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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. This is Dr. Bethane Kapansky Wright, and welcome to Your Heart Magic. We have a mini energy update for the week ahead. We have our card of the week, and I have a poem of the week. And I have been having fun playing with the format of this podcast. If you've listened to your Heart Magic for a while now, and I thank you if you have and you've continued to join me, you know that I have shifted recently from longer topics to shorter podcasts that are focused on weekly key points for what's the energy right now? What do the Akashic records have to say, and other little gems and insights that might guide us on our path at this time. And I use my own process as an introduction because the energy for this week is slow build. Those were the words that I was given as I open the Akashic Records for the weekly energy. And slow build is no pun intended here, but it is a build on some of the messages that we have been receiving for the past few weeks, past couple months. I didn't write any of this down, so I'm just recalling from memory. But the Akashic Records back in December, we're talking about building peace and creating a bridge to build more peace into our lives. There was a message back in probably November that was about sifting through our values and asking ourselves, what do I value? How do I keep moving in the direction of what I value? The quarterly message for 2026 is really focused on clearing space and space that has opened up for us as we have done this work. And this week's message really dovetails into all of that. And it's the idea that slow build means we are slowly building, we are slowly laying those bricks that we want to move us to this next cycle, this next phase that each of us on our individual journeys are experiencing at this time. So I love to relate my parallel process to some of what's coming through from the Akashic. But even in this podcast, as I have made this shift to weekly energy updates, part of why I did that was a few reasons. One was just the desire to streamline these and keep it a little bit more simple. I feel I personally feel pretty exhausted by the culture right now of this overconsumption and pumping out content all the time and feeling that there always has to be something new or better or different. And I really went into 2026 wanting to take a more mindful approach, a slower approach, a sustainable approach. And that is in keeping with creating sustainable systems and patterns. That's been coming through in the Akashic and some of the other angel messages I've been getting. And so when I shifted into this format, this is me trying to create a sustainable approach that's conversational and that continues to weave together psychology, spirituality, storytelling, and do it in a way that is joyful. Because as we talk about this idea of space opening and aligning with our values and doing the slow build, part of what came through for the energy this week was the question: how can I build pathways that are in alignment with joy? I love that question. When we identify what we value, when we identify intentions and goals and things that we want to move towards in our life, sometimes we take the joy or the fun out of it and we can feel very serious about our goals. And I think it's good to be serious about our commitment. Certainly when we use the word values, most of us might think of more serious kinds of values that create a cornerstone of what we want to build our life on. But I think joy is part of our cornerstone potentially. And that is the invitation from the Akashic as well is how can we weave in more joy? How can we weave in more grace? How can we align with some of those higher frequencies and higher vibrational states that allow us to move through our past with not only more grace and ease, but fun to have the spiritual purpose of also finding play and finding joy on the human journey? And I've long since said that it's easy to feel that's irrelevant when we look around and it kind of feels sometimes like the world's just falling down around us and you know, chicken little, the sky is falling and it's all burning. I mean, things look pretty bleak out there when you tap into the headlines and tap into the collective energy and a lot of what's going on. And yet, part of why our soul is here is to experience joy. And I feel joy is such an antidote to a lot of the heaviness and trauma and fear and stress that we're seeing in our world right now. When we can tap into joy for ourselves, it fills us back up, it lights our heart, it allows us to come into our wisdom, into our center. And when we do that, we feel more equipped to move through the world. We feel more equipped to blend the serious with the lighter, to blend the gravity with the levity, and to create ways that we might express ourselves, ways that we might communicate and interact in our relationships. We might feel called to create something in our work, our family environments. And we do it from a place that encompasses some measure of joy, some measure of lightness as well. And I think that's really valuable. When I was opening the records this week and seeing this idea of slow build and working with this energy of slow build, something else that came through that I was really struck by was the color gold. And I saw this several images that echoed this idea of the color gold. One of them was just this beautiful golden grace, this golden light. And the Akashic really emphasized the idea of knowing grace is there and availing ourselves of grace in our own lives, availing ourselves of the grace of forgiveness, of self-acceptance, of being able to take a deep breath when things go awry and say, Well, that happened. That is not what I intended. And then to reroute and to quickly get back on track. Grace to help us perhaps not beat ourselves up if we feel like we've made a bad choice or already broken an intention or gone back in an old direction that we're trying to change. Grace for people around us and just being able to take a breath, press reset, know that there is grace available to all of us, the grace of love and forgiveness, compassion, well-being, peace, and then keep moving on our journeys with more ease. When we can tap into grace, not only does it allow us to entreat with our relationships in a way where we are kinder to each other and we give each other more latitude, but most importantly, it helps us do the same for ourselves. And while I think it's always good to do self-evaluation, to check in, to try and take responsibility within our own spiritual work if we feel that we are not honoring a commitment that we said we would do. I think that once we identify that, there's not a lot of use in continuing to feel negative towards ourselves, to stay in self-pity, to beat ourselves up. And I think when we can find grace for our process, we're able to compassionately acknowledge, compassionately detach, and then keep going in the direction that we want to go so that we don't get tripped up for so long and we continue to slowly build our pathway forward. The other way that I saw the color gold come through this week is this idea of slow build. I saw a little bit like a builder, somebody who might be laying bricks, but I also saw if somebody was like laying like the yellow brick road, and I saw this idea of us laying our own bricks on the yellow brick road and creating a pathway that is in alignment with our values, that is in alignment with the qualities that we are trying to align with this year, what essences we might want more of in our life and align with those keywords, align with those feeling states. So instead of necessarily having a really hard and fast goal that is rigid, we might just say, I want to align with abundance this year, align with this energy, with the frequency of abundance. And I am open to how that comes through. And so when we align with joy and we align with grace and we align with some of those qualities in our life, that is part of our slow build. Our card of the week for tarot is the eight of fire. And I was trying to remember if we had this card before. I feel like we might have had it back in 2025 in November or December, but I did not go back and look through all my old notes to see. But the eight of fire, eight is a lovely number. I always like eights because eight is about often momentum. It can be about things coming together, spiritual seeking. Sometimes eight has a lot of movement to it. Fire in the tarot is one that speaks to inspiration, momentum, movement. Fire energy tends to be very active. It's that yang energy as opposed to like a pentacles earth energy, which is more grounded, and water often is more emotional. It's about like emotional movement, emotional diving or depths. But aid of fire is often more external. It is seeing where we are making progress on the path. It is finding momentum, it is having a sense of creative insider inspiration come through. And the affirmation and key words from the book, which is by call up Baron Reed, I'm using the good tarot, is gathering momentum, celebrating swift changes, travel, and transformation. Momentum is building as the power of spirit serves to power this transformation. I am traveling to new territories, and I am eager to experience all that these lands have to offer. I have arrived at my destination, and now the adventure of discovery is energizing me. So lots of good energy this week and a continuance of that theme of building peace and building ourselves forward and repatterning and building new pathways for doing things. I'm really curious to see how that keeps showing up for each of us. And I want to close today with a poem. This one just kind of spoke to me as what wanted to be shared today. It's from my book, Heliotrope Nights, and this is called The Red Road, and it is a poem about coming back to ourselves in order to find ourselves. I have found myself a hundred times over in these woods beneath a sky who never quits, and an earth so loyal. She lays herself bare and offers herself up to the passage for all who'd step forth. I ask her each time for the answers I need. Why and when and who will I be? And in all her humble, mud-slayed beauty, she always gives the same response. There is only one way to the red road you seek. Stay true to yourself, listen to your heart, and whenever you feel yourself lost in this world, above all else, remember what is real. With that, have an amazing week. I will be back next week with a new energy update, a new Your Heart Magic podcast. And as always, be well, be love, be you, and be magic.

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