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These energies are rising. They're
going to be on offer to you,
Speaker:and your whole task is just to create
the space where you can feel it
Speaker:and meet it.
Speaker:Hello and welcome back to
Remember Why You Are Here,
Speaker:a podcast for seekers and sensitives
where you can relax, receive,
Speaker:reconnect with yourself,
Speaker:and remember the most important
thing of all-why you're here.
Speaker:I'm Asia Suler, author,
Earth intuitive, teacher,
Speaker:and this is the intuitive
reading for October,: Speaker:There are some deep energies
up this month for sure.
Speaker:The card that I picked for this
month feels like it reflects it,
Speaker:but it's also giving us this
really beautiful place to
land in the midst of the
Speaker:depths.
Speaker:So some themes that came up for
this month were spiritual belonging,
Speaker:touching the Otherworld,
Speaker:allowing deep shifts to happen naturally,
Speaker:attuning to your longing, and
tapping into ancestral wisdom.
Speaker:So let's jump into it.
Speaker:The card that I picked this month is from
the Wild Chorus Oracle Deck by Corina
Speaker:Dross and Jo Mosser, who's a dear friend
of mine. Corina and Joe are artists,
Speaker:siblings.
Speaker:They have been using this
deck in their own practices as
Speaker:therapists and astrologers for years.
Speaker:I adore this deck. I adore
the people who created it,
Speaker:and I really wanted to use this deck
because I feel like it really has this
Speaker:Otherworldly quality to it.
Speaker:And also we're coming up on the one-year
anniversary of Hurricane Helene in our
Speaker:mountains.
Speaker:And as we take stock of
everything that has healed since
Speaker:that time and all the things that
are still working on becoming healed,
Speaker:it felt really like a special
time to highlight local
Speaker:artisans, local thinkers, local creators,
Speaker:and just absolutely love these people.
Speaker:And so the card I picked from the
Wild Chorus Oracle deck is called "You
Speaker:Belong." This card is a
beautiful card and one of
Speaker:my favorite cards in the whole deck,
Speaker:which just feels like such a
blessing to receive for this month.
Speaker:The card depicts a stone circle that
looks as if it's made out of big quartz
Speaker:boulders. It's in this
soft, gentle green wood,
Speaker:dotted with purple flowers.
Speaker:And at the center of this stone
circle are the words written in
Speaker:thread, "you belong." And the thread
that wrote those words also seems to be
Speaker:radiating outwards to each one of
the stones with these words "you
Speaker:belong" at the very center.
Speaker:This card is one of the most comforting
cards in this deck. Every time I see it,
Speaker:I just have a full body melt. I
feel so grateful when I receive it.
Speaker:It feels like such a potent card for
so many reasons to receive for this
Speaker:month.
Speaker:I'm excited to dive into what came
through for me when I picked this card and
Speaker:when I asked to channel for
our collective here. But first,
Speaker:I want to drop into the beautiful
description that goes along with this card
Speaker:that was written by Corina and Jo because
it's really just exquisite and I feel
Speaker:like it grounds the whole feeling,
the whole landscape of this card.
Speaker:So here we go: "There is nothing
here that does not know you.
Speaker:There is nothing here
that does not love you.
Speaker:You have landed in the
ultimate nervous system tonic,
Speaker:an embrace that comes from the ground
itself, the circle of the forest,
Speaker:the depths of the living world.
Speaker:This card centers your
body in relationship with
your environment and offers
Speaker:profound reassurance.
Speaker:Here's a reminder that you are
filling a you-shaped space,
Speaker:which is a necessary activity.
Let yourself relax into being."
Speaker:I loved in their description
how they talked about this card
Speaker:as an invitation to live at
the center of your world.
Speaker:So often we go about our lives with
this feeling like somehow we shouldn't
Speaker:be at the center of our own worlds. We
should be at the periphery. Other things,
Speaker:other people, should be at
the center of our own worlds.
Speaker:But there's this other reality where
if we are not at the center of our own
Speaker:worlds, our worlds have no center.
Speaker:And this is something I talk about
in my book, Mirrors in the Earth,
Speaker:the ecological necessity of
inhabiting one's own world,
Speaker:that this is how we create so
much diversity on this planet.
Speaker:And this is what makes an ecosystem
so diverse is all of the living beings
Speaker:there being willing to
simply inhabit their
Speaker:own worlds, to move from their own worlds.
Speaker:And I think this is such a beautiful
invitation as we walk into this month,
Speaker:to let yourself be the
center of your world,
Speaker:to let yourself inhabit your own world,
Speaker:to have your inner world be as
Speaker:rich and important to you
as the ways in which you
Speaker:move in the outer world.
Speaker:That's really so much at the heart of
everything that we're about to talk
Speaker:about with the reading
for this month ahead.
Speaker:So what came through really strongly
for me was this invitation to create a
Speaker:center of belonging in your world,
Speaker:like creating a stone circle in your life.
Speaker:But to be doing this
in a ritualistic place,
Speaker:to create a place to touch
in and to drop in in your
Speaker:life. You know, what this
might look like for you,
Speaker:it might be making sure
you have time every week to
Speaker:meditate or creating some
sort of literal ritual space,
Speaker:maybe someplace outside that you visit.
Speaker:But either way that you conceive
of this or you work towards this,
Speaker:the invitation is really
strong here to create some sort
Speaker:of ritual space that you
can touch in with every
Speaker:week, that you can habitually
come back to during this time.
Speaker:And what really occurred to
me in particular was thinking
Speaker:about all these stone circles
that exist across England,
Speaker:Ireland, parts of France,
Speaker:that these stone circles that
we think of in Western Europe...
Speaker:We know that these incredible stone
circles were built at a really big time
Speaker:of transition in humanity, at a time
where we, in that part of the world,
Speaker:were moving from being nomadic to being
Speaker:sedentary, to relying on
agriculture, to having fields,
Speaker:to creating settlements.
Speaker:And that these stone
circles came up at this time
Speaker:as a way to anchor what was likely
Speaker:ritual and spiritual understandings,
Speaker:storylines that existed in the landscape,
Speaker:things that were embedded in the way
in which people move through the land.
Speaker:And now, as they were at this transition
point, this great transition point,
Speaker:these stone circles start
cropping up everywhere.
Speaker:And we know for sure that this was the
time period in which they were created.
Speaker:And while we don't know for sure
why or in what way they were used,
Speaker:we do know that they were
absolutely aligned with the
Speaker:equinoxes, solstices, certain stars,
Speaker:alignments on the land and
that they were important.
Speaker:They were important at this time
of great transition for people.
Speaker:And so there's this sense
or this feeling right now,
Speaker:that there's a great
transition that's happening;
Speaker:there's a great transition that's
happening in our personal lives,
Speaker:but there's also a great transition
happening in the world around us.
Speaker:And there's this invitation to create
your own stone circle in your life,
Speaker:whatever that means to you.
Speaker:This place where you can anchor the
wisdom of everything you've gleaned so far
Speaker:in your life, you can take it with
you. This place where you can tune in,
Speaker:where you can reconnect,
Speaker:where you can step back
into your own inner world:
Speaker:these sacred spiritual places
and channels within you,
Speaker:so that you can meet the
time of transition that you
are currently in and that
Speaker:we are currently in as a world. The
phrase that came through for me was,
Speaker:"creating anchor points
in major tide-changing
Speaker:times in history." So I have no idea
what is going to happen this month
Speaker:or whether this is just part of the
greater landscape that we're in right now,
Speaker:but it feels like a big tide change.
Speaker:And I think Autumns
feel like that anyways;
Speaker:we're moving into this time of the
Otherworld when the above ground
Speaker:life is going back into the earth
where the Otherworld is more
Speaker:accessible, the veil is thin.
Speaker:And so it feels often like autumn
is a time of change that big
Speaker:changes come up, losses, letting
go, sometimes new relationships,
Speaker:old relationships being dissolved,
Speaker:that there's a transition piece
that's happening here and there's a
Speaker:really loud clarion call
for you to create these
Speaker:ritual anchor points to help
orient you in your life.
Speaker:These feel like sacred portals
into knowing yourself deeper.
Speaker:And when you know yourself deeper,
Speaker:you can even better meet
the changing of the tides,
Speaker:even better meet the changing
of the tides within you.
Speaker:And it's almost like this feeling that
came in or the imagery that came in was
Speaker:just to let the work move through you.
Speaker:That if you show up in these ritual...
Speaker:anchored ritual guiding
posts in your life,
Speaker:like the space that you make to connect
to your own inner world right now,
Speaker:that the work will just naturally happen.
Speaker:The image that I got was water
moving through an underground cavern.
Speaker:There's movement happening this month
within you, within the outer world.
Speaker:There's this sense there might be
chaos in the outer world this month,
Speaker:but even within that chaos at the same
time with these ritual anchor points,
Speaker:it's like connecting into the inner
rainbows while the outer world storms.
Speaker:It's touching into your spiritual
center and remembering that you're
Speaker:home. There's a really rich
opportunity this month for you to
Speaker:create a kind of ritual anchor
in your life that will see
Speaker:you through the times to come.
Speaker:So really think about what
would that look like for you?
Speaker:In your heart of hearts,
Speaker:like what kind of space do you
desire for your spiritual life?
Speaker:How can you carve that space out?
Speaker:It's not to say that it's
necessarily going to be easy.
Speaker:I think about the creation of these stone
circles and how many of these stones
Speaker:were quarried and moved
over vast distances
Speaker:for reasons we don't fully understand.
Speaker:But a lot of work went into
creating these ritual center points,
Speaker:these center points that were clearly
so important and so anchoring for the
Speaker:communities that created them.
Speaker:And so to ask yourself even if it's work
to create this space or time in your
Speaker:life, like what do you desire,
what is your soul desire?
Speaker:And really move towards giving yourself
permission to create those anchor
Speaker:points,
Speaker:to knowing that the work that you're
doing to connect to your inner world,
Speaker:that your inner world itself,
your spiritual sense of
belonging and landscape,
Speaker:is important.
Speaker:This is an essential part of what you're
bringing to this world and it deserves
Speaker:energy and space and time.
Speaker:And you're allowed to give yourself
permission to take that space and time.
Speaker:We are in the midst of this moment
in the wheel of the year where the
Speaker:veil is growing very thin.
Speaker:This is starting now and without fail,
Speaker:every year for me this always ends
up being such a visionary time.
Speaker:I always end up having
ancestors visit me in my dreams,
Speaker:having just wild dreams
in general, intuitions,
Speaker:new visions for my life.
Speaker:And so I want you to
embrace as well what's
Speaker:available here with the
thinning of the veil,
Speaker:and creating these ritual anchor
points for yourself will help you be
Speaker:open to the healing and transformative
energies that are streaming towards
Speaker:you now from the Otherworld. Because
there's this interesting balancing act,
Speaker:and we see it in the literal
physical manifestation of fall,
Speaker:where as the above ground, visible,
Speaker:seen world dies back into the unseen,
Speaker:the unseen begins to rise.
Speaker:And this creates this time
where the veil grows thin,
Speaker:it's possible to access the
Otherworld, the unseen world,
Speaker:the world of sentience and soul.
And we see this kind of balance too,
Speaker:as sometimes the chaos of
the outer world rises or the
Speaker:confliction or the dispersion or the
intensity of the outer world rises,
Speaker:there is this other thing
that then rises to meet that,
Speaker:which is this deep possibility
of soul connection,
Speaker:which is the center of
your self expanding.
Speaker:We aren't designed to just walk into
these times without any support.
Speaker:That's not how it works.
We walk into these times,
Speaker:these times where energies
or intensities are rising,
Speaker:and within us in order to
meet that, our center expands.
Speaker:The possibility for connecting
to our soul expands.
Speaker:And so as we witness this beautiful
Speaker:rebalancing that happens in the fall of
one energy ebbing and another rising,
Speaker:the same is happening in the
outer world and the inner world.
Speaker:And it's this sense of as the outer world
Speaker:intensifies,
Speaker:the inner world is rising and
enrichening and expanding in order to
Speaker:meet it. And I really just
want you to give yourself full
Speaker:permission this month to tend to
that because there is this sense of
Speaker:opportunities guided by the
other world this month for real
Speaker:shifts, depths and change.
Speaker:And these energies are rising.
They're going to be on offer to you,
Speaker:and your whole task is just to create
the space where you can feel it
Speaker:and meet it.
Speaker:The specific phrase that came through for
me here was "this is a time of forging
Speaker:new ritual patterns and a new sense
of stability and security within
Speaker:oneself and one's network
of spiritual belonging,
Speaker:even as the energies in the
outer world feel big." So
Speaker:this is possible,
Speaker:and I encourage you as you tune
into the energies that are here
Speaker:this month, to also
embrace your own longing.
Speaker:We forget this with the term belonging,
Speaker:that longing is part of this
word and that part of the
Speaker:whole motion of learning belonging in
this planet is also leaning into our
Speaker:longing, our sacred, sacred longing.
Speaker:Autumn is kind of this time of longing.
Speaker:Do you feel that? Like every autumn,
Speaker:there's often this tide that
comes in of longing for what
Speaker:was, but also nostalgic for what will be.
Speaker:And it's like this longing rises up to
the surface as this space is created in
Speaker:the world around us, as the leaves begin
to fall, the canopy literally opens,
Speaker:we see more of the world around us,
that we start to realize our longings,
Speaker:start to them as the sacred
embers that they are.
Speaker:And there's a reason for this. Longing
shows you the path of your soul.
Speaker:You wouldn't long for something
if it wasn't part of the
Speaker:fabric of your soul and what you
came here to experience and what you
Speaker:desire on your path of being human.
So these longings are sacred.
Speaker:They show us these scraps
of the tapestry of our soul.
Speaker:So to be aware of what
you long for this month,
Speaker:to just open your awareness of that,
to turn your attention towards that.
Speaker:Your longing is sacred.
Speaker:Your longing is bringing you
deeper into this place of soul,
Speaker:into this place of anchored
stability within yourself.
Speaker:This place of spiritual belonging.
When we follow our longings,
Speaker:it is only ever bringing us deeper
and deeper into belonging because our
Speaker:longing helps us to know ourselves,
Speaker:helps us to know who we are on
the deepest level of our being.
Speaker:There's also this piece where
we have to let ourselves belong.
Speaker:And this is something that comes
up for me in my own life that we
Speaker:might be in a community
or a network or a group,
Speaker:and everyone else in that
network or group might feel like,
Speaker:of course you belong. Of
course you're a part of this.
Speaker:But we don't feel belonging
until we allow ourselves to feel
Speaker:belonging.
Speaker:Belonging is not something that just
comes in from the outside and that we can
Speaker:automatically feel.
Speaker:Belonging could be something that
everyone else around us is oriented to and
Speaker:just assumes that we know that we belong.
Speaker:And yet it's really an
inner sense within us.
Speaker:And so creating these spiritual
anchor points for yourself this month,
Speaker:listening to the whispers
of your own longing,
Speaker:will help you create the kind of capacity
within yourself to really feel your
Speaker:belonging and to know that no
matter what space you're moving in,
Speaker:what group you are or are not a part of,
Speaker:that on a spiritual sense,
Speaker:belonging is at the very
heart of who you are.
Speaker:You are never not belonging.
Speaker:You belong to this world of the spirit.
Speaker:You belong to the Otherworld.
Speaker:You belong to your own soul.
And once you can feel that,
Speaker:belonging is everywhere you look.
Speaker:And there's one very specific place of
belonging that was also coming through
Speaker:for this month that I have to mention
as we enter this time of the Otherworld
Speaker:and the veil thinning,
Speaker:and that is belonging within
your own ancestral lineage,
Speaker:ancestral traditions.
Speaker:It is ancestral belonging
itself as a kind of anchor.
Speaker:This is an anchor that has been present
for humanity since our inception,
Speaker:has been incredibly important
to humans and human culture.
Speaker:It is something that as contemporary
humans in the western world,
Speaker:we often have fractured lineages
of - this lineage of ancestral
Speaker:remembrance and ancestral connection.
Speaker:But there's this reality where
if we can connect to ancestors,
Speaker:like this living taproot of
energy here on this planet,
Speaker:then we can always access
a sense of belonging on
Speaker:this earth and in our bodies,
Speaker:which is so much of what we're
working on in this lifetime.
Speaker:And so that is one of the energies
that's on offer this month,
Speaker:to connect to your ancestral belonging.
Speaker:And I really encourage
people in this to connect to
Speaker:the deep ancestors, to
connect to the old ancestors,
Speaker:to connect to the ancestors
whose names you don't know,
Speaker:but who were living in harmony with their
Speaker:environments,
Speaker:who had deep soulful
practices that anchored them,
Speaker:who had ritual anchors built
into their communities.
Speaker:Every single one of us has
these ancestors in our lineage.
Speaker:You don't even have to
know where they're from.
Speaker:You don't have to know their
names, but you can feel them.
Speaker:You can connect into them, you can
call them in. They want to guide you.
Speaker:They want to help you create these
kind of ritual anchor points in your
Speaker:life. You belong to
your ancestors as well.
Speaker:Your belonging there
has never been in doubt.
Speaker:And if you call upon these deeper
ancestors, they will come to support you.
Speaker:They will come to help you as
you move into this really potent
Speaker:season this fall.
Speaker:So if this is all swirling around
you in a way that feels really
Speaker:rich,
Speaker:if you're feeling that call to
connect to the Otherworld and
Speaker:have some guidance and support on
creating ritual anchors for yourself
Speaker:this fall, then definitely check out
my class Herbs for the Otherworld.
Speaker:This is by far the most popular
single class I have on my
Speaker:website.
Speaker:It is all about how to connect to
the energies that are up in fall with
Speaker:very specific ritual
Speaker:offerings and suggestions of how
to connect to your ancestors,
Speaker:how to release ghosts and old attachments,
Speaker:how to embrace the seeding
of new beginnings that
Speaker:happen in the fall.
Speaker:This is a program where I also
talk about specific plants and
Speaker:fungi that can help you embrace
and open the portal of your
Speaker:awareness this fall.
Speaker:So if you're feeling like you need
a guide or you're just excited
Speaker:about the idea of crafting ritual,
Speaker:this fall crafting ritual anchor points
that are really connected into the
Speaker:energies that are present here, definitely
check that out over on my website,
Speaker:AsiaSuler.com. It's one of the
favorite things I've ever created,
Speaker:and it blows me away every single year,
Speaker:the powerful experiences
that people have within this,
Speaker:the portals that are opened and the
anchor points that they create in
Speaker:their lives through just being willing
to be in conscious relationship with the
Speaker:Otherworld and with the energies that
come up every autumn. And yet this autumn,
Speaker:there is this sense of,
Speaker:even as these Otherworldly
energies are rising,
Speaker:the energy of transition, the
bigness of the outer world,
Speaker:that at the heart of it is this
stone circle at the center of you,
Speaker:this place where you can create this
Speaker:sanctuary of comfort and belonging,
Speaker:of connection with your own soul,
Speaker:where you can sit and be at peace.
Speaker:It really reminds me of
my times in the British
Speaker:Isles visiting some of these stone circles
where I would sit at the center and
Speaker:just receive, sit at the
center and just be and watch as
Speaker:reality ripples around me, as the veil
grows thin, as I receive downloads,
Speaker:as I'm guided, as I naturally feel
my connection to my ancestors.
Speaker:And it feels like that's the sense
of what's on offer this month is like
Speaker:create the space and then just sit
at the center of that stone circle
Speaker:and receive. Because you belong.
Speaker:You've never not belonged. You
are exactly where you need to be.
Speaker:And the invitation here is just to go
deeper into connection with your own soul
Speaker:and your own being.
Speaker:So if you do develop some ritual anchor
points and you want to share with me,
Speaker:I would love to hear about it. What space
did you make? What did you decide on?
Speaker:You can leave a comment if you're on a
platform where you can do that or leave
Speaker:me a voice note over at
AsiaSuler.com/remember,
Speaker:I have my voice notes there, and
I always love to hear from you.
Speaker:So I'll be thinking about you this
month as we step into the deep places,
Speaker:as we invite in this new
sense of belonging, home,
Speaker:stability,
Speaker:as we meet the big tides with a
Speaker:soulful strength and profound remembrance.
Speaker:And as you move into this month
and all of the big transformational
Speaker:energy that is on offer here, all of
the healing that is possible here,
Speaker:may it bring you even
closer to remembering why
Speaker:you're here.
