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Aloha, and welcome to Your Heart Magic, an illuminating space where psychology, spirituality, and heart wisdom meet. Here's your host, Dr. Bethane Kapansky Wright, author, psychologist, and spiritual educator.

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Aloha, everybody. Welcome to Your Heart Magic. This is Dr. Bethane Kapansky Wright, and happy December and happy final month of the year. Hard to believe that we are almost through the end of 2025. But first, we have December to move through, and we have a supportive message from the Akashic Records this week. I wrote down the phrase, exhale and go, to best describe the energy this week because it is a mixed sense of energy as we move into the month of December. The Akashic Record says that it is likely that it will feel like everybody took a great big, gigantic exhale together. And that feeling of relief that often comes after we've been holding our breath, the feeling of release as well, and then the amount of new space and energy that's freed up. And that was followed by this go energy, this sense of go time and the sense of gaining momentum this month. And as we know, we're working with the energy of Sagittarius season, and that is fire energy. It is energy that is more inclined to move, to be active, to be creative, to be inspired. We also have both Saturn and Mercury that have recently left retrograde. And anytime planets pop out of retrograde, my experience is that no matter how that might impact us personally, it usually feels like some sense of momentum and it shows up somehow somewhere in our life. So for many reasons, there's a lot of energy that is moving about us this month. And with that might come a lot of inspiration, might come creative action. It might call you into action. And whether or not you feel particularly inspired, call you to move yourself, to present yourself, to show up in the spaces in your life in a way that is using more of the active outward kind of energy that you need to make that happen. And there's this simultaneous kind of dual energy happening at the same time, where I also felt a sense from the records of taking stock and taking inventory. And the past few weeks, the records have been giving us messages that are more about assessing, evaluating, looking at the things that we surround ourselves with, really noticing and paying attention. And so that is going to continue as we move into this week. It feels a little bit quieter than what it's felt in weeks past, almost as if it's the energy that's on like the back stove right now. And this more kind of exhale and go and a rush of energy is what we're really going to be tending to. But I definitely have a sense that it's still very supported to be taking time to reflect and really looking at what has this year brought you? Where do you want to move as you think about going into a new year in 2026? Where are you at right now? Where do you find yourself as you enter the 12th month? When I open the records for this week, I always get a couple images that will come through. And I actually saw images of clocks. And then that was followed by images of hourglasses and kind of the sand slipping through the hourglass. And there is some caution this week that it is a busy season right now. I do feel like there's an awareness of time. Some of that might be attributed to going into the last month of the year and feeling this question of did I do all the things that I wanted to do? What did I accomplish? There might be a sense of urgency around time right now with plans. The holidays are coming up. Many people often have extras going on. There might be extra things in the calendar and on the schedule to do. So however, that is presenting itself to you, I did feel an emphasis on time. And I felt this caution from the Akashic Records, where they really talked about not getting caught up right now and a false sense of urgency. Not getting caught up in this idea that somehow time is a limited quantity and you only have so much of it. I would say that's true and not true. Yes, on the one hand, we experience time as a rather finite construct on the human journey, and we mark the passage of our years by time, by the minute, by the hour, by the day, by the month, et cetera, et cetera, by each solar return. And so there is that finite piece of it. At the same time, the soul of time is trusting that we have all the time we need to accomplish the things that we came here to do as a soul. And I love working with time when I start to feel kind of limited in quantity of it and putting out to the universe, make time elastic, help stretch it right now to encompass the many things I have to do. Help me to have enough time to meet all my needs, to do the things that most need to be done. Help me release any false sense of urgency around the construct of time. Time is an abundance in my life. I am fully supported. Time is on my side. And those kinds of affirming messages. And so right now there is encouragement from the records to really listen to yourself, your heart, and to stay with whatever pace of life works well for you. I wrote this guidance down from the records to share with everybody because I liked it so much. And it says, don't get caught up with the need to get everything done or worry that you are falling behind. There will be time enough for all your needs and for the things that hold most value to you. And I think that is the key idea as we move into December. The last few weeks, we have been guided to really look at what holds value to us. What are we surrounding ourselves with? What is foundational to our life? And to go through that evaluation processing of looking at is this working for me? How does this feel to me? If it's something that feels good and supportive, then keep going with it. And if not, what changes can I make? And so I think there's something really key around realizing that we'll have time for the things that hold most value to us. This is an excellent time to think about an ongoing sense of decluttering your space, whatever space that is. That could be mental, that could be physical, it could be relationships and clearing out space to let go of what is no longer serving you so that you can continue to move into a space of aligning with whatever is beginning and whatever wants to grow in your life. So there's lots of supportive energy for decluttering and making space at this time. There's also very supportive energy and guidance for evaluating our boundaries and thinking about not just the time boundary, what am I giving my time to? How does this feel to me? But looking at other areas in our life where boundaries might show up, including relationships, our emotional needs, money, our resources. And again, asking that question of am I honoring my commitments? Am I honoring my boundaries? Is there anything I want to renegotiate or keep remapping or renavigating with my boundaries in any of these things? And all of that coming back to a place of asking ourselves, how can I most honor my experience as self? Our tarot card of the week is the Eight of Earth. That is the same as Eight of Pentacles and traditional tarot. I am using the good tarot deck right now by Colet Baron Reed. And the Eight of Earth is it's a wonderful card. Whenever I draw this card for myself as a writer, it feels like guidance to get to my writing workbench and keep working on mastering my craft. The Eight of Earth, Eight of Pentacles energy is often about being an apprentice. It is becoming the metaphorical master craftsman at whatever it is in our life that we are working on constantly refining. It is a card to me that shows times in our life where we put the hard work in and the hard efforts to gain the results of like truly mastering something and getting really good at whatever it is that we are applying ourselves to. To me, this is a card of being teachable and also being the teacher. It's a card that recognizes the hard efforts and the dedication that we've put into something that really allows us to have a level of expertise and knowledge while simultaneously encouraging us that our work is never complete and we can always go back to the workbench and keep refining something, keep aligning something. And so I love this card for this week because to me it feels like a both and card. When we talk about exhale and go, we're talking about these two energies that we're invited to continue to reflect and breathe and take in, to be still. And we're invited to move and to take inspired action. And so when I look at this card, I see somebody who is both ready to teach and also still learning, who is ready to take that movement and bring a voice or a vision, their metaphorical art or perhaps literal art out into the world, and who is also at the same time continually guided to go back to their space, their creative space, their workbench, and keep working on refining. The key words in this particular guidebook for the Eight of Earth are apprenticeship, gaining knowledge, learning and employing a new craft or skill. And the affirmation is even masters of their craft have more to learn. And I eagerly embrace the opportunity to go deeper, develop a greater understanding, and find new ways to apply what I know. I acknowledge all I have learned and accomplished, the skills I have developed, and the goals I have reached. Now is the time to find new ways to apply what I know to enhance my expertise. My beginner's awkwardness has melted away, and I know what I am doing now. I have the confidence to become more intimate with the work in all areas of my life. I feel like this card is all of us for the year 2025. We kind of stumbled into it. The awkward beginners, what will this year hold? What will it have? What goals will I meet? What's going to happen? We have lived and experienced it. And now as we move into the last month of the year, we are no longer beginners. We are experts at the year 2025. But we're also invited to begin that process of turning inward and being still, evaluating what it is that we want to keep growing forward in our life, how to apply all that we have learned. And we are also called to move our energy in ways that will call us to be more external and outgoing and show up in the various circles in our life in whatever ways we feel called this month. So I'm looking forward to seeing how this energy continues to unfold. Thank you so much for joining me for today's Your Heart Magic episode. I will be back next week with a new podcast. And in the meantime, as always, be well, be love, be you, and be magic.

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