Latest / Digital Soulspace - Musings Of The Metaphysical, Magical, And Nonsensical / The Digital Soulspace Weekly Wrap-Up - Week Ending October 17th, 2026

Transcript

The Digital Soulspace Weekly Wrap-Up - Week Ending October 17th, 2026 · Digital Soulspace - Musings Of The Metaphysical, Magical, And Nonsensical

• 0:37
  SPEAKER_00: Hey everybody, welcome to another episode of Digital Soul Space the Week in Review.
• 0:44
  SPEAKER_00: We are so glad you're here listening to us, and it has been a huge change on Digital SoulSpace.
• 0:51
  SPEAKER_00: We are on our very own self-hosted server, and we couldn't be happier.
• 0:58
  SPEAKER_00: You often hear the expressions things don't happen to you, they happen for you.
• 1:04
  SPEAKER_00: And this was the perfect example of that kind of thing going on because we had been on another hosting platform for wow four years.
• 1:18
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, because we migrated in October after opening up in January of 2022, and we had been with this platform for almost four years, and we decided to switch.
• 1:32
  SPEAKER_00: Well, it wasn't so much our decision as uh getting booted off after some inaccurate descriptions of how our new pricing plan would be.
• 1:46
  SPEAKER_00: And when I indicated to them I would probably ask for a refund, they just shut us down.
• 1:52
  SPEAKER_00: So, anyway, enough of that.
• 1:54
  SPEAKER_00: We don't want to connect to that old energy anymore.
• 1:57
  SPEAKER_00: We are on a new self-hosted platform where we have full creative freedom to do whatever we want.
• 2:04
  SPEAKER_00: So that means everything is in alignment with digital soul space and how we originally intended it to look like almost five years ago.
• 2:14
  SPEAKER_00: And that's hard to believe that it's been five years since we uh started Digital SoulSpace in January of 2022, and in January of 2027, there you go, our fifth year anniversary.
• 2:28
  SPEAKER_00: So, yeah, the site looks how we would envisioned it to look like so many years ago, and we're talking we have witch flying across the moon now.
• 2:43
  SPEAKER_00: Um, in some of our screens that they're shooting stars in the feed that run through the background as you're scrolling, it just feels mystical.
• 2:52
  SPEAKER_00: We have fall leaves flying around, we have little surprises that uh you're you'll be happy to see when they actually happen to you.
• 3:03
  SPEAKER_00: We have chat rooms that transport you to another place because the wallpaper, for example, in our circle chat room looks like Stonehenge.
• 3:15
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, and it's it's so wonderful because at night it gets dark in the chat room, depending on your location.
• 3:23
  SPEAKER_00: It actually checks and says, Hey, what time is it in my in South Florida for Mike?
• 3:29
  SPEAKER_00: And it says, Oh, it's nighttime there.
• 3:31
  SPEAKER_00: So we're gonna put in the nighttime view of this wallpaper with complete with stars.
• 3:38
  SPEAKER_00: The moons on digital soul space are always reflecting the current phase of the moon, whether you're on the home screen, the welcome screen, or in the chat room of that same name, the moon lounge.
• 3:52
  SPEAKER_00: Our moons always reflect the current phase of the moon.
• 3:55
  SPEAKER_00: So just it's just an amazing space.
• 3:57
  SPEAKER_00: It feels mystical, the purples, the dark colors, the um little things, the little Easter eggs, as they call them in the IT world, floating around on our site.
• 4:10
  SPEAKER_00: It's just digital soul space is now incredible, incredible, just incredible.
• 4:15
  SPEAKER_00: So, yeah, we are on our new site, digitalsoul space.org, the same name.
• 4:21
  SPEAKER_00: For a while, we were running both sites in parallel as we migrated and made sure everybody is uh was there.
• 4:28
  SPEAKER_00: But the good news is if you were a member on our previous platform, your account got migrated, your profile details and your profile photo got migrated.
• 4:38
  SPEAKER_00: The only thing you got to do is log in with a new password, and that's it, because we can't migrate passwords.
• 4:44
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and as always, the site is free, we are donation-based, and we don't sell your data.
• 4:50
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, privacy is a must, and we don't advertise, we don't have any ads on the site.
• 4:55
  SPEAKER_00: And how do we do that?
• 4:56
  SPEAKER_00: Well, because we're donation-based, and whatever uh you decide to donate, if you decide to donate, is always appreciated.
• 5:05
  SPEAKER_00: Since we don't have membership plans anymore on our new platform, the way to donate is through donor box, and you can find that link on our welcome page or on our main menu.
• 5:17
  SPEAKER_00: If you click the hamburger menu in the upper left-hand corner, we also have a home screen app, and this home screen app looks just like an app you would download from the app store.
• 5:30
  SPEAKER_00: The only difference is it's free and it didn't cost us anything to make, and it really has amazing functionality.
• 5:38
  SPEAKER_00: It's so easy to navigate digital soul space right now.
• 5:42
  SPEAKER_00: A lot of people complained that on our old platform it was hard to navigate the site, and now it's so easy.
• 5:49
  SPEAKER_00: We look a lot like Facebook.
• 5:51
  SPEAKER_00: So if you're comfortable with navigating with Facebook, we look a lot like Facebook, only better because we're built with good vibes, good intentions.
• 5:59
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so this week was a really big week uh besides uh our migration.
• 6:06
  SPEAKER_00: If you are familiar with Donald Patak, he uh is our resident sidereal astrologer on digital soul space, and he is so generous and he puts so much work into giving us updates through the course of the week.
• 6:20
  SPEAKER_00: So, like for example, this week, Pluto was going station direct in Capricorn, described beautifully as a pause, as a pause, a moment to check before you move forward.
• 6:37
  SPEAKER_00: Pluto teaches transformation, facing wounds.
• 6:41
  SPEAKER_00: We all gotta do that, right?
• 6:43
  SPEAKER_00: Reclaiming what is felt stolen or lost.
• 6:48
  SPEAKER_00: And then we had Capricorn, and Capricorn, the aim is integrity, defining your standards, and then actually living up to them.
• 6:57
  SPEAKER_00: The North Node also moved into Capricorn, and Mercury stepped into Libra to open the mind and find common ground.
• 7:04
  SPEAKER_00: The Sun and Virgo made a curious little sextile to Jupiter and Leo, and Mars and Cancer tried Saturn retrograde in Pisces, which is basically permission to call self-care spiritual work, which it is, right?
• 7:20
  SPEAKER_00: Uh then we had our moon slipping into Sagittarius, and the lesson there is trusting yourself enough to step out of the familiar.
• 7:29
  SPEAKER_00: And Donald describes all these things so wonderfully on our site several times a week.
• 7:36
  SPEAKER_00: Now, in our tarot space, which we uh learn all about tarot through getting a card pulled each and every day, going through the entire spread.
• 7:46
  SPEAKER_00: Uh Tarot gave us a run through the middle of the cups, and what a stretch it was.
• 7:51
  SPEAKER_00: The five of cups with its cloaked figure mourning three spilled cups, while two perfectly good ones stand behind them unnoticed.
• 8:00
  SPEAKER_00: Don't we all do that in life?
• 8:02
  SPEAKER_00: We we just don't notice the good.
• 8:04
  SPEAKER_00: The six of cups with children exchanging flowers and golden cups, all sweetness and memory.
• 8:10
  SPEAKER_00: The seven, where the figure is drawn in silhouette on purpose, faceless, because identity gets forged through your choices, and they haven't chosen yet.
• 8:21
  SPEAKER_00: The eight of cups, where someone walks away from a stack of cups that aren't broken or spilled, just incomplete, just with one missing from the top row, and that's kind of what we did with digital social space.
• 8:33
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, with our previous platform, we just walked away.
• 8:36
  SPEAKER_00: Well, kind of pushed, but same effect.
• 8:40
  SPEAKER_00: The gap is the actual whole story of what's missing and what's remaining, and then the nine of cups with arms folded, nine cups gleaming in a perfect arc.
• 8:52
  SPEAKER_00: And then we also had two reader questions this week.
• 8:55
  SPEAKER_00: Um, one from a member preparing for a heart procedure, and then the community showed up in comments for that, and so we, of course, uh wish our member good healing, rapid healing with that procedure, and good news too.
• 9:13
  SPEAKER_00: We have a really cool feature on digital soul space.
• 9:17
  SPEAKER_00: We have a little fairy we call adaj.
• 9:21
  SPEAKER_00: And there's some debate uh how to pronounce that.
• 9:24
  SPEAKER_00: It's spelled A D A G E, and that stands for Automated Divine and Guidance Engine.
• 9:33
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, I made up that name.
• 9:36
  SPEAKER_00: So Adaj is our little fairy, our little uh our little fairy, and what you can do is you can post a question in the tarot space and push the button that says ask Adaj.
• 9:50
  SPEAKER_00: And there's a little spell that gets recited every time you push that button.
• 9:56
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm not going to disclose what that spell is, but it this is an AI generated post.
• 10:03
  SPEAKER_00: However, this AI literally in the code has to say this spell, and when it does, it generates a response to you.
• 10:11
  SPEAKER_00: And I have to say, our members overwhelmingly, overwhelmingly love the answers from this AI tarot card reading where it pulls three cards, the center card being the dominant energy.
• 10:28
  SPEAKER_00: This is how I read cards myself, and so Adaj follows that, calls out into all directions of time and space with its little spell, its little incantation to attract spirits' attention for this reading.
• 10:44
  SPEAKER_00: It's not just AI, it's so much more than that.
• 10:48
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so then our spooky side of the house of digital soul space was was really thriving.
• 10:54
  SPEAKER_00: In paranormal, the security camera clip uh from the haunted pub was uh pretty cool.
• 11:03
  SPEAKER_00: Baby carriage sitting still in an empty room, then lurching and rolling all by itself.
• 11:08
  SPEAKER_00: You gotta see that.
• 11:10
  SPEAKER_00: Our paranormal posts uh that come every week come from a radio station or a radio show rather, um called Ooh, I just had a brain freeze.
• 11:25
  SPEAKER_00: I hate when that happens.
• 11:26
  SPEAKER_00: Um, this is my mom's favorite Coast to Coast AM, thank you.
• 11:32
  SPEAKER_00: My mom's favorite radio program that she used to listen to in the middle of the night, uh Coast to Coast AM.
• 11:40
  SPEAKER_00: And it's just the kind of radio show they even broadcast from a s uh they uh from a spooky location in the middle of the desert, and my mom would listen to it at night, and it if you've ever had the opportunity to listen to it and hear the callers that call in, it really uh sends tingles down your spine.
• 12:00
  SPEAKER_00: And so we love to share their uh their what's called um SMS feeds.
• 12:07
  SPEAKER_00: Um I'm sorry, RS.
• 12:09
  SPEAKER_00: SMS is text message, RSS feeds.
• 12:12
  SPEAKER_00: Wow, my mind is uh jumbled this m Saturday morning.
• 12:18
  SPEAKER_00: RSS feeds are uh feeds on the internet, news feeds that you can subscribe to.
• 12:23
  SPEAKER_00: And we like to share that information they put out there in recognition of my mom.
• 12:29
  SPEAKER_00: Ooh, I don't know if you can hear the clock on my wall that is chiming dung.
• 12:35
  SPEAKER_00: Anyway, uh coast to coast am in honor of my mom.
• 12:40
  SPEAKER_00: She loved that show, and they just have the coolest uh paranormal and metaphysical stories.
• 12:47
  SPEAKER_00: So check them out.
• 12:48
  SPEAKER_00: We post a link every week from their news feed, and it's just so cool.
• 12:55
  SPEAKER_00: I I watched the video of the girl in the stable the other day petting the horse.
• 13:00
  SPEAKER_00: That was amazing.
• 13:03
  SPEAKER_00: That was really amazing.
• 13:04
  SPEAKER_00: Elsewhere on digital social space, we talked about modern shamanism and about a member that just got a brand new drum and it is gorgeous.
• 13:16
  SPEAKER_00: And how we don't just hold a drum, how we it's actually yeah, yeah, we just don't hold the drum.
• 13:29
  SPEAKER_00: We actually hold everything that the drum represents, that circle.
• 13:34
  SPEAKER_00: So we hold the sun, the moon, the earth, the very first sound.
• 13:40
  SPEAKER_00: I just our members went crazy talking about drums and the new drum that came in, and I it really inspired me because I have to start drumming again.
• 13:50
  SPEAKER_00: I I drummed recently in the house, but I have to do another drumming session.
• 13:53
  SPEAKER_00: I used to do it very often.
• 13:55
  SPEAKER_00: Um, my husband uh um engages in modern shamanism, he's uh indigenous himself, he's got a large uh percentage of indigenous DNA, almost 25%, I believe.
• 14:09
  SPEAKER_00: And so he really is connected to shamanism and modern shamanism, as I like to call it.
• 14:18
  SPEAKER_00: Um, the magic of nature gave us a lot of dragonflies, a magic of nature being one of our spaces that we have on digital soul space, and it gave us a lot of dragonflies and the meanings behind dragonflies, and personally, dragonflies mean a lot to me.
• 14:32
  SPEAKER_00: They have been messengers uh from spirit, and so it was actually my post that I'm speaking of where suddenly in my backyard we had this um just emergence of dragonflies day and night.
• 14:50
  SPEAKER_00: They were everywhere and they were so beautiful, and there were species that I'm not familiar with, but they were showing up everywhere, and I find it very interesting that they would show up in such numbers while we have this huge change on digital soul space going on, and a huge architectural change in my own home because our windows were really, really old.
• 15:13
  SPEAKER_00: And if you've ever gone through a hurricane with old windows, it's not fun.
• 15:18
  SPEAKER_00: And even though you may have shutters and accordion shutters at that, you still gotta pull them open, and sometimes they get stuck and everything, and it kind of gives you a certain level of anxiety during hurricane season, and so uh we did get uh hurricane windows or impact windows is what they're called here, and feels so much better.
• 15:41
  SPEAKER_00: The house just feels completely different, and so all these changes happening, uh strengthening changes, right?
• 15:48
  SPEAKER_00: Changes that bring brand bring around strength, and it happened with digital soul space, it happened in my home.
• 15:55
  SPEAKER_00: So, really, really excited um to see what comes of that.
• 16:00
  SPEAKER_00: And the dragonflies showed up, so that was really interesting.
• 16:04
  SPEAKER_00: They've always shown up during significant uh parts of my life.
• 16:10
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so like I said, our new home keeps getting more and more amazing on digital soul space.
• 16:18
  SPEAKER_00: We have uh all sorts of new features online, not just the look and feel, but like for example, we're uh toying with the idea of having spiritual games on the system, and and so one of the things I wanted to do was you know how people like to post those word searches, and they say, Yeah, the first three words you find in the word search, define what your day is gonna be like or your week or this year.
• 16:49
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and I love those because I love how you you know our higher self helps direct our attention to find uh these words in this word searches.
• 16:58
  SPEAKER_00: So we made an electronic version of the word search so it comes up as a post, but you can interact with it.
• 17:06
  SPEAKER_00: You can drag your finger across the screen and you can find those three words, and they automatically post to the comments of that post, and that's really cool and lets everyone know what the three words you found were, and it highlights them for you afterwards.
• 17:25
  SPEAKER_00: So really cool stuff there uh to do on digital soul space, and so we're looking at finding other games you can play that are spiritual in nature on digital soul space, and again, as I mentioned, we have all sorts of little Easter eggs on the site site, things that will pop up when you don't expect it and kind of make your experience even more interesting.
• 17:48
  SPEAKER_00: So come and visit us, digitalsoulspace.org.
• 17:52
  SPEAKER_00: That is our weekend review, the major highlights of what went on in our uh site besides the move, and besides the new app, home screen app, our new platform, it's just all good, and we're so excited.
• 18:08
  SPEAKER_00: We are also advertising again on Instagram, uh, set up a tiny little ad there to try to get people on board to our um new home.
• 18:19
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm just so grateful for all the members that uh traveled with us to our new home and uh just made sure that they stayed connected.
• 18:33
  SPEAKER_00: And again, if you were a previous member, your profile got um migrated, and so you didn't lose anything.
• 18:41
  SPEAKER_00: All your posts are there and everything.
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_00: The only thing uh that you need to do is change your password because passwords do not migrate.
• 18:50
  SPEAKER_00: So with that, I bid you farewell.
• 18:52
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for sticking around this extra long version of the Digital Soul Space Podcast, our week in review.
• 19:02
  SPEAKER_00: Have a blessed week, a blessed Sawin if you don't hear from you again, and a wonderful all hollows eve.
• 19:10
  SPEAKER_00: Blessed be people, bye bye.