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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 February to everyone. We have an Akashic Energy update for the week and also a little bit for the month ahead, and a tarot card of the week today. And the Akashic Records gave us the word rebalancing as the anchor word for the energy of the week ahead. It was interesting as I was opening the records for the month of February in general and then grounding that energy to be specific. And how about this week? I was given this phrase. And usually when I open the records, I get images. Sometimes I'll get different keywords. Every now and then I might get a two or three-word phrase, but this almost felt like a line of prose or something that they gave me. And it was where chaos leads the way, let inner peace reside. And I had the feeling that the month of February, there's still a lot of chaos energy going on. I don't think that's a big surprise to people. We have a lot going on in our world at this time, and that's not going to be stopping anytime soon. This is a chaotic time in general in life. It's a time of great chaos and creativity, a time of endings and beginnings and possibilities. So when we look at the macro picture and just the cosmic energy in general and how that might translate on more of a cosmic scale, collective scale, things we might be seeing in the headlines, how those are translating to us on our individual path. And then looking at our microcosm, what's happening in our personal lives and our family life, the community around us, there's just a lot of movement and chaotic energy at this time. And remember that when I use the word chaos, this is a word that is sometimes really scary for people. It's not one that they want to hear. They hear chaos and they think, uh-oh, oh no, like things are going to erupt or be disorderly. But the truth is, is chaos is happening all the time. Chaos comes before creation. If you've ever sat down to write or put something together, created anything, maybe even created a meal or something that you were going to offer to somebody, set a space, created a space. Usually, as we're going through that creation process, it's not this neat and tidy thing. It's messy. It can be a little bit disruptive. We go through self-doubt and questioning ourselves. A lot of times, if I'm writing something and I'm getting closer to the end stages of turning a manuscript in, not only has the process that's gotten me there been incredibly messy. And I've had multiple drafts and redrafts, but when I'm really close to finishing a book, there are usually papers everywhere in my office because I'm at the point where I'm printing it out and I'm really wanting to make sure that I read the hard copy of it. And so I'll have stacks of paper, what's red, what's not red, red ink and yellow lines going through everything. I might have reference books or different objects or things that have been part of the process. If art's involved, then my art desk looks so messy. A lot of times, like a space will look like a disaster zone, depending on what the project is, and there's nothing neat or orderly or linear about it. But that is part of the disorder that leads to good order. So keep that in mind when the Akashic talks to us about chaos energy, and I make a statement like the world is chaotic at this time, it is always part of the conditions of the creation process. And so it doesn't have to be a scary word. And the guidance this month is not about the chaos, it's about the inner peace. It's about rebalancing, a readdressing of where we're at in our life. I kept seeing a sense of scales tipping back and forth and coming into balance. And the emphasis for this podcast is on the individual. When I'm looking at the energy right now, I can't help but get a feel of how this might translate in more of a macro setting and more of a collective setting. But I am most interested when I'm bringing messages through for this podcast is how might this impact us as individuals? And how can we use this knowledge that the Akashic is giving us to live with more peace, to live more grounded, to apply what we are learning and to stay in our center and stay in our magic. So regardless of what is going on in your life right now, in the world right now, the emphasis again is coming into our center and catching up with where we're at. And that is how the first week of February feels. It feels like a natural time, anyways, where we might be looking about a month into the new year and we're assessing and we're saying, what's happened so far? Where am I at? What was that first month of January about for me? What's this new energy about? There's a lot of movement and activity going on in terms of the astrology this month. We have eclipse season coming up that starts in the middle of February on the 17th, I believe, is the new moon. And usually any eclipse season will have two main eclipses, a solar and a lunar going on during the season itself. And then that is bookended by the new or full moon that usually will precede whatever the eclipse is. So in this case, this full moon is prophesying the new moon coming up in the middle of February. And so that eclipse energy and that change energy and that shakeup energy, it's starting now. We are moving into the portal of eclipse time, and it is happening sooner this year. I usually think of it as coming more in the spring, but we're being hit with it early this year. We are going into the lunar new year on the 17th. And that is lots of new, fresh energy coming in as well. And the year of the horse and the Chinese zodiac. I keep seeing things all over Instagram about the year of the fire horse and all this movement and momentum and energy coming. And it certainly might for many of us, but I will bring listeners back to what I was told by the Akashic that this is a year of momentum. It might be a year where we make fast gains or fast strides in a short amount of time. But that momentum doesn't always have to happen in these giant gallops and leaps and bursting through something and running at full speed. Momentum also happens by slow, steady, consistent steps. Growth isn't always flashy. Sometimes it's just showing up and doing the mundane, taking inventory, doing our inner work, figuring out how do I apply this into my life. So I'm integrating it and living it and making progress on the path in a very ordinary kind of way that absolutely adds up and is its own form of magical, beautiful energy. So that really to me represents where we're at this week. We are coming in, we're looking at what happened, what in my life might need readdressing, what might need rebalancing. There's a nice opportunity to see more clearly where things are feeling off in your life. And if this translates in a way that things are looking differently than you expected so far this year, or you thought something was going to happen and it hasn't happened yet, the guidance from the Akashic is don't beat yourself up over what isn't going right or what you think you haven't done yet, or if something has gone a little bit sideways. It is just to ask yourself the question, huh? What might this be about? How can I stay curious to the possibility of what is being presented to me? How can I work with this? What gifts might there be in this opportunity? Maybe there's a hidden gift and something that looks like a rejection. And really it is the universe's way of protecting you and something new is opening up. We are also guided to remember there is value in both shadow and light. And that will, I think many of us usually feel better when life is in a lighter space and things are going in a more easeful way. There's such value in the shadows in our life. There's values in the things that feel messy. There's value in the chaos. There's value in our grief, or when we feel a little bit disillusioned, or we feel lost, or we're wondering what's next. There's value in all aspects of ourselves, the parts of ourself that we don't really like and we're working on. And maybe those parts of ourself afford us an opportunity to find more self-love or to offer ourselves grace. They might help us grow in compassion. They might hold wisdom that helps us tap into a more wounded part of ourselves and work from a more conscious-minded place. So we take something hidden in the shadows inside of ourselves and we bring it out into the light through our willingness to engage and listen to ourselves and to do that in our work. So there is value in the shadows. There's value in whatever is happening in your life at this time. And you are where you're meant to be, whether or not it seems like that. Trust that the universe is working behind the scenes on your behalf. And that is a quote that I was given by the Akashic this week. It was this idea that if things are going differently than you think they're supposed to, what would happen if you could just trust that the universe, that spirit, that things are still working together behind the scenes in a way that is continuing to move you in alignment on your path. How might that feel? I am here for it. That to me feels so gracious and so good. So I love this wisdom for us. Good journaling prompts that you might want to work with this week for the journalers or just contemplation questions is looking at whatever feels, whether it's messy, challenging in your life, wherever that chaos energy might be coming through, and asking yourself, how can I grow in this? What lessons of light or grace am I learning through this? How can I apply this wisdom to my life? So we have a nice grounded message from the Akashic this week. And our tarot card of the week really echoes that when we talk about this grounded energy, we actually got the four of earth. Earth is a very grounded element in the tarot deck. Earth is related to pentacles in the good tarot deck that I use. And the four of earth is about reassessing our foundation. It's a card that says that we are being asked to evaluate, to rethink. Maybe there has been something that feels disappointing or feels like a setback or it's gone differently than we wanted. And we're being assured that our foundation is still secure. You don't have to cling to what's not yours. You don't have to make something fit that doesn't fit. Rest assured you are on a strong and firm foundation. Whatever has held true for you that creates your sense of inner stability, your sense of inner peace, it still holds true. Whatever it is that you are building your life upon, whatever is authentic and real and sincere and genuine and loving in that, the essence of who you are, your soul light, your spiritual connection. All of that is part of your foundation. And our relationship with spirit, our relationship to an abundant universe also helps us remember we don't have to cling or hoard or grasp something and feel like we can't let it go. We can trust the flow. We can trust that what is meant for us will come our way, and we can let go of the things that aren't meant for us and accept the things that didn't go our way, knowing that something better is coming along. So the guidebook has a beautiful message, and I thought I would close with this today because I feel like there's some lovely affirmations here that offer a lot of comfort. A lull in the action offers a chance for me to dream even bigger than before. Whenever plans turn out not to have come to fruition as expected, I feel secure knowing that even greater things may await me. The universe conspires on my behalf, and disappointment and sadness will wash through me if I simply let them flow. I trust that Spirit has many ways of responding to my desires, and what I seek can take a variety of forms. I have faith in perfect timing and divine order. Thank you so much for joining me on the podcast today. I will be back next week with the new Your Heart Magic. And as always, have a beautiful week. Happy February once again to everyone. And be well, be love, be you, and be magic.

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