E84 Honi: Celebration as Choice — How Choosing Joy Opens Doors, Brings Abundance & Blessings

Rev. Honi explores celebration as a daily spiritual practice: how choosing celebration (rather than waiting) creates more joy, abundance and blessings for you and those around you. Listen for practical mindset shifts and embodied practices that make celebration contagious, open new opportunities, and deepen spiritual embodiment. Key takeaways: choose celebration as ritual, how celebration amplifies connection & abundance, simple steps to apply today.

In this deeply personal and joy-filled solo episode, Rev. HoniB shares what unfolded when she finally hosted her belated birthday celebration a month after the water leak displaced everything. What started as a simple gathering with dear friends in DC became a living demonstration of how celebration is contagious. She gifted pieces from her years of planetary travels, watched her friends light up as if it were THEIR birthday, helped a stranger at the grocery store with the exact cash she happened to have in her wallet, lent flip-flops to a girl at the gym, and witnessed her cousin who resisted celebrating her own birthday leave the restaurant saying "I'm so grateful I allowed myself to do this."

In this episode:

• Why Honi deliberately chose to extend her birthday celebration across multiple days and gatherings, and what it opened inside of her
• The deeper reason she gifted precious items from her travels: where God ALMighty is taking her, these pieces are no longer part of it
• How her dear friend Chris, who has been publicly sharing his journey through a serious health challenge, showed up more radiant than ever and said "You chose to celebrate ME"
• The grocery store moment where she happened to have the exact cash a stranger needed, and what it revealed about the mechanics of celebration energy
• Why "balanced energy exchange" and "if I give, I must receive" come from a limited consciousness, and what replaces it
• The cousin who resisted having a birthday celebration but was so grateful she allowed it
• How celebration is not an ending but a path, and how choosing it tunes your conscious and subconscious mind to see Blessings everywhere
• Why celebration is mechanics, not just words, and why Honi used to get upset hearing this until she moved into the direct experience
• The truth: joy is contagious, celebration is contagious, and so is suffering. Choose.
• A preview of the 100th episode celebration coming early August

Celebration is a path, not an ending. It's a start to many, many beginnings. 🌹

Transcript

Welcome And The Contagion Of Celebration

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Blessings and welcome to the Ascension Alchemist Podcast. It's your host, Reverend Honey Borden, and I am very, very belighted to be sharing this moment with you as you listen to this on your maybe Monday drive or other train or maybe at the gym. I would love to know when you listen to this first thing in the morning when it releases Monday, where you actually are. So thank you. Wherever you are, you're listening. Today's episode, I want to talk about how when you celebrate life, you choose to truly just celebrate life, it's a conscious decision on the inside. How others will then also begin celebrating life more, and how celebration is really contagious. That's what I'm going to really get into.

A Belated Birthday After Hard Times

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So this past weekend, yesterday, I got to celebrate my belated birthday party with my DC, Washington, DC, Virginia, Maryland, DMV area friends at our place. So you all know that we had our apartment, as you've listened for the past few episodes. We went through all of that water leakage, three weeks out, and you know, being hotel, everything in storage, coming to take out drywalls, put drywalls back, paint, all of that stuff that you heard we went through. And I was supposed to have this birthday celebration in May after we came back from Florida. However, we had to postpone it. So I put it a month later. And I got to have that yesterday. So of course it seemed a little odd to have my birthday celebration a month later in the month of June. Yet again, again, again, I was a witness to how perfect truly God's way is. God Almighty's way is so amazing. It's never our way, indeed. It is sometimes it aligns with us, yet there's a there's a whole different richness about it when we lean into it. So let me tell you why. As I knew I was going to have this celebration on Saturday night, I wanted to do what I did for our friends in Florida. In Florida, we had closed the storage, so some of these beautiful, beautiful pieces along the travels in different countries that I've gathered. I put them in these bags and I got to celebrate my birthday party in Florida by gifting these to others and just being a witness of how how they were lit up, how excited they were, how they felt it was their birthday too. And I just love the way that feeling was inside of me. So here I wanted to do the same. As I mentioned last week, some of the bins we brought back was in my son's house. We had to put it there, and they're moving, so I had all the way till this past weekend, Friday, to get the bins out, and God bless Michael been helping me with these bins to empty them out, and of course, then also make these goodie bags, gift bags, to be able to gift it to our friends. And last night was so sweet because I had gone through the week consciously and deliberately chosen certain pieces to go in each bag and be able to be able to give these really precious things that I really loved, and it's an extension of love that I know its time has come to its end, because what where God Almighty is taking me, these are not part of it. It has to go to other people that it's just a form of blessing that is going to be with them. So I prepared it, and it was so, so beautiful to be able to be with my dear friends and also our dear friends, and to be able to gift these at the end of the night. Now, before gifting them, this is what I want to address.

Gifting Friends And Sharing The Joy

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Two of our friends, Phil and Chris, they also had birthday in the same week. And what was so amazing, it was that I got to be in their celebrations of their birthday. So it was like as if my birthday continued in the month of June, and I got to celebrate with both of them last night, which was even more precious. And what made it even more beautiful was our dear friend Chris, who this past year he's been going through the experience of, I call it C. And this experience, Michael and I have been very supportive in numerous ways, and and he's he's been amazing to go through all different kinds of ways and discover more of that higher health and bring about the awareness and become public with it. Why I'm sharing this is because for years he didn't know how to be on camera, he didn't know how to do video or anything like that. And as he became public in sharing it, what's amazing is seeing him last night so radiant, so marvelous, so amazing. And this space where he's been sharing his journey publicly and uplifting lives and being able to being able to touch other people's lives by his own journey and courage and how amazing that is. So like yesterday, when I was gifting him something, we got a chance to talk about how perfect life has been, where 10 years ago when him and I met,

Celebrating Others Through Illness And Courage

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here you you never knew that at some point later he would be going through that experience. So then I would have access to certain things through the molecular hydrogen technology that we brought into our lives, and I publicly shared it. And through that, you know, the the journey that he took, how all of these came together. And it is a celebration of life. And he said to me yesterday, he said, you know, I really love that your birthday, you chose to celebrate me and me and Phil, but also everybody else. So we feel our birthdays continue and we're going to continue to go celebrate more of life. I said, exactly, exactly, Claire, because it is contagious. When we celebrate, when we choose consciousness to celebrate, we welcome the celebration energy in our life because it is an abundant energy. It's our most natural state, and this continues.

Family Birthday Resistance Turns To Gratitude

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So today I got back from my cousin's birthday, who absolutely wanted nothing to do with birthdays or anything like that. And me and her sisters organized something for her, and it was so beautiful to watch as the family we had come together at this restaurant, and we were talking at the end. She said, you know, I really resisted having this birthday celebration, but I'm so grateful that I did. I'm so grateful that I'm sitting with all of you and I allowed myself because my comfort zone is just to be at home. And I was sharing with her, I said, you know, by doing this, we had a reason to celebrate. We had a reason to just come and pour our joy, pour our love, and let it all weave through all of us cousins and aunt and uncle through the family. So why I'm sharing this with all of you is some of you may be really into consciously, deliberately also welcoming celebration in your life.

Why Some Of Us Avoid Celebration

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And some of you may not, some of you may be like, okay, that's just too much. Why would I want to do that? Why? Why do I want to draw attention to myself? Why do I want to, if I had one day birthday, why do I want to extend it to so many other days? So notice what comes up because I totally know that place. I completely know that place. And I know that place from my family that did not get a chance to when we came to America to really celebrate, because we didn't have anything, and it was dependent on having things to be able to do that, and we just didn't at all. And and there was, you know, in the ish initially we had food stamp and stuff like that, and just to get our life started. So having said that, I didn't really allow celebration. And one of the things that I found when I wasn't allowing celebration, there was this part of me that wanted to deny the goodness, deny the greatness. And it was almost like a self-sabotage, I would say. And at some point later, this was way later, especially when my kids came, I really saw the beauty of choosing consciously to celebrate. And I saw something even deeper. When I would organize something as a celebration, because I would pour so much love into it, what I began to see is when individuals would come into that space, something was happening to them. They were uplifted, they were more laughing, they were more joyous. And they would always say to me, Oh my gosh, honey, I feel so good. I'm so glad I

Giving Without Keeping Score

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came. And for a long time I didn't know what this was because I was like, why doesn't anybody else do it? And they kept saying, Wow, honey, you do this, like you make it very easy. And for me, there was no effort. We do we put it together, it's beautiful, bring a lot of beauty, and to choose to embrace this, like last night. Then I started to understand from a deeper place, from this place that God Almighty was showing me. That celebration energy that I was tapping into, and the reason why my human self really enjoyed it and was consciously choosing it, by taking all the actionable steps of putting this together with absolutely no attachment to anything, but for the pure joy of allowing a celebration take place, what I began to see was I was allowing the life's celebration to move through me. As it moved through me, I was getting out of the way of its radiance, and that radiance was pouring into all the details and organization. So those that were then coming into it, they began experiencing this abundant transformation, and I realized that it was in that full giving that I was experiencing the most out of all of them. So Michael always says, honey, when there is when there is one of these celebrations, it seems like you have you're the one who is the ultimate happiest, which is very, very true because it's like as if I'm running inside the current of it. I know many of you are experiencing this as well. So this then changes the definition of what we've been taught. There has to be a balanced energy exchange, or if I give, I must receive. I want to share that, it comes from a very limited consciousness. Because when there is that idea, I have to receive. If I give something, that means you are believing there's a limited supply, and God Almighty is unlimited, undivided. The celebration is a celebration that ignites other celebration and it compounds everybody else. So everybody experiences. There isn't a need to receive because it is in the giving one already receives, it's already like mechanically embedded inside of it. So let me just go one step further and tell you why I'm sharing this.

Small Acts Of Help In Daily Life

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When I went yesterday, when I was running around to buy things yesterday, something interesting happened. I was at a store, there was a lady at the line, and she was paying the grocery in cash, and she was short in money. And the the cash register gentleman was starting to get really irritated with her because the lady was from, I don't know, one of the African countries, very thick accent, and and she was trying to count the money, but she was short, so she was holding up the line. So I asked, and I usually don't have cash in my wallet, but I happened to have cash that day. So I asked, I said, how much you need? She's like, No, no, I I go run into my car, and I was I was it was my it was my turn, and the cash register started ringing my things as the lady went to her car. As I went out, I was like, How much do you need? She's like, I need so and so. And I looked at my wallet. Interesting enough, I had exactly that amount of cash in my wallet with change. And I was like, this is so interesting because a couple of days ago, I was like, I never carried this change like this. I don't know why I have it in my wallet. So because I was in this celebration energy, I gave that to her with nothing, no questions, nothing. And she was really, really, really, really surprised. So later that day, I was at the gym. I'd come back also from the pool for half an hour, and I was getting ready to leave. I see two of the girls that work at the cafe, and one of them was saying, Wow, she really wanted to go to the pool. She didn't have this, she didn't have this, she didn't bring herself, and she was also missing flip-flops. So I said, Hey, I'm getting really relieved. Do you want to borrow my flip-flop? She's like, Are you serious? I said, sure. So I gave that to her, she was very excited, and I found myself like, okay, this is very interesting. There are people around that seem to be needing something, and I happen to be in a position where I can I can be a solution to that, and I can see

Tuning Your Mind To Celebration

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how they're lifted. So having said all of this, here comes my birthday. It is my birthday night, and I having this wonderful time with my dear friends, and my my mother-in-law gifts me with this beautiful, how you call it, their air fryers, but the glass air fryer that I really wanted. I was so, so grateful for that. And then one of my dear friends who has been, she's been a dear friend for many years, and there are a few items that I had put on marketplace for sale, and she said yesterday she wanted to purchase a few of these. And it was so beautiful because suddenly, suddenly I had somebody who these other items that are so meaningful, so rare to be able to come across them, the original items. Here she was, she chose to, she chose to invest in them and purchase them and continued this celebration. So celebration went on to her on top of the items that I gave her, and then there was this other blessing that came into me. And today I got to take some of this with the money that she gave me and further gift it to my part of my cousin's party today, and and this is what I'm speaking about. When we tune into this celebration, tuning means choosing. That's where I'm speaking from, and from that choosing deliberately, our conscious mind and subconscious mind, our conscious mind tells our subconscious mind that, okay, we are choosing this. So wherever I look, I'm choosing this so that I can be a celebration in my own life, and I can be a celebration in someone else's life. And from there, I'm not imposing my

Choosing Joy Over Heavy Emotions

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will upon anyone, yet I'm opening up the door to this beautiful heavenly realm that has all these possibilities laid out so that I can actually be on the receiving end of it. And that's why when you are in this state, you are the one who's receiving that from heaven, so you're not trying to receive it from others, and you feel so fulfilled, such nectar running in you, and it's just absolutely beautiful. And from here, I found myself to reach out to a friend who's going through a challenge in life right now, from here to see if she would be open that I can speak while she's in this space, I can speak from the language and from the lens of celebration of life. So perhaps she can allow this in her life because it is accessible to all of us, it is available to all of us. Yet there's this mechanic in it when we are not counting on other people to give to us in order for us to celebrate, or we're not waiting for others to fulfill in us with what is ready to be fulfilled within us through us by our own mighty creator. So all of this goes back to our own creator, and that's what I've noticed. The more I'm sitting here, the more I'm allowing God Almighty to nurture, nourish, rejoice in me with that, all that praise and thanksgiving. I'm opening myself more and more to the celebration of life because it feels on the inside so much more lighthearted and celebratory. So from here, it's pouring inside of you more. So it radiates out, it pours out, and it pours out to others. Then others are lifted. Others feel like more of that youth and beauty, and and it comes with answers ready, and it is self reliant, self dependent, self. Regenerated, it is not required from outside to give to it. But what happens, it just so happened that others step in want to from their own heart give into it without you, without you really initiating asking it, it just automatically becomes. So I'm curious, I'm really, really curious if you have been attuning more to the celebration as a consciousness inside of you, like literally deciding, you know what? I'm I'm just deciding, I've decided. My life is a celebration. I'm not gonna deny this anymore, so I'm gonna continue. I'm very curious. And what about if you have, how has it been been playing out? Are you seeing? Are you seeing doors that you could never open on your own or suddenly opening? Are you seeing places, invitations that you couldn't even imagine opening for you? I really want to know genuinely, because I know it is happening for some of you that are attuned to this, that means there's no resistance, and some of you that are not there yet, that's okay. As you're hearing this, the fact that you're hearing this, that means there is possibility in you, and maybe you allow it. The next would be, will you allow it? Will you be like, all right, this may be just for you, honey, but maybe not for me. And that's the part that I want to speak to because if you're seeing it for me, I'm no different than you. That's the truth. We're both one in a human body, it's a spirit in a human body, and God gives all the blessings to all. There's really no difference. The key becomes would you be open to allow it in you? That's it. And what do you have to lose? There is nothing to lose. Yet sometimes the story changes because then it then we start seeing it like, wow, I don't actually have to suffer because suffering was a choice, and I can really do things in this way in alignment, in embodiment, in non-resistance, and these are not words, they're actually mechanics. I used to get really upset when I years ago I would hear this. I'm like, what are they talking about? They're just using words because I wasn't there, I couldn't experience it until I moved into it. It's like, oh no, these are not words, these are true state of beingness that allows the experiences to unfold through. And it's great. So, so what are the choices, right? To be able to spread desperation, depression, oppression, hate, jealousy, all of that, or choose to celebrate. Choose to celebrate in the more of that beautiful, wonderful, joyous blessings. Because joy spreads, joy is contagious, celebration is contagious, so is hate, so is anger, so is depression. It is up to us to really choose. I just choose not to be around that, not to want to entertain that, because that really shuts all doors, and then you can't experience, you cannot experience the blessings of life. So with embodiment, we are embodying. I'm not talking about embodying just okay, what's your better image? I'm talking about the created, a creator all, the consciousness of that magnificent, undivided one to embody that

Practical Prompts And The Ripple Effects

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presence inside of us. We gotta celebrate that we're part of it. We gotta celebrate that that presence, that mighty God creative of all, the creator, created us in celebration. Put a light inside of us, the Christ light, put put heartbeat inside of us, made us out of love, gave us a body. Here, human. We're in a a man means body, not male body. Here we are, and it's time to celebrate life so we can start to bring the celebrations of life from the heavenly realm onto earth. That's all I know. Some of you are with me, some of you, it may have to be a win to get you there. Well, maybe if you listen enough, you begin to also see it's possible in you. I'm not here to change you. I'm not here, I'm just here to share. So it really settled inside of me last night. I went to bed so grateful, so grateful to have seen so many smiles, sparks in people's eyes. Even though it was the excuse of my birthday celebration, they all felt it was their birthday and they were celebrated. And they left with just deepest joy. And how wonderful is that? How wonderful is that? Maybe just a few people here got to do that with, and even today with my cousins. So the world is a better place, and we all part of one consciousness in the human experience. So if we do it one, that means we made it available for others. So what will you celebrate? Would you celebrate that you are in a human form, that you are having this privileged experience to be in a body and to experience life just this moment, and that God Almighty actually chose you to be here, that you have a purpose to fulfill. Maybe you know what it is, maybe you don't, but you are here purposefully, you're absolutely not a mistake. You were chosen. So will you celebrate that so that you can begin to allow the goodness to be touched in you on the inside?

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That's all my question is.

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And if you are alive, will you take more steps in celebrating life each day? Maybe a little bit more, maybe just a little bit more, and witness what might come out of it. Your mood might change, your health might improve, your hair nails, skin get better, less wrinkles, more friendships, more opportunities, more abundance, more financial breakthroughs. Yeah, more good news. These are also possible because it works in that way. Celebration is a path, not an ending. It's a start to many, many beginnings. I love you all. Thank you so much for allowing me to celebrate you today, celebrate you today, and be with you.

100th Episode Plans And Listener Invitation

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This podcast is a celebration, and we're getting ready to come to our hundredth episode. I am so grateful. We're gonna have a big celebration party. We're certainly gonna announce it. We're gonna start organizing it. It's gonna be in the beginning of August sometime. It's a big deal for us. We've been listening to the presence of God Almighty and just coming on here, sharing our everyday experiences through here with you. And to and to just be raw, be real, say what worked, what didn't work, challenges we face, what did we overcome, and how we still chose to celebrate. Because when you're celebrating life, you're really not going to be medicated much, because the natural joy of life is going to raise you so high, so you have access to the presence of God Almighty, that that medicine to continuously to pour through you throughout the whole day, and there is surely nothing greater. So, with that, much love to all of you. Have a glorious week, and my questions I love for you to answer, so please leave a comment even on Facebook or Instagram when you hear this. I just want to I just want your feedback because I'm always talking here, and I know you can hear me. It would be so great to be able to get your response as well. Much love. Have a gorgeous, blessed, celebratory week, and may God Almighty allow the celebration to deepen in your heart, in your soul, so that you can take the steps this week in everywhere around you and choose to see it through the lens of celebration because life is too short. And you have the capability and you sure have the possibility to choose it if you wish. Thank you so much, everyone. Much love to all of you. See you next time.