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To step into your creations,
to step into your uniqueness,
Speaker:to step into your colors...
Speaker:that is how we really attract
what we deeply truly desire.
Speaker:Hello and welcome to
Remember Why You're Here,
Speaker:a podcast for seekers and sensitives
where you can relax, receive,
Speaker:reconnect to yourself, and
remember the most important thing:
Speaker:why you're here. My name is Asia Suler,
Speaker:Earth intuitive author, teacher,
Speaker:and this is your intuitive
reading for March.
Speaker:So I was really excited about the
idea with this new podcast of doing a
Speaker:monthly intuitive reading.
Speaker:I've been doing yearly intuitive
readings for a long time,
Speaker:and this just seemed like such a
great opportunity to step into this
Speaker:format of doing a monthly reading.
Speaker:So these monthly readings are going
to at least start out with being
Speaker:a card pull.
Speaker:So I love the idea of pulling a card for
us collectively for the month ahead so
Speaker:we can tune into what to expect
and how to meet this month.
Speaker:So I asked that this card come through
for all of us that are gathered
Speaker:here in this realm together,
in this circle here together.
Speaker:And I'm excited for what came up
for this march because it felt very
Speaker:accurate for me, really
helpful and supportive,
Speaker:and I have a feeling it might
feel that way for you too.
Speaker:So I pulled this card from the
Herb Crafter's tarot by Latisha
Speaker:Guthrie, with artwork from
Joanna Powell Colbert.
Speaker:And I was excited about doing this first
Speaker:pull from a deck with plants,
Speaker:because that's been so much of
my life work up until this point,
Speaker:working with the plants.
Speaker:So I wanted a plant ally to come
through for us this month, and one did.
Speaker:So our card for the month
of March,: Speaker:which in this deck is
called the Two of Fire,
Speaker:which is sort of how this
deck conceives of the wands
Speaker:suit in tarot. So two of fire, bee balm.
Speaker:So in this deck, which I love,
Speaker:this fire suit is all
about action and play.
Speaker:It's almost like you've gathered
all the herbs from the earth and
Speaker:now it's time to make your potion. It's
like bringing in that fire element,
Speaker:bringing in that sort of playful action.
Speaker:It's time to make some moves,
Speaker:and that's so much of
what this card is about.
Speaker:So if you're not familiar with bee
balm, this plant is also called monarda,
Speaker:or wild bergamot.
Speaker:It's sort of this
wild-haired wildflower that
Speaker:blooms when you're sort of entering into
Speaker:the heat of summer.
Speaker:So it will be one of those herbs that
you first see in it's just green state,
Speaker:vegetative state coming up pretty
early in spring. And then around here,
Speaker:it's like by late June, early July,
Speaker:we're in full bloom with our bee balm.
Speaker:And there's different varieties of
it. So you might have a lilac one,
Speaker:you might have a deep
fuscia one, spotted ones.
Speaker:So there's many different
varieties, species,
Speaker:of monarda.
Speaker:But I love bee balm as sort of this
Speaker:energizing, spicy, uplifting medicine.
Speaker:It is one of my favorite medicines to
use as a steam herb if I'm dealing with
Speaker:any kind of lung gunk.
Speaker:I've actually had the experience sometimes
of adding too much bee balm to steam,
Speaker:and having it be even
too spicy for me to use.
Speaker:It's like that pungent and that aromatic,
Speaker:and it's just so enlivening to breathe in.
Speaker:It's a really important cold and flu herb.
Speaker:It can also be used as a antimicrobial,
both as a wash on the body,
Speaker:but also internally. If you've
eaten something really off,
Speaker:then bee balm tea can be
really helpful for that.
Speaker:It's called bee balm because bees
love this flower. So do butterflies,
Speaker:so do hummingbirds. So in
my garden in the summertime,
Speaker:this flower is just
this beacon, this mecca,
Speaker:this gathering place for all of
these incredible pollinators:
Speaker:almost looks like it's bedecked
with butterflies, especially here,
Speaker:but also the bees, and also the
hummingbirds who come to visit.
Speaker:So it's really a beautiful plant to
Speaker:just be around, to witness.
Speaker:It's also one of my favorite
plants to make pesto
Speaker:with. Very, very early in the spring,
before it flowers and gets too spicy,
Speaker:you can actually clip some of
the leaves and grind them up.
Speaker:I like to use garlic powder
and curry and make this
Speaker:really almost like oregano-tasting pesto.
Speaker:It's so good. It's my favorite actually.
Speaker:Of all the pestos that one could make,
bee balm pesto is my absolute favorite.
Speaker:So for me,
Speaker:this plant also has this deep association
with-even though it has this bloom of
Speaker:summertime, like that's really when
it's in its full flower-it has this
Speaker:initiatory aspect to it, of like, Oh,
the first thought of spring is here.
Speaker:We're really getting underway in this
new season, and this new growing season,
Speaker:and I'm able to now eat the
first greens from the garden.
Speaker:I'm able to see the potential and
the brightness of what is to come,
Speaker:and that's so much about what
this card really stands for.
Speaker:So the image on this card is of
these potted monarda, or balm,
Speaker:plants that have been started by seed
that are getting ready to be transplanted
Speaker:into bigger pots.
Speaker:They're getting ready for this
next step in their evolution and
Speaker:creation. And in the guide that
comes along with this deck,
Speaker:Latisha Guthrie talks about this:
Speaker:this idea that now is the time for you
Speaker:to step with courage into
your next creative leap.
Speaker:That there's this aspect
here of trusting the
Speaker:playfulness, of following your desires,
Speaker:of moving into what comes next,
Speaker:of taking that next step.
Speaker:There's also this piece of this idea
that we attract what we desire when we're
Speaker:bold, when we're fully
authentically ourselves.
Speaker:And I just have this vision of the
bee balm in my garden like vibrating
Speaker:with butterflies. And
there's an invitation here to
Speaker:step into your creations, to
step into your uniqueness,
Speaker:to step into your
colors, your bold colors,
Speaker:and that that is how we really
attract what we deeply, truly desire.
Speaker:With this card, what really felt
prominent, for me and for us,
Speaker:moving into this month,
Speaker:is this invitation to take the next leap.
Speaker:I have found for myself, and I think
this has been the case for a lot of us,
Speaker:that the winter so far
has been sort of this
Speaker:pattern of moving forward,
but not completely:
Speaker:still having a lot of
plans on the back burner,
Speaker:creations on the back burner.
And astrologically speaking,
Speaker:we've been in this time
of Mars retrograde.
Speaker:Mars has been retrograde since
the beginning of December,
Speaker:so we're just coming out of
this big retrograde in cancer,
Speaker:which is not Mars's favorite sign.
Speaker:And so it's almost like this
collective-wide release of like, Ah, okay.
Speaker:We can start moving forward again.
Speaker:But it's not going to be
this movement forward,
Speaker:where we are leaping right
away into the next big thing.
Speaker:It's more like transplanting our starts
from their small pots to the bigger
Speaker:pots. And it's like, we can take that
step now. We've been waiting for this.
Speaker:We've been doing all kinds of
deep internal, emotional work,
Speaker:and now with this coming month of March,
Speaker:it's like we can take that next step of
actually transplanting what we've been
Speaker:nurturing, the seeds we've been
nurturing, into the next bigger pot.
Speaker:And in the traditional tarot deck, the
corollary in a traditional tarot deck,
Speaker:would be the Two of Wands. And
the Two of Wands card is all about
Speaker:expanding your horizons so
you can meet the potential
Speaker:of what's to come. It's like the
Ace of Wands sparks the idea,
Speaker:and the Two of Wands is
you starting to make plans.
Speaker:You starting to make long-term
plans and strategies,
Speaker:and do this internal work of
actually opening up to the incredible
Speaker:possibilities that are awaiting
you with this new start,
Speaker:this new seed that you've planted
that has now bloomed and is now
Speaker:ready to be transplanted,
to take it to the next step.
Speaker:There's really this piece
here this month of will you
Speaker:stay with the thing, the pattern,
Speaker:the program that is familiar,
Speaker:or will you take the risk
to try something new,
Speaker:to step into this new iteration?
And like I was saying earlier,
Speaker:it doesn't feel like there's
this requirement that we
Speaker:leap off the edge of
anything. It's more like,
Speaker:will you take that next step,
Speaker:even if it's little... but
will you take that next step,
Speaker:even though it does feel a little
bit scary? Like this next step,
Speaker:although it might be small,
Speaker:has a bit of tingly tension,
Speaker:sort of excitement, to it... but
trepidation, right? Because it's new.
Speaker:Whatever it is that you
have been sort of dreaming
Speaker:into, holding onto,
nurturing behind the scenes,
Speaker:it's almost like March is
this time to take that step
Speaker:in either putting it out there or
really coming up with a plan this
Speaker:month for how you're going to step into
Speaker:bringing your passions, bringing
your creativity to life:
Speaker:that your passions, your creativity,
Speaker:your projects want your
commitment in this way.
Speaker:So this feels very much
like a commitment month,
Speaker:in this way in which I
think things, come April,
Speaker:are going to start moving a
lot more, a lot faster. I mean,
Speaker:even astrologically speaking,
Mars is going to go into Leo.
Speaker:That's a lot more fire behind
the things that we're doing.
Speaker:And so it's almost like, let's
take this time in March...
Speaker:it's exactly what's happening for
us here in our gardens, of like,
Speaker:Okay, we have the seeds,
we're starting the seeds,
Speaker:and we're planning the
garden for the year ahead.
Speaker:So whether or not you have a
physical garden, it's almost like,
Speaker:this is the invitation now: it's like,
Speaker:plan for your creations in the year ahead.
Speaker:Give yourself permission
to take that next step,
Speaker:even if it feels like a little bit scary,
Speaker:and to really reconnect to
your passion and your vibrance.
Speaker:And there's almost this sense like
you will have the ability to do that.
Speaker:It's okay if, the past
few months, you're like,
Speaker:I don't even know where my passion and
vibrance have been. Like don't know her.
Speaker:This month, it's like, Okay,
Speaker:I'm reconnecting to my passion and
my vibrance again. I can feel it.
Speaker:I can feel it enough that
I can start to envision,
Speaker:I can start to take these next steps.
Because it's almost the sense of,
Speaker:this new creation has really
been waiting to come through you,
Speaker:and waiting in part for you to
have this kind of confidence and
Speaker:self-belief to start making that plan,
Speaker:to take that first next step.
Speaker:And because we got this plant
that blooms sort of in high
Speaker:summertime,
Speaker:I'm really getting this feeling
like whatever you are setting in
Speaker:motion this month, thinking
about launching, planning,
Speaker:strategizing for,
Speaker:that there's some sort of element of it
actually being something that will come
Speaker:to fruition, in one shape,
way, or form this summer.
Speaker:That the turnaround for this
isn't actually as long as
maybe some other projects
Speaker:might be.
Speaker:And it might not be that you
exactly come into the pinnacle of it
Speaker:this summer, but that there's
almost a sense of speed with it.
Speaker:Like now that you're getting
going. There will be a speed,
Speaker:and there's going to be something
around the summer solstice,
Speaker:maybe a little bit after, where
it's like, Okay, this is now...
Speaker:Like I'm seeing way further ahead now,
Speaker:for having taken this step now. So this
card is making me excited about March.
Speaker:It's making me feel like things are going
to happen, things are going to move,
Speaker:that we're going to be
supported in moving stagnation,
Speaker:some of the stagnation
we've been sitting with.
Speaker:A lot of different species
of monorda have been
Speaker:used ceremonially, including in
sweat lodges, here in Turtle Island.
Speaker:So there really is this sense with
this plant of moving the spirit,
Speaker:moving inspiration,
Speaker:like when we've been in a
stagnant place of getting that
Speaker:flow happening again.
Speaker:And I think we all really
deeply need this right now.
Speaker:We need to feel the flow once
more. And so I'm excited for March.
Speaker:It's almost like, yeah, the
stream is starting to run again,
Speaker:or like a vernal spring is
starting to run once more,
Speaker:and a lot more is becoming
possible because of it.
Speaker:So thank you so much for tuning into
this reading for this upcoming month
Speaker:of March, 2025.
Speaker:If you are liking this podcast so
far, wherever you listen to podcasts,
Speaker:if you could give it a rating or a review,
Speaker:it would just be so delightful for me
to read that and to connect with you in
Speaker:that way.
Speaker:It really just means so
much and is giving this new
Speaker:venture so much support, so much wind
beneath its wings. So thank you for that.
Speaker:And,
Speaker:really exciting new thing on our website:
Speaker:so if you go to
Speaker:asiasuler.com/remember,
Speaker:I now have a voicemail service.
I'm super excited about this.
Speaker:So I have an answering machine on the
website where you can leave me a voice
Speaker:message. I'm super excited about
where we're going to go with this.
Speaker:You can leave me message about anything:
a thought you had about an episode,
Speaker:a suggestion for a topic,
any kind of feedback.
Speaker:And we're going to use the messages that
we are getting through this to inspire
Speaker:new content, for new episodes,
Speaker:to possibly have some more
conversational aspects,
Speaker:maybe even expand on the topic,
Speaker:if people ask us to do more on that
topic or they have follow-up questions.
Speaker:So if you want to leave me a voice note,
Speaker:then head over to asiasuler.com/remember,
Speaker:and I would love to hear from you
there. So thanks so much for tuning in,
Speaker:and I'll see you next time
on Remember Why You Are Here.
