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[0:13] Energy and magic in August, finding balance amid chaos. 

Music, Aloha and welcome to Your Heart magic, an illuminating space where psychology, spirituality and heart wisdom. Meet. Here's your host, Dr bethanne kapansky Wright, the clinical psychologist with a mystic mind.

Aloha, everybody. This is Dr bethanne kapansky Wright, welcome to your heart magic. We are talking about the energy of August today, and looking at what do the Akashic records have to say about the month of August, and also tapping into a few of the Astro transits and moon cycles happening this month. 

So with that, let's dive in. When I opened the Akashic records for August, the first thing that I saw was all these different images of something spinning. I saw somebody on a ride like a tilt a whirl, and I saw somebody on a merry go round, and other similar kinds of images of this idea of being on something that was spinning.

I had a sensation of things moving at a high velocity right now, and this felt very connected to much of what we're seeing in the news cycle, much of what we're seeing in our world at this time, there wasn't any specific information that came through on that it was more of a sense of things happening at a rapid fire rate, and us, perhaps feeling like the person on the merry go round, where everything is spinning, spinning, spinning around us. What was so beautiful about this image is that I saw, if you've ever been on a merry go round and you're trying to keep your balance. 

At first, the person was trying to, like, stand up on the spinning merry go round on their two feet, and they were maybe holding on with one hand and trying to stay upright.

 And then finally, they figured it out, and they just sat down, and they grabbed on to a handhold, and were able to find a sense of equilibrium, and that is the guidance from the Akashic records for the month of August, that if we can find our still point, our calmness, our ways to anchor and ground in the energy this month, we are going to feel so much more supported. 

And the theme for the month of August is magic and the chaos, which I thought was really beautiful. And what I saw on the record is that, on the one hand, there is an energy right now that might feel chaotic to a lot of people. There is a lot going on in our world, a lot going on in the individual places that we live. A lot going on in our environment. 

There's a lot going on in our communities and with the people around us and in our relationships. If we were each to do a little bit of inventory and just write out what in my life right now feels chaotic, or feels like it's spinning, or I feel like something is beyond my control, we would probably each have a list of multiple things that were composed of bigger picture stuff to maybe even small things in some of our personal relationships and life circumstances at the same time. 

On the other hand, there was the sense that there is so much magic available this month and the Akashic records. When I said, Well, what do you mean by magic? I know what I mean by magic. What do the Akashic Records mean by magic? And they said, Well, what does magic mean to each of you?

 And that was the invitation from the records, whatever magic means to you, whether that is your spiritual connection and something specific that you feel when you think about magic, whether that is being out in nature, maybe it's your creativity on your heart magic, we talk about all these different ways that we tap into our unique power and unique light 

And our heart magic and our spiritual connection. So whatever magic means to each of us, there's so much space available for that right now, and I saw in all this chaotic swirling, this beautiful, golden energy that was just weaving its way through everything this month. 

And if we can sit down, it allows us to stay in our magic, to step into our sovereignty of magic, and to tap into that with so much more ease. It is hard to see the magic, to feel our spiritual connection, to find higher perspective, to be in awe over everyday miracles and these extra. Things that often happen within the confines of our ordinary lives. It's hard to see that if our heads are spinning and we are too wrapped up in stress and everything else going on around us. 

So there's this amazing energy this month where, yes, things are happening quickly and there's a lot going on, and yet there is so much space, if we can just sit down and be like that person on the merry go round, and find a way to anchor that we are able to tap into that beautiful, golden energy and open up to our intuition, open up to our spiritual connection, open up to newfound inspiration. 

[5:41] Finding meaning and purpose in life during August's Leo season.

The Akashic Record said that one of the best ways to navigate the energy for the month of August is to find our points of contact. And when they said that, they brought us back to that image of the person on the Merri go round who decides to sit down, and then they grab on to the handholds closest to them. Maybe there's a bar or something. Most merry go rounds have something to hang on to. 

Maybe they grab onto what's at the center and points of contact, usually in climbing and other kinds of sports that require a lot of flying through the air or having to hang on and have your body supported by some apparatus or rock or something like that. A point of contact is usually something that you can grab onto as a handhold. 

And so when you have more points of contact, more ways that you are gripping, the easier it is to execute whatever it is you're trying to execute. And so the Akashic Record said for us this month, our points of contact, or whatever grounds us, what are the things that each of us might come back to time and a time again that hold true for us? What is your why? What drives you? What is your purpose? What is your intention? 

We were encouraged by the records, to not give up at this time, to continue to find hope and to find meaning and individual purpose, and whatever we feel called to do in the world, and however we feel called to contribute in our lives, whatever meaningful acts of light and contribution We are making on the planet at this time that those matter and they are important. 

And so if we can come back to that space of asking ourselves, what am I about right now? Why am I here? If nothing else, even if we are having questions about our life path or our vision or our work or our creative purpose or something like that. I think we can always resonate with the idea that we are here to hold space for the light, to be in service to love, or to learn about love, to grow in love, to practice compassion, to learn about authenticity. 

Those are some of my things that I come back to again and again, if I feel like some of the other stuff is getting muddied. So whatever our Why is, those are our points of contact, and the more that we can find meaning in that, the more we are able to stand our magic, stand our lane, open up to the good energy coming through, the light energy coming through and learn to take our world in stride at this time, to take it seriously and be conscientious and care about what's happening around us, even as we keep learning the art of compassionate detachment and not getting pulled out of our lane and sucked into worrying about things that we can't control, and then we become ineffective and aren't able to make a contribution at all. 

So play with those energies this month. Play with this idea of being in your magic. We enter August in Leo season, and Leo is all about the magic. Leo is our big hearted lioness who loves the spotlight and isn't afraid to own their magic and claim their magic. Sometimes, Leos claim all the magic, and they have no problem being completely audacious and saying, I'm here to shine, and I am in the spotlight. Look at me, and we are encouraged to think about, how can we find that in our individual ways this month? How can we take that Leo energy and be inspired by it, and take the best of it and apply it to our lives in a way that supports us. Leo is also big hearted.

 Leo is all about the heart and all about passion and creativity. And one of the things that I love about Leo season is I feel like it's such an invitation to step into our hearts and to listen to the big, bold dreams in our heart. That ask us and invite us to shine with more of our own audacity and our own boldness. 

We have a Leo New Moon coming up on August the fourth, and that is an excellent time to tie in all this Leo energy with New Moon energy and new moons are about beginnings. They are about exploring what we have been releasing, what we're transforming, what we don't want to carry with us, how we're changing, and what we're intending and what we're wanting to create. So a couple themes to play with on this new moon are, what are the new beginnings in your life right now. 

[10:40] Astro notes: Clearing cobwebs, expressing authenticity, and celebrating growth.

How are you growing into a deeper expression of authenticity? What are you planting to support a more authentic self expression, a more shining self expression? Where might you be holding yourself back right now? Where are you restricting your energy shying back from the spotlight, not allowing yourself to shine, what feels blocked in your heart, what might be keeping you from living more open heartedly or more big heartedly, and whenever we explore these themes and ask ourselves these questions, we are never doing it from a place of judgment.

 We're doing it from a place of self love that encourages us to keep doing our inner work and clearing out the cobwebs inside, to step into a higher and a bigger expression of self as we feel called in our own time, speaking of clearing out The cobwebs, on August 15, Mercury is going into retrograde, and it will be retrograding through the signs of Virgo and Leo. 

And typically, when I think about Mercury Retrogrades, I think about a opportunity to clear out the cobwebs in our mind that if we were to use a metaphor for retrograde, it's equivalent to doing some deep cleaning in our home, where we are able to find the dust bunnies, clear out corners, scrub UPS things that we might not normally think to look at, and to get things spic and span. 

And that's the energy around Mercury and retrograde, at least from my point of view, it's always an opportunity to realign, to recalibrate, to explore what's not working, what might be some things that we want to draw our attention to and our lives. Mercury is about communication. It is how we not only speak and communicate, it's how we think and how we move our thoughts, how we construct our thoughts, and then how we feel guided to speak and act and communicate and express ourselves in the world. 

So this will be a great opportunity to keep working with these ideas of again, where are we restricting ourselves? Where are we holding ourselves back? Where are we realigning our thinking? And then we get to celebrate all the growth and everything that we've been planting and all the abundance. 

On August 19, we have a full moon in Aquarius. Aquarius is the visionary. It is the heart rebel who believes in doing things differently, who strikes out on their own path and makes a break from how everybody else is doing it, so that they can keep marching to the beat of their own drummer and moving forward as they feel called with the idea of affecting change. 

So this is a grateful moon to celebrate your unique individuality, to celebrate your self expression and how you are doing things differently. If you are working on making changes in your life, and you're working on all the stuff we've been talking about, staying in your magic, clearing out the cobwebs, and how you think about things doing the good work of figuring out, Where Am I blocking myself? Where might there be an obstacle in my inner world? And I want to clear that so I can move with more freedom and expression. 

Then you can celebrate how you might be going about that in your own unique way. There is no right or wrong for how we do the center work. There's no right or wrong for how we shine our light, how we feel called to show up in the world. There is just listening to ourselves and trying to do it in a way that feels authentic to who we are. 

[14:33] Celebrate unique individuality and self-expression during Aquarius Full Moon.

So the Aquarius Full Moon is a chance to celebrate all of that. I often think too of Aquarius as being connected to higher energies, to a cosmic connection, to more of a star connection. So I think, for myself, personally, I often think of Aquarius Full Moons as being a little bit extra magical. So in keeping with the Akashic Records theme for this month of staying in our. Magic and finding magic in the chaos, maybe mark the 19th on your calendar is an extra dazzling, magical day, and pay attention to what magic is showing up in your life. 

Around that time, we end the month of August by shifting into Virgo season. That is happening on August 23 and Virgo is it's earth energy. It is grounded, it's practical, it's logical, it's analytical. Virgo is about, how are we feeling called to serve? How are we feeling called to step I love Virgo energy for anything that we are wanting to take out into the material world and anything that we are hoping to create or to move forward with. 

It's wonderful energy for that, and of course, it supports everything that we've been talking about, and this idea of clearing out cobwebs, cleaning up our spaces, doing inventory after we've have done all this clearing and cleaning and finding our magic, in August, we end the month by feeling empowered to move forward in the world with that much more light, that much more magic and that much more radiant energy and some Fresh inspiration, I suspect so we have quite a bit happening this month. I am excited for it.

 I hope you are as well. I will be back here next week with a new your heart magic podcast. It's a talk Story Time episode. And the meantime, have an amazing week. Happy August to you. And as always, be well, be love, be you and be magic.

You've been listening to your heart magic with Dr bethanne kapansky Wright, tune in next week for a new episode to support and empower your light.