Episode 44 - "What Are You Handing Over?"

Get ready to look inward and see what you need to 'hand over'. This episode is "What Are You Handing Over?" 

We are coming out of the Summer Solstice; the Oak King is at his highest power, but even he realizes his time is over which is why he peacefully hands over the power to the Holly King. 

One time has ended, so other wonderful things may begin!

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Transcript

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Welcome to Lessons with Wesley. If this found you, it was meant to. Take a moment to pause, reflect, and breathe. You're entering a sacred space of tarot, of oracle, meditations, oum, and soul-centered wisdom. There are no coincidences here, only invitations. Lessons with Wesley.

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All right, everyone. I hope y'all are doing well this morning. So this is Monday morning for you. Hope you had a great weekend. Hope you had a good um, let's see, we had Father's Day. Um, I know Nathan went to um he went to church with his family, got to spend Father's Day with them, and then they went out and had some barbecues, so that was good. So I hope if y'all, um, those of you that are lucky enough to still have your dad around, hopefully y'all had an excellent Father's Day, or you know, maybe a father-in-law, stepfather, all that good stuff. But anyway, hope everything was good. If you want me to read a story, send it to me. Don't forget, folks, lessons with Wesley at gmail.com. Lessons with Wesley. Still waiting for those emails to come in. We'll love to read some stories. Um while we're talking about it, uh, might as well go ahead and press that like button. And if you like it, just go ahead and share that link with someone. And if you really like it, just look at my um Venmo there and just send me a little happy. Well, I've had a good weekend. Um, I'm recording this right now. It's Sunday night, but our dear friends from Abito, where we used to live, came over and they're staying the night with us, so it is so um so oh, y'all hear my mother-in-law clock? Uh-oh. Lord, this thing gonna chime 10 times. What 2300 hours is what we are. Um, I'm recording downstairs instead of in my space. Here we go. One, two, no, I'm not gonna do it delete all this because why not? You might also hear the washing machine going in the back, and you know what? So what? It's that's it. We on this uh that that's okay. But anyway, I hope y'all had a great weekend. I had a great weekend. Um, like I said, George and Courtney are here. We're gonna go have breakfast in the morning. Um, got to show them around the place. Uh they love it, of course. I mean, uh, anyway. So, great weekend. Hope y'all had a good Father's Day. I know 4th of July's coming up. Uh, let's see. Nathan, well, I would say Nathan and I. Nathan and I, we're gonna be leaving Tuesday, but Nathan's leaving Tuesday. We're going on vacay to New York City and then to Syracuse. Uh, but I'm flying out Thursday. So y'all keep me in your thoughts and your prayers. Um, send me that good energy. Uh, my aunt, as I mentioned a few weeks back, I said it was gonna happen sometime this summer. So that's happening Wednesday. It's gonna be it's a good thing, but also um just it's gonna be it's it's gonna be tough. So she is going into um an Alzheimer's clinic. They had an opening come up, so that's yeah, so that's just it's gonna be the best. So that's happening Wednesday, so y'all just keep me in mind, just keep sending that good positive white light, that good energy, that positive energy. Um, but anyway, but it's gonna be good, and then I'll fly out Thursday and be with my sweet love, go do some hiking in the Cat Skields, and then dig up some Herkimer diamonds, that'll be fun. But alright, well, um, let's jump into it. So we had the so last night, like three something in the morning, the summer solstice uh happened. So the longest day of the year. So if you think back to Celtic Norse mythology, that is when the oak king so is at his highest power, his maximum power. So I did do the winter solstice. That's when the Holly King. So it's so funny and different and ironic that yes, this was the summer solstice, the longest day of the year. This is when the oak king is at his most powerful, but yet it's when he literally, but that's when the Holly King comes into power, and now because technically, yes, yeah, oh, oh yeah, it's summertime, folks. We're in June, we got July and August, September, good lord. But literally, though, it does signify yes, it's hot, but yes, technically, longest day of the year that already happened, which means it starts to shorten, which means we got fall and winter time coming, so we are waning into the Holly King's um power. So that was my intention behind this card pull. Hey, it's a summer solstice, it's about handing something over. Notice the Oak King and the Holly King, they're not battling, they're not having a war, they're not fighting. It's just recognizing one another. Yes, this is your powerful time, and I'm gonna take over now. Thank you, you go rest, and here we go. And I'm gonna let the people know that yes, even though the dark times are coming, it's also a fruitful time. So that was my intention behind it. What do we need to recognize? Yes, we're um what what do I need to hand over? Do I need to and it kind of ties back into those goals and stuff. Oh, speaking of the goals and stuff like that, yes, we were setting all these intentions for the new year. So between January and um the summer solstice, how have y'all's goals been going? I would love to hear about them. Mine, I'm excited. I made a, I guess I'll call it a song. I made a new song, and and I'll attach it to the end of this so y'all can enjoy it. So that was something I wanted to do. I wanted to start recording some more songs with my uh tongue drum from Kosmoski. Oh my god, I love that thing. It's a tongue drum, kind of like a steel drum, but it's it's not indented. It has tongues, and you uh can play with your hands or sticks. And so what I did was I recorded that first, and then I went back over and I finally figured out, played around, got the mic set up, and I recorded for uh I recorded over that with my sound uh singing bowls or sound bowls, chakra bowls, whatever you want to call them. Now those came from Six Lynx L-Y-N-X. They're beautiful rose quartz singing bowls, chakra bowls, and sound bowls, and they're just I love them. So anyway, I just made that and I I wanted y'all to listen to it. So enjoy it. Enjoy it at the end of this. Okay, y'all ready? Let's get into it. Wherever you are, go ahead if you can ground yourselves, grab a crystal if you're outside, soaking up the sun, uh, absorb that sunlight, direct it where to go, where does it need to go for a healing? Grab a grab a tree, hug a tree, grab a rocket, barefoot, whatever you want to do. Grab a cigar, because guess what, honey? That's what I'm doing after this. Yep, it's 10.03 p.m. or 2303, 2300 hours. I don't know how to say the 03 part, 2303. And ooh, they got me a placencia or placentia cigar, one of my favorites. I only smoke those like on my birthday, Christmas, and at the end of school. Those are like the the few times that I um treat myself to those because they are you know a little expensive, but they are fantastic. So I'm gonna enjoy one, I'm gonna be meditating with one of those and this fantastic bourbon sour that I'm sipping on. Hold up just a second. Oh, it's so good. But anyway, okay, so let's get to it. Okay, so as I said before, my intention was we're in the summer solstice at the height of the your not your power, the height of the um Oak King's power, where he hands it over without war, without fighting, acknowledges my time is done, I'm handing it over to you. So that was my intention behind the card pool. What do we, what do you, what do we need to hand over? What do we need to signify as okay, it's coming to an end, so something new can begin. And this card, well, first off, I'm using the Celtic Healing Oracle deck. Now, this was this is by Rosemarie Anderson and the illustration by Susan Dorff. So that was my intention. So when I did the card, I got number 35, Spirit of Mountains, and it says the breasts of the goddess. So I'm gonna read this for you, and it talks about ooh-oh, invoking forgiveness. Oh man, forgiving yourself, or you need to forgive someone else. Because, guys, if if before I get into it, if you if you really know that you need to owe someone forgiveness, but you're not doing it, talk about handing over power. You're literally handing your power over to them because you're still holding on to that grudge and that nastiness inside. Might need to do some shadow work and look inward. Forgive them, hand that forgiveness over, so uh so they don't have that power of you. I mean, that's that's just anyway. Here we go. Known as the Paps of Anu, a set of two rounded mountains lie close together on the plains near Killarney in Ireland. Enacting an ancient ritual, pilgrims still carry stones from the bottom to the top of the mountains and place the stones on the summits, forming unmistakable nipples on the breast of the goddess. The goddess Anu represents impartiality and forgiveness of self and others. If you chose this card or you have received this card, you were invited. Oh my god, y'all. I got okay. The Oak King is handing over the power to the Holly King. Look what it's look at me saying, look at it. You are invited to let go or hand over judging yourself or others. Yeah, I'm talking to myself here now. Like Lady Whiskey said, I'm gonna be preaching to the choir. I'm talking to myself here, folks. You were invited to let go of harshly judging yourself or others. While corrective actions are essential in the course of human life, blaming self or others is neither practical nor life-sustaining. However, awkward or difficult, seeking or extending forgiveness frees life to be lived more fully in the present. Good Lord, Mother Earth, at that one spot on. Handing over the oak leaf hands it over so something new. The oak king, oak leaf, the oak king is handing over his power so something new can emerge, other gifts, other uh fruits that you've been working towards, other goals, other skills. I mean, oh my gosh. The image of the breast of the goddess Anu signifies the nourishment of a mother's milk and a boundless self-giving. As though untouched by human logic, she gives imparti impartially and boundlessly to the just and unjust alike. Therefore, you are encouraged to partake of her wisdom in some aspect of your life. Rather than judging or holding court on the actions of others or yourself, you may wish to reevaluate and amend those aspects of your life, in which a gentler and more forgiving approach would be freeing and more deeply gratifying. Love it. So, folks, and you could do it now, you know, when I my fat mouth shuts up, or at the end of this, when I share that new song uh with you. Maybe you could, you know, do a little bit of meditating, figure out and just selfward uh inner reflection. You know, what do I need to hand over? Here's my apology. I'm handing it over to you. Now, folks, and you know what? You don't even have to do it in person, or if you're just if you or if that person has already passed away or moved away, or or if they're um you just can't bring yourself to do it physically or face to face or on the phone or via email, you can do it inwardly, you can still give that forgiveness. Now, will they know you did it? I don't know, unless their higher self lets them know that you have done that forgiveness, but but when you mentally make that choice inwardly, it is gonna make a change. So, whatever your level of comfortability is of if there is someone in your life you need to forgive or something you need to hand over, and just think about that and dwell on it. And like the the first part said, um, about not judging yourself too harshly. So maybe, maybe during the song at the end of this, is there something that's going on that you need to uh look Emily about? What am I where where in my life am I judging myself way too harshly? What what am I doing? Where am I needing to just step back and say, just relax, relax, relax? All right. Well, folks, I hope y'all have a great week. I hope that at the end of this, uh, I hope you are able to reflect inwardly and see, you know, where it is you need to forgive yourself or someone else. What do you need to let go of? All right. And as always, thank you for listening. Um share it with someone if you if you like what you've heard and enjoy the first uh drum, the first song that I came up with on the tongue drum and the sound bowls.

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Gaia bless you, and I'm gonna be a few.