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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.

Change, Eclipses, And Equinox Shift

The Whirlpool Turns: Keyword Turnaround

Flip Turn Metaphor And Adaptation

Surrendering Plans And Expectations

Change As Pattern And Intelligent Flow

From Goals To Themes: Year Of Movement

Mental Health Tools For Closure

Rituals, Writing, And Visualization

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Aloha everybody. Welcome to Your Heart Magic. This is Dr. Bethane Kapansky Wright. And today we have an Akashic Energy update. We are going to be looking at a couple tools for our mental health toolbox on how to apply the spiritual wisdom we've been given this week. And then I have a fun creative prompt that I came up with that kind of anchors the message from the Akashic for the week ahead. So, first of all, when we look at the overall energy of this particular week, I always interpret the energy within the greater Akashic context of what's been happening in prior weeks. And in the records, we have been seeing a lot of change energy, a lot of fluctuations. Right now, we are heading into spring equinox next week. It is the beginning of the astrological new year, and we will be moving from Pisces energy into Aries energy. So there's a lot of change that is coming as we move into the second half of March. And we just finished eclipse season. I think we're technically still in eclipse season where the eclipses are over, but usually there is an integration period after the eclipses happen where all the big shifts and changes are anchoring and they are settling in. And so that change energy that we have been feeling continues this week, but I do feel a shift is coming. And when I opened the Akashic Records, the sensation in the image that I saw was as if a big kind of tub, a whirlpool of water had been moving in one direction. And a switch was flipped. And all of a sudden, it went through that strange shift and started moving in the counterclockwise direction from where it had been going. And I had a sense of revolution, circular energy, the turning of things. And I was given the word turnaround for a keyword for the energy of this week. It feels like this is a week where we are going to see some things change, turn. We might have a sense of something coming full circle. We might have a sense of something turning and going the other way. We thought it was going one direction, and now we're invited to go in another direction. I had another lovely image that came through that I feel really illustrates this. And I saw a swimmer going back and forth in a pool. And for swimmers that are used to being in a lap pool, they usually do a flip turn when they get to one side and do this fancy little turn where they get into a ball and push off with their feet to flow seamlessly in the other direction. By the way, I did triathlon for a while. And even though I spent a lot of time in the pool and I could do a flip turn, I never really mastered it. I always found a more speedy way for myself was to do sort of this touch the end of it and half-turn my body and like push off with my feet. I had my own little version, my frogger version of a flip turn, but I never did it correctly. So whenever I saw swimmers who were really good at it, uh was just a skill to me that I always admired. Uh, it's beautiful to see because it helps them work so seamlessly with the fact that one moment you're going one way and the next minute, flip, you turn around and you're going the next. And there is hardly any beeps missed. It is a symphony of movement when you watch somebody who's an accomplished swimmer do that. And that was the image that I really felt this week and how we are invited to work with this energy just because something revolves, just because it's changing on us, just because one moment we were going one way, and now we're being asked to adapt and go in another direction, doesn't necessarily mean that it has to be disruptive. And I feel like this has been a bigger invitation from the Akashic and really from life. And those of us who are really trying to dial into more of a spiritual perspective on things, this has been the opportunity that we've had for the last however many years, if we've gone through all these fluctuations, we think things are going one way and now they're not. We're going in another direction. And now we're going in this direction. And we have been asked to surrender and be more malleable and be more fluid and learn to let go of our plan, of how it was going to look, and stay more open and stay more flexible for how things are going to be. There has been such a mass healing, perhaps, might be a euphemistic way of looking at it, of letting go of expectations. And all of us perhaps having moments where we really have been challenged to let go of how we expected something to look, how we had mapped out a carefully laid plan, the ideas and ideals we had about something. And often that has been painful as those have been shattered or pulled out from under us or something's been abrupt. But I think the growth in that and the healing potentially is that each of us in our own way has become more graceful at making a flip turn, at learning to flow in another direction, at learning to recognize when we've attached a heavy expectation and let go of it with a little bit more grace or a little bit less resistance. And so as we can keep working with that energy of grace, learning to make a quick turn, learning to see a disruption and a change as part of the natural organic evolution and natural flow of things, it equips us for our own turnaround, our own flip turn. And that is how we are invited to work with the energy this week. I think this will likely show up in a lot of ways for each of us. For some people, it might feel very obvious and something that you really see where uh abrupt about face is done, or something that you were planning on ends, or it changes, or there's a delay, or something uh gets set back. It might be something really subtle. It might be an epiphany or an insight that you have about yourself, or you might have been doing something one way, and you suddenly feel called to just toss that out the window and to go in a different direction. So I feel like staying open to surprises and to surprising ourselves is a good attitude to have this week, keeping curiosity about us, keeping a perspective of allowing for things to be malleable and mutable this week. And again, tapping into the image of doing a flip turn and learning to more gracefully flow with the change of things. Something that came through in the Akashic Records was the idea that it's important that we keep learning to see change as part of our path forward and that it's a normal part of the pattern. And I think that sounds so obvious to me. We all know that change is part of nature's way, change is a part of the pattern, but we still don't like it. And I think so often we try and predict what the changes will be or how we think they're going to look, how they're going to show up. I know for myself, I had all these intentions going into this year and request that I kind of asked of the universe. I did a whole ceremony back around the Capricorn new moon back in January. And I had all these intentions that I wrote out and really said, here's some things that I would like to change this year. And I had an idea of how that was going to look in my mind. And as change has started showing up, sometimes it's not looking the way that I wanted it to. And that's been distressing to me and my humanness. That has been part of like, wait, that is not what I ordered. I wanted this kind of change. I didn't say that it was supposed to look like this. And in my own personal journey and my own spiritual growth, I am working on remembering that I don't always get a say when I put something out there and say, help me create this, help me move my energy in this direction in my life. I might not always be able to tell the universe the specifics of how I want that to happen. I'm probably not ever going to be able to dictate the specifics of how I want that to happen. And so I keep learning openness and I keep learning letting go and I keep learning surrender and really looking back to what have my intentions been? What have your intentions been? Think about things that you have maybe been putting out there as a manifestation or an intention or a prayer or something that you have been saying in your heart, in your journal, this is something I really want to work on. This is something I'd like to see a shift in. And I think remembering that evolution is its own wild, chaotic energy, we don't always get a say about how it shows up in our life. But love and the universe and growth, it is wild, but it is wise. And there's an intelligence to it, an intelligence in how the universe, how spirit is helping direct our paths. And I really believe that no matter what shows up, that spirit and our hearts can always work with it and help us create something beautiful from it. So we are continually being asked to see change and fluctuations and about faces and turnarounds is just part of the pattern evolving at this time, as part of humanity evolving, as part of our path evolving. And to let go of this idea that the plan has to look a certain way. I'm remembering as I'm saying all of this that one of the greater messages from the Akashic for the year of 2026 was the idea that this is a year of change. It is the year of the fire horse. There's a lot of movement that's going to be happening. And yet the Akashic said that some of the movement might look differently than we expected. And some of it might be more of a gradual momentum, or that it might not always be the linear movement that we were expecting, that there might be detours and rerouting and going in different directions. And that if we could really anchor this year in, what intentions do I have for this year, as opposed to what specific goals do I want? And instead look at the themes we want to grow, the overall direction that we want to go in, that that was going to serve us better than having very, very specific goals of what we think we want to make happen or how we want something to look in our life. So when we are being guided to say change is part of the pattern, it's part of evolution, it's natural and it's part of life. And that learning to embrace it is part of our spiritual growth, we can be reassured when it shows up in our life that everything is still moving in the direction it's meant to move for our highest good. Now, as I was bringing this message through, I've been trying to really ground into this podcast how do we work with that then in a way that supports our mental health and bring a little bit of psychological perspective through us all. And what I was thinking about this is that I do think it's hard for our mind sometimes to accept when something that we thought was going in one direction suddenly goes in another. Sometimes that's easier than others, but sometimes we might have felt like we were in the middle of something and it ends in a way that feels really abrupt or really incomplete, or something that we might not have had a chance to really close out or say goodbye to, or have what we needed for psychological closure is kind of ripped from us, or we don't have the bandwidth at the time to have a sense of completion with that. And I often think even as we learn to flow with energy and be more adaptable, if we find ourselves really stuck on something and we keep coming back and keep saying, but that's not right. It was supposed to go this way and it didn't go this way, or we find that we're really hanging on. I think it's really helpful to work with tools and our own contemplation, our own journaling practices, our own inner world in order to bring a sense of completion. When we don't have it physically with what happens on the surface, we have to bring that into ourselves. So we have what we need in our psyche in order to process it and in order to keep moving forward. And so if there's something in your life that has come to an abrupt halt, or you thought something was going to look one way and it looks another way instead, and you're struggling to accept that, I really encourage you to think about what do you need to find a sense of completion with that or a sense of closure with that? Do you need to write a letter to a person, not one that you send, but the letter that we write in our journal saying all the things we need to say to maybe let go of something if we weren't able to have an important conversation? Do we need to write something out in our journal where we write a story and write an ending to something and really work with what happened and creating a narrative that supports us? For example, if something has ended in your life abruptly or changed directions, maybe doing a little bit of creative writing where you write the story around that ending and then write who you became afterwards and how you chose to be resilient, anyways, or how you chose to be creative or how you chose to be resourceful. I think sometimes when people are looking for completion, they might write something down on a piece of paper and burn it and offer it to the universe and do a ceremony around it. There's a lot of ways that we can have completion on something. A personal favorite of mine is to do a visualization where I imagine myself going back into a space that I might not have had the opportunity to have closure in. And that space could be something physical. I could also take something that's a little bit more energetic and just kind of visualize and let my imagination create uh imagining around it. But I'll take the opportunity in my mind's eye, and my intuition, and my inner self to say goodbye, to imagine maybe that I'm letting go of something. So I might imagine myself doing release work if I'm not able to do it tangibly in a meaningful way in my life. So really thinking about what you might need for closure if something has changed or shifted abruptly for you. And last, I also have been wanting to bring through a tangible creative prompt each week to really focus on our creative selves as well. And I think for this week, what was coming through is the idea to draw a circle and let your circle be your mandala, your circle of wholeness right now. And in that circle, to either use color or just use words and write down everything that's ending at this time and everything that's beginning and not letting it be linear. If you were just to draw a big circle and randomly put words in it, or randomly do colors like a collage, and really allow an overlapping for the incompletions in your life, the completions in your life, where things are going, where things have been, your old self and your new overlapping. I find it so helpful creatively to draw a circle and within that circle, use that as a container to kind of hold the wholeness of my being and to allow for the wholeness of my experience. I think so often we think in terms of duality. What's ending? What's beginning? What are you shedding? What are you creating? That makes sense linearly when we try and organize it in our brain. And yet life is not lived in a linear sense. Sometimes beginnings and endings and newness and all of that overlap at the same time. And so I love the idea of drawing a circle, our ecosystem of self, our mandala of self, and in that using color or words, or maybe there's another idea you have for how you want to represent this and looking at what's changing in your life. What are you saying goodbye to? What are you saying hello to? What's emerging right now? And allowing for the shifting seasons within yourself. How would you write that out or draw that out and contain it in this circle? So there's really no beginning or end to this. It's all part of the palette of you. And I love anything that helps us tap into more cyclical, intuitive type thinking that helps us see things in more of a circular way and less of a black and white, linear, concrete way. So lots of malleability, fluctuations, and change energy coming to this week. We are guided to try and swim through all of it with grace and be like the swimmer, making that flip turn for any turnarounds, any U-turns or changes or shifts in our life, seeing it as part of our evolution and part of our path of change right now. And knowing that in the bigger picture, right now, of course, a lot is changing and a lot is changing cosmically and astrologically at this time. So we are guided to continue to find what we need to stay in our wisdom, stay in our center, and try and anchor ourselves in the middle of all of that. I will be back next week with a New Your Heart Magic podcast. As always, have a wonderful week and be well, be love, be you, and be magic.

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