Read The Signs Before Life Hits

Your website crashes, your devices glitch, and your mood feels raw. Is it just “one of those days,” or is it a sign you’ve been ignoring? I’m Heidi, and I’m using a real solar flare meltdown as a starting point for a bigger truth: the world has always been communicating with us, but we’ve trained ourselves to stop listening the moment we can Google an answer.

We dig into three guidance systems you can use to navigate change with more calm and clarity: the earth, the sky, and your gut. That means stepping outside and treating nature like data not vibes by noticing wind shifts, animal behavior, and what your body feels when you finally slow down. It also means looking up and tracking patterns around moon phases and solar events. Even if you’re skeptical about Mercury retrograde, you’ll still get a simple, practical way to log what’s happening in your sleep, emotions, and technology so you can spot trends instead of feeling blindsided.

Then we go inward to the “second brain” in your gut, why gut feelings are real information, and how to tell the difference between fear and intuition. Fear screams and spirals. Intuition gets quiet and clear, often just “not this,” “yes,” or “wait.” I’ll walk you through a quick pause practice you can use before any decision, plus an easy one-line journaling habit that builds self-trust over time.

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Transcript

Solar Flare Reality Check

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Today the solar flares were so intense they knocked out half of the internet around me. Wix crashed, my website crashed, um basically ghosted me. And you know what? I knew it. I saw it coming, not because I'm psychic, but because I've learned the hard way to read the signs. Today I'm gonna talk about exactly that. Welcome back to the Surviving Changes Podcast. I'm Heidi, and if this is your first time here, hello. Welcome, and buckle up. So let's start with the Earth, the ground beneath your feet. Because here is the thing the earth has been communicating with us since the long before Google, since long before Wi-Fi, since long before any of us had a smartphone glued to our hand like we do right now. The earth has always been talking. The question is whether or not we're choosing to listen.

The Earth Has Always Spoken

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Now our ancestors knew this. They didn't have weather apps, they had their senses, they watched the animals, they smelled the air, they felt the shift in the wind, and they knew something was coming, something's changing. And then they adapted. They didn't panic, they read the signs and they moved accordingly. Uh we had a next door neighbor in Omaha, an older lady. Mo and Doed, it was actually a cute couple. Um, but that lady, she didn't need an app to tell what the weather was gonna do. She walked outside, looked up at the sky, took a deep breath, and then told you exactly what was coming. And she was right every single time. Now that kind of wisdom didn't disappear, it's still in us. We just stopped trusting it. Trusting it. We got so used to going um and outsourcing our awareness to technology that we forgot that we are the technology first. That all comes from us. So anyway, today I want to bring that back. I want to talk about three kinds of science the earth, the sky, and your gut. And how learning to read all three can change the way that you navigate everything life throws at you. First, let's talk about the sky. Yeah, I'm gonna go there. Moon cycles, solar flares, mercury retrograde. Um, I know some of you guys still don't believe that and roll your eyes. That's okay. Read my books. You'll understand. But if not, just keep listening. Because here's what's real the moon controls the tides,

Moon Cycles And Solar Flares

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the entire ocean. Billions of gallons of water moving because of the gravitational pull of the moon. And we're what, like 60-70% water? They really think it doesn't affect us. Of course it does. Full moons, at least for me, they're not a joke. Um, I don't keep track of anymore because I don't want to know. I I don't want to know it's coming. But um, all you gotta do is ask an emergency room nurse, a teacher, a mom with small kids. At our office, we used to, if a full moon was on a weekend, we would have extra um lawyers on shift to take calls. There is literally something that shifts. Energy gets big, emotions come to the surface, things that have been buried start pushing up like weeds through concrete. That's not superstition at all. It's simply paying attention, pattern recognition, pain in my existence. And so, um, the solar flares like today, they're massive bursts of energy. I don't know if you know what solar flares are, but solar flares are massive, massive bursts of energy, right? Um, from the sun, and they affect everything, they affect technology, the electromagnetic fields around us, they especially affect our own nervous system. So when the flares are strong, um, and you probably notice people report feeling anxious, restless, tired, raw, emotionally raw. Their devices glitch, systems crash. Um, that's not a coincidence at all. Now, I used to think that Mercury retrograde was just a cute kind of excuse that people used to make bad decisions. Um, and then I dealt with the major contractoring one, and I'm not gonna get into the details of that, but I will say this. My gut was screaming and the signs were everywhere, and I still did that deal because I didn't want to seem I didn't want to seem flaky, I guess. But never again. I'd I trust myself. Um I'm not that person anymore. Ha. The sky's a calendar. Um, if you use it that way though. It's like a clock, a communication system, all in one. You don't have to become an astrologer, and you don't have to change your whole belief system. You just have to start noticing it. Keep a simple notebook on your phone, or make um, get a notebook and do the full moon, the new moon, how you felt that day, what was happening around you. After three months, you'll see patterns, and those patterns will start to guide you. Um, in my book, uh Full Moon Magic. Moon Face Moon Face Magic. Sorry, there's so many of them. Moon Face Magic. It talks about full moons, it's one of the chapters, sorry. But go through that and it'll actually um show you how to make the chart, the moon charts and questions to ask yourself, prompts, things like that. Also, if you take the online class, there's a free online class that goes with those books if you want to dive in deeper, and they're interactive, so kind of fun. But um, okay, so anyway, third is your gut. Let's talk about your gut real quick. Um, you you can't ignore it, you shouldn't ignore it. Science calls it the um an enteric nervous system. I think I said that right, but they literally call it the second brain. There are more nerve endings in your gut than your spinal

Your Gut As The Second Brain

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cord. It produces 90% of your body's serotonin. Your gut is not just digesting your lunch, it's processing information, storing memory, sending you the signals that you need constantly. And here's what I want you to hear: that gut feeling, that quiet knowing, that thing that says don't do this or this is right before your brain has even caught up. That is ancestral wisdom. That's that's from God. That is generations of survival intelligence living in your body. Your people survived hard things, and some of that knowing got passed down to you. You don't even realize it, but it's right there in your gut, in your bones. It is in the part of you that just knows. The problem is that we have been taught to override it, that it's not real. We've been taught to be logical, to be rational, not to be dramatic, to give people the benefit of the doubt, to not trust our feelings. And every single time we ignore that gut signal, every single time, we pay for it later. One way or the other. Spiritual count. Read that one, and you'll understand what I'm saying. Um, now I've ignored my gut in business, in relationships, in friendships, in decisions big and small. And every single time when things went sideways, I could look back and see the exact moment my gut told me, and I didn't listen. Now, sometimes I chose not to listen because I was okay with the outcome, the eventual outcome. But my gut, regardless, my gut told me every single time I had the answer, whether I listened to it or not, the answer was always there, right? But so how do you tell the difference between like fear and intuition? Because that's the real question. Well, fear is loud, fear is frantic, fear is c it like it's catastrophic. Fear says everything is going to fall apart and you're going to lose everything, and nobody will ever love you again.

Fear Versus Intuition

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That's fear. Now intuition, it's quiet, it's calm. Intuition just says, not this. Or yes. Or wait. Intuition doesn't explain itself. It doesn't need to, because it just knows. Now start practicing that pause. Before you make a decision, any decision, stop, breathe, put your hand on your stomach, and ask yourself, what do I already know? Not what do I think, not what do I want? What do I already know? The answer is almost always there. Already, waiting for you to get quiet enough to hear it. So here's what I want you to walk away with today. You have three guidance systems available to you at all times. The earth. Get outside every single day, even if it's only for five minutes. Put your feet on the ground if you can. Notice what feels different. Notice what the animals are doing. Notice the wind, the earth,

Simple Practices To Build Self-Trust

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and because it's always sending you information. You can gather a lot right there. Next is the sky. Look up. Check the moon phase. Notice how you feel full. Right? Uh, full moons versus new moons. Notice that feeling because there's a big difference between the two. Pay attention when there are solar events. Don't panic about them, but be aware. Give yourself grace on those days. Give your please give yourself grace on those days. There are some days that I give myself so much grace. Take it. You deserve it. Rest more. Expect things to be a little glitchy, because they will be. In your gut is the last one. Check in with it before you make decisions. Journal one line every morning, just one line. Today I feel that practice of checking in with yourself builds the muscle of self-trust. And self-trust is everything. When all three align um and say stop, when all three say go, then go. And when they're mixed, that's when you sit still a little bit longer. That's when you wait for clarity instead of forcing a decision. Life is always sending signs. The earth, the sky, your gut, they're all on your team. They have always been. The only thing that changed is whether you were paying attention. The earth's been sending signals since before Google existed. The sky has been tracking time since before calendars were invented, and your gut has been keeping you alive since the day you were born. You're not powerless in the face of change. You are actually incredibly well equipped. You just have to slow down long enough to read what's right in front of you. Go outside, look up, check in with yourself. The sign's already there. And remember, life is going to keep coming at you. That is never going to stop. Your only job is to breathe the room and do the next thing. Adapt. Don't crap. I'm Heidi. Find more at survivingchanges.com. Uh, and I'll see you in the next one.