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What happens when personal healing meets collective consciousness amidst societal chaos? Join Giana Giarrusso and special guest Danielle Manseau from Venus Rising RI as they navigate the turbulent waters of political division and societal shifts.
They reflect on how hyper-independence and self-reflection can help us maintain our balance, while emphasizing the importance of observing rather than absorbing the external noise. Each of us plays a pivotal role in dismantling outdated systems, making room for genuine progress and collective healing.
Are we crossing ethical lines in the name of entertainment? Giana and Danielle dive into the controversial practice of publicly reading celebrities' astrological charts without permission. Drawing parallels to the consent-driven world of energy work, they explore the fine line between curiosity and privacy invasion. Shifting gears to the political landscape, they discuss the frustrating trend of candidates focusing more on criticism of opponents rather than discussing solutions. They also touch upon the environmental concerns surrounding offshore wind turbines, underscoring the need for innovative and balanced approaches to progress.
In the face of hyper-independence, how can we revive genuine connection and community? This episode drives home the critical need for respect, creativity, and collaboration. By fostering genuine connections and embracing a mindset of abundance, we can counteract the abuse of power and align with natural cycles for effective societal navigation. Personal empowerment, patience, and energy clearing come to the forefront as we prepare for significant global changes. Tune in to discover how personal growth and collective healing are intricately intertwined, offering a pathway to transformative spiritual awakening and emotional self-awareness.
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This is the Nearly Enlightened podcast. I am your host, Gianna Giarrusso, and today I am joined by Danielle Manso of Venus Rising. Welcome back, Danielle. Thank you for having me. Last time, we talked all about Taylor Swift and how it pertains to the current healing kind of space that we're in right now, so I'm excited to see where this conversation goes today. We had initially planned to maybe talk about dating in 2024 and us being single spiritual girlies and what that's been like. Um, but I think, with like the current events going on and we're coming up on election season and I've just been seeing um so many posts of division and hate and um, people not honoring other people's opinions and respecting that we're all entitled to these different points of view I think that we're going through like another huge wave of consciousness leveling up and we're kind of seeing that shadow side right now we're kind of seeing that shadow side right now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I totally agree and I've been seeing. Especially, I have a group membership who we meet every week and I tap into their energy and I do clearing and healing and so every week I'm really gauging the collective energy as well as the individual energy. And everyone has this big theme, especially last week and this week is all about there's like so many confusing elements because there are changes going on. So people are looking to latch on to something because everything's up in the air and we're all kind of waiting for something to settle. But what we forget is like it's all a reflection of us. So everything you're seeing, we've kind of collectively decided, hey, changes need to be made.
Speaker 2:And everyone that I've spoken to, especially this summer, has been dealing with their trauma, dealing with it big time, trauma, dealing with it big time. It has been at the forefront since 4th of July. Yeah, we entered into this energy that we haven't been in in 200, I think it was 48 years of the last time we've seen this energy was when the declaration of independence was signed. So right now we're in this big energy theme of what does independence even mean to us? What does freedom even mean to us. And there's this huge fixation on hyper independence, on extreme individuality and what that means to be free when really we need each other. So this divided bullshit is like it's tough. And then I encourage everyone to like it's
Speaker 1:just a distraction to keep us divided so that, you know, the powers that be can run around and continue to create wars and do whatever the hell they want with our tax money. And the fact that people can't see that yet or I shouldn't say that people can't see that, because I'm sure if you're listening to this podcast you get it but it's really crazy that you can't see beyond, and we spoke about it right before we started recording. But all of these people fighting over which side is better, the right wing or the left wing, Like you said, if you look at the whole bird, it is, both wings are connected to the same body. So it's like what are we even fighting about?
Speaker 2:exactly because when it comes down, it's all the same stuff and then we try to push our point points across to other people and then we're absorbing and then we're, you know, turning to anger, we're turning to frustration, and I find it most frustrating for the people who can see that there's something, there's some big change, because you know what sure we're seeing the changes and there's like now we have maybe some more options and everyone's like oh well, we got to stick with this side, or or go to the other side, or this person other side, or this person sucks, or that person sucks.
Speaker 2:Those are not the root problems. And if you're not looking at your own root problems, then chances are like we're going to continue to see this and we're going to graze over it and then we're going to be repeating the same old story. So we have an opportunity now to shift the paradigm. A lot of people are timeline jumping right now and it feels weird where, like, there's a lot of unknown, there's a lot of like what the fuck is going on? It's confusing, but we kind of have to sift through it and my main like affirmation lately is observe, don't absorb.
Speaker 1:Yes, and I think that looking at all of this through the observer's eye, without a sign you know like what I say about meditation, like sit and observe your thoughts, without assigning any attachment or emotion or meaning to this. Like can we just zoom out and look at the big picture about what's happening, like they are keeping us divided for a reason because the longer they keep us fighting each other over stupid political sides, the longer they can run around and play for the same team behind the scenes and do whatever the fuck they want, like send money to continue a genocide in pal or continue this war in Ukraine. That's like absolute bullshit, like on the backs of hardworking Americans, and I think that so many are scared of what comes next. So we're clinging on to this old system that doesn't work anymore, clinging on to this old system that doesn't work anymore. But the longer we hang on to these old systems that don't work anymore, the longer we push progress away.
Speaker 2:I completely agree and you know, on the spiritual side of this, this is like to look at within the self, because it's a collective issue, it's not just the people. We can't give all of our power to these government officials.
Speaker 2:It's like, where can you look within and see where you've had abusive power? Where have you, you know, bent things to your will, especially with manifesting, like right now, the super manifestors like we're all experiencing, like I know for me, I'm a manifestor in human design. I'm also like a master manifestor in my life. I am used to shit coming in quickly, quickly, quickly. This year especially, I have had to work for every single thing that I want and work hard I've ever had is like, feels, like it's coming up at once.
Speaker 2:I think a lot of people are experiencing this and it's like listen, these are all traumatic things that we're dealing with. Our food is fricking, poisoned. There's shit all in it. Our water I can't even tell you how many people come into my office for a session, or even if I'm having a virtual session with them, even just interacting with friends the heavy metals that they people can feel coming out of their teeth and out of their mouth dripping, dripping down to the back of their throat. You know, with yoga and there are certain poses that help promote that, that drainage, that heavy metals, oh my gosh, like that's in our water.
Speaker 1:It's in our food, but you know what I do have hope. I know that there are changes being made because there are certain counties. It's in our food, but you know what I do have hope. I know that there are changes being made because there are certain counties there's very few, but there are counties that are taking the fluoride out of the water, out of tap water, and I think that is like huge progress. Um, actually, where my parents live in Florida, um, the County that they live in, they just removed fluoride from the water, and not only they just removed fluoride from the water, and not only did they remove fluoride from the water, but all of the tap water going into the homes are now reverse osmosis.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's amazing, pretty impressive. It's pretty impressive. So I think that it's easy to get swept up in all of the negative stuff that's, that's going on. I mean again not to get too political, but like look what just happened. Like we had an assassination attempt on a former president that is running again to be re-elected and no one batted an eye. Like that's where we have come to as a society, where somebody gets shot at on TV in public and no one bats an eye. It was like it never even happened. And that to me, like I keep going back to this Like that's fucking crazy.
Speaker 2:And I keep hearing like I'm sure you've seen it too all over the internet. Everyone's like oh, the Simpsons was wrong, because the Simpsons did predict or they had an episode where Donald Trump gets shot and I think he dies. But it just goes to show that change is happening, the changes that we're making. We're starting to see a new reality, maybe him turning his head that specific way it obviously saved his life. And it just goes to show that the timelines are shifting and that we have free will and that things aren't just going to be predicted and dictated to us.
Speaker 2:And people lose hope in the fact that they latch on to like oh I've been told what to do, so I have to do it. There's too many extremes. There's the extremist who's like the complete rebel, and then there's the extremists that are totally, completely compliant and will do whatever they're told. It's like how do we find the balance within that, in the everyday life and everyday life and focusing on the positive things? I love what you said about seeing where little changes are being made, because it's that low hanging fruit that we already have that is essentially going to provide for us.
Speaker 2:But people are not seeing that and they're going into this scarcity and fear mode which obviously wants to be promoted in this propaganda, and I mean, I think that it's it's historically most countries do it like. I just read in one of the books that I have um, I was working on a client and it was actually about the uterus and it was basically saying that, um, like, if you have, I wish I had that book at home. But if you have, like troubled periods or issues with your uterus, that it could the root cause could be if you were born into a country at war and I'm like what country hasn't been to war?
Speaker 2:It's like no wonder women are like but it's just like it's a big thing and there's like, obviously, that battle of the masculine and the feminine. We need to accept that we have all sorts of contrast and that we are diverse and we need to accept that about ourselves so we can accept it about society.
Speaker 1:Yes, and I think so. We're in the shadow period of a Mercury retrograde. It must, I think.
Speaker 1:shadow period started last week, so it must be going in to retrograde sometime next week and I think that even in the astrology healer community you see a lot of fear-based um let's call it propaganda, because that's what it is um, and I just don't buy into that fear-based astrology anymore.
Speaker 1:You know, I there was a post um from the first Capricorn full moon that like it came up in my discovery page and the astrologer was like don't go out in this full moon, this full moon is dangerous. And like all of this stuff, it's like okay, so you're telling people to stop their lives because this moon is dangerous. Like nothing is inherently good or bad, so like this full moon isn't good or bad, like that was just so crazy to me and like I just wish people like this would just like get off the internet because there are so many people who buy it and are like batting down the hatches and like I'm not going out because this astrologer told me that this full moon is dangerous. It's like I just don't think that that has any place in the spiritual sphere anymore and I would love to see us shift away from that. That's why I really champion astrologers who use these transits as a learning opportunity, a growth opportunity, like Colin Bedell is a really good one.
Speaker 2:I follow. I'm a member of Elizabeth Peru and she is always positive. She does daily astrology energy updates if you're in her portal and everything is always positive. She uses words like could you feel the challenge, but it's never like doom and gloom.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and it's like we're telling people to not go out in certain transits, like to stop living their lives, Like that's not even an option for some people, so like right it's a growing.
Speaker 2:It's a growth, it's a growing opportunity.
Speaker 1:Yes, it all is. It all is. It's like not positive or negative, negative but can we use it to progress forward? And sometimes progressing forward looks a little bit like conflict, like it looks like having tough conversations. It looks like, um, yeah, just like changing your point of view, which I think a lot of people have a really hard time doing, you know? Like going back to the political stuff, yesterday I had a social media friend post a picture of Kamala Harris and was basically like I would vote for a hedgehog if it meant not voting for Donald Trump and it's like, oh my God, this mentality is just heinous to me, like it's not solving anything.
Speaker 1:We constantly go back between the Democratic Party, the Republican Party, back and forth, back and forth. It's like we're not progressing forward, we're going to stay the same. So I think that we need to look at all of this with the observer's eye and look at it as an opportunity for real, lasting change. And I think we are coming on to like I think in 2020, it started we're coming on to like a huge wave of collective consciousness, and when you're riding that wave like I think we're kind of in that point where the wave is breaking and it looks a little scary. It's like are we going to go under? Are we going to drown? Are we going to ride this out to the shore?
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, and like a couple of things come up as you say that, and it's like the first thing, cause I don't want to, I don't want to forget this. I do want to know, like going back to the astrology and I know you're the one supposed to be asking questions but, um, this is a conversation like talking about energy ethics. How sure, how? Like talking about energy ethics, how do you like I guess this is ethics in general like let's talk about like the energy ethics and then I'll go into like the political ethics. Um, the first one is I see a lot of astrologers like publicly reading the charts of like celebrities like Donald Trump, and like explaining why he has all this stuff in his transit.
Speaker 1:I'm curious because- so, fun fact, him and I are born on the same day.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, I love it. I love it. June 14th, it's crazy, but how do you? I struggle with the ethics of it. It's like is it any of our business? But I also kind of love seeing it. It's like, is it any of our business? But I also like kind of love seeing it. I'm like, oh my God, that makes so much sense, but in a way it's like it's almost private, like people's energy is private to them. There are energy ethics that I see being kind of like misused. Going back to that abuse of power of like, why are you publicizing this? Why are you tapping into this person's energy? It's personal to them. They didn't give you permission. It's almost like breaking into someone's house, right? Because your, your energy and your aura is yours. So I'm curious to see, like, what you think about that, cause I definitely am like. I teeter between like, oh, I like that information, and then like, is this ethical?
Speaker 1:So so funny that you bring this up, because I have really never thought about it before. But now that you mention it, yes, because think about it. So we're both energy work practitioners, so like if you're doing energy work on a person, you are asking permission to go into their energy fields. And yeah, if there's an astrologer that's, or you know, like some kind of energy worker that's doing that and not asking permission to tap into that energy, yeah, so like it does bring up some sort of spiritual ethics there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's like abuse of power, right? Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. You need to, yeah or should and like. Again, going with onto the ethics, moving onto the political aspect of it is I was just telling you before we started all I keep seeing are these nominees, or I don't know what they like the elected people, elected officials or the people who are potentially going to be on the ballot. Right, you listen to most of them and they are using the other person, like. So we'll use trump and biden, for example. But I like robert kennedy too. I even heard him saying biden, biden, biden, biden when I was listening to his speech the day that um biden, so, and he's saying Biden, biden, Biden. I'm like I am sick and tired of hearing these people point fingers the other person's name yeah, what, what, what are we solving here? And I heard yeah.
Speaker 1:Let's talk about how we're going to end this war in the Middle East. Like let's talk about how we're going to stop sending billions of dollars to Ukraine for no fucking reason at all. Like let's talk about how we're going.
Speaker 1:You know America. This is something I just said to somebody recently. If you think that the systemic dumbing down of America is a conspiracy, you are part of the problem. We used to be number one in math, science, education, and now we are not even in the top 30. Like that doesn't concern anyone because those are the future generations that are going to be taking care of our generation. So maybe it's selfish of me, but like, I don't want these kids running around ignorant. Like, and also like I think we might have talked about this on the podcast last time or I've talked about it before, but you know elon mus. I'm like on the fence about whose team I think he plays for, but, um, one of the things that he really says is like we have stopped encouraging people to be creative, to be um inventors, to be innovators.
Speaker 1:And that's also a scary place to be, because if we're not innovating, if we're not inventing, if we're not creating and pushing society forward, then we're sliding backwards. So like are we closer to? Like we're losing our seat at the table? Yeah and and not, it's a slow push and the innovators because, like I do think you know, we've, in our generation, we've seen a big push of technology like I remember. I remember the day we got a computer and it wasn't even hooked up to the internet, like it was just a computer, and so we've seen the big change. We saw the shift from pay phones to cell phones, to now smartphones. But I feel like since then there hasn't really been anything that's been like wow, this is something that's really like shaking up the way we view the world, or like changing the landscape of how we do things, or challenging the landscape of how we do things. Like I don't think electric cars are it? Like I don't, um, that's a topic for another day, perhaps. Um, but like we're not creating solutions.
Speaker 1:You know something that's happening here in rhode island right now, and I'm sure up and down the coast, if you live in a state that borders the ocean, are the windmills, and we just saw here a huge repercussion of the windmills, like they're not safe. They're not safe. I don't care who is telling you that they're the future of energy. They are not. They are harming our environment. We just had an 800 chunk piece break off of one of these windmills off of the coast of Newport and they actually had to shut down a bunch of beaches in Newport and mass because it obviously shattered its fiberglass. So you literally could not walk on the beach without getting shards of fiberglass.
Speaker 1:Now that's on the beach, so imagine what is in the ocean for ocean animals to literally ingest or get in their eye or or people to swim in their skin or people swimming in. Yes, so it's like that's not the future, that's not the future.
Speaker 2:Um two things, two things. So we were going to talk about the dating, so so I had just read this like. I told you this insufferable but so relatable book and I had like tagged a page with something I thought was so interesting. But I think like it almost pertains to this. So we kind of having this like forced breakup right With Biden right now, which is okay.
Speaker 1:First of all, it was a long time coming.
Speaker 2:It's okay people, it's okay so.
Speaker 1:I'm going to read the man go into retirement in peace.
Speaker 2:Exactly so I'm going to read read this quote from this book it's called good material by Dolly Alderton Um, I hope I pronounced her name right but so the book is based on this couple that breaks up they're 35 and all about like the societal stuff that goes down and goes through your brain and like kind of like the mental breakdown that you have.
Speaker 1:Oh, it sounds like the last year of my life.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I mean we can do the dating episode another time, but this really I feel like pertains to what we're talking about now. So the quote is I once heard a theory about the first relationship that occurs after a big relationship ends. It's called the 90-10 rule. The theory goes whatever the crucial 10% is that was missing from your partner who was otherwise totally right for you, is the thing you look for in the following person. That missing 10% becomes such a fixation. When you do find someone who has it, you ignore the fact they don't have the other 90% that the previous partner had.
Speaker 1:This is America right now.
Speaker 2:Yes, so we really need to be careful. And going back to the ethics and what you were talking about is not. A lot of people know Marianne Williamson, who is huge in the spiritual community. You had said you thought maybe she'd run a couple of times before, but she's running for president this year or, and I'm not sure, the status of like, is she going to get on the ballot or not, but she's still doing her thing Every time she speaks. If they ask her a question about the current president or the um like other nominees yeah, other nominees.
Speaker 2:She's like, that person deserves respect. What we need to talk about is this so, if we can all get in our heads I don't care if you like Marianne or whatever, I'm not telling you like she's the better person. What I want people to get from me saying that is like. These people deserve respect. There are problems that need to be changed. Respect them, but let them go. Respect them and find out what they stand for. Respect them, respect your friends, respect yourself and let's just try to get along, because you're totally right about the invention and the innovation and stuff like that. Because and it goes back to what I was saying about our warped beliefs around freedom and independence People are hyper independent. So they're like I don't want to, I want to do things for myself, I need to make money for myself, I need to make money for this. It's not about helping, not even like. People just aren't tapping into their creativity because they're more worried about themselves and getting and doing and things coming from the outside that things are not coming from the inside anymore.
Speaker 1:Yes, and you said it, I think, before we started recording and I think the root of that comes from that scarcity mentality of everything being finite and everything being like a non-renewable resource. Take care of myself if I have like all of these things, but we have lost. So one of my favorite songs is a song by DJ producer Armin Van Buren, called alone, and he in the song it talks about how like we're so connected because of the internet, but we really don't have connection, real, true connection, and we're missing that absolutely human element. We are beings that are meant to be in tribe, meant to be in community, and we have isolated ourselves, and that is a trauma response.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm. No, I completely agree. And even last week or a couple of weeks ago, even last week or a couple of weeks ago, like I just realized, like we're over consuming. Like I went on this binge of like, deleting all people who I'm like no longer friends with. They have nothing to do with my life, I don't even see their content. I deleted our, unfriended them all from my Facebook archived old posts. I'm like I'm not this person. I don't want people looking at that and latching onto that idea. I deactivated two Instagram accounts that I just wasn't working. It was taking up so much space in my energy. I had no creativity left. I was drained, I was like I didn't know, I was like I don't even want to freaking post or go on social media because it's overwhelming.
Speaker 2:Like we need to kind of bring it back to these like ecosystems that we're surrounded by, like these individual communities, so that we can work together in smaller groups and then these smaller groups can reconnect to on a larger scale. We have totally lost that interconnectivity and like even talking about like trading we've like people are right now struggling so much that they're kind of resorting to trading and it's like this is not a bad thing. If you're financially struggling, like that is still abundant, like someone's willing to trade you for the thing that you need or want, that's just as good as money. Yeah, heck, yeah, it's all. It's all about the mindset. And I I'll admit like I go through scarcity too, because I'm on the same rollercoaster that everyone else is and I'm like what the heck you know? I think, especially for our age and seeing, like the housing market. That was another one. I got out of all of the Rhode Island like housing communities on Facebook because everything was so negative and turning political or I was just getting this like sense of hopelessness and I was like I can fix this for myself. I don't have to be part of this group. And now I'm over here allowing myself to open my mind to, okay, well, maybe one day when I'm networking, like I'm going to meet someone who knows someone, who knows someone that they'll maybe be like something available. And what do you know, after I started doing that, my friend was like, oh, I'm going to sell, and this was actually before, but I'm just realizing it now, as I've been working on this scarcity and like realizing things come through the unexpected ways.
Speaker 2:My friends were looking for a house in the town that we live in in Rhode Island. They live in another town and they've been looking and they've been going to all these open houses and we're like it's stressful. You have to put an offer in on the spot, like you have to decide hey, do I want this million dollar house right now? And then am I going to get outbid. So I had overheard one of my friends from work saying, oh, I think we're going to sell our house and I was like, oh, I may have, like some friends who might want to look at it, thinking nothing of it, my friends ended up buying that house.
Speaker 2:So, like, anything is possible when you take out that bot, like when you take yourself out of the box that we've been put in and right now we are trying to get out of the box in America it's like we've we've been put into this box and what happens? You become smaller and smaller and smaller. And that's exactly what's happening. And now it's like everybody start glowing again. Like what is your creativity? But the massive theme here is we need to counteract abuse of power because whether you know you're doing it or not, we've all done it. Okay, it can even be innocent, like we. You know it's something to look at within so that we can start to dismantle the system we've been in for 248 years. Yeah, cause things are talking about astrology. Things are being forced, like you either flow with it or you fight it.
Speaker 1:And we're seeing like a lot of auspicious um transits happening right now. And I'm not really like astrology Isn't something that I really put a lot of emphasis on these days, but I have great people to point you to. I just had Stefan Burns on. He is like he's like the weatherman of the future, like he talks about space weather but also relates it to astrology and is also very good at being like OK, this is the transit that we're going through right now and like this is how we can use it productively, collectively and individually. And I love that perspective.
Speaker 1:And he has been talking about a few transits that we're going through in the last couple of months that haven't happened in like over 187 years. Like so, wow, that's really cool. Yeah, we're going through like this very auspicious time and I think that, like you said, the outer world is just a reflection of the inner world. So it's like we're all moving through these things individually and collectively, and you know, this is something I said in 2020. I was very vocal about what was going on and I said everyone, buckle up, because this is the least crazy of the things that's going to happen in this decade. Like the least crazy.
Speaker 1:And so far, like I don't want to toot my own horn, but like I've been pretty spot on and one of the things that I said and I will stand by this I still firmly believe this. It's something that came to me through spirit and we're going to see these uncomfortable moments through the end of next year.
Speaker 2:I was going to say it's a 2026 and it's been predicted in astrology.
Speaker 1:Yes, and that's what it's like.
Speaker 2:That's why we need to go back as a society is like when you like. Think about the ancient ways they were. They were sitting around campfires and communing with each other, and they weren't sitting on social media. And even for myself, I get addicted to it just as easily and I've just been trying. At the end of the day, I'll just even sit down in my bedroom and listen to music. At the end of the day, I'll just even sit down in my bedroom and listen to music and I feel completely different because my energy is able to release in the way that it needs to, instead of consume, consume and then we're holding on. And the other thing is just that I'm kind of losing my train of thought. Spirits like get back, but no like.
Speaker 2:I think it's super important to understand and keep up with the energy climate and, whether that's through astrology, whether that's through energy updates, whether it's through seeing a healer, just understanding that this is collective energy and utilizing it to your advantage. When someone says this energy is going to be rocky, this is the least amount we're going to see, Utilize that to your advantage. To be like okay, this is what we're working on. It's not just me this is collective, Like we're in the flow, Like we've lost our sense of interconnectivity.
Speaker 1:Yes, flow, like we've lost our sense of interconnectivity. Yes, and if I start doing the work or you start doing the work, and then that has a vibration and a frequency that starts to ripple out, so like if we, like you said, put ourselves in this box of like oh well, this is just what it is, and like let's just ride this wave and see where this shit show goes, like no, you're only going to go towards the shit show. But if you start saying like okay, like you said, using it to your advantage, how can I use this to grow and develop and to step into my power and to be a pillar of light here on this planet right now, that has a tremendous effect.
Speaker 2:And that's how we're going to.
Speaker 1:That's how we're going to make those shifts.
Speaker 2:Absolutely. And and people like like I was saying earlier, are getting so angry and mad and frustrated and I, just from an energy, energy perspective and personally, think that it's because there's no depth to what we're trying to heal. People are not talking about the root cause, like the systemic changes that need to occur, and when we're not actually looking at the root, we know that the problems are not going to be solved by the way things people are saying. So that's why we're getting frustrated and angry and just not even able to like vocalize, and then it becomes having a childlike tantrum because our needs are not being met and it's like that is a form of bending to your, to your will. The universe is only hearing you have a tantrum. They're like oh you, you want to be seen and heard, but you're throwing this tantrum Like they can't. The universe gets confused and we need to find the balance in between asking for what we need and begging for it. We talked about that even with like dating.
Speaker 1:Yes, yeah, I know.
Speaker 2:So many parallels.
Speaker 1:Well, I mean, like when you talk about it in that sense, like if you're talking about the root, the root is the same for all of these issues. So if you do work on that root, then everything starts to heal on a level. It's yeah, it, it really is, it really is the same thing, but yeah, I. So, going back to what you said earlier about manifesting, I kind of like the last year I wasn't doing any manifesting, I was just like literally sitting in my shit, being like this is where I am right now, kind of like, like you said, like a little kid throwing a tantrum and being like, well, you know what, now that I'm in here, now that I'm in this shit, I'm not fucking moving. I think I'm just gonna stay here and wallow in self-pity and be sad.
Speaker 1:And recently I have gotten so sick of my own shit that I am starting to clean up the mess. So, like working on manifesting, and one of my friends from an Arizona entrepreneur group, nico, he does this thing Vision Espresso and he utilizes AI in like the most amazing way. And I love that because, you know, especially in the spiritual community, we hear like AI is bad, like we shouldn't be encouraging AI but, like you said, use it to your advantage. So what he's doing is he is taking your, he's walking you through this process and really uncovering your deepest desires and what you're working to manifest, and he uses AI to generate a message from your future self in your voice.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's cool. I'm going to need his name. Yeah, yeah, I will send it to you.
Speaker 1:Actually, I need to reach out to him because he needs to come on this podcast.
Speaker 1:It's time, so I have been listening.
Speaker 1:It's called Vision Espresso and I've been listening to my Vision Espresso every morning when I wake up it's the first thing I listen to, and every night before I go to bed it's the last thing that I listen to before I put my phone away.
Speaker 1:And I'm already starting to feel those shifts, just in mindset alone, of hope. And I feel like, collectively, that's what we're looking for, and I think that's why people keep spinning their wheels, like looking to these outside sources for that sense of hope when it's within you. So how, like us as energy alchemizers, like how can we help lead the collective through this alchemization process of becoming something better? And I think it's why I have this podcast, it's like why I do the work that I do, it's why I'm connected to all the people that come on this podcast as a guest, because I, you know, we talk about being a consumer and it can be a good thing and a bad thing, right, like we're not doing things like money wise, but our, our attention, our time, that's all um investments of the same, of the same caliber.
Speaker 2:So like can't all in exchange right?
Speaker 1:so if are, are we using that to to our advantage? So like when I'm consuming, like yeah, do I doom scroll sometimes, absolutely like am I really?
Speaker 1:just we're human am I really just looking for sourdough videos? Yes, absolutely, but like I'm also consuming things that are giving me hope, that are helping me to make those changes. Um, you know, like listening to stefan's youtube channel, like that's uh, his videos like I always wait for them. I'm telling you he's like the weatherman of the future, like doing energy readings, um, and I love him because he's based in science and spirit and he doesn't see them as separate things like we have separated them, like to him, him it's the same and I love that perspective.
Speaker 1:And Danica, who was like trailblazing and helping people find the subtleties and healing, and and you, who are working with people, like literally in the trenches every week, like what comes up and and working, working to alchemize that, and so, yeah, I have a tremendous amount of hope, even though there's like a lot of shit that we're weeding through right now and the last like two weeks, there's just been so much politically and I know that, as November nears, like we're only going to see it ramp up and, like I said, I think we've only scratched the surface on the crazy things that we're going to see in this decade and what's coming up over the next few months, like not in a fear-based way, but people better get prepared. Like when I made these predictions in 2020, one of the things that I said is like everyone better get right with themselves and get right with God, because you are going to need that spirit, divine connection, in order to decipher, discern and to move through what's coming.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and even just like it's restoring faith basically. So looking at all the places where you are lacking trust, support, faith doesn't necessarily have to be like you know, like repenting for sins or anything like that. It's just like, in overall, like getting right with God. When you say that, I think like getting right with yourself, become your own parent, become your own person, that you're seeking outside of yourself, like we're looking for, we're putting all the power in other people's hands and it's like reclaim your own power by picking up those pieces of yourself that you lost or gave away to somebody else. It's like.
Speaker 2:And then the balance within it, like I have said several times in this, this episode, is that like make sure you are not bending to your will or abusing that power, because that's where we're going to find balance on the outside and the reality will begin to shift and we have to be patient. Like alchemizing can take hours, days, months, years. It's just a fact. You know the body takes time to regenerate and if you're working on specific traumas that have been held in certain parts of the body, those different parts can take longer to alchemize. So there's a lot of different factors.
Speaker 1:Some of us have have been holding onto this for generations. It's generational, it's like it came before us.
Speaker 1:So now we're doing the work for our whole line and and you know, that's like the beautiful thing about yoga and I always try and bring it back to yoga principle. But when you practice the true essence of yoga and I'm not talking just the asana, just the physical practice, I'm talking about the all encompassing eight limbs, whole enchilada, all eight limbs of yoga when you truly practice the science of yoga because that's what it is, it's science of well-being.
Speaker 1:When you truly practice the science. You're helping to heal seven generations behind you and seven generations ahead of you, and I think that's the work that we're doing right now. I think that is the work you know. I'll take it specifically to millennials. I think that since we were teenagers, this is the work that we've been doing. Since we were teenagers, we were blamed for like basically all the world's problems in this country, and I think we're really we are kind of like the black sheep of all of the generations, because we're working to move beyond that to something greater, to something bigger than us, to something better, to more connection. Yeah, so I think that we are on the right path.
Speaker 1:It does look a little scary, crazy, confusing right now, but going back to what you said about placing your power in somebody else, like what I keep coming back to, this one post of this, one Facebook acquaintance, like putting all of your eggs in one basket, like Kamala Harris is the way to go. She's going to solve all of our problems. It's like no, she's not. No, she's not. Like, why do you want to put? No, she's not. Like, why do you want to put, first of all, all of that power onto one human being? First of all, that's a lot for her as a person. And, second of all, like no one, no one, can give you freedom and no one can take your freedom away. So, like why are we looking to these political leaders? As you know, we're putting them up on pedestals as gods, and they're not.
Speaker 2:they're not, they're not going to solve the problems, like, like we were just saying when I was talking about my friends in this like roundabout way that they ended up buying this house. What if there's a different way and we start focusing on like okay universe? We obviously need change. Like what's the different way and we start focusing on like okay, universe we obviously need change, like what's the different way?
Speaker 2:If we're collectively asking open my mind to show us a different way, we can be guided and we can be on a path and we can move through those stepping stones, but we have to remember a caterpillar does not turn into a butterfly in one day, no. And they have to remember a caterpillar does not turn into a butterfly in one day, no.
Speaker 2:And they have to turn to a change does not occur first. Exactly so we're underway with transformation. Don't get impatient, don't get greedy and continue to find balance. And that's how we can balance and like even out the scale of this kind of chaos that we're in. And it does so funny because it doesn't even feel chaotic. To me it's just like like everything's surprising, but nothing's surprising, yeah, and it's like okay, so where do we go from here? And like we really need to let go of the fact like we don't need to know what's going to happen. We don't. It's like we need to make our own decisions. We need to utilize our own intuition Observe, don't absorb, especially like I have an open head in human design. So every single night before I go to bed, I have to ask my spirit guides please rid any thoughts or ideas that are not mine, because I can very easily take on other people's ideas, opinions, what they say, what they tell me to do.
Speaker 2:So we need to be mindful of our energy bodies as well, because what we're absorbing not always good, yeah not always good even yours, yeah, and that's why I do my weekly energy clearing, because, like we do, we can like these filters can get clogged, these like there's no world that we're gonna live in anymore, where it's like you just have to wash your hands. Like science is proving energy. They've known about it. I believe they've been hiding a lot of stuff from us, you know, because it keeps us not powerful. But if we all reclaim this power in a beautiful way, in a harmonious, balanced way, we have that power. But it's really. It's not going to just be wash your hands. It's like, okay, we're gonna, you're gonna wash your, your aura as well. You gotta, you gotta wipe that site clean.
Speaker 1:Very frequently, very frequently yes, especially as these like tumultuous world and community events happen.
Speaker 2:Like clear yourself of that and I mean, and going back to, like, what's going on in Palestine. It's like it's shocking, it's gut-wrenching, it's extremely sad. What in all of us are we holding on to? That feels that same way that we are watching it from afar, that we feel like these people are abandoned. Where do we feel abandoned?
Speaker 2:So, really bringing it home and then understanding, like working on yourself to heal that within, so that we can start seeing those physical changes on the outside, but also remembering, like I'm not condoning anything, but everyone has a life journey that they're on. We all have experiences. At the end of the day, we have all experienced the same feelings and that's really what it comes down to. We need to really tap into our emotions and what's what's hidden and honor that so that we're not self abandoning. And then that sense of abandonment is, you know, we'll, I won't say go away, because we can't eradicate emotions, but we can soothe them and ease them and once we start doing this for ourself, we can start changing our perspective. So what is happening is not okay on a grand level, like this is a massive abuse of power. It's disgusting. Where are we feeling that about ourselves? We have to ask that the big thing. I know, yeah, I know.
Speaker 1:I feel like speechless, like wow, I think that's a good place to to leave everyone to kind of like meditate on that. Think about that. Um, I think that's a pretty good place to wrap up. Um, thank you so much for being here.
Speaker 1:This was a great spirit always guides the way and knew exactly what we needed to talk about today, even though our human selves wanted to talk about something a little bit more different, a little bit more lighthearted. But I think these difficult conversations do need to be had and we need to look at these things with the observer's eye and learn to hear people out, especially people who we are calling friends. We need to allow them the space to have their own opinion and, just like you said, respecting one another, we're all still human beings and everyone deserves some level of respect.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and keeping in mind too, that when your friends are coming at you or and it feels like whoa, I really feel like this person's being kind of aggressive. It's like have compassion. Like they're in fear, they're in scarcity mode. They are probably not feeling seen or heard in another way. So, keeping in mind that you know trauma is coming up, it doesn't make it okay for people to disrespect you and talk to you like that. I'm not saying that, but remembering just to to respect that we're all on a different path, but kind of on the same one.
Speaker 1:Yes, yeah, and remembering that, like those people who are in that mindset, you're never going to pull them up to your level, even though you want to, they're always going to pull you down to theirs. So, like, it's better to act on a sense of compassion rather than, like, get down and dirty with them. Yep, observe, don't absorb, I love that If somebody wants to join your container that meets weekly, how do they do that? Because I think after all of this episode, people might want to work on their spiritual hygiene a little bit.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so it's on my website, venusrisingricom. I'll give you the website, the exact link, if you want to put it up with the episode. And yeah, we meet weekly every Tuesday at 12 to 1230. I go live on Google Meet. If you can't make it live, no worries, I still call your energy in, do the work around your energy, and you get a replay to listen to. And you are free to listen to as many times as you'd like, whenever you please. So every week your energy is called in and then you get the replay if you want to. Kind of sometimes I think it solidifies how you're feeling to hear it. So whether you can make it live or not doesn't matter, it's here for you every week.
Speaker 1:And yeah, it live or not, doesn't matter. It's here for you every week and, uh, yeah, danielle, always a pleasure. Thank you for being here. If you enjoyed this episode, um, please like, subscribe and share. If you know somebody who might need to hear this message, please share it. This is how we start to have that ripple effect and just make the change, and I think this episode will definitely help support people over the next few months. So buckle up everyone. It's going to be a wild ride and I'm here to support you through. I will see you next time.