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Embracing Winter's Rest: Align with Nature's Rhythm with Jayme Rose Gray
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Discover how embracing the natural rhythms of the earth can transform your life and business as we welcome Jayme Rose Gray, a soul purpose guide and business coach, to our Nearly Enlightened podcast. We promise you'll gain insights into aligning with the true wheel of the year and be inspired to pause and reflect during winter's restful embrace. Jayme shares her wisdom on balancing society's relentless pace with nurturing feminine energy, leading us to find inspiration in the darker, quieter times and prepare to plant seeds for future growth.
Jayme shares personal stories of breaking free from conventional schooling to explore the joys of nature-based education and personal freedom. She shares her journey of stepping away from traditional systems, witnessing her children's growth in "wild school" settings. Join us in celebrating the creation of environments that foster exploration and creativity, aligning our lives with Earth's natural cycles. This episode offers a fresh perspective on marking time and new beginnings authentically, embracing the continuous spiral of the year.
As the winter solstice approaches, we explore rituals and community connections that can empower and align us with our true purpose. Learn how to integrate spirituality and business, much like a Druid's communion with nature, and discover the profound impact of daily practices that tap into local energy. By sharing our personal stories and traditions, we emphasize the importance of connection and nourishment during this introspective season, reminding you that embracing both light and darkness leads to sustainable success. Join us in this transformative journey of self-exploration and alignment.
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Welcome back to the Nearly Enlightened podcast, your high vibe toolbox for body, mind and spirit connection. Today, I'm excited to dive into a topic that invites us all to align deeply with the rhythms of nature, helping us find harmony in our modern lives. Welcome back, Jamie Rose Gray. She is a soul purpose guide and business coach, helping conscious entrepreneurs, mamas and mystics get aligned with their soul's purpose to make the world a brighter place for future generations. Her wisdom weaves spirituality and practicality, and today she's here to help us explore the true wheel of the year.
Speaker 1:So this is something I've been wanting to talk to you about. You posted about it a little bit, I think, like last week or something, and we're coming up on quote unquote the end of the year out. You posted about it a little bit, I think like last week or something, and you know we're coming up on quote unquote the end of the year, but for many of us in the spiritual community, we know this to not be the end of the year. This is like hibernation time and, yeah, jamie's here to talk about it. Hi, welcome back.
Speaker 2:Hi, I'm so glad to be back and also, did you see my post today? Because I literally posted about it again today and forgot that this was the topic for today.
Speaker 1:No, that's amazing. Do you want to share a little bit?
Speaker 2:Oh, that's so great. Yeah, this morning I just felt overwhelmed to remind people Like so many people feel so overwhelmed and exhausted with the holidays and like gifts and traditions and going to all the events and holiday parties, work parties, kid parties, school things Right. And I think secretly inside, everyone wants to actually focus on themselves, especially us in the soul biz world. You know, there's like a little bit of you. It's like I really want to just kind of sit by candlelight and journal out my year and like, yes, this is the time to hibernate.
Speaker 1:Like we go back and we look at what our ancestors were doing. They weren't partying in the middle of winter time, they were just trying to fucking survive literally.
Speaker 2:And you know if they, when they were gathering around the fire with no light outside, and that was their light. They were gathering around the fire with no light outside and that was their light. They were gathering right around food, around the hearth, around the fire, around the warmth, to literally stay together, to literally survive. You know, it wasn't like go out, run around. Now I'm saying this, I'm sure it's already triggering someone who enjoys that hubble bubble, you know, and you want to go out and you're festive and decorative and all of those things are beautiful. I think the bigger picture I'm not trying to pull apart those aspects it's to remind everyone that this is a beautiful time to rest, to reflect and for those of us that are, like, maybe really focused on with our passion, with our purpose, with our mission, I think it's a great time to look back and be like what did I, what did? Who did I become Like? What did I do? What happened this year? And I don't think our society gives us that time. It's a feminine quality.
Speaker 1:Right, and it's always like, oh okay, so you just finished up this. What's next? That's always the famous question. It's a feminine quality, right? And it's always like, oh okay, so you just finished up this. What's next? That's always the famous question what's next?
Speaker 2:That's the masculine energy. What's next? What's next? New energy tomorrow, new sun, new sun, new sun. Right, the feminine goes like hold up. What has transpired? Where did we go? What did we do? Who did we become? And I did it the other night. I could not sleep the other night. Oh my God, Whatever's going on energetically?
Speaker 1:No, the full moon. Yes, it was a very energetic full moon.
Speaker 2:I could not be there. Gemini full moon, right, oh, that, yeah, that makes sense Right, but I think there's like other things I can't remember off the top of my head.
Speaker 1:Well, all of the astrology is kind of supporting us and doing that look back, because we just finished up a mercury retrograde and, like you know, I'm not one of those people who fear the mercury retrograde my I'm gemini sun, so ruled by mercury. It's a time to reflect, it's a time to look back, it's a time to say, okay, this is what worked, this is what didn't work, okay, how can we move forward, like I think that's where we are energetically too, and I think this time of the year is also supporting us in that it's like okay, let's look back, like, what worked, what didn't work, and, in the spring, where can we put action to move forward.
Speaker 2:Absolutely, and this is the time when the seed drops in the. I like to help people with the wheel of the womb, and then there's the wheel of the year I help with as a druid and also as a high priestess and a womb priestess and all that. It's like north winter right. That is associated with where the inspiration drops in. It's that sky element, that air element. Let's say, for some it's not always that there are different directions and wheels with different traditions, depending on where you are in the world. But I'm just saying let's say, for the wheel of the womb, air is north, it's the ceiling of the womb. That's our connection to inspiration, to creation itself, to the ancestors, to the stars, man, and it's the dark winter sky that allows that to drop in. I'm not saying, if you live in California right now, that that ain't it, but what I'm saying is just like symbolically, yeah, right, when there is more darkness than light, that's when the creation comes in.
Speaker 1:I mean, even when you're living in those warmer places, like I talked about this all the time I lived in Arizona, but even this time of year it's you still get a little bit more darkness and it's like today it's 41 degrees there.
Speaker 1:So like you still like it doesn't matter where you live If you're in a different hemisphere, like maybe that's different because it's summertime right now, so maybe that's like a little bit different, but it's the same thing, it's just flipped Right.
Speaker 1:So, if you're in the Northern hemisphere, like, yeah, where it doesn't matter where you live, if you live in a warmer place, like you're still feeling this pullback of energy, this like reflection time, this planting new seeds, like even if you talk about it you talk about this a lot and I've learned this from you talking about goal setting as, like the seed planting, and like this is the time when seeds are germinating, like they're in the ground, they have to have that frost, um, they have to have the cold, damp, like dark atmosphere.
Speaker 1:Environment that's the word I was looking for, thank you. Environment, to be able to pop through the soil in the springtime and to grow and to flourish and to create fruit or you know, whatever it's growing into flower, whatever. So like this is that time, like embrace that it's, it's time to nurture, Like I I don't know about you, but I just want to like be cozy and like drink warm drinks, and I don't feel the energy. Like I still want to be in connection, be like celebrating, but in a different way, like not in a party way, like I don't know, let's watch Christmas movies and drink hot chocolate.
Speaker 2:And it's okay to rest more, it's okay to sleep more. Actually, let me say the word sleep more. I think a lot of people crap on themselves when they want to sleep more. During this time I've also noticed this with my children and my husband. We kind of want to lay around, sleep more. I don't in the winters. Right now. I'm not staying up later after the kids go to bed to work on my stuff. I'm falling asleep with the kids and I'm allowing us to sleep in. I just pulled Goldie out of school. That's another conversation we need to have on the couch. Lol. I pulled her out of school, not for it. We didn't even last two months. Lol, I'm full steam ahead. Wild school, nature school, homeschool, unschool, whatever the hell category that is.
Speaker 1:Celebrate for this. I think it's the way of the future. I actually saw your post on it and I was like fuck yeah, that feels right.
Speaker 2:I'm trying to be as, um, if nothing big happened, nothing bad happened, it just very quickly was not working out for her and I came to light about that. It came to light that she wasn't and they weren't really telling me, um, and she was basically my little girl. It's like shutting down in there and I'm like, oh, the fuck is she is by out, like I I snapped her out of there and but you know, I'll like, I guess this I don't know what topic- this is going into.
Speaker 1:Spirit always guides these conversations and you know whatever comes up is meant to be meant to be heard what I did was I.
Speaker 2:I let myself and this will this will help someone on the call today, maybe many I let myself go to the other end of the spectrum. If I think I'm ready for something or I want to do something, I'm pulled to something and then I'm curious about that or I'm questioning that. Then I allow myself to slingshot over to the other side. For 15 years I had talked about wanting to like on school nature school while school people thought I was crazy talking about this. I've got. I got into fights with people talking about this a decade ago. Now, look at the country, look at the mass exit. Now I'm just supported by millions and millions and millions of other families who are doing the same thing.
Speaker 1:But regardless, not to and not to go here, but like look at what just happened yesterday A fucking Christian school getting literally shot up in Wisconsin. Oh, it's like, oh yeah, oh yeah. So it's like you're sending your babies to these places where you think they're going to be safe, and it's like, not, it's not.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's very, it's very. This. Maybe we let this be a whole nother podcast. Oh, wow. But very quickly I was like why am I doing that? Let me go back to that. Like I had to allow myself. I was questioning like, okay, I have a. I have a three and a half year old that maybe she does want some more structured playtime. Maybe she needs to go off and make some friends, maybe she needs to like you know, I kind of wanted her to have like her own art time without her little brother interrupting all that. So I was like, let's explore. There's no harm in exploring, there's no harm in trying. It was down the road we literally walked to drop her off. It was the cutest thing. This place is great. Like this place is great. I would recommend them.
Speaker 2:But what I found out was is that she was literally just the first the beginning of the week every week, crying oh, for almost the entire, for me, I want to be home with my family, I want to be with my family. And I was like, oh my God. And then I found out from the teacher that's how this was going. I'm like it's been two months. Was anyone going to like tell me that you know, and then would spend the first 90 minutes kind of like on her own, not interacting with play and not considering these people friends. And I'm like right because they're on and we're forcing them to all play friends together, but she's not really getting along with that. So, anyways, I'm sure an early education person could be listening to me and being like well, that's because of this and that's so.
Speaker 2:In that moment I was just like I told the teachers I'm like you know, I don't really want to, um, I don't want her to have a negative imprint about school, right, and they agreed that I'm like you know, we don't need to do that to her because we love education, I love I'm a teacher Like. I love educating, I love working with children, I love working with adults, I love watching someone explore, I love to be educated. I'm a constant student, right. So I got to connect to her teachers on that. Mind you, I called it play care. It wasn't, it wasn't school, it was play care.
Speaker 2:And it was like four hours a day, three days a week, it was like the smallest amount that you could give her, right, but it wasn't working down and she was shutting down and not connecting and then like really wanting to be home and then crying before every day and I was like, nope, we're done, we to be home. And then crying before every day and I was like, nope, we're done, we are done. So where the hell did I go with this? But in that moment it gave me the permission slip to go, like to accept that I have known what she's needed this whole time anyway, because that kid thrives in nature, thrives in a forest. Her teachers were so surprised to hear that when we go to wild school she takes off with a group of 50 children she doesn't know and goes off and climbs a boulder following seven-year-olds right Running off with a random kid she's never met to go find rocks and sticks and throw them in the dam, right.
Speaker 2:So I'm providing her an environment where she can actually thrive and grow from there and I'm excited for my children and they're doing it together and I'm there and I'm meeting, but I'm like I'm not fucking playing with them. I'm like talking to moms, I'm doing this. They've got art activities where you know, my two-year-old at wild school goes in on his own, goes and gets the seed bucket and goes over with teacher and fills up bird seed buckets and just goes and does it, I don't know, just initiating things on their own. It's beautiful. So I feel like the world, what me and Jamie have have created, the freedoms we've created with running our own businesses, making our own money, creating our own schedules. It's almost like how could I not follow this path? Right, right, we've done it. I am living a dream.
Speaker 2:Talk about seeds, talk about dreams, visions. This is what him and I were dreaming about 10 years ago, five years ago, before kids, what right? Like wondering if we would even have them. And now, now it's here. Like the vision is here, I get to wild school, nature school with my littles, with these little mini humans that we've made, and it is so much fun. Honestly, I don't know who's more excited about it, me or them. Like, my inner child is just like so happy when, like, I get the email, I'm like what are we doing this week? Winter ornaments with all these cool things, cool Birdseed garland oh, I signed them up for nature school for January. Moving forward into winter, and it's like nutty squirrels learn about the six different species of squirrels, tracking animals in the snow, in their habitats, learning about winter adaptations and habitats. I'm like let's go.
Speaker 1:This is yes, and this is what you talk about all the time, too, is like you can't create the new paradigm. Going backwards and those types of four walls, kids in the same four walls for eight hours a day like that is part of the past, that is part of a failing system, that we are trying to, as creators, like are trying to move beyond to create that better world. So like, if we keep oh my God, I'm going to knock my microphone over, I'm getting Italian hands are going If we keep going back and trying to make these old things work, we're never going to create the better things of the future. Right Back to the wheel of the year. So, like, how can we?
Speaker 1:The Gregorian calendar is not it? They were not celebrating a new year In the middle of dead winter, when half of the population would not survive. Like you can't fucking convince me. There's something that I was just reading about that there's actually a 13th zodiac. Because there's there should be 13 months of the year made up of 28 days. We're like in we're in that time because Pisces when we go to Pisces, that's the last zodiac of the year, and then we move into a new calendar. Like that is the real start of the new year and I know for people like us, like we have kind of been celebrating that way where the spring equinox is- the real new year?
Speaker 1:Yeah, totally. That's what for people who aren't familiar with the wheel of the year, like I mean, a lot of different cultures originated, but for you it has very specific meaning. So just talk a little bit about the wheel of the year and where it originates and, okay, what our timeline is really looking like I want to go off the gregorian calendar thing real quick too, because it was literally like a pope who designed this shit like you know what I mean, like this was like literally, like a person julius caesar, and that's why we have so many names after him, right, so okay.
Speaker 2:I think, to help expand our consciousness real quick. What's crazy to me about the Gregorian calendar is that it actually is limiting. Yes, it was meant for organization. I understand that. Right, it was meant to organize. It was meant to put some order into what they considered chaos. But I'm inviting everyone to think about it not being a 12-month thing and a new year starting. What would it feel like in your body to just see that it's a spiral and that it's not ending? So what I mean by that is it's not a January to December thing. It just keeps going. Imagine if we pulled that limiting belief out of our mind, out of our hearts. Now, mind you, we very much still will operate by this calendar like it's going nowhere anytime, right, right, like I'm not saying we're not gonna just shift into a 13 month and we're not shifting right into the 13 moon calendar, which is exactly perfectly 28 days, and blah, blah, blah. We are here, guys, right, like this is, this is very much still reality.
Speaker 2:But for anyone listening our people, like you know I'll just say our people, all the people that will listen to your stuff and the people that will listen to my stuff. It's like what would happen if you just saw it as like a constant evolution, like. So that's why I love the wheel of the year. It still gives me organization and it really helps me flow naturally and cyclically where I am standing on the planet and what part of the planet is going through what, what season, what system, what energy, what vibe. I obviously have Irish background, irish, scottish background, so Celtic is my true north, that is in my blood and bone. And the Celtic you know it's cool, like the Celtic beliefs and as a Druid like I've studied this like we have a lot of the 30,000 year old geocentric principles. That means principles of the earth. That means principles of the earth like I'm talking about, like earth-based spirituality and stuff like that really mirrors the natives and the first peoples of this land back to their like 30,000 year, right. And when I've got to study both of those and see the polarity, like the parallel sorry, not polarity parallels that it is beautiful because I'm like, oh, I'm on this land, right, I'm on this. This is not my native land, but I can really respect it by living like this, cyclically with the earth. So the wheel of the year helps us see the eight, see the eight centered like it's centered around eight specific energies. We know most of them, most people, what the most popular ones are summer solstice, right, and winter solstice, those are on the opposite. Just like the equinox, right. Most people know those the fall equinox, the spring equinoxx, they all have names. But I really just want people to see this. Those are like the cross quarter days, right.
Speaker 2:What I think a lot of the fun, magical time is um is the cross quarter days, is what some witches call them. Um is the in bulk, right. In bulk is february. That's what I actually consider. Second right, that's what I consider my new year. Oh, interesting, you know. So, like the winter solstice comes and we then start to write that's the darkest of the day, right, but that's actually when the light returns to. But you have to sit with the darkness before you can sense the light. So a lot of people just jump into like the light's turning. It's like no, we are in the darkness, honey, right, and we got to sit with that and be with that. I think a lot of people hate this time because they don't like to sit with themselves. They don't know how to sit quietly with themselves. And I look at it.
Speaker 1:It's very hard, it's so hard I mean it's the hardest part of any kind of spiritual journey is to learn how to control the mind and deal with those uncomfortable human feelings and right. That's like why a lot of people don't and and this time of year is for that and, like most people, I talk about this every single year every single year, I send out an email that, like, basically says the same thing. It's like your new year's resolutions fail because this is not the time, like, you can create the idea now, but sit with that idea. Sit with that idea in this dark time and figure out the actionable steps that will make you successful.
Speaker 1:Like you know, we both came from a Lululemon corporate world and this is something we would talk about a lot because we did a lot of like 10 year vision and goals. And then you see that big picture of the 10 year vision and goals and then how can you break it down into smaller, smaller, manageable chunks so that you can actually see that goal come to fruition? And I think that this is a very important part of where we are right now in. In this time, it's like don't expect your, your don't expect to like, come up with this goal and then, january 1st, you hit the ground running like that's not gonna happen.
Speaker 2:You might not have energy for it till april. Yeah, legit. Also, people don't even want to be seen until april, may, june let me, I'll keep going with the wheel real quick, yeah, yeah, who's hearing this? Um, so, so we're. This is perfect, because it's about to be winter solstice that we're talking about this, right? So this is like the return to the darkness, right? Um, and this is where the light is born. This is also where the idea of like christ energy and the return of the light, the return of the sun energy, came from. Um, we call it there's specific names for it in Druidry I'm not going to go into that now and confuse anyone, but we literally that's called like the light of the child is what it translates to in Gaelic is like the return of that.
Speaker 2:And what I love about this is each mark on the wheel of the year. I wish I should have taken a picture of mine. That's like, literally, I have it on my wall. Jamie got one for me for my birthday years ago and I get to turn it. It moves every six weeks. I love that. It's like a good amount of time. It's not like the month and it goes fast. It's like every six weeks you know another season is coming and that is awesome. Not another season, but a new shift in energy, a new mark on the wheel, and the wheel turns. Man, that's. The whole point is to go oh shit, like what happened in the last six weeks, oh, my God, a whole wheel has turned. Now what did I do in the last 12 months? Okay, moving on.
Speaker 2:Then we have in bulk. In bulk is when it's the beginning, spark, energy of spring. It's actually when the you was born, when the sheep, the baby sheep, is born and milk starts flowing again. It's the return of the milk. The milk could feed the tribe. So anyone who made it past that mark was most likely going to survive going into the next year. So this was like this would be the time when our sick would die and those malnourished would die.
Speaker 2:The wintertime was also the time where our older ancestors would pull back and ration their food so we could feed the young. Like, if there was only so much food, it was our elders who said don't give me as much, we need to make sure the children survive. And this is like. This is like sacrifice, energy. You know what I mean. This is like some real hard truths and I think that's what the winter brings for people Some cold ass, hard truths about life on planet earth, right. But if you do the work and you do that excavating and you do that exploring, that's what it is now. We're not necessarily rationing in this part of the world, unfortunately. You know me, that's a whole nother podcast episode, lol, that we could go into, but stick to the topic at hand. You know it's it's more about like doing that internal work and that healing on thyself while we're here. So in bulk, really to me is like the new year. That's what feels like the new year to me. It also aligns with the Chinese new year. Yes, yeah, lunar new year.
Speaker 2:Yeah, lunar new year. And there's also another tradition I can't remember it, I don't want to butcher it now. There's another few other world ancient civilizations that started around that time. That is a great time to. That's when the farmers actually start putting some seeds and start really sowing their seeds and what's going in. So it's like the dropping in the seed, the milk is flowing, calves are being bored and we can start to butcher other older livestock and feed tribe again, and yada, yada, yada. Okay, your other older livestock and feed tribe again. And yada, yada, yada. Okay, then you have right.
Speaker 1:then six weeks later it's spring equinox right, that's when it's like okay, that's like that is go time baby right, that's like the geek.
Speaker 2:For us here in the north it's like the return of the geese, the canadian, like the canadian geese and their flight pathways. That's when you start to know like I don't follow, like people still follow, the friggin. What's that little thing that hides? A little hedgehog? The little, oh yeah, the groundhog what is it groundhog?
Speaker 1:yeah, groundhog, but ironically on in bulk like why, why?
Speaker 2:why exactly right? And I'm like just look up, just just, just just look at the birds and they'll tell you what's coming right. So the thing about the wheel of the year also is like go outside and and look around. So in Druidry, uh, when they're, when people are getting into Druidry, they say like a day in a year, sit in the same spot outside in nature every day for one year and don't say anything. Right, and it's this energy of like look around. All of the answers are there. You will be able to realize. It's not even about learning about nature. It's accepting your path on nature, that you are a part of nature that you are a part of fucking life.
Speaker 2:Yes, so then you have spring, go ahead. What do you say?
Speaker 1:No, I was going to say like well, I've talked about it this all season. Like we have separated ourselves from nature and like we need to come back to the fact that we are nature, we are part of nature, and like I really do believe that the the wheel of the year kind of helps. For me it's been. I don't feel this immense pressure of like, oh, january is coming, like what's this year bringing? It's like no, I get to sit with this for a couple of weeks and be like okay, what did this last year bring? What do I want to see this next year bring? Like what behaviors do I have to change in order to make that come to fruition? And then, like you said in February, like yeah, I'm starting to feel a little bit more goal oriented. I might start like putting things to paper, so to speak, of like okay, this is like what's coming through, this is what I'm feeling. And then that spring equinox comes and I am in a groove, I'm ready to move and shake.
Speaker 1:I mean, this podcast literally relaunched the first week of April. There was a reason for that. Like I took almost a year off to like go through my own dark night of like the whatever 15th, one of my my life spoiler alert Like those don't stop coming just because you're spiritually inclined, right. But in that springtime I started to feel the energy of like, okay, let's get back out there, let's like make nearly enlightened what it is and like this year I've seen the biggest numbers that I've seen since starting it and, like you know, maybe that's because I'm going into the fifth year like whatever it is, whatever you want to attribute it to, but like that the goal was behind it. There was like energy behind it.
Speaker 1:It was like the perfect timing. And now I'm just flowing with it and you know, we'll see what what next year brings. But I'm right now, I am sitting with that. Okay, like this is what nearly enlightened has, this what I've accomplished, this is what nearly enlightened has accomplished this year. How do we take that to the next level? How are we moving forward? And I'm starting to just like reflect on that. Now I'm not making any choices, I'm not making any goals, I'm not putting any, but, like, in the next couple of weeks, yeah, I'm going to like start creating those actionable steps to to take it to the next level.
Speaker 2:Yes, you should be in our. I just announced that I'm doing my annual soul mapping and strategy session.
Speaker 1:Yes, talk about that, because that's the perfect cause. It coincides, it works with the wheel of the year, right, and it's like.
Speaker 2:so what I love to do with this is I do it around January for the people who are kind of like feeling that like it's January but I don't do the new year's resolution thing, but like maybe they run a business and it's a whole new quarter and you know like kind of what should I do? So actually the funny part is that you brought up the Brian Tracy stuff right. So back when I worked at Lululemon, I led people through this big meditation but I ended up bringing them like into the quantum by accident. This was before I was like really secure in my powers and I was like, oh fuck, everyone ended up like 10 years in the future in a visualization and I was like, oh my God, where did I just bring everyone? And since then that was 2013. And since then I've just turned it into my own thing and honed it, but I still use the bat that.
Speaker 2:So what I do is I lead people into the field of potential and you go to see yourself in a 10 years of the future visualization. Um, it is led by your heart's desire. So I teach you how to go deep into your heart and let that be the magnetic pull in the field of potential. And then we go see and I drop you down in a day in the life then and you gather as much information as you can. You know visual sites, audio, who's there, what's going on, what's this, what's that? I walk you around, you kind of see what's up. It's not really crazy Like. Sometimes it's just like you being in your future house and being like, oh shit, look at the look at those athletes on the wall. Oh wow, I've got kids. Oh fuck, you know like, oh, you know little things like that actually really add up. And because it's your heart's desire and because of the field of potential, it is a available timeline, it is some available timeline that your higher self wants you to see now. Then we come out of that meditation. We, you know, take a little space from each other for a little bit, for a quick break, come back and hear some people's, because if that's like one of my favorite parts is hearing what people saw and what they felt and what they were became privy to. And then we do the Brian Tracy 10 year goal backwards and that really helps people go like okay, if I want that trajectory to happen and show up, what am I going to need to do? 10 years, five years, one year out, and then, with that, having like again, actionable steps and steps to take, it helps you go like, okay, this is the vibe for the year and if I get this sorted out within a year, I could be on track for that two, five years, six, eight, nine, 10 goal.
Speaker 2:What's interesting about this is I've been doing this for years with people. This shit shows up earlier when you see what's available for you and you see the potential, and then you talk to someone like me about it happening and then you design out actionable steps to take in love, in health, in wealth, in work, in whatever the hell the categories are you. It becomes more real and it becomes more tangible and then you can use your heart as a magnet to pull it towards you and it wants to match you, it wants to meet you right and and it can help it become stronger and that those magnets work stronger together and that shit can happen in two, four or five years instead of 10. It is powerful, right? Um, I will say asterisks, I will say I will say just seeing stuff.
Speaker 2:Seeing stuff doesn't actually make it happen. I think what you then see, what we like to do is make the path, make the map. But this is a hero's journey, y'all. This is like, okay, I want that. Right, You're most likely going to have to go into the forest and this and that, and you're going to have to climb this mountain.
Speaker 2:And this map I'm talking about is yourself. You are going to face all your shadows, right. You are going to come against every obstacle, every block that's living inside of you. All of your fears, all of your shit comes up, guys, and that's why I'm here in the world. I feel like I'm a guide. I help people through this and I go from soul to strategy from like I say I'm a guide, I help people through this and I go from soul to strategy from like I said, I'm a coach that covers energy and systems. You don't have to go for a coach over there for the business stuff and a coach over there for the spiritual shit. You actually get that all with me in my containers, in my masterminds, because, turns out, that's not separate either.
Speaker 2:The fuck it is. It is right is not separate and people are going to run themselves crazy trying to get it in different places. It's all connected. I like to say you want to do the most advanced self-help journey ever. Start a business, right, you? It's a.
Speaker 1:It's a great joke right, I'm like, I'm laughing because like, being an entrepreneur is like the craziest and my dad was an entrepreneur and he would always be like don't do it, don't do it, it's not for the faint of heart.
Speaker 2:It is not. You have to be kind of crazy, you have to be a little bit delusional.
Speaker 2:Yeah Right, and that's it. That's it. Like I actually I don't want the normal life. I don't want to drop your kids off at school and go to work and pay taxes and I'm like I'm fucking cool with that man. I've got some brilliant things to do on the planet. I've already done amazing things for the planet and what is coming for me is insane. I am here to help build this new way. Like I am an I'm an earth engineer. I can't stop. If I tried is where I'm at Right and I hope this is activating to people. That's what I do. I'm an activator. It's one of the things I do.
Speaker 1:Yes, I mean this podcast is activating, like listen to any episode because you're either going to feel deeply motivated or you're going to feel deeply triggered and either way, like that's the work.
Speaker 2:That's the work, right, and we're like for anyone who's hearing that and you're like I am a black sheep. Yes, look, get in with these communities. Realize that you are not alone. A lot of us feel alone in our work environments and our family environments. You are not alone. There are millions and millions of us who are receiving information and data and creation and inspiration on a regular basis and are being called.
Speaker 2:I talk about, like this in my thing, my free training, called by understanding your divine design of soul, purpose and your blueprint for that Like shit this is. You're being called to do something. This is not just some cute idea. You are being some ideas coming to you to co-create with you. It needs you, your energy signature, your unique vibration to make the damn thing. This is big. A lot of us have sole purpose and our purpose isn't necessarily what we have to do and what our job is. It's what people get from you being in purpose and how that affects the world around you. That shit is deep, man. I wrote a book about it, lol. That's how serious I am about this shit. Right, I had to write a book about it and it isn't even done. My god, maybe it'll be self published this year? I don't know. But yeah, I could go on.
Speaker 1:I mean, there are other books that tell us, like the bible and the yoga sutras. Both say like if you do the spiritual work, god is going to bestow gifts on you and it is your duty to share those gifts. And if you don't share those gifts like waste, you might as well not be here, right?
Speaker 2:It will also haunt you. That's what I tell people that he will Like. If you have these things coming to you and bugging you and nagging you, they'll haunt you. Right. If your calling is your calling, if it's true for you, we will continue to call you until I think some people do need to hear, and sometimes it leaves you and goes and finds another vessel. Yeah, you create it on the planet. There was like something this is a quick example that, like a bunch of people around the planet had the vision for the sticky note and then someone finally followed through on it and made it and a bunch of people were pissed about it. That was my idea. Bitch, bitch, you're across the world. Well then, you should have done it. You should have made it and someone and that has happened with many inventions and many creations around the world do it or someone else is going to do it.
Speaker 1:Yeah absolutely, we covered a lot in a short amount of time and I know you have to go, so we'll kind of wrap it up a little bit. But but just like one last thing to just kind of wrap it all up. So this time of year we're coming into the solstice you will. What would be your like? One piece of advice if people are like, okay, if I'm not supposed to set an intention right now or a resolution, then what the fuck should I be doing? Like, what is this energy for? Or how can we use this energy to better align to the wheel of the year, to move forward, to get to that place where we're creating our goals and resolutions?
Speaker 2:Yeah, the thing that keeps coming up, whereas you're saying that is just like. I know this is going to sound basic, but it's really going within. Find your truth, set up boundaries around that, right, like I call it. Like something like winter, like this. It will help you touch the hot wire of your soul. It's like like if that's a visual. It's like you want to be able to go so deep within yourself that you align with your own unique self here. And that may sound simple, it's actually the hardest thing to do in a world where we are so pulled externally into the world.
Speaker 2:Social media, what's everyone else doing? Oh, what's trendy, what's this and that? Like, oh, what's this and this person? Do A good way to see where you are with this as a creator. I'm talking to like creators and spiritual people too. Like, if you need to go on social media to get inspiration, that ain't it. You get what I'm saying with that, yeah, and we can all inspire each other.
Speaker 2:I'm not saying don't be inspired by the people in your field doing your thing. What I'm saying is, if you need to fill up your energy tank and not know what you're going to do for the day until you see what other people are doing and then use that you may want to sit with yourself. Another thing I said when people were like what do I do I get you know? What do I post on social media, I say posting on social media should not be the goal. It should be aligning with the creation that wants to come to you and through you right now and then, from overflow of that of you aligning naturally, it's a natural energetic charge. When you do that, you know, like when you get behind something that you're being called to do and then you do it, how much energy do you get? Projector.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, like so much. And that's what this podcast has been for me this year, and a big theme of this year has been sit in observance and a big part of my message. I have a fucking meditation portal. So if you want to go within, if you want to find that space, that truth within yourself, to sit with yourself, if you need help or guidance with that, that's literally how this all this is how nearly enlightened started and, like you said, it's a really hard thing and for me it's been a hard sell because people are like oh, I can't meditate I can't sit, I can't relax.
Speaker 1:It's like if you are one of those people, take a good look at that, it is a problem. It is a problem because observance I mean you even said it in this like to sit in the same spot and observe nature every single day for a year, like, yeah, there's. There is incredible wisdom in being able to observe without assigning any attachment, emotion or meaning, to just observe who observe.
Speaker 2:All answers are there. All of the answers you're looking for are within and that voice is really quiet at first or you're having like universal bitch slaps and it's time to fucking listen to that. A lot of them it's like a whisper of your soul at first, until you strengthen and train it. Like in my book, I talk about connecting with the spirit of your business. It's like it's not about you but it is. You can get into counsel with this thing that has come to you and through you, do it every day for a year and then come find me and tell me how that went Right. I also, like I talk as a Druid. I talk a lot about going into nature for this.
Speaker 2:Everywhere I live, I have like a prayer spot, right. So right now it's like down by the bay, um, praying at the spot, whether I'm with my children or I'm walking my dog or I've walked down there. I go there pretty much every single day for the last four years and I pray at that spot. Um, and I listened to what wants to come through, but I also put my prayers into the ocean there, Right, and I I have my own energetic temples and uh lighthouses set up energetically that are received from Europe up and down the eastern seaboard. Again, if you want to learn how to do that frequency work, that's what I do.
Speaker 2:But I teach people how to, like you know, like going to spaces and places and get in with the genius loci that's another word we use in Druidry. It's like learning about the local flora, fauna, the birds, the animals, the land, the water, getting in and be part of that web. And going there and getting quiet will blow your mind, man, Damn what comes through. So, even though it sounds simple, it is not to go within to get quiet and to listen what's there. Once you get used to it, don't you agree? You can just like get into a tap, into it. It's like a stream of energy.
Speaker 1:Yes, and it does become easier. And like everyone says that about everything. But yeah, when you start something new, it's going to be uncomfortable, you're not going to be good at it, it's going to feel like you have all of these blocks to it. But once you push past those kind of self-limiting beliefs, like yeah, it does become easier, it becomes a non-negotiable part of the day. It's like meditation doesn't have to be this big production thing either. Like you could literally just sit for three minutes. Three minutes, that's all it takes. Three minutes, everyone has three minutes. Every person who's ever come and told me like, oh, I don't have the time to meditate? It's like, oh well, what was your screen time last week? Right, right, you actually do have time.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh my God, on, and on, on, and on.
Speaker 1:And one last question to wrap it up before I let you go. So we're coming up on the solstice and you all, what is your like favorite ritual to do this time of year for this like section of the the wheel?
Speaker 2:of the year. This is a great question, lol, before kids.
Speaker 1:Oh, before kids we used to do.
Speaker 2:We used to gather in your kitchen. I right, it was like gatherings and hanging out and cooking and pots of food and candles and being outside with groups of women and making wreaths and all that. And now I have children and, yes, I'm one of those people who would just admit, like things change, all right, and you know it's like but, but, like, look how excited I get Now I get to invite my children into this Right. So now it's going to be more ceremony with them and bringing them out into nature. Like, look, my kids can already identify moss. They're two and three. They can crow like a, they can literally call like a crow. They can identify moss, they understand birds, they understand like these kids can go. So I'm like, you know, just like inviting them into it. I kind of even want to do the old school thing, you know, when you would go get pine cones and put, oh yes, Make the little bird feeders.
Speaker 1:I used to love doing that.
Speaker 2:See, right, it's like I know I did, too, like little things like that with them, and also we keep light dark in the wind, like we. I'm not, I'm like neurodivergent, so overhead lights are not the way for me regardless, I need plugins. But it's like we keep a lot of lights up, we get cozy in the home, so I might have like some nature crafts and stuff with them. We also I started sourdough, so I'm making and baking with them more. Um, my kids the two-year-old really likes to cook. I let him sit, stand at the stove. It sounds crazy, but that's the way our ancestors did it. You want to learn? You can come learn. Uh, goldie likes to bake. Um, so I'm like it's going to involve them. It's not going to involve friends and stuff this time, but my grandparents will be here and it's their grandparents, um, so we might have some sort of like cooking nature thing, you know. So I don't know if that answers your question, but that's just the season I'm in, right, now is that's how I feel too.
Speaker 1:It's like a time to it. Yes, these parties and like all the celebration are great, but like being cozy in the home and spending time with family. I have a big, crazy Italian family and we're literally all going to Florida to spend this time together. We actually all get in on the solstice, Like so we're all like coming in at different times on Friday and it's just going to be like the same thing, like eating nourishing food, just spending like real quality time together. Food, just spending like real quality time together and it can be that simple.
Speaker 2:Yes, and food, right. Some people will get involved with their candles, like making a gorgeous wreath, mind you also like obviously safety, but like wreaths, like making wreaths with stuff outside is really cool. There are mad videos and blogs on how to do those things. If you add candles to them, obviously, be careful. Yeah, they're like I would just say like that, inviting over people who really nourish your soul.
Speaker 2:Like how many times did we do this and get together? I was like it was freezing out, but I had like a curry pot on or something, Right. Or we were making like like right now, we're big into stews and beef stews and briskets and stuff like that. We just brought that to our clients that we love. He just like had a heart attack recently and he's lost all this weight. I'm like no, we are fattening him up and we made like all this beef and stews and this and that and dropped it off. Like that to me, is worth more than any fucking gift we could have dropped.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I agree, and I think that's like the original is like who's coming into this winter together? How can we all keep each other alive, right? How can we work together as a community and team and I think, when you like, turn it back onto that. And also for me now I'm like teaching my kids about the wheel of the year and turning the wheel of the year. They're at that age where we can start playing with that, and I teach them about prayer anyway and their auras and all that, but now they're going to start learning the wheel of the year. I mean, let's be real, they already know it. They are part of nature. I'm going to try not to just brainwash it out of them. Right, exactly, that's it.
Speaker 1:I'm going to try not to just brainwash it out of them, right, exactly, that's it. They get it.
Speaker 2:Like they get it. We are learning about winter and you know what my kids want to be out in the season all the time. We have wild school. Tomorrow we have to put snow pants on. It's going to be that cold. We're fucking going and we're making all these winter ornaments Like that's our winter solst.
Speaker 1:Well, thank you so much for being here. It's been a pleasure. We always have a good time on this podcast. I know, honestly, this podcast has been so healing for me the last year and I hope it is for everyone else. Obviously, my analytics are going crazy, so thank you so much for being here, for being a guest and, if you're listening, thank you so much for listening.
Speaker 1:Um, we have this episode and then one more episode coming out and then that's it for the end of the year. There might be a little bit of a break, um, so if there's a little bit of a lull and there's no new episodes, go back. Listen to the old episodes there's like immense wisdom in all of these episodes to the old episodes. There's like immense wisdom in all of these episodes. If you feel aligned to this, please like, support, like, subscribe, share, share it with a friend, share it with somebody who you think um needs the message. It really makes a huge difference and it keeps this growing, keeps this going and, um, yeah, I'm just super grateful, uh, to be in this space and to be, uh, the captain of the ship yes, captain gianna, lol, the gemini that's what.
Speaker 1:That's what you do, that's what we need and my five planets in leo oh yes, and I got, uh, my rising sign in sagittarius, so I have more fire than any air sign needs Also we need to get you on the podcast. Yes, yes, jamie also has a podcast. So before we wrap up, where can people find you, work with you, meet you?
Speaker 2:Oh my God, jeez Louise.
Speaker 1:Why don't we like I would say Send me links and I'll put it in the show notes.
Speaker 2:My main website would make the most sense trackingnorthcocom. Yep, that's because that's where you can like find the podcast. Go get the free ebook version before it becomes a printed actual book this year. Um, uh, all my courses, classes, community, the sole purpose, collective. It's a weekly thing. I have a mastermind. Take it to the next level tuesday circle of success. People in business like I've got mad stuff for people to do. Go to that. That will be like the main thing in there. But the launcher like podcast. So much fun, have we not? We don't have had you on there. No, I haven't been on. Oh, you know what you taught, for you did a class for full purpose collective. Yep, we need you on there. Yes, heck, yeah, okay, well, we need to figure that out. God knows what we'll talk about there, but I'm excited. We need to figure that out. God knows what we'll talk about there, but I'm excited.
Speaker 1:Thank you so much for listening to this episode. Like I said, if you like it, like, subscribe, share, share it with friends, share it with family and I will see you on the next episode.