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Just for having decided to see
this month as a pilgrimage,
Speaker:your life as a pilgrimage,
Speaker:you will not come back the same
person as you were when you left.
Speaker:And that is a relief, that's
a blessing, that's an opening.
Speaker:Hello and welcome back to
Remember Why You're Here,
Speaker:a podcast for seekers and sensitives
where you can relax, receive,
Speaker:reconnect yourself, and remember
the most important thing of all:
Speaker:why you're here. I'm Asia Suler, author,
Speaker:Earth Intuitive, teacher,
Speaker:and this is our intuitive
reading for the month of
Speaker:March, 2026.
Speaker:This year has already felt so big and
Speaker:so much has happened that I'm a little
bit of in awe of the fact that we're
Speaker:only in March. And at the same
time, I'm also asking myself,
Speaker:how is it March already?
Speaker:But this reading really gave me a lot
of perspective for the month ahead,
Speaker:so I'm hoping it is
helpful for you as well.
Speaker:So some of the themes that we have up
for this month are seeing the bigger
Speaker:story, transversing into
new phases of your life,
Speaker:spiritual unfolding,
Speaker:the call to motion and soul perspective.
Speaker:So this month I worked with Kim Krantz
archetype deck and the card that I pulled
Speaker:is the pilgrim.
Speaker:The pilgrim card is this beautiful
image, this beautiful collage,
Speaker:where there's a picture of hands
classed in prayer over one's
Speaker:heart.
Speaker:There's an eye and a mountain
surrounded by sort of a swirl of
Speaker:rainbow watercolor.
Speaker:And I loved getting this card.
Speaker:I feel a very particular
connection to this archetype of the
Speaker:pilgrim,
Speaker:and it really felt like it came in
with so much guidance for this month
Speaker:up ahead. So in the
guidebook, Kim Krantz writes,
Speaker:"for the pilgrim an outward journey
is always an inward journey." And
Speaker:goes on to talk about this
idea that even when you are in
Speaker:stillness, when you really embody
this archetype of the pilgrim,
Speaker:you are always able to feel this
movement in your heart towards
Speaker:what is calling you.
Speaker:This movement of the heart
towards what it loves.
Speaker:And embedded in this
card is this idea of this
Speaker:call to motion,
Speaker:that there's a call at the
heart of your life to move,
Speaker:that there's invitation here
into new levels of freedom and
Speaker:expansion and growth.
Speaker:This is why we take pilgrimages.
Speaker:And also this call to look at
Speaker:what is it that's in the way.
Speaker:It's like at any point we could open
our door and just start walking,
Speaker:and be a pilgrim on the pilgrimage path.
Speaker:And inside of this card there was
an invitation to ask yourself,
Speaker:what are the doors? What are the blocks?
Speaker:What are the things that I feel like
are in my way that are preventing me
Speaker:from stepping out that door
and becoming a pilgrim in life?
Speaker:So I loved her description
in the guidebook,
Speaker:but I also have such a strong connection
with this archetype of the pilgrim and
Speaker:the idea of pilgrimage.
Speaker:So I was really excited when I
picked this card because I already
Speaker:have just this sense of the
depth of what this really
Speaker:means for this month of March. And I do
have a feeling that this is a big month.
Speaker:So the etymology of the word pilgrimage
comes from the Latin peregrinus,
Speaker:which means foreigner or stranger,
and also ager, which means field.
Speaker:So it's literally being
a stranger or a foreigner
Speaker:through the land that
you're moving through.
Speaker:It's like you are coming from
elsewhere to move through a
Speaker:landscape that is unknown to you, a
landscape that is not your home place.
Speaker:And I think this etymology of this word
can really help us as we step into my
Speaker:reading for this month
ahead of March,: Speaker:First, I just want to ground a little
bit on what pilgrimage actually is,
Speaker:and I feel such like a heart resonance
with this word because I really consider
Speaker:myself someone who is
a pilgrim in this life,
Speaker:a devotee of pilgrimage. For me,
Speaker:travel is about pilgrimage.
It's about this deeper journey.
Speaker:And so I think it's important to put this
in context that pilgrimage is not just
Speaker:travel, right? So sometimes we
travel right to escape our life.
Speaker:The pilgrim travels to
move deeper into life,
Speaker:to move deeper into their existence.
Speaker:Going on a pilgrimage is not
about endlessly consuming new
Speaker:places or exoticizing what we don't
Speaker:know. It's about encountering the numinous
Speaker:inside of an unknown journey.
Speaker:It's about going deeper into
life rather than escaping it.
Speaker:It's about deep listening
and openness to what comes.
Speaker:It's so much less about ticking things
off a to-do list and so much more
Speaker:about being present for whatever
it is that is here to meet you,
Speaker:whatever it is that is arriving.
It's to go on pilgrimages,
Speaker:to feel a call,
Speaker:to go on an unknown journey because you
sense that there's something within that
Speaker:journey that is here to help you
uncover a new layer of your soul
Speaker:or your soul's perspective. To me,
Speaker:it feels like the difference between
climbing to the top of a mountain and
Speaker:circumnavigating a mountain.
Speaker:The pilgrim isn't here
on a destination quest.
Speaker:The pilgrim's quest is not
about reaching some ultimate
Speaker:viewpoint or end goal,
Speaker:it's about the experience along the way.
Speaker:It's about walking the whole
base of the mountain in order to
Speaker:experience the mountain itself,
Speaker:in order to go deeper into life.
Speaker:So there's really this
focus on inner experience,
Speaker:so much more than outer
accomplishment. Ultimately,
Speaker:we go on pilgrimage to be changed.
Speaker:We go in order to come
back as a different,
Speaker:more expanded,
Speaker:more soul-resonant aspect of ourselves,
Speaker:to come back with more wholeness
than with which we left.
Speaker:And I say all of this because I think
that there's a huge invitation this
Speaker:month to reframe our journeys
Speaker:as pilgrimages,
Speaker:to remember from this soul
perspective that, truly,
Speaker:we are beings of spirit,
Speaker:beings of energy and consciousness,
Speaker:who decide to take a
pilgrimage through life,
Speaker:through this thing we
call physical existence.
Speaker:Through this experience
of being here on earth.
Speaker:Our souls are pilgrims here,
Speaker:we are traveling through,
we decide to come,
Speaker:to learn to be changed.
Speaker:And I really have the sense
that if we can remember this,
Speaker:that it will help us so
much in the great passage
Speaker:that I'm sensing in this month.
Speaker:I kept getting this
really more feeling state
Speaker:inside of myself.
Speaker:This feeling of March being this
sense of crossing a great place
Speaker:into April. Like where we start in this
month is not going to be where we end.
Speaker:We won't be in the same place at the
end of this month that we were when we
Speaker:began it.
Speaker:I just get this sense
of crossing some sort of
Speaker:spiritual terrain in your life this month.
Speaker:And it really got me
thinking about castles,
Speaker:how we sort of idealize
castles as these sort of
Speaker:romanticized places of your,
Speaker:but the reality is that castles
were not built for comfort.
Speaker:Castles were built for protection.
Speaker:We know that the reality of living
in a castle would've been very dark,
Speaker:very cold, just extremely
un-cozy and not very livable.
Speaker:And so it felt like with this image
that there's going to be this invitation
Speaker:this month to step out of the castles
that we've built in our life and be able
Speaker:to turn around and look back at them
and realize that the things that
Speaker:we built to protect
ourselves in our lives,
Speaker:while they did a really good job
at that, at protecting ourselves,
Speaker:we're really going to be able to see the
way those structures are not livable,
Speaker:it's actually not a very ideal
place to live. And bless our hearts,
Speaker:this is what we have to do in
order to survive and evolve in
Speaker:this world is sometimes build castles,
Speaker:build structures that work at
the time to protect us. And yet,
Speaker:once we feel this call towards
movement, this call towards pilgrimage,
Speaker:we start stepping out and then we have
perspective to look to look back and
Speaker:realize, wow, actually this place
that I thought I needed so much,
Speaker:this structure of my life that
I thought I needed so much,
Speaker:it is actually making my life
Speaker:less livable. It's, it actually
wasn't very cozy in there.
Speaker:It didn't bring that much to my
existence. All it did was protect me,
Speaker:but it didn't bring me life.
Speaker:I much rather prefer sleeping out here
underneath the stars or feeling the sun
Speaker:on my face during the day.
Speaker:And I get the sense that whatever
we're going to be stepping
Speaker:out of this month, sort of stepping
away from to get perspective on,
Speaker:we're going to be able to see that and
we're going to be able to envision a new
Speaker:structure for our lives because we've
taken those first steps onto the
Speaker:pilgrimage, we have this
ability to look back.
Speaker:And I really get this sense that there's
something about getting a chunk of your
Speaker:story this month,
Speaker:like seeing a chunk of your story
in a way you didn't see it before,
Speaker:being able to conceptualize of
your story in a different way.
Speaker:And I want you to really
trust what it is that you see.
Speaker:Whatever piece of your story
comes back to you, arrives to you,
Speaker:clicks in for you, makes sense for you
in a different way, really trust that,
Speaker:trust what you're seeing
because this chunk,
Speaker:this perspective that you're
able to get on your life now,
Speaker:this piece of your story,
Speaker:it's going to help you in the transitional
energy of this month because I do get
Speaker:the feeling like we're transitioning
into something big in April.
Speaker:I don't know.
Speaker:I get the sense that there's
going to be transformation
Speaker:on offer and in April. And so the
perspective that we're getting this month,
Speaker:this soulful perspective on our
lives, on the things that...
Speaker:the castles we've built to
protect us, our stories,
Speaker:that this is really going to help
us in this continual story of
Speaker:unfolding that we are walking on.
Speaker:And so no matter what it is
you encounter this month,
Speaker:to really resettle yourself
in this perspective
Speaker:of the pilgrim,
Speaker:to see your life from the
soul-led perspective as a
Speaker:pilgrim on the pilgrimage path,
Speaker:there are certain overarching
spiritual rules about pilgrimage.
Speaker:And one of them is that
when you are on pilgrimage,
Speaker:it's much less about seeing the
big tourist destinations or getting
Speaker:to that point where you
have the big overlook.
Speaker:And it's so much more about recognizing
that everything that comes up along your
Speaker:path is a messenger,
Speaker:that everything that comes up
along your journey is bringing you
Speaker:information and perspective
and a reflection that you
Speaker:need. For the
Speaker:pilgrim, walking the
path is the pilgrimage.
Speaker:And so as you move through
this month and stuff comes up,
Speaker:I want to invite you to see it
from this soulful perspective,
Speaker:this perspective of your soul,
Speaker:this wider being who has
decided to go on this
Speaker:wild pilgrimage through
physical existence,
Speaker:through life here on this planet and
ask, what is this reflecting back to me?
Speaker:What is this showing me?
Speaker:If my whole life was
truly a sacred journey in
Speaker:which my soul decided to come here
and go on a journey in which I was
Speaker:changed,
Speaker:in which I received a piece of
myself and I came back to my home,
Speaker:the place that I originate from,
Speaker:the place in spirit and in source
in the divine that I originate from,
Speaker:that I come home with this greater
understanding of myself. If this is true,
Speaker:if this is the reality,
Speaker:then what is it that this event or this
Speaker:change or this shift is
reflecting back to me?
Speaker:What is this messenger on the path
and what message do they bring me?
Speaker:It's our job as pilgrims to
allow the pilgrimage itself to
Speaker:transform us. That's the
purpose, that's the goal.
Speaker:And I do get the sense that
there are some outer energies in
Speaker:March that are coming into transform us.
Speaker:And all we really have to
do is commit in our heart to
Speaker:being on the pilgrimage of our
life and to simply noticing what it
Speaker:is that's coming up for us and
regrounding in that trust that...
Speaker:trust in our own soul,
Speaker:that our own soul knew what it was doing
when it decided to take this pilgrimage
Speaker:through this life.
Speaker:There's a really beautiful essay by
Czech writer and geologist Václav
Speaker:Cílek called Bees of the Invisible.
Speaker:In this essay, he outlines
these rules of pilgrimage.
Speaker:It's a really beautiful essay.
Speaker:I'll put the link here if anyone
is interested in reading it.
Speaker:But I wanted to read a few of
these rules because while he is
Speaker:writing about pilgrimages
to places here on earth,
Speaker:I think it's really helpful
for us from a soul perspective
Speaker:when we remember why
we're here on this planet.
Speaker:So here's just a few of the
rules. There's more than this,
Speaker:but here are the few that really stood
out to me for this reading this month:
Speaker:So first, we have this rule of home,
Speaker:this idea that we need to travel
out in order to recognize our home,
Speaker:that we need to leave in
order to understand we belong.
Speaker:And I think that's so much of
our journey here on this planet,
Speaker:is remembering that we
belong no matter what,
Speaker:remembering home, even as we
come here and decide to forget.
Speaker:So you are on this journey of finding
Speaker:home as you are willing to leave home.
Speaker:It's a beautiful paradox. The next
rule is the rule of resonance.
Speaker:And I love this rule when I'm traveling,
Speaker:but I think it's also so
applicable to just life in general.
Speaker:And it's this rule that a smaller
place that we resonate with is more
Speaker:important than a great
place of pilgrimage.
Speaker:So from a travel perspective,
Speaker:it's like that one stone that
you found out in the field
Speaker:that you sat with and just had
such a big experience with,
Speaker:is so much more important than the
fact that you made it to Stonehenge.
Speaker:So this is true for our lives too.
Speaker:We often have these really big goals
Speaker:in our lives. We have these
Speaker:sites we want to visit, these
things we want to achieve,
Speaker:and those are important energies
to help us in moving forward.
Speaker:But the small moments of
resonance we have in our life,
Speaker:like that afternoon you spent outside
with your kid playing in the creek,
Speaker:that just was like actual
joy and not just exhaustion,
Speaker:or that that book that
you read that one day,
Speaker:that chapter that you read that one day,
Speaker:sitting in that coffee shop and
you just felt your world crack
Speaker:open into more possibilities
than you had felt before.
Speaker:Those moments are what
a life of pilgrimage are
Speaker:made of.
Speaker:Those are the accomplishments
your soul came here to
Speaker:experience. And I think we all
need to remember this so much,
Speaker:especially when we live
in a world where the big,
Speaker:the grandiose, the popular, the obvious,
Speaker:whatever it is,
Speaker:that these are so often telegraphed
to us as the goals to achieve
Speaker:when from our soul's perspective,
those are not goals at all.
Speaker:Those are almost like side quests.
Speaker:The goals are those moments where you feel
Speaker:connection, belonging, understanding,
Speaker:and resonance with your own soul.
Speaker:So when we view life as a pilgrimage,
Speaker:we tend to have more of those moments and
we're able to recognize them more when
Speaker:they come up. Václav Cílek
also has the rule of return,
Speaker:which is the idea that we need
to keep returning to a place at
Speaker:different times, in different ways,
in order to see its wholeness.
Speaker:That when we are meant to be in
deep relationship to a place,
Speaker:we will be called back
there again and again.
Speaker:And that that is part of us
understanding its wholeness.
Speaker:And I love this because on a soul
level, that's what we do on this planet.
Speaker:We come back again and again
in order to experience life
Speaker:from different perspectives, different
angles, different upbringings,
Speaker:different lands, different cultures.
Speaker:But I also think it's important within
our individual lives to remember this
Speaker:because so often we come back to the
same places in our life again and
Speaker:again. And this makes sense, because
our life is a pilgrimage. So of course,
Speaker:this rule of return, we will
be brought back to this place.
Speaker:It doesn't mean we failed. It
doesn't mean we're on the wrong path.
Speaker:It means that we're here to understand
more of our own wholeness by
Speaker:experiencing this place again
from a different perspective.
Speaker:Because you are not who you were when
you experienced this place last time.
Speaker:Whatever this place is for you
right now, you are different.
Speaker:And so you are going to
get more perspective,
Speaker:more wholeness through
visiting this place once again.
Speaker:And I think we all just need
to hear this so much that...
Speaker:this affirmation, our hearts need it,
Speaker:that this rule of return
is not our failure.
Speaker:It's how a pilgrim goes deeper on this
Speaker:journey of becoming.
Speaker:And then we have this rule of a slow
approach that sometimes in order to
Speaker:reach the places we most desire to
experience, we need to go slowly.
Speaker:We need to be on foot. In
some medieval practices of
Speaker:pilgrimage, during the
medieval era in Europe,
Speaker:pilgrimage was an incredibly
important and sacred endeavor.
Speaker:Some people would walk on their
knees to approach a holy site.
Speaker:And so I wanted to bring this
rule in because sometimes we
Speaker:feel like if we're moving
slowly, we're not moving at all.
Speaker:But this is also part of the pilgrims
path that some places will not open for
Speaker:you unless you approach slowly.
Speaker:So if there's something you've
been working on moving towards,
Speaker:and it feels slow going,
Speaker:know that that might be the exact
right way to approach this in order for
Speaker:that new place,
Speaker:that new place of understanding
and perspective and
connection to open for you.
Speaker:And then finally, we have the
rule of reciprocal awakening,
Speaker:which is this rule that
by journeying we allow
Speaker:not only ourselves to awaken,
Speaker:but we reinvigorate the earth.
Speaker:That our pilgrimages
taken with an open heart,
Speaker:that they bring awakenings
to the places that we visit.
Speaker:And I think we need to remember this in
our lives because sometimes we can just
Speaker:get so like myopic in our own
Speaker:existences, and the struggles
and the challenges of our lives,
Speaker:that we forget that this journey
of awakening that we're on,
Speaker:this pilgrimage that we're on,
Speaker:we're not just on it for ourselves and
we're not even just on it for our own
Speaker:souls. We are also on this
journey for the earth.
Speaker:We came here at this time for
a reason to be a part of an
Speaker:evolution and an unfolding that
is happening here on this planet,
Speaker:an evolution and an unfolding that
is so much bigger than even our
Speaker:species.
Speaker:It's a planetary wide movement.
Speaker:And we've been asked to
come here on a pilgrimage to
Speaker:step into this rule, this
rule of reciprocal awakening.
Speaker:So everything that you were
doing on your path to continue to
Speaker:unfold, all the ways into which you
are recommitting to your journey,
Speaker:which you're willing to see your
journey as the pilgrimage that it is,
Speaker:it brings energy, perspective,
Speaker:and awakenings to this planet as
well. So when I picked this card,
Speaker:I started thinking about the pilgrimages
that I've been on in my life,
Speaker:and I was trying to remember what were
they like? What was that experience like?
Speaker:And I think this is important
because we often forget that
Speaker:pilgrimage is a kind of altered state.
It's different than your normal life.
Speaker:And so we can expect a month defined by
Speaker:being a pilgrim to be perhaps
a little bit differently.
Speaker:So time might move differently.
Speaker:I think this is one reason why
I kept getting this image of
Speaker:transversing,
Speaker:an aspect of your life or this
sort of long journey or movement,
Speaker:that we're going to be different
at the end of this month,
Speaker:because time's going to move differently.
Speaker:There might be times where
it feels really fast,
Speaker:and then also times where it really
slows down and maybe stretches out.
Speaker:And just to be aware of almost the
fluidity of time and to be in relationship
Speaker:with that. When we are in pilgrimage,
Speaker:we are especially attuned to
synchronicity and serendipity.
Speaker:So I really invite you this month to
notice what synchronicities are coming in
Speaker:to notice the serendipities,
Speaker:to notice the messengers that are coming
in for you because I just have this
Speaker:feeling that there's going to be
almost these waypoints of insight
Speaker:this month that are really going to
help you navigate the rest of the year
Speaker:ahead. And knowing that
Speaker:everything is coming in
with a message of healing,
Speaker:that everything is helping you
on your journey of becoming.
Speaker:And that no matter what,
Speaker:just for having decided to see
this month as a pilgrimage,
Speaker:your life as a pilgrimage,
Speaker:you will not come back the same
person as you were when you left.
Speaker:And that is a relief, that's
a blessing, that's an opening,
Speaker:that's a newness in your life,
Speaker:that is fresh energy
that can come in through
Speaker:being willing to devote
yourself to this pilgrim path.
Speaker:And also reminding yourself that
pilgrimages can be rigorous,
Speaker:that at the end of the day,
Speaker:taking some time to rub your
feet and to have a good meal and
Speaker:to care for yourself and
your body as you are on
Speaker:this greater pilgrimage called life.
Speaker:Because we need to be able to keep moving,
Speaker:to keep committing to this journey,
Speaker:to have the strength to get
up the next day and making
Speaker:these small moments to
nourish yourself and
Speaker:congratulate yourself and really
honor yourself for being brave enough.
Speaker:You were brave enough to come
here and you are brave enough to
Speaker:continue along the
pilgrim path of your life.
Speaker:And that is no small feat.
Speaker:So I have loved doing these
monthly intuitive readings,
Speaker:and it's just warmed my heart so much to
hear how much they've been helpful for
Speaker:you. So if this reading resonated for you,
Speaker:I'd love to hear from you.
Speaker:Leave me a voice message over
at asiasuler.com/remember,
Speaker:you can leave me a voice note there.
I love receiving your voice notes.
Speaker:It delights me so much to hear that
these have been landing with you,
Speaker:that you have been taking these readings
and really making them your own and
Speaker:really using them as guides to
navigate the incredible life
Speaker:path that you are on.
Speaker:If this podcast is resonating with you,
if it brings something to your life,
Speaker:it would mean the world to me. If you
gave this podcast a rating, a review,
Speaker:or shared it with a fellow
sensitive or a fellow seeker in your
Speaker:life. This is my favorite way to
keep connecting with people in this
Speaker:world.
Speaker:And the community that we're building
here is just so special to my heart.
Speaker:So thank you again for your presence.
Speaker:Thank you for the pilgrim
that you are in this life.
Speaker:It gives me so much heart strength and
comfort knowing that we are on this
Speaker:pilgrimage together at this time,
in this way, on this planet.
Speaker:It really means so much. And so as
you step into this month of March,
Speaker:as you open your heart to whatever it is,
Speaker:the pilgrimage of your life is showing
you this month, may it help you remember,
Speaker:help you resource,
Speaker:help you connect back into
that thing that helps us,
Speaker:that thing that never forsakes us,
Speaker:that thing that is a guiding light on our
journeys, no matter how long they are.
Speaker:And that thing is
remembering why you're here.
