More Woo Please

Just can't get enough woo with Chris Nolan. This episode includes all the moments you missed from the previous episode. Think of it as a little treat. A bonus. Special Edition. Director's Cut. You've been fighting fascism all week; you deserve a little something extra.  

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Transcript

Eileen Kelly (00:01)
Hi, welcome to Strangers with Kittens. You guys, what the hell? I feel like every week it's like, okay, this is the strangest things have ever been. And then it just gets worse. ⁓ The Jeffrey Epstein documents,

⁓ so I'm just getting the highlights now here and there and it's unreal and some biblical game of Thrones, devil's advocate, Rosemary's baby shit that seems

too horrific to be true, but then again, you ever notice how It tends to be people who have

a certain something going on inside that they feel is.

shameful or whatever that they project onto other people and call it a sin.

what I'm saying is it's always the people that

have something within themselves that they feel they can't share with the world or they're ashamed of or it's their shadow self that they project onto others and demonize others and when it comes to this stuff i mean it is some demon shit

That whole Pizzagate thing was so nonsensical and strange and cartoonish that I barely paid attention to it back in whatever, 2015, 2016. But now it's beginning to make sense because it's like, yeah, every accusation is a confession, right?

you're accusing other people and they're like, what, huh? Who even thinks of this? I'll tell you who. People that are so dark and so monstrous, what's gonna happen, you guys? It seems so...

Far, not far, I don't want to say far-fetched or anything like, I've seen, I've unfortunately come across my share of shape-shifters in my life when I was a child

⁓ and as an adult and I know that nothing is out of the realm of possibility. and this is not me casting doubt on any victims at all. It's just,

It's just processing it, that's all. It's just processing it. And I know that a lot of people of color are on social media saying, yeah, glad you finally woke up and smelled the coffee because these are things that we've known for generations. Slave owners, people that have power over vulnerable people are monsters and pedophiles and cannibals and I don't know, monsters is the only word that comes to mind.

other than demons, which I know sounds like I'm a...

Christian nationalist and that's not true at all. It's just that I do think that there's, I mean, I know that there is darkness in this world and Jeffrey Epstein obviously was like a prince of darkness and the people in his orbit, I mean.

I just, I want to be talking to you guys about lipsticks and makeup because I went to Sephora this weekend and I had so much fun. I hadn't done that in a while

And you know, buying makeup is different when you're in your 50s than it is when you're in your 20s or 30s or even 40s. ⁓ And I wanted to talk to you guys about that, but I can't because there's so much craziness in the world. before I get to the rest of our episode, which I'll tell you about in a moment, I a lot of things to tell you guys. I just...

want to acknowledge that things are insane right now. But listen, there has always been darkness and light in our universe and we just need to be forces of light. And the singing that's going on in Minneapolis right now and the welcoming of

people who work for ICE, telling them to just put their weapons down and just join the human race and that they'll be forgiven is so beautiful and is such an antidote to all the darkness that is also swirling around us right now. But here's the thing, all of this coming out, I just have to believe that all of this coming out is this purging,

darkness can only exist in the shadows. When you shine a light on it, it can't survive. So as depleted as I am by the things that I've been hearing and watching and reading, because I do feel that it's our duty to be informed and to not turn a blind eye, especially to victims.

But I think that we need to.

Be informed, but also call all the light back into us. And in light of this part two of I'm Glad My Mom Is Woo Woo, I want to ask you to pause for a second and to just close your eyes

And this is by the way, after you're feeling overwhelmed by what's in the news, by things you've seen on social media, by things you've been reading, hearing, watching that just feel dark. To pause, to close your eyes, to take a deep breath, to call all of your energy back into your body. I call all of my energy across all time and space.

back into my body because it's depleting. It lowers your vibration. It makes you feel hopeless and helpless. And that's not who we need right now in the world. We need everyone to amplify their light, to be strong for the people that are being victimized right now.

and to be brave and to act because action is the antithesis of anxiety. kind of kind of eats anxiety like a pac-man. ⁓ One thing that I found really helpful and made me feel good was I went on a website called

resist and unsubscribe.com resist and unsubscribe.com and on there it tells you how to cancel a lot of your subscriptions and I canceled a lot of subscriptions for February there's sort of this call to hit him where it hurts

And that's the wallet. So cancel Paramount Plus, cancel Amazon, cancel whatever you can, cancel Apple TV, cancel Apple News, cancel Apple Music, cancel all of the huge mega corporations with billionaires who live in this, I don't know, stratosphere of evil that's feeding into

all of this darkness, they react to losing money. So for February, I'm gonna live without the things that I watch.

on Amazon. I'm going to live without the things that I watch on Apple TV

but if you need to like Marathon watch your stuff and then cancel tomorrow, so be it or the next day, but try to get it in this week beginning of February and if we all cancel our subscriptions ⁓ It's a way to send a message

So that feels good. And that's something you could do that actually is fairly easy, fairly painless. You can do all those things you've been meaning to do instead of watching your shows. ⁓ Maybe you want to crochet, maybe you want to work out, maybe you want to do puzzles, maybe you want to read more, maybe you need to call more friends and family. Maybe you want to start writing letters or cards.

⁓ Maybe you want to learn a new hobby.

Eileen Kelly (08:44)
So that's one way that you can do something. Okay, now onto our episode. Sorry for if it seems preachy or I don't know, a bummer, but we're all living in this. We're all feeling this. We can't pretend that we're not. And also I don't wanna pretend that I'm not. And also I wanna feel less alone in my...

Feeling like this is absolutely insane and I was just talking to my daughter who is in college and it just made me sad that this is Some version of normal to her, know that she's still establishing What is normal and what our country is and What the fuck This is what young people are

Thinking is the United States of America democracy?

But again, like I said, there has to be a purge before we can move forward, before we can really heal. Everything has to be out in the light. Okay? So we're a young country comparatively, and we were built on slavery. We were built on immigrants being exploited and white supremacy. That is a fact.

and this all has to come out. It has to be purged. It has to be transmuted into something good. So this is painful, but we all have to do our part in order to make this into

the country we want to live in. I read this exchange, I'm not on X, but it was screenshots of, I believe it was on X, and it was so funny. I'll put the link underneath this episode, but it

started with someone saying, I'm from the black contingent and we'll trade you Nicki Minaj for Keanu Reeves and.

Dolly Parton I believe and then somebody was like I'm from the white contingent and we're not gonna give our Best for your worst and then it just went on and on and on and it was so freaking funny and that's the thing We're out there

You're black, you're white, you're Jewish, you're Asian, you're Christian, you're Muslim, you're trans, you're gay, you're straight, You're light. You're light. We're all light. I mean, except for those of us who aren't. But the majority of us are light.

Even the people that aren't pure light are light that have lost their way. So when we get together, there's a vibe, there is. And you'll see in this link, that's what it said. Somebody said something like, black people, white people, when the right people get together, there's a vibe and there is, and they keep trying to divide us.

But we're not divided by religion or sexual orientation or race or whatever the fuck else they're trying to divide us by. We're light. Together. And together, we're going to fight this and we're going to win. So. This is so not. I mean, I was going to say it's so not Gen X, Strangers with Kittens.

fun stories, but isn't it though? mean, Gen X comes in finally and is like, what the fuck after, a lot of people have shit the bed. So here we are, the Latchkey kids who are smoking in the bathroom, waiting for everyone to get their shit together and.

They couldn't, didn't, whatever.

We're gonna do this. We're going to prevail. It's gonna be rough, but we're going to do this.

Eileen Kelly (13:27)
So after you've done your anti-fascist activism, whether it's on subscribing or showing up at a protest or calling your representative or whatever you feel you're capable of doing, ⁓ you need to do things to raise your

You need to call your energy back into your body. You need to do things that keep you in the light. And ⁓ one of the things that I like to do is spending time with people.

who have a high vibe and feel like sunshine and are cool. And one of those people is my friend Chris. So I have a little bonus content, little part two sequel from last week. So without further ado, please come hang out in my kitchen with me and astrologer Chris Nolan.

Eileen Kelly (14:38)
are. ⁓

I have a technical question for you. Is your north node always the sign that's directly across from your sign in the zodiac? Your north node could be anywhere in your chart. So a lot of people think like, I'm a Gemini because I was born in June, but your sun in Gemini could be in any of the 12 houses. Your sun in Gemini could be in the first house or the fourth house or the 10th house. If your sun is in the fourth house, you get fueled by your family. If your sun is in the 10th

you get fueled by your career.

So it's super fun and definitely worthwhile. And totally explains what you were saying about how could all these different relatives be Sagittarius and be so different. So different. Right.

concepts. Yeah, it doesn't have to be your reading to learn things. so much. it's fun and funny.

a friend of mine and I had asked for ⁓ our charts to be read and we were gonna do it together and Chris was like, absolutely not. I'm so flattered, but no. Yeah, and it's true. mean, and then we did have privates and it was good because it was private things and processing in the moment, hearing things that you're like, my God.

I didn't realize that or, whoa, I got a strap in or, ⁓ thank God this portion of my life is coming to a close because it's been brutal. And there's plenty to talk about in the hour. I always feel like an hour.

is not enough time to go through a chart and yet it's so much information. It's so much information. Yeah.

Juno is our attachment style and it's a very important part of your chart and Vesta, the asteroid of patience. So to get that validation, know, Vesta in the seventh house means you're patient, almost patient to a fault with your partner, right?

⁓ and the ability to change and the ability to stay loyal without making changes that are necessary. Those are things, themes that come up a lot and I can see them quickly. And sometimes that's the objective observation that helps people to make a shift that they've wanted to make a shift for a very, very long time.

all the classes I ended up taking in high school were about giving presentations. And then I I majored in communications. And it was because of that silly eighth grade assignment and my mother's new age library.

So what else? What other books I really liked The Tarot, and that was a lot of fun. Sometimes I got a little nervous. And the same thing with the Ouija board. I loved the Ouija board, and then I would get freaked out.

and

nervous and scare myself. And I was an anxious kid. was a little nervous. So I was like, okay, do I want it? Do I not want it? I want it? Do I not want it? Were you doing it alone or? Or I'd make my little brother and sister do it with me and they were just like, yeah, whatever, whatever.

But my dad was working for Difus and my mom was a nursing student. So was like, I was letting my brother and sister in, I was making the dinner. Quintessential latchkey kid. Yes, 100%. Although anytime we got locked out, it was my little sister who could like jimmy the lock with like a card.

Nice. She is amazing. I wonder if she can still break into houses. That's a good scale to have. didn't have a lock or even a latch or a door handle on our front door. You could just swing it open. Yeah. Which, you know, if you're already a nervous kid, did not feel great. Yeah. And then all of a sudden when I was in high school, suddenly a lock because somebody tried to break. Weirdly, you could just push the front door in. the back door had a lock on it, a deadbolt.

but you had to make sure you pushed it hard enough that it would latch and someone hadn't done that. And my mom was up in the middle of the night because she had a cold and she was like watching TV and somebody, we lived like right on the highway and a hitchhiker tried to come in through the back door. And so we got, he could have just come in the front door, but we got a lock on the front door and that was really hard to get used to because

I don't feel like I was given a key. I don't know. Right? But I was constantly getting locked out and I would have to climb onto our shed roof, onto our family room roof, and then go into my brother's- Resilience. Yeah. Bedroom window and get attacked by my dogs if I got locked out. There's always a way. Yeah.

At my grandmother's house, if I was locked out, would jimmy the window open and then climb through the window. I feel like we're more resilient. You had to be resourceful because you didn't have a cell phone. It was like, figure it out. Nobody's helping you. I know. Yeah. And we did. I remember I worked because we also worked, right? Oh, yeah. So young.

I was working a party for a neighbor and I was in like a dressy, godawful shoulder pads, satin jumpsuit. It was like a set. It was like a top and bottom.

big shoulder pads. you know, I bought my own clothes and I'm sure I got it at like Filene's basement for $2. So I was like, that's good enough. Um, we only shopped at Bradley's. Bradley's was pretty deluxe actually. loved Bradlees Yeah. I loved it too. I have friends that went to Bradless and I was pretty jealous. And my sister got, I remember white with light blue swooshes, Cortez, Nikes there. Wow. And I was so, I coveted those sneakers so much. Yeah. Cause I was wearing Tom McCann Jox with like hard plastic bottles made you fall.

all the time and then cracked and let the rain in. But it was pouring. It was actually sleeting. It was a holiday party that I guess I kind of took coats and passed hors d'eouvres yeah, yeah. was probably I wasn't driving. So maybe 16, 15. And I get home and nobody's home, which is weird for my house. And I had to climb up.

the shed roof, the family room roof, and it was like icy and the roof was kind of slanted. And I'm in a satin holiday outfit and pumps probably, because it was the 80s And I crawl in and I'm sure I made so much noise and I crawl and it's dark and I crawl into the bedroom window and I had two dogs and my dog was quiet as a mouse. You wouldn't even know she was lurking there in the dark.

and then bit me when I came in. After all that, it's like, you get bitten. what were we talking about before?

I'm wondering what ever happened to those glasses that you had with your initials on them. my god. I don't think I ever saw initial glass. We had little stickers. had stickers that you could put on them. Yeah. That's I did that and then when I started working at the Roy Rogers, I had quite a few jobs.

I worked for the Commission of the Blinds, my uncle got me the job, and that was a summer job. And then I worked for the movie theater in Nutley, the Franklin Theater.

And I would sell tickets or I would pop the popcorn and like, would you like butter on that? And then I got this great job at Roy Rogers. And the question there was, would you like a biscuit with that? And we had this- And you had like an outfit. we have an outfit. And it was brown. And it had like a little 70s brown. And then I'll never forget, I got fired. ⁓ I did. I got fired for giving food away to my friends. She screamed so loud.

What do they think a teenager's gonna do? I mean, come on. I know. I was just, I was trying to be cool and the ideas. So I have a lot of jobs. But I would walk past the Bradlees every day to get to my job at Roy Rogers. And it was a long walk. it wouldn't even occur to me to ask for a ride. So I would walk from one end of town all the way to the others in my brown Roy Rogers uniform. So proud. And then I'd pass Bradlees

and then work at Roy Rogers and hand out my biscuits. So what? Okay, it was brown. And brown apron. And white? I don't remember what color the shirt was because it was really the brown and then the brown hat. Cause I feel like it kind of rivaled Burger King. Cause Burger King had brown, orange and gold, think. I think it was. And it might've been a stripy shirt, but that was on the other side of town. You didn't get to walk past Bradlees

But when you work at Roy Rogers, you can walk past that. That was the highlight. I loved it. So wait, what job came after?

⁓ then the movie theater? The movie theater. Yeah. And I was at the movie theater. I feel like that's a step up. It was good. And you could watch like little snippets of the movie. Yeah. Like if everything was done, you could like go in and watch a little bit. Yeah. That's cool. I feel like that has more perks than Roy Rogers. Yes. Yes. Exactly. And Roy Rogers was early mornings because I would work on Saturdays and Sundays early. And they did breakfast, there was no early at the movie theater. Yeah. You were there late and that's okay. Yeah.

Yeah, lots of jobs. We were resourceful. It's true. So you do astrology. I do.

You also do sound healing. do. I do. I love my Gong baths. I do private sessions and I do large group sessions and everyone lies down on a yoga mat and I play the Gongs and it's very deeply relaxing. People seem to love it. Yeah. And that was the same time I got really interested in astrology. I was enjoying the Gong baths. I've always been into yoga and I was going to this meditation studio called Quell and I was going through a very

very big life change and there was a lot going on in my life and my kids lives and I lied down for this Gong bath and I got up 25 minutes later and it was like

Everything's wonderful in the world. Wow. I don't feel any stress. I'm so happy. I want to learn how to do that Wow, so I took a lot of classes and I really enjoy it Yeah, it's really cool. I don't think I had heard of sound healing Until you shared it with me. Yeah, it's good. It resets your nervous system and who doesn't want that? Yeah, the dong especially Yeah, that's really cool. I had been to classes with the glass bowl

Yeah, yeah, which was also really nice. But yeah, I had never I had never done it before I went to one of your classes. Yeah seven medals.

Eileen Kelly (25:37)
getting back to your mom's bookshelf growing up, were there any other books you touched on Tarot, handwriting analysis? I know you did the Ouija board, but were there any other books that sort of captivated you? Every book. think every book

But all of these books, these new age books were on the same shelf next to a set of games. And so I love games. I've always loved games. I love playing games with my kids and doing puzzles. And sometimes we would have these family game nights, but most of the time my brother would like tip the game up and storm off. I was like, okay, and that was game night. We did have game night. had... ⁓

We'd play trivia pursuit in the 80s, like when my adult siblings would come back, like we had moved out, gotten married and moved out. If they came back when I was a kid, we played cards, like my aunt would visit and we'd play canasta. Yeah, Parcheesi

I never played a Is that a card? No, that's not a card game. It's not a card game, but we played a lot of Parcheesi. We played a lot of cards. I was actually just on vacation with my kids around the holidays and we play cards every day. We played Uno and we also played hearts. That's a one in my house. Yeah. Yeah. Now. You know what we played a lot of is Monopoly, which I hated. I was just someone who felt bad for everybody, couldn't charge people rent. And then my brother would

like run out of money and he was the opposite. He loved charging everyone and was ruthless. And then he would ask me to, he would ask to borrow money and I would always give it to him and I would always lose. It was no fun for me. Now there's a hundred different kinds of monopoly. I just bought my niece's the monopoly for, for wicked. wow. Yeah. There's a monopoly for every, every scene that you can imagine. That's so cool.

Well, thank you so much for being here. This has been such a pleasure and such a treat being in person.

You didn't see it, but we had blueberry pancakes before we talking. was a really good morning. So thank you so much. This was so great. Love you. you. See you soon.