True Self Mastery

My 30 Day Water Fast And The Scorpio New Moon

• Anne Van de Water • Season 1 • Episode 14

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I share about my 30-day water fast aligned with the Scorpio new moon, focusing on spiritual clarity, emotional honesty, and honoring a father’s legacy. The journey moves through physiology, ancient roots of fasting, integrity in action, and the choice to insource power.

• the why behind a 30-day water fast
• fasting as ancient spiritual practice across cultures
• week-by-week physical and cognitive shifts
• emotional buffering, grief, and mental discipline
• prayer, intuition, and clearer spiritual channel
• integrity, embodiment, and aligned environments
• personal stance on weight-loss drugs and refeeding
• reflection prompts for shedding old identities
• honoring legacy, leadership, and future health

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Greetings, my friends. I am Anne Vandywater, and I welcome you to the True Self-Mastery Podcast. I am so grateful that you are here with me today. Before we begin, I want to offer a loving trigger warning. In this episode, I talk about fasting, food, weight, and body image. If these themes feel tender for you, please listen with care or skip this episode if that feels best for your well-being. Tonight we gather under the exact energy of the new moon in Scorpio, which arrives at 1047 p.m. Pacific Standard Time. This new moon is a deep initiatory portal. Scorpio rules death and rebirth, transformation, awakening, truth, and the shedding of old identities. And we are also in the year of the snake, which carries the same medicine, the shedding of the skin, the release of what is no longer true, the emergence of the next version of ourselves. This new moon aligns perfectly with the completion of my 30-day water fast, which ended yesterday. For 30 days, I did not eat any food. I drank water with unflavored electrolytes and had one cup of coffee each morning with a splash of cream. I moved gently, I meditated, I prayed, and I stayed deeply connected to spirit and to my true self-mastery practices. I want to begin by saying something very important. I did not weigh myself one time during the entire 30 days, not once, because this fast was not about physical weight, it was not about numbers, it was not about vanity. This was a spiritual journey. This was about reconnecting with spirit. This was about praying every day. This was about releasing the clutter that was blocking my inner voice. This was about creating clarity in my body, in my mind, in my heart, and in my soul so that I could receive the messages that were waiting for me on the other side of discipline. Now I want to share the deeper why beyond and behind this fast. When my father was the exact age that I am right now, he was diagnosed with esophageal cancer. From the time he was diagnosed until the time he passed was only nine months. When I arrived at this same age, something in me awakened. And I wanted to create internal conditions where cancer could not survive. I wanted to cleanse my body, alkalize my pH, and reset my physical, mental, emotional, soul, and spiritual energy. I wanted to honor my father. I wanted to honor myself. I wanted to honor my future. Another reason I did this fast is because over the last few years I have navigated extremely stressful life circumstances that were not caused by me. They required massive emotional resilience and responsibility. And even though I was not eating a lot of food, I was absolutely buffering with food. Using food to soften the stress. And for me, that is not self-mastery. Self-mastery is choosing purpose over distraction, values over relief, and alignment over avoidance. This fast brought me back into full integrity with myself. I also wanted to share the spiritual lineage of fasting because fasting is ancient. Fasting is universal across cultures. It's one of the oldest spiritual practices on earth. Jesus fasted for 40 days in the desert to prepare for his ministry. The Buddha engaged in fasting during his search for enlightenment. Moses fasted for 40 days on Mount Sinai. Prophets, mystics, yogis, shamans, and wisdom keepers across all cultures have used fasting to purify the body and open the channel to spirit. Fasting's not new. This is ancient human medicine. It's the reset button that our ancestors have used for thousands of years. It's a spiritual doorway. Now I want to share a blow-by-blow of what actually happens when you do a long water fast because the journey is profound. Physically, in the first few days, your body burns through glucose reserves and begins transitioning into ketosis. Your digestion quiets, your stomach shrinks, your body begins releasing toxins that were stored in fat cells. The inflammation lowers, your blood pressure stabilizes, your insulin sensitivity improves, your organs get to rest, your whole system simplifies and recalibrates. By the second week, the body becomes deeply efficient. Autophagy activates at a high level, which means the body begins to repair damaged cells and tissues. Your immune system regenerates, your microbiome shifts, your energy becomes cleaner and clearer. By the third week, your brain becomes laser sharp, your mental clarity increases, your thoughts become more spacious, your intuition gets louder, the metabolic pathways that are normally busy with digestion become available for healing and repair. Also, your mind becomes very sharp and very efficient, and you become very aware of the ways that you have inefficiently been using your life force energy. And there's a radical shift where anything that's out of alignment, you don't have the energy for it, and you don't have the tolerance for it. During the fourth week for me, the first half of the fourth week, I was super charging and feeling fantastic. And then during the last three or four days, I got the very clear signal of okay, it's time to break the fast. So it was a 30-day journey. And one of the really profound things that happened and that happens on a fast is that emotionally a fast brings everything to the surface: old grief, old fear, old stress, old coping mechanisms, all the emotional buffering rises because the thing you normally use to soothe yourself is gone. Food is a comfort for most humans. And when it's removed, you meet your emotional truth directly without numbing. The rose-colored glasses are off. You can't fake that things are okay if they aren't, because you see it all crystal clear. Water fasting is raw and it's powerful and it's liberating. Mentally, you become disciplined, you become focused, you become determined, you become clear, you stop negotiating with yourself, you stop bargaining with your ego. You step into a level of inner strength you did not even know existed. Your mind becomes an ally instead of an adversary. On a soul and spiritual level, something absolutely magical happens. Your intuition becomes ten times louder, your inner knowing becomes stronger, your connection to spirit becomes clearer, and you hear the whispers of your soul. You receive visions and insights and guidance that were drowned out by food and distraction. Your heart opens, your energy body becomes brighter, your prayers become deeper, and your entire being feels like it is being purified from the inside out. I prayed every day of this fast, sometimes several times a day. I asked for clarity, guidance, healing, and support. I asked to be restored to my truest and most aligned self. I asked my father to be with me. I asked Spirit to guide my steps, and I felt held. I even led a silent dinner and did not eat. I taught a full week at the Eslin Institute without eating a single meal. I traveled a lot. I showed up. I fulfilled every commitment. I taught workshops and I felt strong and clear until the very last few days when my body gently told me it's time to prepare to break the fast, which I did today, with some half and half watermelon juice and water. And then I just had some actual watermelon. It was so good. One of my core teachings is that we must embody what we teach. Embodiment is integrity, embodiment is alignment, embodiment is truth. This fast was an embodiment practice. Emotional eating has been my lifelong kryptonite. I faced it directly. I cleared it. I freed myself from it. I also hired a fasting coach because even my DNA results show that I function at my best with external accountability. And because I hold space for so many people every day, I know the power of having someone hold space for me. People ask me during this fast as they saw me shedding weight if I was using Ozempic or any kind of weight loss drugs, and my answer is always the same. I love and support everyone in doing what feels right for their body, but for myself, I would never do that. Water fasting is ancient, natural, and powerful. If you break a fast wisely, you do not gain the weight back. And the studies on these drugs are clear. If you stop taking them and do not make major lifestyle changes, the weight returns. I'm not called to pharmaceuticals or surgery. I'm called to discipline, devotion, and spiritual alignment. Another powerful realization is that it is much more challenging to be around people who are opulent with food and alcohol. It's easier to be around people who prioritize wellness. But what this fast taught me is that I can maintain my alignment no matter what is happening around me. I can stay in my lane even when others are not living the way that I'm living. That being said, I'm clear that my most intimate environments need to match the way that I live because life is just so much more flowing. There's so much less struggle when you are surrounded with people who are living a healthy lifestyle. I also want to say this because it matters. Everyone is different. Warren Buffett is 93 years old and he drinks five Cokes a day and eats McDonald's every day, and his blood work is perfect. Everyone has their own chemistry, everyone has their own path. What matters is that I honor mine. 13 years ago, I wrote the words, your look is your hook and your vibe attracts your tribe. And I stand by that completely. Your look shows how you live. Your look shows your choices. Your look shows your discipline. And your vibe is your purpose, your values, your message, and your vision. I want to represent who I truly am on every level so that when people see me, they see what I stand for. Another revelation is that I am no longer outsourcing my power. I am insourcing. I intentionally put myself in situations where everyone around me was eating and drinking and indulging, and I stayed true to my path. That built strength, that built conviction, that built inner authority. Ra Uruhu, who is the receiver, the channel, the messenger of human design, one of his prophecies is that in February of 2027, we enter a new global era of individual empowerment. It's the era of insourcing, the era of listening to your own authority, the era of not conforming to the choices of the group. I feel the shift happening now. This fast was a rite of passage into that new era. This fast was for my health. It was for my father. It was for my legacy. It was for my leadership. It was for my future. It was for my purpose. It was for my alignment with true self-mastery. And the new moon in Scorpio is the perfect place to honor this transformation. Scorpio is the energy of truth, of release, of revelation, of rebirth. It invites us to shed what no longer serves and step into who we truly are. So as we stand in this Scorpio new moon portal, I invite you to reflect. Where are you buffering? Where are you abandoning yourself? Where are you outsourcing your power? Where are you ready to shed your old skin? Who is the next version of you that is ready to emerge? This is the moment to claim it. Thank you so much for being with me here on the day that I broke my 30-day water fast under this new moon in Scorpio. Thank you for witnessing this journey. Thank you for walking your own path of true self-mastery. I love you. I support you. I appreciate you. And I'm so honored to be on this journey with you. If you have not already received your true self-mastery free human design chart, then go to my website at anvandywater.com, link below in the show notes to get that free chart. And if you've already done that and you want to talk with me about going deeper on the true self-mastery journey with me, then please visit my website and schedule a free 20-minute true self-mastery clarity call with me. I really look forward to connecting with you. And I will see you next time or we'll connect next time on the True Self-Mastery podcast. Thank you. So be it. So it is. It is done. Abra cadabra.