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Much like in astrology, the planets – specifically the Sun and Earth – create background energetic frequencies in Human Design.

In this episode, I share insights about the energies of the past few weeks and why January may have felt slow or unsettled.

Energetically, it’s not a time for rushing ahead, it’s a time for exactly where we are.

The winter season and the background energies hold the potential for something deeper. So when the momentum returns as the seasons shift, we’re ready to plan, sprout, and grow as the season shifts into spring.

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Welcome to the Unfolding Podcast,

a space where we explore what it

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really looks like to trust yourself,

to trust your decisions, to say no

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without guilt, and to live your life

like it actually belongs to you.

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I am Erica Voell and in my work as

a decision mentor and inner trust

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guide, I help women in midlife, trust

their inner guidance, understand

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their unique strengths, and stop

saying yes to what drains them.

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I help them dismantle conditioning,

regulate their nervous system

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and reclaim their inner authority

so their no feels powerful and

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their yes feels unmistakably true.

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On this show, we have honest conversations

about self-trust, boundaries, energy

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and identity, especially for women in

midlife who are so done living in the

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shoulds and second-guessing themselves.

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You'll hear stories, insights

and tools rooted in human

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design, coaching, and real life.

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Not to tell you what to do, but to

help you hear yourself so you can stop

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overthinking and start making decisions

that feel clear, grounded, and true.

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This is a fascinating time of year,

especially this year, and I want

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to acknowledge all of the hurt

and heartbreak that is happening

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in the United States right now.

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It is a time that I never

thought I would live through.

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And also I want to acknowledge

that keeping Hope alive is what is

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going to move us through this time.

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The space between the holidays and when

we start to feel a shift towards spring,

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usually around the middle of February,

can be really hard, dark, but it can

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also be a change towards the better.

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I have always noticed an

energetic shift around February

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10th through the 14th or so.

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It may be where I've lived that the times

I've noticed it, but it's been there.

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It's like this heaviness of deep winter

is lightening just a bit, even if

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we are buried under inches of snow.

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I know some people are

buried in feet of snow.

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But in Kansas we don't generally get feet.

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I've always wondered what that

shift is and my logical mind wants

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to know like, can it be measured?

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And when I recorded the "Not

Feeling the New Year's Excitement?"

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episode a few weeks ago, I noticed

that like people may not have been

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feeling this burst out of the gates

energy at the beginning of the year.

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The weeks after January 1st are bringing

in some very interesting energy.

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So many people seem very aware at

the end of the water snake year

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and the shift into the year of

the fire horse on February 17th.

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I mean, people who don't even follow

astrology are talking to me about it.

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There seems to be this buzziness that's

happening, and my mentor, Julie Ciardi

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talked about it as being like the race

horse at the starting gates of a race.

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There's an anticipation and a

restlessness to like, okay, we're done.

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Let's get rid of this.

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Let's keep, let's start going.

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I'm ready.

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But we still need to be in the energy

of the water snake and to allow us

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to shed just those last little bits.

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And I wanted to bring some human design

into this episode, probably more human

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design that I have in a long time.

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This is not gonna be about looking at

the parts of your chart, so don't worry.

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You don't need to look at anything.

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I really just want you to listen.

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Astrology talks about the energy of a

specific planet being in a specific sign.

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Like for example, the sun is in

Capricorn and the moon is in Aquarius.

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That's like the background energy of where

the planet is in the astrological wheel.

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And the same actually

happens in human design.

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And instead of 12 signs,

like in the Zodiac, there are

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64 gates within that wheel.

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This is the background energy.

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It's like the weather.

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We all feel it, even if we may not

be aware of it, just like everyone

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in a specific town experiences a

cloudy day or the cold, but everyone

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may experience it differently.

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Everyone experiences the background

energy differently depending

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on their own unique design.

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The daily energies are part of the

cycles we experience in our lives.

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There are daily cycles, monthly or

lunar cycles, seasonal shifts, along

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with different cycles in our lives, as

well as generational and global shifts.

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We're experiencing a lot.

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There are also cycles within our own

lives that happen in our thirties

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and our forties and our fifties.

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You may have heard them referred to

as the Saturn return around 28 to 30,

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the Uranus opposition in your forties.

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The Chiron return around age 50, and

it's important that we not attach to

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these cycles is if they are changing us.

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We will always be who we were born to

be, but we can look at these cycles

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or these transits as the energy

moving through us in the moment,

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but it's not who we are or who I am.

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And today in this episode, I'm

talking about the daily frequencies

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that we experience each day.

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That background energy depends on where

the sun and the earth are located in

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the wheel or the mandala as it's called.

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It takes the sun a year to move

through that whole wheel just as

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it takes the sun 12 months to go

through all the signs in the Zodiac.

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And within human design,

there are 64 gates.

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The gates are the little numbers

that show up in your chart.

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And I mentioned this because the

number one question I get asked

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when we're looking at a chart

for the first time is people say,

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so what do the numbers all mean?

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The numbers just tell us

where the planets are located.

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About three months before your birth

and at your birth time and when you're

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beginning to study your own chart.

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The numbers are not significant,

but the background frequency can be

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bring in some interesting energy.

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That's where the sun and the

earth are located in the wheel

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and what gate they are in.

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The sun brings in the core essence or

the brilliance the earth brings in the

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balance or the grounding that we feel.

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They're always perfectly matched, but

their energies can feel like partners at

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times, and other times they might feel

like a bit opposite at the same time.

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But whenever the sun is in a

particular energy, we feel it.

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Where the sun is in the wheel

gives us the energy of the day.

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It's this collective experience.

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We're all feeling it.

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It just depends on how we

feel it based on our design.

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The sun energy is approximately 70%

of the energy we feel, and the sun

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stays in each gate for about six days.

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So that energy sticks with us through

those six days, and then you add

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a layer to it and each day with

those six days can feel differently.

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Some days might feel easier,

some might feel harder.

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One day you might feel more

contemplative and introspective.

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The next, you might wanna stay in

and . The next day you'll feel really

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flexible and maybe even a bit restless.

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And then the next day you might be

wanna be out with your community or

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your network, and then the next day

might feel like a leadership day, and

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then the following day, the sixth day

might feel really reflective, but you

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also feel very wise at the same time.

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And instead of wondering why a

day feels particularly emotional,

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mental, or chaotic, we can look at

the daily frequency and see what

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energy is in the air that day.

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This isn't an area of human design

that I got into until the last nine

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months, and I have been studying human

design for over three and a half years.

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I've always known about it, but

I was never sure how to dive in.

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It was like that really esoteric

part of human design, and I was like,

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okay, I have no idea what this means.

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But my mentor, Julie Ciardi does

a daily frequency report for

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the membership I'm in with her.

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And as we've moved through the year,

I have been absolutely fascinated.

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I get it now, but I'm not so well-versed

in human design that I know every energy.

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I know the energies that appear in

my own chart, and when they feel

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more amplified, I really use Julie's

knowledge and the tools that she's given

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us to help me understand it better.

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But I've also started to

notice different things.

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Like there are weeks that I'm super

productive and I feel so much momentum

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like someone suddenly injected me

with this consistent motivation

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that I don't have all the time.

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And for example, a few weeks ago,

the day after I recorded the New

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Year's episode, the background

energy shifted into a new frequency.

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And I felt it.

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It activated some of the parts of my

chart that aren't normally activated,

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and here's how I know that it, I felt it.

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I wrote five episodes in three

days for the private podcast that

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I've recorded for my masterclass.

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It's coming up in just over a week.

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I haven't had that much

inspiration in a while.

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And when I looked at the background

frequency and listened to the daily

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frequency from Julie, it all made sense.

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And remember, these are energies that

are moving through us, and they're

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happening, but they aren't changing us.

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We're just feeling that maybe like

turning up the knob a little bit.

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And I was just feeling those energies.

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During the first part of this calendar

year and every calendar year, we

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experience the same energy from the sun,

but there are also different frequencies

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we get from other planets, so it's not

always gonna feel exactly the same.

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So I'm gonna talk about them

and I just want you to listen.

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I'm gonna talk about the energies that

we've experienced over the last two weeks,

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and what we'll be experiencing over the

next week after this podcast is released.

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And I just want you to

notice what resonates.

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Did you notice this energy

or experience it in some way?

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Everyone's going to feel it

differently based on their design.

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This may not resonate,

but that's perfectly okay.

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These were in the background anyway, so I

want you to think back to the first full

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week of January, starting January 5th.

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That energy was this alignment with

ambition and realistic beginnings?

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Were we saying yes to new things

to avoid finishing old ones?

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This is when beginnings can become

distractions, feeling a constant

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pressure to begin, even without clarity.

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Like is this a true beginning

or are we trying to escape the

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present and considering what's

happening in our world right now?

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I think that that feeling

has been especially present

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at the start of this year.

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There was this feeling of

momentum, but also a pressure.

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There's a natural rise to achieve

your potential and a determination to

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reach your goal with this inner drive

to rise up and create opportunities

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to level the playing field.

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But the ambition really needs direction.

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And when you instinctively seek guidance

from those who might help you channel

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that drive toward meaningful and lasting

achievements, and it's balanced by the

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energy of wanting to start new things,

but it's important to ensure that we're

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prepared to see them through or pass

them on to others to complete them.

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So it means that like allowing

that ambition to be anchored in the

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proper timing rather than urgency.

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Then starting January 11th, we moved

into the energy of feeling like we

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needed to have it all figured out.

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But the gift in this is that knowing

we don't need to, I'm recording

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this on January 16th, when we're

in the last day of this energy

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and moving into a new energy.

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The energy of January 11th through the

16th was the energy of the pressure

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to know the unknown, and wanting to

unravel mysteries and discover profound

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truths to guide those around us towards

greater self-acceptance and appreciation

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for your own unique perspective.

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We need to allow our own inner

truth to emerge naturally and

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to trust our inner knowing.

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And this was balanced by the energy

where the shadow side may be focusing

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on the details, which can lead to

overthinking, but it can be beautiful

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when we use our skills to organize

and articulate details and to simplify

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the complex and enhance understanding.

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So that was the last six days, and

I felt that so much because I was

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like, yes, I was trying to figure

this masterclass out, and I'm like,

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I gotta get it all figured out.

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I gotta get it all figured out.

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But each day I was like, Nope.

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I don't need to know.

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I can put notes down, but it will

all come together at the right time.

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I don't need to have it all figured out.

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And as we move into the week of January

17th, over the next six days, the

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energy is related to feeling restless or

frustrated by the inability to change.

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But the gift is when we are realistic

and sensible and we understand and

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accept the natural limitations of

our creative processes, then our full

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creative potential can be released.

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It's like a pulse that is

not there, and then it is.

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And then realizing you have no

control over when or how this

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transformation occurs within

you and the world around you.

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So think of your creativity

during this time as a space

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between the notes and the music.

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You're embracing your

limitations, allowing your.

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Unique creativity to flow

naturally, and this is balanced

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with the struggle with distraction.

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And when we're desiring new experiences

and new ideas, the gift really lies in the

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natural storytelling ability that brings

depth and meaning to your experiences.

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Using past experiences to illustrate

concepts and encouraging the

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formation of ideas and beliefs.

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There can be this hunger for new

ideas and experiences which you

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can express in a way that captures

attention and enriches understanding.

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And what we're seeing in this energy

from about, from January 5th until

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we hit to about the 22nd, is this

like wanting to start things, this

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momentum, this like moving forward.

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But like there's a, there's a sense that

we wanna move there, but it's not about

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moving, it's about like allowing those

things to come, but not necessarily moving

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forward with this burst of momentum.

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They are all about allowing the

right timing to come through.

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And when we think about like all of these

things that we want to do in this newness

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that is coming through in these energies

is that then we're like, oh, shiny object.

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Ooh, I'm gonna do that.

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I'm gonna do that.

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I need to do this.

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So that is when we need to take a

pause and then be like, oh, I need

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to wait until that energy comes.

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And I talked earlier in the episode

about the cycles we experience.

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I said that there are daily

shifts, seasonal, yearly,

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generational, and global shifts.

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And we experienced these shifts

collectively and also personally.

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But the personal cycles about the

thirties, forties, and fifties

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are a whole other episode.

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In fact, it's going to be a whole

month within my new program.

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But globally, in addition to these other

daily cycles and yearly cycles, we are

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moving into the last year of a major era.

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The eras change only about every 400

years, so it's no wonder we're all

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feeling it along with the energies

that we're feeling with the end

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of the year of the water snake.

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I think that's why we're all

feeling like this is not the

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New Year's energy to go, go, go.

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Some people are feeling it,

but many are not, and it's okay

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because it is the middle of winter.

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In the five element theory, that's part of

traditional Chinese medicine, the element

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of winter is water and it's related

to dormancy and stillness and rest.

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I mean, think about the

water under the ice.

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It's still moving, but

it's not flowing rapidly.

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Water is also related to the potential.

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It's not moving forward.

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It's the potential.

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We're gathering our energy, so when

the energy does shift, we are ready to

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start planning and sprouting and growing

as the seasons change into spring.

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And I'm so excited to share

that my clients are going to be

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receiving weekly energetic reports

from me similar to this one.

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I did like almost three weeks in this

episode, but I know that understanding

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these energetic shifts every six

days can bring so much relief.

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Especially when our minds are

wanting us to move on and our

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bodies are telling us to stay in

the energy of slowness a bit longer.

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On January 28th and 29th, I'm

gonna be talking more about cycles

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and how they impact our trust in

ourselves and our decision making.

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How we weave human design into

helping us notice our patterns,

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the stories we tell ourselves.

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Getting clear and acknowledging the

fear that gets in our way and helping

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us set clear and healthy boundaries.

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The masterclass is called Decide

by Design, A New Way to Trust

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Your Decisions Masterclass that

starts on January 28th, and you can

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find the link in the show notes.

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It's gonna be amazing if you're listening

to this after January 28th and wanna learn

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more about how human design can help you,

trust yourself and your decisions, click

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the Decision Audit link in the show notes.

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