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[0:13] September's Energy Update: Distilling Truth

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, everyone. Welcome to Your Heart magic. This is Dr bethanne kapansky Wright, and today we are doing September's Energy Update, and we are going to be looking at what do the Akashic records have to say about the month of September, what is happening with the moon cycles and the Astro cycles, and what kinds of things can We expect energetically? So with that, let's dive right on in. So for the month of September, the Akashic Records named the theme of the month distilling truth. 

And this feels like a month of very preparatory energy, energy that supports planning and organization, energy that supports going through the details and reading the fine print and really examining different aspects of our life, whether that is figuratively, energetically or literally, and looking at them to figure out what is my truth In this matter, what is my best course of action and being intentional about how we engage with the different aspects of our life. 

So this feels like a month where the energy is more grounded, that it is more practical, and that we are invited to really use our analytical minds and our planning minds and our executive decision making and our thoughtfulness and ability to contemplate and reflect and discern and look below the surface of things. It was fun, because every month when I open the Akashic records and get the message for the month ahead, I always received some form of images that began to give me a sense of what's the energy of the month ahead. 

And for the month of September, I saw like all these big stacks of books and files and different things that felt like they represented the kinds of things sitting on a desk or in a library that you would want to sort through to card catalog or decide where do I file these What do I need to do with this information? And there was less of a sense of academia to the month ahead, but more of a sense of logic and planning, and once again, being very thoughtful. 

[3:04] Mercury Retrograde and Fresh Insight.

And I find it interesting because mercury risen retrograde for a lot of August. And though the Akashic Records did not refer to Mercury being in retrograde, it is out of retrograde now for the month of September. And I often think of mercury and retrograde as being an aspect in an astrological transit that can feel a little bit cloudy or confusing when it comes to how we think and how we communicate. 

And mercury and retrograde is typically something that, to me, represents an invitation to recalibrate, realign our thoughts to sift through what might feel cloudy and confusing, and usually, as it's coming out of that cycle, we might have fresh insight, fresh clarity and a sense of Oh, aha, now I know what to do. 

So I thought it was really fun that the energy of the month of September echoed what was happening astrologically from the point of view of the Akashic. And as I said earlier, this isn't just a month that is about grounded action steps, but there's also this invitation this month to dig for meaning and to dig for our truth. 

And the Akashic Record said that this isn't a month to take things at first glance or take things from a surface level and just take it as truth, but that it's really a time right now to sort through the multiple flows of information that we might be receiving around a topic or a philosophy or something happening that might be a world event or a community event, and to really reflect and distill and look for what is true in this for me, and to chase down what not just the facts are, but to use our discernment and to use our judgment. So that can show up in so many ways depending on who we are and what is happening in our individual path. 

That could apply to something very practical, very factual, that could apply to something like distilling our truth or sifting through what do I think about something, or if you're trying to make a decision and figure out what is the truest path for my heart, or what's in my heart to do that could be it as well. So there wasn't a specific way, and there usually isn't. 

When I'm getting a message for the collective it's more like these are the big themes, and then when you receive these themes, the fun part is, we get to figure out, how does this show up for me personally, and how does this show up for me individually? 

[5:47] Practical Wisdom and Personal Reflection. 

So on some level, you might expect that this is a month of planning and preparation and organization, and there was a really beautiful message of taking time this month to take inventory and maybe look at different aspects of your life like you could look at where am I at in my relationships right now, with others? How am I doing in my relationship with myself? 

How is my living space and my home environment, and do I need to do any decluttering in that space? Do I need to do any organizing? How about my health? How about my work life? How about my creative life? There's so many different ways that we could divide up the aspects that make up our day to day life and our overall well being, and there was this recommendation from the records to figure out, what are some of those for you, and then take a little bit of time to evaluate and take inventory and look at how am I doing in each of these areas. 

What have I accomplished, or what have I learned? Where am I at right now? Do I like the direction I'm heading? Do I want to recalibrate and point myself in a new direction? Do I need to do anything specific to recalibrate or to realign with some of these different areas in my life? And the very practical wisdom from the record is that this is such a nice way to set us up for the last quarter of 2024, and to do a little bit of decluttering, whether that is in more of a physical way and organizing a space, or whether that is organizing yourself emotionally or doing some process work or doing some repair work in a relationship. 

Again, this could show up in so many ways, but it's a chance to declutter and Defragment and clear out space and be thoughtful and intentional about what direction you want to go for the last quarter of the year. And the recommendation from the records was if you take space this month to put in mindful pauses and moments of reflection, moments where you give yourself space to meditate or journal or walk in nature, talk to a trusted friend, whatever it is for you that helps you tap into that evaluative contemplation, space where you are introspecting and self reflecting. 

[8:19] Virgo Season and Astrological Alignment. 

So whatever that is for you, if you do that, it is going to go a long way this month to setting you up for the rest of the year, and it will really support your individual well being in your process. So that was the overall message from the Akashic records for September. And though I am not looking at the astrological transits when I'm in the records, I love the fact that it is Virgo season.

As we enter September, we are full swing into Virgo season. And Virgo is an earth energy, and it is known for being analytical and detail oriented and practical and planning, and even though the Akashic records and studying astrology are two different approaches to looking at energy and tapping into more metaphysical concepts and intuitive concepts and energetic concepts in order to understand the intangible but very real world around us and glean more insight into some of the patterns and energies and themes that might be showing up. 

They are two different disciplines of wisdom, if you will. I've often found that they often sync up and reflect one another, and that makes sense to me, because ultimately I think about all of these different channels of wisdom and energetic information as spokes on a wheel, and all of them are these entry points and gateways and. Different disciplines or mediums that we might be intrigued by or interested in, and they all help us deepen our connection to the cosmos and the universe, into spirit and to the energetic realms. And all of that helps us rock our spiritual connection, our heart wisdom and our relationship with the divine. 

So the fact that they echo one another makes a lot of sense to me, and this month there's such a strong relationship, because Virgo season really does resonate with the message of the Akashic Records, which again, is about organization and planning and setting our sites ahead to make plans and take tangible steps. 

[10:44] Virgo New Moon and Harvest Moon. 

So we start the month out in Virgo season, and there is a Virgo New Moon on September the second, by the time this podcast comes out, that will have already passed. New Moons are always a good time for beginnings, planting seeds, setting intentions. And I love a Virgo New Moon for a time to set a really big intention that I want to plant into the metaphorical Earth and really nurture and blossom over the next six months, the year ahead. 

So for me, personally, Virgo New Moons are often a time where I will really think about something big, like if I have a big project, or if I want to set a big goal, or there's something that I have that I know I want to make a big, significant life shift, or try and actualize a dream. It is interesting to me, if I go back and look at like the last Virgo New Moon for the past 567, years, almost every single year there was something really big around that time that I was working on the beginning manifestations of. 

So it is an excellent new moon for that. And then we have the completion of that new moon energy and the middle of September, when we have the Pisces full moon on September 17, and that is the Harvest Moon. The Harvest Moon usually represents the ending of a cycle, or the completion of a cycle, and a time to really look at, what have you been reaping in your life? What fruits have you sown? How have those grown into Completion? Sometimes, with the Harvest Moon, you will see a sense of tangible blessing in your life, or a project that maybe you've been working on. 

Maybe it's something that you started on the last Virgo New Moon, or you started it back in the summer, back in the spring sometime, and you finally see a tangible result of something. So one of my favorite things about the moon cycles that fall with the Virgo New Moon and then the Harvest Moon, that usually comes after that with the full moon, is this idea that we are invited to plant something that we want to grow, that we are at the beginning of, or maybe we've been working on but we're ready to take it to the next level. And so we plant whatever we need for that next big step. And then at the same time, it's an invitation to see, like, what in our lives did we plant a while back? And now it's come to fruition. 

[13:14] Autumn Equinox and Libra Season.

So I always feel like there's a lot of magic in the moon cycles in this particular month, and then on September 22 we have autumn equinox. For those of us who are in the northern hemisphere, if you are in the southern and you are probably celebrating spring equinox, and Equinox is always a time of the balancing of the energies between light and between dark and the Northern Hemisphere, we are halfway through the summer solstice and halfway to the Winter Solstice. 

And so there is this lovely sense of looking at bringing balance to opposing energies in our life, bringing harmony, celebrating nature, understanding duality, and that there's room for both the light and the dark, and there's gifts that come with both of those, and finding a way to balance the scales and find equilibrium between those two things. 

And handily, Equinox is happening the day before we move into Libra season, and Libra is all about balance and harmony and the scales and having opposing energies balance each other out and finding harmony between the two of them, Libra also celebrates beauty and justice and pleasure, and again, a harmonization of energies. Libra is often other centered, or takes others into account, and takes finding harmony in our relationships into account. And so it is such a nice month where we start with this very tangible, grounded, practical, Virgo like energy. 

And as the month goes on and we go from the New Moon to the full. Moon, abundance and completion and gratitude. We pop right into the equinox, and then the following day, there it is Libra season, and we stay in that energy of harmony and balance for the course of Libra season. So September is a great month. There's a lot of very practical energy. It feels like all the big stuff that was going on throughout June, July and August, a lot of the energy that felt very intuitive, very cosmic, very kind of out there, like these big things happening all around us.

This feels like a month where we really take that power and harness it and focus our intention and just bring it down into our individual paths to move forward with insight and with awareness and the ability to act on our own behalf while considering the impact that will have on The ecosystems around us. 

[16:00] Conclusion and Final Thoughts.

So this is a very practical month, a very grounded month, and a month where it feels like there is a lot of movement and progress on the path available to each of us, if we can just stay in our magic and harness the energy. Thank you so much for joining me for today's your heart magic and our Energy Update. I will be back next week with a talk Story Time episode, and in the meantime, happy September everybody. Happy New Moon to you. And I hope it is an amazing month. Have a beautiful week. Be well, be love, be you and be magic.

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