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Starlight and Strange Beauty: Finding Your Way Through Change
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There are seasons when we can feel our inner compass pointing toward something true, even while much of the path remains unclear.
In this midmonth Your Heart Magic reflection, Dr. BethAnne Kapansky Wright revisits November’s Akashic guidance and explores Starlight and Strange Beauty, a card from her Flotsam & Jetsam Oracle.
A muddy hike with her senior dog Frodo becomes a reflection on inner change, responsibilities, creativity, and transitions halfway through completion. BethAnne also touches on Mercury and Venus turning direct and the lunar themes moving us toward November’s Gemini full moon.
Together, we explore what still holds true while life is shifting—and the unexpected colors that can appear before the rain has passed.
A question to carry: What is offering me a little light while the path is still unclear?
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About BethAnne
Dr. BethAnne Kapansky Wright is a Licensed Psychologist, Spiritual Educator, Akashic Records Reader, and oracle deck creator. She is the author of Small Pearls Big Wisdom, the award-winning Lamentations of the Sea, its sequels, and several books of poetry. Through her writing, oracle cards, and Your Heart Magic podcast, she blends clinical expertise with intuitive insight, inviting creativity, self-discovery, and a deeper connection to the wisdom of the heart.
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 everyone. This is Dr. Bethane Kapansky Wright, and welcome to Your Heart Magic. I'm so glad to be here with you for a little mid-month check-in. As I've been listening to my own inner rhythm and finding a new rhythm for the podcast, I'm exploring the shorter offerings between our monthly updates, just a little energy refresh and an oracle reflection to carry us into the weeks ahead. So today I want to revisit November's Akashic guidance, touch on a couple of astrology themes, and share a card that feels connected to how I'm experiencing this season in my own life. I was recalling today as I sat down to do the podcast that the Akashic Records talked about the year 2026 as being one where we are going to be in a very different place by the end of the year than where we might have entered it in January of 2026. And I would imagine that translates much more literally to some people who've had really big changes going on right now. Certainly many of us and our world has been experiencing a lot of change and transformation and transition at this time. But for myself personally, I was thinking a little bit more about just repatterning things and doing things differently. And times in life where we might not physically move or have a huge change. And yet things are shifting within us quite a bit. And the way we might show up in the world or move our energy or try something different and repattern something are some of the ways those changes come through. And certainly your heart magic and how I have felt called to show up here on the podcast and allowing the podcast and myself to kind of rearrange after I took a break back in the summer. For me, that feels very much under the umbrella of what the Akashic talked about. Bringing it into the month of November.
At the beginning of November, the Akashic Record spoke about finding our center during a time of transformation and movement. The image I received was oil heating in a frying pan. And there were these little particles sizzling and jumping, creating a sense of frazzled energy on the surface while a larger process was taking place. The invitation for November was to remember that each little sizzle gives us only part of the picture. When something feels uncertain or unsettled, there may be more unfolding than we can understand from where we're standing. One question the records gave us to contemplate was what still holds true for me? When familiar things begin to change shape, we can return to the values, the connections, and practices that help us recognize ourselves. We can also give clarity time to emerge. Something may still be forming, and we may need to live with it for a while before we understand what it's
connection here as well. Mercury and Venus turned direct on November 13th after a period of retrograde reflection. Mercury is associated with our thoughts, communication, and the ways we understand and express our experiences. And Venus helps us bring our attention to relationships, creativity, exchanges, and what we value. So as these planets begin moving forward, we might consider what we've been learning in those areas. Perhaps a conversation has helped us see something differently, a relationship may be changing, or we might be recognizing a desire that we haven't fully acknowledged. We're also moving between the Scorpio new moon and the Gemini full moon
on November 24th. Scorpio season's been supporting us and looking beneath the surface. And the growing moon offers a symbolic invitation to tend to whatever's emerging and notice what's developing through our experience. So there's a continuing theme of transformation with possibilities beginning to take shape. We might notice movement in several areas of life at once, and some of it may be easier to name than other parts. I am certainly feeling that myself. and the
card I'd like to share today came to mind as I was reflecting on my own experience of the energy right now. It's called Starlight and Strange Beauty, and it's from my Flotsam and Jetsum Oracle. So this card originally came from a piece of writing with the same title about the seasons in life when we're moving through an obscured passageway and we can't fully see the open sky. I remember in the original writing, I actually had an image of moving through almost like caverns or something in the desert where there's open sky, but we're in these canyon type passages, and you really can't fully see the view around you. And recently I was out on a hike, and the phrase starlight and strange beauty returned to me. It was just flashing in my mind. And I thought to myself, yes, this is a starlight and strange beauty kind of season in life for
myself. I was actually on a really familiar trail, and it's one that I've hiked many times before through many different chapters in life. And I was with our senior dog Frodo. I was actually carrying him over the root section since he's blind and has a hard time navigating. And I was moving pretty slowly through the mud, and I was just contemplating life's responsibilities and what I'm carrying right now, burdens in life and seasons and the things our souls might be growing. And at one point I stopped and I was looking at this patch of blue sky mixed with clouds and rain. And I started voice dictating some thoughts into my phone because I wanted to catch what was coming through. And sometimes that's how I do my best writing. It starts with something that comes to me when I'm hiking or running or doing something, not trying to write. I'm just living life. And I want to catch the thought before it leaves me so I can develop it later. And there was just something about being on a trail I knew while carrying questions I don't know, and I don't yet know how to answer. I was on familiar ground, but the ground and the terrain inside of me right now feels a little unfamiliar and I can
feel things shifting. And as I was talking about earlier, some of this is just coming up with how I might be understanding and relating to myself at this time and staying really curious about who am I right now at age 49? How do I understand myself? How do I understand myself and my relationships? How do I understand my relationship with creativity? How do I understand my relationship with the responsibilities and the spaces I need to be accountable in my life and that I have commitments towards and coming back to my vision for my dreams and hopes for life and just allowing a lot of that to be reworked. And it sounds almost one-dimensional when I say it today and try and put those things into words. But I think anyone listening to this who really relates to going through seasons in the soul where we feel things shifting in us, even though our life on the surface maybe hasn't shifted that much, but we can feel ourselves changing, probably relates to how deep those inner passages can go and how deep those changes in us can go, and how sometimes confusing they can be or unclear they can
be. And that's one of the reasons I always just say just stay with yourself and trust your process. When we're going through these soulful processes, we don't get clarity overnight. It takes time. It takes time to become, and it takes time to understand ourselves, and it takes time to understand our bigger picture. And I think there are seasons where we faintly feel our compass pointing in a direction that still feels right, even as much of the path before us might lay in the shadow or be in an unknown space. We might find that we have unanswered questions and transitions halfway through completion. Something might be stirring, but it hasn't fully come into view. And I often think about as well that our pasts are intertwined with the people around
us. So their lives change and that might change something for us. Someone else comes to a new understanding, and their clarity might help us see our own situation differently. Or maybe our energy is tied into a situation that's bigger than just ourselves. And so as somebody else comes to a decision or something comes to completion, or more information is revealed, that might change how we're responding to something and understanding our relationship to something. So there are these times that we might be waiting for something that involves more than our own readiness. And there can be a lot suspended in the wings of a season.
And that's part of what Starlight and Strange Beauty speaks to for me: learning how to keep moving while some of the questions remain open. And there may be this strange beauty along the way during these seasons of uncertainty in life, something unexpected that catches our heart or helps us feel connected to life again or helps us find a new thread or our next right step. For me, creativity has been one of those guiding threads. And when life becomes crowded with responsibilities, I can lose touch with that part of myself. So returning to it really helps me listen inward and remember what feels alive. Lately, I've been revisiting old writing and artwork while I'm creating something new. And it's been interesting to discover how pieces from earlier seasons are still speaking to me, even as the form they're taking now is different. Even this reflection I'm sharing today and the original Starlight and Strange Beauty passage was written maybe about four years ago. It was part of my personal collection of writing for a while. And then I published it in Small Pearls, Big Wisdom, and somehow it metamorphed into a card for my Oracle deck, Flotsum and Jetsum. And it really surprised me yesterday as I was hiking up this familiar mountain. And I, for some reason, just heard the word Starlight and Strange Beauty in my head. And I thought, it is a starlight
and strange beauty kind of season. And so I love how we each have these through threads in our life and things that we have been connected to might keep showing up in new form and in new ways. And I love that the essence might remain the same even as the form changes and our relationship to it changes. So you might have something in your own life that serves this purpose. You might have a place you return to or a practice that helps you hear yourself and helps you find your through thread. You might have a connection that brings you back to what you know in your heart and helps you feel anchored and grounded. I love the idea of becoming wayfinders and navigating by the constellations in our lives while we keep charting a new constellation within. We bring our experience with us and we remember what other seasons have taught us. And as we continue, our understanding changes and we keep discovering more about what we want to carry forward and what's ready to
take shape. Towards the end of my hike yesterday, this patch of blue was still visible on the horizon. And there was this faint burst of rainbow shining through a heavy cloud of rain. And I just stood there for a while and watched it for a moment and put Frodo down on the ground, and he just laid there. And I looked out at this like tiny little rainbow patch on the horizon. And the rain was still there, but these new colors had become visible within it. And that felt like something to carry home with me. So perhaps the question for this mid month reflection is what is offering me a little light while the path is still unclear? Or we could loop this back into the Akashic message for the month of October that talked about new colors and also consider where are unexpected new colors showing up in your life right now? And just let yourself notice what comes to mind. It might be something already woven into your day and something you can return to with a little more intention.
And if you'd like more heart magic between episodes, I'm really excited to share that I have a new offering called Oracle Notes on my website. And I am sharing short reflections with cards from my deck. It is something you can sign up for and you receive the Oracle note in your inbox.
And right now I'm sending them out a few times a week. I also made a YouTube video with Starlight and Strange Beauty. So if you'd like to visually see the card and explore this reflection a little bit more fully, I'll link it in the episode notes. And you will also find a little oracle for the turning year on my website. And everyone, I'm excited to share that I made a free printable oracle for exploring the seasons around us and within us. There's 24 cards, and there are ones that you can cut out and create your own Oracle deck from them. The messages are there, and it's just really fun offering. It was delightful to create. Very excited to offer it and there's no strings attached. You can go to my website and you can find it there and download it and Enjoy it if you would like. So all of this is going to be linked in the episode notes, and I'd love for you to explore. And with that, I will be back at the beginning of December with a new Your Heart Magic
episode. And we will do a full energy update looking at the Akashic message for December, along with Astro Notes and a card to set the tone for the month. Thank you so much for being here today. Have an amazing rest of the month. And until next time, be well, be love, be you, and be magic.
