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August 2025 Intuitive Reading · Remember Why You Are Here

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When we get those clarity of moments, When we have that clarity of perspective,
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when we know the next step, that's what we're touching in on,
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that's the path that we're walking: the path of remembering,
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the path of remembering why we're here.
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Hello and welcome back to Remember Why You Are Here.
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A podcast for seekers and sensitives where you can relax, receive,
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reconnect yourself, and remember the most important thing of all:
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why you're here. I'm Asia Suler, author, earth intuitive,
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teacher,
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and this is our reading for the month of August,
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2025. The themes that came up for me
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this month are themes of accessing clarity around purpose,
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clearing away what's been distracting you from taking the next step,
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having the support to take that next step with a kind of
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clarity, and remembering what's real.
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So let's drop into the energies that are coming in for us in this month
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ahead. This month's card comes from the Herbal Astrology Oracle by
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Adriana Ayales, with artwork by Josephine Klerks.
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And the card that I picked was Rosemary.
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Rosemary is a plant I have a deep relationship.
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It's one that has deep roots in our history,
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deep historical roots,
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deep recorded roots and deep roots in our memory,
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which we're going to talk about in just a moment. Rosemary has been used,
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we know for sure for thousands of years,
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it's even appeared in tombs in ancient Egypt.
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We know that Rosemary originated in the Mediterranean.
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It was a deep part of Roman and Greek medicine.
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Rosemary,
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we've seen throughout European history as being a really
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important herb,
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especially an herb for memory and remembering.
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There was an old saying about rosemary that is one of those things that have
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been passed down to the generations, of rosemary for remembrance.
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So rosemary was often used in weddings as well as in funerals.
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These moments where memory, remembrance,
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and committing oneself to vision and to memory
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was important. In herbal medicine,
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we often use rosemary for foggy thinking,
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forgetfulness, scatteredness, depression,
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especially when it's stagnant depression.
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Rosemary really has the ability to awaken and aliven the mind and help us
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focus, help us access more clarity. In ancient Greece,
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they would weave laurels, crowns,
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of rosemary for their head and put them on their head before they took their
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exams.
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This is a classic herb for stimulating
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the mind, for helping one to focus,
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for opening one's awareness. It really shines when it comes to
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releasing stagnancy. Stagnancy in our minds, stagnancy in our body.
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Rosemary is a circulatory stimulant. It's also an anti-inflammatory.
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This is one of the reasons why it's so good for headaches,
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why we do like to use it for stagnant headaches.
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You can even apply some of the diluted essential oil right to your temples or
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just breathing in Rosemary can be really helpful with that.
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It's moving, it's stimulating,
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but at the same time, it's got this settling energy.
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So it has this beautiful combination of energies. Rosemary has also been
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considered a protective herb for a long time.
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In the renaissance people would put rosemary under their pillows to protect
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themselves from bad dreams.
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And we know that rosemary not only is an antioxidant, but is also antibacterial,
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antiviral.
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Rosemary was used to preserve foods and is still used to preserve food for a
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long time.
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It has this high preservative value to it. We also add it to our foods because
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rosemary is such a wonderful digestive,
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it really stimulates our digestive juices.
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So Rosemary has this profile of
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being protective, clarifying for the mind,
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opening for the senses, sort of releasing stagnation,
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and all of this is rolling into
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our reading for the month ahead. So in the Herbal Astrology Oracle,
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rosemary is called ancient memory.
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And the description for this card specifically talks about rosemary as
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something that connects us to ancient memory: remembrance,
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multidimensional sight, recollection,
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commitment to one's vision,
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and really this loyalty to the visions that we have in our life,
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to the things that we're drawn towards. In the
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Herbal Astrology Oracle,
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they talk about how rosemary is also connected with the sun and mercury,
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bringing in that astrology piece.
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The sun as this symbol of our core identity,
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our life force in this lifetime, our ego,
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and mercury as this planet of thinking, the mind, communication.
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And so in the oracle they talk about rosemary as a plant that
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really helps us to connect our minds and our
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bodies in this lifetimes with our higher minds, with our higher self.
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This ability to link in with one's higher self and really have
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sort of this powerful vision, this multidimensional sight,
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and the ability to be present, like present in life without dissociation,
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and to make this commitment to the vision that moves you,
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the vision that is coming in from your higher self. And I loved that description
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going along with what I know and what I've experienced with rosemary.
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And when I sat down and I asked my guides,
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what is the vision for this collective? What is the vision for you?
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You who are listening to this, what is coming in for us this month?
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I got a really clear visual. I got a very clear message,
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which is not surprising because we are working with rosemary here.
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So let's talk about what is coming in. One of the biggest themes that was handed
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to me for this month that ahead is remembering what's real.
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And this is super important at this time.
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Especially in this time when the outer world,
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and with all of its drama and with all of its trauma,
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is getting louder and louder as we move into an era where very
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literally, we don't know what's real. With the rise of ai,
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this difficulty discerning,
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this message of remembering what's real feels so essential and so
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valid. And I really,
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I'm hoping it's a touchstone for you as we move into this month,
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especially as energies get bigger as that outer world may get
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louder.
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Remembering what's real means remembering what is at the bedrock of
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reality,
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what is real in the spiritual sense of the word,
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what is real on a soul level.
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And what is real is unconditional love,
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is forgiveness, is connection,
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and oneness. That is what's real.
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That is ultimate reality. What's real is that we
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come here as spiritual souls to have this really human experience,
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and part of the human experiences, variance, grades, as shades,
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as textures.
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And so this isn't to discount the reality of things that are happening in the
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world, but when we can anchor in what's real,
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what's real underneath all of it,
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we have the strength and the clarity to meet what's
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happening in our day-to-day lives. So for me, remembering what's real,
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it's not a form of spiritual bypassing, of, "Well,
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I'm just going to ground in love and light and all of this is not real.
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All of this is just a moment in time that my soul has come here to
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experience." That's not quite it either right,
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because we came here to experience this, to be in this experience,
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to be a part of this huge experiment,
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and to discount that,
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to not be present for that is not the purpose of it. But when we
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reground and connect to what is real,
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we have access to our own soul lifeforce and energy.
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We have energy to meet what is happening in the world,
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what is happening inside of our lives,
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the things that need to be moved and transformed. So remembering here
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at the heart of all things, no matter how hard they seem,
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how dissonant the world is, is love, is compassion,
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is non-judgment, is forgiveness,
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is oneness. That's what's real. That's at the heart of all things.
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And the invitation here for this month is to really ground in that,
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to ground in what is real,
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because it is really going to see you through whatever is to
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come.
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And there are some really clear potentials
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for this month to come, really clear,
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exciting things that are on offer. And the biggest one
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here is the ability to access a clarity of mind and purpose.
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This is so much of what rosemary is about, right? This clarity of mind.
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And what came in for me for this month is this feeling of
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clearing away what's been distracting you.
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And there's no judgment here, right?
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Because the human brain likes distractions,
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and we live in a world that is absolutely full of them,
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chock-full everywhere you look. So it makes sense, right?
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It makes sense that we sometimes get lost in distractions or we have them come
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in. But there's this sense this month of there's this ability to clear away
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those distractions and get this clear sight forward,
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this clear path forward,
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this clarity of mind. When we have clarity of mind,
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we realize what we're here to focus on. What am I here to focus on?
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And that's really the question that I see us walking into this month with.
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And this is so essential and important;
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our attention is where our energy flows.
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It's literally where we're directing our life force at, our soul's energy,
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at whatever we're putting our attention towards.
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And oftentimes when our attention is scattered,
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it's really hard to know what is our purpose?
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What's the right next step in our life?
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What should we be focused on? But there's this opportunity this month,
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especially if we really ground in remembering what's real,
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to get this clarity of focus of like, ah,
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this is what I'm supposed to do. This is how I plug in,
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this is what my soul is asking me to do next, to work on next,
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the projects, the relationships, the whatever it is,
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the starting of the new business or the
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building an addition onto your house, whatever it is,
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there's a clarity piece that is on offer this month
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and that clarity can really bring us so
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much. And there's this piece where when we know what the one
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thing to focus on is, there's a big sense of relief.
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And this is an update I think we all need to hear,
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that we are not supposed to do all of the
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things. We think we are.
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We really put that pressure on ourselves of like,
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I need to do all of the things.
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And if I don't do it, who is? But that pressure is always there.
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But we were actually never meant to do 10 things at once.
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It's not how we're designed. We are meant to do one thing
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at a time, and this is a moment to moment truth.
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This is a week to week, a month to month, truth.
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And so there's this opportunity this month of
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getting clear on what's that one thing, what's the one thing?
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And the one thing might be clarity around like, okay,
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this month this is what I'm supposed to focus on. But it might also be like,
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this chapter of my life, "Oh, right,
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this is what I'm being asked to do." But there's also clarity here in a moment
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to moment kind of way, of like, clear how to use your day,
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clear how to use the one wild and precious hour that you have.
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And I'm sure you can feel in your system that there is such a
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release and relief around this,
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right? And this has been a
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long-term saying and way of living in
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things like AA, where you don't have to know 10 steps ahead,
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you just have to know the next right step.
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And it's this huge relief to let go.
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Because so often we take on all these
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responsibilities, even if only mentally, we think, oh,
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this is my responsibility to do.
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And we take on all these responsibilities for things we don't actually have the
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ability to respond to,
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whether it's because we don't have the capacity in that moment,
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we physically cannot. There's distance, time, space,
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whatever it is.
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We do this constantly as we take on this sense of responsibilities to things
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where actually we don't have the ability to respond to or we weren't even
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designed to respond to.
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And that causes so much pressure and tension inside of our
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system. Getting clear on the one thing,
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that mental clarity of purpose,
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like the next thing that you're supposed to do that day, that week, this month,
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it is such a relief because you recognize that you can put all those other
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things down. And clarity of purpose is,
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"this is what I need to do with my time and energy right now." That's how that
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energy comes in.
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"This is what I need to do with my time and energy right now," and "this is
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what I don't need to do." And this clarity
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around, I refuse to let my precious energy,
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this energy that is here to shapeshift the world,
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to literally help this world transform and be a part of the great dreaming of
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this earth,
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I refuse to allow my precious energy to be fragmented into
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places where it's useless,
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co-opted in places where it is being used in
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ways that I'm not choosing. And that's often what
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happens when our energy is getting fragmented,
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our attention is getting fragmented by things like social media, for example.
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Our energy is being used in ways that we are not choosing,
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and it's so much more powerful when we make choices of how we want
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to use our energy and our time,
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and we direct that all the way through like a channel, a river,
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that moves all the way across the landscape. And
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this is just part of the textures of being on earth at this time as we're really
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learning about the power of our attention,
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the power of our energy,
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and how by choosing what we want to focus
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on and allowing it to be simple. of like, "This is it.
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This is what I'm supposed to do," we bring so much more energy and potential in
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this world. And in fact,
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an interesting thing happens where we have this fear around, "Well,
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if I only focus on this one thing,
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then I won't be present for these other things.
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And these things matter to me too,
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or I feel really a lot of pressure in my heart
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around showing up around this thing.
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If you give yourself permission to focus on the one thing,
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to have that clarity of mind and purpose,
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you end up having the strength to do more. It's magic.
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It's one of life's most magic qualities. You expand your capacity,
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you can show up in other ways. I think about Rosemary as this very
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strong upright plant. It's a woody plant, it's a perennial plant.
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It can survive winters, even pretty cold winters,
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considering it's a Mediterranean herb.
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And there's this energy here of like the hardiness that
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comes through letting it be clear,
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the strength that comes through deciding what you want to spend your energy and
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your focus on. And we're not going to be doing this alone.
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There was also this deep sense coming through when I was sitting with this card
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and the energies of the month ahead of this sense of support coming in.
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And I love this story.
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There's a sort of a folk tale about rosemary. And in the tale,
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it talks about how rosemary once had white flowers, and Mother Mary,
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as she was leaving Egypt, took her cloak off,
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her beautiful blue cloak, and hung it over the rosemary bush.
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And when she hung it over the rosemary bush,
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then the flowers turned blue.
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And that's one of the stories around how rosemary flowers got the colors
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that they did.
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And also some people attribute that story to why rosemary is called the rose of
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Mary. And so there's this feeling of this energy of the
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divine feminine,
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this feminine energy that is at the center of our earth that is here to support
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us, that is here to help us on this journey.
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But it's a little bit like that mother energy of like,
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it's time to get your shoes on.
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I can attest with my own child,
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it's time to get your shoes on. Okay? Like,
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I'm going to give you the space to do it yourself.
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I'm going to be here with you. I'm going to help you if you ask for help,
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but I'm letting you know in no uncertain terms, it's time to put your shoes on,
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because it's time for us to have work to do. We have work we got to do.
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So there's that energy to it, right? It's like loving and supportive, but firm.
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But you're being held here so you can get clear. And it really reminds me of
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this ancestral piece talking about how this card is called
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ancestral memory,
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and it has this beautiful woman that looks like Mother
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Mary on the front of the card holding rosemary in
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her hands.
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And there's this sense or this feeling of ancient
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memory being actually remembering how our ancestors
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used their minds, how we were meant to use our minds,
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how our minds were meant to actually work in tandem with our
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bodies. And I think so often right now,
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we are in this time of this overwhelm and this technological fog,
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and we get into these frozen,
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dissociated states inside of our bodies,
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but actually our mind wasn't meant to be at odds with our body.
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They're meant to be in concert with one another.
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And there's this memory that we can access,
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like this deep ancestral memory inside ourself,
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of a time when the mind and the body were aligned.
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And there was really beautiful flow states that happened from that.
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And so that also feels like that's something that's on offer,
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of allowing our mind and our body to be in alignment.
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Like your body is saying, "Yes, this is what I want to move towards.
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This is what I want to do.
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This is what I want to focus my energy on," and your mind being like, "Gotcha.
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Let's focus. Let's hone in. Let's take that next step.
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Let's put our shoes on." And there's a journey
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aspect to this month with that. And I very specifically saw,
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thinking about Mother Mary's cloak,
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I specifically saw this image of a cloak being laid
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over our shoulders. And this phrase,
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"You are protected,
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traveler." And it really reminds me of this concept of
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pilgrimage and the idea that this month we get a step closer in
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understanding the purpose of our pilgrimage through this life.
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I love throughout medieval Europe,
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pilgrimage was a really big part of spiritual life.
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And part of this was because there was this belief that
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all of life was a pilgrimage,
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that we put one foot in front of the other. And all along the way,
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we're receiving signs and messages and
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learnings,
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and this is all a pilgrimage deeper into our connection with
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God, our connection with the divine, our connection with source,
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our own wider selves.
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And there's this feeling this month of
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"you're protected,
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pilgrim." You are protected on this pilgrimage,
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as you begin to understand what it is
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that is the next step that you need to take this next step on this pilgrimage
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that is your life. And in a very real way,
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you are making this pilgrimage deeper into understanding who you are and why
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you're here. And there is a feeling this month right,
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of really accessing and remembering why you're here.
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When we get those clarity of moments, when we have that clarity perspective,
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when we know the next step, that's what we're touching in on,
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that's the path that we're walking: the path of remembering,
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the path of remembering why we're here. So I invite you,
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if this is resonating for you this month,
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to think about working with Rosemary, if that's a possibility for you.
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This is a very accessible herb. It's at most nurseries,
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it's in the grocery store. You can work with fresh rosemary, dried rosemary.
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There's so many ways to work with this plant.
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It's one of my favorite aromatic plants. And so you can burn
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little bits of rosemary if you have dried rosemary from the store.
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You can put a sprig of rosemary on your desk and just rub it into your hands,
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and take a deep inhale whenever you need some clarity of thought.
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Diluted essential oil of rosemary is really nice on the temples
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or anointing your third eye, again to open your mind,
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to connect back into your intention for this month.
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You can also make tea with rosemary,
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just pouring boiled water over those rosemary leaves or
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needles and letting it steep and sipping that. I really like making
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rosemary water. And so you can make a tea and let it cool,
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or you can just get a fresh bowl of water and stir rosemary into
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it, and it'll be a little less fragrant than if you made the tea.
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But it's so fresh, it's so refreshing.
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You can take that sprig from the water and even thwack yourself
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to really enliven yourself, get your circulation moving,
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get your mind clear. \ I feel like Rosemary is so accessible.
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It's like that divine mother energy. It's so accessible. It's like,
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"I'm so here," it's like, "work with me, please. I'm around here.
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I'm right here." And I really think bringing just a little bit of ritual
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into your life, if you're feeling called,
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could really deepen that clarity. And as we step into this month,
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here's a question to help you get clear on what that thing is for you,
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what that one thing is to focus on, what that next step is.
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And that question is, What is the thing that gives me energy?
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Not the thing I think I'm supposed to do,
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or that I'm glad it's over when it's done or any of that. It's like,
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what is something that gives you energy?
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This is the way that our souls communicate
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to us that something is for us.
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We have energy when we do it.
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And so it's really that simple. Ask yourself, what gives me energy?
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Start being an investigator. Notice,
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did this activity bring me energy or did it deplete me of energy?
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And this is going to start to give you a compass.
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And the thing that you're supposed to do,
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what you're being called to do right now, it will also give you energy.
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And that's the beautiful thing,
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is it will give you energy to actually show up in an even wider way in this
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world, to take on more if you want to take on more, to venture deeper,
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this is how our soul communicates to us, so ask yourself,
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What is the thing that if I did it right now,
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it would really give me energy? And there's a way, there's a way,
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to actually live our days like this. And we're all human.
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And goodness knows,
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I'm not doing this every single day and every moment,
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but it's always one of those things that I'm turning my attention towards,
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right?Wwhat would give me energy to do in this moment.
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And when I was dealing with Lyme disease,
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this became such a strong message for me. It was so obvious.
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It's so clear that when I did the things I wanted to do,
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when I wanted to do them, I had energy.
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And the moment I stepped off that path - where I was like, oh,
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I should really return that email, or I have to do bookkeeping,
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it's the end of the month. I should do it now - my energy tanked.
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I wasn't able to get out of bed.
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I wasn't able to do anything. It was so clear and so obvious.
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And what I found is when I started taking that leap of really just doing
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the thing that gave me energy in that moment,
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I had so much more energy and somehow those things that I thought, oh,
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I'll never want to do those things, then they'll just never get done.
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There would be these pockets of windows, these times, that came up where I did,
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where I actually wanted to do them.
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And so you are expanding your capacity here by choosing
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to do the thing that is bringing you energy. And when I talk about energy,
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I'm not talking about that caffeine, energy drink kind of energy.
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I'm talking about the kind of energy you get from the same kind of foods that we
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put rosemary in, like potatoes, roast, that kind of energy,
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enduring, long-lasting, settling,
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nourishing energy. And that's what we're looking for.
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We're not looking for the things that hype us up and kind of get us slightly
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dysregulated because it's so activating;
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we're looking for the things that feel like nourishing,
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longevity, hearty kind of energy.
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And that will make it very clear for you what it is that you are
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meant to use your precious attention, time,
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and focus for. So this month, let it be clear,
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because on a soul level, it already is, on a level of existence,
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it is already crystal clear. And so this month,
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we're just allowing that clarity to rise to the surface,
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and letting it bring us energy,
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perspective and purpose,
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letting it bring us nourishment as we take this next step in our journeys.
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I'm excited for us and what we're going to discover in this month ahead.
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If this reading resonated with you, I'd love to hear about it.
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Leave me a voice note over on my website, AsiaSuler.com/remember,
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I will be back next week with a big announcement about something that
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I'm going to do in my life next.
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Something that has become very clear for me in this month of
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where my energy is supposed to go. So stay tuned for that.
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I'm excited to announce this shift and this change,
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and invite you into the experience with me. And if you're enjoying these
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readings, if you're liking the podcast,
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leave a rating or review or a sprinkle of fairy dust
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stars wherever you listen, because it just means so much to me.
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And it very literally is like someone put a plate of rosemary potatoes in front
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of me - I love potatoes - and I get to eat them and have so much
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energy and just feel so so nourished.
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So if you have the space to do that, I would just love that so much,
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and I would gobble it up. So until next time,
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see what comes this month, be open to the clarity that's here,
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notice what gives you energy.
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Know that this month is so much about what you're here to do,
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and letting go of the distractions, letting go of what you're not here to do.
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And that clarity will be so invigorating.
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That clarity will help you take that next step in your life and that clarity
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will help you remember the most important thing of all: why you're here.