Welcome And What To Expect

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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 Kapamsky Wright. And we are diving into the energy of the last week of June today and looking at some Akashic energy, some psychological perspective, an oracle card pool, and a creative prompt as well, some journaling prompts. So without much ado, let's go on ahead and dive in. And

A Solstice Race And Gratitude

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I was thinking today as I was preparing for the podcast, I always open with some sort of personal story. This last weekend, I had a really fun opportunity to do a really cool race. And we had teams of three, and everybody ran in different directions. We had three different routes, and everybody did their out and back, and the winning teams were based on the time that was pulled together, the accumulative time. And it was just a really cool opportunity to be out on solstice and be out in the running community. I was on a favorite trail that I used to live really close to years ago when we first moved to the island. And I had a lot of gratitude in my heart when I wasn't hurting. I can't say I ran the whole race in a space of gratitude. I don't know that that was at the top of my mind sometimes. Mostly I was just really pushing it and feeling the fact that I was on a trail running hills and that didn't feel amazing in the moment. But kind of encompassing the before and after. And as a runner in general, I just have a lot of gratitude these days for being able to still do this thing that I love, still have my body support me to be in a space that I can be at this race and be out in the community and uh feel like I am equipped and empowered to run my section of the trail. And I think I'd shared back in the spring that I spent some time in February in Japan. And if I didn't share, I spent some time in February in Japan. And I went there to run the Iwaki Sunshine City Marathon back in February. And it was an honor that I had uh earned and won by being the first place woman last year at the Kawaii Marathon from the residents on the island. I want to be clear, I was not the first place woman. There were many women faster than me, but I think I was number 16 in women overall, and I was the first resident of the island who was a female to cross. And there is this really cool program they have with our sister city in Owaki, Japan, and they swap runners uh for the marathons each year. So whoever wins the Kawaii Marathon and they rotate males and females every other year gets the honor of being offered this trip and vice versa from Japan. And so when this opportunity came up, it was one of those things that not only did I say yes to, but I really set out to train for it. And I had a goal in mind of how fast I wanted to run. I did not quite meet my time goal, and that was okay, but I poured my heart and soul into it. It definitely was one of the big themes when I look back on what was I doing in November, and December, and January, and February. There was a lot that went into training for this race. And when I got back on the island after this experience, I went into what I might think of as a contraction period and running. I just felt really tired out. I usually do about a marathon a year. There's amazing runners out there who do so much more than me. That has been plenty. And I like to be able to show up and do races and have fun, but it definitely takes a lot to maintain distance running and maintain the ability to run that distance. And so since I'd run the marathon in September, turnaround and ran the one in February, that was a lot of time and effort and heart and energy spent. I had some Achilles stuff going on and I took some time that I did just a little bit of running, took some time off. And when I started to get back into it again, I really thought, oh my gosh, should I use it all up for the year 2026? I didn't have a lot of heart. I didn't have a lot of motivation. I was having a hard time getting any speed, getting anything going. And I felt kind of discouraged back in April and was a little concerned as we went into this season that what if it's gone? What if that's all I get is my one marathon a year? And I'm supposed to train for the Kawaii Marathon. I've already signed up for it and have this racing season, racing season, you know, island races, but still my version of a racing season planned out. And uh what if I can't do that? And so I tried to give myself space, I tried to take time, and sometime in May, I started to find a little bit more flow again, started to find a little bit more energy, started to find a little bit more of something inside of me that said, okay, this is feeling pretty good. And so when I showed up at the half marathon a few weeks ago, I wouldn't say I felt as well trained as I have in the past, but I felt reasonably trained. And I've been building on that experience since then and finding that things are coming back into harmony and coming back into well-being in my world as a runner, my little microcosm universe of my relationship with running. And that feels really good to me. It feels soul-nourishing and it feels like a rebalancing of energies as a runner. Every year when I do these races, I always want to find something in me that still wants to do it. And I feel like if I ever start consistently running into something in me that says this isn't feel good anymore, or I can't find an internal motivation, a reason to do it, whether it's I love running, whether I want to be grateful and celebrate life, whether I want to stay healthy, I have to have something that is internally driven to get me out there and give me what I need to stay with the training and stay with these things. And so I felt like there was this process around it, and things came back into harmony in my life. And I didn't do so by forcing myself or by telling myself, like you have to do this thing, or putting a lot of pressure on myself. I just tried to trust the process, let myself have my feelings around it, get out there and try, anyways, try and be happy that at least I was still moving. And so I was just really grateful this last weekend when I was able to not only do this event, but feel like a runner again and be out there for reasons that felt positive and felt good to me.

Akashic Message On Restored Harmony

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And that energy of coming into harmony, coming back into well-being, coming back into balance inside of ourselves is a beautiful segue into the message from this week's Akashic energy because it is all about harmony and all about a rebalancing of our inner world and our heart and our home and just coming back into a space of wholeness in our life. And what I really love about the message right now is that the Akashic records have told us a story about the energy of June. Our first week was about trusting the direction we're headed. The second week was focusing our attention with intention. And then last week was this heart opening and keeping our faith in the light. And this week is a return to harmony and an invitation back into harmony. And when I opened the records this week, there was an immediate feeling of settling. And it felt like a calm body of water where it wasn't stagnant, but it also wasn't a lot of movement going on. It was just this gentling rippling of a pond or gentle rippling, perhaps, of a lake. And it was very peaceful feeling. And the record spoke about a rebalancing that's taking place, and that areas of our lives that have felt chaotic or overextended or out of harmony are beginning to find their way back to equilibrium. So there's this lovely quiet restoration happening. And it's not because life suddenly becomes perfect, but it's because systems naturally want to move towards wellness, towards wholeness, towards healing. The records also spoke about support this week and that support can arrive in different forms in our life. Support might be a person or an unexpected insight. It might be clarity or seeing a solution that wasn't visible before, or finally feeling emotionally equipped to navigate something that once felt impossible. But it feels like some of the pressure that some people have been carrying is increasingly easing. And I always love any message that speaks to an ease in things. So the records use this phrase, a distilling of the light, and talked about how last week's solstice felt like an amplifier, like a cosmic whammy that was this great expansion of light going on in everyone and all of our hearts at once. And it feels like this week that the light begins to settle into our everyday lives. And it becomes less about kind of that extraordinary celebratory feel and more about allowing the light to quietly reshape who we are. So the records ask us to ponder the question: what do I need in order to be in greater harmony right now? And this isn't what do I need to accomplish or what do I need to optimize, but just the question: what brings me harmony? Harmony is always going to look different for each of us based on our need sets. Harmony might be rest, communication, and honest conversation. It could be simplification, it could be forgiveness, it might be allowing old wounds to come into awareness one more time. And it's not because we're moving backwards, but because another layer is ready to be healed. So I've always loved the reminder that when old stuff comes back up, it's not because we failed and we have to go back and heal it all over again. It's really about refinement and that every time we shed a layer, every time we work through something, it brings us closer to authenticity and to ourselves. So

Mercury Retrograde And Emotional Review

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the astrology this week beautifully echoes this message. Mercury is stationing retrograde in cancer, and that is happening on June 29th, and I believe it moves through July 23rd. And so there's going to be a three-week period of reflection that continues into July. Mercury governs communication, thinking, perception, and learning. And cancer governs home, family, emotional safety, memory, belonging, our inner life. So together, this retrograde is inviting us to revisit our emotional landscape. Again, this is not about being stuck in the past, but it's about better understanding it. So if you find that old memories or family dynamics or unfinished emotional stories rise into your awareness, the records describe this as another layer of purification. It's not punishment or regression, but it's healing. Sometimes we revisit something because we're finally ready to understand it differently, or perhaps we glean a new insight from our current vantage point that we wouldn't have gained back when we were first working on healing it. We also have a full moon occurring in Capricorn on June 29th. And Capricorn is associated with responsibility, discipline, long-term goals, perseverance, and structure. I always think of Capricorn as the workhorse and the builder of the zodiac. And at the same time, the sun is going to be in cancer for this full moon. And so together, these signs create this interesting polarity. We've got the outer world and the inner world. We have the achievement of Capricorn, the belonging of cancer, the doing nature of Capricorn, and the being and receptivity of cancer. And so the full moon is asking us where has my life become out of balance? Am I caring for my responsibilities without abandoning my heart? Am I nurturing others while remembering to nurturing myself? So again, this full moon is echoing that Akashic message of balance and harmony and coming back into a space of equilibrium inside of us. Full moons are always a culmination. They are moments of celebration, release, reflection. And the records especially encouraged us to celebrate the small wins, the little micro gains and tiny steps that we've taken. Sometimes we overlook the quiet victories because they don't feel as big or dramatic. So small wins and healing can be a healthier boundary, a time that you had a more honest conversation or tried to speak your truth, a moment of choosing self-compassion over self-criticism. Those things matter. We are encouraged to celebrate them. Our

Full Moon Balance And Oracle Wisdom

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oracle card for the week that I thought feels like it goes beautifully with this energy is called Seek the Better Way. And key words are harmony, discernment, healing, balance, wisdom, and authenticity. And the essence and message of this card is there is often more than one way forward. This card reminds us that healing isn't about perfection, it's about choosing the path that creates greater harmony for ourselves and for others. Ask yourself, what would bring greater harmony here? What response reflects the person I am becoming? Where can I soften instead of harden? Where can I simplify instead of complicate? Sometimes the better way is not louder, it's quieter, kinder, more aligned, and often it is already waiting within your heart. So that Oracle message is from the Jewelry Box Oracle. That is my Oracle deck that I am still making progress on. I'm hoping to send a proposal in to a potential publication company before summer is over. So you can stay tuned for updates. But for now, it's lovely to still be able to bring these messages through on the podcast. Shifting

Psychology Of Integration And Small Wins

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into mental health and looking at this energy with some psychological perspective and how do we maybe think about it and ground it and apply it to our lives? This is a message that really supports integration and remembering that growth doesn't only happen during these breakthrough moments, but it's happening when we allow new experiences to settle into our nervous system. And so integration takes time and it takes patience. And it really takes us training our eye and training our mind to see what small shifts we are making and really developing a relationship with the kind of micro steps and little goals and progress that we've made. So we're able to see where things are shifting in our life. So we do want to celebrate the small wins. Our brain is geared towards this negativity bias of looking at the negative. And I don't mean the pessimistic so much, more like what's missing from this negative space, what's incomplete, what's unfinished right now. It's one of the reasons when we don't have closure or we have unfinished business, our mind keeps wandering back into the territory of the past, trying to close that loop or make sense of something. And so it has this tendency to look at the incomplete, to look at the negative space in our life. And a lot of times that translates to what we're not doing or how far we still have to go. So we want to continue deliberately asking ourselves what went well this week and strengthening our resilience around that. I have probably shared this before, but a favorite practice of mine for anybody else who works with Oracle, Tarot, anything like that, is to actually ask the cards, what progress did I make on the path this week? How am I growing at this time? What growth or blessing might I be aware of that I'm not seeing? And what's my guidance moving forward? Or something kind of like that. It helps me see where I might be having movement or progress that I'm not giving myself credit for. So it's a really cool way to bring that into your card practice if you have one. We also want to think about the idea of restoring balance this week and doing some self-reflection on what areas in your life might feel overdeveloped right now, what areas might feel neglected. And healing is about a gentle recalibration. It's not about an extreme. So when you're doing this inventory, if you identify something that feels out of balance, try and think of what small step could I take to bring this back into balance? Like, what's one way that I can just show up for this area in my life? I think oftentimes we feel like we have to overdo in order to correct an imbalance. And that sometimes leads to people giving up on good things that they might be trying to do for themselves in their life. So I'm a fan of like teeny tiny micro steps, such a fan of that. And then another perspective to support us this week is to stay curious about emotional material, emotional feelings that might be coming up for you and think about welcoming them with curiosity and asking, what is this here to teach me? So as Mercury retrograde is beginning, we might have some of that old stuff coming up. And instead of asking, why is this coming back? We can ask, what new understanding is available now? We could ask, what might I learn from this? I love, if nothing else, if I don't understand what a feeling might be teaching me or telling me, and there's not a lot I can do with it. I think a nice default practice is how can I be compassionate to this aspect of myself, or how could I offer more acceptance, peace, self-love, self-grace, self-forgiveness to whatever it is that's coming up inside of me that might feel challenging. So there's always a constructive way to work with the emotional material that's coming up in our life. So

Visual Exercise And Journaling Prompts

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for our creative prompt this week, I was thinking it actually would be helpful to sketch out some visual representation of the different aspects in our life that might contribute to the things that make up our day-to-day, the things that make up our life. And I don't have a specific way to tell you to do this. I have ideas, and this is very much a take it and make it your own. But what I am probably going to do in my journal is put a probably a line in the middle of the page. And on the top half, I'm going to put my outer world. And that is going to be my work life and my commitments to other people. It's going to be my relationships. It might be I'm going to show up, I'm training for a marathon, and I make this podcast. It will be focused on things that I do that are more about responsibilities, commitments, how I'm showing up in the world. And the bottom half, the inner world, is going to be my interior, my feeling life, my thought life, my spiritual life, my meditation practices, time perhaps for rest or receptivity, my dreams. And I just want to write down the key words of what encompasses my external Beth An, how I move my energy in the world, and then my internal Beth An. And I want to look at that and kind of see what feels out of balance right now. What are the areas that feel good? What are areas that I feel like I might say they're a little sticky, or I know that I'm working on something in those areas. And I just want to use that as a way to visually represent what is making up my life right now, and see if something jumps out as needing some attention, needing some TLC. So some sort of visual representation for that might be really helpful for you. And really trying to think about your inner ecosystem, your life as an ecosystem, and what are the different aspects of that? And where might you being called into harmony? And then some journaling prompts that you might choose to work with this week are what am I celebrating right now, even if no one else notices? Where have I already experienced greater balance this month? What old story feels ready to be understood differently? What would bring more harmony into my life today? And what am I ready to lovingly release before the next lunar cycle begins? So as

Closing Reflection And Next Week Tease

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we wrap up this last week of June, I hope you take a moment to honor yourself. I think this month has asked us to show up for ourselves, to trust our direction, to trust the path that we've set in motion, to focus our attention, to keep our faith in the light. And now we're being invited to return to harmony. And this is never about reaching a final destination or some final culmination. The energy will continue next week as we move into July and open into something that probably builds on this week's message. Harmony is not a place that we arrive at, it's not a final landmark that we put in the ground. It's not about perfection, but it's about relationship and the relationship we cultivate with ourselves and our hearts and the lives that we are creating. So have an amazing full moon. I hope it's magical and you do take some time to celebrate the small wins. I will be back next week with a new Your Heart Magic episode. Thank you so much for tuning in and listening and supporting the podcast. I cannot tell you how much that means to my heart and when I hear feedback from people who are listening. So thank you for that. And as always, be well, be love, be you, and be magic.

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