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Digital Soulspace Weekly Wrap-Up Ending August 18th, 2026 · Digital Soulspace - Musings Of The Metaphysical, Magical, And Nonsensical

• 0:34
  SPEAKER_00: Hello, everybody.
• 0:36
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Digital Soul Space Podcast, the week in review.
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_00: I am Mike, and I'm so glad you're here listening.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is for the week of August 11th through August 18th.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we're just a couple of days behind for the release of this episode.
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  SPEAKER_00: But first, quick the important stuff.
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  SPEAKER_00: Digital SoulSpace is an independent online metaphysical community.
• 1:01
  SPEAKER_00: That means no ads, no algorithms, and we'll never sell your data because here your privacy is an absolute must.
• 1:10
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so check us out, digitalsoulspace.org.
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  SPEAKER_00: So coming up this week in our episode, Mercury swaggers into Leo, the tarot space keeps digging through the pentacles.
• 1:25
  SPEAKER_00: And we finally settle the great candle blowing debate.
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  SPEAKER_00: Something over Columbia blinks out of existence.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, and a first anniversary that will warm you right up.
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  SPEAKER_00: Buckle in, everybody.
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  SPEAKER_00: So let's get started in Freedom Through Astrology because our resident astrologer had another packed week.
• 1:56
  SPEAKER_00: Donald Patak does an amazing job of guiding us through visible sky astrology, also known as sidereal astrology.
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  SPEAKER_00: The headline was Mercury has entered Leo.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's the planet of learning and communication, stepping onto the stage with the spotlight operator already warmed up.
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  SPEAKER_00: The lesson here is all about being brave enough to speak, brave enough to be vulnerable, and open enough to trust that other people with what you actually are thinking.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, some of us like to hold back and we don't like to say what we're actually thinking.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh before that, we had Mercury conjunct Jupiter in Cancer, which was described as an opportunity to learn to heal.
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  SPEAKER_00: Paying attention closely enough that something genuinely shifts inside.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then Mars in Gemini Squared Neptune retrograde in Pisces.
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  SPEAKER_00: A short, sharp little challenge about courage, strengthening your inner spirituality.
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  SPEAKER_00: The courage to be curious, meeting the fog of Neptune head on.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's also a fresh weekly stars and transit breakdown with the Sun, Mercury, and Venus doing the heavy lifting this week.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you like knowing what the sky is up to before it happens, that post in particular is totally your friend.
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  SPEAKER_00: Also, you can catch Donald on his website, Freedom Through Astrology.
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  SPEAKER_00: Look him up.
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  SPEAKER_00: He offers amazing readings.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now over in the Tarot Space, we have been walking straight down the Pentacles Road.
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  SPEAKER_00: The two Pentacles came first.
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  SPEAKER_00: That cheerful figure juggling two coins linked by an infinity loop.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love that loop, by the way.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that all goes on in the card while ships bob on our choppy water behind him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Balance through adaptability is the general meaning here, which is a very grown-up idea disguised as a party trick, actually, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Then the three pentacles uh we reviewed the stone mason up on his bench in the cathedral, chisel in hand, with an art architect and a monk looking at his work.
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  SPEAKER_00: That one's all about skilled collaboration and the pride of building something that outlasts you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then afterwards we did the four pentacles, the crown figure clutching four coins, one in the hand, one in the chest, one under each foot.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the question the card asks is actually a very good one.
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  SPEAKER_00: Is that security?
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  SPEAKER_00: Or is that restriction?
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  SPEAKER_00: That's such a deep question because so often we ask for abundance, and then when it comes, we're like, no, it's gonna leave, and we get all paranoid, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: And of course, after we did that four of pentacles, we did the five of pentacles, which is two figures trudging through the snow past a glowing stained glass window.
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  SPEAKER_00: Warmth and shelter right there, if only they would look up.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is my favorite card, I think, of the Pentacle Suite, and almost my favorite card of the entire uh tarot deck, actually.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love the Five of Pentacles.
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  SPEAKER_00: There was also a look at the King of Swords upright on his throne, the sword pointing skyward, the master of clear thinking, and impartial truth.
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  SPEAKER_00: Butterflies and crescent moons carved into the stone, transformation and intuition sitting quietly underneath all that logic.
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  SPEAKER_00: That King of Swords.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh wrapping up the sword suite this week.
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  SPEAKER_00: So in the witchcraft space, someone tackled a question a lot of us have quietly wondered about should we blow out a candle flame or not?
• 6:08
  SPEAKER_00: You hear never blow it out, and then you watch experience witches do it all the time.
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  SPEAKER_00: The video shared in our space right there laid out all the reasoning behind it and cleared the whole thing up nicely.
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  SPEAKER_00: So look for that post there.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um especially if it's one that's been nagging you a lot.
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  SPEAKER_00: I myself, when I blow out a candle, especially if I use it for spell magic, spirit magic or spirit candle, as I like to call it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um I always say blessed be, but I anytime I blow out a candle, I'm like blessed be and then I blow it up.
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  SPEAKER_00: Or blow it out and then blessed be.
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  SPEAKER_00: Such a weird mood today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, in the paranormal space, uh we had a group of witnesses in Columbia filmed a bright, solid-looking object hanging in the sky, exactly where nothing should actually be hanging.
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  SPEAKER_00: Of course, everybody's phones came out.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can hear the mix of laughing and nervousness, you know, in everyone's voice.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then all of a sudden, mid-frame, mid-sentence, it just vanishes completely.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that you can find in our paranormal space courtesy of the um radio show that I absolutely uh absolutely makes me think of my mom, and that's Coast to Coast Radio.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um in the numerology space, um, Amory shared a handy little site for calculating your name number, which we did in the light lounge, by the way, which was so much fun.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was a total rabbit hole to fall into.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh in the motivational space, of course, the quotes they just keep coming every day, honoring the divine feminine within you, choosing love over fear as a daily victory.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's huge for me.
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  SPEAKER_00: And a lot of people stopped on thus uh one post that said, Your tears are sacred water, let them cleanse you, not drown you.
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  SPEAKER_00: A lot of people had comments about that one, and I had an interesting experience about the divine feminine motivational coast coat post.
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  SPEAKER_00: Holy crap, I can't talk today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because uh not on that same exact day, I pulled a uh uh the queen of swords, which is all about I'm sorry, straight at the queen of pentacles, which is all about the divine feminine also.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that was really interesting.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh was it the Yeah, I think it was the was it the Queen of Pentacles?
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh crap, now I don't remember.
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  SPEAKER_00: Anyway, sorry.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think it was the Queen of Pentacles.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh anyway, uh moving forward, uh, we're we have these really um cool little features now in digital soul space.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have uh a way that you can add backgrounds to your posts by putting two exclamation posts point two exclamation marks at the end of your post.
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  SPEAKER_00: You make a last line and you put two exclamation marks and you put DSS magic spelled M-A-G-I-C-K, and you do that with another two exclamation uh marks, and what happens?
• 9:38
  SPEAKER_00: We have this little tiny job that runs in the cloud every two minutes, and it finds those posts that have that um feature, and it creates a background, and the background will reflect the current time of day and the weather from where your profile says you're from, which is super cool, and it'll also, if you do it at night, it will be a nighttime background scene with the current moon phase in the back.
• 10:07
  SPEAKER_00: So cool! I love that feature.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that's the DSS magic feature.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can also do two exclamation points, and instead of doing DSS magic, you can do DSS meme underscore and then a color or a gradient, and then two exclamation points.
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  SPEAKER_00: And again, that's at the last line of the post, and that will give you a cool little background, and that's cool for like those little status updates like Facebook has and stuff like that.
• 10:37
  SPEAKER_00: We also have the ability to download images now.
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  SPEAKER_00: Anything you see on Digital SoulSpace, if you like it and you want to download it, and it's um okay with the person who posted it, because we always want to ask permission, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: You just click the three dots and say download image.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'll give you the choice to download it as a JPEG, a PNG or other format.
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  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, really cool little um um features there.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um elsewhere on Digital Swiss Space in our gathering place, you know, one of our members posted a little bit of piece, uh a little piece that made everybody just totally uh laugh.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was about a poem about being ghosted about ever by every single guru that's around.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jesus had blocked him on socials, the Buddha won't take their calls.
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  SPEAKER_00: The letter to Oprah came back, and it was really I I love the part about the priest asking them to invest in Bitcoin.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, but it was such a a cool it was such a cool post because it was all about being rejected by these um faiths, basically, but finding your own true voice inside to guide you.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that was that was a really cool piece of writing right there.
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  SPEAKER_00: That was very cool.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um what else was going on today?
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  SPEAKER_00: We talked about shadows, um uh more poems by Martin and Marion, which was really, really cool.
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  SPEAKER_00: Marion actually used our feature to make a cool background for her poem, and she's such an amazing writer.
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  SPEAKER_00: And um, and um, yeah, just a lot of people sharing their emotions this week, and um, some people saying they were anxious, and and and that's really cool when we share that information on DSS because we can kind of find out hey, is there something going on in the collective, or is it just like me?
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  SPEAKER_00: So that's kind of neat.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, we also I announced that I celebrated my first wedding anniversary.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ta-da! Congratulations.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, my partner Anthony and I have been married for one year on August 18th.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that was a lot of fun to uh announce on Digital Soul Space in the gathering space, which is our little general area for posting.
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  SPEAKER_00: And um, so yeah, very cool stuff going on in digital social space, lots to talk about, and that's a wrap on our week here on digital soul space.
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  SPEAKER_00: And just a quick reminder about what makes digital social space so special.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're an independent online metaphysical community.
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  SPEAKER_00: So again, we don't have any ads, we don't have any algorithms, and we never ever ever sell your data because your privacy is a must.
• 13:25
  SPEAKER_00: We don't have to, we're run on donations, that's why we don't have ads, we don't advertise.
• 13:29
  SPEAKER_00: We're almost like the PBS of spirituality.
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  SPEAKER_00: And also, please make sure you check out the events section.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, you know, we have group chat every Saturday morning, and on Sunday nights, bi-weekly now, we have our brand new reimagined um light lounge.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the next one's on August 30th, I believe, Sunday night, 8 p.m.
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  SPEAKER_00: Eastern daylight time.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the link and the password to that will be shared right before the event.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh a little topic, suggested topic will also be shared that we'll be talking about.
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  SPEAKER_00: Last week we took a deep dive into numerology with Anne Marie, and we went down this little rabbit hole like I was talking about.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was so much fun.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if this is totally your vibe, come hang out with us people.
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• 14:30
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• 14:38
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• 14:44
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• 14:53
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• 14:57
  SPEAKER_00: And just a little note that this episode was produced in part by AI.
• 15:03
  SPEAKER_00: And what that means is that it generated for me a little list of everything that was going on this week, um, so I didn't miss out on anything that I could share, and so that sort of thing.
• 15:14
  SPEAKER_00: And I like to give that disclosure.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's about it, guys and gals.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thanks so much for listening, and I'll see you next time on the Digital Soul Space Weekly wrap up.
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  SPEAKER_00: Take care.