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January 2026 Intuitive Reading · Remember Why You Are Here

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The ultimate freedom that I think we're all here to discover,
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lean into, embody is this freedom of being ourselves.
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That is true freedom on this planet.
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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 to yourself and remember the most important thing of all:
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why you're here. I'm Asia Suler, author,
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Earth intuitive, teacher,
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and this is our intuitive reading for
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January, 2026.
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I had to remind myself five times before I recorded this: Asia,
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remember to say 2026 and not 2025. Because yes,
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it is now 2026.
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Have you often noticed that January feels like an
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entire year unto itself?
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January is like this longest month of the year,
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and there's something about this month where we actually have the ability to
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harness that energy.
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And so I want you to know even before we dive into this
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episode today, that the message that I got was,
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January's like its own little cycle unto itself.
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It's like its own little year.
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That if we embrace what is coming up for us this January,
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if we embrace the little cycle that wants to happen for us in January,
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it's going to set us up for the whole year ahead.
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There's a big moment here in January,
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and if we embrace the year that is January,
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it will be really auspicious for our year ahead. So wanted to start with that.
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Here are the themes that came up for me in this month of
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January, 2026:
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so we have themes of fresh energy through change (love that one),
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clearing out to create space, accessing inner freedom,
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and truly changing thought patterns. Mmm! Okay,
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I'm so here for this.
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So for this month I picked a card from the Wild
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Kuan Yin Oracle deck. This is one of my favorite decks.
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I'm obsessed in particular with the artwork in this deck.
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The words are by Alana Fairchild,
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and the gorgeous paintings in this deck are by Chinese painter Wang Yiguang.
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So this card that we got that I picked particularly for January,
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is called "Let Your World Spin on its Axis." There is a beautifully
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dressed Tibetan woman upside down on the card as if she's doing a
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cartwheel, floating in air, in the air.
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And next to her is this beautiful, suspended, elegant,
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regal yak who is also floating and is gazing back at her.
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The whole card has this feeling of play and
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upliftment and yes suspension. And I want to say,
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because I thought this was really interesting,
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that I have used this deck a lot over the years and I have never not once gotten
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this card. So this feels pretty auspicious.
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So this deck is called the Wild Kuan Yin Deck,
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and I think I have to talk for a second about Kuan Yin because she's at the
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heart of this deck. It's her voice that is coming through this deck,
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and I really see her coming through in this reading this month and coming
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through as a support and a guide for us this month.
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So Kuan Yin is a divine being from Buddhist traditions of East
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Asia. She is a bodhisattva, an ascended master,
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and the story of Kuan Yin is that she lived on earth and
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reached enlightenment here on earth,
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but decided to remain connected to Earth,
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decided not to ascend even though she became a master,
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to not ascend and leave this earth until all beings are enlightened,
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until all beings are free. She is this deity,
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this goddess of compassion, unconditional love,
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understanding.
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She's dedicated to this inner freedom of all beings.
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She's considered to be the goddess of mercy,
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and she's also known as the observer of the world's cries.
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She brings with her this sense of kindness, protection, and enlightenment.
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And to me, that's so much of how this card feels:
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enlightenment in all of its definitions. So realizations,
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awareness, openings, inner freedom, but like literally also,
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en-light-enment,
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the lightness of being that can come about when we have these kinds
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of realizations, and yeah, we reach these next states,
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these phase changes in our life.
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So there was a really beautiful description on this card that comes from the
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part of the description where Kuan Yin is speaking directly to
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the reader,
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and I wanted to just read a little bit of that here to hear her voice coming
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through. So this is the message from Kuan Yin that came with this card:
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"There are times when change is needed in order for a dream to
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manifest. I answer your prayers with what is needed to bring them to fruition.
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Sometimes that means life will appear to be messy for a time,
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but know that this is nothing to fear.
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Though you may feel like your world has been tipped upside down, soon,
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it will settle into a beautiful new order, all the better to support your divine
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destiny." This card talks a lot about,
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in the guidebook,
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about changes that are happening now in your life that have a divine
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purpose,
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and it really encourages us to embrace these changes even if it
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feels wobbly, like doing a little bit of a lopsided cartwheel.
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That there are changes that are happening within and without in your life that
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have a divine purpose right now, that it is bringing you closer,
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into your own path of enlightenment where you are headed as a soul.
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And it says very specifically in the description for this card that this is
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part of your prayers being answered,
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that even if it seems like this is turning everything upside down,
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that actually this is a part of the prayer that you've been holding,
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being answered. So as much as you can try not to resist it,
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to embrace this
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change. This card itself was
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just so beautiful. I was just relishing in the image on this card.
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And when I sat down to ask about the energies that
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are coming through specifically for this collective,
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I felt so much liberation and freedom
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come through. So let's move into my channeled reading
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for this month ahead, guided by this card.
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So the first thing that came through was change coming in with fresh
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energy,
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this feeling of literal freshness.
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And also having the energy you need to make
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necessary changes. You probably, especially at the dawn of a new year,
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are taking stock of where you are, where you're at,
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what last year was like, what you want this year to be like ahead,
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and there's a sense of fresh energy coming in to help
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you make those changes. So yes,
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changes happening in your external life or in your internal life,
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but also energy coming in to help you make those changes.
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There was a feeling here of positivity, humor, and play.
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Even within the change.
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Like there's this element of playfulness that there's this possibility
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of connecting to even as some changes take place in your life.
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The image that my guides gave me-made me laugh,
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clearly-it was of a purse being turned upside down.
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So have you ever cleaned out like a purse or a backpack and you kind of just
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turn it upside down and you just shake it,
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and all this stuff comes out. It's like stuff you expected,
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stuff you didn't expect... like crud, crumbs, or like,
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where did that even come from? That is the energy of this month.
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Like turning a purse or a bag upside down to clean it,
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and all this debris and stuff coming out.
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But it being such a positive thing because you're actually able to see what
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was in there and what you need to keep carrying with you versus what you can let
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go of. Every time I ever clean out my purse or my backpack, I'm always like,
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what is all this stuff in here? I don't need half of this stuff.
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Let me clear this out. And so that to me was the energy of this month ahead.
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It's like seeing what you've been carrying and then clearing out what you don't
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actually need anymore. When we get turned upside down like that,
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when change happens like that, when there's this playful clearing out-and yes,
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I am using the word "playful" because I think that that is an option
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here-there's this potential to perceive, like,
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what do you actually need in life? What do you need to operate?
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What do you need to feel organized?
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And I think we often need less than we think.
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And when we do these clearing outs, we start to see lik,
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I don't need that membership card anymore.
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I have three things of Chapstick in here...
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So there's this element of a change happening,
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like a purse being turned upside down, clearing out, cleaning out,
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making space, seeing what you no longer need,
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seeing what you've been carrying that you actually don't need to.
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It's like this feeling of like, there's stuff accumulated in that purse,
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and there's no judgment there, but you just don't need to carry it anymore.
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So if you can embrace the changes that are needed,
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then there's this sense of great possibility and openness and space in your bag
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for what comes next. And this sense of feeling lighter in life.
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Now these changes could be external or they could be
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internal.
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So this came through very clearly for me that it might be that something
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literally happens in your external life that shakes things up for a little bit,
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but it could also be reflections that you garnered over December and
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especially over the holiday season that helps you really orient to
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some sort of inner shift or change you need to make in your life.
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Something that got a little bit clearer about what you really need,
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what works for you. And so this could be a shift in your perception.
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This could be a shift in the way you decide to react to things and what you
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invest your energy in.
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And it could also be something that is happening in the outer world,
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but that inner shift will create change in our outer world.
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So no matter what, we're talking about, shifts, changes,
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that are happening for us to open up to these greater levels of freedom and
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possibility and space in our life. And that was such a big theme for this card:
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opening up levels of inner freedom.
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You are literally clearing out space to make space,
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but you are creating inner freedom through deciding to
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embrace change.
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There is a way to feel more free in your life no matter
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what the circumstances are.
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And I think we all need to hear this and be reminded of this probably
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forever.
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And it really reminds me of Viktor Frankl's beautiful work in man's search for
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meaning. Viktor Frankl was a Holocaust survivor and
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wrote this incredible book that has been a guidepost for so many.
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And in the book,
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one of the things that he talks about is this freedom to choose is "one of
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the last human freedoms." That when everything else drops
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away, when every other choice that we have drops away,
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we still have this choice to decide how we want to respond to
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something, how we want to think about something.
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This is the last of the human freedoms,
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this human freedom that cannot ever be taken away from us.
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Viktor Frankl says, "everything can be taken from a man, but one thing:
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the last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of
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circumstances,
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to choose one's own way." There is an invitation
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here to transform your reality by choosing
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the attitude that you have towards your reality.
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That is a freedom that can never be taken away from you.
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And that is something very much on offer this month,
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to recognize the thought patterns that you have to realize
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that you have this freedom to choose,
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and to make what could be really big changes
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in your life, big changes in the way you feel in your life,
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how you move through your life,
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what feels like is possible for you in your life,
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through changing your attitude, your response,
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to the things that are happening to you in your life,
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and specifically to changes that are occurring.
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So many of us spend so much of our time-and I know this because I
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know this incredible collective that I'm a part of-we spend so much of our time
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really being conscious of our thought patterns,
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really trying to work with our thought patterns. Always on this inner journey.
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You're always on this inner journey. I know this for sure about you,
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and there's something about this month where there's this opportunity to
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make that turn, make that flip to actually change the thought pattern.
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Whatever thought pattern it is that you have been working on, working with,
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making headway with,
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it's like this little upside down moment we have this month,
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this little change here,
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is actually giving us the possibility to shift this thought pattern.
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That's so cool and I think this is so exciting. And on the other side...
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My guides were so clear about this. On the other side is freedom.
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On the other side is the kind of freedom you've been hoping for.
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Inner freedom is such an essential
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state for humanity.
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This is one of the most important energies we can
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have access to and we can feel. I think it is....
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being a sovereign being and accessing inner freedom is one of
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the most essential parts of the human state,
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of being a human of living here on this planet.
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And when we have access to inner freedom, we have greater access to ideas,
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creativity, we have more capacity for collaboration, connection, relationship.
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So you embracing this
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moment to really see these shifts and these changes in your thought patterns to
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perhaps make some change in your life or embrace some changes happening,
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this is going to open you up to further possibilities of
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participation on this planet. And that is really exciting to me.
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My guides were saying to me as I was channeling this reading for this month
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that
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we are always moving through states of getting more free,
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even if it doesn't feel like that.
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And that in fact death is the ultimate freedom, I was like,
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morbid but also at the same time it's very true.
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And they were reflecting back to me that this actually can really help us in our
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life because if we're able to see death as a kind of freedom,
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then all of the mini deaths that happen in our life,
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we can also see as freedoms. We can also see how, inherent within that,
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that smaller death is this possibility of getting more and more free.
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So if this change in your life,
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if changes that happen this month or maybe that you feel like you're moving
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through right now,
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also have this element of feeling like letting go or the death of something,
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know that this is helping you to access greater states of inner
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freedom,
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that within this letting go is the possibility
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of freedom in your life. And we've all had moments like this in our life.
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So if you're having a hard time trusting this,
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I totally feel you,
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but I invite you to think back on a time in your life when you
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changed your mind about something, you changed how you thought about something.
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And maybe you changed it consciously,
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or maybe it just happened that you changed that thought. And then remember how,
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when you changed that thought about it, when you changed your mind about it,
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then that thing that gripped you no longer had the same kind
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of hold over you anymore.
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So even if nothing outwardly is changing right now,
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as you're moving through this process of allowing for the possibility of
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your thoughts to change about something,
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then know that what you're doing right now is you're clearing out,
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you're organizing,
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and you're moving towards accepting something about yourself that is going to
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lead to more freedom. And I invite you,
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if something does feel like it gets turned upside down for you this month,
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to ask yourself, how is this helping me to get free?
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Let that be your mantra for this month. How is this helping me to get free?
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As I mentioned at the beginning of this episode,
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January is its own whole little mini year.
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It's a very long month.
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It's the longest month of the year in our collective
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zeitgeist. We always talk about this every year: January feels like a year,
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and then February is half a year, and then the rest of the year just speeds by.
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And there's something about embracing the
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length of time of this month. Because I think...
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it's almost like this month is a bit of a time warp where time is going to
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stretch out and you can do more work
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and have more transformations happen this month because
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it is such a...
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it such a lengthy month in our collective that it carries this greater potential
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and possibility. So you can actually move a lot this month,
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work with the magic of this month feeling long,
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instead of the feeling of oppression by this month being so
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long, which is also real. But this invitation to work with...
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The magic will really open up possibilities in that lengthening.
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There will be this sense of being able to actually relish the length of this
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month because so much more can happen.
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We often go about entering the new year by setting intentions,
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but I'm not a big fan of setting intentions for the entire year.
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It's a lot of pressure. It's a long period of time.
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Things change throughout the year.
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But what I am going to invite you to do is to set an intention for this
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month. And specifically, to ask yourself,
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in what area of your life do you need more freedom?
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What would you like freedom from?
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Where would you like to request freedom in your life?
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To sit with that question as we walk into January and to know that
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January,
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it's this little microcosm of the macro picture of this year,
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and you can plant this seed this month that will germinate and really see you
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through the rest of this year through asking yourself that.
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And know that when you set this intention to request
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freedom in an area of your life,
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that this might be where you have a little bit of a topsy-turvy moment,
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that that area of your life might contain a little bit of that upside-down
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cartwheel moment for a hot second. But this is helpful, right?
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Because it's almost like going upside down and then everything falls out of your
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pockets. All this stuff you don't need to carry anymore.
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And this is also helpful because it's a bit directional.
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So if you're setting an intention to get free in a certain area of your life,
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whatever comes up this month,
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even if it doesn't seem to be directly related to that area of your life,
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you'll know that that's actually what it's working on and where it's helping to
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bring more freedom into your life.
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So maybe you asked for more
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freedom in your health and you have something come up in your
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relationships.
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Because you set this intention to ask for more freedom inside of your
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health,
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you'll know that whatever's coming up in your relationships is actually pointing
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you back towards your health and the ways in which there is this possibility of
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accessing more freedom there. So set this intention and then see what comes up.
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It will show you where there's this possibility for more freedom in your
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life. It will direct you towards those sources. Also,
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feel free to call on Kuan Yin. If my description of Kuan Yin resonated with you,
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if you already have a relationship with this being, ask her to come be with you.
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Ask her to come sit with you in compassion,
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to sit with you in your dignity, in your strength.
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She will come help you in those moments where you feel a bit upside down.
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And take time to praise the fresh starts.
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Especially at the beginning of a year,
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we tend to have so much pressure and so much expectations on ourselves to make
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these big changes,
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that we miss these little fresh starts that we are making all the time,
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these new steps,
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these strides that we are taking towards the things that matter most to us.
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So whenever you can, really take time to praise those fresh starts,
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to recognize those fresh starts within yourself,
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and to know that even something as little as cleaning out your purse of all that
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gunk, all that detritus and debris,
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can really make a huge difference in how you feel about yourself,
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how you feel about your life, how you feel about going out into the world,
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the ways in which you feel you have your own energy organized
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for you to be able to use and enjoy.
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And if you have moments in your life this month where you feel like you are
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upside down, like everything's upside down for a minute,
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just remember that this is like doing a cartwheel: It's temporary.
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You will land on your feet again.
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And that actually this is helping you. It's helping you to get more free.
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It is an answer to a prayer and that you will feel lighter on the other
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side.
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That felt so clear to me that we will feel lighter on the other side of what's
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on offer here.
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And that ultimately what we're going to move through this month,
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what we're going to clear out, it's going to help us find healing.
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Freedom is such a huge part of healing and the
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ultimate freedom that I think we're all here to discover,
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lean into, embody, is this freedom of being ourselves
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on offer is a deeper descent,
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a deeper step into being yourself,
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being authentically yourself.
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And that is true freedom on this planet.
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So I'm sending you so many blessings as we close out this year and begin a new
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year. This has been such a big year for me.
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I started this podcast,
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I took my sabbatical to work on my next book.
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I'm so grateful for just everything that has unfurled this year,
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for your presence here, for getting to share this space with you.
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Your support has meant the absolute world.
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For everyone who's left a rating or review or stars,
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or left me a voice message over on my voicemail service (which if you want
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to do, is at AsiaSuler.com/remember), it has all meant so much to me.
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It has buoyed me more than I can express.
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If you would like to give me a little holiday gift this year,
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or a little New Year blessing,
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then you could also leave a review or rate this podcast.
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It is so helpful, beyond helpful.
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We just got our stats back for the year about this podcast,
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and we were all blown away by how high this
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podcast ranked in the ratings of what's being listened to
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on Spotify and Apple Podcasts,
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that we are in this top 5% or something like that of podcasts.
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It's really incredible and it's entirely because of you.
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And every time that you engage with this, you listen.
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You leave a rating or a comment or review. That just helps so much.
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That's why it's been so successful. So thank you, thank you, thank you,
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so much for that.
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So I will be back next week with our intuitive reading for the
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entire year ahead for 2026.
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I was so excited when the image came through for 2026.
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I have been doing yearly readings now for seven years.
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And the way I do those readings is that I work with an image and a metaphor that
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comes through from my guides for the entire year, and oh man,
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it really feels like a breath of fresh air.
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I'm super excited to share that reading with you.
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So tune in next week for that reading.
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And in the meantime, thank you so much for being here.
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Thank you for everything that you have moved through,
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that you have been through,
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that you have recognized and worked through this year.
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Thank you for who you are,
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and thank you for all the energy that you're bringing into this new year.
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2026 has a good feel to me. It really does.
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So as this new year dawns,
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as you move through the last days of 2026,
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and as we move into January,
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may it bring you spaciousness.
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May it bring you clarity, may it bring you freedom,
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and may it help you remember the most important thing:
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why you're here.