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The Earth desires your feeling.
She desires your tears.
Speaker:She desires you exactly as you are.
Speaker:And so you're bringing more of yourself
into this world through simply allowing
Speaker:yourself to
Speaker:feel.
Speaker:Hello
Speaker:and welcome back to
Remember Why You Are Here,
Speaker:a podcast for seekers and sensitives
where you can relax, receive,
Speaker:reconnect to yourself and remember
the most important thing of all why
Speaker:you're here. I'm Asia
Suler, author, teacher,
Speaker:Earth Intuitive,
Speaker:and this is our reading
for the month of November.
Speaker:So every month I tune into an
intuitive reading for the month ahead,
Speaker:picking a card for this month ahead.
Speaker:And the card for this month was a really
powerful one. It's a really potent one.
Speaker:And it's making me feel that
Speaker:there's going to be some
big stuff up in November,
Speaker:but big stuff coming up
in the internal landscape,
Speaker:and coming up so that big openings
can come in on the other side.
Speaker:So this month we're having
themes of emotional cleansing and
Speaker:clarity up for us as well as
releasing built up charges,
Speaker:integration before a peaceful plateau.
Speaker:and spiritual catch up.
Speaker:So let's go ahead and get into the
s for this month of November,: Speaker:For this month's reading,
Speaker:I chose a card from the SOOTH oracle deck,
Speaker:a beautiful deck by the artist Rima
Staines with writing by my beloved friend
Speaker:and the incredible
author Sylvia Linsteadt.
Speaker:The Oracle Deck SOOTH is
Speaker:kind of a journey unto itself.
Speaker:I've always loved that
they named this deck SOOTH.
Speaker:Sooth comes from an old
English word that means truth,
Speaker:like as in soothsayer.
Speaker:And this word also comes from an
older European verb that meant to
Speaker:be. So there's this aspect
here with this deck of,
Speaker:what Rima and Sylvia
were tuning into here,
Speaker:is connecting to the truth of existence.
Speaker:This truth that really allows us
to recognize where we're at in our
Speaker:being, but also to speak into
being, to write into being,
Speaker:our futures.
Speaker:So the card that I picked for this month
is our Lady of the Thousand Waters.
Speaker:On the circular card, there is
a woman shrouded in a blue veil,
Speaker:crying, overflowing waterfall
of tears through her fingertips.
Speaker:And there's two vessels, one
upwards and one downwards,
Speaker:in these gestures of both
receiving and letting
Speaker:go. It's truly a gorgeous card.
Speaker:The card itself in this deck
is one of the nine houses.
Speaker:The houses in this deck are
described as still points,
Speaker:as sanctuaries for the seeker
after many miles in the forest.
Speaker:So there's this sense of the houses in
this deck being this benevolent resting
Speaker:place, this place where you can
get what you need to keep going.
Speaker:They are places of comfort, healing,
Speaker:and they reflect back to you the bigger
picture of the landscape that you're
Speaker:moving through.
Speaker:So this is how the creators of
this deck describe the suit of
Speaker:houses. And so this card,
Speaker:our Lady of the Thousand
Waters, is one of these houses.
Speaker:And Sylvia's writing for this
description was just so beautiful that I
Speaker:wanted to go ahead and read the whole
thing because I just always find
Speaker:Sylvia's writing to be
absolutely transporting.
Speaker:So wherever you're at,
Speaker:get comfortable as we sink into this
reading for our Lady of a Thousand Waters.
Speaker:So I'm going to read her description,
which is part pros, part poem,
Speaker:part landscape that you step into. And
then I'm going to talk about my reading,
Speaker:what I picked up on, what
came in through my guides,
Speaker:the messages that are inherent
in this truly beautiful card.
Speaker:Our Lady of the Thousand Waters.
Speaker:There is a valley just beyond
the ones you know. In it,
Speaker:the ground shines with water
that flows from a thousand to
Speaker:underground springs. The water
is cold around your ankles.
Speaker:It flows up out of total
darkness between smooth stones.
Speaker:It runs in a thousand silver streams.
Speaker:The sun is just beginning to rise and
suddenly the ground all around you is
Speaker:blinding with the light
that shines off the water.
Speaker:You make your way up the valley through
the shallow silver water to the base of
Speaker:a low rocky cliff where a small stone
chapel has been fashioned around the
Speaker:thousandth spring. Here the water
gushes up from a stone cleft,
Speaker:clear and cold as winter. It
pours into a smooth edged basin,
Speaker:then out into a little
channel into the daylight.
Speaker:Our lady of the 1000 waters sits
softly, one hand on the vessel,
Speaker:one hand in the water, listening.
Speaker:Day and night she watches and
she listens to what sings up out
Speaker:of darkness. The amphora
is as old as daybreak.
Speaker:It is the vessel of returning to life,
Speaker:the vessel of filling up again after
loss, the vessel of miraculous fish,
Speaker:the vessel of grieving, the
vessel of the tears of the world,
Speaker:the vessel of the poetic speech of bards,
the vessel of the land's guardians,
Speaker:the vessel of deepest emotion, the
vessel of the heart purified by weeping,
Speaker:the vessel of lifegiving rain,
Speaker:the vessel that ends drought and wildfire,
Speaker:the vessel that cools rage and
brings peace again to places of war.
Speaker:'What grief...' she says to you
as you approach her, pouring cool,
Speaker:sweet water over your hands and feet,
Speaker:'have you been carrying for too
long because it hasn't felt safe to
Speaker:cry?'' And what joy...' she says,
Speaker:placing the jug into your arm as
tenderly as if it were an infant child,
Speaker:'have you locked away as only a memory,
that longs to be a living spring?'
Speaker:Go walk in my waters, drink of
my waters, bathe in my waters,
Speaker:weep in my waters, become my waters,
Speaker:until you are at peace.
Speaker:You can do nothing but obey her,
Speaker:for her words carry a compassion
so tender and so soft,
Speaker:there is nothing hard left in you.
Speaker:You carry the amphora against your
body. It is as heavy as a small child.
Speaker:You dip the rim of the vessel in
and bring it to your mouth to drink.
Speaker:The tears come then, sudden and
sure-flowing down your face and neck,
Speaker:down upon your hands, down where
the sun has touched the water.
Speaker:They come for a long time,
Speaker:pouring through you without
any attempt to slow them.
Speaker:Where they touch the water, it
receives them like little minnows,
Speaker:like fish of great import,
like life returned."
Speaker:So I hope in that reading
of those beautiful words,
Speaker:you were able to feel your connection
with Our Lady of the Thousand Waters.
Speaker:Maybe she came to you, maybe she
spoke to you through those words,
Speaker:spoke to you through the lines
that stood out to you that were
Speaker:limbed like a leaf in sunshine.
Pay attention to that.
Speaker:Pay attention to whatever it is
that came forward for you in that
Speaker:piece of poetry.
Speaker:And now I want to move into
my reading based on this card,
Speaker:what came through for me,
what my guides showed me,
Speaker:and what we can look at as a map
through the landscape of this month
Speaker:ahead.
Speaker:There was this immediate feeling when I
picked this card of this invitation this
Speaker:month to embrace what I'm calling
the poetic or imaginal realm,
Speaker:this realm of rich creation and artistry
Speaker:and poetry, these realms that are
governed by emotion and feeling,
Speaker:realms that we cannot access
unless we are willing to feel,
Speaker:unless we are willing to
have our deep emotions.
Speaker:So there's a call this month for
allowing yourself to go there,
Speaker:that there's creative fertility in
these places of deep emotion and deep
Speaker:feeling,
Speaker:and that this realm that I'm
calling the imaginal realm
Speaker:or the poetic realm,
Speaker:that this is actually really
important for any kind of creation.
Speaker:And our passport into this
realm is being willing to
Speaker:feel.
Speaker:There is a sense with this month
that we are in a little bit of a
Speaker:transitional time,
Speaker:like this transitional watery month in the
Speaker:midst of this longer journey,
in the midst of this hike.
Speaker:So this sense of being en route,
Speaker:like you have been building
something this fall.
Speaker:You have been working
on something this fall,
Speaker:and you're still moving towards this.
Speaker:And yet this month there's this
sanctuary in the midst of this
Speaker:hike, in the midst of this climb. And
this is a little bit of a respite.
Speaker:And it might not feel like
a respite at all moments
Speaker:because there is this deep emotionality
piece that wants to move through you,
Speaker:these deeper tides of feeling
that are coming up as energy,
Speaker:as charges, that are wanting to be felt,
Speaker:that are actually giving you deeper
access to the imaginal realm,
Speaker:to the poetic realm, if you
allow yourself to feel it,
Speaker:if you allow the waters
to move through you.
Speaker:There's a sense of a glimmer of a
project or an idea that has been
Speaker:carrying you and is going
to continue to carry you on.
Speaker:And while that is going
to remain to be true,
Speaker:that this glimmer is going to
carry you on, at the same time,
Speaker:acknowledge the parts of you that want
to rush and then give yourself permission
Speaker:to rest. Give yourself permission to
feel, give yourself permission to emote.
Speaker:There will be time in this month
of feeling and respite for you to
Speaker:take stock of all you've
done, how far you've come,
Speaker:to really embrace that and see that,
Speaker:and be able to reflect back
with tenderness on all the
Speaker:big transitions that you've moved through
to get yourself to this point in time.
Speaker:And there is...
Speaker:while I say this is a time of
respite and inviting stillness and
Speaker:inviting yourself into this process
of allowing deep feeling to move
Speaker:through you, there's also
a movement to this month,
Speaker:but it's the movement of water. It's
the idea of stillness and motion.
Speaker:It's like allowing the inner movement,
Speaker:this inner movement of the inner tides,
Speaker:and that will create so much space and
so much outer movement in your life,
Speaker:if you are willing to make the space
and the time for that this month.
Speaker:There is a sense of a spiritual
transition happening at this
Speaker:time. There's something going on
behind the scenes inside of you,
Speaker:in your deeper recesses of yourself,
Speaker:the caves within you, the thousand
springs within you that want to flow.
Speaker:And there's an emotional processing
that always goes along with spiritual
Speaker:transition. So yes,
Speaker:this is going to be a
month of emotional release,
Speaker:of cleansing waters,
Speaker:of feeling emotions and allowing
emotions to flow through you.
Speaker:There's this thing with emotion
where oftentimes we feel emotion
Speaker:and with the feeling of the emotion,
we can get really focused on,
Speaker:hyper-focused on, attached to,
the story with the emotion:
Speaker:I'm feeling this way because of this.
I'm feeling this way and it means this.
Speaker:I'm feeling this way and I need to do
something about it with X, y, or Z.
Speaker:But there's an invitation
this month to just feel the
Speaker:feelings.
Speaker:And the way to do this is to
literally turn your attention
Speaker:inwards and notice it as
a charge within your body.
Speaker:Charge is not negative, it's not
positive, it's just a charge.
Speaker:And to feel it like an
electrical storm or like waters
Speaker:moving through you this month. What is
the sensation of movement within you?
Speaker:What does it feel like?
Can you name the texture?
Speaker:Can you name the density or the weight?
Speaker:Taking some of the judgment and
some of the story out of it,
Speaker:can you be with the feeling?
Speaker:Be with it like the feeling
of water moving through
Speaker:tributary or the feeling
of water over your hands.
Speaker:Can you be with your emotions
and your feelings in that way?
Speaker:So much can happen for us and our
lives when we're willing to just
Speaker:be with what we're feeling.
Speaker:And a lot of what we
experience as blockages
Speaker:is actually our inability
to just feel the feeling,
Speaker:to just feel the charge, to cry the tears,
Speaker:to allow it to be there.
Speaker:And so while this kind of inner
work doesn't always look glamorous,
Speaker:unless you're a glamorous crier,
Speaker:some of you might be
glamorous criers out there,
Speaker:but unless you're not a glamorous crier
- I don't think I'm one of them - this
Speaker:inner work, right, it can
feel dense, it can feel heavy.
Speaker:It's like I want to move ahead.
Speaker:Why do I have to sit here with
the waters and allow them to be?
Speaker:But this work is so important.
It's what cleanses you.
Speaker:It's what opens you up for the spiritual
transitions that are wanting to
Speaker:happen now. I mentioned that this
month is one of spiritual catch up,
Speaker:and this is part of how we catch up.
Speaker:When we are able to sit down and give
ourselves the space to feel the feelings,
Speaker:to allow the emotions to come up,
Speaker:whether they're new or
whether they're very old,
Speaker:we are giving our spirit time
to catch up so that all of us is
Speaker:integrated and ready for what comes next.
Speaker:There is this sense of pent up
energies that want to be released.
Speaker:Maybe you've been going really fast this
fall, you've been getting a lot done,
Speaker:you've been moving ahead.
Speaker:Maybe there's just a lot that happened
for you this year and it feels like,
Speaker:whoa, this is a lot for
me to process right now.
Speaker:There's this sense of
actually this opportunity,
Speaker:like a stream flowing,
Speaker:where you can come and
feel the unfelt feelings,
Speaker:to allow this excess charge to
move up and out and give it to the
Speaker:stream and allow it to be carried
away. These pent up energies,
Speaker:they cause tension and stress and
the feeling of blockage inside us.
Speaker:And so it's a really helpful
thing to allow them to come out,
Speaker:to allow them to move.
And when we do this,
Speaker:we reach moments of emotional
clarity. Have you ever felt this?
Speaker:Like after you cry,
Speaker:you're so overwhelmed
before. I'm overwhelmed.
Speaker:The charge is so big, confused.
You cry and then you have clarity.
Speaker:You needed to let that cry out.
You needed to let the waters move.
Speaker:And so there's this sense of if
you're allowing the emotions to be
Speaker:and reminding yourself that there's
nothing to be afraid of here - it's a good
Speaker:thing to feel, it's a good
thing to feel your emotions,
Speaker:it's a good thing to allow the thousand
waters move through you - when you
Speaker:do, when you allow that, then you receive
emotional clarity on the other side.
Speaker:And I do feel that
there's moments of like,
Speaker:you're going to have moments this
month of like peering into a crystal
Speaker:clear, still jug of water.
Speaker:Where it's almost like
divinatory moments of,
Speaker:in the midst of allowing the
feelings to move through you,
Speaker:of seeing with clarity where you're at,
Speaker:what you need, what's
important, what it all meant.
Speaker:So allowing the emotions to move through
is going to give you those moments of
Speaker:clarity.
Speaker:We are really deepening this month
into the guidepost of our emotions,
Speaker:that emotions can be trusted,
that they're here to guide us,
Speaker:that they're not something to be
afraid of, but something to be felt,
Speaker:something to allow to move
through us like water.
Speaker:And I want to remind you,
Speaker:and this was something that came
in really strongly with my guides,
Speaker:this reminder that you have the tools
to meet whatever it is that's going
Speaker:to come up, that you have the tools to
meet the feelings, to meet the bigness,
Speaker:to meet the 1000 springs.
You have the tools,
Speaker:you have the tools to feel it. And
that's why it's coming up right now,
Speaker:to be felt and to be released.
Speaker:In this time of allowing the
Speaker:waters to move, allowing
the feelings to flow,
Speaker:when we create this
time for emotional flow,
Speaker:it creates physical flow in our life.
Speaker:It creates a flow pattern in
the physical world around us.
Speaker:So this work is not you doing nothing.
Speaker:This work is you doing a lot
to actually create more flow,
Speaker:more potential, more momentum in
your life. But for this month,
Speaker:the theme is really this
theme of spiritual catch up,
Speaker:of letting yourself feel the things,
of figuring out where you are now,
Speaker:of feeling where you are. Now, let's
forget even about figuring out,
Speaker:just feeling it. Feel where you are now.
Speaker:There's a sense of the past few
months having been this time
Speaker:of big leaps, a lot being integrated,
Speaker:you taking new steps within those things.
Speaker:And so we're playing this spiritual
catch up this month because
Speaker:what came through for me is
that there's some sort of
Speaker:connections or opening that's
going to happen in December.
Speaker:There's sort of this fresh energy
that's coming in in December.
Speaker:So you're letting yourself catch up now.
Speaker:You're letting yourself
be in transition now,
Speaker:almost like the rain coming through
so that the sky can open up again.
Speaker:November culturally is also
a very contradictory time.
Speaker:And I want to name this really
clearly because in our bodies
Speaker:and in the body of the land,
November is a time of slowing down.
Speaker:If we were living in sync with the earth,
Speaker:with nature, this is a time in which
the crops are going back to the earth,
Speaker:in which life is going into
the underground world in
which everything is slowing
Speaker:down. We would have been slowing down too.
Speaker:And yet we live at a time in our culture
where this is often a month of gearing
Speaker:up. We're gearing up
for the holiday season,
Speaker:we're gearing up for the end of the year.
Speaker:And I just want to name that that
contradictory energy can sometimes
Speaker:feel a little crunchy.
Speaker:It can feel a little grating.
Speaker:And it's not a sign that
you're doing anything wrong.
Speaker:It's actually just a sign that we live
in a time where our calendar for the year
Speaker:does not match up with the
deeper rhythms of our bodies.
Speaker:And so I just want you to
know that this slowdown,
Speaker:there's a slowdown that
wants to happen here.
Speaker:And you might read it as a low,
Speaker:you might be reading this
slowdown as a low, but it's not.
Speaker:It's actually a deep desire
for slowness and integration.
Speaker:So remind yourself of this. If you feel
like you're having any lows this month,
Speaker:remind yourself that this is not a
low; this is my desire to be slow.
Speaker:And give yourself permission to do that.
Speaker:Because if you allow that slowness,
Speaker:if you allow yourself to feel this month,
Speaker:to allow those feelings to help
you transition to this more poetic,
Speaker:mythical, creative state,
Speaker:you'll be given the energy you need to
move ahead in whatever it is that you're
Speaker:creating or building,
Speaker:whether it's a relationship or an
endeavor or some sort of creative project.
Speaker:This is actually really
important behind-the-scenes
work happening this month.
Speaker:But we just need to be gentle
with ourselves in taking
that permission to slow
Speaker:down, to integrate, to feel the feelings,
Speaker:to allow this spiritual catch up
to happen. And, whenever we can,
Speaker:embrace the peace within the moving
energies of this month and to
Speaker:know that you are supported.
This was really important.
Speaker:Specifically this card that came
up is one of these house cards.
Speaker:It's one of these Our Lady cards.
Speaker:And so you can call on Our
Lady of a Thousand Waters.
Speaker:You can call on whoever it is
that you feel holds you and
Speaker:helps you through these times. We
are never meant to do this alone.
Speaker:It's deep spiritual tides this month,
Speaker:like deep work that is
coming up and that really,
Speaker:you're not even efforting within,
you're just allowing to move through.
Speaker:You're giving it permission
to move through you,
Speaker:but know that you can call upon
guides to hold you and help you,
Speaker:and that this is meant to
be a still point. This is
meant to be a resting point,
Speaker:a sanctuary, where you allow
the waters to flow again.
Speaker:And those waters are life-giving.
Speaker:So know that whatever you're moving
through this month, you are not alone.
Speaker:We are all moving through
deep times together.
Speaker:We're moving through deep tides.
Speaker:And this work has the
Speaker:potential to open you up
to the freshness to come,
Speaker:the perspective to come,
the healing to come.
Speaker:It is soul work. It is...
Speaker:There is beauty in the midst of
this. There's so much beauty.
Speaker:Like the gorgeous mythopoetical
description of this
Speaker:card,
Speaker:to allow what is moving through you to
Speaker:be life-giving nourishment
for this world. T
Speaker:The earth desires your feeling.
She desires your tears.
Speaker:She desires you exactly as you are.
Speaker:And that is so much of what
actually happens when we allow
Speaker:ourselves stillness, the
slowing down, the deep feeling,
Speaker:the mythopoetic realm,
Speaker:that we are becoming and living
into more of our full selves.
Speaker:We are giving more of our
full selves to this world.
Speaker:The full spectrum of all
the energies that we carry,
Speaker:all the emotions that make up
the tapestry of who we are,
Speaker:the deep creative tides, the deep
creative wells of who we are,
Speaker:are accessed through this
thing that we call emotion and
Speaker:feeling. And so you're bringing more of
yourself into this world through simply
Speaker:allowing yourself to feel. If
this reading resonated with you,
Speaker:whether you're listening at the beginning
of the month or later in the month,
Speaker:I'd love to hear from you. I'd love a
check-in. I'd be curious how you're doing,
Speaker:what's coming up for you. You can leave
a comment or head over to my website,
Speaker:asiasuler.com/remember
and leave me a voice note.
Speaker:I am still deep right now in
my sabbatical working on this
Speaker:next book,
Speaker:and it's making me really curious what's
going to come up for me this month as
Speaker:I'm engaged with this really
important creative project of mine.
Speaker:I'm super curious about the ways in which
I'm going to integrate what I've been
Speaker:learning, what I've been working on,
Speaker:whether I need to anticipate not being
able to get as much done this month and
Speaker:just be with the feelings that come
up. But after getting this card,
Speaker:I'm so convinced that
no matter what comes up,
Speaker:it is actually so important. It's
so much forward momentum for us.
Speaker:It's just that in the moment what it's
going to look like is slowing down and
Speaker:being with sensation and being with
feeling, but it's deep, it's rich,
Speaker:it's mythic terrain that
we're entering here.
Speaker:So thank you so much for
tuning into this reading for
Speaker:November, 2025. If you
are loving this podcast,
Speaker:it would mean the world to me,
like 10,000 springs of gratitude,
Speaker:if you left this podcast
a rating or review,
Speaker:wherever you listen.
Speaker:It has very much felt to
me like a way point on my
Speaker:journey of being able to sit
and sip and drink from the
Speaker:cup of what you all have proffered in
terms of your love and your support and
Speaker:your feedback.
Speaker:And it would just mean so much to me
if you took a moment to do that today.
Speaker:And know that I'm with you
as we walk into this month,
Speaker:this beginning of the close of this year.
Speaker:I can't even believe that I'm saying that.
Speaker:I can't even believe that
we're at the end of: Speaker:but this feels like it's initiating
this process that is helping us to close
Speaker:out this year. And there's
so much beauty in it,
Speaker:there's so much potential
in it, and I'm really,
Speaker:truly excited to see what
arises out of the deep
Speaker:cleansing and holding and
vessel of this month to come.
Speaker:So however this lands with you, however
the waters move through you this month,
Speaker:may they rejuvenate you.
May they bring you support.
Speaker:May they bring you nourishment. May
they bring you a poetic way of seeing,
Speaker:may they help you to remember
the vessel that you are.
Speaker:And may they help you
reconnect to that life-giving
Speaker:water, that life-giving
well that is remembering
Speaker:why you're here.
