A Message from the Eight of Swords

"Normalcy is the illusion." 

GUYS! I am sooo sick at the moment. I was in no way planning on uploading an epi today. However! I just came across this recording from December (pre-podcast era) and I'm feeling like, actually... this is the move. I really liked this message the first time around and now it can have a place to live forever. So! Enjoy this message from 8 of Swords if it's calling to you. ​

That said, full disclosure, I did pick a card this a.m. (before I fully realized like OH. I'm ill.) - Wheel of Fortune. I didn't get to actually tune in but... maybe I'll come back to that. Or or orrrr, perhaps it's a lovely invitation to explore meaning for yourself. Happy Sunday <3 ​

Transcript

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Um, this is part of the week for December 21st. And Eight of Swords has a message for us. It's a pretty big one. Right now I have this scene from the movie Labyrinth. And for those of you who haven't seen it, A, go watch it. B, it's a movie about this girl that is babysitting her younger brother. She wishes, well, she doesn't want to, and she wishes that these goblins would come and take him away forever. And then the goblins do that, and she immediately regrets it. Um she tries to beg for him back. And the best she can do is make a deal with the goblin king. And the deal is if she can make it through the labyrinth to his castle, she can rescue her brother and take him home. Um, but she only has a certain amount of time to do this, and if she can't, then her brother is going to stay in the goblin kingdom forever and turn into a goblin. And yeah. So yeah, that's the movie. She goes on this journey, and the scene that I am getting from this movie, though, is towards the end. I forget exactly what transpires. Um, but at some point she's waking up in her bedroom. And she wakes up, she has the amnesia, but she doesn't really know it. But she can feel that she's forgetting something. She doesn't, she can't quite put her finger on it, but she can sense that something is off. And there's actually a goblin in the bedroom with her, gaslighting her into thinking that everything's normal and that she's not forgetting anything. And this goblin is telling her to take comfort in all of her things. The goblin is handing her toys, like, oh, you love your doll. You love your teddy bear. Like, see, nothing's wrong. And for a while, the girl buys into it. She's like, Yeah, I do love my doll. I do love my teddy bear. I guess everything is fine. Um, and then I don't remember what exactly it is, but eventually something snaps her out of it. And she's like, Oh, yeah, I'm supposed to be saving my brother right now. And when she has that realization, the walls to this pseudo-bedroom fall around her. And, you know, turns out she's not in her house. She's actually in the thick of the labyrinth. Not just any thick of the labyrinth, but she is the closest that she has ever been to reaching the castle and saving her brother. This is so key to the message that Eight of Swords has for us this week. And this is how this message is for you if you too have been on your own journey to achieve something. And if you being on that journey has required you to change in ways that you maybe never even fathomed or thought you would have to change in order for you to be able to achieve this thing. But you've done it. On an internal level, you have changed dramatically. You are existing in your current circumstances as a new version of yourself. And maybe part of your existence as this new version of yourself has required you to take a big, bold, visible action in the direction of this goal. And so you've been the new version of yourself, you've done the things that this new version of you does, and now it's just a matter of having the things that this new version of you has. But you may be feeling like, well, maybe I'm not actually meant to have that thing that I set out on this journey to have. Maybe you feel like the reason that you had the inspiration, had the desire to go after that thing in the first place was so that you could have these internal shifts. And maybe that was always just meant to be the outcome. And maybe it was never about actually achieving the thing in the first place. You're thinking that because if it was about me actually achieving the thing, well, I would have it by now. Something would have changed by now. I became the person, I took the action, and everything is still so normal. So maybe I was never really meant to achieve that thing, and that's okay. There's no sense of like a problem in this energy. And the truth is, yes, you going on this journey was always about the internal revolution that you were gonna undergo along the way. That is 1000% true, and it is the primary purpose of you having set out on this path in the first place, absolutely. And Eight of Swords is coming forward to say don't lose sight of that dream. Don't lose sight of the thing that got you up and on the path in the first place. Because that thing or something better is absolutely still a part of this story for you. It was never not a part of the story for you. And not only that, but you are closer to having a breakthrough around that thing than you have ever been before. And the fact that nothing's changed, the fact that you look around and you perceive a lot of your circumstances to be exactly the same as when you set out on this journey, is because the illusion of normalcy is the test right now. Your external circumstances still being what they were. Maybe it's like a home that you feel like you've outgrown, or a city you were hoping to move away from, a job or a program that you're a part of that you don't particularly love. It could be anything. But if you're feeling like I've shifted, a new version of me is the one, you know, showing up and engaging in these external circumstances, but the external circumstances still are what they are, still are what they always have been. And maybe that's just what's meant to be. Like, no. No, it's not. And it's not that you have to do some sort of grand, crazy action in order to get things to change, especially if you've already been inspired to take a sort of action. All you have to do is keep going. All you have to do is keep in perspective the fact that you are on this journey and keep putting one foot in front of the other towards that thing. As long as you don't lose sight of it and move forward with the intention of achieving it, it will be yours. That or something better absolutely will be yours. And this is about your normal life, your quote unquote normal life is the illusion right now. And there can be peace and acceptance in that. You don't need to like, again, fling yourself around trying to get out of it, but you do need to keep the perspective of not succumbing to it and not settling for it and not thinking like, well, I guess I tried everything and this is all there is. It's not. It's just not. There is a reason that normalcy is coming at you right now as a form of an illusion. And it's because, again, you have done deep inner work. You know how to look out for triggers. You know how to be on guard for the negative self-talk, the self-doubt, the imposter syndrome, the limiting beliefs. You know that if and when those things come up, you know how to sit in those emotions and not let them overpower you. Things that would have got an old version of you to stop in your tracks or, you know, go into a spiral and sit in an action, it's like those same levers, when your brain pulls them, they don't really work on you anymore. You're not available for that. You're too conscious. And like, yeah, if we go back to the movie analogy, it's like, wait, what is the girl's name? When she was going through the labyrinth, um, the king was watching her every move. The king was very much throwing everything at her that he could in order to keep her from progressing and figuring out the puzzle. And so she had to come face to face with death multiple times, and she overcame it every time. She had to outsmart a number of characters along her path, and she always did. And it's like, again, you're the old programming has tried all along this journey of yours to throw everything it could at you, and you've always kept going, and you know how to keep going. And so if it reached back for any of those methods, they just they wouldn't work. So right now it's reaching for normalcy. Just like in the movie, it's like there's a reason why her having gotten so far on that journey, it's like there's a reason why the obstacle that we would be put in front of her at that point was her waking up in her own room and perceiving everything as normal. Because the last vestiges of this old programming, if they can just get you to like slip slowly but surely, step by step, back in the direction of that old version of you, they can keep the change that is energetically already all around you. And like mind, body, spirit can already perceive that that change is energetically all around you. It's really just a matter of timing and alignment for it to land and materialize into 3D. Um, but it's like if it can just keep you in inaction, it doesn't even have to get you to go backwards. If it could just keep you standing right where you are for long enough, it's like eventually you may think that going backwards is really the only way to go forwards. And so it's trying to lure you into this sense of your normal life is all there really is. It's trying to, yeah, it's just trying to seduce you to settle and to succumb to this external as what is normal and acceptable for you. And that that's all there really is for you. And it's just, it's not true. Eight of Swords is coming through very clearly this week to remind you that that is not true. That is the illusion happening right now. I also just quickly want to make a note that your detachment to the external thing happening, um, that's honestly great. Like your detachment to the outcome, that doesn't need to change. This isn't about you um again attaching to your achievement of the external thing and putting all your stock into that. Like the fact that you've changed is again the primary, the primary outcome. It is the most important thing. And I don't want to take away from that. It's just wherever you feel like I thought this change was gonna happen, but I guess it's not. That's where Eight of Swords is coming in to be like, no, you weren't wrong. This is what's happening, and this is why. There is life for you beyond whatever room you've been sitting in, beyond whatever job that you have been trying to get out of, or just whatever, whatever the circumstance may be, that that's all happening. In a lot of ways, it's already happened, and it's just a matter of you continuing to live your life from the inside out, you continuing to let your internal world inform how you perceive your external world, how you move through your external world, how you show up. Um, and also knowing that this isn't all there is, and that you don't need to try to force yourself to take comfort in things that an old version of you would have taken comfort in just because that's all that that limited mindset can perceive at the moment. It it would feel off for you anyway. The fact that everything looks normal, but feels just a little not quite right, it is a sign that again, you are just you are the closest you have ever been. Okay. Um yeah, I'll see if anything else wants to come through, but I'm thinking that that's it. Yeah, okay, that feels really complete. Um I trust that that will make sense for the people it is meant to make sense to. And yeah, whatever whatever holiday you celebrate or don't celebrate in December, I hope you have a happy one. And I will see you next week. Thanks so much.