Awakening: You & Me | A Message of Change for the 8/8 Lion’s Gate Portal

Welcome to the very first episode of Awakening: You & Me, a new series of short, intimate episodes created to support you wherever you are on your awakening journey.

In this special card-reading episode, Natalie connects with the energies surrounding the 8/8 Lion’s Gate Portal and draws the Change card from the Osho Zen Tarot.

Change is always moving through us. Life expands and contracts, joy rises and fades, and every ending creates space for something new. But what happens when we stop clinging to the highs, resisting the lows, and instead become the loving observer of it all?

This message is an invitation to:

• Move toward the center of the wheel
• Remain open to transformation
• Meet everything arising within you with awareness, acceptance, and love

Change is available to you.
Transformation is happening through you.
And something new is ready to emerge.

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Transcript

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Namaste beautiful souls. This is a special episode of Awakening Podcast because it's you and me and a card reading based on the current energies. I have a pack of cards that I love working with. They're the Osho Zen Tarot cards, and they're deep, they're powerful. So based off the current energies that we are experiencing, it is August, it's the beginning of August. We're preparing our energies for the greatest eight eighth lion's gate portal. You can sense energies, you can sense transformation, you can sense that we are busy shedding some last-minute layers so that we can hold even more light with this huge opportunity of this portal that's opening on the 8th eight. So I am now gonna pick a card and we're gonna receive a message about the current energies. It's incredible because it looks like a portal. Change. The card is called change, and the image on the card. Well, I'm gonna describe it to you as I read it to you. The symbol in this card is an enormous wheel representing time, fate, karma. Galaxies spin around this constantly moving circle, and the twelve signs of the zodiac appear on its circumference. Just inside the circumference are the eight trigrams of the Ai Chi, I Ching, and even closer to the center are the four directions, each illuminated by the energy of lightning. The spinning triangle is at this moment pointed upward towards the divine, and the Chinese symbol for yin and yang, male and female, creative and receptive lies at the center. It has often been said that the only unchanging thing in the world is change itself. Life is continuously changing, evolving, dying and being reborn. All opposites play a part in this vast circular pattern. If you cling to the edge of the wheel, you can get dizzy. Move towards the center of the cyclone and relax, knowing that this too will pass. And then the other part of this message life repeats itself mindlessly unless you become mindful. It will go on repeating like a wheel. That's why Buddhists call it the wheel of life and death, the wheel of time. It moves like a wheel. Birth is followed by death, death is followed by birth. Love is followed by hate, hate is followed by love. Success is followed by failure, failure is followed by success. Just see. If you watch just for a few days, you will see a pattern emerging, a real pattern. One day, a fine morning, you are feeling so good and so happy, and another day you are so dull, so dead, that you start thinking of committing suicide. And just the other day you were so full of life, so blissful that you were feeling thankful to God, that you were in a mood of deep gratefulness, and today there is great complaint, and you don't see why one should go on living. And it goes on and on, but you don't see the pattern. Once you see the pattern, you can get out of it. So the message is that when we recognize that the law of nature here on earth in this dimension is duality, that expansion and contraction follow expansion and contraction, that joy is followed by dullness, that happiness is followed by sorrow, that that's just the experience. But you do not need to commit to that pattern. You, when you wake up and you expand your awareness, you realize, oh wow, the pattern is here. The pattern is flowing because that's the movement. But I don't need to believe in it. So I don't need to feed into it, I don't need to attach to it, I don't need to resist the discomfort and attach to the highs. I can just be aware of it. I can be the observer as the change happens. I can observe, accept, and allow the change. And then instead of you being so affected by life's ups and downs, instead you stay in the center, observing in a space of equanimity and balance. And you notice when uncomfortable things come in, and instead of going, oh, I want to resist it, you say, How about I turn towards it with love? And you turn towards it with love, and because you've turned towards it, the love that you are dissolves it and clears it. And so instead of that pattern remaining and holding you and gripping you and you identifying with it, it dissolves and it clears and it creates more space. Now the same goes for when you are connecting with the joyful high frequency states. Don't attach to them because if you attach to them, you'll suffer the lows. If you attach to the highs, you suffer the lows. So when you have a joyful experience, accept it, embody it, embrace it, but don't attach to it. If you can observe and witness and enjoy the ups and the downs equally, you stay in the center in a wonderful space of equanimity. So that is the message, and this card is it's incredible because it's a circle of swirling energy. It is a vortex in itself. And so inside, in the very center of it, is the yin yang reminding us of the yin, the feminine, the yang, the masculine, which is the polarity which creates this real reality. Oh, I like how that rhymed. And then we've got this outer energy. What I'm picking up from this card is for right now the current the current energies on our earth and in the collective and in the individual experience is the message for you is this be open to change because change is available to you. Stay open to transformation because transformation is happening through you, and be excited and present for all that already is and all that is coming. Because change is needed and positive and here. Woo! What a wonderful message! So, beautiful souls, thank you for being here. Thank you for being a part of this awakening podcast. Because of you, this podcast exists. And I want to thank you for adding hearts, adding likes, adding comments, downloading the podcast, and for jumping over to Apple Podcasts because you're here listening through Apple Podcasts, because you're adding your beautiful energy and your following on Apple Podcasts and on YouTube and all other different spaces and places like Spotify, because of that, this message is then being recognized as an important message, and it's being sent out to other people that might need to hear this message today. So you're making a difference in other people's worlds. And I just want to thank you from my heart for that. I love you and I appreciate you. Namaste.