Life, Health & The Universe - A Podcast For The Midlife Rebel
Welcome to **Life, Health & The Universe**, the podcast dedicated to empowering women in their 40s and 50s to embrace a vibrant and meaningful life. Join us as we explore the intersection of health, wellness, and personal growth, offering insights and inspiration to help you navigate this transformative stage of life.
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Life, Health & The Universe - A Podcast For The Midlife Rebel
Astrology for Parents: Breaking Generational Patterns & Healing Family Cycles with Brandi Khan
What if the key to breaking family patterns and healing generational cycles was written in the stars? In this powerful episode, intuitive astrologer and medium Brandi Khan reveals how astrology can help parents understand their children more deeply — and free their families from repeating old wounds.
A homeschooling mother of four with a master’s degree in psychology, Brandi bridges spiritual wisdom with practical parenting. She explains why the moon sign — a child’s emotional language — is essential for nurturing emotional security. Through personal stories, including how her children’s Virgo and Taurus moons shaped everything from daily routines to potty training, she shows how astrology offers unique, customised parenting insights.
Beyond day-to-day parenting, Brandi shares how natal charts uncover inherited patterns across generations. By bringing awareness to these cycles, parents can consciously choose to embody the higher expression of their chart and stop repeating the trauma of the past.
Brandi also opens up about her work with mediumship, Akashic Records, and Arcturian healing, and the extraordinary story of how her intuitive gifts first emerged through a message that foretold her father’s passing. She offers hope that, as rare astrological shifts reshape our collective future, families can raise children — and themselves — with greater compassion, awareness, and soul alignment.
✨ If you’re ready to understand your child’s emotional needs, heal generational wounds, and parent from a place of wisdom and love, this episode will inspire and guide you.
🎧 Tune in to Life, Health & The Universe and discover how astrology can break patterns and transform parenting.
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Welcome to Life, health and the Universe, bringing you stories that connect us, preventative and holistic health practices to empower us and esoteric wisdom to enlighten us. We invite you to visit our website, where you can access the podcast, watch on YouTube and find all of our guests in the guest directory. Visit lifehealththeuniversepodcastpageio. Now let's get stuck into this week's episode. Today, I'm joined by Brandi Kahn, an intuitive astrologer, medium and soul-centered guide who blends spiritual wisdom with grounded insight. As a deeply connected healer, brandy bridges the physical and spirit worlds, delivering messages from loved ones, angels and guides with clarity and compassion. Her work combines astrology, energy healing and hypnosis to support emotional healing and help people reconnect with their soul's purpose. Brandy, I'm really looking forward to diving into this conversation with you. Thank you so much for joining me. Do you want to kick us off by just giving us a big picture overview of Brandy in your words?
Speaker 2:Sure. So for the past 15 years I've been a full-time homeschooling mom. I've got four children and during that time, while I was educating them, something accidentally happened, but I know really it was probably by design. I was also learning a lot and growing spiritually during that time. So while I was educating them and reading, writing, arithmetic, there was this whole spiritual uptick for me. At that time I became a Reiki master, I learned about using intuition, I learned about mediumship and then finally I really learned about astrology and studied that in depth.
Speaker 2:So what I'm passionate about I also have a master's degree in psychology with an emphasis in child and adolescent development. So what I'm really passionate about is helping parents to understand their children at a deeper level through understanding the natal chart, understanding their child's chart, because for so long, with my four, I assumed it was a one-size-fits-all approach and, gosh, I wish I could go back. I wish I could go back to when they were younger and know everything that I know now. I think I would have been much more effective as a parent. I think I would have understood them at a deeper level.
Speaker 1:Wow. Well, we have some things in common, brandy, because I'm homeschooling my two kids there are Louie's nearly 11, winnie's nine so they started off in school and then we decided to pull them out of school and homeschool. So that in itself, um is a real uh growth tool for grown-ups, isn't it? Yes, yes, starting to question all of the um, those societal like norms, like what do I actually believe in and what is actually true, and I just think that our children are the biggest teachers for that stuff. How?
Speaker 2:old are your kids? I agree, I definitely agree. So I have my oldest is 22. I have three boys and a girl, so my oldest son is 22. Today is his birthday actually 22nd birthday and my daughter is 20. And then I have a 19 year old. So all three my 19 year old will be beginning college, and then my daughter and my oldest son are already in college. And then I have a 15 year old, who's my last one. He's the caboose, so that's who I'm really focused on right now.
Speaker 1:That's amazing, and I just want to take a moment to take my hat off to you, because you've been on this journey of like strengthening your own skills as well as teaching your children. Like that is pretty awesome, so like well, thank you thank you so much, thank you like thank you. Women are just pretty pretty freaking amazing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I agree, I agree. Let me have a look. I've got a whole list of all of the things that you want to do, but I think it's probably, I think it's. You've obviously directed us towards this idea of parenting, parenting and using astrology as a guide. Yes, astrology as a guide. Um, yes, and I've kind of been delving into to this a little bit as well, not to a huge degree, but just like opening up my awareness of what my kids need.
Speaker 1:I actually watched your videos on on the moon sign what their moon sign is and how that kind of oh God, I can't think of the word influences how we relate to our kids. Do you want to start with that, or is there something else?
Speaker 2:kind of popping up for you. Yeah, we can start there. Yeah, because and where I'll start is in astrology. Even if people don't know a lot about astrology, they at least know their sun sign. That means they know the sign that their sun was in at the time they were born.
Speaker 2:Not a lot of people know their moon sign, and when it comes to children and when it comes to parenting, the real magic is in the moon sign. And that's because the moon represents not only our feelings, our emotions, how we express ourselves emotionally, but it also represents what makes us feel safe, what makes us feel secure, what makes us feel nurtured. And so then we have this whole different idea of what I studied when I was getting my master's about secure attachment right Secure attachment versus insecure attachment, and our goal is always secure attachment. Well, the moon is the child's language of security. So that's where you really want to focus.
Speaker 2:When it comes to your child, you want to speak the language of their moon. For example, let's say that we have a child whose moon is in the sign of Gemini. That is a child who, if they're feeling any angst or frustration, they need to be able to talk about it. They need to be able to speak about it. However, if you have another child with a Scorpio moon, oh, their emotions run deep. They're strong, but it's like you will never be able to tell, and they're very private with what's going on in their inner world, and if you try to pull it and tug it out of them, they might lose trust in you. That makes them feel less secure. So you've got to understand how your child is wired emotionally in order to give them that sense of safety and security that they need.
Speaker 1:Yes, very interesting. Can you talk to us a little bit about that idea of attachment? I'm conscious that, like, your kids are grown up mine are younger and I think that in the, the audience for the podcast, we've probably got a range of those people. We've got people that are like empty nesters. You've got people like me that probably started, um, breeding a little bit later in life. Um, but that, that idea of attachment, can you talk to us about that, that and the relevance for different age groups as well? What, what that looks like, what it means and what it looks like?
Speaker 2:So attachment is really, especially when a child is younger. It has to do with how they form connection right, how they form connections with the adults around them. Are they responded to? Do we listen to them or do we ignore their cries for help? Do we leave the baby in the crib, crying, you know, and then the baby feels like it's a little bit less secure because no one responds to me anyway, no one hears me. So in order to give a sense of healthy attachment, we want our children to feel safe and the way that we do that is responding to them and being present. Being present, you know, and with our presence, saying you matter, you matter, what you say matters, how you feel matters. Or, you know, do we have a child who's upset and we tell them oh, be quiet, you know, nothing's wrong? That's not going to give them this sense of security that they need. So a child who was responded to in that way, consistently, will tend to develop a type of insecure attachment.
Speaker 2:Okay, and the attachment style that you develop as a child, it will affect your future relationships as an adult. It will affect how you are in relationships. Are you overly clingy? Are you afraid of abandonment, right? Or can you just relax into the connection and trust. Okay, those are things that attachment during childhood can affect later on in life. But the beautiful thing about it is even you know, we all grow up with parents who are not perfect and parents who are trying to do their best. And you and I are parents and we're trying to do our best. We're not always going to be perfect right with our children. So if there's some bumps and bruises along the way, that doesn't mean that our children are doomed for the rest of their lives. Attachment style is something that can also be weak or develop, you know, as an adult. So if we grow up with an unhealthy attachment style, that doesn't mean that that's what we've got for the rest of our lives. Okay, cool.
Speaker 1:Going from that the age thing. I'm really curious about this because I think for a lot of people we we're fortunate enough to be homeschooling our kids. A lot of people think that we're mad. Um, well, certainly in australia that seems to be the case, um, but I know like I've read a little bit about attachment and just this idea of like when kids go to school, because this is the story for a lot of people that attachment gets confused. So how do we navigate that, regardless of like, whether they're at school or not? But I think the challenge comes more with, or can be harder with, kids going to school.
Speaker 2:Right. So how do we overcome? Overcome that, oh yeah, go ahead, sorry. How do we overcome that? So, like when we've got children going to school and it's so funny that you're asking this, um, because right before I got on I saw a tiktok of a grandmother and her granddaughter and the the granddaughter was upset because at school the kids had been telling her that she was ugly because her skin was too dark, right, and so this young girl was feeling almost a loss of confidence in who she is.
Speaker 2:So when we send our children to school, a lot of times they're going to encounter other children who may try to shake their sense of self, who may try to dim their light a little, and sometimes, unfortunately, even teachers or authority figures can do the same thing inadvertently. So what we have to do remember attachment is all about the sense of safety. So when those things happen in the outer world and our children come home, do they have a safe place where they can talk about what happened, where we can affirm something different, where we can plant different seeds? Right? So secure attachment it's not about.
Speaker 2:It's not like we're going to prevent bad things from happening to our kids. It's not like everything's going to be easy. Nothing will ever be hard. What we are giving them is a sense of internal resilience so that when they go to school, they go out there in the world and someone saying something to them that's unkind. They've got a solid sense of who they are because we've built that at home and we've nurtured it at home and you know, even if they encounter that out in the world, they can come home and, you know, lay their burdens on the table with us and we can say you know that that's not true, you know who, you are right. So that's what it's all about.
Speaker 1:Yeah, what about age range? What about age range? Because I feel like it's really easy at this kind of age for my kids, where they're um 11 and 9, uh, that we kind of see they're growing up, they're becoming more independent and so we let them do their own thing more. I see this as a really essential age for that attachment to continue. But it's often the age where you see kids now like putting more of their energy into their friendships and less time with their family. Can you talk to that right a little?
Speaker 2:bit, yeah, so that's just a natural part of development. So they're. They're around 11, 12. The peers become more important than mom and dad, right? And what my friends think and what my friends are doing becomes more important than what mom and dad are saying. Wonderful, friendships are healthy, it's a normal part of life.
Speaker 2:But have I also laid the foundation for, if there's a friendship, that where there's problematic behavior that could be encouraged? Does my child have the internal fortitude and the resilience to stand up or speak up and to realize this is not aligned with me, right? Or do they go along because they really need that sense of connection? Is their sense of secure attachment with their friend? Is that where they get their validation? Is that where they get their sense of security from the friendship? If so, then they're going to be much more likely to kind of blow with the wind and do what others expect of them to do. So it's really about, okay, the firm, solid foundation at home, and then you go out in the world and have a great time and learn about who you are and discover other people, but from a grounded and secure place.
Speaker 1:Great, amazing. And that kind of brings us back full circle to the astrology in the moon, I think, because what you were sort of saying then was how they go out into the world and what they experience, that's going to be influenced by their moon sign, isn't it? So understanding that in the first place is going to help us to navigate that whole thing, right, okay, okay, is there anything else you want to speak to on that Cause? I've just been kind of going going with the flow. Oh, okay.
Speaker 2:I was going to say. I was just going to tell a story about the moon sign, a personal experience so with with my four children. They're growing up. I did not know astrology. So when my oldest son, whose birthday is today when he was potty training, we were doing pretty well, right, he was quick to train, except he still wanted to use his pull-up. When it was time for number two he didn't want to use the potty, right, and I could not figure out. I read every book, did everything I could. I could not figure out how to help him to take the next step and just to use the potty for number one and two. Nothing would work and I was getting frustrated.
Speaker 2:So just one day, out of the blue, I was sitting in our den and on the coffee table my husband's reference book of internal medicine. He's a physician. I was on the coffee table and I said, huh, let me try this. So I took the medicine. The internal medicine textbook turned to the section on dermatology and there were images of skin disorders. So I called my son over and I said you see these. You know, it's really important that we keep our skin clean. This is why you've got to go to the potty, because we don't want anything like this to happen. And would you believe, nadine kid never had an accident. After that, he never had an accident again. That was it Right.
Speaker 2:So I'm like, oh my gosh, I'm a genius, I have figured this out for everybody in the world, right? And and then it's time to potty train my daughter, my second child. I did the same thing with her and it didn't work. And it didn't work for my third child, my next son or my youngest. It did not work for anybody else except for the oldest, and I never understood why until I learned astrology.
Speaker 2:So my oldest son, his moon and his chart is in the sign of Virgo.
Speaker 2:So my oldest son, his moon and his chart is in the sign of Virgo. Virgo is the sign of cleanliness, hygiene, order, organization, but it's a big emphasis on hygiene and health, right? And so my oldest son when I showed him those pictures, the images, and talked about hygiene, I didn't even realize I was speaking to his moon, I was speaking to his sense of safety and security, and with that he relaxed and potty training was done. And my other three none of them have their moon in the sign of Virgo. That's why it didn't work, I was not speaking their language. My daughter's moon is in the sign of Taurus, and Taurus is a sign that speaks to the five senses. So for potty training with her I could have given her a scratch and sniff sticker or a piece of candy or something to stimulate her senses, and I would have been speaking to her moon and it would have been an easier process. So that's just one example of the importance of the moon in a child's chart. Wow.
Speaker 1:You could write a whole book on that how to potty train your kid using astrology. What are the moon signs for your other two?
Speaker 2:Okay, so my daughter's a Taurus, and then I have a Scorpio moon child and then an Aquarius moon Okay, all very different. And then I have a Scorpio moon child and then an Aquarius moon Okay, all very different. Right, very, very different, very different.
Speaker 1:How far into your parenting did you start to study astrology?
Speaker 2:Okay, so this has just been right around the time of, so it's been about seven years, okay.
Speaker 1:So your eldest would have been like 15 yes, okay, yes, wow. So it's kind of frustrating, isn't it, where you, where you learn these things and then in hindsight you realize how, how much impact they could have had on your early, early parents, yeah yeah, one of the secrets, yeah, exactly one of the secrets people don't realize is your children, their natal charts.
Speaker 2:Right now they're not living them out. Okay, they're not living them out. What's happening is the chart is being lived out around them. So you could look at your children's charts and you could see the emotional patterns at play in the environment around them, like with mom, dad, caregivers, teachers, right, and how the child will respond to that. And so then they start to live the chart around 14, 15, 16. They start to live out the patterns that have been modeled for them. So you want to look at the natal chart and say, oh my gosh, my daughter has this placement. This is the highest potential, this is what I want to embody, this is the lowest potential. This is what I need to steer away from, because if I go towards the lowest potential, that's a pattern that then she will live out in her life.
Speaker 1:Right, Do your children know their charts? Have you started to introduce them to it or, like, how has it been received?
Speaker 2:Yes, okay. So no surprise, my daughter is the one that really tends to lean more into it, whereas the boys tend to be a little skeptical. But my youngest what's so interesting is, in order to be cool with his older brothers, you know, at times, you know, he kind of laughs about mom's astrology or whatever. But then in secret, he'll come to me and say, hey, mom, I've got a soccer game, can you check my transits and make sure everything's going to be OK for the game? I'm like, ok, yeah, I'll check. And his favorite soccer player is Cristiano Ronaldo. He loves Ronaldo, so on my software he has saved Ronaldo's natal chart Before Ronaldo has a soccer game. He's like mom, can you check his transits so we can see how he's going to be doing? I'm like, okay, yeah, I'll check his transits. I love that, but it's all in secret, it's all very hush hush.
Speaker 1:He doesn't want to be judged by the older brothers. Exactly, exactly, oh, it's an amazing tool, isn't it I think I was talking to. I'm actually just starting to study astrology, so I was in my class this week and my teacher said that she doesn't delve into children's astrology very much. It can be a bit of a kind of tricky area because I think that we can look at a chart?
Speaker 1:Yeah, we can look at a chart. I mean, I've looked very briefly at my kids' charts. I know their rising sign, I know their sun, their moon, but I can see that they've both got clusters or stelliums in the eighth house and I'm like and I but I haven't looked any further than that because I don't want to make preconceptions about how they're going to live that, exactly, exactly, exactly.
Speaker 2:I agree with you. If you don't know exactly what you're looking for and then you go on Google, oh my gosh, that can leave you anxiety ridden. I mean like, because it's it's like a lot of the astrology on the on the web. They're telling you the lowest potential, the lowest possible expression, like the worst thing that could happen, instead of, oh, the most amazing way. Your child could make this work for them, right? So, yeah, I agree with you on that.
Speaker 1:It's that's a touchy area, yeah, yeah. And and also I think we could easily like I love the fact that you say that you look at those aspects in their chart and you go what's the highest expression? Because then you can see that in your child, right, exactly, you can see that you can nurture that, exactly, bingo. But if you exactly bingo, yeah, interpretations, and looking at the, you know the challenging things you could, you could almost direct them towards that exactly exactly.
Speaker 2:You're exactly right.
Speaker 1:You're exactly right just going to kind of be there for all right. I'm just going to hold on and if and if they need me, we can use this chart as a tool to help navigate those tough times if they come along. I'm really curious to hear more about parenting now. So we've talked about our kids and, yeah, becoming a parent has been one of the biggest life lessons for me. I think a lot of people would say the same. I became a parent in midlife, 40. So yeah, my life kind of turned upside down and it does for everyone, but I think the experience is probably different depending on what part of your life you're in.
Speaker 1:But but yeah, my children have probably been my biggest teachers and I think that part of that is wanting to improve my internal world and my outlook on life, so that I can then be a better parent. Can you right, can you? Talk to that and and some of the tools that you may have used in your own journey with that.
Speaker 2:Sure, yeah, I would definitely. I've always said that my biggest teachers have been my children, and especially when it comes to showing patience and unconditional acceptance. Right, it's so funny because what I've noticed is things that made me feel tense before or things I may have been judgmental about. One of my kids will, for whatever reason, show that or exemplify that in some way. Right, I'm just going to give an example.
Speaker 2:So when I was growing up in high school, there were a group of kids that always wore black, right Black clothes. They were into the heavy metal and people kind of had this negative stigma that they projected onto that group of kids, right? So why is one of my children into heavy metal bands always wears black? So it's almost, it's beautiful in a way, because what I was seeing as a young person and I thought of unfavorably, I had a child come in, and this is the way that I think about it. I think on a soul level, my soul and this child's soul said hey, you know, mom, I'm going to really teach you. I'm going to teach you about acceptance, and what you judged before is unfavorable. That's what I'm going to embody, right, will you still love me? Will you still be able to have an open heart with me, or will you be trying to change me and tell me what you want me to be, right? And so that's where a lot of the lessons I've noticed are coming in for me.
Speaker 2:My children are teaching me about acceptance, about love, about striking out in baseball, and still after the game, I need to tell them you know you're more than enough. Just because you struck out doesn't mean that you failed, right? And that's so hard because growing up, I was this overachiever and made straight A's and everything had to be perfect, right, and you've always got to succeed and you've always got to be pushing towards your goals. So when your child is not really able to do that, or like they strike out in a game, right? How do you handle that? How do you handle that? How do you process it? And then, how do you integrate that within your parenting without making the child feel as if they're less than?
Speaker 1:Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1:And there's something that I've witnessed in myself and that has definitely evolved in the um years I've been parenting. Is that, um, could you like that? Oh gosh, I'm trying to think. I can't think of an example, but when, uh, a sports game could you have done better? You know, um, right, not, and how that all plays out, and like, what of that is is learned from my own experience and the things that you say is learned from the things that were said to me, and you just pass them down without thinking about it right, rather than actually going.
Speaker 1:Well, is that my value? Do I actually care if they win or lose or, you know, is their worth based on this? What is success? There are all these questions that start to come out of it. Yeah, it's very, very interesting. Yes, definitely, start to come out of it. Yeah, it's very, very interesting. Yes, definitely. That's kind of gonna lead me into um break, like breaking generational patterns in parenting, because this is something that you help people with, isn't it? Yes, yes, um. So, yeah, part of my journey, I guess, is that I become a parent. I realize that my children are my biggest teachers and I start to reevaluate what, yeah, who I am what it means to live a good life and like how to heal myself and all of those that internal stuff that's going on so that I can be a better parent, and I think that's something that a lot of us go through. It's a big thing in this current part of our lives, just in the world as a whole, of that healing of trauma. Yes, and there's a big focus of that healing of trauma.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:And there's, there's, yeah, there's. There's a big focus on that at the moment, isn't there Like?
Speaker 2:energetically.
Speaker 1:Yes, there is yes, and parenting is one of the the things where this comes up, I think.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:I'm kind of rambling a bit today, Sorry no no, no, is that because it's Mercury? Retrograde.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, it could be.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it could be. Yes, oh, dear, sorry about that. Oh, that's okay.
Speaker 1:It's okay. Okay, so breaking generational patterns in parenting how does that work? How do you help people with that?
Speaker 2:patterns in parenting. How does that? How do you help people with that? So, again, you're going to go back to the natal chart because with the natal chart like let's just say, for example, you know we're both moms. Not only does the moon tell you about feelings and emotions, what makes your child feel safe, secure and nurtured, but it also gives almost a history of the way mom could react as a mother, the way mom's mom probably reacted as a mother, and mom's maternal lineage, right. So, for example, one of my children has a moon in Scorpio.
Speaker 2:Now if you go online and you read about moon Scorpio moms, people say, oh yeah, that means you're going to have a horrible mom. That's not what it means. He has a moon, scorpio moon and Scorpio squaring Mars. So that's a volatile aspect. It looks like emotional volatility. So when I became aware of how you can look for clues about mom and mom's lineage in the chart, I realized, okay, yeah, my own mother was emotionally volatile at times. Yes, her mother was emotionally volatile, as was her mother. It's like it was handed down right and I have a choice as mom when I look at my son's chart.
Speaker 2:Am I going to repeat that? That pattern that shows up in his chart. Am I going to repeat it? Or am I going to shake things up and say, no, moon and Scorpio is mom that's powerful, not mom that's, you know, emotionally intense and angry, with that Mars there? Now this could be mom who's powerful, mom who takes action, mom who's very directed right, and that's how I've decided to frame my parenting style, especially with this child, because it is the language of his chart. I see a really tense generational pattern there and I understand it because of the way that I grew up, and I understand I can go two ways. There's two paths here. Which one am I going to?
Speaker 1:choose In your birth chart? Do you see that pattern repeated? Oh my gosh yes.
Speaker 2:So if you were to look at my natal chart, you do see mom, who at times can be warm and charismatic, but also mom who at times could have been a little bit emotionally unstable, who could have been unavailable or emotionally detached. Okay, and those were all experiences that I had growing up. You see it in my chart like it's clear as day. Also as well, you see the same thing for father, for mother and father. They're the same signatures, right? So growing up was difficult.
Speaker 2:There were generational patterns that you can see in my chart, but I've made the conscious decision, with awareness, to step away from the lower expression of those aspects in my chart and instead go towards the higher aspects. So, for example, mom who was a little bit emotionally detached or emotionally volatile I could express that it's moon Uranus, as I'm someone, when it comes to my emotions, who I'd like to be really unique me. Science speaks to me, right. It gives me a sense of safety and security, right. I love to read about psychology. I could do that all day. So that's how I've tried to work with the energy in my chart and go towards the highest potential.
Speaker 1:I think that's a really important thing to note is often we hear of astrology and someone might say that they're going to have an astrological reading, have their chart um interpreted for them, but that's as far as it goes. There's an interpretation, this your moon's here. This means this, but there's no kind of integration and what you're expressing is that, in fact, we use this as a tool for self-improvement, right To open up our self-awareness, to become more conscious of the unconscious parts of ourselves, right.
Speaker 1:And to learn how to express them in their higher vibration.
Speaker 2:Right, exactly yeah, exactly yeah.
Speaker 1:So, when you're working with someone to help them break those generational patterns in their own, in their lives and in their parenting, how do you go about that? Because obviously there's an initial reading, but someone needs to know that this is going to be a journey.
Speaker 2:Right, right. So a lot of our patterns, the ways that we react, it's really almost hardwired into our reptilian brain or the amygdala. So if something happens, nadine, and you're triggered and your prefrontal cortex, which is the thinking part of your brain, shuts down and you're just reacting from your amygdala, it's a lot of times it's patterns that you've lived before, you've seen before and that you've repeated before. So when it comes to changing these patterns that we've lived our entire lives and we watched our mom and dads live, right, a lot of times you've got to go to the subconscious mind. So I'm also certified and working with hypnosis and it's called rapid transformational therapy. So usually what I'll do, I'll do a natal chart session for a parent. We'll see the patterns that are at play. They'll share their story with me and then, if there's further work they want to do for rewiring, limiting subconscious beliefs, we will do a hypnosis session and I'll record the session. They have to listen to that session once a day for 21 days in order to rewire beliefs Amazing.
Speaker 1:That sounds like a pretty good way to go about it. Yeah, and like you say, it's rapid transformation, right? Yes, because I think there can be a reluctance to spend time on ourselves.
Speaker 2:Right, right exactly.
Speaker 1:So you've kind of found a way of shortcutting that so that people can make progress Right.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:Amazing. We could keep talking about that, but you've got a whole bunch of other things that you do and I'm really curious about your experience with this. You've talked to us a lot about astrology Excuse me, and you started that seven years ago. You've had this. You've got this whole range of things that you do, including being a psychic medium. Right, how did you find out that you were a psychic medium and how did you kind of temper that into something that you can use to help?
Speaker 2:people. Yeah, yeah, so that's really wild how that came about. All of this first started with reiki, so I was initiated as a reiki master and, for whatever reason, that opened me up energetically to everything else. Right and like. Reiki is known as the gateway drug, because people start there and then open up into everything else. So I started with Reiki and then there was intuitive development and I thought that that was where I was going to stop and I had a reading with a psychic and she said you know, your guides say you're a medium. And I laughed at her and I said, yeah, you're crazy.
Speaker 2:I wasn't born that way and she said no, no, they said that you're a medium. I'm like no, no, they said that you're a medium. I'm like, huh, I'm going to check this out. So I started a mediumship class and discovered that I was a medium and my most significant experience that really let me know I was a medium. Oh gosh, do you mind if I tell you about this experience? Go for it.
Speaker 2:Okay, so it was August of 2016, 2016 I had only been studying mediumship, I'd say, for about nine months. Okay and um, it was around that time in class, we were given an assignment that okay, uh, you've been training, you've been reading pictures of people in spirit and connecting that way. Now there's no more. We want you just to turn your awareness to the spirit world and open up and see who steps forward. So there was this assignment where I was supposed to go into meditation and to see who would come forward. So it's a Sunday afternoon.
Speaker 2:I went to my bedroom, shut the door August of 2016, told the kids don't disturb me. And I'm like, okay, well, let me try this out, maybe my grandmother will come through. And I was shocked when an African American man that I did not recognize came through and he seemed to be dressed in clothes from the seventies and I said who are you? And he said my name is Earl. I know your father. And I said okay, he gave me more evidence for how he knew my dad. And then he said your dad, he's not well. He's not well. So, nadine, this freaked me out. I said, okay, I don't know what this is, who this is. Let me shut this down. I thanked him and then said okay, yeah, I don't know if I want to do that again. Then I sat him and then said okay, yeah, I don't know if I want to do that again.
Speaker 2:Then I sat there and said let me call my dad and see if he knows somebody named Earl. Does this make sense to him? So I called him and I said you know, if he doesn't pick up the phone, I'm going to hang up and forget about this, otherwise he's going to think I'm crazy. I'm going to ask him this. He picked up the phone and I said hey, daddy, I just did this meditation and, um, someone named Earl came through. Do you know an Earl? And he said yeah, um, I know two Earls. One of them is has already passed. I said, ah, the one who passed. Um, this is weird. But he came through in my meditation and said that you're not well, nadine. There were like seven seconds of complete silence. He didn't say anything and I said, daddy, you don't have to tell me anything. I just wanted you to know that he came through and I didn't know. But my dad had not been doing well. So unfortunately, that was the last conversation with my dad, because he passed unexpectedly a few weeks later. Because he passed unexpectedly a few weeks later.
Speaker 2:So whenever and Earl actually was a really good friend of his Earl my dad was a professional musician. He traveled with BB King playing alto sax and so when he was ready to kind of stop traveling and, you know, turn his attention towards family, earl took his place in the band and Earl was into metaphysics and mediumship, new age things. He introduced my father to meditation. So there was this spiritual connection between the two and Earl came through to let me know that my dad wasn't doing well what Earl did and I think Earl knew that he was doing it. Whenever I doubt my mediumship abilities, I think about him and I think Earl knew that he was doing it. Whenever I doubt my mediumship abilities, I think about him and I think about that experience and I know beyond the shadow of a doubt that I'm a medium.
Speaker 1:Wow, that's pretty full on. Yeah, do you use it now and do you have to be intentional about using it, or is it just like you see things all the time?
Speaker 2:No, no Like. So I'm very intentional about it. I do go through a process of where I'm opening up and moving my mind upwards and, like with mediumship for me the way that it works I have to take a moment and really increase my frequency. Right, so they drop their frequency a little. We raise our frequency and we meet here in the middle right. So it's not for me usually like I know something right away. That's happened a few times, but more often than not I'm really turned off to that, or else it would be too overwhelming to be aware of everything that's coming at me, because I'm already I was recently diagnosed as neurodivergent, right, and so my senses tend to be a little bit heightened and it can be overwhelming to pick up everything about everything and know everything. And it can be overwhelming to pick up everything about everything and know everything.
Speaker 1:So I intentionally try not to always be aware of the spirit side. Yeah, fair enough. Yeah, it would be pretty full on. So do people come to you specifically for psychic readings? I think we said in the intro that you do work with people delivering messages for loved ones from loved ones. Yes, so do people come to you when they've lost someone or they want to speak to a grandparent, for example?
Speaker 2:Yes, Okay, yes, people book. And then also there's a fabulous group of women that I've been meeting with every Friday for the last 10 years and we will bring people in who want to hear from their loved ones. So it's like we'll have someone come in and there's five mediums and we'll give them a reading. You know like it's for people who really feel like they're struggling. So that's been something that I do once a week for the last 10 years and it's so incredibly rewarding. One of my best friends just passed unexpectedly in June from a. She had a stroke and then there was hemorrhaging, okay, aneurysm. She had an aneurysm and one of the most rewarding things that I that I was able to do was she left three children behind and her daughters wanted to know that she was okay. So being able to connect them with their mother um, it was such a powerful experience. Such a powerful experience.
Speaker 1:Wow, yeah, yeah. What's your perspective on that, just in terms of, like, a soul journey? So we could say that, if we come back to astrology, that the astrological chart is something that we've chosen and that it's part of the our journey in this lifetime, right? Um, it seems very unfair to hear that someone young with three daughters has passed away. What's your take on that with the, the idea of a soul journey? Do you believe that her time she'd completed what she needed to learn in this lifetime?
Speaker 2:No, that's such a beautiful question and I wish that I knew the answer. But something interesting I can tell you about her journey. Her relationship with her mother was was very tense. There was a lot of back and forth between the two right, and she was not speaking to. Her mother passed away actually September of last year, so September of 2024 her mother unexpectedly passed away actually September of last year, so September of 2024,. Her mother unexpectedly passed away and at the time they were not speaking, right.
Speaker 2:And so my friend, all this spring, went into therapy for the first time. She was seeing a therapist and she was making she never made TikTok videos about. She was making TikTok videos about what she learned in therapy while she had forgiven her mom, right. And then she posted this tribute, beautiful tribute to her mom on Mother's Day, which was, which is in May here in the US, right, beautiful tribute. She came full circle and was saying how she understood her mom so much better and loved her mom, and then she passed two weeks later. Wow, so was that her soul journey? Was that what she was here to learn? And then, once she learned it, then okay, well, I'm ready to go to the spirit side of life and I don't have a clear answer. Answer, but just don't see a coincidence there between the two wow, that's amazing, isn't it?
Speaker 1:it's a hard pill to swallow to have that kind of idea that we are here on a soul journey, because when, when someone dies, when they're elderly, it's kind of like, well, they've lived a good life. But when it're elderly, it's kind of like, well, they've lived a good life, but when it's someone young, it's really hard yeah, a hard pill to swallow, that that was their path, right, right, especially if their life was short. But, yeah, what an amazing story. Exactly, I would love to hear if you could share with us anything about or I'm sure you can Akashic Records and the Arcturian healing method. I don't know if those two are related, but I'm really curious about both of them. I'm conscious that we've probably got about 10 minutes or so left, but I just want to open up the conversation to some of those things, because there are so many healing modalities, there's so much access to this metaphysical world that can be of great help to us, so I'd love to, if you can speak to either of those or both.
Speaker 2:Yeah. So the Akashic records are like the records of your soul. So, assuming that you believe that this is not your first lifetime, this is not your first incarnation, that there have been multiple, multiple lifetimes where you have learned and brought those lessons to where you are now, the Akashic records is almost like a record of that right, where you can go and explore okay, who was I before? What patterns was I living before? What am I here to learn?
Speaker 2:And with accessing the Akashic Records, in my experience it tends to be much more of an intuitive experience. So it's like you open up and the information is given to you intuitively or psychically, I should say right. So it's very different than it's more right-brained, whereas astrology is going to be more left-brained, where you've got something concrete in front of you and angles and measurements and this degree and that degree and this placement. With the Akashic records it's much more of a spiritual experience, discovering that what's beautiful is when you can connect the two all right, when I can connect the two and say for a client, this is what I'm picking up about a past life or past incarnation, and then I turn around and pull up their chart and you see it there with the South Node, or you see it there with the moon right. So when the Akashic records and the natal chart actually corroborate each other, that's to me what's really powerful.
Speaker 1:So do you learn how to work with Akashic Records or is it just like a inbuilt skill?
Speaker 2:Yeah, there was a training that I went through. But I do know other practitioners who it's just much more of something that they've decided to do. And I don't want to tell people, oh, you can't do it without training, right? Because I don't think that that's correct and some people are just more comfortable having a teacher show them and guide them through it, and other people are more comfortable taking the bull by the horns and saying, nope, this is what I'm going to do, I'm going to do it on my own, I'm going to learn my own path through this journey. So it's just wherever someone is comfortable.
Speaker 1:Right. And so does someone just say to you I want to tap into my soul journey. Yes, Can you help me? Yes, yes, purpose would that? For what purpose would that be Like? Why would someone come to you and say, is it for healing?
Speaker 2:Yeah, it could be really. The purpose could be really just to understand you and who you are right now. So much better, right. So, for example, I'm claustrophobic, I am Okay, and it just showed up, you know, out of the blue, like what you know, and there's no explanation for it, right. But going back through my Akashic records, there was a lifetime where there was some trauma with being locked in a tight space, right. So I'm remembering that in so many ways now and in some ways it helps to lessen it and I don't feel so much in distress like, oh my gosh, I'm going to die in here and I'm just saying, well, no, my body's remembering, I'm remembering something from before, right, and it's not that I'm overly dramatic, it's not that I'm, you know, being hysterical for no reason. It was actually an experience where there was some trauma with this issue, and that helps me to be more compassionate to myself, right, more compassionate, less judgmental about why I've got this condition.
Speaker 1:Do you what? Was I going to say, yeah, sorry, I've lost my thread. I've lost my thread, oh, that's okay. I was thinking about my own experience. I get a real visceral reaction as well to being stuck in small spaces or like, yes, yeah, well, I don't like it. So I was kind of, yeah, I went there for a minute, okay, so the Arcturian healing method is that connected as well?
Speaker 2:No Arcturian healing method. Is that connected as well? No, so the Arcturians, the Arcturian healing method, the Arcturians are a group of star beings, you know, that originate from the star system of Arcturus. Now, a lot of people yeah, they're from the, they are familiar with the Arcturians, but many more people have heard about the Pleiadians. Okay, so I don't know if you've ever heard of Pleiadians. They are another group of star beings that are associated with the Pleiades. So we've got all of these star beings. There are Syrians and Orions right, and, in particular, with the Arcturians and the Pleiadians and the Syrians, they have this goal of really trying to raise the vibration here on earth to help us to ascend. Um, believe it or not, there are more advanced star systems in the universe than than we are, and so, with a lot of the problems that we have here the conflict, the war, it's, it's. It's something that other beings from other star systems they see here, they see us going through these experiences and then in some way want to help make things better. So the arctorians and that the arctorian healing method really utilizes the frequencies of the arctorians when it comes to healing sessions.
Speaker 2:Um, and there's another weird story about that, but there's a guy in New Zealand named Graham Forskett and he does galactic natal chart readings. Okay, and it's a completely different spin on the natal chart and I'm learning his approach right now. He can look at your natal chart and tell you exactly if you are connected to a particular star system or if you've had incarnations in that star system. So this guy nine years ago I sent him my information. He doesn't know anything about me, he lives in New Zealand and he sends me my session back, my recording of my session, and he sends me my chart and you can see it in the chart. I'm connected to the Pleiades and Arcturus, which makes sense. I had already been working with those beings before. I even knew about that, so it really resonated with me. So when it comes to, I guess just to put it in a nutshell the Arcturians are a group of star beings that send frequencies here to Earth for healing, for acceleration, for our evolvement, so to speak.
Speaker 1:Amazing Love that. So I'm conscious that we're kind of heading towards a close, and I think that has really brought us to a point where it's become obvious for me that the importance of the work that you do is about that evolution of humanity. I've spoken to other guests about that. You know the changes that are going on in in the world and the evolution we're going through, and it can feel really hard when, yes, we're in the middle of so much terrible stuff going on throughout the across the planet. But work like yours is the work that we need, isn't it?
Speaker 1:right, yes, can you talk a little bit to that? I mean, everything that you've talked about so far has, you know, directed us to this point. So, but if there's anything that you feel like in terms of your legacy, or you know your drive and your passion to do this work and the purpose of it, Right, yeah.
Speaker 2:So I really feel the purpose is to help people to align with their highest potential. Most people don't even know they have a highest potential and a lowest potential, and they're living at the lowest because there's no awareness of what's possible right and right now. You're talking about the difficult times. We just had all three outer planets change signs, which is quickly unheard of all at the same time. So we are in a pivotal moment when it comes to history and old systems are going to be falling away and taken down. But right now, when we're in the thick of it, it's like I've lost my hope, like where's the humanity, where's the empathy you know from people? And I don't want people to lose hope. I want people to know that we're heading someplace different. This is not where we're going to stay. It's not going to be this way forever. So keep a sense of hope and keep aiming for your highest potential and living the life of your dreams.
Speaker 1:Love that. What a perfect way to close, Brandy. We are going to include you in our guest directory so that people can find you easily. But where would you like people us to direct people so they can find out more about you? You've got some amazing stuff on YouTube. Is that where we should direct people? Yes, YouTube is good.
Speaker 2:Yes, yeah, youtube or my website. So my website gives more information about the types of sessions that I offer, more information about me and my background. On YouTube I have quite a bit about parenting, if someone's interested in that perspective then that's where I would direct them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, great, amazing. I've watched some of your videos and, as I said, the ones about the moon for the children is really great, probably really even those moon ones, even though we're talking from a parenting perspective, knowing your partner's moon, you're knowing your dad's moon, your mom's moon, your friend's moon is probably a really helpful way of understanding how they feel emotionally secure. So, exactly, exactly, yes, handy stuff to Brandy. Thank you so much. I really appreciate your time and, yeah, thank you for having me. Thank you for sharing your work with us.
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