Have you ever felt the urge to reignite a lost passion or discover a new purpose as you navigate life's later chapters? You're not alone. This episode brings you an intimate conversation with Mary Jo Cranmore, an intuitive astrologer and spiritual healer whose own journey from media professional to YouTube tarot reader exemplifies the transformative power of following your heart. We uncover the importance of morning rituals, alignment, and how intuitive practices like astrology can serve as a compass to guide us back to our creative and vibrant selves, no matter our age.
As we peel back the layers of change and personal evolution, you'll hear about the critical pivot points that can lead from career burnout to a life of personal growth and financial freedom. Mary Jo's story is not just hers alone; it mirrors the collective experience of adapting to life's constant shifts and societal pressures. Her transition to the empowering world of tarot on YouTube serves as a testament to the power of storytelling and authentic resonance in crafting a self-sustaining career that's in harmony with one's passions.
To cap off our exploration, we discuss the intersection of intuition and collective impact in today's digital landscape, emphasizing the need for discernment amidst the sea of information. Join us as we delve into the reflective nature of tarot readings, the importance of nurturing intuition during times of calm, and the responsibility we each hold within society. This episode is more than just a podcast; it's an invitation to tap into your inner guidance system and join a soulful revolution, lighting the path to your own spark.
If you are enjoying these episodes, I invite you to like, subscribe and comment on them, as we need to encourage everyone to shine their light.
Thank you!
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Have you ever felt the urge to reignite a lost passion or discover a new purpose as you navigate life's later chapters? You're not alone. This episode brings you an intimate conversation with Mary Jo Cranmore, an intuitive astrologer and spiritual healer whose own journey from media professional to YouTube tarot reader exemplifies the transformative power of following your heart. We uncover the importance of morning rituals, alignment, and how intuitive practices like astrology can serve as a compass to guide us back to our creative and vibrant selves, no matter our age.
As we peel back the layers of change and personal evolution, you'll hear about the critical pivot points that can lead from career burnout to a life of personal growth and financial freedom. Mary Jo's story is not just hers alone; it mirrors the collective experience of adapting to life's constant shifts and societal pressures. Her transition to the empowering world of tarot on YouTube serves as a testament to the power of storytelling and authentic resonance in crafting a self-sustaining career that's in harmony with one's passions.
To cap off our exploration, we discuss the intersection of intuition and collective impact in today's digital landscape, emphasizing the need for discernment amidst the sea of information. Join us as we delve into the reflective nature of tarot readings, the importance of nurturing intuition during times of calm, and the responsibility we each hold within society. This episode is more than just a podcast; it's an invitation to tap into your inner guidance system and join a soulful revolution, lighting the path to your own spark.
If you are enjoying these episodes, I invite you to like, subscribe and comment on them, as we need to encourage everyone to shine their light.
Thank you!
Connect with Mary Jo here:
https://www.soulfulrevolutiontv.com/
Connect with Kim here:
https://www.kimduffselby.com/
Hey sparklers, thanks for tuning in time and time again. Now I just want to tell you that Ignite your Spark is going to take a little bit of a turn Nothing major. However, my message when I'm doing inspirational and motivational talks is that you are never too old to fill in the blank. Dot, dot, dot. And I want to focus more on women over a certain age who are doing just that igniting sparks. They may have gone through a career transition themselves or they may work primarily with women, but I really want to focus on women in their second or third act. Now, this is with a few exceptions. I have two young women coming up whom I love and adore, and I will be airing them. But, starting today, I want you to think about your beliefs on aging and your beliefs on whether you think you're too old, too young too. This too, that. So keep that in mind as you listen to my fabulous guest today and in the upcoming months, shine on.
Speaker 1:Welcome back, sparklers, to another episode of Ignite your Spark. I am your host, kim Duff Selby, bringing you sparkles from across the world, the land, the country. Today, my guest is Mary Jo Cranmore, and we've been chatting before I hit record, because I just connect with people. My three words of the year connection, collaboration and community and I love connecting with Mary Jo, and we're going to get into it. Let me tell you a little bit about her.
Speaker 1:Mary Jo is an intuitive astrologer, a tarot reader and a spiritual path healer, and she's been doing this work for over 25 years. She is also the host of a YouTube channel, which is so much fun because she does a weekly tarot card reading and you get to go huh, what? I don't know, does that resonate, maybe? And we're going to go into intuition and how to work on our intuition. I think I'm just saying all this stuff because I believe that that's what we're going to talk about, but we're also want to hear all about how Mary Jo got into this work, because I love origin stories. I think it's fascinating. Welcome, Mary Jo, before I talk too much. Welcome to Ignite your Spark. Hi Kim, how are you? I'm doing so great now that I'm here in front of my Zoom with my candlelit, talking to you. Thank you for being here.
Speaker 2:Oh, yes, absolutely, absolutely.
Speaker 1:Before we get into you and your story, I'd like to ask my guests how do you ignite your spark?
Speaker 2:Oh well, there has been many different ways. I have been doing that in the past, that I have done that in the past and most recently, I think the most sparkly thing that I have is my little dog, charlie, that was sitting right here. That isn't sitting right here right now, but we go on. He gets me out in the wintertime. We go for walks, we do all kinds of fun things, we dance in the kitchen, we do lots of lovely things, and that is a physical kind of connection for me. That's a spark.
Speaker 2:My work is so I'm just always constantly having new ideas and if I ever kind of run aground which is, I think, what you're talking about, like reigniting your spark or igniting your spark All I have to do is just recognize that I'm like not in my center. I'm not in my center. If I'm not getting this flow of ideas, this flood of ideas, then like okay, I'm off and I'm either hanging out with the wrong people, I'm hanging out in not such a good place myself. Either something's going on with me that I'm not paying attention to, or I'm like trapped in the past, usually trapped in the past.
Speaker 2:So I, you know, I spend every morning. I'm awake between 430 and 530. And so I spend every morning just getting myself back on center. It's easy to do for me in the morning because you're coming out of sleep and it just feels really peaceful. Charlie and I hang out, I have a little fireplace thing in my bedroom and I do my readings and I just align myself and I just ask the question what, what is needed for today for me, what is needed for today? And then things just keep flowing. So I feel like if ever I'm not having that spark, then I know I'm. I'm really out of alignment.
Speaker 1:That is such a unique take on that question and I have never heard it that way. When you are out of flow, basically that, because the ideas are usually coming, and this is really making me think about ways I ignite my spark. I know how I do that, but I'm going to pay more attention now to when things are not flowing, because that means you're blocked and that means you need to ignite your spark. It's just a little bit different take on that question, which, of course, I appreciate. I've been asking it over 150 times now, so I appreciate it when someone interprets it in a little bit different way and sometimes people say I don't know what you mean by that and I'm like well, you answered however you want to answer that, because I don't like to give people a parameter. I thank you. You've helped me already today. Okay, bye, bye.
Speaker 2:I love it. Well, I am a fire sign, so I have no trouble with spark, but sometimes I have trouble with flow, so that's where I, that's where I sit with that.
Speaker 1:Interesting. Yeah, oh, I definitely have trouble with flow. Definitely I'm an air sign but I have trouble. I think I'm too blocked, I think that that I just I feel like I'm stuck a lot and I think a lot of people feel that way.
Speaker 2:Can I give you a little secret here?
Speaker 2:because please, share part of the Western world, right, the Western world is such a focus on your mind, such a focus on thought and logic in mind. I've got a ton of air to. I've got a Gemini moon Libra rising, I'm going to, you know, an Aquarius progressed sun and I'm an Aquarius Venus. So tons of air, and so it's really easy to get like stuck in our head and stuck in our head. But that's not useful for this situation, because your brain is just kind of like a computer or a calculator. Like a calculator doesn't do anything unless you put something in it. The computer won't do anything unless you give it an instruction. So it's a. It's a. It's an organizational machine.
Speaker 2:Your mind is an organizational machine. Your mind can can decipher things, can categorize things, can do a lot of stuff with what you put into it. But if you're putting garbage into it, it's. That's not helpful. And if you're, if you're thinking that your thinking is your intuition, then you're also blocking that intuition, like you're talking about, right, You're also using a different. It's useful, it's a great thing to have, but it's not for that purpose. So when you're needing a new answer to something like you know, like Galileo or Da Vinci or people like that. They did not have the capability of thinking it. They would go to sleep, they would do something else, they would go into nature, they would, and then uh-huh yeah, because it would come from not thinking yeah all the distractions do.
Speaker 1:Let me scroll through this, let me read 7000 emails, let me do this, let me do that, and I just find myself. You know, I don't know how kids are doing it these days, but I am distracted like nobody's business. And that's probably one way to access our intuition to. Isn't it to just let go and not try so hard?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean I think there is, you know, again like a little secret and I definitely I give everybody who's listening permission to not read every damn email that comes in your email inbox. Please don't do that because, seriously, like I in the morning, I'm like, oh my God right, there's just so much that you can do and it's like that's why you got it center yourself. Don't pick up that phone until you've done that. Most people could find it right from where you're sleeping. And if you don't pick up that phone and you spend.
Speaker 2:I know this sounds like a luxury, but sometimes people have to wake up a little bit earlier to do this. If you're a bounce out of bed person and I definitely am not I like to have that. I mean, it's usually two hours, yeah, and that's because I'm designing a life that this is what I want. I want to be able to have the luxury of time in the morning so that I can really center myself, get guidance about what's coming through, what's going to, what do I need to know today? What will be helpful for me today? What should I stop doing today? I always get something. I always get, you know, drawn to some different something in that morning ritual that I do and I've been in those morning times when nothing came.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And I was like you are out of alignment somewhere.
Speaker 1:I really want people to know. You were in television and you are a producer and executive producer for many years. How did you transition and why, and what brought you to to row and astrology, and then the second part of that, which one was first, to row or astrology actually, numerology came first.
Speaker 2:I was interested. This all happened like high school college. I was, you know, fleetingly interested in astrology, numerology, tarot. There's a great book I was like published in the seventies Faith Javane and dusty bunker those are the author's and it's called like numerology in the divine triangle. It's a fantastic Book because it braids the three of those things together.
Speaker 2:Oh no, it's astrology. There's astrology in there, there's numerology and there's to row and it goes from each of the cards. It shows numerological, it shows mythological, all these different kinds of pieces To the meanings. It's a very unique way of looking at the meanings of the tarot cards, which is how I got interested in tarot cards, because I was I was interested in numbers and then astrology and then tarot, and so that was happening, like in college. Every time I would have these, like I really am over the course of my life. I'm really very aware that I like live life in like little boxes of time and they're hooked together by these threads of interests and threads of not people, but all intellectual interests are all flow based kind of things. And I had this little package of life I've moved 21 times in my adult life, which you do when you're in television and so you have these little. My mother used to call them happy islands and I'm like they're not always happy, but they're definitely islands and they're. They were all kind of grouped together. So I went, you know, I had that interest and I went.
Speaker 2:I went into television. I was a producer for a long time, a line producer, which is basically I was in charge of a show, a newscast, and I did that for a long time. I did features, I did sports features, I did political features and I worked as a kind of a stringer for good morning America up here in northern New England. I have also had jobs in corporate America when I got so sucked dry by being in media Because it was really birthing something new every single day, you know, with a team of a herd of cats Right, you know like you're trying to. It's exhausting for me it was anyway. And so I would go into corporate America where I could kind of be less every single day feeling, and so I did marketing and media and PR and all of that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2:So this was a very wine detail of all of these kinds of jobs and it brought me to the place where I had my own video marketing company where I would teach people to be on camera. I would teach them and this was in twenty, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen. I would have clients and I would make videos. It would be in their website, it would be on, and I really had to explain why video was important back then. I think now people understand the value of video and understand the value of having people sample you by hearing your answers to things, but I really had to teach people and then you had to write me a big check so I could do it for you, and I was like, oh my god, this is ahead of its time a little bit. It's too early, and so that got me exhausted and so I was this close to just like I don't know.
Speaker 2:So I had this Moment in July of twenty seventeen where I just was like I'm done with this and I just put it to the side and I had one of these kind of like Peak moments In like a parking lot in July, you know, like nowhere in you know central Connecticut or something. I was like, wow, the air feels brighter and everything feels sparklier, like I had just pushed. I just was done with it. I was really done with it and it just open. It opens something up. I had like this like upper level chakra, like complete opening, and I had a very good friend who was like, just do something that's fun for a little while.
Speaker 2:You have enough projects to get you through the end of the year. Use this, use this day. And so I went home and I was like, what's fun and I all my books of astrology and tarot and everything. We're sitting in front of me and I was like what about that? I started making video because I have everything for video and I just I don't know what brought me to YouTube. I just thought, you know, I've always thought YouTube was an important player on the field because it's search so much of the other. So social media is not search driven.
Speaker 2:Right and so I just started making you know readings. I had someone send me an article from the New York Times, said, hey, tarot is big on YouTube. And I was like, how does that even work? What is that even? What is? What are they doing? And I watched, I went and found some people and I watched and I spent some money and I was like, oh, I see, I'm like I'm just plugging into an archetypal experience, right, right, when I'm plugging into a Gemini experience, I'm plugging into an archetypal story that is floating around in the universal unconscious and that's why there's Gemini's in Buffalo and in Italy and in South America who all resonate with that same story. And I was like this is cool. So I just started doing it and the channel took off.
Speaker 2:I thought I had told my friend that the one who said just use this and I had told her it was really growing. And she said are you gonna need to get a job? And I was like no, the channel has grown so fast. In three months it's self-supporting me already. Wow, already, that's everyone's dream. And I'm telling you I was like 100% in gratitude for that. And so the first year it grew and grew and grew and I took money, lots of money. I got rid of all credit card debt, I got rid of taxes, I got rid of everything, and then I was like completely like okay, like what's next? So it was a really interesting experience, a complete turnaround from where I was. Do you attribute?
Speaker 1:that to the fact that you let go, that you had this sort of yeah, because, as we were talking before, so many of us push, push, push for what? Hello, raising my hand here for what we want, and when we let go, apparently, apparently, I'm afraid to let go. I think we're afraid. Right, fear, intuition, that's what we're afraid of?
Speaker 2:Oh, of course we're afraid because we've created a system that there's trap doors everywhere. There's danger around every corner for people. We're putting people in terrible positions where they can't, their life is not supporting and a full-time job isn't enough. That's a ridiculous thing that we put ourselves in that position as a culture and I do believe that is changing. And I also believe that one of the things it is the combination I will credit, the combination of letting go, of being like you know what Either I'll have to, you know I'm gonna give this amount of time, I'm just gonna have fun, and then I can't. If I need to, I'll go look for a job. I know I can get a job. Okay, I've done it a million times.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So I knew, and so the other thing I did was I really went in search of what shows up in your astrology. How do you see a sole purpose in your astrology and then how do you translate that into action?
Speaker 1:Okay, well, that's a lot, and what is true for so many people is that we all have different signs. We all have different rising signs. We're all such unique individuals that we want to look to the stars. We want to look to someone else to feed us the information, and I am imagining that you work with people to help them access their own intuition, and I love asking this question. I have interviewed a lot of people who are so excellent at accessing their intuition and I guess I'm always asking these questions because we all some of us out here in the Netherland, netherlands, in the world.
Speaker 1:The hinterlands, that's the word that. Is it not Netherlands? But I'd like to visit there, hinterlands. We really want to know about ourselves. That's why the YouTube channels do so well, because everybody, I want you to give me the answer. I want this person to give me the answer. Why am I not getting it? And we, as human beings? I realize that on this earth, spiritual beings living a human experience are challenged to access our own intuition, so that we can not always have to look to others.
Speaker 2:Do you work with people, correct, absolutely. And there's so many things to say about that. Because the reason that the YouTube and I've said this before on my channel it's not about you relying on any of the terror readers, it's about you going yep, that's for me. Nope, that's not for me. That's what it is, because it's not that you're the terror reader or the astrologer or anything like that is telling you something. If they told you something like you should really live in Zimbabwe and I really think that and you're just going like that's crazy talk and it's coming from a place of like that's not me, then that's an inner knowing. That's what it is. So the terror readings are about you recognizing, because how do you think the intuition got shut down in the first place? Because someone told you to doubt yourself. Someone told you that wasn't real. So if you believed that voice back then for all of these years that you're not allowed to believe yourself, then okay, it may come from another person. Maybe it needs to, for like his training wheels, until people can go okay, yeah, I got it Because you're right. The terror channels, a lot of the YouTube channels people wanna know about themselves and it's incumbent upon them you, it's incumbent upon you to take that and do something with it. Meaning okay, now I know.
Speaker 2:What we're looking for here is a frequency.
Speaker 2:We're looking for the frequency of your aha, because that is the place where you can hang your hat on. This is intuition, right, when you know you have an aha moment and you feel that frequency, remember it and try to reclaim that, and that's where. So, just be in the world, right, you're being in the world. So you have like somatic senses, right, you have like the touch, taste, sense, smell, all the smells, whatever hearing. You have those senses, right In this 3D world, in this horizontal world. But your intuition is a vertical thing, right, your intuition is something that's coming through you and it is your high self. It is then opening up further, on up to guides. Your high self is your own intuition. When you learn about what your own feeling of being in alignment is, then you can start opening up to guides beyond that. But let's not do that until we have our own voice down, okay, because you're opening yourself up and there's energies out there that are not positive, right, and so you gotta know the difference, otherwise you get the trickster, and that's useful but painful.
Speaker 1:This is all sort of coming to me as we're talking, because so many of us and I've said this a million times in podcast interviews give our power away, and the reason I'm thinking of it is I had doctor appointments today and as you get over a certain age, they scare the heck out of you with well, you need to take this and you need to do that, and you need to get this shot and this vaccine in, and my mind was spinning and I said no, no, no. And I think we need to take time to realize what is right for us, whether it is in a situation with a doctor or a friend or a business, because not everyone is strong enough or, yeah, I'm gonna say strong enough to say no, hold on, hold on. We just assume, because someone has had this much education or someone is higher up a corporate ladder, that they have the answers that we need, when in reality, we have the answers.
Speaker 2:Right. I think the thing is people bring information right. People who are well-educated bring information to the table. I think everybody's got to do what's right for them. I think we are also part of a social fabric, so we also have a responsibility as a group, because I think that's the one of the things that's going to be most surprising to people as we get more into the age of Aquarius is that we are not an island. There is no such thing as a human being as an island. You're a bunch of particles. We're connected much in the same way. I'm talking about these archetypal experiences. So our individual choices have impacts on groups, on families, on communities. It's not just like I'm gonna do what I'm gonna do and it's right for me and everybody else can go pound sand. That's not really the truth, right? It's sort of like what's right for me. And then how do I kind of work within this kind of fabric? Because not only are we responsible to each other, but we also have to make those decisions for ourselves that are good for ourselves.
Speaker 1:Right, Right Interwoven in the fabric of life. We are just a little thread and we have to make that decision so our thread doesn't break, but we also have to take into account all the others around us.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, I think that's true and I think that's something that has been challenging a lot of people. I think that there's so much information that we don't know there's a lot of fear out there. It's totally understandable and it's really just sort of like who do you believe the people who are waking up now, the people who are learning that their intuition is possibly their most important skill? I will tell you, that's going to get exponentially bigger as we get into the age of AI and other things, because AI does not have a human frequency and if you are not connected and don't feel like you can discern, a frequency, and that's what people will fall for.
Speaker 2:is this manufactured stuff?
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's a little frightening, but we have the power to overcome that. We do 100%. Yeah, we just have to take it upon ourselves and actually do it and realize that our worth is more important than that robot over there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, and I mean like you don't have to. I think it's interesting to note that so much of the stuff that we see floating around us we see floating around us because we have access to a computer every day in our pocket that is many times more powerful than any computer in the 80s or any kind of access you would have to the Library of Congress. This is here, right here, and that's why it's so overwhelming, because we're still kind of in our infancy in terms of information age and we're still not knowing that. You can just not look at it, right.
Speaker 1:Well, I don't look at the news. I don't read the news. I mean, I know it's because you hear people talking, but I choose not to do that. I also said that a bajillion times.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you have to. I have. My Twitter feed is full of producers and reporters and stuff that I know and people who are lawyers in front of the Supreme Court and people like that, and so that's my little dip into the news and that's as far as I go.
Speaker 1:We're chatting in January. This will not air until late February, but numerology this year I really felt an energy that 2024. And I know that the I know I don't mean to say I know, but I've listened and read that it's-.
Speaker 2:You have a knowing.
Speaker 1:Yes, I have a knowing. Yeah, the eight year is one of manifestation and really moving along and I think that's really exciting. I mean, always a new year seems exciting just because it's like, okay, let's try again this year, even though it's just one day to the next. It's not like same me, I don't get it. New year, new me, I don't do that shit. No, same me, yeah for sure.
Speaker 2:But there is something right to be said, astrologically and numerologically, when we transition into another year I'm sort of curious about that I agree with you, I find, first of all, I had a ton of Leo show up in every single reading I did today, which was really interesting. We were talking before we started recording and Leo is the eight in most tarot decks. It also has the lemon skate above its head, which is the symbol of infinity, which, if you turn it on its side, is the eight. So it is a lot about what as above, so below right, and that's why it's such a strong manifestation energy. So what you're doing is you're basically bringing things from, you're picking them out of the flow right in a quantum field and you're misting them on in a linear timeline that we're in here in a 3D kind of tangible way, right?
Speaker 2:So the energy of that lemon skate, the energy of power, I mean the strength card is an eight and is a woman. Okay, so it is about feminine power and you and I were talking before about there is a massively interesting and ubiquitous healing energy around the wounded masculine right now, and this is a year of feminine power. So I find that tremendously interesting, that those two things are kind of coinciding and if you want to work with that energy of eight, I think it's fabulous to use that lemon skate, that eight on its side, or make it look like an eight and just think about, like, the cycles of things and how other things just flow into another and that is what the eight is, if you have some suggestions for how we can best utilize our own energy.
Speaker 1:Well, you just gave one to picture the infinity or eight sign. Let's get a little tip for people to give them a boost to get going on this year, even though it'll be February, it'll still be the new issue here.
Speaker 2:At this time of year. We, first of all, we're recording this right before the new moon in Capricorn and new moons and full moons. New moons are about manifesting, are about putting intention out into the world, and full moons are about receiving. So new moons are masculine and full moons are feminine, right. So the new moon in Capricorn is about long term intention. Long term intention because Capricorn is earth energy, it's Saturn energy and no, in the Northern Hemisphere we are not planting seeds in January, but we are like you can do seedlings in your basement. You can do, you know, you can do that and create that type of garden. This is a great time to put for roots, for understanding your roots, for understanding ancestral information, for understanding all kinds of ways of manifesting from a ground up, kind of thing which the astrology chart is the I see is your roots and the MC is the leaves. So if you wanted to do something for a new moon, whatever any new moon, you can set an intention and you can infuse it into a crystal. This is Citrine and this is about abundance. So basically, all you're doing is you're opening the container to your you know. Basically you're opening and saying hello, spirit, it's Mary Jo, I'm here to manifest some wealth and abundance in my life, abundance in all things positive for me, and I'm basically you're sort of meditating on this crystal and you're flowing energy to it. All right, you're flowing energy to it. And then what you do during the next six months, not just the two weeks between that and the full moon? The full moon in Capricorn doesn't happen until June. So whatever you're manifesting during the new moon realizes six months later.
Speaker 2:Okay, or within that six month time, new moon in Capricorn can be many, many years of manifestation. You plant it right now. Many years of manifestation, you can make that part of the intention. And so whenever you're getting a full moon the end of this month we have a full moon in Leo. So look back six months ago. This is why I'm such a freak for journals, because if you look back six months ago to see what was going on with you, I write every single morning what was going on with me. If I look back to the new moon in Leo, I'm going to see what I was manifesting Was I in a good space or was I not in a good space? And then now that comes to roost at the full moon in Leo at the end of January. So you'll have a new moon in Aquarius in February, and it follows right along. It follows right along with the zodiac.
Speaker 1:Oh, it's so fascinating. I feel I'm overwhelmed and fascinated and we are coming to the end of our time here. You've been so generous with your time, but you have such great information on your website too, and your YouTube channel. Do you work with people one on one or not anymore?
Speaker 2:I have a group called Pathfinders. That is my core group, and we do a live every Wednesday at one o'clock and they can ask questions and I pull cards. I know a lot of them, been in there for years, I know them. I actually have had lunch with some of them when I was traveling around, you know, or dinner, whatever, but Pathfinders is a very intimate experience. I haven't done one-on-one readings in a long time but I want to promote.
Speaker 2:I have a group of terror readers that I certify and they're on the channel so you can go get a private reading, because I got sick of saying I'm not doing private readings right now. So there's that, and every once in a while I'll show up on there and make some openings to give private readings because it's fun. Right, it's fun, it's interesting. I love the one-on-one. Most of my work is in classes and that's why I do the general readings, because I want people to get a flavor for their own intuition. I want people to work on helping themselves. And then, hey, level up into Pathfinders, because this year, 2024, is the year that I'm adding a half an hour to every Pathfinder session and I'm teaching a little bit of learning your own intuition and how to harness that.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's so valuable. I mean, that's something we all need, unless you're totally tuned in, you know, and I feel like everybody has their intuition come and go at different times but absolutely it's going to be fabulous to access that all the time and I know that's, you know one of your roles.
Speaker 2:Yeah, just know the frequency of it, because people come to the channel a lot and they're in crisis and I'm like you can't learn to ride a bicycle in a hurricane, Right? So you've got to start doing this work when things are peaceful, because your voice, it doesn't scream at you. That's fear, Right, it's useful, but it's still fear.
Speaker 1:I think that if people are listening and they are in crisis mode, just take a deep breath, step back and maybe start going to your YouTube channel and try to see what messages resonate with them, with you. I was trying to do that today because I think it is really helpful. Just try to, because you have to take a deep breath and you have to go okay, and you kind of have to pretend okay, I'm not going to get anything out of this, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. Just do it before, right.
Speaker 2:I mean, I listen to a lot of other terror readers. There's some I like, there's some that I always get triggered by, and I think that's useful too, because that's showing you the things you need to work on. So I don't shy away from readings that have terrible titles or scary titles. Don't shy away from that. That gives texture and flavor to your intuition. So allow yourself to have the triggers. That is the most meaningful information. It's showing you where the bodies are buried.
Speaker 1:And we also. People bother us. You know like you're bugged by people because they have a part of you that you don't like about yourself, that you see in them.
Speaker 2:Absolutely. Just turn the pronoun around Like what is it about me that I just don't like? It's not them, Everybody's just walking around being a mirror for you. Yes, Seriously.
Speaker 1:Oh, I see that so well in my own life ever since I first started realizing that I'm like, okay, give that person grace because honestly, you got that in you too 100%, or you wouldn't care, you wouldn't care. They would just be like water off a duck's back. Mary Jo, thank you so much. What is your YouTube channel? Where can people find that?
Speaker 2:It's called Soulful Revolution and you can just, you know, look up Soulful Revolution, sagittarius, and you'll find me, or whatever, and you'll find me because we've done a very good job of branding that name. So if you go searching Google or searching YouTube, you'll find it Soulful.
Speaker 1:Revolution. I'll put it at the end of the show notes and this will also be on YouTube listeners, so that you can actually see Mary Jo, and then you'll know how to find her, and that's your website as well. Is Soulful Revolution, yeah.
Speaker 2:SoulfulRevolutionTVcom. Yes.
Speaker 1:We went off sort of on a different path than I had really anticipated, because I wanted to talk about this sentence on your little bio thing and I just want to read this because I love it. It says by revealing a person's life purpose using the tools of astrology, tarot and numerology, mary Jo believes that, armed with that awareness, people become unstoppable, and I really just wanted to repeat that because I love that. Who doesn't want to become unstoppable in your own life, whether you are looking to achieve fabulous, amazing wealth or dreams, or whether you are just looking to have a secure family environment, we want to become unstoppable. And I appreciate you doing that for others, because my purpose for this podcast is to shine a light on others who are awakening the light within others as well.
Speaker 2:So Correct, correct. And I love that too, because I feel that the most often asked question I ever get is how do I know for sure if, and then fill in the blank. How do I know thinking for sure if and then fill in the blank? And so there's a lot of work to be done in terms of it's not a thinking, it's a knowing, and when you know your purpose, you don't doubt yourself.
Speaker 1:You know, see, there's so many things, because what you had said earlier about the little islands, that always contained a portion of you, I feel like that's how we are in life. If we look back, there's always the essence. There's always a little, at least in my own life, when I look back on what I've done. The essence of what I know my purpose is is woven throughout all my little islands and it, hopefully, is throughout other peoples. And if it's not, it means they weren't on purpose right, they weren't possibly. But we all lead, we all take those little, traverse, those paths to get to a certain point, and I'm always looking to fulfill my sole purpose in this lifetime, and Absolutely. I think it's a big question for another time is how do we find that? You know, how do we access that? And it really is all inner knowing. I get that. It's just a matter of taking steps towards what lights you up.
Speaker 2:There's so many roads to it it's probably you know as many roads as there are people you know. There's so many different ways of doing it and finding it and you will only see the way by making the way. Like you are the way, you are the path, and we, each of us, come to that realization in a different way.
Speaker 1:Before I say goodbye to everyone, do you have a tip or a strategy that we could perhaps incorporate now to start us on that path to finding our life purpose?
Speaker 2:if perhaps people are not aware of that, my tip to that is to well, it depends on where you are in your life.
Speaker 2:If you have lived, you know countless generations, like I have, or decades, like I have you will probably have some really good fodder for understanding what you're drawn to and what you're not drawn to. But I firmly believe in astrological direction of something called the North node, and if you don't know what that is, I'm gonna recommend homework that you should look it up. North node I do teach a bunch of classes on it and you know you can come to the channel and there's some classes there. But pay attention to what that is, because a North node is basically it's a mathematical point. It doesn't matter in terms of like what it is a body or an asteroid it's a mathematical point that's pointing you in the direction of your purpose and your mission on this planet. A lot of people take it as a job or a career, which it did fit in that way. For me. It doesn't always have to, but it will be part of any kind of career path you do have.
Speaker 1:Because I don't know my time of birth. Will I be able to determine my North node?
Speaker 2:Well, we can work on that. It is something that it takes 18 months to traverse through a sign, and so we have a good chance of at least identifying what the North node is with you, and that means we'll also know your South node and a lot of people. Most of the time, people come to the class hugging on to that South node for dear life, because those are skill sets and things you brought with you into this life and you are unnatural at, and so, yes, it's normal to embrace that. But at some point you're gonna have a crisis in that arena in your life and the answer is in that North node. Ooh, so interesting.
Speaker 2:And when you do that, right, when you go toward that North node and you embrace that because it's always outside of your comfort zone, north node is outside of that comfort zone and then that South node skill set will open up again, because you are here to learn new things. You're here to especially people who find themselves. Yeah, there's two kinds of people the people who go, ooh, that's exciting, I wanna understand what that energy is. And people who go uh-uh, not doing it, and they will have tower moment after tower moment after tower moment in their life because they will not have even been curious enough to understand that this information or this direction is pointing you in the direction of what you're here to do and be and become, and how you employ. That is up to you. You can employ it in a thousand different ways.
Speaker 1:Such good information I've heard about the North node, but now I'm really curious as to. You've really opened up my mind and I know that you have opened up my listeners' minds with a lot of information and it can be overwhelming. So I recommend everybody go to your YouTube channel to sort of start this journey, if you have not already started on the discovery of your astrological not sign but way of being Because of the North node. I don't know what my North node is, so I've gotta go into this and really that's why I do this podcast to learn and share, so that other people can learn, because we are all here to shine our light. People and Mary Jo, thank you for shining today on my podcast.
Speaker 2:Really I'm Thank you for having me here. My job is to elevate others as well, and so I'm working on that every single day.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I think that we all should, and my little message to all of you sparkling humans out there is to embrace that information and work on shining your light. More than just being a positive, sparkly person, it's really embracing what is truly, truly authentically you, and then it's going to shine, and then people are going to say how do I shine? And then they're gonna shine, and then the whole world will be filled with light.
Speaker 2:Ha ha ha. Right, and we need it, and we need it. It's definitely one of the reasons that I was opened up to this work, super honored to be part of it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, right, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you for having me, of course, shine on everyone. And if you are enjoying this podcast, I get to ask you this but please subscribe it and if I was as good as your Uber driver, give me a five-star review rating, because really it's not about me, it's about you, and it's about creating that sparkler effect that I like to call it, so that everybody's light is shining. So I appreciate you, I thank you and thank you for shining. See you next time.
Speaker 3:Walk through life. Every day is a new beginning. Shine your light. It's your day and the world is waiting. Move along to the song singing in your soul. Feel the beat, clap your hands, let it take control. All you need, all you want. Are you ready to fight your way? Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, cause every day is a new day.