48. The August Energy Forecast: Stop Asking AI for the Answers, Ask the Universe Instead

** Note - Summer office hours are open for intuitive business guidance sessions — spaces are very limited but there are some available. Email me directly to connect.

August's card came in clear: believe in magic.

In this month's energy forecast for This Is Soul Therapy, we're pulling one card from the Sacred Forest Oracle, Moonlight Enchantment: Magic, and going deep instead of wide. Because sometimes the most powerful guidance comes from sitting with one narrow concept long enough to actually let it land.

And this one landed somewhere unexpected: in the middle of a conversation about AI, universal intelligence, and why the guidance you're feeding your business might be the wrong input for the output you're actually trying to create.

If you're building something that genuinely matters to you: a business, a body of work, a creative practice that comes from your actual soul then pulling your strategy from a database of what already exists is a total energetic mismatch. AI gives you what's already out there. It cannot give you what's trying to move through you. That's where the magic of the universe comes in. 

This episode is a different kind of business conversation.

We Cover:

• The August collective energy forecast and what the Moonlight Enchantment card is asking of creatives and soul-led entrepreneurs this month
• Why using AI to build a mission-driven business creates a fundamental mismatch between your input and your output
• What universal intelligence actually is — and why it's a more aligned source of guidance than anything that scrapes Reddit for answers
• How to ask for signs from the universe and why the specificity of your question matters more than you think
• The story of my son running upstairs with a balloon wand and accidentally delivering the exact sign I'd asked for that morning
• Practical ways to start receiving guidance: signs, meditation, automatic writing, pendulums, and dream work
• Why your creativity is the channel through which universal intelligence reaches the people who need it most

This episode is for you if you're building something you deeply care about and you've been outsourcing your direction to tools aren't moving your business along in the way you'd like it to be!

And PS - I'd love to hear your questions about signs, universal intelligence, and using these practices to guide your business! Send me a DM on Instagram or TikTok at @jenniferhulley, or reach out via  email. A future episode diving deeper into this is coming, and I want it to answer your questions.

Transcript

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For the creative minds and the soul-led entrepreneurs, this is Soul Therapy. We weave energy, intuition, creativity, and strategy together in a way that serves up solid, grounded guidance so that you can move confidently forward. I'm your host, Jen Hully. Let's dive in. Welcome back. It's August. It's August 6th as I record this episode, and it's the start of the month, which means it's time for our monthly energy forecast for creative minds, soul-led entrepreneurs, and anybody who is trying to do the tricky work of putting something out there into the world that you really, really care about. And this month we're going to use an Oracle deck that I've got called The Sacred Forest Oracle by Denise Lynn. And I want to do something different with this read. I don't want to pull a ton of cards. I want to pull one. And I'm setting the intention that the card that we pull resonates with the collective that's listening to this to guide us through the month of August, whatever we need to know about our energy, our creative energy, the energy of our project, whether it's, you know, a business or it's a piece of work that we're working on, whatever it is that you're trying to gestate and birth out into the world from your like soul's epicenter. Uh, we're here. I'm here for you. Let's it's tricky work, man. And I think sometimes there's this, especially I've been thinking about this a lot. Let me go back. But I've been thinking about this a lot about how we're getting into this habit with you know the age of AI and having instant answers and all the answers and everything that we we tend to think like we need more, more, more, fast, fast. And it's like sometimes the most wisdom comes from looking at a really, really narrow, specific concept with depth. So that's what we're gonna do today. I also just feel this energy, this need to like go low and slow. I was saying on Instagram this morning, like, I do not thrive in the summer. I hate the summer. If I'm gonna be pretty honest, I hate the summer. I don't like it. It is uncomfortable, it's hot, it's gross, like I don't want to be outside, there's no routine, my kids out of school, and it's like every week is different. Some weeks there's camp, sometimes there's not. And even like the camp weeks aren't easy. And it's just a lot for me. Like, summer is like my winter in terms of energy. When we think about like our energy and the seasonal cycles, you know, we always say like there's times for our projects and our creations and our soul to like go inward and rest and you know, gestate on ideas and um integrate ideas, and then you sort of emerge. And it usually is like you emerge in spring, and like summer is when like everything's in bloom and it's amazing, and then you're just getting ready to release in fall. My I do not work like that, I have realized. And every season I fight it, every season I try to like go ham in July and just go about status quo, and then come like August 1st. I'm like burnt the fuck out. And I'm like, why am I doing this? Like, why am I doing this, you know? And I'm like, part of me right now is like, why am I telling this story? But I think it will, it always connects. But it's like I fight against the energy that exists within me and how my energy interacts with the energy of the seasons. Um, but it's also in opposition to, I guess, like what my greatest desires are and what I would be manifesting. And when I think about like, you know, we're always manifesting, we're always creating whatever the goal is that you're building or the life that you're constructing, like there's this vision of like your ideal future. And for me, I don't want to work in the summer. I don't. Part of why I became a teacher in the beginning. Like I literally stuck it out in public school because I was like, man, it is nice to have July and August off. And when I left teaching and I started my own business, like I went full on into entrepreneurship, something shifted in me where I was like, I have to work all the time. I have to work in the summer. And it was like, I had this epiphany. Literally, I was like, why am I trying to force myself to work and create work and connect with clients and generate new leads and all of this? If my actual desire that what my soul wants and what my, you know, true authentic self wants is to just peace out for two months. Like that's it, it was this light bulb moment where I was like, hmm, you know what I mean? We have the potential to build our life and our business and everything the way that we want, but we also have the responsibility to do that, right? To follow through. So that was a really long preamble about I hate the summer. I hate the summer when I try to make the summer something that it isn't for me. And so I am leaning into uh less is more for this month. Let's get this one card and let's dive into it. Let's see what the heck August is bringing for us. I already feel like I'm gonna burp. Oh my god. Oh, excuse me. I would love to know why this happens. I mean, I I know why it happens. It's energy, it's energy moving through, but I'm like, why does it have to be burping for me? Like, why couldn't just my hands buzz or something? Okay, what do we got? Interesting. We've got this card called Moonlight Enchantment Magic. And I'll give you a little blurb about what's on the front. It's like there's this giant full moon at the back of you're looking in the woods, it's nighttime. There's this huge full moon at the back, like massive, massive, like a super moon, and there's a one wolf in the middle, and he's howling at the moon. And I'm gonna read you a little bit from the book and then we'll we'll dive into it. But the spirit of moonlight enchantment says, believe in magic. You are being given powerful mystical messages from spirit. Take the time to listen. Allow the luminescent, receptive energy of the moon to activate your creativity. You receive mystical messages, and you're a spiritual messenger for others. Magic is all around you. The veil between the worlds is thin right now. Fairies, elves, angels, and spirit beings are just a thought away. It's indeed a magical universe, and the key to opening the doors to those realms is to trust. All may not be as it seems. By the protective light of the moon, the magic of the universe surrounds you. Even though it's dark, the light of the moon shows you the way, reminding you to trust what you feel. You are safe. Even if you can't see, have faith in the fact that you are being supported by mysterious and wondrous ways by unseen beings in accordance with your highest good. And this is so fascinating because I guess earlier today I posted a poll on Instagram where I was I shared a story, first of all, about this guy asking for signs. And it was just sort of him documenting um how the sign finally showed up, and it like showed up the way he asked, but then underneath it there was a sentence that literally was like, This is a sign. Like it was, it was so fun. And um, that came up yesterday, and I had a conversation with a really good friend about how we ask for signs and guidance when things in our business are confusing or foggy, or we don't know what to do, and we don't know how to move forward. And so I posted this poll on um Instagram saying, like, would you be interested in an episode where we talk about signs from the universe and we talk about how specifically to use signs and uh unseen forces and what I call universal intelligence to build your business? And I got a few people responding. It's only been up for like an hour or two, and people are like, yes, yes. And I feel like this is what that episode is now going to turn into because the moonlight enchantment card asks you to believe in magic and that you don't get to see how things are going, and you don't get to see how things are being built. And what we see on the 3D and with our eyes is quite often it's like just a snapshot of like the surface layer of something. We have no idea how things are actually playing out, and we are supported by these universal intelligence, these universal forces, whether you use the term like God, source, universe, angels, ancestors, spirit guides, yoda, juju, I don't know, whatever. Like all the there's different words for the same thing, but it just basically means we're like supported by this like interconnected fabric of energy that is like ready to guide us, ready to communicate with us. And so when we think back, okay, to our the collective theme that we're looking at of like how to nurture our creativity and how to nurture our projects and how to move forward with these things that we're building, these things that are really important to us. I know if you're listening to this podcast, you create something in some capacity. You value creativity, but you also have some sort of a mission that you are creating from. The people that I work with in coaching and the people that I work with in, you know, creating content for them are all driven by this, this like fire that comes from within to like they like they have to do this thing. And it's always about change that they want to see happen or change that they believe in, or there's this passion, and it's like, it's like part of their their, it's in their veins, is what I'm trying to say. Cause it's part of their actual like energy system. Like it's not just like, I thought this would be neat and I opened a cafe one day. It's like I have to have a cafe, and here are the reasons why, or I have to use my hands to create this, or I have to be building a business where I'm helping moms to X, Y, Z, whatever, right? And when we're doing that, when we're doing the deep work of building something that we give a shit about, there are so many dark nights of the soul that we go through. And there are so many, you know, just patches where things go dark and they get quiet. And we're like, what the fuck am I supposed to do right now? And you can try to think your way through it, you can try and ignore it, but the light that is going to illuminate the pathway forward comes from two sources. It comes from within and it comes through you from these universal intelligence that I call. So why I keep using the term universal intelligence is let's like backtrack a bit. We with it, we're in an age of AI, right? Like it's not going away. It's just a thing. And I don't hate AI. I think there are absolute beautiful uses for it and it should be used. But then I think there are ways that I'm like, this is probably not in our best interest, right? And as humanity, we're like toddlers, right? We're like toddlers who have been given this like really cool new toy and we're like, what does this do? And we're like testing it out and going ham with it before we're learning to rein it in. But the problem with AI and using AI to build your business, whether you're using it to create content or to map out your business plan or to map out your marketing plan, or to like, you know, give me my ideal client avatar, like help me build that. The problem with using artificial intelligence is it just collects from a database of like what is already out there. It dips into this pool of information that it has access to. And that pool of information is based off what already exists. AI does not come up with random ideas, it comes up with ideas that are in existence. So it looks at YouTube, it looks at Reddit, it looks at Google, and then it gives you an answer. And it gives you an answer that's really polished and really clean. And it's like, yes, you should do this and this and this. The problem is that the answer is based off what everybody else is already doing. And if you're listening to this podcast, I firmly believe that what you're trying to do is to shape shift something in our society or in our day-to-day experience or what it means for us to be as humans. You are trying to break the mold. You are trying to do something that is different or expansive or challenges the way people think or changes the way we, you know, experience our lives. Do you see the mismatch here? When we're trying to build a business that is fueled by a desire for change and for things to be different. And then we go into a well of information to build that and strategy to build that based off what already exists. It's not lining up. Like it's the wrong input for the wrong output. So it's like, I don't know. I'm seeing like they're showing me feeding a bird dog food. That's the imagery they're giving me in the head. Like, if you had a parakeet, you wouldn't go to Costco and be like, I'm gonna feed a dog food because this is the best dog. It's like it's not the right energy flow. And so AI is so sexy when we're using, you know, when we're building our business. This concept of like, oh, I can just put it in and it can give me a business plan, it can mark out my content plan, it can even write my captions for me and this and it can give me hooks and blah, blah, blah. All it's going to do is streamline a plan for you to show up in a shape and a form that already exists. And you're here to stand out. And so what happens if you follow these things, you end up building a business that looks like everybody else's. And then you get into this space where it's like people don't care. They're fatigued because we have so much information. You blend in because you're like, oh, I've seen that cadence to a post seven times. Like we could go so neuroscience-y on this. The human brain is wired for salience, which is like things that are important and different, like things that are different are what stick out. So when we show up as everybody else, we get forgotten. And then our business doesn't get traction. And then we internalize that and we think, like, oh my God, I'm no good. My idea sucks. People don't care. And it's like, or you're just not showing up in a way that is organic and intuitive and authentic. And so if we scrap this idea, like I think let's table the whole AI thing for another episode. Cause it's like I said, I it that would be like a huge conversation. And if you're wanting to hear more about that, please send me a DM, send me a message, let me know where you're at with that, because I want to shift the energy of this moonlight enchantment card, the card about magic and magic being around you and the veil being so thin. And when they say that, they mean collectively. My ear is ringing so loud right now. Collectively, we're shifting. People are going through an awakening of consciousness. If we look at the things like the, you know, the amount of disclosure when it comes to things with UFOs. We don't call them UFOs anymore. What do we call them? You know what I mean? Like stuff is happening. The research on things like telepathy, the research in work of quantum physics, it's all starting to converge. And as a society, we're going through this awakening. And that's when they say like the veil is thinning, which means the distance between our realm and the realm of like the universe or whatever else is out there isn't as far off and it isn't as blocked as it used to be. And that's great because that means we can tap in and we can access that information. If you are feeling lost and you need guidance, wouldn't you rather dedicate, I don't know, 10 minutes a day to getting quiet and learning the art of like meditation or working with a pendulum or using something called automatic writing to get guidance that is specifically curated to you and your mission and your path that would completely change the trajectory of what you're building. Wouldn't you rather access that than access something that's been fed to like, I don't know, 14,000 people that have asked that same question that day? And so this card, this magic card is telling you like, yo, pick up the phone and ask for help from alternate sources. Go and talk to your higher self, talk to your spirit guides. We all have a team that supports us of angels and you know, sometimes they're departed, like loved ones, whether friends or family. And sometimes they're literally just like angels and energies that are like teamed up with you for your entire ride on earth. And you can learn to communicate with these and ask questions. And so, you know, one of the ways is by asking for signs, like asking for physical signs. That post I shared on my stories today, where this guy, he was like, I don't know if I should move to Texas and he asked for a cowboy cat. And eventually he gets his cowboy cat on a shirt, and then the shirt has the sign, like a line on it that says, like, this is the sign, or I don't remember what the wording was. But that is like one way to communicate with that energy, whether, and I don't know where the energy is coming from. Like you could be like, who's actually guiding you? Some people think it's your higher self, which is a part of your soul that remains in another realm while like part of it incarnates as a human. Some people believe it's coming from deceased loved ones, people who are on your spirit team. Some people think it's you accessing information that already exists because time is not linear and it's all happening at the same time. And like, like, I don't know how deep we want to go here. But we have access to so much magic that is there wanting to support us. And so when you can't see the way forward and when you don't know what to do, I would encourage you this month to not go to Claude or ChatGPT and write it out. And instead ask yourself, like, okay, how can I tap into the energy that's surrounding me and the universal intelligence that's already available? You can't see it, but you have to trust it and you have to trust that you're going to receive the guidance that's going to move you forward. You have to be really careful how you word the question. This friend of mine asked a question about platforms, what platform they should be on. And they they got their sign twice and they were like, I don't really understand why they would guide me to that platform. I asked them, what was your question? Was your question, which platform should I be on? Or was your question, which platform is gonna connect me with paying clients the fastest? And I was like, Do you see how those are different questions? Because like the platform you should be on might be, let's just say, YouTube. And it's not because you're gonna get rich on YouTube, and it's not because you're gonna get monetized or anything. You might go to YouTube and have like crickets, but when you're on YouTube, you rehearse and you polish this skill set of like speaking freely into a camera, which is going to then give you the confidence that you need to pitch clients in the future or whatever. So we have to be really, really careful how we word these questions because the answer is going to be very specific to what we're asking. So if your question is really like, how do I make money now? you got to ask a question like, okay, show me the quickest and most aligned way to bring wealth into my energy that's in alignment with my work or whatever. Or you say, like, send me a purple duck if I'm gonna see the most growth on TikTok, and send me a green giraffe if I'm gonna see more growth on Instagram in the next six months, and then see what pops up. When you're asking for a similar assign, we talked about this on a previous episode. I think it's called like, is it a sign? It's not about business specifically, but it's just about signs. It's a really good one to go listen to if you feel like you're gonna be pulled into asking for signs to access your guidance this month. Oh, there's a burp. You have to be really specific. You don't want to say like, show me a butterfly, because butterflies are fucking everywhere. Like, of course you're gonna see a butterfly. You want to go really bizarre. Say something like, I want to see a purple duck. That's weird. Purple duck is weird, or a purple elephant. That's really weird. I give you an example. I asked for a sign and I gave two symbols. And one of the symbols I gave to my guides was I was like, I want something like a fairy. I was like, you know, like a fairy or like a pixie, like when they have, because I was like trying to like find a sign that looked like the word magic. Ironically, that's the name of the card. It's magic, but I said, I want something that represents like, you know, when a fairy or a pixie has like a wand and they go like poof, and it's like that. I was like, that's the sign. I was like, so if I'm going this way, I want you to send me that. If I go this way, I want you to send me this. I was like, I want it within 48 hours. Like, here we go. And I was like looking, looking, and it wasn't coming up. And all of a sudden, my kid, he's downstairs playing and he runs up to me out of nowhere and he's like, Mommy, mommy, mommy. He's got a balloon on his stick, and I'm like, what? He's like, you know fairies? I was like, huh? He's like, you know fairies, like magical fairies when fairies are doing magic and they go like this, boop, and he hit me on the head with the balloon and then he just ran away. And I was like, What? And when he did that, I was like, holy shit, he just like verbatim acted out and spoke the same line that I said in the car earlier today as my sign. And so that's this the second part of that is like be open to the fact that the sign may not come to you the way that you think it is. I didn't see a fairy with a wand going, I literally had my child come to me, say the word fairy, talk about the magic wand, do the physical action that I demonstrated in the car, do the same sound effect of boop. He wasn't in the car when I did this FYI. I should say that. Like I was driving on my own in the morning when I was asking for this, and he wasn't with me. And I was having this conversation, and I like froze in my tracks when he did it. Cause I was like, what the fuck? My guides, they do that because they want to get your attention. It was one of those moments where I was like, oh my God. Also, like children are so telepathic. Like, that's the thing. Like, they they will use uh channels to get the information to you in the way that's the most open. So it's like, if I'm not gonna see this fairy, and my guides are like, she needs that fucking fairy because I need her to like go in this direction and not that direction, they will find a way for it to reach you. And so that's like, you know, a little look at how you could use signs to get guidance on your business. Um, meditation is another great one. And I know we say like the point of meditation is to clear out your head. It's not, it's not the point at all, but we think it is. And so, with this kind of meditation, like you want to get somewhere that's like quiet and you want to get still, but you also want to have like a notebook with you and you write your question down. Like, what do I need to do with my content to reach more people or whatever? Or like what direction do I need my business to go into? Or where do I need to submit my work so that you know people are actually seeing it? Whatever it is, whatever question, you write it down and you know, just focus on your breath in, out. You can count them or whatever, and you're you're clearing your head out so that you notice. Pops up. And I want you to write down, like, you write down everything. If you get like when you see the Pink Panther, you kind of like open one eye and you write down Pink Panther. If you can keep your eyes closed while you're writing it, do that. I have to open it if I want to be able to actually read what I've written. And you write down the word and then you go back in, you just close your eye. Like you try not to just disturb yourself or come out of it. And you see what comes up in your meditation. And sometimes nothing comes up. Sometimes really weird stuff comes up. And you're like, this makes no sense. But the purpose is to get into practice of doing that. You can do something similar like automatic writing. It's the same process where you sit with your eyes closed and you you write. I actually do automatic writing. I type, I sit with my eyes closed, and I just my you get into a meditative state and your hands go pendulums. We could talk about pendulums. Like I could do a whole episode on pendulums. I have a necklace that has lapidarite. It's I'm wearing it right now. And um, you use it to connect with your energy and you hold it up and see if it goes in a circle or back and forth. Oh, dreams are a good one. You set the intention when you're going to sleep that you're gonna like retrieve information. You can write it out, stick it on your pillow if you want to. You can literally just state it out loud like I'm asking for guidance on blah, blah, blah. You have to be in the habit of recording your dreams. Like as soon as you wake up, write them down in a journal or like grab your phone. Don't even turn the airplane mode off, just type out what comes in, look for patterns over time. I mean, there's so many like this, like I said, this could be such a massive episode. And I think I will leave it and say, let's do another episode on this. I'd love to like crowdsource some of your questions about using signs and accessing universal intelligence to get the guidance that you need to launch and build and grow the thing that you're trying to do. And then we can, you know, curate an episode that answers those questions specifically. But for the month of August, what I want you to hold on to and remember is that believe in magic, believe in magical forces, believe in the fact that you're guided and supported and that you have the capacity to receive powerful messages from spirit. You just have to take time to listen. And that's that's the key here, I think, is taking the time to listen to the messages, but also taking the time to learn the skills and practice the skills that you need to receive them. That's why I always say like AI is sexy, because it's like, mm, this sounds really good. I feel good if I just type it in. Oh, my answers are right here. But it's is it really an answer if it's not the right answer for you? No. So take the time to listen this month. And, you know, the line in this book says you're being given powerful mystical messages from spirit. Take time to listen. Allow the luminescent, receptive energy of the moon to activate your creativity. You receive mystical messages and you are a spiritual messenger for others. That is the truth, is that you have the capacity to receive these messages. The act of receiving them is deeply ingrained and connected to your creativity. But not only can you receive the messages and act on them to activate your creativity, your transmission of your message, of your business, of your work is how you will act as a spiritual messenger for others. We talked about like my son coming and being like doing the little fairy thing. You never know when the thing you say or the video you share or the story you write or whatever it is that you put out there connects with the person who needed to see, hear, and experience exactly that at the exact moment. We're all here doing our thing and working on our own little life goals and mission, but really there's this like collective mission of connection and helping each other. And so when I say, let's utilize that universal intelligence so that we build our businesses and build, oh God, big burp, listen to this, please. When we use universal intelligence to guide us in how to show up as we build our business and expand our projects and connect with people, it's going to feed us again that information and that guidance that's so curated to us so that we say the thing that that person needs to hear, or we write the piece that that person needs to see. It's a flow of energy and a flow of information that comes from the universe down through these channels, through us, through our creativity, through our content, through our work, through our connection with people. And then somebody else picks up on that. And when we skip that or sever that relationship by going into a space of AI, it's like we're not pulling the energy that is needs to go through us to reach that person. Do you get what I'm saying? Like it think of it as this cycle that yes, it's maybe slower. Yes, it's maybe slower to get the information that way, but the information's going to be curated to move you along your path in the best way possible, but also to guide you to show up with authenticity and depth and purpose that serves a greater purpose for the people that are on the receiving end of what it is that you create. And I think that's the most important to think about when we think about our businesses, when we think about our art, when we think about our services, is that it's yes, it's about our expansion and it's about our path and it's about, you know, growth for us, but it's also that reflexive relationship of the other person on the other side and how that feeds into their story and how that fuels their growth. And it's this constant give and take. It's like the circle of life. I'm hearing it's the circle of life. We can, I will end on that before I start singing. I hope you have an amazing August. I would love to hear from you regarding questions that you have, like so we can do a future episode about using signs or any of these processes. You can always get me on Instagram or TikTok. My handles over there are at Jennifer Hully. And there's a link for email in the show notes if you would like to reach out. For the month of August, what I have available right now are intuitive business guidance sessions. So if you want to work together between now and the end of the summer, I have very limited spaces because I'm not taking a full calendar because I'm just kind of taking it easy. But I would love to connect with you if you are looking for some universal intelligence guidance as you build your business. Okay. Best way to do that right now for summer office hours would be to email me directly and I will chat with you about what we've got available. All right. Have a great one. I will talk to you either in a week or two or in September. I have no idea. 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