first time, I'm going to look at it for the

first time. What if we actually

decided that we were going to continue to grow

and learn? Because I think the more we learn, the more we grow. And as

long as we're still learning, we're still living. Yeah, exactly. There's

more to learn. There's more to do. I think

that it's exactly that. It's asking

ourselves, what do we want to do next? What are those defining moments that we

want to create for ourselves? Because I think we can get to a certain point

in life, and we just. We're literally going with the flow. We've

got the house, we've got the career, we've got the business, maybe to a certain

point. We've got the friendship circles, we've got the family. And what do we

want to do next? How do we want to be spending our time? What

do we want to learn? Who else do we want to meet? What do we

want to create? And unless we stop and ask ourselves that

question, then we are just going to go through the motions

every week. But we literally got a blank canvas at any moment and

we can twist and change and do whatever we want to do.

And that's why I love working with visions, but not

just creating one vision, refining it and re looking at it

and just checking in and saying, is that actually what you want to do? Because

often we'll think, oh, I want the big house, and I want to go on

lots of holidays. But actually, it's finding the joy and contentment, isn't it?

It's actually, do I just want to go for nice long walks

in nature? Is that what I want to do more of? Do I want to

be painting? Do I want to read? Do I want to connect? Do I just

want to have conversations? Do I want to spend more time with my family?

Yeah, I suppose there's that

risk. Is it a risk? I don't know that. If we're

sitting there and we're just so content now, I'm not going to change anything now.

Just keep everything the same, just in case it

all goes away. Life is for growing.

Now, here's an interesting exercise for us all to

do. What if we lived our life

the way that we wanted to remember it? Some of the

work that I've done through past life

healing is we think it's when we've been

bludgeoned and betrayed. Right. That's going to have the big impact.

Quite often the big impact is when we've made

a decision that we regret, right? We did

something. We were this person, we think as everyone else. Then we're like,

oh, it was me. I made this decision. Look

who I impacted. Guilt. And

again, this was something that surprised me when I first discovered it. It was

like, wow, that is more powerful than forgiving the person

that hit me over the head. It's actually

forgiving me for hitting someone else over the head.

And so every day we make decisions. Sometimes they're

good, sometimes they're questionable. Sometimes they're done

in fear or in anger or in

scarcity or because we don't know we're always doing the best we

can, always doing the best we can with what we've got. But when we

start to understand that, okay, maybe one day I'm going to be reviewing this

life, my next life. If I had to come and review this

one, what can I just sort out now so I don't have to bring it

with me in the next time? Oh, I like that. Yeah. What can we

get rid of right now in this moment? I don't want to come into my

next life and go, oh, look at, oh, my God. I had all of those

opportunities and I was just too scared to take

them. That might be true. I might be scared to take them,

and it is scary to take them often. But what if

I could just go, well, you know what? For this once, I'm just going to

see what happens and I'm going to score that in my record, and that's going

to be for this week anyway. My truth. I'm going to take a

risk or I'm going to just find that little bit of courage to have that

conversation or to put that offer out or to share my

opinion on something or to wear the outfit that

I had my eye on for so long, it can

be those simple moments, but then we continue to

grow. And then when we come back and review our month or our

year or our decade, or as I've been doing, we've just had the leap year

over the last four years. And you think, wow,

like, I've really done some things now.

It's interesting. So I've been reviewing these four weeks, these four

years, and now I'm thinking, what do I want to be reviewing

in the next four years? How do I

want that to, what do I want to look at

in hindsight?

And do you know what's really interesting? I just got to the chapter of

Outlander or the section, and it's called

hindsight. Is it really? Yeah.

Just flashed before my eyes. I was crying in my bed last

night reading the book, how do I want to live? And it doesn't mean

it has to be all of the big moments. It could be just

the telling my child how special he

is and holding his little hand and just taking a moment, looking at his little

fingernails. It can be that there's joy

and contentment in that and maybe that will

spur us on to do something and to live a life that is

great, that we consider great.

Yeah. It's funny because I had a very similar thought

about motherhood and just how when you think of what is my purpose and

actually I think being a really good mum is something

that brings me such joy and contentment. Just to think that I've done

a good job or hopefully I've done a good job. But then it was also

thinking I should really tell my mum that she's also been a really

good mum because we don't always hear it. We have mother's days coming up, isn't

it? And we get the card and we get the flowers. But actually

there's something very special about being a mum and

knowing that you've done a good job or at least you've tried to do your

best. And then I was thinking I should definitely tell my mum more

that she's been a good, good mum because if I want to hear

it, then I'm sure my mum would want to hear it. Yeah.

And maybe that's also part of it. Maybe this joy and contentment isn't

just about me feeling it. How do I

pass that on to the other people around me? Somebody

said in a call the other day they were talking about

me and they were like, when I'm with Melanie, I just feel

calm and centered. I can just be with her for

an hour. I'm like, I am so chill and I'm like,

oh, I love that. Because I remember, I

distinctly remember when I was a teenager there was this girl that

I had met. I don't even know

how we met, but she came part of our circle and whenever I

was with her and it wasn't just me, whenever people were with

her, they just came away feeling really good

and I was just, and I'd look at her and I'd be like, how does

she make people feel so good? And I was

like, I want that. I want to do that. I want to be the one

that when they're with me, I want to feel good. And she was like, we

were the same age. I think we must have been 18, I don't know, 16

1718 and I was like, I just,

and obviously maybe I took that on and it's quite

easy to forget and it's not

about putting on a mask and being a wet lettuce or anything.

She definitely, she had her boundaries. She was awesome. I wonder what she's doing

now. Making people feel good everywhere she goes, I'm sure.

But maybe this is it. Maybe it's. How do I. Whether it's a child, a

partner, a parent, a colleague, a

client, maybe the person in the

supermarket. Yeah. I think

for other people to feel that way, you have to

be, you have to be that person, you have to

feel. So she must have felt really good or she must have had those

values and all of that inside her. Because equally,

when a second ago we were talking the image

of, in the colour purple, the original colour purple, when is it?

Nettie? I always get their characters mix up, but Nettie, the whoopi Goldberg

character, when she's. She's getting her kind of comeuppance and she's

saying goodbye to that husband and sending him on his way kind of thing. She

says, everything you've done to me, I'll paraphrase him, but everything done

to me, he's already done to you. Like all of the her, all of the

negative things that he had done ever to her in his

and her lifetime was done to

him. So everything that we do, every

action that we take, if we want to have that

impactful energy, if we want

to impact people in really positive ways, then we have

to also to be that person, we have to feel that. We have to

be that person inside so that energetically, on the outside,

people can feel. Right. And that's why we were

talking another episode ago when we walked down the dark alley

and we're scanning for danger that if

we're not incongruent, if we're saying one thing, but we're meaning another thing,

if we're saying all the nice things, we're being. I get that kind of mean

girl vibe where you're saying all the right things to make people

think that you're nice, but underneath you're really seeing that you don't actually like this

other person. It's that mismatch of energies of who do you want to

be, actually, and whoever you are being. And sometimes

it's not who you want to be. Sometimes, if you're not being a nice person,

you're not being a nice person. Right. If you've been a good person, you're being

a good person. But, and we're always doing the best we can with what

we know. We recognize that

it's often easier to recognize it in someone else. And I started this saying about

the. When we're in the Akashic records, we think it's when we've been bludgeoned over

the head. That is an easier

conversation to have with yourself. I got bludgeoned over the head because,

blah, blah, blah. And I'm going to forgive him. Probably you did the

same thing. But in that moment, when you forgive him for doing

that, you're also forgiving yourself for doing the same thing. Because what you're

doing is you're understanding it from another point of view,

and you're understanding it from, we're always doing the best we can with what we've

got. Now, if I'm being mean to somebody, we've all been through high

school, and I don't know where you are, but certainly where I was,

the mean girls was the place to be, and

you were either in it or out of it. And we've all done

things that weren't very nice. But what's that

stemmed from? It stemmed from fear, and it stemmed from the

fear of not belonging or the dog eat dog world that we're

told that we is literally our nature.

When we begin to heal that in us, then suddenly

what feels better is maybe this girl that I met, maybe

she taught me that what feels better is making

somebody feel good than actually

feeling good by putting somebody else down. Yeah.

They both make you feel good in the

moment, right? They do.

It's like an adrenaline here. But then the other option

leaves a bad taste in your mouth, and then it leaves you with all of

the other things, and it starts a whole nother spiral. And so it

always comes back to, well, what about me? How do I bring that? What is

in me that feels the need to be mean, to

say nice things, to have that judgment? I used to be really judgy.

I used to judge everything. And I heard myself one

day, and I was doing a lot of my shadow work and a lot of

stuff on the spiritual, starting to understand myself

better, and it was something that I just caught myself

thinking. I wasn't even saying it was going on in my internal language, and I

was like, wow, Melissa, come on. So

what? Let them be like, so what? Like, I literally was

like, oh, my. I didn't even hear it. It was so part of

that internal dialogue. Yeah. And then I started to recognize it loads in

other people, and then I was judging them for judging other people. So that was

a whole fun thing. And anyway. And it still comes up. There's still

this. Yeah, exactly. We're all human, right? We all capacity to

be everything we. Do, and we just need

to not need to. For me, what I found really

helps is just having that compassion because of

this steady vibe of this contentment. Like, it's okay. I know

that I'm not a bad person. I know that no one is.

What can I do to make it better? What's in me that really

feels like it needs that

adrenaline hit, that. It needs that. I can't accept that in me. And

it always comes back. And you know what? When we do that, that is the

most empowering thing that we can do for ourselves. It's not

easy. It helps to have somebody there with you,

guiding you through. We can do it on our own.

We can do it with books, some great books out there. But this is it.

It comes back to. Right, what we were saying at the beginning.

It's. As long as we're learning, we're growing. Yeah.

Maybe to close the episode. Maybe

if we could just give one tip for helping people back

to contentment and joy. How do we find contentment

and joy? How do we find. It's like the

miracle elixir, the Holy Grail.

Yeah. Or maybe it's not find. It's. Maybe it's just getting back

to that equilibrium.

I'm going to give you the stock answer, because this is really what's coming

in, because it doesn't matter where you are on the vibrational

scale, on the emotional scale, if you can find one thing that you're

grateful for, if you can just be there and go, do you know

what? Life sucks. And all of these horrible

things are happening to me, and I hate it.

But I have shoes on my feet

and they are letting me walk, and this walk is helping me

even 1% to clear my head. And I am so grateful

for these healthy feet that I have and these

lovely shoes, even if they're ripped apart.

Four. Stick with the four. Right. I am grateful for this

four because. And really land into that. It

can be anything. I am grateful for this photograph

of my child that sits on there smiling at me,

no matter what it is that's going on, because it reminds me of the

innocence of childhood and just come into it and it

will just help to shift

you. Yes. The stuff's still going on. This is not the

holy grail that's going to change the whole world, but it will

change how you see it. For the moment,

I'd start there, and. You know how I feel about

gratitude, because it has. It is so impactful, and

I think some people think it isn't as impactful as it is until

you start focusing on it. I would just add

to that that you can, if you can take

each of the senses and identify

with each of those senses, something that you can be

grateful for, something that you might like looking at. Is it the

sunset? Is it going to an art gallery? Is

it seeing your favourite people? What smells do you like?

What really brings that sensation back? Is it the cut grass?

Is it the sea breeze? Is it your favourite cookies,

things that you can touch, those different textures. Maybe it's

having a duvet or that nice, warm,

cozy coat. What feelings and

emotions do you really love? Can you really feel it into

joy and contentment? Do you know what that is? And can you

conjure up those images in your mind and

sounds? What sounds do you love

that bring you that sense of happiness? Is

it children playing in the school

playground? Is it the sound of

a friend that you haven't heard at the end of the phone for a while?

If you can really hone in on

gratitude from a sense's point of view, you start to

ignite even more sensation that pulls you closer to joy

and contentment. I love that. I just want to ask you

one thing, because scent is such a

strong sense of. What

smell? What scent can someone reach

for? Do you think, in your opinion,

that brings you that? Either that joy or that contentment?

I think it's impossible for me to say that, because

everybody's sense of smell is different. Some people have got really strong sense of

smell and some people haven't, and everybody's. If we think

that smells are connected to memories,

and it would be impossible for me to pick out a smell for

somebody else, because who am I to know what amazing

memories they have had and what that means to them?

I would say my sense of smell is probably one of my

weakest for. Isn't it interesting how we experience the world around

us in any one moment is through any one of our five senses

or our six intuitive sense as well, right? So

we have to create

a similar experience. So for

me, I love. What smells do I love? I love cut grass.

I love that smell of cut grass. I love.

I like lavender. My daughter

really dislikes lavender, but I love lavender. That's quite calming for

me. What else do I love? Like

bacon. Smells like nice bread.

I'm wondering from a past life whether the honey and the bread smells were

like, oh, yeah, food or lavender. When we're getting rid of

illnesses and weird enough, the plague or whatever, lavender was

used. So, yeah, it's interesting, isn't it?

I don't know. Do you have a smell sensation?

Yeah. I cannot be in synthetic smells.

It makes me literally, my body goes poison.

It's mad. So I have a very large essential

oil and candle and incense collection, and they're all

really yummy. But for the joy and contentment, I'm going to have

to find what is in that handle. I've got this specific

candle. It's one from a company called Witch in the wheel.

She does candles for each of the turning of the wheels. So,

like, in bulk is the one I've got going on at the moment.

But there was one that she, she for

contentment, the yule. She did one for yule.

And it was like, oh, I just used to come in here in my

room and just light it and just be like, ah,

just all my senses. So I will find

out. Maybe we can put it in the show notes, which in the

wheel, the yule candle, the

inbolt one, they're all delicious. The Halloween one, the sewing

one is gorgeous as well. If I need a

quick pick me up, I love the citrus grapefruit. It's one of

grapefruit or orange. Sweet orange. I love that. I often dab a

bit of orange essential oil, just like on my bra. And it's just there,

like, keeping me buoyant through

contentment. I'm gonna say

something more woody, like

sandalwood. And it's very exotic. So, yeah,

there's. I use, I do work with my sense of smell a lot,

and I find that it really can flip

my mood quite quick. Yeah, I do love

an essential oil. Just use them if you're going to use them, just use them

sensibly and reliably and obviously

ethically. Yeah. Well, another fascinating

podcast episode. We should do more of the card pulls

and seeing where the conversation goes. I enjoyed today's episode,

listeners, if you. Love the card pools, let us know your favorite decks

as well. Maybe I'll buy a new one, who knows? Yeah, let

us know if you like that because we'd love to bring more of that in.

And I just also want to close this with a huge thank you to all

the listeners and all the support. It's been amazing

just seeing you podcast spread around the world.

And some of you are sharing with your friends and listening

to every episode when they download on a Friday. And

it touches my heart to know that these words are hitting

yours. Yeah. Thank you, guys. Okay, until next

time. I'll see you soon. Bye bye,

Melissa.